Production Team
librettist Nicholas Wright
director Francesca Zambello
conductor Pasquale Laurino
set and costume designer Maria Bjørnson
lighting designer Christopher Sprage
associate director and choreographer Denni Sayers
set realizer Jeffrey Ellis & Adrian Linford
costume realizer Melissa Graf & Sue Willmington
children's chorus director Jamie Johns
Cast
pilot
Shon Sims
the little prince Nathaniel Irvin
& Andrew Riehle
the fox Diane Lane
the snake, wain man Shawn Bartels
lamplighter, drunkard, baobab, hunter Gregory Schmidt
the rose Megan Tillmann
the rose (understudy) Amanda
Garry
the water Emily Martin
the king, baobab, hunter Kirk Eichelberger
geographer, baobab, hunter John David Miles
businessman, baobab, hunter John R. Muriello
DENNI SAYERS - Associate Director/Choreographer
Denni Sayers’s directorial credits include her recently acclaimed production of West Side Story for the Habima Theatre, Israel; The BFG and The Snowman for the Lyric Theatre (Belfast); YoHo for the Leicester Haymarket; Virtual Reality at the London International Opera Festival; and Takeaway with Cambridge Theatre Company. She also re-directed Carmen for London’s Royal Opera on tour in the Jerusalem Festival. Ms. Sayers choreographed Medea for Opera North, Maria Stuarda for Scottish Opera, and Orfeo ed Euridice for New Israeli Opera. She choreographed Paul Bunyan and The Bartered Bride at the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Boris Godunov at English National Opera, Arshak 11 in San Francisco, Peter Grimes in Amsterdam, War and Peace at the Bastille and Of Mice and Men in Bregenz, all with Francesca Zambello, and Parsifal at English National Opera, San Francisco and Chicago, Henze’s Boulevard Solitude at the Royal Opera house at Covent Garden and The Bartered Wife at Glyndebourne. Current and future engagements include Boris Godunov at Opéra National de Paris and a new production of Tosca with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.
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