A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (2010)

Cast List
   A YOUNG WOMAN; Soprano
   CARLOTTA MONTEREY O'NEILL: Mezzo-soprano
   EUGENE O'NEILL: Bass-baritone
   MARY McCARTHY: Mezzo-soprano

   YOUNG SINGER (offstage): Soprano
   BERNARD DeVOTO: Baritone
   LOUIS KRONENBERGER: Mezzo-soprano
   OFFICER CHRISTOPHER SNOW: Tenor
   A HOSPITAL NURSE AND TWO ORDERLIES, TRIO OF VOICES

Synopsis
A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck offers a glimpse into the turbulent marriage of Eugene O’Neill and his wife Carlotta Monterey through the lens of one of their frequent emotionally destructive arguments.

Inspired by a real-life 1951 incident between the couple, the opera begins in the midst of an angry quarrel over his desire to keep the heat turned low in their frigid Massachusetts home as a blizzard rages outside. Their inflamed emotional argument escalates as they trash each other’s characters and careers. O’Neill storms out of the house and Carlotta follows later, looking. While they are out in the storm, both O’Neill and Carlotta experience hallucinatory episodes. They're discovered separately the next morning, O’Neill nearly frozen to death.