Rosśa Crean

Audio from Ross' song cycle for unaccompanied voice, "Twilight Lifts the Veil," is now available under the COMPOSER link. Written for All Hallows Eve, and performed by the extraordinary soprano Katherine Bruton, the cycle was recorded and filmed at Rosehill…

 Crean presents a celebration of queer classical works! We begin with a cabaret of LGBTQ+ vocal pieces, followed by the Chicago premiere of Ross Crean and Aiden K. Feltkamp's new one-act opera, which serves as a sequel to Mozart's “Don…

Witness the workshop premiere of composer Ross Crean and librettist Aiden K. Feltkamp's new micro opera, which follows Anna and Elvira in the aftermath of Mozart's Don Giovanni. This grindhouse-style story explores themes of rape culture and grief through the…

WORLD PREMIERE
THE GREAT GOD PAN
MARCH 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18*, 2018 | 7:30PM (*3PM)
at Chopin Theatre
Music and Libretto by Ross Crean
Based on Arthur Machen’s novella

For tickets, simply click HERE!

Described by Stephen King…

Ross' opera "The Great God Pan," an adaptation of the 1890 novella by Arthur Machen, is now available on recording through Navona Records/Naxos of America. For purchasing options, please go to the BUY page.

Chicago-based composer Ross Crean’s opera…

I had the pleasure of recording an episode of "Doing the Work" with Matthan Black, Sarah Thompson Johansen, Andrew Fisher, and Vince Wallace, who all sang on the recording of "The Great God Pan". We talk all about the recording…

It has been a two year journey writing and recording my opera "The Great God Pan." The original novella is something that has stuck with me for decades, and now I am excited to share with all of you a…

Ross' new vocal works album will begin recording over the Winter 2017 - Spring 2018 season, and he is looking for a fitting Mezzo-Soprano or Zwischen voice to record his award-winning and critically-acclaimed song cycle "The Passive-Aggressive's Guide to Mother…

Ross' comedic song cycle "The Passive-Aggressive's Guide to Mother Goose" was nominated for Best Original Composition in the Austin Critics Table Awards. Julia Di Fiore, who performed it as part of One Ounce Opera's Freshly Squeezed Ounce of…

Lost Daughters, an operatic new work commissioned for The Mozart Players by graduating Oberlin Conservatory conductor, John Paul Jennings, and written by celebrated composer, Ross Crean (www.rosscrean.com), is premiering at Oberlin’s Warner Concert Hall on May 7, 2017 at…

I am so incredibly excited that mezzo-soprano Maayan Voss de Bettancourt will be premiering my song cycle "Metaphysisch" at the OperaRox New Works Concert as part of the New York Opera Fest! The cycle utilizes three poems by Rainer Maria…

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!!

The world premiere of Ross' monodrama "For Atticus, the Moonlight's Lover" will take place in Chicago on January 15, 2017! The monodrama is an artistic response to his time in Moscow, and to Putin's anti-LGBTQ laws. 

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