Music and video director Jonathan Khuner and composer/librettist Michael Senturia have released their new opera “The Deceiver of Citizens” online.

The work focuses on the titular Deceiver and his interactions with two Enablers and a young allegorical character known as “Innocence.”

The opera, which lasts a little over 14 minutes, was filmed in five different locations and features Alex Boyer, Amy Foote, Charlotte Khuner, and Marcus DeLoach.

The mini-opera was produced by Maxx Kurzunski with Khuner directing the video and performing the piano accompaniment for performers.

“It’s really more of a condemnatory portrait, produced with current distancing, and using a mix of professional and semi-professional talents, in a somewhat novel visual array, and with quite good results. I don’t know that it will radically change any hearts and minds, but it does combine art and world-view in a timely way,” Khuner told OperaWire in an emailed statement.

Khuner is the Music Director of West Edge Opera and has worked at the San Francisco Opera as an assistant conductor for over 30 years and at the Metropolitan Opera for over 15 years. In 2013, he conducted the first-ever Wagner opera performed in Albania at the National Theater in Tirana.

Watch the opera here.