Short overview
Fizz & Ginger traces Lipstick — the 1920s New Yorker nightlife reviewer — as she slips into a party in pursuit of a story. The opera opens the door to The Crossroads, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and moves through a small cast: a rum-running boyfriend, a bartender, members of the Harlem literary community who are always just passing through.
A chamber opera commissioned by Fresh Squeezed Opera in 2022, premiered in 2023 with The Curiosity Cabinet, and remounted by Chicago Fringe Opera in 2024.
