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HYSTERIA is a rage-comic opera exploring women’s mental health through the lens of medicine, feminist fiction, reality TV, and the personal lives of the writers.

At the 1909 New York Symposium on Hysteria, the Neuroticist –a world-renowned psychoanalyst– presents four of his patients in a ground-breaking new lecture: Cherie, an unwed mother; Kate, a wife suffering from hallucinations; Ameeta, a mother anxious to marry off her adult son; and Mona, an architect struggling to appease her commissioners. Each is trapped in a scene that pushes her to ‘hysteria,’ a syndrome the Neuroticist aims to cure. However, a specter haunts his demonstrations, stoking the women’s fury and leading to a final confrontation—a contest of the gods, and the birthplace of our fury.

Join us as we explore diverse musical catalogues of mammals, birds, insects, and fishes for piano and voice that reflect nature’s astounding abundance.

Jake Heggie, Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Rebecca Clarke, and Alberto Ginastera sketch different portraits of felines. Claude Debussy, William Bolcom, and Henry Cowell capture the contrasting movements of goldfish, butterfly, and tiger. André Caplet sets fables by Jean de la Fontaine about conversations between crow and fox, grasshopper and ant, and lamb and wolf. Derek Bermel imagines what “piano music for animals” might sound like. Olivier Messiaen charts an entire day of bird calls from the wheatear to the goldfinch to the seagull. Ernest Chausson, Leoš Janáček, Benjamin Britten, Maurice Ravel, and Tom Cipullo consider human nature in relation to the hummingbird, vixen, fish, swan, and cricket.

Artists include mezzo-sopranos Carmen Edano and Sadie Habas, soprano Yekaterina Lynch, and pianist Alexandre Tchaykov.

Visit www.spectramusic.org/animal for the complete program and tickets.