The Buffalo Philharmonic has commissioned City of Light, a large-scale work for full orchestra to open their 90th season in September 2024 in honor of JoAnn Falletta and the BPO. See Buffalo News, and here.
I Hear America Singing, a combination documentary and operafilm, is in pre-production and begins filming on 1 May in Pittsburgh; Daron will direct both the staged production and the film; Talal Jabari, the DOP for the operafilm 9/10: Love Before the Fall, will be the documentarian.
Naxos releases The Art of Song (featuring Lyric Fest) in January and Heike Quinto (featuring Duo YUMENO) on 24 May worldwide.
My operafilm 9/10: Love Before the Fall continues to garner laurels at film festivals internationally—both online monthly ones, and bricks-and-mortar screenings at the larger festivals. Laurels (in formation) can be seen HERE.
Daron is interviewed about “The Art of Song” by baritone Gabriel Feldt.
Ensemble INTERWOVEN will premiere the chamber ensemble version of the forthcoming double concerto for Koto and Cello (a consortium-in-formation) called Aviary during the 25-26 season. Learn more about the project here.
The official trailer for the opera film “9/10: Love Before the Fall” which opened on the festival circuit on 10 September 2023.