https://alexandergedeon.co alexander sulen gedeon, multidisciplinary artist, director of opera & concert theater. Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:16:16 +0000 https://alexandergedeon.co en https://alexandergedeon.co/Landing-Slideshow Mon, 29 May 2023 22:20:23 +0000 alexander sulen gedeon, multidisciplinary artist, director of opera & concert theater. https://alexandergedeon.co/Landing-Slideshow https://alexandergedeon.co/CONTACT Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:25:40 +0000 alexander sulen gedeon, multidisciplinary artist, director of opera & concert theater. https://alexandergedeon.co/CONTACT &nbsp;for directing inquiries, performance coaching, &amp;&nbsp;armchair dream analysis — gdn.alxndr@gmail.com professional representiation — Julie Kim jhkim18.us.office@gmail.com (complete digital portfolio/CV available upon request) <img width="617" height="47" width_o="617" height_o="47" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d9d1aa4c1db26e6a5530b9385b135c4c9866fa6e73dcaab4bd3f53c3907460/gold-line-2.png" data-mid="200595591" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/617/i/07d9d1aa4c1db26e6a5530b9385b135c4c9866fa6e73dcaab4bd3f53c3907460/gold-line-2.png" /> https://alexandergedeon.co/Everything-Rises Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:15:41 +0000 alexander sulen gedeon, multidisciplinary artist, director of opera & concert theater. https://alexandergedeon.co/Everything-Rises <img width="4824" height="3216" width_o="4824" height_o="3216" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b404e8430cf7a09952078d32766a045b6471f0e6b66e5b44ef8c2f5106ef648/1.jpg" data-mid="196989283" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b404e8430cf7a09952078d32766a045b6471f0e6b66e5b44ef8c2f5106ef648/1.jpg" /> EVERYTHING RISES Everything Rises was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.&nbsp; Read the review. An in-depth profile on Everything Rises in the New York Times. A review of Everything Rises in The Wall Street Journal. Across the room they spot each other, two celebrated classical musicians: one a violinist, the other, an operatic bass-baritone.&nbsp; Surrounded by opulence, their virtuosity is only veil for a conspicuous otherness: one an Asian woman, the other a Black man, in a sea of white faces. A mutual desire for identity and connection initiates an inward journey, shedding the mask of classical prestige to exhume buried roots. Together, they explore familial histories of discrimination and violence, feeling the pulse of ancestral trauma. <img width="617" height="47" width_o="617" height_o="47" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d9d1aa4c1db26e6a5530b9385b135c4c9866fa6e73dcaab4bd3f53c3907460/gold-line-2.png" data-mid="197193630" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/617/i/07d9d1aa4c1db26e6a5530b9385b135c4c9866fa6e73dcaab4bd3f53c3907460/gold-line-2.png" /><img width="610" height="254" width_o="610" height_o="254" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d032edc2ac86172b409445d0108c41ce0ae2eead92d15b2fae00a78a1efe6c7a/Screen-Shot-2023-11-17-at-10.30.04-AM.png" data-mid="197176266" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/610/i/d032edc2ac86172b409445d0108c41ce0ae2eead92d15b2fae00a78a1efe6c7a/Screen-Shot-2023-11-17-at-10.30.04-AM.png" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/653d9e08cd3093465108d267c486771c881f92e3cb5c42999cf039c0aa6b0655/5.jpeg" data-mid="197177775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/653d9e08cd3093465108d267c486771c881f92e3cb5c42999cf039c0aa6b0655/5.jpeg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be158d3caaceb35eb89cac6574eba004b8d84a35ae3edf77a65ff70188210bef/3.jpeg" data-mid="197177767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be158d3caaceb35eb89cac6574eba004b8d84a35ae3edf77a65ff70188210bef/3.jpeg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/715c0ad7b654e3a3b8c5b8be591e662c5f2a45cabe898e39ae55ec17b8d42ee0/4.jpeg" data-mid="197177772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/715c0ad7b654e3a3b8c5b8be591e662c5f2a45cabe898e39ae55ec17b8d42ee0/4.jpeg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d5fa91eb7be173b2fa46043e6f976b211bb0cbf70c5731e4c4825c34a1f5dfc/6.jpeg" data-mid="197177777" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d5fa91eb7be173b2fa46043e6f976b211bb0cbf70c5731e4c4825c34a1f5dfc/6.jpeg" /><img width="2464" height="1529" width_o="2464" height_o="1529" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11ce6f3d0eb305e42e256666a8cb7ed5a782ea93b60a444d3090757a54a46538/ER-dope-shots.jpg" data-mid="229439351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11ce6f3d0eb305e42e256666a8cb7ed5a782ea93b60a444d3090757a54a46538/ER-dope-shots.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3894759ef7d75b82290dd35b65ac7102507ab893d20080e3ff1de5357a2112b/2.jpeg" data-mid="197177766" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3894759ef7d75b82290dd35b65ac7102507ab893d20080e3ff1de5357a2112b/2.jpeg" /> created by Jennifer Koh &amp; Davóne Tinesdirected by Alexander Gedeonmusic | Ken Uenodramaturgy | Kee-Yoon Nahmset &amp; video | Hana S. Kimcostumes | Lena Sandslighting | Carolina Ortizphotography | Ellen Qbertplaya Presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music, CAP UCLA and Arco Collaborative. https://alexandergedeon.co/When-in-Doubt-Put-it-Out Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:16:16 +0000 alexander sulen gedeon, multidisciplinary artist, director of opera & concert theater. https://alexandergedeon.co/When-in-Doubt-Put-it-Out When in Doubt, Put it Out. Tuesday, June 16, 2026. <img width="500" height="506" width_o="500" height_o="506" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80d588a291e63507d6ba1c920bb88bb4c446d5639a52e9f5bf9fcc596b7bbc3d/Screen-Shot-2026-06-14-at-5.44.38-PM.png" data-mid="249435129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/80d588a291e63507d6ba1c920bb88bb4c446d5639a52e9f5bf9fcc596b7bbc3d/Screen-Shot-2026-06-14-at-5.44.38-PM.png" /> "We are part of a constant interconnected cycle of birth, death and regeneration," Rick Rubin writes in In The Creative Act: A Way of Being. "Our bodies decay into the earth to bring forth new life ... art exists in the same cycle of death and rebirth." I frequently find myself disillusioned by the ickiness of how transactional it feels to share creative work online. Stubbornly, I find myself wanting the internet to be something it has proven to me time and again it is not: a place of profound human exchange and connection. Though these elements can be found online, a true sense of connective, artistic exchange can’t be shared when algorithms inherently favor the Victorious, the Photogenic and the Sensational. Even the most sublime work of art is instantly reduced to the primal currency of Image, Like, and Subscribe. I have to regularly recenter, reminding myself that this is why I've been drawn to making meaningful encounters in live performance my entire life: I crave a deeper communion screens can't touch. If I’m not in a deep creative process, directing, or performing in real life, I feel cut off from it. Social media frequently reinforces that feeling of estrangement. This passage in Rubin's book &nbsp;[hang in there through the 50 pages ... it’s worth it]&nbsp; on creativity frames the question of releasing finished work in a different way: we owe it to the work to set it free. Just as we commit to pulling an artistic expression into being, we commit to letting it go by releasing it back into the wild. Not because of what it will bring us. But because it's a part of Nature. He continues: As in life, each ending invites a fresh beginning. When we're consumed with a single work to the degree that we believe it's our life's mission, there's no room for the next one to develop. While the artist's goal is greatness, it's also to move forward. In service to the next project, we finish the current one. In service to the current one, we finish it so it can be set free into the world. Sharing art is the price of making it. Exposing your vulnerability is the fee. Out of this expereince comes regeneration—finding freshness within yourself for the next project, and all the ones to follow.... begun, completed, released; begun, completed, released; over and over again, each a time stamp commemorating a moment of passage, a moment filled with energy, now forever embodied in a work of art. A work of art is not an endpoint in itself. It's a station on a journey, a chapter in our lives. We acknowledge these transitions by documenting each of them. [breath] Is it finished? Is it almost finished? Why not put it out? https://alexandergedeon.co/The-Double Sat, 25 Nov 2023 15:17:57 +0000 alexander sulen gedeon, multidisciplinary artist, director of opera & concert theater. https://alexandergedeon.co/The-Double <img width="3031" height="2115" width_o="3031" height_o="2115" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/512d2ddf2ae3bf722c6c1dbdfd57c4986d8494a7536bb9d15672cc9a6e1732e3/1The-Double_Close-Still-05_EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197859588" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/512d2ddf2ae3bf722c6c1dbdfd57c4986d8494a7536bb9d15672cc9a6e1732e3/1The-Double_Close-Still-05_EDIT-v1.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; THE DOUBLE Inspired by the forgotten Dostoevsky novel of the same name, The Double follow Noth, a hapless office drone who one day discovers that his döppelganger is taking over his life. His psychological unravelling paralles the nightmare of social media — a realm in which technology ultimately makes counterfeits of us all. <img width="617" height="47" width_o="617" height_o="47" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d9d1aa4c1db26e6a5530b9385b135c4c9866fa6e73dcaab4bd3f53c3907460/gold-line-2.png" data-mid="197801909" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/617/i/07d9d1aa4c1db26e6a5530b9385b135c4c9866fa6e73dcaab4bd3f53c3907460/gold-line-2.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eef335e7de88818b3ef7d67ee46b0ffe2786678abc4b5bb706cca9c9b56f8bd7/2The-Double_3708-Still_EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197860255" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eef335e7de88818b3ef7d67ee46b0ffe2786678abc4b5bb706cca9c9b56f8bd7/2The-Double_3708-Still_EDIT-v1.png" /><img width="2105" height="1439" width_o="2105" height_o="1439" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/064e7c6e678bde29355166f43fbcc59450d9850e192868c93ab3804b7b1a1d65/3The-Double_2511-Still_EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197860251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/064e7c6e678bde29355166f43fbcc59450d9850e192868c93ab3804b7b1a1d65/3The-Double_2511-Still_EDIT-v1.png" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd61995734a96f220464a740153e54f6ecd0118f5c834451676817f37867b72d/4The-Double_2802-Still_ZOOM-EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197860252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd61995734a96f220464a740153e54f6ecd0118f5c834451676817f37867b72d/4The-Double_2802-Still_ZOOM-EDIT-v1.png" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f90f969c74fafc14a8a7b9c1015a6032293df82e73a8645131e7b683fce780fc/5The-Double_Close-Still-07_EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197860256" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f90f969c74fafc14a8a7b9c1015a6032293df82e73a8645131e7b683fce780fc/5The-Double_Close-Still-07_EDIT-v1.png" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ed938372290d2edeabde886ed17a8da9937d95dbc9210554dc37d243088dc35/6The-Double_Close-Still-25_EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197860253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ed938372290d2edeabde886ed17a8da9937d95dbc9210554dc37d243088dc35/6The-Double_Close-Still-25_EDIT-v1.png" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80d9cf54bccb9ed2919d06a9e61b674a4135bc05dfcce7e7607bb61178f58d89/7The-Double_Close-Still-16_EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197860254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80d9cf54bccb9ed2919d06a9e61b674a4135bc05dfcce7e7607bb61178f58d89/7The-Double_Close-Still-16_EDIT-v1.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/031f9d7a637c4e93b196b6622d5b22066cbe8b9df55831597a5202c0762bab60/The-Double_Close-Still-26_EDIT-v1.png" data-mid="197860250" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/031f9d7a637c4e93b196b6622d5b22066cbe8b9df55831597a5202c0762bab60/The-Double_Close-Still-26_EDIT-v1.png" /> directed by Alexander Gedeon music | Vera Ivanova libretto | Sarah LaBrie costumes | Lena Sands lighting | Alejandro Melendez Presented by Synchromy New Music.