The Rape of Lucretia: week 2 - week 1
L'enfant et les sortilèges & Gianni Schicchi: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Turandot: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
The Italian Girl in Algiers: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Fidelio: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1

The Rape of Lucretia - Week One

Behind-the-Scenes Rehearsal Photos by Katharine Elliott.
Photos from Tech Week One of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Premiere of The Rape of Lucretia
at the Perelman Theater.

Mezzo soprano Tamara Mumford makes her OCP debut in the haunting title role of Lucretia.

Tenor Bill Burden and Artistic Director Robert Driver chat during a break in rehearsal.

Director Will Kerley gives tenor Bill Burden a few staging notes.

Baritone Nathan Gunn appears as Tarquinius, the prince of Rome - and the perpetrator of Lucretia's ruin.

Baritone Nathan Gunn and Tenor Bill Burden, last seen in The Pearl Fishers at OCP (2004), return again as Tarquinius and the Male Chorus.

Soprano Karen Jesse, who made a stunning Perelman debut as Marie in Wozzeck earlier this year, sings the role of the Female Chorus.

Collatinus (bass Ben Wager) attempts to comfort his wife Lucretia (mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford) after Tarquinius's attack.