His plays have won national and regional awards and have had minor regional productions. David is also a playwright, novelist, poet, and librettist who participated in the Composer Librettist Studio at Nautilus in 2018. David is passionate about literature, theater and opera, and was a board member of Minnesota opera from 2017 to 2020. He practiced law for three years at the beginning of his career, then moved to work on mergers and acquisitions. The project team has begun fundraising and is creating an initial demo reel for use in promoting the film.ĭavid Smith (Co-Producer, Finance) is semi-retired from a long career in finance and investment banking. Alfred Taubman and “American Masters” for PBS. More recently, Peter produced two feature films: “Bad Boy of the Art World” on American artist Larry Rivers (1923-2002), “Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future”, sponsored by a major grant from A. “The Cliburn Playing on the Edge”, with KERA/PBS, sponsored by ExxonMobil, won the prestigious Peabody Award in 2001. He was again nominated for the DGA Award in 1998 for his PBS film, “First Person Singular: I.
Rosen won the prestigious Directors Guild of America Award in 1990 for his PBS production “Here to Make Music: The Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.” The show also won a prime-time Emmy Award in 1990 and was called “enriching and inspiring” by the New York Daily News. He has worked directly with some of the most important figures in the arts such as Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Stephen Sondheim, Alexander Godunov, Midori, Martha Graham, Placido Domingo, Van Cliburn, Claudio Arrau, Byron Janis, I. He has produced and directed over 100 full-length films and television programs which have been distributed world-wide and have won awards at all the major film festivals. New York-based producer/director Peter Rosen has been engaged for our project. Digital release on iTunes, Amazon, and Netflix.Education & discussion materials for opera, music-theater and theater programs.Screenings and discussions at top universities.Special screenings for opera and music-theater companies to engage their patrons.Partnerships with key creatives in opera, music-theater, and theater.Theatrical release in select cities, attracting audiences and press coverage.Red carpet film festival screenings to build awareness.Our film will help opera and music-theater companies across the nation boost ticket sales for productions of unfamiliar works. Our goal is to help change attitudes toward opera and music-theater and to build audiences for ambitious new works. Mark Campbell | Lidiya Yankovskaya | Ricky Ian Gordonīeth Morrison | Ryan Taylor | Ben Krywosz Jake Heggie | Paul Moravec | Kamala Sankaram | Kevin Puts The film will run 70-90 minutes and feature leading creators and producers from the national opera scene such as:
Join them in their quest to make enduring contributions to this most complex and ambitious art form. The film takes you behind the scenes to meet the composers, librettists, directors, and producers who are the driving forces behind this important new work. Even the prestigious Metropolitan Opera has embraced the trend. In 2000, only three new works were produced by major companies in recent years we have seen more than 20 each year. Once perceived as stagnant and oriented toward older, affluent White patrons, opera and music- theater in America are being revitalized by bold and inventive new works that are attracting younger, more diverse, and more adventurous audiences.Īmerican opera has seen an explosion in creative activity in recent years, after decades in which new works were rarely seen on major US stages.
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