Memory, music, and caretaking take center stage with 'Lucidity'
Lucidity is a new opera staging its west coast premiere at the Seattle Opera tonight.
The performance takes a deeper look at the personal impacts that a dementia diagnosis has on an individual, and their family.
The opera follows Lili, a former singer who has a bit of a diva streak. Her adopted son, Dante, pauses his career as a pianist to care for his mom.
Together, they navigate Lili’s declining memory, her ability to perform, and her struggle to hold onto the thing at the center of her life: music.
It’s a role that Lucy Shelton, the soprano portraying Lili, was gifted by her friend Laura…
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