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Biography
Lila Palmer is a librettist and producer who specializes in concealed or historically overlooked narratives, with an active secondary practice in creating activation events for museum interpretation. Current works include the children's opera The Selfish Giant with Clarice Assad, commissioned by American Lyric Theater, which will premiere this season at Opera Saratoga; Splintered, a Nutracker fantasia with Justine Chen and Jorge Sosa in development at American Lyric Theater; American Apollo with Damien Geter for Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative, Opera Murder Club; an installation digital opera with Tamar-Kali Brown for LA Opera, and the song cycle This Be Her Verse, commissioned by soprano Gold Schultz with Kathleen Tagg. Other highlights include a sold-out promenade electronic opera These Wondering Stones for Barbican Center Sound Unbound Festival; In Her Own Valley, a children's cantata on themes of child labour and personal responsibilty with Grace Evangeline Mason for the Liverpool Philharmonic and her notable collaboration with serving women of the British Army exploring the intersectional experiences of female soldiers, Dead Equal (2019) called' 'profound, poetic, and dripping with pathos' (Broadway Baby) and 'True feminism' (Diva Magazine). Previous commissions include The Reckoning (2018) Bloodlines ( 2018); an outdoor electronic children's opera for private garden, Scraww (2018); The Jewel Merchants (2017); Sunshine Girl (2017); Changing Stations (2017); Heard (2017). Her first opera libretto, Harbour (2016) about the internal displacement of Scottish Highlanders by English overlords was called 'a work of strange Celtic Beauty that turns anguish into art' (The Times, London). Lila is a graduate of Cambridge University, New England Conservatory, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and a grateful alumnus of American Lyric Theater's Composer Librettist Development Program. A mezzo-soprano, she trained at English National Opera and began a professional performing career before committing to making opera in 2014 in order to expand the perspective of stories on opera stages.
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Artist Information
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