Music by Tobias Picker English-language Libretto by Gene Scheer, based on the novel by Émile Zola March 3, 4 at 7:30, and March 6, 2022 at 3:00 Director: Paul Houghtaling Assistant Director: TBA Stage Manager: TBA Conductor: Jamie Reeves Scenic and Lighting Design: Joey Lay Costume Design: TBA Tickets:  Adult – $20; Student with valid

Cellist David Starkweather has a distinguished international career as performer and professor of cello at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Athens.  He was a semifinalist in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition. Starkweather attended the Eastman School of Music, then graduate studies with Bernard Greenhouse at SUNY Stony Brook, followed by post-doctoral