2017-2018 SE ASON & FESTIVAL TURANDOT - L ELISIR D AMORE EUGENE ONEGIN - THE OVERCOAT
TURANDOT L ELISIR D AMORE EUGENE ONEGIN THE OVERCOAT GENERAL DIRECTOR: KIM GAYNOR MUSIC DIRECTOR: JONATHAN DARLINGTON
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TURANDOT PUCCINI S FINAL MASTERPIECE OCTOBER 13-21, 2017 Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni conductor - jacques lacombe director - renaud doucet turandot - amber wagner calaf - marcelo puente liù - marianne fiset timur - alain coulombe La Bohème. Tosca. Madama Butterfly. Turandot. Puccini saved his most adventurous writing for this, his final opera, blending monumental choruses with unforgettably intimate moments in a thrilling retelling of an ancient story. Acclaimed Canadian director-designer duo Renaud Doucet and André Barbe have created this magnificent production, featuring the vocal talents of American soprano Amber Wagner in a role début as Turandot, and tenor Marcelo Puente making his Vancouver Opera début as Calaf. Maestro Jacques Lacombe, last seen conducting VO s 2014 production of Carmen, returns to interpret this beautiful score, which features one of opera s most famous arias Nessun dorma. PERFORMANCE TIME: 2 hours, 40 minutes including 2 intermissions casting subject to change for more casting details please visit vancouveropera.ca
L ELISIR D AMORE A COMIC LOVE STORY JANUARY 21-27, 2018 Music by Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Felice Romani conductor - jonathan darlington director - james robinson adina - ying fang nemorino - andrew haji For the first time since 1999, Vancouver Opera presents Donizetti s famous romantic comedy, the tale of the young peasant Nemorino, who resorts to using a magic elixir in an attempt to woo his beloved Adina. Comic confusion ensues, as the young lovers come to terms with their affections. Chinese soprano Ying Fang, hailed as one of the most gifted sopranos of her generation, makes her role début as Adina alongside Canadian tenor Andrew Haji, making his Vancouver Opera début as Nemorino. VO s own Jonathan Darlington conducts this updated production, directed by James Robinson. PERFORMANCE TIME: 2 hours, 25 minutes including 1 intermission casting subject to change for more casting details please visit vancouveropera.ca
EUGENE ONEGIN A TRAGIC ROMANCE APRIL 29 - MAY 5, 2018 Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Libretto by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & KS Shilovsky after Pushkin conductor - jonathan darlington director - tom diamond onegin - konstantin shushakov tatyana - svetlana aksenova lensky - maxim aksenov In Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky combines the rich, lavish textures of his symphonic music with Pushkin s famous verse novel to create one of the pillars of the Russian operatic repertoire. The ill-fated relationship between the selfish, brooding Onegin and the lovestruck Tatyana inevitably results in tragic consequences for those around them. Konstantin Shushakov sings the role of Onegin, with Russian soprano Svetlana Aksenova starring as Tatyana, sharing the stage with husband Maxim Aksenov as Lensky. This new co-production with Calgary Opera will be directed by Canadian stage director Tom Diamond, with set and projections designed by Scott Reid and lighting design by Harry Frehner. PERFORMANCE TIME: 3 hours including 1 intermission casting subject to change for more casting details please visit vancouveropera.ca
THE OVERCOAT A MUSICAL TAILORING APRIL 28 - MAY 12, 2018 Music by James Rolfe Libretto by Morris Panych conductor - leslie dala director - morris panych choreographer - wendy gorling akakiy - geoffrey sirett petrovich - peter mcgillivray A much-anticipated co-production with Toronto s Canadian Stage Company and Tapestry Opera, The Overcoat - a musical tailoring is an operatic reinterpretation of director Morris Panych and choreographer Wendy Gorling s wildly popular physical theatre adaptation of Nikolai Gogol s 19th century novella. Featuring new music by Canadian composer James Rolfe, this production reunites the original creative team of Panych and Gorling with set designer Ken Macdonald, costume designer Nancy Bryant, and lighting designer Alan Brodie, for an exciting new collaboration which, after premiering in Toronto, will be performed at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, where the original stage work premiered twenty years ago. PERFORMANCE TIME: 2 hours, 10 minutes with 1 intermission casting subject to change for more casting details please visit vancouveropera.ca
PHOTO: DEAN ANTHONY, JACKALYN SHORT IN THE 2002 VO PRODUCTION OF MICE & MEN PHOTO BY TIM MATHESON
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