NO EXIT by Andy Vores

June 9, 2023 @ Bread and Salt Gallery as produced by Project [BLANK]

Chamber opera adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre’s existentialist play in one act. Three strangers are ushered into a room, only to realize that they are destined to spend the rest of their miserable eternity confined together in close quarters. In this aria, Inez has finally begun to accept that life on earth is moving on without her.

Paradise TBD by Clinton McCallum

May 28, 2022 @ Bread and Salt Gallery as produced by Project [BLANK]

Chamber opera for five singers and electronics. In this aria, the character Nowhere guides Samuel Salvage back to the raft with the others with her siren song.

HARAWI: chant d'amour et de mort Mvmt VI. Répétition planétaire by Olivier Messiaen

May 30th, 2021 at The Front Arte Cultura Gallery in San Ysidro, CA.

with Brendan Nguyen, pianist and Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, Video Artist

HANJO (2004), scene IV Music and libretto by Toshio Hosokawa

Presented by Project [BLANK] and Twisted Heart Puppetworks San Diego, CA, October 3rd, 2020

This film was produced for Catapult Opera’s ACCELERATE competition. In accordance with the competition’s instructions to maintain best social distancing practices, all musical and visual components were developed by each artist in their own home, recorded individually, and assembled to create the final product.

with Jonathan Nussman, baritone | Brendan Nguyen, piano and arrangement | Tania Yager, design and puppetry | Joe Cantrell, audio engineering, mixing, and video editing

"Wie Lange Noch?" by Kurt Weill

September 25, 2021 at St James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California.

with Bryan Verhoye, pianist

Manoalchadia by Chaya Czernowin

February 16, 2019 with wasteLAnd at ArtShare-LA

with Stephanie Aston, soprano and Rachel Beetz, flute