Program Notes
Notes for my operas, readings, and recitals, to read before the performance, during it, or on the way home.
Music by Jeremy Rafal, libretto by Conrad A. Panganiban. In Watsonville, California, during the 1930 riots, a Filipino farm worker takes refuge in a general store from an angry mob.
Read the program notes →A play inspired by the Willard Asylum Suitcases: a Filipino pianist arrives in America as a pensionado, navigating love, mental health, and the consequences of American imperialism.
Read the program notes →Chopin, Nocturne in C Minor and Sonata No. 2 · Rafal, Sao ti Biag · Bartók, Out of Doors · Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Read the program notes →At a performance? The QR code in your printed program opens the right page directly.