Paper Brigade
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Fascism does not only try to destroy people—it tries to erase stories. Rachela’s story reminds us that knowledge can be a form of resistance, and that culture is worth fighting for.
We really wish this piece wasn’t as relevant as it is. But since history appears to be repeating, we’re here to remind our audience that מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן — we will outlive them.
Paper Brigade is at its core a piece about resilience. We offer it as a blueprint of how, in the face of unbelievable cruelty, art and poetry and queerness and joy can outlast the darkness and find space to flourish.
Table Read - coming winter 2025
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When the Nazis invade, a Jewish historian and her Polish housekeeper go to impossible lengths to smuggle their daughter and Vilna’s precious Yiddish books to safety.
But what happens when war ends and trauma continues?
A new musical about cultural resilience in the face of fascism, queer love, and one woman’s lifelong obsession with the archive she risks everything to save.
a new yiddish-English musical
with Debra Caplan
Bubbie
and the Demon
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Photo by Caitlin Oldham
WNO’s acclaimed commissioning program for contemporary American opera enters its tenth exciting season. American Opera Initiative (AOI) mentorship is led by newly appointed AOI Artistic Advisor and librettist Kelley Rourke, librettist and filmmaker Kimberly Reed, composer Carlos Simon, and WNO Principal Conductor Evan Rogister, who will lead a chamber orchestra of WNO Orchestra members. The concert staging will be directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello.
the american opera initiative
Photo by Scott Suchman
Bubbie has filled the void of Covid isolation by solving as many word searches and crosswords as possible...until her latest puzzle turns out to be a ƈʊʀֆɛɖ ֆʊʍʍօռɨռɢ ɨռƈǟռȶǟȶɨօռ that conjures a Demon from the netherworld. When Bubbie welcomes him with delight, insisting he must be her long-lost goth grandson, how far will her well-intentioned neighbor Karen go to convince the old woman that something is horribly wrong?
at the kennedy center
Michael Cooper, writing in The New York Times about good country
"Holding his whiskey in one hand and his Stetson in the other, the opera’s hero — a tough stagecoach driver — offered an unhappy barmaid some advice in a strong, clear tenor voice.“You could be anything,” sang the tenor, Holden Madagame. He should know..."
Transgender Opera Singers Find Their Voices
