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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.