Name: The Old Man and the Sea
Start: 2024-02-10T20:00:00
Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nathan Gunn

Measha Brueggergosman-Lee

Mila Henry

Rodolfo Giron

Jeffrey Zeigler

Shayna Dunkelman

Yvette Keong

Karmina Šilec

Paola Prestini

Beth Morrison Projects

Visionintoart

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