Hilliard & boresi

Peter Hilliard & Matt Boresi are the creators of new opera and opera-adjacent work, 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. It received a second production at Pittsburgh Opera in 2020.

Hilliard and Boresi’s blues-infused opera, "Blue Viola" (UrbanArias, Opera Memphis, Lyric Opera Of the North) was called as "as good a rejoinder as any the notion that opera is dead". 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 holds Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University.

Peter lives in Philadelphia. Matt lives in Chicago.