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URL:https://www.handson.org/events/5932/
SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:The Sunday\, July 12 performance of Suddenly Last Summer—as 
 well as the preshow talk—will be ASL-interpreted. For more information\,
  please contact the Box Office by phone at 845-758-7900 or via email at
  boxoffice@bard.edu.\n\n\nA thrilling new opera based on Tennessee Willi
 ams’s fever-dream of a play about a family secret\, and a mother’s des
 perate attempt to silence the truth.\n\nIn this hybrid music-theater work\
 , Courtney Bryan premieres a ravishing score inspired by the play’s tw
 o worlds: the Mediterranean coast and the Garden District of New Orleans\,
  Bryan’s hometown. Director Daniel Fish\, who staged Fisher Center LAB
 ’s Tony Award-winning Oklahoma!\, and Fisher Center Artistic Director a
 nd Chief Executive Gideon Lester have shaped a libretto from Williams’
 s tale of power\, desire\, and the lengths a family will go to protect its
  legacy.\n\nThe poet Sebastian Venable died mysteriously in Spain last sum
 mer. His cousin Catherine—sung by SummerScape favorite Mikaela Bennett
  (Most Happy in Concert)—was with him and has since returned to New Or
 leans\, where she obsessively recounts the story of his death. Now\, Sebas
 tian’s mother\, played by renowned actor Tina Benko\, is attempting to 
 bribe a doctor (Branden Lindsay) to lobotomize her niece and cut the story
  from her memory forever.\n\nA world premiere and the first Fisher Center 
 LAB Civis Hope Commission to premiere\, this searing new opera brings radi
 ant new life to Williams’s study of a confrontation between truth and po
 wer.\n\nA co-production with Opera Philadelphia.\n\nPresented by special 
 arrangement with The University of the South\, Sewanee\, Tennessee.
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