We Have Some Children is an opera with music by myself and book/libretto by playwright Matt Moses (based on his earlier play The Covering Skyline is Nothing). It is a quasi-dystopian fantasia on loss, parenting, legacy, romance, and terror. It is spooky. It has awkward parts. There are two main worlds we follow throughout the opera, that of the poor native worker Benito in the factory where they build children for the rich, and that of the rich and detached Aileen and Anthony and their darling son August. Benito's world is full of longing for the abundance of the other world, and so the music when in his presence contains scattered bits of disparate styles of music, sometimes with explicit musical quotations of things he might have heard on a dusty record somewhere. The privileged world is tight and precise and has a small commercial jazz combo feel, particularly at the party scene.