Category: Séance on a Wet Afternoon

This past Monday, May 13th, the American Opera Project honored Academy Award-winning composer and frequent WitzEnd Productions collaborator Stephen Schwartz. An all-star group of performers (including opera legend Lauren Flanigan, and Bullets Over Broadway star Betsy Wolfe) gathered in the Grand Ballroom of NYC’s iconic The Player’s Club for an evening of music from Stephen’s hits from...

Backstage Review: Séance on a Wet Afternoon “Directed with intelligence and insight by his son, Scott Schwartz, and powerfully delivered by a uniformly top-flight cast, ‘Séance’ is a welcome addition to the modern opera canon.” Superconductor Blog: “The Psychic Fiend’s Network” “[Schwartz’s] sweet tunes develop into poisonous flowers of sound, acquiring new, and sinister meaning as...

Days away from opening, and the good press keeps coming! Here’s just a sample of what’s out there on Séance: Famed Broadway Composer Tries His Hand At Opera – video and write-up at NY1.com Playbill.com’s Brief Encounter With Stephen Schwartz Séance on a Wet Afternoon With Stephen Schwartz – The New York City Opera Podcast Still...