Blind Injustice, an Opera about Wrongful Imprisonment by Librettist David Cote ’92, Profiled in the New York Times
Produced in conjunction with the Ohio Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, the opera Blind Injustice explores the impact of wrongful convictions on the incarcerated and their families. Blind Injustice, which the New York Times calls “a spirited call for reforms to the American criminal justice system,” is based on interviews with exonerees conducted by librettist and Bard alumnus David Cote ’92, who found it a challenge to give the proper attention to each real-life account. “Any one of these cases would have been a full-length opera,” Cote told the Times. Appropriately, “about 40 percent of the libretto is verbatim,” Javier C. Hernández wrote.
Post Date: 02-20-2024
Post Date: 02-20-2024