Opera San José - The Crucible

The Crucible
by Robert Ward and
Bernard Stambler

(Based on the play by Arthur Miller)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Synopsis

September 10 - 25, 2005

This production sponsored by
Knight Ridder

Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, is a study of ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances. It was one of the most important plays of the 1950s, along with two other Miller plays, The Death of a Salesman and All My Sons. Ward's musical setting of The Crucible only increases the intensity in this powerful depiction of the strength required to maintain integrity in the face of overwhelming injustice. The Crucible, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is one of the few widely recognized operatic masterworks of the twentieth-century, and it is uniquely American, set in Massachusetts and steeped in the history and values of this country.

Conductor:					Anthony Quartuccio
Assistant Conductor:					Bryan Nies
Stage Director:					Timothy Near
Chorus Master:					Bruce Olstad
Set design:					Kent Dorsey
Costume design:					Elizabeth Poindexter
Lighting design:					Matthew Antaky
Wig and makeup design:					Sara Beukers
Casting*
	9/10	9/13	9/15	9/18	9/11	9/17	9/23	9/25
John Proctor:	Jason Detwiler				Joseph Wright
Elizabeth Proctor:	Michele Detwiler				Deborah Berioli
Abigail Williams:	Sandra Rubalcava				Laura Twelves
Judge Danforth:	Adam Flowers				Jonathan Hodel
Reverend John Hale:	Carlos Aguilar				Kirk Eichelberger
Reverend Samuel Parris:	Christopher Bengochea				Bill Welch
Tituba	Judith Skinner				Judith Skinner
Rebecca Nurse	MaryAnne Stanislaw				Solmaaz Sarrafzadeh
Giles Corey	J. Raymond Meyers				J. Raymond Meyers
Mary Warren	Susanna Uher				Jillian Boye
Anne Putnam	Michele-Bridget Ragsdale				Katherine Chapin
Thomas Putnam	Douglas Nagel				Gregory Fair
Ezekiel Cheever	Luis Gonzalez				Andrew Park
Francis Nurse	Jesse Merlin				Jesse Merlin
Sarah Good	Marilyn Chea Berger				Marilyn Chea Berger
*Casting subject to change without notice.

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