WAHNFRIED: the birth of the Wagner cult

June 2025, Longborough Opera Festival

Composer Avner Dorman

Libretto Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz

Conductor Justin Brown

Director Polly Graham

Set Designer Max Johns

Costume Designer Anisha Fields

Associate Designer Alys Whitehead

Movement Director Adi Gortler

Assistant Director Rosie Kat

Lighting Designer Peter Small

Assistant Conductor/ Chouros Ensemble James Ham

Assistant Conductor Christopher Stark

Community Chorus Master Will Sharma

Répétiteur Thomas Ang

Dramaturg Emma Jude Harris

Company

Mark Le Brocq, Susan Bullock, Meeta Raval, Andrew Watts, Oskar McCarthy, Edmund Danon, Alexandra Lowe, Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel, Adrian Dwyer, Tamzen Moulding, Archie Campbell

Chorus / Ensemble

Eleanor Broomfield, Harriet Cameron, Rachael Hughes, Robyn Pullen, Noémie Johns, Cicely-Yishuo Hé, Deborah Holborn, Hera Protopapas, Thomas Antoniw, Laurence Panter, Gabriel Seawright, Andi Woodmansey, Charlie Baigent, Aaron Holmes, William Kyle, Jack Sandison

Community Chorus

David Artingstall, Hazel Cook, Simon Cook, Neil Fyfe, Mike Harvey, Karen Henderson, Molly Hughes, Bethany Allan Molland, Polly Mortimer, Londa Ntotila, Maisie O’Brien, Robert Stanley, Tim Raistrick, John Robertson, Beth Wynn Williams

Photos Matthew Williams-Ellis, Jorge Lizalde