Orfeo

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The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) presents Rossi’s Orfeo, April 27-28 at 3pm at the University Theatre, in a new production with stage direction by Toni Dorfman and music direction by Grant Herreid.

Orfeo, composed in 1647 by Luigi Rossi, with a libretto by Francesco Buti, is a classic Italian Baroque opera that recounts the tragic myth of the lovers Orpheus and Eurydice.  

Production:

Director: Toni Dorfman
Musical Director: Grant Herreid
Assistant Musical Director: Ian Niederhoffer
Choreographer: Emily Coates
Producer: Shayna O’Neill
Assistant Producer: Emma Clarkson
Set Designer: Patrick Huber
Lighting Designer: Solomon Weisbard
Assistant Lighting Designer: Taylor C. Jensen
Projections Designer: Camilla Tassi
Costume Designer: Valerie M. Webster
Assistant Costume Designer: Caitlin E. Headley
Technical Director: Rose Bochansky
Assistant Technical Director: Cat Edwards
Stage Manager: Kyle Conn
Assistant Stage Manager: Hayley Moretti
Props Supervisor: Patrice Escandon
Head Electrician: Steven Albert
Graphic Designer: Elizabeth di Guglielmo

Sets Team: Ryan Gardner
Lighting Team: Bryanna Kim

Lighting Team: Valerie Tu
Lighting Team: Danilo Gambin

Cast:

Orfeo: Isobel Anthony
Euridice: Lisl Wangermann
Aristeo: Raphaël Laden-Guindon
Venere: Sara Speller
Giuno: Katharine Li
Apollo/Gelosia: Jack Lindberg
Momo: Jared Andrew Michaud
Nutrice/Plutone: Kohl Weisman
Satiro: Zach Lee
Endimione/Caronte: Nikhil Harle
Gratia 2/Sospetto: Lucine Musaelian
Gratia 1/Prosperina: Sarah Grube
Amore/Parca 1: Lena Goldstein
Gratia 3/Parca 3: Lucy Ellis
Himeneo/Parca 2/Driada: Maryanne Cosgrove
Augure/Poet: Alex Whittington

Orchestra:

Héloïse Carlean-Jones
Stephen Gamboa
Nathan Huvard
Emery Kerekes
Bel Ben Mamoun
Vivian Mayers
Pippa Ovenden
Isaiah Schrader
Catherine Slowick
Daniel Swenberg
Dani Zanuttini-Frank