Northampton Stories: From the Operas of Sawyer & Erdman

Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman’s operas The Garden of Martyrs (2013) and The Scarlet Professor (2017) dramatize searing events from Northampton’s history: the 1806 execution of two Irish immigrants for a murder they likely didn’t commit, and the 1960 arrest of a gay Smith College professor for possessing “indecent” materials.

Join us for three special concerts featuring musical highlights from both of these works, heard for the first time since the operas’ premieres, and sung by a group of extraordinary vocalists–Katherine Saik DeLugan, William Hite, Ann Moss, Keith Phares, and Alan Schneider.