The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken 1993

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Intrigues abound…

…in Weill’s first opera buffa during the photo shoot of the young Tsar. Delight in the Tsar’s capricious pursuit of the fashionable photographer Angèle (really a revolutionary in disguise), who escapes his advances with a seductive Tango.

(presented as a double bill with The Protagonist)

Music By

Kurt Weill

Libretto By

Georg Kaiser

Synopsis

This production is set in Paris of the 1920s. Paris in the chic and hectic twenties. The Tsar is visiting. Terrorists take over the studio of Angèle, a fashionable lady photographer, and lure in the Tsar to have his portrait taken. The Tsar is tired of the trappings of his position, its public exposure, the attempts on his life and the ever-present secret police. He wants to enjoy Paris in privacy, as a common man might – and perhaps enjoy a liaison with a chic Parisienne. So he agrees to have his photograph taken provided it be a portrait of the man and not the public functionary. It must be a private affair.

Is he aware that the luscious (false) Angèle means to assassinate him? The political act is played out as an intense personal confrontation, an intimate drama of perverse attraction, dark eroticism, unspoken fear, and nail-biting suspense.

The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken 1993

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Artists

David Malis

Angelina Réaux

Julia Anne Wolf

Bradley Martin Diamond

Kathryn Gamberoni

David Rampy

Julia Bentley

Darren Keith Woods

Wilbur Pauley

Matthew Chellis

Jamie Offenbach

Gregory Schmidt

Tim Smith

Nathan Wight

Michael Chioldi

Gerald Seminatore

William Gorton

Craig Montgomery

Marcus Silvanus Nance

George Manahan

Jonathan Eaton

Robert Perdziola

Craig Miller

Daniel Pelzig

Gary Wedow