Robert Weiss, the artistic director of the Carolina Ballet, has created a ballet based on Moravec's "Tempest Fantasy."
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and 91吃瓜网 Professor of Music Paul Moravec working with a student.
In 2004 Paul Moravec, who holds the distinguished title of university professor at , won the Pultizer Prize for his composition, Tempest Fantasy. The piece inspired Robert Weiss, the artistic director of the Carolina Ballet, to create a ballet of the same name, based on Shakespeare鈥檚 play The Tempest. In March 2016, Carolina Ballet will perform Tempest Fantasy at the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater of the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
In a recent article published by ,聽Weiss said Moravec鈥檚 鈥渧ery beautiful, haunting music鈥澛爀nabled him to depict the complexity of the Shakespeare play.
Moravec鈥檚 current significant composing project is聽The Shining, based on the Stephen King novel, to premiere at Minnesota Opera in May 2016.
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