IOA's next production will be Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss.

Performances at the Willson Auditorium October 10, 7:00 and Sunday, October 12 at 3:00.

Julian Dawson, Conductor

Conductor Julian Dawson held appointments as Staff Accompanist for the BBC in Scotland, Associate Conductor for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Scottish Opera.  Maestro Dawson was Director of Orchestras and Opera at Illinois State University for 26 years and opera conductor for nine seasons at the Brevard Music Center. He recently spent five summers as conductor for the Oberlin in Italy opera program in Urbania, Italy. He was Principal Coach of the Chicago Opera Theater and currently conductor for the DePaul University Opera Theater's production of Purcell's The Fairy Queen.

Richard Clifford, Director

Clifford is a highly regarded director. At the Folger Theater in Washington, he has staged his productions of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (2002) and John Milton's Comus (2001). In his production of August Strindberg's Playing the Wife, performed at England's Chichester Festival in 1995, he had the privilege of directing actor Derek Jacobi. Clifford also directed one of the most widely publicized events in Britain in 2000: A Salute to the Man of the Millennium, a London bash at which the likes of Judi Dench, Helena Bonham Carter, and Bob Hoskins paid tribute to Shakespeare and honored Branagh for his contributions to popularizing Shakespeare. Clifford directed IOA’s Gilbert & Sullivan productions of Pirates of  Penzance (2005) and The Mikado (2006).

Shakespeare fans in Britain and America generally are well acquainted with the work of Richard Clifford as an actor. After performing regularly in acclaimed productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he appeared in other Shakespeare productions on Broadway and in London's West End. In addition, he has acted in three of pal Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films: Love's Labour's Lost (2000) as Boyet, a lord in the company of the Princess of France; Much Ado About Nothing (1993) as Conrade, a follower of the evil Don John; and Henry V (1989), as the Duke of Orleans, one of the leaders of the French army. Clifford has also performed in productions based on the works or the lives of other giants of literature, including Gulliver in Lilliput (1982), Cyrano de Bergerac (1985), Little Dorrit (1988), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), and The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (2001).

The All Movie Guide text is used by the New York Times:
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/13673/Richard-Clifford/biography?scp=5&sq=%22Richard%20Clifford%22&st=cse
The New York Times give a filmography at
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/13673/Richard-Clifford/filmography

Sadie Dawkins Rosales as Rosalinde

Sean Anderson as Eisenstein

Catherine Viscardi as Adele

Darrell Babidge as Falke

Pedro Armando Rosales as Alfred

Lukas Graf as Frank

Olivia Kahler as Orlofsky

Russell Milburn as Dr. Blind

Coco Douma as Ida