2000-01 Season
• New Productions of AOP Operas —August 6-September 3, 2000. Patience & Sarah, music by Paula Kimper, libretto by Wende Persons. Chicago, IL. Bailiwick Repertory Theatre. “Pride Series,” The Bailiwick Arts Center, 1229 West Belmont, Chicago, IL.
• Premiere – November 1-6, 2000. Heinrich Heine: Doppelgänger. A musical journey through the life of the celebrated German poet. Directed by Gabriele Jakobi. Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, 172 Norfolk Street.
• On the Road—May 10, 2001. Orchestral reading of Lost Childhood, music by Janice Hamer, libretto by Mary Azrael, based on the Holocaust memoir by Yehuda Nir. Co-production with New York City Opera. West Park Presbyterian Church, 86th and Amsterdam Ave. Panel discussion with Gottfried Wagner 11:30 am. Open rehearsal with orchestra and singers.1:30 pm. Concert reading with orchestra and singers 4:00 pm.
1999-2000 Season
• On the Road — October 5, 1999, 7:00 pm. German Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany, The German House Auditorium. Preview of the Heinrich Heine Festival 2000. Peter Kazaras (Tenor), Andreas Niedermeier (Heine), Brian Zeger (Pianist). Directed by Gabriele Jakobi.
• Premiere – December 18-20,1999. Lincoln Center Clark Studio Theater, 70 Lincoln Center (Rose Building).Concert Performance with Orchestra of Family Opera Initiative-commissioned opera Flurry Tale, music by Rusty Magee, libretto by Billy Aronson , with newly-commissioned orchestrations by John Rinehimer.
• New Productions of Operas—June, 2000 Patience & Sarah, music by Paula Kimper, libretto by Wende Persons. Denver, CO.
• On the Road – July 21, 2000. The Cat Lover (from Scenes from American Life), music by Roberto Pace, libretto by Ann T. Greene. Excerpts with The Bard College Conductor's Institute Orchestra and Yvette Vanterpool, soprano, conducted by the composer, as well as by 3 other conductors. Olin Hall, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1:00 p.m.
1998-99 Season
• On the Road — May 2, 1999, 8:30 pm. A Concert of new compositions by Georgia Shreve, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 145 West 57th Street, New York. Singers, and chamber orchestra.
1996-97 Season
• Premiere — August 1, 1996, at 6 pm. World premiere of chamber opera Memoirs of Uliana Rooney, music by Vivian Fine, libretto and film by Sonya Friedman. This one-act multi-media chamber opera dramatizes the life of an American woman composer as she collides with political events and social movements in the United States over the past 8 decades. This production, presented free to the public, is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Opera Musical Theatre Program, Christian Dior Summer of Dolce Vita perfume campaign, Bryant Park New Work New York, fundraising benefits, and private donors. February 28, 1997, March 1, 1997. Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. The new music ensemble Relâche, played accompaniment. The second night was a benefit for the Breast Health Institute of Philadelphia.
1997-98 Season
• Premiere —July 29, 1997- August 9, 1997. World premiere run of Cigarettes and Chocolate, play with music by Anthony Minghella, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation Center at 172 Norfolk Street (E. Houston Street and Avenue A). Directed by Gabriele Jakobi. AOP’s First European Tour — September, 1997. AOP production of Cigarettes and Chocolate, was performed from September 4-8, 1997, in Berlin, Germany, at the Stükke Theater, and from September 11-20, 1997, in Vienna, Austria, at the Ensemble Theater am Petersplatz. April 6, 1998. Trinity Church Concerts at St. Paul’s Chapel, Fulton Street at Broadway. Noonday concert presenting excerpts of Cigarettes and Chocolate.
• On the Road — May 3, 1998. Patience & Sarah, music by Paula Kimper, libretto by Wende Persons. First full reading in concert, with a 14-piece orchestra and full cast. Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Northampton, Mass. Music Hall, 7 pm.
• Premiere — July 8,10 &11, 1998. World premiere of Patience & Sarah, music by Paula Kimper, libretto by Wende Persons, presented at the Lincoln Center Festival, 1998, in this festival’s third season. Co-production with American Opera Projects.
• Premiere — July 22, 24 & 25, 1998. World premiere of Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum, music adapted by composers/performers, Eve Beglarian, Lisa Bielawa, Kitty Brazelton, and Elaine Kaplinsky, after the twelfth-century visionary and abbess Hildegard von Bingen, at the Lincoln Center Festival, 1998.
• Gala — July 27, 1998. Fund raiser for general operating support, featuring the poems of the German romantic Heinrich Heine, set to music by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and others. At the Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts.
