The Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA) has named Dr. Lisa Neher as the 2025 Composer of the Year. Neher’s “Love in a Time of Climate Change,” which features text by poet Craig Santo Perez, will get a premiere this June at the 2025 OMTA conference. The performance, which takes place on June 28, 2025 at 1:30 p.m., will feature soprano {…}
(Photo credit: Anastasia Sistevaris) Unable to perform this past year due to a chronic illness that directly affects her vocal mechanism, mezzo-soprano Molly Noori has turned towards advocating for other singers in a similar position. Through her new non-profit, The Chronicled Voice, Molly has created a safe space for opera singers to talk openly about their frustrations, fears, and ideas {…}
Composer and new music mezzo Dr. Lisa Neher stars in “She Became Fire.” Themes of social justice, feminism, loss, and love, are interwoven throughout the program. The concert features the world premieres of ”Riots” by Drew Swatosh and Carolyn Quick, and “Volume” also by Quick. Also on the program are works by Danielle Olana Jagelski, Neher and Bea Goodwin, Gabriela {…}
Experiments in Opera is set to give four programs during its spring 2024 season. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo takes on the title role in the workshop performance of “Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel.” Jennifer Zetlan sings the role of Katharine Johnson, with Amanda Lynn Bottoms as Sissieretta Jones/Djuka Tesla, Timothy Stoddard as {…}
Boise, Idaho-based Opera Elect will be presenting “A Very Human Experience,” a filmed opera concert on Sunday, June 27, 2021, at 7:00 pm EDT. The concert will feature the world premiere of “The Anthropocene Vignettes” by Jessi Harvey, “Non Motus” by Marc Hoffeditz and Ilana Fogelson, and “Sense of Self” by Lisa Neher and Kendra Leonard. The three short operas {…}
(Photo credit: Alisabeth Von Presley) For opera artists around the world, COVID-19 was a major blow. Not only did they lose the opportunity to work, but in most cases, they have often been the last to get the chance to make their return. While several industries around the world have opened and closed repeatedly with the differing waves of the {…}
Composer and mezzo-soprano, Lisa Neher is set to launch the One Voice Project Micro Opera Festival this March. Between March 22-26, Neher will present several works she composed to libretti by Kendra Preston Leonard including “Woman Waits With Sword,” “Momentum,” “Wide Awake in the New City,” “Now Available,” and “Par for the Course.” “During the pandemic, I spoke to so {…}
