{"id":105301,"date":"2023-10-26T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=featured-work&p=105301"},"modified":"2023-11-16T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:37:30","slug":"alice-tierney","status":"publish","type":"featured-work","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/featured-work\/alice-tierney\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Tierney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alice Tierney<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A co-production of BU Opera Institute and School of Theatre<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 13 – 15, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alice Tierney<\/em> explores the mythic stories surrounding the death of the real-life 19th-Century \u201cdissipated woman\u201d Alice Tierney. Tierney was found hanging by her own petticoats on a fence in a seedy Philadelphia neighborhood early one morning in 1880. Despite suspicious circumstances, the death was ruled accidental and never investigated by police. But who was Alice? Can four grad students investigating the site discover the truth? (melissadunphy.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Presented as part of the 2023 Fringe Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Tierney<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Music by Melissa Dunphy
Libretto by Jacqueline Goldfinger
Music Director \u2022 Allison Voth
Stage Director \u2022 Claire Choquette<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I think the Alice Tierney <\/em>is uniquely important with its empowerment of women, and that the main characters of the opera are actually graduate students within the story, as are the graduate students who are performing the roles.” – William Lumpkin<\/a>, Artistic Director of BU’s Opera Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We believe that opera is, first, theatrical, and it is not just about singing.  It is about engaging an audience in an intensely intimate venue through compelling character work that gives the illusion that they have not heretofore ‘studied’ the music or text, and that both the music and the text are happening in real time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Program Book<\/h3>\n\n\n\n