Waiting & Weaving :

Penelope in Song

7:00 pm | Ganz Hall | Roosevelt University

Penelope: the faithful, eternally patient wife to the Odysseus in the classic Greek epics The Iliad and The Odessey, has been a popular figure in artwork of every medium since she first came to life in Homer’s text.

From Giovanni Boccaccio’s ground-breaking biography of famous  women, De Mulieribus Claris, where she appears to her popularity as a subject for pre-Raphaelite painters, to the recent staging of Margaret Atwood’s seminal feminist play The Penelopiade at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Penelope is a character that has fascinated artists for centuries.

Join Art Song Chicago’s Vocal Chamber Music Fellow, soprano Alannah Spencer and pianist Jeremy Vigil for an exploration of this tragic figure in song. Hear songs and arias spanning the centuries - with works by Gabriel Fauré, John Musto, Claudio Monteverdi, and more.

Art Song Chicago is delighted that, as part of this project, Alannah and Jeremy will share two world-premieres written for this project by local composers Meg Huskin and Robbie Ellis.