The New Frontier: An Atomic Age Jazz Opera, Grammy-winning Composer Jack Van Zandt, poet-librettist Jill Freeman and soprano Stacey Fraser team up with theater director Terry Donovan Smith, an ensemble led by Grammy-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko, and a group of theater production specialists, to create a multimedia tragicomic musical theater work about aspects of life against the backdrop of the atomic bomb and the daily Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation during the 1950s and 60s. Van Zandt and Freeman, whose school years spanned the late 1950s through the 60s, drew on their childhood memories of the era along with meticulous research in formulating the libretto and musical content.

March 9 at CSU Fullerton (Cabaret style concert performance)

March 24 CSU San Bernardino (staged opera production).

More info coming soon….