Production History

2005–2006 Season

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

January 28, 31, February 3, 5, 8, 2006: San Diego Civic Theatre

Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Conducted by Edoardo Müller
Directed by Lotfi Mansouri

Figaro: Christopher Maltman
Rosina: Kirstin Chávez
Count Almaviva: Lawrence Brownlee
Bartolo: Eduardo Chama
Basilio: Ferruccio Furlanetto
Berta: Judith Christin
Fiorello: James Scott Sikon
Ambrogio: J. Sherwood Montgomery
Officer: Robert Taylor
Set and Costume Designer: Desmond Heeley

Lucia di Lammermoor

February 18, 21, 24, 26, 2006: San Diego Civic Theatre

Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Conducted by Richard Bonynge
Directed by Andrew Sinclair

Lucia: Angela Gilbert
Edgardo: Richard Leech
Enrico: Dalibor Jenis
Raimondo: Reinhard Hagen
Arturo: Brian Register
Normanno: Kenneth Morris
Alisa: Kathleen Halm
Set Designer: Henry Bardon
Costume Designer: Peter J. Hall

Carmen

March 25, 28, 31, April 2, 5, 2006: San Diego Civic Theatre

Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Conducted by Karen Keltner
Directed by Mark Lamos

Carmen: Marina Domashenko
Don José: César Hernández
Micaëla: Barbara Divis
Escamillo: Malcolm MacKenzie
Frasquita: Malinda Haslett
Mercédès: Lisa Agazzi
Dancaïre: Jeff Mattsey
Remendado: Beau Palmer
Morales: James Scott Sikon
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: François St-Aubin
Choreographer: Juanita Franco

Julius Caesar in Egypt (Giulio Cesare in Egitto)

April 15, 18, 21, 23, 2006: San Diego Civic Theatre

Music by George Frideric Handel
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym
Conducted by Kenneth Montgomery
Directed by John Cople

Julius Caesar: Ewa Maria Podleś
Cleopatra: Lisa Saffer
Tolomeo: Brian Asawa
Cornelia: Suzanna Guzman
Sesto: Vivica Genaux
Achilla: Alfred Walker
Curio: James Scott Sikon
Nireno: Mark Crayton
Set Designer: John Pascoe
Costume Designer: Michael Stennett

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)

May 6, 9, 12, 14, 17, 2006: San Diego Civic Theatre

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
Conducted by Christof Perick
Directed by Michael Hampe

Tamino: Rainer Trost
Papageno: Paul Armin Edelmann
Pamina: Ute Selbig
Queen of the Night: Cheryl Evans
Sarastro: Daniel Borowski
Monostatos: Martin Zysset
Speaker: Reinhard Dorn
Papagena: Siphiwe McKenize
First Lady: Barbara Divis
Second Lady: Priti Gandhi
Third Lady: Lisa Agazzi
First Genie: Stacey Fraser (May 6), Priya Palekar
Second Genie: Sylvia Wen
Third Genie: Diana Tash
Priest: Joseph Hu
First Armed Man: Kenneth Morris
Second Armed Man: James Scott Sikon
Set Designers: Michael Hampe and Alberto Andreis
Costume Designer: Zandra Rhodes

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