A ‘Hitchcock-style thriller’ for baritone and soprano, Nigredo Hotel is “the story of a neurosurgeon, a man of science, who has lost his soul. One night he thinks he has hit a child on the road and hides out in a decrepit, Hitchcockian motel run by a monstrous concierge called Sophie. The terrifying crone — his anima — locks him into his room an...

A wasp larva slowly eats the body of an old spider.

Proving Up, based on a story by Karen Russell, is an opera about the American Dream, told through the story of Nebrasken homesteaders in the 1870s. A family dreams of "proving up" and obtaining the deed to the land they've settled. They obsessively list the requirements of the Homestead Act: five years of harvest, a sod house dwelling, and perha...

Content warning: ableism including ableist slurs, abuse (familial/sibling) alcoholism, cannibalism, disordered eating, drug use (marijuana), fatphobia, gun violence, sexual harassment of a minor, starvation, strong language

Based on a short story by Judy Budnitz, Dog Days tells a post-apocalyptic tale of a typical American family. The country...

Content warning: mentions of death, murder of a child

Teenagers Léa and Ivy explore a struggling travelling carnival while waiting to meet up with Léa's overworked mother Manon. In the run-down haunted house the girls stumble upon the ghost of Marcel, a young boy who met a violent end in the basement of his school. Marcel asks to the girls to...