The Trojan Women
Music by Sarah Taylor Ellis
Libretto by Ellen McLaughlin
Recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant. A powerful, hour-long hybrid musical/chamber opera for a cast of diverse women. In the wake of their devastating defeat, the widowed women of Troy wait on the beach below the ravaged city to be claimed by their Greek conquerors as slaves and concubines. Though the war is over, worse may be ahead. In this new adaptation, Euripides' tragedy speaks truth about war, power, and displacement across the centuries.
Four-time Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman starred as Hecuba in the recent London reading of The Trojan Women, produced by HERA and directed by Adele Thomas; both Friedman and Thomas are attached for the premiere production. This choral theatre piece had its first reading at the New York Society Library on January 22, 2018, directed by Obie Award winner Rachel Dickstein.
Libretto by Ellen McLaughlin
Recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant. A powerful, hour-long hybrid musical/chamber opera for a cast of diverse women. In the wake of their devastating defeat, the widowed women of Troy wait on the beach below the ravaged city to be claimed by their Greek conquerors as slaves and concubines. Though the war is over, worse may be ahead. In this new adaptation, Euripides' tragedy speaks truth about war, power, and displacement across the centuries.
Four-time Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman starred as Hecuba in the recent London reading of The Trojan Women, produced by HERA and directed by Adele Thomas; both Friedman and Thomas are attached for the premiere production. This choral theatre piece had its first reading at the New York Society Library on January 22, 2018, directed by Obie Award winner Rachel Dickstein.