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Purchase of Manhattan
Composer:Brent Michael Davids
Librettist:Milton Feist
Synopsis
The new concert opera PURCHASE OF MANHATTAN sings-to-life the drama of New York's hidden beginning. Was the island's price tag really $24 worth of beads? A production of the Lenape Center in Manhattan, the opera's intuitive quality captivates Indian and non-Indian audiences alike with an intelligent and inspired look into the life of Manhattan's first inhabitants, the Lenape. PURCHASE OF MANHATTAN mingles together a perfect blend of operatic and American Indian singing styles about the famous beginnings of “New Netherland,” later becoming “New Amsterdam” and finally “New York.” By keenly re-staging New York's founding from a Lenape perspective, the opera blazes uncharted territory with shrewdness and eloquence.

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