Upcoming Events
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,
Music by Nathan Wasner and libretto by Alan Olejniczak.
A One-Night Festival Celebrating New Opera by Opera Organizations, Composers, and Singers
November 16th 2024
KMFA's Draylen Mason
41 Navasota Street, Austin, TX
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,
Music by Nathan Wasner and libretto by Alan Olejniczak.
A One-Night Festival Celebrating New Opera by Opera Organizations, Composers, and Singers
November 16th 2024
KMFA's Draylen Mason
41 Navasota Street, Austin, TX
The Proscenium Online Theatre
A Christmas Carol The beloved classic, retold! Scrooge has made the deal of his life with Chinese investors and must now quickly return to London on Christmas Eve to close the deal. On the flight back, during a fitful sleep, Scrooge confronts his past and present and learns the future consequences of his miserly life to find the true meaning of Christmas. Based on the story by Charles Dickens and adapted by Alan Olejniczak and David Ricardo-Pearce. Directed by David Ricardo-Pearce LISTEN HERE FOR FREE |
Château d'Orquevaux Artists & Writers Residency
Orquevaux, France
January 15th to 28th 2025
A Denis Diderot Grantee
Orquevaux, France
January 15th to 28th 2025
A Denis Diderot Grantee
Dairy Arts Presents:
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. Friday, Apr 18th and Saturday, April 19th, at 7:30, Sunday, Apr 20th at 3:00pm The Dairy Center for the Arts 2590 Walnut Street Boulder, Colorado 80302 |
Opera Orlando
Beatrice + Benedict and Cavalleria Rusticana. Opera Orlando presents two operas 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 BUY TICKETS HERE |
Synchromy and The Wende Museum Presents:
PETROV Music by Sergey Nesterov with Libretto by Alan Olejniczak Russian Translation by Sergey Nesterov Video Projections by David Murakami Petrov is a short electronic opera about a brief moment, a computer error, and a momentous decision by one man that could have altered the course of humanity. A Workshop Performance and Lecture Saturday May 24th 2025 at 2pm The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd. Culver City, CA 90230 |
Recent Events
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. Its music is by Nathan Wasner, and its librettist is 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.
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 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 |
New Opera West and Opera Buffs
END OF THE LINE A New Short Comic Opera Premiere Music by Nathan Wasner with Libretto by Alan Olejniczak Mimoda Studio • Los Angeles, CA April 27th and 28th 2024 |
World Premiere Play
CONCERTO Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma Director, Michael Baron Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Music Supervisor, Alexander Mickelthwate Sept 13th to Oct 1st 2023 WATCH THE TRAILER |
Past Events
- October 2024 - Workshop of Beatrice + Benedict, Opera Orlando, FL
- September 2024 - Maddelana Preview, Skyros Quartet and Constellation Creatives, Seattle, WA
- August 2024 - Arctic Circle Residency's Alumni Trip, Svalbard, Norwegian Territory
- July 2024 - Premiere of On Our Way with Opera on Tap Colorado, Englewood, CO
- April 2024 - Premiere of End of the Line with New Opera West, Los Angeles, CA
- March 2024 - Staged workshop of Babes in Arms: High School with Lyric Theatre's Thelma Gaylord's Academy. Oklahoma City.
- December 2023 - Workshop read-through of Babes in Arms: High School with Lyric Theatre's Thelma Gaylord's Academy. Oklahoma City.
- August 2023 - Workshop read-through of Babes in Arms: High School with Lyric Theatre's Thelma Gaylord's 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 Marins 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 premier 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