Love, betrayal, and sacrifice

OCTOBER 6, 9, 12, 14, 2018 BENEDUM CENTER 2018-19 SEASON We dedicate these performances of to the memory of Tito Capobianco. for © Photo: David Bachman

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Welcome to the 2018-19 Season of Pittsburgh Opera! Welcome to Pittsburgh Opera’s 80th anniversary season! Whether you are joining us for the first time or the fiftieth, On behalf of the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Opera, we are delighted that you’re here to experience Puccini’s we welcome you to the Benedum Center for the first powerful Madama Butterfly. production of this season—the powerful classic story of Madama Butterfly. Our cast features returning favorites plus a brilliant Pittsburgh Opera debut. Russian soprano , This season marks the 80th anniversary of Pittsburgh © Daniel V. Klein Photography V. © Daniel © David Bachman described as “marvelous” as Cio-Cio-San at the English Opera and a significant milestone in the life of the National Opera in London, sings with us for the first time. company. Over the generations, Pittsburgh Opera has become a pillar of the artistic When you hear her tonight, you’ll know why we cast her. Joining Dina are familiar faces community. We are known nationally for high artistic standards, the quality of our such as Cody Austin (La traviata, 2016) and Michael Mayes (Moby-Dick, 2018). Making Resident Artists, and the extent of our community ngagement. We are grateful to all who her Pittsburgh Opera homecoming is our recent Resident Artist Laurel Semerdjian, who is have given of their time, talent, and treasure to support Pittsburgh Opera these many quickly becoming known around the country as a stellar Suzuki. years. We are indebted to your generosity. Madama Butterfly is the first of six we are producing this season. We would love This season, in addition to classics like Madama Butterfly and La bohème, you will to see you again soon. If you don’t have season tickets, full and partial-season plans also have the chance to enjoy works such as Glory Denied at the Pittsburgh Opera are still available. A subscription starts at just $47; apply tonight’s ticket towards one Headquarters and afterWARds-Mozart’s Reimagined at Pittsburgh CAPA and access exclusive benefits. Please visit the table in the center of the Grand Lobby for Theater. This range of quality operatic works and superb talent is made possible because details. of your generous philanthropy to Pittsburgh Opera. Your gifts help us cover the costs of production, pay stipends for our resident artists, support arts education programs, and You may not know this, but ticket sales only cover about 25% of our expenses each a host of programming that has built the reputation of this company as a leader among year. We rely on the generosity of people like you, who believe in our mission and our the nation’s opera companies. important role in the community, to supplement your ticket purchases with an additional gift. Please consider a gift to our 80th Anniversary Campaign at pittsburghopera.org/give, The 80th Anniversary Campaign is our opportunity in this generation, through your or see one of our representatives in the lobby. financial support, to preserve and build upon the artistic quality of Pittsburgh Opera for generations to come. We ask that you join with us and show your support of our work by While the world has changed in the past 80 years, our commitment to bringing you making a campaign gift to Pittsburgh Opera. Our new Director of Development, Michael opera of the finest caliber has not wavered. With your support we will continue to do so Braxton, welcomes the chance to speak with you about how your gift can impact the for many, many decades. artistic future of Pittsburgh Opera. Please call him at (412) 281-0912 ext. 259 or email him at [email protected]. Warm regards,

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by with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Based in part on the short story “Madame Butterfly” (1898) by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco.

Pittsburgh Opera presents IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE: Madama Butterfly, first performed on Lt. B.F. Pinkerton Cody Austin February 17, 1904 at in Milan. the arts are the Goro Julius Ahn These performances mark the 18th production of Madama Butterfly at ** Suzuki Laurel Semerdjian Pittsburgh Opera, the most recent Sharpless Michael Mayes in 2013. highest form of Cio-Cio-San Dina Kuznetsova+ Opera in two acts. Cousin Veronica Schmidt Sung in Italian with English texts projected above the stage. Mother Charlene Canty Supertitles by Christopher Bergen. Aunt Judith Robb Jenkins expression. Estimated performance time: The Imperial Commissioner Tyler Zimmerman* 2 hours, 45 minutes with 1 intermission. The Official Registrar William Buchanan In consideration of your fellow The Bonze Brian Kontes audience members, please turn off Prince Yamadori Benjamin Taylor* all personal electronic devices. Kate Pinkerton Antonia Botti-Lodovico* Pittsburgh Opera offers an Audio Commentary service for patrons with Trouble Kaylena Gould visual impairments during Tuesday PNC is proud to be a patron of the (October 6 & 12) performances. To pick up an Assistive Aidyn Rayan Dasgupta Listening Device, simply present an ID Pittsburgh Opera. Because we (October 9 & 14) at the Guest Services Center. Braille and Large-Print programs are also available believe in and support all that the THE ARTISTIC TEAM at each performance. Conductor Antony Walker Season Sponsor: arts contribute to our Stage Director Linda Brovsky community. Set Designer John Gunter Costume Designer Alice Bristow Tuesday Night Sponsor: Ambridge Regional Distribution Lighting Designer Andrew David Ostrowski & Manufacturing Center Wig and Makeup Designer James Geier Assistant Conductor Glenn Lewis Chorus Master Mark Trawka Associate Coach/Pianist James Lesniak Assistant Director Matthew Haney* Stage Manager Cindy Knight

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MADAMA BUTTERFLY

ACT I. Nagasaki, around 1900. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased for 999 years from a marriage broker, Goro. Included with the house are three servants including Suzuki, the maid. They are expecting the bride, Cio-Cio-San, known as Madama Butterfly, whom Pinkerton has purchased for 100 yen. To the American Consul, Sharpless, Pinkerton describes the carefree philosophy of a sailor roaming the world in search of pleasure (Dovunque al mondo). For the moment, he is enchanted with the fragile Butterfly, but when Sharpless warns that Butterfly may not take her vows so lightly, Pinkerton brushes aside such scruples, saying he will one day marry a “real” American wife. Butterfly is heard in the distance joyously singing of her wedding (Ancora un passo or via). Entering surrounded by friends and family, Pinkerton’s fifteen-year-old bride tells him how she had to earn her living as a geisha when her family fell on hard times. In a quiet moment (Vieni, amor mio!), Butterfly displays her few possessions—including figures of her ancestors—and then reveals that she has converted to Christianity. The celebration is interrupted by Butterfly’s uncle, a Buddhist monk, who curses Butterfly for having renounced her ancestral religion. Pinkerton angrily sends the guests away. Alone with the distraught Butterfly, he dries her tears (Viene la sera) and they proclaim their love under the immense starry sky (Vogliateme bene, un bene piccolino).

20-Minute Intermission

ACT II. Scene 1. Three years later, Butterfly waits for her husband’s return. As Suzuki prays (E Izaghi ed Izanami), her mistress stands with her eyes fixed on the harbor. When Suzuki shows her how little money is left, Butterfly urges her to have faith—one fine day Pinkerton’s ship will appear on the horizon (Un bel dì vedremo). Sharpless brings a letter from the lieutenant, but before he can read it to Butterfly, Goro appears with a handsome and wealthy suitor, Prince Yamadori. Brusquely dismissing both broker and prince, Butterfly insists her husband has not deserted her. Sharpless tries again to read and suggests Pinkerton may not return (Ora a noi). Butterfly triumphantly carries in her child, Trouble, proclaiming that as soon as Pinkerton knows he has a son he surely will come back. If he does not, she would rather die than return to her former life. Both moved and frustrated by her blind faith, Sharpless leaves without revealing the rest of the letter. Butterfly, on the point of despair, hears a cannon shot. Now delirious with joy on seeing Pinkerton’s ship entering the harbor, she orders Suzuki to help fill the house with blossoms (Flower Duet: Una nave de guerra). Expecting Pinkerton to come running, Butterfly settles down to wait with Suzuki and little Trouble Humming( Chorus: Coro a bocca chiusa).

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Scene 2. When Pinkerton still has not arrived at dawn, Suzuki insists that Butterfly rest. Before long, Sharpless enters with Pinkerton and Kate, his American wife. When Suzuki realizes who the woman is, she tearfully agrees to aid in breaking the news to her mistress. Seized with remorse, Pinkerton bids an anguished farewell to the scene of his former happiness (Addio, fiorito asil) and then rushes away. When Butterfly comes in expecting to find him, she finds Kate instead. Guessing the truth, the shattered Butterfly agrees to SINCE 1893 give up her child if his father will return for him. Then, sending even Suzuki away, she takes out the dagger with which her father committed Seppuku and bows before a statue of WHEN OUR CUSTOMERS FACED THE UNEXPECTED Buddha, choosing to die with honor rather than live in disgrace. As she raises the blade, Suzuki pushes the child into the room. Sobbing farewell, Butterfly sends him into the WE WERE THERE garden to play, then stabs herself (Con onor muore). As she dies, Pinkerton is heard calling her name. -Adpated from

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8 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES MADAMA BUTTERFLY JULIUS AHN: GORO Internationally-acclaimed Korean-American tenor Julius Ahn returns to our stage, most recently appearing as Pang/ (2017), a role he has also performed with , Vancouver Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, TICKET EVENT: TICKETS $10 Utah Symphony & Opera, Seattle Opera, and most recently with Tulsa general admission — $5 senior Opera. Mr. Ahn is perhaps best known for his signature role of Goro/ citizen (65+) FREE to all students (with valid ID). FREE CMU faculty, Madama Butterfly, for which he has received much critical acclaim. He staff, alumni and parents recently performed the role in his debuts at San Francisco Opera, Vancouver Opera, Canadian FREE Pitt faculty and staff. Opera Company, Nashville Opera, Opera Carolina, Palm Beach Opera, and at the Royal Albert Hall FREE OSHER members. in London, and in his return to Michigan Opera Theatre. This season, he reprises the role of Goro for Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Virginia Opera. Recently, he grabbed the attention of opera goers as he joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for its productions of The Nose and The Magic LE NOZZE DI FIGARO OCT 2018 Flute, and made his mainstage debut as the Second Priest/. He has since returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Turandot, , , and The Magic Flute. CANDACE EVANS, DIRECTOR WEDNESDAY 24 • 8:00 PM THOMAS W. DOUGLAS, CONDUCTOR THURSDAY 25 • 8:00 PM Additional roles performed include Bardolfo/ (Opera Omaha), Basilio and Curzio/Le nozze FRIDAY 26 • 8:00 PM di Figaro with Lyric Opera Baltimore, Demo/Giasone (Chicago Opera) Theater, Tanzmeister and SATURDAY 27 • 2:00 PM Brighella/ (Boston Lyric Opera), and Monostatos/Die Zauberflöte with Pacific The Carnegie Mellon Opera season Symphony, Michigan Opera Theatre, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Opera Omaha, and Opera Carolina. opens with Mozart’s comedic opera, Chosky Theater, . CMU Purnell Center CODY AUSTIN: LT. B.F. PINKERTON American tenor Cody Austin returns to our stage, most recently appearing Tickets available by calling: TICKET EVENT as Alfredo Germont/La traviata (2016). His professional debut was with the 412-268-2407. Opera Company of Philadelphia as Roderigo/ in 2009, and he was invited to return season to perform Edmondo/ Lescaut. UPCOMING EVENTS Upcoming engagements include Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly for Central City Opera and Greensboro Opera, Rodolfo/La bohème for Grange Park London, and Alfred/Die Fledermaus for Opera Tampa. Last season he sang WIND ENSEMBLE PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER SERIES Pinkerton for Opera på Skäret in Sweden, Don José/ (Sarasota Opera), Alfredo (Wichita Grand Opera), and the Glasgow at Carnegie Hall. Recent engagements include the Duke/ SEP.29.2018 A VIENNESE SOIREE: A SPECIAL Rigoletto (Opera Santa Barbara), Alfredo/La traviata, and Roméo/Roméo et Juliette for Virginia VICTOR YAMPOLSKY EVENT FEATURING JOHN O’CONOR SATURDAY • 4:00 PM GUEST CONDUCTOR Opera, Alfredo for Utah Opera, Lensky/ (Des Moines Metro Opera), Don José/Le OCT.13.2018 nov.08.2018 Tragédie de Carmen for Shreveport Opera, Belmonte/Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera Grand SATURDAY • 4:00 PM OCT.21.2018 THURSDAY • 7:30 PM Rapids), / (Knoxville Opera), Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Ottavio/, and Kresge Theatre SUNDAY • 7:30 PM Alfredo/La traviata for Opera Tampa. While at the Academy of Vocal Arts, he performed Tassilo/ Kresge Theatre FREE: TICKET REQUIRED Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland Countess Maritza (Concert Operetta Theater) and was featured in 2010 as tenor soloist with Peter FREE: TICKET REQUIRED Nero and the Philly Pops in The Great American Tenor. While at the Academy of Vocal Arts, Mr. TICKET EVENT Tickets available 10/9/18 Austin had the opportunity to perform in Kat’a Kabanova, La traviata, and . Prior Zappa G-Spot Tornado

Volans This is how it is to AVA, he completed graduate work at Indiana University, performing George Gibbs in the world Glazunov Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos Varese Octandre premiere of Our Town. He was a young artist at Central City Opera and Opera New Jersey, where he Valse de Concert No. 2 in F in D Major, K.448 Stravinsky Ebony Concerto performed in La traviata and The Merry Widow. He has been featured in concert engagements with Major, Op. 51 Schubert Selection of Songs Goossens Fantasy for Nine for Soprano and Piano the Las Vegas Philharmonic, New Jersey Master Chorale, the Ambler Symphony, Jupiter Symphony, Wind Instruments Shostakovich Beethoven Sonata for Cello the Hamilton Philharmonic, and Ocean City Pops, performing such works as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Grainger Hill Song No. 2 Symphony No. 10 in E minor, and Piano No. 3 in A Major, Beethoven’s Irish Songs, Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass, and the Verdi Requiem. He was awarded 2nd Verdi Three Scenes from Op. 93 op.69 Rigoletto and La Traviata place in the Competition, received the Ralph Appelman Award for Vocal Promise, a Mario Lanza Scholarship, the Alfonso Cavaliere Memorial Scholarship, and the Arthur E. Walters tickets available at: cmumusic.eventbrite.com Memorial Award.

11 ANTONIA BOTTI-LODOVICO: KATE PINKERTON Antonia Botti-Lodovico is a first-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist. WHY In the 2018-19 season, she is scheduled to perform Hansel/Hansel & Gretel Student Matinee Performance and Idamante/afterWARds- TRAVEL Mozart’s Idomeneo Reimagined. Ms. Botti-Lodovico is a graduate of Roosevelt University, where she received her Master of Music. Her credits THE WORLD? at Roosevelt include Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Madame Herz/Der Schauspieldirektor. In 2016 and 2017, she was an Apprentice Artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera. As an Apprentice Artist she performed the role of Rosette/Manon and covered the role of Petra/A Little Night Music. Her previous engagements also include performances with the Tuscia Opera Festival where she sang the role of Despina/Così fan tutte and Nursing Sister/. Ms. Botti-Lodovico’s residency is generously sponsored by Hans and Leslie Fleischner.

HOLIDAY SHOW BRIAN KONTES: THE BONZE NOV 21st thru DEC 21st Bass Brian Kontes returns to our stage, most recently appearing as Dr. Bartolo/The Marriage of Figaro (2017). Highlights of the 2018-19 season include debuts at Sarasota Opera as Sarastro/Die ZauberflÖte and Lieutenant Ratcliffe/Billy Budd (Central City Opera). He will also return to the Metropolitan Opera for their production of Dialogues des Carmélites, marking his ninth season with the company. Last season included Timur/Turandot (San Diego Opera) Don Fernando/ Fidelio (Boston Baroque), and a return to the Shippensburg Music Festival, where he was featured as the bass soloist in their performance of Brahms Requiem. During the 2016-17 season, he returned to The Metropolitan Opera for much of the season, which included assignments in and Manon Lescaut and was seen live during their new, HD production of . He participated in numerous past productions with the company including Die Zauberflöte, , Die Meistersinger, Madama Butterfly, La Gioconda, The Nose, La fanciulla del West, and Tannhäuser. Mr. Kontes was a featured soloist for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at Carnegie Hall and was a guest soloist with The Florida Bach Festival, where he sang Dvorak’s Stabat Mater. He also joined the Shippensburg Music Festival as Dr. Grenvil for their concert production of La traviata. Additional highlights include Commendatore/ Don Giovanni (NYCO), Banquo/Macbeth (Opera National de Lorraine), Leporello/ fine art furniture & antiques Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera), The Bonze and Yamadori/Madama Butterfly (Nashville Opera), Colline/La bohème (Piedmont Opera Theatre), Palemon/Thäis for both Opera Theater of Saint Louis and Kentucky Opera, and as Dr. Grenvil/La traviata (Opera Colorado). He was a first prize winner of the George London Foundation Competition and is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music.

13 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES, continued DINA KUZNETSOVA: CIO-CIO-SAN A native of Moscow, soprano Dina Kuznetsova makes her Pittsburgh Opera debut with these performances. She is an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center at , starring in a number of productions there RAISE A GLASS including , Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette, and her role debut as Tatyana/Eugene Onegin. She has attracted the attention of the world’s major opera companies for her outstanding musicianship and compelling stage presence, performing in many of the world’s greatest TO opera houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera House, Berlin’s HISTORY. Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, and Glyndebourne Festival, in roles such as Pamina, Violetta, Juliette, Lauretta, Donna Anna, and Alice Ford. Her passionate portrayal of Tatyana/Eugene Onegin has brought her huge success at Lyric Opera of Chicago, and led to many subsequent productions, including Opera National de Lille and Russian National Orchestra. Ms. Kuznetsova made her outstanding debut as Dvorak’s at Glyndebourne Festival, a role she has since sung at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Opera Montpellier, and Teatro Municipal de Santiago. She made her highly-acclaimed debut as Cio-Cio-San at . Other recent highlights include Káťa Kabanová (Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Staatsoper Hamburg), Francesca da Rimini (The Metropolitan Opera), Desdemona/Otello (Gulbenkian Orchestra), and Lisa/Pique Dame (Sydney Symphony Orchestra). A keen recitalist and chamber musician, she appears regularly at both the New York Festival of Song and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons, she starred as Rodelinda at Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, as Tatyana at Florida Grand Opera, made role debut as Jenůfa at Teatro Municipal in Santiago, portrayed Cio-Cio-San with Opera Theater and Káťa Kabanová with Opera.

MICHAEL MAYES: SHARPLESS Michael Mayes returns to our stage, most recently appearing as Starbuck/Moby-Dick (2018). At home in both traditional and contemporary operatic roles, Michael Mayes appears in prestigious national and international houses including Washington National Opera, Dallas Opera, Atlanta Opera, Seattle Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Barbican in London. Critically-acclaimed for his portrayal of Joseph De Rocher in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, he recently made his debut in that same role with Teatro Real in Madrid and the Barbican in London. Other Jake Heggie operas Mr. Mayes has performed include Manfred/Out of the Darkness with Music of Remembrance, Charlie/Three Decembers with UrbanArias, and the world premiere of Great Scott with Dallas Opera and San Diego Opera. Additional contemporary performances include: Older Thompson/ Glory Denied with Nashville Opera, Opera Memphis, and Fort Worth Opera; Lawrence/The Wreckers with Bard SummerScape; Adam/The Canticle of the Black Madonna with Anima Mundi Productions; Kinesias in Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata with Fort Worth Opera; Adam/Baden-Baden Travel back to the Roaring Twenties at 1927 with Gotham Chamber Opera; and Edward Gaines/Margaret Garner opposite mezzo-soprano Omni William Penn Hotel, where you’ll with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Opera Carolina. Mr. Mayes continues to build an impressive resume in leading traditional opera roles including Jack Rance/La fanciulla enjoy classic cocktails and nostalgic del West, Scarpia/, Escamillo/Carmen, Sharpless/Madama Butterfly, and the title role in décor in our Speakeasy social lounge. Rigoletto, and recently sang his first Sweeney Todd with Atlanta Opera. Upcoming engagements include several important debuts: his Seattle Opera debut as Count di Luna/, a role Continue your experience with fine OmniHotels.com/Pittsburgh debut of Wozzeck with Des Moines Metro Opera, as well as his return to Madison Opera for Tonio cuisine at The Terrace Room. and Alfio in their double bill of and .

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PITDTN-18002-02 Dining Print Ad Cultural District 6x9 M.indd 1 1/29/18 3:30 PM LAUREL SEMERDJIAN: SUZUKI Former Resident Artist Laurel Semerdjian returns to our stage, most MARILYN HORNE recently seen as Mother Goose/The Rake’s Progress (2016). In the 2015- 16 season, she also appeared as Fenena/Nabucco, Meg/Little Women, M USEUM AND E XHIBIT C ENTER and Gertrude Stein/27. in 2014-15, she was seen as Emilia/Otello, Eduige/ Rodelinda, and Asakir/Sumeida’s Song. In the 2018–19 season, she rejoins Tacoma Opera for her debut in the title role of The Rape of Lucretia, and performs with Syracuse’s Symphoria as mezzo soloist in Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She will also sing the title role in the workshop of Mohammed Fairouz’s new opera, Bhutto, a co-commission with Beth Morrison Projects and Pittsburgh Opera. In the 2017–2018 season, she returned to both Sarasota Opera, as Suzuki/ Madama Butterfly, Flora/La traviata, and Syracuse Opera, as Suzuki/Madama Butterfly. She made company debuts with St. Petersburg Opera (Florida) as Dritte Dame/Die Zauberflöte, Pittsburgh’s Resonance Works as Ježibaba/Rusalka, and as a guest soloist in their Opera’s Greatest Heroines gala concert. Throughout the 2016–17 season she made her Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra debut with her first performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. In her return to Bellevue City Opera she performed her first Dorabella/Così fan tutte, and in October 2016 she made her Syracuse Opera debut as Tisbe/. In Summer 2015, Ms. Semerdjian made her Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra debut as part of Three Rivers Arts Festival and portrayed Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro (Bellevue City Opera). Ms. Semerdjian was born in San Diego, CA and raised in Tacoma, WA. She holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas and a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts with a Minor in Music Industry from the University of Southern California.

BENJAMIN TAYLOR: PRINCE YAMADORI Benjamin Taylor is a second-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist. In the 2018-19 season, he is scheduled to perform Older Thompson/Glory Denied and Schaunard/La bohème. In 2017-18 he performed Sciarrone/ Tosca, Brian/The Long Walk, and Captain Gardiner/Moby-Dick. Mr. Taylor received his Master of Music from Boston University, where he also earned his Performer’s Certificate with Boston University’s Opera Institute. While at BU, He performed the roles of Demetrius/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guglielmo/Così fan tutte, Escamillo/La Tragédie de Carmen, Prior Walter/Angels in HISTORIC DOWNTOWN BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA America, Alvaro/Florencia en el Amazonas, Coyle/Owen Wingrave, and Des Grieux/Le Portrait de Manon. For the past three summers Mr. Taylor has been a Gerdine Young Artist (2015, 2016) and Richard Gaddes Festival Artist (2017) at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where he performed OPEN DAILY YEAR ROUND FREE PARKING & ADMISSION Fiorello/, Cowardly Giant/Shalimar the Clown, Yamadori/Madama Butterfly, and covered Figaro/The Barber of Seville, Marcello/La bohème, Musik Teacher/Ariadne auf Naxos, Sharpless/Madama Butterfly, and Lawyer Huld and various roles/The Trial. In 2016, Mr. Taylor also performed as Marcello with Crested Butte Festival, and Yamadori in Berkshire Opera Festival’s inaugural season. Mr. Taylor received his Bachelor’s of the Arts at Morgan State University where he sang Tom/Blue Monday with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as well as various roles WWW.MARILYNHORNE.ORG around the Maryland area. PHONE: 814-362-7990 Mr. Taylor’s residency is generously sponsored by Dr. Jean Anne Hattler.

17 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES, continued TYLER ZIMMERMAN: IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER ANTONY WALKER: CONDUCTOR Tyler Zimmerman is a first-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist and is Music Director Antony Walker celebrates his thirteenth season at scheduled to perform as Colline/La bohème. In the 2017-18 season, he Pittsburgh Opera in 2018-19. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut completed his final year of his Master’s studies at the Curtis Institute of in 2011 with Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and has returned to The Met Music, where he performed the role of Sam/A Quiet Place. He returned to since then to conduct Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Pearl Fishers, and The the Chautauqua Institute for his 7th summer where he sang the roles of Dr. Magic Flute. Maestro Walker enjoys superlative reviews not only for his Dulcamara/L’elisir d’amore and Escamillo/Carmen. In the 2016-17 season Pittsburgh Opera productions, but also his recent concert performances he continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was seen of Donizetti’s rarely-performed Maria di Rohan, Massenet’s Hérodiade, as Edward Teller/Doctor Atomic in a new production led by R.B. Schlather. He made his Albany and Beethoven’s Leonore at Washington Concert Opera. In 2010, Maestro Walker made debuts Symphony debut singing as the Baritone Soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Mr. Zimmerman at English National Opera in , at Canadian Opera Company in Maria spent his summer in Santa Fe as an Apprentice Artist with the , where he covered Stuarda, and at The Santa Fe Opera in Madama Butterfly. In 2016 Maestro Walker was proud the role of Melisso/Alcina. In 2015-16, he sang the roles of Colline/La bohème, Bretigny/Manon, to conduct Rossini’s monumental Semiramide in Florence, Italy, where the operatic art was Figaro/Le nozze di Figaro (Curtis Opera Theatre), and La Roche/Capriccio (Opera Philadelphia in a born. He currently serves as Artistic Director of Washington Concert Opera in Washington co-production with Curtis Opera Theatre). He returned to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (First D.C., founding Artistic Director and Conductor Emeritus of Pinchgut Opera in Australia, and Soldier/Salome) and the Chautauqua Music Festival (Der Sprecher/Die Zauberflöte, Monterone/ was Music Director of Cantillation and the Orchestra of the Antipodes for almost two decades. Rigoletto). In 2014-15, he sang the role of Antonio/Le nozze di Figaro at the Juilliard School. He He was Chorus Master and Staff Conductor for from 1998–2002 and joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as Sciarrone/Tosca alongside and James Musical Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs from 1992–97. Since his conducting debut Valenti and returned to the Chautauqua Music Festival to sing Il Re/Ariodante and Alcindoro/ in 1991, Maestro Walker has led nearly 200 operas, large-scale choral and orchestral works, La bohème. No stranger to modern works, he took part in the North American premiere of Peter and numerous symphonic and chamber works with companies in Europe, North America, and Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! at the Juilliard School along with extensive work with Ricky Ian Australia. His extraordinary career includes engagements with , Welsh National Gordon during the summers of 2012 and 2014. He has also appeared in public masterclasses with Opera, , Teatro Comunale Bologna, Orchestre Colonne (Paris), Wolf Trap Dolora Zajick, Craig Rutenberg, Christine Brewer, , Daniel Ferro, Richard Bonynge, Opera, Merola Program at the San Francisco Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, and many others. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Vancouver Opera, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Mr. Zimmerman’s residency is generously sponsored by Jim and Judith Matheny. Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney Opera House Orchestra.

LINDA BROVSKY: STAGE DIRECTOR Linda Brovsky returns to the Pittsburgh Opera, having previously directed Plans in bloom. Rigoletto and Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Her innovative productions are found at the Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, , San Diego Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Opera, Applauding Glimmerglass Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Atlanta Pittsburgh Opera’s Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Recent credits include her performance of critically-acclaimed production of Don Quichotte for the Canadian Opera Madama Butterfl y Company, La traviata (Cincinnati Opera), Tosca (Intermountain Opera), La cenerentola (Syracuse Opera), Der Zigeunerbaron (Manhattan School of Music), and The Wizard of Oz (Skylight Music Theatre). Upcoming engagements include a new production of Countess Maritza for Opera Pacific Victoria in British Columbia and L’elisir d’amore for Indiana University. Ms. Brovsky has nurtured several World Premieres including David Carlson’s The Midnight Angel (Opera Theatre of St. Louis/ Glimmerglass Opera), Scott Eyerly’s The House of the Seven Gables (Manhattan School of Music), and Claude White’s children’s opera Love, Death and High Notes. U.S. Premieres include Lowell Liebermann’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (Florentine Opera), Siegfried Matthus’s The Loves and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke (Manhattan School of Music), and the Revised Edition of Conrad Susa’s Black River (Opera Theatre of St. Louis). In demand as an arts writer and lecturer, she has been a contributor to Biography Magazine as well as a guest speaker for the National Arts Club— PEN International, the Guggenheim Museum’s “Works in Progress” series, and the American Opera Project’s “New Works” series.

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18 Hef-Till_PghOpera-FINAL.indd 1 9/17/18 4:03 PM 19 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES, continued ANDREW DAVID OSTROWSKI: LIGHTING DESIGNER GLENN LEWIS: ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Mr. Ostrowski continues his association with Pittsburgh Opera with these performances. He has Glenn Lewis, a native of Rochester, New York, has worked as Pittsburgh also designed Pittsburgh Opera productions of Salome (2016), The Barber of Seville (2016), Opera Head of Music since January 2008. He has served as pianist, vocal Carmen (2015), La bohème (2014), La cenerentola (2013), Rigoletto (2012), Tosca (2012), The coach, and assistant conductor primarily to Music Director Antony Walker Marriage of Figaro and Carmen (2010), Rigoletto (2005), La traviata (2004), La bohème and A on most of the main stage productions of the past several seasons. Midsummer Night’s Dream (2003), La cenerentola and Street Scene (2002). He has designed These include Tosca, Eugene Onegin, Samson & Dalila, Rigoletto, Don for Madison Opera and Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh. Mr. Ostrowski was the lighting director for Giovanni, The Grapes of Wrath, Orphée, and . Mr. Lewis made his an international tour of Porgy and Bess from 1998 to 2004 that was in every Western European conducting debut in 2009 with the Resident Artist production of Don country except Portugal. His international credits also include his own productions in Ireland, Pasquale and has since conducted Little Women, Dark Sisters, Hänsel und Gretel, among Sweden, France, and Scotland. Locally, he has designed for Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh others. In April 2018, he made his debut with Syracuse Opera conducting Madama Butterfly. Public Theater, Pittsburgh Ballet, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater, Quantum In February 2017 he conducted The Abduction from the Seraglio with Dayton Opera. In the Theatre, The Rep for Pittsburgh Playhouse, The Conservatory Company at Point Park University, spring of 2016, he was in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center working as an assistant The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Barebones Productions, and others. Nationally he has designed for conductor for the Wagner Ring Cycle at the Washington National Opera. For 17 seasons he has The Asolo, North Shore Music Theater, The Srden, Dallas Summer Musicals, Merrimack Repertory been on the staff of the Santa Fe Opera. There he has worked on productions including Wozzeck Theater, Spoleto Festival USA, The National High School Musical Theater Awards, and others. and Salome with Maestro David Robertson and with Maestro Alan Gilbert. Mr. He has designed over 300 productions, many of them locally, since 1991. Mr. Ostrowski was the Lewis worked for 11 years in the opera houses in Cologne and Düsseldorf, , where he recipient of the 2010 Frankel Award for his contributions to Art in Western Pennsylvania. He also conducted productions of La cenerentola, Orpheus in the Underworld, Zar und Zimmermann, received a National Merit Award from the Kennedy Center for the Arts. and My Fair Lady. While there, he assisted Maestri , John Fiore, , among others, on works including Elektra, The Makropulos Case, Der Rosenkavalier, and Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Past engagements include the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is a frequent recitalist in solo, chamber, and vocal repertoire. He holds degrees in piano performance from Ithaca College, Northwestern University, and an Artist Diploma in Opera Coaching and Conducting from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

JAMES GEIER: WIG & MAKEUP DESIGNER MARK TRAWKA: CHORUS MASTER James Geier returns to Pittsburgh Opera for a fifteenth season after Mark Trawka joined Pittsburgh Opera as Director of Musical Studies recently completing his fourteenth season at Cincinnati Opera. He for the prestigious Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Training Program formerly worked as a staff makeup artist and wigmaker for a decade in the 2003-04 season. In the 2006-07 season, he also took on the with San Francisco Opera and, more recently, as resident wig and position of Chorus Master. Mr. Trawka coaches and performs with the makeup designer for Florida Grand Opera. Mr. Geier is a graduate of Resident Artists and has also accompanied renowned mezzo-soprano the Theatre Arts Department at Brandeis University and completed Marianne Cornetti in her Pittsburgh recital appearances. He has been apprenticeships with both the San Francisco and Santa Fe operas. He has a member of the music staff at , Dallas Opera, worked for several film companies, including Lucasfilms Ltd., as well as an impressive number of and Portland Opera (Oregon), where he was principal pianist and assistant chorus master. Mr. opera, ballet, and theatre companies. His credits include the Denver Center Theatre Company, Trawka served as coach/accompanist at Chautauqua Opera and at Glimmerglass Festival for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Ballet, Spoleto Festival USA, Opera Theatre of many summer seasons. In the summer of 2006, he was director of the resident artist program Saint Louis, Baltimore Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Seattle Opera, , Fort Worth Opera, at Berkshire Opera. He was a music director at Tyrolean Opera Program in the summer of Opera Omaha, Portland Opera, the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Fresno 2014. Mr. Trawka has been a member of the coaching faculty at the renowned Songfest for Grand Opera, and American Ballet Theatre. the last four summer seasons, where he has also conducted choral performances. He made his opera conducting debut at Pittsburgh Opera with the Resident Artist production of Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27. Educated at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California, Mr. Trawka began his operatic career in the Houston Opera Studio and in San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program.

20 21 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES, continued THE MONTEVERDI SOCIETY JAMES LESNIAK: ASSOCIATE COACH/PIANIST PITTSBURGH OPERA’S PLANNED GIVING SOCIETY A native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, James Lesniak joined the Pittsburgh Opera music staff in 2006. After initial studies with Sheila Wiesztort, HELP ENRICH THE LIVES he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Indiana University, where he studied with pianists Menahem Pressler, Karen Shaw, and OF FUTURE OPERA LOVERS. Evelyne Brancart. His university credits include music staff work for Mississippi State University and the Indiana University Opera Theatre. Pittsburgh Opera owes its longevity and success over the past 78 years to thousands Further studies included an apprenticeship with the Domingo-Cafritz of friends in the region who have demonstrated their by loyally subscribing, Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera for two seasons, where he gave his encouraging friends and family to attend performances, volunteering time and talent, stage debut in the non-singing/piano playing role of Lazinski in Fedora at the Kennedy Center, and generously contributing to the Annual Fund each year. We appreciate the continued accompanying Plácido Domingo in the opera. In addition, Mr. Lesniak has served on the kindness and generosity of individuals who recognize the beauty that Pittsburgh Opera coaching staff of Brevard Music Center, Glimmerglass Opera, Washington National Opera brings to their lives–and make it a priority to provide financial support. at the Kennedy Center, and the National Symphony. He has been an official pianist for the Pittsburgh Opera is especially grateful to those who have deepened their commitment Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and also made his conducting debut in 2017 by making a legacy gift and joining the Monteverdi Society. These unique and with Pittsburgh Opera’s production of composer Laura Kaminsky’s As One. For the summer meaningful gifts have a tremendous impact on the well-being of the company, months, he frequently returns to the music staff of the prestigious Santa Fe Opera, where both financially and artistically. recently, he served as Musical Director for their Winter Concert Tour. For more information on the Monteverdi Society and planned giving options, please contact Michael Braxton at 412-281-0912, ext. 259.

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VIOLIN I PICCOLO TIMPANI SOPRANO TENOR SUPERNUMERARIES Charles Stegeman Tom Godfrey John DiIanni Rebecca Belczyk William Buchanan Pedro Sanvicente Amor Concertmaster Principal Charlene Canty David Knouse Charlie Anderson Rachel Stegeman FLUTE Stacey Brett Conner Jeffrey Link Josh Baringer Assistant Concertmaster Barbara O’Brien PERCUSSION Betsy D’Emidio David Scoville Lavar Dalton Kate M. Black Principal Jan Fung Judith Robb Jenkins Kevin Truax JR Graff Juan C. Jaramillo Anna Cooper Principal Gail Novak Mosites Rich Williams John Sallo Dawn Posey Tom Godfrey Albert Wrublesky Sasha Piastro-Tedford Ken Shen Maureen Conlon-Gutierrez Thomas Milchick Katy Shackleton-Williams Maggie Wolfram Rachel White OBOE Brian Yordnoff Rochelle Agnew Robert Driscoll, Jr. HARP ALTO Jami Bale Principal Nuiko Wadden Jolanta Doherty Tobias Chisnall Cynthia Anderson Principal Patricia Donohue The Principal Artists, Choristers, and Production Staff employed in Janice Garrone ENGLISH HORN this production are members of the VIOLIN II LIBRARIAN Christina McCann American Guild of Musical Artists. Cynthia Warren Mary Beth Schotting Eleanor Cameron Emily Rich Acting Principal 2nd Violin Veronika Schmidt CLARINET Jennifer Madge PERSONNEL MANAGER Kathryn Ambrose Sereno Mary Beth Skaggs Malek Sara Schaft Robert Boldin Principal Anne Moskal Alix Reinhardt Larry Yagello The orchestra musicians Joan Zelkowicz employed in this production BASS CLARINET Jennifer Cowles are members of the American Rachael Stutzman Cohen Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. VIOLA BASSOON Jennifer Gerhard Linda Morton Fisher Principal Principal Louise Farbman Don Hollis Jason Hohn Maija Anstine HORN Katerina Istomin Evan Geiger Stephen Weiss Principal Matthew Litterini CELLO Jason Allison Kathleen Melucci Andrew Symington Principal Jonathan Tortolano TRUMPET Pittsburgh Opera Paula Tuttle Christopher Wilson congratulates long-term Joseph Bishkoff, Jr. Principal orchestra members, Ray Elisa Kohanski Karen Lee Sloneker Eichenmuller (Principal Paul Critser 2nd Violin) and Beverly TROMBONE Crawford (Flute II) on BASS John Sebastian Vera their recent retirements Jeffrey T. Mangone, Sr. Principal from the Pittsburgh Principal Michael Dorato Opera Orchestra. We Andrew Kohn Glenn Wayland thank them for their Robert J. Skavronski commitment and artistry, Amanda Rice-Johnson TUBA and wish them all Philip VanOuse the best! Principal

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