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.
Touring with the Opera Cowgirls to Amarillo, TX and OKC; MDing Handmaiden (Bora Yoon & E.J. Koh) at Princeton Sound Kitchen (pictured); Performing with Samantha Britt and Aaron Theno at Songbird Mountain; MDing Eat the Document (John Glover, Kelley Rourke, & director Kristin Marting) at [working titles] by Amanda+James; Performing The Nothing Lamp (Joseph Rubinstein & Mark Campbell) with Jessica Fishenfeld at Amanda+James.
Conducting the World Premiere of Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War (Kirsten Volness, Kate Holland & Susan Werbe) with AOP at Irondale; Conducting the latest workshop of Penelope and the Geese (Milica Paranosic & Cheri Magid) with ShoutOut Saugerties in Woodstock, NY; Touring with the Opera Cowgirls to Delaware Valley Opera.
Conducting Hansel und Gretel with Opera on Tap's PlayGround Opera; Playing for 2 videos for SOUL(SIGNS): OPERA with UpUntilNowCollective; MDing for The AOP Mixtape at Joe's Pub, a sampler of 13 songs (pictured); Playing for C&V: First Glimpse, the debut of Composers & the Voice '21-23; Conducting the workshop of Ga Sho (Pete Wyer & Melissa Salmons) in Rhinebeck; MDing J.O.Y. (Brandon Fillette & Joely Zuker) at BerkleeNYC.