Today, Ben Moore's first opera, Enemies, a Love Story, with a libretto by Nahma Sandrow, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel, will receive its first performance in Palm Beach (FL). It will be performed at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
New York City, 1949. Throughout the war, Holocaust survivor Herman Broder survived in a hayloft, taken care of by his non-Jewish, Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has an affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is simply a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to be killed in the Holocaust, comes to New York. (reproduced from wikipedia)The cast includes Daniel Okulitch (Herman Broder), Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (Tamara), Caitlin Lynch (Yadwiga), Danielle Pastin (Masha), Jennifer Roderer (Shifrah Puah), Philip Horst (Tortshiner) and David Kravitz (Rabbi Lampert). The Palm Beach Opera Chorus and Orchestra will be conducted by David Stern, with Sam Helfrich directing.
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