Lori Laitman

More than 400 new operas have been produced on the world’smainstages during the 21st century so far. That’s great, right? Thebad news is that a surprisingly large share of those will never berevived, not even once. (For context, since opera’s beginningsaround 1600, tens of thousands of operas have reached the stage,and only about 50 to 60 of those appear today with any regularity.)Thus the Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s approach to new-workscommissioning seems both shrewd and refreshing: ...

See the California Premiere of  The Three Feathers Don't miss the California premiere of composer Lori Laitman and poet Dana Gioia's popular new opera,  The   Three Feathers . Produced by Solo Opera and featuring  San Francisco Girls Chorus,  Members of San Francisco Girls Chorus School, Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director,  The Three Feathers  is a magical work based on a ...

The premiere of   Sarong Song , my short film made in conjunction with   Positive Note Films   in the UK, will premiere September 17, 2022 at 1 pm EST at the following YouTube link: https://twitter.com/PozNote/status/1570059895545659392 The film will remain up at the link after the premiere. Sarong Song  is song #2 of  The Soul Fox , a song cycle I composed in 2013 to a poem by  David Mason , my frequent collaborator. The cycle set ...

The Three Feathers is now up on Vimeo: vimeo.com/vocalcomposer/thethreefeathers and the Highlights from the opera are also up: vimeo.com/vocalcomposer/thethreefeathershighlights Hope you enjoy the videos!

My site, www.artsongs.com, is kept current.

On March 25, 2012, at 7:30 pm, at the JCC Metrowest in West Orange, NJ, The New Jersey Jewish Film Festival will screen "The Boys of Terezin," which chronicles the creation of Lori's oratorio Vedem . Lori and mezzo Denise Mihalik will perform songs from the oratorio and survivor Leo Lowy will be the guest speaker. For more information, please visit http://www.njjff.org/

On March 25, 2012 at 6:30 pm, Soprano Jessica Jones and pianist Danielle Hahn will present a recital at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The recital will feature music by Nadia Boulanger, Clara Schumann and Lori Laitman. For more information, please visit http://www.nga.gov/programs/music/

On March 14, 2012 at 7:30 pm, I will present a recital of my music on The Shenson Series at the  National Museum of Women in the Arts  in Washington, DC. Featured are soprano Megan Monaghan, tenor Vale Rideout, baritone Randall Scarlata, and pianists Lori Laitman and Andrew Rosenblum in a selection of artsongs and opera excerpts, directed by Beth Greenberg. For more information, please visit:  http://www.nmwa.org/calendar/detail.asp?eventId=1058