Of what I got to see there, In A Grove (here in its Pittsburgh Opera incarnation although with the same production) has been haunting me ever since. Something about Christopher Cerrone‘s music and Stephanie Fleischmann‘s libretto works almost like a really good picture book for adults — concise, mysterious, suggesting much more than what occurs on paper. This is the kind of thing that I only wish I could write.

Ursula Sturgeon

Ursula Sturgeon is a theatre dramaturg who became obsessed with opera as a toddler and has been wild about it ever since. (Most infants who listened to those Baby Mozart tapes turned out perfectly normal. She did not.) She is based in the Chicagoland area and is particularly interested in finding new ways to connect opera to modern audiences. She has previously served internships at Spotlight on Opera and the Opera Festival of Chicago, and currently presides on the board of directors of Scotch N’ Soda Student Theatre, the oldest co-ed college theatre organization in America. Being one of those young Gen Z whippersnappers, she is currently a student at Carnegie-Mellon University’s School of Drama, and she can be found on Instagram at @zauberfloting.

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