

Snapshot 2023
Call For Scores
"expressive, insinuating, full of enigmatic fervor... Each excerpt includes passages that make one intrigued to hear the work at fuller length"
-Joshua Kosman, SF Chronicle
"Somehow, some way, one or more of these works may make it to a full production — at West Edge or somewhere else.
-Steven Winn, SFCV
SNAPSHOT is an opportunity for West Coast Composers and Librettists to put shorter works or excerpts of longer works on their feet with world class vocalists and instrumentalists.
All participating composers and librettists will also be provided a feedback session with leaders in the new opera field.
Call for Submissions Opens: July 15th, 2022
Call for Submissions Closes: September 25th, 2022
Selections will be announced by: November 1st, 2022
Questions? Email West Edge Music Director Jonathan Khuner • jkhuner@sonic.net
Successful Previous Participants Include:
MOON BRIDE DOGS
By Ryan Suleiman and Cristina Fríes
18 MELODIES FOR HUILJA
By Joan Huang
HOUSE OF WORDS
By Linda Bouchard
GILBERTO
By Nicolas Lell Benavides and Marella Martin Koch
Past media coverage of Snapshot programs:
https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/west-edge-opera/west-edge-operas-snapshot-of-the-future
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/in-an-operatic-sampler-taut-and-tender-ivonne-stands-tall
https://www.kdfc.com/2019/01/west-edge-operas-snapshot-sampler/
https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/west-edge-opera/west-edge-opera-serves-a-tantalizing-sampler-of-promising-new-operas
https://www.kdfc.com/2018/02/snapshot-operas-progress/
http://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/West-Edge-mounts-an-eclectic-operatic-showcase-10946862.php