First Look at the New York Premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star Opera | Playbill

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Production Photos First Look at the New York Premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star Opera On Site Opera’s immersive production runs at the Museum at Eldridge Street through March 25.
Cree Carrico and Andrew Lovato in Morning Star Pavel Antonov

On Site Opera, known for its compelling site-specific performances, presents its latest production March 21–22 and 25: Ricky Ian Gordon’s newly-commissioned chamber opera Morning Star. The libretto by William M. Hoffman is based on the play by Sylvia Regan.

The work tells the story of an immigrant Jewish family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side whose lives are changed by the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. The New York premiere takes place at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, placing the audience members in the pews once occupied by the immigrant families like those in the opera.

Conducted by Geoffrey McDonald, the opera is performed in English with chamber orchestration by Tony-winning orchestrator Bruce Coughlin.

Flip through photos of the production below:

First Look at the New York Premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star Opera

For more information, visit OSOpera.org.

 

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