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Interview with Swedish Public Radio
08.27.07 | Permalink |

R. Timothy Brady speaks with Birgitta Tollan about the success of Edalat Square: Opera in One Act. The program was part of a series of profiles on LGBT composers around the world.
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R. Timothy Brady: One Hand Loves the Opera
07.25.07 | Permalink |

in Creative Loafing
Based on the 2005 public execution of two young men accused of lavaat (sex between two men) under Iranian Islamic law…’Opera was the only format for this story,’ says Brady…Former bandmate Rodriguez even had a hand in the libretto, which went through five agonizing revisions.
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Houston Press reviews Edalat Square
06.28.07 | Permalink |

The most adventurous of the lot — in both music and libretto — was R. Timothy Brady’s poignant, highly poetic Edalat Square, a disquisition on the torture and hanging of two Iranian teenage boys for homosexuality. With keening strings and an overwhelming performance by Vanessa Beaumont as the wailing, distraught mother, Brady used almost calligraphic [...]
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Interview with National Public Radio
04.21.07 | Permalink |

R. Timothy Brady speaks with Wanda Yang Temko in Atlanta, Georgia before the premiere of Edalat Square: Opera in One Act.
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Artists in the Spotlight: Two Students Complete Composition Theses
04.17.07 | Permalink |

in The Emory Wheel
Brady’s fiercely atonal work juxtaposed classical Persian singing with Western dissonances to heighten the emotional intensity of the piece. Although the opera followed chronological events, the movements centered on various moods: religious confusion, guilt, motherly worry and judgment.
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A Tragedy of Global Proportions
04.08.07 | Permalink |

“Globalization is unavoidable, and by helping others elsewhere, we help ourselves here.” [R. Timothy Brady] explains that the opera is not an indictment of Islam, but only of the way it is practiced - some would say distorted - in Iran.
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Art as activism
04.06.07 | Permalink |

Brady, who used to be more traditionally involved in GLBT activism, sees his opera as a form of activism. ‘In 2004, 2005, after the election, I became disenchanted … I wanted to think of other avenues to express myself socio-politically,’ he says. ‘I thought this would be a good way to continue my activism in [...]