Bardavon - Legendary Performers Since 1869

$22.00 Adult
$20.00 Member
$15.00 Children

Purchase your tickets in person at the Bardavon Box Office, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, 845.473.2072 or in person at the UPAC Box Office, 601 Broadway Kingston, 845.339.6088 or online at TicketMaster: 800.745.3000. Please note that Bardavon Member benefits are not available through TicketMaster.

This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorˇák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award® winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic,

enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

Composer Gioachino Rossini

Libretto by Giovanni Schmidt

Conductor Riccardo Frizza

Production Mary Zimmerman

Set & Costume Designer Richard Hudson

Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt

Choreographer Graciela Daniele*

Armida Renée Fleming

Rinaldo Lawrence Brownlee

Goffredo Bruce Ford

Gernando José Manuel Zapata

Carlo Barry Banks

Ubaldo Kobie van Rensburg

* debut

Production underwritten by

The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Sponsor: Red Wing Package Pavement

Promotional Sponsor: WMHT

Our 2009/10 Met Opera: Live in HD broadcasts are made possible in large part though the generous support of the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, the Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust, the Dr. Edwin Ulrich Charitable Trust, the Benjamin R. Strong Opera Fund, and the Stephen and Julia Dunwell Fund of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County.

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