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2020 - 2021 Season Announcement
Stay tuned for the exciting 2020 - 2021 season announcement! Exciting works for everyone.
And save the date for November 6 and 8, 2020 - we will present our production of Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) originally scheduled for April 2020.
2019/2020 Season
La bohème
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Director: Emily Pulley
Conductor: Cornelia Laemmli Orth
Starring: Megan Nielson, Joshua Collier, SeungHyeon Baek, Nayoung Ban
September 28th-29th, 2019
Approximately 2.5 hours with 1 intermission
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Opera Ithaca's sixth season opens with Giacomo Puccini's stirring tragedy, La bohème. A smash hit following its premiere at the Teatro Regio in 1896, La bohème has consistently ranked among the most performed and beloved operas in the repertoire. Its melodic score is full of pathos and the finely drawn characters pull at the heartstrings with their stores of love, art, ambition and ultimately, death. Opera Ithaca is proud to be co-producing La bohème with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, which is celebrating its 43rd season.
Cendrillon NEW YEAR'S EVE GALA
Composer: Pauline Viardot
Director: Norm Johnson
December 31st, 2019
Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, GALA PERFORMANCE*
Sung in English
Pauline Viardot's sparkling Cinderella story will be the perfect way to usher in the New Year. Cendrillon is a fascinating glimpse into the music of the highly-influential yet little known composer, singer and sister of Maria Malibran. Viardot's music is a shining example of the French tradition, though she came from a world-famous Spanish family of musical renown. With a brand-new English libretto by Artistic Director Ben Robinson, Cendrillon will be fun for the whole family!
Le Nozze di Figaro
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director: Ben Robinson
Conductor: Andy Anderson
Postponed to November 2020
Approximately 2.5 hours with 1 intermission
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Our sixth season closes with Mozart's glorious Le nozze di Figaro, often cited as one of the "greatest operas of all time." This ebullient comedy is based on the second play of the trilogy by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais that tells the story of Figaro, the Count and Countess Almaviva and all of the other wonderful characters that get mixed up in a day of lust, love, questionable fidelity and mistaken identity.
