Jake Heggie Dead Man Walking UK premiere Tuesday 20 February 2018 7pm, Hall

Music by Jake Heggie Libretto by Terrence McNally Based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean Semi-staged performance directed by Leonard Foglia This opera was commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Javier Del Real Javier There will be one interval of 20 minutes Joyce DiDonato after Act 1

Jake Heggie and Leonard Foglia will be taking part in a pre-concert talk at 5.45pm in Frobisher Auditorium 1

Age guidance 16+ (contains adult themes)

A co-production by the Barbican and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Part of Barbican Presents 2017–18 Part of BBC Symphony Orchestra 2017–18

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Sister Rose

BBC Radio 3for future broadcast Tonight’s performance isbeingrecorded by Goldstein &Teatro Real Madrid Drama, Chicken Shed,LouisHudson,Jess Thank you to GuildhallSchoolof Music& Based ondesignsby JessGoldstein Zoe Kettel Peter Todd Camilla Direk Hannah Walmsley Répétiteur Finchley Children’s MusicGroup BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra

wigs andmake up Kate Golla costume supervisor assistant stage manager deputy stage manager

Sister Helenfirst putpento paper. matter remains asrelevant today aswhen a film starring SusanSarandon. Itssubject international fame whenitwas made into by Sister HelenPrejean thatfirst found Heggie’s opera isbasedonthebook San Francisco 18 years ago. influential of Jake Heggie’shugelysuccessfuland special event, asitmarks theUKpremiere Tonight’s performance isaparticularly Welcome theartofchange For anoverview of ourfullThe Artof Changeseason,visitbarbican.org.uk/ Representation of the People Act. rebellious andoften dangerous efforts to gainequalityinthe century sincethe1918 day; andNevertheless, ShePersisted, aseasonof films highlightingwomen’s countercultures, subcultures andminoritiesof allkinds from the1950s to thepresent New York venue; Another Kindof Life, anexhibition presenting photography from ground-breaking 1938 CarnegieHallgig,thefirst interracial concertattheiconic Forthcoming events includeJazzatLincolnCenter recreating Benny Goodman’s that are currently under-represented inthearts. feminism, climate changeandhumanrights,whileproviding aplatform for voices Creative Learningpresents boldartisticresponses to vital globalissues, including The BarbicanCentre’s programme across Theatre, Music,ArtGallery, Cinemaand social andpoliticallandscape. explores how artistsrespond to, reflect, and canpotentially effect changeinthe Dead ManWalking of Art The Change Dead ManWalking ispartof theBarbican’s2018 seasonTheArtof Change,which , first seenin Huw Humphreys, Head of Music,Barbican It promises to beanunforgettable evening. Finchley Children’s MusicGroup. Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singersand Mark Wigglesworth conductstheBBC the GuildhallSchoolof Music& Drama. singers andactors, including studentsfrom DiDonato, wholeads astunningcastof The partof Sister Helenissungby Joyce

3 Welcome 4 I amconstantly surprisedwhenIreach the chart Sister Helen’sjourney, step by step, and time Iwork on forgive?’, Idon’thonestlyknow theanswer. Each I amconfronted withthequestionof ‘CouldI scale, somethingof whichIamnot proud. When I find myself scoringvery low ontheforgiveness one depicted inthispiece,against aloved one? who perpetrated ahorriblecrime,suchasthe Would you have thecapacity to forgive someone the audienceissomethingfar more difficult. discussion. What,Ibelieve, thispiecereally asks fixed: you are eitherfor itoragainst it,endof people’s views oncapital punishmentare everyone off the hookfar too easily. Generally death penaltyintheUnited States. Ifind thatlets never seentheopera) asareferendum onthe can beviewed (usuallyby peoplewhohave time Ireturn to That isthequestionIamconfronted withevery What isourcapacity for forgiveness? we forgive?Can director: the From Dead ManWalking Dead ManWalking , Icarefully . This piece . Thispiece Leonard Foglia, director journey to thetruth,truthaboutourselves. Sister Helen’sjourney isourjourney, our the murderer, JosephDe Rocher, for thefirst time. Sister Helenasshetravels to theprisonto meet The centrepiece of theFirstAct isanariasungby is unableto seeitinthisman?Orforgive him? in each andevery person.Whatifshefinds she is basedonbeingableto seetheface of God to whethershehasforgiven thekiller. Herfaith moment thatshecannot answer thequestionas

This journey. This journey to thetruth. This journey. To thisman. To my Jesus. This journey to myself. This journey to my God. This journey to Christ. This journey. it would belike. SoJohnAdams had composed an authenticallyAmerican opera andifsowhat returned, thatof whetheritwas possibleto create as ifthedebate of halfacenturyearlierhad – itsdarkaswell asitslightself.Itwas almost were lookingfor ways of staging theUSto itself In the1990s Americancomposers,itseemed, first published in1993. Eyewitness Account of theDeathPenalty intheUS had written aboutin the menonDeathRow whomSister HelenPrejean is acomposite character created from several of killed by lethalinjectionattheendof theopera, where theopera is set.JosephDeRocher, whois than athird of theminTexas and26inLouisiana people were executed intheUnited States, more premiere of reauthorised by theUSSupreme Court,andthe Between 1976, whencapital punishmentwas emotional platitudesaboutitoneway oranother.’ They want to sweep itundertherugandjustoffer people don’twant to engage withinAmerica. the deathpenalty, whichissomethingthatmost role of Sister Helen,hassaid:‘It’sdealingwith redemption. AsSusanGraham, whocreated the capital punishmentitwas muchmore about Sarandon –thatthoughitwas ostensibly about from ahugelysuccessfulmovie starring Susan whom would have beenfamiliar withthestory seemed clearto everyone thatnight–mostof This was Heggie’sfirst opera anditmusthave culmination of theopera. pair of teenage lovers, anact which forms the whom was eventually executed for murdering a Death Row inaLouisianapenitentiary, oneof nun’s own account of working withprisonerson McNally andJake Heggiehad made outof the profoundly moved by theopera thatTerrence left anaudiencewho,by allaccounts, had been organised by opponentsof thedeathpenalty. She join atorchlit vigilontheSanFrancisco streets Prejean made herway outof thetheatre to Man Walking When thecurtain fell onthefirst nightof Walking Man Dead Jake Heggie Dead ManWalking inOctober 2000,Sister Helen Dead ManWalking: An in 2000, 667 in2000,667 (born 1961)(born Dead Dead , (2000) forgiveness, withguiltfor ourfailings andtheneed of ourheartswhere we struggle withhurtsand penalty. Ithelpsusjourney into thedeepestplaces bigger anddeeperthanthequestionof thedeath As Sister HelenPrejean hassaid,‘Itsthemeis But itwas aboutfar more thanjusttheheadlines. was front-page stuff.’ about thisstory, peopleknew aboutthisissue.It through amajorHollywood film. Sopeopleknew already very familiar to Americanaudiences with Terrence McNally[to tell] astory thatwas composer namedJake Heggiewhoteamed up really becausehere was thisbrand-new opera many peopleintheopera world, aneye-opener Dead ManWalking up withsomethingnew to bringthemin.Ithink our audiencesalittlebitmore –having to come more. Sowe were faced withhaving to cultivate of doingthings[was] not working everywhere any has observed: ‘Theoldstandard traditional way Commerce played itsparttoo, asSusanGraham Susa had allbeenlured into theopera house. John Harbison,André Previn andConrad Philip Glass,WilliamBolcom,JohnCorigliano, Nixon inChina Finding therightwave canbring bliss.’ fan of surfing –she even hassurfing calendars! overly theological,butvery elemental. She’sabig quality. Like Sister Helen, [they’re] not preachy or texts, aboutlight,darkandwater, have amystic based onpoemsby thenun.‘Sister Helen’sfour Breaking Waves Deepest Desire of aquartet of meditations by Sister Helen, with Jake Heggieonanorchestrated version in New York in2002.Indeed,shehas collaborated writings sinceshefirst sangtherole of Sister Helen been alertto thespiritualdimensionof Prejean’s tonight’s performance of Joyce DiDonato, whosingsSister Helen Prejean in emotional andhumanissuesthatgoalongwithit.’ between thisnunandconvict andthe and ImeanthatinonlythemostGodlyway, ‘The issueof thisopera isthelove relationship, for redemption.’ To whichSusanGraham adds,

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5 Programme note 6 House of theDead be setinaprison. There’s Dead ManWalking word …’ itsemotional directness. And thatgives anariasuchas‘Don’tsay a writing issospeechbasedit’sjustlike …speaking.’ after creating therole of Sister Helen,‘Jake’s character’s emotions. AsSusanGraham observed are supposed to do–to take usrightinsidea words andmusic. Thisiswhat19th-century arias of Josephasherboy Joey are palpableinthe essential goodnessassheclingsto hermemories son: ‘Don’tsay aword …’ Herconfusion,her in Act 2asshebidsherlastgoodbye to her opera house,give heraheart-stopping aria easily between thetheatre, musicaltheatre and McNally, aBroadway master whohasmoved actions willbe.Heggieandhislibrettist Terrence to seewhattheinevitable consequences of his grasp whathersonmay have doneandunwilling young sonsisacomplex character, unableto appeal. MrsPatrick DeRocher with hertwo other Pardon Board hasrejected JosephDeRocher’s and Joseph’smother after ahearingby the Sister Helen,theparents of thedead teenagers immensely effective sextet, for example, sungby now. There are conventional musicalnumbers.An Formally, theopera seemscomfortingly familiar final farewell to herson. horn themewhenMrsPatrick DeRocher says a repaid to BenjaminBritten –thatquietplaintive learnt from Leonard Bernstein. Thenthere’s adebt remarkable Prologue to other handthesinister drivingrhythms in,say, the is awork suffusedwithseductive tunes.Onthe from hisadmiration for SamuelBarberandthis musical style.Hislyricalgiftsasacomposercome Life works, including Jake Heggiehascompleted over 10 new stage Since thefirst performance of confirmation of your shared humanity. of thiswork shriven! Andwithavery American fear andfortitude. You leave aperformance explores compassion,empathy, spiritualfreedom, McNally’s extraordinary ending,thisisawork that quite different ways. Withoutrevealing Terrence of thedeathpenalty, now itaffects alistener in seemed to beangryabout themoral wrongness was first performed inSanFrancisco. Ifonceit resonates sostrongly 18 years after theopera her work, andindeedin But it’sthespiritualdimensionwithinherlife and Sister HelenPrejean isnever lessthansurprising! , andwe’ve got acloserunderstanding of his Great Scott , Dallapiccola’s is hardly thefirst opera to Dead ManWalking Dead ManWalking aáˇek’s Janácˇ and Dead ManWalking It’saWonderful llprigioniero

From the are are , that , that , , audience know thatinthedepthsof Pizzaro’s disguise herselfasaman,nonethelesswe inthe wives andmothers andLeonore hashad to women were shunted back into domesticityas heady spellof liberation after theRevolution this period.Whileit’struethatafter abriefand is areminder of changingattitudesto women in secondary title is rescued by hiswife inanopera thathasthe who hasbeenunjustlyimprisoned,Florestan opera. Inaddition to thethrillingrescue of aman many of thethemesassociated withtherescue reward’. my speaking thetruth– ‘Itold thetruthandchainsare So Florestan in of socialprotest inmany of theserescue operas. As you mightexpect, there isamarked degree the guiltof Heggie’sprisoner. similarities end,however, for there’s nodoubting Man Walking so very different from theinitial appealof seeing theirown timesonthestage, whichisnot French audiencesappearto have enjoyed was that lastembrace withMadame Guillotine. What people, andwhowould not dream of escaping be triedandthenexecuted asenemiesof the were imprisonedby theauthorities,aboutto surprising, given thatitwas atimewhensomany popular duringtheRevolution. Thatishardly borrowed from France where ithad beenhugely that itisa‘rescue opera’, agenre thatBeethoven there is Birtwistle’s of Cui’s minutes of De Rocher is‘rescued’ from himselfinthefinal this compellingcontemporary work asJoseph hymn to freedom somehow throws ashadow over McNally may have intended, Beethoven’s great Whatever Jake Heggieand his librettist Terrence upon anadmission of guilt.There mustbehonesty. predicated onforgiveness which inturndepends develops a relationship withthismurderer thatis in another way, by awoman too, a nunwho Death Row to die.Butheisperhaps‘rescued’ to themurder of two teenagers andwillonlyleave opera, inthatJosephDeRocher refuses to confess Dead ManWalking Man’s Row intheLouisianaState Penitentiary. Rocco may go.Not sovery different from Dead reserved for themostdangerous menwhere only prison sheisawoman inaman’sspace, inthecell Programme note ©Christopher Cook Tosca The Prisonerof theCaucasus Fidelio and Dead ManWalking The Minotaur Fidelio Andrea Chénier for Americanaudiences.Here the . Butwhatmakes L’amour conjugal Fidelio succeeds in binding together succeedsinbindingtogether isnot astandard rescue hasbeenincarcerated for . And,mostfamously, , or Sir Harrison , orSirHarrison . Fidelio . This‘Wifely love’ , the last acts , thelastacts different is Dead Dead You canseemy character goingto DeathRow he hasnoremorse andtakes no responsibility. murder atthebeginning.We know Joediditand [the opera’s librettist] setitupsowe seethe the manwhodidmurder. Terrence McNally have mine,andyou have thatof JoeDeRocher, In theopera you have various different stories: you heart thatyou justdidn’tknow you had. The onethattakes you into places of your not aboutme,it’sabiggerstory. I’ve always beenvery clearaboutthis:it’s Of course,it To see see yourself astheCarmen,Madam Butterfly! often –whatit’slike to sitinanopera houseand Well, that’sprobably thequestionI’masked most were, perhapsamore naïve personthannow? take you back to theyounger nunthatyou once this episodeinyour pastbere-enacted? Doesit major movie andanopera. What’sitlike watching Sister Helen,‘Dead ManWalking’ isnow both a Walking Europe for theopeningnightof We caughtupwithSister Helen,briefly in have beenkilled, singing together, ‘You don’t public before. Andtheparents whose children ‘Don’t killmy son,’ whenshehasnever spoken in Joe DeRocher, whohasto try to find words to say all that.Thenthere isthestory of themother of What Ilove abouttheopera isthatyou cansee got involved, Ihad to learn;I’mstilllearning. to say ‘Thenunwas inover herhead’. WhenI starring SusanSarandon andSeanPenn] likes [director of themovie him, butIamnot gonnacrack.’ TimRobbins crack; Iam not gonnato know how to handle and beingwithhim,saying, ‘Iamnot gonna power of story agood the and journeyThe to empathy Prejean: Helen conversation Sister with In yourself attheTeatro Real, Madrid. is my life, it’smy journey. But beingportrayed onstage. Dead ManWalking Dead Man Dead Man ,

Yeah, Iwas scared of thematfirst, becausethey reaching outto thevictims’families thatfirst time. You saidthatyou made abigmistake innot gathers, andistheforce of compassion. together, theGodAnonymous istheonethat is theworst separator inlife. Inthegathering mother, sister andbrother. Becauseviolence the Godwhowillgatherusaround, father and decision. Intheopera there isaSpiritualabout of my own heartandsoul?We allknow that another pathwhere Icanmaintain theintegrity who hurtmeandtryto hurtthem?OrcanIfind must make is:ShallItryto geteven withthose by others. Andthen,themoral decisionthatwe to behurt,orto have someonewe love behurt who’s beenmurdered. Butwe allknow whatitis own hearts.PleaseGod,we don’tknow anybody So we canbebrought into alltheserealms of our door, andit’sthelasttimethatyou seehimalive.’ know whatit’slike to seeachildwalk outthe anger of thevictims’families, who’ve been told a pleafor herson’slife. But you also seethe see themother of JoeDeRocher tryingto make death. We had thisinthemovie. Intheopera, we register whatsideyou’re on–literally, for life or go in,it’sentirely publicandyou actually have to be more polarised: you signabookwhenyou – that’swhenIfirst metthefamilies – couldn’t Unspeakably bad. ThePardon Board hearing three timesintheback of thehead. Bad. Bad. lying face down, andthey’d both beenshot completely incoldblood:thekidswere found That time,Pat Sonnierhad killedtwo teenagers, must beagainst if you were against thedeathpenalty, thenyou to deprive you of your justice.’They thoughtthat they’re taking thesepeopleto thePardon Board who were saying, ‘Thosebleedin’-heartliberals: were allso angry. They’d believed theprosecutors, them . SoIdidn’treach out.

7 Programme note 8 committed murder, mitigation specialistsare now it to others. Butinthecaseof everybody who’s into them; thenthey live outthatchaos anddo brought upin chaos, andviolencewas pumped Death Row were abusedas children: they were finding outthat90percentof the peopleon in thedebate aboutthedeathpenalty. We’re In fact, Iknew that 9/11 would beusedpolitically moral question.Andso,theanswer isNo. people, butyou have to dealwiththesame it’s compoundedthatthere are somany or onesinglehumanbeing…of course, violence, whetherit’s3,000peoplekilled Well, whenyou descendinto themystery of Did itaffect your faith oryour philosophy? someone whocouldcommitanact like that? your visionof understanding, let aloneforgiving, 9/11 adifficult momentfor you: holdingtrueto Looking alittlefurtherback inUShistory, was people inDonaldTrump’s Americarightnow. That mustbeaprovocative insightfor many hate-full too, apersonconsumedwithanger. are beovercome by hate, sothatyou become life, not lettingthelove aboutwhoyou truly forgiveness isreally away of saving your own He was thefirst onewhotaught methat let themkillme.I’mgoingto dowhatJesussaid.’ and said,‘They killedmy sonbutI’mnot goingto When hetold methis,heputhishandoutto me her, witheverything – thathe’sjustamessinside. losing hertoo, andhe’ssoangry– with about whatwas happeningto hiswife. Hewas all thetime,not onlythatthey had killedDavid, but the journey of hisown heart:of how hewas angry And thenhebeganto trustme.Hetook meinto little chapel–we were both Catholics–andIwent. But heinvited meto comeandpray withhiminthis realised, ohmy goodness,I’djustwritten himoff. you, Sister? Ihaven’t metwithanybody.’ AndI like you didn’tlove your boy”. Andwhere were you gotta befor thedeathpenalty, orit’lllook we’re under. Everybody issaying to me,“Lloyd, came to seeus.You can’tbelieve thepressure of himandhisbrother, andyou never once all thistimeyou’ve beenvisitingwiththeparents walked rightupto meandsaid,‘Sister Helen, the young boy whowas killed,heandhiswife boy’s …Lloyd LeBlanc,thefather of David, and they have remained furiousatme.Butthe The girl’sparents were justfuriouswithme– the onlythingthatwillsatisfythemishisdeath. welfare of the as beingnot aboutthepositive effect of the John Locke, whosaw therole of government This comesfrom the17th-century thinker of government shouldberestricted. call itentitlements,andthey say therole called welfare. Thosethatare against it be ableto getaffordable housingorwhat’s poor peoplefor even saying thatthey should like theTea Party, there’s resentment against valued equally. Withtoday’s partisanpolitics, We don’tstart outwithpeople’slives being Well, yes, we have acomprisedconstitution. based ontheviews of JohnLocke. constitution was compromised by being You’ve saidthatyou thoughttheAmerican to keep happening?’We never askthat. our societythatcausessuchacts of violence But we don’taskthequestion,‘Whatisitabout where we say thatwe willkilltheminreturn. that we’ve individualiseditdown to thepoint atomised theevil thatpeoplehave done, In theUSA, we have soatomised people, of the‘we’ insociety, of thecommon good. What Ilove aboutEurope isthatthere’s asense more we have to getinto thedeeperpicture. they thoughttheUSA was doingto they mustseeastheirenemy? Whatwas itthat and give uptheirown lives inorder to attack those 9/11 –whatwould make peoplecrash aplane being. Themore we descendedinto thedetail of the story of each person,each individualhuman rising to thefore asvery important peopleto tell So you may have thedemocratic principle of pacts have arightto freedom of expression. the peoplethathave money in these political because they went alongwiththeview that of private money into politicalcampaigns the decisionto allow anunfettered amount Election Commission.TheSupreme Courtmade through inthe caseCitizensUnited v theFederal John Locke’s individualismwas followed you canhave more peace inyour society. people don’thave suchdesperate lives and When you have astronger socialfabric, then much more of aconcernfor thesocialfabric. and healthcare. Europe andCanada have seen asfor thecommongood,for housing enemies. Sotherole of thegovernment isnot that – anddefending asocietyagainst foreign expression, freedom of thepress andallof maintaining individualliberties– freedom of whole people,butinstead about them the ? – the discovered that,but Ihad to learnit.Ididn’teven That’s alsowhy theArtsare soimportant. I’ve is soimportant –soIlearnedto write. me, that’sthekey. Andthat’swhy journalism one whotells thewholestory winsthecase.To whole thingof storytelling muchmore –the don’t tell’. Andnow lawyers are doing the how to write inthejournalisticway of ‘ A CatholicVoice for Justice We started a little newspaper called show thepatterns, butthrough individualstories. told theirstories. Soyou have socialanalysis – you three real families, three singlewomen, andhe who getwelfare shouldwork – Jasonfollowed Welfare Reform policy–whichwas thatthose to real people.Writing aboutPresident Clinton’s and to putaface onthem,to tell whathappens mission isto take these[government] policies the conscienceof thepaper, because hiswhole at I’ve agoodfriend,JasonDeParle, whoworks through stories amIgoingto beableto dothis. I have to learnhow to tell people’sstories. Only the deteriorating effects of poverty. AndIrealised: from anintact family, they’ve never experienced they’ve gotten agoodeducation,they’ve come Now, they’re speakingoutof theirown experience: they’d keep saying; ‘Why don’tthesepeople…?’ be theway out?’‘Why don’tthesepeople…,’ their kidsto school?Don’tthey know that’sgonna people getjobs?Why don’tthosepeoplesend happening. They’d say, ‘Butwhy don’tthose good people,andI’dtryto describewhatwas suburbs, andtalk withpeoplethere. Theseare into themiddle-classneighbourhoodsin racism andthelegacy of slavery – I’dgoback people whowere very poor, livingwithhuge Housing projects – amongAfrican-American reminded methatwhenIlived intheSt Joseph I’m writingamemoircalled be encouraged to bemore empathetic? to theopera. How doyou thinkpeoplecan Mrs DeRocher, andeven withJoe,iscrucial to beempathy. Ourabilityto empathise with society more generally –thekey to thisseems however bad they are, isseeninthecontext of so thatwhatever happensto oneperson, Creating asociety withacommunalapproach, you don’treally have onepersonvote! money candoalltheTVadvertising –then one personvote, butifthosewithallthe The

New York Times . Some people call him . Somepeoplecallhim , and I learned , andIlearned River of Fire Flambeau: Flambeau: show . It . It , is about– andto give ourlives to that. unworthy of ourlove – that’swhathismessage from each other, even thosewhoseemto be of Jesusisallaboutloving andreceiving love and whatthey give me.BecausetheGospel the individualsI’mwith–whatthey teach me allows meto openmyself to thecourage of I want to say yes. Butreally, it’sthatmy faith and stress of allthis–isyour faith your therapy? work: how doyou dealwiththeextreme emotion Row. Butyou too have made thisyour lifetime’s deal withhisexperiences of executions onDeath know hassaidhe’llneedalifetime of therapy to You mentionedthatoneof theprisonwardens you it andIwas telling thesestories to everybody! Then whenIwrote and thenDeathRow. AndsoIbeganto write. and goingto pray withhiminthatlittlechapel; have to quit;thevictims;Lloyd LeBlanc’sstory, the executions inLouisianaandhewas gonna stories: theguard whocouldn’tsleepafter all didn’t know whatthatwas. ButIhad allthese voice.’ I’dnever even heard theterm ‘voice’, I Picayune ed pieces,andtheeditor-in-chief atthe so Iresisted doingit.ThenIbeganto write op- to people,you can’tinterject withhumour. And was thinking,abookispassive, you can’ttalk writing abookwas justahugewaste of time–I storytellers, butit’sanoral tradition. Ithought and tell stories, jokes andfunny stories – we’re eat ballcrabs for three hours,anddrinkabeer was suchanoral community:you sitaround and know thepower of abook,becauseLouisiana Jesus itwas aboutloving allof our neighbours, founders of faith – like JesusandtheBuddha. With You have the ‘first fire’ thatcomesfrom the the artsdotoo: theartsbringsusthere aswell. to thosegoodpartsof theirhearts.That’swhat way to reflect more deeply, to beableto come American peopleare good:they justneeda or Mississippi,that’swhatIremember –the human’. WhenI’mgoingto speakinIowa, say, is ‘Make mestrong, make mewise,make me The ariathatSister Helensingsintheopera others andto beahumanbeingwiththem. all abouttheGospelof Encounter: to encounter but more asPope Francis now teaches us –it’s you aboutdoctrinesorcreeds thatIbelieve in, So my faith meansnot somuch thatIcantell someone onDeathRow, Igetto what itboilsdown to isthatwhenIgoandvisit Now, thatsoundsglorious andreally lofty. But saidto me,‘Helen,you have adistinctive Dead ManWalking be with them. withthem. , that was , thatwas Times Times

9 Programme note 10 Interview ©Paul Keene who are goingto be interacting withit. to Joyce, to Mike, andto you theaudience the peoplewhowillbeparticipating, to Jake, you won’t missabitof that.Mythanks to all have thefullstaging: themusicisheart,and the opera performed before whenyou don’t it isgoingto beagreat experience. Ihave seen with you inLondontonight, becauseIamsure And Iamvery grateful. Iwishcouldbethere of your heartthatyou justdidn’t know you had. but itiscertainly goingto take you into places So, Idon’tknow ifyou’ll the person;you have to separate those. declare amistrial:the ‘That isanEvilPerson,’ becauselegallythey’ll wants to getthedeathpenalty, hecannot say during atrial,asmuchtheprosecutor And by thispointthey go,‘OK,OK…‘.Even and thenhewas anevil teenager …‘ his bib…andthenhewas anevil toddler; an evil baby – they even put‘EvilBaby’ on to hismother andshewas saying thathewas Row andhe’s I said,‘You’re right:ImetamanonDeath right?’ AndIfinally found away to answer it. people onDeathRow; someof themare evil, media: ‘Comeon,Sister – you’ve metthese It’s aquestionIwas always beingasked by the inherently evil, butpeoplecanbehave inevil ways. You made thepointthatnohumanbeingis and stand inthathumannesstogether: it’sfresh. inhuman killer, butyou meetthehumanbeing a personthateveryone issaying isavicious them. You have wonderful surprises–you meet whole: that’sthedepthof theindignitytowards our societyfeels ithasto killtheminorder to stay Row are despisedinevery way –somuchthat equivalent of lepers.People whoare onDeath and hurtingorthosethatsocietydespises,the the people,especiallythosethatare wounded ought to beafield hospital: you’re outthere with Pope Francis usestheimage thattheChurch to thefresh experience of goingoutto people. the teachers of TheFaith.’ Sothere’s resistance change any of it–‘We’re theguardians; we’re imperative to getinvested inthatandnot to have creeds anddoctrines.There’s aninstitutional religious institutionswhichhave dogma,which especially themostvulnerable. Thenyou have the really evil. Infact, Iwas talking act enjoy isevil, butnever theopera exactly, federal and state level cases,atany given different cases, includingSupreme Court, barristers’ chambersworking onupto eight volunteer caseworkers inlaw firms and limited resources. 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And, ‘When you’re onDeathRow, especiallyinthe The work of Amicus and itswork: www.amicus-alj.org For more information onAmicus death penalty. rights violationssurrounding theuseof the US andexposes allattendees to thehuman maximum useto capital defenders inthe Amicus interns andcaseworkers to beof participants each year. Thetraining equips is attended by approximately 300–400 evidence andprofessional conduct.It defence law andprocedure, legalresearch, annual training programme inUScapital Amicus alsorunsacomprehensive bi- time. (Sister HelenPrejean) Ellen Appel About the composer the About on A Choral Opera Statue of Venus 21st Century & Scheer’sMoby-Dick –AGrand opera for the on DVD. Francisco Opera production hasbeenreleased Pittsburgh, San JoséandChicago. TheSan Opera withfuture productions inSalt Lake City, productions since its2010 premiere at Dallas Moby-Dick Barbican performance marks itsUKpremiere. Malmö, Vancouver andMadrid. Tonight’s Montreal, CapeTown, Dublin, Copenhagen, Dresden, Vienna,Sydney, Adelaide, Calgary, the USA, twice. Inaddition to majorproductions throughout performed more than300timesandrecorded live Francisco Opera premiere in2000ithasbeen its 60thinternational production. SincetheSan continents. Thisyear The operas have beenproduced onfive orchestral works, includingthe as concertos, chambermusicandchoral and also composednearly300artsongs,aswell by theMerola Opera Program for 2019. Hehas the Faustian story by JulienGreen, commissioned the subjectof abookby Robert Wallace, premiere attheKennedy Center in2014. Itisalso Remain Three Decembers A Wonderful Life McNally), operas Jake HeggieistheAmericancomposerof the Jake Heggie If IWere You Dead ManWalking (Scheer), Moby-Dick Dead ManWalking Moby-Dick hasreceived seven international (UNTPress). (McNally)and (Scheer),anew opera basedon (Scheer).Heiscurrently atwork (Scheer), To HellandBack (Scheer), received itsEastCoast Dead ManWalking (libretto by GeneScheer), Three Decembers Great Scott Out of Darkness:Two (libretto by Terrence has been seen in hasbeenseenin The Radio Hour: Ahab Symphony. (Scheer), (McNally), (McNally), receives Heggie Heggie , At the At the It’s It’s Blalock; andbaritones Keith Phares, Nathan Jay Hunter Morris,Paul Groves andJonathan Ben Heppner, WilliamBurden, Stephen Costello, stars Patti LuPone andAudra McDonald;tenors Catherine MartinandSashaCooke; Broadway Joyce Castle,EliseQuagliata, CatherineCook, von Stade, JamieBarton, SuzanneMentzer, Joyce DiDonato, SusanGraham, Frederica Caitlin LynchandLisaDelan;mezzo-sopranos Slack, Talise Trevigne, KristinClayton, AnnMoss, Renée Fleming,AilynPérez, HeidiStober, Karen singers, includingsopranos KiriTe Kanawa, and pianistwithsomeof theworld’s leading Jake Heggiehascollaborated ascomposer conservatories. artist andteacher atleading universities and Opera Initiative. Heisalsoindemandasaguest for Washington NationalOpera’s American is aGuggenheimFellow andserves asamentor that featured aperformance by Patti LuPone. He Francisco Gay Men’sChorusinaprivate concert recipient of theChampionAward from theSan Austin ButlerSchoolof Music.Hewas alsothe Medora KingPrizeby theUniversity of Texas In 2016 Jake Heggiewas awarded theEddie internationally. opera, hasreceived nearly20productions Heggie &Scheer’sthree-character chamber husband, CurtBranom. Jake Heggie lives inSanFrancisco withhis Nicole Paiement. conductors JohnDeMain,JosephMechavich and Summers; hehasalsoworked closely with major opera premieres have beenledby Patrick Zambello andJack O’Brien.Allof Heggie’s include Leonard Foglia, JoeMantello, Francesca Directors whohave championed hiswork the Brentano, MiróandAlexander Quartets. Kimura Parker andGustavo Romero; aswell as and AnneMartindale-Williams; andpianistsJon Dawn Harms;cellistsMattHaimovitz, EmilMiland violinists LeilaJosefowicz, Aloysia Friedmannand flautists Carol WincencandLornaMcGhee; worked closelywithinstrumentalists including Michael Mayes andRobert Orth.Hehasalso Gunn, Morgan Smith,Rod Gilfry, BrynTerfel,

11 About the composer 12 Benjamin Ealovega Angeles andNew York Philharmonicorchestras, performances withthe Berlin,London,Los On theconcertplatform, highlightsinclude Award for Outstanding Achievement inOpera. Opera Australia. In2017 hereceived theOlivier Welsh NationalOpera, Glyndebourne and Madrid, theNetherlandsOpera, LaMonnaie, Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Real, as well asappearances attheBavarian State Figaro House, Covent Garden, and of theCityof Mahagonny Meistersinger von Nürnberg Operatic engagements elsewhere include Magic Flute Kabanova Mtsensk District National Opera ( He hasenjoyed alongrelationship with English houses throughout theworld. relationships withmany orchestras andopera from Mozartto Boulez,hehasforged enduring beauty. Through abroad repertoire ranging architectural structure withsophisticationand performances combineafinely considered interpretations, andhishighlydetailed concert hall.Heisrecognised for hismasterly as muchathomeintheopera houseasthe of theoutstanding musiciansof hisgeneration, winning conductor MarkWigglesworth isone Internationally renowned andOlivierAward- Mark Wigglesworth About the performers Mark Wigglesworth attheMetropolitan Opera, New York, , Parsifal , Jenu , º Così fan tutte fa The Lady Macbeth of the , , The Force of Destiny, Don Giovanni conductor attheRoyal Opera and The Marriage of , Falstaff Rise and Fall Rise andFall

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Simon Pauly He haswritten articlesfor Stephen Hough. Glyndebourne, andBrahms pianoconcertos with the mostpotent female singerof hergeneration’ the globe,andhas beenproclaimed ‘perhaps Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. currently PrincipalGuestConductor of the Director of EnglishNationalOpera. Heis Orchestra of Wales and,mostrecently, Music Symphony, MusicDirector of BBC National Principal GuestConductor of theSwedish Radio Associate Conductor of theBBC Symphony, Mark Wigglesworth hasheldpositionsas for theBBC entitled Independent with theSydney Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, adiscof Englishmusic Sixth and10th symphonies withtheMelbourne the NetherlandsRadio Philharmonic,Mahler’s with BBC NationalOrchestra of Wales and complete cycle of theShostakovich symphonies His recordings includeacriticallyacclaimed Philadelphia Orchestra andCleveland Orchestra. London, Sydney andTokyo Symphony orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw, theBoston, Chicago, 2012 ( 2012 ( 2016 awards for BestClassical SoloVocal Albumin Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato won Grammy Joyce DiDonato Joyce DiDonato Diva, Divo Joyce andTony: Live atWigmore Hall andmade asix-parttelevision series ). Sheengages audiencesacross Sister HelenPrejean Everything to Play For The Guardian Peter Grimes and at at . ) and ) and The The both on disc andonseveral international tours. Drama Queens of themezzo-soprano. Thefollowing recording characters, celebrating therichdramatic world Divo and herGrammy-Award-winning recording alongside musicby Bellini,Rossini andDonizetti, bel canto of herdiscography include a 2017 War &Peace: Harmony Through Music with Erato/Warner Classics. Her latest album– Joyce DiDonato isanexclusive recording artist Opera HousewithPappano accompanying. Hall withtheBrentano Quartet andattheRoyal & Peace Europe withIlPomo d’Oro performing under Michael Stern. She willalsotour throughout Rattle andKansas CitySymphony Orchestra Séguin, theBerlinPhilharmonicunderSirSimon Rotterdam PhilharmonicunderYannick Nézet- here attheBarbican.Inconcert,shejoins in Heggie’s Pappano, andhercurrent role of Sister Helen Opera HouseasSemiramide underSirAntonio Metropolitan Opera, areturn to theRoyal and herfirst Adalgisa ( Opera highlightsthisseasonincludeCendrillon Bicket. on tour withTheEnglishConcertandHarry Liceu inBarcelona; andthetitle-role in Metropolitan Opera, theRoyal Opera andatthe Pappano, thetitle-role in Royal Opera, Covent Garden, underSirAntonio John Nelsons,herfirst Charlotte ( State Opera, herfirst Didon ( Semiramide inanew production attheBavarian highlights inopera have includedherfirst at theLastNightof theBBC Proms. Recent Europe andAsiaappeared asguestsoloist Centre, toured extensively inSouthAmerica, Carnegie Hallandathere attheBarbican circuit, shehasrecently heldresidencies at Much indemandontheconcertandrecital Opera, New York, in2015. Elena ( bel canto discography. Sheisalsowidelyacclaimed for the through herwide-ranging, award-winning in operas by HandelandMozart,aswell as arts, andhasattained international prominence a performer butalsoasafierce advocate for the by The New Yorker , whichcomprisesariasby maleandfemale La donnadellago Gramophone andgive recitals atLondon’sWigmore banquetincludinglittle-known gems roles of Rossini andDonizetti,singing Dead ManWalking was exceptionally well received, . Sheisacclaimed not onlyas Award. Otherhighlights Norma Maria Stuarda ) attheMetropolitan Stella diNapoli Les Troyens ) for the inMadrid and Werther – won –won Ariodante In War at the atthe ) under ) under ) for the , a , a Diva, In In

Gramophone Singer of theYear, andaninductioninto the German ECHOKlassikAwards asFemale the Year andRecital of theYear awards, three honours includethe entitled A retrospective of herfirst 10 years of recordings As alibrettist, hehaswritten/directed PBS); and for HBO); Deavere Smith’s Tyson). Off-Broadway, hehasdirected Anna Madrid. Tonight itreceives itsUKpremiere. across the US, aswell asattheTeatro Real in by New York CityOpera andhasbeenseen well as Wonderful Life End of theAffair (Dallas Opera andSanFrancisco Opera), (Santa Fe Opera); andJake Heggie’s Opera); Jennifer Higdon’s the premieres of Joby Talbot’s In theopera houseLeonard Foglia hasdirected Leonard Foglia in Egypt premiered atLyricOpera of Chicago; finished’), withcomposerJosé‘Pepe’ Martínez, Pasado NuncaSeTermina and On GoldenPond filmed for HBO); Tomei); Dark the West EndwithPatti LuPone; McDonald), whichhehasalsodirected in Master Class On Broadway hisdirecting credits include Leonard Foglia The GinGame (withQuentinTarantino andMarisa Dead ManWalking with composer Ricky Ian Gordon, withcomposerRicky IanGordon, ReJoyce! Thurgood One Touch of Venus Let MeDown Easy (withZoeCaldwell andAudra Hallof Fame. (all Houston Grand Opera) as director , Three Decembers was released lastyear. Other Notes From TheField (with James Earl Jones); (withJamesEarlJones); The People inthePicture (withLaurence Fishburne, (with Mr Jones and Cicely (withMrJonesandCicely Gramophone (‘The pastisnever Cold Mountain , whichwas produced (filmed for Everest atEncores!. Wait Until Artistof and El El (Dallas (Dallas Moby-Dick A Coffin A Coffin (filmed It’s A It’sA

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13 About the performers 14 ( Other operatic roles includeJack Rance of Philadelphia and Opera Carolina. Denyce Graves withtheOpera Company ( Gotham ChamberOpera; andEdward Gaines Worth Opera; Adam ( Kinesias (MarkAdamo’s Madonna SummerScape; Adam ( Opera; Lawrence ( Opera, Opera MemphisandFort Worth Thompson ( in other contemporary operas includeOlder ( Opera. Thisyear headds therole of Starbuck Great Scott with UrbanArias,aswell asthepremiere of Remembrance andCharlie( Manfred ( Roles inother Jake Heggieoperas include as inMadrid earlierthisyear. including Washington NationalOpera, aswell which hehasperformed inmany UStheatres, Joseph DeRocher in acclaimed portrayal of therole hesingstonight, and Europe. Heiswell known for hiscritically roles attheatres throughout theUnited States in both traditional andcontemporary operatic Baritone Michael Mayes enjoys abusy career Michael Mayes and attheThéâtre duChâtelet inParis. at New York CityOpera, across theUS Houston Grand Opera andsinceperformed of themoon’)with Martínez,premiered at Cruzar laCara delaLuna premiered atHouston Grand Opera; and Michael Mayes La fanciulla delWest Margaret Garner Moby-Dick ) withAnimaMundiProductions; Out of theDarkness for DallasOpera andSanDiego ) withPittsburgh Opera. Portrayals Glory Denied Joseph DeRocher ) opposite mezzo-soprano The Wreckers ), Scarpia( Dead ManWalking Baden-Baden 1927 The Canticleof theBlack (‘To cross theface Lysistrata ) withNashville Three Decembers ) withMusicof Tosca ) withBard ) withFort ), ), , ) with ) with ) and whichthisyear shehassunginMadrid. she previously sang atCentral CityOpera Walking part of MrsPatrick DeRocher in Roméo et Juliette ( Metropolitan Opera, New York, for Suzuki This seasonMariaZifchak returns to the Maria Zifchak of Opera for Tonio andAlfio inthedoublebill Opera, aswell ashisreturn to Madison Opera andWozzeck withDesMoinesMetro and role debutsof Sweeney Todd withAtlanta Opera debutasCountdiLuna(Iltrovatore), Forthcoming engagements includehisSeattle Butterfly Escamillo ( included Hedwige (anew production of Recent highlights intheopera househave Tale production of Poul Ruders’s as taking therole of Serena Joy inanew Rocher, thistimefor Atlanta Opera, as well 2019 shereprises therole of MrsPatrick De at Central City Opera. Duringthespringof Turn of theScrew as well asto SeattleOpera asMrsGrose ( La traviata Opera to singAnninainanew production of Next seasonshereturns to theMetropolitan ( Todd include herrole debutsasMrsLovett ( Forthcoming highlightslater thisseason Maria Zifchak Madama Butterfly Il trovatore Cavalleria rusticana for her debutwithBoston Lyric Opera. ) withAtlanta Opera andAzucena ) andthetitle-role in atLyricOpera, Kansas City, arole Carmen ) atCentral CityOpera and Third Lady ( Mrs Patrick DeRocher ), which she has also sung ), whichshehasalsosung ). Last spring she sang the ). Lastspringshesangthe ), Sharpless( ) and Gertrude (Gounod’s ) andGertrude(Gounod’s and Pagliacci The Magic Flute The Handmaid’s The Handmaid’s Rigoletto Madama Dead Man . . Sweeney William William

The The ), ), Hiep Vu and Bergen festivals. Pianists withwhomshehas as attheSchwarzenberg, Edinburgh, Verbier Musikverein andMadrid’s Teatro Real, aswell the Wigmore Hall,theViennaKonzerthaus and at CarnegieHall,Washington’s Kennedy Center, recital andshehasgiven innovative programmes Her earliercareer was focused onthesong Franz Welser-Möst. Daniel Harding, Michael TilsonThomasand Barenboim, SirAndrew Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, working withconductors suchasDaniel Philharmonic andtheCleveland Orchestra, Francisco Symphony orchestras, New York with theBoston, London,New World andSan On theconcertplatform, shehasappeared Walking Make NoNoise Makropulos Affair Jenny (Weill’s Madame Lidoine( ( the opera stage includeGiulietta andAntonia across awiderange of repertoire. Highlightson is renowned for hermusicalityandversatility Canadian soprano MeashaBrueggergosman Measha Brueggergosman Society, Augusta Opera and Tulsa Opera. Symphony, thePittsburgh ChamberMusic with thePittsburgh Symphony, theJohnstown Concert credits includesoloappearances ( 2014–15 seasonandthesameyear sangRuth National Opera debutasSuzukiduring the Metropolitan Opera. Shemade herEnglish ( Tell Measha Brueggergosman The Pirates of Penzance Jenu Les contes d’Hoffmann ), Giovanna ( º fa ), Third Lady andAnninaatthe ). Mahagonny Rigoletto ) andSister Rose ( ), Hannah(Miroslav Srnka’s Dialogues desCarmélites ) withNashville Opera. ), Elettra ( ), OldShepherdess ), EmiliaMarty( Sister Rose Idomeneo Dead Man The The ), ), ), ),

Christina Raphaelle audiences andholdsseveral honorary doctorates. educational projects andthepromotion of new Measha Brueggergosman champions Orchestra earnedheraGrammy nomination. Lieder while herrecording of Wagner’s Duparc andFauré, andwon several awards, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Schubert,Debussy, Night andDreams widely criticallyacclaimed. Hersubsequentdisc, by Schoenberg, SatieandWilliamBolcom,was Her first recording for DG, Thomas. Angeles PhilharmonicunderMichael Tilson Orchestra underVasily Petrenko andtheLos Orchestra, theRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic House; andperformances withthePhiladelphia Orchestra andarecital attheSydney Opera Australian debutwiththeMelbourneSymphony Current andforthcoming highlightsincludeher Julius Drake andSimonLepper. worked includeJustusZeyen, Roger Vignoles, der Wien,Opéra deBordeaux, Angers-Nantes Staatsoper Berlin,OperFrankfurt, Theater an San Francisco Opera, LosAngelesOpera, Teatro Real Madrid, Bilbao Opera, Rome Opera, He hasappeared withDutch National Opera, Komische OperBerlin before hemoved to Germany asasoloistwiththe Los AngelesOpera andSanFrancisco Opera his earlycareer includedapprenticeships with Seattle, hegraduated from Yale University and of theleading bassesof hisgeneration. Bornin James Creswell hasestablished himselfasone James Creswell James Cresswell withFranz Welser-Möst andtheCleveland George Benton , featured songsby Mozart, Surprise Wesendonck , of works

15 About the performers 16 Sarastro for Garsington Opera. Francisco Opera; National Opera; Comte desGrieuxfor San of Calatrava ( Highlights thisseasonincludetheMarquis our Time under Edward Gardner; andTippett’s John Passion Choral SocietyunderVasily Petrenko; Bach’s Conlon; andVerdi’s Requiem for theHuddersfield at theCincinnatiMay Festival underJames under SirMarkElder;Bach’s Symphony No 8andSchoenberg’s Messiah Brahms’s at theKomische OperBerlinandinAmsterdam; stage andhighlightsincludeMozart’sRequiem He isalsovery muchindemandontheconcert Maiden ( Bomarzo Magdalene Pharisee (MarkAdamo’s ( Prisoner ( ( ( Angelotti ( Escamillo ( Bartered Bride ( Monk ( trovatore Lammermoor Freischütz Basilio ( Sarastro ( and Leporello ( Marriage of Figaro ( di Poppea Singer ( Gurnemanz andTiturel ( Isolde Fasolt ( fliegende Holländer His roles includeDutchman andDaland( Tallinn, Ravinia andBergen festivals. Touring Opera, aswell asattheEdinburgh, Opera, Opera North,Scottish Opera andDutch Opéra, EnglishNationalOpera, Welsh National Billy Budd Jenu Salome Faust Orlando Salome º fa ), Capulet( ), Pogner ( Das Rheingold Don Carlo ), DrKolenatý ( Gloriana The Barberof Seville ). ) andGrandfather Frost ( ), Kammersänger ( attheBergen Festival; Mahler’s andRocco ( ), Padre Guardiano ( ), DesGrieux( ), Thoas(Handel’s From theHouseof theDead ), Oroveso ( The Magic Flute Ein DeutschesRequiem Tosca ), Achilla ( ), Father (Britten’s Carmen ), GianCorrado Orsini(Ginastera’s underKent Nagano; ), Wurm ( La forza deldestino ), Gremin ( Don Giovanni ), Timur( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Roméo et Juliette ), Seneca( ), King( Gloriana ), Bonze( ), Commendatore, Masetto, Giulio Cesare ), Hunding( Norma Fidelio ), KingMarke ( The Makropulos Affair Luisa Miller Manon Turandot Parsifal Eugene Onegin Aida ), Rocco ( The Gospel of Mary The Gospelof Mary Intermezzo L’incoronazione L’incoronazione attheTeatro Real; and Madama Butterfly ) attheBBC Proms. Oreste The Prodigal Son ), Hermit( ), Raimondo ( ), Speaker and ), Speaker and St Matthew Passion La forza deldestino ), Méphistophélès ), Méphistophélès ), First Nazarene ), FirstNazarene Die Walküre ), Blind Ballad ), BlindBallad in Lisbon; inLisbon; ), Nazarene ), Nazarene The Snow ) for Dutch ), Zoroastro ), Kecal ( ), Ferrando ( Fidelio ), Figaro ( Gurrelieder Gurrelieder Tristan und ), Mayor ), Dansker ), Dansker Der Der A Child of A Childof ), ), ), ), Der Der Lucia di Lucia di The The ), ), The The ), Little ), Little St St ), ), ), ), Il Il

), ), ), ), In concertwiththeChelseaOpera Group hehas West include Borsa( Danish Royal Opera. Forthcoming engagements Grenville, therole hereprises tonight, withthe Other highlightsincludeperformances of Father with Opéra deRennes, LimogesandReims. Oranges he appeared asthePrince( Fourth Esquire ( Flute Opera debutastheFirstArmedMan( Theatre, Szeged.Hemade hisEnglishNational a performance herepeated attheNational Ward’s York opera debutasJudgeDanforth (Robert Mezzo Television, Hungary, Hemade hisNew at theOpera CompetitionandFestival with Tenor Michael Bracegirdle was aprize-winner Michael Bracegirdle Opera, Tippett’s the title-role in Recent andforthcoming engagements include Radio 3andRadio 4. Orchestra. Hehasbroadcast withtheBBC on orchestras andRTÉ NationalSymphony with theRoyal Liverpool and Royal Philharmonic Missa solemnis the Huddersfield Choral Society, Beethoven’s Messa digloria and hisengagements have includedPuccini’s Michael Bracegirdle hasabusy concertdiary Opera. English Touring Opera andLongborough Festival Park, Scottish Opera onTour, MidWales Opera, (Linbury Theatre), Clonter Opera, Opera Holland He hasalsoworked withtheRoyal Opera House sung Jason( Michael Bracegirdle ) for DanishRoyal Opera. ), returning asTamino, aswell assingingthe The Crucible ) andhehasappeared asLaca ( Médée Les contes d’Hoffmann Rigoletto at the Barbican and appearances at theBarbicanandappearances Parsifal and Rossini’s A Childof ourTime ) andMalcolm( ) withDicapoOpera Theatre, Father Grenville ). With Opéra de Limoges ). WithOpéra deLimoges ) andJoe( The Love for Three Stabat mater La fanciulla del La fanciulla del Macbeth at the atthe with Diva withDiva The Magic The Magic Jenu with with ). ). º fa ) Christina Raphaelle ( repertoire inrecent seasons, includingKostelnicˇ ka Susan Bullockhasadded awealth of roles to her Royal Opera House. award for herperformances of therole atthe 2009 shereceived aRoyal PhilharmonicSociety Ozawa, SirMarkElderandEdodeWaart. In including Fabio Luisi,Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Elektra, collaborating withleading conductors She isequallyacclaimed asRichard Strauss’s Staatsoper andDeutsche OperBerlin. she hasappeared intherole attheWiener Theatre, Tokyo andCanadian Opera Company, Frankfurt, Opera Australia, New National in 2012). Inaddition to new productions atOper Royal Opera House(underSirAntonio Pappano sing four consecutive cycles of leading herto becomethefirst-ever soprano to Brünnhilde, hasgarnered outstanding praise, One of hermostdistinctive roles, Wagner’s recognised by theaward of aCBEin2014. world’s mostsought-after dramatic sopranos was Susan Bullock’suniquepositionasoneof the Susan Bullock studies attheRoyal NorthernCollegeof Music. industry, leaving thisin2003to furtherhisvocal Award. Heinitiallypursuedacareer inthefinance University andwinnerof theEmmy Destinn Michael Bracegirdle is agraduate of Durham Progress Edinburgh Opera Players andSellem( The Hunchback ( OperaUpClose, Valzacchi ( at theSalisburyFestival, DonJosé( Royal Festival Hall,Eisenstein ( Susan Bullock Jenu º fa ) for Grange Park Opera; Minnie( ) at Saffron Hall. ) atSaffron Hall. Kitty Hart Die Frau ohneSchatten Der Rosenkavalier Die Fledermaus The Ring Carmen The Rake’s at the atthe ) with the ) withthe La La ) with ) with ) and ) and ) her first Klytemnestra ( premiere of IainBell’s return to EnglishNationalOpera for theworld Scottish Opera thisseason.Furtherahead, shewill Anthony Turnage’s made herdebutintherole of Mother inMark- At lastyear’s Edinburgh Festival, SusanBullock for Chandos. Philharmonia Orchestra underCharlesMackerras on DVD), andthetitle-role in Weigle onOehmsClassics(also available The Ring Susan Bullock’ssubstantial discography includes ceremony of the2012 LondonOlympics. and made aspecialappearance attheclosing was asoloistattheLastNightof theProms in2011 the orchestra of theBayerische Staatsoper. She Salonen andappearances withZubinMehta and with thePhilharmoniaOrchestra underEsa-Pekka Prelude andLiebestod from Her wide-ranging concertwork hasincludedthe released onDVD. composer’s birth,aperformance whichwas also Opera Houseto celebrate thecentenary of the and Britten’s ElizabethI( Marty ( Grand Opera. Further notable roles include Emilia Todd for Opera North,aswell asMrsLovett ( Witch ( National Opera; andboth Mother andthe fanciulla delWest at theConservatory of theLiceu. and later inBarcelona withCarmenBustamante Toni MarsolstudiedattheCervera Conservatory Toni Marsol Toni Marsol ), withwhichshemade herdebut atHouston Hänsel undGretel The Makropulos Affair with OperFrankfurt underSebastian Owen Hart ) inanew production for English Greek Elektra Jack theRipper Gloriana ) inanew production , which she reprises with , whichshereprises with Tristan undIsolde ). Salome ) for OperFrankfurt ) attheRoyal with the withthe and sing andsing Sweeney

17 About the performers 18 Julie Kim ( Highlights of thisseasonincludeEduige Philharmonic SocietyAwards. the prestigious SingerAward attheRoyal contemporary repertoire. In2011 shereceived 19th- and20th-centurydramatic roles and repertory encompassingtheBaroque, thegreat mezzo-sopranos of hergeneration, withawide Susan Bickley isasoneof themostaccomplished Susan Bickley and in Liceo, where inrecent seasonshehasappeared Toni Marsolsingsregularly attheGran Teatre del Riccardo Frizza,amongothers. Marbà, Victor Pablo Pérez, SirAndrew Davis and Pablo Heras-Casado, JosepPons, Antoni Ros- Plasson, Gianandrea Noseda,Evelino Pidò, Savall andhassungunderthebaton of Michel Royal Chapelof Catalonia, conducted by Jordi He hascollaborated onseveral occasionswith the Baus. Pamplonés, theChoirof RTVE andLaFura dels frequently withOrfeón Donostiarra, Orfeón and Orff’s The Creation Requiems of Mozart,Fauré andBrahms, Haydn’s performed Bach’s d’amore Malatesta ( Cenerentola ( Marcello ( Don Giovanni andLeporello ( Magic Flute His repertoire includestheroles of Papageno ( Susan Bickley Carmen Rodelinda Rusalka Rigoletto ), among others. In the concert hall he has ), amongothers. Intheconcerthallhehas ), DonMagnifico andDandini( , La bohème ) for EnglishNationalOpera under Carmina burana Cendrillon Don Pasquale ), Figaro ( ), Germont( , Beethoven’s NinthSymphony . Jade Boucher Passions The Marriage of Figaro , ), Scarpia( Il prigioniero La traviata ) andDulcamara ( , Handel’s . He has appeared . Hehasappeared Don Giovanni Tosca ), Iago ( , La traviata Messiah ), Escamillo ), Escamillo La La Otello L’elisir L’elisir ), ), ), ), , the , the The The

), ), (Shostakovich’s Recent operatic highlightsincludeMatron Opera. of David Sawer’s the Roundhouse andCarmen(the world premiere ritorno d’Ulisseinpatria Gardner attheEdinburgh Festival, Eurycleia ( Bergen PhilharmonicOrchestra underEdward Christian Curnyn, Auntie ( Levi Settings Silence Ligeti’s Requiem andGeorge Benjamin’s Stravinsky’s Things Are Dudamel inOliver Knussen’s Angeles PhilharmonicOrchestra underGustavo with theHallé.Shemade herdebutwiththeLos de SãoPaulo andBeethoven’s Our Time Center. ShehasalsosungTippett’s George Benjamin’s ( the BBC Philharmonic,therole of BabatheTurk Elder, ThomasAdès’s Fricka ( Recent highlightsontheconcertstage include reprised in2016 atGlyndebourneFestival Opera. Marcellina ( also returned to Welsh NationalOpera to sing ( as Kostelnicˇ ka ( Opera. Shehasappeared atOpera North Geneviève ( Wigglesworth’s House, Paulina (theworld premiere of Ryan Simon Bainbridge’s Upon Silence Juditha triumphans The FairyQueen Handel’s includes songsby Ivor Gurney withIain Burnside; Susan Bickley’s wide-ranging discography appears attheBBC Proms. The Rake’s Progress Götterdämmerung attheSalzburg Festival andregularly Das Rheingold withtheOrquestra SinfônicadoEstado Serse and her Carnegie Hall debut singing andherCarnegieHalldebutsinging Pelléas et Mélisande Requiem Canticles The Marriage of Figaro . ; Adès’s , Jenu The Nose The Winter’s Tale Theodora and The Skating Rink º ; songs by Hahn; Benjamin’s ; songsby Hahn;Benjamin’s ) andFricka ( ) attheEdinburgh Festival and fa Into theLittleHill Ad ora incerta America: AProphecy Dido andAeneas ) with the Hallé and Sir Mark ) withtheHalléandSirMark America: AProphecy ), aswell asWaltraute ) for theRoyal Opera at ) attheRoyal Opera Peter Grimes and Where the Wild Where theWild . She has also sung . Shehasalsosung Solomon Missa solemnis Missa solemnis ) for Garsington Die Walküre ) for ENO, and ) for ENO,and ) for Garsington and ), a role she ), arole she A Child of A Childof at Lincoln at Lincoln ) with the ) withthe ; Vivaldi’s ; Vivaldi’s Four Primo Four Primo ; Purcell’s ; Purcell’s Upon Upon ; and ; and with with ); she ); she Il Il and Smee( Berlioz’s a soloistworldwide. IntheUKhehassungin On theconcertplatform hehasappeared as Walküre Festival and hisrole debutasSiegmund( Loge ( as well asroles in Makropulos Affair Shapkin ( the LinburyStudio; andBobBoles( Covent Garden, andinErrollyn Wallen’s Bach’s Bminor Mass withtheIsrael Camerata; the BBC Proms. Furtherafield, hehasperformed Mozart’s Requiem andHandel’s Mediterranean Songs in Schubert’sMassEflat andGoldschmidt’s has appeared withtheBBC Symphony Orchestra Rambert, andElgar’s and Serenade for tenor, hornandstringsfor with theChorusandOrchestra of Opera North the Three ChoirsFestival, Britten’s of AncientMusic,Beethoven’s Hall and Cathedral, Bach’s Tales! National Opera; Kurt Weill’s Doctor ( Teatro Comunale;Aron ( Painter/Client ( his one-manchamberopera the world premiere of IainBell’s His opera appearances includeSergeant Snellin studies. English NationalOpera oncompletionof his later attheRoyal Academy of Music,joining University, where hewas achoral scholar, and Tenor MarkLeBrocq studiedatCambridge Mark LeBrocq Mark LeBrocq for Opera North. Otherhighlightsinclude Das Rheingold The Fallof theHouse of Usher ) for Opera North. Grande messedesmorts From theHouseof theDead St Matthew Passion Peter Pan Lulu Howard Boucher The Portrait , alsoattheEdinburgh Festival), Christmas Oratorio ) in Cardiff and at Bolzano’s ) inCardiff andatBolzano’s ) attheRoyal Opera House, ) for theLongborough , and has performed , andhasperformed The Dream of Gerontius Moses undAron withtheAcademy Seven Deadly Sins and A ChristmasCarol Missa solemnis In Parenthesis Dixit Dominus Saint Nicolas Saint Nicolas at St Paul’s Cautionary Cautionary Peter Grimes at Cadogan atCadogan ), Vítek ( ) for Welsh Die Die Yes ) and ) and at at at at The The . He . He and and

; at at ), ), as well asgivingavariety of solorecitals. Western Australia, currently studyingona Matthew isa22-year-old baritone from Perth, Matthew Dixon to singPierre Bezukhov ( Hereford. Lookingahead, hewillreturn to WNO to HubertParry attheThree ChoirsFestival, engagements includeacentenary tribute concert ek’s Janácˇ Schoenberg’s of of Western Australian Opera Chorusinproductions Back homeinAustralia hehasappeared with the of Schubertpart-songswithGraham Johnson. a performance attheWigmore Hallof aconcert Italian andGermanconcerts,operatic scenesand Guildhall School’sprojects, whichincludeSpanish, This seasonhehasbeeninvolved withmany of the Royal Over-Seas League SingingCompetition. Thompson Scholarshipandalsothewinnerof the Anniversary Prizefor theEvelyn andRalph 2015–16 hewas therecipient of theSilver Australian Academy of Performing Arts.In completed hisBachelor of MusicattheWest School of Music&Drama. Hepreviously scholarship withRobert DeanattheGuildhall Morozov ( sing Vasily Golitsyn ( This season,MarkLeBrocq returns to WNOto Wagner. Boyce, Handel,Offenbach, Puccini,Purcell and His discography includesworks by Bizet,Blow, the Nuremberg Festival. ek’s Janácˇ Matthew Dixon L’elisir d’amore From theHouseof theDead The Diaryof OneWhoDisappeared The Eternal Gospel A Survivor from Warsaw Motor Cop , The MerryWidow Khovanshchina War andPeace in Portugal; and ) and Filka ) andFilka and and and ). Further ). Further ). Carmen at at , 19 About the performers 20 currently inhisfirst year of aMasters degree at Scottish tenor Matthew Hamilton Healyis Matthew Healy Dame Felicity Lott. Stratford, MaryKing,Graham Johnsonand in publicmasterclasses withartistssuchasStuart songs withGraham Johnson.Hehasperformed the Wigmore Hallinarecital of Schubertpart- Turn of theScrew Essex ( roles inopera sceneshave includedtheEarlof Scholarship in2016. AttheGuildhallSchool,his 2015 andwas awarded theinaugural Stacey He was afinalist intheHelenCourtPrize Night’s Dream (Ibert’s he sangAcis ( Academy of Performing Arts.Duringhistimethere Diploma of MusicattheWestern Australian completed hisBachelor of MusicandGraduate programme underAdrian Thompson.He Music &Drama, studyingonitsArtistMasters is aHazellScholarattheGuildhallSchoolof Louis Hurley isatenor from Perth, Australia. He Louis Hurley Louis Hurley Matthew Healy Gloriana Angélique Older Brother Acis andGalatea ) andthetitle-role in ), Bardolfo ( Younger Brother ). Herecently made hisdebutat ), Starveling ( Falstaff A Midsummer A Midsummer ), the Englishman ), theEnglishman ) andQuint( Albert Herring The The . Schumann’s of OurTime Requiem (attheBBC Proms), Tippett’s has sunginPurcell’s of Januarie its world premiere of JulianPhilips’s of Paradise for WorkshOPERA initsproduction of School. Hehasalsoparticipated inchoruswork ( School of Music&Drama, andArmedMan Harašta ( ( Andrew Norman’s Fledermaus docteur Miracle ( over thepastfew years, includingtheMayor in avariety of productions andopera scenes the tutelage of Theresa Goble.Hehasappeared the GuildhallSchoolof Music&Drama under Aria Competition three times,andasemi-finalist in 2015, hasbeenafinalist in theNew Zealand Major Foundation Wellington AriaCompetition Dame AnnMurray. She won theDameMalvina Festival, working withMalcolmMartineauand was a Britten–Pears Young ArtistattheAldeburgh Singer Development Programme. Lastyear she the inaugural DameKiriTe Kanawa Foundation Zealand Opera for 2015–16, andisamemberof Dame MalvinaMajorEmerging ArtistwithNew Wollerman andRichard Greager. Shewas a School of Music,where shestudiedunderJenny Bachelor of Musicdegree attheNew Zealand & Drama underYvonne Kenny. Shegainedher Vocal Studies attheGuildhallSchool of Music Zealand, currently studyingfor aMasters in Katherine McIndoeisasoprano from New Katherine McIndoe Katherine McIndoe The Magic Flute La Albert Herring On theTwentieth Century

Périchole , for theGuildhallSchool’sproduction The CunningLittleVixen . In the concert hall Matthew Healy . IntheconcerthallMatthew Healy ), Parafaragarrmus (thepremiere of , Paul Mealor’s Szenen ausGoethes Faust ), DonOttavio ( ), Capitaine Silvio(Bizet’s ), Gabrielvon Eisenstein ( ) as part of the AIMS Summer ) aspartof theAIMSSummer A Trip to theMoon Sister Catherine Ode to St Cecilia Crucifixus and,mostrecently, Don Giovanni ) at the Guildhall ) attheGuildhall The Tale and and , Mozart’s , Mozart’s ), Piquillo ), Piquillo A Child A Child Boys of . Le Le Die Die ), ), of Januarie School of Music&Drama’s production of She alsoappeared inthechorusfor theGuildhall addition to songrepertoire inconcertandrecital. The Magic Flute scenes from School, where herperformances have included She studieswithJohnEvans attheGuildhall Symphony Chorus. solennelle Vivaldi’s as asoloistin Pike ( Marcellina ( Summer Festival Opera, withroles including the University Gilbert&Sullivan Societyandits While atBirminghamshebecameinvolved in career inmusic. 2015 thatshedecidedto pursueaprofessional school choirsandorchestras, butitwas not until instrumental lessonsandwideparticipationin Her interest inmusicbeganatayoung age with student attheGuildhallSchoolof Music&Drama. Birmingham, graduating in2015. Sheiscurrently a Environmental ScienceattheUniversity of Mezzo-soprano Lara Bienkowska studied Lara Bienkowska opera scenes. Screw ( Ford 2017, shehasperformed Micaëla( beginning herstudiesatGuildhallinSeptember and understudiesfor New ZealandOpera. Since Bay Opera. Shehasalsoperformed several roles and Giulietta ( Recent roles includeTatyana ( in theAustralian SingingCompetitiontwice. Lara Bienkowska Albert Herring Falstaff ) andtheController ( Gloria . She currently sings with the London . Shecurrently singswiththeLondon in2017. The Marriage of Figaro La Cenerentola ), theGoverness ( Messiah I Capuleti eiMontecchi andRossini’s , Dido andAeneas Sister Lillianne ). She has also appeared ). Shehasalsoappeared , Haydn’s ‘Nelson’ Mass, , Haydn’s ‘Nelson’Mass, Flight , Die Fledermaus Petite messe Eugene Onegin The Turn of the ) inproductions of Carmen , and ) and Florence ) andFlorence ) for Days Flight The Tale ), Alice ), Alice , ) , in , in Röst competitions. Röst competitions. – andfinalist intheTimoMustakallio andHavets in HelsinkiLied–anationalLiedercompetition competition successeshave includedsecond place Academy withHannuNiemeläashisteacher. His he willjointheopera programme attheSibelius Sibelius Academy inHelsinki.InMarch thisyear spring withaBMusfrom theUniversity of theArts, School of Music&Drama. Hegraduated last is anErasmus exchange studentatGuildhall Baritone HenriTikkanen, borninKuopio, Finland, Henri Tikkanen Church, St George’s Hanover Square andthe St Bride’s FleetStreet, Marylebone Parish sung atvarious churches inLondon, including Stella Curryaward to aidwithhistuition.Hehas of MarilynRees and iscurrently theholderof a School of Music&Drama underthetutelage a postgraduate vocal degree attheGuildhall King’s College,London.Hehasrecently begun and thenspentthree years asachoral scholarat gap year as a choral scholaratWells Cathedral a Lay ClerkatGloucester Cathedral. Hespenta Alexander Joneshasrecently finished servingas Alexander Jones Henri Tikkanen Alexander Jones PrisonGuard 1 Prison Guard 2

21 About the performers 22 the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. which shewas awarded theyouth scholarshipby prestigious Junior Academy inStockholm, after Before shecameto Londonshestudiedatthe the title-role in cabaret opera roles inthepremiere of Lewis Coenen-Rowe’s Grimeborn Opera Festival sheperformed five aux enfers also took therole of Venus (Offenbach’s Orchestra conducted by SirSimonRattle and here attheBarbicanwithLondonSymphony premiere of Andrew Norman’s at theRoundhouse. Lastyear shesangintheUK Opera production of performing asachorussectionleader intheRoyal David Pollard. Recent highlightshave included Bachelor of MusicHonoursdegree under & Drama, where shepreviously attained her programme attheGuildhallSchoolof Music is currently studyingontheArtistMasters Swedish mezzo-soprano OliviaSjöberg Olivia Sjöberg Bartered Bride Papageno ( British Youth Opera, performing suchroles as Garden Opera, TheCo-Opera Company and appeared inproductions mounted by Hampstead Karl Jenkins’s Requiem, Brahms’s Symphony, Orff’s Mendelssohn’s Passion societies inrepertoire includingBach’s also appeared asasoloistwithvarious choral Chapel Royal atHampton CourtPalace. Hehas Olivia Sjöberg , St Matthew Passion ) withSt Paul’s Opera. Duringthe The Magic Flute The ArmedMan ). ). Carmen Collision First Mother Elijah Carmina burana Ein DeutschesRequiem , Beethoven’s Ninth Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria Ilritorno d’Ulisseinpatria for Somerset Opera. . Later thisyear shetakes ) andKrušina( and . In addition he has . Inaddition hehas A Trip to theMoon Magnificat , Mozart’s , Mozart’s John St John Orphée Orphée The The and and ,

have includedCountess’s Maid( received afullscholarshiplastsummer. Herroles Dorset Opera Festival chorusfor four years, and Tobias Kruniger. Shehasperformed withthe with Rosalind Plowright, DianaMontague and Glasgow. Shehasparticipated inmasterclasses and Theatre Studies from theUniversity of in 2014 withanMAHonoursinEnglishLiterature studied withPatricia McMahonandgraduated She hasrecently moved from Glasgow, where she Music &Drama inLondon,underJohnEvans. currently studyingattheGuildhallSchoolof Scottish mezzo-soprano JessicaOuston is Jessica Ouston Le docteur Miracle scenes from Naxos La Périchole for DorsetOpera; thetitle-role inscenesfrom has worked withmajorcompaniessuch as from theRoyal School of Dramatic Arts. She then moved to Madrid, where shegraduated she trained asadancerwithMaríadeÁvila, Diana Samperwas borninZaragoza where Diana Samper Jessica Ouston Diana Samper (Guildhall, 2017); andMistress Quicklyin ; Dryad inscenesfrom Falstaff MrsCharlton Teenage Girl (both Guildhall,2018). andVéronique inscenesfrom Le comte Ory Ariadne auf Ariadne auf ) Dance Theatre (Beirut),Belgrade National credits includeparticipationwiththeCaracalla Laurent Pelly andRobert Lepage. Hisdance including SirDavid McVicar, Harold Prince, Real, andhascollaborated withleading directors a featured danceratthe Teatro LiceuandTeatro Metropolitan Opera, New York, aswell asbeing opera, theatre, film andTV. Heisaregular atthe participating inboth modernandclassicaldance, Argentina. Hehassincetravelled theworld, an earlyage attheTeatro Colón inhisnative Manuel Palazzo studiedclassicalballetfrom Manuel Palazzo Katya Kabanova Moses undAron d’amore Robert Carsen,inproductions of Claus Guth,Pierre Audi, Robert Wilsonand She hasworked withleading directors, including for theseries and hasjustfilmed aprincipalcharacter as She hasparticipated intelevision seriessuch in Bolshoi Theatre inMoscow; andComediants performed atMadrid’s Teatro Real andatthe Serpiente Cirque duSoleilintheshow Manuel Palazzo L’italiana inAlgeri Hospital Central , ; LaFura delsBausin La conquista deMéxico TVE: MedicalCenter , , amongmany others. Pelléas et Mélisande Teenage Boy , Upa Dance , amongothers. El Despertar dela Mahagonny and Parsifal , . Mahagonny Brothers and and , L’elisir L’elisir ,

, tour of Joyce DiDonato’s dancer andchoreographer ontheInternational Martin Scorsese).Mostrecently hewas principal Canet) and credits include and theTeatro Colón.Hisfilm andtelevision (Barcelona), French Cultural Centre (Kinshasa) Theatre, LanònimaImperialDanceCompany Walking field of opera hehasappeared in dancer, stuntdouble,fencer andacrobat. Inthe Colombia, Peru andParaguay asanactor, singer, theatre, musicalsandopera inSpain,Germany, worked infeature films, TVseries,commercials, number of skillsintheprocess. Hehassince Madrid to studydrama, acquiring adiverse in LasPalmas deGran Canaria.Hemoved to The actor andstuntmanwas bornandraised Alejandro Pantany Alejandro Pantany has alsoappeared onTVshows suchas Light The Promise He hasworked onmany feature films, including Nigl in de Bergerac been stuntdoublefor PlácidoDomingoin others. El Ministerio delTiempo Narcos , Captain Kóblic , Il prigioniero Still Star-Crossed and Boardwalk Empire , and for Vito Priante andGeorg Risen La conquista deMéxico Blood Ties , Cloud Atlas , allatMadrid’s Teatro Real. Anthony DeRocher and and , (directed by Guillaume In La Zona Down aDarkHall

War andPeace. Águila Roja (directed by , The Cold Day of The ColdDay of , Dead Man Dead Man El Accidente and has and has , among , among La Peste Cyrano . He . He , ,

23 About the performers 24 Instagram @bbcsymphonyorchestra Follow onTwitter @bbcsofacebook.com/bbcso, Visit bbc.co.uk/symphonyorchestra for fulldetails Family Orchestra andChorus. discounted tickets for families) andtheBBC SO Through Music(withpre-concert workshops and include theBBC’s Ten Pieces,theBBC SOJourney to innovative educationwork: ongoingprojects the Radio 3website. TheBBC SOiscommitted and available for 30days after broadcast via broadcast onBBC Radio 3,streamed online the world. Thevast majorityof concerts are home andtheBBC SOalsoperforms throughout recordings for BBC Radio 3atitsMaidaVale Central to theorchestra’s life are publicstudio the Barbicanon16 May 2018. which they willperform astheirseasonfinale at recording of Elgar’s Gramophone Chorus andtogether they won the2015 The orchestra performs withtheBBC Symphony Chair, andConductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis. Bychkov, whoholds theGünter Wand Conducting Orchestra alsoworks regularly withSemyon Conductor Sakari Oramo, theBBC Symphony In addition to itsappearances withChief Dead ManWalking and tonight’s concertstaging of Jake Heggie’s Salonen, JulianAndersonandLeonard Bernstein, series, Total Immersiondays devoted to Esa-Pekka includes Sakari Oramo’s Sibeliussymphony Barbican, where its2017–18 seasonof concerts The orchestra isAssociate Orchestra atthe and Raymond Yiu. Cashian, AnnaClyne,Brett Dean,George Walker recent commissionsandpremieres from Philip commitment to contemporary musichasledto the FirstandLastNights.Theorchestra’s strong Mussorgsky’s opera Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony (No 2)and 2017 Proms seasonincludedperformances of at thefestival each year. Highlightsof the Proms, performing around adozenconcerts 1930 andprovides thebackbone of theBBC The BBC Symphony Orchestra was founded in BBC Symphony Orchestra BestChoral DiscAward for their . The Dream of Gerontius Khovanshchina , aswell as , including his programmed by SirHarrisonBirtwistleand Milton CourtConcertHallhasfeatured aconcert The BBC Singers’current seasonatLondon’s and JudithBingham. including Britten, Peter Maxwell Davies, Poulenc and conductors of the20thand21st centuries, with someof themostimportant composers music hasbrought aboutcreative relationships Tallis to Takemitsu. Itsexpertise incontemporary performing everything from Byrd to Birtwistle, British musicallife. Thechoir’svirtuosityseesit The BBC Singershold auniquepositionin BBC Singers broadcast onBBC Radio 3. Jeannin. Thevast majorityof itsperformances are on thethemeof theCrucifixion conducted by Sofi by David HillinSouthwark Cathedral, andmusic music by Palestrina andJudithWeir, conducted each year; concertsinthe2017 festival included The group makes appearances attheBBC Proms and Ravel. 2017–18 seasonwithmusicby Elgar, Finzi,Franck of St Giles’Cripplegate continuesinto the evening concertsintheatmosphericsurroundings Simon Callow. TheSingersatSixseriesof early- featured Christmasreadings from Dickens by concert inSt Luke’s, Chelsea,inDecember Conductor Designate Sofi Jeannin.Aspecial concert ledby recently appointed Chief with soloistNicholasMulroy, andanall-Handel Martyn Brabbins, Bach’s conductors of tomorrow. as withtheprofessional composers,singersand choirs andtheamateur choral community, aswell frequent collaborations withschoolchildren, youth nationwide outreach programme. Thisincludes its enthusiasmandcreative expertise through a The world-class ensembleiscommitted to sharing across the UK andbeyond. also make regular appearances atmajorfestivals Associate ComposerJudithWeir. TheBBC Singers in October 2017 aconcertprogrammed by Knightsbridge andother venues, including choir alsogives free performances atSt Paul’s Based attheBBC’s MaidaVale Studios, the The Moth Requiem St Matthew Passion conducted by

Orchestra underMarinAlsop. at theRoyal Festival HallwiththeNationalYouth a forthcoming performance of Bernstein’s London highlights includearecent appearance atthe celebrating its60thanniversary year, and at theNationalTheatre. Thechoiriscurrently Chorus attheBarbicanandUpNext Gala The Hymnof Jesus Place Like SO, theworld premiere of Kerry Andrew’s of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Andriessen’s Train to Tomorrow Recent highlightsincludeCarlDavis’s staged andsemi-staged works. Requiem Faust St Matthew Passion choruses for majorchoral works suchasBach’s Brabbins. Whileindemandto provide children’s Colin Davis andthechoir’sPresident, Martyn conductors includingRichard Hickox, Kurt Masur, and theBBC Singers,working witheminent Aurora Orchestra, Cityof LondonSinfonia Boston, BBC andLondonSymphony orchestras, professional choirsandorchestras includingthe concerts hallsandabroad, alongsideleading FCMG regularly performs atLondon’smajor and JohnPickard. Malcolm Singer, JudithBingham,JamesWeeks Maconchy, MalcolmWilliamson, BrianChapple, including Peter Maxwell Davies, Elizabeth voices, commissioningworks by composers championed contemporary musicfor children’s repertoire. Sinceitsearlyyears, FCMGhas music continuesto beattheheartof thechoir’s Britten becameFCMG’sPresident andhis Noyes Fludde the Londonpremiere of BenjaminBritten’s The choirwas established in1958 following well known for theirnatural, vibrant vocal quality. 2001, duringwhichtimethechoirshave become been underthedirection of Grace Rossiter since for young peopleaged between 4and18. Ithas to thepromotion of singingandchoral music versatile group of mixed-voice choirs,committed Finchley Children’s MusicGroup isahighly Finchley Children’s MusicGroup , Mahler’sSymphony No 8andBritten’s A cappella , FCMGisequallyathomeperforming for theBBC Ten Pieces Prom, Holst’s La commedia atSouthwark Cathedral. In1963, (Roundhouse/ BBC 2),Louis with Crouch EndFestival Festival atKingsPlace and , Berlioz’s , theUKpremiere Hibiki The Damnation of The Damnationof withtheBBC Last Last Mass No No War War

Koray Thomasson Knut Olav Rygnestad Joseph Ogeleka Joseph Littlewood Adam Davison Adam Bellamy Actors

25 About the performers 26 Grace Rossiter Musical Director Martyn Brabbins President Finchley Children’s Music Group Paul Hughes General Manager Stephen Harris Chorus Master Judith Weir Associate Composer Stephen Cleobury Conductor Laureate Bob Chilcott Conductor Principal Guest Sofi Jeannin Designate Chief Conductor Singers BBC

Jasmine Sabri Elana Luxon Liam Lichy-Lightman Charlotte Kerr-Bell Hannah Kent William Kanmwaa Meelina Isayas Jenny Hayes Evie Guenault Molly Frow Irene Doukas Oscar Crouch Hannah Brown Sibylla Baron Lily Archer Joshua Abrams Katie Schofield Rosie Middleton Ruth Kiang Lynette Alcántara Katherine Nicholson Ciara Hendrick Jessica Gillingwater Eleanor Minney Margaret Cameron Alto Genevieve Wakelin Lucinda Cox Rachel Chapman Philippa Boyle Rebecca Lea Alice Gribbin Robinson Olivia Elizabeth Poole Micaela Haslam Soprano Paralegal

Paul Tindall Julian Stocker Philip Salmon Edward Saklatvala Neil MacKenzie Sean Kerr Jon English John Beaumont Daniel Bartlette Ben Alden Tom Raskin Andrew Murgatroyd Stephen Jeffes Christopher Bowen Tenor of goingto press. correct atthetime The listof singerswas Maisie Young Joey Young Hyunji Woo Sadie Ward Chloe Ward William Thomson Zach Sellis Caitlin Sellis Sixth InmateSixth First Inmate

Stephen Charlesworth MichaelBundy Bass of goingto press. correct atthetime The listof singers was Ben McKee Stephen Kennedy Oliver Hunt Michael Hickman Simon Grant Nicholas Garrett Christopher Foster Colin Campbell James Birchall Edward Price Jamie W Hall Charles Gibbs Fifth Inmate Fourth Inmate Second Inmate Third Inmate

Paul Hughes General Manager Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Laureate Semyon Bychkov Conducting Chair Günter Wand Sakari Oramo Chief Conductor Symphony Orchestra BBC Caroline Bishop Eleanor Bartlett Lucica Trita Victoria Hodgson Tammy Se Rachel Samuel Lucy Curnow Danny Fajardo Philippa Ballard Hania Gmitruk Daniel Meyer Heather Hohmann Violin 2 Ingrid Button Richard Milone Sarah Thornett Katherine Mayes Martin GwilymJones Molly Cockburn Benjamin Roskams Anna Smith Regan Crowley Charles Renwick Shirley Turner Richard Aylwin Richard George Stephen Bryant Violin 1 Daisy Spiers Mary Whittle Carolyn Scott Michael Leaver Natalie Taylor Audrey Henning Nikos Zarb Matthias Wiesner Philip Hall Caroline Harrison Viola leader Cor anglais Imogen Smith Richard Simpson Oboe Christopher Green Piccolo/Alto Flute Nicolas Bricht Michael Cox Flute Lucy Hare Beverley Jones Marian Gulbicki Michael Clarke Anita Langridge Lynda Houghton Double Bass Morwenna DelMar Augusta Harris Sarah Hedley Miller Clare Hinton Mark Sheridan Tamsy Kaner Graham Bradshaw Susan Monks Cello Stephen Maw Contrabassoon Susan Frankel Paul Boyes Bassoon Tom Lessels Bass Clarinet Peter Davis James Burke Clarinet Alison Teale advertising by Cabbell(tel 02036037930) printed by Trade Winds ColourPrinters Ltd; Programme produced by Harriet Smith; Nicholas Hougham Andrew Antcliff Michael Murray Martin Owen Horn of goingto press. correct atthetime The listof players was Clive Williamson Sampler Elizabeth Burley Piano Manon Morris Harp Cooper Joseph Alex Neal Percussion Christopher Hind Timpani Paul Lambert Bass Trombone Dan Jenkins Helen Vollam Trombone Gareth Bimson Joseph Atkins Martin Hurrell Alan Thomas Trumpet Anna Douglass

27 About the performers LIFE MEETS ART JOYCE DiDONATO STARS IN THE WORLD-PREMIERE RECORDING OF GREAT SCOTT AN OPERA WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR HER BY JAKE HEGGIE

GREAT SCOTT 2CD | DOWNLOAD | STREAM - NEW RELEASE - [Heggie’s] gift for creative partnerships is supreme... The conceit gets DiDonato singing watery pastiche Bellini, scaling coloratura flights, surviving a mad scene and crooning in velvet; all pleasing to hear..” – The Times

DEAD MAN WALKING 2CD | DOWNLOAD | STREAM “If the opera seemed good before, it’s rather better now...DiDonato leaves no question that she’ll get a confession out of the killer” - Gramophone

“a committed performance here, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato oozing sincerity in the role of Sister Helen” - BBC Music magazine

A SELECTION OF JOYCE DiDONATO’S RECORDINGS ON CD, VINYL LP, DVD and BLU-RAY ARE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE THIS EVENING IN THE BARBICAN HALL FOYER

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