{"id":117007,"date":"2024-12-11T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=featured-work&p=117007"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:22:05","slug":"dark-sisters","status":"publish","type":"featured-work","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/featured-work\/dark-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dark Sisters<\/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 11 – 13, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dark Sisters<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Composed by Nico Muhly \u2022 Libretto by Stephen Karam \u2022 Arranged by Nate Thatcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison Voth, music director \u2022 Rose Freeman, stage director \u2022 Gordon Cheung, conductor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented under license from G. Schirmer, Inc. o\/b\/o Chester Music Ltd.\/ St. Rose Music Publishing Co. Produced as part of Boston University’s 2024 Fringe Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dark Sisters<\/em>, written by BUTI alum Nico Muhly (BUTI\u201996,\u201997), follows one woman\u2019s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) church, a sect that split from mainstream Mormonism in the early 20th Century largely because of the LDS Church\u2019s renunciation of polygamy. The male founders of the Mormon faith (Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, chief among them) loom large in American history; Dark Sisters<\/em> puts the women front and center. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sung in English, the opera takes viewers into the heart of contemporary religious fundamentalism and polygamy.\u00a0In 2008, state officials raided an FLDS compound in Texas following reports of underage marriage and sexual abuse at the community. Muhly and Karam, moved by the event, wanted to use opera to plunge audiences into the inner lives of the women affected.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019re real human beings with real human problems,\u201d Muhly says of the women. \u201cThey\u2019re other Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cast<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eliza \u2013 Margaret Tigue, Avuya Ngcaweni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruth \u2013 Annabrett Ruggiero, Rebekah Daly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almera \u2013 Arielle Rogers-Wilkey, Juliette Kaoudji<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presendia \u2013 Rachel Sungmin Goh, Anna Gaddie <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zina \u2013 Amy Wang, Anne Burgett <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prophet\/King \u2013 William O\u2019Brien, Wanchun Liang <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucinda \u2013 Abigail Cunningham, Monika Cachro <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covers \u2013 Presendia: Janae Peterson, Zina: Hannah Prince, Lucinda: Emma Giventer-Braff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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