After Life
AFTER LIFE
MOR’s new production marks the tenth anniversary of Tom Cipullo’s award-winning opera After Life. With a libretto by David Mason, the opera imagines 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.
Special Feature: Composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason in conversation with Artistic Director Mina Miller
Featuring opera stars baritone Michael Mayes, mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Beteag and soprano Alisa Jordheim.
Alastair Willis, conductor Erich Parce, director Peter Crompton, media design
Music of Remembrance Ensemble:
Demarre McGill, flute; Laura DeLuca, clarinet; Mikhail Shmidt, violin
Eric Han, cello; Jessica Choe, piano
