Site specific, outdoor opera!
May 28 & 29
(Rain Date: May 31)
Running Time: 1 hour
Tickets start at $30
Ferndell Pavillion
Saratoga Spa State Park
In A Grove
Show Dates
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May 28
5:00PM
Saratoga Spa State Park - Ferndell Pavillion -
May 28
7:00PM
Saratoga Spa State Park - Ferndell Pavillion -
May 29
5:00PM
Saratoga Spa State Park - Ferndell Pavillion -
May 29
7:00PM
Saratoga Spa State Park - Ferndell Pavillion
Join Opera Saratoga in the Ferndell Pavilion with a site-specific installation version of a new opera, In a Grove, composed by Chris Cerrone with libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann. This operatic adaptation of Akutagawa’s classic short story “In a Grove” which inspired the plot of Kurosawa’s renowned film Rashomon, offers a searing investigation into the impossibility and elusiveness of truth. The New York Times deemed the opera: “A vividly immersive thriller about the nature of truth and memory. Not a word or note is without dramaturgical purpose.”
*Rain date: May 31 at 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM
Cast (by order of appearance)
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Chase Sanders
Leona Raines
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Randy Ho
Ambrose Raines
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Sadie Spivey
Leona’s Mother
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Shavon Lloyd
Luther Harlow
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Geoffrey Schmelzer
Woodcutter
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Chuanyuan Liu
Priest/Medium
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Wagner Mauricio Pastor
Policeman
Creative Team
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Chris Cerrone
Composer
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Stephanie Fleischmann
Librettist
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Mary Birnbaum
Director
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Luke Poeppel
Conductor
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Sam Torres
Sound Designer
As we gather in Spa State Park, we are on the lands of the Mohican, the Mohawk and the Abenaki. Native communities have remained present and have thrived here in Saratoga in spite of centuries of settler colonial violence perpetrated against their lives and livelihoods. We recognize and respect the historical Indigenous inhabitants of this land, as well as Native communities across the Americas.