Keeril Makan/Jay Schieb - Persona (Opera) at National Sawdust

PERSONA

Music by Keeril Makan
Libretto adapted by Jay Scheib from the Ingmar Bergman screenplay
Direction by Jay Scheib
Music Direction by Evan Ziporyn
Music performed by Either/Or Ensemble
Co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects

Beth Morrison Projects (National Sawdust group-in-residence) is the producer of this new work, which it co-commissioned with the venue. Composed by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, with music direction by Evan Ziporyn and a libretto and direction by Jay Scheib, one of American Theater’s “Top 25 Directors Likely to Shape American Performance Over the Next 25 Years,” Persona is a provocative, highly cerebral, and artistically complex depiction of human frailty, cruelty, and identity.

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