Bea Goodwin, Stage Director Catherine O’Shaughnessy, Conductor  

Matthew Iacozza, Scenic Designer Dante Olivia Smith, Lighting Designer  Claire Townsend, Costume Designer 

In Salieri’s lost opera, I was able to showcase my acting training in comedia dell’arte. La Cifra is a melodramic opera buffa about a lost Scottish nobleman who stumbles into a country bumpkin town looking for his lost love Olympia. The key to his mystery is in a locked chest that Rusticone,  the mayor, has hidden away. At the opera’s end the code to the chest’s secret is broken, and  Rusticone’s daughter Eurilla is revealed to be the long-lost Olympia. Eurilla and Milord Fideling have already formed an attachment, so the revelation pleases them to no end. Rusticore’s other daughter, Lisotta, who had longed to become Milady, settles instead for her long-suffering suitor  Sandrino. Plus there’s an *amazing* twenty-minute storm sequence ending act 1. 

This production is the North American Premier of this 230-year-old opera, and the lone existing video recording. It was an honor.