Departing on April 5, 2024, join Odyssey Opera and BMOP for an excursion like no other from Pulitzer Prize-winning master of contemporary American opera, Dominick Argento.
Ill and feverish, Boston-born writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe – his creativity and inspiration in the doldrums after his wife Virginia’s death two years prior – plans to sail to Baltimore on a “voyage of discovery.” But is a ship scheduled to depart?
Amidst shipboard phantoms, morbid melodrama, a hasty child marriage, grotesque masquerade partygoers, a profusion of alcohol, and a haunting voice singing Poe’s last complete poem, “Annabel Lee”, two things exist: Poe and his dubious literary executor, the mercurial Griswold.
A trial to contest madness, advised by fictional French detective Auguste Dupin, seemingly conjures Poe’s past, revealing a grisly auction of muses, his beloved Virginia’s funerary reawakening, and glittering visions of what lies beyond the grave.
Join the Odyssey for an excursion like no other from Pulitzer Prize-winning master of contemporary American opera, Dominick Argento.
The Huntington Theater
April 5, 2024 7:30PM
Student Tickets $15
Regular Priced Tickets $35-130
2024/04/05 - 2024/04/05
Huntington Avenue Theatre
264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Accessible seating is available at the venue.