1989-90 Season

Boris Godunov – Modest Moussorgsky

October 21, 24, 27, 29(m), 31, 1989
Soviet Arts Festival
Sylvia Wen – Xenia | Irina Bogacheva – Marina | Martha Jane Howe – innkeeper | Martha Jane Weaver – nurse | Julia Jamison – Fyodor | Thomas Booth – Prince Shuisky | Teimuraz Gugushvili – simpleton | Allan Glassman – Gregory | Alexander Morozov – Boris Godunov | Robert Gailbraith – Stchelkalov | Gia Asatiani – Pimen | Omar Khoperia – Varlaam | Philip Larson (Nikitich/Lavitsky) – officer | William Nolan – Mityukha/border guard/Chernikovsky | Bernard Fitch – Missail | Michael Darcy – a boyar/Khrustchov | Stephen West – Rangoni | Jansoug Kakhidze – conductor | Nathaniel Merrill – director | Wolfram Skalicki – sets | Suzanne Mess – costumes

Recital – Carol Neblett, soprano

November 19, 1989 | Sherwood Auditorium
Thomas Pasatieri, piano

La bohème – Giacomo Puccini

January 20, 23, 26, 28(m), 31, 1990
Ilona Tokody – Mimì | Irena Welhasch – Musetta | Dennis O’Neill – Rodolfo | Daniel S. Leal – Parpignol | Theodore Baerg – Marcello | Harlan Foss – Schaunard | Kevin Langan – Colline | Italo Tajo – Benoit/Alcindoro | John Polhamus – customs guard | Joseph Grienenberger – sergeant | Edoardo Müller – conductor | John Copley – director | John Conklin – sets | Vicki Feitscher – costumes

Dialogues of the Carmelites – Francis Poulenc

February 10, 13, 16, 18(m), 1990
Nova Thomas – Blanche | Cheryl Parrish – Constance | Carol Neblett – Lidoine | Heather Begg – Marie | Maureen Forrester – Mme. de Croissy | Judith Christin – Jeanne | Martha Jane Howe – Mathilde | Kip Wilborn – Chevalier de la Force | Peter Van Derick – Marquis de la Force | Martin Chambers – Father | Michael Darcy – officer | Joseph Grienenberger – Thierry | Jeffrey L. Shipman – Javelinot | Michael Ballam – commissary | Harlan Foss – commissary/jailer | Richard Bonynge – conductor | Bliss Hebert – director | Günther Schneider-Siemssen – sets | Allen Charles Klein – costumes

The Daughter of the Regiment – Gaetano Donizetti

March 3, 6, 9, 11(m), 1990
Nova Thomas – Marie | Heather Begg – Countess of Birkenfeld | Kit Goldman – Duchess of Crackenthorp | Paul Hartfield – Tonio | Daniel S. Leal – peasant | John Del Carlo – Sulpice | Harlan Foss – Hortensio | William Nolan – corporal | Richard Bonynge – conductor | Lou Galterio – director | Beni Montresor – sets/costumes

The Great Richard Wagner Concert

March 20, 1990 | Civic Theatre
Johanna Meier, Gary Lakes, John Macurdy, soloists | Heinz Fricke, conductor

The Magic Flute – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

April 14, 17, 20, 22(m), 25, 1990
Virginia Sublett – Queen of the Night | Hei-Kyung Hong – Pamina | Sylvia Wen – Papagena | Joan Gibbons, Gale Fuller, Deidra Palmour – three ladies | Denes Gulyas – Tamino | Anthony Laciura – Monostatos | David Malis – Papageno | Kenneth Cox – Sarastro | Herbert Eckhoff – speaker | Hong-Shen Li, J. Raymond Fielder – priests/armored men | Celeste Tavera, Diana Tash, Julia Jamison – three spirits | Karen Keltner – conductor | Wolfgang Weber – director | Maurice Sendak – sets/costumes