Opera on Tap Presents: “Alice Tierney”

Opera on Tap Philadelphia, The Velvet Whip, and Philly Fringe present “Alice Tierney,” a new opera by Melissa Dunphy and Jacqueline Goldfinger. At an archaeological dig site in Philadelphia, graduate students sift through the ruins of a boarding house once run by Alice Tierney, a 19th-century sex worker who died under mysterious circumstances. As they discover new artifacts and clues to her history, each student imagines their own version of Alice. Was she an early feminist? A manipulative femme fatale? Or someone more complex than they can imagine? Join us for the Philadelphia premiere of a hometown story!