BMP: NEXT GEN 2022
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Threshold of Brightness by Nourbakhsh has a libretto by Lisa Flanagan, is directed by Shadi Ghaheri and follows a famous and controversial Iranian poet, Forough Farrokhzad, as she is seriously injured in a car crash and enters a dream-like state where she reckons with the ghosts of her past.
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Creative Team
LIBRETTO: LISA FLANAGAN
BMP: NEXT GEN 2022
MUSIC DIRECTOR: KAMNA GUPTA
STAGE DIRECTOR: SHADI GHAHERI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: ANNE RUHLAND
LIGHTING DESIGNER: KRISTA SMITH
STAGE MANAGER: LINDSEY TURTELTAUB
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: CONTEMPORANEOUS
Shannon Delijani, FOROUGH
Leela Subramaniam, TURAN
Jordan Rutter, KAMYAR
Justine Aronson, SOPRANO DOLL
Silvana Chu, ALTO DOLL
Kannan Vasudevan, TENOR DOLL
Adam Richardson, BASS DOLL
Fanny Wyrick-Flax, FLUTE/PICCOLO
Ford Fourqurean, CLARINET/BASS CLARINET
Lena Vidulich, VIOLIN
Julia Henderson, CELLO
Adam Holmes, PERCUSSION
Zachary Ritter, ELECTRONICS
Sarah Haines, VIOLA
Tristan Kasten-Krause, CONTRABASS
Huizi Zhang, PIANO/SYNTHESIZER