Conductor
JAMES LEVINE

Production
MARK MORRIS

Set Designer
ALLEN MOYER

Costume Designer
ISAAC MIZRAHI

Lighting Designer
JAMES F. INGALLS

Choreographer
MARK MORRIS

Host
JOYCE DiDONATO

Cast in order of appearance

Orfeo
STEPHANIE BLYTHE

Amor
HEIDI GRANT MURPHY

Euridice
DANIELLE DE NIESE

Harpsichord
JOSHUA GREENE

Chorus Master
DONALD PALUMBO

Musical Preparation
DENNIS GIAUQUE
BRADLEY MOORE
JOSHUA GREENE
KAZEM ABDULLAH
LEONARDO VORDONI

Assistant Stage Directors
ERIC EINHORN
DAVID KNEUSS
GINA LAPINSKI

Stage Band Conductor
GREGORY BUCHALTER

Dramaturg
PAUL CREMO

Met Titles
FRANCIS RIZZO

Assistants to Mark Morris
MATTHEW ROSE
JOE BOWIE

Associate Costume Designer
COURTNEY LOGAN

A METROPOLITAN OPERA HIGH-DEFINITION PRODUCTION

Supervising Producers
MIA BONGIOVANNI
ELENA PARK

Producers
LOUISA BRICCETTI
VICTORIA WARIVONCHIK

Music Producer
JAY DAVID SAKS

Associate Director
JAY MILLARD

Engineer-in-Charge
MARK SCHUBIN

Technical Supervisor
RON WASHBURN

Technical Director
JON PRETNAR

Production Mixer
JORGE SILVA

Audio Supervisor
BILL KING

Television Lighting
WAYNE CHOUINARD

Writers
MATT DOBKIN
ELLEN KEEL

Video
BILLY STEINBERG
MAC PRIVETTE
PAUL RANIERI
MATTY RANDAZZO

Camera
MIGUEL ARMSTRONG
MANNY GUTIERREZ
CHARLIE HUNTLEY
ALAIN ONESTO
DAVID SMITH
LARRY SOLOMON
RON WASHBURN
MARK WHITMAN

Audio
JOHN BATES
CHRIS CALLUS
LOUISE DE LA FUENTE
MATTHEW GALEK
ED HARTLEY
KEN HUNOLD
JOHN KERSWELL
STEVE LAMPHERE
SEAN McCLINTOCK
BLAKE NORTON
AL THEURER

Videotape
ALAN BUCHNER
STEVEN JOYCE

Head Utility
JAMES WASHBURN

Utility
BOB BENEDETTI
FRANK BOURASSA
KEITH CONOD
JOHN HENEGHAN
MIKE MORAN

Television Stage Managers
TERENCE BENSON
PHYLLIS DIGILIO

English subtitles adapted by
DAVID REBHUN

Broadcast Graphics
DEBORAH CAVANAUGH

Score Consultant
HABIB AZAR

Make-up for Ms. de Niese
MATIKI ANOFF

Media Librarian/Archivist
MICHAEL GRIEBEL

Production Associates
ALEXANDRA EASTMAN
YOLANDA S. WILLIAMS

PRE-SHOW

Steadicam
JOE DE BONIS

Assistant Camera
BRETT WALTERS

Camera
BILL FINLEY

Production Supervisor
HILARY LEY

Associate Producers
MARISA BIAGGI
MATTHEW PRINCIPE

Field Producer
BARRY GOODMAN

Title Sequence Edited by
SAKAE ISHIKAWA

Production Assistants
ALYSE HORN
ENZO E. MARTINEZ
HARRIET SNYDER
DOROTHY YANG

METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION

General Manager
PETER GELB

Music Director
JAMES LEVINE

ASSISTANT MANAGERS

Artistic
SARAH BILLINGHURST

Production
LESLEY KOENIG

Editorial & Creative Content
ELENA PARK

Operations
STEWART PEARCE

Development
CORALIE TOEVS

Director of Communications
LEE ABRAHAMIAN

Director of Media & Presentations
MIA BONGIOVANNI

Director of Worldwide HD Distribution
JULIE BORCHARD-YOUNG

Acting Chief Financial Officer
DIANA FORTUNA

Artistic Administrator
JONATHAN FRIEND

General Counsel
SHARON E. GRUBIN

Director of Human Resources & Labor Relations
ANN MARIE HACKETT

Director of Development
ELIZABETH HURLEY

Director of Marketing
KAREN KARP

Director of the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met
DODIE KAZANJIAN

House Manager
JAMES NAPLES

Director of National Council Auditions
GAYLETHA NICHOLS

Director of Music Administration
CRAIG RUTENBERG

Technical Director
JOHN SELLARS

Director of Archives
ROBERT TUGGLE

Senior Artistic Advisor
EVA WAGNER-PASQUIER

Executive Director of Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
BRIAN ZEGER

Director of New Business Development
LAURA MITGANG

METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA

Orchestra Manager
ROBERT SIRINEK

Concertmaster
DAVID CHAN

Librarian
ROBERT SUTHERLAND

METROPOLITAN OPERA CHORUS

Chorus Master
DONALD PALUMBO

Assistant Chorus Master
JOSEPH LAWSON

METROPOLITAN OPERA BALLET

Dance Director
JOSEPH FRITZ

Deputy Dance Director
ANDREW ROBINSON

Stage Managers
MARGO MAIER-MOUL
RAYMOND MENARD
SCOTT MOON

STAGE OPERATIONS

Master Carpenter
STEPHEN A. DIAZ

Master Electrician
PAUL DONAHUE

Properties Master
JAMES R. BLUMENFELD

Wig and Hair Stylist
TOM WATSON

Make-up Artist
VICTOR CALLEGARI

Wardrobe Supervisor
WILLIAM MALLOY

Costume Shop Head
LESLEY WESTON

Resident Costume Designer
SYLVIA NOLAN

Met Titles Supervisor
MICHAEL PANAYOS

Production Facilities
ALL MOBILE VIDEO INC.
DOLBY LABORATORIES
REMOTE RECORDING

Media Counsel
FRANKLIN, WEINRIB,
RUDELL & VASALLO, P.C.

HD Press Representatives
PETER E. CLARK
CHARLIE SIEDENBURG

The stage production of Orfeo ed Euridice made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer J. Thomas, Jr.

Performed in the Vienna version, 1762, edited by Ann Amalie Albert and Ludwig Finscher, by arrangement with Bärenreiter, publisher and copyright owner

For GREAT PERFORMANCES

Series Producer
BILL O’DONNELL

Executive Producer
DAVID HORN

A Metropolitan Opera production in association with PBS and WNET.ORG

Executive Producer
PETER GELB

Watch a preview:

Great Performances at the Met is a presentation of THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG – one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers.

Orfeo ed Euridice is the mythical tale of poet-singer Orfeo, who driven by despair, enters the underworld determined to retrieve his dead wife.  Mezzo-Soprano Blythe, in her first performance as Orfeo, battles the Furies with her powerhouse voice and “conveys piercing emotional subtleties with every glance and phrase,” wrote The New York Times.  Danielle de Niese co-stars as the beloved wife Euridice.  Mark Morris directs and choreographs, featuring costumes by Isaac Mizrahi.  The telecast is conducted by James Levine and presented by THIRTEEN’s award-winning performances series Great Performances.

Also starring soprano Heidi Grant Murphy as the god of love Amor, Great Performances at the Met: Orfeo ed Euridice is the eighth of 11 productions airing this season on the series.  The performance is sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Great Performances is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers, and PBS.  Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by Toll Brothers.  Special funding for this telecast is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For the Met, Mia Bongiovanni and Elena Park are Supervising Producers, and Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik are Producers.  Peter Gelb is Executive Producer.  For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is Series Producer; David Horn is Executive Producer.