New science fiction opera debuts in Coralville. How it came together.
Out of all the arts, opera may require the most concerted effort of all.
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Things to do this weekend in Johnson County include cat film festival
This weekend, a new opera based on the short story The Machine Stops premieres in Coralville while FilmScene hosts screenings of CatVideoFest.
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Culture Crawl 738 "What Would Zappa Do?"
Poet Cecile Goding first heard her words set to music for a class at the Iowa Writers Workshop. This led her to the idea of creating a new opera inspired by the E.M. Forster short story, “The Machine Stops,” whose setting is a world where people never meet physically, but create relationships through the screen … Continue reading
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Science fiction opera coming to Coralville is a story of our time
Facing colleagues and kin on screens around the world, I too relate to E.M. Forster’s tale of a family of sorts, disconnected by custom and distance.
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