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JOHN GRACE RANTER , an opera in two acts, music by Michael Sahl and lyrics by Margaret Yard, APRN is considered to be one of the few operas written with a psychiatric subject and contains narrative lyrics regarding the nursing role and nursing interventions differing from the psychiatrists position in managing a difficult newly admitted patient. The newly admitted patient is a cult leader named John Grace Ranter who was arrested for inciting arson, and sent to the forensic unit of a large urban medical center. The opera was performed ON THE AIR May 21 on David Garland's EVENING MUSIC WNYC-FM (93.9 FM) and The Theater for New City, January 21, as well as presented by the American Opera Projects, Inc. at the Soho Center for New Opera and Music Theatre. HIRSCH ENTERTAINMENT, INC. has written that JOHN GRACE RANTER “creates impassioned lines for dramatic voices, in a rich mix of romantic and popular music languages.”