I really enjoyed having over 1,000 guests from the community on the grounds of The Watermill Center last weekend for our Discover Watermill Day. It was a great day and the works shown by our 2015 summer participants were once again superb.

Over the past three weeks, we held workshops for several new productions of mine, among others The Sandman, based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's romantic ghost story; Edda , the collection of Nordic myths and sagas from Iceland; Turandot by Puccini; Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti; a project with the Berlin Radio Choir; and a new opera with Paola Prestini for an unusual venue in Australia. I am enclosing a few images. Very excited to work further on all of these upcoming projects.