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Harvey Milk

Composer:

Stewart Wallace

Librettist:

Michael Korie

Synopsis
The story concerns the life of Harvey Milk, a gay city supervisor in San Francisco, who was gunned down, along with George Moscone, the mayor, on November 27, 1978. Their killer was Dan White, a former policeman and fellow supervisor, who was convicted of the deed.

The opera begins with the killing of Milk and then flashes back to his childhood in New York, beginning with his trip as a fifteen-year-old by himself to the Metropolitan Opera, where he wonders about a group of "men without wives." When he follows them to Central Park, the youngster is entrapped and arrested by a plainclothes policeman, which leads him to confront his own sexuality and the hostility of others to those who are different, his fighting back, which is urged upon him by his friend Scott Smith and, ultimately, his murder by Dan White.

Productions
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COMPANY	TITLE	DATES
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis	Harvey Milk	6/11/2022 - 6/25/2022
San Francisco Opera	Harvey Milk	11/11/1996 - 11/29/1996
New York City Opera	Harvey Milk	4/1/1995 - 4/21/1995
Houston Grand Opera	Harvey Milk	1/1/1995 - 2/1/1995

OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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GRANT NAME	YEAR
Opera for a New America	1994

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Approximate Runtime (hh:mm)
2:06

Number of Acts
3

Musical Style
Tonal; chromatic, with occasional full atonality; post-minimalist repetition; popular music influences; some musical quotations; broad vocal lines

Vocal & Musical Forces
principal roles: Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, 2 Tenors, 2 Baritones, Bass, Male Soprano; Full orchestra; Chorus

Original Cast
Original Cast: Harvey Milk, Robert Orth; Dan White/Man in Trenchcoat/Cop, Raymond Very; George Moscone/Horst Brauer/The Teamster, Gidon Saks; Scott/Closet Lover, Bradley Williams; Dianne Feinstein/Mama, Juliana Gondek; Messenger/Mintz/Empress/Reverend Barcus, James Maddalena; Anne Kronenberg/The Beard, Jill Grove; Henry Wong/Closet Lover, Randall Wong; Young Harvey, Matthew Cavenaugh

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