The Juniper Tree

The Sound of a Voice (Composer). Renowned for music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, symphonic works, and film. A.R.T.: commission and world premieres of The Juniper Tree (co-composed with Robert Moran), The Fall of the House of Usher, and Orphée; presentation of 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (with libretto by David Henry Hwang and designs by Jerome Sirlin). His 1976 opera Einstein on the Beach, a five-hour epic created by Glass and Robert Wilson, is now seen as a landmark in twentieth-century music-theater. Other operas: Galileo Galilei, (directed by Mary Zimmerman, commissioned by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago); The Voyage (with libretto by David Henry Hwang, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera); Akhhnaten; the CIVIL warS (Rome Section); The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 and Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (librettos by Doris Lessing and based on her novels); Hydrogen Jukebox (libretto by Allen Ginsberg and based on his poetry); In the Penal Colony (based on the short story by Franz Kafka); presented in venues such as Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Boston Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, the English National Opera, the Music Theater of Amsterdam, and the Stuttgart Opera. Orchestral works: Symphony No. 5 (commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, premiering in 1999 with subsequent performances worldwide); Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode, with text by Allen Ginsberg, commissioned by Carnegie Hall to commemorate Philip Glass's sixty-fifth birthday); Low Symphony and Heroes Symphony (both based on the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno). Films: The Hours (nominated for an Academy Award and winner of the British Academy of Film and Television Association Award), Martin Scorsese's Kundun (nominated for an Oscar), The Truman Show (Golden Globe award), Godfrey Reggio's trilogy Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi; Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time, and Paul Schrader's Mishima, among others.

Director Andrei Serban (Pericles) has been associated with the American Repertory Theater for more than two decades, and has directed Lysistrata, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, The King Stag, Sganarelle, Three Sisters, The Juniper Tree, The Miser, Twelfth Night, and Sweet Table at the Richelieu. In the United States, Mr. Serban has also worked with LaMama ETC, the Public Theater, Lincoln Center, Circle in the Square, Yale Repertory Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, A.C.T., and the New York City, Seattle and Los Angeles Operas. In Europe, Mr. Serban has worked at the Welsh National Opera, Covent Garden, Théâtre de la Ville, Helsinki Lilla Teatern, the Bucharest Municipal Theatre, and the Paris, Geneva, Vienna, and Bologna Opera Houses, among others.  He has worked in Japan with the Shiki Company of Tokyo. He has taught acting and directing at Yale, University of California, Carnegie-Mellon, Sarah Lawrence, the Paris Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique, and the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.  Mr. Serban has received grants from the Ford, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Foundations. Several of his productions have been nominated for Broadway and Off-Broadway awards. He is a tenured professor at Columbia University, where he heads the MFA acting program.

Michael Yeargan designed sets for King Stag, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Threepenny Opera, The Juniper Tree, The Seven Deadly Sins, and Sganarelle at the A.R.T. He is resident designer for the Yale Repertory Theatre and Professor of Stage Design at Yale School of Drama. Mr. Yeargan has designed extensively in American resident theatres and on Broadway, and for opera companies throughout the U.S. and Europe, with designs for the Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, and Covent Garden, Frankfurt Opera and Australian Opera. His U.S. credits include the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, and Houston Grand Opera.