{"id":36,"date":"2025-02-04T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:13:42","slug":"no-title-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-bc5a4810 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>The opera is planned as a 90 minute, one-act opera for six singers (baritone, soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) and one dancer covering the action of the novel, which is told from the perspective of George, an English professor in deep mourning for his partner Jim, who died unexpectedly in an accident. The story is set in 1960s southern California amid the increasingly hostile arms race. Meanwhile, George and others must negotiate the suspicion leveled at minority communities in Los Angeles and nationwide.<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/House-where-Isherwood-lived-with-Caskey-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/House-where-Isherwood-lived-with-Caskey-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/House-where-Isherwood-lived-with-Caskey-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/House-where-Isherwood-lived-with-Caskey-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/House-where-Isherwood-lived-with-Caskey-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/House-where-Isherwood-lived-with-Caskey-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/House-where-Isherwood-lived-with-Caskey-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The house at Rustic Canyon which was the model for George&#8217;s and Jim&#8217;s house. <br>Photo by Wojciech St\u0119pie\u0144<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opera is planned as a 90 minute, one-act opera for six singers (baritone, soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) and one dancer covering the action of the novel, which is told from the perspective of George, an English professor in deep mourning for his partner Jim, who died unexpectedly in an accident. The story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asinglemanopera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}