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Nine Unforgettable Productions
Welcome
to the 2012–2013 Indiana University Opera and Ballet
Theater Season—a collection of captivating works that
includes three new productions, two of which we have
never staged before.
The fall semester opens with a vengeance as
Mozart’s Don Giovanni takes the stage, followed by
a new production of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow,
and Massenet’s Cendrillon (Cinderella). The spring
semester continues with our first production of Handel’s
masterpiece Xerxes, followed by Philip Glass’s
mesmerizing Akhnaten. This will be IU Opera’s first
production of a Glass opera. In celebration
of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, his
popular comedy Falstaff draws the opera
season to a close.
The IU Ballet Theater season, with artistic director
Michael Vernon, is a powerful offering of diverse
choreographies—Fall Ballet: Light and Shade,
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and Spring Ballet:
Old World, New World.
Your investment in an IU Opera and Ballet subscription
will secure the best seats in the house. In addition,
you’ll receive the benefits of additional ticket coupons,
free ticket exchanges (subject to upgrade fees,
if any), the privilege to renew your seats from season to
season, and free lost ticket replacement. You also will
be able to buy single tickets to any production before
they go on sale to the general public.
Join us as our 64th Opera and Ballet Season
unfolds to reveal the creative talents of our faculty,
guest artists, and students!
Sincerely,
Gwyn Richards
Dean, IU Jacobs School of Music
General Manager, IU Opera and Ballet Theater
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Talk about a womanizer.
Don Giovanni—the original love ‘em and leave ‘em
guy—wrote the book. And we all know that hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned. Or does it?
See for yourself.
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Gio vanni
Don
W. A. Mozart
Opera with a
Vengeance!
september
14, 15, 21, 22 8pm
Conductor: Arthur Fagen
Stage Director: James Marvel
Set & Costume Designer: C. David Higgins
Three trend-setting styles of dance
in one program.
Sweet Fields
Eight Easy
Pieces
Eight More
Appalachian
Spring
Light
Choreographer: Twyla Tharp
Music: Early American shape note and Shaker hymns
Choreographer: Peter Martins
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Choreographer: Peter Martins
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Choreographer: Martha Graham
Music: Aaron Copland
Fall Ballet
and
Shade
september
28, 29 8pm
NEW Production
Beauty, youth, wealth, and
partying in Paris. Who wouldn’t be merry? And who
wouldn’t try to hook up with you? The well-known
hummable tunes that bring out the best of Viennese
operetta and modern musical comedy will have you
waltzing on air!
Sung in German with English Dialogue and English Supertitles
Merry Widow
The
Franz Lehár
October
18 7pm 19, 20 8pm
21 2pm
Conductor: Dale Rieling
Stage Director: Vincent Liotta
Set Designer: William Forrester
Costume Designer: Linda Pisano
Don your glass slippers,
grab your Fairy Godmother, and hail your pumpkin
coach to whisk you to a world where dreams
come true and love reigns triumphant. Don’t worry,
we’ll have you home by midnight.
Sung in French with English Supertitles
Cendrillon
Ce
Cinderella
Jules Massenet
November
8 7pm 9, 10 8pm 11 2pm
Conductor: Ronald Zollman
Stage Director: Albert-Andre Lheureux
Set & Costume Designer: C. David Higgins
Enter the enchanting world
of this favorite ballet for children of all ages. Travel
with Clara through her dreamscape, experiencing
all the magic that a young child’s mind can conjure.
Sugar Plum Fairies, Snow Queens, Mouse Kings,
heroic Nutcrackers, and much more await!
Nutcracker
The
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November
December
30 8pm 1 2pm & 8pm 2 2pm
Conductor: Andrea Quinn
Choreographer: Michael Vernon
Set & Costume Designer: C. David Higgins
NEW Production
What Persian King Xerxes
wants, Xerxes gets. And now he wants his brother’s
girlfriend. To further complicate matters, the
girlfriend’s sister wants her sibling’s boyfriend.
Fill your weekly laughter quota with this comic nod
to the green-eyed monster—Baroque style.
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Xerxes
an IU Opera
Theater Debut!
Photo by Hans Fahrmeyer, courtesy of The Santa Fe Opera.
George Frideric Handel
February
1, 2, 8, 9 8pm
Conductor: Gary Thor Wedow
Stage Director: Tom Diamond
Set & Costume Designer: Robert Perdziola
NEW Production
Expand your consciousness
through the mesmerizing music of Glass—perfectly
suited to the mood of this story based on the life and
religious convictions of Pharaoh Akhnaten, whose
inner vision transformed the age in which he lived.
You’ll leave changed as well.
Sung in English, Akkadian, and Biblical Hebrew
with English Supertitles
Akhnaten
Philip Glass
February
Philip Glass
meets IU Opera for
the first time!
march
22, 23 8pm 1, 2 8pm
Conductor: Arthur Fagen
Guest Stage Director
Guest Set & Costume Designer
Two great masters—Bournonville
and Balanchine—three great ballets.
Bournonville
Suite
Choreographer: August Bournonville
The Four
Temperaments
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Western
Symphony
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Music: Helsted, Holm, Loevenskjold,
Lumbye, and Paulli
Music: Paul Hindemith
Music: Traditional American melodies orchestrated by Hershy Kay
Old World New World
Spring Ballet
March
22 8pm 23 2pm & 8pm
Had your mid-life crisis yet?
Sir Falstaff has. Fat, drunk, and broke, the aging
knight sends love letters to two wealthy—and
married—women at the same time. Boy, was
that dumb. Based on Shakespeare’s comedy
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Falstaff
Viva Verdi:
Happy 200th,
Giuseppe!
Photo by Ken Howard, courtesy of The Santa Fe Opera.
Giuseppe Verdi
April
5, 6, 12, 13 8pm
Conductor: Constantine Kitsopoulos
Stage Director: Vincent Liotta
Set & Costume Designer: Robert O’Hearn
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