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SCHEDULE
The S.F. Opera Year To Come (2006)
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Here is the announced San Francisco Opera season of 2006-2007. Artists making their debuts with the company are marked with an asterisk [*]; those making their American operatic debuts are marked with two asterisks [**].
Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Florida Grand Opera production
September 8 (7 p.m.), 13 (7:30 p.m.), 17 (2 p.m.), 20 (7:30 p.m.), 23 (8 p.m.), 26 (7:30 p.m.), 29 (8 p.m.), 2006
Marco Armiliato [conductor]/Gina Lapinski [director]/Zack Brown [designer]
Deborah Voigt (Amelia)
Marcus Haddock* (King Gustav III)
Ambrogio Maestri* (Ankerström)
Tichina Vaughn* (Ulrica)
Anna Christy (Oscar)
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Die Fledermaus
San Francisco Opera production
September 9 (7:30 p.m.), 12 (8 p.m.), 14 (7:30 p.m.), 16 (8 p.m.), October 4 (7:30 p.m.), 8 (2 p.m.), 13 (8 p.m.), 2006
Donald Runnicles/Lotfi Mansouri/Loren Meeker*/Wolfram Skalicki
Wolfgang Brendel (Eisenstein)
Jennifer Welch-Babidge (Adele)
Christine Goerke* (Rosalinde)
Gerald Thompson (Prince Orlofsky)
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
San Francisco Opera production
September 30 (8 p.m.); October 3 (8 p.m.), 6 (8 p.m.), 9 (7:30 p.m.), 12 (7:30 p.m.), 15 (2 p.m.), 21 (8 p.m.), (7:30 p.m.), 29 (2
p.m.), 2006
Stephen Lord*, Valery Alexejev*/Harry Silverstein/Michael Yeargan
Paolo Gavanelli (Rigoletto)
Mary Dunleavy (Gilda)
Giuseppe Gipali* (The Duke)
Greer Grimsley (Count Monterone)
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Seattle Opera production
October 5 (7 p.m.), 10 (7 p.m.), 14 (7 p.m.), 18 (7 p.m.), 22 (1 p.m.), 27 (7 p.m.), 2006
Donald Runnicles/Francesca Zambello/Herbert Kellner*/Alison Chitty
Thomas Moser (Tristan)
Christine Brewer (Isolde)
Kristinn Sigmundsson (King Marke)
Boaz Daniel* (Kurwenal)
Jane Irwin** (Brangäne)
Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville
San Francisco Opera production
October 31 (8 p.m.); November 2 (7:30 p.m.), 4 (8 p.m.), 7 (7:30 p.m.), 9 (7:30 p.m.), 12 (2 p.m.), 17 (8 p.m.), 26 (2 p.m.), 30
(7:30 p.m.), 2006
Maurizio Barbacini/Johannes Schaaf/Hans Dieter Schaal
Nathan Gunn (Figaro)
Allyson McHardy (Rosina)
John Osborn* (Count Almaviva)
Bruno de Simone* (Doctor Bartolo)
Phillip Ens (Don Basilio)
Catherine Cook (Berta)
Ricardo Herrera (Ambrogio)
Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Lyric Opera of Chicago production
November 19 (2 p.m.), 22 (7:30 p.m.), 25 (8 p.m.), 28 (8 p.m.); December 1 (8 p.m.), 7 (7:30 p.m.), 10 (2 p.m.), 2006
Donald Runnicles/Olivier Tambosi*/Frank Phillip Schloessmann*
Karita Mattila (Manon Lescaut)
Misha Didyk (Chevalier des Grieux)
John Hancock (Lescaut)
Eric Halfvarson (Geronte)
Georges Bizet: Carmen
San Francisco Opera production
November 21 (7:30 p.m.), 24 (7:30 p.m.), 25 (12 p.m.), 29 (7:30 p.m.); December 2 (7:30 p.m.), 3 (2:00 p.m.), 6 (7:30 p.m.), 8
(7:30 p.m.), 9 (7:30 p.m.), 2006
Sebastian Lang-Lessing/Jean-Pierre Ponnelle/Laurie Feldman
Marina Domashenko and Hadar Halévy* (Carmen)
Marco Berti* and Stuart Skelton (Don José)
Erwin Schrott* and a singer to be named later (Escamillo)
Ana Mar“a Mart“nez and a singer to be named later (Mica”la)
Ricardo Herrera (Zuniga)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
San Francisco Opera and Théātre Royal de la Monnaie co-production
June 2 (8 p.m.), 5 (8 p.m.), 10 (2 p.m.), 13 (7:30 p.m.), 16 (8 p.m.), 22 (8 p.m.), 28 (7:30 p.m.), 30 (8 p.m.), 2007
Donald Runnicles/Leah Hausman*/John Macfarlane
Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni)
Hope Briggs (Donna Anna)
Twyla Robinson (Donna Elvira)
Charles Castronovo (Don Ottavio)
Oren Gradus (Leporello)
Claudia Mahnke (Zerlina)
Luca Pisaroni* (Masetto)
Kristinn Sigmundsson (Commendatore)
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
San Francisco Opera production
June 9 (7:30 p.m.), 15 (7:30 p.m.), 19 (7:30 p.m.), 21 (7:30 p.m.), 24 (1:30 p.m.), 27 (7:30 p.m.); July 1 (1:30 p.m.),
2007
Donald Runnicles/Sandra Bernhard/Lotfi Mansouri/Thierry Bosquet
Joyce DiDonato (Octavian)
Soile Isokoski* and Martina Serafin* (Marschallin)
Miah Persson* (Sophie)
Kristinn Sigmundsson (Baron Ochs)
Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Faninal)
Catherine Cook (Annina)
David Cangelosi (Valzacchi)
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago co-production
June 14 (7:30 p.m.), 17 (2 p.m.), 20 (7:30 p.m.), 23 (8 p.m.), 26 (8 p.m.), 29 (8 p.m.), 2007
Patrick Summers/Robert Carsen*/Tobias Hoheisel*
Susan Graham (Iphigénie)
Bo Skovhus (Orestes)
Paul Groves (Pylades)
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