Monday & Tuesday, November 6-7, 2017
8:00 p.m.
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex
FREE and open to the public
The Analysing Engine is a new short comic opera set in a University Science Laboratory. Four students have been recruited as test subjects for a marvelous new machine which can measure love between couples to an unprecedented level of accuracy. What could possibly go wrong?
A panel discussion entitled “What’s Funny About Comic Opera?” will take place at 7 p.m. in the theater before each performance featuring the composer and Princeton University Music Professors Wendy Heller, and on November 6, Emeritus Professor Scott Burnham.
This semi-staged performance features a mixed cast of professionals and students including Heather O’Donovan, Bradley King, Brandon Gaines, Shruthi Rajasekar, Hansini Bhaskar, and Sebastian Cox.
Conductor: Gabriel Crouch
Director: Daniel Kramer
Lighting: Victoria Davidjohn
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Sound Kitchen, the Department of Music, Princeton University, the Lewis Center for the Arts and David A Gardner ’69 Magic Project.
A note from the composer:
I began this piece in an Atelier class supported by the Music Department and the Lewis Center with performer, director and composer, Rinde Eckert and a group of adventurous students. Together we explored Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. From out of that emerged the story for this piece – The Analysing Engine – in which four young people are confused through the agency of a Scientist, her assistant and their machine.
