Elyria is alone, hitchhiking through New Zealand. She has left everything and everyone in her life behind her. As she spends more and more time in her own head, she eventually comes to terms with what it means to escape and the impossibility of escape from herself.
A bold new opera — composed by Tim Holt and inspired by Catherine Lacey’s 2014 novel Nobody Is Ever Missing — is coming to the Voxel this January. The audience will be ushered around the space of the music, following the calls of the soprano soloist, choir, percussionist, and the sounds of other musicians in the distance.