Saturday, March 31, 2007 | 8:00pm
Eric Sawyer Our American Cousin (2007)*
John Shoptaw, librettist
Janna Baty, soprano
Alan Schneider, vocalist
Aaron Engebreth, baritone
*World Premiere (Concert Performance)
Gil Rose, conductor
President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the surrounding events are seen through the prism of musical drama in the world premiere of Our American Cousin, a new opera by Amherst College composer Eric Sawyer and librettist John Shoptaw.