CCM Alumnus and Award-Winning Composer Evan Mack To Write New American Opera

CCM alumnus and award-winning opera composer Evan Mack (DMA, 2008) and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy have agreed to a two year development deal to turn Kennedy’s best-selling novel Roscoe into a new America opera.

Roscoe will be Mack’s third full-length opera and second collaboration with librettist and fellow CCM alumnus Joshua McGuire (MM, 2005). Their first work, The Secret of Luca, has been performed and workshopped in various parts of the US.

Mack’s first opera, Angel of the Amazon, was produced by Encompass New Opera Theatre at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC for all of May 2011 and the Original Cast Recording was released worldwide by Albany Records in 2012.

Learn more about Roscoe courtesy of Janelle Gelfand and the Cincinnati Enquirer here.

CCM Alumnus Lands Record Deal

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Earlier this month, Albany Records released CCM alumnus Evan Mack’s (DMA, 2008) new American opera Angel of the Amazon for worldwide distribution.

Recorded live at premiere performances held on May 6 – 22, 2011 in New York City after preview performances in Cincinnati, Angel of the Amazon depicts Sister Dorothy Stang’s lifetime of work with the Brazilian peasant farmers in the rainforest.

CCM Alumnus Memorializes Slain Nun in New Opera

Evan Mack (DMA ‘08), a former student of William Black and Michael Chertok, recently returned to Cincinnati to hear the premiere of three excerpts from his opera, Angel of the Amazon, which is to be staged in New York City at the beginning of May by the Encompass Opera Company.