Composed by Sally Lamb McCune
Libretto by Yvonne Gray and Rachel Lampert
Directed by Ben Robinson
Choreographed by Jeanne Goddard
Conducted by Christopher Zemliauskas
We Wear the Sea Like a Coat tells the contemporary story of an American couple living on an island in Orkney, Scotland for a year. Sara, an oceanographer, is on an environmental assignment. Jonathan, a writer, is newly unemployed. As outsiders, they find themselves at the center of conflict between conservation and exploitation. In a radically changing world, they face their own existential questions about building a family. As truths unfold, Sara is forced to come to terms with what matters most.
We Wear the Sea like a Coat is co-produced with Opera Ithaca.