What is madness and what is truth? Must truth bend to power? Tennessee Williams’ feverish one-act play is the basis for 2023 MacArthur Fellow and former Opera Philadelphia Composer in Residence Courtney Bryan’s first opera. Hailed by The New York Times as a “composer of panoramic interests,” Bryan joins forces with Tony Award-winning director Daniel Fish (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!) to present this Southern Gothic drama as a sweltering fusion of musical imagination and theatrical ingenuity. Anchored by soprano Mikaela Bennett as the embattled heroine Catharine Holly, with conductor Nathan Koci at the podium, this new work is part opera, part play, and all drama.

Philadelphia Premiere 
Music by Courtney Bryan 
Libretto by Gideon Lester and Daniel Fish based on the play by Tennessee Williams 
Directed by Daniel Fish
Revival production directed by Mikhaela Mahony 

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