"PENELOPE - A SONG CYCLE"
"PENELOPE, A Song Cycle" Song Cycle Libretto/Poems by Didi Balle
"Penelope, A Song Cycle" (Lanctot Balle, Librettist; J. Musto, Composer)
CONCEPT: A song cycle based on six poems by Balle exploring the wanderlust mind of Penelope, Ulysses' wife.
COMMISSION: The 92nd Street Y New Music Series
PERFORMANCES: The New Music Series at the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y, Manhattan.
PUBLISHED: Peer Music. CD excerpt available.
"Penelope, A Song Cycle" (Lanctot Balle, Librettist; J. Musto, Composer)
CONCEPT: A song cycle based on six poems by Balle exploring the wanderlust mind of Penelope, Ulysses' wife.
COMMISSION: The 92nd Street Y New Music Series
PERFORMANCES: The New Music Series at the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y, Manhattan.
PUBLISHED: Peer Music. CD excerpt available.
"The hit of the evening was "Penelope" written by librettist Denise
Lanctot Balle.
This seven song meditation by Odysseus's abandoned spouse
had an arc and a point, and it leapt to dramatic life."
The Wall Street Journal
"POPE JOAN, AN OPERATIC HERESY"
"Pope Joan, An Operatic Heresy" (Libretto: Denise Lanctot Balle)
CONCEPT: A contemporary opera about Joan Anglicus, a 9th century woman, who reigned as Pope disguised as a man.
DEVELOPMENT: Scenes from the opera were performed by New York City Opera, George Manahan, Conductor.
The University of Maryland Professional Opera Program, Leon Major, Director, developed and workshopped Act I of the opera.
AWARDS: Lanctot Balle was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship as a librettist and spent a month writing the libretto for "Pope Joan" in Bellagio, Italy.
CONCEPT: A contemporary opera about Joan Anglicus, a 9th century woman, who reigned as Pope disguised as a man.
DEVELOPMENT: Scenes from the opera were performed by New York City Opera, George Manahan, Conductor.
The University of Maryland Professional Opera Program, Leon Major, Director, developed and workshopped Act I of the opera.
AWARDS: Lanctot Balle was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship as a librettist and spent a month writing the libretto for "Pope Joan" in Bellagio, Italy.
"WANDERLUST: A FIVE PART SONG CYCLE"
Libretto and Poems by Didi Balle.
Workshop Performances: Nautilus Music Theater, St. Paul, MN, and New Dramatists Music Theatre Workshop, NYC
Concept:
Workshop Performances: Nautilus Music Theater, St. Paul, MN, and New Dramatists Music Theatre Workshop, NYC
Concept:
"THE SPIRITS OF ST. LOUIS"
A Symphonic Horror for Halloween
Written and Directed by Didi Balle
Comissioned and Performed by St. Louis Symphony, Powell Hall
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Written and Directed by Didi Balle
Comissioned and Performed by St. Louis Symphony, Powell Hall
Marin Alsop, Conductor
"RAGS FOR THE RICHEST"
Libretto/Lyrics by Didi Balle
The New York Festival of Song (Steven Blier and Michael Barrett)
Performed: The Kaye Playhouse, NYC
Broadcast WQXR, San Francisco Opera Program
Concept:
PUBLISHED: Peer Music.
The New York Festival of Song (Steven Blier and Michael Barrett)
Performed: The Kaye Playhouse, NYC
Broadcast WQXR, San Francisco Opera Program
Concept:
PUBLISHED: Peer Music.