IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO

Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Chosky Theatre, January 2018

SUMMARY AND CREDITS

Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa

Direction: Stephanie Havey
Scenic Design: Hannah Levesque
Costume Design: Olivia Hern
Lighting Design: Andrew DG Hunt

Il Matrimonio Segreto is a high energy, high emotion Classical comedic opera by Domenico Cimarosa. The Opera is saturated with musical jokes, so the design team choose to saturate the opera with color. Our inspiration came from high classical architecture, and high energy music videos. We remixed it all to create a white picket paradise from the mind of a overnight success who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. The lighting was inspired by over-the-top production and color palettes from Taylor Swift, Bieber, BTS, BlackPink, Demi Lovato, Yo Gotti, and Jason Derulo music videos. I employed Tom Skelton’s color mixing ideas to carefully achieve lighting that looked like it was simultaneously from a Wes Anderson movie, and from a K-Pop video.