Name: The Juniper Tree
Start: 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Organization

Stage director

John DiDonna

Conductor

Geoffrey Loff

Choreographer

Mila Makarova

Set designer

Grant Preisser

Costume designer

Cait Durrance

Mezzo-soprano

Linda Collazo

Stepmother

Soprano

Laura Corina Sanders

Daughter

Singer

David Soto Zambrana

Townsman

Baritone

Jose Cuartas

Father

Lauren Williams

Mother

Opera Orlando

Others

Opera Orlando Youth Chorus

Orchestra

Alterity Chamber Orchestra

English

The Juniper Tree

Orlando

United States

Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

The Juniper Tree Glass

Public

Approved

Opera Orlando returns to the Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater for a special add-on production that concludes its 2023-24 All for Art season. A dark retelling of Grimms' The Juniper Tree, a contemporary chamber opera by composers Philip Glass and Robert Moran to a libretto by Arthur Yorinks, is a tale about a jealous and scheming stepmother who murders her stepson and serves him up in a stew to his unsuspecting father, only to then be killed herself by the stepson who is reincarnated as a beautiful bird. It is a haunting and hypnotic opera with some of Glass’ most tuneful melodies.


In partnership with Victorian spook troupe Phantasmagoria and MicheLee Puppets, local stage director John DiDonna has conceived a feast for the senses with dance, puppetry, spectacle, and of course, gorgeous singing. International conductor Geoffrey Loff will make his Company debut leading musicians from Alterity Chamber Orchestra and a fantastic cast featuring Opera Orlando 2023-24 season studio artists and the Opera Orlando Youth Company.


The Juniper Tree will be presented in a thrust configuration. It will be sung in English with English supertitles and have a run time of approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble