On Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30pm, ALT presents an orchestral workshop concert of TEVYE'S DAUGHTERS by composer Alex Weiser and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann. Inspired by the darker, grittier stories by Sholem Aleichem not included in Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye’s Daughters centers on the tale of the beloved milkman’s younger daughter Shprintse, who falls in love with a young man above her station. Like so many women of her generation, Shprintse has no choice but to navigate her crisis with silence. Galvanized by the literature of little-known female Yiddish writers, as well as tkhines - Yiddish prayers designated expressly for women - Tevye’s Daughters rewrites that silence, giving voice to a generation of women whose stories have frequently been suppressed, omitted, even erased. The opera moves between a shtetl in Ukraine in 1907 and a summer cabin in the Catskills in 1964 as Tseytl, Khave, and Beylke, now old women, haunted by a vestigial memory submerged for more than half a century, can no longer look away from the past. The arrival of Rose, a granddaughter grappling with her own sexual identity, incites the sisters not only to remember Shprintse’s traumatic story, but to come to terms with their shared tumultuous present.

ALT's Associate Artistic Director, Maestro Kelly Kuo conducts a world class chamber orchestra and cast of artists:

CAST

Tevye - Gideon Dabi

Golde - Indira Mahajan

Rose / Shprintse - Kate Johnson

Tseytl - Jennifer Zetlan

Beylke - (To be announced)

Khave - Heather Johnson

Arontshik - Ryan Lustgarten

This exciting public orchestral workshop will be at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7:30 pm. General Admission Tickets are $40; VIP Reserved Seating is $100 ($60 of which is tax-deductible).