The Day the Dogs Began to Talk was a complex, heady pour of a show. The dense and evocative score found its legs through a committed cast and the creative use of supertitles.
Music by Engelbert Humperdinck
Translation by Costance Bache
Chicago City Opera, August 2025
In my director's note for this piece, I said that many operas have an underlying emotion to them,
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Libretto by W. S. Gilbert
The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, March 2020
It finally happened - GSOC’s 2020 production of Pirates, cancelled at the very start of
There's a lot to unpack about this show - the trials of working in the confines (and lack of boundaries) of singer-produced opera, the difficulty of unaccompanied/a capella opera, and deciding on a storytelling ethos for a show with characters drawn from world mythology and religion.
