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2011-12 Season

Welcome to Washington National Opera’s 56th season. This carefully crafted season offers a dramatic and exhilarating look at life, love, and the abuses of power as immortalized by Puccini, Donizetti, Mozart, Verdi, and

Massenet. With heart-stopping singing and lush scores, these are works that will make you fall in love with opera all over again.

The season also includes the WNO debut of celebrated soprano Angela Gheorghiu in a Plácido Domingo Celebrity Series concert and the return of Deborah Voigt in a unique program of Broadway songs and standards.

I hope you will join us for a season filled with excellence and excitement at Washington National Opera.

WNO’s new music director, Philippe Auguin, conducts three of this season’s productions: Lucia di Lammermoor, Così Fan Tutte, and Nabucco. Plácido Domingo conducts the season opening production of Tosca, and Emmanuel Villaume returns to conduct Werther.

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“From the moment I stepped onto the podium, I felt a special rapport with the talented musicians of the Orchestra. I look forward to becoming fully immersed in the Washington community.” —Philippe Auguin

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Patricia RacetteTosca

Frank PorrettaCavaradossi

Alan HeldScarpia

Puccini’s Tosca is an irresistible combination of passion, tenderness, pathos, and despair that immediately grabs your attention and races to its terrible conclusion.

Floria Tosca, a beautiful opera diva, tries to save her lover’s life by giving herself to the dreaded chief of police, Baron Scarpia. The situation turns deadly, and even Scarpia’s murder may not stop his diabolical plan. This dazzling production by Giulio Chazalettes features soprano Patricia Racette, tenor Frank Porretta, and DC favorite, bass-baritone Alan Held. Plácido Domingo conducts this timeless classic.

Tosca Patricia Racette (Sep 10, 12, 14, 16, 18m, 20, 22, 24)

Natalia Ushakova (Sep 23)

Cavaradossi Frank Porretta (Sep 10, 14, 18m, 20, 22, 24)

Gwyn Hughes Jones* (Sep 12, 16, 23)

Scarpia Alan Held (Sep 10, 14, 18m, 20, 22, 24)

Scott Hendricks (Sep 12, 16, 23)

Conductor Plácido Domingo Israel Gursky

Director David Kneuss

Original Production Giulio Chazalettes* * company debut † Season Opening Night Gala Performance

Giacomo Puccini

ToscaSep 10†, 12, 14, 16, 18m, 20, 22, 23, 24, 2011Production from The Dallas OperaIn Italian with English supertitles

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“Patricia Racette is a deeply affecting and impassioned Tosca.”

—The New York Times

Michael ChioldiEnrico

Mirco PalazziRaimondo

Saimir PirguEdgardo

Sarah CoburnLucia

Brian MulliganEnrico

Paolo PecchioliRaimondo

Alexey DolgovEdgardo

Lyubov PetrovaLucia

In this psychologically gripping opera, Lucia is the sacrificial lamb in her brother’s scheme to regain the family fortune. Forced to abandon the man she loves and marry another for money, she relinquishes her sanity, killing her bridegroom and taking her own life in one of opera’s most horrifying and musically gorgeous scenes.

David Alden’s edgy production will be performed by two spectacular casts. Sharing the title role are the “breathtaking” (Cincinnati Enquirer ) Sarah Coburn and Lyubov Petrova, a soprano who has “awed audiences” (Opera Today ). WNO Music Director Philippe Auguin conducts Donizetti’s riveting score.

Lucia Sarah Coburn (Nov 10, 13m, 15, 18)

Lyubov Petrova (Nov 12, 14, 16, 19)

Edgardo Saimir Pirgu* (Nov 10, 13m, 15, 18)

Alexey Dolgov (Nov 12, 14, 16, 19)

Enrico Michael Chioldi (Nov 10, 13m, 15, 18)

Brian Mulligan* (Nov 12, 14, 16, 19)

Raimondo Mirco Palazzi (Nov 10, 13m, 15, 18)

Paolo Pecchioli* (Nov 12, 14, 16, 19)

Conductor Philippe Auguin

Director David Alden * company debut

Gaetano Donizetti

Lucia di LammermoorNov 10, 12, 13m, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 2011Production from English National OperaIn Italian with English supertitles

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A production of the Clarice Smith Opera Series.


Lucia is “a magnificent conception which Alden stages with total command.”

—The Daily Telegraph

Elizabeth FutralFiordiligi

Renata PokupicDorabella

Joel PrietoFerrando

Teddy Tahu RhodesGuglielmo

William ShimellDon Alfonso

Ketevan KemoklidzeDespina

Take two silly sisters, mix in brash lovers, add a pinch of cynical philosopher and a dash of scheming maid, and you have a recipe for a night of madcap opera.

In Mozart’s game of love and seduction, two young men wager that their fiancées will remain faithful, even when tempted. To prove it, they decide to do the tempting themselves—they pretend to go off to war and return in disguise, each intent on wooing the other’s lady.

Jonathan Miller’s acclaimed production captures the essence of Washington, DC, and features a stunning ensemble including Elizabeth Futral, Renata Pokupic, Joel Prieto, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, William Shimell, and Ketevan Kemoklidze. WNO Music Director Philippe Auguin conducts Mozart’s score, which is packed with biting comedy and poignant beauty.

Fiordiligi Elizabeth Futral

Dorabella Renata Pokupic

Ferrando Joel Prieto*

Guglielmo Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Don Alfonso William Shimell*

Despina Ketevan Kemoklidze


Director & Design Jonathan Miller

* company debut

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così Fan TutteFeb 25, 28, Mar 2, 4m, 7, 10, 12, 15, 2012Production from Seattle OperaIn Italian with English supertitles

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This production of Così Fan Tutte is part of the Kennedy Center’s Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna. For more information, visit www.kennedy-center.org.

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Miller’s production of Così “may well be the funniest and most dramatically successful…”

—The Seattle Times

Franco VassalloNabucco

Csilla BorossAbigaille

Verdi’s powerful blockbuster about the defeat, enslavement, and exile of the ancient Babylonian Jews by King Nabucco is filled with gorgeous music, including the famous slave chorus “Va pensiero.” Witness the epic struggle of a royal family at odds with their nation and each other, battling for power among the lost wonders of the world in this rarely performed work.

Director Thaddeus Strassberger (Hamlet, 2010) creates a new production for this company premiere. WNO Music Director Philippe Auguin conducts, and Franco Vassallo and Csilla Boross make their company debuts as Nabucco and Abigaille.

Nabucco Franco Vassallo*

Abigaille Csilla Boross*

Ismaele Sean Panikkar

Fenena Géraldine Chauvet*


Director & Set Design Thaddeus Strassberger

* company debut

Giuseppe Verdi

NabuccoApr 28, May 2, 5, 10, 13m, 15, 18, 21, 2012Company Premiere and New ProductionIn Italian with English supertitles

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Nabucco is a co-production with San Francisco Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City

An epic struggle for freedom in ancient Babylon.


Come admire the “handsome baritone” of Franco Vassallo.

—The New York Times

Francesco MeliWerther

Sonia GanassiCharlotte

100 years after the composer’s death, Werther is celebrated as Massenet’s finest work, with a lush score of tragically beautiful music.

The young poet Werther has fallen desperately in love with the beautiful Charlotte. When he discovers that she is honor-bound to marry Albert, he tries to stay away, but his passion draws him back to her. In despair, Werther decides the only way he can find peace is through death.

Adapted from a novel by the Romantic master Goethe, Werther is considered one of Massenet’s finest works, filled with richly textured, tragically beautiful music.

Italian tenor Francesco Meli makes his WNO debut as the lovelorn poet Werther, and is joined by mezzo-soprano Sonia Ganassi, singing the role of Charlotte. Their recent performances of these roles in Italy garnered praise for their chemistry and abilities as singing actors. WNO favorite Emmanuel Villaume returns to conduct Massenet’s masterpiece.

Werther Francesco Meli*

Charlotte Sonia Ganassi

Sophie Emily Albrink

Albert Andrew Foster-Williams

Le Bailli Julien Robbins

Conductor Emmanuel Villaume

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Jules Massenet

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Love holds Werther captive, with only one means of escape.


Love holds Werther captive, with only one means of escape.


“…a Werther of admirable depth and resonance with [conductor] Villaume emerging the victor.”

—Opera News

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Deborah VoigtMarch 17, 2012Teddy Tahu Rhodes, baritoneTed Sperling*, conductor

Get ready for a rare glimpse at another side of Deborah Voigt: it’s Broadway, baby! For this one spectacular performance, she will use her “golden toned, full-bodied singing and luminous beauty” (Chicago Sun Times ) to create an evening of pure magic, singing classics from the American songbook.

A devotee of Broadway and American song, Ms. Voigt’s recent performances had Opera News raving, “Voigt…comes to pop-singing naturally…If this were 1970, she would probably be given her own network variety show.”

Joining Ms. Voigt for several duets is WNO favorite, baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, whose “stage presence is commanding and his singing…quite potent.” (ConcertoNet.com ). They will be joined by conductor Ted Sperling, music director and conductor of the Tony award-winning revival of South Pacific and recent revival of Guys and Dolls.

Plácido Domingo Celebrity Series:

Angela GheorghiuMarch 3, 2012Company Debut

“Talented, glamorous, and every bit the diva, Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu is a star” (Billboard ). Making her WNO debut, Washington audiences will finally have the chance to experience Ms. Gheorghiu’s magnificent voice and dazzling stage presence.

At home on the great opera and recital stages of the world, Ms. Gheorghiu has been hailed as one of opera’s greatest singing actresses. Her performances of La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera were “a searing reminder of why we go to opera in the first place” (New York Post ).

This is a rare opportunity to hear Ms. Gheorghiu perform selections from the operas that made her an international sensation with the WNO Orchestra.

“…the world’s most glamorous opera star.” — The New York Sun

“Ms. Voigt, clearly in her prime, is astonishing.” —The New York Times

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Family Look-In November 19, 2011 at 2:00 PM

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Così Fan TutteMarch 9 and 11m, 2012

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