Mezzo soprano Judith Barnes offers a meditation in music and movement on physical and spiritual homes loved and lost. Traversing the psyches of women who depart, exiled or forbidden, navigating a shifting landscape, singing of death and transfiguration, an exile’s farewell, a lamentation for a widowed city, she turns back for one last look, immured […]

three monodramas for the female voice Friday, June 30, 2017, 8:00pm Sunday, July 2, 2017, 8:00pm Behind the Door 219 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Barber Tesla’s Pigeon by Melissa Dunphy Phaedra by Benjamin Britten* Performed by Elise Brancheau, soprano (Knoxville) Chelsea Feltman, soprano (Tesla’s Pigeon) Judith Barnes, mezzo […]

by Benjamin Britten and Robert Lowell based on Jean Racine’s 1677 play Phèdre “How shall I hide my thick, adulterous passion for this youth, who has rejected me, and knows the truth?” Phaedra staggers under Aphrodite’s heavy curse. Wife to Theseus, she burns for his son Hippolytus. But he rejects her and in her blind […]