A three-way collaboration with composer Mark Winges, director Erika Shuch, and librettist Denise Newman, conducted by Robert Geary and performed by Volti adult chorus and the Piedmont children’s chorus.
This re-telling of the Greek myth of Pandora is a staged work for two choruses: treble choir and mixed choir. It traces the movement from a world without evil, to the unleashing of evil, to hope as the last and smallest thing in the box. In the second movement, all hell breaks loose when Pandora opens the box and all the calamities are unleashed on the world. Much of this section is from words written by the children from the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir from a poetry workshop that Denise conducted.
Premiered May 2015 at Z Space in San Francisco, CA
Supported by a grant from the Gerbode and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations
