Say It Ain't So, Joe (opera)

"When watching the US Vice Presidential debate in 2008, I was struck by the extraordinary musical contrasts between the voices of Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, as well as the convergence of two such fascinating life stories, both containing tragic, heroic, and comic elements. The audience for my opera Say it ain't so, Joe will experience a surreal and fractured vision of that remarkable encounter, as well as brief glimpses of other contemporaneous events and political figures, with some fantastical digressions." – Curtis K. Hughes^[1]

Prelude

Scene One: January 2009: The Palin Residence. Wasilla, Alaska

Interlude

Scene Two: October 2, 2008: United States vice-presidential debate, 2008, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

Scene Three: August 28, 2008

Interlude

Scene Four: October 2, 2008

Scene Five: October 2008: Good Morning America television interview

Scene Six: October 2, 2008

Prelude

Scene One: Late 2008: Television Interview

Scene Two: October 2, 2008

Interlude

Scene Three: Late October 2008: Republican campaign rally

Scene Four: October 2, 2008

Scene Five: in illo tempore

Scene Six: October 2, 2008

• Powers, Keith, "An opera about Sarah Palin? You betcha!", Boston Herald, September 15, 2009
• Weininger, David, "In this opera production, the pitch is political", Boston Globe, September 18, 2009
• The Sarah Palin Blog Archived 2009-10-05 at the Wayback Machine