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come to our 95th season! r D from ancient mythology to Cali- fornia history, we embark in Septem- ber on nine powerful journeys that celebrate the stories of humanity. we believe you will find this to be a season of tremendously diverse, ambitious, and emotionally thrilling offerings on the war Memorial opera house stage. from sumptu- ous revivals of Turandot and La Traviata, to connoisseur’s dreams like Elektra and Manon, to one of the most highly anticipated cultural events of the year in the world premiere of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West, this will be a fall to remember. The San Francisco Opera Shop the extraordinary artistic capability of this great Company is made possible by you, our Mezzanine Level audience. we are deeply grateful to all our patrons, subscribers, and donors. You are one (415) 565-3263 of the most passionate and engaged audiences in the world, and your commitment and The Rafael’s / Palace Hotel / San Francisco enthusiasm sustain San francisco opera. thank you for your incredible support. (415) 974-6772 we wish to extend special recognition to our Company sponsors, who provide the major Dayenu Gift and Books / JCCSF underwriting that makes everything we do possible: the Dolby family, Ann & Gordon Getty, (415) 563-6563 Burgess and elizabeth Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs. franklin P. Johnson, Jr., the edmund w. & Jeannik Méquet littlefield fund, Steven M. Menzies, Bernard & Barbro osher, Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem, Dianne & tad taube, the Phyllis C. wattis endowment funds, Diane B. wilsey, and Barbara A. wolfe. we also give special thanks to our Season Sponsor, wells MA 081909A octoberD 1_6v.pdf fargo; our Corporate Partners, Chevron and United Airlines; and our official wine Sponsor, Proud to hAll wines. As always, we begin the season on a festive note in partnership with the San francisco Support opera Guild on our premier fundraising event of the year, opera Ball. opera Ball raises much needed funds to support the Company and the opera Guild’s artistic and educa- the Arts in tional programs, and we are grateful to this year’s opera Ball co-chairs, Courtney labe and San Francisco Maryam Muduroglu, for their wonderful dedication and hard work. we also salute the artistry of Music Director nicola luisotti, who concludes nearly a decade of leadership at the end of the season. nicola’s contributions to the quality of our orchestra and the Company’s overall musical values are exceptional, and San francisco Personal attention opera audiences will enjoy the legacy of his work for years to come. we will never forget thoughtful litigation the countless electrifying performances he has led in our theater, and we look forward to welcoming him back to the podium in future seasons. final resolution

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with 100 players, Elektra has the largest orchestra in any production Members of the creative team of Girls of the Golden west (left to right): choreographer John in Company history. Among the Heginbotham, composer John Adams, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, sopranos Hye Jung Lee more unusual instruments is the and Julia Bullock, baritone Elliot Madore, mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, conductor Grant heckelphone. the lowest instrument Gershon, and librettist/director Peter Sellars. in the oboe family (it reaches as far down as an A below middle C), Grab your shovels and stake your claims! with the eyes and ears of the music world it is mostly heard in Elektra in trained on San francisco opera for the highly anticipated world premiere of John combination with other winds Adams’ Girls of the Golden West on november 21, local history buffs and opera fans will and brass. get a leg up on the excitement. on Saturday, october 28, the Girls of the Golden West Symposium will be held in the An inspiration for Puccini in writing Dianne and tad taube Atrium theater at the Diane B. wilsey Center for opera. the all-day Turandot was a music box belonging event will dig into the opera’s themes, source materials, and its place within the broader con- to an acquaintance, Baron fassini, text of the Gold rush. Designed to prepare audiences for the opera and provide insightful who had been in China. in Act i, perspectives into this critical period of California history, the symposium will be a multidisci- a children’s chorus is heard singing plinary presentation of lectures, conversations, and music, including a discussion with com- the Jasmine flower song “Mou-li poser John Adams (Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic) and librettist/director Peter Sellars. hua,” which was one of Puccini’s Authors, historians, and other Gold rush authorities will explore topics such as “women in discoveries from the music box. the Gold rush” and “Cultural Conflict.” rounding out the event, a set of miner and pioneer songs will be performed in period style by theatre Comique. tickets for the event are $45. Many Girls of the Golden West ancillary activities will be offered in collaboration with cul- the first San francisco performance tural and educational institutions around the Bay Area. Public exhibitions at wells fargo, of La Traviata was at the American levi Strauss & Co., and the Society of California Pioneers provide an theater on August 13, 1859. Presented by excellent opportunity to learn more about the history of California. the Bianchi opera troupe and featuring Gold rush-era artifacts from the collections of the California histor- Giovanna Bianchi in the title role, Verdi’s ical Society, Society of California Pioneers, levi Strauss & Co., and opera was described by the Alta California Museum of Performance + Design will also be on view within the as a work "founded on a plot similar to S

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SAn frAnCiSCo Opera NEWS

Lianna Haroutounian In recital Armenian soprano Lianna Haroutou- nian will give her San francisco recital debut on Saturday, November 25 at 3 p.m. in the Veterans Building’s herbst interactive theatre. the acclaimed opera star, Kip Cranna who made a sensational San fran- Adult opera cisco opera debut in Tosca in 2014 and returned triumphantly last season workshops return in the title role of Madama Butterfly, will return for her only Bay Area education Department adds to its appearance in a program of works by tchaikovsky, rachmaninoff, Komitas, fall offerings with Drinks & Drama rossini, Bellini, and Puccini, as well as Armenian folk songs. Georgian Back by popular demand, the Overture Workshops for Sheri Greenawald pianist tamara Sanikidze will provide adults, a first-hand look at how opera is created and pro- musical accompaniment. for tickets, duced for the stage, will take place from Monday, call City Box office at (415) 392-4400. September 25 through Monday, October 23. this fall’s series will focus on the four main pillars of opera cre- ation—story, music, production, and direction—with featured guests including Dramaturg Kip Cranna, opera Center Director Sheri Greenawald, Properties Master lori harrison, stage director Jose Maria Condemi, and

artists and musicians from across the Company. learn Lori Harrison more at sfopera.com/overtureseries. Also for the opera-curious: join the education Depart- ment on Friday, October 20 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. for Drinks & Drama: a Taste of the Season, a social-educational event featuring special live performances and mini-cock- tails tailored to pair with each opera. Photographs, musi- r e

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Special Concerts this fall

THE FUTURE IS NOW Adler Fellows Concert Friday, December 8 at 7:30pm WAR MEMORIAL n

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the San Francisco Opera Chorus will offer a public concert of sacred, secular, and oper- atic music on Thursday, November 30 at 8 p.m., in the intimate taube Atrium theater of the wilsey Center for opera. Under the baton of Chorus Director ian robertson and Asso- ciate Chorus Master and pianist fabrizio Corona, the 47-member chorus will take center stage in musical offerings by Bach, di lasso, elgar, ešenvalds, Massenet, o’regan, Poulenc, Praetorius, Puccini, Purcell, Verdi, and wagner. tickets are $35 and available now at the San francisco opera Box office or by visiting sfopera.com. Making their west Coast concert debut, the popular new zealand trio Sol3 Mio will take to the war Memorial opera house stage on Friday, December 1 at 7:30 p.m. for a Matthew Washburn special holiday concert, Kiwi-style. this exclusive San francisco opera presentation of 2017 SanA FranciscoD Opera Samoan brothers and Adler fellow tenors Pene Pati and Amitai Pati and their baritone Samoan cousin Moses Mackay will feature the singers in a concert of holiday favorites, Resident Artists operatic works, crossover hits, and cherished songs from the South Pacific. robert Molli- in concert with the cone will conduct the San francisco opera orchestra. to learn more about Sol3 Mio and to hear excerpts, visit Sol3Mio.com. tickets range San Francisco Opera from $20 to $100 and are available at the San francisco opera Box office or by visiting Orchestra sfopera.com. Conducted by James Gaffigan

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SAn frAnCiSCo Opera Profile Shinji Eshima San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Bass r e V A e w Y r o C

one of the most serene yet Shinji’s wife, Sandy, is a former dancer foreboding moments in all of for nYCB, and because she currently opera happens during the pre- stages Balanchine’s ballets, she has lude to richard wagner’s Das access to nYCB’s original videos. Shinji Rheingold. eight basses quietly says that “virtually anything i hear with a sustain a single low e-flat for bass on these recordings [from Agon to four measures. one of the Jewels] is this bass.” basses you will hear in the A Japanese-American born in Berke- orchestra pit during next sum- ley, Shinji received his education at mer’s Ring cycle will be the 1843 Stanford and Juilliard. today, he is a fac- Plumerel played by Shinji ulty member at the San francisco Con- eshima, who joined the Com- servatory of Music and San francisco pany in 1980. “the basses start State University. on that note,” he explains, “and when Shinji is not performing or the rest of the orchestra gradu- teaching, he is composing. last year, he ally gets layered in with e-flat collaborated with poet Scott Bourne on arpeggios.” the bassists play e- a chamber piece called Bourne to Shel- flat for 136 measures before a ley, which had its world premiere at Sf rhinemaiden suddenly begins opera lab’s ChamberWORKS. San to sing. wagner’s swirling setting expresses the depth and building francisco Ballet commissioned him to create music for two bal- flow of the rhine river, creeping into your consciousness and open- lets, RAkU (2011) and Swimmer (2015). the puppetry play E.O. ing wagner’s epic musical journey. About this prelude, Shinji says, “i 9066, featuring original music by Shinji, was recently performed at associate e-flat with nature. … Maestro runnicles [who leads the the opening of the topaz Museum, dedicated to preserving the Company’s Ring in 2018] has said that he loves e-flat in particular history of the world war ii internment camp experience in Delta, because it makes the orchestra ‘feel good.’ i’ll never forget him say- Utah. the play’s title derives from the executive order 9066, ing that.” which forced 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to leave their Shinji’s Plumerel double bass has appeared at the Paris opéra, homes and transfer to internment camps. 11,000 of them were Metropolitan opera, new York Philharmonic, and new York City sent to topaz, including Shinji’s father. the theme from E.O. 9066 Ballet. A visitor to Paris’ Musée d’orsay today can see the scroll of is a variation of a work Shinji composed originally for violin and Shinji’s Plumerel in edgar Degas’ 1870 painting L’Orchestre de double bass called August 6, which premiered at Grace Cathedral l’Opéra; its original owner, Achille Gouffé, a soloist of the Paris on the 50th anniversary of the hiroshima bombing. Shinji later opéra, also appears in the painting. An oil sketch of the work is at decided to orchestrate August 6 for Sf Ballet’s RAkU. the legion of honor Museum. Shinji’s Juilliard teacher David wal- A documentary of RAkU will have its world premiere screening ter was the principal bass of the new York City Ballet orchestra and as part of the San francisco Dance film festival on october 20 at played the Plumerel for more than 30 years. Six years after his the Brava theater Center. As a musician in the orchestra pit, com- death, it was passed on to Shinji. the bass made its war Memorial poser, and teacher, Shinji eshima demonstrates that music is deep opera house debut in 2008 during the 75th anniversary of San with history and rich with storytelling. francisco Ballet. (Shinji joined that company in 1982.) — tereSA ConCePCion

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Through myth we find humanity

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Ring illustration: Mission Minded. Photo: Cory Weaver. MATTHEW SHILVOCK NICOLA LUISOTTI General Director Music Director Photo: Lithuanian National Opera production of Manon/Martynas Aleksa NIcola 2017 article V3.qxp_NIcola 2017 8/24/17 7:07 AM Page 1

B Y S T E V E N W I N N

Grazie, Nicola! “From the very first day, this company has made me a better man, a better artist, a better thinker—better everything. I discovered myself here.” —Music Director Nicola Luisotti r e v a e W y r o C

here may have been a time, when he was working complicated than even the most formidable church organ. opera— as an apprentice blacksmith in Tuscany where he with its multiple interlocking parts of singers and orchestra, chorus grew up, that Nicola Luisotti wondered and fretted and scenography, direction, lighting, costumes, and choreography— a little about what lay ahead for him. any such worries were fleet- would engage the full range of his powers and passion. ing. In retrospect, it seems inevitable that a conductor’s baton This season, in what amounts to a bittersweet victory lap, aTnd not a forger’s hammer and tongs would become the defining Luisotti will end his nine-year run as San Francisco opera’s music tool of his working life. director by conducting Turandot and La Traviata. The 55-year-old From the moment he first sat down at a piano as a child and Italian has accepted an associate music director position at played something by ear he had just heard, Luisotti felt the musi- Madrid’s Teatro real, where he will focus on his core strength of cal pulse take hold. at nine, he began studying the organ and the Italian repertoire: Aida, Don Carlo, Tosca, Un Ballo in Maschera. thought with characteristic fervor, “I will be the most famous other bookings will take him to opera houses across the globe, organist in the world”—a conviction he recalls now with both a from New york to Paris, Munich to rome, London to valencia. touch of honor for his youthful ambition and self-aware amuse- Luisotti is also a prolific symphonic conductor, with plans to ment. By age 12, he was studying with a taskmaster teacher in enlarge on that growing résumé in the coming years. one project Lucca and learning Bach, Buxtehude, and Frescobaldi. is to complete a full multi-city Mahler cycle. It turned out, as audiences in San Francisco and around the world For all his wanderings, he’s not about to sever his ties to San well know, that Luisotti was destined to play an instrument far more Francisco, where he has brought his animating touch to some 35

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productions of everything from Puccini and verdi to Mozart, Bizet, Wagner, Strauss, and the 2015 world premiere of Marco Tutino’s Two Women. Luisotti is already booked to conduct here in 2019 and 2020. The operas have not been announced, but both dates are in the fall. “Why the fall?” he recently asked in a rhetorical deadpan in his opera house office. “Because there are mushrooms.” The answer was both playfully waggish and dead-on earnest. Luisotti, who is as com- pelling, emotionally labile, and lyrically grace- ful in person as he is on the podium, brings the full weight of his personality to whatever topic is at hand. as a committed mushroom hunter, serious cook, and eater—pursuits he shares with his wife of 28 years, rita—Luisotti was proud to offer a cellphone photo of the fresh porcini the couple had gathered in Sonoma County. But he wasn’t about to be more specific about the location, offering only an enig- matic smile in response. even a silence from the sleekly handsome Luisotti is eloquent. When asked about leaving his San Francisco opera music director post, he cleared the air of anything frivolous with a pause. “I’m not the same man I was when I came here,” he said. “From the very first day, this company has made me a better man, a better artist, a better thinker —better every- thing. I discovered myself here.” The career change, he went on, was a painful but necessary decision. “about a decade,” by his account- ing, is the life span of an effective musical leader. (Luisotti first conducted here with La Forza del Destino in 2005 and assumed the music directorship in September 2009.) “I don’t think you can be the same leader at the same level for 20 years. I’ve seen that hap- pen too many times.” y h

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Top: “San Francisco is a great city full of open-minded, open-hearted people,” says Luisotti who ends his nine-year tenure as music director at the end of the season. Middle: Nicola and friends—with baritone George Gagnidze and mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges at the 2016 Opera Ball. Bottom, left to right: Then-General Director David Gockley and tenor Plácido Domingo at a 2010 press conference for Cyrano de Bergerac; tenor Michael Fabiano and soprano Nadine Sierra at the David Gockley Gala in June 2016.

what you need to do to please him.” Liu summoned a Madama Butterfly perfor- mance in the summer of 2014 as especially memorable, with Luisotti “so deeply buried inside the characters that for a third of the time his eyes were closed. Some older members of the orchestra told me that they hadn’t experienced that kind of night in 20 years.” For an observer seated in the orchestra pit during a performance of this summer’s Rigoletto, the conductor’s full-body absorption was apparent. Trust- ing his orchestra to follow his suavely smooth beat, Luisotti fixed his attention on the stage, using a single right-hand finger to cue and coax the soloists

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From top to bottom: Nicola at the fortepiano for the Company’s 2013 run of Così fan tutte; jamming with friends in his hometown of Bargecchia at age 14; a 15-year-old Nicola with sister, Biancamaria, and mother, Rita; foraging for mushrooms in Sonoma; with wife Rita Simonini

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nce again, the unprecedented generosity of cynthia Investment Managers. he joined the firm in 1972, the year and John Gunn has set the stage for a dazzling he received his MBa from Stanford Business School and Oseason at San Francisco Opera. Since 2002, when married cynthia, who graduated from Stanford with an a.B. John joined the Opera Board, the couple has underwritten in political science in 1970. early in her career, cynthia was numerous productions and provided exceptional support for the editor and director of The Portable Stanford book series many of the company’s innovative endeavors. for ten years. She edited twenty-eight books by Stanford pro- In September 2008, the Gunns made a historic commit- fessors on a vast array of topics, including Economic Policy ment—believed to be the largest gift ever made by individuals Beyond the Headlines by George Shultz and Ken Dam. to an american opera company—to help fund the signature In addition to their support of San Francisco Opera, the projects of then-General Director David Gockley, including Gunns are active members of the community. John is the new operas and productions, multimedia projects, and out- chair of the advisory board for the Stanford Institute for reach programs. This season, the Gunns’ inspired generosity economic Policy research (SIePr), serves as a trustee of is helping make possible five productions—Turandot, Elektra, Stanford University, and is Vice chairman of the board of Manon, Girls of the Golden West, and the Ring cycle. Stanford hospital care. cynthia is an overseer of Stan- John shared his considerable insights at the 2014 confer- ford’s hoover Institution, a member of the advisory board ence of OPera america, the national service organization of Family and children Services, and serves on the boards for opera. as he told attendees, “Opera is a dynamic art form of the Lucile Packard Foundation for children’s health and and all of us play a role in keeping it vital. We must expand the San Francisco Fine arts Museums. our repertoire and our audiences, and strive for financial flex- Opera lovers are grateful to cynthia and John, and ap- ibility. and we depend on donors to keep opera alive.” plaud their commitment to keeping San Francisco Opera John is the former chairman and ceO of Dodge & cox a leading-edge company.

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Diane B. Wilsey (Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor, Turandot) Longtime San Francisco Opera board member, patron and Opera Ball supporter, Dede Wilsey believes deeply in the transformative power of the arts, particularly the multi-faceted world of opera. Says Dede, “It’s a marvelous spectacle. From the voices and pageantry to the scenery, costumes, and acting, opera fills the senses and takes you to another place.” She also believes fervently that such experiences should be available to all. “We work hard to make events open to the public at no cost,” she explains. “and because a love of any art form starts at a young age, we take opera into the schoolroom.” Thanks to Dede’s generosity, opera enthusiasts of all ages have much to celebrate. as Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor for the twelfth consecutive year, she is supporting the opening production of the 2017–18 Season, Turandot, the celebratory floral arrangements that grace the War Memorial Opera house on September 8, and the free, annual Opera in the Park concert at Sharon Meadow on September 10. Dede’s leadership support was critical in the creation of the Wilsey center for Opera, a dynamic, intimate new space at the Veterans Building, which opened in spring, 2016. The center consolidates the company’s activities onto the War Memorial campus, enabling San Francisco Opera to engage in exciting new programming and education work. Dede’s philanthropic commitment to the community extends to many organizations. She is president of the Fine arts Museums. She serves on the boards of the San Francisco Ballet, Grace cathedral, the War Memorial, and is a lifetime trustee of UcSF. r I a

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Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund, and Emerging Stars Fund n e h (Production Sponsor, Turandot; Sponsor, Maestro Luisotti) J after a career devoted to his publishing businesses in Japan and europe, the creation of clos Pegase Winery in california’s napa Valley, and his art collection, Jan Shrem, in joyous partnership with his wife Maria Manetti Shrem, is bringing his focus and affection to philanthropic causes that advance education and the performing and visual arts. Though they grew up half-a-world apart, Jan and Maria both developed a love of opera at a young age. While their lives led them each around the globe, their individual passions eventually led them to San Francisco Opera, and to each other. With a substantial multi-year commitment, company Sponsors Jan and Maria have expanded their support with the establishment of three different funds. The Conductors Fund helps ensure the continued appearances of Maestro nicola Luisotti and other Italian conductors in the orchestra pit. The Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund, helps bring today’s most compelling artists in Italian repertoire to San Francisco Opera, and the Emerging Stars Fund supports the company in showcasing several exciting rising young stars on our stage throughout the season.

Wells Fargo (Season Sponsor) as San Francisco Opera’s corporate Season Sponsor for over a decade, Wells Fargo is a proud supporter of the arts in the Bay area. Wells Fargo’s philosophy of investing in community institutions encourages a culture of artistic achievement and growth, which strengthens the communities in which we live and work. Founded in 1852, the company celebrated its 165th anniversary this year, and supporting arts and culture has been a part of its history since the days when Wells Fargo stagecoaches brought actors, musicians and other performing artists to the West. as the oldest and largest financial services company headquartered in california, Well Fargo has top financial professionals providing business banking, investment, brokerage, trust, mortgage, insurance, consumer finance and much more. Wells Fargo has helped generations of families build, manage, preserve, and transfer wealth with personalized advice and services to satisfy all their customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially.

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Joan and David Traitel/Great Singers Fund (Sponsors, Martina Serafin, Turandot; Christine Goerke and Adrianne Pieczonka, Elektra) “Without great singers, opera is not all it could be,” says San Francisco Opera board member Joan Traitel. “That’s why my husband and I approached David Gockley with the idea of creating a special way of supporting singers exclusively.” The result was the Great Singers Fund, launched by the Traitels in 2008 to provide San Francisco Opera with enhanced support to attract the world’s best singers. Joan, a member of the Opera’s board of directors since 1998, and her husband David were production sponsors for several years before founding the Great Singers Fund. “The Fund makes a difference in the quality of opera in San Francisco,” Joan explains. “I am thrilled to see the remarkably talented Martina Serafin, christine Goerke, and adrianne Pieczonka returning to our stage. all three have been performing in the world’s greatest opera houses for years, and I am eager to see them back in San Francisco. I hope people see the relationship between the Great Singers Fund and this season’s fantastic lineup. your support truly can make a difference! These amazing artists make an evening special, and at the end you walk away happy.” n e

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r Libby and Burgess Jamieson have made an extraordinary commitment to San K Francisco Opera for over three decades by supporting traditional, classical productions. Their continuing enthusiasm for beloved, classic operas has assured an enduring place on the War Memorial Opera house stage for such applauded and memorable works as: Die Meistersinger, Il Trittico, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, and La Traviata. Both Libby and Burgess consider their sustained support of the arts, especially the San Francisco Opera association, as a means of ensuring important cultural, traditional links for the next generations’ listening appreciation. To ensure its musical enjoyment here again, Burgess says that: “Libby and I are pleased to bring Turandot back to San Francisco this season in this beautifully sung opera. In one of his final performances as a 10-year veteran of the company, San Francisco Opera Music Director, nicola Luisotti, masterfully conducts a superbly assembled orchestra and cast of singers.” With over 45 years of experience in private and public investment management, Burgess is active on the San Francisco Opera’s board of directors and its investment committee. S I r

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a native of Maine, Bernard Osher became involved with San Francisco Opera as a M ” y T subscriber nearly fifty years ago, shortly after moving here from new york. he and his T O c S

wife Barbro, a native of Sweden, have supported every aspect of the company’s work, “ y a

from artist appearances to production facilities. established in 1977, The Bernard Osher r Foundation has funded virtually every major arts organization in the area, including youth programs. higher education initiatives include community college support, Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes on 119 campuses nationwide, and Osher centers for Integrative Medicine at several of the nation’s leading teaching hospitals, and at the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Bernard is a longstanding member of the Opera’s board of directors, serving on the chairman’s council. Barbro is honorary consul General of Sweden in San Francisco, and serves as chairman of the Board of the Osher Foundation.

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San Francisco Opera Guild (Production Sponsor, Turandot) San Francisco Opera Guild provides dynamic artistic engagement and education opportunities for Bay Area students, teachers, adults and the extended community through award-winning programs that include Opera à la Carte, Sing a Story, Book to Bravo, Voices for Social Justice, Summer Conservatory and our exciting new year-round Opera Scouts program for teens. Founded in 1939, San Francisco Opera Guild believes the life lessons drawn from creative expression are the foundation of confidence, integrity and compassion. Our engagement and education programs extend the impact of opera, bringing it center stage in the life of the community. every year, the Guild’s fundraising events give voice to the potential of more than 50,000 students in nearly 200 schools throughout Northern California providing the benefits of arts education, as only opera can deliver. San Francisco Opera Guild’s education Fund ensures the continuation of these vital programs. San Francisco Opera Guild is a proud supporter of San Francisco Opera and a Production Sponsor of Turandot. r e z HALL Wines (Official Wine Sponsor, 2017–18 Season) i t l Craig and Kathryn Hall, HAll Napa Valley, are delighted to be the official wine sponsors for the A w e r

2017–2018 season. recognized as leading luxury Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir D producers, the Halls have aimed to incorporate art and sustainability into the tapestry of each of their operations. each of their wine country properties—HAll wines St. Helena and rutherford, wAlt Sonoma and SeNzA Hotel—display a part of their collection of modern art. Craig is chairman and founder of Dallas-based HAll Group, and a six-time author. He and his wife, Kathryn co-wrote New York times bestseller, A Perfect Score, a story that describes the art and business of creating a 21st century winery. A life-long entrepreneur and investor, in addition to the vineyard and winery business, his professional interests today include real estate, venture capital, technology and hotels. Previously, Craig Hall was part owner of the Dallas Cowboys; formed one of the first savings and loans in Michigan; founded one of the first for-profit HMOs in the country; and participated, along with time, inc., in growing the nation’s largest chain of health and sports clubs. Kathryn began her career as Assistant City Attorney in Berkeley, California, later joining Safeway Stores, where she was responsible for developing and administering one of the nation’s first and largest affirmative action programs. She and her brother managed their family’s Mendocino vineyard property from 1982 to 1992. From 1997 to 2001, Kathryn was the United States Ambassador to Austria. She is actively involved in the HAll and wAlt winery operations. “we are very pleased to be the official wine partner for the San Francisco Opera. its commitment to artistic excellence and to the community has set a standard that we admire and are proud to support,” stated Craig & Kathryn Hall. Official wines for the 2017–2018 Opera season include HAll’s 2013 ‘Coeur’ Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced from the historic Bergfeld Vineyard in St. Helena known for its gravelly, low vigor soils and cooling influence of Pacific breezes from the North. the fruit from this region is stylistically lush with a dense core of dark briary fruit. For those wanting to enjoy a white wine, HAll’s 2016 Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc is crisp and bright, and driven by citrus and fruit flavors. the grapes are sourced from the cooler regions of Napa Valley. For more information, please visit www.HALLwines.com or www.WALTwines.com.

United Airlines (Production Sponsor, Turandot) United is committed to serving the communities where our customers and employees live and work. As a global airline, we focus on promoting awareness of cultural diversity by supporting organizations that bring the diversity of the world to local communities. United is the official airline of San Francisco Opera and flies artists from around the world to the front of the stage. San Francisco Opera is grateful for the continued partnership and thanks United for its generous support of Turandot and the 2017–18 Season.

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SAN FRANCISCO Opera 2017–18 REPERTORY TurandOT The ring Of The niBelung giacomo puccini richard Wagner September 8, 12, 15, 21, 24, 30; november 18, 25, 28; June 12–17, June 19–24, June 26–July 1 december 3, 6, 9 Production of The Ring made possible, in part, by: Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran; Production made possible, in part, by: Keith & Priscilla Geeslin; Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey; John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn; Sylvia & John Hughes; John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn; Bernard & Barbro Osher; Edmund W. & Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Fund; Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson; Bernard & Barbro Osher; Betty & Jack Schafer; Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem; San Francisco Opera Guild; The Thomas Tilton Production Fund; and United Airlines. Barbara A. Wolfe; and United Airlines.

Major support also provided by: elekTra The Conductors Fund, the Emerging Stars Fund, and richard Strauss the Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund, September 9, 13, 17, 19, 22, 27 all established by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem. Production made possible, in part, by John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn. The Great Singers Fund, established by Joan & David Traitel

Company Sponsors The Dolby Family la TraviaTa Ann & Gordon Getty John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn giuseppe verdi Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson September 23, 26, 28; October 1, 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 Mr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. Production made possible, in part, by: Edmund W. & Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Fund Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem; and Chevron. Steven M. Menzies Bernard & Barbro Osher Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Dianne & Tad Taube ManOn Phyllis C. Wattis Endowment Funds Jules Massenet Diane B. Wilsey november 4, 7, 10, 16, 19, 22 Barbara A. Wolfe Production made possible, in part, by John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn. Season Sponsor Corporate partners

girlS Of The gOlden WeST WOrld preMiere San Francisco Opera is supported, in part, by a grant Music by John adams from Grants for the Arts. libretto by peter Sellars november 21, 24, 26, 29; december 2, 5, 7, 10 All performances feature English supertitles. Production made possible, in part, by: Repertoire, casts, dates, and ticket pricing are subject to change. John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn; Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis; and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Box Office (415) 864-3330 • sfopera.com

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Richard Strauss ELEKTRA Y R A R B I L T R A N A M E G D I R B

SAN FRANCISCO This production is made possible, in part, by John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn. OPERA Ms. Goerke’s and Ms. Pieczonka’s appearances are made possible by a gift to the Great Singers Fund by Matthew Shilvock, Joan & David Traitel. General Director Additional funding is provided by Dr. Richard H. Davis. Nicola Luisotti, Music Director Caroline H. Hume Endowed Chair

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SYNOPSIS ELEKTRA

We are in a contemporary museum. At closing time a visitor hides by one seeking bloody vengeance. Just as Elektra reaches a climax, a herself inside. She becomes obsessed with understanding the message is brought to Klytemnestra. As she takes in this fresh news, ancient Greek myth on display: the fall of the house of Atreus—a a look of evil triumph engulfs her. She sweeps out as Chrysothemis family steeped in generations of ill deeds, guilt, and revenge. These bursts in with the news: Orest is dead. Two servants hasten to take wrongs have been exacerbated by Agamemnon giving up his own this “good news” to Aegisth. daughter, Iphigenia, as a human blood-sacrifice to the gods. The Elektra at first refuses to accept Orest’s death but tells visitor obsessively re-watches a film that has been showing in the Chrysothemis that it is then their duty to avenge his death using museum: it details maidservants performing a human sacrifice, the very ax with which Agamemnon was murdered. Chrysothemis, while gossiping about a mad creature, Elektra, a daughter of the terrified, rushes out. Elektra, once again alone, is startled by a house, who has been driven crazy by the deeds done to her father. stranger who has broken in. It is Orest in disguise. Cautious at Only one of the women present comes to the defense of the much- first, he claims that he and a companion saw Orest killed and have abused Elektra; her punishment for such compassion is to become been charged with bearing the information to Queen Klytemnes- the sacrificial victim. This myth seems so resonant to the visitor tra. When Elektra tells him that she is of the same blood as that the film comes alive to her. The visitor, someone also in Agamemnon and Orest, the siblings recognize each other. She mourning, becomes Elektra. tells him how she has sacrificed her sexuality to the cause of Elektra invokes the memory of her father, Agamemnon. She vengeance, and Orest swears vengeance to do the deed for her. recalls how, having returned from the war, he was murdered in his Orest’s mysterious old companion warns the two of them to be bath by his wife and her mother, Klytemnestra, aided by her lover, prudent and takes the ritual ax from Elektra. Aegisth. Elektra begs her father to show himself and promises, The maids comment on the frightening events. Aegisth returns invoking her long-lost brother, Orest, and her sister, Chrysothemis, home, to be confronted by Elektra, who now taunts him and pretends to avenge his death by making blood sacrifices. Agamemnon to have “changed” in her understanding. He enters the house and is appears to her: murder victim, father, and demi-god. also immediately murdered by Orest. Elektra and Chrysothemis cele- Chrysothemis tells Elektra that Klytemnestra and Aegisth plan to brate the murders in frenzied excitement. Elektra is left alone, and the lock Elektra up. She begs her to resist the urge of revenge: only then, terrible burden caused by the death of her father takes its toll. she says, will they be allowed out of this “prison” of a home. Chrysothemis craves a normal life with a lover and children. Elektra, First performance: Dresden, Court Theater; January 25, 1909 at first intrigued by her sister’s vision of a normal life, ultimately First performance in the U.S.: New York, remains unmoved. Klytemnestra and her entourage are heard Manhattan Opera House; February 1, 1910 (in French) approaching. Chrysothemis passes on the gossip that Klytemnestra First San Francisco Opera performance: October 24, 1938 has been having nightmares about the return of her son, Orest, who Elektra has been performed in 9 previous seasons at was banished in infancy. Klytemnestra and her fawning servants San Francisco Opera. For complete casting and other enter; Elektra confronts her with a calm, cruel irony. Klytemnestra dis- information, visit archive.sfopera.com. misses her attendants, who mutter about Elektra’s deviousness, and Personnel: 16 principals; 47 choristers offstage; stays alone with her daughter. Her sleep at nights has been racked 19 supernumeraries; 82 total. with nightmares. Klytemnestra graphically describes her dreams, Orchestra: 4 flutes (2 doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (1 doubling which feature images of putrid carcasses and maggots, and a torch English horn), 1 heckelphone, 2 clarinets in B-flat, 2 clarinets in A, 1 clarinet in E-flat, 1 bass clarinet, 2 basset horns, whose flickering mocks her. Blood must flow, she says, before these 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 8 horns, 4 doubling Wagner tubas, dreams can end. Elektra begins to taunt her mother with talk of an 6 trumpets, 1 bass trumpet, 2 trombones, 1 bass trombone, appropriate ritual sacrifice, to be enacted by a stranger, but mysteri- 1 contrabass trombone, 1 tuba, 2 timpanists (7 drums), ously one who also comes from the house. Elektra terrifies 4 percussion, 2 harps, 1 celeste, 47 strings (8 first violins, 8 second violins, 8 third violins, 10 violas, 7 cellos, 6 basses); Klytemnestra with increasingly lurid threats: she will be pursued 100 total through the bedroom, bathroom, stairways, and cellars of the house

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Conductor Opera in one act by Richard Strauss Henrik Nánási* Text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Original Director Based on the play by Sophocles Keith Warner* Revival Director Anja Kühnhold* ELEKTRA Set Designer (Sung in German with English supertitles) Boris Kudlička* Costume Designer Kaspar Glarner* CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Lighting Designer John Bishop* First maidservant Jill Grove Video Designer Bartek Macias* Second maidservant Laura Krumm Chorus Director Third maidservant Nicole Birkland Ian Robertson Fourth maidservant Sarah Cambidge*† Fight Director Dave Maier Fifth maidservant Rhoslyn Jones Assistant Director The Overseer Alexandra Loutsion* Jose Maria Condemi Elektra Christine Goerke Assistant Conductor Joseph Marcheso Chrysothemis Adrianne Pieczonka Prompter Klytemnestra Michaela Martens Dennis Doubin Klytemnestra’s confidante Erin Neff Musical Preparation Maureen Zoltek Klytemnestra’s trainbearer Amina Edris† Matthew Piatt Mario Marra* A young servant Kyle van Schoonhoven*† John Churchwell An old servant Bojan Knežević Fabrizio Corona Supertitles Orest Alfred Walker* DeAnna Sherer Tutor of Orest Anthony Reed† Stage Manager Aegisth Robert Brubaker Gina Hays

Assistant Stage Managers Museum guards and visitors Andrew Landis Becki Smith Jayme O’Hara Costume Supervisor Jai Alltizer *San Francisco Opera debut †Current Adler Fellow Head of Wig and Makeup Jeanna Parham PlACE AND TIME: A museum, present day A co-production of San Francisco Opera, Prague National Theatre, and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2017 AT 7:30 PM The performance will last approximately one hour and forty-five minutes without intermission. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 7:30 PM Latecomers may not be seated during the performance after the lights have dimmed. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 AT 2 PM Patrons who leave during the performance may not be re-seated. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 AT 7:30 PM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 AT 7:30 PM The use of cameras, cell phones, and any kind of recording equipment is strictly forbidden. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AT 7:30 PM Please turn off and refrain from using all electronic devices.

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B Y L A R R Y R O T H E

igmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung approached the wronged must exact vengeance. Now, just as her mother human mind as a museum. They toured patients’ avenged the young Iphigenia, Elektra seeks revenge for her inner galleries, focusing on the permanent collec- father’s death. His killers must die. Sophocles captures all tions. What a show the princess Elektra would have offered, a this in a story of corrosive sorrow. Hofmannsthal chose not Sdisplay so disturbing that it gave birth to a psychoanalytical the- to mention Iphigenia in his version of the legend, thus eras- ory. Jung coined the term “Electra complex” in 1913, ten years ing sympathy for Klytemnestra. His queen is no grieving after the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote his play mother. She is a self-centered adulteress who wants her hus- Elektra, based on Sophocles’ classic drama, and four years after band gone. His murder drives Elektra to the edge of insanity. Richard Strauss transformed Hofmannsthal’s play into his most When Strauss saw Hofmannsthal’s Elektra in 1905, he musically daring opera. For Hofmannsthal, the character of knew it could become an opera, yet he balked at the subject, Elektra (to use the German spelling) must have exercised a worried that it too closely resembled his last stage work, powerful appeal, for she embodied the fevers and perfumes of Salome. That story, drawn from the Bible and thus also set in fin-de-siècle art. As drawn to interiors as were Freud and Jung, antiquity, capitalized on flamboyance. The nymphet of the Hofmannsthal saw opportunity in Elektra—the opportunity to title teases her stepfather, King Herod, with a flood of adoles- depict a tortured mind, to open the doors to her inner museum. cent sexuality and consummates her own degenerate fan- Strauss, more pragmatic than the sensitive aesthete who would tasies as she fondles the severed head of John the Baptist. become his favorite librettist, saw a good story. For this, Strauss invented a musical opulence that outdid In the myth, Elektra’s father (King Agamemnon) has sacri- even Berlioz and Wagner. The artistic distance between ficed her sister (Iphigenia) to appease the goddess Artemis, Salome and his first two operas, Guntram and Feuersnot, cor- who in return revives the stilled winds and allows Agamem- responds to the space Beethoven put between his Second non’s ship to proceed to the battlefields of the Trojan War. Symphony and the Eroica. Salome, with its stunning color, During Agamemnon’s ten-year absence, Queen Klytemnestra acoustic volume, and dissonances—not to mention the lurid has taken a lover. The queen, ill-disposed toward her hus- story—earned its composer a reputation as music’s current band to begin with, is outraged by their daughter’s death. bad boy, modernism’s paragon. Agamemnon returns home, to die at the hands of Klytemnes- Like most writers, Hofmannsthal cultivated a healthy opin- tra and her paramour, Aegisth. In Greek antiquity, every party ion of his own talent and remained vigilant to whatever could

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advance its recognition. Unwilling to forfeit an opportunity to in primary colors, a tight fusion of action, place, and time. link his name with the world’s most celebrated living opera Strauss’ job was to find the musical analogue for this drama. composer, he went to work on Strauss, emphasizing all that Elektra’s orchestra is its Greek chorus, commenting on the distinguished Elektra from Salome. He prevailed. Strauss, action. Here, as in Salome, Strauss fit sound to subject. To with his exquisite stage sense, tailored Hofmannsthal’s play, those who ridiculed him for resorting to what his biographer cutting it by a third. Hofmannsthal bore Strauss’ cuts with Matthew Boyden has called “the most contrapuntally com- magnanimity. only in subsequent projects would their work plex work of music ever written,” scored for 100 musicians become a genuine collaboration, one that lasted two playing 110 instruments that generate a teeth-shaking roar, decades, until Hofmannsthal’s death in 1929. Their partner- Strauss had a ready response: “When a mother is slain on ship, on a level with Mozart and Da Ponte’s, resulted in five the stage, do they expect me to write a violin concerto?” more of Strauss’ most memorable works for the stage, At Elektra’s premiere, in Dresden on January 25, 1909, including Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Arabella. some listeners believed Strauss had gone too far. He himself Some critics condemn Elektra’s creators for dismissing wrote that he had “penetrated to the uttermost limits of har- women as hysterics. But this is no tale told by a pair of mony… and of the receptivity of modern ears.” But, as Boy- misogynists. Elektra, a powerful woman, knows what she den warns, to concentrate on “the ugly and the shocking” is wants and does what she must. If at last she enlists a man to to misread Elektra, although he overstates the case in calling murder the queen and her lover, she remains the avenging the opera “a work of almost conventional lyricism,… probably force, for she has decreed the transgressors’ fate. Strauss’s most fluid score, as singable and melodious as any- That said, Elektra spends less time penetrating psyches thing by Mozart.” His point is that Elektra is not a modernist than aiming for its listener’s gut. While Hofmannsthal meant manifesto, nor was Strauss’ next opera, Der Rosenkavalier, a to bring Freud into the act, Strauss’ cuts pare the libretto to a retreat into orthodoxy. In Rosenkavalier, music would match straightforward tale of good-over-evil. Strauss removed any the elegantly upbeat story. Here it matches a tale of obses- moral complication the writer may have retained from Sopho- sion and revenge. In both operas, Boyden continues, Strauss cles. As Bryan Gilliam writes in his Elektra monograph, Strauss was true to the tradition that formed him. And in Elektra, he “sacrifice[ed] psychological depth and motivational complexity “confirmed both the conventions of his past and the conser- in order to achieve… musical goals.” What remains is painted vatism of his future.” Strauss scholar Michael Kennedy is

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Left to right: In 1938, soprano Rose Pauly brought her fiery interpretation of Elektra to San Francisco Opera, under the baton of fellow Hungarian Fritz Reiner.

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blunter: “the theory that after Elektra Strauss shied away from among its many variants: the despondent, descending figure ‘modernity’ and retreated into a cosy world free from atonality is associated with orest’s supposed death; the murmuring low rubbish.” brass that stalks Klytemnestra (murmuring agamemnon’s name, the opera unfolds in seven sections. in (1), the servants prepare or hers?) as she laments her tortured dreams; and, at the opera’s us for elektra’s entrance. in (2), elektra raises a plea to agamem- climax, the shift into the major mode as chrysothemis exults with non. in (3), we meet elektra’s sister chrysothemis, a stable pres- a cry of Es ist Orest! the music says even more than her words. it ence dropped into a dysfunctional family and thus a destabilizing says Mission accomplished! figure in this somersaulting world. (4) in this central episode, we More breathtaking still is what the orchestra offers in the understand what elektra faces in Klytemnestra, a mother who recognition Scene. as the messenger announcing orest’s death makes Joan crawford look like carol Brady. (5) Believing her brother changes his story and tells elektra her brother is indeed alive, she dead, elektra determines to murder Klytemnestra and aegisth her- begins to grasp this herald’s identity. “who are you, then?” she self. She tries to enlist chrysothemis into her plan. (6) a messenger asks. hofmannsthal envisioned a few moments of silent action arrives to confirm orest’s death, then reveals the death as a ruse. after this question. according to his stage direction: “the solemn he, the herald, is orest. (7) orest kills the queen and aegisth. elek- old servant, followed by three other servants, enters quietly from tra dies. Strauss builds this two-hour span from many pieces—ten- the courtyard, throws himself before orest and kisses his feet. the der love songs, waltzes, tearing dissonance. and every piece fits. others kiss orest’s hands and the hem of his garment.” emerging i cannot verify Boyden’s claim that Strauss has threaded 63 as if from nowhere comes the opera’s most transparent music, a leitmotifs through his score, each stemming from the figure D-a- lilting pianissimo tune generated by the agamemnon motif, rising F-D, but the contention itself attests to the work’s simultaneous and falling, a song in itself (which is how Strauss asks the orches- simplicity and complexity. the orchestra announces the first three tra to play it), mirroring the rebirth of elektra’s world as she recog- notes of the D-a-F-D figure in the opening bars. Minutes later the nizes her brother. the music alone can support the scene and figure recurs in full, and we understand what it means. to the four does so even if the stage direction is not followed (often it is not). tones, elektra utters the four syllables of her dead father’s name: But to witness a production in which the servants appear while agamemnon. the orchestra sings is to understand how Strauss wed his art to throughout, Strauss varies his four-note cell, creating signa- hofmannsthal’s, creating stage magic. tures for his actors and triggers for their actions, all while weaving Strauss does not limit himself to working with the agamem- a dense web of musical markers that engulf us, overtly and sub- non theme. he also unifies and comments on the action by liminally. the agamemnon theme recurs in its primary form at repeating themes literally. in her opening monologue, to five crucial points, and besides opening Elektra, it ends the opera. repeated notes—one long and three short staccato, followed by a

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More about Elektra Books Richard Strauss by Matthew Boyden (Northeastern University Press).

Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma by Michael Kennedy (Cambridge University Press).

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I Elektra has been filmed and recorded often. Among the many S I N C A N video versions, two that stand out are those with Claudio A M R E F G Abbado conducting the vienna Philharmonic and Christian D I N R A

S B Thielemann conducting the Munich Philharmonic. Abbado’s all-star cast includes Éva Marton, Brigitte Fassbaender, and Cheryl Studer and features eerily effective staging by Harry final rising note—Elektra asserts that Agamemnon will return (so Kupfer (Arthaus Musik). Thielemann’s cast includes Linda kommst du wieder). We hear this figure again as Klytemnestra Watson, Jane Henschel, and Manuela Uhl, in a minimalist explains the power residing in the jewels—Steine, literally production by Herbert Wernicke (opus Arte). A historical stones—that hang from her neck. When the “herald” reveals that footnote: Thielemann made his memorable U.S. conducting orest is alive, a ray of light emerges in the form of a muted fan- debut leading the Company’s 1991 production of Elektra, fare, which reappears in the celebration after orest dispenses his starring Gwyneth Jones in the title role and Helga Dernesch mother and her lover. Even Elektra’s final dance is prefigured early, as Klytemnestra. before 60 bars have passed. of the score’s many beauties, Chrysothemis owns two that Georg Solti, who also stand above the music’s contours, proclamations that detach them- made his selves from their context and head for the sky: Kinder will ich haben! American debut (her hymn to motherhood) and Es ist Orest! Chrysothemis wants to in San leave the past behind, but nothing about her suggests weakness. Francisco She is what she seems, a foil to her sister, and a tough one. She leading Elektra stands her ground against Elektra. No stranger to violence, she (in 1953), applauds the murders. And while Elektra appears to dismiss her sis- recorded the ter’s yearning for children, she also sees Chrysothemis’s point. Chil- work with the dren continue the bloodline. They fulfill the wishes even of the dead: vienna Glücklich ist, wer Kinder hat, Elektra sings—”happy are they who Philharmonic in have children.” And so she treats her brother with a mother’s sym- 1961. Featuring pathies. “Child,” she calls him, having traded her own hope of love Birgit Nilsson, for the revenge that fills her and inches toward birth. Regina Resnik, and Elektra has set this nightmare world right, but that act can Marie Collier, this account have no encore. Her death is no ritual punishment devised for a captures the score’s S E

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ou may have seen her in the form of Jennifer Garner’s sword-wielding assassin in the 2005 film Elektra, on stage as a bitter Civil War spin- Yster in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra, in the words of Sylvia Plath’s controversial poem “Electra on Azalea Path,” in the famed portrait by Frederic Leighton, Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, and indeed, in Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra*. K u , In the 2,000-plus years since her name was first S m

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from exile, hoping then he would take vengeance on their mother, Chrysothemis is not the only one who vacillates. Electra may Clytemnestra, and stepfather, Aegisthus, for the murder of their have vengeance on her mind, but waits for years to carry it out— father, King Agamemnon. To Clytemnestra, her husband’s murder and only then because her brother has joined forces. Her anger was justified because Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter without action is reminiscent of another fascinating but tragic fig- Iphigenia in order to win the war. To Electra, true justice can only be ure, Hamlet. Although it should be noted that in Sophocles’ day, achieved with the murder of her mother and stepfather. loyalty and justice were seen as supremely important, and women Perhaps one reason the Electra myth has continued to pique were expected to be faithful and obedient to men. For these rea- our curiosity over the millennia is because of its moral ambiguity. sons, Electra was regarded as a heroine of that era. What constitutes right and wrong? Shouldn’t murdering one’s Cicero, the Roman historian and orator, considered Electra a own mother be considered wrong, even if one’s own mother is masterpiece, and British scholar Edith Hall called Electra “a murderous herself? We are intrigued by the fact that Electra’s remarkable figure, driven by deprivation and cruelty into near-psy- moral compass seems to be broken, as she has convinced herself chotic extremes of behavior; no other character in (Sophocles’) that virtue and justice is on her side, not her mother’s. extant dramas dominates the stage to such an extent.” To Electra, there are no shades of gray, only black and white. In So it was only right that the theatrical character would get new life the end, bloodbath concluded, we are divided over whether justice in other media, especially opera, which has always been a home for has been achieved or whether Electra has gone mad. tales of high drama and low behaviors. When composer Richard Another reason the Electra myth continues to resonate with Strauss saw a German theatrical version of Electra, written by Vien- modern audiences is that it challenges the virtue of expediency: is nese-born playwright and poet Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von it better to take action against injustice or to turn a blind eye? Hofmannsthal, he was drawn to the story as a potential opera. They Electra tries to convince her sister Chrysothemis to participate in agreed to collaborate, and the opera version of Elektra came to the plot, but Chrysothemis refuses. Despite her anger toward their fruition with its 1909 premiere in Dresden. mother, she does not want to upset the apple cart of her pleasant According to Strauss biographer Tim Ashley, “it was greeted by life as a princess. the critical equivalent of fits and screaming.” The modernist score

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Left and center: Two objects from the the fifth century B.C. depict the meeting of Orestes and Electra at the tomb of Agamemnon: a relief and red-figure krater; right, the oil painting Electra Receiving the Ashes of her Brother Orestes by 19th-century French painter Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar. BRIDGEmAN ImAGES m u E S u m T R A R E T S E C R O W / S E G A m I N A m E G D I R B

was challenging for some critics, while the protagonist is named Elletra (the Italian character of Electra caused one writer to form of Electra); The Forgotten Pistolero, opine, “the blood mania appears as a terrible a Spaghetti Western by Ferdinando Baldi; deformation of sexual perversity.” Audiences Ellie, a 1984 film which transfers the story were also divided on Hofmannsthal’s updates, to a Southern u.S. locale; Szerelmem, Elek- such as converting Sophocles’ Greek chorus tra (Electra, My Love), a Hungarian into a cluster of gossipy maids. film by miklós Jancsó, starring mari Törőcsik. Soon after the opera’s debut, though questionably Other theatrical productions of the Electra myth connected to it, was the introduction of a new psychoan- were written by Jean Giraudoux (Electra, 1937), alytical theory of sexual development. Although Sigmund Freud had Ezra Pound (Electra, first staged in 1987), and, most recently and been the first to describe the psychodynamics of a girl’s sexual com- perhaps most interestingly, Electricidad, a 2004 play by Luis Alfaro, petition with her mother for her father as the feminine version of the which is set in a Chicano barrio. Oedipus complex, it was his collaborator Carl Jung who created the And so Electra continues to… electrify. term “Electra complex” in 1913. That term would eventually be applied Why continue to resurrect Electra today? What connects us to existing works of literature from Cinderella to The Flies by Jean-Paul with the questionably sane heroine of 2,000 years ago? Perhaps Sartre. more than anything, it’s the stark view Sophocles takes of the Hofmannsthal’s play would become the inspiration for Eugene effects of revenge on its perpetrator, as well as the story’s moral O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra, which was a Broadway hit in ambiguity. As the story unspools, Electra’s quest for righteous- 1931, with its chorus of townspeople substituting for Hof- ness becomes just a quest for blood, and we watch her become mannsthal’s maids and Sophocles’ divine chorus. Electra is now increasingly irrational—and perhaps even mad. Lavinia, a wealthy spinster angry with her mother’s infidelities Living in complicated times such as these, with the world a vir- while awaiting the return of her husband from the Civil War. Spun tual powder keg, perhaps through Electra we see the dangers of from O’Neill’s play were a 1947 film starring Rosalind Russell, a viewing the world in black and white. 1967 opera by marvin David Levy, and a 1978 TV mini-series star- ring Joan Hackett. Jane Ganahl is the co-founder of Litquake, the West Coast’s largest Other Electra-inspired creations include the novel Electra by independent literary festival, and contributor to many magazines from Henry Treece, in which she narrates her own story; a crime-fiction Harper’s Bazaar to Rolling Stone, Ladies’ Home Journal, and San series set in Italy by American author Donna Leon, whose young Francisco Opera magazine.

46 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA HENRIK NÁNÁSI Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony (Pécs, Hungary) Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Conductor Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Making his San Orchestra, New World Symphony, Houston Francisco Opera debut Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Age of in Elektra, Maestro Enlightenment. Her recording of Vaughan Nánási was general Williams’ A Sea Symphony with Robert Spano music director of and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra won the Komische Oper the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Classical Berlin from 2012 to 2017 and led their new Recording and Best Choral Performance. productions of Mazeppa, Eugene Onegin, Later this season, Goerke returns to the Gianni Schicchi, La Belle Hélène, Die Metropolitan Opera and Houston Grand Zauberflöte, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Opera as Elektra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago Bluebeard’s Castle, The Fiery Angel, and as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre, and Covent Cendrillon. In recent seasons, he has made Garden as Ortrud in Lohengrin. Other future debuts at several major opera houses, plans include the full Ring cycle at Lyric Opera including the Royal Opera House, Covent of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera. She Garden (Turandot), Lyric Opera of Chicago is the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker (Le Nozze di Figaro), Bavarian State Opera Award, the 2015 Musical America Vocalist of (La Traviata), Opéra National de Paris (Die the Year Award, and the 2017 Opera News Zauberflöte), Arena di Verona (Carmen), Award. Zurich Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro), Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia (Bluebeard’s MICHAELA MARTENS Castle), and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in (Dutchess County, New Barcelona (Die Zauberflöte). Highlights of the York) 2017–18 season include debuts at the Teatro Klytemnestra dell’Opera di Roma with La Bohème and the Mezzo-soprano Teatro di San Carlo in Naples with Rigoletto, Michaela Martens as well as his return to Covent Garden made her San conducting Salome. On the concert podium, Francisco Opera debut he will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, in 2015 as Cassandre Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Les Troyens and has performed on many of Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the world’s leading stages, including at the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera, Munich’s Bavarian State Essener Philharmoniker, Orquestra de la Opera, Vienna State Opera, Grand Théâtre Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra del Teatro de Genève, and English National Opera. La Fenice di Venezia, and the Orchestra del Career highlights include Judith in Bluebeard’s Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli. Castle, Kundry in Parsifal, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel, Marilyn Klinghoffer in Adams’The CHRISTINE GOERKE Death of Klinghoffer, and the Second Norn in (Medford, New York) Götterdämmerung at the Metropolitan Opera; Elektra Herodias in Salome with the Santa Fe Opera; One of today’s leading Gertrud with Bavarian State Opera; Ortrud dramatic sopranos, in Lohengrin with the Vienna State Opera Christine Goerke made and in Graz; Kostelnička in Jenůfa in Zurich; her San Francisco Judith, Kostelnička, and Marilyn Klinghoffer Opera debut in 2006 with English National Opera; and Die Amme as Rosalinde in Die in Die Frau ohne Schatten with Lyric Opera Fledermaus. Recent engagements include of Chicago and in Graz. She will reprise her Brünnhilde in the Ring cycle with Houston Klytemnestra with Houston Grand Opera Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, in January 2018. Martens is a past winner of and Canadian Opera Company; the title role the Metropolitan Opera National Council of Elektra with the Royal Opera House, Covent Auditions, and she holds a degree from the Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and at New Juilliard School. This is her role debut as York’s Carnegie Hall; Cassandre in Les Troyens Klytemnestra. with Lyric Opera of Chicago; and the title role of Turandot with Covent Garden and Opera Philadelphia. Goerke has also appeared with a number of the leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston

encoreartsprograms.com 47 ADRIANNE Portland Opera for Méphistophélès in Faust. PIECZONKA Walker’s recording credits include Orest on (Burlington, Ontario) the Hybrid label with Semyon Bychkov and Chrysothemis the WDR Sinfonie Orchester Köln, as well as Internationally performances on Plácido Domingo’s CD of celebrated for her Verdi tenor arias for Deutsche Grammophon. interpretations of Wagner, Strauss, Verdi, ROBERT BRUBAKER and Puccini heroines, (Manheim, Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka made Pennsylvania) her San Francisco Opera debut in 2009 Aegisth in the title role of Tosca. In recent years, Making his San her portrayal of Chrysothemis in Elektra Francisco Opera has taken her to the Metropolitan Opera; debut this month as Deutsche Oper Berlin; Aix-en-Provence Emperor Altoum in Festival; Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Turandot, tenor Robert Bavarian State Opera; Milan’s Teatro alla Brubaker has been a frequent performer at Scala; and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the Metropolitan Opera, including as Mime Barcelona. Last season, Pieczonka performed in Siegfried and Das Rheingold, Monostatos in as Leonore in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Die Zauberflöte, Malatestino in Francesca da Opera, Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera with Rimini, the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, and Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bavarian State Mao Tse-tung in John Adams’ Nixon in China. Opera, and Tosca at the Vienna State Opera He has also recently performed as Herod and Canadian Opera Company. Upcoming in Salome with the Dallas Opera, Santa Fe highlights include Amelia at the Vienna State Opera, and Pittsburgh Opera; the Jailer/ Opera and Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Inquisitor in Il Prigionero at the Gran Teatre Covent Garden; Vienna State Opera; and at del Liceu in Barcelona; Old Man Marshall Semperoper Dresden (the latter conducted in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole at by Christian Thielemann). In March, the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Alviano in Pieczonka will perform the Marschallin Die Gezeichneten, Dr. Caius in Falstaff, and in Der Rosenkavalier at the Bavarian State Bégearss in John Corigliano’s The Ghosts Opera and in a concert version at New York’s of Versailles at Los Angeles Opera; Luigi in Carnegie Hall. Il Tabarro and Canio in Pagliacci at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; and Wilmer McLean/ ALFRED WALKER J. Edgar Hoover in Philip Glass’ Appomattox (New Orleans, at Washington National Opera. Later this Louisiana) season he appears as Guillot de Morfontaine Orest in the Company’s Manon and as Herod at Making his San Teatro Regio Torino. Francisco Opera debut as Orest in ANTHONY REED Elektra, bass-baritone (Alexandria, Alfred Walker has Minnesota) received acclaim for a variety of signature Tutor of Orest leads, including the title role of Der Fliegende Bass Anthony Reed Holländer, which he has performed at Seattle made his San Francisco Opera, Oper Köln, Theater Basel, Théâtre Opera debut in various de Caen, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, roles in 2015’s Les Boston Lyric Opera, and the Wagner Troyens. A third-year Four floors Geneva Festival, and the Four Villains in San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, he most Les Contes d’Hoffmann, which he has sung recently appeared on the War Memorial of fabulous fabrics at the Komische Oper Berlin, Den Norske Opera House stage as Count Ceprano in Opera, Seattle Opera, and Tulsa Opera. In Rigoletto, King of Egypt in Aida, Schmidt since 1952. the 2016–17 season, Walker sang his first in Andrea Chénier, Mayor of the Village in performances of Wotan in Das Rheingold with Jenůfa, The Speaker and Second Armored North Carolina Opera and Méphistophélès Man in The Magic Flute, Hans Schwartz in in La Damnation de Faust at the Teatro Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Doctor Municipal de Santiago. He also created the Primus in Getty’s Usher House. Other title role of Josh Gibson in the world premiere roles in his repertory include Sarastro in of Daniel Sonenberg’s The Summer King with Die Zauberflöte, Truffaldin in Ariadne auf Pittsburgh Opera. Later this season, Walker Naxos, Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Titurel Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore, Don Magnifico in Parsifal and The Speaker in Die Zauberflöte. in La Cenerentola, and the Four Villains in He also joins Seattle Opera for Amonasro Les Contes d’Hoffmann. A participant of the in Aida and Porgy in Porgy and Bess, and 2014 Merola Opera Program, Reed received

48 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA a 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council JILL GROVE Auditions Regional Encouragement Award (San Antonio, Texas) and has been a young artist at the Wolf Trap First Maidservant Opera Studio and the Seagle Music Colony, in Mezzo-soprano Jill addition to his studies at the Curtis Institute Grove made her San of Music and the University of Wisconsin. Francisco Opera This fall, he also performs with the Company debut in 1996 as as Doctor Grenvil in La Traviata. Anne Kronenberg and Dyke in Stewart RHOSLYN JONES Wallace’s Harvey Milk. In 2016, she returned (Aldergrove, British to San Francisco Opera to sing the roles of Columbia) Madelon in Andrea Chénier and Grandmother Fifth Maidservant Buryjovka in Jenůfa. She has also made Canadian soprano recent returns to Houston Grand Opera as Rhoslyn Jones made Ježibaba in Rusalka, Lyric Opera of Chicago as her San Francisco Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin, and Pittsburgh Opera debut in 2006 Opera as Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress. as Frasquita in Carmen. Other appearances include Klytemnestra More recent credits include the Countess in in Elektra at Michigan Opera Theatre and Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Santa Barbara, Ježibaba at New Orleans Opera. Grove is a Musetta in La Bohème with Arizona Opera frequent guest at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Pittsburgh Opera, Tatyana in Eugene where she has also sung the Witch in Hänsel Onegin with Vancouver Opera, Donna und Gretel, Margret in Wozzeck, Die Amme Anna in Don Giovanni with Chicago Opera in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Amneris in Aida, Theater and the title role of Susannah with Erda in Götterdämmerung, and Countess Arizona Opera. As a San Francisco Opera Geschwitz in Lulu. At the Metropolitan Adler Fellow from 2006 through 2007, Jones Opera, her performances include Erda, created the starring role of Julia Dent Grant Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, in the Company’s world premiere of Philip Madelon, Pantalis in Mefistofele, Emila in Glass’ Appomattox. A frequent performer of Otello, and Cornelia in Giulio Cesare. Later concert repertoire, she has been director of this season, she performs with Lyric Opera of the University of British Columbia Summer Chicago as Marthe in Faust. Vocal Workshop, on faculty at Sonoma State University, as well as an artist in residence at LAURA KRUMM NICOLE BIRKLAND the San Francisco School of the Arts. (Iowa City, Iowa) (Moorland, Iowa) Second Maidservant Third Maidservant ALEXANDRA Mezzo-soprano Laura Mezzo-soprano Nicole LOUTSION Krumm made her Birkland made her (Pittsburgh, San Francisco Opera San Francisco Opera Pennsylvania) debut in 2012 as debut in 2012 as Third Overseer Countess Ceprano Secretary to Mao in Soprano Alexandra and Page in Rigoletto John Adams’ Nixon Loutsion is making her and has appeared in several other roles on in China. A favorite at Opera San José, she San Francisco Opera the Company’s main stage, including Kate has appeared there as Dame Quickly in debut as the Overseer Pinkerton in last season’s Madama Butterfly, Falstaff, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel, Suzuki in Elektra. Last season, she made her role the Maid in Jenůfa, Rosina in the family in Madama Butterfly, Donna Elvira in Don debut as Turandot at Pittsburgh Opera, performances of The Barber of Seville, and a Giovanni, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, debuted at the Palm Beach Opera as Cio- Maid in the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s Zita in Gianni Schicchi, La Principessa in Cio-San in Madama Butterflyand made her Dolores Claiborne. For San Francisco Opera Suor Angelica, and Azucena in Il Trovatore. role debut as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka she also created the part of Martha Sowerby Birkland’s repertoire also includes the title at Arizona Opera. She also sang the title in the world premiere of Nolan Gasser’s role of The Rape of Lucretia, Amneris in role of Tosca in concert with the Fort Wayne The Secret Garden, and she sang Laura in Aida, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, Dalila Philharmonic and returned to Wolf Trap Jack Perla’s Love/Hate at the ODC Theater in Samson et Dalila, and Brangäne in Tristan Opera as Tosca. Her 2017–18 season includes in association with the San Francisco Opera und Isolde. A graduate of the 2008 Merola a return to Palm Beach Opera as Tosca, her Center. Recent engagements include her Opera Program, she has participated in debut at Tulsa Opera as Turandot, and her company and role debuts as Zerlina in Don apprenticeship programs at Chautauqua first performances of Leonora in Il Trovatore at Giovanni for Nashville Opera, Mrs. Webb in Opera, Sarasota Opera, and Des Moines Central City Opera. Additional engagements Ned Rorem’s Our Town with Fresno Grand Metro Opera. Later this season, Birkland include a debut with the Cathedral Choral Opera, and Meg in Mark Adamo’s Little appears as Mary in Der Fliegende Holländer Society of Washington, D.C. where she will be Women for Michigan Opera Theatre. Krumm with Opera San José and Schwertleite in San the soprano soloist in Haydn’s Mass in C and is a 2013 graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Francisco Opera’s Ring cycle. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Adler Fellowship Program. Later this season, she appears with the Company as Javotte in Manon and Siegrune in the Ring cycle.

encoreartsprograms.com 49 SARAH CAMBIDGE (Vancouver, Canada) Music For The Land Fourth Maidservant Saving the places that make the East Bay special Making her San Francisco Opera debut as Fourth Maidservant in Elektra, soprano and first-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow Sarah Cambidge was winner of the 2016 Denver Lyric Opera Guild competition and a 2015 semifinalist for the jmlt.org Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions after being named the winner of the Rocky San Francisco Opera Orchestra musicians Janet Popesco Archibald, Emil Miland and pianist Margaret Fondbertasse are generously donating proceeds from the sale of their new Mountain Regional finals. As a participant of the CD to John Muir Land Trust. Now available in the Opera Shop and at jmlt.org. 2016 Merola Opera Program, she performed Elsa from Lohengrin in the Schwabacher Concert Series. Cambidge has sung with the Boulder Symphony Orchestra and the Boulder Music Institute, Vancouver Recital Society, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium (Spoleto, Italy), Evergreen Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Yakima Symphony Orchestra. Cambidge is on faculty as a guest artist-in-residence for the vocal department at the Denver School of the Arts and studies voice with Kenneth Cox from the A REPUTATION FORGED BY FIRE University of Denver. She received her master’s degree in vocal performance at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music.

AMINA EDRIS (Christchurch, New Zealand) Klytemnestra’s Trainbearer Egyptian-born, New Zealand soprano Amina Edris is a second-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow who made her San Francisco Opera debut in 2016 as Frasquita in Carmen. More recent appearances include Countess Ceprano in the Company’s production of Rigoletto last summer and Tina in Jonathan Dove’s Flight at Opera Parallèle. A participant in the 2015 Merola Opera Program, Edris is a winner of the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition, Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald’s Operatic Aria Competition, and the Deborah Reidel award in the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award Competition 2013, as well as being awarded a Western Regional Special Encouragement Award in the 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Later this season, she appears as Annina in the Company’s La Traviata.

BOJAN KNEŽEVIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia) An Old Servant POWERED BY CHARCOAL. NOT GAS! Bojan Kneževiċ made his Company debut as SAN MATEO | SAN FRANCISCO | ESPETUS.COM Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata in 1995 and has since appeared with the Company in over 30 roles.

50 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Most recently, the bass-baritone and San Redux. Additionally, she collaborates with Francisco Opera Chorus member appeared artists in multimedia art pieces. Her sound as a Custom-House Sergeant in La Bohème, installation Carlota can be heard through 2018 Notary in Don Pasquale, Antonio in Le Nozze at Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center. di Figaro, and as a member of the Ensemble in Sweeney Todd. Career highlights include Frosch KEITH WARNER Operatic in Die Fledermaus with Lyric Opera of Chicago, (London, England) Scarpia in Tosca with Mississippi Opera, the Original Director Paintings Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with Making his San Sacramento Opera and Fort Worth Opera, Francisco Opera debut and the title role of Le Nozze di Figaro with in Elektra, Keith Warner by Barbara Fracchia the New National Theatre in Tokyo. A former has directed more San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow and Merola than 150 operas in alumnus, he also appeared in the title role of 20 countries, as well Wozzeck for San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle, as as plays and musicals, and has written the well as George Wilson in John Harbison’s The librettos to three operas by David Blake. He Great Gatsby. has directed two Ring cycles (at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in Tokyo) KYLE VAN and has directed Lohengrin for the Bayreuth SCHOONHOVEN Festival. Warner has also directed the world (Lockport. New York) premieres of a new version of Penderecki’s A Young Servant The Devils of Loudon (Copenhagen), Hans Making his San Francisco Gefors’ Notorious (Göteborg), and André Opera debut as a Young Tchaikowsky’s The Merchant of Venice Servant in Elektra, tenor (Bregenz Festival and Welsh National Opera). Kyle van Schoonhoven is His awards include the Austrian Music a first-year San Francisco Theatre Prize for Mathis der Maler (Theater Opera Adler Fellow. He was recently awarded an der Wien). In 1981, Warner joined English the Nicolai Gedda Memorial Award from the National Opera and was associate director prestigious George London Foundation, was there from 1984 through 1989. He has a finalist in the 2016 Jensen Foundation Vocal been associate director of Scottish Opera, Competition, and was named a 2017 winner artistic director of Opera Omaha, and artistic of the Metropolitan Opera National Council director of the Royal Danish Opera, and he Auditions. Van Schoonhoven’s repertory is currently director of theatre studies for includes Don José in Carmen, Alfredo in London’s National Opera Studio. Highlights La Traviata, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, of the current season include Peter Grimes at Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lysander Oper Frankfurt and La Forza del Destino for in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oronte in Semperoper Dresden. Alcina, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Peter Fallow in Stefania de Kenessey’s Bonfire of the Vanities, ANJA KÜHNHOLD the title role of Chandler Carter’s Bobby, (Görlitz, Germany) and Genaro in the U.S. Russian-language Revival Director premiere cast of Prokofiev’s Maddalena. He Making her American was a 2016 participant in the Merola Opera debut in Elektra, Anja Program and holds a master’s degree in music Kühnhold is chief stage from Westminster Choir College as well as director (Oberspielleiter) a bachelor’s degree in music from SUNY, at the Badisches Elektra’s Soul Fredonia School of Music. Staatstheater Karlsruhe, oil on board 12 x 24 where she has worked since 2014. She has ERIN NEFF closely collaborated with directors Tilman (San Jose, California) Knabe, Ingo Kerkhof, and Keith Warner on Klytemnestra’s numerous projects at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Confidante Berlin State Opera, Prague State Opera, and Mezzo-soprano Erin Neff the Semperoper Dresden. Previously, she was has been singing in the assistant director at the Staatstheater Mainz San Francisco Opera where she worked alongside directors Sandra Chorus for over 20 Leupold, Lorenzo Fioroni, Vera Nemirova, years and had featured Tatjana Gürbaca, and Katharina Wagner. The roles in the Company’s recent productions of latter hired her as production manager for the Rigoletto, Sweeney Todd, Le Nozze di Figaro, and 2013 Wagner Year in which she coordinated Show Boat, among others. She has appeared the partnership between Oper Leipzig and as soloist with numerous companies around the Bayreuth Festival. In the summer of 2015, the Bay Area. In 2016 Neff made her directorial Kühnhold collaborated on the “Fidelio Project” debut for the San Francisco Opera Center in at the Theatre Trier with Tilman Knabe, with Setting the Record Straight: Salieri and Mozart whom she also staged her first play, The

encoreartsprograms.com 51 Big Shoot. Her most recent opera staging JOHN BISHOP to the preparation of the Company’s North of The Diary of Anne Frank by Grigori Frid (West Yorkshire, American premiere of Saint François d’Assise. was performed last September as part of the England) Robertson has also conducted ten main stage Festival for Young Artists in Nürtingen. Later Lighting Designer productions with the Company. Other North this season, Kühnhold stages the children’s Making his San American opera credits include productions opera Gold! by Leonard Evers at the Badisches Francisco Opera debut with Sarasota Opera, Edmonton Opera, and Staatstheater Karlsruhe. in Elektra, John Bishop Philadelphia’s Curtis Opera Theatre. is an award-winning BORIS KUDLIČKA lighting designer who DAVE MAIER (Bratislava, Slovakia) has created original lighting designs for more (Great Neck, New York) Set Designer than 190 major productions, including Hänsel Fight Director Making his San und Gretel at Oper Frankfurt, Tannhäuser Resident fight director Francisco Opera debut at Opéra National du Rhin, Der Ring des for San Francisco Opera, in Elektra, set designer Nibelungen and Der Fliegende Holländer at Den Dave Maier made his Boris Kudlicka began Norske Opera, Ernani at the English National Company debut in collaborating with Opera, La Traviata and West Side Story at the 2013 with Les Contes director Keith Warner in Welsh National Opera, Albert Herring at Opera d’Hoffmann. His work 2006 with Death in Venice at Oper Frankfurt. North, numerous productions for Opera Zuid has most recently appeared in the Company’s Together they have also worked on Aribert in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and many Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, La Bohème, Aida, Reimann’s Lear and Thomas Adès’ The for the Buxton Opera Festival in England. and Madama Butterfly. Maier has directed Tempest at Oper Frankfurt, Simon Boccanegra Bishop recently created the lighting design for fight scenes for American Conservatory and Tannhäuser at Opéra National du Rhin in the world premiere of John Metcalf’s Under Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Strasbourg, Le Nozze di Figaro at the Polish Milk Wood at the Taliesin Theatre in Swansea, Repertory, Aurora Theatre, Marin Theatre National Opera, Krzysztof Penderecki’s The England. He has collaborated on numerous Company, and Magic Theatre, among others. Devils of Loudun for the Royal Danish Opera, productions with director Keith Warner, most He is a five-time recipient of the San Francisco and most recently Otello at Royal Opera, recently Hans Gefors’ Notorious at Göteborg Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award for Covent Garden. He regularly works with Opera. Fight Direction, as well as an adjunct faculty director Mariusz Treliński, credits including member at the University of California Santa Der Fliegende Holländer, Iolanta, Bluebeard’s BARTEK MACIAS Cruz and St. Mary’s College of California. He Castle, Madama Butterfly, Tristan und Isolde, (Kraków, Poland) currently teaches combat-related courses in Eugene Onegin, Orfeo ed Euridice, and La Video Designer Berkeley. Traviata. Many of these productions have Making his San been staged internationally, including by the Francisco Opera debut Metropolitan Opera, Berlin State Opera, and in Elektra, Bartek Los Angeles Opera. Macias is co-founder of the animation and KASPAR GLARNER post-production studio (Zurich, Switzerland) Lunapark and also a founder and creative Costume Designer director of Yes Eye Do! Initiatives. He is a SUPERNUMERARIES Making his American pioneer in the adaptation of moving graphics debut in Elektra, Swiss and incorporating them in operatic and Susan Anderson-Norby designer Kaspar Glarner theatrical productions. His achievements Becca Berry began his theater career include a number of collaborations with Christine Boulanger at the Thalia Theater in directors Keith Warner, Grzegorz Jarzyna, James Crow Hamburg, and assisted Mariusz Treliński, and Amon Miyamoto. He Joe Friedman stage designer Erich Wonder on several opera has also collaborated with set designer Boris Darius Gray productions. Since then, his credits with Kudlicka in creating theater and opera projects John Guglielmelli director Keith Warner include costume designs all over the world, including Manon Lescaut at Allyson Keefe for Death in Venice, Aribert Reimann’s Lear, Welsh National Opera and Elektra at Prague Albert Kovera and Falstaff at Oper Frankfurt; Tannhäuser and National Theatre and Badisches Staatstheater Don Langley Simon Boccanegra at Opéra National du Rhin, Karlsruhe. Charlie Lichtmann Krzysztof Penderecki’s The Devils of Loudun for Priscilla Lore the Royal Danish Opera; Die Dreigroschenoper IAN ROBERTSON Bernard Marger at Theater an der Wien; Otello at Royal Opera, (Dundee, Scotland) Evelyn Martinez Covent Garden; set designs for Die Frau ohne Chorus Director Ziaire Parham Schatten at Hamburg State Opera; and set Recipient of the 2012 Violet Pasmooij and costume designs for Kát’a Kabanová at San Francisco Opera Chloe Revery Theater an der Wien. He also works regularly Medal, Ian Robertson Paul Romito with director Walter Sutcliffe, opera credits has been chorus Alyssa Stone including set and costume designs for Owen director and conductor Kimberly Thompson Wingrave and The Turn of the Screw. Further with San Francisco Irving Wiltshire opera work includes collaborations with Opera since 1987, having prepared more than directors Vincent Boussard, Dale Duesing, 300 productions for the Company. He was Johannes Erath, and Christine Mielitz. awarded the Olivier Messiaen Foundation Prize in 2003 for his artistic contribution

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Matthew Shilvock General Director aDMINISTraTION Opera CeNTer OrCHeSTra Mark Morash, Director of Musical Studies Carrie Weick, Orchestra Librarian Nicola Luisotti Music Director, FINaNCe Tracy Davis, Orchestra Manager Caroline H. Hume Endowed Chair Chris Bragg, Administrative Director Jess G. perry, Senior Budget Manager Karen Jine, Company Manager Timothy Spears, Assistant Orchestra Christopher Tom, Controller Librarian/Assistant Orchestra Manager Jo ann McStravick, Artists’ Services and Mingsy Yan-Lau, Senior Accountant Jennifer Good Managing Director: Auditions Administrator elaine Quan, Senior Accountant pHILaNTHrOpY aND aUDIeNCeS Production Linda rodriguez, Senior Accountant César Ulloa, Master Voice Teacher Gregory Henkel Managing Director: Gracie Tang, Senior Accountant David Odenkirchen, Director of Artistic annabella Tam, Payroll Administrator OperaTIONS Philanthropy and Audiences Operations

Jennifer Lynch Managing Director: INFOrMaTION SerVICeS eDUCaTION COMMUNICaTIONS Philanthropy and Audiences Mark Wladika, DevOps Manager Charles Chip McNeal, Curriculum and Julia Inouye, Associate Director of Michael Simpson Managing Director: Sapna patel, Program Manager, Program Specialist Communications Administration/Chief Financial Business Transformation Matthew erikson, Publications Editor Officer paul Goetz, Systems Administrator alyssa Stone, Community Programs Jeffery McMillan, Senior Steve Long, Network & Systems Manager Communications Manager Administrator Timmy Yuen, School Programs Associate Teresa Concepcion, Communications adam Broidy Chief Information Officer Sara Lee, Programmer/Analyst Education Program emily Spitz, Associate Coordinator Lisa Bullard Director of Marketing arTISTIC Hector armienta, Linda Baird, DeVeLOpMeNT Jon Finck Director of Communications arTISTIC aND MUSIC pLaNNING Nicholas Benavides, Tajma Beverly, and Public Affairs Sean Waugh, Artistic Planning Manager erin Bregman, Joshua raoul Brody, ANNUAL GIVING Judith Frankel Deputy Director of Deanna Sherer, Music Planning Heidi Carlsen, robert Chastain, Jennifer Jordan, Director of Annual Giving Development Manager Danny Clay, Marcelle Dronkers, John Churchwell, Head of Music Staff DONOR STEWARDSHIP Sheri Greenawald Opera Center patricia Drozda, Hannah Dworkin, Ilana rainero-de Haan, Assistant to the andrew Maguire, Director of Donor Director Lisa edsall Giglio, Kevin Gordon, Managing Director: Artistic Stewardship Lua Hadar, Dave Maier, rosalyn Nash, Lee Helms Interim Director of Valentina Simi, Artist Services alyssa Saint, Donor Services Data Operations Coordinator and Assistant to the Virginia Nichols, Steven Sven Olbash, Manager Music Director Michael Orlinsky, aaron pike, Kathleen esselstyn, Gift Daniele McCartan Costume Director Manuela Galindo, Contracts and Katherine Issel pitre, emily Shisko, Acknowledgment Coordinator andrew Morgan Deputy Director of Accommodations Assistant alex Stein, alyssa Stone, Chivly Krouch, Gift Processing Development Michael Bragg, Music Planning Christopher Street, Matthew Wolka, Coordinator Associate and Opera Librarian ruth Nott Director of Education Teaching Artists Victoria Montecillo, Development Services Coordinator James Clements, Healey Suto, Claire padien-Havens General MUSIC STaFF John Churchwell, Interns Director’s Associate INDIVIDUAL AND LEADERSHIP Jocelyne Dienst-Bladin, Dennis Barbara rominski Director of Archives GIVING Doubin, ronny Michael Greenberg, MUSIC OperaTIONS Deborah Banks, Director of Individual Bryndon Hassman, John Keenan, Teri Xavier Director of Human Clifford Cranna, Dramaturg and Leadership Giving Noah Lindquist, Vito Lombardi, Resources elkhanah pulitzer Artistic Curator, Dana Gordon, Leadership Giving Officer Joseph Marcheso, Mario Marra, SF Opera Lab Joo eun Lee, Leadership Giving Officer robert Mollicone, Christopher Ocasek, Celine Strouts, Sandra Chien, Senior Individual Giving David Gockley General Director Matthew piatt, Laura poe, Operations Associate Officer Emeritus Stephanie rhodes, Tamara Sanikidze, Maureen Zoltek aileen Tat, Individual Giving Officer Mcara Kirby-Fahey, Individual and CHOrUS aND BaLLeT Jennifer Szeto, John elam, Adler Fellows Leadership Giving Associate eXeCUTIVe OFFICeS Ian robertson, Chorus Director Fabrizio Corona, Associate Chorus Master Genevieve ennis, Executive Assistant to LaNGUaGe COaCHeS INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Jim Meyer, Chorus and Dance Manager the General Director alessandra Cattani, Italian Donna Batson, Director of Institutional patricia Kristof Moy, French Mary Finch, Assistant Chorus Giving ellen presley, Liaison to the Board of anja Strauss, German Manager/Chorus Librarian Catherine Lewis, Institutional Giving Directors Lynne Soffer, English Diction Brian Fitzsousa, Ballet Pianist Manager

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LEGACY GIVING FrONT OF HOUSe Kristen eiden, Carol Wood, Lisa anderson, Darin Burnett, Mandala pham, Senior Legacy Giving Jamye Divila, House Manager Gillian Haratani, Santiago Suanes, Jodi Gage, Gina Hays, Thea railey, Officer Marialice Dockus, Head Usher Assistant Cutters Stage Managers rodney anderson, Danica Burt, Kristi Johnson, Senior Production Jose Maria Condemi, Supervisor e. reed Fisher, Shawna Lucey, PRINCIPAL GIVING anthony Cantello, Laurent Dela Cruz, Galen Till, Production Supervisor Jimmy Marcheso, roy rallo, Kristen Jones, Director of Principal Giving Martin Dias, Starsky Dias, Jonathan Drogin, Chip Heath, Manuel Gutierrez, Production Morgan robinson, Joanna Taber, Principal Giving Manager elaine Kawasaki, eileen Keremitsis, Coordinator Assistant Stage Directors anna Speaker, Principal Giving Associate paula Wheeler, Senior Milliner e. reed Fisher, Jenny Harber, ryszard Koprowski, Bill Laschuk, amy Van every, Senior Dyer andrew G. Landis, Jimmy Marcheso, Sharon Lee, Lenore Long, PROSPECT RESEARCH AND Jersey McDermott, Senior Craft Artisan Jayme O’Hara, Thea railey, Becki Smith, Doug Luyendyk, evelyn Martinez, Nicole Diascenti, Stock Coordinator Assistant Stage Managers STRATEGY Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, eliza ryus, Production Assistant Lisa Bordachar, Director of Prospect Sam Mesinger, Dale Nedelco, Valerie Spencer, Shopper TeCHNICaL DIreCTION Research and Strategy Wayne Noel, Beth Norris, Nikki anderson-Joy, Costume Assistant erik Walstad, Technical and Safety Jan padover, Julie peck, Miriam acosta, adela Cantor, Director* SPECIAL EVENTS robert remple, Bill repp, rilla alicia Castaneda, Michael evans, ryan O’Steen, Associate Technical Director* Karman Ferrell pave, Director of reynolds, robyn Sandberg, Guillermina Flores, Ting Hsueh, Gabrielle Heerschap, Assistant Special Events Joe Savin, Kelly Smith, Hoa Lam Fong, aries Limon, Technical Director Katie Cagampan, Special Events Manager Stephanie Somersille, Xing-Fong Luo, romana Majovsky, rebecca Scott, Special Events Associate Theresa Sun, Tom Taffel, Sonia Olivares, WarDrOBe Claire Tremblay, richard Wagner, Costume Technicians Tony Gorzycki, Head of Wardrobe Steve Weiss, elaine Yee, Cynthia Fusco, robert Horek, MarKeTING Ushers eLeCTrICS David McKain, Catherine Verdier, Valerie York, Associate Director of Hui Ming Wu, Show Maid Leon parsons, Master Electrician Assistants Marketing Michael anderson, Assistant Master Chi-Hsuan Yang, Marketing Analyst Opera SHOp Electrician WIG aND MaKeUp Kathryn appleton, Senior Marketing Jay Stebley, Retail Manager russell e. adamson III, Assistant Head Jeanna parham, Head of Department Manager, Subscriptions Karen Topp, Assistant Manager ashley Joyce, Assistant Head of pamela Sevilla, Senior Marketing FIGHT DIreCTION Department Dave Maier, Fight Director Christina Martin, Administrative Assistant Manager, Single Tickets MeDIa Sophia Smith, elisa Mack, Maur Sela, Steven Shear, Assistant Marketing Jessica Shown-Morgan, Electronic LIGHTING Wig Assistants Manager, Subscriptions Media Manager Gary Marder, Resident Lighting Designer* Karalynne Fiebig, ashley Joyce, amy Garcia, Assistant Marketing Mark Hueske Thomas, Assistant Christina Martin, Foremen Manager, Single Tickets prODUCTION Lighting Designer elizabeth poindexter, Melanie Birch, Megan Searcy, Marketing Coordinator, *Senior Production Staff Member paul Timmel, Assistant Lighting Denise Gutierrez, Karalynne Fiebig, Subscriptions Designer Tim Santry, Connie Strayer, prODUCTION aDMINISTraTION alejandra Castelero, Marketing emily Clarkson, Hemsley Lighting Intern Christina Martin, Jeremy patfield, Production Operations Coordinator, Single Tickets Megan Turnquist, Lighting Intern Principal Make-up Artists Associate* rick Burns, Denise Gutierrez, emilianne Lewis, Marketing Associate, paul Dana, Support Services Coordinator prOperTIeS Karalynne Fiebig, Toby Mayer, New Audiences and Special Events Sylvia Jiang, Accounting Clerk Lori Harrison, Master of Properties Connie Strayer, Karalynne Fiebig, Tanya Grant, Marketing Assistant Freddy Wielandt, Assistant Master of Kerry rider-Kuhn, richard Battle, aUDIO Properties Journeymen BOX OFFICe Doug Mitchell, Master Audio/Video Tatyanna Fateyeva, elisa Mack, Mark Sackett, Box Office Manager, Engineer reHearSaL Maurisa rondeau, Maur Sela, Treasurer Ziggy Tomcich, Assistant Master Marin Venturi, Rehearsal Department Debbie Fuqua, Thomas richards, Jessica Fauver, Assistant Box Office Audio/Video Engineer Director* Associates Kali Wilson, Rehearsal and Schedule Manager, First Assistant Treasurer Manager THe WILSeY CeNTer FOr Opera rebecca page, Medallion Society CarpeNTrY Trey Costerisan, Supernumeraries and Chris Davis, Wilsey Center Head Stage David Hatch, Master Carpenter Concierge Manager Facilities Coordinator Technician Mark Baumann, Assistant Master emily Tilles, Subscriptions Manager, Jordan amann, Rehearsal Assistant Carpenter Assistant Treasurer Zach Van pelt, Rehearsal Assistant Dr. Myron Marx, Jennifer Hughes, roberto Bonilla, Company Medical Adviser COSTUMe DeparTMeNT Assistant Treasurers SCeNe SHOp Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Counsel Jai alltizer, Costume Shop Manager ruth Van Slyke, Telephone Sales Manager Steve McNally, Scenic Artist in Charge Armanino LLP, David Doré, Senior Production John Del Bono, Shop and Warehouse Independent Public Accountants Khalil el-Kareh, Nick Gueli, Accountant Foreman Asero Insurance Services, Beverlee G. Hassid, Billy Hayes, amy ashton-Keller, Master Draper Insurance Brokers Charles McGraw, Kyle Minor, Sally Thomas, Master Tailor STaGING STaFF Cory Weaver, Official Photographer Jennifer pollack, Kristin reyda, Irene Murray, Star rabinowitz, Darin Burnett, Production Stage Yamaha is the Official Piano of Dale Whitmill, Senior Cutters Manager* San Francisco Opera Telephone Sales Assistants Cheryl Mennen, Cutter Lawrence pech, Dance Master Pianos supplied by Piedmont Piano

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA 2017–18 ARTISTS

ARTISTS Renée Rapier† COSTUME DESIGNERS Ian Robertson, Chorus Director Raymond Aceto Anthony Reed‡ Vincent Boussard Fabrizio Corona, Associate Chorus Master Julie Adams† Artur Ruciński Ian Falconer , Chorus and Dance Manager Julius Ahn Martina Serafin Kaspar Glarner** Jim Meyer Paul Appleby Andrea Silvestrelli Rita Ryack* Mary Finch, Assistant Chorus Manager/ Atalla Ayan* Philip Skinner† David Walker Chorus Librarian Jamie Barton Joel Sorensen Nicole Birkland Nina Stemme LIGHTING DESIGNERS REGULAR CHORUS Daniel Brenna Falk Struckmann John Bishop* Buffy Baggott C. Michael Belle J’Nai Bridges Kyle van Schoonhoven‡ James F. Ingalls Kathleen Bayler* Torlef Borsting* Robert Brubaker* Stacey Tappan Gary Marder Roberta Bowman Alan Cochran* Julia Bullock* Renee Tatum† Mark McCullough Janet Campbell Chris Corley Sarah Cambidge‡ Davóne Tines* Thomas J. Munn Sara Colburn Christopher Filipowicz David Cangelosi Alfred Walker* Dvora Djoraev Anders Fröhlich* Melissa Citro Brad Walker‡ VIDEO DESIGNER Mary Finch Daniel Harper James Creswell Bartek Macias* Claudia Haider Cameron Henley Leah Crocetto† CONDUCTORS Claire Kelm Christopher Jackson* Ellie Dehn Patrick Fournillier PROJECTION DESIGNERS Elisabeth Rom Lucio Michael Jankosky* Monica Dewey* Christopher Franklin* S. Katy Tucker Angela Eden Moser Ken Johnson Amina Edris‡ Grant Gershon* Jan Hartley Sally Mouzon* David Kekuewa Michael Fabiano Nicola Luisotti Sally Porter Munro Bojan Knežević* Aurelia Florian** Henrik Nánási* CHOREOGRAPHERS Erin Neff* Frederick Matthews Christine Goerke Donald Runnicles John Heginbotham* Rachelle Perry William O’Neill* Greer Grimsley Lawrence Pech Virginia Pluth* Phillip Pickens Jill Grove DIRECTORS Carola Zertuche* Laurel Cameron Porter William Pickersgill Evelyn Herlitzius* Vincent Boussard Laurel Rice Chester Pidduck* Soloman Howard Garnett Bruce FIGHT DIRECTOR Shelley Seitz Valery Portnov Brian Jagde† John Copley Dave Maier Carole Schaffer* Ken Rafanan† Rhoslyn Jones† Anja Kühnhold** Donna Turchi Colby Roberts Brandon Jovanovich Shawna Lucey SOUND DESIGNER Mitzie Weiner Sigmund Seigel Joo Won Kang Peter Sellars Mark Grey Dan Stanley Laura Krumm† Keith Warner* Jere Torkelsen* Hye Jung Lee Francesca Zambello Andrew Truett Alexandra Loutsion* Richard Walker† * San Francisco Opera debut Elliot Madore SET DESIGNERS ** U.S. debut Andrew G. Manea‡ John Conklin † Chorus member on Leave of Absence † = Former Adler Fellow * Chorus member appearing in a Solo Role Štefan Margita David Gropman* ‡ = Current Adler Fellow Michaela Martens David Hockney  = Merola Opera Program Karita Mattila Boris Kudlička* participant (past or present) EXTRA CHORUS Ryan McKinny Vincent Lemaire Elizabeth Baker* Ben Brady Lauren McNeese Michael Yeargan Jennifer Brody Stephen Cannon* Ronnita Miller Catherine Zuber Cheryl Cain Adam Flowers Timothy Mix Katie Carlson Peter Girardôt Brian Mulligan Kristin Clayton Patrick Hagen Toni Marie Palmertree‡ Margaret Genovese Thomas Hart Amitai Pati‡ Karen Winner Huff Harlan Hays David Pershall Silvie Jensen Bradley Kynard* Adrianne Pieczonka Carolyne Anne Jordan Michael P. Eileen Meredith Mendelsohn Aimée Puentes Jim Meyer Whitney Steele Jim Monios Nicole Takesono Jess G. Perry Jacque Wilson Keith Perry * Kali Wilson Samuel Rabinowitz Pedro Rodelas Karl Saarni Jason Sarten Alexander Taite* Michael Taylor Nicholas Volkert

56 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Nicola Luisotti, Music Director Caroline H. Hume Endowed Chair Lawrence Pech, Dance Master

FIRST VIOLIN ENGLISH HORN Dwayne Brown Brook Broughton †* Kay Stern, Concertmaster Janet Popesco Archibald Bryan Ketron †* Alysia Chang Laura Albers, Associate Concertmaster* Michael Levine † Jamielyn Duggan Heidi Wilcox, Assistant Concertmaster CLARINET Jekyns Pelaez †* Lorena Feijóo* Jennifer Cho Jose Gonzalez Granero, Principal Alexandra FitzGibbon Dawn Harms Joanne Burke Eisler, Assistant Principal Blanche Hampton †* Mariya Borozina Anthony Striplen Rachel Speidel Little* Lev Rankov Laura O’Malley* Barbara Riccardi BASS CLARINET Chiharu Shibata † Dian Zhang Anthony Striplen Leonid Igudesman † Tenured Jennifer Hsieh BASSOON * Solo Dancer Asuka Annie Yano Rufus Olivier, Principal Daniel MacNeill SECOND VIOLIN Michael Severance Jeremy Preston, Principal Martha Simonds, Associate Principal CONTRABASSOON Beni Shinohara, Assistant Principal Michael Severance Eva Karasik Maya Cohon HORN Leslie Ludena Kevin Rivard, Co-Principal Linda Deutsch Twohy† Mark Almond, Co-Principal Craig Reiss Keith Green Heeguen Song ** Brian McCarty Lawrence Ragent VIOLA Carla Maria Rodrigues, Principal TRUMPET Sergey Rakitchenkov, Associate Principal* Adam Luftman, Principal San Francisco Opera extends its gratitude and ap- Paul Nahhas, Assistant Principal William Holmes† preciation to the following labor organizations whose Patricia Heller Scott Macomber** members, artists, craftsmen, and craftswomen Jonna Hervig John Pearson greatly contribute to our performances: Natalia Vershilova Joy Fellows TROMBONE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS, LOCAL 6 Samuel Schlosser, Principal† AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, INC. CELLO Jeffrey Budin, Principal** David Kadarauch, Principal Donald Kennelly INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE Thalia Moore, Associate Principal* David Ridge EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 16 Peter Myers, Assistant Principal THEATRICAL WARDROBE UNION, LOCAL 784, Nora Pirquet TUBA/CIMBASSO I.A.T.S.E. Emil Miland Zachariah Spellman MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS UNION, Victoria Ehrlich LOCAL 706, I.A.T.S.E. Ruth Lane TIMPANI John Burgardt THE ART DIRECTORS GUILD & SCENIC, TITLE AND BASS GRAPHIC ARTISTS LOCAL 800 Joseph Lescher, Principal PERCUSSION UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS LOCAL USA – 829, Jonathan Lancelle, Associate Principal Richard Kvistad, Principal/Associate Timpani I.A.T.S.E. Steven D’Amico, Assistant Principal Patricia Niemi BOX OFFICE AND FRONT OF HOUSE Shinji Eshima EMPLOYEES UNION, LOCAL B-18 Mark Drury HARP Olga Ortenberg-Rakitchenkov FLUTE Julie McKenzie, Principal LIBRARIAN Patricia Farrell Carrie Weick Stephanie McNab Timothy Spears, Assistant

PICCOLO ORCHESTRA MANAGER Stephanie McNab Tracy Davis Timothy Spears, Assistant OBOE Mingjia Liu, Principal * Principal for one or more fall season operas Deborah Henry, Assistant Principal† † Leave of absence Deborah Shidler** ** Season substitute Janet Popesco Archibald

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Kay Stern Laura Albers Heidi Wilcox Jennifer Cho Dawn Harms Mariya Borozina Barbara Riccardi Concertmaster Associate Concertmaster Assistant Concertmaster First Violin First Violin First Violin First Violin

Leonid Igudesman Asuka Annie Yano Jeremy Preston Martha Simonds Beni Shinohara Eva Karasik Leslie Ludena First Violin First Violin Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin

Linda Deutsch Craig Reiss Carla Maria Rodrigues Sergey Rakitchenkov Paul Nahhas Patricia Heller Jonna Hervig Second Violin Second Violin Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Viola Viola Viola Viola Viola

Natalia Vershilova Joy Fellows David Kadarauch Thalia Moore Peter Myers Nora Pirquet Emil Miland Viola Viola Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Cello Cello Cello Cello Cello

Victoria Ehrlich Ruth Lane Joseph Lescher Jonathan Lancelle Steven D’Amico Shinji Eshima Mark Drury Cello Cello Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA SAN FRANCISCO ORCHESTRA CONTINuED

Julie McKenzie Patricia Farrell Stephanie McNab Mingjia Liu Deborah Henry Janet Popesco Deborah Shidler Principal Flute Flute & Piccolo Principal Assistant Principal Archibald Oboe Flute Oboe Oboe Oboe & English Horn Regular Substitute

Jose Gonzalez Joanne Burke Eisler Anthony Striplen Rufus Olivier Daniel MacNeill Michael Severance Kevin Rivard Granero Assistant Principal Clarinet & Principal Bassoon Bassoon & Co-Principal Principal Clarinet Clarinet Bass Clarinet Bassoon Contrabassoon Horn

Mark Almond Keith Green Brian McCarty Lawrence Ragent William Klingelhoffer Adam Luftman William Holmes Co-Principal Horn Horn Horn Horn Principal Trumpet Horn Regular Substitute Trumpet

John Pearson Scott Macomber Samuel Schlosser Jeffrey Budin Donald Kennelly David Ridge Zachariah Spellman Trumpet Trumpet Principal Trombone Principal Trombone Trombone Trombone & Tuba/Cimbasso Regular Substitute Regular Substitute Bass Trombone

John Burgardt Richard Kvistad Patricia Niemi Olga Ortenberg Tracy Davis Carrie Weick Timothy Spears Timpani Principal Percussion & Percussion Rakitchenkov Orchestra Manager Librarian Assistant Orchestra Associate Timpani Harp Manager & Librarian

Most photos by John Martin. Not pictured: Lev Rankov, Dian Zhang, and Jennifer Hsieh, First Violin and Maya Cohon, Second Violin

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA REGULAR CHORUS

Kathleen Bayler Sara Colburn Dvora Djoraev Mary Finch Claire Kelm Elisabeth Rom Lucio Angela Eden Moser Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano

Rachelle Perry Virginia Pluth Carole Schaffer Mitzie Kay Weiner Buffy Baggott Roberta Bowman Janet Campbell Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano

Sally Mouzon Sally Munro Erin Neff Laurel Porter Laurel Rice Shelley Seitz Claudia Siefer Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano

Donna Turchi C. Michael Belle Alan Cochran Chris Corley Daniel Harper Christopher Jackson Michael Jankosky Mezzo-Soprano Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor

Phillip Pickens Chester Pidduck Colby Roberts Sigmund Seigel Dan Stanley Andrew Truett Richard Walker Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA REGULAR CHORUS CONTINuED

Torlef Borsting Anders Fröhlich Cameron Henley Ken Johnson David Kekuewa Frederick Matthews Ken Rafanan Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Leave of Absence

Jere Torkelsen Christopher Filipowicz Bojan Knežević William O’Neill William Pickersgill Valery Portnov Baritone Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass

Most photos by John Martin. Carole Schaffer and Claudia Siefer photos by Pamela Dale.

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CORPS DANCERS

Brook Broughton Blanche Hampton Bryan Ketron Michael Levine Rachel Speidel Little Jekyns Pelaez Chiharu Shibata

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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Leadership circle donors provide an extraordinary level of financial support to San Francisco Opera each season, with gifts ranging from $25,000 to $1,000,000 and greater. We are proud to recognize the philanthropy of these individuals.

COMPAny SPOnSOrS PLATInUM CIrCLE GOLD CIrCLE Bernice Lindstrom, $1,000,000 anD aBOVe $50,000 TO $99,999 $25,000 TO $49,999 in memory of The Dolby FamilyA Norby Anderson Eleonore Aslanian, John W. Lindstrom Bertie Bialek Elliott Dr. & Mrs. Robert Baer in memory of Dr. & Mrs. H. H. Loomis, Jr. Ann & Gordon Getty Mr. & Mrs. Joachim BechtleA Edward Aslanian Jennifer Coslett MacCready John A. & Cynthia Fry GunnA Helen Berggruen Mr. Brian G. Atwood & Susan & Philip Marineau A Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Athena & Timothy Blackburn Ms. Lynne H. Edminster Nion McEvoy & A Leslie BerrimanA Franklin & Catherine Johnson Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris Yat-Pang & Helina Au Ms. Annette Campbell-White Teresa & Mark MedearisA Edmund W. & Jeannik Méquet Richard C. Barker & Dr. Ruediger A Hiro & Betty* Ogawa Littlefield Fund Darla & Richard Bastoni Naumann-Etienne Julian & Willie Sue Orr Steven M. Menzies David Bertoni Ms. Maria Cardamone & Gertrud & Harold* A. Parker Bernard & Barbro Osher Betty & Fred Bialek Mr. G. P. Matthews Carol Potter Peckham Jan Shrem & Dawn Yates Black Paul & Valerie Crane Dorfman Lucia Bogatay & Mrs. Evert B. Person Maria Manetti ShremA Dr. Richard H. Davis Thomas D. Wickens* Anne B. PopkinA Dianne & Tad TaubeA Robert & Julie Dickson Edward Paul Braby, M.D. Ms. Karen Richardson & Phyllis C. Wattis A Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Romana D. BraccoA Mr. Jon RubinsteinA Endowment Funds A A Carol & Dixon Doll Carol Franc BuckA Chandra & Michael Rudd Diane B. WilseyA Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton Mr. & Mrs. David Chamberlain Drs. Corazon & Barbara A. WolfeA Mr. Peter Fenton John & Sherry Chen Martin Sanders Kristina Flanagan Mrs. Marion Moore CopeA Felipe R. Santiago & Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur J. Fritz, Jr.A CHAIrMAn’S CIrCLE Robert & Laura Cory Barry T. Joseph Mary & Nicholas Graves $500,000 TO $999,999 Peter & Jayne Davis Ms. Leslie Schilling Mary & Craig Henderson Keith & Priscilla GeeslinA Reid & Peggy Dennis Christopher & Trudi Seiwald Bruce Hyman & Sylvia & John Hughes Bob Epstein & Amy Roth Abraham & Marian Sofaer Simone Quarré Anonymous Lisa Erdberg & Ms. Vivian M. Stephenson* & Stephen & Choongja Kahng Dennis Gibbons Ms. Margarita Gandia William & Gretchen Kimball Concepción S. & Mr. & Mrs. James R. SwartzA PrESIDEnT’S CIrCLE FundA Michelle & William Tai $250,000 TO $499,999 Diana Dollar Knowles Irwin Federman Bob Tandler & Valli Benesch Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Foundation Charles D. Goodman Soo & Raj Venkatesan Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran Dr. Susan Kroll & Ms. Wanda Lee Graves Barbara M. Ward & Leslie & George Hume Mr. Mark R. Kroll Anne Gray The Honorable Roy L. Wonder* Betty & Jack Schafer Karen J. Kubin Mrs. Clelia M. Gray Mic Ms. Christina & Mr. & Mrs. David T. TraitelA Mr. & Mrs. Peter Magowan hael A. Harrison & Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. McMurtry Susan Graham Harrison Dr. Elizabeth DeBruin Warren A Jane & David Hartley Ronald & Emely Weissman DIAMOnD CIrCLE Mrs. James K. McWilliams A James A. Heagy, Wl Harper & Peter Liu $100,000 TO $249,999 Nancy S. Mueller Marina & Ben Nelson in memory of Jayne Heagy The Brayton Wilbur Foundation Robert Mailer Anderson & The Oshman Family Stephen & Diane Heiman James & Beth Wintersteen Nicola MinerA Foundation Doreen Woo Ho & James Ho Mr. Allan Wong Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Norman & Janet Pease Marie & Palmer Hotz Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Lui Family Ms. Betty A. Prien Barbara K. Jackson S. Shariq Yosufzai & Mr. & Mrs. Pamela & Richard RiggA Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford JeffriesA Brian James J. Patterson McBaineA The Roberts FoundationA Anne & Timothy Kahn Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Zderic Gladyne Kenderdine Mitchell Charles P. Russell Mr. Lawrence A. Kern Mr. Barry Zigas, in memory of Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Denise Littlefield Sobel Dr. & Mrs. John LavorgnaA Art & Irma Zigas Sharon & Clark Winslow Roselyne Chroman SwigA Ms. Noelle M. Leca & Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Zilles Anonymous (2) Anonymous Mr. Michael D. Moradzadeh Anonymous (5)

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MEDALLION SOCIETY

San Francisco Opera gratefully recognizes the commitment and generosity of our Medallion Society members, who have made gifts between $3,000 and $24,999.

Kristina Flanagan, Dr. Timothy J. Marten, M.D. James & Cheryl Babcock Mr. Paul Gantz John & Sandra Leland President, 2013–Present & Ms. Mary C. Heylin Mr. & Mrs. Paul Bancroft Mr. Michael M. Garland & Mary Lemmon Cathy MacNaughton, Patrick McCabe Ms. Marcia Barinaga & Ms. Virginia A. Coe Ms. Miranda Leonard President, 2008–2013 Ellen & Paul McKaskle Mr. Corey Goodman Dr. Nanette Gartrell & Mark & Debra Leslie Elaine McKinley & Constance Goodyear Baron Dr. Dee Mosbacher, Ph.D., Harry S. & Eileen Lewis Mrs. Harry Wetzel*, Kit Durgin & Barry C. Baron, M.D. M.D. Mr. J. S. Lichty, Jr. & President, 1995–2003 Bill Medigovich Frederick & Kathryn Baron Candace & Vincent Gaudiani Dr. Darryl L. Raszl Diane B. Wilsey, Mr. Alex Mehran Johanna & Tom Baruch Kurt Tristan Geselbracht & David & Lillian Lieberman President, 1988–1994 Christine Miller & Gary Glaser Michael Bassi & Francisco Guevara Raymond Lifchez Harriet Meyer Quarré*, Diane Compagno Miller Christy Styer Arlene & Doug Giancoli Lisa P. Lindelef Founding President, Miss Vivienne E. Miller Frank S. Bayley Mrs. Rolf Gille, Sylvia R. Lindsey 1983–1987 Karl & Kristen Mills Nordin & Donna Blacker in memory of Rolf Gille Drs. May Loo & Phyllis Moldaw Arnold & Barbara Bloom Ann & Daniel Girard William Thurston SILvEr CIrCLE Brian Muirhead Mrs. Corwin Booth Dr. & Mrs. Harvey W. Glasser Mr. Neil MacPhail Ms. Barbara BrownA David Gockley & Betty Maddux, $15,000 TO $24,999 Paul Nordine Sally & Craig Nordlund Alan R. & Sally J. Brudos Linda Kemper in memory of Ed Koester Stefan & Nataly Arnon Mrs. William H. Orrick, Jr. & Elissa Buie & Dave Yeske Dr. Erica Goode & Arlee & Paul* Maier Brigid S. Barton Diana V. Rogers Rike & Klaus Burmeister Hon. Barry Goode Charlot* & Gregory Malin Mark & Judy Bednar Marie Kendrick Otto Mrs. John C. CallanA Geoffrey & Marcia Green Lori & David Marquardt Dr.* & Mrs. Joseph Bernstein Foundation Frances Campra Bernice E. Greene Anne Marie & Nawaf & Susan Bitar Mrs. Carol E. Parker & Mr. & Mrs. Lyman H. CaseyA Drs. Christine Guthrie & Stephen MassoccaA Jared & Claire Bobrow Dr. Gerhard H. Parker Park & Joan Chamberlain John Abelson George & Marie McKinney Dr. Sean P. Bohen & Mrs. George A. PopeA Jeffrey Chambers & Mrs. Peter E. HaasA Dennis J. McShane, M.D. & Mrs. Tanum Davis Bohen Mr. & Mrs. Andrea Okamura Lyndsey Harrison Hon. Richard S. Gordon A Mr. & Mrs. Philip Bowles Robert Redfern-West Ms. Carolyn Chandler Mr. Richard B. Hechler & James R. Meehan A Michael & Marilyn Cabak Mr. Glenn H. Reid Ms. Helen Cheng Ms. Malin Giddings Maya D. Meux, MD Lorna Meyer Calas & Mr. & Mrs. John S. RenardA Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Child Dr. M. Henry Heines & Mr. Robert B. Mison Dennis Calas Louise H. Renne & Sunlin & Priscilla Chou Ms. Katherine Fines Ann-Marie Mix Frank & Pat Carrubba Paul A. Renne Maureen Clarke Martha & Michael Helms Justin Moore Julia Frohlich Cherry Mrs. William C. Robison Janet & Lloyd Cluff Mr. & Mrs. Warner Henry Don & Rene Morgan Michèle Beigel Corash & Bob & Terri Ryan Leonard & Marie Collins Austin & Sara Hills Alice Ames Morison & Laurence Corash Deborah & Paul Sagues Mr. Jon Cosby & Mr. & Mrs. Kedreth C. Hogan Dr. Oakley Hewitt Alice Corning & The Honorable & Ms. Kathi Gwynn Brian & Rene Hollins Ronald D. Morrison Richard Massey* Mrs. George P. Shultz Michael & Jean Couch Mr. Ron Holloway & Milton Mosk & Ms. Susan Costello Raj Singh & Mr. Vincent Cracchiolo Mr. Doug Hammerich Thomas Foutch Jeffrey N. Dauber & Renata AndersonA George & Susan Crow Ms. Antonia Patricia Hotung Steve & Betsy Moulds Marc A. Levin Shirley Soong Drs. John & Lois Crowe Emily Hsi Robert Munday & Shirley Davis & Paul Sack Ms. Vina Spiehler John Cullison & Diana Kissil Dr. & Mrs. David Huchital Evamarie Doering Mrs. & Mr. Barbara Edwards Mrs. Joyce Stupski Denise Cutler Charles & Brandi Hudson Dr. Lois Levine Mundie Dana & Robert Emery Mr. & Mrs. Craig Sullivan Yogen K. & Peggy Dalal Kimberly M. Hughes Heidi Munzinger & Ms. Jacqueline Evans Mr. & Mrs. James S. Tunnell Dandelion, in honor of Judith Hunt John Shott Pamela Rosenberg Arlene Inch Janet Napolitano Sakurako & William Fisher Don H. Watson Timothy D. Dattels & Patricia & Philip Jelley Steven Ng & Mark Posner Edward Frank & Sheila Wishek Kristine M. Johnson Mary & Russell Johnson Peggy & Boyce Nute Sarah RatchyeA Judith B. & Joseph Workman Marvin Dennis Ms. Mitzi Johnson Mr. David Oldroyd Diane & Howard Zack Dr. Alper Garren* Mary L. desJardins Susan & Eric Johnston Judy O’Young, M.D. & Lida & Alejandro Zaffaroni Mr. & Mrs. John Goldman Mr. Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Michael Kalkstein & Gregg Hauser Peter & Donna Zuber Ms. Susan K. Hoerger Mr. & Mrs. J. Philip DiNapoli Susan English Ms. Deepa Pakianathan & Mrs. Simone G. Haas & Candace Zander Kahn Mr. Peter Dinkelspiel Ms. Mary Kay Kane Mr. Phillip PembertonA Mr. Scott A. Zumsteg Jeannie Kaufman Donna Dubinsky & Fred & Beth Karren Robert Peck AM & Ward & Diane Zumsteg Jack Klingelhofer Leonard Shustek Mrs. Mark O. Kasanin Yvonne von Hartel AM Anonymous (2) Laurie Kottmeyer & Donald & Janice Elliott Jeffrey & Anne Marie Katz Neil & Elsa S. Pering Bianca Duarte Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. & Barbara & Ron Kaufman Marianne H. PetersonA Mr. Randall E. Laroche & InTErMEzzO Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell Mr. & Mrs. William W. Klaproth Maria PitcairnA Mr. David Laudon $10,000 TO $14,999 Jacqueline & Robert & Linda Klett David & Joy Powell Sheila & Thomas Larsen Linda & Andrew Ach Christian P. Erdman Tobias & Peggy & Peter Preuss Norman T. Larson Mr. Paul B. Althouse Mr.* & Mrs. Wesley J. Fastiff Liliana Kunze Briseño Mr. Gordon Radley Tom Lockard & Dr. Ross Armstrong Doris Fisher Bill & Jeanne Landreth Sally Rench Dr. Alix Marduel Greer & Veronica ArthurA Dr. Julita Fong Mr. John E. Lee James & Sheryl Reuben Yasmin & Oren Lukatz Dr. Nancy L. Ascher Timothy & Virginia Foo Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Lee Angele & Michael Rice

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MEDALLIOn SOCIETy continued Barbara Roach Margaret & Frank Morrow Frederick S. Chung & Mr. Peter Hanauer Dr. Alan R. MaloufA Deborah Romer & Mr. Karl Nygren Kimberly Chun Mr. Kevin Harrington Paula Markovitz William Tucker Ms. Suno Osterweis Mr. Rudy Ciuca Mr. & Mrs. Mrs. Constance Marvin Barbara J. Ross Maxwell G. Paley & Rev. David L. Clarke Wolfgang H. Hausen Mr. Robert E. McCleskey Elizabeth Boardman Ross Gregory J. Corrales Ms. Carlyn Clause & Mollie Hedges & Ms. Barbara McDonnell Mr. James Ross Bill & Mary Poland Mr. Alexander L. Brainerd Laurel Lembo Drs. Jack M. McElroy & Mrs. Afie RoyoA Patric & Mary Powell Mrs. Hazel Clegg Fred & Peggy Heiman Mary Ann Skidmore James Sabry & Ruth Quigley Vicki L. Coe M.D. & Miranda Heller & Ms. Linda McKay Elizabeth Peace Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Ratner Jennifer Mitchell Mark Salkind Dr. Douglas & Michael & Gini Savage Drs. Edward & Dale Sickles Mr. Robert D. Cooter Ralph Hexter & Dr. Penelope Meakin Dr. Stephen Sherwin & Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Smoller Mr. Craig Corbitt & Manfred Kollmeier Al Medvitz & Merrill Randol Sherwin Mr. Donald Sobelman & Ms. Nancy Stotz Ian Hinchliffe & Jean McCormack Mrs. Zornitza StefanovaA Ms. Leishia Woolwine Susan Coughlin Marjorie Shapiro Mr. Robert Meister Dr. Jeffrey L. Stern Dr. Peter & Mindy Sun Mr. Wesley Cox Patrick Hobin Carleton E. Meyer & Ms. Francoise Stone Ms. Maryanne Tagney Copley E. Crosby & Terrance Hodel Joan Tom Isobel & Roger Sturgeon Ms. Gloria Valair Marianne A. Welmers Ms. Linda Hodge Mr. & Mrs. James Milner Amy Tan & Louis De Mattei Daphne & Stuart Wells Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Cross Mr. & Ms. Gerald Hoshijo Dr. Judy C. Miner Lucy Tompkins, M.D. & Ms. Jane A. Wetzel Mary A. Culp Carol L. & David G. Hough Mr. D. G. Mitchell Stanley Falkow, M.D. Ms. Vanessa Wong Elizabeth M. Dirsa Mr. David S. Hugle & Liza & Alex Mock Ms. Victoria Donald Mr. Haggai Niv Ann Classen Treadwell Zuni Cafe Mr. James C. Moora Lida Urbanek Mrs. Michael D. Dooley Dr. H. Nona Hungate Thomas & Lydia Moran Drs. Oldrich & Silva Vasicek Mr. & Mrs. Victor & Kathy Hymes BEnEFACTOr Michael Moritz & Ms. Arlene Wasserman William G. Doolittle Henry Ilg, Harriet Heyman $5,000 TO $7,499 Lucie & Jerry Weissman Ms. Sarah A. Douglas in memory of Lottie Ilg Janet Morris & Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Welch Dorrit E. Ahbel, M.D. Katherine Herrick Drake Mrs. Andrew Imbrie Frederick Martin Ms. Linda Whittaker Kendall & Claire Allphin Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Duluk Riki & Robert Intner William O. & Ms. Conni Wilson Mr. Sig Anderman Robert & Carol Dutton Jessica Jacob & Susan W. Morris Mr. & Mrs. Y. Wood Wong Robert M. Anderson & Mr. & Mrs.* Michael Fahey Zac Townsend James & Katherine Moule Kenneth & Anna Zankel, Kyong Shik Eom Dr. & Mrs. Eric Fain Donald & Mr. Manfred Mundelius The Grove Mr. & Mrs. Steven Anderson Mrs. Perrin Fay Jacqueline Jacobberger Kate Murashige & James Fennessey Mr. Joseph Jacobs Anonymous (8) Mrs. Margot Shinnamon Chris Zones Alexander Fetter & Mrs. Jo Jagoda Bach Mr. Peter Johnson Musto Lynn Bunim Mr. Keith Jantzen & BrOnzE CIrCLE Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Bandy David & Marilyn Nasatir Mr. & Mrs. Carl Fieser Mr. Scott Beth $7,500 TO $9,999 Mrs. Linda Barrett Karen S. NemetzA Mr. Michael Barrientos Ms. Heather A. Findlay Mr. Guyton N. Jinkerson Dr. Mirza Alam & Ms. Jeanne E. Newman Donna & Ken Barrow Mr. & Mrs. Louis C.G. Fisher Barbara E. Jones, Dr. Charlotte Moore Paul Niewiadomski Mr. Stephen Beitzel & Patrice & Warren Flack in memory of David & Ken Fong William E. Jones Mary L. Nilan Judith Preves Anderson Ms. Lise Quintana Mark H. Nishiki, M.D. Dr. Barbara Lynn Bessey Mr. & Mrs. J. Murray Fox Mr. David A. Kadish The James R. Bancroft Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Frame Amelia Kaymen, M.D. James A. Noe III Family Scott J. Bever Patricia Nottingham Donald Blais & Barbara B. Friede Gary Kelb Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Berkowitz Elise & Tully Friedman Ms. Kathryn Kersey Lynn Odland Mr. Turney Berry Michael McGinley Helen W. O’Hanlon Susan S. Blake & Karen L. Gabrielson Mr. Donald Kieselhorst Ms. Marcia Bieber Mr. Martin Gaehwiler Thomas D. King Dean & Kim Pananides S. Joel Kaufmann Jennifer Michie Bienaime John & Paula Gambs Victoria Kirby Julian T.* & Bill & Alison Boeckmann Joel & Eileen Birnbaum Mr. Gary A. Getz & Mr. Thomas Koch Robin M.W. Parer Gary Bottone Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Dr. Lorrie E. Clemens T. Peter & Y. Mei Lam Berniece & Pat Patterson Michelle Bourland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brock Mr. Stephen P. Gill & Bao Lamsam & Scott Sagan Skip Paul Robert Brody & Elizabeth Bowman Mrs. Margaret Gill Ms. Katharine Lange Mr. & Mrs. Dale L. Petterson Andrea Jacoby Chris & Jennifer Brahm Robert C. Goodman & John & A.M. Larue Ian Pollard Mr. George Carter & Judy Brady & John Bankston Dr. & Mrs. Laurence Lasky Dr. & Mrs. George T. Rab Mr. Chan-Hong Lim Drew W. Browning Dr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon Ms. Carol Lazier Charles & Vicki Raeburn Mr. & Mrs. Dean Cash Mr.* & Mrs. John P. Breyer Dr. Kathleen Grant The Honorable & Harold & Penny Ray Solomon Cera Karen Broido Don & MaryAnn Graulich Mrs. Howard H. Leach Dr. & Mrs. John B. Reed Dr. James Cuthbertson Joseph & Linda Bronson Mrs. Robert M. Greenhood Ted Lehmann & Patricia Rees-Miller Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Dauber Lynda L. Brothers Ms. Violet Grgich & Catherine Lehmann Mrs. Barrie Ford Regan Mr. & Mrs. Vladimir Ermakoff Charles R. Bush & Mr. Colin Shipman Anne & Allan Lerch Randall E. Reynoso & Bro Halff Calvin Lau Sallie Griffith Mr. Fred M. Levin & Martin Camsey Mr. Joel Howell Jeanne & William Cahill Claude & Nina Gruen Ms. Nancy Livingston, David Richardson & Thomas & Elisabeth Jones Mr. & Mrs. John E. Cahill, Jr. Patricia & Harold Gumbel The Shenson Foundation Eliza Linley Kurt Latta Clark & Elizabeth Callander Mrs. Simone G. Haas & Cathy Lindahl Orli & Zack Rinat Ms. Patricia Lee-Hoffman Dr. James M. Campbell Mr. Scott A. Zumsteg Barry & Marie Lipman Kay & Ray Roberts Nathaniel M. Lopez Iris S. Chan Helen & Richard & Cynthia Livermore Ms. Heli Roiha & James & Deborah Lyerla Ms. Janice Chang Dr. Glenn Hakanson Dr. Britt-Marie Ljung Ms. Therissa McKelvey Mr. Charles D. Mann Josephine Chen Hadley Dale Hall & George & Patricia Locke Arthur & Keiko Roosa Ernie Mieger Vicky Kwoh Ching & L. Warde Laidman Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lorton Mr. George E. Rossmann Mr. David Moreton Wu-Chung Hsiang R. Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Dr. Gwendolyn Rothman

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MEDALLIOn SOCIETy continued Mr. Paul L. Rowe & PArTnEr Bob & Gail Walker Eleanor & Theodore BrownA Gary & Helen Dosik Mr. R. Michael Sereno $4,000 TO $4,999 Hon. James L. Warren (Ret.) Timothy & Margaret Brown Ms. Joyce Dostale Dr. Sherry Wren Don Buhman & Kathy Down, M.D. & Barbara Sahm Ms. Anna Antoniucci Anonymous Wray Humphrey Gregory Kelly Dr.* & Mrs. Rolf G. Scherman Paul & Kathy Bissinger William & Nancy Burnett Mr. Paul Duffey Dr. Stephen Schoen & Linda Blondis Karen Burtness Prak & Susan & Bruce Dzieza Ms. Margot Fraser* Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Byrne FOUnDEr Jan Willem Prak Mr*. & Mrs. Wayne L. Earl Mr. & Mrs. Hilary & Richard Clark $3,000 TO $3,999 Dr. Robert Paul Cabaj Joseph Ehrman III Michael Schroeder Emmy & Donald Clausing Valerie Abad & Donald Campbell Dr. Mary Eichbauer & Mr. & Mrs. Lynn G. Seppala Mehdi Ghadiani Annelle Clute Mrs. Ronald E. Cape Dr. Greg Gartrell Gary & Dana Shapiro Mr. John Abbott Arthur D. Colman, M.D. & Dr. Richard L. Caplin Ms. Shannon Eliot Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Shapiro Mrs. Deborah Accornero Pilar Montero, Ph.D Dr. Betty J. Carmack Ed & Barbara Eschbach Vandana & Arvind Sharma Mrs. Lloyd Ackerman Mr. Orville W. Dale Vance Carney Janice & Jack Eskridge Mr. & Mrs. Gerald V. Sharp Amir V. Adibi & Mr. & Mrs. Janet L. Carpenter Ms. Pauline Eveillard & Harvey & Deborah Shein Shannon R. Clawson Thomas E. Dienstbier Peter & Jane Carpenter Mr. Doug Gould Mr. & Mrs. Dr. Lefkos Aftonomos Laura Dillaway Mr. & Mrs. Dennis L. Carter Patricia & Richard Farnsworth Timothy Sherwood Dr. Daniel S. Alegria & Mrs. Marilyn Dunn Dr. Heidi H. Cary Drs. Bette & James Felton Mr. Daniel Shiplacoff & Dr. Mary Page Hufty Helene & Lawrence Edelman Oscar Celli & Roger Busse Jan & Bob Fenwick Prof. Roger Bourland Francesca Alfajora Dina & Carl P. Engineer Mr. Ben Chai Ms. Karin Fetherston Steven E. Shladover Ms. Nancy J. English Mr. & Mrs. Jose R. Alonso Sarah Chamberlain Ms. Ellen Finch Ms. Marjorie Simon Mrs. Robert Eshleman Ms. Ann Alpers & Ms. Jean B Chan Leah Fine Mr. Kirby Slate & Donald & Mr. Shawn Hanson Dr. J. Samuel Chase Dr. Harvey Fishman & Mrs. Frances Slate Patricia Frischmann Joanne M. Anderson Martin Checov & Mrs. Deborah Fishman Dr. Bruce L. Smith, Ph.D. & Diane Green Robert C. Anderson Timothy J. Bause Daniel & Carla Flamm Ms. Nadine M. Tang Ms. Natalie Gummer Arlene Anthony Melvin & Hella Cheitlin Mrs. Carlo S. Fowler Mr. Dennis C. Smith Mr. Richard L. Hay Ms. Maloos S. Anvarian & Thomas & Virginia Chen Richard L. Frank Trust Libby Smith Peggy Hill Mr. Franklin R. Jackson Dr. Carol Christ Barbara B. & Stephen Smoliar & Mr. Larry Horton Drue G. Ashford Mr. Richard Christie Joseph P. Fredrick Linda Dembo Rosemary Joyce & Tracy Atherton Jerry & Linda* Cimmet Ms. Ellen A. Friedman Kenneth & Joanne Snow Russell Sheptak Zachary Baker George & Laura Cline Joyce Friedman Dr. Steven Sorenson Drs. Phyllis A. Kempner & Ms. Virginia Bamford Patricia T. Coffin Mr. & Mrs. William Froming Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Stark David D. Stein Ms. Linda Banta Katie Colendich David & Betsy Fryberger Michael & Ms. Alyssa T. Koo Claudette Barrera Charles Connor, M.D. Mr. Sameer K. Gandhi & Susanna Steinberg James* & Elinor Lacy Kimiko & Ivan Barta Wallace W. Conroe & Ms. Monica Lopez Patricia Stich Ms. Barbara Laferriere Mr. & Mrs. Fedele Bauccio Helen E. Conroe Ms. Ching-Ching Ganley Lisa & Jim Taylor David A. Lauer* & Joseph Baxter & Donald E. & Diane P. Cooley Marlena & Julia Gee William Laney Thornton & James Earl Jewell Walter Balmas Mr. Guy Cross & Mr. Rich Gerhardt Pasha Dritt Thornton Mr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Levin Mrs. Mary Baxter Ms. Erika Nelson Henry & Dorothy Gietzen TL Trust Charles & Nancy Mack Robert H. Beadle Dr. James Tristan Cross David & Jennifer Gillespie Ms. Carol J. Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Marston Mr. & Mrs. Frank Belvin Dr. Joan Claire Cucek Mr. & Mrs. Richard Gleason Matthew & Cristin Bennett Ms. Catherine F. Topham Mr. & Mrs. Russell Merritt LCDR Arthur W. Curtis, Dr. Paul Goldsmith Dr. Daniel Benson Ms. Takeko Toyama Andrew Morgan & USCGR (Ret.) Ms. Grace & Danny Richard Paul & Mildred Berg Barbara Traisman Mr. Fred J. Dal Broi Ms. Roxanne Araim-Sullivan Dennis Otto & Roy C. Bergstrom Mr. Robert Trankle Mr. A. S. Damji First Street Leather of Robert Meadows Anna Bernhard Ulferts Center USA Inc. Mr. Stephen Danko Solvang, California and Irving & Varda Rabin Anna & Leslie & Judy Vadasz Mrs. Arthur Dauer Mammoth Lakes Foundation of The Jewish Robert P. Berryman, Jr. Charles & Dorothy Davis Mr. John Gray Ms. Elizabeth Vobach Community Foundation of Stuart & Helen Bessler Mary & Terry Vogt Mrs. Doris Davis Ms. Deborah Greer the East Bay Mr. Josef Betz Jan & Jeannie de Vries Mr. Benjamin Gregorski Dr. Bradford W. Wade & Mr. John N. Rooney Vinny & Shalini Bhutani Dr. & Mrs. Herbert H. Dedo Mr. Phil Grisier Dr. Linda K. Riebel Mr. Eugene Saenger Jr Adam Arthur Bier & Mr. Manfred Dehmer Andy* & Eva Grove Bruce & Fran Walker Dorothy R. Saxe Rachel Lem Mr. & Mrs. Eugene DeJuan Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Gunning Alice & C.C. Wang Steve & Sally Schroeder Ms. Linda Billings John* & Bonnie Demergasso Brian & Elizaveta Gustafson Helena Troy Wasp Charles Schug Harold Blajwas & Jan Deming & Jeff Goodby Rob & Yukari Haitani Mr. & Mrs. William J. Watt John R. Schwabacher Family Alisa S. Burgess Ronald Denchfield & Ms. Bronwyn H. Hall Rosalie V. Weaver Mr. & Mrs. John Sebastian Mrs. Robert N. Bloch Patricia Molvar Ms. Dorothea Hamilton Carol Weitz William & Judith Shilstone Mr. Noel T. Blos Ulric & Glenda Dennis Charles F. Hanes Mr. Phil Wennhold Ms. Ruth A. Short Mr. Jeff Boland Mrs. Pam DeWeerd Betty-Lou Harmon Mr. Harvey Yaverbaum Evangelos & Dr. Maurizio Bonacini Mr. J. P. Richards Dillingham Mr. William Hartrick Mr. E. William & Kathleen Simoudis J. Dennis Bonney Mag Dimond Peggy Heineman Mrs. Mary Alice Yund Mr. Mark Small Dix Boring & John & Melanie Dodd Paula Heller & Robert Yohai Lev & Tatyana Yurovsky Mrs. Linda Snyder Marilyn Moore Boring Marion Dodd Wellington S. Henderson, Jr. Professor Jeffrey Zink & Mr. Donald Spuehler Dr. Stephen C. Born Mr. Keith E. Doerge Mr. Robert Hero Mrs. Helo Zink Mr. Robert St. John & Bruce R. Bowen & Dr. Gary Dolan Mr. Stephen Hetzel Dr. Richard Zuniga & Ms. Melanie Searle Junona A. Jonas Sandra D. Donnell & Mr. & Mrs. David Hodges Mr. Sean M. SeLegue Dr. Catharine van Ingen & Ms. Margaret Boyd Justin M. Faggioli Al Hoffman & Anonymous (10) Dr. W. J. Wisniewski Mr. Bruce Braden David & Miriam Donoho David Shepherd

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MEDALLIOn SOCIETy continued Mr. & Mrs. Charles Holden Ophelia A. Lum You Mr. & Mrs. Ms. Beth Scanlan Justin Trapp Susan Meadows Hone Joan & Roger Mann Steven Papagiannopoulos Randy Schekman & Mr. Richard D. Tuck Michael Horan Gus Manning & Gerlie Papillion Nancy Walls Mr. Mark Valentine Wilma S. Horwitz Rena Kirkpatrick Dr. Richard & Jean Park Dorothy Schimke & Mary Van Voorhees Joanne Howard Mrs. Doris Manock Poyee & Patrick Pau Cliff Jarrard Mr. Anthony Vickers Mr. Joseph C. Howard, Jr. Richard A. Marciano & Mr. William Pearce Philip Schlein Mr. Richard Votava Timothy G. & Cara R. Hoxie Teresa Middleton Mauree Jane & Sande Schlumberger Mrs. Louis M. Vuksinick Vincent & Christina Hu Richard & Mark W. Perry Mr. Warren Schneider Ilana Walder-Biesanz Ashley Hu Patricia Marcogliese Frances Petrocelli & Phoebe & Arthur & Susan Walenta Nancy A. Hutcheon Treva Jo Marcus Charles B. Wilson Christopher Schreiber Ms. Adrian Walker Ms. Margaret C. Hutchins Deborah Marion, CPA, EA Ms. Nancy Pfund & Betty J. Schreiner, M.D. Ms. Ann Y. Walker & Edward & Patricia Hymson Dr. Pamela Marron Phil Polakoff, M.D. Dr.* & Mrs. Mr. David M. Jones David K. & Kay Duke Ingalls Robin & Karl May Dr. Judith Pickersgill Theodore Schrock Susan Walker James Ito Mr. Frank T. Maynard Ms. Shauna Pickett-Gordon Mrs. Ronald Schroeder James & Judith Wall Harry L. Jacobs & Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe Mr. Terry Pitts Ms. Andrea Schultz Cmdr. & Mrs. Homer Wallin Katherine E. Akos Marcia & Bill McConnell Ms. Anastasia Polakis Pamela Sevilla Brian & Stephanie Walsh Dr. & Mrs. Norman Jacobson Ellen Mccoy Ritchie & Melissa Post Ms. Margaret V. Sheehan Jessica Wan & John DeNero Mr. Alexander Jakle Dr. Patricia McEveney Jeanette M. Prato Merrill Shields Emily Wang & Aaron Hoffer Robin & Virginia Jaquith Caryl McIvor Mr. Les Quock Elias Shikaloff Mr. William Wang William & Leticia Jarvis A. Kirk McKenzie Christopher J. Raidy Kate & Matthew Shilvock Victoria Weatherford & Mr. Carlos Jimenez & Dr. & Mrs. Ms. Danielle Rebischung Barbara Silverberg Jordan Gardner Dr. Victoria Smith Thomas O. McLaughlin Don & Gwen Reichert Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Silverberg Mr. Kimberly Mark Webb Dr. Jane L. Johnson Mr. Daniel & Mr. Thomas H. Reynolds Judith & Walter Sleeth Ms. Belle Wei Alfred & Sally Jones Dr. Mary McNabb Kathryn E. Ringgold David & Barbara Sloss Ms. Tania L. Weiss Kristen & Todd Jones Ronald & Judith McWilliams Katelyn Ristau Frederic H. Smith Mr. Richard P. West Annie Jung Mr. Peter C. Meier Wayne & Murphy Robins Mr. & Mrs. George D. Smith Jr. Mr. Trevor White & Anne Kaiser & Robert Taylor Dr. Beryl & Mrs. Renee Mell Scot Rohrer & Pamela D. Smith Mrs. Nora Quattrin White Dr. & Mrs. Avi Katz Mr. David Mellor Anne Scanlan-Rohrer Gideon* & Cheryl Sorokin Ronald B. Wilkerson Ms. Suzan Kaufmann Dr. Linda A. Membreno Fran Rominger Mr. Steven Soult Matthew Williams & Robert S. Keagy Edith P. Mendez Noelle & Ken Roost Mr. & Mrs. Robert Specker Amanda Maystead Daniel Kelley Judith & Irwin Miller Yvette & Philip Rosedale Robert L. Speer & John Wong Ms. Faye C. Wilson Mrs. Louis Kelso Beverly Mitchell & Dr. Steven & Mrs. Leela Stake Vivian W. Wing, M.D. & Jill Dore Kent John Pringle Mrs. Miranda Rosenau Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Stamper Nelda Kilguss Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mocker Ms. Susan Rosenblatt John & Linda Stedman Elizabeth Grace Wickersham Lawrence Kim Wayne & Carol Montgomery George & Edith Rosenkranz Mrs. Ann Marie Steig Mr. Christopher Wiseman Rebecca & Howard & Cathy Moreland Dr. & Mrs. Dr. Kenneth & Laurel Stein William Wisniewski & Donald Kingsborough Lawrence Morgan Roberto P. Rosenkranz Duty & Devotion Catharine van Ingen Dick & Marianne Kipper Ms. Camille Morishige Marion Ross Memorial Fund Susan & Jonathan Wittwer Mrs. Claudia Bray Kitka Mr. Paul Morris Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Ross Mary Jean Stempien & Mr. Josiah Wolcott Sven Erik Kjaersgaard Thomas* & Anne Morton Mrs. Joan Rost James Stricker Ms. Eileen C. Wong Maj. Floyd R. Krey John & Melinda Moynier Barry Roth Mr. Mark Stoermer Ms. Shirley Woo Andrea Manson Krueger Robert & Berit Muh Mr. Charles W. Roth Blossom F. Strong Dan Woods Bettine Kuh James & Ruth Murad Mr. & Mrs. Ms. Vrenae Sutphin & Margaret & Angus Wurtele Dr. Bunny Laden Renate M. Nadler, M.D. Peter E. Roxborough Mr. David Gray Russell & Marilyn Wylie Mr. Michael Lamm Joseph C. Najpaver & Stephen & Marcia Ruben Ms. Susan Sweet Ms. Colleen Yeates Marsh Andrew Lan Deana Logan Mr. John E. Ruden Dr. & Mrs. W. C. Sweeting, Jr. Florette Yen Ms. Marcia Lazer Ms. Mariam Nayiny & Francis & Andrea Rush Sharon & John Tastor Lowell S. Young & Richard & Patricia Taylor Lee Mr. Nader Radjy David Ryu & Ms. Genell Celeste Young Dr. & Mrs. John Lenahan Donna Hall Neff Christina Wu Ryu Texeira-De Robertis Mr. & Mrs. Mrs. Nancy Lilly Jim Newman & Jane Ivory Mr. Paul G. Salisbury Ms. Holly Thauwald Christopher Zaccalini Claire & Ms. Mary D. Niemiller Ryan Samarakoon & Ms. Joan Thoma Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Lindenberger Gerald & Ortrun Niesar Emily DiPofi Dr. Naomi R. Thorpe Pierluigi Zappacosta Mr. Wen-Pen Liu Matthew & Nancy Noel Louise Adler Sampson Judy & Harold Ticktin Joan Zawaski & Rona Siegel Mr. & Mrs. William R. Lloyd Mr. Brian Olson Mr. Pavi Sandhu Charlise Tiee & Scott Grieder Peggy & Lee Zeigler Mr. Brendon Lo Marilyn Oronzi Michael Saroyan & Mrs. F. J. Thomas Tilton Frank Zepeda Kate Lord Lise Deschamps Ostwald Barbara Bishop, M.D. Dean & Jeanice Tipps Dennis Zhang Thomas & Kathryn Loughran Ms. Catherine A. Owen Marlys Saveri & Patricia Totten Mary & Harold Zlot Claude L. Lowen Mr. & Mrs. F. Ward Paine Joseph Saveri Enrique Trachta Family Foundation Ms. Kay Lucas Mrs. Jeraldine M. Palazzi Mr. David Sawle Norman & Carol Traeger Anonymous (13)

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA MEMBERS

San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to all of our donors for contributions of any amount. The following members have made gifts between $1,000 and $2,999.

rInCIPAL ATrOn John & Roberta Eidson Dr. Judith A. Lamberti Mr. Richard E. Rowland Lexis & David Allen Mr. Robert C. Brandt P P Judith & Phillip Erdberg Peter Langner Ms. Marsha Ryle Mr.* & Mrs. Anthony Arlen Matthias Braun & Ursula Vitt $2,000 TO $2,999 Shaari Ergas Mr. Roger Lauer Mr. Federico Sandino Mrs. Susan Andersen Marion F. Bray Mr. Richard Abram Eric P. Essman Dr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Lazarus Mr. Stephen Sasse Benjamin Anderson Mr. Jason Breaker Marc & Anita Abramowitz Evans Fund Mr. Peter Lee Lecia Scaglione Mrs. Linda Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Breitbart Norm Abramson & David Beery Andrea Everett Jeffrey Lefstin Ms. Janine Scancarelli & Merrill D. Anderson Mr. Joseph Brennan Mr. Drake Adkisson Mr. & Mrs. Richard Falvo Mr. & Mrs. David Lehman Mr. Christopher McMahon Paul W. Anderson, M.D. Mr. Michael J. Bresler Thomas F. Anders, M.D. Mrs. John Finger, Dr. & Mrs. Hoyle Leigh Mrs. Nora Schaaf Susan Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Britton Arcadia Phono, LLC in memory of John H. Finger Mr. Kenneth Leitch Ms. Mary Schelling Dr.* & Mrs. Gabe & Trish Brovedani Mrs. Deborah Armstrong Ms. Jessena Finn Anthony Leuin & Jean Bertrand Rev. Paul J. Schmidt & Theodore W. Anderson David Brown Matthew Austern & Janet Lafler Cheryl Fippen & Mary True Mrs. Carole Lewis Rev. Gerard K. Moran Dr. Allen I. Arieff Ms. Judith D. Brown Ms. Celia Balfour Jack & Marsha Firestone Mr. Mark Lewis Mr. & Mrs. John Schram David Armstrong Mr. Samuel Brown Barclay’s Restaurant & Pub William O. Fisher & Ms. Michelle Li Mr. Charles Schweger Mr. & Mrs. John S. Arnold Mr. Steven R. Brown Mr. David Barlow & Kathryne Bernick Ms. Shirley Liebhaber Mr. James Scillian Dr. Andrew J. Aronson Vivian & Michael Brown Mrs. Lisa Clark-Barlow Nancy Flores Jean & Sun Lu Michael Seaton Robert Atkins Mr. Donald Browne Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Barnett Eugene Fluder Ms. Helene Lupatkin Mr. & Mrs. John Sebastian Mr. Arthur Atlas Mrs. Susanne Bruggemann Dr. Robert & Irene Belknap Mr. Steven W. Frank Ms. Jennifer Lynch & Mr. & Mrs. Paul Setziol Mr. Bruce Auld Ms. Carolyn Bryant Ms. Beverly R. Benson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Frankel Mr. Justin Schuster Ms. Mary Shelford Ms. Elizabeth Avakian Andrzej & Nancy Brzeski Mr. Max E. Benson Thomas J. Furlong & Dr. Richard Lynch James R. Shevock Mr. Richard Axelrod Wendy Buchen Richard & Maureen Bergson Elizabeth A. Gard Mr. Timothy Lynch Mr. Leslie M. Shinozawa Mr. James Baer Mr. Brad Buckman Nella & Bill Berry Mr. Richard Galbraith Karen & David MacQueen Mr. Michael Silpa Mr. Roger Bagley Mr. Audrius Budrys Rachel Birkey Nick C. Geannacopulos Mr. & Mrs. William H. Madison Mr. Thomas Sinclair Mr. & Mrs. Schuyler Bailey Ms. Sandra Buehler Adam Blumenthal Ms. Sandra M. Gilbert Joan Mansour Mr. Jordan H. Smith Mr. Thomas Lee Baker Heidi & Harry Burt Dr. Jennifer Bock Hughes & Sandra & Yuen Gin John Marcom & Arif Hasyim Mr. William Smith Ms. Virginia Bale Mr. Peter Buttrick Mr. Harold O. Hughes Ms. Martha Goldin Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Mardesich Mr. & Ms. Yoram Sorokin Eugene & Kathleen Bales Mr. Gerald Cahill & Jim Bowsher Mr. & Mrs. Robert Goldman Jason Marks Ms. Lucie Spieler Dr. Flora Banuett Ms. Kathleen S. King Ms. Joan K. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Goodman Willlam H.L. Martin & Mr. Storm Staley Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Barbaccia Ms. Georgia Callahan Mr. & Mrs. David W. Brady Mr. Will Gould Cathy Corison Ms. Fran Stancavage Beverly G. Soules Mrs. Ana Campo Ms. Jennifer Braun & Mr. & Mrs. Peter H.T. Gray Mrs. Charlene Mathias Ms. Anita Stapen & David N. Barnard Randal Carlson Mr. Raymond Ryan Carol & John W. Green Mr. Kim McCall Mr. Richard Granberg Hans Barnard & Bruce & Mary Alice Carswell Ms. Kathleen Braunstein Dan & Kelly Grimaldi Bobbie McChristy Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Stein Willemina Wendrich Mr. Robert Case Mr. Michael Broach Ms. Jane Grimm Mrs. Mary McKee Matt & Tami Stolte Ms. Joanne Barnes Dr. Karen Castle Dr. Roberta Brokaw Drs. Bill & Nancy Grove Mr. David McNally Nobuyuki & Megumi Sugiura Ms. Margaret M. Barratt Chang Mooi Family Foundation Ms. Brenda Brown Ms. Maud Hallin Mary A. McTigue Mr. Marc Sugiyama John Barrer Dr. Michael Charney Gail Brown Michael & Mary Hanemann Mr. Kurt M. Menning Deborah Suppes Mrs. Dottie Barrett Mr. Michael Chase Laurence Brunet Krista & Eric Hanson Dr. Thomas Merigan Ms. Noriko Tabata Albert Bartridge Mrs. Eunice M. Childs Drs. Earl & Sandra Burgess Robert G. Harvey Mr. David Messick Ms. Maryanne Tagney Ms. Betty Basham Ms. Tzu-I Isabel Chiu Barbra & Eric Burman John F. Heil Thomas & Barbara Metcalf Valerie E. G. Talmage Mr. Douglas C. Bassler Roger V. Christensen Richard C. Burnett & Helen Heintz Mr. & Mrs. John MeyerA Marvin C Tanigawa Mrs. Lieselotte Bauer Mr. Paul Chrzanowski Richard N. Gould Alfred & Ruth Heller Mr. & Mrs. Donald Michener Martin & Elizabeth Terplan Paul & Linda Baumann Li-Chiang Chu* Ms. Katherine Calkins Dr. Diana S. Herbst Ms. Marla J. Miller Ms. Brigitta Troy Laura Baxter Mr. David J. Clark Mr. Rick Callison Walter & Esther Hewlett Ms. Patricia Mitchell Gisela & Peter Turner Claudia Belcher Mr. Robert Clark Cathleen Cameron Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hinkle Mr. Carlos Montano Ms. Heidi Ulrich Richard & Kim Beleson Ms. Sarah Clark Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cameron Terence Hird Mr. Chris Moore Mr. Paul E. van DykA Ms. Merle L. Benkavitch Mr. Paul C. Clifford Phyllis Cannom Dr. Lucie Hirmina Denis Moore & Paul Garza Mr. Peter Van Etten John & Diane Benson Dr. Cara Coburn Christine Cariati & Cliff Gerrish Ms. Anne Hohenberger & Mr. Douglas G. Moore Mr. Frank VanCourt Mrs. Dawn Berger Mr. & Mrs. Jack Coffey Ann & John Carroll Mr. Michael Taylor Mr. Zachary Morrison Ms. Nora E. Wagner Ms. Anna Bergman Mrs. Ralph L. Coffman Ms. Jacqueline Carson & Mr. Marshall H. Hollimon Ms. Victoria Mortensen Rosemarie Wagner Dr. Carol Berkenkotter Mr. Michael Colbruno Mr. Alan Cox Ms. Irma Honda Mr. Michael Mullany Steven & Jennifer Walske Mr. Simon C. Berry Ms. Emily G. Cole Mr. Murray Case Molly & Jock Hooper Mr. Michael Mullen Mr. Victor Walters Mr. Stephen Bertram Prof. George & Mrs. Jane Collier Charles & Deryl Castellano Dr. Ronald Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. Eric Nath Ms. Jenny Wang Mr. & Mrs. D. & S. Best Mr. Stephen L. Collier & Solomon Cera & Chandra Sen Ms. Vija Hovgard David Newton Ms. Tiffany Wang Sym Blanchard Mr. Frank A. Patt Mr. Mark R. Chaitkin & Ms. Gladys K. Howard Patrick & Bernadette Nolan David & Kathryn Welch Charles & Lenore Bleadon Ms. Elizabeth Colton Ms. P. C. Storr Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Howard Ms. Rita A. Norton Mr. Robert A. Wertsch Mr. & Mrs. Frank Bliss Geoffrey Constable Jim Chanin & Rachel Richman Helen Y.H Hui Mrs. Helen Nutter Mr. Richard P. West Mr. Nicholas Bloisa Clyde & Ann Coombs Mr. Daniel A. Chesir Ms. Sharon Hunter Mr. Barton O’Brien Mr. David Wheeler Ms. Susan Blomberg Ms. Debra Corazzelli Mr. Daniel Clark Mr. Stephen Jackson & George & Karen Offen Ron & Anne White Thomas Blommers Mr. George Corona Ms. Georgina Clark Ms. June Kori Kody Mr. Garrick Ohlsson Ms. Michelle Wilcox & Ms. Janet Nye Blomquist Deborah Costa Ms. Margaret Liu Collins Dr. Michael A. Jaffe M.D. Coralie & John Otoshi Mr. Rob Kuhling Mr. Dieter Bluhm Ms. Carmen Côté-Devaughan Mrs. Ann Concannon & Ms. Lily Jan Harold Parks Ms. Erika Williams Judy Bogart & Richard Hyde Michael Coughlan Mr. Barry O’Connell Mr. Mark Johnson Mr. Raul Pavon Mr. Mason Willrich Mr. Richard & Mrs. Joanne Bogart Hugh J. Coughlin Ian Cooper Tracy & Frank Jonelis Ms. Matilda Perkins & Peter & Georgia Windhorst Neil Bogue Tom & Jane Coulter Carol Gray Costigan Paul S. Jones Mr. Michael Freeburger Drew Winget Barbara & John Bohn Mrs. James E. Court Dr. Linda Crabbe Lona Jupiter Mrs. Elizabeth L. Petz Dr. Dale & Toni Wise Ms. Barbara Boies Dr. Michael Craig Cox Sue & Ken Currier Rosalalind Kandler Mr. Jose Rubens Pirani Ms. Lilah & Mr. Alex Wolf Morris Bol & Lewis Crickard Terry & Evelent Cox Mr. & Mrs. James Daley Dr. & Mrs. Samuel D. Kaplan Mr. Scott Plakun & Mr. Brendan Wong Dr. Jean S. Bolen Dr. & Mrs. William R. Crain Ms. Jean L. Dana Mr. Thomas L. Kardos Dr. Milton P. Schaefer Ethel S. Worn Mr. Brad Bollinger Gary & Diana Cramer Mrs. Patricia Daniels Mr. Thomas R. Kearney Genevieve Plusa Mr. Gregory Wright Jeanne Rae Bonar M.D. John Cramer Dr. Nancy Davidson & Kyle Kerr Justice Stuart & Mrs. Lee Pollak Melinda Yee Franklin Ms. Patricia Jones Boone Frederick Craw Mr. Steen Pedersen Dukju Kim Joseph Powe Mr. & Mrs. Carl Zachrisson Ms. Moura Borisova Kate Crawford Ms. Caroline Davis Mr. David Kimport Susan K. Prather Anne Zucchi Ms. Joanne Bourland Clive Criper Mr. David Davis Mrs. Beverly Kivel Peter Prichard Anonymous (6) Mr. & Ms. Layne Bourque Mr. John C. Cromack Mr. & Mrs. James F. Dean Mr. Mark Kjeldgaard Ann Ratcliffe Ann S. Bowers David Cross Mr. & Mrs. Raj Desai Eileen & Arthur Klatsky Charles & Patricia Raven SUSTAInInG PATrOn Mr. Malcolm Bowles Mr. Bradford Crowell Ms. Suzanne Diamond Ms. Anna-Lisa Klettenberg Allan Reiter Mr. Barry Box Mrs. Angelique Cucaro-Renault Ms. Paula Dieli David Kneupper Kathryn & Markus Renschler $1,000 TO $1,999 Mr. Walter Boyd Ms. Phoebe Cutler Mr. & Ms. Dave Disco Gernot & Anita Koehler Mr. William Rense Marc F. Abramson, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Boyer Mr. Christian Dahlen Mrs. Mary Lou Dorking David Krimm & Peter Bradley Mr. David Roberts Jane & Christopher Adams Stevan D. Bradley Mrs. Janet Dahlsten Mr. John D. Drago Meghan Krogh Mr. & Mrs. James M. Rockett Ms. Cheryl Aguilar Mr. Peter M. Brady, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John F. Dains Mr. & Mrs. William H. Draper III Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kuckein Jill Antonides & Jorge Rodriguez Elaine Alden, Helen Brake Ms. Jennifer Daly Peter G. Drewliner John & Rebecca R. Kunzman Rick & Stephanie Rogers in memory of Dr. John Alden Mr. David R. Braker Ms. Caroline Daniels Ms. Jennifer Durand Mr. Ching-Lung Lai Mr. Sean Rositano Mr. Ignacio M. Aliagas Mr. James Brandman Mr. Herbert Dauber Ms. Margaret Hart Edwards William R. Lambert Mr. David Rothman Mrs. Dolores M. Allen Ms. Barbara N. Brandriff Ann Davies & Ruben Diaz

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SAn FrAnCISCO OPErA MEMBErS continued Mr. Christopher Davies Ms. Pamela George Mr. Alberto Ilano Mr. & Mrs. Edgar G. Lehmann Ms. Kathleen E. Mulaney Ms. Anne Redman Mr. Erik Davis Mr. Hartmut H. Gerdes Mr. & Mrs. Ken Imatani Ms. Patricia Leicher Ms. Sharon Mulgrew & Mr. Timm Redwood Mrs. Erin Davis Famiglia Tom & Juliette Giannini Mr. Edward C. Ingraham Paul E. LeMal, M.D. Mr. Brian Umeki Mr. CJ Reeves Ms. Vera DeMartini Ms. Alexandra Gillen Mr. Charles Isola Mr. Robert Lemons Ms. Majbritt Murdock Rossannah Reeves Andrew Dean Anita N. Gillespie Ms. Karen Ivy Mr. Edwin Lennox Mrs. Pamela Murdock Frances K. Reid Dr. Lee R. DeBow Mr. & Mrs. Dane Gillette Jaqueline Gamache Mr. Jim Leonard Ms. Jessica Murphey The Hon. & Mrs. William K. Reilly Ms. Eileen Deiss Ms. Sandra Gillette Alan Jacobs Ms. Linda Lester McIlvoy Ms. Elizabeth W. Murphy Ms. Pamela L. Reinertsen Mrs. Ann Del Simone Ms. Marsha Goldberg Ms. Laura Jacobson & Ms. Carol Levenson Kathleen Murray Mr. Tom Reinhold Ms. Antonia DeMatto Steven H. Goldberg, M.D. & Mr. John Denton Myra K. Levenson John & Diane Musgrave Ms. Pamela Reis Ulric & Glenda Dennis Sandee Blechman Mr. Klaus Jaeger Mr. Mark Levi Ms. Chika Nagata Brian Reiser Linda Derivi & Robert Goldfien Ms. Naomi Janowitz Adrelle K. Levy Tania Nanevicz Lynn Richards & John Leong Stephan Castellanos Mrs. Patricia Goldhoff Mr. Ted Jarvi & Ms. Helen Hall Norman & Helen Ann Licht Ms. Nancy Nee Julie & Christopher Ridley Thomas P. & Veronica C. Devitt Diane & David Goldsmith Glen William Jarvis Dr. T. Juhani Linna Mr. Charles & Dr. Laura Nelson Ms. Patricia Ridlon Mr. & Mrs. William J. Dickinson Ms. Andrea Gould Ms. Jeraldine S. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Steven Lipson Ms. Mary D. Nelson Mr. Ernst Rinderknecht Ms. Pamela Dickson Ms. Janet Goy Julie Johnson Janet K. Littlefield Wanda Nervi Ms. Margrit Rinderknecht Dr. James Dimon Ms. Barbara Goza Rod Johnson Mr. W. Alex Livesley Dr. & Mrs. Ernest Newbrun Mrs. Richard D. Ringe Mr. Stanley J. Dirks Mr. Frederick Grauer Ms. Marian Johnston John Livingston & Frances Etow Mr. & Mrs. George A. Newhall Mr. Robert Ripps Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Dittmer Maria Greenwald Mr. Mountaine Jonas Mr. Thomas Lloyd-ButlerA Mrs. Wenlan Ng Dr. Dan Robbins Dave & Helen Dix Mr. Herbert Grench Mr. Gary Jones Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Loar Mr. John Nigh Mark Robertson Mr. Don Dodson Mr. Donald F. Grether Harvey L. Jones John Lockton Kari Niiranen Edis & Martin Robinson Mr. Robert J. Domrese Dr. Patricia L. Griffin Mrs. Frances G. Joyce Alan LoFaso Dr. Hiroshi Nikaido Mr. Ernest M. Robles Maria & Henry Donahoe Mr. Lloyd Grotheer Andrea G. Julian Brian Logan Mrs. Nancy Ninegar Leslie & Carl Rodd Ms. Eileen M. Dong Ann C. Grove & Richard Green Mr. & Mrs. George Jurkowich Ms. Susanne Lohmann Jim & Brenda Nirenstein R. M. Rogness Ms. Alexandra Dostrow Miss Ursula Grunfeld Mr. Richard Kadel Ms. Barbara Lombardi Mr. Edward Noble Bill Roman Mr. Calvin B. Doucet Mr. Andrey Gubichev Mr. Richard Kalkbrenner Mr. John W. Long Ms. Barbara North Mr. James J. & Ms. Edith Drcar Mrs. Mary Gundelach Jon Kannegaard & Ms. Barbara Lopez Gayle & Allen Notowitz Mrs. Roberta H. Romeo Dr. Michael J. Drinnan, M.D. Mr. Roger Guy-Bray Patricia Sandoval Frank & Sally Lopez Noelle Nugent Mr.* & Mrs. David Rosenkrantz Ms. Joan Duffield Ms. Jacqueline Guzzo Dr. Arjun Kapur John Lounsbery Ms. Gladys Nutt Mr. Floyd W. Ross Edma Dumanian M. M. Hadcock, M.D. Bennett R. & Suzy Katz Mrs. Amy Louv Ms. Joyce P. O’Connor Richard W. Ross Mr. Bruce Dutson Johnnie Johnson Hafernik Mr. Ken Kawaichi Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Lovett, Jr. Dr. Michael O’Connor & Sally Ross & Don Norris Ms. Barbara J. Dwyer William A. Hage Ms. Susanne Kayyali Phillip Lowe Dr. Patricia O’Connor Mary Ellen Rossi Phillip L. Eaton & Mr. Christopher Hall & Kathryn Kearney Mr. Simon Lowings Ms. Jan Ogren & Mr. Donald Roth James C. Robinson Ms. Sandra Sarro John Keeley Frances Lozano Mr. Dean Watson Ms. Laura Royster Ms. Nicole Economou Gregory & Kathryn Hampton Elizabeth D. Kelker Mrs. Ailsa E. Ludvik Col. Gary Ohls Jeffrey Ruda & Leonard Whitney Ms. Deborah Edginton G. R. Hamrdla Erwin Kelly Dr. & Mrs. G. Karl Ludwig, Jr. Mr. Michael Okada Mr. M. Duane Rutledge Mr. Kirk Edson Mr. Steven Hand Mr. Frank Kelly Ms. Kurtice C. Luther Mr. Brian O’Laughlin David & Bonnie Sachs Ms. Helen Edwards Mrs. Rose Hane Ms. Jane Kelly Ms. Pamela Macal Mr. Gregory O’Leary Jordan Sachs & Jeannie Sack Ms. Barbara J. Eisenhauer Mr. David Hankinson Ms. Claudia Kennedy Mr. Marco Magarelli Mr. & Mrs. Robert Olness Phyllis & Charles Salmon Mr. Albert Eisenstat Diana Hardy Sheila Doyle Kiernan Mr. Allison Maggiolo Mr. Stanley O’Loughlin Mr. Bert Salyga & Mr. James Elacqua Mr. Roy Dean Hardy Mr. Michael Kim Ms. Marlene Maier Robert & Diane Olson Dr. Sean McCarthy Ms. Janice R. Eldred & Thomas Harkins & Femie & Curtis King Mr. John E. Major Mr. Aare Onton Ms. Marily M. Sampson Mr. Peter Szutu Thomas Philipps Neil King Mr. Peter Mansfield Mr. Stephen Ordway Dr. & Mrs. Bruce J. Sams, Jr. Mr. Daniel D. Elias Diana Harris Mr. James Kingdon Davide Marchesi Karin Orsic & Greg Davis Mrs. Elizabeth Samson Ms. Dianne Ellsworth Kathy Hart Ms. Kathleen Kirkish Mr. Richard Marliave & Ms. Sheldeen G. Osborne Ms. Brigitte Sandquist Dr. Cornelis Elmes Mrs. & Mr. Hartley Ms. Madeline Kitier Mrs. Nikola Filby Mr. Peter Osinoff Mr. Stuart Sands Mr. Robin Elwood Mr. Charles Hashim Ms. Katharine Kleinke Ms. Alex Marzano Mr. Thomas Pajak Mr. Jeffrey Sant Mr. Marc Escuro Mr. Robert L. Hausmann Mrs. Chuen Kleiser Ms. Jean Matsuura Mr. Clement Pang Ms. Marge Satinsky Janice & Jack Eskridge Tom Hixson & Kevin Sarmento Ellen Kline Mr. Gilbert E. Matthews Ellice J. Papp R. Bruce Mosbacher Family Mr. Tom Etheridge & Mr. David A. Hearth & Dr. Kathryn Klingebiel Ms. Victoria J. Mattson & Mr. Raymond Paramo Mr. George Scalise Ms. Luanne Rolly Ms. Lauren T. Hall Mr. Peter H. Klopfer Ms. Diana J. Gordon, Ms. Bai Park Mr. Christopher Scanlan Mrs. Joyce Mishel Ettinger Mr. Kenneth Hecht Knight Angels in memory of Henry Blok Peter Pastreich & William Scharf Mr. Fred & Mrs. Joan Falender SK Henderson Judith & Harlan Koch Mrs. Joan Maxwell Jamie Whittington Mr. Yuval Scharf Dr. William Falvey Zheyla Henriksen Richard Koch Mr. Henry Mayer Mr. Scott Patterson Mr. Andrew Schenck Richard Farris Ms. Barbara A. Henry Volker Koch Dr. Brian P. McCune Mr. & Mrs. Gary Patton Mr. & Mrs. H. Alton Schick Ella Fehl Ms. Diane Henry Mr. John M. Kohlmeier Robert McDowell Thomas & Sheryl Paukert Mr. Frank Schirrmeister Cantor & Mrs. Martin Feldman Dr. Vincent Hentz Victor Korenman John G. McGehee Mr. & Mrs. Kirk Paulsen Dr. Kurt A. Schlesinger & Mr. David A. Fencl Ms. Carmen Hernandez Marta & Alex Kozera Ms. Julie McHenry Mr. Alec Pedersen Dr. Barbara S. Artson Mr. Chad Ferguson Mr. Robert Herriot Dr. & Mrs. Robert Kradjian Mr. R. S. McMillen Ms. JoAnn Perry Dr. Paula Schlesinger Niall Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Hersh Ms. Barbara Kral Mr. John McNally Mr. Stanley Peters & Eddie Schmidt Mr. Jeffrey Fine Lynn & Robert HetlandA Marion R. Kramer, M.D. Ms. Mary McNulty Ms. Kathleen Much Mr. Stephen Schrader Ms. & Mr. Ellen Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn Hetzel Mr. Norman Krasne Mr. & Mrs. David Meckler Jane G. Petersen Mr. James F. Schultz Ms. Claire Candace Fitzgerald Mr. Rockne Hill Mr. Glenn Krasner Fabrizio Mecozzi Ms. Susan Peterson Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp, Jr. Mr. Adam Flatt Mr. & Mrs. Albert Hillman Mrs. Caroline Krauskopf Mr. Craig Melchert Ms. Pamela Philbert Carolyn Senger Mr. Kirk Forbeck Mr. & Mrs. Charles Kredensor & Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Melchior Mr. Ralph A. Philbrook Wayne & Lisa Serrano Karen Ford Claude M. Hiramoto-Hess Frederic Saunders Anthony F. Melia Allen & Joyce Phipps Katherine Setar & Brad Fischer Mike & Nancy Foss Mr. Warren Hirsch Mr. Don Krohn Ms. Suzanne R. Mellen Steve Piatek Mr. David Serrano Sewell Mrs. Barbara Fracchia Frederic & Sandra Hirschfield Judith Krotec Mr. Ira Mellman Frank Pieri Stephanie Sfakianos Mr. John G. Francis Ms. Patricia Hitchens Ms. Mary Kruzas Mrs. Alma Z. Menn Peter & Joanne Pierson Ms. Louise Shalit Sonia Frank Dr. Betty M. Ho Ms. Elizabeth Kuehner Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mesker Bernadino J. Pistillo, Jr. Mr. Glenn Shannon Jim & Karen Frassetto Mark Allan Hodes Ms. Gillian Kuehner Mr. Robert Messick Sir Desmond Pitcher Drs. Charles & Andrea Shapiro Mr. David Freedman Mr. Melvin S. Hodges Kenneth & Monica Kulander Dr. & Mrs. Stacy R. Mettier Mr. & Mrs. Wolfgang Pohl Dr. & Mrs. James Shapiro Mr. Adam Fried Don Hoffman Mr. David Kutz Allison Metz, M.D. Ryan Pon Ms. Carolyn Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Eliot Fried Mr. Stephen C. Hoffman Ms. Silvia Kuzmicz Knute Michael & Anna & Frank Pope Judy & Wylie Sheldon Ms. Deborah Friedlaender Diane & Richard Hohl Joan Kwansa Ginna Dean Miller Kenneth Porrello Ms. Michaelyn Shelley-David Mr. Amir Friedman Mr. Peter Holman Barbara J. Lane Karnig & Santoukht Michael Portillo Mr. Jeff Sherry Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Paul Friedman Mr. Brian W. Holmes Stephen & Maria Lans Silva Mikaelian Stuart Poyner Ilene Shifrin James H. Fritzsche Ms. Rosalie D. Holtz Mr. Willis J. Larkin Mr. Andrew A. Miller Mr. & Ms. Frank L. Prather Mr. Richard H. Shoop Linle & Jim Froeb Joseph Hooker David Larson Dr. & Mrs. Fred Miller Hiroko Prather Diana & Richard Shore Mr. & Ms. Douglas W. Fuerstenau Mr. James Hopp James P. Laumond, M.D. & Caroline Milton Felice S. Price Dr. Neal Shorstein Mr. Christopher Furman Dr. Michael Horn Arthur Sullivan Dorothy T. Milton Louis Ptacek & Ying-Hui Fu Dr. Marilyn N. Silva Ms. Grace Gabe John Hornberger Mrs. Jan V. Lawler Sean Minnig & Matt Evans Robert & Consuelo Purvis Ms. Christine W. Silver Nigel Gamble Raymond & Karen Houck Mr. Myles Lawless Carol Mirenda & Warren Lee Janet & Michael Quartaroli Mr. Axel Simon Mr. Paul Gardner Ms. Sally V. Houston Mr. & Mrs. Roger A. Lazarus Cosette P. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Martin Quinn Mrs. Harriet Simpson Ms. Margaret E. Garms Ms. Constance Howard Ms. Harriet Lazer Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Moffett Ms. Maria Quiros Ms. King-Dah Sip Mr. Bryant Garth Ms. Hing On Hsu Mr. & Mrs. G. B. Lebedeff Ms. Karen Moneta Olga & Sergey Rakitchenkov Mr. Harold Skilbred Max Gasner Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Huff III Kewchang Lee, M.D. Thomas & Cassandra Moore Mr. Robert W. Rankin Marilyn & Ronald Skinner Ms. Margaret M. Gates Mr. David Hulin Ms. Martha J. Richards Glenn A. Morrison David & Mary Raub Mrs. Alice Sklar Keith & Priscilla Geeslin Mr. John Hunt Dr. Marion Lee Mr. John Morton Alan M. & Nancy Raznick Robert Sklenar Ms. Louise Gelotte Ms. Marian Huntoon Mr. Wilton Woo & Mr. & Mrs. Bhushan Mudbhary Ms. Melissa Reading & Lawrence & Jacqueline Slayen Mr. Sam Genirberg Ms. Mary Idso Ms. Vera W. Lee Mr. Robert Mukai Mr. John I. Castor Sheldon Sloan

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA MEMBERS continued Mr. George Sloup Harvey Steiman Ms. Maud Thiebaud Mr. John Van Horn Ms. Helaine Weinstein Ms. Janet S. Wright Mr. Glen Smerage Jana & Gary Stein Dr. Ruedi F. Thoeni, M.D. Mr. Guy Vandenberg & Mr. Jim Weir Phil Wright Prof. & Mrs. Alan Jay Smith Susan K. Stevens, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Mr. Stephen Williams Elaine & Stanley Weiss Thomas Wright Mr. Albert G. Smith Ms. Barbara Stewart Thomas W. Thompson Mr. George Varian Anita N. Weissberg Ms. Melanie Wyler Mr. Fred B. Smith Mr. Martin Stidham Megan & Marcus Thygeson Mr. & Mrs. Clark Vilas Mrs. Pamela Wentworth Ms. Fujiko Yamashita Fred & Ridley Virdeh Mr. Lincoln Smith Ms. Nell L. Stinson Mr. Ralph Tiegel David & Kay Werdegar Tatsushi Yano Mary Anne Smith Shannon Stirman Mr. Richard & Mrs. Lois Tilles Dr. Paul Volberding & Karen Wetherell Roberta Smith Ian E. Stockdale & Ruth Leibig Mr. Todd Toepfer Dr. Molly Cooke Elizabeth S. Wilder Charles & Edna Yanofsky Dr. Stephen R. Smith Mr. John Stocker Mrs. Isabelle Toms Tamisie Honey Vrolyk Mr. Ronald Wilkins Mr. John Yarborough III Stefanie Snow Daniel Joseph Stofle Raymond & Deborah Tonella Mr. Stanyan Vukovich Mr. Doug Williams & Lord Young Thomas Snyder Ann Stone Lynne Toribara & Brian Howard Mr. Charles Wagner & Ms. Madelyn Bedig-Williams David & Susan Young Dr. Richard L. Sogg Katherine Stone & Roger Myers Gunnel Tottie Mr. Thomas F. Culp Mr. Frederick T. Williams Mr. Barry Zacherle Mr. John Solaegui Robert Stone Jeanie Nieri Treichel Jerry & Randi Walker John R. Williams Mr. Victor Zafra Ms. Mary Ann Somerville Mr. Edward Storm Ms. Maxine Trost Mr. & Mrs. William Walker Robert J. & Carole Williams Mr. William T. Zaumen Barbara & Paul Sonnenblick Mrs. Catherine Stroup Danielle & Robert Troy Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Wall Adriana Williams Karen Zehring Mrs. Virginia Soult Ms. Judith Stuart Ms. Elena Tsoupko Ms. Inja Kim Wang Mr. Andrew Wilson Zhen Zeng Ms. Kim Spitler Ms. Lauren Sullivan Ted & Mary Tsui Mrs. Mary-Margaret Ward Ms. Martha Wilson Ken & Charlotte Ziebarth Mr. John Spitzer Timothy Sullivan & Prof. & Mrs. Frederic Tubach Mr. & Mrs. John H. Warren Mr. & Mrs. P. Brien Wilson George Zimmerman Mr. Paul Sporer Karen Ericksen Carol Turner Mr. Michael D. Warren & Ward & Polly Wolff Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Stallings Hon. & Mrs. John A. Sutro, Jr. Mr. Earl Turner Ms. Mary Louise Pieper-Warren Ms. Carol Wolleson Ms. Karen Zito Mr. Russell Stanaland Ms. Theresa Sweeney Ms. Kimberly Twesme Ms. Ani W. Weaver Albert & Theresa Wong Mr. & Mrs. Amos C. Zucchi Mr. Nick Stathakos Ms. Elizabeth R. Taylor Ms. Elizabeth L. Ullrich Rhonda & Andrew Weber Kam Wong Dr. Marc Zussman Joelle Steefel Ms. Jennifer Taylor Carol Jackson Upshaw Mr. Keith R. Weed Ms. May Wong Anonymous (29) Mr. & Mrs. Reginald D. Steer Ms. Marian E. TeSelle Dr. Marta Vago Mr. Chad Weider Ms. Merilyn Wong Ms. Marianne Stefancic Mr. John C. Thacker Cornelis van Aalst Ms. Fanyela Weinberg Dr. & Mrs. Russell D. Woo M.D. * deceased

San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to all individual contributors. Our donors’ generosity is the primary source of annual support for the Company’s productions, educational programs, and operations. Leadership Circle, Medallion Society, and San Francisco Opera Members enjoy a variety of special benefits, including priority seating, personalized ticket service, behind-the-scenes access, and more. To learn more about supporting San Francisco Opera, contact our Development Department at (415) 565-6401.

Listed gifts were received between August 1, 2016 and July 31, 2017. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of our donor listings. If we have misspelled or omitted a name, please accept our apology and notify us at (415) 565-6401 so that we may update our records accordingly. N W O R B G I A R

Friends of Education C

e invite you to become engaged Win the many facets of San Francisco Opera Education, including school partnerships, family activities, and adult programs. Your gift—at any level—will help the Company provide opera education for all ages throughout the Bay Area and invite the community to join us for innovative programs at the new Wilsey Center for Opera. For more information on becoming a Friend of Education and supporting these vital programs, please call (415) 551-6244 or visit sfopera.com/FriendsofEducation. Support for the 2017–2018 San Francisco Opera Education Department ARIA (Arts Resources in Action) school programs generously provided by The Amgen Foundation, Merrill D. Anderson, Bank of America, David Bertoni, Vance Carney, Ann & John Carroll, Robert & Laura Cory, Carol Gray Costigan, Vincent Cracchiolo, in honor of Carol J. Cracchiolo, Denise Cutler, Elizabeth M. Dirsa, Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton, Kristina Flanagan, Gap Foundation, Anita N. Gillespie, Jane & David Hartley, Fred & Peggy Heiman, Carmen Hernandez, in memory of Carmen Villavicenio, Kimberly M. Hughes, Ms. Mitzi Johnson, Candace Zander Kahn, Kaiser Permanente, Kimball Foundation, Nancy Kraus & Barbara Fronk, Joan Kwansa, Harry S. & Eileen Lewis, Ms. Sylvia R. Lindsey, Mr. & Mrs. Russell Merritt, Randall E. Reynoso & Martin Camsey, Lynn Richards & John Leong, Sing for America Foundation, Union Bank, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Wells Fargo Foundation, Daphne & Stuart Wells, The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, and anonymous donors.

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CIRCLE In the opera world, there is no greater challenge—and no finer reward—than Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung. Ring Circle members and Production Sponsors understand what it takes to bring this most epic work to life: more vision, more planning, more rehearsal, more resources and more heroes dedicated to making it all possible. The only thing that dwarfs the scale of this production is the passion of our members. Thank you! Valhalla CIRCle Candace & Vincent Gaudiani Mr. & Mrs. Carl Fieser William O. & Susan W. Morris Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran Ms. Wanda lee Graves Patrice & Warren Flack David & Marilyn nasatir Keith & Priscilla Geeslin Geoffrey & Marcia Green Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Frame Marina & Ben nelson John a. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Marie & Palmer hotz Karen l. Gabrielson Mary l. nilan Sylvia & John hughes Susan & eric Johnston Charles D. Goodman lynn Odland edmund W. & Jeffrey & anne Marie Katz Robert C. Goodman & John Bankston Maxwell G. Paley & Gregory J. Corrales Jeannik Méquet littlefield Fund Dr. Susan Kroll & Mr. Mark R. Kroll Dr. & Mrs. Marvin l. Gordon Dean & Kim Pananides Bernard & Barbro Osher Patrick McCabe anne Gray Dr. Richard & Jean Park Betty & Jack Schafer James R. Meehan Bernice e. Greene Ian Pollard The Thomas Tilton Production Fund Steven M. Menzies Patricia & harold Gumbel David & Joy Powell United airlines Christine Miller & Gary Glaser hadley Dale hall & l. Warde laidman Dr. & Mrs. George T. Rab Barbara a. Wolfe heidi Munsingzer & John Shott Mr. Peter hanauer Mr. Charles Raeburn Janet napolitano Mr. Kevin harrington harold & Penny Ray WOTan CIRCle Mrs. Carol e. Parker & Michael a. harrison & Dr. & Mrs. John B. Reed Kristina Flanagan Dr. Gerhard h. Parker Susan Graham harrison Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Mary & Craig henderson Robert Peck Mr. & Mrs. Wolfgang h. hausen louise h. Renne & Paul a. Renne neil & elsa S. Pering Martha & Michael helms Kay & Ray Roberts SIeGFRIeD CIRCle James Sabry & elizabeth Peace Mr. & Mrs. Warner henry Mrs. William C. Robison Ms. Christina & ann Classen Treadwell Ian hinchliffe & Marjorie Shapiro Ms. heli Roiha & Ms. Therissa McKelvey Dr. elizabeth DeBruin Warren Barbara M. Ward & Mr. & Ms. Gerald hoshijo Mr. George e. Rossmann Reid & Peggy Dennis The honorable Roy l. Wonder* Carol l. & David G. hough Dr. Gwendolyn Rothman Jerome l. & Thao n. Dodson Ms. arlene Wasserman Joanne howard Mr. Paul l. Rowe & Karen J. Kubin anonymous (3) Mr. Joel howell Mr. R. Michael Sereno Peggy & Boyce nute Bruce hyman & Simone Quarré Dr. Stephen Schoen & Ms. Margot Fraser Bob Tandler & Valli Benesch RhIneMaIDen CIRCle Victor & Kathy hymes Mr. & Mrs. Michael Schroeder anonymous Dorrit e. ahbel, M.D. Riki & Robert Intner Mr. & Mrs. lynn G. Seppala Kendall & Claire allphin Mr. Joseph Jacobs Vandana & arvind Sharma heRO CIRCle Robert M. anderson & Kyong Shik eom Mrs. Jo Jagoda Mr. & Mrs. Gerald V. Sharp Robert Mailer anderson & nicola Miner Mrs. Margot Shinnamon Bach Mr. Keith Jantzen & Mr. Scott Beth Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Sherwood Mark & Judy Bednar Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Bandy Thomas & elisabeth Jones Steven e. Shladover helen Berggruen Mrs. linda Barrett Mr. David a. Kadish Drs. edward & Dale Sickles David Bertoni Mr. Michael Barrientos Michael Kalkstein & Susan english Ms. Marjorie Simon edward Paul Braby, M.D. Donna & Ken Barrow amelia Kaymen, M.D. Dennis & Kagari Smith Carol Franc Buck Mr. & Mrs. edwin Berkowitz Gary Kelb Stephen Smoliar & linda Dembo David Cangelosi-artist Mr. Turney Berry Mr. & Mrs. William W. Klaproth Kenneth & Joanne Snow Ms. Susan K. hoerger Dr. Barbara lynn Bessey Robert & linda Klett Denise littlefield Sobel leslie & George hume Betty & Fred Bialek Mr. Thomas Koch Mr. Donald Sobelman & International Curtain Call Donald Blais & Michael McGinley laurie Kottmeyer & Bianca Duarte Ms. leishia Woolwine Franklin & Catherine Johnson Susan S. Blake & S. Joel Kaufmann norman T. larson Dr. Steven Sorenson Mr. lawrence a. Kern Jared & Claire Bobrow Mr. & Mrs. John larue Mr. & Mrs. eugene Stark Jack Klingelhofer Bill & alison Boeckmann Dr. & Mrs. laurence lasky Dr. Jeffrey l. Stern Dr. & Mrs. h. h. loomis, Jr. lucia Bogatay & Thomas D. Wickens* John e. lee Patricia Stich Mr. Brian Muirhead Mr.* & Mrs. John P. Breyer Cathy lindahl Ms. Francoise Stone Carol Potter Peckham Karen Broido, lisa P. lindelef Ms. Maryanne Tagney Ms. Vina Spiehler in memory of Mr. Irv Broido Sylvia R. lindsey Mr. Robert Trankle Don h. Watson, lynda l. Brothers Bernice & John* lindstrom Tl Trust in memory of Worrarat Watson Rike & Klaus Burmeister Barry & Marie lipman Ms. Carol J. Tomlinson Judith B. & Joseph Workman Charles R. Bush & Calvin lau George & Patricia locke Ms. Takeko Toyama Josephine Chen Drs. May loo & William Thurston Mr. & Mrs. James S. Tunnell ValKyRIe CIRCle Julia Frohlich Cherry Mr. & Mrs. Paul lorton Mary & Terry Vogt Johanna & Tom Baruch Frederick S. Chung & Kimberly Chun Susan & Philip Marineau Dr. Bradford W. Wade & Darla & Richard Bastoni Rev. David l. Clarke Paula Markovitz Dr. linda K. Riebel Park & Joan Chamberlain Mr. Jon Cosby & Ms. Kathi Gwynn ellen & Paul McKaskle Mr. & Mrs. William J. Watt Maureen Clarke Susan Coughlin Dennis J. McShane, M.D. & Daphne & Stuart Wells leonard & Marie Collins Drs. John & lois Crowe hon. Richard S. Gordon Mr. Phil Wennhold Michèle Beigel Corash & Dr. James Cuthbertson Dr. Douglas & Dr. Penelope Meakin Ms. Jane a. Wetzel laurence Corash edgar Foster Daniels Foundation Maya D. Meux, MD Mr. harvey yaverbaum Jeffrey n. Dauber & Marc a. levin Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Dauber Mr. & Mrs. James Milner Diane & howard Zack Shirley Davis & Paul Sack Carol & Dixon Doll Dr. Judy C. Miner Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Zilles Mary l. desJardins Ms. Sarah a. Douglas Mr. Robert B. Mison Professor Jeffrey Zink & Mrs. helo Zink Bob epstein & amy Roth Robert & Carol Dutton Thomas & lydia Moran Dr. Richard Zuniga & lisa erdberg & Dennis Gibbons Donald & Janice elliott Mr. David Moreton Mr. Sean M. Selegue edward Frank & Sarah Ratchye James Fennessey Don & Rene Morgan anonymous (11) For information on supporting The Ring, please contact Mcara Kirby-Fahey at (415) 551-6355 or [email protected].

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THE ENDOWMENT FUND

San Francisco Opera honors those whose endowment contributions since 1972 have helped ensure that our tradition of excellence continues in perpetuity. To learn more about endowment opportunities, contact Mandala Pham, Legacy Giving Officer, at (415) 565-6413 or [email protected].

nAMED FUnDS COMPOSErS’ CIrCLE Lurline B. Roth Charity ArTISTS’ & MUSICIAnS’ Roy Cadenasso Estate William Randolph Hearst $500,000 TO $999,999 Foundation CIrCLE Robert W. Cahill Estate Young Artists Fund Mai G. Coggin Estate Ruth Sanderson Estate $25,000 TO $49,999 Lillian Miller Carlson Francesca Deering Howe Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis Ilse Sauerwald Estate Dr. John Alden Fund Memorial Fund Principal Artist Fund Francis Goldsmith Trust James H. Schwabacher Estate Fritzi Benesch* Francis & Lainee Chen Caroline H. Hume Music Richard B. Gump Estate Eunice B. J. Senderman Marjorie B. Bonthrone Trust Edward J. Clark Director Fund Claramae Turner Hoffmann Estate George Bowles B. B. Cohen Estate Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Estate Prof. Kurt Servos Estate Chrissie B. Breedlove Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Coughlin Nancy W. Bridgwater Estate Fund Mr. & Mrs. David Packard Edward Meade Smith Estate Ruth Hiene Dahl Estate Pitch & Cathie Johnson Jefferson Peyser Estate Broadway-Hale Stores Nellie D. Stephens Estate Charles & Dorothy Davis Student Ticket Fund K. Hart Smith Estate Alice Vincilione Mrs. Harry F. Camp Helen Dennis Estate The Diana Dollar Knowles Harry J. Wagner Estate Carole Wagner Estate Meyer M. Camp Ms. Annette Campbell-White & Di Giorgio Foundation Fund for Emerging Artists Barbara M. Ward & The Dr. Ruediger DWD Foundation Edmund W. & LIBrETTISTS’ CIrCLE Honorable Roy L. Wonder* Naumann-Etienne Richard J. Elkus Jeannik Méquet Littlefield $250,000 TO $499,999 Whitney Warren Estate Fund Philip Carlson Estate Richard Everett* Anita Uhl Brothers Estate Karyl Lynn Kopelman Zietz Dr. & Mrs. Herbert H. Dedo Bernard Osher Endowment Richard Farley Estate Ms. Ginger Dostrow* Edward P. Eassa Trust Fund Phyllis Edwards Estate Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Field DIvAS’ CIrCLE Mr. & Mrs. Jordan Joseph Popkin Dr. Maurice Eliaser, Jr. Estate Tully M. Friedman Opera Outreach Fund TO William C. Edwards in memory of $50,000 $99,999 Robert Gallo Madeleine H. Russell Sidney M. Ehrman Estate Stella & Maurice Eliaser Marguerite Arends Estate David B. Felch Estate Night at the Opera Fund Lewis W. Hale Estate Roberta Empey Estate Gertrude Baker Trust Barbara Marie Fontaine Mrs. Griffith Henshaw Thomas Tilton Production Dr. Samuel C. Hughes Estate Bank of America Foundation Estate Mr. & Mrs. Reuben W. Hills Fund James Irvine Foundation Katherine R. Blyth Estate Hilda Gard Trust Phyllis C. Wattis Opera Fund David R. Hyman Estate in honor of Myron Du Bain Frank A. Campini Foundation Frank Gerbode Phyllis C. Wattis Opera Henry J. Kaiser Family R. Earl Robinson Fund Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Eleanor Guilford Fund for New Productions Ruth C. Samson Estate Foundation Inc. Vija Hovgard Patricia Yakutis Endowment Claudia Stoop Estate William S. & Vivienne Howe William R. & Fund Earl H. Teass Trust Del Monte Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Donnell Estate Nancy Ely Kales Dr. & Mrs. John A. Zderic Mrs. Frederick Kohlenberg Fireman’s Fund American Ruth Kaufman Estate LEADErSHIP CIrCLE Betty Ford Lingo— Jesse Koshland COnDUCTOrS’ CIrCLE Foundation The Cerimon Fund $1,000,000 anD aBOVe Fleishhacker Foundation Grover Magnin Estate $100,000 TO $249,999 Russell J. Matthias Estate Andrew J. Bellotti* Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Fromm Matson Navigation Company Mr.* & Mrs. John M. Bryan Diana L. McClure Estate Mr. & Mrs. I. P. Patrick Gallagher Fund Naomi Maryann McHugh Anne E. Matthew William* K. Bowes, Jr. Chevron USA Mr. & Mrs. Fred Moller Mrs. Sheldon Cooper Estate William G. Gilmore Foundation Estate Columbia Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Harris Morris Trust Diane L. Morris Franklin C. Deters Estate in memory of Marco P. Hellerman Estate Louisette C. Murdoch Estate Kathleen Dale Oscarson Ray* & Dagmar DolbyA Robert Watt Miller Agda Eleonora Olson Estate Thelma C. Owen Estate John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Valerie & Paul Crane Dorfman Mrs. Griffith Henshaw Estate Ms. Leonie Darwin* Hewlett-Packard Foundation Pacific Lighting Corporation Marion Stuart Parker Estate Mr. & Mrs. James Heagy Pacific Telesis The William Randolph Hearst Mr. & Mrs. William H. Draper, III Marian Prentice Huntington Kathleen R. Poer Estate Robert F. Ewing Christopher Page 1985 Trust Foundation Estate Deborah Pentz Trust Ruth Prager Estate The William & Flora Hewlett Derek M. Fairman Estate Joan J. Jacobs Siegfried B. Puknat Estate Charles D. Field Estate Mr. & Mrs. Louis A. Petri Foundation Effiellen Jeffries Estate Mrs. John P. Renshaw R. Gwin Follis Foundation Agnes D. Porter Estate Francesca Deering Howe Estate G. William Jewell Estate William W. Godward Retail Dry Goods Association Marcia Robinson Estate The Hume Family Sidney & Vivian Konigsberg of San Francisco Mr. & Mrs. William Hamm III Alfred Sbarboro Estate Dora Donner Ide Estate R.C. Samson Estate Hewlett-Packard Company Edith Koshland Estate Dr. Robert R. Schmidt Estate Barbara K. Jackson Casey L. Scott Holmes Foundation M.E. Lorenz Estate Carolyn Shaw Dr. A. Jess Shenson Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Hugh Keenan Estate McBean Family Foundation A Emmett G. Solomon Mary Shoch Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Donald Khulke Trust Florence N. Mel Estate Lynda Spence Jack D. Soldate Estate Franklin & Catherine Johnson Evelyn Lorenz Estate The Hon. & Wells Fargo Bank Muriel McKevitt Sonné The Diana Dollar Knowles Trust Mary Lorenz Mrs. William Orrick, Jr. Anonymous (1) Mrs. F. J. Thomas Tilton Jeannik Méquet Littlefield* Emily Prettyman Lowell Estate Ailsa C. Pender Estate Lorry I. Lokey Russell J. Mays 1994 Trust Janet L. Pynch Estate Sarah Tilton & Lawrence Low Dr. Jesse F. Minnis, Jr. Estate ArTISTS’ & MUSICIAnS’ Robert McAlpin Moore James D. Robertson Henry F. Trione National Endowment CIrCLE Alicia H. McEvoy Estate Earl Robinson Estate Tallant Tubbs Estate for the Arts $10,000 TO $24,999 Ralph R. Michaelis Estate Mrs. William P. Roth Constance Tydeman Bernard Osher Foundation Lucile C. Monteagle Estate Nerzig Apkarian Estate Mr. & Mrs. Willard Vernon Jordan Joseph Popkin Violetta Sharpe Estate Barbara V. Morse Estate Roy Backus Estate Mr. & Mrs. Brooks Walker, Jr. Opera Outreach Fund Milton J. Mosk & Syntex Corporation Mr. J. P. Barger Marie Welch West Estate In memory of Frank D. Stout Thomas Foutch Donald & Rachel Valentine Muriel C. Barnett Estate Lorna Talbot Estate Mr. & Mrs. George Otto Carole Wagner Estate John L. Blake Mr. & Mrs. Harry Wetzel Mrs. Paul L. Wattis Estate Dr. & Mrs. Richard Rigg Crown Zellerbach Foundation Miss Louise Boyd Estate Mr. & Mrs. Palmer Wheaton Patricia Yakutis Estate Keith W. & Marjorie J. Riley Harold & Doris Zellerbach Florence W. Bruce James Wilson Estate Anonymous (1) Gerald B. Rosenstein* Harold L. Zellerbach Estate Neil Buckley Estate Anonymous (1)

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TRIBUTES

San Francisco Opera is grateful to the following donors for their honorary and memorial gifts received in the past twelve months. In HOnOr OF Ms. Carol Benz Henry I. Prien Mr. Andrew Maguire & Ms. Simone Quarré Andrea Silvestrelli Norman & Janet Pease Ms. Betty A. Prien Mr. Douglas Cyr Anonymous Anonymous Alice Ames Morison & David Cangelosi Mrs. William r. Kimball Dr. Oakley Hewitt Ms. Pamela rosenberg Lola Simi David Bertoni Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mesker Anonymous Dandelion Famiglia Tom & Juliette Giannini

Ms. Beth Clayton Karen J. Kubin Ms. Evelyn S. Martinez Mr. Charles H. Sherman Ms. Aileen Tat Horizons Foundation R. Bruce Mosbacher Family Mr. Paul Sporer Gary Kelb John R. Schwabacher Family Skip Paul Lisa Erdberg & Skip Paul Kate & Matthew Shilvock The Magnificent San Francisco Dennis Gibbons Gorretti Lo Lui Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Britton Opera Chorus & rufus Olivier Judith & Phillip Erdberg Barbara A. Wolfe Mr. Robert Ripps Anonymous Andrew Morgan & Ms. Theresa A. Stuart Ms. Hannah Greer Danny richard Prof. Georg Treichel Ms. Deborah Greer Anonymous Jeanie Nieri Treichel

In MEMOry OF Ms. Carolee A. Anderson Carol J. Cracchiolo Midred Hesterman Mrs. Harriet M. Quarré Mr. Mike robinson Wagner Society Mr. Vincent Cracchiolo Megan & Marcus Thygeson Norby Anderson Clyde & Ann Coombs of Northern California Carol Franc Buck Mr. Wesley J. Fastiff William E. Jones Mr. & Mrs. David Chamberlain Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Eleanor Sax Ms. Joyce E Barnett Mrs. Bonnie Fastiff Barbara E. Jones Donald E. & Diane P. Cooley San Francisco Foundation The coffee Service Volunteers Carol Gray Costigan Mr. David Gee John W. Lindstrom Reid & Peggy Dennis Worrarat Watson Henri Blok Mrs. Andrew Imbrie Bernice Lindstrom Jane & David Hartley Don H. Watson Ms. Victoria J. Mattson & Leslie & George Hume Ms. Diana J. Gordon rolf A. Gille Ed Koester Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Ms. Sylvia S. Wright Mrs. Rolf Gille Betty Maddux Joanne Johnson Harry L. Jacobs & Mr. Irv Broido Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp, Jr. Katherine E. Akos Karen Broido Jayne Heagy James Lacy Dr. & Mrs. W. C. Sweeting, Jr. James A. Heagy Elinor Lacy Carol Jackson Upshaw Ms. Madhavi young Linda Cimmet Barbara A. Wolfe Mrs. Leela Stake Jerry Cimmet J. Scott Hendrickson, Don norris Supernumerary Sally Ross & Don Norris John B. & zelda M. Quigley, Art & Irma zigas robert Commanday The Hendrickson Family and Joan Quigley Barry Zigas Norby Anderson Mr. Oliver Pollard Ruth Quigley Susan Anderson-Norby Lotte & Stephen zuber Anonymous

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San Francisco Opera is pleased to recognize the generosity of foundations, government agencies, and corporate donors for their support received from august 1, 2016 through July 31, 2017. FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT GRANTS

CHAIrMAn’S CIrCLE PLATInUM CIrCLE SILvEr CIrCLE FOUnDEr $500,000 anD aBOVe $50,000 TO $99,9999 $10,000 TO $24,999 $1,000 TO $4,999 Grants for the Arts Carol Franc Buck Foundation The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation Joyce and William Brantman Koret Foundation Louise M. Davies Foundation California Arts Council Foundation The William & Flora Hewlett The Charles D. & Frances K. Field Frank A. Campini Foundation Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Foundation Fund The John & Marcia Goldman The Pierre and Tana Matisse Anonymous The Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation Foundation Foundation The Diana Dollar Knowles Mimi & Peter Haas Fund Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts PrESIDEnT’S CIrCLE Foundation Heising-Simons Foundation Sing for America Foundation $250,000 TO $499,999 National Endowment for the Arts Zellerbach Family Foundation Chinese Heritage Foundation Wallis Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation BEnEFACTOr GOLD CIrCLE $5,000 TO 9,999 DIAMOnD CIrCLE $25,000 TO $49,9999 Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation $100,000 TO $249,999 Walter & Elise Haas Fund The Walter S. Johnson Foundation Frances K. & Charles D. Field Kia Ora Foundation The Kingsley Foundation Foundation Kimball Foundation The William Randolph Hearst OPERA America’s Getty Audience Foundation Building Program OPERA America: Innovation Grants Anonymous

CORPORATE COUNCIL

SEASOn SPOnSOr

LEADErSHIP CIrCLE GOLD CIrCLE Pacific Gas and Electric Company InvESTOr $100,000 anD aBOVe $25,000 TO $49,9999 San Francisco Opera Guild/ $3,000 TO $4,999 Chevron Bank of America East Bay Chapter Karlitz & Company Inc. San Francisco Opera Guild Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Schoenberg Family Law Group, P.C. R&G Executive Lounge, Inc. United Airlines Recology Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG, Wells Fargo Tiffany & Co. Zurich, Switzerland MEMBEr Union Bank Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati $1,000 TO $2,999 PLATInUM CIrCLE Foundation AMRCI $50,000 TO $99,9999 SILvEr CIrCLE Asian Art Museum Kaiser Permanente $10,000 TO $24,999 BEnEFACTOr DM Stone Recruitment Solutions Meyer Sound Gap Foundation $5,000 TO $7,499 Wagner Society of U.S. Bank Jurika, Mills & Keifer— Asset Management Company Northern California Private Wealth Management Today’s Hotel Corporation

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San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to all donors of matching and in-kind gifts received between august 1, 2016 and July 31, 2017. MATCHING GIFTS

Adobe First Tech Federal Credit Union David & Lucile Packard Foundation AIG Franklin Templeton Investments PayPal American Online Giving Foundation, Inc Gap Inc. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation American Endowment Foundation GE S.H. Cowell Foundation Amgen The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Salesforce Applied Materials IBM Schwab Charitable Fund Bank of America Johnson & Johnson Shell Oil Company Foundation Bank of the West Koret Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation The Boeing Company Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory T. Rowe Price Cenovus Energy Inc. Levi Strauss & Co. Charles Schwab & Company Medtronic Teradata Chevron Morgan Stanley Thomson Reuters Dolby Morrison & Foerster Foundation Troon Pacific Electronic Arts OutrEAch NORCAL Mutual Union Bank ExxonMobile NVIDIA United Way of the Bay Area Fidelity Investments Pacific Gas & Electric Company U.S. Bank

IN-KIND GIFTS

LEADErSHIP CIrCLE SILvEr CIrCLE InvESTOr $100,000 & aBOVe $10,000 TO $24,999 $3,000 TO $4,999 HALL Wines Allen Matkins LLP Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran KDFC Radio Guitty Azarpay Mr. & Mrs. Warner Henry KPIX/KBCW bloomers Leonard Karstadt San Francisco Chronicle Patina Catering United Airlines Roselyne Chroman Swig MEMBEr $1,000 TO $2,999 PLATInUM CIrCLE BEnEFACTOr David Bertoni $50,000 TO $99,999 $5,000 TO $9,999 Ms. Annette Campell White & Dr. Ruediger 5YINA Beauté China Airlines Naumann-Etienne Asero Insurance Services, Inc. Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Deering Wine David & Ekaterina Schmitt Eric D. Felty Kristina Flanagan Anonymous Mary & Craig Henderson Brian James & S. Shariq Yosufzai Carol L. Meyer* Mr. Lawrence A. Kern GOLD CIrCLE PSAV Ms. Sylvia R. Lindsey $25,000 to $49,999 YOR Sequoia Organic Life Corporation Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards Lui Family Mission Minded *Pianos provided by Piedmont Piano Company Piedmont Piano Company ** Yamaha is the official piano of The Honorable & Mrs. George P. Schultz San Francisco Opera The St. Regis San Francisco UPTick Vineyards Webcor Builders

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BEL CANTO LEGACY SOCIETY

The following patrons have made a legacy commitment to San Francisco Opera Association and have joined the Bel Canto Legacy Society as of August 7, 2017. Their generosity helps support our long-range financial stability and artistic planning. Please consider joining this extraordinary group.

Marilyn Horne, Honorary Chairwoman

Elie Abi-Jaoude Phyllis B. Blair Tony & SueAnn Converse Jack & Marsha Firestone Norman Abramson & David Beery Susan S. Blake & S. Joel Kaufmann Mr. & Mrs. Ransom S. Cook Lucille V. Fjoslien Evelyn Acitelli Linda Blondis Mrs. Marion Moore Cope Ms. Kristina Flanagan Kenneth & Barbara Adams Claire & Jared Bobrow Ruth Alberta Copley* Carl Wilhelm Folk Dorrit Ahbel, M.D. Eileen Bobrow* Dewayne Cornelious Martha J. Foltz Ms. Karin Albright Diane Hoar Bond William B. Cornfield Mary & Tom Foote Sophie & Ted Aldrich Drs. Seymour & Sylvia Boorstein Susan Costello Barbara Jean Fopp Anthony J. Alfidi Christine M. Boulanger, MD Jennifer Cowan David F. Freedman Lt. Col. James M. Alfonte Christopher & Renee Bowen Dr. & Mrs. William R. Crain Kathi Freeman* Paul B. Althouse Malcolm H. Bowles Valerie & Paul Crane Dorfman Barbara & William* Friede Carolee Anderson* Jamie Nicol Bowles Doug & Vivian Crisman Joseph & Antonia Friedman David & Judith Preves Anderson Randall Bowman Camille Crittenden John H. Frykman & Cheryl C. Arnold* Robert C. Anderson Dr. Lois Brainard* George & Susan Crow Karen L. Gabrielson Dr. Ross Armstrong Barbara & Robert Brandriff John & Lois Crowe Louis B. Gagliardi Mrs. Carol Arnold* Cathryn J. Brash John Cullison & Diana Kissil Parley Gagne Elizabeth Lawler Ashley John* & Eva Breyer Gerald F. Currier & Cleveland M. Smith Ms. Ching-Ching Ganley Mrs. Jeanine Augst Dr. & Mrs. Melvin C. Britton Mr. Douglas Cyr Gregory S. Garbin, M.D. & Frances Y. Austin* Karen & Irv* Broido Friedericka A. Dalbey* Kenneth J. Denhard Mrs. F. G. Austin Scotty Brookie David Dall Sheilah Purcell Garcia Elizabeth Avakian Lynda L. Brothers Anne Dauer Jack & Carroll Gardner Margot Shinnamon Bach Agnes Chen Brown Charles & Dorothy Davis Sandra Gardner* Bobbi & Marty Bach Mr.* & Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Dick Davis Dewey Garrett M. L. Baird, James Logan Buhler* Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Davis Keith & Priscilla Geeslin in memory of Travis & Marion Baird Donald Buhman & C. Wray Humphrey James De Hart* Nancy Gentry Geller Martha Baker Ralph & Clairelee Leiser Bulkley Cornelia Y. de Schepper Kurt Tristan Geselbracht & David & Christine Balabanian James R. Burch J. C. De Tata, M.D. Francisco Guevara Ms. Rachael Balyeat* John D. Burke Reid & Peggy Dennis Mr. & Mrs. Gordon P. Getty Deborah Banks & Randy Porter Karen L. Burtness Prak & Ulric & Glenda Dennis Arlene & Doug Giancoli Cantor Roslyn Barak Jan Willem L. Prak Ms. Jackie Deskin Dennis Gibbons & Lisa Erdberg Josephine Barbano Roger Busse & Oscar Celli Franklin C. Deters* Ione Gille Nancie Barker Richard Buth & James Schull Eric Dew John S. Gilmor Elizabeth Barlow & Stephen McClellan Mrs. James P. Butler Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Jane Gitschier Joyce Barnett* Robert* & Joan Cahen Carol & Dixon Doll Rudolf Glauser, PhD* Marie L. Bartee Jack Calhoun Jeanne Dorward David Gockley & Linda Kemper Beata E. Bartholomay Frances Campra Dr. Nancy Doyle & William W. Godward Betty Basham James Carlson Dr. George L. Smith, Jr.* Doris W. Grau Michael Bassi & Christy Styer Betty J. Carmack Stephen Ringland Drewes Don & MaryAnn Graulich Clare Louise Bates* June B. Carr Thelma Diana Dry* Wanda Lee Graves & Stephen Duscha Ruth Laine Bauer* Ronald Casassa* Pat Dubrow Anne Patricia Gray Steve & Ina Bauman Emanuela N. Catena Arnold & Trudy Duncan Geoffrey & Marcia Green Robert H. Beadle Marilyn A. Cereghino* John* & Dimitra Efstathiou Ms. Julie Green Merle Becker Mark R. Chaitkin Alan F. Egan, J.P. Roger W. Green Milada Belaya Hella H. Cheitlin Ludmila & Peter Eggleton Mrs. Robert M. Greenhood Robert Henry Bellamy Julia Frohlich Cherry Arnold Ehlers Trust Flora Greenhoot* Pascal J. F. Belloncle David Chierchetti* Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich* Zane O. Gresham & Carole J. Robinson Trish Benedict Mrs. Johanna Childhouse Joseph Ehrman III Mr.* & Mrs.* Edward M. Griffith Valli Benesch & Bob Tandler Jack Christensen Stephen Eimer & Ellen Braner Grinnell Raymond J. Berard Christine Clark* Kevin Ann Cartwright Claude & Nina Gruen Carole B. Berg* Gillian Clark Charo Switalski & Paul Eisenman Ursula Grunfeld V. Lorel Bergeron Trust Harry Gilbert Clarke* Christine M. Englund Eleanor Guilford Dawne Bernhardt Maureen Clarke Barbara & Ed Eschbach Patricia C. Gumbel Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Carlyn Clause & Alexander L. Brainerd Patricia M. Evans John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Dr. Barbara L. Bessey & Jean Cleverly & Frank Warner Rod* & Ingrid Evans Yvette* & John G. Gurley Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin* Dr. Carolyn J. Cline Richard B. Everett* William A. Hage & Shannyn Bessoni Lloyd & Janet Cluff Robert F. Ewing Elizabeth Wong Hage* Heide Betz Roberta Colin Mr. & Mrs.* Michael Fahey Timothy F.* & E. Ann* Haggerty Jo Ann Biasotti & David T. Crowder Marie Collins Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Fenwick Harry C. Haines Betty Bispo James T. Concannon* E. Jean Ferdinandsen* Kristina K. Hall

* deceased

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Ms. Laila Halsteen Barbara K. Jackson Laura M. Kozel Donald R. Lipp Edith L. Hammerslough* Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger Christine Stevens Kradjian Jeannik Méquet Littlefield* Hunter Pittenger Harris Elizabeth Ann Jacobs* Ms. Barbara Kral Allan M. Lluch Michael A. Harrison & Yorke & Jacqueline Jacobson Nancy Ann Kraus Vera M. Long* Susan Graham Harrison John* & Nancy Jalonen Charles C. Kredensor & Maurice E. Loomis Jane & David Hartley James Logan Buhler* Frederic S. Saunders Shirley & Hersch Loomis Fred Hartwick Robin & Ginny Jaquith Herbert & Barbara Kreissler Nathaniel Lopez & Jerry Orecchia* Mrs. Janine A. Hawkins Ms. Christine Jarc Karen J. Kubin George F. Lucas & Thomas Rothgiesser Mr. & Mrs.* James A. Heagy Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Michael L. Kurt Rita & Nicola Luisotti Lisa A. Heilman-Cozzalio Bruce M. Jewett Joan Kwansa Mr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Mary & Craig Henderson Mrs. Mary Jopé Regina Lackner Betty Maddux, Donald A. Hermann Mac & Mary Jordan Judith Lamberti M.D. in memory of Edward Koester Joan Hett Sally Jordan Barbara J. Lane Mr. Andrew Maguire John S. Higgins, Jr. Joseph E. Padula* Judy & Donald Langley Cynthia & John Major Peggy Hill Dr. Devorah Joseph, William P. Langley Jackie & Art Mancini Ian Hinchliffe in memory of Irving Joseph Frank Lanier* Robert G. Manette Frederick J. Hirth* Joan Juster Randall E. Laroche & Peter Mansfield Robert W. Hofer Lilli Kalis M.D.* David G. Laudon Joseph Marino, Jr. Claramae Turner Hoffmann* William* & Margaret Kaplan Beverly & Richard Lavine Deborah Marion, Tax CPA & Milan Milton Holdorf* Elizabeth Karnazes Dr. & Mrs. John Lavorgna Joe Losch Kenneth L. Holford Dick & Sherry Karrenbrock Olive Lawton Mrs. Thelma Marken Marilyn Horne Jeannie Kaufman Samuel Leask David Marsten Wilma S. Horwitz Suzan Kaufmann Paul E. LeMal M.D. Letha Ann Martin* Sally V. Houston Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner & Mary Lemmon Evelyn S. Martinez Margaret E. Hoyt Dr. David D. Stein Marcia Lowell Leonhardt Marilyn Mathers Linda Humber Lawrence A. Kern John E. Leveen* Anne E. Matthew Leslie & George Hume Ms. Eiko Kikawada Cliff Leventhal, James S. Mattingly & Paul Quintilian Marian Huntoon Nelda Kilguss in memory of Arlene Leventhal Mrs. Alice T. May* Ms. Margaret C. Hutchins Mrs. Richard Kinninger Frank & Ildiko Lewis James McCarthy Carolyn Hutton* Sally Lane Kirby Mr. George B. Lewis Anne McClure* Bruce Hyman Harleigh Thayer Knott Elizabeth Lim Florence & William McConnell Libby Ingalls Diana Dollar Knowles* Lawrence & Silvia Lin Tom McEachern* Marsha Irwin Theodore A. Kolb* Lisa P. Lindelef Donald L. McGee James A. Ito Edson K. Kong, Esq. Bernice Gucker Lindstrom John G. McGehee * deceased

For over 30 years, Randy Laroche and David Laudon have shown their commitment to San Francisco Opera through their subscription and annual support. Inspiring their gifts is their profound love for music and the art form. “Opera is where all the arts meet—where song, instruments, dance, and design come together in a beautiful melding of the arts,” Randy reflected. “Opera is the entire package,” says David. “The soaring music, the drama, the acting, and the staging comes together to make magic.” When they consider how long they’ve been patrons of the Opera, Randy and David decided that joining the Bel Canto Legacy Society was the next important step. “As a third generation San Franciscan, I treasure our cultural institutions and wish to see S.F. Opera continue to grow,” Randy says. David adds, “I’m proud to know that our legacy gift will help keep the Opera vibrant for future generations. I can think of no better investment in the future.” We celebrate the extraordinary support of our subscribers and Bel N

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E To learn more about joining the Bel Canto Legacy Society, contact T S I R Mandala Pham at (415) 565-6413 or [email protected]. K

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Michael McGinley Miss Virginia Patterson* Robert Shultz Soo & Raj Venkatesan Anne & Malcolm McHenry Carol Potter Peckham Natalie O. Shuttleworth Mr. & Mrs. Willard E. Vernon Ellen & Paul McKaskle Anette Penner Paul J. & Sheri Siegel Shirley Wilson Victor Giselle McKellar David & Gail Perin Ms. Joan M. Silva Virginia E. Vida Elaine McKinley & Kit Durgin Neil & Elsa Pering Barbara Silverberg Richard Viehweg* Dr. Frank E. McLaughlin Jess G. Perry Donna Silverberg John E. Vinton & Richard Miller Ruth McManus Trust Cinda & Spence Perry Cynthia L. Slezak Albert J. Vizinho Ms. Marilyn McMillan Dame Donna Petersen Claire Small* Eunice L. Vogel Burt & Deedee McMurtry Mandala Pham & Michael Kwende Derek* & Stephanie Smith Garry Waba Ronald & Judith McWilliams John* & Maria Pitcairn George L. Smith, Jr.* Drs. Bradford Wade & Linda Riebel Bill Medigovich Herbert C. Ploch* Dr. Lorraine E. Smith Cmdr. & Mrs. Homer Wallin Kerrin Knudtsen Meis Mrs. Jan Popper Pamela D. Smith Barbara M. Ward Dixie Lee Meiselbach* Roger & Deborah* Potash Stephen Smoliar & Linda Dembo Hon. James L. Warren (Ret.) Edward Merrick Patric & Mary Powell Kenneth & Joanne Snow Ramona Wascher* Lucinda Merrill Jeanette M. Prato Steven Souza & Therese Souza Ms. Lola Watson Robert Messick Janet & Michael Quartaroli Dr. Cynthia Soyster* Rosalie V. Weaver Carol L. Meyer* Ruth Quigley Mrs. Charles Spalding Mr. & Mrs. William C. Webster Mr. & Mrs. Donald Michener Robert E. Rabourn Robert L. Speer & John Wong Mitzie Naff Weiner Christine Miller & Gary Glaser Mrs. Jennie Rafton* Lynda Spence Maurice & Gale Weir Diane Compagno Miller Cynthia & Terry Ramseyer Arthur E. Stamps* Ronald & Emely Weissman George M. Miller Thomas R. Ranweiler Gail Andersen Stark Daphne & Stuart Wells George P. Miller* & William D. Rasdal* The Honorable & Mrs.* Wm. D. Stein Janet Gray Welter Walter G. Zimmerman, Jr. Alan & Nancy Raznick Eric Stevens George White J. Sanford Miller Glenn H. Reid Lawrence L. Stitt* Mr. Thomas D. Wickens* Vivienne E. Miller Marie R. Rhein James R. Stockton Josephine P. Wiik, R.N. Dr. Judy C. Miner Keith W. & Marjorie Riley Howard & Ruth Strassner Michelle Wilcox & Rob Kuhling Bill & Susan Mirbach Richard* & Jean Ringe Merna Strassner Elizabeth Wild* D. G. Mitchell Kathryn E. Ringgold Blossom F. Strong Miles* & Virginia Willard Sandra Mock Dr. & Mrs. C. Stewart Ritchie Terri Stuart S. Grace Williams* C. Kenneth More L. Ronn Robbins Joseph Padula* Ann L. Williamson Cathy & Howard Moreland Marcia Robinson* Dr. Jerome D.* & Mary K. Swalen Conni Wilson Andrew Morgan & Danny Richard Rusty Rolland* Julie Swartz* Sheila M. Wishek Andrew Morris Dr. Andrew Rombakis Tom Taffel & Bill Repp Gerhard P. Woelke Thelma C. Morris Fran Rominger Amy Tan & Louis De Mattei Marcia E. Wolfe William O. & Susan W. Morris Arthur S. & Keiko Kiyuna Roosa Jack E. Teeters Ms. Virginia Wong Alan Morrison* Margaret Ropchan Dr. Sam Thal Bonnie Woodworth* Ms. Carol J. Tomlinson Sylvia Stein Wright Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund Barbara L. Traisman Stanley M. Yantis, M.D. Kathleen Much Barbara J. Ross Ricardo D. Trimillos Joan F. Yates Nancy S. Mueller Elizabeth Boardman Ross Maxine Trost Ms. Nancy Yee Tom & Anne Muller James Ross Michael E. Tully Dr. & Mrs. Robert Yoerg Ms. Heidi Munzinger Maxine Rosston* Mr. & Mrs. James S. Tunnell S. Shariq Yosufzai & Brian E. James Majbritt Murdock Paul L. Rowe & R. Michael Sereno Suzanne E. Turley & William T. Zaumen Lorenzo Murguia, M.D. Karl Ruppenthal* & Jo Maxon William R. Jackson* Joan Zawaski & Rona Siegel Mrs. John* H. Musey Louise A. Russell Mr.* & Mrs. Paul A. Tuttle Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Zderic Peter J. Musto Richard Russell Florence E. Twyman* Mr.* & Mrs. Stephen A. Zellerbach Vija Hovgard Nadai Bob & Terri Ryan Yvonne Upsher Karyl Lynn Kopelman Zietz Marilyn & David Nasatir Philip Mark Ryan Martin Eric Vahur Stephen & Connie Zilles Ms. Julia S. Nash* Carol* & Jordan Sachs Gloria Valair Anne Zucchi Kenneth J. Ness Mrs. John M. Sanderson* Mark Vallarino Diane & Michael ZumBrunnen Roselee Nichols Mr. Jeffrey Sant Paul E. van Dyk Anonymous (121) Marie J. Niemann* Mr. Felipe R. Santiago & Mary L. Nilan Mr. Barry T. Joseph Paul Nordine Michael & Gini Savage Legacy Gifts Received Dante Noto Dorothy R. Saxe Estate Gifts Frederick J. Hirth Norman* & Hillevi Null Daryl A. Schilling Rachael Balyeat Trust Milan Milton Holdorf Ms. Jan Ogren & Mr. Dean Watson Betsey Schneider Joyce Barnett Joseph E. Padula Mr. David Oldroyd Debra Schoenberg V. Lorel Bergeron Trust Josephine Barbano Brian Olson Charles Schug* Marion Zimmer Bradley Lilli Kalis M.D. Commodore & Mrs. K.R. Orcutt Thea Lou Seese Dr. Helen Lois Brainard Ruth McManus Mr. & Mrs. Julian E. Orr Harold E. Segelstad Jill Bryans Brenda Osborne Marilyn G. Seiberling Carol L. Meyer James Logan Buhler Ms. Julia S. Nash Sheldeen Germaine Osborne Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp, Jr. Cabaniss Memorial Fund Oscar E. Olson Kathleen Dale Oscarson Cynthia B. Selfridge June B. Carr Miss Virginia Patterson Lise Deschamps Ostwald Christine Selle Ronald Casassa Trust Father David F. Pace Lorenzo Severino Christine Clark Herbert C. Ploch Thomas Pajak James & Connie Shapiro Friedericka A. Dalbey Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund Robert E.* & Jeraldine M. Palazzi Carolyn Shaw Arnold Ehlers Trust Maxine Rosston Barbara H. Paley Mrs. Carter Parrish Sherlin E. Jean Ferdinandsen George L. Smith, Jr. Mrs. Verna Parino* Jim & Mai Shields Sandra Gardner Florence E. Twyman Ms. Iris Parris Ruth A. Short Rudolf Glauser, PhD Richard Viehweg Mr. & Mrs.* Robert Parvin Mr. John Shott Richard B. Gump Bonnie Woodworth

* deceased

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OPERA BALL 2017

San Francisco Opera association & San Francisco Opera Guild wish to thank the patrons and donors of Opera Ball 2017 (support received by august 8, 2017) whose generosity helps make Opening night a success.

OPEnInG WEEKEnD Alan Morrell & Mike Genoshe Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Maria Hilakos Hanke & GrAnD SPOnSOr Mary & Bill Poland Louise & Paul Renne Michael Watts Diane B. Wilsey Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Poole Karen Richardson & Richard B. Hechler Roselyne Chroman Swig Jon Rubinstein Hermès GrEAT BEnEFACTOr CIrCLE Kai Peng Tan & Eric W. Ormsby Pamela & Richard Rigg Roberta & Rusty Holden John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Saks Fifth Avenue Ron Holloway & Doug Hammerich Bernard & Barbro Osher BEnEFACTOr Komal Shah & Gaurav Garg Jessica Jacob & Zachary Townsend Denise Littlefield Sobel Francesca & Jeff Amann Roberta Sherman Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger Diane B. Wilsey Romana D’Angelo Bracco Merrill Randol Sherwin John Kerns Ms. Barbara Brown Mary Beth & David Shimmon Drs. Danielle & Rondall Lane GrAnD BEnEFACTOr CIrCLE Carol Franc Buck Mai Shiver Diana Kissil & John Cullison Ann & Gordon Getty Lorna Meyer Calas & Dennis Calas Raj Singh & Renata Anderson Norman T. Larson Franklin & Catherine Johnson Karen Caldwell Zornitza Stefanova & Leilani Latimer & Fabio Ficano Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris Payam Mirrashidi Joan & John Lavorgna PLATInUM CIrCLE Ms. Annette Campbell-White & Soo & Raj Venkatesan Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Ludgus Elizabeth Pang Fullerton Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Molly & David Wadhwani Maggie & Carter Mack Family Foundation David & Karin Chamberlain Celeste & Darryl Woo Mrs. Rhonda Mahendroo Harrah’s & Harveys Lake Tahoe Carolyn Chandler Linda Elliott Zider Elizabeth & Patrick Malkassian Steve & Maria Kahng Yi-Ling Chen & Victor Hwang Stephan & June Manley Wells Fargo Olivia Hsu Decker PATrOn Mr. & Mrs. William Marks Pamala & Ted Deikel Judith & David Anderson Dr. Pamela Marron GOLD CIrCLE Carol & Dixon Doll Navid Armstrong Suzanne Martinez Accenture Lynne Edminster & Brian Atwood Mr. & Mrs. James Milner Thomas Barrett & Belinda A. Berry Bank of America Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. & Natasha & Tim Monahan Nina & Charles E. Belle Christopher & Camille Bently Dr. Elisabeth S. Paté-Cornell Don & Rene Morgan Jean-Jacques Bienaime Burberry Holly & Jim Farrell Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch Elizabeth & David Birka-White Sylvia & John Hughes Sandra Farris Klaus Murer Celeste & Michael Bobroff George & Leslie Hume Ann & Daniel Girard Christina Noren J. Dennis Bonney Helen & John Meyer Jane & David Hartley Susan O’Brien Melissa & Tracy Boxer Zill Anne Popkin Kathy Huber & Larry Binkley David Oldroyd Alisa Burgess-Blajwas & Resolution Economics LLC Dorothy & C. Bradford Jeffries Leslie & Scott Olrich Harold Blajwas Stephen Revetria Cynthia Schreuder Kalev Nazan & Charles Orr Michael & Marilyn Cabak San Francisco Giants Ms. Jill D. Kent James & Sheryl Reuben Maryjo Tisor & Todd Kaplan Lawrence A. Kern Mark Calvano Veronica Rivas-Tramontozzi Union Bank Gretchen B. Kimball Debra & Richard Carpeneti Afie Royo S. Shariq Yosufzai & Karen J. Kubin Vera Carpeneti Chandra & Michael Rudd Brian E. James Carson & Suzanne Levit Hilary & Richard Clark Deborah & Paul Sagues Cynthia & Richard Livermore Julie Coplon Ave Seltsam GrEAT BEnEFACTOr The Malin Family Mark & Ena Cratsenburg Carol Simmons Keith & Priscilla Geeslin Dr. Alan Malouf Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Cronan Katherine & Dan Simon John & Marcia Goldman Andrew J. Martin-Weber Shahla Davoudi Frederic H. Smith Courtney & Jim Labe Anne Marie & Stephen Massocca Bill Demas France Szeto Marissa Mayer & Zachary Bogue Mr. Jorge Maumer Jesus O. Diaz Barbara Traisman Jane S. Mudge Ken McNeely & Inder Dhillon Donna DiGiuseppe & Stephanie Tuttle & Ramsey Walker Maryam & Oran Muduroglu Mrs. James K. McWilliams Rick Matcovich Yuka Uehara Jennifer & Steven Walske Teresa & Mark Medearis DIOR Natalia Urrutia-Hernandez & Dr. Maya D. Meux Stacey & Ted Dobos Israel Hernandez GrAnD BEnEFACTOr Deepa Pakianathan & Frank & Susan Dunlevy Paul van Dyk & Şaduman Güzel Joachim & Nancy Hellman Bechtle Phil Pemberton Jessica & Michael Eisler Micaela van Zwoll & John Green Eleanor & Theodore Brown Jerome Paolini Claire & Jeff Fluhr Douglas S. Waggener Paula & Bandel Carano Carol & Gerry Parker Robert & Chandra Friese Ronald & Emely Weissman Bill & Bridget Coughran Anne & Robert Pedrero Mr. & Mrs. James N. Froeb Alexandra & Spencer Wells Michael & Holly Cuggino The Honorable Nancy Pelosi & Paul Gamba Montgomery & Annie Woods Kim & Mark Dempster Mr. Paul Pelosi Gary V. Garabedian Ms. Lumiki Wright Arlene Inch Maria Pitcairn Deborah Greer & Hannah Greer Virginia Cartwright Ziegler

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MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM

THE MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM is dedicated to the continuing education, and professional training of the finest young operatic talent and the development of this talent into professional opera singers, coaches, and stage directors of the highest artistic caliber. Merola operates in close artistic collaboration with San Francisco Opera but is an independent nonprofit organization, governed by a separate board of directors. Merola is responsible for its own fundraising, primarily from loyal members and foundations. Young artists participating in Merola’s intensive training program benefit from its association with San Francisco Opera, often returning to appear on the main stage. In any given season, over 30% of all San Francisco Opera roles, including cover roles, are performed by former Merola artists. Graduates of the Merola Opera Program include Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Anna Netrebko, Patricia Racette, John Relyea, Patrick Summers, Ruth Ann Swenson, Carol Vaness, Rolando Villazón, Deborah Voigt, and Dolora Zajick. Merola is the future of opera. Please visit us at merola.org. BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS PAST PRESIDENTS DIRECTORS Dr. Joan B. Kelly EMERITUS DIRECTORS Jean Kellogg, Executive Director Jayne C. Davis, Chairman Mrs. Starr Bruce Adam Arthur Bier William W. Kwan, MD Donna L. Blacker Tracy Grant, Director of Foundation, Carlyn Clause, President (1957–1962) Barbara Bruser Clark Nafiseh Lindberg Peggy Dennis Corporate & Government Relations Michael Colbruno Sylvia R. Lindsey James H. Schwabacher Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson Mark Shattuck, Mary Sue Bizzarri, The Hon. Lindsay MacDermid (1962–1991) Anita Weissberg Director of Finance & Administration Vice President Marie Bertillion Collins Dr. Myron Marx Pamela J. George, Dr. A. Jess Shenson Hugh J. Coughlin Dr. Pamela Zell Rigg Ruben B. Pimentel, Jr., Director of Vice President (1991–1995) Dr. James Cross Dr. David D. Stein Marketing & Communications Blanche Germain Streeter, Jayne Davis (1995–1999) Beatrice Gomory Ruth Uchimura Miriam Rosenfeld, Vice President Rusty Rolland (1999–2003) Mary Henderson Susan Walker Donor Relations & Events Manager George Crow, Treasurer David S. Hugle (2003–2007) Melvyn Hetzel Carol A. Weitz Cindy Ho, Susan Hone Patrick Wilken Part-time Bookkeeper/Accountant Robert B. Mison, Secretary Patrick Wilken (2007–2011) Dana Turkington Horner Christopher E. Wiseman Merola Summer Donna L. Blacker David S. Hugle Susan York Jean Shirk Media, (2011–2015) Robert B. Jacoby Stephen Zilles Festival Communications Consultant Michael H. Kalkstein

We extend our sincere appreciation to all donors and acknowledge the following individuals, foundations, and corporations for their generous gifts totaling $1,000 or more and made between October 1, 2016, and August 15, 2017, in support of the Merola Opera Program. For more information about supporting the Merola Opera Program, please contact (415) 936-2324, e-mail [email protected], or visit our website at merola.org.

$25,000 & Above INDIVIDUALS Mrs. Barbara J. Ross Peggy & Reid Dennis Mrs. Anita Weissberg Mrs. William M. Friede FOUNDATIONS Carlyn Clause & Bob & Terri Ryan Carol & Dixon Doll Mrs. Carol A. Weitz Mr. Vernon Giang & Ms. Joy Chen The Yvonne & Edgar Baker Fund Alexander L. Brainerd Jack & Betty Schafer Mr. Robert A. Ellis & Ms. Faye Wilson Beatrice & Paul Gomory Frances K. & Charles D. Field George & Susan Crow Ms. Jean Shuler Ms. Jane W. Bernstein Mr. Christopher E. Wiseman & Mr. Fred Hartwick Priscilla & Keith Geeslin Dr. David D. Stein & Foundation Michael A. Harrison & Mr. Eric W. Sleigh Ms. Lauren Ito Mr. David S. Hugle Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner Ms. Shirley Woo & Al Garren Fund Susan Graham Harrison Mr. & Mrs. Kambiz Jalili Mr. John Lee Mr. Patrick Wilken & Mary & Craig Henderson Mr. David Rosenfeld Mrs . Edina Jennison Bruce & Fran Walker Mr. David Dickson Mr. & Mrs. Amos Zucchi GOVERNMENT Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn Hetzel Ms. Andrea G. Julian Anonymous Mrs. Alfred Wilsey Ms. Susan Hone National Endowment for the Arts Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Kahn Diana C. Yee Greer & Thayer Hopkins $1,000–$1,999 Susan York Mr. Robert Kavanaugh & INDIVIDUALS $5,000–$9,999 Mrs. Dana T. Horner FOUNDATIONS Mr. & Mrs. A. Lee Zeigler Ms. Dale Robards Nordin & Donna Blacker FOUNDATIONS Wilma Horwitz Joyce & William Brantman Stephen & Connie Zilles Ms. Jean Kellogg & Mr. Henry Tang Ms. Eloise Bouye Creative Work Fund Maria Hughes Foundation Anonymous Ms. Diana Kissil & Mr. John Cullison Barbara Bruser & Richard Clark Five Arts Foundation H. Nona Hungate Opera Standees Association, The Stanley S. Langendorf Mr. Robert Jacoby in memory of Freida Batten Dr. Marion R. Kramer Barbara K. Jackson $2,000–$4,999 Karen J. Kubin Miss Vivienne E. Miller Foundation Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Karl & Alice Ruppenthal Ms. Shirley Kwok Mike & Rusty Rolland FOUNDATIONS Mrs. Jeannie Kaufman Foundation for the Arts Leslys Vedder, in Memory of CORPORATION Walter & Elise Haas Fund Ms. Nelda Kilguss San Francisco Opera Guild Ms. Margaret Levitt James Forrest Vedder First Republic Bank Il Cenacolo Italian Cultural Club Gretchen B. Kimball Marin Chapter Mrs. Nancy Donnell Lilly Fred M. Levin & Nancy Livingston, William W. Kwan, MD Ms. R. Gisela Lloyd $15,000–$24,999 INDIVIDUALS The Shenson Foundation in Joan Shelbourne Kwansa CORPORATIONS Mr. William Lokke Norby Anderson memory of Ben & A. Jess Shenson Ms. Kathe Lange Jackson & Main Consulting Eve & Niall Lynch FOUNDATION Darla & Richard Bastoni San Francisco Opera Guild Ms. Sylvia R. Lindsey Milo Group of California Bernard Osher Foundation Mrs. Midge Mansouri Dr. Phyllis B. Blair East Bay Chapter Mryon Marx & Cora Yang Mrs. Emily Marcus Ms. Ada Mei Ms. Annette Campbell-White & San Francisco Opera Guild INDIVIDUALS Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Mardesich CORPORATION David Miller Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Peninsula Chapter Mr. & Mrs. David Anderson Mr. & Mrs. J. Patterson McBaine Dandelion Chocolate Mr. Hu San Jose Opera Guild Cathy & Howard Moreland Nina K. Auerbach, MD gh J. Coughlin Mrs. Anne G. McWilliams Drs. John & Lois Crowe William Karl Schwarze Trust Ms. Camille Mori shige Miss Carol Benz Jane & Harry Mison INDIVIDUALS Tim Dattels & Kristine Johnson Anne L. Morton Davidson Bidwell-Waite & Peter & Jayne Davis Mary & Tom Foote CORPORATIONS David & Marilyn Nasatir Edwin A. Waite Mrs. Pamela Murdock John & Cynthia Fry Gunn Ms. Pamela George Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP James A. Noe III Paul & Kathy Bissinger Mr. Peter J. Musto Franklin & Catherine Johnson Miss Ursula Grunfeld Meyer Sound Mr. Paul D. Nordine Maurice & Mary Sue Bizzarri Victoria Nakamura Scott & Susan Lord James Heagy, UBS Institutional Consulting Group Ms. Patricia Nottingham Mr. Gordon Brodfuehrer Ms. Erika Nelson & Mr. Guy Cross Mary Stevens Riley in memory of Janey Heagy Ms. Annie Nunan Mr. & Mrs. Tom H. Burkhart Ms. Barbara Newton Ms. Amy Roth & Ms. Harriet Heyman & INDIVIDUALS Mr. & Mrs. Bill R. Poland Klaus & Rike Burmeister Suzanna G. Pollak Mr. Robert Epstein Mr. Michael Moritz Mary Sherrill Baxter Anna & Frank Pope Frances Campra Ms. Susan K. Prather In Memory of Mr. Michael H. Kalkstein & Mr. & Mrs. Phillip B. Beck Mr. Glenn H. Reid Mr. Peter Carwell Ms. Merrill Randol Cameron Waterman III Ms. Susan English Adam Arthur Bier & Rachel Bier Lem Robbins/Cullen Family Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Castellucci Mr. & Mrs. David Rinaldo Drs. Joan B. & James Kelly Ms. Brooke Bourland Ms. Marianne Buttner Robison Ms. Carmen J. Castro-Franceschi $10,000–$14,999 Mr. Paul Sack Norman T. Larson Ms. Langley Brandt Mr. Michael A. Roosevelt, Esq. & Mr. Greg Franceschi Drs. Milton & Sondra Schlesinger CORPORATION Nafiseh & Karl Lindberg Mrs. Birgit Chase Ms. Jo-Ann Rose Mr. Martin S. Checov & Dr. & Mrs. Jon F. Sigurdson AT&T Mr. & Mrs. Michael Rudd Bernice & John Lindstrom Maureen Clarke Mr. Timothy J. Bause Mr. & Mrs. David Sloss Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Cluff Jeannie Sack & Jordan Sachs Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Cheitlin Ms. Maggie Thompson FOUNDATIONS Maura Markus Mr. Michael Colbruno Miss Dorothy Schimke Mrs. Beverly Coughlin PG&E Better Together Ellen & Paul McKaskle Mr. Paul Connolly Mr. Steven Shladover Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Cross Doug Von Qualen Giving Program James R. Meehan Mrs. Laura Crawford Dr. J. H. Silveira Mr. Robert Crow Ms. Susan Walker The Henry W. & Robert B. Mison Dr. James Cross & Ms. Blanche Germain Stre eter Dr. Lisa Danzig Ms. Olivia Ware Nettie Robinson Foundation Mr. Milton Mosk & Mr. Charles Antonen Mrs. Mary K. Swalen Keith Doerge Patrici a Weeden Joseph & Eleanor Sax Fund Mr. Thomas Foutch Mrs. Mary A. Culp Dr. & Mrs. W. Conrad Sweeting Mr. Justin Faggioli & Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Worn Rusty Rolland & The Schick Fund Mr. Haggai Niv Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. Curry Ms. Suzanne Turley Ms. Sandra Donnell Ms. Anne Zucchi Wallis Foundation Drs. Richard & Pamela Rigg Mr. & Mrs. James F. Dean Ruth & Ross Uchimura Mr. Peter Felleman Anonymous

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IN-KIND DONORS Maurice Bizzarri, Bizzarri Software Bright Wine Fund Hafner Vineyard Breathless Sparkling Wines Culinary Excellence Catering Partage Winery

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFT DONORS American Express S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation IBM International Foundation Microsoft Corporation Gift Matching Program Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Intel Union Bank of California

MEROLA LEGACY SOCIETY The Merola Legacy Society honors those who have included Merola Opera Program in their will, trust or other estate plans. For more information on how you can support Merola Opera Program through your estate planning, please call (415) 936-2321.

Norman Abramson & David Beery Mr. Stephen Drewes Barbara K. Jackson Ms. Christine Miller Debra R. Schoenberg Mrs. Barbara Adams Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Dwelly Ms. Elizabeth A. Jacobs Miss Vivienne E. Miller Ms. Marilyn G. Seiberling Mrs. Judith Anderson Mr. Robert F. Ewing & Ms. Dagmar L. Jamison D. G. Mitchell Ms. Carolyn Shaw Mrs. John Anderton Mr. Cesar L. De Joya, Jr. Ms. Joanie Juster Cathy & Howard Moreland Ms. Jean A. Sherlin Ms. Wilma Avery Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson Mrs. Jeannie Kaufman Ms. Thelma Morris Natalie O. Shuttleworth Kathleen H. Barr Mary & Tom Foote Ms. Jean Kellogg Mr. Albert L. Mosher Mr. & Mrs. David Sloss Ms. Eloise Bouye Mario Fracchia Drs. Joan B. & James Kelly Mr. Milton Mosk & Ms. Sue Sommer Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Bowen Mrs. William M. Friede Ms. Ludmila Kisseleva-Eggleton & Mr. Thomas Foutch Nancy & Robert Soper In Memory of Joseph & Antonia Friedman Mr. Peter Eggleton Mr . Carroll J. Newbanks Dr. David D. Stein & George (Troy) Browman & Ms. Magda Gabali Mr. Louis A. Koffman Ms. Marie J. Niemann Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner his Living Partner Mr. Louis B. Gagliardi Mr. Ken Kolby Mr. Haggai Niv Dr. Sam Thal J. Gerald Gagnon Pamela J. George Mrs. Barbara F. Kral Mr. Carl Noelke Miss Carol Tomlinson Mr. Donald Buhman Mrs. Rolf Gille Herbert & Barbara Grah am Kreissler Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. O’Hanlon James S. & Gayle G. Tunnell Mr. Russell P. Chappell Dave Gomberg & Diana Lum Ms. Joan Shelbourne Kwansa Ms. Brenda Osborne Ms. Donna Chazen Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gomory Mrs. Olive Lawton Ms. Sheldeen G. Osborne & Ms. Suzanne Turley Maureen Clarke Tracy Grant Mr. John Lee Mr. Steven E. Tirrell Shirley Wilson Victor Carlyn Clause & Miss Doris Grau Ms. Marcia Leonhardt Robert & Carol Parvin Mr. Albert J. Vizinho Alexander L. Brainerd Miss Ursula Grunfeld Bernice Gucker Lindstrom Mr. Glenn H. Reid Ms. Gladys Wagman Mr. Michael Colbruno Dr. & Mrs. John G. Gurley Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Mr. Robert Robertson Bruce & Fran Walker Jose Maria Condemi James Heagy Ms. Norrine L. Marchegiani-Lewis Mike & Rusty Rolland Mrs. Barbara Wanvig Mrs. Charles Cornman in memory of Janey Heagy Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Mardesich Ms. Louise A. Russell Mr. Patrick Wilken Mr. Gerald F. Currier & Tom Houran & Bill Medigovich Dr. Myron Marx Bob & Terri Ryan Ms. Ann L. Williamson Mr. Cleveland M. Smith Mr. David S. Hugle Ms. Denise E. Mauldin Mr. & Mrs. John Ryckman Mrs. John A. Zderic Peter & Jayne Davis Ms. Marian Huntoon Bill Medigovich Jeannie Sack Anonymous

The Merola Opera Program honors the memory of the following friends who have provided a legacy of support through their bequests and other planned gifts this year. Mrs. Marion Zimmer Bradley Wiley C. Crawford Mrs. Thelma Dry Ms. Betty Guy Mr. Gerald B. Rosenstein Mr. Hugh C. Trutton Dr. Orlando Clark Roy Demmon K. E. Freeman Mr. Jack H. Lund Ms. Bettie Slissman

TRIBUTES Merola Opera Program expresses its sincere appreciation to all donors who have made memorial and honorary donations between October 1, 2016, and August 15, 2017. IN MEMORY OF Jean Donnell Eleanor Kenney Mary Stevens Riley Mr. James H. Schwabacher IN HONOR OF Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Dr. David D. Stein Brian Asawa David Gee Frank Lanier Henry W. Robinson & Ben & A. Jess Shenson Michael Colbru no Milton Mosk & Suzanne Turley Freida Batten Marc Gropper John Lindstrom Nettie Robinson James Forrest Vedder Hugh Coughlin Thomas Foutch César Ulloa & Gary Aliperti Lois Brainard Janey Heagy Thomas E. Morton Rusty Rolland Cameron Waterman III Peggy Dennis Dale Robards Patrick Wilken Zheng Cao Liz Jacobs Harriet Meyer Quarré Joseph & Eleanor Sax Dr. John Zderic Jean Kellogg Barbara Ross

MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM ENDOWMENT The Merola Opera Program acknowledges with thanks those groups and individuals who have established or support the following endowment funds, which provide lasting tributes and generate continual support for developing the artists of the future. Kurt Herbert Adler—Merola Endowment Fund Reid & Peggy Dennis Endowment Fund Elaine Henderson Endowment Fund In Honor of Leontyne Price Endowment Fund Amici di Merola Fund Grace A. Diem & Alice E. Siemons Endowment Fund Heritage Fund Charles Rolle, M.D. Endowment Fund Barab Family Trust Fund In Memory of Jean Donnell Fund Vija Hovgard Endowment Fund Marie Louise Rosenberg Memorial Endowment Fund Dr. Leland Barber & Gladys K. Barber Endowment Fund Querita Eybel Endowment Fund David S. Hugle & Haggai Niv Endowment Fund Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund The Anthony I. Balestrieri Endowment Fund Mr. & Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson Endowment Fund The Jacobs Family Trust Schick Memorial Fund Richard J. Barlett Memorial Fund I. P. Patrick Gallagher Fund Grace & Mildred Johnson Endowment Fund Eva & Henry Schlesigner Fund Jean E. Bennett, Jr. Fund Nicholas & Mary Ann Gannam Endowment Fund In Memory of Peter G. Kavantjas Endowment Fund The Shenson Family Fund The Sidney & Phyllis Blair Fund L. Henry Garland Memorial Fund Donald Wayne Kennedy Fund Claudia Stoop Memorial Fund John S. Brooks Memorial Fund Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund Leona Gordon Lowin Memorial Fund Blanche Thebom Trust Fund Florence Bruce Fund Donna Lee Grassman Memorial Fund Lotfi Mansouri Apprentice Director Fund Dickson Titus III Fund Bruser Family Fund Gary Griffith Memorial Endowment Fund Meltzer Family Memorial Fund Alma Brooks Walker Memorial Fund Carlton F. Bryan Fund Gropper Memorial Fund Merola Members Endowment Fund Frank W. & Matilda O. Weymouth Living Trust Fund Betty Cable Fund Anneliese Gruenberg-Bremer Fund Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Fund James L. Wilson Trust Endowment Fund Zheng Cao Opera Fund Otto Guth Fund Oreste J. di Muro Endowment Fund In Memory of Patricia Yakutis Endowment Fund Mai G. Coggin Endowment Fund Mark Haffner Apprentice Coach Fund The Bernard Osher Foundation Career Grant Endowment Alma Cella Yoder Trust Cooper Endowment Fund In Memory of James T. Heavey Fund Mary A. Powell Career Grant Fund Estate of Mr. William Zoller

MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM CAREER GRANTS Merola Opera Program gratefully acknowledges the following donors who have provided special support to our young artists. Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Career Grant—Drs. Sidney & Phyllis Blair Fund Peter G. Kavantjas Career Grant— Mary A. Powell Career Grant—Mary A. Powell Fund Florence Bruce Career Grant—Mrs. Starr Bruce Endowment Fund In memory of Peter G. Kavantjas Endowment Fund Schick Memorial Career Grant—Schick Memorial Fund Jean Donnell Memorial Career Grant—In Memory of Jean Donnell Fund Merola Alumni Career Grant—Merola Opera Program Alumni Schwabacher Family Career Grant—Mr. James H. Schwabacher Richard & Rhoda Goldman Career Grant—Mr. Richard N. Goldman Fund Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Career Grant— Fred M. Levin & Nancy Livingston, Gropper Memorial Career Grant—Alfred Fromm & Otto E. Meyer, Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Fund The Shenson Foundation in memory of Drs. Ben & A. Jess Shenson in Memory of Dr. Angel Gropper The Bernard Osher Foundation Career Grant— Richard Strauss Opera Career Grant— E. A. Haggerty Memorial Career Grant— The Bernard Osher Foundation G. William Jewell, in memory of Mr. Robert C. Silvering Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bernhardt Poetz Memorial Career Grant— Dickson Titus III Career Grant—Dickson Titus III Fund David S. Hugle Career Grant—Mr. David S. Hugle A Friend of Merola

The Merola Opera Program also extends its most sincere appreciation to all those contributors who helped meet our annual income needs through gifts of $1 to $999.

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OFFICERS HONORARY DIRECTORS Jane S. Mudge, President Matthew & Kate Shilvock Annie Calonico Schieding, David Gockley Vice President, Administration George F. Lucas, STAFF Vice President, Associate Directors Susan Malott, Silvia Lin, Vice President, Chapters Managing Director Roberta Holden, Megan McDonald, Vice President, Community Outreach Director of Special Events Mary Poland, Vice President, Development Alaina Schukraft, Special Events Associate and Rita Milner, Vice President, Education Volunteer Coordinator Celeste Lee Bobroff, Vice President, Fundraising Caroline Altman, Virginia Cartwright Ziegler, Creative Director SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD gives voice Vice President, Marketing Kelly Dewees, to potential through education and outreach Emely Weissman, Secretary Education Program Manager programs that bring opera center stage into Carol Simmons, Treasurer Ellen Kerrigan, the life of the community. France Szeto, Education Fund Chairman Opera à la Carte Coordinator

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD is a separate organization from San Francisco Opera and operates under a distinct board of directors. We extend our sincere appreciation to all our event and program supporters and acknowledge the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their generous support of $1,000 or more between Opera Ball 2016 and July 31, 2017. For more information about supporting San Francisco Opera Guild, please contact Susan Malott at (415) 565-3291, [email protected], or visit our website at www.sfoperaguild.com.

CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS $100,000 & above Leslie & George Hume Lynne Edminster & Brian Atwood $1,000–$4,999 Gail DeMartini John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Dorothy & C. Bradford Jeffries Adm. James O. Ellis, Jr. & CORPORATION/ORGANIZATION Jesus O. Diaz Denise Littlefield Sobel Lawrence A. Kern Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough LLC Meredith & Kempton Dunn Marissa Mayer & Zachary Bogue Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons Draper Fund Samantha Chandler DuVall $50,000–$99,999 Teresa & Mark Medearis Mr. & Mrs. James N. Froeb Jaguar Animal Health Jacqueline & Christian Erdman Steven Menzies Fati Farmanfarmaian Harrah’s & Harveys Lake Tahoe Ann & Daniel Girard Kaiser Permanente Helen & John Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton Franklin & Catherine Johnson George & Cathy Huber S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Jane S. Mudge Justin Fichelson Neiman Marcus Group Arlene Inch San Francisco Opera Guild, Mary & Bill Poland Steve & Choongja Kahng Marin Chapter Ms. Kristina Flanagan Anne B. Popkin Cynthia Schreuder Kalev & San Francisco Opera Guild, Claire & Jeff Fluhr $25,000–$49,999 Karen Richardson & Jon Rubinstein Chandra & Robert Friese Ovadia Kalev Peninsula Chapter Amgen Pamela & Richard Rigg Barbara C. Fritz & Clayton B. Fritz Diana Kissil & John Cullison San Jose Opera Guild Paula & Bandel Carano Deborah & Paul Sagues Gary Garabedian Karen J. Kubin Yahoo Employee Foundation Keith & Priscilla Geeslin Roselyne C. Swig Jeff Garelick, Wilkes Bashford Paul Kochis & Amy Millman Jennifer & Steven Walske Drs. Danielle & Rondall Lane Harvey & Gail Glasser Joan & John Lavorgna INDIVIDUALS The Malin Family Diane B. Wilsey Mr. Elie Abi-Jaoude David & Inger Golob Cynthia & Richard Livermore Therma S. Shariq Yosufzai & Brian E. James Dr. Afsaneh Akhtari Joe l Goodrich Dr. & Mrs. Craig Lubbock TriplePoint Capital Leyla Alhosseini Sigrun Graeff Connie & Bob Lurie $5,000–$9,999 Emily & Dolph Andrews Mr. Philip Grisier $10,000–$24,999 CORPORATION/ORGANIZATION Dr. Alan Malouf Navid P. Armstrong Lisa M. Grotts CORPORATION/ORGANIZATION Abbot Downing Andrew Martin-Weber Cecilia Aviles Anette Harris & Marc Loupé Accenture Dodge & Cox Anne Marie & Stephen Massocca Nina & Charles E. Belle Ronald Holloway & Doug Hammerich Bank of America First Republic Bank Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. McMurtry Maribeth Benham Jennifer & Harold Hughes California Arts Council/NEA Saks Fifth Avenue Ms. Anne G. McWilliams Carol Benz Sallie & Leon Huntting Clare Louise Bates Fund San Francisco Opera Guild, Mr. & Mrs. James Milner Joy Venturini Bianchi Bruce Hyman & Simone Quarré Hermès East Bay Chapter Phyllis Moldaw David J. Blumberg Jessica Jacob & Zachary Townsend Jurika, Mills & Keifer San Francisco Opera Guild, Peggy & Boyce Nute Helen & Roger Bohl Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger PG&E Sonoma Chapter Deepa Pakianathan & J. Dennis Bonney Jorge Jaramillo San Francisco Giants Phil Pemberton Ron & Beverly Borelli Katie & Claude Jarman Union Bank INDIVIDUALS The Honorable Nancy Pelo si & Melissa & Tracy Boxer Zill Judy & Greg Jorgensen Wells Fargo Bank Asim & Isha Abdullah Mr. Paul Pelosi Romana D’Angelo Bracco Ms. Jill Kent Wells Fargo Foundation Thomas Barrett & Belinda A. Berry Maria Pitcairn Michael Broach John Kerns Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Eric & Jennifer Brown Suzanne McKechnie Klahr INDIVIDUALS Elizabeth & David Birka-White Louise & Paul Renne Karen & Anton Bruehl Randall E. Laroche & David G. Laudon Joachim & Nancy Hellman Bechtle Norman T. Larson Athena & Timothy Blackburn Rose Rosenberg Florence E. Bryan Dawn Yates Black Celeste & Michael Bobroff Ms. Brenda Leff Alice & Bill Russell-Shapiro Mrs. Karen Caldwell Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Brown Dr. Sean P. Bohen & Debra & Richard Carpeneti Patricia Ferrin Loucks Komal Shal & Gaurav Garg Bill & Bridget Coughran Mrs. Tanum Davis Bohen Mrs. Walter L. Carpeneti Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Ludgus Roberta Sherman Michael & Holly Cuggino Ms. Barbara Brown Barbara Cartier Cathy MacNaughton Pamala & Ted Deikel Carol Franc Buck The Honorable & Dr. Carolyn Chang June & Stephen Manley Reid & Peggy Dennis Alisa Burgess-Blajwas & Mrs. George P. Shultz Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Clark Dr. Pamela Marron Carol & Dixon Doll Harold Blajwas Raj Singh & Renata Anderson Ellen Coleman Edouard Mayoral de la Casa Micaux Sandra Farris Marilyn & Michael Cabak Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Sprincin Katie Colendich Elaine Mellis Ann & Gordon Getty Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris Dianne & Tad Taube Julie Coplon Maya D. Meux John & Marcia Goldman David & Karin Chamberlain Natalia Urrutia-Hernandez & Phoebe Cowles & Robert Girar d Donald & Irene Morgan Jane & David Hartley Carolyn Chandler Israel Hernandez Ena & Mark Cratsenburg Maryam & Oran Muduroglu Kathryn A. Huber & Lawrence Binkley Shannon & Dan Cronan Paul van Dyk Shahla Davoudi Nancy S. Mueller Sylvia & John Hughes Kim & Mark Dempster Mrs. Barbara A. Wolfe Olivia Hsu Decker Nancy E. Nebeker

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CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS continued Susan O’Brien Mr. John D. Rosin Frederic H. Smith Andrea & Joe Thomas Veronica Watson & Nazan Orr Annie & Braedan Schieding Alexandra Solomon & Barbara Traisman Michael Petonic Ann & Jim Paras Ave Seltsam Austin Brasch R obert & Danielle Troy Ronald & Emely Weissman Norman & Janet Pease Dr. Clara Shayevich Russell Stanaland Micaela van Zwoll & John Green Celeste & Darryl Woo Suraj Rajwani Mai Shiver Zornitza Stefanova Soo & Raj Venkatesan Anna Wu James & Caroline Reuben Dr. & Mrs. Edwin Shonfeld David H. Stull Robert & Ellen Vladem Brenda Zarate, Christian Dior Veronica Rivas-Tramontozzi Francoise & Andrew Skurman France Szeto Barbara Walkowski Linda Elliott Zider

CHARLOT D. MALIN SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD EDUCATION FUND We express deep appreciation to the following individuals and organizations who have made gifts* in memory of Charlot D. Malin, Past President and a leader of San Francisco Opera Guild. For information on how to contribute to this fund, please contact Susan Malott at (415) 565-3291, [email protected], or visit sfopera.com/charlotmalinfund. Steve & Maura Abernethy Sue Firestone Jane & Bert Inch Gene & Richard Morey The Spyropoulos Family Renata Anderson Claire Fluhr Integrated Resources Group, Inc. Christina Noren Dana Stone Katherine August Ellen Margareta Fossli David & Evelyn Israel Barbro Osher Kimberlee Stryker Celeste Lee-Bobroff Melinda Yee Franklin Cynthia Schreuder Kalev John & Sherry Peterson Swartz Foundation Kristy Brabec Malin Giddings Fred & Beth Karren Maria Pitcairn Jeff Thomasson Erik Breivik Ann & Daniel Girard Nina Klotz Bill & Mary Poland Catherine Thresher Barbara Brown Lisa & Douglas Goldman Brian Koch Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP Ryan Lanzen, Torreon Golf Club Eleanor & Theodore Brown David & Inger Golob Steve & Arl ene Krieger Karen Richardson Town School for Boys Alisa Burgess-Blajwas & Connie Loizos Gove Anton Krukowski Karen Ann Richardson Barbara Traisman Harold Blajwas Sigrun Graeff Karen J. Kubin Family Foundation Suzanne Tucker Michelle Cheatham Brian Hackfeld Esty Lawrie Kirk Russell Mrs. William C. Turner Martha Chesley Wendy Hanson Kathie Lowry Sigifredo Saenz Natalia Urrutia-Hernandez Adam & Kate Clammer Sally Harris Nicola Luisotti Debora h Sagues Ryan Walls, Troon Golf Shannon & Dan Cronan Maj-Britt Hilstrom Jennifer Lynch Gary Schilling & Stefan Hastrup Nadine Weil Ronald & Emely Weissman Carol P. & Dixon R. Doll Roberta Holden Maggie Mack Ann & Perry Sells Jeff Welch Suzy Kellems Domink Paul Holm Susan & James Malott San Francisco Opera Guild, Eve & Wallace Wertsch Sean Dowdall Winston & Cynthia Hovey Demetrios Mavrikis Sonoma Chapter Michael Yancey Lynne Edminster Rong Hu John McQuaid John Shea Virginia Cartwright Ziegler Jennifer Emerson Leslie & George Hume Fund Brian Milford Mai Shiver Sandra Farris Arlene Inch William & Aase Moran Sarah Somberg *Gifts received by July 31, 2017

IN-KIND DONATIONS Accenture Olivia Hsu Decker, Decker Bullock George F. Lucas Swain Destinations Allegra Print & Imaging Sotheby’s International Realty Maisons Marques & Domaines Town & Country Mark Alman Drew Altizer Photography McCall’s Catering & Events Trou Normand AT&T Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco Neiman Marcus Union Square United Airlines J. Riccardo Benavides Event Styling Four Seasons Hotel Sydney The Nob Hill Gazette The Westin St. Francis Blue Angel Vodka Gleim the Jeweler Puma Paw Ranch San Francisco on Union Square Burberry Cathy & George Huber Ram’s Gate Winery Virginia Cartwright Ziegler Karen Caetano, Id-alist LLC Jay Siegan Presents Roederer Estate Viszlay Vineyards Barbara Callow Joseph Cozza Salon San Francisco Opera Christine Stovell Design LaBelle Day Spas & Salons Soirée Valet

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD LEGACY SOCIETY The San Francisco Opera Guild Legacy Society honors those who have included San Francisco Opera Guild in their will, trust, or other estate plans. For more information on how you can support San Francisco Opera Guild through your estate planning please call (415) 565-3291. Ben D. & Dorothy Rod & PJ Handeland Bruce M. Jewett James J. Ludwig Catherine Stafford Revocable Mrs. W. Carroll Tornroth Coppersmith Jane & David Hartley Mr. Maurice Kanbar Estate of Leontine Sassell Living Trust

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD EDUCATION FUND The Opera Guild acknowledges with thanks those groups and individuals who have contributed $2,500 or more in support of San Francisco Opera Guild’s Education Fund by April 30, 2017. For information on supporting the Guild’s Education Fund, please call (415) 565-3291. Cheryl & Ralph Baxter Bettye Poetz Ferguson Foundation Diana Kissil & John Cullison Karen Merritt Diane Rubin Karen & Anton Bruehl Anna Freiman Karen J. Kubin Virginia Miller* San Francis co Opera Guild, Paul & Bandel Carano Ann & Daniel Girard Joan & John Lavorgna Susan Mooradian East Bay Chapter The Estate of Katharine Hanrahan* Eileen D. Ludwig* Mary Louise Myers San Francisco Opera Guild, Mrs. Sheldon Cooper Alfred Hartley Cathy & Angus MacNaughton Susan O’Brien Marin Chapter Mary Corroon Jane & David Hartley The Malin Family Libby Pfau San Francisco Opera Guild, Beverly Coughlin James Heagy Susan & James Malott Maria Pitcairn Peninsula Chapter Ena & Mark Cratsenburg Barbara Henry Lois Manbert Mary & Bill Poland Ann Simpson Olivia Hsu Decker Jacquelin H. Hume* Anne Marie Massocca Ursula Ralph Claire Collins Skall Carol & Dixon Dolll Katie & Claude Jarman Kathleen McEligot Joyce Reitman Susan Tamagni Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich* Mrs. Mark O. Kasanin Teresa & Mark Medearis Venetta & John Rohal *Deceased

More than 75,000 Bay Area families, students and teachers experience the excitement of opera with a variety of educational and community engagement programs presented through the combined efforts of San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera Guild, and the Merola Opera Program.

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BEFORE YOU GO GET “IN THE KNOW” San Francisco Opera and its affiliates are pleased to offer a wealth of educational resources to help you get “in the know” for each opera performance. For information on these and other resources, visit sfopera.com/learn.

E-OPERA NEWSLETTER OPERA TALKS San Francisco E-Opera subscribers are the first to know about Before every performance, charismatic scholars present a the latest performances, special events, and educational 25-minute overview of the opera with insights on the music, opportunities. Keep up-to-date on featured artists, special composer, and historical background. Talks begin 55 minutes ticket offers, advance program notes, and other insider prior to curtain. Visit sfopera.com/operatalks. information by signing up at sfopera.com/eopera. Turandot: robert Hartwell Elektra: Bruce Lamott NSIGHT ANELS I P La Traviata: Peter Susskind renowned artists and personalities from the world of opera, Manon: Marcia Green including cast members and directors from the productions, share behind-the-scenes insights and experiences during Girls of the Golden West: clifford cranna informal panel discussions presented by San Francisco Opera Guild. Visit sfopera.com/insights. CONNECT WITH US ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, AND INSTAGRAM OPERA PREVIEW LECTURES San Francisco Opera Guild chapters present lectures that bring renowned musicologists to communities throughout the greater Bay area, offering an in-depth look into the season’s upcoming operas. Visit sfopera.com/previews. Follow San Francisco Opera on Facebook, Twitter, and instagram! You’ll get sneak peeks about upcoming events, special OVERTURE: OPERA WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS performances, and more. Like us at facebook.com/sfopera, San Francisco Opera hosts interactive workshops for adults and follow us at twitter.com/sfopera and instagram.com/sfopera. about the journey of creating opera. Newcomers and and don’t forget to check out our YouTube channel, featuring seasoned opera-goers learn the process from the ground up performance excerpts, artist interviews, and more at and experience San Francisco Opera behind-the-scenes. Visit youtube.com/sfoperamedia. sfopera.com/discover-opera. r E i z a

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CHECK OUT SAN FRANCISCO OPERA’S BLOG Our blog, Backstage at San Francisco Opera, offers unique insight into the company, with entries from the principal singers, chorus, and orchestra musicians to the creative teams for each opera and the many talented people who don’t take a bow on stage. Visit sfopera.com/blog.

OPERA HOUSE TOURS Discover the magic that goes into creating an opera production with a backstage tour of the War Memorial Opera House led by a Guild volunteer docent. Tours occur only on selected dates in small groups; reservations required. E-mail [email protected] or call the San Francisco Opera Guild at (415) 551-6353 to leave a message. For group tours contact Lynn Watson at [email protected]. $20 for general admission.

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POSTLUDE by General Director MATTHEW SHILVOCK

INCLUSION, EQUITY, AND OPERA in The Voice of Truth, mahatma Gandhi tells us that “a nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” culture and the arts are inextricably intertwined with society. the arts give voice to, and grow out of, society’s aspirations, beliefs, tensions. Sometimes there is an urgent, vital connection between art and society. i think of messi- aen’s Quartet for the End of Time, written and premiered in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941. but sometimes the intersection of culture and society is more aesthetically motivated, drawing with curiosity on the vast array of colors, harmonies, themes, and ideas that mark the beautiful diversity of global culture. there is a universality about the most profound musical works. they transcend bound- aries of time and place to reach our innermost core as humans. but even music is made up of specific ideas, representations, and themes. what happens when those specifics run counter to societal values, leaving people feeling alienated, hurt, or excluded? this potential for cultural misalignment is particularly acute in art works that can reflect societal exclusion or inequality, whether in the depiction of race, gender, class, or orientation. in our world of opera, works like Madame Butterfly and Turandot represent an early 20th-cen- tury fascination with asia that can appear hackneyed, anachronistic, and even offensive given today’s much more nuanced understanding. we must recognize the cultural discon- nect that art can engender when viewed through our modern lens, while still recognizing the y l

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i and sensitivity for racial depiction; there is now a near-universal repudiation of using S makeup to change a person’s racial appearance onstage; ii) the equity of casting opportu- nities and how to cast roles like cio-cio-San to better reflect the cultural authenticity of the piece; and iii) whether there are works that last for all time, or whether there are works which will eventually become fundamentally at odds with contemporary values. San francisco opera is engaging in serious dialogue around two vitally important questions: 1. how do we better understand the broader community’s perception of opera to attain a deeper appreciation for the multiple perspectives around a work of art? 2. how do we utilize the art form of opera to build resonance with our fast-changing city, developing trust that opera can engage with the most essential of human emotions and situations? we don’t have all the answers to these questions yet, but we are committed to learning. we are exploring how we can better connect opera to community in a number of critical areas: • fundamentally, these are questions that can only begin to be answered by a dialogue with the bay area community. we are build- ing partnerships to better understand the broader perception of the opera and ensure that as many people as possible feel com- fortable with, and welcome to, our work. • we are looking to create art to build interconnections between art and society. through works like Girls of the Golden West, Dream of the Red Chamber, and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, we want to tell stories that reflect our local culture on the opera stage. connect with matthew via • San francisco opera has a strong tradition of inclusivity in its training programs, including twitter, instagram, and email. historic connections to the Pacific rim. i want to expand that legacy to create opportunities for audiences, singers, instrumentalists, technicians, and administrators from underrepre- sented and marginalized communities. @matthewShilvock i am sensitive to the challenge that certain art works can create in our society, but i am also excited that opera is an art form that can explore challenging subjects. we must find ways to produce, matthew_Shilvock share, and engage with opera, such that it reflects the amazing breadth of our community, and allows us all to connect on the most fundamental of levels. returning to the words of Gandhi: “no culture [email protected] can live if it attempts to be exclusive.”

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