1998-99 Season

Recital – Helen Donath, soprano

December 6, 1998
Klaus Donath, piano

Falstaff – Giuseppe Verdi

January 23, 26, 29, 31(m), February 3, 1999
Deborah Riedel – Alice Ford | Annelies Chapman – Nanetta | Carla Wood – Mistress Page | Sharon Graham – Quickly | Bruce Fowler – Fenton | Paul Ferris – Caius | Peter Blanchet – Bardolph | Phillip Joll – Falstaff | David Malis – Ford | Ryan Allen – Pistol | Edoardo Müller – conductor | Ian Campbell* – director | Peter Dean Beck – sets | Charles R. Caine – costumes

Of Mice and Men – Carlisle Floyd

February 13, 16, 19, 21(m), 1999
Diane Alexander – Curley’s Wife | Anthony Dean Griffey – Lennie | Joel Sorensen – Curley | Beau Palmer – Carlson | John Bellemer – Ballad Singer | Erich Parce – George | Stephen Powell – Slim | Kenneth Cox – Candy | Karen Keltner – conductor | Rhoda Levine – director | John Conklin – sets | Jess Goldstein – costumes

The Great Richard Wagner Concert

February 20, 1999 | Civic Theatre
Katarina Dalaymann, Thomas Sunnegårdh, Kenneth Cox, soloists | Heinz Fricke, conductor

Così fan tutte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

March 6, 9, 12, 14(m), 17, 1999
Barbara Shirvis – Fiordiligi | Sheryl Woods – Despina | Margaret Lattimore – Dorabella | John Osborn – Ferrando | Stephen Powell – Guglielmo | Francois Loup – Don Alfonso | Peter Erckens* – conductor | Leon Major – director | Allen Moyer – sets | David O. Roberts – costumes

Hansel and Gretel – Engelbert Humperdinck

April 10, 13, 16, 18(m), 1999
Clare Gormley – Gretel | Evelyn de la Rosa – dew fairy/sandman | Jane Bunnell – Hansel | RoseMarie Freni – Gertrude | Adria Firestone – Witch | James Maddalena – Peter | Karen Keltner – conductor | Frank Corsaro/Amy Hutchinson – director | Maruice Sendak – designer

A Masked Ball – Giuseppe Verdi

May 1, 4, 7, 9(m), 12, 1999
Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet – Amelia | Elisabeth Comeaux – Oscar | Barbara Dever – Ulrica | Richard Leech – Riccardo/Gustavus | Mark Rucker – Renato | Joseph Hu – servant/judge | James Scott Sikon – Silvano/Christiano | Alexander Anisimov – Sam/Count Horn | David Downing – Tom/Count Ribbing | Edoardo Müller – conductor | Michael Hampe – director | Ezio Frigerio – sets | Mauro Pagano – costumes