OPERA ITHACA
OPERA ITHACA
Conductor, Pianist, and Music Director Mila Henry maintains an active and versatile career, leading works spanning rock musicals to folk operas to reimagined classics. Comfortable leading from both piano and podium, she prefers not to separate styles, but to blur boundaries.
Conducting the West Coast Premiere of Magdalene (14 women composers, poetry by Marie Howe; pictured) at CalArts REDCAT with Beth Morrison Projects; Conducting The New Moon at College Light Opera Company; Traveling to the Berkshires with The Opera Cowgirls; Conducting Welcome to the Madness (Leanna Kirchoff and Rachel Peters; World Premiere) at Opera Steamboat.
Serving as Music Director/Pianist for the latest workshop of Eat the Document (Glover, Rourke; pictured) at Baryshnikov Arts Center; Playing on Tiergarten with Death of Classical; More Music Director/Piano work for Exagoge (Finberg, Einhorn; World Premiere) with Untitled Theater Company No. 61 at La MaMa; Leading two thesis labs for NYU's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program; Performing at The Green Room 42 with The Opera Cowgirls; Playing on First Glimpse with AOP's Composers & the Voice program.
Covering some rehearsal piano for Adoration (Kouyoumdjian, Vavrek) and Angel Island (Huang Ruo) at PROTOTYPE; Conducting The Old Man and the Sea (Prestini, Vavrek, Sileç; pictured) at Carolina Performing Arts with Beth Morrison Projects and VisionIntoArt; Répétiteur work for a workshop of The Comet / Poppea with The Industry and AMOC; premiering Flame and Shadow (Rutter-Covatto) and absence, presence (Rubinstein) on counter codex's POLYMATH program; Performing at The Green Room 42 with cabaret partner John C. Hume.