Organization

Opera NEO

Stage director

Péter Kozma

Conductor

Singer

Tenor

Charles Calotta

Mitridate

Soprano

Oznur Tuluglu

Aspasia

Sara Womble

Sifare

Countertenor

Keith Wehmeier

Farnace

Emily Helenbrook

Ismene

Andrew Brown

Marzio

Assistant Stage Director

Samantha Fox

Lighting designer

Elijah Thomas

Costume designer

Jennifer Brawn-Gettings

Sound designer

Daniel Rumley

Darya Narymanava

Arbate

Italian

Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87

San Diego

United States

UC San Diego Park & Market

Mitridate, re di Ponto Mozart

Public

English

Approved

Mitridate, rè di Ponto
by W. A. Mozart
K. 87/74a  (1770)

Sung in Italian -- with English subtitles.

Opera Neo 2023 Summer Festival San Diego
Recorded live at UC San Diego Park & Market Media Center | The Forum 
San Diego, California

An Opera Neo Production
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The production also includes excerpts from Mozart's "Thamos, König in Ägypten," and "Il sogno di Scipione."

Conductor/Stage Director – Peter Kozma

Cast:
Mitridate – Charles Calotta
Aspasia – Öznur Tülüoğlu
Sifare – Sara Womble
Farnace – Keith Wehmeier
Ismene – Emily Helenbrook
Arbate – Darya Narymanava
Marzio – Andrew Bearden Brown

Ensemble:
Sara Mortensen
Ripley Lucas-Tagliani
Sofia Riggio
Rachael Bell
Katherine Cosenza-Starr
Lauren Randolph
Brian Skoog
Marcus Huber
Cole Bellamy
Matthew Cook
Steele Fitzwater

Creative Team:
Peter Kozma – Production & Stage Director | Conductor
David Radamés Toro – Associate Director
Samantha Fox – Assistant Director
Dennis Oliveira – Assistant Director
Elijah Thomas – Lighting Designer
Pablo D. Antón – Assistant Lighting Designer
Jennifer Brawn-Gittings – Costume Designer
Daniel Rumley - Sound Designer
Katherine Starr – Video Editor & Videographer | Live Camera
Sydney Roslin – Live Video Director
Sofia Riggio – Assistant Conductor
Korey Barrett – Principal Coach
Nyle Matsuoka – Coach & Pianist
Fumiyasu Kawase – Coach & Pianist
Callista Payne - Production Stage Manager
Alexis McDaniel – Assistant Stage Manager
Melina Ginn – Costumer
Lysa McKenna – Technical Director
Dustin Holum – P & M Technical Director & Technical Supervisor
Chris Dunn – Lead Carpenter
John Bordeaux – Carpenter

Opera Neo Orchestra:

First Violin
Tera Shimizu**
Batya MacAdam-Somer
April Paik
Courtney Kuroda
Jesús Cervantes

Second Violin
Madeline Stewart*
Ashley Salinas
Pama Lynn Broeckel
Kiersten Smith

Viola
Andrew Waid*
Andrew Justice
Jessica Cooper

Cello
Alexa Haynes-Pilon*
Justin Haynes-Pilon
Esther Back

Bass
Marc I. Olsher*

Flute
Alaina Diehl*
Eva Skanse

Oboe
Matthew Hudgens*
Laura Arganbright

Bassoon
Ellis Reyes Montes*
Aaron Goler

Horn
Maria Antonia Riezu*
Sarah Au

Trumpet
Kathryn James Adduci*
Melissa Rodgers Woodrow

Harpsichord
Korey Barrett

Timpani
Maury Baker

*Principal

Audio & Video Recording: Daniel Rumley
Video Editor: Peter Kozma
Supertitles: Kelley Hart and Katherine Cosenza Starr

Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87 Mozart

Written when Mozart was just fourteen, Mitridate is a suspenseful psychological drama

of fractured familial relationships, jealousy, aging, betrayal, and erotic desire.

Based on Jean Racine's play Mithridate, the opera explores

the search for truth amid illusion and misrepresentation.

 

Against the backdrop of raging war with Rome, Mitridates, the King of Pontus, stages his own death to test the loyalty of his sons. Meanwhile, the two brothers, Farnace and Sifare, vie for the love of their father's young fiancée, Aspasia. On the king's unexpected return, the princes' rivalry continues, as they disguise their feelings and struggle to regain their father's trust and earn his approval. Mitridate grows increasingly erratic and brutal in his jealous rage, suspicion, and paranoia, as he faces his own inevitable eclipse and growing irrelevance.

 

Mozart's music bristles with visceral drama, prefiguring the young composer's later works dealing with the fraught relationships between father-figures and sons, particularly Idomeneo and Don Giovanni.

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Performed at UC San Diego's new Park & Market Media and Arts Center, Opera Neo's production is conducted and directed by Peter Kozma.

Opera in two acts with one intermission
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Performances at UCSD Park & Market | The Forum
1100 Market Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Friday, July 14 at 7:30pm
Saturday, July 15 at 7:30pm

Peter Kozma | Conductor/Director

CHARLES CALOTTA
Mitridate
ÖZNUr TÜLÜOĞLU
Aspasia
SARA WOMBLE
Sifare
KEITH WEHMEIER
Farnace
EMILY HELENBROOK
Ismene
ANDREW BEARDEN BROWN
Marzio

Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87 by Mozart, From (2023/2023), Directed by Péter Kozma,, Conductor Péter Kozma, UC San Diego Park & Market, San Diego, United States

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