COMMISSIONING CIRCLE

ALT’s COMMISSIONING CIRCLE provides YOU WITH the opportunity to invest in the future of A SPECIFIC opera being developed at ALT

 
CLICK TO JOIN THE COMMISSIONING CIRCLE TODAY!

Commissioning support as part of the Commissioning Circle starts at $2,500. As a member of the Commissioning Circle, you choose the opera that you want to support, and you receive exclusive exclusive customized recognition related to that opera, as well as opportunities for artistic engagement with the artists behind the work you are supporting.

$2,500 - $4,999
Benefits:

  • A hand-signed score memento (by the composer and librettist) of your commissioned opera

  • Listing in the score and in the program for all workshops and the world premiere production as a Commission Underwriter

  • VIP Admission for 4 to all ALT reading and workshop events

  • 50% off additional tickets to all ALT reading and workshop events

  • Insider Access to observe a work session or rehearsal, providing a unique perspective into the development process

  • Exclusive Pre Workshop Cocktail Reception with Resident Artists

  • Invitation to ALT’s Annual New Works Preview Brunch

  • Quarterly commission report

  • Acknowledgment of your support on ALT’s website and in all ALT performance programs

$5,000 - $9,999
All benefits above, plus:

  • A collectible keepsake album that tracks the evolution of your commissioned opera from the initial concept proposal through the finished score

  • Invitation to a private lunch with the composer and librettist of your commissioned opera 

$10,000 +
All benefits above, plus:

  • Listing on the the title page of the published score and libretto, and on all performance programs whenever the opera is produced the a principal underwriter for the Commission for the duration of copyright (life of authors + 70 years)

  • Exclusive invitations to special events (including design presentations and working rehearsals) during the rehearsal period for the world premiere of your supported opera

  • A collectible copy of the piano/vocal score, hand-signed by the composer, librettist and all members of the world premiere cast

CLICK ON THE BUTTON ABOVE TO JOIN THE COMMISSIONING CIRCLE, OR CALL LAWRENCE EDELSON AT 646.216.8298 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

New operas in which YOU can invest as part of
ALT’s Commissioning Circle

TEVYE’S DAUGHTERS

Composer: Alex Weiser
Librettist: Stephanie Fleischmann

Inspired by the darker, grittier stories by Sholem Aleichem not included in Fiddler, Tevye’s Daughters centers on the tale of the beloved milkman’s younger daughter Shprintze, who falls in love with a young man above her station. Like so many women of her generation, Shprintze has no choice but to navigate her crisis with silence. Galvanized by the literature of little-known female Yiddish writers, as well as tkhines - Yiddish prayers designated expressly for women - Tevye’s Daughters rewrites that silence, giving voice to a generation of women whose stories have frequently been suppressed, omitted, even erased. The opera moves between a shtetl in Ukraine in 1907 and a summer cabin in the Catskills in 1964 as Tzeitl, Chava, and Beilke, now old women, haunted by a vestigial memory submerged for more than half a century, can no longer look away from the past. The arrival of Irene, a granddaughter grappling with her own sexual identity, incites the sisters not only to re-member Shprintze’s traumatic story, but to come to terms with their shared tumultuous present.

SHE WHO DARED

Composer: Jasmine Arielle Barnes
Librettist: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Everyone has heard of Rosa Parks, but she wasn’t the first to refuse to move. She Who Dared recenters the spotlight on the courageous women who helped desegregate the Montgomery bus system. These Civil Rights pioneers pay homage to the quiet struggle for justice that has often gone unknown - further amplifying the effects of the historic case of Browder V. Gayle. While often riotous and sometimes hilarious, these women demonstrate how everyday people have the power to challenge the systems around them and affect tangible change - if only they dare.

WORKING FOR THE MACBETHS

Composer: Johanny Navarro
Librettist: Marcus Yi

Shakespeare gets turned on his comic head through the eyes of the unnamed Gentlewoman in the play Macbeth. Florinda is a lady-in-waiting to Lord and Lady Macbeth. After the witches prophesize that she will be the downfall of her new employers, Florinda is determined to fight fate and give the Macbeths the happy ending they deserve. Can she fight destiny or is the play doomed to repeat itself?