Darkling
Darkling, the award winning poem by Anna Rabinowitz, was created for the New York City Off-Broadway stage by Michael Comlish, with music by Stefan Weisman and additional song by Lee Hoiby. The piece was developed in workshops spanning 3 years with American Opera Projects, and opened at the East 13th Street Theater in February 2006.
Though critically praised, the work was impossible to classify, as it combined opera, ensemble-style theater, stylized movement, and a complex vocabulary of early and mid 20th century theater forms. It was also considered “suitable for the Whitney Museum” because of its use of three dimensional space, video and sound-space.
