Stephen Rush: Composer, Artist, Professor

Seven Operas by Stephen Rush

Black Pilgrims (2022)-mini-electronic opera

A Fictional dialogue betwen Malcolm X and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to be premiered in January of 2023. Set to Hiphop beats and String Quartet.

Ice Guys a Fluxkit Opera or a Tin Pan Alley Review about the only American on the Endurance Expedition (2020-2023)

My second chance-based game-board opera, based on the life of William Bakewell as told by his granddaughter, Elizabeth.  All music from 1914-1917, with text by Elizabeth Bakewell and Ernest Shackleton.  To be workshopped twice in Ann Arbor, MI,  and premiered on a boat in San Francisco in 2023.

Ulysses Grant Fluxkit Opera (2012)

Ulysses Grant Fluxkit Opera (2012) (NY performance)

(whole opera – NY performance –  here)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1999) (libretto by Poe)

listen to:Tango from Murders in the Rue Morgue

Vidgod (2001) (set and libretto by Michael Rodemer)

Trailer:

¡Stop Blaming Columbus! (2005) (set and libretto by Michael Rodemer)

Trailer 

Two Candles Burning (2009) (set and libretto by Michael Rodemer)

FOR AUDIO CLICK HERE

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