Ojai Youth Opera To Premiere ‘Nightingale & The Tower’

The Ojai Youth Opera is set to premiere its first original commissioned opera, “Nightingale & The Tower.” The new opera by composer Jason Treuting, Grammy award-winning musician Mikael Jorgensen and OYO Founder and Artistic Director Rebecca Comerford tells the story of a young boy’s odyssey to find himself while discovering the delicate balance between technology and the environment in a dystopian {…}

Ojai Youth Opera To Present World Premiere of ‘Nightingale & The Tower’

Ojai Youth Opera will present the world premiere of its first original commissioned work “Nightingale & The Tower” this May. Rebecca Comerford, Mikael Jorgensen, and Jason Treuting’s new work is an electric chamber opera for six adult singers, 29 youth OYO members, synthesizers, chamber orchestra, and earth harp. Comerford, OYO Founder and Artistic Director, remarks that the opera’s story, which follows “a young boy’s odyssey {…}