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A Works & Process premiere marks an operatic first where the audience's eating is choreographed and synchronized with the drama. This new genre of storytelling is a collaboration between Stewart Matthew (Green Aria, A ScentOpera), chef Rasmus Munk of famed Alchemist Restaurant (Copenhagen), Daniil Simkin, internationally renowned ballet dancer pioneering innovation in dance, and double BAFTA winning composer, Jason Graves.

Carême dramatizes the awakening of the tastes of a young Antonin Carême, the eighteenth-century chef (played by Simkin) who would come to elevate cuisine to a new art form. The evening begins as a live stage performance in the Peter B. Lewis Theater that magically dissolves and immerses the audience first in a grand theater set in late 18th century Paris, where they not only watch—but taste—the unfolding drama continuing on stage. The action culminates with the audience caught up in the storming of the Bastille.

Matthew's libretto and direction forge an unprecedented genre of storytelling, dissolving barriers between performer and audience. Munk's intimate, small dishes, eaten at timed intervals, serve up tastes that add a new layer to the musical score, in its own key, with textures serving up new chords and releases of flavor that amplify Simkin's choreographed movement.

Matthew's vision, Munk's flavors and textures, Simkin's kinetic eloquence and Graves' bold music combine to create an exciting new perceptual frontier.