Production details
Description
Sister Angelica has been forced to enter a convent by her family, following a scandal. Her aunt the Princess pays her first visit since Angelica entered the convent years ago, asking Angelica to sign over her inheritance to her younger sister. The Princess reveals that Angelica’s illegitimate son, whom she has thought of every day since she entered the convent, died years ago. Distraught, Angelica prepares a poison and commits suicide.
Creative Team
- Alaina Viau, Director & Production Designer
- Nadia Boucher, Music Director
- Maureen Russell, Costume Designer
- Andrew van Beek, Photographer
Performers
- Naomi Eberhard, Suor Angelica
- Leah Field, La Zia Principessa (The Princess)
- Pauline van der Roest, La Badessa (The Abbess)
- Sonya Sweeney, La Suor Zelatrice (The Monitor)
- Carole Portelance, La Maestra delle Novizie (Mistress of the Novices)
- Maria Bamford, Suor Genovieffa
- Katherine Harb, Suor Osmina
- Elise Mongahan, Suor Dolcina
- Ulyn Small, La Suor Infermiera (Nursing Sister)
- Melanie Anderson, Le Cercatrici (The Tourieres)
- Jean-E Hudson, Le Converse (The Lay Sister) & Le Cercatrici (The Tourieres)
- Terri-Lynn Mitchell, Le Novize (The Novice)
- Jimena Boettger, Le Converse (The Lay Sister)
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Press & Reviews
“...this opera was almost unbelievably powerful, and so well sung and acted—what a performance!”
National Capital Opera Society
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