Elsa Davis Never Expected Her Play “Bulrusher” To Become An Opera
The original version, about a Black baby girl found drifting in a basket along a river, premiered off-Broadway in 2006 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Though she herself is a singer-songwriter and actor, Davis “had no designs on making an opera” — until composer Nathaniel Stookey approached her. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
