1997-98 Season

Recital – Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano

October 25 and 26, 1997
Martin Dubé, piano

The Barber of Seville – Gioachino Rossini

January 24, 27, 30, February 1(m), 4, 1998
Ellen Rabiner – Berta | Vivica Genaux – Rosina | Bruce Fowler – Almaviva | Richard Byrne (01/24, 27)/ Robert Orth (01/30, 02/1(m), 4) – Figaro | John Del Carlo – Bartolo | Julien Robbins – Basilio | Duane McDevitt – Fiorello | Bob Borntrager – Ambrogio | Joseph Grienenberger – Officer | William Doyle – Notary | Karen Keltner – conductor | Michael Hampe – director | Mauro Pagano – set and costume designer

Salome – Richard Strauss

February 14, 17, 20, and 22(m), 1998
Kristine Ciesinski – Salome | Katherine Ciesinski – Herodias | Emily Manhart – Page | Patricia McAfee – Slave | Alan Woodrow – Herod | Richard Brunner – Narraboth | Robert Hayward – Jochanaan | Joseph Frank, Alan Fischer, Douglas Perry, Melvin Lowery, Stephen Morscheck – five Jews | David Downing – First Nazarene | Andrew Richards – Second Nazarene | James Scott Sikon – First soldier | Philip Skinner – Second soldier | Philip Larson – a Cappadocian | Karen Keltner – conductor | Bliss Hebert – director | Allen Charles Klein – designer

Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini

March 7, 10, 13, 15(m), 18, 1998
Yoko Watanabe – Cio-Cio-San | Zheng Cao – Suzuki | Catherine Ireland – Kate | Fernando de la Mora – Pinkerton | Douglas Perry – Goro | Kim Josephson – Sharpless | James Scott Sikon – The Imperial Commissioner | Roberto Gomez – Yamadori | David Downing – Bonze | Eduardo Diazmunoz – conductor | Francesca Zambello/ Garnett Bruce – director | Michael Yeargan – sets | Anita Yavich* – costumes

Romeo and Juliet – Charles Gounod

April 18, 21, 24, 26(m), 1998
Rosemary Joshua – Juliet | Kate Butler – Stephano | Martha Jane Howe – Gertrude | Richard Leech – Romeo | Beau Palmer – Tybalt | Jeff Mattsey – Mercutio | Duane McDevitt – Gregorio | David Downing – Duke of Verona | James Scott Sikon – Capulet | Mark S. Doss – Friar Lawrence | Joe Pechota – Paris | Joseph Hu – Benvolio | David Marshman – Friar John | Richard Bonynge – conductor | Bliss Hebert – director | Pasquale Grossi – sets | Allen Charles Klein – costume and lighting designer

The Marriage of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

May 9, 12, 15, 17(m), 20, 1998
Emily Magee – Countess | Ute Selbig* – Susanna | Catherine Ireland – Barbarina | Margaret Lattimore – Cherubino | Judith Christin – Marcellina | Marcia Whittier, Sandra Camarena – peasant girls | Francis Egerton – Basilio/Curzio | Rod Gilfry – Count | Andrew Wentzel – Figaro | Francois Loup – Bartolo | James Scott Sikon – Antonio | Edoardo Müller – conductor | Lesley Koenig – director | Zack Brown – set and costume designer

Concert – The Met Orchestra

May 16, 1998 | Civic Theatre
James Levine, conductor | Vadim Repin, violin

Recital – Hermann Prey, baritone

December 20, 1997
William Vendice, piano