Michael Wade Simpson
Macbeth Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei After the play by William Shakespeare San Francisco Opera November 14-December 2, 2007 Conducted by Massimo Zanetti Directed Thomas Hampson Lady Macbeth Georgina Lukács Macduff: ...
Michael Wade Simpson
The Abduction from the Seraglio The Magic Flute Mozart Houston Grand Opera January 2008 http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Tamara Wilson and Paul Groves in The Abduction from the Seraglio. Photo: Andrew Cloud. There's poetry in Houston Grand Opera's recent pairing ...
Michael Wade Simpson
By Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Based on works of John Luther Long and David Belasco San Francisco Opera December 1-8, 2007 Conductor Donald Runnicles Directed by Kathleen Belcher Production conceived by Ron Daniels Designed by ...
Michael Wade Simpson
La Cenerentola Merola Opera Program Cowell Theater San Francisco July 13 and 15, 2007 http://www.sfopera.com/merola.asp Once upon a time there was a poor unloved girl who sat by the fire and stirred the ashes. And she got ...
Michael Wade Simpson
The Magic Flute By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart San Francisco Opera October 13-November 3, 2007 Conductor: Donald Runnicles Director: Stanley M. Garner Tamino: Piotr Beczala Pamina: Dina Kuznetsova Papageno: Christopher maltman The Queen of the Night: Erika Miklósa Sarastro: ...
Michael Wade Simpson
by Giuseppe Verdi Seattle Opera Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle 17 August 2008 Directed by Robin Guarino Conducted by Riccardo Frizza http://www.seattleopera.org/ The inventors of opera had theories and rules. Opera should be about Greek gods and goddesses, ...
Michael Wade Simpson
The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Ireland The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Conductor: Jari Hamalainen Directed by Marc Adam (re-staged by Pascale-Sabine Chevroton) Featuring: François Lis (Figaro), Maria Carola (Susanna), Anna Agathonos (Cherubino), Paul Armin Edelmann ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierDC,
By Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Sant-George, Jean-Francois-Alfred Bayard.
Washington National Opera, Plácido Domingo, General Director
March 31-April 15, 2007
Sung in French with English supertitles
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Karren LaLonde AlenierDC,
For Washington National Opera, director Francesca Zambello has developed an “American Ring” based on Richard Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nebelungen. In the 2006-2007 season, Die Walküre, the second opera in this suite of four, premiered with outstanding internationally known singers, ...
Nancy Wozny
By Giuseppe Verdi Houston Grand Opera April 18, 2007 Aïda: Zvetelina Vassileva Amneris: Dolora Zajick Radames: Marco Berti Carlo Rizzi Conductor Jo Davies: Stage Director Zandra Rhodes: Set and Costume Designer http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ Verdi’s Aïda premiered in Cairo in 1871. It ...