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An Opera in Two Acts
Music by Jake Heggie
Libretto by Gene Scheer

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s latest collaboration is based on the separate journals of two Holocaust survivors: Krystyna Zywulska and Gad Beck.

Her Jewish identity hidden, Krystyna was a political prisoner held at Auschwitz. In secret, she composed lyrics to inspire fellow prisoners to survive, even as she carried out her harrowing job in the Effektenkammer: cataloging the personal effects of thousands of women and children before they’re murdered in gas chambers. Many years after the war, a journalist asks Krystyna to record her stories.  In doing so, Krystyna is helped by the ghosts of her past: Zosia, Edka, Mariola, and her younger self, Krysia.

Gad Beck’s first true love was the poet Manfred Lewin, who was 19 when he and his family were murdered in Auschwitz. In the years since the war, Gad has tried his best to forget what happened, but has kept a book of Manfred’s poems. As an old man, he is visited by Manfred’s ghost. When Manfred implores Gad to remember and celebrate their love, the painful conclusion of their stories and fates emerges.

Performances will be held at
The Edge Theater 
5451 N Broadway, Chicago

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Cast

Krysia

Anna Caldwell

Anna Caldwell

Krysia

Praised for her “impassioned” and “shining” portrayal of Emily in the Ohio debut of Ned Rorem’s Operatic Adaptation of Our Town, Anna is no stranger to 20th century opera and is passionate about performing contemporary works by living composers. She is delighted to make her Chicago Fringe Opera debut in the role of Krysia and to work with a dynamic ensemble cast. Anna is known in Chicago for her work in Operetta and Musical Theater, and as a member of the classical crossover trio The Peppermint Patties. www.thepeppermintpatties.com

Some favorite roles include Amalia in She Loves Me (Janus Concert Series) Cinderella in Into the Woods (Edgebrook Concert Series) Adele in Die Fledermaus (DePaul Opera Theater) Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Musica nelle Marche) Lily in The Secret Garden (The Genesis Theater Project & Ohio Valley Summer Theater) Eurydice in Orphée aux enfers (BW Opera Theater) and Marion in The Music Man (Ohio Valley Summer Theater). Anna earned an M.M in Vocal Performance from DePaul University and has a successful digital marketing career as a Content Manager.

Edka

Lauren Ingebrigtsen

Lauren Ingebrigtsen

Edka

Mezzo-soprano Lauren Ingebrigtsen graduated in May of 2019 from Millikin University with a Bachelor’s in Vocal Performance and minor in theatre. While there, she was the recipient of the Dr. Maria Klott Memorial Award for Achievement in Theatre and Music as well as the Mary B. Merris Award for Outstanding Voice Student. She also performed as Baba in Millikin Opera Theatre’s 2019 production of Menotti’s The Medium and was a member of the Math Club Improv Troupe. She has also sung Soeur Mathilde in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites as part of La Musica Lirica’s Young Artisit Program in Novafeltria, Italy in 2018, and has performed as Hippolyta in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival in 2019. As a member of Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity for women, she received first place in the Decatur Alumni Chapter’s Performance Scholarship Competition, as well as the Chapter Leadership Award. She is thrilled to be making her professional operatic debut with Chicago Fringe.

Mariola

Alex Salas

Alex Salas

Mariola

Alex Salas is a Chicago based soprano with a focus on new works. Alex was most recently seen in Chicago Fringe Opera’s “City of Works,” featured in Lincoln Square with music composed by Elizabeth Rudolph and text by Laura Stratford. Previous engagements with Chicago Fringe Opera include “Love Wounds” showcasing music composed by Christopher Cerrone in 2019, where Chicago Classical Review described Alex’s voice as “pure and lovely in tone.” Alex is a founding member of Forte Chicago, an operatic improv ensemble, last seen at the 2019 Chicago International Puppet Festival, performing “Distant Flight of Birds”, cabarets, and fully devised shows. Since Forte’s inception in 2015, Alex has been seen devising, directing, and performing in every show.  Alex holds a BA in Music Education from Florida Atlantic University, and an MM in Voice Performance from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where operatic credits include Contessa di Folleville in  Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims, Novice in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Daughter in Torke’s Strawberry Fields.  Alex is a soprano section leader at Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth, IL.

Krystyna Zywulska

Clarissa Parrish Short

Clarissa Parrish Short

Krystyna Zywulska

Clarissa Parrish Short is returning to the operatic world after transitioning from mezzo-soprano to soprano. She has sung with opera companies and choruses throughout the United States and Germany, including the Mittelsächsisches Theater, Theater Plauen-Zwickau, Portland Opera, Florentine Opera, Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, the Basilica of St. Josaphat, St. John Cantius, and St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

A native of Sterling, Virginia, Clarissa is an alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music and James Madison University. She currently lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband tenor Aaron Short. She works at Northeastern Illinois University as the Business Manager for the College of Arts and Sciences and sings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus.

Zosia

Bridget Skaggs

Bridget Skaggs

Zosia

Mezzo-soprano Bridget Skaggs has swiftly gained the attention of Chicago audiences as “a compelling force” with an “agile, expressive voice” (Chicago Classical Review) equally at home in opera, art song, and oratorio.  Critics have noted the way she “lights up the scene” (Chicago Reader) in performances with Chicago Fringe Opera, where she debuted the role of Austin in the world-premiere production of Rossa Crean’s The Great God Pan in 2018, and sang Christopher Cerrone’s Naomi Songs with “warm and plaintive mezzo” (Chicago Classical Review) as part of Love Wounds, a multi-disciplinary exploration of the composer’s works, in 2019.

Bridget is increasingly recognized for her excellence in the musical and movement styles of Baroque repertoire, having performed Giunone in Cavalli’s La Didone with Haymarket Summer Opera Program in 2018, Bradamante in Handel’s Alcina with Chicago Vocal Arts Consortium in 2019, and performed numerous Bach cantatas as a Festival Artist at the Baroque on Beaver Island Festival (MI) in summers 2014 and 2015.

Nationally, Bridget has appeared as the Fox in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen with Opera Steamboat, and Charlotte in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, where she served as Young Artist.  Internationally, she has toured Bruckner’s Te Deum as alto soloist with Blue Lake International Symphony.  Her vast concert and oratorio repertoire includes the Ravel Shéhérezade, Duruflé Requiem, Vivaldi Gloria, Handel Messiah, and Bach Magnificat.

A passionate advocate for art song, Skaggs is a founding member of vocal chamber quartet Fourth Coast Ensemble, and was recently named Vocal Arts Associate for Chicago Fringe Opera. She has twice been awarded the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago’s vocal chamber fellowship.  This season she records music by composer Lori Laitman, and has recorded the American premiere of Paul Abraham’s 1932 jazz operetta Ball at the Savoy for future release.  A native of Southlake, Texas, Bridget received her education at Oklahoma City University’s Wanda L. Bass School of Music, and resides in Chicago.

Gad Beck

Peter Vamvakas

Peter Vamvakas

Gad Beck

Peter’s performance credits include Mansfield Park, Book of Will, Inherit the Wind, Sense and Sensibility, Shining Lives (Northlight Theatre); Amahl and the Night Visitors, Vanessa, Carmen, Man of La Mancha, Persuasion (UK/NYC tours) (Chamber Opera Chicago); Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom, Footloose, Christmas Schooner, Petrified Forest (Theatre at the Center); Titanic, the chamber musical (Jeff nomination musical/ensemble-Griffin Theatre); Passion  (Jeff award winning musical-Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre); Macbeth, Hamlet (Shakespeare on the Green); To Kill a Mockingbird (Apple Tree Theatre); South Pacific, 110 in the Shade, The Mikado (Light Opera Works). Directing credits include Fancy Nancy the Musical, How I Became a Pirate, Busytown the Musical and Pinkalicious the Musical (Northbrook Musical Theatre for Young Audiences); The Nutcracker (Theatre at the Center). Television credits include The Chi, Proven Innocent and Chicago PD 

Manfred

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

Manfred

Jonathan Wilson is grateful to perform again with Chicago Fringe Opera in this meaningful production of Two Remain.  Previously, Jonathan performed with CFO in the title role of their 2019 production of Woyzeck (Waits, Brennan) and as Hannah Before in their 2017 production of As One (Kaminsky, Campbell, Reed).  Praised by the Chicago Classical Review for his “resounding and luxurious” voice, Jonathan is an enthusiast of contemporary opera with other recent roles including Robert Dziekański in I will fly like a bird (Plant, Wainwright), The Poet in When Adonis Calls (Borzoni, de los Santos, Dillard), and John Brooke in Little Women (Adamo).  Later in 2022, Jonathan looks forward to performing in several productions with Lyric Opera Chorus, Grant Park Chorus, and Chicago Symphony Chorus.  Outside of performing, Jonathan is passionate about math and science and their creative overlap with music and the arts to explore the intricacy, complexity, and beauty of the world. He holds degrees in physics, mathematics, and electromagnetics, and has worked as an RF electrical engineer and a lecturer of physics, astronomy, and Earth science.

Dancer

Connor Giles

Connor Giles

Dancer

Chicago credits include Mamma Mia (Drury Lane Oakbrook & Music Theater Works), Billy Elliot (Music Theater Works), Head Over Heels (Kokandy Productions), Call Me Madam (Porchlight Music Theatre), and Bare (Refuge Theatre Project).  Connor has performed regionally in Hello Dolly, West Side Story, Big Fish, Anything Goes (Encore Musical Theater Company) and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Memories Dinner Theater). Connor holds a BFA in Musical Theater from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Dancer

Roy Samra

Covers

Krystyna
Dana Campbell

Dana Campbell

Krystyna

Soprano Dana Campbell made her professional debut with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and has since been a guest artist with Virtuosi di Toronto, Toronto Classical Singers and Talisker Players, and a featured artist with the West Suburban Symphony, Southwest Symphony Orchestra, and Kenosha Symphony Orchestra.

With Toronto Operetta Theatre, she sang the title role in the Canadian première of Gonzalo Roig’s zarzuela Cecilia Valdes. For the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ms. Campbell appeared in their revered productions of Porgy and Bess, and understudied the role of Addie Parker in their production of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. With Maestro Robert Treviño and his Millennium Chamber Players, she undertook, among others, the roles of Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, and Mimì in La Bohème. Ms. Campbell appeared in concert in Austria, under the baton of Edoardo Müller, and reprised Mimì in Italy for Maestro Joseph Rescigno. Ms. Campbell is a member of the celebrated Adrian Dunn Singers, and performs frequently with the South Shore Opera Company of Chicago, including turns in two of that company’s acclaimed productions: as Rachel Ross in Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, and as Claire in Troubled Island. Other operatic favourites include Donna Elvira and Countess Almaviva, both for Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, Micaëla for American Chamber Opera, and Violetta for South Shore. Ms. Campbell is thrilled and honoured to have worked with her friend and colleague Khary “K. F. Jacques” Laurent, singing the role of Maddalena on his exciting OperaTronic project: L’Assassino, for Resonance Works Pittsburgh.

Fizz & Ginger marks Ms. Campbell’s third engagement with Chicago Fringe Opera, previously appearing on the company’s staged recital program Chicago Currents, and as understudy in Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: Out of Darkness, taking the stage on opening night as Krystyna Zywulska.

Zosia / Edka
Evita Cervoni

Evita Cervoni

Zosia / Edka

Mezzo-soprano Evita Cervoni, holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance and has performed in a variety of major cities including Toronto, Rome, and Chicago. Evita has been described as “possessing [a] strong and beautiful voice,” and has performed the roles of Bride/Darkling Ma Dowling/Patience and Sarah, Mamma Lucia/Cavalleria Rusticana, Arnalta/L’incoronazione di Poppea, Eva/Comedy on the Bridge, Third Spirit/Die Zauberflöte, Kate/Madame Butterfly, and Ruth/The Pirates of Penzance. Evita currently studies with Judith Haddon, and is thrilled to be making her Chicago Fringe Opera debut as a cover for Zosia and Edka in Two Remain.

Mariola / Krysia
Elizabeth Shuman

Elizabeth Shuman

Mariola / Krysia

 

Soprano Elizabeth Shuman is excited to be performing for live audiences after pandemic performances for her backyard chickens, Hera, Hesita and Persephone, who enjoy her singing, but whose pecking at the studio door tends to be off beat. Her favorite recent performance for human audiences was the role of her doppelganger, Patrick Leahy, in The Gonzales Cantata. Upcoming performances include Fourth Coast Ensemble’s Chicago songSLAM on April 3 at Nicholas Hall in Evanston, where Elizabeth will perform a world premiere work written for her by composer, poet, and pianist Mona Williams Coalter. Elizabeth performs regularly with Chicago Choral Artists, and as an avid explorer of early music, she has performed in early music festivals in Boston and Berkely. She has also enjoyed solo performances at Friends of the Windows recital series, the Schubertiade festival, Liederstube, and Early Music at the Barn. Soli Deo Gloria.

 

Manfred
Stephen Hobe

Stephen Hobe

Manfred

Switch-hitting in musical theatre and opera, Baritone Stephen Hobe has flourished in classical and crossover repertoire in hometown Chicago. Mr. Hobe is “a generous performer,” lauded for his charismatic and often quirky performances of particularly Italian and Contemporary American repertoire. Mr. Hobe has most recently performed with Madison Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, Florentine Opera, Kenosha Opera Festival, Third Eye Theatre Ensemble, and Music Theatre Works. Mr. Hobe is elated to be finishing up his first season as a part of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Supplementary Chorus. Mr. Hobe studied paleontology and musical theatre at Carthage College (BA, 2015), as well as voice at Roosevelt University (MM, 2018). Off stage, Mr. Hobe works as a paleontologist and senior coordinator of education at the Adler Planetarium. www.stephenhobe.com

Gad Beck
Shane Roberie

Shane Roberie

Gad Beck

Previous credits include: SUNSET BOULEVARD (Porchlight Music Theatre), HEAD OVER HEELS (Kokandy Productions), POSEIDON! (Hell in a Handbag), EVIL DEAD,

NIGHTMARE & NIGHTCAPS (Black Button Eyes) JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (Citadel Theatre), DISASTER! (Chicago Theatre Workshop), INTO THE WOODS (Metropolis PAC)

Artistic Team

Co-Stage Director
Sophia Sinsheimer

Sophia Sinsheimer

Co-Stage Director

Sophia Sinsheimer (she/her) is the casting director for Underscore Theatre, Chicago’s home for new musicals. Recent directing credits: Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins (Assistant Director, Strawdog Theatre), Adventurers! (Chicago Musical Theatre Festival), Peter and the Starcatcher (Assistant Director, Big Noise Theatre), Tiny Storefront Concert Series (Underscore Theatre). Sophia received her B.A. from Northwestern University. When she is not directing, Sophia can be found running her small marketing business and creating content on TikTok. www.sophiasinsheimer.com

Co-Stage Director
Derek Van Barham

Derek Van Barham

Co-Stage Director

Derek Van Barham (he/him/his) is the Producing Artistic Director of Kokandy Productions, and a member of the Red Tape Theatre ensemble. He previously served as Associate Artistic Director of Pride Films & Plays and Artistic Director of The Ruckus. Recent directing credits: When Adonis Calls (Thompson Street Opera), Head Over Heels (Kokandy), The View Upstairs (Circle), Poseidon (Hell in a Handbag) and Taylor Mac’s A Walk Across America for Mother Earth (CCPA/Roosevelt). Recent choreo credits: Ghost Quartet, Evil Dead the Musical (Jeff nomination), Shockheaded Peter (Black Button Eyes). He was named one of Windy City Times 30 Under 30, recognizing individuals from Chicago’s LGBTQ community. MFA: Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) at Roosevelt University. BFA: University of Mississippi. www.derekvanbarham.com

Music Director
Catherine O'Shaughnessy

Catherine O'Shaughnessy

Music Director

Catherine O’Shaughnessy is a rising orchestral and opera conductor in the United States and abroad. Her performances have earned rave reviews from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Classical Review (“great skill, alertness and sensitivity”), and Vocal Arts Chicago (“resourcefulness…scrappiness and…fierce concentration”). Avidly committed to Chicago’s dynamic musical scene, she is currently the music director of Chicago Fringe Opera, and Principal Conductor of the 5th Wave Collective. In 2020, she proudly helped produce Fringe’s contribution to the Decameron Opera Coalition’s Tales From a Safe Distance—winner of the “Best Collaboration” award from 360° of Opera—which makes innovative use of technology to reimagine this art for challenging new circumstances.

A semi-finalist in the 2016 Spazio Musica International Conducting Competition, Catherine made her New York debut conducting Antonio Salieri’s La Cifra with the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. She has also music directed Pyramus and Thisbe in Freiberg (Mittelsächsisches Theater) and conducted Don Giovanni and La Traviata in Orvieto (Teatro Mancinelli). In 2013 she conducted the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra at a sold-out performance in Tchaikovsky Hall, and in 2017 she guest-conducted the Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra (Manchester, UK). Catherine holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral and opera conducting from Arizona State University, where she was a student of William Reber and Timothy Russell.

Production Designer
Brad Caleb Lee

Brad Caleb Lee

Production Designer

Brad Caleb Lee is a UK based visual dramaturge. With CFO he designed Lucrezia, The Long Christmas Dinner, Woyzeck, Corsair and co-conceived A City of Works. Other collaborators include East Riding Theatre, Opera’r Ddraig, Summer Theatre of New Cannon, Richard Burton Theatre Company, Elan Frontoio, Welsh National Opera, Opera Sonic, Music Theatre Wales, Prague Shakespeare Company, Theatre Tuscaloosa, Hell in a Handbag, and Filament Theatre.

Brad curated and designed YOUR VOICE!, an immersive community-driven exhibition reopening the Wales Millennium Centre, was the Curatorial Producer of Prague Quadrennial 2019, was featured in World Stage Design 2017, and co-designed the award-winning British pavilion, MAKE/BELIEVE for PQ2015 / Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Brad is the founding editor of Ascending and has previously edited other publications on theatre design. He holds an MA from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and both a BA and a BS of Commerce from The University of Alabama.

Lighting Designer
David Goodman-Edberg

David Goodman-Edberg

Lighting Designer

David Goodman-Edberg (he/him) (Lighting Designer) is delighted to be working with Chicago Fringe Opera for the first time. Mostly working in the worlds of dance, theatrical, and architectural lighting design, some recent designs include Home (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre); Hyper (Eisenhower Dance Detroit); My Name is Inanna (Red Tape Theater); Imagery Portrayed (Water Street Dance Milwaukee); The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace (Third Eye Ensemble); Legacy: Phoenix^5 (Joel Hall Dancers); The Pillowman (The Gift Theater); The Silence in Harrow House (Rough House); American Catracho (Cerqua Rivera Dance Theater); and TAKE (Visceral Dance), as well as work as an assistant/associate designer at various Universal Studios theme parks (in Beijing, Osaka, Hollywood, and Orlando) and Disney Shanghai. dglxdesign.com. | Black lives matter. | Freedom for all colonized lands from Hawai’i to Palestine.

 

Dramaturg
Patricia McMillen

Patricia McMillen

Dramaturg

Patricia McMillen is a retired lawyer, poet, folk musician and community activist. Prior to joining the production team of Two Remain in late 2019, her proudest accomplishments in life were negotiating the sale of 1000 acres of family-owned farmland in Ogle County, IL to The Nature Conservancy, doubling the size of Nachusa Grasslands and permitting it to become the new home of Illinois’ only bison herd; working with the Abolition in Illinois movement to advocate for Illinois’ 2011 legislative abolition of capital punishment in our state; publishing Knife Lake Anthology (Columbus, OH: Pudding House Publications 2006), a poetry chapbook based on true stories of people affected by capital punishment; and becoming an adult Bat Mitzvah in 2015, at Oak Park Temple. She thanks the entire production team and cast for making Two Remain her meaningful and joyful debut as an opera dramaturg.

Production Manager
George Cederquist

George Cederquist

Production Manager

George is the Producing Artistic Director of Chicago Fringe Opera, called “the city’s alt-opera company” by the Chicago Tribune. Recent directing credits for the company include LA JETEÉ and CORSAIR, as well as the company’s long-running hit show THE ROSINA PROJECT, a Hip-Hop adaptation of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE.
In addition, George has directed new productions and workshops of operas, musicals, and plays with Opera Festival of Chicago, Chicago Dramatists, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Pittsburgh Opera, the Bay View Music Festival and Chicago Folks Operetta.
An inspiring mentor, George is the Producing Artistic Director of Opera and Theatre at North Park University.

Now in its ninth season, George hosts OPERA BOX SCORE [America’s Talk Radio Show About Opera] on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago.

To learn more about George, visit gjcederquist.com. He proudly uses zero social media platforms.

Technical Director
Ted Nazarowski

Ted Nazarowski

Technical Director

Ted Nazarowski has worked in many facets of theater throughout his career. In addition to his day job as a music and theater teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, Mr. Nazarowski has worked as a director, musician, and designer throughout the Chicago area. Recent lighting design credits include A Fool’s Journey (Misfit Circus), Lucrezia and Songs from the Uproar (Chicago Fringe Opera), The Violet Hour (South Shore Opera) and The Consul (Main Street Opera). He is thrilled to be working with such an amazingly talented cast and crew!

Stage Manager
Shelby Krarup
Stage Manager Intern
Virginia Smith
Supertitles Coordinator
Chungers Kim

Chungers Kim

Supertitles Coordinator

Chungers Kim has established himself as a vibrant presence in the Chicago classical music scene since he moved to the city in early 2012. As a Music Director and vocal coach, he is very active in playing for numerous rehearsals, shows, recitals, conducting and directing various choirs in the communities, and teaching vocal music and theory to potential music lovers throughout the city. He directed and conducted many beloved Broadway shows such as Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, The little shop of Horrors, Shrek the Musical, The Sound of Music.

Mr. Kim is also an active concert soloist and opera singer. He has appeared as Masetto in The Floating Opera Company’s performance of Don Giovanni at The Bohemian National Cemetery. Other roles include Don Pasquale from Don Pasquale, Leporello (cover) from Don Giovanni, the Watchman from Maskarade and Schaunard (cover) from La Bohème. On the classical concert setting, Mr. Kim sang M. Haydn’s Te Deum with VOX3 Collectives and Lakeview Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with St. Croix Valley Orchestra, as well as J.S.Bach’s Cantata BWV131 and F.J.Hadyn’s Te Deum with UW – River Falls Concert Choir.

As a young musician, he had the privilege of being involved with the Minnesota Chorale, with whom he had the opportunity to work with highly acclaimed conductors such as Osmo Vänskä, Nicholas Kraemer, Andrew Litton, and Dr. Kathy Saltzman Romey. Currently, Mr. Kim studies with W. Stephen Smith and works at Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church as Music Director.

Acclaim

Heggie’s song-studded score (with whiffs of Weill and klezmer) was deftly handled by a six-piece chamber ensemble conducted by Fringe music director Catherine O’Shaughnessy.

Chicago Reader

“Two Remain” was uniformly excellent, well sung, well directed and well played by the orchestra. It was a complete surprise to me that it was so uplifting. Bravo to all.

Audience Review

It is impossible to select a favorite part of the show. The entire show from the first moment to the last, was completely enthralling and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

Audience Review

Terrific production of an important contemporary work.

Audience Review

It was a story beautifully written and performed. I would gladly return for another Chicago Fringe production.

Audience Review

Media

Photography by Vin Reed
Supported by The MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, & the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Chicago Fringe Opera is an Opera America Partner.

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