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A dark, delicious take on Elizabeth Cree at Glimmerglass Festival

Elizabeth Cree
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Tara Erraught (Elizabeth Cree)
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Elizabeth Cree
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Christian Mark Gibbs (Dan Leno), Tara Erraught (Elizabeth Cree)
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Elizabeth Sutphen (Aveline Mortimer)
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“Lizzie views the world as her stage – those who orbit her are merely supporting characters”
Reviewed at Alice Busch Opera Theater, Cooperstown on 28 July 2024
Puts, Elizabeth Cree
Glimmerglass Opera
Kelly Kuo, Conductor
Alison Moritz, Director
Edward Morris, Set Designer
Amanda Seymour, Costume Designer
Kate Ashton, Lighting Designer
Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra
Tara Erraught, Elizabeth Cree
Christian Mark Gibbs, Dan Leno
John Chest, John Cree
Schyler Vargas, Inspector Kildare
Elizabeth Sutphen, Aveline Mortimer
Jason Zacher, Uncle
Emily Harmon, Doris
Seiyoung Kim, Little Victor Farrell
Geoffrey Schmelzer, Mr Greatorex, George Gissing, Etcher
Evan Lazdowski, Mr Lister, Karl Marx, Voiceover, Solomon Weil
Ruby Dibble, Jane Quig, Annie the Serving Girl
Tristan Tournand, Librarian, Mr Gerrard, Priest
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****1
Simon Godwin directs Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at Glimmerglass
****1
Brian Vu and Meredith Arwady shine in Glimmerglass Candide
***11
Carmen at Glimmerglass: visually striking, dramatically inconsistent
**111
A streamlined Trovatore at the Glimmerglass Festival
****1
Isabel Leonard soars in Glimmerglass Festival's Songbird
***11
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