LA BOHEME - OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG
Director: Eve Summer
Conductor: Jorge Parodi
Projections: Phillip Lupo
Costume Designer: Eric Lamp
Prop Design/PSM: DJ Barrett
Lighting Designer: Troy Martin O'Shia
Photos: Gentle Grace Photography
Cast: Robyn Marie Lamp, Kohei Yamamoto, Suchan Kim, Kearstin Piper Brown, Denis Sedov, Kevin Godinez, Yuri Kissin, Pavel Suliandziga
La Bohème at Opera in Williamsburg
"In this Bohème… the opera’s tragedy was transfixingly personal... Director Eve Summer devised a staging that supplied the humor and tears expected in La bohème, ingenuously and movingly adapted to the venue’s spatial limitations... [she] drew the audience into the opera’s most personal dimensions....Especially gratifying was the manner in which the production’s visual elements paralleled the performance’s musical progression. Every member of the cast seemed wholly at ease in this staging, moving and singing with comfort, and the opera’s journey from light-hearted playfulness to wrenching tragedy was therefore unusually natural.”
Joseph Newsome for Voix des Arts