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 6 Operas, including Machiavelli's Belfagor, and Trap Door, commissioned by The Lab Art Re-Grup, which premiered as a video opera in June 2008 in San Francisco.

DAUGHTER OF THE RED TZAR

Thick House Theater Oct. 2012. 

As seen through the eyes of Svetlana Stalin,a darkly comedic account of Churchill's all night drunken tête-à-tête with Stalin, to forge ‘The Grand Alliance’. Starring John Duykers as Churchill. Directed by Melissa Weaver.  

 DieciGiorni 10DAYS with Crystal Philippi, mezzo

Directed by Jim Cave 

 at Thick House Theater, September 10-19, 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.

BELFAGOR

Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano, Aurelio Viscarra, Tenor

TRAP DOOR

  Clfton Romig, Baritone