Through a partnership with SMTD, Michigan Opera Theatre presents a new opera by American composer Ricky Ian Gordon with a libretto by Royce Vavrek. Travel back in time to the inspired gatherings at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris, where American expatriates Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas hosted luminaries of art and literature such as Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henri Matisse, and Ernest Hemingway. The opera explores themes of love, loss, change and art set throughout two world wars.