For its inaugural 2017 season in Hudson Hall’s newly restored landmark building and the centenary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House, in partnership with the Millay Colony for the Arts, has commissioned a new production of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s rarely performed opera, The Mother of Us All.
Using real and imagined characters, The Mother of Us All is about Susan B. Anthony and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in America, which began in upstate New York. Anthony spoke thrice on the very stage where this opera will be performed.
The young and visionary stage director R. B. Schlather reimagined this two-act opera as a musical theater pageant, performed by a vocal and instrumental ensemble of Hudson Valley residents, and stars the mezzo-soprano Michaela Martens in the lead role.
