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REVIEW: BRIGHT, FROTHY FUN IN BOC L'ELISIR D'AMORE

“the production absolutely sparkled, thanks to incredible stage direction from director Alyssa Weathersby. From the moment conductor Ken Yanasigawa came onstage to finish setting the chairs to reveal his baton sitting in one of them, and then the subsequent bit with the audience he had after the fact (well, more specifically, me, actually), I was absolutely laughing my behind off through the entirety of the performance.”…”[…]bubbly and hilarious stage work, from when the four-person chorus
threw popcorn at Belcore […] to Dulcamara breaking out into the
Gangnam Style dance in the wedding banquet”

REVIEW: Rigoletto at Opera in the Heights: When Verdi Became Verdi

“[Transformative]” with “all the requisite drama.”

“[Alyssa]’s someone who has really done it all even though she’s quite young. She’s had kind of parallel paths of being an opera singer, stage director and choreographer. She also works for companies doing intimacy directing and stage combat choreography. She does all of those things at the highest level.”

-Eiki Isomura, Artistic Director of Opera in the Heights