Opera

Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns," The Opera, Music by Sheila Silver, Work in ProgressWork in Progress
An Opera based on Khaled Hosseini’s international best-selling novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns.  Currently in development.  More info

 

 

 

 

 

THE  WOODEN SWORD Chamber Opera in One Act

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Winner of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Music Composition for Opera, 2007.  Premiered 2010

 

 

THE THIEF OF LOVE

 

 

 

 

 

A Lyric-Comic Opera in Three Acts      More Info


THE WHITE ROOSTER

Cantata for Women’s Vocal Quartet, Tibetan Singing Bowls and Percussion

Commissioned for the vocal ensemble, TAPESTRY, by the Smithsonian’s Freer Sackler Gallery for the exhibit, In the Realm of the Buddha. It was premiered July 2010 and is now being toured internationally by Tapestry.

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