Collaborations with Operas, Orchestras, and Theaters

Red Herring Puppets offers a unique start-to-finish range of services to ensure compelling visual enhancements for orchestral, operatic or theatrical productions. We can tailor our involvement to meet your needs. Our services have supported every aspect of a musical performance, including:

• Work conceptually with directors and designers
• Translate ideas into puppet and prop design 
• Fabricate puppets and props
• Work with directors, conductors and choreographers to stage puppets

• Audition and train singers, stagehands, and puppeteers to perform puppet sequences
• Personally perform puppets and props
• Coordinate with producers and publicity departments 

Petrushka Co-Produced by Asheville Symphony and Red Herring Puppets

Here are Behind-the-Scenes interviews with Lisa Sturz and Red Herring Puppets staff on how they worked with the Asheville Symphony in the production of Petrushka in 2008. Also included is a Pre-Show Talk with conductor Daniel Meyer and puppet director Lisa Sturz.

Scenes from our Opera, Symphony, and Theater Collaborations

Pictures can be downloaded using "drag and drop."

Our extensive experience with musical collaboration includes working with:

• Lyric Opera of Chicago: Wagner's Ring Cycle
• Indiana School of Music and the Atlanta Opera: Mozart's The Magic Flute
• Womansong of Asheville: Yemaya medley
• Huntington Symphony: Pictures at an Exhibition 
• Asheville Symphony Orchestra:  Petrushka
• Alabama Symphony Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf

• La Mirada Civic Light Opera: Little Shop of Horrors
• The Mark Taper Forum: Freaks
• Asheville Community Theatre: Young Frankenstein & Fiddler on the Roof
• Flatrock Playhouse: Beauty and the Beast
• Firestone High School: The Producers
• Marble Falls High School: Suessical the Musical