OPERA
Productions
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Archive
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"I'll Be Seeing You" - USO Show
Minnesota Opera | April 2017 | A pastiche of popular songs from the World War II era | Starring Minnesota Opera's Resident Opera Cohort
"Misbehavin' at the Met"
Minnesota Opera | April 2016 | A pastiche of songs from the Great Depression era | Starring Minnesota Opera's Resident Opera Cohort
Les enfants terribles
Butler Opera Center | 2013 | Music by Phillip Glass | Adapted from the work of Jean Cocteau
Into the Woods
Butler Opera Center | February 2015 | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by James Lapine
Rose Made Man (world premiere)
Cohen New Works Festival | May 2015 | Music by Franklin Piland | Libretto by Tegan McLeod
The new opera Rose Made Man, a coming of age story of a transmale named Gabriel, is also a story of transitioning gender identity. Born deaf and thus having never heard his gender spoken by others, he lives in a relative bubble until age ten when he gains his hearing and feels the full force of hos his true identity unsettles society.
New York Stories: Broken Pieces
Butler Opera Center | February 2012 | Music by Daren Hagen | Libretto by Barbara Grecki