Encompass New Opera Theatre and Nancy Rhodes celebrating Women's History month sent the first publicity on the work-in-progress opera What Price Paradise with libretto by Karren LaLonde Alenier and music by Janet Peachey. The opera explores the turbulent love story of Jane & Paul Bowles.

Encompass New Opera Theatre premiered Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On and Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times reviewed it June 17, 2005.