Strawberry Fields Opera

STRAWBERRY FIELDS (opera) by Michael Torke at Cazenovia College Theater

(1-act opera) libretto by A.R. Gurney (staged with chamber ensemble) Set in Central Park, NYC, at the John Lennon Memorial… A respectable but confused old lady wanders into the park, sits down on a bench imagining it is her seat at the opera, and sees the events unfolding around her as opera theatre. A family drama! Plus Mason Bates The Life of Birds, (with dance, choreographed by Cheryl Wilkins-Mitchell); Ping Jin Trio, 2015 PREMIERE