After the Premiere: “I See Light Bulbs All the Time” — Children’s Opera and Ellen Douglas Schlaefer

Series note: The questions animating this children’s-opera sequence emerged from work that Joy Calico and I have pursued together in our forthcoming co-edited volume, Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900. This penultimate essay before my summer hiatus turns to opera director Ellen Douglas Schlaefer; and then next week, the sequence concludes …