Over the past decade, Kate Soper has established herself as a formidable presence in the field of contemporary American music, garnering fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, along with a 2017 Pulitzer Prize nomination for her “philosophy-opera” IPSA DIXIT. That work featured writings by Plato, Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Holzer, among others, and was praised by New Yorker critic Alex Ross as “a twenty-first-century masterpiece.” Her previous large-scale works, including the 2012 monodrama Voices from the Killing Jar and the 2014 chamber opera Here Be Sirens, allowed her to fine-tune a distinctive compositional voice that interweaves the legacies of musical modernism with the contemporary American tradition of composer-performers like Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. She brings to these projects her own brilliant, shimmering soprano, virtuosic in its range, color, and precision, and a uniquely captivating presence onstage. Soper's current...

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