AOP is partnering with NYAM for a 45-minute version of the opera Semmelweis, introduced by composer Ray Lustig and NYAM Senior Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Elaine Larson.

Semmelweis is a music-theater work inspired by the tragic story of nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician Ignác Semmelweis (1818-1865), who discovered the cure for a devastating epidemic but could not convince the world of the simple solution, and died alone in an asylum. Dr. Semmelweis had been the first to see an unthinkable truth: that the deadly disease was passing from the bodies of the dead to healthy mothers on the unwashed hands of the doctors themselves.

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This event is made possible by generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Saraya Co. LTD., and Best Sanitizers, Inc.