American Opera Project
The company's primary mission is to develop and present new operatic and music theatre works and has gained a reputation for the "rarefied range" of the projects it fosters (Opera News, Dec 2008).
Past participants include Clint Borzoni, David Claman, Conrad Cummings, Randall Eng, Renée Favand, Vivian Fung, Kristin Kuster, Hannah Lash, Gilda Lyons, Robert Paterson, Jack Perla, Zach Redler & Sara Cooper, and Daniel Sonenberg.
[2] As One by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly Reed (BAM Fisher Center, Sept 4, 2014) Beauty Intolerable by Sheila Silver with texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Symphony Space, June 8, 2013) Before Night Falls by Jorge Martin and Dolores M. Koch (Fort Worth Opera, May 29, 1010) Brooklyn Bones by Alvin Singleton and Patricia Hampl (Nov 15, 2008) Brooklyn Cinderella by Nkeiru Okoye (Dweck Auditorium, June 21, 2011) Darkling by Stefan Weisman and Anna Rabinowitz (East 13th Street Theater, Feb 26, 2006) Fade by Stefan Weisman and David Cote (NYC PREMIERE at Galapagos Art Space, July 17, 2009) Fireworks by Kitty Brazelton and Billy Aronson (July 2, 2002) Flurry Tale by Rusty Magee and Billy Aronson, with commissioned orchestrations by John Rinehimer (Clark Studio Theater, Dec 18, 1999) Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom by Nkeiru Okoye (Irondale Center, Feb 21, 2014) Heart of Darkness by Tarik O'Regan and Tom Phillips (Covent Garden, Nov 1, 2011) Judgment of Midas by Kamran Ince and Miriam Seidel (Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Feb 12, 2013) L'abbe Agathon by Arvo Pärt and Tarik O'Regan (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jan 11, 2009) Love/Hate by Jack Perla and Rob Bailis (San Francisco Opera Center, April 2012) Marina: A Captive Spirit by Deborah Drattell and Annie Finch (May 1, 2003) Model Love by J. David Jackson based on poems by Henry Normal (Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Oct 2, 2011) Nora, in the Great Outdoors by Daniel Felsenfeld and Will Eno (Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Oct 2, 2011) Out Cold by Phil Kline (BAM Fisher, Oct 25, 2012) Patience and Sarah by Paula M. Kimper and Wende Persons (John Jay College Theater, July 8, 1998) Paul's Case by Gregory Spears and Kathryn Walat (Artisphere, Apr 20, 2013) Romulus by Louis Karchin (Guggenheim Museum, May 20, 2007) Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz (NYC PREMIERE at New York City Opera, Apr 19, 2011) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Richard Peaslee and Kenneth Cavander (Oct 18, 2001) The Blind by Lera Auerbach (Lincoln Center.
July 9, 2013) The Scarlet Ibis by Stefan Weisman and David Cote (HERE Arts Center, Jan 15, 2015) This is the Rill Speaking by Lee Hoiby and Lanford Wilson (Purchase College Opera, Apr 26, 2008) Tone Test by Nick Brooke (Lincoln Center, July 22, 2004) Windows by Zach Redler and Sara Cooper (NYU, March 23, 2013) 1000 Splendid Suns by Sheila Silver and Stephen Kitsakas African Tales by Nkeiru Okoye and Carman Moore Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock by Daniel Felsenfeld and Robert Coover Companionship by Rachel Peters Decoration by Mikael Karlsson and David Floden Eichmann in Jerusalem by Mohammed Fairouz and David Shapiro Heinrich Heine: Doppelganger by Jacob Engel, Paula Kimper, and Nino Sandow Henry's Wife by Randall Eng and Alexis Bernier Independence Eve by Sidney Marquez Boquiren and Daniel Neer Lost Childhood by Janice Hamer and Mary Azrael (STAGED WORKSHOP PREMIERE at Tel Aviv-Yafo Music Center, July 29, 2007) Marymere by Matt Schickele Memoirs of Uliana Rooney by Vivian Fine and Sonya Friedman Mila by Andrea Clearfield, Jean Claude Vanitaille, and Lois Walden Numinous City by Pete M. Wyer and Melissa Salmons Our Basic Nature by John Glover and Kelley Rourke Prairie Dogs by Rachel Peters and Royce Vavrek Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Herschel Garfein Semmelweis by Raymond J. Lustig and Matt Gray Sharon's Grave by Richard Wargo, based on the play be John B. Keane Tesla in New York by Phil Kline and Jim Jarmusch The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Paula M. Kimper The Companion by Robert Paterson and David Cote The Family Room by Thomas Pasatieri and Daphne Malfitano The Golden Gate by Conrad Cummings, based on novel by Vikram Seth The Leopard by Michael Dellaira and J.D.
McClatchy The Summer King by Daniel Sonenberg The Walled-Up Wife by Gilda Lyons The Wanton Sublime, formerly The Woven Child, by Tarik O'Regan and Anna Rabinowitz (NYC PREMIERE at Roulette, Apr 22, 2014) The Weeping Camel by Huang Ruo and Candace Chong Three Way by Robert Paterson and David Cote Ugetsu by Michael Rose and Emily Howard Unruly Horses based on the life and songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, conceived by Mina Yakim and Moni Yakim, with additional book by Peter Kellogg Wolf-in-Skins, formerly The Lost Lais of Albion, by Gregory Spears, choreographed by Christopher Williams
