The Trial at Rouen
Norman Dello Joio
The Trial at Rouen
By Norman Dello Joio
Sung in English
Produced in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
2021 GRAMMY® Nominee for Best Opera Recording.
In 1950 Boston based Pulitzer Prize winning composer Norman Dello Joio premiered his first opera The Triumph of Saint Joan. Unhappy with the results he withdrew the work. Still fascinated with the subject he was commissioned by the NBC Television Opera Theatre to produce an original 75-minute opera for television. The resulting work in two acts, The Trial at Rouen, premiered on April 8, 1956, on NBC. In collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera’s performance marks the first time The Trial at Rouen will be performed off screen and on stage in front of a live audience. The most condensed of all the operas of our season, it focuses on the period of the imprisonment and trial of Joan. The concert will open with Dello Joio’s most popular work The Triumph of Saint Joan Symphony a purely orchestral work based on the material from his first Joan of Arc opera.
“A night at the opera doesn’t get better than this.”
– Opera News
Cast and Creative
Heather Buck
Joan
Stephen Powell
Pierre Cauchon
Luke Scott
Father Julien
Ryan Stoll
The Jailer
Jeremy Ayres Fisher
Soldier
Gil Rose
Conductor
Production Staff
Brooke Stanton … Costume Designer
Lisa Charlotte Berg … Props Designer
Amanda Michelle Fisher … Production Stage Manager
Jeremy Ayers Fisher … Stage Manager
Jill Costello … Wardrobe
Jennifer DeMarco Gregory … Hair/Make-Up
Chorus
Alecia Batson
Celeste Godin *
Natalie Logan
Erin Merceruio Nelson
Kay Patterson
Samantha Schmid
Alexandra Dietrich *
Julia Kornick
Rebecca Krouner
Elena Snow
Mauri Tetreault
Hilary Anne Walker
Wes Hunter *
Jonathan Oakes
Ted Palés
Fran Rogers
Felix Aguilar Tomlinson
Mitch FitzDaniel
Marcus Schenck
Matthew Stansfield
Ryan Stoll
Aaron Styles
Wesley Thomas
* Heavenly Voices
the Inquisitors
Ethan Bremner †
RaShaun Campbell
Joel Edwards
Andrew Miller †
Alexis Piñero
† Lead Inquisitors
Media
Video by Kathy Wittman / Ball Square Films