Artist Spotlight with Marella Martin Koch

Inwood Art Works On Air · Feb 17, 2022 · 38m

Marella Martin Koch is an Inwood-based librettist, director, and playwright that has been praised by the press for her “cleverness in constructing humor for opera” (from DC Theatre Scene) for her 20-minute opera Pepito; written with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, for Washington National Opera at its Kennedy Center premiere in 2019. Marella also wrote the lyrics for Marianne Dashwood, Songs of Love & Misery and Elinor Dashwood, two song cycles written with the composer Aferdian and commissioned by mezzo-soprano Meagan Martin. Furthermore, she has full-length operatic works in development…