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Rettmer’s work has been presented nationally and internationally at the Vizcaya Museum; Manifesta; MoMA Public, curated by Mel Logan and Jakob Boeskov; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; CreaTures Festival, Seville, Spain; MassArt, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA; Silvermine Gallery, Connecticut, CT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum for the exhibition, Hot Steam; the Illuminus Festival; the Boston Independent Film Festival; the Yuan Art Museum; Yve Yang Gallery; Perkins and Ping; Present Company; NADA NY, NADA Presents; and AREA gallery, among others.
Rettmer's opera productions have been praised as “wickedly smart” and “devastatingly funny” by The New York Times, and “not only profound but also shattering” by the Observer.
Scheib brings his genre-defying vision, deep integration of new technologies, and daring physicality to this modern opera.
LAINE RETTMER
Laine Rettmer is a North American visual artist and opera director based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work explores performance, gender, desire, and methods of social control.
This La bohème defies stereotypes, subverts tropes, and boasts a diverse cast while leaning on America’s greatest Asian singers.
La bohème: A film by Laine Rettmer is a co-production of More Than Musical, Opera Columbus, Opera Omaha, and Tri-Cities Opera.
Opera by Thomas Adès directed by Jay Scheib Produced by New York CIty Opera, February 15, 2013 - February 23, 2013 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Howard Gilman Opera House
Conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, Associate Director Laine Rettmer, Stage Design by Marsha Ginsberg, Costumes by Alba Clemente, Lighting by Thomas Dunn, Projections by Josh Higgason; playing the Duchess Allison Cook, Maid Nili Riemer, Electrician William Ferguson, Hotel Manager Matt Boehler, Waiter Jon Morris, Nurse Kaneza Schaal
Inspired by a sex scandal that rocked Britain in the early 60s, Powder Her Face (1995) is a chamber opera composed by England’s Thomas Adès to a libretto by Philip Hensher.
Rettmer has also worked extensively on new opera with such companies as New York City Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, On Site Opera, White Snake Opera, Ecce Ensemble, Guerrilla Opera, and Rhymes with Opera. Previously, they have served as a residential scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Post-Graduate Fellow at Tufts University in Video and Digital Media.
This work focuses specifically on Asian, Asian-American, and BIPOC youth and their experiences, creating a poignant subplot of immigration, assimilation, and racism.
This film embraces the current pandemic as an opportunity to set Mimì’s illness and poverty in a context that is relatable and timely. They hold a BFA in stage direction from New York University and an MFA in digital media from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts.
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For four years Rettmer was the resident stage director for the New York based company LoftOpera, with whom their last production, Macbeth, received a Freddie Award for Best New Production and was nominated for Best Director. Laine
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La bohème
September 23, 2021 - December 20, 2021
Description
Set in current-day New York, this filmed opera reimagines La bohème by glorifying rooftops, mattresses, and the grungy, sexy, dirty world of being in your early twenties in the city that never sleeps.
Recent awards include two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, a Warhol Foundation Grant, and multiple MAP Fund grants for the collaborative opera, Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heat Wave, and the multimedia opera, Ellis, constructed from first-person accounts of immigration to the US. They have also been awarded an Art Alliance Fellowship from HFBK Hamburg, a research fellowship from the Center for Arts Design and Social Research, and been an Invited Artist in Residence at MassArt in Boston, Vermont Studio Center, Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts in Iceland, Robert Wilson's Watermill Foundation on Long Island.
Rettmer is the Graduate Program Director in the Photography Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.
They serve at the rank of Assistant Professor in Residence between the Photo and Flim/Animation/Video departments. They are currently on the Artistic Advisory Board of On-Site Opera. Their, Barber of Seville, was named one of the top 10 classical music productions of 2014 by the New York Times and La Bohème one of the best operas of the decade by the Observer.
In 2022, they directed a feature film version of the opera La Boheme which was a co-production between Opera Omaha, More than Musical, and Tri-Cities Opera, which is housed on Boston Lyric Opera's digital media site, operabox.tv, and will have a commercial run through Toho Cinemas in Japan. The new NYC Opera production marks the work’s return to BAM 15 years after its New York premiere at the venue, when it was presented at the BAM Majestic (now Harvey) Theater during the 1998 Next Wave Festival.
Visually, it was shot in real locations but romanticized with animation. This season Rettmer is in post on their second feature, Oblivion, composed by John Alyward, and directing Let's Celebrate, for White Snake, Adoration, for Beth Morrison, and Lyssistrata, the spring main stage at Mannes, Parsons. The story will transport you from apartments and lofts to the beautiful dreams and imaginations of the characters with animated metaphors that work to enact Puccini’s theatrics symbolically.
Through the prism of Campbell’s life story, Powder Her Face explores the intersection of gender, politics, and power. It also notes the prejudice surrounding Asians and Asian Americans as a result of this global crisis.