The Machine Stops Opera - Clips 1,2,3

Clips 1, 2, and 3 from THE MACHINE STOPS - an Opera in Two Acts by John Lake and Cecile Goding.
This is a “workshop” performance, with the piano taking the place of the orchestra, and with the characters reading the musical score.
THE MACHINE STOPS is based on a story of the same name written by the British author E. M. Forster in 1909. The story is set in the future, and most people live underground in individual cubicles, believing that the world’s surface is uninhabitable. Communication is through hand-held devices only imagined in the early twentieth century.The story centers around the relationship between Vashti, a musicologist who spends her time lecturing to hundreds of Friends about music (and everything else), and her unconventional son Kuno.

The Machine Stops Opera:
Composed by: John Lake
Librettist: Cecile Goding
Producer/Director of Music: Edward Kottick
Stage Director: Josh Sazon

Cast:
Vashti: Elise DesChamps
Kuno: Jeremiah Shobe
Friends/Officials/Homeless: Sarah Hachtman, Rebecca Fields-Moffitt, Nathan Brown, Eriq Wolfe
Flight Attendant/Homeless Woman: Gyehyun Jung
Conductor: Ed Kottick
Pianist: Jason Sifford

This video was recorded by Andy Small and edited by Dave Olive.
Peter Nothnagle recorded the audio.

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