For the piece, the playwright Maria Milisavljevic wrote ... His works in this genre aim to provide solace without facile escapism, and the opera cuts its serious themes with moments of silliness ...

young. This new piece follows a family who took part in the Great Migration but has returned home to reckon with the past. Timothy Douglas directs an opera that will include gospel, blues ...

During that time, the first performance they rehearsed was Sanchakou (The Crossroads Inn), a classic Peking Opera piece where a general and an innkeeper fight each other in a pitch-black room.