Matt Boresi

Matt Boresi is the co-creator of the groundbreaking operatic film endeavor "Tales from a Safe Distance" by the Decameron Opera Collective and librettist of its chapter "The Happy Hour", which featured Luca Pisaroni in its world premiere and which was given awards by WQXR, 360Degrees of Opera, OperaWire, and nominated for Best New Work by the Music Critics Association of North America. The Decameron Opera Collective's next work, also featuring work by Boresi, premieres in the Fall of 2021.With composer Peter Hilliard, Boresi is also the author of "The Last American Hammer" (Urban Arias, Pittsburgh Opera, Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, developed at Carnegie Mellon University), the searingly relevant seriocomic story of a one man militia siege which featured Elizabeth Futral in its premiere, and which world-renowned baritone Nathan Gunn calls "a new classic".Hilliard and Boresi also created the blues-infused chamber opera Blue Viola (Urban Arias, Opera Memphis, Lyric Opera of the North, developed at Arena Stage), the oft-produced modern buffa "The Filthy Habit,"and numerous other operas, choral works, and musicals including two Off-Broadway works produced by Beth Morrison Projects: "Don Imbroglio" and "Going Down Swinging'".They are the ridiculous minds behind "Verdi by Vegetables", a produce puppet opera documentary recently made into a film event by Resonance Works Pittsburgh, the puppet/choral work "The Harmony Jar", and the song cycles, "Farmball Songs" (baritone), "Buyer Beware: Tales from the Supermarket Bulletin Board" (multiple vocal arrangements), DeadMall Ballads (soprano) and the upcoming "Minutes from the Town Hall Meeting" (soprano).Other works by Boresi include the Off-Bdwy steampunk operetta "Lunacy" (Gallery Players, composer Jonathon Lynch), a chamber opera about the Munich Olympics massacre entitled "Black September" (Carthage College, composer Gregory Berg),and "Pot Baker's Hill" from the song cycle "Such Strange Gravity" (National Sawdust, composer Jeff Tang).Boresi is a humorist for Chicago Parent magazine and can sometimes be seen offering dubious parenting advice on Chicago television.He lives at Northwestern University with his wife, singing professor and author Melissa Foster, and their daughter Viva (the Diva).