Opera

"Hunting and Gathering"
From Souls Unscreened (2024)

Souls Unscreened is 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.

Workshop performance at Harmonie Hall in Philadelphia, PA on June 2nd, 2024

Invocación al Laurel (2021)

Text by Federico García Lorca

Performed by:

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)

Music by Roger A. Martinez

Text by Walt Whitman

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.