A MIDWINTER NIGHT'S DREAM

A Young Artist Showcase

Music by Bellini, Gounod, Salieri, Vaughan Williams, Verdi, and von Nicolai

January 31 & February 1m, 2009

Theatre on the Square, Tacoma

 
Left:  Megan Chenovick as Juliette and Robert McAulay-Barnts as Roméo.

The Cast

Soprano
Mezzo-Soprano
Tenor
Baritone

Music Director
Stage Director

Megan Chenovick *
Stacey Porter *
Robert McAulay-Barnts *
Jeremy Shilley

Sheila Bristow
Jeff Clapp

* - Tacoma Opera debut


About the Show

A Midwinter Night's Dream was composed of two acts, revolving around Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594-95) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597).

Act I, Romeo and Juliet, featured excerpts from Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod and I Capuleti e I Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini.

Act II, The Merry Wives of Windsor, featured excerpts from Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor by Otto von Nicolai, Falstaff by Antonio Salieri, Sir John in Love by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi.

 


Production Photos by Randy Smith

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