With Placido Domingo s dynamic leadership as artistic director, tickets are in greater demand than ever. In fact, most seats are locked up by subscribers long before the season begins with thousands of would-be ticket buyers turned away. Many performances already sold out. Availability better weekdays. Subscription Artistic Director Placido Domingo has announced our 2001-2002 season.
Failure means death.
Calaf is determined to claim Turandot for himself but the heartless princess has vowed to surrender to no man. Alessandra Marc and Xiu Wei Sun share the title role opposite Ian DeNolfo as Calaf. Heinz Fricke conducts an opulent score and Lotfi Mansouri directs an exotic fantasy. On their madcap wedding day, Figaro and Susanna must thwart the Count s advances toward Susanna, save Figaro from a plot to marry him off to an old lady, salvage the Countess marriage, and contend with the misadventures of an amorous page. Heinz Fricke conducts and Jos Luis Castro directs an accomplished cast in a production hailed by Opera News as intelligent, theatrical and inventive.