Name: Taking Up Serpents
Start: 2022-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-08-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Alice Busch Opera Theatre

Organization

Glimmerglass Festival

Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Assistant Conductor

Dmitry Glivinskiy

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Chloe Treat

Set designer

James F Rotondo

Costume designer

Trevor Bowen

Lighting designer

Mary Louise Geiger

Sound designer

Tenor

Joe Morgan

Assistant Stage Director

Rebecca Miller Kratzer

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Michael Mayes

Daddy

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Mary-Hollis Hundley

Kayla

Soprano (+1)

Jacquelyn Matava

Nelda

Taylor Alexis DuPont

Reba

Young Mother

Singer

Holiness Congregation Member 1

Helen Huang

Save Mart Customer 1

Queer Kid

Holiness Congregation Member 2

Jeremiah Tyson

Save Mart Customer 2

Bus Driver

Preacher

Ashlee Lamar

Ariana Warren

Bass

Peter Morgan

Lisa Marie Rogali

Victoria Lawal

Fran Daniel Laucerica

Jasmine Habersham

Mary

Alyson Cambridge

Jonathan Pierce Rhodes

Cherubiel

Ensemble Soprano

Ensemble Mezzo

Ensemble Tenor

Joseph Goodale

Ensemble Baritone

Alice Busch Opera Theatre

Taking Up Serpents

Cooperstown

United States

Taking Up Serpents Sankaram (+1 More)

Opera

Holy Ground

Approved

Taking Up Serpents Kamala Sankaram (+1 More)

TAKING UP SERPENTS

Sankaram/Dye

Twenty-five-year-old Kayla is the estranged daughter of a fire-and-brimstone preacher who is dangerously bitten by one of his own snakes. Kayla’s journey home forces her to confront her troubled upbringing. With a score showcasing Sankaram’s deft stylistic eclecticism and an original story inspired by Dye’s roots in the Deep South, Taking Up Serpents calls into question faith, family, and destiny, with shocking results.

HOLY GROUND
Geter/Palmer

Three archangels drown their sorrows. The Messiah is late and the 90th Virgin has turned down the opportunity to birth him. Can a rookie angel persuade a modern girl to take on the task, staving off the apocalypse? Parked at the intersection of satirical fantasy and divine comedy, Holy Ground reminds us that someone had to choose to save the world.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú