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Production History
1999–2000 Season
Recital: Sylvia McNair, soprano
October 24, 1999
Piano: Ted Taylor
Il trovatore
January 22, 25, 28, 30, February 2, 2000: San Diego Civic Theatre
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Conducted by Edoardo Müller
Directed by Ian Campbell
Leonora: Sondra Radvanovsky
Manrico: Richard Margison
Azucena: Kathryn Day
Count di Luna: Richard Zeller
Ferrando: Brian Matthews
Inez: Patricia McAfee
Ruiz: Peter Blanchet
Set Designer: John David Peters
Costume Designer: John Conklin
Lohengrin
February 13, 16, 19, 21, 2000: San Diego Civic Theatre
Music and Libretto by Richard Wagner
Conducted by Heinz Fricke
Directed by Andrew Sinclair
Lohengrin: John Keyes
Eva Johansson: Elsa von Brabant
Ortrud: Mariana Pentcheva
Telramund: Greer Grimsley
Heinrich: Reinhard Hagen
King’s Herald: Kimm Julian
Four Noblemen of Brabant: John Klacka, Michael Frees, David Marshman, Daniel Koehn
Four Pages: Suzanne Lustgarten, Patricia McAfee, Eva Clements, Lois Myers
Set and Costume Designer: John Napier
Recital: Simon Estes, bass
March 4, 2000
Piano: Julius Tilghman
Don Giovanni
April 1, 4, 7, 9, 12, 2000: San Diego Civic Theatre
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Conducted by Leopold Hager
Directed by Michael Hampe
Don Giovanni: Ferruccio Furlanetto
Donna Anna: Deborah Riedel
Donna Elvira: Jennifer Casey Cabot
Don Ottavio: Gregory Kunde
Leporello: Reinhard Dorn
Zerlina: Eirian James
Masetto: Michael Chioldi
Commendatore (Don Pedro): Louis Lebherz
Set Designer: Michael Hampe
Costume Designer: Carlo Diappi
Recital: Galina Gorchakova, soprano
April 24, 2000
Piano: Iain Burnside
A Streetcar Named Desire
April 22, 25, 28, 30, 2000: San Diego Civic Theatre
Music by André Previn
Libretto by Philip Littell
Conducted by Karen Keltner
Directed by Brad Dalton
Stanley Kowalski: David Okerlund
Stella Kowalski: Elizabeth Futral
Mitch Mitchell: Anthony Dean Griffey
Eunice Hubble: Suzanna Guzmán
Steve Hubble: James Scott Sikon
Newspaper Boy: Jeffrey Lentz
Set and Costume Designer: Michael Yeargan
La bohème
May 13, 16, 19, 21, 24, 2000: San Diego Civic Theatre
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Conducted by Richard Bonynge
Directed by Sharon Ott
Rodolfo: Fernando de la Mora
Mimì: Izabela Labuda
Marcello: Hector Vasquez
Musetta: Cynthia Clayton
Colline: Kevin Langan
Schaunard: Oziel Garza-Ornelas
Benoit / Alcindoro: James Scott Sikon
Parpignol: Joe Sundstrom
Customs Guard: Harold Skelly
Sergeant: Joe Pechota
Set Designer: John Conklin
Costume Designer: Martin Pakledinaz
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