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Operas and Musicals

Nothing here is silent. 

Every object has a voice.

Welcome to Georgia Shreve’s score stage — where voice, story, and sound are braided into full-form compositions designed to move and endure.

Georgia Shreve’s body of work in opera and music theater is expansive, inventive, and formally exacting. As composer and librettist, she creates full-scale operas, chamber dramas, and surrealist miniatures that span centuries, languages, mythologies, and moods — but always return to the center: character, transformation, the arc of emotion rendered in sound.

Her music is not accompaniment. It is architecture. 

Her words are not ornamental. They’re carved.

Her works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, CAMI Hall, and beyond — by world-class vocalists and orchestras including the Czech Philharmonic. She has composed for salon concerts, full theatrical stagings, and everything in between. Her operas draw from history, philosophy, and the poetry of overlooked voices. Her musicals are structurally sharp, emotionally layered, and alive with irony and intent.

She writes for the voice, yes — but also for what happens in the silence after a line is sung. She writes for the moment when music becomes meaning.

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A Narrative Creator, Librettist, Composer, and Lyricist, she weaves centuries of myth and language into works ranging from full-scale operas to intimate miniatures.

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Operas and Musicals
Enron
In “Enron,” Georgia Shreve turns corporate collapse into biting music-theater satire, following Carol Sidney as loyalty, ambition, and conscience collide. With sharp tonal shifts and escalating moral pressure, the work reveals how institutional fraud is sustained not by one villain, but by a culture of performance, fear, and strategic silence.
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Money
In "Money," Georgia Shreve reimagines Bulwer-Lytton’s classic satire as a musically charged social comedy where reputation, desire, and class are all in play. Elegant, funny, and quietly devastating, the work exposes how quickly human relationships become transactional when status sets the terms, and asks what kind of worth can survive a world obsessed with price.
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Dialogues of the Travelers
“Dialogues of the Travelers” is a two-act musical theater work by Georgia Shreve composed of interconnected vignettes, songs, and encounters set across transitional spaces. Blending absurdist humor, social observation, and emotional vulnerability, the piece examines how identity shifts under the pressures of movement, performance, and fleeting human contact.
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Lovesick
"Lovesick" is a full-length rock opera by Georgia Shreve that follows two wounded protagonists through breakup, diagnosis, folklore, and pharmaceutical modernity in search of relief from romantic obsession. By fusing satire with psychological intimacy, the work reframes love not as a simple affliction to cure, but as a force that alters perception, identity, and emotional truth.
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The Art of Being Oscar
In “The Art of Being Oscar,” Georgia Shreve crafts a digitally staged music-theater portrait that captures Wilde’s brilliance, theatricality, and fragility in equal measure. Blending sharp wit with emotional consequence, the work reimagines literary legacy as living drama, where persona dazzles, language cuts, and vulnerability is never far from performance.
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Short Stories
The Countess of M—
In nineteenth-century France, a sheltered aristocratic daughter enters a secret romance with a fallen nobleman, discovering both the thrill of being chosen and the cost of defying the social order around her.
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Plays
The Odds
A darkly funny three-scene play about two sisters who grow up treating family dysfunction like a math problem. Ten years later, memory returns with teeth, and “the odds” becomes the name for what was hidden in plain sight.
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Short Stories
The Enigma Variations
In “The Enigma Variations,” a daughter chronicles her composer mother’s brilliance and unraveling as harassment, domestic pressure, and illness sever her from the piano that defines her life. Expansive, intimate, and devastating, the story is both elegy and indictment, revealing how a creative life can be erased long before death.
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Poetry
Mother in the Snow
In “Mother in the Snow,” Georgia Shreve turns a winter stumble into a piercing portrait of maternal endurance under watchful eyes. Dark humor and raw imagery reveal a woman improvising her way forward while trying to hold dignity, and herself, together.
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Poetry
No Pity for Pigeons
In “No Pity for Pigeons,” Georgia Shreve transforms a quiet park encounter into a piercing social portrait of class, displacement, and human vulnerability. What begins with birds and cake ends with a deeper grief: not for pigeons, but for people quietly pushed to the margins of the worlds they once called ordinary.
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Poetry
You, we, I
In “You, We, I,” Shreve turns pronouns into emotional architecture, mapping how intimacy moves between fusion and fracture. With spare, incantatory lines, the poem captures two people reaching for truth through glare, innocence, and uncertainty, before landing on a haunting final shift from “we” back to “I.”
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Poetry
New Life
In “New Life,” Shreve imagines reinvention as metalwork: each day newly minted, each love a chance to re-stamp the self. Through images of repaired bridges, open doors, and an untouched bed, the poem captures the vulnerable mechanics of beginning again without denying what came before.
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Poetry
Is There a Poem in the House?
In “Is There a Poem in the House?”, Shreve turns inspiration into a haunting presence that seeps through walls, books, and breath before vanishing again. By merging domestic imagery with artistic dread, the poem captures the fragile cycle of creative arrival and loss with wit, unease, and precision.
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