Custom of the Coast at Berlind Rehearsal Room at McCarter Theatre Center

Join us for an early developmental workshop presentation of a section of Custom of the Coast, a new small-scale opera written by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and award-winning experimental music/contemporary opera composer Kamala Sankaram. This new work, the subject of a fall Princeton Atelier course, intercuts the life stories of an 18th century Irish pirate sentenced to death, and an Indian-born, Irish-based dentist who died in 2012 having been denied an abortion. The music for the opera draws from both traditional Irish and medieval music and Indian classical music to connect these two stories separated by time. The opera will have a showing at the Guggenheim Works & Process series in February and will premiere at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland in August.

Accessibility: The Berlind Rehearsal Room is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu