Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito
after William Shakespeare's
The Merry Wives of Windsor
and Henry IV, Parts I and II
CAST
(in order of vocal appearance)
Dr. Caius Nathan Bowles †
Sir John Falstaff Craig Colclough
Bardolph Yuntong Han †
Pistol Vinícius Costa †
Meg Page Sarah Saturnino ‡
Alice Ford Nicole Heaston
Mistress Quickly Hyona Kim
Nannetta Deanna Breiwick *
Fenton Anthony León ‡
Ford Ernesto Petti *
CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor James Conlon
Original Production Lee Blakeley
Director Shawna Lucey
Set & Costume Designer Adrian Linford
Lighting Designer Pablo Santiago
Chorus Director Jeremy Frank
Fight Director Andrew Kenneth Moss
Intimacy Director Sara E. Widzer
Assistant Director Ky Chassells
Stage Manager Whitney McAnally
Prompter Peter Walsh ‡
Musical Preparation
Julian Garvue †
Bryndon Hassman
Bin Yu Sanford
SUPPORT
Production made possible
by generous support from
GRoW @ Annenberg
Andrea Pessino
Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn)
Barbara Augusta Teichert
The Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund
With special additional support from
Laura and Carlton Seaver
With special appreciation to
Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten
Original production made possible
by generous support from
Leslie and John Dorman
LA Opera Orchestra
generously underwritten by
Terri and Jerry Kohl
PRODUCTION NOTES
The running time is approximately two hours and 40 minutes, including one intermission.
Supertitles written by Randall Behr
Pre-performance talks by James Conlon are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.
Scenery constructed by CBS Scenic Studios, Hollywood. Additional props by Studio Sereno, Los Angeles. Costumes constructed by the LA Opera Costume Shop. Wigs constructed by the LA Opera Wig and Make-Up Department..
* LA Opera debut
† Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist
‡ Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist alumnus
ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Please refrain from talking during the performance, and turn off all cell phones, electronic devices and watch alarms. If you are using an assistive hearing device, or are attending with someone who is, please make sure that it is set to an appropriate level to avoid distracting audio feedback. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. Members of the audience who leave during the performance will not be shown back into the theater until the next intermission. The use of cameras and recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Your use of a ticket acknowledges your willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Music Center and releases the Center and its lessees and others from liability resulting from use of such photographs.
