Events
Summer's End
A finalist for The Social Art Award, with the theme of “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Summer's End will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 Book to celebrate the diversity and impact of Social Art.
A finalist for The Social Art Award, with the theme of “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Summer's End will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 Book to celebrate the diversity and impact of Social Art.
Summer’s End: An Arctic Intermedia Installation is a twenty-minute, three-channel, interdisciplinary, immersive experience of mourning, reflection, and ecological awakening. It is a gallery installation and performance piece in ten movements that combines video, live piano, and poetry. Summer’s End bridges the gap between empirical understanding and emotional comprehension, inspiring preservation and action.
Summer's End was created during the Arctic Circle Residency in 2018 and 2024 by artists living on three continents.
Visuals by Rachel Honnery and Kat Roma Greer
Music and Piano Performance by Nathan Hall, Poetry by Alan Olejniczak
Video Editing by Setthasiri Chanjaradpong
Follow its progress on Instagram.
Summer's End was created during the Arctic Circle Residency in 2018 and 2024 by artists living on three continents.
Visuals by Rachel Honnery and Kat Roma Greer
Music and Piano Performance by Nathan Hall, Poetry by Alan Olejniczak
Video Editing by Setthasiri Chanjaradpong
Follow its progress on Instagram.
Recent Events
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Petrov: A Cold War Opera
Music by Sergey Nesterov, Libretto by Alan Olejniczak Directed by Diana Wyenn, Projection Design by Sam Clevenger Synchromy and The Wente Museum present a workshop performance of micro-electronic opera about a brief moment, a computer error, and a momentous decision by one man that could have altered the course of humanity. Saturday, May 24, 2025, at 2pm The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230 |
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Beatrice + Benedict
Opera Orlando presents two operas, Beatrice + Benedict and Cavalleria Rusticana, that unfold simultaneously on an Easter day in the Sicilian town of Messina. Beatrice + Benedict, with music by Hector Berlioz, is based on Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Adaptation by Alan Olejniczak and Grant Preisser Friday & Sunday, April 25 & 27, 2025 | 7:30 p.m. & 2 p.m. Steinmetz Hall, Orlando, FL |
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Cultureland and Tapestry Opera
This concert will feature the aria Look Within from the opera Hypatia with music by Afarin Mansouri, with libretto by Alan Olejniczak Quest, a one-night-only operatic experience presented by Cultureland Opera Collective, celebrates our first-year residency at Tapestry Opera. This performance features scenes from Cultureland’s new and developing operas, exploring themes of identity, migration, love, and transformation. April 12, 2025. 7:30 pm Performance Hall, 877 Yonge Street, Toronto |
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Cape Town Opera Shorts Festival 2025
Staging Stories Cape Town Opera selected six outstanding South African writers for a libretto writing workshop led by American librettists Stephanie Fleischmann and Alan Olejniczak. Staging Stories culminates in a public reading of their work. Alan mentored librettists: Nona Zuri, Lebogang Mogashoa, and Sibuyiselo Dywili. March 15th, 2025, The Wave Theater, Cape Town |
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Cape Town Opera Shorts Festival 2025
Atlas of Remote Islands Music by Nathan Hall with Libretto by Alan Olejniczak Based on the book Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky. Sometimes, an atlas is more for the imagination than for navigation. Directed by Jackï Job, Music Direction by Nathan Lewis with CTO's Judith Neilson Singers. March 8th, 11th, and 14th, 2025 The Wave Theatre, Cape Town |
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Château d'Orquevaux Artist Residency
Orquevaux, France January 15th to 28th 2025 |
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La Serenissima
The Opera Austin Festival will perform the aria La Serenissima from the opera Maddalena, a full-length salon opera about the life of Maddalena Lombardini, with music by Nathan Wasner and libretto by Alan Olejniczak. A One-Night Festival Celebrating New Opera by Opera Organizations, Composers, and Singers November 16, 2024 |
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Constellation Creatives Fundraiser
Maddalena September 27th, 2024, 7pm SCMS Center for Chamber Music, Seattle, WA Skyros Quartet will perform several pieces, including a sneak preview from the new opera Maddalena featuring soprano Linda Tsatsanis, countertenor José Luis Muñoz, and Nathan Wasner on harpsichord and trumpet. Maddalena is a full-length salon opera about the life of Maddalena Lombardini, commissioned by Constellation Creatives. Music by Nathan Wasner, and Libretto by Alan Olejniczak. |
On August 15th to the 29th, 2024
I was one of a hundred artists to circumnavigate the archipelago of Svalbard for an artist residency in the High Arctic.
I was one of a hundred artists to circumnavigate the archipelago of Svalbard for an artist residency in the High Arctic.
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Opera on Tap Colorado
Presents the World Premiere of the One-Act Opera On Our Way Music by Nathan Wasner Libretto by Alan Olejniczak Saturday, July, 13th 2024 7:00pm Brewability 3445 South Broadway, Englewood, CO 80113 |
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Opera Workshop Performance
Presented by Synchromy Minute to Midnight June 2nd, 2024, at Sony Pictures Studios Scoring Stage Presented during OperaWeek LA, The World Opera Forum and The Opera America Conference |
Past Events
- October 2024 - Libretto Workshop of Beatrice + Benedict, Opera Orlando, FL
- April 2024 - End of the Line, A Short Comic Opera Premiere, New Opera West and Opera Buffs, Los Angeles, CA
- March 2024 - Staged workshop of Babes in Arms: High School with Lyric Theatre's Thelma Gaylord Academy. Oklahoma City.
- December 2023 - Yosef and the Counseling Angel, World Premiere Oratorio, United Trinity Methodist Church, Denver, CO
- December 2023 - Workshop read-through of Babes in Arms: High School with Lyric Theatre's Thelma Gaylord Academy. Oklahoma City.
- August 2023 - Workshop read-through of Babes in Arms: High School with Lyric Theatre's Thelma Gaylord Academy. Oklahoma City.
- July 2023 - Atlas of Remote Islands, Opera on Tap, Untitled: Artist Takeover Denver Art Museum
- May 2023 - Preview of The Emperor's Garden, from The Nightingale with the Marin Girls' Chorus.
- May 2023 - Director's Cut: Atlas of Remote Islands, Opera on Tap, Lafayette, CO
- May 2023 - Premiere of Atlas of Remote Islands, Opera on Tap, Denver, CO
- January 2023 - Opera Workshop of Dreams Americanos with I Colori dell'opera
- December 2022 - Austin Opera "Concerts at the Consulate" Dulce, Fiel y Bella from Dreams Americanos
- October 2022 - West Coast premiere of Unbound with TigerBear Productions, Palm Springs.
- October 2022 - Short+Sweet Dubai, The Junction presents the play Unforgiven
- September 2022 - Nocefresca, Artist in Residence, Milis, Sardinia
- September 2022 - Fresh Squeezed Opera Vocal Lab, Look Within from the opera Hypatia, with music by Afarin Monsouri
- May 2022 - Online reading of Brownie, the musical, Orlando, FL
- April 2022 - Chair of Opera Parallèle's Over the Rainbow Celebration Benefit
- November 2021 - Opera on Tap, Houston's Annual Fundraiser, the premiere of the aria: Dulce, Fiel y Bella from Dreams Americanos
- November 2021 - Golden Repair (The Climate) installation with Micro Galleries and Jerome Joseph Gentes
- September 2021 - Workshop Reading of Concerto with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma
- September 2021 - The Chicago premiere of Death of Ivan Ilych with Thompson Street Opera
- August 2021 - The opera premiere of Unbound at Studio Friction in Denver