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THURSDAY, SATURDAY,
FRIDAY and SUNDAY
OCTOBER 11, 13, 19 & 21, 2012
Ruggero Leoncavallo’s
Pagliacci
Pacien Mazzagatti, Conductor
Michael Capasso, Director
Marrying
Mozart
In Italian with dicapotitles
Pacien Mazzagatti, Conductor
Michael Capasso, Director
Stefano Vignati, Conductor
Michael Capasso, Director
WORLD PREMIERE
NEW PRODUCTION in English with dicapotitles
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
SATURDAY and SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 8, 10, 11, 15, 16 & 18, 2012
THURSDAY, SATURDAY,
FRIDAY and SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 7, 9, 15 & 17, 2013
Pacien Mazzagatti, Conductor
Daphne Malfitano, Director
Pacien Mazzagatti, Conductor
Michael Capasso, Director
WORLD PREMIERE
The Martyrs
THURSDAY, SATURDAY,
FRIDAY and SUNDAY
APRIL 4, 6, 12, & 14, 2013
The Martyrs will be followed by yet another Dicapo world
premiere, Marrying Mozart, a play with music by Mozart
and libretto by Michael Capasso and the noted writer Bill
Van Horn. Based on a best-selling novel by Stephanie
Cowell, Marrying Mozart offers a believably appealing
portrait of the young Mozart in Vienna struggling to
find work as a composer and encountering the delightful
Weber sisters, four young women who engage his passion,
his music, and his heart.
A Co-Production with Opera Moderne.
We begin our 31st season with a gala opening night
performance of a perennial opera favorite—Ruggero
Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci—the story of a jealous husband
in a commedia dell’arte troupe, whose actions on stage
make theatre collapse into tragic reality.
Thomas Pasatieri’s
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
SATURDAY and SUNDAY
DECEMBER 13, 14, 15 & 16, 2012
The world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri’s The Martyrs,
with a libretto by Daphne Malfitano, stars the worldrenowned Catherine Malfitano as Marianne and
Zeffin Quinn Hollis as Percy. The opera explores the
stories of two quintessentially American antiheroes.
They each seek justice, but are vilified by their rural
societies, forcing them to live—or die—as modernday martyrs.
NEW PRODUCTION in English with dicapotitles
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Curtain times: Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Fridays & Saturdays 8:00 p.m., Sundays 4:00 p.m.
Paul Moravec’s
The Letter
NEW YORK PREMIERE
The New York premiere of The Letter, an opera noir by
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec and
libretto by noted critic-playwright-biographer Terry
Teachout is next. The Letter is based on the classic
Somerset Maugham play and short story filmed by
Hollywood in 1940. Set in Malaya, The Letter tells
the dramatic story of the adulterous wife of a British
plantation manager who shoots her faithless lover dead,
then tries to escape hanging by lying about her crime—a
story with a surprising outcome.
NEW PRODUCTION in English with dicapotitles
Single tickets $50
Subscription tickets to six operas $250 ($225 Senior Citizens)
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Gaetano Donizetti’s
Lucia
di Lamermoor
Dicapo Opera Theatre’s season continues with a classic
of the 19th century operatic repertoire, Gaetano
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Based on Sir Walter
Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s
opera tells the story of Lucia, who is forced into an
unwanted marriage by her brother Enrico – with
tragic results.
NEW PRODUCTION in Italian with dicapotitles
Robert Wright’s & George Forrest’s
Kismet
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
SATURDAY and SUNDAY
MAY 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2013
Pacien Mazzagatti, Conductor
Michael Capasso, Director
Francine Harman, Choreographer
In keeping with its tradition of presenting musicals
from time to time, and on the heels of its wildly
successful production of Frank Loesser’s The Most
Happy Fella, Dicapo will present Kismet with lyrics
and musical adaptation (as well as some original
music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted
from the music of Alexander Borodin and a book by
Charles Lederer and Luther Davis, based on an 1911
play by Edward Knoblock.
NEW PRODUCTION in English with dicapotitles
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Dicapo Opera Theatre
“The closest thing New York has to a mini-Met.”
- Justin Davidson,
New York Magazine, December 2008
Marrying
Mozart
Ruggero Leoncavallo’s
Pagliacci
www.dicapo.com
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Dicapo Opera Theatre will continue its popular “Opera
for Kids” series of Saturday and Sunday morning
family presentations throughout the 2012-2013 season.
Mr. Capasso introduces children to the fundamentals
of opera and each of the selected scenes is sung by
Dicapo’s Resident Artists in costume and with sets to the
accompaniment of a piano. Either before the performance
or between key events Mr. Capasso elucidates the plot,
hints at the complexities of the theatre’s stagecraft, and
fires children’s imagination with a taste of grit and magic.
The secret to the success of these presentations lays in
the fact that Mr. Capasso and his performers never resort
to over-simplification. After each performance the children participate in a lively exchange with the
singers and crew and are able to ask questions about what they’ve just seen and how things get done.
The company’s highly popular one-hour “Opera for Kids” presentations, led with great flair by Mr.
Capasso, are aimed at children four years old and up.
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Pagliacci October 20 & 21, 2012
Beauty and the Beast December 1 & 2, 2012
Gianni Schicchi January 19 & 20, 2013
La Cenerentola March, 2 & 3, 2013
Lucia di Lammermoor April 13 & 14, 2013
Thomas Pasatieri’s
The Martyrs
photo: © James Martindale
1 HOUR PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE
WITH
GENERAL DIRECTOR MICHAEL CAPASSO
Robert Wright’s & George Forrest’s
Kismet
Admission: $10.00 at the door
CALENDAR
Pagliacci
October 13th at 6:30 PM & October 21st at 2:30 PM
Michael Capasso
General Director
Marrying Mozart
December 15th at 6:30 PM & December 16th at 2:30 PM
The Letter
February 9 at 6:30 PM & February 17th at 2:30 PM
Lucia di Lammermoor
April 6 at 6:30 PM & April 14th at 2:30 PM
Gaetano Donizetti’s
Paul Moravec’s
The Letter
Lucia
di Lamermoor
Michael Capasso, General Director
Diane Martindale, Artistic Director