The cast of The Anonymous Lover (photo by Larry Ho)
Cast (in order of appearance)
Valcour: Robert Stahley
Ophémon: Michael J. Hawk
Léontine: Tiffany Townsend
Dorothée: Alaysha Fox
Jeannette: Gabriela Flores
Colin: Jacob Ingbar
Dancers: Andrea Beasom, Daniel Lindgren
Creative Team
Conductor: James Conlon
Director: Bruce A. Lemon, Jr.
Dramaturg: Ariane Helou
Projection and Set Design: Hana S. Kim
Costumes: Misty Ayres
Lighting: Pablo Santiago
Choreographer: Andrea Beasom
Libretto and Dialogue Adaptation: Ariane Helou, Bruce A. Lemon, Jr.
Subtitles: Linda Zoolalian
LA Opera Orchestra
First Violin: Ana Landauer, concertmaster; Armen Anassian, associate concertmaster; Lisa Sutton, assistant concertmaster; Hana Kim; Olivia Tsui; Radu Pieptea; Katie Sloan; Nina Evtuhov
Second Violin: Grace Oh, principal; Loránd Lokuszta, associate principal; Florence Titmus; Tina Chang Qu; Ina Veli; Irina Voloshina
Viola: Shawn Mann, principal; Dmitri Bovaird, associate principal; Karie Prescott; Kate Vincent
Cello: John Walz, principal; Dane Little, associate principal; Helen Altenbach
Bass: Nathan Farrington, principal; Samuel Shuhan, associate principal
Oboe: Leslie Reed, principal; Jennifer Cullinan
Bassoon: William May, principal
Horn: Steven Becknell, principal; Daniel Kelley
Harpsichord: Jeremy Frank
Orchestra Personnel Manager: Brady Steel
Music Librarian: Melisandra Dunker
Assistant Music Librarian: Caroline Boyce
Additional Credits
Production Stage Manager: Whitney McAnally
Assistant Director: Erik Friedman
Video Assistant Director: Lisa Kable-Blanchard
Assistant Stage Manager: Barbara Donner
Musical Preparation: Jeremy Frank, Nino Sanikidze, Nicholas Roehler* (*young artist program member)
French diction coach: Bénédicte Jourdois
Seamstress: Blanca Miranda
Wireless Technician: Tom Hodder
Steadicam Operator: Oliver Endahl
Editors: Kelly Travis, James Pomichter
COVID Compliance Officer: Chelsea Rector
The Colburn School
Director of Production: Victor Pineda
Audio/Video Engineer in Charge: Francesco Perlangeli
Audio Producer: Fred Vogler
Supervisor, Stage Management: David Mencos
Manager, Facilities Scheduling and Rentals: Jessica Ewing
Production Assistants: Paul Loera, Claire Mazzeo, Peter Phol, Pedro Ruiz
Director of Piano Technology: Neema Pazargad
Master Electrician: Greg Forbess
Lighting Programmer: Sean Meyer
Lighting Technician: Chris Meyer
Director of Engineering: Chuck Scroggins
Director of Security: Sandra Gendron
Audio/Video System Engineer, Recording Engineer: Derek Williams
Recording Engineer: Sergey Parfenov
Video Switcher Operator: Walter Park
Camera Operators: Abishek Chandrasekar, Hanh Nguyen, Vishal Solanek, Angela Valley
Production made possible with generous support from the Colburn Foundation.
Special production support from Lawrence A. Kern.
The singers are members of LA Opera's young artist program. The Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program is generously underwritten by the Colburn Foundation, Eugene and Marilyn Stein, and Richard and Lenore Wayne.
The Anonymous Lover is produced in partnership by LA Opera and The Colburn School, live at Zipper Hall.
By arrangement with Opera Ritrovata, publisher and copyright owner; engraving and editing by George N. Gianopoulos, Stephen Karr, Leila Núñez-Fredell, and Mishkar Núñez-Fredell.
Scena from Ernestine by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, used by permission of Peer International Corporation, publisher and copyright owner.
LA Opera Orchestra members appear courtesy of the American Federation of Musicians, AFL-CIO.
LA Opera worked with G8 Check to develop and implement COVID protocols in full compliance with Los Angeles County and other local guidelines.
Set construction by Studio Sereno. Wireless audio equipment provided by South Bay Sound and Light, Inc.
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