and there was a new voice
which you slowly
​recognized as your own

and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own is an electro-acoustic voice-based attempt at an opera -or what opera can be. This work subverts opera archetypes, expresses myriad vocal styles, tries to feel through all of the emotions (within and beyond melodrama), and especially explore vulnerability and being in community.

Performance Works NW April 19+20, 2019
Directed + Produced by Stephanie Lavon Trotter
Composed + Performed by Stephanie Lavon Trotter + Margaret McNeal
Dramaturgy: Hatlo, Lighting + Technical Direction: Jeff Forbes
Floral Arrangement: Sarah Jane Dillon @florakulturpdx
Funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and an Alembic Co-Production with Performance Works NW