55th Season 2010-2011

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Fri, October 15, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Sun, October 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Sat, October 23, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Sun, October 24, 2010 at 2:00 PM

All performances at the Lucie Stern Theatre
1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, California

Preview with piano on Thursday, October 7, 2010, 8:00 p.m. at the

Palo Alto Art Center - 1313 Newell Rd. at Embarcadero, Palo Alto

conductor Michel Singher   director David F. Ostwald   

West Bay Opera Premiere: October 15, 2010
World Premiere: Saint Petersburg, Russia - November 10, 1862

Sung in Italian, with English titles

Synopsis:

Leonora is in love with Alvaro and plans to elope with him. Her father, the Marquis de Calatrava, intercepts them. Alvaro accidentally wounds the Marquis, who dies cursing them. Carlos, Leonora’s brother, swears revenge. Set in Seville in the eighteenth century, the piece explores themes of pride, love, revenge and hope. A late Verdi piece, written right before Don Carlo, La forza del destino boasts perhaps the most famous Verdi overture and plenty of memorable arias, ensembles and choral highlights, in a dramatically compelling and dynamic score.  Like  all the titles featured in the 2010-11 Season, La forza del destino is a premiere for West Bay Opera.