2010-11 Season Overview
The great Thomas Hampson...a Lady Macbeth to die for...and a stunning new production from master Shakespearean Barbara Gaines!
One look from this seductive gypsy temptress and any man she wants is hers — driving them mad with hot desire and flicking them aside like cold cigarette ash when her fickle ardor cools.
As soon as the evocative prelude begins, you know you're going to a wondrous place. Shakespeare's words and Britten's incandescent music transport us to an enchanted forest where fairies rule — and mere mortals have the chance to visit!
Passion, political intrigue, witchcraft, and betrayal — here is opera at its grandest, with magnificent voices soaring at their fervent best!
Wit, charm, fabulous music and lyrics — it's the most celebrated operetta in the English-speaking world, and it's been tickling funny bones for more than a hundred years!
Gold Rush fever is running high, and every miner in camp hopes to claim the heart of Minnie — the pistol-packing, poker-playing proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Even Sheriff Rance is in hot pursuit, but Minnie's in love with a tall dark stranger, who's really the notorious bank robber Ramerrez in disguise!
King Henry is looking for a champion to lead his armies against the invaders. And Elsa is praying for a savior to clear her of charges that she murdered her brother — levied by a villainous knight who wants power for himself and his sorceress wife.
Mighty Hercules has triumphed in war again. But while the hero celebrates, his wife Dejanira seethes — convinced that her husband has been seduced by a winsome captive.