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Win Tickets to Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown

The folk opera premieres in Portland next Wednesday with a local star-studded cast.

By Aaron Scott March 22, 2012

Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell is bringing her critically acclaimed folk opera, Hadestown, to the Doug Fir on Wednesday, March 28. A post-apocalyptic, depression-era retelling of the Orpheus myth, the album stars a lineup of contemporary folk royalty, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Ani DiFranco, and Greg Brown.

Mitchell’s gathered a similarly all-star local cast for the Portland performance: Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker in the part of Persephone, Nick Jaina as Orpheus, Robert Sarazin Blake as Hades, Adam Shearer of Weinland as Hermes, and Alia Farah (The Alialujah Choir), Stephanie Schneiderman (Dirty Martini), and Catherine O’Dell (Hello Mountain) as The Fates. If they did Greek mythology like this in high school, we all would’ve ended up Classics majors in college.

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