1975-76 Season

Concert – An Operatic Evening

September 23, 1975
Joan Sutherland, soprano | Huguette Tourangeau, mezzo-soprano | Richard Bonynge, piano

Il trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi

October 4, 7, 10, 12, 20, 22, 1975 (Phoenix)
Rachel Mathes – Leonora | Peggy Castle – Inez | Lili Chookasian – Azucena | Richard Kness – Manrico | Howard Fried – Ruiz | Eugene Holmes – di Luna | Harold Enns – Ferrando | Bruno Rigacci – conductor | William Roesch – director | Sally Jacobs – sets

Rusalka – Antonin Dvorák

December 3, 5, 7(m), 9, 1975
United States Professional Premiere
Kathryn Bouleyn – Rusalka | Gwendolyn Killebrew – Jeibaba/Foreign Princess | Elaine Pavlick, Teri Sinclair, Melanie Sonnenberg – nymphs | William McDonald – Prince | Spiro Malas – Water Sprite | Theo Alcantara – conductor | Tito Capobianco – director | Santo Loquasto – sets/costumes

Siegfried – Richard Wagner

February 14, 17, 20, 22(m), 1976
Marvellee Cariaga – Brünnhilde | Ashley Putnam – Forest Bird | Geraldine Dekker – Erda | Alberto Remedios – Siegfried | Paul Crook – Mime | Noel Tyl – Wotan | Derek Hammond-Stroud – Alberich | Thomas O’Leary – Fafner | Kenneth Schermerhorn – conductor | Ghita Hager – director | John Naccarato – sets/costumes

Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss

March 27, 30, April 2, 3(m), 1976
Johanna Meier – Feldmarschallin | Patricia Wise – Sophie | Lila Stuart – Marianne | Sylvia Anderson – Octavian | Adrienne Leonetti – Annina | Dora Walker, Pat Goodwin, Nancy Tripp Smith – three noble orphans | Carolee Thornburgh – milliner | Aaron Bergell – singer | Howard Fried – Valzacchi | Gerald Whitney – animal vendor/innkeeper | Derek Hammond-Stroud – Faninal | Richard Van Allan – Baron Ochs | Thomas Simmons – major-domo | Michael Gallup – notary/commissary/major-domo | Paul Raabe, Dave Rush, John Hermann, David Garven – lackeys | Stefan Minde – conductor | Richard Abrams – director | Elizabeth Dalton – sets/costumes

Norma – Vincenzo Bellini

June 7, 10, 13(m), 15, 1976
Beverly Sills – Norma | Tatiana Troyanos – Adalgisa | Adrienne Leonetti – Clotilde | John Alexander – Pollione | Robert Grayson – Flavio | Robert Hale – Oroveso | Charles Mackerras – conductor | Tito Capobianco – director | Carl Toms – sets | Jose Varona – costumes
Prior to this date accurate information is not available for United States debuts.