Cavalleria Rusticana

Cavalleria Rusticana                                                                                  June 2002

 

By Pietro Mascagni

Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci

 

Mascagni’s powerful opera about the fierce code of sexual honor in 19th Century Sicily.

 

Saturday, June 8th 2002, 8:00 PM

Sunday, June 9th 2002, 4:00 PM

Saturday, June 15th 2002, 8:00 PM

Sunday, June 16th 2002, 4:00 PM

 

Vertical Player Repertory

219 Court Street

Brooklyn, NY 11201

 

Franco Iglesias, conductor & director

Anderson Brenner, piano & musical preparation

Judith Barnes, set design, painting, & construction

Judith Barnes and Anderson Brenner, chorus preparation

Isidore Elias, lighting design

 

The Cast

Turiddu: Michael Scott Harris

Santuzza: Judith Barnes

Alfio: Gustavo Antonio Ahualli

Mamma Lucia: Twyla Ehmcke

Lola: Celina Guererro

Priest: Stefano Mura

Townspeople of Vizzini: Tamara Boorstein, Adam Davis, Sofìa Echegaray,  Heather Green, Robert Lewis, Chitra Raghavan, Eddie Rubeiz, Stephanie Sellars, Diane Tearose, Hiroshi Uehara, Sally Yarmolinsky, Mary Lou Zobel