Join us this August for two webinars on the craft of writing opera!
Librettist/Playwrights Roundtable on AUGUST 10
Eastern Time: 3pm
Central Time: 2pm
Mountain Time: 1pm
Pacific Time: 12pm
Moderated by Deborah Brevoort
Featuring:
- Mark Campbell
- Stephanie Fleischmann
- David Henry Hwang
- E.M. Lewis
- Sandra Seaton
Playwrights, librettists, and lyricists from both theatre and opera will discuss the differences in writing for each medium, and how to make the crossover, with personal anecdotes and examples drawn from their experience. This webinar is open to questions from the public.
Composers Roundtable on AUGUST 11
Eastern Time: 3pm
Central Time: 2pm
Mountain Time: 1pm
Pacific Time: 12pm
Moderated by Lila Palmer
Featuring:
- Nicolas Lell Benavides
- Paola Prestini
- Scott Davenport Richards
- Huang Rho
- Kamala Sankaram
- Stephen Schwartz
Composers experienced in both opera and theatre writing will discuss the pivotal role of the composer in originating and creating new operatic works for both the traditional operatic stage and new experimental venues, how opera composers find librettists and what they look for in an opera libretto, and what composers believe librettists to know, or learn, in order to serve the specialized needs of an operatic score.
Please be advised that the conversations from the above webinars will be published in The Dramatist Guild’s magazine,The Dramatist, in the November/December 2021 “Opera Issue”-- the first time the Guild has devoted a complete issue to this topic.