Umbra
Creator/Composer: Elliot Menard
Co-Creator/Director: Héctor Alvarez
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles • March 2025
Umbra is an opera-theater work on the inner landscape of grief—where reality, myth, memory, dream, and time collide. Part autobiography, part myth, Umbra entwines two parallel narratives: the composer after the suicide of a close friend and Orpheus after emerging from the Underworld without Eurydice.
cast
Orpheus: Elliot Menard
Chorus: Nelle J. Anderson, Isabel Springer, Carmen Edano, Shannon Delijani, Karolina Kwasniak, Livia Reiner
Flute: Emma-rose Bauman
Cello: Marly Gonzalez
Production team
Creator and Composer: Elliot Menard
Co-Creator/Director: Héctor Alvarez
Libretto: Elliot Menard (adapted from Ovid’s Metamorphoses)
Music Director: Daniel Newman-Lessler
Associate Director: Rory James Leech
Scenic Design: Héctor Alvarez adn Claire Chrzan
Costumes: Ashley Kae Snyder
Lights: Claire Chrzan
Technical Director: Owen Reese
Producers: Elliot Menard and Rory James Leech
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