NYOA Next! perfomance is June 16 at 7:30pm with $20 tickets available via https://our.show/operafest2025 and at the door (cash only).
A showcase of five 20-minute, semi-staged operas by the current composers and librettists in American Opera Project’s “Composers & the Voice” Fellowship Training Program.
Three 30-minute operas inspired by the lives and histories of residents at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY, will be performed at the African Grove Theatre in New York University’s Paulson Center on Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May 17.
This event will feature a special presentation of State of the Jews, the opera by Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan.
Polar and The Watering Hole from the Climate Opera Project will be presented by UConn Opera in collaboration with UConn Puppet Arts on March 30th at 5pm.
Composer and Composers & the Voice alum (2011-13) Sidney Marquez Boquiren interviewed by AOP's Ziyan Yang, discussing Sidney's experience in AOP's C&V program and developing his opera, INDEPENDENCE EVE, as well as his 2nd year participation in Opera Omaha's Poetry and Music Project ahead of the May 3 concert.
The Abbot Agathon — Composed by Arvo Pärt, texted by adapted by Pärt from Maladrerie Saint-Lazare.
AOP will co-produce The Abbot Agathon on an evening-length program of Arvo Pärt works celebrating the composer’s 90th birthday.
State of The Jews, a new opera by composer Alex Weiser and librettist Ben Kaplan (C&V alums 2017-2019) will be featured at the The Streicker Center on January 15 as part of the center’s exhibition on Theodor Herzl.
This year’s Skylark Opera Theater holiday production is “The Christmas Spider,” an adaptation of an old Ukrainian folktale.
Fanny And Alexander by Mikael Karlsson (composer, C&V alum 2011-13) and Royce Vavrek (librettist) at La Monnaie!
HOPERA presents the Houston premier of As One in partnership with the Montrose Center and supported by Eureka Heights Brew Co this November 2024.
American Opera Projects will be holding a workshop for One Drop on October 28-November 2, with a public presentation on November 2. In partnership with Bare Opera & David Herskovits (Target Margin Theatre).
American Opera Projects in consultation with Opera On Tap created and presented an Opera Maker Lab for students at Ebbets Field Middle School in NYS District 57 in Prospect Lefferts Garden who participated in a free after-school program October 2024 - January 2025.
An opera based on a play by Lluïsa Cunillé about the intimacies and entaglements of a gentrifying city and the spectre of Fascism.
One Drop, adapted from the play “Brass Ankle” by famed playwright DuBose Hayward (Porgy and Bess), is a new opera adapted and composed by Tom Cabaniss.
There will be an invitation only libretto-reading of One Drop on Thursday, September 26 in advance of the workshop and public presentation on November 2.
The Precipice Video workshop is a closed workshop dedicated to the filming of a designed projected that would accompany any live-staged production of Precipice.
Composer Joseph Rubinstein and librettist Jason Kim’s work is a stylish and flamboyant, intimate and daring, lyrical chamber opera fused with 1980s dance music, jazz and pop influences.
The Fort Greene Park walking tour is led by Walt Whitman scholar and historian Karen Karebiener and contralto Nicole Mitchell.
