“An unflinching work…of great beauty and extreme shock value”
Cécile McLorin Salvant’s new project “Ogresse” is a 90-minute song cycle accompanied by a 13-piece orchestra, fusing musical styles as disparate as jazz and bluegrass, the blues and opera, and so many more. The bold new work tells an epic mythological tale that unravels a piece at a time, full of intimate moments and unexpected detours. As best said by Will Friedwald at WSJ, “remarkably cohesive…virtually everything about [Ogresse] is staggeringly original.”