On May 21 and May 24, we will be performing our popular, one-woman music theater work Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano. International audiences have found this work to be entertaining, emotional, and dramatic. The performance in FREE and all are welcome.
Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano
When: Thursday May 21 at 7:00 PM
Plus at matinee on Sunday, May 24 at 2:00 PM
Where: Abbie’s Studio Theater
114 Los Pandos, Taos, NM
Abbie Conant: Performance Artist
William Osborne: Music, text, and direction.
Abbie Conant and William Osborne
Tel. 575-240-4913
Park at Smiths and walk a short distance up Los Pandos.
The performance in FREE and all are welcome.
Our studio is a fully equipped black box theater that can seat up to 60. Abbie’s victorious struggles against sexism are iconic in the classical music world. Her experiences inspired Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink which was on the New York Times Bestseller List for 18 weeks, and three weeks in first place. Due to Abbie’s experiences, most of our music theater works explore the freedom and creative identity of women. Two doctoral dissertations have been written about our music theater work.
About Street Scene
Imagine a singer living among the dumpsters behind the Metropolitan Opera House. Tomorrow is her big audition there--if only she could think of what to sing. She colors her world with opera excerpts, grandiose Swan Songs and wild escapades on her trombone--but as she prepares for her final big audition, we see that the brutality of the street has long since caused the borderlines between real life and opera to blur.
Street Scene explores the belief that cultural identity is necessary for survival, that it is a way of confronting our human condition. We examine the stereotyped ways women are portrayed in opera, especially the violence they suffer, homelessness, and domestic violence.
