Northampton Stories
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Northampton Stories: From the Operas of Sawyer & Erdman
At the Shepherd Barn at Historic Northampton, 66 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA
Pre-registration is required. | Each performance is limited to 45.
Sliding Scale Admission:
$25: Stretch Ticket | $20: Regular Ticket
$15: Students & Limited Income | $10: MCC Card to Culture
$25: Stretch Ticket | $20: Regular Ticket
$15: Students & Limited Income | $10: MCC Card to Culture
Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman's operas The Garden of Martyrs (2013) and The Scarlet Professor (2017) dramatize searing events from Northampton's history: the 1806 execution of two Irish immigrants for a murder they likely didn't commit, and the 1960 arrest of a gay Smith College professor for possessing "indecent" materials.
Join us for three special concerts featuring musical highlights from both of these works, heard for the first time since the operas' premieres, and sung by a group of extraordinary vocalists--Katherine Saik DeLugan, William Hite, Ann Moss, Keith Phares, and Alan Schneider.
The music is vivid, lush, and soaring--and the issues are more relevant now than ever.
The music is vivid, lush, and soaring--and the issues are more relevant now than ever.
Eric Sawyer
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Composer Eric Sawyer and librettist Harley Erdman have a penchant for choosing local historical events as the subjects of their work. The Garden of Martyrs opera (2013) is based on Michael C. White’s award-winning 2005 novel of the same title, which was inspired by the trial and execution in Northampton of two Irish Catholic immigrants, Dominic Daley & James Halligan. The Scarlet Professor opera (2017) is based on a biography by Northampton author Barry Werth of Smith College professor Newton Arvin, The Scarlet Professor - Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (2001). In 1960, Arvin's career and life were upended by an anti-homosexual crusade in Massachusetts.
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Harley Erdman
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Refund Policy
All sales are final. Admission and fees are non-refundable for change-of-mind purchases or time conflicts.
For health-related refunds such as COVID or a COVID exposure, please email [email protected]
for a partial refund by 11 am on the day of the performance with the subject line: Northampton Stories.
For health-related refunds such as COVID or a COVID exposure, please email [email protected]
for a partial refund by 11 am on the day of the performance with the subject line: Northampton Stories.
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