Peter Hilliard & Matt Boresi are the creators of new opera and opera-adjacent works, regularly praised for their "subtlety, humor, charm, and sorrow." Their most recent full-length opera “The Last American Hammer”, (World Premiere, UrbanArias, Washington DC 2018), featuring renowned soprano Elizabeth Futral, was praised by critics as a “beautifully prepared, dramatically taut” production, ”which makes us challenge our cultural, political, racial and regional assumptions head-on”, with “a difficult - but needed - conclusion for these times.” It received a second production at Pittsburgh Opera in 2020. Matt and Peter have created award-winning crossover work from Off-Broadway’s “Don Imbroglio” and “Going Down Swingin’” to the puppet opera “Eat Your Greens: Verdi by Vegetables.” They both hold Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University.

Peter lives in Philadelphia. Matt lives in Chicago.   

Chicago Fringe Opera is dedicated to presenting innovative vocal works with an emphasis on new and contemporary styles, engaging with the Chicago community through intimate and immersive performance experiences, and fostering and empowering local artists.

Founded in 1968, Fargo Moorhead Opera is based in Fargo, ND and serves the region within a 250-mile radius of our community in North Dakota and Minnesota. Annually, the season includes two mainstage operas from the standard repertoire and several smaller works in multiple venues.

Founded in 2004, Lyric Opera of the North provides world-class opera performance and education in the North, for all ages in a diversity of venues and formats, welcoming the opportunity to channel our many diverse strengths and passions into collaborative efforts for all who love the grandest of the performing arts, opera.

Milwaukee’s micro-brewery for opera, proudly producing small batches of high-quality, local lyric theatre.
They tell stories through music...unconventionally.

Bare Opera is alternative opera company in New York City reinventing the opera experience. With minimalist, modern aesthetics, our exceptional emerging and established artists bring you the bare essentials of opera—a candid, immersive theatrical experience with breathtakingly beautiful music at its core.

UrbanArias produces short, contemporary operas in the Washington, DC area – works that are 90 minutes in length or shorter, and written within the last 25 years. We provide a professional venue at which both established and emerging composers can present their shorter works, and our mission is to bring new audiences to the art form through relevant, current material.

An Opera Theatre (AOT) presents socially-relevant and social justice works, in order to break down the barriers of the classical art form and bring communities together. The main goal of AOT is that art should break down societal, financial, and cultural barriers. Art should always be of and for the people and that is what AOT is all about.