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The Swann: a music workshop, National Sawdust 🔈
2026-07-06 to 07-10
National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY)

30-min scenes from chamber opera inspired by the life of William Dorsey Swann, the first self-identified “queen of drag” in the United States
Music by Tamar-kali
Libretto by Carl Hancock Rux
Music directed by Dan Schlosberg
Piano, Schlosberg
Featuring Edwin Jhamaal Davis, Tesia Kwertang, Cody Bowers, April Matthis, David Adam Moore, Rodolfo Girón, Bernard Holcomb, Matthew Anchel
📣 New Yorker

Music Director
Pianist

Sma’s Variety Show, The Slipper Room
2026-06-07
The Slipper Room (New York, NY)

Variety show of comedy, music, and burlesque featuring Legends of American Theatre™
Hosted by Sma Luna
featuring Junita Cardenas, Ryan Shinji, Arya Gaston, Gabriel Luna, Emma Ramos, Dustin Wills, Dan Schlosberg, and others

Pianist

Premiere of Great Awakenings: John Henry Hobart and America, Trinity Church Wall Street 🔈
2026-05-31
Trinity Church Wall Street (New York, NY)

Performance of Great Awakenings: John Henry Hobart and America (2026) and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite for thirteen instruments (1970)
Performed by NOVUS NY and the Trinity Choir
Music by David Hurd
Libretto by Christopher Dylan Herbert
Conducted by Melissa Attebury
Piano, Dan Schlosberg

Pianist

Vanessa (2026), Heartbeat Opera
2026-05-12 to 05-31
Baruch PAC (New York, NY)

75-min adaptation and arrangement of Barber’s Vanessa (1958)
Music by Samuel Barber
Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Directed by R.B. Schlather
Music arranged by Dan Schlosberg
Music directed by Jacob Ashworth
Featuring Freddie Ballentine, Inna Dukach, Joshua Jeremiah, Kelsey Lauritano, Mary Phillips
Produced by Heartbeat Opera
📣 New Yorker, New York Times, The Berkshires Eagle, Seen and Heard International, Musical America, Theatre Beyond Broadway
🏆 New York Times: The Best Classical Music and Opera of 2026 (So Far)

Arranger

Tree of Life, Faith Formation and Education “Discovery” Series, Trinity Church Wall Street
2026-05-10
Trinity Church Wall Street (New York, NY)

Performance of Mario Diaz de Leon’s Tree of Life (2024) for clarinet, piano, violin, cello
Performed by NOVUS NY
Music by Mario Diaz de Leon
Piano, Dan Schlosberg

Pianist

Youth Never Lived (2026)
2026-04-16
54 Below (New York, NY)

4’ for voice, violin, cello, clarinet, and piano
Presented as part of The Alchemists’ Duel
Music by Dan Schlosberg
Libretto by Amanda Quaid
Produced by Operela
Featuring Chauncey Packer

Composer

Producing for Opera's New Audiences webinar, Opera America
2026-04-02

Panel discussion on American opera
Featured panlists, Mary Birnbaum, Dan Cooperman, Lee Helms, Bernard Holcomb, Jamelah Rimawi, Dan Schlosberg

Panelist

Un rêve qui veille/ Being Alive, concerts with Lauren Libaw and Dan Schlosberg
2026-03-26 to 03-31
Petite Forêt/ Fondation des États-Unis (Paris, France)

Performance of works by Jason Robert Brown, Adam Gwon, Marvin Hamlisch, Dan Lipton, Cole Porter, Stephen Schwartz, Marc Shaiman, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, Frank Wildhorn et al.
Soprano, Lauren Libaw
Piano, Dan Schlosberg

Pianist

Complications in Sue (2026), Opera Philadelphia
2026 Feb
Opera Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

100-min opera featuring ten scenes composed by ten composers
Libretto by Michael R. Jackson
Music by Dan Schlosberg, as well as Andy Akiho, Alistair Coleman, Nathalie Joachim, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Rene Orth, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kamala Sankaram, and Errollyn Wallen
Co-directed by Raja Feather Kelly, Zack Winokur
Conducted by Caren Levine
General Director, Anthony Roth Costanzo
Featuring Justin Vivian Bond, Kiera Duffy, Nicholas Newton, Nicky Spence, Rehanna Thelwell
📣 Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Vogue, I Care If You Listen, The Philadelphia Inquirer (review), The Philadelphia Inquirer (preview), Bachtrack, Playbill, Main Line Times & Suburban, 6ABC, BroadwayWorld, Opera Wire, Arts News Now, WRTI
🏆 New York Times: The Best Classical Music and Opera of 2026 (So Far)

Composer

Manon! (2026), Heartbeat Opera
2026 Jan
The Space at Irondale (Brooklyn, NY)

100-min adaptation and arrangement of Massenet’s Manon (1884)
Music by Jules Massenet
Directed by Rory Pelsue
Choreography by Sara Gettelfinger
Music arranged and music directed by Dan Schlosberg
Featuring Emma Grimsley, Matt Dengler, Glenn Seven Allen, Jamari Darling, Justin Lee Miller, Kathryn McCreary, Natalie Walker
Produced by Heartbeat Opera
📣 Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, theaterscene.net, Seen and Heard International, TheaterMania, Classical Voice North America, CadenzaNYC, Berkshire Fine Arts, New Yorker, WQXR, Playbill

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Music Director
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