About Alive & Kicking
CS Music has partnered with Jessica Fishenfeld to spotlight her creative efforts to make opera more accessible for a new generation of music lovers.
This light-hearted series gives you a short introduction to an exciting new American Opera each month, in under 5 minutes! The series highlights operas relevant to our modern times, and connects up-and-coming composers with the modern American public they’re writing for. As opera has entered into the fast-paced modern world, these American works are much more accessible and relatable, leaving behind airs of elitism from centuries’ past. Written in English and drawing on modern topics and ideas, American Opera is intended to be enjoyed and understood by people of all ages, colors, cultures, shapes, and sizes!
Alive & Kicking is here to show you that opera is a growing and changing art form, and its creators are telling your stories!
Episode 4: “Companionship”
The October edition of Alive & Kicking proudly features Companionship by imaginative composer/librettist Rachel Peters, adapted from the short story by Arthur Phillips. This quirky opera follows protagonist Leslie Sinclair on her journey to recovery from a nervous breakdown, by taking comfort in her aspirations of becoming an impeccable baker. We find her at the end of her obsessive quest to bake the perfect baguette, when the 207,345th one suddenly comes to life. Companionship mirrors our contemporary world, where what we consume becomes all-consuming.
