HERE BE SIRENS (2012-14)
Opera/Music Theatre in one act
Book and Music by Kate Soper
Additional text by Thomas Campion, Michael Drayton, Erasmus, Homer, Carl Jung, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Plato, Pythagorus, and Sappho

Premiered January 11, 2014 at Dixon Place, New York NY
Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf, sopranos
Rick Burkhardt, director
More info: http://katesoper.com/hbs.htm

HERE BE SIRENS

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Text in this excerpt by Kate Soper
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: O Sailor

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Texts in this excerpt by Dante (from "The Inferno") and Milton (from "Paradise Lost")
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: Across the Turbid Waves/In a Silent Valley

Here Be Sirens: The Abduction Of Persephone

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Texts in this excerpt by Plato (from "The Republic"), Theobaldus of Cambridge (from "Bestiary"), and Kate Soper
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: Prologue

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Text in this excerpt by MIchael Drayton
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: The Muses Elyzium

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Texts in this excerpt by Homer (from "The Odyssey") and Carl Jung (from "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious")
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: Sirenbraid

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Text in this excerpt by Homer (from "The Odyssey")
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: Song To Odyseuss

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Text in this excerpt by Erasmus
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: Naufragium

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Text in this excerpt by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf

Here Be Sirens: Witch - Wife

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Text in this excerpt by Sappho, trans. Anne Carson
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf


Here Be Sirens: Here To Me From Krete

From "Here Be Sirens" (2012-14)
Book and Music by Kate Soper

Text in this excerpt by Thomas Campio
Performed by Gelsey Bell, Kate Soper, and Brett Umlauf


Here Be Sirens: Hymn To Neptune

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