Carla Lucero has been awarded a 2022 - 2023 Women Composer's Commissioning Grant from OPERA America for her opera-in-progress, TOUCH, with Opera Birmingham. TOUCH will premiere in 2024. (Marianna Mott Newirth, co-librettist.)
She has also received a second OPERA America Commissioning Grant (2023-2024) for her new opera, THE TOWER OF BABEL, commissioned by LA Opera, premiering March 2025. (Music and libretto by Carla Lucero.)
LA Opera
https://www.laopera.org/about-us/artists-2/creative-team/carla-lucero/
Opera Birmingham
https://www.operabirmingham.org/touch
Opera UCLA
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/opera-ucla-proudly-presents-the-world-premiere-of-juana/
dell’Arte Opera
https://dellarteopera.org/project/juana-2020/
West Edge Opera
https://www.westedgeopera.org/snapshot-2017
Opera America
The Hildegards of Los Angeles
https://www.fiftyfingyears.com/blog/2020/2/15/the-hildegards-of-los-angeles
UC Berkeley
https://bampfa.org/event/crossings-facing-boundaries-gender-culture-and-family-carla-lucero
Earplay Ensemble
http://www.earplay.org/www/notes.php?id=Lucero
Marika Brussel Dance
https://www.marikabrussel.com/program-house-of-names
Heidi Duckler Dance
https://heididuckler.org/projects/liquid-assets-1998/
Creative Work Fund
https://creativeworkfund.org/tag/carla-lucero
San Francisco Arts Commission
The Advocate
Resonancia (Chile)
https://www.resonanciafemenina.com/447747787
ComuArte International
https://comuarte.org/estados-unidos/
La Festival Contemporania de Habana (Cuba) https://revistalentos.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/inicia-en-la-habana-xxv-festival-de-musica-contemporanea/
The Mexico City Philharmonic (Mexico) https://www.jornada.com.mx/2006/10/10/index.php?section=cultura&article=a05n2cul
With the utmost gratitude, I would like to acknowledge my assistant, engineer, producer and wonderful composer in his own right, Spencer Keene https://spencerkeene.com and Project Manager and technological wizard, Dirk Epperson.
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