The 2008-09 Season

• AOP On the Road – Aug. 3-8, 2008. Heart of Darkness. OperaGenesis in association with AOP and the Royal Opera House presented a fully-staged workshop of Heart of Darkness by Tarik O'Regan and Tom Phillips. Aug. 3-8 - Royal Opera House, London, UK.
  
  
• AOP On the Road – Aug. 14, 2008. Opera on Tap performed new songs based on Whitman poems by composers from American Opera Projects' Composers & the Voice program. The Old Stone House, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP Community Outreach – Aug. 23, 2008. Summer Street. AOP performed new songs based on Whitman poems by composers from American Opera Projects' Composers & the Voice program. In collaboration with the Department of Transportation. Petrosino Square, Manhattan.
  
  
• AOP Community Outreach – Aug. 27, 2008. AOP performed new songs based on Whitman poems by composers from American Opera Projects' Composers & the Voice program before a film screening in the park. In collaboration with Fort Greene Park Conservancy. Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP Community Outreach – Sept. 23, 2008. AOP organized a meeting between Alvin Singleton, composer and students from the High School of the Arts. String players performed "Be Natural" by Alvin Singleton – Brooklyn High School of the Arts – 345 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY at 2:00PM.
  
  
• AOP Composers and the Voice - Oct. 3-4, 2008. Composers & the Voice: Six Scenes at South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 8:00 PM. Presentation of operatic scenes from the 2007-08 Resident Company.
  
  
• AOP Helping Hand – Oct. 5, 2008. Performing the World, AOP performed Kristin Kuster’s The Trickster ant the Troll at South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 5:00PM.
  
  
• AOP On the Road – Oct. 7, 2008. The Fall Pocantico Forum AOP performed new songs based on Whitman poems by composers from American Opera Projects' Composers & the Voice program during the Fall Pocantico Forum - The Coach Barn at Kykuit - 200 Lake Road, Pocantic Hills, NY.
  
  
• AOP On the Road – Oct. 18, 2008. Composers Up Close and Personal, AOP with Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and New Music Collective presented songs by composers from American Opera Projects' Composers & the Voice program. Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall, 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, 8:00PM.
  
  
• AOP Libretto Reading Series – Oct. 24, 2008. Ugetsu, libretto workshop - Music by Michael Rose, Libretto by Emily Howard, Based on the screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda, South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, 8:00 pm.
  
  
• AOP on the Road – Nov. 21, 2008 AOP operas-in-development in collaboration with Glimmerglass Opera presented excerpts of Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness and Ray Lustig’s The Doctor's Ward to opera and theatre director Dr. Jonathan Miller. Dr. Miller reveals his dramaturgical techniques to the public and the composers and librettists. Angel Orensanz Center, Manhattan.
  
  
• AOP First Chance – Nov. 21-22, 2008. Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz. Orensanz Center in Manhattan, Nov.21, 2008 at 8:00PM and South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn at 8:00PM.
  
  
• AOP Holiday Event – Dec. 13, 2008. Students of Lauren Flanigan’s “Creating the Dramatic Character” in a festive selection of popular and rarely-heard operatic arias. South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP WORLD PREMIERE – Jan. 11 &12, 2009. Premiere staging of Arvo Pärt’s 2004 composition L'abbé Agathon, dramatized by visual artist Sophie Calle. Also featuring excerpts of "The Woven Child" from The Wanton Sublime, music by Tarik O’Regan, libretto by Anna Rabinowitz, the first in a series of operatic "monodramas" from The Peter Jay Sharp Solo Project. In partnership with Works & Process at the Guggenheim - Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th St.
  
  
• AOP Creating the Dramatic Character – Jan. 24 and 30, 2009. The Bard Laid Bare with Shakespeare texts, performed by students from Lauren Flanigan classes. South Oxford Space – 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, Jan.24, 2009 at 8:00PM and Shetler Studio - 244 West 54th Street, NYC Jan. 30, 2009, at 8:00PM.
  
  
• AOP Helping Hands – March 1, 2009. It is my song that’s flown, by 8 composers (4 formers students of Composers & the Voice), all song by soprano Alissa Rose. South Oxford Space – Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP on the Road – March 15, 2009. Opera Index and Manhattan School of Music present AOP in a workshop performance of Love/Hate by Jack Perla, directed by Caren France. Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall.
  
  
• AOP on the Road – March 20, 2009. Opera Grows in Brooklyn. AOP in collaboration with Opera on Tap will present first in a series of quarterly presentations of contemporary opera at one of Brooklyn’s most innovative performing venues. Workshop performance of Love/Hate by Jack Perla, directed by Caren France, featuring performances by Manhattan School of Music. Galapagos Art Space - 16 Main Street, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP Community Outreach – April 26, 2009. “Walt Whitman’s Fort Greene Park.” AOP presents songs set to the text of Walt Whitman at historical tour in partnership with The Walt Whitman Project. Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP First Chance – May 8 and 9, 2009. Judgment of Midas, Music by Kamran Ince, libretto by Miriam Siedel. South Oxford Space- 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, May 8 at 8:00PM. Harvard Club of New York City - 35 West 44th St., NYC.
  
  
• AOP First Chance – May 29 and 30, 2009. Workshop performances of scene from Act II of Richard Wargo’s Sharon’s Grave (based on the play by John B. Keane) and Act I of Paul’s Case, music by Gregory Spears, libretto by Spears and Kathryn Walat based on the story by Willa Cather. South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP on the Road – May 31, 2009. Workshop performances of scene from Act II of Richard Wargo’s Sharon’s Grave (based on the play by John B. Keane) and Act I of Paul’s Case, music by Gregory Spears, libretto by Spears and Kathryn Walat based on the story by Willa Cather. McAlpin Recital Hall, Woolworth Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
  
  
• AOP Community Outreach – June 21, 2009. Make Music New York 09. AOP performed songs from Composers & the Voice composers based on the writings of Brooklyn’s own Walt Whitman in between presentations from Opera on Tap, Rhymes With Opera, and music by C&V composers Michael Rose, Jennifer Griffith, and Daniel Felsenfeld. World Premiere of "Songs From the F Train" by Gilda Lyons. Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP Community Outreach – July 12, 2009. “Walt Whitman’s Fort Greene Park.” AOP presents songs set to the text of Walt Whitman at historical tour in partnership with The Walt Whitman Project. Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
  
  
• AOP on the Road – July 17, 2009. Opera Grows in Brooklyn. AOP in collaboration with Opera on Tap present quarterly series of contemporary opera at one of Brooklyn’s most innovative performing venues. Featured presentations: OOT presents “The Witches of Bushwick”, "Songs From the F Train" by Gilda Lyons, music of David T. Little featuring new arias from Dog Days and new orchestration of sweet crude light, NYC premiere of Fade by Stefan Weisman (libretto: David Cote). Galapagos Art Space - 16 Main Street, Brooklyn.

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