The Party: A New Stop-Motion Opera Film
Featured Artist
Marin Alsop
Film, opera, and symphony provide a stunning musical exploration of how we experience time—a depiction of a clock, the acceleration of a train, and a stop-animation film that stitches the smallest fragments of time into seamless imagery accompanied by a live orchestra. This mind-blowing, multi-sensory adventure places Joseph Haydn’s 18th-century hit “The Clock” alongside 20th-century composer Arthur Honegger’s pulse-pounding portrayal of a hurtling train, and a dazzling new work by Philadelphia-based conceptual artist Alex Da Corte in collaboration with composer Austin Fisher.
Detail installation view of Marisol’s The Party, 1965–66, in Marisol: A Retrospective at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, July 12, 2024–January 6, 2025. Artwork: Collection Toledo Museum of Art. © Estate of Marisol / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
Program
Honegger
Pacific 231
Haydn
Symphony No. 101 (“The Clock”)
Fisher
The Party (with film by Alex Da Corte) (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission)
Approximate Duration
includes intermission
The Party: A New Stop-Motion Opera has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
