Upcoming Performances

May 31 & June 6, 2008

Opera Vista Festival
Houston, Texas, USA

POSTPONED - Statement from Opera Vista:

"Due to a scheduling error on the part of our venue, the 2008 Opera Vista Festival has been postponed. We are currently working on finding a new venue and setting new dates for the festival. As we have more information, we will post it on our website."

Opera Vista presents the two co-winners of last year's competition at their 2nd Annual Festival in Houston, Texas. They will premiere the Second Edition of R. Timothy Brady's Edalat Square: Opera in One Act.

Taft St. Coffee
8:00 p.m.

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Past Performances

April 25, 2008

Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas, USA

The Wichita State University Opera Lab will perform a concert-version of Edalat Square: Opera in One Act

Miller Concert Hall
8:00 p.m.

June 21-24, 2007

Opera Vista Festival and Competition
Houston, Texas, USA

Both Brady and David T. Little (Soldier Songs) tied for First Place at Opera Vista’s First Annual Festival and Competition. A 10-minute excerpt was performed with the following cast:

Phil Moody, Conductor
Vanessa Beaumont, Mother
Joseph Rawley, Mahmoud Asgari
Daniel Buchanan, Ayaz Marhoni

Here is a review of the performance from Houston Press
(June 28, 2007):

The most adventurous of the lot — in both music and libretto — was R. Timothy Brady's poignant, highly poetic Edalat Square, a disquisition on the torture and hanging of two Iranian teenage boys for homosexuality. With keening strings and an overwhelming performance by Vanessa Beaumont as the wailing, distraught mother, Brady used almost calligraphic musical motifs to limn both the intolerance of Shari'a law and man's inherent divinity. Prodigiously talented young Brady is the composer to watch. He may prove to be grand opera's future.

April 15, 2007

Premiere: Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

As part of the requirements to fulfill the honors program in Music Composition at Emory University, Brady composed Edalat Square: Opera in One Act as his senior honors project. Emory University’s Administration unsuccessfully attempted to shut down the performance, and Edalat premiered at Emory University’s Performing Arts Studio with the following cast:

R. Timothy Brady, Director/Scenic & Costume Designs
Michael Evenden, Staging Consultant
John Devlin, Conductor
Daniel Weiss, Lighting Design
Jeremiah Selvey, Mahmoud Asgari
Stuart Schleuse, Ayaz Marhoni
Shantal Chan-Friday, Mother
Mansour Sobhani, Qazi (Islamic Judge)
Alexandra Marquez, Violin I
Cathryn Lee, Violin II
Heather Allen, Viola
Grace Shim, Violoncello
John Watson, Tape & Sound Engineer