WOLF TRAP OPERA

Resourceful director Gregory Keller has the action unfolding in such a naturalistic, unaffected manner that it’s easy to forget that this is a 358-year old opera.

--Baltimore Sun

The consistence in stage director Gregory Keller’s attention to emotional detail and clear storytelling…make this Poppea that rarest of wonders: a production that does full justice not only to the work at hand, but to the art form as its creators envisioned it.

--Washington City Paper

This production, which seethes with sly intrigues and cynicism, works because the directors and singers take full advantage of the theater’s small size.

--Washington Post

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Conductor: David Fallis

Sets: Dipu Gupta

Costumes: Bobby Pearce

Lighting: Martha Mountain

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Poppea: Cynthia Watters

Nerone: Michael Maniaci

Ottone: Keith Phares

Ottavia: Elizabeth Shammash

Seneca: Derrick Parker

Drusilla: Stacey Tappan

Arnalta: Julie Bartholomew

Nutrice: Scott Scully

Damigella: Jessica Jones

Valletto: Anna Christy

Lucano: Eric Cutler

Mercurio: Joshua Winograde

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The Barns at Wolf Trap Opera

July 21, 23, 25 2000

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Photos: Dipu Gupta