Excerpts from a bi-lingual opera (Spanish and English), about a hispanic family with ties to their cultural legacy, and struggles to hold on to that while living in their new home.  Commissioned by Central City Opera, libretto by Jeffrey Gilden, performed by the Boston Metro Opera, winner of the first prize in the Contempo Composition Contest in 2010, and this year receiving its southern premiere at Atlanta Opera in Georgia.

En Mis Palabras NewMusicUSA

Our new 8 years in the making 'hybrid' music-theater work / opera ...  Based on the famous Welsh novel:  HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, by Richard Lewellyn.  Music by Roger Ames, libretto by Elizabeth Bassine, world premiere concert scheduled for August 2014, produced by the Colorado Springs Chamber Orchestra, Central City Opera, and the Colorado Springs Conservatory, and starring Tim Jerome, currently of Phantom Of The Opera on Broadway.


VALLEY Preview NewMusicUSA

From REQUIEM FOR OUR TIME, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, 2010.  Performed by the Boston Pro Musica Chorus, conducted by Jeffrey Rink.  Music by Roger Ames, text by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Anne Sexton.  The entire work is 42 minutes long, and uses the Latin Mass text combined with Sexton's death poems.


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