Sleepers Awake

In this opera, the chorus has the starring role. Composer Gregory Spears , whose music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” ( The New York Times ), “coolly entrancing” ( The New Yorker ), and “some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory” ( The Boston Globe ), creates a labyrinthine soundscape to accompany a dream-like rendering of the fairytale “Sleeping Beauty,” inspired by modernist writer Robert Walser. As the Opera Philadelphia Chorus sings itself in and out of slumber, the voices pull us into a liminal space where time is both fractured and cyclical. Conceived with and directed by the transformative Jenny Koons , this visually dazzling world premiere activates a collective voice to question the fragile line between waking and dreaming. Corrado Rovaris conducts. All tickets are Pick Your Price , starting at $11. Any amount above $11 helps support other operagoers and the work Opera Philadelphia presents on stage.