The 2006-07 Season

• AOP Conversations —Sept. 23, 2006. AOP² : Introducing Opera at South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 5:00 pm. First presentation of AOP’s new opera discussion series. Wine reception co-hosted by The Greene Grape.

• AOP Composers and the Voice —Sept. 22-23, 2006. Six Scenes at South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 7:30 pm. Presentation of operatic scenes from the 2005-06 Resident Company.

• AOP Libretto Reading Series – Oct. 23, 2006. La Boheme (including Act IV, the Missing Act), South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 7:00 pm.

• AOP First Chance – Nov. 3-4, 2006. Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness (based on the novella by Joseph Conrad, libretto by Tom Phillips). South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY and Institute for Advanced Study, Wolfensohn Hall, Princeton, NJ. 8 pm. Concert workshop and libretto reading.

• AOP on the Road – Dec. 4, 2006. The Thief of Love, opera film directed by John Feldman, music by Sheila Silver. Makor/Steinhardt Center, 35 W 67th Street, 7:30 pm. Premiere Screening and DVD Release Party.

• AOP on the Road – Feb. 21, 2007. Poetry Society of America presents W. H. Auden Centennial Celebration. Musical interludes presented by American Opera Projects with readings by poets John Ashbery, Adam Gopnick, Saskia Hamilton, Nick Jenkins, Glyn Maxwell, and Wayne Koestenbaum. Music performed by Michael Zegarski. Thursday, October 27th 7:00 P.M. Co-sponsored by Cooper Union Office of Continuing Education & Public Programs. The Great Hall, Cooper Union. 7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue, NYC. 7pm.

• AOP on the Road - March 9, 2007. The Summer King by Daniel Sonenberg. Excerpts in concert from this opera-in-progress in association with the Univ. of Southern Maine School of Music Corthell Concert Hall - The University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

• AOP on the Road - March 18, 2007. American Opera Previews with Midge Woolsey. Opera Index and the National Opera Assoc. present AOP in a semi-staged performance of The Golden Gate by Conrad Cummings and The Summer King by Daniel Sonenberg. Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall. 2:30 pm.

• AOP on the Road – March 25, 2007. Reception and benefit concert for The International Vocal Arts Institute and Israel Vocal Arts Institute honoring artists Deborah Voigt. Musical excerpts from Lost Childhood presented by AOP. The Harmonie Club, 4 East 60th St. NYC.

• AOP First Chance - March 30-31, 2007. Concert reading of scenes from The Summer King by Daniel Sonenberg and The Walled-Up Wife by Gilda Lyons. South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 8:00 pm.

• AOP Composers and the Voice— May 11-12, 2007. First Glimpse 2007: Presentation of works from the 2006-07 Resident Company. May 11 - South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 8 pm; May 12 – Helen’s Hideaway, Manhattan. 10pm

• AOP on the Road – May 12, 2007. NYCOpera presents VOX & Friends featuring premiere of concert version of Darkling (music by Stefan Weisman and Lee Hoiby, text: Darkling: A Poem by Anna Rabinowitz, adapted and directed by Michael Comlish) presented by American Opera Projects. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place, NYC, 8 pm.

• AOP on the Road – May 19, 2007. Wall to Wall Opera featuring an orchestral reading of scenes from Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness (based on the novella by Joseph Conrad, libretto by Tom Phillips) presented by American Opera Projects. Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway – NYC

• AOP WORLD PREMIERE – May 20-21, 2007. Romulus, an opera in one act by Louis Karchin, based on the play by Alexandre Dumas, perè, translated into English by Barnett Shaw. Part of Works & Process at the Guggenheim development series. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th St. 7:30 pm.

• AOP on the Road – June 9, 2007. Touring version of Darkling (music by Stefan Weisman and Lee Hoiby, text: Darkling: A Poem by Anna Rabinowitz, adapted and directed by Michael Comlish) presented by American Opera Projects in association with Friends of Freie Universität Berlin. Max Kade Auditorium, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

• AOP on the Road – June 11, 2007. Touring version of Darkling (music by Stefan Weisman and Lee Hoiby, text: Darkling: A Poem by Anna Rabinowitz, adapted and directed by Michael Comlish). Gniezno Teatr, Gniezno, Poland.

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