Logline
When a gifted young opera singer discovers her voice carries the ancient power of the Canticum — a force capable of healing hearts and transforming souls — she becomes the target of a secret society that has hunted her bloodline for 1,800 years, determined to weaponize the very gift she was born to share.
Genre
Supernatural Musical Thriller / Epic Family Drama
Location/Setting
Primary: New York City. Secondary: Assisi and Milan, Italy.
Synopsis
Maria Monteverde has always felt different when she sings. When the Canticum awakens in her — a mysterious inherited power that makes her voice literally miraculous — her song can heal the sick, disarm hatred, and change the hardest hearts.
But the same gift that makes her extraordinary makes her hunted. A shadowy secret order known as the Knights of Harmonia has spent centuries eradicating her Belcanto family line to possess or silence the Canticum forever. As Maria’s power grows, she must learn how to use it and confront a destiny written in music across two thousand years — alongside her grandmother Isabella, who carried the same beautifully powerful yet dangerous gift before her.
Blending soaring original opera, choral anthems, and bold contemporary musical numbers, Opera Girl is an emotionally explosive, visually spectacular story about the redemptive power of voice, family legacy, and finding your song in a world that fears it.
Why Now?
When audiences of every generation are hungry for stories that move, restore, and remind them beauty still exists, Opera Girl answers the call. From the ten-year-old discovering music for the first time to the grandparent who has loved Broadway their entire life — this is a rare, genuinely universal story about the one thing every human being has and fears losing: their voice. That story has no age limit. It never did.
Music
Juilliard-trained composer Nicolaas tenBroek has crafted something rare — 23 original songs that fuse soaring classical opera with bold contemporary songwriting, seamlessly woven together with four of the most beloved pieces in musical history: O Mio Babbino Caro, Ave Maria, Habanera, and a thunderous Ode to Joy finale. Recorded with musicians from the Pacific Symphony.
Then there's the cast. Metropolitan Opera soprano Jessica Sandidge. Broadway's Jacob Haren (The Book of Mormon, Jersey Boys). Curtis Institute bass-baritone DeAndre Simmons — a performer who has sung for Pope John Paul II, seven US Presidents, and Nelson Mandela. Billboard-charting Sony artist Katrina Woolverton. Disney's Mulan vocalist Elliott Levine. Three tracks engineered by 5-time Grammy winner Val Garay — 125 gold and platinum records. Val worked with Sarah Brightman and Andrew Lloyd Webber as they pursued the crossover between opera and popular music. The exact creative territory Opera Girl now claims as its own.
Concert Presentation version performed live. Three hundred people. Two and a half-minute standing ovation.
The music is the Canticum — the voice that heals, transforms, and fights back.
Target Audience
Fans of The Phantom of the Opera, The Da Vinci Code, The Greatest Showman, and Midnight Mass.
Status
Opera Girl® is a federally registered trademark. Original music recordings, screenplay materials, and literary works have been filed with the U.S. Copyright Office. Spec script + complete professional score (27 tracks) available now. Sizzle reel and live concert footage ready.
Contact Ken Richard, Creator, Writer, Producer, Project Architect / ken@theoperagirl.com / 949-283-3017
