WPA News Digest – September 30, 2024

WPA News Digest – September 30, 2024

by | Sep 30, 2024

Exciting News!! Composer Jeanine Tesori has become the first woman composer to open a season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141 years of operation. Her opera Grounded was given a gala premiere, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo on September 23,as announced in...

Laura Kaminsky at American Opera Projects

by | Aug 25, 2014

Laura Kaminsky will be taking over the position of Composer In Residence at American Opera Projects.  The company, based in Brooklyn, NY, states its mission as: to identify, develop and present new and innovative works of music theater by emerging and established...

Women’s Work Concert Series in NYC

by | Mar 22, 2009

Allan Kozinn, from The New York Times, recently reviewed a concert performed in conjunction with the sixth annual Women’s Work concert series presented at the Greenwich House Music School. The March 18th concert featured piano music performed by Jenny Lin, who chose...