Anaïs Mitchell on the Making of Hadestown and How an Old Tale Became a Modern Classic by Jamie Kravitz

Where'd you get that melody? I don't know, it came to me. The Broadway production of Hadestown began performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March 2019, but the idea to create a folk opera based on the Orpheus myth first came to singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell in 2005. As if she'd known it all along... Under the working title of "A Crack in the Wall," the Vermont native used a small arts grant from her home …

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