No One Is Forgotten:
An Immersive Opera Drama
Story and libretto by Winter Miller, based on her play
Co-composed by Paola Prestini and Sxip Shirey
A Princeton Humanities Council Magic Project funded through a David A. Garner ’69 Magic Grant and presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Recipient of an Artist Residency at Coffey Street Studios.
Original Opera Drama Co-commissioned by The Dallas Opera, Emitha/Lexicon Classics & Eve Gigliotti.
Run Time
Approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission.
Program Notes
A note from Winter:
Dear audience member, thank you for coming to share our work in progress and for being a witness. Here are a few thoughts to orient you to the world of Lali and Beng.
The physical world: Lali and Beng, are in a small, bare room without windows or light. The floor beneath them is worn down patches of carpet and linoleum. The walls are thick and dirty; the only exit is a banged-up steel door locked from the outside. At the base of the door is an eight inch-high transom that slides open to allow a bowl of food to be shoved in or removed. The cell is entirely empty except for a large plastic bucket for waste. The women are barefoot and unclean, dressed in worn, flimsy cotton shifts. They have long since adjusted to seeing without much light. There is nothing here at all.
Content Advisory
The performance deals with adult subject matter and may not be appropriate for all ages. It is most suitable for audiences over the age of 13.
Special Notes
Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches, and refrain from text messaging for the duration of the performance.
Accessibility
Wallace Theater is an accessible venue with wheelchair and companion seating available. An assistive listening system is available and headphones can be requested from ushers. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations, including Berlind Theatre. Attendees in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
Creative Team
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Playwright & Librettist: Winter Miller
Co-composer & Orchestrations: Paola Prestini
Co-composer & Underscoring: Sxip Shirey
Director: Elena Araoz
Music Director & Conductor: Mila Henry
Foley Designer & Sound Effects: Sxip Shirey
Dramaturgs: Elena Araoz & Eve Gigliotti
Sound Designer: Lucas Corrubia
Lighting Designer: Jenna Mullin ’27*
Creative Producer & Co-Executive Producer: Eve Gigliotti
Executive Producer: Cath Brittan
Stage Manager: Rose Tablizo
Assistant Sound Designer: E.M. Gimenez
Assistant Sound Designer: Jon McCarthy
Performing Artists
Beng (spoken): Ellen McLaughlin
Beng (sung): Eve Gigliotti
Lali (spoken): Amelia Workman
Lali (sung): Brandie Inez Sutton
Cello: Jeffrey Zeigler
Foley Arts: Nathan Repasz
Cello (cover): Mark Serkin
Rehearsal Pianist: Nathaniel LaNasa
*denotes a student minoring in the Program in Theater & Music Theater
Support
Major funding for No One is Forgotten (NOIF) provided By The Henagan Foundation & an Anonymous Donation.
Generous support also provided by Berry Flynn, Chas and Susan Kutchinsky, Judy and Allen Freedman, Herran Bekele and Sam Laybourne, Thomas Marshall, Lauren Katzowitz Shenfield, Jill Steinberg, Daphne Hildebolt, Nancy and Marcus Henriksson, Anna Morrison, Albert Norman.
Circle of Support: David McCraw, Karen Hallowell, Conrad Cummings, Matthew Principe, Bradd Forstein, Hugh Himwich
Friends of NOIF: Anne-Carolyn Bird, Courtenay Casey, Liz Cass, Sarah B Crofts, Mikael Eliasen, Clare Flynn Levy, Elliott Forrest, Maggie Gawrysiak, Rochelle Gaudet, Kelly Gigliotti, Jamie Ginsberg, Neal Goren, Amanda Green, Bridget Harvey, Mila Henry, Josh Himwich, Emily Johnson, Samuel Lowry, Carolyn Lyday, Frances McLaughlin, Corky Miller, Megan Murphy, Lee Myslewski, Timothy O’Hearn, Carolyn & Chuck Johnson, Emily Johnson, Meredith Kahrl, Samuel Lowry, Frances McLaughlin, Glenn Morton, Rebecca Mosher, Naka Nathaniel, Anna Reinersman, Corissa Seraydarian, Elaine Sodano, Elizabeth Stone, Richard Ryan Strother, Kristen Van Ginhoven, Danielle Veith, Scott Williamson.
Original Partners in Development
HERE Arts, Amanda + James, Princeton University/Innovations in Socially Distant Performance
Special Thanks and Recognition
National Sawdust
Princeton University/Innovations in Socially Distant Performance
Original Immersive Audio Concept Consultant: Raj Patel, Arup
Original Poster Photograph: Paula Court
Additional Lyrics (The Hunger Aria): Sxip Shirey
Audio Difference Incorporated
Involve Audio Ltd
Matt Denne
Conversation Event: February 8
A conversation on “What Art Can Do That Journalism Cannot” will follow the performance at 2:30 p.m. on February 8 with Eliza Griswold, Director of Princeton’s Program in Journalism and Aleksandar Hemon, Professor of Creative Writing.
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information about ways you can engage with and support the Indigenous community on campus please visit the website of Native American and Indigenous studies (NAI) at Princeton University, Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Director of Program in Theater and Music Theater: Jane Cox
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