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An evening of Opera and Jazz, Accompanied by Andrew Macmillan.

A woman, alone, wrestles with the part she played in her daughter’s downfall. Is she vulnerable? Or complicit?

Arkansas, 1884. African Americans are free from the bonds of slavery, but true self-government has been hard to achieve. As superstition and fake news pervade the fractured community, it falls to the young Treemonisha to speak truth to power and lead her elders onwards.

Tensions on the field are high, but off the field they’re deadly

Daughters is a world premiere song-cycle that uses the haunting form of Portuguese fado, female voice and intimate musical accompaniment to evoke the strength and tragedy of women and girls, lost to violence.

In Siegfried, the opera’s eponymous hero forges a mighty sword, slays Fafner the dragon, winds up in possession of the cursed Ring and frees the sleeping Brünnhilde from and infernal mountain-top banishment.