lisa scola prosek

Opera, Video Opera, Orchestral Overtures, in Italian and English, since 1999 with the "Tour de Force" Satyricon, Scola Prosek's  operas are comic, tragic, or 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.

Churchill in Moscow

a new opera for Thick House Theater 2011-2012

  Ten Days, Dieci Giorni

a new collaborative opera from Boccaccio's Decameron 

Directed by Jim Cave 

 at Thick House Theater, September 8-16, 2010

in San Francisco.

Made possible by the Zellerbach Foundation, the Argosy Contemporary Music Fund, The Hewlett Foundation, The American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, and the LEF Foundation.

"Trap  Door" and 'Belfagor'  Opera Premieres

  Clfton Romig, Baritone