Gage Opera Comes to Cazenovia July 20

Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage, a commissioned opera about Fayetteville suffragist and freethinker Matilda Joslyn Gage, will receive its second performance one night only at the Catherine Cummings Theatre, 22 Lincklaen St, Cazenovia NY, on Friday, July 20, at 7:30 pm.

The full-length opera, featuring a challenging avante-garde score by Persis Parshall Vehar and libretto by Gabrielle Vehar, depicts the career of Gage, who cofounded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Gage was later driven from the movement over her controversial ideas, particularly her unflinching criticism of religion as a facilitator of woman's oppression.

There will be only one performance in Cazenovia, NY happening on July 20, at 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $25 adults, $15 seniors/students, 12 & under free

Tickets available via PayPal at www.societyfornewmusic.org or by calling 315-251-1151. For further information see http://www.cazenovia.edu/news-and-events/event/cazenovia-counterpoint-gage-opera.

Gage, Stanton, and Anthony are all profiled on the Freethought Trail. Gage's Fayetteville home is a coanchor of the Freethought Trail. The Catherine Cummings Theatre, one of the sites of the important Fugitive Slave Law Convention of 1850, is a Freethought Trail historic site.