Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play “Intimate Apparel,” where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration between …
and the Metropolitan Opera, those passions fly free, revealing the operatic heart of “Intimate Apparel” in a new opera adaptation of this story of a 35-year-old Black seamstress aching for love in 1905 New York.
Leading them is the sensitive soul at the center of it all, a mesmerizing Kearstin Piper Brown as Esther, who has lived in a Lower Manhattan boarding house for the past 18 years toiling alone over her sewing machine, creating exquisite undergarments for women to wear in their boudoir. Esther’s customers run the gamut from an unhappily married society woman, Mrs. Van Buren , to Mayme , a prostitute with dreams of her own.
Nottage has stripped down her play to a tight libretto. There’s an elegant, poetic simplicity in its essential journey of the human heart as it navigates matters of race, gender, religion and class. A vibrant Swann has some fine moments, some of which sometimes drift welcomingly toward musical theater. Austin is also a strong presence as the troubling Armstrong, and in this version is given further depth of character in song and backstory. In this intimate setting, the little touches are everything and directorbrings clarity of intent to these minimalist moments: a brush of a lapel, a surprising kiss, a stroke of satin, a hesitation, silence, stillness.
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