Set Designer

A thrilling new opera based on Tennessee Williams’s fever-dream of a play about a family secret, and a mother’s desperate attempt to silence the truth.

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Suddenly Last Summer

Fisher Center at Bard

Scarcely any other work of world literature breathes music in the same manner as William Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. Elves dance through the night in the summery enchanted forest and sing the fairy queen Titania to sleep. Music accompanies the wedding celebration of the royal couple Hippolyta and Theseus, as well as the young lovers Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius – when they have finally found each other in the midsummer's night after an erotic cycle of desire and disappointment, of confusion and disarray. And music rings out in the crassly humourous game in the play “Pyramus and Thisbe”, performed by six "highly skilled" craftsmen.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Deutsche Oper Berlin

This production of The Lehman Trilogy is a transfer from Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, MN) in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC).

The Lehman Trilogy

Associated Bank Theater Center

Lifelong bachelor Don Pasquale is livid when his heir, Ernesto, falls for a penniless widow. Determined to teach him a lesson, Don Pasquale decides to disown Ernesto, marry, and produce a new heir himself. Enter Norina, Ernesto’s love, and her crafty friend Dr. Malatesta. They trick Pasquale into a fake marriage, with Norina posing as the picture-perfect bride. But before the ink on the marriage contract is even dry, Norina unleashes her inner spitfire, turning Pasquale’s tidy world riotously upside down.

Don Pasquale

Webster University

Do you have the courage to change? In Eboni Booth’s absorbing, funny, and ultimately stunning new play—the New York Times Critic’s Pick and “pretty darn near to a perfect play” (Tim Teeman, Daily Beast)—William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) heads a remarkable company, directed by Knud Adams, as Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker facing a world he’s long avoided. The Observer says, “it will restore your faith in theatre’s elemental storytelling powers.”

Primary Trust

Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

What is madness and what is truth? Must truth bend to power? Tennessee Williams’ feverish one-act play is the basis for 2023 MacArthur Fellow and former Opera Philadelphia Composer in Residence Courtney Bryan’s first opera. Hailed by The New York Times as a “composer of panoramic interests,” Bryan joins forces with Tony Award-winning director Daniel Fish (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!) to present this Southern Gothic drama as a sweltering fusion of musical imagination and theatrical ingenuity. Anchored by soprano Mikaela Bennett as the embattled heroine Catharine Holly, with conductor Nathan Koci at the podium, this new work is part opera, part play, and all drama.

Set Designer

Marsha Ginsberg

Events

Upcoming events

22 - 25 Oct, 2026

Suddenly Last Summer · Opera Philadelphia

Past events

Jun 25 - Jul 19, 2026

Suddenly Last Summer · Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

May 2 - Jun 6, 2026

A Midsummer Night’s Dream · Deutsche Oper Berlin

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