Christopher Cerrone’s widely acclaimed opera, INVISIBLE CITIES, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Music, is now available as a studio recording produced, engineered, mastered, and mixed by Nick Tipp. The recording is released by The Industry, LA’s home for new and experimental opera, on its new independent record label, The Industry Records. Adapted from Italo Calvino’s 1972 fantastical novel, Cerrone’s delicate, quiet score explores sonic qualities of decay and lushness with a haunting simplicity through the use of found objects as instruments and pre-recorded voices interweaving with live voices. The opera imagines a meeting of the emperor Kublai Khan at the end of his life with the explorer Marco Polo. And the story depicts a host of fantastical cities that the explorer Marco Polo narrates to Kublai Khan: unreal cities of desire, of memory, of the imagination and mind. "A beautiful and delicate opera." Mark Swed, The Los Angeles Times Music and libretto by Christopher Cerrone Based on the novel by Italo Calvino Produced, Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Nick Tipp Conducted by Marc Lowenstein -CAST- Cedric Berry -- Kublai Khan Ashley Faatoalia -- Marco Polo Delaram Kamareh -- Woman 1 Ashley Knight -- Woman 2 Maria Elena Altany, Stephen Anastasia, Sarah Beaty, Cale Olson -- Ensemble -ORCHESTRA- Matt Barbier - Trombone Eric KM Clark - Violin Andrew McIntosh - Viola Jodie Landau - Percussion Clare Longendyke - Piano II Jillian Risigari-Gai - Harp Derek Stein - Cello Richard Valitutto - Piano I Brian Walsh - Clarinet Sarah Wass - Flute Jacob Wilder - Horn Executive Producer Yuval Sharon Graphic Design and Packaging by Traci Larson Based on the novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. © 1972 by Italo Calvino. Used by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC This recording of Invisible Cities was made possible with grants from the Copland Recording Fund and New Music USA. Additional support was generously provided by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.