2024-2025 Season

FALL

 SIX: an Opera Cabaret

To be a woman in opera is to suffer at the hands of men. Across the operatic tome, women have been wronged time and time again – a woman’s death is a feature, and often the dramatic climax, of our most famous stories. If a leading lady isn’t murdered (or driven to her demise) by a man, she usually spends the show being mistreated by other ones. To lend these women back the agency their stories steal from them, OTYC draws on the idea of SIX: The Musical, putting together a novel night of scenes. Six leading women from six different operas will come together to lament their situations, commiserate with each other, and eventually find strength in one another’s company. They might even plot their revenge…  Drawing together both beloved and lesser-known works, SIX: an Opera Cabaret gives opera’s plethora of wronged women the final word.

For all inquiries, contact ava.gaughan@yale.edu.

WINTER

 Darwin en Patagonia

This December, Mariano A. Fernandez and Diego Golombek’s opera Darwin en Patagonia will make its American premiere. This hour-long Spanish-language opera follows Charles Darwin and the crew of the H.M.S. Beagle on their five-year journey around the world. The piece examines Darwin’s interactions with the people and landscape of Patagonia, revealing the historical implications of his ideas about evolution. 

The piece itself has been “evolving,” from a spark of inspiration to a staged reading at the Centro Cultural de la Cienca in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fernández has spent the last year revising his work and expanding the orchestrations so that the piece will reach new heights at Yale University as a fully staged production.

For all inquiries, please contact veronica.zimmer@yale.edu.