Castor and Patience
An English-language opera by Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith, commissioned for Cincinnati Opera’s centennial season. The plot is not described.
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An English-language opera by Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith, commissioned for Cincinnati Opera’s centennial season. The plot is not described.
During the Lavender Scare in 1950s Washington, State Department official Hawkins Fuller begins a relationship with Timothy Laughlin, a recent graduate working for a senator. Government investigations and Fuller’s unwillingness to commit strain their bond. Tim leaves for army service and later works as a reporter; years later, he and the married Hawk reunite, but Tim leaves after accepting they cannot build a life together.
Across three parts, the opera follows dreamers and explorers from Walter Raleigh’s journey to the New World, to a Houston teenager’s relationship with a Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut, and on to future astronauts exploring the Solar System.
An English-language opera by Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith, commissioned for Cincinnati Opera’s centennial season. The plot is not described.
During the Lavender Scare in 1950s Washington, State Department official Hawkins Fuller begins a relationship with Timothy Laughlin, a recent graduate working for a senator. Government investigations and Fuller’s unwillingness to commit strain their bond. Tim leaves for army service and later works as a reporter; years later, he and the married Hawk reunite, but Tim leaves after accepting they cannot build a life together.
Across three parts, the opera follows dreamers and explorers from Walter Raleigh’s journey to the New World, to a Houston teenager’s relationship with a Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut, and on to future astronauts exploring the Solar System.