The Eternal Tao

A Multimedia Opera

Kyong Mee Choi composer, visual artist, choreographer, director, and producer

Ensemble Dal Niente
JulieAnn Zavala mezzo-soprano
Brad Jungwirth baritone
Samantha Stein, Allison Hull, Jeff Jablonski, Chadley Ballantyne – chorus
Michael Lewanski conductor
Allisan Anich, Mei-Kuang Chen, Natalie Williams – dancers

Release Date: January 29, 2013
Catalog #: Audio RR7873
Catalog #: Video RR7866
Format: Digital & Physical
21st Century
Opera
Stage Works
Choir
Electronic
Voice

THE ETERNAL TAO, a one-act multimedia opera for voices instruments, video, electronics, dancers, and lighting presents the text of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching translated and re-imagined in the context of modern society. Through this opera, which has parallels with traditional opera, but differs from singer-oriented opera in the sense that the vocalists are a part of the ensemble as a whole, composer, director, and choreographer Kyong Mee Choi seeks to have viewers experience a shared moment of seeing ourselves with open eyes and understand our purpose in the world.

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Artist Information

Kyong Mee Choi

Composer

Kyong Mee Choi, composer, visual artist, painter, organist and poet, received several prestigious awards and grants including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Robert Helps Prize, Aaron Copland Award, John Donald Robb Musical Trust Fund Commission, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, First prize of ASCAP/SEAMUS Award, Second prize at VI Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo, Honorary Mentions from Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, Musica Nova, Society of Electroacoustic Music of Czech Republic, Luigi Russolo International Competition, and Destellos Competition.