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Cast & Creative Team FEDORA: Michelle Johnson, soprano LORIS: Jeremy Brauner, tenor DE SIRIEX: Marcello Guzzo, baritone OLGA: Maria Brea, soprano DESIRÈ: Samuel White, tenor DIMITRI: Eugenia Forteza, mezzo-soprano GRECH: Rubin Casas, bass LOREK: Michael Gracco. baritone CIRILLO: Brian Montgomery, baritone ROUVEL: Jordan Weatherston Pitts, tenor BOROV: Rick Agster, bass A PEASANT BOY: Kinneret Ely, soprano SERGIO: Pavel Suliandziga, tenor NICOLA: William Desbiens, baritone FISARMONICA: Ezio Pelliteri DIRECTOR: Malena Dayen LIGHTING DESIGNER: Jon DeGaetano ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER: Matthew Deinhart PROJECTIONS: Sangmin Chae EDITING: Enrico Ventrice ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR: Nicole Russell CONDUCTOR: Israel Gursky FILMING LOCATION: Tagret Margin Theater, Brooklyn NY ​SYNOPSIS: Act One Setting: A winter night, 1881. The salon of Vladimiro Andrejevich in St. Petersburg.Princess Fedora is waiting for her fiancé Vladimiro, whom she is to marry that day when a police officer and De Siriex suddenly appear carrying him in gravely in. The police officer, Inspector Gretch, questions the servants while Fedora learns that Vladimiro was found wounded in a pavillion. The pavillion had been rented by an old woman who delivered a letter to Vladimiro earlier in the day. But that letter is nowhere to be found. Fedora swears to avenge Vladimiro’s death. Suspicions turn to Loris Ipanov, a friend of the nihilists (anarchists) and whose apartment is near the place of the shooting. Act Two Setting: Paris Fedora follows Loris Ipanov to Paris to avenge Vladimiro. She holds a reception in her home, which Loris attends. Loris declares his love to Fedora;but, she appears to reject him and reveals her intentions to return to Russia.Having been exiled, Loris cannot return with her. Desperate, Loris admits thathe killed Vladimiro. Enraged Fedora convince him to return after the receptionto tell her the entire story. In the meantime, she writes a letter toVladimiro’s father, the Russian Imperial Chief of Police, accusing Loris of themurder. Loris returns later and explains that he had caught Vladimiro having anaffair with his wife. He claims shooing him in self-defense since it wasVladimiro who fired the first shot. Fedora realizes that he was defending hishonor and that Vladimiro was a cad. She convinces Loris to remain with her thatnight. Act Three Setting: A villa in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. Loris and Fedora are happily in love. De Siriex arrives and informs Fedora that the brother of Loris had been arrested as a result of her letter. He dies in prison and, after hearing of his death, his mother died of heartbreak. Stunned, Fedora realizes that she is the cause of their deaths. Loris receives letters from Russia with news of his brother and mother. The letter stats that a woman in Paris had apparently reported him. Fedora, in tears, confesses her guilt and begs his forgiveness. He curses her while Fedora ingests poison hidden in her Byzantine cross. She dies in his arms.