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Goodbye My Island

Book and Lyrics by Deborah Brevoort/Music by David Friedman. This full length musical tells the story of the forced removal of the King Islanders from their home in the Bering Sea of Alaska by the US Government in 1963. This true story, which was fictionalized by Alaskan author Jean Rogers

2020-11-04T22:27:02+00:00
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King Island Christmas

An oratorio for the musical stage. Libretto by Deborah Brevoort/Music by David Friedman. Based on the children’s book from Alaska. The North Star freighter, carrying the village priest, is anchored in the Bering Sea on Christmas eve, on it’s last arctic voyage before the winter ice closes in around King Island.

2020-11-04T22:27:09+00:00
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Listen To My Heart

The Songs of David Friedman

Published by MIDDER Music Publishing, Inc.
The music and lyrics to three of Deborah’s songs (“The Gift of Trouble”, “What Manner of Persons Ought Ye to Be?” and “Upon This Rock”) are contained in the David Friedman songbook. These are from “King Island Christmas” and “Goodbye My Island.”
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2020-10-29T12:52:56+00:00
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About Deborah Brevoort

Deborah Brevoort is a playwright and librettist from Alaska who now lives in the New York area.  She is an alumna of New Dramatists, one of the original company members of Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, a member of the playwright’s collective at Florida Studio Theatre and a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders, dedicated to international theatre exchange.  In 2024 she was appointed as a Fulbright Specialist for theatre, musical theatre and opera for the US State Department.

After participating in American Lyric Theater’s Composer/Librettist Development Program (ALT CLDP) Deborah has turned most of her attention to writing opera librettos. She was awarded the prestigious Campbell Opera Librettist Prize by Opera America in 2023. She also served as the Librettist Mentor for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative at the Kennedy Center for 2023/24. She will be a librettist mentor for the ALT CLDP in 2024/25 and a delegate to the World Opera Forum in Los Angeles for Opera America.

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