Due to the COVID-19 crisis, this event has been postponed until our 2021 season; performance dates TBA. Learn more about event cancellations.

World premiere!

We’re thrilled to present this highly anticipated world premiere with music by Gregory Spears, composer of our acclaimed 2016 commission Fellow Travelers, and a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning recent U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Set during the mortgage crisis of 2008, with flashbacks to 1966 as well as to the 19th Century, Castor and Patience tells the story of African American cousins who find themselves at odds over the fate of land owned by members of their family.