Over a pulsing synthesizer, musician and composer Gelsey Bell ends the final song of her opera with the line “I’m struck by morning / the orange line of light / low and fast, revolving flight.” By then, however, to the listener the meaning of that first noun is ambiguous: does she mean “morning” or “mourning”? The line carries the weight of both meanings with ease.
It’s part of Bell’s experimental opera MƆɹNIŊ [Morning//Mourning], which “inhabits a world in which all humans have disappeared from Earth,” Bell writes...
...In a collaboration between the Peabody Museum and the Yale Schwarzman Center, MƆɹNIŊ will be performed in the main hall of the Peabody on Nov. 4; admission is free and a waiting list available.
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