Inspired by the Client/Dealer relationship from Bernard Marie-Koltes play In the Solitude of The Cotton Fields, The WANT is a contemporary opera - with music by Ethan Braun and lighting design by Shahryar Nashal - that fuses vocal expression with a rich physicality. The livretto, littered with interjections from Jacques Derrida to Missy Elliott, contemplates the desire, vulnerability and cunning at the heart of any transaction. The singers, actors, and dancers - Jess Gadani, Justin F. Kennedy, Jasmine Orpilla, and Roger Sala-Reyner - are 'Offerors' and 'Offerees' enrobed as the key archetypes of mercantile Europe and the spiritual tradition of constant trade between a reflexive mind and a sensuous being.
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Ethan Braun
The Want