BARCELONA, MAP OF SHADOWS holds an instrumental workshop on December 2 & 3, 2025 at Mabou Mines. The opera is based on a play by Lluïsa Cunillé about the intimacies and entanglements of a gentrifying city and the spectre of Fascism.
It will Premiere Fall 2026 at The Skirball Center NYU.

Mikael Karlsson — Composer 
Mallory Catlett — Librettist

International Contemporary Ensemble:
Rebekah Heller — Conductor
Josh Rubin — Clarinet 
Kyra Simms — French Horn
Garrett Flowers — Trumpet 
Alex Davis — Bassoon

Development of Barcelona, Map of Shadows is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Pending support by the National Endowment of the Arts and OPERA America's Opera Grants for Female conductors program.