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Programpirates20.Pdf THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE A comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert Premiere at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on December 31, 1879 April 9 & 11, 2015 Andrew Jackson Hall, Tennessee Performing Arts Center Conducted by William Boggs • Directed by Dean Anthony** CAST Pirate King Craig Irvin Major General Stanley Curt Olds* Ruth Maria Zifchak* The Bovender Principal Artist Police Sergeant Aaron Sorensen* Mabel Hanna Brammer*† Frederic Christopher Nelson*† Samuel Alex Soare*† Edith Christine Amon*† Isabel Emily Apuzzo Hopkins Kate Brooke Hazen CREATIVE TEAM Lighting Designer Joe Saint Assistant Lighting Designer Andrea Boccanfuso Costume Coordinator Pam Lisenby Wigs and Make-up Designer Sondra Nottingham Props Master Robert Gilmer Accompanist/Chorusmaster Amy Tate Williams Production Stage Manager Kat Slagell PRODUCTION CREDITS Set design by Chris Clapp • Scenery provided by Opera Carolina Costumes provided by A.T. Jones & Sons, Inc. Technical Director James Lile Assistant Stage Manager Valerie Clatworthy Wigs and Make-up Crew Steven Young, Brecque Jameson, Kristin Anderson Kathryn Conde, Amanda Romese Costume Crew Annie Freeman, Jayme Locke, Don Skelton Props Crew Dan Weikal Supernumerary Coordinator Michael Rutter Supertitles Creator John Hoomes * Nashville Opera Debut ** Nashville Opera Directing Debut † 2015 Mary Ragland Young Artist THE STORY ACT I the bunch, Mabel. She graciously offers to reclaim this “Poor Wandering One” from his life of villainy. The young apprentice Frederic has just come to All seems close to ending happily, but unfortunately the end of his indentured period with the notorious Frederic has forgotten that there are pirates about! Pirates of Penzance. As it turns out, Frederic was In a flash, his old comrades descend, capturing apprenticed to the band by mistake. His half-deaf the beautiful girls! The lonely pirates are delighted nurse Ruth had been instructed to apprentice him to by the beauty of their captives. They recognize the a pilot but got it a little wrong. Pilot/Pirate. So situation as a “first rate opportunity of getting mar - close, yet quite different. ried with impunity.” In the nick of time, the girls’ At any rate, as he is now of legal age, Frederic father, Major General Stanley, appears. He, of decides to leave the pirate life forever. Although he course, claims (untruthfully) to be an orphan, much loves his comrades dearly, he tells them that he must to the consternation of the pirates. now devote his life to their extermination. However, since he is still a pirate until midnight, he feels oblig - INTERMISSION of 20 Minutes ed to offer them some constructive criticism. For savage pirates, he says, they are much too softhearted. Apparently, all a captive must do is ACT II plead to being an orphan and he is immediately released! It seems the Pirates were all orphans them - The pirates release the Major General and his daugh - selves, and hold a tender spot for persons with a sim - ters. Though happy at winning a brief reprieve for ilar background. Unfortunately, since word of this his daughters, the Major General is terrified that the has gotten around, everyone the pirates capture con - pirates will uncover his lie. Frederic eases his fears, fesses to being an orphan. This has not really helped promising to apprehend the band of pirates and put the pirates make a living at pillage and plunder, and an end to their plundering ways forever. However, they are quite saddened at not being able to turn a when Frederic learns that, due to a slight technicality profit. concerning the conjunctions of dates and time, he is Once upon the shore, Frederic, who has never still indentured to the pirates, complications seen any woman other than his elderly nurse Ruth, abound. Then the police show up. And stumbles upon a bevy of beautiful maidens. He then...well...just watch the show! immediately falls in love with the most beautiful of Nashville Opera first produced THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE 2004. ARTISTS Artistic Director Conductor Stage Director Pirate King JOHN WILLIAM DEAN CRAIG HOOMES BOGGS ANTHONY IRVIN sponsored by sponsored by sponsored by baritone Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Aaron The Honorable and Judy and Joe Barker Judy and Bob Fisher Mrs. Boyd Bogle III Crystal and Jere Brassell sponsored by Sandi and Raymond Pirtle Mr. and Mrs. Donald Anita and Larry Cash Ann and Frank Bumstead Meredythe and Brett Sweet S.A. Cowan Mr. Donald Holmes and Dr. George F. Gray, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Leiser Mrs. Deborah A. Smith-Holmes Dr. and Mrs. Harry L. Page, Jr. Nashville Opera Ms. Jocelynne McCall Jerry and Ernie Williams General & Artistic Director Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie and Nashville Opera Nashville Opera: 1995 –Present Dr. Theodore Wiltsie Directing Debut Iolanthe Nashville Opera: Director of Opera Nashville Opera: The Lighthouse Brevard Music Center Recent engagements: Iolanthe Madame Butterfly Janiec Opera Company Lt. Horstmayer Pagliacci Samson and Delilah Silent Night Elmer Gantry Elmer Gantry Recent engagements: Fort Worth Opera The Student Prince Il Trovatore Carmen Kansas City Opera The Fall of the House of Usher Aïda Pacific Symphony Father The Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni Orchestra Hansel and Gretel Madame Butterfly La Bohème Mandryka The Pearl Fishers La Bohème Tosca Pensacola Opera Arabella Rigoletto Recent engagements: Minnesota Opera Andrea Chénier Giulio Cesare Il Barbiere di Siviglia Opera Naples Dandini Cinderella Florentine Opera La Cenerentola The Fall of the House of Usher Così fan tutte Carmen Pensacola Opera The Girl o f the Golden West BayView Music Festival, Tulsa Opera Upcoming: The Difficulty of Chicago Sweeney Todd Crossing a Field Count The Pirates of Penzance Albert Herring The Man Who Mistook Le Nozze di Figaro Capital University Janiec Opera Company His Wife for a Hat Utah Opera The Barber of Seville Upcoming: Upcoming: Dead Man Walking Home: Romulus Hunt La Bohème Waukee, Iowa BayView Music Festival Shreveport Opera Recent engagements: Sister Carrie Carmen La Fanciulla del West Opera on the James Kentucky Opera (world premiere) Florentine Opera La Traviata Elmer Gantry The Merry Widow Home: Florentine Opera Pensacola Opera Columbus, Ohio Le Nozze di Figaro Rigoletto Opera Carolina The Ballad of Baby Doe La Traviata Janiec Opera Company Arizona Opera Glory Denied La Bohème Golden Gate Opera Opera Birmingham Home: Upcoming: St. Louis, Missouri Die Fledermaus Florentine Opera Home: Nashville, Tennessee ARTISTS Major General Stanley Ruth Police Sergeant Mabel CURT MARIA AARON HANNAH OLDS ZIFCHAK SORENSEN BRAMMER baritone mezzo-soprano bass soprano sponsored by The Bovender Principal sponsored by sponsored by E. Berkeley Nance III Artist Dr. Jan Brandes Eleanor and Gary Parkes John Schanck Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Elaina and Ronnie Scott Carolyn W. Schott sponsored by and Jessica Liff Dr. Jan van Eys Joy and J.R. Roper Barbara and Jack Bovender Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Small Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Corinne and Jason Bergeron Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Smith Nashville Opera Debut Elizabeth and Larry Papel Nashville Opera Debut Nashville Opera Debut Recent engagements: Mary Ellen and Tom Rodgers 2015 Mary Ragland Major General Stanley Nashville Opera Debut Recent engagements: Young Artist The Pirates of Penzance Colline Shreveport Opera Recent engagements: La Bohème Recent engagements: Pensacola Opera Suzuki Opera Theatre of Rose Maurrant Madama Butterfly Connecticut Street Scene Ko-Ko Opera North The Mikado English National Opera Lt. Audebert Hawaii Opera Theater Perth International Silent Night Valencienne Festival, Australia Fort Worth Opera The Merry Widow Captain Corcoran Musetta H.M.S. Pinafore Swiss Grandmother Angelotti The Death of Klinghoffer La Bohème Arizona Opera Tosca Indiana University Suzuki Austin Lyric Opera Upcoming: Madama Butterfly Nina in Nina Henry Higgins Metropolitan Opera Pistola Manhattan School of Music My Fair Lady Falstaff Mother Abbess Clara Ash Lawn Opera Don Prudenzio The Sound of Music Il Viaggio a Reims The Light in the Piazza Papageno Mrs. De Rocher Wolf Trap Opera Christine The Magic Flute Dead Man Walking The Phantom of the Opera Hawaii Opera Theater Central City Opera Osmin Miracle Productions Die Entführung Theater Company Home: Mrs. Grose aus dem Serail New York, New York The Turn of the Screw Houston Symphony Upcoming: Saint Paul Chamber Soprano Orchestra Home: Emergence New Haven, Connecticut Upcoming: Nashville Ballet Suzuki Little Red Madama Butterfly Little Red Riding Hood Anna Opera North Maria Stuarda Soprano I Metropolitan Opera Hydrogen Jukebox Ragonde Nashville Opera Le Comte Ory Seattle Opera Home: Traverse City, Michigan Mrs. De Rocher Dead Man Walking Teatro Real Madrid Home: Bronx, New York ARTISTS Frederic Samuel Edith Accompanist/Chorusmaster CHRISTOPHER ALEX CHRISTINE AMY TATE NELSON SOARE AMON WILLIAMS tenor bass-baritone mezzo-soprano sponsored by Dr. Joseph H. Allen sponsored by sponsored by sponsored by Laura and Martin Renkis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ann Marie and Martin Charles W. Dunn Susan and Luke Simons G. Andrews McNamara III Allis Dale and John Gillmor Janet and Jonathan Weaver Anne and Charles Roos Mary Hoffschwelle and Mr. John R. Pfeiffer Sue and Earl Swensson Carroll Van West Nancy Coleman and Nashville Opera Beth Fortune and Dr. and Mrs. William Andy Valentine 1998 –Present Debbie Turner O. Whetsell, Jr. Founder Susan and Fred Williams Nashville Opera Debut Randamwill Music 2015 Mary Ragland Nashville Opera Debut Nashville Opera Debut Opera Director Young Artist
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