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CHICAGO OPERA THEATER ANNOUNCES THE 2008 SPRING SEASON!Highlights include: Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Jane Glover and Diane Paulus, a new production and Chicago premiere of John Adams’ A Flowering Tree, and Handel’s masterpiece Orlando CHICAGO, IL (March 28, 2007)—Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the most anticipated season since General Director Brian Dickie arrived in 1999. The centerpiece of the 2008 Spring Season’s many highlights is the Chicago premiere of John Adams’ A Flowering Tree with John Adams conducting two performances. The 2008 Spring Season opens with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, again reuniting the critically lauded pair of conductor Jane Glover and director Diane Paulus. Concluding the 2008 Spring Season is Orlando, a Handel masterpiece neglected on Chicago’s professional stages for over 20 years! In the tradition of Chicago Opera Theater, all 3 operas are new productions. The Spring Season opens April 30th and closes on June 8th, 2008. “We were delighted to present the Chicago premiere of John Adams’ Nixon in China in 2006, and A Flowering Tree will mark Chicago Opera Theater’s 32nd Chicago premiere,” said General Director Brian Dickie. John Adams will conduct the first two performances and Joana Carneiro, Assistant Conductor at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will conduct the last three. Based on a southern Indian folk tale, A Flowering Tree is about a beautiful but poor girl who falls in love with a handsome prince—and has the magical gift of transforming herself into a flowering tree. Currently cast is soprano Natasha Jouhl as Kumudha (the young girl) and baritone Sanford Sylvan as the Storyteller. Brian Dickie continues, “I consider the 2008 Season ideally balanced with A Flowering Tree surrounded by two masterpieces—Don Giovanni and Handel’s Orlando.” Conductor Jane Glover and director Diane Paulus team up to produce one of Mozart’s most popular operas: Don Giovanni. Ms. Glover and Ms. Paulus are consistently heralded by both the press and audiences alike—and Don Giovanni marks their seventh collaboration with Chicago Opera Theater! Don Giovanni will be sung by the outstanding young Ukrainian baritone Viktor Rud, and the cast also includes Matthew Boehler (Leporello), Michael Colvin (Don Ottavio), Rhoslyn Jones (Donna Anna), Isabel Leonard (Zerlina), Krisztina Szabó (Donna Elvira), and Benjamin Wager (Masetto). The final production of COT’s 2008 Spring Season is Handel’s Orlando, a story that depicts a great soldier’s emotional unraveling when he discovers his true love’s commitment to another man. “Since Brian Dickie arrived as general director Chicago Opera Theater has become the place to catch Handel operas staged with a bold theatrical flair that’s fresh and cutting edge,” raves the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Dickie brings together another unique duo for Orlando: Renowned British conductor Raymond Leppard, who led the greatly acclaimed COT productions Dido and Aeneas and Il Viaggio a Reims, and young Australian director Justin Way who wowed audiences in 2006 with COT’s The Abduction from the Seraglio. The Orlando cast includes Tim Mead (Orlando), Andriana Chuchman (Dorinda), Rachelle Durkin (Angelica), and David Trudgen (Medoro). ********* Season Subscriptions for the 2008 Spring Season range from $90-$345 which include a ticket to all three evenings. COT also offers a 50% discounted student rate in most sections. Tickets may be purchased online at ChicagoOperaTheater.org and by phone at 312.704.8414. Chicago Opera Theater gratefully acknowledges OPERA America, sponsor of A Flowering Tree’s New Audience Development project. Chicago Opera Theater gratefully acknowledges the continued support of The Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris. By arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, publisher and copyright owner.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart April 30, May 3, 6, 9 at 7:30pm Conductor: Jane Glover Cast: May 14, 17, 20, 23 at 7:30pm Conductor: John Adams (May 14, 17)/ Joana Carneiro May 20, 23, 25) Cast:
George Frideric Handel May 28, 31, June 3, 6 at 7:30pm Conductor: Raymond Leppard Cast:
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