April 4, 2025 | 8:00 pm
Chamber Choir
Free - no tickets required
“A New Oratorio, Siddhartha” – Join the Chamber Choir for an evening workshop performance of Christopher Theofanidis, composer and librettist Melissa Studdard’s new work Siddhartha. The performance is in partnership with the Aspen Music Festival. Eugene Rogers, conductor; Scott VanOrnum, pianist.
Very loosely based on Herman Hesse’s classic novel, Siddhartha, the oratorio Siddhartha adapts the timeless story of the search for meaning into a vibrant, immersive audience experience of communal and personal transcendence. In addition to uniting music with spoken poetry, ritual, and environmental field recordings, composer Christopher Theofanidis and librettist Melissa Studdard employ optional simple choreographed balletic movement and video projection onto a variety of textured surfaces to create a mesmerizing, magical-realist, gender-bending exploration of the depth of the human condition.