Works:
The Bear: An extravaganza in one act
Music by WIlliam Walton
Libretto adapted from Chekhov by William Walton and Paul Dehn
Antigone
Music by Marjorie Merryman
Libretto freely adapted by Marjorie Merryman from the Dudley Fitz and Robert Fitzgerald
translation of Sophocles
Theodore Antoniou, conductor
John Haber, director and set designer
Adam Rogers, assistant director
Noele Stollmack, lighting designer
Norah Martone, board operator/electrician
Antigone costumes adapted from designs by Penelope Wehrli
Kathleen Weaverling, coach/accompanist (The Bear)
Elizabeth Kriger, coach/accompanist (Antigone)
Cast:
The Bear
Nan Hughes, Yeliena Ivanova Popova, the young widow of a landowner
S. Mark Aliapoulios, Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner
William P. Michals, Jr., Luka, Madame Popova's old servant
Antigone
Karin Foglesong-Ross, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus
Richard Kennedy, Haimon, betrothed to Antigone and son of Creon
James Maddalena, Creon, King of Thebes
Debra Hood-Medcalf, Tiresius, the blind seer of Thebes
