An American Tragedy
Tobias Picker
Libretto by Gene Scheer
2014
Glimmerglass Festival
Creative Team:
Conductor: George Manahan
Set Designer: Alexander Dodge
Costume Designer: Anya Klepikov
Lighting Designer: Robert Wierzel
Choreographer: Eric Sean Fogel
Hair & Makeup: Anne Ford-Coates
Cast:
Clyde Griffiths: Christian Bowers
Roberta Alden: Vanessa Isiguen
Sondra Finchley: Cynthia Cook
Samuel Griffiths: Aleksey Bogdanov
Elvira Griffiths: Patricia Schuman
Gilbert Griffiths: Daniel T. Curran
Elizabeth Griffiths: Jennifer Root
Bella Griffiths: Meredith Lustig
Reverend McMillan: John Kapusta
Orville Mason: Thomas Richards
“Cheers to Francesca Zambello, artistic and general director, and Peter Kazaras, director, for celebrating opera as a living art form, putting the creators of “An American Tragedy” in the spotlight, staging the revised opera with fabulous new talent, and maintaining high artistic standards in Glimmerglass’s intimate setting.”
“Glimmerglass gives the work a good production by Peter Kazaras in which the love triangle is sometimes graphically represented with Sondra on one side of the stage, Roberta on the other and Clyde in between.”
“An exemplary presentation… well-performed, intelligently-staged.”
Photo Credit: Jessica Kray
