Opera in Eden, featuring work by Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alums Laura Barati (cycle 25) and Samuel Norman (cycle 30), presented three new one-act operas in concert as part of the American Lyric Theater's in the Composer Librettist Development Program. FOURTH WAVE BEAUTY QUEENS, by librettist Laura Barati and composer Kathleen Tagg, is a dark mother/daughter comedy exploring the female gaze. THE SHADOW, by librettist Samuel Norman and composer Ivette Herryman, is a Hans Christian Andersen adaptation about an experiment gone wrong. The new works were developed through a workshop under composer/librettist Mark Adamo, and presented on June 14, 2025.
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