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Good afternoon and welcome to this performance of one of the most beautiful of all Italian operas, Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma. We are thrilled to present this opera in its Triangle premiere. Bellini’s operas are all about beautiful singing, and we have assembled an excellent group of artists to provide just that, under the guidance of bel canto expert Maestro Antony Walker.

Norma opens the ninth season of North Carolina Opera. We have sought to present a wide range of operatic repertoire, from popular standards by Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini, to an exploration of the works of Richard Wagner and of the Slavic repertoire. We have presented both what we might call “modern classics” by Britten and Philip Glass, as well as new pieces, most prominently Jennifer Higdon’s and Gene Scheer’s Cold Mountain last season.

Norma, however, represents our first trip into the seriousbel canto repertoire. This is a beautiful and important group of operas, one much beloved by singers and audiences alike. They work when the right team of singers can be brought together. We are very excited to assemble this particular cast for this piece.

As you all know, the Triangle region is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States. Every single day scores of people move here, many from cities with longer-established operatic traditions. Many of these people become supporters of North Carolina Opera, and some even become production sponsors! Rosemarie Sweeney is a new Triangle resident and opera lover. It has been fantastic to welcome Rosi to the community. We are very grateful for her production sponsorship of Norma, and I know she is proud to be part of the local premiere of this significant work.

Her support, and the support of opera friends like her, keeps North Carolina Opera bringing the best that opera can offer to Triangle audiences.

Thank you, please enjoy the performance!

Eric Mitchko General Director

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NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 4 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 2:00PM MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, RALEIGH, NC DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS NORMA

Composer: Vincenzo Bellini

Librettist: Felice Romani

Based on Alexandre Soumet’s play Norma, ou L'infanticide This concert performance sung in Italian with projected English translations

World Premiere: December 26, 1831, Teatro alla Scala, Milan American Premiere: April 1, 1836, St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans

This performance of Norma is presented with generous support from Rosemarie Sweeney

Conductor: Antony Walker

Norma: Leah Crocetto Adalgisa: Elizabeth DeShong Pollione: Chad Shelton Oroveso: Ao Li Flavio: Wade Henderson Clotilde: Kathleen Felty

Chorus Master: Scott Macleod Rehearsal pianists: Annie Brooks, Kent Lyman, Qiao Zheng Goh Production Stage Manager: Linda T. Carlson Supertitle Operator: Joanna Helms

North Carolina Opera is funded in part by the City of Raleigh based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission.

The performance will last approximately two hours, forty-five minutes including one intermission.

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 5 SYNOPSIS

Gaul, 50 B.C.E. ACT II Norma, dagger in hand, tries to bring herself ACT I to murder her children in their sleep to protect In a forest at night, Oroveso, leads the druids them from living disgracefully without a father. and warriors in a prayer for revenge against the She cannot, and instead summons Adalgisa, conquering Romans. After they have left, the begging her to marry Pollione and take the Roman proconsul Pollione admits to his friend children to Rome. Adalgisa refuses: She will go Flavio that he no longer loves the high priestess to Pollione but only to persuade him to return Norma, Oroveso’s daughter, with whom he has to Norma. Overcome by emotion, Norma two children. He has fallen in love with a young embraces Adalgisa, and the women reaffirm novice priestess, Adalgisa, who returns his love. their friendship. Flavio warns him against Norma’s anger. The druids assemble, and Norma prays to the moon The warriors assemble in the forest to goddess for peace. She tells her people that as hear Oroveso’s announcement that a new soon as the moment for their uprising against commander will replace Pollione. Oroveso rages the conquerors arrives, she herself will lead the against the Roman oppression, but tells them revolt. At the same time, she realizes that she that they must be patient to ensure the success of could never harm Pollione. The druids leave; the eventual revolt. when the grove is deserted, Adalgisa appears and asks for strength to resist Pollione, whom she Norma is stunned to hear from Clotilde that loves. He finds her crying and urges her to flee Adalgisa’s pleas have not persuaded Pollione to with him to Rome. She agrees to renounce her return to her. In a rage, she urges her people vows and to go with him. to attack the conquerors. Oroveso demands a sacrificial victim. Just then, Pollione is brought in In her dwelling, Norma tells her confidante as a prisoner. Alone with him, Norma promises Clotilde that Pollione has been called back to him his freedom if he will give up Adalgisa for Rome. She is afraid that he will desert her and her. When he refuses, Norma threatens to kill their children. Adalgisa confesses to Norma both their children and Adalgisa to punish him. that she has a lover. Recalling the beginning of She calls in the druids, tells them that a guilty her own love affair, Norma decides to release priestess must die, and commands them to set Adalgisa from her vows and asks for the name up a pyre as punishment. To the surprise of all, of her lover. As Pollione appears, Adalgisa she confesses before the crowd that she herself answers truthfully. Norma’s kindness turns to is the guilty priestess. Moved by her nobility, fury. She tells Adalgisa about her own betrayal Pollione asks to share her fate. Norma begs by the Roman soldier. Pollione confesses his love Oroveso to watch over her children, then leads for Adalgisa and asks her again to come away her lover to the pyre. with him, but she refuses and declares that she would rather die than steal him from Norma. Synopsis Adapted from Opera News The act closes as Norma threatens revenge.

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Vincenzo Bellini has Norma, in 1890, and claimed that the role was long been cherished harder “than all three Brünnhildes put together.” by opera lovers as a Though the work was performed frequently in Italy composer of beautiful, at this time, the Met went over twenty-five years extended melodies. In without it, until Rosa Ponselle undertook the title recent decades, he has role in 1927. Maria Callas sang Norma 92 times, also been identified by from Florence in 1948 until her final performances scholars as an important in Paris in 1965. Other superb exponents of the pioneer of musical role have included Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Romanticism along the Caballé and, more recently, Sondra Radvanovsky. likes of Schumann or

Vincenzo Bellini on an Italian banknote on an Italian Bellini Vincenzo Chopin. Bellini (1801- 1835) was born in Catania, in Sicily. He studied at the conservatory in Naples, where he wrote his first operas. He soon made it north to Milan and La Scala, then as now the most important Italian theater. In that time when opera composition flourished, he worked regularly (ifmuch more slowly than Donizetti or Rossini) and wrote several successful operas. Among these were Il pirata (1827) and his setting of the Romeo and Juliet story, I Capuleti e I Montecchi (1830).

Bellini and librettist Felice Romani began working with the celebrated singer Giuditta Pasta, whose voice was intriguingly described as exercising, “an instantaneous and hypnotic effect on the soul of the listener.” Their first project together, in early 1831, was La sonnambula. Following their joint success in that piece, La Scala engaged the trio for a new work which was to be Pasta’s debut in that august theater. At her suggestion, they chose as their subject a somewhat old-fashioned play that had recently had a success in Paris, Alexandre Soumet’s Norma, ou l’Infanticide. Romani made several important changes to the original play that sharpened the drama and made it more effective on the operatic stage. Norma had its world premiere on December 26, 1831. Rosa Ponselle as Norma, with children (photograph: Herman Mishkin) (photograph: Herman with children as Norma, Ponselle Rosa

Though the opening night was not a success, the Norma is filled with many of Bellini’s trademark opera soon gained a foothold in the repertoire. long and gorgeous tunes. A centerpiece of each of Norma quickly became known as a highly act is a duet for the two women. Listen to how their demanding showcase for sopranos capable of vocal lines intertwine, culminating in the lovely meeting the tests of the title role. The character passages in thirds in Act Two’s “Mira, o Norma.” is at once lover, mother, high priestess, mentor, The Act One finale is not just exciting, but friend, and leader of her people; her dramatic, interesting in that the creators have pared away vocal, and musical challenges have beckoned star all but the three essential characters. The finale singers from the beginning. Very shortly after of the opera builds masterfully, with a beautiful the premiere, the first Adalgisa, Giulia Grisi, was and stunning climax as Bellini shifts seamlessly tempted to sing Norma. Maria Malibran sought from private to public scenes. We present this out the part also, as did Pauline Viardot (whose central work of the bel canto repertoire today in its supposed deathbed regret, in 1910, was that she had Raleigh premiere. not succeeded in the part). The German soprano Lilli Lehmann was the Metropolitan Opera’s first By Eric Mitchko

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ANTONY WALKER LEAH CROCETTO (CONDUCTOR) (NORMA) Antony Walker makes his Leah Crocetto made her NCO NCO debut conducting debut in 2012 as Leonora this afternoon’s concert in Verdi’s ll trovatore. This performance of Norma. Since afternoon, she returns to sing his conducting debut in 1991, her first performance of the

© Christian Steiner Maestro Walker has led nearly Fox © Fay title role in Bellini’s Norma. 200 operas, large-scale choral and orchestral works, and numerous symphonic and chamber Ms. Crocetto is a frequent guest of the San works with companies in Europe, North Francisco Opera, where she has sung the title America, and Australia. roles in Aida and Luisa Miller (opposite tenor Michael Fabiano), Mimì in La bohème and Liù This season marks his thirteenth season as Music in Turandot, the role in which she made her Director of the Pittsburgh Opera. His recent 2015 Metropolitan Opera debut. performances with that company include Tosca (with Leah Crocetto in the title role), Le nozze di She has also sung Aida with Seattle Opera and Figaro, Moby-Dick, Turandot, Salome, The Rake’s Washington National Opera, Donna Anna in Progress, The Summer King, Nabucco, and Così fan Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Anna in Rossini’s tutte. He is the Artistic Director of Washington Maometto II at Santa Fe Opera, Female Chorus Concert Opera, where he recently conducted in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at Houston Massenet’s Hérodiade and Beethoven’s Leonore. Grand Opera, Madame Lidoine in Poulenc’s He is also the Founding Artistic Director and Dialogues des Carmélites at Washington Conductor Emeritus of Pinchgut Opera. National Opera, Élisabeth de Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlo at Washington National Opera and Maestro Walker made his Metropolitan Opera Opera Philadelphia, and two Puccini roles debut in 2011 conducting Gluck’s Orfeo ed (Mimì and the title role in Tosca) at Pittsburgh Euridice and has returned to the house to Opera conducted by Antony Walker, the conduct performances of Il barbiere di Siviglia, company’s Music Director, who is conducting Les pêcheurs de perles and Die Zauberflöte. this afternoon’s concert performance of Norma.

His career also includes engagements with Leah Crocetto made her European debut as Canadian Opera Company, The Santa Fe the Leonora with Opéra National de Bordeaux Opera, English National Opera, Opera Australia, and has returned there to sing the title role in Welsh National Opera, New York City Opera, Semiramide and Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello. Teatro Comunale Bologna, Cincinnati Opera, She is a favorite at Opera Frankfurt, where Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint she has sung Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff Louis, Vancouver Opera, Sydney Symphony and Leonora. Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney Opera House Orchestra. Later this season, she appears in recital at Carnegie Hall, as Leonora at Seattle Opera and Upcoming engagements include Hänsel und a soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Gretel at Pittsburgh Opera, Gounod’s Sapho and LA Philharmonic. Rossini’s Zelmira at Washington Concert Opera, and Massenet’s Werther with the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute.

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ELIZABETH DeSHONG CHAD SHELTON (ADALGISA) (POLLIONE) Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Tenor Chad Shelton makes DeShong makes her NCO his NCO debut as Pollione, debut as Adalgisa, a role that a role that he sang last season she sang last year at Lyric at Houston Grand Opera Opera of Chicago. and sings later this season at © Jenna Barrett © Jenna © Kristin Hoebermann Utah Opera. Ms. DeShong has performed at the world’s finest opera companies and symphony He is a frequent leading presence with Houston orchestras including, the Metropolitan Opera, Grand Opera. His roles there include Alfredo Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, San in La traviata, Don Jose in Carmen, Chairman Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Mao in Nixon in China, Pinkerton in Madama Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra and Butterfly, Froh in Das Rheingold, Cavaradossi Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Last season, she in Tosca, Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night scored a triumph at the Metropolitan Opera Music, Camille in Die lustige Witwe, Tamino in as Arsace in Rossini’s Semiramide, which was Die Zauberflöte, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, telecast Live in HD to movie theatres around and Aegisth in Elektra. the globe. Other recent operatic engagements include Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly He is a favorite at Opéra National de Lorraine, at the Glyndebourne Festival and Ruggiero where he has sung Don Jose, Tamino, the title in Handel’s Alcina with Washington National roles in Idomeneo and Candide, Giasone in Opera. In September, she appeared in recital with Medea, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, DC Vocal Arts at the Kennedy Center. Lechmere in Owen Wingrave, Guido Bardi in Zemlinksy’s Eine florentinische Tragödie, and Recent concert engagements included Schubert’s Jack in Gerald Berry’s The Importance of Mass No. 6 and Maxwell Raimi’s Three Lisel Being Earnest. Mueller Settings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Riccardo Muti, Bernstein’s He made his Metropolitan Opera debut on Symphony No. 1 with the Accademia Nazionale the opening night of the 2015-16 season as di Santa Cecilia conducted by Antonio Pappano, Roderigo in Bartlett Sher’s new production Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Chicago’s Music of of Verdi’s Otello. He also has appeared with the Baroque conducted by Jane Glover, and San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hansel in a concert version of Hänsel und Gretel Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, San Diego conducted by Andrew Davis at the Edinburgh Opera, Florentine Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, International Festival. Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Opéra National de Bordeaux. Upcoming engagements include Juno in Handel’s Semele with The English Concert, Upcoming engagements include Roderigo at the Sesto in La clemenza di Tito with LA Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Don Jose at the Seiji Ozawa and the title role in Handel's Rinaldo at the Music Academy, multiple returns to Houston Glyndebourne Festival. She also appears in Grand Opera, and a debut with Calgary Opera. Handel’s Messiah with the San Francisco Symphony and the Houston Symphony.

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AO LI As a concert soloist, Mr. Henderson’s (OROVESO) engagements include performances of Bach’s Bass-baritone Ao Li makes his Magnificat and St. John Passion, Beethoven’s NCO debut with this concert Symphony No. 9, Missa Solemnis, and Mass performance of Norma. He in C, Berlioz’s Te Deum, Britten’s Saint Nicolas is a past winner of the and Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Plácido Domingo Operalia Dvorak’s Requiem and Stabat Mater, Handel’s World Opera Competition Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Haydn’s Lord and the National Council Auditions of the Nelson Mass and Mass in Time of War, Mahler’s Metropolitan Opera. He is a former Adler Fellow Das klagende Lied, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and at San Francisco Opera, where he appeared St. Paul, Mozart’s Requiem, Rachmaninoff’s in productions of Carmen, Lucrezia Borgia, Vespers, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Tippett’s A Child I Capuleti e i Montecchi, La serva padrona, of Our Time, and the world premiere of J. Mark Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tosca, and The Secret Scearce’s String Quartet No. 2 with the renowned Garden. Recent engagements include Male Borromeo Quartet. Soloist No. 4 in Huang Ruo’s Paradise Interrupted at the Spoletto Festival USA, Don Alfonso in KATHLEEN FELTY Così fan tutte at Macau International Music (CLOTILDE) Festival, Mr. Kobayaski in An American Dream Mezzo-soprano Kathleen Felty at Seattle Opera, and Colline in La bohème at performed at NCO’s 2017-18 Utah Opera. Season Reveal and makes her company mainstage debut He has also performed the title roles in Le nozze with this concert performance di Figaro and Don Pasquale at the National Centre of Norma. She is a Fellow at for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He debuted the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute. Her roles there to great acclaim in Korea as Gremin (Eugene include Angelina (La Cenerentola), Geneviève Onegin) at the Seoul Arts Centre. He teaches (Impressions de Pelléas), Dinah (Trouble in voice at the Shandong Normal University. Tahiti), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Paula (Florencia en el Amazonas). She was a WADE HENDERSON 2018 member of The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice (FLAVIO) Programs for Singers and Technicians. This Tenor Wade Henderson is a season, she performs the roles of Miss Jessell frequent guest artist at NCO, (The Turn of the Screw), Charlotte (Werther), where he has appeared in and Unulfo (Rodelinda) at A.J. Fletcher productions of Rigoletto, Le Opera Institute and Maddalena (Rigoletto) at nozze di Figaro, Das Rheingold, Dayton Opera. Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tristan and Isolde, La bohème, Aida, and Carmen.

Elsewhere he has sung leading roles in Madama Butterfly (Lt. Pinkerton), Pagliacci (Canio), L’amico Fritz (Fritz), and Scearce’s A Tree – A Rock – A Cloud (Old Man).

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In Honor of C. Thomas Kunz In Memory of Thomas H. McGuire, Jr. Susan Curtis Dr. and Mrs. H. Clifford Baggett Tyler Eudy Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Barber John Idler Jim and Barbara Goodmon and the A. J. Fletcher Leon Meyers Foundation Kirk Wallace Ms. Carol Newman Walter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Newsom, III Mr. Sam Register In Honor of Dr. Assad Meymandi Gilbert Greggs In Memory of Stephen J. Greenslade Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Greenslade In Honor of Eric Mitchko Lester Czukor In Memory of Anna Mae Huval Ms. Danielle Pope In Honor of Dr. Robert Morrison Chip and Judy Anderson In Memory of Ivan Korobkina Ms. Ekaterina Korobkina and Mr. Robert Golub In Honor of Ralph L. Roberson Stacey Pierce In Memory of Veronica P. Scheinuk Mr. Jack Scheinuk In Honor of John Russell upon his retirement from K&L Gates, LLP Mr. Bill Wiggins

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1ST VIOLIN BASS CIMBASSO Carol Chung John Spuller Tony Granados Margaret Partridge Cody Rex Wendy Rawls Rebecca Marland TIMPANI Anne Leyland John Fedderson Irina Shelepov FLUTE Ashley Kovacs Pam Nelson PERCUSSION David Prudon Carla Burns Christopher Nappi Leah Peroutka Krista Cala OBOE HARP Lucy Greenleaf Jaren Atherholt Grace Ludtke Alex Liedtke 2ND VIOLIN STAGE BAND: Joan Beck CLARINET Emi Hildebrandt Andy Hudson TRUMPET Laura Thomas Todd Krueger Paul Neebe Mary Kay Robinson Kent Foss Bonnie Stoughton BASSOON Sarah Griffin Michael Burns FRENCH HORN Christine Haarvig Benjamin Atherholt Elliot Stanger Robert Rempher Ian Blegen FRENCH HORN Jacob Kadan VIOLA Natalie Fritz Simon Ertz Grace Salyards TUBA Matthew Chicurel Tanner West Brent Harvey Amy Mason Timothy Dyess Kristen Beard PERSONNEL MANAGER Joseph O’Donnell TRUMPET Paul Gorski Katie Miller Alexander Fioto Van Zimmerman LIBRARIAN CELLO Julia Thompson Nate Leyland TROMBONE Debbie Davis Michael Kris David Oh Wes Parker Lauren Dunsheath Russell McKinney Erica Leavell Halie Morris

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Gretchen Bruesehoff Brent Blakesley Laura Carskadden Jordan Clifton Jane Coons Mason Cordell Madeline Edwards Adam Dengler Sydel Fisher Corbin Elliott Paula Hostetter Wade Henderson Chelsea Huber Jerry Hurley Erica Jackson Jacob Kato Emily Krol Thomas Keefe Kaitie Lawson Kostya LaPasha Jodi Lewis David Marschall Margaret Maytan Bill Moran Jean Renze-Eilers Lindon Pearson Joncie Sarratt Scott Robertson Nuria Shin Lucinio Santos Lorraine Snyder Matt Sawchak Rachel Stenbuck Jie Tang Annette Stowe John Warrick Monica Szabo-Nyeste Ted Willis Lauren Tompkins D’André Wright

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Bill Rustin, President Sterling Perkinson, Vice-president John Lunsford, Treasurer James Gulcik, Secretary

Francis Acquaviva Carol McNeel Joel Adams Susan Oller Linda Arnold Florence Peacock Andrew Blass June Roberg Yvonne Bryant Ralph Roberson Richard Falvo John Russell Bryan Gilliam Steven Shaber Kimberly Gooden Renee Snyderman Nancy Hablutzel Shohreh Taavoni William Hampton Brigette Wilds Donald Hunter Ali Zomorodi C. Thomas Kunz

PRESIDENTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA OPERA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

James Romano: 2010-2012 Stephen Prystowsky: 2012-2014 C. Thomas Kunz: 2014-2018 Bill Rustin: 2018-present

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA

Eric Mitchko, General Director Bruce Loving, Marketing Consultant Julie Williams, Company Manager Maggie Clay Love, Development Consultant Ellen Fort, Director of Development Beth Eiserloh Johnson, Marketing Consultant Kristin Hartzell, Community Relations Manager Kristin Eiffert Foster, Development Intern Linda T. Carlson, Production Manager Kristin Roscoe, Box Office Administrator

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