🎭ChicagoOpera remounts Benjamin Britten's comic Albert Herring -- but with an indie-film feeling. | ✍️ Matt Simonette👇
has been a perennial production for Chicago Opera Theater. But the new mounting opening tonight at the Athenaeum, helmed by director Stephen Sposito, promises to infuse Britten’s story with what the company is calling an “indie-film vibe.”, resident director for the Broadway and touring productions ofexplains, “We’re still setting it at the turn of the century . . . but, visually, I tried to make it a little kooky.
Once Sposito set to work planning the opera, he was surprised at how complex Britten’s ideas and characters were. Mykkanen called Sposito’s idea “so beautiful to me. It’s not like this character has to go through this huge heartbreak or kill somebody like what normally happens in opera. This is just a guy in his late 20s trying to figure out his life, and he realizes he’s not happy, and he asks, ‘What can I do to take control of my own destiny?’”
The conductor’s responsibilities “are not just the music,” Sposito says. “They’re part of the staging of the show and the design of the show. She’s in on all of that. . . . It was such a beautiful relationship, to have someone who knows the piece so well but was also so fun, naughty, cool, and playful. That surprised me.”“the quintessential ensemble piece. There’s 13 of us on stage. There’s no chorus. There aren’t dancers.
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