Lori Laitman
Lori Laitman is an American composer of vocal music. She has composed over 250 songs, setting the words of classic and contemporary English-language poets, including the lost voices of poets who perished in the Holocaust.
Her opera, The Scarlet Letter, to a libretto by David Mason (based on the Nathanial Hawthorne classic), will receive its professional premiere at Opera Colorado in May 2016 starring Elizabeth Futral. The one-hour adaption for five voices and piano will premiere in March 2015 with the Young Artists of Opera Colorado in Denver, CO.
Her children's opera, "The Three Feathers," to a libretto by Dana Gioia (based on a Grimm's fairy tale), was commissioned by the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech and premiered on October 17, 2014 at the new Center for the Arts in a production directed by Beth Greenberg. Huffington Post ran a feature on the opera: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-dormady-eisenberg/lori-laitman-and-dana-gio_b_5982126.html and information about the premiere can be found at this link: https://www.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/threefeathers
Laitman's music has been featured on Thomas Hampson's Song of America website and radio series, and an entry on her music is included in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.
References
Dormady Eisenberg, Susan, "Lines Written At The Falls" (November 2005), Classical Singer.
Dormady Eisenberg, Susan, "From Art Song To Opera" (October 2009), Classical Singer.
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