Anatomy Theater
Composer:
DAVID LANG
Librettist:
MARK DION & DAVID LANG
Binibon
Creator & Composer:
ELLIOT SHARP
Librettist:
JACK WOMACK
Blood Moon
Composer:
GARRETT FISHER
Librettist:
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN
Director:
RACHEL DICKSTEIN
Music Director:
STEVEN OSGOOD
BMP: Next Gen, Cycle 2018-2019
Winner:
EMMA O'HALLORAN
2 Finalist Composers:
EMMA O'HALLORAN & MICHAEL LANCI
10 Semi-Finalist Composers:
JESSIE DOWNS, NOAH KAPLAN, MOLLY JOYCE, MICHAEL LANCI, MATT MCBANE, EMMA O’HALLORAN, GEMMA PEACOCKE, MATTHEW RECIO, DANIEL SABZGHABAEI, & LEAHA MARIA VILLARREA
BMP: Next Gen, Cycle 2, Round 1
featuring:
BMP: NEXT GEN TOP 10 FINALISTS
featuring:
CONTEMPORANEOUS, David Bloom & Kamna Gupta (Co-music Directors)
Body Maps
Concept:
PAOLA PRESTINI & ERIKA HARRSCH
Visuals:
ERIK HARRSCH
Composer:
PAOLA PRESTINI
Breaking The Waves
Composer:
MISSY MAZZOLI
Librettist:
ROYCE VAVREK
Director:
JAMES DARRAH
Conductor:
JULIAN WACHNER
Brooklyn Babylon
Music:
DARCY JAMES ARGUE
Story & Visuals:
DANIJEL ŽEŽELJ
Featuring:
DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY
Brooklyn Village
Composers:
DAVID T. LITTLE, MATT MEHLAN, and SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER
Collapse
Creator:
TIMUR AND THE DIME MUSEUM
Composer & Librettist:
DANIEL CORRAL
Don Imbroglio
Composer:
PETER HILIARD
Librettist:
MATT BORESI
Don Juan in Prague
Director & Adaptation:
DAVID CHAMBERS from Mozart and Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni
Conductor:
PETR KOFROŇ
The Echo Drift
Composer:
MIKAEL KARLSSON
Librettists:
ELLE KUNNOS DE VOSS and KATHRYN WALAT
Director:
MALLORY CATLETT
Elsewhere
Composers:
EVE BEGLARIAN, MICHAEL GORDON & MISSY MAZZOLI
Co-creator:
MAYA BEISER
Co-creator & Director:
ROBERT WOODRUFF
Gardner Museum Series
Going Down Swingin'
Composer:
PETER HILLIARD
Librettist:
MATT BORESI
Hell-The Opera
Composer:
MICHAEL WEBSTER
Text:
EILEEN MYLES
Kansas City Choir Boy
Composer & Librettist:
TODD ALMOND
Director:
KEVIN NEWBURY
Katrina Ballads
Composer and Librettist:
TED HEARNE
Kocho
Composer & Librettist:
GARRETT FISHER
Labrynth
Creator & Composer:
PAOLA PRESTINI
Laude in Urbis
Creator & Director:
KARIN COONROD
Life: A Journey Through Time
Composer:
PHILIP GLASS
Concepts & images:
FRANS LANTING
Love Fail
Composer & Director:
DAVID LANG
Stories by:
LYDIA DAVIS
Ouroborous Trilogy
Co-creators:
CERISE LIM JACOBS & CHARLES M. JACOBS
Composers:
SCOTT WHEELER and PAOLA PRESTINI
Librettist:
CERISE LIM JACOBS
Persona
Composer:
KEERIL MAKAN
Librettist & Director:
JAY SCHEIB
pssst...#1 The Boot
WRITER & DIRECTOR:
ASHLEY TATA
FEATURING:
LAUREN WORSHAM, ISAIAH ROBINSON, JOSEPH KECKLER, SOL AND THE TRIBU & THE HOGSTAD BROTHERS
pssst...#2 Nearness Offering
Director & Designer:
PEABODY SOUTHWELL
Featuring:
JASMINE ALBUQUERQUE, COREY BECKER, CARMINA ESCOBARE, HALIM A. FLOWERS, JODIE LANDAU, ERNIE DE SILVA, EMEKA SIMMONS & MIA DOI TODD
The Scarlet Ibis
Composer:
STEFAN WEISMAN
Librettist:
DAVID COTE
Song from the Uproar
Composer:
MISSY MAZZOLI
Librettist:
ROYCE VAVREK
Sound From the Bench
Composer:
TED HEARNE
Based on text by:
JENA OSMAN
The Source
Composer:
TED HEARNE
Text:
MARK DOTEN
Director:
DANIEL FISH
Sumeida's Song
Composer:
MOHAMMED FAIROUZ
Director:
DAVID HERSKOVITZ
Music Director:
STEVEN OSGOOD
Tell the Way
Composer:
NICO MUHLY for the BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS
The Elements of Style
Composer:
NICO MUHLY
Text:
WILLIAM STRUNK Jr. & E. B. WHITE
The Sleeping Beauty
Director:
YANA ROSS
Playwright:
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
Thumbprint
Composer:
KAMALA SANKARAM
Librettist:
SUSAN YANKOWITZ
Director:
RACHEL DICKSTEIN
Music director:
STEVE OSGOOD
Train with No Midnight
Composer & Performer:
JOSEPH KECKLER
Dates & Venues:
Visitations
Composer:
JONATHAN BERGER
Librettist:
DAN O’BRIEN
![The West Coast premiere of TRADE/MARY MOTORHEAD marked another successful addition to the rich legacy of collaborative efforts between Beth Morrison Projects and LA Opera (@laopera)! We're looking back at some of our favorite productions over the years to celebrate!
DOG DAYS - DOG DAYS marked the first production of the whirlwind partnership in 2015. Hailed by the New York Times as a riveting, soon-to-be “groundbreaking American classic,” the post-apocalyptic tragedy made waves at its LAO presentation and put BMP on the West Coast map.
P R I S M - P R I S M marked another milestone in our joint history. Not only did Ellen Reid’s (@ellenreidmusic) debut opera make its world premiere with LA Opera at REDCAT (@calartsredcat), but this collaborative project would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2019. It was a major development for BMP, LAO, and, of course, Ellen Reid, who “[took] her place among the host of promising young American opera composers” (The Financial Times).
ANGEL'S BONE - Another Pulitzer Prize-winning BMP production, ANGEL'S BONE, was planned as part of the 2020 season. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the presentation pivoted, becoming the first in our history to be presented digitally. The show was streamed by 20,000 people, demonstrating the strength and resilience of our bond with LAO.
TRADE/MARY MOTORHEAD - Finally, Emma O’Halloran’s (@emmamohalloran) TRADE/Mary Motorhead made its West Coast premiere last month at REDCAT. We're thrilled to celebrate another year of BMP and LAO sharing boundary-pushing, cutting-edge opera with this incredible production starring Naomi Louisa O’Connell (@naomi_louisa_oconnell), Marc Kudisch (@marckudisch), and Kyle Bielfield (@bielfield)!](https://bethmorrisonprojects.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)