Opera ParallèlePast Productions
2022/2023Season
Composer: Joby Talbot
Librettist: Gene Scheer
Everest: An Immersive Experience
Composer: Paul Moravec
Librettist: Mark Campbell
The Shining
Featuring Katherine Goforth, Ahya Simone, and Nikola Printz with host Afrika America.
Expansive 2023
The Bullhorn
2021/2022Season
Composer: Marcus Shelby
Librettist: Roma Olvera
Harriet’s Spirit
Hands-on-Opera
Composer: Lembit Beecher
Librettist: Hannah Moscovitc
Sophia’s Forest
Composer: Philip Glass
Librettist: Philip Glass
Based on the film by Jean Cocteau
La Belle et la Bête
Featuring Breanna Sinclairé, Rahzé Cheatham & Reuben Zellman with host Afrika America.
Expansive 2022
The Bullhorn
2019/2020/2021
Composer: Lee Hoiby
Librettist: Julia Child and Mark Shulgasser
Bon Appetit!
Bill and Flicka: Generous Spirits
Composer: Joby Talbot
Librettist: Gene Scheer
Everest: A Graphic Novel Opera
2018/2019Season
Composer: Philip Glass
Librettist: Rudolph Wurlitzer
Based on a story by Franz Kafka
In the Penal Colony
Composer: Rachel Portman
Librettist: Nicholas Wright
Based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
Composer: Laura Kaminsky
Librettist: Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed
Today It Rains
Composer: Chris Pratorius Gómez
Librettist: Roma Olvera
Based on the book by Jorge Argueta
Xochitl & the Flowers
Hands-on-Opera
2017/2018Season
Composer: Rachel Portman
Librettist: Nicholas Wright
Based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
Composer: Marcus Shelby
Librettist: Roma Olvera
Harriet’s Spirit
Hands-on-Opera
Trouble in Tahiti - Composer & Librettist: Leonard Bernstein
At the Statue of Venus
Composer: Jake Heggie
Librettist: Terrence McNally
One Story Two Operas: Trouble in Tahiti/At the Statue of Venus
2016/2017Season
Composer: Jonathan Dove
Librettist: April De Angelis
Flight
Composer: Chris Pratorius Gómez
Librettist: Roma Olvera
Based on the book by Jorge Argueta
Xochitl & the Flowers
Hands-on-Opera
Composer: Philip Glass
Based on the novel by Jean Cocteau
Les Enfants Terribles
2015/2016Season
Composer and Librettist: Peter Maxwell Davies
The Lighthouse
Composer: Terrence Blanchard
Librettist: Michael Cristofer
Champion: An Opera in Jazz
Composer: Chris Pratorius Gómez
Librettist: Brian Staufenbiel and Roma Olvera
Amazing Grace
Hands-on-Opera
2014/2015Season
Composer: Tarik O’Regan
Librettist: Tom Phillips
Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Composer: Jake Heggie
Librettist: Terrence McNally
Dead Man Walking
Composer: Chris Pratorius Gómez
Librettist: Nicole Paiement
Based on the children’s book by Catherine Friend
My Head is Full of Colors
Hands-on-Opera
2013/2014Season
Composer: Adam Gorb
Librettist: Ben Kaye
Anya17
Mahagonny Songspiel - Composer: Kurt Weill; Librettist: Bertolt Brecht
Les mamelles des Tirésias - Composer: Francis Poulenc, based on the play by Guillaume Apollinaire
Mahagonny Songspiel & Les mamelles de Tirésias
Composer and Librettist: Peter Maxwell Davies
The Spiders’ Revenge
Hands-on-Opera
2013Season
Composer: Dante De Silva
Libretto: Mitchell Morris
Gesualdo – Prince of Madness
Composer: Osvaldo Golijov
Librettist: David Henry Hwang
Ainadamar – Fountain of Tears
Composer & Librettist: Leonard Bernstein
Trouble in Tahiti
2012Season
Composer: John Harbison; Chamber Orchestration Composer: Jacques Desjardins
Librettist: John Harbison
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
Composer: Virgil Thomson and Luciano Chessa
Librettist: Gertrude Stein
Four Saints in Three Acts
2011Season
Composer and Librettist: Philip Glass
Based on Jean Cocteau’s 1949 film Orphée
Orphée
2010Inaugural Season
Composer and Librettist: Alban Berg Chamber Orchestration Composer: John Rea
Based on playwright Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck
Wozzeck
2007Original Production as Ensemble Parallèle
Composer: Lou Harrison
Chamber Orchestration Composer: John Rea
Librettist: Robert Gordon
Young Caesar
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