Family Opera Initiative

Past and present collaborators on their productions include Billy Aronson, George Plimpton, Kitty Brazelton, Rusty Magee, Franco Colavecchia, Richard Peaslee, and Eugenio Carmi.

Flurry Tale is a one-act opera-musical composed by Rusty Magee[3] to a libretto by Billy Aronson and was originated, developed and directed by Grethe Barrett Holby.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight had its stage premiere in New York City in October 2001, presented by American Opera Projects and TADA!

Fireworks premiered in an outdoor performance in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn on July 2, 2002, produced by American Opera Projects.

A comic "opera-musical", it was composed by Kitty Brazelton to a libretto by Billy Aronson,[7] originated and directed by Grethe Barrett Holby.

The work is cast for a chorus and six solo voices:[8] The story involves a benevolent alien (Intergalactic Toqueville) who travels to Earth to find out why humans shoot "colored lights" into the sky at the same time each year.

Animal Tales is a full length musical-opera in two acts composed by Kitty Brazelton to a libretto by George Plimpton,[9] originated and directed Grethe Barrett Holby.

The animals include a break dancing turtle, a horse who wants to be a 'rider', a dog who wants to howl like a wolf, and a goldfish who wants to swim in the Sea of Japan.

Conceived by its director, Grethe Barrett Holby, as a space opera, The Three Astronauts is based on the children's picture book of the same name written by Umberto Eco and illustrated by Eugenio Carmi.

[10] The work is envisaged as an integration of orchestral passages, children's chorus, sung and spoken text, movement, and visual theater.