The New York premiere of the Christopher Cerrone/Stephanie Fleischmann opera IN A GROVE, in Mary Birnbaum’s simply beautiful—or beautifully simple—production triumphed at La Mama Experimental Theatre ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — He comes here every day, to gather wood. Axe in hand, the woodcutter (baritone Geoffrey Schmelzer) sang as much when he introduced “In A Grove” with see-sawing modulation, ...
Sited within a ghost forest in the Pacific Northwest in 1922, the opera unfolds within a barren, haunted landscape devastated by wildfire. Into a terrain of broken dreams, marred by violence and ...
A performance of "In a Grove" by Opera Saratoga, amid the trees of the Saratoga Spa State Park, on May 28, 2025. A performance of "In a Grove" by Opera Saratoga, amid the trees of the Saratoga Spa ...
A missing botanist and an apparently murdered schoolteacher. Seven witnesses, suspects among them. A mysterious tale awaits audiences of “In a Grove,” an opera by Christopher Cerrone with a libretto ...