On Site Opera Resumes Live Performances on Tall Ship Wavertree at South Street Seaport Museum
A promenading operatic pastiche that explores the dark history of New York s maritime slavery through a modern lens of racial justice.by Alexa Criscitiello
On Site Opera, New York s pioneering opera company rooted in site-specific storytelling and the immersive experience, in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum, brings opera aboard the deck of the historic tall ship Wavertree with What Lies Beneath, August 28-September 2, 2021.
This immersive musical experience invites small groups to travel around the ship s main deck to hear and see vignettes intended to connect audiences to the complex and tragic stories surrounding American maritime history, both through the enslavement of African people and through novelist Herman Melville s tragic heroes.