Roscoe: An American Grand Opera (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781537568829)

Since joining forces in 2011, composer Evan Mack and librettist Joshua McGuire have created a style that sets them apart in the world of contemporary opera. By writing words and music in tandem, they produce theatre grounded in climactic expression. Mack & McGuire deliver larger-than-life stories, and music that harnesses the full athletic thrill of singing. Their first collaboration, The Secret of Luca, premiered in 2014 in Fresno, CA. In August 2016, their American grand opera Roscoe, based on the novel by Pulitzer-Prize winning author William Kennedy, premiered at the Seagle Music Colony to rave reviews. It later received a concert performance with the Albany Symphony and Met Opera superstar Deborah Voigt. In between these two large-scale projects, Mack & McGuire also found time to compose the first-ever opera for Twitter, #IsOperaDead-an opera in 5 acts lasting one minute and forty seconds. Their latest enterprise is a multi-cultural Christmas opera for children, Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena, which will premiere to thousands of children on both coasts in the 2016-17 season. Mack & McGuire are currently drafting a new one-act opera entitled The Ghosts of Gatsby, slated to premiere in 2018. Individually and together, their work has appeared at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Seagle Music Colony, Winspear Opera House, Washington National Opera, Atlanta Opera, Glimmerglass, and numerous colleges and universities.