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The winning bidder will receive a handwritten manuscript page from THE LONG WALK, created and signed by composer Jeremy Howard Beck and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann.

About Jeremy Howard Beck

JEREMY HOWARD BECK’s music is an integral part of a life lived in search of extremes, adventures and adrenaline––lifelong passions for roller coasters and gymnastics have lent his music intense, visceral physicality and emotional immediacy. Described as “sparse and haunting” by NPR’s Weekend Edition, and hailed by the American Composers Forum for its “thrilling aural twists and bends”, his music for the concert hall and the opera house has been performed throughout the country.

His first opera, The Long Walk (libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, based on the memoir by Brian Castner, commissioned by American Lyric Theater), premiered in July 2015 at Opera Saratoga: “The plot’s tension is set, taut as a drawn bow.” (The New York Times Magazine) “This is what art does or should do: tell an intimate story that resonates universally. It shows us who we are.” (The Times Union) “The Long Walk is a masterpiece… a piece like this brings out all the best aspects of opera.” (Metroland) “… a remarkable achievement for any composer let alone one who had never written an opera… the crowd was rapt and at the end jumped to its feet with a roar of approval.” (The Daily Gazette) The Long Walk was recently performed by Utah Opera | Utah Symphony (March/April 2017), and it will receive its third presentation in a new production at Pittsburgh Opera (January 2018).  www.jeremyhowardbeck.com

About Stephanie Fleischmann

STEPHANIE FLEISCHMANN is a playwright and librettist whose texts serve as blueprints for intricate three-dimensional sonic and visual worlds. She has been called a “neo Emily Dickinson” (Backstage) and “a writer who can conjure something between a dreamy road movie and a theatrical coming-of-age tale, and who can piece these elements together in the style of a jagged ballad for guitar” (Chicago Sun Times). Her “lyrical monologues” (The New York Times),  “smart” opera libretti(Opera News), plays and music-theater works have been performed internationally and across the U.S.

Opera libretti include: The Long Walk, music by Jeremy Howard Beck, commissioned by American Lyric Theater (premiere: Opera Saratoga, July 2015; Utah Opera, March 2017; Pittsburgh Opera, January 2018);  After the Storm, music by David Hanlon, commissioned by Houston Grand Opera’s HGOco (premiere: May 2016); In a Grove, with composer Christopher Cerrone, Mahogany Opera Group Various Stages Festival, ICA London; The Property, music by Wlad Marhulets, commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Lyric Unlimited (premiere: February 2015). Upcoming: Star-Cross'd, a web opera serial with composer Avner Dorman for HGOco; new operas with composers Peter Knell and Julia Adolphe. Fleischmann’s texts and songs have been set by composers Olga Neuwirth (Aldeburgh, Basel, Berlin, Vienna), Brendan Connelly, Sxip Shirey, Theo Popov, Jeff Smith, and Elspeth Brooke.

About THE LONG WALK

THE LONG WALK is a gripping, contemporary American opera, with music by Jeremy Howard Beck and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann. Based on the book The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows by Brian Casner, the opera is a deeply personal exploration of a soldier's return to Iraq as he tries to reintegrate into his family life.

Commissioned by ALT in 2012, the opera premiered at Opera Saratoga in 2015 and will be presented in January 2018 at Pittsburgh Opera.

Item Special Note

Winning bidder is responsible for additional shipping charges; or item may be picked up at American Lyric Theater's offices in midtown New York City.