(Jacqueline Echols McCarley will make her Virginia Opera debut in the east coast premiere of “Intelligence.” Photo courtesy of L2 Artists.)
Virginia Opera is “bringing a Virginia story home” with its January 30 – February 1 East Coast premiere of “Intelligence,” said company Artistic Director Adam Turner.
Imagine a Civil War Union spy network, based in Richmond, that heart and capital of the Confederacy, run by a young socialite, the daughter of wealthy Rebel sympathizers. Imagine also that her prime agent was an enslaved woman of her household…