You Us We All - Chamber Opera - CD

It's not every day that you get to hear words like Britney Spears and hashtag thrown around in an opera. Witness Shara's first pop opera, originally performed in 2015!

Hope identifies with Beyoncé. Love doesn’t return Death’s emails. Time swigs Stoli in his tighty whities. In this postmodern pop opera by singer-composer Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and writer-director-designer Andrew Ondrejcak, the buttoned-up allegorical figures of 17th-century court entertainment search for meaning amid celebrity crushes, Lucite chairs, and gym culture. The Belgium-based Baroque ensemble B.O.X., under the direction of Pieter Theuns, enlivens the whimsical text by Ondrejcak and the score by Worden, who performs alongside Helga Davis (Einstein on the Beach, 2012 Next Wave) and three other vocalists in this fable of idealism in the iPhone age.

Tracks:
1. THEE ND ( A Prologue)
2. Beyonce
3. Poolside in LA (Recit)
4. Bullets are My Love
5. At the Gym
6. (The Pounding Inside)
7. Britney Spears
8. #KRUNK
9. At the Stripclub/In Praise of Nature
10. Destruction
11. A Drinking Song (for Time)
12. Celine, Mariah, Whitney
13. Quartet (Recit)
14. Loverfox
15. LOVE/POOF
16. A Survey of Human History (Andrew's edit)
17. Death's Death
18. Mary Kate and Ashley