Glory Denied Program - Annapolis Opera
Program for Glory Denied on January 27th and 28th, 2024, presented by Annapolis Opera.
Program for Glory Denied on January 27th and 28th, 2024, presented by Annapolis Opera.
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There are so many compelling stories of the<br />
human condition just waiting to be told, and<br />
one of them has made its way from life to<br />
book to stage. <strong>Glory</strong> <strong>Denied</strong> takes us back<br />
to a dark time in our history as it recalls the<br />
collective national and familial upheavals<br />
of that tumultuous era. It is a story about<br />
war, yes, but also about time and loss. It<br />
is a story about family and the devastation<br />
wrought on the home front, as well as in<br />
faraway places of mortal combat.<br />
As Allan Kozinn of the New York Times described it, “How is this for<br />
a story with operatic potential? A prisoner of war held for nearly<br />
a decade returns home to find that his wife has moved on, his<br />
nation has changed beyond recognition, and he is unable to find<br />
his bearings in the society he fought to defend. It is Monteverdi’s<br />
“Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria” in reverse: the story of the returning<br />
warrior, but in this thoroughly modern version, everything has gone<br />
wrong, and redemption is out of reach.”<br />
Is redemption out of reach in this tale? Although set in the 1970s,<br />
the questions engendered by this story are timeless and important.<br />
Wars have not ceased and, as Tolkien wrote long ago, “We all long<br />
for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at<br />
its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still<br />
soaked with the sense of exile.”<br />
Rev. Dr. Carletta Allen<br />
President<br />
A Message from<br />
the President<br />
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