Thomas Harper directs students from the UW Opera Theater in Johann Strauss’s charming three-act operetta Die Fledermaus. This production will be performed in English.

CAST

Rosalinda                                 Kristin Lindenmuth

Adele                                        Rachael Kim  and  Lisa Prina

Sally                                          Stephanie Dixon  and  Jessica Gorski

Prince Orlovsky                       Nina Alden  and  Annalisee Brasil 

Gabriel Eisenstein                  Eric Neuville

Alfred                                         Paul Walk

Dr. Falke                                   Adrian Packel

Dr. Blind                                   Joshua Langager  (Understudy: Christopher Kouldukis)

Frank                                         Andrew Fisher

Frosch                                       Christopher Kouldukis

Ivan                                            William Brooke

 ENSEMBLE

Ashley Biehl,  Michelle Bretl,  Stephanie Dixon,  Denna Good-Mojab, 

Jessica Gorski,   Joan Kim,  Tami McTaggart,  Melissa Sugarman

William Brooke, Chris Kouldukis,  Joshua Longager, Isaiah Lin, Joseph Muriello

DIRECTOR BIO

Thomas Harper

Thomas Harper is Associate Professor of Voice, Chair of Voice/Opera, and Director of the Opera Theater at the University of Washington. In addition to voice instruction and direction of opera productions, he holds classes in Diction, Vocal Pedagogy, and Art-Song Repertoire.

He has performed for three decades in opera houses and concert halls in Europe and the Americas, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre de Genève, RAI Torino, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera, Téatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile, and many others. He has amassed a wide and varied repertoire of over fifty roles including the “Duke” in Rigoletto, “Rodolfo” in La Bohème, “Radames” in Aida, “Canio” in I Pagliacci, “Eléazar” in La Juive, “Florestan” in Fidelio, “Erik” in Der Fliegende Holländer, “Parsifal” in Parsifal, “Alwa” in Alban Berg’s Lulu, “Gregor” in Leoš Janáček’s Makropoulos Affair and “Mime” in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he also recorded on the Arte Nova label. He has won enthusiastic praise for the role of “Fritz” on the Naxos recording of Franz Schreker’s opera Der Ferne Klang and for his definitive interpretation of “Mime” in Der Ring des Nibelungen in numerous European and American opera houses. He may also be heard on the Naxos label singing Famous Tenor Arias from the Italian repertoire as well as Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde with the Irish National Orchestra.