[Met Performance] CID:350769
Stravinsky {17}

Le Sacre du Printemps {17}

Le Rossignol {25}

Oedipus Rex {17}
matinee ed. Metropolitan Opera House: 10/04/2003.

(Debut: Julie Kent, Bengi Mayone, Victor Chernomortsev, Philip Bosco)


Metropolitan Opera House
October 4, 2003


STRAVINSKY {17}


LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS {17}
Stravinsky

The Chosen..............Adriane Fang, Daniel Charon
Sages...................Nina Watt, Larry Hahn
Metropolitan Opera Ballet

Choreographer...........Doug Varone


LE ROSSIGNOL {25}
Stravinsky-Stravinsky/Mitusov

Nightingale.............Olga Trifonova
Nightingale (Dance).....Julie Kent [Debut]
Fisherman...............Barry Banks
Fisherman (Dance).......Damian Woetzel
Cook....................Maria Zifchak
Emperor.................Victor Chernomortsev [Debut]
Chamberlain.............Julien Robbins
Bonze...................Michael Devlin
Death...................Wendy White
Japanese Envoys: Roy Cornelius Smith, Brian Davis, Adam Klein
Solo Voices: Bengi Mayone [Debut], Mark Schowalter, Edyta Kulczak

Choreographer...........Frederick Ashton


OEDIPUS REX {17}
Stravinsky-Cocteau

Oedipus.................Robert Gambill
Jocasta.................Stephanie Blythe
Creon...................Evgeny Nikitin
Tiresias................Eric Halfvarson
Messenger...............Evgeny Nikitin
Shepherd................Barry Banks
Speaker.................Philip Bosco [Debut]

Conductor...............Valery Gergiev

Production..............John Dexter
Designer................David Hockney
Lighting designer.......Wayne Chouinard
Stage director..........David Kneuss

Stravinsky received seven performances this season.

Revival a gift of The Tobin Endowment in honor and memory of Robert L. B. Tobin

[In the Doug Varone choreography for Le Sacre du Printemps the Chosen One is called the Chosen and performed by two dancers.
In Le Rossignol singers performed the Nightingale and Fisherman from the orchestra pit while dancers portrayed those characters onstage.]


Production photos of Stravinsky by Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera:



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