Juliana Snapper Explained

Juliana Snapper is a contemporary opera singer, live performance artist, experimental theater director, voice scholar and musicologist. She received her B.M. in vocal performance from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied under Richard Miller, and her M.A. in critical musicology at University of California, San Diego.

Snapper creates performances and installations that push the physical and expressive capacities of the singing body. As the Huffington Post put it, among some of our favorite opera innovators... transforming the future of opera... Snapper is a contemporary soprano who combines radical vocal techniques, improvisation and collaboration to push the operatic medium to its extreme limits. ^[1]

She collaborated with performance artist Ron Athey on the piece The Judas Cradle ^[2] which toured throughout the U.K. and premiered in the U.S. at Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theatre (2005). Her Five Fathoms Opera Project premiered in 2008 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA NY.^[3] In May 2009, she collaborated with composer Andrew Infanti and costume designer Susan Matheson on the premiere of the world's first underwater opera You Who Will Emerge From the Flood at the Victoria Baths in Manchester, England. It is part of a site-specific work that has been staged till 2017 in the U.S., Slovenia, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, and Australia.^[4]

A long-standing associate of French composer Philippe Manoury and mathematician and sound designer Miller Puckette, she has collaborated with them on several original works and concert works: Illud Etiam,^[5] En écho,^[6] Double Voiced ^[7] ...

Her projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Metropolitan Opera Foundation, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts and The Durfee Foundation.

References

• Web site: Eidsheim . Nina Sun . Sensing Voice . Sounding Out! . April 25, 2011.
• Eidsheim . Nina Sun . Sensing Voice: Materiality and the Lived Body in Singing and Listening . The Senses and Society . 2 . 6 . 133–155 . April 16, 2015.
• Web site: Sulej . Karolina . Portrety kobiet:Setki ust na skórze [Portait of women: A hundred paragraphs on the skin] ]. . October 27, 2010.
• Web site: Coates . Jennifer . Juliana Snapper's Vocal Hysteria . Art21 blog . 9 April 2008 . April 9, 2008.
• Nigel Brookes. "Prison, Perception, and the Humanity of Art" Concrete Magazine, July 2005.
• Amelia Jones (Spring 2006), "Holy Bodies: Erotic Ethics in Ron Athey and Juliana Snapper's The Judas Cradle.", TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 50 no. 1, 2006, p. 159-169.
• Faye Hirsch, Review of Performa05. Art in America, February 2006.
• Cindy Center, "Podcast Interview 21: Juliana Snapper"
• Lisa Cazzato-Vieyra, "The Judas Cradle Documentary." (DVD) Native Voice Films, London, UK, 2006.
• Mojca Kumerdej (June 28, 2008), "Sirenine podvodne arije [Mermaid's Underwater Aria]"], Delo.
• Leija Svabic, "When Swimming Pool Turns Opera Stage," Triera, June 21, 2008
• Lia Gangitano (curator, Nov 02, 2005), First Biennial Performa 05, New Visual Art Performance, NY, Distributed Art Publishers, Performa: New Visual Art Performance, June, 1st, 2007.

External links

• Juliana Snapper official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frank . Priscilla . 14 Artists Who Are Transforming The Future Of Opera. huffpost.com . 26 August 2014 . HuffPost . 26 August 2014.
2. Web site: The Judas Cradle . Juliana Snapper's website.
3. Web site: Five Fathoms Deep My Father Lies . Juliana Snapper's website.
4. Web site: Shlomowitz . Matthew . Podcast Ep.105: Juliana Snapper and Andrew Infanti - You Who Will Emerge from the Flood . Soundmaking . 22 May 2023 . Acast . 22 May 2023.
5. Web site: Illud etiam, Philippe Manoury . brahms.ircam.fr . IRCAM.
6. Web site: En écho, Philippe Manoury . Juliana Snapper's website.
7. Web site: Double Voiced, J. Snapper and M. Puckette . The BIFEM Archive . Bandcamp.