PRODUCTIONS
PHILIP GLASS’S OPERA ORPHÉE
San Francisco Bay Area Premiere
February 2011
Composer: Philip Glass
Librettist: Jean Cocteau’s 1949 film Orphée
Conductor: Nicole Paiement
Director: Brian Staufenbiel
“Orphée Triumphant!”
Ensemble Parallèle’s production of Orphée wove cirque acrobatics, kinetic staging, and floating film projections into a cohesive, surrealist tapestry. Hailed as “triumphant” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Orphée was “Ravishing and delicate, haunting and playful, somber and romantic… the production fused story, music and stagecraft into an engrossing evening of music theater.”
Read Full Reviews
SF Bay Times, Orphée: Spellbinding!
Stark Insider, Ensemble Parallèle wows the opera community
SF Weekly, Ensemble Parallèle: Small Company Stages Big Production
Opera Tattler, Ensemble Parallèle’s Orphée
Examiner.com, Ensemble Parallèle brings Cocteau’s surrealism to the opera stage
Cast
Orphée: Eugene Brancoveanu
Princesse: Marnie Breckenridge
Heurtebise: John Duykers
Eurydice: Susannah Biller
Cégeste and Reporter: Thomas Glenn
Poet and Judge: Philip Skinner
Police and Commissaire: Cole Grissom
Aglaonice: Brooke Munoz
Cirque Artists
David Poznanter
Marina Luna
Ajina Slater
Supernumeraries
Michael Strickland
Charlie Lichtman
Michael Harvey
Artistic Team
Conductor, Nicole Paiement
Director/Production Designer, Brian Staufenbiel
Video Artist, Austin Forbord
Set Designer, Dave Dunning
Set/Lighting Designer, Matthew Antaky
Costumer, Christine Crook
Wig and Makeup, Jeanna Parham
[Photo: Orphée - Marnie Breckenridge, Eugene Brancoveanu]
