WEST SIDE STORY Based on a Conception of JEROME ROBBINS Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS
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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Table of Contents LYNN LANE/HOUSTON GRAND OPERA LANE/HOUSTON LYNN
IN THIS ISSUE West Side Story – pp. 17-35
6 From the General Director and Chairman 20 Musical Numbers/Orchestra 48 Major Contributors – Special Events and Project Support 8 Board of Directors 21 Artist Profiles 49 Lyric Unlimited Contributors 9 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ 29 Musical Notes Executive Board/Young Professionals/Ryan 50 Commemorative Gifts 33 A Message from the Director Opera Center Board 51 Lyric Unlimited Programs for Students 35 After the Curtain Falls 10 Administration/Administrative Staff/ 52 Ryan Opera Center Alumni Production and Technical Staff 36 Production Sponsors Around the World 12 A Season to Sing About 37 Aria Society 53 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 17 Title Page 47 Supporting Our Future – 54 Planned Giving: e Overture Society Endowments at Lyric 19 Cast 56 Corporate Partnerships 57 Matching Gifts, Special anks, and Acknowledgements
ROBERT KUSEL ROBERT 58 Annual Individual and Foundation Support 64 Facilities and Services/ eater Staff
On the cover: Mikaela Bennett (Maria) and Corey Cott (Tony) in West Side Story at ALL ABOUT LYRIC'S 2019/20 SEASON – pp. 12-16 Lyric, photographed by Todd Rosenberg.
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4 | May 3 - June 2, 2019 May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 5 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the General Director and Chairman STEVE LEONARD Welcome to Lyric! Whether you’re a fi rst-timer or a regular visitor at the Lyric Opera House, we’re thrilled that you’ve joined us for West Side Story, a musical-theater masterpiece. It was hugely gratifying to all of us at Lyric to witness the reaction of our audiences when it was announced that we would be producing West Side Story this season. From emails, letters, phone calls, and subsequently the conversations we’ve had with patrons throughout the season, we’ve felt tremendous excitement. It’s been clear from the start that this show has created a special connection with people everywhere. In so many cases, that connection has been lifelong; whether seeing the show onstage or on fi lm, it remains unforgettable. e story the show tells is sadly very relevant and topical today, particularly in cities like ours. In creating West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins made a very powerful statement. How devastatingly they bring out the absolute futility of the prejudice and confl ict revealed by the passionate young men and women who populate this modern-day Romeo and Juliet. e hope that “there’s a place for us” is so deeply moving, with Sondheim’s simple, beautiful text complementing Bernstein’s exquisite music. And there is so much else to enjoy here – the incomparable melodies, the dancing, the romance. We’re excited to bring it all to you with a thrilling young TODD ROSENBERG cast full of “triple-threat” performers. Everyone onstage has the talent to make something totally memorable of these wonderful characters. As the idealistic lovers, Tony and Maria, you’ll see and hear two bright stars of musical theater: Corey Cott, a familiar face on Broadway, and Mikaela Bennett, who portrayed Maria last year for the BBC Proms in London. e other principals – Amanda Castro (Anita), Brett iele (Riff ), and Manuel Stark Santos (Bernardo) – are spectacular dancers who will bring tremendous brilliance and electricity to Jerome Robbins’s dances. Francesca Zambello has directed some extraordinary productions here, including American works (Porgy and Bess, Show Boat). Francesca’s staging of West Side Story, which has already triumphed at Houston Grand Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Atlanta Opera, is truly astonishing in its dramatic impact. With a formidably gifted production team and the brilliant James Lowe – who led Lyric’s wonderful Oklahoma! – again on the podium, West Side Story will thrill and exhilarate you, when it isn’t breaking your heart.
Anthony Freud David T. Ormesher General Director, President & CEO Chairman e Women’s Board Endowed Chair
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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
Board of Directors
OFFICERS LIFE DIRECTORS Anthony Freud*+ William A. Osborn* e Honorable J. B. Pritzker Edgar Foster Daniels Mary Patricia Gannon Matthew J. Parr Honorary Chairman of the Board Richard J. Franke Ruth Ann M. Gillis*°+ Jane DiRenzo Pigott* Edgar D. Jannotta Edgar D. Jannotta Brent W. Gledhill*+ Richard Pomeroy Co-Chairman Emeritus George E. Johnson Ethel C. Gofen Jose Luis Prado Allan B. Muchin James J. O’Connor Howard L. Gottlieb* Don M. Randel Co-Chairman Emeritus Gordon Segal Melvin Gray Elke Rehbock David T. Ormesher Robert E. Wood II Maria C. Green+ Anne N. Reyes* Chairman of the Board Dietrich M. Gross* William C. Richardson, Ph.D. ° Lester Crown DIRECTORS Dan Grossman Brenda Robinson Chairman of the Executive Katherine A. Abelson Elliot E. Hirsch Collin E. Roche Committee Whitney W. Addington, M.D.* Eric L. Hirschfield Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr.* Anthony Freud James L. Alexander* J. omas Hurvis* Richard O. Ryan General Director, President & John P. Amboian Gregory K. Jones Shirley Welsh Ryan* CEO Paul F. Anderson Stephen A. Kaplan° E. Scott Santi* Sir Andrew Davis Larry A. Barden Kip Kelley II Claudia M. Saran Vice Chair Julie Baskes* Susan Kiphart Rodd M. Schreiber Renée Fleming James N. Bay° Sanfred Koltun Marsha Serlin Vice Chair Melvin R. Berlin Lori Ann Komisar Brenda M. Shapiro* James L. Alexander Gilda R. Buchbinder Fred A. Krehbiel° Richard W. Shepro+ Vice Chair Allan E. Bulley, III Josef Lakonishok* Eric S. Smith* Shirley Welsh Ryan John E. Butler Robert W. Lane° Pam F. Szokol Vice Chair Marion A. Cameron* James W. Mabie* Franco Tedeschi William C. Vance Paul J. Carbone* Daniel T. Manoogian Mark A. ierer Vice Chair David W. Carpenter Craig C. Martin* Cherryl T. omas Donna Van Eekeren Richard W. Colburn+ Robert J. McCullen Olivia Tyrrell Secretary Michael P. Cole Blythe J. McGarvie Donna Van Eekeren* Ruth Ann M. Gillis Vinay Couto Andrew J. McKenna William C. Vance* Treasurer Lester Crown* Mimi Mitchell Roberta L. Washlow Elizabeth Hurley Marsha Cruzan Frank B. Modruson*+ Miles D. White Assistant Secretary Sir Andrew Davis* Robert S. Morrison Roberta Lane Gerald Dorros, M.D.° Allan B. Muchin* Assistant Treasurer William Mason Ann M. Drake Linda K. Myers* General Director Emeritus Dan Draper+ Jeffrey C. Neal Allan Drebin+ Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Charles Droege+ Sylvia Neil* Chaz Ebert John D. Nichols° Stefan T. Edlis Kenneth R. Norgan Lois Eisen Gregory J. O’Leary * Executive Committee James Fellowes Sharon F. Oberlander + Audit Committee Matthew A. Fisher John W. Oleniczak*+ ° National Member Renée Fleming* Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D. Sonia Florian* David T. Ormesher*+
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Women’s Board Guild Board of Directors Members Members at Large † Nancy S. Searle † James A. Staples Ms. Judith A. Akers Vindya Dayananda Mrs. Geraldine Bellanca Phil DeBoer President President Lena Dickinson † Mrs. James C. Pritchard † Minka Bosco Mr. Michael J. Brahill Dr. Gerald Budzik Katherine "Fritzi" Getz Vice President Board Activities Vice President – Benefit Marian Klaus † Caroline T. Huebner † Sarah Demet Mrs. Robert C. Debolt Joe Michalak Vice President Education Vice President – Benefit Mrs. Ingrid Dubberke Natalie Pace Mrs. Barbara M. Eckel Marne Smiley † Mrs. Julian W. Harvey † Michael Tirpak * Mr. Jonathan Eklund Vice President Fundraising Vice President – Family Day J.J. Williams Mrs. Gwen Faust Lauren Wood † Mrs. Anne M. Edwards † Fay M. Shong Mr. Peter B. Faust Vice President Special Events Vice President – Fundraising Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield † Maggie Rock Ms. Sharon L. Gibson e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Margot Stone Bowen Vice President – Membership Mr. Denny C. Hayes Ryan Opera Center Suzette Bulley † Nathaniel W. Pusey Ms. Virginia A. Jach Board of Directors Marie Campbell Vice President – Mrs. Jackie Knight Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mamie Biggs Case Membership Engagement * Ms. Kate Letarte Honorary Co-Chairs Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. † Dorothy Kuechl Mrs. Carole A. Luczak John Nitschke President † Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Secretary Mrs. Judith M. Marshall *^ Julie Baskes Vice President – At Large Mrs. Gary C. Comer † David Marshall Vee Minarich Janet Burch Vice President – At Large Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Treasurer Mrs. Harolyn Pappadis Karen W. Porter ^ Philip G. Lumpkin Vice President – * Mrs. Lester Crown † Marc Lacher Fundraising * Mrs. W. James Farrell Vice President at Large Mrs. Maria Rigolin Ms. Sherie Shapiro ^ Sally Feder Vice President – Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Fundraising Co-Chair § Renée Fleming Allison Alexander Ms. Laura Shimkus Leslie Bertholdt Mrs. Carla orpe ^ Jane DiRenzo Pigott Vice President – Regan Rohde Friedmann Nominating Mrs. Robert W. Galvin *† Patrick J. Bitterman Henry Clark Sustaining Members * Susan Kiphart Vice President – Ms. Lili Gaubin * Ms. Julie Anne Benson Nominating Co-Chair Keith Kiley Goldstein Mrs. Suzy Cobin Eben Dorros Mrs. Ron Beata ^ Joan Zajtchuk Vice President – Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Strategic Planning Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel Stephen Dunbar Mrs. Jeanne Hamilton † Timothy R. Farrell Juliana Chyu Vice President – Mrs. King Harris Mrs. Beatriz E. Iorgulescu Strategic Planning Co-Chair Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Robert Gienko, Jr. * Dorothy Kuechl Camille Gifford Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Rebecca Walker Knight Mr. Lester Marriner Roberta Lane Assistant Treasurer Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Olivier C. Junod * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer Mark Kozloff, M.D. Chester T. Kamin Secretary Silvia Beltrametti Krehbiel Mrs. Karen H. Tiersky Dan Novak Assistant Secretary * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Daria M. Lewicky Mr. Myron Tiersky Louis Margaglione Florence D. McMillan Nicole M. Arnold Alison Wehman McNally Robert S. Marjan Life Members Heidi Heutel Bohn Mrs. Susan H. Mesrobian * Ms. Martina M. Mead * Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Tanja Chevalier *† Mimi Mitchell Craig R. Milkint * Mrs. Donald Grauer Tamara Conway Mrs. Robert S. Morrison † Melissa Mounce Mithal * Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan Lawrence O. Corry Tim Pontarelli * Mrs. Merwyn Kind Nancy Dehmlow Suzanne W. Mulshine * Mrs. Jonathan R. Laing * Allan Drebin † Mrs. Eileen Murphy Ms. Christina M. Rashid Mary Lynne Shafer * Mrs. Howard S. Smith Erika E. Erich Mrs. Susan B. Noyes Ilene Simmons * Mrs. William C. Tippens Jack Forsythe * Mrs. James J. O’Connor Ms. Joan M. Solbeck * Mrs. Eugene E. White David S. Fox Mrs. William A. Osborn Anthony Freud Claudine Tambuatco Mira J. Frohnmayer Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman * Oscar Tatosian Chapter Presidents Mrs. Frederick H. Prince Mary Patricia Gannon Cathy Wloch Barrington Melvin Gray * Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes Ms. Anne Zenzer Mary Rafetto-Robins Mrs. omas D. Heath Mrs. Ronald A. Rolighed Evanston Mary Ellen Hennessy Trisha Rooney Sustaining Members Mrs. Barbara M. Eckel Martha A. Hesse Betsy Bergman Rosenfield Far West Loretta Julian Mrs. John H. Andersen Mrs. Judith M. Marshall * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Jeanne Randall Malkin † Erica L. Sandner Flossmoor Area Robert C. Marks Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Ms. Sharon L. Gibson Erma S. Medgyesy Mrs. E. Scott Santi * Robert F. Finke † Mrs. Alejandro Silva Glencoe Helen Melchior Mrs. Amanda C. Fox Anne Ruzicka Frank B. Modruson Mrs. John R. Siragusa Mrs. William R. Jentes Phyllis Neiman Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Hinsdale Chester T. Kamin Karen W. Porter Susan Noel Mrs. James P. Stirling John M. Kohlmeier Lake Geneva Gregory J. O’Leary Marilynn oma Mrs. Robert E. Largay Michael A. Oberman Mr. Peter D. Connolly ^ Ted Reichardt * Mrs. eodore D. Tieken * Ms. Britt M. Miller Near North Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Richard O. Ryan * John H. Nelson David E. Miller Richard W. Shepro Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Northfield Salme Harju Steinberg Hon. Corinne Wood R. Todd Vieregg Mrs. Margareta Brown Nasrin ierer Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Riverside Cynthia Vahlkamp † Executive Committee Mrs. Mary Kitzberger Donna Van Eekeren Life Members * Former President Wilmette Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Paula Hannaway Crown Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Jack Weiss * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Chapters’ Executive Board Winnetka * Jane Duboise Gargiulo Mrs. Julie McDowell Life Members † Richard Greenman * Katherine A. Abelson Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz President * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. † Executive Committee Mrs. James W. Cozad † Ms. Erika E. Erich * Former President Bernard J. Dobroski Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker Vice President – Fundraising * Keith A. Reed Mrs. Gordon Segal † Mary Rafetto-Robins Lyric Young Professionals Orli Staley Vice President – Community Relations * William C. Vance * Former President Lisa DeAngelis, President * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom † Mrs. Linda Budzik Martha Grant, Co-Vice President Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. † Executive Committee Vice President – Membership § Honorary Member Shannon Shin, Co-Vice President † Mrs. Margie Franklin Christopher Hanig, Secretary Vice President – Programs * Former President Tania Tawil, Events Chair ^ Team Chair † Claudia Winkler Jonathon ierer, Fundraising Chair Treasurer † Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Secretary
May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 9 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Anthony Freud, OBE General Director, President & CEO e Women’s Board Endowed Chair
Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director and Chief Operating Officer e John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair Elizabeth Hurley Roberta Lane Chief Development Officer Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Cayenne Harris Elizabeth Landon Nicholas Ivor Martin Vice President, Lyric Unlimited Vice President, Human Resources Vice President, Artistic Operations and Labor Strategy e Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Andreas Melinat Lisa Middleton Dan Novak Vice President, Artistic Planning Vice President, Marketing and Communications Vice President and Director, Ryan Opera Center e Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair Will Raj Rich Regan Michael Smallwood Vice President, Information Technology Vice President and General Manager, Vice President and Technical Director Presentations and Events e Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed Chair
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL Daniel Moss Rosemary Ryan MARKETING AND DIRECTOR Senior Director of Institutional Accounts Payable Associate COMMUNICATIONS Anthony Freud Partnerships Gwenetta Almon Lisa Middleton General Director, President & CEO Adriane Fink Payroll Coordinator Vice President, Marketing e Women’s Board Endowed Chair Director of Institutional Partnerships Megan Walker and Communications Linda Nguyen Angela DeStefano Payroll Coordinator Shelby Homiston Manager, Office of the General Director Philanthropy Officer Marketing and Public Relations HUMAN RESOURCES Kathleen Butera Sarah Sapperstein Coordinator Assistant, Office of the General Director Associate Director of Institutional Elizabeth Landon Vice President, Human Resources Partnerships Laura E. Burgos OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Stephanie Strong GENERAL DIRECTOR Pavitra Ramachandran Senior Director, Digital and Analytics Institutional Partnerships Associate Director of Compensation, Benefits, Drew Landmesser and HR Operations Valerie Bromann Manager of Digital Content Deputy General Director and Charity Franco Angela Larson Chief Operating Officer Human Resources Associate and Analysis Director of Annual Giving Michael Musick ARTISTIC Sharai Bohannon Scott Podraza E-Commerce Manager Andreas Melinat Office Coordinator Associate Director of Annual Giving Amanda Reitenbach Vice President, Artistic Planning Mosadi Goodman Social Media Associate Cory Lippiello Karoline Reynolds Human Resources Coordinator Artistic Administrator Digital Fundraising Associate Evamaria Wieser Sarah Geocaris INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Holly H. Gilson Casting Consultant Chapters Coordinator Will Raj Senior Director, Communications Anna VanDeKerchove Vice President, Information Technology Magda Krance DEVELOPMENT Donor Engagement and Stewardship Eric Hayes Director of Media Relations Elizabeth Hurley Coordinator Director of IT Operations Roger Pines Chief Development Officer Rita Parida Dramaturg Zachary Vanderburg Amy Tinucci Director of Data Services Andrew Cioffi Executive Assistant to the Chief Director of Development Operations Jessica Keener Digital Content Producer Development Officer Kelly E. Cronin Systems Analyst Marisa Lerman Manager of Operations and Sean Lennon Development Assistant Tracy Galligher Young Data Analytics Systems Administrator Senior Director, Marketing and Stephanie Lillie Bob Helmuth Audience Development Lawrence DelPilar Donor Records and Reporting Associate Technology Support Associate Jennifer Colgan Senior Director, Development Erin Johnson Jazmin Segura Director of Sales and Advertising Mike Biver Donor Records Coordinator Technology Support Specialist Director of Gift Planning Brittany Gonzalez Jonathan P. Siner LYRIC UNLIMITED Director of Group Sales Libby Rosenfeld Senior Director of Gift Planning Cayenne Harris Daniel Crespo Meaghan Stainback Philanthropy Officer Vice President, Lyric Unlimited Graphic Designer Philanthropy Officer FINANCE e Chapters' Endowed Chair for LeiLynn Farmer Kristen Bigham Roberta Lane Education Group Sales Associate Gift Planning Associate Chief Financial and Administrative Crystal Coats Margaret Kellas Andrea Rubens Officer Director of Community Programs Lyric Unlimited Marketing Associate Individual Giving and Lyric Young Whitney Bercek Todd Snead Stefany Phillips Professionals Coordinator Controller Director of Learning Programs Creative Project Associate Vincente F. Milianti Will Biby Lindsey Raker Kate Later Senior Director, Financial Planning Manager of Audience Programs Marketing Associate, Advertising and Senior Director of Special Events and and Analysis Drew Smith Promotions Women’s Board Nicky Chaybasarskaya Learning Programs Manager Sarah Sabet Deborah Hare Senior Accountant Cameron Murdock Marketing Associate, Special Programs Director of Special Events Ana Joyce Backstage Tours Coordinator Leah Bobbey Senior Accountant LaRob Payton Women’s Board Manager Nancy Ko Lyric Unlimited Coordinator Rachel Peterson Accounting Manager Special Events Associate Lee Stevens Paul D. Sprecher Payroll Director Special Events Associate Devin Bopp Tom Pels Women's Board Assistant Payroll Supervisor Teresa Fleming Dan Seekman Women’s Board Assistant Senior Staff Accountant
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TICKET DEPARTMENT/ PRODUCTION Dan Donahue Scott Marr AUDIENCE SERVICES Cameron Arens Justin Hull Wardrobe, Wigs, and Makeup Director Susan Harrison Niemi Senior Director, Production Ryan McGovern Director of Audience Services Assistant Carpenters Maureen Reilly Katrina Bachus Costume Director Alex Chatziapostolou-Demas e Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Sales Manager Jordan Lee Braun Anthony Bernardy David Carl Toulson Adam Gorsky Endowed Chair John Renfroe Lucy Lindquist Tessitura Manager Mo Zhou Brian Hobbs Assistant Stage Directors Wardrobe Mistress Laura Waters Robert Hull, Jr. Call Center Manager Connor Ingersoll John W. Coleman John Ingersoll Louie Barrios Leigh Folta Rachel C. Henneberry Dan Lang Molly Herman VIP Ticketing Associate Rachel A. Tobias Johnny Rivers James Herrity Daniel Quinn Stage Managers Chase Torringa Robert Hilliard VIP Ticketing Coordinator Carpenters Kate Keefe Kristen Barrett Cecylia Kinder Julia Acquistapace Rachel C. Henneberry Krystina Lowe Sebastian Armendariz Anderson Nunnelley Chris Maravich Talia Newton Marnie Baylouny Daniel Sokalski Lighting Director Kathy Rubel Achilles Bezanis Peggy Stenger e Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Toni Rubino Edmond Burkhart Amy C. ompson Endowed Chair Joanna Rzepka Benjamin Burney Rachel A. Tobias Sarah Riffle Marguerite Scott Alex Carey Bill Walters Heather Sparling Rebecca Shouse Emily Crisp Sandra Zamora Assistant Lighting Designers Ewa Szylak Erik Dohner Assistant Stage Managers Barbara Szyllo Jerry Downey Michael C. Reynolds Ben Bell Bern Master Electrician Carolina Tuazon Ashlyn Elliot Isaac Turner Claire French Rehearsal Department Manager Soren Ersbak Board Operator Maggie Zabierowski Michaela Gleason Kevin Krasinski Wardrobe Staff Andrew Groble Artist Services Manager Marina Vecci John Clarke, Jr. Samantha Holmes Amy Gruttadauria Rehearsal Associate Anthony Coia Bailey Howard Wardrobe Crew Head Michael Calderone Gary Grenda Karen Hunt Christine Wagner Robert Reynolds Kristine Anderson Caitlyn Johnson Rehearsal Assistants Assistant Electricians Scott Barker Kerri Killeen Lauren Crotty Eve Krueger THE PATRICK G. AND SHIRLEY W. Jason Combs Dawn Marie Hamilton Steve Landsman RYAN OPERA CENTER omas Fernandez David Hough Madison Lawry Dan Novak omas Hull Charlie Junke Ian Maryfield Vice President and Director, Daniel Kuh Kim Kostera Omar Mulero Ryan Opera Center Asiel Simpson Wendy McCay Amy Munroe e Ryan Opera Center Board Jeremy omas Moira O'Neil Stephen Reineccius Endowed Chair Jose Villalpando John Salyers Jessica Reinhart Craig Terry Electricians Dulce Santillan Alexander Rocha Music Director Lynn Sparber Erin Sheets e Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Joe Schofield Chris Valente Adam Stubitsch Julia Faulkner Head Audio Technician Roger Weir Kristi Wood Emily ornton Director of Vocal Studies Nick Charlan Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Samantha Yonan Marisa von Drasek Matt Eble Dressers Ciera Williams Emma Scherer Kelvin Ingram Ryan Wood Associate Audio Technicians Ticket Staff Sarah Hatten TECHNICAL Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Emily Crisp Michael Smallwood Maria DeFabo Akin e Marlys Beider Endowed Chair Michaela Gleason Vice President and Technical Director Props and Scenic Art Director Allison Burkholder Lyric Concierge Representatives e Allan and Elaine Muchin Department Coordinator Endowed Chair Charles Reilly OPERATIONS April Busch Property Master Chantelle Marie Johnson Nicholas Ivor Martin Technical Operations Director Michael McPartlin Lynn Koroulis Vice President, Artistic Operations and Michael Schoenig Properties Crew Head Robert Kuper Lana McKinnon Labor Strategy Technical Finance Director Phil Marcotte Stephanie Karr Claire Moores Madeleine Borg Prop Carpenter Staff Senior Director of Music Administration Production Manager – Lyric Unlimited Bob Ladd Wendy Skoczen and Ryan Opera Center Armorer Bridget Rzymski Chief Librarian Rachel Boultinghouse Wig Crew Head Tabitha Boorsma Scott Wolfson Upholsterer Operations Associate Associate Technical Director Necole Bluhm Stephen Snyder Robert Hartge DeShawn Bowman PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Rich Regan Technical Coordinator Martha Contreras Joe Dockweiler Richard Tyriver Brittany Crinson Vice President and General Manager, Assistant Properties Eric Daniels Presentations and Events Master Carpenter Mike Reilly June Gearon Sharon Lomasney Michael Buerger David Grant Director of Presentations and Events Head Flyman/Automation Joseph Collins Jeffrey Streichhirsch Alicja Klosek Leslie MacLean Gordon Granger Briette Madrid Facilities Coordinator Automation Assistant Nick Malloy Chris Barker Nelson Posada Megan St. John Joe Mathesius Jada Richardson Presentations and Events Coordinator Matt Reilly Kevin McPartlin Lela Rosenberg Stephen Dunford Rigging/Automation Assistants Properties Rick Salazar Chief Engineer Mark Shanabrough Rebecca Scott Gregg Brody Head Shop Carpenter Brian Traynor Kacy Tatus Box Office Manager Brian Grenda Charge Artist Pat Tomlinson Bernard McNeela Layout Carpenter Tim Morrison Emily Young Engineer Drew Trusk Michael Murtaugh Wig and Makeup Crew Briette Madrid Head Shop Welder Scenic Artists Stage Door Supervisor Bruce Woodruff Nathan Tuttle Layout Welder Facilities Porter Richard “Doc” Wren Warehouse Coordinator Dan DiBennardi Assistant Warehouse Coordinator
May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 11 Lyric will present Francesca Zambello’s production of Luisa Miller, which originated at San Francisco Opera.
e Barber of Seville at Lyric, 2013/14 season. CORY WEAVER/SAN FRANCISCO OPERA WEAVER/SAN CORY e leading trio of Verdi’s Luisa Miller: (left to right) Krassimira KEN HOWARD
Stoyanova (Luisa), Joseph KUSEL ROBERT Calleja (Rodolfo), and SIMON FOWLER/DECCA Quinn Kelsey (Miller). A Season to Sing About Lyric’s general director Anthony Freud introduces the delights of 2019/20
Excitement is building for the 2019/20 fantastic range of repertoire,” says Freud, Christian Van Horn (Count Walter, season at Lyric! With so many brilliant artists, “and they’re not frequently performed. e Rodolfo’s father), all great favorites here. so many unforgettably passionate stories, so fi nest among them have real dramatic coher- “To have Alisa Kolosova, our beautiful Olga much glorious music, and one memorable ence, and the music is fantastic! We can in Eugene Onegin two seasons ago, in the production after another, you’re sure to be produce these operas at the highest level, small but important role of Federica is luxu- enthralled by every performance you attend. with outstanding singing and conducting.” ry casting,” adds Freud, “and I’m very You can pick from the central composers of e early-Verdi series will be launched pleased that the marvelous young American the repertoire – Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, with Luisa Miller, not heard at Lyric since bass Soloman Howard will debut with us as Puccini – while also discovering works by such 1981. It’s one of the strongest Verdi works Wurm, the opera’s villain – he’ll also be outstanding contemporary composers as Jake of this period – a powerful romantic drama, Fafner in our Ring cycle.” Enrique Mazzola, Heggie and Jeanine Tesori. in which an innocent village girl falls in love who brought such power, elegance, and Lyric’s general director Anthony Freud with a nobleman who’s already engaged to energy to Lucia di Lammermoor and and music director Sir Andrew Davis aim to be married. As with all the operas next I puritani in recent seasons, returns to establish an artistic pattern within each season, “the cast is as good as it gets,” conduct Luisa Miller. season, and 2019/20 is no exception. For declares Freud. He looks forward to Two other hugely popular Italian example, the company will be moving in two Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova’s works will also be part of 2019/20. “If you new directions: producing a new or recent return in the title role, after her wonderful asked someone to name the greatest comic work every season (more on that below) and Lyric debut as Amelia in Verdi’s Simon opera,” says Freud, “most people would say inaugurating a series of early Verdi operas, Boccanegra. Also returning to Lyric’s stage Rossini’s e Barber of Seville,” which will which will continue for at least fi ve seasons. are Joseph Calleja (Luisa’s beloved Rodolfo), open the season in exhilarating style. “ e early operas of Verdi present a Quinn Kelsey (Miller, Luisa’s father), and Broadway’s Rob Ashford will return to
12 | May 3 - June 2, 2019 Stars of e Barber of Seville: (left to right) Adam Plachetka (Figaro),
e Barber of Seville at SERVIN LAINEZ Marianne Crebassa (Rosina),
Lyric, 2013/14 season. TODD ROSENBERG and Lawrence Brownlee SIMON FOWLER/ERATO (Almaviva). FELIX SANCHEZ/HOUSTON GRAND OPERA
Butter y and Suzuki await Pinkerton’s arrival: Michael Grandage’s production of Madama Butterfl y, Houston Grand Opera.
direct the eff ervescent Lyric production that marked his operatic debut in 2013/14. Sir Andrew Davis will be on the podium for this comic gem. Freud is eagerly anticipating the return of four remarkable artists in Barber, all of TOM SPECHT whom have recently delighted Lyric audi- ences. Adam Plachetka, who debuted at Ana María Martínez (left) Lyric as the “other” Figaro (Mozart’s), will and Lianna Haroutounian (right) be back as Rossini’s ever-resourceful barber. will share the title role of Marianne Crebassa (Rosina) was previously Madama Butterfl y. Lyric’s irresistible Dorabella in Così fan tutte and impish Stéphano in Romeo and Juliet. Lawrence Brownlee (Almaviva) created a sensation in Lyric’s La Cenerentola, I puritani, and Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. María Martínez, for whom Butterfl y is her artistic director Robert Falls’s 2014/15 Brownlee’s character in Barber has a spec- eighth role with the company. Brian Jagde production is a riveting updating of the tacular fi nal aria, so diffi cult that it’s often (Pinkerton) returns to Puccini at Lyric, work, placing it in the period between cut in stage performances, but “when you where he made a triumphant debut fi ve World War I and the Spanish Civil War. have an Almaviva like Lawrence Brownlee, seasons ago in Tosca. Starring in the ere’s big news in the cast, with no fewer of course you do that aria,” declares Freud. March 5 and 8 performances will be two than seven Lyric debuts! Only Matthew e king of Rossini comedy, legendary other world-renowned artists: the radiant Rose (Leporello) and Ryan Opera Center Italian baritone Alessandro Corbelli, returns Armenian soprano Lianna Haroutounian, a alumna Amanda Majeski (Donna Elvira) to reprise his incomparable portrayal of star of Covent Garden and San Francisco have appeared with the company before. pompous Dr. Bartolo, and the exceptionally Opera, in her company debut, and Lyric Two uniquely charismatic artists, Ildar gifted young Polish bass Krzysztof favorite Brandon Jovanovich, in the fi rst of Abdrazakov and Davide Luciano, will share Bączyk debuts as Don Basilio. four Lyric roles he sings in 2019/20. Henrik the title role. Others making eagerly awaited Another Italian work that invariably Nánási conducts the beautiful production debuts are Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Donna thrills Lyric audiences is Puccini’s exquisite originally directed by Olivier and Tony Anna), Ying Fang (Zerlina), Ben Bliss romantic tragedy, Madama Butterfl y, the Award-winner Michael Grandage. (Don Ottavio), Brandon Cedel (Masetto), and tale of a Japanese geisha and the feckless Mozart works are central to Lyric’s Mika Kares (Commendatore). Returning American Navy lieutenant she loves. At the repertoire, and Don Giovanni is the Mozart to Lyric – and to Mozart – will be James Met, the Vienna State Opera, and many opera most closely associated with the com- Gaffi gan, after his elegant conducting of other major houses internationally, the pany (it launched Lyric in 1954, and new Così fan tutte last season. opera’s title role has brought ecstatic acclaim productions opened both the 50th- and Bel canto fi reworks will be highlighted to one of Lyric’s most cherished artists, Ana 60th-anniversary seasons). Goodman eatre in three semi-staged concerts starring Sondra
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e Act One nale of Don Giovanni in the premiere of
Robert Falls’s Lyric production (2014/15). ANDREW ECCLES MICHAEL BROSILOW MICHAEL TODD ROSENBERG
ree exciting Lyric debuts: Ildar Sondra Radvanovsky o stage and Abdrazakov (left) at Lyric in the title role of Donizetti’s SIMON PAULY GARRETT ENGS and Davide Anna Bolena (2014/015), an Luciano (right) opera that will be highlighted in the will sing “ ree Queens” concert. Don Giovanni, with Rachel audiences’ attention by planning to include Willis-Sørensen a new or recent opera in every mainstage as Donna Anna. season. In 2019/20 that work, presented in learning the its long-awaited Lyric premiere, will be one of the most widely heard new American secret of win- Radvanovsky. e awe-inspiring American operas of recent years, Jake Heggie and ning at cards. Starring in that role – vocally soprano, who’s triumphed repeatedly at Terrence McNally’s riveting Dead Man and dramatically one of the toughest for a Lyric, returns as Donizetti’s “ ree Queens.” Walking, based on the book by Sister Helen tenor in the entire repertoire – will be She’ll sing the fi nal scenes of Anna Bolena (a Prejean. Brandon Jovanovich, whose role debut was huge success for her here in 2014/15), e opera examines Sister Helen’s role an enormous success at last summer’s Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux, sup- as spiritual adviser to a convicted murderer Salzburg Festival. The distinguished ported by artists from Lyric’s Ryan Opera on Death Row, and the nun’s own personal Center, directed by Matthew Ozawa and American mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel crisis of faith. She will be portrayed by conducted by bel canto specialist Riccardo debuts at Lyric as Lisa’s formidable grand- Patricia Racette (role debut), one of Frizza. is will be “an opera-lover’s dream,” mother, the Countess, one of the most rivet- America’s most remarkable singing actresses. enthuses Freud. e concerts off er a unique ing character parts in opera. Lucas Meachem Both a role debut (as the murderer Joseph opportunity to see and hear Radvanovsky, (Yeletsky) and Samuel Youn (Tomsky) join De Rocher) and company debut will be today’s foremost interpreter of these operas, this outstanding cast, which also includes made by Ryan McKinny, the brilliant young portraying three of the most formidable Elizabeth DeShong (Pauline) and Jill American bass-baritone. World-renowned women in English and Scottish history: Grove (the Governess). Freud commis- Susan Graham, who created Sister Helen in Mary Stuart, Anne Boleyn, and Queen sioned Richard Jones’s astoundingly imagi- the opera’s 2000 world premiere and recent- Elizabeth I. native production at Welsh National Opera, ly took on the role of Joseph’s anguished Radvanovsky will be back onstage later where it premiered in 2000, subsequently mother at Washington National Opera, will in the season as leading lady of Tchaikovsky’s earning acclaim at many other major houses reprise that hugely acclaimed portrayal at e Queen of Spades. is opera’s Lyric pre- internationally. Director of Lyric’s Jenůfa, Lyric. e conductor will be Nicole miere 19 years ago inaugurated Sir Andrew Hansel and Gretel, La bohème, and Ariodante, Paiement (debut), rapidly ascending to the Davis’s tenure as music director. Sir Andrew, Jones collaborated on this production with top rank among today’s most outstanding a passionate advocate of this work, will again John Macfarlane, designer of the company’s young conductors. Freud, who presented be on the podium. Radvanovsky will make acclaimed Rusalka and Elektra. director Leonard Foglia’s production of her role debut as the hapless Lisa, who hope- Lyric is recognizing the vital need to Dead Man Walking at Houston Grand lessly loves Gherman, a soldier obsessed with bring important contemporary works to Opera, emphasizes that “the opera examines
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e climax of Richard Jones's production of e Queen of Spades at the Canadian Opera Company. DEVON CASS JIYANG CHENG DARIO ACOSTA MICHAEL COOPER ree outstanding American singing actors lead the cast of Dead Man Walking: (left to right) Patricia Racette (Sister Helen Prejean), Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher), and Susan Graham (Mrs. De Rocher). the human issues surrounding the death penalty, exploring its impact on both the families of the victims and that of the prisoner awaiting execution.” Of course, the crowning glory of the season will be the Ring, with complete cycles in three consecutive weeks, beginning OPERA GRAND SANCHEZ/HOUSTON FELIX April 13, 2020. Sir Andrew Davis will return to Wagner’s masterpiece in Lyric’s new production directed by David Pountney. Having proceeded with one opera each season since Das Rheingold pre- miered in 2016/17, the company will debut the new Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) in two performances, before the cycles begin. e third cycle will be exclusively matinees, a Lyric fi rst for the Ring. Götterdämmerung is a spectacular cli- max to the cycle. eatrically the piece is more in the tradition of 19th-century grand Leonard Foglia’s production of Dead Man Walking at Houston Grand Opera. romantic opera than the rest of the cycle, says Freud, but the music takes the opera to Burkhard Fritz (Siegfried), Samuel Youn topical, and each work has resonated deeply a whole new level of imagination. And, like (Alberich), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner with audiences.” e work next season will the rest of the Ring, this fi nal opera of the (Fricka, Waltraute), Brandon Jovanovich be Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell ompson’s cycle presents Wagner’s orchestra as a key (Froh, Siegmund), and Elisabet Strid Blue in its Midwest premiere, following the protagonist, illuminating every scene with (Sieglinde; a rising star, Ryan Opera Center world premiere in July at the Glimmerglass extraordinary beauty, power, and theatrical- alumna Laura Wilde, sings the role in the Festival. is opera brings audiences into ity. e experience of hearing it in context third cycle). Together they will make this the emotional epicenter of an African- – that is, preceded within the same week by Ring truly unforgettable. American family, in which the father is a Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried – As has been the case for the past fi ve police offi cer and the son a politically active is an essential experience for any operagoer. years, Lyric Unlimited will enhance the sea- teenager. Freud considers Blue “a wonderful e leading artists, all of whom received son with a chamber opera, produced at opportunity to bring an important new huge praise when the fi rst three operas pre- Chicago Shakespeare eater in Lyric’s very work to the city in an ideal new venue for miered, will all be returning: Eric Owens fi rst collaboration with CST. “ e chamber Lyric Unlimited performances.” (Wotan), Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), operas,” says Freud, “have been new and
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e Ring operas onstage at Lyric (clockwise from top left): Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried; set model for the new Götterdämmerung. MITCH JENKINS/DECCA MITCH MARIENOËLLE ROBERT/THÉÂTRE DU CHÂTELET DU ROBERT/THÉÂTRE MARIENOËLLE
42nd Street at Paris’s éâtre du Châtelet.
e annual musical next season is 42nd career, winning him as many admirers as his Street, the dazzling, fabulously entertaining operatic roles. “Many longtime Lyric opera- story of a chorus girl’s leap to Broadway goers have wonderful memories of Bryn’s stardom. Harry Warren’s songs have been thrilling portrayals of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Sir Bryn Terfel, who returns to Lyric next season highlights of the American songbook, Falstaff , and Sweeney Todd, among in recital. including “You’re Getting to Be a Habit others,” notes Freud, “and will jump at the with Me,” “We’re in the Money,” “I Only opportunity to hear his magnifi cently Have Eyes for You,” and of course, “Lullaby expressive voice here in recital.” of Broadway.” e show will be presented in Eleven operas, a special concert, a CORY WEAVER CORY an electrifying production directed and celebrity recital, and a spectacular Broadway choreographed by Stephen Mear, raptur- musical – 2019/20 at Lyric is sure to be a ously received when it premiered in 2016 season to sing about! at Paris’s éâtre du Châtelet. On February 2, Lyric’s distinguished Roger Pines, dramaturg of Lyric Opera of series of vocal recitals will continue with Chicago, has appeared annually on the Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel, at Lyric Metropolitan Opera broadcasts’ “Opera Quiz” for the fi rst time in 15 years – his only for the past 12 years and also contributes Lyric's formidable Brünnhilde and Wotan, Chicago-area appearance of the season. regularly to opera-related publications and Christine Goerke and Eric Owens. Recitals have always been essential in Terfel’s recording companies internationally.
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West Side Story Based on a conception by JEROME ROBBINS Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS
Lead Sponsor THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION
Cosponsors THE DAVEE RANDY L. AND ROBERT S. AND MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE AND FOUNDATION MELVIN R. BERLIN SUSAN E. MORRISON MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE
Major in-kind audio support provided by
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• West Side Story is Lyric Premiere presented through special WEST SIDE STORY arrangement with Music Based on a conception of JEROME ROBBINS eatre International (MTI). Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM All performance materials are also supplied by MTI. Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins
• West Side Story is a Originally Produced on Broadway by Robert E. Griffi th and Harold S. Prince coproduction of Lyric By Arrangement with Roger L. Stevens Opera of Chicago, First performed at the Winter Garden eatre, New York, on September 26, 1957 Houston Grand Opera, First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on May 3, 2019 and Glimmerglass Festival. Cast Tony COREY COTT* • New York principal casting Maria MIKAELA BENNETT* by Tara Rubin Casting, e Jets Anita AMANDA CASTRO* e Sharks Merri Sugarman, C.S.A. Riff BRETT THIELE* Bernardo MANUEL STARK SANTOS* Chicago principal casting Action ADAM SONIAK* Chino JULIO REY* by Becca McCracken, C.S.A. A-Rab TAYLOR SIMMONS* Pepe MARK DELER* Baby John JARRED MANISTA* Indio JOSHUA LMAR* Big Deal WESLEY RYAN* Luis JOSEPH A. HERNANDEZ • Lyric Opera of Chicago Diesel JEFFREY C. SOUSA* Anxious GREG BLACKMON* wishes to thank its offi cial Snowboy CALLAN BERGMANN* Nibbles MICHAEL J. RIOS* Gee-Tar PAUL HS MILLER* Juano MARTN ORTIZ TAPIA* airline, American Airlines. Tiger JUAN CABALLER* Toro SEBASTIAN GARCIA* eir Girls eir Girls • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes Graziella KYRA SORCE* Rosalia LINEDY GENAO* to thank the Broadway at Lyric Velma VERONICA SOFIA BURT* Consuelo ALEXANDRA MATTEO* preferred housing provider, Minnie PAIGE FRASER* Francisca ADDIE MORALES* Corporate Suites Network. Clarice SHANNON ALVIS Teresita KAYLA MONIZ* Pauline ALYSSA SARNOFF Estella ANTONIA RAYE* Anybodys ALEXA MAGRO* Margarita CAROLINA VILLARAOS* • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes e Adults to thank the Broadway at Lyric Doc DAVID ALAN ANDERSON* Schrank BRET TUOMI* preferred physical therapy Krupke JERRY KERNION* provider, Athletico. Glad Hand ED KROSS*
Ensemble: Hoss Brock, Matthew Carroll, William M. Combs, Desirée Hassler, Tyler Samuel Lee, Kenneth Nichols, • e videotaping or other Maia Surace, Corinne Wallace-Crane, Ron Watkins, Sherry Watkins, Nikolas Wenzel, Michelle Wrighte video or audio recording of this production is strictly Understudies: Sam Simahk – Tony; Vanessa Becerra – Maria; Alexandra Matteo – Anita, Francisca; Adam Soniak – Riff ; Paul HeeSang Miller – Action; Mark Deler – Bernardo; Juan Caballer – Chino; Michael J. Rios – Baby John; Addie Morales – Rosalia; prohibited. Carolina Villaraos – Anybodys; Jerry Kernion – Schrank; Kenneth Nichols – Doc; Nikolas Wenzel – Krupke; Matthew Carroll – Glad Hand; Swings: Olivia Barbieri, Matthew Steriti • Approximate timings of Conductor JAMES LOWE the performance: Director FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO Act One 80 minutes Set Designer PETER J. DAVISON Intermission 25 minutes Costume Designer JESSICA JAHN Act Two 40 minutes Lighting Designer MARK MCULLOUGH Sound Designer MARK GREY Total 2 hours, 25 minutes Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Choreographer JEROME ROBBINS* Original Choreography Reproduced by JULIO MONGE* Assistant Choreographer OLIVIA BARBIERI* Dance Captain MATTHEW STERITI* Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN e American Guild of Musical Associate Director ERIC SEAN FOGEL Artists, AFL-CIO (AGMA), Assistant Director JORDAN LEE BRAUN Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN is the union that represents the Assistant Stage Manager RACHEL C. HENNEBERRY singers, dancers, actors, and RACHEL A. TOBIAS staging personnel at Lyric Opera Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM, NOAH LINDQUIST, BRETT ROWE* of Chicago. Fight Director NICK SANDYS Diction Coach KATE DVORE* Sound Mixing Engineer STEPHANIE FARINA
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WEST SIDE STORY e Story
MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE Prologue ...... Orchestra (danced by Jets and Sharks) e Jet Song ...... Riff and Jets Something’s Coming...... Tony Dance at the Gym...... Jets and Sharks Maria ...... Tony Tonight...... Maria and Tony America...... Anita, Rosalia, and Shark Girls Cool ...... Riff and Jets One Hand, One Heart ...... Maria and Tony Tonight Quintet ...... Maria, Anita, Tony, Riff, Bernardo, Jets, and Sharks e Rumble ...... Orchestra (danced by Riff, Bernardo, Jets, and Sharks)
ACT TWO I Feel Pretty ...... Maria, Rosalia, Francisca, and Consuelo Somewhere ...... Maria (danced by Company) Gee, Officer Krupke ...... Action and Jets A Boy Like at/I Have a Love...... Anita and Maria Finale ...... Company
Orchestra Violin Flute/Piccolo Trumpet Sharon Polifrone, concertmaster Mimi Tachouet Bill Denton, principal Alexander Belavsky Rachel Blumenthal Matthew Comerford Katie Brauer Alyce Johnson Rob Parton Pauli Ewing Bing Grant Oboe/English Horn Trombone Laura Miller Judith Zunamon Lewis Mark Fisher, principal Jeremy Moeller, bass trombone Irene Radetzky, principal Clarinet Teresa Fream Charlene Zimmerman, principal Percussion Peter Labella Susan Warner, clarinet/E flat clarinet Ed Harrison, timpani/percussion Ann Palen Linda Baker, clarinet/bass clarinet Mike Green David Volfe Doug Waddell Albert Wang Sax/Bass Clarinet Eric Millstein Steven Leinheiser, alto sax/bass clarinet Jim Widlowski, drum set/percussion Cello Scott Burns, tenor sax/bari sax/bass clarinet Mark Brandfonbrener, principal Jim Gailloreto, soprano sax/bass sax Piano/Celeste Ethan Brown Jo Ann Daugherty, piano/celeste Laura Deming Bassoon Andrew Hesse Preman Tilson Guitar/Electric Guitar/Mandolin Sonia Mantell Tom Logan Horn Bass Robert Johnson, principal Orchestra Contractor Greg Sarchet, principal Neil Kimel Christine Janicki
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*Lyric debut STEPHEN SONDHEIM Principals (Lyricist) wrote the music and Creators lyrics for A Funny ing Hap- COREY COTT* (Tony), a pened on the Way to the Forum, graduate of Carnegie Mellon ARTHUR LAURENTS Anyone Can Whistle, Company, School of Drama, received criti- (Librettist) was for more than Follies, A Little Night Music, cal acclaim on Broadway for his half a century one of America’s Sweeny Todd, e Frogs, Pacifi c performance in the Tony Award- most distinguished fi gures in the Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the winning musical Bandstand. He arts. He moved in the theater Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion, made his Broadway debut as between writing to directing, and Road Show, as well as lyrics for West Side Story, Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies and played the role while also scoring great successes Gypsy, Do I Hear a Waltz?, and additional lyrics for for two years, followed by the revival of Gigi star- as a Hollywood screenwriter. Laurents began his Candide. Anthologies of his work as composer and ring opposite Vanessa Hudgens. On television, he career writing for radio, prior to the production of lyricist include Side by Side by Sondheim, Marry Me appeared opposite Christina Ricci in the Amazon his fi rst Broadway play, Home of the Brave (1945). a Little, You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow, Putting It series Z: e Beginning of Everything and costarred Other plays included A Clearing in the Woods Together, and Moving On. He composed fi lm alongside Hattie Morahan in the BBC/PBS mini- (1957) and Invitation to a March (1960). Laurents’s scores for Stavisky and Reds, and songs for Dick series My Mother and Other Strangers. He can also association with composer/lyricist Stephen Tracy (Academy Award). Sondheim has won six be seen in a recurring role on e Good Fight (CBS Sondheim includes, in addition to West Side Story, Tony Awards for best score for a musical, and All Access). Other credits include e Interestings the musicals Gypsy (book), Anyone Can Whistle eight of his shows have won the New York Drama (Amazon pilot), Madam Secretary, Public Morals, (direction, book), and Do I Hear a Waltz? (book). Critics Circle Award. Sunday in the Park with Law and Order: SVU, and recently completed fi lm- He also directed several other Broadway musicals, George received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in ing a role in the new Fox pilot, Filthy Rich. A including I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1962, 1985. Sondheim was elected to the American native of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Cott previously La Cage aux Folles in 1983 (for which he won a Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983. In 1990 he starred in Francesca Zambello’s staging of West Tony Award), the 2008 revival of Gypsy, and the was the fi rst Visiting Professor of Contemporary Side Story in Concert with the National Symphony 2009 bilingual revival of West Side Story. Among eatre at Oxford University. He has received a Orchestra at e Kennedy Center, conducted by his screenwriting credits are Rope (for Alfred Kennedy Center Honor and the Praemium Steven Reineke. He recently made his Carnegie Hitchcock), Anastasia, Bonjour Tristesse, e Way Imperiale, Japan’s highest honor, for a lifetime of Hall debut singing with the New York Pops. We Were, and e Turning Point. He wrote two artistic achievement. memoirs, Original Story by Arthur Laurents and MIKAELA BENNETT* (Maria) e Rest of the Story. He died in 2011. JEROME ROBBINS* (Original is a graduate of e Juilliard Director and Choreographer) School and is celebrated as a LEONARD BERNSTEIN began his career as a dancer, singer and actress for her work on stage and in the concert hall. (Composer) transformed the way winning particular praise as a In 2019 she was honored with a Americans and people every- soloist at Ballet eatre (later Lincoln Center Award for where hear and appreciate music. known as American Ballet Emerging Artists. On stage, she made her Bernstein’s successes as a eatre). Once he ended his professional debut starring as Penelope/ e Golden composer ranged from Broadway performing career, he achieved world renown as a Apple at City Center Encores! She originated the (West Side Story, On the Town, choreographer of ballets, as well as for directing role of Norma/Renascence in Dick Scanlan and Wonderful Town, Candide) to major concert and choreographing in theater, movies, and televi- Carmel Dean’s new musical in New York City, works, such as his three symphonies – sion. His Broadway shows included On the and at the Prototype Festival she originated the subtitled Jeremiah (1944), e Age of Anxiety Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West title role/Acquanetta in a new opera composed by (1949), and Kaddish (1963) – and Serenade for Side Story, e King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Michael Gordon. In the concert hall she has made violin, strings and percussion (1954); Chichester Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. her debuts with some of the world’s leading Psalms (1965); Mass: A Theater Piece for Singers, His last Broadway production, Jerome Robbins’ orchestras, including the John Wilson Orchestra Players and Dancers (1971); Songfest (1977); Broadway (1989), won six Tony Awards, including (as Maria/West Side Story, concert performance at Concerto for Orchestra: Jubilee Games (1989); best musical and best director. Among Robbins’s the BBC Proms), the New York Philharmonic and Arias and Barcarolles (1988). Bernstein also more than 60 ballets are Fancy Free, Afternoon of a under Leonard Slatkin, the Philadelphia Orchestra composed two operas, Trouble in Tahiti (1952) Faun, e Concert, Dances At a Gathering, Other under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and both the San and A Quiet Place (1983), and three ballets, Fancy Dances, Glass Pieces, and Ives, Songs, which are in Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Free (1944), Facsimile (1946), and Dybbuk (1975). the repertories of New York City Ballet and other Philharmonic under Michael Tilson omas. She He received an Oscar nomination for the score major companies worldwide. Robbins received two has also appeared as a soloist at the Kennedy of On the Waterfront (1954). Bernstein conducted Academy Awards, four Tony Awards, fi ve Center and Carnegie Hall. the world’s greatest orchestras for almost half a Donaldson Awards, an Emmy Award, the Screen century. He enjoyed special relationships with the Directors’ Guild Award, and the New York Drama New York Philharmonic (music director, 1958-69, Critics Circle Award. He was a 1981 Kennedy thereafter permanent laureate conductor), the Center Honors recipient and was awarded the Israel Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic. French Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Among Bernstein’s many honors were the Legion d’Honneur. Robbins died in 1998. American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal, a Kennedy Center Honor, 11 Emmy Awards, a special Tony Award, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, and the Japan Arts Association’s Praemium Imperiale. Bernstein died in 1990.
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AMANDA CASTRO* (Anita) ADAM SONIAK* (Action, u/s e Nutcracker with North Shore Dance Studio, has previously appeared in West Riff) comes to Lyric following and is an award-winner in the New York City Side Story as both Anita (Atlanta the national tour of the Dance Alliance competition and the RADIX, 24 Opera, Glimmerglass Festival) American-premiere production Seven, and Nuvo dance conventions. He has and Consuelo (Lyric Opera of of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s appeared in film productions by Collaborative Kansas City, Houston Grand Love Never Dies. No stranger to Cinema, Flexible Films, Milwaukee Film, and Opera). Castro has performed West Side Story, he has played Life Productions, Inc. widely in America and also abroad (London, Riff at Casa Mañana and the Westchester Germany, South Africa). A California Institute Broadway eatre, as well as in major cities across PAUL HEESANG MILLER* of the Arts alumna, she was a principal dancer of Europe with the international touring company. (Gee-Tar, u/s Action) has the renowned Brooklyn-based company Urban Regionally, he has appeared at Paper Mill appeared on Broadway in the Bush Women for four years. In the Run the Playhouse ( e Sound of Music) Walnut Street recent revival of Miss Saigon, Night competition at New York’s Highline eatre (Saturday Night Fever), and Riverside e King and I at Lincoln Ballroom, she won in 2016 and placed second in eatre (Hello, Dolly!). To honor this production, Center eater (performed Lun 2017 with Soles of Duende, her all-female per- Soniak has made a donation to the Illinois a), and as Eddie/Mamma cussive trio. Other New York credits include a Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Mia! at the Winter Garden and Broadhurst recently completed year-long creative residency theaters. Regionally he was in the premiere of with Soles of Duende at Dixon Place eatre; Jets Soft Power with Center eatre Group at the assisting choreographer Nick Kenkel at BC Beat; CALLAN BERGMANN* Ahmanson eater (Los Angeles) and the Curran working as a model and movement specialist in (Snowboy) has been seen on eater (San Francisco). Other regional credits New York Fashion Week; and dancing at Radio Broadway in Cats, Rodgers and include Walnut Street, North Shore Music City Music Hall for the Ellie Awards. Castro was Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and eater, Kansas City Starlight, Pittsburgh Civic dance captain at Geva eater (Rochester, New most recently Kinky Boots. Light Opera, Four Seasons eatre in Toronto, York) for In the Heights. Choreography credits Off-Broadway credits include Music eatre of Wichita and e Weston include the American Dance Awards, several Silence! e Musical, Lucky Guy, Playhouse and St. Michael's Playhouse, both works for Urban Bush Women, and multiple set and, at New York City Center, A Chorus in Vermont. pieces for Northeast competition studios. Line, Brigadoon, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Bergmann has appeared in the first national tours WESLEY RYAN* (Big Deal) BRETT THIELE* (Riff) has of Pippin and Mary Poppins; at Pittsburgh Civic has performed such roles as appeared in multiple Broadway Light Opera (14 productions), Paper Mill Simba/Festival of the Lion King productions including Escape to Playhouse, e Muny, and North Shore Music (Hong Kong Disneyland); Margaritaville, Miss Saigon, eatre; and at Vienna’s Vereinigten Bühnen Ritchie/13: e Musical (world and Spiderman: Turn Off the Wien. Television and film appearances include premiere, Centre eatre Group Dark. A native of New Orleans, Isn’t It Romantic, Smash, Lovestruck: e Musical, at the Mark Taper Forum of iele has appeared off-Broad- Late Night with David Letterman, and Sorority Row. the Los Angeles Music Center); Feets/Red Car way in Clueless, e Musical at the New Group. News Boys (Disney California Adventure); Regionally, he has appeared as Tulsa/Gypsy at JUAN CABALLER* (Tiger, u/s Dennis/All Shook Up, Joseph/Joseph and the the Maltz Jupiter eatre, e First Wives Club at Chino) previously appeared in Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and the Artful the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, Follies at the West Side Story as Action Dodger/Oliver (all at the James Armstrong Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and as Dakin/ e (Barrington Stage Company) eatre in Torrance, California); and Baby John/ History Boys at the Uptown Players in Dallas. His and Bernardo (Candlelight West Side Story (Torrance eatre Company). He previous West Side Story performances include Pavilion). Other credits include also appeared in the ensemble for the U.S. Riff with the St. Petersburg Opera Company and Guys and Dolls (Old Globe, regional premiere of Disney’s e Little Mermaid Action at the Asolo eatre in Florida. Asolo Repertory Theatre), Evita (Asolo Repertory, at Tuacahn Amphitheatre in Ivins, Utah. Riverside Theatre), Empire (new musical, La MANUEL STARK SANTOS Mirada Theatre), Pablo/Sister Act (Theatre By TAYLOR SIMMONS* (A-Rab) (Bernardo) previously played The Sea, Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Huck previously appeared in West this role at Ogunquit Playhouse. Finn/Big River (Performance Riverside), American Side Story as Snowboy (Atlanta), He has also portrayed Chino at Idiot (La Mirada), Big Fish (Moonlight), and Gee-Tar (Kansas City), Luis New York’s Palace eatre and Singing in the Rain (Musical Theatre West). (Houston), and Baby John Riff at Carnegie Hall. Santos Caballer has performed in New York at the (San Diego). He has toured has appeared on Broadway as Guggenheim Museum and Radio City Music nationally with Herrick Kassim/Aladdin (subsequently on the produc- Hall. He is an alumnus of the American Musical Entertainment’s production of Peter Pan 360, tion’s first national tour), Bonfils/Gigi, and S. and Dramatic Academy. playing the title role. Other roles include Tommy Uperman/On the Town. In New York he has also Djilas/ e Music Man at eatre by the Sea been seen at the Public LAB (Venice: A New JARRED MANISTA* (Baby (Rhode Island); the title role/Peter Pan and the Musical), City Center Encores! (Do I Hear a John) is a senior at Milwaukee’s Boy/Peter and the Starcatcher, both with freefall Waltz, Little Me, Applause, Irma La Douce, e Dominican High School, eatre (Florida); Wayne Frake/State Fair and Most Happy Fella), Paper Mill Playhouse where he has played leading Rolf/ e Sound of Music at Sierra Repertory (Paul San Marco/A Chorus Line), New York roles in Newsies, e Spitfire eatre (California). Music eater Festival (Rio), Houston’s eater Grill, Big Fish, and e Little Under the Stars (Disney’s When You Wish), Mermaid. In Milwaukee he has Atlanta’s Alliance eatre (world premiere of Bull also portrayed Fender/Hairspray (Skylight Music Durham), and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera eatre) and numerous roles at First Stage (Ren/Footloose). He was also seen in 14 episodes Children’s eater. Manista has been featured in of the NBC television series Smash. 22 | May 3 - June 2, 2019 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
JEFFREY C. SOUSA* (Diesel) USA and was cited among Dance Magazine’s “25 Sharks has appeared on Broadway in to Watch” in 2017. GREG BLACKMON* (Anxious) Aladdin, Gigi, and An American has performed in the Chicago in Paris. He played Bolo in ALEXA MAGRO* (Anybodys) area at Drury Lane eatre Lin-Manuel Miranda’s revision has appeared in 17 productions (Beauty and the Beast), of West Side Story for a national at Houston’s eatre Under the Chicago Repertory Ballet, and tour that played in more than 40 Stars, among them Memphis, All DanceWorks Chicago (he is the cities, and he has also toured nationally in the Shook Up, Into the Woods, and first DWC alumnus to choreo- Troika Entertainment production of Evita. Among Oliver. She danced in Sleeping graph for the company). He has also appeared in the dance companies with which he has performed Beauty with Lythgoe Family New York (Complexions Contemporary Ballet, are Armitage Gone! Dance in New York, the Panto (Los Angeles) and onstage for the John Opus Dance eater Company), Memphis Pennsylvania Ballet, and the LifeDance Company. Kander 90th birthday celebration at Broadway’s (Collage Dance Collective), Kansas City (Owen/ Sousa earned a B. F. A. degree at the University of Ambassador Theatre. In the high-school Cox Dance Group), and Detroit (Eisenhower the Arts in Philadelphia. editions of musicals produced by i eatrics in Dance). He trained at e Ailey School (including New York, she portrayed Anita/West Side Story two summer intensives, the fellowship program, Jet Girls (choreographed by Julio Monge) and Kristine/ and independent study), Dance eatre of SHANNON ALVIS (Clarice) A Chorus Line (choreographed by Baayork Lee). Harlem (scholarship program and ensemble has appeared in six Lyric Magro just completed her freshman year as a apprentice) and Deeply Rooted Dance eater productions, most recently My musical theater major/dance minor at Otterbein (summer program). Fair Lady. After training at University (Westerville, Ohio). Butler University and the MARK DELER* (Pepe, u/s University of Utah, she began KYRA SORCE* (Graziella) Bernardo) reprises a role previ- her career with the second com- attended Roosevelt University’s ously performed at the Guthrie pany of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, then Chicago College of Performing eatre. He appeared as both danced with HSDC for nine years. In 2009 she Arts, working towards a B. F. A. Inca and Bernardo in Troika joined Nederlands Dans eater, touring nation- degree in musical theater and Entertainment’s national West ally and internationally. She has taught at the dance. She has also participated Side Story tour, and was part of Joffrey Academy, Interlochen School for the Arts in summer programs of Joffrey the Shark ensemble for the developmental lab of (summer faculty), and currently with Chicago’s Jazz and Contemporary Dance and Alonzo King’s director Ivo van Hove’s and choreographer Anne Visceral Dance Center. A winner of the Joffrey’s LINES Ballet. Important performance credits Teresa de Keersmaeker’s upcoming Broadway Winning Work’s Choreographic Competition, she include Symphony of Psalms (Netherlands Dans production. Deler has also been seen as has choreographed for VDC, odos Dance eatre at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Goodspeed Musicals (Joe/Oklahoma!) and Chicago, and DanceWorks Chicago. Angeles), Mamma Mia (Drury Lane Theatre), Lubbock Musicals (Macavity and Admetus/Cats). Oklahoma! and Sweet Charity (Marriott eatre), He trained at the University of Illinois Urbana- VERONICA SOFIA BURT* Lysistrata Jones (Refuge Theatre project), Champaign, where he earned a B. F. A. in dance. (Velma) is a Brooklyn-based, Los Chess (Porchlights Revisits Series), West Side Story, He continues to train in New York with choreog- Angeles bred artist. Burt has per- Mamma Mia, and Newsies (Rocky Mountain rapher Max Stone. formed with the Shakespeare Repertory eatre), and the Jacob’s Pillow eatre Company (Camelot) Dance Festival. SEBASTIAN GARCIA* (Toro) and Washington National Opera is currently completing his (Eugene Onegin, La traviata) as ALYSSA SARNOFF (Pauline), training at the Rock School well as in summer stock at the beloved New who has appeared at Lyric in for Dance Education, having London Barn and as a singer/dancer for Norwegian Carousel (debut) and e Merry previously studied at the Cruise Lines. A Dartmouth College graduate, she Widow, previously appeared in American Ballet Theater also trained at the London Academy of Dramatic West Side Story as Graziella at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Art, the University of North Carolina School of Connecticut Repertory eatre, School and the Harlem School of the Arts. New the Arts, and Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. She also where she also portrayed York appearances include Jessica Lang’s e Gift currently works in the burgeoning field of intimacy Hannah/Newsies. She was associate director/cho- (Lincoln Center, world premiere); Saks Fifth direction and advocating for arts education in reographer for Charlotte d’Amboise’s production Avenue’s Holiday Spectacular; three Alvin Ailey public schools and beyond. of Chicago at the Show Palace eatre (Hudson, galas; and e SomeWhere Project (Carnegie Hall). Florida), and has served as associate choreographer Garcia has worked with such major dancers and PAIGE FRASER* (Minnie) to Christopher d’Amboise on the new musical choreographers as Alessandra Ferri, Julio Bocca, graduated cum laude from the Me…Jane, premiering last season at the Kennedy Julio Bonge, and Alexei Ratmansky. He received Ailey/Fordham B. F. A. program. Center. She performed with the Metropolitan the En Avant Award in 2017 from classical ballet’s A founding dancer of Visceral Opera Children’s Chorus in more than a dozen En Avant Foundation. Dance Chicago and former productions, including several featured roles. member of Ailey II, she has Sarnoff is an alumna of Northwestern University. guested with Deeply Rooted Dance eater and Ruth Page Civic Ballet. Fraser has done commercial work for Beyoncé and Chanel Iman, and was featured in international campaigns with INTEL, ESPN Latin America, and ELLE Magazine. She received a 2016 Dance Fellowship from the Princess Grace Foundation-
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JOSEPH A. HERNANDEZ Vermont’s Northern Stage and Fiddler on the Roof Musical at the Beck Center for the Arts (Lakewood, (Luis) debuted at Lyric this at Syracuse Stage. Rios is an alumnus of Syracuse Ohio), and Fiddler on the Roof at Lyric Stage season in Cendrillon. In New University. (Irving, Texas). York he has appeared with e Metropolitan Opera Ballet, MARTÍN ORTIZ TAPIA* KAYLA MONIZ* (Teresita), Dušan Týnek Dance eatre, (Juano) has appeared at Aurora’s who has toured internationally and Kate Weare Company. He Paramount eater as Victor/ as Francisca/West Side Story, has has also appeared in Chicago with River North Cabaret; at the Marriott eatre also been seen in Chicago Dance Chicago, in Boise with LED Boise, and in as Tommy Boy/Newsies; at the (Marc Robin’s production at San Francisco with ODC/Dance, Amy Seiwert’s Drury Lane eatre as Gabriel the Fulton eatre in Lancaster, Imagery, and Opera Parallèle. Hernandez gradu- and Cesar/Saturday Night Fever; Pennsylvania, also at the ated magna cum laude with a B.F.A. in dance and in Wisconsin at the Northern Star eater as Highlands Playhouse in Highlands, North from Western Michigan University. He also Chino/West Side Story and the Cumberland ETC Carolina), Evita and An American in Paris (both at trained in programs at Springboard Danse Ruppel Family eater as Lamar/Godspell. Tapia Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head). Montréal, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, San Francisco has toured nationally as a principal dancer with Moniz has performed extensively with Ballet Conservatory of Dance, and Gus Giordano Giordano Dance Chicago. He graduated magna Hawaii, including e Nutcracker, Septime Dance Center. cum laude from the University of Wisconsin- Webre’s Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, and Stevens Point with a B. F. A. in music and dance. George Balanchine’s Serenade. She trained at Ballet JOSHUA LAMAR* (Indio) Hawaii and at Broadway Dance Center (New has been seen at Ogunquit Shark Girls York) and Applause! Performance Academy Playhouse in An American in LINEDY GENAO* (Rosalia) (Washiawa, Hawaii). Paris and as a company dancer reprises a portrayal previously with Deeply Rooted Dance seen at Barrington Stage in ANTONIA RAYE* (Estella) has Theatre (Chicago), Collage Massachusetts. She debuted on appeared in four productions by Dance Collective (Memphis), Broadway in 2015 as Rachel/On Norwegian Creative Studios in and Debbie Allen Ensemble, directed by Kevin Your Feet!, subsequently appear- Florida, working with renowned Jeff, Kevin omas, and Debbie Allen. He has ing in over 70 performances of choreographer Warren Carlyle. performed on television in Save e Planet the show in the leading role of Gloria Estefan. She She has also appeared in four (Interface/Atlanta Film Studios), a Michael has been featured as Ramona Calderon/Havana Royal Caribbean productions. Jackson tribute (ABC), the PAC10 Halftime Show Music Hall (Actors’ Playhouse, Coral Gables), Raye has been seen in many dance concerts (Fox), and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC). Agnes Crookshank/A Taste of ings to Come nationwide, working with choreographers Wayne He trained at Dance eatre of Harlem, the (Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse), and Vanessa/In St. David, Hope Boykin, Sidra Bell, and Ayo University of the Arts, and California’s Charter the Heights (Olney eatre Center, Maryland). Jackson, among others. Raye earned a B. F. A. High School of the Arts (Sherman Oaks, California). She holds a B. A. in business from the University degree in dance performance at the University of of Connecticut. the Arts in Philadelphia. She also trained at the JULIO REY* (Chino) has summer sessions of Alonzo King LINES Ballet in appeared in a diverse musical- ALEXANDRA MATTEO* San Francisco and the American Dance Festival in theater repertoire, with roles (Consuelo, u/s Anita, Francisca) Durham, North Carolina. including Sawyer/Holiday Inn has been seen on Broadway (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in A Bronx Tale and Annie CAROLINA VILLARAOS* in Melrose Park, New York); (performed Grace, Lily and Star (Margarita, u/s Anybodys) Mike/Oklahoma! (Ogunquit to Be). She has been seen in previously appeared in Francesca Playhouse); Valentin/Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Equity National-tours of Zambello’s production of West Gene Kelly/S’Wonderful, and Dickon/ e Secret Anything Goes, e Addams Family (performed Side Story portraying Estella at Garden (all at Penn State Centre Stage); Gabey/On Wednesday), and Dirty Dancing (performed Baby, Atlanta Opera and Lyric Opera the Town (Penn State Philharmonic); and Davey/ Lisa, Elizabeth). Regional appearances include of Kansas City. She also played Newsies (New York’s Forestburgh Playhouse, Diana Morales/A Chorus Line (Westchester that role at Vermont’s Weston Playhouse eatre where he has also appeared in e Little Mermaid, Broadway eatre), Stephanie Mangano/Saturday Company. Other musical-theater appearances Funny Girl, e Who’s Tommy, and e Addams Night Fever (Riverside eatre, Walnut Street include Goodie/Song and Dance (New York’s 13th Family). Rey graduates this year from Penn State eatre) and other roles at Goodspeed Musicals St. Repertory eatre) and Louise/Carousel University, majoring in musical theater. and Delaware eatre Co. She graduated (Glimmerglass Festival). Villaraos is a graduate of from the Boston Conservatory with a B. F. A. in the Boston Conservatory, where she danced in MICHAEL J. RIOS* (Nibbles, musical theater. works choreographed by Dwight Rhoden, Daniel u/s Baby John) has been seen in Pelzig, Adam Baruch, and Gianni DiMarco. She national tours as Henry/Newsies, ADDIE MORALES* (Francisca, has also been seen in Miami with the Angel Fraser- Pouncival/Cats, and in the u/s Rosalia) has portrayed Maria/ Logan Dance Company and Miami Youth Ballet. ensembles of Hello, Dolly! (50th- West Side Story in Julianne anniversary tour) and The Boyd’s production at the Wizard of Oz. In Cats he played Barrington Stage Company and Pouncival in a Canadian and Latin American tour Eric Woodall’s production at with Ocesca Teatro and Mistoffelees in Royal Casa Mañana. Other Casa Caribbean Cruise Lines’ production. He also Mañana credits include e Buddy Holly Story, played Henry/Newsies in the Disney eatricals Cats, Sweeney Todd, e Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, film and Brad/Hairspray at Florida’s Maltz Jupiter and Peter Pan. Morales has also been seen in Tick, eater. He has also been seen in Peter Pan at Tick…Boom! at Playhouse Square, Bring It On: e
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Adults JERRY KERNION* (Krupke‚ DESIRÉE HASSLER has u/s Schrank) was recently seen at performed in everything from DAVID ALAN ANDERSON* Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse commercial and film soundtracks (Doc) has been featured at major as Col. Tom Parker/Heartbreak to opera/operetta, musical theater, theaters nationwide, performing Hotel. His more than 50 and even progressive heavy metal such formidable roles as Othello television appearances include albums. is season Hassler has (Great Lakes, Idaho, and Penn- recurring and guest-starring roles been heard onstage at Lyric as the sylvania Shakespeare festivals), on Chicago Fire, Rebel, and Mad Men, and the role Fourth Maid/Elektra and First Spirit/Cendrillon. Macbeth (St. Louis Black Rep), of Bobby Corso/Grey’s Anatomy. He was also a Other career highlights include Violetta /La traviata Troy /Fences (Indiana Rep, Arizona eater Com- series regular on John Landis’s television series (Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra), Ellen/ pany eatre Center, Denver eatre Center, Campus Cops. His film appearances include Henry Oklahoma! (Lyric), Beethoven's Symphony 9 (Illinois Milwaukee Repertory eater), and Walter Lee/ Fenner/ e Princess and the Frog and Hutch/Last Symphony Orchestra), Bach’s B Minor Mass A Raisin in the Sun (Guthrie eatre, Penumbra Call at Murray’s. He has been seen in two Cirque (Chicago Bach Project), the Brahms Requiem (Los eatre, Arizona eatre, Cleveland Playhouse, du Soleil shows and has performed around the Angeles), Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Prairie Kansas City Rep). Anderson has also been seen at world as a member of e Reduced Shakespeare Ensemble). An alumna of the University of Illinois at Actors eatre of Louisville, Court eatre, and Company for the past 15 years. Urbana-Champaign, Hassler is an Associate Professor Writers eatre, among other prestigious compa- of Music at Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute. nies. Television credits include e Chi (Show- Ensemble time), Chicago PD (NBC), Prison Break (Fox), and HOSS BROCK, a Lyric Opera TYLER SAMUEL LEE made his Mike Hammer (CBS), among other productions. Chorus member, has had Lyric solo debut earlier this season Anderson was a 2013 recipient of one of solo roles in the company’s in Il trovatore, having previously America’s most coveted honors for actors, the productions of La traviata, My appeared as Jason/Jason and the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. Fair Lady, e Sound of Music, Argonauts with Lyric Unlimited. and Oklahoma!. e tenor has e tenor’s orchestral appearances ED KROSS* (Glad Hand) has portrayed Almaviva/ e Barber include Richard Einhorn’s Voices appeared in many Chicago-area of Seville with Lyric Unlimited’s Opera in the of Light (Baltimore Symphony). Lee was a series productions, including e Jun- Neighborhoods program and recently appeared as regular on Out of the Box (Disney Channel), has been gle Book (Goodman eatre), Alfredo/La traviata with the Lake Geneva a guest on e Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and was Hazel (Drury Lane Oakbrook), I Symphony Orchestra. Brock has performed on San a writer and voice actor for Dexter’s Laboratory Love Lucy: Live On Stage (Broad- Francisco Opera’s mainstage (Der Rosenkavalier) (Cartoon Network). He is an alumnus of both the way Playhouse), Sex, Love, & and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Conservatory of Music (Gianni Schicchi, e Second City (Second City’s UP), Side Man Peninsula Music Festival, Northwest Indiana Postcard from Morocco) and NYU Steinhardt (title (American Blues eater), and, for three years, Symphony, and Grant Park Music Festival. role/ e Student Prince). I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Royal George). On camera he has made more than 75 MATTHEW CARROLL (u/s KENNETH NICHOLS (u/s commercials, has been seen in episodes of Chicago Glad Hand) has been a member Doc) has appeared in ten solo Fire, Patriot, Sirens, and Boss, and shares one-on- of the Lyric Opera Chorus for roles at Lyric since 2002/03, one scenes with Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition 15 years and has been featured in most recently in this season’s and George Clooney in Ocean’s 12. many Lyric productions, includ- Elektra and Il trovatore. Among ing My Fair Lady, the world the bass-baritone’s roles in BRET TUOMI* (Schrank) has premiere of Bel Canto, and most Chicago have been the King and been seen on Broadway as Hertz/ recently La traviata. In addition to Lyric, he has the Herald/ e Love for ree Oranges (Chicago Rock of Ages, which he also performed roles with Michigan Opera eatre, Cultural Center) and Leporello/Don Giovanni played in the production’s Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, Toledo (DuPage Opera eatre). In Harold Prince’s Show national tour. He is familiar to Opera, Opera Omaha, Ohio Light Opera, and Boat production, he was an ensemble member and Chicago audiences from roles at Chicago Folks Operetta. He was a Pittsburgh sang many performances of the featured role of Joe TimeLine eatre (Victor/ e regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Toronto, Chicago, and London. Since Price, Skilling/ENRON), Chicago Shakespeare National Council Auditions. 1998 Nichols has made seven appearances with eater (Killagrew/Nell Gwynn, Bloody Sergeant/ “Night of 1,000 Voices,” the annual charity Macbeth, Montano/Othello, Bardolph and WILLIAM M. COMBS, a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Williams/Henry V), Drury Lane Theatre 24-year veteran of Lyric Opera (Mac/42nd Street, Mr. Braithwaite/Billy Elliot), of Chicago, has combined opera MAIA SURACE, a member of and the Goodman eatre (Salesman/Ah, and musical theater throughout the Lyric Opera Chorus, has been Wilderness, Lieb/ e Iceman Cometh). He has also his career. From Matt/ e a soloist in Lyric productions of been seen at eatre at the Center as the Pap King/ Fantasticks for its Russian pre- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Big River. Among his television and film appear- miere in Moscow to Mike/ Show Boat, and Katya Kabanova. ances are Chicago PD (NBC Universal), Mind Oklahoma! at Lyric and the Beast/Disney's Beauty e mezzo-soprano has sung Games (ABC/20th Century Fox), Maydays (inde- and the Beast, the tenor has enjoyed performing in Tisbe/Cinderella with Lyric’s pendent), Keep the Change (TBS), and Save the multiple genres while treading the stage at Lyric in “Opera in the Neighborhoods” program. She has Mavericks (STM LLC). its mainstage opera productions. Combs is a appeared as A Secretary/Nixon in China (Chicago member of the music staff at Christ Church of Opera eater), Cherubino/ e Marriage of Figaro Oak Brook. (DuPage Opera eater), title role/Handel’s Orlando and Rosalinde/Offenbach’s Bluebeard (both with Glimmerglass Opera), Jenny Diver/ e Beggar’s Opera (Castleton Festival), and various roles with Cincinnati Opera’s outreach program. May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 25 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
CORINNE WALLACE-CRANE, MICHELLE WRIGHTE is an OLIVIA BARBIERI* (Female a Roosevelt University alumna, alumna of Lyric’s professional Swing, Assistant Choreographer) sang the Second Nightmaid/My artist-training program, e has appeared in West Side Fair Lady at Lyric during the Ryan Opera Center, with which Story as Graziella (The 2016/17 season. She has partici- she created the role of Lucy Kennedy Center), Teresita ( e pated in the young-artist pro- Cross/Michael John LaChiusa’s Glimmerglass Festival), and grams of Sarasota Opera (Tisbe/ Lovers and Friends. Prominent Francisca (Lyric Opera of Kansas La Cenerentola, Dame Quickly/Falstaff , Giovanna/ among the mezzo-soprano’s six mainstage roles at City, Atlanta Opera). Other Glimmerglass perfor- Rigoletto), Natchez Opera Festival, and Central Lyric have been Emilia/Otello, Mercédès/Carmen, mance credits include Dream Laurey and Sylvie in City Opera (featured roles in Vanessa and and the Tango Singer/ e Great Gatsby (company Oklahoma!, and a principal dancer in Candide, e L’incoronazione di Poppea – she subsequently premiere). Other credits include Cherubino/ e Cunning Little Vixen, and e Magic Flute. Barbieri returned as a featured artist to sing Assunta/ e Marriage of Figaro (Chicago’s Opera Piccola), choreographed Francesca Zambello’s production Saint of Bleecker Street). She portrayed Madame de Isabella/L’italiana in Algeri (Pamiro Opera), of e Barber of Seville at Glimmerglass and has la Haltiere/Cendrillon with Chicago’s Petite Opera. Armindo/Partenope (Glimmerglass Festival), Ino/ toured to Bordeaux and Toulouse as a principal She has also been heard at Chamber Opera Semele (Spoleto Festival), Dinah/Trouble in Tahiti dancer in Zambello’s production of Candide. She Chicago and Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera. (Tampa Opera), Ramiro/La fi nta giardiniera (San earned a B. F. A. degree in musical theater at Francisco Opera Center), and the Fox/ e Cunning Syracuse University. RON WATKINS, a Lyric Opera Little Vixen (Tulsa Opera). Chorus member since 1992, has MATTHEW STERITI* (Male performed seven solo roles at Understudies Swing, Dance Captain) has Lyric, most recently in Der SAM SIMAHK (u/s Tony) made appeared in Francesca Zambello’s Rosenkavalier, e King and I his Lyric debut during the West Side Story production at (both 2015/16), and Carousel 2015/16 season as Lun a/ e Atlanta Opera and Lyric Opera (2014/15). He has also appeared King and I and his Broadway of Kansas City (portraying Big at DuPage Opera eatre as Marcello/La bohème, debut last season as Captain Deal) and the Glimmerglass at the Grant Park Music Festival as Samuel/ e Watson/Carousel. He has also Festival (portraying Pepe). He earned a B. F. A. Pirates of Penzance, and at Light Opera Works as appeared in national tours of e degree in musical theater at Syracuse University, Captain Corcoran/HMS Pinafore and Sir Richard King and I and Miss Saigon. Off -Broadway perfor- where he appeared in many productions and was Cholmondeley/ e Yeomen of the Guard, as well as mances include Alvaro Vigna/Icon, Abraham/ featured in Crazy for You and Ragtime. He has with Chicago Opera eater, Madison’s Opera for Sweetie, and Mihai/Blind. His extensive regional portrayed Rapunzel’s Prince/Into the Woods the Young, Eastman Opera eater, and College credits include productions at eatre Under the (Stoneham eater in Massachusetts) and Scott/ Light Opera Company in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Stars (Curly/Oklahoma!), Ocean State eatre Dear Edwina (Quisiana Resort in Maine), and has Company (as Lun a), Rocky Mountain Rep performed in the ensembles of Mary Poppins SHERRY WATKINS just (Enoch Snow/Carousel), Lyric Stage Company of (Syracuse Stage) and My Fair Lady (Syracuse Opera). completed her 21st season at Boston (four featured roles, among them Anthony/ Production Team Lyric. Her appearances during Sweeney Todd), Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and past Lyric seasons have included Ogunquit Playhouse. He appeared in Ragtime on JAMES LOWE (Conductor) such roles as Pepík/ e Cunning Ellis Island, has sung the National Anthem at debuted at Lyric in 2012/13 Little Vixen (company premiere), Boston’s Fenway Park, and has appeared in leading Oklahoma!. On Broadway First Madrigalist/Manon Lescaut, “Broadway’s Future Songbook” and “American he was music director and con- and A Woman/William Bolcom’s A View from the Songbook,” both at New York’s Lincoln Center. ductor of the recent revival of Les Bridge (world premiere). Also at Lyric, she Misérables and the revival of has appeared in the ensembles of six musicals, most VANESSA BECERRA (u/s Anything Goes (Grammy nomi- recently Jesus Christ Superstar and My Fair Maria), who portrayed Miss nation), starring Sutton Foster. Lowe made his Lady. Watkins also performs with the Grant Park Lightfoot/Fellow Travelers in Broadway debut conducting Gypsy, starring Patti Symphony Chorus, is soprano soloist at Second Lyric Unlimited’s production LuPone. He led the fi rst national tour of e Light Presbyterian Church, and has performed roles with last season, has been featured at in the Piazza, and was music director and conduc- Intimate Opera, Petite Opera, and concerts with the Glimmerglass Festival tor for the touring National eatre production of the Lakeshore Symphony Orchestra. as Bernstein’s Maria, as well as My Fair Lady. Operatic engagements this season Laurey/Oklahoma! and Musetta/La bohème. e include La bohème (Houston Grand Opera), NIKOLAS WENZEL (u/s soprano is an alumna of LA Opera’s Domingo- Jeanine Tesori's e Lion, e Unicorn, and Me Krupke), a member of the Lyric Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Appearances (Washington), Show Boat (Glimmerglass Festival), Opera Chorus since the 2016/17 with that company include e Magic Flute, e and Rachel Portman’s e Little Prince (Utah season, has been heard in solo Marriage of Figaro, La traviata, and e Ghosts of Opera). Lowe has also appeared at the San roles in four Lyric productions, Versailles. While in the program, Becerra was a Francisco, Tulsa, New York City, and Wolf Trap most recently La traviata. e Regional fi nalist of the Metropolitan Opera opera companies. His close relationship with bass has also appeared with Lyric National Council Auditions and the recipient of a Houston Grand Opera includes productions of Unlimited as Sarastro/ e Magic Flute. Among his top award from the Pasadena Opera Guild. Recent works of Mozart, Bizet, Copland, Sondheim, other appearances have been Dead Man Walking highlights include debuts with the Los Angeles Portman, and Heggie. He debuted in Europe with and Tosca (Madison Opera) and Das Rheingold Philharmonic (Papagena/ e Magic Flute), the San Candide (Toulouse, subsequently Bordeaux). Lowe (Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis). Wenzel is an Francisco Symphony Paquette/Candide), Opera has also led the Houston Symphony, Memphis alumnus of the young-artist programs of Opera San José (title role/Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella), Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, and American eatre of Saint Louis (Alice in Wonderland, Glauce/Medea (Opera Omaha), and Johanna/ Composers Orchestra. He has performed as piano Carmen) and Chicago Opera eater (Médée), and Sweeney Todd (Atlanta Opera). soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra a three-time Metropolitan Opera National Council and has given recitals at such distinguished venues Auditions regional fi nalist. 26 | May 3 - June 2, 2019 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO as the Aspen Music Festival, the Chautauqua (U.K./U.S.A. tour, Broadway) and Show Boat (Royal Steppenwolf, and Center Stage, among others. Mark Institute, and the University of Texas-San Antonio Albert Hall). Davison is a former Tony, Drama McCullough is supported by the Mary-Louise and New Music Festival. Desk, and Olivier Award nominee. James S. Aagard Lighting Director Endowed Chair. FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO JESSICA JAHN (Costume (Director) has triumphed at Lyric Designer), whose work was previ- MARK GREY (Sound Designer)’s with her productions of Tristan ously seen at Lyric’s productions association with Lyric has encom- und Isolde (1999/00), Salome of Anna Bolena (2014/15) and passed seven productions since (2006/07), Porgy and Bess Norma (2016/17), has collaborat- 2007-08, most recently My Fair (2008/09, 2014/15), and Show ed with directors Francesca Lady (2016/17), e King and I Boat (2011/12). She returns to Zambello, Diane Paulus, Tina and e Merry Widow (both Lyric next season for Luisa Miller. General director Landau, Tommy Kail, Charles Randolph Wright, 2015/16), and Carousel (2014- of e Glimmerglass Festival since 2010 and artistic Kevin Newbury, and Michael Cavanaugh, as well as 15). Grey made history as the first sound designer of director since 2012 at Washington National Opera artist Michael Counts; writers Nora Ephron, Eisa the New York Philharmonic (2002) and the (where she recently directed a much-acclaimed Ring Davis, Charles Busch, Charles Fuller, Gene Scheer, Metropolitan Opera (five productions since 2015, cycle, also seen twice at the San Francisco Opera), and Mark Campbell; and composers Ricky Ian most recently Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle). For more she has also served as artistic advisor to the San Gordon, Jake Heggie, and Kevin Puts. Some of her than two decades, professional sound design relation- Francisco Opera (2005 to 2011) and artistic director past projects include Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth ships have led Grey to premiere works by such artists of Skylight Music eatre (1987 to 1992). Following eatre), Love, Loss and What I Wore (Westside and organizations as John Adams, Steve Reich, West Side Story at Lyric, Zambello will conclude her eatre), Die Mommie Die! (New World Stages – Philip Glass, Peter Eötvos, Terry Riley, Boosey & 2018/19 season with Carmen (San Francisco), Show Lucille Lortel Award winner), Once On is Island Hawkes Music Publishers, and many others. Boat and La traviata (both at Glimmerglass). (Paper Mill Playhouse), One Night...(world premiere Productions include St. Matthew Passion (Berlin Zambello has worked at more than 50 major opera – Cherry Lane eatre), Life Is A Dream (world Philharmonic/Simon Rattle/Peter Sellars at the Park houses and theaters in America and internationally, premiere – e Santa Fe Opera), Monodramas and Avenue Armory, New York, 2015). He designed and from Houston Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Mosè in Egitto (New York City Opera), e Crucible toured extensively with Kronos Quartet for nearly Opera to La Scala, the Opéra National de Paris, the (Glimmerglass Festival), e Manchurian Candidate 15 years and is also a longtime collaborator of com- Bolshoi, the Bavarian State Opera, Covent Garden, (world premiere – Minnesota Opera), Maria Stuarda poser John Adams. As a composer, Grey has recently and Opera Australia. She is a Chevalier des Arts et (Seattle Opera), Dead Man Walking (Washington undertaken commissions for the Atlanta Symphony des Lettres and has received two French Grand Prix National Opera), Norma (Canadian Opera Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His des Critiques, three Olivier Awards, two Evening Company, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu), West opera Frankenstein premiered at the éâtre Royal Standard Awards, the Golden Mask from Russia, the Side Story (Houston Grand Opera, Glimmerglass), de la Monnaie (Brussels) on June 14, 2016. Russian Medal for Service to Culture and the San and Moby Dick (Utah Opera). In addition, Jahn also Francisco Opera Medal for San Francisco Opera's adjuncts at Brandeis University’s theater arts depart- MICHAEL BLACK (Chorus highest award for artistic excellence. (See “A Message ment. Jessica Jahn is supported by the Richard P. and Master) has been chorus from the Director,” p. 33.) Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair. master at Lyric since the 2013/14 season. Chorus master from 2001 PETER J. DAVISON (Set MARK McCULLOUGH to 2013 at Opera Australia in Designer) earned critical praise (Lighting Designer) has created Sydney, Black prepared the OA at Lyric for Porgy and lighting for Lyric’s Porgy and Bess chorus for more than 90 operas Bess (2014/15, 2008/09) and (2008/09, 2014/15) and Show and many concert works. He has served in this capac- Show Boat (2011/12). e British Boat (2011/12). Other notable ity for such distinguished organizations as the designer’s productions with pre- achievements include productions Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Holland stigious companies throughout at the Metropolitan Opera ( e Park (London), and, in Australia, the Sydney Europe and the U.K. include e Marriage of Figaro Marriage of Figaro), Vienna Staatsoper (Macbeth); Symphony Orchestra (including Rachmaninoff’s e (Vienna); Die Gezeichneten, Falstaff, and Die Bolshoi eatre (La traviata); Beijing’s National Centre Bells, led by Vladimir Ashkenazy), the Philharmonia schweigsame Frau (Zurich); Capriccio (Berlin, Turin); for the Performing Arts (Les contesd’Hoffmann); Choir, Motet Choir, and Cantillation chamber Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, and Mary Stuart (English La Scala (Cyrano de Bergerac); Madrid’s Teatro Real choir. Black has also worked with the Melbourne National Opera); Anna Bolena (Bavarian State (Luisa Miller); the Royal Opera House Covent Symphony Orchestra in Australia with Sir Andrew Opera); Mitridate, Re di Ponto and Carmen Garden ( e Queen of Spades); and the major compa- Davis. His recent activities include preparing the (Salzburg); e Queen of Spades (Covent Garden); nies of Washington (Ring cycle, Porgy and Bess), Damnation of Faust chorus, which continued his Guillaume Tell (Opéra National de Paris); and Strasbourg ( e Beggar’s Opera), and Boston, Miami, association with Grant Park Music Festival, where he Cyrano de Bergerac (La Scala), among many other Seattle, Dallas, San Diego, and St. Louis, as well as has worked for two seasons. As one of Australia’s productions and venues. In addition to e Rake’s Bard College’s Fisher Center and the Glimmerglass most prominent vocal accompanists, Black has regu- Progress, e Marriage of Figaro, and Cyrano de Festival. Among McCullough’s theater credits are larly performed for broadcasts and recordings (he has Bergerac at the Metropolitan Opera, his work has the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway and been heard numerous times in Australian Broadcast also been seen in America at Washington National U.K. tour); Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych Corporation programs). He has served as chorus Opera (eight productions), San Francisco Opera, eatre, London); e White Devil and Don Carlos master on four continents, and his work has been Houston Grand Opera, e Dallas Opera, and the (Royal Shakespeare Company); Der Besuch der alten recorded and/or aired on ABC, BBC, PBS, and for Glimmerglass Festival. His theater credits include Dame (Ronacher eatre, Vienna); Artus (St. Gallen, many HD productions in movie theaters as well as productions for Broadway (Medea, Hamlet, Deuce, Switzerland) and Rebecca (St. Gallen and Stuttgart’s on television. Michael Black is the Howard A. Stotler Copenhagen, Democracy, Is He Dead, Blithe Spirit), Palladium eater); and Off-Broadway productions Chorus Master Endowed Chair. the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National including Old Money, How I Learned to Drive, and eatre, London’s West End, and the Chichester e Long Christmas Ride Home. McCullough’s Festival eatre. Among his many important regional-theater work has been seen at the La Jolla musical-theater productions are Jesus Christ Superstar Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage,
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JULIO MONGE* (Choreographer) stage director. He has created new productions for has presented at numerous conferences and work- recently revived the original Atlantic eatre II, Opéra Bordeaux, Chicago shops nationwide and is author of e Voice Book: choreography of West Side Story at Opera eater, Hawaii Opera eatre, Lyric Opera Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice, Houston Grand Opera, the of Kansas City, LA Opera, the Metropolitan and the eBook Accent Modification: Neutral American Glimmerglass Festival, Pittsburgh Museum of Art, Opera Philadelphia, éâtre du Dialect. Select coaching credits include Sweat, A Ballet, and the Sydney Harbour Capitole (Toulouse), eater St. Gallen, XSBN Christmas Carol, Support Group for Men, e Wolves, outdoor stage for Opera Australia (China), and Washington National Opera at the A View From the Bridge, Uncle Vanya, Another Word (associate director). He has been performing for Kennedy Center. For Beauty, Feathers and Teeth, e Jungle Book, and more than 30 years on stage, film and television. On Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman eatre); e Curious Broadway he has performed in Jerome Robbins’ JORDAN LEE BRAUN Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Steppenwolf); Broadway, On Your Feet, Man of La Mancha, Lincoln (Assistant Director) has been with Mamma Mia! and Beauty and the Beast (Drury Center’s Twelfth Night, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Lyric since the 2015/2016 season Lane); and Small Mouth Sounds, Evening at the Talk Fosse, and Paul Simon’s e Capeman. Choreography (An American Dream, La traviata, House, e Opponent, Butcher of Baraboo, and credits include e Somewhere Project, celebrating La bohème, Il trovatore, Jesus Abigail’s Party (A Red Orchid eatre). Carnegie Hall’s 125th anniversary; Tony Kushner’s Christ Superstar, e Pearl Fishers, translation of Mother Courage and her Children, Rigoletto, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, JOHN W. COLEMAN (Stage starring Meryl Streep, and the musical Radiant Baby, and more). Braun frequently works with young art- Manager) has been a member of both directed by George C. Wolfe; e reepenny ists through Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center, directs Lyric Opera’s production staff for Opera, starring Betty Buckley, at Williamstown student matinees for Atlanta Opera and Opera 29 seasons. Among his more than eater Festival; José Rivera's premiere of References Colorado, and collaborates with DePaul University’s 100 Lyric productions have been to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, starring Rosie Pérez; Opera Department. She has directed Rigoletto at five world premieres, two Ring and the revival of Pablo Cabrera’s La Verdadera Toledo Opera and Opera Carolina, and has also cycles, and over 40 new produc- Historia de Pedro Navaja in San Juan, Puerto Rico. assistant-directed for the Colorado and Atlanta com- tions, for which he has collaborated with many dis- Directing credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch panies, as well for Charlottesville Opera. Braun has tinguished directors, including Robert Altman, Götz (also producer and translator) at Puerto Rico’s Gay worked in stage management at Wolf Trap Opera, Friedrich, Richard Jones, Sir Peter Hall, George C. and Lesbian eater Festival (Best Production Washington National Opera, Opera Omaha, Fort Wolfe, and Graham Vick. Coleman is former pro- Award, 2010). Monge is a collaborator and Worth Opera, and others. duction stage manager of Opera eatre of Saint consultant on Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film Louis, Chicago Opera eater, Portland Opera, and version of West Side Story. NICK SANDYS (Fight Director) Texas Opera eater. Other credits include produc- has supervised the stage fights for tions with the major companies of San Francisco, SARAH HATTEN (Wigmaster more than 40 productions at Pittsburgh, Houston, Santa Fe, and Miami. An and Makeup Designer), who has Lyric, most recently Il trovatore alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana- held this position at Lyric since this season. A certified teacher Champaign, he has served as adjunct faculty at 2011/12, has worked in a wide and fight director with e DePaul University. Coleman is President of the repertoire at Des Moines Metro Society of American Fight American Guild of Musical Artists. Opera and Michigan Opera Directors, Sandys has created fight choreography eatre, as well as Columbus throughout the Chicago area, including for the RACHEL C. HENNEBERRY Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, Goodman (more than 25 productions), Steppenwolf, (Assistant Stage Manager) has been and the University of Cincinnati College- Lookingglass, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Remy involved in more than 40 produc- Conservatory of Music. She has also worked at the Bumppo, Timeline, First Folio, Shattered Globe, tions with San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Festival and the major opera compa- Light Opera Works, Silk Road Rising, and e working with such distinguished nies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, eatre School at DePaul University (adjunct since directors as Francesca Zambello and Central City, as well as Wisconsin’s American 1995). His work outside Chicago includes the (Ring cycle), David Pountney Players eatre and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Metropolitan Opera, Portland Opera, and Dallas (Macbeth), Sir David McVicar (Don Giovanni), and eatre and the Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a Opera, as well as numerous major theater companies Graham Vick (Lucia di Lammermoor, Tannhäuser). B.A. in music at Simpson College. Sarah Hatten is nationwide. Sandys’s fight choreography has A graduate in stage management from both the the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup received four Joseph Jefferson Award nominations, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Designer Endowed Chair. winning in 2008 (Requiem for a Heavyweight). He is Music and DePaul University, Henneberry has also also producing artistic director of Remy Bumppo stage-managed for Seattle Opera, Utah Symphony ERIC SEAN FOGEL (Associate eatre Company. As an actor he has appeared with and Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Wolf Trap Director) was last at Lyric with numerous Chicago theaters, receiving another nine Opera. Show Boat as associate choreogra- Jeff nominations for acting and two for directing. pher in 2012. is season his He holds a 2011 Meier Foundation Award for RACHEL A. TOBIAS (Assistant work can be seen in Porgy and Artistic Achievement and was a 2018 APA Audie Stage Manager) has been a stage Bess (Seattle Opera), Romeo and Award Finalist. manager and assistant stage man- Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre ager at Lyric for 18 seasons. Since Company), e Marriage of Figaro (San Diego KATE DEVORE* (Diction 2009 she has spent part of each Opera), e Lion, e Unicorn, and Me (Kennedy Coach), one of Chicago’s most summer as lead stage manager for Center), Florencia en el Amazonas and e Pearl successful voice coaches and opera programming at the Fishers (both at Houston Grand Opera). Fogel is speech pathologists, is the found- Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. Tobias has held currently on staff at the Glimmerglass Festival as er and master trainer of Total similar stage-management positions with San head of stage movement and choreography. He will Voice, Inc., which provides voice, Francisco Opera, Michigan Opera eatre, choreograph Show Boat and e Ghosts of speech, and presence coaching. Glimmerglass Festival, and Chicago Opera eater, Versailles for the 2019 season. Next fall Fogel will DeVore teaches at e School at Steppenwolf, among others. return to the Metropolitan Opera as an assistant Columbia College, and Acting Studio Chicago. She
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Hot and Cool: e Creation of West Side Story By Roger Pines FRIEDMANABELES, BILLY ROSE THEATRE DIVISION, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY PUBLIC YORK NEW DIVISION, THEATRE ROSE BILLY FRIEDMANABELES,
e rst Maria, Carol Lawrence, and the rst Tony, Larry Kert, on location in New York City (West 56th Street between 9th and 10th Avenue) for a West Side Story publicity shoot.
e 1958 Tony Awards included five Best its creators, as formidable a team as any create the adaptation. But those three were Musical nominees. ree of those shows – musical-theater production has ever seen. among the busiest people on the American seldom, if ever, performed today – were Leonard Bernstein (music), Arthur Laurents performing-arts scene, and the project was memorable chiefly as vehicles for major (book), and Jerome Robbins (director/ eventually shelved. In 1955, however, when stars: Tony Randall (Oh, Captain!), Lena choreographer) had all triumphed on Bernstein encountered Laurents in Horne (Jamaica), and Gwen Verdon (New Broadway before. Stephen Sondheim California, it came up again. e idea of a Girl in Town). e fourth show, e Music (lyrics), then only 25 years old, was working Jewish/Catholic Romeo and Juliet was now Man, which ultimately won the award, was on his first Broadway show, although he abandoned, in favor of an “American” gang an affectionate depiction of turn-of-the- was certainly as acutely intelligent and (the Jets) vs. a Puerto Rican one (the century Iowa that turned journeyman actor stupendously gifted as his three colleagues. Sharks). And so to work, with Sondheim Robert Preston into a Broadway headliner. But however savvy each man may have been, now on board as the fourth collaborator. e fifth nominee was the “odd show out.” in this case they were all very much feeling Known as a playwright, director, and To begin with, the principals were their way into a show unlike anything seen screenwriter, Laurents later described his unknowns, not stars. It was a gritty show, previously on Broadway. West Side Story dialogue as “my translation colored by both the cruelty and the ecstasy On January 6, 1949, Bernstein wrote of adolescent street talk into theater: it may of young people living and loving in a that Robbins had called him with “a noble sound real, but it isn’t.”2 In his brilliantly vibrant but dangerous urban setting. It also idea”1: a contemporary Romeo and Juliet, constructed libretto, several situations had a tragic ending, unprecedented for a refashioned as a conflict between Jews and parallel Shakespeare’s play: Broadway musical. But it abounded with Irish Catholics, “set in slums at the coinci- awe-inspiring talent, and everything about it dence of Easter-Passover celebrations” on • the Capulet/Montague ball communicated the excitement of the new. New York’s Lower East Side (the title, in becomes the “Dance at the is was West Side Story. fact, was originally East Side Story). Robbins Gym,” where Tony and Maria e show’s many miracles began with proposed Laurents as the right person to meet;
1 Quoted in Nigel Simeone, Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story, Routledge, 2017, p. 17. 2 From interview for Musikspill, Norwegian television series hosted by Harold Tusberg, 1980.
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Leonard Bernstein at the time of West Side Story. In rehearsal for the rst production of West Side Story: left to right, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, librettist Arthur Laurents, co-producer Harold Prince, co-producer Robert E. Grith (seated), composer Leonard Bernstein, and director/choreographer Jerome Robbins. • the equivalent of Shakespeare’s men of the Prologue; with both arms and Heart,” and the lovers’ desperate, anguished “balcony scene” happens on a one leg outstretched as they strut down a phrases preceding the “Somewhere” ballet fire escape; New York street, they present one of the (the song itself, assigned in the original pro- • although the lovers don’t have most recognizable images from any duction to Consuelo, one of the Shark girls, a modern-day Friar Laurence to American musical. Created by Robbins is sung by Maria in Lyric’s production.) marry them, they do exchange (with the great show dancer Peter Gennaro In the wild flamboyance of “America” vows on their own in the bridal as his uncredited co-choreographer), the we’re captivated by the worldly, deliciously shop where Maria works; original West Side Story choreography sarcastic Anita. Later, after Bernardo – who remains enthralling today, whether the Jets, had been her fiancé – is killed by Tony, • a confrontation between the the Sharks, and their girlfriends mambo-ing Anita berates Maria in the scathing “A Boy gangs results in their leaders’ in an explosion of incendiary sexual electric- Like at” (to which Maria responds with deaths: Riff (counterpart of ity in “ e Dance at the Gym”; Anita and sweet restraint in “I Have a Love”). Bernardo Shakespeare’s Mercutio) is her cheeky sidekicks in “America” (Bernstein, has no song of his own, but Riff dominates killed by Bernardo (Tybalt), inspired by a particular Mexican folk dance, both the “Jets’ Song” and “Cool.” Together Maria’s brother, and the marked the music “tempo di huapango”); those numbers depict a fearless, charismatic enraged Tony (Romeo) – who’d Riff urging his anxious Jet buddies to stay troublemaker who gives new meaning to the formerly been a member of the “Cool,” in the show’s most overtly jazzy adjective “streetwise.” Midway in Act Two, Jets – kills Bernardo. number; and the touching ballet that leads the Jets – now without their murdered Laurents’s ending departs from into “Somewhere,” midway in Act Two. leader – provide the show’s only episode of Shakespeare, which must have stunned Bernstein’s universally beloved score genuine hilarity in “Gee, Officer Krupke,” 1950s audiences, accustomed in musicals to is arguably the greatest of his career. their endearingly obnoxious justification of seeing conflicts happily resolved in time for Early in the show, breathless alterations their own delinquency. the finale. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet between hushed eagerness and all-out exu- Bernstein had no objection to opera both commit suicide, but in West Side Story berance support Tony’s premonition that (he’d written a successful one, Trouble in only Tony dies – shot by Chino, Bernardo’s “something’s coming.” Later, his joyous Tahiti, just five years earlier), but a purely vengeful friend. e gang members are bit- repetitions of his new love’s name (“Maria”) operatic West Side Story wasn’t his aim, as he terly castigated by Maria, who accuses them illuminate that name through the melodic admitted when summing up the challenge all of Tony’s murder. It’s clear that their line’s eloquent use of the tritone. e Latin facing him and his colleagues: feud has now ended, but one wonders rhythms of Maria’s “I Feel Pretty” sparkle, whether the young but disillusioned and the ideal expression of her irresistible girlish- Chief problem: to tread the fine emotionally scarred Maria will ever find ness. e audience follows her star-crossed line between opera and Broadway, love again. romance with Tony from the delicate, lumi- between realism and poetry, ballet e show progresses seamlessly from nous cha-cha in the orchestra accompanying and “just dancing,” abstract and one scene to the next, with five extended their first dance to the combination of representational. Avoid being dance sequences beautifully integrated into impetuosity and tenderness in “Tonight,” “messagy.” e line is there, but it’s the drama. e dances begin with the young the quiet serenity of “One Hand, One very fine, and sometimes takes a lot 3 of peering around to discern it.
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In rehearsal for the rst production of West Side Story: left to right, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, librettist Arthur Laurents, co-producer Harold Prince, co-producer Robert E. Grith (seated), composer Leonard Bernstein, and director/choreographer Jerome Robbins.
“I Feel Pretty”: Stephen Sondheim (at the piano) and Leonard Bernstein rehearsing Carol Lawrence (Maria, far right) and the ensemble of Shark girls.
Although he did impose certain rhyth- and competition between Jets and Sharks, any fantastic rhymes in West Side Story. mically complicated musical structures on a insisting not only that they avoid socializing ey’re almost all day and may, go and show. musically and vocally inexperienced cast (as together, but that they rehearse in different It would have been betraying the characters if in the electrifying quintet reprise of rooms! For Chita Rivera, a stunning dancer they’d rhymed too well. I Feel Pretty’ still “Tonight”), Bernstein took pains to create a and the first Anita, it wasn’t just Robbins’s bothers me. It’s just too elegant for a girl like score that would be technically manageable work on the show that made a lifelong impact Maria to sing. I mean, “It’s alarming how and wouldn’t tempt his singers into overtly on her – it was Bernstein’s as well: charming I feel”? at wouldn’t be unwel- operatic expression. come in Noël Coward’s living room.”6 e casting process proved challenging. It was great to walk into that But Sondheim has never denied the ere was none of Broadway musicals’ usual rehearsal hall and hear that music. show’s uniqueness, noting that “its impor- “dancing chorus” and “singing chorus”; When I heard the cha-cha, tance lies in its theatricality. It was a more everyone needed to act the dialogue convinc- I couldn’t stop crying, it was so sophisticated blending of music, dance, song, ingly, master the music and lyrics, and dance perfect for the scene, perfect for the and dialogue than anything that had been the extraordinary new stylistic fusion devel- book, and beautiful to listen to. My done before.”7 oped by Robbins. Grover Dale, who created heart was totally involved with his e creators didn’t start out anticipating the role of Snowboy, noted years later that music. He gave me the library success; they were simply eager to do some- “one of the most amazing things about the that’s in my head of knowing what thing genuinely bold, regardless of the choreography is that it starts in naturalism a wonderful score is all about. outcome. Having no idea what to expect, and within seconds naturalism is transformed Smart and musical and complicated everyone involved in the show was conse- into a form of ballet and jazz. Making that and passionate scores, where the quently astounded on opening night of the transition, finding dancers who are capable lyrics work beautifully with the Washington tryout, when the audience liter- of doing that, was one of the main casting music and you can leave the theater ally screamed with enthusiasm during the elements as that show got produced.”4 humming a beautiful melody.5 curtain calls. In New York, where West Side e rehearsal period was immensely Story premiered on September 26, 1957, the As for Stephen Sondheim, West Side exciting, if also unnerving, thanks to Robbins, most astute critics thoroughly understood Story is hardly a favorite among his own an almost terrifyingly strict taskmaster in the show – especially e New York Times’s works. Five decades after the premiere, he preparing the dances. He also wanted tension Brooks Atkinson, who hailed the creative declared with typical frankness: “ ere aren’t 3 Ibid., p. 31 team: 4 YouTube video posted by Grover Dale, April 20, 2012. 5 From interview on WNYC, Oct. 4, 2008. 6 From interview for “How We Made West Side Story,” e Guardian, Sept. 18, 2017. 7 From interview for Musikspill, Norwegian television series hosted by Harold Tusberg, 1980.
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Pooling imagination and virtuosity, they have written a profoundly moving show that is as ugly as the city jungles and also pathetic, tender and forgiving. [Tony and Maria’s] balcony scene on the fi rescape [sic] of a dreary LEO KHARIBIAN LEO tenement is tender and aff ecting. From that moment on, West Side Story is an incandescent piece of work that fi nds off bits of beauty amid the rubbish of the streets. Everything contributes to the total impression of wildness, ecstasy and anguish.8
West Side Story is one of the world’s most honored and most often performed shows, and exciting productions like Francesca Zambello’s – produced at Glimmerglass, Houston, now at Lyric – continue to renew its hold on audiences. Much ink has been spilled in explaining why it remains a seminal work of American musical theater. Among today’s commentators on the show, Jamie Bernstein, the composer’s daughter, has been particularly eloquent and deserves the last word:
[Bernstein] was somebody who was always trying to make the world a better place. e best vehicle was through his own music. West Side Story was his most successful attempt to use his music to explore the diffi culties we all live within our world and to use music as almost a kind of healing process. West Side Story is about hatred, intolerance, fear of strangers arriving in your neigh- borhood – these are issues as urgent for us today as they were back then. My father’s music really gives us a language with which to explore these issues and fi nd ways to resolve them.9
Roger Pines, dramaturg of Lyric Opera of Chicago, has appeared annually on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts’ “Opera Quiz” for the past 13 years. He contributes regularly to opera-related publications and recording companies internationally. He has recently presented lectures at the inaugural Teatro Nuovo bel canto opera festival (New York), the Newberry Library, and DePaul University’s Opera Department.
8 e New York Times, Sept. 27, 1957. 9 From interview with Clive Gillinson for Google Arts & Culture, Nov. 1, 2017.
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A Message from the Director LYNN LANE/HOUSTON GRAND OPERA
Anita (Gabrielle McClinton, in red) and the Shark girls in “America”: Francesca Zambello’s production, Houston Grand Opera.
“Two households, both alike in West Side Story, although well-inten- ginalize “the other.” Perhaps we find it dignity…” us begins Shakespeare’s tioned, didn’t get everything right; easy to engage with people of different tale of Romeo and Juliet, in which later critics have pointed out lapses cultural backgrounds. But what about we see “ancient grudge break to new into stereotype. ( is is true in so differences in education? Religion? mutiny.” When Arthur Laurents first many “period pieces” that we put Resources? Politics? conceived a modern, musical version on the stage today, and as always, I Leonard Bernstein scrawled “an of the play, he imagined a rivalry look forward to the opportunity to out and out plea for racial tolerance” between Catholic and Jewish com- engage in a dialogue about some of across the first page of his copy of munities on the Lower East Side; the thorny issues presented by the Romeo and Juliet. As we approach this only later did he and his collaborators piece, both with my colleagues and piece in 2019, in the midst of a world move the story uptown, pitting a gang with our audience members.) immigration and refugee crisis, I hope of native” New Yorkers against those Lapses aside, by putting the trag- we can make that plea reverberate in a more recently arrived. ic cost of two warring tribes center new way. I also hope we can challenge Although America is a country of stage, the authors made an impor- ourselves to think broadly about ways immigrants, we continue to struggle tant statement about the human ten- in which we arbitrarily dismiss the with issues around immigration and dency to organize ourselves into fac- experiences and opinions of those who migration, which makes West Side tions. Especially with the rise of social are not like us. Story an important tale for today. media, we have all become more tribal (As Sondheim’s lyric neatly put it, in our outlook. I think the story of — Francesca Zambello “Nobody knows in America / Puerto two warring “tribes” challenges all of Rico’s in America.”) e creators of us to look at how we define and mar-
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WARREN DUBIN Nobody does musical theater quite like Lyric.
You’ll love this Tony-winning song-and- dance spectacular featuring sensational tap numbers and memorable melodies:
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Lyric presentation of Warren’s 42nd Street generously ND made possible by Lead Sponsor The Negaunee STREET Music by HARRY WARREN | Lyrics by AL DUBIN | Book by MICHAEL STEWART MARK BRAMBLE Foundation and cosponsors an Anonymous Donor, Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes. Original direction and dances by GOWER CHAMPION. Originally produced on Broadway by DAVID MERRICK. and Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly. Major The use of all songs is by arrangement with Warner Bros., the owner of music publishers’ rights. 42nd Street is presented by arrangement with TAMS-WITMARK. in-kind audio support provided by Shure Incorporated. PHOTO: MARIENOELLE ROBERTTHÉÂTRE DU CHÂTELET
WSS-Program-Ad-FullPage-Bleed-42nd-Street-8.25x10.5.indd 1 4/11/19 9:43 AM LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO West Side Story After the Curtain Falls Your musical-theater experience doesn’t have to end here! When the performance is over, you can continue your exploration of West Side Story in conversation with your companions:
• How did you respond to the unusually strong emphasis on dance in this show? How do the dance sequences enhance the drama?
• What song did you enjoy the most?
LYNN LANE/HOUSTON GRAND OPERA LANE/HOUSTON LYNN • Bernstein didn’t intend to compose an opera, but are there any moments in the music that actually seem operatic to you?
• If you’re familiar with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, are there any scenes in the play for which you wish Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents had created equivalents in the musical?
• Of the six principal characters, Bernardo is the only one we don’t hear doing any major singing. If you were going to create a song for him, what do you think it would be about?
• If you’ve seen both the musical and the film version of West Side Story, which do you prefer and why?
Maria (Andrea Carroll) meets Tony (Norman Reinhardt) during the dance at the gym: West Side Story at Houston Grand Opera, 2018.
To continue enjoying West Side Story, Lyric dramaturg and program editor Roger Pines suggests the following performances:
CD: Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert, Chita Rivera, Mickey Calin; cond. CD: A Quiet Place – Claudia Boyle, Joseph Kaiser, Lucas Meachem Max Goberman (Sony Classics – original Broadway cast) (Decca Classics) CD: Alexandra Silber, Cheyenne Jackson, Jessica Vosk, Kevin Vortmann; Other musicals with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim San Francisco Symphony, cond. Michael Tilson omas (SFS Media) CD: Gypsy – Ethel Merman (Masterworks Broadway) CD: Tinuke Olafimihan, Paul Manuel, Caroline O’Connor, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for: Nicholas Warnford; National Symphony Orchestra, cond. John Owen Edwards (TER/Jay Productions) CD: Anyone Can Whistle – Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury (Masterworks Broadway) DVD: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn; cond. Johnny Green, dir. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (MGM) CD: A Funny ing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Zero Mostel (Hallmark) ALSO OF INTEREST: CD: Company – Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch (Masterworks Broadway) Musicals composed by Leonard Bernstein CD: Follies – Jan Maxwell, Bernadette Peters, Ron Raines, Danny Burstein CD: On the Town – John Reardon, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, (P. S. Classics) Nancy Walker (Columbia) CD: Into the Woods – Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason CD: Wonderful Town – Alysha Umphress, Danielle de Niese, (Masterworks Broadway) Nathan Gunn (LSO Live) DVD: Into the Woods – Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason CD: Candide – Robert Rounseville, Barbara Cook, Irra Petina (Image Entertainment) (Masterworks Broadway – Original Broadway cast) DVD: Into the Woods – Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt (Disney) Operas composed by Leonard Bernstein Films with screenplays by Arthur Laurents CD: Trouble in Tahiti – Rod Gilfry, Kim Criswell (BR Klassik) DVD: e Way We Were – Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford DVD: Trouble in Tahiti – Karl Daymond, Stephanie Novacek (Opus Arte) (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) DVD: Anastasia – Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes (20th Century Fox) May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 35 Lyric is grateful for our 2018/19 Season Production Sponsors
LA BOHÈME IDOMENEO
JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION
LIZ STIFFEL
THE MICHAEL AND SUSAN AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUST
HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB AND BARBARA G. GREIS
ROBERTA L. AND ROBERT J. WASHLOW
THE RING CYCLE SIEGFRIED
ANONYMOUS DONOR STEFAN EDLIS AND GAEL NEESON
MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION
GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION HELEN AND SAM ZELL OF MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA
ADA AND WHITNEY ADDINGTON
IL TROVATORE CENDRILLON
HENRY AND GILDA BUCHBINDER FAMILY FOUNDATION
EARL AND BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION
ELEKTRA LA TRAVIATA
JULIE AND ROGER BASKES DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION
SYLVIA NEIL AND DANIEL FISCHEL THE MICHAEL AND SUSAN AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUST MAZZA FOUNDATION NANCY AND SANFRED KOLTUN
LAUTER MCDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUND
ARIODANTE WEST SIDE STORY
MARGOT AND JOSEF LAKONISHOK THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION
THE DAVEE FOUNDATION
RANDY L. AND MELVIN R. BERLIN
ROBERT S. AND SUSAN E.
MORRISON MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE
MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE
To learn more about Lyric sponsorship opportunities, please visit lyricopera.org/SponsorshipOpportunities. ARIA SOCIETY SPOTLIGHT | 2018-2019
ABBOTT FUND JULIE and ROGER BASKES Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of of Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than dedicated support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has four decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s generously cosponsored 24 Lyric productions, including this Ryan Opera Center activities as previous cosponsors of season’s new coproduction of La bohème. Abbott has championed Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. ey Miles D. White Lyric’s achievements by making a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. “Lyric is one of the treasures have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, last season’s that make Chicago the world-class city that it is. We’re Rigoletto and this season's Elektra. ey also made a leadership commitment to proud to be associated with it.” says Miles D. White, the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Abbott’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors and Executive valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Committee. Julie is also Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board.
ADA and WHITNEY ADDINGTON MARLYS A. BEIDER Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Lyric As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys has con- subscribers and donors. ey have contributed generously tributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Canto Benefactor to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground of the planned giving Overture Society. Her planned gift com- Campaign, and have made a leadership gift in support of mitment created the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season’s Siegfried. Designer Endowed Chair in memory of her late husband, Harold e Addingtons have also invested in the company’s Beider. Marlys Beider cosponsored several productions including future through their planned gift to Lyric. Lyric is fortunate to have Dr. Whitney Elektra (2012/13), Parsifal (2013/14), and Tosca (2014/15), and Addington as a member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee has committed generous leadership gifts to cosponsor two of Lyric’s new Ring cycle productions including Das Rheingold (2016/17) and next season's Götterdämmerung.
AMERICAN AIRLINES RANDY L. and MELVIN R. BERLIN is season we celebrate 37 years of vital corporate partnership Devoted fans of opera education and the arts, Melvin with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of and Randy Berlin are vital members of the Lyric Opera Chicago. In recognition of the company’s significant contribution family. “It’s part of Chicago for us. It enriches the city to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine and the community, and we like to be part of that,” level of the Lyric Opera House is named the American Airlines says Melvin. e Berlins have contributed significantly Mezzanine. American Airlines provides important in-kind support to the Annual Campaign and made a leadership gift to Franco Tedeschi for Lyric’s programs and special the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Melvin and Randy have cosponsored several events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice President of American productions including last season's Cosi fan tutte and this season's West Side Story. Airlines, proudly serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors Lyric is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors. and Lyric Unlimited Committee.
BMO HARRIS BANK For over 200 years, BMO has been financing economic expansion PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION and supporting the communities it serves. BMO Harris is proud e Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the to support the Lyric Opera through the Lyric’s Annual Campaign performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. e and join the production sponsorship family for this season’s Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated La traviata. Lyric is honored to have Richard Pomeroy, Senior Managing Director, BMO Wealth Management U.S., serve on the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John Richard Pomeroy Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, its Board of Directors and Investment Committee. “Opera is self reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his truly an inspiration. It affects how we see and interpret the world ideals. At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter around us, and it’s our hope that the support we of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming and has generously provide Lyric will help increase exposure to such committed to a high level of multi-year support. a beautiful form of artistic expression.”
HENRY and GILDA BUCHBINDER FAMILY ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS FOUNDATION Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from ten Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda anonymous contributors during the 2018/19 season. Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric Opera family. Committed to sustaining the exceptional quality of Lyric’s artistic product, the Buchbinders made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUST Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Michael and Susan Avramovich were ardent supporters of theater, Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. ey have also been longtime generous donors opera, and classical music in Chicago. Longtime subscribers, to the Annual Campaign, and are cosponsors of this season’s production of Il the Lyric was a special favorite. Michael had deep roots in Italy, trovatore. “I really do believe that Lyric is the best opera company in the world,” is and his mother, Margherita, was from Rome. In a salute to Gilda’s heartfelt assessment, to which Hank adds, “the productions are done so well, that heritage and to many years of Lyric, the Trust is pleased to and stage sets are marvelous.” Lyric is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its cosponsor La bohème and La traviata this season. Board of Directors and the Production Sponsorship Committee.
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CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM MRS. JOHN V. CROWE Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership and Peggy and the late Jack Crowe are generous and passionate generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and longtime members of the Lyric family, evidenced by their major patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign and Family’s very generous challenge grant re-established Lyric’s the Renée Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy Crowe's regional and national/international radio broadcasts in 2006. signifi cant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming Kay’s incredible continued matching support made possible the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fi fth fl oor in e Lyric Opera Broadcasts from 2006-18. “Lyric is a great national institution,” memory of Jack Crowe's mother. Lyric was very fortunate to have Jack Crowe serve Matthew once said, “and it gives our family great pleasure to know these broadcasts as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Lyric's Board of Directors. bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so many in Chicago and around the globe.”
THE CROWN FAMILY BULLEY & ANDREWS Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée and Founded in 1891, Bulley & Andrews is one of the Midwest’s Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of Lyric Opera. e most trusted and accomplished construction companies. e Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming Initiative fourth generation, family-owned fi rm off ers clients a full range of and made generous gifts to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and construction services including general contracting, construction Breaking New Ground Campaign. Mrs. Crown is a past management, design/build, and masonry and concrete restoration. President of the Women’s Board and is this season's Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, supported Lyric Lester and Renée Crown Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Gala Chair. Mr. Crown Allan E. Bulley, III Unlimited’s Performances for Students joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the programs, and is a cosponsor of Lyric’s Executive Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients Ring cycle, including this season’s Siegfried. Lyric is pleased of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and to have Allan E. Bulley, III as a member of its Board of commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Directors. serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to e Crown Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago.
THE BUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION Longtime subscribers from Dubuque, Iowa, John and THE DAVEE FOUNDATION Alice Butler recently made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to e Davee Foundation and the late Ruth Breaking New Ground Campaign’s stage improvement Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. e project. John says, “When Alice and I heard that Lyric Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago-area charities refl ects the Davees’ wide- was unable to share productions with other houses due ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric is fortunate to our outdated and unreliable stage technology, we to be among the organizations benefi ting from e Davee Foundation’s enduring John and Alice Butler understood that to be a serious problem that needed to philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to come. e be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s mission to be the best Davee Foundation provided critical preliminary support to enhance amplifi cation opera company in North America, and in order to be the best, we must have access and sound systems used in the Musical eater Initiative, and has generously the best productions.” Lyric Opera is honored to have John Butler serve on its Board cosponsored each production in the initiative, including this season’s West Side Story. of Directors and Investment Committee.
STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESON DAVID and ORIT CARPENTER Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael David and Orit Carpenter have been staunch supporters Neeson are actively involved with organizations in of Lyric for many years and made a generous planned gift Chicago, New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help ensure Neeson have supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera for that Lyric will be available for many future generations to more than 30 years. ey have cosponsored six mainstage enjoy. In addition to their longtime personal support of operas, including last season’s Faust and this season’s Lyric’s Annual Campaign, David has helped secure eight Siegfried. Stefan and Gael also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground production cosponsorships, including this season's company premiere of Ariodante, Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its Board of Directors and through Sidley Austin LLP, where he was a Partner for more than 30 years. Orit is a Production Sponsorship Committee. valuable resource for the Ryan Opera Center, working with the artists on performance psychology. Lyric is honored to have David serve on its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. EXELON e philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, Lyric remains deeply grateful for the long-term generosity of the and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community engagement Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s nonprofi t programs. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included Rusalka (2013/14), Lyric’s leaders in arts support. e Cheney Foundation has made a multi- second mariachi opera, El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), and e Marriage of year commitment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Opera. During Figaro (2015/16). is season, Exelon is generously the 2018/19 season, the Cheney Foundation is supporting the cosponsoring Lyric’s production of Elektra. Lyric Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; the singer sponsorship is fortunate to have Exelon as an outstanding Elizabeth F. Cheney of tenor Mario Rojas, and Guest Master Teacher and Artist corporate partner. residencies. Lyric is honored to have foundation director Allan Drebin serve on its Board of Directors, and the Ryan Opera Center Board.
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JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB and A founding patron of Lyric eatre (now Lyric Opera of Chicago) BARBARA G. GREIS and a Lyric Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and patrons, Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis have generously great place to live and enjoy life. e Julius Frankel Foundation supported Lyric Opera through major contributions to has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas Campaign. ey have cosponsored many productions, Julius Frankel and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have including this season’s production of La bohème. Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general of the Glenwood Investment Corporation and an accomplished violinist. In 2018, operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. Frankel was particularly Mr. Gottlieb was given Lyric's highest honor, the Carol Fox Award, for his many interested in making Chicago one of the greatest places in the world to live and years of generous service. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an active member of enjoy life,” Nelson Cornelius once said. “ e foundation’s giving supports things Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric does.” Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius Frankel in grateful recognition of the Foundation’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. is season, the Julius Frankel Foundation is a generous cosponsor of Lyric's new coproduction GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION of La bohème. With an unparalleled record as sponsor of more than 28 new Lyric productions since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. e Gramma Fisher Foundation has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the four ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUST operas that make up Wagner’s Ring cycle, continuing with Siegfried this season. Lyric One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer and other members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Matthew Fisher Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, serve on its Board of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. Women’s Board. rough the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander seek to enrich the Elizabeth Morse Genius quality of life in Chicago. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL and Opera House chimes and music library in honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR. with its sister trust, e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship and support of sponsored many mainstage productions. In addition to production sponsorship, the Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel. A devoted Trust has helped underwrite Lyric’s ongoing efforts to diversify its various boards and member of the Women’s Board, Karen has served on preserve Lyric’s history through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric several committees, most recently as the 2016 Board named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she Genius Conference Room in order to show its grateful appreciation for the Trust’s contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize of stage renovations. e Krehbiel family plays a prominent role in the continued the Trust’s commitment over many years to success of the company. Karen and John joined the production sponsor family with helping build the company’s core capacities and their generous support of Carmen and last season made a leadership gift to Wine institutional infrastructure. Auction 2018.
BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILL MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS Brent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and in Chicago, and they have made a leadership gift to tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 24 Brent and Katie were sponsors of Lyric Unlimited's youth Lyric productions since 1987/88, including last season’s opera, e Scorpion's Sting, and Lyric's 30th Anniversary Die Walküre and this season's Siegfried. Lyric is honored Wine Auction. Brent Gledhill is the Global Head of to name Mezzanine Box 20 in grateful recognition for Investment Banking at William Blair & Company, and a their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lyric is honored to have Brent serve on esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Audit Committee. Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor.
WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN William and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND Opera productions for more than 50 years. ey are John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are for many years until his death in 2001. With support from his members of Lyric's Production Sponsorship family, most Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, recently cosponsoring Lyric’s new production of Faust Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues last season. ey have also made a leadership gift to the through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. e Halligan Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a member Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. John R. Halligan organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our appreciation of nature. e fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. Halligan resided during his lifetime.
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THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ITW e Harris Family Foundation, represented by Pam Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, is a valued support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). e company has member of Lyric’s production sponsorship family, made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking most recently cosponsoring last season’s Faust and New Ground Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored the this season’s Siegfried. e Harris Family Foundation Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has Caryn and King Harris also supports the Annual Campaign, and made a Scott Santi cosponsored many productions, last season’s new production of of the Harris Family Foundation generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Faust and this season's production of La traviata. Lyric is proud Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of to have Chairman and CEO Scott Santi on its Board of Directors and Executive the Foundation Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and serving Committee, along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs W. on its Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late David Speer. involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the Women’s Board and has held many leadership positions, most recently as Co-Chair of Opening Night/ Opera Ball in 2015.
EDGAR D. JANNOTTA Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding support of Ned Jannotta and his beloved late wife Debby. A lifelong opera lover, Ned has been an integral part of the Lyric Opera family, joining the Board of Directors in 1987, serving as President and CEO J. THOMAS HURVIS and ANN ANDERSEN of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving as Tom Hurvis and Ann Andersen are avid opera fans Co-Chairman Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received a leadership gift from and longtime Lyric subscribers. Tom and Ann sponsor the Jannottas for the Breaking New Ground Campaign to create the Ryan Opera the Renée Fleming Initiative and made a generous Center Music Director Endowed Chair, in addition to their generous gifts to the leadership gift in support of Lyric’s Chicago Voices Annual Campaign. initiative during the 2016/17 season. Most recently, they have given a generous gift to the Ryan Opera Center, endowing a singer in perpetuity in memory of dear friend Dick Kiphart. As part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom JENNER & BLOCK and his beloved late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in support of Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law fi rm with global Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education and community engagement impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal issues. activities. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of e fi rm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s legal and contributions to the Annual Campaign, including several production sponsorships, business communities, and is consistently ranked as one of the top as well as their support of e Lyric Opera Broadcasts. “Opera enriches lives. at fi rms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided signifi cant pro is why it is so important to introduce young people to opera, and for them to Craig C. Martin bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to experience productions done by the best in their fi elds. How fortunate we are to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign, have all this right here in Chicago.” Lyric is honored to have Tom Hurvis serve on Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair of Jenner & Block’s its Board of Directors, Executive, Lyric Labs, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. Litigation Department, as a valued member of its Board of Directors, Nominating/ Governance, and Executive Committees.
PATRICIA A. KENNEY and GREGORY J. O'LEARY INVESCO QQQ Pat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime Invesco QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing Director subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, with a and Head of Global Exchange Traded Funds, is proud to sponsor particular passion for supporting the emerging artists the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric Opera. ey previously of e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera cosponsored the productions of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet Center. Greg serves on the Ryan Opera Center (2015/16), e Magic Flute (2016/17), and Turandot (2017/18). Board on its Fundraising Committee, and Greg and Dan Draper is season Invesco QQQ is a generous cosponsor of Lyric’s Pat have cosponsored the season-culminating Rising premiere of Cendrillon. Invesco Stars in Concert for six consecutive years. Greg was recently elected to the Lyric QQQ global network recognizes the value in Board of Directors. Pat and Greg joined the Aria Society last season with their helping investors around the world, but with generous Mainstage Singer Sponsorship of celebrated Ryan Opera Center alumnus headquarters in Downers Grove, "We are proud Matthew Polenzani in his appearances in e Pearl Fishers. Lyric is grateful for their supporters both of Lyric's innovative programming longstanding friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric Opera and the Ryan Opera and community engagement, and we laud their Center with their mission of providing world class opera and training for singers, eff orts to foster a rich artist culture locally." respectively. Every time we think they hit the high plateau, they ascend to another."
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THE RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART FAMILY MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Susie Kiphart is an esteemed member of the Lyric Opera Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding dedicated family. She is a member of Lyric's Board of Directors members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully and immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center acknowledges their generous contributions to Wine Board, Chair of the Ryan Opera Center Nominating Auction, the Annual Campaign, and the Breaking New Committee, and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and Committee. Along with her beloved late husband Dick cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred Kiphart, Susie is a passionate philanthropist. ey have Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. made leadership contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. ey have given major support for Lyric's radio programming as members of the broadcast consortium, sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members, and have been generous JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK sponsors of the Renee Fleming Initiative. Lyric will forever be grateful for the Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot visionary leadership of the late Dick Kiphart. He was a past President and CEO Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. as well as Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/ ey have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and Governance Committee, and a member of the Executive, Finance and Production made a significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Sponsorship Committees. e Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt Campaign. ey have also cosponsored several mainstage commitment to Lyric are tremendous assets to the company, and in recognition of productions, including last season’s Orphée et Eurydice and their passion and immense dedication they received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s this season's new coproduction of Ariodante. e CEO of highest honor, in 2013. LSV Asset Management, Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees.
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of providing exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around the world NIX LAURIDSEN and VIRGINIA CROSKERY in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, LAURIDSEN restructuring, and counseling matters. e firm is committed Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen of Des to enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, Moines, Iowa, join the Aria Society this year with special cultural awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. gifts to e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Linda K. Myers Kirkland & Ellis LLP has cosponsored several operas, most recently including cosponsorship of Rising Stars in Concert and e Merry Widow (2015/16), and was Lead Corporate Sponsor of the Chicago Voices Lead Sponsorship of the 2018 Ryan Opera Center Final Gala Benefit (2016/17). Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner Auditions. As an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, Virginia is thrilled that she and at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member of its Board of Directors, Executive, and her husband Nix are able to support these incredible emerging artists. Nix is the Production Sponsorship Committees. chairman of LGI (Lauridsen Group Inc.) and a recent inductee into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame. He is a relative newcomer to the opera world but loves the excitement of the genre. e Lauridsens are pleased to be part of the Lyric family and look forward NANCY W. KNOWLES to an exciting new season. Opera always played an important role in the life of the late Nancy W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of records to play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION in my home.” Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, e John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, and leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and of Directors and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. In peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric named the is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over- Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. Knowles capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Student and Family Performances fund. Ms. Knowles generously underwrote several Foundation supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture grantmaking. mainstage operas. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she e Foundation’s support helps create powerful performances and exhibitions, received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be educate young people, and engage communities, while grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity. providing arts and culture organizations the flexibility to innovate and experiment. Lyric is very grateful for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation. NANCY and SANFRED KOLTUN Close members of the Lyric family as longtime subscribers and generous supporters, Nancy and Sanfred were Ryan Opera Center Singer Cosponsors for many years and cosponsored MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION the Lyric Unlimited family opera e Magic Victrola. Last Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC season they joined the production sponsorship family with Corporation, was a fervent fan of opera and music, and Lyric their generous support of Così fan tutte, and enjoyed the was delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, and experience so much they are cosponsors of this season’s La traviata. "In the fall of 1954, generous supporter. e Malott Room was named in his family’s I attended Carmen, staged by the precursor of the Lyric. at night I fell in love with honor in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness Carmen, opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Nancy and I have loved Capital Campaign, and in recognition of the Malott Family’s Lyric Opera and have always supported one of the most cherished cultural institutions of Robert H. Malott commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Box 18 is Chicago. It is our hope that our children, grandchildren and those beyond will be able to named in perpetuity in honor of Robert H. Malott for his extraordinary generosity and attend the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their midst." Lyric is honored to have steadfast dedication to Lyric Opera. He also played a leadership role as a Life Director Sanfred serve on the Board of Directors. of Lyric’s Board of Directors.
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MAZZA FOUNDATION THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of friendship and generosity of the Mazza e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable Foundation. Under the guidance of its leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas N.A. and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, e Elizabeth Morse Mazza Foundation provided major Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust supports non-profit organizations that reflect the Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas support for the Student Matinees for values of thrift, humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self-sacrifice, such as Lyric. J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind many years, helping Lyric introduce e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, along with its sister trust, the Elizabeth Morse the majesty and grandeur of opera to Genius Charitable Trust, has cosponsored many mainstage productions. To show thousands of young people each season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been its grateful appreciation for e Trust’s generous gift to the Breaking New Ground part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last season’s Campaign, as well as to recognize e Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen new production of Die Walküre and this season’s production of Elektra. years to helping build the company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices the Elizabeth Morse LAUTER McDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUND Conference Room. Nancy and her late husband Alfred have provided longstanding, vital support to the Annual Campaign as well as e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, including Rising Stars in Concert. is season, Nancy generously gave additional support as a cosponsor ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHIN of La traviata, and Lyric Unlimited's second year of the Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members Chicago Urban League arts immersion partnership of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President Fred and Nancy McDougal Empower Youth! and An American Dream. and CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION Directors and serves on the Executive Committee. Lyric is deeply grateful for e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous e Muchins have staunchly supported the Annual history of support. rough a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons Campaign, Operathon, and the Stars of Lyric Opera initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership gifts to the Building operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking Lyric premieres. During the 2012/13 season, the Mellon Foundation provided New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine Muchin’s leadership funding to launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, munificent friendship. which included the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s first Mariachi opera. e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous partnership with Lyric Unlimited by providing outstanding support for Lyric’s world premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continued its unparalleled NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS legacy by cosponsoring Lyric’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel Canto. Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants awarded by Most recently, the Mellon Foundation has provided generous leadership funding the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played a leading role in the for Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative, specifically focused advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of the operatic repertoire, serving on the Community Created Performances component, the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. rough which plays a vital role in bringing together Chicago’s production and program funding as well as a major challenge grant, awards from diverse communities and vocal traditions in celebration the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class artistic achievements. e Endowment of the human voice. has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. e NEA has provided THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) vital support for numerous Lyric Opera Lyric is grateful for the generosity of e Monument Trust and its Chairman of premieres, new productions, and revivals, trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of most recently last season’s I Puritani, Rusalka (2013/14) and cosponsored Anna Bolena (2014/15), Wozzeck (2015/16), and this season’s Siegfried. e Magic Flute (2016/17), and Orphée et Eurydice (2017/18). e Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in the U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors Lyric’s new coproduction of Ariodante this season. THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION e founder of e Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON performing arts, and Mozart. ese interests, combined with a strong admiration Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of of Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers e Negaunee Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently last and patrons who take an active role in nurturing season’s productions of Così fan tutte and Jesus Christ Superstar. is season the Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member foundation is the lead sponsor of both Idomeneo and West Side Story. e Negaunee of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Foundation has also made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Directors. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cultural institutions benefiting from e Morrisons have generously supported the Opera e Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial commitment. Lyric is honored Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Annual Campaign to have e Negaunee Foundation’s president serve as a member of its Board of for many years. ey provided a substantial gift to the Directors and Audit Committee. Breaking New Ground Campaign and were cosponsors of Lyric's production of Turandot last season. Proud supporters of Lyric’s Musical eatre Initiative, Susan and Bob have cosponsored many of Lyric's musicals including this season's West Side Story. “Lyric reaches patrons at every level. People are here because they love it. ey’re welcomed, embraced, and made to feel part of a family.”
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SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL NORTHERN TRUST Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera subscribers A leading global fi nancial services provider, Northern Trust has enjoyed a and donors for many years, and have cosponsored several longstanding and signifi cant relationship with Lyric. Based in Chicago, the fi rm mainstage opera productions, including last season’s has played a major role supporting the Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited. e Pearl Fishers and this season’s Elektra. ey made a Northern Trust also provides vital leadership contributions to Lyric as presenting generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign sponsor of the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as cosponsor of the Opera to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very enjoyable Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust has cosponsored several to become part of the Lyric family and to give back to a mainstage productions including this season’s West Side Story. Lyric is honored place that has given us so much pleasure. ere have been many moments for both to have William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as Dan and me when we have said, tonight is incredible, it is one of the memorable a member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. "Being a good performances of our lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international star and it corporate citizen is very important," William is evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.” Lyric is honored to have Osborn once said. "It allows us to do our Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Production Sponsorship, and part to help keep the City of Chicago strong Lyric Unlimited Committees. and viable and, in the end, this is benefi cial to everyone." THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and OGILVY subscribed for more than 30 years. ey were Ogilvy is one doorway to a creative network, re-founded to make brands matter especially supportive of e Patrick G. and Shirley in a complex, noisy, hyper-connected world. Lyric is grateful for the signifi cant W. Ryan Opera Center and loved to watch these in-kind contribution in 2018 to launch a new marketing campaign “Are You Opera young artists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Enough?”. e Ogilvy Chicago team was tasked with changing the perception of Lyric Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away to make it more appealing and accessible to millennials. ey needed to highlight the in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established e Jerome and “all too human” core of opera in a diff erent, more compelling, and contemporary way. Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants e resulting series of print, poster, and billboard adverts illustrated the interesting to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ cultural and historical aspects of opera. Ogilvy Chicago’s thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. informative and humorous execution of the campaign provided prospective opera goers with a large set of tools NIB FOUNDATION to not be intimidated by their fi rst experience, and to Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia better understand any aspect of the opera art form. and the late William Florian established the NIB Foundation to extend their support to many worthwhile arts and environmental causes. Sonia is a devoted member of the Lyric family, having subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. e NIB MR. and MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHER Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions Lyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of David Sonia Florian including this season’s production of Cendrillon and Anna and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder and CEO Netrebko in recital, and made a major commitment to the of closerlook, inc., a Chicago-based digital marketing Breaking New Ground Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous fi nancial agency serving the pharmaceutical industry since 1987. support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable closerlook has given generously to Lyric Opera for many collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Opera from 2009 to Library Collection one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country. 2014 and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert for seven consecutive Sonia Florian very generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro years. Most recently, David and Sheila generously provided an Operathon Challenge located on the third fl oor of the Lyric Opera Grant, supported the Opera Ball, and made a leadership gift towards the Breaking House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s New Ground Campaign. Lyric is proud to have David T. Ormesher serving as its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and on all sub- Production Sponsorship Committee, and was committees of the Board. awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding commitment to the company. MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the Lyric JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLS Opera family. ey have subscribed to Lyric for over Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, John two decades and enjoy participating in special events D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly supported such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Auction. the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of e Osborns have generously contributed to the Annual the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric Opera is extremely Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ signifi cant Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading and Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. ey have also provided a generous gift member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. endowing Lyric's Music Director position, the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair, currently held by Sir Andrew Davis. Retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Chairman and CEO of e Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Our involvement with the opera company is a deeply rewarding experience for both of us”, John said. Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity of John and Alexandra Nichols.
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PRITZKER FOUNDATION DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION e Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric children, families and educational enrichment through Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of Foundation’s generous support of the Breaking New Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Each year, these widely accessible performances at Lyric Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric is Jack and Catherine Scholl Opera of Chicago reach audiences of junior high and honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera for the fi rst time. Lyric Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of the Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s Women’s EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION Board, Anne was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the Committees, and she is the Co-Chair of the Development Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Committee. Chris is an esteemed past member of the e Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, Board of Directors. Together they have made important including this season's Il trovatore. Lyric is honored to have Brenda contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage productions, including last Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as the Executive, season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. ey have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and Brenda Shapiro Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. are major supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground Campaign, and Lyric Unlimited. SHURE INCORPORATED Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is widely acknowledged as the world's leading CANDY AND GARY RIDGWAY manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the Company Candy and Gary Ridgway are devoted members of the has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio Lyric family. ey have provided continued support products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s of the Annual Campaign for many years and made a diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones, wireless microphone signifi cant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. systems, in-ear personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion systems, Candy and Gary recently joined Lyric's Production networked audio systems, award-winning earphones and headphones, and top- Sponsorship family with their sponsorship of Verdi's rated phonograph cartridges. Today, Shure products are the fi rst choice whenever Rigoletto last season. Candy's love for opera came from audio performance is a top priority. Lyric is honored to have partnered with Shure her mother, Mary Sue. ey shared a mutual love for Incorporated for many years. Shure Incorporated generously provided major in-kind their favorite art form here at Lyric. In talking about Candy and Gary's sponsorship audio support for last season’s Broadway at Lyric of Rigoletto, Candy stated, "this one's for mom." premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar and will again for this season’s premiere of West Side Story. PATRICK G. RYAN and SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when A leader in the international legal arena, the law fi rm of Sidley they fi rst subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have Austin is a generous corporate contributor to arts and culture in shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources Chicago. Lyric deeply appreciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsorship to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, of Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06), the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual Lulu (2008/09), Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), Rusalka Campaign, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in (2013/14), e Passenger (2014/15), and Les Troyens (2016/17). 1988 and was the Honoree in 2018), and the Breaking Larry Barden is season, Sidley Austin LLP generously cosponsors Lyric’s New Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation Initiative. In recognition of company premiere of Ariodante. Lyric is proud to have Larry Barden, Chairman of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was a the fi rm’s Management Committee, on its Board of recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Directors and Compensation Committee. Opera Commentaries, underwriting this special project to honor the memory of their parents. e Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s premier artist development program was renamed e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera LIZ STIFFEL Center in recognition of their extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence. Pat A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Ryan Opera Center Board. A Vice Liz is a prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a President and a member of the Executive, Nominating/Governance, and Lyric Labs longstanding member of the Guild Board of Directors. She has of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a distinguished former President of the Women’s cosponsored many mainstage productions, most recently last Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2007 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most season’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Faust and the prestigious honor, in recognition of her many years of devoted service to the company. Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein concert. is season Liz has generously sponsored the new coproduction of La bohème and is a sponsor of the RICHARD O. RYAN Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Concert & Gala. Lyric has named Mezzanine Box A passionate supporter of e Patrick G. and Shirley W. 1 in recognition of her signifi cant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Liz Ryan Opera Center, Lyric's premier artist-development program, Stiff el was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in Richard cosponsors Ryan Opera Center soprano Ann Toomey recognition of her continuing dedication to Lyric. “I believe that Lyric and all art and tenor Eric Ferring, as well as the Ryan Opera Center Gala. forms are beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that mankind has to off er An ardent opera lover, Richard has been a Lyric subscriber for to our children, our nation, and ourselves.” more than 45 years. He recently made a generous leadership commitment to Lyric's Breaking New Ground Campaign for the stage improvement project. Richard proudly serves as a member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, and was formerly a Guild Board member. Lyric is grateful for the munifi cent support of Richard Ryan.
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MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. WASHLOW MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished members of Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generosity the Lyric family. For more than four decades, they have and leadership of the Vance Family. e Vances enjoyed attending Lyric performances and special events, have generously sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric and have generously supported the Annual Campaign. premieres and new productions, including this season's Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, and Errant Families West Side Story. For many years, the Vances have together sponsored more than 20 Lyric productions. supported emerging singers through their sponsorship e Washlows made a generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members. In addition, Campaign to support Lyric Unlimited activities. Roberta and Bob have annually Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, and generously Carol and William Vance Breaking New Ground Campaign, and are generous cosponsor this season’s production of La bohème, their eleventh opera cosponsorship, sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an continuing a beloved family tradition. Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. also serves as a life member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, of which he is a “Opera has always touched me,” Roberta once said. “I love the drama, passion, past President. Bill Vance was awarded the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most music, and excitement of a live performance at Lyric. Nothing can replace it, and I prestigious honor, in recognition of his leadership, steadfast support, and many years hope this beautiful art form will continue for generations.” of devoted service to Lyric Opera. HELEN and SAM ZELL DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION Helen and Sam Zell are passionate supporters of Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. ey are longtime and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys subscribers to Lyric Opera and have contributed to the encouraging talented young artists as Lead Sponsor of Rising Annual Campaign for many years. Helen and Sam have Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on cosponsored several new productions, most recently all 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people four installments of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported season's Siegfried and next season's Götterdämmerung. Donna Van Eekeren Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. e Donna ANN ZIFF Van Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions including Ann Ziff is one of the country’s leading arts supporters, serving Lyric’s premiere of Les Troyens (2016/17), last season’s production of I Puritani, as Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera, Vice Chair of Lincoln and this season's La traviata. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Center for the Performing Arts, and a member of the board of New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Executive Chairman of Land the Los Angeles Opera and Los Angeles County Museum of O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Art. Previously at Lyric, Ann sponsored Dmitri Hvorostovsky serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Finance Committees, and in Recital, and in honor of her close friendship with Renée on the Ryan Opera Center Board. Fleming, Ms. Ziff co-sponsored her Lyric appearances in concert with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in 2012 and Jonas Kaufmann in 2014. THE WALLACE FOUNDATION is season, she is a Platinum Sponsor of the Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary e Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning Concert Gala. Lyric is a grateful beneficiary of Ann Ziff’s munificent generosity and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for and friendship. everyone. Wallace has an unusual approach: funding projects to test innovative ideas for solving important social problems, conducting research to find out what works and what doesn’t and to fill key knowledge gaps – and then communicating the results to help others. Lyric is the recipient of a multi-phase grant as part of the Foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative; the grant is funding research and analysis of Lyric audiences, and will reveal ways in which Lyric can maximize its reach in the community. Lyric’s work will inform lessons that will be shared with the broader field.
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To donate: VISIT lyricopera.org/donate TEXT LYRIC to 41444 Jesus Christ Superstar, 2018 EMAIL [email protected] CALL 312.827.3500 PHOTO: TODD ROSENBERG TODD PHOTO: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Supporting Our Future – Endowments at Lyric As a perpetual fund, annually distributing a designated portion of earnings and investment income, endowments provide a steady source of funding so Lyric can be a leader in the opera world – now and into the future. is list includes endowments that have received partial funding and endowments that will be funded with a future commitment - to learn more about contributing to an existing endowment or establishing your own endowment please contact Lyric’s Gift Planning Offi ce at 312.827.5654 or email: [email protected].
Lyric Endowed Chairs Supports Established by Chorus Master Howard A. Stotler Concertmaster Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg, in honor of Sally Funderburg Costume Designer Richard P. and Susan Kiphart General Director e Women’s Board, in loving memory of Ardis Krainik Lighting Director Mary-Louise and James S. Aagard, in honor of Duane Schuler Music Director John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Production and Technical Director* Allan and Elaine Muchin Wigmaster and Makeup Designer* Marlys Beider, in loving memory of Harold Beider Ryan Opera Center Director e Ryan Opera Center Board Ryan Opera Center Music Director Edgar D. Jannotta Family
Lyric Production Endowment Funds Supports Established by American Operas* Robert and Ellen Marks Baroque Operas Anonymous Bel Canto Operas* Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfi eld French Operas W. James and Maxine P. Farrell German Operas* Irma Parker Italian Operas e NIB Foundation Mozart Operas Regenstein Foundation, in honor of Ruth Regenstein Puccini Operas* Mary Patricia Gannon Verdi Operas e Guild Board Wagner Operas Anonymous
Lyric Endowment Funds TODD ROSENBERG John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowment Sarah and A. Watson Armour III Endowment Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment
Ryan Opera Center Endowment Funds Dr. C. Bekerman Endowment* omas Doran Endowment* Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment* James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment* J. omas Hurvis Endowment Fund, in memory of Richard P. Kiphart Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Studies Program*, in honor of Gianna Rolandi Lois B. Siegel Endowment* Joanne Silver Endowment* Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Endowment*
Lyric Unlimited Endowment Funds Katherine A. Abelson Education Endowment Dr. C. Bekerman Endowment* Raynette and Ned Boshell Endowment George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Education Endowment e Chapters’ Education Endowment, in memory of Alfred Glasser James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment*
*Future Planned Gift Generous endowment gifts help to make possible productions such as Massenet's Cendrillon, directed by Laurent Pelly. Pictured is Marie-Eve Munger as the Fairy Godmother.
May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 47 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors — Special Events and Project Support Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by March 1, 2019. KYLE FLUBACKER Anna Netrebko in Recital NIB Foundation Annual Meeting Dinner Strategy&, part of the PwC network Audience Development Initiative e Wallace Foundation Cast Parties An Anonymous Donor Anne and Don Edwards Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Make It Better Media Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Innovation Initiative Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan After a wonderful opening-night performance, guests enjoy the dancing at the 2018 Opera Ball, hosted by the Lyric Lyric Signature Events Opera Women's Board, at Hilton Chicago. PwC United Scrap Metal, Inc. Overture Society Luncheons Pritzker Traubert Foundation Susan M. Miller Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly Offi cial Airline Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau American Airlines Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation Additional Support Opening Night Opera Ball 2018 Planned Giving Seminars Hal Coon Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Opening Night Gala Sponsor Morgan Stanley (2) Aon Julian Family Foundation Renée Fleming Initiative West Side Story Celebration Opera Ball Sponsors e Crown Family Maria & Tony Premium Sponsors ITW Sage Foundation An Anonymous Donor (2) Northern Trust Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Dentons US LLP Liz Stiff el e Poet Premium Sponsors Don and Anne Edwards Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance e Crown Family Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Ann Ziff Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Annie and Gregory K. Jones Liz Stiff el Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary KPMG e Painter Premium Sponsors Concert & Gala Lazard An Anonymous Donor Lead Sponsor Make It Better Media Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder Liz Stiff el J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan closerlook, inc. Platinum Sponsors Skadden/Rodd Schreiber and Susan Hassan Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. e Crown Family Spencer Stuart e Harris Family Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Liz Stiff el Blythe Jaski McGarvie Sage Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Ann Ziff Sharks & Jets Premium Sponsors Betsy and Andy Rosenfi eld Baird Diamond Sponsor Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Patrick J. Bitterman/ Quarles & Brady Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel e Philosopher Premium Sponsors Marion A. Cameron Nancy S. Searle Golden Sponsors Crowe LLP ierer Family Foundation An Anonymous Donor Sarah Demet and Minka Bosco Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Eisen Family Foundation e Performer Premium Sponsors Amy and Paul Carbone James and Deborah Fellowes Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole e Harris Family Foundation Additional Support Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell ITW Chavez-Tatro Foundation Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Heinz Family Foundation Marc Lacher/ William Blair Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann J. omas Hurvis Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. and Sandra E. Marjan Anne Perillo Michuda ITW Florence D. McMillan/ Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Jenner & Block Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Molo Rebecca and Lester Knight Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Ellen and Jim Stirling Kohler Co. Matt and Carrie Parr/ PJT Partners Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Reed Smith LLP Orphée et Eurydice PBS Great Performances Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Brenda Robinson Lead Sponsor Allan and Elaine Muchin Ropes & Gray LLP Liz Stiff el Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Sponsors J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Ilene Simmons Sonia Florian UL James A. Staples/ Stephen Dunbar Margot and Josef Lakonishok Dr. Young Chung Silver Sponsors Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca e Galvin Family Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Additional Support Dr. Young Chung Additional Support Ethel and William Gofen Mrs. Robert W. Galvin An Anonymous Donor Jim and Kay Mabie Andi and Jim Gordon, e Edgewater Funds Rosemary and Dean L. Buntrock Make It Better Media Pam and Russ Strobel Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Virginia Tobiason Jennifer N. Pritzker
48 | May 3 - June 2, 2019 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support Lyric Unlimited programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by March 1, 2019. TODD ROSENBERG With Major Support from the Caerus Foundation, Inc. An American Dream Leadership Funding e Wallace Foundation Additional Support Lester S. Abelson Foundation/ Katherine A. Abelson Baker & McKenzie Mary Patricia Gannon Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Kenneth R. Norgan Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Mary Stowell Eric and Deb Hirschfield Eisen Family Foundation Caminos a la ópera (Pathways to Opera) Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, and the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation e Chicago-area premiere of John Musto and Eric Einhorn's Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt was presented by Lyric Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Unlimited in 2018. Empower Youth! Igniting Creativity through the Arts Michael and Leigh Huston Deloitte e Beaubien Family Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Belytschko e Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Eisen Family Foundation e Jobs Initiative Chicago Elaine Frank Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, and the Molex Jackie and James Holland Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation MUFG Nuveen Investments Fifth ird Bank Estate of Nancy D. Anderson Pre-Opera Talks Eric and Deb Hirschfield Northern Trust Raynette and Ned Boshell Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Laurie and Michael Petersen OPERA America Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Senior Matinee Estate of Pierrete E. Sauvat Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust Buehler Family Foundation Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Lannan Foundation Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Family Day at Lyric NEXT Student Ticket Program e Retirement Research Foundation Bank of America Leadership Funding e Siragusa Family Foundation General Support e Grainger Foundation Student Backstage Tours Anonymous (4) Additional Support Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx Paul and Mary Anderson e Barker Welfare Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Youth Opera Council BNSF Railway Foundation Berggruen Institute Terry J. Medhurst Helen Brach Foundation e Brinson Foundation Penelope and Robert Steiner Envestnet
With Major Support provided from the Nancy W. Knowles Stars of Lyric Opera at Student and Family Performances Fund Millennium Park 2018 Lead Sponsor Chicago Public Schools Bus Mrs. James S. Aagaard Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt closerlook, inc. Scholarship Anonymous (2) Leadership Funding U.S. Bank Foundation John and Rosemary Brown Family J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Cosponsors Foundation An Anonymous Donor Opera in the Neighborhoods Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Additional Support Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation An Anonymous Donor and the Dan J. Epstein Family An Anonymous Donor (3) Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation Foundation/Patricia Hyde Shirley and Benjamin Gould Brent and Katie Gledhill Fifth ird Bank Opera Residencies for Schools Endowment Fund Robert and Evelyn McCullen Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/Patricia Hyde An Anonymous Donor Dan and Caroline Grossman Sage Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Robert & Isabelle Bass James and Brenda Grusecki Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow Sipi Metals Corp. Foundation, Inc. Anne and Craig Linn Jane Wilson and David Mayhew Music Performance Trust Fund Lloyd A. Fry Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins Stone Charitable Trust Film Funds Trust Funds Polk Bros. Foundation JPMorgan Chase & Co. Wintrust Community Banks Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Performances for Students Dr. Scholl Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Segal Family Foundation Foundation May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 49 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
Commemorative Gifts Gifts of $500 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness. In Memory Of: Nancy Knowles Irving and Ruth Waldshine Agnes Hamos' Birthday Ken Babe from Roberta and Robert Washlow from Deane Ellis, from Barbara Currie, from the Riverside Chapter Gordon G. Lakin Marcia Purze Gillian Larkin, John R. Blair from Lawrence and JoAnne Winer Dr. William Warren William and Ethel Gofen, from Barbara Blair John A. Leer, Jr., M.D from Marshall and Joann Goldin Richard and Martha Schoenfeld, Sandra Box from Ms. Mary Anne Leer Sarita Warshawsky John Casey from Barbara Box Barbara Lieber from Carol Warshawsky Caroline Huebner John "Jack" V. Crowe from her many friends and family Margery S. Wolf from Jason and Rachel Mersey from John and Judy Keller, Robert H. Malott from Benjamin Wolf Elizabeth Hurley Lisbeth Stiffel from John Furrer, Ed Zasadil from Mark Ferguson and Liza Yntema Larry Fox Lincoln Academy of Illinios, from James Alexander and Curtis Drayer Lori Julian from Julie Benson, from Wainwright Investment Council, LLC, Nikolay Zhizhin from Charles Brooks and Suzan Bramson Mary and Larry Selander, Vivi Martens from Larisa Zhizhin Mary Klyasheff Myron and Karen Tiersky Household from James Karr from Peoples Gas Alison Campbell de Frise Armida Melino Melone In Honor Of: Margot and Josef Lakonishok from Liz Stiffel from Bernadette McCarthy Julie Baskes from Arsen and Elizabeth Manugian Dixie Lim Go Hugo Melvoin from Peter Wender Frank and Lynne Modruson from Gregory Chen, from Lois Melvoin Marion Cameron from Donna Gustafsson Robert Dow, Virginia Byrne Mooney from Susan Payne Frank Modruson Gregg and Wendy Elstien, from Kathleen Vondran Marie Campbell's Birthday from Protiviti Lionel Go, Dr. Antonio E. Navarrete from Patti Fazio Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis Jonathan Lichter, from Virginia Navarrete Renee Crown from Tom Shapiro Jimmy Lim, Peer and Sarah Pedersen from Minow Family Foundation Sylvia Neil & Dan Fischel Daniel and Tracey Murray, from Anonymous Angela DeStefano from Andrea Markowicz Kenneth Pollard, Ken Piggott from Jerry and Kathy Biederman Sue Niemi Mary Ruscher, and from Tully Family Foundation Stephen Dunbar from BCLLP Foundation Filemon and Elizabeth Yao Dr. Robert A. Pringle from omas Cleary and Diane Shorr Cleary Greg O'Leary Jane Rolandi Gray from Marla Pringle Erika Erich from Suzanne Wagner from William Porter Diane Ragains from Richard Moore David Pountney Elaine De G. Harvey from James Tucker Sally Feder from Lou Aledort and Natasha Kavanagh from Daggett Harvey and Yvonne Yamashita Marilyn and Roland Resnick from Dan Feder, Richard O. Ryan omas W. Hill from J. Kline Carroll Joynes and Abby O'Neil, from Ardell Arthur, from Richard Nora Joan L. Richards Paula Kahn, Michael and Sally Feder Angela Holtzman from Harris Family Foundation, Philip Lumpkin, Shirley Ryan from Marjory M. Oliker Alan and Drue Huish, Julia Nowicki from Rodney and Keith Goldstein Katie Jacobson Harry Roper and Helen Marlborough, Dr. Bradley Fine and family Erica Sandner from Lisbeth Stiffel Craig Sirles from Bradley Fine from Mirja and Ted Haffner Lee and Billye Jennings Gisela Elizabeth Rill Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Nancy Searle from Alfred Goldstein from Mary Ring from James and Laurie Bay from Carol and James Pollock, Kip Kelley, Sr. Shirley Ryan's parents Regan Friedmann Michael and Lynne Terry from James Alexander and Curtis Drayer, from Patrick and Shirley Ryan from Eisen Family Foundation, Nancy Searle and Keith Goldstein Anonymous, Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff Leslie and Donna Pinsof, from Prince Charitable Trusts Aon Corporation, from Sheldon Schiff Kay and Craig Tuber Mary Selander Kip and Sarah Kelley, Stephen Schulson Ruth Ann Gillis from William and Carol Vance Charles and Mary Shea, from Susan Schulson from Lisbeth Stiffel Chelsea Southwood Lisbeth Stiffel, Edwin J. Seeboeck Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGinnis from James and Laurie Bay John Sullivan, from James Heim from James and Laurie Bay Liz Stiffel William and Kathie Vit Nancy Wald Keith Kiley Goldstein from Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnis William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt from e Humanist Fund from Patricia Cox Dr. Bryan Traubert from Sheila Hegy from Pritzker Foundation Mrs. Richard H. Wehman from Liz Stiffel
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Did you know? In addition to the amazing productions and events Lyric Unlimited produces, it also serves students and teachers through residency programs, teacher workshops, backstage tours, and special performances. We invite you to become familiar with these programs and to always be an advocate for music and the arts in your schools.
Performances for Students World-class performances on the mainstage at the Lyric Opera House For grades 6-12
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WSS-Program-Ad-Devo-FullPage-Bleed-Devo-LU-Statistics-8.25x10.5.indd 1 4/11/19 11:43 AM Alumni Perform at Lyric and Around the World in 2018/19
Lyric Opera of Chicago is tremendously proud that Ryan Opera Center alumni – bass Patrick Guetti (representing the U. S.), tenor Mingjie Lei (representing China), and bass-baritone Richard Ollarsaba (representing the U. S.) – have been selected as three of the 20 competitors in the BBC Cardi Singer of the World competition, taking place in Cardi, Wales in June 2019.
PATRICK GUETTI MINGJIE LEI RICHARD OLLARSABA
Lyric is equally proud that two current members of the Ryan Opera Center, American contralto Lauren Decker and Mexican tenor Mario Rojas, have been selected to participate in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition, taking place in Prague in July 2019.
LAUREN DECKER MARIO ROJAS
The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago is recognized as one of the premier professional artist-development programs in the world. To make a gift in support of the Ryan Opera Center’s eorts, or for more information, please visit lyricopera.org/ryanoperacenter, or call Meaghan Stainback at 312.827.5691.
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Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by March 1, 2019. Artist Support, Special Events Benefit Table Purchasers Illinois Arts Council Anonymous (2) Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial Fund and Project Support Julie and Roger Baskes Stephen A. Kaplan Ensemble Sponsors Heidi Heutel Bohn Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Anonymous (2) Sally and Michael Feder Jeffrey and Cynthia McCreary Heidi Heutel Bohn Julian Family Foundation Helen Melchior Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O'Leary Charles Morcom Lawrence O. Corry Philip G. Lumpkin Phyllis Neiman Nancy Dehmlow Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Margo and Michael Oberman and Family Sally and Michael Feder Ted and Emilysue Pinnell Reichardt Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mrs. Robert E. Sargent J. omas Hurvis Dr. Scholl Foundation e George L. Shields Foundation Loretta N. Julian ierer Family Foundation Ms. Billie Jean Smith e Susan and Richard P. Kiphart Family Training Program Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Walter Family Foundation Philip G. Lumpkin National Endowment for the Arts Robert C. Marks Debbie K. Wright Voice Instruction Susan M. Miller Artist Circle Anonymous e C. G. Pinnell Family ($5,000 to $9,999) Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Richard O. Ryan Anonymous (2) Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Mira Frohnmayer and Sandra Sweet Lois B. Siegel omas Doran Ms. Gay K. Stanek WFMT Recital Series Mrs. Sheila Dulin Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Julie and Roger Baskes Stephen and Mary Etherington Stepan Company Sally and Michael Feder Jennifer L. Stone Workshop Performances Martha A. Hesse Donna Gustafsson ierer Family Foundation e Blanny A. Haganah Family Fund Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon General Support James and Mary Houston Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Aria Society Dr. Katherine Knight Dr. David H. Whitney and Dr. Juliana Chyu ($100,000 and above) D. Elizabeth Price Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Final Auditions Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Platinum Grand Benefactor Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg ($50,000 to $99,999) e Cozad Family Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Estate of Kip Kelley Dan and Patty Walsh Foreign Language Instruction Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Marilee and Richard Wehman Erma S. Medgyesy e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Guest Master Artist Golden Grand Benefactors Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation ($25,000 to $49,999) Anonymous Launchpad Rising Stars in Concert Marcus Boggs Mary Ellen Hennessy April 7, 2019 Leslie Fund, Inc. Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III Lyric Young Professionals Lead Sponsor Ingrid Peters Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Master Classes Mrs. omas D. Heath Ensemble Friends Sponsors Martha A. Hesse ($10,000 to $24,999) BMO Harris Bank Anonymous (2) Ann M. Drake National Auditions Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin American Airlines C. Bekerman, M.D. Sue and Melvin Gray Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O'Leary Renée Fleming Master Class Adrienne and Arnold Brookstone Tamara Conway Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Julian Family Foundation Family Foundation Anne Megan Davis Ryan Opera Center Gala: Unprohibited Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Lead Individual Sponsor Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Drucker Dr. Scholl Foundation Richard O. Ryan Erika E. Erich Lead Corporate Sponsor Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Rising Stars in Concert Broadcast Mayer Brown David S. Fox Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Mary Patricia Gannon Sue and Melvin Gray H. Earl Hoover Foundation May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 53 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Gift Planning at Lyric Advisory Council Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chairman Patrick Bitterman, Quarles & Brady LLP Michael A. LoVallo, Reed Smith Christopher Brathwaite, William Blair Louis Marchi, Fidelity Investments Mary C. Downie, BMO Financial Group David McNeel, CIBC Barbara Grayson, Jenner & Block Gina Oderda, Mayer Brown Marguerite H. Griffin, Northern Trust Lynne L. Pantalena, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Benetta Jenson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank Management Neil Kawashima, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Kathleen O’Hagan Scallan, Loeb & Loeb Dorothy Korbel, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Anita Medina Tyson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank Management e Overture Society e Overture Society consists of dedicated supporters of Lyric who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts, or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric. ese generous gifts will ensure Lyric’s artistic success well into the twenty-first century for succeeding generations of Lyric audiences. Lyric is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society. Aria Benefactors Lyric acknowledges with deep appreciation the extraordinary support of the following individuals who comprise the Aria Benefactors of the Overture Society. ese individuals have made leadership gift plans which will benefit Lyric far into the future and in gratitude we are pleased to offer annual benefits at the Aria Society level. For information about becoming an Aria Benefactor, please call Lyric’s Gift Planning Office at at 312 827-5654 or email [email protected]. Paul and Mary Anderson Family Robert F. Finke and Carol Keenan James C. Kemmerer Julia Pernet Foundation Mary Patricia Gannon Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Lyn and Bill Redfield Marlys A. Beider James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Dr. W. Peter Hansen Richard O. Ryan Dr. C. Bekerman Bruce A. Gober, M.D. and Philip G. Lumpkin Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Donald H. Ratner Robert C. Marks Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk David and Orit Carpenter Howard Gottlieb John Nigh Anne Zenzer James W. Chamberlain Sue and Melvin Gray Irma Parker Bel Canto Benefactors ese Overture Society members are making a major planned gift to Lyric as well as generous annual gifts each year. Anonymous (9) omas Doran Wayne S. and Lenore M. John H. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Mrs. James S. Aagaard Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson Kaplan Sheila and David Ormesher Mary Stowell Louise Abrahams Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. John and Kerma Karoly Kenneth Porrello and Carla M. orpe Dr. Whitney Addington Jack M. and Marsha S. LeRoy and Laura Klemt Sherry McFall L. Kristofer omsen Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Firestone Jennifer Malpass, O.D. Nathaniel W. Pusey Virginia Tobiason Karen G. Andreae Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Daniel T. Manoogian Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Paula Turner Catherine Aranyi Rhoda and Henry Frank Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Chatka Ruggiero Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn Mason L. Robert Artoe Family Foundation Nancy Lauter McDougal Lois B. Siegel Albert Walavich Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Richard J. Franke Bill Melamed Ilene Simmons Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Alvin R. Beatty Julian W. Harvey Margaret and Craig Milkint Larry G. Simpson Claudia Winkler Merrill and Judy Blau Mr. and Mrs. omas C. Heagy Susan M. Miller Craig Sirles Florence Winters Danolda (Dea) Brennan Concordia Hoffmann Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Joan M. Solbeck Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Edgar D. Jannotta Allan and Elaine Muchin Ms. Gay K. Stanek Budzik Ronald B. Johnson David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Society Members Anonymous (46) Julie Anne Benson D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Richard M. and Andrea Patrick V. Casali Joseph E. Corrigan Valerie and Joseph Abel Charles E and Nancy Blumenthal J. Brown Esther Charbit Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Carol Abrioux T. Berg Ned and Raynette Jacqueline Brumlik Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Cottey Judy L. Allen Joan I. Berger Boshell Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Ramona Choos Morton and Una Catherine Aranyi Barbara Bermudez David E. Boyce Bruske III J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Creditor L. Robert Artoe Kyle and Marge Bevers Robert and Phyllis Brauer George F. and Linda L. Heinke K. Clark Barbara L. Dean Richard N. Bailey Patrick J. Bitterman Candace Balfour Broecker Brusky Robert and Margery Coen Donald A. Deutsch David G. Baker M. J. Black and Mr. C. and the Estate of Steven and Helen Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Phyllis Diamond Susann Ball Lancy Howard W. Broecker Buchanan Conroy Roger Dickinson Margaret Basch Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Leona and Daniel Muriel A. Burnet Sharon Conway Ms. Janet E. Diehl Mrs. Bill Beaton Ann Blickensderfer Bronstein Lisa Bury Sarah J. Cooney Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lynn Bennett Kathryn Y. Brown Robert J. Callahan Dr. W. Gene Corley Family Dillon
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Catherine R. DiNapoli Stephanie and Allen James C. and Suzette M. Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Dennis Ryan Sherwin A. Swartz Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Hochfelder Mahneke Murphy Louise M. Ryssmann Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dobroski Mrs. Marion Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Michael Miller and Eugene Rzym, in memory Telander omas M. Dolan James and Mary Lunz Malatesta Sheila Naughten of Adaline Rzym Cheryl L. axton Mary Louise Duhamel Houston Jeanne Randall Malkin Mr. Oliver Nickels David Sachs Dr. David urn Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. H. Eileen Howard Ann Chassin Mallow Edward A. Nieminen Suzanne and William Myron Tiersky and Kathy Dunn Kenneth N. Hughes Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Florence C. Norstrom Samuels Karen Hletko Tiersky Richard L. Eastline Michael Huskey Manders Renate P. Norum Mary T. Schafer Jacqueline Tilles Carol A. Eastman Cpt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Mrs. John Jay Markham Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Douglas M. Schmidt Lawrence E. Timmins Lowell and Judy Eckberg USMC Memorial Fund Daniel F Marselle Oliver, Jr. Franklin R. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Lucy A. Elam, in memory J. Jeffrey Jaglois Christine S. Winter Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Martha P. Schneider Turner of Elizabeth Elam Barbara A. Joabson Massie MD & James Olson Donald Seibert Jean M. Turnmire Mr. and Mrs. Don John Arthur Johnson G. Massie Stephen S. Orphanos Sherie Coren Shapiro Paul and Judith Elleman Laurence P. Johnson Michael M. and Diane Jonathan Orser Charles Chris Shaw Tuszynski Cherelynn A. Elliott Roy A. Johnson Mazurczak Joan Pantsios Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ultmann Family Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Barbara Mair Jones James G. and Laura G. Robert W. Parsons, M.D. M. Shaw Charitable Remainder Dr. James A. Eng Janet Jones McCormick George R. Paterson David Shayne Unitrust Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Moreen C. Jordan Gia and Paul McDermott Dr. Joan E. Patterson David Sherman Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn Engel Dr. Anne Juhasz William F. McHugh George Pepper, M.D. Jared Shlaes Mason Martha L. Faulhaber Mr. eodore Kalogeresis Florence D. McMillan Elizabeth Anne Peters Joanne Silver Marlene A. Van Skike Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng Kenneth Kelling Leoni Zverow McVey Susanne P. Petersson Andrew Barry Simmons Nancy Johnson Vazzano Nadine Ferguson Chuck and Kathy Killman and J. William McVey Genevieve M. Phelps and Mitchell Raita Vilnins Felicia Finkelman Neil King Martina M. Mead Frances Pietch Loewenthal-Grassini Malcolm V. Vye, MD Mr. and Mrs. John C. Diana Hunt King Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Karen and Dick Pigott Larry G. Simpson Darcy Lynn Walker Forbes Esther G. Klatz Meader Alan and Carol Pohl Dr. Ira Singer Gary T. Walther James Victor Franch Albert Wang Ms. Susan Frankel Barbara M. Wanke omas H. Franks, Ph.D. "My wife and I cherish our evenings at Lyric as they are a vital part of our Louella Krueger Ward Penny and John E. Freund cultural life. Lyric also plays an instrumental role in making Chicago a Boyd Edmonston & Dr. Paul Froeschl Edward Warro Marie and Gregory Fugiel world-class city. We are pleased to continue supporting Lyric during our Karl N. Wechter Sheilah Purcell Garcia, lifetime and have also included Lyric in our estate plan." Patricia M. Wees Lady Witton Mrs. Richard H. George and Mary Ann -Allan M. Wehman Gardner Claude M. Weil Susan Boatman Garland R. William Klein, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Ms. Lois Polakoff omas G. Sinkovic Eric Weimer and Edwin Scott P. George J. Peter Kline Melamed Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Norman and Mirella Hanlon Mr. Lyle Gillman Helen Kohr Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. D. Elizabeth Price Smith Mr. and Mrs. Arnold John F. Gilmore Susan Kryl Mesrobian Mrs. Edward S. Price Mary Soleiman Weinberg Michael Goldberger Mary S. Kurz Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Elaine Soter Joanna L. Weiss John A. Goldstein Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, Meyers Roberta Lyn Anderson Mrs. Jay Spaulding Joan and Marco Weiss Dr. J. Brian Greis M.D., in memory of Ms. Barbara Terman Rains Philip and Sylvia Spertus Mrs. Robert G. Weiss James R. Grimes Robert Kyts Michaels Robert L. Rappel, Jr. James A. Staples Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Patricia Grogan Larry Lapidus Marilyn E. Miller Sherrie Kahn Reddick Sherie B. Stein Sandra Wenner Carolyn Hallman Barbara K Larsen Edward S. and Barbara Mr. and Mrs. Keith Reed K. M. Stelletello Caroline C. Wheeler Carl J. Halperin Angela Larson and L. Mills Michael and Susan J. Allyson Stern Dr. and Mrs. Peter Ms. Geraldine Haracz Bamshad Mobasher Vlasta A. "Vee" Minarich "Holly" Reiter Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Willson Andrew Hatchell omas and Lise Lawson David and Justine K. Evelyn R. Richer Mr. and Mrs. James P. Nora Winsberg William P. Hauworth Henrietta Leary Mintzer Jennie M. Righeimer Stirling David G. Winter Mrs. omas D. Heath Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy BettyAnn Mocek and Gerald L. Ritholz Carol A. Stitzer Brien and Cathy Wloch Ronald G. Hedberg Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Adam R. Walker Mary Raffetto-Robins Norene W. Stucka Mrs. William Wunder Mrs. John C. Hedley Lewicky Robert and Lois Moeller James and Janet Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Daniel R. Zillmann Josephine E. Heindel Carole F. Liebson Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Rosenbaum Stuffers Martha A. Hesse Carol L. Linne Linda Novak Moses Dr. John Gregory Russo Emily J. Su Mary Mako Helbert Julia G. Munoz Joseph C. Russo Peggy Sullivan Estate Gifts e following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric. Due to space limitations, listings include only all planned bequests received in the past three years. With deepest regards, Lyric commemorates and remembers those departed Lyric patrons who have honored us with these most profound commitments. Anonymous Ellen Clasen Henry Frank Dr. Alexis W Maier Trust Edwin and Margaret W. James Aagaard Robert P. Cooke omas Frisch Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Seeboeck Sara P. Anastaplo Barbara Coussement Dr. Martin L. Gecht and Mario A. Munoz Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Nancy D. Anderson Kathryn Cunningham Francey Gecht Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Shure James Ascareggi Mrs. Campbell de Frise Carlyn E. Goettsch John and Maynette Neundorf Joan M. Skepnek Walter Bandi Marianne Deson-Herstein Dr. Doris Graber Mrs. Oliver Nickels Geraldine A. Spatz Constance and Liduina Trust in memory of Samuel Evelyn Greene Venrice R. Palmer Barry Sullivan Barbantini and Sarah Deson Ann B. Grimes Richard Pearlman Charitable Gerald Sunko, M.D. Velma Berry Christopher D. Doemel Lester and Betty Guttman Trust Fund for Music Phil Turner Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Warren F. Best Edward Elisberg Elaine H. Hansen Ira J. Peskind Edmund J. Valonis Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Joseph Ender Joseph M. Kacena Helen Petersen Amanda Veazley Eleanor Briggs Regina C. Fain Stuart Kane Joan Richards James M. Wells Donna Brunsma Kenneth Fiske Kip Kelley George T. Rhodes Paul and Virginia Wilcox Terry J. Burgeson Roy Fisher Paul R. Keske Merlin and Gladys Rostad Joseph Yashon Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger Lynette Flowers Nancy W. Knowles Margart R. Sagers Ed Zasadil and Mr. William Burger Robert B. Fordham Ernest Lester Pierrete E. Sauvat Audrey A. Zywicki Ellen Cole Charitable Richard Foster Arthur B. Logan omas W. Scheuer Remainder Trust Elaine S. Frank Doris C. Lorz Lois K. Schmidt
May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 55 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Corporate Partnerships
Lyric gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. e following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received by March 1st, 2019. For more information about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at 312.827.5693 or [email protected].
ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above
request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Aff airs offi ce, and send it to us along with your contribution. For purposes of recognition, we are pleased to combine matching gifts with an individual’s personal gift. If your employer has a matching gift program, please
PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999
GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999
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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR PREMIER BENEFACTOR FRIEND $10,000 to $24,999 $7,500 to $9,999 $1,000 to $1,999 Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys at Law Amsted Industries Foundation Bumper Lanes Marketing Baird Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation Concierge Unlimited International CNA BENEFACTOR Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Crowe LLP $5,000 to $7,499 Kinder Morgan Foundation Deloitte BNSF Railway Foundation Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Envestnet Italian Village Restaurants L Miller & Son Lumber Co. Michuda Construction, Inc. Sahara Enterprises, Inc. One Smooth Stone Molex William Blair Protiviti Morgan Stanley Turks’ Greenhouses Nuveen BRAVO CIRCLE Quarles & Brady LLP $3,500 to $4,999 SUSTAINER Reed Smith LLP Corporate Suites Network $500 to $999 Ropes & Gray LLP Old Republic International Corporation DonationXchange Strategic Reimbursement Group, LLC Network for Good Winestyr IMPRESARIO Peoples Gas Wintrust Community Banks $2,000 to $3,499 American Agricultural Insurance Company Enterprise Holdings Foundation Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. Shoe Center Fund Matching Gifts A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees’ gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous CNA Foundation ITW Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Allstate Giving Program ConAgra Johnson & Johnson e Retirement Research Foundation Aon Foundation Doing Good LLC Johnson Controls Foundation e Rhoades Foundation Bank of America Foundation Emerson Electric JPMorgan Chase Foundation e Warranty Group Baxter International Foundation General Mills Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur United Technologies Corporation Benevity Community Impact Fund Graham Holdings Foundation W. W. Grainger Inc. BMO Harris Bank Foundation Grenzebach, Glier, and Associates Kimberly Clark Foundation William Harris Investors Helen Brach Foundation HSBC-North America Morgan Stanley Caterpillar Foundation Inc. IBM Corporation Nuveen Investments Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ingredion Incorporated Pfizer Foundation Special anks • American Airlines for its 37 year partnership as the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Corporate Suites Network for its partnership as the Broadway at Lyric preferred housing provider. • Athletico for its partnership as the Broadway at Lyric preferred physical therapy provider. • CORT Furniture Rentals for its generous conference room furniture partnership. • Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner, for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. • Warner Classics as the Official Education and Promotion Music Provider.
Acknowledgements
e following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric’s efforts: Generous Gifts Katie O's Food Carnival Notable Gifts Martha Nussbaum CH Distillery Northern Trust, Palm Beach, FL Artists Frame Service Modern Luxury Calihan Catering Segall Bryant & Hamill BiXi Beer Nico Osteria Coco Pazzo by Alfred Bryant Booth One e Second City HMS Media, Inc. Naples, FL and Chicago, IL Glo Rolighed Temperance Beer Company Harrison and Held, LLP Vibes Lloyd’s Chicago by Attorney Robert T. Napier Naples, FL and Chicago IL
is performance is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Lyric Opera of Chicago is a member of OPERA America.
May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 57 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support
Lyric deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations, and government organizations. eir continued support is vital to our success. e following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received by March 1, 2019. ARIA SOCIETY $100,000 and above Anonymous (10) Julius Frankel Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Pritzker Foundation Ada and Whitney Addington Brent and Katie Gledhill Josef and Margot Lakonishok J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Ethel and William Gofen Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Foundation e Michael and Susan Avramovich Howard L. Gottlieb and Lauridsen e Rhoades Foundation Charitable Trust Barbara G. Greis Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Candy and Gary Ridgway Julie and Roger Baskes e Grainger Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Marlys Beider Gramma Fisher Foundation of Foundation Richard O. Ryan Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Marshalltown, Iowa Malott Family Foundation Sage Foundation Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Mazza Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Family Foundation Krehbiel, Jr. e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross e Monument Trust (UK) Lisbeth Stiffel e Butler Family Foundation e Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Donna Van Eekeren Foundation David and Orit Carpenter J. omas Hurvis and Ann Andersen National Endowment for the Arts Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation e Edgar D. Jannotta Family e Negaunee Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel e Wallace Foundation e Crown Family Patricia A. Kenney and Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow e Davee Foundation Gregory J. O'Leary NIB Foundation Helen and Sam Zell Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson e Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Sonia Florian Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Sheila and David Ormesher Franke Family Charitable Foundation Estate of Nancy W. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn
PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous (3) Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Mrs. Myung Sue and Melvin Gray Allan and Elaine Muchin Lester S. Abelson Foundation/ Soon Chung Eric and Deb Hirschfield Polk Bros. Foundation Katherine A. Abelson Nancy Dehmlow Illinois Arts Council J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family David Q. and Mary A. Bell Foundation Eisen Family Foundation Annie and Greg K. Jones Foundation Berggruen Institute Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Julian Family Foundation Betsy and Andy Rosenfield e Beaubien Family Foundation Rebecca and Lester Knight Segal Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Lois B. Siegel e Brinson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Patricia Hyde Mrs. Linda Wolfson Greg and Mamie Case Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael J. Lannan Foundation Ann Ziff e Chicago Community Trust McGuinnis Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation
GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (6) Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton e C. G. Pinnell Family Ken and Amy Aldridge Sally and Michael Feder Victoria M. Kohn John Raitt Paul and Mary Anderson e Ferguson-Yntema Family Frederic S. Lane Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Robin Angly Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Erica L. Sandner e Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Mr. omas V. Linguanti and Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Renée Fleming Ms. Olivia Tyrrell Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Inc. Elaine S. Frank Fund Philip G. Lumpkin Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, James N. and Laurie V. Bay Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Jim and Kay Mabie Inc. Silvia Beltrametti and Jay Krehbiel Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Robert and Evelyn McCullen Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Heidi Heutel Bohn Morris Silverman and Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Lori Ann Komisar Dr. and Mrs. omas A. Broadie "Lyric is one of the best things about living in Chicago." Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Amy and Paul Carbone -Stephen M. Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Penelope and Robert Steiner Joyce E. Chelberg Mary Stowell Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Mary Patricia Gannon Blythe Jaski McGarvie Joseph and Pam Szokol e Cozad Family Virginia and Gary Gerst Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna ierer Family Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation Dan and Caroline Grossman Susan M. Miller Carl and Marilynn oma Sir Andrew Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Cherryl T. omas Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Mary Ellen Hennessy Frank B. Modruson and Robert L. Turner Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Martha A. Hesse Lynne C. Shigley Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Ann M. Drake Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Walter Family Foundation Drs. George and Sally Dunea Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Kenneth R. Norgan Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Donald and Anne Edwards e Jobs Initiative Chicago Martha C. Nussbaum Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk and the Dan J. Epstein Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy OPERA America Family Foundation Mr. Herbert Kohler Jr. and Matt and Carrie Parr Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Ms. Natalie Black Ingrid Peters
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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (4) Sonja and Conrad Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Mrs. James S. Aagaard Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Robert C. Marks John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe John and Ann Amboian Mira Frohnmayer and Sandra Sweet Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum David S. Fox Shari Mayes Susan and David Ruder Dr. and Mrs. Robert Arensman Susan J. Garner Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. McCreary Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Ms. Elisabeth O. Geraghty Judith W. McCue and Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Juliette F. Bacon Mr. Robert Gienko Jr. Howard M. McCue III Eric and Jana Schreuder E. M. Bakwin Judy and Bill Goldberg Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Andrea and Jim Gordon/ e Edgewater Erma S. Medgyesy Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Funds Terry J. Medhurst Mary Beth Shea Robert S. Bartolone Mrs. Richard Gray Dawn G. Meiners Richard W. Shepro and Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Helen Melchior Lindsay E. Roberts C. Bekerman, M.D. Mrs. Mary Winton Green Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Mills e George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Ms. Catharine Bell and James and Brenda Grusecki Martha A. Mills e Shubert Foundation Mr. Robert Weiglein Joan M. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Steven Molo Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Ross and Patricia D. Bender Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Charles Morcom Ilene Simmons Patrick J. Bitterman Irving Harris Foundation Music Performance Trust Fund Siragusa Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau e Smart Family Foundation, Inc. Jim Blinder Ms. Billie Jean Smith Marcus Boggs "We donate because we want to sustain Lyric without Ms. Gay K. Stanek Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Betty Bradshaw any compromises in the experience." Ellen and Jim Stirling Adrienne and Arnold Brookstone -Paul and Janet E. Jennifer L. Stone John and Rosemary Brown Family Roger and Susan Stone Family Foundation Foundation Norene W. and Daniel A. Stucka Buehler Family Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins Phyllis Neiman Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mrs. omas D. Heath David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. omas Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Mrs. John C. Hedley Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Virginia Tobiason Marie Campbell Heinz Family Foundation Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Mr. and Mrs. John Canning Jr. Helen Brach Foundation Margo and Michael Oberman and Tully Family Foundation Lawrence Christensen Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Family Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Ann and Reed Coleman Stu Hirsh Orchestra Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Francie Comer Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon Sharon Conway James Huntington Foundation e Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Tamara Conway Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Foundation Ms. Lucinda Wakeman Lynd W. Corley Memorial Fund Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Lawrence O. Corry Laurie and Michael Jaffe Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Winnie and Bob Crawford Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Elizabeth Anne Peters Kim and Miles D. White Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Laurie and Michael Petersen Dr. David H. Whitney and Anne Megan Davis Stephen A. Kaplan Marian Phelps Pawlick Dr. Juliana Chyu M. Dillon Mike and Lindy Keiser Maya Polsky Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Shawn M. Donnelley and Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Belytschko Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Mrs. John A. Wing Christopher M. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kizziah Andra and Irwin Press Mr. and Ms. Benjamin Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Klaff Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Paul Wood and Fred L. Drucker and Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Jennifer N. Pritzker e Honorable Corinne Wood Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Albert and Rita Lacher Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Marc Lacher Hon. S. Louis Rathje and Debbie K. Wright Erika E. Erich Lemont Fund Maria Rosa Costanzo Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Mr. Randy Rissman and Dr. Petra Rissman James and Deborah Fellowes Jean Randall Malkin Family Foundation Ms. Brenda Robinson Film Funds Trust Funds Daniel and Deborah Manoogian Rocco and Cheryl Romano PREMIER BENEFACTOR $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (5) Miss Gay Elfline Dr. Katherine Knight Raymond and Inez Saunders Kelley and Susan Anderson Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Martin and Patricia Koldyke Mr. and Mrs. Michael T Sawyier Ms. Ronelle D. Ashby Stephen and Mary Etherington Eldon and Patricia Kreider George and Joan Segal Mr. and Mrs. William H. Robert F. Finke MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Mary and Stanley Seidler Baumgartner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann Bernard and Averill Leviton Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Mark and Judy Bednar Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Julius Lewis Patricia Arrington Smythe Mr. and Mrs. D. eodore Berghorst Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Ms. Michelle McCarthy Del Snow Sondra Berman Epstein Helyn D. Goldenberg Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung e Solti Foundation U.S. Lieselotte N. Betterman Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Michuda Construction, Inc. Doris F. Sternberg Norman and Virginia Bobins/ e Robert Phillip and Norma Gordon Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers omas Bobins Foundation Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Julian Oettinger Angela Tenta, M.D. Phyllis H. Brissenden Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Malley Mrs. eodore D. Tieken Winston and Lally Brown Graber Family Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Mr. O. omas omas and Joy Buddig Mr. Jack Graber Karen and Tom Phillips Mrs. Sandra Inara omas Audre Carlin David and Elizabeth Graham Harvey R. and Madeleine P. Plonsker Dr. David urn Mrs. Warren M. Choos Mrs. Rita Grunwald Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Howard and Paula Trienens Foundation omas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green Mrs. John M. Hartigan Irene D. Pritzker Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey John and Betsey Puth David J. Varnerin Rosemary and John Croghan Mr. and Mrs. omas C. Heagy James T. and Karen C. Reid Christian Vinyard Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Midge and Frank Heurich e Retirement Research Foundation Dan and Patty Walsh Decyk Charitable Foundation Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Daryl and James Riley Marilee and Richard Wehman Mrs. Sheila Dulin James and Mary Houston Ms. Brenda Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Mr. Paul Dykstra and Ms. Susan E. Ronald B. Johnson Edgar Rose Hilary and Barry Weinstein Family Cremin Jared Kaplan Sheli and Burt Rosenberg Foundation Richard B. Egen Nancy Rita Kaz J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko Stephen R. Winters Kate T. Kestnbaum Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Donna and Phillip Zarcone Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Norman Sackar Jean Klingenstein George and Terry Rose Saunders May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
BENEFACTOR $5,000 to $7,499 Anonymous (4) Donna Gustafsson Louis and Kristin Margaglione Edward and Leah Reicin Mrs. James S. Aagaard Glen and Claire Hackmann Mrs. Beatrice C. Mayer Merle Reskin Maggie Rock and Rod Adams e Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund omas J. McCormick Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Dr. Michael Angell Jackie and James Holland Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. McCreary Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund James and Mary Houston Sherry McFall and Kenneth Porrello Curt G. Schmitt Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Basler Michael and Leigh Huston Florence D. McMillan e Schroeder Foundation Bolton Sullivan Fund Shirley R. Jahn Lois Melvoin Mr. and Mrs. Chip Seelig Minka and Matt Bosco Regina Janes Mary Lou and Jack Miller Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Paul Jarvis Jon and Lois Mills Dr. S. P. Shah Wiley and Jo Caldwell Howard E. Jessen Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Sherie Coren Shapiro Ms. Shelly Challans Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Arch W. Shaw Foundation Jane B. and John C. Colman "After being a donor and subscriber to Lyric for nearly Elizabeth S. Sheppard Hal Coon Craig Sirles Patricia O. Cox forty years, I still get excited and surprised by new Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Ms. Elaine Cue Joan M. Solbeck e Dancing Skies Foundation productions of familiar favorites" Mary Soleiman Ms. Sarah Demet James A. Staples Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dennis -Kathryn B. Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage omas Doran Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker M. Stephen Dunbar Joy Jester Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore Andrea and Mark Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Tyrus L. Kaufman Craig S. Morris Mrs. M. James Termondt Jim and Pati Ericson Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kearney Zehava L. Noah L. Kristofer omsen Amanda Fox Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Mickey Norton Mrs. eodore D. Tieken Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler Renate P. Norum Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lans Mrs. Richard C. Oughton Mr. Michael Tobin M.D. Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, MD Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft John F. Gilmore Leslie Fund, Inc. Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres Alfred G. Goldstein Anne and Craig Linn Norman and Lorraine Perman Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick James R. Grimes Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Mr. Jeffry Pickus and Ms. Mary C. Downie David and Linda Wesselink Daniel Groteke and Patricia Taplick Mrs. Paul Lieberman D. Elizabeth Price Howard S. White Sandra L. Grung Jennifer Malpass Nathaniel W. Pusey Claudia Winkler
BRAVO CIRCLE $3,500 to $4,999 Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Marilyn and Myron Maurer Dr. and Mrs. R. John Solaro Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Dr. John J. McGrath and Ms. Tola Porter Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Eric A. Anderson Dr. Lucy Freund David E. McNeel James H. Stone Mychal P. Angelos Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor MinSook Suh Susann Ball Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Ms. Britt M. Miller Ms. Carla M. orpe Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Solomon Gutstein John H. Nelson Phil and Paula Turner Ron and Queta Bauer Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Jonathan F. Orser Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Mr. and Mrs. George Bayly Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Elizabeth K. Twede Astrid K. Birke Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Pat and Lara Pappas Lori L. and John R. Twombly Dr. Gregory L. Boshart and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Jean Morman Unsworth Dr. William R. Lawrence Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Mr. Menno Vermeulen Mr. and Mrs. James Bramsen Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Jarabak Jim and Polly Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Danolda (Dea) Brennan Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Karen and Richard Pigott Dr. Catherine L. Webb Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Dr. Joe Piszczor Louis Weber Jon W. DeMoss Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Dr. Lincoln and Dr. Carolyn Ramirez Howard S. White Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Dr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Mr. Otis Sanders Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Dr. and Mrs. Anthony DiGianfilippo omas A. Kmetko Julie Schwertferger and Alexander Zajczenko Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn John and Mary Kohlmeier omas and Judy Scorza Owen and Linda Youngman Deane Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and James C. Kemmerer Jim and Elizabeth Fanuzzi e Barbara and Frank Lieber Family Bill and Harlan Shropshire Pamela Forbes Lieberman Charitable Trust Dr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel
IMPRESARIO $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (12) Alice C. Brunner James Fitzgerald Dr. Peter H. Jones and Marian M. Pearcy Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Ms. Sheila Burke Anita D. Flournoy Mary Ann Karris Allison Alexander Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Adrian Foster Dr. and Dr. Yan Katsnelson Mrs. Judy Allen Don Carruthers Arthur L. Frank Judith L. Kaufman Mary C. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cecchini Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Ms. Joanne B. Alter Barry and Marcia Cesafsky Mrs. Norman Gates Mr. Robert Kemp Mrs. John H. Andersen James W. Chamberlain James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Jennifer A. Kiefer Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Katherine Cheng Generations Fund Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Barack Mr. and Mrs. David R. Clark Mr. Scott P. George Neil and Diana King William and Marjorie Bardeen Dr. Edward A. Cole and Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Marian Kinney Ronald and Donna Barlow Dr. Christine A. Rydel Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Go Elaine H. Klemen Ron and Queta Bauer Elaine Collina Gordon and Nancy Goodman Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Bastian Voice Institute Dr. Frank F. Conlon Jerry Goodman Mr. John Kouns Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Mr. Colin Cosgrove Dr. Ruth Grant and Dr. Howard Schwartz Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Alvin R. Beatty Katherine Hutter Coyner Greene Family Foundation Jeanne LaDuke Diane and Michael Beemer Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Devora Grynspan and Sam Stupp Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Prudence and Francis Beidler Mr. and Mrs. Gerry V. Curciarello Solomon Gutstein Mr. Fred Latsko Jennifer Bellini Michael J. Cushing Mirja and Ted Haffner Family Fund Dr. M. S.W. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Benesh Robert O. Delaney Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Mr. and Mrs. omas M. Leopold Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Foundation Dorothy Deppen Janice H. Halpern Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Mrs. Michele Bergman Mr. and Mrs. Roger Deromedi Daggett Harvey Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Mr. and Mrs. John DeWolf Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Jacquie Berlin Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski James Heim Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Mrs. Arthur Billings Mr. and Mrs. Eben Dorros Dr. Allen W. Heinemann and Knox and Gabrielle Long Richard and Heather Black Kenneth Douglas Foundation Dr. William Borden Craig and Jane Love Mrs. John R. Blair Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Hoellen Family Foundation Luminarts Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Bernard T. Dunkel Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mages Ann Blickensderfer Kathy Dunn Sandra Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. John F. Mamon Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao Concordia Louise Hoffmann Robert Mann and Kathryn Voland-Mann John Blosser Cherelynn A. Elliott Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Liz and Arsen Manugian Leslie Bluhm La Ferrenn and Philip Engel Joel and Carol Honigberg Fund Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks Ms. Virginia Boehme Susanna and Helmut Epp Bill and Vicki Hood Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Mrs. Fred Bosselman Dr. elma M. Evans Edmund A. and Virginia C. Horsch Bob and Doretta Marwin Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Nancy Fifield Robert and Sandra Ireland William Mason and Diana Davis Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Firestone Family Foundation Charlene Jacobsen Mrs. David McCandless Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Marilyn McCoy and Charles R. omas
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Mrs. John H. McDermott Kevin Patti Dr. Natalia Saprykina Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally V Laurie and Michael Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Joanne Tremulis Martina M. Mead and Michael T. Gorey Karen Petitte Robert and Mary Ann Savard e Trillium Foundation Sheila and Harvey Medvin Mrs. Zen Petkus Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schaeffer Dulcie L. Truitt Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin David Schiffman Raita Vilnins Susan Hill Mesrobian Mary and Joseph Plauche Nancy Schmitt Cate and Rick Waddell Pamela G. Meyer Ms. Lyneta Grap Piela Mr. Jim Seng Suzanne L. Wagner Mrs. Pamela E. Miles Dr. and Mrs. Alan Pohl Ms. Fay Shong and Mr. Tracy Mehr Dr. Richard Warnecke Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Charles B. Preacher Foundation Adele and John Simmons Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Donald R Wertz Robert and Lois Moeller Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Larry G. Simpson David Wetherbee Steven Montner and Scott Brown Christina Rashid Dr. Ross Slotten and Mr. Ted Grady Heide Wetzel John S. Mrowiec and Dr. Karen L. Granda Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid Mr. Edward Smeds Caroline C. Wheeler Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Mrs. Elke Rehbock Mr. and Mrs. David Snyder Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Rosemary Murgas Sandra and Ken Reid Carole and Bob Sorensen Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Chris and Eileen Murphy Ms. Danijela Dedic Ricco Phil and Sylvia Spertus F. C. Winters Dr. and Mr. Andy Nawrocki Carol Roberts Carol D. Stein and James Sterling Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Gayla and Ed Nieminen Elaine G. Rosen Mrs. Karl H. Stein Chip and Jean Wood Janis Wellin Notz and John K. Notz, Jr. Megan Roudebush Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Christopher and Julie Wood Marjory M. Oliker Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stopeck Marsha and David Woodhouse Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Susan B. Rubnitz Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stuart Priscilla T. Yu Mr. Joe Pacetti Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Geraldine L. Szymanski Gerald L. Padbury Robert Russell Oscar Tatosian, Jr. John and Dawn Palmer John Sagos Dr. Andrew J. omas
FRIEND $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (12) George J. Burrows Dr. and Mrs. Carl Fetkenhour Mr. Allen Hager Emily and Christopher Knight Mr. Steve Abbey and Agnes B. Canning Geraldine K. Fiedler Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Lionel and Jackie Knight Ms. Pamela Brick Dr. and Mrs. William C. Carithers Suja Finnerty Mary E. Hallman Edward and Adrienne Kolb Louise Abrahams Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Elizabeth W. Fischer Lucy Hammerberg Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Stephen H. Carr and Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Shaw Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock William Konczyk and Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Virginia McMillan Carr Susan Fisher-Yellen Agnes Hamos Stanley Conlon Ann Acker Mrs. Clarissa Chandler James and Jane Fitzgerald Michael G. Hansen and Michael Krco Duffie A. Adelson Mrs. Beatrice Chapman William A. Fleig Nancy E. Randa Jeanne LaDuke Susan S. Adler Jeffrey K. Chase Esq Marvin Fletcher Charles Hanusin Carol and Jerome Lamet Judith A. Akers Robert Cieslak Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Flint Betty Ann Hauser Dr. and Mrs. Alan Leff Dr. and Mrs. Todd D. Alexander Heinke K. Clark Nona C. Flores Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hawver Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko John Almasi Mitchell Cobey Paul Fong James Heger Dominique Leonardi Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Jean M. Cocozza Eloise C. Foster Sheila Ann Hegy Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Sheila and James Amend Margery and Robert Coen Allen J. Frantzen and Mr. and Ms. Ross Heim Mrs. Chase C. Levey Doris W. Angell Elaine Collina George R. Paterson Carrie and Harry Hightman Mrs. Nancy Levi Daniel J. Anzia Dr. Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Michael and Nancie Freeborn Dr. and Mrs. Roger D. Hilbert David Levinson and Kathy Kirn Dr. Edward Applebaum and Sharon Conway Dr. Maija Freimanis and Mr. and Mrs. omas H. Hodges Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Dr. Eva Redel James M. Cormier David Marshall Suzanne L. Hoffman and Dale Smith Myron and Eleanor Lieberman Kathleen Arthur and Stephen Wood Daniel Corrigan Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hollensteiner Caroline P. Lippert Margaret Atherton Evelyn Crews Ms. Pauline Friedman Stephen D. Holmes William and Diane Lloyd Leslie and Patrick Ballard Gary Crosby Penny Friedman George R. Honig, M.D. and Lloyd R. Loback Peter and Elise Barack Karen and John Crotty Priscilla and Henry Frisch Olga Weiss Melvin R. Loeb William and Marjorie Bardeen Pamela Crutchfield Samuel and Adriana Front Larry and Ann Hossack Lutz Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Robert Curley Mr. John Furrer Michael and Beverly Huckman Abby and George Lombardi Mr. and Mrs. William Barker Barbara Flynn Currie John A. Gable Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff Sherry and Mel Lopata Michael A. Barna Craig and Jane Love Richard and Shirley Baron Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Lucas Mr. Jim Barrett Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Barbara Barzansky "Lyric is an important Chicago cultural institution, and I want to Wayne R. Lueders Sandra Bass contribute to its existence, for which I am most grateful." Kurtice Luther Ron Bauer and Michael Spencer Mary Anne Lynskey Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Baum Ms. Bonghee Ma Patricia Bayerlein and -Edward C. Charlene and Gary MacDougal Michael Hoffman Barbara MacDowall and W.C. Beatty Mr. Matthew Curtin Dr. Anthony W. Gargiulo and Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt Robert Hanlon Roger B. Beck and Ann F. Beck Timothy and Cheryl Dahlstrand Mrs. Jane Duboise Gargiulo Humanist Fund Daniel Carroll Madden and Seth Beckman James and Marie Damion Ms. Lili Gaubin Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Tuny Mokrauer Brian Beggerow Mr. Timothy Daniels Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Bea Irminger Jeffrey and Paula Malak Hans F. Bell Jason Dantico Carolyn and Stephen Geldermann Dr. Peter Ivanovich Mark and Wendy Manto John C. Benitez Rathin Datta Dedre Gentner Marina B. Jacks Mr. and Mrs. Warren W. Mark Roy C. Bergstrom Greg Davis Ms. Esther Geppert Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Jackson Ms. Andrea R. Markowicz Jacquie Berlin Patty Litton Delony Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson John G. and Betty C. Jacobs Robert Markowski and Lois M. Berman Rosanne Diamond Nancy S. Gerrie Charlene Jacobsen Randi Ragins Jane Berry Lyn Dickey Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James William Maroney Mr. and Mrs. Turney P. Berry Robert and Anne Diffendal Gregory Geuther Ms. Cynthia J. Jameson Ms. Karin Martin Jerry and Kathy Biederman Dr. Elton Dixon Sharon L. Gibson Mrs. Judith H. Janowiak Mr. Michael Mattingly Dr. Vanice (Van) Billups Jill S. Dodds Dr. Howard P. Girard Jerry and Judy Johansen Ann and Philip May Margaret C. Bisberg and Michael L. Dollard Gay L. Girolami Ginny Alberts-Johnson and John E Mazuski Richard VanMetre Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey B Donnell David L. Gitomer Lance Johnson Maureen and Michael McCabe Cynthia L. Bixel Mr. Fred M. Donner John Glier Carl Johnson's Gallery in Galena Mr. John G. McCord M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Dr. and Mrs. Peter E. Doris Barbara and Norman Gold Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Drs. William and Margaret McCulloch Elaine and Harold Blatt Tom Draski Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden JS Charitable Trust Julie and Herb McDowell Ms. Elizabeth Blinderman Douglas F. Duchek Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Judith Jump Bonnie McGrath E. M. Bluhm Ms. Susan A. Duda Robert and Marcia Goltermann Olivier C. Junod & Dan Dwir erissa McKelvey Frima H. Blumenthal Ronald B. Duke Jerry Goodman Dr. and Mrs. James J. Kane Maryjanet McNamara Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Kathy Dunn Jaimy Gordon and Peter Blickle Mrs. Myrna Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Zarin Mehta Robert and Anne Bolz Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Mr. Andrew Gore Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Claretta Meier Mr. Donald W. Bonneau Kimberly A. Eberlein Motoko Goto omas R. Kasdorf Mr. Herbert Meltzer Donald F. Bouseman Barbara and John Eckel David Gould Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Giovanna and Joseph Breu Hugh and Jackie Edfors Dr. Steven A. Gould Mrs. Helen Kedo Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Nicholas Bridges and James W. Edmondson Annemarie H. Gramm Larry M Keer, M.D. Rachel and Jason Mersey Margaret McGirr Mrs. Marlene Eisen Edward A. Grant Dr. E. Kefallonitis Ph.D. Jim and Ginger Meyer Candace B. Broecker Lou Eledort and Natasha Kavanagh Miss Martha Grant Alfred Kelley Mr. Joseph Michalak Joan and Tom Broderick Ms. Jan Elfline Dr. Ruth Grant and Anne and John Kern Rev. Dr. Mary L. Milano Jerry and Gisela Brosnan Ms. Alexis Ellington Dr. Howard Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Sally S. Miley Ms. Kathryn Y. Brown Peter Emery Anthony Green Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kirsch Barry and Sharon Millman Warren and Patricia Buckler Mr. and Mrs. Paul Epner Greene Family Frank and Alice Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Budzik Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Diane F. Klotnia Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Milnarik Howard and Moira Buhse Ms. Elizabeth M. Fadell John R. Grimes Mary Klyasheff Dr. Mary Louise H. Burger e Feder Family Patricia Grogan Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Susan Burkhardt Joan and Robert Feitler Donald Haavind Foundation
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Vee Minarich Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos Robert and Camille Von Dreele Mr. and Mrs. David Mintzer Shirley Pfenning and Ms. Lucy L. Salenger Carole and Bob Sorensen John and Kathleen Vondran William Mondi Robert J. Wilczek Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sagui Elaine Soter Mr. Malcolm V. Vye Charles Moore Mrs. Marlene Phillips Alan Salpeter and Shelley Gorson Ms. Julie Staley Albert R. Walavich Lloyd Morgan Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Steele April Ware and Jess Forrest Mr. Greg Morris Mr. and Mrs. Les Pinsof Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell Joyce L. Steffel Dr. Richard Warnecke Ms. Helen H. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Patricia Schaefer Carol Stein and Doris Ashkin Benjamin Wasmuth Corinne Morrissey Mrs. Carol Pollock Mary T. Schafer Ms. Catherine E. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts Jr David and Linda Moscow Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky Robert P. Schaible Walter and Caroline Sueske Pam and David Waud John S. Mrowiec and William V. Porter Dr. Michelle Schultz Charitable Trust Richard and Karen Weiland Dr. Karen L. Granda Charlene Posner Jim and Joan Sears Mr. and Mrs. James Swartchild Mr. and Mrs. Richard Welcome Mr. and Mrs. Brendan M. Mulshine Dorothy M. Press Paul R. Seidlitz Anne Taft Adele and Joseph R. Wells Ms. Jan Munagian Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tarcov Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell Mr. David Quell Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Seng Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Peter J. Wender Dr. Belverd Needles and William H. Redfield John and Floria Serpico Mr. Charles A. Tausche Manfred Wendt Dr. Marian Powers Roseanne Rega McGrath Tom Shapiro Gilbert Terlicher Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wertz Ms. Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Dennis C. Regan Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Mr. Jonathon ierer Mr. Stefan Westerhoff David and Lynne Nellemann Alicia and Myron Resnick David Sherman Genevieve iers and Daniel Ratner Patricia and William Wheeler Elaine T. Newquist Evelyn Richer Ms. Shannon Shin Linda and Ronald isted James L. Wilson Jeffrey Nichols Mrs. Mary K. Ring Ms. Carolyn M. Short Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Mrs. John White Nancy A. Nichols Jerry and Carole Ringer Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Eleanor W. Tippens Charles A. Whitver John Nigh Jared C. Robins Nancy Silberman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Arlene and Michael Winfield Carol M. Nigro Ms. Brenda Robinson Linda Simon Diane Tkach and James Freundt Kathryn B. Winter Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Michael A. Wislek Dr. W. E. Null Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Paul and Ann Singer Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Witkowski Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow Charlotte Puppel-Rose Margles Singleton and Clay Young Kay and Craig Tuber Charles B. Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nutt Roberta Rosell Barbara Smith and Mr. James W. Tucker Mr. and Ms. Francis Wolfe Penny J. Obenshain Saul and Sarah Rosen Timothy Burroughs Judith Tuszynski Ted and Peggy Wolff Mr. Michael J. O'Connell Dr. Karen and Mr. Samuel Rosenberg Louise K. Smith Professor Harald and Christopher and Julie Wood Gail O'Gorman Babette Rosenthal Mary Ann Smith Mrs. Christine Uhlig D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Mr. and Mrs. Keith Olson Lorelei Rosenthal Robert A. Sniegowski United Way Metro Chicago Mark Woodworth and Virginia A. O'Neill Marsha and Robert Rosner Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Manuel S. Valderrama Randi Ravitts Woodworth Mr. and Mrs. John Ostrem Dolores Ruetz e Sondheimer Family Charitable Marlene A. Van Skike Michael and Judy Zeddies Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Harding Louise M. Ryssmann Foundation Frances and Peter Vandervoort Barbara Zeleny Evelyn E. Padorr Eugene W. Rzym Larry and Marge Sondler A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Ilene Patty and omas Terpstra David Sachs Carol Sonnenschein Sadow Rosalba Villanueva Richard E. Ziegler Mrs. Mona L. Penner Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Susan Somers and Ray Cocco John N. Vinci Camille J. Zientek Mr. Marvin Zonis SUSTAINER $500 to $999 Anonymous (26) Fran Bly and Charles Hample Mr. Michael Christie Ms. Kathleen H. Ebbott Lori Fulton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Erminio Bonacci Ms. Angela Cici Ralph D. Ebbott Mr. and Mrs. omas L. Gahlon Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Mr. and Mrs. Peter L Ciocci Adrienne Eckerling Leota P. Gajda Andrew Abbott and Susan Schlough Mr. and Mrs. addeus M. Bond, Sr. Connie Clark Ms. Martha Edwards omas F. Gajewski Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Laurence and Patricia Booth Mrs. Doris M. Clark Ryan Jay Eikmeier and Dr. Sandra Garber Phillip Adams and Carmen Wilcox Jordan Bouchard Mr. Henry Clark and Timothy Silver Mr. Richard Gatto Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Anastasia Boucouras Mrs. Elizabeth Simon Ms. Marjorie Elliott omas and Patricia Germino Mrs. Carol E. Adelman Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Ms. Kathleen Clark Mrs. Richard J. Elrod Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Gieser Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Dr. Gilbert W. Bowen Ms. Nancy J. Clawson David Elzinga Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert Carnot & Luceile Allen Foundation Ms. Barbara Box Ms. Diane S. Cleary Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ertman Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Judith L. Allen David E. Boyce Ms. Marsha Clinard and Mr. and Mrs. Rick Erwin Ms. Robyn R. Gilliom and Sandra Allen Mary and Carl Boyer Mr. Charles Boast Mr. and Mrs. James Estes Mr. Lyle Gillman Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Allie Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Ms. Kimberly K. Coday Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Evanich Kik and S. I. Gilman Peri M. Altan Leslie Bradberry Susan and John Combes Michael and Colleen Evans Dale and David Ginsburg Ken and Mary Andersen Wendy and Norman Bradburn James G. Condon Mr. and Mrs. omas W. Evans James W. and Patricia T. Gladden Carol L. Anderson Michael Bradie Stevie Conlon and Sue Skau Ms. Patti Eylar Dr. Paul B. Glickman Judith C. Anderson Cai Glushak and Martin DiCrisci Ms. Louise E. Anderson Mr. Richard Gnaedinger William Ankenbrandt "I love being transported by a particularly beautiful voice just Ms. Bernadette Gniadecki Drs. Vijayalakshmi and Dr. Susan R. Goldman Bapu Arekapudi completely filling the auditorium." Dr. and Mrs. Frank R. Greer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Armstrong Amy and Michael Gordon Drs. Andrew and Iris Aronson -Margaret M. Drs. Margaret and Richard Gore Ms. Ardell Arthur Anne H. Gorham Dr. David Ashbach Robert Bradner Mr. John E. Connolly Jr Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Mr. and Mrs. eodore M. Asner William Bradt Dr. Joseph P. Cousins and Marion and Burt Fainman Sarah J. Gottermeyer Mr. Vadim Backman Mrs. Cheryl Braude and Dr. Kate L. Forhan Dr. Robert A. Fajardo Mr. and Mrs. Delmon Grapes Mr. Richard Baer Kevin Braude Anatole Crane Mrs. Fran Faller Beth Graue Ms. Shirley M. Ballak Mr. Richard H. Brewer and Nancy Crawford Mr. David Fannin Ms. Nancy J. Gray and Leslie Ballard Dr. Mary Ann Schwartz Robert C. Cronin Mr. Michael Farmer Dr. Joseph N. Scudder Mr. Stan Balog Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brey Czarkowski Family Mr. and Mrs. John H. Faulhaber Rick Greenman Mr. and Mrs. eodore Banks Dr. John H. Brill Ms. Vindya Dayananda Ms. Patti C. Fazio Ginger Griffin H. Barefield Ms. Myrna Bromley Ms. Lisa DeAngelis Mr. Stephen Fedo Prof. Alan Grigg Marilyn R. Barmash Leona and Daniel Bronstein Paul B. Dekker Joseph Feldman, MD Robert Grist Barbara J. Barnes Mr. Charles Brooks and Ms. Andrea DeLeo Steven E. Feldman Charles R. Grode Mr. Merrill Z. Barnes Mrs. Suzan S. Bramson Brooks Patricia K. Denman Mr. William R. Fenner Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Gross Elizabeth S. Beck John A. Bross, Jr. Michael DePriest Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Ms. Lynn B. Gryll Mrs. and Mr. Martin S. A. Beck Ms. Suzanne W. Brown William Diaz and Mr. Jim Ferneborg Mrs. Kathleen Grzybek Benevity Community Impact Fund Todd Brueshoff eresa Gross-Diaz Dr. Bradley Fine John Gustaitis Julie Anne Benson Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Ms. Wendy DiBendedetto Howard and Charlotte Fink Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Diane and Karl Berolzheimer Dr. Robert P.F. Buerglener and Dr. Gary Dillehay Mr. Emmett Finneran Mr. and Mrs. Cameel Halim Mr. and Mrs. Loren M. Berry III Dr. Paul B. Jaskot Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Mr. Anthony K. Fisher Mr. Larry Hanes Mr. R. Stephen Berry Mr. Dan Bujas and Mrs. Janice Y. Domanik Dr. and Mrs. William E. Fishman David Hanson Mr. omas Berry Mrs. Mary Reyes Maureen Dooley Marilyn E. Fites John and Sharon Hanusin Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Bevers Dr. Jack Bulmash Ms. Jill Dougherty Ms. Karen E. Flanagan Mr. Gregory J. Harms Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Mr. and Mrs. Donald Burnett Roy and Rachel Downing Abbie Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Mr. and Mrs. John Bienko Charlotte Byers Ms. Nancy Dreher R. Michael Flores, MD and Richard L. Hay Mr. James D. Bjorken Ms. Pamela A. Cabeen Paul E. Drennan Mr. John Flynn Dr. and Mrs. David Jerome Hayden Richard Blackwell and Mary Ellen Cagney Ann Patricia Duffy Lafayette J. Ford Mrs. John S. Hayford Linda Christianson Lidia Calcaterra and Paul Barger Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Dr. and Mrs. Robert Heidenry Diane and Tom Blake Hon. and Mrs. Michael T. Caldwell Dr. Robert Golub Mr. and Mrs. James Foster Robert and Raynelle Heidrick Louis and Catherine Bland Elena Carbajal-Gaule Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Richard W. Foster Josephine E. Heindel Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Walter and Nancy Carlson Ms. Roma Dybalski Anne and Willard Fraumann Stephen Heller James Blum Patrick V. Casali Joan M. Eagle Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fried Valerie A. Hendricks Mr. Robert A. Blumberg Donald and Bonnie Chauncey Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Mr. Richard Friedman Mr. John E. Hennessey D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Ms. June F. Choate Mrs. B. Englert Easterbrook Michael and Jane Fritz Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Hennessy
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Kimberlee S. Herold John T. Lansing Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Ms. Judith A. Sandstrom and Jay and Kelly Tunney Mr. eodore W. Herr and Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen Holly I. Myers Mr. Peter Kohn Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Turcotte Ms. Carla Carstens Herr Mrs. Frederick Larsen Mr. William F. Myers Richard H. Sanders Mr. Edward Turkington Norman K. Hester Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Laser Ms. Mary Nair Dr. JF Sarwark MD and Brig. Gen. Sue E. Turner Harriet E. Heyda Mr. and Mrs. Harold Laughlin Harvey A. Nathan Ms. Ann Herring Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tyner Caren B. Hiatt Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Lawrence Virginia Navarrete Ms. Joyce Saxon Mr. and Mrs. Tal Tzur Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High David Lawver J. Robin Naylor Marie-Claude Schauer Aris Urbanes & Bill Hulsker omas W. and Helen C. Hill Marsha Lazar Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Nichols Anne McMillen Scheyer Mr. Richard Uszynski Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lee Eleanor A. Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Schiele Mrs. Denise M. Utter Mr. David Hoffman Mr. Plato C. Lee Andrew Noha Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Mrs. Murray J. Vale Kathleen Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Young I. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nolen Mrs. Rosita M. Schloss Sharon Van Dyck and Ms. Sarai Hoffman Mary Anne Leer Richard Nora MD Ann Schmidt Richard Kelber John E. Holland Eileen Leiderman and Ben L. Brener Anna Marie Norehad Marcia G. Schneider Lorrie and Dave VanderArk Mr. Rodney Holmes Dr. Michael C. Leland Ms. Sandra Norlin Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Scholly Andre Van Ee Joel Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lenahan Northwest Indiana Pathology Susan B. Schulson Marie Vanagas William Hosken Bonnie and Ed Leracz Patricia A. Noska Mark Schultz Dr. Eladio A. Vargas Mr. and Mrs. R. omas Howell, Jr. Ms. Kiyoko Lerner Mrs. Ellen Noth Deborah and George Schulz Mr. and Ms. Francois Velde Dr. Wei Hsueh Ralph and Carol Lerner William Novshek and Stacy and Robert Schultze Mr. and Mrs. Michael I. Vender Mr. Robert Hudson Laurence and Mary Levine Lynda oman Linda S. Schurman Kathleen A. Vesh William and Sarah Hufford Michael and Diane Levy Julia Nowicki Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwartz Jr. Ms. Antoinette Vigilante Mr. and Mrs. Alan Huish Ms. Jody Lewis Dr. Dragic M. Obradovic Judy and John Scully Mr. and Mrs. William P. Vit Julia Hulcher Mr. Randy Lewis Mr. Michael K. Oman Robert Kent Scott Ms. Lidia B. Vitello G. Todd Hunt Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Abby O'Neil and Carroll Joynes Ms. Geraldine Sczygiel Mrs. Barbara Vlack Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Dr. Arnold Tobin Ms. Eileen O'Neill Barbara and John T. Seaman, Jr. Dmitro Voinorovich Dr. Stephen and Kathy Irwin Mr. Jonathan Lichter Sandra L. Osborn Dr. Itai Seggev and Dr. Annabelle Volgman Howard Isenberg Paul M. Liebenson Mary Otto Dr. Dara Goldman Mr. Richard Wagner Virginia A. Jach Robert E. Lindgren Ms. Natalie Pace Richard and Betty Seid Suzanne L. Wagner Ms. Marina B. Jacks Carol Linkowski Lauren M. Pachman, M.D. and Dr. Robert F. Shankland Prof. John S. Walker Douglas and Lynn Jackson DeAnn Liska Mark A. Satterthwaite Mr. and Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro Robert D. Wallin Merle L. Jacob Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Walter Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Gary T. Walther Mr. and Mrs. Ross H. Jannotta "I give to Lyric because music and art are important in our lives." Elizabeth K. Ware Dr. Nora Jaskowiak and e Warranty Group Mr. Matthew Hinerfield -Carol L. Ms. Lisa Warshauer Spencer Jeffries Nancy E. Webster Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Jensen Mr. Alan Littmann Paloucek Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. James Wees Barbara Jensen-Schweighauser Dr. Vassyl A. Lonchyna and Mr. Tomas Palubinskas Maureen L. Shea Claude M. Weil Ms. Barbara Jillson Dr. Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna Joan L. Pantisios Mr. Michael S. Sherry Mr. James Weinberger Ms. Arlene Johnson Richard Lord David Paris Ellen and Richard Shubart Susan and ArvinWeindruch Mr. Tim Johnson Sharon and Henry Lorsch Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Barbara Fulton Sideman Marco and Joan Weiss Mr. and Mrs. omas Johnston Ms. Janet Lubin Alap Patel Linda Soreff Siegel Ellen Werner Barbara Mair Jones John and Roseanne Lynch Mr. Bohdan O. Pauk Andrew Barry Simmons and Mitchell Ms. Suzanne K. Westerhold Janet Jones Mrs. Diane L. Macewicz Bruce and Nancy Payne Loewenthal-Grassini Mr. Robert Westveer Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Jordan Suzanne C. Mack Ms. Susan Payne Roberta E. Singer Zita Wheeler Mr. Edward T. Joyce Miss Joan C. Madden Susan Carter Pearsall omas Sinkovic Floyd and Judith W. Whellan Mr. and Mrs. omas P. Kaeser Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Madden Mark Pelletier and Dr. David Berrier Mr. Christopher Skrable Dr. and Mrs. Walter Whisler Paula Kahn Ms. Svetlana Magdel Jean T. Pennino Edward W. and Alice L. Smeds Mr. Chad Williams and Mr. Roman Kahn George and Roberta Mann Mr. and Mrs. John Pepe Beth and Gerard Smetana Ms. Amy Williams Marianne E. Kalinke Philanthropic Fund Victorina Peterson Arthur B. Smith, Jr. and Margaret E. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kallman Martha Marberry Viktoras Petroliunas Tracey L. Truesdale Rabbi Larry and JoAnne Winer Beth Kalov Frank and Jeanette Marchese Mr. Robert Phelan Melissa and Chuck Smith Ann S. Wolff Ethel R. Kaplan Dr. Lawrence and Sylvia Margolies Mr. and Mrs. William Pinsof Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr. Mr. Hak Wong Mr. James Karr Mr. and Mrs. Miles Marsh John J.W. Plampin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Robert E. Woodworth, Jr. Ms. Andrea Katzenstein Jeordano Martinez Roland and Karen Porter Ms. Elizabeth Smyth Teana and Abbott Wright Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kavetsis Mr. William F. Marutzky Dr. David Alexander Powell Michael and Donna Socol Mark Zajackowski Mrs. Grazina Keeley Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Marzec Dr. Kathryn Press Edward and Eileen Soderstrom Tom and Elena Zanussi Matthew J. Keller, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Matz Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Preston Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein Leon and Wendy Zar Sarah and Kip Kelley II Mr. Donald Maves Mr. Dan E. Prindle Mr. Ryan Spohn Mr. and Mrs. John G. Zasi Douglas and Christine Kelner Mrs. John May Marla McCormick Pringle Dr. and Mrs. Eric M. Spratford Dr. Antoinette Zell and omas E. Kerber Edward and Myrna Mazur Gail S. Prins and Alice S. Wisse Michael Sprinker Kenneth R. Walter Jeffrey R. Kerr Bernadette McCarthy Mr. Sunil Puri Michael and Cheryl Stack David and Suzanne Zesmer Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Kessler Ms. Hope McFadden Judith Purta Phillip V. St. Cloud and Jenny Zhang Ms. Emily Kessler and Andrew S. McFarland Chris and Elizabeth Quigg Charles P. Case Ms. Wei Zhang Ms. Kay E. Hughes Condon McGlothlen Mary Raffetto-Robins Helena Stancikas Larisa Zhizhin Chuck and Kathy Killman John and Etta McKenna Ms. R. L. Anderson Rains Scott G. and Beth F.J. Stephenson Dr. and Mrs. Eric Zickgraf Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn Kind Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader J. Usha Raj, MD Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Sterkin Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Joann and Milt Meigs Dorothy V. Ramm Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Stern Dr. Barbara S. Kirschner Ernst Melchior Jeffrey Rappin and Penny Brown Jerome H. Stone Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. omas L. Dr. Patricia A. Merwick Dr. and Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Mrs. James H. Stoner Kittle-Kamp Barb and Bob Meyer Ms. Anne Ray Joanne Storm Esther G. Klatz Ms. Charlene Meyer Biswamay Ray, M.D. Mr. John Strasswimmer Mr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Klevorn Joanne Michalski and Michael Weeda John Reppy Gary L. Strawn Mr. Gregory Knapp Mr. a Gene Mikota Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Richert Charles Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Knuth nd Mrs. Gearold D. Miles Dr. Patricia C. Rieger John B. Sullivan Mr. Gary Koppelberger Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr. Ed and Susan Ritts Mrs. Kelly J. Sullivan Soley Gerald A. and Karen A. David E. Miller Helen H. Roberts Mary W. Sullivan and Kolschowsky Foundation, Inc. Gerry M. Miller William and Cheryl Roberts Coleman S. Kendall Dr. and Mrs. Howard Konowitz Edward J. Mitchen Dr. Diana M. Robin Mr. Robert Tanaka Amy Kontrick and Mark Mycyk Sanford Moltz James Engel Rocks Bradley L. and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kracum Mr. Richard Moore e Philip and Myn Rootberg Simone Himbeault Taylor Stephen Kraft Deborah A. Morrin Foundation Susan C. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Kretchmer Martin W. Morris Susan Rosborough Mr. Harold Temple Konrad K. Kuchenbach John A. Morrison Drs. Ronald and Linda Rosenthal Dr. and Mrs. Michael Terry omas P. Kuczwara Larry Morrison omas and Barbara Rosenwein Mr. and Mrs. Otto Teske Dr. Klaus and Erzsebet Kuettner James E Morstadt Ms. Barbara Ruben Mr. Ernest ompson Walfrid and Sherry Kujala Beverly Mortensen Ms. Mary Rundell Ms. Michele M. ompson Axel Kunzmann and Mr. and Mrs. Karlos Moser Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff omas B. uerer Bruce J. Nelson Helga Muench Lena M. Ruppman Jennifer Tipton John and Lynn LaBarbera Zane F. Muhl Timothy J.S. Ms. Paula Tironi and Mr. Arthur Ladenburger Mr. J. omas Mullen Joe and Natalie Sacchetti Mr. Richard G. Ziegler Laimonis and Kristina Laimins Mr. George Murphy Mary Ann Sadilek Ms. Elizabeth Tisdahl Susan Laing omas F. Murphy Mr. Eugene Saenger Jr Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tittle Elisabeth M. Landes Barbara B. Murray Natalie Saltiel Ms. Diane Trannel
Lyric is very grateful to the thousands of donors who give gifts of less than $500 to our annual campaign. Due to space limitations, we are unable to list the names of these donors, but their generosity is sincerely appreciated.
May 3 - June 2, 2019 | 63 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Facilities and Services
Patrons with Disabilities: encouraged to take photographs and e Lyric Opera House is share your experience on social media accessible to persons with from the lobby and other parts of the physical disabilities, with public, non-performance spaces in elevator service to all floors the house, as well as the house itself, except the Opera Club. e Ardis but not during the performance. Krainik eatre contains seating that is accessible to persons in Lyric, for safety reasons, has the right wheelchairs, as well as seats with to inspect any large bags or packages removable armrests. e Lyric and insist that all large backpacks, bags, Welcome to the Lyric Opera House! Here Opera House has automatic door-openers luggage, etc. be stored at coat check. are a few guidelines designed to ensure all on exterior doors, and accessible drinking of our audience members have the best fountains and public telephones. A TTY experience possible. phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only. • Please remain silent during the performance. Restroom facilities for female patrons with • As a gesture of respect for other disabilities are located on all levels except audience members and the the Opera Club. For male patrons, these performing artists, please remain facilities are located on all levels except the seated until intermission or the end Opera Club and the sixth floor. of the show. If you need to leave Assistive listening devices for persons the auditorium, you may not be desiring amplification are available at no readmitted while the performance is cost at the Main Floor coat check. A valid Outside food and beverages may not be in progress. driver’s license or state identification is brought into the Lyric Opera House. • Program and artists are subject to required as a security deposit. Refreshments may be purchased onsite and change without notice. limited items may be brought in with • Please turn off or silence all electronic Large print and Braille programs may be you to the performance. and personal devices and refrain available at the Main Floor coat check. from using any device with a glowing ank you again for joining us at Lyric screen at any time during the Audio description, touch tours, and Opera of Chicago! performance. American Sign Language interpretation is available for select performances; please see Your understanding and cooperation are www.lyricopera.org/accessibilty for dates appreciated. Please let a member of Lyric’s and details. house staff know if you have any questions. Lost and Found: Please email [email protected] and give us a detailed description of your item. If it was turned into Lost and Found, we will contact you. We make every attempt to hold items for the entire opera season.
Other important policies: Photography and/or audio and video recording of any kind are prohibited during the performance. You are Photos by Jaclyn Simpson and Todd Rosenberg.
Front of House Managers: Sheila Matthews, Chuck Tucker Box Office Assistant Treasurers: John or Sandquist and Joseph Dunn Food & Beverage Manager: Geri LaGiglio Restaurant Manager: David Adelsperger Box Office Manager: Gregg Brody Usher Supervisors: Lena Reynolds-Sneed, Nate Tuttle
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