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Vanessa (2025), Williamstown Theatre Festival x Heartbeat Opera
2025-07-17 to 08-03 (premiere)
The Annex (Williamstown, MA)
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 Dan Schlosberg, Jacob Ashworth
Featuring Inna Dukach, Roy Hage, Joshua Jeremiah, Ori Marcu, Mary Phillips
Produced by Heartbeat Opera 
Curated by Artistic Director Jeremy O. Harris
Piano, Dan Schlosberg
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Music Director
© Maria Baranova

Camino Real (2025), Williamstown Theatre Festival
2025-07-17 to 08-03 (premiere)
The '62 Center for Theatre & Dance (Williamstown, MA)
145-min play featuring original music by Schlosberg
Play by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Dustin Wills
Composed by Dan Schlosberg
Featuring Pamela Anderson, Frankie J. Alvarez, Ato Blankson-Wood, Juanita Cardenas, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Cindy de la Cruz, Arya Gaston, Gabriel Gaston, Braelynn Johnson, Kennedy Ocean Johnson, Rob B, Kellogg, Vin Knight, Smaranda Luna, April Matthis, Bruce McKenzie, Whitney Peak, Emma Ramos, Marquis Rodriguez, Julian Sanchez, Socorro Santiago, Vicki Shaghoian, Ryan Shinji, Henry Stram, Marlon Alexander Vargas, Jacob Wasson
Piano, Dan Schlosberg
Artistic Director, Jeremy O. Harris
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Composer
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© Maria Baranova

The Handmaid’s Tale, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
2025-07-26 (premiere)
Jenny Belzberg Theatre, Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada)
90-min adaptation and arrangement of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale (1998)
Music by Poul Ruders
Libretto by Paul Bentley
Music arranged by Dan Schlosberg
Directed by Brenna Corner
Conducted by Kamna Gupta
Produced by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
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Workshop
2024 Jun, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, Canada)

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© Royce Vavrek © ENO 2022 © The Banff Centre 

The Counterfeit Opera: A Beggar’s Opera for a Grifter’s City (2025), Little Island 🔈
2025-05-29 to 06-15 (premiere)
Little Island (New York, NY) 
105-min musical, featuring original music by Schlosberg
Book and lyrics by Kate Tarker
Music by Dan Schlosberg
Directed by Dustin Wills
Music directed by Dan Schlosberg
Scenic designed by Dustin Wills, Lisa Laratta
Produced by Zack Winokur, Ed Wasserman
Featuring Christopher Bannow, Damon Duanno, Sola Fadiran, Ann Harada, Vin Knight, Dorcas Leung, Daniel Liu, Rob Kellogg, Leonardo Khan, Katerina McCrimmon, Lauren Patten, Emma Ramos, Jason Veasey, Zenzi Williams
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© Little Island © NYT

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (2025), The New Group 🔈
2025-04-22 to 06-01
Signature Theatre Company (New York, NY)
90-min musical
Book by Fake Friends (Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley)
Music and lyrics by Michael Breslin
Additional music and lyrics by Patrick Foley
Directed by and developed with Rory Pelsue
Choreographed by Jack Ferver
Vocals arranged by Michael Breslin and Dan Schlosberg
Music orchestrated and directed by Dan Schlosberg
Featuring Patrick Nathan Falk, Keri René Fuller, Sara Gettelfinger, Luke Islam, Milly Shapiro, Natalie Walker
Presented by The New Group
Produced by special arrangement with Jeremy O. Harris, Josh Goldfrey of bb²
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Workshop
2024 Dec, The New Group (New York, NY)
2023 May, Ars Nova (New York, NY)
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Pianist
© Jeremy O. Harris © Natalie Powers © Michael Breslin © The New Group © Monique Carboni

COUNTERTENOR, National Sawdust
2025 Apr
National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) 
75-min show featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo in Schlosberg’s arrangements
Music by John Dowland, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, Claudio Monteverdi, Thomas Morley, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Klaus Nomi, Frankie Valli, Antonio Vivaldi etc. 
Music arranged by Dan Schlosberg
Music directed by Dan Schlosberg
Countertenor, Anthony Roth Costanzo
Piano, Dan Schlosberg
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© ARC © AMOC © National Sawdust 

Recital by Demarre McGill and Dan Schlosberg, Pittsburg State University
2025 Feb
McCray Hall @PittState (Pittsburg, KS)
Performance with Demarre McGill
Flute, Demarre McGill
Piano, Dan Schlosberg
Pianist

© PittState

Salome (2025), Heartbeat Opera 🔈
2025 Feb
Irondale Center (Brooklyn, NY)
90-min adaptation and arrangement of Strauss’ Salome (1905), for 8 clarinets and 2 percussionists
Music by Richard Strauss
Adapted and directed by Beth Dinkova
Music arranged by Dan Schlosberg
Featuring Summer Hassan, Patrick Cook, Nathaniel Sullivan, Manna K. Jones, David Morgans, Melina Jaharis, Francesca Federico
Produced by Heartbeat Opera
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🏆 The Best Classical Music of 2025, So Far, New York Times 
Arranger

@ Andrew Boyle © Russ Rowland 

Show/Boat: A River (2025), Target Margin Theater/ Under the Radar festival
2025 Jan
NYU Skirball (New York, NY)
150-min adaptation and arrangement of Kern’s Show Boat (1927)
Music by Jerome Kern
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II 
Adapted and directed by David Herskovits
Vocals arranged by Dionne McClain-Freeney
Music orchestrated by Dan Schlosberg
Co-music directed by Dionne McClain-Freeney, Dan Schlosberg
Featuring Tẹmídayọ Amay, Alvin Crawford, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Suzanne Darrell, Edwin Joseph, J Molière, Steven Rattazzi, Philip Themio Stoddard, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, and Stephanie Weeks
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Pianist
© Greg Kessler NYU © Skirball © Yip Yip

Celebration Tom Johnson, Steinway & Sons Paris
2024 Dec
Steinway & Sons Paris (Paris, France)
Performance of Drawers, 15-min opera for soprano and piano by Tom Johnson; Mersenne Numbers, Squares 1 & 2, and Euler’s Harmonies for solo piano by Tom Johnson; Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Frederic Rzewski; Invention in E Major, BWV 777 by J. S. Bach; “Changed” and “It is not always May” from Songs of Sorrow and Solitude (2007) by Dan Schlosberg
Concerts curated by Kent Lagano
Soprano, Lauren Libaw
Piano, Dan Schlosberg
Pianist
© Yip Yip
© 2025 Dan Schlosberg