The Loathly Lady
   Opera Première

 

These clips are taken from the recording of the April 1, 2009 premiere of The Loathly Lady, a comic opera based on Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," with words by Wendy Steiner and music by Paul Richards; drawings by John Kindness, animation consultant Joshua Mosley, lead animator Erinn Hagerty; conductor Gary Thor Wedow; starring Julianne Baird, Thomas Meglioranza, Ruth Cunningham, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, José Álvarez, and Jeffrey Behrens; early instruments, Parthenia, Piffaro, and others.

 


Prologue | Act I, Scene 1
Julianne Baird, Ruth Cunningham, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek,
Thomas Meglioranza


Freud and Merlin | Act I, Scene 4
José Álvarez, Jeffrey Behrens,
Thomas Meglioranza

 
 
 
 

The Knight | Act I, Scene 4
Thomas Meglioranza

The Elf Queen | Act II, Scene 1
Julianne Baird, Ruth Cunningham,
Thomas Meglioranza
 
 
 
 

Sheherezade | Act II, Scene 2
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Thomas Meglioranza

Emma | Act II, Scene 3
Susan Hellauer, Thomas Meglioranza
 
 
 
 
 

 

 


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