Utah's Source for Theatre Journalism
Opera Contempo’s latest project is a semi-staged, score-in-hand, reading of Act 2 of a new opera, Protectress, by local composer Jessica Rudman and librettist Kendra Preston Leonard. The final dress…
TAYLORSVILLE — Opera Contempo presented a delightful double bill of Western-themed operas in the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center September 11-13, 2025. In the intimacy of the Studio 5400 black box…
SALT LAKE CITY — Protectress (music by Jessica Rudman and libretto by Kendra Preston Leonard) falls into a category of art I am hereby dubbing “Barbie Art:” a piece of…
SALT LAKE CITY — Twice Through The Heart (with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and libretto adapted from a poem by Jackie Kay) is a very short (only thirty-five minutes) contemporary…
