LAURA ELISE SCHWENDINGER

First Berlin Prize Winner in Music Composition

link to full performance of Artemisia here

ARTEMISIA

an opera about Artemisia Gentileschi, fueled by passion, betrayal and art in 17th Century Italy

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Proves That Great Opera Needn’t Be Grand

By Rebecca Wishnia , June 3, 2019

- Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; World premiere of chamber version

SAN FRANCISCO, Z Space, 450 Florida St, San Francisco, Saturday, June 1/ 2, 2019

http://www.leftcoastensemble.org/dorothea-artemisia/

https://www.sfcv.org/music-news/left-coast-doubles-down-on-the-old-new-model

INTERVIEW ON KDFC https://www.kdfc.com/2019/05/artemesia-from-left-coast-chamber-ensemble/

With a libretto by Ginger Strand, Featuring: Artemisia: Bethany Cofland; Tomasso: Kyle Stegall; Susanna: Marnie Breckenridge; Abra/Tuzia: Nikki Einfeld ; Jonathan Smucker and Igor Vieira; Elder 1/ Tassi, Elder 2/ Cosimo, Matilda Hofman, conductor

"talent to burn..."-Fanfare

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Orchestral world premiere by Trinity Wall Street NOVUS, with Christopher Alden - stage director and Lidiya Yankovskaya conductor, Libretto by Ginger Strand

Artemisia received its orchestral premiere on the Time’s Arrow, Festival -- March 7 and was reviewed by the NEW YORK TIMES

https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/video/times-arrow-artemisia

Featuring: Augusta Caso – Artemisia Gentileschi; Heather Buck – Susanna; Oliver Mercer –

Agostino Tassi/Elder 1, Christopher Burchett – Cosimo di Medici/Elder 2, Richard Troxell – Tomasso/Oculist, and Melissa Baker Flute

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NEW YORK TIMES Review-

"Artemisia” lasts just 80 minutes, but fits in big themes set to music of quivering intensity. The story of the rape is there, blended with Gentileschi’s unbearably compassionate painting of the biblical character Susanna, who was ogled and shamed in her bath. But larger questions of idea and form, image and projection, sight and gaze also find nuanced and intelligent treatment." CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/music/classical-music-youtube.html