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Perhaps I always thought I was incapable of appreciating an evening at the opera. The occasional ... The phantom depths of the
by adminPerhaps I always thought I was incapable of appreciating an evening at the opera. The occasional friends or relatives who raved about the various aspects of art and performance created some personal guilt, but it's still hard to picture myself emerging from an auditorium with similar enthusiasm.
So, while I'm intimidated about the possibility of fully appreciating the significance of, say, Claudio Monteverdi's “Orfeo,” I sensed a completely different depth might be found in “Nancy and Tonya: The Opera.” With a story based on the figure skating rivalry between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding that engulfed the nation more than a decade ago, performances of the new show are set to begin at Tufts University in Massachusetts next spring.
Novelist Elizabeth Searle, who wrote the opera's libretto, told the Associated Press, “Tonya and Nancy was the first completely insane scandal that took over the country.” That might be true if you're either overemphasizing the word insane or if the timeline for your version of American history begins in 1994. Perhaps Watergate or Iran-Contra struck Searle as being completely sensible scandals.
Most of us have probably seen replays of the infamous sight of Kerrigan clutching her knee following practice at the 1994 U.S. Championships in Detroit and tearfully crying, “Why? Why?” more than enough times. But Searle and graduate student Abigal Al Doory, who is writing the music, had the ingenuity to transform that into an aria.
Searle explained to the Associated Press that she felt for the story because “[g]irls in America are either raised to be Tonyas or Nancys.” It seems a little hard to believe that there are exceptions to those two celebrities, but perhaps that sort of justification is what will pave the way for future operas based on other modern scandals that received round-the-clock media coverage. Because deep down, maybe there's a little Bill or Monica, O.J. or Nicole, Scott or Laci, in all of us.
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