FULL THE WEEPING WOMAN (Michael Dilthey) North Adams 2019 Erin Casey Nafziger, Paul La Rosa, Julie Rumbold, Joshua Gurwitz

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Weeping Woman   
• Composer: Dilthey Michael   
• Libretto: Brian Leahy Doyle    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Arnold Print Works factory building, North Adams, Massachusetts, Greylock Opera Collective  
• Recorded: August 2019
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Erin Casey Nafziger, Paul La Rosa, Julie Rumbold, Joshua Gurwitz
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Karen Schwartz, piano  
• Stage Director: Jeremy Winchester  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The Weeping Woman is based upon the relationship between Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar, who was Picasso’s “official mistress” from 1935-1943.

  Born Henriette Theodora Markovitch, Dora is a poet, photographer, and painter in her own right and affiliated with the French Surrealists when she meets Picasso. The opera charts the course of their relationship beginning with their first meeting at Deux Magots, a Paris restaurant frequented by the Surrealists, where she catches Picasso’s attention by taking a knife and playing with it between her fingers on a table top.

  Picasso desires Dora, finds her physically attractive and intellectually stimulating, and they become lovers and collaborators even though Picasso is also in a relationship with Marie-Therese Walter, his “secret concubine,” with whom he has sired a child.

  In the end, though, Picasso abandons Dora, and in the final moments of the opera she strives to feel a sense of closure and freedom in her life.

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