2025-26 Season
Another season of great performances of operatic masterpieces!
Although mostly known to American audiences for Messiah, Handel was a prolific opera composer, composing 47 operas. Rinaldo, the story of a heroic medieval knight of the Crusades was the inspiration for countless Renaissance paintings and was Handel’s most famous opera, the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the London stage
3 performances at McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon, WA
Sunday October 19, 1:30 pm
Friday October 24, 7:30 pm
Sunday October 26 1:30 pm
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Cast:
Rinaldo…………….Sarah Coit*
Armida……………..Hallie Schmidt
Argante…………….Luke Harnish*
Goffredo………….. Jordan Seguin-Gascoigne
Almirena…………..Jordan Knapick
Eustazio …………..Rosamund Dyer
Magician…………..Boyd Schlaefer
Stage Director/Set Design… Mitchell Kahn
Music Director………………Jonathan Khuner
Following the great success of Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss and his librettist, Hofmannsthal came up with a brilliant opera that explores the competition between high and low art for the attention of the public. Metropolitan Opera soprano Katie van Kooten will return to PNO to sing her first Ariadne.
3 performances at McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon, WA
Saturday April 25, 1:30 pm
Friday May 1, 7:30 pm
Sunday May 3, 1:30 pm
Sung in German with English subtitles
Cast:
Ariadne……………………..Katie van Kooten
Zerbinetta………………….Hallie Schmidt
Bacchus……………………..Alex Boyer*
Composer…………………..Aria Minasian*
Stage Director/Set Design… Mitchell Kahn
Music Director………………Jonathan Khuner
*Pacific Northwest Opera debut
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