They will appear in historical costumes custom-made for this show, said Stallings.Īccording to Stallings, “The show is structured more like a traditional stage musical with English-spoken dialogue and interspersed songs from all kinds of opera integrated into the plot. “Exit Prima Donna” has a cast of 10 actors, including Elizabeth Pomazal, who performed at the Opera House in the past with the Ridgecrest Opera Guild. However the show was written specifically for the Opera House stage and doesn’t require special sets, which makes it easier to bring the entire works the 150 or so miles over the Panamint Range, through Death Valley and onto the Opera House stage. This is a story about “passion, loyalty, obsession and revenge,” said Stallings, and is one of his more lavish productions. “Was Leonora the intended victim? Or did someone want to make the prima donna exit the stage forever?” In the morning, “the players return to find Leonora as a sleeping beauty, murdered from pricking her finger on a needle tainted with belladonna,” wrote Stallings in the show’s synopsis. But the prima donna has disappeared and Leonora vows to wait for her through the long night.
It’s the end of the Teatro Venizio opera season and Donnatella Violetta is expected backstage by her dresser Leonora, to get ready for a masquerade ball. The setting is Venice, Italy, in the year 1899. Writer Daniel Stallings calls the show a “mystery set to music using some of the greatest arias in the world … in the most incredible venue ever.” “Exit Prima Donna,” billed as a murder mystery masquerade, debuts in a Saturday matinee performance on March 24 and runs each Saturday through April 14. Chase Stevens Las Vegas Review-Journal a flurry of flamboyant 19th-century skirts, classic dramatic arias, and an original script written for the backdrop of Marta Becket’s stage, Master Mystery Productions out of Ridgecrest, California, promises to put the opera back in the Amargosa Opera House this spring. Attendees arrive for the season-opening performance at the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, Calif.
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