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Subject: From Martin Halpern: chamber opera production
“The Damned Thing,” an original chamber opera by Martin Halpern, will be given a fully staged production at the Church of Saint Gregory the Great, 144 West 90th Street in Manhattan, on June 9, 10 and 11 at 8 PM.
The plot is partly a surreal dream sequence and partly an allegory, in which a man and a woman must assemble a construction conceived by an offstage designer. When they discover that one of the parts is missing, either purposefully or by accident, or because they themselves have misplaced it, they decide to build around it, and do so until the construction appears to be complete. [...]
Subject: From Martin Halpern: chamber opera production
“The Damned Thing,” an original chamber opera by Martin Halpern, will be given a fully staged production at the Church of Saint Gregory the Great, 144 West 90th Street in Manhattan, on June 9, 10 and 11 at 8 PM.
The plot is partly a surreal dream sequence and partly an allegory, in which a man and a woman must assemble a construction conceived by an offstage designer. When they discover that one of the parts is missing, either purposefully or by accident, or because they themselves have misplaced it, they decide to build around it, and do so until the construction appears to be complete. [...]