Private Project

ESSENTIAL BUSINESS (A "Mini-Opera" created in COVID-19 Quarantine)

ESSENTIAL BUSINESS is a "mini-opera" created in COVID-19 Quarantine from across the ocean, with the creative team joining forces while apart, from the USA and the UK. Based upon real-world happenings, "Essential Business" asks the universal question with which we've wrestled in the pandemic era: "What would you do if everything you had ever known changed in an instant?" The leading tour-de-force role of Pastor Harris is played by Metropolitan Opera baritone Will Liverman; the original musical score is composed and performed by Judith Lynn Stillman.

  • Judith Lynn Stillman
    Director
    I CHERISH WOMEN, Beneath a Silent Blue Sky, March of the Women, A Woman's Place Is In The House, When the Music Stopped, Blame on Both Sides Blues, Phoenix from the Ashes
  • Conceived by: Judith Lynn Stillman and Anna Pool; Libretto by Anna Pool
    Writer
  • Judith Lynn Stillman
    Producer
    I CHERISH WOMEN, Beneath a Silent Blue Sky, March of the Women, A Woman's Place Is In The House, When the Music Stopped, Blame on Both Sides Blues, Phoenix from the Ashes
  • Will Liverman
    Key Cast
    "Pastor Harris"
    The Metropolitan Opera: Papageno in The Magic Flute: The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie; The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
  • Project Type:
    Music Video, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 11, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director - Judith Lynn Stillman