IDAGIO | Tom Cipullo: After Life - Lori Laitman: In Sleep the World Is Yours 730099903677

Featuring

Ava Pine
Catherine Cook
Robert Orth
Stilian Kirov
Benjamin Hausmann
Megan Chenovick

Mina Miller
Music of Remembrance
Tom Cipullo
Lori Laitman

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Album & Artwork

This album is part of the "American Opera Classics" series, featuring works by American composers Tom Cipullo and Lori Laitman.

Composition History

Both works on this album, Tom Cipullo's After Life and Lori Laitman's In Sleep The World Is Yours, were commissioned by Music of Remembrance, an organization dedicated to remembering the Holocaust through music.

Recording & Production

Both Tom Cipullo's After Life and Lori Laitman's In Sleep The World Is Yours are world première recordings.

Performer Biography

Catherine Cook, a mezzo-soprano, has performed over fifty roles with San Francisco Opera and premiered the role of Gertrude Stein in Music of Remembrance's 2015 production of Tom Cipullo's After Life.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Tom Cipullo's opera After Life explores the role of art in a troubled world and the artist's duty in confronting inhumanity, imagining an encounter between the ghosts of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

Performer Biography

Robert Orth, a baritone, captivated Music of Remembrance audiences as Picasso in the world première of Tom Cipullo's After Life and has performed 135 roles in opera and musicals.

Composer Biography

Lori Laitman, a composer, has been described by Fanfare magazine as "one of the most talented and intriguing of living composers" and has composed three operas, an oratorio, choral works, and over 250 songs.