Opera History 1990 to 1999 - Theatre Arts Program
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1999 OPERA PROGRAM
The Raven King - (KidsOp)
Composer: Mervyn Burtch
Libretto: Mark Morris
Music Directors: Janice Tole and Karen Kamensek
Stage Director: Lawrie Seligman
Set, Properties and Costume Designer: Julie Renton
Lighting Designer: David Ingraham
1998 OPERA PROGRAMS
Zurich 1916 - world premiere
Composer: Christopher Butterfield
Concept and Libretto: John Bentley Mays
Music Director: Owen Underhill
Stage Director: Keith Turnbull
Choreographer: Bill Coleman
Stage Designer: David Gaucher
Costume Designer: Mary Kerr,
Lighting Designer: Staphane Mongeau
Original development, with the support of OPERA AMERICA's Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Opera for a New America and Autumn Leaf Performance, under working title: Project for an Opera of the Twentieth Century G.S.: something that happened once and it is very interesting.
Paris 1916 - Eric Satie, the velvet gentleman
Concept and Stage Director: Graham Cozzubbo
Music Director: Michael McMahon
Choreographer: Walter Wittich
Designer: Gavin Semple
Lighting Designer: Linda Babins
France/Canada - 3 world premiers for voice and instruments
- The Kiss is a song cycle 'trio' for three groups of performers by French composer Anne-Marie Fijal.
- Hieroglyphs is a song cycle for mezzo soprano, violins, cello and percussion by Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith with text assembled by the composer, and writer Elissa Poole.
- What's Goin' On by French composer Richard Dubelski is a fully staged music theatre work based on interviews and stories from the inner city.
1997 OPERA PROGRAM
Jackie O - world priemiere
co-production with Houston Grand Opera
Composer: Michael Daugherty
Libretto: Wayne Koestenbaum
Director: Nicholas Muni
Music Director: David Agler
Design: Peter Werner
Lighting: Harry Frehner
1996 OPERA PROGRAMS
Kafka's Chimp - world premiere
Composer: John Metcalf
Libretto: Mark Morris
Director: Keith Turnbull
Music Director: Richard Pittman
Design: David Gaucher
Lighting Design: Claude Accolas
Who the H... is Georges
Aperghis?
The first major presentation of the works of Georges Aperhgis in North America.
- Water and Gravity - The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis
- De la nature de la gravitª - world premiere
- De la nature de l'eau - North American premiere
Director: Richard Armstrong
Music Director: Jean-Pierre Drouet
Designer: Terry Gunvordahl
Cabaret Aperghis
Director: Graham Cozzubbo
Music Director: Marguerite Witvoet
Music by Aperghis and Contemporaries Concerts
Including works by Georges Aperghis, Pascal Dusapin, Marc Monnet, John Metcalf and others.
1995 OPERA PROGRAMS
Wozzeck - a co-production with le nouvel ensemble moderne of Montreal with a world premiere re-orchestration for chamber orchestra.
Composer: Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Libretto: Alban Berg, based on Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck
Orchestration: John Rea
Music Director: Lorraine Vaillancourt
Director: Nicholas Muni
Set and Costume Designer: Peter Werner
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner
Stage Manager: Mary Yankee Peters
"OH MY BABY"
5 Songs by Charles Ives
Ballet macanique/Mechanical Ballet (1924-25; revised 1954) by George Antheil
6 songs from Tonadillas by Enrique Granados
Village Scenes by Bala Bart§k
Les Noces/The Wedding by Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Dairina Ni Mheadhra
Director: Robert Chevara
Designer: Gavin Semple
Lighting Designer: Linda Babbins
Choreographer: Joe Laughlin
Program Music Director: John Hess
Stage Manager: Ingrid Turk
"WHAT KEEPS MANKIND ALIVE"
- an European cabaret
and
"GIBRALTAR MAY TUMBLE"
- an American cabaret
Director: Richard Armstrong
Program Music Director: John Hess
Designer: Gavin Semple
Stage Manager: Tom Wright
SECRET SOUNDS I & II
Kammersymphonie Op. 9 by Arnold Shoenberg
Die junge Magd Op. 23 by Paul Hindemith
Secret Theatre by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Octandre by Edgard Var¿se
Five Canons on Latin Texts Op. 16 by Anton
Webern
From the Diary of Virginia Wolf by Dominick
Argento
5 Sacred Songs Op. 15 by Anton Webern
Madrigals, Book III by George Crumb
Concerto for Nine Instruments Op. 24 by Anton
Webern
Romanzen by Wilhelm Kilmayer
Conductor: Lorraine Vaillancourt
Music: performed by members of le nouvelle ensemble moderne
Stage Manager: Rick Rinder
El Cimarrón
Composer: Hans Werner Henze
Libretto: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, based on a story by Miguel Barnet
Director: Graham Cozzubbo
Music Director: Lorraine Vaillancourt
Designer: Harry Frehner
Stage Management: James Livingstone
1994 OPERA PROGRAM
The Rake's Progress
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Libretto: W.H. Auden & Chester Kallman
Director: Keith Turnbull
Co-director: Graham Cozzubbo
Conductor: David Agler
Set/Costume Designer: Michael Eagan
Lighting Designer Kevin: LaMotte
1993 OPERA PROGRAMS
Don Giovanni
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
Director: Brian Macdonald
Stage Combat Choreog: Jim Sheerin
Conductor: Ronald Zollman
Set/Costume Designer: Claude Girard
Lighting Designer: Kevin Lamotte
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
Composer: Michael Nyman
Libretto: Christopher Rawlence.
Adapted for the Stage by: Michael Norris, Michael Nyman and Christopher Rawlence
Director: Morris Panych
Music Director: John Hess
Set/Costume Designer: Ken MacDonald
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner
Stage Management: Bona Duncon
The White Rose
Composer: Udo Zimmerman
Dramatist: Wolfgang Willaschek with
Translation: Norbert Ruebsaat
Director: Keith Turnbull
Music Director: Odaline de la Martinez
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner
Sound designer: Claude Schryer
Stage Management: Nicolette Theroux.
Bow Down - Canadian premiere
Composer: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Text: Tony Harrison
Director: Graham Cozzubbo
Music Director: Rosemary Thomson
Designer: Mark Deggan
Stage Managment: Nicolette Theroux.
1992 OPERA PROGRAMS
La Tragadie de Carmen
Composer: Georges Bizet
Libretto: Meilhac and Halªvy
Novel: Prosper Mªrimªe
Adaptation: Marius Constant, Jean-Claude Carri¿re, Peter Brook
Director: Rhoda Levine
Fight Choreographer: Jim Sheerin
Conductor: Alan Hacker
Set Designer: Charlotte Dean
Costume Designer: Charlotte Dean
Lighting Designer: Kevin Lamotte
Ubu - World premiere
co-production with Music Theatre Wales
Composer: Andrew Toovey
Librettist: Michael Finnissy and Andrew Toovey, based on Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi
Director: Keith Turnbull
Musical Director: Michael Rafferty
Designer: Simon Banham
Stage Manager: Colin Barr
1991 OPERA PROGRAMS
CosÏ fan tutte
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
Surtitles: Frances Rizzo
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Stephen Lord
Set Designer: Susan Benson
Costume Designer: Susan Benson
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner
Punch And Judy - Canadian Premiere
Composer: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Director: Michael Mawson
Music Director: Michael Rafferty
Designer: Ange Zhang
Lighting Designer: Jeff Stewart
Stage Management: Bonni Baynton
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Composer: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Director: Keith Turnbull
Designer: Gavin Semple
Lighting Designer: Gavin Semple
Stage Management: Tom Wright
Miss Donnithorne's Maggot
Composer: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Director: Keith Turnbull
Designer: Gavin Semple
Lighting Designer: Gavin Semple
Stage Management: Tom Wright
1990 OPERA PROGRAMS
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
Play: La Folle Journªe, ou Le Mariage de Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Beaumarchais
English Translation: Edward J. Dent
Edition: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by Ludwig Finscher
Director: Colin Graham
Conductor: Stephen Lord
Set Designer: Susan Benson
Costume Designer: Susan Benson
Lighting Designer: Michael Whitfield
Street Scene
Composer: Kurt Weill
Libretto: Langston Hughes, based on the play by Elmer Rice
Direction: Michael Mawson and Anna Farthing
Designer: Ange Zhang
Music Direction: Peter Stanger, Laurie Hunter and Selena James
Sound Design: Lorie Broadhead
Choreographer: Louise Day
Stage Management: Judith Begley and Ian C. More
Tornrak - World premiere
co-production with the Welsh National Opera
Composer: John Metcalf
Libretto: Michael Wilcox
Director: Michael Ashman
Conductor: Peter Stanger
Costume Designer: John Pennoyer
Set Designer: Bernard Culshaw
Lighting Designer: Michael J. Whitfield
Stage Management: Colin Barr.
