Smashed: The Carrie Nation Story

Best known for its genre-demystifying outreach efforts, Opera on Tap mounts its most ambitious undertaking to date: a fully staged production of a new opera by composer James Barry and librettist Timothy Braun, offering an absurdist take on the hatchet-wielding teetotal crusader of the title. Krista Wozniak takes the title role, with Joseph Flaxman intriguingly double-booked as God and the Bartender; Conrad Chu conducts new-music ensemble Hotel Elefant.