Director

Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea is an opera by Paola Prestini, Royce Vavrek and Karmina Šilec that presents a dual track of storytelling by combining the Hemingway text with original portraits of quotidian life to create a look at aging, legacy, and our relationship to oceans. The work includes longtime collaborators/muses of Prestini’s including Jeffrey Zeigler as the featured cellist. The cast includes a choir, and brings to life the seminal characters: Santiago, Manolin, and the wife, recast as La Virgen del Cobre, a goddess in Santería, the Afro-Caribbean faith, who was found floating on a wooden board off the coast of eastern Cuba in 1628. Themes of baseball, ecology, religion, and economy paint a conflict between progress and tradition, craft passion and exploitation, ultimately shedding contemporary perspectives on this timeless tale.

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The Old Man and the Sea

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An outcast fisherman was born under an unlucky star. But day after day, Santiago casts his nets, waiting for the catch that could redeem and reward his efforts. 

Breathtakingly staged with eight pools of water enhanced with dynamic lighting, costumes and sound, our latest collaboration with the groundbreaking Beth Morrison Projects  transforms Hemingway's Pulitzer-winning novel into a rumination on age, loss,  nature, and what it means to be beautifully, stubbornly human.

Director

Karmina Šilec

Events

Upcoming events

20 - 23 May, 2027

The Old Man and the Sea · LA Opera

Past events

Feb 10, 2024

The Old Man and the Sea · Beth Morrison Projects

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