Chamber opera · 2025

Sophia’s Forest

My roleProduction Design · Scenic and Projection Design

The Canadian premiere of Lembit Beecher and Hannah Moscovitch’s chamber opera brings memory, displacement and survival into a transforming forest.

For City Opera Vancouver, the Precursor Lab design team brought together scenic collage, live projection and Beecher’s mechanical sound sculptures to move between domestic memory, wartime rupture and a fairy-tale landscape.

  • Presented by: City Opera Vancouver
  • Venue: Studio T, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts May 29–June 1, 2025
  • Music: Lembit Beecher
  • Libretto: Hannah Moscovitch
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Sophia’s Forest stage environment under ultraviolet light with painted forest scenery and sound sculptures

Images

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Credits

  • Stage DirectorJulie McIsaac
  • Music DirectorGordon Gerrard
  • Production DesignerWladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez
  • Associate Production DesignerHailey Gil
  • Associate Set DesignerMegan Lane
  • Costume DesignerAlaia Hamer
  • Associate Lighting DesignerHannah Azam
  • Sound DesignerRichard Berg
  • Production ManagerRichard Berg
  • Stage ManagerEmma Hammond
  • Assistant Stage ManagerMaddy Woodley

Process

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