Music by Stephanie E. Leotsakos @stephanieleotsakos *Audio best experienced with headphones.
Art by Elizabeth Honer @grrlrighter *Created with tiltbrush, post processing and filming in unity.

Recommended excerpt:
Scene 4: Voices [with tape track] - (Timestamp 11:22 - 13:42) Act 1 pg.29
Scene 5: But Where is Faith? (Timestamp 13:42 - 15:42) Act 1 pg.33
00:00 Act I | 15:43 Act II

Live-performance recording from the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival in London - June 23, 2023.
A mini-operatic adaptation based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, "Young Goodman Brown" is the tale of a pious villager in Puritan New England who ventures deep into the woods one night, and discovers a sinister secret that will call into question everything he believes in.
ROLES – The Perspective Collective:
FAITH – Erin Brittain, soprano
GOODY CLOYSE – Rachael Basescu, mezzo-soprano
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN – Grant Mech, bass-baritone
THE DEVIL – Patrick Fink, piano

Recommended excerpt:
Timestamp 28:25 - 35:00
Original multimedia thesis opera, premiered with student and faculty volunteers at Princeton University in April 2016. Stephanie Leotsakos is the librettist, composer, and conductor of the 50-minute chamber opera.

Projection Design: Sarah Outhwaite & Stephanie Leotsakos
Costumes: Erin Valentine
Video Editing: Florent Ghys

This is a story of a single mother's lifelong struggle to raise her only child, born of rape, as she searches for happiness, strength, and relief from the trauma that is forever intertwined with the identity of her son.
This is a story of the universal child; one who asks questions and seeks answers, instigated by the natural, yet often unforeseen, series of life's events.
This is a universal story; the story of humanity, which goes about life as it is daily, but which also comes to encounter moments of existential wonderment and reasoning.
This is a story about life: life requiring faith in the necessity of death.

Stephanie Leotsakos, piano
Giovanni Longo, piano