Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Epilogue. The year is 1910. Angelica, now in her 70’s, comes to visit Concetta and her sisters, Carolina and Caterina. Tancredi has since passed away. With what cheer she can summon, Angelica recalls the day she and Concetta first met at Donnafugata and has just recounted what she thinks is an amusing story about her first encounter with the Prince. The story shocks Concetta. Her father, the Prince, the Leopard, in order to preserve his good name and estate, willfully deprived her of what she most desired: Tancredi. Here, in the opera’s finale, she realizes she has been left with nothing, not even her father’s loyalty.
THE LEOPARD: Music by Michael Dellaira
Libretto by J. D. McClatchy
Commissioned and developed by American Opera Projects, with funds provided by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and The Paul Underwood Charitable Trust.
Adapted from “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Courtesy of The Wylie Agency.
This performance is from the world premiere which took place March 5-6, 2022 at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay, Florida by the University of Miami’s Frost Opera Theater, Frost School of Music (Shelton Berg, Dean)
Conductor - Gerard Schwarz
Music Director/Vocal Coach - Alan Johnson
Stage Director - Jeffrey Buchman
Don Fabrizio (the Prince) - Kim Josephson
Chevalley di Monterzuolo – Kevin Short
Set Designer - Cameron Anderson
Costume Supervisor - Camilla Haith
Lighting Designer - John Cuff
Choreographer - Rosa Mercedes
Hair/Wig/Make-up - Emily Malin
Production Stage Manager - Dustin Z. West
Assistant Stage Managers - Nicole Plummer, Beatriz Menendez
Assistants to the Director - Christina Smiley, Lauren Richards
Costume Coordinator - Courtnay Rigdon
Chorus Master - Scott Aucoin
Rehearsal Pianist - Rina Kharrosova
Costumes provided by - Florida Opera Association, Inc.
Scenic Build by - Infinity Productions
Props provided by - Movie Props Rental
Audio Recording – Soundmirror, Inc.
Producer - Blanton Alspaugh; Balance Engineer - Mark Donahue;
Wireless engineer – Brandon Johnson
Videographer - Gonzalo Mejia
Production made possible by the generous support of Frayda B. Lindemann, Phillip and Patricia Frost, Alan Benaroya, and the Martin Messinger Symphony Orchestra Fund
Music Copyright 2018 Michael Dellaira
Published by American Composers Alliance (BMI) and Music of Virtual North America and for the Rest of the World by BMG Rights Mgt.
Score and parts: composers.com
Epilogue. The year is 1910. Angelica, now in her 70’s, comes to visit Concetta and her sisters, Carolina and Caterina. Tancredi has since passed away. With what cheer she can summon, Angelica recalls the day she and Concetta first met at Donnafugata and has just recounted what she thinks is an amusing story about her first encounter with the Prince. The story shocks Concetta. Her father, the Prince, the Leopard, in order to preserve his good name and estate, willfully deprived her of what she most desired: Tancredi. Here, in the opera’s finale, she realizes she has been left with nothing, not even her father’s loyalty.
THE LEOPARD: Music by Michael Dellaira
Libretto by J. D. McClatchy
Commissioned and developed by American Opera Projects, with funds provided by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and The Paul Underwood Charitable Trust.
Adapted from “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Courtesy of The Wylie Agency.
This performance is from the world premiere which took place March 5-6, 2022 at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay, Florida by the University of Miami’s Frost Opera Theater, Frost School of Music (Shelton Berg, Dean)
Conductor - Gerard Schwarz
Music Director/Vocal Coach - Alan Johnson
Stage Director - Jeffrey Buchman
Don Fabrizio (the Prince) - Kim Josephson
Chevalley di Monterzuolo – Kevin Short
Set Designer - Cameron Anderson
Costume Supervisor - Camilla Haith
Lighting Designer - John Cuff
Choreographer - Rosa Mercedes
Hair/Wig/Make-up - Emily Malin
Production Stage Manager - Dustin Z. West
Assistant Stage Managers - Nicole Plummer, Beatriz Menendez
Assistants to the Director - Christina Smiley, Lauren Richards
Costume Coordinator - Courtnay Rigdon
Chorus Master - Scott Aucoin
Rehearsal Pianist - Rina Kharrosova
Costumes provided by - Florida Opera Association, Inc.
Scenic Build by - Infinity Productions
Props provided by - Movie Props Rental
Audio Recording – Soundmirror, Inc.
Producer - Blanton Alspaugh; Balance Engineer - Mark Donahue;
Wireless engineer – Brandon Johnson
Videographer - Gonzalo Mejia
Production made possible by the generous support of Frayda B. Lindemann, Phillip and Patricia Frost, Alan Benaroya, and the Martin Messinger Symphony Orchestra Fund
Music Copyright 2018 Michael Dellaira
Published by American Composers Alliance (BMI) and Music of Virtual North America and for the Rest of the World by BMG Rights Mgt.
Score and parts: composers.com
