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Hansel and Gretel: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Rigoletto: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Summer 2007

Rigoletto - Week Four

Gilda, soprano Chen Reiss, reflects on her new love's name in the famous aria, 'Caro Nome.'

Rigoletto, baritone Alan Opie, takes Gilda, soprano Chen Reiss, to Sparafucile's inn on the outskirts of town to show his daughter that the Duke is not worthy of her love.

Gilda, soprano Chen Reiss, emerges from the Duke's bedchamber and confesses to her father, baritone Alan Opie, what has happened.

Rigoletto, baritone Alan Opie, plots with Sparafucile, bass Julian Rodescu, to assassinate the Duke.

Rigoletto, baritone Alan Opie, implores Giovanna, mezzo-soprano Allison Sanders, to keep his daughter Gilda safe from the lecherous Duke.

Left alone by her father, Gilda, soprano Chen Reiss, muses on the man she has seen in church. Little does she know, that man is Duke, who has bribed his way into the house to spend a few moments alone with her.

The Duke, tenor Matthew Polenzani, despairs at the disappearance of Gilda, until he leans that his courtiers have abducted her and placed her in his bedchamber.

The Duke's wandering eye leads him to Sparafucile's sister Maddalena, mezzo-soprano Kirstin Chávez.

Count Ceprano, bass-baritone DeAndre Simmons, and Countess Ceprano, soprano Amanda Majeski, arrive at the Duke's lavish hall.

During the revelry, Count Monterone barges in and denounces the Duke for seducing his daughter. Ridiculed by Rigoletto, Monterone lays a solemn curse on both the Duke and his jester.

Monterone's curse is fulfilled when Rigoletto, baritone Alan Opie, discovers his daughter's body instead of the Duke's. Gilda, soprano Chen Reiss, asks her father for forgiveness before she dies and Rigoletto recalls the curse of Count Monterone one last time as the curtain falls.

Director Robert Driver and Managing Director David Devan (far left and right) pose with OCP's newest board members, Harold and Frannie Rosenbluth, just before dress rehearsal begins.