[NEohioPAL]Oberlin Opera Theater Presents The Merry Wives of Windsor March 15 - 19
Marci Janas
Marci.Janas at oberlin.edu
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OBERLIN Opera Theater News
Oberlin Conservatory of Music =95 Office of Public Relations =95 39 West=20=
College Street =95 Oberlin OH 44074-1576
Phone 440-775-8328 =95 Fax 440-775-5457 =95 CTS Box Office =
440-775-8169
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: Marci Janas
February 16, 2006 440-775-8328 or =
marci.janas at oberlin.edu
=09
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Nicolai=92s Opera about
Deception, Revenge, and Love, to be Staged
by Oberlin Opera Theater March 15 =97 19
Complimentary Media Tickets: 440-775-8328
Limited Seating Available for Weekend Performances
Call Oberlin College=92s Central Ticket Service at 440-775-8169
OBERLIN, OHIO =97 Oberlin Opera Theater presents as its spring =
production=20
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Otto=20
Nicolai=92s comic opera about deception, revenge, and love. The curtain=20=
rises on Wednesday, March 15, at 8 p.m. in Oberlin College=92s Hall=20
Auditorium, located at 67 North Main St. on Route 58, between the=20
Oberlin Inn and the Allen Art Museum. The three-act opera will be sung=20=
in German with English supertitles. There will be two intermissions.
Stage direction for The Merry Wives of Windsor is by Sally Stunkel,=20
visiting assistant professor of opera theater. Musical direction is by=20=
Bridget-Michaele Reischl, music director of the Oberlin Orchestras and=20=
visiting associate professor of conducting.
Performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor are at 8 p.m. Wednesday,=20
Friday, and Saturday, March 15, 17, and 18, with a 2 p.m. matinee on=20
Sunday, March 19. Tickets are $5 for all students; $8 for those with an=20=
Oberlin College I.D. (faculty, staff, alumni, and parents), area=20
educators, and senior citizens; and $12 for the general public. All=20
seats are reserved. Tickets are $3 more when purchased at the door.=20
Call Oberlin=92s Central Ticket Service, located in the lobby of Hall=20
Auditorium, at 440-775-8169. Box office hours are noon to 5 p.m.,=20
Monday through Friday. Hall Auditorium is wheelchair accessible, free=20
parking is available throughout the campus, and hearing enhancement is=20=
available upon request.
The Merry Wives of Windsor is sponsored by the Oberlin Conservatory of=20=
Music=92s Opera Theater Program through generous support from the Louis=20=
C. Sudler Fund and produced in cooperation with the Oberlin College=20
Theater and Dance Program.
Synopsis and Director=92s Notes
An adaptation of Shakespeare=92s comedy, Nicolai=92s opera is an amusing=20=
farce whose subject is the eternal battle of the sexes. Falstaff, an=20
aging and portly has-been cavalier who, says Director Sally Stunkel,=20
=93still imagines himself to be something of a stud muffin,=94=20
simultaneously courts two married women by using identical love=20
letters. The faithful wives plan to take revenge on the would-be=20
Lothario. Meanwhile Anna, the young and desirable daughter of Herr=20
Reich, attempts to outwit her parents as they choose whom she shall=20
wed.
=93Imagine if Shakespeare had written an Elizabethan version of a TV=20
sitcom,=94 says Stunkel. =93In this scenario, men are driven by their=20
inflated egotistical view of themselves and it=92s up to the women to=20
bring balance back into their world. Add to that Otto Nicolai=92s=20
sparkling and delightful music (much of which is unknowingly known to=20
the average audience member), and you have Die Lustiger Weiber von=20
Windsor.=94
Performers and Production Team
This production of The Merry Wives of Windsor features Oberlin=20
Conservatory students double cast in the principal roles. The=20
principals alternate performances, with one cast appearing Wednesday=20
and Saturday, and the other Friday and Sunday. The principal roles=20
include Frau Fluth (Alice Teyssier =9206, Sheena Ramirez =9206); Frau =
Reich=20
(Katherine Lerner =9206); Anna Reich (Jennifer Jakob =9207, Sophie =
Wingland=20
=9208); Herr Fluth (Jeffrey Hill =9108, Kevin Ray =9207); Herr Reich =
(Jason=20
Eck =9208, understudy Joseph Barron =9208); Fenton (Alek Shrader =9206);=20=
Sp=E4rlich (Andrew Owens =9207); Caius (Evan Bennett =9208); Falstaff =
(Damien=20
Pass =9106); First Burger (Mason McCamey =9107); Second Burger (Justin=20=
Manalad, =9108); Third Burger (Elias Traverse =9108). The members of the=20=
chorus include Lauren Free =9107, Kimiko Glynn =9108, Alexis Grenier =
=9106,=20
Jenna Hall =9107, Colin Levin =9107, Luther Lewis =9109, Justin Manalad =
=9108,=20
Mason McCamey =9107, Miranda McLean =9109, Kendell Pinkney =9110, =
Elisabeth=20
Shoup =9108, Elias Traverse =9108, Joseph Turro =9109, Julienne Walker =
=9107,=20
Stephanie Washington =9107, and Dylan Kumara Widjiono =9110.
The Oberlin production team of professional staff and students=20
includes: Assistant Music Director Alan Montgomery, assistant music=20
director of opera theater; Assistant Director and Stage Manager=20
Victoria Vaughan, assistant director of opera theater; Scenic Designer=20=
Damen Mroczek, lecturer in theater; Managing Director/Technical=20
Director Michael Louis Grube, associate professor of theater;=A0Costume=20=
Designer Chris Flaharty, associate professor of theater; Lighting and=20=
Sound Designer Jen Groseth, lecturer in theater, Chorus Master Hugh=20
Floyd, director of choral ensembles; and Vocal Coach/Accompanist Daniel=20=
Michalak. Allison Choat =9206 is the assistant stage manager.
Otto Nicolai (Composer, 1810-1849) Otto Nicolai=92s style was formed by=20=
diverse influences. His early studies in Berlin gave him a sound=20
technical knowledge and a self-critical approach to composition which=20
he never lost. As an heir of the classical tradition of Mozart and=20
Beethoven and the newer German romantic tradition of Spohr and Weber,=20
Nicolai was acutely conscious of the composer=92s responsibility to his=20=
art. This element of his creativity, however, was significantly=20
modified by his experience in Italy, where he was attracted both by the=20=
purity and beauty of 16th-century church music and by the vivacity of=20
modern Italian opera. After years living in Italy and composing to=20
little avail, the German composer was invited to conduct Il Templario=20
at the Hofoper in Vienna in 1841, and its success with the public led=20
to Nicolai=92s engagement as principal Kapellmeister. He remained in=20
Vienna for the next six years, making a significant impact on the=20
city=92s musical life. In March 1842, he began a concert series with the=20=
Hofoper orchestra that eventually developed into the Philharmonic=20
Concerts, and later he took over the direction of the moribund concerts=20=
spirituals, considerably raising his standard of performance. By 1845,=20=
Nicolai had found an opera subject that suited him in Shakespeare=92s =
The=20
Merry Wives of Windsor, and he began work on setting Hermann=20
Mosentahl=92s libretto. When Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor was refused=20=
at the Hoftheater, however, Nicolai was determined to leave Vienna. He=20=
accepted a post as Kapellmeister at the cathedral and the Hofoper in=20
Berlin and began his duties in 1848. The following year, he conducted=20
the highly successful premi=E8re of Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Two=20=
months later, after directing a concert with the cathedral choir, he=20
suffered a fatal stroke. Although he did not live to build on his=20
achievement, his last opera continues to hold the stage. (Source:=20
Grove Music Online).
Bridget-Michaele Reischl (Conductor) Since becoming the first American=20=
to win Italy=92s Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition =
in=20
1995, Bridget-Michaele Reischl has been an active guest conductor=20
throughout the United States and internationally. Some of her recent=20
engagements include those with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the=20
Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Dayton=20=
Philharmonic as well as numerous orchestras throughout Italy and=20
Greece. Besides being music director of the Oberlin Orchestras and a=20
member of Oberlin=92s conducting faculty (she recently conducted the=20
Oberlin Orchestra during a whirlwind tour of China), Reischl is music=20
director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a=20=
position she has held since 2001. =46rom 1992 to 2004, she was music=20
director of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and associate professor of=20=
conducting at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in=20
Appleton, Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.=20=
As a student of Robert Spano =9283, she continued her studies as a=20
conducting fellow at both the Aspen and the Tanglewood music festivals,=20=
where she worked with Seiji Ozawa, Murray Sidlin, and David Zinman =9258.=20=
She is recorded on the Velut Luna, CRI, and Sea Breeze Record Company=20
labels.
Sally Stunkel (Director) Sally Stunkel has directed for Sacramento=20
Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Skylight Opera, the=20
Aspen Music Festival, Kentucky Opera, and Four Corners Opera, and has=20
more than 80 productions to her credit as a director. As a former opera=20=
singer, she has sung with the Colorado Springs Opera, Skylight Opera,=20
and Baltimore Opera. With more than 15 years in dance training, she has=20=
also choreographed various operas. She is a graduate of the Cincinnati=20=
Conservatory of Music (where she received the National Opera=20
Association=92s [NOA] award for best opera for her productions of The=20
Consul and Postcard from Morocco). She has headed the opera programs at=20=
the former St. Louis Conservatory of Music, the University of=20
Tennessee, the University of the Pacific in California, and the=20
University of Iowa, where she won first place for her Marriage of=20
Figaro from the NOA. She has taught and directed with the apprentice=20
programs at the Des Moines Opera, Chattauqua Opera, the Banff Center in=20=
Alberta, Canada,=A0and the Aspen Music Festival. She will be premiering=20=
her new English language version of Mozart=92s The Magic Flute at the=20
University of Kentucky this year.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated within=20=
the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest=20=
continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Renowned=20
internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber=20
and pronounced a =93national treasure=94 by the Washington Post, its =
alumni=20
have gone on to achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of the=20
serious music world. Numerous Oberlin alumni have attained stature as=20
solo performers, composers, and conductors, among them Jennifer Koh,=20
Steven Isserlis, Denyce Graves, Franco Farina, Lisa Saffer, George=20
Walker, Christopher Rouse, David Zinman, and Robert Spano. All of the=20
members of the contemporary music ensembles eighth blackbird and the=20
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) are Oberlin graduates, and=20
members of the Mir=F3, Pacifica, Juilliard, and Fry Street quartets,=20
among others, include Oberlin alumni, who can also be found in major=20
orchestras and opera companies throughout the world.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music Opera Theater =09
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
By Otto Nicolai
Libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal after William Shakespeare=92s play
Bridget-Michaele Reischl, conductor
Sally Stunkel, stage director
Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p.m.
Friday, March 17 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 18 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 19 at 2 p.m.
Reserved seating tickets:
$5 All Students
$8 Oberlin College ID
$8 Educators
$8 Senior Citizens
$12 Public
All tickets $3 more when purchased at the door
Central Ticket Service
(440) 775-8169
Located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium.
Open Noon to 5 p.m.
Monday =96 Friday
Hall Auditorium
Hall Auditorium, 67 N. Main St. on
Route 58, between the Oberlin Inn and
the Allen Art Museum. Free parking.
FREE OPERA SCENES PROGRAMS
Tuesday, April 18
8 p.m.
Warner Concert Hall
Excerpts from:
La Boh=E8me; The Barber of Seville; La Traviata; Don Pasquale
Monday, May 15
4 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Finney Chapel
Excerpts from:
La Fille du R=E9giment; The Cunning Little Vixen; Summer and Smoke;
The Consul; Ariadne auf Naxos; Medea; Rise and Fall of the City of=20
Mahagonny
# # #
Media Contact:
Marci Janas
440-775-8328
marci.janas at oberlin.edu
www.oberlin.edu/con
www.oberlin.edu/~events
www.oberlin.edu/operathe
Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440-775-8328
(F) 440-775-5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu=
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</bigger></bold><center><bold><italic><bigger>The Merry Wives of
Windsor, </bigger></italic><bigger>Nicolai=92s Opera about=20
Deception, Revenge, and Love, to be Staged
by Oberlin Opera Theater March 15 =97 19</bigger>
</bold></center><smaller><smaller><smaller>
</smaller></smaller></smaller><center><smaller>Complimentary Media
Tickets: 440-775-8328
Limited Seating Available for Weekend Performances
Call Oberlin College=92s Central Ticket Service at 440-775-8169
</smaller></center><smaller>
</smaller>OBERLIN, OHIO =97 Oberlin Opera Theater presents as its spring
production <italic>The Merry Wives of Windsor (Die Lustigen Weiber von
Windsor)</italic>, Otto Nicolai=92s comic opera about deception,
revenge, and love. The curtain rises on <bold>Wednesday, March 15, at
8 p.m. in Oberlin College=92s Hall Auditorium</bold>, located at 67
North Main St. on Route 58, between the Oberlin Inn and the Allen Art
Museum<bold>. </bold>The three-act opera will be sung in German with
English supertitles. There will be two intermissions.
Stage direction for <italic>The Merry Wives of Windsor</italic> is by
Sally Stunkel, visiting assistant professor of opera theater. Musical
direction is by Bridget-Michaele
Reischl,<fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param> music director of
the Oberlin Orchestras and visiting associate professor of
conducting</fontfamily>.
Performances of<italic> The Merry Wives of Windsor</italic> are at
<bold>8 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, March 15, 17, and 18,
with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, March 19. Tickets are $5 for all
students; $8 for those with an Oberlin College I.D. (faculty, staff,
alumni, and parents), area educators, and senior citizens; and $12 for
the general public.</bold> <bold>All seats are reserved. Tickets are
$3 more when purchased at the door.</bold> Call Oberlin=92s Central
Ticket Service, located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium, at
440-775-8169. Box office hours are noon to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday. Hall Auditorium is wheelchair accessible, free parking is
available throughout the campus, and hearing enhancement is available
upon request.=20
<italic>The Merry Wives of Windsor</italic> is sponsored by the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music=92s Opera Theater Program through generous
support from the Louis C. Sudler Fund and produced in cooperation with
the Oberlin College Theater and Dance Program.
<bold>Synopsis and Director=92s Notes
</bold>An adaptation of Shakespeare=92s comedy, Nicolai=92s opera is an
amusing farce whose subject is the eternal battle of the sexes.
Falstaff, an aging and portly has-been cavalier who, says Director
Sally Stunkel, =93still imagines himself to be something of a stud
muffin,=94 simultaneously courts two married women by using identical
love letters. The faithful wives plan to take revenge on the would-be
Lothario. Meanwhile Anna, the young and desirable daughter of Herr
Reich, attempts to outwit her parents as they choose whom she shall
wed.
=93Imagine if Shakespeare had written an Elizabethan version of a TV
sitcom,=94 says Stunkel. =93In this scenario, men are driven by their
inflated egotistical view of themselves and it=92s up to the women to
bring balance back into their world. Add to that Otto Nicolai=92s
sparkling and delightful music (much of which is unknowingly known to
the average audience member), and you have <italic>Die Lustiger Weiber
von Windsor.=94</italic>
<fontfamily><param>Times</param>
</fontfamily><flushboth>
</flushboth><bold>Performers and Production Team =20
</bold>This production of <italic>The Merry Wives of Windsor
</italic>features Oberlin Conservatory students double cast in the
principal roles. The principals alternate performances, with one cast
appearing Wednesday and Saturday, and the other Friday and Sunday. The
principal roles include Frau Fluth (Alice Teyssier =9206, Sheena Ramirez
=9206); Frau Reich (Katherine Lerner =9206); Anna Reich (Jennifer Jakob
=9207, Sophie Wingland =9208); Herr Fluth (Jeffrey Hill =9108, Kevin Ray
=9207); Herr Reich (Jason Eck =9208, understudy Joseph Barron =9208); =
Fenton
(Alek Shrader =9206); Sp=E4rlich (Andrew Owens =9207); Caius (Evan =
Bennett
=9208); Falstaff (Damien Pass =9106); First Burger (Mason McCamey =9107);
Second Burger (Justin Manalad, =9108); Third Burger (Elias Traverse
=9108). The members of the chorus include Lauren Free =9107, Kimiko =
Glynn
=9108, Alexis Grenier =9106, Jenna Hall =9107, Colin Levin =9107, Luther =
Lewis
=9109, Justin Manalad =9108, Mason McCamey =9107, Miranda McLean =9109,
Kendell Pinkney =9110, Elisabeth Shoup =9108, Elias Traverse =9108, =
Joseph
Turro =9109, Julienne Walker =9107, Stephanie Washington =9107, and =
Dylan
Kumara Widjiono =9110.
The Oberlin production team of professional staff and students
includes: Assistant Music Director Alan Montgomery, assistant music
director of opera theater; Assistant Director and Stage Manager
Victoria Vaughan, assistant director of opera theater; Scenic Designer
Damen Mroczek, lecturer in theater; Managing Director/Technical
Director Michael Louis Grube, associate professor of theater;=A0Costume
Designer Chris Flaharty, associate professor of theater; Lighting and
Sound Designer Jen Groseth, lecturer in theater, Chorus Master Hugh
Floyd, director of choral ensembles; and Vocal Coach/Accompanist
Daniel Michalak. Allison Choat =9206 is the assistant stage manager.
<flushboth>
</flushboth><bold>Otto Nicolai</bold> (Composer, 1810-1849) Otto
Nicolai=92s style was formed by diverse influences. His early studies in
Berlin gave him a sound technical knowledge and a self-critical
approach to composition which he never lost. As an heir of the
classical tradition of Mozart and Beethoven and the newer German
romantic tradition of Spohr and Weber, Nicolai was acutely conscious
of the composer=92s responsibility to his art. This element of his
creativity, however, was significantly modified by his experience in
Italy, where he was attracted both by the purity and beauty of
16th-century church music and by the vivacity of modern Italian opera.
After years living in Italy and composing to little avail, the German
composer was invited to conduct <italic>Il Templario</italic> at the
Hofoper in Vienna in 1841, and its success with the public led to
Nicolai=92s engagement as principal Kapellmeister. He remained in Vienna
for the next six years, making a significant impact on the city=92s
musical life. In March 1842, he began a concert series with the
Hofoper orchestra that eventually developed into the Philharmonic
Concerts, and later he took over the direction of the moribund
<italic>concerts spirituals</italic>, considerably raising his
standard of performance. By 1845, Nicolai had found an opera subject
that suited him in Shakespeare=92s <italic>The Merry Wives of
Windsor</italic>, and he began work on setting Hermann Mosentahl=92s
libretto. When <italic>Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor </italic>was
refused at the Hoftheater, however, Nicolai was determined to leave
Vienna. He accepted a post as Kapellmeister at the cathedral and the
Hofoper in Berlin and began his duties in 1848. The following year, he
conducted the highly successful premi=E8re of <italic>Die Lustigen
Weiber von Windsor</italic>. Two months later, after directing a
concert with the cathedral choir, he suffered a fatal stroke. Although
he did not live to build on his achievement, his last opera continues
to hold the stage. (Source: <italic>Grove Music Online</italic>).
<flushboth>
</flushboth><bold>Bridget-Michaele Reischl </bold>(Conductor) Since
becoming the first American to win Italy=92s Antonio Pedrotti
International Conducting Competition in 1995, Bridget-Michaele
Reischl<bold> </bold>has been an active guest conductor throughout the
United States and internationally. Some of her recent engagements
include those with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn
Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Dayton
Philharmonic as well as numerous orchestras throughout Italy and
Greece. Besides being music director of the Oberlin Orchestras and a
member of Oberlin=92s conducting faculty (she recently conducted the
Oberlin Orchestra during a whirlwind tour of China), Reischl is music
director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
a position she has held since 2001. =46rom 1992 to 2004, she was music
director of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and associate professor of
conducting at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in
Appleton, Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.
As a student of Robert Spano =9283, she continued her studies as a
conducting fellow at both the Aspen and the Tanglewood music
festivals, where she worked with Seiji Ozawa, Murray Sidlin, and David
Zinman =9258. She is recorded on the Velut Luna, CRI, and Sea Breeze
Record Company labels.
<bold>Sally Stunkel </bold>(Director) Sally Stunkel has directed for
Sacramento Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Skylight
Opera, the Aspen Music Festival, Kentucky Opera, and Four Corners
Opera, and has more than 80 productions to her credit as a director.
As a former opera singer, she has sung with the Colorado Springs
Opera, Skylight Opera, and Baltimore Opera. With more than 15 years in
dance training, she has also choreographed various operas. She is a
graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (where she received
the National Opera Association=92s [NOA] award for best opera for her
productions of <italic>The Consul </italic>and<italic> Postcard from
Morocco)</italic>. She has headed the opera programs at the former St.
Louis Conservatory of Music, the University of Tennessee, the
University of the Pacific in California, and the University of Iowa,
where she won first place for her <italic>Marriage of Figaro</italic>
from the NOA. She has taught and directed with the apprentice programs
at the Des Moines Opera, Chattauqua Opera, the Banff Center in
Alberta, Canada,=A0and the Aspen Music Festival. She will be premiering
her new English language version of Mozart=92s <italic>The Magic
Flute</italic> at the University of Kentucky this year.
<bold>The Oberlin Conservatory of Music</bold>, founded in 1865 and
situated within the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since
1867, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United
States. Renowned internationally as a professional music school of the
highest caliber and pronounced a =93national treasure=94 by the
<italic>Washington Post,</italic> its alumni have gone on to achieve
illustrious careers in all aspects of the serious music world.
Numerous Oberlin alumni have attained stature as solo performers,
composers, and conductors, among them Jennifer Koh, Steven Isserlis,
Denyce Graves, Franco Farina, Lisa Saffer, George Walker, Christopher
Rouse, David Zinman, and Robert Spano. All of the members of the
contemporary music ensembles eighth blackbird and the International
Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) are Oberlin graduates, and members of the
Mir=F3, Pacifica, Juilliard, and Fry Street quartets, among others,
include Oberlin alumni, who can also be found in major orchestras and
opera companies throughout the world.<x-tad-smaller>
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<bold><underline>The Oberlin Conservatory of Music Opera
Theater</underline> =09
</bold><fontfamily><param>Times</param>
<bold><italic>THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
</italic></bold></fontfamily>By Otto Nicolai
Libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal after William Shakespeare=92s play=20=
Bridget-Michaele Reischl, <italic>conductor</italic>
Sally Stunkel, <italic>stage director
</italic><bold>Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p.m.
Friday, March 17 at 8 p.m.=20
Saturday, March 18 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 19 at 2 p.m.
Reserved seating tickets:
</bold>$5 All Students
$8 Oberlin College ID
$8 Educators=20
$8 Senior Citizens=20
$12 Public
<bold><italic>All tickets $3 more when purchased at the door
</italic></bold>
<bold>Central Ticket Service=20
(440) 775-8169</bold>
Located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium.
Open Noon to 5 p.m.
Monday =96 Friday
<bold>
Hall Auditorium
</bold>Hall Auditorium, 67 N. Main St. on=20
Route 58, between the Oberlin Inn and=20
the Allen Art Museum. Free parking.<bold>
</bold>
<bold>FREE OPERA SCENES PROGRAMS
</bold><fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param>Tuesday, April 18
8 p.m.
Warner Concert Hall
Excerpts from:
<italic>La Boh=E8me; The Barber of Seville; La Traviata; Don =
Pasquale</italic></fontfamily><italic><fontfamily><param>Times</param>
</fontfamily></italic>
Monday, May 15
4 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Finney Chapel
Excerpts from:
<italic><fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param>La Fille du
R=E9giment; The Cunning Little Vixen; Summer and Smoke;
The Consul; Ariadne auf Naxos; Medea; Rise and Fall of the City of
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Marci Janas
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Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440-775-8328
(F) 440-775-5457
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