Singing The Heart of Darkness: Tarik O’Regan’s opera premieres in America

By Jaime Robles, 03 May 2015

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Reviewed at Z Space, San Francisco on 2 May 2015

O'Regan, Heart of Darkness

Opera Parallèle

Nicole Paiement, Conductor

Heidi Moss, Woman of the River / Fiancee

Michael Bell, Chief Accountant / Helmsman

Thomas Glenn, Harlequin

Jonathan Smucker, Manager / Secretary

Isaiah Bell, Marlow

Daniel Cilli, Company Director (Thames Boat)

Aleksey Bogdanov, Doctor / Boilerman

Philip Skinner, Kurtz

Shawnette Sulker, Soprano

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.