West Edge Opera Festival Will Proceed

In the midst of the bad news, I'm pleasantly surprised to have received email yesterday saying that West Edge Opera is, to date, planning to have their usual summer festival. It's not scheduled to start until July 25, so it's possible that we'll be through the worst of this and it will be legal to have 500 people in one place again.

Their mail included this year's venue (same as last year's, The Bridge Yard) and the full casts for this year's operas:

Katya Kabanova (1921)
Music by Leoš Janáček
Libretto by Vincenc Červinka
In Czech with English surtitles
Conducted by Jonathan Khuner
Directed by Fenlon Lamb
A co-production with Papermoon Opera Productions
Featuring Carrie Hennessey as Katya
Kristin Claton as Kabanicha
Christopher Oglesby as Boris
Alex Boyer as Ticho
Chad Somers as Kudrjaš
Sarah Coit as Varvara
Philip Skinner a Dikój

Saturday, July 25th at 8 pm
Sunday, August 2nd at 5 pm
Thursday, August 6th at 8 pm

Elizabeth Cree (2017)
Music by Kevin Puts
Libretto by Mark Campbell
In English with English surtitles
Conducted by Robert Mollicone
Directed by Sam Helfrich
Featuring Katherine Pracht as Elizabeth Cree
Eugene Villanueva as John Cree
Samuel Faustine as Dan Leno
Simon Barrad as Inspector Kildare
Leslie Katter as Aveline Mortimer
Matt Boehler as Uncle
Ashley Dixon as Doris
J. Raymond Meyers as Victor Farrell

Sunday, July 26th at 5 pm
Friday, July 31st at 8 pm
Saturday, August 8th at 8pm

Eliogabalo (1667)
Music by Francesco Cavalli
In Italian with English surtitles
Conducted from the harpsichord by Adam Pearl
Directed by Mark Streshinsky
Featuring Randall Scotting as Eliogabalo
Derek Chester as Alessandro
Nikki Einfeld as Gemmira
Matheus Coura as Guiliano
Aura Veruni as Eritea
Jean-Paul Jones as Lenia
Malte Roesner as Nerbulone
Jonathan Smucker as Zotico

Saturday, August 1st at 8 pm
Friday, August 7th at 8 pm
Sunday, August 9th at 5 pm