ELIZABETH CREE

MUSIC BY KEVIN PUTS
LIBRETTO BY MARK CAMPBELL

Alice Busch Opera Theater
7300 State Highway 80
Cooperstown, NY 13326

Set in London in the 1880s, this highly suspenseful and theatrical opera interweaves several narratives: the trial of the titular heroine for the poisoning of her husband; a series of brutal murders committed by a Jack the Ripper-style killer; the spirited world of an English music hall; and, finally, some “guest appearances” by luminaries from the Victorian Age. Elizabeth Cree is a work that combines the factual with the fictive and the historical with the imaginary.

Elizabeth Cree: Tara Erraught
John Cree: John Chest
Dan Leno: Christian Mark Gibbs
Inspector Kildare: Schyler Vargas
Aveline Mortimer: Elizabeth Sutphen

Conductor: Kelly Kuo
Director: Alison Moritz
Set Designer: Edward Morris
Costume Designer: Amanda Seymour
Lighting Designer: Kate Ashton
Hair & Makeup: Tom Watson