Sound and Spectacle!

Presented in the SITE galleries
Free admission for all!

Presented by The Santa Fe Opera

Commissioned for the Shakespeare 400

Duration:  One act, 45 minutes in length

Composer:  Joseph Illick; Librettist:  Andrea Fellows Walters; Dramaturg and Stage Director:  Kathleen Clawson; Music Director: Clinton Smith

Characters

Meridian Adelaide Boedecker, soprano; Wyatt Calvin Griffin, baritone; Wishing Star Chorus Audience

Meridian is an actress with memory loss as a result of Erasure
Wyatt is an actor with his memory intact post-Erasure

Setting and Synopsis: An abandoned theater in New Mexico, 25 years from now, 3 years after the viral pandemic Erasure.  As a result, everyone has some degree of memory loss, and people are less connected to one another.  Wyatt and Meridian, Shakespearean actors and former lovers, drifted apart at the start of the pandemic, and Wyatt has been searching for Meridian ever since.

Doors open at 2:30PM.