Gioachino Rossini Armida

Libretto by Giovanni Schmidt

This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorˇák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award® winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

Conductor Riccardo Frizza

Production Mary Zimmerman

Set & Costume Designer Richard Hudson

Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt

Choreographer Graciela Daniele*

Armida Renée Fleming

Rinaldo Lawrence Brownlee

Goffredo Bruce Ford

Gernando José Manuel Zapata

Carlo Barry Banks

Ubaldo Kobie van Rensburg

Production underwritten by The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Opera in original language, with English subtitles.