Auerbach leading ‘The Blind’ in her residency
- Frank Convit
- Nov 4
- 1 min read
From April 4-7, Auerbach will enjoy yet another triumph in New Orleans when her one-act, one-hour opera, “The Blind,” is given four performances at the Marigny Opera House. Possibly the world’s first (and only!) a cappella opera, the work is being sung by a 16-member choral ensemble with no live orchestration.
The storyline of the opera revolves around an 1890, one-act play of the same name by Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck. A group of blind patients have been led into the forest by their priest but they soon get lost and the priest dies before he can get help for them. The group must now find their way out of the forest with no one possessing sight to guide them.
The local cast will consist of tenors Kameron Lopreore, William Alber and Bart Folse; sopranos Haley Whitney, Hillary Smith and Karina Valle; baritones H. Aaron Ambeau, Frank Convit and Matt McCann; contraltos Rachel Abbate and Mirella Cavalcante; mezzo-sopranos Zara Zemmels, Maggie Probst and Amanda McCarthy; and basses Fionn Hunter-Green and James Resch.
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