- Verdi: Rigoletto (October 5, 12 & 13, 2002)
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- Music by Giuseppe Verdi
- Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
- After the play “Le Roi s’Amuse”
by Victor Hugo
First Performed at La Fenice, Venice
— June 16, 1851
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 Production: Stephen
Mitchell
- Costumes: C. Clara George
- Conductor: Ron De Fesi
- Director: Ron De Fesi
- RIGOLETTO, Dennis Gurwitt
(baritone)
DUKE OF MANTUA,
Ross Solomon (tenor)
- GILDA, Chandler Thompson
(soprano)
- BORSA, Jay P. Winston (tenor)
- MARULLO, Alan Reese (tenor)
COUNT CEPRANO,
Laurence Kaiser (bass-baritone)
- COUNTESS CEPRANO,
Lenna Darbin* (mezzo-soprano)
- MONTERONE, Andrew Martens
(bass)
- SPARAFUCILE, Andrew Martens
(bass)
GIOVANNA, Lenna Darbin* (mezzo-soprano)
- MADDALENA, Lenna Darbin* (mezzo-soprano)
- USHER, Lindley Wood (baritone)
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- Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (March 29 & 30, 2003)
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- Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
- Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym
- First performed at The King’s Theatre
- London, February 20, 1724
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- Production Design by Renato Cesarino
- Costumes by C. Clara George and Costume
Armour
- Lighting by Doug Glenn
- Directed by Ron De Fesi
- Conducted by Walter Winterfeldt
- GIULIO CESARE,
Ron De Fesi (bass)
- CLEOPATRA, Amanda Forsythe*
(soprano)
- SESTO POMPEO,
Mariella Nocetti (mezzo-soprano)
- CORNELIA, Christa Damaris,
(contr’alto)
- TOLOMEO, Perri Montané*
(mezzo-soprano)
- ACHILLA, Alan Andrews*
(bass-baritone)
- NIRENO, Jay P. Winston (tenor)
- CURIO, George Heath*
(bass)
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- Lehár: The Merry Widow
(May 10, 17 & 18, 2003)
- Music by Franz Lehár
- Libretto by Victor Léon and
Leo Stein
- after the play “L’Attaché d’Ambassade”
by Henri Meilhac
- English Translation by Ron De Fesi
- First performed in Vienna, December 30, 1905
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- Production Design by Nino Novellino
- Costumes Designed by C. Clara George & Nino
Novellino
- Directed by Ron De Fesi
- Conducted by Ron De Fesi
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- ANNA GLAVARI,
Robin Rubendunst* soprano)
 COUNT
DANILO, Brian Cheney*
(tenor)
- VALENCIENNE, Heather Connolly
(soprano)
- CAMILLE DE ROSILLON,
Argun Tekant (tenor)
- BARON MIRKO
ZETA, Jacob Feldman (tenor)
- NJEGUS, George Heath
(bass)
- STE. BRIOCHE,
Jay P. Winston (tenor)
- CASCADA, Jonathan Baldwin* (baritone)
- KROMOV, Laurence Kaiser
(bass)
- BOGDANOVITCH, Lindley Wood
(baritone)
- PRITSCH, Alan Reese (tenor)
- PRASKOVIA, Lois Reese (soprano)
- SYLVIANNE, Andrea Nadeau
(soprano)
- OLGA, Susan Gempler (soprano)
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