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In this production of Suor Angelica, which I did at Indiana University with director Henry MacCarthy, we sought to create a harsh, dry, decaying world within the convent, a world which reflects Suor Angelica's despair of ever seeing her child again. The world of cloistered nuns is a world unseen by the greater public, and its inhabitants have forsworn contact with the outside world. The nuns were made up to look palid, deathlike, dehumanized by their isolation. For the end of this one-hour opera, we chose a more subtle effect than the usual miraculous appearance of Angelica's child. Angelica collapses, convinced she is damned for having taken her own life; then an image of Caravaggio's Annunciation appears over her, bestowing a sense of peace. | ||||||||
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