Peter Strummer and Sheri Greenawald in Opera Theatre's 1976 'Don Pasquale' (Photo: Bill Smith)
Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s milestone 50th season features Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and This House, the company’s 45th world premiere opera with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber. Andrew Jorgensen, General Director of Opera Theatre, joins WFMT to preview season which begins later this month. Learn more HERE.
The Virginia Jackson Browning Theater at the Loretto-Hilton Center (Photo: Ken Howard)
Playlist
Johann Strauss, Jr: Die Fledermaus
Act I: Trio, “To part is such sweet sorrow”
Act II: Aria, “My dear marquis” (Laughing Song)
Act II: Finale, “Brother dear, sister dear”
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Regina Resnik, soprano
Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano
James Melton, tenor
Robert Merrill, baritone
Robert Shaw Chorale
RCA Victor Orchestra/Fritz Reiner
Ricky Ian Gordon: 27
Act I, Scene 2: Gertrude sits for Pablo
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
Elizabeth Futral, soprano
Theo Lebow, tenor
St. Louis Symphony/Michael Christie
Gordon: ‘Simple Child” from The Grapes of Wrath
Deanne Meek, mezzo-soprano
Minnesota Opera Orchestra/Grant Gershon
Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Act I: Aria, “Ah! Quite unexpectedly passions inflame me”
Act II: Duet, “Come, say the words I long for”
Act II: Finale, “Let’s forget everything”
Lynne Dawson, soprano
Barry Banks, tenor
Jason Howard, baritone
Andrew Shore, bass
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra/David Parry
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act I: “Is all our company here?”
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Mark Tucker, tenor
Neal Davies, bass-baritone
Stephen Richardson, bass-baritone
Gwynne Howell, bass
Robert Lloyd, bass
London Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act III, Finale: “Now the hungry lion roars”
Simon Hart, treble
Andrew Mead, treble
Gregory Pierre, treble
Nicholas Watson, treble
Lillian Watson, soprano
James Bowman, countertenor
Dexter Fletcher, actor
Trinity Boys Choir
City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
