Street Sense

Music by Linda Eisenstein; libretto by Migdalia Cruz

1990 Ohio Arts Council New Works Grant Five one-act operas, set in an apocalytic urban future, based on the five senses. Includes: "The Touch of An Angel" "Manuel's Tongue" "The Sighting" "Yet Another Girl Named Maria" "The Man Who Stole a Smell" CAST: 3f, 3m

"The Sighting". Photo: Robert Schnellbacher, CPT.

• Production History: Cleveland Public Theatre; DUO Spanish/English Theatre ("The Touch of an Angel"), New Dramatists Composer/Librettists Studio ("Yet Another Girl Named Maria"), NYC

"The music here and throughout is inspired work, often intoxicating. The score...is eclectic in the best sense of the word: it moves easily from new-age music to soft, fluid jazz to traditional Spanish songs full of lyrical thrills that ripple with each shift in emotion." - The Edition

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