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Opera Philadelphia commissions ten composers to tell the story of an ordinary woman's idiosyncratic march from cradle to tomb.

Kamala Sankaram's Custom of the Coast follows the twin narratives of Anne Bonny and Savita Halapannavar, real women separated by two centuries. 

Here’s a secret: on any given night in New York City and Brooklyn, groups of regular-looking people perform exceedingly difficult music in front of other regular-looking people, sometimes for one hour, sometimes for twelve.