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Here Be Sirens

by Kate Soper

California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles • April–May 2023

Here By Sirens is an experimental opera by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Kate Soper. Set on a Mediterranean island in the pre-archaic Greek past and the post-apocalyptic U.S. future, the opera follows three Sirens (Polyxo, Peitho, and Phaino) caught in a purgatorial state, destined to lure sailors to their deaths for eternity. Desperate to break the cycle, Polyxo tries to determine how the Sirens came to be.

cast

Polyxo:  Elliot Menard
Peitho:  Mikaela Elson
Phaino:  Nelle Anderson
Ensemble:  Ryan Nebreja, Gary Cook, Rory James Leech, Joe Zhang, Sawyer Shine, Kyle Digiorgio,Rowland Smith, Grant Garcia Ashwath Ram Saravanan, Paul Sohm, Jared Perez, Kody Nelson, Alexander Boyd, Rudraa Pratap Singh and Hunter Abal

Production team

Direction:  Héctor Alvarez
Set:  Holly Webb and Sophia Beall
Lights:  Claire Chrzan
Costumes:  Yuwei Hu
Stage Manager: Lanae Wilks
Assistant Stage Manager:  Darby Huffaker
Technical Director:  Sophia Beall
Musical Director:  Daniel Newman-Lessler
Assistant Director:  Rory James Leech
Producer:  Elizabeth Rae Price

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