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On Tuesday, September 11 at 7pm, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space presents MORE OR LESS I AM, a powerful music-theater innovation drawn entirely from Walt Whitman's 1855 Song of Myself. Director Karin Coonrodis is resurrecting the acclaimed performance for one night only at WNYC's intimate, downtown broadcast and performance studio.

American Lyric Theater is now accepting applications for the 2011-2012 Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP), open to eligible composers, librettists and playwrights.

Lawrence Edelson, Producing Artistic Director of American Lyric Theater (ALT), has announced that OPERA IN EDEN, an evening of one act operas written by Resident Artists from ALT's Composer Librettist Development Program, will return to the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space on Thursday, June 2nd, 2011, at 7:00 PM.

Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleeker Street, opened at The Dicapo Opera on Saturday night. The Saint of Bleeker Street, written in English and dating from 1954, is the story of a simple young girl in New York's Little Italy who is blessed (or afflicted) with the stigmata and hears voices and sees visions.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) is pleased to announce that Mark Adamo will host the first event in the company's FRESHLY BREWED concert and master class series on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) is pleased to announce that Mark Adamo will host the first event in the company's FRESHLY BREWED concert and master class series on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) is pleased to announce that Mark Adamo will host the first event in the company's FRESHLY BREWED concert and master class series on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM.

The medieval mystery play will get a 21st century update on December 4th when the Christmas story is brought to life on the streets of New York City through a raucous mix of music, dance, song, and drink.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) is pleased to announce that Mark Adamo will host the first event in the company's FRESHLY BREWED concert and master class series on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM.

The medieval mystery play will get a 21st century update on December 4th when the Christmas story is brought to life on the streets of New York City through a raucous mix of music, dance, song, and drink.

American Lyric Theater is proud to join nearly 100 other opera organizations nationwide to celebrate National Opera Week (October 29 - November 7), organized by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, with support of the National Endowment for the Arts.

What might the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, write if he were alive today? This is the question American Lyric Theater asked of three composers and three librettists to create The Poe Project!

American Lyric Theater is proud to join nearly 100 other opera organizations nationwide to celebrate National Opera Week (October 29 - November 7), organized by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, with support of the National Endowment for the Arts.

American Lyric Theater is proud to join nearly 100 other opera organizations nationwide to celebrate National Opera Week (October 29 - November 7), organized by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, with support of the National Endowment for the Arts.

What might the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, write if he were alive today? This is the question American Lyric Theater asked of three composers and three librettists to create The Poe Project!

American Lyric Theater (ALT) announces that eight new Resident Artists have been selected for ALT's nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) in New York City.

In honor of the 200th Anniversary of Edgar Allen Poe's birth, the American Lyric Theater asked three composers and three librettists last year as part of The Composer Librettist Development Program what they believed Poe would be writing if he were alive today. Under the mentorship of librettist Michael Korie and Producing Artistic Director Lawrence Edelson, these six artists have been developing THE POE PROJECT, a trilogy of one-act psychological thrillers inspired by Poe's short stories. Thanks to a commissioning grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, along with additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The ASCAP Foundation: Joseph and Rosalie Meyer Fund, American Lyric Theater has commissioned the completion of this exciting and haunting new trilogy.

In honor of the 200th Anniversary of Edgar Allen Poe's birth, the American Lyric Theater asked three composers and three librettists last year as part of The Composer Librettist Development Program what they believed Poe would be writing if he were alive today. Under the mentorship of librettist Michael Korie and Producing Artistic Director Lawrence Edelson, these six artists have been developing THE POE PROJECT, a trilogy of one-act psychological thrillers inspired by Poe's short stories. Thanks to a commissioning grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, along with additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The ASCAP Foundation: Joseph and Rosalie Meyer Fund, American Lyric Theater has commissioned the completion of this exciting and haunting new trilogy.