Opera Company of the Highlands
Claudia Cummings, Artistic Director

DIE FLEDERMAUS (The Bat)

Performed in English
Musical Director:  Claudia Cummings
Stage Director: Roger Hendrick Smon
Pianists:  Lillie Mickesell and Sarah Keene
Costumer:  Kathryn Luciana
Stage Manager:  Bruce Duncan

The Company:
Rosalinda:  Julie Ziavras, Suzanne Cluen

Adele: Sarah Rice,
Johanna McIntire

Eisenstein:  Michael Torpey,
 Osvaldo Cicchetti

Orlofsky:  Thomas Mark Fallon

Falke: Brian Jagde
Dr. Blind:  Michael Cone

Alfred: David Pietri

Sally:  Sarah Levine Simon,
Kathy Lawrence

Frank: Joseph Schommer

Frosch: Jack Aranson

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featuring
Elex Vann as Figaro
Suzanne Clune as Susanna
Julie Ziavras as The Countess
Jerry Kronberg as the Count
Joanna McIntire as Cherubino
Vanessa Valez - Barbarina
 Margaret Hill as Marcellina,
David Mason as Basilio
John Costello as Bartolo
 Al Reese as Antonio and Curzio

The Marriage
of Figaro

The comedy, deception and love that rule Figaro's wedding day...
An Opera by Mozart in English!

The opera was about 2 1/2 hours, 
including one intermission

with Claudia Cummings, Musical & Stage Director
Margaret Small, Piano

Opera For Everyone

Arias and duets from
Madame Butterfly, Cosi Fan Tutti, Tales of Hoffman, La Boheme, Il Trovatore,  Lakme, Marriage of Figaro, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin

Featuring opera singer Claudia Cummings
and  Ron DeFesi, Kelly Esposito, 
Kathleen Borgueta, Brenda Vandervort, 
Richard Kennedy, Mark Gargiulo, 
Lee Dettra, at the piano
Narration spoken by Jack Aranson 

"Who says opera is dead?  Not the 320 people who cheered, stomped, whistled and glowed during the most successful opera recital presented in at least 50 years in Orange County."

- Chris Farlekas, Times Herald Record"

Operetta for Everyone

Based on the popular success of 
"Opera for Everyone"
includes selections from 
Die Fledermaus, Naughty Marietta,
The Merry Widow,
The Dream Melody, 
The Yeoman of the Guard, 
The  Gondoliers, H.M.S. Pinafore,
Carmen and The Land of Smiles