Seth Maese Carico: Soloist

The first work on the program is John Adam’s The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra, which is a selection that was adapted for orchestra from his 1977 opera Nixon in China.  Guest artists Kathryn Leemhuis (mezzo-soprano), Jorge Prego (tenor), and Seth Mease Carico (bass-baritone) will join the Richmond … read more

Craig Irvin: Paolo (cover)

An absorbing study of power finds its emotional center in the unbreakable bond between father and daughter, as a visionary leader is forced to deal with treachery and rebellion. Verdi’s grandly scaled score, filled with deeply felt arias and roof-rattling choruses, brings his characters to vivid life in a series … read more

Katrina Thurman: Gilda

A concise, taut, and psychologically disturbing drama about a “corrupted clown who belittles the misfortune of others, keeps his beloved daughter Gilda under lock and key, and takes out a contract on his employer who has designs on Gilda.” (LA Times) The show concludes with a twist that is as … read more

Seth Maese Carico: Soloist

The first work on the program is John Adam’s The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra, which is a selection that was adapted for orchestra from his 1977 opera Nixon in China.  Guest artists Kathryn Leemhuis (mezzo-soprano), Jorge Prego (tenor), and Seth Mease Carico (bass-baritone) will join the Richmond … read more

Craig Irvin: Paolo (cover)

Simon Boccanegra is a grand-scale study of power and treachery that finds an emotional center in the tender and unbreakable bond between father and daughter. Verdi’s poignant score brings his characters to vivid life in a series of striking encounters that spans two generations.  Tickets & Informationread more

Michael Mayes: Joseph De Rocher

A young nun, working with the poor in the projects outside New Orleans, becomes a pen pal to Joseph De Rocher, a convicted murderer on death row. At his request, she becomes his spiritual adviser. Through meetings with him, the parents of his victims and his own family, Sister Helen … read more

Jamie-Rose Guarrine: Cis

It is spring in a bucolic English country village, the season for the May Festival committee to choose a May Queen from the lovely village girls. Disastrously, no maiden of sufficient virtue can be found, so Albert Herring, a meek mama’s boy, reluctantly becomes Loxford’s first May King. But when … read more

Edwin Vega: Molqi

Following highly successful productions of John Adams’s Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, ENO presents the London stage premiere of the American composer’s controversial ‘docu-opera’ about the killing of a Jewish-American tourist during the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Palestinian militants.

Alice Goodman’s eloquently poetic and dispassionately … read more

Steven Sanders: Father Grenville

A young nun, working with the poor in the projects outside New Orleans, becomes a pen pal to Joseph De Rocher, a convicted murderer on death row. At his request, she becomes his spiritual adviser. Through meetings with him, the parents of his victims and his own family, Sister Helen … read more

Chad Sloan: Mercutio

This universal story has been adapted in countless plays and films, in popular culture and in dance, but perhaps no medium better expresses the love, longing and ultimate tragedy of this fated pair than Gounod’s supreme opera. Sweeping romanticism from beginning to untimely end!

Performed in French with English Surtitles … read more