Creative Team

Composer

JUHI BANSAL

Librettist

NEIL AITKEN

Director

RACHEL DICKSTEIN

JUHI BANSAL

NEIL AITKEN

RACHEL DICKSTEIN

About

The stars are dying one by one, fading into darkness held back only by the voice of a single star singer. Drawing on mythology from Polynesian, various Asian and Inuit cultures, Star Singer follows Mina who traverses a frightening world of dying stars and spirits in search of hope and a song. As she walks unknowing in her departed mother’s footsteps, she learns about the nature of truth, history and memory; the irreplaceable loss of knowledge; the value of stories; and the interweaving journeys of mothers and daughters.

Support

Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects and Kiki & David Gindler. The development of Star Singer received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Women Composers: Discovery Grants program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

"Radiant and transcendent."
(Praise for Juhi Bansal)

LA Opera

“His poems are doubled-forests, like Magritte or early Taoist landscape paintings; you journey outside in one direction admiring the foliage, the arrangements of shadow and landscape, then suddenly, you fall inside into voracious vortices of light, fire, voice, and wisdom—"
(Praise for Neil Aitken)

JUAN HERRERA, 21ST U.S. POET LAUREATE

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