Working for the Macbeths
COMPOSER: Johanny Navarro
LIBRETTIST: Marcus Yi
Shakespeare meets Monty Python in Working for the Macbeths, a riotous look behind the tragedy we think we all know. After three witches prophesize the downfall of Macbeth, Florinda - Lady Macbeth’s Lady-in-Waiting - is determined to fight fate and give the Macbeths the happy ending they deserve. Can destiny be changed, or is the play doomed to repeat itself?
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Tevye's Daughters
COMPOSER: Alex Weiser
LIBRETTIST: Stephanie Fleischmann
Inspired by the darker, grittier stories by Sholem Aleichem not included in Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye’s Daughters centers on the tale of the beloved milkman’s younger daughter Shprintze, who falls in love with a young man above her station.
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She Who Dared
COMPOSER: Jasmine Arielle Barnes
LIBRETTIST: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.
Everyone has heard of Rosa Parks, but she wasn’t the first to refuse to move. She Who Dared recenters the spotlight on the courageous women who helped desegregate the Montgomery bus system in the 1950s.
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Adam and Eve
COMPOSER: Patrick Soluri
LIBRETTIST: Quincy Long
In this iteration of the Bible story, Adam and Eve meet in a mental hospital where they play out, in their distorted but deeply human fashion, the age-old story of mutual attraction.
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All Wounds Bleed
COMPOSER: Christopher Cerrone
LIBRETTIST: Tony Asaro
Hera, Queen of the gods, suspects Echo of having an affair with her husband, Zeus. Echo plots to entrap Zeus with Cupid's arrowhead—a magic weapon that when used, will cause the wounded to fall in love with the next person they see.
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Buried Alive
COMPOSER: Jeff Myers
LIBRETTIST: Quincy Long
What might Edgar Allan Poe write if he were alive today? This is the question American Lyric Theater asked of four gifted emerging writers for the opera stage with The Poe Project, a double-bill that includes Buried Alive and Embedded.
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Embedded
COMPOSER: Patrick Soluri
LIBRETTIST: Deborah Brevoort
What might Edgar Allan Poe write if he were alive today? This is the question American Lyric Theater asked of four gifted emerging writers for the opera stage with The Poe Project, a double-bill that includes Buried Alive and Embedded.
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Enchantress
COMPOSER: Kamala Sankaram
LIBRETTIST: Rob Handel
In this scientific romance about the birth of the first computer program, Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, must choose between her passionate marriage and the chance to collaborate with the eccentric mathematician Charles Babbage.
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The Hunger Art
COMPOSER: Jeff Myers
LIBRETTIST: Royce Vavrek
A twisted tale of art to the extreme, The Hunger Art is the story of a couple who starves themselves as the ultimate form of expressionism.
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La Reina
COMPOSER: Jorge Sosa
LIBRETTIST: Laura Sosa Pedroza
Drawing its narrative from the drug trade in Mexico and the United States, this electro-acoustic opera, with text in Spanish and English opera, is inspired by some of the most vivid real life players in this increasingly violent war from the past and present.
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The Long Walk
COMPOSER: Jeremy Howard Beck
LIBRETTIST: Stephanie Fleischmann
Based on the memoir, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows, by Brian Castner
A deeply personal exploration of a soldier’s return from Iraq, where he served as an officer in an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit.
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Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers
COMPOSER: Kamala Sankaram
LIBRETTIST: David Johnston
Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers fuses monkey stories from India, China, and West Africa to tell the story of Monkey and his brainy sister Francine.
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Murasaki’s Moon
COMPOSER: Michi Wiancko
LIBRETTIST: Deborah Brevoort
An opera for audiences of all ages, Murasaki’s Moon is inspired by the life and work of Lady Murasaki, author of the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji.
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Nora at the Altar Rail
COMPOSER: Jay Anthony Gach
LIBRETTIST: Royce Vavrek
With each passing day, Nora's life as farmwife to Lars becomes more and more difficult to endure, and her escape inside Victorian literature becomes more and more consuming.
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Once Upon the Wind
COMPOSER: Theo Popov
LIBRETTIST: Kate Light
Based on an old Russian folktale, Once Upon the Wind is a powerful musical fable that reflects upon the moral implications of playing with nature.
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On the Origin
COMPOSER: Justine F. Chen
LIBRETTIST: Rochelle Bright
Charles Darwin's most controversial work — On the Origin of Species — to publish, or not to publish? This intimate opera features a libretto sourced from Darwin's own private letters and his greatest written works.
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The Selfish Giant
COMPOSER: Clarice Assad
LIBRETTIST: Lila Palmer
Through a beloved fairy tale, young audiences (and those who are young at heart!) are taken on a magical journey about the power that kindness has to transform, and that empathy has to bridge the gap between who we appear to be and who we truly are.
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Seed
COMPOSER: Gerald Cohen
LIBRETTIST: David Simpatico
One hundred years ago, The Great Nuclear Holy War devastated the planet. Now, Adam and Evangeline, the last two people on Earth, safeguard the global seed depository deep inside in the Doomsday Botanical Seed Vault.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant
COMPOSER: Evan Meier
LIBRETTIST: E.M. (Ellen) Lewis
A giant is dead, and his body lies at the base of a great beanstalk. The police believe young Jack is responsible. But the boy insists that he's innocent. Can the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, Dr. Watson, untangle this magical mystery?
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The Tree of Eternal Youth
COMPOSER: Andy Tierstein
LIBRETTIST: Julian Crouch
An old married couple meet in an ancient orchard where The Tree of Eternal Youth has produced an apple, a bite of which, will return just one of them to their former youthful state. Each of them falters, but when the God Pan appears disguised as a woodsman, he persuades the old man to take a bite of the apple while his wife sleeps…
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