Eli's opera, Revenants, was workshopped in Watson Recital Hall in collaboration with students from CCM Opera at the University of Cincinnati. He is currently finishing a draft of his new musical comedy, Selling.
After their mother’s death leaves them on the brink of foreclosure, two brothers turn their childhood home into a brothel for wealthy older women— discovering that saving their house may cost them everything else. Score and Libretto by Eli Lucas. Book by TBD.
Revenants is a chamber opera adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, reimagined through a lyrical, contemporary lens. The work explores generational silence, moral inheritance, and the slow unraveling of truth within a claustrophobic domestic world. First workshopped in CCM's Watson Recital Hall, Revenants was later named first runner-up at West Edge Opera’s Snapshot Festival in San Francisco. Score and Libretto by Eli Lucas.