Commissioned by The Thirteen (Washington, D.C.), Scott Ordway's  The  Outer Edge of Youth  is a choral opera that explores and critiques the relationships between childhood, landscape, aesthetics, and contemporary ideals of masculinity. The Washington Classical Review  calls it "a hypnotic, haunting fable…The Outer Edge of Youth has both the solemnity and wonder of an oratorio and the heightened emotion wrung from the enhanced reality in which opera specializes…the music shimmers, soars, and settles…creating an ecstatic catharsis.”

with critically acclaimed mezzo-soprano Emily Marvosh and soprano Amy Broadbent , under the direction of guest-conductor Emily Isaacson.

With the Back Bay Chorale String Ensemble