Michael Dellaira commissioned by opera consortium for 2009-2010 season
Submitted by mdellaira on 21 December, 2006 - 4:11pm.
21 Jan 2009 - 7:04pm
21 Mar 2010 - 7:04pm
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Michael Dellaira, composer-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera, and librettist J.D. McClatchy have been commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Opera (New York, NY), San Antonio Opera (San Antonio, TX) and Long Leaf Opera (Chapel Hill, NC) to write a new opera for the 2009-2010 season. The opera, THE SECRET AGENT, is based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. Dellaira's last opera, CHERI, was a finalist for the 2006 Richard Rodgers Award, and was one of four works selected to be presented at the 2006 national conference of OPERA America.