2022 | 2023 Season
Opera Parallèle presents

Miles from where anyone can hear you scream
A Co-Production by Opera Parallèle, hawai’i opera theatre and Portland opera
Overview
Deep in the shadows of the Colorado Rockies lurks the Overlook Hotel. For its new caretakers, the Torrance family, the only thing more unnerving than their profound isolation is the realization that they are not the hotel’s only guests. Their young son Danny, with his spine-tingling sixth sense, endures the house of horrors while his father faces demons – past and present, real and remembered – that ultimately turn him into a monster. What starts as a desperate search for financial and marital sanctuary, spirals into a terrifying battle for sanity and survival. Adapted from Stephen King’s iconic novel, the Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning team of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell bring The Shining to even more frightening depths than ever before.
DATES
- June 2, 2023 @ 7:30pm
- June 3, 2023 @ 7:30pm
- June 4, 2023 @ 2pm
Venue
Running Time: 2 hours 20 mins with intermission – performed in English with supertitles.
Scenic Design Renderings by Jacquelyn Scott
SYNOPSIS
The Overlook Hotel claimed the most beautiful physical setting of any resort in the world; but Jack Torrance, with his wife, Wendy and their son Danny, discover much more than its natural splendor, Jack takes a new job as a winter caretaker, cut off from civilization for months with hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing a play. Danny, who possesses precognitive powers or ‘The Shining’, connects with the hotel cook Dick Halloran who shares these same powers. As the hotel begins to reveal its long and violent history to Danny through disturbing visions, Wendy insists that they leave the hotel immediately. However, Jack is becoming obsessed; the Overlook, frustrated that it cannot possess Danny, begins to possess Jack. Increasingly unstable, Jack destroys the CB radio in the hotel — the only means of contact to the outside world – after the voice on the other end tells him to kill his family. Wendy, frightened, chastises Jack for trapping them in the hotel, as Danny appears with his clothes wet, bruises around his neck, and lipstick marks on his face. The Overlook is crumbling around them and revealing all of its apparitions. Soon enough, Jack succombs to the Overlook’s control, intent on murdering his family. Cornered by a deranged Jack, Wendy and Danny fight him off for the time being, hoping that someone – or something – will help them escape.
HEALTH & SAFETY PROTOCOLS
- OP works closely with our venue partners to maintain up to date Health & Safety policies. We regularly monitor local & state guidelines to ensure we are following the most current advice.
- Health & Safety protocols for this production will be updated when tickets go on sale.
- For up to date information please check YBCA’s health & safety plan.
Cast
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Robert Wesley Mason
'Jack Torrance'
– Baritone

Nathan Granner
'Bill Watson / Lloyd the Bartender'
– Tenor

Kearstin Piper Brown
'Wendy Torrance'
– Soprano

Eugene Brancoveanu
'Mark Torrance'
– Baritone

Tenzin Forder
'Danny Torrance'
– Spoken

Timothy Murray
'Horace Derwent'
– Baritone

Michael Thompson
'Danny Torrance'
– Spoken

Molly Mary Mahoney
'Mrs Massey / Vocal Ensemble'
– Mezzo-Soprano

Kevin Deas
'Dick Halloran'
– Bass-Baritone

Christabel Nunoo
'Mrs Grady / Vocal Ensemble'
– Soprano

David Walton
'Delbert Grady / Stuart Ullman'
– Tenor
Gitanjali Menon & Meher Arvind, Perri So & Kiyomi Treanor*
'Grady Girls'
– Soprano
*Members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus

J. Raymond Myers
'Crooner / Vocal Ensemble'
– Tenor

Ryan Bradford
'Mafia Guy 2 / Vocal Ensemble'
– Baritone

Aisha Campbell
'Vocal Ensemble'
– Soprano

Tina Lu
'Vocal Ensemble'
– Soprano

Rachel Rush
'Vocal Ensemble'
– Mezzo-Soprano

Kurt Winterhalter
'Vocal Ensemble'
– Baritone
COMPOSER & Librettist

Paul Moravec
Composer

Mark Campbell
Librettist
Creative & Production Teams

Nicole Paiement
Conductor

Jaymes Kirksey
Assistant Conductor

Brian Staufenbiel
Director & Concept

David Toro
Assistant Director

Jacquelyn Scott
Scenic Designer

Jim French
Lighting Designer

Alina Bokovikova
Costume Designer

David Murakami
Projection Designer

Y. Sharon Peng
Hair & Make Up Designer
Supporters
Major production support has been provided by Gordon Getty, Bob Ellis, Stephen & Diane Heiman, Paul L. King, Donna Dubinsky & Len Shustek, Scott R. Lord, and The Future Fund.
Major institutional and corporate support for Opera Parallèle has been provided by Adobe, The Lemala Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, City & County of San Francisco Grants for the Arts, and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
The Bullhorn programming is supported in part through a Civic Practice Grant from OPERA America’s Opera Fund and by The Henry W. and Nettie Robinson Foundation.