The Transformation of Jane Doe (2019)

TIME/PLACE
The opera takes place in Chicago, January 1, 1920, with flashbacks to April of 1908 (inside the Studebaker Theater) and December 31, 1919 (outside and on top of a hotel).

It’s New Year’s Eve in Chicago, 1919. Just before the stroke of midnight, an anonymous woman leaps from the rooftop of a downtown hotel. The next morning, a young reporter named Abigail lands her first, major story, uncovering the identity of this mysterious jumper. The deeper Abigail descends into the complexity of Jane Doe’s story, the closer she comes to unearthing her own personal truth. The Transformation of Jane Doe is an opera about truth, illusion, and one woman’s journey in a rapidly changing world.

Concert version at Chicago Opera Theater, 2019

Artists:

• Conductor - Lidiya Yankovskaya
• Abigail Dabrowski - Samantha Schmid, soprano
• Jane Doe - Morgan Middleton, mezzo-soprano
• Night maid - Leah Dexter, mezzo-soprano