One of the major projects for our summer in Aspen (where Frances is a composition fellow) is to work…
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Frances Pollock and Tia Price’s “Stinney: An American Execution” is a profound and moving opera that I am so…
As always, it was a pleasure to collaborate with the incomparable, Sky Macklay, on a short opera–the second in…
This spring, at Opera on Tap’s “Her Kind” Cabaret and at American Opera Projects’ “First Glimpse” concert, Frances Pollock…
As our graduate thesis, Mike von der Nahmer and I wrote a first draft of a musical/opera based on…
Jennifer Goode Cooper performed “Only Job,” an aria from the opera, Transference, (libretto by Emily Roller and Frances Pollock,…
“Lifeboat,” a one-act opera with Matthew Peterson produced by Washington National Opera, received a nice mention in both the…
Matthew and I received a commission to write this piece last winter, and we had a draft done by…
Why We Bleed Composer – Sky Macklay Librettist – Emily Roller Synopsis: “Why We Bleed” is a dramatic exploration…
In grad school, composer Jonathan Fadner and I teamed up to turn one of my old short stories…