Works & Process Brings HILDEGARD By Sarah Kirkland Snider to Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater

Works & Process will present HILDEGARD on Monday, September 15, 2025 at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. Join creative producer Beth Morrison; Christopher Koelsch, President and CEO, LA Opera; director Elkhanah Pulitzer; and composer Sarah Kirkland Snider for a discussion on the commissioning and creation of HILDEGARD, the composer's first opera.

Set in 1147, HILDEGARD follows the brilliant, pioneering composer Hildegard von Bingen as she receives visions from God. Always at risk of being condemned by the church as a heretic, she decides to document her visions, enlisting her fellow nun Richardis von Stade to illustrate the manuscript. As their passion project bleeds into passion, the two women must confront the powers that would see them struck from history rather than making it.

Singers Nola Richardson and Mikaela Bennett, accompanied by Contemporaneous Ensemble will perform highlights from this intimate tale of two genius women finding their voices, ahead of the opera's rolling world premiere this November in Los Angeles with LA Opera and in January at PROTOTYPE Festival in New York-marking the sixteenth collaboration between Beth Morrison Projects and LA Opera.

Leadership support for this Works & Process program is provided by Eugene and Jean Stark.