Special Programs
Network for New Music is pleased to present the world premiere of Rope and Chasm, an evening-length piece for mezzo-soprano and video by Matthew Greenbaum. Based on Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, the macabre irony of the original is captured in an intimate stage work that animates and illuminates its surreal characters. Israeli-American messo Re’ut Ben Ze’ev, whose “intense expression and pure voice ignites fireworks,” is Zarathustra, in this gender-bending multi-media examination of a seminal work that lies at the core of modern art and philosophy.
Sunday April 15, 2012 ~ 7:30 pm
Rock Hall at Temple University
Broad Street & Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Philadelphia
FREE