The Seasons

Philadelphia Premiere
Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Based on The Four Seasons with additional arias and ensembles by Vivaldi
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl 
Co-Conceived by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Sarah Ruhl
In collaboration with Pam Tanowitz and Zack Winokur
Directed by Zack Winokur, Choreographed by Pam Tanowitz
Developed by SCENE and AMOC*
Performed in English, Italian, and Latin with English supertitles

Children's Chorus provided by:
Commonwealth Youth Choir
Dominique DeSilva, Program Director, Conductor
Jeffrey R. Smith and Nathan Wadley, Artistic Directors, Philadelphia Youth Choral Ensembles
Michelle Frank, Executive Director, Philadelphia Youth Choral Ensembles

You could say Vivaldi had a kind of synesthesia when writing The Four Seasons. What does being cold feel and sound like? MacArthur Award-winning playwright and librettist Sarah Ruhl joins Anthony Roth Costanzo to co-conceive a tapestry of Vivaldi’s music, telling an original story about a world in which the seasons are completely out of order. Tony Award-winning set designer Mimi Lien collaborates with M.I.T. materials technologist Jack Forman to fuse art and science, bringing atmospheric events to the stage. Celebrated choreographer Pam Tanowitz creates a maelstrom of dance, director Zack Winokur helms the production, and Corrado Rovaris conducts the rapturous piece, which stars Costanzo.


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