Name: Woman with Eyes Closed
Start: 2025-05-04
End: 2025-05-04
Location: Bitz Opera Factory

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Pittsburgh Opera

Stage director

Kristine McIntyre

Assistant Conductor

Glenn Lewis

Pianist

James Lesniak

Singer

Contralto

Meredith Arwady

Mona

Mezzo-soprano

Audrey Welsh

Museum Curator

Tenor

Fran Daniel Laucerica

Tomas

Bass

Matthew Soibelman

Inspector

Lauryn Davis

Momma

Orchestra

Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra

Others

Pittsburgh Opera Chorus

English

Woman with Eyes Closed

Pittsburgh

United States

Bitz Opera Factory

Public

Saurav Kumar

Approved

A family portrait

When Mona finds a mysterious suitcase filled with stolen masterpieces, she must grapple with a choice to save these priceless paintings or save her son—the thief. Burning the paintings would destroy the evidence of her son’s crime, but one of the paintings—Lucien Freud’s “Woman With Eyes Closed”—looks just like her own mother, a painter who died when Mona was still young. The uncanny resemblance unlocks long-buried memories that fuel the fires of three different possible endings.

This world premiere opera from award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon (Cold Mountain) is inspired by a real-life art heist, and confronts the question “what is the true value of a work of art?” This is an opera that needs to be seen at least twice; each night of the production has the possibility of a completely new ending!

Commissioned by Opera Philadelphia

Woman with Eyes Closed by Higdon, Sun 04 May 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Kristine McIntyre,, Bitz Opera Factory, Pittsburgh, United States

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