"I do not exaggerate when I say that the opera is in the tradition of and on par with the best modern engagements of The Odyssey, especially its contemporary retellings by women, such as Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad and Madeline Miller’s Circe.'
Stephanie McCarter, whose Metamorphoses translation was listed as one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022
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Production History
Photo by Robert Ford
June 2023: Performance at Asian Art Museum, Corfu Greece
May 2023: Performances at Thompson Theatre, Newark DE
June 2022: Workshop at White Feather Farm, co-produced by Theoria Foundation and ShoutOut Saugerties, Saugerties, NY.
May 2022: Audio recording aired on Autogram, Radio Belgrade 2 in Belgrade, Serbia
June 2021: Winner of the Susana Meyers Creative Arts Award 2021
July 2019: Concert performance at Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Sewanee, TN
March 2019: In progress performance, UD Lyric Theatre, Newark DE
July 2018/2019: residency at Sewanee University of the South
January 2018: New Dramatists/CLS residency
Penelope and the Geese is honored to have received grants from Opera America (Discovery Grant 2020), New Music USA (Project Grant 2020), Society of Classical Studies (Classics Everywhere 2020, Ancient Worlds Modern Communities 2022) and NYU (Dean’s Grant 2020 and 2022