https://www.aliceheimersopera.com/schedule daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://www.aliceheimersopera.com/speakers daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://www.aliceheimersopera.com/about daily 0.75 2022-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627ab54b0d8baa23836e04a4/604d23f6-54c6-4ef7-94b5-ca871ee9765c/Opera+Artwork+19.png About - The Chamber Opera Aliceheimer’s, a chamber opera based on Dana Walrath’s graphic memoir series about her mother’s dementia journey, charts a path to magic, healing, and laughter in the midst of the cognitive changes brought about through dementia. With music by composer Erik Nielsen and a libretto by Dr. Walrath, this single-singer, full-length opera is envisioned to include an ensemble of six to ten musicians, sets and costumes using Aliceheimer’s art, and a silent dancer | actor to accompany Alice, a soprano, on stage. The first act is set in the present tense of Alice’s life as dementia brings her to physically live with her daughter while she travels across her entire life course seeking resolution. Act II follows Alice’s seven-year journey in care homes. As audiences fall in love with Alice, an unexpected hero, it restores humanity to those living with dementia and other forms of neurodiversity.Accompanying Alice through the vital work of forgiveness that each of us needs to do to die in peace, the opera detoxifies death leading us collectively to heal. Aliceheimer’s also gets a host of other social justice issues on to the table from racial disparities in life expectancy, to who does the essential care work across the globe, to what are the health consequences of trauma. Telling Alice’s story through opera is particularly apt: For Alice, a daughter of the Armenian genocide who started life as a poor Brown person in a New York City tenement but died White, opera was a vehicle to the American Dream. https://www.aliceheimersopera.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627ab54b0d8baa23836e04a4/c93f7f0c-78f0-43bc-9fd9-67ee3e6dcb69/Opera+Artwork+18.jpg Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.aliceheimersopera.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627ab54b0d8baa23836e04a4/946f080c-8feb-450f-b743-5eb06e29ecd6/Opera+Artwork+17.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627ab54b0d8baa23836e04a4/e3b78b57-2479-45be-bd59-8cdd90ddc530/Opera+Artwork+16.jpg Home https://www.aliceheimersopera.com/tickets daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://www.aliceheimersopera.com/bios daily 0.75 2022-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627ab54b0d8baa23836e04a4/c7e3de6d-c927-4b8d-a513-cc99fb04c890/Opera+Press+Photo+3.jpg Bios - Erik Nielsen Erik Nielsen has written two operas, A Fleeting Animal (2015) and Aliceheimer’s (2022). He has also created music for chorus, orchestra, wind ensemble, solo instruments, chamber music, dance works, film scores and electronic music. His pieces have been performed all over the world by ensembles including A Far Cry, the Amabile, Chiara, Emerson and Ying String Quartets; the National Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony and Northern Harmony. He has won awards from ASCAP, the National Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Music Teachers Association. Mr. Nielsen lives in Brookfield, Vermont. He completed Aliceheimer’s with support from the Vermont Community Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627ab54b0d8baa23836e04a4/ee679982-d20b-4ba3-ab2b-a51613d4992f/Opera+Press+Photo+1.png Bios - Dana Walrath Dana Walrath practices a border crossing blend of creative writing, comics, art, and anthropology. Her award-winning works include Aliceheimer’s, a graphic memoir about her mother’s dementia journey, Like Water on Stone, a verse novel about the Armenian genocide, and The Book of Genocides, an interactive installation that uses artists books to counter dehumanization and genocide. Her illustrated essays, comics, commentary, and poetry have appeared in The Lancet, Irish Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, anthologies, on Public Radio and more. She has shared her work on the healing power of story throughout North America and Eurasia including two TEDx talks. An Atlantic Fellow and Fulbright Scholar with work spanning the entire life cycle, other recent projects include the picture book I Am a Bird and a contribution to the anthology Menopause: A Comic Treatment, a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020 and Eisner Award Winner. She completed the libretto for the Aliceheimer’s opera with support from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. 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