'No Exit': A Chamber Opera by Andy Vores
June 10, 2023: 8 PM
June 11, 2023: 3 PM
Three strangers are ushered into a room, only to realize that they are destined to spend the rest of their miserable eternity confined together in close quarters. Based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 existentialist play, "NO EXIT" offers a simple yet diabolical vision of the afterlife, in which the tools of torture are rooted not in physical pain, but in the frailty of human vanity, spite, jealousy, and self-delusion. In its West Coast premiere, Andy Vores’s chamber opera brings musical inventiveness and dark humor to Sartre’s text, and breathes fiendish life into its assertion that “Hell is other people”.
Robert Castro, director
Victoria Petrovich, designer
Miguel Zazueta-Cervera, tenor
Mariana Flores-Bucio, soprano
Leslie Ann Leytham, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Nussman, baritone
