The difference between a letter and a love letter is the reader.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City is excited to welcome soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfry for their Lyric Opera debuts in The Brightness of Light.
Composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts and based on letters between Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, this innovative new work is a love letter of its own. Like any creative endeavor, marriage is a collaborative work in progress—a journey in which the end isn’t always what we imagined when we started. Against projections of O’Keeffe’s and Stieglitz’s works, the letters paint the shifting shape of love over decades. Through music and art, we sense the fleeting fragility of the moment and our desperation to make it last a little longer. Painting in layers, Puts’s song cycle gives each letter new life, connecting contrasting ways of seeing the world. From the deserts of New Mexico to city streetscapes to roads less traveled in between, we see complementary visions for what life and art could be.
Note: This is a semi-staged concert with projections; the second half will consist of Broadway hits specially selected by Ms. Fleming and Mr. Gilfry for Lyric Opera audiences.
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Friday, September 27, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Sunday, September 29, 2024 | 2:00 pm
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