C armen GEORGES BIZET September 21 – October 6, 2013 Production made possible by generous gifts from The Milan Panic Family and The Alfred and Claude Mann Fund, in honor of Plácido Domingo.

Einstein on the Beach ROBERT WILSON / PHILIP GLASS October 11 – 13, 2013

F alstaff GIUSEPPE VERDI November 9 – December 1, 2013 November 26, 2013, at Segerstrom Center for the Arts New production made possible by a generous gift from Brindell Roberts Gottlieb, in memory of Milton Gottlieb’s centennial anniversary. Special underwriting support from Leslie and John Dorman, and the League of Los Angeles. The presentation of LA Opera at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts made possible by a generous gift from Gemini Industries, Inc., and Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco.

A udra M Donald in Concert October 26, 2013

The Magic Flute WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART November 23 – December 15, 2013 Production made possible by a generous gift from The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart . Special underwriting for Maestro ’s conducting provided by James and Ellen Strauss.

B illy Budd BENJAMIN BRITTEN February 22 – March 16, 2014 Special production support provided by the Britten-Pears Foundation.

WORLD PREMIERE JACK PERLA / Jonah and the Whale VELINA HASU HOUSTON March 21 – 22, 2014, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Production made possible with generous underwriting support from the Dan Murphy Foundation. Special support also received from the National Endowment for the Arts, Britten-Pears Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

L ucia di Lammermoor GAETANO DONIZETTI March 15 – April 6, 2014 Production made possible by generous funding from The Blue Ribbon. Special underwriting support from The Seaver Endowment.

T ha¨is JULES MASSENET May 17 – June 7, 2014 May 22, 2014, at Segerstrom Center for the Arts Special additional funding from Barbara Augusta Teichert.

A Streetcar Named Desire ANDRÉ PREVIN May 18 – 24, 2014

Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Recital

May 22, 2014 OFFICIAL TIMEPIECE OF LA OPERA

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1 DONOR RECOGNITION 25th Anniversary Angels LA Opera wishes to recognize and thank those who made extraordinary leadership commitments in honor of the Company’s 25th Anniversary Season, a milestone achievement. Following the tradition established by previous Angel campaigns (listed on page P14), the support of the 25th Anniversary Angels ensures LA Opera’s continued artistic excellence and prominence in the worldwide cultural community.

Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco The Seaver Family Marc and Eva Stern Foundation

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Colburn Foundation County of Los Angeles Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Carol and Warner Henry Alfred and Claude Mann Flora L. Thornton Marilyn Ziering

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden The Annenberg Foundation Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter The Blue Ribbon Yuki and Alex Bouzari Kelly and Robert Day Dunard Fund USA Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Brindell Roberts Gottlieb The Green Foundation Bernard and Lenore Greenberg, in honor of Leonard Green LGHG Foundation Rosemary and Milton Okun Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Ronus Foundation Eugene and Marilyn Stein Christopher V. Walker Lenore and Richard Wayne Ziering Family Foundation Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley / Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE program

PLÁCIDO DOMINGO, ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD GENERAL DIRECTOR JAMES CONLON, RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

PRESENTS

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

CREATIVE TEAM CAST PRODUCTION NOTES

CONDUCTOR PAMINA Janai Brugger‡ The running time is approximately two hours James Conlon and 40 minutes, including one intermission. TAMINO Lawrence Brownlee* PRODUCTION This production features smoke effects THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT Erika Miklósa* Suzanne Andrade* and strobe lights. Barrie Kosky* SARASTRO Evan Boyer* Supertitles courtesy of Komisch Oper Berlin. PAPAGENO Rodion Pogossov* ANIMATION DESIGNER Edited for the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe by Paul Barritt* PAPAGENA Amanda Woodbury† Gernot Gruber and Alfred Orel. Used by arrangement with European American CONCEPT MONOSTATOS Rodell Rosel Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Bärenreiter Verlag. 1927 (Suzanne Andrade FIRST LADY Hae Ji Chang† and Paul Barritt) and Pre-performance lectures by James SECOND LADY Cassandra Zoé Velasco† Barrie Kosky Conlon. Pre-performance lectures are THIRD LADY Peabody Southwell generously sponsored by the Flora L. SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER Thornton Foundation and the Opera Esther Bialas* THE SPEAKER Phillip Addis* League of Los Angeles. FIRST BOY Drew Pickett* CHORUS MASTER A production of the Komische Oper Berlin. Grant Gershon SECOND BOY Charles Connon* Scenery constructed by Minnesota Opera ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR THIRD BOY Jamal Jaffer Scenic Studios. Costumes constructed by the Costume Shop. Tobias Ribitzki* FIRST ARMORED MAN Vladimir Dmitruk*† Additional costumes by Top Hat Imagewear. ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR / SECOND ARMORED MAN Valentin Anikin† Additional millinery by Hatcrafters, Inc. PROMPTER Wigs constructed by the Los Angeles Andreas Heinzmann Opera Wig & Make-Up Department. SUPPORT Prosthetics created by Darren K. Jinks. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Trevore Ross The boy soloists are members of the Production made possible by a generous gift from Los Angeles Children’s Chorus STAGE MANAGER (Anne Tomlinson, Artistic Director). Lyla Forlani The Carol and Warner Henry Production Fund for Mozart Operas. * LA Opera debut MUSICAL PREPARATION † Member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Jeremy Frank Special underwriting for Maestro James Conlon’s conducting Young Artist Program Susanna Lemberskaya provided by James and Ellen Strauss. ‡ Alumna of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Tamara Sanikidze Young Artist Program Presented in co-production with Minnesota Opera. ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. LA Weekly is Media Sponsor for The Magic Flute.

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PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 SYNOPSIS

ACT I In a dark forest, far away… As he flees from a dangerous giant serpent, Tamino is rescued at the last second by the three ladies who serve the Queen of the Night. When he regains consciousness, the first thing Tamino sees is Papageno, so Tamino believes him to be his rescuer. Papageno, a bird catcher in search of love, does nothing to dispel the misunderstanding. The three ladies return and punish Papageno for his lies by rendering him mute. They show

Tamino a picture of Pamina, the daughter PHOTO FROM THE KOMISCHE OPER BERLIN BY IKO FREESE / DRAMA-BERLIN.DE Papageno is punished for telling lies. of the Queen of the Night. Tamino instantly falls in love with Pamina. enter upon the scene. Monostatos leads to say farewell to one another. Papageno Shortly thereafter, the Queen of the in Tamino. The long awaited encounter is not permitted to take part in any further Night herself appears and tells Tamino of between Tamino and Pamina is all too trials. He now wishes only for a glass of her daughter’s kidnapping at the hands brief; Sarastro orders that they must wine—and he dreams of his great love. of Sarastro. Tamino responds with great now face a series of trials. For her part, Pamina believes that she enthusiasm to her command that he free has lost Tamino forever. In her despair, she Pamina. The three ladies give Papageno ACT II seeks to end her own life, but is prevented back his voice and instruct him to The trial of silence from doing so by the three boys, who accompany Tamino. As a protection Tamino and Papageno must practice assure her that Tamino still loves her. against danger, they give Tamino the being silent. When the three ladies Gladdened and relieved, Pamina accepts gift of a magic flute, while Papageno appear to them in an attempt to their invitation to see Tamino again. receives magic bells. The three ladies persuade them to abandon their quest, Reunited at last, Tamino and Pamina declare that three boys will show Tamino the trial becomes truly difficult. Tamino undergo the final trial together. and Papageno the way to Sarastro. remains silent and resolute, while Pamina is tormented by Sarastro’s Papageno immediately begins to chatter. The trial of fire and water slave Monostatos. When Papageno Meanwhile, Monostatos again tries to The music of the magic flute and their wanders in, having become separated get close to the sleeping Pamina. The love for one another allow Tamino and from Tamino, both Papageno and Queen of the Night appears and orders Pamina to conquer their own fear and Monostatos are startled by the other’s her daughter to kill Sarastro. Pamina overcome the dangers of fire and water. strange appearance. Left alone with remains behind, despairing. Sarastro Papageno is meanwhile still Pamina, Papageno announces that her seeks to console Pamina by foreswear- unsuccessful in his search for his great rescuer Tamino will soon arrive. ing any thoughts of revenge. love. Despairing, he now also seeks to Papageno himself is sad that his search end his life, but is also prevented from for love has thus far proved fruitless. The trial of temptation doing so by the three boys. Papageno’s Pamina comforts him. Tamino and Papageno must resist dream finally comes true: together with The three boys lead Tamino to the any temptation: no conversation, no his Papagena, he dreams of being gates of Sarastro’s domain. Although he women, no food! blessed with many children. is initially refused entry, Tamino begins As well as the magic flute and magic to doubt the statements made by the bells, the three boys also bring Tamino Meanwhile… Queen of the Night regarding Sarastro. and Papageno food, which Tamino …the Queen of the Night, the three He begins to play on his magic flute, once again steadfastly resists. Even ladies and the turncoat Monostatos enchanting nature with his music. Pamina fails to draw a single word from arm themselves for an attack against Papageno meanwhile flees with Tamino’s lips, which she interprets as a Sarastro and his retinue. However, the Pamina, but they are caught by rejection. She laments the cooling of attack is repelled. Monostatos and his helpers. Papageno’s Tamino’s love for her. Tamino and Pamina have reached magic bells put their pursuers out of Before the last trial, Pamina and the end of their trials, and can finally action. Sarastro and his retinue then Tamino are brought together one last time be together.

In fond memory of Tara Colburn, supertitles are underwritten by Dunard Fund USA.

P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE BY THE NUMBERS Musical Notes

WORLD PREMIERE OF 1791 THE MAGIC FLUTE IN VIENNA What To Listen For The Magic Flute is delightfully simple on the surface. But, of course, there’s always more to Mozart. It was written as a theatrical entertainment for the general public, a fantasy full of special effects, but the themes of bravery and love are just as important as the humor and the magic.

As with Mozart’s Don Giovanni and tune—is noble. The orchestration , it continually surrounds Tamino with a warm glow as alternates between serious and comic he professes his love for the woman episodes. But unlike those scores, The in the portrait. Magic Flute is a true grab-bag of styles, The Queen of the Night’s two all miraculously coming together to arias are marked by fiery coloratura DAYS REMAINING IN 1 portray the spectrum of human that ascends to high F (2 /2 octaves 66 MOZART’S LIFE AFTER THAT PREMIERE emotion. The music of Papageno, the above middle C), the highest common man, is inspired by folksong, soprano note found in the standard SEPARATE ANIMATION while the Queen of the Night’s passion repertoire. Her first aria is in two 50 CUES IN THE QUEEN and rage are expressed in rapid-fire parts, slow and mournful as she OF THE NIGHT’S coloratura. The eloquent lyricism of describes her grief, then giving way SECOND ARIA Tamino and Pamina’s arias establishes to an intense conclusion that takes them as hero and heroine, while flight with rapidly ascending scales Sarastro’s majestic arias convey his as she demands Tamino’s help. Her dignity and wisdom. There is even a second aria is an all-out explosion of Lutheran hymn quoted as the two fury, expressing her foul intentions armored men solemnly lead Tamino through elaborate coloratura. to his trials. With Sarastro’s first aria, “O Isis The overture begins majestically und Osiris,” a new perspective is with three chord repetitions. (The introduced in the plot: that Pamina’s number three is everywhere: three capturer may not be evil after all. The ladies, three boys, three temple doors, sublime nobility and serenity of his MILES VOYAGER 1 etc. The opera even begins and ends music, which takes the bass down HAS TRAVELED WITH 11.6 in the key of E-flat major, which has to a low F, reflect the wisdom and billion A RECORDING OF THAT ARIA three flats.) This leads into a rustle of benevolence that he represents. movement in the strings, whose Pamina’s profoundly moving aria PERFORMANCES OF ebullient melody is passed back and “Ach, ich fühl’s” comes at the most 38 THE MAGIC FLUTE forth throughout the orchestra, poignant moment in the opera, when AT LA OPERA BY END signaling the frequent alternation to Tamino, bound by the trial of silence, OF THIS RUN come between solemn and refuses to speak to her. The depth lighthearted moods. of her despair is expressed in the HANDCRAFTED 14 WOLF MASKS IN Papageno’s jovial entrance aria anguished rising and falling tones in THIS PRODUCTION (“Yes, I’m the bird catcher”) is typical her aria. Her initial phrases are short, of his music. It’s written like a folk as if her pain is too great to express. song, with three simple verses, as A supreme musical dramatist, direct, cheerful and lovable as he is. Mozart infused The Magic Flute Tamino’s expressive portrait aria with a universal language that begins with an interval leap of heart- anyone can comprehend. Just as swelling emotion. His vocal line is its characters undertake a journey AGE IN YEARS OF full of rising and falling semi-tones, toward enlightenment, The Magic 42 THE OLDEST KNOWN reminiscent of sighs, and its Flute takes the audience on a INSTRUMENTS, BONE tenderness indicates that Tamino— truly magical adventure through thousand AND IVORY FLUTES unlike Papageno, with his bouncy a world of wondrous beauty.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 ARTISTS

James Conlon Barrie Kosky CONDUCTOR DIRECTOR

From: New York City. From: Melbourne, Australia. LA Opera: debut conducting LA Opera: debut. La Traviata (2006); 37 different Career highlights: He is mainstage operas and over Intendant of the Komische 225 performances to date. This Oper Berlin, where he has season, he also conducts The directed Ligeti’s Le Grand Magic Flute, Lucia di Macabre, The Marriage of Lammermoor and Billy Budd. Figaro, , Rusalka, He has been Richard Seaver Iphigénie en Tauride, Kiss Me Music Director since 2006. Kate, the Monteverdi trilogy, Career highlights: He has led Ball im Savoy and West Side virtually every major North Story. In 1996 he took over the American and European artistic direction of the Adelaide orchestra, and over 270 performances at the Metropolitan Festival. He was artistic director of the Vienna Schauspielhaus Opera. He is music director of the (since 2005) from 2001 to 2006. His staging of Orfeo at the Innsbruck and Cincinnati May Festival (since 1979). He was principal con- Festival of Early Music, also presented at the Staatsoper unter ductor of the Paris National Opera (1995-2004), general music den Linden in Berlin, caused an international sensation. Recent director of the City of Cologne (1989-2002) and music director projects include a Ring cycle in Hannover, Strauss’s The Silent of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (1983-91). He has two Grammys Woman in Munich, Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard’s Castle in and was awarded France’s Légion d’Honneur. He is engaged Frankfurt, Armide in Amsterdam and Rameau’s Castor and in a three-year homage to Benjamin Britten in observation of Pollux at English National Opera (Olivier Award: Best Opera the composer’s centenary, including symphonic and choral Production). Future plans include productions for Covent works and six operas. (www.JamesConlon.com) Garden and Glyndebourne and in Munich, Frankfurt and Zurich.

Suzanne Andrade Paul Barritt DIRECTOR ANIMATION DESIGN

From: London, England. From: Wrexham, Wales. LA Opera: debut. LA Opera: debut. Career highlights: She is the Career highlights: An founder, with animator Paul illustrator and animator, he Barritt, of the multiple award- has been published in Time winning theater company 1927, Out and won an award at the which specializes in synchroniz- Darklight Film Festival for his ing performance and live music short film Shed. He recently with animation and film to finished a commission for a create magical theater. She has four-screen film project shown written and directed two theater at the ICA. Before creating productions for 1927. Between the multiple award-winning the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea theater company 1927 with premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe and has been pre- Suzanne Andrade, they worked on various projects together, sented in 13 countries in four continents, including two sell-out including a show taken to the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe as a London seasons. The Animals and Children Took to the Streets part of a literary cabaret. He has also made several stand- premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2010 and has been alone films based upon Ms. Andrade’s writing, seen at film presented in 79 venues across 27 countries on five continents, festivals throughout the UK and Europe. He designed all of including two seasons at the National Theatre. Last year, 1927 the animations and films for the 1927 shows Between the collaborated on The Magic Flute with Komische Oper Berlin. Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and The Animals and Children After the L.A. performances, it will be mounted at Deutsche took to the Streets, and he is currently developing new work Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and at Minnesota Opera. She is for 1927. He is an associate lecturer in animation at Middlesex currently developing new work for 1927. (www.19-27.co.uk) University. (www.PaulBarritt.com)

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Esther Bialas Grant Gershon SCENERY AND COSTUME DESIGNER CHORUS MASTER

From: Hamburg, Germany. From: Alhambra, California. LA Opera: debut. LA Opera: debut conducting Career highlights: She has a La Traviata (2009), followed longstanding collaboration with by Il Postino (2010), L’Allegro, director Nicolas Stemann, il Penseroso ed il Moderato designing costumes for his pro- (2011), Madame Butterfly ductions of Hamlet (Schauspiel (2012), Dulce Rosa and Hannover), Jelinek’s The Work (2013). He was named Resident (Burgtheater, Vienna) and Conductor in 2012, after serving Schiller’s The Robbers (Thalia as Associate Conductor / Theater, Hamburg). Together Chorus Master since 2007. with director Christiane Pohle, Career highlights: La Traviata she founded the women’s the- at Wolf Trap Opera, John ater company LaborLavache, presented at the Schauspielhaus Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary at the Zurich. She has designed for the Basel Theater, for opera Ravinia Festival, Vivaldi’s Griselda at the Santa Fe Opera, productions in Lucerne and Basel, and she has also designed multiple appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. for film. Her collaborations with director Barrie Kosky include He is in his 13th season as Music Director of the Los Angeles Strindberg’s A Dream Play at the Deutsche Theater Berlin, Master Chorale, with over 100 performances at Walt Disney Strauss’s The Silent Woman at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Concert Hall. His discography includes two Grammy- as well as Ball im Savoy, Seven Songs/The Seven Deadly Sins nominated recordings, Sweeney Todd and Ligeti’s Grand and West Side Story, all at the Komische Oper in Berlin. Macabre, as well as five CDs with the Master Chorale. He is a Since 2004, she has taught costume design at the Lerchenfeld member of the Board of Councilors for the Thornton School University in Hamburg. and the Board of Directors of Chorus America.

Tobias Ribitzki ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR STAY CONNECTED! From: Berlin, Germany. #LAOflute LA Opera: debut. Career highlights: He has directed Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine at the Cumberlandsche facebook.com/LAOpera Galerie in Hannover and at the Theater Kiel. He has been an assistant director at the Komische Oper in Berlin since the 2012/13 season, after working as an assistant director twitter.com/LAOpera at the Hannover State Opera and the Landestheater in Linz. He has directed the world premieres of numerous children’s operas, including Friends! by Peter Androsch in Hannover, for which he was nominated for the German theater prize instagram.com/LAOpera “Der Faust,” Rosemarie the Cow by Claudia Federspieler (Linz), The Robber Hotzenplotz by Andreas N. Tarkmann (Hannover) and The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs by Stefan Johannes Hanke (Hannover). Earlier this year, he developed the concept for performance of five pieces youtube.com/losangelesopera dedicated to the poet Daniil Kharms, staged with the ensemble “ur.werk” in Hannover and Belgrade.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7 ARTISTS

Janai Brugger Lawrence Brownlee PAMINA SOPRANO TAMINO TENOR

From: Darien, . From: Youngstown, Ohio. LA Opera: Barbarina in The LA Opera: debut. Marriage of Figaro (2010, Career highlights: He began debut) with subsequent perfor- the season as Tonio in The mances including Musetta in La Daughter of the Regiment in PHOTO BY DEREK BLANKS PHOTO BY KENNETH DOLIN Bohème (2012) and An Evening Seattle. Upcoming appearances of Zarzuela and Latin American include Nemorino in L’Elisir Music (2013). She is an alumna d’Amore in Vienna, Narciso in of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Il Turco in Italia and Ramiro in Young Artist Program. La Cenerentola in Munich, and Career highlights: In 2012, she a return to the Metropolitan debuted with the as Arturo in I Puritani. He Opera as Liu in Turandot and recently appeared in Le Comte with Palm Beach Opera as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette; she also Ory in Vienna, The Daughter of the Regiment and L’Elisir won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the d’Amore in Hamburg, La Donna del Lago in Santa Fe and The top three awards at . She also appeared at the Ravinia Barber of Seville in Palermo. Memorable engagements include Festival as the First Lady in The Magic Flute with James Conlon. La Cenerentola in Milan, Houston, Philadelphia and at the Met; Earlier this year, she performed the Mozart Requiem at the The Barber of Seville in Geneva; L’Italiana in Algeri in Milan, Cincinnati May Festival, the Priestess in with the LA Dresden, Houston, Boston and Seattle; I Puritani in Washington Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl and and Seattle; Mosé in Egitto in Rome; Armida at the Met; The Liu with Hawaii Opera. Future appearances include a return Daughter of the Regiment in Hamburg, Seattle, Cincinnati and to the Met as Helena in The Enchanted Island and Micaëla in at the Met; and recitals at Carnegie Hall and at London’s Carmen with Opera Colorado. (www.JanaiBrugger.com) Wigmore Hall. (www.LawrenceBrownlee.com)

Evan Boyer Erika Miklósa SARASTRO BASS QUEEN OF THE NIGHT SOPRANO

From: Louisville, Kentucky. From: Kiskunhalas, Hungary. LA Opera: debut. LA Opera: debut. Career highlights: He began Career highlights: At the age the current season with of 19, she became the youngest engagements at Lyric Opera singer ever in the history of of , first in a concert the Hungarian State Opera. at Millennium Park, followed Her first international contract by Lodovico in Otello. Later was as the Queen of the Night this season, he will return to at the Mannheim Opera. She the Canadian Opera Company has now sung that role more as Samuel in Un Ballo in than 400 times in leading opera Maschera. He is a recent houses around the world, with graduate of the Ryan Opera recent performances at the Center at , where his numerous roles Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, with the Chicago Symphony have included Sarastro, the King in Aida, Count Ceprano in Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, and at the Bavarian State Rigoletto and Pietro in Simon Boccanegra. He recently Opera in Munich. She has recorded the role for DG, conducted made debuts as Colline in La Bohème with the National by Claudio Abbado, and she performed this role in the first Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, with the live HDTV broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, conducted Cleveland Orchestra at both Severance Hall and Carnegie by James Levine and later released on DVD. Highlights of Hall as the First Nazarene and First Soldier in Salome, and recent seasons include Gilda in Rigoletto in Munich, Budapest with the Canadian Opera Company in Salome and and Cluj. Later this season, she will perform Norina in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Don Pasquale and Fiakermilli in Arabella in Budapest. (www.ErikaMiklosa.com)

P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE ARTISTS

Rodion Pogossov Hae Ji Chang PAPAGENO BARITONE FIRST LADY SOPRANO

From: Seoul, South Korea. From: Moscow, Russia. LA Opera: Frasquita in Carmen (2013, LA Opera: debut. debut). She is a member of the Domingo- Career highlights: He performs Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. She frequently at the Metropolitan

PHOTO BY IGOR MUHIN will return as Crobyle in Thaïs. Opera, where his roles have Career highlights: At Operalia 2013, she won the Pepita Embil included Papageno, Figaro in Domingo Zarzuela Prize. She appeared with the Colburn The Barber of Seville and Orchestra as Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia with James Conlon. Malatesta in Don Pasquale. He She has sung Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with Aspen also performs regularly at the Opera Theater and Pamina in The Magic Flute with the St. Louis Hamburg State Opera, with Symphony. She was a soloist with the Colorado Music Festival appearances as Figaro, Chamber Orchestra in Fauré’s Requiem and with the Baltimore Valentin in Faust and Posa in Symphony Orchestra in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, Don Carlo. Recent concert which marked her Carnegie Hall debut. performances include Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestra, and a recital of Mahler’s Lieder und Gesänge in Tokyo. This Cassandra Zoé Velasco season’s engagements include Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at SECOND LADY MEZZO-SOPRANO the Met, his debut in the title role in Don Giovanni at the From: Mexico City, Mexico. Oviedo Opera, and Figaro in The Barber of Seville at the LA Opera: Mercédès in Carmen (2013, Palm Beach Opera. His solo recital disc for the prestigious debut). She is a member of the Domingo- EMI Debut Series received great acclaim, and will shortly be Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. She followed by a disc of Rachmaninov songs with pianist Iain will return as Myrtale in Thaïs. Burnside, to be released on Delphian Records. Career highlights: Appearances in Mexico City include Charlotte in Werther, the title role in La Cenerentola, Rosina in Rodell Rosel The Barber of Seville, Isolier in Le Comte Ory, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri. She MONOSTATOS TENOR appeared in Catán’s La Hija de Rappaccini with Gotham Chamber Opera, which was presented in New York and Venice From: Manila, Philippines. and at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. She recently per- LA Opera: Goro in Madame formed Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Orquesta de Cámara Butterfly (2012, debut); de Bellas Artes, and Verdi´s Requiem and Beethoven’s Mass in Spoletta in Tosca (2013); C major in Brussels. (www.fairy-kandra.wix.com/cassandrazoe) Bardolph in Falstaff (2013). Career highlights: He recently performed the title role in Peabody Southwell Albert Herring in Milwaukee THIRD LADY MEZZO-SOPRANO and appeared in From: Los Angeles. and The Magic Flute at the LA Opera: Inez in Dulce Rosa (2013, debut). Ravinia Festival. His Lyric Career highlights: She made her 2009 pro- Opera of Chicago roles fessional debut with Long Beach Opera as include Monostatos and the the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen, return- four Tales of Hoffmann servants. At the Metropolitan Opera, ing for many roles including the title role in María de Buenos he appeared as Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier and as Aires, which she recently reprised at Chicago Opera Theater. Nathanaël and Frantz in The Tales of Hoffmann, both seen Other highlights include The Seven Deadly Sins (Central City nationwide in live HD screenings. He has performed Goro in Opera), Peer Gynt (SF Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas) and Madame Butterfly in Houston, Pittsburgh and Tulsa; Spoletta The Rape of Lucretia (Colburn/James Conlon). This season, she in Tosca and Don Curzio in The Marriage of Figaro with the will perform the title role in Agrippina (Opera Omaha), Juno/ Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival; and Ino in Semele (Pacific Musicworks, Seattle) and Omar in The the world premiere of Paul Moravec’s The Letter in Santa Fe. Death of Klinghoffer (Long Beach Opera). She is creating the Future appearances include Mime in Das Rheingold in title role in Emilie Schindler by Thomas Morse and Ken Cazan, Houston. (www.RodellRosel.com) to premiere in Germany in 2016. (PeabodySouthwell.com)

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 ARTISTS

Amanda Woodbury Phillip Addis PAPAGENA SOPRANO SPEAKER BARITONE

From: Crestwood, Kentucky. From: Toronto, Canada. LA Opera: debut. LA Opera: Micaëla in Carmen (2013, Additional L.A. appearances in Britten’s debut). She is a member of the Domingo- War Requiem and The Prodigal Son with Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. James Conlon. Career highlights: Marcello Career highlights: In August, she per- in La Bohème at the Canadian Opera formed Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with the Aspen Music Company, title role of Werther with the Opéra de Montréal Festival. Earlier this year, she was a soloist in the Britten Art (2011), title role in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Paris Opéra- Song Prelude at the Colburn School. She received her master’s Comique and BBC Proms, Jaufre in L’Amour de loin with degree in vocal performance at the University of Cincinnati DeVlaamse Opera, Roderick Usher in The Fall of the House of College-Conservatory of Music, where her roles included Usher in New York and Paris; Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues Dream with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Upcoming engagements of the Carmelites. She also recently performed the Countess include Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande at Paris’s Opéra in The Marriage of Figaro with the CCM Summer Program. In Comique, Lt. Audebert in Silent Night in Cincinnati, recitals in 2010, she was a studio artist with Opera North. Montreal and Paris. (www.PhillipAddis.com)

Vladimir Dmitruk Drew Pickett FIRST ARMORED MAN TENOR FIRST BOY TREBLE

From: Minsk, Belarus. LA Opera: debut. From: Pasadena. LA Opera: solo debut; Performances later this season as Maintop children’s chorus for La Bohème (2012) in Billy Budd and Arturo in Lucia di and Tosca and Carmen (2013). Lammermoor. He is a member of the Career highlights: Solo appearances Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist include the Spirit of the Child in Curlew Program. Career highlights: At Operalia 2013, held in Verona, River with Jacaranda, The Magic Flute with Music Academy of he was the winner of the CulturArte Prize. In 2011, he won the West and the LA Phil’s Mother Goose. With the Los Angeles first place in the prestigious Irina Bogacheva International Children’s Chorus, he has performed with the LA Philharmonic, Voice Competition in St. Petersburg. His repertoire includes Master Chorale, Pasadena Pops and Angeles Chorale. the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, Lensky in Eugene Onegin and Alfredo in La Charles Connon Traviata. He has appeared with Norway’s Bergen National SECOND BOY TREBLE Opera. On December 6, he performs the title role in Britten’s The Prodigal Son, conducted by James Conlon From: Los Angeles. LA Opera: solo debut; with musicians from the USC Thornton School of Music. children’s chorus for Tosca and Carmen (2013) and the student production The Valentin Anikin White Bird of Poston. Career highlights: In August, he appeared in The Magic Flute SECOND ARMORED MAN BASS with Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. With the From: Yekaterinburg, Russia. Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, he has performed with the LA LA Opera: Zuniga in Carmen (2013, debut); Philharmonic, Master Chorale, Angeles Chorale, Jacaranda Pistol in Falstaff (2013). Performances Music Festival and Hollywood Bowl. later this season as the Novice’s Friend in Billy Budd and Palemon in Thaïs. He is a Jamal Jaffer member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. THIRD BOY TREBLE Career highlights: He is a 2010 graduate of the Ural State Conservatory in Yekaterinburg. In 2007, he became a princi- From: Pasadena. LA Opera: Solo Child in La pal soloist with the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet. Since Bohème (2012, debut). Career highlights: He 2009, he has been a soloist with the Saint Petersburg is in his fifth year with the LA Children’s Chamber Opera. He has performed roles that include Don Chorus, appearing with the LA Philharmonic Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Varlaam in Boris Godunov, and the American Youth Symphony. He was Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Prince Gremin in Eugene a soloist in Paul Mealor’s Ubi Caritas with the Master Chorale Onegin, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, King René in Iolanta, the and Dutilleux’s Shadows of Time with the LA Phil, and in Commendatore in Don Giovanni and Colline in La Bohème. Music Academy of the West’s Magic Flute in Santa Barbara.

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LA OPERA CHORUS LA OPERA ORCHESTRA

SOPRANO FIRST VIOLIN CELLO BASSOON

Samela Beasom** Virenia Lind** Roberto Cani John Walz William May Jamie Chamberlin Renee Sousa* STUART CANIN PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL CONCERTMASTER Nicole Fernandes Rebecca Tomlinson* Dane Little Judith Farmer Ayana Haviv Jessica Guideri ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER ALTO Xiao-Dan Zheng Lisa Sutton Nadine Hall HORN ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Roger Lebow Natalie Beck** Christie Lynn Lawrence* Steven Becknell Aleta Braxton** Adrien Raynier** Margaret Wooten PRINCIPAL Veronica Christenson* Jennifer Wallace** Olivia Tsui Michelle Fournier** Tamsen Beseke BASS Daniel Kelley James Stark TENOR Tina Chang Qu David Young PRINCIPAL Armen Anassian TRUMPET Stephen Arel** Francis Lucaric* Loránd Lokuszta Ann Atkinson David Washburn Daniel C. Babcock Sal Malaki** ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Omar Crook Mark David Miller** PRINCIPAL Frances Liu Wu John Kimberling* George Sterne** SECOND VIOLIN Andy Ulyate Charles Lane* Daniel Suk Ana Landauer BASS PRINCIPAL FLUTE TROMBONE Steve Scharf Heather Clark Mark Beasom** Robert Hovencamp* William Booth ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL Reid Bruton* Mark Kelley* PRINCIPAL Julian Fielder* David Kress* Florence Titmus Angela Wiegand Alvin Veeh Gregory Geiger* James Martin Schaefer Leslie Katz Terry Cravens Abdiel Gonzalez Tim Smith** Michele Kikuchi Cynthia Moussas OBOE Jayme Miller HAMMERKLAVIER / *Has appeared in 50 or more productions Grace Oh Leslie Reed PRINCIPAL KEYED **Has appeared in 100 or more productions GLOCKENSPIEL Jennifer Johnson VIOLA Tamara Sanikidze PRINCIPAL Yi Zhou CLARINET SUPERNUMERARIES PRINCIPAL Andrew Picken Stuart Clark TIMPANI ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL Gregory Goodall Donald Foster Karie Prescott PRINCIPAL Zsolt Banki Katie Sweeney Shawn Mann Stephen Hues Dmitri Bovaird Kazi Pitelka

Stuart Canin Concertmaster Chair made possible by a deeply appreciated gift from Dunard Fund USA.

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ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Melinda Brown James Draper Azra King-Abadi Manuel Garcia MASTER OF PROPERTIES SENIOR STOCK ASSISTANTS ASSOCIATE CHORUS MASTER Jeff Des Enfants Jeremy Frank MASTER AUDIO Katie Aylward PRODUCTION ASSISTANT / BUYER MUSICAL ASSISTANT TO JAMES CONLON Jim Payne Ignazio Terrasi HOUSE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS WARDROBE Robert Devis Whitney McAnally Demetra Willis Melissa Sardella HEAD USHERS Erin Thompson-Janszen Lee Smilek Charlyn Trenier Carolyn Van Brunt WARDROBE ASSISTANTS SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR VICE PRESIDENT OF GUEST SERVICES Michael Scarola Shelley Graves-Jimenez COVER STAGE MANAGER Mary Lehman Barbara Donner Kathleen Melcher VARI*LITE AUTOMATED Marcie Olivi LIGHTING PROVIDED BY SUPERTITLE PREPARATION/CUER Laura Oswald Linda Zoolalian Angelo Rivera Vari-Lite Inc. SEASONAL DRESSERS STUDIO TEACHER Marie Wilson-Rogers THE DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN WIGS AND MAKE-UP YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

COSTUME SHOP Darren K. Jinks Identifying and encouraging talented young artists WIGMASTER with enormous potential is essential to the future Laina Babb Heather Bair of opera. Since the Company’s inception, LA Opera Samantha Wooten has been committed to nurturing a resident Leslie Ann Smith ASSOCIATE WIGMASTER ensemble of young singers who would benefit from CUTTER / DRAPERS Brandi Strona long-term professional development. The Domingo- Reina Alirez CREW FOREMAN Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, which builds ASSISTANT CUTTER / DRAPER on the success of the Company’s earlier, highly Renee Horner respected Resident Artist Program, has the goal of Florencia Carrizo Lisa Reitano developing the talents of exceptionally gifted FIRST HAND Nicole Rodrigues young artists to become performers of potentially SENIOR WIG & MAKE-UP ARTISTS international stature, whose first loyalty would be J. Christina Huh to LA Opera. Wes Jenkins Linda Cardenas Pamela Walt LEAD STYLIST The Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program is SECOND HANDS generously underwritten by the Colburn Foundation Yuan Anne Hua and Eugene and Marilyn Stein. Special support for Blanca Miranda STAGE CREW young artist stipends provided by Lenore and Hortencia Santos Richard Wayne. Additional contributions from the Anna Wong Harold E. Conroy Hanna and Leo Orsten Fund for Emerging Artists. SEAMSTERS OPERA CARPENTER 2013/14 PARTICIPANTS Kelly Cercone Thomas Laurence Conroy Brent Roberts ASSISTANT OPERA CARPENTER Corrine Zachry Christopher Allen CRAFTSPERSONS Steve Williams ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR OPERA ELECTRICIAN Sharon McGunigle Valentin Anikin HEAD TAILOR Stan Williams BASS OPERA ASSISTANT ELECTRICIAN Wing Cheung Hae Ji Chang ASSISTANT TO THE HEAD TAILOR Allen Tate SOPRANO OPERA PROPERTY MASTER Rafael Avila Vladimir Dmitruk TENOR Manuel Medina Sheldon Ross

Rene Santos ASSISTANT OPERA PROPERTY MASTER Joshua Guerrero TAILORS Todd Reynolds TENOR

Misty Ayres OPERA AUDIO ENGINEER D’Ana Lombard Jeannique Prospere SOPRANO SENIOR PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION Rebecca Nathanson Claudia Adelina HOUSE STAFF SOPRANO SENIOR COSTUME ASSISTANT Cassandra Zoé Velasco Julian Arrington, III Timothy L. Conroy MEZZO-SOPRANO MASTER CARPENTER COSTUME ASSISTANT Amanda Woodbury Gary Earl SOPRANO HOUSE HEAD ELECTRICIAN

Special thanks to the staff of the Music Center. Directors, singers, choreographers, stage managers, ensemble members and assistant directors in this production are represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists. Orchestra musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 47. The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC,: Stage Crew, Local 33; Treasurers and Ticket Sellers, Local 857; Wardrobe Crew, Local 768 ; Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists, Local 706. Interns in the Technical Department are students at California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California). All editorial materials copyright Los Angeles Opera, 2013. The opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Los Angeles Opera. Recorded welcome announcements voiced by Jamieson K. Price.

P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE company staff

Plácido Domingo Margie Schnibbe Janey K. Campbell Jolane Weist ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD TECHNICAL PRODUCTION COORDINATOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER MARKETING DATA AND PRICING ANALYST GENERAL DIRECTOR Alisa Lapidus Peter W. Indall Garrett Collins James Conlon PRODUCTION MEDIA MANAGER MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR RICHARD SEAVER MUSIC DIRECTOR Lisa Coto Howard Moss Patricia Wayne Christopher Koelsch PROPERTIES COORDINATOR SENIOR PLANNED GIVING OFFICER MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS PRESIDENT AND COORDINATOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Tony Reveles Terri Bobadilla Melissa Ficociello RESEARCH MANAGER John P. Nuckols RESIDENT LEAD SCENIC ARTISTS VICE PRESIDENT, ADVANCEMENT FINANCE Chris Carey INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Faith Raiguel TECHNICAL PAYROLL OFFICER VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Ondrea Ackerman Denice Behdad Jesse Baldridge GRANTWRITER AND DEVELOPMENT SENIOR ACCOUNTING MANAGER Diane Rhodes Bergman, APR Katelan Braymer COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING AND Kathleen Martin WALLY RUSSELL LIGHTING INTERNS COMMUNICATIONS Nicole Michela ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER INSTITUTIONAL GIVING ASSISTANT Cynthia Acosta COSTUMES PAYROLL MANAGER SPECIAL EVENTS Sarah Al-Atrakchi Jeannie Jones SENIOR DIRECTOR, FINANCE Jennifer Green Juliet Brown ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ASSISTANT COSTUME DIRECTOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EVENTS Stacy C. Brightman, Ph.D. Mary Schultz SENIOR DIRECTOR, EDUCATION & Emily Lawyer SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Gregory White SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR COSTUME DEPARTMENT MANAGER Darrell L. Winfrey, Jr. Grant Gershon STAFF ACCOUNTANT RESIDENT CONDUCTOR John Bishop SENIOR CUTTER / DRAPER EDUCATION & COMMUNITY Rupert Hemmings SENIOR DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION Hallie Dufresne ENGAGEMENT INFORMATION MASTER CRAFTSPERSON TECHNOLOGY Gerrie Maloof SENIOR DIRECTOR, LABOR RELATIONS AND Gloriana Siman Jennifer Babcock ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & HUMAN RESOURCES PRODUCTION & STOCK COORDINATOR Richard Comito COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Patricia McLeod John Musselman Jill Burnham SENIOR DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Michael Masuda EDUCATION MANAGER NETWORK MANAGER Joshua Winograde Neal Anderson Tony Roman SENIOR DIRECTOR, ARTISTIC PLANNING MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT Janelle Cabrera TECHNICAL MANAGER, EDUCATION & DATABASE SUPPORT TECHNICIAN Janine Allen COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HEAD OF WARDROBE ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Jacob H. Shideler TOUR MANAGER, EDUCATION & BOX OFFICE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Susan Lang PRODUCTION ARTIST SERVICES MANAGER Mariana Silva James M. Bell EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BOX OFFICE TREASURER Jessie Kim Lyla Forlani COORDINATOR ARTISTIC AND OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Tom Bucher Carmen Recker FIRST ASSISTANT TREASURER Claire Friday SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER REHEARSAL ADMINISTRATOR Dale Bridges Johannsen Victoria Fox MUSIC ADMINISTRATION Shane K. Morton Gretchen Meyerhoefer RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATIVE Michael Meyer MANAGER OF CHORUS, DANCERS ASSISTANT Mark Fabulich AND SUPERS Shawnet Sweets MUSIC LIBRARIAN Lisa Reilly Marlow Wyatt COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE SECOND ASSISTANT TREASURERS Laurel Diskin ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN DEVELOPMENT Eva Sobolevski Susan Wong COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ASSOCIATE Bruce Hall Brady Steel THIRD ASSISTANT TREASURERS ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Marlinda Menashe Eli Villanueva RESIDENT STAGE DIRECTOR DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING AND Robert Harrington William Gorin GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO JAMES CONLON Joseph Howells Brenda Roman Jill Michnick PUBLIC RELATIONS Ignazio Terrasi DIRECTOR OF BOARD RELATIONS AND Joseph Selway MUSICAL ASSISTANT TO JAMES CONLON SPECIAL EVENTS TICKET SELLERS Nino Sanikidze Gary W. Murphy HEAD COACH, DOMINGO-THORNTON Robin Green DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND PUBLIC RELATIONS CONSULTANTS

Mark Lyons ANNUAL FUND Matchbox Studio ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS GRAPHIC DESIGN Margo McAdams ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, Studio Fuse Michael de la Peña Shannita Williams ANNUAL FUND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN HUMAN RESOURCES AND COMMUNICATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR Nicole Debbini Robert Millard Sophia Sanchez PHOTOGRAPHY Melanie Underhill TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANTS, SALES AND MARKETING INDIVIDUAL GIVING

Jeff Kleeman Julia Graham Rivera DIRECTOR OF MARKETING TECHNICAL DIRECTOR INDIVIDUAL GIVING Christine Weil Carolina Angulo Mark A. Rice ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING DESIGN MANAGER MAJOR GIFTS Keith Rainville BRAND MANAGER

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 DONOR RECOGNITION

20th Anniversary Angels MARC I. STERN, CHAIR LA Opera wishes to honor those individuals who have made an extraordinary leadership commitment to the Company. Building upon the remarkable foundation created by the Founding and Domingo’s Angels, the outstanding support of the 20th Anniversary Angels has helped ensure an artistically vibrant and financially secure future for LA Opera. Please see page P2 for a listing of the 25th Anniversary Angels.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Carol and Warner Henry Marc and Eva Stern Foundation Colburn Foundation Alfred and Claude Mann Flora L. Thornton County of Los Angeles Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco Marilyn Ziering Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm

Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer The Annenberg Foundation The Green Foundation Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn) Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter Bernard and Lenore Greenberg, Barbara Augusta Teichert Yuki and Alex Bouzari in honor of Leonard Green The Joop van den Ende Foundation Nancy Daly Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Christopher V. Walker Family Foundation Edgar Foster Daniels Lenore and Richard Wayne LGHG Foundation Kelly and Robert Day Ziering Family Foundation Beatrix F. Padway, in honor of Leslie and John Dorman Nathaniel W. Finston Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley / Selim K. Zilkha Foundation Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic

MARC I. STERN, CHAIR MARY HAYLEY, CO-CHAIR Domingo’s Angels WARNER HENRY, CO-CHAIR Domingo’s Angels are individuals who made a leadership commitment to fulfilling the artistic initiatives of the Domingo Seasons, 2001-2005. Their remarkable generosity provided a new threshold from which the artistic professionals associated with LA Opera created and produced opera that thrilled and inspired Los Angeles audiences and the world.

Robert V. Adams and Barbara The Green Foundation Richard Seaver and Sara Jayne Kimm Abercrombie Lenore and Bernard Greenberg Marc and Eva Stern Foundation Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter Carol and Warner Henry The Skirball Foundation Colburn Foundation Walter Lantz Foundation / Flora L. Thornton Foundation Kelly and Robert Day Edward A. Landry, Trustee Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley / Marta and Plácido Domingo Rosemary and Milton Okun Selim K. Zilkha Foundation Leslie and John Dorman Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic

Founding Angels WARNER HENRY, CHAIR LA Opera is grateful for the vision, boldness and extraordinary generosity of the Founding Angels, whose commitment to the Company in its early years helped ensure the future of opera in Los Angeles.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Ash Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Richard Seaver Dorothy Collins Brown The Emese and Leonard Green The Skirball Foundation Mr. Richard D. Colburn Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Straus The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation Carol and Warner Henry Flora L. Thornton Foundation Forman Family Foundation Opera League of Los Angeles

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Artistic Excellence Circle MILENA KITIC, CHAIR LA Opera is pleased to recognize the Artistic Excellence Circle, a dedicated group of individuals whose annual support ensures that its productions continue to feature today’s leading singers, conductors, directors and designers—all of the elements that make each season memorable. To learn more about the Artistic Excellence Circle, please call John Nuckols at 213.972.7256.

PREMIER DIAMOND PATRON ($500,000 & ABOVE) Annenberg Foundation LGHG Foundation The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Alfred and Claude Mann Colburn Foundation Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco County of Los Angeles Music Center Foundation Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors/ Rosemary and Milton Okun Zev Yaroslavsky The Tarasenka Pankiv Fund (Tara Colburn) Kelly and Robert Day Ronus Foundation Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman The Richard Seaver Trust for the Opera Dunard Fund USA Eugene and Marilyn Stein Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Marc and Eva Stern Foundation Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Marilyn Ziering Carol and Warner Henry Selim K. Zilkha and Mary Hayley/ The James Irvine Foundation Selim K. Zilkha Foundation

DIAMOND PATRON ($250,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mr. Harold Alden and Dr. Geraldine Alden The Opera League of Los Angeles Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter Mr. and Mrs. Milan Panic The Blue Ribbon Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Yuki and Alex Bouzari Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Leslie and John Dorman Rolex The Fund for the Performing Arts Herbert Simon Family Foundation The Green Foundation Christopher V. Walker Lenore and Bernard Greenberg Ziering Family Foundation The Max H. Gluck Foundation

PLATINUM PATRON ($150,000 & ABOVE) Margaret and David Barry The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Mark Houston Dalzell Barry and Nancy Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Alex Furlotti Laura and Carlton Seaver Dan Murphy Foundation Thurmond Smithgall and the Lanie and Ethel Foundation Hanna Orsten Ms. Barbara Augusta Teichert

PLATINUM PATRON ($100,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous Los Angeles County Arts Commission Moshe Barkat and Evelina Haroutunian The Eleanor Hutchinson Parker Foundation The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Penny and Harold B. Ray Edgar Foster Daniels and Maxime Ohayon Wells Fargo Gemini Industries, Inc./ Marybelle and Paul Musco Alyce and Warren Williamson Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera Stephen and Lianne Zimmerman The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P15 DONOR RECOGNITION

THE OPERA COUNCIL Chaired by Paul and Catherine Tosetti The dedicated support of the Opera Council enables LA Opera to achieve its artistic goals. This program offers exclusive privileges and behind-the-scenes opportunities to those individuals, foundations and corporations who make annual gifts of $25,000 or more. For information, please call 213.972.3160.

GRAND GOLD PATRON ($75,000 & ABOVE) Louis Colen Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Mollura, Sr.

GRAND GOLD PATRON ($50,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous Good Works Foundation The Rauch Family Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Arnon Adar Peter and Diane Gray in recognition of Dudley Rauch Mr. Marvin Antonowsky Judge Judith O. Hollinger Rx for Reading Mr. James Asperger and Ms. Christine Adams Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hotchkis Dr. Armin and Barbara Sadoff Mr. Haig S. Bagerdjian Mr. and Mrs. David K. Ingalls The SahanDaywi Foundation Joyce and Stanley Black Dr. and Mrs. Harold Karpman Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Sands Paul and Marie-France Bloch Mr. K. Gregory Keever Yoriko Saneyoshi David Bohnett and Tom Gregory Richard Kendall and Lisa See Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Saunders Siobhan and William Burke Lawrence A. Kern Pamela and E. Randol Schoenberg Joyce and Aubrey Chernick Travis and Thomas Kranz Tina and David Segel Edward E. and Alicia Garcia Clark Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Kuppenheimer Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Seidel Donna and Walter Conn Edward and Madeleine Landry Chester James Semel Ana and Robert Cook Walter Lantz Foundation/ Eric L. Small / Flora L. Thornton Foundation In memory of Nancy M. Daly for her Edward A. Landry, Trustee Mrs. Leonard Straus extraordinary legacy of support Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine James and Ellen Strauss Mari L. Danihel Family Foundation Jacob and Sandra Terner Michael and Jane Eisner Susan Lord and Scott Richard Lord Paul and Catherine Tosetti Geoff Emery Lillian Lovelace Lenore and Richard Wayne Gerri Lee Frye Catherine Marcus Ellen and Arnold Zetcher Natalya and Craig Garner National Endowment for the Arts

PREMIER GOLD PATRON ($35,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors/ Brigitta B.Troy Britten-Pears Foundation Don Knabe US Bank

GOLD PATRON ($25,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous (2) Dr. Louise Horvitz and Carrie Fishman Linda and Alvaro Pascotto Doris Alexander Lynda Hughes and Walter de Logi Linda Pierce Maria Altmann, in memory of Fritz Altmann Tim Johnson and Jean Cunningham The John J. and Elisabeth N. Pollon Jill C. Baldauf and Steven L. Grossman In memory of H. Kirkland Jones Family Trust Bank of America Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Jones The Louis and Harold Price Foundation Shallom and Jilla Berkman Mr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Kohl Resolution Economics Adele Haggarty Binder Mrs. Trudy Lampert The Rose Hills Foundation The Otis Booth Foundation Sherry Lansing and William Friedkin Ariane and Lionel Sauvage Dr. Robert N. Braun and Dr. Joan Friedman Merrill Lynch The David and Linda Shaheen Foundation Maynard and Linda Brittan Moss Foundation Robert and Carol Shahin Janet and Nicholas Ciriello Anthony and Olivia Neece Natalie K. and Marvin S. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hardin Coulombe Christine Marie Ofiesh and Aaron Belokamen Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Katherine and Arpad Domyan Mr. and Mrs. Peter O’Malley William and Helen Smollen Ms. Leslie Einstein OPERA America’s Building Opera Audiences Avo Tavitian Mrs. Charles I. Gold Grant Program Donna Wagner Em Green Mr. and Mrs. Ted Orden Joyce White In memory of Morrie Hazan Dr. Leslie A. Pam and Dr. Ann Christie Petersen/ Esther and Abe Zarem Esper A. Petersen Foundation Susan Zolla, in memory of Edward M. Zolla

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