Socrates

(2010)

Music: Erik Satie – Socrate – “Portrait de Socrate;” “Bords de L’Ilissus;” “Mort de Socrate”
Costume Design: Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting Design and Décor: Michael Chybowski

I. Portrait of Socrates
II. On the Banks of the Ilissus
III. Death of Socrates

Brian Giebler, tenor; Colin Fowler, piano

Mica Bernas, Karlie Budge, Elisa Clark, Sarah Hillmon, Courtney Lopes, Taína Lyons, Griffin Massey, Dallas McMurray, Maile Okamura, Brandon Randolph, Nicole Sabella, Christina Sahaida, Billy Smith, Joslin Vezeau, Noah Vinson

Premiere: February 23, 2010 – Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York

Read the Socrates libretto on page 18b.

INTERMISSION

Via Dolorosa

(2024, World Premiere)

Music: Nico Muhly – The Street (14 Meditations on the Stations of the Cross)

Based on original texts by Alice Goodman

Scenic Design: Howard Hodgkin
Costume Design: Elizabeth Kurtzman
Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce

Parker Ramsay, harp

Mica Bernas, Karlie Budge, Sarah Hillmon, Dallas McMurray, Brandon Randolph, Nicole Sabella, Billy Smith, Joslin Vezeau, Noah Vinson

Premiere: April 19, 2024 – Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, California

Commissioned, in part, by Cal Performances, UC Berkeley

Presented under license from St. Rose Music Publishing Co. inc. and, copyright owner.

Read the Alice Goodman texts that inspired Via Dolorosa on page 21.