El Gato Con Botas 2010
El Gato Con Botas 2010
An opera by Xavier Montsalvatge
Directed by Moises Kaufman
Puppetry by Blind Summit
A gorgeous production with a cast of 28 puppets, 8 puppeteers, and 8 singers, led by a fabulous Bunraku Puss-in-Boots. Rabbits, fish and a 10 foot high, five man operated Ogre which breaks apart and transforms into a lion, then a parrot, then a rat...
Produced by Tectonic Theater Project and Gotham Chamber Opera, at The New Victory Theatre in New York.
Vivien Schweitzer | The New York Times | Oct 03, 2010
"It's the puppetry, created by London's Blind Summit Theatre, which takes the breath away..."
Ron Cohen | Back Stage | Oct 03, 2010
John Simon | Bloomberg News | Oct 05, 2010
Patrick Dillon | Scherzo
PRODUCTION TEAM
XAVIER MONTSALVATGE (Composer)
NÉSTOR LUJÁN (Libretto)
NEAL GOREN (Conductor)
MOISÉS KAUFMAN (Director)
MARK DOWN (Puppet Director)
ANDROMACHE CHALFANT (Set Design)
NICK BARNES (Puppet Design)
CLINT RAMOS (Costume Design)
DAVID LANDER (Lighting Design)
SÉAN CURRAN (Choreographer)
GEOFF MCDONALD (Assistant Conductor)
TIMOTHY KOCH (Assistant Director)
MICHAEL GIVEY (Production Manager)
MELISSA FUTCH (Stage Manager)
CHRIS BERGEN (Title Design)
GUS PAUL CHRYSSON (Spanish Diction Coach)
LORETTA DI FRANCO PINTO (English Diction Coach)
PUPPETEERS
Cat: STEFANO BRANCATO
JONOTHON LYONS
AARON SCHROEDER
Ensemble: JOSEPH GALLINA
BEN LIEBERT
MARTA MOZELLE MACROSTIE
JESSICA SCOTT
TEDDY YUDAIN
SINGERS
Cat: GINGER COSTA-JACKSON
KARIN MUSHEGAIN
LEAH WOOL
Princess: VALERIA OGBONNAYA
NADINE SIERRA
Miller: STEPHEN LABRIE
CRAIG VERM
King: PETER CAPALDI
KYLE PFORTMILLER
Ogre: KEVIN BURDETTE
DAVID SALSBERY FRY
ORCHESTRA
CHRISTOPHER LEE (Violin 1)
KEIR GOGWILT (Violin 2)
KATHRYN LOCKWOOD (Viola)
ROBERT BURKHART (Cello)
STEPHEN SAS (Bass)
SATO MOUGHALIAN (Flute)
GONZALO X. RUIZ (Oboe)
TODD PALMER (Clarinet)
MARK TIMMERMAN (Bassoon)
LAWRENCE DIBELLO (French Horn)
JEFFREY IRVING (Percussion)
JEROME TAN (Piano)
DEVELOPMENT ANDF REHEARSALS