SEATTLE OPERA PRESENTS TRISTAN UNO ISOLDE MUSIC AND LIBRETTO BY RICHARD WAGNER Production Sponsor: Kreielsheimer Endowment Fund THIS PRODUCTION OF TRISTAN UNO ISOLDE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PERRY LORENZO Premiere: Munich, Konigliches Hof- und National Theater, June 10, 1865 Seattle Opera Premiere: March 18, 1981 Performed at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall: July 31, August 4,7,12, 15m, 18, and 21, 2010 In German with English captions. Evening performances begin at 6:30 p.m. Matinee begins at 2:00 p.m. Latecomers will not be seated during the music. Act I: 79 minutes. Intermission: 30 minutes. Act II: 64 minutes, Intermission: 27 minutes. Act III: 71 minutes. Speight Jenkins. General Director Asher Fisch • Principal Guest Conductor Conductor Asher Fisch Stage Director Peter Kazaras Set and Costume Designer Robert Israel Lighting Designer Duane Schuler Hair and Makeup Designer Joyce Degenfelder English Captions Jonath~n Dean Cast (in order of vocal appearance) Sailor/Shepherd Simeon Esper Isolde Annalena Persson t* Brangiine Margaret Jane Wray Kurwenal Greer Grimsley Tristan '€'Ii'f16fi For6jg"4 AVA JIVJ Melot Jason Collins King Marke Stephen Milling Steersman Barry Johnson Assistant Conductor Philip A. Kelsey Assistant Director Jeffrey Buchman Chorusmaster Beth Kirchhoff Musical Preparation Philip A. Kelsey, David McDade, Jay Rozendaal Associate Lighting Designer Connie Yun Stage Manager Yasmine Kiss t Seattle Opera debut * U.S. debut Inspiration for this production derived in part from the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. To read the story, visit seattleopera.orgltristan and click on Director's Notes. Clifton Forbis's performances are made possible by generous financial support from the James and Sherry Raisbeck Lead Singers' Fund. Greer Grimsley's performances are made possible by generous financial support from Jonathan and Patricia Caves. Holztrompete courtesy of the Joe and Joella Utley Brass Instrument Collection at the National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion. Costumes executed by Seattle Opera. English captions by Jonathan Dean © Seattle Opera 2010. Opera presentation and production © Seattle Opera 2010. Copying of any performance by camera, audio, or video recording equipment, and by any other copying device, and any other use of such copying devices during the performances is prohibited. Seattle Opera's 2010/11 season is sponsored by Performances of Tristan und isolde are made possible in part by generous grants from 4Culture; ArtsFund; C. E. Stuart Charitable Trust; National Endowment for the Arts; Nes~olm Family Foundation; PONCHO; the James and Sherry Raisbeck Lead Singers' Microsoft' Fund; Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affair'S; Washington State Arts Commission. The Cast , (in order of vocal appearfjnce) Das Rheingold Woglinde Julianrie Gearhart Wellgunde Michele Losier Flosshilde JennifEjr Hines Alberich Richarlrt Paul Fink Fricka Stepha~ie Blythe Wotan Greer Grimsley Freia Marie Piette Fasolt Andre~ Silvestrellit Fafner Daniel',Sumegi Froh Jason Collins Donner Gordon Hawkins Loge Kobie van Rensburgt Mime Dennis Petersent Erda Maria $treijffertt Das Rheingo/d runs from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. with no intermission. Die WalkOre Siegmund Stuart Skeltont Sieglinde Margar,-et Jane Wray Hunding AndreC1 Silvestrelli Wotan Greer Grimsley BrOnnhilde Janice Baird Fricka Stephanie Blythe Gerhilde Miriam Murphyt Helmwige Sally Wolf Waltraute Luretta Bybee Schwertleite Jennifer Hines Ortlinde Marie Piette Siegrune Sarah Heltzel Grimgerde Michele Losier Rossweisse Maria Streijffert Die Wa/kilre runs from 6:00 to 10:35 p.m., including two intermissions. Siegfried Mime Denni~ Petersen Siegfried Stig Andersent The Bear JC Casiano The Wanderer Greer Grimsley Alberich Richard Paul Fink Fafner Daniel Sumegi Forest Bird Julianne Gearhart Erda Maria ptreijffert Brunnhilde Janice Baird Horn Call Mark Robbins Siegfried runs from 6:00 to 11 :00 p.m., in~luding two intermissions. G6tterdammerufjg First Norn Luretta Bybee Second Norn Stephanie Blythe Third Norn Margaret Jane Wray Brunnhilde Janice; Baird Siegfried Stig Andersen Gunther Gordon Hawkins Hagen Daniel'Sumegi Gutrune Marie piette Waltraute Steph~nie Blythe Alberich Richa~d Paul Fink Woglinde JUlianpe Gearhart Wellgunde Michele Losier Flosshilde Jennif~r Hines Gotterdammerung runs from 6:00 to 11:20 p.rri., including two intermissions. tSeattie Opera debut The Metropolitan Opera 2008-09 Season The 152nd Metropolitan Opera performance of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold Conductor ---:ffi ffie5 Lev-ifl€- IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE Woglinde Fafner Lisette Oropesa* John Tomlinson Wellgunde Froh Kate lindsey* Garrett Sorenson* Flosshilde Donner Tamara Mumford* Charles Taylor* Alberich Loge Richard Paul Fink Kim Begley Fricka Mime Yvonne Naef Dennis Petersen Wotan Erda James Morris Wendy White This performance Freia is being broadcast Wendy Bryn Harmer* live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on Fasolt SIRIUS channel 78 Rene Pape and XM channel 79. Thursday, April 23, 2009, 8:00-10:3Spm The Opera The 449th Metropolitan Opera performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Conductor James Levine IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE A Sailor's Voice King Marke Tony Stevenson Matti Salminen Isolde A Shepherd Deborah Voigt Mark Schowalter Brangane A Steersman Margaret':J..e VVray James Courtney K~~~ It-k d~ Eike Wilm Schulte English horn solo Tristan Pedro R. Diaz Ben Heppner Melot Deborah Voigt's Stephen Gaertner performance is underwritten by the Annenberg Principal Artist Fund. Friday, March 2B, 200B, 7:00-11:55pm J,\OPERA Placido Domingo, General Director • Kent Nagancl, Music Director Edgar Baitzel, Artistic Director • Elizabeth Kennedy, Jffministrative Director presents 1 RICHARD WAGNER : PARSIFAU Libretto by the composer 1 Cast (in order ofvocal appearance) CONDUCTOR Parsifal Placido Domingo The running time is Kent Nagano approximately four hours GumemaT!? Matti Salminen DIRECTION, SCENIC DESIGN, and twenty-five minutes, LIGHTING DESIGN which includes two twenty­ Amfortas Albert Dohmen Robert Wilson minute internlissions. STACE DIRECTOR Kundry Linda Watson Nicola Panzer Used by arrangement with Klingsor Hartmut Welker European American Music SET DESIGNER Distributors LLC, sale U. S. Stephanie Engeln Titurel James Creswell and Canadian agent for LIGHTING DESIGNER First Knight Vale Rideout Schott Musik International. AJ. Weissbard Second Knight Dean Elzinga LOS ANGELES OPERA Supertitles written by CONCERTMASTER Christopher Bergen; Stuart Canin First Esquire SarahJ ane McMa~on cued by Linda Zoolalian. LOS ANGELES OPERA Second Esquire Patricia Risley CHORUS MASTER Pre-performance lectures William Vendice Third Esquire David Robinson by Michael Hackett. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS Fourth Esquire Peter Nathan Foltz Pre-performance lectures Anne Tomlinson ~ are generously sponsored by A Voice Margaret Thomp~on the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera Original co-production of the Flower Maidens Abbie Furmansk~ Hamburg State Opera and League of Los Angeles. Jessica Swink ! Houston Grand Opera. ~ Additional set construction by Patricia Risley RA. Reed Productions, Inc., Martina Riiping Portland, Oregon. Additional SarahJane McM~on I 1 costumes by Los Angeles Opera Margaret Thomp~on Costume Shop. Wigs constructed by the Los Angeles Opera Wig DepartInent. Artists subject to change. j .( New production made possible by a gene1pus gift from The Eli and Edythe L. Broad F1undation. j Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. Members of ~he audience who leave during the perfonnance will not be shown back into the theater until the next intennission. The use of cameras an4 recording equipment is strictly prohibited. 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