EAST RIVER (YOU AND I HAVE MET BEFORE)

August 19th, 2009

We’re really juiced that Jenny Olivia Johnson (AKA “Jenny Juice”, AKA one of my favorite composers around!) is hard at work on a new opera for Rhymes With Opera. EAST RIVER (YOU AND I HAVE MET BEFORE) is a noise rock opera that will be unveiled during our Spring 2010 tour.

Here’s a blurb to whet your whistle, straight from the composer herself:

“EAST RIVER is an imaginary dive bar on the outskirts of a dirty metropolis. It is an anti-memory space, a place where otherwise ordinary folks drop by to relieve themselves of emotional burdens, or cry on the shoulders of strangers over $2 shots of whiskey and the haunting sounds of the nameless house band. Tonight, an unwitting young woman named Jubilance will find herself at the East River, where she will meet a stranger who claims she has met Jubilance before, on a night two years earlier when an unknown woman was murdered. Jubilance remembers nothing of this event, but gradually comes to believe that she must have been so traumatized by it that she repressed the memory. Over the course of the evening, the stranger will guide Jubilance through the fragmented kaleidoscope of her psyche, in search of the lost memory and lost time, and in search of answers and clues that could help solve the murder. What they will discover locked away in Jubilance’s memory instead will change everything in Jubilance’s life forever.”

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