(Photo credit: Alain Barker for the Jacobs School of Music) The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University is celebrating its 100th anniversary the best possible way, by commissioning an opera.  That opera is VINCENT, by the formidable Pulitzer prize-winning composer Bernard Rands. With a libretto by J.C McClatchy, the work explores the mind of the iconic artist Vincent van Gogh, its creative goals, spiritual obsessions, and ultimate disintegration. A beautiful design by Barry Steele includes digital images and projections […]

Categories: contemporary music, gesamtkünstwerk, interdiscipline, multimedia, new opera and music drama • Tags: Barry Steele, Bernard Rands, J.C. McClatchy, jacobs school of music, Sequenza21.com, Vincent van Gogh