Dua Lipa, Amy Poehler, Bowen Yang and More Come Out For ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Opera World Premiere
Dua Lipa, Callum Turner, Amy Poehler, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers were among the starry attendees at the Met Opera Tuesday night, as the famed opera house ushered in the world premiere of Lincoln in the Bardo.
Adapted from George Saunders 2017 Booker Prize-winning novel, the opera follows the death of President Abraham Lincoln’s young son, Willie, and the President’s grief after his tragic passing. His visits to his son’s tomb are accompanied by ghosts stuck in the bardo, or purgatory, who tell their own life stories and encourage both Willie and the President to move on.
On stage, the story opens in a massive smoky graveyard packed to the brim with ghosts in various distressed garbs of their eras under towering mossy trees, and amid creeping vines, embodied by human actors, that move and threaten to take down the characters over the course of the story. In addition to the spooky scenery,
