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Sung in Italian, Latin and German with English translations projected above the stage. PORTLAND OPERA PREMIERE Pagliacci: October 1970 Carmina Burana: March 1997 WORLD PREMIERE Pagliacci: Milan, Teatro Dal Verme, May 21, 1892 Carmina Burana: Frankfurt, June 8, 1937 SUGGESTED RECORDINGS Leoncavallo: Pagliacci Panerai, Bergonzi, Morresi, Carlyle, Benelli, Taddei; Von Karajan, Conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) Orff: Carmina Burana Popp, Unger, Wolansky, Noble; Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor (EMI) Musical highlights available at the Portland Opera website! FOR YOUR ADDED ENJOYMENT Reel Opera Film Series In a new partnership with the Northwest Film Center, film buffs and opera aficionados alike will enjoy a film before each opera production. Not designed to share filmed versions of actual operas, this series will present a film that is related to the production in some interesting way. La Strada, directed by Federico Fellini 9/20/10, 7pm | Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, $9 Destination Opera: From Music to Psyche A unique partnership with the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, Destination Opera explores the hidden subtexts of each opera this season. Duane Dale, MD, joins Alexis Hamilton, Manager of Education and Outreach, to debate and discuss Pagliacci/Carmina Burana. 10/1/10, 7pm | Sherman Clay Pianos 131 NW 13 th Ave, Free 6 portlandopera.org | your source for all things opera
Previews Tune in for an in-depth preview of the show, 9/16/10, 6pm | All Classical 89.9 FM ‘Northwest Previews’ www.allclassical.org Salem Preview: Enjoy a lively, 50-minute sneak peek of Pagliacci/Carmina Burana 9/18/10, 2:30pm | Salem Public Library Loucks Auditorium, Free prior to each performance. First Balcony, Free Back Talk After each performance, join General Director Christopher Mattaliano for a Q&A session about the performance. Guests include performers, conductors and directors. Orchestra Level, Free Enjoy a lively, 50-minute sneak peek of Pagliacci/Carmina Burana: 9/19/10, 2pm | Multnomah County Central Library Collins Gallery, Free Opera Insight Informative music and history talks with Portland Opera’s Resident Historian Bob Kingston one hour Pagliacci Plot The evening begins with a prologue delivered directly to the audience by the singer who will play Tonio, a hunchback character from the story that’s about to unfold. He asks the audience to see beyond the facade of the performers’ costumes and make-up, and remember the human beings there, who suffer the same trials and tribulations as everyone else. He then orders the show to begin. act i — In a village in southern Italy, a crowd welcomes a traveling troupe of players. Canio, their leader, greets the villagers and invites them to a play that evening. The men urge Canio to join them for a drink at a nearby tavern, but they teasingly warn him not to leave his young wife, Nedda, alone with Tonio, who—they say—might make the same kind of romantic advances to her in real life that his character will in the play. Canio answers that while his role as a jealous husband on stage creates comedy, the same situation in real life would end differently. He then departs with the villagers. Thinking she is alone, the young Nedda reflects on the potential danger of her husband's jealousy. But she refuses to be burdened by such fears. The sight of birds flying overhead triggers the memory of a song she once heard in childhood, and she begins to dream of a life more free. Tonio overhears her fanciful outburst and takes the liberty of declaring his love for her. Even though she scorns him and ridicules his deformity, he tries to kiss her. When he persists, she grabs a whip and strikes him. Cringing with pain, Tonio swears that she will pay dearly for her actions. No sooner has Tonio gone off than Silvio appears. He is a young villager with whom Nedda has been having an affair. He wants her to leave her husband and run away with him. Nedda at first refuses, but finally she gives in to Silvio's impassioned pleadings. Tonio, returning from the tavern, catches sight of the lovers and, seeing the opportunity for revenge, runs off to fetch Canio. The enraged husband arrives just in time to hear his wife promise to meet Silvio later that night. At Canio's approach, Silvio escapes unrecognized into the woods. Canio demands that Nedda reveal the identity of her lover. She refuses. Canio, beside himself with rage, is about to kill her when Beppe, another member of the troupe, stops PRODUCTION SPONSORs THE CAST Nedda/ Soprano Soloist Emily Pulley Canio Richard Crawley Silvio/Baritone Soloist Marian Pop Tonio Mark Rucker Beppe/Tenor Soloist Steven Brennfleck Choreographer Jamey Hampton Choreographer Ashley Roland Conductor John DeMain Stage Director Christopher Mattaliano 7
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