Opera Carolina Announces Cast and Creative Team for Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium

Opera Carolina has announced the cast and creative team for Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium, coming to Halton Theater on Saturday, November 14, 2026. The production brings together a celebrated American opera star with a direct artistic connection to Menotti, an internationally active conductor, and a distinguished director and educator dedicated to developing the next generation of opera artists.

At the center of the production is Grammy Award-winning contralto and Metropolitan Opera veteran Victoria Livengood as Madame Flora, or Baba, one of the roles most closely associated with her career.

Written in English and unfolding with the immediacy of a stage thriller, The Medium was selected in particular for its ability to speak to younger audiences, theatergoers and those who may be experiencing opera for the first time, as well as longtime opera lovers.

Menotti’s compact psychological drama explores grief, deception, manipulation, fear and the increasingly fragile boundary between reality and what the mind believes to be real — themes that remain strikingly contemporary.

At the center of the story is Madame Flora, a fraudulent medium who stages séances for grieving clients with the assistance of her daughter Monica and the mute servant Toby. But during one of her carefully orchestrated deceptions, Baba suddenly experiences something she cannot explain.

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Madame Flora (Baba) — Victoria Livengood

Grammy Award winner and Metropolitan Opera veteran

Monica — Kristin Sampson

Mr. Gobineau — Tim Bostwick

Mrs. Gobineau — Aubrey Cole

Toby — To Be Announced

Conductor — Stefano Vignati

General Director & Music Director, Opera Carolina

Director — Steven LaCosse

A.J. Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Opera & Artistic Director, A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, UNCSA

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium

Saturday, November 14, 2026

Halton Theater — Charlotte, North Carolina

Presented by Opera Carolina

Tickets:

https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/61626698/the-medium-charlotte-dale-fhalton-theater