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Wet Dirt

Libretto by Andrea L. Hart

Premiering May 2024 by Thompson Street Opera Company, Chicago

Category

Year Composed

Orchestration

Duration

Chamber Opera

2023

Soprano, Tenor, Alto Saxophone, String Quartet, Piano, Harp

35 minutes

00:00 / 26:30

Excerpts from the piano reduction

Characters:

Ugly

Deer

Manu

Setting:

A vast, blank nowhereness. A storm coming.

Tenor, male, 20s, broken

Soprano, female, 20s, frightened

Sax, male, ghostly

About:

We observe a couple known only by the nicknames they've given each other, Deer and Ugly, as they attempt to solve a hedge maze. At the center sits Manu, a voiceless ghost of their deceased friend. They argue about moving in together - excuse, deflect, pry... a truth about Ugly comes to the surface and irrevocably changes their path forward.

 

Wet Dirt explores themes of sexual repression, societal expectation, and shared memory through an intimate story of loss and love.  

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