​​Michael Hersch & Shane McCrae’s ‘and we, each’ at National Sawdust

Michael Hersch’s latest opera, ‘and we each,’ created in collaboration with celebrated poet Shane McCrae, comes to National Sawdust on Thursday, February 6 for its New York premiere. The evening-length work, starring “transfixing…commanding” soprano Ah Young Hong (The New Yorker) and “golden-toned” baritone Jesse Blumberg (New York Times), explores “the treacherous territories of relationships – between individuals, within societies and, ultimately, the collapse of both,” in Hersch’s words. James Matthew Daniel is the stage director, and Tito Muñoz will conduct. Reviewing the premiere in Baltimore, BmoreArt called ‘and we, each’ “riveting…it is clear we are in the presence of important theater making.”