Elizabeth – Last Friday we hopped on the afternoon Acela to DC to check out Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative present three new 20 minute operas at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Now in its third year, the goal of the program is to train librettists and composers and prepare them… [Read More]
Man and Woman Meld Musically: The Premiere of As One at BAM
In BAM’s Fisher Space the moving new opera As One had its world premiere. Composed by Laura Kaminsky with Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed as co-librettists, As One tells the story of transgender Hannah from her childhood up through adulthood when she transitions to living as a woman. I entered the Fisher Space with… [Read More]
