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The Italian Girl in Algiers
Principle Artists
 STEPHANIE BLYTHE
Mezzo-soprano (New York)
Isabella
Opera Company debut: Baba the Turk, The Rake's Progress, 1997.
Recently: Orisini, Lucrezia Borgia, Opera Orchestra of New York;
Soloist,
Verdi Requiem, Minnesota Orchestra; Fricka, Das Rheingold and Die Walkyre,
Seattle Opera; Cornelia, Julius Caesar, The Metropolitan Opera; Title
role, Carmen, Tulsa Opera.
Upcoming: Auntie, Peter Grimes, Opera Bastille, Paris; Soloist,
Art Song Recital Series, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Soloist,
Wesendonck Lieder Henze Orchestration, New York Philharmonic; Soloist,
Verdi Requiem, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
 LORRAINE ERNEST
Soprano (Oklahoma)
Elvira
Opera Company debut.
Recently: The Queen of Night, The Magic Flute, Washington Opera
and Berkshire Opera Company, Massachusetts; Soloist,Concert: Joy of Christmas,
Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C.; Adina, The Elixir of Love,
Boheme Opera, New Jersey.
Upcoming: The Queen of Night, The Magic Flute, Los Angeles Opera;
Susanna, The Marriage of Figaro, Westfield Symphony, New Jersey.
 EMILE FATH
Baritone (Washington, D.C.)
Ali
Opera Company debut.
Recently: Germont, La Traviata, Santa Barbara Opera and Opern Air,
Austria; Title role, Der Fliegende Hollander, Opera Delaware; Kyoto, Iris,
Teatro Grattacielo at The Lincoln Center, New York City; Title role, Rigoletto,
Santa Barbara Opera; Soloist, Centennial Dedication of Richard Wagner's
memorial, Wagner Society of New York City.
Upcoming: Vanzetti, Sacco and Vanzetti, Tampa Bay Center Opera
Company.
 JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ
Tenor (Peru)
Lindoro
Opera Company debut.
Recently: Almaviva, The Barber of Seville, La Scala of Milan, Staatsoper
Wien, Vienna, Austria and Opera di Roma, Italy; Roderigo, Otello, Covent
Garden, London; Lindoro, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Staatsoper Wien,
Vienna, Austria and Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Italy; Title
role, Le Comte Ory, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale dell'Opera di Genova,
"Carlo Felice," Genova, Italy; Lindoro, Nina, La pazza per amore, La Scala
of Milan and Festival of Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy; Ramiro, Cinderella,
Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy; Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, Staatsoper
Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Upcoming: Ramiro, Cinderella, Covent Garden, London, San Francisco
Opera, The Metropolitan Opera and Opera Bastille, Paris; Almaviva, The
Barber of Seville, Staatsoper Wien, Vienna, Austria, The Metropolitan
Opera and Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy; Fenton, Falstaff,
La Scala of Milan and Theatre Musical de Paris, Chatelet, Paris; Giacomo,
La donna del lago, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy and Salzburger
Festival, Austria; Elvino, La Sonnambula, Staatsoper Wien, Vienna, Austria
and Covent Garden, London; Lindoro, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Staatsoper
Wien, Vienna, Austria and The Metropolitan Opera.
JOHN STEPHEN HOEY
Lighting Design (Ohio)
Opera Company debut: Don Giovanni, 1994.
Recently: Lighting design for Cinderella, Don Giovanni, Faust,
Aida and Falstaff, Opera Company of Philadelphia; Rigoletto, Tosca and
Il Trovatore, Pittsburgh Opera; Spoleto Festival and New York City Opera;
Lighting Director for New York City Ballet from 1996-1999; Director of
Production for Pennsylvania Ballet, including designs for Romeo and Juliet,
Rodeo and Coppelia. Dance designs featured in Columbia Pictures' film
"Center Stage."
Upcoming: Lighting design for The Magic Flute, Opera Company of
Philadelphia; La Traviata, Virginia Opera.
JODY KIDWELL
Mezzo-soprano (Ohio)
Zulma
Opera Company debut: Laura, Luisa Miller, 1989.
Recently: Desideria, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Opera Company
of Philadelphia; Isabella, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Teatro Nacional
de Costa Rica; Maddalena, Rigoletto, Opera Delaware.
Upcoming: Dido, Dido and Aeneas, Lehigh Chamber Symphony, Pennsylvania;
Soloist, Concert: Mozart B Minor Mass, Vox Ama Deus Ensemble, Philadelphia;
Aldonza, Man of La Mancha, Opera Columbus.
GARY LEHMAN
Baritone (Ohio)
Taddeo
Opera Company debut.
Recently: Rodrigue, Don Carlos, New Jersey State Opera; Marcello,
La Boheme, Montreal Opera; Ford, Falstaff, Utah Opera; Title role, Eugene
Onegin, Arizona Opera; Germont, La Traviata, Opera Theater of St. Louis.
Upcoming: Ford, Falstaff, Pittsburgh Opera; Silvio, Pagliacci and
Baritone Soloist, Carmina burana, Opera Omaha; Silvio, Pagliacci, Montreal
Opera.
CORRADO ROVARIS
Conductor (Italy)
Opera Company debut: The Marriage of Figaro, 1999.
Recently: Il Signor Bruschino, Teatro Alla Scala, Milan, Italy;
The Barber of Seville, Oper Frankfurt, Germany; Rigoletto, Theatre Municipal
de Lausanne, Switzerland; La cambiale di matrimonio, Opera de Lyon, France.
Upcoming: Macbeth, Teatro Comunale, Modena, Italy; Luisa Miller,
Theatre Municipal de Lausanne, Switzerland; Un giorno di regno, Teatro
Alla Scala, Milan, Italy; La Gazzetta, Garsington Opera Festival, Great
Britain.
PAUL SHORTT
Set Design (Michigan)
Opera Company debut: Falstaff, 1997. Recently: Set design for
Alcina, Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy; A Little Night Music and Wit, Cincinnati
Playhouse; Il viaggio a Reims and The Royal Palace, Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music.
Upcoming: Six Degrees of Separation and Grand Hotel, Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music; The Mystery of Irma Vepp, Cincinnati Playhouse.
STEFANO VIZIOLI
Director (Italy)
Opera Company debut: Cinderella, 2000. Recently: A Masked Ball,
Teatro San Carlos, Lisbon, Portugal; Le Nozze Istriane, Teatro Verdi,
Trieste, Italy; The Barber of Seville, Teatro Calderon, Valladolid, Spain;
Norma, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy.
Upcoming: The Barber of Seville, Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris
and Baltimore Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor, Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
TOM WATSON
Wig & Make-up Design (Ireland)
Opera Company debut: Carmen, 1992.
Recently: Salome, Tosca, Cinderella and The Marriage of Figaro,
Opera Company of Philadelphia; The Merry Widow, The Great Gatsby and Tristan
and Isolde, The Metropolitan Opera; Wig and Make-up Design for Santa Fe
Opera and Opera Theatre of St. Louis Summer 2000 Festival Seasons; Director
of The Metropolitan Opera's Wig Department. Upcoming: The Rocky Horror
Picture Show, Broadway, New York.
ARTHUR WOODLEY
Bass (Virgin Islands)
Mustafa
Opera Company debut: Angelotti, Tosca, 1994.
Recently: Soloist, Mahler Symphony No. 8, Dallas Symphony; Fernando,
Fidelio, Opera Colorado; Sarastro, The Magic Flute, Boston Lyric Opera;
Varlaam, Boris Godunov, Seattle Opera; Bartolo, The Marriage of Figaro,
Opera Company of Philadelphia; Banquo, Macbeth, Indianapolis Opera.
Upcoming: Sarastro, The Magic Flute, Cincinnati Opera; Porgy, Porgy
and Bess, Opera Company of Philadelphia.
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