DAUGHTER OF GOD is a new one-woman chamber opera commissioned by LOAM Music creators, Micah Gleason (Opera Philadelphia, Glimmerglass Festival) and Joanne Evans (Aix en Provence Festival, Merola Opera Program), written by composer-librettist team Christopher Bell and Susan Bywaters (Beth Morrison Projects), and directed by George Miller (Long Beach Opera).

In DAUGHTER OF GOD we meet Leah, a Christian influencer fighting a decade-long battle with cancer. With her options for further treatment dwindling, she takes advantage of an innovative new technology: uploading her consciousness to an AI model named Thea.

The workshop will include a musical excerpt, after which a roundtable discussion and Q&A will take place with the artists; Emil Polyak, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Drexel University; and Ari Gass, a scholar-practitioner with a focus on feminist and queer theoretical approaches to computational media.

Public Workshop: May 10, 2024, 7pm

Curtis Opera Studio, Curtis Institute of Music, 1726 Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

Admission free, suggested donation $10

Christopher Bell - composer

Susan Bywaters - librettist

Joanne Evans, mezzo-soprano

Micah Gleason - music director 

George Miller - director