STAR SINGER
Star Singer is set in a world of night where the skies are ablaze with stars. Mina is the daughter of the last Star Singer, part of a lineage of women who use an ancient song to keep the stars lit and the darkness at bay. As the stars begin to die one by one, fading into darkness held back only by the voice of a single Star Singer, Mina sets out on a journey in search of hope, and a song.
Drawing on mythology from Polynesian, various Asian, and Inuit cultures, Star Singer follows Mina as she traverses a frightening world of dying stars and restless spirits. 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.
Radiant and transcendent." (Praise for Juhi Bansal)
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)
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.