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Livermore Valley Opera Presents


Season Performances


Illustration by Jen Mayhew

October 2009
Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo & Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni

Saturday, October 10
Sunday, October 11  
Friday, October 16 
Saturday, October 17
Sunday, October 18

 

*Gala 5pm & Opening Night 8pm curtain
Matinée 2pm
Family Night & Frugal Friday, 8:00 pm
8pm curtain
Matinée 2pm

Complimentary pre-opera lecture offered one-hour prior to curtain included in ticket price. Supertitles in English are always provided at the Bankhead Theater opera performances. Please see the Tickets page for further details. *Gala ticket sold separately from performance ticket.

Artistic Director/Producer - Raquel Holt
Music Director/Conductor - Alex Katsman
Stage Director - David Cox


Guest Stage Director: David Cox

Mr. Cox began his foray into stage directing in 1993 for Pacific Repertory Opera’s Don Pasquale. He has since directed several other shows for PRO including: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Faust, Rigoletto, and Die Zauberflote. He returned to PRO in March of 2007 to direct Verdi’s La Traviata. For his first directing assignment for Opera San Jose, Mr. Cox began with an original language Eugene Onegin followed by two critically acclaimed pieces from the French repertoire: Faust and Pearl Fisher. In the new California Fox Theater he directed sold out performances of Carmen and La Boheme.
[Read full bio here]

Pagliacci Cast: Cavalleria Rusticana Cast:
Canio (lead of the players)
- Ben Bongers
Nedda (his wife and leading lady)
- Olga Chernisheva
Tonio (the clown)
- Roberto Perlas Gomez
Peppe (the young lead)
- David Heilman
Silvio (a villager)
- Nicolai Janitzky
Santuzza (a village girl)
- Lisa van der Ploeg
Turiddu (a young soldier)
- Mathew Edwardsen
Mamma Lucia (his mother)
- Sara Couden
Alfio (the village teamster)
- Roberto Perlas Gomez
Lola (his wife)
- Jillian Boye
Members of Livermore's Cantabella Children's Chorus will join the Livermore Valley Opera chorus for Pag-Cav. They won top awards at the recent Golden Gate International Children's and Youth Choral Festival.

Coming in March 2010!
Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Johann Strauss
March 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21, 2010