Linda Lister (Music) presented a session at the National Opera Association conference in Tempe, Arizona, along with graduate students Claudia Affan and Olivia Yokers. The session was titled "New Arias/New Topics For Women/By Women." This session spotlighted selected arias from three new operas by living American composers Emily Clements and Linda Lister; namely, Letters to Lily, State of Grace, and Body of Art. In the spirit of the Bechdel test, these operatic excerpts reveal women not singing about their relationships with men, but rather, singing about contemporary topics rarely depicted on stage, including LGBTQIA+ relationships, eating disorders, and breast cancer. The composers, singers, and pianist discussed and presented these arias with an aim to add new subjects, new perspectives, and new repertoire to the canon.