Back in New York after performing with the @nationalsawdust Ensemble in the premiere of @paolaprestini very moving and transformative opera “Sensorium Ex” as part of the @csensesfest in Omaha! An opera that dreams in possibility, giving voice & a platform to a community largely unheard in today’s performing arts. One of the most nurturing experiences. 🫰 that it will travel to a space near you soon. #opera #newopera #paolaprestini #sensoriumex #omaha #nationalsawdust #fadolín #fadolín

#blithespirit recording has resumed today!
Charles is well on his way to being done and Dr. Bradman is complete! (Probably for the best with the faces that Simon is pulling…)
#opera #demorecording #noëlcoward #noelcoward #adaptation #britishmusic #newopera

Ouch. https://www.vulture.com/article/opera-review-champion-terence-blanchard-met.html #Opera #NewOpera #Met

Met premieres Blanchard’s `Champion,′ an `opera in jazz’ https://apnews.com/article/terence-blanchard-opera-champion-met-a907e1d82a6f1df370426b5a98aa5982 #Opera #NewMusic #NewOpera #TheMetDoesSomethingRightForOnce #MetOpera #Music #Jazz

Any of my #music folks here going in-person to #NewMusicGathering in Portland in June? I am feeling very ambivalent about going, even though my opera with Lisa Neher, Sense of Self, will be performed live. The organizers do not seem to be committed to #accessibilty, #masking, #Covid safety, reasonable schedules, and other things, so I am worried. I am committed to supporting & attending only conferences that have strong online participation goals and planning, so... Thoughts appreciated. #NewMusic #NewOpera #Opera

I love Vaughan Williams, I do, but I want a woman composer to make a new #opera out of Riders to the Sea. It's so much about motherhood and--as my brilliant friend Becky Steinberger puts it--the matriarchal space. #NewOpera #NewMusic

This is kind of a sub-post, but there ARE ALREADY lots of NEW comic operas out there. I'm tired of the "where are the new comic operas?" narrative. One is my micro-opera with Lisa Neher, *Woman Waits with Sword*written for Margaret O'Connell. It's funny AND about a smart, clever woman. (Watch here: https://www.lisanehermusic.com/woman-waits-with-sword.html). And there are plenty others: Thom K. Miller and Griffin Candey's Sweets by Kate; Elizabeth Cree by Puts and Campbell; Stephen Eddins and Michael O'Brien's Why I Live at the PO; more. Finally, opera companies repeatedly commission serious or tragic opera far more often than comic or hopepunk/feel-good works. Commission us, and we will write! #Opera #NewOpera #NewMusic

“Black opera enters a golden age
Artists debut new works while scholars like Naomi André rediscover pieces long hidden in segregation’s shadows.” https://thewell.unc.edu/2023/02/06/black-opera-enters-a-golden-age/?fbclid=IwAR1_9Krbgxh-CLsTN0cPZjW7prXpbKWQd6pHd1Vqzs5-Ulere0h61U8MIJ0 #Opera #NewOpera #BlackOpera