Van den Heever said Guth had created a “dance of the fragmented mind, of the subconscious.”
As a “six-foot-tall person who is supposed to be in the body of a 16-year-old,” van den Heever said, she initially found it difficult to inhabit the character. But, she said, she was helped by Guth’s clear vision of the opera and an emphasis on working as an ensemble.
“You are always part of a greater story,” she said. “You’re part of a tableau, of a painting.”