On Making Sounds of Hazel (excerpted)

Peer behind the scenes of the dazzling ballet about legendary jazz singer, pianist and activist Hazel Scott. This work was created by the company over the course of their three-year summer residency at Dartmouth. Artistic Director Virginia Johnson and Choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher explore how they brought to life the legacy and talents of Scott, and the documentary features footage of their rehearsals and performance filmed here at the Hop last summer.

The ballet premiered in Washington DC last fall and will tour across the US throughout 2023. 

Music. Madness. Murder. Opera. A multimedia opera tailored to the virtual stage.

In Spring 2021, students brought the 59-minute opera by the fabled composer Gian Carlo Menotti to Dartmouth. With the pandemic in full swing, the cast and crew worked remotely across many states. The outcome is a seamless, deliciously spooky performance that would make Menotti proud

Guest Director Knoelle Higginson raised the roof in her first performance leading Dartmouth students and community vocalists.

Pulitzer-winning composer Melinda Wagner, librettist Stephanie Fleischmann and violinist Mark Steinberg discuss the new work, commissioned by the Hop, which breathes new life into Purcell's beloved opera and takes us into the inner psyche of the proud Queen of Carthage.

With a powerful voice and sharp prose, the NYC-based polymath artist delivers stirring songs and bizarrely heroic operatic monologues. Revisit excerpts from the evening, including songs and stories that "dance between comedy, commentary and communion."

Hear fresh work from Coast members: "Outer Orbits" by Eli Hecht ’23, "My Fren’" by Tony Perez ’23 and "Flight of Ideas" by Amy Norton ’23.

with Mark Nelson of the Upper Valley Music Center

Explore the sequence of Beethoven's ten sonatas for violin and piano with a focus on the Kreutzer sonata.