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Misha Penton
Librettist
Biography
Misha Penton is a soprano, composer, director, filmmaker, and writer. Her projects blossom in many forms: live performances, video and audio works, site specific installations, and writings. Recent projects include her directorial debut with Houston Grand Opera directing a new web opera in HGO's series Star Cross'd as well as singing the principle role of Skyspace Woman in the workshop phase of a new opera highlighting the challenges of Houston's house-less residents for Houston Grand Opera / HGOco; a 13-part Micro Opera project including her (micro)Requiem inspired by Mozart's unfinished Requiem in D minor and Creation Stories celebrating the phases of the moon and inspired by sacred cosmogony texts; Threshold, a site specific experimental ensemble performance created for the cavernous old grain Silos at Sawyer Yards in Houston and the subsequent release of the Threshold new music video.; Anecdote of the Spirit, a contemplative music work for the Rothko Chapel; The Medusa Project with its premiere performance at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford and a film version created for Bath Spa University's 35' high MediaWall in the UK; This is our universe a new monodrama based on the work of Virginia Woolf; and Siren on the Sabine, a dramatic music-dance piece inspired by Homer's Odyssey which premiered at The Menil Collection.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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