Libretto by Arthur Yorinks
Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced by Boston Lyric Opera
PART 1 - “LUNA”
Directed by James Darrah
Screenwriter: Raúl Santos
Lead Designer and Story Board Artist: Yee Eun Nam
Character Designer/Lead Illustrator: Rodrigo Muñoz
Lead Animator: Will Kim
Character Animator: Jian Lee
Associate Character Painter: Heather Freedman
Assistant Animator: Danny Quijano
Assistant Animator: Alexis Magaña
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is a gripping, ground- breaking new creation that launches Edgar Allan Poe’s Victorian gothic horror tale into modern times. Using hand-drawn and stop-motion animation techniques alongside curated archival footage, this version of USHER tells the mysterious story with Glass' complete score and Arthur Yorinks' full libretto, while building a new, cinematic framework around it. Helmed by film and opera director James Darrah, and boasting a fresh treatment by Spanish screenwriter Raúl Santos that places the opera within the story of a young immigrant girl named Luna who is detained on the U.S. border
Luna’s story is told in alternately sweet and surreal hand-drawn animations that bring to life the drawings she makes while detained.