Victoria Petrovich
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  • 2024
    • Best Laid Plans
    • The Robots
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-LATW
  • 2023
    • The Fall of the House of Usher (opera)
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-NVA
    • No Exit (opera)
    • Changing Tides-Widening the Embrace
  • 2022
    • Paradise TBD
    • Moonlit Walk Home
    • Skin of Our Teeth
  • CANCELLED or POSTPONED/in-progress
    • SHIV
    • Hurricane - workshop
  • 2021
    • one in two
    • Stations of the Heart
  • 2020
    • IOT F20 event
    • ¡PRESENTE!
    • Changing Tides 2-Telematic Performance
  • 2019
    • OLIVÉrio
    • El Cimarrón
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-NVA
    • Hurricane
  • 2018
    • Sacco e Vanzetti
    • Telematics Concert
    • Frederick
    • Bliss! Or Emily Post is Dead
  • 2017
    • Black Pearl SIngs
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso
    • The Witches
    • Twisted Apples-Stories from Winesburg, Ohio
    • Blue Door
  • 2016
    • Measuring the Dream/IDEAS
    • Il Sogno di Una Notte di Mezza Estate
    • Golda's Balcony
    • La Cage aux Folles
    • The Fantasticks
    • Swarm Cell
  • late 2015
    • The Mapping Games, pt. 2/Soma Lux
    • The Myth Project: Threads, SMA, Mexico
    • Orange Julius
    • The Myth Project-Threads-Blurred Borders Dance Festival-Threads
    • Lilith Workshop/IDEAS
  • 2012-2015
    • Errori!
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-San Diego Repertory/Arizona Theatre Co./San Jose Stage Co./Denver Center
    • Detroit
    • Se Llama Cristina
    • Ordinary Days
    • Steal Heaven
    • Federal Jazz Project
    • Lear On the Second Floor*
    • Alladin's Luck*
    • A Hammer, A Bell, And A Song to Sing-PREMIERE
  • 2010-2012
    • A Wrinkle In Time
    • Joan of Arc
    • Before the Revolution
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso >
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-San Diego Repertory Theatre workshop
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-Premiere-The Alley Theatre
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-Los Angeles Theatre Center LATC
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-Center Repertory Theatre
    • A Man, His Wife, and His Hat
    • In the Next Room
    • The Who's TOMMY
    • John & Jen
    • Telematic Performances >
      • Inspiraling-Telematic Jazz Explorations 2011
      • Jazz TeleMotions-a networked intermedia concert CalIT2
      • Jazz TeleMotions-a networked trio concert
    • In the Wake
    • Long Story Short
  • Other Selected Work
    • Treasure Island
    • Ferdinand the Bull
    • Dreams of Anne Frank
    • The Good Body
    • The Clean House
    • The Last Five Years
    • Passion
    • Corridos Remix
    • Scapin
    • Snow Leopard
    • The Juniper Tree
    • Journey to Corboba
    • Hearts On Fire
    • Bandido!
    • Cinderella-Cendrillon
    • Passion
    • Dr. Bigscreen
    • The Women
    • La Dispute
    • Imelda the Musical
    • The Love of the Nightingale
    • Mad Forest
    • Paradise for the Worried
    • Without Colors
    • Taking Flight
    • The Theory of Everything
    • Falling Into the Sky
    • Sister Stories
    • Hearts on Fire
    • El Teatro Campesino >
      • La Pastorela
      • El Fin del Mundo
    • Killer Tomatoes Eat France
    • UCSD MFA designs
  • Selected Costume Sketches
    • Harold's Big Feat
    • Jacob's Room
    • Kaethchen von Heilbronn
    • Latinologues
    • Man of the Flesh
    • Marla's Lunchbox
    • Straight as a Line
  • Special Projects
    • World Peace Mural
    • Murals-Mona Lisa Cafe
    • Tzolk în~Las Desaparecidas
    • El Dia de los Muertos Celebrations
    • The Songs of Beulah Rowley
    • Masks and more
    • Miscellaneous projects
    • CEP
  • Contact
Photo: Jim Carmody
Scenic Design 
Anthony Davis-Composer
Allan Havis-Librettist
Mark DeChiazza-Director 

Hailie Parker-Costumes
MaryEllen Stebbins-Lighting
Black Box Theatre at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego
Composed by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Allan Havis, Lear on the 2nd Floor is a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s King Lear. It tells the story of Nora Lear, a prominent neuroscience researcher beset with early onset Alzheimer’s; as she loses her bearings and her autonomy, she is increasingly at the mercy of her three quarreling daughters. Nora’s dead husband Mortimer is Shakespeare’s fool in this version and is her constant companion as she walks through a world where the past and present blend and reality bends. Davis’ arrangement and instrumentation reflect diverse influences ranging from classical opera to jazz to reggae.

With musical direction by Steven Schick, and stage direction by Mark DeChiazza, the cast features soprano Susan Narucki as Nora Lear, bass-baritone Philip Larson as Mortimer, Jorell Williams as the Nurse and the Lawyer, Ruff Yeager as the Doctor,  UCSD graduate students Bonnie Lander, Alice Teyssier, Tiffany Du Mouchelle and Sara Perez and the musicians of palimpsest.  

Lear on the 2nd Floor is presented by kallisti, the contemporary vocal ensemble of the UC Department of Music. 

http://learonthe2ndfloor.squarespace.com/
https://www.castleskins.org/biba-blog/opera-review-lear-on-the-2nd-floor