Cast
Cara Collins/Brennan Blankenship Brittomara
Esther Tonea/Anne Marie MacIntosh Diana
Michael Day/Nicholas Huff Fabian
Patricia Westley/Elisa Sunshine Selena
Tim Murray Paul
Brandon Russell David
Rafael Porto Putnam
Edith Grossman Rachel
Edward Laurenson Jonathan
Creatives
Keturah Stickann Director
Nicole Paiement Conductor
Liliana Duque Piñiero Set Designer
Alina Bokovikova Costume Designer
J. Isadora Krech Lighting Designer
Teddy Hulsker Sound Designer
Peter Torpey Projections Designer
Jonathan Rider Fight Choreography
"Director Keturah Stickann is building an exciting career with innovative work at West Edge Opera and San Francisco Opera. Using every inch of the challengingly small Herbst stage, she created a dynamic, almost cinematic production, greatly helped by scenic designer Liliana Duque Pineiro and Lucas Krech's atmospheric lighting.”
Philip Campbell, Bay Area Reporter
“Keturah Stickann’s fluid staging and Liliana Duque Piñeiro’s striking scenic design work well on Herbst’s historic and minuscule stage.”
Janos Gereben, Classical Voice North America
“In my review of West Edge Opera’s Pelléas et Mélisande last year, I noted how director Keturah Stickann could achieve so much with so little resources that she had. I guess she made a career out of it, as once again it was proven true with this production.”
Michael Anthonio, Parterre
“Keturah Stickann has directed the proceedings with a wealth of imagination and dexterity. Ms. Stickann has succeeded in not only clarifying the complicated premise but has also invested it with great entertainment value. Her success in creating compelling stage pictures is exceeded only by her triumphant management of complicated, multi-layered relationships. It is difficult to overpraise her achievement in bring If I Were You to triumphant realization.”
James Sohre, Opera Today
“Director Keturah Stickann assembles a great creative team whose visual elements accentuate the contours of the score.”
Victor Cordell, For All Events
“Despite the limitations of Herbst Theatre—a rehabbed meeting hall, hardly an opera house—the quintet of designers made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear with special effects and changes required through 13 scenes. In a confined space, with Fabian’s auto wreck dangling precipitously from a tree, Stage Director Keturah Stickann manipulated the nine solo singers and small chorus adroitly.”
Paul Hertelendy, Arts SF
“Appealingly, Diana, intrigued by Fabian, goes on her own equally compelling soul-searching and fact-facting journey in the visually striking production directed by Keturah Stickann.”
Leslie Katz, San Francisco Examiner
Behind the Scenes
Photography © Kristen Loken and Frank Wing
