I Didn’t Dare — Young Leah’s aria from Uncovered — Scene 1: The Wedding

2020 | soprano/piano OR soprano/clarinet/violin/cello/piano.

Libretto by Leah Lax (b.1956), based on her memoir Uncovered: How I left hasidic life and finally came home.

On the evening of her Hasidic wedding, Young Leah has a dream vision of her true love, a woman named Ana.

Below: Archival video from Utah State University’s 3.31.22 premiere, featuring Kaylyn Taylor Baldwin as Young Leah.

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