April 10, 2016, at 6:00 pm
American Opera Center, N.Y.
Music Director, Jacob Ashworth
Stage Director, Louisa Proske
Semi-staged reading of
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April 24, 2016 at 2:00 pm
University of British Columbia
Ben Serna-Grey, oboe
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August, 2016
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
World premier of new orchestration of
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February 2 – 20, 2015
Opera Kansas
Adams Elementary School
Cleaveland Traditional Magnet
College hill
L’ouverture Elementary
Marshall Elementary
McLean Elementary
Riverside Elementary
Derby 6th grade Center
Blessed Sacrament
Wichita, Kansas
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January 10 & 11, 2015
Tulsa Opera
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Stanley M. Garner, stage director
Aaron Beck, music director
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July 19, 2014 at 1:30 and 5:00 pm
Baltimore Lyric Opera
MICA Brown Center
Baltimore, Maryland
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March 14, 2014
Young at Arts
Christ Church
Bronxville, NY
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January 31, 2014 at 8 pm
Sprague Hall
Yale School of Music
New Haven, Ct.
Hermestänze (world premier)
a song cycle for violin and piano
Jacob Ashworth, violin
Lee Dionne, piano
commissioned by Jacob Ashworth
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December 15, 2013 at 10 pm
Dwight Chapel
Yale University
New Haven, CT.
Jessica Petrus, soprano
Jacob Ashworth, violin
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November 2, 2013 at 8 pm
Center for Contemporary Opera produces
The News from Poems
First 2 acts (of 4 acts)
Staged reading at
The Cell Theater
338 west 23rd street
New York, N.Y.
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August 8, 2013 at 19:00
CESSAC
Xalapa, Vera Cruz
Mexico
Two Hornéd Demons
Jacob Ashworth, violin
Francisco Ladron de Guevara, viola
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August 11, 2013 at 12:00
Museo Nacional del Arte (MUNAL)
Mexico City, Mexico
Two Hornéd Demons
Jacob Ashworth, violin
Francisco Ladron de Guevara, viola
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September 16, 17, 2013
Utahloy International School
Guangzhou, China
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March 22, 2013
Scarsdale Congregational Church Chamber Music Series
Scarsdale, N.Y.
A Garden’s Time Piece
Jessica Petrus, soprano
Jacob Ashworth, violin
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Friday, February 8, 2013 at 7:30 AM
Amarillo Opera
She Never Lost a Passenger
an opera in one act
She Never Lost a Passenger: the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (1996)
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Friday, January 18, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
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May 4, 2012
Peabody Conservatory
Baltimore, MD.
A Garden’s Time Piece
Danielle Buonaiuto, soprano
Lauren Rausch, violin
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST
Streaming Video Webcast
OperaMusicBroadcast.com presents a streaming webcast of Susan Kander’s opera
The Giver
as performed by Project Opera, Minnesota Opera’s vocal training program for students ages 10-18, at the Minnesota Opera Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 29, 2012
You will find the broadcast here:
OperaMusicBroadcast.com
The Giver (2011)
Chamber opera in one act
Based on the novel by Lois Lowry
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Friday, May 18, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST
Streaming Video Webcast
OperaMusicBroadcast.com presents a streaming webcast of Susan Kander’s opera
The Giver
as performed by Project Opera, Minnesota Opera’s vocal training program for students ages 10-18, at the Minnesota Opera Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 29, 2012
You will find the broadcast here:
OperaMusicBroadcast.com
The Giver (2011)
Chamber opera in one act
Based on the novel by Lois Lowry
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January & April 2012
January 12-14, 2012
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
April 27-29, 2012
Minnesota Opera
The Giver (2011)
Chamber opera in one act
Based on the novel by Lois Lowry
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April 27-29, 2012
The Giver
Minnesota Opera
Minneapolis, MN.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Joshua’s Boots
Amarillo Opera
Amarillo, TX.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 2:00 PM
The Giver
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo.
World Premier
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Wednesday, November 16 – Saturday, November 19, 2011
St. Louis, MO
Opera Theater of St. Louis
An opera about a young black cowboy in the old west
Joshua’s Boots (1999)
Libretto by Susan Kander, Music by Adolphus Hailstork
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Friday, September 9, 2011
St. Louis, MO
The Columbia FoundationChristine Johnson, violin
Marc Thayer, violin
A Garden’s Time Piece: Poems by Leslie Laskey (2011)
For soprano and violin
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Recital
International Double Reed Society Annual Conference
Tempe, Arizona
Christin Schillinger, bassoon
The Lunch Counter (2008)
a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon
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Friday, April 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM
Recital
University of Texas, Austin
The Lunch Counter (2008)
a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Recital
University of North Texas
The Lunch Counter (2008)
a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Recital
University of Texas, Arlington
The Lunch Counter (2008)
a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon
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Monday, March 28, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Recital
University of Houston
The Lunch Counter (2008)
a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon
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Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Recital
Miami University, Ohio
The Lunch Counter (2008)
a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Fargo, ND
Fargo-Moorhead Opera Company
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Lawrence, KS
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
Lawrence Arts Center
Lawrence, KS
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
London, England
Michele Fiala, oboe
William Averill, piano
Postcards from America (2009)
for oboe and piano
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
London, England
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June 4, 5 & 6, 2010
Chapel Hill, NC
Long Leaf Opera Company
Carolina Women’s Center
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
Elizabeth Kenan Theater
Chapel Hill, NC
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Kansas City, MO
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
Notre Dame de Sion School
Kansas City, MO
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Kansas City, MO
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
Kansas City Academy
Kansas City, MO
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Pittsburgh, PA
World Premiere
The Lunch Counter (2008)
a musical play in seven movements for solo bassoon
The Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Kansas City, MO
Summerfest Concerts
Two Hornéd Demons (2003)
Trinity Lutheran Church
Kansas City, MO
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Plains, VA
Kennedy String Quartet
The Donkey, the Goat and the Little Dog (2006)
for string quartet and narrator
Grace Episcopal Church
The Plains, VA
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Athens, OH
Fiala/Speer Duo
American Premiere
Postcards from America (2009)
for oboe and piano
Ohio University Conservatory of Music
Athens, OH
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Kansas City, MO
Bach Aria Soloists
Hauskonzert
Partite Américaine (2003)
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Paris, France
Michele Fiala, oboe
Donald Speer, piano
Postcards from America (2009)
for oboe and piano
Emanuel International Church
Paris, France
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Birmingham, U.K.
International Double Reed Society
Annual Convention
Michele Fiala, oboe
Donald Speer, piano
World Premiere
Postcards from America (2009)
for oboe and piano
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Washington, DC
World Premiere
Miranda’s Waltz (2009)
music by Susan Kander
Story by May Hall Surface
“a symphonic adventure”
Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
New York, NY
Fevertime (2000)
for children’s chorus, celeste and percussion
text by Susan Kander
music by Anthony Piccolo
on the promenade of the David H. Koch theater
(formerly the State Theater)
New York, NY
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April 2009
Cape Town, South Africa
Capetown Opera
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
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March 2009
Lakeland, FL
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
Harrison School for the Arts
Lakeland, FL
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Wolf Trap, VA
Wolf Trap Discovery Series
Keith Phares
Kim Witman
ensemble tba
Five Movements for my Father (2006)
The Barns at Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap, VA
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Kansas City, MO
Rebecca Sherburne, soprano
Keith Benjamin, trumpet
piano tba
A Cycle of Songs (2000)
University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music
Kansas City, MO
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August 22-30, 2008
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town Opera
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
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July 26 & 27, 2008
Kansas City, MO
Summerfest Chamber Music Festival
Two Hornéd Demons (2003)
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Kansas City, MO
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Rockhurst College
Kansas City, MO
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Washington, DC
The Donkey, the Goat and the Little Dog (2006)
for string quartet and narrator
National Symphony Orchestra
Kennedy String Quartet
Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
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Monday, January 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM
New York, NY
Susan Kander
A Cycle of Songs (2000)
Susan Kander
Pas de Deux for clarinet, cello and chimes
Kurt Weill
“Lonely House” – arietta
Debussy
Sonate pour violon et piano
Susan Kander
Five Movements for my Father (2006)
Keith Phares, baritone
Roberta Gumbel, soprano
Curtis Macomber, violin
Lino Gomez, clarinet/sax
Sophie Shao, cello
Thomas Schmidt, piano
Steven Mercurio, conductor
Weill Recital Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
(corner of 7th Avenue and 57th Street)
New York, NY 10019-3210
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Kansas City, MO
Bach Aria Soloists
Partite Américaine (2003)
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June 2007
New York, NY
Young People’s Chorus of New York
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
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March 2007
Kansas
Kennedy Quartet, National Symphony
Orchestra residency in the state of Kansas
The Donkey, the Goat and the Little Dog (2006)
for string quartet and narrator
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Friday, February 9, 2007
Kansas City, MO
And You and I (1999)
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Rockhurst College
Kansas City, MO
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February 2007
Erie, PA
One False Move (2003)
an opera for girls and young women
Mercyhurst College
Erie, PA
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Washington, DC
World Premiere
The Donkey, the Goat and the Little Dog (2006)
for string quartet and narrator
Kennedy String Quartet
Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
New York, NY
Partite Américaine (2003)
Merkin Hall
New York, NY
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Bryn Mawr, PA
Public Reading
Eight and Five, Mostly (2005)
for solo violin and orchestra
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
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Monday, March 13, 2006
Kansas City, MO
Partite Américaine (2003)
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Kansas City, MO
World Premiere
Partite Américaine (2003)
Bach Aria Soloists
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Friday, March 10, 2006
St. Louis, MO
American Choral Directors’ Association
Southwest Regional Conference
The News from Poems (2004)
settings of poems by William Carlos Williams
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
Kansas City, MO
The News from Poems (2004)
settings of poems by William Carlos Williams
University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music
Kansas City, MO
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2006
Toulon, France
Les Amours Mûres, or Love in the Middle Ages (2006)
for solo cello
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January 2006
Kansas City, MO
Somebody’s Children (2001)
youth opera for 3 professional singers and children
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Scuola Vita Nuova
Kansas City, MO
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
New York, NY
Music Bridges: St. Petersburg – New York
Museum Pieces (2001)
Kinor Quartet
Marc Goldberg, bassoon
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
New York, NY
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Monday, February 21, 2005
Pittsburgh, PA
Members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
World Premiere
Museum Pieces (2001)
Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA
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2004
Oklahoma City, OK
SoloSonata (2003)
for violin – viola – violin
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma City, OK
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Thursday, June 3, 2004
St. Petersburg, Russia
Composers’ Union
SoloSonata (2003)
for violin – viola – violin
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Overland Park, KS
The News from Poems (2004)
settings of poems by William Carlos Williams
Rolling Hills Presbyterian Church
Overland Park, KS
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
Kansas City, MO
World Premiere
The News from Poems (2004)
settings of poems by William Carlos Williams
St. Elizabeth’s Church
Kansas City, MO
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Thursday, April 1, 2004
New York, NY
World Premiere
Eit Hazamir Higiya (And the time of singing has come) (2004)
Hebrew Union College
New York, NY
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2004
Larchmont, NY
Two Tricky Tales (1998)
two 20-minute-long works, which can be performed together or separately
Larchmont Public Library
Larchmont, NY
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Monday, May 12, 2003
New York, NY
World Premiere
SoloSonata (2003)
for violin – viola – violin
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
New York, NY
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Sunday, March 24, 2002
Columbus, OH
Opera Columbus
Somebody’s Children (2001)
youth opera for 3 professional singers and children
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Friday, January 25, 2002
Kansas City, MO
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
World Premiere
Somebody’s Children (2001)
youth opera for 3 professional singers and children
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2002
New York, NY
Two Tricky Tales (1998)
two 20-minute-long works, which can be performed together or separately
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
New York, NY
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Wednesday, January 31, 2001
New York, NY
World Premiere
A City Suite (2000)
for cello and piano
Merkin Hall
New York, NY
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Sunday, January 21, 2001
New York, NY
And You and I (1999)
Merkin Hall
New York, NY
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2001
Cutchogue, NY
Two Tricky Tales (1998)
two 20-minute-long works, which can be performed together or separately
Cutchogue Elementary School
Cutchogue, NY
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January 2001
New York, NY
A Cycle of Songs (2000)
Merkin Hall
New York, NY
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Monday, August 21, 2000
Silver Bay (Lake George), NY
World Premiere
A Cycle of Songs (2000)
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February 2000
Kansas City, MO
World Premiere
And You and I (1999)
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January 2000
New York, NY
Performance of “The 57th Street Tango” only
A City Suite (2000)
for cello and piano
Weill Recital Hall
New York, NY
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Friday, June 11, 1999
St. Louis, MO
World Premiere
Joshua’s Boots (1999)
Libretto by Susan Kander, Music by Adolphus Hailstork
Opera Theater of St. Louis
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Friday, June 11, 1999
Kansas City, MO
Joshua’s Boots (1999)
Libretto by Susan Kander, Music by Adolphus Hailstork
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
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1999
Southold, NY
World Premiere
Two Tricky Tales (1998)
two 20-minute-long works, which can be performed together or separately
First Lutheran Church
Southold, NY
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Thursday, April 10, 1997
Kansas City, MO
World Premiere
She Never Lost a Passenger: the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (1996)
Subsequent Performances:
Shreveport Opera
Chicago Opera Theater – because the performances at the Field Museum were immediately sold out, one live performance was streamed over the internet into classrooms throughout Chicago
Opera Memphis
Syracuse Opera Company
Central City Opera (Denver)
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
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