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.
South Street Seaport Museum expands its virtual sea chantey programming with the fourth installment of the Sea Songs and Sea Lives webinar series Queer Chanteys, Queer Sailors, featuring a conversation between Lafayette Matthews, Jules Peiperl, Alex Sturbaum, Miriam Rocek, and other guests, moderated by Laura Norwitz, on Friday, June 25, 2021.
South Street Seaport Museum's monthly sea-music event Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music - the original NYC chantey sing, now made popular on TikTok - will continue virtually on Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 2pm ET, and it will be broadcast live from the deck of Wavertree this month.