Opera Writing
After training with Opera America and the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Creating Original Opera Program, Ms. Teason founded the Children's Original Opera Project in New Haven, an after-school program for public, parochial and private 4th-6th graders. Each spring for 10 years, participants created their own opera company that produced an original opera, for which they wrote the libretto and music, designed and built costumes, lighting and sets, mounted a publicity campaign and performed their work.
The program won the Morris Wessel Prize in 2001.
Since 2010, Deborah Teason has partnered with composer/child psychiatrist David Aryeh Sasso to create original operas with children and adolescents in psychiatric and medical hospital settings. Their company, Riverview Opera Project, has worked with
the Albert J. Solnit Psychiatric Center and Yale New Haven Hospital's Arts for Healing programs, creating and producing operas with long-term residential patients, sickle-cell disease patients, and facility staff.
Ms. Teason has also directed World Premiere Opera Workshops, a training program for corporate executives
and a series of opera workshops for Opera Omaha's How Do They Do That? education program.
The program won the Morris Wessel Prize in 2001.
Since 2010, Deborah Teason has partnered with composer/child psychiatrist David Aryeh Sasso to create original operas with children and adolescents in psychiatric and medical hospital settings. Their company, Riverview Opera Project, has worked with
the Albert J. Solnit Psychiatric Center and Yale New Haven Hospital's Arts for Healing programs, creating and producing operas with long-term residential patients, sickle-cell disease patients, and facility staff.
Ms. Teason has also directed World Premiere Opera Workshops, a training program for corporate executives
and a series of opera workshops for Opera Omaha's How Do They Do That? education program.