reality opera
THE NEWS
Lori Cotler & Josefien Stoppelenburg
 
FULCRUM POINT
NEW MUSIC PROJECT
Stephen Burns Artistic Director 
Kristien Kerstens - videos
Jan Boiten - lighting, videos
JacobTV - music, lyrics, concept
Lori Cotler — alto / konnakol / jazz vocalist
Josefien Stoppelenburg — lyric soprano
Jim Gailloreto — alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet
Paul McGinley — alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
Jeremy Ruthrauff — alto & baritone saxophone
Christian Anderson — trumpet
Andrew Baker — trombone
Christopher Sargent — keyboards
Steve Roberts — guitars
Jeff Handley — percussion
Collins Trier — bass guitar, double bass
Aike Dirkzwager — dramaturgy
Sophia Wong Boccio — executive director
Ryan Ingebritsen — sound engineer
Joe Darnaby — technical director
The Silverman Group — media relations |
THE NEWS  is a provocative reality opera, synthesizing speech grooves, live music and video, remixed from international media footage.
Avant pop composer JacobTV wove sonic social commentary into 36 scenes, that shine a critical spotlight on our world, the human condition, political leaders and cultural dynamics, involving freedom and democracy, war and peace, religion and politics, the economy and global warming, fame and infamy, catastrophy and morality.
Starring President Obama, Putin, Mubarak, Berlusconi, the Pope, Dutch Queen Beatrix, Lady Gaga, Michael Moore, Paris Hilton, Sarah Palin, Sarkozy, demonstrators from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street and more.
THE NEWS: EVER BREAKING...NEVER ENDING!
The press about the previews & workshops:
This is jazz that's invasive and intriguing to the bone....
THE NEWS is like a ride in roller coaster, leaving you confused and dazed after you've reached the end. A radical statement, controversial, shameless and moralizing, penetrating
and confronting.
Profoundly beautiful, goose pimples!
WORLD PREMIERE April 27
Byham Theater Pittsburgh USA
Distinctively Dutch Festival by the
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Off the Wall Series
of the Andy Warhol Museum
www.warhol.org/webcalendar/event.aspx?id=5091
culturaldistrict.org/production/30506/jacobtv-%22the-news%22
MIDWEST PREMIERE May 4
Park West Chicago IL
www.fulcrumpoint.org
EUROPEAN PREMIERE October 12
Auditorium Rome Italy,
Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble
bookings: www.artrelated.eu
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THE NEWS was supported by:
Nederlands Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst,
Netherlands - America Foundation,
Consulate of the Netherlands
in
New York, Muziekcentrum Nederland,
JacobTV Foundation |
