06/17/17 – Don Quichotte – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION
DON QUICHOTTE
by Jules Massenet
front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg
Performed in French with projected English translations
Don Quichotte Opera Overview
More than half a century before Man of La Mancha, Massenet brought Cervantes’s universally beloved dreamer Don Quixote to the operatic stage. Inspired by the greatest of all Spanish novels, Don Quichotte is the story of an eccentric idealist and self-proclaimed knight errant who tilts at windmills and fights for the honor of his lady Dulcinée. The opera combines Massenet’s fabulously atmospheric music with his own matchless theatrical flair to conjure a Spain that abounds with energy and spirit, beauty, and hope. Legendary bass Ferruccio Furlanetto bringing this signature role to vivid life with Sir Andrew Davis conducting in a production that is as gorgeous to see as it is to hear.
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Don Quichotte
Clementine Margaine
Dulcinée
Nicola Alaimo
Sancho
Sir Andrew Davis
Conductor
Matthew Ozawa
Director
Ralph Funicello
Set Designer
Missy West
Costume Designer
Michael Black
Chorus Master
