Banff Centre Opera Productions

Dido and Aeneas

Canadian Premiere

Composer: Henry Purcell
Director: Leona Paterson
Conductor: Clayton Hare

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The Old Maid and the Thief

Composer: Gian Carlo Menotti

Martha

Composer: Friedrich von Flotow
Libretto: W. Friedrich

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Hansel and Gretel

Composer: Englebert Humperdinck
Libretto: Adelheid Wette
English Translation: Constance Backe

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Composer: Otto Nicolai
Director: Donald Pimm
Conductor: Richard Eaton

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The Abduction From the Seraglio

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director: Donald Pimm
Conductor: Richard Eaton

Gianni Schicchi

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Director: Donald Pimm

The Old Maid and the Thief

Composer: Gian Carlo Menotti
Director: Donald Pimm

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The Barber of Seville

Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
English Translation: Boris Goldovsky, Sarah Caldwell
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: Clayton Hare

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Die Fledermaus

Composer: Johann Strauss
English Translation: Ruth & Thomas Martin
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Shirley Potter

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La Traviata

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
English Translation: W. James Craig
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig

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The Marriage of Figaro

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
English Translation: Edward J. Dent
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Shirley Potter

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Tosca

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Shirley Potter

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Falstaff

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Arrigo Boito
English Translation: Chester Kallman
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Shirley Potter

Il Tabarro

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Arrigo Boito
English Translation: Chester Kallman
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Shirley Potter

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L'Elisir d'Amore

Composer: Gaetana Donizetti
Libretto: Felice Romani
English Translation: Ruth & Thomas Martin
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Shirly Potter

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Orpheus in the Underworld

Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Libretto: Cremieux & Haleuy
English Translation: R. Fulford, J. Knight
Director: Andrew MacMillan
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham, Laszlo Funtek
Costume Designer: Shirley Potter

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The Old Maid and the Theif

Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Director: Constance Fisher
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham, Laszlo Funtek
Costume Designer: Shirley Potter, Liliane Johnson

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Madame Butterfly

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Libretto: L. Illica & G. Gracosa
Book: by John L. Long
Drama: by David Belasco
Director: Constance Fisher
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Liliane Johnson
Lighting Designer: Charles E. Williams

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Hansel and Gretel

Composer: Englebert Humperdinck
Libretto: Adelheid Wette
Director: Constance Fisher
Conductor: W. James Craig
Set Designer: Laszlo Funtek
Costume Designer: Liliane Johnson
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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Susannah

By Carlisle Floyd
Director: Robert H. Cowden
Conductor: William Shookhoff
Set Designer: Greg Chandler
Costume Designer: Janet Knechtel
Lighting Designer: Greg Chandler

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Deirdre

Composer: Healey Willan
Libretto: John Coulter
Director: Andrew Downie
Conductor: Alfred Strombergs
Set Designer: John W. Graham
Costume Designer: Liliane Johnson
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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The Magic Flute

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
English Translation: Ruth & Thomas Martin
Director: Andrew Downie
Conductor: Alfred Strombergs
Set Designer: John Graham
Costume Designer: Liliane Johnson
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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The Threepenny Opera

Composer: Kurt Weill
Libretto: Bertold Brecht
English Translation: Hugh MacDiarmid
Conductor: Alfred Strombergs
Set Designer: Rob Lefroy
Lighting Designer: Jim Frank

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The Marriage of Figaro

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
English Translation: Ruth & Thomas Martin
Director: James Lucas
Conductor: Bryan Balkwill
Set Designer: Laszlo Funtek
Costume Designer: Helen Hutton
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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Don Pasquale

Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Giovanni Ruffini
Director: Carlo Maestrini
Conductor: Bryan Balkwill
Set Designer: Laszlo Funtek
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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The Tender Land

Composer: Aaron Copeland

Director: Perrette Alarie
Conductor: William Shookhoff
Set Designer: James Andraza
Costume Designer: Valerie Quigley
Lighting Designer: James Andraza

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Cinderella

Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto: Jacopo Ferretti
English Translation: Ruth & Thomas Martin
Director: James Lucas
Conductor: Bryan Balkwill
Set Designer: Laszlo Funtek
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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La Boheme

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Libretto: Guiseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
Novel: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme by Henry Murger
Director: James Lucas
Conductor: Helmuth Froschauer
Set Designer: David Lovett
Costume Designer: Suzanne Mess
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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Sganarelle

The Stronger

Composer: Hugo Weisgall
Musical Director: William Shookhoff
Stage Director: George Ross

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Cosi fan tutte

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
Conductor: Bryan Balkwill
Director: James Lucas
Set Designer: David L. Lovett
Costume Designer: Malabar
Lighting Designer: David Hignell

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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

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Drummer

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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Government Inspector

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

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

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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

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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

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

Jack and the Beanstalk

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

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

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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

The Marriage of Figaro

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

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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.

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Punch And Judy

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

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

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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

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Ubu

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

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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

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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

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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

Composer: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Text: Tony Harrison
Director: Graham Cozzubbo
Music Director: Rosemary Thomson
Designer: Mark Deggan
Stage Managment: Nicolette Theroux.

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

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Wozzeck

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"

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"

"GIBRALTAR MAY TUMBLE"

Director: Richard Armstrong
Program Music Director: John Hess
Designer: Gavin Semple
Stage Manager: Tom Wright

SECRET SOUNDS I & II

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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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Zurich 1916

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.

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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.

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Kopernikus

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Bones

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Shakespeare at the Club

Stage Director: Christopher Hunt
Music Director: Leslie Dala
Stage Manager: Caroline Dufresne and Susan McNair Reid

Shakespeare at the Opera

Stage Director: Glynis Leyshon
Music Director: Leslie Dala
Stage Manager: Caroline Dufresne
Set Designer: Robert Rombough
Lighting Designer: Heidi Lingren
Costume Designer: Deneen MacArthur

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Shakespeare at the Club

Stage Director: Christopher Hunt
Music Director: Leslie Dala
Stage Manager: Caroline Dufresne 
Choreographer: Gwen Dobie

Forbidden Shakespeare

Stage Director: Glynis Leyshon
Music Director: Leslie Dala
Set/Props/Costume Designer: Marti Wright
Lighting Designer: Terry Gunvordahl
Sound Designer: Kam Shermon
Stage Manager: Caroline Dufresne

Filumena

Composer: John Estacio
Librettist: John Murrell, OC, AOE
Conductor: Bramwell Tovey
Stage Director: Kelly Robinson
Set/Props/Costume Designer: Sue LePage
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner
Stage Manager: Bonni Baynton

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Gilbert & Sullivan Cabaret

Stage Director: Glynis Leyshon
Music Director: Leslie Dala
Script: John Murrell
Stage Manager: Caroline Dufresne

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Constantinople

Composer: Christos Hatzis
Director/Choreographer: Marie-Josée Chartier
Scripting Advisor: John Murrell, OC, AOE
Visual Projection Concept Developer: Lionel Arnould
Visual Projection Designer and Producer: Jacques Collin and Lionel Arnould
Set and Lighting Designer: Bernard White
Costume Designer: Heather MacCrimmon
Sound Designer/Engineer: Anthony Crea
Production Manager: Caroline Holloway
Executive Producer: Roman Borys

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The Marriage of Figaro

Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte
Stage Director: Kelly Robinson
Conductor: David Angler
Chorus Master: Petar Dundjerski
Lighting Designer: Michael Whitfield
Stage Manager: Myra A. Malley

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The Magic Flute

Composer: John Estacio
Librettist: John Murrell, OC, AOE
Stage Director: Kelly Robinson
Conductor: Bramwell Tovey

Filumena

Composer: John Estacio
Librettist: John Murrell, OC, AOE
Stage Director: Kelly Robinson
Conductor: Imre Palló
Set/Props/Costume Designer: Sue LePage
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner
Chorus Master: Laurence Ewashko
Choreographer: Gérard Théorêt
Stage Manager: Bonni Baynton

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The Magic Flute

Librettist: Emmanuel Schikaneder
Translator for English Dialogue and Surtitles: John Murrell, OC, AOE
Stage Director: Kelly Robinson
Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Choreographer: Gérard Théorêt
Lighting Designer: Michael Whitfield
Chorus Master: Laurence Ewashko
Stage Manager: Paul A. Skirzyk

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Frobisher

Co-commissioned and co-produced by The Banff Centre and Calgary Opera

Composer: John Estacio
Librettist: John Murrell, OC, AOE
Director: Kelly Robinson
Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Designer: Sue LePage
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner

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Frobisher

Composer: John Estacio
Librettist: John Murrell, OC, AOE
Director: Kelly Robinson
Assistant Director/Choreographer: Gérard Théorêt
Conductor: Alexander Platt
Designer: Sue LePage
Lighting Designer: Harry Frehner
Stage Manager: Bonni Baynton

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Phaedra

Dido and Aeneas

A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Phaedra /Dido and Aeneas Creative Team

Kelly Robinson Stage director 
David Agler Conductor (A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Phaedra)/music director 
Adam Burnette Conductor (Dido and Aeneas) 
Michael Waller Associate director (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 
Brent Krysa Assistant stage director (Phaedra/Dido and Aeneas) 
Vicki St. Denys Choreographer (A Midsummer Night's Dream/Dido and Aeneas)
Harry Frehner Lighting designer 
Scott Reid Set/props designer 
Julia Tribe Costume designer 
Bonni Baynton Stage Manager A Midsummer Night's Dream
Amy Lippold Stage Manager Phaedra/Dido and Aeneas

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