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IB~VO 2004 The Official Magazine of the Detroit Opera House

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CONTRIBUTORS Dr. David DiChiera Laura Wyss Karen VanderKloot DiChiera eason Laura Chandler Michigan Opera Theatre Staff WELCOM E Mitch Carter, Editor Letter from David DiChiera . . 4 P UBLISHER MOT's New Chairman of the Board .5 Live Publishing Company Frank Cucciarre, Design and Art Direction Blink Concept &: Design, Inc. Production O N STAGE Chuck Rosenberg, Copy Editor THE MAGIC FLUTE ...... 7 Toby Faber, Director of Advertising Sales Setting ...... 8 Physicians' service provided by Henry Ford The Crown of German Opera . .9 Medical Center. Maurice Sendak's Magical Sets 11

Pepsi-Cola is the official soft drink and juice THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE ...... 13 provider for the Detroit Opera House. Setting ...... · ... . . 14 Cadillac Coffee is the official coffee of the Before Topsy-Turvy ...... · . . . . . 15 Detroit Opera House Steinway is the official piano of the Detroit THE PEARL FISHERS . 17 Opera House and Michigan Opera Theatre. Steinway pianos are provided by Hammel Setting ...... 18 Music, exclusive representative Q &: A with Zandra Rhodes 19 for Steinway and Sons in Michigan. President Tuxedo is the official provider of ARTIST PROFILES ...... 21 fonnal wear for the Detroit Opera House. Michigan Opera Theatre is a nonprofit cultural MICHIGAN OPE RA THEATRE organization, whose activities are supported in part by the Michigan Council for Arts and Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra · . 24 Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for Chorus and Dancers ...... · .24 the Arts, and other individuals, corporations Administration and Staff...... 25 and foundations. Michigan Opera Theatre is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Board of Directors and Trustees · ...... 26 CONTRIBUTORS New Century Fund...... 28 Michigan Opera Theatre Contributors ...... 28 Avanti Society ...... 30

City of Detroit Cultural Affairs MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Department Volunteers ...... · .33 arts and w/rural affairs 9 -.,,_'" Community Programs ...... 34 Barbara Gibson Young Artist Apprentice Program ...... 35 Made possible with the support of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs , a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts

Welcome to Michigan Opera Theatre's Spring Opera Season! We are so very pleased that you could business and cultural community, and to join us for our 33rd Spring Opera provide a significant source of enrichment Season. These three productions offer for generations to come. something for everyone - a timeless The 1996 opening of the Detroit Mozart fairy tale, the long-awaited return Opera House became the catalyst for of a Gilbert and Sullivan masterwork, the revitalization of Detroit's sports and and a breathtaking new production of entertainment district, and continues to Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. Our gratitude to playa significant role in the development Cadillac for sponsoring this exciting of our great city The tremendous impact Spring season, and our thanks to you for that the completion of the Madison joining us for this performance. Tower has had on the economic, civic While our mainstage productions have and pedestrian viability of our neighbor catapulted us to rank among the top 10 hood is certain to be mirrored by our opera companies in the nation (OPERA completion of the Broadway Tower. The America), we are equally as proud of our Ford Center for Arts and Learning and a accomplishments in education outreach, new parking structure will continue the our sustenance measures and the role transformation of Broadway into a pedes that we continue to play in the revitaliza trian friendly street. tion of our great city Michigan Opera Theatre's Crowning As you may know, in January we Achievement campaign has raised $17 unveiled plans for the final phase of the million toward its $20 million goal, Detroit Opera House project by offiCially the Three Tenors, raised $18 million, including a $3 million challenge grant launching The Crowning Achievement. A helping us to make payments on our from the Kresge Foundation. In order to $20 million fund-raising initiative, The construction debt, begin renovations of the collect this challenge grant, MOT must Crowning Achievement ensures the com Broadway Tower and finish the Madison raise the remaining $3 million to reach pletion of the Detroit Opera House, which Tower, thereby bringing together all facets our $20 million goal by June 2004. 1 includes renovation of its six-floor Broadway of the company under one roof and hope that you will consider making a Tower to create the Ford Center for Arts resulting in a more efficient organization. contribution to help us complete our and Learning, completion of decorative The aptly named The Crowning community's crown jewel, the Detroit painting, retirement of existing debt, Achievement is the third and final phase to Opera House. Your gift will help us take provision for a much-needed parking raise $20 million, to complete what we one step closer to our goal and toward structure and an endowment component. envisioned years ago. With the success of completing the Kresge Foundation's We began our quest to make the Detroit The Crowning Achievement, the Detroit challenge grant requirements to receive Opera House a major resource in the cul Opera House will become a true commu its $3 million gift. Please refer to the spe turallife of our community in 1989, when nity resource, in our time and in the cial insert in todal's program for more we acquired the property and started to future, offering not just opera and dance on information and giving opportunities. m renovate the theater. More than $24 mil the main stage, but a place for everyone to lion was raised in the first campaign to experience the power of art, to learn some open the Detroit Opera House, which thing unexpected and to express creativity positioned the faCility as a catalyst for the As one of the few American opera renaissance of the entertainment district. companies to own and operate its perfor David DiChiera The second capital effort, The New mance faCility, Michigan Opera Theatre Century Fund Campaign, which we is in a unique and wonderful position to began in 1999 with the historic visit by control its own destiny as a leader in the

4 BRAVO www.MichiganOpera.org Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre WELCOME Surrender to Love R. Jamison (Rick) Williams Jr elected Chairman, Michigan Opera Theatre Board of Directors During its February 17 meeting at the stability is owing to the fact that it has opera company welcomes the leadership Detroit Opera House, Michigan Opera had the great fortune of being led by of R. Jamison Williams Jr. Theatres board of directors unanimously extremely committed chairmen. This The election of R. Jamison Williams Jr. elected prominent business and civic dedication is illustrated by the fact that comes at a particularly exciting time in leader R. Jamison (Rick) Williams Jr. its the Opera Company has had only two Michigan Opera Theatres history, follOwing new chairman. Mr. Williams, a successful Chairmen in its 33 years of operation. the Companys recent announcement, businessman and attorney, with a long R. Jamison Williams Jr. follows in the which revealed plans for the completion history of support for the arts and a footsteps of his parents, Mr. &: Mrs. R. of the Detroit Opera House and the Ford passion for opera and dance, will serve Jamison Williams, who were ardent and Center for Arts and Learning. as the Opera Company's third chairman devoted supporters of the arts in Detroit Michigan Opera Theatre, now celebrating of the board, succeeding Lynn Townsend for many years. Mr. &: Mrs. Williams its 33rd season, is a nonprofit SOlc3 (1971-1980) and Robert Dewar (1980- played a major role in the early growth corporation governed by a 60-member 2000). and success of Michigan Opera Theatre. board of directors and a 37S-member Much of Michigan Opera Theatre's Now, three decades into its existence, the board of trustees. m

R. Jamison Corporation, Clarke Detroit Diesel-Allison, Great Lakes Coating Williams Jr., a Laboratory, Inc., Grindmaster Corporation, North Pointe Insurance member of the Co., Televideo Communications and other closely held companies. American Bar Early in his career, Mr. Williams worked in the corporate finance Association, State department at Smith Barney, where he participated in the analysis Bar of Michigan , and financial structuring of acquisitions and mergers. He also Oakland County worked as a management consultant in the Top Management Bar Association and Services Division of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, an international American Judicature consulting firm, where he worked on a variety of projects which SOCiety, is senior involved marketing, financial analysis and the restructuring of partner and co business organizations. founder of Williams, Williams, Ruby & In addition to his extraordinary contributions to the business Plunkett. An authority community, Mr. Williams has a distinguished record of service to on the financial the nonprofit sector of Detroit's civic and cultural community. A structuring of business member of Michigan Opera Theatre's board of directors since enterprises, mergers, 2000, he also serves on the boards of directors for Detroit acquisitions and Symphony Orchestra, the Center for Hearing Disorders and Eaton divestitures, Mr. Williams is primary counsel to numerous Academy. Additionally, Mr. Williams is a trustee for the Cranbrook corporations in diverse industries. Major clients, many of which Educational Community and govemor of Cranbrook Schools. In were acquired or became controlled in transactions designed 1992, R. Jamison Williams Jr. became president and director of by Mr. Williams, include the following industries: transportation the Jamison Williams Foundation. services, broadcasting and television , manufacturing, textiles, Mr. Williams served four years in the United States Navy, as construction, metal fabrication, parts and service distribution, an officer in the Naval Security Group, a counter-intelligence financial services and specialty services. organization . Mr. Williams is a 1966 graduate of the University Mr. Williams is also a principal owner of several companies of Michigan School of Law. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Williams engaged in manufacturing, distribution, broadcasting, and optical currently resides in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is the father of and service-related activities. He serves as director of Penske four adult children. m

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In order of vocal appearance TAMINO Gregory Turay (24, 28, 1) Jonathan Boyd (25m, 30, 2m)* THE THREE LADIES Alison Buchanan* Gloli a Parker Melissa Parks PAPAGENO Robert Gierlach THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT Jami Rogers' MONOSTATOS Dean Anthony PAMINA Nicole Heaston THE THREE SPIRITS Abigail Haynes*t Suzanne Klock*t Rebecca Loeb*t THE SPEAKER OF THE TEMPLE Dean Elzinga* SARASTRO Daniel Borowski * FIRST PRIEST / MAN IN ARMOR Angus Wood* SECOND PRIEST / MAN IN ARMOR Warren Kaplan* PAPAGENA Lea Woods Friedman*t

Conductor Stephen Lord* Director Joshua Major Choru s Master Suzanne Mallare Acton Set & Costume Design Maurice Sendak Set & Costumes realized by Neil Peter Jampolis Lighting Design Shawn Kaufman Hair & Makeup Design Joanne Weaver Assistant Director Eric Einhorn Stage Manager Thomas Mehan English Surtitles Roberto Mauro Sets & COS tLlmes owned by Florida Grand Opera

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Delroil Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ON STAGE Mthe gic Fut e Setting: An imaginary Egypt Act I ensure their safety, then appoint three only two more trials to complete his initia Three Ladies, attendant on the Queen of spirits to guide them. tion. Papageno is eliminated, but settles for the Night, save the fainting Prince Tamino Sarastros Moorish slave Monostatos the old lady, who turns into a young from a dragon. They leave and the bird pursues Pamina, but is frightened away Papagena when the resigned Papageno catcher, Papageno, enters. He boasts to by the feather-covered Papageno, who promises to be faithful. She disappears, Tamino that it was he who slew the dragon. tells Pamina that Tamino loves her and however. The Ladies return to give Tamino a portrait intends to save her. After the spirits save the despairing of the Queen's daughter, Pamina, who Led to the Temple of Sarastro, Tamino Pamina from suicide, she finds Tamino and they say is enslaved by the evil Sarastro, is advised by a High Priest that it is the walks with him through the ordeals by and they padlock Papageno's mouth for Queen, not Sarastro, who is evil. Hearing water and fire , protected by the magic flute. lying. The Queen, appearing in a burst of that Pamina is safe, Tamino charms the Papageno also is saved from attempted thunder, laments the loss of her daughter animals with his flute, then follows the suicide by the spirits, who remind him to and charges Tamino with Paminas rescue. sound of Papageno's pipes. Monostatos use his magic bells, which summon The Ladies give Tamino a magic flute and and his retainers chase Papageno and Papagena. The two plan for the future give Papageno magic silver bells to Pamina, but are rendered helpless by and move into a bird's nest. Papageno's magic bells. Sarastro, entering The Queen of the Night, her Three in ceremony, promises Pamina eventual Ladies and Monostatos attack the temple, freedom and punishes Monostatos. but are defeated and banished. Sarastro Pamina is enchanted at her first glance of joins Pamina and Tamino as the throng Tamino, who is led into the temple with hails Isis and Osiris, the triumph of Papageno. courage, virtue and wisdom. m by John W Freeman ACT II - courtesy of Opera News ~ . ~ Sarastro tells his priests that Tamino will undergo initiation rites. Sworn to PROSPERITAS silence, Tamino is impervious to the Family Office &: Stewardship Services temptations of the Queens Ladies, who have no trouble derailing the cheerful Papageno from his course of virtue. We Manage the Complexities The Queen of the Night dismisses Associated with Monostatos, whom she finds kissing the Significant Wealth sleeping Pamina, and gives her daughter a dagger with which to murder Sarastro. The weeping Pamina is confronted and consoled by Sarastro. The gourmand Papageno is just as HARRY CENDROWSKI STEVEN PATLER quick to break a new oath of fasting, and Managing Directors he jokes with a flirtatious old lady, who The Prosperitas Group LLC 40950 Woodward Ave. Suite 312 vanishes when asked her name. Tamino Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 remains steadfast, which breaks Paminas 248.540.5777 heart: She cannot understand his silence. www.ProsperitasGroup.com The priests inform Tamino that he has

8 BRAVO Copyright 2010,www.MichiganOpera Michigan Opera.org Theatre Detroit Opera House ON STAGE Mthe gic Fut e The Crown of German Opera From an essay by the late stage director "rupture" theory is untenable, for if we Gotz Friedrich. were to assume that Kaspar really did have an influence on Schikaneders original story, The "Idea" in Mozart's Music it could claim the credit for provoking one It is clear that the superordinate level of the most important turning points in of the libretto and the way in which the The Magic Flute : Tamino sees everything plot develops were very much in line that he had believed in dashed to pieces. with Mozarts own view of life. He gave to He reaches the point at which, ignorant, the librettos sometimes stereotyped ideas he desires new knowledge-that is, and characters what Ferrando in COSt fan enlightenment. "0 , eW'ge Nacht, wann tutte sings of as "un' aura amorosa" (a wirst du schwinden, wann wird das Licht t breath of love). What Mozarts genius mein Auge finden " (0 endless night! really createu was inspiraLion Lhrough When will you pass? When will the light love. His mUSical-dramaturgical gifts strike my eyes?) Or, as Kant put it in 1784: brought order to the hazy contours by "Enlightenment is a persons egress from adopting and further evolving different the immaturity he had brought upon styles for the three predominant types of himself" persons and spheres of life . For the For this significant dramaturgical junc "kingdom of night," he quotes opera seria, ture, Mozart devised one of his greatest and in contrast to that, he recalls the Gluck and most revolutionary scenes. With the tradition for Sarastro and his order, goes musical shaping of the German language back to Bach, and chooses for "In diesen in these passages, he further wrought heil'gen Hallen" (In these sacred halls) an intellectual feat which allows us to simple harmony, from which a rich melodic recognize the germ cell of the new "German" line blossoms. Papagenos world is rooted speaker and Tamino is especially infor opera, achieved here for the first time; it is in folk song, with Mozart varying its pop mative. It is here, claimed 19th century like an anticipation of Wagners "endless ular tone. And for Tamino and Pamina, he musicologists, that the "incurable rupture" melody" and of everything composed in evolves a highly ductile musical language in the plot occurred, with the alleged evil the German language up to Alban Berg. to correspond to the transformations sorcerer now appearing as a good priest. they pass through. The individualization, As we know, the competition of Kaspar Pranks and Miracle Play: An which Mozart achieves on all levels, gives the Bassoonist was the supposed reason Imaginary Journey the action and the characters a vivid for the change. Mozart, who attended In July 1791, most of the opera was validity that can be best defined as com Kaspar at the Theater in der Leopoldstadt finished. Then Mozart was commissioned prehensive humanization. Although he four days after the first performance, by a person unknown to him to compose knew very well how to write with the wrote on June 12, 1791, "To cheer myself a Requiem. With his nerves overwrought greatest complexity, Mozart strove in The up, I then went to see Kasperl in the new and his body weakened by sickness, he Magic Flute for the greatest simplicity, and opera 'The Bassoonist.' It makes a lot of began to imagine that he was writing the that simplicity gives this mature work the noise, but there is absolutely nothing in it. " Requiem for himself The air of mystery irresistible charm of youth. Mozart does not say a word about bitter glaringly illuminates the existential need to Over and over again, The Magic Flute protests on Schikaneders part, which fulfill a legend: A 35-year-old man under asks us the three questions that are with certainly should have been forthcoming, at sentence of death works at the same time us from childhood to old age: Who am I, the latest, on the day of the first performance on his Requiem and on an opera that tells where do I come from, where am I going? of Kaspar. It is rather a pity that musical of the unflagging regeneration of life and For the answers, the scene between the scholarship has demonstrated that the sings of being young, that delivers us

Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010,www.MichiganOpera.org Michigan Opera Theatre BRAVO 9 , I I Tradition from fear and terror to faith and serenity Mozart's work on The Magic Flute and Inspiration the Requiem was interrupted once more by a trip to Prague, where by order of the Excellence Estates of Bohemia he composed, in 18 days, the festal opera La Clemenza di Tito to an old text by Metastasio. It was per The law firm ofDykema Gossett fonned on September 6 to mark the applauds the Michigan Opera Theatre ... coronation of Leopold II as king of Bohemia and had a cool reception from for bringing music to life, audiences to the court. On his return to Vienna, Mozart wrote the chorus "0 Isis und their feet and the spirit ofharmony to Osiris," the second Papageno aria, and the second finale. On September 28, just our community~with one Sound two days before the first performance, he performance after another. composed the overture and the March of (( p I)) the Priests. When, on September 30, 0/ZCO/Y/. 1791, the wind chords of the overture rang out for the first time, there was surely nobody in the audience - there For more information call 313-568-6800 usually is not on such occasions - who or visit us on the web at www.dykema.com was aware that he was about to hear one of the supreme achievements of the har ANN ARBOR' BLOOMfiELD HIL LS. CHI CAGO. DETROIT many of opera and humanity After he GRA ND RAPIDS' LA NSI NG' PASADE NA. WASHING TO N, DL had finished conducting the opera, Mozart attended perfonnances at the Freihaustheater and spoke proudly of its great success in his last letters to his wife. And once, he went to play the set of bells, "because I had such a desire today to do it Celebrate excellence myself" He took a childish delight in playing pranks on Schikaneder, who was singing Papageno, and in breaking him Grand Valley celebrates the imagination, creativity, up: "Everybody laughed, and I think that many in the audience noticed for the first and beauty 01-the fine arts. We applaud the time that he doesn't play the instrument himself." Seven weeks later, the composer talented people who share our passion for was dead. m excellence and our commitment to personal Translation: Eugene Hartzell Text reprinted by kind permission of the achievement. For more infOlmation about th e Hamburg State Opera.

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By Laura Chandler the world" and spoke thoughtfully of his Editor's note: The beloved Maurice Sendak relationship with the composer in a 1987 designed production of The Magic Flute makes PBS documentary In working on The its second visit to the Detroit Opera House. Magic Flute, Sendak said that he viewed Houston Grand Opera's Laura Chandler Mozart as a fellow collaborator and a looks back on the production's genesis. rigorous one at that: "Who are you to address yourself to Mozarts needs? .. If When director Frank Corsaro approached Mozart is your hero, your work has to famed children's author and illustrator [achieve] a very high standard." Sendak Maurice Sendak in 1979 about creating has collected letters that Mozart wrote to deSigns for a new Houston Grand Opera his father, and delights in the fact that he production of The Magic Flute, he couldn't can hold in his hand the objects that his have had any idea that hiStory was in the idol has touched. "I'm not a mystical man, making. Sendak was not the first illustrator but something happens when I handle to be asked to design for the stage, but in these things, and I don't know what it is," The Magic Flute, his deSigns captured the he said in a 1998 interview. imagination of audiences in a way that Maurice Sendak with one oj his wild things. has rarely been matched-so successfully Whatever "it" is, public acclaim attests that you'd just have to call it, well, magic. They decided to approach it as a Grimms that Sendak did not let his collaborator fairy tale. Because there are numerous down. The hugely successful production Since success is impossible to predict, symbols and allusions to Freemasonry in has been seen in so many cities that no perhaps the only way we can understand the opera, they delved into Masonic one has been able to keep track. The it is to dissect it in retrospect. materials to the very limited extent that Magic Flute was only the first of many Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Sendak was these were available. Corsaro came to successful forays into design for Sendak the youngest of three children born to believe that the major characters in the he has since deSigned sets and costumes Polish immigrants who came to the United opera had been inspired by real people, for Mozarts Idomeneo, Janacek's Cunning States before World War 1. Sendak's and they tried to create a believable story Little Vixen , Prokofievs Love for Three father Philip, who spoke only Yiddish at and characters within the framework of Oranges, Ravels fEnfant et les Sortileges home, was a masterful storyteller- one the fantasy, focusing on the young lovers and fHeure Espagnole , Tchaikovsky's who didn't censor himself or sugarcoat and the difficulties they go through before Nutcracker, Hans Krasa's Brundibar, and his tales. So it is no surprise that Sendak, overcoming them in the end. The result Oliver Knussens operas based on Sendaks whose talent for art surfaced early; created is an extremely affecting-and effective books Where the Wild Things Are and in his books a Similarly un-sugarcoated piece of work. Pamina and Tamino are Higglety Pigglety Popl, in addition to HGOS vision of the world. His 1963 book, Where caught in a world in which it's nearly Hansel and Gretel in 1997. the Wild Things Are, was lauded for its impossible to distinguish good from evil, The New York Times wrote that Sendak refreshing Originality; at the same time, and in which the adults' behavior is "has brought a new dimension to the critics worried the content and illustrations bewildering-themes that are prevalent American childrens book and has helped were too frightening for children. in Sendaks stories. Sendak remarked that to change how people visualize childhood." But Sendak believes in presenting he loves the fact that it is the three genii Surely his designs for the operatic stage honestly the flawed and sometimes children- who keep Pamina from com have brought a new dimension and nightmarish world in which we live. Who mitting suicide. "No other moment affects freshness to the art form. Somewhere, better, then, to create a new vision for me so much." surely, Mozart is smiling. m Mozarts final opera-in which Sendak Sendak is proud of the production, a Laura Chandler is editorial director of saw Tamino and Pamina as young people project he took on with some trepidation. Houston Grand Opera. This article reprinted caught in a nightmare? He calls Mozart his "favorite creature in courtesy of Houston Grand Opera.

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Setting: The coast of Cornwall Act I when he is no longer a pirate, it will be before he can act, the pirate king and A band of pirates toast Frederic, their his duty to exterminate them. The pirates Ruth arrive to tell him that he is still apprentice, upon his promotion to full understand and also complain that they obligated to the pirates. Because Frederic pirate. But Frederic announces that his cannot seem to make money Frederic was born on February 29 of a leap year, obligation to the gang is fulfilled and he won't become an ex-pirate until noon, he has served only five birthdays, not the is leaving them. He was apprenticed to so, before leaving, he gives them practical 21 reqUired by his contract. A strong the pirates only until his 21st birthday, advice on how to improve their business sense of duty forces Frederic to re-join which is today Ruth (Frederics nurse methods. He says that they are too ten the pirate band and reveal the truth that maid when he was younger) explains der-hearted and, being orphans them Major General Stanley is not an orphan. that Frederic would not have been a selves, refuse to rob another orphan. The pirate king vows revenge on the pirate except for her mistake: She was Because their potential victims are aware major general. told to apprentice Frederic to a pilot, but of this, they all claim to be orphans! Mabel enters and begs Frederic not to she misunderstood and placed him with Having spent his entire life with the go back to the pirates, but, bounJ by a pirate instead. pirates, Frederic has never seen another duty, he leaves. The police ready their Frederic, a slave of duty, tells them that woman; thus, he thinks he may want to attack on the pirates, while the pirates take Ruth with him as his wife . He asks creep in to take revenge on the major Ruth if she is beautiful, and she responds general. that she is. Frederic believes Ruth. At this The pirates defeat the police. Ru th TIl.e City is Built to Music. point, he hears a chorus of girls in the then divulges that the pirates are really vicinity Upon seeing a group of beautiful -A lfred Lord Tennyson noblemen, and they swear their allegiance young women, he realizes he was betrayed to the queen. With the tables turned, the by Ruth and rejects her. Frederic informs police take the pirates prisoner. However, the girls that he is a pirate, but not for long. because the pirates have never hurt anyone, He asks whether any of the girls will marry they are forgiven. The ex-pirates win the him, and the youngest, Mabel, agrees. girls, Frederic wins Mabel, and everyone The pirates enter, and each pairs off lives happily ever after. m with a girl. Major General Stanley enters Editor's note: Two thousand four being a leap and identifies himself as the girls' father, year, Frederic celebrated his 35th birthday demanding to know what is taking place. this past February. Ruth won't discuss her Michigan's largest law finn When the pirates tell Major-General age, but we figure she's pushing 165. is proud to be part of Stanley that they intend to marry his Detroit's cultural COlll.lll.unity. daughters, he objects, saying he has an aversion to having pirates for sons-in-law; the pirates respond that they are opposed to having major-generals as fathers-in-law, but that they will put aside the objection. Actively supporting the arts for over 150 years. Knowing about the pirates' weakness, MILLER Major General Stanley tells them he is an CANFIELD orphan and, thus disarming the pirates, LMHl.E.R . ~: F_~ . PADDOCKANVS l'O NE. p , ~c takes his daughters, along with Frederic, 150 West Jefferson, Su ite 2500 away to his family chapel and estate. Detroit, Mich igan 48226 313/963-64 20 mvw.millercanfield.com Act II Frederic plans to lead a squad of zany policemen against his old gang. But 14 BRAVO Copyright 2010,www Michigan.MichiganOpera.org Opera Theatre Detroit Opera House ON STAGE

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By Karen VanderKloot DiChiera Sir William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) are remembered as a team as famous for their feuds as for their prodigious output of operettas. Most of the 13 works are still loved for their sparkling wit, their delightful melodies, their outrageous characters and deftly daft plots, their bril liant orchestration and-above all-the way everything works together, which was certainly better than their personal relationship. Sir William S. Gilbert, who is said to have given more familiar quotations to the English language than anyone since Dickens, was born in London, to a wealthy Englishman and his Scottish wife. A great deal of his childhood was Sir William S. Gilbert Sir Arthur Sullivan spent traveling the European continent This profession was not well suited only fourteen he won the newly established with his parents, siblings and a nanny to the irascible William Gilbert and his Mendelssohn Scholarship at the Royal He was the baby and so was called "Bab" creative bent. He enjoyed writing plays, College of Music. After four years, Sullivans for short. cartooning and writing articles for such scholarship was renewed so he could study An event that had lasting effects on publications as Fun and Punch. But it was at the Leipzig Conservatory with some of Gilbert happened in Naples. Two rather Fun that won, and there he published the worlds leading composers. charming Italians approached the nanny, satirical verses called the Bab Ballads, In Leipzig, he wrote incidental music telling her that Gilberts father had asked which became so popular they were recited to The Temp est. Back in England, it was them to take the toddler back to his hotel. at dinner parties and even quoted in the performed at the Crystal Palace in 1862. Whisking him away, they asked for a large House of Lords. This and an ever-increasing output of ransom, which they were paid, and the He longed to quit his job as a barrister other works established Sullivan as a child was returned to his frightened parents. and to embark on a full-time career as leading British composer. He produced a The kidnappers were never caught, but playwright, cartoonist, satirist and stage great deal of orchestral and choral music that memory stayed with Gilbert for the director. that was performed with much acclaim. rest of his life. A fine melodist and orchestrator, his early His schooling took place in various works pay homage to his Germanic training. places in Europe, but he was sent to Sir Arthur Sullivan was the son of an He also published chamber music, art songs boarding school in England at age 13. A Irish bandleader, living in London with and hymns, including 'The Lost Chord" domineering lad, he wasn't popular, but his Italian wife and their children.Young and "Onward Christian Soldiers." In was respected for writing, directing and Arthur was the local wunderkind who, it 1876, he was appOinted prinCipal of the stage-managing original plays. After is told, decided that if he could lift an National Training School, which later obtaining a degree from Kings College, he instrument, he wanted to learn to play it. became the Royal Conservatory of Music. became an officer in the home service and As a result, before he was eight years old, Oddly, while the well-to-do Gilbert worked as a government clerk, eventually he learned to play every band instrument detested parties and social gatherings studying law and becoming a barrister. that he was strong enough to carry At

(especially when they were attended by Reeling in the success of Carte cast were necessary to establish the the very people he was lampooning), "authoritative" production. However, Sullivan, who was born in modest cir Pinafore, the twosome was rewrites abounded, and the tunes could cumstances, moved easily through soci be heard on hurdy-gurdies everywhere. ety and was the favorite at elegant gather encouraged by Carte to At this point, the 'Topsy-Turvy" part of ings. He was charming, gracious and their lives still lay ahead. The team was good-looking, and an easy conversation try another. The Pirates still friendly but businesslike, with Gilbert alist-qualities people thought rare in handling most of their negotiations. England's most revered composer and of Penzance made an even However, it was at this time that Gilbert conductor. He was also a gifted gambler balked at the tradition of the composers and enjoyed going to casinos and horse bigger impression in the U.S. name being listed first in collaborations. races with his aristocratic buddies. We don't know for certain whether Sullivan Sullivan the composer and musicologist and Britain than Pinafore. had strong personal feelings about this. made the acquaintance of Sir George Grove Actually, he was so well known and so at the Crystal Palace Concerts, [or which authoritative Pinafore" to New York and busy that he probably didn't care. Grove wrote program notes between 1856 established copyright in England. Although in increaSingly poor health and and 1896. Still known today for his four Reeling in the success of Pinafore, the suffering excruciating pain from kidney volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians, twosome was encouraged by Carte to try stones, Sullivan composed a symphony, Grove was aided by Sullivan in discovering another. The Pirates of Penzance made an a cello concerto, orchestral overtures, and writing about unpublished Schubert even bigger impression in the U.S . and oratorios, cantatas, the opera Ivanhoe manuscripts, including the Rosamunde Britain than Pinafore. Illegal productions and, as a salute to Queen Victoria, an music. Their exciting discoveries and proliferated and both Carte and Gilbert orchestral piece, the Imperial March, as well importance to music history are recorded traveled to New York City with their com as hymns and songs and the music for in Grove's publication. pany to show the definitive and original nine more operettas. (Some of Sullivans Sullivan tried his hand at opera and way the piece was to be played and sung. formerly forgotten music is now being operetta with various librettists, but Gilbert, who was a painstaking stage played and recorded.) He was also prinCipal nothing very important came of these director, worked out his stagings ahead conductor of both the Leeds Festival and collaborations, with the possible exception of time with tiny cut- cardboard figures the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . of Cox and Box, with a libretto by one of on paper Ooor plans. No improvisation After their breakup as a team, Gilbert the editors of Punch magazine. was allowed, and Gilbert taught each and suffered a personal blow when Queen Conducting commitments and his work every gesture to each and every performer. Victoria knighted Sullivan first. as a school prinCipal gave Sullivan less He went wild when he saw other directors' However strained their personal rela time to compose. Due to a small failure interpretations of his precious creations! tionship became, Gilbert and Sullivan with William Gilbert, it took the acumen Because of the spectacular successes of were two brilliant minds who changed the of theatrical agent Richard D'Oyly Carte Pinafore and Pirates, Richard D'Oyly Carte course of musical theater and helped lead to convince the duo to try again. The did a bold thing. He built a new theater, to late 19th- and early 20th-century result was the one-act opera Trial by Jwy, the Savoy, devoted exclUSively to the American operetta and musical comedy with Sullivans own brother singing the production of Gilbert and Sullivan They gave us words and music that fit bass role of the judge. operettas. (This was later the site of the together li ke two perfect halves. Their This success led the team to try some well-known dispute about the theaters collaborative works are delighting audiences thing grander. The result was H.M. S. new carpet, which led to the breakup of the 21st century with the charming, Pinafore, which took Britain and America of the collaborators.) witty, romantic and satirical masterpieces by storm. Everywhere on both sides of the When writing the libretto to The Pirates now known to us, fondly and familiarly, Atlantic, Pinafore was being performed of Penzance, Gilbert may have been as G&:S. m legally and illegally- a problem that was inspired by his own kidnapping. Others Karen VanderKloot DiChiera is the founder to frustrate the team for the rest of their have alluded to the fact that Robert Louis and director of Michigan Opera Theatre's creative partnership. This was a time before Stevenson had just published the wildly Department of Community Programs and copyright laws were established, and successful Ii'easure Island. Perhaps a bit of Leaming at the Opera House. producers borrowed freely and rewrote both might be closer to the truth. without any worry about lawsuits. To quell this problem, Carte took "the Again, New York tours with the D'Oyly

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Opera in Two Acts metea at San DIego By Georges Bizet Libretto by Eugene Cormon and Michel Carre

World Premiere: Theatre Lyrique, Paris, September 30, 1863 Sung in French with English surtitle translation

Running time approximately twO hours 20 minutes, including intermission

The 2004 Spring Season is made possible by Cadillac.

Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010,www.MichiganOpera.org Michigan Opera Theatre BRAVO 17 ON STAGE PearFi she s Setting: A beach in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) General Director's note on this Act I always wears, proof of her fidelity production The pearl fishers prepare for the diving Nourabad leaves. I can't tell you how delighted I am season and choose Zurga to lead them. Later that evening, Nadir appears, to bring The Pearl Fishers back to the They wait for the consecrated virgin to declaring his love. She does not reject Michigan Opera Theatre stage after an arrive; she will ward off storms. Zurgas old him. A storm erupts at sea. Nourabad absence of 25 years. On that occasion, friend, Nadir, returns after a long absence, returns with his guards and seizes the I commissioned Dennis Cigler, a well and the two reminisce about their night guilty lovers. Zurga at first pardons them, known American artist living in Rome, together at the gates of Candi. It was but becomes furious upon recognizing to create an extraordinary production there that they encountered a beautiful, Leila and withdraws his pardon. featuring a beautiful array of batik mysterious woman. Both instantly fell in costumes and panels for the Music love with her, but renounced that love in Act II Hall stage. order to preserve their friendship. Zurga later regrets condemning his old And now, for our expansive opera A veiled woman, Leila, approaches. house stage, we bring a magnificent new friend. Leila appears to beg for Nadirs She is the consecrated virgin whose duty life, offering her own to spare his. Her production commissioned in collaboration it is to protect the fishermen while they with San Diego Opera, with sets and devotion to Nadir rekindles Zurgas jealousy, are at sea, by singing and remaining invio and he rejects her plea. As Leila is being costumes designed by the talented and late. She is acclaimed by the pearl fishers, world-renowned Zandra Rhodes, and led away, she hands a diver her necklace, as she swears an oath of obedience and is asking him to pass it on to her mother. directed by Andrew Sinclair and choreo led to the place of her sacred vigil. Nadir graphed by John Malashock. Leila and Nadir are to be sacrificed at recognizes her; despite his assurance to sunrise. Zurga enters with news that the Like our production of Lakme two Zurga, he has never stopped lOving her. village is burning. When the villagers seasons back, The Pearl Fishers is one of Nadir makes himself known to Leila. rush off to save their homes, Zurga frees those neglected French operas with some Night falls . The high priest, Nourabad, Leila and Nadir and admits that he lit the of the most beautiful music to be heard in reminds Leila of her sacred vow She fire himself. He had recognized the neck 19th-century stage works. The assures him that she never breaks a lace, for he was the fugitive whom she tenorlbaritone duet is only one of the promise and recalls how, as a child, she had saved in her childhood. The lovers musical delights that, combined with the once risked her life to protect a fugitive. flee , leaving Zurga behind to face the visual splendor, will provide you with an The fugitive gave her the necklace she consequences of his selfless act. m unforgettable operatic experience. It may be that The Pearl Fishers is poised to come out of its long period of unjust neglect. (The Met has not presented it since the era of Caruso.) This exquisite production has already been scheduled to be included in future seasons at New York City Opera and San Francisco Opera. - David DiChiera, Michigan Opera Theatre Founder and General Director

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-- - -- ON STAGE PearFi shers Q&A with Zandra Rhodes How did you first get involved in medieval designing operas? palace, where Zandra Rhodes, deSigner of The Pearl When I became a part -time San Diego you climbed Fishers, was born in Kent in the 1940s resident, I began going to the opera there, up 2,000 and was introduced to the world of fash and a few friends kept saying to Ian stairs to a ion by her mother, who was a fitter in a Cambell [San Diego Opera general director]: plateau on Paris fashion house and a teacher at "You should use Zandra for costumes." In rocks. In the Medway College of Art. She studied tex 2001 , I did the costumes for The Magic caves on the tile design at Medway and the Royal Flute, but not the sets. After that, I was way up were College of Art in London, and was one of asked if I would like to do the sets and paintings l'lf the new wave of British deSigners who costumes for The Pearl Fishers. the ladies of put London at the forefront of the inter the court, national fashion scene in the 1970s. Her Did you immediately agree? floating deSigns have always been clear, creative Yes. I had enjoyed doing the The Magic around on statements, dramatic but graceful, bold Flute costumes so much that I didn't really the ceilings, but feminine, and her garments have a have to think about it. But I said, "You and that influenced how I did the rest. timeless quality that makes them unmis will have to have someone help me," How did you arrive at colors? takably a Rhodes creation. Zandras own because I'd never done sets before. I'd lifestyle has proved to be as dramatic, We decided to let the colors represent practically never walked onto a stage. glamorous and extroverted as her the groups. For example, the priests and How long did the project take you? deSigns. With her bright green hair (later the priestess are in yellows and golds and changed to a spectacular pink and some They gave me three yearsl I'd do a bit reds, which are religious colors in the times a radiant red), theatrical makeup of it, and then I'd do another bit. Then I East. And the crowd, we decided, would and art jewelry, she has stamped her had a hip operation, so I would lie in bed be in blues and greens like the sea. You identity on the international world of thinking about it. know, pearl fishers - seal And, once fashion. Zandra designed for the late we'd gotten into the mood of deciding How did you begin? Diana, Princess of Wales, and continues what colors we were going for, we went First of all, we decided that the audi to design for the royal and the rich and out on a couple of shopping trips. ence perspective would be from the famous around the world. She has a loyal beach looking out to sea, rather than What did you buy? cult follOwing in the USA. In 2000, from the sea looking at the beach. I next We went up to Little India, outside Los Zandra deSigned the costumes for San drew a vague idea of the sets and met Angeles, and we bought every blue sari Diego Operas The Magic Flute. The Pearl with [stage director] Andrew Sinclair. We that we could find Anything we found Fishers is her set desi.gn debut. discussed where we were going, and it that looked right, we got. That gave us wasn't quite right. Then I did a few more a good basis, and on them we printed sketches, and they weren't quite right. seashells and starfish and other deSigns Would a fan of yours walk into your opera Since the opera takes place in Ceylon, it I had. The actual end result is a disguised and say: "Oh yes, that's a Rhodes." needs an Indian, or vaguely Indian, feel. I sari. They would. I'm a textile deSigner, so adore that part of the world and go there Do the patterns read from the audience? I worked on the premise that they had in any case. And while I was off on a trip to look like textile designs, and they had to judge Miss India, I managed to swing They probably read completely, if you to be imagi.nary The people I've most a visit to Sri Lanka. have opera glasses; if you don't, they read admired have always made things that texturally - more blue or more stripy or Did that trip affect your design? look like them. If you look at a wonderful whatever. Marc Chagall set, or if you look at a It did. We went sketching and visiting all David Hockney, they look like the person the different places. There was a wonderful who did them. It's not a case of how

Detroi t Opera House Copyright www.Mich2010, MichiganiganOpera.org Opera Theatre BRAVO 19 ON STAGE Pear Fi shers

Drawings by Zandra Rhodes of The Pearl Fishers sets

realistically you can draw We're not look all the fabulous rehearsals, that I really got he looked like Johnny Depp in Pirates of ing for realistic palm trees; we're looking to start listening to the music. I could the Cmibbean! So we had to change that.

for a fantasyland that conveys the sea. probably hum you the music now, but at Do you change costume designs to suit Some of your costumes are a bit ... the time, I couldn't. specific singers? skimpy. Do you tweak things after seeing Not usually. But if itS one of the main Yes. The pearl divers are made to look them in rehearsal? singers, and you find that they're very as if they're in dhotis, like Ghandi wore. Yes, you definitely tweak. In this case, so')',.. you make them a bit nuder or what We call them diving diapers. the things that were tweaked most of all ever.

Did the music inform your choices during were the hats. In the crowd scene, a cou You seem to be having fun. the creative process? ple of them looked far too big. We have a wonderful baritone, and I'd given him a Oh, itS divine doing the opera - I love I played it initially, but really it was my great big pink hat that we thought looked it! You have all these lovely singers who conversations with the director and the operatically wonderful, and when he love getting dressed Upl Its fantastic. For people I worked with that were most stepped onto the stage in the rehearsals, me, it's really a lovely new change in important. It was only much later, during my life. Ii)

20 BRAVO Copyright 2010,www.Mic MichiganhjganOp eOperara.org Theatre Detroit Opera House ON STAGE Artist Pro SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON WILLIAM BURDEN ROBERT GIERLACH Assistant Music Director-Chorus Tenor (USA) Bass-Baritone (Poland) Master (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Conducting debut 1986, West Gerald, Lakmf, 2002 The Maniage oj Figaro, 2002 Side Story, Company debut as 2004 Season : Nadir, The 2004 Season: Papageno, The chorus master, 1982 Pearl Fishers Magic Flute 2004 Season: Conductor, The Recently: rItaliana in Alge /i Recently: King Roger (Tokyo), Pirates oj Penzance; Chorus (Same Fe Opera), Sa lome Giulio Cesa re (Teatro Comunale Master, The Magic Flute, The (Pittsburgh Opera), La Traviata di Bologna), Th e Marriage oj Pea rl Fislle rs (Hamburg Opera) Figaro (l'Opera de Montreal, Florida Grand Opera) Recently: Madame Butte/jly (ArtPark), Die Fledennaus, Upcoming: The Rakes Progress (Bayerische Staatsoper, Upcoming: King Roger (ZUlich and Stockholm), The (Michigan Opera Theatre), Tosca (A ugusta Opera) Mun ich), Beatrice et Benedict (Sama Fe Opera), Faust Maniage oj figaro (Baltimore Opera), Stabat Mater Upcoming: Too Hot to Handel (Rackham Symphony (Opera Company of Philadelphia) (Berlin Philhannonic) Orchestra), The Dar/ghter oj the Regiment (Michigan Opera Theatre) JOYCE CAMPANA NATHAN GUNN Mezzo-soprano (USA) Bari tone (USA) DIANE ALEXANDER Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Michigan Opera Theatre debut Soprano (USA) The Barber oj Seville, 1994 2004 Season: Zurga, The Pead Michigan Opera Theatre debut Recently: Street Scence, H.M.5. Fishers 2004 Season: Leila, The Pearl PinaJore (Cemral City Opera) Recently: Sweeney Todd (Lyric Fishers Opera of Chicago), A Midsummer Recently: Die Fledennaus Nights Dream (Metropoli tan I (Nashvi ll e Opera), The Stu.dent Opera), Billy Budd (San Francisco Prince (Central City Opera) Opera), Florencia en el Amazonas (Seattle Opera) Artist in Residence, Ne"''Port DEAN ELZINGA Upcoming: The Pearl Fishers (Opera Company of Music Festival Bass-baritone (USA) Philadelphia) Upcoming: TIle Meny Widow (Virginia Opera, New Michigan Opera Theatre debut Orleans Opera and evada Opera) 2004 Season: The Speaker, The ABIGAIL HAYNES Magic f lute Soprano (USA) DEAN ANTHONY Recently: Tal1nhauser Michigan Opera Theatre debut Tenor (USA) (Metro politan Opera), The Barber 2004 Season: Fi rst Spirit, The Michigan Opera Theatre debut: oj Seville (Opera San Jose) Magic F!t(te Dead Man Walking (2003) Upcoming: Eight Songs Jor a Recently: U-Ms School of 2004 Season: Monostatos, The Mac! King (Cleveland-based orchestra "Red") Music Concerto Competition, Magic Flute finalist. Recently: EdmondolDancing MARK D. FLINT MasterlLamplighter in Manon Conductor (USA) Lescaut (Palm Beach Opera), Michigan Opera Theatre debut: NICOLE HEASTON Monostatos in The Magic f llile (New York City Opera) Cannell, 1977 Soprano (USA) Upcoming: TIle Meny Widow (New Orleans Opera), 2004 Season: The Pearl Fishers Michigan Opera Theatre debut: The Lighthouse (Nashville Opera) Recently: Sa lome (Nashville Falstaff, 2001 Opera), The Meny Widow 2004 Season: Pamina, TIle DANIEL BOROWSKI (Hawaii Opera Theatre), The Magic Flute Bass (Poland) Magic Flu te (l'Opera de Montreal) Recently: Don Giovanni Michigan Opera Theatre debut Upcoming: Candide (La ke George Opera Festival). (Metropolitan Opera), CoslJan 2004 Season: Sarastro, TIle Maestro Flint is general & artistic di rector of lLItte, (Dall as Opera), Un Ballo in Magic flute Augusta Opera Association. Maschera (San Francisco Opera) Recently: Ll/cia di Lammennoor, Upcoming: The Magic flute (Metropoli tan Opera), La Boheme (New York City Opera) LEA WOODS FRIEDMAN Rigoletto (Houston Grand Opera) Upcoming: Simon Boccanegra Soprano (USA) (Santa Fe Opera) Michigan Opera Theatre debut WARREN KAPLAN JONATHAN BOYD 2004 Season: Papagena, The Bass (USA) Tenor (USA) Magic F/ LLte Michigan Opera Theatre debut Michigan Opera Theatre debut Recently: Broadway Divas! 2004 Season: Second Priest! 2004 Season: Tamino, TIle (Detroi t Symphony, Armored Man, The Magic Flute Magic flute Indianapolis Symphony), 0011 Recently: GaWeo GaWei Recently: Turandot, MotileI' oj Giovanni (Chautauqua Opera), premiere (Goodman Theater, Us All (San Francisco Opera) TIle Merry Widow (Hawaii Opera Theatre) Chicago; Barbican Theatre, , Otello (Hawaii Opera ), Upcoming: Cannen (China Philharmonic London), Euge11e Onegi n Upcoming: Street Scene (POltland Orchestra), The Me ny Widow (Singapore Opera), (St. Louis Opera) Opera), Cos; Jan tulle (Opera Santa Barbara), La Turanclot (Hawaii Opera Theatre) Upcoming: Tl(randot (Union Avenue Opera Theatre, Boheme (Floremine Opera) St. Louis) DAVID GAGNON ALISON BUCHANAN Tenor (USA) SUZANNE KLOCK Soprano (England) Michigan Opera Theatre debut Soprano (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut 2004 Season: Frederic, The Mi chigan Opera Theatre debut 2004 Season: First Lady, The Pirates oj Penza l1ce 2004 Season: Third Spiri t, The Magic Flute Recently: Forever Plaid (Royal Magic Flute Recently: Title role, Sister Angelica, George Theater, Milwaukee), Recently: Suor Angelica, Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni , New Moon (City Center Handel's Xelxes (University of (New York Ci ty Opera), Encoresl) Michigan) Peter Glimes, Carnegie Hall Upcoming: TIle Student Prince (Opera Columbus) Upcoming: Elijah (Highgate Choral Society, London)

PHILIP KRAUS STEPHEN LORD DAVID L. MICHAEL Baritone (USA) Conductor (USA) Bass (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut Michigan Opera Theatre debut Michigan Opera Theatre debut: 2004 Season: Major General 2004 Season: The Magic flute Nilakantha, Lakme, 2002 Stanley, The Pirates oj Penzance Recently: The Barber oj Seville, 2004 Season: Nourabad, The Recently: La Iiaviata, Le Nozze La Rondine, Carm en (Boston Pearl fishers di Figaro (Chicago Lyric Opera) Lyric Opera), Salome (Arizona Recently: Tasca (Kentucky Upcoming: Th e Cunning Little Opera) Opera), Rigoletto (Dayton Vixen (Chicago Lyric Opera) Upcoming: Caval/eria Opera Association) Rusticana, SUOI' Angelica (Opera Theatre of St. Louis). Upcoming: Th e Pearl Fishers (Opera Company of AARON LAZAR Maestro Lord is music director for Opera Theatre of Philadelphia) Bariton (USA) St. Louis and Boston Lyric Opera. Michigan Opera Theatre debut MAUREEN O'FLYNN 2004 Season: Samuel, The JOSHUA MAJOR Soprano (USA) Pirates oj Penzan ce Stage Di rector (Canada) Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Recently: Barry Manilow's Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Gilda, Rigoletto, 1990 Hannony (Broadway) Lai1me, 2002 2004 Season: Leila, The Pearl Upcoming: Th e Ballad oj Bettie 2004 Season: Director, Th e Fishers Page (feature film). Magic flute Recently: La Iiaviata Recently: Tasca (Opera (Metropolitan Opera, Opera REBECCA JO LOEB Columbus), Don Giovanni Company of Philadelphia), The Soprano (USA) (Opera Santa Barbara) Tales oj Hoffmann (Calgary) Michigan Opera Theatre debut Upcoming: La Boheme (Opera Omaha). Mr. Major is Upcoming: Can11en (Metropolitan Opera) 2004 Season: Second Spirit, artistic director of Pine Mountain Music festival. GLORIA PARKER The Magic Flul.e Mezzo-soprano (USA) Recently: SUOI' Angelica, The JOHN MALASHOCK Michigan Opera Theatre debut: CW1I1ing Little Vixen, Th e Pirates Choreographer (USA) Dead Man Walking, 2003 oJPenzance Michigan Opera Theatre debut 2004 Season: Second Lady, Upcoming: 2004 Season: The Pearl Fishers Candide The MagiC flute (Michigan Theater) Recently: Malashocl1: Sacred & Recently: Giulio Cesare ProJane (M useum of (Pittsburgh Opera) Contemporary An, San Diego), Upcoming: Pops Eveni ng The Pearl fishers (San Diego (Ljubljana Symphony, Slovenia) Opera). Mr Malashock is artistic director of Malashock Dance. MELISSA PARKS Mezzo-soprano (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut: II Ii"Ovatore, 2002 2004 Season: Third Lad y, The Magic Flute Recently: The Ballad oj Baby Doe (New Orleans Opera), Straszny Dwor (Opera Buffalo) Upcoming: Das Rheingold, (New Orleans Opera), Le Nozze di Figaro (Fresno Grand Opera)

JAMI ROGERS Soprano (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut 2004 Season: The Queen of the Night, The Magic flute Recently: Rigoletto (New York City Opera), The Maniage oj figam (Hawaii Opera Theatre), TIle Magic flute (Sarasota Opera) Upcoming: Candide (Sarasota Opera)

ANDREW SINCLAIR Stage Director (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut 2004 Season: The Pearl f ishers Recently: Del' Ring des Nibeh1l1gen (Royal Albert Hall), [ Masnadiell (Teatro Comunale, Bologna), Peter Grimes (Opera 1'~, 12 1 ~ 200 Australia, Sydney) Presented by Upcoming: The Pearl Fishers (The New York City Opera), The Pearl fishers (San Francisco Opera) ~dI~ I;'\ TA~~ Same Great Festival! G I v E S ~ IftI"IUK; L STACEY TAPPAN Fine Arts S Crafts Market. International Music. Children's Festival Soprano (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut Don't miss Detroit's premier arts festival - Friday, June II 4PM - II PM 2004 Season: Mabel , The Pi rates oj Penzance held in Midtown's Cultural Center and on Saturday, June 12 12 PM - IIPM Recently: Siegflied (Lyric Opera the campus of Wayne State University. Sunday, June 13 12PM - 9 PM of Chicago), Little Women (Houston Grand Opera) For more information call 313-577-5088 or visit www.detroitfestival.com Upcoming: The Ring Cycle

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22 BRAVO Copyright 2010,www.Mic MichiganhiganOpera.org Opera Theatre Detroit Opera House LARA TEETER TAMARA WHITTY Stage director, baritone (USA) Mezzo-soprano (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Michigan Opera Theatre debut: The Pirates of Penzance , 1988 Anous/I, 2001 2004 Season: Stage Director, 2004 Season: Kate, The Pirates Sergeant of Police, The Pirates of of PenZa/Ice Penzance. Mr. Teeter is artistic Recently: The Mamage of Figaro director for light opera works, (Michigan Opera Theatre) Evanston, Illinois.

GREGORY TURAY ANGUS WOOD Tenor (USA) Tenor (Australia) Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Michigan Opera Theatre debut Cosi fan tutte, 2000 2004 Season: First PriestlMan 2004 Season: Tamino, The in Armor, The Magic Flute Magic FltLte Recently: La Jj-aviata Recently: A View from the Blidge, (Canterbury Opera, New Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni Zealand) (Metropolitan Opera), Falstaff ... Upcoming: Dido and Aeneas (Saito Kinen Festival), Rigoletto (Boston Lyric Opera) (Opera Australia) Upcoming: The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera) JENNIFER JOY YOCUM ANDREW VARELA Alto (USA) (USA) Michigan Opera Theatre debut Michigan Opera Theatre debut 2004 Season : Edith, The Pirates 2004 Season: The Pirate King, of PenzclI1ce The Pirates of Penzance Recently: Pump Boys and Recently: Les Miserables Dinettes, Godspell (Meadowbrook (Imperial Theater, New Yo rk) Theatre), Hello Dolly! (Broadway, Upcoming: Little Women Broadway National Tour), (Schubert Theater, New York) Cats (Broadway National Tour) m

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DAVID DICHIERA, General Director Jane Westley, General Director's Circle Technical Staff Brett Batterson, Chief Operating Officer Campaign Manager Kent Andel, Technical Director Danielle DeFauw, Boutique Manager Monica Essen, Property Master & Scenic Artist DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS Kendall Smith, Lighting Coordinator Karen VanderKloot DiChiera, Director of FINANCE/COMPUTER SERVICES Dee Dorsey, Surtitle Operator Community Programs Derrick lewis, Controller Daniel Dene, Recording Engineer John Eckstrom, Director of Administration Kimberly Burgess-Rivers, Rita Winters, Keith Kalinowski, Technical Assistant Roberto Mauro, Director of Artistic Accountants Administration Joseph Rusnak, Systems Manager Costumes David W Osborne, Director of Production Deleana Hill, Applications SpeCialist Suzanne M. Hanna, Costume Coordinator Mary Parkhill, Director of Development Margaret Bronder, First Hand Karen Tjaden, Director of Facilities PRODUCTION Mary Ellen Shindel, Fitting Assistant Laura R. Wyss, Director of Communications Administration Genevieve Palczynski, Stitcher Elizabeth Anderson, Production Coordinator Alice Moss, Wardrobe Mistress ADMINISTRATION Carolyn Geck, Assistant to Director of Carol Halsted, Dance Coordinator Production Makeup & Hair Bill Austin, Executive Assistant to the General Eric Einhorn *, Diane Mairt, Assistant Joanne Weaver, Wigs & Makeup DeSigner Director Directors DeShawn Glosson, Faye Cross, Angela linda DeMers, Executive Assistant to the Chief Nancy Krolikowski, Local Jjoansportation Cruice, Deanne lovan, Assistants Operating Officer Coordinator Beverly A. Moore, Receptionist Eugene Robelli, Production Volunteer Stage Crew Pat lewellen, Audition Volunteer John Kinsora, Head Carpenter COMMUNICATIONS Robert Mesinar, Head Electlician Michael Hauser, Marketing Manager Music Department Alan Bigelow, Head Propertyman Kimberly A. Mogielski, Patron and Ticket David DiChiera, Music Director Paul Moraites, Head Sound Services Manager Suzanne Mallare Acton, Assistant Music Robert Martin, Head Flyman Jenise Collins, Group Sales Coordinator Director, Choms Master Gary Gilmore, Production Electlician Kimberly Gray, Ticket Services Assistant Jean Schneider, Repetiteur, Rehearsal Mary Ellen Shindel, Head of Wardrobe Manager Accompanist IATSE local #38, Stage Crew Jane Coe, Patron Services Coordinator Diane Bredesen, Orchestra Personnel Manager IATSE local #786, Wardrobe Dave Blackburn, Public Relations Coordinator Timothy lentz, Archivist Stage Managers DETROIT OPERA HOUSE Bill Carroll, Public Relations Volunteer Thomas Mehan*-, Ken Saltzmant, Stage Demetrius Barnes,]esse Carter, Building Crystal G. Ratledge, Account Executive, Managers Engineers Solomon Fliedman Advertising Jody Halsall*-, Corrie Beth Shotwell*-, Kyle Ketelhut, Concessions Manager Christopher Barbeau, Production Photography Jennifer Paradiset, Ellen Peckt, Assistant Rock Monroe, Director of Seculity Stage Managers Calvin Williams, Maintenance Supervisor COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Karl Hubble, Maintenance Assistant Mark Vondrak, Associate Director/Tour * The MagiC Flute lorrain Monroe, Carla Hudson, Stage Door Manager t The Pirates of Penzance Seculity Betty Lane, Operations Manager - The Pearl Fishers Dolores Tobis, Marketing Manager Betsy Bronson, Alaina Brown, Heidi Brown, Maria Cimarelli,Jennifer Gale, Shawn McDonald, Steven McGhee, David Gilliland, Kim Parr, Michael Parr, David Pulice, Amanda Sabelhaus, Cynthia Seigle, Karl Schmidt, David Vaughn, Chris Vaught, Curious About Cremation? Mark Vondrak, Karen White, Tamara Call the preferred Cremation Society in the area for answers to Whitty, Tour Artists your questions and to receive a free brochure on our services. I . DEVELOPMENT ! "We are committed to Jane Fanning, Associate Director of Development .1 Lauren Allion, Volunteer Manager offering simple, dignified ~. Cremation Society of Aimee Argel, Corporate Campaign Manager service at a low cost." Heather Hamilton, SpeCial Projects Manager _.- Thomas F Rosl. President _ Michigan Katherine Kucharski, Membership Manager Serving all oj Michigan Deniz Tasdemir-Conger, Foundation and Government Relations Manager (313) 839-4100 • Toll Free (800) 241-3131

Board of Directors Mr. RJamison Wi li iamsJ r. , Mr. J. Addiso n Bartush Ms. Cheryl Fallen Mrs. Charl es Kess ler Mr. William Sandy Mrs. Dieler letsche Chainnan Mr. Richard A. Brodie Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher Mrs. Carlita E. Kilpatrick Mr. Gregory Schwartz Dr. Martin Zimmerman Dr. David DiChiera , President Mrs. William C. Brooks Barbara Frankel Mr. Thomas M. Krikorian Ms. Elham Shayota Mr. Cameron B. Duncan, Mrs. Frederick Clark Mr. Herman Frankel Mr. A. C. Liebler Mrs. Roger F Sherman DIRECTORS EMERITUS Treasurer Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. James Ga ravaglia Mr. Harry A. Lomason Mr. Mark Silverman Frank W Donovan Mr. C. Thomas Toppin, Mr. Tarik S. Daoud Mrs. Lawrence Garberding Mr. Alphonse S. Lucarelli Mr. Frank D. Stella James H. Gram Secretary Julia Donovan Darlow Mr. David Hand leman Mrs. Jenni fer Nasser Mrs. George Strumbos Mrs. William Johnston Mr. Roger W Adams Mrs. Dodie David Mr. Kenneth E. Hart Dr. Charlotte Podowski Dr. Lorna Thomas Mr. Robert VanderKloot Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. Lawrence N. David Mr. Eugene Hartwig Mrs. Ruth Rattner Mr. George C. Vincent Mr. Mort lieve Mrs. Donald C. Austin Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. Richard Janes Mr. Roy Roberts Mr. Gary L. Wasserman Mrs. Bella Marshall Barden Mrs. Alex Erdeljan Mr. Gary E. Johnson Ms. Patricia Radzik Mr. Richard C. Webb Mr. Lee Barthel Mr. Paul E. Ewing Mr. Lawrence S. Jones Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. George M. leltzer Trustees Mr. &: Mrs. Roger W Adams Mr. &: Mrs. Alfred]. Fisher Jr. Ms. Monica Moffat &: Mr. Mr. &: Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Dr. &: Mrs. Roge r M. Ajluni Mr. &: Mrs. Herbert Fisher Patrick McGuire Mr. &: Mrs. Gary Torgow Mr. &: Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Dr. Marj ori e M. Fisher Dr. Ali Moiin &: Dr. William Mr. &: Mrs. George Torreano Mr. &: Mrs. Douglas F. All ison Mrs. Ela ine L. Fontana Kupsky Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Dr. Lourdes V Andaya Mr. &: Mrs. Mitchell B. Foste r Mr. &: Mrs. Theodore Mono lielis Mr. James Trebilcott Mr. &: Mrs. Thomas V Angott Barbara Frankel &: Ron Mr. &: Mrs. E. Clarence Mularoni Mr. &: Mrs. Raymond Vecci Dr. &: Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Michalak Dr. &: Mrs. Stephen Munk Mr. Sleven Victor Dr. Haro ld M. Arrington Mr. &: Mrs. Herman Frankel Mr. &: Mrs. E. Michael Mutchler Mr. &: Mrs. George C. Vincent Dr. &: Mrs. Ingida Asfaw Mr. Marvin A. Frenkel Mrs. Jennifer Nasser Mrs. Alvin Wasserman Mrs. Donald]. Atwood Mr. &: Mrs. Dean Friedman Mr. Ch ristopher Nern Mr. &: Mrs. Gary L. Wasserman Dr. &: Mrs. Donald C. Austin The Han. Hilda R. Gage Mr. &: Mrs. Harry Nosanchuk Mr. &: Mrs. Kenneth Way The Han. &: Mrs. Edward Mr. &: Mrs. James Garavaglia Mr. &: Mrs. Jules L. Pall one Mr. &: Mrs. Richard C. Webb Avadenka Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Mr. &: Mrs. James Pamel Mrs. Amelia H. Wilhelm Mr. &: Mrs. Don H. Barden Garberding Mr. &: Mrs. Spencer Partrich Dr. &: Mrs. Christopher D. Mr. &: Mrs. Lee Barthel Mrs. Frank GennackJr. Dr. Robert E. L. Perkins Wil helm Mr. &: Mrs. ]. Addison Bartush Mr. &: Mrs. Yousif B. Ghafari Mr. Drew Peslar Mr. R Jamiso n Williams Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. Mark Alan Bau n Mr. &: Mrs. Vito P. Gioia Mr. &: Mrs. Broc k E. Plumb Dr. &: Mrs. Sam B. Will iams Mr. &: Mrs. Nicolas Behrmann Mr. &: Mrs. Harvey Grace Dr. Charlotte &: Mr. Charles Mrs. R. Alexa nder Wrigley Mr. W Victor Benjamin Mrs. Berj H. Haidostian Podowski The Han. Joan E. Young &: Mr. Mr. &: Mrs. Ara Berberian Mr. &: Mrs. David Handleman Mrs. David Pollack Thomas L. Schellenberg Mr. &: Mrs. Mandell Berman Mr. &: Mrs. Preston B. Happel Mrs. Heinz Prec hter Mr. &: Mrs. John E. Young Mr. &: Mrs. John Boll Ms. Gail Hart Mr. &: Mrs. Joh n Rako ltaJr. Dr. Lucia Zamorano Mr. &: Mrs. John L. Boo th II Mr. Kenneth E. Hart Mrs. Ruth F Rattner Mr. &: Mrs. Ted legouras Mrs. Thomas Bright Mr. &: Mrs. Eugene Hartwig Mr. &: Mrs. Anth ony Rea Mr. &: Mrs. George M. leltzer Mr. &: Mrs. John Broad Mrs. David B. Hermelin Dr. Irvin Reid &: Dr. Pamela Dr. &: Mrs. Dieter letsche Mr. &: Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Mr. &: Mrs. Patrick Hickey Trotman Reid Mr. &: Mrs. Morton l ieve Mr. &: Mrs. William C. Broo ks The Han. &: Mrs. Joseph N. Mr. &: Mrs. James Rigby Dr. &: Mrs. Martin Zimmerman Mr. &: Mrs. Thomas Celani Impastato Mr. &: Mrs. Roy S. Roberts Mrs. Paul l uckerman Mr. &: Mrs. Robert D. Charles Mr. &: Mrs. Verne G. Istock Ms. Patricia H. Radzik Mr. &: Mrs. Alfred Mr. &: Mrs. Craig E. Jackman Mr. &: Mrs. Peter Rona n Trustees Emeritus Cheesebrough III Mrs. David Jacknow Mr. & Mrs. Irving Rose Mrs. James Merriam Barnes Mr. David Clark Mr. &: Mrs. Darnell D. Jackson Mr. &: Mrs. Norman Rosenfeld Dr. &: Mrs. Robert Gerisch Mr. &: Mrs. Frederick H. Clark Mr. &: Mrs. Richard Janes Mrs. Carolyn L. Ross Mrs. Aaron Gershenson Ms. Virginia Clementi Mrs. Sybil Jaques Dr. &: Mrs. William Ross Mr. &: Mrs. James Gram Mrs. Margo Cohen Mr. Don Jensen Mr. &: Mrs. Anthony Rugiero Mrs. Katherine Gribbs The Han. &: Mrs. Avem L. Mr. &: Mrs. Gary E. 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Townsend, Mr. &: Mrs. Lawrence N. David Mr. &: Mrs. Robert Klein Ms. Elham Shayola Founding Chai rmen Mrs. Margaret Demant Mr. &: Mrs. Mike Kojaian Mr. &: Mrs. Roger F Sherman The Han. &: Mrs. Avem l. Cohn Mr. Kevin Denn is &: Mr. Mr. &: Mrs. Thomas Krikorian Mr. Mark Silverman Mr. &: Mrs. John DeCarl o Jerem y leltzer Mr. &: Mrs. Will iam Ku Mr. &: Mrs. Richard Sloan Dr. &: Mrs. David DiChiera Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Dr. &: Mrs. Richard W Kulis Ms . Phyll is Funk Snow Mr. &: Mrs. Aaron H. Dr. Fernando G. Diaz Mr. &: Mrs. Angelo Lann i Mr. &: Mrs. David Snyder Gershenson Dr. David Di Chiera Mr. &: Mrs. Paul Lavins Mr. &: Mrs. Anthony L. Soave Mr. &: Mrs. Donald C. Graves Karen Va nderK loot DiChiera Dr. &: Mrs. Kim K. lie Mr. Richard A. Sonenklar The Han. &: Mrs. Roman S. The Han. &: Mrs. John Dingell Mr. &: Mrs. A. C. Liebler Dr. &: Mrs. Sheldon So nkin Gribbs Ms. Mary Jane Doerr Dr. &: Mrs. Robe rt P Lisak Mr. &: Mrs. Richard D. Mr. &: Mrs. John C. Griffin Mr. &: Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. &: Mrs. Harry A. Lomason Starkweather Mr. &: Mrs. Ha rry L. Jones Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. &: Mrs. James H. LoPrete Mr. Fra nk D. Stella The Han. &: Mrs. Wade Mr. &: Mrs. Alex Erdeljan Mr. Alphonse S. Lucarelli Ms. Ma ry Anne Stella McCree Jr. Dr. Fern R. Espin o &: Mr. Tom Cardinal Adam Maida Mr. &: Mrs. William Stone Mr. Harry ]. Nederlander Short Mrs. Frank S. Marra Mr. &: Mrs. Stephen Strome Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm Mr. &: Mrs. Roland C. Eugenio Dr. &: Mrs. Ronald Martella Mr. &: Mrs. George Strumbos Mr. &: Mrs. Neil Snow Mr. &: Mrs. Paul E. Ewi ng The Han. Jack &: Dr. Bettye Mr. Ronalel F Switzer Mr. &: Mrs. Ri chard Strichartz Mr. &: Mrs. Stephen Ewing Arringwn-Martin Ms. Judith Tappero Mr. &: Mrs. Robert C. Dr. Haifa Fakhouri Mr. &: Mrs. Ri chard McBrien Mr. &: Mrs. Joel Tauber VanderKloo t Ms. Cheryl Fallen Mrs. Wade H. McCree Jr. Dr. &: Mrs. Anthony R Tersigni Mr. &: Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. &: Mrs. Oscar Feldman Mr. &: Mrs. Eugene A. 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rwin Klopfer, a retired tool and die Hi s love of opera began when he was nine specialist, was not going to tell Michigan years old, after his parents took him to the EOpera Theatre about his special estate opera. plans, wanting to remain anonymous. However, After his family immigrated to the Detroit after learning that his estate plan would be area in 1952, he and his sister loved the eligible [or Touch the Future campaign Metropolitan Opera touring productions. matching funds, he decided to reveal his gift. Later, Erwin introduced his wife, Sue, to As a result, MOT received a substantial match opera, and "As luck would have it, I made an to its endowment funds at the Community opera fan out of her." He also recalled that he Foundation [or Southeastern Michigan. Erwin used to sing his daughter Sara to sleep with and his wife Sue also became members of melodies from The Tales of Hoffmann ("in Ge rman, of course"). During MOT's recent MOTS Avanti Society Opera Theatre, will receive whatever remains. Now he urges, "1 want people to know production of Hoffmann, Sara returned from He is thrilled that his money is being used her home in Ireland and attended with her about the beauty of a charitabl e remainder to secure the fu ture of Michigan Opera mother and father, happily remembering her trust." His trust had been funded with a piece Theatre for his children and grandchildren to of appreciated real estate that he no longer fathers lullabies. experience. Erwin's message to other MOT patrons is "1 needed. Instead of selling that property and Born in Dresden, Germany, Erwin Klopfer can't encourage people enough to remember paying considerable taxes, he transferred the is an enthusiastic supporter of opera and Michigan Opera Theatre when forming their property into a charitable remainder trust. In faithful subscriber. He loves the view and the estate plans. There are a lot of struggles and return, he gets income for life. After his death, sound from his front-row mezzanine seats in sad things in life, but music always uplifts." his fa vorite institutions, including Michigan the Detroit Opera House.

TOUCH THE FUTURE

Mic higan Opera Theatre met the final benchmark for ~~~~Io:"I.EiLiiIII(II 0(1 EEEiii(1 ~11nz!(1~1nz!(11nz!(1 ~1"';1";1_.H".HInz!(I_"I' ( I I (II :t(1~~ the Touch the Future campaign! As a res ult, $300,000 in matching funds has already been placed into MOT's endowment at the Community Foundation for ::=:=:<1 I>===: Southeastern Michigan. Another $]00,000 in bonus operating funds has also been awa rd ed. The Michigan Opera Theatre endow ment at the Communi ty Foundation has already earned an addi tional $30,000 in interest. Fund-raising for the endowment will continue until the bonus pool of matching funds is depleted. MOT and the other leadership grantees will claim those matching funds Announce on a first-come, first-serve basis. If yo u are thinking about setting up a charitable gift annuity or other qualifying planned gift for Touch the Future, please don't hesitate to contact the planned giv ing office at (313) 237-3268 before this opportunity ends to ea rn matchi ng funds. Michigan Opera Theatre thanks the follOWing generous Touch the "I was here" Future Donors, whose combined $1,800,000 in planned gifts have generated $390,000 in matching funds: Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. Herman Frankel Mr. & Mrs.]. Addison Bartush Mrs. Rema Frankel Dr. Robert E. Cornette Mr. David Handleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Klein while you're I Dr. David DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. Erwin Klopfer Karen Va nderKloot DiChiera Mrs. Ruth Rattner Ms. Mary Jane Doerr Mrs. Mary Ellen Tappan Mr. & Mrs. Tarik Daoud Mrs. John C. Stevens Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mrs. Amelia Wilhelm Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak

Making a gift to the endowment Types of gifts that qualify for matching funds include paid-up life insurance, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities and pooled income funds. of the Michigan Opera Theatre llr Q[.E_~A_ ttt 1f you would like information about how you can be a part of this is a way of leaving an indelible _____ ._~_ unpara ll eled opportunity for MOT, don't hesitate to call Jane in partnership with Fanning in the Development Offi ce at (313) 237-3268. This cam paign is in its fi.nal stages, and the time limit for the matching funds opportunity is nearly completed...... ::~:~::::~:.::. ': ,;n:o:: :: ~~:6~g. <. ~ ••~~~~~~ ;~ J

, CONTRI BUTORS

New Century Fund Campaign The Crowning Achievement Michigan Opera Theatre launched The noor Broadway Tower to create the Center Please note: When this third phase of the New Century Fund Campaign: The for Arts and Learning, construction of a park campaign is finished, a cumulative donor list Crowning Achievement, the third and final ing garage, an endowment goal , decorative will be published, recognizing donors to all phase of its campaign for the Detroit Opera painting in the Detroit Opera House and three capital campaigns from 1989 to the House, in 2001. The $20 million raised dur retirement of construction debt conclusion of The Crowning Achievement. ing this campaign will bring the total amount As of March 15,2004, nearly $17 million This cumulative listing will also be renected for acquiring and restoring the Detroit Opera had been raised. Michigan Opera Theatre in a new donor wall in the grand lobby of House to $62 million. acknowledges the following individuals, cor the Detroit Opera House. We thank you for The main components of The Crowning porations and foundations for their generous your extraordinary support and Achievement include renovation of the six- support of this effort. commitment. m Gifts/Pl edges recorded Detroit Grand Opera SPONSORS Mrs. Margaret Demant AFICIONADOS Shell y & Peter Cooper though MmIh 15, 2004 Association $50,000 TO $99,999 Mrs. Charles M. Endicott $10,000 TO $14,999 Tyrone Davenport & Li nda The Skillman Founda tion Anonymous Mary & Preston Happel Anonymous Forte MEDICI CIRCLE William P. Baer julius & Cynthia Huebner Mr. & Mrs. J. Add ison Frank G. & Gertrud e Dunlap $2,000,000 & ABOVE UNDERWRITERS Mr. & Mrs. Alex Erdeljan Foundation Bartush Foundation Ford Motor Company Fund $250,000 TO $499,999 Mary Sue & Paul Ewin g Mary l ou & Richard Janes Betty & Bill Brooks Mrs. Robert M. Hamady Ford Center fo r Arts & AM Broadway Box Office Nancy & Bud Liebler Mr. David Clark Rose & David Handleman Learning Proscenium Arch Handleman Company Mr. Alphonse 5. Lucarell i Gloria & Fred Clark Mr. & Mrs. Kenn eth E. Hart The Kresge Foundation Anonymous Alice Kales Hamvick Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Anthony F. & Sarah M. Earley Gary E. & Gwenn C. Mr. & Mrs. Sam uel Frankel Foundation Frank & Karen Nesi Marjo ri e M. Fisher johnson VISIONARIES Masco Corporation Huntington National Bank Ms. Carolyn Ross Elaine Fontana lawrence & Dianejones $1,000,000 TO 1,999,999 Mr. & Mrs. Roger Penske William & Ell en Kahn judy Schwartz james & Barbam Garavaglia Elliot & Carolyn joseph Anonymous Standard Federal Ban k Mr. & Mrs. Thomas El ham Sha),ota Ann & larry Garberding Harvey & Aileen Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. john A. Boll R.jamison Williams jr. Krikorian Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Eugene & Donna Hartwig lucie B. Mein inger Marlene L. Bo ll Hall Karen &1 Orpw Pe5i \ar Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Alan & El eanor Israel Ronald K. Morrison PARTNERS Foundation l ocniskar Gro up $100,000 TO $249,999 Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vincent Ms. jennifer Nasser GUARANTORS PVS Chemicals Neva Wtlliams Arts Foundation Mrs. Florence LoPatin Patricia Rodzik $500,000 TO $999,999 DaimlerGhrysler Services An tonio & Suzanne Rea Mr. & Mrs. Michael Mu tchler Anonymous Patron Elevator in Ford l ois & Mark Shaevsky Famil y CONNOISSEURS Mrs. Ruth F Rattner Dr. & Mrs. Sheldon Son kin Lee & Floy Barthel Center for Arts & Learning Roy & Maureen Roberts $15,000 TO $24,999 Mr. & Mrs. Robert RaUlh Lee & Floy Barthel jennifer & David Fischer Lorna Thomas, M.D. Mr. Stanford C. Stoddard Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. Austin Mr. & Mrs. Dea n E. Mr. & Mrs. Raymo nd Vecci Costu me Center Barbara Frankel & Ronald Dr. & Mrs. Clyde Wu larry & Dodie David Richardson The Cohen Family Mic halak Richard & Kathleen Webb George M. & Pearl Zeltzer Dr. David DiChiera Dr. Hershel Sandberg Chris & Susan Wilhelm Philanthropic Fund of th e Patron Elevator in Rosanne & Sandy Duncan Sandy Family Foundation Community Foundation for Administrative Tower ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Dr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Munk Mrs. Frank C. Sha ler Southeastern Michigan Herman & Sharon Frankel $25,000 TO $49,999 Mr. Charles & Dr. Charlotte Mr. & Mrs. Steph en Strome Margo V. Cohen Center for Lear Corporation Dennis W Archer Podowski Dance Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Lomason Community Development Dr. & Mrs. Anthony R. DEVOTEES Camerica Fund Tersigni $5,000 TO $9,999 David Handleman Ms. Anne Lomason Bray Dr. & Mrs. Dieter Zetsche Mr. & Mrs. Tho mas V. Angoll David Handleman Studio Mr. & Mrs. Tarik 5. Daoud Ms. Virginia Clementi Michigan Opera Theatre

Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous cor In addition to enjoying outstanding entertainment on the Detroit porate, foundation, government and individual donors whose contri Opera House stage, contributors are offered a number of opportunities butions were made between July 1, 2002, and June 30,2003. Their that allow them to observe the many phases of opera and dance pro generosity plays an integral part in the company's financial stability, duction, meet the artists and experience other "behind-the-scenes" necessary for prodUCing quality grand opera and dance. activities. m CORPORATE SUPPORT Opera Ball Platinum Sponsor MAJOR BENEFACTOR BENEFACTOR MGM Grand Casino Alvin Ailey American Dance OPERA & DANCE General Operating Support $25,000-$49,999 $15,000-$24,999 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater MAJOR BENEFACTOR General Motors Corporation Comerica Bank AM, Michigan Theater Student Ticket Sponsor $200,000 + Spring Opera Season Die fledermaus Performance Opera Ball Silver Sponsor Adopt-A-5chooISponsor Boa rdwa lk Development DaimlerChrysler Corporation Sponsor Sponsor Gol f & Tennis Outing Gold Opera Ball Silver Sponsor Golf & Tennis Outing Silver Fund - Alvin Aile), American Dance The joffrey Ballet of Chicago Sponsor Standard Federal Bank Sponsor Dance Season Sponsor Theater Matinee Performance Sponsor DTE Energy Foundati on Too Hot to Handel Producti on Comcast Cabl e Bolshoi Ballet Production Sponsor Golf & Tennis Outing Silver Alvin Ailey American Dance Sponsor Communications, In c. Sponsor Don Giovanni Opening Night Sponsor Theater BmvoBmvo! Crystal Leaf Alvin Ailey American Dance Dinner Sponsor BravoBmvol Gold Leaf Student Ticket Sponsor SUSTAINER Sponsor Theater Opening Night Opera Ball Platinum Sponsor Sponsor Opera Performance Sponsor $5,000-$9,999 Fried Saperstein + Abbatt, P.c. Gala Sponsor Commuruty Programs Support Opera Ball Silver Sponsor Marshall Field's Fifth Third Bank The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago Opem Ball Platinum Sponsor Gannett Foundation, Inc. Die Fledenn"u, Performance Bolshoi Ballet Opening Night Supporter Community Programs SIGNAL BENEFACTOR The Nutcracker Media & Sponsor Dinner Sponsor GreeklOwn Casino Support $50,000-$199,999 Performance Sponsor Scott Shuptrine Furniture, Inc. Thyssen, North America BmvoBmvo! Crystal Leaf Ford Motor Company Fund Bank One, Michigan GMAC Financial Services Fall Season Opera & Dance UAW-GM Center fo r Human Fall Opera Season Sponsor Sponsor The Nutcracker Production Alvin Ailey American Dance Talks Sponsor Resources - Grunwell-Cashero Company, A Royal Christmas Concert Sponsor Theater Alvin Ailey American Dance Sponsor Educational Outreach Inc. Opera Ball Silver Sponsor FELLOW Theater Golf & Tennis Outing Silver Denyce Graves Concert Arvin Ailey American Dance Sponsor $10,000-$14,999 Family Show Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Theater SBC Masco Corporation Guardian Industries Alvin Ailey American Dance Adopt-A-School Sponsor IL Trovatore Opening Night Opera Ban Silver Sponsor PATRON Theater Opening Night Sponsor $2,500-$4,999 Corporation Gala Sponsor Blue Cross Blue Shield of Health Alliance Plan Michigan Foundation - 28 BRAVO Copyright 2010,www Michigan_MichiganOpera Opera.org Theatre Detroit Opera House s "Inn" on Ferry Street

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Mr & Mrs. Wa lter M. Stark Mrs. Catherine Banhwell Mr & Mrs. Claus Sc haefer Mr & Mrs. Ri chard D. Ms. Ruth Berean Mr & Mrs. Peter Sil veri JEANETTE Starkweather Mr & Mrs. Anhur. Bedin Mrs. Lmetta Skewes PAWLACZVK Mr. & Mrs. Geo rge Strumbos Mr Sta nislaw Bialogowski Mr Steffen So lomon Ronald E Switzer Mr & Mrs. Eugene W Mr. Victor Sorensen To her family, she Mr. & Mrs. Nonnan J. Tabor jr Blanchard Mr & Mrs. j eLOme 1. Spencer was a loving mother and Mr & Mrs. joel D. Tauber Drs. Rosemal)' & john Blase Nadine & Ken Sperry grandmother. To her Mr & Mrs. C Thomas Toppin Dr & Mrs. David Bloom Mr. William R Stefani , Mr. & Mrs. Melvin C Mr. Lawrence Boensch Dr. Sheldon & jessie Stern beloved Polish community, VanderBrug Dr. & Mrs. David Bouwman Dr & Mrs. Mack C Stiding she was a proud advocate Mr. Richard Ventura Mrs. Mari lyn Bowerman Mr & Mrs. Peter P. Thurber I Mr Steven L Victor Mr. & Mrs. Herman BLOdsky Ms. Mildred Toliver of its rich culture. To the Mr & Mrs. jonathan Walton Ms. Robena BI)'ant Ms. Susan TrolLier media, she was the Mr. & Mrs. Gal)' L Wassennan Ms. C R Campitelle Mr. & Mrs. Roben G. Vallee Sr. Mr Kenneth Way Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Mr. Roger Van Derkar warm welcome at the Mrs. Bel)'l Winkelman Mr & Mrs. james D'Alessandro Ms. Georgianna Watsell press table. To Michigan Dr & Mrs. Clyde Wu Mr. & Mrs. George Dambach Dr john R Weber Opera Theatre, she was Dr & Mrs. jose E. Yanez Mr Sa muel L Davis Dr. & Mrs. john G. Weg Mr. & Mrs. larl)' Zangede Mr 1. Donati Mr Marshall Weingarden everything! Dr. & Mrs. Dieter Zetsc he Mr & Mrs. Wil liam A. Mr. Herman Weinreich For 17 years, Michigan Dr & Mrs. Martin Zimrnennan Dunning Mr & Mrs. Ronald Weiser Dr. Patricia L Edwards Mr & Mrs. Seymour Weissman Opera Theatre was a CAMERATA CLUB Ms. Ingrid Brit Eidnes Mr & Mrs. Henl)' Whiting "home away from home" $1,000-$1,999 Mr. & Mrs. Chades Elias Mr. Andrew Wise Mr & Mrs. Thomas Angott Dr & Mrs. A. EI-Magrabi Dr. Ruth A. Wonhington for Jeanette Pawlaczyk. Mr & Mrs. james Bonahoom Mr & Mrs. Richard Ensign For 17 years, the Opera Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard A. Brodie SUPPORTER $250-$499 Mr. & Mrs. Burke Fossee I Company and its staff was Mrs. Doreen Bull Ms. josephine E. Franz Anonymous Mrs. Patricia Ca palbo Mr. Allen Freeman Mrs. Mal)'an Abramsohn blessed with the time, Ms. Wendy Cornwall Mr. Edmund A. Gaston Mr. & Mrs. Will iam J. Adams talents and unyielding love Dr. & Mrs. Melvyn Eder Dr. Byron & Marilyn Mr & Mrs. Randolph Agley Mr. & Mrs. Roben B. Fair jr Georgeson Ms. Kimberl y Aiken of this extraordinary woman. Mr Drew Fishburn Mr Hugh Gill Mr. Rossi Allen Jeanette Pawlaczyk began her service to Michigan Opera Theatre in 1987, Mr & Mrs. George FLOst Mr & Mrs. William Gilmore Dr & Mrs. Teisa An Mrs. lrene Garcia Dr & Mrs. Leslie Green Mr. & Mrs. David J. Anderson as a way to dedicate a few hours a week to an art form that she so loved . In Ms. Priscilla Greenberg Dr. & Mrs. Peter Green Dr jennifer Appleyard those first years of volunteering, Jeanette provided the traditional, vital support Mr & Mrs. j eLOme Halperin Mr & Mrs. Chester Arnold Mr. & Mrs. joseph Gualtieri of an office volunteer - folding, stuffing, copying, mailing, etc. At that time, Dr & Mrs. Kad Hanyi Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hage Mr & Mrs. Fred Baer I Dr. & Mrs. Gerhard t Hein Roben & jane Hampson Mr & Mrs. Fred Barnes neither Jeanette nor the staff with whom she worked understood just how Mr. &: Mrs. Julius Huebner Mr. & Mrs. Hugh G. Harness Mr. Euwa ru BarreLL much she would come to mean to the day-to-day operations of Michigan Sam &: Donna Kountoupes Ms. Barbara Heller Mr & Mrs. james Beauvais Leslie landau & Dr Glendon Dr. Phillip Hertz Mr. & Mrs. Dean Bedfmdjr Opera Theatre. Gardner Mr William Hulsker Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Benson In 1990, Jeanette found her niche and became exclusive to the Public Mrs. Amy Malaney Me. Ronald R. Hum phrey Mr. & Mrs. jolm Bj orklund Mr & Mrs. james McLennan Mrs. Davidjacknow Mr. & Mrs. JerI)' M. Blaz Relations Department. At that time, Rebecca Happel was the director of public Mr & Mrs. Adolph Neeme Mr. David Jansen Dr. Donald Blitz relations. For Rebecca, Jeanette developed a comprehensive filing system. Mr. & Mrs. Irving Nusbaum Dawn Boesen & Leo Zimmer Mr & Mrs. Richardjel)'an Press clippings, photos, press releases, biographies and collateral materials Mr. & Mrs. Richard O'Brien Mr & Mrs. RichardJjessup Mr. & Mrs. Wil liam Bol ton Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Olson Dr. & Mrs. Howard C Mr Robert Bomier all had a home, which was fiercely protected by Jeanette. So effective was Mr. & Mrs. joh n Otto joodeph Mr. & Mrs. Terl)' Bovee this system that it eventually became the format for Michigan Opera Theatre's Mrs. Mal)' Perna Mr. Henry M. Kassen Mrs. Marguerite Boyle Miss Alma M. Petrini Mrs. M. 1. Keefe Mr Michael Boyle archives . Ms. Jennifer Poteat Ms. Ida King Mr & Mrs. Donald Brasie In 1994, when I became director of public re lations and necessity cal led for Mr & Mrs. j ack Robinso n Mr. & Mrs. Martin Kohlenberg Ms. Susan Brassell Mr & Mrs. George Roumelljr Misses Selma & Phyllis D. Kom Dr & Mrs. Sander J. Breiner a reduction in the department, Jeanette's role became even greater. Now, in Mr & Mrs. Mark Schmidt Ms. Mal)' Kramer PLOL & Mrs. Dale E. Briggs addition to archiving and keeping us organized , we depended on Jeanette to Ms. Elsa Shansis Mr. E. David BLOckman Mr. & Mrs. james Kuykendall find our mistakes with her keen proofreading skills, help us to overcome Dr & Mrs. Michael Shan Dr & Mrs. Gerald laker Ms. joann BLOoks Mr. Frank D. Stella Mr & Mrs. Lee landes Ms. Margery BLOoks writer's block by providing a sentence or two and share her tremendous love Dr Leopold Strausz Ms. Bernadette lane Dr Arnold L BLOwn for opera by greeting our media at the opening night press table , among many Mrs. CaLOlyn Stubbs Mr & Mrs. Richard Larson Ms. Marjorie Brown Mrs. Bun E. Taylor Mr Edward Lekki Ms. Kerl)' Bruce Iother responsibilities. . Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Terrell Mrs. Sa lly LePla-Perry Mr. Frank Brzenk In the exciting and demanding months leading up to the grand opening of Mr & Mrs. john Tierney Mr. & Mrs. joseph Lieblang David & Gail Burnett Mr & Mrs. Ron Ms. Elai ne Lovitt Ms. Patricia Burnett the Detroit Opera House, Jeanette worked tirelessly - at times giving 80 hours VanderM olen Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Lundy Mr & Mrs. Lester Bunon of her week to ensure the success of this monumental event. From a series of Mrs. C Theron Van Dusen Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Mancuso Dr & Mrs. Roger C Byrd hard-hat tours through the vast construction site to assembling press kits until Mrs. Harry Vellmure Ms. Mal)' McGough Mr. & Mrs. Brian C Campbell Mrs. PhylliS Webb Ms. Patricia McKanna Ms. Christine Censier 2 a.m., Jeanette was an inspiration to the entire staff. It was during this time Dr & Mrs. Max McKinney Mr. & Mrs. Reginald L that we crowned her "Queen of Public Relations." GDC OPENING NIGHT Mr & Mrs. William Michalu k Ciokajlo INTERMISSION SPONSORS Ms. Helen Millen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Clagett Four years ago, when Michigan Opera Theatre's marketing, public relations, Mr & Mrs. Frederick Clark Dr Volna Clermont Mr. & Mrs. larl)' David Dr & Mrs. Ronald Miller ticket office and group sales teams were combined to create the Communications Dr. Ali Mo iin Mr & Mrs. Roben Closson Mr. & Mrs. Paul E\ving james & Marilyn Coll ins Department, Jeanette's role grew even still. In these past few years, she was Barbara Frankel & Ron Hon. Marion Moore Mr Roben A. Nitschke Dr. & Mrs. james M. Colville an asset to all operations of the department. Michalak Mr john Conti Mr. & Mrs. james Garavaglia Mr.. joseph Nuyen Th ough her generosity in sharing her time and talents were unmatched, if Eric & Adene Oppenheim Mrs. Lois Courville Ronald Switzer &jim McLure Ms. Margery L Coutts you were to ask any Michigan Opera Theatre staff member what he or she Mr.. R. jamison Wi ll iams jr.. Ms. Cath erine Osenkowski Ms. Diane Paratore Mrs. Katherine Cox most cherished about Jeanette, it would without doubt be something of a Mrs. Sam uel Pearlstein Mrs. Rosa Mal)' Crawford GDC ANNUAL PARTY much more personal nature. Yes, her talents were unending and remarkable, Mr.. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr & Mrs. Mark Peterson john W & Beved), J Crump Ms. Irene Piccone Mr & Mrs. Douglas E. Cutler but it was her enormous heart that made her so extraordinary. Although she MEMBERSHIP DONORS Dr.. & Mrs. Peter J Polidmi Mr. & Mrs. john J Daly III LUMINARY $500-$999 Mr.. & Mrs. Dean E. Mr.. & Mrs. Norman Danc), was never compensated with a paycheck, she always exclaimed that she was Anonymous Richardson Mr & Mrs. Keith Danielson paid with the love of her co-workers. And love her we did! Mr. Roben G. Abgarian Mr. & Mrs. George Robinson Mr.. Keith Davey On February 18, 2004, Michigan Opera Theatre was si lenced by the passing Mr.. & Mrs. Felix 1. Adams john Romani & Barbara Mr. & Mrs. Richard de Bear Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard Alonzo Anderson Mr.. & Mrs. joe Decker of this amazing woman. Jeanette Pawlaczyk wil l forever be a part of the soul of Dr.. & Mrs. joel Appel Dr.. & Mrs. David B. Rorabacher Mr. & Mrs. Annando Delicato Michigan Opera Theatre , remembered most for her ceaseless dedication and Ms. Geraldine Atkinson Dr.. & Mrs. Arthur Rose Dr.. & Mrs. Anthony DeLuca Mr. & Mrs. Paul Augustine Miss Marie Rumes Roy K. Denniso n & Dadene unconditional love. Mr.. & Mrs. Stephen Bakonyi Mr & Mrs. Luigi Ruscillo Kade - Laura Wyss Andrea & james Balcerski Mr. & Mrs. Chades Rush Mr. James Denson Mr. john Barbes Mr. Vinod Sa hney Mrs. Mary DeTomaso

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Alex Karp Mr. & Mrs. William Susan & Michael Vanderveer Dickelmann Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Kas le Piontkowski Miss Lisa Varnier Mr. john R. DiLodovico Mrs. ancy L. Kassab Mr. & Mrs.jim Piper Mr. & Mrs. johnny Vawters Dr. & Mrs. Herbert Dobbs Mr. & Mrs. Barry Keller Richard & Meryl Place Fund Mr. & Mrs. Tony Ventimiglia Dr. Helene C. Dombrowski Susan Kell y Ms. Faith Poles Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Vree ken Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Doremus Mr. john Keros Dr. & Mrs. Charles Porretta Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Wa llin Ms. Patricia Drabik Mr. & Mrs. Gerd H. Keuffel Mrs. David W Porter Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Walter Dr. & Mrs. Harold Duchan Mr. Robert Kirsammer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Powell Mary B. Ward Mrs. Saul H. Dunitz Mr. & Mrs. justin Klimko Mr. & Mrs. james Quinn Miss Evelyn A. Warren Mr. jerry Earles Mr. & Mrs. Robert]. Ko ffron Mr. & Mrs. Robert Radtke Mr. & Mrs. Leo S. Wasageshik Han. & Mrs. S.]. Elden Mr. Daniel B. Kolton Mr. Martin Rafal Mr. & Mrs. Paul F Wasielewski Dr. & Mrs. Richard F. Elton Nancy C. Kom enaga Ms. Liza Raymond Mr. Cha rles Watters Dr. & Mrs. N. Cary Engleberg Mrs. joann Kavan Mr. & Mrs. john W Reddy Mr. & Mrs. Marvi n G. Webb Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Ensign Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kratchman Dr. Melvin L. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Weidner Mr. & Mrs. Abram Epstein Dr. & Mrs. Richard Ku lbersh Dr. Patricia Reed Mr. Richard Weierm iller Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ewing Ms. Rosemary Kurr Mr. Den nis C. Regan Mr. Robert D. Welchi Mr. & Mrs. Alger Faber Vicki & Ralph Kwyer Mrs. Margaret Reihmer Ms. Meredi th Weston-Band & Dr. & Mrs. Irving Feller Mr. & Mrs. john Labriola Ms. Abigail Rennels jeffery Band, MD Mr. Dan Ferrier Mr. joseph W Labuta Verena Rhame Mr. R. E Whelan Ms. judi th Fietz Mr. & Mrs. Chak Lai Mr. & Mrs. john]. Riccardo Mr. & Mrs. Robert Whitman The Han. Sharon Tevis Finch Mr. Patrick Lancaster Mrs. Miriam C. Richardson Mrs. Charles Whi tten Mrs. Elnora Fin klestein Dr. joseph Lapides & Arlene Mr. & Mrs. Mil ton H. Ring Miss Barbara Williams Dr. & Mrs. Lionel Finkelstein Gorelick Mr. & Mrs. George Robertson Mr. George Williams Dr. julie B. Finn Mr. & Mrs. Darwin Larson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Mr. Lawrence Williams Mr. Ron Fischer Del Lauria Rockwell Dr. Magnus A. Wilson Morry Cohen Mr. William E Fisher Mr. Ray H. Lawson Mr. & Mrs. Peter]. Roddy Ms. Hildegard Wintergerst Mr. & Mrs. james E. Fisk Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mr. & Mrs. Horace Rodgers Ms. Andrea Wulf Th is past fall, Michigan Opera Theatre lost one Mr. & Mrs. Carl B. Fontana Lazzerinjr. Mr. james E. Rodgers Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Yates of its most ardent supporters, and I personally lost Ms. Sue Force Mr. Philip Leon Mr. C. Brock Rooney Mr. Dennis Younger one of my dearest loyal friends. Ms. Doris R. Foster Ms. Adrienne Leonard Ms. joanne B. Rooney Mr. & Mrs. Walter Zelasko Mrs. Harold Frank Mr. Max Lepler & Mr. Rex L. Ms. Mary P. Rossio Mr. Irvin Zwicker Morry Cohen, builder extraordinaire, was well Mr. & Mrs. Helmut Franz DOlSon Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Rota known for the magnificent creation of Somerset Dr. Yvonne Friday Mr. Richard Lerner Mrs. Diane Rothman INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT·DANCE Mr. & Mrs. Eugene S. Friedman Mr. Clif Levin Mr. Daniel G. Rusecki DANCE PATRON CIRCLE Collection. For Morry, a shopping center was not Ms. Onalee Frost Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Levin Mr. Rodney Rusk SUSTAINER $2,500· 4,999 just a financial enterprise, but also a work of art. Dr. & Mrs. William R. Fulgenzi Mr. & Mrs. john D. Lewis Ms. Merlene Russaw Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. Robert Furlong Dr. & Mrs. joh n H. Libcke Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Sahn Dr. David DiChiera ''You build opera houses, and I build shopping centers," Mr. & Mrs. Donald Gay Mr. Irving Lichtman Dr. & Mrs. William H. Salot Ms. Barbara Frankel & he said to me on a personal tour of Somerset, as he Ms. Dorothy Gee Ms. Karen Linnell Brian & Toni Sanchez-Murphy Rona ld Michalak Mr. & Mrs. Herman Frankel proudly pointed out special architectural details and Mr. Charlts Gehringer Mr. & Mrs. Ray Litt Drs. Richard & janis Saunders Dr. & Mrs. james W Gell Mr. & Mrs. john Lowe Karen L Saxton Mr. & Mrs. William L. Kahn works of art. It was clear that for Morry, the impor Thomas M. Gervasi Dr. & Mrs. Sol Luft Ms. Georgia Scappaticci Lynn & Fred Perenic joyce Urba & David Kinsella tance and beauty of art should permeate every Mr. & Mrs. Stephen]. Gilbert Mr. Michael Madigan Mr. & Mrs. Morton Scholnick Mr. Randall]. Gillary Cardinal Adam]. Maida Mr. & Mrs. Sherwin Sc hreier facet of life. It was this credo that touched the lives DONOR $1,000 - $2,499 IMs. Anne Ginn Ms. Suzanne Maldaver Mrs. Marnita M. Scott Mr. David Chivas Dr. Sara Goburdhun Mr. David Mark of so many individuals and so many Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley Sears Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Clark I Ms. Patricia Godell Ms. janet R. Marsh Dr. & Mrs. Na than P. Segel Ms. joan ne Danto institutions. Dr. & Mrs. joel Goldberg Dr. David E. Massignan Mr. & Mrs. Marc Shaberman Dodie & Larry David To the talented jazz musicians in our community, Mr. & Mrs. E. Gorcyca Mr. Timothy Mayer Dr. john E. Sheard Mr. Kevin Dennis & Mr. he became an "angel," providing financial support Ms . Alicejean Gottesman Ms. jodi F Mays Dr. Anthony Shields jeremy ZeItze r IMr. & Mrs. William R. Goudie Ms. Mary C. Mazure Dr. j an ice M. Shier and sponsoring performance and recordings. Linda Dresner & Edward C. Mr. & Mrs. William W Gourley Mr. & Mrs. jackson McBroom Mrs. james Shoup Levy jr. A trumpet player himself, he would invite jazz Dr. & Mrs. Robert Green Mrs. janet McCarthy Sidney & Mariette Simon Rosanne & Sandy Duncan Mr. & Mrs. F. W Gridley Ms. Lesley McCowen Mrs. Hel en Slater and classical musicians and our singers to perform Mr. Laurence V Glowczewski Leonard & Audrey Grossman Donald E. Mcintosh Mrs. Leslie Slatkin Carol & Tom Halsted Mr. & Mrs. Carson C. Mr. & Mrs. Patrick McKeever at hospice centers and entertain patients. Mr. Christopher B. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Grunewald Mr. & Mrs. john McMullin His contribution to music and the arts is legendary. Ms. Etta Smi th Lomason Mr. Philip Haddad Freda & Morrey Mendelson Mr. Melvin Smith Mr. & Mrs. james loPrete Together with his wife Margo, he assembled a stun Mr. Lawrence Hall Dr. & Mrs. Herman]. Merte Tom & Chere Smith Dr. Ali Moiin ningly beautiful collection of paintings, sculpture, fur Ms. Mary Harms Ms. Lynne M. Metty Mrs. Alma]. Snider Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Moore Dr. & Mrs. Na tan HarPaz Ms. Carla Michaud Mr. james S. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Will iam 1. Myers niture and objets d'art. E Dr. Charles Hartley Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mich ielutti Merle & jack Solway Ms. Ruth E Rattner In support of Margo 's actMties and commitments to Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Harvath Mr. Myron Milgrom Ms. Anna M. Speck Dr. & Mrs. Barry G. Siegel Mr. Stuart Harvin Mr. & Mrs. Mil ton]. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Theodore]. St. dance, Morry provided the generous underwriting that Lila & Gilbert Silverman Ms. joann Hatton Mr.john Mills Antoine Ms. Leslie R. Slatkin allowed me to launch a dance initiative that began Mr. & Mrs. William B. Heaton Ms. Karen Minard Mr. William]. Stein john H. White & Lawrence]. Gerald R. Heller & Mary C. Dr. Edward Missavagejr. Ms. Kaethe Stella Pocza with full -length productions at the Masonic Temple Heller Fu nd Mrs. Lucille Monark Dr. Mildred Ponder Sten nis and consequently at the DOH. Dr Gloria Heppner Ms. Miriam Mondry Ms. Stephanie Stevenson DANCE MEMBERS During those challenging years leading up to the Dr. & Mrs. Michael Heppner Dr. & Mrs. Eliezer Monge Allan & Marsha Stillwagon PATRON $500·$999 Dr. & Mrs. james Hoeschele Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Montpas Mrs. E. Stricker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas opening of the opera house, Morry's financial support Mr. & Mrs.]. Hogan Ms. Theresa S. More land Dr. & Mrs. Choichi Sugawa Anderso n and personal encouragement were especially Dr. jean Holland Dr. james L. Moseley Dr. jonathan Swift Dr. & Mrs.]. E. Austin Deanna & David B. Holtzman Mrs. Hannah Moss Ms. Melissa Flones Tapp Mrs. Charles M. Endicott important to me. Ms . Donna Holycross Mrs. Ea rl Mossner justice Clifford W Taylor Ms. Barbara Eversman My memories of him wi ll always be nurtured by Mr. Nicholas Hood Sally & jim Muir Mrs. jay H. Taylor Mr. Richard Hamlin the thoughts he expressed in his many notes. "My Mr. & Mrs. Alan Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Germano L. 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Michigan Opera Theatre and the Detroit Opera House pre many willing hands. The talented, giving hands of our Opera sent one of the finest and most diverse opera and dance series League, Ushers, Dance Council, Encore!, Ambassadors, Office in the country The theatrical experiences encompass vocal and and Boutique workers, Movers, Supers, Education &: orchestral music, dance, drama, costumes, sets and lighting. Outreach , and AdagiO volunteers have a Significant impact on the The achievement of this multipliCity requires many voices and overall operation of the company

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Create Opera! With Students Who Are Mentally Impaired Chosen as one of the Ten Best Practices in Arts Education he Department of Community Ten Best Practices in Arts Education will T Programs' Create Opera with Students be published annually and was developed Who are Mentally Impaired was chosen as to give the community the opportunity to one of the Ten Best Practices in Arts read about outstanding work done by Education in Michigan for a new book schools, colleges, organizations and artists being published through the Michigan with students in Michigan. Some of the Department of Education and ArtServe leading arts educators in the state selected Michigan. the 10 best practices in the book. The Department of Community Programs is Since 1978, the Department of proud to have one of its innovative Community Programs has offered Create Create Opera! curricula chosen to be Opera! to all types of students, including Karen V. DiChiera, who developed the published in this first book. Create Opera! process, at worn with gifted and talented youngsters, college students at The Lamphere Center for music and theater majors, schoolteachers Ten Best Practices in Arts Education is the Mentally Impaired. and others. Create Opera! with Students available in hard copy from ArtServe Who are Mentally Impaired grew as an Michigan or online at additional option for speCial education www.artservemichigan.org m teachers to use with their mentally challenged students.

Learning at the Opera House ummer of 2004 brings back Learning A special focus of the Opera Lecture Sat the Opera House, the now eight-year Series this summer will be the new opera old institute offering workshops, camps, that David DiChiera has commissioned. lectures, tours and creative opportunities for Margaret Gamer is based on the true story all ages. Arts, hiStory, humanities, health, of a slave woman who escaped with her architectural history, tours and professional family from Kentucky to Cincinnati only development are awaiting each and every to be recaptured by her "master. " To keep one of you who would like to take advan her children from returning to slavery, she tage of the convenience, professionalism kills them, then takes her own life. and camraderie found here in the Detroit This tragic tale has the stuff that makes Opera House. grand opera grand! The lyrically conceived Our time-tested programs for young libretto is by Toni Morrison, and the soaring Leanting at the Opera House students people include Create Opera!, Rappera, music is by composer Richard Danielpour. perjonn The Mikado. Operetta Workshop, Opera Camp, Opera The Learning at the Opera House series - Worshop, Recital Workshop and Writing The Renaissance in Detroit - will feature Composer Richard Danielpour will Workshop for Children. Music composition lectures about the Underground Railroad present the final lecture of our Summer is part of both Create Opera! and Rappera, movement in Detroit, Slave Songs and Opera Lecture Series on Tuesday, and performance is involved in all these Quilt Maps, field trips to Underground August 10th. popular summer activities. Railroad sites in Michigan, and visits to Is there anything we teach that you museums in Ontario. Margret Garner Adults as well as some of our young would like to learn 7 Is there something scholars will explain the story's artistic people enjoy our series on opera, dance, you would like to learn that we don't journey from newspaper account to the Harlem Renaissance in Detroit, teach? We love finding expen presenters historical biography, to novel, to film, decorative plastering and our continuing who love to help people learn about to opera. The premiere of Margaret partnership program, Poets at the Opera some area of their expertise. House, with the YM.C.A. and the Writers Gamer will be in May of 2005. Here is Voice, coordinated with M.L Liebler. an opportunity for everyone to prepare Leaming at the Opera House takes The "y" and M.L also provide us with for our own world premiere i place this summer between July 5th and August 15th. iii teachers, so that adults can take fiction The final workshop of Margaret Gamer writing and poetry will start during the week of August 9th.

The launching of Barbara Gibson's career reads like a script from a Hollywood movie. Detroit She had been studying for three years with Maestro Sturani, when he invited a group of Grand Opera his Metropolitan Opera friends, including soprano Bidu Sayao, baritone Giuseppe Danise and tenor Giovanni Martinelli, to hear the 19- Association year-old soprano. After the recital, Danise was so impressed that he was able to arrange an The history of Michigan Opera Theatre audition for Barbara with Arthur Judson of is intertwined with that of the Detroit Grand Columbia Artists Management Inc. That very Opera Association, the organization that day, it happened that the producer of "The brought the Metropolitan Opera to Detroit Telephone Hour" had an appointment at for a week of performances each year for Columbia, and he was persuaded to listen to nearly three decades. The Detroit Grand the young coloratura. She was immediately Opera Association became inactive in the signed to a Columbia Artists contract and a debut on a national radio broadcast in mid 1980s, when the Metropolitan Opera September 1949. A recording contract with diSCOnLinued its tOUling program. RCA soon followed as well as an appearance on the "Voice of Firestone," broadcast simulta Overture to Opera began in the early neously on radio and television. 1960s under the auspices of the Detroit In 1952, she was chosen by the legendary Grand Opera Association, preparing Arturo Toscanini to sing in the radio broadcast Barbara Gibson as Lucia in the 1968 audiences for the Met's annual tour by of Gluck's Otjeo ed Ewidice. Soon after, she Overture to Opera Series prodUCing scenes from upcoming operas. made her operatic debut with Cincinnati The outreach program evolved into the Opera Association as Gilda in Rigoletto. In internationally recognized Michigan Opera 1954 she appeared with the San Francisco Theatre, which today is counted among Opera as Rosina, Oscar and Zerlina. The fol the nation's 10 largest opera companies. lowing spring she was chosen to participate in Several Years ago, the Detroit Grand a five-week cultural good will tour of Europe. Opera Association received a generous After a triumphant performance with the Berlin Philharmonic, Der Tagesspiegal pro bequest from the estate of Anne and R. claimed, "Barbara Gibson brought back to life Bruce Redfield. In a special session, the great era of coloratura singing." Her second the trustees of the Detroit Grand Opera tour of Europe climaxed with the winning of Association came together and determined first prize in the woman's vocal division of Lea Woods Friedman that the Redfield gift should become an Abigail Haynes Italy's Giambattista Viotti contest. First prize DeRoy Testamentary Joyce H. Cohn Young endowment to help underwrite the costs had never been awarded in the voice division. Foundation Young Artist Artist involved in bringing extraordinary artists Moreover, according to the Associated Press to our city, thus continuing the tradition wire report flashed around the world, Barbara Lammermoor in eight performances through that was the hallmark of the Detroit Gibson was the first American to win a first out the Metropolitan Detroit area. She became Grand Opera Association. Henceforth, prize in any of the four contest divisions a founding board member of the fledgling (voice, piano, violin, and composition). each season our artist roster will include company, providing constant artistic advice, and introduced DiChiera to many colleagues, an artist whose visit·is made possible Returning after an exhaustive and extended including famous Italian basso Italo Tajo, who thanks to the support of the Anne and R. national concert tour, she took the music world by surprise when, at the height of her came to Detroit to sing in II Campanello and Bruce Redfield Artist Endowment Fund. vocal powers, she announced that she would direct the company's first full-length produc retire from the stage and dedicate herself to tion, The Barber oj Seville. This year the artist supported by the raising her young family in Detroit Michigan, Barbara Gibson's commitment to MOT has Anne and R. Bruce Redfield endowment bringing a premature end to a meteoric career. continued through the years, and in 2002, a fund is Nathan Gunn. B In 1965, Dr. David DiChiera, who had generous endowment gift established the committed himself to establishing an opera Barbara Gibson Young Artist Program, which company in Detroit, persuaded her to be the will support Michigan Opera Theatre's ongoing featured artist in the Overture to Opera Series, commitment to training and preparing the performing the mad scene from Lucia di opera stars of tomorrow. B

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©2001 Masco Corporati on Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre MAURICE SENDAK Set and Costume Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: The Magic Flute 1997 Recently: The Love afThree Oranges and The Cunning Lillie Vixen. Upcoming: Where the Wild Things Are (See featured article on page II)

SHAWN KAUFMAN Lighting Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Der Rasenkavelier 2000 2004 Season: The Magic Flute Recently: Michigan Opera Theatre, National Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of Philadelphia and Motor City Lyric Opera.

JOANNE WEAVER Wig and Makeup Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Tasca 1995 2004 Season: The Magic Flute, The Pirates of Penzance, The Pearl

' i::::i ", ::("",':(/1'0'10 :'C:;I(III,,;/ 11:'1111',', .;,'" ...... ,' .... ,':t~flHJ! :! I" Fishers ,' .: . ~ 1>',''''' '' ,. ,T:uuion Recently: Washington Opera, Baltimore Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera M'he · Colorado, Florentine Opera, Wolf Trap and Opera Pacific. ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Corey Globke - Stitcher F!lg9 Pamela Kupper - Asst. Lighting Designer April t~~"""'~-24 - May 2, 2004 Julia Kurtyta - Second Violin Rudi Lauerrnann - Asst. Recording Engineer Anthony Noto - Chorus PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT STROBE LIGHTS ARE USED DURING THIS PRODUCTION Supernumeraries Oliver Aguilar - dragon Anastasia Feofanova - lion Leslie Tse - lion

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre PETER DEAN BECK Set Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Candide 1991 Recently: Other opera credits include productions of Falstaff, La traviata, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Hansel and Gretel, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet for such companies as Florida Grand, Glimmerglass, Virginia, and Chautauqua Operas.

KENDALL SMITH Lighting Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: The Ballad ofBaby Doe, 1979 2004 Season: The Pirates ofPenzance, The Pearl Fishers Recently: A Masked Ball, 2003 Upcoming: The Full Monty, Rigoletto, Swing

JOANNE WEAVER Wig and Makeup Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Tosca 1995 2004 Season: The Magic Flute, The Pirates ofPenzance , The Pearl Fishers Recently: Washington Opera, Baltimore Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Colorado, Florentine Opera, Wolf Trap and Opera Pacific.

The role ofIsabel will be performed by Kelly Daniel-Decker.

CORRECTION TO THE PLAYBILL Costumes designed by Howard Kaplan and provided by Malabar, Ltd. of Toronto

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Corey Globke - Stitcher Pamela Kupper - Asst. Lighting Designer Rudi Lauermann - Asst. Recording Engineer Andrew Wu - Concertmaster Additional lyrics to "Modem Major General" by Philip Kraus

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ZANDRA RHODES Set and Costume Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: The Pearl Fishers 2004 Recently: The Magic Flute Upcoming: A retrospective of her work at the Fashion & Textile Museum in London (See featured article on page 19)

KENDALL SMITH Lighting Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: The Ballad ofBaby Doe, i 979 2004 Season: The Pirates ofPenzance, The Pearl Fishers Recently: A Masked Ball, 2003 Upcoming: The Full Monty, Rigoietto, Swing

JOANNE WEAVER Wig and Makeup Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut: Tasca 1995 2004 Season: The Magic Flute, The Pirates ofPenzance, The Pearl FisherJ Recently: Washington Opera, Baltimore Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Colorado, Florentine Opera, Wolf Trap and Opera Pacific.

**Special thanks to the Maggie A1lesee Department of Dance at Pearl Wayne State University. ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Fishers Corey Globke - Stitcher by: Georges Bizet Pamela Kupper - Asst. Lighting Designer June 5.13,2004 Rudi Lauermann - Asst. Recording Engineer Trevore Ross - Asst. Director Keturah Stickann-Skadberg - Asst. Choreographer

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT STROBE LIGHTS Supernumeraries ARE USED DURING THIS PRODUCTION Danny Bradley, Bruce Davis, Tim Doty, Chris Ferriole, Gabriel Gunsberg, Ethan Jensen, Michael-John Knoblauch, Michael Manos, Ben Maters, Freddie Robinson, Jim Slowik, Ron Temelkolski.

Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux President and Artistic Director, LaRue Allen Executive Director, Associate Artistic Directors Patricia McBride and Jerri Kumery

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About CHOREOGRAPHERS LaRue Allen, Executive Director Alvin Ailey LaRue Allen came to NCDT from the Trisha Brown North Carolina Dance Theatre Alvin Ailey, Born in Rogers, Texas on January 5th, Company in New York where she served as executive 1931, Alvin Ailey was introduced to dance by perform director for nine years, overseeing all administration, Robert Lindgren, former New York City Ballet dancer, ances of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and planning, development and production. Ms. Allen also founded North Carolina Dance Theatre (NCDT) in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. His formal dance supervised the establishment of the Trisha Brown Winston-Salem, NC in 1970. Salvatore Aiello served training began with an introduction to Lester Horton's Company school, which offers instruction to more the company for over a decade, became the Artistic classes by his friend, Carmen de Lavallade. When Mr. than 300 dancers from around the world. Formerly, Director in 1985, and was responsible for bringing the Ailey began creating dance, he drew upon his "blood she served as Senior Program Specialist for the company to Charlotte, NC in J 990. His professional memories" of Texas, the blues, spirituals and gospel as National Endowment for the Arts, as a director of the career included the Joffrey Ballet, Harkness Ballet, inspiration, which resulted in the creation of his most Pennsylvania Dance Theatre and its official school, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Hamburg Ballet, popular and critically acclaimed work-Revelations. Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop, and as an as well as the development 36 ballets including his Although he created 79 ballets over his lifetime, Alvin instructor at Penn State University. critically acclaimed versions of The Rite of Spring, Ailey maintained that his company was not exclusively The Nutcracker, Satto, Afternoon of a Faun and a repository for his own work. Today, the company Patricia McBride, Associate Artistic Director Coppelia,. NCDT's support and reputation quickly continues Mr. Ailey's mission by presenting important Patricia McBride has been celebrated as the outstand grew in its early years and was the number one touring works of the past and commissioning new ones to add ing American ballerina of our day and a star of repertory company in the nation in the early 80s. to the repertoire. In all, more than 170 works by over international stature. Her remarkable virtuosity and 65 choreographers have been performed by The Ailey. artistic range have been demonstrated in more than Today, NCDT continues its tradition of excellence one hundred ballets during three decades with the through the contribution of countless praiseworthy Mark Diamond New York City Ballet (NYCB). In 1959, Ms. McBride performance pieces and the remarkable talent and Mark Diamond turned full-time to choreography and joined the company of NYCB and in 1961 became the development of their dancers. President & Artistic teaching in 1983, after dancing five years for choreogra youngest principal dancer. George Balanchine and Director, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, has performed with pher John Neumeier with the Hamburg Staatsoper in Jerome Robbins created many of their master works the Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov Ballet and Germany. Prior to that he was a principal dancer with for her. Nls. McBride has performed all over the world. New York City Ballet; had works commissioned for the the Milwaukee Ballet Company, danced with the She has danced for five American presidents, New York City Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the Tamburitzans, Slavic Mrs. Gandhi and Prince Philip; and she has performed Company, Pennsylvania Ballet and Munich Opera, folk ensemble. He trained with Edward Caton and with many of the great male dancers of our time. She among others; and has served as choreographer and attended Duquesne University and Point Park College, joined NCDT in 1996 as associate artistic director. ballet master of the Pittsburgh Ballet, as chairman where he studied music, history 2nd dance. Presently and artistic director of the Ballet Department at on staff at North Carolina Dance Theatre (NCDT) as Jerri Kumery, Associate Artistic Director Indiana University. Associate Artistic Director, choreographer and program director of NCDT 2, Jerri Kumery began her studies with Roman Jasinski Patricia McBride, is celebrated as the outstanding he has choreographed and taught in Europe, the and Moscelyn Larkin in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She danced American ballerina of our day and a star of interna United States and Japan. In the summer he serves as professionally with the New York City Ballet for ten tional stature. Her remarkable virtuosity and artistic associate artistic director and resident choreographer years (1977-1987) under the direction of George range have been demonstrated in more than one for Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux at the Chautauqua Ballet. Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins. hundred ballets with the New York City Ballet. Before joining NCDT, Mr. Diamond was resident She joined NCDT in 1990, under the direction of She has worked with many of ballet's "greats" including choreographer for the Cincinnati Opera, founded Salvatore Aiello, as ballet mistress and teacher and in George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Andre Eglevsky, Ballet Artists Cincinnati, and received choreography 1992 became associate artistic director. She also served Edward Villella, Helgi Tomasson, Rudolph Nureyev, grants from the Ohio Arts Council, the New England as acting artistic director for the 1995-96 season after Mikhail Baryshnikov and Peter Martins. Jerri Kumery, Foundation for the Arts, and others. Aiello's death. Ms. Kumeryis the curator of Salvatore also an associate artistic director of NCDT, has danced Aiello's ballets. In May J 997, Ms. Kumery \Vas awarded professionally with the New York City Ballet under the ARTISTIC STAFF an Arts & Science Council Fellowship for her meritori direction of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins.and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, President & Artistic Director ous contribution to the artistic community.' Peter Martins. She joined NCDT in J 990, under the Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux began his career with the Paris ' direction of Salvatore Aiello, as ballet mistress and Opera Ballet and has danced with the Bolshoi Ballet, teacher and is the curator of Salvatore Aiello's ballets. Kirov Ballet and the New York City Ballet. His works NCDT's dancers are known for their high energy, pre have been commissioned by companies such as the cision and speed, as well as their ability to perform a New York City Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet versatile repertoire ranging from full-length classical Company, the Pennsylvania Ballet and Munich Opera. ballets to innovat ive contemporary works. Mr. Bonnefoux has served as choreographer and ballet master of the Pittsburgh Ballet, as chairman and NCDT's national tours have included appearances artistic director of the Ballet Department at Indiana in major festivals.including the Spoleto Festival, the University and during the summers is currently artistic American Dance Fest ival and Dance Aspen. The com director, choreographer and teacher at the Chautauqua pany has also made several New York appearances and Institute in New York. Mr. Bonnefoux joined NCDT in completed two European Tours. North Carolina Dance 1996 as artistic director, and was appointed president Theatre's breathtaking beauty, boundless energy, and in August 2002. amazing athleticism have dazzled audiences and critics the world over.

SHINDIG THE RIVER

April 1, 7:30 pm April 2, 8:00 pm April 3, 8:00 pm April 4, 2:00 pm

Choreography by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Choreography by Alvin Ailey Music by the Greasy Beans Restaged by Masazumi Chaya Costumes by Betsy Blackmore Original Score by Duke Ellington (The River)" Lighting by Nate McGaha Original Music Coordination: Martha Johnson Costume design by A. Christina Giannini Rebecca Cannazzi, Sasha Janes Lighting design by Chenault Spence

Nicholle-Rochelle, April 1 " ... of birth ... of the well-spring of life ... of Alessandra Ball, April 3 reaffinnation ... of the heavenly anticipation of rebirth ... " --Duke Ellington Uri Sands Servy Gallardo, Jason Jacobs SPRING Uri Sands, April 2 Sasha Janes, Benjamin Kubie, Daniel Wiley Sasha Janes, April 4 Nicholle-Rochelle, Heather Ferranti Ferguson Mia Cunningham, Angela Winkeler, Ayisha McMillan Heather Ferranti Ferguson, Kelly Greene Traci Gilchrest, Kelly Greene, Alessandra Ball Servy Gallardo, Patrick Kastoff, Daniel Wiley Ayisha McMillan, Angela Winkeler Alec Donovan, Adam Stein Alec Donovan, Patrick Kastoff, Adam Stein MEANDER Traci Gilchrest, Adam Stein, Sasha Janes, April 2 Nicholle-Rochelle, Alec Donovan, Benjamin Kubie, April 4

GIGGLING RAPIDS Ayisha McMillan, Servy Gallardo, April 2 Traci Gilchrest, Jason Jacobs, April 4

LAKE Kati Hanlon Mayo, Benjamin Kubie, and Company

FALLS ~~---- - Adam Stein, Sasha Janes, April 2 Jason Jacobs, Servy Gallardo, April 2 Alec Donovan, Servy Gallardo, April 4 Jason Jacobs, Daniel Wiley, April 4

VORTEX Nicholle-RocheIle, April 2 Angela Winkeler, April 4

RIBA (MAINSTREAM) Jason Jacobs and Company, April 2 April 24-May 2, 2004 Uri Sands and Company, April 4 at The Detroit Opera House QEi TWIN CITIES David OtChlEta, General Director Heather Ferranti Ferguson, April 2 Phone (313) 237-SING Benjamin Kubie and Company, April 2 or visit www.michiganopera.org Traci Gilchrest, Daniel Wiley and Company, April 4 The Spring Opera Season FOR GROUP SALES PHONE: (313) 237-3409 is made possible by Cadillac Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire based on the play by Tennessee Williams

Choreography by Mark Diamond ARTISTIC & ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF President & Artistic Director ...... Jea n-Pierre Bo nnefo ~ x Music by: Bernard Herrman. Benny Golson. William Christopher Handy*. Executive Director ...... LaRue All en Marty Paich. Darius Milhaud. Cole Porter. Franz Waxman. Igor Stravinsky. Assoc iate Artistic Director ...... Patric ia McBride Frederic Chopin. Carl Davis. John Williams. Russ Garcia. David Mills Associate Artistic Director ...... _...... Jerri Kum ery Costume Design by Mark Diamond. Costumes Realized by Betsy Blackmore Program Director of North Carolina Dance Th ea tre 2 . Mark Diamond Lighting Design by Nate McGaha. Scenic Design by Alun Jones Director of Marketing & Communica tions...... Louis Sica Director of evelopment ...... Ca ry Bernstein Di rector of Education & Outreach...... Ambre Emory- Maier Program A Program B Development Associate ...... _.. ... Ann -Walton Townse nd Development Associate...... Laura Back Educational-April 1. 11:00 am Offi ce Manage r ... _...... _..... _... Shannon Starnes Shindig-April 1.7:30 pm The River- April 2, 8:00 pm Artistic Administrator ...... Melody James Shindig-April 3. 8:00 pm The River- April 4. 2:00 pm Education Assistant . . .. . _...... Ge ne Bledsoe A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire Ass istant to th e Executive Director ...... _...... Amelia Durant

Blanche Mia Cunningham Traci Gilchrest PRODUCTION STAFF Director of Operations ...... _ . Douglas Singleton Stanley Daniel Wtley Benjamin Kubie Company Stage Manage r ..... _. _. . . . _ ...... _ . Andrew Brown Li ghting Designer ...... _...... Nate McGaha Stella Rebecca Carmazzi Rebecca Carmazzi Costume Shop Manager ...... _ ... . . Betsy Blackmore Wardrobe Supervisor...... Lindsey Bruck Mitch Jason Jacobs Jason Jacobs Technical Director ...... _ ...... Eli zabeth McLendon Master Electrician ... _ ...... Mike Neely Spirit of Young Husband Servy Gallardo Sasha Janes Costume Shop Intern ...... Lesley Bowers Pablo Alec Donovan Alec Donovan DANCEPLACE STAFF Artisti c Director...... _. Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Steve Uri Sands Uri Sands Director of Dance Place . .. _...... Darleen Callaghan Spirits of Family Kati Hanlon Mayo Kati Hanlon Mayo Master Teacher...... _ ...... Patricia McBride Angela Winkeler Angela Winkeler DancePlace Administrator .. .. .•...•...... • _ .. __ Cindy Miller Vladislav Bourakov Vladislav Bourakov MEDICAL STAFF Dr. Jerry Barron . . . . _ ...... _. Orthopedic Consultant Man Adam Stein Adam Stein Dr. Lowell Gill .. . .. _ ...... _...... Foot & Ankle Specialist Doctor & Nurse Adam Stein Adam Stein Angela Mutch Koonin ...... _ . .. . _ . Physical Therapist Kelly Greene Kelly Greene

Soldiers & Suitors Uri Sands Uri Sands Alec Donovan Alec Donovan CREDITS Patrick Kastoff Patrick Kastoff Adam Stein Adam Stein Permission to utilize Tour Representatives Sasha Janes Servy Gallardo A Streetcar Named Desire Baylin Artists Management material by arrangement with 18 West State Street Ladies of New Orleans Nicholle-Rochelle Nicholle-Rochelle The University of the South, Heather Ferranti Heather Ferranti Sewanee. TN. Suite 203 Ayisha McMillan Ayisha McMillan Doylestown, PA 18901 Angela Winkeler Angela Winkeler • " St. Louis Blues" by William tel. 267-880-3750 Alessandra Ball Alessandra Ball Christopher Handy. Handy fax 267-880-3757 Brothers Music Company, www.baylinartists.com Actl ;~erre-i: :- Goodbye Belle Reve Blanche & Spirits New York. NY, International Act 1, Scene 2: New Orleans Company Copyright Secured_

Act I, Scene 3: The Poker Game Stanley & Friends Stravinsky Ebony Concerto, Act I, Scene 4: "Stella", a love pas de deux Stella & Stanley as part of a ballet by Act I, Scene 5: Visions of a Rendezvous Blanche. Mitch Mark Diamond entitled A Streetcar Named Desire, & Spirit of Young Husband by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes. Intermission "In the Still of the Night" Act 2, Scene I: Dreams and Nightmares Blanche & Company by Cole Porter. Copyright Act 2, Scene 2: The Birthday Brawl Blanche. Stanley, Stella © 1937 by Chappell & Co. Inc., Act 2, Scene 3: Dementia Blanche Copyright renewed_ Act 2, Scene 4: The Jitterbug Blanche, Stanley & Company Act 2, Scene 5: " ... the kindness of strangers." Company Act 2, Scene 6: Return of Belle Reve Blanche, Stella, Stanley & Doctor