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The opera 'touch' - music by Carla Lucero with libretto by Carla Lucero and Marianna Mott Newirth - picks up where the play, The Miracle Worker ends, exploring the complicated relationship between Helen Keller; Anne Sullivan; John Macy (Anne’s husband) and; Peter Fagan, Helen’s star-crossed lover. 'touch' touches on themes of disability and agency. As a member of the Socialist party and founding member of the ACLU, Helen Keller fiercely advocated for women’s suffrage, civil and disability rights. Her monumental achievements over 80 years shed light on society’s darkest disabilities. She saw the need for a balanced world, heard the cry of the oppressed and spoke for them, facing harsh reproach and outright hostility; a lesson apropos to today.

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Special thanks to West Edge Opera for the Lucero footage westedgeopera.org/snapshot-2017-program-2

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