Michelle sings the role of Georgia O’Keeffe in a workshop of a new opera-ballet, O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky, by composer Christopher Tin, librettist Kelley Rourke, and choreographer Jessica Lang.

This opera-ballet about Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and their circle centers on the intertwined lives of the American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and American patron and socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan — two of the most important women to shape American Modernism in the first half of the 20th Century.

The innovative nature of Kiss the Sky, fusing opera and ballet, parallels the search for a new visual and rhetorical language to express the Modern American condition, found not only in O’Keeffe’s abstractions, but imbued into the very essence of twentieth-century American life.

This event is part of the Clifford Family Innovator-in-Residence program. Kiss the Sky was developed by Francesca Zambello '78.