The Dallas Opera 2021-2022 - Madame Butterfly/Flight

22 Seth Carico (Minskman) The Dallas Opera debut The American bass-baritone appeared last season as Leporello in Don Giovanni , the seven baritone roles in Death in Venice , St.-Bris in Les Huguenots , and Oberthal in Le prophète , all at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he was an Ensemble member from 2010 to 2019. In addition to Leporello (Hamburg State Opera), the 2020/21 season included several important debuts, including Orest in Elektra (Stadttheater Klagenfurt), and Fortnum Roscoe and Johnson Evesham in Dai Fujikura’s A Dream of Armageddon (world premiere) with New National Theatre Tokyo. Carico recently made an acclaimed debut as Scarpia in Tosca at the Staatsoper Hannover. Guest engagements have also included Joseph de Rocher in Dead ManWalking (Minnesota Opera), Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress and Dr. John Polidori in Wertmüller’s Diodati. unendlich (both at Theater Basel, the latter a world premiere), among others. Catherine Martin (Minskwoman) The Dallas Opera debut During 2019/20 the American mezzo-soprano portrayed Waltraute in Twilight: Gods at both Michigan Opera Theatre and Lyric Opera of Chicago. She recently sangWellgunde in Götterdämmerung at the National Taichung Theatre in Taiwan. Among other highlights in recent seasons have been Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking ; various roles of Wagner’s Ring cycle with Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony; Amneris in Aïda ; Adalgisa in Norma ; the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos ; and Eva in An American Dream . Martin has appeared in many other contemporary-opera roles, among themMary in Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me in its world premiere; Genevieve in Paul Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner ; Tamara in Ben Moore’s Enemies , A Love Story ; and Sara Mille in D. J. Sparr’s Approaching Ali . Zachary James (Immigration Officer) The Dallas Opera debut The American bass created the role of Abraham Lincoln in Philip Glass’s The Perfect American at Madrid’s Teatro Real, which he reprised for English National Opera, Opera Queensland, and the Brisbane Festival. A winner of the 2009 Lotte Lenya Competition, James has appeared repeatedly at Opera Roanoke, Opera Ithaca, Central City Opera, and Knoxville Opera, among many other companies. He has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet. On Broadway, James created Lurch in The Addams Family and portrayed Hassinger in the Tony-winning revival of South Pacific . He has performed at City Center Encores! and with theater companies throughout America, as well as on television ( 30 Rock , Murphy Brown ) and on film ( The Gift ). James was named as the BroadwayWorld 2010-2020 Vocalist and Performer of the Decade, the 2019 Breakout Opera Artist of the Year by Verismo magazine, and The Most Innovative Opera Singer of 2019 by The Classical Post . Emmanuel Villaume , Conductor The French conductor has been TDO’s Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director since 2013. Formerly Music Director of Spoleto Festival USA and Chief Conductor of the National Slovenian Philharmonic, he has held both of those positions with the PKF-Prague Philharmonia since 2015. Villaume has triumphed throughout America, leading productions at the Metropolitan Opera and the major companies of Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Santa Fe. He has also appeared at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, all the major French and German houses, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Villaume’s guest- conducting of symphonic repertoire has been hailed with the leading orchestras of Montreal, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, and Boston, as well as those of London, Paris, Munich, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Tokyo, and more. Most recently, he received critical acclaim for his Carmen in Munich and Cendrillon at the Met. THE DALLAS OPERA | 2021/2022 SEASON