1990-91 Season

Recital – Hans Peter Blochwitz, tenor

October 21, 1990 | Sherwood Auditorium
Peter Grunberg, piano

Recital – Dimitri Hvorostovsky, baritone

October 28, 1990 | Sherwood Auditorium
Mikhail Arkadiev, piano

Così fan tutte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

January 19, 22, 25, 27(m), 30, 1991
Carol Vaness – Fiordiligi | Barbara Bonney – Despina | Judith Forst – Dorabella | Keith Lewis – Ferrando | Håkan Hagegård – Guglielmo | Peter Strummer – Don Alfonso | Thomas Schuback – conductor | John Copley – director | Peter Cooke – sets | Michael Stennett – costumes

Albert Herring – Benjamin Britten

February 9, 12, 15, 17(m), 1991
Christine Brewer – Lady Billows | Judith Lovat – Miss Wordsworth | Susan Graham – Nancy | Patricia Kern – Mrs. Herring | Martha Jane Howe – Florence | Barton Green – Albert Herring | Francis Egerton – Mayor | Harlan Foss – Vicar | Matthew Carey – Sid | James Scott Sikon – Supt. Budd | Mary Dombek – Emmie | Patricia Prunty – Cis | Christopher Johnson – Harry | Steuart Bedford – conductor | Colin Graham – director | Neil Peter Jampolis – sets | Debra Hanson – costumes

Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss, Jr.

March 2, 5, 8, 10(m), 13, 1991
Karen Huffstodt – Rosalinda | Cheryl Parrish – Adele | Suzanna Guzmán – Orlofsky | Ronald Stevens – Eisenstein | Douglas Johnson – Alfred | Beau Palmer – Blind | Richard McKee – Frank | Victor Ledbetter – Falke | Zale Kessler – Frosch | Karen Keltner – conductor | Wolfgang Weber – director | Oliver Smith – sets | Ann Roth – costumes

The Passion of Jonathan Wade – Carlisle Floyd

April 13, 16, 19, 21(m), 1991
West Coast Premiere
Sheryl Woods – Celia | Débria Brown – Nicey | Bridget Knott – girl | Erich Parce – Wade | Eric Perkins – Lt. Patrick | Harlan Foss – Riddle | Joseph Evans – Wardlaw | John Duykers – Pratt | Michel Warren Bell – Judge Bell | Julian Patrick – Townsend | William Nolan – wounded soldier/Branch | Daniel S. Leal – Union leaguer | Adam Russell, Joseph Grienenberger – soldiers | David Downing – Rector | Edward Badrak, Max Chodos – carpetbaggers | Michael Morgan – senator | Tom Touw – young boy | Shalonda French, Warren Nolan, Phillips Edwards, Scott Jones – youths | Kenneth Montgomery – conductor | Carlisle Floyd – director | Günther Schneider-Siemssen – sets | Allen Charles Klein – costumes

La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi

May 4, 7, 10, 11(m), 12, 1991
Christine Weidinger/Frances Ginsberg (05/11m) – Violetta | Patricia Minton Smith – Annina | Gale Fuller – Flora | Fernando de la Mora/Walter MacNeil (05/11m) – Alfredo | Beau Palmer – Gaston | Richard Stilwell/Richard J. Clark (05/11m) – Germont | Harlan Foss – Douphol | David Downing – Grenvil | Mark Anderson – Marchese d’Obigny | Daniel S. Leal – Giuseppe | Jeffrey L. Shipman – servant | Joseph Grienenberger – messenger | Edoardo Müller – conductor | Wolfgang Weber – director | John Conklin – sets | David Walker – costumes