Nathan Hall and Alan Olejniczak’s ‘Unbound’ Set for August Premiere

(Photo credits: Nathan Hall/Lewis Neff, Alan Olejniczak/Christopher Turner) Composer and multimedia artist Nathan Hall has teamed up with librettist Alan Olejniczak in creating “Unbound.” The opera will receive its world premiere at Studio Friction in Denver Colorado in late August 2021. Hall’s works, shaped by his experiences as a gay man, create a more intimate connection between performer, place, and {…}

The Meaning of Life & Death – How John Young & Alan Olejniczak Reconnected to Create ‘Death of Ivan Ilych’ for Opera Orlando

(Photo Courtesy of Opera Orlando) The canon of operas based on Russian literature is expanding with a new entrant that will receive its world premiere by Opera Orlando this week: the one-act chamber opera “Death of Ivan Ilych,” based on Leo Tolstoy’s novella. Composed by John Young, with the English libretto by his former singing colleague Alan Olejniczak (oh-leh-NEE-check), it {…}