The 2004-05 Season

• AOP on the Road – July 18, 2004.excerpt from Lost Childhood, music by Janice Hamer, libretto by Mary Azrael, based on the Holocaust memoir by Yehuda Nir. Part of the exhibition Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC. 3 PM

• AOP Conversation – July 22, 2004. Tone Test and Rebirth of a Nation: Nicholas Brooke & Paul D. Miller. Lincoln Center Festival 2004. Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building, at West 65th Street and Amsterdam Ave, 6:00 pm.

• AOP World Premiere– July 22 - 24, 2004. Tone Test, music and libretto by Nicholas Brooke. Directed by David Herskovits. Starring Gregory Purnhagen and Dina Emerson. Lincoln Center Festival 2004. Clark Studio Theater, Rose Building, at West 65th Street and Amsterdam Ave, 8:30 pm.

• AOP on the Road—August 11, 2004. Composers and the Voice goes to The Explorer’s Club’s New York City Headquarters. 46 East 70th Street, 8:30 PM

• AOP Composers and the Voice—Oct.8-9, 2004. 2003-04 Resident Company at South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 8:00 pm. Opening night reception in historic Fort Greene Brownstone.

• AOP First Chance – Nov. 19-20, 2004. A Band of Angels. South Oxford Space 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, Nov. 19: 12:30 pm, 7:30 pm; Wings Theatre 154 Christopher St., NYC Nov. 20: 2:30pm. Commissioned by Making Books Sing.

• AOP on the Road – Dec. 9, 2004. A Musical Reception in Honor of Lee Hoiby. Benefit at private residence of Ms. Georgia Shreve. 6:30pm.

• AOP on the Road – March 6, 2005. American Opera Previews with Midge Woolsey. Opera Index and the National Opera Assoc. present AOP in a semi-staged performance of Dream President by Jennifer Griffith, with AOP baritone Michael Zegarski. Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall. 2:30 pm.

• AOP on the Road – April 17, 2005. Walt Whitman: Brooklyn Poet, Brooklyn Journalist. World premiere, AOP-commission, "Have you reckoned a thousand acres much?" by Jennifer Griffith Produced in conjunction with The Walt Whitman Project. Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. Free Admission. 2:00 p.m.

• AOP First Chance – Apr. 19-20, 2005. Scenes from Darkling, music by Stefan Wiseman and Lee Hoiby, based on the poetry of Anna Rabinowitz, written and directed by Michael Comlish. Scenes from The Bridge of San Luis Rey, music and libretto by Paula M. Kimper, based on the novel by Thornton Wilder. Scenes from The Summer King, music by Daniel Sonenberg, libretto by Daniel Nester. Sharon’s Grave, by Richard Wargo, based on the play by John B. Keane. South Oxford Space 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 8:00 pm.

• AOP First Chance – May 2-3, 2005.Concert reading of Before Night Falls, music by Jorge Martín, libretto by Jorge Martín and Dolores M. Koch. Clark Studio Theatre at Lincoln Center, Rose Building, at West 65th Street and Amsterdam Ave. Part of the Cuban Artists Fund’s Third Annual Cuban Arts Festival. 8pm.

• AOP Conversations - May 18, 2005. Yehuda Nir & Gottfried Wagner: A Dialogue, “Jews and Germans, Germans and Jews: 60 years after the Shoah and the creation of Lost Childhood.” Followed by Q & A moderated by AOP Board member, Harry Trattner. The Jewish Community Center of the Upper West Side, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. 5:15pm

• AOP First Chance – May 18, 2005.Concert reading of Lost Childhood, music by Janice Hamer, libretto by Mary Azrael, based on the Holocaust memoir by Yehuda Nir. The Jewish Community Center of the Upper West Side, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. 7:30pm

• AOP First Chance – May 17 & 19, 2005.Excerpts from Lost Childhood, music by Janice Hamer, libretto by Mary Azrael, based on the Holocaust memoir by Yehuda Nir. The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway and 95 th St. in Manhattan. Part of an evening of new music by On the Edge, a consortium of New York theatre companies. 7:30pm.

• AOP in the Parks – June 18, 2005. Leaves of Grass, an outdoor festival with many Brooklyn-based arts & community organizations as a tribute to the 150 th Anniversary of the publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Actors, poets, singers and instrumentalists will perform in a site-specific environment in Brooklyn first park, Fort Greene Park, and along historic Myrtle Avenue. 11am-11pm.

Before Night Falls

A Band of Angels