Press/Gallery
"music of character and genuine beauty" --Minneapolis Star Tribune"Haugen's music is wonderfully singable" --Opera Today
"...a strangely wonderful sound" --Grand Forks Herald
"superbly crafted...beautiful and often powerful." --Opera Today
"...gentle, moving, lush harmonies, overlaid with a breath of uplifting hope"
--Susan McMane, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus
Praise for Pocahontas
"... this opera is one of the most riveting 100 minutes I have ever attended ... exceptionally lyric, though rhythmically very diverse, score ... the true success of this opera is in the haunting, soaring melodies and harmonies created by Haugen ... beautiful opera ... an exquisite cameo of an opera, with a thought-provoking blend of the tensions of the Jamestown encounter ... it is good to listen to beautiful music, and attempt to understand the complexity of human lives caught in transition."
Click here to read Samuel Black's complete review of the Duluth Festival Opera Production.
ONLINE PRESS MATERIALS: biography and photographs (blue box), review, and video. Promotional photographs by Jenn Cress, Jenn Cress Photography.
NEW VIDEO RELEASED!
Transformations of Darkness and Light: Music Composition Inspiring Awareness
LET US SING! IN LUCCA, ITALY
Click here to watch a video recording of the Badger State Girl Choir performing Let Us Sing! in Lucca, Italy.
PIPEDREAMS INTERVIEW
Click here to listen to Linda Tutas Haugen's 2008 interview on American Public Media's show Pipedreams about her work Invocation and Remembrance.
SFCG PODCAST
Click here to listen to a podcast of Hanneli, the third movement of Anne Frank: A Living Voice, performed by the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Susan McMane, artistic director of the chorus, introduces the work.
VATICAN PERFORMANCE VIDEO
Click here to see a short video recording of the Badger State Girls Choir performing Let Us Sing! at the Vatican for Pope Benedict XVI.