Tommaso's aria, Featuring Trinity Wall Street, NOVUS, with Richard Troxell

Richard Troxell as Tommaso in the Trinity NOVUS production of Artemisia. Music by Laura Schwendinger, libretto by Ginger Strand

Artemisia tells the story of the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the greatest painters of her generation and an important follower of Caravaggio. In this aria Tommaso worries about the health of Artemisia. With Christopher Alden - stage director and Lidiya Yankovskaya - conductor. Premiere with Trinity NOVUS at St. Paul's Chapel, Time's Arrow Festival.

An opera Paul Chihara calls “a masterpiece!"

March 7/9, 2019. St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity NOVUS NY [orchestral world premiere), and Jun 1/2 Z Space, San Francisco [chamber premiere]


In NY Times review “Artemisia” lasts just 80 minutes, but fits in big themes set to music of quivering intensity. The story of the rape is there, blended with Gentileschi’s unbearably compassionate painting of the biblical character Susanna, who was ogled and shamed in her bath. But larger questions of idea and form, image and projection, sight and gaze also find nuanced and intelligent treatment. CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM

Entire Cast
Heather Buck – Susanna
Augusta Caso – Artemisia Gentileschi
Oliver Mercer – Agostino Tassi/Elder 1
Christopher Burchett – Cosimo di Medici/Elder 2
Richard Troxell – Tomasso/Oculist

Creative Team
Laura Schwendinger – composer
Ginger Strand - librettist
Christopher Alden - stage director
Lidiya Yankovskaya - conductor
James Smith - assistant director