Reading Wendell Berry’s works might inspire some to tape Reading Wendell Berry
The play centers on a real-life Kentucky couple who lived simply without electricity, gardening and fishing on the bank of the Ohio River. Jaeger contacted Berry about his idea and heard back in a handwritten letter. And when Jaeger went to visit Berry in Henry County, Ky., Berry had already turned his play into a libretto as Jaeger had asked. Get a glimpse of the opera in its near-finished form:
If you’re near Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., catch the world premiere of Payne Hollow at the Bard College Conservatory of Music on March 14 or 16.