Gone Glory
by Nathan Felix

Mar. 01
Saturday

Glory Gone follows Gloria, a prolific Hispanic singer who rose from poverty and into the national limelight by crossing over into the American mainstream. After a concert, Gloria is assaulted by an obsessed and jealous photographer. On life support, Gloria fights for her life and survives as fans go on live television to ask the nation to pray for her. While recovering she looks at herself in the mirror and becomes depressed with her now scarred neck that also has stripped her of continuing her singing career. Gloria struggles with her self worth, identity and purpose. An underlying anger for her assailant boils over and she schemes a plot to inflict pain on him as revenge for destroying her career.

 

 Mexican-American composer Nathan Felix's immersive 45-minute opera explores the themes of restoring voices and the search for one’s purpose and identity in the face of racial discrimination.

 

The opera will feature San Antonio talent lead by Kathryn Piña (soprano) as Gloria the Pop Singer, Kevin Arratia-Diaz (tenor) as The Obsessed Photographer, Olivia Gronenthal (mezzo-soprano) as The Super Fan, Fabiola Quezada (soprano) as News Reporter Vivian Loder. and Jenna Winslow (soprano) as the Music Agent.

 

Glory Gone will be staged  as an immersive production in various spaces within the Radius Center. 

 

 

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Gone Glory
by Nathan Felix
Nathan Felix