Nobody Is Ever Missing
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Premiere · October 3–October 5, 2025

Stony Run Park

Baltimore, Maryland, USA · 100+ attendees nightly

Moving the opera outdoors changed its meaning. A story about a woman who cannot stop walking was staged in a park, at the hour the light starts to go, with an audience free to look past the performers toward the actual horizon.

Audience gathered outdoors at Stony Run Park for Nobody Is Ever Missing
Yvoni Galetaki / Mike Maguire
Elyria performing outdoors at dusk, Stony Run Park
Yvoni Galetaki / Mike Maguire
Ensemble performing outdoors at Stony Run Park
Yvoni Galetaki / Mike Maguire
Audience seated on the grass at Stony Run Park during the premiere
Yvoni Galetaki / Mike Maguire
Wide shot of the outdoor staging at Stony Run Park
Yvoni Galetaki / Mike Maguire
Closing moment of the outdoor premiere at Stony Run Park
Yvoni Galetaki / Mike Maguire

Cast

  • Elyria Heather Morrison
  • The "Wildebeest" Shelly Purdy
  • Violins Gracie Carney
  • Piano Elizabeth Hill
  • Cello Peter Kibbe
  • Flute Stephanie Ray
  • Clarinets Jennifer Tscheulin

Creative team

  • Composer & Librettist Tim Holt
  • Director Juanita Rockwell
  • Technical Direction & Projection Design Jason Charney
  • Music Direction James Young
  • Lighting Design Juan Juarez & Martin Sundiata
  • Scenic Design James Raymond
  • Films Margaret Rorison
  • Movement Peter Redgave & Noelle Tolbert
  • Presenting Organization Mind on Fire

Program

  • Nobody Is Ever Missing (complete)

    Tim Holt

    Performed in full, outdoors, without intermission.

Press on this production

Writing about seeing her own novel staged for the first time, Lacey described being moved to tears by the production, struck in particular by how the novel's recurring "wildebeest" became the opera's percussion feature, and by soprano Heather Morrison's final image consumed by tangled brush at the close of the piece. She called the whole experience "absolutely brilliant."