RECENT PERFORMANCES
The Living Libretto
Librettists: Laura Barati and Sam Norman
Composers: Kathleen Tagg and Ivette Herryman Rodríguez
Sunday, December 14, 2025 @ 2PM
InsightALT:
OPERA IN EDEN
The Shadow (Rodridguez/Norman); Giovannia/a (Taylor/Hanson); Fourth Wave Beauty Queens (Tagg/Barati)
Saturday, June 14, 2025 @ 7PM
InsightALT:
SHE WHO DARED
Composer: Jasmine Arielle Barnes
Librettist: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
Conducted by Maestro Kelly Kuo
Insight ALT: TEVYE’S DAUGHTERS
Composer: Alex Weiser Librettist: Stephanie Fleischmann
Dramaturg: Cori Ellison
Conducted by Maestro Kelly Kuo
InsightALT events were created to give the public an intimate, insiders look behind the scenes of American Lyric Theater’s process of creating new operas. Each event features a concert reading of a new opera in development at ALT, featuring guest singers from the world's leading opera houses, followed an interactive discussion between the audience and the writers behind each work. These conversations, moderated by ALT's founder, Lawrence Edelson, use Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process to engage with those experiencing the opera for the first time to help the writers on their journeys.
American Lyric Theater's programs to mentor emerging operatic writers are made possible with generous leadership support from The Howard Gilman Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, OPERA America, The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Amphion Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University and the generosity of many individual donors.