FACING DOWN DEATH - free event 6/23 8pm

This is a free event by OperaHub, however, you need to reserve your tickets in advance. The are going fast!
http://www.hubcollab.org/tickets/

Please indicate in the comments below if you're interested in pre-event dinner. I will send my phone number and meeting spot (depending on response) to YES RSVPs on Saturday.

Erik Satie's SOCRATE
with excerpts from
THE TEN-BLOCK WALK: AN OLD PERSON'S ODYSSEY
by Erin Huelskamp and Christie Lee Gibson

Fort Point Theatre Channel, 10 Channel Center St., Boston

PERFORMANCES Friday, June 21 at 8pm; Saturday, June 22 at 8pm; Sunday, June 23 at 8pm

Erik Satie's half-hour chamber opera SOCRATE was written to be performed by the Princesse de Polignac and her lovers. In it, Satie plays with text from Plato about Socrates and his followers. It asks the question, how can they emulate his calmness that they so admire when he as about to die? The simplicity and speech-like quality of the music hint at the stoicism they try to emulate while belying the difficulty of achieving it.

THE TEN-BLOCK WALK: AN OLD PERSON'S ODYSSEY is a chamber opera that is being written by composer Erin Huelskamp and librettist Christie Lee Gibson. It follows Mrs. Otis as she journeys from her home to the local senior center. This is a piece about being present, about taking time and taking in your surroundings and responding to them. It is about persistence in the face of pain and obstacles and handicap, and about understanding that when you achieve your goals, often after great physical and mental exertion, it doesn't always look or feel like you think it's going to.

FREE ADMISSION! In the spirit of accessible opera for all, tickets are absolutely free. Ticket reservations will open up online shortly.

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THE CAST
Glorivy Arroyo as Mrs. Otis
Rebekah Alexander
Erin Anderson
Christie Lee Gibson
Nicholas Hebert
Paul Richard Yarborough Shafer

CREATIVE TEAM
Stage Director - Ensemble, with Olivia Brownlee
Music Director - Nicholas Place
Lighting - Ida Aronson