Savannah, another opera commissioned by the Savannah VOICE Festival. It is a one-act opera about historic preservation in 1950s' Savannah, and Ching wrote his own libretto. For Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert, in Palm Springs, California, Ching wrote Thriver, also known as Thrivers, a one-act opera specifically for adolescent voices about overcoming teen depression. It premiered in January 2019. Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, commissioned his opera Seven Woods and a Van, which alludes to the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck's influence on 20th-century American Gothic painter Grant Wood. It was one of three 30-minute operas about Grant Wood commissioned by Cedar Rapids Opera, presented in April 2019. Selected works Leo: Opera in One Cat (1985) Cue 67 (1992) King of the Clouds (1993) Buoso's Ghost (1996) Out of the Rain (1998) Faith (1999) Corps of Discovery (2003) Three Pigs Remix (2006) A Midsummer Night's Dream (2011) Slaying the Dragon (2012) Speed Dating Tonight! (2013) Alice Ryley (2015) Anna Hunter, the Spirit of Savannah (2017) Thriver (2019) Seven Woods and a Van (2019) Personal life Since mid 2010 Ching has lived in Ames, Iowa. His wife Barbara is professor of English at Iowa State University, and was chair of the English department from 2010 through 2018. References External links Opera and Beyond – Official site Michael Ching – Profile at New Music USA Michael Ching – Profile at Wolverton Artists Interview – One-hour interview (October 2017) A Midsummer Night's Dream – Opera A Cappella "Lysander and Hermia duet" – excerpt from A Midsummer Night's Dream: Opera A Cappella (video) Speed Dating Tonight! (video) 1958 births Living people Musicians from Honolulu Duke University alumni American male classical composers American classical composers American male conductors (music) American opera composers American musicians of Chinese descent Male opera composers 21st-century American conductors (music) 21st-century American male musicians