Composer Hovia Edwards, composer Matt Boehlerthe late composer Loren Linnard, and composer Kennedy Verrett
New works from fiction to stranger-than-fiction...
Composer Kennedy Verrett and librettist George Kopp
Madame Theremin
based on the true story of Black ballet dancer Lavinia Williams, who was married to the Russian electronic music pioneer Leon Theremin.
Composer Matt Boehler and librettist Tony Asaro
The Road to Wellville
based on T. C. Boyle's novel, a Dickensian cast of characters persue the magic pill of longevity—and the profit to be had from manufacturing it.
Co-composers Hovia Edwards and Justin Ralls
Libretto by Sacajawea’s great-great-grand-niece Rose Anne Abrahamson
Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea's Story
the extraordinary Agai-Dika/Lemhi-Shoshone woman of the historic 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, from the oral history of her familial descendants.
Late composer Loren Linnard and late librettist Donald Brigg
unearthed by Linnard's son, Dean Linnard.
Least of my Children
the first documented musical work about the AIDS crisis - written here in San Francisco - exploring a catholic family's confrontation with a new disease in 1989, and the miracle of 'Our Lady of Guadalupe' in 1531.
March 2nd and 3rd, 2024
Tickets on sale Mid-January
Casting to be announced in November
West Edge Opera Music Director Jonathan Khuner:
'The creators of our four scenes have a unifying concern with the dignity and transcendence of individual experience within the constraints of American social history. Within this unifying theme, our four scenes cover a wide range of musical/theatric styles, from Sacajawea’s embroidery on Native American folk art, to Madame Theremin’s spin-off on jazz, reggae and hip-hop elements, then Least of My Children’s classical orientation with modern non-linear stagecraft and The Road to Wellville’s farcical pop-style tilt.'