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Production Dates

December 20, 2 pm

December 20, 7 pm

December 21, 7 pm

Sebits Auditorium

Riney Fine Arts Center

Friends University

Wichita, Kansas

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Production Personnel

Director: Alex Paul Sheerin

Assistant Director: Bryan Bolzenthal, Abbi Brundrett, Arissa Ford, Micaela Solari

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Music Director/Conductor: Robert Kahn

Pianist-Coaches/Continuo: Barbie Noyes, Vakhtang Zaalishvili, Ting-An Lai, Yuan Li, 

Abigail Petersen

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Costume Designer: Jen Stephenson

Set Design/Construction: J. Bradley Baker

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Cast

Il Conte: 

Benjamin Chen, Caden Cole, Preston Rogers

La Contessa: 

Hayley Lipke-McBrayer, Michelle Pérez, Brittany Rose Weinstock

Susanna: 

Xijin Chen, Amanda Simms, Samantha Sosa

Figaro: 

Andrew Hebert, Justin Ramm-Damron, Hunter Warnick

Cherubino: 

Joohyun Kim, Daria Tereshchenko, Emily Warren

Marcellina: 

Emily Anderson, Danielle Long, Alexia Rivera

Bartolo: 

Jiahao Fu, Christopher Markgraf, Oluwagbemiga David Oluwo

Basilio/Curzio: 

Joseph McBrayer, Nic Stark​

Barbarina: 

Sofia Rohlman, Sarah Squires, Rebecca Walsh

Antonio: 

Jordan Roth

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Ensemble: 

Flynn Allen​

Jessica Broaddus

Camille Bullard

Abigail Kreis

Melody Prater

Mackenzie Block

Shontel Lena

Toni M Rainey

Ramon Mosate Jr.

Jayden Fraser 

John Jovicich

Elliot Kovitz

Ben Varner

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Orchestra:

Violin I

Madeleine Jansen, Concertmaster

Adrian Atonya

Oliver Fiorello

Violin II

Haerim Liz Lee, Principal

Sage Rosales

Ruyi Wan

Viola

Ruben Balboa, Principal

Alena Bunkers

Camden Gonda

Luke Carmichael Valmadrid

Cello

Benjamin Cline, Principal

Henry Jones

Jaidan Ursich

Bass

Landon Bartel

Flute

Sarah Rodriguez

Clarinet

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Oboe

Erin Flory Robertson

Bassoon

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Horn

Isaac Fowler

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About Le nozze di Figaro

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Le nozze di Figaro is an opera in four acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered on May 1, 1786.

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Language: Sung in Italian with English supertitles

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Composition Date: 1786

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Runtime: 3 hours

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