One Ounce Opera: The movie

From left, Carmen Johnson, Cristina Flores, Allyssa Kemp and Elsie Kotara in
From left, Carmen Johnson, Cristina Flores, Allyssa Kemp and Elsie Kotara in "Non Motus" with music by Marc Hoffeditz, libretto by Ilana Fogelson Gerry. Staged at the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, Texas. Feb. 6, 2020
By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

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One Ounce’s efforts to creatively tinker with opera for a 21st-century opera prove consistently smart and appealing.

It was only in early February that One Ounce Opera held its fifth annual festival of new micro-operas by emerging composers — Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera — in the rough-ish warehouse performance space of the Museum of Human Achievement in East Austin.

Of course that now feels like a lifetime ago, sitting shoulder to shoulder in the dark, with strangers, at a live performance of indie operas.

One Ounce artistic director Julie Fiore has now thoughtfully come up with a way to digitally recreate the fest with a 90-minute movie.

A compilation of live recordings from the fest together with One Ounce’s typically irreverent, humorous insider interviews, the movie will premiere online as a livestreamed broadcast on May 29 at 8 p.m. CST.

With a total runtime of about 90 minutes, the movie even has a short intermission to give you time to refresh your beverage (because the fest always has an intermission . And you can virtually chat through the event too.

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One Ounce Opera on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp6yOYTxx7k


Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is an arts and culture journalist who has covered visual art, performance, film, literature, architecture, and just about any combination thereof. She was the staff arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman for 17 years. Her commendations include the First Place Arts & Culture Criticism Award from the Society for Features Journalism. Additionally, Jeanne Claire has been awarded professional fellowships at USC’s Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and NEA/Columbia University Arts Journalism Institute. In 2022, she was awarded the Rabkin Prize in visual art journalism. For two years, she taught arts journalism at the University of Texas College of Fine Arts. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Architecture magazine, Dwell, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Art Papers, and ICON design magazine, among other publications.

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