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From Medieval Romance to Contemporary Opera: Philosophy, Allegory, Eros

From Medieval Romance to Contemporary Opera: Philosophy, Allegory, Eros From Medieval Romance to Contemporary Opera Philosophy, Allegor y, Eros Kate Soper in conversation with Joseph Cermatori ver the past decade, Kate Soper has established herself as a formida- ble presence in the field of contemporary American music, garnering Ofellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Insti- tute for Advanced Study, along with a 2017 Pulitzer Prize nomination for her “philosophy-opera” IPSA DIXIT. That work featured writings by Plato, Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Holzer, among others, and was praised by New Yorker critic Alex Ross as “a twenty-first-century masterpiece.” Her previous large-scale works, including the 2012 monodrama Voices from the Killing Jar and the 2014 chamber opera Here Be Sirens, allowed her to fine-tune a distinctive compositional voice that interweaves the legacies of musical modernism with the contemporary American tradition of composer-performers like Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. She brings to these projects her own brilliant, shimmering soprano, virtuosic in its range, color, and precision, and a uniquely captivating presence onstage. Soper’s current large-scale project is an adaptation of the medi- eval Roman de la Rose, an extended philosophical disquisition on love originally comprising more than twenty-thousand lines of Old French verse. She has de- scribed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

From Medieval Romance to Contemporary Opera: Philosophy, Allegory, Eros

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From Medieval Romance to Contemporary Opera Philosophy, Allegor y, Eros Kate Soper in conversation with Joseph Cermatori ver the past decade, Kate Soper has established herself as a formida- ble presence in the field of contemporary American music, garnering Ofellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Insti- tute for Advanced Study, along with a 2017 Pulitzer Prize nomination for her “philosophy-opera” IPSA DIXIT. That work featured writings by Plato, Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Holzer, among others, and was praised by New Yorker critic Alex Ross as “a twenty-first-century masterpiece.” Her previous large-scale works, including the 2012 monodrama Voices from the Killing Jar and the 2014 chamber opera Here Be Sirens, allowed her to fine-tune a distinctive compositional voice that interweaves the legacies of musical modernism with the contemporary American tradition of composer-performers like Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. She brings to these projects her own brilliant, shimmering soprano, virtuosic in its range, color, and precision, and a uniquely captivating presence onstage. Soper’s current large-scale project is an adaptation of the medi- eval Roman de la Rose, an extended philosophical disquisition on love originally comprising more than twenty-thousand lines of Old French verse. She has de- scribed

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Published: May 1, 2022

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