'Murder on the Titanic' features a wild cast of historical characters...

...none of whom were actually on the Titanic...

...including Edgar Allan Poe (David Govertsen).

Claire, a waitress (Andrea Hernandez) laments her state.

L to R: Mr. Black (Grace Zieman), Domenico Mustafà (James M. Brown), Leo (Charles Anderson), Louise Finch (Debora Crisan), and Atticus Finch (David Govertsen) chat at dinner.

President and Mrs. Taft (Devon Desmond and Adriana Tsyhanyuk) long for a home where the buffalo roam.

The poets onboard the Titanic include T. S. Eliot (Chris Comanescu), Anna Akhmatova (Jasanna Tayler), and Virgina Woolf (Madalynn Baez).

The characters onboard also appear as ghosts.

At sea, the servants from the Titanic become constellations.

Anna is revealed as the murderer.

The opera's final image: "We shall face apocalypse face first."