Episode 2: Prompted by Appetite
“Dinner 4 3”
— Fargo-Moorhead Opera (ND)
"The Roost”
— UrbanArias (Washington D.C.)
10 creative teams. 9 companies from across the United States. 4 electric nights of new opera.
Boccaccio’s 14th century masterpiece “The Decameron” involved ten characters passing the time while sheltering from a plague by telling one another stories – stories comic, tragic, romantic, sexy, terrifying. The Decameron Opera Coalition has adapted those stories for the modern pandemic era.
“Tales from a Safe Distance” features nine World Premiere one-act operas, and a tenth wrap-around story starring internationally renowned bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni.
Each Friday in October you’ll see and hear a diverse array of voices, sounds, visuals, methods, and messages as dozens of contemporary opera’s most vital artists tell intimate tales of a global moment.
This unprecedented, searingly relevant, nation-wide collaboration is not to be missed.
Learn more at DecameronOperaCoalition.org