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Additional authors

1. Zimmerman, Mary
2. Glass, Philip
3. Hopkins, Karen Brooks
4. Melillo, Joseph V
5. Riedel, Michael (Theater critic)
6. Haskins, Susan
7. Walker, Adam
8. Theater Talk Productions, Inc

Description

1. 1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (28 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Director Mary Zimmerman and composer Philip Glass speak with Theater talk co-hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins. They discuss their new opera Galileo Galilei, which will open the 2002 Next Wave Festival at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music. Glass and Zimmerman expound on Galileo, a great Italian scientific innovator born 1564 who faced inquisition by the Catholic Church, and why they see the production as relevant. They speak about their conception of the opera, its musical structure, and the growing interest in new operas by the public.
2. Also on the program are BAM's president Karen Brooks Hopkins and executive producer Joe Melillo, organizers of the 20th annual Next Wave Festival. They speak about their mission to stage innovative, pioneering works in the performing arts from around the globe. They also address the challenges of raising funds, as well as staging works from abroad, a year after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Series statement

1. Theater talk

Alternative title

1. Theater talk. Galileo Galilei

Subject

1. Glass, Philip > Interviews
2. Experimental theater > New York (State) > New York
3. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
4. Television
5. Brooklyn Academy of Music > Next Wave Festival
6. Talk shows
7. Theater > New York (State) > New York
8. Glass, Philip > Galileo Galilei
9. Hopkins, Karen Brooks > Interviews
10. Zimmerman, Mary > Interviews
11. Theater > Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
12. Interviews
13. Arts administrators > Interviews
14. Composers > Interviews
15. Theater > Production and direction
16. Melillo, Joseph V > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2019

Note

1. Credits at end of videocassette.
2. This is episode #901 of Theater talk.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y. on Sept. 27, 2002.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. Theater talk. Galileo Galilei. Mary Zimmerman, Philip Glass, Joseph Melillo, Karen Brooks Hopkins [videorecording] / Susan Haskins, executive producer ; Theater Talk Productions ; director, Adam Walker.

Imprint

1. New York, c2002.

Series

1. Theater talk

Performer

1. Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y. on Sept. 27, 2002.

Local note

1. Gift of Susan Haskins.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Local subject

1. Theater -- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Added author

1. Zimmerman, Mary, interviewee.
2. Glass, Philip, interviewee.
3. Hopkins, Karen Brooks, interviewee.
4. Melillo, Joseph V, interviewee.
5. Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.
6. Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
7. Haskins, Susan, producer.
8. Walker, Adam, director.
9. Theater Talk Productions, Inc.
10. Haskins, Susan, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2019