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A story of migration and climate change, the opera explores the forces that drive families from their homes into the uncertain refuge of new lands. The main character’s memory has been damaged in a country teetering on the brink of civil war. Opening in the glacial landscape of a post-war period, Drift returns to the terminal green of the characters’ youths, as they navigate in a toxin-laden panorama of swamplands and power plants. The opera follows the characters as they navigate multiple selves that emerge into an alien and uncertain future. Touching on themes of migration, climate change, and trauma, it highlights the ability of opera to glimpse into alternate time periods and necessitates a radically new examination on the nature of memory, geography, and what it is to be human.
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