{"id":19472,"date":"2023-03-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=19472"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:10:49","slug":"opera-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/opera-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"K Alumna\u2019s First Libretto Wins Prestigious Opera Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A Kalamazoo College alumna has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards for opera composers in the U.S. for her first-ever libretto.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ginger Strand \u201987 has been awarded the 2023 Charles Ives Opera Prize, along with composer Laura Schwendinger, for their 2019 opera, <em>Artemisia<\/em>. The honor, granted by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, includes a $15,000 prize for Strand as librettist and $35,000 for Schwendinger as composer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award came as a surprise to Strand. While they knew they had been nominated by Academy member and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran, the prize is not awarded regularly. Established in 2008, the Charles Ives Opera Prize has only been previously awarded in 2008 and 2016. The prize is granted to a recent work that reflects the mission of the Academy to foster and sustain interest in literature, music and the fine arts by rewarding \u201cworks of highest aspiration and superior craft,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandletters.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/artsandletters.org\/\">artsandletters.org<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI opened my email and there was this letter from the American Academy that said, \u2018Good news from the Academy.\u2019 I kind of thought I was being pranked or something; it just seemed unreal,\u201d Strand said. \u201cI called Laura, and asked, \u2018Is this for real? Did we just win the Charles Ives Opera Prize?\u2019 She was in a museum and she started screaming. She hadn\u2019t seen her letter and I got to be the one who broke the news. It was very exciting and felt out of the blue, in particular being my first-ever libretto.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A five-member jury unanimously voted to award the Charles Ives Opera Prize to <em>Artemisia<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 35 years since Strand \u201clearned how to learn\u201d at Kalamazoo College, she had written copy for a consulting firm, short stories, essays, one novel and three books of narrative nonfiction before branching into opera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt came about completely by chance,\u201d Strand said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having met at the MacDowell artist residency program, Strand and Schwendinger were long-time friends when Schwendinger confided in Strand over lunch that she was going to compose an opera and thought Strand should write the text.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe wanted to write about an amazing Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi,\u201d Strand said. \u201cOne of the reasons Laura and I became friends is that we have a lot of interests in common, one of which is women artists in history.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-600x394.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-600x394.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-300x197.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-150x99.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia.webp 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>A five-member jury unanimously voted to award the Charles Ives Opera Prize to Ginger Strand &#8217;87 for her first libretto, &#8220;<em>Artemisia<\/em>.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-2-600x444.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-2-600x444.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-2-300x222.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-2-150x111.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/artemisia-2.webp 663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Although Artemisia Gentileschi is better known now, the Baroque painter was ignored in history for a long period, with many of her works attributed to her father, Strand said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>While Artemisia Gentileschi is better known now, she was ignored in history for a long period, with many of her works attributed to her father, Strand said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe had a life story that was basically already an opera,\u201d Strand said. \u201cHer father taught her to paint and then he hired one of his assistants to teach her the art of perspective, and this assistant raped her. Her father sued for damage to property, because she was considered his property, and in the course of the trial, Artemisia was tortured to see if she was telling the truth. After the perpetrator was convicted, she was hastily married off to some other dude that she quickly dispensed with, and she went on to become a painter of great renown and had a rather illustrious career.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schwendinger shared her concept of Artemisia\u2019s paintings coming to life in the opera, and the two went their separate ways to compose the music and write the words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was really a collaborative process, partly because I didn\u2019t necessarily know everything about what a composer needs out of a libretto,\u201d Strand said. \u201cLaura would say things like, \u2018I see this moment as an emotional high point, and what we really need here is an aria; we need the two characters to sing something really intense.\u2019 Then I would go away and work on that. Or, \u2018I want all the singers on the stage here; they don\u2019t have to be literally in the same place, but we need a big moment where they\u2019re all contributing to the song,\u2019 and I would work on that. Sometimes it was something as simple as, \u2018You can\u2019t end the line on this word, because the singers won\u2019t be able to sing it.\u2019 It was a learning process the whole way along.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process was also fun for Strand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause it was an opera and not a work of nonfiction, I could make things up, although I based it on facts,\u201d Strand said. \u201cMy starting point was her actual biography, some letters she wrote, and the paintings, of course. Then, where the historical record was faulty, I could imagine things and put them in, and that was super fun and unusual for me to give myself permission to make things up. It\u2019s not something you\u2019re allowed to do as a nonfiction writer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The writing process took about a year, followed by another year or so of production before two premieres\u2014a shortened chamber orchestra version in New York City and a full orchestra version in San Francisco. Strand attended both.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt certain moments, it was exhilarating,\u201d she said. \u201cOther moments, it was excruciating, thinking things like, \u2018Why did I write this so long?\u2019 Laura\u2019s experience was completely different from mine because I was focused on the story and the words and she was focused on the music.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Ginger_Strand-600x750.jpg\" alt=\"Author Ginger Strand at her New York City home\" class=\"wp-image-19473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Ginger_Strand-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Ginger_Strand-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Ginger_Strand-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Ginger_Strand-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Ginger_Strand-1639x2048.jpg 1639w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/03\/Ginger_Strand-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Ginger Strand \u201987 has been awarded the 2023 Charles Ives Opera Prize, along with composer Laura Schwendinger, for their 2019 opera, &#8220;<em>Artemisia<\/em>.&#8221; Photo by Monika Graff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Strand and Schwendinger will be awarded the Charles Ives Opera Prize at the American Academy of Arts and Letters\u2019 annual ceremony in New York City in May. 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