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Vodka is the deodorizer of choice for the Company’s Wardrobe department. after every performance, dressers spray the undiluted spirit on areas of costumes where perspiration collects to kill odor-causing bacteria.

With 95 players, Elektra has the largest orchestra in any production Members of the cast and creative team of girls of the golden West (left to right): in Company history. among the choreographer John Heginbotham, composer John Adams, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, more unusual instruments is the sopranos Hye Jung Lee and Julia Bullock, baritone Elliot Madore, mezzo-soprano J’Nai heckelphone. the lowest instrument Bridges, conductor Grant Gershon, and librettist/director Peter Sellars. in the oboe family (it reaches as far down as an a below middle C), grab your shovels and stake your claims! With the eyes and ears of the music world it is mostly heard in Elektra in trained on san francisco opera for the highly anticipated world premiere of John combination with other winds adams’ Girls of the Golden West on november 21, local history buffs and opera fans will and brass. get a leg up on the excitement. on saturday, october 28, the Girls of the Golden West symposium will be held in the an inspiration for Puccini in writing dianne and tad taube atrium theater at the diane B. Wilsey Center for opera. the all-day Turandot was a music box belonging event will dig into the opera’s themes, source materials, and its place within the broader con- to an acquaintance, Baron fassini, text of the gold rush. designed to prepare audiences for the opera and provide insightful who had been in China. in act i, perspectives into this critical period of California history, the symposium will be a multidisci- a children’s chorus is heard singing plinary presentation of lectures, conversations, and music, including a discussion with com- the Jasmine flower song “mou-Li poser John adams (Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic) and librettist/director Peter sellars. hua,” which was one of Puccini’s authors, historians, and other gold rush authorities will explore topics such as “Women in discoveries from the music box. the gold rush” and “Cultural Conflict.” rounding out the event, a set of miner and pioneer songs will be performed in period style by theatre Comique. tickets for the event are $45. many Girls of the Golden West ancillary activities will be offered in collaboration with cul- the first san francisco performance tural and educational institutions around the Bay area. Public exhibitions at Wells fargo, of La Traviata was at the american Levi strauss & Co., and the society of California Pioneers provide an theater on august 13, 1859. Presented by excellent opportunity to learn more about the history of California. the Bianchi opera troupe and featuring gold rush-era artifacts from the collections of the California histor- giovanna Bianchi in the title role, Verdi’s ical society, society of California Pioneers, Levi strauss & Co., and opera was described by the Alta California museum of Performance + design will also be on view within the as a work "founded on a plot similar to s

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Lianna Haroutounian In recital Armenian soprano Lianna Haroutou- nian will give her San francisco recital debut on Saturday, November 25 at 3 p.m. in the Veterans Building’s herbst interactive theatre. the acclaimed opera star, Kip Cranna who made a sensational San fran- Adult opera cisco opera debut in Tosca in 2014 and returned triumphantly last season workshops return in the title role of Madama Butterfly, will return for her only Bay Area education Department adds to its appearance in a program of works by tchaikovsky, rachmaninoff, Komitas, fall offerings with Drinks & Drama rossini, Bellini, and Puccini, as well as Armenian folk songs. Georgian Back by popular demand, the Overture Workshops for Sheri Greenawald pianist tamara Sanikidze will provide adults, a first-hand look at how opera is created and pro- musical accompaniment. for tickets, duced for the stage, will take place from Monday, call City Box office at (415) 392-4400. September 25 through Monday, October 23. this fall’s series will focus on the four main pillars of opera cre- ation—story, music, production, and direction—with featured guests including Dramaturg Kip Cranna, opera Center Director Sheri Greenawald, Properties Master lori harrison, stage director Jose Maria Condemi, and

artists and musicians from across the Company. learn Lori Harrison more at sfopera.com/overtureseries. Also for the opera-curious: join the education Depart- ment on Friday, October 20 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. for Drinks & Drama: a Taste of the Season, a social-educational event featuring special live performances and mini-cock- tails tailored to pair with each opera. Photographs, musi- r e

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Special Concerts this fall

THE FUTURE IS NOW Adler Fellows Concert Friday, December 8 at 7:30pm WAR MEMORIAL n

r OPERA HOUSE U B h S A w w e h t t A The San Francisco Opera Chorus, led by Ian Robertson M

the San Francisco Opera Chorus will offer a public concert of sacred, secular, and oper- atic music on Thursday, November 30 at 8 p.m., in the intimate taube Atrium theater of the wilsey Center for opera. Under the baton of Chorus Director ian robertson and Asso- ciate Chorus Master and pianist fabrizio Corona, the 47-member chorus will take center stage in musical offerings by Bach, di lasso, elgar, ešenvalds, Massenet, o’regan, Poulenc, Praetorius, Puccini, Purcell, Verdi, and wagner. tickets are $35 and available now at the San francisco opera Box office or by visiting sfopera.com. Making their west Coast concert debut, the popular new zealand trio Sol3 Mio will take to the war Memorial opera house stage on Friday, December 1 at 7:30 p.m. for a Matthew Washburn special holiday concert, Kiwi-style. this exclusive San francisco opera presentation of 2017 SanA FranciscoD Opera Samoan brothers and Adler fellow tenors Pene Pati and Amitai Pati and their baritone Samoan cousin Moses Mackay will feature the singers in a concert of holiday favorites, Resident Artists operatic works, crossover hits, and cherished songs from the South Pacific. robert Molli- in concert with the cone will conduct the San francisco opera orchestra. to learn more about Sol3 Mio and to hear excerpts, visit Sol3Mio.com. tickets range San Francisco Opera from $20 to $100 and are available at the San francisco opera Box office or by visiting Orchestra sfopera.com. Conducted by James Gaffigan

Enjoy an evening of unforgettable music with the renowned 2017 Adler Fellows in their final concert of the year. Directed by Adler Fellow Aria Umezawa. t i Tickets: $80/$65/$45/$30 D e t r n C e M e G A

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SAn frAnCiSCo Opera Profile Shinji Eshima San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Bass r e V A e w Y r o C

one of the most serene yet Shinji’s wife, Sandy, is a former dancer foreboding moments in all of for nYCB, and because she currently opera happens during the pre- stages Balanchine’s ballets, she has lude to richard wagner’s Das access to nYCB’s original videos. Shinji Rheingold. eight basses quietly says that “virtually anything i hear with a sustain a single low e-flat for bass on these recordings [from Agon to four measures. one of the Jewels] is this bass.” basses you will hear in the A Japanese-American born in Berke- orchestra pit during next sum- ley, Shinji received his education at mer’s Ring cycle will be the 1843 Stanford and Juilliard. today, he is a fac- Plumerel played by Shinji ulty member at the San francisco Con- eshima, who joined the Com- servatory of Music and San francisco pany in 1980. “the basses start State University. on that note,” he explains, “and when Shinji is not performing or the rest of the orchestra gradu- teaching, he is composing. last year, he ally gets layered in with e-flat collaborated with poet Scott Bourne on arpeggios.” the bassists play e- a chamber piece called Bourne to Shel- flat for 136 measures before a ley, which had its world premiere at Sf rhinemaiden suddenly begins opera lab’s ChamberWORKS. San to sing. wagner’s swirling setting expresses the depth and building francisco Ballet commissioned him to create music for two bal- flow of the rhine river, creeping into your consciousness and open- lets, RAkU (2011) and Swimmer (2015). the puppetry play E.O. ing wagner’s epic musical journey. About this prelude, Shinji says, “i 9066, featuring original music by Shinji, was recently performed at associate e-flat with nature. … Maestro runnicles [who leads the the opening of the topaz Museum, dedicated to preserving the Company’s Ring in 2018] has said that he loves e-flat in particular history of the world war ii internment camp experience in Delta, because it makes the orchestra ‘feel good.’ i’ll never forget him say- Utah. the play’s title derives from the executive order 9066, ing that.” which forced 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to leave their Shinji’s Plumerel double bass has appeared at the Paris opéra, homes and transfer to internment camps. 11,000 of them were Metropolitan opera, new York Philharmonic, and new York City sent to topaz, including Shinji’s father. the theme from E.O. 9066 Ballet. A visitor to Paris’ Musée d’orsay today can see the scroll of is a variation of a work Shinji composed originally for violin and Shinji’s Plumerel in edgar Degas’ 1870 painting L’Orchestre de double bass called August 6, which premiered at Grace Cathedral l’Opéra; its original owner, Achille Gouffé, a soloist of the Paris on the 50th anniversary of the hiroshima bombing. Shinji later opéra, also appears in the painting. An oil sketch of the work is at decided to orchestrate August 6 for Sf Ballet’s RAkU. the legion of honor Museum. Shinji’s Juilliard teacher David wal- A documentary of RAkU will have its world premiere screening ter was the principal bass of the new York City Ballet orchestra and as part of the San francisco Dance film festival on october 20 at played the Plumerel for more than 30 years. Six years after his the Brava theater Center. As a musician in the orchestra pit, com- death, it was passed on to Shinji. the bass made its war Memorial poser, and teacher, Shinji eshima demonstrates that music is deep opera house debut in 2008 during the 75th anniversary of San with history and rich with storytelling. francisco Ballet. (Shinji joined that company in 1982.) — tereSA ConCePCion

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Return of SUMMER †‡ˆ

THE GODS Erda Fricka Goddess of wisdom, Goddess of marriage fate, and Earth Wotan/The Wanderer JAMIE BARTON RONNITA MILLER King of the Gods GREER GRIMSLEY

THE NORNS

First Norn Second Norn Third Norn RONNITA MILLER JAMIE BARTON SARAH CAMBIDGE

THE VALKYRIES

Brun̈nhilde EVELYN HERLITZIUS

Siegrune Grimgerde Ortlinde Gerhilde LAURA KRUMM RENEE RAPIER SARAH CAMBIDGE JULIE ADAMS

Forest Bird STACEY TAPPAN

Rossweisse Schwertleite Helmwige Waltraute Waltraute THE NIBELUNGS LAUREN NICOLE MELISSA CITRO RENEE TATUM JAMIE BARTON McNEESE BIRKLAND (Die Walküre) (Götterdämmerung)

THE RHINEMAIDENS

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Introducing evelyn Herlitzius

For next summer’s revival of richard Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen Donner Freia Froh, God of (The Ring of the Nibelung), God of thunder Goddess of love, spring and happiness San Francisco opera has BRIAN youth, and beauty BRANDON assembled an exceptional MULLIGAN JULIE ADAMS JOVANOVICH cast of singers, several of whom will be performing with the Company for the first time. They include american tenor Daniel Brenna as Siegfried, German bass-baritone Falk THE MORTALS Struckmann as alberich, and German dramatic soprano evelyn Herlitzius as Brünnhilde. applauded in european opera houses for her grip- Loge ping portrayals (the U.K.’s Telegraph hailed her elektra Demigod of fire as “a creature of mesmerizing intensity”), Herlitzius ŠTEFAN MARGITA looks forward to her first performances in this country. Trained in dance, she says that she never dreamt in her youth that someday she would be a professional singer, much less an opera star. “I took singing lessons only because I thought that it might somehow become Siegmund Sieglinde helpful to get a [dancing] job somewhere,” says Herl- BRANDON KARITA MATTILA itzius. “But as life is, things changed, and singing and JOVANOVICH opera became more and more fascinating to me.” She says that Brünnhilde involved the same kind Hunding of serendipity. Five years after starting her opera RAYMOND ACETO career, Herlitzius received a call from an old univer- sity friend who was a conductor at a smaller Ger- man opera house. Could she imagine herself singing one of the most challenging roles in the THE GIANTS repertoire? “I told him yes, immediately. It was just a matter of instinct, not of knowledge,” she says. “Now, after all those wonderful years with this role accompanying my life, I would say that the greatest challenge contains also the greatest reward: to be Siegfried able to portray such a complex character on stage DANIEL BRENNA and her development from a teenage girl who Fasolt Fafner knows nothing to a mature woman, able to forgive.” ANDREA RAYMOND ACETO For the Ring is a microcosm of humanity, says SILVESTRELLI Herlitzius, and for that reason it can be adapted into vastly different settings and time periods— including the Company’s production, directed by Francesca Zambello, which incorporates imagery from various eras of american history. Beyond Brünnhilde, does Herlitzius have any other plans in San Francisco? “The Pacific ocean and, after the run, exploring route 66 on a Harley- Hagen Gutrune Gunther Davidson with my partner,” she says. ANDREA SILVESTRELLI MELISSA CITRO BRIAN MULLIGAN THE GIBICHUNGS

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San Francisco Opera’s 95th season opened on September 8, 2017 with a sold-out performance of David Hockney’s production of Puccini’s Turandot. To reflect the occasion, this year’s Opera Ball, co-chaired by Courtney Labe and Maryam Muduroglu, was a lavish evening of Chinese-inspired décor and majesty, designed by J. Riccardo Benavides. Proceeds from this signature fundraiser benefit the San Francisco Opera Association and Opera Guild’s education and community programs reaching more than 60,000 young people and families. Also on opening night, San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti was the recipient of the Opera Medal for his distinguished service with the Company.

PHOTO IDENTIFICATIONS ARE LEFT TO RIGHT. PHOTOS BY DREW ALTIZER Diane B. Wilsey

Back row: Trent Norris, Jack Calhoun; Kate & Matthew Shilvock, Paul & Nancy Pelosi; Sebastian Malin, Tore Diskerud, Turid Diskerud, Benjamin Malin, Gregory Malin Front row: Carol & Dixon Doll; Barbro & Bernard Osher; Mary Beth Shimmon, Riccardo Benavides; George & Charlotte Shultz

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Virginia Girard, Gordon Getty, David Gockley, Italian Consul General Lorenzo Ortona, Daniel Girard, Ann Girard Charlotte Shultz Nicola Luisotti Sheila Ortona, Keith Geeslin Dede Wilsey, Willie Brown

Gary Garabedian, Komal Shah Steve Menzies, Nazan Orr Karen Kubin Carolyn Chandler Kate & Matthew Shilvock

Barbara Traisman

Zachary Townsend, Jessica Jacob Courtney & Jim Labe Maryam & Oran Muduroglu Zornitza Stefanova, Payam Mirrashidi Sonya Molodetskaya Paul van Dyk, Saduman Guzel

Lily Samii

Mike Genoshe, Alan Morrell, Karen Caldwell, Karen Richardson, Chrisa Pappas Sioukas, Justice Franklin Elia, Jonathan Nicols, Sandra Farris Navid Armstrong Elizabeth Fullerton Dean Sioukas Heide Betz Carl Spirz Kathy Huber, Shannon Cronan

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BRAvo! CluB opening Night Gala

San Francisco Opera's BRAVO! Club Opening Night Gala, led Anjali Menon, laurie Diab, Kari Coomans, Alex Jakle, Shannon Eliot, by co-chairs Alex Petalas and Xanadu Bruggers, victoria Weatherford, laura Della Guardia, Alex Petalas, Victoria Weatherford, began Katie Bryant, Susan Walker, leah Fine, Rachel lem, Arif Damji, Nicole Jiam with a champagne reception on the War Memorial Opera Nneka uzoh, Jeannie Cuan, Catherine ledesma Abigail McDonald, Greg McDonald House Loggia. Following the performance of Turandot, guests enjoyed an opulent after-party in the Veterans Building Green Room.

PHOTOS BY DREW ALTIZER

opera in the Park 2017 San Francisco Opera’s season-opening festivities included the 44th annual San Francisco Chronicle Presents San Francisco Opera in the Park, featuring Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducting the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Among the singers of the fall season performing at Opera in the Park were sopranos Aurelia Florian and Toni Marie Palmertree; tenors Atalla Ayan, Brian Jagde and Pene Pati; and bass-baritone Alfred Walker.

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Witness this timeless tale unfold in San Francisco Opera’s spectacular production directed by Francesca Zambello. Acclaimed Wagnerian conductor Donald Runnicles leads an extraordinary international cast featuring Evelyn Herlitzius (Brünnhilde), Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), Karita Mattila (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund) and Falk Struckmann (Alberich).

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BEFORE YOU GO GET “IN THE KNOW” San Francisco Opera and its affiliates are pleased to offer a wealth of educational resources to help you get “in the know” for each opera performance. For information on these and other resources, visit sfopera.com/learn.

E-OPERA NEWSLETTER OPERA TALKS San Francisco E-Opera subscribers are the first to know about Before every performance, charismatic scholars present a the latest performances, special events, and educational 25-minute overview of the opera with insights on the music, opportunities. Keep up-to-date on featured artists, special composer, and historical background. Talks begin 55 minutes ticket offers, advance program notes, and other insider prior to curtain. Visit sfopera.com/operatalks. information by signing up at sfopera.com/eopera. Turandot: robert Hartwell Elektra: Bruce Lamott NSIGHT ANELS I P La Traviata: Peter Susskind renowned artists and personalities from the world of opera, Manon: Marcia Green including cast members and directors from the productions, share behind-the-scenes insights and experiences during Girls of the Golden West: clifford cranna informal panel discussions presented by San Francisco Opera Guild. Visit sfopera.com/insights. CONNECT WITH US ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, AND INSTAGRAM OPERA PREVIEW LECTURES San Francisco Opera Guild chapters present lectures that bring renowned musicologists to communities throughout the greater Bay area, offering an in-depth look into the season’s upcoming operas. Visit sfopera.com/previews. Follow San Francisco Opera on Facebook, Twitter, and instagram! You’ll get sneak peeks about upcoming events, special OVERTURE: OPERA WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS performances, and more. Like us at facebook.com/sfopera, San Francisco Opera hosts interactive workshops for adults and follow us at twitter.com/sfopera and instagram.com/sfopera. about the journey of creating opera. Newcomers and and don’t forget to check out our YouTube channel, featuring seasoned opera-goers learn the process from the ground up performance excerpts, artist interviews, and more at and experience San Francisco Opera behind-the-scenes. Visit youtube.com/sfoperamedia. sfopera.com/discover-opera. r E i z a

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ADLER PROGRAM SPONSORS 2017 ADLER FELLOWS The Charles D. & Frances K. Field Fund The Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation, Inc. San Francisco Opera’s Artists-in-Residence Barbara K. Jackson Anonymous, Founded in 1977 as the San Francisco Affiliate Artists Opera program, Adler Fellowships are two-year in memory of Lotte & Stephen Zuber performance-oriented residencies for classical music’s most promising young artists. Now in its 40th year, this internationally acclaimed training program has launched the careers of many of the artists ADLER AFFILIATE SPONSORS working on and off stage this season. We are grateful to all of our Adler Sponsors for their support, Darla & Richard Bastoni received from August 1, 2016 through August 31, 2017. For more information on sponsorship Anne Gray Mary & Craig Henderson opportunities and Adler events, please call (415) 565-3225. Bill Medigovich Maya D. Meux, MD Soprano Tenor Sheila Wishek SARAH CAMBIDGE PENE PATI Vancouver, Canada Auckland, New Zealand ADLER PROGRAM First-year Adler Second-year Adler ENDOWMENT GIFTS Sponsored by Sponsored by Phyllis Edwards Scholarship Fund Peggy & Boyce Nute Lucia Bogatay & William Randolph Hearst Thomas D. Wickens*; Annette Campbell-White & Young Artists Fund Kia Ora Foundation; The Claramae Turner Hoffmann & Barbara K. Jackson Frank Hoffmann Endowment Fund The Diana Dollar Knowles Fund Soprano Bass for Emerging Artists AMINA EDRIS ANTHONY REED Lorry I. Lokey Christchurch, New Zealand Alexandria, Minnesota Ralph R. Michaelis Estate Second-year Adler Third-year Adler Anna & Frederick Schubert Sponsored by Sponsored by Annette Campbell-White & Mrs. James K. McWilliams FRIENDS OF THE ADLERS Kia Ora Foundation; Brigid S. Barton Frances K. & Charles D. Field Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Foundation Chris & Jennifer Brahm Joyce and William Brantman Foundation Coach & Pianist Coach & Pianist Alan R. & Sally J. Brudos JOHN ELAM JENNIFER SZETO Ms. Carlyn Clause & Cleburne, Texas Calgary, Canada Mr. Alexander L. Brainerd First-year Adler First-year Adler Janet & Lloyd Cluff Sponsored by Sponsored by Leonard & Marie Collins TKTK Robert Epstein & Amy Roth; Denise Cutler Frances K. & Charles D. Field Peter & Jayne Davis Foundation Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons Barbara B. Friede Donald & Patricia Frischmann Bernice E. Greene Baritone Stage Director Dr. H. Nona Hungate ANDREW G. MANEA ARIA UMEZAWA Barbara E. Jones, Toronto, Canada Troy, Michigan in memory of William E. Jones First-year Adler First-year Adler Fred & Beth Karren Sponsored by Sponsored by Jeannie Kaufman Robert & Julie Dickson Barbara M. Ward & The Honorable Roy L. Wonder* Victoria Kirby Laurie Kottmeyer & Bianca Duarte Ms. Katharine Lange Mr. John E. Lee Sylvia R. Lindsey Soprano Tenor Bernice Lindstrom, TONI MARIE PALMERTREE KYLE VAN SCHOONHOVEN in memory of John W. Lindstrom Fleetwood, Pennsylvania Lockport, New York Mr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Second-year Adler First-year Adler Ellen & Paul McKaskle Sponsored by Sponsored by Miss Vivienne E. Miller James A. Heagy, The Diana Dollar Knowles Mr. D. G. Mitchell in memory of Jayne Heagy; Fund for Emerging Artists Soo & Raj Venkatesan Alice Ames Morison & Dr. Oakley Hewitt Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch Patricia Nottingham Neil & Elsa S. Pering Tenor Bass-baritone Mr. Glenn H. Reid AMITAI PATI BRAD WALKER Barbara J. Ross Auckland, New Zealand Lake Zurich, Illinois Bob & Terri Ryan First-year Adler Second-year Adler Deborah & Paul Sagues Sponsored by Sponsored by San Francisco Opera Guild Annette Campbell-White & Karen J. Kubin; San Francisco Opera Guild/ Kia Ora Foundation; Teresa & Mark Medearis; East Bay Chapter Barbara K. Jackson Mr. Felipe R. Santiago & Judith B. and Joseph Workman Mr. Barry T. Joseph Anonymous (3)

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SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Y H T R A C C M E C N E R R E T

nce again, the unprecedented generosity of Cynthia Investment Managers. He joined the firm in 1972, the year and John Gunn has set the stage for a dazzling he received his MBA from Stanford Business School and Oseason at San Francisco Opera. Since 2002, when married Cynthia, who graduated from Stanford with an A.B. John joined the Opera Board, the couple has underwritten in political science in 1970. Early in her career, Cynthia was numerous productions and provided exceptional support for the editor and director of The Portable Stanford book series many of the Company’s innovative endeavors. for ten years. She edited twenty-eight books by Stanford pro- In September 2008, the Gunns made a historic commit- fessors on a vast array of topics, including Economic Policy ment—believed to be the largest gift ever made by individuals Beyond the Headlines by George Shultz and Ken Dam. to an American opera company—to help fund the signature In addition to their support of San Francisco Opera, the projects of then-General Director David Gockley, including Gunns are active members of the community. John is the new operas and productions, multimedia projects, and out- chair of the advisory board for the Stanford Institute for reach programs. This season, the Gunns’ inspired generosity Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), serves as a trustee of is helping make possible five productions—Turandot, Elektra, Stanford University, and is Vice Chairman of the board of Manon, Girls of the Golden West, and the Ring cycle. Stanford Hospital Care. Cynthia is an overseer of Stan- John shared his considerable insights at the 2014 confer- ford’s Hoover Institution, a member of the advisory board ence of OPERA America, the national service organization of Family and Children Services, and serves on the boards for opera. As he told attendees, “Opera is a dynamic art form of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health and and all of us play a role in keeping it vital. We must expand the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums. our repertoire and our audiences, and strive for financial flex- Opera lovers are grateful to Cynthia and John, and ap- ibility. And we depend on donors to keep opera alive.” plaud their commitment to keeping San Francisco Opera John is the former chairman and CEO of Dodge & Cox a leading-edge company.

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a Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem/Conductors Fund, F y r

n Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund, and Emerging Stars Fund e H

J (Sponsor, Maestro Luisotti, Aurelia Florian, Atalla Ayan) after a career devoted to his publishing businesses in Japan and europe, the creation of Clos Pegase Winery in California’s napa Valley, and his art collection, Jan Shrem, in joyous partnership with his wife Maria Manetti Shrem, is bringing his focus and affection to philanthropic causes that advance education and the performing and visual arts. Though they grew up half-a-world apart, Jan and Maria both developed a love of opera at a young age. While their lives led them each around the globe, their individual passions eventually led them to San Francisco Opera, and to each other. With a substantial multi-year commitment, Company Sponsors Jan and Maria have expanded their support with the establishment of three different funds. The Conductors Fund helps ensure the continued appearances of Maestro nicola Luisotti and other italian conductors in the orchestra pit. The Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund helps bring today’s most compelling artists in italian repertoire to San Francisco Opera, and the Emerging Stars Fund supports the Company in showcasing several exciting rising young stars on our stage throughout the season.

Chevron (Production Sponsor, La Traviata) Throughout its long history with San Francisco Opera, Chevron has generously supported many of the company’s artistic productions and community outreach initiatives. Continuing this tradition this season, Chevron is the corporate Production Sponsor of La Traviata. Chevron has a proud history of serving its customers and communities in the Bay area. Chevron’s philosophy of investing in community institutions encourages a culture of artistic achievement and growth, which strengthens the communities in which we live and work. San Francisco Opera is grateful to Chevron for its generous support.

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Giuseppe Verdi LA TRAVIATA S E G A M I N A M E G D I R B

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SYNOPSIS LA TRAVIATA

ACT I SCene 2: Alfredo arrives at Flora’s house as the guests are beginning A party is taking place at the home of Violetta Valéry, a beautiful to gamble. Violetta arrives, escorted by Baron Douphol. Alfredo Parisian courtesan. Gastone arrives and presents his friend, Alfredo explains that he who is unlucky in love is lucky at cards. The Baron, Germont, telling Violetta that Alfredo has long been a silent incensed at Alfredo’s insolence, challenges him to play. Alfredo admirer and had even called daily during her illness to ask about accepts and beats the Baron repeatedly at high stakes. When all the her. Baron Douphol, one of Violetta’s “protectors,” is angered by others go to dinner, Violetta remains behind to entreat Alfredo to the conversation and refuses to propose a toast when invited to by leave, lest the Baron challenge him to a duel. Alfredo answers that he Gastone. Alfredo then accepts the invitation and sings an impas- will leave, but only if she accompanies him. Unwilling to reveal that sioned tribute to beauty and love. Later, as the others go to another she has broken off with him because of his father, Violetta declares room to dance, Violetta is overcome by a fainting spell. Alfredo that she is in love with the Baron. Frenzied with jealousy, Alfredo calls stays behind and confesses that he has been in love with her for a all the guests into the room and, in a rage, he throws money at Vio- year. Violetta offers him friendship instead of love and gives him a letta's feet and calls upon all to witness that he has paid her in full. flower, bidding him return when it has withered. Alfredo joyously Germont enters just in time to see Alfredo’s caddish behavior and accepts and bids her goodnight. When her guests have gone, Vio- joins the others in reviling him for his conduct. Alfredo, realizing the letta thoughtfully muses on Alfredo’s proffered love, but finally lengths to which his jealousy has carried him, is contrite but realizes returns to her true character and declares that she must remain for- that he is helpless to make amends. The Baron assures Alfredo that ever free to pass from pleasure to pleasure. he must answer for the insult on the field of honor.

ACT II ACT III SCene 1: Months later, having ultimately accepted Alfredo’s offer, Violetta’s illness has brought her to the point of death. Her physi- Violetta is living with Alfredo in the country and has abandoned her cian, Dr. Grenvil, calls at her home, examines her, and tells Annina life of ease and luxury. Annina, Violetta’s maid and confidante, that she has but a few hours to live. Violetta reads a letter from the enters and tells Alfredo she has been sent to arrange the sale of elder Germont, in which she learns that Alfredo has gone abroad Violetta’s property, which must be sold to pay their debts. Alfredo after wounding the Baron in a duel. He knows now of the great suddenly understands the sacrifices that Violetta has made in sacrifice that Violetta has made and is returning to beg her forgive- order to live with him and leaves for Paris, determined not to be ness. Alfredo returns and the two are reunited at last. But it is too shamed by her sacrifice. Violetta receives an unexpected visitor, late. Violetta, comforted by the presence of the man whom she Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s father, who declares that Alfredo is has so tragically loved, dies in his arms. ruining himself to keep her as his mistress. When Germont com- ments on the luxury of the country retreat, Violetta shows him the First performance: Venice, Teatro La Fenice; March 6, 1853 papers that have been prepared for the sale of all her possessions. First performance in the U.S.: New York, Academy of Music; He asks her to give up Alfredo, explaining that by continuing the December 3, 1856 liaison, Alfredo is endangering the impending marriage of his First San Francisco Opera performance: October 4, 1924 younger sister. Germont’s insistence finally convinces Violetta, La Traviata has been performed in 36 previous seasons at who agrees to leave Alfredo forever. She is preparing a letter as San Francisco Opera. For complete casting and other Alfredo returns. Germont has gone out into the garden. Alfredo, information, visit archive.sfopera.com. not realizing his father has already arrived, explains that Germont Personnel: 12 principals, 48 choristers, 3 dancers, has written him a severe letter, but that he feels sure he will 8 supernumeraries; 71 total. approve of Violetta as soon as he sees her. Pretending to leave so Orchestra: 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, as not to be present during the meeting of father and son, Violetta 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 cimbasso, goes out. A messenger returns with her letter of farewell. Alfredo is 1 timpanist, 2 percussion; 40 strings (12 first violins, 9 second violins, 7 violas, 7 cellos, 5 basses); 61 total. stricken with grief at the loss of Violetta, and when his father tries to persuade him to return to his family, Alfredo refuses. Finding a Offstage: 2 piccolos (1 doubling flute), 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 bassoon, 1 horn, 1 trumpet, 2 percussionists, 1 piano, 1 bass, party invitation that Flora had sent Violetta, he resolves to go to 1 harp; 12 total. Flora’s in the hope of finding Violetta.

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Conductor Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi nicola Luisotti Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Production Based on the play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils John Copley Stage Director Shawna Lucey Set Designer LA TRAVIATA John Conklin (Sung in Italian with English supertitles) Costume Designer David Walker Lighting Designer CAST (in order of appearance) Gary Marder Chorus Director Ian Robertson Violetta Valéry Aurelia Florian* Choreographer Doctor Grenvil Anthony Reed† Carola Zertuche* Baron Douphol Philip Skinner Dance Master Flora Bervoix Renée Rapier Lawrence Pech Marquis d’Obigny Andrew G. Manea† Fight Director Dave Maier Annina Amina edris† Assistant Director Gastone Amitai Pati† Morgan Robinson Alfredo Germont Atalla Ayan* Assistant Conductor Giuseppe Christopher Jackson Robert Mollicone Giorgio Germont Artur Ruciński* Musical Preparation Bryndon Hassman A messenger Bojan Knežević Ronny Michael Greenberg Flora’s servant Torlef Borsting John elam† John Churchwell Solo dancers Lorena Feijóo* Fabrizio Corona Blanche Hampton Prompter Bryan Ketron Vito Lombardi Demimondaines, gentlemen, servants Supertitles Jerry Sherk Stage Manager *San Francisco Opera debut †Current Adler Fellow Thea Railey Assistant Stage Managers Becki Smith TIME AND PLACE: Mid-19th-century Paris and environs Jenny Harber Jimmy Marcheso ACT I: Violetta’s house Costume Supervisor —InTeRMISSIOn— Galen Till Head of Wig and Makeup ACT II, SCene 1: A country house near Paris Jeanna Parham ACT II, SCene 2: Flora’s house San Francisco Opera production —InTeRMISSIOn—

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 AT 7:30 PM ACT III: Violetta’s house TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 7:30 PM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 AT 7:30 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1 AT 2 PM The performance will last approximately three hours. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 AT 7:30 PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 AT 7:30 PM Latecomers may not be seated during the performance after the lights have dimmed. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 AT 2 PM Patrons who leave during the performance may not be re-seated. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 AT 7:30 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 AT 7:30 PM The use of cameras, cell phones, and any kind of recording equipment is strictly forbidden. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 7:30 PM Please turn off and refrain from using all electronic devices.

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B Y B R I A N K E L L O W Saving Violetta

Redemption turns up frequently in Verdi’s operas, but he never explored the theme as deeply or as personally as he did in La Traviata.

any years ago, a friend of mine was divorced music drama, its ongoing popularity surprises me in a way, because from her first husband. eventually, he asked her I can’t help but feel that the idea that the entire opera turns on— if she would agree to have their marriage personal redemption through self-sacrifice—is one that may not Mannulled by the Catholic Church, as he was planning to remarry. have much currency in our present social, cultural, and political cli- My friend was deeply hurt; even if their marriage had been ill-con- mate—at least in the United States. We are living in a time where ceived, she hated the thought of having to go forward saying that instant gratification is the force that compels most of us; driven on it had never existed. To her surprise, her own mother angrily told by the speedy advances of the technological revolution, our collec- her that she had no choice but to have the marriage annulled. tive attention span is shrinking by the day, and we seem to be losing “otherwise,” her mother explained, “you are standing in the way the patience to work our way through much of anything that’s too of the future happiness of someone you don’t even know. and complicated. I would think that modern audiences—the ones I see that is wrong.” texting throughout the performances—would not necessarily That decision to make a sacrifice for the greater good came back respond to the staggering choice that is foisted upon violetta by her to me recently as I was thinking about La Traviata, whose stature as lover alfredo’s father, Giorgio Germont. one of the world’s most treasured operas seems undiminished, 164 I first saw La Traviata in the theater in 1983 at the Metropolitan years after its world premiere at venice’s La Fenice. La Traviata opera. Partly thanks to my own neophyte status as an opera-goer, remains one of the works I never tire of. Despite its brilliance as a I responded to it principally as a story of a woman dying of tuber-

John Copley’s much loved production of La Traviata premiered with San Francisco Opera in 1987 and returned in 1991, 1995, 2001, 2004, and (seen here) 2014. r e v a e W y r o C

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culosis. as I studied it, its central theme of personal real-life basis for Dumas’ heroine Marguerite Gautier redemption became clear to me. redemption is and eventually for verdi’s violetta, was still much something that figures prominently in dozens talked about in Parisian circles, having died only of operas in the standard repertoire, from the in February 1847. verdi was entering his first Marschallin’s surrender of octavian at the great period of innovation as a musical end of richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier dramatist, having recently dared to put a to blanche de la Force’s march to the guil- hunchback center stage in Rigoletto, and lotine at the climax of Poulenc’s Dia- having made the Gypsy azucena a cen- logues des Carmélites. It had long been a terpiece of Il Trovatore. Now he wanted potent theme in scores of the world’s to create a bracingly modern work for La great novels, from Hawthorne’s The Fenice, by making a woman of dubious Scarlet Letter to Dickens’ A Tale of Two reputation his heroine. Most of his biog- Cities, which features Sydney Carton’s raphers agree that probably he was immortal observation, “It is a far, far bet- equally driven to make a bold dramatic ter thing that I do, than I have ever done; statement in response to the criticism he it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I had suffered through his relationship with have ever known.” his mistress, the celebrated bel-canto In these literary works, the idea of redemp- soprano Giuseppina Strepponi, who already tion is sometimes more implicit than literal. In had given birth to several illegitimate children. Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the reader is verdi was stung by the judgmental malice invited to think that part of what drives the Gov- directed at him and Strepponi. This brand of victo- erness to purge the evil presence from her young rian-era hypocrisy was rampant at the time. For many charges—whether or not it really exists—may be the need to upper-middle-class men, having a mistress was considered a redeem her own troubled past. and James’ Daisy Miller, who flaunts badge of honor, while women were expected to submit to a kind european social conventions without batting an eye, is offered a of societal straitjacket. chance at redemption. When the fierce society matron Mrs. Walker The depth of verdi’s violetta marked an impressive step for- sees Daisy walking openly in public with her Italian suitor, she offers ward for him as a musical dramatist. Unfortunately, the electrify- the girl the refuge of her carriage, making it clear that it is a chance ing modern production he dreamed of was not to be. When for her to save herself. Daisy refuses, continues her budding Traviata bowed at La Fenice in 1853, its setting was pushed back to romance with the Italian—and dies of roman fever as a result. the early 1700s—a distancing effect aimed at pacifying the cen- The theme of redemption turns up frequently in verdi’s operas. sors. The cast was inadequate, and as opening night approached, but he never plumbed the theme as deeply or as personally as he verdi feared that the production would turn out to be exactly what did in La Traviata. verdi was drawn to alexandre Dumas fils’ play he later described it as being, a “fiasco.” a little over a year later, it La Dame aux Camélias (in turn adapted from Dumas’ 1848 novel) was given another production, properly cast, at venice’s Teatro as a source largely because he was aching to tackle a contempo- San benedetto, that was a success, making the composer feel rary subject. Marie Duplessis, the stylish courtesan who was the (mostly) redeemed.

Above: The celebrated bel-canto soprano Giuseppina Strepponi with a score of Verdi’s Nabucco. Before Verdi married her in 1859 (it was to be his second marriage), Strepponi was Verdi’s mistress and had given birth to several of his children. / MUSeo TeaTraLe aLLa SCaLa, MILaN, ITaLy / De aGoSTINI PICTUre LIbrary / brIDGeMaN IMaGeS

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Left to right: From Act II of the Company’s 2014 production, baritone Quinn Kelsey as Giorgio Germont confronting soprano Ailyn Pérez as Violetta Valéry; the 1875 oil painting at the ball by Berthe Morisot (1841–95); mostly in the shadow of his famous writer-father whose name he shared, Alexandre Dumas fils received fame for the novel La Dame aux Camélias which he later adapted into the play that inspired Verdi.

When we experience Traviata in the theater now, it behooves us at him for longer than I normally would,” she says. “and on the ‘ah’ to try to imagine how shocking it must have been for audiences before ‘Dite all giovine’ I would start positive and then become nega- when it bowed at La Fenice in 1853. For verdi to have imbued his tive, and bring the sound back to me. I was saying, ‘all right—tell your “fallen woman” (the approximate english translation of the title) daughter who is so pure and beautiful that I will do this for her. with so much dignity, grace, and compassion was something revo- because she is the girl I want so badly to be.’” lutionary in mid-19th-century Italian opera. Some commentators violetta puts herself to the ultimate test, and her reward is to have criticized Francesco Maria Piave’s libretto for making too die of tuberculosis. Germont grasps her true worth only when she abrupt a jump from act one to act Two; having grappled with is on her deathbed. Unlike Daisy Miller, who also dies, she doesn’t whether or not to take a chance on love in her magnificent act I have the satisfaction of getting her own way—but I think that’s soliloquy, “È strano … ah! fors’è lui … sempre libera,” violetta why the end of James’ novel always seems vaguely unsatisfying; makes the decision to continue to seek pleasure for pleasure’s sake. the death of a girl who does precisely what she wants simply In the second act, we see that she has changed her mind and is liv- doesn’t have the emotional resonance that violetta’s death does.

Watching Traviata unfold onstage, many of us probably silently yearn to rewrite that scene, to have Violetta tell Germont what he can do with his selfish and manipulative proposition. But then there would be no plumbing of the theme of redemption—and no opera.

ing happily in the country with alfredo. I think that it was a brilliant Unfortunately, the ultimate message of Traviata still gets stroke on the part of verdi and Piave not to have us witness any fur- obscured on the stage, as some directors seek to make it more ther indecision about pursuing a life with alfredo. When act Two about a young woman who is dying, i.e., large ticking clocks onstage begins, we are lulled into a false sense of security, which makes what or, as in one production, changing violetta’s illness to aIDS. In such comes next all the more powerful. Her subsequent confrontation with cases, I cannot help but feel that the real dramatic truth of La Travi- alfredo’s father, Giorgio Germont, in which he insists that she aban- ata has been sideswiped. Perhaps the idea of redemption doesn’t don alfredo for the sake of the family honor, remains a formidable resonate with us as it did with verdi’s audiences. but a great pro- challenge for a good singing actress: she must persuade us, as well as duction of Traviata can still remind us of its power. Germont, that she possesses the most enlightened sensibility, the greatest sense of empathy, of any other character onstage. Soprano Brian Kellow is the author of biographies of Ethel Merman and Diana Soviero, who sang hundreds of performances of Traviata, Pauline Kael, and the most recent book, Can I Go Now?: The Life of recalls the power of the violetta-Germont scene. “often, I would stare Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent.

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B Y N I C O L A L U I S O T T I

A Q&A with the Music Director

Tell us about the first time you heard La Traviata. Unfortunately for the soprano, it is true! Finding the per- fect Violetta is almost impossible. She should be a My first experience with Verdi’s La Traviata was when I was around light coloratura soprano in the first act, because her 20 years old. At that time I was very fond of La Bohème; every way of thinking in the beginning is light and superfi- other opera seemed to me nothing in comparison. So, it took cial. In the second act she is a changed woman that time for me to fall in love with this wonderful score, but when tries to find herself in a new, calm, and peaceful life that happened, it was forever! The first time I conducted Traviata with Alfredo. In the third act she loses all hope for life was in 1998 in Udine, Italy with the Orchestra and Chorus of and humanity. Verdi changes the music again for her, the Teatro Grande di Trieste. There were no rehearsals; and this is why we need a more dramatic soprano we went directly into the performance. It was a very instead. As everyone can see, singing this role is exciting night for everyone, especially for me. really demanding!

Why do we love La Traviata so much? What are your favorite musical moments in Traviata? There are many reasons why this opera is so beloved. First, I think the music is extremely The music of this immense master- beautiful, and the story is still very moving. The work is unbelievably gorgeous and fact that an “escort” decides to abandon that appropriate in every moment. It is kind of life to have a normal one is still today written in a way that, after a while, something that, seen on stage, can create the you forget that the people are catharsis that is so important when we go to playing and singing, and attend a performance. Everyone who has everything becomes more made mistakes in his or her own life would than real. In fact it becomes like to be forgiven and have the opportu- absolutely true, more than nity to start over. Violetta is taken by life itself. death in the precise moment that every- As to a favorite moment, one—including those in the audi- I can’t make any particular ence—realize she deserves a new life. choice. I am completely involved emotionally and musically with every single It’s been said that for the soprano note of this eternal and glo- singing Violetta, she must be a col- rious Music. oratura for the first act of Traviata, a lyric soprano for the second act, and a dramatic soprano for the From the Company’s 2014 final act. Is any of this true? production, tenor Saimir Pirgu as How would you personally Alfredo Germont and soprano Nicole describe the music? Cabell as Violetta Valéry.

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aris is corrupt to the core,” Charles Dickens his first literary success. It was published in 1848 as La Dame aux huffed when he visited the French capital in Camélias, the sobriquet by which staff at the Paris opéra had sup- “ February 1847. “For a number of days every posedly referred to Marie, who had her own box at the opera house Pquestion—political, artistic, and commercial— and habitually arrived carrying a great bunch of the flowers that had been neglected by the newspapers. everything is wiped out by eventually gave her her best-known literary name. an event of the highest importance, the romantic death of one of The book’s success was such that Dumas was quickly persuaded those glories of the demi-monde, the celebrated Marie Duplessis. to produce a stage version, but three years had to pass before it you would have thought it was a question of the death of a hero or a could be shown publicly. Parisian, and indeed all european society Joan of arc.” Dickens’ familiar brand of english puritan morality was changing. Dickens had used (and perhaps momentarily blinded the writer in him to coined) the right phrase for the curious phe- what might be worthy of serious litera- nomenon of the mid-19th-century Parisian cour- ture in the preposterously premature tesans: theirs was indeed a demi-monde, a death of an unusually magnetic society- half-world filled with life and glamor, but private, woman, no doubt because he could dis- a world not to be mentioned in public, least of miss Duplessis as a mere prostitute. That all in the popular theaters to which respectable she had been among the elite of her world families took their well-brought up daughters. cut no moral ice for him. The luxury of the high-level courtesans’ world, one of her recent French lovers, how- where young women like Marie Duplessis held ever, had no such scruples. alexandre court in grand town mansions, began to crum- Dumas fils was an aspiring young writer ble as the revolutions of 1848 convulsed laboring in the shadow of the vastly europe. The hidden half-world had been short- famous writer-father whose name he lived, no more than a quarter of a century at shared, author of The Three Musketeers and its height. The women who, like Marie, rose The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas père, to its level had invariably begun life in

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marie’s case was typical: 1915 with Clara Kimball play- the illiterate daughter of a ing the title role. (The floral normandy peasant, whose sub-text is not incidental. family could not afford her, dumas called his title heroine she may have been sold as a marguerite, the French word 12-year-old to her father’s for daisy; Verdi and his libret- clients and friends. at 15, she tist Francesco maria Piave s e g

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rare grace, darker, taller, and e another flower but also the g d slighter than convention i image of violation.) Violetta- r expected, was linked to an B marie-marguerite-Camille’s fate unusually sharp intelligence. The Act I aria “È strano” makes a brief appearance in the 1994 film has not lost its power: it is By the time she was 18 she The adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the desert. still used to evoke sympathy had been the mistress of first in surroundings pretty far one, then another Parisian aristocrat. Unlike the thousands of from dumas and Verdi: remember richard gere testing Julia women whose lives were hidden and destroyed in the murky depths roberts’ sensitivity in garry marshall’s 1990 film Pretty Woman by of the Paris sex-markets, marie was already a celebrity. Born alphon- taking her to san Francisco to Traviata; or the delicious australian sine rose Plessis, she had renamed herself marie and prefixed the movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert four years later, pseudo-noble “du” to her surname. she must have been a truly with a drag-queen miming “È strano” to Joan Carden’s voice? unusual person: her lovers included the composer Franz Liszt. “she emotionally evocative as these strains may be, the story was the first woman i ever loved,” Liszt wrote to marie d’agoult nonetheless poses for many people a fundamental question of cred- when duplessis died. “Hers was truly an exquisite nature, and what ibility, especially in Verdi’s operatic version: the central motivating is generally (perhaps accurately) described as corruption, never event is a sequence of actions so far distanced from present-day touched her heart.” social conventions. But as long as there has been writing from The radical changes in Parisian society-life after 1848 fast eroded male-dominated, pre-contraceptive history, there have been stories most of marie’s demi-monde. ironically, the changes allowed her revolving for better or usually worse around “immoral” women, world to take on its later public role. Within three years, the sensa- women who fail to conform to the sexual behavior that would pre- tional dumas roman was on the Paris stage as his no less sensation- serve male possession and/or the certainty of paternity. is then the ally successful play. This was the form in which Verdi encountered it. force of Verdi’s opera now no more than a sentimental historical He may even have been at the premiere on February 2, 1852 at the curiosity? Certainly giorgio germont’s atrocious moralizing might Paris Théâtre du Vaudeville. The first performance of the opera which be thought an insuperable obstacle to La Traviata’s emotional he derived from the play—called Love and Death (Amore e Morte) at impact. But it is not so, though we may wish it were: rejection of the first and only as it neared completion La Traviata, “the one who went partners chosen by one’s children is certainly not out-of-date. astray”—took place barely a year later on march 6, 1853 at Venice’s art has a way of making us accept its invented world even La Fenice. it was one of the first operas to break with the iron tradi- when that world is entirely fantastic; as long as it continues we tion that only humorous works could deal with contemporary subjects. believe in it, warts and all. so any particular incredibility at the The power of Verdi’s music is the most obvious cause of the turning-point in dumas-Verdi is in this sense irrelevant: Violetta, Lady of the Camellias’ endurance. But longevity of this kind is like any good artistic creation, lives in her own world, opera’s own determined by more than its incarnation as a supreme operatic fantasy demi-monde, but she is more than a character in that drama. The dumas play and the book before it were already land- make-believe republic of localized truths. art on this level stands marks in a slow transformation of social attitudes and sympa- for greater issues than its immediate subject, and La Traviata thies. The play, it is true, is rarely staged now, but for generations appalls and delights because there remain in society groups and it was a vehicle for the most celebrated actresses of the time— individuals who we can feel are unjustly alienated, scorned, or sarah Bernhardt, eleonora duse, and edwige Feullière are but rejected: every one of us may belong at some point in our lives to three of the names made familiar across the world through their one or more of these categories. Violetta stands for them all. no identification with the sad dumas heroine. The original book is matter the Camellia-Lady has recurred in so many guises. small still read and well worth reading. Frederick ashton created a ballet, wonder, too, that so many of those transformations have been in Marguerite and Armand, in 1963 for margot Fonteyn and rudolf another half-world: film, the most forceful artistic instrument for nureyev, and the american choreographer John neumeier made social change of the past 100 years, just as literature and opera his own version in stuttgart for marcia Haydée 15 years later. were for the preceding century. it is in film that the dumas tragedy has had its most varied exis- tence. Cinematically, marie is best known as Camille, from the title Christopher Hunt was a former artistic administrator with San of the 1936 george Cukor film with greta garbo, though Camille Francisco Opera. This essay was published in a previous edition of san was already the name of an american film by albert Capellani in Francisco Opera magazine.

44 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA NICOLA LUISOTTI her professional career with the Romanian (Viareggio, Italy) National Opera in Bucharest from 2008 Conductor through 2010. Particularly in demand for Maestro Luisotti has her Verdi and Puccini roles, she includes been music director in her repertoire Magda in La Rondine, the of San Francisco title role of Luisa Miller, Mimì in La Bohème, Opera since 2009 Lida in La Battaglia di Legnano, Amalia in and has conducted I Masnadieri, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, over 40 operas and and Marguerite in Faust (the latter of which concerts since his Company debut in 2005. she performed last season with New Israeli Luisotti, who holds the Caroline H. Hume Opera). Later this year, Florian makes Endowed Chair, recently conducted the her house and role debut as Leonora in Il Company’s Turandot, Rigoletto, Aida, Andrea Trovatore at the Aalto Theater in Essen and Chénier, and Don Carlo. Last season, he returns to Den Norske Opera as Violetta. led Pagliacci at Teatro Regio di Torino, and La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, ATALLA AYAN as well as conducting the Metropolitan (Belem, Brazil) Opera National Council Grand Finals Alfredo Germont Concert. Other recent engagements include Making his San a symphonic concert at Amsterdam’s Francisco Opera debut Concertgebouw, Rigoletto at Madrid’s as Alfredo Germont in Teatro Real and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, La Traviata, Atalla Ayan Il Trittico and La Traviata at London’s Royal has quickly established Opera, Covent Garden, and Rigoletto at himself as one of the Paris’ Opéra Bastille. In addition, Luisotti most sought-after tenors of his generation. has received international acclaim from A member of the Stuttgart Opera since press and public alike with performances at 2012, Ayan has been equally well received at Vienna State Opera, Genoa’s Teatro Carlo major international houses, including the Felice, Venice’s La Fenice, Bologna’s Teatro Metropolitan Opera (in the roles of Alfredo Comunale, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac); Royal Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden, Hamburg, Opera House, Covent Garden (Alfredo, Valencia, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Ruggero in La Rondine, and Don Ottavio in Opera, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. He was Don Giovanni); Teatro alla Scala (Nemorino recently appointed associate director at in L’Elisir d’Amore); the Bavarian State Opera Madrid’s Teatro Real. Later this season, he in Munich (Nemorino); and Deutsche returns to the Metropolitan Opera to lead Oper Berlin (Rodolfo in La Bohème). performances of Cavalleria Rusticana and Recent engagements include Alfredo at Pagliacci, as well as a new production of the Glyndebourne Festival, Rodolfo at the Aida at Madrid’s Teatro Real, a concert with Cologne Opera, and the title role of Faust Teatro Regio di Torino, and La Bohème and at Stuttgart Opera. Later this season, Ayan Falstaffat London’s Royal Opera, Covent makes his debut at Paris’ Opéra Bastille as Garden. In December, Luisotti will conduct Rodolfo and his role debut as Des Grieux the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala in Manon at the Cologne Opera. He also Concert at Carnegie Hall. returns to Stuttgart as Faust and to Covent Garden as Rodolfo. AURELIA FLORIAN (Brașov, Romania) ARTUR RUCIŃSKI Violetta Valéry (Warsaw, Poland) Making her U.S. debut Giorgio Germont as Violetta Valéry in Making his San La Traviata, soprano Francisco Opera debut Aurelia Florian as Giorgio Germont in premiered the role in La Traviata, baritone 2013 at the Deutsche Artur Ruciński Oper Berlin, and has since performed it to experienced his wide acclaim at the Bavarian State Opera in career breakthrough in spring 2010, when Munich, New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Den conductor Daniel Barenboim invited him to Norske Opera in Oslo, Zurich Opera, and sing the title role of Eugene Onegin under the Savonlinna Festival in Finland. Born and his baton and alongside tenor Rolando trained in her native Romania, Florian began Villazón at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.

encoreartsprograms.com 45 Other career highlights include Sharpless Amitai Pati made his Company debut last National Council Auditions and finalist in in Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan summer as Matteo Borsa in Rigoletto. He the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition. Opera, Francesco di Moor in I Masnadieri was a participant in the 2016 Merola Opera He is a career grant recipient with the Giulio at Venice’s La Fenice, Count di Luna in Il Program, where he performed his first Gari Foundation. Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival, Ford in principal role as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Falstaffat Frankfurt Opera, Paolo Albiani and at the 2014 Young Singers Project in ANTHONY REED in Simon Boccanegra at La Scala, Giorgio Salzburg. He won the Lexus SongQuest (Alexandria, Germont at the Royal Opera House, Covent in 2012 and the Waiariki Institute of Minnesota) Garden, and the title role of Don Giovanni at Technology New Zealand Aria competition Doctor Grenvil Paris’ Opéra Bastille. Future plans involve in 2015. Pati, along with his brother, tenor Bass Anthony house debuts at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Pene Pati, and their cousin, baritone Moses Reed made his San (I Masnadieri) and Teatro Real in Madrid Mackay, comprise the highly successful Francisco Opera debut (Il Trovatore), as well as a return to Opéra New Zealand vocal trio Sol3 Mio, which in various roles in Bastille (Marcello in La Bohème and the title mixes both classical and contemporary 2015’s Les Troyens. A role of Gianni Schicchi). Ruciński will also music, and performs at the War Memorial third-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, appear in concert with the Orchestra del Opera House in December. he has also appeared on the War Memorial Teatro Regio di Torino. Opera House stage as Tutor of Orest in PHILIP SKINNER Elektra, Count Ceprano in Rigoletto, King of RENÉE RAPIER (Jacksonville, Florida) Egypt in Aida, Schmidt in Andrea Chénier, (Marion, Iowa) Baron Douphol Mayor of the Village in Jenůfa, The Speaker Flora Bervoix Bass-baritone Philip and Second Armored Man in The Magic After receiving her Skinner made his San Flute, Hans Schwartz in Die Meistersinger training as a San Francisco Opera debut von Nürnberg, and Doctor Primus in Gordon Francisco Opera Adler as Quinault in the 1985 Getty’s Usher House. A participant of the Fellow (2012–13) and production of Adriana 2014 Merola Opera Program, Reed received Los Angeles Opera Lecouvreur and has a 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Domingo Thornton appeared with the Company in more than Auditions Regional Encouragement Award Young Artist, mezzo-soprano Renée Rapier 35 roles, including as Edgar Ray Killen in the and has been a young artist at the Wolf Trap has gone on to make debuts with Los world premiere of Philip Glass’ Appomattox, Opera Studio and the Seagle Music Colony. Angeles Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera The Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, and King Theatre of Saint Louis, the Ravinia Festival, Priam and the Ghost of Priam in Les Troyens. AMINA EDRIS and Seattle Opera. Her 2016–17 season More recent engagements have been with (Christchurch, New included returns to Seattle Opera (Suzuki Opera Parallèle as the Immigration Officer Zealand) in Madama Butterfly), Opera Parallèle, and in Jonathan Dove’s Flight, the Pacific Annina a debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Symphony as the King of Egypt in Aida, and Egyptian-born, New Rapier was the 2012 winner of the Palm San Diego Opera as Eric Gold and Ghost Zealand soprano Springs Opera Guild Competition, and of Bazzetti in Jake Heggie’s Great Scott. Amina Edris is a the 2013 Brava! Opera Theater and Skinner is a graduate of the Merola Opera second-year San James M. Collier Young Artist Program Program and former San Francisco Opera Francisco Opera Adler Vocal Competition. She also was a 2011 Adler Fellow. Fellow who made her San Francisco Opera Metropolitan Opera National Council debut in 2016 as Frasquita in Carmen. Auditions semifinalist, a finalist of the 2013 ANDREW G. MANEA More recent Company appearances include Seoul International Music Competition, (Troy, Michigan) Klytemnestra’s Trainbearer in Elektra and a semifinalist at Operalia 2015. She Marquis d’Obigny and Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto. She appeared as Mercédès in the Company’s Romanian-American also appeared earlier this year as Tina in 2016 production of Carmen and made her baritone Andrew G. Jonathan Dove’s Flight at Opera Parallèle. San Francisco Opera debut as a Maid in Manea made his A participant in the 2015 Merola Opera Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne. Later San Francisco Opera Program, Edris is a winner of the Palm this season, Rapier makes her Ring cycle debut as Marullo in Springs Opera Guild Competition, Sydney debut as Grimgerde in the Company’s Rigoletto last summer. Eisteddfod McDonald’s Operatic Aria Die Walküre. A first-year Adler Fellow, he is a 2016 Competition, and the Deborah Reidel award graduate of the Merola Opera Program in the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge AMITAI PATI where he appeared as Irons Hans and Wolf Bel Canto Award Competition 2013, as (Auckland, New in Conrad Susa’s Transformations. He also well as being awarded a Western Regional Zealand) performed as Escamillo in Carmen last year Special Encouragement Award in the 2014 Gastone in Wuhan, China, as well as the Forester in Metropolitan Opera National Council A first-year San The Cunning Little Vixen and the title role Auditions. Francisco Opera Adler of Don Giovanni. His competition credits Fellow and tenor of include semifinalist and Encouragement Samoan descent, Award recipient at the Metropolitan Opera

46 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA music dance theater 2017/18 Cal Perform ances SEASON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY CHRISTOPHER JACKSON (Buffalo, New York) Théâtre de la Ville, Paris Giuseppe State of Siege A member of the By Albert Camus San Francisco Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, director Opera Chorus, tenor “Inspiring. A most violent but also Christopher Jackson realistic descent into hell. The only made his Company rampart against dictatorship is courage.” debut in 2009 as the Pony Express Rider in —La Vie

La Fanciulla del West and has appeared in Please note: State of Siege is performed solo roles in 14 other Company productions, in French with English supertitles. including as Uncle Yakuside in Madama Butterfly, Jeppo Liverotto in Lucrezia Borgia Oct 21 & 22 ZELLERBACH HALL and a Backwoodsman in Show Boat. Career highlights include several roles at New York City Opera, including Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Calaf in Turandot Ian Bostridge, tenor with New York Grand Opera, Don José in Wenwen Du, piano Carmen with Anchorage Opera, and concert performances at Carnegie Hall. Schubert’s Winterreise “It is as if Schubert somehow looked TORLEF BORSTING into the future, heard Bostridge sing and (Hilo, Hawaii) wrote Winterreise specifically for him.” Flora’s Servant —Exeunt Magazine A member of the San Francisco Opera Nov 10 ZELLERBACH HALL Chorus, baritone Torlef Borsting made his Company solo debut in 2006 as a Soldier The Joffrey Ballet in The Maid of Orleans. Most recently, he Featuring Justin Peck’s In Creases; appeared as a Custom-House Officer in La Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Mammatu; and Bohème, a Moroccan Soldier in the world Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman’s Joy, a Cal Performances co-commission premiere of Marco Tutino’s Two Women, a and West Coast Premiere. member of the Quintet and Ensemble in Sweeney Todd, and a Man’s Voice in Jenůfa. “The verdict is unequivocal: Other Bay Area credits include roles with the Joffrey Ballet is dancing as Opera San Jose, Opera San Luis Obispo, it has never danced before.” Sacramento Opera, Eugene Opera, and —Chicago Sun Times Opera Parallèle. Nov 17–19 ZELLERBACH HALL BOJAN KNEŽEVIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia) Messenger Bojan Knežević made The Hard Nut his Company debut as Mark Morris Dance Group Marquis d’Obigny in Music by Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker) La Traviata in 1995 and Choreography by Mark Morris has since appeared First Bay Area Performances in 5 years! with the Company in over 30 roles. Most recently, the bass- “You’ve never seen a Nutcracker baritone and San Francisco Opera Chorus quite like this before.” member appeared as an Old Servant in —The Huffington Post Elektra, a Custom-House Sergeant in La Bohème, Notary in Don Pasquale, Antonio in Dec 15–24 ZELLERBACH HALL Le Nozze di Figaro, and as a member of the Season Ensemble in Sweeney Todd. A former San Sponsor: Francisco Opera Adler Fellow and Merola calperformances.org alumnus, Knežević also performed the title

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LORENA FEIJÓO (Havana, Cuba) Solo Dancer Making her San Francisco Opera debut with La Traviata, award-winning dancer jmlt.org Lorena Feijóo trained at Escuela Nacional de Ballet de Cuba. She performed with Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Ballet of Monterrey, Royal Ballet of Flanders, and the Joffrey Ballet before joining San Francisco Ballet as a principal dancer in 1999. As a guest artist, Feijóo has performed extensively, including pas de deux from Don Quixote at the Benois de la Danse Gala at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 2011; Garcia’s Majismo at the American Ballet Theatre gala honoring José Manuel Carreño in 2011; and in ACT’s The Tosca Project in San Francisco in 2010. Later this season at San Francisco Opera, Feijóo creates the role of Lola Montez in the world premiere of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West.

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CA RCFE #410508359 COA #318 BRE# 01066367 in China, Die Tote Stadt, and Les Pêcheurs de Perles. He received his early training at the Richmond Ballet in Virginia and has danced with the San Diego Opera, Oakland Ballet, Smuin Ballet, Ballet San Jose, Robert Moses’ Kin, State Street Ballet, Inland Pacific Ballet, and Liss Fain Dance. He has also choreographed for Anchorage Opera and

48 SAN FRANCISCOJob: PR-263 OPERA Lux Condo Mirrors SF OperaLaTaviata Sept/Oct ME01 Date: 5/31/17 Publication: SF Opera La Traviata – 1/2 page 4C Ad Size: Bleed: Trim: 4.75 x 7.375” Live: Sign Off: AD: LM Proofer: AE: JG Operatic has been a guest artist for the San Francisco and designing a puppet version of Primo Bay Area dance schools, Berkeley Ballet Levi’s If This Is a Man, which debuted at the Theater, Petaluma City Ballet, and Marin Moscow Art Theater and toured the country. Paintings Dance Theatre. Prior to that, she worked for New York’s Bread and Puppet Theater for five years. by Barbara Fracchia JOHN COPLEY Recent directorial engagements include La (Birmingham, England) Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein for Wichita Production Grand Opera and The Pirates of Penzance for John Copley made Skylight Music Theater. Next summer, Lucey his San Francisco directs L’Italiana in Algeri for the Santa Fe Opera debut directing Opera. Giulio Cesare in 1982 and celebrated his JOHN CONKLIN thirtieth engagement (Hartford, Connecticut) with the Company in 2010 with Le Nozze di Set Designer Figaro. In addition to Orlando and Semele, John Conklin made his other San Francisco Opera credits his San Francisco include seven seasons of La Traviata, the Opera debut with the U.S. premiere of Tippett’s The Midsummer 1977 production of Marriage, Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, A Un Ballo in Maschera; Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Queen of his designs for that Spades, Il Trovatore, Idomeneo, Anna Bolena, opera have since returned five times to the Peter Grimes, Manon, and Ariodante. Among War Memorial Opera House stage, most his U.S. credits are Lucia di Lammermoor recently in 2014. He created the original and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Lyric Opera designs for Wagner’s Ring cycle presented of Chicago; Madama Butterfly, Rodelinda, at San Francisco Opera between 1983 and Hansel and Gretel, and Ermione for the Dallas 1985. His work has also been seen at the Opera; and Semiramide and Il Pirata for the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera. Copley’s production of Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Dallas Opera, Madama Butterfly inaugurated the Santa Fe Seattle Opera, the San Diego Opera, Opera Opera’s new theater in 1998. He has also Theatre of Saint Louis, the Santa Fe Opera, directed in Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, and Glimmerglass Opera, among other U.S. and Brussels, as well as at Milan’s La Scala companies. Conklin’s designs have appeared and several seasons at Venice’s La Fenice. at English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Recent stagings include Die Fledermaus at Bavarian State Opera, and Opera Australia. Welsh National Opera, La Bohème at the He has also designed for major theaters Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and around the country, including the New York Albert Herring at the Grange Festival in Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Northington, England. Theater, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Arena Stage, the Mark Taper Forum, and SHAWNA LUCEY the Goodman and Guthrie theaters. Conklin (Houston, Texas) currently teaches at the Tisch School of the Stage Director Arts at New York University. Shawna Lucey is making her San DAVID WALKER Francisco Opera (Kolkata, India) directorial debut with Costume Designer La Traviata. She has Internationally known worked at the Santa for his designs in both Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric opera and ballet, the Opera of Chicago, the Bolshoi Theater, and late David Walker made Schauspiel Hannover, assisting directors his San Francisco La Traviata David McVicar, Francesca Zambello, Stephen Opera debut with 36 x 18, oil on canvas Lawless, Lee Blakeley, John Caird, and Peter La Traviata in 1987 and returned for Der Schumann, among others. For San Francisco Rosenkavalier, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Manon, Opera, Lucey served as assistant director for and Semele. His work was also seen at several productions including, most recently, the Metropolitan Opera, English National La Bohème, Aida, Andrea Chénier, and Die Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, and the Meistersinger von Nürnberg. For five years, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, among other Lucey worked with theater institutions in companies. The British designer’s credits at Russia where her projects included directing the Santa Fe Opera include costume design

encoreartsprograms.com 49 for Der Rosenkavalier, Semele, La Traviata, Flamenco Festival San Francisco, and as DAVIE MAIER and Agrippina. For ballet companies, his a special guest artist with the Juan Siddi (Great Neck, New York) credits include costume design for Cinderella Flamenco Santa Fe Theatre Company at Fight Director and sets and costumes for The Sleeping the Royal Daphna Hall in Doha, Qatar. Resident fight director Beauty for the Royal Ballet, Giselle and La Zertuche’s work was showcased in the for San Francisco Sylphide for London Festival Ballet, and San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival from Opera, Dave Maier Swan Lake for Houston Ballet. Theater 2002 to 2009, the Santa Barbara Ethnic made his Company credits include designing costumes for Dance Festival in 2001, and at the Flamenco debut in 2013 with Les London Assurance for the Royal Shakespeare Festivals in Monterrey, Mexico and Mexico Contes d’Hoffmann. Company. City. His work has most recently appeared in the Company’s Turandot, Elektra, Rigoletto, GARY MARDER IAN ROBERTSON Don Giovanni, La Bohème, Aida, Madama (San Diego, California) (Dundee, Scotland) Butterfly, Andrea Chénier, Dream of the Lighting Designer Chorus Director Red Chamber, Carmen, Don Carlo, Jenůfa, Resident lighting Recipient of the and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Maier designer for San 2012 San Francisco has directed fight scenes for American Francisco Opera, Gary Opera Medal, Ian Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Marder made his Robertson has been Theatre, San Jose Repertory, Aurora Theatre, Company debut with chorus director Marin Theatre Company, and Magic Theatre, Mefistofelein 2013, and and conductor with among others. He is a five-time recipient of his lighting designs most recently appeared San Francisco Opera since 1987, having the San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics in the Company’s Turandot, Don Giovanni, prepared more than 300 productions for Circle Award for Fight Direction, as well as Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, and Dream the Company. He was awarded the Olivier an adjunct faculty member at the University of the Red Chamber. Marder’s other work Messiaen Foundation Prize in 2003 for his of California Santa Cruz and St. Mary’s includes Madama Butterflyin Washington artistic contribution to the preparation of College of California. He currently teaches D.C.; The Magic Flute in Sydney; La Traviata the Company’s North American premiere of combat-related courses in Berkeley. at Turin’s Teatro Regio as well as in Tokyo; Saint François d’Assise. Robertson has also The Makropulos Case and Samson et Dalila conducted ten main stage productions with at Houston Grand Opera; and Samson et the Company. Other North American opera Dalila, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Peter credits include productions with Sarasota Grimes, Un Ballo in Maschera, and Norma at Opera, Edmonton Opera, and Philadelphia’s San Diego Opera. Marder previously served Curtis Opera Theatre. Before joining San SUPERNUMERARIES as assistant resident lighting designer for Francisco Opera, Robertson was head of Steven Alesch the Metropolitan Opera for 12 seasons and music and chorus director of Scottish Opera. Dieter Bluhm associate resident lighting designer at New He currently serves as artistic director of the James Crow York City Opera for five years. Later this fall, San Francisco Boys Chorus. Steve Lavezzoli his designs appear in the Company’s Manon. Frank Masson LAWRENCE PECH Paul Romito CAROLA ZERTUCHE (San Francisco, Bill Watt (Torreon, Mexico) California) Rob Wonder Choreographer Dance Master Making her San Lawrence Pech is in his Francisco Opera 22nd season as dance debut, Carola Zertuche master and resident currently serves as choreographer for San the artistic director Francisco Opera. He of Theatre Flamenco, has created period and interpretive dances which celebrated its 50th year in 2016. She on more than 60 productions with the has toured throughout Mexico, the United Company. Pech received his formal training States, and the Middle East with highly from American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and revered flamenco companies including was invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to join Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco, and she that company in 1980. In 1986, he joined has danced at New York’s Joyce Theater, San Francisco Ballet, where he became a the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in western principal dancer in 1989. Pech founded two Massachusetts, the Lensic in Santa Fe, of his own dance companies and has the Tablao Flamenco in Albuquerque, and choreographed more than 50 ballets, 30 the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Zertuche has musicals, and numerous self-produced collaborated on projects with La Tania evenings of music and dance around the as guest artist with the Domingo Ortega world. Flamenco Company in Los Angeles, with the Andrés Marín Company in the First

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SAN FRANCISCO Opera ADMINISTRATION

Matthew Shilvock General Director aDMINISTraTION Opera CeNTer OrCHeSTra Mark Morash, Director of Musical Studies Carrie Weick, Orchestra Librarian Nicola Luisotti Music Director, FINaNCe Tracy Davis, Orchestra Manager Caroline H. Hume Endowed Chair Chris Bragg, Administrative Director Jess G. perry, Senior Budget Manager Timothy Spears, Assistant Orchestra Karen Jine, Company Manager Christopher Tom, Controller Librarian/Assistant Orchestra Manager Jo ann McStravick, Artists’ Services and Mingsy Yan-Lau, Senior Accountant Jennifer Good Managing Director: Auditions Administrator elaine Quan, Senior Accountant pHILaNTHrOpY aND aUDIeNCeS Production Linda rodriguez, Senior Accountant César Ulloa, Master Voice Teacher Gregory Henkel Managing Director: Gracie Tang, Senior Accountant David Odenkirchen, Director of Artistic annabella Tam, Payroll Administrator OperaTIONS Philanthropy and Audiences Operations Jess Levy, Patron Data Specialist Jennifer Lynch Managing Director: INFOrMaTION SerVICeS Philanthropy and Audiences eDUCaTION Mark Wladika, DevOps Manager COMMUNICaTIONS Charles Chip McNeal, Curriculum and Michael Simpson Managing Director: Sapna patel, Program Manager, Julia Inouye, Associate Director of Program Specialist Administration/Chief Financial Business Transformation Communications alyssa Stone, Community Programs Officer paul Goetz, Systems Administrator Matthew erikson, Publications Editor Steve Long, Network & Systems Manager Jeffery McMillan, Senior Administrator Timmy Yuen, School Programs Associate Communications Manager adam Broidy Chief Information Officer Sara Lee, Programmer/Analyst emily Spitz, Education Programs Teresa Concepcion, Communications Coordinator Associate Lisa Bullard Director of Marketing arTISTIC Hector armienta, Linda Baird, Jon Finck Director of Communications DeVeLOpMeNT arTISTIC aND MUSIC pLaNNING Nicholas Benavides, Tajma Beverly, and Public Affairs Sean Waugh, Artistic Planning Manager erin Bregman, Joshua raoul Brody, ANNUAL GIVING Judith Frankel Deputy Director of Deanna Sherer, Music Planning Heidi Carlsen, robert Chastain, Jennifer Jordan, Director of Annual Giving Development Manager Danny Clay, Marcelle Dronkers, John Churchwell, Head of Music Staff Sheri Greenawald Opera Center patricia Drozda, Hannah Dworkin, DONOR STEWARDSHIP Ilana rainero-de Haan, Assistant to the Director Lisa edsall Giglio, Kevin Gordon, andrew Maguire, Director of Donor Managing Director: Artistic Lua Hadar, Dave Maier, rosalyn Nash, Stewardship Lee Helms Interim Director of Valentina Simi, Artist Services alyssa Saint, Donor Services Data Operations Coordinator and Assistant to the Virginia Nichols, Steven Sven Olbash, Manager Music Director Michael Orlinsky, aaron pike, Daniele McCartan Costume Director Kathleen esselstyn, Gift Manuela Galindo, Contracts and Katherine Issel pitre, emily Shisko, Acknowledgment Coordinator andrew Morgan Deputy Director of Accommodations Assistant alex Stein, alyssa Stone, Chivly Krouch, Gift Processing Development Michael Bragg, Music Planning Christopher Street, Matthew Wolka, Coordinator Associate and Opera Librarian ruth Nott Director of Education Teaching Artists Victoria Montecillo, Development James Clements, Healey Suto, Services Coordinator Claire padien-Havens General MUSIC STaFF Director’s Associate John Churchwell, Interns Jocelyne Dienst-Bladin, Dennis INDIVIDUAL AND LEADERSHIP Barbara rominski Director of Archives GIVING Doubin, ronny Michael Greenberg, MUSIC OperaTIONS Deborah Banks, Director of Individual Teri Xavier Director of Human Bryndon Hassman, John Keenan, Clifford Cranna, Dramaturg Noah Lindquist, Vito Lombardi, and Leadership Giving Resources elkhanah pulitzer Artistic Curator, Joseph Marcheso, Mario Marra, Dana Gordon, Leadership Giving Officer SF Opera Lab robert Mollicone, Christopher Ocasek, Joo eun Lee, Leadership Giving Officer Celine Strouts, Sandra Chien, Senior Individual Giving David Gockley General Director Matthew piatt, Laura poe, Operations Associate Officer Emeritus Stephanie rhodes, Tamara Sanikidze, Maureen Zoltek aileen Tat, Individual Giving Officer CHOrUS aND BaLLeT Mcara Kirby-Fahey, Individual and Jennifer Szeto, John elam, Adler Fellows Leadership Giving Associate eXeCUTIVe OFFICeS Ian robertson, Chorus Director Fabrizio Corona, Associate Chorus Master Genevieve ennis, Executive Assistant to LaNGUaGe COaCHeS INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Jim Meyer, Chorus and Dance Manager the General Director alessandra Cattani, Italian Donna Batson, Director of Institutional patricia Kristof Moy, French Mary Finch, Assistant Chorus Giving ellen presley, Liaison to the Board of anja Strauss, German Manager/Chorus Librarian Catherine Lewis, Institutional Giving Directors Lynne Soffer, English Diction Brian Fitzsousa, Ballet Pianist Manager

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LEGACY GIVING FrONT OF HOUSe Kristen eiden, Carol Wood, Lisa anderson, Darin Burnett, Mandala pham, Senior Legacy Giving Jamye Divila, House Manager Gillian Haratani, Santiago Suanes, Jodi Gage, Gina Hays, Thea railey, Officer Marialice Dockus, Head Usher Assistant Cutters Stage Managers rodney anderson, Danica Burt, Kristi Johnson, Senior Production Jose Maria Condemi, Supervisor e. reed Fisher, Shawna Lucey, PRINCIPAL GIVING anthony Cantello, Laurent Dela Cruz, Martin Dias, Starsky Dias, Galen Till, Production Supervisor Jimmy Marcheso, roy rallo, Kristen Jones, Director of Principal Giving Jonathan Drogin, Chip Heath, Manuel Gutierrez, Production Morgan robinson, Joanna Taber, Principal Giving Manager elaine Kawasaki, eileen Keremitsis, Coordinator Assistant Stage Directors anna Speaker, Principal Giving Associate ryszard Koprowski, Bill Laschuk, paula Wheeler, Senior Milliner e. reed Fisher, Jenny Harber, Sharon Lee, Lenore Long, amy Van every, Senior Dyer andrew G. Landis, Jimmy Marcheso, PROSPECT RESEARCH AND Doug Luyendyk, evelyn Martinez, Jersey McDermott, Senior Craft Artisan Jayme O’Hara, Thea railey, Becki Smith, STRATEGY Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Nicole Diascenti, Stock Coordinator Assistant Stage Managers eliza ryus, Production Assistant Lisa Bordachar, Director of Prospect Sam Mesinger, Dale Nedelco, Valerie Spencer, Shopper TeCHNICaL DIreCTION Research and Strategy Wayne Noel, Beth Norris, Nikki anderson-Joy, Costume Assistant erik Walstad, Technical and Safety Jan padover, Julie peck, Miriam acosta, adela Cantor, Director* robert remple, Bill repp, rilla SPECIAL EVENTS alicia Castaneda, Michael evans, ryan O’Steen, Associate Technical Director* reynolds, robyn Sandberg, Karman Ferrell pave, Director of Guillermina Flores, Ting Hsueh, Gabrielle Heerschap, Assistant Joe Savin, Kelly Smith, Special Events Hoa Lam Fong, aries Limon, Technical Director Stephanie Somersille, Katie Cagampan, Special Events Manager Xing-Fong Luo, romana Majovsky, Theresa Sun, Tom Taffel, rebecca Scott, Special Events Associate Sonia Olivares, WarDrOBe Claire Tremblay, richard Wagner, Costume Technicians Tony Gorzycki, Head of Wardrobe Steve Weiss, elaine Yee, Cynthia Fusco, robert Horek, MarKeTING Ushers eLeCTrICS David McKain, Catherine Verdier, Valerie York, Associate Director of Hui Ming Wu, Show Maid Leon parsons, Master Electrician Assistants Marketing Michael anderson, Assistant Master Chi-Hsuan Yang, Marketing Analyst Opera SHOp Electrician WIG aND MaKeUp Kathryn appleton, Senior Marketing Jay Stebley, Retail Manager russell e. adamson III, Assistant Head Jeanna parham, Head of Department Manager, Subscriptions Karen Topp, Assistant Manager ashley Joyce, Assistant Head of pamela Sevilla, Senior Marketing FIGHT DIreCTION Department Manager, Single Tickets MeDIa Dave Maier, Fight Director Christina Martin, Administrative Assistant Jessica Shown-Morgan, Electronic Sophia Smith, elisa Mack, Maur Sela, Steven Shear, Assistant Marketing Media Manager LIGHTING Wig Assistants Manager, Subscriptions Gary Marder, Resident Lighting Designer* Karalynne Fiebig, ashley Joyce, amy Garcia, Assistant Marketing prODUCTION Mark Hueske Thomas, Assistant Christina Martin, Foremen Manager, Single Tickets *Senior Production Staff Member Lighting Designer elizabeth poindexter, Melanie Birch, Megan Searcy, Marketing Coordinator, paul Timmel, Assistant Lighting Denise Gutierrez, Karalynne Fiebig, Subscriptions prODUCTION aDMINISTraTION Designer Tim Santry, Connie Strayer, alejandra Castelero, Marketing Jeremy patfield, Production Finance emily Clarkson, Hemsley Lighting Intern Christina Martin, Coordinator, Single Tickets Director Megan Turnquist, Lighting Intern Principal Make-up Artists rick Burns, Denise Gutierrez, emilianne Lewis, Marketing Associate, paul Dana, Support Services Coordinator prOperTIeS Karalynne Fiebig, Toby Mayer, New Audiences and Special Events Sylvia Jiang, Production Finance Assistant Lori Harrison, Master of Properties Connie Strayer, Karalynne Fiebig, Tanya Grant, Marketing Assistant Freddy Wielandt, Assistant Master of Kerry rider-Kuhn, richard Battle, Properties Journeymen aUDIO BOX OFFICe Tatyanna Fateyeva, elisa Mack, Doug Mitchell, Master Audio/Video Mark Sackett, Box Office Manager, reHearSaL Maurisa rondeau, Maur Sela, Engineer Marin Venturi, Rehearsal Department Debbie Fuqua, Thomas richards, Treasurer Ziggy Tomcich, Assistant Master Director* Associates Jessica Fauver, Assistant Box Office Audio/Video Engineer Kali Wilson, Rehearsal and Schedule Manager, First Assistant Treasurer Manager THe WILSeY CeNTer FOr Opera rebecca page, Medallion Society CarpeNTrY Trey Costerisan, Supernumeraries and Chris Davis, Wilsey Center Head Stage Master Carpenter Concierge Manager David Hatch, Facilities Coordinator Technician emily Tilles, Subscriptions Manager, Mark Baumann, Assistant Master Jordan amann, Rehearsal Assistant Assistant Treasurer Carpenter Zach Van pelt, Rehearsal Assistant Dr. Myron Marx, Jennifer Hughes, roberto Bonilla, Company Medical Adviser COSTUMe DeparTMeNT Assistant Treasurers SCeNe SHOp Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Counsel Jai alltizer, Costume Shop Manager ruth Van Slyke, Telephone Sales Manager Steve McNally, Scenic Artist in Charge Armanino LLP, David Doré, Senior Production John Del Bono, Shop and Warehouse Independent Public Accountants Khalil el-Kareh, Nick Gueli, Accountant Foreman Asero Insurance Services, Beverlee G. Hassid, Billy Hayes, amy ashton-Keller, Master Draper Insurance Brokers Charles McGraw, Kyle Minor, Sally Thomas, Master Tailor STaGING STaFF Cory Weaver, Official Photographer Jennifer pollack, Kristin reyda, Irene Murray, Star rabinowitz, Darin Burnett, Production Stage Yamaha is the Official Piano of Dale Whitmill, Senior Cutters Manager* San Francisco Opera Telephone Sales Assistants Cheryl Mennen, Cutter Lawrence pech, Dance Master Pianos supplied by Piedmont Piano

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA 2017–18 ARTISTS

ARTISTS Renée Rapier† COSTUME DESIGNERS Ian Robertson, Chorus Director Raymond Aceto Anthony Reed‡ Vincent Boussard Fabrizio Corona, Associate Chorus Master Julie Adams† Artur Ruciński* Ian Falconer , Chorus and Dance Manager Julius Ahn Martina Serafin Kaspar Glarner** Jim Meyer Paul Appleby Andrea Silvestrelli Rita Ryack* Mary Finch, Assistant Chorus Manager/ Atalla Ayan* Philip Skinner† David Walker Chorus Librarian Jamie Barton Joel Sorensen Nicole Birkland Nina Stemme LIGHTING DESIGNERS REGULAR CHORUS Daniel Brenna* Falk Struckmann* John Bishop* Buffy Baggott C. Michael Belle J’Nai Bridges Kyle van Schoonhoven‡ James F. Ingalls Kathleen Bayler* Torlef Borsting* Robert Brubaker* Stacey Tappan Gary Marder Roberta Bowman Alan Cochran* Julia Bullock* Renee Tatum† Mark McCullough Janet Campbell Chris Corley Sarah Cambidge‡ Davóne Tines* Thomas J. Munn Sara Colburn Christopher Filipowicz David Cangelosi Alfred Walker* Dvora Djoraev Anders Fröhlich* Melissa Citro Brad Walker‡ VIDEO DESIGNER Mary Finch Daniel Harper James Creswell Bartek Macias* Claudia Haider Cameron Henley Leah Crocetto† CONDUCTORS Claire Kelm Christopher Jackson* Ellie Dehn Patrick Fournillier PROJECTION DESIGNERS Elisabeth Rom Lucio Michael Jankosky* Monica Dewey* Christopher Franklin* S. Katy Tucker Angela Eden Moser Ken Johnson Amina Edris‡ Grant Gershon* Jan Hartley Sally Mouzon* David Kekuewa Michael Fabiano Nicola Luisotti Sally Porter Munro Bojan Knežević* Aurelia Florian** Henrik Nánási* CHOREOGRAPHERS Erin Neff* Frederick Matthews Christine Goerke Donald Runnicles John Heginbotham* Rachelle Perry William O’Neill* Greer Grimsley Lawrence Pech Virginia Pluth* Phillip Pickens Jill Grove DIRECTORS Carola Zertuche* Laurel Cameron Porter William Pickersgill Evelyn Herlitzius* Vincent Boussard Laurel Rice Chester Pidduck* Soloman Howard Garnett Bruce FIGHT DIRECTOR Shelley Seitz Valery Portnov Brian Jagde† John Copley Dave Maier Carole Schaffer* Ken Rafanan† Rhoslyn Jones† Anja Kühnhold** Donna Turchi Colby Roberts Brandon Jovanovich Shawna Lucey SOUND DESIGNER Mitzie Weiner Sigmund Seigel Joo Won Kang Peter Sellars Mark Grey Dan Stanley Laura Krumm† Keith Warner* Jere Torkelsen* Hye Jung Lee Francesca Zambello Andrew Truett Alexandra Loutsion* Richard Walker† * San Francisco Opera debut Elliot Madore SET DESIGNERS ** U.S. debut Andrew G. Manea‡ John Conklin † Chorus member on Leave of Absence † = Former Adler Fellow * Chorus member appearing in a Solo Role Štefan Margita David Gropman* ‡ = Current Adler Fellow Michaela Martens David Hockney  = Merola Opera Program Karita Mattila Boris Kudlička* participant (past or present) EXTRA CHORUS Ryan McKinny Vincent Lemaire Elizabeth Baker* Ben Brady Lauren McNeese Michael Yeargan Jennifer Brody Stephen Cannon* Ronnita Miller Catherine Zuber Cheryl Cain Adam Flowers Timothy Mix Katie Carlson Peter Girardôt Brian Mulligan Kristin Clayton Patrick Hagen Toni Marie Palmertree‡ Margaret Genovese Thomas Hart Amitai Pati‡ Karen Winner Huff Harlan Hays David Pershall Silvie Jensen Bradley Kynard* Adrianne Pieczonka Carolyne Anne Jordan Michael P. Eileen Meredith Mendelsohn Aimée Puentes Jim Meyer Whitney Steele Jim Monios Nicole Takesono Jess G. Perry Jacque Wilson Keith Perry * Kali Wilson Samuel Rabinowitz Pedro Rodelas Karl Saarni Jason Sarten Alexander Taite* Michael Taylor Nicholas Volkert

54 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Nicola Luisotti, Music Director Caroline H. Hume Endowed Chair Lawrence Pech, Dance Master

FIRST VIOLIN ENGLISH HORN Dwayne Brown Brook Broughton †* Kay Stern, Concertmaster Janet Popesco Archibald Bryan Ketron †* Alysia Chang Laura Albers, Associate Concertmaster* Michael Levine † Jamielyn Duggan Heidi Wilcox, Assistant Concertmaster CLARINET Jekyns Pelaez †* Lorena Feijóo* Jennifer Cho Jose Gonzalez Granero, Principal Alexandra FitzGibbon Dawn Harms Joanne Burke Eisler, Assistant Principal Blanche Hampton †* Mariya Borozina Anthony Striplen Rachel Speidel Little* Lev Rankov Laura O’Malley* Barbara Riccardi BASS CLARINET Chiharu Shibata † Dian Zhang Anthony Striplen Leonid Igudesman † Tenured Jennifer Hsieh BASSOON * Solo Dancer Asuka Annie Yano Rufus Olivier, Principal Daniel MacNeill SECOND VIOLIN Michael Severance Jeremy Preston, Principal Martha Simonds, Associate Principal CONTRABASSOON Beni Shinohara, Assistant Principal Michael Severance Eva Karasik Maya Cohon HORN Leslie Ludena Kevin Rivard, Co-Principal Linda Deutsch Twohy† Mark Almond, Co-Principal Craig Reiss Keith Green Heeguen Song ** Brian McCarty Lawrence Ragent VIOLA Carla Maria Rodrigues, Principal TRUMPET Sergey Rakitchenkov, Associate Principal* Adam Luftman, Principal San Francisco Opera extends its gratitude and ap- Paul Nahhas, Assistant Principal William Holmes† preciation to the following labor organizations whose Patricia Heller Scott Macomber** members, artists, craftsmen, and craftswomen Jonna Hervig John Pearson greatly contribute to our performances: Natalia Vershilova Joy Fellows TROMBONE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS, LOCAL 6 Samuel Schlosser, Principal† AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, INC. CELLO Jeffrey Budin, Principal** David Kadarauch, Principal Donald Kennelly INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE Thalia Moore, Associate Principal* David Ridge EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 16 Peter Myers, Assistant Principal THEATRICAL WARDROBE UNION, LOCAL 784, Nora Pirquet TUBA/CIMBASSO I.A.T.S.E. Emil Miland Zachariah Spellman MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS UNION, Victoria Ehrlich LOCAL 706, I.A.T.S.E. Ruth Lane TIMPANI John Burgardt THE ART DIRECTORS GUILD & SCENIC, TITLE AND BASS GRAPHIC ARTISTS LOCAL 800 Joseph Lescher, Principal PERCUSSION UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS LOCAL USA – 829, Jonathan Lancelle, Associate Principal Richard Kvistad, Principal/Associate Timpani I.A.T.S.E. Steven D’Amico, Assistant Principal Patricia Niemi BOX OFFICE AND FRONT OF HOUSE Shinji Eshima EMPLOYEES UNION, LOCAL B-18 Mark Drury HARP Olga Ortenberg-Rakitchenkov FLUTE Julie McKenzie, Principal LIBRARIAN Patricia Farrell Carrie Weick Stephanie McNab Timothy Spears, Assistant

PICCOLO ORCHESTRA MANAGER Stephanie McNab Tracy Davis Timothy Spears, Assistant OBOE Mingjia Liu, Principal * Principal for one or more fall season operas Deborah Henry, Assistant Principal† † Leave of absence Deborah Shidler** ** Season substitute Janet Popesco Archibald

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ORCHESTRA

Kay Stern Laura Albers Heidi Wilcox Jennifer Cho Dawn Harms Mariya Borozina Barbara Riccardi Concertmaster Associate Concertmaster Assistant Concertmaster First Violin First Violin First Violin First Violin

Leonid Igudesman Asuka Annie Yano Jeremy Preston Martha Simonds Beni Shinohara Eva Karasik Leslie Ludena First Violin First Violin Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin

Linda Deutsch Craig Reiss Carla Maria Rodrigues Sergey Rakitchenkov Paul Nahhas Patricia Heller Jonna Hervig Second Violin Second Violin Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Viola Viola Viola Viola Viola

Natalia Vershilova Joy Fellows David Kadarauch Thalia Moore Peter Myers Nora Pirquet Emil Miland Viola Viola Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Cello Cello Cello Cello Cello

Victoria Ehrlich Ruth Lane Joseph Lescher Jonathan Lancelle Steven D’Amico Shinji Eshima Mark Drury Cello Cello Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA SAN FRANCISCO ORCHESTRA CONTINuED

Julie McKenzie Patricia Farrell Stephanie McNab Mingjia Liu Deborah Henry Janet Popesco Deborah Shidler Principal Flute Flute & Piccolo Principal Assistant Principal Archibald Oboe Flute Oboe Oboe Oboe & English Horn Regular Substitute

Jose Gonzalez Joanne Burke Eisler Anthony Striplen Rufus Olivier Daniel MacNeill Michael Severance Kevin Rivard Granero Assistant Principal Clarinet & Principal Bassoon Bassoon & Co-Principal Principal Clarinet Clarinet Bass Clarinet Bassoon Contrabassoon Horn

Mark Almond Keith Green Brian McCarty Lawrence Ragent William Klingelhoffer Adam Luftman William Holmes Co-Principal Horn Horn Horn Horn Principal Trumpet Horn Regular Substitute Trumpet

John Pearson Scott Macomber Samuel Schlosser Jeffrey Budin Donald Kennelly David Ridge Zachariah Spellman Trumpet Trumpet Principal Trombone Principal Trombone Trombone Trombone & Tuba/Cimbasso Regular Substitute Regular Substitute Bass Trombone

John Burgardt Richard Kvistad Patricia Niemi Olga Ortenberg Tracy Davis Carrie Weick Timothy Spears Timpani Principal Percussion & Percussion Rakitchenkov Orchestra Manager Librarian Assistant Orchestra Associate Timpani Harp Manager & Librarian

Most photos by John Martin. Not pictured: Lev Rankov, Dian Zhang, and Jennifer Hsieh, First Violin and Maya Cohon, Second Violin

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA REGULAR CHORUS

Kathleen Bayler Sara Colburn Dvora Djoraev Mary Finch Claire Kelm Elisabeth Rom Lucio Angela Eden Moser Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano

Rachelle Perry Virginia Pluth Carole Schaffer Mitzie Kay Weiner Buffy Baggott Roberta Bowman Janet Campbell Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano

Sally Mouzon Sally Munro Erin Neff Laurel Porter Laurel Rice Shelley Seitz Claudia Siefer Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano

Donna Turchi C. Michael Belle Alan Cochran Chris Corley Daniel Harper Christopher Jackson Michael Jankosky Mezzo-Soprano Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor

Phillip Pickens Chester Pidduck Colby Roberts Sigmund Seigel Dan Stanley Andrew Truett Richard Walker Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA REGULAR CHORUS CONTINuED

Torlef Borsting Anders Fröhlich Cameron Henley Ken Johnson David Kekuewa Frederick Matthews Ken Rafanan Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Leave of Absence

Jere Torkelsen Christopher Filipowicz Bojan Knežević William O’Neill William Pickersgill Valery Portnov Baritone Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass

Most photos by John Martin. Carole Schaffer and Claudia Siefer photos by Pamela Dale.

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CORPS DANCERS

Brook Broughton Blanche Hampton Bryan Ketron Michael Levine Rachel Speidel Little Jekyns Pelaez Chiharu Shibata

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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Leadership Circle donors provide an extraordinary level of financial support to San Francisco Opera each season, with gifts ranging from $25,000 to $1,000,000 and greater. We are proud to recognize the philanthropy of these individuals.

COMPANY SPONSORS PLATINUM CIRCLE GOLD CIRCLE Bernice Lindstrom, $1,000,000 AND ABOVE $50,000 TO $99,999 $25,000 TO $49,999 in memory of The Dolby FamilyA Norby Anderson Eleonore Aslanian, John W. Lindstrom Bertie Bialek Elliott Dr. & Mrs. Robert Baer in memory of Dr. & Mrs. H. H. Loomis, Jr. Ann & Gordon Getty Mr. & Mrs. Joachim BechtleA Edward Aslanian Jennifer Coslett MacCready John A. & Cynthia Fry GunnA Helen Berggruen Mr. Brian G. Atwood & Susan & Philip Marineau A Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Athena & Timothy Blackburn Ms. Lynne H. Edminster Nion McEvoy & A Leslie BerrimanA Franklin & Catherine Johnson Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris Yat-Pang & Helina Au Ms. Annette Campbell-White & Teresa & Mark MedearisA Edmund W. & Jeannik Méquet Richard C. Barker Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne A Hiro & Betty* Ogawa Littlefield Fund Darla & Richard Bastoni Ms. Maria Cardamone & Julian & Willie Sue Orr Steven M. Menzies David Bertoni Mr. G. P. Matthews Gertrud & Harold* A. Parker Bernard & Barbro Osher Betty & Fred Bialek Paul & Valerie Crane Dorfman Carol Potter Peckham Jan Shrem & Dawn Yates Black Dr. Richard H. Davis Lucia Bogatay & Mrs. Evert B. Person Maria Manetti ShremA Robert & Julie Dickson Anne B. PopkinA A Thomas D. Wickens* Dianne & Tad Taube A Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Edward Paul Braby, M.D. Ms. Karen Richardson & Phyllis C. Wattis A Carol & Dixon Doll Romana D. BraccoA Mr. Jon RubinsteinA Endowment Funds A Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton Carol Franc BuckA Chandra & Michael Rudd Diane B. WilseyA Mr. Peter Fenton Mr. & Mrs. David Chamberlain Drs. Corazon & Barbara A. WolfeA Kristina Flanagan John & Sherry Chen Martin Sanders Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur J. Fritz, Jr.A Mrs. Marion Moore CopeA Felipe R. Santiago & Mary & Nicholas Graves CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Robert & Laura Cory Barry T. Joseph Mary & Craig Henderson $500,000 TO $999,999 Peter & Jayne Davis Ms. Leslie Schilling Bruce Hyman & Keith & Priscilla GeeslinA Reid & Peggy Dennis Christopher & Trudi Seiwald Simone Quarré Sylvia & John Hughes Bob Epstein & Amy Roth Abraham & Marian Sofaer Stephen & Choongja Kahng Anonymous Lisa Erdberg & Ms. Vivian M. Stephenson* & William & Gretchen Kimball Dennis Gibbons Ms. Margarita Gandia FundA Concepción S. & Mr. & Mrs. James R. SwartzA PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE Diana Dollar Knowles Irwin Federman Michelle & William Tai $250,000 TO $499,999 Foundation Bob Tandler & Valli Benesch Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Dr. Susan Kroll & Charles D. Goodman Soo & Raj Venkatesan Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran Mr. Mark R. Kroll Ms. Wanda Lee Graves Barbara M. Ward & Leslie & George Hume Karen J. Kubin Anne Gray The Honorable Roy L. Wonder* Betty & Jack Schafer Mr. & Mrs. Peter Magowan Mrs. Clelia M. Gray Michael A. Harrison & Ms. Christina & Mr. & Mrs. David T. TraitelA Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. McMurtry Mrs. James K. McWilliamsA Susan Graham Harrison Dr. Elizabeth DeBruin Warren A Jane & David Hartley Ronald & Emely Weissman DIAMOND CIRCLE Nancy S. Mueller James A. Heagy, Wl Harper & Peter Liu $100,000 TO $249,999 Marina & Ben Nelson The Oshman Family Foundation in memory of Jayne Heagy The Brayton Wilbur Foundation Robert Mailer Anderson & Norman & Janet Pease Stephen & Diane Heiman James & Beth Wintersteen Nicola MinerA Ms. Betty A. Prien Doreen Woo Ho & James Ho Mr. Allan Wong Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Dr. & Mrs. Richard RiggA Marie & Palmer Hotz Akiko Yamazaki & Lui Family The Roberts FoundationA Barbara K. Jackson Jerry Yang Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Russell Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford JeffriesA Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Zderic A J. Patterson McBaine Denise Littlefield Sobel Anne & Timothy Kahn Mr. Barry Zigas, Gladyne Kenderdine Mitchell Roselyne Chroman SwigA Mr. Lawrence A. Kern in memory of Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock S. Shariq Yosufzai & Dr. & Mrs. John LavorgnaA Art & Irma Zigas Sharon & Clark Winslow Brian James Ms. Noelle M. Leca & Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Zilles Anonymous (2) Anonymous Mr. Michael D. Moradzadeh Anonymous (5)

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MEDALLION SOCIETY

San Francisco Opera gratefully recognizes the commitment and generosity of our Medallion Society members, who have made gifts between $3,000 and $24,999.

Kristina Flanagan, Dr. Timothy J. Marten, M.D. James & Cheryl Babcock Mr. Paul Gantz John & Sandra Leland President, 2013–Present & Ms. Mary C. Heylin Mr. & Mrs. Paul Bancroft Mr. Michael M. Garland & Mary Lemmon Cathy MacNaughton, Patrick McCabe Ms. Marcia Barinaga & Ms. Virginia A. Coe Ms. Miranda Leonard President, 2008–2013 Ellen & Paul McKaskle Mr. Corey Goodman Dr. Nanette Gartrell & Mark & Debra Leslie Elaine McKinley & Constance Goodyear Baron Dr. Dee Mosbacher, Ph.D., Harry S. & Eileen Lewis Mrs. Harry Wetzel*, Kit Durgin & Barry C. Baron, M.D. M.D. Mr. J. S. Lichty, Jr. & President, 1995–2003 Bill Medigovich Frederick & Kathryn Baron Candace & Vincent Gaudiani Dr. Darryl L. Raszl Diane B. Wilsey, Mr. Alex Mehran Johanna & Tom Baruch Kurt Tristan Geselbracht & David & Lillian Lieberman President, 1988–1994 Christine Miller & Gary Glaser Michael Bassi & Francisco Guevara Raymond Lifchez Harriet Meyer Quarré*, Diane Compagno Miller Christy Styer Arlene & Doug Giancoli Lisa P. Lindelef Founding President, Miss Vivienne E. Miller Frank S. Bayley Mrs. Rolf Gille, Sylvia R. Lindsey 1983–1987 Karl & Kristen Mills Nordin & Donna Blacker in memory of Rolf Gille Drs. May Loo & Phyllis Moldaw Arnold & Barbara Bloom Ann & Daniel Girard William Thurston SILVER CIRCLE Brian Muirhead Mrs. Corwin Booth Dr. & Mrs. Harvey W. Glasser Mr. Neil MacPhail Ms. Barbara BrownA David Gockley & Betty Maddux, $15,000 TO $24,999 Paul Nordine Sally & Craig Nordlund Alan R. & Sally J. Brudos Linda Kemper in memory of Ed Koester Stefan & Nataly Arnon Mrs. William H. Orrick, Jr. & Elissa Buie & Dave Yeske Dr. Erica Goode & Arlee & Paul* Maier Brigid S. Barton Diana V. Rogers Rike & Klaus Burmeister Hon. Barry Goode Charlot* & Gregory Malin Mark & Judy Bednar Marie Kendrick Otto Mrs. John C. CallanA Geoffrey & Marcia Green Lori & David Marquardt Dr.* & Mrs. Joseph Bernstein Foundation Frances Campra Bernice E. Greene Anne Marie & Nawaf & Susan Bitar Mrs. Carol E. Parker & Mr. & Mrs. Lyman H. CaseyA Drs. Christine Guthrie & Stephen MassoccaA Jared & Claire Bobrow Dr. Gerhard H. Parker Park & Joan Chamberlain John Abelson George & Marie McKinney Dr. Sean P. Bohen & Mrs. George A. PopeA Jeffrey Chambers & Mrs. Peter E. HaasA Dennis J. McShane, M.D. & Mrs. Tanum Davis Bohen Mr. & Mrs. Andrea Okamura Lyndsey Harrison Hon. Richard S. Gordon A Mr. & Mrs. Philip Bowles Robert Redfern-West Ms. Carolyn Chandler Mr. Richard B. Hechler & James R. Meehan A Michael & Marilyn Cabak Mr. Glenn H. Reid Ms. Helen Cheng Ms. Malin Giddings Maya D. Meux, MD Lorna Meyer Calas & Mr. & Mrs. John S. RenardA Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Child Dr. M. Henry Heines & Mr. Robert B. Mison Dennis Calas Louise H. Renne & Sunlin & Priscilla Chou Ms. Katherine Fines Ann-Marie Mix Frank & Pat Carrubba Paul A. Renne Maureen Clarke Martha & Michael Helms Justin Moore Julia Frohlich Cherry Mrs. William C. Robison Janet & Lloyd Cluff Mr. & Mrs. Warner Henry Don & Rene Morgan Michèle Beigel Corash & Bob & Terri Ryan Leonard & Marie Collins Austin & Sara Hills Alice Ames Morison & Laurence Corash Deborah & Paul Sagues Mr. Jon Cosby & Mr. & Mrs. Kedreth C. Hogan Dr. Oakley Hewitt Alice Corning & The Honorable & Ms. Kathi Gwynn Brian & Rene Hollins Ronald D. Morrison Richard Massey* Mrs. George P. Shultz Michael & Jean Couch Mr. Ron Holloway & Milton Mosk & Ms. Susan Costello Raj Singh & Mr. Vincent Cracchiolo Mr. Doug Hammerich Thomas Foutch Jeffrey N. Dauber & Renata AndersonA George & Susan Crow Ms. Antonia Patricia Hotung Steve & Betsy Moulds Marc A. Levin Shirley Soong Drs. John & Lois Crowe Emily Hsi Robert Munday & Shirley Davis & Paul Sack Ms. Vina Spiehler John Cullison & Diana Kissil Dr. & Mrs. David Huchital Evamarie Doering Mrs. & Mr. Barbara Edwards Mrs. Joyce Stupski Denise Cutler Charles & Brandi Hudson Dr. Lois Levine Mundie Dana & Robert Emery Mr. & Mrs. Craig Sullivan Yogen K. & Peggy Dalal Kimberly M. Hughes Heidi Munzinger & Ms. Jacqueline Evans Mr. & Mrs. James S. Tunnell Dandelion, in honor of Judith Hunt John Shott Pamela Rosenberg Arlene Inch Janet Napolitano Sakurako & William Fisher Don H. Watson Timothy D. Dattels & Patricia & Philip Jelley Steven Ng & Mark Posner Edward Frank & Sheila Wishek Kristine M. Johnson Mary & Russell Johnson Peggy & Boyce Nute Sarah RatchyeA Judith B. & Joseph Workman Marvin Dennis Ms. Mitzi Johnson Mr. David Oldroyd Diane & Howard Zack Dr. Alper Garren* Mary L. desJardins Susan & Eric Johnston Judy O’Young, M.D. & Lida & Alejandro Zaffaroni Mr. & Mrs. John Goldman Mr. Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Michael Kalkstein & Gregg Hauser Peter & Donna Zuber Ms. Susan K. Hoerger Mr. & Mrs. J. Philip DiNapoli Susan English Ms. Deepa Pakianathan & Mrs. Simone G. Haas & Candace Zander Kahn Mr. Peter Dinkelspiel Ms. Mary Kay Kane Mr. Phillip PembertonA Mr. Scott A. Zumsteg Jeannie Kaufman Donna Dubinsky & Fred & Beth Karren Robert Peck AM & Ward & Diane Zumsteg Jack Klingelhofer Leonard Shustek Mrs. Mark O. Kasanin Yvonne von Hartel AM Anonymous (2) Laurie Kottmeyer & Donald & Janice Elliott Jeffrey & Anne Marie Katz Neil & Elsa S. Pering Bianca Duarte Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. & Barbara & Ron Kaufman Marianne H. PetersonA Mr. Randall E. Laroche & INTERMEZZO Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell Mr. & Mrs. William W. Klaproth Maria PitcairnA Mr. David Laudon $10,000 TO $14,999 Jacqueline & Robert & Linda Klett David & Joy Powell Sheila & Thomas Larsen Linda & Andrew Ach Christian P. Erdman Tobias & Peggy & Peter Preuss Norman T. Larson Mr. Paul B. Althouse Mr.* & Mrs. Wesley J. Fastiff Liliana Kunze Briseño Mr. Gordon Radley Tom Lockard & Dr. Ross Armstrong Doris Fisher Bill & Jeanne Landreth Sally Rench Dr. Alix Marduel Greer & Veronica ArthurA Dr. Julita Fong Mr. John E. Lee James & Sheryl Reuben Yasmin & Oren Lukatz Dr. Nancy L. Ascher Timothy & Virginia Foo Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Lee Angele & Michael Rice

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MEDALLION SOCIETY continued Barbara Roach Margaret & Frank Morrow Frederick S. Chung & R. Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Deborah Romer & Mr. Karl Nygren Kimberly Chun Mr. Peter Hanauer Dr. Alan R. MaloufA William Tucker Ms. Suno Osterweis Mr. Rudy Ciuca Mr. Kevin Harrington Paula Markovitz Barbara J. Ross Maxwell G. Paley & Rev. David L. Clarke Mr. & Mrs. Mrs. Constance Marvin Elizabeth Boardman Ross Gregory J. Corrales Ms. Carlyn Clause & Wolfgang H. Hausen Mr. Robert E. McCleskey Mr. James Ross Bill & Mary Poland Mr. Alexander L. Brainerd Mollie Hedges & Ms. Barbara McDonnell Mrs. Afie RoyoA Patric & Mary Powell Mrs. Hazel Clegg Laurel Lembo Drs. Jack M. McElroy & James Sabry & Ruth Quigley Vicki L. Coe M.D. & Fred & Peggy Heiman Mary Ann Skidmore Elizabeth Peace Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Ratner Jennifer Mitchell Miranda Heller & Ms. Linda McKay Michael & Gini Savage Drs. Edward & Dale Sickles Mr. Robert D. Cooter Mark Salkind Dr. Douglas & Dr. Stephen Sherwin & Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Smoller Mr. Craig Corbitt & Ralph Hexter & Dr. Penelope Meakin Merrill Randol Sherwin Mr. Donald Sobelman & Ms. Nancy Stotz Manfred Kollmeier Al Medvitz & Mrs. Zornitza StefanovaA Ms. Leishia Woolwine Susan Coughlin Ian Hinchliffe & Jean McCormack Dr. Jeffrey L. Stern Dr. Peter & Mindy Sun Mr. Wesley Cox Marjorie Shapiro Mr. Robert Meister Ms. Francoise Stone Ms. Maryanne Tagney Copley E. Crosby & Patrick Hobin Carleton E. Meyer & Isobel & Roger Sturgeon Ms. Gloria Valair Marianne A. Welmers Terrance Hodel Joan Tom Amy Tan & Louis De Mattei Daphne & Stuart Wells Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Cross Ms. Linda Hodge Mr. & Mrs. James Milner Lucy Tompkins, M.D. & Ms. Jane A. Wetzel Mary A. Culp Mr. & Ms. Gerald Hoshijo Dr. Judy C. Miner Stanley Falkow, M.D. Ms. Vanessa Wong Elizabeth M. Dirsa Carol L. & David G. Hough Mr. D. G. Mitchell Ms. Victoria Donald Mr. David S. Hugle & Liza & Alex Mock Ann Classen Treadwell Zuni Cafe Lida Urbanek Mrs. Michael D. Dooley Mr. Haggai Niv Mr. James C. Moora Drs. Oldrich & Silva Vasicek Mr. & Mrs. Dr. H. Nona Hungate Thomas & Lydia Moran BENEFACTOR Ms. Arlene Wasserman William G. Doolittle Victor & Kathy Hymes Michael Moritz & Lucie & Jerry Weissman $5,000 TO $7,499 Ms. Sarah A. Douglas Henry Ilg, Harriet Heyman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Welch Dorrit E. Ahbel, M.D. Katherine Herrick Drake in memory of Lottie Ilg Janet Morris & Ms. Linda Whittaker Kendall & Claire Allphin Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Duluk Mrs. Andrew Imbrie Frederick Martin Ms. Conni Wilson Mr. Sig Anderman Robert & Carol Dutton Riki & Robert Intner William O. & Mr. & Mrs. Y. Wood Wong Robert M. Anderson & Mr. & Mrs.* Michael Fahey Jessica Jacob & Susan W. Morris Kenneth & Anna Zankel, Kyong Shik Eom Dr. & Mrs. Eric Fain Zac Townsend James & Katherine Moule The Grove Mr. & Mrs. Steven Anderson Mrs. Perrin Fay Donald & Mr. Manfred Mundelius Anonymous (8) Mrs. Margot Shinnamon James Fennessey Jacqueline Jacobberger Kate Murashige & Bach Alexander Fetter & Mr. Joseph Jacobs Chris Zones BRONZE CIRCLE Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Bandy Lynn Bunim Mrs. Jo Jagoda Mr. Peter Johnson Musto Mr. & Mrs. Carl Fieser Mr. Keith Jantzen & David & Marilyn Nasatir $7,500 TO $9,999 Mrs. Linda Barrett Mr. Michael Barrientos Ms. Heather A. Findlay Mr. Scott Beth Karen S. NemetzA Dr. Mirza Alam & Donna & Ken Barrow Mr. & Mrs. Louis C.G. Fisher Mr. Guyton N. Jinkerson Ms. Jeanne E. Newman Dr. Charlotte Moore Mr. Stephen Beitzel & Patrice & Warren Flack Barbara E. Jones, Paul Niewiadomski David & Ken Fong in memory of Mary L. Nilan Judith Preves Anderson Ms. Lise Quintana Dr. Barbara Lynn Bessey Mr. & Mrs. J. Murray Fox William E. Jones Mark H. Nishiki, M.D. The James R. Bancroft Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Frame Mr. David A. Kadish James A. Noe III Family Scott J. Bever Donald Blais & Barbara B. Friede Amelia Kaymen, M.D. Patricia Nottingham Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Berkowitz Elise & Tully Friedman Gary Kelb Lynn Odland Mr. Turney Berry Michael McGinley Susan S. Blake & Karen L. Gabrielson Ms. Kathryn Kersey Helen W. O’Hanlon Ms. Marcia Bieber Mr. Martin Gaehwiler Mr. Donald Kieselhorst Dean & Kim Pananid S. Joel Kaufmann es Jennifer Michie Bienaime John & Paula Gambs Thomas D. King Julian T.* & Bill & Alison Boeckmann Joel & Eileen Birnbaum Mr. Richard Gemperle Victoria Kirby Robin M.W. Parer Gary Bottone Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Mr. Gary A. Getz & Mr. Thomas Koch Berniece & Pat Patterson Michelle Bourland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brock Dr. Lorrie E. Clemens T. Peter & Y. Mei Lam Skip Paul Robert Brody & Elizabeth Bowman Mr. Stephen P. Gill & Bao Lamsam & Scott Sagan Mr. & Mrs. Dale L. Petterson Andrea Jacoby Chris & Jennifer Brahm Mrs. Margaret Gill Ms. Katharine Lange Ian Pollard Mr. George Carter & Judy Brady & Robert C. Goodman & John & A.M. Larue Dr. & Mrs. George T. Rab Mr. Chan-Hong Lim Drew W. Browning John Bankston Dr. & Mrs. Laurence Lasky Charles & Vicki Raeburn Mr. & Mrs. Dean Cash Mr.* & Mrs. John P. Breyer Dr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon Ms. Carol Lazier Harold & Penny Ray Solomon Cera Karen Broido Dr. Kathleen Grant The Honorable & Dr. & Mrs. John B. Reed Dr. James Cuthbertson Joseph & Linda Bronson Don & MaryAnn Graulich Mrs. Howard H. Leach Patricia Rees-Miller Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Dauber Lynda L. Brothers Mrs. Robert M. Greenhood Ted Lehmann & Mrs. Barrie Ford Regan Mr. & Mrs. Vladimir Ermakoff Charles R. Bush & Ms. Violet Grgich & Catherine Lehmann Randall E. Reynoso & Bro Halff Calvin Lau Mr. Colin Shipman Anne & Allan Lerch Martin Camsey Mr. Joel Howell Jeanne & William Cahill Sallie Griffith Mr. Fred M. Levin & David Richardson & Thomas & Elisabeth Jones Mr. & Mrs. John E. Cahill, Jr. Claude & Nina Gruen Ms. Nancy Livingston, Eliza Linley Kurt Latta Clark & Elizabeth Callander Patricia & Harold Gumbel The Shenson Foundation Orli & Zack Rinat Ms. Patricia Lee-Hoffman Dr. James M. Campbell Mrs. Simone G. Haas & Cathy Lindahl Kay & Ray Roberts Nathaniel M. Lopez Iris S. Chan Mr. Scott A. Zumsteg Barry & Marie Lipman Mr. Paul Rogers James & Deborah Lyerla Ms. Janice Chang Helen & Richard & Cynthia Livermore Ms. Heli Roiha & Mr. Charles D. Mann Josephine Chen Dr. Glenn Hakanson Dr. Britt-Marie Ljung Ms. Therissa McKelvey Ernie Mieger Vicky Kwoh Ching & Hadley Dale Hall & George & Patricia Locke Arthur & Keiko Roosa Mr. David Moreton Wu-Chung Hsiang L. Warde Laidman Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lorton Mr. George E. Rossmann

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MEDALLION SOCIETY continued Dr. Gwendolyn Rothman PARTNER Bob & Gail Walker Mr. Bruce Braden Sandra D. Donnell & A Mr. Paul L. Rowe & $4,000 TO $4,999 Hon. James L. Warren (Ret.) Eleanor & Theodore Brown Justin M. Faggioli Mr. R. Michael Sereno Dr. Sherry Wren Timothy & Margaret Brown David & Miriam Donoho Ms. Anna Antoniucci Barbara Sahm Anonymous Don Buhman & Gary & Helen Dosik Paul & Kathy Bissinger Mr. Heinrich Schelbert Wray Humphrey Ms. Joyce Dostale Linda Blondis Dr.* & Mrs. Rolf G. Scherman William & Nancy Burnett Kathy Down, M.D. & Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Byrne FOUNDER Dr. Stephen Schoen & Gregory Kelly Hilary & Richard Clark $3,000 TO $3,999 Karen Burtness Prak & Ms. Margot Fraser* Mr. Paul Duffey Emmy & Donald Clausing Valerie Abad & Jan Willem Prak Mr. & Mrs. Susan & Bruce Dzieza Mehdi Ghadiani Dr. Robert Paul Cabaj Michael Schroeder Annelle Clute Mr*. & Mrs. Wayne L. Earl Mr. John Abbott Donald Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Lynn G. Seppala Arthur D. Colman, M.D. & Joseph Ehrman III Mrs. Deborah Accornero Mrs. Ronald E. Cape Gary & Dana Shapiro Pilar Montero, Ph.D Dr. Mary Eichbauer & Mrs. Lloyd Ackerman Dr. Richard L. Caplin Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Shapiro Mr. Orville W. Dale Dr. Greg Gartrell Amir V. Adibi & Dr. Betty J. Carmack Vandana & Arvind Sharma Mr. & Mrs. Ms. Shannon Eliot Shannon R. Clawson Vance Carney Mr. & Mrs. Gerald V. Sharp Thomas E. Dienstbier Ed & Barbara Eschbach Dr. Lefkos Aftonomos Janet L. Carpenter Harvey & Deborah Shein Laura Dillaway Janice & Jack Eskridge Dr. Daniel S. Alegria & Peter & Jane Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Mrs. Marilyn Dunn Ms. Pauline Eveillard & Dr. Mary Page Hufty Mr. & Mrs. Dennis L. Carter Timothy Sherwood Helene & Lawrence Edelman Mr. Doug Gould Francesca Alfajora Dr. Heidi H. Cary Mr. Daniel Shiplacoff & Dina & Carl P. Engineer Patricia & Richard Farnsworth Ms. Nancy J. English Mr. & Mrs. Jose R. Alonso Oscar Celli & Roger Busse Prof. Roger Bourland Mr. Ben Chai Drs. Bette & James Felton Steven E. Shladover Mrs. Robert Eshleman Ms. Ann Alpers & Jan & Bob Fenwick Donald & Mr. Shawn Hanson Sarah Chamberlain Ms. Marjorie Simon Ms. Jean B Chan Ms. Karin Fetherston Mr. Kirby Slate & Patricia Frischmann Joanne M. Anderson Ms. Ellen Finch Diane Green Robert C. Anderson Dr. J. Samuel Chase Mrs. Frances Slate Martin Checov & Leah Fine Dr. Bruce L. Smith, Ph.D. & Ms. Natalie Gummer Arlene Anthony Dr. Harvey Fishman & Mr. Richard L. Hay Ms. Maloos S. Anvarian & Timothy J. Bause Ms. Nadine M. Tang Melvin & Hella Cheitlin Mrs. Deborah Fishman Mr. Dennis C. Smith Peggy Hill Mr. Franklin R. Jackson Daniel & Carla Flamm Mr. Larry Horton Drue G. Ashford Thomas & Virginia Chen Libby Smith Dr. Carol Christ Mrs. Carlo S. Fowler Stephen Smoliar & Rosemary Joyce & Tracy Atherton Richard L. Frank Trust Russell Sheptak Zachary Baker Mr. Richard Christie Linda Dembo Jerry & Linda* Cimmet Barbara B. & Kenneth & Joanne Snow Drs. Phyllis A. Kempner & Ms. Virginia Bamford Joseph P. Fredrick George & Laura Cline Dr. Steven Sorenson David D. Stein Ms. Linda Banta Ms. Ellen A. Friedman Patricia T. Coffin Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Stark Ms. Alyssa T. Koo Claudette Barrera Joyce Friedman Katie Colendich Michael & James* & Elinor Lacy Kimiko & Ivan Barta Mr. & Mrs. William Froming Charles Connor, M.D. Susanna Steinberg Ms. Barbara Laferriere Mr. & Mrs. Fedele Bauccio David & Betsy Fryberger Wallace W. Conroe & Patricia Stich David A. Lauer* & Joseph Baxter & Mr. Sameer K. Gandhi & Helen E. Conroe Lisa & Jim Taylor James Earl Jewell Walter Balmas Ms. Monica Lopez William Laney Thornton & Mr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Levin Mrs. Mary Baxter Donald E. & Diane P. Cooley Ms. Ching-Ching Ganley Pasha Dritt Thornton Charles & Nancy Mack Robert H. Beadle Mr. Guy Cross & Marlena & Julia Gee TL Trust Mr. & Mrs. Michael Marston Mr. & Mrs. Frank Belvin Ms. Erika Nelson Mr. Rich Gerhardt Ms. Carol J. Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. Russell Merritt Matthew & Cristin Bennett Dr. James Tristan Cross Henry & Dorothy Gietzen Ms. Catherine F. Topham Andrew Morgan & Dr. Daniel Benson Dr. Joan Claire Cucek David & Jennifer Gillespie Ms. Takeko Toyama Danny Richard Paul & Mildred Berg LCDR Arthur W. Curtis, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Gleason Barbara Traisman Dennis Otto & Roy C. Bergstrom USCGR (Ret.) Dr. Paul Goldsmith Mr. Robert Trankle Robert Meadows Anna Bernhard Mr. Fred J. Dal Broi Ms. Grace & Ulferts Center USA Inc. Irving & Varda Rabin Anna & Mr. A. S. Damji Ms. Roxanne Araim-Sullivan Leslie & Judy Vadasz Foundation of The Jewish Robert P. Berryman, Jr. Mr. Stephen Danko First Street Leather of Ms. Elizabeth Vobach Community Foundation of Stuart & Helen Bessler Mrs. Arthur Dauer Solvang, California and Mary & Terry Vogt the East Bay Mr. Josef Betz Charles & Dorothy Davis Mammoth Lakes Dr. Bradford W. Wade & Mr. John N. Rooney Vinny & Shalini Bhutani Mrs. Doris Davis Mr. John Gray Dr. Linda K. Riebel Mr. Eugene Saenger Jr Adam Arthur Bier & Jan & Jeannie de Vries Ms. Deborah Greer Bruce & Fran Walker Dorothy R. Saxe Rachel Lem Dr. & Mrs. Herbert H. Dedo Mr. Benjamin Gregorski Alice & C.C. Wang Steve & Sally Schroeder Ms. Linda Billings Mr. Manfred Dehmer Mr. Phil Grisier Helena Troy Wasp Charles Schug Harold Blajwas & Mr. & Mrs. Eugene DeJuan Andy* & Eva Grove Mr. & Mrs. William J. Watt John R. Schwabacher Family Alisa S. Burgess John* & Bonnie Demergasso Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Gunning Rosalie V. Weaver Mr. & Mrs. John Sebastian William Blank Jan Deming & Jeff Goodby Brian & Elizaveta Gustafson Carol Weitz William & Judith Shilstone Mrs. Robert N. Bloch Mr. Jan den Besten Rob & Yukari Haitani Mr. Phil Wennhold Ms. Ruth A. Short Mr. Noel T. Blos Ronald Denchfield & Ms. Bronwyn H. Hall Mr. Harvey Yaverbaum Evangelos & Mr. Jeff Boland Patricia Molvar Ms. Dorothea Hamilton Mr. E. William & Kathleen Simoudis Dr. Maurizio Bonacini Ulric & Glenda Dennis Mr. Dave Handley & Mrs. Mary Alice Yund Mr. Mark Small J. Dennis Bonney Mrs. Pam DeWeerd Ms. Xiaowen Qui Lev & Tatyana Yurovsky Mrs. Linda Snyder Dix Boring & Mr. J. P. Richards Dillingham Charles F. Hanes Professor Jeffrey Zink & Mr. Donald Spuehler Marilyn Moore Boring Mag Dimond Betty-Lou Harmon Mrs. Helo Zink Mr. Robert St. John & Dr. Stephen C. Born John & Melanie Dodd Mr. William Hartrick Dr. Richard Zuniga & Ms. Melanie Searle Bruce R. Bowen & Marion Dodd Mr. James E. Haynes Mr. Sean M. SeLegue Dr. Catharine van Ingen & Junona A. Jonas Mr. Keith E. Doerge Peggy Heineman Anonymous (10) Dr. W. J. Wisniewski Ms. Margaret Boyd Dr. Gary Dolan Paula Heller & Robert Yohai

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MEDALLION SOCIETY continued Wellington S. Henderson, Jr. Kate Lord Lise Deschamps Ostwald Mr. David Sawle Mr. Richard D. Tuck Mr. Robert Hero Thomas & Kathryn Loughran Ms. Catherine A. Owen Ms. Beth Scanlan Mr. Mark Valentine Mr. Stephen Hetzel Claude L. Lowen Mr. & Mrs. F. Ward Paine Randy Schekman & Mary Van Voorhees Mr. & Mrs. David Hodges Ms. Kay Lucas Mrs. Jeraldine M. Palazzi Nancy Walls Mr. Anthony Vickers Al Hoffman & Ophelia A. Lum You Mr. & Mrs. Dorothy Schimke & Mr. Richard Votava David Shepherd Joan & Roger Mann Steven Papagiannopoulos Cliff Jarrard Mrs. Louis M. Vuksinick Mr. & Mrs. Charles Holden Gus Manning & Gerlie Papillion Philip Schlein Ilana Walder-Biesanz Susan Meadows Hone Rena Kirkpatrick Dr. Richard & Jean Park Sande Schlumberger Arthur & Susan Walenta Michael Horan Mrs. Doris Manock Poyee & Patrick Pau Mr. Warren Schneider Ms. Adrian Walker Wilma S. Horwitz Richard A. Marciano & Mr. William Pearce Phoebe & Ms. Ann Y. Walker & Joanne Howard Teresa Middleton Mauree Jane & Christopher Schreiber Mr. David M. Jones Mr. Joseph C. Howard, Jr. Richard & Mark W. Perry Betty J. Schreiner, M.D. Timothy G. & Cara R. Hoxie Patricia Marcogliese Frances Petrocelli & Dr.* & Mrs. Susan Walker Vincent & Christina Hu Treva Jo Marcus Charles B. Wilson Theodore Schrock James & Judith Wall Ashley Hu Deborah Marion, Tax CPA, Ms. Nancy Pfund & Mrs. Ronald Schroeder Cmdr. & Mrs. Homer Wallin Nancy A. Hutcheon & Joe Losch Phil Polakoff, M.D. Ms. Andrea Schultz Brian & Stephanie Walsh Ms. Margaret C. Hutchins Dr. Pamela Marron Dr. Judith Pickersgill Pamela Sevilla Jessica Wan & John DeNero Edward & Patricia Hymson Robin & Karl May Ms. Shauna Pickett-Gordon Ms. Margaret V. Sheehan Emily Wang & Aaron Hoffer David K. & Kay Duke Ingalls Mr. Frank T. Maynard Mr. Terry Pitts Merrill Shields Mr. William Wang James Ito Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe Ms. Anastasia Polakis Elias Shikaloff Mr. Rom Watson Harry L. Jacobs & Marcia & Bill McConnell Ritchie & Melissa Post Kate & Matthew Shilvock Victoria Weatherford & Katherine E. Akos Ellen Mccoy Jeanette M. Prato Barbara Silverberg Jordan Gardner Dr. & Mrs. Norman Jacobson Dr. Patricia McEveney Mr. Les Quock Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Silverberg Mr. Kimberly Mark Webb Mr. Alexander Jakle Ms. Kathryn McGovern Christopher J. Raidy Judith & Walter Sleeth Ms. Belle Wei Robin & Virginia Jaquith Caryl McIvor Ms. Danielle Rebischung David & Barbara Sloss Ms. Tania L. Weiss William & Leticia Jarvis A. Kirk McKenzie Don & Gwen Reichert Frederic H. Smith Mr. Richard P. West Mr. Carlos Jimenez & Dr. & Mrs. Mr. Thomas H. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. George D. Smith Jr. Mr. Trevor White & Dr. Victoria Smith Thomas O. McLaughlin Kathryn E. Ringgold Pamela D. Smith Mrs. Nora Quattrin White Dr. Jane L. Johnson Mr. Daniel & Katelyn Ristau Gideon* & Cheryl Sorokin Ronald B. Wilkerson Alfred & Sally Jones Dr. Mary McNabb Wayne & Murphy Robins Mr. Steven Soult Matthew Williams & Kristen & Todd Jones Ronald & Judith McWilliams Scot Rohrer & Mr. & Mrs. Robert Specker Amanda Maystead Annie Jung Mr. Peter C. Meier Anne Scanlan-Rohrer Robert L. Speer & John Wong Anne Kaiser & Robert Taylor Dr. Beryl & Mrs. Renee Mell Fran Rominger Mrs. Leela Stake Ms. Faye C. Wilson Dr. & Mrs. Avi Katz Mr. David Mellor Noelle & Ken Roost Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Stamper Vivian W. Wing, M.D. & Ms. Suzan Kaufmann Dr. Linda A. Membreno Yvette & Philip Rosedale Mr. Tom Standing Elizabeth Grace Wickersham Robert S. Keagy Edith P. Mendez Dr. Steven & John & Linda Stedman Mr. Christopher Wiseman Daniel Kelley Judith & Irwin Miller Mrs. Miranda Rosenau Mrs. Ann Marie Steig William Wisniewski & Mrs. Louis Kelso Beverly Mitchell & Ms. Susan Rosenblatt Dr. Kenneth & Laurel Stein Catharine van Ingen Jill Dore Kent John Pringle George & Edith Rosenkranz Duty & Devotion Susan & Jonathan Wittwer Nelda Kilguss Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mocker Dr. & Mrs. Memorial Fund Mr. Josiah Wolcott Lawrence Kim Wayne & Carol Montgomery Roberto P. Rosenkranz Mary Jean Stempien & Ms. Eileen C. Wong Rebecca & Howard & Cathy Moreland Marion Ross James Stricker Ms. Shirley Woo Donald Kingsborough Lawrence Morgan Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Ross Mr. Mark Stoermer Dan Woods Dick & Marianne Kipper Ms. Camille Morishige Mrs. Joan Rost Blossom F. Strong Margaret & Angus Wurtele Mrs. Claudia Bray Kitka Mr. Paul Morris Barry Roth Ms. Vrenae Sutphin & Russell & Marilyn Wylie Sven Erik Kjaersgaard Thomas* & Anne Morton Mr. Charles W. Roth Mr. David Gray Dr. Myles Yanta Mr. Edson Kong John & Melinda Moynier Mr. & Mrs. Ms. Susan Sweet Ms. Colleen Yeates Marsh Maj. Floyd R. Krey Robert & Berit Muh Peter E. Roxborough Dr. & Mrs. W. C. Sweeting, Jr. Florette Yen Andrea Manson Krueger James & Ruth Murad Stephen & Marcia Ruben Sharon & John Tastor Lowell S. Young & Bettine Kuh Renate M. Nadler, M.D. Mr. John E. Ruden Ms. Genell Celeste Young Dr. Bunny Laden Joseph C. Najpaver & Francis & Andrea Rush Texeira-De Robertis Mr. & Mrs. Mr. Michael Lamm Deana Logan David Ryu & Ms. Holly Thauwald Christopher Zaccalini Andrew Lan Ms. Mariam Nayiny & Christina Wu Ryu Ms. Joan Thoma Ms. Marcia Lazer Mr. Nader Radjy Mr. Paul G. Salisbury Dr. Naomi R. Thorpe Mr. & Mrs. Richard & Patricia Taylor Lee Donna Hall Neff Ryan Samarakoon & Judy & Harold Ticktin Pierluigi Zappacosta Dr. & Mrs. John Lenahan Jim Newman & Jane Ivory Emily DiPofi Charlise Tiee & Scott Grieder Joan Zawaski & Rona Siegel Mrs. Nancy Lilly Ms. Mary D. Niemiller Louise Adler Sampson Mrs. F. J. Thomas Tilton Peggy & Lee Zeigler Claire & Gerald & Ortrun Niesar Mr. Pavi Sandhu Dean & Jeanice Tipps Frank Zepeda Herbert Lindenberger Matthew & Nancy Noel Michael Saroyan & Patricia Totten Dennis Zhang Mr. Wen-Pen Liu David O’Grady Barbara Bishop, M.D. Enrique Trachta Mary & Harold Zlot Mr. & Mrs. William R. Lloyd Mr. Brian Olson Marlys Saveri & Norman & Carol Traeger Family Foundation Mr. Brendon Lo Marilyn Oronzi Joseph Saveri Justin Trapp Anonymous (13)

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA MEMBERS

San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to all of our donors for contributions of any amount. The following members have made gifts between $1,000 and $2,999.

PrinciPal Patron Ms. Caroline Davis Mr. Mark Johnson Mr. Zachary Morrison Mr. Marc Sugiyama Ms. Virginia Bale Mr. David Davis Tracy & Frank Jonelis Ms. Victoria Mortensen Deborah Suppes Eugene & Kathleen Bales $2,000 TO $2,999 Mr. & Mrs. James F. Dean Paul S. Jones Mr. Michael Mullany Ms. Noriko Tabata Dr. Flora Banuett Mr. Richard Abram Mr. & Mrs. Raj Desai Lona Jupiter Mr. Michael Mullen Ms. Maryanne Tagney Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Barbaccia Marc & Anita Abramowitz Ms. Suzanne Diamond Rosalalind Kandler Mr. & Mrs. Eric Nath Valerie E. G. Talmage David N. Barnard Norm Abramson & Ms. Paula Dieli Dr. & Mrs. Samuel D. Kaplan David Newton Marvin C Tanigawa Hans Barnard & David Beery Mr. & Ms. Dave Disco Mr. Thomas L. Kardos Patrick & Bernadette Nolan Martin & Elizabeth Terplan Willemina Wendrich Mr. Drake Adkisson Mrs. Mary Lou Dorking Mr. Thomas R. Kearney Ms. Rita A. Norton Ms. Brigitta Troy Ms. Joanne Barnes Thomas F. Anders, M.D. Mr. John D. Drago Kyle Kerr Mrs. Helen Nutter Gisela & Peter Turner Ms. Margaret M. Barratt Arcadia Phono, LLC Mr. & Mrs. William H. Draper III Dukju Kim Mr. Barton O’Brien Ms. Heidi Ulrich John Barrer Mrs. Deborah Armstrong Peter G. Drewliner Mr. David Kimport George & Karen Offen Mr. Paul E. van DykA Mrs. Dottie Barrett Matthew Austern & Ms. Jennifer Durand Mrs. Beverly Kivel Mr. Garrick Ohlsson Mr. Peter Van Etten Ira & Carol Barrows Janet Lafler Ms. Margaret Hart Edwards Mr. Mark Kjeldgaard Coralie & John Otoshi Mr. Frank VanCourt Albert Bartridge Ms. Celia Balfour John & Roberta Eidson Eileen & Arthur Klatsky Harold Parks Ms. Nora E. Wagner Ms. Betty Basham Barclay’s Restaurant & Pub Judith & Phillip Erdberg Ms. Anna-Lisa Klettenberg Mr. Raul Pavon Rosemarie Wagner Mr. Douglas C. Bassler Mr. David Barlow & Shaari Ergas David Kneupper Ms. Matilda Perkins & Steven & Jennifer Walske Mrs. Lieselotte Bauer Mrs. Lisa Clark-Barlow Eric P. 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Lamberti Joseph Powe Ms. Michelle Wilcox & Ms. Anna Bergman Dr. Jennifer Bock Hughes & Jack & Marsha Firestone Peter Langner Susan K. Prather Mr. Rob Kuhling Dr. Carol Berkenkotter Mr. Harold O. Hughes William O. Fisher & Mr. Roger Lauer Peter Prichard Ms. Erika Williams Mr. Simon C. Berry Jim Bowsher Kathryne Bernick Spencer Layton Ann Ratcliffe Mr. Mason Willrich Mr. Stephen Bertram Ms. Joan K. Boyd Nancy Flores Dr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Lazarus Charles & Patricia Raven Peter & Georgia Windhorst Mr. & Mrs. D. & S. Best Mr. & Mrs. David W. Brady Eugene Fluder Mr. Peter Lee Allan Reiter Drew Winget Sym Blanchard Ms. Jennifer Braun & Mr. Steven W. Frank Jeffrey Lefstin Kathryn & Markus Renschler Dr. Dale & Toni Wise Charles & Lenore Bleadon Mr. Raymond Ryan Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Frankel Mr. & Mrs. David Lehman Mr. William Rense Ms. Lilah & Mr. Alex Wolf Mr. & Mrs. Frank Bliss Ms. Kathleen Braunstein Thomas J. Furlong & Dr. & Mrs. Hoyle Leigh Mr. David Roberts Mr. Brendan Wong Mr. Nicholas Bloisa Mr. Michael Broach Elizabeth A. Gard Mr. Kenneth Leitch Mr. & Mrs. James M. Rockett Ethel S. Worn Ms. Susan Blomberg Dr. Roberta Brokaw Mr. Richard Galbraith Anthony Leuin & Jill Antonides & Mr. Gregory Wright Thomas Blommers Ms. Brenda Brown Nick C. Geannacopulos Jean Bertrand Jorge Rodriguez Melinda Yee Franklin Ms. Janet Nye Blomquist Gail Brown Ms. Sandra M. Gilbert Mrs. Carole Lewis Rick & Stephanie Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Carl Zachrisson Mr. Dieter Bluhm Laurence Brunet Sandra & Yuen Gin Mr. Mark Lewis Mr. Sean Rositano Mr. Robert Zeiss Judy Bogart & Richard Hyde Drs. Earl & Sandra Burgess Ms. Martha Goldin Ms. Michelle Li Mr. David Rothman Anne Zucchi Mr. Richard & Barbra & Eric Burman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Goldman Ms. Shirley Liebhaber Mr. Richard E. Rowland Anonymous (6) Mrs. Joanne Bogart Richard C. Burnett & Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Goodman Jean & Sun Lu Mr. Mike Rudolph Neil Bogue Richard N. Gould Mr. Will Gould Ms. Helene Lupatkin Ms. Marsha Ryle SuStaining Patron Barbara & John Bohn Ms. Katherine Calkins Mr. & Mrs. Peter H.T. Gray Ms. Jennifer Lynch & Mr. Federico Sandino Ms. Barbara Boies Mr. Rick Callison Carol & John W. Green Mr. Justin Schuster Mr. Stephen Sasse $1,000 TO $1,999 Morris Bol & Lewis Crickard Cathleen Cameron Dan & Kelly Grimaldi Dr. Richard Lynch Lecia Scaglione Marc F. Abramson, M.D. Dr. Jean S. Bolen Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cameron Ms. Jane Grimm Mr. Timothy Lynch Ms. Janine Scancarelli & Jane & Christopher Adams Mr. Brad Bollinger Phyllis Cannom Drs. Bill & Nancy Grove Karen & David MacQueen Mr. Christopher McMahon Ms. Cheryl Aguilar Jeanne Rae Bonar M.D. Christine Cariati & Ms. Maud Hallin Mr. & Mrs. William H. Madison Mrs. Nora Schaaf Elaine Alden, Ms. Patricia Jones Boone Cliff Gerrish Michael & Mary Hanemann Naomi & Bruce Mann Ms. Mary Schelling in memory of Dr. John Alden Ms. Moura Borisova Ann & John Carroll Krista & Eric Hanson Joan Mansour Rev. Paul J. Schmidt & Mr. Ignacio M. Aliagas Ms. Joanne Bourland Ms. Jacqueline Carson & Robert G. Harvey John Marcom & Arif Hasyim Rev. Gerard K. Moran Mrs. Dolores M. Allen Mr. & Ms. Layne Bourque Mr. Alan Cox John F. Heil Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Mardesich Mr. & Mrs. John Schram Lexis & David Allen Ann S. Bowers Mr. Paul Casadonte Helen Heintz Jason Marks Mr. Charles Schweger Mr.* & Mrs. Anthony Arlen Mr. Malcolm Bowles Mr. Murray Case Alfred & Ruth Heller Willlam H.L. Martin & Mr. James Scillian Mrs. Susan Andersen Mr. Barry Box Charles & Deryl Castellano Dr. Diana S. Herbst Cathy Corison Michael Seaton Benjamin Anderson Mr. Walter Boyd Solomon Cera & Chandra Sen Walter & Esther Hewlett Mrs. Charlene Mathias Mr. & Mrs. John Sebastian Mrs. Linda Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Boyer Mr. Mark R. Chaitkin & Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hinkle Mr. Kim McCall Mr. & Mrs. Paul Setziol Merrill D. Anderson Stevan D. Bradley Ms. P. C. Storr Terence Hird Bobbie McChristy Ms. Mary Shelford Paul W. Anderson, M.D. Mr. Peter M. Brady, Jr. Jim Chanin & Rachel Richman Dr. Lucie Hirmina Mrs. Mary McKee James R. Shevock Susan Anderson Helen Brake Mr. Daniel A. Chesir Ms. Anne Hohenberger & Mr. David McNally Mr. Leslie M. Shinozawa Dr.* & Mrs. Mr. David R. Braker Mr. Daniel Clark Mr. Michael Taylor Mary A. McTigue Mr. Michael Silpa Theodore W. Anderson Mr. James Brandman Ms. Georgina Clark Mr. Marshall H. Hollimon Mr. Kurt M. Menning Mr. Thomas Sinclair Dr. Allen I. Arieff Ms. Barbara N. Brandriff Ms. Margaret Liu Collins Ms. Irma Honda Dr. Thomas Merigan Mr. Jordan H. Smith David Armstrong Mr. Robert C. Brandt Mrs. Ann Concannon & Molly & Jock Hooper Mr. David Messick Mr. William Smith Mr. & Mrs. John S. Arnold Reid Branson Mr. Barry O’Connell Dr. Ronald Hopkins Thomas & Barbara Metcalf Mr. & Ms. Yoram Sorokin Dr. Andrew J. Aronson Matthias Braun & Ursula Vitt Ian Cooper Ms. Vija Hovgard Mr. & Mrs. John MeyerA Ms. Lucie Spieler Robert Atkins Marion F. Bray Carol Gray Costigan Ms. Gladys K. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Donald Michener Mr. Storm Staley Mr. Arthur Atlas Mr. Jason Breaker Dr. Linda Crabbe Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Howard Ms. Marla J. Miller Ms. Fran Stancavage Mr. Bruce Auld Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Breitbart Sue & Ken Currier Helen Y.H Hui Ms. Patricia Mitchell Ms. Anita Stapen & Ms. Elizabeth Avakian Mr. Joseph Brennan Mr. & Mrs. James Daley Ms. Sharon Hunter Mr. Carlos Montano Mr. Richard Granberg Mr. Richard Axelrod Mr. Michael J. Bresler Ms. Jean L. Dana Mr. Stephen Jackson & Mr. Chris Moore Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Stein Mr. James Baer Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Britton Mrs. Patricia Daniels Ms. June Kori Kody Denis Moore & Paul Garza Ms. Barbara Stewart Mr. Roger Bagley Gabe & Trish Brovedani Dr. Nancy Davidson & Dr. Michael A. Jaffe M.D. Mr. Douglas G. Moore Matt & Tami Stolte Mr. & Mrs. Schuyler Bailey David Brown Mr. Steen Pedersen Ms. Lily Jan Mr. Jack Morris Nobuyuki & Megumi Sugiura Mr. Thomas Lee Baker Ms. Judith D. Brown

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San FranciSco oPera MeMberS continued Mr. Samuel Brown Alan Dean Mr. & Mrs. Dr. Vincent Hentz Femie & Curtis King Mrs. Amy Louv Mr. Steven R. Brown Andrew Dean Joseph Paul Friedman Ms. Carmen Hernandez Neil King Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Lovett, Jr. Vivian & Michael Brown Dr. Lee R. DeBow James H. Fritzsche Mr. Robert Herriot Mr. James Kingdon Phillip Lowe Mr. Donald Browne Ms. Eileen Deiss Linle & Jim Froeb Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Hersh Ms. Kathleen Kirkish Mr. Simon Lowings Mrs. Susanne Bruggemann Mrs. Ann Del Simone Mr. & Ms. Lynn & Robert HetlandA Ms. Madeline Kitier Frances Lozano Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Brush Ms. Antonia DeMatto Douglas W. Fuerstenau Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn Hetzel Ms. Katharine Kleinke Mrs. Ailsa E. Ludvik Ms. Carolyn Bryant Ulric & Glenda Dennis Mr. Christopher Furman Mr. Rockne Hill Mrs. Chuen Kleiser Dr. & Mrs. G. Karl Ludwig, Jr. Andrzej & Nancy Brzeski Linda Derivi & Ms. Grace Gabe Mr. & Mrs. Albert Hillman Ellen Kline Ms. Kurtice C. Luther Wendy Buchen Stephan Castellanos Jaqueline Gamache Mr. & Mrs. Dr. Kathryn Klingebiel Ms. Pamela Macal Mr. Brad Buckman Thomas P. & Veronica C. Devitt Nigel Gamble Claude M. Hiramoto-Hess Mr. Peter H. Klopfer Mr. Marco Magarelli Mr. Audrius Budrys Mr. & Mrs. Mr. Paul Gardner Mr. Warren Hirsch Knight Angels Mr. Allison Maggiolo Ms. Sandra Buehler William J. Dickinson Ms. Margaret E. Garms Frederic & Sandra Hirschfield Judith & Harlan Koch Ms. Marlene Maier Heidi & Harry Burt Ms. Pamela Dickson Ms. Marie-Louise Garrett Ms. Patricia Hitchens Richard Koch Mr. John E. Major Mr. Peter Buttrick Dr. James Dimon Mr. Bryant Garth Dr. Betty M. Ho Volker Koch Mr. Peter Mansfield Mr. Gerald Cahill & Mr. Stanley J. Dirks Max Gasner Mark Allan Hodes Mr. John M. Kohlmeier Davide Marchesi Ms. Kathleen S. King Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Dittmer Ms. Margaret M. Gates Mr. Melvin S. Hodges Victor Korenman Mr. Richard Marliave & Ms. Georgia Callahan Dave & Helen Dix Ms. Louise Gelotte Don Hoffman Marta & Alex Kozera Mrs. Nikola Filby Mrs. Ana Campo Mr. Don Dodson Mr. Sam Genirberg Mr. Stephen C. Hoffman Dr. Bob and Christine Kradjian Ms. Alex Marzano Randal Carlson Mr. Robert J. Domrese Ms. Pamela George Diane & Richard Hohl Ms. Barbara Kral Elise Masur Bruce & Mary Alice Carswell Maria & Henry Donahoe Mr. Hartmut H. Gerdes Dr. Susan Holbrook & Marion R. Kramer, M.D. Ms. Jean Matsuura Mr. Robert Case Ms. Eileen M. Dong Mr. David Gettman James B. Florey, M.D. Mr. Norman Krasne Mr. Gilbert E. Matthews Dr. Karen Castle Ms. Alexandra Dostrow Famiglia Tom & Mr. Peter Holman Mr. Glenn Krasner Ms. Victoria J. Mattson & Chang Mooi Mr. Calvin B. Doucet Juliette Giannini Mr. Brian W. Holmes Mrs. Caroline Krauskopf Ms. Diana J. Gordon, Family Foundation Michael Dougherty Ms. Alexandra Gillen Ms. Rosalie D. Holtz Charles Kredensor & in memory of Henry Blok Dr. Michael Charney Nancy Doyle, M.D. Anita N. Gillespie Joseph Hooker Frederic Saunders Mrs. Joan Maxwell Mr. Michael Chase Ms. Edith Drcar Mr. & Mrs. Dane Gillette Mr. James Hopp Mr. Don Krohn Mr. Henry Mayer Mrs. Eunice M. Childs Dr. Michael J. Drinnan, M.D. Ms. Sandra Gillette Dr. Michael Horn Judith Krotec Dr. Brian P. McCune Ms. Tzu-I Isabel Chiu Ms. Joan Duffield Philip Gold John Hornberger Ms. Mary Kruzas Robert McDowell Roger V. Christensen Edma Dumanian Ms. Marsha Goldberg Raymond & Karen Houck Ms. Elizabeth Kuehner John G. McGehee Mr. Paul Chrzanowski Mr. Bruce Dutson Steven H. Goldberg, M.D. & Ms. Sally V. Houston Ms. Gillian Kuehner Ms. Julie McHenry Li-Chiang Chu* Ms. Barbara J. Dwyer Sandee Blechman Ms. Constance Howard Kenneth & Monica Kulander John McLaughlin Mr. David J. Clark Phillip L. Eaton & Robert Goldfien Ms. Hing On Hsu Mr. David Kutz Mr. R. S. McMillen Mr. Robert Clark James C. Robinson Mrs. Patricia Goldhoff Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Huff III Ms. Silvia Kuzmicz Mr. John McNally Ms. Sarah Clark Diane & David Goldsmith Mr. David Hulin Joan Kwansa Ms. Mary McNulty Ms. Nicole Economou Mr. Paul C. Clifford Ms. Andrea Gould Mr. John Hunt Barbara J. Lane Mr. & Mrs. David Meckler Ms. Deborah Edginton Dr. Cara Coburn Ms. Janet Goy Ms. Marian Huntoon Stephen & Maria Lans Fabrizio Mecozzi Mr. Kirk Edson Mr. & Mrs. Jack Coffey Ms. Barbara Goza Ms. Mary Idso Mr. Willis J. Larkin Mr. Craig Melchert Ms. Helen Edwards Mrs. Ralph L. Coffman Mr. Frederick Grauer Mr. Alberto Ilano David Larson Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Melchior Michael Egesdal Mr. Michael Colbruno Maria Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. Ken Imatani James P. Laumond, M.D. & Anthony F. Melia Ms. Barbara J. Eisenhauer Ms. Emily G. Cole Mr. Herbert Grench Mr. Edward C. Ingraham Arthur Sullivan Ms. Suzanne R. Mellen Mr. Albert Eisenstat Prof. George & Mr. Donald F. Grether Mr. Charles Isola Ms. Mercedes Laurencin Mr. Ira Mellman Mr. James Elacqua Mrs. Jane Collier Dr. Patricia L. Griffin Ms. Karen Ivy Mrs. Jan V. Lawler Mrs. Alma Z. Menn Ms. Janice R. Eldred & Mr. Stephen L. Collier & Mr. Lloyd Grotheer Alan Jacobs Mr. Myles Lawless Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mesker Mr. Peter Szutu Mr. Frank A. Patt Ann C. Grove & Ms. Laura Jacobson & Mr. & Mrs. Roger A. Lazarus Mr. Robert Messick Mr. Daniel D. Elias Ms. Elizabeth Colton Richard Green Mr. John Denton Ms. Harriet Lazer Dr. & Mrs. Stacy R. Mettier Ms. Dianne Ellsworth Geoffrey Constable Miss Ursula Grunfeld Mr. Klaus Jaeger Mr. & Mrs. G. B. Lebedeff Allison Metz, M.D. Dr. Cornelis Elmes Clyde & Ann Coombs Mr. Andrey Gubichev Sally James Kewchang Lee, M.D. Mr. Gary Mezzatesta Ms. Debra Corazzelli Mr. Robin Elwood Mrs. Mary Gundelach Ms. Naomi Janowitz Ms. Martha J. Richards Michael Middleton Mr. George Corona Mr. Marc Escuro Mr. Roger Guy-Bray Mr. Ted Jarvi & Dr. Marion Lee Knute Michael & Deborah Costa Janice & Jack Eskridge Ms. Jacqueline Guzzo Ms. Helen Hall Mr. Wilton Woo & Ginna Dean Miller Ms. Carmen Côté-Devaughan Mr. Tom Etheridge & M. M. Hadcock, M.D. Glen William Jarvis Ms. Vera W. Lee Karnig & Michael Coughlan Ms. Luanne Rolly Johnnie Johnson Hafernik Ms. Jeraldine S. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Edgar G. Lehmann Santoukht Silva Mikaelian Hugh J. Coughlin Mrs. Joyce Mishel Ettinger William A. Hage Julie Johnson Ms. Patricia Leicher Mr. Andrew A. Miller Tom & Jane Coulter Ms. Deborah Kaplan Evans Candace Hall Rod Johnson Paul E. LeMal, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Fred Miller Mrs. James E. Court Mr. Fred & Mrs. Joan Falender Mr. Christopher Hall & Ms. Marian Johnston Mr. Robert Lemons Caroline Milton Mr. Norman Couttie Dr. William Falvey Ms. Sandra Sarro Mr. Mountaine Jonas Mr. Edwin Lennox Dorothy T. Milton Dr. Michael Craig Cox Richard Farris Gregory & Kathryn Hampton Mr. Gary Jones Mr. Jim Leonard Sean Minnig & Matt Evans Terry & Evelent Cox Mr. Adrian Fedorovici G. R. Hamrdla Harvey L. Jones Ms. Linda Lester McIlvoy Carol Mirenda & Warren Lee Dr. & Mrs. William R. Crain Ella Fehl Mr. Steven Hand Mrs. Frances G. Joyce Ms. Carol Levenson Cosette P. Mitchell Gary & Diana Cramer Cantor & Mrs. Martin Feldman Mrs. Rose Hane Andrea G. Julian Myra K. Levenson Michael Mitchell John Cramer Mr. David A. Fencl Mr. David Hankinson Mr. & Mrs. George Jurkowich Mr. Mark Levi Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Moffett Frederick Craw Mr. Chad Ferguson Diana Hardy Mr. Richard Kadel Adrelle K. Levy Ms. Karen Moneta Kate Crawford Mrs. Kristin Ferguson Mr. Roy Dean Hardy Mr. Richard Kalkbrenner Norman & Helen Ann Licht Thomas & Cassandra Moore Clive Criper Niall Ferguson Thomas Harkins & Jon Kannegaard & Dr. T. Juhani Linna Glenn A. Morrison Mr. John C. Cromack Mr. Jeffrey Fine Thomas Philipps Patricia Sandoval Mr. & Mrs. Steven Lipson Mr. John Morton David Cross Ms. & Mr. Ellen Fisher Mrs. Melinda Harmon Dr. Arjun Kapur Janet K. Littlefield Mr. & Mrs. Bhushan Mudbhary Mr. Bradford Crowell Ms. Claire Candace Fitzgerald Diana Harris Bennett R. & Suzy Katz Mr. W. Alex Livesley Mr. Robert Mukai Mrs. Angelique Cucaro-Renault Mr. Adam Flatt Kathy Hart Mr. Ken Kawaichi John Livingston & Ms. Kathleen E. Mulaney Ms. Phoebe Cutler Mr. Kirk Forbeck Mrs. & Mr. Hartley Ms. Susanne Kayyali Frances Etow Ms. Sharon Mulgrew & Mr. Christian Dahlen Karen Ford Mr. Charles Hashim Kathryn Kearney Mr. Thomas Lloyd-ButlerA Mr. Brian Umeki Mrs. Janet Dahlsten Mike & Nancy Foss Mr. Robert L. Hausmann John Keeley Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Loar Ms. Majbritt Murdock Mr. & Mrs. John F. Dains Mrs. Barbara Fracchia Tom Hixson & Elizabeth D. Kelker John Lockton Mrs. Pamela Murdock Ms. Jennifer Daly Mr. John G. Francis Kevin Sarmento Erwin Kelly Alan LoFaso Ms. Jessica Murphey Ms. Caroline Daniels Sonia Frank Mr. David A. Hearth & Mr. Frank Kelly Brian Logan Ms. Elizabeth W. Murphy Mr. Herbert Dauber Jim & Karen Frassetto Ms. Lauren T. Hall Ms. Jane Kelly Ms. Susanne Lohmann Kathleen Murray Ann Davies & Ruben Diaz Mr. David Freedman Mr. Kenneth Hecht Ms. Claudia Kennedy Ms. Barbara Lombardi John & Diane Musgrave Mr. Christopher Davies Mr. Adam Fried SK Henderson Mr. Joe Khoei Mr. John W. Long Ms. Chika Nagata Mr. Erik Davis Mr. & Mrs. Eliot Fried Zheyla Henriksen Sheila Doyle Kiernan Ms. Barbara Lopez Tania Nanevicz Mrs. Erin Davis Ms. Deborah Friedlaender Ms. Barbara A. Henry Mr. Hyunchul Kim Frank & Sally Lopez Ms. Nancy Nee Ms. Vera DeMartini Mr. Amir Friedman Ms. Diane Henry Mr. Michael Kim John Lounsbery Mr. Charles & Dr. Laura Nelson

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San FranciSco oPera MeMberS continued Ms. Mary D. Nelson Mr. Clement Pang Louis Ptacek & Ying-Hui Fu Leslie & Carl Rodd Mr. Yuval Scharf Mr. Harold Skilbred Mr. Jordan Nerenberg Ellice J. Papp Robert & Consuelo Purvis R. M. Rogness Mr. Andrew Schenck Marilyn & Ronald Skinner Wanda Nervi Mr. Raymond Paramo Janet & Michael Quartaroli Bill Roman Mr. & Mrs. H. Alton Schick Mrs. Alice Sklar Dr. & Mrs. Ernest Newbrun Ms. Bai Park Mr. John Quarterman Mr. James J. & Mr. Frank Schirrmeister Robert Sklenar Mr. & Mrs. George A. Newhall Peter Pastreich & Mr. & Mrs. Martin Quinn Mrs. Roberta H. Romeo Dr. Kurt A. Schlesinger & Lawrence & Jacqueline Slayen Mrs. Wenlan Ng Jamie Whittington Ms. Maria Quiros Mr.* & Mrs. David Rosenkrantz Dr. Barbara S. Artson Sheldon Sloan Mr. John Nigh Mr. Scott Patterson Olga & Sergey Rakitchenkov Ms. Davy Rosenzweig Dr. Paula Schlesinger Mr. George Sloup Kari Niiranen Mr. & Mrs. Gary Patton Mr. Robert W. Rankin Mr. Floyd W. Ross Eddie Schmidt Mr. Glen Smerage Dr. Hiroshi Nikaido Thomas & Sheryl Paukert David & Mary Raub Richard W. Ross Margot Schmitz Prof. & Mrs. Alan Jay Smith Mrs. Nancy Ninegar Mr. & Mrs. Kirk Paulsen Alan M. & Nancy Raznick Sally Ross & Don Norris Mr. Stephen Schrader Mr. Albert G. Smith Jim & Brenda Nirenstein Mr. Alec Pedersen Ms. Melissa Reading & Mary Ellen Rossi Mr. James F. Schultz Mr. Fred B. Smith Mr. Edward Noble Ms. JoAnn Perry Mr. John I. Castor Mr. Donald Roth Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp, Jr. Ms. Judith L. Smith Ms. Barbara North Mr. Stanley Peters & Ms. Anne Redman Ms. Laura Royster Carolyn Senger Mr. Lincoln Smith Gayle & Allen Notowitz Ms. Kathleen Much Mr. Timm Redwood Jeffrey Ruda & Leonard Whitney Wayne & Lisa Serrano Mary Anne Smith Noelle Nugent Jane G. Petersen Mr. CJ Reeves Nancy J. Russell Katherine Setar & Brad Fischer Roberta Smith Ms. Gladys Nutt Ms. Susan Peterson Rossannah Reeves Mr. M. Duane Rutledge Mr. David Serrano Sewell Dr. Stephen R. Smith Ms. Joyce P. O’Connor Ms. Pamela Philbert Frances K. Reid Seymour Sabesin Stephanie Sfakianos Stefanie Snow Dr. Michael O’Connor & Mr. Ralph A. Philbrook The Hon. & David & Bonnie Sachs Ms. Louise Shalit Thomas Snyder Dr. Patricia O’Connor Allen & Joyce Phipps Mrs. William K. Reilly Jordan Sachs & Jeannie Sack Mr. Glenn Shannon Dr. Richard L. Sogg Ms. Jan Ogren & Steve Piatek Ms. Pamela L. Reinertsen Phyllis & Charles Salmon Drs. Charles & Andrea Shapiro Mr. John Solaegui Mr. Dean Watson Frank Pieri Mr. Tom Reinhold Mr. & Ms. Lyman Saltzen Dr. & Mrs. James Shapiro Ms. Mary Ann Somerville Col. Gary Ohls Peter & Joanne Pierson Ms. Pamela Reis Mr. Bert Salyga & Ms. Carolyn Shaw Barbara & Paul Sonnenblick Mr. Michael Okada Bernadino J. Pistillo, Jr. Brian Reiser Dr. Sean McCarthy Judy & Wylie Sheldon Beverly G. Soules Mr. Brian O’Laughlin Sir Desmond Pitcher Lynn Richards & John Leong Ms. Marily M. Sampson Ms. Michaelyn Shelley-David Mrs. Virginia Soult Mr. Gregory O’Leary Mr. & Mrs. Wolfgang Pohl Julie & Christopher Ridley Dr. & Mrs. Bruce J. Sams, Jr. Mr. Jeff Sherry Ms. Kim Spitler Mr. & Mrs. Robert Olness Ryan Pon Ms. Patricia Ridlon Mrs. Elizabeth Samson Ilene Shifrin Mr. John Spitzer Mr. Stanley O’Loughlin Anna & Frank Pope Mr. Ernst Rinderknecht Ms. Brigitte Sandquist Mr. Richard H. Shoop Mr. Paul Sporer Robert & Diane Olson Kenneth Porrello Ms. Margrit Rinderknecht Mr. Stuart Sands Diana & Richard Shore Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Stallings Mr. Aare Onton Michael Portillo Mrs. Richard D. Ringe Mr. Jeffrey Sant Dr. Neal Shorstein Mr. Russell Stanaland Mr. Stephen Ordway Stuart Poyner Mr. Robert Ripps Ms. Marge Satinsky Dr. Marilyn N. Silva Mr. Nick Stathakos Karin Orsic & Greg Davis Mr. & Ms. Frank L. Prather Dr. Dan Robbins R. Bruce Mosbacher Family Ms. Christine W. Silver Joelle Steefel Ms. Sheldeen G. Osborne Hiroko Prather Mark Robertson Mr. George Scalise Mr. Axel Simon Mr. & Mrs. Reginald D. Steer Mr. Peter Osinoff Felice S. Price Edis & Martin Robinson Mr. Christopher Scanlan Mrs. Harriet Simpson Ms. Marianne Stefancic Mr. Thomas Pajak Susan Price Mr. Ernest M. Robles William Scharf Ms. King-Dah Sip Harvey Steiman Become a Monthly Giver opera enriches lives all year round—not just when it’s on stage. as a monthly giver you can provide meaningful, ongoing support in an easy and affordable way. Your selected contribution amount will be automatically charged to your credit or debit card each month for as long as you wish to participate. best of all, you’ll receive membership benefits at a level equal to 12 months of recurring gifts, starting the day you sign up. to join our monthly giving program visit sfopera.com/monthlygiving or call (415) 565-3212.

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San FranciSco oPera MeMberS continued Jana & Gary Stein Ms. Elizabeth R. Taylor Prof. & Mrs. Frederic Tubach Bernard Wall Elizabeth S. Wilder Thomas Wright Susan K. Stevens, M.D. Ms. Jennifer Taylor Carol Turner Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Wall Mr. Ronald Wilkins Ms. Melanie Wyler Mr. Martin Stidham Ms. Marian E. TeSelle Mr. Earl Turner Ms. Inja Kim Wang Mr. Doug Williams & Ms. Fujiko Yamashita Ms. Nell L. Stinson Mr. John C. Thacker Ms. Kimberly Twesme Mrs. Mary-Margaret Ward Ms. Madelyn Tatsushi Yano Shannon Stirman Ms. Maud Thiebaud Ms. Elizabeth L. Ullrich Mr. & Mrs. John H. Warren Bedig-Williams Charles & Edna Yanofsky Ian E. Stockdale & Ruth Leibig Dr. Ruedi F. Thoeni, M.D. Carol Jackson Upshaw Mr. Michael D. Warren & Mr. Frederick T. Williams Mr. John Yarborough III Mr. John Stocker Derek Thomas Dr. Marta Vago Ms. Mary Louise John R. Williams Lord Young Daniel Joseph Stofle Mr. & Mrs. Cornelis van Aalst Pieper-Warren Robert J. & Carole Williams David & Susan Young Ann Stone Thomas W. Thompson Mr. John Van Horn Ms. Ani W. Weaver Adriana Williams Mr. Barry Zacherle Katherine Stone & Megan & Marcus Thygeson Mr. Guy Vandenberg & Rhonda & Andrew Weber Mr. Andrew Wilson Mr. Victor Zafra Roger Myers Mr. Ralph Tiegel Mr. Stephen Williams Mr. Keith R. Weed Ms. Martha Wilson Mr. William T. Zaumen Robert Stone Mr. Richard & Mrs. Lois Tilles Mr. George Varian Mr. Chad Weider Mr. & Mrs. P. Brien Wilson Karen Zehring Mr. Edward Storm Mr. Todd Toepfer Mr. & Mrs. Clark Vilas Ms. Fanyela Weinberg Ward & Polly Wolff Mrs. Helga Strasser Mrs. Isabelle Toms Fred & Ridley Virdeh Ms. Helaine Weinstein Ms. Carol Wolleson Zhen Zeng Mrs. Catherine Stroup Raymond & Deborah Tonella Dr. Paul Volberding & Mr. Jim Weir Albert & Theresa Wong Ken & Charlotte Ziebarth Ms. Judith Stuart Lynne Toribara & Brian Howard Dr. Molly Cooke Elaine & Stanley Weiss Kam Wong George Zimmerman Ms. Lauren Sullivan Gunnel Tottie Tamisie Honey Vrolyk Dr. John Weiss Ms. May Wong Ms. Karen Zito Timothy Sullivan & Jeanie Nieri Treichel Mr. Stanyan Vukovich Anita N. Weissberg Ms. Merilyn Wong Mr. & Mrs. Amos C. Zucchi Karen Ericksen Ms. Maxine Trost Mr. Charles Wagner & Mrs. Pamela Wentworth Dr. & Mrs. Dr. Marc Zussman Hon. & Mrs. John A. Sutro, Jr. Danielle & Robert Troy Mr. Thomas F. Culp David & Kay Werdegar Russell D. Woo M.D. Anonymous (29) Ms. Theresa Sweeney Ms. Elena Tsoupko Jerry & Randi Walker Karen Wetherell Ms. Janet S. Wright Mr. Pedro N. Taborga Ted & Mary Tsui Mr. & Mrs. William Walker Mr. Keith Wildenberg Phil Wright * deceased

San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to all individual contributors. Our donors’ generosity is the primary source of annual support for the Company’s productions, educational programs, and operations. Leadership Circle, Medallion Society, and San Francisco Opera Members enjoy a variety of special benefits, including priority seating, personalized ticket service, behind-the-scenes access, and more. To learn more about supporting San Francisco Opera, contact our Development Department at (415) 565-6401.

Listed gifts were received between August 1, 2016 and August 31, 2017. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of our donor listings. If we have misspelled or omitted a name, please accept our apology and notify us at (415) 565-6401 so that we may update our records accordingly. N W O R B G I A R

Friends of Education C

e invite you to become engaged Win the many facets of San Francisco Opera Education, including school partnerships, family activities, and adult programs. Your gift—at any level—will help the Company provide opera education for all ages throughout the Bay Area and invite the community to join us for innovative programs at the new Wilsey Center for Opera. For more information on becoming a Friend of Education and supporting these vital programs, please call (415) 551-6244 or visit sfopera.com/Friendsofeducation. Support for the 2017–2018 San Francisco Opera Education Department ARIA (Arts Resources in Action) school programs generously provided by The Amgen Foundation, Merrill D. Anderson, Bank of America, David Bertoni, Vance Carney, Ann & John Carroll, Robert & Laura Cory, Carol Gray Costigan, Vincent Cracchiolo, in honor of Carol J. Cracchiolo, Denise Cutler, Elizabeth M. Dirsa, Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton, Kristina Flanagan, Gap Foundation, Anita N. Gillespie, Jane & David Hartley, Fred & Peggy Heiman, Carmen Hernandez, in memory of Carmen Villavicenio, Kimberly M. Hughes, Ms. Mitzi Johnson, Candace Zander Kahn, Kaiser Permanente, Kimball Foundation, Nancy Kraus & Barbara Fronk, Joan Kwansa, Harry S. & Eileen Lewis, Ms. Sylvia R. Lindsey, Mr. & Mrs. Russell Merritt, Randall E. Reynoso & Martin Camsey, Lynn Richards & John Leong, Sing for America Foundation, Union Bank, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Wells Fargo Foundation, Daphne & Stuart Wells, The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, and anonymous donors.

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THE ENDOWMENT FUND

San Francisco Opera honors those whose endowment contributions since 1972 have helped ensure that our tradition of excellence continues in perpetuity. To learn more about endowment opportunities, contact Mandala Pham, Legacy Giving Officer, at (415) 565-6413 or [email protected].

NAMED FUNDS COMPOSERS’ CIRCLE Lurline B. Roth Charity ARTISTS’ & MUSICIANS’ Roy Cadenasso Estate William Randolph Hearst $500,000 TO $999,999 Foundation CIRCLE Robert W. Cahill Estate Young Artists Fund Mai G. Coggin Estate Ruth Sanderson Estate $25,000 TO $49,999 Lillian Miller Carlson Francesca Deering Howe Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis Ilse Sauerwald Estate Dr. John Alden Fund Memorial Fund Principal Artist Fund Francis Goldsmith Trust James H. Schwabacher Estate Fritzi Benesch* Francis & Lainee Chen Caroline H. Hume Music Richard B. Gump Estate Eunice B. J. Senderman Marjorie B. Bonthrone Trust Edward J. Clark Director Fund Claramae Turner Hoffmann Estate George Bowles B. B. Cohen Estate Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Estate Prof. Kurt Servos Estate Chrissie B. Breedlove Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Coughlin Fund Nancy W. Bridgwater Estate Mr. & Mrs. David Packard Edward Meade Smith Estate Ruth Hiene Dahl Estate Pitch & Cathie Johnson Jefferson Peyser Estate Broadway-Hale Stores Nellie D. Stephens Estate Charles & Dorothy Davis Student Ticket Fund K. Hart Smith Estate Alice Vincilione Mrs. Harry F. Camp Helen Dennis Estate The Diana Dollar Knowles Harry J. Wagner Estate Carole Wagner Estate Meyer M. Camp Fund for Emerging Artists Ms. Annette Campbell-White & Di Giorgio Foundation Barbara M. Ward & The Edmund W. & Dr. Ruediger DWD Foundation LIBRETTISTS’ CIRCLE Honorable Roy L. Wonder* Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Naumann-Etienne Richard J. Elkus $250,000 TO $499,999 Whitney Warren Estate Fund Philip Carlson Estate Richard Everett* Anita Uhl Brothers Estate Karyl Lynn Kopelman Zietz Dr. & Mrs. Herbert H. Dedo Bernard Osher Endowment Richard Farley Estate Fund Ms. Ginger Dostrow* Edward P. Eassa Trust Phyllis Edwards Estate Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Field Jordan Joseph Popkin DIVAS’ CIRCLE Mr. & Mrs. Dr. Maurice Eliaser, Jr. Estate William C. Edwards Tully M. Friedman Opera Outreach Fund $50,000 TO $99,999 Madeleine H. Russell in memory of Sidney M. Ehrman Estate Robert Gallo Night at the Opera Fund Stella & Maurice Eliaser Marguerite Arends Estate David B. Felch Estate Lewis W. Hale Estate Thomas Tilton Production Roberta Empey Estate Gertrude Baker Trust Barbara Marie Fontaine Mrs. Griffith Henshaw Fund Dr. Samuel C. Hughes Estate Bank of America Foundation Estate James Irvine Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Reuben W. Hills Phyllis C. Wattis Opera Fund Katherine R. Blyth Estate Hilda Gard Trust in honor of Myron Du Bain David R. Hyman Estate Phyllis C. Wattis Opera Frank A. Campini Foundation Frank Gerbode R. Earl Robinson Fund Henry J. Kaiser Family Fund for New Productions Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Eleanor Guilford Ruth C. Samson Estate Foundation Patricia Yakutis Endowment Inc. Vija Hovgard Claudia Stoop Estate William S. & Vivienne Howe William R. & Fund Earl H. Teass Trust Del Monte Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Donnell Estate Nancy Ely Kales Dr. & Mrs. John A. Zderic Mrs. Frederick Kohlenberg Ruth Kaufman Estate LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Fireman’s Fund American Betty Ford Lingo— Jesse Koshland $1,000,000 and abOve CONDUCTORS’ CIRCLE Foundation The Cerimon Fund Fleishhacker Foundation Grover Magnin Estate Andrew J. Bellotti* $100,000 TO $249,999 Russell J. Matthias Estate Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Fromm Matson Navigation Company Mr. & Mrs. Mr.* & Mrs. John M. Bryan Diana L. McClure Estate William* K. Bowes, Jr. I. P. Patrick Gallagher Fund Naomi Maryann McHugh Anne E. Matthew Chevron USA Mr. & Mrs. Fred Moller Columbia Foundation Mrs. Sheldon Cooper Estate William G. Gilmore Foundation Estate Franklin C. Deters Estate in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Harris Morris Trust Diane L. Morris A Ray* & Dagmar Dolby Robert Watt Miller Marco P. Hellerman Estate Louisette C. Murdoch Estate Kathleen Dale Oscarson Bertie Bialek Elliott Valerie & Paul Crane Dorfman Mrs. Griffith Henshaw Estate Agda Eleonora Olson Estate Thelma C. Owen Estate John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Ms. Leonie Darwin* Hewlett-Packard Foundation Pacific Lighting Corporation Marion Stuart Parker Estate Pacific Telesis Mr. & Mrs. James Heagy Mr. & Mrs. William H. Draper, III Marian Prentice Huntington Kathleen R. Poer Estate The William Randolph Hearst Robert F. Ewing Christopher Page 1985 Trust Estate Deborah Pentz Trust Ruth Prager Estate Foundation Derek M. Fairman Estate Joan J. Jacobs The William & Flora Hewlett Mr. & Mrs. Louis A. Petri Siegfried B. Puknat Estate Charles D. Field Estate Effiellen Jeffries Estate Foundation Agnes D. Porter Estate Mrs. John P. Renshaw R. Gwin Follis Foundation G. William Jewell Estate Francesca Deering Howe Estate William W. Godward Retail Dry Goods Association Marcia Robinson Estate Sidney & Vivian Konigsberg of San Francisco The Hume Family Mr. & Mrs. William Hamm III Alfred Sbarboro Estate R.C. Samson Estate Dora Donner Ide Estate Hewlett-Packard Company Edith Koshland Estate Dr. Robert R. Schmidt Estate Casey L. Scott Barbara K. Jackson Holmes Foundation M.E. Lorenz Estate Carolyn Shaw Dr. A. Jess Shenson Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Hugh Keenan Estate McBean Family Foundation Mary Shoch A Emmett G. Solomon Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Donald Khulke Trust Florence N. Mel Estate Lynda Spence Jack D. Soldate Estate Franklin & Catherine Johnson Evelyn Lorenz Estate The Hon. & Wells Fargo Bank Muriel McKevitt Sonné The Diana Dollar Knowles Trust Mary Lorenz Mrs. William Orrick, Jr. Anonymous (1) Mrs. F. J. Thomas Tilton Jeannik Méquet Littlefield* Emily Prettyman Lowell Estate Ailsa C. Pender Estate Lorry I. Lokey Russell J. Mays 1994 Trust Janet L. Pynch Estate Sarah Tilton & Lawrence Low ARTISTS’ & MUSICIANS’ Dr. Jesse F. Minnis, Jr. Estate Robert McAlpin Moore James D. Robertson Henry F. Trione CIRCLE National Endowment Alicia H. McEvoy Estate Earl Robinson Estate Tallant Tubbs Estate for the Arts $10,000 TO $24,999 Ralph R. Michaelis Estate Mrs. William P. Roth Constance Tydeman Bernard Osher Foundation Lucile C. Monteagle Estate Violetta Sharpe Estate Nerzig Apkarian Estate Mr. & Mrs. Willard Vernon Jordan Joseph Popkin Barbara V. Morse Estate Roy Backus Estate Mr. & Mrs. Brooks Walker, Jr. Opera Outreach Fund Milton J. Mosk & Syntex Corporation Mr. J. P. Barger Marie Welch West Estate In memory of Frank D. Stout Thomas Foutch Donald & Rachel Valentine Muriel C. Barnett Estate Lorna Talbot Estate Mr. & Mrs. George Otto Carole Wagner Estate John L. Blake Mr. & Mrs. Harry Wetzel Mrs. Paul L. Wattis Estate Dr. & Mrs. Richard Rigg Crown Zellerbach Foundation Miss Louise Boyd Estate Mr. & Mrs. Palmer Wheaton Patricia Yakutis Estate Keith W. & Marjorie J. Riley Harold & Doris Zellerbach Florence W. Bruce James Wilson Estate Anonymous (1) Gerald B. Rosenstein* Harold L. Zellerbach Estate Neil Buckley Estate Anonymous (1)

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TRIBUTES

San Francisco opera is grateful to the following donors for their honorary and memorial gifts received in the past twelve months. IN HONOR OF Ms. Mary Barensfeld David Gockley & Linda Kemper Mrs. Janet A. Martin Kate & Matthew Shilvock Patricia rutland Michael & Susan Southworth Mr. Mark Cohn Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Britton Dr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon Mr. robert ripps Mrs. Marcella Bastiani Mr. & Mrs. richard M. Kaplan Carla F. Martinez Ms. Theresa a. Stuart Mollie Hedges & Laurel Lembo Bobby Grethel Ms. Sheri Greenawald Ms. Ruth A. Short Ms. Carol Benz Ms. roslyn Barak Ms. Evelyn S. Martinez Fred Spitz Norman & Janet Pease Mr. Paul Sporer Ms. Hannah Greer Andrea Silvestrelli Ms. Dolores R. Brown Ms. Deborah Greer Andrew Morgan & Danny Richard anonymous alice Teeter anonymous Ms. Beverlee Hassid Lola Simi David Cangelosi Hiroko Prather Skip Paul Famiglia Tom & Juliette Giannini David Bertoni anonymous Henry I. Prien Valentina Simi Melvin & Hella Cheitlin Ms. Betty a. Prien Ms. Simone Quarré Ms. Linda M. Lee Nicole McGrouther anonymous Mrs. William R. Kimball Ms. Shelagh Smith Ms. Beth Clayton Mr. & Mrs. richard C. Mesker Ms. Pamela Rosenberg Mary Kiley Horizons Foundation Dandelion Karen J. Kubin Mr. William Stanisich & Mr. Jim Meyer William J. Conner r. Bruce Mosbacher Family Donald C. Runnicles Cynthia N. Doubleday Bill Connors Skip Paul anonymous Kay Stern Paul & Valerie Crane Dorfman Sylvia R. Lindsey Mr. Karl Saarni Dr. Cindy Myers Kathleen Burke Susan Meadows Hone Ms. Barbara oddone Ms. Aileen Tat Mr. David Daniels John, Bernice, & Lise Lindstrom Mr. Mark Sackett David & Judith Preves anderson anonymous William Devlin Jeanne Forte John r. Schwabacher Family

Reid & Peggy Dennis Gorretti Lo Lui Ms. Betsey G. Schneider The Magnifient Mr. Harry Dennis Barbara a. Wolfe Ms. Marilyn Sefchovich San Francisco Opera Chorus & Rufus Olivier Ms. Joanne Eisler Mr. Andrew Maguire & Dr. Gertrude Schoen anonymous Mr. richard Dana Mr. Douglas Cyr Walter Schoen alice ames Morison & Prof. Georg Treichel Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons Dr. oakley Hewitt Mr. Charles H. Sherman Jeanie Nieri Treichel Judith & Phillip erdberg anonymous Gary Kelb Ms. LaVerne Vitale Kristina Flanagan Mr. Greg R. Malin Ms. Lorenza Moro Ms. Ida abbott Kelley Faulkner

Have an old car taking up space in your driveway? Donate Your Car! Consider donating it to San Francisco Opera! We accept all types of vehicles and can pick them up when it’s most convenient for you. Your tax-deductible donation will support thrilling productions, immersive education programs, free community events and more.

Visit sfopera.careasy.org or r e v a

call 855-99-OPERA to learn more. e W y r

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IN MEMORY OF Jon Ackerman Mr. David Gee Richard Oliverio John B. & Zelda M. Quigley, Tracy Blair Kathy & Keith Dong Harriett Heisey, richard & and Joan Quigley George & Miyuki Inenaga Kathryn e. anderson ruth Quigley Dr. John Alden Mac & Mary Jordan elaine alden Ms. Gretchen Parr Karl Ruppenthal Mr. Mike Robinson Ms. yvonne young Josephine Maxon Clyde & ann Coombs Ms. Carolee A. Anderson Wagner Society of Northern California Arlene Giesmann Mrs. Verna Parino Mr. Robert J. Roxby Ms. Barbara alexander Ms. Theresa a. Stuart Peter Garvey Ms. Joyce E. Barnett Ms. Barbara Stehno Delon r. Gobeli Coffee Service volunteers Mr. Robert Parvin Ms. ann Guasto Rolf A. Gille Loretta J. Herrick Mr. Thomas Lannert Henri Blok Mrs. rolf Gille Ms. victoria J. Mattson & Mr. Oliver Pollard Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Eleanor Sax Ms. Diana J. Gordon Ms. Susan K. Gore Norby anderson San Francisco Foundation Mr. Gordon Gore Dr. Lois Brainard Ning G. Pon Judith Sorgen Ms. Margaret veneman Mr. Kenneth I. Gottlieb robert olsson James a. Heagy Mrs. Kenneth I. Gottlieb Mr. Irv Broido Mrs. Harriet M. Quarré Ms. Carmen Villavicenio Karen Broido Arden Greenblat Mr. Louis Belden Ms. Carmen Hernandez Frank Hannig Paul & Kathy Bissinger Robert Brown Mr. & Mrs. Johnson S. Bogart Worrarat Watson agnes Chen Brown Ms. Betty Guy J. Dennis Bonney Don H. Watson anonymous Ms. Sandra Brown Raymond Capiaux Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Dr. John Weiss Mr. & Mrs. robert M. Leeper Jayne Heagy Carol Franc Buck Mr. Devereux Chatillon renee & vernon Felder Mrs. John C. Callan Mr. & Mrs. James M. Ferguson Mrs. Diana Cerchiai James a. Heagy Mr. & Mrs. David Chamberlain Ms. Janet Gallin & Mr. Ted Kelter Famiglia Tom & Juliette Giannini Mr. & Mrs. Clinton Coddington C Gary & viriginia Gerst J. Scott Hendrickson, Supernumerary Donald e. & Diane P. Cooley Betty Henry Kathleen Ciampossin The Hendrickson Family Carol Gray Costigan Susan Meisel anonymous Paul & Kirsten Cox Mr. richard Shubart Midred Hesterman Mr. & Mrs. H. James Darcey Ms. Lynna Wong Linda Cimmet Megan & Marcus Thygeson Ms. Jane K. Dean Ms. Julie Zadeck Jerry Cimmet reid & Peggy Dennis William E. Jones Miss Mary Franck Richard Williams William Coburn Barbara e. Jones Mrs. Georgia Fulstone Ms. Kieu Lam Deborah a. Groody Ms. Leana Giannini Esfir Kagan Jane & David Hartley Julia B. Wilson Robert Commanday Mrs. elena Kagan ann & Lindsay Hutchinson Judge & Mrs. anthony DeCristoforo Norby anderson Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Mrs. Alice Kaplan Joanne Johnson Thomas F. Wolfe Carol J. Cracchiolo anonymous Mrs. Betty Kniesche Barbara a. Wolfe Mr. vincent Cracchiolo Dr. & Mrs. robert Kradjian Ed Koester George Krusi & Barbara Krusi Ms. Sylvia S. Wright David L. Curtis, M.D. Betty Maddox Mrs. Carla Lieske Harry L. Jacobs & Katherine e. akos Famiglia Tom & Juliette Giannini Mr. James Ludwig James Lacy Mrs. ruth Lycette Ms. Hazel Wynne Mr. Russell Dado elinor Lacy Mrs. David McDaniel Ms. Diane Scott richard Koprowski Mr. roger S. Mertz Mr. Frank Lanier Dr. & Mrs. Stacy r. Mettier Hilda H. Yao June DeNola James a. Heagy Phyllis Moldaw Dr. John yao Ms. andrea Wolper andrew Morgan & Danny richard Ms. Yvonne L. LeGear alice ames Morison & Dr. oakley Hewitt Ms. Madhavi Young Ms. Rachel B. Dougherty Diablo valley Literacy Council Mr. Klaus Murer Mrs. Leela Stake Miss Catherine Nueva espana Ms. Chancey Henneman Ms. Nancy e. Nebeker Peggy & Boyce Nute Dr. John A. Zderic Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich John W. Lindstrom Marianne H. Peterson Stacy Cullison Ms. Serena Bardell Bernice Lindstrom ruth Quigley Ms. Laine Buckingham Mrs. Helena ribeiro Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Zigas Ed Koester San Francisco Foundation Mr. Barry Zigas Mr. Welsey Fastiff Betty Maddux San Francisco opera Guild Mrs. Bonnie Fastiff Mrs. edwin a. Seipp, Jr. Lotte & Stephen Zuber Don Norris Louis Silcox anonymous Mrs. Audrey A. Fellows Sally ross & Don Norris Kevin e. Solliday Mr. James rohrbaugh Ms. Katharine S. Thompson Harriet Nye Carol Jackson Upshaw Mrs. Anna S. Franko Ms. Barbara e. Nye Dr. & Mrs. ralph o. Wallerstein Ms. eva M. Franko Mrs. Laura Waste Mrs. Verna Parino Ms. Susan Weiss Ms. Theresa a. Stuart Barbara a. Wolfe Barbara M. Ward & The Honorable roy L. Wonder* anonymous

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BEL CANTO LEGACY SOCIETY

The following patrons have made a legacy commitment to San Francisco Opera Association and have joined the Bel Canto Legacy Society as of August 31, 2017. Their generosity helps support our long-range financial stability and artistic planning. Please consider joining this extraordinary group.

Marilyn Horne, Honorary Chairwoman

Elie Abi-Jaoude Phyllis B. Blair Tony & SueAnn Converse Lucille V. Fjoslien Norman Abramson & David Beery Susan S. Blake & S. Joel Kaufmann Mr. & Mrs. Ransom S. Cook Ms. Kristina Flanagan Evelyn Acitelli Linda Blondis Mrs. Marion Moore Cope Carl Wilhelm Folk Kenneth & Barbara Adams Claire & Jared Bobrow Ruth Alberta Copley* Martha J. Foltz Dorrit Ahbel, M.D. Eileen Bobrow* Dewayne Cornelious Mary & Tom Foote Ms. Karin Albright Diane Hoar Bond William B. Cornfield Barbara Jean Fopp Sophie & Ted Aldrich Drs. Seymour & Sylvia Boorstein Susan Costello David F. Freedman Anthony J. Alfidi Christine M. Boulanger, MD Jennifer Cowan Kathi Freeman* Lt. Col. James M. Alfonte Christopher & Renee Bowen Dr. & Mrs. William R. Crain Barbara & William* Friede Paul B. Althouse Malcolm H. Bowles Valerie & Paul Crane Dorfman Joseph & Antonia Friedman Carolee Anderson* Jamie Nicol Bowles Doug & Vivian Crisman John H. Frykman & Cheryl C. Arnold* David & Judith Preves Anderson Randall Bowman Camille Crittenden Karen L. Gabrielson Robert C. Anderson Dr. Lois Brainard* George & Susan Crow Louis B. Gagliardi Dr. Ross Armstrong Barbara & Robert Brandriff John & Lois Crowe Parley Gagne Mrs. Carol Arnold* Cathryn J. Brash John Cullison & Diana Kissil Ms. Ching-Ching Ganley Elizabeth Lawler Ashley John* & Eva Breyer Gerald F. Currier & Cleveland M. Smith Gregory S. Garbin, M.D. & Mrs. Jeanine Augst Dr. & Mrs. Melvin C. Britton Mr. Douglas Cyr Kenneth J. Denhard Frances Y. Austin* Karen & Irv* Broido Friedericka A. Dalbey* Sheilah Purcell Garcia Mrs. F. G. Austin Scotty Brookie David Dall Jack & Carroll Gardner Elizabeth Avakian Lynda L. Brothers Anne Dauer Sandra Gardner* Margot Shinnamon Bach Agnes Chen Brown Charles & Dorothy Davis Dewey Garrett Bobbi & Marty Bach Mr.* & Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Dick Davis Keith & Priscilla Geeslin M. L. Baird, James Logan Buhler* Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Davis Nancy Gentry Geller in memory of Travis & Marion Baird Donald Buhman & C. Wray Humphrey James De Hart* Kurt Tristan Geselbracht & Martha Baker Ralph & Clairelee Leiser Bulkley Cornelia Y. de Schepper Francisco Guevara David & Christine Balabanian James R. Burch J. C. De Tata, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon P. Getty Ms. Rachael Balyeat* John D. Burke Reid & Peggy Dennis Arlene & Doug Giancoli Deborah Banks & Randy Porter Karen L. Burtness Prak & Ulric & Glenda Dennis Dennis Gibbons & Lisa Erdberg Cantor Roslyn Barak Jan Willem L. Prak Ms. Jackie Deskin Ione Gille Josephine Barbano Roger Busse & Oscar Celli Franklin C. Deters* John S. Gilmor Nancie Barker Richard Buth & James Schull Eric Dew Jane Gitschier Elizabeth Barlow & Stephen McClellan Mrs. James P. Butler Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Rudolf Glauser, PhD* Joyce Barnett* Robert* & Joan Cahen Carol & Dixon Doll David Gockley & Linda Kemper Marie L. Bartee Jack Calhoun Jeanne Dorward William W. Godward Beata E. Bartholomay Frances Campra Dr. Nancy Doyle & Doris W. Grau Betty Basham James Carlson Dr. George L. Smith, Jr.* Don & MaryAnn Graulich Michael Bassi & Christy Styer Betty J. Carmack Stephen Ringland Drewes Wanda Lee Graves & Stephen Duscha Clare Louise Bates* June B. Carr Thelma Diana Dry* Anne Patricia Gray Ruth Laine Bauer* Ronald Casassa* Pat Dubrow Geoffrey & Marcia Green Steve & Ina Bauman Emanuela N. Catena Arnold & Trudy Duncan Ms. Julie Green Robert H. Beadle Marilyn A. Cereghino* John* & Dimitra Efstathiou Roger W. Green Merle Becker Mark R. Chaitkin Alan F. Egan, J.P. Mrs. Robert M. Greenhood Milada Belaya Hella H. Cheitlin Ludmila & Peter Eggleton Flora Greenhoot* Robert Henry Bellamy Julia Frohlich Cherry Arnold Ehlers Trust Zane O. Gresham & Carole J. Robinson Pascal J. F. Belloncle David Chierchetti* Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich* Mr.* & Mrs.* Edward M. Griffith Trish Benedict Mrs. Johanna Childhouse Joseph Ehrman III Ellen Braner Grinnell Valli Benesch & Bob Tandler Jack Christensen Stephen Eimer & Kevin Ann Cartwright Claude & Nina Gruen Raymond J. Berard Christine Clark* Charo Switalski & Paul Eisenman Ursula Grunfeld Carole B. Berg* Gillian Clark Christine M. Englund Eleanor Guilford V. Lorel Bergeron Trust Harry Gilbert Clarke* Barbara & Ed Eschbach Patricia C. Gumbel Dawne Bernhardt Maureen Clarke Patricia M. Evans John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Carlyn Clause & Alexander L. Brainerd Rod* & Ingrid Evans Yvette* & John G. Gurley Dr. Barbara L. Bessey & Jean Cleverly & Frank Warner Richard B. Everett* William A. Hage & Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin* Dr. Carolyn J. Cline Robert F. Ewing Elizabeth Wong Hage* Shannyn Bessoni Lloyd & Janet Cluff Mr. & Mrs.* Michael Fahey Timothy F.* & E. Ann* Haggerty Heide Betz Roberta Colin Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Fenwick Harry C. Haines Jo Ann Biasotti & David T. Crowder Marie Collins E. Jean Ferdinandsen* Fran Hall Betty Bispo James T. Concannon* Jack & Marsha Firestone Kristina K. Hall

* deceased

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BEL CANTO LEGACy SOCiETy continued

Ms. Laila Halsteen Barbara K. Jackson Laura M. Kozel Jeannik Méquet Littlefield* Edith L. Hammerslough* Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger Christine Stevens Kradjian Allan M. Lluch Hunter Pittenger Harris Elizabeth Ann Jacobs* Ms. Barbara Kral Vera M. Long* Michael A. Harrison & Yorke & Jacqueline Jacobson Nancy Ann Kraus Maurice E. Loomis Susan Graham Harrison John* & Nancy Jalonen Charles C. Kredensor & Shirley & Hersch Loomis Jane & David Hartley James Logan Buhler* Frederic S. Saunders Nathaniel Lopez & Jerry Orecchia* Fred Hartwick Robin & Ginny Jaquith Herbert & Barbara Kreissler George F. Lucas & Thomas Rothgiesser Mrs. Janine A. Hawkins Ms. Christine Jarc Karen J. Kubin Rita & Nicola Luisotti Mr. & Mrs.* James A. Heagy Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Michael L. Kurt Mr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Lisa A. Heilman-Cozzalio Bruce M. Jewett Joan Kwansa Betty Maddux, Mary & Craig Henderson Mrs. Mary Jopé Regina Lackner in memory of Edward Koester Donald A. Hermann Mac & Mary Jordan Judith Lamberti M.D. Mr. Andrew Maguire Joan Hett Sally Jordan Barbara J. Lane Cynthia & John Major John S. Higgins, Jr. Joseph E. Padula* Judy & Donald Langley Jackie & Art Mancini Peggy Hill Dr. Devorah Joseph, William P. Langley Robert G. Manette Ian Hinchliffe in memory of Irving Joseph Frank Lanier* Peter Mansfield Frederick J. Hirth* Joan Juster Randall E. Laroche & David G. Laudon Joseph Marino, Jr. Robert W. Hofer Lilli Kalis M.D.* Beverly & Richard Lavine Deborah Marion, Tax CPA & Claramae Turner Hoffmann* William* & Margaret Kaplan Dr. & Mrs. John Lavorgna Joe Losch Milan Milton Holdorf* Elizabeth Karnazes Olive Lawton Mrs. Thelma Marken Kenneth L. Holford Dick & Sherry Karrenbrock Samuel Leask David Marsten Marilyn Horne Jeannie Kaufman Paul E. LeMal M.D. Letha Ann Martin* Wilma S. Horwitz Suzan Kaufmann Mary Lemmon Evelyn S. Martinez Sally V. Houston Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner & Marcia Lowell Leonhardt Marilyn Mathers Margaret E. Hoyt Dr. David D. Stein John E. Leveen* Anne E. Matthew Linda Humber Lawrence A. Kern Cliff Leventhal, James S. Mattingly & Paul Quintilian Leslie & George Hume Ms. Eiko Kikawada in memory of Arlene Leventhal Mrs. Alice T. May* Marian Huntoon Nelda Kilguss Frank & Ildiko Lewis James McCarthy Ms. Margaret C. Hutchins Mrs. Richard Kinninger Mr. George B. Lewis Anne McClure* Carolyn Hutton* Sally Lane Kirby Elizabeth Lim Florence & William McConnell Bruce Hyman Harleigh Thayer Knott Lawrence & Silvia Lin Tom McEachern* Libby Ingalls Diana Dollar Knowles* Lisa P. Lindelef Donald L. McGee Marsha Irwin Theodore A. Kolb* Bernice Gucker Lindstrom John G. McGehee James A. Ito Edson K. Kong, Esq. Donald R. Lipp * deceased

Thank You! i want to express my personal gratitude to each of you for your support of San Francisco Opera. Like you, i have included the Opera in my estate plan because i love this Company and believe in what it is doing. From educating young audiences, to training the singers of tomorrow, to presenting world-class productions, San Francisco Opera plays k C O

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BEL CANTO LEGACy SOCiETy continued

Michael McGinley Miss Virginia Patterson* Robert Shultz Soo & Raj Venkatesan Anne & Malcolm McHenry Carol Potter Peckham Natalie O. Shuttleworth Mr. & Mrs. Willard E. Vernon Ellen & Paul McKaskle Anette Penner Paul J. & Sheri Siegel Shirley Wilson Victor Giselle McKellar David & Gail Perin Ms. Joan M. Silva Virginia E. Vida Elaine McKinley & Kit Durgin Neil & Elsa Pering Barbara Silverberg Richard Viehweg* Dr. Frank E. McLaughlin Jess G. Perry Donna Silverberg John E. Vinton & Richard Miller Ruth McManus Trust Cinda & Spence Perry Cynthia L. Slezak Albert J. Vizinho Ms. Marilyn McMillan Dame Donna Petersen Claire Small* Eunice L. Vogel Burt & Deedee McMurtry Mandala Pham & Michael Kwende Derek* & Stephanie Smith Garry Waba Ronald & Judith McWilliams John* & Maria Pitcairn George L. Smith, Jr.* Drs. Bradford Wade & Linda Riebel Bill Medigovich Herbert C. Ploch* Dr. Lorraine E. Smith Cmdr. & Mrs. Homer Wallin Kerrin Knudtsen Meis Mrs. Jan Popper Pamela D. Smith Barbara M. Ward Dixie Lee Meiselbach* Roger & Deborah* Potash Stephen Smoliar & Linda Dembo Hon. James L. Warren (Ret.) Edward Merrick Patric & Mary Powell Kenneth & Joanne Snow Ramona Wascher* Lucinda Merrill Jeanette M. Prato Steven Souza & Therese Souza Ms. Lola Watson Robert Messick Janet & Michael Quartaroli Dr. Cynthia Soyster* Rosalie V. Weaver Carol L. Meyer* Ruth Quigley Mrs. Charles Spalding Mr. & Mrs. William C. Webster Mr. & Mrs. Donald Michener Robert E. Rabourn Robert L. Speer & John Wong Mitzie Naff Weiner Christine Miller & Gary Glaser Mrs. Jennie Rafton* Lynda Spence Maurice & Gale Weir Diane Compagno Miller Cynthia & Terry Ramseyer Arthur E. Stamps* Ronald & Emely Weissman George M. Miller Thomas R. Ranweiler Gail Andersen Stark Daphne & Stuart Wells George P. Miller* & William D. Rasdal* The Honorable & Mrs.* Wm. D. Stein Janet Gray Welter Walter G. Zimmerman, Jr. Alan & Nancy Raznick Eric Stevens George White J. Sanford Miller Glenn H. Reid Lawrence L. Stitt* Mr. Thomas D. Wickens* Vivienne E. Miller Marie R. Rhein James R. Stockton Josephine P. Wiik, R.N. Dr. Judy C. Miner Keith W. & Marjorie Riley Howard & Ruth Strassner Michelle Wilcox & Rob Kuhling Bill & Susan Mirbach Richard* & Jean Ringe Merna Strassner Elizabeth Wild* D. G. Mitchell Kathryn E. Ringgold Blossom F. Strong Miles* & Virginia Willard Sandra Mock Dr. & Mrs. C. Stewart Ritchie Terri Stuart S. Grace Williams* C. Kenneth More L. Ronn Robbins Joseph Padula* Ann L. Williamson Cathy & Howard Moreland Marcia Robinson* Dr. Jerome D.* & Mary K. Swalen Conni Wilson Andrew Morgan & Danny Richard Rusty Rolland* Julie Swartz* Sheila M. Wishek Andrew Morris Dr. Andrew Rombakis Tom Taffel & Bill Repp Gerhard P. Woelke Thelma C. Morris Fran Rominger Amy Tan & Louis De Mattei Marcia E. Wolfe William O. & Susan W. Morris Arthur S. & Keiko Kiyuna Roosa Jack E. Teeters Ms. Virginia Wong Alan Morrison* Margaret Ropchan Dr. Sam Thal Bonnie Woodworth* Ms. Carol J. Tomlinson Sylvia Stein Wright Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund Barbara L. Traisman Stanley M. Yantis, M.D. Kathleen Much Barbara J. Ross Ricardo D. Trimillos Joan F. Yates Nancy S. Mueller Elizabeth Boardman Ross Maxine Trost Ms. Nancy Yee Tom & Anne Muller James Ross Michael E. Tully Dr. & Mrs. Robert Yoerg Ms. Heidi Munzinger Maxine Rosston* Mr. & Mrs. James S. Tunnell S. Shariq Yosufzai & Brian E. James Majbritt Murdock Paul L. Rowe & R. Michael Sereno Suzanne E. Turley & William R. William T. Zaumen Lorenzo Murguia, M.D. Karl Ruppenthal* & Jo Maxon Jackson* Joan Zawaski & Rona Siegel Mrs. John* H. Musey Louise A. Russell Mr.* & Mrs. Paul A. Tuttle Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Zderic Peter J. Musto Richard Russell Florence E. Twyman* Mr.* & Mrs. Stephen A. Zellerbach Vija Hovgard Nadai Bob & Terri Ryan Yvonne Upsher Karyl Lynn Kopelman Zietz Marilyn & David Nasatir Philip Mark Ryan Martin Eric Vahur Stephen & Connie Zilles Ms. Julia S. Nash* Carol* & Jordan Sachs Gloria Valair Anne Zucchi Kenneth J. Ness Mrs. John M. Sanderson* Mark Vallarino Diane & Michael ZumBrunnen Roselee Nichols Mr. Jeffrey Sant Paul E. van Dyk Anonymous (121) Marie J. Niemann* Mr. Felipe R. Santiago & Mary L. Nilan Mr. Barry T. Joseph Paul Nordine Michael & Gini Savage Legacy Gifts Received Dante Noto Dorothy R. Saxe Estate Gifts Frederick J. Hirth Norman* & Hillevi Null Daryl A. Schilling Rachael Balyeat Trust Milan Milton Holdorf Ms. Jan Ogren & Mr. Dean Watson Betsey Schneider Joyce Barnett Joseph E. Padula Mr. David Oldroyd Debra Schoenberg V. Lorel Bergeron Trust Josephine Barbano Brian Olson Charles Schug* Marion Zimmer Bradley Lilli Kalis M.D. Commodore & Mrs. K.R. Orcutt Thea Lou Seese Dr. Helen Lois Brainard Ruth McManus Mr. & Mrs. Julian E. Orr Harold E. Segelstad Jill Bryans Brenda Osborne Marilyn G. Seiberling Carol L. Meyer James Logan Buhler Ms. Julia S. Nash Sheldeen Germaine Osborne Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp, Jr. Cabaniss Memorial Fund Oscar E. Olson Kathleen Dale Oscarson Cynthia B. Selfridge June B. Carr Miss Virginia Patterson Lise Deschamps Ostwald Christine Selle Ronald Casassa Trust Father David F. Pace Lorenzo Severino Christine Clark Herbert C. Ploch Thomas Pajak James & Connie Shapiro Friedericka A. Dalbey Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund Robert E.* & Jeraldine M. Palazzi Carolyn Shaw Arnold Ehlers Trust Maxine Rosston Barbara H. Paley Mrs. Carter Parrish Sherlin E. Jean Ferdinandsen George L. Smith, Jr. Mrs. Verna Parino* Jim & Mai Shields Sandra Gardner Florence E. Twyman Ms. Iris Parris Ruth A. Short Rudolf Glauser, PhD Richard Viehweg Mr. & Mrs.* Robert Parvin Mr. John Shott Richard B. Gump Bonnie Woodworth

* deceased

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San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to all donors of matching and in-kind gifts received between August 1, 2016 and August 31, 2017. MATCHING GIFTS

Adobe First Tech Federal Credit Union David & Lucile Packard Foundation AIG Franklin Templeton Investments PayPal American Online Giving Foundation, Inc Gap Inc. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation American Endowment Foundation GE S.H. Cowell Foundation Amgen The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Salesforce Applied Materials IBM Schwab Charitable Fund Bank of America Johnson & Johnson Shell Oil Company Foundation Bank of the West Koret Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation The Boeing Company Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory T. Rowe Price Cenovus Energy Inc. Levi Strauss & Co. Charles Schwab & Company Medtronic Teradata Chevron Morgan Stanley Thomson Reuters Dolby Morrison & Foerster Foundation Troon Pacific Electronic Arts OutrEAch NORCAL Mutual Union Bank ExxonMobile NVIDIA United Way of the Bay Area Fidelity Investments Pacific Gas & Electric Company U.S. Bank

IN-KIND GIFTS

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE SILVER CIRCLE INVESTOR $100,000 & ABOVE $10,000 TO $24,999 $3,000 TO $4,999 HALL Wines Allen Matkins LLP Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran KDFC Radio Guitty Azarpay Mr. & Mrs. Warner Henry KPIX/KBCW bloomers Leonard Karstadt San Francisco Chronicle Patina Catering United Airlines Roselyne Chroman Swig MEMBER $1,000 TO $2,999 PLATINUM CIRCLE BENEFACTOR David Bertoni $50,000 TO $99,999 $5,000 TO $9,999 Ms. Annette Campell White & Dr. Ruediger 5YINA Beauté China Airlines Naumann-Etienne Asero Insurance Services, Inc. Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Deering Wine David & Ekaterina Schmitt Eric D. Felty Kristina Flanagan Anonymous Mary & Craig Henderson Brian James & S. Shariq Yosufzai Carol L. Meyer* Mr. Lawrence A. Kern GOLD CIRCLE PSAV Ms. Sylvia R. Lindsey $25,000 to $49,999 YOR Sequoia Organic Life Corporation Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards Lui Family Mission Minded *Pianos provided by Piedmont Piano Company Piedmont Piano Company ** Yamaha is the official piano of The Honorable & Mrs. George P. Schultz San Francisco Opera The St. Regis San Francisco UPTick Vineyards Webcor Builders

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San Francisco Opera is pleased to recognize the generosity of foundations, government agencies, and corporate donors for their support received from August 1, 2016 through August 31, 2017. FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT GRANTS

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE PLATINUM CIRCLE SILVER CIRCLE FOUNDER $500,000 AND ABOVE $50,000 TO $99,9999 $10,000 TO $24,999 $1,000 TO $4,999 Grants for the Arts Carol Franc Buck Foundation The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation Joyce and William Brantman Koret Foundation Louise M. Davies Foundation California Arts Council Foundation The William & Flora Hewlett The Charles D. & Frances K. Field Frank A. Campini Foundation Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Foundation Fund The John & Marcia Goldman The Pierre and Tana Matisse Anonymous The Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation Foundation Foundation The Diana Dollar Knowles Mimi & Peter Haas Fund Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE Foundation Heising-Simons Foundation Sing for America Foundation $250,000 TO $499,999 National Endowment for the Arts Zellerbach Family Foundation Chinese Heritage Foundation Wallis Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation BENEFACTOR GOLD CIRCLE $5,000 TO 9,999 DIAMOND CIRCLE $25,000 TO $49,9999 Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation $100,000 TO $249,999 Walter & Elise Haas Fund The Walter S. Johnson Foundation Frances K. & Charles D. Field Kia Ora Foundation The Kingsley Foundation Foundation Kimball Foundation The William Randolph Hearst OPERA America’s Getty Audience Foundation Building Program OPERA America: Innovation Grants Anonymous

CORPORATE COUNCIL

SEASON SPONSOR

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE GOLD CIRCLE Pacific Gas and Electric Company INVESTOR $100,000 AND ABOVE $25,000 TO $49,9999 San Francisco Opera Guild/ $3,000 TO $4,999 Chevron Bank of America East Bay Chapter Karlitz & Company Inc. San Francisco Opera Guild Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Schoenberg Family Law Group, P.C. R&G Executive Lounge, Inc. United Airlines Recology Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG, Wells Fargo Tiffany & Co. Zurich, Switzerland MEMBER Union Bank Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati $1,000 TO $2,999 PLATINUM CIRCLE Foundation AMRCI $50,000 TO $99,9999 SILVER CIRCLE Asian Art Museum Kaiser Permanente $10,000 TO $24,999 BENEFACTOR DM Stone Recruitment Solutions Meyer Sound Gap Foundation $5,000 TO $7,499 Wagner Society of U.S. Bank Jurika, Mills & Keifer— Asset Management Company Northern California Private Wealth Management Today’s Hotel Corporation

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MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM

THE MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM is dedicated to the continuing education, and professional training of the finest young operatic talent and the development of this talent into professional opera singers, coaches, and stage directors of the highest artistic caliber. Merola operates in close artistic collaboration with San Francisco Opera but is an independent nonprofit organization, governed by a separate board of directors. Merola is responsible for its own fundraising, primarily from loyal members and foundations. Young artists participating in Merola’s intensive training program benefit from its association with San Francisco Opera, often returning to appear on the main stage. In any given season, over 30% of all San Francisco Opera roles, including cover roles, are performed by former Merola artists. Graduates of the Merola Opera Program include Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Anna Netrebko, Patricia Racette, John Relyea, Patrick Summers, Ruth Ann Swenson, Carol Vaness, Rolando Villazón, Deborah Voigt, and Dolora Zajick. Merola is the future of opera. Please visit us at merola.org. BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS PAST PRESIDENTS DIRECTORS Dr. Joan B. Kelly EMERITUS DIRECTORS Jean Kellogg, Executive Director Jayne C. Davis, Chairman Mrs. Starr Bruce Adam Arthur Bier William W. Kwan, MD Donna L. Blacker Tracy Grant, Director of Foundation, Carlyn Clause, President (1957–1962) Barbara Bruser Clark Nafiseh Lindberg Peggy Dennis Corporate & Government Relations Michael Colbruno Sylvia R. Lindsey James H. Schwabacher Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson Mark Shattuck, Mary Sue Bizzarri, The Hon. Lindsay MacDermid (1962–1991) Anita Weissberg Director of Finance & Administration Vice President Marie Bertillion Collins Dr. Myron Marx Pamela J. George, Dr. A. Jess Shenson Hugh J. Coughlin Dr. Pamela Zell Rigg Ruben B. Pimentel, Jr., Director of Vice President (1991–1995) Dr. James Cross Dr. David D. Stein Marketing & Communications Blanche Germain Streeter, Jayne Davis (1995–1999) Beatrice Gomory Ruth Uchimura Miriam Rosenfeld, Vice President Rusty Rolland (1999–2003) Mary Henderson Susan Walker Donor Relations & Events Manager George Crow, Treasurer David S. Hugle (2003–2007) Melvyn Hetzel Carol A. Weitz Cindy Ho, Susan Hone Patrick Wilken Part-time Bookkeeper/Accountant Robert B. Mison, Secretary Patrick Wilken (2007–2011) Dana Turkington Horner Christopher E. Wiseman Merola Summer Donna L. Blacker David S. Hugle Susan York Jean Shirk Media, (2011–2015) Robert B. Jacoby Stephen Zilles Festival Communications Consultant Michael H. Kalkstein

We extend our sincere appreciation to all donors and acknowledge the following individuals, foundations, and corporations for their generous gifts totaling $1,000 or more and made between October 1, 2016, and August 15, 2017, in support of the Merola Opera Program. For more information about supporting the Merola Opera Program, please contact (415) 936-2324, e-mail [email protected], or visit our website at merola.org.

$25,000 & Above INDIVIDUALS Mrs. Barbara J. Ross Peggy & Reid Dennis Mrs. Anita Weissberg Mrs. William M. Friede FOUNDATIONS Carlyn Clause & Bob & Terri Ryan Carol & Dixon Doll Mrs. Carol A. Weitz Mr. Vernon Giang & Ms. Joy Chen The Yvonne & Edgar Baker Fund Alexander L. Brainerd Jack & Betty Schafer Mr. Robert A. Ellis & Ms. Faye Wilson Beatrice & Paul Gomory Frances K. & Charles D. Field George & Susan Crow Ms. Jean Shuler Ms. Jane W. Bernstein Mr. Christopher E. Wiseman & Mr. Fred Hartwick Priscilla & Keith Geeslin Dr. David D. Stein & Foundation Michael A. Harrison & Mr. Eric W. Sleigh Ms. Lauren Ito Mr. David S. Hugle Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner Ms. Shirley Woo & Al Garren Fund Susan Graham Harrison Mr. & Mrs. Kambiz Jalili Mr. John Lee Mr. Patrick Wilken & Mary & Craig Henderson Mr. David Rosenfeld Mrs . Edina Jennison Bruce & Fran Walker Mr. David Dickson Mr. & Mrs. Amos Zucchi GOVERNMENT Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn Hetzel Ms. Andrea G. Julian Anonymous Mrs. Alfred Wilsey Ms. Susan Hone National Endowment for the Arts Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Kahn Diana C. Yee Greer & Thayer Hopkins $1,000–$1,999 Susan York Mr. Robert Kavanaugh & INDIVIDUALS $5,000–$9,999 Mrs. Dana T. Horner FOUNDATIONS Mr. & Mrs. A. Lee Zeigler Ms. Dale Robards Nordin & Donna Blacker FOUNDATIONS Wilma Horwitz Joyce & William Brantman Stephen & Connie Zilles Ms. Jean Kellogg & Mr. Henry Tang Ms. Eloise Bouye Creative Work Fund Maria Hughes Foundation Anonymous Ms. Diana Kissil & Mr. John Cullison Barbara Bruser & Richard Clark Five Arts Foundation H. Nona Hungate Opera Standees Association, The Stanley S. Langendorf Mr. Robert Jacoby in memory of Freida Batten Dr. Marion R. Kramer Barbara K. Jackson $2,000–$4,999 Karen J. Kubin Miss Vivienne E. Miller Foundation Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Karl & Alice Ruppenthal Ms. Shirley Kwok Mike & Rusty Rolland FOUNDATIONS Mrs. Jeannie Kaufman Foundation for the Arts Leslys Vedder, in Memory of CORPORATION Walter & Elise Haas Fund Ms. Nelda Kilguss San Francisco Opera Guild Ms. Margaret Levitt James Forrest Vedder First Republic Bank Il Cenacolo Italian Cultural Club Gretchen B. Kimball Marin Chapter Mrs. Nancy Donnell Lilly Fred M. Levin & Nancy Livingston, William W. Kwan, MD Ms. R. Gisela Lloyd $15,000–$24,999 INDIVIDUALS The Shenson Foundation in Joan Shelbourne Kwansa CORPORATIONS Mr. William Lokke Norby Anderson memory of Ben & A. Jess Shenson Ms. Kathe Lange Jackson & Main Consulting Eve & Niall Lynch FOUNDATION Darla & Richard Bastoni San Francisco Opera Guild Ms. Sylvia R. Lindsey Milo Group of California Bernard Osher Foundation Mrs. Midge Mansouri Dr. Phyllis B. Blair East Bay Chapter Mryon Marx & Cora Yang Mrs. Emily Marcus Ms. Ada Mei Ms. Annette Campbell-White & San Francisco Opera Guild INDIVIDUALS Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Mardesich CORPORATION David Miller Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Peninsula Chapter Mr. & Mrs. David Anderson Mr. & Mrs. J. Patterson McBaine Dandelion Chocolate Mr. Hu San Jose Opera Guild Cathy & Howard Moreland Nina K. Auerbach, MD gh J. Coughlin Mrs. Anne G. McWilliams Drs. John & Lois Crowe William Karl Schwarze Trust Ms. Camille Mori shige Miss Carol Benz Jane & Harry Mison INDIVIDUALS Tim Dattels & Kristine Johnson Anne L. Morton Davidson Bidwell-Waite & Peter & Jayne Davis Mary & Tom Foote CORPORATIONS David & Marilyn Nasatir Edwin A. Waite Mrs. Pamela Murdock John & Cynthia Fry Gunn Ms. Pamela George Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP James A. Noe III Paul & Kathy Bissinger Mr. Peter J. Musto Franklin & Catherine Johnson Miss Ursula Grunfeld Meyer Sound Mr. Paul D. Nordine Maurice & Mary Sue Bizzarri Victoria Nakamura Scott & Susan Lord James Heagy, UBS Institutional Consulting Group Ms. Patricia Nottingham Mr. Gordon Brodfuehrer Ms. Erika Nelson & Mr. Guy Cross Mary Stevens Riley in memory of Janey Heagy Ms. Annie Nunan Mr. & Mrs. Tom H. Burkhart Ms. Barbara Newton Ms. Amy Roth & Ms. Harriet Heyman & INDIVIDUALS Mr. & Mrs. Bill R. Poland Klaus & Rike Burmeister Suzanna G. Pollak Mr. Robert Epstein Mr. Michael Moritz Mary Sherrill Baxter Anna & Frank Pope Frances Campra Ms. Susan K. Prather In Memory of Mr. Michael H. Kalkstein & Mr. & Mrs. Phillip B. Beck Mr. Glenn H. Reid Mr. Peter Carwell Ms. Merrill Randol Cameron Waterman III Ms. Susan English Adam Arthur Bier & Rachel Bier Lem Robbins/Cullen Family Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Castellucci Mr. & Mrs. David Rinaldo Drs. Joan B. & James Kelly Ms. Brooke Bourland Ms. Marianne Buttner Robison Ms. Carmen J. Castro-Franceschi $10,000–$14,999 Mr. Paul Sack Norman T. Larson Ms. Langley Brandt Mr. Michael A. Roosevelt, Esq. & Mr. Greg Franceschi Drs. Milton & Sondra Schlesinger CORPORATION Nafiseh & Karl Lindberg Mrs. Birgit Chase Ms. Jo-Ann Rose Mr. Martin S. Checov & Dr. & Mrs. Jon F. Sigurdson AT&T Mr. & Mrs. Michael Rudd Bernice & John Lindstrom Maureen Clarke Mr. Timothy J. Bause Mr. & Mrs. David Sloss Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Cluff Jeannie Sack & Jordan Sachs Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Cheitlin Ms. Maggie Thompson FOUNDATIONS Maura Markus Mr. Michael Colbruno Miss Dorothy Schimke Mrs. Beverly Coughlin PG&E Better Together Ellen & Paul McKaskle Mr. Paul Connolly Mr. Steven Shladover Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Cross Doug Von Qualen Giving Program James R. Meehan Mrs. Laura Crawford Dr. J. H. Silveira Mr. Robert Crow Ms. Susan Walker The Henry W. & Robert B. Mison Dr. James Cross & Ms. Blanche Germain Stre eter Dr. Lisa Danzig Ms. Olivia Ware Nettie Robinson Foundation Mr. Milton Mosk & Mr. Charles Antonen Mrs. Mary K. Swalen Keith Doerge Patrici a Weeden Joseph & Eleanor Sax Fund Mr. Thomas Foutch Mrs. Mary A. Culp Dr. & Mrs. W. Conrad Sweeting Mr. Justin Faggioli & Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Worn Rusty Rolland & The Schick Fund Mr. Haggai Niv Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. Curry Ms. Suzanne Turley Ms. Sandra Donnell Ms. Anne Zucchi Wallis Foundation Drs. Richard & Pamela Rigg Mr. & Mrs. James F. Dean Ruth & Ross Uchimura Mr. Peter Felleman Anonymous

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IN-KIND DONORS Maurice Bizzarri, Bizzarri Software Bright Wine Fund Hafner Vineyard Breathless Sparkling Wines Culinary Excellence Catering Partage Winery

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFT DONORS American Express S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation IBM International Foundation Microsoft Corporation Gift Matching Program Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Intel Union Bank of California

MEROLA LEGACY SOCIETY The Merola Legacy Society honors those who have included Merola Opera Program in their will, trust or other estate plans. For more information on how you can support Merola Opera Program through your estate planning, please call (415) 936-2321.

Norman Abramson & David Beery Mr. Stephen Drewes Barbara K. Jackson Ms. Christine Miller Debra R. Schoenberg Mrs. Barbara Adams Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Dwelly Ms. Elizabeth A. Jacobs Miss Vivienne E. Miller Ms. Marilyn G. Seiberling Mrs. Judith Anderson Mr. Robert F. Ewing & Ms. Dagmar L. Jamison D. G. Mitchell Ms. Carolyn Shaw Mrs. John Anderton Mr. Cesar L. De Joya, Jr. Ms. Joanie Juster Cathy & Howard Moreland Ms. Jean A. Sherlin Ms. Wilma Avery Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson Mrs. Jeannie Kaufman Ms. Thelma Morris Natalie O. Shuttleworth Kathleen H. Barr Mary & Tom Foote Ms. Jean Kellogg Mr. Albert L. Mosher Mr. & Mrs. David Sloss Ms. Eloise Bouye Mario Fracchia Drs. Joan B. & James Kelly Mr. Milton Mosk & Ms. Sue Sommer Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Bowen Mrs. William M. Friede Ms. Ludmila Kisseleva-Eggleton & Mr. Thomas Foutch Nancy & Robert Soper In Memory of Joseph & Antonia Friedman Mr. Peter Eggleton Mr . Carroll J. Newbanks Dr. David D. Stein & George (Troy) Browman & Ms. Magda Gabali Mr. Louis A. Koffman Ms. Marie J. Niemann Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner his Living Partner Mr. Louis B. Gagliardi Mr. Ken Kolby Mr. Haggai Niv Dr. Sam Thal J. Gerald Gagnon Pamela J. George Mrs. Barbara F. Kral Mr. Carl Noelke Miss Carol Tomlinson Mr. Donald Buhman Mrs. Rolf Gille Herbert & Barbara Grah am Kreissler Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. O’Hanlon James S. & Gayle G. Tunnell Mr. Russell P. Chappell Dave Gomberg & Diana Lum Ms. Joan Shelbourne Kwansa Ms. Brenda Osborne Ms. Donna Chazen Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gomory Mrs. Olive Lawton Ms. Sheldeen G. Osborne & Ms. Suzanne Turley Maureen Clarke Tracy Grant Mr. John Lee Mr. Steven E. Tirrell Shirley Wilson Victor Carlyn Clause & Miss Doris Grau Ms. Marcia Leonhardt Robert & Carol Parvin Mr. Albert J. Vizinho Alexander L. Brainerd Miss Ursula Grunfeld Bernice Gucker Lindstrom Mr. Glenn H. Reid Ms. Gladys Wagman Mr. Michael Colbruno Dr. & Mrs. John G. Gurley Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Mr. Robert Robertson Bruce & Fran Walker Jose Maria Condemi James Heagy Ms. Norrine L. Marchegiani-Lewis Mike & Rusty Rolland Mrs. Barbara Wanvig Mrs. Charles Cornman in memory of Janey Heagy Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Mardesich Ms. Louise A. Russell Mr. Patrick Wilken Mr. Gerald F. Currier & Tom Houran & Bill Medigovich Dr. Myron Marx Bob & Terri Ryan Ms. Ann L. Williamson Mr. Cleveland M. Smith Mr. David S. Hugle Ms. Denise E. Mauldin Mr. & Mrs. John Ryckman Mrs. John A. Zderic Peter & Jayne Davis Ms. Marian Huntoon Bill Medigovich Jeannie Sack Anonymous

The Merola Opera Program honors the memory of the following friends who have provided a legacy of support through their bequests and other planned gifts this year. Mrs. Marion Zimmer Bradley Wiley C. Crawford Mrs. Thelma Dry Ms. Betty Guy Mr. Gerald B. Rosenstein Mr. Hugh C. Trutton Dr. Orlando Clark Roy Demmon K. E. Freeman Mr. Jack H. Lund Ms. Bettie Slissman

TRIBUTES Merola Opera Program expresses its sincere appreciation to all donors who have made memorial and honorary donations between October 1, 2016, and August 15, 2017. IN MEMORY OF Jean Donnell Eleanor Kenney Mary Stevens Riley Mr. James H. Schwabacher IN HONOR OF Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Dr. David D. Stein Brian Asawa David Gee Frank Lanier Henry W. Robinson & Ben & A. Jess Shenson Michael Colbru no Milton Mosk & Suzanne Turley Freida Batten Marc Gropper John Lindstrom Nettie Robinson James Forrest Vedder Hugh Coughlin Thomas Foutch César Ulloa & Gary Aliperti Lois Brainard Janey Heagy Thomas E. Morton Rusty Rolland Cameron Waterman III Peggy Dennis Dale Robards Patrick Wilken Zheng Cao Liz Jacobs Harriet Meyer Quarré Joseph & Eleanor Sax Dr. John Zderic Jean Kellogg Barbara Ross

MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM ENDOWMENT The Merola Opera Program acknowledges with thanks those groups and individuals who have established or support the following endowment funds, which provide lasting tributes and generate continual support for developing the artists of the future. Kurt Herbert Adler—Merola Endowment Fund Reid & Peggy Dennis Endowment Fund Elaine Henderson Endowment Fund In Honor of Leontyne Price Endowment Fund Amici di Merola Fund Grace A. Diem & Alice E. Siemons Endowment Fund Heritage Fund Charles Rolle, M.D. Endowment Fund Barab Family Trust Fund In Memory of Jean Donnell Fund Vija Hovgard Endowment Fund Marie Louise Rosenberg Memorial Endowment Fund Dr. Leland Barber & Gladys K. Barber Endowment Fund Querita Eybel Endowment Fund David S. Hugle & Haggai Niv Endowment Fund Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund The Anthony I. Balestrieri Endowment Fund Mr. & Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson Endowment Fund The Jacobs Family Trust Schick Memorial Fund Richard J. Barlett Memorial Fund I. P. Patrick Gallagher Fund Grace & Mildred Johnson Endowment Fund Eva & Henry Schlesigner Fund Jean E. Bennett, Jr. Fund Nicholas & Mary Ann Gannam Endowment Fund In Memory of Peter G. Kavantjas Endowment Fund The Shenson Family Fund The Sidney & Phyllis Blair Fund L. Henry Garland Memorial Fund Donald Wayne Kennedy Fund Claudia Stoop Memorial Fund John S. Brooks Memorial Fund Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund Leona Gordon Lowin Memorial Fund Blanche Thebom Trust Fund Florence Bruce Fund Donna Lee Grassman Memorial Fund Lotfi Mansouri Apprentice Director Fund Dickson Titus III Fund Bruser Family Fund Gary Griffith Memorial Endowment Fund Meltzer Family Memorial Fund Alma Brooks Walker Memorial Fund Carlton F. Bryan Fund Gropper Memorial Fund Merola Members Endowment Fund Frank W. & Matilda O. Weymouth Living Trust Fund Betty Cable Fund Anneliese Gruenberg-Bremer Fund Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Fund James L. Wilson Trust Endowment Fund Zheng Cao Opera Fund Otto Guth Fund Oreste J. di Muro Endowment Fund In Memory of Patricia Yakutis Endowment Fund Mai G. Coggin Endowment Fund Mark Haffner Apprentice Coach Fund The Bernard Osher Foundation Career Grant Endowment Alma Cella Yoder Trust Cooper Endowment Fund In Memory of James T. Heavey Fund Mary A. Powell Career Grant Fund Estate of Mr. William Zoller

MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM CAREER GRANTS Merola Opera Program gratefully acknowledges the following donors who have provided special support to our young artists. Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Career Grant—Drs. Sidney & Phyllis Blair Fund Peter G. Kavantjas Career Grant— Mary A. Powell Career Grant—Mary A. Powell Fund Florence Bruce Career Grant—Mrs. Starr Bruce Endowment Fund In memory of Peter G. Kavantjas Endowment Fund Schick Memorial Career Grant—Schick Memorial Fund Jean Donnell Memorial Career Grant—In Memory of Jean Donnell Fund Merola Alumni Career Grant—Merola Opera Program Alumni Schwabacher Family Career Grant—Mr. James H. Schwabacher Richard & Rhoda Goldman Career Grant—Mr. Richard N. Goldman Fund Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Career Grant— Fred M. Levin & Nancy Livingston, Gropper Memorial Career Grant—Alfred Fromm & Otto E. Meyer, Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Fund The Shenson Foundation in memory of Drs. Ben & A. Jess Shenson in Memory of Dr. Angel Gropper The Bernard Osher Foundation Career Grant— Richard Strauss Opera Career Grant— E. A. Haggerty Memorial Career Grant— The Bernard Osher Foundation G. William Jewell, in memory of Mr. Robert C. Silvering Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bernhardt Poetz Memorial Career Grant— Dickson Titus III Career Grant—Dickson Titus III Fund David S. Hugle Career Grant—Mr. David S. Hugle A Friend of Merola

The Merola Opera Program also extends its most sincere appreciation to all those contributors who helped meet our annual income needs through gifts of $1 to $999.

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OFFICERS HONORARY DIRECTORS Jane S. Mudge, President Matthew & Kate Shilvock Annie Calonico Schieding, David Gockley Vice President, Administration George F. Lucas, STAFF Vice President, Associate Directors Susan Malott, Silvia Lin, Vice President, Chapters Managing Director Roberta Holden, Megan McDonald, Vice President, Community Outreach Director of Special Events Mary Poland, Vice President, Development Alaina Schukraft, Special Events Associate and Rita Milner, Vice President, Education Volunteer Coordinator Celeste Lee Bobroff, Vice President, Fundraising Caroline Altman, Virginia Cartwright Ziegler, Creative Director SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD gives voice Vice President, Marketing Kelly Dewees, to potential through education and outreach Emely Weissman, Secretary Education Program Manager programs that bring opera center stage into Carol Simmons, Treasurer Ellen Kerrigan, the life of the community. France Szeto, Education Fund Chairman Opera à la Carte Coordinator

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD is a separate organization from San Francisco Opera and operates under a distinct board of directors. We extend our sincere appreciation to all our event and program supporters and acknowledge the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their generous support of $1,000 or more between Opera Ball 2016 and July 31, 2017. For more information about supporting San Francisco Opera Guild, please contact Susan Malott at (415) 565-3291, [email protected], or visit our website at www.sfoperaguild.com.

CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS $100,000 & above Leslie & George Hume Lynne Edminster & Brian Atwood $1,000–$4,999 Gail DeMartini John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Dorothy & C. Bradford Jeffries Adm. James O. Ellis, Jr. & CORPORATION/ORGANIZATION Jesus O. Diaz Denise Littlefield Sobel Lawrence A. Kern Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough LLC Meredith & Kempton Dunn Marissa Mayer & Zachary Bogue Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons Draper Fund Samantha Chandler DuVall $50,000–$99,999 Teresa & Mark Medearis Mr. & Mrs. James N. Froeb Jaguar Animal Health Jacqueline & Christian Erdman Steven Menzies Fati Farmanfarmaian Harrah’s & Harveys Lake Tahoe Ann & Daniel Girard Kaiser Permanente Helen & John Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton Franklin & Catherine Johnson George & Cathy Huber S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Jane S. Mudge Justin Fichelson Neiman Marcus Group Arlene Inch San Francisco Opera Guild, Mary & Bill Poland Steve & Choongja Kahng Marin Chapter Ms. Kristina Flanagan Anne B. Popkin Cynthia Schreuder Kalev & San Francisco Opera Guild, Claire & Jeff Fluhr $25,000–$49,999 Karen Richardson & Jon Rubinstein Chandra & Robert Friese Ovadia Kalev Peninsula Chapter Amgen Pamela & Richard Rigg Barbara C. Fritz & Clayton B. Fritz Diana Kissil & John Cullison San Jose Opera Guild Paula & Bandel Carano Deborah & Paul Sagues Gary Garabedian Karen J. Kubin Yahoo Employee Foundation Keith & Priscilla Geeslin Roselyne C. Swig Jeff Garelick, Wilkes Bashford Paul Kochis & Amy Millman Jennifer & Steven Walske Drs. Danielle & Rondall Lane Harvey & Gail Glasser Joan & John Lavorgna INDIVIDUALS The Malin Family Diane B. Wilsey Mr. Elie Abi-Jaoude David & Inger Golob Cynthia & Richard Livermore Therma S. Shariq Yosufzai & Brian E. James Dr. Afsaneh Akhtari Joe l Goodrich Dr. & Mrs. Craig Lubbock TriplePoint Capital Leyla Alhosseini Sigrun Graeff Connie & Bob Lurie $5,000–$9,999 Emily & Dolph Andrews Mr. Philip Grisier $10,000–$24,999 CORPORATION/ORGANIZATION Dr. Alan Malouf Navid P. Armstrong Lisa M. Grotts CORPORATION/ORGANIZATION Abbot Downing Andrew Martin-Weber Cecilia Aviles Anette Harris & Marc Loupé Accenture Dodge & Cox Anne Marie & Stephen Massocca Nina & Charles E. Belle Ronald Holloway & Doug Hammerich Bank of America First Republic Bank Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. McMurtry Maribeth Benham Jennifer & Harold Hughes California Arts Council/NEA Saks Fifth Avenue Ms. Anne G. McWilliams Carol Benz Sallie & Leon Huntting Clare Louise Bates Fund San Francisco Opera Guild, Mr. & Mrs. James Milner Joy Venturini Bianchi Bruce Hyman & Simone Quarré Hermès East Bay Chapter Phyllis Moldaw David J. Blumberg Jessica Jacob & Zachary Townsend Jurika, Mills & Keifer San Francisco Opera Guild, Peggy & Boyce Nute Helen & Roger Bohl Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger PG&E Sonoma Chapter Deepa Pakianathan & J. Dennis Bonney Jorge Jaramillo San Francisco Giants Phil Pemberton Ron & Beverly Borelli Katie & Claude Jarman Union Bank INDIVIDUALS The Honorable Nancy Pelo si & Melissa & Tracy Boxer Zill Judy & Greg Jorgensen Wells Fargo Bank Asim & Isha Abdullah Mr. Paul Pelosi Romana D’Angelo Bracco Ms. Jill Kent Wells Fargo Foundation Thomas Barrett & Belinda A. Berry Maria Pitcairn Michael Broach John Kerns Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Eric & Jennifer Brown Suzanne McKechnie Klahr INDIVIDUALS Elizabeth & David Birka-White Louise & Paul Renne Karen & Anton Bruehl Randall E. Laroche & David G. Laudon Joachim & Nancy Hellman Bechtle Norman T. Larson Athena & Timothy Blackburn Rose Rosenberg Florence E. Bryan Dawn Yates Black Celeste & Michael Bobroff Ms. Brenda Leff Alice & Bill Russell-Shapiro Mrs. Karen Caldwell Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Brown Dr. Sean P. Bohen & Debra & Richard Carpeneti Patricia Ferrin Loucks Komal Shal & Gaurav Garg Bill & Bridget Coughran Mrs. Tanum Davis Bohen Mrs. Walter L. Carpeneti Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Ludgus Roberta Sherman Michael & Holly Cuggino Ms. Barbara Brown Barbara Cartier Cathy MacNaughton Pamala & Ted Deikel Carol Franc Buck The Honorable & Dr. Carolyn Chang June & Stephen Manley Reid & Peggy Dennis Alisa Burgess-Blajwas & Mrs. George P. Shultz Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Clark Dr. Pamela Marron Carol & Dixon Doll Harold Blajwas Raj Singh & Renata Anderson Ellen Coleman Edouard Mayoral de la Casa Micaux Sandra Farris Marilyn & Michael Cabak Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Sprincin Katie Colendich Elaine Mellis Ann & Gordon Getty Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris Dianne & Tad Taube Julie Coplon Maya D. Meux John & Marcia Goldman David & Karin Chamberlain Natalia Urrutia-Hernandez & Phoebe Cowles & Robert Girar d Donald & Irene Morgan Jane & David Hartley Carolyn Chandler Israel Hernandez Ena & Mark Cratsenburg Maryam & Oran Muduroglu Kathryn A. Huber & Lawrence Binkley Shannon & Dan Cronan Paul van Dyk Shahla Davoudi Nancy S. Mueller Sylvia & John Hughes Kim & Mark Dempster Mrs. Barbara A. Wolfe Olivia Hsu Decker Nancy E. Nebeker

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CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS continued Susan O’Brien Mr. John D. Rosin Frederic H. Smith Andrea & Joe Thomas Veronica Watson & Nazan Orr Annie & Braedan Schieding Alexandra Solomon & Barbara Traisman Michael Petonic Ann & Jim Paras Ave Seltsam Austin Brasch R obert & Danielle Troy Ronald & Emely Weissman Norman & Janet Pease Dr. Clara Shayevich Russell Stanaland Micaela van Zwoll & John Green Celeste & Darryl Woo Suraj Rajwani Mai Shiver Zornitza Stefanova Soo & Raj Venkatesan Anna Wu James & Caroline Reuben Dr. & Mrs. Edwin Shonfeld David H. Stull Robert & Ellen Vladem Brenda Zarate, Christian Dior Veronica Rivas-Tramontozzi Francoise & Andrew Skurman France Szeto Barbara Walkowski Linda Elliott Zider

CHARLOT D. MALIN SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD EDUCATION FUND We express deep appreciation to the following individuals and organizations who have made gifts* in memory of Charlot D. Malin, Past President and a leader of San Francisco Opera Guild. For information on how to contribute to this fund, please contact Susan Malott at (415) 565-3291, [email protected], or visit sfopera.com/charlotmalinfund. Steve & Maura Abernethy Sue Firestone Jane & Bert Inch Gene & Richard Morey The Spyropoulos Family Renata Anderson Claire Fluhr Integrated Resources Group, Inc. Christina Noren Dana Stone Katherine August Ellen Margareta Fossli David & Evelyn Israel Barbro Osher Kimberlee Stryker Celeste Lee-Bobroff Melinda Yee Franklin Cynthia Schreuder Kalev John & Sherry Peterson Swartz Foundation Kristy Brabec Malin Giddings Fred & Beth Karren Maria Pitcairn Jeff Thomasson Erik Breivik Ann & Daniel Girard Nina Klotz Bill & Mary Poland Catherine Thresher Barbara Brown Lisa & Douglas Goldman Brian Koch Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP Ryan Lanzen, Torreon Golf Club Eleanor & Theodore Brown David & Inger Golob Steve & Arl ene Krieger Karen Richardson Town School for Boys Alisa Burgess-Blajwas & Connie Loizos Gove Anton Krukowski Karen Ann Richardson Barbara Traisman Harold Blajwas Sigrun Graeff Karen J. Kubin Family Foundation Suzanne Tucker Michelle Cheatham Brian Hackfeld Esty Lawrie Kirk Russell Mrs. William C. Turner Martha Chesley Wendy Hanson Kathie Lowry Sigifredo Saenz Natalia Urrutia-Hernandez Adam & Kate Clammer Sally Harris Nicola Luisotti Debora h Sagues Ryan Walls, Troon Golf Shannon & Dan Cronan Maj-Britt Hilstrom Jennifer Lynch Gary Schilling & Stefan Hastrup Nadine Weil Ronald & Emely Weissman Carol P. & Dixon R. Doll Roberta Holden Maggie Mack Ann & Perry Sells Jeff Welch Suzy Kellems Domink Paul Holm Susan & James Malott San Francisco Opera Guild, Eve & Wallace Wertsch Sean Dowdall Winston & Cynthia Hovey Demetrios Mavrikis Sonoma Chapter Michael Yancey Lynne Edminster Rong Hu John McQuaid John Shea Virginia Cartwright Ziegler Jennifer Emerson Leslie & George Hume Fund Brian Milford Mai Shiver Sandra Farris Arlene Inch William & Aase Moran Sarah Somberg *Gifts received by July 31, 2017

IN-KIND DONATIONS Accenture Olivia Hsu Decker, Decker Bullock George F. Lucas Swain Destinations Allegra Print & Imaging Sotheby’s International Realty Maisons Marques & Domaines Town & Country Mark Alman Drew Altizer Photography McCall’s Catering & Events Trou Normand AT&T Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco Neiman Marcus Union Square United Airlines J. Riccardo Benavides Event Styling Four Seasons Hotel Sydney The Nob Hill Gazette The Westin St. Francis Blue Angel Vodka Gleim the Jeweler Puma Paw Ranch San Francisco on Union Square Burberry Cathy & George Huber Ram’s Gate Winery Virginia Cartwright Ziegler Karen Caetano, Id-alist LLC Jay Siegan Presents Roederer Estate Viszlay Vineyards Barbara Callow Joseph Cozza Salon San Francisco Opera Christine Stovell Design LaBelle Day Spas & Salons Soirée Valet

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD LEGACY SOCIETY The San Francisco Opera Guild Legacy Society honors those who have included San Francisco Opera Guild in their will, trust, or other estate plans. For more information on how you can support San Francisco Opera Guild through your estate planning please call (415) 565-3291. Ben D. & Dorothy Rod & PJ Handeland Bruce M. Jewett James J. Ludwig Catherine Stafford Revocable Mrs. W. Carroll Tornroth Coppersmith Jane & David Hartley Mr. Maurice Kanbar Estate of Leontine Sassell Living Trust

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD EDUCATION FUND The Opera Guild acknowledges with thanks those groups and individuals who have contributed $2,500 or more in support of San Francisco Opera Guild’s Education Fund by April 30, 2017. For information on supporting the Guild’s Education Fund, please call (415) 565-3291. Cheryl & Ralph Baxter Bettye Poetz Ferguson Foundation Diana Kissil & John Cullison Karen Merritt Diane Rubin Karen & Anton Bruehl Anna Freiman Karen J. Kubin Virginia Miller* San Francis co Opera Guild, Paul & Bandel Carano Ann & Daniel Girard Joan & John Lavorgna Susan Mooradian East Bay Chapter The Estate of Katharine Hanrahan* Eileen D. Ludwig* Mary Louise Myers San Francisco Opera Guild, Mrs. Sheldon Cooper Alfred Hartley Cathy & Angus MacNaughton Susan O’Brien Marin Chapter Mary Corroon Jane & David Hartley The Malin Family Libby Pfau San Francisco Opera Guild, Beverly Coughlin James Heagy Susan & James Malott Maria Pitcairn Peninsula Chapter Ena & Mark Cratsenburg Barbara Henry Lois Manbert Mary & Bill Poland Ann Simpson Olivia Hsu Decker Jacquelin H. Hume* Anne Marie Massocca Ursula Ralph Claire Collins Skall Carol & Dixon Dolll Katie & Claude Jarman Kathleen McEligot Joyce Reitman Susan Tamagni Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich* Mrs. Mark O. Kasanin Teresa & Mark Medearis Venetta & John Rohal *Deceased

More than 75,000 Bay Area families, students and teachers experience the excitement of opera with a variety of educational and community engagement programs presented through the combined efforts of San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera Guild, and the Merola Opera Program.

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POSTLUDE BY GENERAL DIRECTOR MATTHEW SHILVOCK

FIRSTYEAR REFLECTIONS

There is an old quip that “life is short; opera is long; Wagner is eternal.” Opera time is cer- tainly an odd phenomenon. On the one hand, we can bring time to a halt through achingly beautiful artistry in which we lose ourselves for hours as the world buzzes around us. On the other hand, we are one of the most tightly scheduled enterprises known to mankind. Everything happens in precise order and is often planned years into the future. I can tell you exactly what I’ll be doing at 6 p.m. on June 5, 2020. (It’s a piano technical rehearsal for the (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.) This duality of opera time makes reflecting on a year in this business an intriguing phenomenon. Although I’ve been working here since 2005, this first year as your general director has been an incredible opportunity to see the Company from a new vantage point. I thought it might be interesting to share a few of my first-year observations with you.

1. The breadth of talent here is phenomenal. I knew from the moment I set foot in this building in 2002 that San Francisco Opera is capable of extraordinary art. One of the greatest privileges of the past year has been spending time with all the areas of the Company, understanding even more the dedication and talents creating that extraordi- Y

L nary art. U A P N

O 2. Programming is emotionally charged. As we work to design future seasons, I realize M I

S increasingly the emotional bond that comes when you are putting together a cast and creative team. There are so many pieces to come together that when it works it is elating, and when something goes awry, it is heartbreaking.

3. This city is an incredible opportunity. As I’ve had more interactions with other arts organizations, as we worked through Prop. S last year, and as we think strategically about our place within our broader community, I am increasingly in awe of the unique moment in which we exist. Today’s Bay Area is one of the most fertile moments of possibility in world history, and we’re at the nexus of that vitality. That’s a very exciting reality to seize!

4. Our assumptions need to change. It used to be that if you performed title x with singer y you could expect an audience of z. Nationwide that predictability has eroded in the past five years. Our assumptions need to change, and change quickly as we work to understand the dynamically changing region around us.

5. You have to show up if you want a place at the table. I’ve had the chance to travel to other companies, including European festi- vals, this year. This has been a chance to meet other general directors, talk about shared programming aspirations, and explore intriguing collaborative ideas. Through these interactions, you realize there’s no substitute for a face-to-face relationship. This is the time when we’re building our next generation of global partners, and it’s a very exciting process.

6. The greatest positivity comes from patron conversations. Being in this role gives one wonderful Connect with Matthew via time with patrons, subscribers, and donors, and there is an exhilarating, positive energy that comes from those conversations. The level of dedication people have to San Francisco Opera is Twitter, Instagram, and email. manifested in an inspiring passion and care for the art form. As we think about future program- ming, there is no greater creative spark plug than the energy of our audience. @MATTHEWSHILVOCK

As I move into my second year, I am so grateful for the kindness, support, and trust that this com- pany and community have given me. I think this will always be a “pinch-me-it-can’t-be-real” job. The MATTHEW_SHILVOCK chance to work with you all in the creative arc of opera, from conception to creation to experience, is a thrillingly exciting one. I am committed to listening, learning, refining, and propelling this company [email protected] forward towards our second century. It’s a privilege to be on this journey with you.

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San FrancIScO OPERA YOUR OPERA EXPERIENCE

The OPERA BOX OFFICE is located in the Opera San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, and intermissions, and afterward. all proceeds House, 301 Van ness avenue, and is open benefit San Francisco Opera. the San Francisco Symphony are experimenting Monday 10 aM–5 PM, Tuesday through Saturday 10 aM–6 PM, and through the first intermission with allowing audiences to enjoy beverages in COAT CHECK For the safety and comfort of our on performance days. Tickets may also be the auditorium. audience, all large parcels, backpacks, luggage, charged by phone at (415) 864- 3330 or ordered You may bring drinks purchased in the etc. must be checked at the Opera House coat online at sfopera.com. We accept american Opera House into the auditorium, as long as check, located at the north and South ends of Express, VISa, Mastercard, and Discover. they are in the approved compostable cup the Main Lobby. If you are unable to use your tickets to a particular performance, you may exchange them with a lid, which is available at all bars. COURTESY TELEPHONE, for local calls only, is for tickets to another performance, subject to located in the main lobby across from the South availability, or donate them back to the Opera. passenger elevator Ticket exchanges for future performances can Performance Etiquette be accommodated up to one hour before DRINKING FOUNTAINS are available on all • Please turn off and refrain from using all curtain or during the first intermission. no levels except the Lower level, where there is a refunds are associated with ticket exchanges, electronic devices before the performance, courtesy water station on the north side. Water and a fee (plus any price differential) may apply. including digital watches and cell phones. bottles are permitted in the auditorium. • no cameras or recording equipment are ACCESSIBILITY San Francisco Opera is commit- permitted in the Opera House. OPERA GLASSES may be rented for $5 at the ted to providing easy access for all of our patrons. • as a courtesy to those who may have north Lobby coat check. ID deposit is Please contact the Opera Box Office prior to your fragrance allergies, please avoid wearing requested. visit so that we can ensure your comfort. perfume or cologne. For Patrons in Wheelchairs, San Francisco Opera • children of any age attending a LARGE PRINT CAST SHEETS AND SYNOPSES offers wheelchair-accessible seats at a range of performance must have a ticket; no babes are available at the coat check stations in the prices. all entrances at the War Memorial Opera in arms. main lobby. House are wheelchair accessible. Wheelchair- Management reserves the right to remove FIRST AID STATION is located on the South accessible stalls in restrooms can be found on any patron creating a disturbance. all floors (except the Main Lobby and 5th floor Lower level. In case of emergency, please ask Balcony levels). accessible drinking fountains the nearest usher to assist you. are located on all floors except the Balcony level. also served before performances and during LOST AND FOUND items may be claimed at intermissions at Patina’s café Express (Lower LISTENING DEVICES assistive listening devices the north coat check during the performance. are available at the north and South Lobby coat level) and Dress circle café. call (415) 861-8150 all unclaimed items are delivered to the War checks. ID deposit required. or visit opentable.com for reservations or to Memo rial Performing arts center at 401 Van pre-order. Patrons dining in the Opera House ness ave., room 110, (415) 621-6600 (8 aM–5 LIVE TITLES: TEXT-TO-VOICE SUPERTITLES may enter through the north carriage entrance PM, Monday–Friday). Headsets that provide a spoken version of the (adjacent to the War Memorial courtyard) up to supertitles are available at the north Lobby coat two hours prior to curtain. TAXI SERVICE Patrons desiring a taxi after a check. performance should come to the Grove Street The SAN FRANCISCO OPERA SHOP, located Taxi ramp located on the south side of the DINING AND REFRESHMENTS The Patina on the South Mezzanine level of the Opera Opera House. accommodations are provided Group serves an elegant hot buffet in the lower House, sells opera cDs, DVDs, SF Opera on a first come, first served basis, and cannot lounge of the Opera House beginning two merchandise, and gift items. The Shop is open be guaranteed as service is based on availability hours prior to all performances. Lighter fare is 90 minutes before perfor mances, at of licensed taxis. Staff will be on hand to assist.

San Francisco War Memorial and San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Performing Arts Center War Memorial Opera House Exit Diagram War Memorial Opera House Owned and operated by the city and county of San Francisco through the Board of Trustees of the War Memorial of San Francisco The Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor

TRUSTEES Thomas E. Horn, President nancy H. Bechtle, Vice President Belva Davis Lt. col. Wallace I. Levin cSMr (ret.) Gorretti Lo Lui Mrs. George r. Moscone MajGen J. Michael Myatt, USMc (ret.) Paul F. Pelosi charlotte Mailliard Shultz Vaughn r. Walker Diane B. Wilsey Elizabeth Murray, Managing Director PATRONS, ATTENTION PLEASE! FIRE NOTICE: Please note the nearest exit. In an emergency, follow any lighted Jennifer E. norris, Assistant Managing Director/ exit sign to the street. WALK, do not run, to the nearest exit. Disabled patrons, proceed to nearest elevator lobby Executive Secretary and await assistance.

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