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Real Time Opera (RTO) is an opera company that is dedicated to the production of new works. It was founded in 2002 in Contoocook, New Hampshire and produces opera across the USA, employing professional singers and various instrumental ensembles, and performing at a wide variety of venues.

1 First seasons and achievements
2 Works in Progress
3 Administration
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] First seasons and achievements

The first season in 2003 presented a workshop of KORCZAK'S ORPHANS, a new opera byAdam Silverman and Susan Gubernat based on the life of based on the life of the famous Polish children's doctor, orphanage director and Holocaust martyr, Janusz Korczak. It was performed at the Lebanon Opera House in New Hampshire and in May 2004 was presented at New York City Opera as part of VOX 2004: Showcasing American Composers. It continues to have workshopped performance at Opera Theatre of Brooklyn.

HAWAIIAN TAN RATFACE was written by that singular genius of the American underground, John Trubee. The premiere performance took place in February, 2004, at San Francisco's Studio Z, accompanied by the Ugly Janitors of America with choreography by the inimitable Carl Franzoni, to an enthusiastic (and mostly incredulous) audience.

FEYNMAN is a new opera by composer Jack Vees, Operations Director of the Yale Center for Studies in Music Technology, and librettist Paul Schick, Artistic Director of RTO. Its subject is the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and cult figure Richard Feynman. A percussion quartet provides the orchestra backing a solo Dr. Feynman onstage. The premiere performance at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, CT, in June 2005, and subsequent tour of New England were performed by SO Percussion and baritone Michael Cavalieri. In December 2005, Feynman was restaged in New York City at the Knitting Factory, with lighting and video design by Barry Steele and scenery design by Damen Mroczek. A world tour is in planning.

[edit] Works in Progress

Real Time Opera is working on two new upcoming productions.

A HOUSE IN BALI is a new opera by composer Evan Ziporyn and librettist Paul Schick for production in 2009. A House in Bali is based on the autobiographical book by Canadian composer Colin McPhee. Performances in New York City, San Francisco and Bali will combine the traditional Balinese gamelan and dancers with Western musicians from the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

DOUBLE MANIFESTO is being written by Dan Plonsey to a new libretto by Harvey Pekar, perhaps best known for his series of autobiographical comic books and the subsequent movie: [[American Splendor]].