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		<title>Paul&#8217;s Case composer wins Jerome Composers Commissioning Program grant</title>
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Paul&#8217;s Case composer and C&#38;V alum Gregory Spears has been awarded funds by the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program to write a piece for The JACK Quartet in New York City. According to the American Composers Forum website, &#8220;This program, funded by the Jerome Foundation, supports the creation of new musical works by emerging composers, composer/performers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operaprojects2.wordpress.com&blog=1273405&post=385&subd=operaprojects2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romulus recording on the way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Composer Louis Karchin has announced that a recording of his opera Romulus will be released sometime next year by Naxos.  AOP premiered Romulus at the Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim in 2007. Romulus is a one-act opera based on an English Translation by Barnett Shaw of a play by Alexandre Dumas, pèr. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operaprojects2.wordpress.com&blog=1273405&post=383&subd=operaprojects2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hildegurls up for Grammy nom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gray - AOP Company Manager</dc:creator>
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Hildegurls: Electric Ordo Virtutum, is up for a Grammy  Nomination for Best Classical Album.  Adapted from Hildegard von  Bingen&#8217;s 12th c. Ordo Virtutum for 21st c audiences, the work itself premiered at the Lincoln Center Festival 1998, in  co-production with American Opera Projects. The production was conceived  and directed by former [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operaprojects2.wordpress.com&blog=1273405&post=381&subd=operaprojects2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AOP attends Seance premiere; Reviews are in!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gray - AOP Company Manager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AOP Board President Robert E. Lee III and Company Manager Matt Gray were on hand for the gala premiere of Stephen Schwartz&#8217;s first opera Seance on a Wet Afternoon at Opera Santa Barbara. AOP artistic partner and star soprano Lauren Flanigan battled through a head cold and delivered a seemingly effortless bravura performance in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operaprojects2.wordpress.com&blog=1273405&post=377&subd=operaprojects2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New semi-staged version of Darkling premieres in Philadelphia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gray - AOP Company Manager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia audiences finally got to experience the multimedia opera-theatre work Darkling when it premiered in a new, semi-staged version for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival presented by Center City Opera Theater on Sep 8, 10, and 12, 2009. Conductor and CCOT Artistic Director Andrew Kurtz brought composer Stefan Weisman and librettist Anna Rabinowitz&#8217;s haunting experimental work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operaprojects2.wordpress.com&blog=1273405&post=371&subd=operaprojects2&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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