{"id":39,"date":"2025-02-04T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2025-02-05T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T08:57:09","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/?page_id=39","title":{"rendered":"Wojciech St\u0119pie\u0144\n   composer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Wojciech St\u0119pie\u0144 is a composer and music theorist. He studied composition and music theory at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and obtained his PhD at the University of Helsinki. During the academic year 2022-2023 he was a Fulbright scholar at UCLA. He composes vocal music: songs and operas. <br><br>more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wojciechstepien.com\/a-single-man\">www.wojciechstepien.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Amanda Hollander <br><em> <\/em>librettist<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"http:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG20240208153150-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG20240208153150-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG20240208153150-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG20240208153150-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG20240208153150-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG20240208153150-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG20240208153150-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amanda Hollander and Wojciech St\u0119pie\u0144 in Palm Springs 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amanda Hollander is a librettist and fiction writer based in Brooklyn. Since completing her Librettist Fellowship with the American Opera Project&#8217;s Composers and the Voice Program, 2019-2021, Hollander has been active in the creation of several new operas and song cycles.<br><br>more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amandahollander.com\/about\">www.amandahollander.com\/about<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Peter Kazaras<br>creative producer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Peter-Kazaras.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Peter-Kazaras.jpg 427w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Peter-Kazaras-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Peter Kazaras was the Director of Opera UCLA (2007-2024) and the Inaugural Susan G. and Michel D. Covel MD Chair at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. A stage director and Professor of Music, he was also Artistic Director of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program from 2006 to 2013. Earlier in his career, he received worldwide acclaim as an operatic tenor, performing at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Vienna, among many others. <br><br>Over the past fifteen years, he directed over twenty productions for Seattle Opera\u2019s main stage and Young Artists Program, plus productions for Opera Cleveland, Madison Opera, Eos Orchestra, Red: {an Orchestra}, the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and festivals at Cabrillo and Caramoor. He directed for educational programs such as Merola at San Francisco Opera Center, the Wolf Trap summer program, the Chautauqua Institute Voice Department, the Academy of Vocal Arts, the Hartt College of Music, and Florida State University. At UCLA he has directed, supervised or produced over twenty-five productions during his tenure.<br><br><br><br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wojciech St\u0119pie\u0144 is a composer and music theorist. He studied composition and music theory at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and obtained his PhD at the University of Helsinki. During the academic year 2022-2023 he was a Fulbright scholar at UCLA. He composes vocal music: songs and operas. more: www.wojciechstepien.com Amanda Hollander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}