VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL

MAY 2017

WORLD PREMIERE

Librettist: Megan Levad
Conductor: JoAnn Faletta
Set Design: Erhard Rom
Lighting Design: Anshuman Bhatia
Costume Design: Whitney Locher

Cast: Bill Burden/Kelsey Lauritano/Miles Mykkanen/Virginia Chorale led by Chuck Hudson

It’s 1842. A lighthouse keeper and a romantic young woman embark on an arranged marriage at “edge of the reckoned world”, the lighthouse on Old Presque Isle, Michigan. Both have secretive, shame-filled histories – both allude to physical abuse, promiscuity, addiction; these ghosts are too much for their stormy romance, which culminates in tragedy as the Keeper locks his bride in the basement.