"In a performance of Francesco Cavalli’s 17th-century Baroque opera La Calisto, staged at the Juilliard School in February (and set to tour at a future date), wood nymphs emerged from secret doors, gods and goddesses merged with the sets to stay hidden in plain sight and, in the grand finale, Calisto herself, played by soprano Angela Vallone, turned into a constellation thanks to countless LEDs woven into both her dress and its matching backdrop. These sleights of hand were dreamed up by furniture designer Adam Charlap-Hyman and architect Andre Herrero of Charlap Hyman & Herrero, a young design firm based in Los Angeles and New York that specializes in playing with perception."