L’etriente de Vie’s Vision

To be the most exciting force in the theatric world

Our Mission

• To present performances of the highest international quality available to the widest possible audiences.

  * To perpetuate and enrich the performing art form.

  * To be creative and innovative in all aspects of theatre.

  * To take a leadership role in training, arts education and audience development

   

  This Mission Demands

  * A diversified, highly committed, qualified Board of Directors working in partnership with an efficient and effective top quality management team and staff.

  * Healthy financial performance with a balanced budget and adequate endowment.

  * Involvement with our community.

  * An image that reflects our artistic quality.

   

  Current Production:

  The Force of Destiny

  by Giuseppe Verdi

  Overview

  Three lives are set on a collision course. Fate is the unseen but all-powerful master in this saga involving unknown identities, accidental meetings and dark confrontations, all playing out amidst a world at war. With Verdi at his most melodic, private moments and public spectacle blaze to life. Our new production— sleek and arresting—propels the central characters inexorably to an unforgettable end.

  Sounds. The Force of Destiny was thought shocking at its premiere, but it soon became one of Verdi’s greatest hits. Urgent and full-blooded, this work calls for vocal power— and plenty of it.

  Sights. As fate exacts its toll, personal hopes, horrors and fears become physically realized in our riveting, conceptual production. With sharp icons and progressively unstable and disjointed surroundings, the stage becomes the force of destiny itself, peopled by individuals struggling to control their lives and loves.

  Stories. Leonora and Alvaro attempt to elope but are foiled by Leonora’s father. Alvaro’s pistol goes off accidentally and mortally wounds the old man, who curses his daughter. Leonora’s brother Carlo seeks to avenge their father’s death. Their lives intertwine amidst upheaval spanning the European continent, but ultimately the truth comes out and all must face their destinies.

   

  CAST:

   Donna Leonora di Vargas:   Andrea Gruber

  Preziosilla:   Jill Grove

  Don Alvaro:   Michael Cambias

  Don Carlo di Vargas:   Zˇeljko Lucˇic´

  Padre Guardiano:   Orlin Anastassov

  PRODUCTION:

  Conductor:   Nicola Luisotti

  Director:   Ron Daniels

  Set Designer:   Roland Aeschlimann

  Costume Designer:   Andrea Schmidt-Futterer

  Lighting Designer:   Manfred Voss

  Choreographer:   Robert Moses

  Dramaturg:   Wolfgang Willaschek

  Chorus Director:   Ian Robertson

   

   

   

  For information on tickets available for current productions please contact the box office at 555-1313, which also serves as the theatre's general information line.

  For press releases, private party information and all other business related matters please contact the theatre's assistant general manager, Lara Radella (pc) at 555-2376.

   

  Our Theatre Troupe - Facade

  Farthest Left: Ivan Olivares - troupe director

  

   

  And our newest and brightest shining star:

  Michael Cambias