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West Bay Opera’s 52nd Season,
2007–2008
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October 12–14
& 19–21, 2007
in Italian
with English titles
Conductor:
José Luis Moscovich
Director:
José María
Condemi
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Southern Italian village life, dominated by a peculiar
mix of Church morals and the Sicilian code of
honor, provides the backdrop for these two verismo
masterpieces about love and betrayal. In Cavalleria
rusticana, tipped off by Santuzza, the betrayed
and pregnant girlfriend, Alfio kills Turiddu,
his wife’s lover, in a knife fight. In Pagliacci,
blurring the line between performance and life,
Canio the clown kills both Nedda, his wife, and
Silvio, her lover, on the circus stage in front
of a stunned audience. |
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Così fan
tutte
February 15–17
& 22–24, 2008
music by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
libretto by Lorenzo da
Ponte
(in Italian with
English titles)
Conductor: Barbara Day Turner
Director: Douglas Nagel
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In 1700s Naples, Don Alfonso convinces two young officers,
Ferrando and Guglielmo, to test the faithfulness of
their girlfriends, Dorabella and Fiordiligi. Mozart
wrote some of his most sublime operatic music for Così fan
tutte, as he and master librettist Lorenzo da
Ponte poked fun at a practice well known to the Viennese
Court: girlfriend (and boyfriend) swapping. It’s
betrayal of love, with a happy ending. |
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Der
fliegende Holländer
(The Flying Dutchman)
May 23–25
& May 30–June 1, 2008
music and libretto by Richard
Wagner
(in German with English
titles)
Conductor: José Luis
Moscovich
Director: David Ostwald |
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For centuries, the Flying Dutchman sails the seas, condemned
to live until he can find salvation in the love of
a truly faithful woman. Senta, a teenage village girl
on the Norwegian coast, proves faithful to the death.
This is love, betrayal, and redemption Wagner style. Der
fliegende Holländer is an early work of genius,
and the last of Wagner’s italianate operas. |
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