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This time, Alex Waterman needs your help staging the avant-garde stylings of the late American composer (perhaps thee greatest American composer we've ever had) Robert Ashley.
Newly imagined for the Whitney Biennial, Waterman looks to April 2014 for three Ashley operas, featuring 30 artists across three weeks.
His operatic triad consists of a recreation of Ashley's The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices of Crimes Against Humanity (1968); a live television production--seriously, they're revamping the stage to pull this off--of Vidas Perfectas, the Spanish version of Perfect Lives ('83); and the premiere of Ashley's brand new sextet, Crash (2014).
Yeah, Waterman's project is très ambitious.
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