BYU Opera presents a triple feature of American Ghost Stories!

Enjoy tales of the Old West, the transcontinental railroad, and surprise encounters with the unknown! This opera triple feature will be performed by students from the classical voice division and the BYU Philharmonic.

BYU Opera presents a triple feature of American Ghost Stories!

Enjoy tales of the Old West, the transcontinental railroad, and surprise encounters with the unknown! This opera triple feature will be performed by students from the classical voice division and the BYU Philharmonic.

BYU Opera presents a triple feature of American Ghost Stories!

Enjoy tales of the Old West, the transcontinental railroad, and surprise encounters with the unknown! This opera triple feature will be performed by students from the classical voice division and the BYU Philharmonic.

BYU Opera presents a triple feature of American Ghost Stories!

Enjoy tales of the Old West, the transcontinental railroad, and surprise encounters with the unknown! This opera triple feature will be performed by students from the classical voice division and the BYU Philharmonic.

BYU Opera presents a triple feature of American Ghost Stories!

Enjoy tales of the Old West, the transcontinental railroad, and surprise encounters with the unknown! This opera triple feature will be performed by students from the classical voice division and the BYU Philharmonic.

I had blast talking to fellow composer Jason K. Nitsch on his Composer Chats podcast, which goes live today! Topics include jellyfish, SantaCon, that time I was *not* hired to write a Broadway musical about the former/future PO(TU)S, and much more. Listen for free at the link below or wherever else you get your podcasts.

This presentation was part of the annual 2025 National Opera Association/National Association of Teachers of Singing conference, recently concluded.

Are you an opera educator, performer, or producer interested in the concrete, tangible benefits of producing opera for young people? This session is for you. The YPO committee will share strategies that have yielded proven positive results for their organizations, including educational, artistic, and financial benefits for university programs, opera companies, and other institutional partners like public schools and local library systems. The session will also include brief excerpts from several new operas for young audiences, highlighting their compelling nature across multiple age groups.

Quite improbably, I have a song in this amazing lineup! A story of brotherly love and community among Black men in America told through art song, soul, gospel, and opera, My Brother’s Keeper features a stellar team of Black American male singers, including tenor Joshua Blue, baritone Will Liverman, bass-baritone Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone Alan Williams, baritone Jorell Williams, and tenor Chaz’men Williams-Ali, alongside NYFOS’s own Steven Blier. Conceived and co-artistic directed by long-time NYFOS artist Justin Austin. 

An evening of selections including “Tearing St. Vincent’s Down”.

Like I Care! Tales of a Middle School Scrooge is a musical for young audiences (and performers) by Lisa DeSpain, Sara Wordsworth, and me. Marymount Manhattan College presents a reading of our new material directed by Julie Kramer with musical direction by Scott Ethier. Seating is limited; please email me directly to reserve your spot.

Like I Care! Tales of a Middle School Scrooge is a musical for young audiences (and performers) by Lisa DeSpain, Sara Wordsworth, and me. Marymount Manhattan College presents a reading of our new material directed by Julie Kramer with musical direction by Scott Ethier. Seating is limited; please email me directly to reserve your spot.

Like I Care! Tales of a Middle School Scrooge is a musical for young audiences (and performers) by Lisa DeSpain, Sara Wordsworth, and me. Marymount Manhattan College presents a reading of our new material directed by Julie Kramer with musical direction by Scott Ethier. Seating is limited; please email me directly to reserve your spot.

Like I Care! Tales of a Middle School Scrooge is a musical for young audiences (and performers) by Lisa DeSpain, Sara Wordsworth, and me. Marymount Manhattan College presents a reading of our new material directed by Julie Kramer with musical direction by Scott Ethier. Seating is limited; please email me directly to reserve your spot.

1936 was the first year that all-female teams could compete in the grueling transcontinental Bendix Trophy Air Race. Aviation industry titans Olive Ann and Walter Beech tap crackerjack pilots Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes to win it in their revolutionary new plane.

Staggerwing takes off in Brooklyn and follows Louise and Blanche as they navigate extreme physical risk, sabotage, personal tragedies, and a male-dominated field. The pilots persevere beyond the Los Angeles finish line to shape the future of women in aviation.

Opera Kansas commissioned and premiered the original version of Staggerwing as winner of the company’s 2020 Zepick Modern Opera Competition. Composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Rachel J. Peters developed this new, expanded version at Vanderbilt’s inaugural Opera Lab in 2023 for this year’s regional premiere.

Join us for the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre production of Staggerwing, Thursday, October 3 and Friday, October 4, 8:00 p.m., in Ingram Hall. Link to live performance tickets below. If you cannot see us in person, you can join the livestream here!

1936 was the first year that all-female teams could compete in the grueling transcontinental Bendix Trophy Air Race. Aviation industry titans Olive Ann and Walter Beech tap crackerjack pilots Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes to win it in their revolutionary new plane.

Staggerwing takes off in Brooklyn and follows Louise and Blanche as they navigate extreme physical risk, sabotage, personal tragedies, and a male-dominated field. The pilots persevere beyond the Los Angeles finish line to shape the future of women in aviation.

Opera Kansas commissioned and premiered the original version of Staggerwing as winner of the company’s 2020 Zepick Modern Opera Competition. Composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Rachel J. Peters developed this new, expanded version at Vanderbilt’s inaugural Opera Lab in 2023 for this year’s regional premiere.

Join us for the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre production of Staggerwing, Thursday, October 3 and Friday, October 4, 8:00 p.m., in Ingram Hall. Link to live performance tickets below. If you cannot see us in person, you can join the livestream here!

Welcome to the Madness, a multidisciplinary site-specific opera, presents a robust history of artistic innovation at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. An incubator for performing artists at the 20th century’s vanguard including Julie Harris, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Agnes de Mille, Dustin Hoffman, and many more, Perry-Mansfield became the heart of an American cultural circulatory system. The long-awaited world premiere of this project is finally happening!

Welcome to the Madness, a multidisciplinary site-specific opera, presents a robust history of artistic innovation at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. An incubator for performing artists at the 20th century’s vanguard including Julie Harris, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Agnes de Mille, Dustin Hoffman, and many more, Perry-Mansfield became the heart of an American cultural circulatory system. The long-awaited world premiere of this project is finally happening!

Welcome to the Madness, a multidisciplinary site-specific opera, presents a robust history of artistic innovation at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. An incubator for performing artists at the 20th century’s vanguard including Julie Harris, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Agnes de Mille, Dustin Hoffman, and many more, Perry-Mansfield became the heart of an American cultural circulatory system. The long-awaited world premiere of this project is finally happening!

Welcome to the Madness, a multidisciplinary site-specific opera, presents a robust history of artistic innovation at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. An incubator for performing artists at the 20th century’s vanguard including Julie Harris, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Agnes de Mille, Dustin Hoffman, and many more, Perry-Mansfield became the heart of an American cultural circulatory system. The long-awaited world premiere of this project is finally happening!

Join the Strings Music Festival for two evening concerts to celebrate another summer of Music on the Green, co-presented by the Yampa River Botanic Park. For the festival’s first evening performance, Opera Steamboat will present a preview of the world premiere production of Welcome to the Madness. Free admission.

Join Routt County 4-H and Opera Steamboat for a celebration of local youth's Art of Ranching projects, riding demonstration, and selections from Opera Steamboat’s World Premiere vocal theatre work Welcome to the Madness. This event combines the arts of agriculture and music in an exciting diverse evening of performance. Dagny McKinley, local historian and Welcome to the Madness dramaturg, will lead the panel of local youth whose projects expose the artistry and history of local ranchers, including the hosting venue Carpenter Ranch. The new opera features historical figure Marjorie Perry’s views on the art of riding. Riding exhibitions will demonstrate how Perry-Mansfield’s riding program continues to influence agriculturalists in the Yampa Valley to this day. 

Learn how to make America Marshall's very special peach preserves and enjoy a sneak peek of Welcome to the Madness featuring one of Opera Steamboat's Emerging Artists performing a selection from the show. Join Alyson Citarelli, founder and owner of La Finca Kitchen, in her home for a cooking class on making peach preserves. You will be helping to prepare the preserves that will be featured in the performances of Welcome to the Madness in August.

This class is $50 which covers the costs of the peaches and other materials! RSVP link available soon. Address for private home will be shared with participants.

Jessica Harika, mezzo-soprano

Rhys Burgess, piano

The program includes a set of my cabaret songs, followed by Dominick Argento's From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.

There will be a livestream: https://vimeo.com/event/4207477

An evening exploring new and recent work by composers of The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life’s Jewish Composers' Working Group. Mirroring the working groups’ eclectic discourse over its 6-months of meeting, the music of this concert engages with a broad variety of themes including prayer, place, story-telling, tragedy, and comedy.

Works featured include arias from new and recent operas by Joseph Rubinstein, Daniel Schlosberg, and Rachel J. Peters; works for electronics and violin by Lainie Fefferman and Guy Barash with special guest violinist Cornelius Dufallo; Yiddish and Hebrew art songs by Alex Weiser, Karen Siegel and Jeremiah Lockwood; and presentations from Chaiele (Kaia Berman Peters)’s Kleztronica project and Izzy Gliksberg’s Niggun Project with Meir Briskman.

Mezzo Kate Tombaugh and pianist Alan Johnson perform a recital including a set of my cabaret songs.

Tickets are $20 general admission.

The European premiere of Companionship in a student Musical Theater Directing Workshop production. Due to an outbreak of scabies (!), this performance was moved from the 17th to this date.

The European premiere of Companionship in a student Musical Theater Directing Workshop production.

Mezzo Kate Tombaugh and pianist Alan Johnson perform a recital including a set of my cabaret songs.

Mezzo Kate Tombaugh and pianist Alan Johnson perform a recital including a set of my cabaret songs. Concert is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be accepted.