lisa scola prosek

Opera, Video Opera, Orchestral Overtures, in Italian and English, since 1999 with the "Tour de Force" Satyricon, Scola Prosek has re-defined what today's classical opera can be, comic, lyrical, bel-canto vocal lines set in an original musical language.

Raised in Rome, Scola Prosek studied composition at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, and graduated from Princeton, where she studied with Milton Babbitt and Ed Cone. In New York, Lisa studied voice with Margherita Kalil of the Met.

To date, Lisa has premiered 5 Operas, including Machiavelli's Belfagor, Leonardo's Notebooks , and Trap Door, commissioned by The Lab Art Re-Grup, which premiered as a video opera in June 2008 in San Francisco.

To View Trap Door, visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6LQ

To view Belfagor, visit: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYD3PHj11s

Look for excerpts from the new comic opera

"Identity Theft" which will be presented by the SFCCO Orchestra at Old First Church in San Francisco June 13, 2009.

"Identity Theft" is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's 21st Novella from the Decameron.

"Trap  Door" a new  video  opera based on one soldier's experience in Iraq.

  Clfton Romig, Baritone