Walt Whitman in Song
A collection of songs inspired by
the works of America's greatest poet.

Presented by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy,
Old Stone House, the Walt Whitman Project, Opera on Tap
& AOP's Composers & the Voice program.

Opera News reviews This Is the Rill Speaking

One of the highlights of the New York area’s opera season was the presentation of two of Lee Hoiby’s operas — specifically, the first professional production of his 1992 one-act This Is the Rill Speaking and the New York premiere of the latest revision of his 1986 grand opera, The Tempest. Both works were presented at SUNY Purchase in late April, under the aegis of the University and American Opera Projects. Subsequently, This Is the Rill Speaking was performed in New York City’s Symphony Space. On April 26, both operas were performed, with a panel discussion occurring between performances.

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British composer Tarik O’Regan (Heart of Darkness) is receiving enthusiastic reviews for his new CD Scattered Rhymes. Consisting of a variety of thematic pieces, Scattered Rhymes “is truly virtuosic in its combination of three Italian poems by Petrarch (sung by the Orlando Consort) and choral settings of an anonymous medieval Latin poem from England” (American Record Guide). The Washington Post praises the work as “exquisite and delicate.”

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On June 13, composer Lance Horne received an Emmy for Best Original Song at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The winning song "Chemistry", cowritten by Paul S. Glass, was created by Horne for the series "One Life to Live" on ABC.

AOP produced a 2003 workshop of Horne's one-act opera The Hunger Artist, based on the story by Franz Kafka.