New opera ‘Geniza: Hidden Fragments’ was inspired by medieval Jewish texts

dctheaterarts.org: We will never fully know what life was like before us — history is an eternal puzzle that we piece together from the fragments our ancestors left behind, and there are often too many missing pieces to see the full picture. This unknowing is only strengthened by a yearning to understand history and its occupants as a means to understand ourselves — what can the past teach us about our future? Who lived and died so we may do the same? It is this longing to understand, to see the past and our ancestors so fully and complexly, that makes Geniza: Hidden Fragments such a triumph of opera and the human experience.