"Molly says NO!" ft. Judith Mok in NYC

Judith Mok. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

Monday, June 6, 2011 at 6:00 PM

Bruno Walter Hall, Lincoln Center - New York, NY
Admission: free

Originally commissioned for the James Joyce Centenary celebrations in Dublin in 2004, Molly says No! is a dramatic recital written by famed Irish poet and screenwriter Michael O’Loughlin. It shows a different side of the fictional character of Molly Bloom, heroine of Ulysses. Here Molly is a serious artist, professional singer, foreigner, immigrant, bereaved mother, a complex modern woman in a male world. She sings the music she loves in her own words. This dramatic recital features music by Bizet, Mozart, Granados, De Falla, Schubert, Hugo Wolf as well as traditional Irish and Sephardic folk song.

Judith Mok has peformed  Molly says No! throughout Ireland and abroad to great critical acclaim. This show has been invited to many venues, including Dublin Writers Festival, Dublin Bloomsday, Aspects Festival, the first Irish Literary Festival in New Delhi , India and Bhutan, and at many universities.

Judith Mok performs Molly Says No Part I

Judith Mok (Soprano). Her lieder, oratorio and opera repertoire led to appearances at numerous festivals including Salzburg, Edinburgh, Paris and the Holland Festival. She has worked in North and South America and in almost every country in Europe, having sung with orchestras such as London Sinfonietta, the Netherlands Philharmonic, de Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, the Mozart Players, the Freiburgerbarock and Amsterdam Baroque, and the Vienna Symphony in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Queen Elisabeth Hall, Theatre du Chatelet and the Bastille, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires.

She has performed and recorded operas by Mozart, Philidor, Handel, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Wagner with conductors such as Berstein, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Rostropovitch, Edo de Waart, Ed Spanjaard, Hartmut Haennchen,  JC Malgoir  and many others.
 
Having dedicated part of her career to contemporary music, composers such as Louis Andriessen, Gerardo Gandini, Bob Zimmerman and Jeff Hamburg have written works for her which have been recorded on CD. She was also chosen by the Oscar-winning Chinese composer Tan Dun to perform his works in several countries. 

Judith Mok has made many television and radio recordings in Europe , North and South America and India. She has sung and acted in several feature films with actors like Elliot Gould and Jacqueline Bisset, including the award-winning Goodnight Vienna.