Georgia Bottoms: Rebecca Nelsen
Krystal Lambert: Andrea Meláth
Little Mama: Katalin Károlyi
Nathan: Keith Browning
Reverend Eugene Hendrix: Tibor Szappanos
Brenda Hendrix: Zsófia Nagy
Reverend Brent Colgate: Attila Erdős
Daphne Colgate: Diána Kiss
Dr. Ted Horn / Officer Lester: Roland Tötös
Judge Barnett / Officer Jimmy: Antal Cseh
Sheriff Bill: Bence Gulyás
Featuring: UMZE Chamber Ensemble
Conductor: Gergely Vajda
Libretto: Mark Childress, Gergely Vajda
Set, costumes: Lili Izsák
Musical assistants: Mónika Baja, Szabolcs Sándor
Choreographer: Dóra Barta
Director: András Almási-Tóth
Gergely Vajda’s comic opera had its world premiere in the United States in 2015. Its plot is based on Mark Childress’s Harper Lee Prize winning novel of the same title. It focuses on a woman who tries to get by on the gifts of her wealthier admirers, and whose complicated life, disintegrating family, and a secret she tries to hide from everyone, grip the viewer’s attention from the start.
The tension of the controversial, chaotic or embarrassing situations is eased by humour, though this is barely a comic sequence of events in the conventional sense, since the 9/11 terror attack and the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina are also key elements of the plot.
The English-language production is conducted by the composer himself, whose original voice has invited an ever growing interest worldwide in the past few decades, thanks to such salient features as diverse colours and unusual effects.
An event jointly organized with Liszt Academy.
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