9/10: Love Before the Fall
The myths of Orpheus and Charon are interwoven with the entirely sung story of four friends dining in an Italian bistro who are fated to perish the next morning in the attack on the Twin Towers. At meal’s end, through magical realism, the restaurant’s mysterious strolling violinist is revealed to be Charon, hand extended, awaiting payment. Complying, each reconciles with death, and departs to the sounds of the next morning’s busy signals and the calls of first responders.
- genus: Music, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Studio: Burning Sled Media, 534 Productions, Chicago College of Performing Arts
- keyword: composer, mythology, 9/11, opera in cinemas, magical realism, operafilm, auteur director composer screenwriter, bardo, orpheus and eurydice
- cast: Robert Frankenberry, Gilda Lyons, CeCe Jude Hastreiter, Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez, Roger Zahab, Barbara Grecki
