The characters are limned in sharp but simple strokes, reflected in Lucas Krech’s light cues. —San Francisco Chronicle
Music is an amazing mover of the human soul. The power of the human voice brings the internal longings of an individual out into the world for all to hear.
As a designer, one of the greatest things about working in opera is the heightened reality. Be the story a simple and humanistic tale like Copeland's The Tender Land, a work of historical fiction like Aida, or a fantastical journey like Orpheus in the Underworld, opera transports us, through music and voice, to far away worlds and hidden parts of our hearts and minds.
Theme, melody, and vocal quality guide both large conceptual design decisions as well as the minute, moment to moment, choices in an individual lighting cue.
The characters are limned in sharp but simple strokes, reflected in Lucas Krech’s light cues. —San Francisco Chronicle