“We the Innumerable” [65′] 4 Lead singers, Chorus, Pierrot ensemble

“Stunningly beautiful, evocative, and genre-expanding”   

– Christopher Koelsch

LA Opera CEO and President

We the Innumerable has been awarded an Opera America Discovery Grant, Press Release is HERE. Libretto by Lisa Flanagan 

UPCOMING WORKSHOP: We the Innumerable will be workshopped as a co-presentation with CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY OPERA. 

About We the Innumerable: After the 2009 presidential election in 
Tehran, Iran, Roya and her husband, Siavash, become targets of the 
state for participating in nationwide protests against the election 
result. Siavash is murdered, and Roya is imprisoned and put under 
extreme pressure to record a confessional stating that her husband 
was a Revolutionary Guard force who was killed by the enemies of
the state. The opera is the heroic journey of an Iranian woman who 
protects the truth in the face of fear and violence.

Solitary Confinement Aria from Scene III 

Indie Opera Podcast Featuring “We the Innumerable” starts at 51:00    Soprano: Corrine Byrne 

Reading From Opera America, February 2020

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Photo Credits: Anahita Rouzbeh 

Roya: Corrine Byrne

Siavash: Morgan Manifacier

Maryam & Ensemble: Amal El-Shrafi

Chief Interrogator & Ensemble: Mohsen Namjoo (PV reading) Hossein Jazayeri (workshop)

Ensemble: Thomas Albanese, Carlo Bunyi, Chao Ma, David Mather

Artistic Director: Sara Tarana Jobin (workshop) and Dmitry Glivinskiy (PV reading)

Sound Board & Tech Manager: Samuel Beebe

Stage Director: Harris Doran

Projection Designer: S. Katy Tucker

Featuring translations by Sholeh Wolpe, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad.

Special thanks to Deniz Khateri (pop singer in scene I) and Golnar Shahyar (Roya’s Mother in scene III) for recordings as part of the electronics of this piece.

Composer: Niloufar Nourbakhsh                Libretto: Lisa Flanagan