WASHINGTON DC: Deborah will serve as the 2026-27 Librettist Mentor for Washington National Opera’s “American Opera Initiative” with composer Tom Cipullo who will serve as the Composer Mentor. The American [...]
AUSTIN, TX: (December 15, 2025). The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas has awarded librettist Deborah Brevoort a 2026 Moody Research grant to conduct research on Lady Bird Johnson for [...]
Noh text by Deborah Brevoort; music by Richard Emmert Tundergarth is a contemporary Noh drama that takes its inspiration from Deborah’s award-winning play The Women of Lockerbie, a contemporary Greek [...]
Libretto by Deborah Brevoort; music by Wang Lu A Chinese girl adopted by an American woman returns to her birthplace in rural China looking for her birth mother who abandoned [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO: The Knock, Deborah’s opera written with composer Aleksandra Vrebalov will be presented on Sunday November 23 at the US AirForce Academy in a collaboration that includes the Opera [...]
NEW BRUNSWICK NJ: April 21, 2025. George Street Playhouse announced their upcoming season today. Deborah’s play MY LORD WHAT A NIGHT, about Marian Anderson and Albert Einstein will be produced [...]
TRENTON NJ, February 11, 2025: The NJ State Council on the Arts announced the recipients of the 2025 Individual Artists Fellowships today. 107 artists in multiple disciplines were awarded fellowships [...]
Lu and Deborah will workshop The Red Thread, their new opera, with funding from the grant. The Red Thread is about Chinese girls who search for their birth mothers after [...]
Deborah held an opera writing workshop at the Seoul Institute of the Arts in January 2025 under the auspices of the US State Department’s Fulbright Specialist Program. Five Korean composers [...]
Music by Gerald Cohen
Libretto by Deborah Brevoort
Artist: Opera Colorado, Ari Pelto (conductor)
Sono Luminus label
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A recording of the “Steal a Pencil for Me” opera, by composer Gerald Cohen and librettist Deborah Brevoort, will be released on the Sono Luminus record label on August 23, [...]
Published by the Yanai Initiative, Tokyo, Japan
With production photos and essays
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