Tapestry presents workshop performances of the 2nd act of my opera in development, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. June 11 & 12, 2012 From the Tapestry website: “Sung in Ukrainian, Russian and English, this opera vérité with prologue…
Tapestry presents workshop performances of the 2nd act of my opera in development, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. June 11 & 12, 2012 From the Tapestry website: “Sung in Ukrainian, Russian and English, this opera vérité with prologue…
Tapestry presents workshop performances of the 2nd act of my opera in development, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. June 11 & 12, 2012 From the Tapestry website: “Sung in Ukrainian, Russian and English, this opera vérité with prologue…
Tapestry and the Women for Oksana G. network are presenting an excerpt from my opera in development, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G., at this annual conference sponsored by the Alliance Against Modern Slavery.
Like most composers, I absorbed certain widely accepted musical axioms from my university studies, but they’ve never been entirely satisfying. As a consequence, I constantly search for better explanations, in the process hopefully becoming a better artist. One of the…
March 9 and 10, 2011 From the Tapestry website: “Sung in Ukranian, Russian and English, this opera vérité with prologue and epilogue uses non-operatic music from various cultures to enhance the composed score and drama. The tragic ménage à trois…
This is a reprint of the first edition of my e-mail newsletter. For some time I’ve had a newsletter signup form on my website but this is the first time I’m actually sending a newsletter out! I plan on doing…
Workshop of the opera I am developing, Oksana G., at the Banff Centre, in collaboration with Colleen Murphy, Tapestry New Opera, and Opera.ca.
A long-term project of mine is moving forward this year. Tapestry New Opera applied for and received funding from Opera.ca to produce the first act of the opera I have been developing with librettist, Colleen Murphy. We’ll be involved in…
This festival of libretto readings features the new short works for next year’s Opera to Go, as well as excerpts of text and music from Netsuke (by librettist Jill Battson & composer Rose Bolton) and The Enslavement and Liberation of…
From March 1–18, five one-act operas, including a work by Colleen Murphy and myself.