LESLIE DALA
Conductor

Opera
Role Composer Opera
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
John Adams Nixon in China
Assistant Bartok Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Beethoven Fidelio
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Bellini I Puritani
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
  Norma
Assistant Berg Wozzeck
Assistant Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict
Assistant Bernstein Candide
Assistant West Side Story
Assistant Bizet Carmen
Assistant Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande
Assistant Donizetti l’Elisir d’Amore
Assistant La Fille du Régiment
Assistant Lucia di Lamermoor
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
John Estacio Lillian Alling (world premiere)
Assistant Floyd Susannah
Assistant Gluck Alceste
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Gounod Faust
Assistant Romeo et Juliette
Assistant Hartmann Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
Assistant Henze Venus and Adonis
Assistant Holst Savitri
Conductor Humperdinck Hansel und Gretel*
Assistant Janáček Jenufa
Assistant Vec Makropoulos
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Leoncavallo Pagliacci
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana
Assistant Massenet Werther
Conductor Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte*
Conductor Don Giovanni*
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
La Clemenza di Tito
Conductor Le Nozze di Figaro*
Conductor Die Zauberflöte*
Conductor Piccinni La Cecchina*
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Poulenc Les Dialogues des Carmelites
Conductor Puccini La Boheme*
Assistant La Fanciulla del West
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Madame Butterfly
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Tosca
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Turandot
Assistant Ravel L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
L’Italianna in Algeri
Cover Conductor Lewis Spratlan Life is a Dream (world premiere)
Conductor Strauss, J Die Fledermaus*
Assistant Strauss, R Ariadne auf Naxos
Assistant Elektra
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Der Rosenkavalier
Assistant Salome
Assistant Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress
Conductor Sullivan HMS Pinafore*
Assistant The Mikado
Assistant Pirates of Penzance
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
Assistant Verdi Aida
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Un Ballo in Maschera
Assistant Falstaff
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Macbeth
Conductor Rigoletto*
Assistant La Traviata
Assistant Il Trovatore
Assistant Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer
Cover Conductor /
Chorus Director
Weber Der Freischütz
Conductor Weill Die Dreigroschenoper
   
*In Performance

Orchestral

Composer Work
Archer Sinfonietta
Bach Brandenburg Concerto #3
Keyboard Concerto in d (also as piano soloist)
Orchestral Suite no. 2
Barber Knoxville Summer of 1915
Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin (Suite)
Piano Concerto #3
Romanian Folk Dances
Beethoven Choral Fantasy
Coriolan Overture
Piano Concertos #3,4,5 (also piano soloist in #3, #5)
Symphonies #1,3,5,6,7,8,9
Berio Folksongs
O King
Bernstein Overture to Candide
Borodin Overture to Prince Igor
Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
German Requiem
Hungarian Dances #1,5
Piano Concerto no 2
Symphonies #1,2
Tragic Overture
Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Britten Simple Symphony
Buczynski Passacaglia (world premiere)
Catstelnuovo Tedesco Concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra
Chabrier Espana
Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2
Cole, Simon One Song Universalis (world premiere)
Copland Appalachian Spring
Clarinet Concerto
Coulthard Variations on a Quiet Song
Downing, Andrew The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (live accompaniment to silent film)
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Legends #1,4
Serenade for Winds
Symphonies #7,8,9
Elgar Cello Concerto
Estacio Bootlegger’s Tarantella
Solaris
Evangelista Airs d’Espagne
Faure Requiem
Forsyth Jubilee Overture
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Gougeon A l’Aventure
Gruber Frankenstein
Habibi, Iman Piano Concerto no. 1 (world premiere)
Handel The Messiah
  Water Music, Suite no. 1
Haydn Cello Concertos in C, D
The Creation
Piano Concerto in D (also as soloist)
Symphony no. 104
Hindemith Der Schwanendreher
  Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
Holst The Planets
Kapilow, Robert The Polar Express
Kodaly Peacock Variations
Knussen Songs Without Voices
Liszt Hamlet
Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Les Preludes
Piano Concerto no. 1
Via Crucis
Lucas, Gordon Symphony of Saints (world premiere)
Variations (world premiere)
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
Symphony no. 5
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
A Midsummernight’s Dream (complete incidental music)
Piano Concerto no. 1
Violin Concerto
Mercure Kaleidoscope
Milhaud La Creation du Monde
Morawetz Carnival Overture
Memorial to Martin Luther King
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Ch’Io Mi Scordi di Te (also as piano soloist)
Masses: Coronation, Trinitatis
Overtures to La Clemenza di Tito; Cosi Fan Tutte; Don Giovanni;
Le Nozze di Figaro; Die Zauberflote
Piano Concertos no. 19, 27
Sinfonia Concertante
Symphonies: #29, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41
Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain
Pictures at an Exhibition
(orchd. by Ravel and chamber version orchd. by Gordon Lucas)
Orff Carmina Burana
Poulenc Babar the Elephant
Concerto for Two Pianos
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Romeo and Juliet Suite no. 2
Symphony no. 5
Violin Concerto no. 2
Purcell Suites 1 & 2 from the Fairy Queene
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 3
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Vocalise
Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus
Ravel Bolero
Pavane pour une enfante defunte
Piano Concerto no. 2
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Reich You Are Variations (Canadian premiere)
Daniel Variations (“)
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade
Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle
Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals
Cello Concerto no. 1
Schafer In Memoriam Alberto Guerrero
Schipiczky Aurora Borealis
Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire
Schubert Mass no. 4
Rosamunde Overture
Symphony no. 5
Schumann Cello Concerto
Symphonies no. 1, 4
Sharman Scarlattiana
Shostakovich Cello Concerto no. 1
Symphony no. 9
Sibelius Finlandia
Karelia Suite
Symphony no. 2
Smetana Ma Vlast
Somers The Death of Enkidu
The Merman of Orford
Picasso Suite
Strauss, J. Blue Danube Waltz
Emperor Waltzes
Overture to Die Fledermaus
Thunder and Lightning Polka
Strauss, R. Duet Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon
Horn Concerto no. 1
Serenade for Winds
Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919)
L’Histoire de Soldat
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Ballet
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Serenade for Strings
Symphony no. 5
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Thibaudeau The Phantom of the Opera (silent movie accompaniment)
Vaughan Williams Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Serenade to Music
Six Studies on English Folk Songs
Varese Octandre
Verdi Overture to La Forza del Destino
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Gloria
Wagner Overture to Tannhauser
Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Siegfried Idyll
Wesendonck Lieder
Weber Overture to Der Freischutz
Weill Suite from the Threepenny Opera

Oratorio

Composer Work
Beethoven Choral Fantasy
  Symphony no. 9
Berlioz La Damnation de Faust
Brahms German Requiem
Faure Requiem
Haydn The Creation
Handel The Messiah
Liszt Via Crucis
Mozart Coronation Mass
Missa Trinitatis
Requiem
Orff Carmina Burana
Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle
Schubert Mass no. 4 in B flat
Verdi Requiem
Vivaldi Gloria