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Joshua Kosman writes about our excerpted opera at West Edge Opera’s Snapshot series:
“As in their previous collaboration, Fríes and Suleiman boast a shared theatrical approach — expressive, insinuating, full of enigmatic fervor — that draws a listener immediately under their spell. I can’t wait to hear the completed opera.”
Read full review HERE.
My libretto for an opera has been selected as part of West Edge Opera’s new opera development program, Aperture. My collaborator and I are part of the 3-month online residency for the development of our opera and a chance to win a $60,000 commission and live performance of our work.
Check out this kind review of my opera in the West Edge Opera Snapshot 2020 series by Joshua Kosman by clicking HERE
“If “Moon, Bride, Dogs” emerged from the performance in San Francisco’s Taube Atrium Theater as the most richly satisfying experience on offer, that’s in part because its aesthetic is at once so strange and so accessible.”
“Moon, Bride, Dogs” will see its third opera performance this coming winter as one of four contemporary operas selected to be included in the Snapshot 2020 series. Dates: January 31 and February 1. Tickets: $40.
Cristina is one of 23 Scholars for the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop. She attended the weeklong novel workshop led by Claire Vaye Watkins.
Cristina has won a Fulbright Open Study award in creative writing to pursue her writing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for 9 months, beginning in February 2020.
“Moon, Bride, Dogs” was selected to be produced by Atlanta’s NANOworks Opera team, which “develops and stages short contemporary operas by emerging North American composers and dedicates itself to raising the spotlight on young composers and librettists to give them a stepping stone to national attention.”
Composer: Ryan Suleiman
Librettist: Cristina Fries
Cristina was chosen as one of the winners of the 2018 Magrit Mondavi Graduate fellowship, which is intended to support the work of promising students to in helping them achieve degree-related goals.
May 10, 2018: Premiere of "Moon, Bride, Dogs," an opera/art-song with the libretto and story written by Cristina Fries, and created in collaboration with Ryan Suleiman, who composed the score. Their performance, along with those of five other collaborative teams, will take place at noon at the Pitzer Center, UC Davis. Performers will be members of the Brooklyn Art Song Society. A video of the full performance will be streamed live on YouTube.
February 20, 2018
