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IN THIS ISSUE Wozzeck – pp. 24-38 TONY ROMANO DAVID H. FISHMAN

6 From the General Director 55 Breaking New Ground/Look To 8 From the President The Future WHAT IS 57 10 Board of Directors Major Contributors – Special Events and Project Support TECH WEEK? 12 Women’s Board/Guild Board/ 58 Chapters’ Executive Board/ Ryan Opera Center pp. 16-22 Ryan Opera Center Board 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 14 Administration/Administrative 60 Lyric Unlimited Contributors Staff/Production and Technical 61 Planned Giving: Staff The Overture Society 16 What Is Tech Week? 63 Annual Corporate Support/Special 24 Tonight’s Performance Thanks and Acknowledgements 25 Synopsis 65 Annual Individual and Foundation Support 27 Cast 71 Commemorative Gifts 28 Artist Profiles 72 Facilities and Services/Theater Staff 35 Opera Notes 38 Director’s Note 40 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus On the cover: Montage – soldier photo 43 Supernumeraries/Lyric Unlimited/ (public domain) by James Francis Education Corps Hurley, grave photo from Margaret 44 Patron Salute Hall Collection of the Massachusetts 46 Aria Society Historical Society.

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the General Director

I know that a great many people have asked themselves the question, “Is opera really for me?” People go gladly to the movies or the theater, yet at the same time they may seem reluctant to give opera a try. I want to persuade you that opera is indeed for you, and this opera, Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, in particular. Experiencing it at Lyric Opera, you’ll discover theater set to some of the most powerful, gripping, and beautiful music ever written. Of course, this isn’t a particularly cheery work – there’s no getting around that. It’s a dark, gripping story, full of unnerving emotional depths. On the other hand, the impact of Wozzeck will leave you stunned and deeply moved. If you love great drama, whether onstage or onscreen, Wozzeck is your perfect entry point to opera. STEVE LEONARD Wozzeck overwhelmed me for the first time more than 40 years ago. I remember seeing it as a teenager at Covent Garden in London, at a time when I was beginning to get completely hooked on the glories of this art form. I’d never experienced anything like Wozzeck, and it remains a piece that, in my view, makes a unique impact. It’s very short, and both dramatic and romantic at the same time. The brilliance with which every scene is constructed, the devastation of the title character in understanding the betrayal of the woman he loves, the final catastrophe that overtakes them both – all of this stays with you forever. It unfolds to riveting, astoundingly imaginative music. Conducting Wozzeck requires the abilities of a superbly skilled and profoundly expressive musician. We’re exceedingly fortunate that our music director, Sir Andrew Davis, will be on the podium for this production. Berg’s music is one of his great passions, and he’s conducted it all over the world with great distinction. The only major work of Berg that Sir Andrew has yet to conduct is Wozzeck, which he has longed to do for many years. It will be enormously exciting for all of us to share what is unquestionably a hugely significant milestone in his operatic career. Sir David McVicar is an immensely distinguished director whose work has been seen at Lyric repeatedly and with consistently outstanding success over a period of nearly 15 years. When Sir David discussed his approach to Wozzeck with me, I was impressed by the fact that he is treating it as a romantic story. He has set the opera at the end of World War I, in the aftermath of that great destructive conflict, presenting characters affected in widely different ways by the traumas of contemporary society. Lyric has welcomed the greatest artists in the world for more than six decades. While giving extraordinarily talented young singers major opportunities (notably members of our Ryan Opera Center, several of whom are performing in Wozzeck), we continue to relish visits from eminent artists internationally and give them rewarding opportunities for Lyric debuts. No fewer than five important European singers in Wozzeck – Tomasz Konieczny, Angela Denoke, Stefan Vinke, Gerhard Siegel, and Brindley Sherratt – are all new to Lyric this season, and I couldn’t be more excited about that. After seeing and hearing Wozzeck at Lyric, I know you’ll agree with me that the superb talents involved in this new production have created an unforgettable piece of music theater, doing full justice to the genius of Alban Berg.

Anthony Freud

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the President

I’m thrilled to begin my tenure as President of Lyric Opera for many reasons, but above all, because opera has become a vital element of my life, both personally and professionally. In the early 1990s, when my company was about five years old, I realized that in the marketing world you took clients to a Bulls Game, or to Wrigley Field – there was a customary set of entertainment venues. But rather than a sports outing, what if we treated them to the opera? We began bringing clients, for whom it was unique and unforgettable, introducing them to an art form they’d heard about but never experienced. For me, it checked the boxes on the business side, but it also nurtured in me an enduring love for opera. I’d grown up in New Jersey listening to WQXR, hearing the Met on the radio, but becoming a subscriber and enjoying opera in the theater was brand TODD ROSENBERG new to me. It’s been my great pleasure to be a Lyric subscriber since 1992. l feel a special excitement every opening night, and when I return to a production a second or third time, I always see things I hadn’t seen before. My wife and I continue to introduce people to Lyric, many of whom have become subscribers themselves. When I was growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, people frequently responded to opera as something classic, almost old world, best seen and heard in traditional performances. Today, however, I relish the broad range of theatrical interpretation. I’m struck every season by performances that communicate a particular resonance with what’s happening culturally or socially in our world at the time. Certain truths captured so memorably in opera are timeless, still challenging us as they challenged these works’ original audiences. I think of recent productions, such as Rusalka or The Passenger – each was a truly visceral experience that stayed with me for weeks. This year I’m looking forward with great anticipation to Lyric’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and especially to the world premiere of Bel Canto. Under my watch, the next chapter in Lyric’s history will implement the strategic plan the management and board developed four years ago. The principles of excellence, relevance, and fiscal responsibility are our key priorities of focus. I’m excited to witness Lyric becoming a broader provider of cultural service to Chicago and the Chicagoland region. To stay excellent, relevant, and fiscally responsible in this rapidly changing world, we need to be prepared to innovate. That means looking beyond the customary constraints of our art form and asking, “What can we learn, borrow, beg, or steal from other forms of entertainment and cultural enrichment?” One idea behind the board’s innovation committee has been to empower a small group of board members to do just that. In many ways Lyric Unlimited is our laboratory. Through it we are reaching out to communities throughout Chicago, we are forming collaborative partnerships with other cultural, community, and educational organizations, and we are exploring the ways in which opera, as an art form, may develop in the future. Lyric offers an increasing number of diverse activities – not only our mainstage opera season, but also our productions of great musicals, Lyric Unlimited’s wide-ranging projects, and, of course, our world-renowned Ryan Opera Center. But we need to think of ourselves as one Lyric. Everything we do is part of a unified, single-minded goal to be the great North American opera company of the twenty-first century.

David T. Ormesher

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Board of Directors

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

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

Lisa Milddleton Nicholas Ivor Martin Andreas Melinat Director of Marketing Director of Operations Director of Artistic Planning and Special Initiatives

Cayenne Harris Liz Landon Dan Novak Lyric Unlimited Director Director of Human Resources Director, Ryan Opera Center The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL Linda Nguyen Irvin Sharon Lomasney Rita Parida DIRECTOR Corporate Partnerships Coordinator Events and Sales Manager Senior Applications Specialist Anthony Freud and Government Giving Eric Bays Nikoleta Aranassova General Director Meaghan Stainback Facilities Coordinator Systems Administrator The Women’s Board Endowed Chair Donor Relations Manager Stephen Dunford René Calvo Madeleine Walsh Sarah Kull Chief Engineer Help Desk Coordinator Executive Programs Administrator Associate Director of Foundation and Charles Holliday Miles Mabrey Geary S. Albright Government Partnerships Security Services Coordinator Technology Support Coordinator Executive Assistant to the Hanna Pristave General Director Research Coordinator FINANCE LYRIC UNLIMITED Roberta Lane Cayenne Harris OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Leslie B. Mastroianni Chief Financial Officer Lyric Unlimited Director GENERAL DIRECTOR Deputy Director of Development Brent Fisher Mark Riggleman Drew Landmesser Bridget Monahan Director of Finance Director of Education Deputy General Director Director of Women’s Board Aaron Andersen Chapters’ Endowed Chair Sarah Generes Chelsea Southwood Deputy Director, Budgeting for Education Executive Assistant to the Stefanie Duff and Forecasting Alejandra Boyer Deputy General Director Senior Coordinators – Women’s Board April Krzeczkowski Lyric Unlimited Manager and the Music Director Nicole Eubanks Accounting Supervisor Jesse Gram Assistant Director of Development – Whitney Bercek Audience Education Manager ARTISTIC Donor Services and Special Events Senior Accountant Todd Snead Andreas Melinat Allison Taylor Teresa Hogan School Engagement Manager Director of Artistic Planning Administrative Assistant – Donor Payroll Supervisor Dana McGarr Cory Lippiello Services and Special Events Ralph Hicks Lyric Unlimited Coordinator Deputy Director of Artistic Planning Payroll Analyst Drew Smith Warren Davis Marie L. Connolly Program Assistant Evamaria Wieser Deputy Director of Development Manager of Administrative Services Jacob Stanton Casting Consultant Marta Garczarczyk LeVora Martin Assistant to the Lyric Unlimited Director of Annual Giving Accounts Payable Coordinator Director DEVELOPMENT Judy I. Lipp Emily Cohen Mary Ladish Selander Director of Donor Records and Reporting Accounting Assistant MARKETING AND PUBLIC Director of Development Amy Tinucci Susan Harant RELATIONS Suzanne Singer Annual Giving Manager Receptionist Lisa Middleton Assistant to the Director of Emily Esmail John Schell Director of Marketing Development Donor Communications Manager Mailroom Clerk Deborah Hare Jeffrey Dziedzic Holly Gilson Development Associate Senior Coordinator – Donor Records HUMAN RESOURCES Deputy Director of Communications Stephanie Lillie Liz Landon Roger Pines Lawrence DelPilar Administrative Coordinator – Director of Human Resources Dramaturg Deputy Director of Development Donor Records Tiffany Tuckett Magda Krance Jonathan P. Siner Charles Russell Roberts Talent Manager, Administrative Staff Manager of Media Relations Senior Director of Planned Giving Development Assistant – Guild Board Stephanie Strong Andrew Cioffi Alexandra Quinn and Lyric Young Professionals Benefits Manager Digital Content Producer Associate Director of Planned Giving Brenna Finley Kamaria Morris Kathryn Jercich Development Assistant – Chapters INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PR Specialist Administrative Coordinator – Will Raj Individual and Planned Giving FACILITIES Director of Information Technology Daniel P. Moss Rich Regan Eric Hayes Director of Institutional Partnerships Director of Facilities Manager of IT Systems Jenny Seidelman Nora O’Malley Mary Mueller Associate Director of Corporate Facility Operations Manager Tessitura Administrator Partnerships

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Tracy Galligher Young Tabitha Boorsma Mike Reilly WARDROBE/WIGS Deputy Director of Marketing Administrative Coordinator, Operations Automation/Rigging AND MAKEUP Joel Friend Wendy Skoczen Bradley Long Scott Marr Group Sales Manager Chief Librarian Shop Carpenter Production Design Director Donna Sauers Gretchen Eng Robert Barros Audience Development Manager Music Administration Assistant Layout Carpenter Wardrobe Carrie Krol Drew Trusk Maureen Reilly Graphic Designer Production and Rehearsal Staff Shop Welder Costume Director Valerie Bromann Cameron Arens Bruce Woodruff The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Digital Marketing Coordinator Director of Rehearsal Administration Layout Welder Endowed Chair Amanda Reitenbach Richard “Doc” Wren Lucy Lindquist Social Media Coordinator Daniel Ellis Warehouse Coordinator Wardrobe Supervisor Jocelyn Park Jodi Gage Joe Dockweiler Bradley Baker Marketing Production Coordinator Alan E. Hicks Ryan McGovern Cecylia Kinder Bailey Couture Elise Sandell Mike Bowman Krystina Lowe Ticket Program Sales Coordinator Assistant Directors Jeffrey Streichhirsch Kathy Rubel Stefany Phillips Assistant Carpenters Tony Rubino Marketing and Public Relations John W. Coleman Chris Barker Joanna Rzepka Coordinator Chelsea Antrim Dennis Anthony Bernardy Marguerite Scott Rachel A. Tobias Dan DiBennardi Barbara Szyllo Ticket Department Stage Managers Dan Donahue Maggie Zabieowski Paul A. Molinelli Brian Grenda Wardrobe Staff Director of Ticketing Services Kristen Barrett Justin Hull Scott Barker Paula Getman Jordan Lee Braun Robert Hull, Jr. Kelly Davis Ticket Operations Supervisor Emily Duffin John Ingersol Tim Dedinsky Susan Harrison Niemi Jodi Gage Matthew Reilly Michelle DiBennardi Phone Sales Supervisor Rachel Henneberry Ray Schmitz Dawn Marie Hamilton Miguel González Yasmine Kiss Tory Snick Kim Kostera Patron Relations Representative Jayme O’Hara Carpenters Anna Krysik Shelley Cameron Daniel Sokalski Michael C. Reynolds Ed Mack Group and Special Peggy Stenger Master Electrician Wendy McCay Ticketing Coordinator Amy C. Thompson Soren Ersbak John Salyers Chris Notestine Bill Walters Board Operator Isaac Turner VIP Tickets and Subscriber Sandra Zamora Paul Christopher Chris Valente Relations Coordinator Assistant Stage Managers Head Audio/Visual Technician Roger Weir Nick Charlan Dressers Kirsten Alfredsen Ben Bell Bern Matt Ebel Donna Babonas Rehearsal Scheduler Audio/Visual Wigs and Makeup Justin Berkowitz Josie Campbell Kevin Reynolds Sarah Hatten Tamara Bodnar Artistic Services Coordinator Surtitle Operator Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Leah Bobby Marina Vecci John Clarke, Jr. Kathleen A. Evans TeLeya Bradford Rehearsal Associate Joseph Haack Department Coordinator Aunvelez Caddell Jason Byer Michael A. Manfrin Brittany Crinson Sarah Carter Gabby Gottlieb Robert Reynolds Chantelle Marie Johnson Alex Chatziapostolou Morgan Graby Assistant Electricians Robert Kuper Kelly Cronin Rehearsal Assistants Anthony Coia Lynn Koroulis Madeline Ehlinger Jason Combs Claire Moores Alicia Adams El Fenne TECHNICAL AND LIGHTING Gary Grenda Staff Sam Fain Michael Smallwood Thomas Hull Lauren Cecil Lauren Jacob Technical Director Daniel Kuh Toywa Curington Steven Landsman Allan and Elaine Muchin Jeremy Thomas Jaime Dahms Katelyn Lee Endowed Chair Electricians Anelle Eorio Tyler Lee April Busch Charles Reilly Rochelle Fisher John Renfroe Production Manager Property Master Alicja Klosek Cynthia Stacy Michael Schoenig Michael McPartlin Lauren Marchfield Bradley Steinmeyer Technical Finance Manager Properties Crew Head Nelson Posada Ryan Strand Scott Wolfson Brian Michael Smith Jada Richardson Margaret Stoltz Assistant Technical Director Armorer Anita Trojanowski Rebecca Traisman Stephen Snyder José Trujillo Andrea Tucci Technical Assistant Upholsterer Scenic Art Zachary Vanderburg Maria DeFabo Thomas Coleman, Jr. Brian Traynor Laura Waters Properties and Scenic Art Coordinator Robert Hartge Charge Artist Valerie Williams Richard Tyriver Maggie Bodwell Lighting Tobias Wright Assistant Properties Vivienne Marie Chris Maravich Ticket Staff Rachel Boultinghouse Tim Morrison Lighting Director Michael Buerger Michael Murtaugh Heather Sparling OPERATIONS Joseph Collins Scenic Artists Eric Watkins Nicholas Ivor Martin Kevin Gac Assistant Lighting Designers Director of Operations and Robert Ladd Special Initiatives Technical Phillip Marcotte Thomas Young William Reilly, Jr. Joe Mathesius Director of Music Administration Master Carpenter Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Stephanie Karr Michael Barker Properties Chorus, Orchestra, and Ballet Manager Head Flyman

November 1 - 21, 2015 | 15 MICHAEL BROSILOW WHAT IS TECH WEEK?

Lyric’s summer technical work is crucial to the success of each production by Roger Pines DAN REST

on Giovanni’s hair-raising death scene production onstage, assessing what works and vital. In every tech week, says Coleman, “we also Dfor the title character, the revolving what doesn’t. determine what physical things we’ll need for set in the Humming Chorus of Madama This is the first time all the different rehearsals. There are choices to be made – how Butterfly, the otherworldly first appearance elements of the production – lighting, much those things cost to put in the room, if of the water-nymph heroine of Rusalka – technical, directorial, stage management, they can physically get in there, the time and these and countless other riveting moments props, costumes, wigs and makeup – work on the labor that it takes to change from element to onstage at Lyric are the result of painstaking the production together. Lyric stage manager element.” Every step of the way, “we’re working technical preparation. They were all tried out John Coleman views his role as “helping to through the process with everyone so the piece during “tech week” of each production, the facilitate communication between all the can eventually be realized onstage.” summer before the season began. Tech week elements.” There is so much information to be Lyric tech weeks usually occur in an is a chance for the creative team, stage crew, dealt with during the tech process, and clear order that reverses the actual season calendar and stage management to look at the physical communication between each department is (although it doesn’t always work that way, due

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(Center) Technical director Michael Smallwood (second from right) and members of Lyric’s technical staff onstage during tech week ofThe Merry Widow.

(Clockwise from upper left) Scenic challenges fine-tuned during tech week have included the death scene in Don Giovanni, the staircase in Lucia di Lammermoor, Klingsor’s eerie lair in Parsifal, and the revolving set in Madama Butterfly.

which must all be carefully programmed into the light board. This results in “a rough storyline, a rough sketch and model for the show,” Smallwood explains. “When a show comes back for rehearsals, there’s not much time. You can’t be putting it together at that point – you can only be ‘editing.’” It’s generally on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of tech week that the production is lit. As the cues are programmed, “we also take notes regarding the painting and scenery,” says Smallwood. “We’re basically determining everything that’s needed for the production to look its best.” By Friday the show is already being taken apart to make room for the next one to be “tech’d.” When it’s packed up, usually one or two trucks are kept. Material in those trucks – mainly the essential props – are brought in a week before rehearsals start. The show’s other elements return several days before they’re needed onstage. A few months prior to tech week of a production, Lyric lighting director Chris ANDREW CIOFFI ROBERT KUSEL Maravich begins communicating by phone and email with the production’s lighting designer, “talking about what the opera house will be able to do. I’m also trying to get their design out of them! Then, during tech week, I’m there to help the designer implement their design on our stage.” to director and designer availability). Any tech there ever since the 2013 revival. As soon as it The stage crew’s 13 electricians – with week starts with pulling the production out went into Lyric’s schedule, we called the Met the lighting designer, as well as with Maravich of large trucks and into the theater. The sets so they could make sure it was available for us and his staff – take about eight hours to focus aren’t always in Chicago – they often need at the time.” the lights, with each light’s position precisely to be transported here from other companies, Once the crew has the set onstage, “the documented. “We focus between 200 and whether in America or abroad. With last first thing we always do is fly anything that 300 lights,” says Maravich. Prior to arriving season’s Il trovatore, which had premiered at needs to be flown,” says Smallwood. Various in Chicago, the lighting designer has a plan Lyric in 2006, “the set was built in Wales, then special effects are tried out, too – smoke or fire, for how he/she wants the lights focused. “They shipped here in containers,” Lyric technical for example – and any scenery moves involving may want side light, back light. Sitting out in director Michael Smallwood recalls. “It went the stage turntable must be practiced as well. the house, the designer may tell us, ‘I want to San Francisco in 2009, and the Met has The most vital task for tech week, however, the back light to be blue, half as bright as the done it several times – they’d had it in storage is to establish the production’s lighting cues, side light.’”

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Act Two, scene one of Il trovatore, a large-scale production requiring nine trucks when transported from the Metropolitan Opera to Lyric for tech week at Lyric.

Over the next two or three days the played one of the dancers, “and I had to roll to the company,” explains John Coleman, director, set designer, lighting designer, down the table. You need to be in pretty good “and if something has a monetary impact, lighting director, and stage manager spend shape to light-walk!” management can make a decision about that.” hours at the tech table. “The lighting designer One also has to be patient awaiting the Stage management will also set up auditions talks to one of the electricians who controls creative team’s decisions. “We usually get for the director to cast supers and actors. our computerized lighting console,” says our instructions from the director or assistant For this season’s Merry Widow, Susan Maravich. “That’s how the various lighting director,” says Sennott-Shaw. “After being Stroman was on hand for the entire tech looks are set.” For instance, an opera’s first quite still, you then have to react very quickly week. She directed and choreographed the scene could be a market square, but as the to their requirements. You’re being moved production for her Met debut last season, and lovers sing their romantic duet, the lighting around, hitting the performers’ marks so the will debut at Lyric with it in 2015-16. “Tech has to change in responding to that mood. lights can be directed where they need to be.” week is very important,” declares Stroman. Another cue might have a special light on the Maintaining the stamina and patience needed She views her role during Lyric’s tech week as door of the set to specifically control what the for standing stock-still onstage is challenging, “making sure that the lighting cues were all in audience is seeing. but worth it: “The team effort it takes to put the right place, and that the stage manager’s Lighting cues are set with up to four Lyric Lyric productions together is impressive, and book was correct about calling the cues. In supernumeraries functioning as “lightwalkers,” you get to see how they create the stage magic!” tech week I can confirm that every moment standing in for the individual artists onstage. If there’s enough time later in tech up on that stage is the way I want it to look.” The director has a general idea of where char- week, the entire show will be worked Stroman is full of praise for Lyric’s stage crew acters will be, and that gives the lightwalkers through from the beginning. With big scene (“They’re fantastic!”); because the advance their positions. The work is painstaking, even changes, Maravich plays a recording so work has been so thorough, Stroman knows occasionally intimidating. During tech week everything is timed in coordination with the that when she returns for rehearsals with the for Lucia di Lammermoor (2011-12 season), music. Once work is completed, the lights cast, “I can concentrate on them and their Mary Sennott-Shaw, a longtime Lyric “super” have to be refocused for the next show – performances.” and lightwalker, spent a lot of time standing at another eight hours. For Stroman, tech week confirmed the top of the very high staircase from which Central to any tech week is the that “The Merry Widow fits into this theater Lucia would descend during the Mad Scene. production’s director, invariably collaborating beautifully.” Because the theater has a slightly “It did have a wire on the outside, so small it with either an associate or assistant director. smaller proscenium opening than at the Met, couldn’t be seen by the audience,” Sennott- To whatever degree is possible at the time, “some of the lighting cues have changed a bit, Shaw remembers, “although the stairs were the director will work with the stage manager and we can actually add some more internal winding and got very narrow!” Last season, to map out the production’s rehearsal cues in a lot of the music. Tech week allows me during Tannhäuser’s tech week, Sennott-Shaw schedule. “The director presents their needs to make this Merry Widow right for this house.”

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO TODD ROSENBERG TODD ROSENBERG

Director Kevin Newbury and his colleagues at the production table for Bel Canto during tech week.

As assistant director for Bel Canto, Elise remembering it all – ‘Where was Hosokawa about what the terrorists’ guns would look like Sandell was instrumental in helping to lay out going to be when he sings that aria?’ Once we – and we determined how we would arrange physical and visual groundwork during the tech get into the rehearsal room, if Kevin changes the furniture.” week of this world-premiere production. Tech his mind about something we’d worked on Property master Charles Reilly and his week gives Sandell “my arsenal of information during tech week, I can pass this on to the staff are other vital figures in tech week. With that I carry into the rehearsal period. I write stage manager and designers so they can take the revival of a production done in a previous down everything that happens, as does the that moment in a different direction.” Lyric season, “we unload it, put it on prop stage manager. The director of Bel Canto, The visual side of Bel Canto involves tables, check out the condition of the props, Kevin Newbury, may be making decisions at designer Greg Emetaz’s complex projections. and see what needs to be fixed or replaced – any given moment, now that he has the set “During tech week we created all the projection either through buying or building,” says Reilly. in front of him. It’s my job to keep track of cues,” says Sandell. “We also made a lot of Decisions in that regard are confirmed when that information, so I can help him later in decisions about props – including meetings he meets with the director, designer, and stage manager. “We may need to build or upholster a chair, a sofa, an armoire. We get a drawing from the designer and proceed from there.” With the props arranged according to the opera’s act/scene breakdown, “the director and designer, seated out in the house, will ask us to move things around,” says Reilly. “We then ‘spike’ it [mark the position] by act – we might spike the Act One furniture in blue tape, the Act Two furniture in red. We take pictures and document everything. You think you’ll remember it later, but you don’t!” With Lyric’s new Figaro, “a big bed is carried onstage by the Prop and Carpenter Department during a scene change, and we have to have a 16-foot bolster for it,” notes Reilly. “There’s no elevator for a 16-foot bolster! We had to rig it and drop it in on lines to get it onstage.” For Bel Canto “there are three piles of chairs stacked high, and the team wants them all to stay together.” Tech week revealed that “we’d need to cut a hole through the bottom so a singer could crawl through

Lightwalkers onstage for the final scene of The Marriage of Figaro and the party scene of Romeo and Juliet.

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Souvenirs of tech week for Bel Canto: (left) a massive portion of the set during the production’s “load-in” and (right) the slashes the hostages need to draw on the wall during their captivity, created by Lyric’s prop department with washable crayon. it.” Many props are needed for Lyric’s new approved choice was “a washable crayon made our main contact for information early on,” Wozzeck, “big props – things like mechanical by Crayola that we tried out during tech week. he says. “The costume designer doesn’t usually carts, welded together and maneuvered on The team liked it a lot, but they wanted it to come until later in the process for these types the set. [Director] Sir David McVicar likes be thicker and to go on a little smoother.” This of productions. In general, summer tech also everything in the correct period, and we enjoy experimenting brought forth a solution: “I allows me to connect with the production team. the challenge of that. We want a vision given worked with Brian Traynor, our scenic artist, It’s important that I’m acquainted with the to us that we can make a reality.” who makes molds. We were able to melt the director, assistant director, and stage manager so Maria DeFabo, properties and scenic art crayons down and create a thicker crayon.” we can problem-solve any crossover or costume/ coordinator, finds that the trend in opera these Tech week for any opera at Lyric is wig related issues that may arise during the days – at least, for new productions – is to have production design director Scott Marr’s rehearsal process. Since I’m in charge of the “a significantly larger number of props than opportunity to begin work with Lyric’s budget for the costume and wig areas, additions there were 15 or 20 years ago. Many Wozzeck wardrobe department on preliminary costume and changes are often up to me to approve.” props were done by the time the creative team fittings. “That’s mostly for the chorus, especially Tech week involves meeting after meeting, arrived for tech week.” Much of Wozzeck for any new production,” says Marr. “Vicki including a wrap-up session at the end of the was built in Great Britain, but for Figaro Mortimer is both set and costume designer for week, in which stage management, electrics, “we decided for budgetary reasons to build this season’s Wozzeck, so when she was here for props, wardrobe, and wigs/makeup are all more of it at Lyric. But here again, we were tech week we needed to coordinate her time represented (if schedules permit, the director able to show those props to the team during between the costume shop and the stage. Tech and designers are present as well). When the tech week. We always hope to have things far week is a time for me to see where we’re at in production finally gets onstage – with orchestra enough along so that we can try them onstage. terms of costume production. If anything that and chorus, cast, sets, costumes, wigs and The sofa built forFigaro needed to be a trick might be related to costumes happens onstage makeup, and lighting – “that’s when we can sofa, so during tech week we tried the trick to during the tech period, it’s my responsibility to fine-tune it,” says Elise Sandell, “because we see how it would work, and it did!” relay that to the costume designer or vice versa. have the actual performers and we’ve all made One of DeFabo’s challenges during Bel In that respect, tech week is important for me.” so many discoveries throughout the rehearsal Canto’s tech week was how to make the Wigs are certainly part of the design process. But it’s tech week that gets the process slashes the hostages draw on the wall, showing process and the total look of a show in a more going. It’s something of a guessing game, going how many days their ordeal has lasted. “Of significant way than formerly. Wigmaster and with your gut and following your instincts, with course, the slashes have to come off so we makeup designer Sarah Hatten meets with the a little bit of luck.” can reset for the next performance – it would costume designer during tech week to narrow be rather expensive to redo the set!” For the down logistics, and Marr is usually part of Roger Pines, dramaturg of Lyric Opera of actual method of drawing, DeFabo ordered those initial discussions. “If we mount a rental Chicago, writes regularly for opera publications many samples to show the creative team. The or a revival, the director or associate becomes and record companies internationally.

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO BELVEDERE COLLECTION (VIENNA)

Egon Schiele’s “The Family” (1918)

Lyric Opera of Chicago

New Production

Alban Berg

Wozzeck

New Lyric Opera production generously made possible by The Monument Trust (UK) and Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, with additional support from Robert L. Turner.

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WOZZECK Synopsis

openly gloats about the fame that will come Scene 5. In the barracks, Wozzeck’s misery PLACE: A town with a to him as a result of these experiments. keeps him from sleeping. An obsessive vision barracks and university of a knife makes him cry out, awakening Scene 5. That evening, Marie admires the Andres. The drum major, drunk, enters There will be no intermission. drum major in the street in front of her boasting of his conquest. He starts a fight house. After a brief flirtation, she takes with Wozzeck and beats him savagely. him inside. ACT ONE ACT THREE ACT TWO Scene 1. As Wozzeck shaves his captain, the Scene 1. Marie reads from the Bible. She is officer regales the uneducated soldier with his Scene 1. In her house, Marie delights in a pair stricken with remorse and premonitions of philosophical ramblings about the passage of earrings the drum major has given her. her own death. of time. Wozzeck finds little to add to the When Wozzeck arrives, he asks her where conversation until the captain accuses him she got them. Her lie – that she found them Scene 2. Wozzeck and Marie walk beside a of having no morals. Wozzeck replies that – does not convince him. He gives her some pond. She is terrified by his strange behavior he is too poor to be virtuous. money and leaves. and tries to escape, but he kills her.

Scene 2. Wozzeck and Andres, another Scene 2. The captain and the doctor meet. Scene 3. In a tavern, Wozzeck tries to soldier, gather firewood in a field. Wozzeck’s A perfunctory diagnosis of apoplexy forget his crime. He dances with Margret, fears and imaginings disconcert his friend. momentarily terrifies the captain. When who notices blood on his hands. Wozzeck Wozzeck happens to appear, the two stammers incriminating excuses and dashes Scene 3. Marie, Wozzeck’s mistress, plays with men make insinuating remarks about out into the night. their child. She exchanges glances with the Marie’s fidelity. drum major, who passes in the street at the Scene 4. Returning to the pond, Wozzeck head of his regiment. Margret, a neighbor Scene 3. On the street in front of her house, searches for the knife. He finds it near Marie’s who witnesses the scene, angers Marie with Marie quarrels with Wozzeck. When he is body and throws the weapon into the water. malicious comments. Marie sings a lullaby about to strike her, she cries out that she Confused and fearing he may not have to the child, who soon falls asleep. Wozzeck would rather be killed than submit to his thrown it far enough, Wozzeck wades into comes to tell her that he must spend the abuse. Wozzeck broods on her last words. the pond and drowns. As the captain and the night at the barracks. He takes no notice of doctor stroll by, they hear a strange noise. The the child, and his disjointed conversation fills Scene 4. Wozzeck sees Marie dancing with the superstitious captain hurries the doctor away Marie with foreboding. drum major in a tavern. Before Wozzeck can from the eerie spot without investigating. give vent to his jealousy, the dance ends, and Scene 4. In the doctor’s study the following he is distracted by the drunken soldiers with Scene 5. A group of children are playing day, Wozzeck submits to mockery and a song and a mock sermon. As the dancing when another child runs in to give the news experiments in order to earn extra money to resumes, a simpleminded man approaches of Marie’s death. The children run off to support Marie and their child. The doctor Wozzeck and declares that he smells blood. view the body. Marie’s son, too young to rejoices at signs of impending insanity and understand, continues playing.

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• Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors New Production Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Universal Edition Vienna, Alban Berg publisher and copyright owner. WOZZECK • Scenery constructed by Bay Productions, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. Opera in three acts in German

Libretto by the composer, based on • Specialty props created by Robin Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck (1836-37, unfinished) Morgan. Characters in order of vocal appearance: • Costumes rented from Cosprop. Captain GERHARD SIEGEL* Prosthetics by Robert Allsopp. Wozzeck TOMASZ KONIECZNY* Tailoring by Roxy Cressy. Andres DAVID PORTILLO°° Costume distressing by Vicki Hallam. Marie ANGELA DENOKE* Costume supervisor: Helen Johnson. Margret JILL GROVE Doctor BRINDLEY SHERRATT Drum Major STEFAN VINKE* • Projected English titles © 2015 First Apprentice BRADLEY SMOAK° by Colin Ure. Second Apprentice ANTHONY CLARK EVANS° Soldier ALEC CARLSON*° • Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Fool BRENTON RYAN* Marie’s Son ZACHARY UZARRAGA* are generously sponsored by The Hurvis Family Foundation, MEMBERS OF CHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR with matching funding provided by The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Actors: Brian J. Barber, Eric Casady, Billy Dawson, Family, The John and Jackie David Lintzenich*, Laura Weiss, Carrie Lee Patterson, Bucksbaum Family, and Richard P. Scott Shimizu, Karen Anne Yates and Susan Kiphart. Conductor SIR ANDREW DAVIS Director SIR DAVID McVICAR • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully Set and Costume Designer VICKI MORTIMER acknowledges the support of the Lighting Designer PAULE CONSTABLE Irma Parker German Opera Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Endowed Chair. Children’s Chorus Master JOSEPHINE LEE Choreographer ANDREW GEORGE Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to Assistant Director DANIEL ELLIS thank its Official Airline, Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN American Airlines. Stage Band Conductor ERIC WEIMER Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM JERAD MOSBEY • This season’s projected English titles ERIC WEIMER are funded in part by a generous grant Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Fight Director NICK SANDYS Deutsch Foundation. Projected English Titles COLIN URE

• The performance will last *Lyric Opera debut approximately one hour and °Current member, Ryan Opera Center thirty minutes. °°Alumnus, Ryan Opera Center

• There will be no intermission.

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TOMASZ KONIECZNY ANGELA DENOKE GERHARD SIEGEL (Wozzeck) (Marie) (Captain) Lyric Opera debut Lyric Opera debut Lyric Opera debut Also this season: Der Ring Also this season: Hans Also this season: Elektra, des Nibelungen, Vienna Heiling, Theater an der Boston Symphony State Opera; Fidelio, Wien (Vienna); Jenůfa, Orchestra; Ariadne auf Bavarian State Opera; Vienna State Opera; Naxos, Vienna State Lohengrin, Semperoper The Makropulos Affair, Opera; Gurrelieder, (Dresden). Bavarian State Opera. Bavarian State Opera.

“From the beginning,” the Polish bass- In her repertoire of leading dramatic roles, The German tenor has previously earned baritone commented on the Vienna State what most interests the renowned German acclaim as Berg’s Captain at the Metropolitan Opera website, “as a young actor, I dreamed soprano (as she explained for the Vienna Opera, Covent Garden, the Opéra National of experiencing great things – great as State Opera’s website) is “to experience these de Paris, and Madrid’s Teatro Real: “The regards emotional dimensions, in the sense parts and work on them anew. I prepare Captain is strange. He always speaks with of something bigger than what we experience very well, I read a lot, I inform myself correct grammar in well-chosen words, but he in normal life. Being onstage means that on about the roles’ background. But spontaneous shows us nothing except the military’s social the one side I have a gut feeling as to where feeling has its place; I definitely and gladly injustice and arbitrariness. In his scene with the intention of the role is going. On the take unplanned risks, to give a role a color the Doctor, you see him as a person who’s easy other side I’m analyzing very exactly what in the moment. Onstage, when one has a to manipulate. His emotions – fear, anger, element of a role is showing the way. That’s partner who also works out of spontaneous pride, arrogance, violent temper, vulnerability a very fruitful approach for a singer – that experience, wonderful moments can result, – change in seconds, making him a very rich is, from the possible conflict between these in which one can create something fresh.” role for an artist. In Büchner’s play he’s not two, something new can result.” Konieczny Denoke maintains close associations with a real character like persons with names, but established himself as one of today’s foremost prestigious companies including the Vienna instead a ‘type.’ His music is not easy, but singing actors with his sensational success as State Opera (ten starring roles to date by once you have got it, you never will forget Alberich at the Vienna State Opera, where his Wagner, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Janáček, and it.” After beginning his career as a successful subsequent roles have ranged stylistically from Shostakovich), the Opéra National de Paris, instrumentalist and composer, Siegel first the Dutchman and Wotan to Mandryka and the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State gained major attention winning Vienna’s Scarpia. Following a successful career acting Opera in Munich, and the Salzburg Festival. Belvedere competition in 1996. He then for the stage, film, and television throughout One of her signature roles, Emilia Marty/The rapidly established himself in a wide variety of Poland, he debuted in opera in the title role/ Makropulos Affair, brought her a triumph in dramatic roles of Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, The Marriage of Figaro in Poznan, thereafter her La Scala debut. She has also been hailed at Janáček, Shostakovich, and Busoni, with the building a repertoire of dramatic bass-baritone the Metropolitan Opera (Der Rosenkavalier), ensembles of the leading houses of Dessau, parts with the opera companies of Mannheim Covent Garden (Parsifal, Erwartung, The Augsburg, Munich, and Nuremberg. Freelance and Düsseldorf/Duisburg. Closely associated Gambler, Salome), and the major houses of since 2006, he has won acclaim in such diverse with the “Wagner in Budapest” festival (six Dresden, Madrid, Barcelona, and Zurich. In roles as Max/Der Freischütz (Komische Oper seasons, with roles including Amfortas, Wotan, addition to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berlin), Florestan/Fidelio (Granada Festival), and Kurwenal), he has also sung Alberich at she has been heard with the leading orchestras Shuisky/Boris Godunov (Munich, DVD), Dresden’s Semperoper and the Deutsche Oper of London, Munich, Boston, and Berlin. Herod/Salome (Vienna State Opera), and Berlin. He has starred on CD as both Alberich Among her most significant recordings are The the title role/Weill’s Der Protagonist (Bregenz (under Thielemann) and Wotan (under Makropulos Affair (Salzburg), Salome (Baden- Festival). Siegel’s greatly acclaimed Mime/ Janowski). Among his other major successes Baden), and Alceste (Madrid) on DVD and Der Ring des Nibelungen has brought him to have been Jochanaan/Salome (Carnegie Hall, Wozzeck, Fidelio, and Die tote Stadt on CD. the Met (DVD), Bayreuth (DVD), Vienna, on tour with the Vienna State Opera), Pizarro/ The latest of Denoke’s recitals, devoted to London, and Tokyo. Recent highlights include Fidelio (Washington National Opera, Bavarian Kurt Weill and his time, premiered at the role debuts as Peter Grimes (Munich), Tristan State Opera), Stolzius/Zimmermann’s Die 2015 Salzburg Festival. A Kammersängerin and Lohengrin (both in Augsburg). Siegel can Soldaten (Salzburg Festival), and Kolenaty/ of the Vienna State Opera since 2009, be heard on CD as Klaus-Narr/Gurrelieder The Makropulos Affair (Madrid). Konieczny Denoke was voted 1999 Singer of the Year (Cologne’s Gürzenich Orchestra) and in his has been heard in concerts with the Warsaw by Opernwelt magazine and received the 2007 first recital disc, a Strauss/Schoenberg program Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, and Deutsche Theaterpreis Der Faust for her to be released this fall. the BBC Symphony Orchestra. greatly acclaimed portrayal of Salome.

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STEFAN VINKE BRINDLEY SHERRATT DAVID PORTILLO (Drum Major) (Doctor) (Andres) Lyric Opera debut Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: Also this season: Siegfried, Bartolo/The Marriage of Seven roles since 2007-08, Canadian Opera Company Figaro (2015-16). most recently David/Die (Toronto); Die ägyptische Also this season: Meistersinger von Nürnberg Helena, Deutsche Oper Eugene Onegin, Covent (2012-13); Curzio/The Berlin; Ring cycle, Garden; Manon Lescaut, Marriage of Figaro, Raoul Bayreuth Festival. Metropolitan Opera; de St. Brioche/The Merry Pelléas et Mélisande, Opernhaus Zürich. Widow (both 2009-10). The German tenor, who has portrayed the Also this season: The Abduction from the Drum Major in Basel and Mannheim, The British bass, who is making his role debut, Seraglio, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris); confesses that “I don’t know if we want has collaborated numerous times with Wozzeck The Barber of Seville, Metropolitan Opera; to show humanity in this man, the most director Sir David McVicar: “Whatever you Don Pasquale, Palm Beach Opera. terrible character in Wozzeck. Of course, it bring as an actor or singer, he makes something depends on the director as to how obviously better out of it. I’m intrigued to see what he’s “Onstage as Andres you have to be a good we show that he’s a beast, or whether the going to do with the Doctor, someone whose colleague, in that you must be emotionally audience gets it only from the surtitles! I’ve character and text are so ‘out there.’ I trust available and sensitive to Wozzeck,” says worked with Tomasz Konieczny, Angela David – he knows what I’m good at and not the Texas-born tenor, a Ryan Opera Center Denoke, and Gerhard Siegel before. At Lyric good at. I remember the English National alumnus. “The lightheartedness within Andres Opera, collaborating with Sir Andrew Davis Opera production of Charpentier’s Médée, reminds me of David in Meistersinger, and and Sir David McVicar, I think we’ll be which was not my normal repertoire. He I’m lucky to have some beautiful music to able to bring a very good production to the convinced me to do it, and it was an absolutely sing in the Act Two tavern scene.” Portillo’s stage.” Vinke, who earned a master’s degree fantastic experience. I had a full mad scene, successes internationally encompass roles as as an organist/choirmaster, trained vocally in losing it completely. He said, ‘You’re going varied in style as Tamino/The Magic Flute Cologne, where his potential was recognized to love it – go for it!’” One of today’s most (Houston Grand Opera), Gonzalve/L’heure by renowned German soprano Edda Moser successful basses internationally, Sherratt made espagnole (Saito Kinen Festival), and Ferdinand/ (“In our second class, she gave me Siegmund’s his Metropolitan Opera debut last season Thomas Adès’sThe Tempest (Rome’s Accademia ‘Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater’ and said, as Trulove/The Rake’s Progress. He has been Nazionale di Santa Cecilia). They also include ‘One day you will be a heroic tenor’”). Having heard internationally in the gamut of leading such bel canto tenor leads as Ramiro/Cinderella built his repertoire during several seasons in roles for his vocal category, from Sarastro/ (Washington National Opera), Almaviva/The Mannheim and Leipzig, today Vinke is one The Magic Flute(Netherlands Opera, Vienna Barber of Seville (Vienna State Opera), Narciso/ of the world’s foremost heldentenors, working State Opera, Royal Opera House-Covent The Turk in Italy(Opéra Angers-Nantes), and regularly with leading conductors including Garden) and Rocco/Fidelio (Glyndebourne Tonio/The Daughter of the Regiment (Arizona Rattle, Pappano, Runnicles, Janowski, and Festival Opera) to roles as diverse as Balducci/ Opera): “I’m pleased that bel canto roles have Tate. Vinke’s first Siegfried (2006, Cologne) Benvenuto Cellini (Salzburg Festival), Pogner/ become a central focus in my career, since has led to 17 Ring cycles internationally, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Welsh that repertoire is both artistically fulfilling and among them those of Seattle Opera (his National Opera, BBC Proms), Philip II/Don vocally nourishing.” Portillo has portrayed Don personal favorite, available on CD), Bayreuth, Carlo (Opera North), Fiesco/Simon Boccanegra Gaspar/La favorite at the Salzburg Festival Covent Garden, Barcelona, Budapest’s Bartók (English National Opera), Claggart/Billy and debuted at France’s Aix-en-Provence National Concert Hall, Bucharest’s Enescu Budd (Glyndebourne, BBC Proms, Brooklyn Festival as Lurcanio/Ariodante “in Richard Festival, and Opera Australia. Other recent Academy of Music), and Bottom/A Midsummer Jones’s beautiful production with incredible prestigious engagements include standard Night’s Dream (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence). musicians. Performing Handel at a festival that repertoire such as Tristan (Bayreuth, Madrid, In demand on the concert platform, he has strives to enhance the style of the music and Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Lohengrin, appeared at the Bregenz, Edinburgh, Lucerne, the theatricality of the piece was wonderful.” Tannhäuser, and Parsifal (all in Berlin), Bacchus and Salzburg festivals in addition to the BBC Portillo returned to Aix in June as Pedrillo/ (Paris, Munich, Geneva), Erik (Munich), and Proms. His recent concert appearances have The Abduction from the Seraglio. In that work Don José (Warsaw), and such formidable included the Orchestra of the Royal Opera he has also portrayed Belmonte (Pittsburgh 20th-century works as Korngold’s Die tote House, the Hallé Orchestra, Swedish Radio Opera). Other major roles in America include Stadt (Sydney, Venice, DVD), Schreker’s Die Orchestra, London Philharmonic, and Vienna Renaud/Gluck’s Armide (Metropolitan Opera/ Gezeichneten (Cologne), Zimmermann’s Die Symphony, among many other prestigious Juilliard Opera), Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni Soldaten (Paris), and Nono’s Intolleranza 1960 ensembles. (Philadelphia, St. Louis, Fort Worth), Ferrando/ (Venice). Così fan tutte (St. Louis), and Almaviva (Central City). The tenor has performed in concert with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Kansas City Orchestra.

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JILL GROVE (Margret) BRENTON RYAN (Fool) “I was so grateful to be a part of The Passenger Previously at Lyric Opera: Lyric Opera debut and got so much out of that experience, even Ten roles since 2003-04, Also this season: Pagliacci, when playing the First SS Officer, a horrible most recently Ježibaba/ The Magic Flute, both at character!” Smoak also relished coaching with Rusalka (2013-14); Los Angeles Opera. bass Peter Rose: “He worked with me on Witch/Hänsel und Gretel, Messiah. A young artist spends so much time Klytämnestra/Elektra on perfecting vocal technique, and then we (both 2012-13). coach with a major artist like Peter who says, Also this season: Rusalka, ‘Just speak it – speak with the voice.’ You Houston Grand Opera; Britten’s Phaedra, The tenor, a Missouri native, previously appeared realize that these things are so much simpler Opera Piccola of San Antonio; The Rake’s in Wozzeck with the Houston Symphony (“I than we try to make them. As long as you’re Progress, Pittsburgh Opera. was ecstatic because it’s one of my favorite communicating, that’s the bottom line.” Smoak operas – Berg’s music and Büchner’s play has been heard nationwide, with particular “There’s no real friendship between Margret seem to me to create such a great musical success at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (King and Marie,” says the American mezzo-soprano. drama”). Ryan’s career encompasses both lyric of Hearts/Alice in Wonderland, Pirate King/The “Being so self-important and hypocritical, and character repertoire: “I enjoy performing Pirates of Penzance, Masetto/Don Giovanni, Margret views Marie as a loser and beneath her. roles that not only allow me to sing lyrically but Antonio/The Marriage of Figaro, Second I think Margret believes she knows everything also give me characters with a lot of substance.” Soldier/Salome). He has also performed with about what’s going on in town and feels that Currently a member of Los Angeles Opera’s Boston Lyric Opera (Les contes d’Hoffmann), she can do whatever she wants. She’s always young-artist program, Ryan has appeared there Opera North (The Magic Flute, Madama around, in the middle of everything, with a as Gastone/La traviata (debut) and in Dido and Butterfly), Palm Beach Opera (Otello, Don false sense of her own respectability. At the Aeneas, Hercules vs. Vampires, and Léon/The Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Carmen), Sarasota tavern she’s playing with Wozzeck, putting on Ghosts of Versailles: “Ghosts was an incredible Opera (La bohème, The Crucible), Opera a show for him. I don’t think it’s a new thing experience with a remarkable cast and creative Charleston (Zuniga/Carmen opposite Denyce – it’s happened before. He’s this weird guy, team. We were all thrilled to be part of the Graves), Opera Omaha, Opera Roanoke, and she probably enjoys making fun of him.” production that will result in the first audio Annapolis Opera, DuPage Opera Theatre, Grove has earned great praise for Wagner’s recording of the opera.” Other important and Phoenicia International Festival of the Ring cycle in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and credits include Henrik/A Little Night Music Voice. He made his international operatic Munich; and in Peter Grimes (new production, (Houston Grand Opera), Belfiore/Il viaggio a debut at Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera HD transmission), Die ägyptische Helena (new Reims and Bardolfo/Falstaff (Wolf Trap Opera as Suleyman Pasha/The Ghosts of Versailles, production), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Company), Almaviva/The Barber of Seville returning as Don Alfonso di Pardo/Donizetti’s and Giulio Cesare at the Metropolitan (Wichita Grand Opera), and Almaviva, Tony/ Maria Padilla and Matouš/Smetana’s The Kiss. Opera. Peter Grimes has also brought her West Side Story, and Léon/The Ghosts of Versailles Smoak is an alumnus of Illinois Wesleyan to Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company. In (Aspen Festival). In 2013 Ryan participated in University. Bradley Smoak is sponsored by The Italian repertoire she is a celebrated Amneris a new-opera workshop for the Metropolitan Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation. (Lyric, Toronto, San Diego, Dayton), Ulrica Opera and Lincoln Center Theater’s Opera (St. Paul, New Orleans), Azucena (Houston), Commissioning Program. A graduate of DePaul ANTHONY CLARK Preziosilla (San Francisco), and Zita/Gianni University and Rice University, he returned to EVANS Schicchi (Los Angeles, DVD). She created Rice as a guest artist in 2012 to portray Mosca/ (Second Apprentice) Anne Kronenberg/Stewart Wallace’s Harvey John Musto’s Volpone. Ryan has appeared in Previously at Lyric Opera: Milk (Houston, reprised in San Francisco). recital at Washington’s Kennedy Center and Six roles since 2013-14, Recent highlights include reprising her much- in concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic most recently Jailer/Tosca, praised Klytämnestra/Elektra (Detroit) and and the New York Festival of Song. Servant/Capriccio (both performing with the Grant Park Symphony 2014-15); Hunter/Rusalka (Elgar’s The Kingdom), Utah Symphony BRADLEY SMOAK (2013-14). (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), American (First Apprentice) Also this season: Bel Canto, Der Rosenkavalier, Classical Orchestra (Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody), Previously at Lyric Opera: both at Lyric Opera; Madama Butterfly, San and Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Four roles since 2014-15, Diego Opera. (Handel’s Messiah). Grove has also been most recently Antonio/The highly successful with the major orchestras of Marriage of Figaro (2015- The American baritone, a third-year Ryan London, Toronto, Los Angeles, Washington, 16); First SS Officer/The Opera Center member, relishes the opportunity San Francisco, and Houston. She can be heard Passenger, Sciarrone/Tosca in this production to work again with Sir on CD in Un ballo in maschera, Die ägyptische (both 2014-15). David McVicar: “I had a small part in Lyric’s Helena, Peter Grimes, and Harvey Milk. Also this season: Bel Canto, Der Rosenkavalier, production of Rusalka two seasons ago, and he both at Lyric Opera; La bohème, Opera worked with me as if I were an integral part of Theatre of Saint Louis. the show. He knows every word and note of the piece he’s working on so well that he can make The bass, a North Carolina native and a everything his own and can communicate second-year Ryan Opera Center member, that to everyone.” Other artists who have greatly enjoyed his first year with the program: influenced him during his Lyric tenure include

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Gerald Finley (“What he discovered in the in 2013. In his time at the UCC-CM, Carlson SIR ANDREW DAVIS role of Wolfram during rehearsals made me sang Ernesto/Don Pasquale, the Royal Herald/ (Conductor) weep daily, it was so beautiful”) and Stephanie Don Carlos (concert performance), and the Previously at Lyric Opera: Blythe (“In her master class, she opened up tenor solos/J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion (staged 50 operas since 1987, my mind and talked great sense”). A native of production). Alec Carlson is sponsored by Stepan most recently Cinderella Owensboro, Kentucky, Evans studied voice at Company. (2015-16); The Passenger, Murray State University, where he portrayed Tannhäuser (both 2014-15). Falstaff/The Merry Wives of Windsor. He was CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR Also this season: The an apprentice artist with Arkansas’s Opera (Children’s Chorus) Merry Widow, Bel Canto, in the Ozarks in 2008 (Marcello/La bohème, Previously at Lyric: Tosca (2014-15); Lyric Opera; Bach/Stravinsky/Tchaikovsky Pish-Tush/The Mikado). In 2013 he made La bohème (2012-13); Boris Godunov program, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; his Chicago-area debut at Ravinia performing (2011-12); Carmen (2010-11). Messiah (in his own edition), Toronto in Bernstein’s Songfest. He attracted national Also this season: Winter Concert with Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. attention as a Grand Finals winner of the Virtuosi, Harris Theater for Music and 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Dance; Target Community Concert Series; “Wozzeck gives us insight into a character who Auditions. The baritone has won numerous “Paint the Town Red,” Jay Pritzker Pavilion. on the surface is a very ordinary man,” says competitions, including those of the Gerda Lyric’s music director, whose performances of Lissner Foundation, the Licia Albanese/Puccini Founded in 1956 during the height of the Berg’s Lulu and the composer’s orchestral works Foundation, the Giulio Gari Foundation and Civil Rights Movement, Chicago Children’s have earned great acclaim internationally. “We – in Chicago – Luminarts and the American Choir (Josephine Lee, president and feel empathy for him. That’s why the piece Opera Society. He has also recently received artistic director) is a nonprofit organization is so touching and moving. We can identify the coveted Sara Tucker Study Grant from the committed to peacefully uniting a diverse with this man and the burden society places Richard Tucker Foundation. Anthony Clark world through education, musical expression on him. It’s extraordinary to experience the Evans is sponsored by Richard O. Ryan and and excellence. Serving nearly 4,000 children whole process with which the drama moves Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts. annually, Chicago Children’s Choir empowers to its inevitable conclusion. So often in Greek singers to bridge cultural divides and become tragedy the protagonists are being warned that ALEC CARLSON ambassadors of peace in their communities. some terrible thing is coming – it’s that kind (Soldier) With programs in 72 Chicago schools, 10 of feeling, and it’s present from the beginning Lyric Opera debut after-school neighborhood programs, an of the opera.” Sir Andrew is chief conductor Also this season: Bel Canto, ensemble for boys with changing voices of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Der Rosenkavalier, both at and the internationally acclaimed Voice of former music director of Glyndebourne Lyric Opera. Chicago, the diversity of Chicago Children’s Festival Opera, and currently conductor Choir reflects the cultural landscape of laureate of both the Toronto Symphony The Iowa-born tenor, a the city. Under Josephine Lee, CCC has Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. first-year Ryan Opera undertaken many highly successful national His operatic successes include recent return Center member, confesses that “I stumbled and international tours, was featured in the engagements at the Metropolitan Opera (The across opera. I’d been encouraged by my Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award-winning Merry Widow, Hansel and Gretel), Covent choral director in college, who said, ‘You documentary Songs on the Road to Freedom Garden (Capriccio), Glyndebourne (Billy could really do this professional-singing thing (2008) and has been featured in nationally Budd), and the BBC Proms (The Midsummer – oratorio and art song.’ Then I stumbled broadcast television and radio performances, Marriage). He has conducted at La Scala, the across recordings of Jonas Kaufmann, which including NBC’s Today, Oprah and the Bayreuth Festival, and the major houses of made me think of trying for a career in opera. PBS series From the Top: Live from Carnegie San Francisco, Munich, and Santa Fe. Earlier I’m at Lyric to acquire more stage experience Hall. Chicago Children’s Choir regularly this year his extensive performance schedule in and to connect with what this company offers collaborates with the Chicago Symphony Melbourne included several of his specialties, in terms of vocal study, coachings, language Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ravinia among them Britten’s War Requiem and work, and the people who come to this Mecca Festival and the Harris Theater for Music and Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust. Last season of opera houses! I want to be working in music Dance. As a national and international touring he also returned to the Royal Scottish National that fits me, which I believe to be Mozart and ensemble, CCC has performed in 30 states in Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the lighter Donizetti. I’d like to sing regionally the U.S. and has toured to 25 countries, most and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sir and abroad, which means that when I leave the recently South Africa in June 2014. Andrew has appeared with virtually every program, I need to hit the ground running in internationally prominent orchestra, including my repertoire.” Carlson received his Bachelor those of Chicago, New York, Berlin, of Arts in Music from Luther College in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and London. A vast Decorah, Iowa and a master’s degree from the discography documents Sir Andrew’s artistry, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory with recent releases including Elgar’s The of Music. The tenor was an apprentice artist as Dream of Gerontius (2015 Gramophone Award part of The Santa Fe Opera’s 2014 program. winner), an all-Strauss disc, and orchestral He also has participated in Houston Grand works of Sir Arnold Bax. Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy and was a studio artist at the Wolf Trap Opera Company

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SIR DAVID McVICAR VICKI MORTIMER PAULE CONSTABLE (Director) (Set and Costume Designer) (Lighting Designer) Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: Eight productions since Die Meistersinger von Die Meistersinger von 2001-02, most recently Nürnberg (2012-13). Nürnberg (2012-13); Il trovatore (2014-15); La Also this season: Die Manon (2008-09); Giulio clemenza di Tito, Rusalka Meistersinger von Cesare (2007-08). (both 2013-14). Nürnberg, San Francisco Also this season: The Merry Also this season: Roberto Opera; Joanna Lee’s Widow, Lyric Opera; Devereux, Metropolitan Opera; Così fan tutte, The Way Back Home, Opéra National de Wonder.land, National Theatre (London); Opera Australia. Paris; Morton Feldman’s Neither, Berlin Roberto Devereux, Metropolitan Opera. State Opera. The Scottish director, a native of Glasgow, In Wozzeck the British lighting designer trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish “We’ve set Wozzeck in the early 1920s,” says describes the style of her work as “stark, Academy of Music and Drama. For the the renowned British designer. “In Germany bold, and simple. It’s essentially Brechtian, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden he has post-World War I, architecturally it’s an in the sense that it’s very exposed and within directed Andrea Chénier, Les Troyens, Adriana environment in ruins. The cleanest thing in quite a restricted palette that emphasizes greys Lecouvreur, Aida, Salome, The Marriage of that environment is a memorial, on which you and blues. What I have very much in mind Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, and Rigoletto. His see the shrouded figure of a dead soldier, but is the kind of thing Brecht achieved in his Glyndebourne productions include The from underneath the shroud comes a clenched years with the Berliner Ensemble. My goal in Abduction from the Seraglio, Die Meistersinger fist. David McVicar had found a picture of this this production is to find something that is von Nürnberg, Giulio Cesare, Carmen, and La and was struck by it – the dead soldier ready simple, direct, and honest.” Constable’s work bohème. He has directed Cavalleria rusticana/ to rise again. We also have half-curtains that in major opera houses encompasses Carmen, Pagliacci, Giulio Cesare, Maria Stuarda, Anna create a fluid momentum through the piece. The Marriage of Figaro, Faust, The Magic Bolena, and Il trovatore for the Metropolitan Wozzeck has an implacable, onward feeling Flute, The Cunning Little Vixen, and Rigoletto Opera. Other productions internationally that you can’t escape. Those half-curtains bring at Covent Garden and other productions include Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opéra us inside this oppressive architecture and keep for the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne National du Rhin, Strasbourg); La traviata and us moving from scene to scene, using just small Festival Opera, English National Opera, Manon (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona); elements to change the locations.” Mortimer’s Scottish Opera, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs- The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni extensive operatic work includes Orest Élysées, Strasbourg’s Opéra National du (Sydney Opera House); Les Troyens (La Scala); (Netherlands Opera), Al Gran Sole (Salzburg Rhin, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in La clemenza di Tito (Aix-en-Provence Festival); Festival, Berlin State Opera), After Dido Brussels, and Tokyo’s New National Theatre. Tristan und Isolde (Vienna State Opera, (English National Opera, Young Vic), The Constable was the first recipient of the highly Tokyo); Médée, Der Rosenkavalier, The Turn Abduction from the Seraglio, Die Meistersinger prestigious Opera Award for Lighting in of the Screw, La clemenza di Tito, Tosca, The von Nürnberg, Così fan tutte, and St. Matthew 2013. Among her more than 30 productions Rape of Lucretia, Manon, and Alcina (English Passion (Glyndebourne), The Turn of the Screw for London’s National Theatre, where she National Opera); The Rake’s Progress, Così (Scottish Opera), and The Sacrifice, Jenůfa, is an associate director, are three that have fan tutte, La traviata, Madama Butterfly, Der Katya Kabanova, and Jephtha (Welsh National transferred with great success to Broadway: Rosenkavalier, and Idomeneo (Scottish Opera); Opera). Among her designs for dance are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Sweeney Todd, Don Giovanni, Hamlet, and Yantra (Stuttgart Ballet), Genus (Ballet of the (2013 Olivier Award, 2015 Tony Award), Il re pastore (Opera North); Semele (Théâtre Opéra National de Paris), Skindex (Nederlands War Horse (2011 Tony Award), and Coram des Champs-Élysées); Don Giovanni and A Dans Theater),As One and Qualia (Royal Boy. She has also designed extensively for the Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Monnaie, Ballet), and Millenarium, Sulphur 16, and Royal Shakespeare Company (including Wolf Brussels); Agrippina (La Monnaie, Champs- Aeon (London’s Random Dance Company). Hall, recently seen in London’s West End Élysées, Frankfurt, Barcelona); L’incoronazione Her association with the National Theatre and on Broadway), the Royal Court Theatre, di Poppea (Champs-Élysées); Macbeth encompasses more than 25 productions, the Donmar Warehouse (including The Chalk (St. Petersburg); Orlando (Opéra de Lille, among them works of Shakespeare, Shaw, Garden, 2009 Olivier Award), the Michael Champs-Élysées); Don Carlo (Frankfurt); and Chekhov, and Stoppard. Other important Grandage Company, Young Vic, the Lyric Les contes d’Hoffmann(Salzburg Festival). He London credits include numerous productions Hammersmith, and the Sheffield Crucible was knighted in the 2012 Diamond Jubilee in the West End and for the Royal Shakespeare (including Don Carlos, 2006 Olivier Award in Birthday Honours list and also made Chevalier Company, the Royal Court Theatre, the its West End transfer). Constable also designed de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Donmar Warehouse, the Almeida Theatre, and the 25th-anniversary tour of Les Misérables that government. (See “A Talk with Sir David the Lyric Hammersmith. Mortimer’s designs traveled internationally and to Broadway. McVicar,” p. 38.) have been seen on Broadway in Jumpers, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, The Real Thing, and Closer.

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MICHAEL BLACK Garden with The Marriage of Figaro, and NICK SANDYS (Chorus Master) has since choreographed Salome, Adriana (Fight Director) Previously at Lyric Opera: Lecouvreur, Les Troyens, and Andrea Chénier. Previously at Lyric Opera: Chorus master since 2013- U.K. credits also include Die Meistersinger 44 productions since 14; interim chorus master, von Nürnberg, Carmen, and Giulio Cesare 1995-96, most recently 2011-12. (Glyndebourne), La traviata (Welsh National Carousel, The Passenger, Opera), The Rake’s Progress (Scottish Opera), Il trovatore (all 2014-15). “In Wozzeck the chorus and The Turn of the Screw, Der Rosenkavalier, Also this season: Bel Canto, is involved in both tavern Agrippina, and The Handmaid’s Tale Lyric Opera. scenes,” says Lyric’s chorus master. “The men (English National Opera). Among George’s have the song about hunters. This music international credits are Anna Bolena, Giulio “I get to do the beating up of Wozzeck by the obviously is more challenging than most of the Cesare, and Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Drum Major and Wozzeck’s stabbing Marie other repertoire this season, but Berg actually Opera),Tristan und Isolde (Tokyo), Der Ring in the neck,” says the British fight director. writes well for the chorus. A lot of the heavy des Nibelungen (Strasbourg), L’incoronazione “David McVicar wants blood, he wants it orchestration in the rest of the opera is pared di Poppea (Berlin, Brussels, Paris), Don realistic and nasty, which is the script – the back entirely when the chorus is singing. Listen Carlos (Frankfurt), Tannhäuser (La Scala), Les Büchner play straight off. We need blood to the women in the second scene – there’s an contes d’Hoffmann (Salzburg), L’elisir d’amore packs and special knives, and we practice a lot incredibly rhythmic and sparse accompaniment (Amsterdam), La bohème (Hamburg), Orphée of safety. The first thing we always look at is in the orchestra, and by the time the women aux enfers and Agrippina (Brussels), and Il how the performers themselves move, so we finish they’re virtually screaming at Wozzeck trovatore (Los Angeles). can see what they would do in a fight. When – he’s written a top D for the sopranos. The they’re at the height of passion and the height tenors begin the journeymen chorus in that SARAH HATTEN of the music – and violent – people return to scene on a high B-flat!” Black’s activities earlier (Wigmaster and Makeup their most basic ways of being.” A certified this year included preparing the choruses for Designer) teacher and fight director with The Society of The Marriage of Figaro (Western Australian Previously at Lyric Opera: American Fight Directors, Sandys has created Opera), Britten’s War Requiem (Melbourne Wigmaster and makeup fight choreography for the Goodman Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis designer since 2011-12. (more than 25 productions), Steppenwolf conducting), and Haydn’s Harmoniemesse Theatre Company, First Folio, Shattered (Grant Park Music Festival debut). Chorus “Since Wozzeck is taking Globe, Victory Gardens, Remy Bumppo, master from to 2001 to 2013 at Opera place in a 20th-century Lookingglass, Northlight, Timeline, Light Australia, Black prepared the OA chorus for environment that’s real, we have to make Opera Works, Silk Road, and The Theatre more than 90 operas and many concert works. people look like people,” says Lyric’s wigmaster School at DePaul University (faculty member At OA he progressed from rehearsal pianist to and makeup designer. “We’re using very since 1995). His work regionally includes assistant chorus master and children’s chorus realistic elements in creating wigs that are very the Metropolitan Opera (Prince Igor, Giulio master, before his appointment as chorus film-like, natural and lightweight and hardly Cesare, Il trovatore), Portland Opera, and master. He has served in that capacity for such noticeable. Nothing should seem theatrical or Florentine Opera, as well as at the major distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh caricatured – we don’t want anyone to notice theater companies of Kansas City, Baltimore, Festival, Holland Park Opera (London), and, that we’ve made huge adjustments in giving Indianapolis, Dallas, and Fort Worth, in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra someone a different hair color.” Hatten has among many others. In Chicago Sandys’s (including Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, led by worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines fight choreography has received four Joseph Vladimir Ashkenazy), and Philharmonia Metro Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre Jefferson Award nominations, winning in Choir, Motet Choir, and Cantillation chamber (both since 2006), as well as Columbus 2008 (Requiem for a Heavyweight). Sandys choir. Black has been a lecturer at the Sydney Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music is also producing artistic director of Remy Conservatorium of Music, of which he is an Festival, and the University of Cincinnati Bumppo Theatre Company. As an actor he has alumnus. College-Conservatory of Music. She has also appeared with numerous Chicago area theaters, worked at Glimmerglass Opera and the major receiving another six Jeff nominations for ANDREW GEORGE opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, acting and one for directing Remy Bumppo’s (Choreographer) Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well production of Our Class. Previously at Lyric Opera: as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, Rusalka (2013-14); Die in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Meistersinger von Nürnberg Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A. in (2012-13); Giulio Cesare music at Simpson College. (2007-08).

The Welsh choreographer trained at London’s Laban Centre. He worked as a dancer for Matthew Bourne before beginning his career in opera, and now works for the world’s leading companies. He debuted at Covent

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Wozzeck in the Here and Now By Gavin Plumley

lban Berg’s Wozzeck was first seen in Berlin in 1925. It was an instant success, capturing the spirit of turbulent Atimes. And yet Berg had begun work on the opera in 1917, inspired by Georg Büchner’s DAVID H. FISHMAN fragmentary drama Woyzeck, which he had first seen in Vienna on May 5, 1914. That Viennese premiere took place just a month and a half before the Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, the event that triggered World War I. The entire conception of Wozzeck, telling the plight of a common soldier, therefore unfolded against a backdrop of war. It was, Berg said, in describing the opera’s third-act interlude, “an appeal to humanity through its representatives, the audience.” Given the insecurities and the all- too-present specter of militarism in our world today, that appeal remains entirely pertinent. Berg was born and grew up during one of the most fertile periods in cultural history. The composer’s contemporary Stefan Zweig, author of The World of Yesterday, described the final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in glowing terms. “If I try to find some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War,” he writes, “I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.” It was anything but. Karl Kraus, the Austrian satirist and keen-eyed critic, contrastingly (and more accurately) called Vienna a “laboratory for world destruction.” And indeed, it was from Vienna – or rather Emperor Franz Geraint Evans as Wozzeck in the Lyric premiere of Berg’s opera (1965) Josef I’s retreat in the spa town of Bad Ischl – that the declaration of war came in 1914. for the continent’s most talented composers, the opera frequently (where he heard his idol The causes of that devastating conflict are writers, and artists. Berg had the good fortune Mahler conduct), and was an avid follower of highly complex, and the instigating assassination to be born in the imperial capital on February Vienna’s many theaters. Having also acquired in the Balkans was the consequence of a long 9, 1885. significant pianistic skills from his governess, process of agitation within the Empire – and The old Schönbrunnerhaus in which he was soon able to respond on his own Europe as a whole. Fundamentally, Franz Josef Berg grew up was right in the heart of Vienna, terms, composing more than 80 songs by the had proved unable to reconcile his conservative surrounded by the Hofburg (the imperial time he began studying composition with the (if laissez-faire) approach to governing and palace), Stephansdom (the city’s cathedral), radical Arnold Schoenberg in 1904. Berg’s new the urgent, liberal, and increasingly separatist and all the iconic structures of Habsburg pomp teacher’s increasingly expressionistic music nations over which he ruled. While progress and power. It was against these very totems, provided a sonic parallel to the façade-busting cracked on apace elsewhere, the Habsburg however, that new groups emerging towards actions of architect Adolf Loos (another of Emperor, whose portrait hung in town halls, the end of the 19th century, such as the Berg’s heroes) and Sigmund Freud’s plunges barracks, and theaters throughout Central and Secession, founded by Gustav Klimt and his into the unconscious workings of the human Eastern Europe, did not seem to change at all. colleagues, and the literary and political figures mind. Entirely captivated by his new tutor, Tensions became apparent within the region’s of “Jung Wien,” started to kick. Berg was but a Berg continued to work with Schoenberg until cultural fabric, not least in Vienna, which had, junior member of that fin-de-siècle club, yet he 1911, remaining a close associate for the rest of since the 18th century, acted like a magnet gorged voraciously on its literature, attended his life.

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Georg Büchner Alban Berg: (left) in uniform, 1915; (right) with conductor Erich Kleiber and the original cast of Wozzeck, Berlin State Opera, 1925. Schoenberg, however, was not so pleased Berg, however, was completely transfixed by rows behind me sat Alban Berg, whom when his former pupil announced the desire to Büchner’s play, written in the early 19th I greeted as I came in, because I had adapt Büchner’s Woyzeck for the operatic stage. century and based on the case of the barber and known him very well for years. They Having encouraged Berg to venture beyond the soldier Johann Christian Woyzeck, who killed played the drama for three hours vocal music that he found so instantly appealing, his common-law wife, Christiane Woost, in without the smallest interruption, in Schoenberg felt that opera was a return to old 1821. Dying in 1837 at the age of only 23, complete darkness. Indescribably excited form and wondered whether Berg was quite up Büchner left the work in a fragmentary state, and enthusiastic, I stood up amid wild to the challenges posed by Büchner’s play: and it was not until 1913 that the play was first applause and met Alban Berg a few seen in a reworked version by Austrian writer steps behind me. He was deadly pale I was greatly surprised when this soft- Karl Emil Franzos. A production followed at and perspiring profusely. “What do you hearted, timid young man had the courage the Kammerspiele in Vienna in May 1914, say,” he gasped, beside himself. “Isn’t to engage in a venture which seemed to when Berg saw it for the first time, as witnessed it fantastic, incredible?” Then, already invite misfortune: to compose Wozzeck, a by the writer Paul Elbogen: taking his leave, “Someone must set it drama of such extraordinary tragedy that to music.” seemed forbidding to music. And even We young people knew the play very well more: it contained scenes of everyday life from Franzos’s publication. A German True to his word, Berg immediately which were contrary to the concept of actor, Albert Steinrück, rude and rather started noting down musical ideas. But first opera which still lives on stylized costumes brutal, played Woyzeck. I sat in the he had to complete his Three Orchestral Pieces, and conventionalized characters. gallery of the little Kammerspiele. Four begun in honor of the recently departed Mahler. Work continued on that tribute until autumn 1915, when Berg was obliged to take up a commission in the Austro-Hungarian army and reported to Bruck an der Leitha. The training camp on the Hungarian border

DAVID H. FISHMAN was a foreboding, unhappy place, according to fellow cadet Jaroslav Hašek’s novel The Good Soldier Švejk. In the huts for the rank-and-file, the men were shivering with cold and the officers’ huts were so overheated that the windows had to be opened. Down in Bruck, lights were burning in the Imperial and Royal tinned meat factory, where they were busy, day and night, modifying various forms of offal. As the wind was blowing towards the camp, the avenues around the huts were filled with the stench of rancid sinews, hooves, trotters and bones. For Berg, Bruck was, thankfully, all he was to see of front-line service. After 30 days Wozzeck at Lyric, 1965: left to right, Herbert Handt (Captain), Geraint Evans (title role), at the camp, the composer suffered a severe and Morley Meredith (Doctor). asthma attack and was sent to work at the

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War Ministry in Vienna, where he remained another unfeeling response. No less callous TONY ROMANO for the rest of the hostilities. Crucially, this is the doctor, appearing later in the act, who allowed him to begin more concentrated work Berg parodies in a series of dogmatic rhythms on Wozzeck, a powerful distillation of those and swooping downward leaps. Like those wartime experiences, as well as a personal superiors, Wozzeck is prone to repetition, response to Büchner’s searing tragedy and though his mournful “Wir arme Leut’” (“We Berg’s (and his generation’s) indignation at poor people”) becomes one of the motivic the social injustices that had become all too pillars of the score, providing its underlying evident during the last years of the Austro- message. And yet those around Wozzeck Hungarian Empire. remain deaf to his supplications, as does the Berg worked tirelessly on the score, easily seduced Marie. fashioning an elaborate network of musical Nonetheless, Marie also elicits our structures to underpin its 15 scenes, such as sympathy, particularly in Act Three, as the fugues, passacaglias, and an entire symphony horror builds. Sitting with her son, she (in Act Two), as well as those based on single desperately turns the pages of the Bible, themes, notes, chords and rhythms. Yet the searching for answers. The plangent strings opera’s punch does not come from these that accompany her reading of the gospels forms, but from the vivid musical language contrast with the more impassioned full- and Berg’s intense characterization of the orchestral appeals that follow. Hope, however, figures who surround and ultimately condemn is futile. Just as the moon rises, Wozzeck TONY ROMANO the hapless Wozzeck. draws a knife across his lover’s throat. Berg’s Berg employs a notably large orchestra, response is simple but radical. One note grows acting like an echo chamber for the characters’ from near silence to a deafening sonic assault, thoughts. A military band, informal tavern as if vomiting out previously unspoken anger music, and an out-of-tune pub piano, at what has occurred. And then the disturbed sparingly but effectively used, further color Wozzeck, haunted by his actions, drowns the drama. Ingeniously, Berg distributes these himself, with his final note spookily bracketed forces on and off stage, as well as in the pit, in the score. distorting the boundary between naturalism Berg might have finished his opera at this and expressionism, as Wozzeck’s reality turns point, but he makes a profound decision to to nightmare. Berg had absorbed this clever, write, as he described it, “a confession of the stereo-like approach from his colleague Franz author, who now steps outside the dramatic Schreker, for whose psychological opera Der action on the stage.” This agonizing interlude, ferne Klang Berg had recently arranged the based on music from an abandoned piano piano score. Schreker’s fascination with the sonata, asks “Why?” Without recourse to the spatial impact of music, also strongly evident characters, now either dead or absent, this

in Mahler’s symphonies, left its mark. And “appeal to humanity” reaches far beyond the TONY ROMANO just as the music moves freely between the 19th-century origins of Büchner’s play and various groups, so too does its language. even Berg’s operatic adaptation, written during The often highly dissonant idiom of Wozzeck World War I. Wozzeck and Marie’s child, is what many have found most daunting playing on his hobbyhorse during the short when approaching the opera, though the final scene, is ours to care for. Will he become transitions between its tonal and atonal music another disturbed soldier, just like his father? are entirely rational. Scenes of a violent nature Or can we stop history repeating itself? Such are accordingly harsh, while Marie’s scenes questions hover in the eerie light of the final with her and Wozzeck’s son, for instance, are chords of Wozzeck, forever reverberating in the characterized by more lyrical music. It would here and now. appear that Berg is telling us when we should © Gavin Plumley, 2015 be appalled and when we should reach out to the pitiable folk pictured within. Gavin Plumley is a writer and broadcaster And what penetrating character studies specializing in the music and culture of Central they are, as demonstrated by the very first scene Europe. He is the commissioning editor of in the opera, between the eponymous soldier English-language program notes for the Salzburg and his commanding officer. The captain sings Festival and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and in wildly distorted, leaping lines, covering Radio 4. As well as writing for The Independent In Lyric’s previous (1993-94 two octaves in just one scene. Wozzeck is on Sunday and The Guardian, Plumley has Wozzeck season), the title role was portrayed by Franz almost rendered mute in comparison, uttering lectured at leading art galleries and museums. He Grundheber. He is pictured with Kathryn just a monotonous word or two. But when writes program notes and gives talks for concert Harries (Marie), Thomas Edward McGunn he eventually finds his voice, he proves halls, orchestras, opera houses, and festivals (Marie’s son), and Norman Bailey (Doctor). disarmingly lyrical, before the captain barks worldwide.

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A Conversation with Sir David McVicar

ROGER PINES, Lyric Opera dramaturg: This is your firstWozzeck SDM: Listening to the music, I couldn’t accept that the war had no production, correct? effect on Berg. He was in the trenches during the composition of the opera. I can’t see how the war would not have played a great part in the SIR DAVID McVICAR: Yes. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and genesis of his music. I wanted to get away from an abstract, grotesque a huge undertaking, that’s a little daunting. world so often seen in Wozzeck productions, where the characters become caricatures. I wanted to make them real people. To do so, I RP: I assume it’s something you’ve been eager to direct for quite a long needed a precise location, a precise time period, to explain why these time. people behave as they do. The past few years have seen the centenary of the start of the First World War in Europe and everyone has been SDM: No, in fact, it never occurred to me that I’d be asked to direct very concerned with it. What happened in its aftermath in Germany it; it’s very different from the repertoire that I’m often associated led to further events and another war, of course, but we were more with – the Mozarts, the Handels, etc. (although, of course, I’ve taken interested in the way relationships between human beings altered and on Strauss and Wagner as well) – and the inherent Romanticism, or shifted immediately after that war, particularly in Germany. I wanted Classicism, of my work. Wozzeck lies within the world of 12-tone an intensely human Wozzeck – the sheer, numbing poverty of these music, and I might not have thought that, in the minds of many people runs like a motif through the text. Of course, this is an eternal, managements or artistic directors, this would make me an obvious universal condition but one that can also be examined through a very choice for it. On the other hand, personally I respond to it as a specific lens. supremely Romantic score. I find it moving and visceral at a deep level. I don’t regard the 12-tone system as strange, and I don’t think of RP: Is there a particular scene that you most look forward to staging? Wozzeck as a musically ugly or alienating work. I regard it as being in a line of dramatic music stretching from Mozart to Wagner to Strauss to SDM: The scene with the children at the end. I can’t listen to it Schoenberg to Berg. In short, I find the score intensely beautiful. without shivers up my spine and tears in my eyes. It’s so simple, and so profoundly sad, with the message that this kid is going to follow in his RP: How do you explain this opera’s stature in the repertoire that would father’s footsteps. I find it one of the most utterly tragic conclusions to translate into making it an essential experience for our audience? any opera I’m aware of. The whole opera is leading up to that scene.

SDM: Wozzeck in some circles has the reputation of being a RP: How would you like this production to leave the audience? challenging work for audiences, but what is historically interesting is, after the premiere in 1925, it was produced with incredible rapidity SDM: I‘d like people to be affected the way I am by the piece – that’s in German theaters, because the audience had an immediately strong, all I can say.

emotional response to it. It’s not an alienating piece at all – it’s a very PATHÉ involving piece. More than any other opera I can think of, Wozzeck is about the common man, the man in the street, the man at the bottom of the food chain. It is a universal story – the story of the eternal underdog. This opera screams for compassion – not simply an emotional compassion, but a civic compassion.

RP: Why would people describe Büchner’s Woyzeck as the first modern play?

SDM: Because it doesn’t take a moral stance. Woyzeck does what he does because of the circumstances that drive him to it. The author doesn’t stand in judgment of his character. In terms of the time period in which the play was written (1836-37), that’s unique. It’s a new way of writing about a character. The author has no kind of improving agenda. Things just happen, as in human life. Everything implodes in Woyzeck and he kills Marie. But it’s not explicitly a story of a murderer – the story hasn’t been building up to that. It’s an extremely modern and very veristic piece.

RP: Can you explain the connection with World War I that will be vital to the production you’ve created for Lyric? A shell-shocked soldier in Devon, England, 1917.

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Chorus Master Tenors Core Supplementary Supplementary Chorus Children’s Chorus Michael Black Geoffrey Agpalo Chorus Members of the Chicago Jason Balla* Sopranos Children’s Choir Regular Chorus Timothy Bradley Sopranos Elena Batman Harold Brock Carla Janzen Jill Dewsnup Abraham Callard Sopranos William Combs Suzanne M. Kszastowski Rosalind Lee Kyla Cisneros Elisa Billey Becker John J. Concepcion Kaileen Erin Miller Lauren Cusick Jillian Bonczek Kenneth Donovan Christine Steyer Mezzos/Altos Emerson Good Sharon Garvey Cohen Joseph A. Fosselman Katie Ruth Bieber Aiden Hensel Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson Cameo T. Humes** Mezzos/Altos Ginger Inabinet Alexandria Holly Cathleen Dunn Lawrence Montgomery Corinne Wallace-Crane Steele Kersten Janet Farr Mark Nienow Michelle K. Wrighte Colin Nelsen (understudy) Desirée Hassler James Odom Tenors Lauren Pfetcher Rachael Holzhausen Thomas L. Potter Tenors Errin Brooks Olivia Rienks Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki Walton Westlake Jared V. Esguerra Scott J. Brunscheen Adrian van der Bijl Kimberly McCord Peder Reiff Matthew Daniel Laelia van de Bijl Heidi Spoor Baritones/Basses Dane Thomas Klaus Georg Liam van der Bijl Stephani Springer Matthew Carroll Tyler Samuel Lee Elizabeth Anne Taylor David DuBois Baritones/Basses Brett Potts Staff: Sherry V. Watkins Scott Holmes Nicolai Janitzky Adam J. Smith Josephine Lee Robert Morrissey Martin Lowen Poock Chase Taylor Artistic Director, Mezzos/Altos Kenneth Nichols Nikolas Wenzel Chicago Children’s Choir Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Steven Pierce Baritones/Basses Marianna Kulikova Robert J. Prindle Claude Cassion Colleen Lovinello Thomas Sillitti Michael Cavalieri Lynn Lundgren Craig Springer Todd von Felker Janet Mensen Reynolds Jeffrey W. Taylor Kirk Greiner Maia Surace Nicholson Ronald Watkins Earl Hazell *On leave, 2015-16 season Yvette Smith Aaron Ingersoll **One-year chorister Marie Sokolova John E. Orduña Laurie Seely Vassalli Dan Richardson Pamela Williams Vince Paul Wallace, Jr.

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Sopranos Alessandro Corbelli Conductors Projection Designer Danielle de Niese Anthony Clark Evans Sir Andrew Davis Greg Emetaz Angela Denoke Martin Gantner Edward Gardner Renée Fleming Thomas Hampson Henrik Nánási Chorus Master Elizabeth Futral Joshua Hopkins Carlo Rizzi Michael Black Christiane Karg Dmitri Hvorostovsky Emmanuel Villaume Christine Landshamer Jacques Imbrailo Choreographers Amanda Majeski Philip Kraus Directors Chase Brock Angela Mannino Paul La Rosa Joan Font Xevi Dorca Ana María Martínez Željko Lučič Barbara Gaines Andrew George Mithra Mastropierro Takaoki Onishi Sir David McVicar Harrison McEldowney Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Robert Orth Kevin Newbury Diana Newman Mark Rucker Matthew Ozawa Associate Choreographer Susanna Phillips Daniel Sutin Bartlett Sher Joshua Buscher Tatiana Serjan Susan Stroman Heidi Stober Bass-baritones Martina Weber Assistant Choreographer Nina Warren Patrick Carfizzi Lauren Kadel Laura Wilde Jeongcheol Cha Associate Directors Stefano de Peppo Gina Lapinski Ballet Mistress Mezzo-sopranos David Govertsen Joan Anton Rechi August Tye J’nai Bridges Philip Horst Dan Rigazzi Alice Coote Tomasz Konieczny Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Marianne Crebassa Richard Ollarsaba Set and Costume Designers Sarah Hatten Elizabeth DeShong Luca Pisaroni Thierry Bosquet Rachel Frenkel Adam Plachetka Julian Crouch Fight Choreographers Katharine Goeldner Vito Priante Jane Greenwood B. H. Barry Jill Grove Christian Van Horn Joan Guillén Chuck Coyl Suzanne Hendrix Constance Hoffman Nick Sandys Basses Sophie Koch David Korins Laura Krumm Dmitry Belosselskiy William Ivey Long Translators for English Titles Isabel Leonard Runi Brattaberg Susan Mickey Patricia Houk Megan Marino Patrick Guetti Vicki Mortimer Derek Matson Lindsay Metzger Matthew Rose James Noone Roger Pines Julie Miller Brindley Sherratt Michael Yeargan Francis Rizzo Deborah Nansteel Bradley Smoak Catherine Zuber Colin Ure Annie Rosen Stefan Szkafarowsky Principal Dancers Lighting Designers The American Guild of Countertenors Shannon Alvis Paule Constable Musical Artists, AFL-CIO Anthony Roth Costanzo Annelise Baker Albert Faura (AGMA), is the union that Matthew Deming Ariane Dolan Duane Schuler represents the singers, dancers, Jen Gorman Jennifer Tipton actors, and staging personnel Tenors Ellen Green Robert Wierzel at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

René Barbera Catherine Hamilton TONY ROMANO Lawrence Brownlee Jeffery B. Hover, Jr. William Burden Lauren Kadel Joseph Calleja Ashley Klinger Alec Carlson Kristina Larson-Hauk Eric Cutler Tom Mattingly Rafael Davila Jamy Meek Matthew DiBattista Alison Mixon Plácido Domingo Matthew Prescott Jesse Donner Emily Pynenburg Allan Glassman Kristen Schoen-René John Irvin Rachael Switzer Keith Jameson J.P. Tenuta Jonathan Johnson Mingjie Lei Actors David Portillo Lex Bourassa Rodell Rosel McKinley Carter Brenton Ryan Jeff Dumas Gerhard Siegel Cory Goodrich Sergei Skorokhodov Dev Kennedy Jason Slayden Jennie Sophia Michael Spyres Genevieve Thiers Andrew Stenson Zachary Uzarraga Stefan Vinke Michael Weber Jonathan Weir Baritones Alex Weisman Graham Clark as the Captain in Wozzeck, Lyric Opera, 1993-94 season. Jonathan Beyer Jonah D. Winston Christian Bowers Fred Zimmerman

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Supernumeraries

Regular Supernumeraries Michael Lieberman Women Susan Lesher Joseph Marik Angela Allyn Nyketa Marshall Men Mike Miles Mary Anthony Charlotte McBurney Emil Aguliera Robert Muzzarelli Floriana Bivona Lockner Helena McBurney Roy Arvio Mike Ortyl Judaéa Brown Avery McDonald Ricardo Basch Jahbril Porter-Ollarvia Breena Button-Hambright Madeline Monahan Arch Bryant Jim Pusztay Angela (Jill) Carlson Angela Mueller Dennis Delavara Reuben Rios Mary Conrad Renee Mumford Bill DuBois Gene Rzym Katherine Coyl Amy Nicholson Roy Fisher Kayhon Safavi Linda Cunningham Alexis Ochoa Weston Ford Jorge Santos, Jr. Tess Dinerstein Maria Paluselli Robert Frenier Mario Solis Deborah Frieb Susanne Petersson Kenneth Giambrone Jim Stanis Ainsley Gallagher Fran Ramer Michael Goto William (Doc) Syverson Darlene Gallagher Sasha Rashidee Bob Grist Ron Tolisano Carolyn Geldermann Rachel Renee Mark Heller Christopher Vaughn Jenny Hale India Rose Renteria Peter Hillebrand Theo Vlahopoulos Barbara Joabson Beth Schuman Michael Horvich Edward Voci Grace Johnson Mary Sennott-Shaw Ken Izzi Peter Walters Eleanor Kamuda Donna Syverson Garland Jones Ajani Upton Karolina Kierlanczyk Angela Trabert Jim Klafta Howard White Judith Kolata Kendra Washington John Larrieu Barbara Kummerer Naomi Washington

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November 1 - 21, 2015 | 43 PATRON SALUTE | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Anne Zenzer: A Story of the Ultimate Gamble

Anne Zenzer is the only child of Polish parents who took the ultimate deeply engaged with Lyric’s activities, serving as committee member and gamble. After miraculously surviving separation during the early years of chair of the Guild Board’s special projects, Fantasy of the Opera and World War II and an almost fairytale reunion, after living as a military Backstage Tours. “I don’t think one can really realize what is onstage, family all over the Middle East and the then-emerging state of Israel, really understand it, until going on a backstage tour. Once you see the Anne’s middle-aged parents first brought their family to Great Britain, perfection, and the attention to detail…. The first time I heard the wigs then to the United States with the help of Catholic Charities. As an and makeup staff explain how they make each wig, I said to myself, they immigrant, Anne’s father could hardly expect to make a meaningful must be kidding! I thought they just shoved on a wig, not realizing that career starting fresh at 50, but the family scraped by in order to provide each one is hand-woven and matched to the performer.” Anne the opportunities she needed When Lyric produced Wein- to build her own future. berg’s The Passenger last season, Anne went to DePaul University Anne and her husband Dominick and then attended Northwestern wanted to be involved. As with University on a Woodrow Wilson many other Lyric patrons, the story fellowship, where she earned a mas- upon which the opera is based, a ter’s degree. Having learned drive radio play entitled The Passenger and ambition from her parents, she in Cabin 45 by Polish-Christian landed a job at The Northern Trust Holocaust survivor Sofia Posmysz, after graduation. There began her hit Anne close to home. “For me, love of opera. what it was like to meet Sofia “I was at The Northern Trust, Posmysz…to touch her hand and just out of graduate school. I to speak to her in Polish, given what couldn’t tell you what it is, but she had been through, and then there’s something about going to see having an opera written about her an opera, even up in the nosebleed experience…she was lucky she got section. I went with a friend, who out alive, because so many did not. like me, was interested. We were It was a very moving experience.” fledglings! I grew up hearing classi- Although her business travels cal music because my parents loved have brought her to all 50 states and it, but we were not in a financial around the world, enabling her to position to spend money on per- visit many other opera houses, Anne formance tickets. My parents were believes that there is something spe- thrilled when I told them I was buy- cial about Lyric Opera of Chicago. ing a ticket to see the opera.” “Lyric is a wonderful company, and Beginning in the 1970s, when the fact that we are solvent, and con- Anne began attending Lyric perfor- Dominick DeLuca and Anne Zenzer tinue to be, is extremely important. mances regularly, the magical world We are in Illinois, a state in desper- of opera had an effect on the young professional. Having studied history ate financial straits, and yet we have such giving and responsible donors.” in school, Anne has always found the historically-based operas most Lyric counts Anne among its most valued supporters; in addition interesting, citing Lyric’s recent Anna Bolena as a particular favorite. A to her involvement with The Passenger, she has recently added a gener- certain production, however, stands out from the rest: “The most memo- ous provision for Lyric in her estate plan as part of the Breaking New rable performance for me was Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor Ground Campaign. “I have such a respect for this incredible art form. It in 1975. That mad scene of hers was absolutely incredible, and that opera got me thinking about my will, what I would do, and what will happen has such passion. It will never leave me, and from then on I was hooked.” after me. I think of it as my goodbye gift, although I hope to be around As time went on, Anne’s career took off. She joined Witt/Kieffer, a for a while longer! healthcare consulting firm, where she has been a partner for 30 years, “It is very interesting how life evolves. As a little kid living in a refu- and began to give back to the art form which had given her so much joy. gee camp in war-torn England, I never thought I would be here, never Years later she accepted her friend Daria Lewicky’s invitation to serve thought I would be making a sizeable pledge. There isn’t a day that I on the Guild Board, and she will represent the board as an ex-officio don’t kiss the ground I walk on, and I thank my parents for getting me member of the Lyric Unlimited Committee this year as part of Lyric an education. They took a gamble, and it paid off.” President David Ormesher’s One Lyric initiative. In addition to the social benefits of joining a volunteer board, Anne has enjoyed becoming more —Meaghan Stainback

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ARIA SOCIETY SPOTLIGHT | 2015-2016

ABBOTT FUND ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors to Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from nine Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of dedicated anonymous contributors during the 2015/16 season. support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has generously cosponsored 21 Lyric productions, including the 2015/16 season- BAKER TILLY VIRCHOW KRAUSE LLP opening production of The Marriage of Figaroand last season’s Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP is a nationally recognized, full- Don Giovanni. Abbott has championed Lyric’s achievements as a service accounting and advisory firm whose specialized professionals contributor to the Great Opera Fund, the Building on Greatness connect with clients with candor and clear industry insight. As an Miles D. White Capital Campaign, and Wine Auctions, among other efforts, and independent member of Baker Tilly International, the world’s eighth made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New largest network of accounting firms, Baker Tilly brings you access Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Abbott’s to market-specific knowledge in 125 countries. Lyric Opera Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Miles D. White, Tim Christen member Timothy Christen is Baker Tilly’s chairman and CEO, and serve on its Board of Directors. is Vice Chairman of the Civic Engagement Committee. In October, Tim becomes the Chairman of the American Institute of CPAs, the largest professional KATHERINE A. ABELSON and association in the profession, representing 400,000 members in 145 countries. Baker Tilly ROBERT J. CORNELL cosponsored Lyric’s successful Wine Auctions in 2012 and 2015, and has cosponsored Kathy Abelson and Robert Cornell are longtime friends the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium of Lyric Opera. Kathy comes from generations of opera Park concert for three consecutive years. Lyric lovers and is a former singer, having trained with some is also grateful for Baker Tilly’s generous gift to of the best voice teachers in the world, including Elvira the Breaking New Ground Campaign. de Hidalgo, who taught Maria Callas. Kathy has been a donor and a season subscriber to Lyric since 1977. Deeply THE BARKER WELFARE FOUNDATION committed to Lyric Opera’s renowned artist development program, The Patrick G. and Lyric Opera is grateful for the more than four decades of support from The Barker Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Kathy is a Past President and current member of the Welfare Foundation. Dedicated to improving the quality of life for families and Ryan Opera Center Board, in addition to being a leadership donor to the Ryan Opera children, the Foundation has staunchly and generously contributed to Lyric Opera’s Center for over twenty years. Lyric is also honored to have Kathy Abelson on its Board education and community engagement programs for many years. Lyric is the honored of Directors. This season Kathy and Robert are generously cosponsoring Lyric’s revival beneficiary of gifts to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Building on of Nabucco. Greatness Capital Campaign from The Barker Welfare Foundation.

ADA and WHITNEY ADDINGTON JULIE and ROGER BASKES Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Lyric subscribers Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication of and donors. For many seasons, they have contributed to the Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than three Annual Campaign, and have generously supported the decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s Ryan Great Opera Fund, the Building on Greatness Capital Opera Center activities as cosponsors of Rising Stars in Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking Concert, and sponsors of the Ryan Opera Center Recital New Ground Campaign. The Addingtons have also Series on 98.7WFMT. They have cosponsored numerous invested in the company’s future through their planned productions including, most recently, La Clemenza di Tito gift to Lyric. This season they cosponsor Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto, having (2013/14), Il Trovatore (2014/15), and this season’s Romeo and Juliet. They also made previously cosponsored Porgy and Bess (2008/09) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard (2012/13). Lyric is fortunate to have Dr. Whitney Addington as a member of its Board the future of Lyric Opera. Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of of Directors and Executive Committee. Directors, Executive, and Production Sponsorship Committees, and as immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board. JOHN and ANN AMBOIAN John and Ann Amboian have been staunch supporters JAMES N. and LAURIE V. BAY of Lyric Opera for many years. They have contributed Jim and Laurie Bay are passionate supporters of the arts in annually to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and have given Chicago and have been members of the Lyric Opera family a personal leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground for more than three decades. They have previously contrib- Campaign. In his role as CEO of Nuveen Investments, uted to Lyric’s Wine Auction, 60th Anniversary Concert John has championed gifts to support Lyric Unlimited and Diamond Ball, Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium programs such as last season’s family opera The Magic Park, the Annual Campaign, and education programs. Victrola, and The Family Barber (2013/14). Lyric Opera is proud to have John Amboian They also cosponsored Madama Butterfly (2013/14) and serve on its Board of Directors and as a past longtime member of the Nominating/ have made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored Governance Committee. to have Jim Bay, a principal of Bays Corporation, serve on its Board of Directors and Compensation Committee. AMERICAN AIRLINES This season we celebrate 34 years of vital corporate partnership with MARLYS A. BEIDER American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera. In recognition As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys has con- of the company’s significant contribution to the Building on tributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Canto Benefactor Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine level of the Civic Opera of the planned giving Overture Society. Her planned gift commit- House is named the American Airlines Mezzanine. American Airlines ment created the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer provides important in-kind Endowed Chair in memory of her late husband, Harold Beider. support for Lyric’s programs and Marlys Beider cosponsored several productions including Elektra Franco Tedeschi special events. Franco Tedeschi, (2012/13), Parsifal (2013/14) and Tosca (2014/15). Marlys has also Vice President of American Airlines, proudly serves made a leadership commitment to cosponsor Lyric’s new productions of Das Rheingold on Lyric’s Board of Directors. (2016/17) and Götterdämmerung (2019/20), part of Lyric’s new Ring Cycle. This sea- son, Marlys generously cosponsors the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert. PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the RANDY L. and MELVIN R. BERLIN performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. The Devoted fans of opera education and the arts, Melvin Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated and Randy Berlin are vital members of the Lyric Opera the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John family. They have contributed significantly to the Annual Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, self Campaign and were Diamond Sponsors of the 60th reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his ideals. Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball last season. Melvin At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a generous supporter of and Randy have made a leadership gift to the Breaking Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming, cosponsoring The Family New Ground Campaign, and have cosponsored several Barber (2013/14) and The Magic Victrola (2014/15). productions such as last season’s new production of Don Giovanni. This season they generously cosponsor Lyric’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro.Lyric is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors.

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BMO HARRIS BANK DAVID and ORIT CARPENTER BMO Harris Bank proudly supports Lyric Opera in the spirit of David and Orit Carpenter have been staunch supporters community partnership that has identified the bank for over 125 of Lyric Opera for many years, and have recently made years. As a longstanding corporate contributor to Lyric, BMO a generous planned gift to the Breaking New Ground Harris Bank has generously supported Lyric’s Annual Campaign, the Campaign to help ensure that Lyric will be available for Facilities Fund, the Great Opera Fund, the Stars of Lyric Opera at many future generations to enjoy. In addition to their Millennium Park concert, Fantasy of the Opera, the Renée Fleming longtime personal support of Lyric’s Annual Campaign, Subscriber Appreciation Concert (2010/11), the Renée Fleming & David Carpenter has helped secure six production Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis Susan Graham Subscriber Appreciation Concert (2012/13), and cosponsorships through Sidley Austin LLP, where he was a Partner for over 30 years Lang Lang in Recital (2013). This season, BMO Harris Bank is the and where he now serves as Senior Counsel. Lyric is honored to have David serve on its exclusive sponsor of the Plácido Domingo and Ana María Martínez Concert. Lyric Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. is honored to have Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis, Group Head, U.S. Retail and Business Banking, CELLMER/NEAL FOUNDATION FUND BMO Harris Bank, serve on its Board of Directors Longtime supporters of Lyric Opera’s Annual Campaign, and Investment Committee. Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan Cellmer have recently made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDER Having previously supported the Campaign for Excellence Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda Buchbinder and the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Lyric are longstanding members of the Lyric Opera family. is grateful for Jeff and Susan’s gift to ensure Lyric’s bright Committed to sustaining the exceptional quality of Lyric’s future. Founding Partner of Horizon Capital, LLC, Jeff artistic product, the Buchbinders made a leadership gift Neal proudly serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors. to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign to name Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan Cellmer the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. They have also been longtime generous THE ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION donors to the Annual Campaign, including cosponsoring their first production, Boris Lyric Opera remains deeply grateful for the longterm generosity of Godunov (2011/12). Lyric is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its Board of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s nonprofit Directors and the Nominating/Governance Committee. leaders in arts support. The Cheney Foundation has made an enhanced multi-year commitment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM Opera. During the 2015/16 season, The Cheney Foundation is Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership and supporting the residency of famed mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe; generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and longtime the Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; access to a behind- patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum Elizabeth F. Cheney the-scenes view of the Ensemble selection process by opening the Family’s very generous challenge grant re-established Lyric’s regional Ryan Opera Center’s Final Auditions to a greater number of Lyric and national/international radio broadcasts in 2006. Kay’s incred- donors and subscribers for the third year; and singer sponsorship of bass Bradley ible continued matching support makes possible The Lyric Opera Smoak. Lyric Opera is honored to have as a major supporter The Elizabeth F. Cheney Broadcasts, which draw 16 million listeners annually. “Lyric is a Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s legacy through great national institution,” Matthew once said, “and it gives our family great pleasure the philanthropic support of the arts. to know these broadcasts bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so many in Chicago and around the globe.” NELSON D. CORNELIUS PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND THE JOHN and JACKIE BUCKSBAUM FAMILY Nelson Cornelius was a longtime subscriber and supporter of Lyric Passionate philanthropists in the Chicago community, Opera and a cherished friend of legendary former Lyric Opera John and Jackie Bucksbaum are major supporters of the General Director Ardis Krainik, with whom he shared his passion arts. John Bucksbaum is founder and CEO of Bucksbaum for opera and for making sure that Lyric would keep Chicago Retail Properties, LLC, a fully integrated owner and on the world’s opera map. That passion was also shared by Julius developer of retail real estate. This season, John and Jackie, Frankel, and as a trustee of the Julius Frankel Foundation for many with their family, generously provide matching funding for years, Mr. Cornelius fulfilled Mr. Frankel’s wishes by directing The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which air on 98.7WFMT live significant Foundation support to Lyric Opera’s Annual Campaign and production John and Jackie Bucksbaum during each opening night performance. cosponsorship. Mr. Cornelius was also personally generous, supporting Lyric’s Annual Campaign and was the exclusive sponsor of Lyric’s new production of Lucia MARION A. CAMERON di Lammermoor (2011/12). His legacy created the Nelson D. Cornelius Production Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support and leadership of Endowment Fund, which this year cosponsors Romeo and Juliet. Lyric is honored to Marion A. Cameron. A subscriber and donor for over 20 years, remember its close friend Nelson Cornelius. Lyric gratefully acknowledges her outstanding generosity through her leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, her MR. and MRS. JOHN V. CROWE cosponsorship of Rusalka (2013/14), and her additional gift in Jack and Peggy Crowe are generous and passionate support of last season’s Tannhäuser. Ms. Cameron is the President members of the Lyric family, evidenced by their production of Sipi Metals Corp., which this season supports the widely-popular sponsorship of Turandot (2006/07) and Tosca (2009/10) Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert. Marion Cameron is a member of and major support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric’s Board of Directors, a member of the Executive Committee, and Chair of the The Crowes are one of eight sponsors of the Renée Fleming Investment Committee. Initiative. Jack and Peggy Crowe’s significant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro AMY and PAUL CARBONE Crowe Foyer on the fifth floor in memory of Jack Crowe’s mother. The Crowes were Lyric is very appreciative of the friendship of Amy and Paul leading contributors to the Campaign for Excellence and the Building on Greatness Carbone. A dynamic member of Lyric’s Board of Directors Capital Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to have Jack Crowe as an esteemed member since 2007, Paul currently serves as its Treasurer, chairs the of the Executive Committee of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Finance Committee, and is a member of the Executive, Audit and Investment Committees. Having previously sponsored Lyric’s NEXT student ticket initiative and Backstage Tours, Amy and Paul Co-Chaired last season’s record-breaking 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and supported the event as Diamond Sponsors. The Carbones have also made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is grateful for the dedicated leadership of Amy and Paul Carbone.

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THE CROWN FAMILY THE FERGUSON-YNTEMA FAMILY TRUST Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée and Lester Passionate supporters of the arts in Chicago, Mark Ferguson Crown, are devoted patrons of Lyric Opera. The Crown and Liza Yntema are vital members of the Lyric Opera Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming Initiative and family. Through their family trust, they have generously made a generous commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New supported Lyric’s Annual Campaign, most recently Ground Campaign. They have also made major contribu- dedicating their gift to underwrite discounted tickets tions to the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness for college students through Lyric Unlimited’s NEXT Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the program. Mark and Liza have also made a leadership gift to Lester and Renée Crown Great Opera Fund. Mrs. Crown is a past President of the Mark Ferguson and Liza Yntema the Breaking New Ground Campaign. A Partner at Bartlit Women’s Board. Mr. Crown joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and has served Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Mark has secured funding for the ever-popular as Chairman of the Executive Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown Grand March, a part of the Opera Ball festivities, for many years as well as cosponsoring were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of their outstand- Lyric’s Board of Directors Annual Meeting. Lyric is honored to have Mark Ferguson ing leadership and commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy serve on its Board of Directors, Innovation and Lyric Unlimited Committees. Carrington Crown serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago. FORD FOUNDATION Lyric is honored to have the tremendous support of the Ford Foundation. For nearly 80 THE DAVEE FOUNDATION years, the Foundation has worked with visionary leaders and organizations worldwide Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth Dunbar to ensure that all people have the opportunity to reach their full potential, contribute and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The Foundation’s to society, have a voice in the decisions that affect them, and live and work in dignity. exemplary support of Chicago-area charities reflects the Davees’ wide-ranging interests, Lyric is deeply grateful for the Ford Foundation’s including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric Opera is fortunate to be among essential support for Lyric’s landmark Chicago Voices the organizations benefiting from The Davee Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, initiative during the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons. which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to come. Recently, The Davee Foundation provided critical support to enhance amplification and sound systems used MAURICE and PATRICIA FRANK in the American Musical Theater Initiative. The Foundation has generously cosponsored Jerry and Pat Frank are steadfast friends of Lyric Opera, Lyric premieres of Oklahoma! (2012/13), The Sound of Music(2013/14), and Carousel having subscribed for over four decades. Faithful (2014/15), and has committed to support the remaining installments of Lyric’s five-year contributors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign for many years, partnership with the Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, cosponsoring this season’s Jerry and Pat recently enhanced their relationship with The King and Iand next season’s South Pacific. Lyric by deepening their engagement with The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, first by sponsoring the JOHN EDELMAN and SUZANNE KROHN Renée Fleming Master Class in 2013/14. They are now John Edelman and Suzie Krohn are passionate members of proud Singer Sponsors of first-year Ryan Opera Center tenor Mingjie Lei. The Franks the Lyric Opera family. Lyric is grateful for their leadership provided a substantial planned gift as part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as secure Lyric’s future. their generous annual support. Lyric is proud to have John Edelman serve on its Board of Directors, continuing JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION the family legacy of his late father, Daniel J. Edelman. A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera) and a Lyric John and Suzie are avid supporters of Lyric’s education Opera Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius initiatives, and John also serves on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a great place to live and enjoy life. In past seasons, Julius Frankel sponsored STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESON Lyric productions of Andrea Chénier (1979) and Lohengrin (1980) Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael in memory of Betty Frankel. The Julius Frankel Foundation has Neeson are actively involved with organizations in Chicago, sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Neeson have Julius Frankel dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera for more than 30 and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have years. They have previously cosponsored the Stars of Lyric benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general operating support and Opera at Millennium Park concert and named their seats production sponsorships. The Julius Frankel Foundation has generously sponsored/ through the Your Name Here program. Stefan and Gael cosponsored many celebrated new productions at Lyric including Die Fledermaus have previously cosponsored four mainstage operas, and are generously cosponsor- (1989/90), Xeres (1995/96), Carmen (1999/00) in memory of Ardis Krainik, Cavalleria ing this season’s new production of Wozzeck. They also made a leadership gift to the rusticana/Pagliacci (2002/03), Il Trovatore (2006/07), and La Traviata (2013/14) in Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its honor of the late Nelson D. Cornelius. Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUST EXELON One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain Chicago’s daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, the cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has generously Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, and deeply supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, and the Great appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. Through the Trust’s Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community-engagement programs. support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included The Mikado (2010/12), the Renée and James L. Alexander seek to enrich the quality of life in Chicago, Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Subscriber Appreciation Concert (2011/12), La especially for youth and elderly citizens. In recognition of the Trust’s bohème (2012/13), Rusalka (2013/14), and Lyric’s second mariachi opera, El Pasado Elizabeth Morse Genius Building on Greatness Capital Campaign support, Lyric named the Nunca Se Termina (2014/15). This season, Exelon distinctive Opera House chimes and music library in honor of the cosponsors Lyric’s new production of The Marriage Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. Along with The Elizabeth Morse Charitable of Figaro. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have found in Trust, the Trust sponsors mainstage productions each season, and is cosponsoring this Exelon an outstanding corporate partner. season’s Nabucco. The Trust funds Lyric’s ongoing board diversity efforts, and helped preserve Lyric’s history through support of the Archives project. James L. Alexander is a MR. and MRS. W. JAMES FARRELL Vice President of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Lyric sincerely appreciates the dedicated support of Maxine Committee, and serves on the Executive, Finance, Investment, and Nominating/ and Jim Farrell. Devoted fans of opera, the Farrells are Lyric Governance Committees. In 2010, Lyric recognized subscribers and have both taken substantial leading roles the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of in fostering the company’s success. Maxine Farrell is a past James L. Alexander by awarding him the Carol Fox President of Lyric’s Women’s Board (2005–2008) and was Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. Chairman of Opera Ball 2004. W. James Farrell, retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works, has served on ANN and GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION Lyric’s Board of Directors since 1996. They provided a substantial gift to Lyric to establish Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding support of the Ann and Gordon Getty the W. James and Maxine P. Farrell French Opera Endowed Chair and made a major Foundation. The Foundation has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign, contribution to the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. providing essential general operating support to foster Lyric’s achievements. 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BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILL THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION Brent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes The Harris Family Foundation, represented by in Chicago. At Lyric, the Gledhills cosponsored a new Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, production of The Sound of Music (2013/14) and are joined the production sponsorship family last generous contributors to this season’s Lyric Unlimited year as a cosponsor of Lyric’s new production world premiere Second Nature presented in partnership of Tosca, and are cosponsoring Nabucco this with the Lincoln Park Zoo. They have also made a season. The Harris Family Foundation has leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. previously supported the Annual Campaign, Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris Brent Gledhill is the Global Head of Investment Banking at William Blair & Company and made a generous commitment to the and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lyric is honored to have him serve Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have on its Board of Directors and Audit Committee, and as Chairman of the Innovation Vice President of the Foundation Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors Committee. and 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 WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN Women’s Board and has held many leadership positions, most recently as Opera Ball William and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric Opera Chair in 2012, and this season as Co-Chair of Opening Night/Opera Ball. productions for more than 50 years. They are generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and cosponsored the WALTER E. HELLER FOUNDATION Overture Society Luncheons for many years. In 1997, Bill Alyce H. DeCosta was a dedicated philanthropist who loved Chicago and Ethel named seats for each other in the Ardis Krainik and helped nurture cultural life in the city through her generous Theatre as part of the Building on Greatness Capital support for the arts and higher education. Mrs. DeCosta was a leading Campaign. This season, the Gofens are cosponsoring member of the Lyric family, having served as a National Director of Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto, based on the novel by Ann Patchett, and have Lyric’s Board. For many years, she was president of the Walter E. made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Heller Foundation, a philanthropic trust named after her late husband, Ethel Gofen as a member of the Board of Directors. the founder and Chairman of Walter E. Heller Co., a financial services Alyce H. DeCosta firm. The Walter E. Heller Foundation generously funded many Lyric GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION productions, most recently Madama Butterfly (2013/14). This season, the Walter E. Heller With an unparalleled record as sponsor of 25 Lyric new productions since the 1960s, Foundation cosponsors Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto. 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 has made J. THOMAS HURVIS a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the four operas that make up Wagner’s Tom Hurvis is an avid opera fan and longtime Lyric subscriber. As Ring Cycle, starting with Das Rheingold (2016/17) and concluding with the complete part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom and his beloved Cycles in 2019/20. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship and leadership late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in support of of Christine Hunter and other members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education and community Russell Fisher serve on its Board of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed engagement activities. In an effort to help keep Chicago a haven for member of the Women’s Board. the cultural arts, Tom Hurvis sponsors the Renée Fleming Initiative, which brings the renowned soprano to our city multiple times each SUE and MELVIN GRAY year. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of contributions Sue and Mel Gray have been steadfast supporters of to the Annual Campaign, including support for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. The Hurvises Lyric Opera for many years. In 2007, they committed previously sponsored three mainstage productions and cosponsor this season’s The Merry a significant planned gift as part of the Campaign for Widow starring Renée Fleming. Lyric is honored to have Tom Hurvis serve on its Board of Excellence to ensure Lyric’s future. The Grays have made Directors, Executive Committee, and Lyric Unlimited Committee. a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, having previously supported the Building on Greatness ITW Capital Campaign. They continue to be influential Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining support contributors to the Annual Campaign, most recently cosponsoring for five consecutive from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company has made vital contri- years Rising Stars in Concert, the annual showcase for The Patrick G. and Shirley W. butions to the Annual Campaign, the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Ryan Opera Center Ensemble. Lyric is honored to have Mel Gray serve on its Board of the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Great Opera Fund, Directors, Investment Committee, and Ryan Opera Center Board. 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and Wine Auction, and since 2002, it has cosponsored the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS important traditions. ITW cosponsored The Pearl Fishers(2008/09), Maria C. Green Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and The Barber of Seville (2001/02), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), Hansel and tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. Gretel (2012/13), and Tosca (2012/13). Lyric is proud to have Maria C. Green, Senior Vice Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 19 President, General Counsel and Secretary, serve on its Board of Lyric productions since 1987/88 including last season’s Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Committees, as well as new production of Don Giovanni and this season’s Der past ITW Chairmen and CEOs W. James Farrell, John Nichols, Rosenkavalier. Through yearly challenge grants, they also and the late David Speer on its Board of Directors. help generate important momentum for Operathon, Lyric’s annual fundraising broadcast heard live on 98.7WFMT. They made a leadership gift EDGAR D. JANNOTTA to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of Lyric’s future. Dietrich Gross is Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding of support from Ned an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, Jannotta and his beloved late wife Debby. A life-long opera lover, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by Ned has been an integral part of the Lyric Opera family, joining the awarding him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. Board of Directors in 1987, serving as President and CEO of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving as Co-Chairman JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received leadership gifts from the John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric for Jannottas for the Breaking New Ground Campaign, the Campaign many years until his death in 2001. With support from his Charitable for Excellence, and the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, in addition to their Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, Norman J. Gantz, generous gifts to the Annual Campaign. Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. The Halligan Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, instill knowledge, John R. Halligan and advance our appreciation of nature. The fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. Halligan resided during his lifetime.

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JENNER & BLOCK KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with global Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of providing impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal issues. exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around the world The firm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s legal and in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, business communities, and is consistently ranked as one of the top restructuring, and counseling matters. The firm is committed to firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided significant pro enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, cultural bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. For many to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, the Annual Campaign, years, Kirkland & Ellis LLP sponsored Lyric Opera’s Board of Craig C. Martin Linda K. Myers the Campaign for Excellence, Fantasy of the Opera, Opera Ball, Directors Annual Meeting. More recently, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Wine Auction. Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, a Partner at Jenner & cosponsored Boris Godunov (2011/12) and A Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13), and Block, as a valued member of its Board of was Lead Sponsor of last season’s 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. This Directors and Executive Committee. season the firm continues their production support by cosponsoringThe Merry Widow. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. as a member of its Board of Directors, Lyric gratefully acknowledges the vital corporate leadership and support Executive and Production Sponsorship of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Along with the bank’s predecessors The Committees. First National Bank of Chicago and Bank One, JPMorgan Chase has generously contributed to the Annual Campaign, the Building on NANCY W. KNOWLES Greatness Capital Campaign, Lyric Unlimited, Facilities Fund, the Opera has always played an important role in the life of Nancy W. Great Opera Fund, and Wine Auction. The bank has also cosponsored Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s many mainstage productions, including this season’s new production musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of Eric S. Smith of The Marriage of Figaro. Lyric is honored to have Eric S. Smith, records to play,” she fondly recalls, “so classical music was always in Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase, serve as a member of its Board of Directors, Executive my home.” A devoted subscriber and patron, Nancy Knowles is a and Nominating/Governance Committees, and as prominent member of the Lyric family. She generously invests her chairman of the Lyric Unlimited Committee. time, talents, and leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board STEPHEN A. KAPLAN and ALYCE K. SIGLER member. Chairman Emeritus of Knowles Electronics, a manufacturer of hearing-aid Early supporters of Lyric’s Wine Auction, Stephen Kaplan components, Nancy Knowles is president of The Knowles Foundation. The Knowles and Alyce Sigler have generously contributed to the Foundation is a leading contributor to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and has cosponsored triennial gala through event cosponsorship and donations several mainstage productions. As part of the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, from their internationally renowned collection of wine. the Foundation provided an assisted listening system to enhance the operatic experience Stephen also serves as a Wine Auction Advisor Emeritus for hearing-impaired patrons. In recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign to the Women’s Board. As an esteemed National Member for Excellence, Lyric named the Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Mrs. Knowles has of the Board of Directors, Stephen along with Alyce has once again made a significant gift in support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign supported major campaigns such as the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking to underwrite the Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances fund. In New Ground Campaign. Lyric is also grateful for their many years of steadfast Annual recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she received the Carol Fox Campaign support. Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014.

MR. and MRS. GEORGE D. KENNEDY MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Lyric Opera is grateful for the staunch support of George and Valerie Kennedy. As a Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding dedicated members former member of the Board of Directors, George Kennedy has long been passionate of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully acknowledges about the financial health of Lyric, having previously supported the Annual Campaign their generous contributions to Lyric’s Wine Auction, and the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign. The Kennedys have also sponsored the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park, and recently made a generous gift to the Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking Breaking New Ground Campaign. New Ground Campaign. Last season, they were Diamond Patrons of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART Ball. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Dick and Susie Kiphart are esteemed members of the Fred Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Lyric Opera family and are visionary philanthropists. They have generously cosponsored several Lyric productions, JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK most recently The Passenger (2014/15). In honor of Lyric’s Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot Golden Jubilee (2004/05), they made a significant gift Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. to Lyric to establish the Richard P. and Susan Kiphart They have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and they Costume Director Endowed Chair. They have made lead- made significant gifts to the Campaign for Excellence and ership contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have also which Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They also cosponsored several mainstage productions, including last continue to provide major support for Lyric’s radio programming as members of the year’s Capriccio and this season’s Cinderella. The CEO of LSV broadcast consortium and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Dick Asset Management, Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member Kiphart is head of William Blair & Company’s Private Client Advisors Business and a of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive and Investment Committees. member of the firm’s executive committee. He is a past President and CEO and cur- rent Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/Governance JIM and KAY MABIE Committee, and a member of both the Finance and Production Sponsorship Lyric Opera cherishes the vital leadership and long- Committees. Susie Kiphart is President of the Ryan Opera Center Board and serves standing support of Jim and Kay Mabie. They are avid on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. The Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt operagoers, having subscribed to Lyric for several decades. commitment to Lyric are tremendous assets to the company, and in recognition of their The Mabies have fostered Lyric’s success through generous passion and immense dedication they received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest contributions to the Annual Campaign, the Building honor, in 2013. on Greatness Capital Campaign, and the Campaign for Excellence. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They cosponsored Candide (1994/95), The Great Gatsby (2001/02), Porgy and Bess (2008/09) and Rigoletto (2012/13). Jim Mabie is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive and Investment Committees.

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JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman of committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global Rusalka in 2013/14 and cosponsored last season’s Anna Bolena. The Monument Trust conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is is a passionate supporter of the arts in the affecting children and society. Support for arts and culture organizations in Chicago U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors Wozzeck and the region is an expression of civic commitment to the place where the Foundation this season. has its headquarters and where John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur made their home. Grants are designed to MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON help sustain the cultural life of the city and region. Lyric Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of the Opera is very grateful for the ongoing support of the John Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers and patrons D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. who take an active role in nurturing Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member of the Women’s MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Morrison serve Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC Corporation, as a member of its Board of Directors. The Morrisons is a fervent fan of opera and music and Lyric is delighted to call him a have generously supported the Opera Ball and Wine longtime friend, staunch leader, and generous supporter. The Family Auction as well as the Annual Campaign for many years. Foundation made a leadership commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New They provided a substantial gift to the Campaign for Ground Campaign, and the Malott Room was named in his family’s Excellence and Breaking New Ground Campaign, and honor in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness have cosponsored Oklahoma! (2012/13), The Sound of Music (2013/14), and Carousel Capital Campaign. He also plays a leadership role as a Life Director (2014/15). Susan and Bob generously cosponsor The King and I this season. Robert H. Malott of Lyric’s Board of Directors. THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST MAZZA FOUNDATION Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of The Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable leadership friendship and generosity of the Mazza of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and James Foundation. Under the guidance of its L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., and Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust continues its Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the Mazza legacy as production cosponsors by supporting this season’s Nabucco. Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation provided major support for After providing cosponsorship support of The Cunning Little Vixen the Student Matinees from 1994 through (2004/05) in honor of Lyric’s Golden Jubilee, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust 2004, helping Lyric introduce the majesty raised challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06), and continued on to Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas and grandeur of opera to thousands of cosponsor many more productions. From 2000-2008, the Trust provided leadership J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind young people each season. Since 2005, support of the Stars of Lyric Opera concerts at Grant Park and Millennium Park. the Mazza Foundation has been part of James L. Alexander is a Vice President of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring Otello (2013/14) and Production Sponsorship Committee, and serves on the Executive, Finance, Investment, Il Trovatore (2014/15). This season, the Mazza Foundation generously cosponsors The and Nominating/Governance Committees. In 2010, Lyric recognized the dedicated Merry Widow. Lyric is honored to have Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. serve on its Board of leadership and vital involvement of James L. Alexander by awarding him the Carol Fox Directors, Production Sponsorship and Compensation Committees. Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. ROBERT and EVELYN McCULLEN Enthusiastic new members of the Lyric Opera family, Bob and Evie McCullen have endeavored to introduce ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHIN the magical world of opera to their friends and colleagues Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members by inviting guests to each of their subscription nights. of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President and Generous cosponsors of last season’s Lang Lang in Recital CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and is currently and this season’s The King and I cast party, the McCullens Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors, and have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New serves on the Executive Committee. The Muchins have Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Robert McCullen, Chairman and CEO of staunchly supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Trustwave, as a member of its Board of Directors and Innovation Committee. Opera, and Operathon, and have committed leadership gifts to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and BLYTHE JASKI McGARVIE the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine A longtime subscriber and supporter of the Annual Campaign, Muchin’s munificent friendship. Lyric is grateful to Blythe McGarvie for her leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Currently serving on the Board NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS of Directors for four public companies and a former Senior Lecturer Serving the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America, grants at Harvard Business School, Blythe proudly serves on Lyric’s Board awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played a leading role of Directors and Civic Engagement Committee, having previously in the advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of the operatic repertoire. served many years on the Guild Board. Through production and program funding as well as a major challenge grant, awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class artistic achievements. The Endowment THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. The NEA has provided vital support history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons for numerous Lyric Opera premieres, new productions, and revivals, most recently initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American operas A Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13), Rusalka (2013/14), and Porgy and Bess (2014/15). and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for Lyric Opera This season, the National Endowment for premieres; the centerpiece of the initiative was Lyric’s mainstage world premiere of the Arts is supporting Lyric’s world premiere Bolcom’s A Wedding. The Mellon Foundation provided essential matching funds which of Bel Canto. enabled Lyric to resume radio broadcasts in 2006. During the 2012/13 season The Mellon Foundation provided leadership funding to launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, which included the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s first Mariachi opera. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous partnership with Lyric Unlimited by providing outstanding support for last season’s world premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continues its unparalleled legacy by cosponsoring this season’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel Canto.

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THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION NORTHERN TRUST The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the performing A leading global financial services provider, Northern Trust has a arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration of Lyric Opera, longstanding and significant relationship with Lyric. The company has have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. The Negaunee played a major role supporting the Annual Campaign, Facilities Fund, Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently Don Giovanni and Great Opera Fund, and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust provides Carousel (both 2014/15) and cosponsors The Marriage of Figaro and The King and I vital leadership contributions to Lyric as Presenting Sponsor of Wine this season. The Negaunee Foundation has also made a generous gift to the Breaking Auctions (2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018) and cospon- New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cultural sor of the Opera Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust institutions benefitting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial Jana R. Schreuder cosponsored Faust (2009/10), Oklahoma! (2012/13), The Sound of Music commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president serve as a (2013/14), and this season’s The King and I. Lyric is honored to have Jana member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. R. Schreuder, Chief Operating Officer of Northern Trust, serve as a member of its Board of Directors and Finance Committee, SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL and Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera subscribers and and CEO William A. Osborn serve as a donors for many years. They sponsored the Symposiums member of its Board of Directors and for Lyric productions of Hercules (2010/11) and Show Boat Executive Committee. (2011/12). They have cosponsored several mainstage opera productions, including this season’s new production of NUVEEN INVESTMENTS The Marriage of Figaro. They made a generous gift to the Nuveen Investments, represented by Lyric Board member John P. Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s Amboian, has been an enthusiastic supporter of Lyric Opera for future. Sylvia is Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School. She is founder over three decades. Dedicated to developing the next generation of and chair of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and Law at Brandeis and is opera lovers, Nuveen Investments has most recently cosponsored co-editor of its book series (Brandeis University Press). Dan is President, Chairman Lyric Unlimited’s family productions The Magic Victrola(2014/15) and Co-Founder of the Compass Lexecon consulting firm. He is the Lee and Brena and The Family Barber(2013/14), has provided general support of Freeman Professor of Law and Business Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law Lyric’s education and community engagement initiatives, and has School. Lyric is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Production John P. Amboian underwritten NEXT student Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. discount tickets. Nuveen Investments has also cosponsored several mainstage opera productions, THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION Lyric’s Radio Broadcasts, and has recently During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg committed a leadership gift to the Breaking New were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and sub- Ground Campaign. scribed for more than 30 years. They were especially supportive of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan OPTUMRX Opera Center and loved to watch these young artists As one of the country’s largest and most innovative pharmacy benefits perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Jerry Nerenberg managers, Lyric Opera is grateful for OptumRx’s leadership support and his wife Elaine passed away in 2005 and 2007, of the Breaking New Ground Campaign. OptumRx, formerly Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome Catamaran, has also cosponsored Rising Stars in Concert, an annual and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants showcase of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ Ensemble, for four consecutive seasons. Lyric is proud to have thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. OptumRx’s Chairman and CEO Mark Thierer serve on its Board of Mark Thierer Directors. NIB FOUNDATION Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia and MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN William Florian established the NIB Foundation to extend their support Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the to many worthwhile arts and environmental causes. The Florians are Lyric Opera family. They have subscribed to Lyric for devoted members of the Lyric family, having subscribed to Lyric for two decades and enjoy participating in special events more than three decades. The NIB Foundation continues to cosponsor such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Auction. many mainstage productions, most recently Tannhäuser (2014/15) and The Osborns have generously contributed to the Annual this season’s production of Romeo and Juliet. The Foundation made a Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Sonia Florian significant and deeply appreciated contribution to Lyric’s endowment, the Campaign for Excellence, the Breaking New Ground establishing The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair, and the NIB Foundation Campaign, and Wine Auctions. Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s made major contributions to the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Board, was Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, and Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman the NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to and CEO, is a leading member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided a naming gift for the Florian POWERSHARES QQQ Opera Bistro located on the third floor of the Civic Opera House. Sonia Florian is a vital PowerShares QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing Director, member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Production Sponsorship Invesco PowerShares Global ETFs, is proud to sponsor the arts as a Committee, and was awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in 2015 new corporate partner of Lyric Opera. For the 2015/16 season, they for her outstanding commitment to the company. will be cosponsoring the productions of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet. The PowerShares global network recognizes the value in help- JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLS ing investors around the world, but with headquarters in Downers Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, John Grove, we also support Lyric D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly supported the Dan Draper Opera’s deep engagement with the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of the Renée local community to foster a rich culture of arts right Fleming Initiative. By providing major support to Lyric’s here in Chicago. endowment, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols established the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Music Director Endowed Chair. Principal Dressing Room 110 is named in their honor due to their very benevolent contribution to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ significant leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. Retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Chairman and CEO of The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity of John and Alexandra Nichols.

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PRINCE CHARITABLE TRUSTS LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION The Prince Charitable Trusts support a broad array of programs in Chicago, Washington, A graduate of the University of Illinois and life-long arts philanthropist Lloyd E. DC, and Rhode Island, and Lyric Opera is fortunate to be among the beneficiaries of the Rigler established the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation in 1977 in generosity of the Trusts’ Chicago and Washington, DC branches. Last season, the Prince memory of his partner to provide major support to arts organizations in Los Angeles Charitable Trusts were Diamond Patrons of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond and nationwide. In 1994, the late Mr. Rigler established Classic Arts Showcase in Ball in honor of Lyric’s esteemed Women’s Board, which includes Diana Prince and an effort to provide free arts programming to those who could not afford to attend Meredith Wood-Prince as members. The Trusts also provided principal support for Lyric’s live performances. Mr. Rigler’s nephew James Rigler now serves as President of the world premiere of Bel Canto through their award of the 2013 Prince Foundation and continues the important legacy established by his uncle. As Lyric strives Prize for Commissioning Original Work to composer Jimmy López, to expand its reach and relevance, it is grateful to the Rigler-Deutsch Foundation for as well as sponsoring the summer 2014 workshop presentation of the its support of the annual Operathon broadcast on 98.7WFMT and future production piece. The Prince Charitable Trusts have supported Lyric’s Annual sponsorship support. Campaign, Wine Auction, Building on Greatness Campaign, and Great Opera Fund, and were cosponsors of the 2004/05 Ring Cycle. BETSY and ANDY ROSENFIELD Lyric is grateful for the devotion of Andrew M. and Betsy PRITZKER FOUNDATION Bergman Rosenfield, who are active members of the Lyric The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of arts Opera family. Andy served as a member of the Board of and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric Opera Directors from 1993 to 2007, and Betsy is a leader on of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker Foundation’s Lyric’s esteemed Women’s Board, having chaired last generous support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign season’s Opening Night Dinner and Performance. The to underwrite the Pritzker Family Concert Shell, designed Rosenfields provided generous gifts to last year’s 60th by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and Studio Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball and Opening Night, having previously Gang architects. Lyric Opera is honored to have Life supported the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign. Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. MR. and MRS. EDWARD B. ROUSE Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker A dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Compensation Committee, Ted Rouse and his wife PwC Barbara are enthusiastic supporters of Lyric Opera’s special A world-wide leader in business consulting, PwC is events and have contributed faithfully to the Annual a prominent member of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Campaign. Ted serves as Vice President and Director of Business Ensemble. PwC has staunchly supported Bain and Company, Inc., a generous corporate cosponsor Lyric’s Annual Campaign for over three decades, of Fantasy of the Opera and Wine Auction for more than underwriting such special projects as production two decades. Ted and Barbara have personally invested in Lyric’s future with gifts to the sponsorship, the Board of Directors Annual Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is grateful Meeting, and Lyric Signature Events. PwC has for the friendship of Ted and Barbara Rouse. John Oleniczak Vinay Couto provided a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, having previously supported PATRICK G. RYAN and SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN the Campaign for Excellence. Lyric is fortunate to receive generous in-kind consulting Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication of services this season from Strategy&, formerly Booz and Co., now a part of PwC. Lyric Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when they Opera is proud to have several PwC representatives as members of the Lyric family: first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have shared John Oleniczak, PwC’s Midwest Region Assurance Managing Partner, serves on Lyric’s their leadership, talents, vision, and resources to advance Board of Directors, Executive Committee and as Chairman of the Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, the Ryans have Audit Committee; Vinay Couto, Strategy&’s Senior Vice President, contributed generously to the Annual Campaign, the Great serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee; Opera Fund, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in and Maggie Rock Adams, PwC’s Greater Chicago Marketing Leader, 1988), and the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Guild Board. for which Lyric named the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family Rehearsal Center located backstage to honor their major contribution. In recognition DAVID RAMON of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for the generous contribution to the Breaking New a recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For several seasons, they have sponsored Ground Campaign from David Ramon in honor of Lyric’s legendary late President and Lyric Opera Commentaries, underwriting this special project to honor the memory of CEO Kenneth G. Pigott. their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, and supported the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Diamond Patrons last season. In MR. and MRS. WILLIAM H. REDFIELD recognition of their extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric’s premier Longtime subscribers and members of the Chapter artist development program was renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera community, Bill and Marilyn Redfield made significant Center. Lyric is deeply grateful for their major leadership gift to the Breaking New planned gifts to ensure Lyric’s future. In honor of their Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation Initiative. A Vice President and a love of beautiful singing, they have underwritten the Bel member of the Executive and Innovation Committees of Lyric’s Board of Directors Canto Endowed Chair as part of the Look to the Future and a distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was Campaign. In recognition of their commitment to the awarded the 2008 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of Breaking New Ground Campaign, their name appears on her many years of devoted service to the opera company. Mezzanine Box 3 in honor of their munificent generosity and steadfast dedication to preserve Lyric Opera as one of the cultural crown jewels of the Midwest. DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES children, families and educational enrichment through the Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of Lyric’s Lyric family. Immediate Past President of Lyric’s Women’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities available Board, Anne was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Board to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Each year, of Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Committees; these widely accessible performances at the Civic Opera Chris is also a valued member of the Board of Directors, House reach audiences of junior high and high school and serves on its Nominating/Governance Committee. Jack and Catherine Scholl students, many of whom are experiencing opera for the Together they have made important contributions to first time. The Foundation has generously supported family presentations of The Magic Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage productions, most Victrola (2014/15) and The Family Barber(2013/14). Lyric Opera is deeply grateful recently Carousel (2014/15). They have staunchly supported Wine Auctions 2009, to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing support of Student Matinees/ 2012, and 2015, were Diamond Patrons of last season’s 60th Anniversary Concert Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine A. and Jack E. Scholl, who and Diamond Ball, and are major supporters of the Annual Campaign. In addition, championed cultural and institutional education. they provided significant and much appreciated gifts to the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. This season, Chris and Anne Reyes provide leadership support for Lyric Unlimited’s world premiere of Second Nature, a new opera for youth written by Matthew Aucoin.

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EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION THE WALLACE FOUNDATION Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda The Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the everyone. Wallace has an unusual approach: funding projects to test innovative ideas Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. for solving important social problems, conducting research to find out what works and The Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, most what doesn’t and to fill key knowledge gaps – and then communicating the results to recently The Passenger(2014/15). Lyric is honored to have Brenda help others. Lyric Opera is the recipient of a multi- Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as the Executive, phase grant as part of the Foundation’s Building Brenda Shapiro Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. Audiences for Sustainability initiative; the grant will fund research and analysis of Lyric Opera audiences, LIZ STIFFEL and reveal ways in which Lyric can maximize its reach A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a in the community. Lyric’s work will inform lessons prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a longstanding that will be shared with the broader field. member of the Guild Board of Directors. She has generously supported The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, and ROBERTA L. and has underwritten the Opening Night Pre-Opera Cocktail Buffet, the ROBERT J. WASHLOW Opera Ball Reception, and the Wine Auction Honored Guest Dinner. Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished members of This past season, Liz Stiffel was a Diamond Patron of the celebratory the Lyric family. For more than three decades, they have 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Previously, Liz Stiffel was the Lead Sponsor enjoyed attending Lyric performances and special events, of the Renée Fleming Subscriber Appreciation Concert (2010/11) and the Stars of Lyric and have generously supported the Annual Campaign. Opera at Millennium Park concert (2013/14), and she generously cosponsored several Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, and Errant Families mainstage productions, most recently Carousel (2014/15). She has also supported Lyric’s sponsored more than 20 Lyric productions. Roberta and Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, and Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 1 in Bob made a generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support recognition of her significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric Unlimited activities. The Washlows have annually remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, and generously cosponsor this season’s world MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and premiere of Bel Canto. Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow as an esteemed MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE member of its Board of Directors. Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generosity and leadership of the Vance Family. For more than 20 years, MR. and MRS. ROBERT G. WEISS Mrs. Herbert A. Vance provided Lead Sponsorship of Lyric is honored to have found dedicated friends in Robert Opera in the Neighborhoods, one of Lyric’s most popular and Floretta Weiss. Subscribers since shortly after Lyric’s youth-enrichment programs. The Vances have generously inception, the Weisses have long been a pillar of the Lyric sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric premieres and new Opera community. A cherished member of the Women’s productions, most recently Oklahoma! (2012/13), The Board, Flo has supported board activities with her time Sound of Music (2013/14), Carousel (2014/15), and this and generous commitment for many years. Together, season’s The King and .I For many years, the Vances have Bob and Flo have contributed regularly to the Annual Carol and William Vance supported young singers through their sponsorship of Campaign and have given leadership gifts to the Great Opera Fund, the Building on Ryan Opera Center ensemble members. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking New contributed to the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Ground Campaign. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the longstanding devotion of Bob and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is an esteemed and Flo Weiss. member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Compensation, and Executive Committees. He also serves on the Ryan Opera Center Board, of which he is a past President. MR. and MRS. ROBERT E. WOOD II Rob and Susan Wood have been steadfast members of the Lyric Opera family for more DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION than three decades. Rob Wood serves as a distinguished Life Director of the Board. Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, Together, the Woods have contributed leadership gifts to the Great Opera Fund, and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the encouraging talented young artists in her roles as a Ryan Opera Breaking New Ground Campaign. They are loyal subscribers and generous supporters Center Distinguished Benefactor and Lead Sponsor of Rising of the Annual Campaign, and Lyric Opera is forever grateful for their friendship. Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people HELEN and SAM ZELL to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported Lyric’s Helen and Sam Zell are passionate supporters of Chicago’s Donna Van Eekeren Performances for Students, NEXT Discount Tickets for College vibrant cultural scene. They are longtime subscribers to Students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods, as well as Fantasy of Lyric Opera and have contributed to the Annual Campaign the Opera and as a Singer Sponsor for the Ryan Opera Center. This season, the Donna and special projects, including the Wine Auction, for many Van Eekeren Foundation generously cosponsors The Merry Widow, having previously years. Helen and Sam Zell have previously cosponsored cosponsored several mainstage productions. Donna also made a leadership gift to the several new productions, and this season are generous Breaking New Ground Campaign to secure Lyric’s future. Executive Chairman of Land cosponsors of Lyric’s world premiere Bel Canto. O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Production Sponsorship Committees, ANNE ZENZER and on the Ryan Opera Center Board. A dedicated subscriber and longtime member of the Guild Board, Lyric is proud to recognize Anne Zenzer for her generous planned gift as part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign. A partner at Witt/Kieffer Associates, and a lifelong opera enthusiast and staunch supporter of the Annual Campaign, Anne has ensured Lyric’s bright future through her thoughtful commitment and charitable Anne Zenzer and husband foresight. Dominick DeLuca

54 | November 1 - 21, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

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. The Breaking New Ground Campaign was launched in January 2013 to implement the company’s blueprint for a world-class, twenty-first century opera company. Breaking New Ground allows 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 also contributes toward updated media, marketing and audience development programs, and strengthens 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 following donors who have made generous contributions to the Campaign as of September 1, 2015.

Anonymous Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Jack and Peggy Crowe The Monument Trust (UK) Maurice and Patricia Frank The Negaunee Foundation ITW John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Edgar D. Jannotta Family J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan NIB Foundation Pritzker Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance David and Orit Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Ada and Whitney Addington Nancy W. Knowles James N. and Laurie V. Bay Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Bulley & Andrews Paul and Amy Carbone Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Considine Abbott and Abbott Fund Brent and Katie Gledhill The Crown Family Ethel and William Gofen Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson Jenner & Block Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Jim and Kay Mabie Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Anonymous (2) Nuveen Investments Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin OptumRx The Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Sheila and David Ormesher Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn The Harris Family Foundation PwC Richard P. and Susan Kiphart David Ramon Josef and Margot Lakonishok Robert H. Malott John and Ann Amboian Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Robert and Evelyn McCullen Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Northern Trust Anne Zenzer Susan and Robert E. Wood II

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Breaking New Ground - continued

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Maura Ann McBreen Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Matt and Carrie Parr The Barker Welfare Foundation Patricia Hyde Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Marion A. Cameron William C. and Nancy Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Nancy Dehmlow Collin and Lili Roche Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Marsha Serlin Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Mary Stowell Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust U.S. Bank Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Sue and Melvin Gray Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Rolandi David and Linda Wesselink Stephen A. Kaplan and Alyce K. Sigler Davis Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Erika E. Erich Anonymous Lavin Family Foundation Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Robert M. Arensman Blythe Jaski McGarvie James R. Grimes Jane B. and John C. Colman Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan J. Cellmer Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Drs. George and Sally Dunea Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor James and Mary Houston Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Edward B. Rouse and Barbara R. Rouse Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. Washlow The King Family Foundation Carrie and Harry Hightman Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Richard and Susan Levy Kenneth R. Norgan Lester and Mary Jane Marriner Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Kate B. Morrison John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family Howard Solomon and Sarah Billinghurst Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Foundation Solomon David J. Varnerin Vinay Couto and Lynn Vincent Michal C. Wadsworth Ann M. Drake E. M. Bakwin Pam and David Waud Lois Eisen Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mrs. John A. Wing Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis Howard E. Jessen

Look To The Future ENDOWED CHAIRS Regenstein Foundation Mozart Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED PROGRAM The Women’s Board General Director Endowed In Memory 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 The Guild Board of Directors Verdi LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED FUNDS Director Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Estate of Robert and Isabelle Bass Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift From An George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair Anonymous Donor Education 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 Estate of Marjorie A. Mayhall Director Endowed Chair Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting Robert and Ellen Marks American Opera Lois B. Siegel Endowed 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 Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Bel Canto Vocal Studies Program Endowed Chair Opera Endowed Chair In Honor Of Gianna Rolandi PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND W. James and Maxine P. Farrell French Opera Allan and Elaine Muchin Production and Endowed Chair Technical 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 Endowed Chair Chair In Memory Of Harold Beider

56 | November 1 - 21, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors Special Event and Project Support Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects during the 2015/16 Season. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and more were received by September 1, 2015.

Annual Meeting Dinner Opera Ball Operathon Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & ITW Ardmore Associates Scott LLP Northern Trust Walgreens Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company 98.7WFMT Opera Ball Reception Backstage Tours Lisbeth Stiffel Operathon Challenge Grants Amy and Paul Carbone Anonymous Opera Ball Grand March Amsted Industries Foundation Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata The Hurvis Family Foundation Scott LLP Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta With Matching Funding by: Sir Andrew Davis and Opening Night Gala and Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family Opera Ball Fund Renée Fleming The John and Jackie Bucksbaum Family Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Abbott Ada and Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich Gross Cast Parties John and Ann Amboian Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Lyric Opera Chapters Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Brian Arbetter Lyric Opera Overture Society Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. David Batanian Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Mrs. William B. Graham BMO Harris Bank Mr. and Mrs. James McClung Robert and Evelyn McCullen Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Egon and Dorothy Menker Lisbeth Stiffel Amy and Paul Carbone Allan and Elaine Muchin Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss closerlook, inc. Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Champagne Onstage The Crown Family Dr. David Thurn Albert and Rita Lacher Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown DLA Piper LLP (US) and Partner Operathon Merchandise Sponsor Grand Benefactor Dinners Marilyn Pearson Fellowes, Inc. Latham & Watkins LLP Lois and Steve Eisen Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Overture Society Luncheons Dmitri Hvorostovsky Reception Brent and Katie Gledhill Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Susan M. Miller Innovation Initiative Jenner & Block Planned Giving Seminars Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Ann and Gregory K. Jones Richard P. and Susan Kiphart William Blair & Company The King and I Gala Nancy W. Knowles Morgan Stanley Lead Sponsor: The Lavin Family Foundation Projected English Titles Zurich Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Mayer Brown LLP Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Lyric After Hours Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Renée Fleming Initiative Lyric Young Professionals Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Anonymous Lyric Signature Events J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe The Crown Family PwC Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis United Scrap Metal, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva U.S. Bank Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Official Airline Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan American Airlines Paul Wood and The Honorable Corinne Wood Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Official Piano ofBel Canto Season Preview Concert Steingraeber & Söhne Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Opening Night Gala Patricia Hyde Lake Geneva Chapter Aon

November 1 - 21, 2015 | 57 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Dan Novak Craig Terry Julia Faulkner Renée Fleming Faculty Director Music Director Director of Vocal Studies Advisor Julia Faulkner The Ryan Opera Center Jannotta Family The Elizabeth F. Cheney Gianna Rolandi Board Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Foundation W. Stephen Smith Voice Instruction Robert and Ellen Marks Vocal Studies Program Ensemble Endowed Chair in honor of Gianna Rolandi

Deborah Birnbaum Stephanie Blythe Sir Andrew Davis Matthew A. Epstein Renée Fleming Gerald Martin Moore Edith Wiens Guest Master Artists

Alan Darling Laurann Gilley Celeste Rue Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-soprano Mezzo-soprano HLENGIWE DIANA LAURA LINDSAY ANNIE Eric Weimer MKHWANAZI NEWMAN WILDE METZGER ROSEN Pedro Yanez Coaching Staff Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sade Akkoek Susan and Richard Susan Ipsen an Anonymous Donor an Anonymous Donor Friends of Derek Matson Kiphart Mrs. J. W. Mrs. J. W. Oliver Dragon Marina Vecci Drs. Funmi and Van Gorkom Van Gorkom Sola Olopade Alessandra Visconti Melissa Wittmeier Foreign Language Instruction

Kelly Bremner Kristina Fluty Erik Friedman Irene Marquette Acting and Movement Instruction

Orit Carpenter Performance Psychology

Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Baritone Roger Pines ALEC JESSE JONATHAN MINGJIE ANTHONY Guest Lecturer and CARLSON DONNER JOHNSON LEI CLARK EVANS Consultant Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Artistic/Production Stepan Company Robert C. Marks Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. and Richard O. Ryan Susan M. Miller William C. Vance Patricia Frank Richard W. Shepro Personnel and Lindsay E. Roberts Michael Christie Warren Jones Conductors

Erik Friedman Paula Suozzi Directors

Sarah Hatten Wigs and Makeup

John W. Coleman Stage Manager

Theresa Ham Lucy Lindquist Baritone Bass-baritone Bass Bass Pianist Maureen Reilly TAKAOKI RICHARD PATRICK BRADLEY MARIO ANTONIO Wardrobe ONISHI OLLARSABA GUETTI SMOAK MARRA Administration Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Jimmy Byrne The Handa Lois B. Siegel The C. G. Pinnell The Elizabeth F. Heidi Heutel Bohn Manager Foundation Drs. Joan and Russ Family Cheney Foundation Lawrence O. Corry Zajtchuk Philip G. Lumpkin Laura Chambers Administrative Coordinator Wendy Skoczen Staff Librarian

58 | November 1 - 21, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center ROBERT KUSEL 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, 2014 and September 1, 2015. Rising Stars in Concert, 2015 Artist Support, Special Event, and Project Sponsors Duds for Divas Training Program Artist Circle Heidi Heutel Bohn National Endowment for the Arts ($5,000 to $9,999) Lawrence O. Corry Anonymous Anne Gross Voice Instruction L. Robert Artoe Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory C. Bekerman, M.D. Final Auditions Mary Ellen Hennessy Doris Conant The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Jennifer L. Stone Anne Megan Davis The Cozad Family Thomas Doran WFMT Recital Series Lafayette J. Ford Foreign Language Instruction Julie and Roger Baskes Virginia and Gary Gerst Erma S. Medgyesy James and Mary Houston Workshop Performances Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Guest Master Artist Martha A. Hesse Genevieve Phelps The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Julie Schwertfeger and Alexander Zajczenko General Support Marilee and Richard Wehman Launchpad Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Marcus Boggs Aria Society ($100,000 and above) Master Classes Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Martha A. Hesse Platinum Distinguished Benefactors Rising Stars In Concert ($50,000 to $99,999) National Auditions Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory March 21, 2015 American Airlines McDougal Family Foundation Lead Sponsor: Renée Fleming Master Class Distinguished Benefactors Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Julian Family Foundation ($25,000 to $49,999) Sponsors: Ingrid Peters Singer Sponsors/Cosponsors Julie and Roger Baskes Ann M. Drake Anonymous (2) Mentors Heidi Heutel Bohn Sue and Melvin Gray ($10,000 to $24,999) Patricia A. Kenney and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Lawrence O. Corry Gregory J. O’Leary Heidi Heutel Bohn Susan and Richard Kiphart Friends of Oliver Dragon Hal Coon Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Erika Erich Family Foundation The Handa Foundation Renée Fleming Susan Ipsen Frank B. Modruson and Sue and Melvin Gray Lynne C. Shigley Susan and Richard Kiphart Illinois Arts Council Philip G. Lumpkin OptumRx Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Richard Pearlman Trust Robert C. Marks USMC Memorial Fund Susan M. Miller Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Cosponsor: Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Susan M. Miller The C. G. Pinnell Family The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Richard O. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Rising Stars In Concert Broadcast Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Lois B. Siegel The George L. Shields Foundation Stepan Company Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Rising Stars In Concert Reception Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Dan and Patty Walsh Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Walter Family Foundation Debbie K. Wright

November 1 - 21, 2015 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited With Major Support From The Hurvis Family Foundation

Bel Canto Symposium Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Pre-Opera Talks Katherine A. Abelson Educational Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Endowment Fund Helyn D. Goldenberg The Kip Kelley Family The Wallace Foundation The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation- James and Michele Young Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund Caminos a la ópera (Pathways to Opera) Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Senior Matinee U.S. Bank Daniel Lome Buehler Family Foundation Northern Trust Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Chicago Voices Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Louise H. Landau Foundation The Chicago Community Trust The Wallace Foundation Lannan Foundation City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Dr. Sondra C. Rabin and Special Events Lyric Express The Retirement Research Foundation The Ford Foundation Tawani Foundation The Siragusa Foundation Adam and Harriette Swierz Donor-Advised Fund General Support NEXT Student Ticket Program Leadership Funding: Lead Sponsor: Student Backstage Tours The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Grainger Foundation John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Additional Funding By: Cosponsors: Daniel T. Manoogian Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Archer Daniels Midland Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Vocal Partnership Program The Barker Welfare Foundation The Brinson Foundation Bank of America Baxter International, Inc. The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Helen Brach Foundation Elaine Frank Youth Opera Council Nancy Dehmlow Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Terry J. Medhurst Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Patricia Hyde Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Richard B. Egen NiSource Envestnet Satter Family Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation

With Major Support Provided by the Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances Fund Second Nature Performances for Students Lead Sponsor: Additional Support from: Anonymous J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Norman and Virginia Bobins/ Baird The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Cosponsors: Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Foundation Anonymous The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Foundation Joyce E. Chelberg General Mills Foundation Dover Foundation Opera in the Neighborhoods John Hart and Carol Prins Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Anonymous Dr. Scholl Foundation Brent and Katie Gledhill Opera Residencies in Schools Segal Family Foundation Goldman Sachs Anonymous Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Kenneth R. Norgan BNY Mellon Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Walter Family Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Wintrust Community Banks

Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park

Lead Sponsor: Cosponsors: Crain-Maling Foundation closerlook, inc. Anonymous (2) Ernst & Young LLP Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Marlys A. Beider Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater Funds Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation Sipi Metals Corp. Music Performance Trust Fund and Film Fund

60 | November 1 - 21, 2015 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 twenty-first 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 Senior Director of Planned Giving, at (312) 827-5677. Anonymous (15) Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson Concordia Hoffmann James and Mary Beth Morehouse Charles Chris Shaw Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Edgar D. Jannotta Allan and Elaine Muchin Rose L. Shure Valerie and Joseph Abel Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng John and Kerma Karoly Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy Lois B. Siegel Louise Abrahams Robert F. Finke Kip Kelley David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Larry G. Simpson Dr. Whitney Addington Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone James C. Kemmerer John H. Nelson Craig Sirles Karen G. Andreae Roy Fisher LeRoy and Laura Klemt John D. and Alexandra C. Mrs. Jay Spaulding Catherine Aranyi Elaine Frank Nancy W. Knowles Nichols Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel L. Robert Artoe Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and William A. Osborn Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Rhoda and Henry S. Frank Dr. W. Peter Hansen Joan L. Pantsios Mary Stowell Marlys A. Beider Richard J. Franke Dr. William R. Lawrence Irma Parker Gerald Sunko, M.D. Julie Anne Benson George and Mary Ann Gardner Thomas and Lise Lawson André and Julia Pernet Carla M. Thorpe Merrill and Judy Blau James K. Genden and Carol L. Linne Frances Pietch Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Ann Blickensderfer Alma Koppedraijer Daniel T. Manoogian Kenneth Porrello and Phil and Paula Turner Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Sue and Melvin Gray Robert C. Marks Sherry McFall Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason Danolda (Dea) Brennan Harry J. Griffiths, M.D. Paul Mavros Nathaniel W. Pusey Joan and Marco Weiss George F. and Linda L. Brusky Julian W. Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Mrs. Robert G. Weiss David W. Carpenter William E. and Mary Gannon Nancy Lauter McDougal Lyn and Bill Redfield Claudia L. Winkler James W. Chamberlain Hay Bill Melamed Joan L. Richards Florence Winters Paula Hannaway Crown Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Margaret and Craig Milkint Chatka Ruggiero Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Renée Crown Mrs. John C. Hedley Susan M. Miller Mary T. Schafer Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Thomas Doran Josephine E. Heindel David and Justine K. Mintzer Martha P. Schneider Edward T. Zasadil

Society Members Anonymous (45) Joseph E. Corrigan James R. Grimes Mary S. Kurz George R. Paterson Carol A. Abrioux Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Patricia Grogan Larry Lapidus Dr. Joan E. Patterson Mrs. Robert L. Anderson B. A. Coussement Carolyn Hallman Barbara K. Larsen George Pepper, M.D. Elizabeth M. Ashton Morton and Una Creditor Carl J. Halperin Millicent Leibfritz Ira J. Peskind Richard N. Bailey Kathryn M. Cunningham Mrs. Elaine Hansen Ernest L. Lester Elizabeth Anne Peters David G. Baker Donald A. Deutsch CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Levy Genevieve M. Phelps Susann Ball Phyllis Diamond Ms. Geraldine Haracz Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Karen and Dick Pigott Constance and Liduina Barbantini Roger Dickinson Andrew Hatchell Carole F. Liebson Ms. Lois Polakoff Margaret Basch Ms. Janet E. Diehl William P. Hauworth Doris C. Lorz Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Mrs. Bill Beaton Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Eva Lutovsky Mrs. Edward S. Price Alvin R. Beatty Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Dobroski Ronald G. Hedberg Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Robert L. Rappel, Jr. Joan I. Berger Ms. Barbara J. Doerner Mary Mako Helbert Jeanne Randall Malkin Sherrie Kahn Reddick Barbara Bermudez Thomas M. Dolan Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Ann Chassin Mallow Keith A. Reed and Patrick J. Bitterman Mary Louise Duhamel Mrs. Marion Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Beth Kesterson Reed M. J. Black Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. James and Mary Lunz Houston Mrs. John Jay Markham Michael and Susan “Holly” Reiter Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Kathy Dunn H. Eileen Howard James Massie and Evelyn R. Richer Ned and Raynette Boshell Richard L. Eastline Joseph H. Huebner Dr. Christine Winter Massie Jennie M. Righeimer David Boyce Carol A. Eastman Kenneth N. Hughes Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak Gerald L. Ritholz Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Lowell and Judy Eckberg Dagmar Hurbanek James G. and Laura G. McCormick Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Robert and Phyllis Brauer Lucy A. Elam, Michael Huskey Gia and Paul McDermott Howard M. and Mary Raffetto- Mrs. William A. Briggs in memory of Elizabeth Elam Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Florence D. McMillan Robins Leona and Daniel Bronstein Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman USMC Memorial Fund Leoni Zverow McVey and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Candace Balfour Broecker and the Cherelynn A. Elliott Barbara A. Joabson J. William McVey in memory of Robert Kyts Estate of Howard W. Broecker Terrence M. W. Ellsworth John Arthur Johnson Martina M. Mead Mrs. Beth Wheeler Rome Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown Joseph R. Ender Laurence P. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader James and Janet Rosenbaum Kathryn Y. Brown Dr. James A. Eng Nancy E. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Dr. John Gregory Russo Jacqueline Brumlik Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Engel Roy A. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Mesrobian Joseph C. Russo Donna Brunsma Martha L. Faulhaber Ms. Barbara Mair Jones Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Dennis Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Nadine Ferguson Janet Jones Ms. Barbara Terman Michaels Eugene Rzym, in memory of Steven and Helen Buchanan Felicia Finkelman Moreen C. Jordan Marilyn E. Miller Adaline Rzym Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Dr. Anne Juhasz Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills David Sachs and Mr. William Burger Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Robert and Lois Moeller Mrs. Philip H. Schaff, Jr. Muriel A. Burnet Ms. Susan Frankel Stuart Kane Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Franklin R. Schmidt Lisa Bury Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Lois K. Schmidt Robert J. Callahan Allen J. Frantzen Kenneth Kelling Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Munoz Edwin J. Seeboeck Patrick V. Casali Dr. Paul Froeschl Paul R. Keske Dr. Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Donald Seibert Esther Charbit Marie and Gregory Fugiel Chuck and Kathy Killman Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nickels Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Diana Hunt King Edward A. Nieminen David A. Sherman Ramona Choos Lady Witton Neil King Florence C. Norstrom Jared Shlaes J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Susan Boatman Garland Esther G. Klatz James F. Oates Dr. Alfred L. and Mildred Siegel Heinke K. Clark Scott P. George R. William Klein, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Joanne Silver Robert and Margery Coen Mr. Lyle Gillman J. Peter Kline Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Jonathan P. Siner Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Conroy John F. Gilmore Helen Kohr Stephen S. Orphanos Joan M. Skepnek Sharon Conway John A. Goldstein Dr. Bruce Korth Jonathan F. Orser Norman and Mirella Smith Sarah J. Cooney Dr. J. Brian Greis Shirley Krsinich Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Parsons Joan M. Solbeck

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Mary Soleiman Emily J. Su Paul and Judith Tuszynski Karl N. Wechter Caroline C. Wheeler Elaine Soter Peggy Sullivan Ultmann Family Charitable Patricia M. Wees Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Ms. Geraldine A. Spatz Sherwin A. Swartz Remainder Unitrust Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Nora Winsberg James A. Staples Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Marlene A. Van Skike Claude M. Weil David G. Winter Sherie B. Stein Cheryl L. Thaxton Raita Vilnins Eric Weimer and Edwin Hanlon Brien and Cathy Wloch K. M. Stelletello Lauritz K. Thomsen Dr. Malcolm Vye Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Mrs. William Wunder J. Allyson Stern Karen Hletko Tiersky Darcy Lynn Walker Joanna L. Weiss Dr. Debra L. Zahay Carol A. Stitzer Myron Tiersky Gary T. Walther James M. Wells Daniel R. Zillmann Norene W. Stucka Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Albert Wang Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Audrey A. Zywicki Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Jean M. Turnmire Louella Krueger Ward Sandra Wenner

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) Carl Dumke Richard J. Hofemann Thomas G. Neumiller Paige L. Smith Mrs. Julius Abler Mrs. Ray Duncan Martha and Walter Honigman John and Maynette Neundorf Irene Smoller, in memory Mrs. Elmer E. Abrahamson Bettie B. Dwinell Carl E. Horn Mrs. Frances Newman of her late son, Arthur A. Acheson Barbara H. Eckholt Hugh Johnston Hubbard Jaye and Piri Niefeld William Rothwell Smoller Jean L. Acker Carl B. Eklund Mrs. Alfred Jacobshagen Elisabeth A. Noel Willis B. Snell Dr. Anne Hardwick Addington Kelli Gardner Emery Deborah Jannotta Joan Ruck Nopola Marilyn J. Snoble Ralph E. Adler William J. Evans Lenore S. John William A. Novy, Jr. Anna Sovish Estate of Beth Ann Alberding- Milton D. Faber Albert J. Johnson Mary S. Oldberg Jay Spaulding Mohr Yvette Fairshter Diana T. Jones Roberta R. Oliff Eleanore E. Starek Trust Donald Alderman Dr. James D. Fenters Phyllis A. Jones Rex N. Olsen Clarke and Adine Stayman Trusts Dr. Harry S. and Irene K. Arkin Larry Ferguson Dr. Stephen E. Juhasz Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson James L. Stein Trust Lorin Adrian Fillmore Joseph M. Kacena Edmond and Alice Opler Franz S. Steinitz, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson Armour III Marguerite B. Finch Andrew Karzas Foundation Robert D. Stewart Joan Armstrong Harold Finley Theodore Kassel Mary G. Oppenheim Howard A. Stotler James Ascareggi Robert A. Fischer Sherry Kelley Eugenia Patche Frank D. Stout Trust James E. S. Baker Agnes Joern Fowler Dorothy E. Kemp Suzanne Pirie Pattou Lucile L. and Joseph J. Strasburger Elsa F. Bandi Brena and Lee Freeman Miss Emily Kernkamp, in memory Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Gertrude & Walter E. Swanson, Jr. Vincent Barresi Don B. Freeman of Dr. Lorraine McGuire Fund for Music Foundation Estate of Patricia Anne Barton Mrs. Charles Goodlett Frey Ms. Ruth Kiewe Ralph M. Perlick Mr. and Mrs. Morton F. Swift Robert and Isabelle Bass Lucille Friday Mrs. Israel Kirsh Bendix L. Peterson Helen L. Teich Mrs. Henry Beard Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Robert Kispert Mrs. Howard R. Peterson Dean Terrell Estate Mrs. B. Edward Bensinger Robert M. Friedman R. Eustice Klein Harold H. and Elaine Plaut Glenn E. Thiel Mrs. Edwin P. Berndtson Robert S. Friend Russell V. Kohr Sidney L. Port Joseph Tiritilli Velma Berry Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Muriel Kolinsky Jack and Eleanor Portis Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Rev. Dr. Warren Best Betsy Thayer Fricke Fyfe Ardis Krainik Joann M. Potvliet Annuity Trust Mrs. Edward McCormick Blair Mrs. Hildreth Jane Gaebe Herman Kuhn Frank J. Prah Estate of Ruben Tross Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Blettner In memory of Carl and Fern Anne C. Lacovic Hal Pritchard Edgar William Trout Mary L. Block Gaensslen Medard C. Lange Trust William Reily John T. Trutter Berenece A. Boehm Florence Gambino Marjorie Lanterman Gayle Ann Rentschler Dr. John E. Ultmann Raymond J. Bradley Mrs. Nicholas Gannam Susanne E. Larsh William G. Rice Dr. Paul D. Urnes Joanell C. Breen Dr. Martin L. Gecht Walter Leibfritz Michael Richter John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley John P. Britz Trust In memory of Larry W. Gelfius, Louis L. Lerner and Theresa M. Rill Trust Theresa J. Brosamer member of the Lyric Opera David L. Lerner Gerald L. Ritholz Irvin J. Valovic Mrs. T. von Donop Buddington Lecture Corps Mrs. John Woodworth Leslie Rosemary D. Roberts Sheila von Wiese-Mack Inge Burg George Gifford Robert C. Lietz Harry A. Root Cecilia Wade Charitable Trust Nara Cadorin Rosalie E. Gingiss Trust Dean A. Linton Rev. George Nash Ross Nancy L. Wald Madeleine G. Camilleri Alfred Glasser Dr. Richard A. Livingston H. Cary Ross Lydia Walkowiak Carol N. Cane Joe Richard Glover Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd Norman Ross Charitable Trust Adele A. Wallace Elizabeth Capilupo Carlyn E. Goettsch Rosalie Loeding George M. Rubenstein Carmen W. Walsh Rose Mary Carter Myles C. and Gloria M. Gogan Arthur B. Logan Arthur Rubloff Residuary Trust Lois L. Ward Warren Choos Jane Yager Goodman Eleanor Lonek Burton Rubloff Trust Richard W. Wathen William J. Ciulla Jeanne Brown Gordon Mrs. Arthur M. Long Edith S. Ruettinger Lyman Watson Harry R. Clamor Shirley and Benjamin Gould Mary Longbrake Margaret R. Sagers Virginia O. Weaver Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Endowment Fund Babette Irene Louis Gladys S. Sailor Living Trust William D. Weaver Trust John D. Gray Dale B. Louiso Suzanne Hewson Sammann Eva L. Weber, M.D. Anne and Milton Colman Frank E. and Sarah Graydon John P. Lundin Mrs. Lee Schaenen Melvin “Bud” Weil Dorothy F. Cooney Eleanor Green Eva Lutovsky S. Leder (Lee) Schiff Ralph Weil Nelson D. Cornelius Allen Greenberger Mary Louise Maher Alice F. Schimberg Trust Mrs. Miriam T. Weiss John W. Coutts Jerome A. Gross Dr. Alexis W. Maier Trust Roy Schmaltz Susanne Wells Robert Cowell Lester and Betty Guttman Herman R. and Sylvia Margolis Katherine M. Schultz Claire M. Wilhelm Claudia Cassidy Crawford Trust Ann Hall Ellen R. Marks Robert G. Schweitzer Bernard E. Williams Kathryn Kryder Crittenden David C. Hall Mrs. Edward A. Maser Margaret W. Seeboeck Frances B. Wilson Kathleen A. Crosby Richard Halvorsen Richard M. Mattern Romana K. and Clay Seipp In memoriam, Henry J. Witka Joanne Toor Cummings Elaine H. Hansen Augustus K. Maxell, Jr. Dr. Joseph Semrow Sophie F. Wolff Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dabovich Kenneth L. Harder Trust Marjorie A. Mayhall Ingeborg Haupt Sennot Peter Wolkonsky, M.D. Ruth B. Dean Donna E. Harrison Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Michael N. Shallow Mrs. Peter Wolkonsky Richard D. Deason Dr. Melville D. Hartman Alfred L. McDougal Henry Shapiro Cynthia Wood Marianne Deson-Herstein, Mrs. Ruth M. Harwell Gerald E. Meyers Joseph Jeffrey Shedd Mrs. William Wood Prince in memory of Camille C. Hatzenbuehler Ruth J. Milner Lenore T. Sherwin Mrs. Herman E. Woods Samuel and Sarah Deson Hatti Hayes Lisa D. Mogensen Sidney N. Shure Geraldine Wuester Marjorie Louise DeBoos Thomas D. Heath Mrs. Winston C. Moore Adeline Elizabeth Sigwalt Jo Hopkins Deutsch Josephine A. Hedges Ann A. Mortenson Ellen Smith Simmons Jane Warner Dick, in honor of John C. Hedley Renate Moser Robert Slabey Edison Dick Dr. Erich and Tamara Heinrichs Dorothy Mosiman, in honor of Philip and David Slesur Family Helen L. Dickerman Trust Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Jannotta Trust The Edward & Rose Donnell J. Raymond Helbert Ms. Kathryn Mueller David Wm. Smitches Foundation James C. Hemphill Doris A. Murdoch and Paul A. Lindgren Marjorie Donovan The Margaret E. Hertline Family Muriel Neave Edward Byron Smith Mrs. Lyman Drake, Jr. Trust Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Dr. Edward C. Smith Josephine S. Dryer Margot S. Hertz Foundation Ms. Joan H. Smith Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque James and Gail Hickey Dawn Clark Netsch Mrs. Louis A. Smith

62 | November 1 - 21, 2015 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, 2014 and September 1, 2015. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above Abbott Fund ITW Northern Trust Miles D. White, Chairman & CEO E. Scott Santi, Frederick H. Waddell, President & CEO Chairman & CEO American Airlines Maria C. Green, Jana R. Schreuder Franco Tedeschi, SVP, General Counsel and Secretary Chief Operating Officer Vice President - Chicago Jenner & Block PowerShares QQQ BMO Harris Bank Craig C. Martin, Partner Dan Draper, Managing Director Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis, Group Head - Invesco PowerShares Global ETFs U. S. Retail and Business Banking JPMorgan Chase & Co. Eric S. Smith, Managing Director PwC closerlook, inc. John W. Oleniczak, Partner David T. Ormesher, CEO Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Linda K. Myers, Partner Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company Exelon Vinay Couto, Senior Vice President Chris Crane, President and CEO

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999 Aon Latham & Watkins, LLP Zurich Gregory C. Case, President & CEO Richard A. Levy, Office Managing Partner Michael T. Foley, CEO North America Commercial and Baxter International Inc. Nuveen Investments Regional Chairman of North America Robert L. Parkinson, Jr., John P. Amboian, CEO Chairman & CEO

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999 Ardmore Associates Fellowes, Inc. Sipi Metals Corp. Cherryl T. Thomas, President James E. Fellowes, Chairman & CEO Marion A. Cameron, President

Bain & Company Goldman Sachs OptumRx Edward B. Rouse, Eric L. Hirschfield, Mark A. Thierer, President & CEO Vice President & Managing Director Managing Director, Investment Banking Division Skadden Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Rodd M. Schreiber, Partner Timothy L. Christen, CEO KPMG LLP Claudia M. Saran, Advisory Partner, Spencer Stuart Bank of America U.S. Leader - People & Change Practice Kevin M. Connelly, Chairman & CEO Sharon Oberlander, Managing Director Make It Better Media Stepan Company Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Susan B. Noyes, Founder & President F. Quinn Stepan, Chairman & CEO Mark Ferguson, Founding Partner Mayer Brown LLP Underwriters Laboratories Bulley & Andrews Richard W. Shepro, Partner Keith E. Williams, President & CEO Allan E. Bulley III, President Morgan Stanley United Scrap Metal, Inc. Dover Matthew J. Parr, Managing Director Marsha Serlin, Founder & CEO Robert A. Livingston, President & CEO NiSource U.S. Bank Ernst & Young LLP Carrie J. Hightman, Marsha Cruzan, Market President Chicago Rick Fezell, EY Americas Vice Chair - Accounts Executive VP and Chief Legal Officer Walgreens Mark A. Wagner, President, Business Operations

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR • $10,000 to $24,999 Alexander & Alexander, Chicago Title and Trust Company Evans Food Group Tamsen Z, LLC Attorneys at Law Foundation OPERA America Wintrust Community Banks BNY Mellon DLA Piper LLP (US) The PrivateBank PREMIER BENEFACTOR • $7,500 to $9,999 Amsted Industries Foundation Chicago White Metal Charitable Starshak Winzenburg & Co. Archer Daniels Midland Foundation William Blair & Company Foundation Envestnet BENEFACTOR • $5,000 to $7,499 Baird Italian Village Restaurants Shure Incorporated General Mills Foundation Sahara Enterprises, Inc. BRAVO CIRCLE • $3,500 to $4,999 Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Corporate Suites Network Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC Old Republic International Corporation IMPRESARIO • $2,000 to $3,499 Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC KD Mailing Service MWM Consulting Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

FRIEND • $1,000 to $1,999 American Agricultural Insurance Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Kinder Morgan Foundation S&C Foundation Company Enterprise Holdings Foundation Michuda Construction, Inc. Turks’ Greenhouses Concierge Unlimited International Hafner Printing Company, Inc. Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. SUSTAINER • $500 to $999 Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Network for Good Special Thanks

• American Airlines for its 34 year partnership as the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner, for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. • Strategy& and Vinay Couto, Senior Vice President, as well as PwC and John Oleniczak, Midwest Region Assurance Managing Partner, and Paul Anderson, Retired Senior Advisor, for their firm’s pro bono consulting services on our organizational assessment. • Steingraeber & Söhne as the official piano of Lyric’s new production ofBel Canto, in partnership with the Grand Piano Haus, Skokie, Illinois. • Warner Classics as the Official Education and Promotion Music Provider. Acknowledgements The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric Opera’s efforts: Generous Gifts Notable Gifts KD Mailing & Fulfillment Calihan Catering John and Linda Anderson Marc Lacher Classic Color Artists Frame Service Lloyd’s Chicago Coco Pazzo Calo Ristorante Martha Nussbaum HMS Media, Inc. Einstein’s Bagels Todd Rosenberg The Estate of Gerald Ritholz Food and Paper Supply Company Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Hall’s Rental Thomas Terry Special Gifts BBJ Linen Cru Cafe

This performance is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Lyric Opera of Chicago is a member of OPERA America.

64 | November 1 - 21, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support

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, 2014 and September 1, 2015.

ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above Anonymous (7) Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson Richard P. and Susan Kiphart John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Katherine A. Abelson and Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Nancy W. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Robert J. Cornell Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Prince Charitable Trusts Ada and Whitney Addington Ford Foundation Josef and Margot Lakonishok J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Julius Frankel Foundation Estate of Arthur B. Logan Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Betsy and Andy Rosenfield James N. and Laurie V. Bay Trust Foundation Patrick G. Ryan and Marlys A. Beider Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Robert H. Malott Shirley Welsh Ryan Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Estate of Carlyn E. Goettsch Mazza Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Ethel and William Gofen The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation The John and Jackie Bucksbaum The Grainger Foundation The Monument Trust (UK) Manfred and Fern Steinfeld Family Gramma Fisher Foundation of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Lisbeth Stiffel Amy and Paul Carbone Marshalltown, Iowa The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Mrs. Herbert A. Vance David and Orit Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Allan and Elaine Muchin Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Estate of Betty Guttman Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Estate of Nelson D. Cornelius John R. Halligan Charitable Fund National Endowment for the Arts The Wallace Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe The Harris Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Roberta L. Washlow and The Crown Family Walter E. Heller Foundation Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Robert J. Washlow Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Foundation Helen and Sam Zell The Davee Foundation The Edgar D. Jannotta Family NIB Foundation Ann Ziff

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous (3) Ann and Reed Coleman Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. The Brinson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Nancy Lauter McDougal Nancy S. Searle Janet V. Burch, M.D. and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Blythe Jaski McGarvie Segal Family Foundation Joel R. Guillory, M.D. Brent and Katie Gledhill Estate of Renate Moser Howard Solomon and Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Sue and Melvin Gray Polk Bros. Foundation Sarah Billinghurst Solomon The Chicago Community Trust The Hearst Foundations Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Cherryl T. Thomas City of Chicago Department of Howard Family Foundation Foundation Robert L. Turner Cultural Affairs and Special Events Illinois Arts Council Collin and Lili Roche Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (4) Elaine Frank Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family John and Ann Amboian Maurice and Patricia Frank Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Foundation Paul and Mary Anderson Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Patricia Hyde Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Robin Angly R. Robert and Sally Funderburg Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Sage Foundation Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Charitable Trust Lavin Family Foundation Estate of Margaret R. Sagers Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Mr. and Mrs. Burt Lewis Rodd M. Schreiber and Christine and Paul Branstad Michael J. McGuinnis Jim and Kay Mabie Susan Hassan Schreiber Family Foundation Avrum Gray Family Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck The Handa Foundation Foundation Estate of Dr. Joseph J. Semrow Greg and Mamie Case Mary Ellen Hennessy Judith W. McCue and Charles and M.R. Shapiro Joyce E. Chelberg Estate of Margot S. Hertz Howard M. McCue III Foundation, Inc. The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Martha A. Hesse Robert and Evelyn McCullen Rose L. Shure Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Lois B. Siegel The Cozad Family Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Susan M. Miller Morris Silverman and Crain-Maling Foundation Greg and Annie Jones/ Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Lori Ann Komisar Sir Andrew Davis and The Edgewater Funds Frank B. Modruson and Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Estate of Phyllis A. Jones Lynne C. Shigley Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Julian Family Foundation Kenneth R. Norgan Mary Stowell Ann M. Drake Joseph M. Kacena Endowed Fund Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Joseph and Pam Szokol Drs. George and Sally Dunea Stephen A. Kaplan and Matt and Carrie Parr Carl and Marilynn Thoma John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Alyce K. Sigler Seymour H. Persky Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Lois and Steve Eisen The Kip Kelley Family Ingrid Peters Walter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Patricia A. Kenney and The C. G. Pinnell Family Kim and Miles D. White The Ferguson-Yntema Family Gregory J. O'Leary Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky Paul Wood and Charitable Trust The Honorable Corinne Wood

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (8) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Susan Ipsen The Rooney Family Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Laurie and Michael Jaffe John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Kenneth Aldridge Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Erika E. Erich Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Susan and David Ruder Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Arbetter Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Richard O. Ryan L. Robert Artoe Joan and Robert Feitler Albert and Rita Lacher Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. The Field Foundation of Illinois Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Raymond and Inez Saunders Juliette F. Bacon Sonja and Conrad Fischer Daniel H. Lome Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen E. M. Bakwin Russell W. and Christina Fisher Philip G. Lumpkin Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Francine Manilow The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Richard and Barbara Franke Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan The Shubert Foundation The Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Robert C. Marks Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baumgartner, Jr. Don Funk and Abby Zanarini Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil Ross and Patricia D. Bender Charitable Giving Fund Erma S. Medgyesy Philip and David Slesur Family Trust Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Susan J. Garner Terry J. Medhurst Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Marcus Boggs Virginia and Gary Gerst Dawn G. Meiners Penelope and Robert Steiner Heidi Heutel Bohn Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Martha A. Mills Jennifer L. Stone Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Estate of Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stone Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Andrea and Jim Gordon/ MRB Foundation Tawani Foundation Helen Brach Foundation The Edgewater Funds Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Betty Bradshaw Mrs. William B. Graham John K. Neundorf Charitable Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Thomas Broadie Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Remainder Unitrust Howard and Paula Trienens Foundation John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Mrs. Mary Winton Green Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Tully Family Foundation Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Buehler Family Foundation Estate of Richard Halvorsen Martha C. Nussbaum Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Julian and Sheila Oettinger Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. The Butler Family Foundation Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Mr. and Mrs. John W. Oleniczak Estate of Sheila Von Wiese-Mack Marie Campbell Joan W. Harris Estate of Mary G. Oppenheim Dan and Patty Walsh Marcia S. Cohn John Hart and Carol Prins Pasquinelli Family Foundation Marilee and Richard Wehman Hal Coon Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Lawrence O. Corry Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Marian Phelps Pawlick Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crawford, Jr. Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Maya Polsky Mrs. John A. Wing Susan E. Cremin Mrs. John C. Hedley Andra and Irwin Press Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Rosemary and John Croghan Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Debbie K. Wright Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Dr. Sondra C. Rabin James and Michele Young M. Dillon Miriam U. Hoover Mary and John Raitt Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Edward and Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Merle Reskin Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Shawn M. Donnelley and Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull The Rhoades Foundation Arie and Bozena Zweig Christopher M. Kelly James Huntington Foundation William C. and Nancy Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Candace and Gary Ridgway Richard Driehaus USMC Memorial Fund Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman

PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (3) Lafayette J. Ford MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Kelley and Susan Anderson The Foster Charitable Trust Louise H. Landau Foundation George and Terry Rose Saunders Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Dr. Jorge Galante Lannan Foundation Mary and Stanley Seidler Robert S. Bartolone Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffery Geldermann Mrs. T. E. Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Mark and Judy Bednar Lloyd Gerlach Bernard and Averill Leviton Mary Beth Shea Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst George and Maureen Gilmore Julius Lewis The Siragusa Foundation Lieselotte N. Betterman Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Jim and SuAnne Lopata Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Patrick J. Bitterman Helyn D. Goldenberg Daniel T. Manoogian Patricia Arrington Smythe Dr. Charles Bower Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Shari Mayes The Solti Foundation U.S. Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Phillip and Norma Gordon Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Dorie Sternberg Joy Buddig Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Egon and Dorothy Menker Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Mrs. Laurence A. Carton Dr. Doris Graber Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Milliken Bolton Sullivan Fund Dr. Robert W. Carton David and Elizabeth Graham David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Angela Tenta, M.D. Mrs. Warren M. Choos Joan M. Hall Bobbie Newman Dr. David Thurn Lynd W. Corley Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Anne Megan Davis Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Christian Vinyard Decyk Charitable Foundation James and Mary Houston Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker Marilou and Henry von Ferstel Nancy Dehmlow Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jaffee Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Cynthia Walk Jon W. DeMoss Irene Jakimcius Irene D. Pritzker Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Estate of Josephine S. Dryer Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Mr. and Mrs. James T. Reid Dr. David H. Whitney and Dr. Juliana Chyu Harvey S. and Sheila Dulin Nancy Rita Kaz The Retirement Research Foundation Donna and Phillip Zarcone Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Kate T. Kestnbaum Daryl and James Riley Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - J. Timothy Ritchie Richard B. Egen Morris & Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund Edgar Rose Robert F. Finke Martin and Patricia Koldyke Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg

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BENEFACTOR · $5,000 to $7,499 Anonymous (8) Renée Fleming Maura Ann McBreen George and Joan Segal Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Dr. Anthony W. Gargiulo and James G. and Laura G. McCormick Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Mr. and Mrs. David Batanian Mrs. Jane Duboise Gargiulo Thomas J. McCormick Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Maria C. Bechily and Scott Hodes Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Lois Melvoin Kit and Bob Simon David Quentin Bell John F. Gilmore Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Del Snow Helen and Charles Bidwell Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Mrs. John Stanek Richard and Heather Black David W. Grainger Kate B. Morrison Ellen and Jim Stirling Norman and Virginia Bobins/ James and Brenda Grusecki Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Family Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation Mrs. John M. Hartigan Charitable Trust Mrs. Robert D. Stuart, Jr. Wiley and Jo Caldwell Regina Janes Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Adam and Harriette Swierz Lawrence Christensen Susie Karkomi Mr. and Mrs. James N. Perry Jr. Donor-Advised Fund Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green David and Carolyn Colburn Jane B. and John C. Colman “Any support for Lyric will enable the beautiful music to continue.” Francie Comer Lieselotte N. Betterman, Mount Prospect Doris Conant B. A. Coussement Marsha Cruzan Gerould and Jewell Kern Estate of Bendix L. Peterson Andrea and Mark Taylor The Dancing Skies Foundation Annette Kleinman Genevieve Phelps Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Rosy and Jose Luis Prado L. Kristofer Thomsen Douglas A. Doetsch and Susan Manning Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Charles B. Preacher Foundation Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Thomas Doran Barbara and Frank Lieber Tom and Karen Rafter John and Patricia Tunstall Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Livingston Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Julia Luscombe Rocco and Cheryl Romano Jean Morman Unsworth Craig and Janet Duchossois Estate of Eva Lutovsky Rita and Norman Sackar John H. Utley, Jr. and Mary L. Utley Trust Jim and Pati Ericson Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau Mrs. Edwin C. Salter Harriet Weinstein Robert E. Berry Thomas A. Marshall Satter Family Foundation Claudia Winkler James and Deborah Fellowes William Mason and Diana Davis Julie Schwertfeger and Alexander Zajczenko Charles Yager

BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 to $4,999 Anonymous (2) Peter G. O. Freund Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Joan M. Solbeck Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian James R. Grimes John H. Nelson Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Katherine Abele Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob Zehava L. Noah Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Eric A. Anderson Sandra L. Grung Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Janet D. Thau Mychal P. Angelos Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Sheila and David Ormesher Michael Tobin, MD Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Jonathan F. Orser Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft Susann Ball Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Marianne Tralewski C. Bekerman, M.D. Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Dr. Pat and Lara Pappas Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Carolyn and Paul Jarvis Mrs. Harold E. Pendexter, Jr. Phil and Paula Turner Foundation Joy Jester Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Elizabeth K. Twede Danolda (Dea) Brennan Douglas M. Karlen Karen and Richard Pigott Lori L. and John R. Twombly Nicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirr Gerald and Judith Kaufman Dr. Joe Piszczor Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick Mr. and Mrs. Allan Bulley III Tyrus L. Kaufman Dr. and Mrs. Lincoln Ramirez David J. Varnerin Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Kenneth Douglas Foundation Edward and Leah Reicin Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Heinke K. Clark John and Mary Kohlmeier J. Kenneth and Cheryl Rosko Jacqueline Villa Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Lee Curt G. Schmitt Howard Walker Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schriesheim Dr. Catherine L. Webb Drs. Donald and Helen Edwards Pamela Forbes Lieberman The Schroeder Foundation David and Linda Wesselink Cherelynn A. Elliott Marilyn and Myron Maurer Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Deane Ellis David E. McNeel Bill and Harlan Shropshire Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and David S. Fox Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Adele and John Simmons James C. Kemmerer Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Ilene Simmons Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Pamela G. Meyer Craig Sirles

IMPRESARIO · $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (10) Richard Boyum and Louie Chua James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Ronald B. Johnson Allison Alexander Dr. Lia Brillhart Melinda Gibson Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Mrs. Robert W. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Brown Mary and Michael Goodkind Judith L. Kaufman Mrs. John H. Andersen Winston and Lally Brown Gordon Goodman Norm Kidder Antoniou Family Fund Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Annemarie H. Gramm Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Edith M. Ballin Russell Cartwright Karen Z. Gray Neil and Diana King Michael A. Barna Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Cavallino Janet Wolter Grip, M.D. Klaff Family Foundation Mrs. Robert G. Bartle James W. Chamberlain Patricia Grogan Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Bastian Voice Institute Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Ronald Bauer and Michael Spencer Alice Childs Dr. and Mrs. Rolf M. Gunnar Jean Klingenstein Dee Beaubien Margery and Robert Coen Solomon Gutstein Thomas A. Kmetko Diane and Michael Beemer Robert Curley Marjorie Habermann Dr. Katherine Knight Daniel J. Bender Robert O. Delaney The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Julie Anne Benson Lyn Dickey Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Mario Diorio CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Eldon and Patricia Kreider Leslie Bertholdt Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Daggett Harvey Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Mrs. Arthur Billings Mr. and Mrs. Eben Dorros Andrèe S. Hognestad Marc Lacher Astrid K. Birke Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Edmund A. and Virginia C. Horsch Dr. M. S. W. Lee Diane and Tom Blake La and Philip Engel Michael Huston Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Susanna and Helmut Epp Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Robert and Anne Bolz Charitable Trust Firestone Family Foundation John G. and Betty C. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Lewis, Sr. Minka and Matt Bosco Anita D. Flournoy Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Anastasia Boucouras Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Peggy Janus Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson

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Robert Mann and Elaine T. Newquist Mary and Joseph Plauche Mary Lynne Shafer Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Kathryn Voland-Mann Carol M. Nigro Joel and Vivianne Pokorny Dr. S. P. Shah Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Liz and Arsen Manugian Janis Wellin Notz and Ania Perzanowska Nancy Silberman The Trillium Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks John K. Notz Jr. Dr. Jeffrey H. Port Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Dulcie L. Truitt Kevin Matzke and Hon. and Prof. C. Nuechterlein Charlene Posner The Sondheimer Family Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Jacqueline Griesdorn Marc and Cindy Oberdorff Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Charitable Foundation Louis Weber Mrs. David McCandless Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Christina Rashid Rick Stamberger Hilary and Barry L. Weinstein Ms. Michelle McCarthy Mark Ouweleen and Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid James A. Staples Manfred Wendt Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally V Sarah Harding Maggie Rock Adams Walter and Caroline Sueske Caroline C. Wheeler Martina M. Mead and Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, MD Merlin and Gladys Rostad Arts Fund Charitable Trust Howard S. White Michael T. Gorey Kimberly Ann Palmisano Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash MinSook Suh Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Sheila and Harvey Medvin Dr. Songya Pang Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Mrs. Dolores E. Ruetz Mrs. Henry S. Tausend Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wimmer Ms. Britt M. Miller Sandra and Michael Perlow Robert Russell Gilbert Terlicher Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Robert and Lois Moeller Elizabeth Anne Peters Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Dr. Andrew J. Thomas Chip and Jean Wood Dr. Virginia Mond Laurie and Michael Petersen Lynda Schultz O. Thomas Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever Gerald and Maia Mullin Mrs. Zen Petkus Thomas Scorza Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin David J. Seleb and John P. Cialone Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles

FRIEND · $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (13) Jeffrey Bussean Anne and Willard Fraumann Robert and Janet Helman Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Irma Caprioli Jerry Freedman and Dr. and Mrs. Leo M. Henikoff Foundation Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Elizabeth Sacks Raymond Hicks Edward and Adrienne Kolb Louise Abrahams Stephen H. and Virginia McM. Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Carrie and Harry Hightman Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal Richard Abram and Carr Penny Friedman Dr. Leroy J. Hirsch and William Konczyk and Paul Chandler Drs. James and Stephanie Jeff Frient and Jennifer Carter Bebe Awerbuch Stanley Conlon Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Cavanaugh Mrs. Norman Gates Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Richard Kron and Ann Acker Barry and Marcia Cesafsky Judy and Mickey Gaynor Sandra Hoffman Deborah Bekken Duffie A. Adelson Keith and Barbara Clayton Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Suzanne L. Hoffman and Marina Kuznetsov Susan S. Adler Gordon and Sigrid Connor Generations Fund Dale Smith Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Judith A. Akers James M. Cormier Mr. and Mrs. Louis Genesen Concordia Hoffmann Carol and Jerome Lamet Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Daniel Corrigan Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. George John E. Holland Frederic S. Lane Lance Johnson Katherine Coyner Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson Mr. and Mrs. James A. Dr. William R. Lawrence The Carnot & Luceile Allen Gary Crosby Gregory Geuther Hollensteiner Phillip Lehrman Foundation Mr. and Mrs. J. William Dr. and Mrs. Bernardino Ghetti George R. Honig, M.D. and Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Cuncannan Sharon L. Gibson Olga Weiss Vivian Leith and Stewart Hudnut Sheila and James Amend Timothy and Cheryl Dahlstrand Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Carol and Joel Honigberg Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Dr. Michael Angell James and Marie Damion Gay L. Girolami Bill and Vicki Hood Gregory M. Lewis and Daniel J. Anzia Jason Dantico Mr. and Mrs. Andy Gloor Mrs. James K. Hotchkiss Mary E. Strek Dr. Edward Applebaum and Patty Litton Delony Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Gohl Michael and Beverly Huckman Mrs. Paul Lieberman Dr. Eva Redel Frank Devincentis Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Joseph H. Huebner Robert B. Lifton Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Rosanne Diamond Alfred G. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Gary Huff Anne and Craig Linn Peter and Elise Barack Dr. Elton Dixon Robert and Marcia Goltermann Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt DeAnn Liska Marilyn R. Barmash Michael L. Dollard Jerry Goodman Mrs. John C. Ingalls William and Diane Lloyd Mr. and Mrs. Brit J. Bartter Melvin R. Loeb Barbara Barzansky Sherry and Mel Lopata Sandra Bass “Lyric Opera has been a meaningful part of my life since I attended the “calling Craig and Jane Love Ron and Queta Bauer card” performance of Don Giovanni. My estate gift represents my desire to ensure Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Marcia J. Baylin that future generations may have the joy of experiencing live opera in Chicago.” Daniel Madden and Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Tuny Mokrauer Seth V. Beckman Florence Winters, Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maganuco Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mages Eric A. Bell David and Deborah Dranove Anthony Green Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Carl Majeski Jennifer Bellini Ronald B. Duke Nancy and Jonathan Green R. C. Jager Jeffrey and Paula Malak Jacqui Berlin Kathy Dunn Mark and Melanie Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Loren A. Jahn Francis Manley Lois M. Berman Drs. Walter Dziki and Greene Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. James Jan Marinello Mr. and Mrs. Turney P. Berry Emily Miao Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Mrs. John Jay Markham Mr. and Mrs. Loren M. Berry III Barbara and John Eckel Tim and Joyce Greening Mr. and Mrs. Ross H. Jannotta Mr. and Mrs. Miles Marsh Dr. Vanice (Van) Billups Hugh and Jackie Edfors John R. Grimes The Jaquith Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Cynthia L. Bixel Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Charles R. Grode Dr. Laurence Jewell Mr. and Mrs. Sean Martin M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Peter Emery Donald J. Grossman and Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Bob and Doretta Marwin Mrs. John R. Blair Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Elaine T. Hirsch Amyl W. Johnson Maureen and Michael McCabe Elaine and Harold Blatt Dr. Thelma M. Evans Rose Ann Grundman Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Johnson John F. McCartney Ann Blickensderfer Estate of William J. Evans Donald Haavind Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Marilyn McCoy and Jim Blinder Jim and Elizabeth Fanuzzi Philip and Nancy Zimmerman Russell L. Johnson Charles R. Thomas John Blosser Michael and Sally Feder Hablutzel JS Charitable Trust Therissa McKelvey Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Blumen Dr. and Mrs. Carl Fetkenhour Glen and Claire Hackmann Judith Jump Michael McKinney Frima H. Blumenthal Howard and Charlotte Fink Mirja and Ted Haffner Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan James McKnight Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Elizabeth W. Fischer Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Jack Karp Florence D. McMillan Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Roy Fisher and Jerry A. Hall, MD Mary Ann Karris Claretta Meier Mrs. Fred Bosselman Charles Chris Shaw Janice H. Halpern Christine Kassa-Skaredoff Ernst Melchior Donald F. Bouseman Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Helen Melchior Dr. Boone Brackett Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Agnes Hamos Larry M. Keer, MD Dr. Patricia A. Merwick Wendy and Norman Bradburn Nona C. Flores Michael Hansen and Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Jim and Ginger Meyer Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Paul Fong Nancy Randa Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Kern Joanne Michalski and Berle Blitstein Amanda and Matthew Fox Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Hauser Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Michael Weeda Candace B. Broecker Dr. Jacek Franaszek and Alex P. Heard Esther G. Klatz Gerry M. Miller Jerry Brosnan and Gisela Brodin Kathleen McQueeny Sheila Ann Hegy Frank and Alice Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Mark S. Brown Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper Elaine H. Klemen Mr. and Mrs. David Mintzer Howard and Moira Buhse Arthur L. Frank, MD Drs. Allen Heinemann and Paul Kleppner William Mondi Susan Burkhardt Allen J. Frantzen and William Borden Mary Klyasheff Steven Montner and Scott Brown George J. Burrows George R. Paterson Joseph Heiney Emily and Christopher Knight Charles Moore

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Lloyd and Donna Morgan Virginia and John Picken Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ruskin Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Marlene A. Van Skike Mr. Peter and Dr. Deborah James and Polly Pierce Paul and Joanne Ruxin The Sondheimer Family Charitable Frances and Peter Vandervoort Morowski Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pinto Louise M. Ryssmann Foundation Rosalba Villanueva John S. Mrowiec and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani David Sachs Phil and Sylvia Spertus Dr. Annabelle Volgman Dr. Karen L. Granda Matthew and Erica Posthuma Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Stanley Mr. Malcolm V. Vye Anthony Mullins Dorothy M. Press Carol S. Sadow Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Walsh Clare Munana Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Preston John Sagos Peter and Cindy Stathakis Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Walter Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Barbara Provus Sharon Salveter and Joyce L. Steffel April Ware Rosemary Murgas Marcia Purze Stephan Meyer Carol Stein and Doris Ashkin Dr. Richard Warnecke Chris and Eileen Murphy Nathaniel W. Pusey Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J Schaeffer Mrs. Karl H. Stein Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts Jr Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Nadig Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle Robert P. Schaible Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stein Sarena M. Weil Dr. Corinne Nawrocki John P. and Victoria L. Z. Edgar Schiller Hal S. R. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weiland Robert and Tricia Nelson Ratnaswamy Judith and Leonard Schiller Dr. Bernadette Strzyz Tamra and Jack Weiss Mrs. A. M. Neumann William H. Redfield Robert B. Schmidt Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stuart Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wertz Jeffrey Nichols Scott Redman Esq Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Schuler Mr. and Mrs. James Swartchild Heide Wetzel Nancy A. Nichols Alicia and Myron Resnick Susan B. Schulson Phillip Sylvester Patricia and William H. Wheeler Gayla and Ed Nieminen Sherry and Bob Reum Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Geraldine L. Szymanski Mrs. John White Anna Marie Norehad Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Sherie Shapiro Maureen Tansey-Tokar Tom and Stathy White Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow Joan L. Richards Carol and Roger Shiffman Mrs. Amy Tax and Kathryn B. Winter Virginia A. O'Neill Jerry and Carole Ringer Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Dr. Michael Tax F. C. Winters Penny J. Obenshain Louise and William H. Robb Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Charles B. Wolf Margo and Michael Oberman Carol Roberts Margles Singleton and Clay Young Mrs. M. James Termondt Ann S. Wolff and Family Mr. and Mrs. W. Roberts Jr. Arthur B. Smith, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tesarik Ted and Peggy Wolff Mr. and Mrs. John Ostrem James Robertson Tracey L. Truesdale The Philip and Myn Rootberg D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Mrs. Richard C. Oughton Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Rogers Barbara Smith and Foundation Christopher and Julie Wood Charles M. Parrish Roberta Rosell Timothy Burroughs Linda and Ronald Thisted Owen and Linda Youngman Michael Payette Lorelei Rosenthal Mrs. David W. E. Smith Joseph Tiritilli Trust Priscilla T. Yu Ira J. Peskind Babette Rosenthal Louise K. Smith Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Michael and Judy Zeddies Melanie and Dan Peterson Manfred Ruddat Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Smith Kay and Craig Tuber Barbara Zeleny Viktoras Petroliunas R. Charles Rudesill Therese G. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Karen and Tom Phillips Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Manuel S. Valderrama Susan Zick Ruth A. Phillips Lena M. Ruppman Robert A. Sniegowski Elizabeth Van Ness Richard E. Ziegler

SUSTAINER · $500 to $999 Anonymous (19) Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond, Sr. Cathy Davis James Patrick Foley George Greene Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Greg Davis Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Marcy Gringlas and Joel Greenberg Andrew Abbott and Susan Schlough Mary and Carl Boyer Malcolm Deam Richard W. Foster Robert Grist Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Michael Bradie Joan G. Deeter Dr. Maija Freimanis and John Gustaitis Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Robert Bradner Paul B. Dekker David Marshall Margo Lynn Hablutzel Mr. and Mrs. Phillip G. Adams Giovanna Breu Patricia K. Denman Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Mary Lee Brinegar Mr. and Mrs. John Deppong, Jr. Priscilla and Henry Frisch Todd Haines Mr. and Mrs. Bruce T. Allen Joan and Tom Broderick The Dick Family Foundation Samuel and Adriana Front John Hales Judith L. Allen John A. Bross, Jr. Frank Dickerson Irene Frye Terry Haller John and Mary Alukos Dr. Annie Brown Robert and Anne Diffendal Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Gahlon Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Kenneth and Mary Andersen Todd Brueshoff Dr. Gary Dillehay Leota P Gajda Mary E. Hallman William Ankenbrandt Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Nancy R. Gamburd and Mrs. Richard S. Hardy Dr. Erin Arnold Warren and Patricia Buckler Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey B. Donnell Cathy Hanby Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Drs. Andrew and Iris Aronson Dr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Budzik Maureen Dooley Karen S. Gamrath Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hartigan Ramin Artang, M. D. Mrs. Theodore H. Buenger Dr. Morton Dubman Dr. Sandra Garber Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Hartung Margaret Atherton Dr. Jack Bulmash Linda and Cornelius DuBose Dorothy and John Gardner Mrs. John S. Hayford Fred and Michelle Baird Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Douglas F. Duchek Paul R. Gauvreau Mr. and Ms. Ross Heim Mr. and Mrs. Michael Baniak Josephine E. Heindel William and Marjorie Bardeen Mr. Stephen Heller Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei “I am proud that my company matches my donation and that Chicago has Norman K. Hester Ronald and Donna Barlow one of the best opera companies in the world.” Joe Hetz Barbara J. Barnes Midge and Frank Heurich Joseph P. Basile Nathaniel Pusey, Chicago Caren B. Hiatt Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High Benjamin C. Beach Ed and Natalie Byczynski Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. George Gay and Carl J. Hildner Alvin R. Beatty Dr. Lidia T. Calcaterra Dr. Robert Golub Mr. Brian Soper Thomas W. and Helen C. Hill Elizabeth S. Beck Jana and David Caldarelli Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dusek Thomas P. Germino Edward and Teresa Hintzke Hans F. Bell Cathleen Cameron Roma Dybalski GFF Foundation John C. Benitez Agnes B. Canning Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Joan Berman Walter Carlson Mrs. B. Englert Easterbrook Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Kathleen Hoffman Diane and Karl Berolzheimer Robert and Emily Carroll Kimberly A. Eberlein Kik and S. I. Gilman Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Jane Berry Victor J. Casaz Adrienne Eckerling Dale and David Ginsburg Stephen Holmes Mrs. Keki Bhote Donald and Bonnie Chauncey James W. Edmondson David L. Gitomer William Holmes Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Dr. Francoise Chor Mrs. Richard J. Elrod Dr. Paul B. Glickman Mrs. Dennis J. Horan Jerry Biederman Robert Cieslak Joseph R. Ender Barbara and Norman Gold Joel Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. John Bienko Michael Cleveland and Beverley R. Enright Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Larry and Ann Hossack John Bierbusse Grazia Nunzi Susan and Bryan Erler Elizabeth and Edwin Goldwasser Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Jules Binder Jean M. Cocozza Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ertman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gonnella Barbara Hunter Dorin Bircu John Combes Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Amy and Michael Gordon Anne Hutcherson Margaret C. Bisberg and Dr. Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Marion and Burt Fainman Jaimy Gordon and Peter Blickle Robert M. Ireland Richard VanMetre Sharon Conway Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Anne H. Gorham Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Isaacson Donald H. Bittner Beatrice V. Crane Harve A. Ferrill Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Howard Isenberg Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Block III Mr. and Mrs. William A. Crane Dr. and Mrs. Donald Fisher Mokoto Goto Dr. and Mrs. Peter Ivanovich Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Barbara Flynn Currie Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Birgit Gottelt Virginia A. Jach James Blum James Currie, Jr. Marilyn E. Fites Mrs. John W. Gottermeyer Douglas and Lynn Jackson D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Mrs. Joseph T. Curti Mr. James Flax and Dr. Steven A. Gould Merle L. Jacob David and Amber Boehnlein Hope Curtis Ms. Kayla Pennington John and Pat Grady Charlene Jacobsen Erminio Bonacci Mary and Hans Dahl William A. Fleig Michael and Melissa Graham Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Rathin Datta Marvin Fletcher Dr. and Mrs. Barry Greenberg Karen Jared

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Nora Jaskowiak and Robert E. Lindgren Elizabeth Nerney Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff Patrick Strieck Matthew Hinerfeld Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Loftus Wayne W. Nestander Eugene W. Rzym Mr. and Mrs. John Strom Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Jensen Abby and George Lombardi Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Nichols Dennis and Mary Ann Sadilek Carol Sullivan Jerry and Judy Johansen Dr. Vassyl A. Lonchyna and Mr. and Mrs. George Nichols, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Mary W. Sullivan and Arlene V. Johnson Dr. Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna Eleanor A. Nicholson Darleen Salomon Coleman S. Kendall Randee and Vance Johnson Richard Lord Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nolen Alan Salpeter and Shelley Gorson Karen L. Swartz Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston Wayne R. Lueders Mr. and Mrs. Hiram M. Nowlan Natalie Saltiel Sherwin A. Swartz Barbara Mair Jones Lutz Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nutt Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sweders, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Robert N. Jones Timothy Lyman, M.D. Gail O'Gorman Edna J. Schade Bradley and Simone Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Jordan Macfund James F. Oates Mary T. Schafer Charles and Kristine Thorsen Ethan Jung Suzanne C. Mack George and Susan Obermaier Jura Scharf-Mertic Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Kaeser Jennifer Malpass Sandra L. Osborn Karla Scherer Eleanor W. Tippens Beverly Kasper George and Roberta Mann John and Dawn Palmer Anne McMillen Scheyer Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tittle Matthew J. Keller, Jr. Philanthropic Fund Paloucek Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Schiele Diane Tkach and James Freundt Alfred Kelley Dr. Lawrence and Sylvia Margolies Stephen Paramus Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Dr. Aris Urbanes Douglas and Christine Kelner Robert Markowski and David Paris David Schiffman Anna Vera Urbanski Jeffrey R. Kerr Randi Ragins Mrs. Edwin C. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Schloss Elsa Vaintzettel Patricia Kersey and John Martens Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Parks Arthur Schneider and Helen Sellin Mrs. Murray J. Vale Charles Erlichman Nisrin Martin Dr. Robert W. Parsons Barbara and Lewis Schneider Sharon Van Dyck Chuck and Kathy Killman Harold L. Mason Bruce and Nancy Payne Marcia G. Schneider Marie Vanagas John B. and Nelly Llanos Kilroy James Massie and Christine Winter Jean T. Pennino Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Scholly Dr. Eladio A. Vargas Foundation Mrs. John May Norman and Lorraine Perman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schulson John N. Vinci Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn Kind Dr. John Mazuski Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Perry Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schultz Robert Von Dreele Kathy Kirn and David Levinson Mr. and Mrs. George P. McAndrews Karen Petitte Deborah and George Schulz John and Kathleen Vondran Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Kittle-Kamp Gale D. McCarty Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Linda S. Schurman Suzanne L. Wagner Diane F. Klotnia Dr. William McCulloch and Shirley Pfenning and Judy and John Scully Robert D. Wallin Lionel and Jackie Knight Dr. Margaret McCulloch Robert J. Wilczek Barbara and John T. Seaman, Jr. Gary T. Walther Mr. and Mrs. Roger Koenker Andrew S. McFarland Mr. and Mrs. William Pinsof Dr. Itai Seggev and Benjamin Wasmuth Mrs. Russell V. Kohr Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader John J. W. Plampin Dr. Dara Goldman Mrs. M. Hubachek Watkins Gerald A. and Karen A. Joann and Milt Meigs Diane L. Podolak John and Floria Serpico John Watrous and Natalie Gummer Kolschowsky Foundation, Inc. Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Jerry Polek Dr. and Mrs. David Shapiro Dr. and Mrs. Howard Weiss Amy Kontrick and Mark Mycyk Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Mr. and Mrs. Byron Pollock Mr. and Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro Marco and Joan Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kracum Lucy and Glenn Merritt Mrs. Carol Pollock Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Dr. B. Craig Weldon and Stephen Kraft Virginia Michalicek William V. Porter David Sherman Terri Monk Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Kretchmer Sally S. Miley Marla McCormick Pringle Mr. and Mrs. Kent Shodeen Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Krugel Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Quigg Barbara Fulton Sideman Peter J. Wender Dr. Marleta Reynolds and David E. Miller Dorothy V. Ramm Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Simon Dr. and Mrs. Dennis K. Wentz Dr. Vincent Kucich Jane and Sam Miller Dr. and Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Paul and Ann Singer Floyd and Judith W. Whellan Thomas P. Kuczwara Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Dr. Biswamay Ray Roberta E. Singer David P. Whitman and Walfrid and Sherry Kujala Vee Minarich Dennis C. Regan Thomas Sinkovic Donna L. Reynolds Kristina and Laimonis Laimins Ramona O. Mitchell John Reppy Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr. Charles A. Whitver Elisabeth M. Landes Edward J. Mitchen Judith Revells Mr. and Mrs. David Snyder Robert and Barbara Wichmann Mrs. Fritz Lange Sanford Moltz Evelyn Richer Michael and Donna Socol Dr. Doris Wineman Mrs. Frederick Larsen Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Richert Mr. and Mrs. John D. Soley Michael Winfield Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen J. Clifford Moos L. Jennie Righeimer Larry and Marge Sondler Alfred and Barvara Winick Marsha Lazar Martin W. Morris Ed and Susan Ritts Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos Marsha and David Woodhouse Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lee Steven W. Morris Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Linda Soreff Siegel Robert E. Woodworth, Jr. Mary Anne Leer Larry Morrison Victor Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Sorensen Teana and Abbott Wright Dr. Michael C. Leland Beverly Mortensen Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Elaine Soter Catherine J. Wytzka Ralph and Carol Lerner Helga E. Muench Charlotte B. Puppel-Rose Phillip V. St. Cloud Mr. and Mrs. John G. Zasi Barry Lesht and Kay Schichtel Thomas F. Murphy Elaine G. Rosen Judy Stanley Bland Dr. Antoinette Zell and Edmund H. Lester Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Murphy Honey and Howard Rosenfeld Corinne M. Steede Kenneth R. Walter Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Drs. Ronald and Linda Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Steele Larisa Zhizhin Dr. Arnold Tobin Holly I. Myers Thomas and Barbara Rosenwein Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Stern Dr. and Mrs. Eric Zickgraf Paul M. Liebenson Lawrence T. Nash, MD Marsha and Robert Rosner Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Camille J. Zientek Mr. and Mrs. Myron Lieberman J. Robin Naylor Mrs. Donald I. Roth Mrs. James H. Stoner Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Zulkey Paula Lima David and Lynne Nellemann Heidi Stevenson Rothenberg, M.D. Lorna Straus Audrey A. Zywicki

70 | November 1 - 21, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO 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: John H. Ladish Myn Wartey Rootberg Sonia Florian John Andersen from Mary Ladish Selander and his from the Philip and Myn Rootberg from an Anonymous Donor from Heidi Stevenson Rothenberg family Foundation Anthony Freud and his many friends and family Fred Larsen Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff Duffie Adelson Dorothy A. Angelos from the Riverside Chapter from Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Regan Friedmann from Mychal P. Angelos John A. Leer, Jr. MD Stephen Schulson from Peggy and James Swartchild Elsa E. Bandi from Mary Anne Leer from Susan Schulson Kay and Craig Tuber from Walter F. Bandi Lome and Williams Family Members Dr. Alan J. Shapiro Paula Getman Robert G. Bartle from Daniel H. Lome from his many friends and family from Concierge Unlimited from Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Hugo Melvoin Dr. Robert J. Strzyz International John R. Blair from Lois Melvoin from Dr. Bernadette Strzyz Caryn Harris from Barbara Blair Virginia Byrne Mooney Henry S. Tausend from the Comer Family Foundation Roman Block from Kathleen Vondran from Mrs. Henry S. Tausend Edgar D. Jannotta from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Sylvia M. Morrison Jacqueline Toscas from Sandra L. Grung Nancy Neumann Brooker from Melinda Gibson from Dr. Timothy J. Lyman Richard P. and Susan Kiphart from Jean and Don Haider Naomi M. Nash Bruce M. Turnmire from Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Joe Cipriano from Lawrence T. Nash, M.D. from Jean Milnarik Turnmire Virginia and Gary Gerst from Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Sorensen Dr. Ronald Milnarik Ken and Lori Julian Dr. Antonio E. Navarrete and their many friends and family Dr. W. Gene Corley from Virginia Navarrete Nancy Wald from Lynd W. Corley from an Anonymous Donor Erin L. Koppel George Nichols, Jr. from her many friends James W. Cozad from Nancy Nichols Ruth and Irving Waldshine from David Grainger and his many friends and family from Marcia Purze and Deane Ellis Margot and Josef Lakonishok from Liz and Arsen H. Manugian Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. James Thomas L. Nicholson Sarita Warshawsky Mr. and Mrs. L. Daniel Jorndt from Eleanor A. Nicholson from Randee and Vance Johnson Robert and Patty Lane Miles and Lorna Marsh Carol Warshawsky from Kevin Matzke and Jacqueline Salvatore L. Nigro, M.D. Griesdorn and his many friends and family from Carol M. Nigro and her many friends and family Lois Dunn Arthur Weiner Lome Family Members Neil Oberg from Daniel H. Lome from Kathy Dunn from Susan and Bryan Erler from Fredrick and Susan Gohl Thomas E. Earle Jim and Nelly Kilroy Jane Russell Love Andrew Patner and his many friends and family from Craig J. Love from Anne Earle from Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz John Flanzer and his many friends and family Paula Weisskirch Jeanne Randall Malkin from Julia Luscombe from Lynn Barr from Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Peer and Sarah Pedersen Sally Funderburg from Leslie Bertholdt Robert H. Whittlesey Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Nadig from Constance Rebar from an Anonymous Donor from Robert and Cathy Funderburg Kenneth G. Pigott Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen from Anonymous (2) Mary Wolkonsky Sue Niemi from Robert E. Gaensslen Duffie A. Adelson from Neal Ball from Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Blatt Norman Gates Julie and Roger Baskes Dale E. Wooley Michael and Margo Oberman from Joe Hetz Leslie Bertholdt from Regina Janes from the Jack and Goldie Wolfe and his many friends and family Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Anthony C. Yu Miller Fund Betty Rae Gilbert Eisen Family Foundation from Priscilla T. Yu Phyllis N. Segal from the family of Betty R. Gilbert Frontenac Company Eugene and Marion Zajackowski Ellen O’Connor Evelyn Glieberman Jean Gilkison from an Anonymous Donor from Leonard Lavin from her many friends and family Guild Board of Directors Carol Lavin Bernick Cayenne S. Harris Nikolay Zhizhin and the Lavin Family Foundation Arbella Gowland Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield from Larisa Zhizhin from an Anonymous Donor Anne and Chris Reyes Laurie and Michael Jaffe from Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Dorothy and Ed Hoy Paula Kahn In Honor Of: The Edgewater Funds from Ron and Peggy Beata Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kearney Katherine A. Abelson and Betsy Rosenfield Laura Ladish Jacobson Heather Locus Robert J. Cornell from The Comer Foundation Jim and Kay Mabie from Mary Ladish Selander and her from John Hart and Carol Prins family Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau Richard O. Ryan Daniel Moss and Steven Betancourt Gene Andersen from Michael and Sally Feder Brigita Jakimcius from Heidi Stevenson Rothenberg from Irene Jakimcius Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Erica and Jim Sandner David Ramon Julie and Roger Baskes from Mirja and Ted Haffner Deborah Jannotta Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Suzanne L. Wagner Family Fund from an Anonymous Donor Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Peter Wender Nancy Searle Sandra L. Grung Zasadil Bill and Vicki Hood Mary A. Bell from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner and his many friends and family from David Q. Bell Mr. and Mrs. David Snyder Lee Jennings June B. Pinsof from Alfred G. Goldstein Margery and Bob Coen Liz Stiffel from Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker from Ruth Ann M. Gillis and William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt from Marcy Gringlas and Dr. Robert A. Pringle Joel Greenberg Michael McGuinnis from Sheila Ann Hegy from Marla McCormick Pringle Charles and Caroline Huebner Ardis Krainik Lester and Renée Crown Bertha Rabin from Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Craig Terry from Elizabeth Upjohn Mason from Michael and Sally Feder from Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Lois Eisen Marilyn and Roland Resnick from Peggy and James Swartchild Robert and Flo Weiss from J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Kay and Craig Tuber from Charles and Caroline Huebner

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.

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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 accessible to persons in wheelchairs, as well as seats with removable performance days. During season, Lyric Opera’s phone sales staff armrests. The Opera House has automatic door-openers on exterior is on duty from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, 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 Restroom facilities for female patrons with disabilities are located on time. Call (312) 332-2244, ext. 5600, for ticket information. all levels of the Opera House except the Opera Club level. For male Should you need to visit the Ticket Department, we are located patrons, these facilities are located on all levels except the Opera at 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 840, Chicago, IL 60606. Hours Club level and the sixth floor. are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Buy tickets Assistive listening devices for persons desiring amplification are online anytime via Lyric Opera’s website, www.lyricopera.org. 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 deposit. greatly appreciate you donating your tickets to Lyric Opera. We can accept your ticket donation as late as five min- High-powered opera glasses for the visually impaired are available utes prior to curtain at (312) 827-5600, or donate your at no cost at the checkroom on the main floor. A valid driver’s license, state identification, or major credit card is required as a tickets online up to four hours prior to curtain at lyricopera.org/ security deposit. Also, large format programs are available for every donatetickets. You may also mail or fax your ticket donation — performance.. the fax number is (312)332-8120. Donating your ticket(s) as For additional information or questions, call (312) 332-2244, ext. soon as possible will increase our chances of reselling them. A 5600. personalized statement of all ticket donations will be sent to you in January for the previous calendar year. DINING options are available before, during (intermission), and after most Lyric Opera performances on the main and third floor of Attention Box-Seat Holders: In order for each party seated in your the Civic Opera House. Refreshments are also available throughout box to have equivalent front-of-box seating opportunities for all most lobby areas on each floor and on the Opera Club level. Visit performances throughout the season, Lyric asks that you agree lyricopera.org/dine for complete details. Outside food and bever- ages may not be brought into the Civic Opera House. upon an equitable seating rotation plan with your neighbors seated within your box. Please remember that you may need to adjust NO SMOKING POLICY In compliance with the City of Chicago your front-of-box seating expectations in consideration of patrons ordinance, Lyric Opera of Chicago enforces a no smoking policy throughout the Opera House and within 15 feet of our theatre who do not regularly sit in your box and therefore are unaware of entrances. Thank you for your cooperation. any previous arrangements. LATECOMERS Opera has a tradition of starting promptly, and The use of a ticket acknowledges a willingness to appear in photo- the doors to the house are closed promptly at curtain time. We graphs taken for print, television, or film in the public areas of the realize situations arise that can delay your arrival, and we will try theater and releases Lyric Opera of Chicago from liability resulting to accommodate latecomers in an available section of the house from the use of such photo­graphs. The program and artists are or at a pre-determined break, which may be intermission. Video screens are available in the lobby, so you won’t miss a moment of subject to change without notice. the performance. Please be aware that patrons who must leave their For patrons attending the pre-performance lectures, the doors seats during a performance will not be readmitted until intermis- will open 75 minutes before curtain. sion or a suitable break. Evening performances of Der Rosenkavalier begin PROMPTLY at 6:30 p.m. Matinee performances of Der CAMERAS, recording equipment, food, and beverages are not Rosenkavalier 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 Laura LoChirco Joseph Dunn Geri LaGiglio Dolores Abreu Box Office Treasurer John Thor Sandquist Checkroom Supervisor Patron Relations Timothy M. Finnigan Hospitality Services Manager Carmen Cavello Miguel González Patrick Lutz

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