Black Water
Based on Oates’s novella about a Senator driving a young magazine writer to his hotel for sex but has an accident on the way, putting the car into a marsh.
Opera
Computing Venus
Composer Timothy Takach and librettist Caitlin Vincent wrote an opera on the life of Vassar astronomer Maria Mitchell and the backlash against having female science professors.
The Last Savage
An undeserved flop, this hardly ever performed opera from the 1960s features Kitty, who is an ambitious young anthropologist on the hunt in India for the world’s “last savage.”
Shanewis
An early 20th-century American opera with Indian subject matter that was performed multiple times at the Met and elsewhere before falling into obscurity.