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2016/17 SEASON
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A MANITOBA OPERA PREMIERE
2016/17 SEASON
SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 19 7:30PM
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 22 7PM
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 25 7:30PM
“All the world’s a jest...he who laughs last, laughs best!”
Disguises, cross dressing, a late-night forest prank, plots
and counterplots – it’s a laughfest of operatic proportions!
Sir John Falstaff, a well-aged knight who thinks he’s still “got it,”
sends identical love letters to two married ladies in the hopes
of tapping into their husbands’ fortunes and restoring his
dwindling finances.
The merry wives of Windsor are quickly onto him however, and
the down-and-out Knight of the Garter is soon hung out to dry!
VERDI
If you don’t laugh out loud, we will refund your ticket!
(Just kidding.)
Falstaff
Alice Ford
Ford
Meg Page
Conductor
Director
Todd
Thomas
Monica
Huisman
Gregory
Dahl
Lauren
Segal
Tyrone
Paterson
Michael
Cavanagh
Falstaff, Opera de Montréal, 2013. Photo: Y. Renaud.
MUSIC
Giuseppe Verdi
LIBRETTO
Arrigo Boito after William Shakespeare’s
plays The Merry Wives of Windsor
and King Henry IV
Sung in Italian with projected English translations.
A MANITOBA OPERA PREMIERE
2016/17 SEASON
“
SATURDAY
APRIL 29 7:30PM
I have so much in me,
and the feeling for
her absorbs it all;
I have so much,
and without her it
all comes to nothing.
TUESDAY
MAY 2 7PM
FRIDAY
MAY 5 7:30PM
”
Promises kept and fragile hearts broken.
The young poet, Werther, falls instantly in love with the beautiful
and unattainable Charlotte; however, Charlotte has promised to marry
another. Werther tries to stay away, but his tormented heart aches to
be with her. Seeking peace the only way he knows how, he takes his
own life as Charlotte finally returns his love.
Based on the great German Romantic poet, Goethe’s
semi-autobiographical novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Irresistible melody infused with vivid and lush orchestration,
results in a masterpiece that is among the most exquisite
and moving in all of French opera.
Werther
Charlotte
Albert
Conductor
Director
John
Tessier
Lauren
Segal
Keith
Phares
Tyrone
Paterson
Ann
Hodges
MASSENET
Werther, Opera de Montréal, 2010. Photo: Y. Renaud.
MUSIC
Jules Massenet
LIBRETTO
Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann,
based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Die Leiden
des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
Sung in French with projected English translations.
Daniel Okulitch (Count Almaviva) and Lara Ciekiewicz (Countess Almaviva), The Marriage of Figaro, 2015. Photo: R. Tinker
A Superb Production.
– C. Mackie, patron (The Marriage of Figaro)
Turandot, 2015. Photo: R. Tinker
...arts is about nourishing the soul as well as
entertaining the mind. No one knows this and does
this better than Manitoba Opera.
– B.J. Taylor, patron (Turandot)
Peter McGillivray (Dr. Bartolo), Gordon Bintner
(Figaro), and Donnalynn Grills (Marcellina),
The Marriage of Figaro, 2015. Photo: R. Tinker
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Christopher Mayell (Pong), Benjamin Covey
(Ping), and Keith Klassen (Pang), Turandot,
2015. Photo: R. Tinker
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Raul Melo (Calaf) and Valerian Ruminski
(Timur), Turandot, 2015. Photo: R. Tinker
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