Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story Libretto by Rose Ann Abrahamson Music by Hovia Edwards and Justin Ralls A new opera based on oral histories of Sacajawea’s Agai-Dika familial descendants as well as the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Rose Ann Abrahamson is the great-great-grandniece of Sacajawea through Sacajawea’s brother, Cameahwait. Sung in Aqai-Dika/Lemhi-Shoshone, Québécois [...]
Film by Sriram Murali Music by Justin Ralls
“We are restored in beauty duet” and final ariosos from Two Yosemites: An Environmental Opera. Produced by Opera Theater Oregon, Sept. 16, 2017. Featuring Aaron Short and Nicholas Meyer. Justin Ralls, conductor. Details of the project with synopsis and program notes may be found at Opera Theater Oregon.
Opening scene from Two Yosemites: An Environmental Opera. Produced by Opera Theater Oregon, Sept. 16, 2017. Featuring Aaron Short and Nicholas Meyer. Justin Ralls, conductor. Details of the project with synopsis and program notes may be found on the Writings page of this website.
Two Yosemites: An Environmental Opera. Music and Libretto by Justin Ralls. Produced by Opera Theater Oregon. Aaron Short as Theodore Roosevelt. Conducted by Justin Ralls.
Three Songs: Reflections of Love, Loss, Beauty and Nature Texts by Val Mallinson and Susan Griffin. Saori DeBruyn, soprano. Nathalie Fortin, piano. Carol Robes, clarinet. Winner of Eugene Opera’s 2020 Songs of Quarantine series.
Premiered by San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, Scott Sandmeier, conducting. September 29-30, 2013. Inspired by John Muir’s essay ‘Wind storm in the forest of the Yuba.’
Premiered at the Parrish Art Museum, Long Island, NY September 9, 2016 by Cadillac Moon Ensemble, in collaboration with Landscape Music Composers Network, Nell Shaw Cohen Dir. Scored for flute, violin, cello and percussion.
Molly Barth, Flute. An homage to the song of the Hermit Thrush.