Cinnabar Devil was named after the Red Devil cinnabar mine, a primary source of mercury. It has been found in Dominica near its sulfur springs at the southern end of the island along the west coast. Cinnabar is still being deposited at the present day, such as from the hot waters of Sulphur Bank Mine in California and Steamboat Springs, Nevada. As the most common source of mercury in nature, cinnabar has been mined for thousands of years, even as far back as the Neolithic Age. During the Roman Empire it was mined both as a pigment, and for its mercury
Cinnabar Theater Quicksilver Theater Company under the leadership of Richard Blake. The current conductor, Mary Chun (who also serves as conductor of San Francisco's new music ensemble Earplay), has led performances for Hawaii Opera Theatre and served on the conducting staffs of San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Belgium's La Monnaie, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Opéra de Lyon, where she was also the Director of Musical Studies for Music Director Kent Nagano. She has conducted Cinnabar productions of "She Loves Me" (2011), "Don Giovanni" (2012), "Carmen" (2013), "The Marriage