The InspectorThe Inspector

Composer: 
John Musto
Role: 
Tancredi
Company: 
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Venue: 
The Barns
City: 
Vienna
State: 
VA
USA

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Apr 27, 8:00 pm
Apr 29, 8:00 pm
May 1, 3:00 pm

Wolf Trap Opera will present the World Premiere of a new opera by John Musto based loosely on Nikolai Gogol's 'The Government Inspector'. The Inspector is set in 1930s Sicily in a fictional small town not far from Palermo. A crafty drifter is perceived to be a high-ranking government inspector by town officials, who go to great comic lengths to hide the extent of their corruption.

Music: John Musto
Libretto: Mark Stephen Campbell

Conductor: Glen Cortese
Director: Leon Major
Scenic Design: Erhard Rom
Costume Design: David O. Roberts
Lighting Design: Robert H. Grimes

Mayor Fazzobaldi: Robert Orth
Bernadetta, the Mayor’s wife: Luretta Bybee
Beatrice, their daughter: Anne-Carolyn Bird
Tancredi, mistaken for the Inspector - Vale Rideout
Cosimo, his sidekick: William Sharp
Malacorpa, Directress of Hospital & Cemetery Services: Dorothy Byrne
Agrippa, Directress of Education: Angela Mannino
Padre Ruffiano, Director of Salvation Resources: Javier Abreu
Adolfo, Director of Order: Matt Boehler
Bobachina & Bobachino, Post Office Twins: Andrea Shokery, Sarah Larsen

Review clipping

Photos by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

Vale Rideout as Tancredi and William Sharp as Cosimo<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Naomi Jacobson as Sister Anjelica, Vale Rideout as Tancredi and William Sharp as Cosimo<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Vale Rideout as Tancredi, Bob Orth as Mayor Fazzobaldi and William Sharp as Cosimo<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>William Sharp as Cosimo and Vale Rideout as Tancredi<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Vale Rideout as Tancredi<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Anne-Carolyn Bird as Beatrice and Vale Rideout as Tancredi<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Vale Rideout as Tancredi and Anne-Carolyn Bird as Beatrice<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Vale Rideout as Tancredi, Bob Orth as Mayor Fazzobaldi, Anne-Carolyn Bird as Beatrice and Sarah Larsen as Serelda<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Vale Rideout as Tancredi, Anne-Carolyn Bird as Beatrice and William Sharp as Cosimo<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>'One big happy family...'<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>Vale Rideout as Tancredi, Anne-Carolyn Bird as Beatrice and William Sharp as Cosimo<br /><span class="description">Photo by Carol Pratt, for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. All rights reserved. The Inspector by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. World Premiere, April, 2011.</span>