Created by Mark Streshinsky and Adam Pearl With Music by Henry Purcell
Music Director: Adam Pearl
Director: Mark Streshinsky
Sam Higgins as Bacchus, Derek Chester as Pentheus and Mariya Kaganskaya as Agave.
Another in our series of early operas exploring dance, sensuality, and queerness, Mark and Adam follow 2021’s Eliogabalo and 2025’s David and Jonathan with Bacchanal, a new baroque opera exploring the balance of chaos and order, inspired by Euripides’ iconic play and set to the glorious music of Henry Purcell,
