Dates and Times:
Friday, March 11, 2005 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 2 p.m.

Single Ticket Prices:
$10, 15, 20, 30, 35 (discounts available for seniors, youth, and groups)

Season Ticket Packages:
This concert is part of the CU Opera season ticket package.

Location:
Macky Auditorium

Running Time:
Three hours

Event Overview:
One act operas deliver a strong dramatic statement as these works by two masters demonstrate. Furniture comes to life to teach a naughty child a lesson and fingers are in danger of being lost as punishment for altering a will. Dry humor and extreme situations recall two pitfalls of all humanity: greed and petulance. Sung in Italian and French with surtitles.

Synopsis:
Gianni Schicchi
The relatives of the recently dead Buoso Donati try to alter in their own favor his will leaving his fortune to a monastery. Schicchi is called in, and yields to pleas for help from his daughter Lauretta, in love with Buoso’s nephew Rinuccio. He offers to impersonate the dead man, whose death is not yet public, and dictate a new will leaving money to the relatives; first he warns them of the serious penalties involved in the event of discovery. In bed, disguised as Buoso, he them leaves the most valuable properties to himself, later giving the house to the lovers.

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges Cast:
L’Enfant (The Child)    Marianne Ciasulli
Maman (Mama)    Clea Nemetz
La Bergere (The Bergere) (Louis XV Chair)    Sarah Gartland  
La Tasse Chinoise (The Chinese Cup)    Rena Pyland
Le Feu (The Fire)    Katie Miller
La Princesse (The Princess)    Katie Miller
La Chatte (The White Cat)    Hae-Jung Shin
La Libellule (The Dragonfly)    Rena Pyland
Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)    Katie Miller
La Chauve-Souris (The Bat)    Amy Stewart
La Chouette (The Screech-owl)    Hye-Young Kim
L’Ecureuil (The Squirrel)    Hae-Jung Shin
Une Pastourelle (A Country Lass)    Claire Myers
Un Pâtre (A Herdsman)    Tracy Bloser
La Lauteuil (The Armchair)    Ashraf Sewailam
L’Horloge Comtoise (The Grandfather Clock)    Erik Angerhofer
La Théière (The Teapot)  Adam Sattley
Le Petit Vieillard (The Little Old Man)    Brigham Timpson
Le Chat (The Black Cat) (The Tom Cat)    Erik Angerhofer
Un Arbre (A Tree)    Ashraf Sewailam
La Rainette (The Tree Frog)    Brigham Timpson
  
Gianni Schicchi Cast:
Gianni Schicchi    Samuel Mungo
Lauretta, his daughter    Sara Gartland
Buoso Donati    Kurk Kruckeberg    
Simone, a cousin    Ashraf Sewailam
Marco, his son    Paul Perry
La Ciesca, Marco’s wife    Lynelle Holznagel
Gherardo, Buoso’s nephew    Adam Sattley
Nella, his wife    Sarah Brand
Gherardino, their son    Owen Brandt
Betto di Signa    Erik Angerhofer
Zita, a cousin of Buoso    Clea Nemetz
Rinuccio, Zita’s nephew    Jeong Kwon Kim
Maestro Spinelloccio, a doctor from Bologna    Richard Velliquette
Ser Amantio di Nicolao, a lawyer    Richard Velliquette
Pinellino, a cobbler    Ryan Hayes
Guccio, a dyer    Anthony London

Production Personnel:
Stage Director William Gustafson
Music Director Nicholas Carthy
Costume Designer Tom Robbins
Set Designer Peter Dean Beck

Audio:
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Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges