UPCOMING EVENTS
MFA GRADUATION RECITAL
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
April 3, 2024
Past Events
TiAmo
Wild Beast at CalArts
Valencia, CA
November 3, 2023
Composers— Ivo Medek, Sará Medková, & Vit Zouhar
Performers—Sará Medková, Hana Hána, *Nelle Anderson (*cover for Lucie Rozsnyó)
Director—Rocc
TiAmo is a chamber team opera about the transformations of women's roles, desires, needs and the objects of their interests: love, motherhood, instruments, toys, emancipation, etc...The topic was inspired by news reports responding to the changes in women's attitudes and rights over the last decade, and the changes in their perception within global society. The eternal female stories become a parallel to Ovid's Metamorphoses and legends. TiAmo as an opera about women was created for 3 members of the ensemble ISHA trio, where the very name "isha" means woman in Hebrew.
Cover art for score
HERE BE SIRENS
Roy O. Disney Hall at CalArts
Valencia, CA
April 30, May 2, May 3
Composer—Kate Soper
Director—Hector Alvarez. Music Director—Daniel Newman-Lesser Peitho—Mikaela Elson Polyxo—Elliot Menard Phaino—Nelle Anderson
Described by the New Yorker as "erudite, hilarious, furiously inventive," Here Be Sirens presents the daily life of three sirens, who kill time on their island as they await an endless procession of doomed sailors. Peitho revels in the luxurious sensuality of their rite; Phaino stonily enacts the ritual with no inner feeling; and Polyxo longs for escape into the world of the real, delving into centuries of scholarship and research on her species in an attempt to untwist their circumstances. As the opera goes on, the sirens re-enact the abduction of Persephone, encounter (and battle) their favored sisters the Muses, and leave no rock unturned to plumb the depths of their own origins in this work of "audacious, genre-bending music theatre" (Wall Street Journal).
From Meine Gesangskunst by Lilli Lehman
HEAD VOICE
The WaveCave at CalArts
Valencia, CA
March 14 - 21, 2023
Concept & Sound—Nelle Anderson
Scenic Design—Jane Hamor, assist. Holly Webb
In this interactive installation with electronic and passively amplified sound, an opera singer and a scenic designer join forces to shape the WaveCave into the inside of a singer’s head—a room-sized, artfully-abstracted skull which visitors will explore with a flashlight, triggering light-sensored sound modules. Each module will play a recording of my voice which corresponds to the anatomical area or metaphorical object as it relates to my singing practice. Every singer has their own matrix of spatial orientations and visualizations that trigger conducive body responses, developed through lessons with different teachers, literature, intuition, and experimentation. This installation reflects this; singing is as much a spatial-visualization practice as it is a sound practice.
Drawing by Biba Kayewich
I want a country
Ensemble Theater II @ CalArts
Valencia, CA
February 9-17, 2023
Playwright—Andreas Flourakis
Translator—Eleni Drivas
Director—Tatou Dede Music Director—Daniel Newman-Lesser Vocalist—Nelle Anderson
“We need to dream, otherwise we’ll just die sleepless.”
I Want a Country, written a decade ago during Greece’s severe debt crisis, is an interdisciplinary theatrical performance that explores what is at stake when a country is not safe anymore. Greek writer Andreas Flourakis imagines a chorus of young people planning to escape into their own dream countries. Will their desires come true?