{"id":6810,"date":"2025-05-16T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:17:11","slug":"interplay-opera-workshop-an-evening-with-karim-al-zand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=6810","title":{"rendered":"Interplay Opera Workshop: an evening with Karim Al-Zand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/programs\/chamber-music-and-opera-interplay\" target=\"_blank\">Interplay Opera Workshop<\/a>, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Banff Center Summer Festival<\/a>, is described as &#8220;an innovative new program that celebrates both opera and vocal chamber music. It is a unique opportunity to work side-by-side with living composers on the creation of new work. Participants are given the chance to discover, to take risks, and learn from each other and leading practitioners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four-week summer program, which runs July 13-25, will feature new opera excerpts, scenes and song cycles by resident composer Karim Al-Zand. The workshop will culminate in a July 25th concert, <strong>An Evening with Karim Al-Zand<\/strong>, including performances of <i>The Strangers&#8217; Case<\/i> (a song cycle on the <a href=\"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=6618\" target=\"_blank\">immigrant experience<\/a> for tenor and strings), <i>A Joint Interest<\/i> (a comic scene for 3 singers and ensemble) and selected scenes from <i>The Book of Tales<\/i> (a projected full length opera on the origin on the Arabian Nights).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interplay Opera Workshop, part of the Banff Center Summer Festival, is described as &#8220;an innovative new program that celebrates both opera and vocal chamber music. It is a unique opportunity to work side-by-side with living composers on the creation of new work. Participants are given the chance to discover, to take risks, and learn from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/6818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}