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Opera in Concert The Trusts Community Foundation OPERA IN CONCERT VERDI’S OTELLO 7.30pm, Friday 29 July 2016 Auckland Town Hall KARMA COLA The award-winning packaging design now available world-wide. A little while ago, Special Group designed the distinctive Karma Cola packaging. Today it’s sold all over the world and bottled in the UK to keep up with European demand. Is that great success all down to the branding? Nope. Did it make a difference? Just ask All Good. Simon Coley, Founder [email protected] specialgroup.com KARMA COLA The award-winning packaging design now available world-wide. CONTENTS Welcome 2 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 2016 4 About Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 11 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Funding and Support 13 Otello 14 Acknowledgements 29 A little while ago, Special Group designed the distinctive Karma Cola packaging. Today it’s sold all over the world and bottled in the UK to keep up with European demand. Is that great success all down to the branding? Nope. Did it make a difference? Just ask All Good. Simon Coley, Founder [email protected] specialgroup.com Verdi’s Otello 2016 1 WELCOME operatic stages including the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Grand Opera and Sydney Opera House with Opera Australia. I would also like to welcome Italian soprano Maria Luigia Borsi to sing Verdi’s tragic heroine Desdemona, and American baritone Scott Hendricks as the dastardly and thrilling Iago. Exceptionally talented Kiwi singers Sarah Castle, Andrew Glover and James Ioelu, and Australians James Egglestone and Pelham Andrews hat kind of story could entice Verdi to round out a superb cast, ably supported Wemerge from a comfortable retirement by the brilliant Freemason’s New Zealand and take on another opera? Shakespeare’s Opera Chorus, and of course, the APO. tale had all the ingredients for a compelling Otello is one of Italian opera’s greatest opera – jealousy, greed, torment, and the tragedies, unrivalled in its compelling drama. most depraved villain in the Bard’s roster; it We are able to bring you this wonderful was all too irresistible for Verdi. The result opera thanks to the continued support of the is unquestionably the highpoint of Italian Trusts Community Foundation, our funder for musical drama in the late 19th century – not tonight’s Opera in Concert. I would also like only because of the astounding brilliance of to acknowledge and thank our colleagues the opera itself but also in the challenges at New Zealand Opera for supporting of marshalling the instrumental and vocal tonight’s concert, and thanks also to the forces to carry the quicksilver score. small but growing group of donors who And we’ve assembled just the cast for the support this specific project so we can bring duty. I’m pleased to welcome APO’s Music you a first-class experience. Director Giordano Bellincampi to conduct this 400 years since the death of Shakespeare, concert. Giordano is a seasoned conductor the great storyteller remains as influential of Italian opera, and Otello marks his operatic as ever. We are proud to present Otello to debut with the APO. The role of Otello himself you, our audience, and hope that you enjoy is one of the most vocally and emotionally tonight’s performance. demanding roles in all opera, and in Kiwi tenor Simon O’Neill we have secured an Barbara Glaser outstanding Otello, who brings his experience Chief Executive of performing the role on some of the great Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 2 apo.co.nz The APO plays a vital role in the trustees’ arts strategy, including for the first time in January this year, presenting the APO Orchestral Summer School Finale concert – a combined orchestra of 50 young musicians and APO players – at the Avondale College Performing Arts Centre. In addition, the APO delivers a programme for the 12 West Auckland secondary schools to attend the annual Connecting with Music concert; West Side Beats, an Open Orchestra event at The Trusts Arena; and he Trusts Community Foundation APO 4 Kids Christmas, an annual concert (TTCF) is delighted to be the naming T for young children in West Auckland. rights funder of Opera in Concert, the cornerstone of the Auckland Philharmonia TTCF’s support also helps to ensure that Orchestra’s annual programme. the APO can attract and retain musicians of the highest calibre, which is why we TTCF’s partnership with the APO was are also proud of our commitment to a established in 1998, a relationship that violist’s chair held by Greg McGarity and a continues to grow and develop. We trombonist’s chair held by Mark Close. increasingly value the role that the APO plays. It delivers not only world-class main We very much hope that you will enjoy stage concerts but also APO Connecting, tonight’s operatic masterpiece, Verdi’s an extensive community and education Otello, performed by wonderful guest artists programme for toddlers to aspiring and Auckland’s own world-class orchestra professional musicians, a programme also conducted by Music Director, Maestro supported by TTCF. Giordano Bellincampi. TTCF is proud to have West Auckland’s Ross Clow Portage and Waitakere Trusts as foundation Chairman members and it is the Portage trustees’ The Trusts Community Foundation consistent recommendations that ensure TTCF’s ongoing support of APO’s Opera in Concert is an easy decision. Verdi’s Otello 2016 3 AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA 2016 Music Director Concertmaster Guest Associate Giordano Bellincampi Andrew Beer Concertmaster Liuyi Retallick Chair Donor Chair Donor Dame Jenny Gibbs Assistant Concertmaster Miranda Adams Chair Donor The David & Genevieve Becroft Foundation First Violins Artur Grabczewski # Mark Bennett Elzbieta Grabczewska Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Warren & Sandra Rua & Clarrie Stevens Gregory & Vlasta Cant Charitable Trust Shanahan Ainsley Murray Alexander Shapkin Satomi Suzuki Chair Donor Chair Donor David & Dian Ross Denver & Prue Olde 4 apo.co.nz First Violins Lucy Qi Zhang Caroline von Yuri Cho Bismarck Chair Donor Supported by Martin Sowter & Chair Donor Audrey Hay Alison Pereira Barry & Trish Clapham Charmian Keay Jiwon Lee Second Violins Dianna Cochrane ß Xin (James) Jin + William Hanfling # Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Robert & David Lovell Lynne Morton Rae Crossley-Croft = Sarah Hart Jocelyn Healy Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Anonymous Mike & Debbie Whale Dame Rosanne Meo Rachel Moody Milena Parobczy Ewa Sadag Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Alex Baker Murray & Jill Lander Brian & Pam Stevenson Katherine Walshe Chair Donor Mark & Amber Gatward Violas Robert Ashworth ß David Samuel + Christine Bowie # Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Peter Wilson & Anonymous Ralph & Penny Gerda McGechan Roberts Verdi’s Otello 2016 5 Violas Anne Draffin # Helen Bevin Ping Tong Chan Chair Donor Chair Donor Leigh & Jennie Auton Gregory McGarity Susan Wedde Alexander Chair Donor Chair Donor McFarlane ~ Cellos Eliah Sakakushev- David Garner + Liliya Arefyeva von Bismarck ß Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Haydn Staples & Richard Frechtling & Peter Pritchard & Lynley Stewart Carole McIntosh Belinda Vernon Katherine Hebley You Lee James sang-oh Yoo Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Penelope Weber Barbara Glaser & Stephen Lloyd Richard Panting Jacky Siu ~ Basses Gordon Hill ß Annabella Zilber + Evgueny Chair Donor Chair Donor Lanchtchikov # Dr Tom & Ann Morris Paul & Alison Dyson Chair Donor Stephen & Laura Dee Matthias Erdrich Alanna Jones Michael Steer Chair Donor Chair Donor Sylvia Rosevear Julian Smith & Craig McAlpine 6 apo.co.nz Flutes Emma Gerstein ß Kathryn Moorhead + Chair Donor Chair Donor Charline Hamilton Karen Kennedy Baker Piccolo Jennifer Seddon- Mori * Chair Donor Richard & Lois Hadfield Oboes Bede Hanley ß Camille Wells + Chair Donor Chair Donor Richard & Janet Smith Elizabeth Ebbett Cor Anglais Martin Lee * Clarinets Signe Sõmer ß Bridget Miles + James Fry + Bass Clarinet* Eb Clarinet* Chair Donor Tony & Deirdre Chair Donor Chair Donor Anselmi Family Trust Stephen & Michael & Dame Gail Hofmann Rosie Horton Bassoons Ingrid Hagan ß Yang Rachel Guan Ebbett + Chair Donor Gary & Dot Paykel Chair Donor Dame Adrienne Stewart Verdi’s Otello 2016 7 Contrabassoon Ruth Brinkman * Horns Nicola Baker ß Emma Eden * Carl Wells # Chair Donor Chair Donor Chair Donor Charles & Kevin Martin Tana Fishman Simon Williams # David Kay Chair Donor Chair Donor Anna Nathan Trumpets Huw Dann ß Jonah Levy + Norman McFarlane + Chair Donor Chair Donor Neil & Jane Haines Robert & Louise Clark Trombones Douglas Cross ß Mark Close # Chair Donor Chair Donor Adrian Burr Bass Trombone Timothy Sutton * Chair Donor John Griffiths 8 apo.co.nz Tuba Tak Chun Lai * Percussion Eric Renick ß Jennifer Raven # Shane Currey Chair Donor Chair Donor Geraint A. Martin Penelope Peebles & Sam Cliffe & James Sutherland Harp Rebecca Harris * Chair Donor Signs Around Town Ltd Timpani Vacancy Chair Donor Andrew and Jenny Smith Guest Musicians Violin Bassoon Timpani Mandolin Naomi Lee Preman Tilson Ben Fullbrook Dave Kahn Cello Trumpet Percussion Organ Paul van Houtte Stephen Bemelman Rebecca Celebuski David Kelly Jeremy Fitzsimons Banda Répétiteur and Vocal Coach Mark Bremner Namleen Kaur Mallah David Kelly Matthew Verrill Laura Pendergrast Assisted by Rosemary Barnes Nick Hall Nicholas Allan Composer-in-Residence Karlo Margetić ß Section Principal + Associate Principal = Section Leader Emeritus # Sub Principal * Principal ~ Manchester Fellows Verdi’s Otello 2016 9 Leave your mark in the music You can help shape the future
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