El Sidd and the Healers (Opera Review/Interview)
Translator I had the opportunity to preview El Sidd and the Healers, a new opera by composer Joseph Martin Waters, set to premiere at The Cutting Room in New York City on May 31, 2025, as part of Composers Concordance’s 13th Annual CompCord Festival. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the demo that Joe shared with me of this exciting, eclectic, and dramatic work. The opera is inspired by one of my favorite books, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, but reimagines the story in the hippie 1960s, at the height of the cultural revolution—when Hesse’s Siddhartha gained widespread popularity. The music...