BETH MORRISON.
the president and creative producer of the award winning Beth Morrison Projects and Protoype Festival .
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
A three time GRAMMY®-nominated producer, Beth Morrison is the President and Creative Producer of Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and the co-Founding Director of the PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival. Hailed as a “contemporary opera mastermind” (LA Times) and “a powerhouse leading the industry to new heights” (WQXR), she founded BMP in 2006 to champion living composers and redefine the future of opera. Under her leadership, BMP has commissioned, developed, produced, and toured over 65 works in 19 countries, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning operas Angel’s Bone and p r i s m. A recipient of the Musical America Award for Artist of the Year/Agent of Change and a Kennedy Center 50NEXT Honoree, Morrison is also a sought-after speaker at major institutions and conferences worldwide. She holds degrees from Boston University, Arizona State University, and Yale University, where she now serves as a Lecturer.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on September 28.
I would say that I am doing my calling, right? My calling is to partner with the most extraordinary artists of our time, and give them a platform to create work, that they have no fear of failure, which gives them the opportunity to take risks, and continue to evolve the form. That is the heart of who I have always been, and I'm sure who I always will continue to be.
…arguably the
FIERCEST ADVOCATE
of new opera works for the
PAST TWO DECADES.
CULTURAL ATTACHÉ
GALLERY.
Discover photos and videos from Beth's work.
CREDITS: HILDEGARD, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Composer and Librettist, Elkhanah Pulitzer, Director, Photo by Angel Origgi; BLACK LODGE, David T. Little, Composer, Anne Waldman, Librettist, Michael Joseph McQuilken, Story, Screenplay, and Film/Stage Direction, Photo from the filmed version; WHAT TO WEAR, Richard Foreman, Librettist and Original Direction, Michael Gordon, Composer, Paul Lazar, Creative Director, Annie-B Parson, Co-Creative Director, Alan Pierson, Music Director, Photos by Douglas Mason; p r i s m, Ellen Reid, Composer, Roxie Perkins, Librettist, James Darrah, Director, Julian Wachner, Conductor, Photo by Maria Baranova; PRECIPICE, Susan Zeeman Rogers, Concept and Production Design, Rima Fand, Music, Karen Fisher, Libretto, Photo by Maria Baranova; OLD MAN AND THE SEA, Paola Prestini, Composer, Royce Vavrek, Librettist, Karmina Šilec, Director/Creator/Costume Designer, Mila Henry, Music Director, Photo by Maria Baranova; CHORNOBYLDORF, Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko, Composers,
Yurii Izdryk, Publii Ovidii Nazon, Ivan Kotlyarevskyy, Illia Razumeiko, Librettists, Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko, Directors, Photo by Valeriia Landar; HAVE A GOOD DAY! Lina Lapelyte, Composer,
Vaiva Grainyte, Librettist/Subtitles, Rugile Barzdziukaite, Director, Photo by Noah Stern Weber; IN OUR DAUGHTER'S EYES, Du Yun, Composer, Michael Joseph McQuilken, Librettist and Director, Nathan Gunn, Created with and featuring, Kamna Gupta, Conductor, Photo by Maria Baranova; DOG DAYS, David T. Little, Composer, Royce Vavrek, Librettist, Alan Pierson, Conductor, Photo by James Matthew Daniel.