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Premiere 2013 University of Colorado
(l-r) Megan Schirado as Maggie, Kirsten Kamna as Margaret
Sarah Barber as Harriet, Meagan Mahlberg as Hetty
Stage director, Emily Martin-Moberly, Musical director, Sara Parkinson

The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret is a one-act chamber opera for four female singers composed by Leanna Kirchoff.  Based on Alice Gerstenberg’s 1913 play, Overtones, the opera depicts the cat-and-mouse conversation between Harriet and Margaret, as they each try to accomplish their agenda without the other one knowing it.  Symbolic of Freudian ego and id, the two women are shadowed on stage by their inner selves, Hetty and Maggie, who interject their own uncensored commentary.

The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret
will be performed by the Missouri State University Opera Department
at the
27th Annual MSU Composition Festival

Monday, February 27, 2017
Hammond Hall for the Performing Arts