Opera Fusion: New Works

Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) welcome you to the next workshop in their joint program, Opera Fusion: New Works: Hildegard with music and libretto by Sarah Kirkland Snider, stage direction by Elkhanah Pulitzer, and dramaturgy by Annie Jin Wang.

HILDEGARD

Music and Libretto by Sarah Kirkland Snider
Stage direction by Elkhanah Pulitzer
Dramaturgy by Annie Jin Wang

Commissioned and produced by Beth Morrison Projects, Hildegard imagines three of the most pivotal events in the life of 12th-century German Benedictine nun, visionary, composer, and polymath Hildegard von Bingen. The opera begins in the year 1147, when Hildegard begins transcribing her visions of God. She enlists the assistance of a young convalescent, Richardis von Stade, and the two women quickly develop a transformative partnership that awakens them creatively, spiritually, and—much to the internal conflict of both women—romantically. As their story unfolds, an unforeseen crisis threatens both their hard-won accomplishments and the intimacy, in all its complexity and secrecy, that has become their salvation.

A public performance of excerpts from Hildegard will take place on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. (ET) at Cincinnati Music Hall’s Wilks Studio (1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202). Admission to the public performance is free, though seating is limited and reservations are required.

Free tickets, limit 4 per household.

*A processing fee of $2.50 per ticket will be added to each order.

NOTE: CCM is presenting a musical about Hildegard von Bingen titled In the Green at the same time as this OF:NW workshop. The musical, which is separate from Hildegard, the opera, runs in Cohen Family Studio Theater from Oct. 10-12 and 17-19.