PHOTO CALL: Rufus Wainwright, Jonathan Groff and More Illuminate Dark Sisters Premiere

The Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and the Opera Company of Philadelphia commissioned the work that imagines a raid on a polygamist family after allegations of child abuse.

Rebecca Taichman (The Scene, Dead Man's Cell Phone) directs the opera, which has a libretto by Karam (Speech and Debate, columbinus) and music by Muhly. Neal Goren is conductor. Performances continue through Nov. 19.

Here is the cast and friends on opening night:

Rufus Wainwright, Jonathan Groff and More Illuminate Dark Sisters Premiere

David Bennett, Diane Wondisford, Stephen Karam, Nico Muhly, Rebecca Taichman and David Devan — Rufus Wainwright, Jonathan Groff and More Illuminate Dark Sisters Premiere

*Dark Sisters*, the new opera by *Sons of the Prophet* playwright Stephen Karam and composer Nico Muhly, which explores the world of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, began its world-premiere engagement Nov. 9 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College. Read the Playbill.com story.
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