Miriam’s opera projects include Violet Fire, a multimedia opera about visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, with score by Jon Gibson. She conceived and wrote the libretto for this opera, which incorporates dance and video along with words and music to provide an immersive experience of this extraordinary personality.
After a first performance at Temple University in Philadelphia, Violet Fire had a full world premiere at the National Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, as part of Tesla’s 150th anniversary celebration there. Later in 2006, it was performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in New York.
More info at violetfiretheopera.com.
Excerpts from Violet Fire:
Miriam was commissioned to write the libretto for this opera, based on an episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, related by legend to the ancient city of Sardis in Turkey. Composer Kamran Ince’s score incorporates Turkish musical traditions. The opera’s development included several workshops and a concert performance in New York, produced by American Opera Projects. Judgment of Midas premiered in Milwaukee, WI in 2013, produced by Present Music with the Milwaukee Opera Theatre.
