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part one - hundreds of 05:47
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part two - i guess i'll 03:38
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part three - they were going 03:16
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epilogue 01:21

about

One-Eleven Heavy is a short opera that probes the relationship of humans to air travel through the tragedy of the 1998 Swissair Flight 111 disaster in Halifax, Canada. It was written in response to the incredibly terrifying mix of emotions the composer experienced being aboard an American Airlines jet in 2013 which lost an engine mid-flight. “We were shown how to brace for landing and find the closest emergency exit. The cabin went silent; what can you do? What is there to do? What and who do you think about?”

Told in reverse chronology, the libretto is culled from recollections of reporters on the scene of the Swissair crash, interviews with family members of the victims, and newspaper accounts of the incident, as well as descriptions of plane crashes from survivors of other disasters. These stories are interwoven with the original Air Traffic Control recordings and use of authentic aircraft alarm audio.

Originally for piano, soprano, and baritone, One-Eleven Heavy was workshopped and premiered with Opera From Scratch (Halifax, Nova Scotia) in 2014 and afterward expanded, orchestrated, and recorded as a conceptual “opera EP album” with ensemble Hotel Elefant and featuring soprano Jenny Ribeiro and Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman. The album was released by Navona Records on CD and all streaming platforms in May of 2019.

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released May 24, 2019

Music and Libretto by Matt Frey
Jenny Ribeiro, soprano
Karim Sulayman, tenor
Hotel Elefant:
• David Bloom, Conductor
• Mary Kouyoumdjian, Score Producer
• Leaha Maria Villarreal, and Patrick Castillo, directors
• Katie Cox, flutes
• Domenica Fossati, flutes
• Isabel Kim, clarinet
• Eileen Mack, clarinets
• Matt Marks, horn
• Joshua Perry, percussion
• Sugar Vendil, piano
• Maya Bennardo, violin
• Gillian Gallagher, viola
• Maria Jeffers, cello
• Shawn Lovato, bass

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Matt Frey Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn-based composer Matt Frey recently completed a two-year fellowship with The American Opera Project after releasing his first album, the chamber opera EP One-Eleven Heavy. Other recent projects include the musical Mary, the chamber opera The Fox and the Pomegranate, and the co-written oratorio Moby Dick: Extracts on Death and Other Curiosities. ... more

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