The Trojan Women
Music by Sarah Taylor Ellis
Libretto by Ellen McLaughlin
Small cast version: 7 actors
Large cast version: 12+ actors
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.
Contact staylorellis@gmail.com to access the full video of the 2019 London reading.
Development and Production History:
Libretto by Ellen McLaughlin
Small cast version: 7 actors
Large cast version: 12+ actors
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.
Contact staylorellis@gmail.com to access the full video of the 2019 London reading.
Development and Production History:
- Workshop production, directed by Rebecca Miller Kratzer at Columbia University: October 2021
- Industry reading in London, starring four-time Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman, directed by Adele Thomas, and produced by HERA: August 2019
- Recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant
- Workshop at the New York Society Library, directed by Obie Award winner Rachel Dickstein: January 2018