Writings

essays

on Carlisle Floyd, for New York City Opera
on Claudio Monteverdi, for New York City Opera
on Stephen Sondheim, for New York City Opera
on composing for the harp, for NewMusicBox
on opera and musical theatre, for NewMusicBox
on opera direction, for andante.com

program notes

longer pieces

A monograph on the work of John Corigliano, for Royal Northern College of Manchester
A curriculum (.pdf) on Little Women, for Opera America
A diary of New York City Opera’s tour of Japan,for andante.com
on how Four Angels was composed

from the journal

on solo writing
on recitative
on writing for chorus
on the artist as critic
on opera versus singing
on the pop thing
on clarity as generosity
on my Jerusalem problem
on Petra
on two rehearsals in Tel Aviv
on Carlisle Floyd as dramaturg
on (the prospect of)Anna Nicole: The Opera (Turnage, Thomas)
on Antony and Cleopatra (Barber, Zeffirelli)
on The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi, Busenello)
on La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz,Gandonnière, de Nerval
on Kafka Fragments (Kurtag, Kafka)
on Mass (Bernstein, Schwartz)
on Oresteia (Xenakis)
on Salome (Strauss, Wilde)
on drama vs. “drama”

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