7:30PM, Thursday, July 11, 2024
Athenaeum Theater
2:00PM, Sunday, July 14, 2024
Athenaeum Theater
Il Prigioniero
Music & Libretto by:Luigi Dallapiccola
The Medium
Music & Libretto by:Gian Carlo Menotti
Emanuele AndrizziConductor
Harry SilversteinDirector
Reid TaylorChorus Director
Performed in Italianwith English Supertitles
Tickets:$25 – $125
Running Time:110 minutes (there will be a 15 minutes intermission between shows)
This show is a double-bill performance including both Dallapiccola’s “Il Prigioniero” & Menotti’s “The Medium”. Full evening run time is two hours.
Il Prigioniero
Set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, Dallapiccola’s opera unfolds a dark and intense narrative. The protagonist, a prisoner, becomes entangled in a web of religious and political intrigue.
Starring:
-
Viktoria Vizin | La Madre
-
Franco Pomponi | Il Prigioniero
-
David Cangelosi | Il Carceriere
- Reuben Lillie | 1st Priest
- Jonathan Wilson | 2nd Priest
- Alex Iacobucci | Torturer
Off Stage Chorus
Soprano
- Morgan Babbs ^
- Marguerite Di Marco ^
- Stephanie Gubin
- Savannah Hegyi ^
- Elise Hurwitz
- Gisella Milla
- Veronica Samiec ^
- Vera Schmitz
- Diana Stoic Richardson
- Leah Rockweit
- Pamela Spann
- Hillary Watkins
Mezzo / Alto
- Amanda Caban
- Katrina Dubbs ^
- Mallory Harding
- Floriana Hecker
- Lauryn Nelson
- Carmen Vizin
Tenor
- Andew John Baker
- Ryan Frenk
- David Greene
- Alex Iacobucci
- Christopher Jackson
- Dennis Kalup
- Reuben Lillie
- Aldo Alan Navarrete
Baritone / Bass
- Chris FIlipowicz
- SuYoung Lee
- Aurelien Mangwa
- Lyle Nicholson
- Chimerie Obianom ^
- Collin Stillday ^
- Kevin Wheatle ^
- Jonathan Wilson
^ Young Artist Performer
The Medium
Set in a mid-20th-century urban apartment, Menotti’s opera revolves around Madame Flora, a fraudulent medium, and her daughter Monica.
Starring:
- Viktoria Vizin | Madame Flora (Baba)
-
Laura McCauley | Monica
-
Lauryn Nelson | Mrs. Nolan
-
Gisella Milla | Mrs. Gobineau
- Jonathan Wilson | Mr. Gobineau
- Alex Iacobucci | Toby
