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SYCORAX (libretto):

The opera Sycorax (with music composed by Georg Friedrich Haas, and libretto created by Harriet Scott Chessman) will open at Buehnen Bern theater, in Bern, Switzerland, on September 17, 2022, and will include five performances in all.

MY LAI (libretto)

Smithsonian Folkways released the recording of My Lai on May 20, 2022,  an operatic monodrama I created in collaboration with composer Jonathan Berger.  It is now available digitally, on a CD set (including the libretto and other material), and as a vinyl album.  Commissioned by Kronos Performing Arts Association, My Lai is performed by Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and Rinde Eckert.

OTHER RECENT NEWS:

A concert version of My Lai was performed at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 2022.

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Guest Blog posts

"LETTING MY WRITING LIE FALLOW" – guest post on AnaMcCracken.com.

"A Writer's Space" – guest post on Atelier26.

"Harriet Scott Chessman: The Beauty of Ordinary Things" – guest post on 1st Books:  Reading and Writing with Friends.

"Book Q&A's with Deborah Kalb" – interview by Deborah Kalb on her website, Haunting Legacy. 

"Walking Through the Hedge" – an essay on Meg Waite Clayton’s site, 1st Books: Stories about How Writers Get Started.

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