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's National Opera Center in 2016 and featured a double bill of ''

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'' and Christman's third opera, ''Adriana McMannes''. His fourth opera, ''A Metamorphosis'', was premiered by the COC in 2018. ''OperaWire'' named this performance one of the “Top 5 Operas to See” in North America. In 2019, it was announced that Christman and librettist Donna Gay Anderson had written a dramatic musical, ''Unfolded'', about the life and work of Susie Scott Krabacherbr>
In October 2019, selections from the musical were premiered in a benefit concert for Krabacher's humanitarian organization, HaitiChildre

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, COC's virtual benefit concert for HaitiChildren featured premieres of music by Christman and

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, performed by mezzo-soprano Madison Marie McIntosh and pianist Gregory Ritche

COC also launched the series ''Voices Raising Voices'', which featured virtual performances of vocal works by composers such as

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, Jerrell R. Gray, Sonia Megías, and Greg Bartholomew. In January 2021, COC presented a virtual performance of Christman's opera ''The Impresario and the Dueling Divas'', with pianist

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On May 7 of the same year, COC hosted a virtual concert to benefit

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, in which 2020 TAP winner Madison Marie McIntosh and Gregory Ritchey premiered works by Theodore Christman, Antonio Covello, Ted Ganger, Michael J. Polo, Kevin Scott,

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, Myron Silberstein, and

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