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Ill and feverish, Boston-born writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe – his creativity and inspiration in the doldrums after his wife Virginia’s death two years prior – plans to sail to Baltimore on a “voyage of discovery.” But is a ship scheduled to depart?Amidst shipboard phantoms, morbid melodrama, a hasty child marriage, grotesque masquerade partygoers, a profusion of alcohol, and a haunting voice singing Poe’s last complete poem, “Annabel Lee”, two things exist: Poe and his dubious literary executor, the menacing Griswold.
A trial to contest madness, advised by fictional French detective Auguste Dupin, seemingly conjures Poe’s past, revealing a grisly auction of muses, his beloved Virginia’s funerary reawakening, and glittering visions of what lies beyond the grave.
Join #OdysseyOpera for an excursion like no other from Pulitzer Prize-winning master of contemporary American opera, Dominick Argento. The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, presented in partnership with Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP).
Tickets from $35 • Student tickets $15
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