Steven Osgood
5 pieces since 2014 — at 4 companies, most often at Opera Philadelphia.
On topic
Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, now in its 5th year, keeps the opera flame alight at the Kennedy Center during the long winter stretch between mainstage WNO productions.
Flight of fancy
Jonathan Dove’s Flight is an opera that makes excellent use of setting.
New waves
Missy Mazzoli, a 36-year-old composer from Brooklyn, has created the most startling and moving new American opera in memory.
Outskirts
As One is an opera about a boy growing up to discover that he is a girl.