Host Peter McCabe with choreographer & puppeteer Michael Bodel, and singer and music director Casey Cole, residents of the HERE Artistic Residency Program.

Bodel and Cole discuss their work Sonnambula, an adaptation of an opera of the same title by Bellini. They have used the original melodies but with new orchestrations, and have reduced the opera to one performer. They use dancers and varying sized puppets to play with the different perspectives of the principal character. They discuss the two-year-long and running process of the adaptation, and how it contributes to what will be a layered and subtle theater piece (29 minutes).