2002 - 2003 Season

Stephen Sondheim
PASSION

Libretto by James Lapine

Based on the film Passione d'Amore, directed by Ettore Scola, and on the novel FOSCA by I.U. Tarchetti.

Production: Michael Capasso
Conductor: Mark Flint
Set Design: John Farrell
Costume Design: Angela Huff
Lighting Design: Susan Roth

New production
April 25,26,27, May 2,3,4
Sung in English

Cast

Clara: Amanda Winfield
Colonel Ricci: Larry Raiken
Dr. Tambourri: Lou Tally

No less than the wonderously complex landscape of the human heart is the subject of this haunting, intensely emotional one-act chamber opera by the uncompromising creators of "Sunday In The Park With George" and "Into The Woods."

A remote military outpost in 1863 Italy,a handsome army captain, separated from his beautiful, but married mistress, is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs about love when he becomes the object of the obsessive, unrelenting passions of Fosca, his Colonel's plain, sickly cousin.

Bold, unexpected and thrilling, "Passion" is one of Stephen Sondheim's most emotional works. Intimate, raw, erotic and dark, it explores universal yet often unspoken truths. The sweeping, romantic score (Sondheim describes it as one long rhapsody) accompanies an intelligent, thought-provoking book which bears James Lapine's trademark lyricism and a host of well-drawn characters. As with all of Sondheim and Lapine's works, "Passion" requires (and highlights) a cast of accomplished singing actors.

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