For “The Book Collector,” she called on professional animators from the Ninjaneer Studios in Florida to create the opera’s first virtual, digital set using state-of-the-art technology. Over the course of her residency, she’s also reached out to a variety of groups ranging from Dayton elementary school students to seniors in the University of Central Florida’s Character Animation Program. Sung hasn’t limited her collaborations to the three local arts organizations. The prestigious residency program was made possible by the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA. “It’s an old-style Mozart kind of model,” says Sung, who said the unique DPAA partnership offered the chance to create original music for the Dayton Ballet, Dayton Opera and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s the first time that the local opera company has commissioned an original opera, and the Signature event will feature the orchestra, ballet and opera as well as the Dayton Opera Chorus and the Dayton Philharmonic Chorus. The fully staged world premiere will be on Friday, May 20 and Sunday, May 22 at the Schuster Center. The culmination of her musical journey in the Miami Valley is a new opera, “The Book Collector,” created specifically for the Dayton Opera. In her past three years as Music Alive Composer-in-Residence for the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, the versatile composer has had the opportunity to create music ranging from dance pieces to an animated film score. It’s the collaboration that has made composer Stella Sung’s profession so special. " I think that the real reason I enjoy my work as a composer is that it has allowed me to meet so many people young and old, amateur musicians and professional musicians, dancers and choreographers, writers, stage directors, theater people, technicians and other artists, performers of all kinds." ALSO: A short preview talk given by Stella Sung, Neal Gittleman and Tom Bankston will be presented an hour before each performance in the Mead Theatre.
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