Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi
An American Modern Opera Company Production
West Coast Premiere
Zack Winokur, director
Julia Bullock, soprano
Conor Hanick, piano
Bobbi Jene Smith, choreographer and dancer
Or Schraiber, choreographer and dancer
Harawi, an American Modern Opera Company production, realizes Olivier Messiaen’s deeply affecting, hour-long song cycle for voice and piano in a newly physicalized and dramatized dimension featuring company members soprano Julia Bullock, pianist Conor Hanick, and choreographer/dancers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, with direction by Zack Winokur. Moving from duet to quartet, the production breaks open Messiaen’s cycle, connects the relationship between movement and music, and grapples with the intensity of love and loss in the human experience.
This event is part of Cal Performances’ Illuminations: “Fractured History” programming for the 2024–25 season.
Leadership support for the 2024-25 Julia Bullock residency at Cal Performances is provided by Michael P. N. A. Hormel.
