Anahita Loghmanifar - Special Effect & Makeup Artist

Opera Atelier Performer: Meghan Lindsay
Director: Marshall Pynkoski
Choreographer: Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg
Set Designer: Gerard Gauci
Lighting Designer: Kim Purtell
Video Designer: Erik Thor Makeup by me Hair: Sarah Atchison

That’s a wrap on our beautiful spring opera season. So grateful to have been part of this production as Head of Makeup. Photo 1 credit: soprano Meghan Lindsay as Mélisande and tenor Antonin Rondepierre as Pelléas. Photo by Bruce Zinger. Photo 2 credit: Soprano Meghan Lindsay as Mélisande and bass-baritone Douglas Williams as Golaud in Opera Atelier’s production of Pelléas et Mélisande. Photo by Bruce Zinger. Photo 3 credit: Soprano Cynthia Smither as Yniold with Bass-baritone Douglas Williams as Golaud in Opera Atelier’s production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
Photo 4 credit: Bass-baritone Philippe Sly as Arkel in Opera Atelier’s production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Final Day at Pinocchio Ballet

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