1999-00 Season

Recital: Sylvia McNair, soprano

October 24, 1999
Ted Taylor, piano

Il trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi

January 22, 25, 28, 30(m), and February 2, 2000
Sondra Radvanovsky – Leonora | Patricia McAfee – Inez | Kathryn Day – Azucena | Richard Margison – Manrico | Peter Blanchet – Ruiz | Richard Zeller – di Luna | Brian Matthews – Ferrando | Edoardo Müller – conductor | Ian Campbell – director | John David Peters – sets | John Conklin – costumes

Lohengrin – Richard Wagner

February 13, 16, 19, and 21(m), 2000

Eva Johansson – Elsa | Mariana Pentcheva – Ortrud | John Keyes – Lohengrin | Greer Grimsley – Telramund | Reinhard Hagen – Heinrich | Kimm Julian – King’s herald | John Klacka, Michael Frees, David Marshman, Daniel Koehn – nobles of Brabant | Suzanne Lustgarten, Patricia McAfee, Eva Clements, Lois Myers – Pages | Heinz Fricke – conductor | Andrew Sinclair – director | John Napier – sets/costumes

Recital – Simon Estes, bass

March 4, 2000
Julius Tilghman, piano

Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

April 1, 4, 7, 9(m), and 12, 2000
Deborah Riedel – Anna | Jennifer Casey Cabot – Elvira | Eirian James – Zerlina | Gregory Kunde – Ottavio | Ferruccio Furlanetto – Giovanni | Michael Chioldi – Masetto | Louis Lebherz – Commendatore | Reinhard Dorn – Leporello | Leopold Hager – conductor | Michael Hampe – director | Michael Hampe – sets | Carlo Diappi – costumes

A Streetcar Named Desire – André Previn

April 22, 25, 28, and 30(m), 2000
Sheryl Woods – Blanche | Elizabeth Futral – Stella | Suzanna Guzmán – Eunice Hubble | Anthony Dean Griffey – Mitch | Jeffrey Lentz – Newspaper boy | David Okerlund – Stanley | James Scott Sikon – Steve Hubble | Karen Keltner – conductor | Brad Dalton – director | Michael Yeargan – sets/costumes

La bohème – Giacomo Puccini

May 13, 16, 19, 21(m), and 24, 2000
Izabela Labuda – Mimì | Cynthia Clayton – Musetta | Fernando de la Mora – Rodolfo | Joe Sundstrom – Parpignol | Hector Vasquez – Marcello | Oziel Garza-Ornelas – Schaunard | Kevin Langan – Colline | James Scott Sikon – Benoit/Alcindoro | Harold Skelly – customs guard | Joe Pechota – sergeant | Richard Bonynge – conductor | Sharon Ott – director | John Conklin – sets | Martin Pakledinaz – costumes

Recital – Galina Gorchakova, soprano

April 24, 2000
Iain Burnside, piano