Blued Trees: A Modern Opera (Preview)
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- Catherine MiEun Choi-Steckmeyer, mezzo-soprano
- Lianne Coble, soprano
- Ross Benoliel, baritone
Blued Trees is an opera that merges the tragic human face of ecocide, generational conflict; the people and their crucial decisions.
Gary, the pipeline executive is on trial for leading his company’s role in the destruction of trees. The trees were part of an installation by the artists and thus may be protected by a 1990 Federal statute Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), codified at 17 U.S.C. § 106A, granting moral rights in relation to works of visual art. Gary believes that his track record in winning legal battles assures him that he will prevail.
Gary's inner, personal life is in conflict.
His wife has been the supporting spouse of a successful executive, but she displays her doubts. But in her soliloquy, she proclaims, "Very, very often, I see myself exiting at a random station Holding a suitcase? Walk, steps to a small inn. Check in, that’s where it stops. At the check in."
His daughter, however, is not supporting. As a gynecologist she brings new life into the earth and despises her father for what he is doing. She sings, "You destroy everything with your smiling face." "These same babies with no trees left, no forests, no air to breathe."
Featuring singers from the Met Chorus: Catherine Choi-Steckmeyer; Lianne Coble; Ross Benoliel.