Opera Parallele’s ‘Birds and Balls” double bill includes homage to Billie Jean King’s groundbreaking victory.
A tennis match watched round the world, and an arcane bird-watching contest — in “Birds and Balls,” Opera Parallèle’s enticing new double bill, competition is the name of the game.
Karpman, whose career spans opera, theater, and film — earlier this year, her music for “American Fiction” was honored with a best original score Academy Award nomination — says “Balls” uses the match “to look at a time of intense change.” For director Staufenbiel, who is transforming the Miner Auditorium into the historic stadium, the hook was the way Karpman and Collins wove real-life characters into the opera.
“It’s called Finch-Sitting,” said Staufenbiel. “It’s fun, it’s eccentric, but it’s also profound. It goes deep into the human condition. The characters have moments that I call ‘externalized internal moments,’ and they’re sharing that. Some of them are lonely, some are feeling insecure. They’ve had loss in their lives. And they are obsessed with the birds.”
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