La Bohème

Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 3 p.m.
Schuster Center

Puccini’s beautiful score has made this poignant tragedy the most performed and most popular opera in the world. La Bohème has been the best first opera, the best date opera, and, for many, the best opera. The passion, beauty and fragility of young love come vividly to life in Puccini’s masterpiece that has enchanted generations of opera-lovers. This is an opera to be seen again and again!

Performed in Italian with English Surtitles above the stage.

 

Cast

 

Mimi – Inna Dukach*

Rodolfo – Dinyar Vania*

Musetta – Kearstin Piper Brown

Marcello – Kyle Pfortmiller*

Shaunard – Eric McKeever

Colline – Christopher Temporelli*

Benoit/Alcindoro – Mark Baker

 

Conductor – Joseph Mechavich

Director – Kathleen Clawson

* Dayton Opera debut

 

Leadership Sponsors

Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
Gosiger, Inc.

Entrepreneur Sponsorship Circle Sponsors

Bob Ross Dealerships/Mercedes-Benz of Centerville
Vectren

 

 

 

 

Romeo and Juliet

Friday, February 24 , 2012 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 3 p.m.,
Schuster Center

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 Gounod’s supreme opera. Sweeping romanticism from beginning to untimely end!

Performed in French with English Surtitles above the stage.

 

Cast

 

Juliet – Joanna Mongiardo*

Romeo – Ryan MacPherson*

Count Capulet – William McGraw

Stephano – Julia Mintzer*

Mercutio – Chad Sloan*

Friar Laurence – Nathan Stark*

Tybalt – Matias Eduardo Mariani*

Gertrude – Brandi Samuel*

Duke of Verona- Samuel Smith*

Gregorio- Patrick McNally*

Count Paris – Jonathan Stinson*

Benvolio - Christopher Albanese*

Conductor – Patrick Reynolds

Director – Albert Sherman

*Dayton Opera Debut

 

Principal Sponsor

The Opera Guild of Dayton

Leadership Sponsors

The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation
The ELM Foundation

Performance Sponsors

Drs. Ingrid Brown and Troy Tyner
Premier Health Partners:
     Miami Valley Hospital
     Good Samaritan Hospital
     Atrium Medical Center
     Upper Valley Medical Center

 

Entrepreneur Sponsorship Circle Sponsors

Brower Insurance Agency
10 Wilmington Place
ThinkTV

 

 

 

 

Marcello Giordani Star Gala

 March 11, 2012 at 3 p.m.
Schuster Center

Metropolitan Opera Tenor in Recital
One of the Metropolitan Opera 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 Soprano Melissa Zapin, a young emerging operatic talent from the Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition.

Leadership Sponsor
Kettering Health Network

Performance Sponsors
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Demirjian
Benjamin Schuster, M.D.

Entrepreneur Sponsorship Circle Sponsor
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Winger

Marcello Giordani’s Website

 

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The Tragedy of Carmen

Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 3 p.m.
Victoria Theatre

Dayton Opera Premiere!

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 today’s rising young opera artists, retains all its most famous music in an exciting version of the famous late-19th century opera, performed with four singers, three actors, and an orchestra of fifteen players. It’s Carmen unplugged!

Performed in English.

Leadership Sponsor

Harry A. Toulmin, Jr., and Virginia B. Toulmin Fund of The Dayton Foundation
Caryl D. Philips

Performance  Sponsor

Brady Ware
Dayton Daily News
WHIO-TV Channel 7 AM 1290/95.7 FM News-Talk Radio WHIO 

Entrepreneur Sponsorship Circle Sponsor

10 Wilmington Place
One Lincoln Park
Blaine Block Institute for Voice Analysis and Rehabilitation 

Impresario Circle Spring Event Sponsor

El Meson

 

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