HYSTERIA, Molly’s opera-in-progress co-created by librettist-partner Divya Maus, is having a workshop performance of two brand new scenes on May 17th, co-produced by Synchromy and Resonance Collective, as part of OperaFest LA!

The concert begins at 7pm, with a pre-concert panel discussion on women’s mental health beginning at 6:30pm.

Get tickets for in-person or online stream HERE.

HYSTERIA is a rage-comic opera exploring women’s mental health through the lens of medicine, feminist fiction, reality TV, and the personal lives of the writers.

At the 1909 New York Symposium on Hysteria, the Neuroticist –a world-renowned psychoanalyst– presents four of his patients in a ground-breaking new lecture: Cherie, an unwed mother; Kate, a wife suffering from hallucinations; Ameeta, a mother anxious to marry off her adult son; and Mona, an architect struggling to appease her commissioners. Each is trapped in a scene that pushes her to ‘hysteria,’ a syndrome the Neuroticist aims to cure. However, a specter haunts his demonstrations, stoking the women’s fury and leading to a final confrontation—a contest of the gods, and the birthplace of our fury.