“Imagine yourself in LA’s historic Union Station, surrounded by passengers and passersby, wearing a state-of-the-art pair of Sennheiser wireless headphones, and experiencing a new opera happening all around you – live.” – invisiblecitiesopera.com

Chris Cerrone‘s site-specific opera, Invisible Cities, which takes place in Los Angeles’ Union Station opens tomorrow, October 19!

Hailed as “a rising star” by The New Yorker, Cerrone is a 2013-14 EtM Con Edison Composer-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. EtM’s Hillary Jackson sat down recently with Chris at BYCA for a “Composer Spotlight” interview. Here is the first installment:

 

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The full interview can be viewed on EtM’s YouTube channel.