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The Season

Fidelio

by Ludwig van Beethoven

Friday, January 28, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.

Dayton Opera celebrates a 50th Anniversary company premiere with Beethoven’s monumental and only opera Fidelio! Freedom…Devotion…Heroism...Sacrifice, these are the themes of this intense drama set to Beethoven’s magnificent music.  In collaboration with the Dayton Philharmonic, this production will be presented in a unique semi-staged, dramatized concert presentation employing a narrator who will weave, among Beethoven’s music, the story of the heroic deeds of a devoted wife who struggles to free her wrongly imprisoned husband from the chains of an oppressive rule. Its thrilling choral finale is one that truly rivals the famed “Ode to Joy” of his 9th Symphony!

Sung in German with English Surtitles

50th Anniversary Celebration Sponsor
     Miriam Rosenthal Memorial Trust Fund

50th Anniversary Main Stage Title Sponsor
     Kettering Health Network

Performance Sponsor:
     Drs. Ingrid Brown & Troy Tyner

Entrepreneur Sponsorship Circle Sponsors:
     Brady Ware
     Dr. and Mrs. Charles Demirjian
     WDPR - FM 88.1

                        CAST:

Leonore / Fidelio...................Emily Pulley*
Florestan.........................Jeffrey Springer
Rocco...................................LeRoy Lehr*
Don Pizarro.......................Kenneth Shaw
Marzelline...........................Katy Lindhart
Jaquino.............................Philippe Pierce
Don Fernando..................................TBA

Conductor..........................Neal Gittleman
Director / Narrator..........Kathleen Clawson

* Dayton Opera Debut

Art & Arias / Opera Overatures

Luke Dennis is back to give you the opera-tunity to get to know the music, plot, and background of each opera production this season. Plan to attend one of these one-hour programs at the following locations. ART & ARIAS is held in the beautiful NCR Renaissance Auditorium at The Dayton Are Institute and includes live musical excerpts and related art history from a DAI docent. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!!

Art & Arias

Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.
Located at: the Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park North, Dayton

Opera Overtures

Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.
Located at: Books & Company, Town & Country Shopping Center, Kettering

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Located at: Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3211 Lakeview Ave., Dayton