The After Dinner Opera Company Presents
an original opera by Jordan Wentworth Farrar
Tickets on sale now! -- symphonyspace.org
Tuesday, Dec 29, @ 7:30 pm - SOLD OUT!
Wednesday, Dec 30, @ 7:30 pm - SOLD OUT!
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Hall
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC
Now Accepting PRE-ORDERS for DVDs of the Symphony Space performance.
Email info@dayboynightgirl.com for information.
The Day Boy and the Night Girl receives a VOICE CHOICE!! 
Read this article about The Day Boy and the Night Girl featured in 
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The After Dinner Opera Company presents the world premiere of Jordan Wentworth Farrar’s The Day Boy and the Night Girl, an operatic re-imagining of the classic Victorian fairy tale by George MacDonald. Wentworth Farrar’s new three-act opera debuts at Symphony Space on December 29, 2009.
The Day Boy and the Night Girl follows the lives of Phytogen and Nycteris, both of whom have been imprisoned by the sorcery of Watho, the she-wolf. The boy, Phytogen, has been cursed never to see night while Nycteris, the girl, is doomed never to see the light of day.
Wentworth Farrar’s opera is a luminous and fantastical work inhabited with a haunting chorus of whispers, seductive mermaids, dancing fireflies, and enchanted water sprites—all representative of an outside world both the Day Boy and Night Girl long to experience.
According to Curator Magazine, “Wentworth Farrar’s music is tonal, with haunting melodic themes interspersed with tightly stacked vocal harmonies . . . a new and unusual work.”
The opera also marks the 60th anniversary of the After Dinner Opera Company, which commissioned The Day Boy and Night Girl to celebrate its milestone birthday. Since 1950, the After Dinner Opera has produced hundreds of American chamber operas by more than 70 composers, including Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein.
