MOR’s new production marks the tenth anniversary of Tom Cipullo’s award-winning opera After Life, imagining a confrontation between the ghosts of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso over the responsibility of artists in a troubled world. This expanded version opens with a musical soirée set in the home of Stein and Alice B. Toklas, with selections by composers they might have hosted at one of their legendary gatherings at 27 rue de Fleurus on Paris’s Left Bank. 

Starring:
Michael Mayes, baritone         Gabrielle Beteag, mezzo-soprano         Alisa Jordheim, soprano
Alastair Willis, conductor        Erich Parce, director

Jessica Choe, piano                 Laura DeLuca, clarinet                            Eric Han, cello
Demarre McGill, flute               Mikhail Shmidt, violin

Peter Crompton, media designer