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Jerre Dye
Librettist
Biography
Jerre Dye is a Chicago-based playwright, opera librettist, director and actor.
He is the recipient of the Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His plays include Distance, Cicada, Threads, Short/Stories, The New Adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Wild Swans, Sid and the Magic Box and an adaptation of Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale with IRIS Orchestra.
His opera librettos include: Ghosts of Crosstown of Opera Memphis (featured at the OPERA America's annual conference as part of the new works sampler in 2014 and 2015); The Parksville Murders, a filmed, episodic, virtual reality opera for Opera on Tap in New York City; The Falling and Rising for the U.S. Army band and chorus; Chautauqua Stories for Chautauqua Opera, By/In for Opera Memphis; Taking Up Serpents for Washington National Opera; and upcoming commissions for both Opera Philadelphia and the Napa Valley Arts festival.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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GRANT NAME
YEAR
Opera Grants for Women Composers: Commissioning Grants
2018
Building Opera Audiences
2016
New Works Sampler
2015
New Works Sampler
2014
The Opera Fund: Repertoire Development
2013
Productions
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COMPANY
TITLE
DATES
Nickel City Opera
The Falling and the Rising
6/29/2024 - 6/30/2024
Chautauqua Opera
A.E. Reverie
6/28/2024 - 7/21/2024
Chautauqua Opera
Love, Loss and the Century Upon Us
6/28/2024 - 7/21/2024
Opera Idaho
The Falling and the Rising
11/10/2023 - 11/12/2023
Des Moines Metro Opera
The Falling and the Rising
7/20/2023 - 7/22/2023
Intermountain Opera Bozeman
The Falling and the Rising
11/4/2022 - 11/6/2022
Arizona Opera
The Falling and the Rising
10/14/2022 - 10/23/2022
Glimmerglass Festival
Taking Up Serpents
7/29/2022 - 8/20/2022
Opera Carolina
The Falling and the Rising
3/11/2022 - 3/12/2022
Tri-Cities Opera
The Falling and the Rising
9/16/2021 - 9/16/2021
Chicago Opera Theater
Taking Up Serpents
2/27/2021 - 2/27/2021
Chicago Opera Theater
The Transformation of Jane Doe
9/15/2020 - 9/15/2020
Seattle Opera
The Falling and the Rising
11/15/2019 - 11/24/2019
New Orleans Opera Association
The Falling and the Rising
11/6/2019 - 11/6/2019
Opera Memphis
The Falling and the Rising
4/6/2019 - 4/13/2019
Peabody Opera at Johns Hopkins University
The Falling and the Rising
2/7/2019 - 2/10/2019
The United States Army Field Band
The Falling and the Rising
1/12/2019 - 1/13/2019
Texas Christian University | School of Music
The Falling and the Rising
4/6/2018 - 4/8/2018
Artist Information
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Works by Artist
A.E. Reverie
Abandoned (Ghosts of Crosstown)
Ghosts of Crosstown
Ivonne (Ghosts of Crosstown)
Love, Loss and the Century Upon Us
Mich and the Moon (Ghosts of Crosstown)
Movin' Up In The World
Taking Up Serpents
The Falling and the Rising
The Parksville Murders
The Transformation of Jane Doe
Woman with Eyes Closed
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