The Baltimore-based ensemble Mind on Fire, co-founded by artistic director Allison Clendaniel (BM ’14, Voice) and executive director James David Young (DMA ’14, Composition), presents the world premiere of and, we, each—the new opera by composer and faculty artist Michael Hersch (BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition) with a libretto by poet Shane McCrae—September 28 and 29 at the Baltimore Theatre Project. The opera stars soprano and faculty artist Ah Young Hong (BM ’98, MM ’01, Voice)  and baritone Jesse Blumberg, is directed by James Matthew Daniel, and conductor Tito Muñoz leads an ensemble of Emi Ferguson (flute), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Andy Hudson (clarinet), Adda Kridler (violin), Leah Asher (viola), Coleman Itzkoff (cello). Mind on Fire also presents and, we, each at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center October 13 and National Sawdust in Brooklyn February 6, 2025.