Tosca
Skylight Music theatre, 2015
Music Director: Viswa Subbaraman
Stage Director: Jill Anna Ponasik
Scenic Design: Lisa Schlenker
Lighting Design: Jason Fassl
Costume Design: Kristy Leigh Hall
“The leap, Tosca's heartbroken plunge to her death, brought the opera to a close with striking, searing drama. Despite the fact that it's one of the most famous scenes in all of opera, thisproduction's simple, yet powerful, staging elicited gasps from the audience.”
Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“The challenge for a “Skylight” Tosca is rendering “grand” opera on a chamber opera scale. And Subbaramann and Ponasik achieve this with imaginative smarts.”
Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine
“Ponasik uses the relatively small Cabot stage inventively—particularly in the way she and lighting designer Jason Fassl dramatically “expand” the space of the stage with evocative shadows and silhouettes.”