This summer is looking to be quite exciting on the travel front. I will be working outside of New York for several months on a variety of projects. I find traveling to different cities for work to be truly invigorating. The new and changing locales help to give new life to the work I am doing and cause me to think much more fundamentally about the choices I am making in the various works.
In June I will be in Rumania working on the Antigona. This one woman adaptation of the Antigone story is very powerful and I think will be quite exciting. The text is very engaging as is the space we are performing in. I have never been to Rumania so this is quite a new adventure for me. Not only are we performing in Sibiu in the chapel of a fortress, but we might be performing in a bar in Bucharest. There are a few days between these dates, so there will be some nice opportunity for sight seeing. Perhaps even a little bit of travel can be arranged depending upon how the final dates work out.
After that I return to New York to work upstate at Glimmerglass Opera, assisting lighting designer Robert Weirzel. They are doing an entire season of operatic versions of the Orpheus Myth. We are doing Gluck’s Orpheo. I studied with Robert at NYU and have assisted him a number of times in the last few years. Its always fun, so I am greatly looking forward to this.
After Cooperstown I will be traveling to Berkeley, CA to light an opera of my own. I will be lighting a production of Verdi’s Aida with the Berkeley Opera directed by my friend Yuval Sharon. Being from Berkeley it will be a wonderful chance to spend some time with family and friends as well as having the opportunity to work on this rather compelling take on an operatic classic.
After that it is a bit of a mystery. August and September have some interesting prospects although nothing yet is settled. I am in discussions about projects in Scotland and Ireland, but there are still a lot of logistics to figure out. I may have another project in the Bay Area in November, but that too is still in the process of working through logistical questions.
All this travel is certainly thrilling, but before we get there we have a very New York series of shows what with assisting at New York Theatre Workshop, lighting the New York Theatre Ballet, and lighting a play for Gotham Stage Company.
I must say, I really am enjoying 2007.
Tags: aida, antigona, antigone, berkeley, glimmerglass, ireland, orpheo, scotland, sibiu
BRAVO!!!
Thanks. Its very exciting!