Previous Productions

Kentucky Opera will mount CINDERELLA IN SPAIN for the winter 2020 school show tour. The opera was initially commissioned by Opera to Go/Houston Grand Opera.

Music by Mary Carol Warwick
Libretto by Kate Pogue

​A World Premiere

Piedmont College has commissioned Mary Carol Warwick (composer) and Kate Pogue (librettist) to write an Oratorio honoring writer and civil rights activist Lillian Smith. The inaugural performance will be in April 2022. Piedmont College is located in Demorest, GA.

Music by Mary Carol Warwick
Libretto by Kate Pogue

Piedmont to debut an Original Musical about the life of Lillian E. Smith
April 7 and 8, 2022, at 7:30pm at the Swanson Center on Piedmont's Demorest Campus.

The performance was free to attend.
Visit piedmont.edu/fa.

STREGA NONA

An opera commissioned by Houston Grand Opera from Mary Carol Warwick (composer) and Mary Ann Pendino (librettist), had performances in January and February of 2020.

Community Performance

Cinderella en España sets the action in the culturally vibrant coastal city of Barcelona, providing a bilingual backdrop to this deceptively simple story about the beauty of kindness and the ugliness of mistreating others.

Recommended for PreK and up
This fully staged and costumed production is performed with Vve singers and live keyboard accompaniment. Running time is 50 minutes with a Q&A following the performance.

Libretto by Kate Pogue
Music by Mary Carol Warwick
Cinderella in Spain initially commissioned by Opera to Go/Houston Grand Opera

December 15, 2019  5:30pm-7:00pm

by composer Mary Carol Warwick and lyrics from THE GATHERING, a collection of poems by incarcerated and at-risk youth had a performance on Sunday, August 18, 2019 at McEvoy Auditorium at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

A bilingual children’s opera, was presented by Seattle Opera on its March-May, 2019 touring season, written by Mary Carol Warwick, composer and Kate Pogue, librettist.

For Oboe, English Horn and Piano, had its premiere performance on March 16, 2019, at MATCH Theatre Complex of Houston, TX.

Celebrating National Women's History Month, Rice University's Arts of Tolerance Foundation for Modern Music, Flamart and strictly Street Salsa present Premier Women. 

 
A tribute to four amazing Houston women:  Alice Valdez, Mary Guillory, Sangeeta Gad, and Mary Carol Warwick.

Saturday, March 16, 2019  8 p.m.

YO SOLO: GÁLVEZ OF GÁLVEZTOWN: Los Granaderos y Damas de Gálvez commissioned this opera from Mary Carol Warwick (composer) and Marec Béla Steffens (librettist).

Music by Mary Carol Warwick
Libretto by Marec Béla Steffens

Gálvez & the American Revolution

Played at Rice University on October 30, 2018, 7 p.m. for one performance only; Showcase of Music from the Opera Gálvez of Gálveztown!

For more information about "Yo Solo" please visit http://www.granaderos.org/

When the King holds a fiesta to find a bride for his son, Prince Paulo, havoc breaks loose when two stepsisters crash the party. This doesn’t stop Paulo from falling in love with a mysterious señorita – but can he find her with no other clue than the glass slipper she leaves behind?

Mary Warwick and Kate Pogue’s Cinderella in Spain is one of the most popular works in the history of Opera to Go!, and this hilarious bilingual adaptation has something for everyone.

Admission is free.

October 1, 2, 3, 2018 11 a.m.
Miller Outdoor Theatre
6000 Hermann Park Drive
Houston, TX  77030

Presented by The Greenbriar Consortium of Houston, music by Mary Carol Warwick, poetry by June Short Chalon, scored for Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Piano, Soprano and Mezzo Soprano on January 14, 2019.

The American Festival for the Arts in Houston, TX, commissioned a new staged/semi- staged operatic work scored for girls chorus (S, SA, two soloists, no more than 2 keyboards and one treble instrument). The work had it’s premiere performance on May 2017.

Music by Mary Carol Warwick
Libretto by Kate Pogue

SEATTLE—Bring the whole family to see Cinderella en España—a universal ragsto-riches tale that explores the beauty of kindness and the ugliness of mistreating others.  Seattle Opera will offer its new Spanish/English performance at both its annual Frost Fest on Feb. 4, 2017 at Cornish Playhouse, and on March 19, 2017 at Kirkland Performance Center; ultimately, the production will tour more than 40 elementary schools statewide.

“We hope that Cinderella will capture the imaginations of all children, in addition to welcoming Spanish speakers of all races and backgrounds; they are a significant and important group in our community,” Lang said.  “The opera will include a mix of the two languages in a way that’s easy for all to understand, and may even help English speakers learn a word or two en español.”  Far from the Disney version of the story, the performance is set in vibrant, contemporary Barcelona.  Sopranos Jessica Robins Milanese and Serena Eduljee share the role of the strong protagonist, whose heart remains open and generous despite the loss of her parents—and being picked on by her superficial step-family.  Ultimately, Cinderella meets her prince after receiving the gift of compassion from a stranger.  With characters who drink espresso and use social media on their cell phones, Cinderella offers a positive message of family, forgiveness, and the importance of kindness in a time period young audiences will recognize.  This new bilingual production is just one example of how the company is working to reduce historic structural barriers that have made opera inaccessible. In keeping with the mission to serve the community, another example is the company’s musical storytelling program Opera Time, which fosters literacy in and through the arts.  More than half the schools that Seattle Opera serves are Title I, where the majority of students receive free or reduced lunch.  Educational performances and programs are offered to these schools free of charge.

Performed by Seattle Opera

When the King holds a fiesta to find a bride for his son, Prince Paulo, havoc breaks loose when two stepsisters crash the party. This doesn’t stop Paulo from falling in love with a mysterious señorita – but can he find her with no other clue than the glass slipper she leaves behind?

Mary Warwick and Kate Pogue’s Cinderella in Spain is one of the most popular works in the history of Opera to Go!, and this hilarious bilingual adaptation has something for everyone.

Directed by Mark Andersen, additional orchestrations by Mark Andersen.  Starring Janiel Miller, Laura Morgan, Danny Oakden, Melvin Ezzell, & Joshua Conyers.

May 14, 2016  2 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Carolina Civic Center Historic Theater
Lumberton, NC

Watch the performance in 2 parts:  Part I, Part II

No tickets or reservations needed.

September 23, 24, 25, 2015 at 11 a.m.
Opera to Go!
Miller Outdoor Theatre
6000 Hermann Park Drive
Houston, TX 77030

Westbeth Community Venue & Downtown Music Productions present:
Poems & Lyrics by Ilsa Gilbert
Composed by Dan Burwasser, Katrina Cameron, Michael Cohen, Chris deBlasio, Peter Kelsh, Paul Kirby, Julie Mandel, Lou Rodgers, C. Colby Sachs, David Strickland, Mary Carol Warwick and Kenneth Wilson.
Downtown Chamber & Opera Players:
Karla Simmons, soprano
Darcy Dunn, mezzo-soprano
Linda Thompson Williams, contralto
William Amory, baritone
Andrew Bolotowsky, flute
David Hopkins, clarinet
Robert Kogan, cello
Steve Bloom, guitar
Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano

Westbeth Community Venue, 55 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014
For more information, contact dmpmimi@verizon.net

Wednesday, October 7, 2014 @ 7 p.m.

The Greenbriar Consortium presented an evening of great chamber works with special guests Christopher Sholl, tenor; Ellen Strba Scholl, mezzo soprano; Julia Fox, soprano; Kevin Byslam, pianist and conductor; and Katharine Caliendo, French Horn.

Works by W.A. Mozart, Benjamin Britten, Frank Bridge, Jonathan Santore and Josef B. Foerster.

Special performance of The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas with Isabelle Ganz and Eric Larson.

World premiere of Weather by Mary Carol Warwick set to a poem by Ava Leveal Haymon, Poet Laureate of Louisiana.

The Britten Tenor and Horn Serenade.

Our cast also included the wonderful players from the Houston Symphony and guest pianists Paul Boyd and Keith Weber.  Salem Evangelical Church 4930 West Bellfort, Houston 77035

Tuesday March 4, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

A song cycle based on The Gathering: poems, prayers and meditations of young people 'at risk' or in prison. Also, a special tribute to victims of gun violence including those of Sandy Hook.

Music by Mary Carol Warwick and based on The Gathering by Jeannine Otis. Cast for the New York premiere:

Anthony Turner, baritone

Paul Boyd, piano

Elise Wagner, bassoon

Luke Hubley, percussion

74A East 4th Street              February 4, 5, 2014

(Between Bowery & 2nd Ave)                7:30 PM

New York, NY 10003                        $18 (Adults)

(Cabaret Space)      $13 (Students and Seniors)

Music by Mary Carol Warwick

Libretto by Alvaro Saar Rios

The witch Bruja has horrible hair and uses peppers to concoct potions to try and transform it. When her neighbor, Rapunzel, stumbles into her garden, Bruja sees a chance to have luxurious hair another way - by force!

Opera to Go! presented free performances at The Heinen Theater, located on the HCC campus at 3517 Austin St., Houston, TX 77004.

January 30, 31, and February 1, 2014.

The Clever Wife - A Chinese Folktale
Music by Mary Carol Warwick
Libretto by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Houston Grand Opera.  Can a woman be a hero? Based on a popular Chinese folk tale, this world premiere opera explores the differences between wisdom and knowledge when a young wife must rescue her foolish husband from a magistrate's impossible tasks. Music by Mary Carol Warwick, libretto by Hugh Behm-Steinberg and commissioned by Donna and Robert Bruni. The performance is appropriate for elementary and middle school students.

May 2-4, 2012, 11:00 am
Miller Outdoor Theatre
6000 Hermann Park Dr.
Houston, TX 77030