American Lyric Theater presents public performances in New York City to promote the work of gifted emerging artists, and to expose the public to the process of developing new operas.
ALT’s 2025/26 Season of Public Events will be announced in late August.
RECENT PERFORMANCES
InsightALT:
OPERA IN EDEN
The Shadow (Ivette Herman Rodridguez/Sam Norman); Giovannia/a (Del’Shawn Taylor/C.S.Hanson); Fourth Wave Beauty Queens (Kathleen Tagg/Laura Barati)
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.
Upcoming Events/Dates:
2025/26 Events will be announced in late August.
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.