Sunday, May 29
4:00 PM
Wine reception to follow
 
GNE closes its season with Michael Gordon’s incredible opera Van Gogh, composed from the texts of letters between the artist and his brother Theo. Gordon says of the source material, “What attracted me so much to Van Gogh’s writing was the pain, rawness and brutal honesty. I found it hard to believe that anyone could tell another person, even his brother, the raw emotions that Van Gogh experienced — so painful, lonely and humiliating.” Through Gordon’s compositional voice, those shared words become even more powerfully dramatic and hauntingly beautiful, a masterwork not to be missed.