Temple Theaters Digital Presents a song cycle:
WOMEN ON LOVE
by Temple Alum Katya Stanislavskaya (Temple B.M. 2002, M.M. 2004)
Directed by Maggie Anderson
Music Direction by Patrick Tice-Carroll
Streaming Oct. 9 & 10 -- FREE
RSVP: https://www.onthestage.com/show/temple-university-school-of-tfma/women-o...
What colors can you see when you cast the light of love through the prism of life? This year, Temple Theaters is taking advantage of an opportunity to focus on music, storytelling and craft with WOMEN IN LOVE, a song cycle by Temple Alum Katya Stanislavskaya (Temple B.M. 2002, M.M. 2004). A multi-award winning composer and librettist, Katya has created a number of wonderful worlds of music including this meditation on the many ways love can affect our lives. “The cycle feels like a kind of diary,” says Stanislavskaya, who has been working on pieces for this work for close to 15 years.
Songs in WOMEN ON LOVE focus on the centralized theme of love in all its shades including questions of self-love, budding love, and the foibles of marital bliss. As Stanislavskaya emphasizes, “The theme I would say is, how do you love people, things, or yourself when we are highly imperfect... While we are all a ‘work in progress’, nevertheless, we deserve to be loved.” Ranging in style from classical music pastiche to rock and the blues, songs explore a wide spectrum of subjects: motherhood and daughterhood, immigration, LGBTQ+ issues, sexual awakening, belonging, divorce, and a realistic outlook on death. At the center of it all, it is a concert to explore the many forms of love that surround us, often in spite of ourselves.