Stephen Kitsakos is an opera librettist, theatre director and educator. With composer Sheila Silver he wrote the libretto for A Thousand Splendid Suns, based on the book by Khaled Hosseini (Seattle Opera), the chamber opera The Wooden Sword, and the operatic cantata The White Rooster, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution. With composer Martin Hennessy he wrote the libretti for the one-act opera theater monologues An Incident in Sutton Square, The Woman in Penthouse A and The Pleasing Recollection.
This event will be preceded by a very brief annual meeting of the Friends.
All speaker series events begin at 6:00 p.m. Speaker Series talks are free. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Gates open at 5:30. We will make every effort to seat everyone. In case of rain, the event will be held inside the library.