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Lyric Opera of Chicago

Conductor

Corrado Rovaris

Stage director

Lileana Blain-Cruz

Set designer

Adam Rigg

Costume designer

Kaye Voyce

Lighting designer

Yi Zhao

Sound designer

Daniel Neumann

Choreographer

Raja Feather Kelly

Video designer

Hannah Wasileski

Chorus master

Elizabeth Braden

Dramaturge

Cori Ellison

Singer

Soprano

Nicole Heaston

Claire Devon

Bass-baritone

Troy Cook

Paul Devon

Lindsey Reynolds

Ashley Devon

Kevin Burdette

Howard Bard

Tenor

Aaron Crouch

Kyle Harris

Mezzo-soprano

Rehanna Thelwell

Angela Rose

Baritone

John Moore

Dillon

Contralto

Lucy Schaufer

Hortence

Daniel Taylor

Vince

Diana Newman

Dancia

Jessica Beebe

China

Taylor Alexis DuPont

Emily

Zachary Altman

Bram

Guadalupe Paz

Theresa Alvarez

Alissa Anderson

Fru Moreno

Amanda Sheriff

Jessie

Lauren Cook

Leanne

Orchestra

Opera Philadelphia Orchestra

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Opera Philadelphia Chorus

Joseph Lim

Thom

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The Listeners

Philadelphia

United States

Academy of Music

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Sharan Allad

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The Sound of a Divided Nation
Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follow up on their acclaimed 2016 world premiere Breaking the Waves with a thriller about the seductive power of cults and charismatic leaders in a divided nation.

The Listeners examines the lengths to which we, as Americans, are willing to go to find a sense of place and purpose, and the way in which confident, charming leaders can exploit these needs to their own ends.

A middle-class mother (soprano Nicole Heaston in her company debut) living in a southwestern U.S. suburb notices a “hum,” a high-frequency environmental noise that only a select few people, the "Listeners,” can hear. A community organization quickly forms to solve the mystery of the hum, but when the de facto leader (Kevin Burdette) suggests a spiritual significance, the meetings become increasingly cult-like. Is this community of “Listeners” on a collision course with destruction?

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