The Lesher Center for the Arts on 7/1/2015

  Only a week away! Rehearsals are in full swing, and the excitement is palpable.
Maestro Michael Morgan, who directs as well as conducts the production, sets the piece in the current day with minimal setting, allowing nothing to be taken away from the music. The company is using the translation commissioned by The Glimmerglass Festival . According to Morgan, "The writing is virtuosic all around, for both singers and orchestra with almost every individual orchestra member as soloist."
   Festival Opera has assembled a stellar cast for this production, featuring Othalie Graham as the Prima Donna (Ariadne), Robert Breault as Bacchus, Shawnette Sulker as Zerbinetta, Catherine Martin as the Composer, and Kirk Eichelberger as the Music Master.

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Tickets are on now on sale for Ariadne auf Naxos, 8 pm Friday, July 10 and 2 pm Sunday, July 12 in the Hofmann Theater of the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek.