John Brancy in German premiere of Lost Highway

John Brancy

American barihunk John Brancy will star as Pete Dayton in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth and Nobel Prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek's Lost Highway at Oper Frankfurt featuring Ensemble Modern. Performances will run from September 9-October 3.

Lost Highway is a 2003 opera adaptation of the 1997 David Lynch film of the same name. It premiered in Graz in 2003 at the Steirischer Herbst Festival of New Music and made its American premiere at Finney Chapel in Oberlin, Ohio and at the Miller Theater in New York City in February 2007 featuring barihunk Michael Weyandt and students from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The UK premiere in 2008 at the ENO featured barihunk Quirijn de Lang as Pete Dayton.

Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway Suite:

Lost Highway is a composition that lives from the transformation of physical spaces, diverse inner and outer spaces, into sound spaces. In performance, this is achieved through various, three-dimensional sound projections, which surround the audience with playing, live-electronics, and virtual acoustics, resulting in different experiential relationships from within and without, close by, and from a distance

The Frankfurt performances also feature Elizabeth Reiter, Hugo Armstrong, and David Moss in leading roles.

Pianist Peter Dugan and barihunk John Brancy launch Indiegogo campaing

Pianist Peter Dugan with barihunk John Brancy (l-r)

Barihunk John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan have launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund a recording based on their amazing live show A Silent Night: A WWI Centenary Tribute in Song, which premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2014. The took the show on tour to the University of Chicago, the Montreal Conservatory of Music in collaboration with Société d'art vocal, Opera Saratoga, the Joye at the Aiken Festival and St. John's College.

The two have been collaborative musical partners and friends since they met as students at the Juilliard School in 2007.

The program is a collection of classical and popular art songs written mostly by composers who lived through, fought, and died in the Great War. A Silent Night organizes these songs by the major countries involved in the war, beginning with British composers Gerald Finzi, George Butterworth, and Ivor Gurney, rarely heard lieder of German composer Carl Orff, songs by the great French composers Ravel, Poulenc, and Debussy, and the iconic American composer Charles Ives.

The recording will be available for sale on all online platforms including Amazon and iTunes, as well as on CD. Perks to support the campaign start as low as $5.00. You can support the campaign HERE.