A Woman in Morocco
Music by Daron Hagen
A Woman in Morocco is an English language opera in two acts composed by Daron Hagen and based on an unperformed play by Barbara Grecki. It was premiered by Kentucky Opera in Louisville, Kentucky, June 23, 2015, in a production directed by the composer. The libretto is by Hagen and Grecki, who also co-wrote the treatment. The story, set in Tangier in October 1958, concerns the disappearance of an American investigative journalist named Lizzy Holmes working on an exposé of sex trafficking. The work received a complete workshop staging at the Butler Opera Center of the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas-Austin October 25, 2013. "Anywhere humans interact one can find people capable of exploiting the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable," explained the composer in a 2015 interview. "The scourge of human trafficking manifests in even more forms than immediately come to mind: any time someone is coerced or manipulated into doing something that they know is wrong out of fear for their own safety, or that of their loved ones, trafficking is occurring. I wrote this opera to raise peoples’ awareness of that face, to fight, in the way that I know best, for trafficking victims."
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About the Composer
Daron Aric Hagen ( HAH-gən; born November 4, 1961) is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker.
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