Opera

Constance: A Confession (2026)

Photo by Silin Chen

The story of one woman's devotion to the long art of the con. 

Act 1: Ed Valentine, libretto | Mattie Levy, music
Act 2: Sam Norman, libretto | Elizabeth Gartman, music
Act 3: Lisa Clair, libretto | Roger A. Martinez, music
Act 4: Susan Bywaters, libretto | Jasmine Galante, music

Performers

Sydney Anderson as Constance
Nathaniel Sullivan as The Mark
Sishel Claverie as The Enabler
Zen Wu as The Skeptic
Kira Neary, Understudy

Hypercube Ensemble
-Erin Rogers, Saxophones
-Jay Sorce, Guitars
-Andrea Lodge, Piano and Keyboards
-Christopher Graham, Percussion

Creative Team

Shannon Sindelar, Director
Dmitriy Glivinskiy, Music Director
Silin Chen, Scenic Design
Mary Ellen Stebbins, Lighting Design
Krista Intranuovo Pineman, Costume Design
David Pym, Video Design
Jack Woods, Technical Director
Nathaniel Butler, Sound Engineer
Chris Griswold, Production Stage Manager
Alina Novotny, Assistant Stage Manager
Celia Krefter, Assistant Director and Choreographer
Thy-Lan Alcalay, Scenic Artist
Jojo Gagliano, Assistant Lighting Designer
Alexandra Haddad, Intimacy Choreographer

Produced by Experiments in Opera. Performed May 13-22nd, 2026 at HERE Arts Center, New York City. 
 

Souls Unscreened - Act 1 (2024)

An electronic opera about a computer scientist uploading her consciousness to the cloud.


Music and Electronics: Roger A. Martinez
Libretto and Soprano: Alize Francheska Rozsnyai
Baritone: Tom Sitzler
Mezzo-Soprano: Kaitlyn Tierney
Conductor: Sepehr Pirasteh
Flute: Chelsea Meynig
Piano: Hannah Han
Violin: Rachel Segal
Viola: Veronica Jurkiewicz
Cello: Leigh Brown
Produced by Experiments in Opera and Alter Ego Chamber Opera.
Performed at Brooklyn Art Haus, Brooklyn, NY on May 30th and Harmonie Hall in Philadelphia, PA on June 2nd, 2024. 

 

Invocación al Laurel (2021)

Text by Federico García Lorca
Music by Roger A. Martinez

Performers
Kaitlyn Tierney - mezzo-soprano
David Matthew Brown - violin
Brooke Mead - viola
Carolina Diazgranados - cello

 

Potentialite (2019)

Content warning: this opera deals with themes of suicide, which may be disturbing to some viewers. ​​​​​​

 

Libretto by Alize Rozsnyai
Music by Roger A. Martinez

 

Performed by:
Brenna Markey - Mel
Katie Procell - Mel 2/Mel's Doppelgänger
Jennifer Boorum - viola
Andrew Henry - vibraphone
Chelsea Meynig - flute
Evan Kassof - conductor
 
Audio recorded by Michael Shingo Crawford
Video by Robert Hedges-Goettl
 
Produced by the ENA Ensemble as part of their Serial Opera Project.

 

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (2019)

Text by Walt Whitman
Music by Roger A. Martinez
Soprano: Gabriela Martinez
Piano: Jonas Fisher

 

Performed December 4th, 2019 at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. This piece was composed in honor of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday.