Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Set and costume designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Design
Musical Preparation
Stage Manager(s)
Cast
Clytaemnestra, Queen of Argos
Iphigeneia, eldest daughter of Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon
Agamemnon, King of Argos
Calchas, High Priest
Achilles
Odysseus
Menelaus
Diomedes
Ajax
Teucer
Electra, dauther of Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon, as a child
Orestes, son of Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon, as a child
Aegisthus, Clytaemnestra's lover
Cassandra, Princess of Troy
Electra
Orestes
Show Dates
Time and Place
Present, the memory and dream world of Clytemnestra; Ancient Greece, Argos
Media
Acknowledgements
The American Opera Project is funded by generous and deeply appreciated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The Project is designed ad an innovative approach in identifying and previewing new works by American composers for presentation by major American opera companies.
Legacy Commission
Part II of a double bill, with "Il Ballo delle Ingrate"
Notes
Presented as second part of a double bill, with "Il Ballo delle Ingrate" West Coast Premiere Under the auspices of the American Opera Project Orchestra 1st Violin Zaven Melikian, concertmaster Adolf Bruk 2nd Violin William Rusconi Lani King Viola Rolf Persinger Lucien Mitchell Cello David Kadarauch Judiyaba String Bass S. Charles Siani Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute Lloyd Gowen Oboe James Matheson Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Gregory Dufford Bassoon Rufud Olivier French Horn William Klingelhoffer Timpani Elayne Jones Percussion Peggy Lucchesi Ray Bachano Piano Jonathan Khuner Mark Haffner Synthesizer Karen Prasser Electronic Music Supervision Ernest Fredric Knell