The Cast of the Conquistador - Luis Otey, baritone

LOUIS OTEY, baritone

...sang Don Alvaro de Zuniga,	VICEROY of NEW SPAIN

Photo Credit: © Ken Howard, courtesy San Diego Opera

The American baritone returned to San Diego Opera earlier in the 1997 season to sing Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen. San Diego audiences will remember Mr. Otey's past performances as Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucrecia (1992) and the Four Villains in Les Contes d'Hoffman (1994). Mr. Otey has performed at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, L'Opera de Monte Carlo, New York City Opera, the Edinburgh Festival, Houston Grand Opera and the Washington Opera at Kennedy Center, among his long list of credits. His recent performances at New York City Opera include Germont in La traviata, Scarpia in Tosca, Figaro in Il barbieri di Siviglia and the Count in Le nozze di Figaro. Mr. Otey has also sung Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with both Lyric Opera of Chicago and L'Opera de Montreal,Danilo in Die lustige Witwe with the Dallas Opera, Iago in Otello, the title role in Don Giovanni, and in The Excursions of Mr. Broucek at the Spoleto Festival USA. Last summer he sang Scarpiaat Chautauqua Opera. Other recent engagements include New Orleans Opera as Eisenstein and Forth Worth Opera as Renato in Un ballo in Maschera.

The CAST: Jerry Hadley Kenneth Cox John Duykers

Adria Firestone Vivica Genaux Elizabeth Hynes Louis Otey

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