With a libretto by Ellen McLaughlin, this world premiere opera-theatre piece is produced and commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects, and co-presented with Baruch Performing Arts Center in a Promotional Partnership with Japan Society.

Blood Moon is a poetic, opera-theatre piece for three characters who encounter the past on the night of a full moon: a nephew who returns to the mountain-top where he left his aunt to die forty years earlier, the ghost of the aunt he abandoned, and the moon that presides over this night of reckoning. A contemporary response to a 15th century Noh play, Blood Moon uses choreography, puppetry, and a Taiko-infused score to create a meditation on the end of life, the nature of joy, regret, and whether atonement is possible.

Blood Moon is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council

Photo Credit: Maria Baranova

• COMPOSED BY

  Garrett Fisher

• LIBRETTO BY

  Ellen McLaughlin

• DIRECTED AND DEVELOPED BY

  Rachel Dickstein

• MUSIC DIRECTION BY

  Steven Osgood

• SCENIC DESIGN BY

  Susan Zeeman Rogers

• LIGHTING DESIGN BY

  Yuki Nakase Link

• SOUND DESIGN BY

  Daniel Neumann

• COSTUME DESIGN BY

  Maiko Matsushima

• PUPPET DESIGN BY

  Erik Sanko

• MEDIA DESIGN BY

  Katherine Freer

• STAGE MANAGED BY

  Lissy Barnes-Flint

• ASSISTANT DIRECTED BY

  Kiyo Kamisawa

• ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGED BY

  Tim Love

• CHOREOGRAPHY BY

  Rachel Dickstein and Takemi Kitamura

• DRAMATURGY BY

  Ken Cerniglia

• PUPPETEER/DANCER

  Takemi Kitamura

• MOON

  Juecheng Chen

• NEPHEW

  Wei Wu

• AUNT

  Nina Yoshida Nelsen

• RUN TIME

  90 minutes