WWU Opera Theatre: "Slow Dusk" & "Suor Angelica" playbill
Slow Dusk & Suor Angelica
Presented by WWU Opera Theatre
By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner
Content Warning
The performance includes themes of trauma and suicide.
Slow Dusk
A musical play in one act
Text and music by Carlisle Floyd
A farmhouse in the sandhills of the Carolinas, afternoon and dusk of a day in May in the early 1950s.
Intermission
10 minutes
Suor Angelica
An opera in one act
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano
A Catholic boarding home for unwed pregnant women, afternoon and dusk of a day in May in the early 1950s.
Aunt Sue
Allie Orozco
Jess
Andrew Garratt
Sadie
Lily Guthrie
Micah
Ryan Duke
Angelica
Adia Bowen
Aunt Beatrice “The Princess”
Emily Brown
Head Mistress Sister Eleanor
Emily Davies
Sister Helen
Sophie Mabrouk
Nursing Sister Isabella
Cailey Peretti
Genevieve
Iris Cohn
Alberta “Bertie”
Emily Castle
Margaret “Peggy”
Brooke Beals
Lucilla “Lucy”
Audrey Fry
Constance
Crowley Nix
Andrea
Valeria Dapena Torres
Osmina
Mia Lapingcao
Dolcina “Dolly”
Mia Falcone
Adeline
Caitriona Cassel
Leah
Ella Davis
Slow Dusk (Sadie)
Mia Lapingcao
Suor Angelica (Angelica)
Audrey Fry
Artistic Stage Director
Heather Dudenbostel
Music Director
Mark Davies
Production Stage Manager
Shachaf Zahavy-Mittelman
Diction Coach
Celeste Fraser
Costume Designer
Marie Wildfield
Lighting Designer
Savannah LeCornu
Scenic Designer
Nicholas Ponting
Properties Designer
Hannah Smith
Master Carpenter
Mark Kuntz
Assistant Director
Aidyn Stevens
Assistant Stage Manager
& Supertitle Operator
Miranda Wiler
Assistant Stage Manager
& Light Board Operator
Ian Frank
Assistant Music Director
Nia Pristas
Assistant Lighting Designer
Gabe O’Rourke-Dela Cruz
Assistant Scenic Designer
Aia Goldman
Livestream video engineer
Quin Wilder
Livestream audio engineer
Nick Hastings
Publicity Photographer
Anna Olsen
English libretto (Suor Angelica)
Aidyn Stevens
Supertitles
Miranda Wiler
Shachaf Zahavy-Mittelman
Piano
Mark Davies
Keyboard
Nia Pristas
Chimes
Ryan Duke
Christopher Bianco
Patrick Roulet
Rachel Roulet
Stefanie LaFave
Anne Melo
Perry Lewis
Mark Kuntz
Ryan Dudenbostel
Special Thanks for
your financial
support of the
WWU Opera Program
Susan Jay
Lee and Mamiko Van Horn
