The date here broadcast at 10 AM on KING FM was recorded May 11, 2013. Cast information and a full synopsis are found below.
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Cast
(Listed in order of appearance)
CONDUCTOR: Gary Thor Wedow
SUOR ANGELICA, Maria Gavrilova
MONITOR, Robin Follman
FIRST LAY SISTER, Jennifer Bromagen
MISTRESS OF THE NOVICES, Karen Early Evans
SECOND LAY SISTER, Sarah Mattox
SUOR OSMINA, Kim Giordano
SUOR GENOVIEFFA, Dana Pundt
FIRST NOVICE, Melissa Plagemann
SUOR DOLCINA, Mary McLaughlin
SECOND NOVICE, Lucy Weber
NURSING SISTER, Deborah Nansteel
FIRST TOURIÈRE, Sarah Larsen
SECOND TOURIÈRE, Linda Mattos
ABBESS, Susan Salas
PRINCESS, Rosalind Plowright
Full Synopsis
Act I
The garden of a convent in northern Italy, 1600s. Sister Angelica longs for some word from her family; for seven years, she has had no contact. The rumor among the other sisters is that she was a princess, banished to the convent as punishment for an unknown crime.
Angelica's aunt, the Princess, comes to see her at long last. The Princess rejects Angelica's gestures of affection. The Princess tells her niece that when Angelica's parents died, she was made guardian of both Angelica and her sister, Anna Viola. Anna Viola is to be married, and the Princess has come to ask Angelica to sign over her inheritance to her sister. Having brought disgrace on the family name, the Princess declares, Angelica is no longer entitled to any part of the wealth. But Angelica cannot erase the memory of her little son, and asks her aunt for news of him. Coldly, the Princess tells Angelica that her child died two years earlier.
Her will broken, Angelica signs the document. The Princess leaves. In her aria "Senza mamma" Angelica grieves that her son died without knowing his mother or her love. She prepares poison from flowers of the garden and drinks. Suddenly realizing that she has committed a mortal sin, she prays for forgiveness and salvation. As she dies, Angelica sees a vision of her child.