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Composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell’s opera “A Nation of Others” dramatizes the stories of the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” at Ellis Island on a single day in 1921.

Opera Tampa tells a multi-layered story Jan. 30 and Feb. 1 that adds psychological depth, a few shocks and frights and the unique allure of pop culture to the opera stew: It’s The Shining. 

Utah Opera’s strong cast provides rich and chilling advocacy for “The Shining”

"The Sounds and Conventions of Madness in Moravec's THS SHINING" in Music City Review

Moravec and Campbell find the light of love in The Shining

THE SHINING @ Utah Opera

THE SHINING @ Nashville Opera's amazing new production

ALL SHALL RISE — the final oratorio in our American Voices trilogy — premieres at Carnegie on May 5 with Oratorio Society of New York. The work dramatizes the evolution of U.S. voting rights from 1789 to the present.

April 12, 2024: the worldwide release of Mark Campbell's and my opera THE SHINING on Pentatone. Here's the link: https://lnk.to/MoravecTheShining

On this new portrait disc Moravec’s prodigious and polystylistic pieces touch upon a diverse panoply of themes and inspirations.

Sanctuary Road is based on the remarkable writings of William Still – an abolitionist, historian, and conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped nearly 800 enslaved African Americans escape to freedom.

Sanctuary Road is based on the remarkable writings of William Still – an abolitionist, historian, and conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped nearly 800 enslaved African Americans escape to freedom. https://vaopera.org

THE SHINING shines on at ATLANTA OPERA from Sept. 15 to Oct 1.

THE SHINING comes to Opera Parallele in San Francisco on June 2,3, and 4. https://operaparallele.org/theshining/

THE SHINING is at LOKC March 11-19, 2023. The first reviews are in, all raves. Pentatone will release a recording in 2024.

Oratorio Society of New York presents the world premiere of A NATION OF OTHERS, an oratorio about immigration and Ellis Island, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, at Carnegie Hall, November 15, 2022.

THE SHINING comes to San Francisco June 2-4, 2023

On August 18, 2022, SANCTUARY ROAD - written with librettist Mark Campbell — will be performed at the Chautauqua Institution by the Chautauqua Symphony under the direction of Rossen Milanov.

SANCTUARY ROAD — which began its life as an oratorio in 2018 — is now an opera brilliantly re-imagined for the stage by Dennis Whitehead Darling and North Carolina Opera.

THE SHINING comes to Opera Colorado Feb. 26-March 6

Sanctuary Road draws on the astonishing stories to be found in William Still’s memoir, The Underground Railroad, which documents the network of secret routes and safe houses used by African- American slaves to escape into free states and Canada during the early to mid-1800s.

A virtual performance of light shall lift us by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell unites 100+ opera singers in a song of hope and solidarity for their fellow artists and the opera community

A sampling of the latest media updates for the premiere of The Shining

The Bach Festival Society’s John Sinclair 25th anniversary is being honored with the most appropriate tribute: a world-premiere composition, Music, Awake!, composed by Paul Moravec with text by Terry Teachout.