ArdeaArts Inc.

 
ArdeaArts, Inc is a not-for-profit company dedicated to commissioning, developing and producing new American opera and music theater works that reach out to contemporary audiences with subject matter that matters.
     
A central program of ArdeaArts, Inc. is the Family Opera Initiative; which commissions, fosters, develops and produces original, accessible and entertaining opera works for multi-generational audiences. Family Opera Initiative
The Man In The Black Suit c: Eve Beglarian l: Eve Beglarian & Grethe Barrett Holby.
based on a story by Stephen King.
 
  Holby: director, co-librettist.  
  Commissioner/Producer: ArdeaArts, Inc.  
Development Partners: Atlantic Center for the Arts, American Opera Projects.
Major Support by The Jaffe Family Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation.
  Atlantic Center for the Arts: Workshop with full cast Jan 2008
  Rockefeller Residency, Bellagio Center, Italy: composing and libretto work 2006
  Ardea Arts: Music Workshop and Recording of Excerpts 2005
  American Opera Projects: libretto reading with SFX 2000
  Arts at St. Ann's, NYC libretto reading as a radio play 1999
     
Requiem l: Kathy Acker c: Ken Valitsky, dramaturgy: Grethe Barrett Holby & Matias Veigener  
  Holby: origin, dramaturgy, direction  
  Commissioner/Producers: American Opera Projects, Ardea (seeking producer)
  Funding: Mary Flagler Cary
  Ardea Arts - script development and reading 2005
  Ardea Arts - reading of full script with music 2004
  American Opera Projects - workshop 1999
  American Opera Projects - workshop 1997
 
 
Stella Rising c / l: Napua Davoy.  
  Holby: director, dramaturge.  
  Staged workshop at The Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays - PLAYFEST, Presented by the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Orlando, FL. Producers Ardea Arts, Inc. & Brave Cool World. 2007
  Workshop at The York Theater Company, NYC. 2007
  Workshop at The York Theater Company, NYC. 2006
  Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005
 

 

(note c = composer, l = librettist, d = director/dramaturge)
 
www.grethebholby.com