REAL ART WAYS PRESENTS CRIMINAL INTENT:
THREE NEW WORKS PERFORMED BY RHYMES WITH OPERA AND THE WEST END STRING QUARTET

Top photo: Rhymes with Opera.
Bottom photo: West End String Quartet.

Friday, June 24, 2011 | 7:30 PM
$10/$5 Real Art Ways members or students

Hartford, Connecticut - Rhymes With Opera, a Baltimore collective dedicated to performing new opera, joins Hartford's own West End String Quartet to present Criminal Intent, a program of three contemporary opera works, at Real Art Ways.

The performance is an experience that will take place moving through the Real Art Ways galleries. The program features composer David Smooke's "Criminal Element," written specifically for Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet. "Criminal Element" is a journey through the mind of the French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who nearly brought down the entire European financial system in 2008. The composer describes the new opera as a "quote from Kerviel."

Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet will also perform short operas by composers Ryan Jesperson (Hartford) and George Lam (Boston). Lam's opera "Someone Anyone" follows a prostitute held hostage by her client, and Jesperson's "Orphée Redux" re-imagines the Orpheus myth in 1980s New York.

Support

Supported by the City of Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant Program, Pedro Segarra, Mayor.

Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support for Real Art Ways comes from: Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Wallace Foundation, Ford Foundation, United Technologies, Travelers Foundation, Bank of America, Aetna, Lincoln Financial Group, Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation, Target, Joseph S. Stackpole Charitable Trust, Ensworth Charitable Trust, Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust, Fund for Greater Hartford, Larsen Fund, Ellis A. Gimbel Trust, Knox Foundation, The J. Walton Bissell Foundation, Helen M. Saunders Charitable Foundation, NewAlliance Foundation, National Performance Network – Visual Arts Network, Kohn-Joseloff Foundation, It's Only Natural Restaurant, The Artist Resource Trust, Charney Architects, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.

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