Catapult Opera to Throw Launch Party for Release of PENTATONE’s ‘La Ville Morte’ Recording

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Catapult Opera will host a release party on Jan. 14, 2026, for its new album of Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” at Cary Hall at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception, followed by a musical program at 6:15 p.m. featuring soprano Melissa Harvey and tenor Joshua Dennis, {…}

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Catapult Opera to Open New Season with Double Bill ‘Nothing Follows’

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Catapult Opera is set to present “Nothing Follows” at Columbia University’s Italian Academy this November. The showcase, set for three performances on Nov. 21 – 23, 2025, features Monteverdi’s “Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda” and Muhly’s “The Glitch,” which is a one-act, true-crime opera based on the infamous 2015 Dannemora prison break. Baritone Efrain Solis and mezzo-soprano Devony Smith make {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

IN Series & Catapult Opera 2025 Review: St. John the Baptist

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(Photo: Bayou Elom) Following the invention of opera in Florence around the year 1600, its popularity spread throughout Italy. The early works of Peri, Caccini and Monteverdi offered a rebirth of Greek Drama with an attempt to find a way to understand the text through recitative and aria. These innovations made it possible to stage works whose texts could be {…}

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Catapult Opera & In Series to Showcase Stradella’s ‘San Giovanni Battista’

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Catapult Opera will present the American stage premiere of Stradella’s “San Giovanni Battista,” in co-production with Washington D.C.’s In Series. The showcase, set for June 11 – 13, 2025 at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn, NY, will be conducted by Neal Goren and directed by Timothy Nelson. The wok explores the story of Salome and John the Baptist, which {…}

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Catapult Opera Releases Short Opera Film ‘Telekinetik’

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“Telekinetik,” a genre-bending short musical film from composer-performer Khary Laurent and commissioned by Catapult Opera, was released on YouTube on March 7, 2024. The “hip-hopera” is a surreal, moody 10-minute tale of an aspiring vigilante being tormented by a shaman. To tell the story of civilian justice and the violence it leaves in its wake, classically trained Khary Laurent switches {…}

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Catapult Opera Gives American Premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s Only Opera, ‘La ville morte’

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(Photo credit: ©Sophie von Hellermann) Catapult Opera is set to give the American premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s opera “La Ville Morte.” With a libretto by Gabriele d’Annunzio from his play of the same name, “La Ville Morte” is a tale of “suppressed lust and taboo turned lethal, the prisons of other people’s objectifying desires, and the liberatory potential of creativity.” {…}

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Catapult Opera Explores Covid-19 Connections in New Opera & Short Film Entitled ‘When All I Knew Changed’ by Celisse

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Catapult Opera has announced a newly commissioned opera and short film from multidisciplinary artist Celisse. Titled, “When All I Knew Changed,” this work is the first of several that Catapult will produce and distribute for free. It explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of three women, who, despite very different experiences, highlight the theme of interconnectedness. {…}

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Lester Lynch, Krysty Swann, Adam Tendler Headline Catapult Opera’s ‘The Glitch’

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Catapult Opera has announced the streaming of “The Glitch,” the first of a series of micro video-opera commissions. “The Glitch” is a new work by composer Nico Muhly and librettist Greg Pierce that stars Krysty Swann, Lester Lynch, and Adam Tendler. The video-opera is directed by Marcus Shields. “I am extremely proud of The Glitch. It proves that one does {…}

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‘The Silent Twins’ Wins Top Prize at Catapult Opera’s Accelerate Competition

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Catapult Opera has announced the winners of its Accelerate Competiton. The Competition was a team-based event intended to inspire innovation and creativity in the realm of socially distanced operatic performance. Teams were given four selection to choose from and had three weeks to put together a video that met categories of music excellence, dramatic integrity, and creativity. The first prize {…}

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Catapult Opera to Throw Launch Party for Release of PENTATONE’s ‘La Ville Morte’ Recording

Catapult Opera to Open New Season with Double Bill ‘Nothing Follows’

IN Series & Catapult Opera 2025 Review: St. John the Baptist

Catapult Opera & In Series to Showcase Stradella’s ‘San Giovanni Battista’

Catapult Opera Releases Short Opera Film ‘Telekinetik’

Catapult Opera Gives American Premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s Only Opera, ‘La ville morte’

Catapult Opera Explores Covid-19 Connections in New Opera & Short Film Entitled ‘When All I Knew Changed’ by Celisse

Lester Lynch, Krysty Swann, Adam Tendler Headline Catapult Opera’s ‘The Glitch’

‘The Silent Twins’ Wins Top Prize at Catapult Opera’s Accelerate Competition