2019: ‘Voices from the Tower’ Festival
August 11–26
Summer Shares at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street (btw Bowery & 2nd Ave)Our 2019 Festival celebrates the powerful presence, contributions, and leadership of women in opera from its very origins. To bookend this story, we offer Francesca Caccini’s 1625 opera La liberazione di Ruggiero, the first opera by a woman, and the LATEST opera by women: Princess Maleine, by composer Whitney George and librettist Bea (Brittany) Goodwin.
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La liberazione di Ruggiero
August 10, 11m, 15, 17, 23, 25m
La liberazione di Ruggiero
Princess Maleine
August 16, 18m, 20, 22, 24
Bea Goodwin, Stage Director
Chris Fecteau and Whitney George, Conductor and Music Director
Princess Maleine
Scenes from the Tower (Bond)
August 21, 24m
Lauren Hlubny and Emily Bishai, Stage Director
Cendrillon
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mrs. President
Les Boulangers
August 17m
Creative Team & Production Staff
Dante Olivia Smith, Lighting DesignerClaire Townsend, Costume Designer