Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts explained
Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts is the ninth studio album and first double album by Meredith Monk, recorded in June 1992 and released on the ECM New Series a year later, consisting a full-length recording of Monk's 1991 opera Atlas.
Personnel
Musicians
- Carlos Arévalo – vocals
- Thomas Bogdan – vocals
- Victoria Boomsma – vocals
- Janis Brenner – vocals
- Kathleen Carroll – viola
- Shi-Zheng Chen – vocals
- John Cipolla – bass clarinet
- Allison Easter – vocals
- Robert Een – vocals
- Diana Emerson – vocals
- Dina Emerson – vocals
- Emily Eyre – vocals
- Emily K. Eyre – vocals
- Arthur J. Jr. Fiacco – cello
- Katie Geissinger – vocals
- Ching Gonzalez – vocals
- Dana Hanchard – vocals
- Wayne Hankin – conductor, shawm, sheng, vocals
- Bill Hayes – glass harmonica
- Wendy Hill – vocals
- Susan Iadone – violin
- Stephen Kalm – vocals
- Darryl Kubian – violin
- Steve Lockwood – orchestration, keyboards
- David Meschter – sampler
- Meredith Monk – vocals, cello
- Bobby Osborne – vocals
- Robert Osborne – vocals
- Wilbur Pauley – vocals
- Anthony Pirollo – cello
- Cynthia Powell – keyboards
- Thad Wheeler – percussion
- James F. Wilson – French horn
- Randall K. Wong – vocals
Technical personnel
- Manfred Eicher – production
- Jan Erik Kongshaug – engineer
- James Farber – engineer
- Carol Bokuniewicz – design
- Jim Caldwell – photography
- Peter Moore – photography
- Larry Watson – photography
