Edmonton Opera 10-11: Paris - Rome - Barrhead

Edmonton is a city that inspires opera, and, in celebration of this, Edmonton Opera launches a season to delight and thrill Edmontonians in 2010-2011. The mystery and romance of Paris come alive with Puccini’Äôs La Bohˆ®me; sharp silliness abounds with shipwrecks, sultans and stranded sopranos in Mozart’Äôs Abduction from the Seraglio; love and revenge mingle with power and beauty in Puccini’Äôs Tosca; and Rossini is revised and relocated to the Alberta Klondike with Barber of Barrhead.

Edmonton Opera 2010-2011 season subscriptions are on sale now via the company’Äôs box office, call 780-429-1000 or visit www.edmontonopera.com for details. The deadline to renew current subscriptions is May 15, 2010. Single tickets for 2010-2011 performances go on sale September 15, 2010.

Puccini - La Bohˆ®me

October 23, 26, 28, 2010 ’Äì 7:30pm

The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Everyone has experienced the hope and loss of first love, and Puccini takes this universal experience to new heights with the perennial favourite, La Bohˆ®me. In the gritty world of Parisian ghettos, Rodolfo, a young poet, has his life turned upside-down by his passionate love for the fragile and doomed seamstress, Mimi.

Mimi ’Äì Laura Whalen

Rodolfo ’Äì Eric Fennell

Musetta ’Äì Alison Angelo

Marcello ’Äì ˆâtienne Dupuis

Colline ’Äì Jon-Paul Dˆ©cosse

Schaunard ’Äì Benjamin Covey

Benoit / Alcindoro ’Äì Doug MacNaughton

Conductor ’Äì Steven Osgood

Director ’Äì Brian Deedrick

Edmonton Opera Chorus

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Mozart ’Äì The Abduction from the Seraglio

February 5, 8, 10, 2011 ’Äì 7:30pm

The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

Sung in German with English supertitles

Edmontonians know a little laughter lights up a cold, dark February night, and Mozart’Äôs musical wit warms opera audiences with the comic romance The Abduction from the Seraglio. Young Belmonte journeys to the exotic East to rescue his beloved Konstanze, who’Äôs been imprisoned by an amorous Pasha, and madness ensues as the lovers battle to outwit a bumbling and jealous vizier.

Kostanze -- Charlotte Corwin

Belmonte ’Äì Colin Ainsworth

Blonde ’Äì Carla Huhtanen

Pedrillo -- Lawrence Wiliford

Osmin ’Äì Dean Elzinga

Pasha Selim ’Äì David McNally

Conductor ’Äì Peter Dala

Director ’Äì Michael Cavanagh

Edmonton Opera Chorus

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Rossini revised! ’Äì The Barber of Barrhead

February 15 - 26, 2011 - various times

The TransAlta Arts Barns ’Äì Westbury Theatre

Sung in English with English dialogue

A collaboration between Edmonton Opera and Fringe Theatre Adventures takes family fun from Seville, Spain and into the Alberta Klondike for The Barber of Barrhead. Prospectors seek and lose their fortunes during the Gold Rush, as Figaro, a barber and jack-of-all-trades, endeavours to unite the young Al with his love Rosie, despite the dastardly innkeeper Bart’Äôs devious dealings.

Rosie ’Äì Dionne Sellinger

Al ’Äì Rob Clark

Figaro ’Äì John Conlon

Bart ’Äì Joel Klein

Director/ Adapter ’Äì Ann Hodges

Puccini ’Äì Tosca

April 9, 12, 14 2011 ’Äì 7:30pm

The Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

A tale of desperate choices embroiled in art and politics concludes the 2010-2011 season with Tosca, Puccini’Äôs darkest and most powerful masterpiece. Tosca, a fiery and passionate diva, struggles over whether to surrender to Rome’Äôs brutal Chief of Police to save the man she loves.

Tosca ’Äì Yannick-Muriel Noah

Cavaradossi ’Äì Robert Breault

Scarpia ’Äì Nathan Berg

Angelotti/Sciaronne ’Äì Tom Goerz

Sacristan/ Jailer ’Äì Alexandre Sylvestre

Spoletta ’Äì Keith Klassen

Conductor ’Äì Robert Tweten

Director ’Äì Robert Herriot

Edmonton Opera Chorus

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

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For more information about Edmonton Opera’Äôs productions and programs, to view its season launch video featuring Artistic Director Brian Deedrick or to download a subscription form, please visit www.edmontonopera.com.