The Electronic Lover is a serial audio opera created by San Francisco Bay Area composer Lisa Mezzacappa and New York writer Beth Lisick. The story is set in chatrooms at the dawn of the Internet, in the moment when we first invited computers into the most intimate aspects of our lives.
The 9-episode series was launched in 2020 and concluded in 2024 with a full-season release on Innova Recordings.
There are so many ways to listen! Listen to the full season on Vimeo and follow along with the libretto as animated video. Tune in via Apple Podcasts. Stream via Apple Music or Spotify, or purchase and download the full 4+-hour opera with the full libretto as glorious high fidelity audio via Bandcamp.
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“Relatable and gripping.” — KQED
“A beguiling mix…an ambitious, innovative work… Mezzacappa’s tight, stylistically wide-ranging score and excellent band prove agile in supporting a cast who pitch their roles just right – helped by a whipsmart libretto and narration from writer-actor Beth Lisick which combines the super-banal and the surreal with pinpoint human observation to blackly witty, deadly serious effect.”
— BBC Music
“Superb, vocally and dramatically… The libretto is wry, clever, and funny…Mezzacappa’s endlessly inventive score includes bits of polyphony, drones, sound effects, sprechstimme, ballads, horror movie music, operatic arias, and more.”
— San Francisco Classical Voice
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The Electronic Lover 
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