HARAWI

An AMOC* Production

Music and Text by OLIVIER MESSIAEN

JULIA BULLOCK, soprano
CONOR HANICK, piano
BOBBI JENE SMITH, dance
OR SCHRAIBER, dance

ZACK WINOKUR, director

BOBBI JENE SMITH, choreographer
OR SCHRABIER, choreographer

JOHN TORRES, lighting designer

MARK GREY, sound designer
Cath Brittan, producer

AMOC*’s production of HARAWI realizes Olivier Messiaen’s deeply affecting, hour-long song cycle for voice and piano in new physical and dramatic dimensions, featuring soprano Julia Bullock, pianist Conor Hanick, choreographer/dancers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, with direction by Zack Winokur. Moving from duet to quartet, this production breaks open Messiaen’s cycle, connects movement to music, and grapples with the intensity of love and loss.

Premiered at Aix-en-Provence Festival, July 2022

Performed in Antwerp, Leverkusen, and Hamburg, May 2023