Making Music in Minnesota (and the Line between Musical Theater and Opera).
Friday 08/08/25, doors open at 5:00pm ET, interview starts at 5:30. Come early so we can meet you!
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In the room: Ben Krywosz, artistic director of the Nautilus Music-Theater. Founded in 1986 as The New Music-Theatre Ensemble, a program of the Minnesota Opera, Nautilus has grown into an essential platform and incubator for the creation, development and production of new operas and other forms of music-theater that are, in Ben's words, "emotionally expansive, dramatically engaging, and spiritually stimulating." Nautilus also offers multiple training opportunities for artistic growth including Performing Power classes for local performers, the annual Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theater Institute for performers, directors and coaches (now in its 46th year), and a Composer-Librettist Studio (now in its 41st year), held in the Twin Cities, NYC (at New Dramatists), and other sites around the country. His Composer-Librettist Studios have facilitated over 1,750 collaborations between composers and writers since 1984. With his roots so firmly in opera, how far does he stray in his taste for musical theater? Just how different are these two art forms? And what are the secrets of successful collaboration?
