2011-2012 Transcendent Season

• Charles Gounod’s

  Romeo and Juliet

  Friday, February 24, at 8:00 p.m. & Sunday, February 26, at 3:00 p.m., 2012 – Schuster Center
  In French with English Surtitles above the stage

  This universal story has been adapted in countless plays and films, in popular culture and in dance, but perhaps no medium better expresses the love, longing and ultimate tragedy of this fated pair than Charles Gounod’s supreme opera. Sweeping romanticism from beginning to untimely end!

  The Perfect Valentine Gift

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• Dayton Opera Star Gala

  Marcello Giordani

  Sunday, March 11 at 3:00 p.m., 2012 – Schuster Center
  Met Opera Tenor in Recital

  One of the Metropolitan Opera’s biggest stars, Marcello Giordani has been hailed by the international press as one of the most important tenors on the opera stage today, having appeared in all of the world’s major opera houses. Joining Mr. Giordani in his recital will be a young emerging operatic artist from the Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition.

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• Dayton Opera Premiere!

  The Tragedy of Carmen

  Thursday, May 17, Friday, May 18, & Saturday, May 19, at 8:00 p.m. & Sunday, May 20, at 3:00 p.m., 2012 – Victoria Theatre
  Adapted from the opera by Georges Bizet
  by Peter Brook, Marius Constant & Jean-Claude Carrière

  Dayton Opera audiences will experience a Carmen like they have never seen before – intense, intimate and bitingly tragic! This English adaptation of Bizet’s celebrated opera, featuring a cast of exciting singing actors, retains all its most famous music in a version of the famous late-19th century opera, performed with four singers, three actors, and an orchestra of fifteen players. Less really can be more.

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