Organization

Glimmerglass Festival

Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Assistant Conductor

Dmitry Glivinskiy

Stage director

Chloe Treat

Set designer

James F Rotondo

Costume designer

Trevor Bowen

Lighting designer

Mary Louise Geiger

Sound designer

Joe Morgan

Assistant Director

Rebecca Miller Kratzer

Singer

Bass-baritone

Michael Mayes

Daddy

Mezzo-soprano

Mary-Hollis Hundley

Kayla

Jacquelyn Matava

Nelda

Taylor Alexis DuPont

Reba

Young Mother

Holiness Congregation Member 1

Soprano

Helen Huang

Save Mart Customer 1

Queer Kid

Holiness Congregation Member 2

Tenor

Jeremiah Tyson

Save Mart Customer 2

Bus Driver

Preacher

Ashlee Lamar

Ariana Warren

Peter Morgan

Lisa Marie Rogali

Victoria Lawal

Fran Daniel Laucerica

Jasmine Habersham

Mary

Alyson Cambridge

Jonathan Pierce Rhodes

Cherubiel

Ensemble Soprano

Ensemble Mezzo

Ensemble Tenor

Joseph Goodale

Ensemble Baritone

Taking Up Serpents

Cooperstown

United States

Alice Busch Opera Theatre

Taking Up Serpents Sankaram (+1 More)

Public

Holy Ground

Approved

Taking Up Serpents Kamala Sankaram (+1 More)

TAKING UP SERPENTS

Sankaram/Dye

Twenty-five-year-old Kayla is the estranged daughter of a fire-and-brimstone preacher who is dangerously bitten by one of his own snakes. Kayla’s journey home forces her to confront her troubled upbringing. With a score showcasing Sankaram’s deft stylistic eclecticism and an original story inspired by Dye’s roots in the Deep South, Taking Up Serpents calls into question faith, family, and destiny, with shocking results.

HOLY GROUND
Geter/Palmer

Three archangels drown their sorrows. The Messiah is late and the 90th Virgin has turned down the opportunity to birth him. Can a rookie angel persuade a modern girl to take on the task, staving off the apocalypse? Parked at the intersection of satirical fantasy and divine comedy, Holy Ground reminds us that someone had to choose to save the world.

English

Taking Up Serpents by Sankaram, Holy Ground by Geter, From (2022/2022), Directed by Chloe Treat,, Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, Alice Busch Opera Theatre, Cooperstown, United States

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues