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CALLING: An Opera of Forgiveness
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Sep 12, 2008 – Sep 28, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (8pm)
Sundays (2:30 & 8pm)
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$25
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Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment in history. The moving one-act chamber piece composed by Douglass Geers is based on Boyle's memoir of her family's experiences during and after 9/11, with soprano Nicole Tori starring as a loving mother too busy caring for others instead of herself. The fear, confusion, and sleepless nights of that time are all there in the six-piece orchestration; for example, angry proclamations are replaced by the sung or spoken words "hope," "hold hands," and "breathe." Calling demonstrates music's timeless ability to teach — and heal.
