Last Night : from Fellow Travelers, an opera in two acts. for tenor and piano. tenor and piano. Score.

Based on Thomas Mallon's best-selling novel, Fellow Travelers takes place in 1950s Washington, D.C., and follows Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism.

A chance encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job in D.C. and - after Fuller's advances - his first love affair.

With senator McCarthy's investigations into 'sexual subversives', Tim struggles to reconcile his political convictions, his love for God, and his love for Fuller - an entanglement that ends in a stunning act of betrayal. Instrumentation:tenor and pianofor tenor and piano