Shreveport Opera begins 2010 -2011 season with Mozart's Don Giovanni October 30, 2010

ShreveportMozart's Don Giovanni will be presented by the Shreveport Opera Saturday October 30, to begin its new season. The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra musicians will be playing in the pit for the first time since the end of the 2008-2009 season. During last years work stoppage/strike the musicians were contracted separately to play the opera and ballet seasons.

Artistic Director for the Shreveport Opera is Steve Aiken. Jerome Shannon will be on the conductor's podium once again.

Riverview Theatre on the Shreveport riverfront

7:30 PM Saturday Oct 30

for ticket information
http://www.shreveportopera.org/

2 of my photos from the May 2010 production of La Boheme



S.O. Artistic Director Steve Aiken

Conductor Jerome (Jerry) Shannon

Don Giovanni 10-2010

orchestra rehearsals begin for us Sunday Oct. 24

which clarinet to use - hmmmm

We go into the pit

oboist Cindy Barbanera

SSO trumpets - Principal Dr. Rick Rowell in the forground and Dick Watson, Second Trumpet

Eric Oleksiak

Chris Moore

Bassoonists Dr. Susan Nelson and Dr. Doug Backenhus

COME JOIN US Saturday night Oct 30 at Riverview Theatre

Bass trombonist Dr. J. Mark Thompson

Don Giovanni trombone section - The Wrath of God

Josh Pepper, choral director and rehearsal pianist

Curtain calls

Michael Mayes (Don Giovanni) with the Don Giovanni cast

Music Director Jerry Shannon with "bows" for the orchestra in the pit

bows for the Don Giovanni production staff