CARMEN
For a discussion with performer India Carney, director Jay Scheib and festival artistic director Magda Romanska — tune in May 28, 2 pm EST (NYC), 8 pm CET (Berlin) – in the Zoom Room the conversation will also livestream on Facebook
Currently airing as part of the Theater Times International Online Theater Festival May 16 - 31 — check it out here.
June 4, 2016,
The National YoungArts Foundation presents Outside the Box: Jay Scheib’s Carmen — based on the opera of Bizet, with a nod to the adaptations of Godard and Preminger, through the lens of Hemingway. Jealousy and poverty and love-at-first-sight madness drive this environmental live cinema opera conceived for amplified voices, solo piano and two roving cameras mixed live from the YoungArts pavilion to the side of a building in Miami…. Continue Reading
FEATURING
CARMEN | India Carney JOSE | Aaron Casey ESCAMILLO | D’Angelo Lacy MICHAELA | Asia Stewart MORELOS | ROBBER Wes Goodrich
SOLO PIANO | Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner
SUPPORTING CAST
MUSIMELANGE | Anne Chicheportiche, violin and founder; Daniel Andai, violin; Chauncey Patterson, viola; Angela Maleh, cello; SINGER | Amanda Crider
CHORUS
DONNA LANE DOWNEY | Soprano C.J. BAIK | Soprano KAREN LOUISE FELLER | Soprano LINDA ANN DEIGHAN | Mezzo Soprano VERONICA FINK-MENVIELLE | Mezzo Soprano JULIA DEAN MCGUIRE | Mezzo Soprano LIEVENS CASTILLO | Tenor KUNYA K. ROWLEY | Tenor THOMAS BALL | Bass GIBSON DORCE | Bass
CREATIVE TEAM
MUSIC DIRECTOR | Myra Huang
SCENIC DESIGNER | Sara Brown
PROJECTION DESIGNER | CAMERA Josh Higgason
COSTUME DESIGNER | Rachel Dainer-Best
DIRECTION | Jay Scheib
