I served as Music Director for the first full-presentation of Josh Charney's opera Bula Matari: Breaker of Rocks. The opera is based on the true story of British explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s tumultuous expedition through the African Congo into the Sudan.

Bula Matari | Breaker of Rocks A one-act opera Music and Libretto by Josh Charney The Mahdi - Barbara Byers Henry Stanley - Jonathan Nussman Emin Pasha - Ada...