Classical Uprising: Penelope
Thu, May 28
|O'Maine Studios
Classical Uprising and the Portland Bach Experience present Penelope, A song cycle for string quartet and soprano by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider and lyricist Ellen McLaughlin inspired by Homer's epic poem The Odyssey.
Time & Location
May 28, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
O'Maine Studios, 54 Danforth St, Portland, ME 04101, USA
About the event
Inspired by Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey, Penelope is a meditation on what it means to come home. A song cycle by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider and lyricist Ellen McLaughlin, Penelope, sees a woman's husband appear at her door after an absence of twenty years, suffering from brain damage. A veteran of an unnamed war, he doesn't know who he is and she doesn't know who he's become. While they wait together for his return to himself, she reads to him from the Odyssey, and in the journey of that book, she finds a way into her former husband's memory. Penelope is a love story about the long work of finding each other again.
Doors open at 5pm, music at 6.