American Opera Projects will present a concert as part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play 2025 in celebration of composer Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday at the South Oxford Space Great Room. The showcase, set for May 3, 2025, will feature Pärt’s “The Abbot Agathon,” in partnership with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn and GHOSTLIGHT. Soprano Sarah Moulton Faux will {…}
American Opera project (AOP) and NYU/Tisch Opera Lab will present “Poets of New York: Operas Inspired by Audre Lorde and Walt Whitman,” featuring three original operas. The operas will be presented on May 25 and 26, 2024 at the NYU Schubert Theatre, 721 Broadway, 5th Floor, NYC. Tickets are free with reservation. Featured artists include sopranos MaKayla McDonald and Gileann {…}
The American Opera Project (AOP) and the Irondale Ensemble Project will premiere the new opera “Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War” at Irondale’s “On Women Festival.” Composer Kirsten Volness and librettists Kate Holland and Susan Werbe’s work reveals real letters, poetry, journal entries, memories, and recalled oral sentiments by women who experienced the effects {…}
The American Opera Project’s fellowship program, Composers & the Voice, is set to premiere the current fellows’ songs in “First Glimpse: Songs From the Great Room.” Current composers in C&V are Gabrielle Herbst, J.E. Hernández, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Paul Pinto, Tidtaya Sinutoke, Ania Vu. C&V librettist include jeesun Choi, Isabella Dawis, and Troy Defour. Performers are members of the C&V {…}
