Name: Lucy
Start: 2021-09-24T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Richard E. Wildish Community Theater

Lucy

Eugene Opera

Lucy is a chamber opera for baritone and ensemble that tells the story of psychologist Maurice Temerlin and his adoption of a chimpanzee.

Richard E. Wildish Community Theater

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Lucy, a monodrama composed for baritone and chamber ensemble by John Glover and Kelley Rourke, tells the story of psychologist Maurice Temerlin, who, along with his wife Jane, adopted a day-old chimpanzee in 1964. Naming her Lucy, their intention was to raise this chimpanzee as if she were their human child.In the opera, as Temerlin struggles to hold on to memories of a happy family life, documentation from the experiment challenges him to come to terms with the project&#x27;s ultimate consequences. In revealing the devastating effects of the experiment, the opera challenges audiences to consider the moral and ethical questions of animal research.The Eugene Opera production features baritone Andrew Wilkowske, the Eugene Opera Orchestra, and Andrew Bisantz, Conductor.Please note, masks for audience members are required at this event, as well as proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken 48 hours before the event.

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