<< back to projects
Posted by admin on March 20, 2009
THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING
Costumes by Anna Kiraly
Music by Lee Hoiby
Libretto by Mark Shulgasser
Based on the play by Lanford Wilson
Lee Hoiby’s one-act opera This Is the Rill Speaking captures the everyday happenings of rural America in all of its glories and shortcomings. One of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson’s seminal early works, This Is the Rill Speaking is of the genre of non-narrative, multi-vocal evocations of the 20th century small town; the genre embodied in works such as Dylan Thomas’s Under Milkwood, Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology, the stories of Sherwood Anderson, and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Such glimpses of small town...