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peter HILLIARD,
composer
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matt BORESI,
librettist
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Welcome to HILLIARD and BORESI, the temporary website dedicated to our own shameless self-promotion. WE'VE GOT A PERMANENT HOME NOW - COME PAY US A VISIT AT WWW.HILLIARDANDBORESI.COM !!!
For detailed information on some of our operatic works, see the links to the right.
To contact us regarding perusal copies, rental, commission, permission to sing our work, or just to share your thoughts, please e-mail us at info@hilliardandboresi.com
Many thanks,
Peter and Matt
The opera world has long staked its claim to cultural legitimacy on avant-garde productions of the standard repertoire, while composers of new work often write with all the acquired baggage of modernist assumptions about what ‘serious music-theatre’ ought to be.
As a result of these trends, opera companies are left in a quandary: whether to court artistic legitimacy by funding unpopular but artistically interesting new productions, or to continue to rely on the standard repertoire in traditional productions to pay the bills and keep the subscribers happy. At the heart of this dichotomy is the question of opera as a popular art form. Is it art or entertainment? Is it possible for new opera to be both?
To this question, Hilliard and Boresi offer a hearty affirmative. Relying heavily on the pacing and structural techniques that helped place pieces in the standard repertoire, they have sought to write theatre that engages an audience directly and viscerally, that allows singers to perform in the way they have been trained to sing, and that returns opera to the popular entertainment it once was.
For 400 years, a pendulum has swung through the opera world, moving back and forth from the highest dramatic aspirations to the broadest popular appeal, from singers’ showpieces to deeply personal artistic statements.
The opera world is long overdue for a return to musically sophisticated, singerly, popular entertainment, and the works of Hilliard and Boresi seek to fill that niche.
peter HILLIARD,
composer
* * * * *
matt BORESI,
librettist
* * * * *
Welcome to HILLIARD and BORESI, the temporary website dedicated to our own shameless self-promotion. WE'VE GOT A PERMANENT HOME NOW - COME PAY US A VISIT AT WWW.HILLIARDANDBORESI.COM !!!
For detailed information on some of our operatic works, see the links to the right.
To contact us regarding perusal copies, rental, commission, permission to sing our work, or just to share your thoughts, please e-mail us at info@hilliardandboresi.com
Many thanks,
Peter and Matt
21st century opera?
The opera world has long staked its claim to cultural legitimacy on avant-garde productions of the standard repertoire, while composers of new work often write with all the acquired baggage of modernist assumptions about what ‘serious music-theatre’ ought to be.
As a result of these trends, opera companies are left in a quandary: whether to court artistic legitimacy by funding unpopular but artistically interesting new productions, or to continue to rely on the standard repertoire in traditional productions to pay the bills and keep the subscribers happy. At the heart of this dichotomy is the question of opera as a popular art form. Is it art or entertainment? Is it possible for new opera to be both?
To this question, Hilliard and Boresi offer a hearty affirmative. Relying heavily on the pacing and structural techniques that helped place pieces in the standard repertoire, they have sought to write theatre that engages an audience directly and viscerally, that allows singers to perform in the way they have been trained to sing, and that returns opera to the popular entertainment it once was.
For 400 years, a pendulum has swung through the opera world, moving back and forth from the highest dramatic aspirations to the broadest popular appeal, from singers’ showpieces to deeply personal artistic statements.
The opera world is long overdue for a return to musically sophisticated, singerly, popular entertainment, and the works of Hilliard and Boresi seek to fill that niche.
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