FULL Lear on the Second Floor (Anthony Davis) San Diego 2013 Susan Narucki, Ruff Yeager, Bonnie Lander, Sara Perez
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Lear on the Second Floor
- Composer: Davis Anthony
- Libretto: Allan Havis Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Conrad Prebys Music Center Theatre, University of California, San Diego
- Recorded: March 9, 2013
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Susan Narucki, Ruff Yeager, Bonnie Lander, Sara Perez, Phil Larson, Alice Teyssier, Tiffany SuMouchelle, Jorell Williams
- Conductor: Steven Schick
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Mark DeChiazza
- Stage Designer: Victoria Petrovich
- Costume Designer: Halei Parker
- Lighting Designer: Mary Ellen Stebbins
Information about the Recording
- Published by: UCSD-TV
- Date Published: 2013
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In Lear on the Second Floor, a contemporary inversion of Shakespeare’s King Lear, a prominent neuroscience researcher in her late 50s or early 60s (Dr. Nora Lear) is suddenly beset by dementia. As Nora loses her bearings and her autonomy, she is quickly at the mercy of her three quarreling, but loving daughters who range in lifestyle from high society to adult movie making. An attending nurse from the Caribbean gives Nora some respite. Nora’s dead husband Mortimer, throughout, is her constant escort as she walks through a vortex of memory, guilt and human sensibility. The least vulnerable and most professional daughter wins court appointed guardianship, but Nora escapes from this Court’s tight grip by flying with her husband through the notorious Second Floor.