“Music director Mila Henry on the piano and her band...couldn’t have been bettered..."

BROADWAY WORLD

“…a stalwart contributor to the contemporary opera scene.”

OPERA ITHACA

“Music director Mila Henry on the piano and her band...couldn’t have been bettered..."

BROADWAY WORLD

“…a stalwart contributor to the contemporary opera scene.”

OPERA ITHACA

Music Director and Pianist Mila Henry maintains an active and versatile career leading works that defy genre, from rock musicals to folk operas to reimagined classics.

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PRECIPICE premiere at La MaMa with director Mallory Catlett and composer Rima Fand, January 2026
PRECIPICE premiere at La MaMa with director Mallory Catlett and composer Rima Fand, January 2026

Winter 2026 Highlights

Music Director/Pianist for Precipice (Zeeman Rogers/Fand/Fisher) at PROTOTYPE; Conductor for No One is Forgotten workshop at Princeton University (Prestini, Miller); Conductor for Don Giovanni residency at WTAMU; Pianist for Evidence of Things Not Seen with Brooklyn Art Song Society; AMD and Pianist for The Comet / Poppea (Lewis) at the Yale Schwarzman Center.

The Old Man and the Sea with Opera Columbus, October 2025
The Old Man and the Sea with Opera Columbus, October 2025

Fall 2025 Highlights

Touring to Chicago's Navy Pier with The Opera Cowgirls; Playing keys for an orchestra workshop of The Lunchbox (Lazour Brothers); Conducting The Old Man and the Sea (Prestini, Vavrek, Šilec) at Opera Columbus; Playing for the W&P presentation of Fellow Travelers (Spears, Pierce) at The Guggenheim; MDing/playing for readings of The Debutantes (Norman, Rockwell) with Manhattan Musical Theatre Lab and Saint Sebastian (McCabe, Kim) at The Theater Center; Co-leading a Black Swan workshop with MD Or Matias (Malloy, Silverman) for A.R.T.

The Sun Songs Constellation at Judson, March 2025
The Sun Songs Constellation at Judson, March 2025

Spring 2025 Highlights

Music Director/Pianist for Sun Songs (madison, Cowell) at Judson Memorial Church; MD/Pianist for John Kelly's Weill Boy... at Joe's Pub; Conductor for Lucidity (Kaminsky, Cote) at Opera Ithaca; Répétiteur for Sensorium Ex (Prestini, Shaughnessy) with BMP, VIA, and Opera Omaha; Touring with The Opera Cowgirls to Chicago; MD/Pianist for Undone (Marlor, Tien) on AOP's C&V: Party of Five; Art songs (Moussa, Staniland) with Sarah Brailey on BASS's Lost/Found III concert.