The piece will premier on YouTube on February 6th, and will be available for the remainder of the month. The piece is an amalgamation of opera, research, and poetry so we are not exactly sure what to call it, but for now we have settled on calling it an opera play. We have taken Wagner's Wesendonck lieder and used them to tell a very personal story of belonging and have paired most of the songs with a poem from contemporary women of color. We included the poetry to highlight the fact that the poems from Mathilde Wesendonck are still relevant and talk about universal subjects felt by many women even today.
I did receive a grant from die Akademie der Künste for the development and research of the project, super thankful. As part of fulfilling the requirements for the grant I have put together an accompanying website for the piece. I hope you'll have a look when you have time
