Personnel for the Interdisciplinary Sacred Music Dramas

 

 

The Interdisciplinary Sacred Music Drama Project at Notre Dame

Carmen-Helena Téllez, Artistic Director

Daniel Stein, Postdoctoral Fellow and Managing Producer

Janet  Rudasics, Sacred Music Program Administration

 

THE NOTRE DAME FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE MELLON INTERDISCIPLINARY SACRED MUSIC DRAMAS

–Peter Holland, (Theatre and Shakespeare Studies), Chair

–Margot Fassler (Sacred Music)

–Don Crafton (Film Studies)

–Susan Ohmer (Media Studies)

–Richard Gray (Fine Arts)

–Louis MacKenzie (Romance Languages)

 

THE DANTE PROJECT (2016)

•THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS FOR THE DANTE PROJECT

–Carmen Helena Téllez (general artistic and music direction) Notre Dame

–Anton Juan (stage direction) Notre Dame

–Robin Kirkpatrick (script) University of Cambridge

–Robert Kyr (original composition) University of Oregon

•NOTRE DAME SCHOLARS ADVISING THE DANTE PROJECT

–Vittorio Montemaggi (Dante studies)

–Ted Cachey (Dante Studies, Rome Center)

–Jay Brockman (Computer Engineering)

–Patrick Flynn (Computer Engineering)

–Tracy Bergstrom ( Special Collections Library)

–Charles Loving (Director and Curator, Notre Dame Snite Museum)

•GUEST ARTISTS AND TECHNICAL DIRECTORS FOR THE DANTE PROJECT (2016)

–Kevin Dreyer, lighting design

–Chris Preissing, soundscape composer

–Ohm David, scenic and installation artist

–Gwen Terry, sculpture and installation artist

–Liviu Pasare. video and animation artist

–Allison Evans, video artist

–Ayako Kato, Paradiso choreographer

–Kristina Isabelle, Inferno and Purgatorio choreographer

–DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s technical personnel: Sarah Prince, Josh Ingle, Ryan Retartha. Project Technical Director: Ryan Stutzman

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ELIJAH OR THE JEWISH ARTIST IN THE WESTERN WORLD (2015)

•ARTISTIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE ELIJAH PROJECT

–Peter Holland, chair

–Marie Blakey

–Richard Gray

–Tzvi Novick

–Henry Weinfield

•PERFORMERS FOR ELIJAH

Carmen-Helena Tellez, Music Director

Nathan Gunn, Elijah

Deborah Mayer, soprano, An Angel

Sharon Harms, soprano, The Widow

Jacquelyn Matava, mezzo-soprano, Queen Jezebel

Wesley Dunnagan, tenor, Obadiah

Joshuah Boggs, countertenor, An Angel

Jamie Caporizo, mezzo-soprano, An Angel

Ben Liupaogo, tenor, Ahab

Sarah Noone, soprano, Concertist in the Choir of Angels

Jessica Bush, soprano, Concertist in the Choir of Angels

Joshuah Ingle, treble, The Servant Boy

Daniel Stein, concertmaster

Allison Evans, visual artist
Sarah Martin, visual artist

Notre Dame Vocale

Notre Dame Festival Chorus

Notre Dame Chorale, Alexander Blachy, director

South Bend Chamber Singers, Nancy Menk, director

Joshua Boggs, Blake Bruchhaus, Michael Duryea, Assistant Conductors

Patrick McManus, Project Videographer

José Francisco Cortés-Alvarez, Supertitle Operator

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I WAS BORN FOR THIS (2014)

•THE ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS FOR  “I WAS BORN FOR THIS”

Jamie Caporizo, mezzo-soprano, student member of Notre Dame Vocale

Anna Cooper, soprano, student member of Notre Dame Vocale

Don Crafton, Professor of Film Studies, advisor

Mark Doerries, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Conducting, production coordinator

Carl Theodor Dreyer, film director of “The Passion of Joan of Arc”

Richard Einhorn, composer of “Voices of Light”

Daniel Hobbins, Associate Professor of Medieval History, advisor

Connor Lidell, visiting young artist, baritone soloist

Benjamin Liupaogo, Notre Dame student artist, tenor soloist

Jacquelyn Matava, visiting young artist, mezzo-soprano soloist

Louis Mackenzie, Professor of French and French Literature, voice actor

Halle McGuire, soprano, student member of Notre Dame Vocale

Abigail Mitchell, visiting young artist, soprano soloist

Samantha Osborn, soprano, student member of Notre Dame Vocale

Christopher Preissing, guest master artist, sound art

Charlie Simokaitis, guest master artist, video art

Daniel Stein, orchestra concertmaster

Jay Strommen, guest master artist, clay art

Carmen-Helena Téllez, Professor of Music and P.I. of the Mellon Interdisciplinary Sacred Music Drama Project, artistic and music director

Gwendolyn Terry, guest master artist,  installation art