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MESSAGE FROM NC OPERA

I wish you an exciting Tosca, and would like to thank each of you for being a part of 2018/2019 North Carolina Opera’s “four ladies” season: Norma, Carmen, Tosca, plus Leah Crocetto in recital.

I remember long ago, listening to a 78 rpm recording of Tosca time and time again—it seems like a hundred times—before I was finally able to see it on the stage. I was so excited I could hardly stay in my seat! I hope that many of you will experience the same excitement today. I am sure, too, that those of you who see and hear Tosca will be equally taken with the drama, the tragedy, the music, and the singers as the rollercoaster of emotions takes you over!

Opera is the most rewarding art form, and surely the toughest one to bring to the public. Think of the singers—both soloists and chorus—the conductor, the full orchestra, the supers, the scenery, the costumes, the lighting, the wigs and makeup, the staff, and all the rest of the “stuff” that makes opera as exciting and all-consuming as it is.

Then consider that box office revenues cover only about 30% of our costs— which is typical of American opera companies our size. You can imagine how important each and every contribution is to our ability to present a production such as today’s Tosca that, we hope, goes beyond expectations. Please know that we all appreciate each investment by each of you—no matter the size—as our season concludes.

If you think I am trying to point out the need for each of you and all of you to help out by making your own contribution, you are absolutely correct! No matter what amount, every effort counts and helps us to continue to present great opera here in Raleigh. Let’s all make a commitment to keep this wondrous opera company rolling along so you can continue to enjoy and thrill to this music that excites us “beyond our expectations.”

Thank you very, very much. Enjoy Tosca and start to plan your schedule (and your support) for our great 2019/2020 season.

William C. Rustin, Jr. President, North Carolina Opera

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 3 TOSCA

Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou World Premiere: January 14, 1900 at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma U.S. Premiere: February 4, 1901 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City

These performances of Tosca are presented with generous support from: C. Thomas Kunz

Conductor Joseph Rescigno Director David Paul

Floria Tosca Alexandra LoBianco Mario Cavardossi Scott Quinn Baron Scarpia Malcolm MacKenzie Cesare Angelotti Sabri Karabudak A Sacristan Donald Hartmann Spoletta Jacob Kato Sciarrone Ted Federle A Shepherd Boy Rachel Stenbuck A Jailer Thomas Keefe

Lighting Designer Tláloc López-Watermann Chorus Master Scott MacLeod Children’s Chorus Director Nick Malinowski Production Manager Linda T. Carlson Properties Master Aline Johnson Costume Coordinator Denise Schumaker

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 4 FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2019 7:30PM SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2019 2:00PM MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

Makeup and Wigs Designer Martha Ruskai Wig and Makeup Assistants Julian Leonard, Mallory Evans Master Electrician Jennifer Sherrod Technical Director Matthew Strampe Sound Designer Sean Loepp Supertitle operator Joanna Helms

Sets designed by David Gano and provided by New Orleans Opera Association Costumes designed by Glenn Avery Breed Costumes provided by Wardrobe Witchery English captions for Tosca written and owned by Jonathan Dean

Production Stage Manager Samantha Greene Assistant Stage Manager Mary Parisi

Assistant Conductor Sameer Patel Rehearsal pianists Joel Ayau, Qiao Zheng Goh

North Carolina Opera is funded in part by the City of Raleigh based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission.

The performance will last two hours 45 minutes, including two intermissions.

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ACT I defiant painter while Tosca sings at a royal gala Rome, June 1800. Cesare Angelotti, an escaped in the palace courtyard. Scarpia sends for her, political prisoner, rushes into the Church of and she appears just as Cavaradossi is being taken Sant’Andrea della Valle. After finding the key away to be tortured. Frightened by Scarpia’s his sister has hidden for him, he hides in his questions and Cavaradossi’s screams, Tosca family’s private chapel. Soon, the painter Mario reveals Angelotti’s hiding place. Henchmen bring Cavaradossi arrives to work on his portrait of in Cavaradossi, who is badly hurt and hardly Mary Magdalene. The painting has been inspired conscious. When he realizes what has happened, by Angelotti’s sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, he angrily confronts Tosca, just as the officer whom Cavaradossi had seen praying in the Sciarrone rushes in to announce that Napoleon church. Angelotti, who was a member of the actually has won the battle, a defeat for Scarpia’s former Bonapartiste government, emerges from side. Cavaradossi shouts out his defiance of his hiding place. Cavaradossi recognizes him tyranny, and Scarpia orders him to be executed. and promises help, then hurries him back into Once alone with Tosca, Scarpia calmly suggests the chapel as the singer Floria Tosca, his lover, that he would let Cavaradossi go free if she’d calls from outside. When he lets her into the give herself to him. Fighting off his advances, she church, she jealously asks Cavaradossi to whom declares that she has dedicated her life to art and he has been talking and reminds him of their love and calls on God for help. Scarpia becomes rendezvous that evening. Suddenly recognizing more insistent, but Spoletta bursts in: Faced the Marchesa Attavanti in the painting, she with capture, Angelotti has killed himself. Tosca, accuses him of being unfaithful, but he assures now forced to give in or lose her lover, agrees to her of his love. When Tosca has left, Angelotti Scarpia’s proposition. Scarpia orders Spoletta to again comes out of hiding. A cannon signals prepare for a mock execution of Cavaradossi, that the police have discovered the escape, and after which he is to be freed. Tosca demands he and Cavaradossi flee to the painter’s home. that Scarpia write her a passage of safe-conduct. The sacristan enters with choirboys who are After he has done so, he attempts to make love preparing to sing in a Te Deum celebrating the to Tosca, but she grabs a knife from the table recent victory against Napoleon at the Battle and stabs him. She takes the pass and flees. of Marengo. At the height of their excitement, Baron Scarpia, chief of the secret police, arrives, searching for Angelotti. When Tosca comes back -INTERMISSION- looking for Cavaradossi, Scarpia shows her a fan with the Attavanti crest that he has just found. Seemingly confirming her suspicions about her ACT III lover’s infidelity, Tosca is devastated. She vows At dawn, Cavaradossi awaits execution on the vengeance and leaves as the church fills with ramparts of Castel Sant’Angelo. He bribes the worshippers. Scarpia sends his men to follow her jailer to deliver a farewell letter to Tosca, and to Cavaradossi, with whom he thinks Angelotti then, overcome with emotion, gives in to is hiding. While the congregation intones the his despair. Tosca appears and explains what Te Deum, Scarpia declares that he will bend has happened. The two imagine their future Tosca to his will. in freedom. As the execution squad arrives, Tosca implores Cavaradossi to fake his death convincingly, then watches from a distance. -INTERMISSION- The soldiers fire and depart. When Cavaradossi doesn’t move, Tosca realizes that the execution was real, and Scarpia has betrayed her. Scarpia’s ACT II men rush in to arrest her, but she cries out that That evening in his chambers in the Palazzo she will meet Scarpia before God and leaps from Farnese, Scarpia anticipates the pleasure of having the battlement. Tosca in his power. The spy Spoletta arrives with news that he was unable to find Angelotti. Instead, —Tosca Synopsis Courtesy of Opera News he brings in Cavaradossi. Scarpia interrogates the

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Giacomo Puccini’s Scarpia’s motif is heard, in many different ways, Tosca is filled with throughout the opera. We can hear that he surefire theatrical controls events, even after his death. effects, sweeping melodies, and the One of the most distinctive features of Puccini’s best villain in opera. dramaturgy is his attention to place setting and his creation of a musical mood. The location of the Victorien Sardou’s story is tremendously important for what music historical drama he wrote: think of Madama Butterfly, Turandot, La Tosca was a hit or La fanciulla del West. He was inspired by very in Paris at its 1887 specific Roman settings ofTosca , to the extent of premiere. It was basing the Act I Te Deum on existing liturgical written as a vehicle music then in use, and pitching the bells at the for the actress start of Act III to the actual pitches of the bells Sarah Bernhardt, at St. Peter’s. Listen to the opening of the third who toured act, with its horn call and then bells and chimes Europe with it. sounding from different areas, as Puccini creates a Claudia Muzio as Tosca Puccini saw the play few moments of peace, so very necessary after the at least three times. He and his publisher, Tito violence of Act II. What Puccini wanted to add Ricordi, were convinced of the piece’s potential to Sardou’s play was a stronger romantic element; as an opera, as was Verdi. But at the time Puccini in to the gorgeous duets for the lovers in both was working on Manon Lescaut and then was Act I and especially Act III he succeeded greatly. captivated by La bohème. By the time he turned his attention back to the play, he had begun The opera received its world premiere at the working the librettist team of Giuseppe Giacosa Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900, and Luigi Illica. Together they pruned Sardou’s almost exactly one hundred years after the events sprawling five-act drama into a concise and depicted in the opera. Its American premiere was taut story. just over a year later, at the Metropolitan Opera. Opera Company of North Carolina presented Very unusually, Tosca takes place at a very the opera in 2005 with Lisa Daltirus in the specific time and in particular locales. The action title role, and Tosca was the first production of is in afternoon and evening and into the next the new North Carolina Opera in 2010, with morning of June 17-18, 1800, in three specific Cynthia Lawrence as Tosca. buildings in Rome. The background to the story —Eric Mitchko is the Napoleonic wars and the conflict between the forces of monarchy and church on the one hand (here represented by Baron Scarpia), and those who would upend the ancien regime on the other (here personified by Cavaradossi). In the middle of these forces is Floria Tosca, an opera singer who is herself apolitical but is the lover of Cavaradossi, a “follower of Voltaire” and a man under police suspicion.

The scholar Michele Girardi has called Puccini “Wagner’s greatest Italian student,” and we can certainly hear a sophisticated use of what we might call leitmotifs throughout Tosca. The opera is dominated by Scarpia’s theme, which is the very first music we hear. Just as Scarpia’s secret police are omnipresent in Rome, Leontyne Price as Tosca

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JOSEPH RESCIGNO DAVID PAUL (CONDUCTOR) (STAGE DIRECTOR) Joseph Rescigno conducted David Paul directed the NCO’s 2017-18 production NCO productions of Aida of Rigoletto. He has appeared (2013) and Il trovatore (2012). as a conductor with more He is an award-winning than fifty orchestras and opera director for opera, theater, companies on four continents. and film. Recent operatic Since 1981, he has served as Artistic Advisor and credits include productions for LA Opera, the Principal Conductor of the Florentine Opera Metropolitan Opera/Juilliard, Washington Company of Milwaukee. Since 2005, he has National Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera served Music Director of La Musica Lirica, a Saratoga, and Music Academy of the West. summer program for singers in northern Italy. His 2015 film “Dichterliebe: POETLOVE”, He served as Artistic Director of L’Orchestre a cinematic adaptation of art songs by Robert Métropolitain of Montreal for four seasons. Schumann, won awards from the Hong Kong Art House Film Festival, Geneva Film Festival, Maestro Rescigno’s programming traverses the and IndieFest, in addition to screening at film repertory from the baroque to the present. He festivals and institutions around the world. has conducted the world premieres of new works On the theater stage, he has directed for such as Minoru Miki’s Joruri and Don Davis’s Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, Rio de Sangre and earned acclaim for neglected Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, and Columbia contemporary works such as Barber’s Vanessa University, in addition to serving as Assistant and rarities such as Rossini’s La gazzetta in Director on the recent Broadway production of addition to the great masterpieces of symphonic, Terrence McNally’s Master Class. concertos, and choral literature. His operatic repertoire includes: virtually all of the core Italian Dedicated to driving innovation in classical repertory, including romantic, verismo, and bel music performance, Paul’s has launched ventures canto operas; the standard French and German including Opera in VR, a set of short films repertory, including the works of Wagner and featuring operatic scenes shot in 360-degree Richard Strauss; and contemporary works. virtual reality; AfterWARds, a 90-minute, four- character reinvention of Mozart’s Idomeneo; Maestro Rescigno has conducted the New The Baron, an adaptation of the life story of York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, tennis legend Gottfried von Cramm; and various Washington National Opera, Opera Theatre of music-video related projects. Saint Louis, Seattle Opera, Arizona Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Hungarian David Paul serves on the faculty at the Juilliard State Opera, Vancouver Opera, Opéra de School, the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artist Montreal, Teatro Massimo Bellini, L’Opéra de Development Program, and the University of Marseille, Virginia Opera, Montreal Symphony Maryland Opera Studio, and has given master and Milwaukee Symphony. classes in Japan, China, Israel, and the United States. www.davidpauldirector.com His discography includes a recording of Minoru Miki’s Joruri and a collection of verismo arias featuring soprano Diana Soviero.

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ALEXANDRA LoBIANCO He maintains a close association with Houston Grand Opera and recently returned there to (TOSCA) create the role of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham American soprano Alexandra in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince LoBianco made her European of Players. He has also appeared as Pirelli debut as Leonore in Fidelio at in Sweeney Todd and Tamino in outdoor the Vienna State Opera and performances Die Zauberflöte. He is an alumnus subsequently returned there as of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. During Helmwige in Die Walküre. his tenure, his performances included Rodolfo, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Mr. Erlanson in Highlights of the 2018-19 season include A Little Night Music, the Sailor in Tristan und Chrysothemis in Elektra with Lyric Opera Isolde, Ruiz in Il trovatore, and the Royal Herald of Chicago, Senta in Der fliegende Holländer in Don Carlos. with Baltimore Concert Opera, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Madison Symphony, where He is also a former Artist in Residence of Dallas she previously sang Rachmaninoff’s The Bells. Opera where his performances included Tybalt Next season, she makes her Metropolitan Opera in Roméo et Juliette, Roderigo in Otello, Lord debut in Der Rosenkavalier. Cecil in Roberto Devereaux, and Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor. Operatic highlights of previous seasons have included the title role in Aida with Seattle Opera and Opera Colorado, the title role in Tosca with MALCOLM MacKENZIE Minnesota Opera, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (SCARPIA) with Seattle Opera, Miss Jessel in The Turn Baritone Malcolm MacKenzie of the Screw with The Dallas Opera, Amelia in made his NCO debut last Un ballo in maschera with Florida Grand Opera, season in the title role of Ariadne/Prima Donna in Ariadne auf Naxos Verdi’s Rigoletto. He has been with Austin Opera, Helmwige with Lyric Opera heard at leading opera houses of Chicago, and both the title role in Turandot throughout the U.S. and and Minnie in La fanciulla del West with Europe, appearing at the Metropolitan Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera. Ms. LoBianco is New York City Opera, Paris Opera, Finland’s a graduate of Appalachian State University in Savonlinna Festival, Washington National Boone, North Carolina. Opera, LA Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera, Fort Worth SCOTT QUINN Opera, and Pittsburgh Opera, in roles including Iago (Otello), Tonio (Pagliacci), Count di Luna (CAVARADOSSI) (Il trovatore), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Tenor Scott Quinn has Jack Rance (La fancuilla del West), Marcello appeared with San Francisco (La bohème), Germont (La traviata), and Count Opera as Števa Buryja in Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), and the title roles Jenu˚fa and Elemer in Arabella, in Simon Boccanegra and Don Giovanni. Seattle Opera as Boris in Kát’a Kabanová and Don Current engagements include Figaro in José in Carmen, Minnesota Opera as Rodolfo Il barbiere di Siviglia with Eugene Opera; in La bohème, San Diego Opera as the Duke Germont with Opera San Jose and Opera in Rigoletto, Arizona Opera as Don José, The Colorado; and Stubb in Moby-Dick with Atlanta Opera as Narraboth in Salome and the Pittsburgh Opera. Duke, Utah Opera as Rodolfo, Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Alfredo in La traviata and the Recent engagements have included Scarpia in Duke, Austin Opera as Alfredo, Palm Beach Tosca with Opera Omaha; Don Alfonso in Così fan Opera as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Fort tutte with Opera San Jose; Roger Chillingworth Worth Opera as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and in world premiere of Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet with Chautauqua Opera as Pinkerton.

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Letter with Opera Colorado; Dancaïre in Carmen SABRI KARABUDAK with the Metropolitan Opera; Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with Eugene Opera; Stubb with (ANGELOTTI) Sabri Karabudak has sung Los Angeles Opera; George in Of Mice and Men many roles with the Turkish with Phoenicia Festival; Germont with Virginia State Opera and Ballet in Opera; Simon Boccanegra with Kentucky Opera; Ankara, including Leporello in Schaunard in La bohème and Belcore in L’elisir Don Giovanni, Sarastro in Die d’amore with San Diego Opera; Iago and Jack Zauberflöte, Ramfis inAida , Rance with Nashville Opera; Alfio inCavalleria Konchak in Prince Igor, King René in Iolanta, rusticana, Count di Luna, and Tonio with Mephistopheles in Faust, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Arizona Opera; and Count di Luna with Fort Joe in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Worth Opera. Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Il portiere in La notte di un nevrastenico, and DONALD HARTMANN the title role in Don Pasquale. He toured with (SACRISTAN) the company in Spain, Estonia, England, Italy, Bass-baritone Donald Hartmann Germany, Holland, and many parts of Turkey. has appeared with NCO in He is a graduate of Ankara State Conservatory. productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Aida, Carmen (2011 and 2019), JACOB KATO Rusalka, and Tosca (2010). (SPOLETTA) Jacob Kato has previously Mr. Hartmann is an active performer with appeared with NCO in Cold regional and national opera companies in the Mountain, La traviata, and United States. He has performed in over 170 Madama Butterfly. He has operatic productions, in over 60 operas singing also been seen in Greensboro over 75 different roles. Engagements have Opera’s performances of included appearances with New York City Il barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, and La fille Opera, Opéra de Montreal, Madison Opera, du régiment. On the concert stage, Jacob has Toledo Opera, Opera Carolina, Michigan performed with the Asheville Choral Society, Opera Theater, Nashville Opera, Piedmont Piedmont Wind Symphony, Salem College, Opera, OperaDelaware, Opera Roanoke, and various churches in the region. Jacob holds Greensboro Opera, Arizona Opera, Florentine degrees from Shenandoah Conservatory and the Opera, and Virginia Opera. He sang the role of University of North Carolina at Greensboro. William Jennings Bryan in the 60th-anniversary He is a former member of the Janiec Opera production of The Ballad Baby Doe at Central Company of the Brevard Music Center. City Opera in Colorado.

His 2018-19 season includes performances as TED FEDERLE Dr. Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opera (SCIARRONE) North, Bonze in Madama Butterfly at Greensboro Baritone Ted Federle has Opera, and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin with appeared with NCO in Opera Carolina. Donald Hartmann is a Professor productions of Approaching of Voice in the School of Music at UNCG. Ali and Hercules vs. Vampires. Recent appearances include: The Picture of Dorian Grey with Opera Fayetteville (Arkansas); Die Zauberflöte with Piedmont Opera and Nashville Opera; Carmen and Così fan tutte with Pensacola Opera; The Mikado with Mobile Opera; and Peter Grimes with Chautauqua Opera.

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Mr. Federle has received awards from the Gerda Die Zauberflöte, Amadeus, 9 to 5, A Midsummer Lissner International Vocal Competition and Night’s Dream, Sweeney Todd, South Pacific, Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and performed Roméo et Juliet, Ulysses, The Pirates of Penzance, internationally at La Biblioteca National de Così fan tutte, Heart of a Dog, Man of Chile in Santiago. He is a graduate of the A.J. La Mancha, Salome, La bohème, Le nozze Fletcher Opera Institute at the University of di Figaro, Madama Butterfly, The Crucible, North Carolina School of the Arts and an Eugene Onegin, La fille du régiment, Il trovatore, Instructor of Music at Duke University. La traviata, Falstaff, Tosca, Don Giovanni, Footloose, Hairspray, and world premieres of THOMAS KEEFE Scalia/Ginsburg, Gallo, Giver of Light, and (JAILER) Bovinus Rex. Bass-baritone Thomas Keefe has appeared in comprimario He has a BFA in Performance Production from roles with NCO in La bohème, Cornish College of the Arts, and an MFA in Madama Butterfly, and Design from NYU/Tisch. He was the 2002 Allen Rigoletto. He has appeared as a Lee Hughes Lighting Fellow at Arena Stage in member of the NCO chorus in Washington, DC. Tosca (2010), Faust, Carmen (2011 and 2019), Il trovatore, Così fan tutte, Rusalka, La traviata, SCOTT MacLEOD Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, Il barbiere di (CHORUSMASTER) Siviglia, Le nozze di Figaro, Cold Mountain, Scott MacLeod has served Samson et Dalila, and Norma. He has appeared as chorus master for North in a starring role in The King and I and in several Carolina Opera since the May other musical theater productions. 2013 production of Aida. Scott MacLeod’s previous roles TLÁLOC with NCO include Marullo in LÓPEZ-WATERMANN Rigoletto, Monroe/Pangle/Chain Gang Guard in Cold Mountain and Hercules in Hercules vs. (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Vampires, Hunter in Rusalka and the Captain Tláloc López-Watermann in Eugene Onegin. He maintains an active career designed the lighting for as a performer and has appeared as a soloist in NCO’s Don Giovanni, Faust, a variety of national and international venues, La bohème and Tosca (2010). including Opera North, Utah Festival Opera, He is the founder the design Opera Omaha, Central City Opera, Mobile company Light Conversations LLC. His Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Greensboro lighting, scenic, and projection designs have been Opera, Opera on the James, Eastern Music seen at Opera Columbus, Opera on the James, Festival, the Tucson Symphony, the North TheatreZone, Opera Naples, Castleton Festival, Carolina Symphony, the National Symphony of Brevard Music Center, Toledo Opera, Utah Costa Rica, and Carnegie Hall. Festival Opera, TodiMusicFest, Opera Roanoke, Shreveport Opera, Guerilla Opera, Crested Notable roles include the title characters in Butte Music Festival, and DiCapo Opera. His Don Giovanni and Gianni Schicchi, Count designed have been featured in productions Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Gaylord of The Long Walk, Il trittico, Hydrogen Ravenal in Show Boat, Fred/Petruchio in Kiss Jukebox, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Sondheim on Me, Kate, and Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Sondheim, La Cenerentola, Carmen, Street Scene, Happened on the Way to the Forum.

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 13 THANK YOU to OUR PRINCIPAL SUPPORTERS! North Carolina Opera would like to thank some of our most generous supporters whose gifts underwrite a portion of production costs and keep the Triangle singing! For additional information on becoming a Principal Supporter, please contact Eric Mitchko at (919)792-3851.

2018-2019 SEASON PRODUCTION SPONSORS

Mr. C. Thomas Kunz, TOSCA Mr. Ross W. Lampe, Jr., Sitelink Software, CARMEN Ms. Rosemarie Sweeney, NORMA Sweeney Kunz Lampe

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Mr. C. Thomas Kunz

$50,000 AND ABOVE

Mr. Ross W. Lampe, Jr.

$25,000 AND ABOVE

Peacock Florence and James Peacock $15,000 AND ABOVE

Mr. and Mrs. James Gulick Roberson Michael Huckabee and Brooke Fortson Mr. E. T. Franklin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Roberson Mr. and Mrs. William C. Rustin, Jr. Gulick

$10,000 AND ABOVE

McNeel Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Richard McNeel

$5,000 AND ABOVE

Acquaviva Anonymous Gooden Mr. and Mrs. Francis Acquaviva Joel R. Adams Ria Battaglino and Lawrence Loughlin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Blass Bill Brown and Amy Moss Dr. Yvonne Bryant J. Romano Mr. Michael C. Byrne and Ms. Brigette Wilds Richard and Donna Falvo Ms. Kim Gooden Mr. William L. Hampton Mr. Donald Hunter and Dr. Lewis Lampiris Myungsa Kang and Anthony Acquaviva John and Beth Lunsford Dr. and Mrs. Dale Oller The June and Tom Roberg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James Romano Michael and Michelle Vaccarello Dr. Jean Wozencraft-Ornellas Dr. and Mrs. Ali Zomorodi NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 16 NORTH CAROLINA OPERA ORCHESTRA

1ST VIOLIN CELLO TRUMPET Carol Chung Nate Leyland Alexander Fioto Margaret Partridge Brian Carter Van Zimmerman Irina Shelepov Debbie Davis Anne Leyland Lauren Dunsheath TROMBONE David Prudon Michael Kris Leah Peroutka BASS Wes Parker Lyda Cruden Emily Buccola Petia Radneva-Manolova Zachary Hobin TIMPANI Rebecca Marland John Fedderson 2ND VIOLIN Joan Beck FLUTE PERCUSSION Bonnie Stoughton Pam Nelson Christopher Nappi Laura Thomas Carla Burns Julia Thompson Mary Kay Robinson Vincent Povazsay Cortney Baker OBOE Christine Haarvig Michael Schultz HARP Robert Rempher Jacquelyn Bartlett CLARINET VIOLA David Oehler ORGAN Simon Ertz Kevin Streich David Eaton Matthew Chicurel Connie Lorber BASSOON PERSONNEL MANAGER Katie Miller Ben Atherholt Paul Gorski Daniel Colston Kathryn Wyatt FRENCH HORN LIBRARIAN Emily Hagee Julia Thompson Tracy Friedlander

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 17 NORTH CAROLINA OPERA CHORUS

Gretchen Bruesehoff Michael Blake Joanna Burke Brent Blakesley Jane Ivy Coons Jordan Clifton Madeline Edwards Mason Cordell Sydel Fisher Adam Dengler Austenne Grey Michael Heath Katie Hensley Greg Hirsch Paula Hostetter Francis Hostetter Chelsea Huber Thomas Keefe Erica Jackson David Marschall Emily Krol Bill Moran Kaitie Lawson Cole Nash Margaret Maytan Lindon Pearson Jean Renze-Eilers James Taylor Lorraine Snyder Ted Willis Rachel Stenbuck Annette Stowe Monica Szabo-Nyeste

CHILDREN’S CHORUS

Aubrey Bone Bailey Valle Quintero Adrian Corona Aubrey Riddick Daniel Fonseca Cesar Toledo Jean-Christian McKenzie Alexandra Torres Elba Ochoa Celeste Wallace Jessele Perez-Rodriguez Lila Wallace Samantha Perez-Gonzalez

SUPERNUMERARIES

Juan Matamoros Stan Williams Ralph Roberson

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 18 CHARTER SUBSCRIBERS

Charter Subscribers—the following patrons have been season subscribers to North Carolina Opera for nine consecutive years, since our first performance in 2010. Thank you! Francis and Jane Acquaviva Ekaterina Korobkina and Ralph and Francine Roberson Yvonne Bryant Robert Golub Jim and Anna Romano Anne Prince Cuddy Thomas and Kathleen Lada William and Mary Louise Martha Dimes Ross Lampe, Sr. Rustin Marilyn Ehrenshaft William and Margaret Steven and Sarah Shaber James Gray McCulloch Rob Tiller Clark and Karen Havighurst Carol and Rick McNeel Allison Tolksdorf Mark Hogan Thomas and Christina Jean-Marie and Lizbeth Videau Dave Horne and Mitchko Phyllis Weldon Linda Fineman Robert Morrison, Jr. Brigette Wilds and Alan and Senora Karr Linda Murphy Michael Byrne Joann Parkerson Ellen and Douglas Williams Florence and James Peacock

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA WOULD LIKE TO THANK

Jane Acquaviva Christina Mitchko Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Susan Oller Bailey’s Fine Jewelry Queen of Wines Yvonne Bryant Ralph and Francine Roberson Citrix Joncie Sarratt Doctors Making Housecalls Savills North America Ginger Finley Lorraine Snyder Galloway Ridge at Fearrington Summit Hospitality Glenwood Agency Themeworks Rae Gulick Triangle Youth Philharmonic Judy Hendrickson Phyllis Weldon Hibernian Irish Pub Brigette Wilds Tom Keefe Elaine Wood Meredith College Music Department Jeanie Wozencraft-Ornellas Mitchell’s Catering

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DUKE ENERGY CENTER STAFF

Assistant City Manager...... Jim Greene Production Supervisor...... Michelle Boyette Director...... Kerry Painter Crew Supervisor...... Allen Puryear General Manager...... Jim Lavery Security Supervisor...... Chris Sims Finance Director...... Hazel Cockram Front of House Manager...... Courtney Bisbe Marketing Director...... Michelle Bradley Front of House Assistant...... Etta Ball Box Office Manager...... Rob Leavell Operation Staff...... Etta Ball, Alex Brickley, Assistant Box Office Manager...... Matt Hester Dave Chapman, Ricky Cherry, Booking Manager...... Holly Jacques Andrew Crane, Mike Evans, Booking Coordinator...... Kate Hanley Steven Harrison, Ehhteeku Htaw, Sales and Marketing Specialist...... Sarah Lucas John Hughes, Jeff Jacques, Digital Marketing...... Blake Jones Micheal Karczewski, Liberty Lander, Facilities Supervisor...... Russell Denton Sunbright Lu, Gabriel Quirk, Accountant...... Kathy Strait Phaderika Smith, Lorraine Talley, Production Supervisor...... Paul Marsland Mason Tierney, Jude Tuangneu, Production Supervisor...... Lucas Johnson Steve Tucker, Lukus Watkins Production Supervisor...... Mike Edwards

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FOUNDATIONS, GOVERNMENT, AND CORPORATIONS

$100,000 AND ABOVE Elliott Davis $500 AND ABOVE City of Raleigh Arts Commission GSK Matching Program Ella Ann and Frank B. Holding The George Smedes Poyner Foundation $25,000 AND ABOVE Foundation Queen of Wine Duke Energy Foundation Savills $2,500 AND ABOVE $15,000 AND ABOVE Alamo Drafthouse Cinema $250 AND ABOVE The John William Pope Bailey’s Fine Jewelry Jill E. Burton & Associates Foundation CEI Croasdaile Opera and Arts Guild North Carolina Arts Council Citrix The Allman Bobbie Group/ PNC Meredith College R.W. Baird Department of Music The Glenwood Agency $10,000 AND ABOVE Mitchell’s Catering Opera America Eddie and Jo Allison Smith $100 AND ABOVE National Endowment for the Arts Family Foundation Bell Family Foundation Walter Family Foundation Hibernian Irish Pub $1,000 AND ABOVE Red Hat Matching Program $5,000 AND ABOVE Doctors Making House Calls Themeworks Anonymous Galloway Ridge at Fearrington BlueCross BlueShield of IBM Matching Program North Carolina The Ann and C. Hamilton Sloan Carver Fund for North Family Foundation Carolina Opera Summit Hospitality Group HONORARY AND MEMORIAL GIFTS

In Memory of Thomas McGuire In Memory of Grandma Bootsie The Allman Bobbie Group & R.W. Baird Zack Dahlia and Hannah Gutterman Dr. and Mrs. Clifford Baggett Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Barber In Honor of the Marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Brown Rosi Sweeney and Tom Kunz Peggy and Jim Fain Catherine Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Funderburk Susan Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Jim Goodmon & Teresa and Thomas DeRogatis A.J. Fletcher Foundation Richard Kadlick Chancy and Keith Kapp James Hargrove and Kim Kotlar Mr. and Mrs. Julian Mann, III James and Inna Kunz Ms. Carol Newman In Honor of Scott MacLeod Mac and Lindsay Newsom Michelle DeMott Cathy and Jim Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Mark Thompson In Honor of Chuck Galle Mr. and Mrs. Larry Towles Martha Keravouri Mr. and Mrs. Sam Register Mr. Van Noah, Sr. In Honor of Tom Kunz Ms. Alice Watkins Susan Curtis Dr. and Mrs. John Woodall Tyler Eudy In Memory of Michael J. Almeida In Honor of Joel Adams Ms. Eugenie Almeida Jacobi and Jerry Daley In Memory of Ivan Korobkina In Honor of George Kornbluth Ekaterina Korobkina and Robert Golub Myra Kornbluth In Memory of Susan Stocker In Honor of Eric Mitchko Allison Northcutt Croasdaile Opera and Arts Guild In Memory of Bob Schoellhorn Kay Schoellhorn

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 23 Did You Know? Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are:

• 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance • 4 times more likely to win an award

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NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 26 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bill Rustin, President Sterling Perkinson, Vice President John Lunsford, Treasurer James Gulick, Secretary

Francis Acquaviva Susan Oller Joel Adams Florence Peacock * Andrew Blass June Roberg Yvonne Bryant * Ralph Roberson Richard Falvo John Russell Bryan Gilliam Richard Sarles Kimberly Gooden Steven Shaber * Nancy Hablutzel * Shohreh Taavoni William Hampton Brigette Wilds Donald Hunter Jean Wozencraft-Ornellas C. Thomas Kunz Ali Zomorodi

*- at-large members of the Executive Committee

PRESIDENTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA OPERA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

James Romano: 2010-2012 Stephen Prystowsky: 2012-2014 C. Thomas Kunz: 2014-2018 Bill Rustin: 2018-Present

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Eric Mitchko, General Director Ellen Fort, Director of Development Julie Williams, Company Manager Bruce Loving, Marketing Consultant Kristin Hartzell, Community Relations Manager Linda T. Carlson, Production Manager Kristin Roscoe, Box Office Administrator Tracy Friedlander, Marketing Consultant Kristin Eiffert Foster, Development Intern

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