Dominick Argento: The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe
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.
BMOP joins Odyssey Opera to present Dominick Argento's The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe on April 5, 2024 at 7:30PM at The Huntington Theater