Stephanie Fleischmann

“A writer who can conjure something between a dreamy road movie and a theatrical coming-of-age tale, and who can piece these elements together in the style of a jagged ballad for guitar.” —Chicago Sun Times

UPCOMING

"Lyrical monologues"
 —The New York Times

"Finely tuned libretto"
—Opera News

"The plot's tension is set, taut as a drawn bow."
—The New York Times

"Each song is a meditation on a moment. The moment is drawn out, lengthened, examined, illuminated, somehow made more beautiful by being looked at so carefully."
—The Brooklyn Rail

"Stephanie Fleischmann’s prescient libretto…”
—The Wholenote

The recipient of Opera America’s 2022 Campbell Librettist Prize, Stephanie Fleischmann is an award-winning librettist and playwright whose texts serve as blueprints for intricate three-dimensional sonic and visual worlds. Opera libretti include: In a Grove (Christopher Cerrone; Pittsburgh and LA Opera; In a Circle Records); Poppaea (Wien Modern; Basel Zeiträume) and Medea (Ensemble MusikFabrik, Cologne), with composer Michael Hersch; Dido with Melinda Wagner (for Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano Quartet, touring throughout the US); Another City (Houston Grand Opera) and The Long Walk (Opera Saratoga/ALT/Utah Opera) with Jeremy Howard Beck; and operas in progress with David Hanlon (Santa Fe Opera), Yevgeniy Sharlat (Hub New Music), Matthew Recio (West Edge), Alex Weiser (ALT), and Peter Knell (Jacaranda/Seattle Opera). The Visitation, a soundwalk with Christina Campanella, can be accessed via URHERE. Fleischmann is an alumnus of the Composer Librettist Development Program at American Lyric Theater.