EVEREST
Chicago Opera Theatre, Harris Theater, Chicago, Illinois, November 2019
Music by Joby Talbot, libretto by Gene Scheer
CREATIVE TEAM
Director Dylan Evans
Conductor Lydia Yankovskaya
Choreographer Alexander Kremnev
Set design Olga Maslova, Greg Mitchell
Costume design Olga Maslova
Projection Design Greg Mitchell
Lighting design David Bradke
Everest recounts, with more simultaneity than chronology, two harrowing deaths and one miraculous survival on top of the world’s tallest mountain in 1996, as memorably described in Jon Krakauer’s best-seller Into Thin Air
The backdrop consisted of 304 shirts: from the first recorded expeditions in 1922 through the end of the 2019 climbing season, 304 people died on Mount Everest.
