Cadie
J. Bryan
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Seeking the Human Spirit, Houston Grand Opera’s six-year multi-disciplinary initiative, highlights the universal spiritual themes raised in opera. STHS explores a different theme each year, starting in 2017 and concluding in 2023, as it relates to select operas from each season.
On May 18, 2023, the initiative will culminate with the world premiere of six chamber works, each inspired by one of our themes:
Sacrifice—when will we do what must be done, composed by Zach Redler, with a libretto by Jerre Dye;
Identity—Take Your Eyes Off My Joy, composed by Jocelyn C. Chambers, with a libretto by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton;
Spirit—Indigenous / Undigenous I, composed by Brent Michael Davids, with his own text, translated to Comanche;
Faith—A Stillness that Moves, composed by Shih-Hui Chen, based on text inspired by Houston’s Rothko Chapel;
Character—Drives, composed by Mark Buller, with a libretto Euan Tait; and
Transformation—hela, composed by J.E. Hernández, set to Nahuatl poems.
Biography
Praised by Opera News as “sparkling” and “pertly pealing,” Louisiana-born soprano Cadie J. Bryan is a former Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist at Arizona Opera where she returns this season to debut the role of Maria in The Sound of Music opposite her husband, baritone Jonathan Bryan (Captain Von Trapp). She also returns to The Atlanta Opera for Joseph Bologne's Anonymous Lover and to make her debut as Woglinde in Tomer Zvulun's new production of Das Rheingold before her first festival summer at the Santa Fe Opera covering the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande. Her 2021-2022 season featured multiple house and role debuts including The Dallas Opera in concert for the Hart Institute for Women Conductors, Opera Las Vegas as Addie Mills in the west coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House Without a Christmas Tree, The Atlanta Opera as Berta in The barber of Seville, as well as a return to Arizona Opera to reprise the role of Despina (Così fan tutte).
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