DirectorThomas Guthrie
ConductorCharles Peebles
DesignerRaphaé Memon
Lighting SupplierWhite Light
British premiere of Charles Gounod's rarely performed opera Polyeucte, based on the Corneille play ‘Saint Polyeuctus’, it tells a tragic story of Christian martyrdom in defiance of the all-powerful powerful Roman Empire.
strikingly lit by Alex Forey — Yehuda Shapiro, Opera
Photos by Teo Della Torre