NYC Chapter Theatre Night: HILDEGARD

Join Yale SOM alumni in New York at a performance of the critically acclaimed new opera Hildegard at the PROTOTYPE Festival!

Presented by Beth Morrison Projects, PROTOTYPE is America’s most important festival of new opera-theatre, presenting the cutting-edge works that are currently redefining the genre. Led by President and Creative Producer Beth Morrison ’05 MFA and Managing Director Eric Simpson (’11 B.A., ’22 MBA), Beth Morrison Projects is the leading proponent of new opera in English, earning two Pulitzer Prizes in Music and three Grammy Award nominations in its first 20 years.

Called “gorgeously mesmerizing” by The New York Times, HILDEGARD is a new work of operatic historical fiction about twelfth-century German Benedictine abbess/polymath St. Hildegard von Bingen. Set in 1147, the opera follows Hildegard as she receives visions from God. While transcribing these visions for Papal evaluation – a process that will decide her prophet or heretic – she enlists the young convalescent Richardis von Stade to illustrate the manuscript. As they develop a transformative collaboration that awakens them in ways both profound and unexpected, the two women must confront the powers that would see them erased from history rather than authoring it. At the same time, Hildegard is haunted by mysterious visions she cannot explain, forcing her to grapple with unacknowledged truths she can no longer deny.

Use code YALE15 to enjoy 15% off tickets for the January 10 performance of Hildegard, available here. *please note, tickets are first come, first serve and may sell out! 


Check out the Hildegard trailer here and watch the Prototype festival trailer here.