David Bradke (Lighting Designer)
is thrilled to be on the design
team once again after his COT debut last year, the critically
acclaimed production and remount of
Orpheus and Euridice.
Local
credits include:
Cosi Fan Tutte, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi,
Amahl and the Night Visitors
(Opera Illinois),
Bitter Sweet, Berlin
To Broadway With Kurt Weill
(Light Opera Works
), The Last Five
Years
(OneTheatreCompany),
Climbing The Volcano
(Piccolo
Theatre). He has served as Lighting Supervisor/ALD for COT and the
Sarasota Opera Association, and was the Interim Technical Production Manager at Boston
Lyric Opera this spring (
I Puritani).
David is a founding member of Loyola University’s
Lower Depths Theater and Actor’s Warehouse/True Brew Theatre, both in his hometown
of NewOrleans.
Sean T. Cawelti
(Video Designer) Mr. Cawelti is thrilled to be back at
ChicagoOpera Theater after being theVideo andPuppet designer for
their 2014 Spring Double Bill featuring Viktor Ullmann’s
The Emperor
of Atlantis
and Carl Orff’s
The Clever One
. Mr. Cawelti graduated
from the University of California Irvine with his BA in Drama with
honors in Directing and studied puppetry at Tisch School of the Arts
at NYU. Sean has won awards for his work as a designer, director
and playwright, honored with a UNIMA Citation of Excellence
for
Gogol Project
and was a 2013 finalist for Center Theater Group’s Sherwood Award as a
director
.
He was selected by the City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Affairs Department to travel
to Brazil for two months to study woodcarving and Candomblé, a religion born of African
and Catholic traditions. Sean is the founding Artistic Director of Rogue Artists Ensemble a
multi-media, puppet and mask company in Los Angeles. His directing work has been seen
at the Getty Villa, South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, The Geffen
Playhouse and the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. He has designed puppets, masks,
props and video for theater, music videos, museums, concerts and arena shows including
the recent Kanye West Yeezus world tour. More info –
Nmon Ford
(Macbeth)
Baritone. Los Angeles, California.
A featured
soloist on 2010’s Grammy Award-winning
Transmigrations
(Telarc) and 2006’s 4-time Grammy Award-winning (including
“Best Classical Recording”)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
(Naxos), Los Angeles native Nmon Ford appeared most recently
with the symphonies of St. Louis and Atlanta (
Carmina Burana
),
Opéra National de Bordeaux (Jochanaan,
Salome
), Michigan Opera
Theater (Zurga,
The Pearl Fishers
), Teatro Comunale di Bologna
(
Don Giovanni
), Sferisterio Festival in Italy (
Attila
), and the Grafenegg Festival (Austria).
Under the auspices of the Claremont Colleges, he sang his first performances as Wotan
(
Die Walküre
). He made his Ravinia debut with James Conlon and the Chicago Symphony
in Shostakovich’s 13
th
Symphony, and he has soloed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
the New York Philharmonic, and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Nmon was vocal arranger and
lead singer for the
CD Vai DaCapo – Songs of Delight
(Billboard Top 20 – Classical) and has
performed lead roles in several festival-bound feature films.
ARTISTS
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