~ Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: Earth Opera ~
SANCTUARY Edition
(+ ALBUM RELEASE!)
October 3rd + 4th 2025
Old Dutch Church
Kingston NY
This performance/experience/happening is being created especially for the entire sanctuary space of this church; Her choir balconies, altars, archways, and massive wall of pipe organ drone (2,221 pipes).
The Seeds Under Nuclear Winter
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EARTH OPERA CAST 2025
Elizabeth Clark (mamalama) / Andes Manta / Melora Creager (Rasputina)
Juma Sultan / Linda Mary Montano / Mataoka Little Eagle / Paul McMahon / IONE
Jaguar Mary X / Lisa B Kelley / Arianna Noble/ Katie Down / Maia Lorian
Dorcinda Knauth / Nobuo/ Matt Carvin / Alvaro Romao / Megan Gugliotta
Henry Lowengard / Sharon Zeiss / Annie Roland / Erin the Bard / Rusty Boris
Phillip x Levine / Douglas Keller / Agon Mizelle / Lyra Juniper Mizelle / nabless
AnneMarie Tedeschi / Anaia and Ayla Tedeschi / Lucien Downing
Gabrielle Annese / Noella Annese / lights by Adam Michael Taylor + BA Miale
Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera" is a recreation of spiritual visions, dreams, and stories through world and sacred music, performance art, movement, and light experiments, shared as an immersive and multi-sensory community experience.
The Earth Opera takes place in a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and centers around finding light, beauty, and hope in the darkest times – and on our deep connection with all living things, our planet, and with each other.
Orchestrated for harps, ethereal voices, South American/Andean instruments, Indonesian gamelan, strings, choir, drones, dulcimer, piano, gongs, brass, ancient celtic Carnyx dragon horn, bagpipes, pipe organ, and a cast of over 35 Hudson Valley performance artists, the 'Earth Opera’ steps into otherworldly realms and unfolds upon a non-linear and timeless path, similar to the way we dream.
The Earth Opera was composed and developed by Elizabeth Clark during a four year artist residency at Byrdcliffe Artists Colony in a tiny little cabin on the mountain.
Now in its 5th year of performance, the Earth Opera has since expanded and evolved throughout the years in the many hands of a vibrant + collaborative community of artists, musicians, performance artists, and choreographers –– continuing to offer a deeply transformative, uplifting, and otherworldly experience for the whole community.
Cast and Crew 2024
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Orchestra
Elizabeth Clark (Mamalama): composer/director,harp, voice, narrator
Henry Lowengard: Hammered Dulcimer, Glockenspiel, Harmonium, Melodica, Choir, Hare Krishna, Gamelan
Annie Roland: Seraphim, Timekeeper, Veiled Woman
with:
Matt Carvin: Piano
Rusty Boris: Upright electric bass
Melora Creager: Cello,Voice
Megan Gugliotta: violin
Jeremy Starpoli: Trombone
Alvaro Romao: Gamelan, Gongs
Andrew Forbes: Bagpipes,Choir
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Andes Manta
Luis Lopez: quena, guitar, charango, pipes, birds
Bolivar Lopez: pipes, djembe, percussion, birds
Fernando Lopez: guitar, pipes, mandolin, birds
Jorge Lopez: bass, guitar, percussion, birds
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Actors / dancers / choreography/choir
Lisa Barnard Kelley: Seraphim, Prophet, Voice, bird murmurations, selfie squad
Noa (Nancy) Graham: Newscaster, Prophet, Veiled woman, Spiral Painter
Agon Mizelle: AI Robot, Shadow Monk, Dance Army, Choir, Sadhu
Dorcinda Knauth: Voice, Magic Bird, Veiled Woman, Green Tara, Gamelan, Organ
Alvaro Romao: Gongs, Choir, Monk, Dance Army, Hanuman
Phillip X Levine: Narcissist Dictator, Shadow Monk, Choir, Judas
Jed Zaeb: Magic Bug, Televangelist, Trombone, Dance Army, Shadow Monk, Krishna
Sarah Power:Seraphim, Choir, Magic Bird, Selfie-Squad, Prophet, Veiled Woman, Hildegard of Bingen
Jaguar Mary X: Voice, Magic Bird,St. Margaret
AnnMarie Tedeschi: Selfie-Squad, Choir, Veiled Woman, Mother Mary, Gamelan
Vincenza Dante: Selfie-Squad, Hare Krishna, Veiled Woman, Choir
Jeremy Starpoli: Trombone, Whale, Choir, Monk
Nobuo: Selfie-Squad, Jesus, Prophet, Choir, Whaleophone
Jesse Reed: Bird, Selfie-Squad, Dance Army, Choir, Hare Krishna, prop artist
Erin the Bard: Seraphim, Magic Bird, Selfie-Squad, Veiled Woman, Hare Krishna
Arianna Noble: Serpents/Dance Army choreography, Seraphim, Magic Bird, Serpent, Selfie-Squad, Veiled Woman
Douglas Keller: Selfie-Squad, Shadow Monk, Dance Army, Carynx player, Hare Krishna
Megan Gugliotta: Violin,Selfie-Squad, Hare Krishna, Choir
Bella Turner: Serpent, Dance Army, Choir
Alvaro Romao: Gongs, euphone, voice, Deity
Peter Cody: Gamelan
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Backstage & Special Effects
Erika McCarthy: heartlight/bird maker, props rigger
George Manatos: Backstage
B. A. Miale: Projection art
Props:
Anne Arden McDonald, Luis Lopez, Elizabeth Clark, Jesse ReedCostume Design/Collection:
Anne Arden McDonald, Elizabeth Clark
Choreography:Standing on Serpents, Hallelujah (Dance Army): Arianna Noble.
Truth: Sharon Penz, Lisa B Kelley, Elizabeth Clark.
AI Choreography: Agon Mizelle
Apocalypto: Sharon Penz.
DeityWaltz: Elizabeth Clark, Luis Lopez.
Light/Speck: Elizabeth Clark
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Dance Army
Sharon Zeiss
Lydia Deerheart
Tricia Anderson
Adrienne Monzet
Karen Stein
Joanna Grabiarz
