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Festival Opera Archives
2009 Season
Puccini: Turandot
Gounod: Faust
2008 Season
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
2007 Season
Bizet: Carmen
Rorem: Our Town
2006 Season
Puccini: Tosca
Mozart: Don Giovanni
2005 Season
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
Bernstein: Candide
2004 Season
Verdi: Rigoletto
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
2003 Season
Verdi: Aida
2002 Season
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Floyd: Susannah
2001 Season
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Brooks/Bizet: La Tragédie de Carmen
2000 Season
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore
Massenet: Werther
1999 Season
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
1998 Season
Puccini: La Bohème
Mozart: Don Giovanni
1997 Season
Verdi: La Traviata
Puccini/Leoncavallo: Suor Angelica/I Pagliacci
1996 Season
Puccini: Tosca
1993 Season
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi: Il Trovatore
1992 Season
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Puccini: La Bohème
1991 Season
Mozart: Abduction from the Seraglio
Festival Opera was founded in 1991 by Dr. Theodore Weis, who helped create the Arizona Opera Company 20 years earlier in Tucson. After moving to Walnut Creek, Dr. Weis recognized a need for a regional company that could provide quality opera at affordable prices.
The first production, Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, was a notable success. Other acclaimed productions followed, and in the ensuing years Festival Opera has built a tradition of excellence, presenting a variety of operas, from Verdi's La Traviata and Rossini's Barber of Seville to Massenet's Werther and the West Coast premiere of Rorem's Our Town.
The first production, Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, was a notable success. Other acclaimed productions followed, and in the ensuing years Festival Opera has built a tradition of excellence, presenting a variety of operas, from Verdi's La Traviata and Rossini's Barber of Seville to Massenet's Werther and the West Coast premiere of Rorem's Our Town.