The New England Marionette Opera covered a lot of ground in 1996. They opened with six performances at the International Festival for the Arts in Hamilton, Bermuda in January and then were the featured performers at the Nantucket Mozart Festival in February. They returned to Cape Cod in the summer with an appearance for Opera New England of Cape Cod in Hyannis and again journeyed to Nantucket and concluded the season for the Nantucket Musical Arts Society. In November they gave 10 performances for Opera Omaha at the 1200-seat Joslyn Performance Center before flying home to present Amahl and the Night Visitors in their home theatre.
When the New England Marionette Opera is on the road, one thing is always a constant. Virtually everyone who visits backstage remarks "It's a much larger setup than we ever imagined".
In order to understand the size and scale of the traveling unit, one first must understand our use of the word "bridge" which, in this case is "the structure from which the marionette manipulators perform."
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Shortly after completion of construction, NEMO artistic director Roger duPen stands with the travelling bridges. Note, duPen stands 6 ft 3 in. tall.
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