Acquanetta
Composer:
MICHAEL GORDON
Librettist:
DEBORAH ARTMAN
Director:
DANIEL FISH
Conductor:
DANIELA CANDILLARI
Adoration
Composer:
MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN
Librettist:
ROYCE VAVREK
Dates & Venues:
January 11-21, 2024 | PROTOTYPE Festival at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
Aging Magician
Co-Created by:
PAOLA PRESTINI, RINDE ECKERT & JULIAN CROUCH
Composer:
PAOLA PRESTINI
Writer & Performer:
RINDE ECKERT
Director & Scenic design:
JULIAN CROUCH
Featuring:
BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS & ATTACCA QUARTET
Dates & Venues:
Angel Island
Composer:
HUANG RUO
Director:
MATTHEW OZAWA
Film:
BILL MORRISON
Dates & Venues:
January 11-13, 2024 | PROTOTYPE Festival at BAM's Harvey Theater
Angel's Bone
Composer:
DU YUN
Librettist:
ROYCE VAVREK
Director:
MICHAEL JOSEPH McQUILKEN
Music Director:
JULIAN WACHNER
Black Lodge
Composer:
DAVID T. LITTLE
Libretto:
ANNE WALDMAN
Story, Screenplay, and Film/Stage direction :
MICHAEL JOSEPH MCQUILKEN
Dates & Venues:
Book of Mountains and Seas
Composer & Librettist:
HUANG RUO
Director & Production Design:
BASIL TWIST
Dates & Venues:
November 3-4, 2023 | New Vision Arts Festival
January 26-28, 2024 | Chicago Opera Theater at Studebaker Theater
April 6-7, 2024 | Stanford Live at Bing Concert Hall
April 10-14, 2024 | Eli and Edythe Broad Stage with LA Opera
April 19-21, 2024 | ArtsEmerson at Emerson Paramount Center
Dog Days
Composer:
DAVID T. LITTLE
Librettist:
ROYCE VAVREK
Director:
ROBERT WOODRUFF
Music Director:
ALAN PIERSON
Ellen West
Composer:
RICKY IAN GORDON
Poetry:
FRANK BIDART
Director:
EMMA GRIFFIN
Music Director:
LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA
In Our Daughter's Eyes
Composer:
DU YUN
Librettist & Director:
MICHAEL JOSEPH MCQUILKEN
Created with and featuring:
NATHAN GUNN
Conductor:
KAMNA GUPTA
Dates & Venues:
Iron & Coal
Composer, Creator & Performer:
JEREMY SCHONFELD
Director:
KEVIN NEWBURY
Music Director & Arrangements:
DAVID BLOOM
Magdalene
Co-creator & Performer:
DANIELLE BIRRITTELLA
Co-creator & Director:
ZOE AJA MOORE
Poetry:
MARIE HOWE
Composers:
LEILA ADU, RUBY KATO ATTWOOD, DANIELLE BIRRITTELLA, SHEENA BIRRITTELLA, CHRISTINA COURTIN, GABRIELLE HERBST, MOLLY JOYCE, EMMA O’HALLORAN, TANNER PORTER, KAMALA SANKARAM, BERGRÚN SNÆBJÖRNSDÓTTIR, ANNIKA SOCOLOFSKY, and GYDA VALTÝSDÓTTIR
Performance of Self
Creator & Composer:
JODIE LANDAU
Director & Designer:
PEABODY SOUTHWELL
Dates & Venues:
March 15-16, 2024 | National Sawdust
PLACE
Co-creators:
TED HEARNE, PATRICIA MCGREGOR & SAUL WILLIAMS
Composer:
TED HEARNE
Text:
SAUL WILLIAMS & TED HEARNE
Director:
PATRICIA MCGREGOR
Dates & Venues:
p r i s m
Composer:
ELLEN REID
Librettist:
ROXIE PERKINS
Director:
JAMES DARRAH
Music director:
JULIAN WACHNER
Soldier Songs, Film Version
Composer & Librettist:
DAVID T. LITTLE
Director:
ASHLEY TATA
Film:
BILL MORRISON
The Great Soviet Bucket
Creator & Performer:
TIMUR
Director & Visual Design:
SANDRA POWERS
Dates & Venues:
February 22-24, 2024 | Miami Light Project at Miami Theater Center
The Hubble Cantata
Composer:
PAOLA PRESTINI
Librettist:
ROYCE VAVREK
Narrator:
MARIO LIVIO
Film:
ELIZA MCNITT
The Old Man and The Sea
Composer:
PAOLA PRESTINI
Librettist:
ROYCE VAVREK
Director:
KARMINA ŠILEC
Music Director:
MILA HENRY
Dates & Venues:
November 4, 2023 | ASU Gammage
February 10, 2024 | Carolina Performing Arts at Memorial Hall
Thumbprint
Composer:
KAMALA SANKARAM
Librettist:
SUSAN YANKOWITZ
Director:
RACHEL DICKSTEIN
Music director:
STEVE OSGOOD
Trade / Mary Motorhead
Composer:
EMMA O’HALLORAN
Librettist:
MARK O’HALLORAN
Director:
TOM CREED
Electronic Sound Design:
ALEX DOWLING
Dates & Venues:
Train with No Midnight
Composer & Performer:
JOSEPH KECKLER
![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)