Programme Introduction

Casts and creative teams for Wexford Festival Opera 2009

The Ghosts of Versailles

21 / 24 / 27 / 30 October 2009

  • Conductor: Michael Christie
  • Director: James Robinson
  • Assistant Director: Michael Shell
  • Set Designer: Allen Moyer
  • Costume Designer: James Schuette
  • Assistant Director: Michael Sheil
  • Choreographer: Sean Curran
  • Video Designer: Wendall Harrington
  • Lighting Designer Paul Palazzo

Cast

  • Marie Antoinette: Maria Kanyova
  • King Louis XVI: Owen Gilhooly
  • Beaumarchais: George von Bergen
  • Figaro: Christopher Feigum
  • Count Almaviva: Dominic Armstrong
  • Susanna: Krisztina Szabó
  • Cherubino: Paula Murrihy
  • Suleyman Pasha: Bradley Smoak
  • Rosina: Kishani Jayasinghe
  • Florestine: Kiera Duffy
  • Patrick Honoré Bégearss: Mark T Panuccio
  • Samira: Laura Vlasak Nolen
  • Woman in Hat: Leslie Davis
  • Trio of Gossips: Megan Radder,Christin Wismann and Candra Savage
  • Quartet of Singers: Melody Wilson, Catherine O’Rourke, Matthew Young, Jason Ferrante
  • The Marquis: Juraj Nociar,
  • Wilhelm (spoken): Michael Shell
  • Leon: Sam Read Levine

Une Éducation Manquée / La Cambiale di Matrimonio

22 / 25 / 28 / 31 October

  • Conductor: Christopher Franklin
  • Director: Roberto Recchia
  • Set Designer: Lorenzo Cutuli
  • Costume Designer: Claudia Pernigotti
  • Lighting Designer: - Paul Keogan

Cast - Une Éducation Manquée

  • Gontran de Boismassif: Kishani Jayasinghe
  • Hélène de la Cerisaie: Paula Murrihy
  • Maitre Pausanias: Luca Dall’Amico
  • Cast - La cambiale di matrimonio

  • Tobias Mill, an English Merchant: Giovanni Bellavia
  • Fanny, his daughter: Pervin Chakar
  • Edward Milfort, Fannys' Lover: Giovanni Botta
  • Slook, a Canadian merchant: Vittorio Prato
  • Norton, Mills’ clerk: Luca Dall’Amico
  • Clarina, Fanny’s chambermaid: Annie Gill

Maria Padilla

23 / 26 / 29 October

  • Conductor: David Agler
  • Director: Marco Gandini
  • Set Designer: Mauro Tinti
  • Costume Designer: Silvia Aymonino
  • Lighting Designer: Paul Keogan

Cast

  • Donna Maria Padilla: Barbara Quintiliani
  • Donna Ines Padilla: Ketevan Kemoklidze
  • Don Pedro: Marco Caria
  • Don Ruiz di Padilla: Adriano Graziani
  • Don Ramiro: Vittorio Prato
  • Francisca: Annie Gill
  • Don Luigi: Paulo Paulillo
  • Don Alfonso di Pardo: Bradley Smoak
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