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Gradual and insidious, auditory hallucinations warp minds with “loud thoughts”, deceiving, deranging, and forcing sufferers into a world of crippling paranoia. Visitations, the double bill of one-act chamber operas by composer/researcher Jonathan Berger and librettist Dan O’Brien unravels the phenomenon.

In Theotokia, penetrate the consciousness of a man who, assailed by hallucinatory voices, is taunted and seduced by the mother of God.

Uncover the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning combat journalist Paul Watson in The War Reporter, where he seeks to stifle the haunting voice of an American soldier whose corpse he photographed in the streets of Mogadishu.

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Commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-produced by Stanford Live and Beth Morrison Projects. World premiere production at Stanford Live in 2013, NYC premiere at the PROTOTYPE Festival in 2014.