Beverly Blankenships´ opera productions are sensual and cathartic.
April 2025 Beverly´s production of Shostakovich´s operetta MOSCOW; TSCHERJOMUSCHKI will open at the Music University Leipzig FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY.
Verdi´s LA TRAVIATA was seen at Hanoi´s new Opera House in August 2024. Beverly and Rebecca directed as a team.
In May and October 2023 the Sisterpower!Team Beverly and Rebecca Blankenship directed MADAMA BUTTERFLY for the opera Theater Krefeld/Mönchengladbach. In April 2023 the sisters produced DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES for Theater Krefeld/Mönchengladbach.
In April 2023 Puccini´s MADAMA BUTTERFLY, directed by Beverly and Rebecca Blankenship, premiered at the opera house in Krefeld, Germany.
Trailer for MADAMA BUTTERFLY
And here an interview with Beverly and Rebecca
Singers perform at their very best.
Conventions are questioned or thrown overboard with glee.
Audiences follow willingly into new terrain when lured by laughter and tears.
Opera companies Blankenship has worked for:
Austria: Volksoper Wien, Entarte Opera Vienna, Landestheater Linz, Festival Reinsberg
Germany: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Theater Dortmund, Theater Bielefeld, Theater Hagen, Theater Osnabrück
France: Opera Rennes, Opera Anger, Opera Nantes
And many others:
TEASER “Le Vaisseau Fantôme”
Von Richard Wagner
Opera Nantes/Angers/Rennes
Beverly Blankenship – Metteur en scene
Rebecca Blankenship – Metteur en scene
Rudolf Piehlmayer – Chef d´ orchestre
Peer Palmowski – Equipment de scene et costumes
Almas Svilpa – Holländer
Patrick Simper – Dalland
Martina Welschenbach – Senta
Samuel Sakker – Erik
Doris Lamprecht – Mary
Yu Shao – Steuermann
Chor der Opera Nantes
Dialogues des Carmelites (Theater Krefeld/Mönchengladbach).
Die Gespräche der Karmeliterinnen • Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach
Die Gespräche der Karmeliterinnen (Les dialogues des Carmélites)
Oper von Francis Poulenc – französisch mit deutschen Übertiteln
Musikalische Leitung Mihkel Kütson
Inszenierung Beverly Blankenship, Rebecca Blankenship
Bühne Christian Floeren
Kostüme Gerti Rindler-Schantl
Choreinstudierung Michael Preiser
Dramaturgie Ulrike Aistleitner
Marquis de la Force – Mathieu Abelli
Blanche de la Force – Sophie Witte
Chevalier de la Force – David Esteban
Madame de Croissy – Kerstin Brix
Madame Lidoine – Janet Bartolova
Mère Marie – Eva Maria Günschmann
Soeur Constance – Panagiota Sofroniadou
Mère Jeanne – Susanne Seefing
Soeur Mathilde – Valerie Eickhoff
Beichtvater des Karmel – James Park
1. Kommissar – Woongyi Lee
2. Kommissar / Thierry – Alexander Kalina
Kerkermeister / Offizier – Hayk Dèinyan
Baruchs Schweigen” von Ella Milch Sheriff
Mitschnitt der Aufführung – EntArteOpera 2016 – Semperdepot Wien
Der Drache von Helfenberg
TV Bericht (2008) (Opera: THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY)