What happens when a young woman shows up for her senior year of high school pregnant…and a man? Such is the stuff of SCARLET FEVER, a new opera from Brooklyn-based Collective Opera Company. Taking Nathaniel Hawthorne’s iconic 19th century novel “The Scarlet Letter” as a starting point, Collective Opera Company presents SCARLET FEVER, a new opera that mines America’s long-held obsession with unorthodox pregnancy. Classical voices and tabloid storylines collide in this absurdist riff on maternal identity and the glaring influence of the media over our collective response to transgressive motherhood.

Collective Opera Company is a multi-disciplinary network of performers and artists dedicated to creating original opera works through vocal and physical performance, while catalyzing creative exchange between artists of various disciplines.

Original music by Ryan Tracy, with contribution from the company

Libretto by the company, based on “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lighting and visual design by Chris Schiavo

"...voices intertwining into a dense sonic tapestry..."

— John Rockwell, The New York Times

"...the voices of four singers from the Collective Opera Company resound gorgeously through the space..."

— Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

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