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Synopsis
Star Singer explores the way women’s stories and history are preserved and passed on, as well as what happens when the chain is broken and traditions and language are lost. With music as the language of memory, the opera draws on mythologies from various cultures to present a stylized allegory for how we understand history and truth, how we pass them on, and their inevitable loss in the passage of time.
Star Singer takes place in a fantastical world where stars are burning out one by one, fading into a darkness held back only by the voice of the last star singer, the mother of the opera’s heroine, Mina. When Mina’s mother dies unexpectedly, the stars begin to fall dark. Left only with the fragmented memory of her mother’s song, taught to her in infancy, Mina sets out on a journey to relight the sky. As she moves through the realms of memory, anger, isolation, and death, Mina unknowingly walks in her mother’s footsteps, learning about truth, history, and memory; the irreplaceable loss of knowledge; the value of stories; and the interweaving journeys of mothers and daughters.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | Opera Grants for Women Composers: Discovery Grants | 2023 |
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Title Information
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