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Ausrine Stundyte as Cio-Cio-San, Elizabeth Janes as Butterfly’s child and Sarah Larsen as Suzuki in Seattle Opera's production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Photo by Elise Bakketun.
North American Works Directory Listing
The Yellow Wallpaper
Composer: Catherine Reid
Librettist: Judith Lane
Other Artistic Personnel: JoAnn Kulesza (music director)
Jong-hun Bae (associate conductor)
Garnett Bruce (stage director)
Kel Millionie (production designer)
Original Cast: Double-Cast:
Jennifer Holbrook (The Woman)
Bonnie Lander (The Woman)*
Paul Corujo (John, her husband)
Kevin Wetzel (John, her husband)*
Five women:
Yi-Wen Hung
Carolyn Pelley
Elizabeth Cooper
Meghan Davis
Megan Ihnen
Premiere Date: February 14, 2008
Producing Company: Peabody Chamber Opera
Description: In 1890, a young writer suffers from "temporary nervous depression" and her doctor/husband prescribes the "rest cure." Forbidden to write, the woman becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in her room, eventually tearing it from the walls in an attempt to free the figure she sees creeping around behind it. A disturbing descent into madness.
Comments: can be one or two acts
Length: 01:30
Total Acts: 1
Musical Style: Tonal; contemporary
Contact: Judith C. Lane
Address: 3400 Fort Independence Street
Bronx, NY 10463
E-mail Address: judithlane@danielhauben.com
Phone: 718-548-8623

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