Rigoletto

DANIEL SUTIN, baritone*

Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Caramoor Festival

Duke of Mantua

RYAN MACPHERSON, tenor*

New York City Opera, Opera Memphis, Opera National de Paris, Michigan Opera Theatre, Utah Symphony and Opera

Gilda

MEGAN MONAGHAN, soprano*

Glimmerglass Opera, Dayton Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, Opera Pacific, Anchorage Opera

Sparafucile

MARK MCCRORY, bass*

Hawaii Opera Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Opera Pacific, Wichita Grand Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia

Maddalena

AUDREY BABCOCK, mezzo-soprano*

San Antonio Opera, Toledo Opera, Lyric Opera of San Diego, Opera Pacific, Cincinnati Opera

Count Monterone

SETH MEASE CARICO, bass-baritone

Nashville Opera:  Mary Ragland Young Artist, 2004

Fort Worth Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Company of North Carolina, Brevard Music Center

Conductor

JOEL REVZEN*

Artistic Director, Arizona Opera

Metropolitan Opera, Kirov Opera, Washington National Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre

Director

JOHN HOOMES

Nashville Opera Artistic Director

Nashville Opera:  Don Giovanni, Elmer Gantry, Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah, Salome, La Bohème

Florentine Opera, Mobile Opera, Opera New Jersey, Opera Columbus

* Nashville Opera debut

† Mary Ragland Young Artist

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Saturday, April 10, 2010  (8 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 13, 2010  (7 p.m.)

Andrew Jackson Hall, Tennessee Performing Arts Center

SunTrust, co-sponsor

SYNOPSIS

CAST

THEATER & PARKING

Nashville Opera

Production Photos

Giovanna/Countess Ceprano

STEPHANIE FOLEY DAVIS*†

Marullo

JOSHUA ZINK*†

Borsa

MICHAEL FOREMAN*†

Count Ceprano

AARON GRANT*†

STUDY GUIDE

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