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Carla Lucero
Carla Lucero
Born	Manhattan Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	Composer, Librettist

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Carla Lucero is an American composer/librettist. A native of Manhattan Beach Ca. , she studied with composers Leonard Rosenman, Morton Subotnik, Alan Chapman and Rand Stieger. She developed a highly melodic compositional style, drawing upon sources from Romantic and Neo-Classical music.

Education

She has a B.F.A. in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts, 1986.

Works

San Francisco

Wuornos (2001) An operatic adaptation of Aileen Wuornos' life^[1]^[2]
Juana an opera-in-development, adapted from the historical novel Sor Juana's Second Dream written by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (co-librettist), and published in 1999 by University of New Mexico Press. Juana Inés de la Cruz

Los Angeles

Collage Dance Theater: original compositions written for Most Wanted (presented in a city jail), LaBrea Man (a site-specific dance performance), Life in the Lap Lane, Out of Circulation and Liquid Assets.

Awards

Lester Horton Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award, 1998
Meet the Composer, 1999
Advocate Magazine, "Best of Stage", 2001 Advocate 2001
San Francisco Arts Commission, 2001, 2006
California Arts Council, 2000
Creative Work Fund, 2001 CWF Award
Open Meadows Foundation, 2000, 2006
Horizons Foundation, 2007
Zellerbach Family Foundation, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007

References

^ Cynthia Robins, "Saga of a 'lesbian serial killer'...", San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, June 17, 2001.
^ "Lesbian serial killer opera", The Advocate, June 22, 2001.

Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos, ISBN 978-0-312-98418-2, p. 291
Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States, ISBN 0-7172-5815-7, p. 319
Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, ISBN 1-57356-267-X, p. 379

External links

Wuornos, the opera
Wuornos-Opera, World Premiere Archived 2006-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
Juana Opera

[1] Cynthia Robins, "Saga of a 'lesbian serial killer'...", San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, June 17, 2001.

[2] "Lesbian serial killer opera", The Advocate, June 22, 2001.

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 ==External links==
 *[https://www.webcitation.org/5bGcuOhsb?url=http://www.wuornos.org/ Wuornos, the opera]
-*[http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Qfestival01/WournsOpera.html ''Wuornos''-Opera, World Premiere]
+*[http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Qfestival01/WournsOpera.html ''Wuornos''-Opera, World Premiere] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205083326/http://queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Qfestival01/WournsOpera.html |date=2006-12-05 }}
 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071026002102/http://www.tenthmuse.us/juana.php Juana Opera]