Basil Considine
Librettist
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Basil Considine is an award-winning playwright, composer, and opera director. A passionate developer of new works for the stage, he has curated more than two dozen world premieres and authored more than a dozen plays, musicals, and operas.
Named one of Musical America Magazine’s Top Movers & Shapers for 2018, he is a queer-identified, multi-racial artist of Chinese and Caucasian descent; his musical and stage works have been performed on three continents, and broadcast on national television. His play “The Abortion Bomb” has been exhibited in multiple university theatre and literature programs, and his opera “The Frat Party” was a Semi-Finalist for The American Prize in Composition (Opera / Theater / Film / Dance Division) in 2017. Basil is the artistic director of the Minneapolis-based opera company Really Spicy Opera. He is an alum of Nautilus Music Theater’s Composer-Librettist Studio and was the 2021-2022 U.S. Fulbright Faculty Scholar to Madagascar. 2023 Winterthur Artist-in-Residence. Learn more about Basil at the following links
Official Website New Wave Opera has programmed the following works by Basil Considine: Meow and Forever (full opera) "Bored Cat Duet," from Meow and Forever "Siopia’s Vengeance Aria", from Sirens vs. Amazons |