10 Days in a Madhouse
music by Rene Orth
libretto by Hannah Moscovitch
world Premiere Performed in English with English supertitles Part of Festival O23
conductor Daniela Candillari
director Joanna Settle
choreographer Faustin Linyekula
sets and lights Andrew Lieberman
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter & Avery Reed
sound Robert Kaplowitz & Chris Sannino
make-up & hair Alfreda “Fre” Howard
assistant director Zaina Yasmin Dana
photos Dominic M Mercier
October 2023 Opera Philadelphia
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder
sung in German with text in Chinese, English, Greek, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Tagalog
conductor Tong Chen
director Emma Griffin
assistant director Giancarlo Abrahan
choreographer Sunny Hitt
sets Alejandro Fajardo & Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Alejandro Fajardo
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
projections Alessandra Cronin
hair & makeup Anais McCaskie
Assistant Costume Designer Annie Hoeg
Photos Maria Baranova
April 2023
Gerald R. Lynch Theater John Jay College
About Mannes Opera
Under the leadership of Managing Artistic Director Emma Griffin, the Mannes Opera is a training program with a curiosity for the new and a devotion to craft for operatic artists. As part of the College of Performing Arts, the program uses the medium of opera to innovate, improvise, and create, and offers young artists extensive performance practice and opportunities.
The program engages with the rich tradition of classical repertoire as a lens with which to better understand today’s world and trains students to be professional artists with agency and control over what they do and how they do it. Mannes Opera draws on the best opera and theater makers that NYC has to offer.
Presented by the College of Performing Arts at The New School
composition libretto by Gelsey Bell
dir Tara Ahmadinejad
sets Afsoon Pajoufar
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Masha Tsimring
sound Hidenori Nakajo
photo Maria Baranova
featuring
Gelsey Bell
Ashley Pérez Flanagan
Aviva Jaye
Paul Pinto
Creative producers Kristin Marting & Amanda Szeglowski
Line producer Amanda Cooper
Production manager Wednesday Derrico
Stage Manager Aoife Hough
Assistant costume design: Annie Hoeg & Susanne Houstle
HERE Arts Center January 2023
photography Maria Baranova
by Grace McClean
dir Emma Griffin
conductor Geoff McDonald
sets Meredith Ries
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Oona Curley
New School Mannes School
by Paula Vogel
dir Jordan Fein
sets Kimie Nishikawa
lights Oona Curley
sound Jeff Aaron Bryant
movement KatieRose McLaughlin
Weston Playhouse Theater
photos Kimie Nishikawa & Oona Curley
dir James Barry
by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso
set and video Nicholas Hussong
lights Oliver Wason
sound Nathan Leigh
Berkshire Theater Group
photos Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware.
music by Carmel Dean
book by Dick Scanlan
lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay
dir Jack Cummings III, Dick Scanlan
sets Brett J. Banakis
lights Jen Schriever
sound Kai Harada
Transport Group @Abrons Arts Center
photo Carol Rosegg
written and performed by Sacha Yanow
dir Caitlin Sullivan
chor Faye Driscoll
sets Cate McCrea
lights Alejandro Fajardo
sound Holland Andrews
video Sasha Wortzel
photo Ásta Bennie Hostetter
dir. Emma Griffin
Mahagonny by Weill & Brecht
The Medium by Carlo Menotti
set Amy Rubin
lights Oona Curley
The Curtis Institute @The Kimmel Center
photo credit:
Andrew Bogard
dir Rachel Klein
songs by Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter
book by Michael Norman Mann
sets Robert Andrew Kovach
lights Jamie Roderick
sound Kim Carbone & Ben Scheff
projection Brad Peterson
Minetta Lane Theater
dir Annie Kauffman
by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher
choreography Sonya Tayeh
sets Rachel Hauck
lights Amith Chandrashaker
sound Nick Kourtides
Ars Nova @ The Connelly
photo: Ben Arons
choreographer Pavel Zustiak
sets Simon Harding
lights Joe Levasseur
Palissimo @ NYLA
by Michi Barall (book)
directed by Jack Tamburri
music by Paul Lieber and Matt Park
orchestration by Chad Raines
sets Meredith Ries
lights Oliver Wasson
Ma-Yi Theater Co @ ARTNY
by Benjamin Britten
directed by Jordan Fein
sets Amy Rubin
lights Barbara Samuels
video
The Curtis Institute, Philadelphia PA
by Gaetano Donizetti
directed by Jordan Fein
conducted by Vinay Parameswaran
The Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, 2013
set Amy Rubin,
lights by Amith Chandrashaker
directed Alex Timbers
written by Sean Cunningham
songs Michael Friedman
sets Amanda Stephens
costumes Paloma Young and Asta Hostetter,
lights Jake DeGroot,
sound Cody Spencer
projection Daniel Brodie and Jake Pinholster.
produced by Waterwell on Governor's Island
Co-created by
Lee Sunday Evans, Ásta Bennie Hostetter, & Mariana Sanchez
Directed and Choreographed
Lee Sunday Evans
Music Written and Performed
Mauro Refosco & Gustavo Di Dalva
Co-Choreographed and Performed
Camila Canó-Flaviá, Sunny Hitt, Eleanora Pienta, Devika Wickremesinghe
Stage Management: Alfredo Macias
Producer: Adam Frank
Associate Producer: Katie Young
Design Coordinator: Stephanie Echevarria
Props Sourcing: Patricia Marjorie
House Head Builder: Raphael Mishler
Assistant Stage Manager: Zachary Jenkins
Videographer: A. Mert Erdem
Photographer: Jeremy Daniel Shaffer
Publicist: Kelly Guiod
House Manager: Britt Berke
Run Crew: Maggie Manzano