4 OPÉRAS BOUFFEES
(4 COMIC OPERAS)

Music by Germaine Tailleferre
Libretto by Denise Centore
Translations by Max Hoehn

DIRECTOR

Ella Marchment

MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR

Jan Wagner

SCENIC DESIGNER

Madeleine Boyd

ASSOCIATE SCENIC DESIGNER

James Raymond

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Dave Steinmetz

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Andrew Carson

COSTUME DESIGNERS

Chloe Moore
Lydia Chamberlain

SOUND DESIGNER

Anna Warda Alex

FIGHT AND CLOWN DIRECTOR

Kit Wilder

CHOREOGRAPHER

Lindsay Browning

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Lindsey Harford

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Gonzalo Hidalgo

April 22–24, 2022
Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre
Shenandoah Conservatory

By arrangement with Theodore Presser Company, agents for Editions Françaises de Musiques/Editions Billaudot, publisher and copyright owner.

Suggested Show Rating: G

This production contains theatrical haze and a gunshot effect.

Overture to Dardanus

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)

La fille d’Opéra ("Daughter of the Opera")
opéra bouffe in the style of Rameau

Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)

Overture to The Barber of Seville

Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)

Le bel ambitieux ("Beauty and Ambition")
opéra bouffe in the style of Rossini

Germaine Tailleferre

There will be a 20-minute intermission between Act I and Act II.

Depuis Le jour from Louise

Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956)

MiKayla Hatfield, soprano

La pauvre Eugénie ("Poor Eugénie")
opéra bouffe in the style of Charpentier

Germaine Tailleferre

Overture on themes from La vie parisienne 

Jacques Offenbach (1819–1890)
arr. Antal Doráti

Monsieur Petitpois achète un château | Mr. Petitpois Buys a Château
opéra bouffe in the style of Offenbach

Germaine Tailleferre

Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann

Jacques Offenbach

Kristen Sullivan, soprano
Sophie Dove, mezzo

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Gonzalo Hidalgo Ardila is from the studio of Jan Wagner. His performance on Sunday, April 24, 2022, is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance (Conducting).