Opera Libretti & Choral Lyrics
Lullaby for Vaska (2022)
- Based on family story from Siege of Leningrad
- Newly relevant to refugee crisis in war in Ukraine
- Collaboration with composer Joseph Turrin
Magdalene Cantos (2019)
- Based on the Lost Children of Tuam in Ireland
- Remains of 800 infants and children found in 2017 on grounds of Magdalene Laundry (home for unwed mothers run by Catholic Church)
- Chamber choral piece featuring voices of children and mothers
- Collaboration with composer Kelly Krebs
Images from “The Lost Children of Tuam” by Dan Barry (New York Times)
Man with Blue Guitar (2019)
- Chamber opera adaptation of playscript for Man with Blue Guitar
- Dreamy, lyrical piece based on life, letters, journals, and poems of Wallace Stevens
- Rights obtained from Stevens family and Random House
- Seeking composer collaborator
- See Man with Blue Guitar on Plays page
Dynamite Bob (2018)
- Adaptation of play Grace
- More about “Dynamite Bob” Robert Edward Chambliss (Wikipedia link)
- See SYNOPSIS
- Seeking composer collaborator
Masterson (2017)
- An aging financial tycoon is haunted by demons from his past that suggest a family curse
- Loosely based on scandals surrounding the Caspersen family in 2008 and 2016
- Like father, like son? Caspsersen family’s double downfalls (CNBC link)
- The Wall Street Golden Boy Who Allegedly Fleeced His Friends and Family (Vanity Fair link)
- See SYNOPSIS
- Seeking composer collaborator
Under the Volcano (2015)
- Based on the classic Malcolm Lowry novel of 1940
- The last day in the life of a brilliant alcoholic in a small town in Mexico; he struggles with PTSD from World War I as his personal life collapses.
- See SYNOPSIS
- Seeking composer collaborator
- Need rights controlled by Sterling Lord Literistic