My early training as a musician led me to work on the integration of Classics and Music through the development of an opera based upon a Greek myth. Selecting the labyrinth story of Theseus and Ariadne, I worked with London storyteller Susan Getchell to compose a libretto and with composer Merwin Lewis to produce the score. The opera, entitled "Ariadne's Thread," is directed at pre-teens, and uses the labyrinth as a locus to explore the shadows, fears and confusion of the adolescent years. The thread that links the heroine and the hero becomes a metaphor for the vital connection between friends that enables young people to move through this period, whose difficulty was recognized ritually in Greco-Roman antiquity as an encounter with death. The opera was performed at the London Waldorf School in June 2005.