Guest host and celebrated author A.M. Homes leads a diverting discussion amongst the four Aqua Net & Funyuns librettists Jason Cady, Cara Ehlenfeldt, Daniel Shepard, and Annie-Sage Whitehurst as they look back on the process of writing their episodes of Aqua Net & Funyuns.
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BONUS - AN&F Composers in Conversation
Aqua Net & Funyuns composers Tariq Al-Sabir, Jason Cady, Kamala Sankaram, Aaron Siegel and Michi Wiancko sit down to talk about their experiences making the podcast opera and their reflections on having shared it so widely over the last five months.
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BONUS - Arkana Aquarium, Act III
Libretto by Annie-Sage Whitehurst; Music by Michi Wiancko; Eric McKeever as Arthur; Rachel Doehring as Audrey; Rocky Duval as Margaret; Joanie Brittingham as Isabel; The Fish Chorus - Kamala Sankaram, Eliza Bonet, Brandon Snook, and Joshua Jeremiah; Dmitry Glivinskiy (pn and md); Jeanann Dara (vla, vln); Jeff Hudgins (rds); Drew Fleming (gtr); Pat Swoboda (b); Cara Ehlenfeldt, sound design; Jeff Cook, mixing.
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BONUS - Arkana Aquarium, Act II
Libretto by Annie-Sage Whitehurst; Music by Michi Wiancko; Eric McKeever as Arthur; Rachel Doehring as Audrey; Rocky Duval as Margaret; Joanie Brittingham as Isabel; The Fish Chorus - Kamala Sankaram, Eliza Bonet, Brandon Snook, and Joshua Jeremiah; Dmitry Glivinskiy (pn and md); Jeanann Dara (vla, vln); Jeff Hudgins (rds); Drew Fleming (gtr); Pat Swoboda (b); Cara Ehlenfeldt, sound design; Jeff Cook, mixing.
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BONUS - Arkana Aquarium, Act I
Libretto by Annie-Sage Whitehurst; Music by Michi Wiancko; Eric McKeever as Arthur; Rachel Doehring as Audrey; Rocky Duval as Margaret; Joanie Brittingham as Isabel; The Fish Chorus - Kamala Sankaram, Eliza Bonet, Brandon Snook, and Joshua Jeremiah; Dmitry Glivinskiy (pn and md); Jeanann Dara (vla, vln); Jeff Hudgins (rds); Drew Fleming (gtr); Pat Swoboda (b); Cara Ehlenfeldt, sound design; Jeff Cook, mixing.
Aqua Net & Funyuns is a podcast of five different operas connected by dozens of hidden Easter Eggs. Each episode highlights the cliff-hanger nature of serial narratives by alternating between all five operas in “round-robin” style. The serial episodes tell compelling stories with vocals, instruments and immersive sound design.
Another One Bites
A high school student ditches an anti-drug assembly to smoke pot and hides from a cop in a porta-potty—which becomes a portal to a parallel universe.
Arkana Aquarium
A widowed janitor at an aquarium becomes convinced his wife has been reincarnated. As the newly acquired fish.
Beauty Shot
What starts out as a simple trim turns into a murderous trial of infidelity at a quiet hair salon in Kansas.
Ships That Pass
When Alden discovers that his deceased mother authored queer fanfiction, he reexamines his high school memories and his reluctance to tell her about his own queer identity.
The Understudy
An opera company hires a private eye to go undercover as an understudy to a soprano.
Brought to you by Experiments in Opera.
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