CabildO
By Amy Beach
Wilton’s Music Hall, 2021
Director/Dramaturg Emma Jude Harris
Music Amy Beach
Libretto Nan Bagby Stephens
Musical director Yshani Perinpanayagam
Cast Tashinga Bepete, Julieth Lozano, Peter Martin, James Quilligan, Kieran Rayner and Zwakele Tshabalala
Set and costume designer Zoë Hurwitz
Lighting designer Lucy Adams
Projection designer Adam Lenson
Producer Jessie Anand
Assistant director Becca Chadder
Assistant producer Tanya Truman
Associate designer Constance Villemot
Stage managers Luke Mason and Adam Woodhouse
Production manager Pete Rickards - eStage
Répétiteur Cliódna Shanahan
Featuring the Del Mar Piano Trio Francesca Barritt, Morwenna Del Mar and Yshani Perinpanayagam
‘Emma Jude Harris has made sure that the undoubtable highpoints rise to their potential peaks, aided by a terrific ensemble of singers and musicians who move naturally around the simple set, and sing with conviction and charisma. Harris reminds us that the stories we tell of the past also tell us much about our present, and our future.’ -Claire Seymour, Opera Today
Arcola Theatre, 2019
Director/Dramaturg Emma Jude Harris
Music Amy Beach
Cast Joseph Buckmaster, Alexander Gebhard, James Quilligan, Alys Roberts, Helen Stanley, Alistair Sutherland and Beru Tessema
Producer Jessie Anand
Set and Costume Designer Maxwell Nicholson-Lailey
Music Director and Piano John Warner
Lighting Designer Martha Godfrey
Assistant Director Eva Rosenthal
Violin Hattie Haynes
Cello Saran Davies
Production Photography Ali Wright
★★★★
"a real discovery"
The GuardiaN
‘a thrillingly sung staging’
-The Stage
★★★★
‘a witty, dynamic production of this passionate chamber piece glows with humanity and joy’
-Libby Purves, theatreCat