Sanctuaries
ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE
September 7, 8, 9, 2021 | 8:30 PM (doors open at 7:30 pm)
Veterans Memorial Coliseum Pavilion | 300 N Winning Way, Portland, OR 97227
Click here to access a digital version of the Sanctuaries program, libretto, and more.
Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music. This world premiere, site-specific opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion and Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon. Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theater, Sanctuaries speaks to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland's historically Black Albina district. Originally set to premiere in April of 2020, Sanctuaries will now debut at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum Pavilion on September 7th, with two additional performances on September 8th and 9th, all beginning at 8:30 pm.
Work
DARRELL GRANT | Sanctuaries
Creative Team
DARRELL GRANT | composer and co-creator
ANIS MOJGANI | librettist and co-creator
ALEXANDER GEDEON | director and co-creator
SARAH TIEDEMANN | music director
LARS CAMPBELL | conductor
YUKI IZUMIHARA | set designer
CARL FABER | lighting designer
BRANIC HOWARD | sound engineer
ALISON HERYER | costume designer
Cast
DAMIEN GETER | bass-baritone | The Reverend
EMMANUEL HENREID | baritone | The Artist
MARILYN KELLER | alto | The Returner
ITHICA TELL | alto | Carpenter
JASMINE JOHNSON | mezzo-soprano
DERION LOMAN | dancer | White
Supernumeraries
LAYNA LEWIS | light 1
ORO (TINA MARIE) SANTIAGO | light 2
OLA ONIPEDE | light 3
AMIE SOWE | light 4
Instrumentalists
CHRIS BROWN | drums/percussion
RAÚL GÓMEZ-ROJAS | violin
JOHN NASTOS | winds
DAVID PARMETER | bass
JUSTIN COPELAND | trumpet
JASNAM DAYA SINGH | piano
VALDINE MISHKIN | cello
ROGER WOODS | winds
SEQUOIA | rehearsal pianist
JASMINE JOHNSON | chorister
Behind the Scenes
LOU WOODWARD | production manager
JAMIE LYNNE SIMONS | stage manager
KRISTINA MAST | assistant stage manager
ERIC ADAMS | carpenter
SHERRY PENDARVIS | scenic painter
JUSTIN DUNLAP | electrician
INTISAR ABIOTO | photographer
FORREST GREGOR | assistant sound engineer
MEGAN RINKER | audio assistant
MIRANDA NOLTEN | makeup artist
PAULA BUCHERT | costume construction
GEORGIA BRYANT | design assistant/wardrobe
Sanctuaries is generously supported by
Oregon Community Foundation’s Creative Heights Initiative
Oregon Community Foundation Community Grants Program
Oregon Cultural Trust
The Ronald W. Naito MD Foundation
The M.E.N.S.C.H. Fund
The MAP Fund
George Rowbottom & Marilyn Crilley
Sanctuaries is generously sponsored by
ZGF
Third Angle proudly partners with
Vanport Mosaic
