First Performance: Excerpts - Lemon Grove Historical Society, San Diego, CA
September 21, 2003

a memory play in which Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the great American writer, looks back on her life. She relives her struggle to realize herself as a woman and a writer in a time that tried to throttle both aspirations.

The characters from three of her novels -- AGE OF INNOCENCE, ETHAN FROME, HOUSE OF MIRTH -- help explore the relationship between the creator and the creation. The opera ends on a note of triumph as she rises above her fear and despair, and begins her final novel.

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The Music
Staging Possibilities

A REVIEW of the December 29, 2003 event, aVictorian High Tea at which the composer and librettist introduced their new opera.


A REVIEW of the preview at the Lemon Grove Historical Society

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