Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival, Jackson McKinnon, conductor

Teresa will be singing the role of Sylvia Anerton (and her ghost) in this new work by Paul Scherer, with a libretto by Germaine Shames, based on the Edith Wharton short stories, "The Muse’s Tragedy" and "The Touchstone".

The young biographer of a renowned poet chances upon the poet’s much talked-about Muse (Sylvia Anerton) during a sojourn in Venice. They spend a week together—ostensibly, to collaborate on a volume of verse. Instead, romance blossoms. Ten years after, the biographer returns to Venice with his young socialite wife, having sold his Muse’s love letters to pay for the honeymoon.

Can a Muse inspire the most sublime sonnets in the history of poetry and yet not be loved?

Performances:

Saturday, Sept. 21st at 6:30pm

Sunday, Sept. 22nd at 2:00pm
Seven Hill Chamber Music Festival