Video
YAPs
Official Trailer, 2025
VHO’s searing, intimate documentary following 5 young opera singers across America over one year of their lives.
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Orpheus & Erica
Film of live performance, 2023
VHO's groundbreaking Deaf opera, featuring Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" and a new play in ASL by Miriam Gordon-Stewart (with Willy Conley) & poetry by Gregory Orr. Co-directed by Gordon-Stewart and Alek Lev. Conducted by Christine Brandes.
Starring John Maucere, Brenda Patterson, Amber Zion, Jennifer Zetlan, Warren “Wawa” Snipe & Chuanyuan Liu, and the UVA Chamber Singers chorus.
Run time 1 hour 13”. Fully captioned.
Soundflight
Promo Video, 2021
VHO returned to live performance in July 2021 in the acoustic outdoor splendor of The Quarry Gardens at Schuyler. Featuring Adam Diegel (tenor), Miriam Gordon-Stewart (soprano), Katy Ambrose (horns), I-Jen Fang (percussion) and Simone Baron (accordion).
This event was presented with a new program in 2022 and 2024.
UNSUNG
Operamentary film, 2020
VHO’s documentary feature film about singers in the time of COVID, filmed and sung by the cast, directed remotely by Miriam Gordon-Stewart.
Featuring Rachelle Durkin, Victor Ryan Robertson, Carlton Ford, Brenda Patterson & Matt Burns.
New recording of Verdi’s La Traviata features cast. Produced by Soundmirror/ Blanton Alspaugh. Conducted by Kathleen Kelly.
Run time 1 hour 13”. Fully captioned.
Fat Pig
Opera film, 2022
VHO’s Film of the World Premiere opera Fat Pig by Matt Boehler and Miriam Gordon-Stewart, based on the play by Neil LaBute. Conducted by Kathleen Kelly.
Starring Tracy Cox, Troy Cook, Sarah Wolfson & Will Ferguson.
Directed by Miriam Gordon-Stewart.
Run time 1 hour 44”. Fully captioned.
Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Opera Workshop
Promo Video, 2020
VHO brings together Deaf actors and opera singers in scenes from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. A radical exploration that asks: what is opera without sound?
Sympathy
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Promo Video, 2017
VHO presented the American Premiere of Rameau’s unknown masterpiece, “Achante et Céphise, ou la Sympathie” (“Sympathy”) in a staging with hiphop choreography.