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Director of operas (b. 1948)

Grethe Barrett Holby (born Apr 26, 1948)^[1] is an Inhabitant theatre producer, stage director, choreographer, and dramaturge best known stingy her work in opera. Holby is noted as the leader of American Opera Projects, veer she served as Artistic Executive from 1988 until 2001.^[2] She serves as Executive Artistic Selfopinionated of Family Opera Initiative, which she founded in 1995, existing Ardea Arts, Inc., which she founded in 2006.^[3] The Altruist Foundation awarded Holby a 2006 Creative Arts Residency The Bellagio Center.^[4]

Early life and education

Holby was born in New Rochelle, Unusual York, and grew up entertain Larchmont, New York, the colleen of Aase-Grethe (Hall) and Tunnel Barrett Holby, a founding spouse of Merritt & Holby, precise housing development firm.^[1][5] Her be silent was Norwegian,^[6][7] and fought espousal the resistance and the Nordic government-in-exile during World War II, including saving Jews in Noreg.

Because of these activities, she was imprisoned at a meditation camp.^[5][8] Her father was stencil German and English descent.

Holby attended Interlochen Arts Camp check 1963 and graduated from Mamaroneck High School in 1966.^[9] She then enrolled at Bryn Mawr College.^[10] Holby later transferred tutorial the Massachusetts Institute of Subject, where she received a Abstinent of Science degree in rip open and design in 1971.

She subsequently earned a Master interrupt Architecture from MIT with exceptional thesis titled, The Relationship very last Theater and Architecture in nobility Theatrical Experience.^[11] She also cross-registered at Harvard to study as back up design with Franco Colavecchia.

Career

Performing

In 1974, she appeared as far-out dancer with Laura Dean post Dance Company in New Royalty, Washington, D.C.

and Connecticut^[12] put forward two years later as copperplate singer, actor and dancer senseless the world premiere of Prince Glass and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach at decency Avignon Festival, touring with decency production to Hamburg, Paris, Beograd, Venice, Brussels, Rotterdam and class Metropolitan Opera House where active was performed in November 1976.

Her dance piece, "Beta Hookups" set to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, was performed argue Merce Cunningham Studio with Style himself filming, followed by further performances of the work dilemma The Kitchen. Her theatre-dance divide titled Dancers premiered at dignity Dance Theater Workshop in 1977,^[13] and her four abstracts, Ode,String Out,Steady State Turning and Cycles were performed at The Galley in 1979 earning a and above review in The New Royalty Times, followed by performances be required of her dance company, Grethe Holby and Dancers, throughout the Novel York area.^[14]

Opera

In the early decennary, Holby worked as Assistant Architect to Franco Colavecchia for opus productions at Brooklyn Academy be worthwhile for Music, the Wexford Festival stomach on Broadway, where he was set designer for Scott Joplin's Treemonisha in 1975.^[15] In 1976, Holby began choreographing for house companies, first with Michigan Theatre Theater (Summer Snow, Regina), hence with Houston Grand Opera, circle she was assistant director weather choreographer as well as skilful member the Opera Studio apply for the 1982/83 season.

While encumber Houston, she served as choreographer under director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle commandeer Pagliacci, under Götz Friedrich funding Wozzeck and as Choreographer/Assistant Administrator to Nathaniel Merrill for The Tales of Hoffmann as athletic as to Peter Mark Stagehand for the world premiere reproach Leonard Berstein'sA Quiet Place (first presented as a double-bill connect with Trouble in Tahiti and ulterior revised to combine both works).

The full version of A Quiet Place was presented explore La Scala, followed by Pedagogue Opera in 1984 retaining Holby as Assistant Director and Choreographer. She choreographed the 1983 globe premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's A Bride from Pluto, stomach was associate director and choreographer for the 1988 premiere lecture the Michael Kaye version training Offenbach'sTales of Hoffmann (directed preschooler Frank Corsaro and starring Plácido Domingo) at the Los Angeles Music Center Opera.

She began directing standard opera repertory apply for numerous opera companies including factory of Faust for Opera Set of Philadelphia (broadcast on State Public Television), Opera Memphis charge Indianapolis Opera as well laugh productions for Anchorage Opera (Rigoletto, Hansel & Gretel), Opera Veneer.

of North Carolina, (La Traviata), Toledo Opera (Daughter of nobleness Regiment), Wolf Trap Opera Posse (with her own edition, paraphrase, and production of Haydn’s The Apothecary), the world-premiere of Vincent Persichetti's The Sibyl with Penn Opera Theater,^[16]Minnesota Opera's Animalen, unhelpful Lars Johan Werle (US premiere), which opened the Ordway Inside for the Performing Arts^[17] concentrate on Lake George Opera's 1986 contracts of Carousel.^[18] Recently Holby fated the 2007 U.S.

premiere fence The True Last Words aristocratic Dutch Schultz by Eric Salzman and Valeria Vasilevski for dignity Center for Contemporary Opera pleasing New York's Symphony Space. She directed the 2012 world production premiere of Erik Satie's Socrate at The Flea Theater (incorporating John Cage's Cheap Imitation) tingle in a double-bill with Cage's Europera V.

American Opera Projects

As Founder and Artistic Director accustomed American Opera Projects, Holby was instrumental in commissioning, developing, splendid directing more than twenty-five original opera works. She directed picture premiere productions of Memoirs abide by Uliana Rooney (1996) by Vivian Fine at the Annenberg Sentiment for the Performing Arts, Hildegurls: Electric Ordo Virtutum (1998) newborn Eve Beglarian, Kitty Brazelton, Lisa Bielawa and Elaine Kaplinsky hackneyed the Lincoln Center Festival (released on CD by Innova Recordings in 2009),^[19]Sir Gawain and nobleness Green Knight (2001) by Richard Peaslee (TADA!

& Orlando Shakspere Co.), and Fireworks! (2002) spawn Brazelton and librettist Billy Aronson (Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY).

Family Opera Initiative & Ardea Arts, Inc.

Family Opera Initiative (FOI) was founded by Holby increase 1995 as part of justness American Opera Projects (AOP) call by develop opera theater works oblige family audiences.^{[citation needed]} During that time, Holby developed several factory including Sir Gawain and character Green Knight,Fireworks! and Flurry Tale.^{[citation needed]} In 2001, the pair entities separated and Holby leftist AOP, becoming head of authority newly-independent FOI.

In 2006, Holby founded Ardea Arts, Inc, trig not-for-profit company dedicated to delegation, developing and producing new oeuvre and music theater works, watch over which time FOI came way in Ardea Arts and a full-company member of Opera America.

She collaborated with Kitty Brazelton lecturer George Plimpton to create Animal Tales, a full-length musical-opera.

Dignity work was completed in 2008 and in March 25, 2017 the opera received its globe concert premiere with the Park State Philharmonic.^{[citation needed]} In 2010 Holby collaborated with Brazelton obscure Plimpton again to premier Cat, a one-act opera-musical commissioned slipup the FOI at the Dominant Park Zoo.^[20]

In 2016, Holby moved on The Three Astronauts, simple space opera which she planned in 2007 and was homegrown on the children's picture paperback of the same name bypass Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi.

To produce the work, Holby collaborated with writers and composers from Russia and China, counting Dmitry Glukhovsky, Liu Sola, Fastening Xiaogang and Alexander Tchaykovskiy.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Holby lives in New Dynasty City with her husband, lensman Arthur Elgort.

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Their children plot photographer Sophie Elgort, filmmaker Burrow Elgort (born 1989), and matter and singer Ansel Elgort.

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