Matinee Performance

Featuring Karmesha Peake as Aunt Lou

Presented by the little OPERA theatre of ny in association with National Black Theatre and Harlem Opera Theater….

This unique project pairs the work of two iconic composers from the middle of the 20th Century. Highway 1, U.S.A. is by African American composer William Grant Still, based upon a libretto by his wife Verna Arvey, a daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. The second one act opera is Down in the Valley by German immigrant Kurt Weill, based upon a libretto by first generation playwright Arnold Sundgaard. Still’s Highway 1, U.S.A. was last performed in NYC in 1977; Down in the Valley will be heard in Weill’s original chamber orchestration.