Press
"Sosa’s composition is well-balanced to the story’s narrative, and his vocal writing aroused strong emotional peaks and valleys, magnified by the characters’ impassioned performances. "
— Kevin Baldwin, I Care if You Listen Review of "I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams"
"Sosa’s score was agile and entertaining, as befits such a journey. High points included the seductive slow number sung by Hilaire as Mara in her guise as a hostess in a technicolor housecoat, a chilling sequence featuring Lopez as Sha’s humanity is tested, and a crackling vocal duel between Guan Yin and Mara"
— A.Z. Madonna, Boston Globe Review of “Monkey”
"The electronically produced high-pitched screeches Sosa orchestrates serve as a dictator of Beltran’s madness and gives us the feeling that her cold prison cell bars are not only screaming, but bending and twisting their way towards her"
— Evan McCormack, Opera Pulse Review of "La Reina"
"Romantic symphonic music of tragedy and loss is evoked without compromising the twenty-first century edge of industrialized brutality"
— Jean Ballard, Theater Scene.net, Review of "Elegy for the Victims of Gun Violence"
"The boldest choices on Tárogató Constructions are to be found on Lamneck and Jorge Sosa’s Enchantment, in which Lamneck sounds her most relaxed amid Sosa’s intriguing and deftly painted landscape."
— “Enchantment” review by Colin Holter in I Care If You Listen
"Sosa’s music, conducted by Maria Sensi Sellner, flowed naturally with the rhythms of speech; in one gorgeous duet early in the opera, the two main characters reminisce on the divergent lessons their mothers gave them about how to behave in their new country.”
— Zoë Madonna, The Boston Globe Review of "I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams"
"Jorge Sosa's score is rapturous...As an evening's entertainment, this should not be missed...As an experiment in digital performance, this should not be ignored"
— Andrew Child, Broadway World, Review
"Composer Sosa’s broad stylistic palette incorporated lyrical impassioned melodies, kooky carnival music, and efficient recitative"
— Joanne Sydney Lessner, Opera News
"Jorge is a wonderful, extremely romantic composer, with a great sense of fantasy and imagination. His music blends traditional Mexican folk sounds with an almost Puccini-like lyricism"
— David Alan Miller, Artistic Director Albany Symphony, Little Orchestra Society, Published in Broadway World 2020
"Dreamlike and sometimes even nightmarish music"
— Ruth Renée Reif, Crescendo Magazine, Review of "Enchantment”
Upcoming
Performances
22 March 2025
8:00 p.m. EST
& live YouTube broadcast
“Maori Lament”
Chamber Ensemble
Juventas New Music Ensemble, Multicultural Arts Center,
East Cambridge, MA
May 2025
date and time to follow
“I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams”
Opera, Mexican Premiere
Libretto by Cerise Jacobs
Escenia Ensemble, Mexico City, Mexico
28 June 2025
2:00 p.m. EST &
7:00 p.m. EST
18 July 2025
7:30 p.m. EST
October 2025
date and time to follow
11 October 2025
time to follow
“To The People Like Us”
Opera, World Premiere
Libretto by Students from 826 Boston, White Snakes Projects
The Strand Theater, Boston, MA
“Generación Perdida”
Opera, World Premiere
Based on the book by Javier Moro Hernandez (Ediciones Periféricas)Teatro Grattacielo, The Downstairs Theater, La MaMa, Creative Shares.
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY
“Generación Perdida”
Mexican Premiere
Based on the book by Javier Moro Hernandez (Ediciones Periféricas)
Escenia Ensemble, Mexico City, Mexico
“Generación Perdida”
Based on the book by Javier Moro Hernandez (Ediciones Periféricas)
Teatro Grattacielo
Opera at Gotham Park, New York, NY