2016–17 SEASON
IT'S A NEW DAY.
PIOTR BECZALA IN RECITAL SEPTEMBER 2016 BALBOA THEATRE
CINDERELLA (LA CENERENTOLA) OCTOBER 2016 CIVIC THEATRE
SOLDIER SONGS
NOVEMBER 2016 BALBOA THEATRE
FALSTAFF
FEBRUARY 2017 CIVIC THEATRE
TRAGEDY OF CARMEN (LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN) MARCH 2017 BALBOA THEATRE
LA TRAVIATA
APRIL 2017 CIVIC THEATRE
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COMPOSER Gioachino Rossini CAST ANGELINA/CINDERELLA Lauren McNeese DON RAMIRO David Portillo DANDINI José Adán Pérez DON MAGNIFICO Stefano de Peppo CLORINDA Susannah Biller TISBE Alissa Anderson ALIDORO Ashraf Sewailam CONDUCTOR Gary Thor Wedow DIRECTOR Lindy Hume 4
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OCTOBER
22 / 25 / 28 / 30m 2016 7 PM
FALSE PRIDE IS CRUMBLED TO DUST AND KINDNESS TRIUMPHS
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Can goodness trump selfishness and vanity? A trapped and tender-hearted Angelina cooks and cleans for her buffoonish stepfather and her snooty stepsisters while she dreams of a better life. When two visitors arrive at her home — a prince disguised as his own servant, and the prince’s servant disguised as a beggar — she shows them the kindness that no one else in
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the house will. Fate rewards her with an invitation to the ball where the prince will choose his bride. Is there a happy ending in store for Angelina? Rossini’s delightful version of the classic fairytale Cinderella shows that virtue does triumph and kindness can make your dreams come true, even without a fairy godmother and a glass slipper. 5
COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi CAST SIR JOHN FALSTAFF Roberto de Candia ALICE FORD Ellie Dehn FORD Troy Cook NANNETTA Maureen McKay FENTON Jonathan Johnson DAME QUICKLY Marianne Cornetti MEG PAGE Kirstin Chรกvez BARDOLFO Simeon Esper PISTOLA Reinhard Hagen DR. CAIUS Joel Sorensen CONDUCTOR Daniele Callegari DIRECTOR Olivier Tambosi 6
Falstaff FEBRUARY
18 / 21 / 24 / 26m 2017 7 PM
NO WITCHING POWERS I CLAIM, YET I’VE A CERTAIN JE NE SAIS QUOI, I CONFESS
7 PM
7 PM
Sir John Falstaff is the ultimate human juxtaposition—old yet immature, hapless but manipulative, decent yet wickedly indecent. Also a man of many appetites, the lecherous Falstaff can’t resist his favorite vices—food, women, and wine. Suddenly finding himself broke, he hatches a plot to cure his woes—he sends identical love letters to two married women to get his hands on their wealthy husbands’ purse
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strings. Falstaff doesn’t bank on getting found out and with the help of some "merry wives," husbands, and supernatural creatures, he gets his due and learns the joke is on him. A brilliant comedy based on a character from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, this period piece boasts an updated twist, pops of color, and designs from a modern point of view for modern tastes.
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COMPOSER Giuseppe Verdi CAST VIOLETTA VALÉRY Corinne Winters ALFREDO GERMONT Joshua Guerrero GIORGIO GERMONT Stephen Powell FLORA BERVOIX Peabody Southwell DR. GRENVIL Kevin Langan GASTONE Brenton Ryan MARQUIS D’OBIGNY Scott Sikon CONDUCTOR Stephen Lord DIRECTOR Marta Domingo 8
LA TRAVIATA APRIL
22 / 25 / 28 / 30m 2017 7 PM
WOULD A REAL LOVE BE A TRAGEDY FOR ME?
7 PM
7 PM
The Roaring Twenties brought us novel inventions, a racy new culture, and dramatic social change‌and for Violetta ValÊry, illness, judgment, and sacrifice. This party girl lives life on her own terms, gives into pleasure for money and keeps her heart safe, until she meets a man who changes her life. Choosing love over freedom, Violetta cannot resist
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these feelings and the couple begin their life together, until an unwelcome visitor threatens their future. Will Violetta bend to the will of another or surrender to her heart? And can she do it in time? Directed by Marta Domingo, La traviata transports us to the past to a love story with poignant themes that transcend the ages. 9
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SOLDIER SONGS
NOVEMBER
11 / 12 / 13m 2016 7 PM
War. To those who experience it from the comfort of their living rooms, they have no idea. For those who have experienced it first hand, we have no idea. Now is the time to crack open the door to understanding and conversation in Soldier Songs. Gripping and realistic, Soldier Songs traces the shift in perception of war from the age of 6 to the age of 66. We follow the lead character through the phases of life from boy to man: playing 12
war games and violent video games as a youth, enlisting and serving in the military, the real-life horrors of war, and a father whose worst fears are realized with the news of the death of his son. Adapted from interviews with veterans of five wars, Soldier Songs explores the idea versus the realities of the soldier, loss and the exploitation of innocence, and the impossibility of expressing the truth of war.
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2 PM / BALBOA THEATRE
YOUR PRACTICED WORDS, FROM SCRIPTS WELL LEARNED, CANNOT BRING BACK MY SON
COMPOSER David T. Little A GLMMR Production CAST BARITONE David Adam Moore CONDUCTOR Steven Schick 13
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Tragedy of
armen
(La Tragédie de Carmen)
Gypsy Carmen is a sizzling seductress, but play with her and you will get burned. Naïve young soldier Don José falls for her, leaving his homespun sweetheart Micaëla in pursuit of a life of crime and lust with Carmen and her band. But when Carmen callously drops him for Escamillo, the strutting bullfighter, jealousy ignites and Don
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José is pushed to the brink. Passions intensify and burst into an emotional bonfire that threatens to destroy them all. In Peter Brook’s gripping adaptation of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, The Tragedy of Carmen brings us all of the intense emotion and gorgeous music, in a focused and distilled 90-minute production.
MARCH 10 / 11 / 12m 2017 7 PM
7 PM
2 PM / BALBOA THEATRE
IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME, I LOVE YOU; IF I LOVE YOU, LOOK OUT FOR YOURSELF!
COMPOSER Georges Bizet/Peter Brook A Chromatic Production CAST CARMEN Peabody Southwell DON JOSÉ Adrian Kramer MICAËLA Andriana Chuchman ESCAMILLO Ryan Kuster 15
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PIOTR BECZALA SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 7 PM / BALBOA THEATRE Piotr Beczala returns! Last seen at SDO for A Masked Ball and the Verdi Requiem, this charming and handsome Polish tenor is taking the world by storm. A recipient of the Opera News Award for Distinguished Achievement, Beczala’s “glorious voice” has graced the stages in Munich, Dresden, Vienna, San Francisco, Chicago, the Met, and many more. Don’t miss an evening
with this “thrilling Polish tenor, who has the kind of voice you want to hang medals on.” “Beczala was in glorious voice from the moment he took the stage…Blessed with surpassing vocal beauty, ease of delivery and a fine, ardent physicality, the tenor visibly loves to sing…” Opera News
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2016–17 MAIN STAGE OPERA PRICES
CINDERELLA, FALSTAFF, AND LA TRAVIATA PERFORMANCES WILL BE HELD AT THE SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATRE.
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ALL PRICES ARE AVAILABLE FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. SINGLE TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN AUGUST 2016 FOR A HIGHER PRICE. SINGLE TICKET PRICES START AT 20% HIGHER THAN SUBSCRIPTION PRICES. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS/SUPERTITLES WILL BE DISPLAYED FOR THESE PRODUCTIONS. TO PURCHASE A SUBSCRIPTION, CALL 619.533.7000 OR VISIT SDOPERA.ORG.
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Second Level: Lower Loge, Premier Mezzanine, Preferred Mezzanine, and Mezzanine
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Third Level: Upper Loge, Premier Balcony, Preferred Balcony, and Balcony
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$861
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$297
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2016–17 DEˉTOUR AND PIOTR BECZALA PRICES ALL PRICES ARE AVAILABLE FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. SINGLE TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN AUGUST 2016 FOR A HIGHER PRICE. SINGLE TICKET PRICES START AT 20% HIGHER THAN SUBSCRIPTION PRICES. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS/SUPERTITLES WILL BE DISPLAYED FOR DEˉTOUR PRODUCTIONS. TO PURCHASE A SUBSCRIPTION, CALL 619.533.7000 OR VISIT SDOPERA.ORG.
THE DEˉTOUR SERIES WILL BE HELD AT THE BALBOA THEATRE, AS IS PIOTR BECZALA IN RECITAL.
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