Cast & Artist Biography for Susannah

• William Florescu, Stage Director
        Florentine Opera General Director;
        Stage Director: The Barber of Seville (2007); The Magic Flute (2009);
        Rigoletto (2010); Venus & Adonis/Dido & Aeneas double-bill (2011).
  
  
• Joseph Mechavich, Conductor
      Florentine Opera debut
  
  
• Betty Waynne Allison, Susannah
       Florentine Opera debut
   
• Wayne Tigges, Blitch
       Florentine Opera debut
   
• Jonathan Boyd, Sam
       Member of the Florentine Opera Apprentice Artist Program;
       Roderigo in Othello (1994); Spoletta in Tosca (1995); Pedrillo in
       Die Entfuhrun aus dem Serail (1998); Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni
       (2006); Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow (2007);
       Tenor soloist in Florentine Opera 75th Anniversary Concert (2009).
  
  
• Rodell Rosel, Little Bat
       Monostatos in The Magic Flute (2009).
  
  
• John Tiranno, Elder Hayes
       Florentine Opera debut
  
  
• Jesse Enderle, Elder McLean
       Florentine Opera debut
  

• Katherine Pracht, Mrs. McLean
        Page in Salome (2008).
  
  
• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, our mainstage musical partner
  
  
• The Florentine Opera Chorus