Robert Xavier Rodriguez directs UTD graduate students, pianist Jeff Lankov and guest artists in an evening of  imaginative musical pairings of contrasting compositions by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Fauré, Debussy, Bernstein and Adams along with a special preview performance of an excerpt from Rodriguez' new opera, La Curandera, with libretto by Mary Medrick.  The multi-media concert will include vocal and instrumental chamber music, with dance and projected images. 

UTD's Musica Nova ensemble, directed by Robert Xavier Rodríguez, performs music for small ensembles, plus multi-media and theater works of all periods. UTD students and faculty join professional musicians and members of the community. Musica Nova guest artists have included members of the Dallas Symphony and Dallas Opera Orchestra and singers from the New York City Opera and Metropolitan Opera. Music for past Musica Nova concerts has ranged from Medieval and Renaissance dances and motets to standard repertoire to experimental mixed-media works written for and/or developed by the ensemble. Concerts have included an evening of jigs, an evening of tangos, French cabaret and mariachi songs, chamber opera, ballet and a fully staged commedia dell'arte pantomime.