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It was performed at the Eastman Theatre last October and at the Teatro Diana in Guadalajara, Mexico, in November.<\/p>\n<p>The award is presented annually to a Rochester-area visual artist, writer, choreographer, or composer for his or her commitment to the community. Zohn-Muldoon is a two-time winner, having also received the award in 2011 for his CD <em>Cantos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Kegl, the chair of the English department, calls the production an \u201cextraordinarily original and moving combination of music, dance, puppetry, and theater.\u201d She headed the award committee, whose members also included Jonathan Binstock, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery; Roger Freitas, an associate professor of musicology at Eastman; and Joan Saab, the chair of the Department of Art and Art History.<\/p>\n<p>Both composers grew up in Mexico, and drawings by famed Mexican illustrator Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Sol\u00f3rzano inspired the life-size surrealistic puppets\u2014created by the Mexico City puppetry group La Coperacha\u2014that appeared onstage with the physical illusionists from PUSH. The Eastman BroadBand Ensemble performed the music, and soprano Tony Arnold took on the starring role of \u201cthe author.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opera \u201cplays with fantasy at its very core,\u201d Zohn-Muldoon told interviewer Dan Gross in an October story on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/blog\/2016\/11\/sharing-the-blame-composers-ricardo-zohn-muldoon-and-carlos-sanchez-gutierrez-on-dont-blame-anyone\/\">Eastman School\u2019s blog<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cIt\u2019s like that drawing of Escher\u2019s where the hand is drawing itself. It\u2019s like that, you\u2019re seeing an opera being made for you, and experience what the author is experiencing, but it\u2019s composed. 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