The Handmaid's Tale Opera Previews

September 9th - September 11th, 2024

Explore The Handmaid's Tale in a 90-minute in-person presentation by Laura Stanfield Prichard.

Laura Stanfield Prichard studied at Yale, Emory, and the University of Illinois; she holds master’s and doctoral degrees in choral conducting, library science, musicology, and education. Since 1995, she has lectured regularly for the San Francisco and Chicago Symphonies and opera companies in Boston and San Francisco. She was the President of the Pacific Chapter of the College Music Society from 1996 to 1998 and Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus under Vance George from 1995 to 2003. Laura and her husband Michael sing with the Boston and San Francisco Symphony Choruses. Her twenty-five continuous years of college teaching have focused on interdisciplinary cultural analysis of music, dance, and art history. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pauline Alderman Award for outstanding writing on women and music and the 2019 Kurt Weill Award for writing on contemporary musical theater. You may recognize Laura from our Opera Previews for The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and Omar last season!