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Tannhäuser

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IN THIS ISSUE Tannhauser pp. 24-38

6 From the General Director 44 Patron Salute

8 From the President 46 Aria Society

10 Board of Directors 55 Breaking New Ground 12 Women’s Board/Guild Board/ 56 60th Anniversary Gala Chapters’ Executive Board/ Ryan Opera Center Board Contributors 14 Administration/Administrative 57 Major Contributors – Special Staff/Production and Technical Events and Project Support Staff 58 Lyric Unlimited Contributors/ 16 The Ultimate Challenge: Look To The Future Sir Discusses the Wagner Repertoire 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 24 Tonight's Opera 60 Annual Corporate Support/ Matching Gift 25 Story of the Opera 62 27 Cast Planned Giving: The Overture Society 28 Cast Profiles 64 Annual Individual and Foundation 35 Opera Notes Support Sir Andrew 40 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus 70 Commemorative Gifts Davis and 42 Artistic Roster 71 Special Thanks/Acknowledgements Wagner 43 Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Unlimited/Education Corps/ 72 Facilities and Services/ pp 16-22 Supernumeraries Theatre Staff

On the cover: Image reprinted courtesy of House, Covent Garden. ©ROH/Dewynters, 2010. Above: Set design, Act II, Paris 1861 by Philippe Chaperon Right: Photo of Sir Andrew Davis by Todd Rosenberg.

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4 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the General Director

Tannhäuser has been a rarity onstage for the past half-century. That comes as no surprise, given that the assets required by any company producing it are formidable and increasingly difficult to achieve. It takes a powerhouse cast, a massive chorus and orchestra under a superlative conductor, and a production that can bring new freshness and humanity to a plot that can easily seem all too distant from our own social and cultural attitudes in the 21st century. The central problem of Tannhäuser, as I see it, is, why should we care about this seemingly desperate conflict between cerebral love and erotic love? The miracle of the piece is that it presents this story to magnificently moving effect through the glory of one of Wagner’s most melodic and memorable scores. The Pilgrims’ Chorus (certainly the most famous chorus Wagner ever composed), Elisabeth’s exhilarating entrance aria, and Wolfram’s exquisite “Song to the Evening Star” are among the special moments that have helped to sustain this opera’s exalted stature internationally. STEVE LEONARD The title role of the errant, rebellious minstrel-poet is viewed by many of the who sing it as the most demanding Wagner role in their vocal category. The high phrases are as challenging to master as the low ones, the length is arduous, and the staggering intensity of emotion unrelenting throughout. Thus any opera company is compelled to wait to present Tannhäuser until the right protagonist is available. Sir Andrew Davis and I both agree that we were right to wait for Johan Botha to add this role to his repertoire, which he did as recently as 2010. He instantly established himself as one of the only tenors today who can conquer every hurdle of this role. He triumphed at Covent Garden in the premiere of Tim Albery’s riveting production, which I’m thrilled to bring to Lyric. Of course, any outstanding Tannhäuser must be surrounded onstage by equally impressive colleagues. In that respect, this season’s production – like Lyric’s three seasons ago – boasts one of the most remarkable Wagner ensembles we have ever presented. Our Elisabeth, Amber Wagner, and our Venus, Michaela Schuster, who partnered Johan Botha in Lohengrin, will again demonstrate their magnificent affinity for this repertoire. Making an eagerly awaited return to Lyric, Gerald Finley is a dream casting as Wolfram, and it will be thrilling for our audiences to witness John Relyea’s versatility as the Landgraf after a very different role this season, Henry VIII in . It will be enormously exciting to hear Lyric’s orchestra and chorus take advantage of every spectacular opportunity presented to them by Wagner in this opera. On the podium is our music director, Sir Andrew Davis. With this production, Andrew will have conducted all the major Wagner at Lyric. Elsewhere in the Tannhäuser program you can read Andrew’s thoughts regarding his experiences in Wagner, which have been such a vital component in his opera conducting ever since his tenure at Lyric began 14 years ago. He brings to Wagner all the precision, the sensitivity, and the passionate commitment that have made every production he has conducted for this company such a joy. After a quarter-century, Tannhäuser has returned, providing what I know will be an unforgettable experience in the opera house for all of us.

Anthony Freud

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Welcome to Lyric Opera and our 60th anniversary season! I know you’ll have a memorable experience in the Ardis Krainik Theatre, and I hope it will inspire you to return throughout the season. Excellence. Relevance. Fiscal responsibility. These are the core values of Lyric Opera, and we can anticipate that the 2014- 15 season will in every way exemplify them, showing clear evidence of the company’s continuing aspiration to be the great North American opera company for the 21st century. Excitement and momentum are palpable under the leadership trio of general director Anthony Freud, music director Sir Andrew Davis, and creative consultant Renée Fleming. The entire company demonstrates extraordinary dedication to producing artistic excellence onstage. At the same time, Lyric is expanding its reach and relevance to the vast Chicago community through events presented under the Lyric Unlimited umbrella. Our audience is continuing to grow DAN REST and so is our donor base, as we continue to seek to earn your loyalty through all our activities, both on and off the stage. Ongoing financial sustainability is, of course, critical to Lyric’s future. Our “Breaking New Ground” campaign – unanimously affirmed by the Board of Directors in early 2013 – is designed to support our new strategic initiatives that are now in place. We already enjoy the support of a large and enthusiastic number of subscribers and single-ticket buyers. But we need to broaden and deepen the cultural service we provide to a larger number of people, and to do this, we must diversify and grow our activities. We want to increase the number of new productions in our opera season, annually produce a major musical, and significantly increase the range of activities both inside the opera house and around the city through our Lyric Unlimited initiative. We want to reach more children by increasing our presence in schools around the city. We need to invest substantially in new technology. We are redesigning our website, intensifying our digital communications activities and updating our information technology systems. We urgently need to modernize and upgrade our stage facilities and equipment, where we have fallen behind over the last 20 years. The investment is now needed to safeguard Lyric’s position as one of the world’s foremost opera companies. As we move forward to secure a successful, vibrant future for the company, our reliance on funded long-term contributed revenue support is greater than ever. We want to increase the endowment by $100 million over the next three to five years, to be achieved principally through legacy gifts. Please consider including Lyric Opera in your estate planning and join our illustrious Overture Society of planned givers. Breaking New Ground is receiving broad and generous support from the Board of Directors, but to be successful we must secure financial support from a broader range of patrons and donors. We welcome and encourage your support as we work to ensure Lyric’s long-term viability at the standards of excellence we all expect and demand. Please know how grateful we are to each and every one of you. As audience members and donors, you are vital to Lyric’s health and success. I thank you on behalf of Lyric’s artists, staff, and volunteer boards. With your support we’ll maintain this company’s stature as not only one of the crown jewels of Chicago cultural life, but also one of the most respected and distinguished opera companies in the world.

Kenneth G. Pigott

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Board of Directors Life Directors W. James Farrell Ken Norgan Frank W. Considine Mark E. Ferguson Sharon F. Oberlander The Honorable Michael W. Ferro, Jr James W. Cozad * John W. Oleniczak Rick Fezell The Honorable Edgar Foster Daniels Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D. Rahm Emanuel Russell W. Fisher Richard J. Franke * David T. Ormesher Honorary Chairmen * Renée Fleming of the Board Edgar D. Jannotta * William A. Osborn * Sonia Florian George E. Johnson James W. Cozad * Anthony Freud Matthew J. Parr Robert H. Malott Co-Chairman Emeritus † Gordon P. Getty * Kenneth G. Pigott James J. O’Connor Edgar D. Jannotta Ronald J. Gidwitz Don M. Randel Gordon Segal Co-Chairman Emeritus * Ruth Ann M. Gillis Anne N. Reyes Robert E. Wood II Brent W. Gledhill Allan B. Muchin J. Christopher Reyes Ethel Gofen Co-Chairman Emeritus Thomas A. Reynolds III * Howard L. Gottlieb Directors † William C. Richardson, Ph.D. Richard P. Kiphart Avrum Gray Chairman Katherine A. Abelson Collin E. Roche Melvin Gray * Whitney W. Addington Kenneth G. Pigott Maria C. Green Ricardo Rosenkranz * James L. Alexander President and Chief Executive * Dietrich M. Gross Edward B. Rouse Officer John P. Amboian Mary Pat Hay Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Paul F. Anderson Lester Crown Carrie J. Hightman * Shirley Welsh Ryan Chairman of the Larry A. Barden Eric L. Hirschfield John F. Sandner Executive Committee * Julie Baskes * J. Thomas Hurvis Claudia M. Saran James N. Bay, Jr. Anthony Freud Gregory K. Jones Rodd M. Schreiber General Director and Melvin R. † Stephen A. Kaplan Jana R. Schreuder Chief Operating Officer Sarah Billinghurst Kip Kelley II Marsha Serlin Sir Andrew Davis Gilda R. Buchbinder * Richard P. Kiphart Vice President Allan E. Bulley III * Nancy W. Knowles * Brenda M. Shapiro * Marion A. Cameron † Fred A. Krehbiel * Eric S. Smith Renée Fleming Vice President * Paul J. Carbone * Josef Lakonishok Pam Szokol David W. Carpenter † Robert W. Lane Franco Tedeschi James L. Alexander Richard A. Levy Vice President Timothy L. Christen Mark A. Thierer Robert A. Livingston Richard W. Colburn Cherryl T. Thomas Shirley Welsh Ryan * James W. Mabie Michael P. Cole * William C. Vance Vice President * Craig C. Martin Vinay Couto * Donna Van Eekeren Maura Ann McBreen William C. Vance * John V. Crowe Vice President Robert J. McCullen Mark Wagner * Lester Crown Blythe J. McGarvie Roberta L. Washlow Donna Van Eekeren Marsha Cruzan Secretary Andrew J. McKenna Miles D. White * Andrew Davis Frank B. Modruson Paul J. Carbone † Gerald Dorros Robert S. Morrison William Mason Treasurer Ann M. Drake * Allan B. Muchin General Director Emeritus Brent Fisher John D. Edelman Linda K. Myers Assistant Treasurer Stefan T. Edlis Jeffrey C. Neal * Indicates member of the Mary Ladish Selander Sheri Eichelberger Sylvia Neil Executive Committee Assistant Secretary Lois Eisen † John D. Nichols † Indicates National Director

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Women’s Board Life Members Chapters’ Executive Board Lake Geneva † Mimi Mitchell Paula Hannaway Crown † Mrs. Sherie Shapiro President Ray Ring President * Mrs. A. Campbell de Frise † Mrs. Peggy Beata Near North † Margot Stone Bowen * Jane Duboise Gargiulo Vice President – Development Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Vice President of Board Activities Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker † Mrs. Carla Thorpe Northfield Mrs. Gordon Segal † Mrs. Michael Ferro Vice President – Education Awareness Ms. Margareta Brown * Former President Vice President of Education † Ms. Susan M. Miller Northwest † Executive Committee † Rebecca Walker Knight Vice President – Membership Ms. Dorothy Kuechl Vice President of Fundraising Guild Board of Directors † Ms. Vee Minarich Riverside † Corinne Wood † Oscar Tatosian President Vice President – Program Rick Greenman Treasurer Vice President of Special Events Kathleen E. Manning † Ms. Agnes Canning Wilmette Vice President – Backstage Tours † Rick Greenman Secretary Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Ms. Judith A. Akers Trisha Rooney Alden Craig R. Milkint Winnetka Vice President – Membership Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Mrs. Julie McDowell Mrs. Anthony A. Antoniou Mrs. Robert C. DeBolt Suzette B. Bulley † Ms. Julie Ann Benson Vice President – Fundraising Ms. Ingrid Dubberke The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Marie Campbell † Michael Tirpak Secretary * Jonathon Eklund Mamie Biggs Case Ryan Opera Center Board † Edmund H. Lester Treasurer Joseph Ender Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. Ms. Erika Erich of Directors Maggie Rock Adams Susan Kiphart President † Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Ms. Allison Alexander Ms. Nancy R. Fifield Janet Burch Vice President Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Ms. Lorraine Marie Arbetter Ms. Margie Franklin * Mrs. Lester Crown Leslie Bertholdt Ms. Guidice John Nitschke Vice President * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes *†Patrick J. Bitterman Dennis C. Hayes Joan Zajtchuk Vice President * Mrs. W. James Farrell Minka Bosco Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Terese Marie Connolly Virginia Jach Brent Fisher Assistant Treasurer Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Frank de Vincentis * Ms. Dorothy Kuechl Richard W. Shepro Secretary Ms. Lili Gaubin Eben Dorros Ms. Kate Letarte Dan Novak Assistant Secretary † Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Mrs. Amanda Fox Craig Love Keith Kiley Goldstein Laurie Jaffe David Nellemann * Katherine A. Abelson Mrs. William B. Graham G. Louise Johnson Ms. Claudia Winkler Nicole M. Arnold Mark Kozloff, M.D. * Julie Baskes Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm Sustaining Members Marc Lacher Marcus Boggs Karen Z. Gray * Ms. Julie Ann Benson Mrs. Daria M. Lewicky Heidi Heutel Bohn Mrs. King Harris Mrs. William Hamilton Jonathan B. Lewis, Sr. Tanja Chevalier Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Ms. Kathleen E. Manning * Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu Lawrence O. Corry † Caroline T. Huebner Daniel T. Manoogian Lester Marriner Elinor Addington Jannotta * Ms. Martina M. Mead * Mrs. Michael Oberman Mrs. James W. Cozad Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Kimberly Palmisano * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer * Allan Drebin Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Jeffrey Port, M.D. Howard Robins Lafayette J. Ford Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Ms. Christina M. Rashid Mrs. Karl Stein Anthony Freud * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mary Lynne Shafer Mr. and Mrs. Myron Tiersky Melvin Gray Mrs. Florence D. McMillan † Ms. Joan M. Solbeck Mrs. Dorothy V. Wadley Anne Gross James A. Staples Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Alison Wehman McNally Life Members Mrs. Christopher C. Milliken Kathryn Sullivan Mary Ellen Hennessy Ms. Cathy Wloch * Mrs. Anthony Antoniou Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Chester T. Kamin Ms. Anne Zenzer * Mrs. J William Cuncannan * Kip Kelley Mrs. Christopher Murphy Mr. Roy Fisher Mrs. Susan B. Noyes Sustaining Members Phillip G. Lumpkin Mrs. Herbert A. Glieberman Jeanne Randall Malkin * Mrs. James J. O’Connor Mrs. John H. Andersen * Mrs. Donald Grauer Robert C. Marks * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan Erma S. Medgyesy Mrs. William A. Osborn Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen * Mrs. Merwyn Kind Frank B. Modruson Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman * Robert F. Finke * Mrs. Jonathon R. Laing Mrs. William R. Jentes Mrs. Frederick H. Prince Mrs. Frank M. Lieber William J. Neiman Chester T. Kamin Mrs. James C. Pritchard * Mrs. Howard S. Smith Susan Noel * Kip Kelley * Mrs. William C. Tippens Michael A. Oberman M.K. Pritzker John M. Kohlmeier *†Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes * Mrs. Eugene E. White Jane DiRenzo Pigott Mrs. Robert E. Largay Orli Staley Mrs. John M. Richman James G. McCormick Betsy Bergman Rosenfield Chapter Presidents * William C. Vance † Ms. Britt M. Miller Barrington * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Donna Van Eekeren * John H. Nelson Ms. Marlene Boncosky † Mrs. James L. Sandner Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Ms. Lisbeth Stiffel Evanston Nancy S. Searle R. Todd Vieregg Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Barbara Eckel Jack Weiss Mrs. Benjamin Shapiro Far West Mrs. Alejandro Silva Young Professionals Life Members Patrick M. Callahan President Ida Lee Mrs. John R. Siragusa Kimberly Palmisano Vice President Flossmoor Area * Mrs. Anthony A. Antoniou Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Lisa DeAngelis Event Logistics Ms. Sharon Gibson Bernard J. Dobroski Mrs. James P. Stirling Catherine Ketter Event Promotion Glencoe Barbara Heil Howard Marilynn Thoma Carolyn Fitzgerald Marketing Mrs. Brenda Lenahan * Keith A. Reed * Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Kieran Shanahan Membership Hinsdale * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Emily Vietoris Social Media Joseph Ender Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Charlotte Bohrer Special Projects Hyde Park/Kenwood * Former President Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Jenny Tola Volunteer Coordinator Ms. Vee Minarich † Executive Committee

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Anthony Freud, OBE General Director The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair

Mary Ladish Selander Brent Fisher Lisa Middleton Director of Development Director of Finance Director of Marketing

Nicholas Ivor Martin Andreas Melinat Cayenne Harris Director of Operations Director of Artistic Administration Lyric Unlimited Director and Special Initiatives

Perry Sartori Dan Novak Interim Director Director, Ryan Opera Center of Human Resources The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE Jonathon P. Siner Stefanie Duff Emily Cohen GENERAL DIRECTOR Senior Director of Planned Giving Senior Coordinators – Women’s Board Accounting Assistant Anthony Freud Amanda Allen Nicole Eubanks Debbie Dahlgren General Director Senior Coordinator – Individual and Assistant Director of Development – Payroll Supervisor The Women’s Board Endowed Chair Planned Giving Donor Services and Special Events Susan Harant Madeleine Walsh Daniel P. Moss Allison Taylor Receptionist Executive Programs Administrator Director of Corporate Partnerships Administrative Assistant – Donor Geary S. Albright Jenny Seidelman Services and Special Events HUMAN RESOURCES Executive Assistant to the Associate Director of Corporate Perry Sartori General Director Partnerships Leslie B. Mastroianni Interim Director of Human Resources Linda Nguyen Irvin Deputy Director of Development Tiffany Tuckett OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Corporate Partnerships Coordinator Warren Davis Talent Manager, Administrative Staff GENERAL DIRECTOR Katy Hall Director of Guild Board, Chapters Stephanie Strong Drew Landmesser Director of Individual, Foundation, and Young Professionals Benefits Manager Deputy General Director and Government Giving Katarina Visnevska Sarah Generes Meaghan Stainback Coordinator of Guild Board, Chapters INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Executive Assistant to the Deputy Donor Relations Manager and Young Professionals Will Raj General Director and the Music Hanna Pristave Hilary Pieper Director of Information Technology Director Research Coordinator Administrative Assistant – Guild Christian Carranza Sarah Kull Board, Chapters and Young Manager of IT Operations Grants and Research Manager Professionals ARTISTIC Mary Mueller Tessitura Administrator Andreas Melinat Erin L. Koppel FACILITIES Director of Artistic Rita Parida Deputy Director of Development Rich Regan Senior Applications Specialist Administration Tina Harris Director of Facilities Christoph Ptack Nikoleta Atanassova Development Associate Nora O’Malley Systems Administrator Associate Artistic Marta Garczarczyk Facility Operations Manager Administrator René Calvo Director of Annual Giving Sharon Lomasney Help Desk Coordinator Amy Alvarado Events and Sales Manager Evamaria Wieser Annual Giving Manager Eric Bays Casting Consultant Emily Esmail Facilities Coordinator LYRIC UNLIMITED Donor Communications Manager Steven Farrell Cayenne Harris DEVELOPMENT Judy I. Lipp Chief Engineer Lyric Unlimited Director Mary Ladish Selander Director of Donor Records and Charles Holliday Mark Riggleman Director of Development Reporting Security Services Coordinator Director of Education Suzanne Singer Jeffrey Dziedzic Chapters’ Endowed Chair Assistant to the Director of Senior Coordinator – Donor Records FINANCE for Education Development Karolina Sledz Brent Fisher Alejandra Boyer Deborah Hare Administrative Coordinator – Donor Director of Finance Lyric Unlimited Manager Development Associate Records Cynthia Darling Jesse Gram Bridget Monahan Teresa Hogan Audience Education Manager Lawrence DelPilar Director of Women’s Board Senior Accountants Lisa Della Pia Deputy Director of Development Chelsea Southwood Marie L. Connolly Program Coordinator Manager of Administrative Services Drew Smith Program Assistant

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MARKETING AND OPERATIONS Lighting Michael Buerger PUBLIC RELATIONS Nicholas Ivor Martin Chris Maravich Joseph Collins Lisa Middleton Director of Operations and Lighting Director Robert Ladd Director of Marketing Special Initiatives Heather Sparling Dan Lang Thomas Young Eric Watkins Joe Mathesius Director of Music Administration Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Holly Gilson Assistant Lighting Designers Stephanie Karr Frank Taylor Deputy Director of Communications Chorus, Orchestra, and Manager Properties Roger Pines Technical Elise R. Kerr William Reilly, Jr. Dramaturg Administrative Coordinator, Master Carpenter WARDROBE/WIGS AND Magda Krance Operations Michael Barker MAKEUP Manager of Media Relations Wendy Skoczen Head Flyman Maggie Berndt Scott Marr Staff Assistant Librarian Mike Reilly Production Design Director Public Relations Specialist Gretchen Eng Automation/Rigging Andrew Cioffi Music Administration Assistant Bradley Long Wardrobe Digital Content Producer Production and Rehearsal Shop Carpenter Maureen Reilly Staff Robert Barros Costume Director Tracy Galligher Layout Carpenter The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Cameron Arens Drew Trusk Deputy Director of Marketing Director of Rehearsal Administration Endowed Chair Joel Friend Shop Welder Lucy Lindquist Group Sales Manager Garnett Bruce Bruce Woodruff Wardrobe Mistress Sarah Kaplan Shawna Lucey Layout Welder Bradley Baker Richard “Doc” Wren Marketing Manager, Opera Matthew Ozawa Sarah Brownewell Elise Sandell Warehouse Coordinator Cecylia Kinder Kira Lowe Joe Dockweiler Marketing Manager, Special Projects Paula Suozzi Vija A. Klode Ryan McGovern Krystina Lowe Donna Sauers Assistant Directors Michael O’Donnell Kathy Rubel Audience Development Manager John W. Coleman Jeffrey Streichhirsch Tony Rubino Carrie Krol Rachel C. Henneberry Assistant Carpenters Joanna Rzepka Graphic Designer Caroline Moores Chris Barker Barbara Szyllo Valerie Bromann Daniel Sokalski Mike Bowman Wardrobe Staff Digital Marketing Coordinator Rachel A. Tobias Dan DiBennardi Scott Barker Bailey Couture Stage Managers Dan Donahue Terese Cullen Ticket Program Sales Coordinator Brian Grenda Kelly Davis Jocelyn Park Kristen Barrett Justin Hull Tim Dedinsky Marketing Production Coordinator Darin Burnett Robert Hull, Jr. Michelle DiBennardi Stefany Phillips Jodi Gage John Ingersol Anna Krysik Phil Marcotte Marketing and Public Relations Jennifer Harber Ed Mack Derek Matson Matthew Reilly Coordinator Wendy McCay Jayme O’Hara Ray Schmitz Christina Mitsch Amanda Reitenbach Anya Plotkin Carpenters Mary Monahan Social Media Coordinator Daniel Sokalski Michael C. Reynolds John Salyers Peggy Stenger Master Electrician Isaac Turner Ticket Department Amy C. Thompson Soren Ersbak Chris Valente Paul A. Molinelli Rachel A. Tobias Board Operator Roger Weir Director of Ticketing Services Bill Walters Paul Christopher Dressers Paula Getman Assistant Stage Managers Head Audio/Visual Technician Ticket Operations Supervisor Nick Charlan Wigs and Makeup Ben Bell Bern Matt Ebel Susan Harrison Niemi Rehearsal Scheduler Sarah Hatten Phone Sales Supervisor Audio/Visual Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Josie Campbell Kevin Reynolds Miguel González Artistic Services Coordinator Kathleen Evans Surtitle Operator Department Coordinator Patron Relations Representative Amy Greene John Clarke, Jr. Chantelle Marie Johnson Shelley Cameron Operations Coordinator Joseph Haack Robert Kuper Group and Special Marina Vecci Michael A. Manfrin Lynn Koroulis Rehearsal Associate Ticketing Coordinator Robert Reynolds Claire Moores Chris Notestine Gabrielle Gottlieb Assistant Electricians Brittany Crinson VIP Tickets and Subscriber Jason Byer Anthony Coia Staff Relations Coordinator Rehearsal Assistants Jason Combs Lauren Cecil Gary Grenda Anelle Eorio Kirsten Alfredsen TECHNICAL AND LIGHTING Thomas Hull Lauren Marchfield Justin Berkowitz Michael Smallwood Daniel Kuh Anita Trojanowski Tabitha Boorsma Technical Director Jeremy Thomas Chris Payne Teléya Bradford Allan and Elaine Muchin Electricians Nelson Posada Endowed Chair Sarah Diller Charles Reilly Rochelle Fisher April Busch Property Master Rachel Tenorio Amber Doss Production Manager Sam Fain Michael McPartlin Sarah Squire Michael Schoenig Properties Crew Head Jada Richardson Anna Laurenzo Technical Finance Manager Brian Michael Smith Wig and Makeup Crew Stephanie Lillie Scott Wolfson Armorer Dana McGarr Assistant Technical Director José Trujillo Scenic Art Carol Michelini Stephen Snyder Upholsterer Brian Traynor John Schell Technical Assistant Thomas Coleman, Jr. Charge Artist Lindsay Trinowski Maria DeFabo Robert Hartge Maggie Bodwell Zachary Vanderburg Properties Coordinator Richard Tyriver Vivienne Marie Ticket Staff Assistant Properties Scene Artists

FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 | 15 The Ultimate Among the Wagner productions conducted by Sir Andrew Davis at Lyric are, clockwise from top left: The Flying Dutchman (2001-02), (2001-02), Die Walküre (2002-03); Götterdämmerung (2004-05); (2008-09); and Parsifal (2013-14). Photos by Dan Challenge Rest and Robert Kusel.

Sir Andrew Davis cherishes his association with the operas of This season'sTannhauser is the ninth Wagner opera conducted at Lyric by the company’s music director. In his office last fall, Sir Andrew Davis discussed this repertoire with Lyric dramaturg Roger Pines. DARIO ACOSTA

Is Wagner the ultimate for an opera conductor, in terms of the profundity of the material? Yes, I think so. It’s fascinating to follow his development over time. I was actually asked to conduct his second opera, , in , but it didn’t work for my schedule. You look at that opera and then you look at Parsifal – it’s like going from Verdi’s first opera, , to . I can’t think of any other composers who actually matched those two journeys – going from the primitive to the sublime – to such a degree. That’s one thing the two of them have in common.

You waited several decades to take on the Wagner repertoire. Most of my operatic experience for a huge chunk of my career was at Glyndebourne. I conducted at Covent Garden and the Met, and for a long time I was happy to be a Mozart/Strauss guy. I don’t know if Wagner scared me, but it took me a Sir Andrew Davis cherishes his association while to begin to love these pieces. I’d go to see a Wagner opera and, although I’d admire it, with the operas of Richard Wagner for some reason it didn’t speak to me in a way that made me think, “My God, I have to get my hands on this.” There was the sheer scale of it, the unbelievable seriousness of the subject matter… maybe I just had to grow up a bit!

Had you conducted any Wagner at the time that you began your tenure as Lyric Opera’s music director? I’d done Act One of Die Walküre in concert, the “,” the prelude to Act Three of Lohengrin, the Tannhäuser over- ture. I also once conducted Wagner’s “ Overture” and decided I’d never do it again! Certainly the prospect of doing the Wagner operas was one of the most exciting things about coming to Lyric.

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You’re always able to achieve such a special Mendelssohnian moments are absolutely vital, rapport with your singers in any opera you so it’s not an unrelieved wall of sound coming conduct. How do the Wagner operas strike you at you. In Götterdämmerung, the textures are vocally? so extraordinarily varied and complex that Verdi needs more gymnastic ability, and the if everything is too thick, you don’t actually get the full impact of the writing because it Left to right: James Morris (Wotan), major roles generally lie higher in the voice. doesn’t have enough clarity. Oleg Bryjak (Alberich), and Bonaventura Wagner, for the most part, writes long lines, It’s interesting that after the first Ring Bottone (Loge) in (2004-05). with not much in the way of florid passages. You don’t have to zip around at breakneck performances at Bayreuth’s Festspielhaus, DAN REST speed! It’s about beauty of sound and phras- Wagner was actually thinking about revising ing, plus being able to ride over his frequently portions of the Ring orchestration to give it huge orchestral texture. It has to be beauti- greater clarity. Of course, he never did, but fully sung – that’s immensely important to clarity is one of the things I always fight for in me. In Wagner’s music I want to hear voices the Ring. that still sound fresh. One problem with cast- ing Wagner is that you can’t do it too far in Doesn’t Wagner make a huge journey advance. If you engage someone five or six stylistically within the Ring, from Rheingold years ahead when they’re singing this kind of to Götterdämmerung? repertoire, you want to be confident they can Yes, and it’s absolutely fascinating. One of still do it when it comes around! That’s a very the challenges is to make it all cohere. A lot important element in the planning of Wagner of Rheingold is fairly primitive, in terms of productions. orchestration. The very opening [the develop- ment of a massively scaled E-flat chord over When you were getting to know the Wagner several minutes] is, of course, a stroke of operas, did you examine any of your predecessors’ genius, and it shows you what he can already interpretations? do with the orchestra. In the ’ I listened to Hans Knappertsbusch’s Parsifal music , like the opening of the second act of quite a lot – supposedly the great Parsifal con- The Flying Dutchman, you can still feel the ductor – but to me, for the most part, it’s slow influence of Mendelssohn. and turgid. For instance, his Flowermaidens By the time you get to Götterdämmerung, sound as if they belong to a knitting club the whole orchestral palette is infinitely subtle somewhere, partly because the tempo doesn’t and varied. I think one of the most powerful have the fluidity that is essential to that music. and moving moments in all music is ’s It has to have a lilt, a willowy quality. funeral march. It’s impressive in the way it brings together so many of the Ring’s leitmo- What about the Ring? tifs, and the orchestration itself is the work of a magician. You can see the whole development Go back to Solti’s famous Ring recording, of his style. To watch this, and his use of the John Treleaven in the title role of which is remarkable, but the problem is orchestra, through the Ring is just incredible – Siegfried (2003-04). that the orchestra is loud all the time! The particularly with Siegfried, where in Act Three

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The final scene ofLohengrin at Lyric Opera, 2010-11 season, with Georg Zeeppenfeld (on platform) as King Henry, Johan Botha in the title role, and Emily Magee as Elsa.

of every moment in Götterdämmerung, a sort Happy father and daughter: Pogner (Dmitri At Lyric you first conducted Wagner during of inevitability in it. I think the same thing Ivashchenko) and Eva (Amanda Majeski) 2000-01, which was also your first season as applies to other Wagner as well; I came out in the final scene ofDie Meistersinger von music director. of Strauss’s like a dishrag after just an Nürnberg, 2012-13 season. The opera was The Flying Dutchman, and hour and 45 minutes, but somehow conduct- DARIO ACOSTA Meistersinger although it wasn’t a piece I loved when I ing [an opera lasting five hours] started, I grew to admire it. I do love all the didn’t seem long to me! It’s because of the other Wagner operas! To me, in Dutchman musical and psychological rightness of every Wagner is still forging his style, although there moment. In Act Three there’s a whole series are moments that are phenomenal. of conversations between two people, and the first scene of that act is really humongously Amazingly enough, having begun at Lyric with long, but it never seemed that way to me. the earliest of the great Wagner operas, you then came your way in 2008-09 jumped to his final stage work,Parsifal (2001-02). Tristan und Isolde – such an overwhelming piece in all ways, and In the meantime I’d done it in Dresden. It such a formidable challenge for all conductors. was a piece that I love to work on and to listen to, in a way that isn’t quite matched by any of It’s the toughest of the Wagner operas. All the the others. I’ve felt a need for Parsifal, for this stuff for Tristan in Act Three, for example, particular sound world. It’s that wonderful is unbelievably harrowing. You have to be sense of the opposition – the confrontation emotionally involved, but this is one of the – between the sensual and the spiritual. It’s conundrums of conducting – you have to something that is so much a part of the duality have an emotional commitment to the music and the complexity of what we‘re all about. and convey that emotion from the orchestra and the stage to the audience. That’s a huge Next came the Ring – Die Walküre (2002- responsibility. You need to keep control of you’ve suddenly entered the sound world of 03), Siegfried (2003-04), Das Rheingold and the sound, the structure, how the piece moves Götterdämmerung. Siegfried is my favorite of Götterdämmerung (both 2004-05), and then from one episode and idea to another. In a the Ring operas, because there’s such a great the full cycle (also 2004-05, Lyric Opera’s sense Tristan is the most complex of Wagner’s diversity. Act One is like the scherzo of the 50th-anniversary season). operas from that point of view, because the Ring, fantastically planned in terms of the emotional world is so torrid, but also so deep. structure. Act Two is just a ragbag of different I can’t even tell you when I started working things, but brilliant, and Act Three moves to on it – you can’t cram for that piece – but it When you came to Lohengrin (2010-11), a different level that was only possible because was before I arrived in Chicago in 2000. You you’d already had the experience of conducting Wagner had written Tristan und Isolde and go through it slowly, and it nourishes you. For it at Bayreuth, which I know was momentous Meistersinger. instance, there’s something about the rightness for you.

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Parsifal (Paul Groves) resists the seductive Flowermaidens in Act Two of Parsifal, 2013-14 season.

Yes, because the Festspielhaus is a totally There’s a lot of really funny stuff in it, some Over the years you’ve certainly developed a unique acoustical environment. The orchestra of which can be embarrassing if you overdo wonderful Wagner style with Lyric’s orchestra. pit is almost entirely covered, which means it. David’s big speech early in the opera – all This orchestra gives everything it’s got all the it’s nearly impossible to drown the singers. that business about the guild’s rules for correct time, in this repertoire as in everything else Bayreuth isn’t a place to conduct if you have singing – can be the most tedious thing in they play. Of course, they know that they have vertigo, because you’re looking down at the the world. You can make or break that scene, to be fit and in training to handle Wagner – orchestra. I had to bully them to play softly, depending on whether you approach it with they take it very seriously, and they’re always because at Bayreuth you can get away with the right kind of lightness. Meistersinger is very well prepared. playing everything mezzo forte. The beginning clearly a very deeply felt piece and immensely of Act Two, that intimate duet [Ortrud and moving, but at the same time there’s a kind of What do you remember of the singing in your esprit de joie Telramund], was difficult at Bayreuth, since it about it that surprised me, and I Wagner productions? was as as far upstage as I’ve ever had to con- wanted to bring that out. duct anything. Both of my Gurnemanzes in Parsifal, Matti Now you’re “closing the circle” in your Salminen and , who were I know that you’re very partial to Die conducting the Wagner operas with so different from each other – wonderfully Meistersinger (2012-13), not just the profound Tannhäuser. What do you consider the great sung and very memorable. I remember our moments but also the humor. attraction the piece has for audiences? Tristan, Clifton Forbis – that was a fantas-

DAN REST tic portrayal, with an intense desperation to One thing is that it’s the first of Wagner’s it – really remarkable. In Lohengrin we had operas where there is this division, the conflict extraordinary performances by Johan Botha, between the sensual world and the spiritual Michaela Schuster, and Amber Wagner, who world that we later see in Parsifal. The religious are all returning to us for Tannhäuser. side of the music is memorable, as embodied in the Pilgrims’ Chorus. And on the other What are you anticipating in your Wagner hand, the Venusberg scene and Venus herself conducting? have music of extraordinary allure – the sexi- est music Wagner ever wrote. The Venusberg I’m thrilled to be doing the Ring again at scene is unadulterated sex and nothing else! In Lyric [2016-20]. I’m not yet at a point in my that way Tannhäuser was a groundbreaking life and career where it’s a question of been work for Wagner that led him eventually to there/done that – I’d love to do Tristan and Tristan und Isolde. Meistersinger again, and if someone asked me Like the other Wagner operas, Tannhäuser to do Lohengrin again, I wouldn’t necessarily is also something of a marathon for the orches- say no. I hope I can do all the things that I tra. You also always have to concern yourself still have a burning desire to do.  with color in this piece – especially in the Acknowledging an ovation at the Lohengrin Venusberg music, which has to be as scintillat- cast party (2010-11 season). ing and seductive as possible.

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Tannhäuser

Lyric Opera presentation generously made possible by an Anonymous Donor and the NIB Foundation with additional support from Marion A. Cameron.

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TANNHÄUSER Story Of The Opera

ruler of the Wartburg, along with Wolfram, crowd is horrified. The Landgraf and his ACT ONE Walther, Heinrich, Reinmar, and Biterolf, men are about to attack Tannhäuser when Scene i. The Venusberg all of them friends and fellow singers of Elisabeth steps forward to defend him. She Scene ii. A valley near the Wartburg Tannhäuser. They urge him to return to begs that Tannhäuser be given the chance to the Wartburg. Tannhäuser is reluctant until repent for her, since he has broken her heart. Intermission Wolfram mentions the name of Elisabeth, the Tannhäuser is devastated at the pain he has Landgraf’s niece, and tells Tannhäuser how caused Elisabeth and begs for mercy. The ACT TWO Elisabeth has grieved for him, and virtually Landgraf announces that Tannhäuser must The Wartburg become a recluse since he disappeared. join the annual pilgrimage to Rome and seek Hoping that Elisabeth’s love may redeem him, the forgiveness of the pope. As Tannhäuser Intermission Tannhäuser agrees to return to the Wartburg. sets off, Elisabeth prays for his salvation.

ACT THREE ACT TWO ACT THREE A valley near the Wartburg Elisabeth waits excitedly for Tannhäuser’s Elisabeth, watched by Wolfram, is waiting for return (Dich, teure Halle). Tannhäuser is the pilgrims to return from Rome, but when led in by Wolfram, and begs Elisabeth’s they arrive Tannhäuser is not among them. In Heinrich Tannhäuser, angry and frustrated forgiveness for his absence. She tells him how despair, Elisabeth prays to the Virgin to let her that his art as a singer is not understood or his music moved her in the past, and of her die and through her death save Tannhäuser appreciated, has left his home, the conservative grief when he left the Wartburg. The pair (Allmächt’ge Jungfrau). Alone, Wolfram calls world of the Wartburg. Since then, his singing rejoice that they are together again. Wolfram, on the evening star to guide Elisabeth out of has won him the love of the goddess Venus. also in love with Elisabeth, realizes that he has the valley of death on her way to heaven (O no hope of winning her. du, mein holder Abendstern). ACT ONE The Landgraf tries to discover Elisabeth’s Tannhäuser enters, exhausted and bitter. Scene i. Venus and Tannhäuser celebrate their true feelings for Tannhäuser but she begs He tells Wolfram that the pope was horrified sensual life in an increasingly frenzied . him not to question her. He tells her that the at his sins and refused him pardon, telling Tannhäuser, however, has had enough of the singing contest he has announced will reveal him that he would be forgiven only if the pleasures of the Venusberg and longs to return the truth. pope’s staff sprouted green leaves. In despair, to his home. Venus urges him to forget his Once his people are assembled, the old life and to sing for her. Tannhäuser begins Landgraf announces the subject of the song Tannhäuser has decided to return to the to sing in praise of Venus’s beauty (Dir, töne contest: What is the essence of love? The Venusberg, and calls upon Venus to take him. Lob), but the song soon turns into a plea for singer who best answers the question will Wolfram urges him not to give up hope of him to be allowed to return to his earthly be awarded whatever prize he wishes by salvation. Venus appears, calling seductively life. Venus attempts to seduce Tannhäuser Elisabeth. Wolfram sings of love as a fountain to Tannhäuser to return to her. Wolfram, into remaining with her, but Tannhäuser is of pure water that he would never disturb desperate to stop Tannhäuser, calls out adamant that he must leave. Venus angrily but only worship from afar. Tannhäuser Elisabeth’s name. At that moment the men prophesizes that he will find no peace in contradicts Wolfram, saying that true love is of the Wartburg bring news of Elisabeth’s the world of men and will return to her in burning desire, rather than spiritual devotion. death, and Venus vanishes. Wolfram explains desperation. Walther tells Tannhäuser that it is he to Tannhäuser that Elisabeth has sacrificed who does not know love, stating that love herself in the hope of saving his soul. Having Scene ii. Tannhäuser finds himself back near is virtuous only if it is chaste. Tannhäuser finally understood the depth of Elisabeth’s his former home. A young boy sings a song responds with scorn, passionately proclaiming love, Tannhäuser’s final words are “Elisabeth, to the spring (Frau Holda kam aus dem Berg the importance of physical desire. This enrages pray for me.” And now a miracle is revealed: hervor) and a group of pilgrims passes by, Biterolf, who attacks Tannhäuser for insulting the pope’s staff has sprouted green leaves: reminding Tannhäuser of his guilt at having the virtue of woman. The discussion grows Tannhäuser’s soul is saved. been with Venus. He can see only a life of pain increasingly heated until Tannhäuser breaks and suffering ahead of him. into a hymn of praise to Venus, revealing Synopsis reproduced by kind permission of the Tannhäuser is discovered by the Landgraf, that he has been in the Venusberg. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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• Tannhäuser is produced in association with New-to-Chicago Production the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,

London. Richard Wagner

TANNHÄUSER • Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcasts are

generously sponsored by The Hurvis Opera in three acts in German

Family Foundation, with matching Libretto by the composer funding provided by The Matthew and Kay Initial version first performed at the Royal Theatre, Dresden, on October 19, 1845 Bucksbaum Family, The John and Jackie Revision first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on March 13, 1861 First performed by Lyric Opera on November 16, 1963 Bucksbaum Family, and Richard P. and

Susan Kiphart. Characters in order of vocal appearance:

Venus MICHAELA SCHUSTER Tannhäuser JOHAN BOTHA • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully Shepherd ANGELA MANNINOºº acknowledges the support of the Irma Hermann, Landgraf of Thuringia JOHN RELYEA Walther JESSE DONNERº Parker German Opera Endowed Chair and Biterolf DANIEL SUTIN the Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift from Wolfram GERALD FINLEY Heinrich COREY BIX* an Anonymous Donor. Reinmar RICHARD WIEGOLD* Elisabeth AMBER WAGNERºº

• Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its Principal Dancers: Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry, Brittany Amoroso*, Jacob Brooks, Brenna Dwyer*, Veronica Guadalupe, Jeffery B. Hover, Jr., Elizabeth Luse, official airline, American Airlines. Luke Manley, Joe Musiel*, Alanna Nielsen, Ashley Rockwood, James Monroe Števko, J.P. Tenuta, Nicole von Arx*

• This season’s projected English titles are Conductor SIR ANDREW DAVIS Director TIM ALBERY* funded in part by a generous grant from Set Designer MICHAEL LEVINE the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Costume Designer JON MORRELL* Lighting Designer DAVID FINN Foundation. Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Choreographer JASMIN VARDIMON* Associate Choreographer MAFALDA DEVILLE* • No one will be admitted while the Ballet Mistress AUGUST TYE Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN performance is in progress. Assistant Director GARNETT BRUCE Stage Manager CAROLINE MOORES Stage Band Conductor JONATHAN KHUNER

• The performance will last approximately Musical Preparation CRAIG TERRY ERIC WEIMER four hours and forty minutes. Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT

*Lyric Opera debut °Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °°Alumna, Ryan Opera Center

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JOHAN BOTHA AMBER WAGNER MICHAELA SCHUSTER (Tannhäuser) (Elisabeth) (Venus) Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: Six roles since 1998-99, Seven roles since 2007-08, Ortrud/Lohengrin most recently title most recently Leonora/ (2010-11). role/ (2013-14); (2014-15); Also this season: Aida, Walther von Stolzing/Die Prima Donna and title Staatsoper; Meistersinger von Nürnberg role/ Lohengrin, Netherlands (2012-13); title role/ (2011-12); Elsa/Lohengrin Opera; Mahler’s Lohengrin (2010-11). (2010-11). Symphony No. 3, City Also this season: Die Meistersinger von Also this season: Verdi , Toronto of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Nürnberg, Metropolitan Opera; Otello, Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Cologne Opera; Parsifal, Vienna Staatsoper. Philharmonique de Nice. “The two roles are not so far apart,” the German mezzo- told classicalsource. Tannhäuser has been a triumph for the “From the first notes of Tannhäuser’s grand com, speaking of Venus and Elisabeth. “Both world-renowned South African in overture,” says the American soprano, “we are very strong, but I think the princess new productions at the Vienna Staatsoper are swept into a heart-wrenching story of [Elisabeth] is the more calculating, has more (role debut) and Covent Garden: “If you redemption and devotion. Elisabeth is a symbol of an agenda. Venus is calculating when she sing Tannhäuser as it’s written, with all the in this opera – a symbol of redemption. She is sure that Tannhäuser is hers and that he pianissimi, there’s so much beautiful music. represents the ideas and the life that Tannhäuser loves her, but although she is a goddess with When Wagner composed it, there wasn’t such longs for. Her music is achingly simple, yet a lot of pride, she is really in love. When it a thing as a ‘Wagnerian tenor.’ But if you substantial and full of its own longing, as she is becomes clear that Tannhäuser intends to go read his letters to Liszt, who conducted most devoted and loves Tannhäuser. When I sing the away, she becomes more and more insecure in of his operas, you’ll find Wagner writing, ‘I aria ‘Dich, teure Halle,’ I feel Elisabeth’s hope. a human way. In Wagner it’s really important want bel canto line to be heard in my music, The song contest had gone away but now it’s that such characters become human and not although it’s in the German language.’ At back, and with it comes Tannhäuser’s return. just goddesses, because that makes them all Bayreuth, Wagner singers started getting away For Elisabeth, that represents the beginning the more interesting.” Schuster in recent from bel canto, which was a shame. I challenge of a new era.” Wagner is a Ryan Opera seasons has triumphed as Ortrud (Berlin, myself not only to make Tannhäuser’s text Center alumna whose rise to prominence Oslo, new Munich Festival production), understandable but also to sing with bel canto has been confirmed by her Elsa and Ariadne Waltraute (Amsterdam), Fricka (Stuttgart, style.” Among Botha’s other standard-setting at Lyric Opera, and by similarly prestigious Vienna), Brangäne (Berlin, Barcelona), portrayals in German repertoire are Walther appearances such as Leonora/ Sieglinde (Berlin, Dresden, Madrid, Vienna), von Stolzing (Tanglewood, Cologne, Vienna, (Washington), Ariadne (Toronto and Valencia, and Kundry (Berlin, Tokyo). She began her and this season at the Metropolitan Opera), both conducted by Sir Andrew Davis), Amelia/ career at Darmstadt’s Staatstheater in such Parsifal (Vienna), Siegmund (Bayreuth), Un ballo in maschera (Metropolitan Opera), roles as Santuzza, Charlotte, , and Lohengrin (Covent Garden, Met, Vienna, Sieglinde/Die Walküre (, DVD), Offenbach’s Giulietta. Since then, dramatic- Basel, Cologne), the Emperor/Die Frau ohne Senta/Der fliegende Holländer and Elsa (both mezzo repertoire of Verdi, Ponchielli, and Schatten (, Covent Garden, Munich), at the Savonlinna Festival), and Brangäne/ Cilea have brought her to Frankfurt (Don and / (international tour with Tristan und Isolde (European debut, Prague). Carlo), Covent Garden (Adriana Lecouvreur), West German Radio Symphony). Botha, Her Sieglinde has also been heard in concert Berlin (La Gioconda), Baden-Baden (Aida), one of today’s most eminent interpreters of (Colorado Symphony – Act One, Barcelona, and Brussels. She scored a great Otello (Lyric, Met, Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood – Act success as Marie/ in a new production Munich, San Francisco), has also scored great Three). Among her concert engagements have at the Munich Festival, and as Caesonia/ successes as Radames (Vienna, Met, Hamburg), been Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (Aspen Festival, Detlev Glanert’s Caligula in its Frankfurt world Andrea Chénier (Vienna, Hamburg), and Calaf Robert Spano conducting), Strauss’s Four Last premiere and Cologne revival. Her acclaimed (Lyric, Covent Garden, Salzburg). The tenor’s Songs (Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar Herodias/ (Covent Garden) and Nurse/ close association with the Vienna Staatsoper conducting), and Wagner’s (), both includes more than 20 starring roles and the and Verdi’s Requiem (Tucson Symphony, in the premieres of new productions, can be title of Kammersänger. He has also appeared at Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal). seen on DVD. Schuster has collaborated with the major houses of Paris, Madrid, Sydney, and A former Metropolitan Opera National many major directors, among them Sir David ; and with the leading orchestras Council Auditions national winner, the McVicar, Richard Jones, Peter Konwitschny, of , Berlin, Vienna, Boston, and soprano is featured in MONCA’s and Robert Wilson. She also works regularly Cleveland. He appears on CD in Lohengrin, The Audition. A recipient of Richard Tucker with today’s most celebrated conductors, Tristan und Isolde, Tiefland, Elektra, Daphne, Foundation and Sullivan Foundation career such as Barenboim, Bychkov, Dohnányi, and the Dvořák Stabat Mater, and two aria recitals; grants, Wagner is a former winner of the Welser-Möst. and on DVD in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Liederkranz Foundation Competition and the (Vienna), Die Walküre (Bayreuth), Aida (Met), Kirsten Flagstad Award of the George London and (Salzburg). Foundation.

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GERALD FINLEY di Siviglia, Gran Teatre del (Barcelona); have an aria onstage in my first year at Lyric, I (Wolfram) Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, was celebrating for weeks.” Donner views his Previously at Lyric Opera: Orchestra; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, acceptance into the Ryan Opera Center as “a Robert Oppenheimer/ Toronto Symphony Orchestra. reward of some sort for having optimism when Doctor Atomic (2007-08); it’s easy to be pessimistic about this career path. Papageno/Die Zauberflöte The American says of his character in To get the kind of training I’m getting here (2001-02); Count/Capriccio this opera, “In a ‘traditional’ Tannhäuser, is beyond what I could have imagined.” The (1994-95). he’s an early medieval nobleman who ruled tenor recently completed graduate and post- Also this season: The Rake’s over a central part of Germany in what was graduate studies at the University of Progress, Metropolitan essentially a dukedom. He oversees the singing (Bacchus/Ariadne auf Naxos, title role/Der Opera; Falstaff, ; competition, which was common at the time; Kaiser von Atlantis, Lucano/L’incoronazione di Guillaume Tell, Covent Garden. the Minnesänger were influenced by the French Poppea). He previously received a bachelor troubadours and sang about love in all levels of music degree from Iowa State University. The Grammy Award-winning Canadian bass- of society. The Landgraf is also a grounding The Des Moines native received the 2014 sang his first Wagner role, Hans force for good, which is great, because I George Shirley Award for Opera Performance, Sachs/Die Meistersinger, to unanimous acclaim haven‘t played a force for good onstage in a a special encouragement award from the 2014 in 2011 at Glyndebourne (CD, DVD). He long time – I’ve been a pretty bad guy! He’s Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional explained in The Guardian that “people did like a mixture of Marke in Tristan, Heinrich Auditions, and first place in the 2012 Michigan keep saying that not only would I enjoy in Lohengrin, even Sarastro. I love all these Friends of Opera Competition. Other credits [Wagner repertoire], it would help me open very ‘bass-y parts,’ with real legato line. The include Pinkerton/ with up as an artist. And so ultimately I thought if Landgraf has empathy, force, and fire.” Relyea Opera in the Ozarks and concerts with the this is going to help me sing better, why am I is a favorite at the Metropolitan Opera, where Toledo Symphony, Adrian Symphony, and resisting?” Finley has triumphed in all the major he has sung 14 roles since 2000, among them Symphony Orchestra. bass-baritone roles of Mozart (venues including Mozart’s Figaro, Rossini’s Don Basilio, and the Jesse Donner is sponsored by Anne Gross and the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Méphistophélès of both Gounod and Berlioz. Robert C. Marks. Covent Garden, Vienna, Munich, Salzburg); Since completing his tenure as an Adler Fellow as Onegin, Yeletsky, and Golaud (all of which at , Relyea has starred DANIEL SUTIN he has sung at Covent Garden); and in the role at SFO and many other prestigious houses, (Biterolf) of Robert Oppenheimer/’s Doctor including those of Seattle, Toronto, London Previously at Lyric Opera: Atomic, which he created (San Francisco, (Covent Garden), Paris, Munich, Vienna, Nachtigall/Die Meistersinger Amsterdam, Lyric, Met, CD, DVD): “I like and St. Petersburg. Last season brought him von Nürnberg (2012-13); it that we have stories from today that can successes in (Met, opposite Renée Sonora/La fanciulla del be reflected or discussed or approached via Fleming), I Lombardi (Hamburg), and concerts West (2010-11); One-Eyed contemporary music, voice and theater. But with the major orchestras of Cleveland, Brother/Die Frau ohne you do attempt to look at any material as San Francisco, Washington, Toronto, and Schatten (2007-08). if it was the first night. You try to think of Hamburg. He has collaborated with many Also this season: Wagner’s notes as still being wet on the page, of the world’s most important conductors, Madama Butterfly, Hawaii Opera Theatre, and you try to connect musically with people from Boulez, Davis, Haitink, and Levine to Opera Las Vegas. in a way that perhaps they haven’t experienced Rattle, Pappano, Gergiev, and Dudamel. His before.” Finley’s other world premieres include discography includes works of Mozart, Verdi, “My feeling is that Biterolf is in love with Mark Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole (Covent and Mahler, and he appears on DVD in Elisabeth,” says the American baritone. “That’s Garden, DVD) and The Silver Tassie (English Met productions of , , one reason for his disliking Tannhäuser. He’s National Opera, earning Finley the Royal Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and . bitter and he feels, too, that Tannhäuser is Philharmonic Society Award for Singers), and Relyea is a former winner of both the Beverly too big on himself. There are some parts Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (Los Angeles Sills Award (2009) and the Richard Tucker in Biterolf’s music that do require lyricism, Opera). Finley recently sang his first Iago/ Award (2003). when I’m singing in my aria about love and Otello with the London Symphony Orchestra women’s honor. But when Tannhäuser says (CD). Prominent in his large discography are JESSE DONNER ‘You should all go to Venus!’ Biterolf leads many solo discs, including Britten’s Songs and (Walther) the group in saying to Elisabeth, ‘How can Proverbs (Gramophone Award in the Vocal Previously at Lyric Opera: you let your heart be deluded by such a Solo category, 2011), Schubert’s Winterreise, Servant/Capriccio (2014-15). blasphemer? Get away from him – he should and songs by Schumann, Shostakovich, Ives, be sent back to the pit of hell!’” Sutin scored and Barber. Finley was appointed an Officer of “I’m very excited about my a great success at the Metropolitan Opera the Order of Canada in July 2014. role in Tannhäuser,” says last season, replacing at the American tenor, a first- the last moment in the title role/Wozzeck JOHN RELYEA year member of the Ryan (conducted by ). His varied Met (Hermann, Landgraf of Opera Center. “It will be roles have included the Journalist/ (debut, Thuringia) wonderful in this production to be in the 2002), Ping/Turandot, Shchelkalov/Boris Previously at Lyric Opera: shadow of important Wagner singers. Johan Godunov, the One-Eyed Brother/Die Frau ohne Henry VIII/Anna Bolena Botha’s voice is thrilling! In the same way that Schatten, and Paris/Roméo et Juliette (premiere, (2014-15); Méphistophélès/ Capriccio was a great experience for me, this new production). Among other important opera is, too, with a lot of ensemble singing. I appearances throughout North America have (2009-10). have just enough moments of solo singing to been the title role/Il barbiere di Siviglia (Opera Also this season: Il barbiere make an impression. When I realized that I’d Las Vegas), Tonio/ (Austin Lyric

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Opera), Macbeth (Boston Lyric Opera), Orest/ RICHARD WIEGOLD Also this season: Le nozze di Figaro, The Elektra and Paolo/ (Canadian (Reinmar) Dallas Opera; Floyd’s Markheim, Little Opera Opera Company, the latter also at L’Opéra Lyric Opera debut of ; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, de Montréal), Count di Luna (COC, also at Also this season: Tristan Louisana Philharmonic. the Caramoor Festival), Silvio ( und Isolde, North Carolina Opera), Iago (Palm Beach Opera), Sharpless Opera; Die Zauberflöte, “I’m not going to try to sound like a little boy (Michigan Opera Theatre), and Wozzeck (New Opéra Théâtre de in this role,” says the -born soprano, Jersey Opera Festival). Sutin performed four St. Étienne (France); a Ryan Opera Center alumna. “When I sang roles in Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty at both Guillaume Tell, Welsh the Shepherd in , that needed a child- Spoleto USA and the Festival. National Opera. like sound, but this time it’s more like last Among his European credits are Germont and season, when I sang an Esquire in Parsifal: Sharpless (Savonlinna Festival), Count di Luna The Welsh bass, who has sung Reinmar Sir Andrew Davis asked me just to sing it, and Wozzeck (Krefeld/Mönchengladbach), previously at Toulouse’s Théâtre du Capitole, without manipulating anything.” Earlier this Onegin and Marcello (Darmstadt), Germont considers Tannhäuser “some of Wagner’s most season Mannino returned to The Dallas Opera (Nationale Reisopera in Enschede, Holland), thrilling music. The end of Act Two also has an as Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro (“It was fun and performances with the Stuttgart, Zurich, interesting dynamic, with some people saying to repeat the role in the same production I’d and Basel opera companies. what they think they should say and others done at Lyric”) and portrayed Tess/Carlisle saying what they actually believe.” Wiegold’s Floyd’s Markheim in New York: “With the COREY BIX (Heinrich) Wagner roles include Marke/Tristan und Rockettes representing New York at Christmas Lyric Opera debut Isolde (Prague State Opera), Colonna/ for so many people, it was interesting to have a Also this season: Floyd’s (Toulouse), Schwarz/Die Meistersinger (Covent somewhat dark Christmas piece going on.” She Of Mice and Men, Garden), Daland/The Flying Dutchman (Dorset was thrilled that Floyd himself was present for Tulsa Opera. Opera Festival), and his first Gurnemanz/ the Markheim performances (“The opportunity Parsifal (Estonian National Opera), “my to perform for a living composer who’s so The American tenor has favorite role by miles. He has a sense of well known doesn’t come along very often”). scored major successes in wonder in everything, an understanding of Mannino earned her graduate degree at a wide variety of German what’s going on, that is very pleasing to be University (Despina, Blondchen, Musetta, repertoire. Last season, part of.” Last season Wiegold made role debuts Miss Titmouse/Too Many ). She has a for example, he was heard as Edgar Aubry/ as Banco/Macbeth (Palm Beach Opera) and close association with New Orleans Opera (Le Marschner’s Der Vampyr (New Orleans Timur/Turandot (Utah Opera). He also joined nozze di Figaro, Suor Angelica, , Opera), Bacchus/Ariadne auf Naxos (marking for Cendrillon, Un ballo in maschera). The soprano his return to the Glimmerglass Festival), Erik/ and Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream and is a former apprentice artist at The Santa Fe Der fliegende Holländer (Arizona Opera), the returned to Glyndeborne for , both Opera and Central City Opera. She debuted Fourth Jew/Salome ( in the summer and on tour to the at the Metropolitan Opera in Lulu, and has under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin) Academy of Music. Wiegold debuted at Covent scored successes in leading roles at Opera and – in a rare excursion into comic repertoire Garden as Dr. Grenvi/: “Singing Omaha (), Opera Grand Rapids – Alfred/ (Anchorage Opera). with Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, and (), Madison Opera (Don Giovanni), Among his recent concert appearances has been Joseph Calleja, I couldn’t have started in a Maine’s Bar Harbor Music Festival (Roméo et Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 (American better way! I feel a sense of history at Covent Juliette, Le nozze di Figaro), Kentucky Opera Symphony Orchestra). Bix began his European Garden, with so many extraordinary singers (Cendrillon), Wolf Trap Opera (Il turco in career as the Prince/Rusalka at the Greek having given some of their most extraordinary Italia, Wolf-Ferrari’s Le donne curiose), and National Opera, returning there as Stravinsky’s performances there.” The bass has also been the Wolf Trap Foundation (John Musto’s The . Since then he has been heard as heard with the Royal Philharmonic, Hallé Inspector, world premiere, CD). Erik (Budapest), the Emperor/Die Frau ohne Orchestra, , and the Buxton Schatten (Graz), Stolzing (Kiel), the title role/ Festival. Other important achievements Flotow’s Alessandro Stradella (Giessen), and a outside Britain include Salome (Salzburg Easter much-acclaimed Bacchus (Vienna, Karlsuhe). Festival, Verbier Festival, Berlin Philharmonic), PRINCIPAL DANCERS Among the other major venues that have Don Giovanni (Canadian Opera Company, welcomed the tenor are , where he has also sung Pelléas et Mélisande), JONATHAN Des Moines Metro Opera, The , Martinu’s Julietta (Geneva’s Grand Théâtre), EMANUELL ALSBERRY the Bard Music Festival, and . Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper (Wexford Previously at Lyric Opera: Bix has built his career with exceptional care: Festival, CD), and Walton’s Façade (Mexico Rinaldo, Aida (both 2011- “People early on told me I’d have the dramatic City’s Orquesta Filharmónica de la UNAM). 12). voice I have now,” the tenor told taminophile. com, “but who knew what to do with that? It ANGELA MANNINO The dancer is a graduate was fortunate that I won the George London (Shepherd) of Chicago Academy for Competition, and that I met Evelyn Lear and Previously at Lyric Opera: the Arts and The Juilliard Thomas Stewart. They told me, ‘You’re going to Seven roles since 2008- School. He has performed have to wait.’” Today Bix believes strongly that 09, most recently First with the Metropolitan Opera ballet, Luna Negra artists of his generation should serve as mentors: Esquire, Flowermaiden/ Dance Theater, Momenta!, Daniel Gwirtzman “Even if we aren’t singers with 50-year careers, Parsifal (2013-14); Dance Company, and Baryshnikov’s Hell’s the knowledge we have from living in this career Barbarina/Le nozze di Kitchen Dance. In addition to dancing, he is is very beneficial to young singers. It’s nice to be Figaro (2009-10). rehearsal director with Aszure Barton & Artists able to share that.” and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. Alsberry

30 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO is the creator of the online dance company direction of Gustavo Ramirez Sansano. In the dancer earned a bachelor of science degree KDT, recipient of a 2011 creative residency at addition, she has been seen in Chicago Opera in ballet performance at Indiana University, The Joyce Soho in , and guest Theater’s production of Maria de Buenos Aires, and performing there in works by George choreographer for Chicago Academy for the Arts. has worked with Chicago-based companies, Balanchine, Gerald Arpino, and John Clifford. Hedwig and Dance in the Parks. She also spent a summer training at The Joffrey BRITTANY AMOROSO Ballet Summer Program in New York. Luse Lyric Opera debut VERONICA has been a company member of GUADALUPE (2005-08), NoMi LaMad Dance, Inc. (2009- The dancer is an alumna Previously at Lyric Opera: 11), Dance in the Parks (2012), and Winifred of the University of Rusalka (2013-14); La Hann and Dancers (2011-present). She has , Santa Barbara, damnation de Faust (2009- also been a guest artist with Madison Ballet, where she received the 10); (2008-09). Peoria Ballet, , and Ron De 2012 Tonia Shimin Award Jesús Dance. for Excellence and Promise The dancer’s previous in the Field of Dance. operatic appearances LUKE MANLEY She began her training with the Teen Dance include Maria de Buenos Previously at Lyric Opera: Company of the Bay Area and continued with Aires at last season Five productions since the Hubbard Intensive and the and Alceste at The Santa Fe Opera in 2009. 2004-05, most recently Lou Conte Dance Studio. She apprenticed She has also been seen in Chicago with Luna Rusalka, La traviata, Die with Chicago Repertory Ballet in spring 2014. Negra Dance Theater (2009-12), River North Fledermaus (all 2013-14). Amoroso performed from 2012 to 2014 with Chicago Dance Company (apprentice, 2001- Chicago’s Rephrase Dance Collective. She has 02), and Dance Chicago (2000- The Michigan native began also appeared with the UC Santa Barbara 01). Guadalupe is an alumna of the year-round his training with Ballet Dance Company, with which she toured to program at Virginia School of the Arts, and Chicago, where he performed New York and Italy. has also trained at Alba Dance International in with the Studio Company in such Balanchine Italy. Among the choreographers with whom works as Serenade, Theme and Variations, and JACOB BROOKS she has collaborated have been Gustavo Ramirez Who Cares?. He continued his dance education Previously at Lyric Opera: Sansano, Harrison McEldowney, Randy at the Hubbard Street Dance Center. He began La clemenza de Tito (2013- Duncan, Ron de Jesus, and Septime Webre. dancing professionally with River North Chicago 14); Show Boat (2011-12). Dance Company, subsequently appearing JEFFERY B. HOVER, JR. with American Repertory Ballet (New Jersey), The dancer has appeared Previously at Lyric Opera: Armitage Gone! Dance Company (New York), with Houston Grand Capriccio (2014-15); Ballet X (Philadelphia), and Ballet NY. He has Opera (Show Boat), The Die Fledermaus (2013-14); also performed with The Dallas Opera (Aida), Dallas Opera (Aida), and Ensemble/Oklahoma! the (Now & Forever: Music of Opera (Samson (2012-13). Andrew Lloyd Webber), Chicago Shakespeare et Dalila, Tannhäuser, Aida, Rigoletto), and Theater (Timon of Athens), and Boheme Opera with Madison Ballet and Ballet Chicago The dancer has been fea- (Diesel/West Side Story). (guest artist), (soloist), tured with Giordano Dance Chicago (member of second (2004-07), New Jersey JOE MUSIEL company), Ballet (2004-06), and Dance Kaleidescope Lyric Opera debut (apprentice), and The of Chicago (2004-07). Hover was seen last year on the (supernumerary/dancer). Brooks trained with first national tour of Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly The dancer began his Daniel Duell at Ballet Chicago, with Graca Away. Under Gemze de Lappe’s direction, he training during his senior Sales and Ariel Cisneros, and at Columbia performed the original de Mille year of high school at College, Academy of Movement and Music, for Oklahoma! at The Muny in St. Louis. He Academy of Dance Arts Chicago Academy for the Arts, and the West has been seen in Aida (The Dallas Opera, in Fishers, Indiana and Indian Company. He has received Opera Carolina); in Samson et Dalila (San later attended Indiana the ACT-SO Dance Award from the NAACP. Diego); Mumbai, in Jamshed Bhaba University for Dance. Theatre’s Nutcracker, and in Russia with He has had the opportunity be a part of BRENNA DWYER . Hover trained at Butler Giordano Dance Chicago’s second company Lyric Opera debut University, , and The Rock and to work with a variety of renowned artists School (Pennsylvania). and companies, such as Roni Koresh, Brock The dancer began her early Clawson, Keigwin + Company, Parsons Dance training in Cary, North ELIZABETH LUSE Company, Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, Ballet Carolina. After graduating Previously at Lyric Opera: Chicago, and Deeply Rooted Dance. Last from the University of Rusalka, Die Fledermaus March he was announced the winner of Inaside North Carolina at Chapel (both 2013-14); Die Dance Chicago’s Choreographic Sponsorship Hill, she moved to New Meistersinger von Nürnberg Event. He recently finished setting his new York City to continue her (2012-13). work on them for their upcoming performance. training at The Ailey School on full scholarship, going on to dance for the Franecsca Harper Following eight years at Project. 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ALANNA NIELSEN J. P. TENUTA Lyric Opera’s music director is particularly Lyric Opera debut Previously at Lyric Opera: struck by the fact that Tannhäuser is “the first Seven productions since of Wagner’s operas where there is a division A 2013 scholarship recipient 2006-07, most recently – a conflict – between the sensual world and at Chicago’s Visceral La clemenza di Tito, Die the spiritual world.” Sir Andrew relishes the Dance Center, Nielsen also Fledermaus, Parsifal pilgrims’ music, “extraordinarily effective trained at the Lou Conte (all 2013-14). writing for male chorus, including the ‘big Dance Studio (2010-13) as tune,’ which is sung in unison. It has a great well as at Northern Illinois The dancer has appeared simplicity and directness – you have to go University, where she since 2000 with Chicago’s to Parsifal to see the same kind of writing. received the Dance Service Award and earned Academy of Movement and Music (major The religious side of this score is actually very her B. F. A. in theater with a concentration in roles in Don Quixote, Paquita, Coppelia, and memorable, while the scene in the Venusberg dance in 2013. In that same year she appeared Raymonda, among many other ) and and the music for Venus herself have a quite in ’s Hungry Ghosts for Dance with MOMENTA Performing Arts Company extraordinary allure.” Chief conductor of the Chicago’s “Choreographic Showcase” at the (solo/featured roles in works by Frank Chaves, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew is . She has also been seen Ron De Jesus, Randy Duncan and Jon Lehrer, former music director of Glyndebourne Festival with DanszLoop Chicago at Stage 773, with plus extensive classical repertory). Tenuta has Opera and currently conductor laureate of both DanceWorks Chicago, and in a wide repertoire appeared in the Duell/Balanchine ballet Who the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the BBC with Northern Dance Theatre in DeKalb, Ilinois. Cares? with Ballet Chicago (2010) and in The Symphony Orchestra. His operatic successes Nutcracker, , and Con Spirito include recent return engagements at Covent ASHLEY ROCKWOOD for the Civic Ballet of Chicago (2006-10). He Garden (Capriccio), Glyndebourne (Billy Budd), Previously at Lyric Opera: has also been a soloist with Chicago Festival and the BBC Proms (The Midsummer Marriage). Show Boat (2011-12). Ballet in . Tenuta is an alumnus He has conducted for many other major houses, of Northern Illinois University. among them the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, The dancer performed for the , and the major companies seven years with Giordano NICOLE VON ARX of Munich, Paris, San Francisco, and Santa Fe. Dance Chicago. She has Lyric Opera debut In 2014 he returned to one of his specialties, also been seen in the Chi- the music of Elgar, for The Saga of King cago Symphony Orchestra’s The dancer has recently Olaf ( Philharmonic) and The Kingdom “Welcome Yule” perfor- performed at the and The Apostles (BBC Symphony Orchestra). mances. Credits outside Chicago include Metropolitan Opera Last season he also undertook concerts with appearances in Pittsburgh with the Playhouse (Rigoletto); in Norway and the major orchestras of New York, Toronto, Dance Company and Pittsburgh Civic Light internationally with Carte Montreal, and Boston. Sir Andrew has appeared Opera (42nd Street, The Music Man, Hello, Blanche (The Norwegian with virtually every internationally prominent Dolly!, Me and My Girl). She has also appeared National Company of orchestra, including those of Chicago, Berlin, on television in two programs with Beyoncé, ); with Loni Landon Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and London. A vast Oprah’s Surprise Spectacular and the Bill- Dance Projects (San Francisco, Washington discography documents the British conductor’s board Music Awards; in as DC and assisting the choreographer at The artistry, with recent CDs including works a cover model; and in industrial shows for ); and with the Bryan Arias of York Bowen (1st and 2nd Symphonies, Abbott, Follett, and Fleishman Hillard, among Project (Without Notice, premiered at the 6th Grammy nomination for Best Orchestral others. Rockwood is an alumna of Point Park International Choreography Competition in Performance, 2011), Elgar, Delius, and Holst. University in Pittsburgh. Copenhagen, for which von Arx received first See “The Ultimate Challenge,” page 16. prize and the audience award). She has also been JAMES MONROE seen at Chicago’s Hubbard Street Summer; TIM ALBERY (Director) ŠTEVKO Springboard Danse Montréal; One Night with Lyric Opera debut Previously at Lyric Opera: Cirque du Soleil and One Drop Foundation; and Also this season: Katya Six operas since 2009-10, The Joyce Theatre’s DRA (Dancers Responding Kabanova, Boston Lyric most recently Rusalka to AIDS), among many other venues. Opera; Don Carlo, Opera (2013-14); Die Meistersinger Philadelphia; La finta von Nürnberg (2012-13); giardiniera, The Santa Fe Rinaldo (2011-12). Opera. SIR ANDREW DAVIS The Houston native studied (Conductor) Tim Albery is closely music before beginning his dance training Previously at Lyric Opera: associated with all the major British opera in college. He earned a bachelor of fine arts 48 operas since 1987, most companies, including degree in theatre arts from Northern Illinois recently Capriccio, Don (Billy Budd, , Lohengrin, From the University. Besides his appearances at the Giovanni (2014-15); La House of the Dead, , War and Metropolitan Opera (Un ballo in maschera), clemenza di Tito (2013-14). Peace), Covent Garden (Chérubin, The Flying Washington National Opera (), and Also this season: The Dutchman, Tannhäuser), Opera North, Scottish Lyric Opera of Kansas City (Carmen), he has Passenger, Lyric Opera; The Opera, and Welsh National Opera. In 2003 also performed at The Muny in St. Louis (The Merry Widow and Hansel he staged the Ring cycle for Scottish Opera King and I), Milwaukee Ballet (Nutcracker, and Gretel, Metropolitan Opera; concerts with at the Edinburgh Festival and in 2013 Peter Sleeping Beauty), Dance for Life 2010, and with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Grimes on the Beach, winner of the International RPM Productions (The Day of the Gypsy and the major orchestras of the BBC, Melbourne, Opera Award for Best Production, in the open Cats, Paramount Theatre). Liverpool, and Toronto. air for the Aldeburgh Festival. Productions 32 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO on the continent include Peter Grimes, Simon Opera – Simon McBurney), Carmen (De for Tannhäuser,” says Morrell, “was to create Boccanegra, Ariadne auf Naxos (Munich’s Nederlandse Opera – Robert Carsen), Rigoletto costumes that described a contemporary though Bayerische Staatsoper); Benvenuto Cellini, (, Madrid – Monique Wage-makers), not specific time, they could be recent past, Beatrice and Benedict, La Wally (Netherlands Der fliegende Holländer (Royal Opera House, present or near future. They locate the people Opera); and La Wally (Bregenz Festival). His Covent Garden – Tim Albery), L’incoronazione di in no specific place, though associations can operatic work has also been seen throughout Poppea (Glyndebourne Festival Opera – Robert be made with familiar conflict zones. We have North America, including productions at the Carsen), Madama Butterfly – The Metropolitan combined ideas that might suggest a repressive Metropolitan Opera (A Midsummer Night’s Opera/English National Opera – Anthony and conservative community, a hostile world Dream, The Merry Widow) and in Santa Fe, St. Minghella), A Disappearing Number (Complicite, devoid of aesthetic beauty. Conversely the choices Paul, Dallas, and Toronto. Albery is drawn to London – Simon McBurney), ’s The we made for the Venusberg were intended to works outside of the standard repertoire: “As Showgirl Must Go On, (Colosseum Las Vegas), celebrate sensuality and beauty.” a theater director, if you offered me Cymbeline the Ring cycle (Canadian Opera Company, where or , I’d choose Cymbeline. My instincts he also directed and designed Das Rheingold), DAVID FINN are that it’s always more challenging to take the and Candide, Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet, La (Lighting Designer) pieces that either aren’t known or are thought Scala, English National Opera – Robert Carsen). Previously at Lyric Opera: of as insoluble. With opera, my productions of Levine’s work has been honored with a Gemini Rusalka (2013-14). Massenet’s Chérubin and Keiser’s King , Award, the Paris Critics Prize, The Edinburgh Also this season: Roméo et both rarely performed, have been highlights Festival Drama and Music Award, two Dora Juliette, Deutsche Oper for me. These are great pieces that people Awards, and a Toronto Arts Award. Levine is a Berlin; Die Walküre, don’t know and they excite me more than the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, appointed by the Canadian Opera 400th Tosca.” Among Albery’s theater credits government of France. Company; ; Le nozze di are As You Like It at London’s Old Vic Theatre; Figaro, Opera Australia. Wallenstein and Macbeth, both at the Royal JON MORRELL Shakespeare Company; Berenice at the National (Costume Designer) “Michael Levine and Tim Albery have Theatre; Attempts on Her Life at the Royal Lyric Opera debut created an extremely poetic interpretation of ; and Mary Stuart at London’s Also this season: Partenope, Wagner’s work that is dramatically conclusive Greenwich Theatre. San Francisco Opera; and aesthetically arresting,” says the American Otello, English National designer. “In the black void that unifies the MICHAEL LEVINE Opera; La finta giardiniera, evening, my goal was to make sense visually (Set Designer) The Santa Fe Opera. out of the duality of the space – that of the Previously at Lyric Opera: expressionist looks of a modern theater, sensual Four productions since The British designer trained and complete with theatrical allegory. Seen in 1991-92, most recently at London’s Central School of Art and Design. Act One, that duality represents the allure of the (2007-08); Awarded the Olivier Award for Best Costume mythological Venusberg, which then ultimately Dialogues des Carmélites Design in 2013 for the musical Top Hat, Morrell crumbles and decays under the power of nature (2006-07); Rigoletto (2000- has created opera productions with many major and at the hands of humanity, to represent the 01). directors. With Tim Albery: Tannhäuser, Covent Wartburg – the earthly setting in Acts Two Also this season: Wozzeck, Garden; Aida, Canadian Opera Company; La and Three.” In addition to Tim Albery, Finn Operanhaus Zürich; Tansy Davies’s Between Bohème, English National Opera. With David enjoys ongoing collaborations with such major Worlds (world premiere), English National Alden: Otello, ENO, Die Meistersinger von directors as Sir David McVicar, Sergio Morabito Opera; Hänsel und Gretel, De Nederlandse Nürnberg, De Nederlandse Opera; Rossini’s and Jossi Wieler, Willy Decker, and François Opera (Amsterdam). Maometto Secondo, The Santa Fe Opera; Rossini’s Girard. He has since undertaken six Salzburg La gazza ladra, ; Mayr’s Medea Festival productions, five at Covent Garden, “The design is an exploration of the power in Corinto, Theater St. Gallen;Jenůfa , Houston the Ring (Toronto, Stuttgart), the Mozart/da of music to heal the divide of body and the Grand Opera/Washington National Opera/ Ponte trilogy (Amsterdam), and productions soul,” says the Canadian designer. “I have tried ENO; Cavalli’s Giasone, Spoleto USA; and Katya for the Brussels, Florence, Graz, and San to represent this debate in the theater itself, Kabanova, Dallas, Houston. With Christopher Francisco opera companies. Achievements in where we still search for truth and beauty, Alden: Handel’s Partenope, Opera Australia/ theater include productions at the American even in our digital age.” Levine’s recent work ENO/San Francisco Opera; Tosca, Opera North- Conservatory Theater, National Theater of includes Tannhäuser (Royal Opera House, UK/Opera Australia; Wozzeck, Dallas. With Czechoslovakia, Sundance Theater Institute, and Covent Garden – Tim Albery, director), The Graham Vick: La clemenza di Tito, Turin. With The Children’s Theater of Minneapolis. Film Queen of Spades (Opernhaus Zürich – Robert Jonathan Miller Schreker’s , work includes directing a documentary, The Carsen), Die Zauberflöte(De Nederlandse Opera, Zürich. Other major achievements include Angels Green Monster, for PBS’s POV series. Finn has Amsterdam – Simon McBurney; Baden-Baden in America (Paris’s Châtelet), Iphigénie en Tauride worked extensively in dance (White Oak Dance Festival – Robert Carsen; Hungarian National (Hamburg Staatsoper), and Rigoletto (Scottish Project, Twyla Tharp & Dancers, Birmingham Opera, Budapest – Laszlo Marton), The Rape of Opera, New Zealand Opera). In addition to Top Royal Ballet, the major ballet companies of Lucretia (Glyndebourne Festival Opera – Fiona Hat, Morrell’s extensive theater credits include His Munich, Sydney, Paris, Lyon, Houston, San Shaw), Parsifal (Opéra de Lyon – coproduction Dark Materials and The Winter’s Tale, directed by Francisco, and Toronto). Architectural lighting with Metropolitan Opera and Canadian Opera Nicholas Hytner for London’s National Theatre. design work includes dozens of restaurants, Company – François Girard), Don Giovanni and He has also designed for choreographers Ashley retail and theater spaces, and the case study Les contes d’Hoffmann (La Scala – Robert Carsen), Page (London's Royal Ballet, , San glass house, Kramlich Residence, with architects Rigoletto (Canadian Opera Company, Toronto Francisco Ballet) and Christopher Wheeldon Herzog & de Meuron in Napa Valley. Finn has – Christopher Alden), Alexander Raskatov’s (, , worked twice for Cirque du Soleil, including A Dog’s Heart (world premiere, De Nederlandse ). “My work with Tim Albery lighting for Michael Jackson ONE in Las Vegas.

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MICHAEL BLACK with the capacity of human nature to produce artist for the CAT project at Trinity Laban (Chorus Master) brutality, and the responsibility of an artist in Conservatoire of Music and Dance, she created Previously at Lyric Opera: that world. Wagner came to mind, but I found Murmur (2013) and remounted that work for Chorus master since 2013- his Venusberg full of love, a celebration of life Shoreditch YDC. 14; interim chorus master, and lust. Tannhäuser, though, contains in him 2011-12. the struggle of an artist between two worlds, AUGUST TYE between popularity and integrity to his roots (Movement Director) Lyric’s chorus master and his art – between his responsibilities and his Previously at Lyric considers the men’s desires. The Venusberg, therefore, is created to Opera: 31 productions opening sequence (sung portray that one world he is struggling to leave.” since 1993-94 as dancer, with the Shepherd) “very difficult to keep in Born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Vardimon choreographer, or ballet tune, because the chorus is unaccompanied. was a member of the Kibbutz Dance Company mistress, most recently The entrance of the guests in Act Two is for five years. She resettled permanently in the Porgy and Bess, Capriccio, about grand-scale sound. The end of Act Two U. K. after receiving the British Council’s “On the Don Giovanni, goes on for some 60 pages, with a lot of text Way to London” Choreography Award (1995). (all 2014-15). and little interjections. The Pilgrims’ Chorus At the same time she founded the Jasmin starts offstage in four parts, and then becomes Vardimon Company (previously Zbang), which The American dancer-choreographer’s operatic unison when they appear onstage. It’s my has earned great acclaim in Britain and inter- credits include remounting the choreography favorite choral music of Wagner, and a melody nationally. An associate artist at Sadler’s Wells, of Lyric’s Iphigénie en Tauride at San Francisco everyone can hum – probably one of the three Vardimon was appointed to the same position Opera and Covent Garden. She has presented or four most famous choruses ever written.” at The Place (1998) and was a partner at a 20-year retrospective of her work at Chicago’s Chorus master from to 2001 to 2013 at Opera Yorkshire Dance (1999-2005). Lullaby gained Vittum Theater and Dance Center, Australia (where he worked on Tannhäuser for Vardimon selection for the BBC documentary as well as in her hometown, Kalamazoo, performances under Philippe Auguin, Simone Dance Film Academy, charting the development Michigan. Tye is a past recipient of Regional Young, and the late Richard Hickox), Black of a film version of the piece (2005). She has Dance America’s Best Young Choreographer prepared the OA chorus for more than 90 choreographed for the Royal Opera House Award and the Monticello Choreographer’s operas and many concert works. He returned (Tannhäuser) and for ROH2’s OperaShots Award; the latter garnered her invitations to there last season for musical preparation of season. Other commissions include Bitef Theatre choreograph throughout America. In addition Otello. At OA he progressed from rehearsal Belgrade, Hellenic Dance Athens, CandoCo, to Lyric Opera, she has performed in Chicago pianist to assistant chorus master and children’s WID, Bare Bones, Transitions and curating the with Joel Hall Dancers, Salt Creek Ballet, and chorus master, before his appointment as chorus Dance Ballads Festival at the Oval House. In Second City Ballet. Tye is artistic director master. He has served in that capacity for such 2013, Vardimon was guest artistic director for the and principal ballet instructor at the Hyde distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh first year of the National Youth Dance Company. Park School of Dance, which she founded Festival, Holland Park Opera (London), and, in 1993. Four years later she founded Tyego in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra MAFALDA DEVILLE Dance Project, which has performed at (including Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, led by (Associate Choreographer) Steppenwolf, the Athenaeum, and throughout Vladimir Ashkenazy), and Philharmonia Choir, Lyric Opera debut America in a revival of Spike Jones’s Nutcracker. Motet Choir, and Cantillation chamber choir. One of Australia’s most prominent vocal The Portugal native studied SARAH HATTEN accompanists, Black regularly performed for in Porto at Ginasiano (Wigmaster and Makeup recitals, broadcasts, and recordings (he was Dance School, followed Designer) heard numerous times in Australian Broadcast by London Contemporary Previously at Lyric Corporation programs). He has been a lecturer at Dance School of the Opera: Wigmaster and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, of which Place. She worked with makeup designer since he is an alumnus. Black also holds a master’s BCN Dance Company, Portugal (2000), 2011-12. degree in musicology from the University of later becoming the company’s resident New South Wales. choreographer. Deville is closely associated Lyric’s wigmaster and with the Jasmin Vardimon Company as makeup designer has JASMIN VARDIMON dancer, rehearsal director and director of the worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines (Choreographer) educational project since 2003. Among her Metro Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre Lyric Opera debut works are Kouglof (2006), I prefer to stand... (both since 2006), as well as Columbus Opera, Also this season: PARK, simbolically (2007); Mata-me em series (2011); Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, Jasmin Vardimon Company, In Between, Bliss (2014); two projects for and the University of Cincinnati College- U.K. tour; Maze (installation/ Sadler’s Wells in London, Sum of Parts (2011) Conservatory of Music. She has also worked dance/art), collaboration and Compass (2012); and Transforming Steps at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major between Vardimon and in Kolkata, India (performed at Sadler’s Wells, opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, designer Ron Arad, Winter 2011). She was choreographer for RIOT Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well Gardens, Margate, U.K. Offspring at Sadler’s Wells Theatre (2013) and as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, Silence for JV2 (2013). Deville collaborated in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the The choreographer, winner of the 2013 Inter- with theater director Tiago Rodrigues as a Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A. in national Theatre Institute Award for Excellence choreographer for his production Interpretacão music at Simpson College. in Dance, explains that “When Tim Albery (2014) with the Mundo Perfeito company. approached me to create the Venusberg, I She choreographed Mein Name ist Mensch was in the middle of creating for my own (2012) and Fremd (2013) for Perform[d]ance company a large scale piece called 7734. It dealt in Stralsund, Germany. As a commissioned 34 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

notes that she withdrew from the song contest after Tannhäuser disappeared. Tannhäuser’s decision to leave the Wartburg thus affected THE TWO FACES OF VENUS not only her but the community at large. Only with this news is Wolfram able to convince IN WAGNER’S TANNHÄUSER Tannhäuser to return. He thereby enables the revival of the song contest that forms the By Katherine Syer opera’s central act, when he will compete with his friend for Elisabeth’s hand. The Wartburg is a bleak place without song, and we can understand Wolfram’s desire to resume the contest as in part altruistic. Still, he does his best to win. He promises not to ripple the waters of the well that is the subject of his paean to a chaste kind of love. A passionate side of him sears through that controlled surface, but only later when he implores heaven to deem his song the winner. All to no avail, however, for Elisabeth unwaveringly supports Tannhäuser, even after he openly praises the goddess Venus and admits to dallying in her licentious grotto. On the brink of being run through by the swords of the astonished and hostile Wartburg men, Tannhäuser is offered the chance to join a group of pilgrims seeking absolution. It’s an amazing scene when the pilgrims first grace the stage in the opening act. A rapid set change carries us from the subterranean Venusberg to the valley beneath Wartburg Castle. From a realm that is lushly orchestrated and overflowing with intimacy and dancing, we arrive in a much simpler place in which the orchestra is silent for a stretch. The shepherd boy who sings a song to the pagan goddess F. Tischbein’s drawing of history’s first great Wagner interpreters in the roles they created – of spring suggests a younger, more innocent Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient as Venus and Joseph Tichatschek as Tannhäuser. version of Tannhäuser. As he sings, we hear the strains of a chorus, softly, as if from a distance. hen he became chief conductor of tension between the intellect and the sensual, Wagner shaped this scene so that the shepherd the Royal Opera in Dresden in 1843, as the singers Wolfram and Tannhäuser both W is absorbed in his own singing and piping, with Wagner landed a dream job. The theater he pursue Elisabeth, the opera urgently defends stage directions that indicate his becoming had at his disposal was state-of-the-art and passionate feeling as superior to a detached aware of the group of men only as they come spurred his experimental spirit. His employer, experience of the world. into his and our view. With Tannhäuser the Saxon king, was fairly liberal. Although Wolfram sings some of the most poignant immobile and also self-absorbed, we might for a downturn in the political situation would melodies in the opera, but the cards are stacked a few moments wonder what the disembodied mar things a few years later – leading to against him as he tries to win Elisabeth’s sounds represent. Are there actually men a revolutionary uprising – Wagner initially affections. This is not your average operatic singing somewhere offstage, or are we hearing enjoyed the chance of being able to produce love triangle, or quadrangle, if we take Venus something that sounds in Tannhäuser’s mind? any opera that he composed. Tannhäuser, into account. Elisabeth and Tannhäuser Wagner’s tendency to flirt with the boundary the first opera he completed there, remains share a special but complex – between reality and illusion became a hallmark radical in the way it juxtaposes and interlaces one that overcomes his mysterious absence of his mature dramatic style, with the invisible two dramatically contrasting worlds, while from the Wartburg and involvement with the sailor’s song at the beginning of Tristan und playing with our perception of reality along goddess Venus. We begin to sense the broader Isolde obviously indebted to this scene. the way. In its probing examination of the significance of Elisabeth’s role when Wolfram For Wagner, the pilgrims were more than

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May 1849 uprising in Dresden (scene of Tannhäuser’s world premiere), in which Wagner participated.

Act Two of Tannhäuser, painted by M. Rouargue, Paris premiere production, 1861. just a means of integrating choral music and his sense of guilt for his time spent with a group of penitents into the framing acts of Venus, he is not moved to join them. Rather, the opera. Reflecting on how he might evoke he becomes remote again as the pilgrims a sense of medieval times in musical terms, move on, until Wolfram happens to find he rejected the idea of emulating music from Tannhäuser and urges him to return with him that era. Church hymns, he decided, were to the castle. After the song contest ends in Costumes for Elisabeth and Tannhäuser the best way to engage music that bears the chaos, Tannhäuser is able to join a younger for the Paris premiere production, 1861. residue of hundreds of years of history. The group of pilgrims about to set off for Rome. pilgrims’ chorus takes on special meaning in We thus hear their by-now familiar chorale with the pilgrims’ chorale. Merging these this context, and we might note that it is the again at the end of the opera’s central act. With two sound worlds might seem surprising, music that recurs most frequently throughout the two groups of penitents returning in close for it is easy to think of Venus’s realm and the opera. succession in Act Three, their music anchors that of the Wartburg as oil and water, with The two groups of pilgrims are crucial the drama’s conclusion. Venus and Elisabeth as opposites. Upon closer to the plot. Tannhäuser responds viscerally to Wagner regarded the pilgrims’ music as examination, however, we can find several the first, older group, once the men are in his bringing together the two sides of Tannhäuser’s instances of Wagner creating links between midst and heard at full volume, unleashing deeply divided nature. Specifically, he referred them. the full force of the orchestra in the process. to the stirring end of the overture, when Mythology fascinated Wagner, and he While their plea for redemption shakes him pulsing, cascading gestures in the violins that knew well the penetrating studies of Jacob from his semiconscious stupor, and awakens are part of the Venusberg music are blended Grimm (one half of the famous fairytale-

36 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO collector brothers). From Grimm, he would have known that Holda DAVID H. FISHMAN TONY ROMANO – the goddess of spring honored in the shepherd’s song – was tied to Venus and also had an early association with the Virgin Mary, to whom Elisabeth prays in the opera’s third act. This helps explain Wolfram’s ode to the Evening Star – Venus – as simultaneously a song worshipping Elisabeth in an idealized form. Although hard to pull off effectively, singers like and have sung both Venus and Elisabeth in select productions of the opera. By blurring the distinction between Venus and Elisabeth as the drama unfolds, Wagner encourages us to think of Wolfram’s ode as a counterpart to the song Tannhäuser begins to sing to Venus in the first act – the song he completes in the singing contest. “O du, mein holder Abendstern” (“Oh you, my dear Evening Star”) is one of opera’s best-known melodies. Often sung as an excerpt, its serene tones belie the fact that it emerges out of a particularly heart-wrenching moment in the drama. When it appears (wrongly) that Tannhäuser will not return from his pilgrimage to Rome, Wolfram offers Elisabeth companionship but she utters not a single word in response before quitting the valley alone. Wolfram poetically describes her departure as Two differing views of the title character at Lyric Opera: a cloak of darkness covering the land, and the suggestion of mourning Dmiter Uzunov (1963); and (1988-89). anticipates her imminent death. The season, we should note, is now fall, DAVID H. FISHMAN reminding us that several months have transpired since Tannhäuser set off. Wagner traces the natural cycle of the seasons to symbolically suggest the declining state of the Wartburg realm, before a miraculous sign of new growth finally redeems Tannhäuser at the opera’s close. Wagner celebrates this transformative moment when the staff buds afresh to the sounds of the pilgrims’ chorus, fused with ecstatic figures from the Venusberg music as anticipated in the opera’s overture. In Wagner’s words, this was to suggest the “redemption of the pulse of life,” with “both separated elements – spirit and senses, God and nature – uniting in an atoning kiss of love.” At the very least, one senses that the Wartburg community is reinvigorated, and gains some hope for the future. This renewal comes at a cost. Friends of the composer expressed concern that Elisabeth and Tannhäuser both die at the drama’s end, but Wagner stuck to his original plan of foregrounding their struggles. The situation in Dresden as Wagner completed Tannhäuser

sheds light on the political hue of the network of symbols in the TONY ROMANO opera. The composer had long identified with the liberal movement to democratically unify Germany. To that end he regarded art as a potent political medium as well as a means for dealing with the hardships facing humankind. As an employee of the court, however, he needed to avoid expressing views that critiqued the monarchy. The focus on spring as a time of renewal and redemption in Tannhäuser is a fresh impulse in Wagner’s dramatic art – one that could safely extend dramatic meaning into the political sphere. A clue to alternative readings of this nature imagery is offered by none other than Wolfram. Before the song contest begins, he addresses the men in the audience as proud, heroic oak trees, and the women as crowning blossoms. These references come soon after the Landgraf has reminded the onstage audience of those times when many of the men fought as soldiers. Wolfram’s striking description of the heroes in his midst is a political metaphor connected to artistic renderings of the The Landgraf and Elisabeth at Lyric Opera: (middle) William allegorical female figure of Germania positioned nearby vigorous oak Wildermann and Régine Crespin (1963); (above) Jan-Hendrik Rootering trees and adorned with its leaves. The oaks themselves were intended to and Nadine Secunde (1988-89).

FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 | 37 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO CLIVE BARDA/ROYAL OPERA HOUSE/ARENA PAL recall times when German-speaking regions created the role of Venus, was especially active had been stronger and more independent. politically. Wagner had idolized Schröder- Such renderings became increasingly popular Devrient as a model singer-actor ever since he after the Napoleonic wars – years of French first saw her performing roles such as Bellini’s oppression that were vivid memories for many Romeo and Beethoven’s Leonore. Her draw through the 1840s and beyond. towards strong-willed characters who rebel The French tyrant was finally ousted against oppressive forces aligned with her from German soil in 1813, in a great battle personal vision of her artistic mission, and that took place near Leipzig – the largest in turn informed Wagner’s conception of his engagement fought on European soil prior to World War One. Wagner was but a few goddess. No demure Venus was she. Elisabeth, months old when fighting raged close to his by contrast, is more passive and dependent home. German unification, however, would on others. She nevertheless performs a crucial take nearly six more decades to be achieved. function within the Wartburg community Memorializing the events of 1813 was a way for she is the very reason that art exists. of maintaining hope in the interim. One of Her compassionate response to Tannhäuser the notable memorial gatherings was a rally – despite his time spent in the Venusberg – at the Wartburg in October of 1817, held on upsets the status quo. Change is in the air. the anniversary of the battle at Leipzig. The Tannhäuser appeals for a directly participants all wore sprigs of oak in their expressive art that draws energy from the caps. It is surely no coindence that Tannhäuser realm of feeling. For him, Wolfram’s cautious premiered on the anniversary of the Battle of recourse to metaphors is insufficient. If the Leipzig when it reached the stage in nearby politically-motivated Wagner was reflected Dresden. through his frustrated protagonist, we might When Wagner moved to Dresden in 1842, he quickly associated himself with an see Wolfram as standing for others who were more hesitant to voice their thoughts in Tannhäuser in Tim Albery’s production, Royal array of liberal artists, many of whom, like him, Opera House: Johan Botha in the title role would take part in the revolutionary uprising precarious times. Wagner firmly believed in (above) and the chorus in Act Two. in 1849. Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, who the rights of individuals, of everyday people,

CLIVE BARDA/ROYAL OPERA HOUSE/ARENA PAL but he knew that activism involves risk. In this context, we can appreciate his sympathetic shaping of Wolfram in accordance with the drama’s political subtext. We can identify with his struggle. Wolfram’s ode to Venus/ Elisabeth went viral after the opera premiered, in the form of piano-vocal versions that were performed in countless homes. For all its restraint, Wolfram’s ode hints at untapped depths of emotion, and remains a genuinely moving response to love and loss.

Katherine Syer is an associate professor of musicology and theatre at the School of Music of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The recipient of a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Syer served as artistic advisor for Moisés Kaufman’s play 33 Variations, seen on Broadway in 2009. Recent publications include her book, Wagner’s Visions: Poetry, Politics, and the Psyche in the Operas Through Die Walküre (University of Rochester Press, 2014).

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Music Staff Violin II Bass Linda A. Baker*, Bass Trombone Yin Shen, Principal Michael Geller, Principal Co-Assistant Principal John Schwalm Head of Music Staff John Macfarlane, Assistant Brian Ferguson, Assistant Sergey Gutorov** Philip Morehead Principal Principal Tuba Bonita Di Bello Andrew L. W. Anderson Bass Clarinet Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Susan Warner Andrew Smith, Principal Music Staff Aventino E. Calvetti, Jr. Teresa Kay Fream Emanuele Andrizzi Gregory Sarchet Peter Labella Bassoon Harp William C. Billingham Collins R. Trier Ann Palen James T. Berkenstock, Marguerite Lynn Williams, Susan Miller Hult Irene Radetzky Principal Flute Principal Jonathan Khuner John D. Robinson Lewis Kirk, Assistant Principal Grant Loehnig Marie Tachouet, Principal David Volfe Preman Tilson Timpani Francesco Milioto Albert Wang Dionne Jackson, Assistant Jerad Mosbey Principal* Contrabassoon Edward Harrison, Principal Matthew Piatt Viola Alyce Johnson, Acting Lewis Kirk Craig Terry Carol Cook, Principal Assistant Principal Percussion Eric Weimer Terri Van Valkinburgh, Jennifer Bouton** Horn Michael Green, Principal Maureen Zoltek Assistant Principal Jenny Robinson** Jonathan Boen, Principal Douglas Waddell, Assistant Frank W. Babbitt Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Principal Orchestra Eva Carol Beck Piccolo Utility Horn Eric Millstein Patrick Brennan Alyce Johnson Robert E. Johnson, Third Sunghee Choi Horn Violin I Librarian Karl Davies Oboe Neil Kimel Robert Hanford, Melissa Trier Kirk Paul Straka** John Rosenkrans, Principal Concertmaster Judith Kulb, Principal Sharon Polifrone, Robert E. Morgan, Assistant Principal Trumpet Personnel Manager Assistant Concertmaster Calum Cook, Principal William Denton, Principal Judith Zunamon Lewis Peter Labella Alexander Belavsky Patrick Jee, Assistant Matthew Comerford, Kathleen Brauer Principal* Co-Assistant Principal Stageband Contractor Pauli Ewing Walter Preucil, Acting English Horn Channing Philbrick, Bing Y. Grant Assistant Principal Robert E. Morgan Co-Assistant Principal Christine Janicki David Hildner Mark Brandfonbrener Ellen Hildner William H. Cernota Clarinet Trombone Laura Miller Laura Deming Charlene Zimmerman, Jeremy Moeller, Principal Eugene Pazin Barbara Haffner Principal Mark Fisher, Assistant Liba Schacht Andrew Hesse** Susan Warner, Acting Principal * On leave, 2014-15 season Heather Wittels Paula Kosower** Assistant Principal John Schwalm ** Season substitute

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JANUARY 24, 2015 - MARCH 14, 2015 | 43 PATRON SALUTE | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Gene Andersen: Supporter from the Start

Gene Andersen has been involved with Lyric Opera since the very begin- doing that I wanted to be a part of it. I ended up running the project’s ning; indeed, before the beginning, when the only opera Chicagoans fundraising efforts in Chicago for nine years. I would have never had the could see was a touring group from New York sponsored by the Illinois opportunity to develop so many close friendships in London had it not Opera Guild. Gene’s mother was president of that guild, located at been for my ties with Lyric Opera. It has been a privilege and joy to work the 20 North Wacker Drive office suite, when a young Chicago native with both these outstanding organizations.” named Carol Fox decided to create a new . “I Gene has witnessed her fair share of excitement within the Civic have to give her a lot of credit,” Gene says. “She had the vision and the Opera House. “I remember Maria Callas performing the title role in Lucia persistence to lead us through its beginnings.” di Lammermoor. During the mad scene, unintentionally, I think, there Thus begins sixty years of fond memories, exemplary productions, was wind coming through an open door and it blew her gown away from and unexpected side projects. “Don Giovanni was the Opening Night, her as she came down the stairs; it was very exciting. Of course Callas her- and I was just married. John and I went with two other couples. The self was very exciting, and it was a big coup for us to have her here in her space that is now the Pedersen Room was a bar at that time, so of course prime.” Among Gene’s many favorite operas (“I love the Russian operas, we lost our men in the second act.” Gene attributes their moderate disin- Faust, and Mefistofele”), she recalls being particularly impressed by terest to the fact that they had limited Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, which had exposure to opera but they would the main characters and the excep- later learn to appreciate the art form. tional Lyric Opera Chorus singing in Gene, on the other hand, had been Sanskrit. “I even heard a rumor that raised to love opera, having grown up when another opera company tried listening alongside her mother and to produce it, they had to hire our tagging along to Illinois Opera Guild chorus because theirs was unable to activities. When Lyric Opera began learn the Sanskrit.” in 1954, Gene was ready to take on Another of Gene’s standout a leadership role of her own. “I was moments in Lyric Opera’s rich his- chairman of the first Chapter in Oak tory was the first full presentation of Park/River Forest. Eventually, I got Wagner’s Ring cycle in 1996. “It was involved with the Guild Board, which an incredible experience to see the at that time was set up to govern the whole Cycle in one week; each install- Chapters. Later, the Chapters elected ment left you desperately anticipating their own officials, and the Guild the next. People came from all over Board formed a separate fundraising the world to see it and it was exciting identity. I’ve been a member ever to hear all the different foreign lan- since.” guages spoken in the lobby.” Gene attributes many of her Of course, it wasn’t always smooth positive recollections to the people sailing. “When Ardis [Krainik] who were around Lyric Opera in its became general director, it was a early years. “Everyone involved was different world. Several poor busi- so enthusiastic and excited that we John and Gene Andersen, Fantasy of the Opera, 1992 ness decisions had been made. Ardis, had our own opera company. They along with the Board of Directors, wanted it to see it succeed, and it did. There were a lot of young people felt strongly that we should be solvent, setting aside funds for the future. participating in those days, and the energy was incredible.” Specifically, Everyone loved working with Ardis, who had a challenging job in front Gene remembers one particularly energetic personality: “I enjoyed of her. Following good Midwest values, Lyric grew and became finan- Danny Newman so much; he always had a smile on his face, and he cially stable, which is a rarity for an opera company. made you feel so welcome. He would walk down the aisles before each “Lyric has always been a part of me. When you start something opera and stop to visit with everybody – he really made you feel like you from the beginning and watch it grow, you feel that there’s a part of you belonged to Lyric and that Lyric belonged to you.” Newman, of course, growing with it. I’ve always admired Lyric Opera’s ideals. Carol had the was the founding press agent and public relations director of Lyric, dream and the excitement to bring it about and Ardis had the vision and legendary for pioneering the subscription model, which revolutionized talent to financially stabilize it, creating a successful opera company. The the business of selling tickets. Lyric still boasts the highest number of tradition was carried on by Chicago native Bill Mason, who grew up at subscribers of any organization in the field, and although Lyric’s model Lyric and knew the business inside and out. Now England has arrived is evolving along with current demands, subscription sales are still a sig- with Anthony Freud, and it’s exciting because we’re doing new things nificant part of the equation. and reaching further into the community, the parks and the schools. Through her association with Danny Newman, Lee Freeman Sr. Wherever I go, I love to tell people about Lyric. I am very proud of and other Lyric friends, Gene was introduced to a young man named Chicago’s culture, its international opera company, and to have been an Sam Wanamaker, who at the time was struggling to reconstruct the integral part of it.” historic Globe Theatre in London. “I was so enraptured by what he was —Meaghan Stainback

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Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Breaking New Ground • Updated media, marketing, and audience development Campaign has been launched to implement the programs company’s blueprint for a world-class, 21st century • The strengthening of the company’s fi nancial position, opera company. Breaking New Ground is allowing including building our endowment to current industry Lyric to continue to produce major productions of best practice the highest caliber, while also modernizing the Civic Opera House stage with state-of-the-art equipment. A thriving future for Lyric Opera of Chicago relies on the support of our steadfast subscribers, enthusiastic This campaign will also make possible: audiences, and generous donors. Please contact Leslie • New and revived major opera productions Mastroianni at 312-827-5676 or [email protected] • The modernization of the Civic Opera House stage for information on how you can support the Breaking with state-of-the-art stage lifts, lighting, and stage New Ground Campaign. rigging equipment ARIA SOCIETY SPOTLIGHT | 2014-2015 Aria Society Spotlight 2014-2015 Season

ABBOTT FUND Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, and Production Sponsorship Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors Committees, and as immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board. to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of generous support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has JAMES N. and LAURIE V. BAY generously cosponsored 20 Lyric productions, including the Jim and Laurie Bay are passionate support- 2014/15 season-opening production of Don Giovanni and last ers of the arts in Chicago. They have previ- season’s Otello. Abbott has championed Lyric’s achievements ously contributed to Lyric’s Wine Auction, as a contributor to the Great Opera Fund, the Building on Stars of Lyric Opera at , Miles D. White Greatness Capital Campaign, and Wine Auctions, among Annual Campaign, and education pro- other efforts, and has made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground grams. They also cosponsoredMadama Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Abbott’s Butterfly (2013/14). This season, the Bays Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Miles D. are supporting the Wine Auction and are White, serve on its Board of Directors. Emerald Patrons of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric is honored to have Jim Bay, a principal of Bays Corporation, serve on its Board of KATHERINE A. ABELSON and Directors and Compensation Committee. ROBERT J. CORNELL Kathy Abelson and Robert Cornell are MARLYS A. BEIDER longtime friends of Lyric Opera. Kathy As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys comes from generations of opera lovers and has contributed to the Annual Campaign and is a is a former singer, having trained with some Bel Canto Benefactor of the planned giving Overture of the best voice teachers in the world, Society. Her planned gift commitment created the Marlys including Elvira de Hidalgo, who taught Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair Maria Callas. Kathy has been a donor and a in memory of her late husband, Harold Beider. Marlys season subscriber to Lyric since 1977. Deeply committed to Lyric Opera’s renowned Beider cosponsored several productions including Elektra artist development program, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, (2012/13) and Parsifal (2013/14) and this season generously Kathy is a Past President and current member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, cosponsors Lyric’s new production of Tosca. Marlys has also made a leadership in addition to being a leadership donor to the Ryan Opera Center for over twenty commitment to cosponsor Lyric’s new productions of Das Rheingold (2016/17) years. Lyric is also honored to have Kathy Abelson on its Board of Directors. This and Götterdämmerung (2019/20), part of Lyric’s new Ring Cycle. season Kathy and Robert are generously supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Gala Patrons. MELVIN R. and RANDY L. BERLIN Devoted fans of opera education and the AMERICAN AIRLINES arts, Melvin and Randy Berlin are vital This season we celebrate 33 years of vital corporate partnership members of the Lyric Opera family. They with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera. In have contributed significantly to the Annual recognition of the company’s significant contribution to the Campaign and are Diamond Sponsors of Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine level the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond of the Civic Opera House is named the American Airlines Ball this season. Melvin and Randy have Mezzanine. American Airlines provides important in-kind sup- cosponsored several productions such as Franco Tedeschi port for Lyric’s programs and special events such as the Annual Simon Boccanegra (2012/13) and (2013/14). Melvin and Meeting, Fantasy of the Opera, Operathon, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Randy generously cosponsor this season’s new production of Don Giovanni. Lyric Opera Center National Auditions, and the Wine Auction. Franco Tedeschi, Vice is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors. President of American Airlines, proudly serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors. HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDER Committed lovers of the arts, Henry ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS and Gilda Buchbinder are longstand- Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from eight anony- ing members of the Lyric Opera family. mous contributors during the 2014/15 season. The Buchbinders have contributed to the future of Lyric Opera by making a leader- JULIE and ROGER BASKES ship gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership Campaign. They have also been long-time and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. generous donors to the Annual Campaign, including sponsoring their first pro- Subscribers for more than three decades, duction, Boris Godunov (2011/12). This season, they are supporting the 60th they have generously supported Lyric’s Ryan Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Lyric is honored Opera center activities as cosponsors of to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the Nominating/ Rising Stars in Concert, and sponsors of the Governance Committee. Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7 WFMT. They have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, Simon Boccanegra (2012/13) and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). This season, Julie and Roger Baskes generously cosponsor Il Trovatore. They also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Lyric is honored to have

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CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM MR. and MRS. MICHAEL P. COLE Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership Michael and Elizabeth Cole are vital mem- and generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and bers of the Lyric Opera family, serving as longtime patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, Co-Chairs and Diamond Sponsors of the the Bucksbaum Family’s very generous challenge grant re- 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond established Lyric’s regional and national/international radio Ball this season. With Elizabeth’s active par- broadcasts in 2006. Kay’s incredible continued matching ticipation as a member of Lyric’s esteemed support makes possible The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which Women’s Board, the Coles have previously draw 16 million listeners annually. “Lyric is a great national supported an array of events such as Wine institution,” Matthew once said, “and it gives our family great pleasure to know Auction 2012, the Celebrating Oklahoma! Gala, and Opening Night/Opera Ball, these broadcasts bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so many in Chicago and for which Elizabeth served as Chair in 2010. Michael serves on Lyric’s Board around the globe.” of Directors, and lends his business acumen as a member of the Investment Committee. THE JOHN and JACKIE BUCKSBAUM FAMILY MR. and MRS. JOHN V. CROWE Passionate philanthropists in the Chicago Jack and Peggy Crowe are generous and community, John and Jackie Bucksbaum are passionate members of the Lyric family, major supporters of the arts. John Bucksbaum evidenced by their production sponsorship is founder and CEO of Bucksbaum Retail of Turandot (2006/07) and Tosca (2009/10) Properties, LLC, a fully integrated owner and and major support of the Breaking New developer of retail real estate. This past season, Ground Campaign. The Crowes are one John and Jackie Bucksbaum John and Jackie, with their family, gener- of eight couples who sponsor the Renée ously provided matching funding for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which air on 98.7 Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy Crowe’s WFMT live during each opening night performance. significant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fifth floor in memory of Jack Crowe’s mother. The Crowes MARION A. CAMERON were leading contributors to the Campaign for Excellence. Lyric is very fortunate Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support and leadership of to have Jack Crowe as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Lyric’s Marion A. Cameron. A subscriber and donor for over 20 years, Board of Directors. Lyric gratefully acknowledges her outstanding generosity and production sponsorship of the 2013/14 new production/Lyric THE CROWN FAMILY premiere of Rusalka, as well as her additional gift in support Two of Chicago’s leading philanthro- of this season’s Tannhäuser. Ms. Cameron is also a Sapphire pists, Renée and Lester Crown are devot- Patron of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. ed patrons of Lyric Opera. The Crown The President of Sipi Metals Corp., Marion Cameron is a Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, a member of the Executive Committee and Initiative and has made a generous commit- Chair of the Investment Committee. ment to Lyric’s new Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have also made major PAUL and AMY CARBONE Lester and Renée Crown contributions to the Annual Campaign, the Lyric is very appreciative of the friendship Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, of Paul and Amy Carbone. A dynamic the Campaign for Excellence, and the Great Opera Fund. The Crown Family member of Lyric’s Board of Directors since provided major support for Lyric’s return to the airwaves in 2006 as members of 2007, Paul currently serves as its Treasurer, the radio broadcast matching grant consortium. In 2014/15, they are supporting chairs the Finance Committee, and is a the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Mrs. Crown vital member of the Executive Committee. is a past President of the Women’s Board. Mr. Crown joined Lyric’s Board of Having previously sponsored Lyric’s NExT Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee ever student ticket initiative and Backstage Tours, Paul and Amy are Co-Chairs of since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, this year’s 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and support the event as presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and commitment to Diamond Sponsors. The Carbones have also made a generous gift to the Breaking Lyric. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family for their many years of New Ground Campaign. Lyric is grateful for the dedicated leadership of Paul and dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Amy Carbone. MR. and MRS. A. STEVEN CROWN THE ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION Steven and Nancy Crown are ardent sup- Lyric Opera remains deeply grateful for the long term porters of a wide range of cultural and generosity of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of educational initiatives in Chicago and Chicago’s nonprofit leaders in arts support. The Cheney beyond. A new member of Lyric’s esteemed Foundation has made an enhanced multi-year commit- Women’s Board, Nancy Crown and her ment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Opera. During the husband Steven support two important Elizabeth F. Cheney 2014/15 season, The Cheney Foundation will fund guest events this season as Emerald Patrons of the artist Stephanie Blythe’s residency, allowing Ensemble 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond members to work intimately with this famed soprano; Ball, and Platinum Sponsors of Wine Auction 2015. As food and wine enthusi- access to a behind-the-scenes view of the Ensemble selection process by opening asts, Steven and Nancy actively participate in Lyric’s triennial Wine Auction. We the Ryan Opera Center’s Final Auditions to a greater number of Lyric donors are fortunate to deepen our long-standing relationship with the Crown Family as and subscribers for the second year; and singer sponsorship of bass Bradley we welcome this valued couple into the Lyric Opera family. Smoak. Lyric Opera is honored to have as a major supporter The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts.

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THE DAVEE FOUNDATION THE ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth TRUST Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago area charities reflects the Davees’ Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer wide-ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a Opera is fortunate to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee major, and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s con- Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for tributors. Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts,

generations to come. Recently, The Davee Foundation provided critical sup- Elizabeth Morse Genius Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander port to enhance amplification and sound systems used in the American Musical seek to enrich the quality of life in Chicago, especially for youth Theater Initiative. The Foundation has generously cosponsored Lyric premieres of and elderly citizens. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Oklahoma! (2012/13) and The Sound of Music(2013/14), and has committed to Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive Opera House chimes and music library support the remaining three installments of Lyric’s five-year partnership with the in honor of the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. In prior seasons, the Trust Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, cosponsoring this season’s Carousel, The cosponsored numerous productions including Le nozze di Figaro (2003/04), and The King and I (2015/16) and South Pacific (2016/17). Cunning Little Vixen (2004/05). Along with The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Trust provided challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06). Both STEFAN EDLIS and GAEL NEESON Trusts sponsored Salome and Dialogues of the Carmelites (2006/07), Julius Caesar Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis (2007/08), Porgy and Bess (2008/09), Ernani (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12), Elektra and Gael Neeson are actively involved with (2012/13), and Parsifal (2013/14). This season, they are sponsoringPorgy and Bess. organizations in Chicago, New York, and The Trust funds Lyric’s ongoing board diversity efforts, and helped preserve Lyric’s Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Neeson have history through support of the Archives project. James L. Alexander is a Vice President supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, for more than 30 years. They have previ- and serves on the Executive, Finance, Investment, and Nominating/Governance ously cosponsored the Stars of Lyric Opera Committees. In 2010, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involve- at Millennium Park concert and named ment of James L. Alexander by awarding their seats through the Your Name Here program. Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most cosponsored Hercules (2010/11), Elektra (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) and are prestigious honor. generously cosponsoring this season’s new production of Tosca. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have ANN and GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION Stefan Edlis on its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is extremely grateful for the long-standing support of the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. The Foundation has made vital contributions to the Annual EXELON Campaign, providing essential general operating support to foster Lyric’s achieve- The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain ments. Gordon Getty is an esteemed National Director of Lyric’s Board of Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has Directors. generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community-engagement MR. AND MRS. RONALD J. GIDWITZ programs. Amongst Exelon’s many cosponsorships have been (2010/12), Longtime members of the Lyric Opera family, the Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Subscriber Appreciation Concert Christina and Ron Gidwitz are dedicated to (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), and Rusalka (2013/14). This season, Exelon is a ensuring the future of Lyric Opera remains Sapphire Patron of the 60th Anniversary Concert vital and culturally relevant. The Gidwitzes and Diamond Ball. Lyric Opera is fortunate to made generous contributions to the Building have found in Exelon an outstanding corporate on Greatness Campaign and Campaign for partner. Excellence, and have also sponsored Wine Auction and the Renée Fleming and Susan JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION Graham Concert Dinner. As an active member of the Women’s Board, Christina A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera) and a Lyric currently serves on the Executive Committee as Membership Chair. Ron, a member Opera Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius of the Board of Directors, serves on its Nominating/Governance Committee and Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a Innovation Committee. This season, Ron and Christina sponsor their first Lyric great place to live and enjoy life. In past seasons, Julius Frankel production as cosponsors of Don Giovanni. sponsored Lyric productions of Andrea Chénier (1979) and Lohengrin (1980) in memory of Betty Frankel. The Julius Frankel BRENT W. and CATHERINE H.

Julius Frankel Foundation has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance GLEDHILL and longtime dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius Brent and Katie are passionate supporters of and John Georgas and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have numerous causes in Chicago. Last season, the benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general operating support and Gledhills cosponsored Lyric’s production of production sponsorships. The Julius Frankel Foundation has generously sponsored/ The Sound of Music and in 2014/15 they are cosponsored many celebrated new productions at Lyric including Die Fledermaus supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and (1989/90), Xerxes (1995/96), Carmen (1999/00) in memory of Ardis Krainik, Cavalleria Diamond Ball as Ruby Patrons. Brent Gledhill rusticana (2002/03), Pagliacci (2002/03), and Il Trovatore (2006/07). This past season, is the Global Head of Investment Banking at the Julius Frankel Foundation generously cosponsored a new production of La Traviata William Blair & Company; and a member of the firm's Executive Commitee. Lyric in honor of Nelson D. Cornelius. is proud to have Brent Gledhill serve on the Board of Directors and its Audit and Innovation Committees.

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WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION William and Ethel Gofen have been attend- The Harris Family Foundation, represented ing Lyric Opera productions for over 50 by Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn years. They are generous donors to Lyric’s Harris, joins the production sponsorship fam- Annual Campaign, and have cosponsored the ily this year as a cosponsor of Lyric’s new Overture Society Luncheons. In 1997, Bill production of Tosca. Having previously sup- and Ethel named seats for each other in the ported the Annual Campaign, the Foundation Ardis Krainik Theatre as part of the Building Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris supports the 60th Anniversary Concert and on Greatness Campaign. In 2014/15 they are Diamond Ball this season as Emerald Patrons. supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Ruby Patrons, and The Harris Family Foundation has also made a generous commitment to the Breaking during the 2015/16 season, the Gofens are cosponsoring Lyric’s world premiere New Ground campaign to help secure Lyric's future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice of Bel Canto, based on the novel by Ann Patchett. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel President of the Foundation Pam Szokol as a new member of its Board of Directors, Gofen as a new member of the Board of Directors. and also serving on its Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the revered GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION Women’s Board and has held many leadership positions, most recently as Opera Ball With an unparalleled record as sponsor of 25 Lyric new productions since the 1960s, Chair in 2012. the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa, is a cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma Fisher Foundation HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION has generously sponsored new productions of Eugene Onegin (1984/85), Lucia di After decades of support to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, the Lammermoor (1990/91), La Traviata (1993/94), Nabucco (1997/98), Un ballo in Howard Family Foundation joins the production sponsor fami- maschera (2002/03), Manon Lescaut (2005/06), Macbeth (2010/11), and The Barber ly with its generous cosponsorship of this season’s production of of Seville (2013/14). The Gramma Fisher Foundation has made a leadership com- Il Trovatore. Barbara Howard’s steadfast commitment to Lyric mitment to cosponsor each of the four operas that make up Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Opera is shown through her longtime subscribership, as well as starting with Das Rheingold (2016/17) and concluding with the complete Cycles in her service as a member of Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center Board.

2020/21. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship and leadership of Barbara Howard Dedicated to the bright futures of the Ryan Opera Center Christine Hunter and other members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Ensemble members, Barbara has sponsored the program’s Russell Fisher serve on its Board of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed Rising Stars in Concert for the past several years. Lyric is grateful for the friendship of member of the Women’s Board. Barbara Howard, and the generosity of the Howard Family Foundation.

MR. and MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS TOM and JULIE HURVIS Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring As part of the Breaking New Ground friendship and tremendous generosity of Campaign, Tom and Julie Hurvis have Dietrich and Erika Gross. Together, they made a generous leadership commitment have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 18 in support of Lyric Unlimited comprising Lyric productions since 1987/88 including the company’s education and community Die Meistersinger (1998/99 and 2012/13), engagement activities. Tom and Julie are Die Fledermaus (1999/00 and 2006/07), avid fans of opera and longtime Lyric sub- Die Walküre (2002/03), Siegfried (2003/04), scribers. In their effort to help keep Chicago Ring cycle (2004/05), The Barber of Seville (2007/08), Lohengrin (2010/11), The a haven for the cultural arts, they are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, Magic Flute (2011/12), Otello (2013/14), and this season’s coproduction of Don which brings the renowned soprano to our city multiple times each year. Lyric Giovanni. Through yearly challenge grants, they also help generate important gratefully acknowledges their more than 20 years of generous contributions to the momentum for Operathon – Lyric’s annual fundraising broadcast heard live on Annual Campaign, their exclusive sponsorship of Aida (2011/12), and their co- 98.7WFMT. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground sponsorships of A Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13) and this season’s production Campaign in support of Lyric’s future. Dietrich Gross is an esteemed member of Lyric’s of Capriccio, along with support for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. Lyric is honored Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, Lyric recognized the dedicated to have Tom Hurvis serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by awarding him the Carol Fox Lyric Unlimited Committee. Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. ITW GUGGENHEIM PARTNERS Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustain- The Guggenheim name has long been synonymous with philanthropy and has a ing support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The com- reputation for its contributions to the advancement of humanity. This season, Lyric pany has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign, is the grateful beneficiary of Guggenheim’s generosity as they support Wine Auction the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Great 2015 as Onstage and Catalogue Sponsor. Opera Fund, and Wine Auction, and since 2002, it has cosponsored the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important

Maria C. Green traditions. ITW cosponsored The Pearl Fishers (1997/98 JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND and 2008/09), The Barber of Seville (2001/02), The Elixir John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of of Love (2009/10), Hansel and Gretel (2012/13), and this season’s production Lyric for many years until his death in 2001. With support of Tosca. This season the company cosponsors the Diamond Ball, which follows from his Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s the 60th Anniversary Concert. Lyric is proud to have Maria C. Green, Senior President, Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, serve on its Board of Directors legacy continues through very generous annual contributions and Lyric Unlimited Committee, as well as past ITW to Lyric. The Halligan Fund is proud to support numerous Chairmen and CEOs W. James Farrell, John Nichols,

John R. Halligan artistic, cultural, and civic organizations which enhance our and the late David Speer on its Board of Directors. lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our appreciation of nature.

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JENNER & BLOCK KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of global impact and substantial experience in a broad range of providing exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around legal issues. The firm has long played a prominent role in the world in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intel- Chicago’s legal and business communities, and is consistently lectual property, restructuring, and counseling matters. The ranked as one of the top firms in the country. Jenner & firm is committed to enhancing quality of life through Block has provided significant pro bono legal expertise to educational opportunities, cultural awareness, youth pro-

Craig Martin Lyric, along with generous contributions to the Breaking New Linda K. Myers grams, and community outreach. For many years, Kirkland Ground Campaign, the Annual Campaign, the Campaign for & Ellis LLP sponsored Lyric Opera’s Board of Directors Excellence, Fantasy of the Opera, Opera Ball, and Wine Auction. This season the Annual Meeting. More recently, Kirkland & Ellis LLP cosponsored Boris Godunov firm also supports the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Sapphire (2011/12) and A Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13). Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the Patrons. Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, a Partner at Jenner & Block, Lead Sponsor of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric Opera as a valued member of its Board of is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a Directors and Executive Commit. member of its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. Committee. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the vital corporate leadership and support of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Along with the NANCY W. KNOWLES bank’s predecessors The First National Bank of Chicago and Opera has always played an important role in the life of Nancy Bank One, JPMorgan Chase has generously contributed to W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital family’s musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and Campaign, Lyric Unlimited, Facilities Fund, the Great Opera hundreds of records to play,” she fondly recalls, “so classical

Eric S. Smith Fund, and Wine Auction. The bank has also cosponsored music was always in my home.” A devoted subscriber and Madama Butterfly (2003/04), (2005/06), patron, Nancy Knowles is a prominent member of the Lyric La Traviata (2007/08), Tosca (2009/10), (2011/12), and family. She generously invests her time, talents, and leader- Otello (2013/14). This season, JPMorgan Chase is supporting the 60th Anniversary ship abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Concert and Diamond Ball as a Ruby Patron. Lyric is honored to have Eric S. Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. Chairman Emeritus of Knowles Smith, Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase, serve as a member of its Board Electronics, a manufacturer of hearing-aid components, Nancy Knowles is president of Directors, Executive and Nominating/ of The Knowles Foundation. The Knowles Foundation is a leading contributor Governance Committees, and as chairman of to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and, as part of the Building on Greatness Capital the Lyric Unlimited Committee. Campaign, provided an assisted listening system to enhance the operatic experience for hearing-impaired patrons. Ms. Knowles cosponsored La Traviata (2007/08), MR. and MRS. GEORGE D. KENNEDY Tosca (2009/10), and Macbeth (2010/11). This season, Mrs. Knowles is generously Lyric Opera is grateful for the staunch support of George and Valerie Kennedy. As a cosponsoring Lyric’s production of Capriccio, and is supporting the 60th Anniversary former member of the Board of Directors, George Kennedy has long been passionate Concert and Diamond Ball as a Sapphire Patron. In 2007, Lyric named the Nancy about the financial health of Lyric, having previously supported the Annual Campaign W. Knowles Lobby in recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for and the Building on Greatness Campaign. The Kennedys have also sponsoredStars Excellence. Mrs. Knowles has once again made a significant gift in support of the of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park, and recently made a generous gift to the Breaking Breaking New Ground Campaign to underwrite the Nancy W. Knowles Student and New Ground Campaign. Family Performances Fund. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusi- asm, she received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART Dick and Susie Kiphart are esteemed members of the MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Lyric Opera family and visionary philanthropists. They Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding have generously cosponsored several Lyric produc- dedicated members of the Lyric Opera fam- tions including Madama Butterfly(2003/04), Roméo ily. Lyric gratefully acknowledges their gen- et Juliette (2006/07), Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci erous contributions to Lyric’s Wine Auction, (2008/09), and Hercules (2010/11). In honor of the Annual Campaign, the Building on Lyric’s Golden Jubilee (2004/05), they made a signifi- Greatness Capital Campaign, and the cant gift to Lyric to establish the Richard P. and Susan Campaign for Excellence. This season, Kiphart Costume Director Endowed Chair. They they are Diamond Patrons of the 60th have made leadership contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Dick Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball and have made a generous commitment served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They also continue to to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished provide major support for Lyric’s radio programming as members of the broadcast con- member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred Krehbiel is a National Director of sortium and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. This season, they are Lyric’s Board of Directors. cosponsoring The Passenger and supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Dick Kiphart is head of William Blair & Company’s Private JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK Client Advisors Business and a member of the firm’s executive committee. He is the Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and immediate past President and CEO and current Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Margot Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee, and a member of both the many seasons. They have contributed to the Annual Finance and Production Sponsorship Committees. Susie Kiphart is President of the Campaign, and they made a significant gift to the Ryan Opera Center Board and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. The Kipharts’ Campaign for Excellence. They cosponsored The enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt commitment to Lyric are tremendous assets to the Pearl Fishers (2008/09), Katya Kabanova (2009/10), company, and in recognition of their passion and immense dedication they received the A Masked Ball (2010/11), Rinaldo (2011/12), Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2013. La bohème (2012/13), and The Barber of Seville (2013/14). This season, Josef and Margot gener- ously cosponsor Lyric’s production of Capriccio and have made a generous gift to

50 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO the new Breaking New Ground Campaign. The CEO of LSV Asset Management, initiative, the Foundation encouraged presentation of American operas and expansion Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on of the operatic repertory by providing major support for Lyric Opera premieres of the Executive and Investment Committees. The Great Gatsby (2000/01), Street Scene (2001/02), Sweeney Todd (2002/03), Regina (2003/04), A Wedding (world premiere, 2004/05), and Doctor Atomic (2007/08). JIM and KAY MABIE In addition, the Mellon Foundation provided support for Lyric’s premiere/new Lyric Opera cherishes the vital leadership and long- production of The Midsummer Marriage (2005/06), Lulu (2009/10), and Porgy and standing support of Jim and Kay Mabie. They are Bess (2009/10). The Mellon Foundation provided essential matching funds which avid operagoers, having subscribed to Lyric for enabled Lyric to resume radio broadcast in 2006. During the 2012/13 season The several decades. The Mabies have fostered Lyric’s Mellon Foundation spearheaded visionary support of Lyric’s new Lyric Unlimited success through generous contributions to the An- program and the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna/To Cross the Face nual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital of the Moon, the world’s first Mariachi opera. This past season and this current one, Campaign, and the Campaign for Excellence. They The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continues its visionary and generous support of have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Lyric Unlimited, including support for El Pasado Nunca se Termina/The Past is Never New Ground Campaign. They cosponsored Can- Finished, as well as providing leadership support for the preparation of Lyric’s upcom- dide (1994/95), The Great Gatsby (2001/02), Porgy and Bess (2008/09) and Rigo- ing world premiere of Bel Canto (2015/16). letto (2012/13). Jim Mabie is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive and Investment Committees. JIM and VICKI MILLS/ JON and LOIS MILLS JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION Lyric is most grateful for the dedica- The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions com- tion and generosity of Jim and Vicki mitted to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting Mills and Jon and Lois Mills. Jim, the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance Vicki, Jon, and Lois have attended global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how Lyric performances for many sea-

technology is affecting children and society. Support for arts and culture organiza- Jon and Lois Mills Vicki and Jim Mills sons and generously supported the tions in Chicago and the region is an expression of civic commitment to the place Annual Campaign and the Building where the Foundation has its headquarters and where John D. and Catherine T. on Greatness Capital Campaign. Together, they cosponsored Samson et Dalila MacArthur made their home. Grants are designed to help sustain the cultural life (2003/04), Rigoletto (2005/06), La bohème (2007/08), Cavalleria rusticana/ of the city and region. Lyric Opera is very grateful for Pagliacci (2008/09), The Merry Widow(2009/10), The Mikado (2010/11), Show the ongoing support of the John D. and Catherine T. Boat (2011/12), Oklahoma! (2012/13), and The Sound of Music (2013/14). This MacArthur Foundation. More information is at www. season, Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Mills generously cosponsor Lyric’s pre- macfound.org. miere/new production of Carousel.

MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman of Corporation, is a fervent fan of opera and music and Lyric trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of is delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, Rusalka in 2013/14. The Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in the and generous supporter. The Family Foundation made a U.K. and U.S. and is cosponsor of Anna leadership commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Bolena this season. Campaign, and the Malott Room was named in his family’s

Robert Malott honor in recognition of their gift to Building on Greatness. MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON He also plays a leadership role as a Life Director of Lyric’s Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of Board of Directors. the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers and patrons who take an active role in nurturing MAZZA FOUNDATION Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading mem- Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding ber of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to friendship and generosity of the Mazza have Bob Morrison serve as a member of its Board Foundation. Under the guidance of its of Directors. The Morrisons have generously sup- directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas ported the Opera Ball and Wine Auction as well as J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., the Annual Campaign for many years. They provided and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the a substantial gift to the Campaign for Excellence, and cosponsored Oklahoma! Mazza Foundation has provided major (2012/13) and The Sound of Music (2013/14). Susan and Bob generously cosponsor support for the Student Matinees begin- Lyric’s new production of Carousel this season. ning in 1994 and continuing to 2004, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Lavez- THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST zorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind helping Lyric introduce the majesty and grandeur of opera to thousands of young Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of people each season. Most recently, the Foundation cosponsored La Cenerentola The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable (2005/06), Iphigénie en Tauride (2006/07), Die Frau ohne Schatten (2007/08), The leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, Pearl Fishers (2008/09), The Damnation of Faust (2009/10), The Girl of the Golden West N.A. and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in (2010/11), Show Boat (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), and Otello (2013/14). This memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century season, the Mazza Foundation generously cosponsors Il Trovatore. Lyric is honored industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse to have Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. serve on its Board of Directors and Compensation Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust has sponsored or cosponsored numerous pro- Committee. ductions and special programs at Lyric, and has provided leadership challenge grants that helped garner new support for the company. In prior seasons, the Trust provided THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION leadership support of the Stars of Lyric Opera concerts at Grant Park and Millennium Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous Park (2000-2008). In honor of Lyric’s Golden Jubilee, The Elizabeth Morse history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons Charitable Trust cosponsored (2004/05). The Elizabeth

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Morse Charitable Trust provided challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice Rigoletto (2005/06), Il Trovatore (2006/07), La bohème (2007/08), Madama (2005/06) and cosponsored Dialogues of the Carmelites and Salome (2006/07), Julius Butterfly (2008/09), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), A Masked Ball (2010/11), The Caesar (2007/08), Porgy and Bess (2008/09), Ernani (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12), Tales of Hoffmann (2011/12), (2012/13), and The Barber of Seville Elektra (2012/13), and Parsifal (2013/14). The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust (2013/14). This season, the NIB Foundation generously cosponsors Lyric’s pro- cosponsored A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11). This season, the Trust is duction of Tannhäuser, and the Florians personally support the 60th Anniversary cosponsoring Porgy and Bess. James L. Alexander is a Vice President of Lyric’s Board Concert and Diamond Ball as Diamond Patrons. The Foundation made a signifi- of Directors, Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and serves on cant and deeply appreciated contribution to Lyric’s endowment, establishing The the Executive, Finance, Investment, and Nominating/Governance Committees. In NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair, and the NIB Foundation made a 2010, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of James L. major contribution to the Campaign for Excellence, which helped strengthen Lyric’s Alexander by presenting him with the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious financial reserves. They have also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking honor. New Ground Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational Library Collection THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the perform- generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro located on the third ing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration of Lyric floor of the Civic Opera House. Sonia Florian is a vital member of Lyric’s Board of Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. The Negaunee Directors and Executive Committee. Foundation cosponsored Così fan tutte (2006/07), The Abduction from the Seraglio (2008/09), The Mikado (2010/11), The Magic Flute (2011/12), Oklahoma! (2012/13), JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). This season, The Negaunee Foundation is gener- NICHOLS ously cosponsoring Don Giovanni and Carousel, and has made a leadership gift to the Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cul- Chicago, John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols tural institutions benefitting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial have steadfastly supported the Annual commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president serve as a Campaign, and are generous sponsors of member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. the Renée Fleming Initiative. By providing major support to Lyric’s endowment, Mr. SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL and Mrs. Nichols established the John D. and Sylvia and Daniel have been loyal Lyric Alexandra C. Nichols Music Director Endowed Chair. Principal Dressing Room Opera subscribers and donors for many 110 is named in their honor due to their very benevolent contribution to the Building years. They sponsored the Symposiums for on Greatness Capital Campaign. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for John and Lyric productions of Hercules (2010/11) and Alexandra Nichols’ significant leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Show Boat (2011/12). They cosponsored Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and Rigoletto (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. This season, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols support and this season cosponsor Lyric’s produc- the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Vice Chairman tion of The Passenger. They have also made a of The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric’s Board of Directors. Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity Sylvia is Lecturer in Law, Law School. She is founder and of John and Alexandra Nichols. chair of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and Law at Brandeis and is co- editor of its book series (Brandeis University Press). Daniel is President, Chairman NORTHERN TRUST and Co-Founder of the Compass Lexecon consulting firm. He is the Lee and Brena A banking and financial services leader, Northern Trust Freeman Professor of Law and Business Emeritus at the University of Chicago is a long-standing, generous corporate contributor to Law School. Lyric is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Lyric. The company has given major support to the Annual Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. Campaign, Facilities Fund, Great Opera Fund, and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust provided vital leadership contribu- THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION tions to Lyric as Presenting Sponsor of Wine Auctions (2000,

During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Jana R. Schreuder 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012) and cosponsor of the Opera Ball Nerenberg were passionate supporters of (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust cospon- Lyric Opera and subscribed for more than sored Faust (2009/10) and was Lead Corporate Sponsor of Oklahoma! (2012/13) and 30 years. They were especially supportive of cosponsor of The Sound of Music(2013/14). This season, Northern Trust generously The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera cosponsors the Diamond Ball which follows the 60th Anniversary Concert. They are Center and loved to watch these young art- the anchor of Wine Auction 2015 as its Presenting Sponsor. Lyric is honored to have Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg ists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Jerry Jana R. Schreuder, Chief Operating Officer of Northern Trust, serve as a member Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away of its Board of Directors and Finance Committee, and Northern Trust’s Retired in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and Chairman and CEO William A. Osborn Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants serve as a member of its Board of Directors to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ and Executive Committee. thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN NIB FOUNDATION Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted mem- Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, bers of the Lyric Opera family. They have Sonia and William Florian established the NIB Foundation subscribed to Lyric for nearly two decades to extend their support to many worthwhile arts and envi- and enjoy participating in special events such ronmental causes. The Florians are devoted members of the as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Lyric family, having subscribed to Lyric for more than three Auction. The Osborns have generously decades. The NIB Foundation cosponsored La Traviata contributed to the Annual Campaign, the

Sonia Florian (2002/03), (2003/04), Tosca (2004/05), Building on Greatness Capital Campaign,

52 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO the Campaign for Excellence, and Wine Auctions. This season, they are support- BETSY and ANDY ROSENFIELD ing the Wine Auction and the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Lyric is grateful for the devotion of Andrew Emerald Patrons. Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was M. and Betsy Bergman Rosenfield, who are Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of active members of the Lyric Opera family. Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and Andy served as a member of the Board of CEO, is a leading member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Directors from 1993 to 2007, and Betsy is a leader on Lyric’s esteemed Women’s Board. MR. and MRS. MICHAEL POLSKY Betsy chairs this season’s Opening Night Subscribers and generous Annual Campaign Dinner and Performance. The Rosenfields donors, Michael and Tanya Polsky join the also provide generous gifts to the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball and production sponsorship family this year as Opening Night. cosponsors of Tosca. Michael is President and CEO of Invenergy LLC, an innova- PATRICK G. RYAN and SHIRLEY WELSH tor in clean energy, which is headquartered RYAN in Chicago. The company has previously Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication supported Women’s Board Gala events for of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music. Lyric Opera is grateful for the lasting friendship when they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, of Michael and Tanya Polsky. they have shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past PRINCE CHARITABLE TRUSTS three decades, the Ryans have contributed generously The Prince Charitable Trusts supports a broad array of programs in Chicago, to the Annual Campaign, the Great Opera Fund, Wine Washington, DC, and Rhode Island, and Lyric Opera is fortunate to be among Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in 1988), and the Building on Greatness Capital the beneficiaries of the generosity of the Trusts’ Chicago and Washington, DC Campaign for which Lyric named the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family Rehearsal Center branches. This season, the Prince Charitable Trusts are Diamond Patrons of the located backstage to honor their major contribution. In recognition of his leadership 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball in honor of Lyric’s esteemed Women’s role in the Building on Greatness Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 Board, which includes Diana Prince and Meredith Wood-Prince as members. The Carol Fox Award. For several seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, Trusts have also provided principal support for Lyric’s 2015/16 commission Bel underwriting this special project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are Canto by awarding a grant to composer Jimmy López, as well as sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, and support the 60th Anniversary Concert and sponsoring a summer 2014 workshop presentation of the piece. Diamond Ball this season as Diamond Patrons. In recognition of their extraordinary The Prince Charitable Trusts have supported Lyric’s Annual gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric’s premier artist development program was Campaign, Wine Auction, Building on Greatness Campaign, renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Lyric is deeply grateful for and Great Opera Fund, and were cosponsors of the 2004/05 their major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of the Ring Cycle. Innovation Initiative. A Vice President and a member of the Executive and Innovation Committees of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a distinguished former President of the PRITZKER FOUNDATION Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2008 Carol Fox Award – Lyric’s The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of most prestigious honor – in recognition of her many years of devoted service to the arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric opera company. Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker Foundation’s support of the Breaking New Ground DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family Concert Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne commitment to children, families and edu- Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric Opera is cational enrichment through the arts has honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker led it to provide essential support for one Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board since 1970. of Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities available to young Chicagoans, MR. and MRS. J. CHRISTOPHER the Student Matinees. Each year, these widely REYES Jack and Catherine Scholl accessible performances at the Civic Opera Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent mem- House reach full-house audiences of junior-high and high school students, many of bers of the Lyric family. Immediate Past whom are experiencing opera for the first time. The Foundation also supported last President of Lyric’s Women’s Board, Anne season’s hugely-successful family opera, The Family Barber. Lyric Opera is deeply was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Board grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing support of Student of Directors; Chris is also a valued mem- Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine A. and Jack E. ber of the Board of Directors, and serves Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. on its Nominating/Governance Committee. Together they have made important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of Thaïs EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION (2002/03) A Masked Ball (2010/11), Don Pasquale (2012/13), and Madama Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda Butterfly (2013/14). They are again Platinum Grand Benefactor sponsors of Wine Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the Auction, and are major supporters of the Annual Campaign. In addition, they Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, provided a significant and much appreciated gift to the Campaign for Excellence as and the Campaign for Excellence. The Shapiros cosponsored The well as a major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. This season, Magic Flute (2005/06), Falstaff (2007/08), The Abduction from Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes are Diamond Patrons of the 60th Anniversary the Seraglio (2008/09), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11),

Concert and Diamond Ball and cosponsors of Carousel. Brenda Shapiro and Hansel and Gretel (2012/13). Mrs. Shapiro has made a major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and is cosponsoring The Passenger this season. Lyric is honored to have Brenda Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees.

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SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP for Students, NExT Discount Tickets for College Students, and Opera in the A leader in the international legal Neighborhoods, as well as Fantasy of the Opera and as a Singer Sponsor for the arena, the law firm of Sidley Austin is Ryan Opera Center. This season, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation gener- a generous corporate contributor to arts ously cosponsors Anna Bolena, having previously cosponsored The Merry Widow and culture in Chicago. Lyric deeply (2009/10), Carmen (2010/11), Ariadne auf Naxos (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13) appreciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsor- and Die Fledermaus (2013/14). She has also made a leadership gift to the Breaking ship of Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo New Ground Campaign to secure Lyric’s future, and supports Wine Auction ed Euridice (2005/06), Lulu (2008/09), David Carpenter Larry Barden 2015 and the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as a Sapphire Patron. Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of and Rusalka (2013/14). Additionally, Sidley Austin has supported Operathon, Fantasy Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and of the Opera, and the Annual Campaign. This season, Sidley Austin LLP gener- Production Sponsorship Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board. ously cosponsors Lyric’s production of The Passenger. Lyric is proud to have Larry Barden, Chairman of the firm’s Management Committee, on its Board of Directors MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and MR. and and Compensation Committee and David Carpenter, MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE Senior Counsel, serve on its Board of Directors and Civic Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generos- Engagement Committee. ity and leadership of the Vance Family. For more than 20 years, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance provided MANFRED and FERN STEINFELD Lead Sponsorship of Opera in the Neighborhoods, Longtime subscribers and supporters of Lyric’s one of Lyric’s most popular youth-enrichment pro- Annual Campaign, Manny and Fern Steinfeld join grams. The Vances have generously sponsored/ the production sponsorship family this season with cosponsored several Lyric premieres and new pro- their generous cosponsorship of Weinberg’s The Carol and William Vance ductions including Hänsel und Gretel (2001/02), Passenger. Also substantial supporters of the Jewish (2003/04), The Midsummer United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Lyric Marriage (2005/06), The Damnation of Faust (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12) is deeply grateful to have Manny and Fern play Oklahoma! (2012/13), and The Sound of Music(2013/14). For many years, the an integral role in bringing this moving piece to Vances have supported young singers through their sponsorship of Ryan Opera Chicago for its Midwest premiere. The Steinfelds also supported Lyric’s Building on Center ensemble members. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance con- Greatness Campaign through the “Name a Seat” program. tributed to the Campaign for Excellence and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, LIZ STIFFEL Compensation, and Executive Committees. He also serves on the Ryan Opera A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Center Board, of which he is past President. This season, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Liz is a prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance generously cosponsor Lyric’s production of long-standing member of the Guild Board of Directors. She Carousel. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance have also made a significant commitment has generously supported The Patrick G. and Shirley W. to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Ryan Opera Center, as well as the Opening Night Pre-Opera Cocktail Buffet, the Opera Ball Reception, and the Wine ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. Auction Honored Guest Dinner. Previously, Liz Stiffel WASHLOW was the Lead Sponsor of the Renée Fleming Subscriber Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished Appreciation Concert (2010/11), and she generously cosponsored productions members of the Lyric family. For more of La bohème (2001/02), The Magic Flute(2005/06), Falstaff (2007/08), and than two decades, they have enjoyed attend- Manon (2008/09). She also supported Lyric’s Building on Greatness Capital ing Lyric performances and special events, Campaign. This past season, Liz Stiffel was the Lead Sponsor of the Stars of Lyric and have generously supported the Annual Opera at Millennium Park concert and this year she is sponsoring the Wine Auction Campaign. Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, Honored Guest Dinner and is a Diamond Patron of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Errant Families sponsored more than 20 and Diamond Ball. Lyric productions. The Washlows cosponsored Porgy and Bess (2008/09), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11), Show Boat (2011/12), CHERRYL T. THOMAS Don Pasquale (2012/13), and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). Roberta and Bob Cherryl Thomas is a lifelong Chicagoan, having worked Washlow generously cosponsor this season’s Porgy and Bess. Lyric is honored to have for the City of Chicago for 30 years in the Departments of Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors. Public Works, Water, Aviation and Buildings, and as Deputy Chief of Staff for Infrastructure in the Mayor’s Office before HELEN and SAM ZELL accepting an appointment by President Clinton to serve as Helen and Sam Zell are passionate support- Chairman of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board for 5 years. ers of Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. They Founder, President and CEO of Ardmore Associates, who are longtime subscribers to Lyric Opera and generously support Operathon, Cherryl personally sponsors her first production this have contributed to the Annual Campaign season as a cosponsor of Porgy and Bess. Lyric is honored to have Cherryl serve on its and special projects including the Wine Board of Directors and Civic Engagement Committee. Auction for many years. Helen and Sam Zell generously cosponsored Lyric’s new DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION production of Rinaldo (2011/12), Rigoletto Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) and this season are cosponsors of the Lyric pre- and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She miere of The Passenger. enjoys encouraging talented young artists in her roles as a Ryan Opera Center Distinguished Benefactor and Lead Sponsor of Rising Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her pas-

Donna Van Eekeren sion for introducing young people to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported Lyric’s Performances

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For sixty years, Lyric Opera of Chicago has produced world-class opera with many of the world’s greatest artists. With decades of dedicated support from donors and subscribers, the company has flourished, gaining global recognition for its artistic excellence and fiscal stability. Building our reputation for the future will rely on continued commitment to the broad, deep and relevant cultural service we provide to our city, while also advancing the development of opera as a vital art form. Lyric is seizing new opportunities to present opera at the highest level, re-define our audiences, and enhance our infrastructure. After a year-long strategic planning process led by Lyric’s Board and senior management, the Breaking New Ground campaign has been launched to implement the company’s blueprint for a world-class, twenty-first century opera company. Breaking New Ground will allow Lyric to continue to produce major productions of the highest caliber while also modernizing the stage of the Ardis Krainik Theatre with state-of-the-art equipment. The campaign will also contribute toward updated media, marketing and audience development programs, and plans to strengthen the company’s financial position, including continued efforts to build Lyric’s endowment in accordance with industry best practice. Lyric Opera is grateful to the members of the Board of Directors and donor family who have made generous contributions to the Campaign (as of January 1, 2015): Anonymous Paul and Amy Carbone Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Catamaran The Monument Trust (UK) Brent and Katie Gledhill The Negaunee Foundation Jenner & Block LLP John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Jim and Kay Mabie J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Nuveen Investments Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Julie and Roger Baskes PwC David and Orit Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Ada and Whitney Addington Nancy W. Knowles John and Ann Amboian Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Susan and Robert E. Wood II Abbott Fund The Crown Family Anonymous Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Bulley & Andrews LLC Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Anonymous (2) John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn The Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Stephen A. Kaplan and Alyce K. Sigler The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Blythe Jaski McGarvie Josef and Margot Lakonishok Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Robert H. Malott Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Ann M. Drake Maurice and Patricia Frank Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay NIB Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Pritzker Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance

FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 | 55 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball

Lyric Opera of Chicago expresses its deep gratitude to the following generous contributors who have made significant gifts in support of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Gala.

CONCERT LEAD SPONSOR Kirkland & Ellis

DIAMOND BALL SPONSORS ITW Northern Trust

DIAMOND PATRONS Anonymous (2) Sonia Florian J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Paul and Amy Carbone Kay and Fred Krehbiel Liz Stiffel Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Prince Charitable Trusts

EMERALD PATRONS Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Cornell The Crown Family John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols James N. and Laurie V. Bay GRAFF Diamonds Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Harris Family Foundation Jamie D. Rigler Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Colburn Edgar D. and Deborah R. Jannotta Family

SAPPHIRE PATRONS Ada and Whitney Addington Jenner & Block LLP Betsy and Andy Rosenfield James L. Alexander and Curtis D. Drayer/ Mr. and Mrs. Gregory K. Jones and Family Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Segal Kenneth R. Norgan Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Sipi Metals Corporation Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck Nancy W. Knowles Spencer Stuart Dover Corporation KPMG LLP Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Blythe Jaski McGarvie Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Stephen and Lois Eisen Allan and Elaine Muchin Ann Ziff Exelon Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan J. Cellmer Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Sharon and Lee Oberlander

RUBY PATRONS Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fisher Mr. and Mrs. John W. Oleniczak AT&T Brent and Katie Gledhill Matt and Carrie Parr Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Ethel and Bill Gofen Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Julie and Roger Baskes Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner David and Orit Carpenter The Edgewater Funds Brenda M. Shapiro Greg and Mamie Case JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Carl and Marilynn Thoma John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Josef and Margot Lakonishok US Bank Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Jim and Kay Mabie Paul Wood and the Honorable Corinne Wood Mark E. Ferguson and Francine Manilow and Caroline Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Elizabeth B. Yntema Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Arie and Bozena Zweig Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Nuveen/John and Ann Amboian

ADDITIONAL GIFTS Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Walter E. Heller Foundation Craig and Janet Duchossois Gucci America, Inc.

56 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors, 60th Anniversary Season Special Event And Project Support Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects during the 2014/15 Season. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and more were received by January 1, 2015.

Annual Meeting Dinner Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Crain-Maling Foundation Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Edgar D. Jannotta Ernst & Young LLP Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Lyric Opera Chapters Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater Funds Backstage Tours Lyric Opera Overture Society Lois B. Siegel Paul and Amy Carbone Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Music Performance Trust Fund and the Film Fund Mr. and Mrs. James McClung Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Egon and Dorothy Menker Wine Auction The Hurvis Family Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Presenting Sponsor: With Matching Funding by: Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Northern Trust The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family Dr. David Thurn The John and Jackie Bucksbaum Family Joan and Marco Weiss/ Catalogue and Onstage Auction Sponsor: Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Guggenheim Partners

Champagne On Stage Operathon Merchandise Sponsors Dinner Wine Sponsor: Albert and Rita Lacher Fellowes, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Sidley Austin LLP SONG Commemorative Wine Sponsor: Choral Concerts Abbott Lieselotte N. Betterman Operathon Trip Auction Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly American Airlines Cosponsors: Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Olofson James N. and Laurie V. Bay Overture Society Luncheons Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Grand Benefactor Dinners Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Latham & Watkins LLP Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Susan M. Miller Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Innovation Initiative Nancy S. Searle Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Planned Giving Seminars BMO Harris Bank Lyric Signature Events Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Anonymous (2) Baker & McKenzie William Blair & Company Bain & Company PwC Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Projected English Titles R. Robert and Cathy Funderburg Official Airline Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Charitable Trust American Airlines Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Renée Fleming Initiative The Harris Family Foundation Opening Night Gala Anonymous ITW Aon Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Jenner & Block LLP The Crown Family Ann and Gregory K. Jones Opening Night Gala Dinner Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Anonymously sponsored in memory of Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Debby Jannotta John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Mayer Brown LLP Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Sherry McFall and Ken Porrello Operathon Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Blythe Jaski McGarvie Ardmore Associates Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Walgreens Season Preview Concert Susan and Nicholas Noyes and 98.7WFMT Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Make It Better Media Patricia Hyde Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Operathon Challenge Grants Lake Geneva Chapter Lisbeth Stiffel Anonymous (2) Carl and Marilynn Thoma Amsted Industries Foundation Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park Underwriters Laboratories Julie and Roger Baskes Lead Sponsor: Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata closerlook, inc. Kim and Miles D. White Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Rolandi Cosponsors: Greg and Mamie Case Davis Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Renée Fleming AT&T Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation White Pine Charitable Trust

FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 | 57 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited With Major Support From The Hurvis Family Foundation General Support Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker T. G. Bligh Foundation Fund Goldman Sachs Leadership Funding: Wallace Foundation The Brinson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Seymour Persky El Pasado Nunca Se Termina Yntema Ferguson Polish Cultural Institute Additional Funding By: Lead Sponsor: Elaine Frank Penelope and Robert Steiner Anonymous (2) J. Douglas Gray The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Matinee Archer Daniels Midland Foundation Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. The Barker Welfare Foundation Buehler Family Foundation Cosponsors: O’Leary Baxter International, Inc. Shirley and Benjamin Gould Anonymous Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ BNY Mellon Endowment Fund Maria C. Bechily and Scott Hodes Patricia Hyde Helen Brach Foundation Louise H. Landau Foundation Exelon NiSource CNA Foundation Lannan Foundation Ken Norgan Satter Family Foundation Nancy Dehmlow Dr. Sondra C. Rabin OPERA America Mary Sue and Michael Shannon Richard B. Egen Donna Van Eekeren Foundation The Retirement Research Foundation Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Envestnet The Siragusa Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Pre-Opera Talks Goldman Sachs Adam and Harriette Swierz Donor- Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. The Hearst Foundations Advised Fund United Scrap Metal, Inc. Kip Kelley The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation- James and Michele Young Student Backstage Tours Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund NEXT Student Ticket Program John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Program Evaluation Shirley and Benjamin Gould Lead Sponsor: Daniel Lome The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Endowment Fund The Grainger Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation Memory and Reckoning/The Property Vocal Partnership Program Northern Trust Cosponsors: Anonymous Bank of America Matt and Carrie Parr Anonymous Joyce E. Chelberg Andra and Irwin Press Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Consulate General of Youth Opera Council Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. the Republic of Poland Terry J. Medhurst With Major Support Provided by the Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances Fund The Magic Victrola Sage Foundation CME Group Foundation Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Lead Sponsor: US Bank Polk Bros. Foundation General Mills Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins Opera in the Neighborhoods Performances for Students Dr. Scholl Foundation Cosponsors: Anonymous John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Family Foundation Segal Family Foundation Bulley & Andrews LLC Opera Residencies in Schools The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Anonymous Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Nuveen Investments Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Dover Mrs. Roy I. Warshawsky

Look To The Future ENDOWED CHAIRS Regenstein Foundation Mozart Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED PROGRAM The Women’s Board General Director Endowed In Honor Of Ruth Regenstein Distinguished Conductor Award Chair William E. and Mary Gannon Hay Puccini Sarah and A. Watson Armour III In Loving Memory Of Ardis Krainik Endowed Chair John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Music Director The Guild Board of Directors Verdi LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED FUNDS Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Estate of Robert and Isabelle Bass Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift From An George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Education Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair Anonymous Donor Endowment Fund Chapters’ Endowed Chair For Education Thomas Doran In Memory Of Alfred Glasser Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Concertmaster Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund The Ryan Opera Center Board Opera Center Endowed Chair John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Director Endowed Chair Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Director Estate of Marjorie A. Mayhall Endowed Chair Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting Robert and Ellen Marks American Opera Endowed Lois B. Siegel Chair Designer Endowed Chair Joanne Silver Baroque Opera Endowed Chair – In Honor Of Duane Schuler The Lois L. Ward Trust A Gift From An Anonymous Donor Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Bel Canto Studies Program Endowed Chair Opera Endowed Chair In Honor Of Gianna Rolandi W. James and Maxine P. Farrell French Opera Allan and Elaine Muchin Production and Technical PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND Endowed Chair Director Endowed Chair James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair Endowed Chair In Memory Of Harold Beider

58 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and over were received between July 1, 2013 and January 1, 2015. Artist Support, Special Event The C. G. Pinnell Family Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Charitable and Project Sponsors Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Giving Fund Lois B. Siegel Sue and Melvin Gray Stepan Company Miriam U. Hoover Acting/Movement Coaching Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Illinois Arts Council Phillip G. Lumpkin Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial Fund Artistic Coaching Debbie K. Wright Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk James Lancaster Trust Michael A. Leppen Toasting Trovatore Reception Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Bel Canto Workshop Susan and Richard Kiphart The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust OPERA America Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman Prince Charitable Trusts Training Program Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Beverly Persky Duds for Divas National Endowment for the Arts The George L. Shields Foundation Heidi Heutel Bohn Voice Instruction Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Lawrence O. Corry Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Anne Gross Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory Anne Gross Mark and Kimbra Walter Final Auditions Mary Ellen Hennessy Jennifer L. Stone Artist Circle The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation ($5,000 to $9,999) Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cozad WFMT Recital Series Anonymous Doris Conant Foreign Language Instruction Julie and Roger Baskes Anne Megan Davis Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Cornell Workshop Performances Thomas Doran Erma S. Medgyesy Martha A. Hesse Virginia and Gary Gerst Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Guest Master Artist General Support John and Betsey Puth The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Marilee and Richard Wehman Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Launchpad Aria Society Marcus Boggs ($100,000 and above) Leslie Fund, Inc. Anonymous (2) Rising Stars In Concert Richard Pearlman Trust Richard Pearlman Trust Lead Sponsor: Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Master Classes Sponsors: Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Platinum Distinguished Benefactors Julie and Roger Baskes Martha A. Hesse ($50,000 to $99,999) Catamaran Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory Ann M. Drake National Auditions Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. Sue and Melvin Gray American Airlines McDougal Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O’Leary Susan and Richard Kiphart Renée Fleming Master Class Distinguished Benefactors Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation ($25,000 to $49,999) Foundation Ingrid Peters Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Singer Sponsors/Cosponsors Richard Pearlman Trust Anonymous (3) Mentors The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation ($10,000 to $24,999) Cosponsor: Maurice J. and Patricia Frank L. Robert Artoe Susan M. Miller Anne Gross Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Susan and Richard Kiphart Heidi Heutel Bohn Rising Stars In Concert Broadcast Sanfred and Nancy Koltun Lawrence O. Corry Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Robert C. Marks Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Erika Erich Rising Stars In Concert Reception The Pauls Foundation Renée Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin

FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Corporate Support

Lyric Opera gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received between July 1, 2013 and January 1, 2015. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above Abbott Fund Guggenheim Partners Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Miles D. White, Chairman & CEO Andrew M. Rosenfield, Linda K. Myers, Partner Managing Partner American Airlines Northern Trust Franco Tedeschi, ITW Frederick H. Waddell, Vice President - Chicago E. Scott Santi, Chairman & CEO President & CEO Jana R. Schreuder Ardmore Associates Cherryl T. Thomas, President Maria C. Green, Chief Operating Officer SVP, General Counsel and Secretary Exelon Sidley Austin LLP Chris Crane, Jenner & Block LLP Larry A. Barden, President and CEO Craig C. Martin, Partner Partner & Chairman of Management Committee The Grainger Foundation JPMorgan Chase & Co. Eric S. Smith, Managing Director David W. Carpenter, James T. Ryan Senior Counsel Chairman, President and CEO

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999 Aon Corporation closerlook, inc. Make It Better Media Gregory C. Case, President & CEO David T. Ormesher, CEO Susan B. Noyes, Founder & President Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Dover Nuveen Investments Mark Ferguson, Robert A. Livingston, President & CEO John P. Amboian, CEO Founding Partner GRAFF Diamonds OPERA America Baxter International Inc. Eve R. Rogers, Director Marc A. Scorca, President & CEO Robert L. Parkinson, Jr., Latham & Watkins, LLP PwC Chairman & CEO Richard A. Levy, Office Managing Partner John W. Oleniczak, Partner GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999 Accenture Fellowes, Inc. Spencer Stuart Dean J. Teglia, Managing Director James E. Fellowes, Chairman & CEO Kevin M. Connelly, Chairman & CEO AT&T Goldman Sachs Stepan Company Sheri A. Eichelberger, Eric L. Hirschfield, F. Quinn Stepan, Chairman & CEO Vice President, Signature Client Group Managing Director, Bain & Company Investment Banking Division Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company Edward B. Rouse, Vinay Couto, Senior Vice President KPMG LLP Vice President & Managing Director Claudia M. Saran, Advisory Partner, Tamsen Z, LLC Baker & McKenzie U.S. Leader - People & Change Practice Ann Ziff, Founder & Designer Michael A. Smith, Managing Partner Mayer Brown LLP Underwriters Laboratories Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Paul W. Theiss, Chairman Timothy L. Christen, CEO Keith E. Williams, President & CEO Morgan Stanley Bank of America Matthew J. Parr, Managing Director United Scrap Metal, Inc. Sharon Oberlander, Managing Director Marsha Serlin, Founder & CEO Bulley & Andrews LLC NiSource US Bank Allan E. Bulley III, President Carrie J. Hightman, Executive VP and Chief Legal Officer Marsha Cruzan, Market President Chicago Catamaran Mark A. Thierer, President & CEO Sipi Metals Corporation Walgreens Marion A. Cameron, President Ernst & Young LLP Mark A. Wagner, President, Rick Fezell, Vice Chair & Skadden Operations & Community Midwest Managing Partner Rodd M. Schreiber, Partner Management

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR • $10,000 to $24,999 Aetna BNY Mellon Invenergy Quarles & Brady LLP Alexander & Alexander, Chicago Title and Trust Company Jones Lang LaSalle Takeda Pharmaceuticals Attorneys at Law Foundation The Quaker Oats Company William Blair & Company

PREMIER BENEFACTOR • $7,500 to $9,999 Amsted Industries Foundation BMO Harris Bank DLA Piper LLP (US) KlearSky Solutions, LLC Archer Daniels Midland Chicago White Metal Charitable Envestnet Starshak Winzenburg & Co. Foundation Foundation

BENEFACTOR • $5,000 to $7,499 Robert W. Baird & Company CNA Foundation Gucci America, Inc. Sahara Enterprises, Inc. BBJ Linen General Mills Foundation Italian Village Restaurants Shure Incorporated

BRAVO CIRCLE • $3,500 to $4,999 American Funds Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Nordstrom Old Republic International Bessemer Trust Corporate Suites Network Corporation

IMPRESARIO • $2,000 to $3,499 BNSF Foundation KD Mailing Service Opera Volunteers International Horwood Marcus & Berk MWM Consulting RBC Wealth Management Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. Rendezvous Music

FRIEND • $1,000 to $1,999 American Agricultural Insurance Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Kinder Morgan Foundation Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Company Galois Group Mesirow Financial S & C Foundation Asher, Gittler & D'Alba, Ltd. Hafner Printing Company, Inc. Michuda Construction, Inc. Turks' Greenhouses Concierge Unlimited International SUSTAINER • $500 to $999 Carl Johnson's Gallery in Galena Madison Opera Trips Network for Good Matching Gifts

A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees' gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous (2) CME Foundation Johnson Controls Foundation Peoples Gas Aetna Foundation, Inc. CNA Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation PepsiCo Foundation Alliant Energy Foundation Deutsche Bank North America Kirkland & Ellis PNC Foundation American Express Foundation Emerson Electric Company Kraft Employee Involvement Programs Polk Bros. Foundation Aon Foundation Exxon Mobil Lannan Foundation The Prudential Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur The Rhoades Foundation ArcelorMittal GE Foundation Foundation Skadden AT&T Foundation General Mills Foundation Microsoft Takeda Pharmaceuticals North Bank of America Foundation Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley America, Inc. BMO Harris Bank Foundation Grenzebach Glier and Associates National Joint Powers Alliance Toro Foundation BP Matching Funds Program Houghton Mifflin Company Newedge USA UBS Foundation Helen Brach Foundation IBM Corporation Northern Trust Company The Warranty Group Caterpillar Foundation Inc. ITW Foundation Oracle W. K. Kellogg Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Johnson & Johnson Peak6 W. W. Grainger Inc.

For purposes of recognition, we are pleased to combine matching gifts with an individual's personal gift. If your employer has a matching gift program, please request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Affairs office, and send it to us along with your contribution.

FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 | 61 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Overture Society

The Overture Society consists of those esteemed supporters who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric Opera in the future. These generous gifts ensure Lyric Opera’s artistic progress well into the 21st Century for the benefit of future Lyric audiences. Lyric Opera is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society: Bel Canto Benefactors These Overture Society members have made a major planned gift to Lyric Opera as well as a generous annual gift. For information about the Bel Canto Benefactors, please call Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Director of Planned Giving, at (312) 827-5677. Anonymous (16) Marianne Deson-Herstein William E. and Mary Gannon Bill Melamed Joan L. Richards Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard in memory of Samuel and Hay Margaret and Craig Milkint Chatka Ruggiero Valerie and Joseph Abel Sarah Deson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Susan M. Miller Mary T. Schafer Louise Abrahams Mr. and Mrs. James D. Heagy David and Justine K. Mintzer Martha P. Schneider Dr. Whitney Addington Ericson Mrs. John C. Hedley James and Mary Beth Charles Chris Shaw Josephine E. Heindel Morehouse Karen G. Andreae Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Rose L. Shure Concordia Hoffmann Allan and Elaine Muchin Catherine Aranyi Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng Lois B. Siegel Edgar D. Jannotta Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Larry G. Simpson L. Robert Artoe Robert F. Finke John and Kerma Karoly Murphy Craig Sirles Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone Kip Kelley David J. and Dolores D. Mrs. Jay Spaulding Marlys A. Beider James C. Kemmerer Nelson Roy Fisher Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Julie Anne Benson LeRoy and Laura Klemt John H. Nelson Elaine Frank Mary Stowell Merrill and Judy Blau Nancy W. Knowles John D. and Alexandra C. Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Gerald Sunko, M.D. Ann Blickensderfer Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Dr. Nichols Rhoda and Henry S. Frank Carla M. Thorpe Dr. Gregory L. Boshart W. Peter Hansen William A. Osborn Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Richard J. Franke Dr. William R. Lawrence Joan L. Pantsios Danolda (Dea) Brennan Phil and Paula Turner George and Mary Ann Thomas and Lise Lawson Irma Parker George F. and Linda L. Brusky Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason Gardner Carol L. Linne André and Julia Pernet David W. Carpenter Joan and Marco Weiss Francey Gecht Daniel T. Manoogian Frances Pietch Mrs. Robert G. Weiss James W. Chamberlain James K. Genden and Alma Robert C. Marks Kenneth Porrello and Sherry Claudia L. Winkler Nelson D. Cornelius Koppedraijer Paul Mavros McFall Paula Hannaway Crown Sue and Melvin Gray Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Nathaniel W. Pusey Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Renée Crown Harry J. Griffiths, M.D. Mayer Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Thomas Doran Julian W. Harvey Nancy Lauter McDougal Lyn and Bill Redfield Edward T. Zasadil Society Members Anonymous (46) Heinke K. Clark Dr. Paul Froeschl Dr. Anne Juhasz Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Carol A. Abrioux Robert and Margery Coen Marie and Gregory Fugiel Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Conroy Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Lady Stuart Kane Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Mesrobian Elizabeth M. Ashton Sharon Conway Witton Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Richard N. Bailey Sarah J. Cooney Susan Boatman Garland Kenneth Kelling Ms. Barbara Terman Michaels Susann Ball Joseph E. Corrigan Scott P. George Paul R. Keske Marilyn E. Miller Constance and Liduina Barbantini Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Mr. Lyle Gillman Chuck and Kathy Killman Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Margaret Basch B. A. Coussement John F. Gilmore Diana Hunt King Robert and Lois Moeller Mrs. Bill Beaton Morton and Una Creditor John A. Goldstein Neil King Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Alvin R. Beatty Kathryn M. Cunningham Jane Yager Goodman Esther G. Klatz Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Joan I. Berger Donald A. Deutsch Dr. J. Brian Greis R. William Klein, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Munoz Barbara Bermudez Phyllis Diamond James R. Grimes J. Peter Kline Dr. Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Patrick J. Bitterman Roger Dickinson Patricia Grogan Helen Kohr John and Maynette Neundorf M. J. Black Ms. Janet E. Diehl Carl J. Halperin Dr. Bruce Korth Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nickels Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Mrs. Elaine Hansen Mary S. Kurz Edward A. Nieminen Ned and Raynette Boshell Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Dobroski CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Larry Lapidus Florence C. Norstrom David Boyce Ms. Barbara J. Doerner Ms. Geraldine Haracz Barbara K. Larsen James F. Oates Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Thomas M. Dolan Andrew Hatchell Millicent Leibfritz Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Robert and Phyllis Brauer Mary Louise Duhamel William P. Hauworth Ernest L. Lester Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Mrs. William A. Briggs Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Levy Jonathan F. Orser Leona and Daniel Bronstein Kathy Dunn Ronald G. Hedberg Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Parsons Candace Balfour Broecker and the Richard L. Eastline Mary Mako Helbert Carole F. Liebson George R. Paterson Estate of Howard W. Broecker Carol A. Eastman Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Rosalie Loeding Dr. Joan E. Patterson Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown Lowell and Judy Eckberg Mrs. Marion Hoffman Doris C. Lorz George Pepper, M.D. Kathryn Y. Brown Lucy A. Elam, James and Mary Lunz Houston Eva Lutovsky Ira J. Peskind Jacqueline Brumlik in memory of Elizabeth Elam H. Eileen Howard Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Elizabeth Anne Peters Donna Brunsma Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman Joseph H. Huebner Jeanne Randall Malkin Genevieve M. Phelps Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske Cherelynn A. Elliott Kenneth N. Hughes Ann Chassin Mallow Karen and Dick Pigott III Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Dagmar Hurbanek Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Ms. Lois Polakoff Steven and Helen Buchanan Joseph R. Ender Michael Huskey Mrs. John Jay Markham Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger Dr. James A. Eng Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, James Massie and Dr. Christine Mrs. Edward S. Price and Mr. William Burger Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Engel USMC Memorial Fund Winter Massie Robert L. Rappel, Jr. Muriel A. Burnet Martha L. Faulhaber Barbara A. Joabson Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak Sherrie Kahn Reddick Lisa Bury Nadine Ferguson John Arthur Johnson James G. and Laura G. Keith A. Reed and Beth Kesterson Robert J. Callahan Felicia Finkelman Laurence P. Johnson McCormick Reed Patrick V. Casali Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Nancy E. Johnson Gia and Paul McDermott Michael and Susan “Holly” Reiter Esther Charbit Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Roy A. Johnson Florence D. McMillan Evelyn R. Richer Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Ms. Susan Frankel Ms. Barbara Mair Jones Leoni Zverow McVey and J. Jennie M. Righeimer Ramona Choos Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. Janet Jones William McVey Gerald L. Ritholz J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Allen J. Frantzen Moreen C. Jordan Martina M. Mead Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

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Howard M. and Mary Raffetto- Lois K. Schmidt Sherie B. Stein Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Claude M. Weil Robins Edwin J. Seeboeck K. M. Stelletello Jean M. Turnmire Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Donald Seibert J. Allyson Stern Paul and Judith Tuszynski Joanna L. Weiss in memory of Robert Kyts Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Ultmann Family Charitable James M. Wells Mrs. Beth Wheeler Rome Jared Shlaes Carol A. Stitzer Remainder Unitrust Mrs. Melville W. Wendell James and Janet Rosenbaum Dr. Alfred L. and Mildred Siegel Norene W. Stucka Marlene A. Van Skike Sandra Wenner Dr. John Gregory Russo Joanne Silver Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Raita Vilnins Caroline C. Wheeler Joseph C. Russo Jonathan P. Siner Emily J. Su Dr. Malcolm Vye Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Dennis Ryan Joan M. Skepnek Peggy Sullivan Darcy Lynn Walker Nora Winsberg Eugene Rzym, in memory of Joan M. Solbeck Sherwin A. Swartz Gary T. Walther Brien and Cathy Wloch Adaline Rzym Mary Soleiman Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Albert Wang Mrs. William Wunder David Sachs Elaine Soter Lauritz K. Thomsen Louella Krueger Ward Dr. Debra L. Zahay Mrs. Philip H. Schaff, Jr. Ms. Geraldine A. Spatz Karen Hletko Tiersky Karl N. Wechter Daniel R. Zillmann Franklin R. Schmidt James A. Staples Myron Tiersky Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Audrey A. Zywicki Estate Gifts The following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric Opera. With deepest regards, Lyric Opera commemorates those departed friends who have honored us with this most profound commitment. Anonymous (6) Mrs. Ray Duncan Martha and Walter Honigman Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Edward Byron Smith Mrs. Julius Abler Bettie B. Dwinell Carl E. Horn Foundation Dr. Edward C. Smith Mrs. Elmer E. Abrahamson Barbara H. Eckholt Hugh Johnston Hubbard Ms. Joan H. Smith Arthur A. Acheson Carl B. Eklund Mrs. Alfred Jacobshagen Thomas G. Neumiller Mrs. Louis A. Smith Jean L. Acker Kelli Gardner Emery Deborah Jannotta Mrs. Frances Newman Paige L. Smith Dr. Anne Hardwick Addington William J. Evans Lenore S. John Jaye and Piri Niefeld Irene Smoller, in memory of her Ralph E. Adler Milton D. Faber Albert J. Johnson Elisabeth A. Noel late son, Estate of Beth Ann Alberding- Yvette Fairshter Diana T. Jones Joan Ruck Nopola William Rothwell Smoller Mohr Dr. James D. Fenters Phyllis A. Jones William A. Novy, Jr. Willis B. Snell Donald Alderman Larry Ferguson Dr. Stephen E. Juhasz Mary S. Oldberg Marilyn J. Snoble Dr. Harry S. and Irene K. Arkin Lorin Adrian Fillmore Joseph M. Kacena Roberta R. Oliff Anna Sovish Trust Marguerite B. Finch Andrew Karzas Rex N. Olsen Jay Spaulding Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson Armour Harold Finley Theodore Kassel Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Eleanore E. Starek Trust III Robert A. Fischer Sherry Kelley Edmond and Alice Opler Clarke and Adine Stayman Trusts Joan Armstrong Agnes Joern Fowler Dorothy E. Kemp Foundation James L. Stein James E. S. Baker Brena and Lee Freeman Miss Emily Kernkamp, in memory Mary G. Oppenheim Franz S. Steinitz, M.D. Elsa F. Bandi Don B. Freeman of Dr. Lorraine McGuire Eugenia Patche Robert D. Stewart Vincent Barresi Mrs. Charles Goodlett Frey Ms. Ruth Kiewe Suzanne Pirie Pattou Howard A. Stotler Estate of Patricia Anne Barton Lucille Friday Mrs. Israel Kirsh Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Frank D. Stout Trust Robert and Isabelle Bass Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Robert Kispert Fund for Music Lucile L. and Joseph J. Strasburger Mrs. Henry Beard Robert M. Friedman R. Eustice Klein Ralph M. Perlick Gertrude & Walter E. Swanson, Jr. Mrs. B. Edward Bensinger Robert S. Friend Russell V. Kohr Bendix L. Peterson Foundation Mrs. Edwin P. Berndtson Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Muriel Kolinsky Mrs. Howard R. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Morton F. Swift Rev. Dr. Warren Best Betsy Thayer Fricke Fyfe Ardis Krainik Harold H. and Elaine Plaut Helen L. Teich Mrs. Edward McCormick Blair Mrs. Hildreth Jane Gaebe Herman Kuhn Sidney L. Port Dean Terrell Estate Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Blettner In memory of Carl and Fern Anne C. Lacovic Jack and Eleanor Portis Glenn E. Thiel Mary L. Block Gaensslen Medard C. Lange Trust Joann M. Potvliet Joseph Tiritilli Berenece A. Boehm Florence Gambino Marjorie Lanterman Frank J. Prah Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Raymond J. Bradley Mrs. Nicholas Gannam Susanne E. Larsh Hal Pritchard Annuity Trust Joanell C. Breen Dr. Martin L. Gecht Walter Leibfritz William Reily Estate of Ruben Tross John P. Britz Trust In memory of Larry W. Gelfius, Louis L. Lerner and David L. Gayle Ann Rentschler Edgar William Trout Theresa J. Brosamer member of the Lyric Opera Lerner William G. Rice John T. Trutter Mrs. T. von Donop Buddington Lecture Corps Mrs. John Woodworth Leslie Michael Richter Dr. John E. Ultmann Inge Burg George Gifford Theresa M. Rill Dr. Paul D. Urnes Robert C. Lietz Nara Cadorin Rosalie E. Gingiss Trust Rosemary D. Roberts John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Dean A. Linton Madeleine G. Camilleri Alfred Glasser Harry A. Root Trust Dr. Richard A. Livingston Carol N. Cane Joe Richard Glover Rev. George Nash Ross Irvin J. Valovic Elizabeth Capilupo Myles C.. and Gloria M. Gogan Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd H. Cary Ross Sheila von Wiese-Mack Rose Mary Carter Jeanne Brown Gordon Arthur B. Logan Norman Ross Charitable Trust Cecilia Wade Charitable Trust Warren Choos Shirley and Benjamin Gould Eleanor Lonek George M. Rubenstein Nancy L. Wald William J. Ciulla Endowment Fund Mrs. Arthur M. Long Arthur Rubloff Residuary Trust Walkowiak Harry R. Clamor John D. Gray Mary Longbrake Burton Rubloff Trust Adele A. Wallace Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Frank E. and Sarah Graydon Babette Irene Louis Edith S. Ruettinger Carmen W. Walsh Trust Eleanor Green Dale B. Louiso Margaret R. Sagers Lois L. Ward Anne and Milton Colman Jerome A. Gross John P. Lundin Gladys S. Sailor Living Trust Richard W. Wathen Dorothy F. Cooney Lester and Betty Guttman Eva Lutovsky Suzanne Hewson Sammann Lyman Watson John W. Coutts Ann Hall Mary Louise Maher Mrs. Lee Schaenen Virginia O. Weaver Robert Cowell David C. Hall Dr. Alexis W. Maier Trust Philip H. Schaff, Jr. William D. Weaver Claudia Cassidy Crawford Trust Richard Halvorsen Herman R. and Sylvia Margolis S. Leder (Lee) Schiff Eva L. Weber, M.D. Kathryn Kryder Crittenden Kenneth L. Harder Trust Ellen R. Marks Alice F. Schimberg Trust Melvin “Bud” Weil Kathleen A. Crosby Donna E. Harrison Mrs. Edward A. Maser Roy Schmaltz Ralph Weil Joanne Toor Cummings Dr. Melville D. Hartman Richard M. Mattern Katherine M. Schultz Mrs. Miriam T. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dabovich Mrs. Ruth M. Harwell Augustus K. Maxell, Jr. Robert G. Schweitzer Susanne Wells Ruth B. Dean Camille C. Hatzenbuehler Marjorie A. Mayhall Margaret W. Seeboeck Claire M. Wilhelm Richard D. Deason Hatti Hayes Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Romana K. and Clay Seipp Bernard E. Williams Marjorie Louise DeBoos Thomas D. Heath Alfred L. McDougal Dr. Joseph Semrow Frances B. Wilson Jo Hopkins Deutsch Josephine A. Hedges Gerald E. Meyers Ingeborg Haupt Sennot In memoriam, Henry J. Witka Jane Warner Dick, in honor of John C. Hedley Ruth J. Milner Michael N. Shallow Sophie F. Wolff Edison Dick Dr. Erich and Tamara Heinrichs Lisa D. Mogensen Henry Shapiro Peter Wolkonsky, M.D. Helen L. Dickerman Trust Mrs. Winston C. Moore Joseph Jeffrey Shedd Mrs. Peter Wolkonsky The Edward & Rose Donnell J. Raymond Helbert Ann A. Mortenson Lenore T. Sherwin Cynthia Wood Foundation James C. Hemphill Renate Moser Sidney N. Shure Mrs. William Wood Prince Marjorie Donovan The Margaret E. Hertline Family Dorothy Mosiman, in honor of Adeline Elizabeth Sigwalt Mrs. Herman E. Woods Mrs. Lyman Drake, Jr. Trust Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Jannotta Ellen Smith Simmons Geraldine Wuester Josephine S. Dryer Margot S. Hertz Ms. Kathryn Mueller Robert Slabey Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque James and Gail Hickey Doris A. Murdoch David Wm. Smitches Carl Dumke Richard J. Hofemann Muriel Neave and Paul A. Lindgren

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Lyric Opera deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received between July 1, 2013 and January 1, 2015. ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above Anonymous (8) Estate of William J. Evans Estate of Arthur Logan Prince Charitable Trusts Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Pritzker Foundation Cornell Julius Frankel Foundation Foundation J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Elsa E. Bandi Trust Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Jim and Kay Mabie Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes Trust Robert H. Malott Estate of Harry A. Root, Jr. James N. and Laurie V. Bay Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Mazza Foundation Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Marlys Beider Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Brent and Katie Gledhill Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Ryan Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Ethel and William Gofen Mills Dr. Scholl Foundation Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Gramma Fisher Foundation of The Monument Trust (UK) Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation The John and Jackie Bucksbaum Marshalltown, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison James L. Stein Revocable Trust Family Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Manfred and Fern Steinfeld Paul and Amy Carbone Estate of Betty Guttman The Negaunee Foundation Lisbeth Stiffel David and Orit Carpenter John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Cherryl T. Thomas/ Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Harris Family Foundation Foundation Ardmore Associates Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Howard Family Foundation Estate of Dawn Clark Netsch Joseph Tiritilli Trust Trust Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis John K. Neundorf Charitable Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Estate of Phyllis A. Jones Remainder Unitrust Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy NIB Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation The Crown Family Richard P. and Susan Kiphart John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Nancy W. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Washlow The Davee Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Richard Pearlman Trust Helen and Sam Zell Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Josef and Margot Lakonishok Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous Ann M. Drake Greg and Annie Jones/ National Endowment for the Arts Ada and Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Edgewater Funds Estate of Mary G. Oppenheim Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Hearst Foundations Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Polk Bros. Foundation Sarah Billinghurst Walter E. Heller Foundation The Knowles Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Estate of Margot S. Hertz Chauncey and Marion D. Foundation The Brinson Foundation Hugh Johnston Hubbard Trust McCormick Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Janet V. Burch, M.D. and Illinois Arts Council Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. Nancy S. Searle Joel R. Guillory, M.D. Edgar D. and Deborah R. Jannotta McDougal Elizabeth Upjohn Mason The Chicago Community Trust Family Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Mead, Jr. GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (7) Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Susan M. Miller Mary Sue and Michael Shannon Paul and Mary Anderson Maurice and Patricia Frank Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Charles and M.R. Shapiro Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Barbara and Richard Franke Allan and Elaine Muchin Foundation, Inc. Inc. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Rose L. Shure Christine and Paul Branstad Family R. Robert and Sally Funderburg Ken Norgan Lois B. Siegel Foundation Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Morris Silverman and Lori Ann Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck Avrum Gray Family Matt and Carrie Parr Komisar Estate of Elizabeth Capilupo Sue and Melvin Gray The Pauls Foundation Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Seymour H. Persky Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Mary Ellen Hennessy Ingrid Peters Joseph and Pam Szokol Foundation Martha A. Hesse The C. G. Pinnell Family Carl and Marilynn Thoma Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cozad Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Andra and Irwin Press Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Crain-Maling Foundation Estate of Martha Honigman JB and MK Pritzker Family H. A. Vance Foundation Inc. Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Patricia Hyde Foundation Wallace Foundation Rolandi Davis Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Collin and Lili Roche Mrs. Roy I. Warshawsky Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Joseph M. Kacena Endowed Fund Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Drs. George and Sally Dunea Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. H. Cary Ross Trust Kim and Miles D. White John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn O'Leary Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Paul Wood and the Honorable Eisen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Sage Foundation Corinne Wood Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Lewis Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Ann Ziff Yntema Ferguson Robert and Evelyn McCullen Segal Family Foundation Larry and Barbara Field Blythe Jaski McGarvie Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Elaine Frank Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Estate of Dr. Joseph Semrow

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (6) Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta James Huntington Foundation Jamie D. Rigler Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard M. Dillon Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Kenneth Aldridge Edward and Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski Memorial Fund Roberts Family Foundation John and Ann Amboian Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher Laurie and Michael Jaffe The Rooney Family Kelley and Susan Anderson M. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Kip Kelley Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Arbetter Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Richard O. Ryan L. Robert Artoe Richard Driehaus Albert and Rita Lacher Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sandner Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden James Lancaster Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Mrs. Robert H. Bacon Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Michael A. Leppen Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen E. M. Bakwin Erika E. Erich Arthur B. Logan Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Daniel H. Lome The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Joan and Robert Feitler Phillip G. Lumpkin The Shubert Foundation The Barker Welfare Foundation The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Sonja and Conrad Fischer Francine Manilow and Caroline Brown Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baumgartner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Russell W. and Christina Fisher Robert C. Marks Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Ross and Patricia D. Bender Renée Fleming Mason Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Estate of Dr. Warren Best The Foster Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Charitable Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Penelope and Robert Steiner T. G. Bligh Foundation Fund Giving Fund Erma S. Medgyesy Jennifer L. Stone Marcus Boggs Susan J. Garner Terry J. Medhurst Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stone Heidi Heutel Bohn Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. Dawn G. Meiners Mary Stowell Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland McGuinnis Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Bruce A. Gober, M.D. MRB Foundation Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Helen Brach Foundation Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman Howard and Paula Trienens Foundation Betty Bradshaw The Edgewater Funds Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Tully Family Foundation Thomas Broadie David and Elizabeth Graham Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family Mrs. William B. Graham Martha C. Nussbaum Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Julian and Sheila Oettinger Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. The Buchanan Family Foundation Mrs. Mary Winton Green Mr. and Mrs. John W. Oleniczak Cynthia Walk Buehler Family Foundation Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Olofson Dan and Patty Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley, Jr. Estate of Richard Halvorsen Pasquinelli Family Foundation Walter Family Foundation Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud White Pine Charitable Trust The Butler Family Foundation Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Beverly Persky Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Marie Campbell The Irving Harris Foundation Maya Polsky Mrs. John A. Wing Greg and Mamie Case Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Joyce E. Chelberg Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Debbie K. Wright CME Group Foundation Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Dr. Sondra C. Rabin James and Michele Young Marcia S. Cohn Mrs. John C. Hedley Mary and John Raitt Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Reed and Ann Coleman Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Merle Reskin Charitable Fund Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Considine Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III The Retirement Research Foundation Arie and Bozena Zweig Lawrence O. Corry Miriam U. Hoover The Rhoades Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crawford, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner William C. and Nancy Richardson Rosemary and John Croghan Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Candy and Gary Ridgway

PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (3) Dr. Jorge Galante The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation- J. Timothy Ritchie Robert S. Bartolone Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffery Geldermann Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund Edgar Rose Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Mary Ann and Lloyd Gerlach Martin and Patricia Koldyke Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Lieselotte N. Betterman Virginia and Gary Gerst MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bobins, The Robert George and Maureen Gilmore Louise H. Landau Foundation Susan and David Ruder Thomas Bobins Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Lannan Foundation George and Terry Rose Saunders Charles Bower Helyn D. Goldenberg Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Leonard Raymond and Inez Saunders Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Bernard and Averill Leviton Mary and Stanley Seidler Joy Buddig Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Mrs. Laurence A. Carton Phillip and Gordon Julius Lewis Mary Beth Shea Dr. Robert W. Carton Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Jim and SuAnne Lopata The Siragusa Foundation Mrs. Hammond Chaffetz Dr. Doris Graber Daniel T. Manoogian Patricia Arrington Smythe Mrs. Warren M. Choos Joan M. Hall Shari Mayes Dorie Sternberg Lynd W. Corley John Hart and Carol Prins Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Susan E. Cremin Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan Egon and Dorothy Menker Mrs. Robert D. Stuart, Jr. Anne Megan Davis Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Milliken Bolton Sullivan Fund Decyk Charitable Foundation James E. and Mary Lunz Houston Martha A. Mills Angela Tenta, M.D. Nancy Dehmlow Dr. Kamal Ibrahim David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Dr. David Thurn Jon W. DeMoss Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jaffee Bobbie Newman Christian Vinyard Harvey S. and Sheila Dulin Irene Jakimcius Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Marilou and Henry von Ferstel Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Jan and Bill Jentes Monica L. Parry Marilee and Richard Wehman Estate of Josephine S. Dryer Louise Johnson Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Frieda and Judd Weinberg Donald and Anne Edwards Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker Richard B. Egen Nancy Rita Kaz Irene D. Pritzker Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Mrs. Helen Kedo John and Betsey Puth Robert F. Finke Kate T. Kestnbaum Daryl and James Riley

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BENEFACTOR · $5,000 to $7,499 Anonymous (5) Reinhardt H. and Shirley R. Jahn Kate B. Morrison Estate of Willis B. Snell Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Foundation Chris and Eileen Murphy Del Snow Maria C. Bechily and Scott Hodes Regina Janes Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Family Charitable Mrs. John Stanek Mark and Judy Bednar Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Trust Ellen and Jim Stirling David Q. and Mary A. Bell Howard E. Jessen Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Carol L. Bernick Annette Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. James N. Perry Jr. Pam and Russ Strobel Helen and Charles Bidwell James and Linda Leahy Estate of Bendix L. Peterson Adam and Harriette Swierz Donor-Advised Patrick J. Bitterman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Genevieve Phelps Fund Richard and Heather Black Wiley and Jo Caldwell Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green "We want the opera to be available to future generations, and be in a strong position to continue to bring Jane B. and John C. Colman internationally recognized opera productions with great singers and producers." Doris Conant Francie Comer David and Dolores Nelson, Elgin Marsha Cruzan The Dancing Skies Foundation Thomas Doran Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Charles B. Preacher Foundation Tawani Foundation Craig and Janet Duchossois Barbara and Frank Lieber Tom and Karen Rafter Andrea and Mark Taylor Jim and Pati Ericson Estate of Eva Lutovsky Mr. and Mrs. James T. Reid O. Thomas Thomas James and Deborah Fellowes Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau Mr. and Mrs. John M. Richman Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Adrian Foster Thomas A. Marshall Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Anthony Freud and Colin Ure William Mason and Diana Davis Rocco and Cheryl Romano John and Patricia Tunstall Estate of Rev. Thomas Gannon Maura Ann McBreen Rita and Norman Sackar Jean Morman Unsworth Mrs. Willard Gidwitz James G. and Laura G. McCormick Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Trust John F. Gilmore Thomas J. McCormick Cecelia Samans Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III Satter Family Foundation Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. J. Douglas Gray Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally V George and Joan Segal Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer James and Brenda Grusecki Melvoin Foundation Arch W. Shaw Foundation Claudia Winkler CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Mrs. Michael S. Shaw Mrs. John M. Hartigan Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Kit and Bob Simon BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 to $4,999 Anonymous Amanda and Matthew Fox Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Tim and Joyce Greening Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Katherine Abele James R. Grimes John H. Nelson Irving Stenn, Jr. Eric A. Anderson Rose Ann Grundman Zehava L. Noah, M.D. Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas, Jr. Mychal P. Angelos Sandra L. Grung Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade L. Kristofer Thomsen Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Jonathan F. Orser Michael Tobin, MD Susann Ball William M. Hegan Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Mr. and Mrs. Hornik Dr. Pat and Lara Pappas Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp C. Bekerman, M.D. Joseph H. Huebner Mrs. Harold E. Pendexter, Jr. Phil and Paula Turner Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Johnson Karen and Richard Pigott Elizabeth K. Twede Mrs. Arthur Billings Douglas M. Karlen Dr. Joe Piszczor Lori L. and John R. Twombly Nicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirr Gerald and Judith Kaufman Harold H. Plaut Trust David J. Varnerin Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler Kenneth Douglas Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Lincoln Ramirez Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Lawrence Christensen Tyrus L. Kaufman Edward and Leah Reicin Jacqueline Villa Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Gerould and Jewell Kern J. Kenneth and Cheryl Rosko Dr. Catherine L. Webb Heinke K. Clark John and Mary Kohlmeier Curt G. Schmitt Marco and Joan Weiss B. A. Coussement Dorothy Kuechl Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schriesheim David and Linda Wesselink Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Lee The Schroeder Foundation Drs. David Whitney and Juliana Chyu Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wimmer Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Lewis, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Drs. Donald and Helen Edwards Pamela Forbes Lieberman Bill and Harlan Shropshire The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation Cherelynn A. Elliott Marilyn and Myron Maurer Adele and John Simmons Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and James C. Deane Ellis Sherry McFall and Kenneth Porrello Ilene Simmons Kemmerer Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. David E. McNeel Craig Sirles Donna and Phillip Zarcone Lafayette J. Ford Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Joan M. Solbeck IMPRESARIO · $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (10) Minka and Matt Bosco Fred Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Gordon Goodman Allison Alexander Anastasia Boucouras Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Annemarie H. Gramm Mrs. Robert W. Allen Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle La and Philip Engel Karen Z. Gray Mr. and Mrs. John H. Andersen Blitstein Susanna and Helmut Epp Greene Family Foundation Antoniou Family Fund Winston and Lally Brown Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Janet Wolter Grip, M.D. Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Firestone Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob Bastian Voice Institute Paul Carman Elizabeth W. Fischer Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Ronald Bauer and Michael Spencer Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Cavallino Mr. and Mrs. David S. Fox, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Rolf M. Gunnar Diane and Michael Beemer James W. Chamberlain Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Carol and Solomon Gutstein Daniel J. Bender Alice Childs Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Marjorie Habermann Julie Anne Benson Robert Curley Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Philip and Nancy Zimmerman Hablutzel Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Robert O. Delaney Peter G. O. Freund The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund Diane and Tom Blake Lidia and David Devonshire Norman and Patricia Gates Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Ann Hokin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Bill Donaldson Mary and Michael Goodkind Mr. and Mrs. William A. Holland

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Edmund A. and Virginia C. Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Elaine T. Newquist Lena M. Ruppman Gilbert Terlicher Horsch George Koch Howard and Cathy Niden Robert Russell Janet D. Thau Michael Huston Eldon and Patricia Kreider Dr. Linda Curtis O'Bannon Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Cindy and Marc Oberdorff Lynda Schultz Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Betty and John G. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Paul R. Seidlitz Marianne Tralewski Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Herman M. and Bea L. Silverstein The Trillium Foundation Janus Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Harding Foundation Dulcie L. Truitt Joy Jester Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, MD Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Stephen Wadsworth Ronald B. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Howard Walker Ken and Lori Julian Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Love Sandra and Michael Perlow K. Soltani Louis Weber Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Julia Luscombe Laurie and Michael Petersen The Sondheimer Family Hilary and Barry L. Weinstein Judith L. Kaufman Liz and Arsen Manugian Mrs. Zen Petkus Charitable Foundation Manfred Wendt Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin Rick Stamberger Caroline C. Wheeler Norm Kidder Mrs. David McCandless Mary and Joseph Plauche James A. Staples Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Martina M. Mead and Michael Jennifer N. Pritzker Nancy and Bruce Stevens Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Neil and Diana King T. Gorey Nathaniel W. Pusey Walter and Caroline Sueske Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Hersch and Avril Klaff Sheila and Harvey Medvin Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid Charitable Trust Chip and Jean Wood Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Alicia and Myron Resnick MinSook Suh Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Pamela G. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Kathryn M. Sullivan Jean Klingenstein Robert O. Middleton Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Thomas A. Kmetko Britt Miller Rubnitz Mrs. Henry S. Tausend Dr. Katherine Knight Robert and Lois Moeller Dolores E. Ruetz Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor FRIEND · $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (15) Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Kimberly A. Eberlein Allen Greenberger Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Barbara and John Eckel Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Amyl W. Johnson Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis John R. Grimes Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Louise Abrahams Wendy and Norman Bradburn Peter Emery Patricia Grogan JS Charitable Trust Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Danolda (Dea) J. Brennan Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Donald J. Grossman and Elaine T. Dr. Anne M. Juhasz Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Dr. Lia Brillhart Michael and Sally Feder Hirsch Judith Jump Ann Acker Candace B. Broecker Virginia Feleppa, M.D. Donald Haavind Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Jerry Brosnan and Gisela Brodin Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Glen and Claire Hackmann Christine Kassa-Skaredoff Adelman Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Brown Shaw Jerry A. Hall, MD Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Duffie A. Adelson Howard and Moira Buhse James G. Fitzgerald Janice H. Halpern Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kawalek Susan S. Adler George J. Burrows Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Larry M. Keer, MD Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Lance Jeffrey Bussean Nona C. Flores Agnes Hamos Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Kern Johnson Agnes B. Canning Anita D. Flournoy Michael G. Hansen and Nancy Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Cleo Alexander Irma Caprioli Paul Fong E. Randa Lynda and Michael Kivi The Carnot & Luceile Allen Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Dr. Jacek Franaszek and Kathleen Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hartigan Esther G. Klatz Foundation Drs. James and Stephanie McQueeny Daggett Harvey, Jr. Paul Kleppner Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Cavanaugh Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Hauser Mary Klyasheff Dr. Michael Angell Robert and Laura Chen Arthur L. Frank, MD Sheila Ann Hegy Emily and Christopher Knight Daniel J. Anzia John Chiu Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Drs. Allen Heinemann and Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Mrs. Raymond A. Clasen Paterson William Borden Foundation Eva Redel Susan Somers and Ray Cocco Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Janet and Bob Helman Edward and Adrienne Kolb Robert M. Arensman Margery and Robert Coen Penny Friedman Dr. and Mrs. Leo M. Henikoff William Konczyk and Stanley Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Gordon and Sigrid Connor Samuel and Adriana Front Ms. Kimberlee S. Herold Conlon Edith M. Ballin Paul L. Kraus Peter and Elise Barack "The benefit that we most appreciate is great music with great artists - we are lucky Richard Kron and Deborah Michael A. Barna Bekken Richard and Shirley Baron to have you here in Chicago." Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Peter Barrett Richard and Dorothy Nopar, Winnetka Carol and Jerome Lamet Barbara Barzansky Carolyn Landwehr Sandra Bass Frederic S. Lane Ron and Queta Bauer James M. Cormier Nancy R. Gamburd and Cathy Edward and Teresa Hintzke Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Daniel Corrigan Hanby Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Nancy Lass Dee Beaubien Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Gareis Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Dr. William R. Lawrence Seth V. Beckman Patricia O. Cox Dr. Anthony W. Gargiulo and Douglas R. Hoffman Dr. M. S. W. Lee Diane and Michael Beemer Mr. and Ms. Karl Coyner Mrs. Jane Duboise Gargiulo Sandra Hoffman Phillip Lehrman Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III Mr. and Mrs. J. William Judy and Mickey Gaynor Andrée S. Hognestad Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Lois M. Berman Cuncannan Stephen and Elizabeth Geer John E. Holland Edmund H. Lester Leslie Bertholdt James Currie Jr. John Gelston Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hollensteiner Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Vanice (Van) Billups, Ph.D. Mrs. Joseph T. Curti Generations Fund George R. Honig, M.D. Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Hope Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Louis Genesen and Olga Weiss Strek Louis and Catherine Bland Mary and Hans Dahl Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. George Carol and Joel Honigberg Susan Lichtenstein and John Elaine and Harold Blatt Mr. and Mrs. Timothy K. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson Bill and Vicki Hood Rokacz Ann Blickensderfer Dahlstrand Gregory Geuther Mrs. James K. Hotchkiss Mrs. Paul Lieberman Jim Blinder James and Marie Damion Dr. and Mrs. Bernardino Ghetti Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Stewart Liechti John Blosser Jason Dantico Sharon L. Gibson Michael and Beverly Huckman Anne and Craig Linn Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Blumen Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff DeAnn Liska Frima H. Blumenthal Patty Litton Delony Fredrick and Susan Gohl Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt William and Diane Lloyd Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Mr. and Mrs. John Deppong, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Mrs. John C. Ingalls Lloyd R. Loback Robert and Anne Bolz Charitable Rosanne Diamond Alfred G. Goldstein Susan Ipsen Melvin R. Loeb Trust Lyn Dickey Robert and Marcia Goltermann Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Jackson Rosalie Loeding Erminio Bonacci Ms. Janet E. Diehl Gloria Gottlieb R. C. Jager Mr. and Mrs. Luke Lovell Dr. H. C. Bonbrest Dr. Elton Dixon Dr. Ruth Grant and Dr. Howard Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Duffy Schwartz The Jaquith Family Foundation Charlene and Gary MacDougal Fred and Kay Bosselman Ronald B. 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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maganuco Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell John P. and Victoria L. Z. Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Jeffrey and Paula Malak Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Nadig Ratnaswamy Nancy Silberman Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Claudia Marban Mrs. A. M. Neumann Dr. Biswamay Ray Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Manuel S. Valderrama Jan Marinello Jeffrey Nichols William H. Redfield Margles Singleton and Clay Young Marlene A. Van Skike Mrs. John Jay Markham Nancy Nichols Linda and John Relias Arthur B. Smith, Jr. and Tracey L. Elizabeth Van Ness Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Gayla and Ed Nieminen Sherry and Bob Reum Truesdale Frances and Peter Vandervoort Bob and Doretta Marwin Carol M Nigro Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Barbara Smith and Timothy Rosalba Villanueva Maureen and Michael McCabe Janis Wellin Notz and John K. Joan L. Richards Burroughs Kathryn A. Voland Ms. Michelle McCarthy Notz Jr. Jerry and Carole Ringer Mrs. David W. E. Smith Dr. Annabelle Volgman John F. McCartney Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow William H. and Louise D. Robb Louise K. Smith Dr. Malcolm V. Vye Marilyn McCoy and Charles R. Virginia A. O'Neill Carol Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Walsh Thomas Penny J. Obenshain Mr. and Mrs. W. Roberts Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Smith April Ware John and Ann McDermott Margo and Michael Oberman and Howard M. and Mary F. Robins Robert A. Sniegowski Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts Jr Therissa McKelvey Family Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Sarena M. Weil James McKnight Mrs. Richard C. Oughton The Philip and Myn Rootberg The Sondheimer Family Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Florence D. McMillan Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Parks Foundation Foundation Heide Wetzel Claretta Meier Lois R. Pearson Roberta Rosell Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos Patricia and William H. Wheeler Barb and Bob Meyer Sunday and Charles Perry Dr. and Mrs. Szymon Rosenblatt Phil and Sylvia Spertus Howard S. White Jim and Ginger Meyer Ira J. Peskind Lorelei Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Stanley Tom and Stathy White Joanne Michalski and Michael Viktoras Petroliunas Jean Rothbarth Peter and Cindy Stathakis Patricia and William Weeda Marian Phelps Pawlick Manfred Ruddat Joyce L. Steffel Kathryn B. Winter Rev. Dr. Mary L. Milano Karen and Tom Phillips Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Carol Stein F. C. Winters Gerry M. Miller Ruth A. Phillips Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ruskin Mrs. Karl H. Stein Stephen Wolbers and Heidi Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Mrs. William A. Phillips Paul and Joanne Ruxin Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stein Schellman Mr. and Mrs. David Mintzer Virginia and John Picken Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ryan Mr. and Mrs. J. Allyson Stern Charles B. Wolf Dr. Virginia Mond James and Polly Pierce Louise M. Ryssmann The Stanley and Kristin Stevens Ann S. Wolff William Mondi Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pinto Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Family Fund Ted and Peggy Wolff Steven Montner and Scott Brown Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Plochman Richard H. Sanders Hal S. R. Stewart D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Charles Moore Joel and Vivianne Pokorny Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J Schaeffer Mr. and Mrs. Alan Stone Christopher and Julie Wood Mr. Peter and Dr. Deborah Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Robert P. Schaible Dr. Bernadette Strzyz Owen and Linda Youngman Morowski Carol G. Pollock Judith and Leonard Schiller Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stuart Alexander Zajczenko H. Patrick and Margaret A. Morris Charlene Posner Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Schuler Mr. and Mrs. Irwin S. Sylvan Michael and Judy Zeddies John S. Mrowiec and Dr. Karen Matthew and Erica Posthuma Deborah and George Schulz Geraldine L. Szymanski Barbara Zeleny L. Granda Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Thomas Scorza Caesar and Patricia Tabet Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Gerald and Maia Mullin Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Preston Ilana Seligman MD Mrs. Amy Tax and Dr. Michael Tax Susan Zick Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Karen Prieur Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tesarik Richard E. Ziegler Rosemary Murgas Marcia Purze Dr. S. P. Shah Ronald and Linda Thisted Bob and Mimi Murley Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Dr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Thomas Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Carol and Roger Shiffman Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles SUSTAINER · $500 to $999 Anonymous (15) Turney P. Berry and Kendra D. Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Dr. Manoochehr Darab Joseph R. Ender Andrew Abbott and Susan Schlough Foster Bruyninckx Rathin Datta Beverley R. Enright Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Jane Berry Warren and Patricia Buckler Cathy Davis Rondi Erickson Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Mrs. Keki Bhote Dr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Budzik William J. Davis Susan and Bryan Erler Mr. and Mrs. Phillip G. Adams Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Mrs. Theodore H. Buenger Malcolm Deam Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ertman Judith A. Akers Jerry Biederman Dr. Jack Bulmash Joan G. Deeter Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Mr. and Mrs. John Bienko Susan Burkhardt Paul B. Dekker Marion and Burt Fainman Catherine Allegra John C. Bierbusse Hon. and Mrs. Michael T. Caldwell Dr. and Mrs. Terrence C. Demos Steven E. Feldman Mr. and Mrs. Bruce T. Allen Jules Binder Cathleen Cameron Patricia K. Denman Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Judith L. Allen Dorin Bircu Dr. Mark Carlson The Dick Family Foundation Nadine Ferguson John and Mary Alukos Astrid K. Birke Stephen H. and Virginia McM. Carr Mary D. Dickenson Hugh Field Sheila and James Amend Donald H. Bittner Jerry Carter Dr. Gary Dillehay Howard and Charlotte FInk Cynthia Amundsen Mrs. John R. Blair Bonnie and Don Chauncey Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Susan Fisher-Yellen Kenneth and Mary Andersen Carl Blattner Dr. Francoise Chor Michael L. Dollard Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fisher Doris W. Angell Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Block III Frank and Theresa Cicciarelli Ramsey B. Donnell Marilyn E. Fites William Ankenbrandt William Fleig Dr. Erin Arnold Marvin Fletcher Dr. Andrew and Dr. Iris Aronson "Opera needs every penny it can get. I use my membership to fund the arts, James Patrick Foley Fred and Michelle Baird Edwin Fontaine William and Marjorie Bardeen and I tell friends, strangers, colleagues about it." Robert B. Fordham H. Barefield Katherine Abele, Evanston Richard W. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Anne and Willard Fraumann Ronald and Donna Barlow Dr. Maija Freimanis and David Barbara J. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Robert Cieslak Claudia H. Donohue Marshall Barbara Barzansky D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Connie Clark Maureen Dooley Albert Brooks Friedman Joseph P. Basile Nancy and George Bodeen Michael Cleveland and Grazia Nunzi David and Deborah Dranove Phillip Friedmann Sandra Bass David Boehnlein Jean M. Cocozza Dr. Morton Dubman Richard and Jacquelyn Fuchs Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond Sr David and Carolyn Colburn Linda and Cornelius DuBose Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Gahlon Mr. and Mrs. David Baule Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Elaine Collina Douglas F. Duchek Leota P Gajda Marion Baumann Dr. Stuart L. Bowers John Combes Kathy Dunn Thomas F. Gajewski Marcia J. Baylin Mary and Carl Boyer Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. Robert Joan A. Gall Benjamin C. Beach Michael Bradie Sharon Conway Golub Dorothy and John Gardner Larry and Angie Bearden Dr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Braun Nancy Corral Barbara and Paul Dwyer Derek and Ellen Garnjost Elizabeth S. Beck Giovanna Breu Beatrice V. Crane Roma Dybalski Paul R. Gauvreau Estate of Robert E. Beck Mrs. John N. Brincat Mr. and Mrs. William A. Crane Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Mrs. Dr. George Gay and Mr. Brian Soper Hans and Margaret Bell Mary Lee Brinegar Robert C. Cronin B. Englert Easterbrook Mary and John Gedo John C. Benitez Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Broderick Barbara Flynn Currie Adrienne Eckerling Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Geldermann Mr. and Mrs. George C. Bergland Dr. Annie Brown Jurgen and Kathy Daartz Hugh and Jackie Edfors Thomas P. Germino Mr. Roy C. Bergstrom Todd Brueshoff Marta Dapena-Baron and Christie James W. Edmondson GFF Foundation Diane and Karl Berolzheimer Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Nordhielm Mrs. Richard J. Elrod Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert

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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Missy Kedzior Mr. and Mrs. George P. McAndrews William V. Porter Mary J. Sorrentino Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Matthew J. Keller, Jr. Dr. William McCulloch and Dr. Marla McCormick Pringle Elaine Soter Kik and S. I. Gilman Alfred Kelley Margaret McCulloch Mr. and Mrs. Chris Quigg Amelia Soudan Dale and David Ginsburg Douglas and Christine Kelner Julie and Herb McDowell Dorothy V. Ramm Phillip V. St. Cloud Gay L. Girolami Miriam E. Kerndt Andrew S. McFarland Jeffrey Rappin and Penny Brown Mrs. Henry M. Staley David L. Gitomer Jeffrey R. Kerr Susan Gilbert-McGuire Dr. and Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Darina Stanley Dr. Paul B. Glickman Patricia Kersey and Charles John and Etta McKenna Dennis C. Regan Corinne M. Steede Barbara and Norman Gold Erlichman Anne Ford McMillen Judith Revells Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Steele Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Ms. Linda D. Kiefel Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Marina Reznitskaya Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Stern Paul J. Gonzalez Chuck and Kathy Killman Joann and Milt Meigs Mae Svoboda Rhodes Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Jim and Nelly Kilroy Amy and Michael Gordon Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Evelyn R. Richer Mrs. James H. Stoner Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn Kind Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Richert Roberta Gordon Mr. and Mrs. John Strom Kathy Kirn and David Levinson Glenn Merritt Dr. Patricia C. Rieger Anne H. Gorham Carol H. Sullivan Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Kittle- Virginia Michalicek Susan and Ed Ritts/Longshadow Charles Sullivan Mokoto Goto Kamp Sally S. Miley Foundation Mary W. Sullivan and Coleman S. Birgit Gottelt Frank and Alice Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr. Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Kendall Mrs. John W. Gottermeyer Diane F. Klotnia David E. Miller Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Charlotte Betty and Jack Swanson Dr. Steven A. Gould Lionel and Jackie Knight Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Puppel-Rose Karen L. Swartz Michael and Melissa Graham Mr. and Mrs. Roger Koenker Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Milnarik Elaine G. Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sweders Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Barry Greenberg Mrs. Russell V. Kohr John and Barbara Milwee Larry Rosen Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Greendale Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Ramona O. Mitchell Saul and Sarah Rosen Mitchel J. Sweig Richard Greenthal Kolschowsky Edward J. Mitchen Babette Rosenthal Bradley and Simone Taylor Marcy Gringlas and Joel Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal Sanford Moltz Thomas and Barbara Rosenwein Charles and Kristine Thorsen Robert Grist Amy Kontrick and Mark Mycyk Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Marsha and Robert Rosner Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Charles R. Grode Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kracum J. Clifford Moos Mrs. Donald Roth Eleanor W. Tippens David Gucwa Stephen Kraft Barbara Morgenstern R. Charles Rudesill Diane Tkach and James Freundt John Gustaitis Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Kretchmer Martin W. Morris Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff Robert S. Tomes Margo Lynn Hablutzel Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Krugel Steven W. Morris Eugene W. Rzym Larry and Carol Townsend Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Konrad Kuchenbach Larry Morrison David Sachs Patricia D. Turner Todd Haines Judith Tuszynski John Hales "I support Lyric so that it can continue to be a great opera company." Dr. Aris Urbanes Terry Haller Anna W. Urbanski Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Norman Bradburn, Arlington, VA Sharon Van Dyck Mary E. Hallman Elizabeth Van Ness Charles Hanusin Elsa Vaintzettel Thomas P. Kuczwara Beverly Mortensen Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Dennis and Mary Ann Sadilek Marie Vanagas Walfrid and Sherry Kujala Renate Moser Carol S. Sadow Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Dr. Eladio A. Vargas Ruth L. Labitzke Helga E. Muench Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Dr. and Mrs. David Jerome Hayden John N. Vinci Kristina and Laimonis Laimins Thomas F. Murphy John Sagos Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hayden John and Kathleen Vondran Susan Laing Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Darleen Salomon Jack and Barbara Hayford Suzanne L. Wagner Elisabeth M. Landes Holly I. Myers Natalie Saltiel James and Lynne Heckman Mr. and Mrs. Morton Lane Lawrence T. Nash, MD Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Robert D. Wallin Robert and Raynelle Heidrick Mrs. Fritz Lange Harvey A. Nathan Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell Gary T. Walther Josephine E. Heindel Mrs. Frederick Larsen Virginia Navarrete Ursula Sanne Dr. Richard Warnecke Dr. Martha Heineman and Dr. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen David and Lynne Nellemann Nancy A. Sans Mrs. M. Hubachek Watkins William Pieper Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Lawrence Elizabeth Nerney Robert and Mary Ann Savard John Watrous Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Hellman Mrs. Marsha Lazar Wayne W. Nestander Mary T. Schafer Elizabeth Wazowicz Diane Kraft Henry Mary Anne Leer Mr. and Mrs. George Nichols, Jr. Anne McMillen Scheyer Claude M. Weil Norman K. Hester Dr. Michael C. Leland Eleanor A. Nicholson Paul and Carol Schierl Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weiland Mr. and Mrs. Brian Heston Ralph and Carol Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nolen Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Dr B. Craig Weldon and Terri Monk Midge and Frank Heurich Drs. Eva Lichtenberg and Arnold Anna Marie Norehad Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Schloss Adele and Joseph R. Wells Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High Tobin Mr. and Mrs. Hiram M. Nowlan Barbara and Lewis Schneider Peter J. Wender Thomas W. and Helen C. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Myron Lieberman Hon. and Prof. C. Nuechterlein Marcia G. Schneider Dr. and Mrs. Dennis K. Wentz William B. Hinchliff Robert B. Lifton Gail O'Gorman Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Scholly Joel T. Werth Kathleen Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Light Paul and Cathy O'Kelly Susan B. Schulson Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Wertz Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Robert E. Lindgren George and Susan Obermaier Linda S. Schurman Sara Wetzel Stephen Holmes Carol Linkowski Dr. Dragic M. Obradovic Barbara and John T. Seaman, Jr. Floyd and Judith W. Whellan Mrs. Dennis J. Horan Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Loftus The Onya Fund Phyllis N. Segal Dr. and Mrs. Walter Whisler Joel Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. George Lombardi Sandra L. Osborn Richard and Betty Seid David P. Whitman and Donna L. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Horwich Dr. Vassyl A. Lonchyna and Dr. John and Dawn Palmer Arthur Schneider and Helen Sellin Reynolds Larry and Ann Hossack Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna Kimberly Ann Palmisano Mr. and Mrs. John Serpico Charles A. Whitver William and Sarah Hufford Sherry and Melvin Lopata Paloucek Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. G. Curtiss Shaffer Robert and Barbara Wichmann G. Todd Hunt Richard Lord David Paris Mr. and Mrs. Murray Shain Dr. Doris Wineman Barbara Hunter Michael A. LoVallo Esq. Mrs. Edwin C. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro Michael Winfield Robert M. Ireland Wayne R. Lueders Charles M. Parrish Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Alfred and Barbara Winick Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Isaacson Lutz Family Foundation Dr. Robert W. Parsons Sherie Shapiro Mark Woodworth and Randi Howard Isenberg Macfund Ilene Patty and Thomas Terpstra Ellen and Richard Shubart Ravitts Woodworth Dr. and Mrs. Peter Ivanovich Mrs. Walter M. Mack Michael Payette Barbara Fulton Sideman Robert E. Woodworth, Jr. Virginia A. Jach Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Madden Bruce and Nancy Payne Jeremy Silverman and Mary Teana and Abbott Wright Douglas and Lynn Jackson George and Roberta Mann Lynn and Melvin E. Pearl Sutherland Catherine J. Wytzka Ms. Merle L. Jacob Philanthropic Fund Susan Carter Pearsall Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Simmons Charles Yager Peter P. Jacobi Mrs. Ludwig Mannheimer Mr. and Mrs. Norman Perman Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Simon Adam Young Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Mr. and Mrs. Mark Manto Elizabeth Anne Peters Roberta E. Singer Mr. and Mrs. Loren A. Jahn Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Margolies Melanie and Dan Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Yu Patricia J. Janas Inge K. Marra Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Therese G. Smith Mark Zajackowski Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Jensen Richard Marshak Dr. Robert B. Pildes and Dr. Rosita Michael and Donna Socol Mr. and Mrs. John G. Zasi Jerry and Judy Johansen Judy and Robert Marth S. Pildes Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Dr. Antoinette Zell and Kenneth Randee and Vance Johnson Reginald and Bernadette Marzec William and Suzan Pinsof Soderstrom II R. Walter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston Harold L. Mason John J. W. Plampin Mr. and Mrs. John D. Soley David and Suzanne Zesmer Barbara Mair Jones Mark Materna Pollack Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein Larisa Zhizhin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Jordan John May Mr. and Mrs. Byron Pollock Linda Soreff Siegel Camille J. Zientek JS Charitable Trust Dr. John Mazuski Mr. and Mr. Chris Pope Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Sorensen Audrey A. Zywicki

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Commemorative Gifts Gifts of $500 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness.

In Memory Of: Hugo Melvoin Sarita Warshawsky Edgar D. Jannotta Dorothy A. Angelos from Lois Melvoin from Randee and Vance Johnson from Sandra L. Grung from Mychal P. Angelos Dr. Ernest Mond Carol Warshawsky Richard P. and Susan Kiphart and her many friends and family Elsa E. Bandi from Mary and John Gedo from Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil from Walter F. Bandi and his many friends and family Arthur Weiner Virginia and Gary Gerst Ken and Lori Julian Robert G. Bartle Virginia Byrne Mooney from Fredrick and Susan Gohl from Mrs. Robert G. Bartle from Kathleen Vondran Jim and Nelly Kilroy and their many friends and family and his many friends and family John Blair Naomi M. Nash Margot and Josef Lakonishok from Barbara Blair from Lawrence T. Nash, M.D. Robert H. Whittlesey from Liz and Arsen H. Manugian from Constance Rebar Roman Block Dr. Antonio E. Navarrete Lome Family Members from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama from Virginia Navarrete Carol Winston from Daniel H. Lome from an Anonymous Donor Nancy Neumann Brooker George Nichols, Jr. Jane Russell Love and her many friends and family from Craig J. Love from Jean and Don Haider from Nancy Nichols Bernarr Wixon Joe Cipriano and his many friends and family Lyric Opera Women’s Board from the Riverside Chapter from Bob and Mimi Murley from Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Thomas L. Nicholson Prince Charitable Trusts Sorensen from Eleanor A. Nicholson Mary Wolkonsky from Neal Ball Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Dr. W. Gene Corley Salvatore L. Nigro, M.D. Dale E. Wooley Jeanne Randall Malkin from Lynd W. Corley from Carol M. Nigro from Regina James from an Anonymous Donor Lois Dunn Neil Oberg M. Jean Trowbridge from Kathy Dunn William Mason from Susan and Bryan Erler Jeffrey and Debra Trowbridge from Marilyn E. Fites Thomas E. Earle Richard Pearlman Eugene and Marion Zajackowski from Anne Earle Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Nadig from Howard and Cathy Niden from an Anonymous Donor from an Anonymous Donor Morris and Anna Fishbein Peer and Sarah Pedersen Nikolay Zhizhin from Justin and Marianne Fishbein Sue Niemi from Leslie Bertholdt from Larisa Zhizhin from Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Blatt John Flanzer June B. Pinsof from Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Michael and Margo Oberman from Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker In Honor Of: from the Jack and Goldie Wolfe Sally Funderburg Dr. Robert A. Pringle Miller Fund from Robert and Cathy Funderburg Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J from Marla McCormick Pringle Cornell Phyllis N. Segal Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Bertha Rabin from John Hart and Carol Prins Cathy Osborn from Robert E. Gaensslen from Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Julie and Roger Baskes from Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Norman Gates Marilyn and Roland Resnick from Patricia A. Kenney Welsh Ryan from Joe Hetz from J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. and Gregory J. O’Leary Kenneth G. Pigott and his many friends and family and their many friends and family Suzanne L. Wagner from Julie and Roger Baskes Betty Rae Gilbert Myn Wartey Rootberg Peter Wender Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau from her family from the Philip and Myn Rootberg Margery and Bob Coen Duffie Adelson Arbella Gowland Foundation from Marcy Gringlas and Joel and his many friends and family from an Anonymous Donor Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff Greenberg Glen O. Reeser John D. Gray from Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Elizabeth Cole from David Q. and Mary A. Bell from J. Douglas Gray Stephen Schulson Prince Charitable Trusts Anne N. Reyes Laura Ladish Jacobson from Susan Schulson Lester and Renée Crown from Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley from Mary Ladish Selander and her Welsh Ryan Dr. Robert J. Strzyz from Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. family Minow Andrea and Jim Gordon/ from Dr. Bernadette Strzyz The Edgewater Funds Brigita Jakimcius Sonia Florian from Irene Jakimcius King Stutzman Jan Shucart and the Chapter Office from Patricia J. Janas from an Anonymous Donor Deborah Jannotta Staff and his many friends and family Anthony Freud from an Anonymous Donor from Dorothy Kuechl Henry S. Tausend from the Evanston Chapter Sandra L. Grung Duffie Adelson Lois Siegel Bill and Vicki Hood from Mrs. Henry S. Tausend from Ramona O. Mitchell Stephen A. Thau Paula Getman William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt from Concierge Unlimited Jack and Dee Singleton from Janet D. Thau from Margles Singleton and from Sheila Ann Hegy International Clay Young Ardis Krainik George and Helen Toscas and her many friends and family from Elizabeth Upjohn Mason from Jacquelyn Toscas-Fuchs Liz Stiffel Ron and Christina Gidwitz from Charles and Caroline Huebner John H. Ladish Bruce M. Turnmire from Bob and Mimi Murley from Mary Ladish Selander and his from Jean Milnarik Turnmire Craig Terry Catherine Graham family Dr. Ronald Milnarik from Michael and Sally Feder from Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. John A. Leer, Jr. MD Nancy Wald Morrison Robert and Flo Weiss from Mary Anne Leer from an Anonymous Donor Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Lome and Williams Family Members Ruth and Irving Waldshine Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Yu The Honorable Corinne Wood from Daniel H. Lome from Marcia Purze and Deane Ellis and her many friends and family from Lidia and David Devonshire Please consider giving a Commemorative Gift. All gifts will be promptly acknowledged with a beautiful card displaying the Lyric Opera fire curtain sent to whomever you choose. For more information, please call us at 312/332-2244, Ext. 3500.

70 | FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Special Thanks American Airlines for its 33 year partnership as The Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. Chicago Tribune Media Group for its promotional support of The Magic Victrola. Jenner & Block LLP and Craig C. Martin, Partner for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. Jeanne Gang and the Studio Gang Architects for design of the Concert Shell to debut at Lyric’s 60th Anniversary Concert on November 1, 2014. Acknowledgements The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric Opera’s efforts: Generous Gifts Special Gifts Notable Gifts Art Institute of Chicago BBJ Linen Calo Ristorante Calihan Catering Brook Furniture Rental Hall’s Rental cinevative Bruce Packaging, Inc. KD Mailing & Fulfillment Classic Color Cru Cafe Martha C. Nussbaum Coco Pazzo e.leaven Food Company HMS Media, Inc. Lloyd’s Chicago Hoy Sitecore Jewell Events Catering

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The management of Lyric Opera of Chicago earnestly requests patrons to preserve complete silence during the performance. As a gesture of respect for all other audience members as well as for our artists onstage and in the pit, patrons are asked to remain seated until an act or the opera is completely over. The management reserves the right to refuse admittance or remove any person who may create a disturbance. Patrons are urgently reminded to check that their cellular phones, pagers, and electronic beepers (including watches) are SWITCHED OFF before the performance begins. Perfumes, hairsprays, colognes, and other body lotions should be avoided or used sparingly when attending the opera, as allergies are commonplace. Noise from theater elevators may disturb patrons in the auditorium during the performance. We therefore respectfully ask that the elevators only be used before perfor- mances, at intermission, and after performances have concluded, except in cases of emergency. Your understanding and cooperation are appreciated.

TICKETS The Civic Opera House Box Office (at the corner of PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES The Opera House is accessible to Wacker and Madison) is open from noon to 6:00 p.m. Monday physically disabled persons with elevator service to all floors except through Friday, and from noon through the first intermission on the Opera Club. The Ardis Krainik Theatre contains seating that is performance days. During season, Lyric Opera’s phone sales staff accessible to persons in wheelchairs, as well as seats with removable is on duty from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, armrests. The Opera House has automatic door-openers on exterior doors, and accessible drinking fountains and public telephones. A and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. On performance TTY phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only. evenings and matinees, our phone lines are open until curtain time. Call (312) 332-2244, ext. 5600, for ticket information. Restroom facilities for female patrons with disabilities are located on Should you need to visit the Ticket Department, we are located all levels of the Opera House except the Opera Club level. For male at 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 840, Chicago, IL 60606. Hours patrons, these facilities are located on all levels except the Opera Club level and the sixth floor. are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Buy tickets online anytime via Lyric Opera’s website, www.lyricopera.org. Assistive listening devices for persons desiring amplification are available at no cost at any open checkroom. A valid driver’s license, Should you be unable to attend a performance, we would state identification, or major credit card is required as a security greatly appreciate you donating your tickets to Lyric Opera. deposit. We can accept your ticket donation as late as five min- utes prior to curtain at (312) 827-5600, or donate your High-powered opera glasses for the visually impaired are available at no cost at the checkroom on the main floor. A valid driver’s tickets online up to four hours prior to curtain at lyricopera.org/ license, state identification, or major credit card is required as a donatetickets. You may also mail or fax your ticket donation — security deposit. Also, large format programs are available for every the fax number is (312)332-8120. Donating your ticket(s) as performance.. soon as possible will increase our chances of reselling them. A personalized statement of all ticket donations will be sent to you in For additional information or questions, call (312) 332-2244, ext. 5600. January for the previous calendar year. DINING options are available before, during (intermission), and Attention Box-Seat Holders: In order for each party seated in your after most Lyric Opera performances on the main and third floor of box to have equivalent front-of-box seating opportunities for all the Civic Opera House. Refreshments are also available throughout performances throughout the season, Lyric asks that you agree most lobby areas on each floor and on the Opera Club level. Visit upon an equitable seating rotation plan with your neighbors seated lyricopera.org/dine for complete details. Outside food and bever- within your box. Please remember that you may need to adjust ages may not be brought into the Civic Opera House. your front-of-box seating expectations in consideration of patrons NO SMOKING POLICY In compliance with the City of Chicago who do not regularly sit in your box and therefore are unaware of ordinance, Lyric Opera of Chicago enforces a no smoking policy any previous arrangements. throughout the Opera House and within 15 feet of our theatre The use of a ticket acknowledges a willingness to appear in photo- entrances. Thank you for your cooperation. graphs taken for print, television, or film in the public areas of the LATECOMERS will not be seated once the performance has theater and releases Lyric Opera of Chicago from liability resulting begun. Patrons who must leave will not be re-admitted dur- from the use of such photo­graphs. The program and artists are ing the performance. These patrons must remain in the subject to change without notice. lobby until a suitable break, which is usually the next inter- mission. There is no standing room. Evening performances of For patrons attending the pre-performance lectures, the doors Tanhäusser begin PROMPTLY at 6:00 p.m., except for Friday, will open 75 minutes before curtain. May 2, which begins at 8:00 p.m. Matinee performances of CAMERAS, recording equipment, food, and beverages are not Tanhäusser begin PROMPTLY at 1:00 p.m. allowed in the seating area of the Civic Opera House. For the safety PHONES As a courtesy to our patrons, complimentary phone and comfort of our audience, management reserves the right to service is available in the Vaughan Family Hospitality Foyer. have all large parcels, backpacks, luggage, etc. checked in the Civic LOST AND FOUND Please telephone (312) 827‑5768 for lost Opera House checkrooms. items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days. FIRST AID In case of illness or injury, please inform an usher, who EMERGENCY EXIT Walk, do not run, to the nearest marked exit will call the house manager and house doctor for assistance. EXIT which is the shortest route to the street.

Front of House Managers Box Office Assistant Treasurers Concessions Supervisor Usher Supervisor Charles Youmans Joseph Dunn Geri LaGiglio Dolores Abreu Laura LaChirco John Thor Sandquist Checkroom Supervisor Patron Relations Box Office Treasurer Hospitality Services Manager Myrna Maciel Miguel González Timothy M. Finnigan Patrick Lutz

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