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Opera History 1980 to 1989 - Theatre Arts Program

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1952-1969 | 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1990 | 2000-present

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1989 OPERA PROGRAMS

Cendrillon

Composer: Jules Massenet
Libretto: Henri Cain (after the stories by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm)
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Stephen Lord
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costumer Designer: John Pennoyer
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

Fra Diavolo (Brother Devil)

Composer: Daniel FranÁois Esprit Auber
Libretto: EugÈne Scribe
English Dialogue: Donald Pippin
Director: Elizabeth Bachman
Conductor: Leslie Uyeda
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Catherine King
Lighting Designer: Ange Zhang

The Threepenny Opera co-production between the Canadian Stage Company

Composer: Kurt Weill
Libretto: Bertolt Brecht
Director: Kelly Robinson
Music Director: Wyn Davies
Designer: Mary Kerr
Lighting Designer: Steve Ross
Choreographer: John Broome
Stage Management: Michael Benoit

Boiler Room Suite - world premiere

Composer: Quenten Doolittle
Libretto: Rex Deverell
Director: Keith Turnbull
Conductor: Peter Stanger
Designer: Gavin Semple
Stage Manager: Cynthia Burtinshaw

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1988 OPERA PROGRAMS

The Rape of Lucretia

Composer: Benjamin Britten
Libretto: Ronald Duncan
Play: Le Viol de Lucrece by Andre Obey
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Stephen Lord
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Debra Hanson
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

Albert Herring

Composer: Benjamin Britten
Libretto: Eric Crozier
Story: Le Rosier de Madame Husson by Guy de Maupassant
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costumer Designer: Debra Hanson
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

Happy End

Composer: Kurt Weill
Libretto: Bertolt Brecht
Production Book: Elisabeth Hauptmann
Director: Kelly Robinson
Choreographer: Kelly Robinson
Conductor: Wyn Davies
Designer: Sue LePage
Lighting Designer: Lesley Wilkinson
Stage Manager: Bob Birch

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1987 OPERA PROGRAMS

Ormindo

Composer: Francesco Cavalli, realised by Raymond Leppard
Fable: Giovanni Faustini
English Translation: Geoffrey Dunn
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Stephen Lord
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

Postcard From Morocco

Composer: Dominick Argento
Book: John Donahue
Director: James Atherton
Conductor: Donald Palumbo
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

St. Carmen of the Main

Composer: Sydney Hodkinson
Libretto: Lee Devin
Director: Billie Bridgman
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Design: John Ferguson
Stage Manager: Carol Chrisjohn

Renard

Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Director: David Walsh
Conductor: Craig Bohmler
Designer: Reginald Bronskill
Lighting Designer: Allan Stichbury
Stage Manager: Dianne Domaratzki.

Fragments of Alice - world premier

Composer: Harry Freedman
Director: David Walsh
Conductor: Craig Bohmler
Designer: Reginald Bronskill
Lighting Designer: Allan Stichbury
Stage Manager: Dianne Domaratzki.

Jack and the Beanstalk - world premier

Composer: Janika Vandervelde
Director: David Walsh
Conductor: Craig Bohmler
Designer: Reginald Bronskill
Lighting Designer: Allan Stichbury
Stage Manager: Dianne Domaratzki.

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1986 OPERA PROGRAMS

Eugene Onegin

Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Libretto: Konstantine Shilovksy and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Novel: Alexander Pushkin
English Translation: David Lloyd-Jones
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: William Vendice
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Suzanne Mess (Malabar)
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

Government Inspector (restaged) By Nikoli Gogol

Adaptation: Campbell Smith
Music: Stephen McNeff
Director: Michael Bawtree
Set Designer: RÈjean Labrie
Costume Designer: Joan Murphy
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

Killing Time

Music: Stephen McNeff
Words: Ken Jones
Director: Michael Bawtree
Design: Hugo Wuthrich

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1985 OPERA PROGRAMS

Falstaff

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Arrigo Boito
English Translation: Andrew Porter
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

The costumes used in this production are available to be rented. Contact: John Avery

Kiss Me Kate

Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Samuel & Bella Spewack
Director: Alan Lund
Conductor: Howard Cable
Choreographer: Alan Lund
Set Designer: Larry Schafer
Costume Designer: Malabar
Lighting Designer: Bill Williams

Spokesong (restaged)

Composer: Richard Peter Thomas
Libretto: Stewart Parker
Director: Scott Swan
Choreographer: David MacMurray Smith
Designer: Peter Wingate
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

Les Mamelles de Tiresias Tirsias

Composer: Francis Poulenc
Libretto: Guillaume Apollinaire
Director: Michael Bawtree
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Choreographer: David MacMurray Smith  
Stage Manager: Robert Pel
Set Designer: Réjean Labrie
Costume Designer: Joan Murphy

Goverment Inspector by Nikoli Gogol

Adaptation: Campbell Smith
Music: Stephen McNeff
Director: Michael Bawtree
Set Designer: Réjean Labrie
Costume Designer: Joan Murphy
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

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1984 OPERA PROGRAMS

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Composer: Benjamin Britten

Libretto: Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

West Side Story

Music: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: Arthur Laurents
Director: Alan Lund
Conductor: Howard Cable
Choreographer: Alan Lund
Set Designer: Larry Schafer
Costume Designer: Frances Dafoe
Lighting Designer: Bill Williams

Doctor & the Devils

Book: Dylan Thomas
Composer: Stephen McNeff
Libretto: Charles Causley
Director: Michael Bawtree
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Designer: Richard Kent Wilcox
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

Spokesong

Composer: Richard Pearson Thomas
Libretto: Stewart Parker
Director: Scott Swan
Choreographer: David MacMurray Smith
Designer: Peter Wingate
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

Bible Bill

Composer: Stephen McNeff
Libretto: Ken Jones
Director: Douglas Riske
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Designer: Peter Wingate
Lighting Designer: James Robert
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

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1983 OPERA PROGRAMS

Ariadne Auf Naxos

Composer: Richard Strauss
Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Director: Oliver Reichenbach
Conductor: Mario Bernardi
Set Designer: Laszlo Funtek
Costume Designer: Laszlo Funtek
Lighting Designer: Laszlo Funtek

Oklahoma!

Music & Lyrics: Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein II
Director: Michael Bawtree
Conductor: Howard Cable
Choreographer: Don Calderwood
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costumer Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Lighting Designer: Richard Wilcox

Sasha

Composer: Stephen Oliver
Libretto: Stephen Oliver
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

Working

Composers: Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, James Taylor
Book: Studs Terkel
Director: Campbell Smith
Musical Director: Kerry McShane
Designer: Richard Kent Wilcox
Adaptation: Stephen Schwartz and Nino Faso
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

Ghost Town

Composer: Stephen Gibson
Libretto: Jeremy James Taylor
Director: Jeremy James Taylor
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Choreographor: David MacMurray Smith
Designer: Peter Wingate
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Robert Pel

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1982 OPERA PROGRAMS

The Rake's Progress

Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Libretto: W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Director: Brian Macdonald
Conductor: Raffi Armenian
Set Designer: Murray Laufer
Costume Designer: Suzanne Mess
Lighting Designer: Bill Williams

The Music Man

Music: Meridith Willson
Book: Meridith Willson
Director: Michael Bawtree
Conductor: Howard Cable
Choreographer: Don Calderwood
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Lighting Designer: Jane Reisman

Beautiful Dreamer

Composer: Stephen Foster
Libretto: Roy Hudd
Director: Campbell Smith
Musical Director: Kerry McShane
Set Designer: Cameron Porteous
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Winston Morgan

The Shivaree

Composer: John Beckwith
Libretto: James Reaney
Director: Michael Bawtree
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Choreographer: David MacMurray Smith
Set Designer: Cameron Porteous
Lighting Designer: Christopher Popowich
Stage Manager: Winston Morgan

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1981 OPERA PROGRAMS

Albert Herring

Composer: Benjamin Britten
Libretto: Eric Crozier
Director: Douglas Campbell
Conductor: Roderick Brydon
Set Designer: Brian Jackson
Costume Designer: Brian Jackson
Lighting Designer: Michael Whitfield

The Threepenny Opera

Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht
Music: Kurt Weill
Book: Bertolt Brecht
Director: Richard Williams
Conductor: Howard Cable
Choreographer: Valerie Moore
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Martin Johnson
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

Peking Dusk

Composer: Stephen McNeff
Director: Michael Bawtree
Conductor: Frederic Rzewski
Designer: Cameron Porteous
Stage Manager: Barrie St. Germain

Price of Oil

Composer: Frederic Rzewski
Text: Hermann von Mosenthal after Shakespeare
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Director: Michael Bawtree
Designer: Cameron Porteous
Choreography: David MacMurray Smith
Stage Manager: Barrie St. Germain

The Grimwood Clock

Drmatist: Leofwin Luke
Composer: Richard Pearson Thomas
Director: Jeremy James Taylor
Designer: Marian Boyer
Conductor: Stephen McNeff
Choreographer: David MacMurray Smith
Stage Manager: Barrie St. Germain
Lighting Designer: Shelly Adams

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1980 OPERA PROGRAMS

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Composer: Otto Nicolai
Text: Hermann von Mosenthal after Shakespeare
English Translation: Josef Blatt
Director: Leon Major
Conductor: Samuel Krachmalnick
Set Designer: Murray Laufer
Costume Designer: Martin Johnson
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

Drummer - World Pemiere

Composer: David Warrack
Lyrics: David Warrack
Book: Michael Bawtree & David Warrack
Director: Michael Bawtree
Choreographer: Valerie Moore
Conductor: Howard Cable
Set Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Costume Designer: Martin Johnson
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis

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