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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Table of Contents ROBERT KUSEL ROBERT

IN THIS ISSUE Eugene Onegin – pp. 20-35

4 From the General Director 21 Synopsis 40 Patron Salute 6 From the Chairman 23 Cast 43 Aria Society 10 24 Artist Profiles Board of Directors 52 Breaking New Ground 11 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ 29 Opera Notes 53 Look to the Future Executive Board/Young Professionals/ 34 A Talk with the Director Ryan Opera Center Board 54 Major Contributors – Special Events 35 After the Curtain Falls 12 Administration/Administrative Staff/ and Project Support Production and Technical Staff 36 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus 55 Lyric Unlimited Contributors 37 14 Why I Love Opera… Backstage Life and Why I Love Lyric – Part 4 38 Artistic Roster 57 Ryan Opera Center 20 Tonight’s Performance 39 Lyric and Social Media 58 Ryan Opera Center Alumni Around the World 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 60 Planned Giving: The Overture Society

TODD ROSENBERG TODD MORE FROM 61 Commemorative Gifts THE LYRIC 62 Corporate Partnerships AUDIENCE, 63 Matching Gifts, Special Thanks and pp. 14-18 Acknowledgements 64 Annual Individual and Foundation Support 70 Facilities and Services/Theater Staff On the cover: “An Unknown Man in a Frock Coat,” artist unknown. ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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From the General Director

Throughout the history of opera, composers and librettists have been attracted to ill-starred romance. No one has presented it more powerfully and movingly than Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, whose Eugene Onegin has stood supreme as the most popular of all Russian operas for more than 125 years. I feel particular affection and admiration for this piece, which has figured prominently in my operatic life for many years. No matter how frequently I experience it in opera houses or hear it in recorded STEVE LEONARD performances, I never tire of its breathtakingly beautiful score, in which every episode contributes to the opera’s overwhelming cumulative impact. In the deeply touching figure of Tatiana, Eugene Onegin boasts one of the most appealing of all operatic heroines. Her celebrated Act One tour de force, the “Letter Scene,” demands absolutely everything of an artist as both singer and actress. There is also musical and dramatic glory to be found in the ultra-sophisticated hero (or rather, “anti-hero”) Onegin, the ardent poet Lensky, and the noble Prince Gremin. Eugene Onegin is returning to the Civic Opera House in one of the finest productions this work has received in decades. The director, Robert Carsen, and his design team have responded to the autumnal lyricism of Tchaikovsky with exquisite simplicity and sensitivity. The production, having been presented initially at the Metropolitan Opera, subsequently earned huge public and critical acclaim when first remounted at Lyric during the 2007-08 season. I’m thrilled that we’re able to produce Eugene Onegin with such a dazzling cast, full of international stars who are as renowned for their musicality and dramatic prowess as they are for their outstanding voices. One of our two Onegins in 2007- 08 was the matchlessly dashing Mariusz Kwiecień (most recently our electrifying Don Giovanni two seasons ago). With Onegin he reprises a role that has become closely identified with him worldwide. Like him, Ana María Martínez is a great Lyric favorite, and Tatiana will certainly be one of the most significant role debuts of her career. Ana María is precisely the artist to convey not only the emotions of the impulsive teenager in the early scenes, but also the maturity and emotional depth of the married woman in the last act. The rest of this cast is similarly stellar. After an absence of several seasons, I’m delighted that Charles Castronovo is returning to Lyric as Lensky, and that Dmitry Belosselskiy is following up on his success as Zaccaria in last season’s Nabucco with his return as Prince Gremin. A company needs no fewer than three superb mezzo-sopranos for this opera and we have them in the fast-rising Alisa Kolosova (Olga, Lyric debut) and two other favorite Lyric artists, Katharine Goeldner (Mme. Larina) and Jill Grove (Filipyevna). Any memorable Eugene Onegin requires a conductor able to communicate the vigor and impetuosity of youth, who must also possess an acute feeling for Tchaikovsky’s profound expressiveness. We have that conductor in Aléjo Perez, the dynamic Argentinian who will be a great discovery for Chicago. In his still-young career he has already deeply impressed audiences at the Salzburg Festival, the Opéra National de Paris, La Monnaie in Brussels, and many other prestigious venues internationally. The freshness, immediacy, and inspiration of Tchaikovsky’s melodies, the sumptuousness of his orchestra, and the immense appeal of the opera’s characters, will all combine to make Eugene Onegin an unforgettably exciting climax for Lyric’s 2016-17 season.

Anthony Freud General Director, President & CEO The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

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From the Chairman

The production of Eugene Onegin that you are enjoying this evening is the climax of what has certainly been one of the most exciting Lyric seasons in recent memory. My wife and I have hugely enjoyed every production, and I hope you have, too. Tonight’s production is benefiting from an ambitious stage-improvement project, the first step of which was implemented over the past summer. Three new stage lifts, a turntable, 16 new point hoists (individual motorized lines that can lift sets or people in the air), and sophisticated video projection technology has enabled us to present TODD ROSENBERG this season’s new productions of Das Rheingold, Les Troyens, and The Magic Flute. None of those productions would have even been possible were it not for that initial investment. Over the next two years we’ll witness the second phase of the project, including additional stage lifts and point hoists, plus various other crucial technical capabilities. This will ensure our being able to present future productions exactly as our directors have imagined them, and in a safe, efficient manner. We’re exceedingly grateful to our Breaking New Ground campaign donors whose generosity has made this possible. Along with our backstage investments to enable these amazing productions, we are also investing in the front of the house to enhance your experience at Lyric. New concierge greeters in the lobby, additional ticket scanners to improve your entrance, and a reworking of the traffic flow on Wacker Drive to expidite your arrival and departure are just a few of the changes you’ve experienced this season. We’re looking for fresh ways to make your total Lyric experience a delight, from the moment you purchase your ticket until you depart after a wonderful performance. The future of opera and of Lyric is dependent not only on the loyalty of our longtime audience members, but also on our ability to cultivate the next generation. As we all know, “Millennials” and young professionals have many more opportunities for entertainment and cultural consumption than ever before. In achieving our goal of continually attracting and engaging younger audiences, we’ve embraced the types of media that they’re familiar with. Many of you who spend time online, particularly in social media, have noticed in the past year many more banner ads for Lyric productions or mentions and “likes” on Facebook and Twitter and photos on Instagram. I’m delighted to see social media channels bringing greater awareness of Lyric and its exciting offerings to a whole new audience. I use Lyric’s website on a regular basis, whether to provide background information for an upcoming production or to review the biography of an artist I don’t know. It’s not unusual for me to snap a picture of a current production poster and post it on my Facebook page, and I encourage you to do the same! Even as we are sensing the end of this opera season, I am already getting excited about the next! There is a great deal to look forward to, and you can count on the entire 2017-18 season exhibiting the musical, dramatic, and visual excellence that you’ve come to expect from Lyric. The richness and diversity of opera and the world-class quality of our orchestra, chorus and artists remind us how valuable and exciting the Lyric experience is, and how fortunate we are to have an opera company of this caliber in the city of Chicago.

David T. Ormesher

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Board of Directors

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

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Women’s Board Guild Board of Directors Rick Greenman The Patrick G. and Shirley W. † Mimi Mitchell † James A. Staples Dennis C. Hayes Ryan Opera Center Board President President Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston of Directors † Mrs. Christopher Murphy † Daniel T. Manoogian Virginia Jach Mrs. Jackie Knight Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Vice President of Board Activities Vice President – Backstage Tours Honorary Co-Chairs † Marilynn Thoma † Maggie Rock * Ms. Kate Letarte Ms. Vee Minarich John Nitschke President Vice President of Education Vice President – Membership Vice President – † Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher † Allison Alexander Mrs. Maria Rigolin ^ Jane DiRenzo Pigott Mrs. Carla Thorpe Fundraising Vice President of Fundraising Vice President – Fundraising Vice President – † Betsy Bergman Rosenfield † Daria Lewicky Ms. Claudia Winkler Philip G. Lumpkin Vice President of Special Events Vice President – Benefit Fundraising Co-Chair Sustaining Members ^ Janet Burch Vice President – † Dorothy Kuechl Secretary * Ms. Julie Anne Benson Treasurer New Initiatives Ms. Silvia Beltrametti † Marc Lacher Mrs. William Hamilton ^ Joan Zajtchuk Vice President – Margot Stone Bowen * Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu Strategic Planning Suzette B. Bulley Julie Ann Benson * Ms. Dorothy Kuechl Juliana Chyu Vice President – Marie Campbell Leslie Bertholdt Lester Marriner Strategic Planning Co-Chair Mamie Biggs Case *† Patrick J. Bitterman Ms. Susan Miller Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. Minka Bosco * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer Roberta Lane Assistant Treasurer Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Sarah Demet Mr. and Mrs. Myron Tiersky Richard W. Shepro Secretary Mrs. Gary C. Comer Frank De Vincentis Assistant Secretary Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Eben Dorros Life Members Dan Novak * Mrs. Lester Crown Mrs. Amanda Fox * Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Mrs. Anne M. Edwards Mark Kozloff, M.D. * Mr. Roy Fisher * Katherine A. Abelson * Mrs. W. James Farrell Gwen E. Kuber * Mrs. Donald Grauer Nicole M. Arnold Mrs. Michael Ferro Jonathan B. Lewis, Sr. * Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan *^ Julie Baskes Regan Rohde Friedmann * Ms. Martina M. Mead * Mrs. Merwyn Kind Marcus Boggs Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Craig R. Milkint * Mrs. Jonathon R. Laing Heidi Heutel Bohn Lili Gaubin Melissa Mounce Mithal * Mrs. Frank M. Lieber ^ Tanja Chevalier Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Nathaniel W. Pusey * Mrs. Howard S. Smith Tamara Conway † Keith Kiley Goldstein † Ms. Christina M. Rashid * Mrs. William C. Tippens Lawrence O. Corry * Mrs. Eugene E. White * Allan Drebin Annemarie H. Gramm Megan Burke Roudebush Erika E. Erich Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel David J. Seleb Chapter Presidents Sally Feder Mrs. King Harris Mary Lynne Shafer Barrington Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Fay M. Shong Anthony Freud Mary Robins Melvin Gray Caroline T. Huebner Ilene Simmons Evanston Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Ms. Joan M. Solbeck Mary Pat Hay Barbara Eckel Mrs. Thomas D. Heath † Rebecca Walker Knight * Oscar Tatosian Far West Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Michael Tirpak Mary Ellen Hennessy Judy Marshall Martha A. Hesse Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Karianne Wardell Flossmoor Area Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Ms. Cathy Wloch Loretta Julian Ms. Sharon Gibson Chester T. Kamin * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Ms. Anne Zenzer Glencoe Florence D. McMillan * Kip Kelley Sustaining Members Anne Ruzicka *^ Susan Kiphart Alison Wehman McNally Hinsdale Mrs. Susan H. Mesrobian Mrs. John H. Andersen Jeanne Randall Malkin Joseph Ender Robert C. Marks Mrs. Christopher C. Milliken * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Hyde Park/Kenwood Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Erma S. Medgyesy Ms. Vee Minarich Frank B. Modruson Mrs. Susan B. Noyes * Robert F. Finke Lake Geneva * Mrs. James J. O’Connor Mrs. William R. Jentes Phyllis Neiman Vivian Fabbro Keenan Susan Noel Mrs. William A. Osborn Chester T. Kamin Near North Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman * Kip Kelley Michael A. Oberman Jackie Knight Ted Reichardt Mrs. Frederick H. Prince John M. Kohlmeier Northfield Mrs. James C. Pritchard Mrs. Robert E. Largay Richard O. Ryan Ms. Margareta Brown Nasrin Thierer M.K. Pritzker James G. McCormick Northwest *† Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes * Ms. Britt M. Miller Donna Van Eekeren Ms. Dorothy Kuechl Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Ronald A. Rolighed * John H. Nelson Riverside Trisha Rooney Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Jack Weiss Mary Kitzberger * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan R. Todd Vieregg Wilmette Life Members Mrs. James L. Sandner Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Mrs. James W. Cozad † Mrs. E. Scott Santi Chapters’ Executive Board Winnetka † Nancy S. Searle Bernard J. Dobroski † Mrs. Sherie Shapiro Mrs. Julie McDowell Anne Gross Mrs. Alejandro Silva President * Keith A. Reed Mrs. John R. Siragusa † Mrs. Peggy Beata Young Professionals Orli Staley Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Vice President – Development President * William C. Vance Mrs. James P. Stirling † Mary Robins Justin Breitfelder Lisa DeAngelis Vice President * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom * Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Vice President – Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Community Relations Chris Hanig Secretary Tania Tawil Events Chair Mrs. Robert G. Weiss *† Mr. Jonathan Eklund * Former President Hon. Corinne Wood Vice President – Membership Claudine Tambuatco YP Outreach Chair † Executive Committee Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince † Ms. Ingrid Dubberke ^ Team Chair Vice President – Program Martha Grant Member Engagement Chair Life Members † Laura Shimkus Secretary Paula Hannaway Crown Members at Large * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Ms. Judith A. Akers * Mrs. A. Campbell de Frise Mrs. Gerry Bellanca Ian Cundiff * Jane Duboise Gargiulo Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Lena Dickinson * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Mrs. Linda Budzik Evan Fry Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker Mrs. Robert C. DeBolt Fritzi Getz Mrs. Gordon Segal Mr. Joseph Ender Laura Guili Ms. Erika E. Erich Amy O’Donnell * Former President Ms. Nancy R. Fifield Marne Smiley † Executive Committee Ms. Margie Franklin JJ Williams Lauren Wood

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Anthony Freud, OBE General Director, President & CEO The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair

Roberta Lane Mary Ladish Selander Chief Financial Officer Director of Development

Cayenne Harris Elizabeth Landon Nicholas Ivor Martin Lyric Unlimited Director Director of Human Resources Director of Operations and Special Initiatives

Andreas Melinat Lisa Middleton Dan Novak Director of Artistic Planning Director of Marketing Director, Ryan Opera Center The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

Will Raj Rich Regan Michael Smallwood Director of Information Technology General Manager, Presentations and Events Technical Director Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL Sarah Kull FINANCE LYRIC UNLIMITED DIRECTOR Associate Director of Foundation Roberta Lane Cayenne Harris Anthony Freud and Government Partnerships Chief Financial Officer Lyric Unlimited Director General Director, President & CEO Aaron Andersen Mark Riggleman The Women’s Board Endowed Chair Rachel Peterson Deputy Director, Budgeting Director of Education Linda Nguyen Irvin Administrative Coordinator – and Forecasting Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Manager, Office of Planned and Individual Giving Whitney Bercek Alejandra Boyer the General Director Pavitra Ramachandran Controller Director of Community Programs Luke Duroc-Danner Coordinator of Institutional Nancy Ko Will Biby Assistant to the Office of the Partnerships Accounting Manager Audience Education Manager General Director Teresa Hogan Todd Snead Kate Later Senior Staff Accountant School Engagement Manager OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Director of Women’s Board Leslie Horn Dana McGarr GENERAL DIRECTOR Deborah Hare Payroll Associate Lyric Unlimited Coordinator Drew Landmesser Assistant Director of Donor Services Kirsten Alfredsen Drew Smith Deputy General Director and Special Events Payroll Accounting Assistant Education Coordinator Sarah Generes Chelsea Southwood LeVora Martin Jacob Stanton Producer of Classical Associate Director – Women’s Board Accounts Payable Coordinator Assistant to the Lyric Unlimited Director and Crossover Programming Leah Bobbey Dan Seekman Women’s Board Administrative Assistant Staff Accountant MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS ARTISTIC Justin Berkowitz Lupe Juarez Andreas Melinat Women’s Board Assistant Manager of Payroll and Human Lisa Middleton Director of Artistic Planning Resource Information System Director of Marketing Cory Lippiello Amy Tinucci Deputy Director of Artistic Planning Director of Systems, Reporting, HUMAN RESOURCES Holly H. Gilson Evamaria Wieser and Donor Records Elizabeth Landon Deputy Director of Communications Casting Consultant Ellen Barkenbush Director of Human Resources Roger Pines Dramaturg DEVELOPMENT Director – Individual Giving Tiffany Tuckett and Chapters Talent Manager, Administrative Staff Magda Krance Mary Ladish Selander Manager of Media Relations Director of Development Scott Podraza Stephanie Strong Associate Director of Annual Giving Benefits Manager Andrew Cioffi Zachary Vanderburg Digital Content Producer Assistant to the Director of Development Michelle Neuffer Anna VanDeKerchove Manager of Donor Communications Office Coordinator Kamaria Morris Kate Bollier PR Specialist Development Associate Hanna Pristave Manager of Operations and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Data Analytics Will Raj Tracy Galligher Young Lawrence DelPilar Deputy Director of Marketing Deputy Director of Development Sarah Geocaris Director of Information Technology Development Coordinator – Chapters Eric Hayes Jennifer Colgan Jonathan P. Siner Senior Manager of Sales and Marketing Senior Director of Planned Giving Meghan Pioli IT Operations Manager Development Coordinator Laura E. Burgos Lynn Bennett Rita Parida – Donor Stewardship Database Administrator Manager of Audience Development Associate Director of Planned and and Customer Experience Major Giving Stephanie Lillie Nikoleta Aranassova Senior Coordinator – Donor Records Systems Administrator Elizabeth Finch Kristin Atchison Lyric Unlimited Marketing Manager Director of Major Gifts and Reporting Christina Bledsoe Amanda Ramsey Systems Analyst Joel Friend Meaghan Stainback Group Sales Manager Associate Director of Individual Giving Research Coordinator Miles Mabry Andrea Rubens Technology Support Coordinator Jocelyn Park Daniel P. Moss Creative Project Manager Director of Institutional Partnerships Development Coordinator Nicole Sankowski – Guild Board and Young Professionals Web Content Administrator Carrie Krol Jenny Seidelman Graphic Designer Associate Director of Keyana Marshall Corporate Partnerships Donor Records and Reporting Assistant

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Valerie Bromann Katrina Bachus Jeffrey Streichhirsch Michael Buerger Digital Marketing Specialist Daniel Ellis Automation Assistant Joseph Collins Michael Musick Jodi Gage Kevin Gac Chris Barker Web and E-Marketing Specialist Elise Sandell Gordon Granger Matt Reilly Sam Fain David Toulson Joe Mathesius Rigging/Automation Assistants Group Sales Associate Assistant Directors John Miulli Robert Barros Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Lindsey Raker John W. Coleman Shop Carpenter Properties Marketing Associate, Special Programs Chelsea Antrim Dennis Brian Grenda Margaret Stoltz Rachel A. Tobias Layout Carpenter Brian Traynor Marketing Associate, Stage Managers Advertising & Promotions Drew Trusk Charge Artist Stefany Phillips Kristen Barrett Shop Welder Tim Morrison Marketing and Public Relations Eric Nathan Brady Bruce Woodruff Michael Murtagh Coordinator Jordan Braun Layout Welder Scenic Artists Amanda Reitenbach Donald Claxon Richard “Doc” Wren Social Media Coordinator Rachel Henneberry Warehouse Coordinator Scott Marr Daniel Sokalski Production Design Director Dan DiBennardi Peggy Stenger Kristi Wood Ticket Department Justin Hull Amy Thompson Costume Project Coordinator Susan Harrison Niemi Ryan McGovern Bill Walters Deputy Director of Audience Services Assistant Carpenters Maureen Reilly Sandra Zamora Alex Chatziapostolou (Demas) Costume Director Assistant Stage Managers Sales Manager Dan Donahue The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Robert Hull, Jr. Laura Waters Ben Bell Bern Endowed Chair Customer Service and Call Center Rehearsal Scheduler John Ingersol Lucy Lindquist Ray Schmitz Manager Josie Campbell Wardrobe Mistress Carpenters Kelly Cronin Artistic Services Coordinator Bradley Baker VIP and Inventory Associate Marina Vecci Chris Maravich Jessica Doan John Renfroe Rehearsal Associate Lighting Director Kate Keefe Tessitura Associate – Ticketing Isabella Czyrnyj Mary-Louis and James S. Aagaard Cecylia Kinder Jeremiah Smith Emma Andelson Endowed Chair Krystina Lowe Christine Wagner Sebastian Armendariz Heather Sparling Kathy Rubel Rehearsal Assistants Donna Barbonas Eric Watkins Tony Rubino Carmen Beam PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS Assistant Lighting Designers Joanna Rzepka Katy Beddingfield Rich Regan Marguerite Scott Michael C. Reynolds Sharai Bohannon General Manager – Presentations Ewa Szylak Master Electrician Katie Burnham and Events Barbara Szyllo Meghan Folkerts Soren Ersbak Maggie Zabieowski Nora O’Malley Board Operator Leigh Folta Facility Operations Manager Wardrobe Staff Katie Galliart Sharon Lomasney John Clarke, Jr. Jennifer Gosack Scott Barker Presentations and Events Joseph Haack Kelly Davis Hillary Grobe Manager and Producer Michael A. Manfrin Martin Hughes Kim Kostera Leslie MacLean Robert Reynolds Anna Krysik Erin Johnson Facilities Coordinator Assistant Electricians Aleksa Kuzma Ed Mack Eleanor Sanchez Wendy McCay Steve Landsman Presentations and Events Coordinator Anthony Coia Katelyn Lee Jason Combs John Salyers Stephen Dunford Isaac Turner Marisa Lerman Chief Engineer Gary Grenda Megan Ott Thomas Hull Chris Valente Gregg Brody Roger Weir LaRob Payton Box Office Manager Daniel Kuh Jeremy Thomas Dressers Karlos Pinero-Mercado Bernard McNeela Electricians Will Roberts Engineer Kevin Reynolds Sarah Hatten Alex Romero Briette Madrid Surtitle Operator Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Angela Sheppard Stage Door Supervisor Megan St. John Designer Endowed Chair Nathan Tuttle Kathleen A. Evans Lani Stait Facilities Porter Joe Schofield Adam Stubitsch Head Audio/Visual Technician Department Coordinator Ivo Suarez TECHNICAL Nick Charlan Brittany Crinson Mary Kate vom Lehn Michael Smallwood Matt Ebel Chantelle Marie Johnson Claire Watkins Technical Director Audio/Visual Robert Kuper Toby Wright Allan and Elaine Muchin Lynn Koroulis Ticket Staff Endowed Chair Maria DeFabo Claire Moores April Busch Properties and Scenic Art Director Staff OPERATIONS Production Manager Charles Reilly Nicholas Ivor Martin Michael Schoenig Brook Carlson Property Master Director of Operations and Special Initiatives Technical Finance Manager Lauren Cecil Michael McPartlin Stephanie Karr Madeleine Borg Toywa Curington Properties Crew Head Director of Music Administration Production Manager – Lyric Anelle Eorio Phil Marcotte Tabitha Boorsma Unlimited/Ryan Opera Center June Gearon Prop Carpenter Administrative Coordinator – Operations David Grant Bob Ladd Wendy Skoczen Scott Wolfson Briette Madrid Armorer Chief Librarian Assistant Technical Director Helen Marchfield Rachel Boultinghouse Gretchen Eng Stephen Snyder Lauren Marchfield Upholsterer Music Administration Associate Technical Coordinator Nelson Posada Thomas Coleman, Jr. Jada Richardson Joe Dockweiler Production and Rehearsal Staff Robert Hartge Anita Trojanowski Master Carpenter Cameron Arens Richard Tyriver Daria Wright Mike Reilly Director of Rehearsal Administration Assistant Properties Wig and Makeup Crew Head Flyman/Automation

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 13 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Why I Love Opera … and Why I Love Lyric PART 4 Edited by Roger Pines For the first time in the Lyric program, we’ve given the Lyric audience a chance to reveal what draws them to opera in general, and to Lyric in particular. An Aria to Remember I still remember when Renée Fleming first appeared at Lyric in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. It was mesmerizing to hear her sing the DAN REST “Ain’t it a pretty night?” aria while lying on her back on the roof of her cabin. I have really enjoyed hearing her ever since. Gerald Budzik (Huntley)

Dear Gerald – The 1993-94 production ofSusannah marked both my first performance of the role and my Lyric debut. That experience initiated an association with Lyric that has meant a great deal to me, both onstage and in my work as the company’s creative consultant. I’m very touched that you recall Susannah’s aria so vividly years Renée Fleming in the title role with Samuel Ramey as Olin Blitch later, and I wish you many other wonderful evenings at Lyric in the Lyric premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah (1993-94). in future seasons!

Renée Fleming DAN REST

Bringing the House Down In one of the very early years I attended the opera, I sat and cried at the beautiful music. Plácido Domingo played Samson in Samson et Dalila, and when he brought the temple walls down near the end, it was just incredibly powerful. I’ll remember that for a long time.

Samson et Dalila (1989-90): The chained Samson (Plácido Mary Best Domingo), moments before he destroys the temple, a scene that (LaGrange) Mary Best will never forget.

14 | February 26 - March 20, 2017 A Mozartian Marriage Alan and I went to Lyric for our very first date. Alan, knowing music was a shared interest, had gotten us tickets to The Magic Flute. Lyric’s Feast for the Senses In doing so, he had actually scored a bigger hit than he thought. The first opera I saw at Lyric was on a Friday Unbeknownst to him, not only had he picked one of my favorite Why I Love Opera … things to do in Chicago, but also one of two operas that I have loved evening in November 2004. I was so delighted by the talent, the costumes, and the stage sets since I was a small child. It was the set-up for a perfect first date. for Aida. And it was. During intermission of Aida we had a I can still remember what it felt like to sit there in the dark, reservation for refreshments in a lovely room letting the music flow over us, holding hands and sharing the beauty and Why I Love Lyric that had the table all ready and waiting with the and the fun of The Magic Flute. I remember thinking that no one had beverage and snack we had chosen earlier. There ever made me feel this way before, and that I wanted the opera to go Edited by Roger Pines was just the right amount of time to enjoy our on forever. PART 4 treat and return to our seats. Although that performance, like all great performances, did have After enjoying the evening so much at Lyric, to end, what began that night at Lyric did not. Two years later, I I was able to return for a complete backstage tour, walked down the aisle towards him to the sound of The Magic Flute. and ever since I have had a complete appreciation And now three years after that, our marriage still involves music, of opera and the amazing performances offered laughter...and going to Lyric. here in Chicago and at Lyric. DAN REST Toby Schwartz Marjorie Meanger (Oak Park) (St. Charles)

KYLE FLUBACKER (2)

Two years before their wedding, Toby Schwartz and her husband had their first date at a Lyric performance ofThe Magic Flute. Pictured in the 2011-12 production are Stéphane Degout as Papageno and Jennifer Jakob as Papagena.

Aida, Marjorie Meanger’s first opera

at Lyric; and audiences at backstage SEDGE LEBLANG/METROPOLITAN OPERA ARCHIVES tours, another Lyric activity Marjorie

has also enjoyed. DAN REST DAN

Adoring Björling In the ’50s I was attending a performance of Don Carlo – maybe the first time Lyric presented it. Before the performance Danny Newman appeared to announce that the tenor for the evening, Brian Sullivan, was indisposed and would be replaced by...Jussi Björling. This is how I got to see the only performance of Don Carlo that Björling ever sang in Chicago. He was in Chicago to sing in another opera (I don’t remember which one), and luckily was an available replacement. Rarely have I heard a cast change announcement generate such applause. Malcolm Vye The great Swedish tenor Jussi Björling, pictured (Winnetka) in the title role of Verdi’s Don Carlo, in which Malcolm Vye heard him as a last-minute substitute at Lyric.

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Wagner Ovations I saw my first opera at Lyric when I was in grade school, back in 1970. Back then the sets were much simpler, but the quality of singing and orchestral playing was excellent. Today, Lyric still has the excellent musical production, only

combined with innovative and beautiful staging. Consider DAN REST recent productions of Die Meistersinger and Parsifal. Feasts for the eyes and ears! Jeff Schroeder (Oak Park)

The first act ofParsifal (2013-14) and the final scene of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2012-13), two productions that thrilled both Jeff Schroeder and Paul and Marie Ten Elshof.

Exquisite Music For the past eight years we have had the pleasure of weekend getaways to our coveted seats at Lyric Opera. Leading busy lives in West Michigan, it is truly a gift to take time away to revel in the mastery of the Lyric Opera presentations. My husband is educated as a vocalist and directs choirs. I am a violinist and educate students on how to play string instruments. We love opera because the genre speaks with voice and instruments; and who doesn’t like a great story line? We love Lyric because the company meets our classically trained expectations of excellence, from meeting and greeting us at the door to bidding us goodnight with the fabulous performances in between. My most surprising evening at Lyric Opera was attending the production of Parsifal. The music was exquisite, but the story line held me spellbound! We have remarked after many productions about how effectively the staging was set; the Parsifal staging was amazing and really brought out the story and the emotions of the characters. My most exciting evening at Lyric Opera was the production of Die Meistersinger. It was easy to relate to the characters and the music was very lyrical! The final chorus was fabulous! I can still see the entire stage filled with singers – their sound going forth and lifting the roof in song! Thank you for your continued excellence of opera! It is well worth our effort and time to travel from West Michigan! Paul and Marie Ten Elshof (Grand Rapids, Michigan) CORY WEAVER

Friends Night Out! My most exciting evening at Lyric was when I took two of my friends from college to see an opera for their first time. We saw Der Rosenkavalier, and now they want to come with me any time I go to see another opera! Dianna Leigh Freshman at Millikin University Der Rosenkavalier (with Matthew Rose as Baron Ochs and Megan (Naperville) Marino as Annina), a production that delighted Dianna Leigh and her college friends.

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Coming Home to Lyric I was 14 when I first attended Lyric Opera, a performance of Tristan und Isolde with Birgit Nilsson singing (shortly before her highly acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut in that role) and Artur Rodziński conducting. As with so many musicians and others, the first experience of that opera, and with such performers, was a transformational experience never to be forgotten. For several years after that, visits to Lyric Opera with my mother were highlights of each year though our family lived in Minnesota. About 20 years ago, after a hiatus in attending Lyric Opera, I started going there regularly each fall and winter. The first time back, walking up Madison Street approaching the Civic Opera House, I felt a powerful sense of returning home again, which only intensified as I entered the grand lobby and the auditorium itself. Winston Kaehler (St. Paul, Minnesota) The Lyric premiere ofTristan und Isolde (1958) – a performance enjoyed by the young Winston Kaehler – starred Birgit Nilsson and Karl Be Transported Liebl in the title roles. Who wouldn’t love opera? Where else can one experience six people, simultaneously relating their troubles at the top of their voices in perfect harmony? And their troubles are intricately interwoven with each other, and usually the result of their own foibles or weaknesses. It is a catharsis worth Generations of Opera Lovers repeating at regular intervals for one’s health and happiness. I love opera because my daddy started taking Moreover, at Lyric it is done in perfect audio reception my sister and me to Lyric when we were still wherever one is seated. Visually, one is stimulated by in grade school. Every time I attend a Lyric sumptuous costumes, overpowering sets, and nuanced performance, everything about it reminds of my staging. Where else can one, for a few hours, be harmlessly daddy. I have always encouraged and brought transported to a world beyond the everyday and ordinary my friends and young people. People of all ages into a world of great drama? Whether it’s a tragic or should be exposed to this wonderful world! comedic world, the catharsis is equally complete. Cris Crisafulli What’s not to love? (Evanston) Dorothy Batka (Chicago) TONY ROMANO

Father & Husband I was born on July 13, 1939, to Italian parents. My father came to this country from Sicily when he was 16 knowing many of the Italian opera melodies by heart. When I was a little girl he rocked me to sleep singing his favorite ones. When I met my husband-to-be, our first real date was to Lyric Opera of Chicago for L’elisir d’amore with Luciano Pavarotti as the tenor. My husband-to- be was an opera lover from high school on. In Europe as a soldier he spent his leave at opera houses. The combination of memories of my Papa, Pavarotti, and my new-found love made Lyric Opera of Chicago a very special place for me. We have kept our subscriptions through the 37 years we have been married. We love opera and Lyric! Anna Cholewa L’elisir d’amore with Luciano Pavarotti (Glenview) (1977), a production that Anna Cholewa and her husband-to-be saw on their first date.

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Lifelong Listeners I love to sing. I attended what was then an all-boys high school in New Jersey and joined the Glee Club. We sang a fair amount of classical and sacred music, and the more we rehearsed and performed, the more I realized that the key to truly enjoying music of any kind was repetitive listening. By the time I was accepted in the Union College Glee Club, I began what has become an extensive collection of classical records. It wasn’t until I was in my early thirties that my wife Debbie and I started doing repetitive listening to opera. This increased our enjoyment further. We attended a few operas in New York and then moved to the Chicago area. We soon realized that Lyric had many TODD ROSENBERG of the same performers as the Met, and we began subscribing. Each year we would make a point of buying records or eventually CDs of two or three operas that appeared on our season series and did the repetitive listening, so we would know the opera when we attended. Now, about 30 years later, we already know and love many if not most of each season’s list, and also enjoy those we don’t know. The quality of the performers, the sets and costumes is second to no other opera company I have witnessed – and we have seen some of the other great ones. Keep up the fine work. Debbie and George Schulz (Lake Forest) A great favorite of George and Debbie Schulz, Das Rheingold, pictured in this season’s new Lyric production. COURTESY OF DON AND JANIS CREGO

Chorus Companions My husband and I met when we sang in the chorus of the Florentine Opera Company in Milwaukee. We started attending Lyric when we were dating, and I think we’re now in our 43rd subscription season. We just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. We have six children, and they all came to Lyric. I sang twice with Beverly Sills, my absolute favorite since childhood, and we also sang with Sam Ramey and Sherrill Milnes and many others who we’ve seen at Lyric. We have seen firsthand what goes into the production of an opera and have seen some around the world. It is great to have a world-class opera house so close to home. We have seen most of the great opera singers, some many times, at Lyric and have enjoyed the depth of your “in house” musical talent. We have brought both family and friends to productions. We hope to be able Don and Janis Crego, costumed for Cavalleria to attend for many more years. Thank you for continuing to produce such high- rusticana at Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera, caliber operas with such great singers, dancers, and production personnel. 1973. Janis and Don Crego (Elm Grove, Wisconsin) A Welcome Escape Why do I love Lyric and opera? It is Giving Back mesmerizing! The music, the costumes, the performances. The ambience of the Lyric has played a major role in my life for over fifty years as a Civic Opera House, which is outstanding. subscriber, donor, and volunteer. That is why I loved helping in the You just relax and are transported into lobby as an “ASK ME” volunteer during the run of The King and .I a magic world that is exhilarating. It was amazing to me how many people had never been to Lyric before, How nice to escape the daily hustle and and I hope my information and enthusiasm will prompt some to return bustle for a few hours of pure pleasure. during the regular opera season. Don Brown Bonnie Zeitlin (Chicago) (Wheeling)

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO ROBERT KUSEL

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin

This Lyric Opera presentation is made possible by

Margot and Josef Lakonishok

Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder

and

Marion A. Cameron

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EUGENE ONEGIN Synopsis

Larina begs the men not to quarrel in her house, but Lensky cannot be placated and Onegin accepts his challenge to a duel. TIME: 1820s Scene 2. Lensky waits for Onegin at the appointed spot at dawn. PLACE: Russia Lensky reflects on the folly of his brief life and imagines Olga visiting his grave. Onegin finally arrives. He and Lensky admit to themselves that the duel is pointless and they would prefer to laugh together than to fight, but honor must be satisfied. The duel ACT ONE is marked off and Onegin shoots Lensky dead. Scene 1. The widowed Madame Larina and her servant Filipyevna listen as the Larin daughters, Olga and Tatiana, sing. The peasants ACT THREE come from the fields celebrating the completion of the harvest Scene 1. Several years later, a magnificent ball is being given in with songs and dances. Olga teases Tatiana for avoiding the the Gremin Palace in St. Petersburg. Onegin appears, reflecting festivities; pensive Tatiana prefers her romance novels. When the bitterly on the fact that he has traveled the world seeking peasants leave, Olga’s suitor, the poet Vladimir Lensky, arrives excitement and some meaning in life, and all his efforts have led with his worldly friend Eugene Onegin. Lensky pours out his love him to yet another dull social event. Suddenly, he recognizes for Olga. Onegin strolls with Tatiana and asks how she doesn’t Tatiana across the ballroom. She is no longer a naïve country get bored with country life. Unnerved by the handsome stranger, girl but is sumptuously gowned and bearing herself with great Tatiana answers with difficulty. The two couples go inside for dignity. Questioning his cousin, Prince Gremin, Onegin learns dinner as night falls. that Tatiana is now Gremin’s wife. The older man explains that he married Tatiana two years previously and describes her as Scene 2. In her bedroom, Tatiana persuades the reluctant his life’s salvation. When Gremin introduces Onegin, Tatiana Filipyevna to tell her of her first love and marriage. Tatiana maintains her composure but excuses herself after a few words of admits she is in love and asks to be left alone. She sits up the entire polite conversation. Onegin is surprised to realize he himself is in night writing a passionate letter to Onegin. When day breaks, she love with Tatiana. gives the letter to Filipyevna for her grandson to deliver. Scene 2. Tatiana is distressed the next day after she receives an Scene 3. A group of women sing as they work in the Larins’ impassioned letter from Onegin. He rushes in and falls at her feet, garden. They leave, and Tatiana appears, nervous, followed by but she maintains her control. Does he desire her only for her Onegin, who asks that she hear him out patiently. He admits wealth and position? She recalls the days when they might have that the letter was touching, but adds that he would quickly grow been happy, but that time has passed. Onegin repeats his love for bored with marriage and can only offer her friendship. He coldly her. Faltering for a moment, she admits that she still loves him, advises more emotional control in the future, lest another man but she will not allow him to ruin her. She leaves him regretting take advantage of her innocence. his bitter destiny. Reprinted by permission of the Metropolitan Opera. ACT TWO Scene 1. Some months later, a party is underway in the Larins’ house for Tatiana’s name day. Young couples dance while older guests comment and gossip. Onegin dances with Tatiana but EUGENE ONEGIN – Approximate Timings he is bored by these country people and their provincial ways. ACT ONE 80 minutes Annoyed with Lensky for having dragged him there, Onegin Intermission 30 minutes dances with Olga, who is momentarily distracted by the charming man. Monsieur Triquet, the elderly French tutor, serenades ACTS TWO and THREE 80 minutes Tatiana with a song he has written in her honor. When the Total: 3 hours, 10 minutes dancing resumes, Lensky jealously confronts Onegin. Madame

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• Production owned by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Canadian Opera Company. EUGENE ONEGIN

Lyric scenes in three acts in Russian • Originally created for

The Metropolitan Opera. Libretto by the composer and Konstantin Shilovsky after Pushkin’s verse novel of the same name

First performance by students of the Moscow Conservatory • Additional costumes by Seams at the Maly Theatre, Moscow, March 29, 1879 Unlimited and Paul Chang. First professional performance at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, on January 23, 1881 First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on September 21, 1984

Characters in order of vocal appearance: • Projected titles © 1990 Tatiana by Francis Rizzo. ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ Olga ALISA KOLOSOVA*** Madame Larina KATHARINE GOELDNER Filipyevna JILL GROVE • Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcasts A Peasant JOHN CONCEPCION Vladimir Lensky CHARLES CASTRONOVO are generously sponsored by the Eugene Onegin MARIUSZ KWIECIEŃ Caerus Foundation, Inc., with A Captain TAKAOKI ONISHI° Monsieur Triquet KEITH JAMESON matching funding provided by Zaretsky PATRICK GUETTI° Prince Gremin DMITRY BELOSSELSKIY The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum

Family, The John and Jacolyn Dancers: Jacob Ashley, Miranda Borkan*, Randy Herrera, Jacqueline Stewart

Bucksbaum Family, and The Conductor ALEJO PÉREZ** Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Director ROBERT CARSEN Revival Director PAULA SUOZZI Family. Set and Costume Designer MICHAEL LEVINE Assistant Production Designer VICTORIA WALLACE* Lighting Designer CHRISTINE BINDER Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK • Lyric Opera of Chicago Choreographer SERGE BENNATHAN wishes to thank its Official Airline, Ballet Mistress AUGUST TYE Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN American Airlines. Assistant Director ELISE SANDELL Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN Stage Band Conductor FRANCESCO MILIOTO • This season’s projected English Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM ERIC WEIMER titles are funded in part by a Ballet Accompanist VALERIE MAZE Prompter MATTHEW PIATT generous grant from the Lloyd Fight Director CHUCK COYL E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Projected Titles FRANCIS RIZZO

Foundation. *Lyric debut **American debut ***American operatic debut °Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

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MARIUSZ KWIECIEŃ Opera). Martínez’s roles extend stylistically ALISA KOLOSOVA (Eugene Onegin) from Mozart’s Countess Almaviva (Houston, (Olga) Previously at Lyric: Munich), Fiordiligi (Salzburg, Ravinia, DVD), American operatic debut Four roles since 2002, and Pamina (San Francisco, Vienna, Bonn, most recently title role/ Stuttgart) to Rossini’s Rosina (Houston, A 2015 nominee for the Don Giovanni (2014-15); Santa Fe); Verdi’s Elisabetta (San Francisco), highly prestigious Warner Count Almaviva/The Desdemona (Lyric), Violetta (Covent Garden, Music Prize, the Russian Marriage of Figaro (2009- Los Angeles), Luisa Miller (Paris, Berlin) and mezzo-soprano bows in 10); Title role/Eugene Amelia Grimaldi (Paris, Los Angeles, San Chicago in an acclaimed Onegin (2007-08). Francisco); Puccini’s Mimì (Paris, Berlin, portrayal she also Dresden, Santa Fe, San Juan), Butterfly (a undertakes this season at the Polish National Internationally one of the most celebrated recent triumph at the Met and Covent Garden, Opera, and which she has previously presented artists of his generation, the Polish baritone also Vienna, Houston, Washington, Munich) in Munich, São Paolo, Vienna, and Paris. stars this season as Count Almaviva/ and Liù (Amsterdam); and French heroines Further highlights this season include Verdi’s The Marriage of Figaro and Alphonse XI/ including Carmen (Houston, Santa Fe), Requiem with the Orchestre National de Paris Donizetti’s La favorite at the Bavarian State Antonia (Paris), Micaëla (Metropolitan Opera), and at the BBC Proms, and Ravel’s Schéhérazade Opera and Don Giovanni at Barcelona’s Gran Mélisande (Florence), and Blanche (Hamburg). with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio Teatre del Liceu. Kwiecień has portrayed Last season Martínez returned to Dvořák’s France. She is a critically acclaimed Isoletta/La Tchaikovsky’s Onegin to great acclaim at Rusalka in Houston, after her successes in straniera (Concertgebouw), Dalila/Samson et the Metropolitan Opera (new production, that role at Glyndebourne (CD) and at Lyric. Dalila (Basel), Maddalena/Rigoletto (Munich HD), Bolshoi Theatre, Vienna State Opera, The soprano has appeared with many major and Rome), and she debuted at the Dutch Polish National Opera, Bavarian State Opera, orchestras, including those of Milan (La Scala), National Opera in Romeo and Juliet (new and other major houses. Another signature Berlin, Moscow, New York, and Boston. Along production). A former member of the Atelier role, Don Giovanni, has been a triumph for with bass-baritone Eric Owens, Martínez is a Lyrique at the Opéra National de Paris and him in nearly 20 productions worldwide, Lyric Opera Community Ambassador. the Salzburg Festival Young Artists program, including those of Lyric (new production), the Kolosova came to international attention Met (new production, HD), San Francisco CHARLES in 2010 at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, CASTRONOVO performing Mozart’s La Betulia liberata under Tanglewood, Vienna State Opera, Covent (Vladimir Lensky) Riccardo Muti. Between 2011 and 2014 she Garden, and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. Previously at Lyric: was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Kwiecieñ’s successes also include Zurga/The Tamino/The Magic Flute State Opera, where her roles included Fenena/ Pearl Fishers (Met – HD), Rodrigo/Don Carlo (2011-12). Nabucco, Suzuki/Madama Butterfly, and Bersì/ (San Francisco, London), and the Duke of Andrea Chénier. Kolosova debuted at Carnegie Nottingham/Roberto Devereux (Met – HD). Among the many highlights Hall performing Scriabin’s Symphony No. 1 Triumphs in his native repertoire include the in the acclaimed American and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, and recently title role/Szymanowski’s Król Roger (Opéra lyric tenor’s performances performed Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with Sir National de Paris, The Santa Fe Opera, Covent this season are Alfredo/La traviata (Vienna John Eliot Gardiner at Zurich’s Tonhalle. Garden, Bilbao’s ABAO) and his first solo State Opera), the title role/Donizetti’s Roberto CD, Slavic Heroes. In addition to the Bolshoi’s Devereux (Bavarian State Opera) and the title DMITRY Onegin and the Met’s Don Pasquale and role/Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust (Berlin BELOSSELSKIY Lucia di Lammermoor, Kwiecień can be seen State Opera). Last season he added a third (Prince Gremin) on DVD in the Brahms Requiem with the Faust to his repertoire, in Boito’s Mefistofele Previously at Lyric: Rotterdam Philharmonic. (Baden-Baden). Among recent highlights are Zaccaria/Nabucco his role debut as Lensky (Vienna State Opera), (2015-16). ANA MARÍA his first Des Grieux/Manon (Toulouse), La MARTÍNEZ (Tatiana) damnation de Faust (Berlin Philharmonic, The renowned Russian Previously at Lyric: Nice, Dallas, Verbier, Baden-Baden), and the bass, who has previously Concert with Plácido new production of Lucia di Lammermoor portrayed Gremin at Domingo (2015-16); at Covent Garden. His signature roles also Houston Grand Opera, sings two Verdi Six roles since 2008-09, include Rodolfo (Met, Covent Garden, roles at the Metropolitan Opera this season, most recently Donna Munich), Romeo/Romeo and Juliet (Dallas, Zaccaria/Nabucco and Ramfis/Aida, as well Elvira/Don Giovanni Los Angeles, Madrid), and Ruggero/La rondine as the title role/Boris Godunov at the Bavarian (2014-15); title role/ (Covent Garden, Berlin). The tenor has State Opera. Belosselskiy recently made an Rusalka (2013-14). triumphed in rarely performed French works, indelible impression in Met performances including Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys (Toulouse) and La singing two contrasting roles, Silva/Ernani and Performing a diverse repertoire worldwide, Jaquerie (Montpellier) and Massenet’s Thérèse the Old Convict/Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. He the Puerto Rican-born soprano – singing (Montpellier). Castronovo created the title recently starred as Prince Ivan Khovansky/ her first Tatiana in this production – has role/Daniel Catán’s Il Postino opposite Plácido Khovanshchina at the Vienna State Opera achieved a formidable reputation as one of the Domingo (Los Angeles world premiere/ and Talbot/Giovanna d’Arco alongside Anna most remarkable lyric sopranos of our time. telecast, reprised in Paris and Santiago). He has Netrebko to open the 2015-16 season at Highlights of the current season include reprises recorded La traviata, La rondine, and Il Postino La Scala. With the latter company he has of her celebrated portrayals of Marguerite/Faust on DVD, and Massenet’s Thérèse, Lalo’s La also portrayed Fiesco/Simon Boccanegra, and (Houston Grand Opera), Butterfly (Covent Jacquerie, Mercadante’s Virginia, and a solo another major Verdi role, Count Walter/ Garden), and Donna Elvira (San Francisco program of Neapolitan songs on CD. Luisa Miller, has brought him to the Teatro

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Real in Madrid. Belosselskiy has performed JILL GROVE role of Yab the Elf/Mark Adamo’s Becoming at many other prestigious venues, among (Filipyevna) Santa Claus (world premiere, DVD) at The them the Salzburg Festival (Banquo/Macbeth), Previously at Lyric: Dallas Opera and made his Houston Grand Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera (Nabucco), Zurich Eleven roles since 2003- Opera debut as Basilio/The Marriage of Figaro, Opera House (Galitsky/Prince Igor), Korean 04, most recently Margret/ previously heard at The Santa Fe Opera and National Opera (Simon Boccanegra), and Wozzeck (2015-16); reprised this season at Washington National Macau International Music Festival (Ferrando/ Ježibaba/Rusalka (2013- Opera. Other recent portrayals include the Il trovatore). The bass is a favorite of renowned 14); Witch/Hänsel und Gamekeeper/Rusalka (Houston) and Sellem/ conductors, among them Riccardo Muti, Gretel (2012-13). The Rake’s Progress(Pittsburgh). Successes in with whom Belosselskiy collaborated in CSO Santa Fe also include Falstaff, Billy Budd, performances of Macbeth and Berlioz’s Romeo The American mezzo-soprano began the Madama Butterfly, and two prestigious world and Juliet. Since 2010 he has been a leading current season with her return to San Francisco premieres, Paul Moravec’s The Letterand artist of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, and he has Opera as Madelon/Andrea Chénier, following Lewis Spratlan’s Life is a Dream. He also sang also toured internationally as a soloist with the her Grandmother Buryja/Jenůfa at SFO last the title role/Candide at the Maggio Musicale choir of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery. season. Other recent successes include Ježibaba/ Festival in Florence, Italy. Jameson appears on Rusalka (Houston, New Orleans), Baba the CD singing Haydn’s Creation and Lord Nelson KATHARINE Turk/The Rake’s Progress (Pittsburgh), and Mass, both with Boston Baroque. He can be GOELDNER the title role/Britten’s Phaedra (San Antonio). seen on Met DVDs of Carmen under Yannick (Mme. Larina) Grove has earned great praise for Wagner’s Nézet-Séguin and Falstaff under James Levine. Previously at Lyric: Ring cycle (Lyric, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Four roles since 2008-09, Munich); and for Die ägyptische Helena, Die TAKAOKI ONISHI most recently Marcellina/ Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Giulio Cesare, and (Captain) The Marriage of Figaro Peter Grimes (all at the Met, the latter work Previously at Lyric: (2015-16); Pitti-Sing/ also in Toronto). She is a celebrated Amneris Five roles since 2015-16, The Mikado, title role/ (Lyric, Toronto, San Diego, Dayton), Ulrica most recently Moralès/ Carmen (both 2010-11). (St. Paul, New Orleans), Azucena (Houston), Carmen, First Servant/Don Preziosilla (San Francisco), and Zita/Gianni Quichotte, Trojan Soldier/ This season the American mezzo-soprano Schicchi (Los Angeles, DVD). The mezzo Les Troyens (all 2016-17). reprised her highly praised portrayal of created Anne Kronenberg/Stewart Wallace’s Mozart’s Marcellina (Dutch National Opera) Harvey Milk (Houston Grand Opera, A second-year Ryan Opera and Wagner’s Fricka (The Minnesota Opera), CD). An in-demand concert singer, Grove Center member, the Japanese baritone appears and portrays Ma Joad/Ricky Ian Gordon’s The has recently performed with the Lubbock at Lyric later this season as the Marquis/La Grapes of Wrath (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis). Symphony Orchestra (Verdi’s Requiem), Utah traviata (for Celebrating Plácido). Last season She won critical acclaim last season in two Symphony (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), the he created the role of Father Arguedas/Bel world premieres, singing Jacqueline Onassis/ American Classical Orchestra (Brahms’s Alto Canto, telecast in January on PBS. Onishi has David T. Little’s JFK (Fort Worth Opera) Rhapsody), and Canada’s National Arts Centre received top awards from the Gerda Lissner and Peggy Ophuls/Jack Perla’s Shalimar Orchestra (Handel’s Messiah). She has been International Vocal Competition, Opera the Clown (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis). highly successful with the major orchestras of Index Vocal Competition, Licia Albanese- Other recent engagements include Goeldner’s London, Toronto, Los Angeles, Washington, Puccini International Vocal Competition, and first Amneris (Salt Lake City), Hippolyta/A San Francisco, and Houston. This season Giulio Gari Foundation Competition. As the Midsummer Night’s Dream (Honolulu), and she performed Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius winner of Japan’s IFAC-Juilliard Prize Singing an especially praised performance as Thirza/ (Jacksonville Symphony) and Bernstein’s Competition, he received a full scholarship to Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers (U.S. “Jeremiah” Symphony (The Orchestra Now). attend The Juilliard School, where he appeared stage premiere, Bard SummerScape Festival). as Onegin, Count Almaviva, and in Don The mezzo’s diverse operatic repertoire also KEITH JAMESON Giovanni, La scala di seta, and Kommilitonen! encompasses Jane Seymour/Anna Bolena (Met, (Triquet) (U.S. premiere). In 2014 Onishi created the Welsh National Opera), Fricka/Das Rheingold Previously at Lyric: leading role of The Man/The Memory Stone and Waltraute/Götterdämmerung (Toulouse), Six roles since 2007-08, (world premiere) with Houston Grand Opera’s Gertrude/Hamlet (Minnesota Opera), most recently Basilio/ East+West program. Recent highlights include Countess Geschwitz/Lulu (Graz, Toulouse), The Marriage of Figaro two appearances at Carnegie Hall (Carmina Carmen (New York City Opera, Madison, (2015-16); Monsieur Burana, Vaughan Williams’s Hodie). The bari- Finland’s Savonlinna Festival), Orlofsky (Met Taupe/Capriccio (2014- tone has participated in the Aspen Music and with Seiji Ozawa in Japan), Nicklausse 15); Flute/A Midsummer Festival and School, Saito Kinen Festival (Met, Bilbao, DVD), Octavian (Toulouse, Night’s Dream (2010-11). in Japan, and Germany’s Internationale Seville, Lyon), the Composer (Oviedo, Meistersinger Akademie. Takaoki Onishi is Madrid, Salzburg, Toulouse, Lyon, Paris), and The tenor, a South Carolina native, recently sponsored by the Renée Fleming Foundation Brangäne (Salzburg). Goeldner, who has sung appeared at the Hollywood Bowl as Spoletta/ and the International Foundation for Arts Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Royal Tosca with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Culture. Ballet (Covent Garden, Lincoln Center), has under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, and been heard in concert with the National as Flute/Thisbe/A Midsummer Night’s Dream Symphony Orchestra and the radio orchestras at the Palau de Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain. of Vienna, Paris, Munich, Prague, and Berlin. This season Jameson reprises his portrayal of Sancho Panza/Man of La Mancha with Utah Opera. In the 2015-16 season he created the

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PATRICK GUETTI JACOB ASHLEY the Joyce Theatre Foundation’s A. W. A. R. D. (Zaretsky) (Dancer) Show. She received her B.F.A. in dance from Previously at Lyric: Previously at Lyric: the University of Iowa and is the founder/ Second Armed Man/ Tannhäuser (2014-15); artistic director of Jaxon Movement Arts, a The Magic Flute, Greek La clemenza di Tito (2013- project-based dance company inspired by Captain/Les Troyens 14); Show Boat (2011-12). current events and urban environments. (both 2016-17); Police Commissioner/Der A Chicago native, the ALEJO PÉREZ Rosenkavalier (2015-16). dancer has studied intense- (Conductor) ly under Shell Benjamin, American debut A second-year Ryan Opera Center bass, the Randy Duncan, Guillermo Leyva, and the late New Jersey native was a first-place winner Anna Paskevska at the Chicago Academy for The Argentine conductor’s of the 2015 Gerda Lissner Foundation the Arts. Brooks has been a featured performer opera performances this Competition and a grand-prize winner of the and guest artist with RPM Productions, season are highlighted 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Council Houston Grand Opera, Madison Ballet, by Lulu (Rome), Carmen Auditions. He appears at Lyric this season San Diego Opera, The Dallas Opera, Ballet (Dresden), and Der as Dr. Grenvil/La traviata (for Celebrating Chicago, Chicago Festival Ballet, Giordano Rosenkavalier (Buenos Plácido). Highlights of Guetti’s recent seasons Jazz Dance Chicago, Luna Negra Dance Aires). Following a successful debut at the include the Nightwatchman/Die Meistersinger Theater, and the Joffrey Ballet. He is a recipient Salzburg Festival in 2015 with Werther, Pérez von Nurnberg (Glyndebourne), the Fifth of the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological led the Vienna Philharmonic there in a new Jew/Salome (The Dallas Opera), and José and Scientific Olympics Dance Award from production of Faust. Former music director of Tripaldi/Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar the NAACP. the venerable Teatro Argentina in La Plata, he (Opera Philadelphia). The bass is a former has also conducted in many major opera houses apprentice artist at The Santa Fe Opera, having RANDY HERRERA internationally, among them Opéra National appeared there in Carmen, Fidelio, Huang (Dancer) de Paris (Pintscher’s L’espace dernier), Cologne Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (American premiere), Previously at Lyric: Opera (Rihm’s Die Eroberung von Mexico, The Impresario/Le rossignol, and Theodore Capriccio (2014-15); Jakob Lenz), Frankfurt Opera (Don Giovanni), Morrison’s Oscar (Santa Fe, world premiere). Aida (2011-12). Oper Leipzig (Dessau’s Deutsches Miserere), Other credits include Don Quichotte, Don Norwegian National Opera (Shostakovich’s Basilio/The Barber of Seville, Tom/Un ballo in The dancer began his stud- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Rome’s Teatro maschera, and Crespel and Wilhelm/Les contes ies at the Chicago Academy dell’Opera (La Cenerentola, Shostakovich’s The d’Hoffmann, all at Philadelphia’s Academy for the Arts in 1994, where Nose), Brussels’s La Monnaie (Adès’s Powder of Vocal Arts. Among Guetti’s numerous he studied under the direc- her Face), and the Teatro Colón (Parsifal). awards are a 2014 Sara Tucker Grant and the tion of Anna Paskevska, Claire Bataille, and He has enjoyed a long collaboration with first prize in the Premio Verdi competition. Randy Duncan. Herrera was also trained the Opéra National de Lyon, where he has Patrick Guetti is sponsored by The C. G. Pinnell at the School of American Ballet and San conducted Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Family. Francisco Ballet School. He has received many Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, Stravinsky’s awards, including the prestigious Princess Le rossignol and Henze’s Pollicino. A guest MIRANDA BORKAN Grace Award. A member of the Joffrey conductor in Madrid at both the Teatro Real (Dancer) Ballet from 1999 to 2001, he performed with and the Orquesta Sinfónica, Pérez has enjoyed Lyric debut Houston Ballet as a principal dancer for nine great successes leading the major orchestras of years. His extensive experience in opera houses Stockholm, Paris (Radio France), Cologne, The dancer is currently is highlighted by appearances with The Dallas Berlin (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester), a member of Cerqua Opera (Aida) and San Diego Opera (Samson et Geneva, and Bologna, as well as such renowned Rivera Dance Theater. Dalila, Aida, Un ballo in maschera). contemporary-music groups as the Ensemble Prior to joining CRDT, Modern, Ensemble intercontemporain, Asko Borkan was a performing JACQUELINE Schönberg Ensemble, and Klangforum Wien. apprentice with River STEWART North Dance Chicago. She graduated from (Dancer) ROBERT CARSEN The Ailey School/Fordham University with Previously at Lyric: (Director) a B.F.A. in dance and theology, where she Les Troyens (2016-17). Previously at Lyric: performed works by Francesca Harper, Hope Six operas since 1991- Boykin, Joanna Kotze, Malcolm Lowe, The American dancer has 92, most recently Eugene Jennifer Archibald, Dusan Tynek, and Dwight recently performed with the Onegin (2007-08); Rhoden. Borkan trained with Extensions Chicago Repertory Ballet, Dialogues des Carmélites, Dance Company under the direction of Lizzie New York’s Artisan Dance Iphigénie en Tauride (both MacKenzie Pontarelli and has participated Company (The Nutcracker), Thodos Dance 2006-07). in summer programs at Jacob’s Pillow, The Chicago, and in the pre-Broadway presentation Joffrey Ballet School in New York City, Luna of Anastasia. Stewart is an experienced In addition to My Fair Lady at Lyric, the Negra Dance Theater, and Hubbard Street choreographer and has been showcased and renowned Canadian director’s current season Dance Chicago. commissioned by numerous dance companies, is highlighted by return engagements at the including the Madison Ballet, the Chicago Metropolitan Opera (new production of Der Repertory Ballet, and Winifred Haun and is Rosenkavalier), Teatro Regio in Turin (Katya the recipient of the choreographic award from Kabanova), and Opéra de Lausanne (L’Orfeo).

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Carsen has long been associated with the Opéra MICHAEL LEVINE Goodman Theatre, Northlight, Steppenwolf National de Paris, where his wide variety of (Set and Costume Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre Company. repertoire has ranged from Les Boréades, to Designer) Her work has also been seen regionally at the Les contes d’Hoffmann, Rusalka, and Capriccio Previously at Lyric: McCarter Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, (all recorded for DVD). Among his other Six operas since 1991-92, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkley Repertory widely acclaimed productions are Dialogues des most recently Tannhäuser Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, and Carmélites (10 major companies, among them (2014-15); Eugene Onegin Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her numerous Covent Garden, La Scala, and Vienna), A (2007-08); Dialogues des recent successful designs include Lookingglass Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rigoletto (both Carmélites, (2006-07). Alice produced by the Lookingglass Theatre at Aix-en-Provence and many other theaters), Company in Chicago, Denver, and Miami, The Magic Flute(Baden-Baden), Don Giovanni The renowned Canadian designer’s work can Hand to God at Victory Gardens Theatre, and (La Scala), Falstaff (Covent Garden, La Scala, also be seen this season at the Dutch National The Heir Apparent at Chicago Shakespeare Met, Amsterdam, Toronto), The Queen of Opera (Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart), Theater. She has been nominated for the Spades (Zurich), a Janáček cycle (Strasbourg), La Scala (Don Giovanni), and the Israeli Jeff Award for her work with Court Theatre, The Love of Three Oranges (Berlin), Ariadne auf Opera (Madama Butterfly). Levine regularly Northlight Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre Naxos (Munich), and L’incoronazione di Poppea collaborates with major directors, among them Company. Binder is artistic associate with and Rinaldo (Glyndebourne). His direction of Tim Albery and Robert Carsen. Among his Lookingglass and head of lighting design at the Wagner’s Ring cycle has earned critical acclaim extensive opera credits internationally are Theatre School of DePaul University. in Cologne, Venice, Barcelona, and Shanghai. Madama Butterfly, Parsifal, and Mefistofele Carsen’s musical-theater productions include (Metropolitan Opera); Elektra, Capriccio, MICHAEL BLACK Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Beautiful Game I Capuleti e i Montecchi, The Magic Flute, (Chorus Master) (West End) and Sunset Boulevard (U. K. tour), and Les contes d’Hoffmann (all at the Opéra Previously at Lyric: as well as Singin’ in the Rain (Paris’s Théâtre du National de Paris); Die Frau ohne Schatten Chorus master since 2013- Châtelet), Candide (Châtelet, English National (Vienna State Opera; Hansel and Gretel and 14; interim chorus master, Opera, La Scala), and My Fair Lady (Châtelet, Carmen (Netherland)s Opera); The Queen of 2011-12. Mariinsky Theatre). Spades (Zurich); The Rape of Lucretia and L’incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne); As chorus master from to PAULA SUOZZI Between Worlds (English National Opera); and 2001 to 2013 at Opera (Revival Director) Candide (London’s English National Opera, La Australia in Sydney, Black Previously at Lyric: Scala, Théâtre du Châtelet). His many acclaimed prepared the OA chorus for more than 90 Eugene Onegin (2007-08). designs for Canadian Opera Company operas and many concert works. At Opera include the Ring cycle, Idomeneo, Wozzeck, Australia he progressed from rehearsal pianist The American director and Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung. In London, to assistant chorus master and children’s has recently staged two in addition to designing The Beautiful Game chorus master, before his appointment as operas of Wagner, Die (West End), Levine has also created designs chorus master. He has served in that capacity Meistersinger von Nürnberg for the Olivier Award-winning A Disappearing for such distinguished organizations as the at the Metropolitan Opera Number (Barbican Centre). Among his other Edinburgh International Festival, Opera and The Flying Dutchman at Milwaukee’s prestigious awards are the Toronto Arts Award Holland Park (London), and, in Australia, Florentine Opera. Suozzi’s notable new (1997) and the Syndicat de la Critique award the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (including productions at Skylight Opera Theatre include (1991). In 2011 he received the Distinguished Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, led by Vladimir Romeo and Juliet, Copland’s The Tender Land Artist Award from the International Society for Ashkenazy), and Philharmonia Choir, Motet (filmed for PBS), The Threepenny Opera, the Performing Arts. Choir, and Cantillation chamber choir. Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, and Lucia di His recent activities include preparing The Lammermoor. Other recent successes include CHRISTINE BINDER Damnation of Faust chorus, continuing a new production of Britten’s The Rape of (Lighting Designer) his association with the Grant Park Music Lucretia for the Toledo Opera. Suozzi has Previously at Lyric: Festival. As one of Australia’s most prominent also worked at Cincinnati Opera (Romeo and 16 productions since vocal accompanists, Black regularly performed Juliet), Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company 1997-98, most recently for broadcasts and recordings (he has been (Luisa Miller, The Bartered Bride – Dora Oklahoma! (2012-13); heard numerous times in Australian Broadcast Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Lohengrin, The Mikado Corporation programs), and has served as Director), Tulsa Opera (The Magic Flute), and (both 2010-11). chorus master on four continents. His work Connecticut Grand Opera (The Threepenny has been recorded and/or aired on ABC, BBC, Opera). She has been an assistant director with The American designer has PBS, and for many HD productions in movie both the San Francisco Opera and the Met, created lighting designs for prestigious theaters theaters as well as on television. He has also where she has also worked with the Lindemann and opera companies internationally. Among been a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium Young Artist Program and coached singers for them are San Francisco Opera, San Diego of Music, of which he is an alumnus. Black the company’s National Council Auditions. Opera, New York City Opera, Pittsburgh holds a master’s degree in musicology from In addition, she has served as acting coach Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Houston the University of New South Wales. Michael at Tanglewood. Among her theater directing Grand Opera, the Theater an der Wien in Black is the Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master credits are Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, Vienna, and Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival. Endowed Chair. Nicky Silver’s The Food Chain, and several Binder is also one of the most successful Shakespeare plays, among them Macbeth and Chicago-based designers for theater. She has Twelfth Night. worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Victory Gardens Theatre,

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SERGE BENNATHAN The American dancer-choreographer’s operatic (Choreographer) credits include remounting the choreography Supernumeraries Previously at Lyric: of Lyric’s Iphigénie en Tauride at San (Eugene Onegin) Eugene Onegin (2007-08). Francisco Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She has presented a 20-year Men The French-born Canadian retrospective of her work at Chicago’s Vittum Bill DuBois* choreographer’s acclaimed Theater and Ruth Page Dance Center, as well Kenneth Giambrone* work on Robert Carsen’s as in her hometown, Kalamazoo, Michigan. A Eric Hessler Eugene Onegin production graduate of Western Michigan University, Tye has previously been seen performed with The Kalamazoo Ballet, dancing Ed Husayko* at Lyric, Houston Grand Opera, and the leading roles in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Ken Izzi* Metropolitan Opera (premiere, 1997). A The Nutcracker. In Chicago she continued her Joshua Lee major highlight of Bennathan’s current season training at the Joel Hall Dance Center. Tye is Michael Lieberman* is Just Words, a hybrid poetry/dance piece a past recipient of Regional Dance America’s Henry Lunn* he has written, directed, and performed in Best Young Choreographer Award (at age 15) Henry “Hank” Mandziara Toronto and Ottawa. In 2006 he founded Les and a two-time recipient of the Monticello Richard Manera* Productions Figlio in Vancouver, for which Young Choreographer’s Award; the latter he has produced and choreographed seven garnered her invitations to choreograph Gary McMillan full-length dance works. Previously he was throughout America. In addition to Lyric Mike Ortyl* artistic director of Toronto’s Dancemakers and Joel Hall Dancers, she has performed in Daniel Pyne* (1990-2006). Twelve of his Dancemakers Chicago with Salt Creek Ballet, Second City Roberto Renteria works have received Dora Mavor Moore Ballet, and Chicago Folks Operetta. Tye is Reuben Rios* Award nominations, with both Sable/Sand artistic director at the Hyde Park School of Kayhon Safavi* and The Satie Project winning the award for Dance, which she founded in 1993. Four Cameron Sharrock Outstanding New Choreography. Bennathan years later she founded Tyego Dance Project, is also a past recipient of Canada’s prestigious which has performed at Steppenwolf, the Joseph Sjostrom Alcan Rio Tinto Performing Arts Award. He Athenaeum, and throughout America in a William “Doc” Syverson* has received commissions from companies in revival of Spike Jones’s Nutcracker. John Thompson Canada and around the world, including the Ron Tolisano* National Ballet of Canada, Teatro San Martin SARAH HATTEN Alexander Trice Ballet Contemporaneo in Buenos Aires, and (Wigmaster and Makeup Christopher Vaughn* Le Jeune Ballet International de Cannes. Designer) Theo Vlahopoulos* At Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Previously at Lyric: Ed Voci* Bennathan has directed Rossini’s Tancredi on Wigmaster and makeup the mainstage and Stravinsky’s Renard for the designer since 2011-12. Douglas Wernicke COC Ensemble. He has written the libretto for composer Gareth Williams’s opera, The Lyric’s wigmaster and Women Flight, in addition to writing and illustrating makeup designer has Mary Anthony* four books. worked in a wide repertoire Dorothy Attermeyer* at Des Moines Metro Opera and Michigan Angela Trabert* AUGUST TYE Opera Theatre, as well as Columbus Opera,

(Ballet Mistress) Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, Previously at Lyric: and the University of Cincinnati College- Children 36 productions since Conservatory of Music. She has also worked Jacob Macias 1993-94 as dancer, at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major Kayla McGovern* choreographer, or ballet opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Kylie McGovern* mistress, most recently Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well Kamahelo Muhammad Les Troyens (2016-17); as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, India Renteria Roméo et Juliette (2015- in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Liliana Renteria 16); The Passenger Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B.A. in (2014-15). music at Simpson College. Sarah Hatten is Alexander Santos the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair. *Regular supernumerary

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The Poetry of Opera Intimacy and Lyricism in Eugene Onegin By Roger Pines

Onegin has killed Lensky in their duel – the conclusion of Act Two at Lyric, 2007-08 season.

hen Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s young man who doesn’t fit in, an arrogant, wasn’t really stage material and that, because stage works come to mind, we moody, restless figure, easily bored and a bit the whole country was so totally familiar tend to think first of the world’s of a wanderer. But it’s not the hero who has with the plot and characters, he would find Wmost popular ballets – The Nutcracker, Swan earned this story such a special place in our it impossible to meet expectations. Luckily, Lake, Sleeping Beauty. But Tchaikovsky was hearts – it’s the heroine, Tatiana, and the at least one other person was eager to see also a born opera composer! Of the twelve profoundly moving emotional journey she an Onegin-based opera from Tchaikovsky: operas he wrote, one of them, Yevgeny makes in the course of Tchaikovsky’s opera. an opera and concert singer whose artistry Onegin (or, in English, Eugene Onegin), has Tatiana and the other characters made her a favorite of the composer – long reigned as the best-loved work in the obsessed Pushkin; he clearly was working the distinguished mezzo-soprano Elizaveta Russian opera repertoire. from his very soul to create the novel. Lavrovskaya. Apparently she was able to Once experienced in the theater, It brought to life a particular era in the employ all her considerable powers of Onegin remains forever in the mind’s eye Russia of the early 19th century – chiefly persuasion to change his attitude. and ear – in this writer’s case, for example. that of the landed gentry, but also to a Looking at all twelve of his operas, Onegin was the first opera I ever saw onstage. certain extent the aristocracy. Pushkin was we notice that Tchaikovsky wrote three This was most certainly an unusual first writing from experience; the mores and of the libretti himself and co-wrote two opera for a seven-year-old! But I adored foibles of characters like those of Onegin others. For Onegin he prepared the text it then and I adore it to this day. Its tug were already familiar to him, and he made in collaboration with his fellow composer on the heartstrings and the sheer appeal them thoroughly believable. Onegin became Konstantin Shilovsky, taking it directly from communicated in literally every moment of central to the public’s literary education; it’s Pushkin wherever he could. Of course, a lot the score remain simply incomparable. still the one piece of classic literature above of editing was needed to create an operatic The most celebrated of all Russian poets, all others that the man and woman on the structure from this story, and Tchaikovsky Aleksandr Pushkin 1799-1837, scored the street in Russia will recall from school days. came in for a fair amount of criticism for greatest success of his short life with his verse The idea of adapting Onegin for the the libretto. What he anticipated did indeed novel, Yevgeny Onegin (published in serial operatic stage was suggested to Tchaikovsky prove to be correct: with the language and form, 1825-32). The title character was to by his brother Modest, to whom he was the story so well known to his audience, some degree inspired by Lord Byron’s Childe very close. Initially the composer was hardly everyone seemed to put his or her oar in Harold: the so-called “Byronic hero,” the enthusiastic; he believed Pushkin’s novel about how he should have proceeded. But

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A Letter to Tatiana from Onegin

When it comes to Eugene Onegin – whether as a novel in verse or an opera – one of the simplest yet most enduring images that springs to mind is a letter. In Act One Tatiana naively confesses her love for Onegin, only to receive a crushing rejection. While steel-nib pens are no longer the medium of the day, the sentiments exchanged between these young characters remain unaltered. Earlier this year, Lyric asked local high-school- and college-aged students to write a modern-day love letter inspired by Pushkin’s protagonists. Below is the winning letter, written from Two of the most illustrious figures in the history of Russian culture – the perspective of an exceedingly repentant Onegin. poet Aleksandr Pushkin (left) and composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Submitted by: Kayla Faith Little Age: 18 Elizaveta Lavrovskaya, School: Batavia High School the singer who Affiliation: BHS Chamber Singers urged Tchaikovsky to compose Eugene Onegin, is pictured here in a portrait by Ivan Kramskoy. To my Tatiana:

Do not think I have forgotten you – I never could.

Seeing you today, seeing how you have blossomed and thrived, has granted me the faith that I need to recover, to repent for my sins. Only through you can I accomplish this heavy task; without you, I am doomed to carry on in sorrow, with guilt as my sole companion.

You have changed me; you have made me a A page from Pushkin’s manuscript, better man. I was cynical, I was cold and feared with the author’s doodles commitment, but you have shown me the joys of and sketches.

loving for the first time. KUNSTHALLE HAMBURG

Think back to that first letter you wrote me, to your first confession of love. Forgive me, Tatiana, for the anguish I induced with my rejection – I was a fool to think you undeserving of my affections, a coward to think I could exist without you. Leave your pain behind, and say you love me still. Say you love me still, and give me a second chance at life.

Give me a second chance at redemption, a chance to right my wrongs and stitch the wounds I have inflicted upon others, and upon myself. Say you love me still, and let us both heal.

Yours,

Onegin The “Byronic hero,” as depicted in German painter Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” (1818).

30 | February 26 - March 20, 2017 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO he loved working with Pushkin’s words and easy charm. When she declares that and created the opera in a sort of ecstasy, she’s not one to stay up at night dreaming Pushkin’s Tatiana, especially whenever giving his attention to or sit around sighing, her vocal line dips as envisioned by the the characterization of Tatiana; her “Letter appropriately on the word “vzdikhat” (“to painter Fyodor Möller Scene” was the first portion of the score that sigh”). Contraltos who can portray teenagers (1812-1874). he composed. don’t grow on trees, but a young contralto At the time of Onegin, Tchaikovsky is really what’s needed for Olga! Few singers’ was still a young man – not yet 40. It voices can “sit” in the transition area between seems appropriate that in this, the fifth of middle voice and chest voice, where much of his operas, the keynote was lyricism, pure the aria lies. and simple. Huge dramatic outbursts were We then get our first glance of the two brought into the musical and dramatic central male characters. Vladimir Lensky, picture only very sparingly; predominantly, the poet (imagined by Tchaikovsky as age Tchaikovsky was concentrating on an 19) and his sophisticated friend from the intimate, conversational style. We ought city, Eugene Onegin (22). Their quartet, in never to forget that he subtitled Onegin which they observe each other with interest, “Lyrical Scenes” and indeed, it’s lyric voices happens in a comparatively restrained but that are needed – “juicy” lyric, certainly, but distinctive manner; Tchaikovsky integrates for many singers who have succeeded in lyric nonetheless. Each role’s vocal range the lines perfectly, but also gives each a Bellini and Donizetti, as well as in Mozart. is entirely manageable (no surprise, given chance to emerge from the musical texture. The second scene brings Tatiana’s that it was actually conservatory students There’s another aria to enhance the writing of her desperate, lovesick letter who made up the cast of this opera’s world extraordinary musical riches of this opening to Onegin. This is truly the core of the premiere), and there are no florid demands scene: it’s Lensky’s, when he offers an opera. Most lyric sopranos long to sing at all. Whether in conversational passages outpouring of love to Olga. Interestingly, Tatiana. That desire has everything to do or legato, the emphasis is consistently on he starts the aria singing “I love you,” with this 13-minute scene, which offers expressiveness, not vocal flamboyance. that is, “Ya lyublyu vas” – “vas” being the the interpreter both glorious music and Audiences first heard the opera at the formal address, like saying “vous” rather a memorable dramatic arc. What an Maly Theatre in Moscow on March 29, than “tu” in French. By the time he gets to extraordinarily effective buildup we hear 1879. The first night was less than the end of the aria, he’s saying “Ya lyublyu in the orchestra, before Tatiana bursts out, triumphant, but the city’s most important tebya,” which is the informal “you.” We “It’s foolish to write to him, but I have to, venue soon produced Onegin: the Bolshoi hear, too, that this is really the classic because I love him!” The listener should Theatre gave the opera’s first professional Russian lyric tenor role. Tchaikovsky adored keep those opening phrases in mind, since performance in 1881. St. Petersburg’s elegant singing, and he understood bel canto they return with overwhelming effect – as Mariinsky Theatre followed three years principles. This role has often been a success sung by Onegin – later in the opera. later. Together those performances helped enormously in increasing recognition in the composer’s homeland for both Tchaikovsky and the new opera. Act One gives us a strong sense of the musical variety we can expect throughout Onegin. It begins on a slightly melancholy note – with the legato melody of Olga and Tatiana aptly contrasted with the nostalgically conversational element provided by the two older women, Mme. Larina and Filipyevna. When the peasant workers appear, the song and dance they offer – happily welcoming the end of the harvest – brings Onegin and Tatiana, a seemingly authentic folk flavor into the from a 1908 edition elegant sound world of this opera. of Pushkin’s novel. The first solo belongs to Olga, the livewire of the two sisters, full of smiles

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Tatiana as a young girl in Act One and as a married woman in Act Three: DAN REST (2) Dina Kuznetsova at Lyric (2007-08 season), with Nino Surguladze as Olga, Marie Plette as Mme. Larina, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the title role.

Another crucial element of the Letter so memorably. It would have been a mistake Except for the first-act quartet and the Scene is its central musical theme, where, to make this aria too soulful. It’s a legato party scene ensemble, this is the first time more than anywhere else in Onegin, the episode, but – at least in the aria’s first half that their two voices have actually joined. role of a solo instrument takes on enormous – the music is cool; Onegin doesn’t intend to But after admitting that she loves Onegin, dramatic importance. In this case it’s the be anything other than straightforward. In Tatiana asserts – despite his entreaties – that oboe, that piercingly beautiful timbre – this scene he’s often described as callous, but she will stay with her husband. Certainly no sound from the orchestra could be the music itself doesn’t really communicate these final pages are as dramatic as anything more affecting at this moment. It’s Tatiana that, and neither does the text – on the written for lyric voices in the Russian wondering whether Onegin is a protecting surface, at any rate. Onegin doesn’t treat repertoire; the orchestra surges with full angel for her, or whether he’ll abandon her Tatiana inhumanely, he’s just being honest Tchaikovskyan grandeur, and the voices instead. and explaining exactly who he is. He can’t can be easily engulfed. It’s interesting that Tatiana is absolutely written for a full be played as nasty and cold, otherwise we’d Onegin’s final line is mostly sung a cappella; lyric sound, not a light lyric – but it’s get impatient and annoyed with Tatiana for this is very considerate of Tchaikovsky, in not about high notes (the one high B is wanting anything to do with him! We have that it gives the baritone time to gather his the singer’s very last note in this role). to see something in him that would attract energy for the final ascent to high G. Paradoxically, a lot of youthful voices aren’t her to such an overpowering degree. Through Many listeners are disappointed that yet able to offer much substance in the body language, and vocal color, the singer can we’re left not with Tatiana but with the middle range, but that is exactly where create the coolness in the character that so rather less sympathetic Onegin. But he’s the Tchaikovsky centers a great deal of Tatiana’s totally scars Tatiana at this moment. title hero – or anti-hero, more accurately music. If the singer has a fine technique, she And so the opera proceeds in the next – and neither Tchaikovsky nor Pushkin can be free to concentrate on varying her two acts, with every episode a major musical is judging him. He is, in the end, who vocal color to suit the text. In the “Letter highlight: the exhilarating waltz that opens he is, and the audience can draw its own Scene,” Tatiana can sing with with arresting, Act Two, Lensky’s melancholy soliloquy conclusions about how he’ll spend the rest truly aching intimacy. How remarkable that preceding the chilling duel scene, Prince of his life. Pushkin had such penetrating understanding Gremin’s aria in praise of his beloved young In Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky was of the yearnings experienced by a girl of this wife Tatiana, and of course, the opera’s bold enough to take on a beloved work of age, and that Tchaikovsky could express overpoweringly emotional finale, which literature. Here was an example of opera not them musically with such unerring truth. demands a paragraph on its own. just proving worthy of its source material, The following scene gives us revealing The great challenge in that final but ennobling and enriching it. The result insight into the object of Tatiana’s affection: confrontation between the protagonists is an unforgettable experience in the theater this is the scene in which Onegin, having belongs to the soprano: the same performer that unites the genius of two of the greatest received the letter, admits that, although who started the opera very shy at age 17 is creative artists Russia has ever known. touched by the girl’s candor, marriage and now a conflicted but ultimately determined domestic life don’t appeal to him. He can woman who’s made her way in society. Roger Pines, Lyric’s dramaturg and broadcast love her as a brother, perhaps more than This growth in her has to be reflected in the commentator, contributes writing regularly that, and he asks that she not be angered by voice as well. When she and Onegin reflect to opera-related publications and recording his response. sadly that they were once so close to true companies internationally. These are difficult sentiments to bring to happiness, the plaintiveness and quiet agony musical life, but Tchaikovsky manages to do of their individual vocal lines speak volumes.

32 | February 26 - March 20, 2017 A classic Broadway hit packed with love and laughter comes April 28 – May 21 to Lyric in a lavish production!

lerner & loewe

Richard E. Grant The story of Eliza Doolittle, a young henry higgins flower seller with a Cockney accent, and Distinguished film and television actor Professor Henry Higgins, the phonetics who has appeared in Downton Abbey, expert who teaches her to speak like a Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, and more proper lady, will capture your heart with one enchanting tune after another: “On Lisa O’Hare the Street Where You Live,” “Wouldn’t eliza doolittle It Be Loverly,” “I’ve Grown Accustomed One of Britain’s most captivating to Her Face,” “I Could Have Danced All musical-theater leading ladies Night,” and more!

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MY FAIR LADY Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion. Original Production directed by Moss Hart. Production created by the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in co-production with the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre. Photos by Pip Seed, Lisa Keating Photography, and Marie-Noëlle Robert/Théâtre du Châtelet. Lyric Opera premiere generously made possible by The Negaunee Foundation, an Anonymous Donor, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance, The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Foundation, LYRICOPERA.ORG Robert S. and Susan E. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes, Liz Stiffel, and Northern Trust. 312.827.5600 TWO STARS, ONE STAGE

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Sunday, April 9 at 3pm Two of the most dynamic artists of our day LAWRENCE come together for a single performance at Lyric Opera, displaying their talents, artistry, and exciting range of repertoire. Tenor Lawrence BROWNLEE Brownlee, who debuted at Lyric to great acclaim in Cinderella in 2015 and returns for Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD this season, teams & ERIC OWENS up with bass-baritone Eric Owens, who stars as Wotan in Lyric’s Ring cycle, for an afternoon of superb music ranging from opera to spirituals. IN RECITAL Generous support provided by the Lauter McDougal Family Foundation.

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Eugene Onegin: After the Curtain Falls

When the performance is over, try discussing it with your companions and any other opera lovers you know! You can continue your pleasure in Eugene Onegin for hours – even days – by exchanging ideas about it. Here are some topics we can suggest:

• By the end of the opera, how do you feel about the character of Eugene Onegin? Why do you think Tchaikovsky was drawn to set his story to music?

• Is Onegin the hero of the opera or not? What other characters does he remind you of – from opera, movies, or literature?

• Tatiana and Olga are sisters with very different attitudes and outlooks. With which sister did you identify more? Why?

• What character changes most throughout the opera? What do you think he or she learns?

• What is the importance of Tatiana’s “Letter Scene” to the opera? Can you think of other stories where letters play such a significant role? Maria Klimentova, Tchaikovsky's first Tatiana, pictured in the Letter Scene.

To continue enjoying Eugene Onegin, Lyric dramaturg Roger Pines suggests the following performances:

• DVD – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Renée Fleming, Ramón • DVD – Simon Keenlyside, Krassimira Stoyanova, Vargas; Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Pavol Brešlik; cond. Robin Ticciati, dir. Kasper Holten cond. James Levine, dir. Robert Carsen (Decca) (Opus Arte)

• DVD – Mariusz Kwiecień, Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała; • CD – Evgeni Belov, Galina Vishnevskaya, Sergei Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Lemeshev; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, cond. Valéry Gergiev, dir. Deborah Warner (Deutsche cond. Boris Khaikin (Preiser) Grammophon) • CD – Sir Thomas Allen, Mirella Freni, Neil Shicoff; • DVD – Wojciech Drabowicz, Elena Prokina, Martin Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, cond. Thompson; Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic James Levine (Deutsche Grammophon) Orchestra, cond. Sir Andrew Davis, dir. Graham Vick • CD – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Nuccia Focile, Neil Shicoff; (Kultur) St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, Orchestre de Paris, cond. • DVD – Mariusz Kwiecień, Tatiana Monogorova, Andrei Semyon Bychkov (Philips) Dunaev; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, cond. Alexander Vedernikov, dir. Dmitri Tcherniakov • CD – Bernd Weikl, Teresa Kubiak, Stuart Burrows; (Bel Air Classiques) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, cond. Sir Georg Solti (Decca)

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Music Staff Violin II Bass Bass Clarinet Bass Trombone Yin Shen, Principal Michael Geller, Principal Linda A. Baker David R. Becker** William C. Billingham John Macfarlane, Brian Ferguson, John Schwalm* Susan Miller Hult Assistant Principal Assistant Principal* Bassoon Matthew Piatt Bonita Di Bello Andrew L. W. Anderson James T. Berkenstock, Tuba Noah Lindquist Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Ian Hallas Principal* Andrew Smith, Principal Jerad Mosbey Teresa Kay Fream Gregory Sarchet Lewis Kirk, Eric Weimer Peter Labella Timothy Shaffer** Acting Principal Harp Keun-A Lee Ann Palen Collins R. Trier Preman Tilson Marguerite Lynn Williams, Grant Loehnig Irene Radetzky Acting Assistant Principal Principal Mario Antonio Marra John D. Robinson Flute John Gaudette** Francesco Milioto David Volfe Marie Tachouet, Principal Timpani Steven Mosteller Albert Wang Dionne Jackson, Contrabassoon Edward Harrison, Principal Robert Tweten Assistant Principal Lewis Kirk Viola Alyce Johnson Percussion Orchestra Carol Cook, Principal Horn Michael Green, Principal Terri Van Valkinburgh, Piccolo Jonathan Boen, Principal Douglas Waddell, Violin I Assistant Principal Alyce Johnson Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Assistant Principal Robert Hanford, Concertmaster Frank W. Babbitt Utility Horn Eric Millstein Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Patrick Brennan Oboe Robert E. Johnson, Third Horn Concertmaster Endowed Chair Karl Davies Judith Kulb, Principal Samuel Hamzem Librarian Sharon Polifrone, Amy Hess Robert E. Morgan, Neil Kimel John Rosenkrans, Principal Assistant Concertmaster Melissa Trier Kirk Assistant Principal Alexander Belavsky Di Shi Judith Zunamon Lewis Trumpet Personnel Manager and Kathleen Brauer William Denton, Principal Stageband Contractor Laura Park Chen** Cello English Horn Matthew Comerford, Christine Janicki Pauli Ewing Calum Cook, Principal Robert E. Morgan Co-Assistant Principal Bing Y. Grant Paul Dwyer, Assistant Principal Channing Philbrick, David Hildner Mark Brandfonbrener Clarinet Co-Assistant Principal Ellen Hildner William H. Cernota Charlene Zimmerman, Laura Miller Laura Deming Principal Trombone Liba Shacht Barbara Haffner Linda A. Baker , Jeremy Moeller, Principal Heather Wittels Walter Preucil Co-Assistant Principal Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Susan Warner, David R. Becker** * On leave, 2016-17 season Co-Assistant Principal John Schwalm* ** Season substitute

Chorus Master Colleen Lovinello Robert Morrissey Bass Tenor Michael Black Lynn Lundgren Kenneth Nichols Claude Cassion Curtis Bannister Howard A. Stotler Chorus Yvette Smith Steven Pierce Christopher Filipowicz Matthew Daniel Master Endowed Chair Marie Sokolova Robert J. Prindle Nicolai Janitzky Joseph Diehl Maia Surace Thomas Sillitti Klaus Georg Regular Chorus Laurie Seely Vassalli Craig Springer Supplementary Chorus Tyler Samuel Lee Pamela Williams Jeffrey W. Taylor Brett J. Potts Soprano Corinne Wallace-Crane Ronald Watkins Soprano Peder Reiff Elisa Billey Becker Nikolas Wenzel Elena Batman Chase Taylor Jillian Bonczek Tenor Katy Compton Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson Geoffrey Agpalo Core Supplementary Joelle Lamarre Bass Cathleen Dunn Jason Balla Chorus Katelyn Lee Michael Cavalieri Janet Marie Farr Timothy Bradley Rosalind Lee Carl Frank Sharon Garvey Cohen Hoss Brock Soprano Susan Nelson Kirk Greiner Desirée Hassler William M. Combs Jill Dewsnup Brooklyn Snow John E. Orduña Rachael Holzhausen John J. Concepcion Carla Janzen Christine Steyer Wilbur Pauley Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki Kenneth Donovan Suzanne M. Kszastowski Kelsea Webb Douglas Peters Kimberly McCord Joseph A. Fosselman Kaileen Erin Miller Martin Lowen Poock Heidi Spoor Lawrence Montgomery Mezzo Dan Richardson Stephani Springer Mark Nienow Mezzo Katie Ruth Bieber Vincent P. Wallace, Jr. Elizabeth Anne Taylor James Odom Sarah Ponder Robin Bradley Sherry Watkins Thomas L. Potter Michelle K. Wrighte Amy Anderson de Jong Walton Westlake Hillary Grobe Mezzo Tenor Adrienne Price Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Bass Jared V. Esguerra Emily Price Marianna Kulikova Matthew Carroll Joe Shadday Amanda Runge David DuBois Dane Thomas Carolyn J. Stein

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BACKSTAGE LIFE: Brian Traynor

What is your role here at Lyric, have to be thinking on my feet and and how long have you held problem-solving. the position? I’ve been at Lyric since the 1998-99 What keeps you committed season and I am the charge artist. to the work you do? It’s my job to make sure the finishes I’m very invested in making on the scenery, props, and costumes sure we have the appropriate for a production are visually backgrounds and set pieces in place appropriate for the concept the for all of Lyric’s productions. designers and director have in mind. I think it’s important the audience For instance, if we need to make not be taken out of the moment. rebels for a new production Sometimes when you’re watching of Carmen look like they’ve been a show and you see something in the mountains for months, or really out of place, everything else soldiers in Bel Canto appear as is spoiled. But when everything on though they’ve been in a rain forest, the stage looks right, then the artists we have to make their clothes look lived in and dirty – or muddy, if can simply convey the message of the show without anything being it’s raining – and ensure these pieces match the elements of the story’s taken away from that. Everything can be as it should, and that is very narrative. Costumes, props, and sets reinforce the personalities of the fulfilling. characters, the time period, and where a show takes place, and we work to make sure they are consistent and accurate representations of What’s something about your job that people might not know? each unique production. People might be surprised to learn that most, if not everything you see on Lyric’s stage, is handcrafted. We create a handmade product What led you to work at Lyric? in a machine-made world. Everything is custom-made for a particular In 1997, I was working for a scene shop that built a show for Lyric show, such as the cakes and desserts in our new Magic Flute and to be performed at DePaul University’s Merle Reskin Theatre. last season’s Marriage of Figaro or the portraits in the background During the rehearsal period, they needed someone to come back in of Tosca (2004-05 season). and touch things up, paint props, etc. I went in for a few days and they liked the job I did. Some of the Lyric staff remembered me later A favorite Lyric moment? on and got me an “audition” for the charge artist position once it was Being backstage for the death scene in Madame Butterfly during vacant. The rest is history! Lyric’s 2003-04 season. The title role was sung by Sylvie Valayre, and she was spectacular. I’d been told the scene was really beautiful, What’s a typical day like for you? and I happened to be backstage during one of the performances. In the morning I determine which props and scenery pieces are I looked over and in the wings, there was a line of stagehands needed later in the day for rehearsals. The scenic artists and I then and cast members just watching in awe. That’s when you can tell spend time painting, re-carving, and implementing any design something is really special. changes that may have come back from the director or production designers the day before. If a newly built piece needs to look rocky, Beyond opera, what are your other passions? muddy, weathered, old, etc., we work to make sure it’s consistent I love collecting things drawn from the hands of designers like with the design concept and blends with the existing pieces around it. renderings, sketches, blueprints for buildings, furniture, jewelry, and stage designs. I’m always interested in how each designer conveys What’s the most challenging aspect of your job? their ideas to the fabricators through their drawings so pieces that I have to come up with an answer that will solve a particular question exist only in their minds can be made into something tangible. in the time we have, with the materials available. Whether the challenge is how we can finish a new wall to look like an extension — Kamaria Morris of an old cement wall, or how to help make it look real when Lyric Public Relations Specialist Alberich’s arm is cut from his shoulder in Das Rheingold, I always

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Artistic Roster

Sopranos Brandon Jovanovich Conductors Fabrice Kebour Eleonora Buratto Mingjie Lei Harry Bicket Chris Maravich Jennifer Check Štefan Margita Sir Andrew Davis Duane Schuler Christine Goerke Dennis Petersen Riccardo Frizza Nicole Haslett John Pickle Eugene Kohn Projection Designer Jeni Houser Matthew Polenzani Rory Macdonald Illuminos Christiane Karg Rodell Rosel Enrique Mazzola Kathryn Lewek Michael Spyres Alejo Pérez Chorus Master Ana María Martínez Andrew Staples Ainārs Rubiķis Michael Black Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Russell Thomas Chelsea Morris Directors Choreographers Diana Newman Baritones Tim Albery Rob Ashford Ailyn Pérez Nicola Alaimo Neil Armfield Serge Bennathan Sondra Radvanovsky Kyle Albertson Rob Ashford Helen Pickett Albina Shagimuratova Quinn Kelsey Robert Carsen Denni Sayers Kara ShayThomson Mariusz Kwiecień Kevin Newbury August Tye Ann Toomey Lucas Meachem Matthew Ozawa Melinda Whittington Zachary Nelson David Pountney Associate Choreographer Laura Wilde Emmett O’Hanlon Paula Suozzi Sarah O’Gleby Takaoki Onishi Graham Vick Mezzo-sopranos Daniel Sutin Ballet Mistresses Lindsay Ammann Associate Directors Ashley Elizabeth Hale Jenni Bank Bass-baritones Marina Bianchi August Tye Tanja Ariane Baumgartner David Govertsen Rob Kearley Elizabeth DeShong Philip Horst Louisa Muller Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Eve Gigliotti Daniel Mobbs Sarah Hatten Katharine Goeldner Richard Ollarsaba Set and Costume Designers Susan Graham Eric Owens Paul Brown Fight Choreographers Jill Grove Adam Plachetka Johan Engels Chuck Coyl Ekaterina Gubanova Bradley Smoak Dale Ferguson Nick Sandys Suzanne Hendrix Christian Van Horn Ralph Funicello Alisa Kolosova Samuel Youn Tobias Hoheisel Translators for English Titles Beth Lytwynec Robert Innes Hopkins Christopher Bergen Basses Clémentine Margaine Jessica Jahn Ian D. Campbell Catherine Martin Dmitry Belosselskiy David Korins Scott F. Heumann Lindsay Metzger Christof Fischesser Marie-Jeanne Lecca Paul Hopper Anita Rachvelishvili Ferruccio Furlanetto Michael Levine Roger Pines Aleksandra Romano Patrick Guetti David Rockwell Francis Rizzo Annie Rosen Tobias Kehrer Missy West Colin Ure Zanda Švēde Adrian Sâmpetrean Okka von der Damerau Wilhelm Schwinghammer Assistant Set Designer The American Guild of Andrea Silvestrelli Matt Rees Musical Artists, AFL-CIO Contralto Dancers (AGMA), is the union Lauren Decker Shannon Alvis Lighting Designers that represents the singers, Jacob Ashley Christine Binder dancers, actors, and staging Trebles Leah Barsky Damien Cooper personnel at Lyric Opera Asher Alcantara Miranda Borkan David Finn of Chicago. Alex Becker Liam Burke Donald Holder

Ian Brown Holly Curran DAN REST Casey Lyons Judson Emery Tyler Martin Alejandro Fonseca Patrick Scribner Ashley Elizabeth Hale Randy Herrera Tenors Shanna Heverly Piotr Beczała Marissa Lynn Horton Corey Bix Jeffery B. Hover, Jr. Michael Brandenburg Ethan R. Kirschbaum Lawrence Brownlee Weston Krukow Robert Brubaker Demetrius McClendon Joseph Calleja Hayley Meier Alec Carlson Jessica Wolfrum Raun Charles Castronovo Todd Rhoades Matthew DiBattista Abigail Simon Plácido Domingo Malachi Squires Jesse Donner Jacqueline Stewart Allan Glassman J.P. Tenuta David Guzman Maleek Washington Keith Jameson Lensky (Frank Lopardo) is observed by Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky) Jonathan Johnson as he confronts his flirtatious fiancée, Olga (Nino Surguladze): Eugene Onegin at Lyric, 2007-08 season.

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PATRON SALUTE | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Alice and John Butler: Insurance for Lyric’s Future Like so many in her generation, Alice’s married and moved back to Dubuque, Alice’s out that Ken was invested in a similar business introduction to opera happened at home. She mother would send us LPs of operas and in Chicago that he believed would benefit remembers her mother playing opera records, classical music,” John says. “I imagine it was from being associated with mine. He referred specifically Humperdinck’s Hänsel und her way of ensuring my continued exposure, me to the owner, and my company ended up Gretel, and her father singing (yes, singing!) and it was indeed very effective.” Although acquiring that business successfully. Although along to the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday Dubuque now boasts a fine symphony the interaction had nothing to do with opera, it afternoon radio broadcasts. Alice was allowed us to become better acquainted also fortunate enough to attend live with many wonderful people associated performances in her hometown of with Lyric.” Cleveland when the Met’s travelling As the Butlers’ involvement company came through, and cites deepened, John was asked to join Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Lyric’s Board of Directors. “I have very Nürnberg as her first memorable much enjoyed learning the business exposure to one of her now-favorite of opera and becoming familiar with composers. Lyric’s priorities. When Alice and I John was also encouraged by heard that Lyric was unable to share his family to explore the art form. productions with other houses due “Classical music was not a part of my to our outdated and unreliable stage household growing up, although I was technology, we understood that to exposed to symphonic music briefly be a serious problem that needed to in grade school. I attended Babson be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. mission to be the best opera company My father was very eager for me to in North America, and in order to explore various cultural offerings in be the best, we must have access to order to make me a well-rounded the best productions.” The Butlers young man. I remember during my subsequently made a generous gift to freshmen year he called me and said, ‘I the Breaking New Ground campaign want you to go to an opera in Boston. for Lyric’s stage improvement project. Carmen is going to be there and I think Although Alice and John came that would be a fairly comfortable start Alice and John Butler to love opera in different ways, both for you, so you should do that.’ I went, agree that exposure is paramount to and to my surprise, I rather enjoyed it!” the art form’s viability. “Opera can be John and Alice were introduced in college orchestra and ballet, John and Alice have come complicated,” Alice says. “There is an awful by mutual friends. “We went on a Coke date to view Lyric as their home opera company. lot to it that you don’t see right off the bat. If first,” Alice recalls. “After a series of terrible Traveling often as they do to Chicago for you’re not acquainted with the music, it can be dates during the first year of school, we wanted both business and pleasure, the Butlers have difficult to become interested in it. That is one to be sure it was worth spending an entire a pied-à-terre in the city and attend plays and of the reasons I so appreciate Renée Fleming. evening together. There was a spark right off symphonic concerts in addition to their full She has several recordings of contemporary the bat.” eight opera subscription at Lyric. songs which, of course, she sings beautifully. Upon completing their undergraduate “We are genuine admirers of Lyric’s Perhaps these CDs get some people thinking studies, John continued on to earn an MBA contribution to the city and to the region. We they could enjoy her singing other genres.” from Wharton, and then spent three years have a very warm view of Lyric and its people, “I agree that it is a real challenge,” John serving in the Navy before returning with Alice and the way they conduct their business and adds. “Had it not been for the Dubuque Civic to his hometown of Dubuque, Iowa. “My serve the community. The leadership has the Music Association bringing major symphony family had a small insurance agency which right idea in getting more people into the orchestras to town once or twice a year to play was started by my great grandfather. It was opera house, and also by exposing schools and for the city and for the schools, I would have a successful, small town enterprise and I was neighborhoods to the art form, and marketing had no experience with classical music until I supposed to go in and put some more bricks Lyric’s activities in new ways.” was an adult. I look back and realize that the in the wall; that message was given to me The Butlers have been Lyric donors since exposure I received as a kid really did affect my early on. I’m very proud of the fact that when the 1980s, but it wasn’t until some years later inclination to explore the art form later in life. I entered the business it was just my father – sitting at a luncheon with Lyric’s president at The whole key is to touch as many lives in a and his secretary, and now we have over 800 the time, the late Ken Pigott – that they began quality manner as you can, and I think in this employees and are still growing very nicely.” to be truly invested. “Ken was a wonderful sense Lyric is making a difference in Chicago, Upon settling down in Dubuque, Alice connector of people. Alice and I were seated and beyond.” and John were eager to keep up their cultural on either side of him at a Lyric function, and — Meaghan Stainback habits. “Between the time Alice and I were we got to talking about our business. It turned

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They also cosponsored Madama Butterfly Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, and Wine Auctions, (2013/14) and have made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. among other efforts, and made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New This season, Jim and Laurie generously cosponsor Lyric’s production of Carmen. Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Abbott’s Lyric is honored to have Jim Bay, a principal of Bays Corporation, serve on its Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Miles D. of Directors and Compensation Committee. White, serve on its Board of Directors. MARLYS A. BEIDER ADA and WHITNEY ADDINGTON As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys has Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Lyric contributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Canto subscribers and donors. For many seasons, they have Benefactor of the planned giving Overture Society. Her planned contributed to the Annual Campaign, and have gift commitment created the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and generously supported the Great Opera Fund, the Building Makeup Designer Endowed Chair in memory of her late on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for husband, Harold Beider. Marlys Beider cosponsored several Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. productions including Elektra (2012/13), Parsifal (2013/14) and The Addingtons have also invested in the company’s Tosca (2014/15), and cosponsored last season’s Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium future through their planned gift to Lyric. Last season they cosponsored Lyric’s Park concert. Marlys has committed generous leadership gifts to cosponsor Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto, and have committed a generous leadership gift in new productions of this season’s Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung (2019/20), support of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, which begins this season with Das Rheingold. 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Lyric is Franco Tedeschi support for Lyric’s programs and honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors. special events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice President of American Airlines, proudly serves BMO HARRIS BANK on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited BMO Harris Bank proudly supports Lyric Opera in the spirit of Committee. community partnership that has identified the bank for over 125 years. As a longstanding corporate contributor to Lyric, BMO PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION Harris Bank has generously supported Lyric’s Annual Campaign, The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the the Facilities Fund, the Great Opera Fund, the Stars of Lyric performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. The Opera at Millennium Park concert, Fantasy of the Opera, the Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated Alexandra Renée Fleming Subscriber Appreciation Concert (2010/11), the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John Dousmanis-Curtis the Renée Fleming & Susan Graham Subscriber Appreciation Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, self Concert (2012/13), Lang Lang in Recital (2013), and last season’s Plácido Domingo reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his ideals. and Ana María Martínez Concert. This season, BMO Harris Bank is the Exclusive At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a generous supporter of Sponsor of Lyric’s Celebrating Plácido Concert. Lyric is honored to have Alexandra Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming, cosponsoring The Dousmanis-Curtis, Group Head, U.S. Retail and Magic Victrola (2014/15) and The Family Barber (2013/14). Business Banking, BMO Harris Bank, serve on its Board of Directors and Investment Committee. ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from five HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDER anonymous contributors during the 2016/17 season. Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric JULIE and ROGER BASKES Opera family. Committed to sustaining the exceptional Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication quality of Lyric’s artistic product, the Buchbinders of Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground three decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Ryan Opera Center activities as previous cosponsors of Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. They have also Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the been longtime generous donors to the Annual Campaign, including cosponsoring Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. They Boris Godunov (2011/12) and this season’s production of Eugene Onegin. Lyric have cosponsored numerous productions including, is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the most recently, La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14), Il Trovatore (2014/15), Romeo and Production Sponsorship Committee. Juliet (2015/16), and this season’s Norma. They also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Julie is also Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board.

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CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM THE ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership and Lyric Opera remains deeply grateful for the longterm generosity generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and longtime of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum nonprofit leaders in arts support. The Cheney Foundation has Family’s very generous challenge grant re-established Lyric’s made an enhanced multi-year commitment to the Ryan Opera regional and national/international radio broadcasts in 2006. Center/Lyric Opera. During the 2016/17 season, The Cheney Kay’s incredible continued matching support makes possible The Foundation is supporting Guest Master Teacher and Artist Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which draw 16 million listeners annually. Elizabeth F. Cheney residencies; the Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; access “Lyric is a great national institution,” Matthew once said, “and it gives our family to a behind-the-scenes view of the Ensemble selection process great pleasure to know these broadcasts bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so by opening the Ryan Opera Center’s Final Auditions to a greater number of Lyric many in Chicago and around the globe.” donors and subscribers for the fourth year; and singer sponsorship of bass Bradley Smoak. Lyric Opera is honored to have as a major supporter The Elizabeth F. THE JOHN and JACOLYN BUCKSBAUM Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s FOUNDATION legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts. Passionate philanthropists in the Chicago community, John and Jackie Bucksbaum are major supporters of NELSON D. CORNELIUS PRODUCTION the arts. John Bucksbaum is founder and CEO of ENDOWMENT FUND Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC, a fully-integrated Nelson Cornelius was a longtime subscriber and supporter of owner and developer of retail real estate. This season, Lyric Opera and a cherished friend of legendary former Lyric John and Jackie Bucksbaum John and Jackie, with their family, generously provide Opera General Director Ardis Krainik, with whom he shared matching funding for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, his passion for opera and for making sure that Lyric would which air on 98.7WFMT live during each opening night performance. keep Chicago on the world’s opera map. That passion was also shared by Julius Frankel, and as a trustee of the Julius Frankel BULLEY & ANDREWS Foundation for many years, Mr. Cornelius fulfilled Mr. Frankel’s wishes by Founded 1891, Bulley & Andrews is one of the Midwest’s most directing significant Foundation support to Lyric Opera’s Annual Campaign and trusted and accomplished construction companies. The fourth production cosponsorship. Mr. Cornelius was also personally generous, supporting generation, family-owned firm offers clients a full-range of Lyric’s Annual Campaign. His legacy created the Nelson D. Cornelius Production construction services including general contracting, construction Endowment Fund, which this year cosponsors the Lyric premiere of Les Troyens. management, design/build, and masonry and concrete restoration. Lyric is honored to remember its close friend Nelson Cornelius. Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, supported Lyric Allan E. Bulley, III Unlimited’s Performances for Students program and this season MR. and MRS. JOHN V. CROWE serves as cosponsor of Das Rheingold. Jack and Peggy Crowe are generous and passionate Lyric Opera is pleased to have Allan E. Bulley, III as a members of the Lyric family, evidenced by their member of its Board of Directors. production sponsorship of Turandot (2006/07) and Tosca (2009/10) and major support of the Breaking New MARION A. CAMERON Ground Campaign and the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support and leadership of Jack and Peggy Crowe’s significant contribution to Lyric Marion A. Cameron. A subscriber and donor for over 20 years, was recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Lyric gratefully acknowledges her outstanding generosity through Foyer on the fifth floor in memory of Jack Crowe’s mother. The Crowes were her leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, her leading contributors to the Campaign for Excellence and the Building on Greatness cosponsorship of Rusalka (2013/14), and her additional gift in Capital Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to have Jack Crowe as an esteemed support of Tannhäuser (2014/15). This season she generously member of the Executive Committee of Lyric’s Board of Directors. cosponsors Lyric’s production of Eugene Onegin. Ms. Cameron is the CEO of Sipi Metals Corp., which continues to support the widely popular THE CROWN FAMILY Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert. Marion Cameron is a member Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée and of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Finance Committees, and Chair of the Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of Lyric Opera. Investment Committee. The Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming Initiative and made a generous commitment to Lyric’s DAVID and ORIT CARPENTER Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have also David and Orit Carpenter have been staunch supporters made major contributions to the Annual Campaign, the of Lyric Opera for many years, and have recently Lester and Renée Crown Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign made a generous planned gift to the Breaking New for Excellence, and the Great Opera Fund. This season, Ground Campaign to help ensure that Lyric will be the Crown Family is a Diamond Record Sponsor of the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit available for many future generations to enjoy. In Concert. Mrs. Crown is a past President of the Women’s Board. Mr. Crown joined addition to their longtime personal support of Lyric’s Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the Executive Annual Campaign, David Carpenter has helped secure Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients of the numerous production cosponsorships, including this season's company premiere of Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and Les Troyens, through Sidley Austin LLP, where he was a Partner for more than 30 commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown years. Lyric is honored to have David serve on its Board of Directors and Production serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Sponsorship Committee. Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago.

THE DAVEE FOUNDATION Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago-area charities reflects the Davees’ wide- ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric Opera is fortunate to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to come. Recently, The Davee Foundation provided critical support to enhance amplification and sound systems used in the American Musical Theater Initiative. The Foundation has generously cosponsored Lyric premieres of Oklahoma! (2012/13), The Sound of Music (2013/14), Carousel (2014/15), The King and I (2015/16), and this season’s My Fair Lady.

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STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESON ANN and GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding support of the Ann and Gordon Getty Neeson are actively involved with organizations in Foundation. The Foundation has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign, Chicago, New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. providing essential general operating support to foster Lyric’s achievements. Gordon Neeson have supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera Getty served on Lyric’s Board of Directors from 1988-2015. for more than 30 years. They have previously cosponsored the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert and BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILL named their seats through the Your Name Here program. Stefan and Gael have Brent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes previously cosponsored five mainstage operas, and are generously cosponsoring this in Chicago, and they have made a leadership gift to Lyr- season’s Lucia di Lammermoor. They also made a leadership gift to the Breaking ic’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. This season Brent New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its Board of and Katie are a Diamond Record Sponsor of the Chicago Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. Voices Gala Benefit Concert. Brent Gledhill is the Global Head of Investment Banking at William Blair & Com- EXELON pany, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain Lyric is honored to have him serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has and Audit Committee, and as Chairman of the Innovation Committee. generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community engagement WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN programs. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included The Mikado (2010/12), William and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric the Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Subscriber Appreciation Concert Opera productions for more than 50 years. They are (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), Rusalka (2013/14), Lyric’s second mariachi opera, generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), and The Marriage of Figaro(2015/16). cosponsored the Overture Society Luncheons for many This season, Exelon cosponsors Lyric’s production of years. In 1997, Bill and Ethel named seats for each other Carmen. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Exelon as in the Ardis Krainik Theatre as part of the Building on an outstanding corporate partner. Greatness Capital Campaign. The Gofens generously cosponsored Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto, based on the novel by Ann FORD FOUNDATION Patchett, and are supporting the opera’s appearance on PBS Great Performances. Lyric is honored to have the tremendous support of the Ford Foundation. For They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. nearly 80 years, the Foundation has worked with visionary leaders and organizations Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a member of the Board of Directors and worldwide to ensure that all people have the opportunity to reach their full potential, Lyric Unlimited Committee. contribute to society, have a voice in the decisions that affect them, and live and work in dignity. Lyric is deeply grateful for the Ford Foundation’s essential support KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL and JOHN H. for Lyric’s landmark Chicago Voices initiative during KREHBIEL, JR. the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons. Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship and support of Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel. A devoted JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION member of the Women’s Board, Karen has served on A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera) and a Lyric its Executive Committee as Vice President – Education, Opera Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius 2011 Opera Ball Chair and 2016 Board of Directors' Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she contributed great place to live and enjoy life. In past seasons, Julius Frankel a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of stage sponsored Lyric productions of Andrea Chénier (1979) and renovations. The Krehbiel family plays a prominent role in the continued success of Lohengrin (1980) in memory of Betty Frankel. The Julius Frankel the company; this season, Karen and John join the production sponsor family with Julius Frankel Foundation has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance their generous support of Carmen. and longtime dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have HOWARD GOTTLIEB and BARBARA GREIS benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general operating support Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and patrons, and production sponsorships. The Julius Frankel Foundation has generously Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis have generously sponsored/cosponsored many celebrated new productions at Lyric, including supported Lyric Opera through major contributions to Die Fledermaus (1989/90), Xerxes (1995/96), Carmen (1999/00) in memory of the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Campaign Ardis Krainik, Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci (2002/03), Il Trovatore (2006/07), for Excellence, Breaking New Ground Campaign, and La Traviata (2013/14) in honor of the late Nelson D. Cornelius. Lyric has and Annual Campaign. They have cosponsored many named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius Frankel in grateful recognition of the productions, most recently Otello (2013/14), Il Trovatore Foundation’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. (2014/15), The Merry Widow (2015/16), and this season’s Don Quichotte. Mr. Gottlieb and Ms. Greis are also the exclusive sponsors of this season’s Itzhak Perlman ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUST in Recital. Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman of the Glenwood Investment One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse Corporation and an accomplished violinist. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer active member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees With an unparalleled record as sponsor of more than 26 Lyric new productions Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander seek to enrich the since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a Elizabeth Morse Genius quality of life in Chicago, especially for youth and elderly citizens. cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Fisher Foundation has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the four Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive Opera House chimes and music operas that make up Wagner’s Ring cycle, starting with this season’s Das Rheingold library in honor of the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. Along with its and concluding with the complete cycle in 2019/20. Lyric is sincerely grateful for sister trust, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has sponsored the enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter and other members of many mainstage productions and will be one of the cosponsors of this season’s the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Matthew Fisher serve on its Board of company premiere of Les Troyens. In addition to production sponsorship, the Trust Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the Women’s Board. has helped underwrite Lyric’s ongoing efforts to diversify its various boards, and preserve Lyric’s history through support of its Archives project.

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MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS J. THOMAS HURVIS Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and Tom Hurvis is an avid opera fan and longtime Lyric subscriber. tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. As part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom and his Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 22 beloved late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in Lyric productions since 1987/88, including last season’s support of Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education Der Rosenkavalier and this season’s Das Rheingold. and community engagement activities. In an effort to help keep Through yearly challenge grants, they also help generate Chicago a haven for the cultural arts, Tom Hurvis sponsors the important momentum for Operathon, Lyric’s annual Renée Fleming Initiative, and Ms. Fleming’s role as a creative fundraising broadcast heard live on 98.7WFMT. They made a leadership gift to the consultant. Tom has also made a generous leadership gift in support of Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of Lyric’s future. Dietrich Gross is an Chicago Voices initiative during the 2016/17 season. Lyric gratefully acknowledges esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of contributions to the Annual Campaign, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by including support for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. The Hurvises previously awarding him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. sponsored four mainstage productions, including last season’s The Merry Widow starring Renée Fleming. This season, Tom Hurvis is providing leadership support JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND for many aspects of the Chicago Voices initiative. Lyric is honored to have John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric Tom Hurvis serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Innovation for many years until his death in 2001. With support from his Committee, and Lyric Unlimited Committee. Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues ITW through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. The Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining Halligan Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company John R. Halligan and civic organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign, the sense of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our Breaking New Ground Campaign, the Building on Greatness appreciation of nature. The fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Capital Campaign, the Great Opera Fund, 60th Anniversary Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. Concert and Diamond Ball, and Wine Auction, and since 2002, Halligan resided during his lifetime. Scott Santi it has cosponsored the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has cosponsored The Pearl Fishers (1997/98 and THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION 2008/09), The Barber of Seville (2000/01), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), Hansel and The Harris Family Foundation, represented Gretel (2012/13), and Tosca (2014/15), and generously cosponsors this season’s by Pam and Joe Szokol and King and production of Carmen and the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit Concert. Lyric is proud Caryn Harris, is a valued member of Lyric’s to have Chairman and CEO Scott Santi on its Board of Directors and Executive production sponsorship family, most recently Committee, along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs cosponsoring Tosca (2014/15), Nabucco W. James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late David Speer. (2015/16), and this season’s Carmen. The Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris Harris Family Foundation also supports the EDGAR D. JANNOTTA Annual Campaign, and made a generous Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding of support from commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Ned Jannotta and his beloved late wife Debby. A lifelong opera Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of the Foundation Pam Szokol as a member lover, Ned has been an integral part of the Lyric Opera family, of its Board of Directors and serving on its Production Sponsorship Committee. joining the Board of Directors in 1987, serving as President and Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is CEO of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving an active member of the revered Women’s Board and has held many leadership as Co-Chairman Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received positions, most recently as Opera Ball Chair in 2012, and last season as Co-Chair leadership gifts from the Jannottas for the Building on Greatness of Opening Night/Opera Ball. Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign to create the Ryan Opera Center Music Director Endowed Chair, in WALTER E. HELLER FOUNDATION addition to their generous gifts to the Annual Campaign. Alyce H. DeCosta was a dedicated philanthropist who loved Chicago and helped nurture cultural life in the city through JENNER & BLOCK her generous support for the arts and higher education. Mrs. Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with DeCosta was a leading member of the Lyric family, having served global impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal as a National Director of Lyric’s Board. For many years, she was issues. The firm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s president of the Walter E. Heller Foundation, a philanthropic legal and business communities, and is consistently ranked as Alyce H. DeCosta foundation named after her late husband, the founder and one of the top firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided past Chairman of Walter E. Heller Co. The Walter E. Heller significant pro bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous Foundation has generously funded many Lyric productions, most recently Madama Craig C. Martin contributions to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, the Butterfly (2013/14). The Walter E. Heller Foundation cosponsored Lyric’s world Annual Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, Fantasy of the premiere of Bel Canto, and is proudly underwriting its appearance on PBS Great Opera, Opera Ball, the Spring Musical Celebration, and Wine Auction. Lyric is Performances. This season, the Foundation cosponsors Don Quichotte. fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair of Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department, as a valued member of its Board of Directors, Nominating, and Executive Committees.

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the vital corporate leadership and support of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Along with the bank’s predecessors The First National Bank of Chicago and Bank One, JPMorgan Chase has generously contributed to the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Lyric Unlimited, Facilities Fund, the Great Opera Fund, and Wine Auction. The bank has also cosponsored many mainstage productions, including last season’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro.

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THE RICHARD P. AND SUSAN KIPHART JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK FAMILY Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot Susie is an esteemed member of the Lyric Opera family. Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. She is immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center They have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and Board, Chair of the Ryan Opera Center Nominating made significant gifts to the Campaign for Excellence and committee, and serves on the Lyric Unlimited the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have also Committee. Along with her beloved late husband Dick cosponsored several mainstage productions, including Kiphart, Susie is a passionate philanthropist. Dick and last year’s Cinderella and this season’s Eugene Onegin. The Susie generously cosponsored several Lyric productions, CEO of LSV Asset Management, Josef Lakonishok is a most recently The Passenger (2014/15). In honor of Lyric’s Golden Jubilee dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive, Finance, (2004/05), they made a significant gift to Lyric to establish the Richard P. and and Investment Committees. Susan Kiphart Costume Director Endowed Chair. They have made leadership contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Dick served as chairman, JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They also continue to provide major The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, support for Lyric’s radio programming as members of the broadcast consortium effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric will forever be peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress grateful for the visionary leadership of the late Dick Kiphart. He was a past President is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over- and CEO as well as Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing Nominating/Governance Committee, and a member of the Executive, Finance financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, and Production Sponsorship Committees. The Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera the Foundation supports arts and culture organizations in Chicago and the region as and heartfelt commitment to Lyric are tremendous assets to the company, and in an expression of its civic commitment to where the Foundation has its headquarters recognition of their passion and immense dedication they received the Carol Fox and where John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur made Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2013. their home. Grants are designed to sustain the cultural life of the city and region. Lyric Opera is very grateful KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation. Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of providing exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around the world MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC restructuring, and counseling matters. The firm is committed Corporation, is a fervent fan of opera and music, and Lyric to enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, is delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, cultural awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. and generous supporter. The Malott Family Foundation made Linda K. Myers For many years, Kirkland & Ellis LLP sponsored Lyric Opera’s a leadership commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Board of Directors Annual Meeting. More recently, Kirkland Campaign, and the Malott Room was named in his family’s honor & Ellis LLP cosponsored Boris Godunov (2011/12), A Streetcar Named Desire Robert H. Malott in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness Capital (2012/13), and The Merry Widow(2015/16), and was Lead Sponsor of Lyric’s 60th Campaign. He also plays a leadership role as a Life Director of Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Linda K. Lyric’s Board of Directors. In recognition of the Malott Family's commitment to Myers, a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member of its Board of Directors, the Breaking New Ground Campagin, Box 18 is named in perpetuity in honor of Executive and Production Sponsorship Committees. This season, Kirkland & Ellis Robert H. Malott for his extraordinary generosity and steadfast dedication to Lyric LLP is the Lead Corporate sponsor of Opera of Chicago through the Malott Family Foundation. the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit. MAZZA FOUNDATION NANCY W. KNOWLES Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding Opera has always played an important role in the life of Nancy W. friendship and generosity of the Mazza Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s Foundation. Under the guidance of its musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas records to play,” she fondly recalls, “so classical music was always J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., in my home.” A devoted subscriber and patron, Nancy Knowles and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the is a prominent member of the Lyric family. She generously Mazza Foundation provided major invests her time, talents, and leadership abilities to advance support for the Student Matinees from Lyric as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and 1994 through 2004, helping Lyric Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas formerly as a Guild Board member. Chairman Emeritus of Knowles Electronics, J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind introduce the majesty and grandeur of a manufacturer of hearing-aid components, Nancy Knowles is president of The opera to thousands of young people Knowles Foundation. The Knowles Foundation is a leading contributor to Lyric’s each season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been part of the production Annual Campaign and has cosponsored several mainstage productions. As part of sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring Otello (2013/14), Il Trovatore the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Foundation provided an assisted (2014/15), and The Merry Widow(2015/16). This season, the Mazza Foundation listening system to enhance the operatic experience for hearing-impaired patrons. In generously cosponsors Carmen. recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric named the Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Mrs. Knowles has once again made a significant gift in support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to underwrite the Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances fund. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. Most recently, Ms. Knowles is generously underwriting the appearance of Lyric’s world premiere Bel Canto on PBS Great Performances.

MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding dedicated members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully acknowledges their generous contributions to Lyric’s Wine Auction, the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors.

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THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHIN Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American and CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Lyric Opera premieres; the centerpiece of the initiative was Lyric’s mainstage world Directors and serves on the Executive Commitee. premiere of Bolcom’s A Wedding. The Mellon Foundation provided essential The Muchins have staunchly supported the Annual matching funds which enabled Lyric to resume radio broadcasts in 2006. During Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Operathon, and the the 2012/13 season, the Mellon Foundation provided leadership funding to Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, which included the gifts to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s first Mariachi opera. and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous partnership with Lyric Elaine Muchin’s munificent friendship. Unlimited by providing outstanding support for Lyric’s world premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continued its unparalleled legacy by NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS cosponsoring last season’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel Canto. Most Serving the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America, recently, the Mellon Foundation has provided generous grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played leadership funding for Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative, a leading role in the advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of playing a vital role in bringing together Chicago’s diverse the operatic repertoire. Through production and program funding as well as a communities and vocal traditions in celebration of the major challenge grant, awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class human voice. artistic achievements. The Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great American Voices, and Toward the THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) 21st Century. The NEA has provided vital support for numerous Lyric Opera Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman premieres, new productions, and revivals, most recently A Streetcar Named Desire of trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship (2012/13), Rusalka (2013/14), Porgy and of Rusalka in 2013/14 and cosponsored Anna Bolena (2014/15) and Wozzeck Bess (2014/15), and Bel Canto (2015/16). (2015/16). The Monument Trust is a This season, the National Endowment for passionate supporter of the arts in the the Arts is supporting Lyric’s company U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors The Magic premiere of Les Troyens. Flute this season. THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of the performing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers and of Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. patrons who take an active role in nurturing Lyric’s The Negaunee Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently Don success. Susan Morrison is a leading member of Giovanni and Carousel (both 2014/15), The Marriage of Figaro and The King and I the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob (both 2015/16), and cosponsors Lyric’s productions of The Magic Fluteand My Fair Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Directors. Lady this season. The Negaunee Foundation has also made a generous gift to the The Morrisons have generously supported the Opera Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Annual Campaign cultural institutions benefitting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and for many years. They provided a substantial gift to the financial commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s Campaign for Excellence and Breaking New Ground president serve as a member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. Campaign, and have cosponsored each installment of Lyric’s American Music Theatre Initiative, including My Fair Lady this season. SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera subscribers THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST and donors for many years. They sponsored the Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of Symposiums for Lyric productions of Hercules (2010/11) The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable and Show Boat (2011/12), and have cosponsored several leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, mainstage opera productions, including this season’s N.A. and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in production of Lucia di Lammermoor. They made a memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse to help secure Lyric’s future. Sylvia is Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust supports non-profit organizations that reflect School. She is founder and chair of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the values of thrift, humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self- Law at Brandeis and is co-editor of its book series (Brandeis University Press). Dan sacrifice, such as Lyric Opera, where the Trust will support this season’s company is President, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Compass Lexecon consulting firm. premiere of Les Troyens. After providing cosponsorship support of The Cunning He is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business Emeritus at the Little Vixen (2004/05) in honor of Lyric’s Golden Jubilee, The Elizabeth Morse University of Chicago Law School. Lyric is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on Charitable Trust raised challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06), its Board of Directors, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. and continued on to cosponsor many more productions, along with its sister trust, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. From 2000-2008, the Morse Trust THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION provided leadership support of the Stars of Lyric Opera concerts at Grant Park and During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg Millennium Park. were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and subscribed for more than 30 years. They were especially supportive of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center and loved to watch these young artists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift.

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NIB FOUNDATION NUVEEN INVESTMENTS Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia Nuveen Investments, represented by Lyric Board member John P. and the late William Florian established the NIB Foundation to Amboian, has been an enthusiastic supporter of Lyric Opera for extend their support to many worthwhile arts and environmental over three decades. Dedicated to developing the next generation of causes. Sonia is a devoted member of the Lyric family, having opera lovers, Nuveen Investments has most recently cosponsored subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. The NIB Lyric Unlimited’s family productions The Magic Victrola Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions, (2014/15) and The Family Barber (2013/14), has provided Sonia Florian most recently Tannhäuser (2014/15), Romeo and Juliet (2015/16), John P. Amboian general support for Lyric’s education and community engagement and this season’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor. The initiatives, and has underwritten NEXT student discount tickets. Foundation made a significant and deeply appreciated contribution to Lyric’s Nuveen Investments has also cosponsored endowment, establishing The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair, and several mainstage opera productions, Lyric’s the NIB Foundation made major contributions to the Campaign for Excellence Radio Broadcasts, and has recently committed and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their Campaign. valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive collections of its kind in MR. and MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHER the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Lyric Opera is sincerely grateful for the devotion of Opera Bistro located on the third floor of the David and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder and CEO Civic Opera House. Sonia is a vital member of of closerlook, inc., a Chicago-based digital marketing Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive Committee, agency serving the pharmaceutical industry since 1987. and Production Sponsorship Committee, and closerlook has given generously to Lyric Opera for many was awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Opera from 2009 to prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding 2014 and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park commitment to the company. concert for five consecutive years. Most recently, David and Sheila generously provided an Operathon Challenge Grant and supported the Opera Ball. Lyric JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLS is proud to have David T. Ormesher serving as its Chairman of the Board of Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, Directors, on the Executive Committee, and on seven sub-committees of the Board John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly of Directors. supported the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. This season MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN John and Alexandra are a Diamond Record Sponsor of Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit Concert. By providing Lyric Opera family. They have subscribed to Lyric major support to Lyric’s endowment, Mr. and Mrs. for two decades and enjoy participating in special Nichols established the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Music Director events such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Endowed Chair. Principal Dressing Room 110 is named in their honor due to Auction. The Osborns have generously contributed their very benevolent contribution to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign. to the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ significant Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, the leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking Breaking New Ground Campaign, and Wine Auctions. Cathy Osborn, a valued New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Grand member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Staircase. Retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Chairman and CEO of The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading member of Lyric’s Board National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Lyric is immensely grateful for the of Directors and Executive Committee. unwavering generosity of John and Alexandra Nichols. SEYMOUR H. PERSKY CHARITABLE TRUST NORTHERN TRUST The late Seymour H. Persky was an avid supporter of Lyric Lyric is honored to have Jana R. Schreuder, chief operating Opera since its inception in 1954. Seymour was introduced officer of Northern Trust, serve as a member of Lyric’s Board of to Lyric through his lifelong friend and Lyric’s beloved public Directors, Executive and Finance committees, and William A. relations director Danny Newman. In addition to his regular Osborn, Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as a annual support, Seymour made a special gift in support of member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Lyric Unlimited’s Klezmer commission The Propertyin 2015, A leading global financial services provider, Northern Trust has Seymour H. Persky combining his love of Klezmer music with his passion for Lyric. Jana R. Schreuder enjoyed a long-standing and significant relationship with Lyric. Among his favorite Lyric memories, according to his family, were Based in Chicago, the firm has played a major role supporting arriving to Lyric’s Opening Night celebrations in antique cars from his collection. the Annual Campaign, Facilities Fund, Great Opera Fund and Lyric Unlimited. Seymour’s favorite operas were Carmen, La bohème, and Tosca. His Charitable Trust Northern Trust also provides vital leadership contributions to Lyric as presenting fittingly cosponsors this season’s production of Carmen in his memory. sponsor of our wine auctions (2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018) and as cosponsor of the Opera Ball (annually since 1998.) In addition, Northern Trust POWERSHARES QQQ cosponsored Faust (2009/10), Oklahoma! PowerShares QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing (2012/13), The Sound of Music (2013/14), Director and Head of Global ETFs, PowerShares by Invesco, is The King and I (2015/16) and this season’s proud to sponsor the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric Opera. My Fair Lady. Last season, they cosponsored the productions of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet, and they are generously cosponsoring Lyric’s new production of The Magic Flute this season. PowerShares global network recognizes the value in helping investors around Dan Draper the world, but with headquarters in Downers Grove, we also support Lyric Opera’s deep engagement with the local community to foster a rich culture of arts right here in Chicago.

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PRITZKER FOUNDATION LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of A graduate of the University of Illinois and life-long arts philanthropist Lloyd E. arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric Rigler established the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation in 1977 in Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker memory of his partner to provide major support to arts organizations in Los Angeles Foundation’s generous support of the Breaking New and nationwide. In 1994, the late Mr. Rigler established the Classic Arts Showcase Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family in an effort to provide free arts programming to those who could not afford to attend Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect live performances. Mr. Rigler’s nephew James Rigler now serves as President of the Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric Opera is Foundation and continues the important legacy established by his late uncle. As honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and Lyric strives to expand its reach and relevance, it is grateful to the Rigler-Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Foundation for its support of the annual Operathon broadcast on 98.7WFMT. This season, the Rigler-Deutsch Foundation also generously cosponsors the Lyric’s company premiere of Les Troyens. PwC A world-wide leader in professional services, PATRICK G. RYAN and PwC is a prominent member of Lyric Opera of SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN Chicago’s Business Ensemble. PwC has staunchly Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication supported Lyric’s Annual Campaign for over three of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when decades, underwriting such special projects as they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have production sponsorship, the Board of Directors, shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources to John Oleniczak Vinay Couto Annual Meeting, and Lyric Signature Events. PwC advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, has provided a leadership gift to the Breaking New the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual Ground Campaign, having previously supported the Campaign for Excellence. Campaign, the Great Opera Fund, Wine Auctions Lyric is fortunate to receive generous in-kind consulting services from Strategy&, (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in 1988), and the Building on Greatness Capital part of the PwC network. Lyric Opera is proud to have several PwC representatives Campaign for which Lyric named the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family Rehearsal Center as members of the Lyric family: John Oleniczak, PwC’s Midwest Region Assurance located backstage to honor their major contribution. In recognition of his leadership Managing Partner, serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive, and Finance role in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of Committees, and as Chairman of the Audit Committee; Vinay Couto, Principal, the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Strategy&, part of the PwC network, serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Lyric Commentaries, underwriting this special project to honor the memory of their Unlimited Committee; Maggie Rock Adams, Director and Client Relationship parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, and supported Executive, is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Guild Board; and the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. This season they are a Diamond Tamara Conway, Director at Strategy&, part of the PwC network Record Sponsor of the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit Concert. In recognition of (formerly Booz & Company), is a committed member of the Ryan their extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric’s premier artist Opera Center Board. development program was renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Pat and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Ryan Opera Center. PROTIVITI Lyric is deeply grateful for their major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Protiviti, represented by Managing Director Tom Campaign in support of the Innovation Initiative. A Vice President and a member Andreesen and President and CEO Joe Tarantino, of the Executive, Nominating, and Innovation Committees of Lyric’s Board of is a global business consulting and internal audit Directors and a distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley firm composed of experts specializing in risk, Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2008 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious advisory and transaction services. They help solve honor, in recognition of her many years of devoted service to the opera company. problems in finance and transactions, operations, Joe Tarantino Tom Andreesen technology, litigation, governance, risk, and DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION compliance. Their highly trained, results-oriented Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to professionals provide a unique perspective on a wide range of critical business issues children, families and educational enrichment through for clients in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Protiviti the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of and its independently owned Member Firms serve clients through a network of Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities more than 70 locations in over 20 countries. The company’s more than 3,800 available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. professionals provide a host of consulting and internal audit solutions to over Each year, these widely accessible performances at the ® ® 60 percent of FORTUNE 1000 and 35 percent of FORTUNE Global 500 Jack and Catherine Scholl Civic Opera House reach audiences of junior high and companies. Protiviti is proud to provide in-kind high school students, many of whom are experiencing consulting services to Lyric Opera of Chicago opera for the first time. The Foundation has generously supported family this season. presentations of The Magic Victrola (2014/15) and The Family Barber (2013/14). Lyric Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. the Lyric family. Immediate past President of Lyric’s Women’s Board, Anne was recently elected to serve EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION on Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda Unlimited Committees; Chris is also a valued member Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the of the Board of Directors, and serves on its Nominating/ Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Governance and Finance Committees. Together they the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground have made important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage Campaign. The Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, most recently Carousel (2014/15) and this season’s My Fair Lady. productions, most recently The Passenger (2014/15) and this They have staunchly supported Wine Auctions 2009, 2012, and 2015, Lyric’s 60th Brenda Shapiro season’s presentation of Norma. Lyric is honored to have Brenda Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and are major supporters of the Annual Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as the Executive, Campaign. In addition, they provided significant and much appreciated gifts to Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Chris and Anne Reyes provided leadership support for Lyric Unlimited’s world premiere of Second Nature (2015/16), and Lyric deeply appreciates their leadership gift for this season’s new opera for youth, Jason and the Argonauts.

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SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION A leader in the international legal arena, the law firm of Sidley Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, Austin is a generous corporate contributor to arts and culture in and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys Chicago. Lyric deeply appreciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsorship encouraging talented young artists in her roles as a Ryan Opera of Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06), Center Distinguished Benefactor and Lead Sponsor of Rising Lulu (2008/09), Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), Rusalka Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on (2013/14), and The Passenger (2014/15). Additionally, Sidley 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people Larry A. Barden Austin has supported Operathon, Fantasy of the Opera, and the Donna Van Eekeren to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported Annual Campaign. This season, Sidley Austin LLP generously Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for cosponsors Lyric’s company premiere of Les Troyens. Lyric is proud to have Larry A. college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods, as well as Fantasy of the Opera Barden, chair of the firm's Management Committee and and as a Singer Sponsor for the Ryan Opera Center. This season, the Donna Van member of the firm's Executive Committee since 1999, Eekeren Foundation generously cosponsors the Lyric premiere of Les Troyens, on its Board of Directors and Compensation Committee. having previously cosponsored several mainstage productions. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to secure Lyric’s future. LIZ STIFFEL Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a longstanding Production Sponsorship Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board. member of the Guild Board of Directors. Liz Stiffel was the Lead Sponsor of the Renée Fleming Subscriber Appreciation Concert THE WALLACE FOUNDATION (2010/11), the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert The Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning (2013/14), and last season’s See Jane Sing, and she is generously and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for underwriting the appearance of Lyric’s world premiere Bel Canto everyone. Wallace has an unusual approach: funding projects to test innovative on PBS Great Performances. She has also supported Lyric’s Building on Greatness ideas for solving important social problems, conducting research to find out what Capital Campaign, and Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 1 in recognition of her works and what doesn’t and to fill key knowledge gaps – and then communicating significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. She has cosponsored the results to help others. Lyric Opera is the recipient of a multi-phase grant as several mainstage productions, most recently Carousel (2014/15), and this season’s part of the Foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative; the grant productions of Das Rheingold and My Fair Lady. Liz Stiffel has also committed a is funding research and analysis of Lyric Opera generous leadership gift in support of Lyric’s Chicago Voices Gala. audiences, and will reveal ways in which Lyric can maximize its reach in the community. Lyric’s work MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and will inform lessons that will be shared with the MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE broader field. Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generosity and leadership of the Vance Family. For more than 20 years, ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. WASHLOW Mrs. Herbert A. Vance provided Lead Sponsorship of Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished members of Opera in the Neighborhoods, one of Lyric’s most popular the Lyric family. For more than three decades, they have youth-enrichment programs. The Vances have generously enjoyed attending Lyric performances and special events, sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric premieres and new and have generously supported the Annual Campaign. productions, most recently Oklahoma! (2012/13), The Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, and Errant Families Sound of Music (2013/14), Carousel (2014/15), The King sponsored more than 20 Lyric productions. Roberta Carol and William Vance and I (2015/16), and this season’s My Fair Lady. For and Bob made a generous commitment to the Breaking many years, the Vances have supported young singers New Ground Campaign to support Lyric Unlimited activities. The Washlows through their sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members. In addition, have annually remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the Campaign for Excellence and the and generously cosponsor this season’s new production of The Magic Flute. Lyric is Breaking New Ground Campaign, and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming honored to have Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board and Lyric Unlimited Committee. of Directors, Compensation, and Executive Committees. He also serves on the Ryan Opera Center Board, of which he is a past President. Mr. Vance was awarded HELEN and SAM ZELL the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of his Helen and Sam Zell are passionate supporters of leadership, steadfast support, and many years of devoted service to Lyric Opera. Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. They are longtime subscribers to Lyric Opera and have contributed to the Annual Campaign for many years. They were essential in bringing new work to Lyric last season, underwriting the world premiere of Bel Canto. Helen and Sam Zell have previously cosponsored several new productions, most recently La Traviata (2013/14), The Passenger (2014/15), and Bel Canto (2015/16), and this season are generous cosponsors of Lyric’s new production of Das Rheingold.

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The Breaking New Ground Campaign was launched in January 2013 to implement the company’s blueprint for a world-class, twenty-first century opera company. This Campaign allows Lyric to continue to produce major productions of the highest caliber, update media, marketing, and audience development programs, and fortify Lyric’s endowment. The current focus of the Campaign is to modernize the stage of the Ardis Krainik Theatre with state-of-the-art equipment. To that extent, we have established a new Insull Society comprised of loyal patrons who are contributing $10,000 or more for this critically important stage project. To join the Insull Society, please call (312) 827-5675. Lyric Opera is grateful to the following donors who have made contributions of $5,000 and above to the Campaign as of January 16, 2017.

Anonymous Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Caerus Foundation, Inc. Nuveen Investments The Monument Trust (UK) OptumRx The Negaunee Foundation Sheila and David Ormesher John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation PwC Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan David Ramon*

Julie and Roger Baskes John and Ann Amboian Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Robert and Evelyn McCullen David and Orit Carpenter Allan and Elaine Muchin Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross* Northern Trust Nancy W. Knowles Susan and Robert E. Wood II Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Anonymous (2) Anonymous Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Abbott and Abbott Fund The Barker Welfare Foundation* The Crown Family Marion A. Cameron Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson* Ann and Reed Coleman* Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Nancy Dehmlow John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust The Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Elaine Frank* Julius Frankel Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Sue and Melvin Gray* The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George F. Johnson The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Stephen A. Kaplan and Alyce K. Sigler Josef and Margot Lakonishok Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Robert H. Malott Lavin Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Blythe Jaski McGarvie Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan J. Cellmer Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Edward B. Rouse and Barbara R. Rouse Anne Zenzer Rose L. Shure Trust Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas* Anonymous Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. Washlow Alice and John Butler* Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Jack and Peggy Crowe Maurice and Patricia Frank Anonymous ITW Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Edgar D. Jannotta Family Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family Foundation NIB Foundation Joyce Chelberg* Pritzker Foundation Estate of Nelson D. Cornelius Richard O. Ryan Vinay Couto and Lynn Vincent Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance* Ann M. Drake Lois Eisen Ada and Whitney Addington Lloyd Gerlach, in memory of Mary Ann Gerlach* James N. and Laurie V. Bay Virginia and Gary Gerst* Bulley & Andrews Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis Amy and Paul Carbone Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Considine Phillip and Norma Gordon* Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. HMR Designs Brent and Katie Gledhill Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr.* Ethel and William Gofen Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Jenner & Block Patricia Hyde Jim and Kay Mabie Susan M. Miller*

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Breaking New Ground - continued

Near North Chapter* Michal C. Wadsworth William C. and Nancy Richardson* Mrs. John H. Andersen* David and Linda Wesselink Candace and Gary Ridgway* Dr. Michael Angell* Collin and Lili Roche Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr.* Anonymous (2) Marsha Serlin E. M. Bakwin Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil* Helen Brach Foundation Robert M. Arensman Mary Stowell Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield* Jane B. and John C. Colman Anonymous Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman* Mitch Crask, Ph.D. Ken and Amy Aldridge* Howard E. Jessen Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta American Airlines Dr. Anne M. Juhasz* Drs. George and Sally Dunea Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Elizabeth A. Khalil* Daniel Groteke and Patricia Taplick Diane and Michael Beemer* Burt and Mary Ann Lewis* Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Ross and Patricia D. Bender* Maura Ann McBreen Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Sarah Miller* Carrie and Harry Hightman Erika E. Erich* Matt and Carrie Parr Capt. Bernardo Iorgulesco USMC Memorial Fund Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Karen and Tom Phillips* Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan James R. Grimes Ellie Radvanovsky* John and Mary Kohlmeier Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay The Rhoades Foundation* Richard and Susan Levy Carl J. Hildner* Norman Sackar* Lester and Mary Jane Marriner James and Mary Houston Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell* Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Claudia Saran Kate B. Morrison The King Family Foundation Alan Schriesheim* Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Reinhardt H. and Shirley R. Jahn Foundation* Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Allan and Meline Pickus Foundation Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Ellie Radvanovsky Kenneth R. Norgan Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher in honor of her daughter Sondra Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander* Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Schreiber Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Ilene Simmons Howard Solomon and Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Virginia Tobiason* Mrs. John Stanek David J. Varnerin* Richard and Marietta Toft* Ms. Carla M. Thorpe W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp* Gwenyth B. Warton Owen and Linda Youngman* U.S. Bank* Pam and David Waud Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Mrs. John A. Wing *Insull Society Member: Gifts of $10,000 or more allocated to the stage renovation. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to the many donors who have made gifts of less than $5,000 to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Space limitations prevent listing the names of these donors but their generosity is sincerely appreciated. Look To The Future – Endowed Chairs and Programs ENDOWED CHAIRS William E. and Mary Gannon Hay Puccini LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED FUNDS The Women’s Board General Director Endowed Endowed Chair Estate of Robert and Isabelle Bass Chair The Guild Board of Directors Verdi Endowed George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth In Loving Memory Of Ardis Krainik Chair Education Endowment Fund John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Music Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift From An Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Director Endowed Chair Anonymous Donor John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Concertmaster Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Endowed Chair Chair RYAN OPERA CENTER ENDOWED Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Director Chapters’ Endowed Chair For Education FUNDS Endowed Chair In Memory Of Alfred Glasser Anonymous Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting The Ryan Opera Center Board Opera Center Thomas Doran Designer Endowed Chair Director Endowed Chair Edgar D. Jannotta Family In Honor Of Duane Schuler Philip G. Lumpkin Jannotta Family Ryan Opera Center Music Robert Marks Robert and Ellen Marks American Opera Director Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Estate of Marjorie Mayhall Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Fund for Music Baroque Opera Endowed Chair – A Gift From Vocal Studies Program Endowed Chair An Anonymous Donor Lois B. Siegel In Honor Of Gianna Rolandi Joanne Silver Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Bel Canto Allan and Elaine Muchin Production and Opera Endowed Chair The Lois L. Ward Trust Technical Director Endowed Chair Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment W. James and Maxine P. Farrell French Opera Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair Fund Endowed Chair Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair In Memory Of Harold Beider The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED PROGRAM PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND Regenstein Foundation Mozart Endowed Chair Distinguished Conductor Award Nelson Cornelius Trust In Memory Of Ruth Regenstein Sarah and A. Watson Armour III James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Joanne Silver

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 53 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors – Special Events and Project Support

Lyric Opera 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 January 16, 2017. Annual Meeting Dinner 2016 Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Operathon Challenge Grants Strategy&, part of the PwC network Kenneth R. Norgan Amsted Industries Foundation The PrivateBank Sharon and Lee Oberlander Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Cherryl T. Thomas Sir Andrew Davis and Gianna Rolandi Audience Development Initiative Anthony Freud and Colin Ure The Wallace Foundation Costumes and Canapés Lyric Opera Chapters Albert and Rita Lacher Lyric Opera Overture Society Backstage Tours Mr. and Mrs. James McClung Amy and Paul Carbone Innovation Initiative Mr. and Mrs. Allen Muchin Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Dr. David Thurn Caerus Foundation, Inc. Itzhak Perlman in Recital Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis Operathon Merchandise Sponsor With Matching Funding by: Fellowes, Inc. The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family Lyric Signature Events The John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Foundation PwC Overture Society Luncheons The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family United Scrap Metal, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Cast Parties Official Airline Susan M. Miller Joyce and Ed Dlugopolski American Airlines Donald and Anne Edwards Planned Giving Seminars An Anonymous Women’s Board Member Opening Night Gala William Blair & Company Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Aon Morgan Stanley (2) Robert and Evelyn McCullen Laura and Ricardo Rosenkranz Opera Ball Projected English Titles Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss ITW Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Northern Trust Celebrating Plácido Concert Renée Fleming Initiative BMO Harris Bank Opera Ball Grand March Anonymous Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Chicago Voices Gala Benefit Concert The Crown Family Lead Sponsor: Opening Night Gala and Opera Ball Fund J. Thomas Hurvis Liz Stiffel Abbott The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family BMO Harris Bank John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Supporting Sponsor: closerlook, inc. Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan J. Thomas Hurvis Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buchbinder Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Season Preview Concert Lead Corporate Sponsor: Amy and Paul Carbone Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Kirkland & Ellis LLP Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Patricia Hyde Mr. and Mrs. Lester Crown Lake Geneva Chapter Diamond Record Sponsor: Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Foundation Lois and Steve Eisen Spring Musical Celebration The Crown Family Eisen Family Foundation Lead Sponsor: Brent and Katie Gledhill Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Zurich John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Exclusive Media Sponsor: ITW Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Make It Better Media Kohler Co. Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Premium Patrons: Platinum Record Sponsor: Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Bain & Company Rita & Herbert Z. Gold Charitable Trust Jenner & Block Greg and Mamie Case Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes Michael and Lindy Keiser The Chicago Group at Morgan Stanley Fifth Third Bank The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family First Midwest Bank Nancy W. Knowles Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and Gold Record Sponsor: Lenny Family Foundation John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Hal Coon Blythe Jaski McGarvie Gerald A. and Karen A. Kolschowsky Foundation, Inc. Eisen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Todd Mitchell Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff The Eloise Susanna Gale Foundation in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Murphy KPMG LLP Renée Fleming Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Prince Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Quarles & Brady LLP Matt and Carrie Parr J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Reed Smith LLP Carl and Marilynn Thoma Ropes & Gray LLP J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Robert L. Turner in honor of Renée Fleming Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Make It Better Media Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Meredith Bluhm-Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Additional Support Honorable Corinne Wood Skadden/Rodd Schreiber and Susan Hassan Marsha Cruzan and Tom McGinnis U.S. Bank/Marsha Cruzan Nancy S. Searle Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis Spencer Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Operathon Liz Stiffel Annie and Gregory K. Jones and Family Ardmore Associates UL LLC Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Walgreens Meredith and Patrick Wood Prince, Lavin Family Foundation 98.7WFMT Prince Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca

54 | February 26 - March 20, 2017 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited

Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of Lyric Unlimited programs. Listings include contributors of gifts of $5,000 and above received by January 16, 2017. With Major Support from Caerus Foundation, Inc. An Afternoon of Chamber Music NEXT Student Ticket Program The Wallace Foundation Additional Support: Leadership Funding: Anonymous (2) The Grainger Foundation Charlie Parker’s Yardbird Baxter International, Inc. Lead Sponsor: Helen Brach Foundation Additional Support: Lauter McDougal Family Foundation Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Cosponsors: Envestnet The Brinson Foundation Eisen Family Foundation Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Elaine Frank The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Joseph E. Glossberg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Patricia Hyde Eric and Deb Hirschfield Helyn D. Goldenberg Inamari Foundation Kenneth R. Norgan The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation – NiSource Morris & Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund Nuveen Investments Chicago Voices Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Satter Family Foundation Leadership Funding: The Barbara and Frank Lieber Family Donna Van Eekeren Foundation J. Thomas Hurvis Charitable Trust The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Molex Pre-Opera Talks Ford Foundation Morgan Stanley Raynette and Ned Boshell Northern Trust James and Michele Young Additional Support: Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Senior Matinee The Chicago Community Trust J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation Buehler Family Foundation City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund and Special Events Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Lannan Foundation Eisen Family Foundation Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Dr. Sondra C. Rabin The Retirement Research Foundation Chicago Voices Fest LONGER! LOUDER! WAGNER! Siragusa Family Foundation J. Thomas Hurvis The Second City Wagner Companion Bank of America The Wallace Foundation Student Backstage Tours Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund General Support Lyric Express Youth Opera Council Leadership Funding: Tawani Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Terry J. Medhurst Penelope and Robert Steiner With Major Support provided from the Stars of Lyric Opera Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances Fund at Millennium Park

Chicago Public Schools Bus Scholarship Opera Residencies in Schools Lead Sponsor: Anonymous Anonymous closerlook, inc. U.S. Bank Foundation Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. BNY Mellon Cosponsors: Jason and the Argonauts Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Anonymous Lead Sponsor: Polk Bros. Foundation Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Crain-Maling Foundation Performances for Students Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Baird Cosponsors: Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater Funds Bulley & Andrews Anonymous (2) Allan and Elaine Muchin Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/Judy Dover Foundation Lois B. Siegel Guitelman & ALAS Wings Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Sipi Metals Corp. General Mills Foundation Walter Family Foundation Music Performance Trust Fund and Film Funds John Hart and Carol Prins Wintrust Community Banks Dr. Scholl Foundation Additional Support: Segal Family Foundation Opera in the Neighborhoods Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Fox Hill Trust Anonymous Donna Van Eekeren Foundation

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 55 DON'T MISS THESE STAR-POWERED PERFORMANCES AT LYRIC!

FEATURING EUGENE KOHN conductor AILYN PÉREZ soprano MICHAEL SPYRES tenor THE LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA & CHORUS

Plácido Domingo is a legend unlike any other opera star, and Lyric Opera is celebrating his unparalleled talents with a performance highlighting his acclaimed artistry. The evening will include Act Two of Verdi's La Traviata and a selection of popular opera arias and duets from the Italian and French repertoire.

Thursday, March 9, 7:30pm Celebrating Plácido is generously made possible by Exclusive Sponsor Celebrating Plácido BMO Harris Bank.

FEATURING ROHAN DE SILVA pianist Program to include works by BRAHMS and PROKOFIEV

Itzhak Perlman’s Lyric Opera debut was a sensation — and he returns to Lyric for his only Chicago appearance of the season. You’ll be able to savor every stunning note as his Stradivarius sings, thanks to large-screen video enhancement of his performance.

Itzhak Perlman in Recital is generously made possible by Exclusive Sponsors Sunday, April 23, 3:00pm Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis. Itzhak Perlman in Recital lyricopera.org | 312.827.5600 56 | February 26 - March 20, 2017 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO DON'T MISS THESE The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Dan Novak Craig Terry Julia Faulkner Renée Fleming Faculty Director Music Director Director of Vocal Studies Advisor Julia Faulkner The Ryan Opera Center Jannotta Family The Elizabeth F. Cheney Gianna Rolandi Board Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Foundation W. Stephen Smith Voice Instruction STAR-POWERED Robert and Ellen Marks Vocal Studies Program Ensemble Endowed Chair PERFORMANCES AT LYRIC! in honor of Gianna Rolandi Harry Bicket Deborah Birnbaum Sir Andrew Davis Matthew A. Epstein Renée Fleming Christine Goerke Enrique Mazzola FEATURING Gerald Martin Moore EUGENE KOHN conductor Eric Owens Matthew Polenzani AILYN PÉREZ soprano Sondra Radvanovsky Okka von der Damerau MICHAEL SPYRES tenor Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-soprano Mezzo-soprano Guest Master Artists HLENGIWE DIANA ANN LINDSAY ANNIE THE LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA & CHORUS MKHWANAZI NEWMAN TOOMEY METZGER ROSEN Victor Asunción Alan Darling Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Irina Feoktistova Plácido Domingo is a legend unlike any other opera The Susan and Richard P. Susan Ipsen Richard O. Ryan an Anonymous Donor Friends of Laurann Gilley Kiphart Family Mrs. J. W. Richard W. Shepro Oliver Dragon Sharon Peterson star, and Lyric Opera is celebrating his unparalleled Drs. Funmi and Van Gorkom and Celeste Rue Sola Olopade Lindsay E. Roberts Eric Weimer talents with a performance highlighting his acclaimed Pedro Yanez artistry. The evening will include Act Two of Verdi's Coaching Staff Doris Laser La Traviata and a selection of popular opera arias and Derek Matson duets from the Italian and French repertoire. Marina Vecci Alessandra Visconti Melissa Wittmeier Thursday, March 9, 7:30pm Foreign Language Celebrating Plácido is generously made possible by Exclusive Sponsor Instruction BMO Harris Bank. Celebrating Plácido Dawn Arnold Katie Klein Elise Sandell Contralto Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Acting and Movement LAUREN ALEC JESSE JONATHAN MINGJIE Instruction DECKER CARLSON DONNER JOHNSON LEI Orit Carpenter Performance Psychology FEATURING Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by ROHAN DE SILVA pianist an Anonymous Donor Stepan Company Robert C. Marks Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. and Roger Pines Thierer Family Susan M. Miller William C. Vance Patricia Frank Guest Lecturer and Program to include works by Foundation Consultant BRAHMS and PROKOFIEV Artistic/Production Personnel Kelly Kuo Timothy Myers Itzhak Perlman’s Lyric Opera debut was a sensation — Conductors and he returns to Lyric for his only Chicago appearance Elise Sandell Director of the season. You’ll be able to savor every stunning Sarah Hatten note as his Stradivarius sings, thanks to large-screen Wigs and Makeup video enhancement of his performance. Peggy Stenger Bill Walters Stage Managers Itzhak Perlman in Recital is generously made possible by Exclusive Sponsors Baritone Baritone Bass-baritone Bass Pianist EMMETT TAKAOKI BRADLEY PATRICK MARIO ANTONIO Theresa Ham Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis. O’HANLON ONISHI SMOAK GUETTI MARRA Lucy Lindquist Sunday, April 23, 3:00pm Maureen Reilly Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Wardrobe Itzhak Perlman in Recital Lois B. Siegel Renée Fleming The Elizabeth F. The C. G. Pinnell Heidi Heutel Bohn Administration Drs. Joan and Russ Foundation Cheney Foundation Family Lawrence O. Corry Jimmy Byrne Zajtchuk International Philip G. Lumpkin Manager Foundation for Arts Laura Stellwagon and Culture Administrative Coordinator Wendy Skoczen lyricopera.org | 312.827.5600 Staff Librarian February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 57 Alumni Perform Around the World in 2016/17

DAVID CANGELOSI, tenor The Dallas Opera CHRISTIAN VAN HORN, Moby Dick bass-baritone The Santa Fe Opera QUINN KELSEY, Lucia di Lammermoor baritone Royal Opera House (London) Il trovatore J’NAI BRIDGES, mezzo-soprano Vancouver Opera ANDRIANA CHUCHMAN, Dead Man Walking soprano Houston Grand Opera Nixon in China AMBER WAGNER, soprano MEREDITH ARWADY, The Metropolitan Opera contralto The Flying Dutchman Washington National Opera Champion JAMES KRYSHAK, tenor RENÉ BARBERA, Deutsche Oper Berlin tenor Edward II (world premiere) Opera Theatre of Saint Louis La clemenza di Tito

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. That standing is maintained by providing the finest emerging singers with high-level training and performance experience which prepares them for major international careers. To make a gift in support of the Ryan Opera Center’s efforts, or for more information, please visit lyricopera.org/ ryanoperacenter, or call Meaghan Stainback at 312.827.5691.

58 | February 26 - March 20, 2017 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions in support of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by January 16, 2017. TODD ROSENBERG Artist Support, Special Events, WFMT Recital Series Julie and Roger Baskes and Project Sponsors Workshop Performances Duds for Divas Martha A. Hesse Heidi Heutel Bohn Lawrence O. Corry General Support Anne Gross Aria Society Final Auditions ($100,000 and above) The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan The Cozad Family Platinum Distinguished Benefactors ($50,000 to $99,999) Foreign Language Instruction Anonymous Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Lauter McDougal Family Foundation Charitable Giving Fund Erma S. Medgyesy Distinguished Benefactors ($25,000 to $49,999) Jonathan Johnson (left) as Rodriguez and Guest Master Artist The Susan and Richard P. Kiphart Family Alec Carlson as Juan in this season’s production of Ingrid Peters The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Don Quichotte. Ensemble Friends Launchpad ($10,000 to $24,999) Marcus Boggs Paul and Robert Barker Foundation C. Bekerman, M.D. Master Classes Rising Stars in Concert Hal Coon April 1, 2017 Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Nancy Dehmlow Martha A. Hesse Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Lead Sponsor: Erika E. Erich Donna Van Eekeren Foundation National Auditions Michael and Sally Feder American Airlines Sponsors: Sue and Melvin Gray Dentons US LLP Mary Pat G. Hay No Tenors Allowed Celebration Ann M. Drake Miriam U. Hoover Don and Abby Funk Lead Individual Sponsor: Illinois Arts Council Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Sue and Melvin Gray Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial Fund Howard Family Foundation Julian Family Foundation Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O’Leary Lead Corporate Sponsor: Stephen A. Kaplan Mayer Brown Lazard Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Lauter McDougal Family Foundation Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Anonymous (3) Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Family Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes Phyllis Neiman Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Michael and Sally Feder Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud OptumRx Julian Family Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation Philip G. Lumpkin Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Rising Stars in Concert Broadcast Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Phyllis Neiman Dan and Patty Walsh Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Rising Stars in Concert Reception Walter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Dr. Scholl Foundation Dr. David H. Whitney and Dr. Juliana Chyu Thierer Family Foundation Debbie K. Wright Debbie K. Wright Artist Circle Renée Fleming Master Class ($5,000 to $9,999) James and Mary Houston Julian Family Foundation Anonymous (3) Kip Kelley Lester S. Abelson Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc. Training Program L. Robert Artoe Lyric Young Professionals National Endowment for the Arts Jennifer Bellini Margo and Michael Oberman and Family Peter and Kelley Conway Genevieve Phelps Voice Instruction Tamara Conway Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Anonymous Anne Megan Davis Mrs. M. James Termondt The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Thomas Doran Marilee and Richard Wehman Mary Ellen Hennessy Fred L. Drucker and Harriet Weinstein Jennifer L. Stone Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Harvey S. and Sheila Dulin

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Overture Society

The Overture Society consists of those esteemed supporters who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts, or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric Opera in the future. These generous gifts ensure Lyric Opera’s artistic progress well into the twenty-first century for the benefit of future Lyric audiences. Lyric Opera is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society: Bel Canto Benefactors These Overture Society members have made a major planned gift to Lyric Opera as well as a generous annual gift. For information about the Bel Canto Benefactors, please call Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Senior Director of Planned Giving, at (312) 827-5677. Anonymous (15) Paula Hannaway Crown Josephine E. Heindel Susan M. Miller Lois B. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Renée Crown Concordia Hoffmann David and Justine K. Mintzer Ilene Simmons Louise Abrahams Thomas Doran Edgar D. Jannotta James and Mary Beth Morehouse Larry G. Simpson Dr. Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson Ronald B. Johnson Allan and Elaine Muchin Craig Sirles Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. John and Kerma Karoly Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy Mrs. Jay Spaulding Ross C. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng Kip Kelley David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Karen G. Andreae Robert F. Finke James C. Kemmerer John H. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Catherine Aranyi Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone LeRoy and Laura Klemt John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Mary Stowell L. Robert Artoe Roy Fisher Nancy W. Knowles Joan L. Pantsios Carla M. Thorpe Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Elaine Frank Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Irma Parker Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Marlys A. Beider Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Dr. W. Peter Hansen André and Julia Pernet Virginia Tobiason Julie Anne Benson Rhoda and Henry S. Frank Dr. William R. Lawrence Frances Pietch Phil and Paula Turner Merrill and Judy Blau Richard J. Franke Thomas and Lise Lawson Kenneth Porrello and Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason Ann Blickensderfer George and Mary Ann Gardner Carol L. Linne Sherry McFall Joan and Marco Weiss Dr. Gregory L. Boshart James K. Genden and Philip G. Lumpkin Nathaniel W. Pusey Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Danolda (Dea) Brennan Alma Koppedraijer Daniel T. Manoogian Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Claudia L. Winkler George F. and Linda L. Brusky Sue and Melvin Gray Robert C. Marks Lyn and Bill Redfield Florence Winters Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Budzik Harry J. Griffiths, M.D. Paul Mavros Joan L. Richards Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Christopher Carlo and Julian W. Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Chatka Ruggiero Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Robert Chaney William E. and Mary Gannon Hay Nancy Lauter McDougal Mary T. Schafer Edward T. Zasadil David W. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Bill Melamed Martha P. Schneider Anne Zenzer James W. Chamberlain Mrs. John C. Hedley Margaret and Craig Milkint Charles Chris Shaw Society Members Anonymous (44) B. A. Coussement Andrew Hatchell Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Gerald L. Ritholz Valerie and Joseph Abel Morton and Una Creditor William P. Hauworth Mrs. John Jay Markham Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Carol A. Abrioux Kathryn M. Cunningham Dr. and Mrs. David J. Hayden James Massie and Mary Raffetto-Robins Judy Allen Barbara L. Dean Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Dr. Christine Winter Massie Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Donald A. Deutsch Ronald G. Hedberg Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak in memory of Robert Kyts Elizabeth M. Ashton Phyllis Diamond Mary Mako Helbert James G. and Laura G. McCormick Mrs. Beth Wheeler Rome Richard N. Bailey Roger Dickinson Martha A. Hesse Gia and Paul McDermott James and Janet Rosenbaum David G. Baker Ms. Janet E. Diehl Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder William F. McHugh Dr. John Gregory Russo Susann Ball Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Mrs. Marion Hoffman Florence D. McMillan Joseph C. Russo Constance and Liduina Barbantini Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Dobroski James and Mary Lunz Houston Leoni Zverow McVey and Dennis Ryan Margaret Basch Ms. Barbara J. Doerner H. Eileen Howard J. William McVey Louise M. Ryssmann Mrs. Bill Beaton Thomas M. Dolan Joseph H. Huebner Martina M. Mead Eugene Rzym, in memory of Alvin R. Beatty Mary Louise Duhamel Kenneth N. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Adaline Rzym Lynn Bennett Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. Michael Huskey Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed David Sachs Joan I. Berger Kathy Dunn Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Mesrobian Mrs. Philip H. Schaff, Jr. Barbara Bermudez Richard L. Eastline Memorial Fund Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Douglas M. Schmidt Patrick J. Bitterman Carol A. Eastman Barbara A. Joabson Ms. Barbara Terman Michaels Franklin R. Schmidt M. J. Black Lowell and Judy Eckberg John Arthur Johnson Marilyn E. Miller Lois K. Schmidt Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Lucy A. Elam, in memory of Laurence P. Johnson Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Donald Seibert Ned and Raynette Boshell Elizabeth Elam Nancy E. Johnson BettyAnn Mocek and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw David Boyce Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman Roy A. Johnson Adam R. Walker Mette and David Shayne Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Cherelynn A. Elliott Ms. Barbara Mair Jones Robert and Lois Moeller David A. Sherman Robert and Phyllis Brauer Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Janet Jones Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Jared Shlaes Mrs. William A. Briggs Joseph R. Ender Moreen C. Jordan Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Dr. Alfred L. and Mildred Siegel Candace Balfour Broecker and the Dr. James A. Eng Dr. Anne Juhasz Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Munoz Joanne Silver Estate of Howard W. Broecker Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Engel Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nickels Andrew Barry Simmons and Leona and Daniel Bronstein Martha L. Faulhaber Stuart Kane Edward A. Nieminen Mitchell Loewenthal-Grassini Kathryn Y. Brown Nadine Ferguson Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Florence C. Norstrom Dr. Ira Singer Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown Felicia Finkelman Kenneth Kelling Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Norman and Mirella Smith Jacqueline Brumlik Kenneth Fiske Paul R. Keske Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Joan M. Solbeck Donna Brunsma Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Chuck and Kathy Killman Stephen S. Orphanos Mary Soleiman Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Barbara Gail Franch Diana Hunt King Jonathan Orser Elaine Soter Steven and Helen Buchanan James Victor Franch Neil King Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Ms. Geraldine A. Spatz Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger and Ms. Susan Frankel Esther G. Klatz George R. Paterson Philip and Sylvia Spertus Mr. William Burger Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. R. William Klein, Jr. Dr. Joan E. Patterson James A. Staples Muriel A. Burnet Allen J. Frantzen J. Peter Kline George Pepper, M.D. Sherie B. Stein Lisa Bury Dr. Paul Froeschl Helen Kohr Elizabeth Anne Peters K. M. Stelletello Robert J. Callahan Marie and Gregory Fugiel Dr. Bruce Korth Susanne P. Petersson J. Allyson Stern Patrick V. Casali Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Lady Witton Shirley Krsinich Genevieve M. Phelps Carol A. Stitzer Esther Charbit Susan Boatman Garland Mary S. Kurz Karen and Dick Pigott Norene W. Stucka Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Scott P. George Larry Lapidus Ms. Lois Polakoff Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Ramona Choos Mr. Lyle Gillman Barbara K. Larsen Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Emily J. Su J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo John F. Gilmore Ernest L. Lester Mrs. Edward S. Price Peggy Sullivan Heinke K. Clark John A. Goldstein Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Levy Roberta Lyn Anderson Rains Sherwin A. Swartz Robert and Margery Coen Dr. J. Brian Greis Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Robert L. Rappel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Conroy James R. Grimes Carole F. Liebson Sherrie Kahn Reddick Cheryl L. Thaxton Sharon Conway Patricia Grogan Doris C. Lorz Keith A. Reed and Lauritz K. Thomsen Sarah J. Cooney Carolyn Hallman Eva Lutovsky Beth Kesterson Reed Karen Hletko Tiersky Dr. W. Gene Corley Family Carl J. Halperin Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Michael and Susan “Holly” Reiter Myron Tiersky Joseph E. Corrigan Capt. Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Jeanne Randall Malkin Evelyn R. Richer Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Ms. Geraldine Haracz Ann Chassin Mallow Jennie M. Righeimer Jean M. Turnmire

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Paul and Judith Tuszynski Darcy Lynn Walker Karl N. Wechter Joanna L. Weiss Nora Winsberg Ultmann Family Charitable Gary T. Walther Patricia M. Wees James M. Wells David G. Winter Remainder Unitrust Albert Wang Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Brien and Cathy Wloch Marlene A. Van Skike Louella Krueger Ward Claude M. Weil Sandra Wenner Mrs. William Wunder Raita Vilnins Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Eric Weimer and Edwin Hanlon Caroline C. Wheeler Dr. Debra L. Zahay Dr. Malcolm Vye Endowment Fund Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Daniel R. Zillmann Audrey A. Zywicki Estate Gifts The following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric Opera. Due to space limitations, listings include all bequests received from July 1, 2011 to the present. With deepest regards, Lyric Opera commemorates those departed friends who have honored us with this most profound commitment. Anonymous (2) Bettie B. Dwinell Amyl W. Johnson, Jr. John and Maynette Neundorf Dr. Joseph Semrow Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Kelli Gardner Emery Diana T. Jones Mrs. Oliver Nickels Michael N. Shallow Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson Armour III William J. Evans Joseph M. Kacena Joan Ruck Nopola Sidney N. Shure and Rose L. Shure James Ascareggi Regina C. Fain Sherry Kelley Rex N. Olsen Joan M. Skepnek Elsa E. Bandi Darlene Fiske Mrs. Israel Kirsh Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Philip and David Slesur Family Trust Vincent Barresi Lynette Flowers Russell V. Kohr Mary G. Oppenheim Marilyn J. Snoble Velma Berry Robert B. Fordham Anne C. Lacovic Venrice R. Palmer Jay Spaulding Rev. Dr. Warren Best Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Marjorie Lanterman Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Clarke and Adine Stayman Trusts Edward F. Blettner Marital Trust In memory of Carl and Fern Sarrah Lapinsky Fund for Music James L. Stein Joanell C. Breen Gaensslen Walter and Millicent Leibfritz Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Howard A. Stotler Elizabeth Capilupo Dr. Martin L. Gecht and Francey Dr. Arthur G. Lipman Ira J. Peskind Gerald Sunko, M.D. Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Gecht Rosalie Loeding Helen Petersen Joseph Tiritilli Trust Carlyn E. Goettsch Arthur B. Logan Sidney L. Port Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Robert P. Cooke Shirley and Benjamin Gould Mary Longbrake Jack and Eleanor Portis Annuity Trust Nelson D. Cornelius Endowment Fund Eva Lutovsky Lyn Redfield Dr. John E. Ultmann Marianne Deson-Herstein, Allen Greenberger Marjorie A. Mayhall George T. Rhodes Dr. Paul D. Urnes in memory of Samuel and Lester and Betty Guttman Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Howard M. Robins John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Sarah Deson Elaine H. Hansen Alfred L. McDougal Harry A. Root Trust Jane Warner Dick, in honor of Kenneth L. Harder Trust Renate Moser H. Cary Ross Sheila von Wiese-Mack Edison Dick John C. Hedley Doris A. Murdoch Margaret R. Sagers Lydia Walkowiak Christopher D. Doemel Margot S. Hertz Dr. Robert and Brigitte Nehaus Thomas W. Scheuer James M. Wells Josephine S. Dryer James and Gail Hickey Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg S. Leder (Lee) Schiff Paul and Virginia Wilcox Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque Dagmar Hurbanek Foundation Roy Schmaltz Mrs. Ray Duncan Deborah Jannotta Dawn Clark Netsch Edwin J. and Margaret W. Seeboeck 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: William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt Dr. Robert J. Strzyz Paula Getman Robert G. Bartle from Sheila Ann Hegy from Dr. Bernadette Strzyz from Concierge Unlimited International from Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Ardis Krainik Stephen A. Thau William and Ethel Gofen John R. Blair from Mead and Anne Montgomery from Janet D. Thau from Phil and Sylvia Spertus from Barbara Blair Richard P. Kiphart Sheila Von Wiese Caryn Harris Flora Boemi from Steven Ashbury from Debra and Edward Platz from the Comer Family Foundation from her many friends and family Leslie Mastroianni Nancy Wald Mary Pat Hay Sandra Box Lisbeth Stiffel from an Anonymous Donor from Douglas R. Hoffman from Barbara Box Dr. Bruce A. Korth Ruth and Irving Waldshine Edgar D. Jannotta Martha A. Boyce from Karin Korth from Marcia Purze and Deane Ellis from Sandra L. Grung from David E. Boyce Millicent Leibfritz Dale E. Wooley Caroline Huebner from Kim and Steve Theiss Edwin Conger from Linda Kutt from Regina Janes from an Anonymous Donor Richard P. and Susan Kiphart John A. Leer, Jr. M.D. Nikolay Zhizhin from Don and Abby Funk James W. Cozad from Mary Anne Leer from Larisa Zhizhin from Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. James Margot and Josef Lakonishok Armida Melino Melone from Liz and Arsen H. Manugian Laurence Davis from Bernadette McCarthy In Honor Of: from R. Charles Rudesill Jeanne Randall Malkin Hugo Melvoin Julie and Roger Baskes from Lynn Barr Lois Dunn from Lois Melvoin from Jerry and Kathy Biederman from Kathy Dunn Sue Niemi Virginia Byrne Mooney Peter Wender from Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Blatt Hon. Richard J. Elrod from Kathleen Vondran David Q. Bell from Marilyn Elrod Susan Noyes Naomi M. Nash and Lawrence Nash from Mary A. Bell from Ronald and Julie Allen Mary Ann Gerlach from Lawrence T. Nash, M.D. Mary A. Bell from Lloyd Gerlach Martha C. Nussbaum Dr. Antonio E. Navarrete from David Q. Bell from Inamori Foundation Betty Rae Gilbert from Virginia Navarrete Janet Burch from the family of Betty R. Gilbert Ellen O’Connor Kenneth G. Pigott from Neil and Diana King from Leonard Lavin Catherine Graham from Tully Family Foundation Paul and Amy Carbone from Liz Stiffel from Mr. Paul Reilly Jr. and Carol Lavin Bernick Dr. Robert A. Pringle and the Lavin Family Foundation Lewis E. Grimes from Marla McCormick Pringle Ms. Diane Atwood from an Anonymous Donor Lester and Renée Crown Dr. William Richardson Bertha Rabin from Exelon Margaret Ballard Hall from Dr. Sondra C. Rabin from Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow from Ernita Cooper Sir Andrew Davis and Gianna Rolandi Davis Richard O. Ryan Marilyn and Roland Resnick from Michael and Sally Feder Laura Ladish Jacobson from J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. from James Baughman and from Mary Ladish Selander Deborah Morris Baughman Mary Ladish Selander

and her family Howard Robins from Feitler Family Fund from Mary, Michael, Susan, Lois Eisen Suzanne Singer Deborah Jannotta and his many friends from Peggy and James Swartchild from Sandra L. Grung Kay and Craig Tuber from James N. and Laurie V. Bay Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff Meaghan Stainback Mrs. Edgar D. Janotta from Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Sonia Florian from Sandra L. Grung from an Anonymous Donor from Terry J. Medhurst Stephen Schulson Liz Stiffel Lee and Billye Jennings from Susan Buckman Schulson Regan Friedmann from Alfred G. Goldstein from Peggy and James Swartchild from Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Dr. Alan J. Shapiro Kay and Craig Tuber Michael McGuinnis from his many friends and family

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 61 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Corporate Partnerships

Lyric Opera gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received by January 16, 2017. For more information about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Director of Institutional Partnerships at (312) 827-5693 or [email protected]. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR BENEFACTOR KD Mailing Service $10,000 to $24,999 $5,000 to $7,499 MWM Consulting Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys at Law Baird Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. BNY Mellon General Mills Foundation TAYLAR The Chicago Group at Morgan Stanley Italian Village Restaurants Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation Molex FRIEND Evans Food Group Sahara Enterprises, Inc. $1,000 to $1,999 First Midwest Bank Shure Incorporated Concierge Unlimited International OPERA America Draper and Kramer, Incorporated The PrivateBank BRAVO CIRCLE Kinder Morgan Foundation Quarles & Brady LLP $3,500 to $4,999 Michuda Construction, Inc. Reed Smith LLP Corporate Suites Network Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Starshak Winzenburg & Co. Invesco S&C Foundation Wintrust Community Banks Lazard Asset Management Turks’ Greenhouses Old Republic International Corporation PREMIER BENEFACTOR SUSTAINER $7,500 to $9,999 IMPRESARIO $500 to $999 Amsted Industries Foundation $2,000 to $3,499 Law Office of Phillip Brigham LLC Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation American Agricultural Insurance Company Children’s Law Group LLC Thermos LLC BBJ Linen Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Envestnet BNSF Foundation Rooney Rippie & Ratnaswamy LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Enterprise Holdings Foundation William Blair & Company Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Matching Gifts A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees’ gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous (2) CME Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation Pfizer Foundation Allstate Giving Program CNA Foundation Kirkland & Ellis PNC Foundation Aon Foundation ConAgra Lannan Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation ArcelorMittal Emerson Electric John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur The Retirement Research Foundation AT&T Foundation GE Foundation Foundation The Rhoades Foundation Bank of America Foundation General Mills Foundation Macy’s/Bloomingdale’s Skadden Baxter International Foundation Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley UBS Foundation Benevity Community Impact Fund Graham Holdings Motorola Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation BMO Harris Bank Foundation IBM Corporation Northern Trust Company The Warranty Group Helen Brach Foundation ITW Foundation Peak6 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Caterpillar Foundation Inc. Johnson & Johnson Peoples Gas W. W. Grainger Inc. Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Johnson Controls Foundation PepsiCo Foundation 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 request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Affairs office, and send it to us along with your contribution. Special Thanks • American Airlines for its 35 year partnership as the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner, for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. • Strategy& and Vinay Couto, Principal, as well as PwC and John Oleniczak, Midwest Region Assurance Managing Partner, and Paul Anderson, Retired Senior Advisor, for their firm’s pro bono consulting services on our organizational assessment. • Warner Classics as the Official Education and Promotion Music Provider.

Acknowledgements

The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric Opera’s efforts: Generous Gifts Special Gifts Cochon Volant Wayne and Kristine Lueders Art Institute of Chicago BBJ Linen KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation Lloyd’s Chicago Calihan Catering Cru Café Calo Ristorante Martha Nussbaum Classic Color Einstein’s Bagels Ingrid Peters Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Notable Gifts Food and Paper Supply Company Todd Rosenberg Coco Pazzo John and Linda Anderson Hall’s Rental Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark HMS Media, Inc. Artists Frame Service Insomnia Cookies Thomas Terry Seth and Susan Mason Marlys Beider KD Mailing & Fulfillment Vision Wine and Spirits The Estate of Gerald Ritholz Cantor David Berger Marc Lacher This performance is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Lyric Opera of Chicago is a member of OPERA America.

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 63 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support

Lyric Opera deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations, and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received by January 16, 2017. ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above Anonymous (6) Ford Foundation Dr. David G. Knott and Sheila and David Ormesher Katherine A. Abelson and Julius Frankel Foundation Ms. Françoise Girard Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Robert J. Cornell Estate of Dr. Martin L. Gecht and Nancy W. Knowles Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Ada and Whitney Addington Francey Gecht Kohler Co. Pritzker Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Julie and Roger Baskes Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Josef and Margot Lakonishok Foundation James N. and Laurie V. Bay Brent and Katie Gledhill Lauter McDougal Family Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Marlys Beider Ethel and William Gofen Estate of Arthur B. Logan Foundation Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder The Grainger Foundation Foundation Estate of Thomas W. Scheuer Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Gramma Fisher Foundation of Malott Family Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation The John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Marshalltown, Iowa Mazza Foundation Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Foundation Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Lisbeth Stiffel David and Orit Carpenter John H. Krehbiel, Jr. The Monument Trust (UK) Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Estate of Nelson D. Cornelius John R. Halligan Charitable Fund The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe The Harris Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Wallace Foundation The Crown Family Walter E. Heller Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Roberta L. Washlow and The Davee Foundation J. Thomas Hurvis Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Robert J. Washlow Estate of Christopher D. Doemel The Edgar D. Jannotta Family Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Helen and Sam Zell Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson Estate of Amyl W. Johnson NIB Foundation Ann Ziff Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous (4) Renée Fleming Foundation/ Howard Family Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin The Brinson Foundation International Foundation Illinois Arts Council Polk Bros. Foundation Greg and Mamie Case for Arts and Culture Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts The Chicago Community Trust Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Nancy S. Searle City of Chicago Department of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann The Knowles Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Cultural Affairs and Special Events Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Howard Solomon and Ann and Reed Coleman Sue and Melvin Gray Family Foundation Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Estate of Elaine H. Hansen Linda K. and Dennis M. Meyers Estate of Gerald Sunko Eisen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Ms. Paula Milone Robert L. Turner

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (8) The Ferguson-Yntema Family Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Paul and Mary Anderson Charitable Trust Patricia Hyde Foundation Robin Angly Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Lavin Family Foundation Collin and Lili Roche Estate of James Ascareggi Elaine Frank Mr. and Mrs. Burt Lewis Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Maurice and Patricia Frank Estate of Arthur Lipman Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Dr. David Bear and Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Jim and Kay Mabie Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Dr. Laurie Hammer Bear Don and Abby Funk Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Schreiber Christine and Paul Branstad Family Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Foundation The Schroeder Foundation Foundation Charitable Giving Fund Judith W. McCue and Segal Family Foundation Amy and Paul Carbone The Eloise Susanna Gale Foundation Howard M. McCue III Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Robert and Evelyn McCullen Inc. Joyce E. Chelberg Michael J. McGuinnis Blythe Jaske McGarvie Lois B. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Joseph B. Glossberg Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Morris Silverman and Estate of Robert P. Cooke Estate of Carlyn E. Goettsch Susan M. Miller Lori Ann Komisar The Cozad Family Mary Ellen Hennessy Frank B. Modruson and Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation Martha A. Hesse Lynne C. Shigley Penelope and Robert Steiner Sir Andrew Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Music Performance Trust Fund and Joseph and Pam Szokol Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Film Funds Tawani Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater Kenneth R. Norgan Carl and Marilynn Thoma Ann M. Drake Funds Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Julian Family Foundation Matt and Carrie Parr Walter Family Foundation Drs. George and Sally Dunea Joseph M. Kacena Endowed Fund Estate of Ira J. Peskind Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Ingrid Peters Paul Wood and The Honorable Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Patricia A. Kenney and The C. G. Pinnell Family Corinne Wood Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Gregory J. O’Leary Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Gerald A. and Karen A. Kolschowsky The Rooney Family Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Erika E. Erich Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Ken and Amy Aldridge Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe John and Ann Amboian Michael and Sally Feder Karin Korth Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Joan and Robert Feitler Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Susan and David Ruder Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Sonja and Conrad Fischer Ms. Linda Kutt Richard O. Ryan Juliette F. Bacon Barbara and Richard Franke Albert and Rita Lacher Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner E. M. Bakwin Susan J. Garner Nix Lauridsen and Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Eric and Jana Schreuder Robert S. Bartolone Phillip and Norma Gordon The Barbara and Frank Lieber Family Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata David and Elizabeth Graham Charitable Trust Mary Beth Shea Silvia Beltrametti and Jay Krehbiel Mrs. William B. Graham Philip G. Lumpkin Richard W. Shepro and Ross and Patricia D. Bender Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Lindsay E. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Mrs. Mary Winton Green Robert C. Marks The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Norman and Virginia Bobins/The Robert Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer The Shubert Foundation Thomas Bobins Foundation Estate of Allen Greenberger Estate of Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil “I have had many sublime moments - where the singing, acting, costumes were outstanding. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Each opera takes me completely into its soul.” Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Patricia M. Jennifer L. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stone Marcus Boggs Estate of Betty Guttman Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Thierer Family Foundation Heidi Heutel Bohn Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Erma S. Medgyesy Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Terry J. Medhurst Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. The Irving Harris Foundation Dawn G. Meiners Virginia Tobiason Helen Brach Foundation Joan W. Harris Jon and Lois Mills Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Betty Bradshaw John Hart and Carol Prins Martha A. Mills Tully Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie Mary Pat G. Hay Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Buehler Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Phyllis Neiman Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Mrs. John C. Hedley David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. The Butler Family Foundation Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Estate of Sheila von Wiese-Mack Marie Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Foundation Dan and Patty Walsh Hal Coon Miriam U. Hoover Martha C. Nussbaum Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Lawrence O. Corry Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Pasquinelli Family Foundation Harriet Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crawford, Jr. James Huntington Foundation Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Rosemary and John Croghan Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Maya Polsky Kim and Miles D. White Marsha Cruzan Memorial Fund Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Dr. David H. Whitney and Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Susan Ipsen Andra and Irwin Press Dr. Juliana Chyu Nancy Dehmlow Laurie and Michael Jaffe Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson M. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Reilly Jr. Mrs. John A. Wing Shawn M. Donnelley and Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Merle Reskin William Wolf and Meredith Bluhm-Wolf Christopher M. Kelly Stephen A. Kaplan The Rhoades Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Wood Prince Edward and Joyce McFarland Mike and Lindy Keiser Candy and Gary Ridgway Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Dlugopolski Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Debbie K. Wright John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Mary F. Robins James and Michele Young Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (6) Donald and Anne Edwards The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation James T. and Karen C. Reid Kelley and Susan Anderson Richard B. Egen - Morris & Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund The Retirement Research Foundation L. Robert Artoe Robert F. Finke Martin and Patricia Koldyke Daryl and James Riley Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Dr. Jorge Galante Mr. Mark L. Koten J. Timothy Ritchie Mark and Judy Bednar Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Ropes & Gray LLP Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Lloyd Gerlach Lannan Foundation Edgar Rose Foundation Virginia and Gary Gerst Bernard and Averill Leviton Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst George and Maureen Gilmore Julius Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Lieselotte N. Betterman Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Jim and SuAnne Lopata George and Terry Rose Saunders Patrick J. Bitterman Helyn D. Goldenberg Francine Manilow Raymond and Inez Saunders Marcus Boggs Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Daniel T. Manoogian Mary and Stanley Seidler Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Shari Mayes Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Dr. Charles Bower Dr. Doris Graber Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Siragusa Family Foundation Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Egon and Dorothy Menker Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Joy Buddig Joan M. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Milliken Patricia Arrington Smythe Mrs. Warren M. Choos Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor The Solti Foundation U.S. Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan Margo and Michael Oberman and Family Dorie Sternberg Lynd W. Corley Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Julian and Sheila Oettinger Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Susan E. Cremin James and Mary Houston Marian Phelps Pawlick Angela Tenta, M.D. Anne Megan Davis Mr. Richard M. Jaffee Karen and Tom Phillips Dr. David Thurn Decyk Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Harvey R. and Madeleine P. Plonsker Howard and Paula Trienens Foundation Fred L. Drucker and Nancy Rita Kaz Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Christian Vinyard Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Kate T. Kestnbaum Irene D. Pritzker Marilou and Henry von Ferstel Harvey S. and Sheila Dulin Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King John and Betsey Puth Marilee and Richard Wehman Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Donna and Phillip Zarcone

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BENEFACTOR · $5,000 to $7,499 Anonymous (8) Jim and Pati Ericson Lois Melvoin Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Margaret Byrne, Attorney Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Robert M. Arensman James and Deborah Fellowes Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Del Snow Mr. and Mrs. David Batanian Renée Fleming Estate of Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg C. Bekerman, M.D. Adrian Foster Mead and Anne Montgomery Ellen and Jim Stirling Jennifer Bellini Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Estate of Gerda Nickels Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Bent John F. Gilmore Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Family Charitable Trust Pam and Russ Strobel Wiley and Jo Caldwell Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Bolton Sullivan Fund Carylon Foundation Dan and Caroline Grossman Mr. and Mrs. James N. Perry Jr. Andrea and Mark Taylor Lawrence Christensen James and Brenda Grusecki Genevieve Phelps Mrs. M. James Termondt Jane B. and John C. Colman Mrs. John M. Hartigan John Raitt Janet Thau Francie Comer Howard E. Jessen Rocco and Cheryl Romano O. Thomas Thomas Peter and Kelley Conway Tyrus L. Kaufman J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko L. Kristofer Thomsen Tamara Conway The Kip Kelley Family Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Mr. and Mrs. Gerry V. Curciarello Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Norman Sackar Michael Tobin, MD The Dancing Skies Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc. Estate of Margaret R. Sagers Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Thomas Doran Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Ellen M. Salter Jean Morman Unsworth Cherelynn A. Elliott Ms. Michelle McCarthy Satter Family Foundation Howard Walker Sondra Berman Epstein James G. and Laura G. McCormick Arch W. Shaw Foundation David and Linda Wesselink BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 to $4,999 Claudia Winkler Anonymous Mr. Craig Lancaster and Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Bill and Harlan Shropshire Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Ms. Charlene T. Handler Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Adele and John Simmons Mychal P. Angelos Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Ms. Britt M. Miller Craig Sirles Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Mr. Anthony Juozapavich Joan M. Solbeck Susann Ball Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga John H. Nelson Mary Soleiman Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Zehava L. Noah Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Mr. and Mrs. George Bayly Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Mrs. John Stanek Astrid K. Birke Carolyn and Paul Jarvis Jonathan F. Orser Irving Stenn, Jr. Danolda (Dea) Brennan Joy Jester Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley MinSook Suh Nicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirr Douglas M. Karlen Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, MD Janet D. Thau Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Gerald and Judith Kaufman Dr. Pat and Lara Pappas Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft B. A. Coussement Jean Klingenstein Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Marianne Tralewski Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Thomas A. Kmetko Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Phil and Paula Turner Jon W. DeMoss Dr. Katherine Knight Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Elizabeth K. Twede Charles Denison John and Mary Kohlmeier Karen and Richard Pigott Lori L. and John R. Twombly Drs. Donald and Helen Edwards Eldon and Patricia Kreider Dr. Joe Piszczor Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick Deane Ellis Vivian Leith and Stewart Hudnut Dr. and Mrs. Lincoln Ramirez David J. Varnerin David S. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Edward and Leah Reicin Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Thomas A. Marshall Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Dr. Catherine L. Webb Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Marilyn and Myron Maurer Dr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Mr. Otis Sanders Hilary and Barry Weinstein Foundation Peter G. O. Freund Thomas J. McCormick Curt G. Schmitt Estate of James M. Wells James R. Grimes Dr. John J. McGrath and Ms. Tola Porter Julie Schwertfeger and Alexander Zajczenko Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob David E. McNeel Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Owen and Linda Youngman Sandra L. Grung Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Dr. S. P. Shah Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea James C. Kemmerer IMPRESARIO · $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (9) Mrs. Henry T. Chandler Mari L. Harrer Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Allison Alexander Alice Childs Hoellen Family Foundation Lloyd R. Loback Mary C. Allen Dr. Edward Cole and Dr. Christine Rydel Concordia Louise Hoffmann Dr. Therese Lucietto-Sieradzki Mrs. Robert W. Allen Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Andrèe S. Hognestad Robert Mann and Kathryn Voland-Mann Dr. Michael Angell Robert O. Delaney Edmund A. and Virginia C. Horsch Liz and Arsen Manugian Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Arbetter Mr. and Mrs. John DeWolf Estate of Dagmar Hurbanek Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks Stephen Ashby Mario Diorio Michael Huston William Mason and Diana Davis Bastian Voice Institute Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Loren D. May and Kathy Newton May Ron Bauer and Michael Spencer Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Dr. Segun Ishmael Mrs. David McCandless Ron and Queta Bauer Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao John G. and Betty C. Jacobs Florence D. McMillan Dee Beaubien La and Philip Engel Ronald B. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally V Diane and Michael Beemer Susanna and Helmut Epp Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Martina M. Mead and Michael T. Gorey Daniel J. Bender John Ettelson Mr. and Mrs. Frank Karger Sheila and Harvey Medvin Julie Anne Benson Firestone Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Pamela G. Meyer Jacquie Berlin Anita D. Flournoy Judith L. Kaufman Robert and Lois Moeller Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Amanda Fox Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Leslie Bertholdt Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Kenneth Douglas Foundation Rosemary Murgas Mrs. Arthur Billings Jack E. Fredenburgh Mr. and Mrs. Joe King David and Lynne Nellemann Richard and Heather Black Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Neil and Diana King Mrs. A. M. Neumann Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Klaff Family Foundation Elaine T. Newquist Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Mickey Norton Mr. and Mrs. David Bomier Judy and Bill Goldberg J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Renate P. Norum Minka and Matt Bosco Gordon and Nancy Goodman Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Janis Wellin Notz and John K. Notz Jr. Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Annemarie H. Gramm Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Foundation Penny J. Obenshain Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener Richard Greenman Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Marc and Cindy Oberdorff Carline Bronk Patricia Grogan Marc Lacher Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Brown Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Mrs. Richard C. Oughton Winston and Lally Brown Solomon Gutstein Paul Larson Mark Ouweleen and Ms. Elena Sapienza Glen and Claire Hackmann Dr. M. S.W. Lee Sarah Harding Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Gerald L. Padbury Mrs. Laurence A. Carton Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Kimberly Ann Palmisano Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Cavallino Mr. and Mrs. Cameel Halim Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Lewis, Sr. Elizabeth Anne Peters James W. Chamberlain CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Laurie and Michael Petersen

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Mrs. Zen Petkus Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Gilbert Terlicher Mr. and Mrs. Elmer M. Walsh Jr. Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Mr. and Ms. Bob Slain Humanist Fund Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Mary and Joseph Plauche Rubnitz Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas, Jr. Louis Weber Joel and Vivianne Pokorny Mrs. Dolores E. Ruetz The Sondheimer Family Charitable Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Caroline C. Wheeler Charles B. Preacher Foundation Robert Russell Foundation Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Howard S. White Nathaniel W. Pusey Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Phil and Sylvia Spertus Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Christina Rashid Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schaeffer James A. Staples Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Schuler Tom Z. Startek The Trillium Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Thomas and Judy Scorza Mary Stowell Dulcie L. Truitt Chip and Jean Wood William and Louise Robb David J. Seleb and John P. Cialone Walter and Caroline Sueske Kay and Craig Tuber Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever Maggie Rock Adams Mary Lynne Shafer Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Priscilla T. Yu Tim Ross Ilene Simmons Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Barbara Zeleny FRIEND · $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (13) Wendy and Norman Bradburn Dr. and Mrs. Carl Fetkenhour Dr. and Mrs. Leo M. Henikoff Knox and Gabrielle Long A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Elizabeth W. Fischer Raymond Hicks Craig and Jane Love Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Berle Blitstein Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Shaw Carrie and Harry Hightman Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Louise Abrahams Better Benefits Family Group Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Kurtice Luther Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Candace B. Broecker Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Charlene and Gary MacDougal Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Jerry and Gisela Brosnan Nona C. Flores Sandra Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mages Ann Acker Mark S. Brown Paul Fong Suzanne L. Hoffman and Mr. and Ms. Carl Majeski Duffie A. Adelson Alice C. Brunner Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Dale Smith Jeffrey and Paula Malak Susan S. Adler Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Dr. Jacek Franaszek and Mr. and Mrs. William A. Holland Deborah Manoogian Judith A. Akers Bruyninckx Kathleen McQueeny Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hollensteiner Mrs. John Jay Markham Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Howard and Moira Buhse Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Stephen D. Holmes Robert Markowski and Lance Johnson Susan Burkhardt Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Honig, M.D. and Randi Ragins Claudie Aldridge George J. Burrows George R. Paterson Olga Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Joseph A. Caprini, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Freeborn Joel and Carol Honigberg Mr. and Mrs. Sean Martin Sheila and James Amend Irma Caprioli Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Bill and Vicki Hood Jeordano Martinez Paul Andziewicz Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Victoria Howland Mariano Martinez Doris W. Angell Stephen H. and Virginia McM. Carr Penny Friedman Michael and Beverly Huckman Bob and Doretta Marwin Antoniou Family Fund Cartier Jeff Frient and Jennifer Carter Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff Dr. John Mazuski Daniel J. Anzia Drs. James and Stephanie Cavanaugh Samuel and Adriana Front Janice Humphrey Maureen and Michael McCabe Dr. Edward Applebaum and Barry and Marcia Cesafsky John A. Gable Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt Bernadette McCarthy Dr. Eva Redel Robert Cieslak Nancy R. Gamburd and Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Hussey John F. McCartney Drs. Vijayalakshmi and Heinke K. Clark Cathy Hanby Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Marilyn McClory Bapu Arekapudi Keith and Barbara Clayton Ms. Kristine Garrett Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Jackson Marilyn McCoy and Eric Argence Margery and Robert Coen Mrs. Norman Gates Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. James Charles R. Thomas Robert Austin Maryclaire Collins Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Drs. William and Margaret Mr. Wayne Baden Gordon and Sigrid Connor Generations Fund The Jaquith Family Foundation McCulloch Rajeev Bahri Dr. Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Mr. Scott P. George Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Ann E. McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Ernita Cooper Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson Jerry and Judy Johansen Dr. and Mrs. Harold McGrath The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Therissa McKelvey Peter and Elise Barack Michael McKinney William and Marjorie Bardeen “The voices of the stars are exceptional - and their performance stays with me!” Anne Ford McMillen Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Mary H. Maryjanet McNamara Ronald and Donna Barlow Kathie Y. McReynolds Family Michael A. Barna Mr. and Mrs. Zarin Mehta Barbara J. Barnes Geo Cooper Gregory Geuther Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Johnson Claretta Meier Mrs. Robert G. Bartle James M. Cormier Sharon L. Gibson Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Helen Melchior Mr. and Mrs. Brit J. Bartter Nancy Corrie Jean Gilkison Russell L. Johnson Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Barbara Barzansky Daniel Corrigan Gay L. Girolami JS Charitable Trust Jim and Ginger Meyer Sandra Bass Jennifer Cox Barbara and Norman Gold Judith Jump Joanne Michalski and Michael Weeda James and Deborah Morris Katherine Hutter Coyner Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Myrna Kaplan Barbara Mikolajczyk Baughman Gary Crosby Alfred G. Goldstein Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Rev. Dr. Mary L. Milano Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Karen and John Crotty Robert and Marcia Goltermann Mr. and Mrs. Jack Karp Gearold D. Miles W.C. Beatty Pamela Crutchfield Jaimy Gordon and Peter Blickle Mary Ann Karris Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Seth Beckman Robert Curley Jill Gordon Christine Kassa-Skaredoff Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III Barbara Flynn Currie Motoko Goto Mrs. Helen Kedo Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Milnarik Lynn Bennett John R. D’Ambrose Dr. Steven A. Gould Larry M Keer, MD Dr. Virginia Mond Roy C. Bergstrom Timothy and Cheryl Dahlstrand Dr. Ruth Grant and Linda Kinzelberg William Mondi Lois M. Berman James and Marie Damion Dr. Howard Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Charles Moore Mr. and Mrs. Turney P. Berry Jason Dantico Anthony Green Mr. Stephen Kitchen Mr. and Mrs. William H. Moore IV Jane Berry Tim Daro Nancy and Jonathan Green Esther G. Klatz Lloyd and Donna Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Loren M. Berry III Rathin Datta Greene Family Foundation Frank and Alice Kleinman Mr. Peter and Dr. Deborah Ejovwokoghene Biakolo Carol Davis Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Paul Kleppner Morowski Jerry and Kathy Biederman Patty Litton Delony Tim and Joyce Greening Mary Klyasheff Heather Morrison Dr. Vanice (Van) Billups Lyn Dickey John R. Grimes Emily and Christopher Knight John S. Mrowiec and Mr. Thomas Bittner Dr. Elton Dixon Donald J. Grossman and Lionel and Jackie Knight Dr. Karen L. Granda Cynthia L. Bixel Michael L. Dollard Elaine T. Hirsch Edward and Adrienne Kolb Gerald and Maia Mullin M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Bill Donaldson Donald Haavind Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal Marcus Murphree Mrs. John R. Blair Dr. and Mrs. Peter E. Doris Philip and Nancy Zimmerman William Konczyk and Chris and Eileen Murphy Diane and Tom Blake David and Deborah Dranove Hablutzel Stanley Conlon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell Elaine and Harold Blatt Tom Draski Mirja and Ted Haffner Family Fund Richard Kron and Dr. Corinne Nawrocki Ann Blickensderfer Douglas F. Duchek Daniel J. Hall Deborah Bekken Christopher K. Neal Jim Blinder Susan Duda Mary E. Hallman Marina Kuznetsov Ms. Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Brian Bloch Ronald B. Duke Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Carol and Jerome Lamet Robert and Tricia Nelson John Blosser Kathy Dunn Agnes Hamos Frederic S. Lane Jeffrey Nichols Frima H. Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dusek Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa Dr. William R. Lawrence Nancy A. Nichols Martin Boguszko Barbara and John Eckel Charles Hanusin Sarena Lee-Schott Gayla and Ed Nieminen Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Hugh and Jackie Edfors Daggett Harvey Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Carol M. Nigro Robert and Anne Bolz Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Betty Ann Hauser Dominique Leonardi Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Charitable Trust Peter Emery Alex P. Heard Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Sheila Ann Hegy Anne and Craig Linn Michael J. O'Connell Mrs. Fred Bosselman Dr. Thelma M. Evans Dr. Allen W. Heinemann and Caroline P. Lippert Virginia A. O’Neill Anastasia Boucouras Jim and Elizabeth Fanuzzi Dr. William Borden DeAnn Liska Dr. Songya Pang Donald F. Bouseman Farley Family Joseph Heiney William and Diane Lloyd Kevin Patti Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Jerrad Fenske Robert and Janet Helman Melvin R. Loeb Ilene Patty and Thomas Terpstra

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Marilyn Pearson Jerry and Carole Ringer Edgar Schiller Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Dr. Richard Warnecke Norman and Lorraine Perman Carol Roberts Deborah and George Schulz Dr. Bernadette Strzyz Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Perry William and Cheryl Roberts Richard and Betty Seid Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stuart Pam and David Waud Viktoras Petroliunas Joseph Rochetto Christine and David Seidman Mr. and Mrs. James Swartchild Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weiland Marlene Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Rogers Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Geraldine L. Szymanski Tamra and Jack Weiss Ruth A. Phillips The Philip and Myn Rootberg John and Floria Serpico Maureen Tansey-Tokar Adele and Joseph R. Wells Dr. and Mrs John T. Picken Foundation Sherie Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Jim and Polly Pierce Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Russell Ternes Manfred Wendt Srikumar Pillai Charlotte Puppel-Rose David Sherman Mr. Theodore Tetzlaff Heide Wetzel Mr. and Mrs. Les Pinsof Roberta Rosell Carol and Roger Shiffman Kim and Steve Theiss Patricia and William H. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pinto Lorelei Rosenthal Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Linda and Ronald Thisted Zita Wheeler Cheryl and Jimmy Podolny Babette Rosenthal Nancy Silberman Dr. Andrew J. Thomas Floyd and Judith W. Whellan Dr. and Mrs. Alan Pohl Marsha and Robert Rosner Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Jennifer Tipton Mrs. John White Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Merlin and Gladys Rostad Arts Fund Paul and Ann Singer Diane Tkach and James Freundt Kathryn B. Winter Mrs. Carol Pollock Manfred Ruddat Margles Singleton and Clay Young Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker F. C. Winters Charlene Posner R. Charles Rudesill Barbara Smith and Joanne Tremulis Charles B. Wolf Matthew and Erica Posthuma Lena M. Ruppman Timothy Burroughs M. Jean Trowbridge Ann S. Wolff Gail S. Prins and Alice S. Wisse Joanne Ruxin Louise K. Smith Mr. James W. Tucker Ted and Peggy Wolff Jean M. Prokopek-Kasnick Louise M. Ryssmann Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Professor Harald and Christopher and Julie Wood Marcia Purze David Sachs Robert A. Sniegowski Mrs. Christine Uhlig D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit David Quell Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Manuel S. Valderrama Mark Woodworth and Anne Rainis Carol S. Sadow The Sondheimer Family Charitable Marlene A. Van Skike Randi Ravitts Woodworth Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Foundation Frances and Peter Vandervoort Michael B. Yanney John P. and Victoria L. Z. John Sagos Larry and Marge Sondler Rosalba Villanueva Michael and Judy Zeddies Ratnaswamy Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer George Speck Dr. Annabelle Volgman Marianne and Ted Zelewsky William H. Redfield Paul R. Sand Carol D. Stein and James Sterling Mr. Malcolm V. Vye Susan Zick Alicia and Myron Resnick Mary T. Schafer Carol Stein and Doris Ashkin W. Bruce Lunsford Richard E. Ziegler Joan L. Richards Robert P. Schaible Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stein Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Walter Evelyn Richer Marie-Claude Schauer Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll April Ware and Jess Forrest SUSTAINER · $500 to $999 Anonymous (21) D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Robert C. Cronin Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Mr. Matthew Goto Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Erminio Bonacci Martyn Crook Harve A. Ferrill Birgit Gottelt Andrew Abbott and Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Dr. Mary J. Crooks Howard and Charlotte Fink Sarah J. Gottermeyer Susan Schlough Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond Sr. Constance Cunningham Suja Finnerty David B. Gottshall Jay Aber Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Borden Duone Curran Susan Fisher-Yellen John Grad Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Aldridge and Marie Bousfield James Currie Jr. Marilyn E. Fites Mr. and Mrs. Delmon Grapes Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV David E. Boyce Mary and Hans Dahl William A. Fleig Mr. Richard Greene Mr. and Mrs. Phillip G. Adams Mrs. Susy Braddock Elizabeth J. Daniels Marvin Fletcher Ms. Sharmon F. Greene Mrs. Carol E. Adelman Robert Bradner Mr. Douglas Davis Mr. Eric Flint Ginger Griffin Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Vivian Brandt Greg Davis Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Flint Mr. W. L. Griffith Carnot & Luceile Allen Foundation Giovanna and Joseph Breu Henry De Vogue Kathleen Folena Robert Grist Judith L. Allen Mary Lee Brinegar Bruce Deemer Lafayette J. Ford Charles R. Grode Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Allen Joan and Tom Broderick Paul B. Dekker Dr. Kate L. Forhan and Daniel Groteke and Mrs. Ronald L. Allen Gordon Brodfuehrer Wendelin DeLoach Dr. Joseph P. Cousins Patricia Taplick Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Allie Leona and Daniel Bronstein Tania Del Rio Stephen and Rosamund Forrest D. Grynspan and S. Stupp Peri M. Altan Dr. Annie Brown Mr. and Mrs. John Deppong, Jr. Richard W. Foster John Gustaitis Evelyn Alter Ms. Suzanne W. Brown Dr. Lawrence Devoe Anne and Willard Fraumann Margo Lynn Hablutzel Zakwan Alzein Todd Brueshoff Stephen Di Padua Dr. Maija Freimanis and Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Emilyjane Andaya Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Mr. John D. DiBuono David Marshall John Hales Kenneth and Mary Andersen Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck Robert and Anne Diffendal Mrs. Michelle B. Fries Terry Haller Gregory and Michael Anderson Warren and Patricia Buckler Dr. Gary Dillehay Priscilla and Henry Frisch Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Nancy E. Anderson Mr. Randall Hanssen William Ankenbrandt Dr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Harris Drs. Andrew and Iris Aronson Mr. and Mrs. Peter Harris Edin Arslanagic “Lyric was one of the prime motivators for me moving to Chicago.” Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Susan and Bob Arthur Gerry B. Malcolm Harsch and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Asner Matthew Killen Margaret Atherton Mr. John Hartigan Ms. Bolanle Babatunde Mrs. Theodore H. Buenger Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Michael and Jane Fritz Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hartigan Fred and Michelle Baird Mr. Kurt Bullard Mrs. Danute M. Dirvonis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Gahlon Ms. Claudia Hawkins Stan Balog Dr. Jack Bulmash Ms. Bridgette K. Doheny Leota P. Gajda Dr. and Mrs. David Jerome Hayden Andrew Bandish Dr. Mary Louise H. Burger Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey B. Donnell Joan A. Gall Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hayden Marilyn R. Barmash Susan Burner Maureen Dooley Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Gall Mrs. John S. Hayford Richard and Shirley Baron Ed and Natalie Byczynski Paul E. Drennan Dorothy and John Gardner Dr. Gillian M. Headley Peter Barrett Dr. Lidia T. Calcaterra Dr. Morton Dubman Mrs. Lisa Gaspero Paul Hecht Joseph P. Basile Janna and David Caldarelli Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Christopher Gaston James Heger Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Baum Hon. and Mrs. Michael T. Caldwell Dr. Robert Golub Lili Gaubin Dr. and Mrs. Robert Heidenry Marcia J. Baylin Christopher Calip Mr. Thomas Duston Ms. Esther Geppert Robert and Raynelle Heidrick Benjamin C. Beach Christina Canham Roma Dybalski Thomas and Patricia Germino Josephine E. Heindel Alvin R. Beatty Agnes B. Canning Joan M. Eagle Florence Gibaldi Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper Matthew Beatty Walter Carlson Deborah and Scott Early Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert Stephen Heller Elizabeth S. Beck Kimberly R. Carmen Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Mr. Jay and Ms. M. Kathryn Roger B. Beck Robert and Emily Carroll Mrs. B. Englert Easterbrook Mrs. Susan Gilkey-Richard Hennington Hans F. Bell Donald Carruthers Kimberly A. Eberlein Mr. Lyle Gillman Joanna Herrick John C. Benitez Jerry Carter Adrienne Eckerling Dale and David Ginsburg Norman K. Hester Edward Berman Victor J. Casaz James W. Edmondson Dr. Howard P. Girard Midge and Frank Heurich Dyanna Bernier Donald and Bonnie Chauncey Martha Edwards David L. Gitomer Harriet E. 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Rutkiewicz Bradley L. and Simone Himbeault Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Isaacson Dr. Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna David Norris Gerald S. Rutkowski Taylor Howard Isenberg Jerome A. and Kathie M. Long Northwest Indiana Pathology Eugene W. Rzym Fara Taylor Virginia A. Jach Sherry and Mel Lopata William Novshek and Mary Ann Sadilek Susan C Taylor Ms. Marina B. Jacks Richard Lord Lynda Thoman Mr. Eugene Saenger Jr. Prof. Brian Thompson Douglas and Lynn Jackson Shana Lowitz Mr. and Mrs. Hiram M. Nowlan Natalie Saltiel Mr. John G. Thomson Merle L. Jacob Wayne R. Lueders Dr. W. E. Null Richard H. Sanders Charles and Kristine Thorsen Charlene Jacobsen Lutz Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nutt Jeffrey Sanfilippo Sheila J. Thuesdee Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Timothy Lyman, M.D. Ms. Ruth O’Brien Joe and Lisa Sangster Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Marqui Jamison Daniel Carroll Madden and Gail O’Gorman Ursula Sanne Eleanor W. Tippens Mr. and Mrs. Ross H. 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Zasi Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Mary Mulcahy Lynn W. Riordan Judy Stanley Bland Dr. Antoinette Zell and Laurence and Mary Levine Anthony Mullins Ed and Susan Ritts Corinne M. Steede Kenneth R. Walter David Levinson and Kathy Kirn Maxwell Mulmat Blanche Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Steele Larisa Zhizhin Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Ms. Jan Munagian Sharon Roberts Mrs. Karl H. Stein Dr. and Mrs. Eric Zickgraf Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Frank and Meg Munaretto Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Stern Dr. Arnold Tobin Thomas F. Murphy Susan Rodriguez Mrs. James H. Stoner Myron and Eleanor Lieberman Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Victor Rodriguez Lorna P. Straus Stewart Liechti Lawrence T. Nash, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Roemer Mr. and Mrs. John Strom

Lyric Opera 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.

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 69 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Facilities and Services

Tickets: Buy tickets online any time via Lyric’s website: www.lyricopera.org

Pre-opera talks: All ticketed guests are invited to attend a free pre-performance talk in the auditorium, beginning one hour before curtain time and lasting for 30 minutes. This is a great opportunity to learn Welcome! more about the performance you are Attention, Box Seat Holders: about to experience. Doors open for the Lyric encourages guests in box seats Lyric Opera of Chicago welcomes you pre-opera talks 75 minutes before the to this performance. We are very glad to share the front-of-box seating by you are here. In order to ensure maxi- performance begins. You can feel free switching seats within your box at an mum enjoyment for all guests during to choose your seat for the talk. The appropriate time during an intermission. a performance, we ask for your compli- auditorium will be cleared after the You can make this plan, prior to the ance with some simple house rules: pre-opera talk concludes. performance, if you know the others • Please remain silent during the in your box. Please remember that you performance. may need to adjust your seating plans • As a gesture of respect for other to include patrons who do not regularly audience members and the perform- sit in your box and would be unaware ing artists, please remain seated until of any previous seating arrangements. an act or the opera is completely over. If you need to leave the auditorium, Please Note: you may not be readmitted while the The use of a ticket acknowledges that performance is in progress. The usher you have granted permission to appear staff will help you understand when in photographs, video capture, and you can be reseated. capture by other media, in all of the • Do note that the program and artists public spaces in the house and theater are subject to change without notice. to be used by Lyric for any promotional • Please silence all electronic devices If you arrive late: purpose. This blanket permission and double check that phones, pagers, Lyric has a tradition of starting releases Lyric Opera of Chicago from watches, and other personal devices performances right on time, and the liability resulting from the use of such are switched off before the perfor- doors to the house are closed promptly images in any medium. mance begins. at curtain time. We realize situations • Please don’t use any device with arise that can delay your arrival, and First Aid: a glowing screen at any time during we will try to accommodate latecomers In case of illness or injury, please a performance. It is always more in an available section of the house or inform an usher, who will call the house disruptive and distracting than you at a predetermined break, which may think it is. manager and house EMT for assistance. be intermission. A video screen is • Noises from the lobby may disturb available in the lobby, so you won’t miss patrons in the auditorium during a moment of the performance. Please a performance. be aware that patrons who must leave Your understanding and cooperation are their seats during a performance will appreciated. Please let any member of not be readmitted until intermission Lyric’s house staff know if you have any or a suitable break. questions.

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with removable armrests. The Opera Public Phones: House has automatic door-openers on As a courtesy to our patrons, exterior doors, and accessible drinking complimentary phone service is fountains and public telephones. A TTY available in the Vaughan Family phone is available in the Box Office for Hospitality Foyer. outgoing calls only. Lost and Found: Please telephone (312) 827-5768 for lost items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days.

Restrooms facilities for female patrons Other important policies: with disabilities are located on all levels Photography and/or audio and video of the Opera House except the Opera recording of any kind is prohibited Club level. For male patrons, these during the performance. You are facilities are located on all levels except encouraged to take photographs and the Opera Club (lower) level and the share your experience on social media sixth floor. from the lobby and other parts of the public, non-performance spaces in the Assistive listening devices for persons house, as well as in the house itself, desiring amplification are available but not during the performance. at no cost at any open checkroom. A valid driver’s license, state Lyric, for safety reasons, has the right Dining: identification, or major credit card to inspect any large bags or packages Options are available before, during is required as a security deposit. and insist that all large backpacks, bags, (intermission), and after most Lyric luggage, etc. be checked at one of the Large print and Braille programs performances on the main and third Civic Opera House checkrooms. floors of the Civic Opera House. may be available at the main floor coat The Pedersen Room on the main floor check. Outside food and beverages may not accepts dining reservations while the be brought into the Civic Opera House. Audio description, touch tours, Florian Opera Bistro on the third floor Refreshments may be purchased inside and American Sign Language is available for walk-in dining for first the opera house and limited items seating of dinner, 4:45PM. Reservations interpretation is available for select may be brought in with you to the www. required for matinees, second seating, performances; please see performance. lyricopera.org/accessibility and intermission walk-in. Refreshments for dates are also available throughout most lobby and details. Thank you again for joining us at Lyric areas on each floor and on the lower Opera of Chicago! No Smoking Policy: Opera Club level. Visit lyricopera.org/ dine for complete details. In compliance with the City of Chicago ordinance, Lyric Opera of Patrons with Disabilities: Chicago enforces a no-smoking policy The Opera House is accessible to throughout the Opera House and persons with physical disabilities, with within 15 feet of our theater entrance. elevator service to all floors except the Thank you for your cooperation. Opera Club. The Ardis Krainik Theatre contains seating that is accessible to persons in wheelchairs, as well as seats

Front of House Manager: Laura LoChirco Box Office Assistant Treasurers: John Thor Sandquist and Joseph Dunn Food & Beverage Manager: Geri LaGiglio Restaurant Manager: Mark Foley Usher Supervisor: Dolores Abreu

February 26 - March 20, 2017 | 71 Complement your visit to Lyric with a Wonder at the art-deco beauty of the Ardis Krainik Theatre, enjoy an up-close-and-personal view of the orchestra pit, and see where the BACKSTAGE magic happens backstage. TOUR! Visit lyricopera.org/backstagetours for dates throughout the season and to learn more about our many backstage tour options!

UPCOMING REBROADCAST DATES AND TIMES May 20: Das Rheingold | Wagner DON’T MISS A MOMENT May 27: Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti OF THE SEASON. June 3: Les Troyens | Berlioz June 10: Don Quichotte | Massenet The Lyric Opera Broadcasts of the †‡ˆ‰Šˆ‹ season will be rebroadcast nationally and internationally by June 17: The Magic Flute | Mozart The WFMT Radio Network and heard locally on June 24: Norma | Bellini . WFMT. July 1: Carmen | Bizet Lyric Opera of Chicago’s dramaturg Roger Pines and WFMT’s Lisa Flynn host these broadcasts, beginning July 8: Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky at ˆ† noon CDT. Plus a bonus rebroadcast encore from the 2014/15 season: The Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts are generously sponsored by July 15: Don Giovanni | Mozart the Caerus Foundation, Inc., with matching funding provided by The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family, The John and Jacolyn Chicago-area rebroadcasts on . WFMT begin at Bucksbaum Foundation, and The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family. 12 noon CDT. Check local listings for exact times and Daniel Goldberg is the producer for The Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts. dates outside the Chicago area. The broadcasts can David Polk is the executive producer. also be heard anywhere in the world on WFMT.com.

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LYRIC PREMIERE CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD A CHAMBER OPERA Starring Lawrence Brownlee Music by Daniel Schnyder Libretto by Bridgette A. Wimberly

MARCH 24 7:30 PM PERFORMED AT MARCH 26 2:00 PM THE HARRIS THEATER

New York City, 1955. As his body lies unclaimed in the morgue, saxophone great Charlie Parker returns in spirit to the jazz club Birdland, determined to compose a final masterpiece. Family and friends blend in and out of his memories in an acclaimed new opera that tells of his tortured, brilliant life.

Performed in English with projected English texts

Pre-opera talk by Grammy winner and WFMT Jazz Post-opera performance Both pre- and post- Network host Neil Tesser, by members of the opera events FREE along with opera expert Chicago Jazz Philharmonic for all ticket holders! Jesse Gram

LYRICOPERA.ORG | 312.827.5600

Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD is made possible by Lead Sponsor Lauter McDougal Family Foundation and cosponsors the Eisen Family Foundation, The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust, Joseph E. Glossberg Foundation, Eric and Deb Hirschfield, and Kenneth R. Norgan.