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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre (j)ageantry, Passion and Power - Rossini, Lehar, Puccini, The groundbreaking ceremony not only laid the foundation for a ~ Prokofiev and Gounod - there's only one place you can find it all building of concrete and steel, but for a network of volunteers to lead us this year: Michigan Opera Theatre. We warmly welcome you to our into the Opera House. Before an invited audience of 200 volunteers, twenty-third season of outstanding opera, operetta and ballet repertory Trustees and contributors on the Grand Tier of the Detroit Opera House, featuring some of the world 's renowned artists and emerging talent. Board Chairman Robert E. Dewar announced the formation of a new volunteer structure, the Volunteer Association. The new initiative is You have requested more opera, and we have responded with based on the strengths and interests of our current volunteer base, while expanded opera offerings this season. We open this fall with The providing the basis for future expansion. I would personally like to Barber of Seville, featuring some of the acclaimed cast members from welcome the Board-appointed Chairman of this new.comprehensive our 1987 production as well as exciting Canadian director Brian organization, Gloria A. Clark. You can learn more about this exciting Macdonald and rising new operatic talents. Next, Franz Lehar's beloved new structure on page 44. operetta The Merry Widow returns after a nearly ten year absence. We welcome back two Broadway and MOT veterans, Judy Kaye and Ron Finally, my thanks to our corporate and foundation contributors, Raines, who are joined by an exciting cast on the Belle £poque settings government agencies and private individuals who have supported the of John Conklin. company 's extensive activities throughout the year, and to you our audiences. Your numbers are legion and growing. With your support, In the spring, I am pleased to present two stellar casts of singers in we cannot help but prosper. Enjoy the season I our production of Turandot. It gives me special pleasure to reintroduce Detroit audiences to Ealynn Voss, who has had an impressive international career since I first brought her to Detroit to understudy the title role for MOT's 1985 production. Next, we present the enchanting Cinderella ballet, with a beautiful score by Sergei Prokofiev, composer of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Once again, we will assemble a talented corps of dancers from throughout the country alongside our most talented Detroit dancers and international guest artists.

Our season concludes with a new production of Gounod's Faust, designed by Paul Steinberg and based on his acclaimed production for MOT in 1977. Again, two outstanding casts take the stage. The main stage provides only part of the excitement this season. g am sure all of you share with me a sense of anticipation at having begun construction on the new Detroit Opera House beginning with the groundbreaking ceremony there last June. The opening of the Opera House in the fall of 1995 will be the fulfillment of this company 's long-term goal to control its own performance facility, one which allows us to serve the community fully, and which compares favorably in function, size and aesthetics with those of other major world cultural centers. Many corporations, foundations and individuals have generously demonstrated their support toward this end, for which we are most grateful. For a complete listing of these contributors, please refer to page II. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE MAGAZINE OF MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE, SPRING 1994 VOLUME 1, NO .2 DAVID DICHIERA, GENERAL DIRECTOR SCENARIO DEPARTMENTS TICKET SERVICE The Michigan Opera Theatre Box Office is located at 6519 Second Avenue, Detroit, General Director's Message ...... 1 Michigan 48202, and is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. Call for Board of Directors and Trustees ...... 7 weekend times in season. On perfonnance days after 6:00 p.m., visit the theatres ' box offices. Phone (313) 874-7464 from 10:00 Administration and Production Staff ...... 8 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets may also be purchased at all Detroit Opera House ...... 10 TicketMaster outlets or by calling (313) 645-6666. 1993 Fall Season Artist Profiles ...... 24 UNUSED TICKETS Subscribers unable to use their tickets may Young Artists Apprentice Program ...... 28 make a tax-deductible contribution to Michigan Opera Theatre by returning them to Orchestra and Chorus ...... 28 the Box Office for resale at least 48 hours prior to the performance. Call (3 I 3) Community Programs ...... 30 874-7464 for additional infonnation. EXCHANGE POLICY Contributors ...... 34 Exchanges for subscribers only will be made on a space available basis to any other Volunteer Association ...... 44 performance in the 1993-94 Subscription Season. Exchanges must be made at least 48 hours prior to the perfonnance time printed on the tickets being exchanged. SCENARIO is published by Michigan Opera Theatre, 6519 Second Avenue. Detroit, MI 48202. MOT OPERA BOUTIQUE Telephone: (313) 874-7850; Fax: (313) 871-7213. The MOT Opera Boutique, featuring an array of opera-related gift items, is open before This publication is a production of the MOT curtain time and during intennissions of each performance at the Fisher and Masonic Marketing and Public Relations Departments Temple Theatres.

Steve Haviaras FEATURES FOOD SERVICE Director of Marketing Fisher Theatre: Concession stands inside the theatre are open when the theatre doors open and during intermissions. Simultaneously, Rebecca Happel wine, beer and soft drinks are available for Director of Public Relations sale in the Fisher Building lobby. Masonic Turandot Temple Theatre: The Fountain Ballroom on the lower level is open before curtain time Shelly Gillett-Behrens, 14 and during intermissions of all perfonnances Assistant Director of Marketing for refreshments. Patrons arriving before the Laura Wyss, Cast theatre doors open should enter the outer Assistant Director of Public Relations Synopsis main lobby and follow the signs. ACCESSIBILITY CREDITS 16 Both the Fisher and Masonic Temple Editor: Rebecca Happel Theatres have special areas for wheelchairs. Additionally. arrangements can be made for Puccini & Turandot those who are visually or hearing impaired. Art Direction and Production: Please inform the MOT Box Office of your Andi Connier, Karen Cameron, Barbara Porter, needs at (313) 874-7464. Kathleen Kasman of Simons Michelson Zieve LOST AND FOUND See the Head Usher for lost and found Cover Design: information at the Fisher and Masonic Lisa Sabo of Simons Michelson Zieve Cinderella Temple Theatres. PLEASE NOTE Printer: Gaylord Printing 18 Cameras and other recording devices are not permitted in the theatres. Patrons are also Advertising Sales: Cast reminded to check that their digital watch Synopsis alarms are switched OFF before the TPC - The Publications Company performance begins.

The 1993-94 Michigan Opera Theatre Season is presented in IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS cooperation with classical radio station WQRS-FM 105. Subscriber Hotline (313) 874-7831 Administrative Office 874-7850 Baldwin is the official piano of Michigan Opera Theatre. Box Office 874-7464 Pianos are provided and serviced by Evola Music Centers, General Directors Circle 874-7850 Main Office, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Faus t Group Sales 874-7878 Community Programs Department 874-7894 Michigan Opera Theatre's 1993-94 subscription tickets have been Fax Line (3 13) 871-7213 graciously sponsored by Newton Furniture. Additionally, this 21 year's single tickets have been generously sponsored by the Cast Rattlesnake Club and tres vite restaurant. Synopsis EMERGENCY NUMBERS DURING PERFORMANCES Michigan Opera Theatre is supported in part by grants from Fisher Theatre (313) 872-4221 I:!.I the National Endowment for the Arts and from the State of Michigan through the Michigan Masonic Temple Theatre (313) 832-5500 23 The Michigan Opera Theatre Administrative ~~ Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. ADevil of a Faust Offices are located at 6519 Second Avenue, Michigan Opera Theatre is an equal opportunity employer. Detroit, Michigan 48202 in the New Center Area. Michigan Opera Theatre is a member of OPERA America. by John Willett Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 2 HUDSOf,f's SALUTES

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~- ~ ------"-r v he big one, the one I'll never forget was on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach during the final round of the 1992 US. Open. The course was set up in typical US. Open fashion-narrow fairways, high rough and hard, fast greens. Although 1 had a two-stroke lead standing on the 18th tee, 1 was facing the Pacific Ocean on the left with a 30- mile-per-hour crosswind. The 18th is a 548-yard par five, and 1 realized to win the Open, 1 had to have a par. No small trick under those weath er conditions. The previous three rounds, I'd played it conservatively, using a 3 wood off the tee. But that day 1 needed more. When 1 told my caddie to give me the driver, I thought he was going to argue with me. But all he said was: "1 like it.» So, 1 took my driver and hit my best drive of the tournament-well over 280 yards, straight down the middle. 1 got my par and became the 1992 US. Open Champion." "Two of my most memorable driveS.' -Tom Kite

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1994 Opera Ball

C'Jhe renovation of a historical landmark and the "rebuilding" of a city ; imagining what g they were and what they will be yields the inspiration for MOT's eighth annual Operal Ball , scheduled for Saturday, May 21, at the Detroit Opera House. Slated to open in the fall of 1995, the Detroit Opera House has prompted national attention. The anticipation of this new theatre coupled with the excitement of the "rebuilding" of Detroit were the inspiration for this year's Opera Ball. This once in a lifetime event invites guests to imagine what it was and what it will be. While permanent seats have been removed from the theatre, a wooden floor will be built to cover and level out the main floor, and accommodate the theatre for dinner seating and dancing. One of Detroit's finest restaurants, Opus One, will cater the affair. The traditional Opera Ball Auction will incude two 1994 Ford Mustangs donated by Ford Motor Company. New this year will be a 'Take It or Leave It" Auction featuring a select number of decorative objects, including a crystal chandelier from the original Capitol Theater. Successful bidders may either take items home, or leave them as donations to Michigan Opera Theatre. Honorary Chairmen for MOT's premier black-tie fundraiser are Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Ross. General Chairmen are Mr. and Mrs. R. Jamison Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher III and Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Sherman. Ford Motor Company is the corporate sponsor for this year's event. Additional support is provided by Walbridge-Aldinger and McNabb Carpeting. Benefactor tickets are priced at $300 per person ; Underwriter tickets are $500 per person. Tables of ten are available for $3,000 or $5,000. To make reservations, please ca ll the MOT Development Department at (313) 874-7850. The renovation of a historical landmark, the rebuilding of a city ... the 1994 Opera Ball is one step closer to both.

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ACT I ", /It sunset before the Imperial palace, a Mandarin reads the crowd an edict: ft:I"I any prince seeking to marry the Princess Turandot must first answer three riddles. If he fails, he must die. The latest suitor, the Prince of Persia, is to be executed at the moon 's rising; the bloodthirsty citizens rush forward in a surge of mass hysteria, but are repulsed by the guards. In the tumult a slave girl , Liu, kneels by her aged master who has fallen from exhaustion. A handsome youth, Calaf, recognizes the old man as his long- lost father, Timur, vanquished king of Tartary. When Timur reveals that only Liu has remained faithful to him Calaf asks her why; she replies it is because once long ago he smiled at her. As the sky darkens, the mob again cries for blood. The onlookers are moved when the Prince of Persia passes by, and call upon the princess, hidden in the palace, to spare him. Calaf, too, demands that she appear. As if in answer, Turandot steps onto her balcony, and with a contemptuous gesture bids the execution proceed. The crowd falls prostrate, and Turandot withdraws. As the death cry is heard, Calaf - who has been transfixed by the beauty of the unattainable princess - strides to the gong that announces a new suitor. Turandot's ministers, Ping, Pang and Pong, attempt to discourage him. When Timur and the tearful Liu also beg him to reconsider (Signore, ascolta!), Calaf seeks to comfort them, but as their pleas reach new intensity (Ah! Per I 'ultima volta!), he strikes the fatal gong and calls Turandot's name.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 14 ACT II Scene 1. In a palace pavilion, Ping, Pang and Pong lament Turandot's bloody reign, praying that love will soon conquer her icy heart and peace return. Their thoughts dwell on their beautiful and peaceful country homes, but the noise of the populace gathering to hear Turandot question the new challenger calls the ministers back to harsh reality. Scene 2. Before the palace, the aged Emperor, seated on a high throne, vainly asks Calaf to reconsider. Turandot enters to describe how her beautiful ancestor, Princess Lou-Ling, was brutally ravished by the Tartar King when he conquered China centuries before (In questa reggia). In revenge, she has turned against all men and determined that none shall ever possess her.

(7hen, facing Calaf, she asks the first riddle: "What phantom is born J every night and dies every morning in the human heart?" "Hope," Calaf answers correctly. Unnerved, Turandot continues: "What flickers red and warm like a flame, yet is not fire?" "Blood," replies Calaf after a moment's pause. Visibly shaken, Turandot delivers her third riddle: "What is like ice yet generates fire, enslaving you if you go free, making you a king if it takes you as a slave?" A tense silence prevails until Calaf triumphantly cries "Turandot!" While the crowd voices thanks the princess begs her father not to give her to the stranger, but to no avail. Calaf, hoping to win her love, offers Turandot a challenge of his own: If she can learn his name by dawn, he will forfeit his life. Turandot accepts as the crowd repeats the Emperor's praises.

ACT III Scene 1. In the palace gardens, Calaf hears a proclamation: on pain of death no one in Peking shall sleep until Turandot learns the stranger's name. The prince muses on his impending joy (Nessun dorma); then Ping, Pang and Pong try to bribe him to leave the city. As the fearful mob threatens him with drawn daggers to learn his name, soldiers drag in Liu and Timur. Calaf tries to convince the mob that neither knows his secret. When Turandot appears, commanding the dazed Timur to speak, Liu cries out that she alone knows the stranger's identity but she will never reveal it (Tanto amore segreto). Though she is tortured, she remains silent. Impressed by such endurance, Turandot asks Liu's secret. "Love," replies the girl (Tu che di gel sei cinta). When the princess signals the ministers to intensify the torture, Liu seizes a dagger and kills herself. * Following the procession carrying Liu's body, everyone leaves except Turandot and the prince. He demands that she look on the innocent blood shed for her sake (Principessa di gelo). Haughtily, she warns him not to touch her, but he embraces her passionately and kisses her. She confesses that of all her suitors he was the first she feared, and it is he who has drawn her first tears (Del primo pian to ). Now that he has won, she begs him to leave without demanding more. He makes her a gift of his life: His name is Calaf, son of Timur. She too has won, he says, as she summons him before the emperor and the populace. Scene 2. Outside the Imperial palace, Turandot brings Calaf in triumph. For a moment it appears she might announce his name and demand his death. Instead she says his name is Love. The crowd hails love as the light of the world. - Courtesy of Opera News

*"Here end s the opera . terminated by th e death of the Maestro (Pu ccini)." said conductor Arturo Toseanini to the La Scala audience at th e world premi ere in 1926.

~ /Jfter completing La Boheme, Tasca and Madama VI Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini set out to compose what is now deemed his most magnificent opera, Turandot.

In composing the score for Turandot, Puccini chose to write an opera different from all he had written before, an opera that would represent his greatest masterpiece, combining the heroic, the lyrical-sentimental, the comic-grotesque and the exotic. Puccini expended his efforts to reach near perfection in harmony, orchestration and choral writing.

In November of 1924 Puccini died of throat cancer, leaving the two remaining scenes of the opera unfinished. As per Puccini's request to take care of his "beloved princess," conductor Arturo Toscanini decided to have the opera completed.

After great consideration, Toscanini entrusted Italian composer Franco Alfano to complete the last two scenes. Alfano, whose early success included Tolstoy's Resurrezione, possessed a style very similar to that of Puccini's. Additionally, Alfano had experimented with a percussively Oriental instrumentation comparable to that of the finished portion of Puccini's Turandot. Alfano completed the score based on sketches left behind by Puccini.

When the long awaited Turandot premiered in Milan on April 25, 1926, Toscanini abruptly stopped at the place where Puccini's original opera ended and simply said, "At this point the master laid down his pen." In subsequent performances, however, Toscanini performed the opera with the final scenes composed by Alfano.

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ACT I J() inderella's story begins in the living room of her home. Her thoughts turn to her l/ family ... her father, whom she loves, her two stepsisters, Grizalda and Anastasia, who are always unkind, and the domineering stepmother who makes Cinderella's life quite difficult. As the stepsisters embroider they begin to quarrel over the material and tear the cloth in two. An invitation to the Royal Ball arrives from the Prince. Meanwhile Cinderella toils with her broom while her father looks on helplessly. The family leaves the living room. Alone, Cinderella uses her broom as a partner and imagines it is a handsome prince. Her father, who has watched her from the background, startles her from her reverie. Cinderella takes out a silhouette of her real mother. The two of them are temporarily transported by memories of her mother's beauty. Snatching the invitation from Cinderella, the stepmother and ugly stepsisters are in an uproar over what to wear to the ball. The father is ordered to the village to fetch the needed craftspeople for the transformation of the family. Unexpectedly, darkness descends and an old hag appears, begging food and kindnes s. She is rejected by all but Cinderella, who goes to her trunk and gives the old hag her mother's dancing slippers. The gift is gratefully accepted and the stranger disappears up the chimney in a puff of smoke. Soon the town merchants arrive: a dressmaker and helpers, a wigmaker and hairdresser, a tailor, jeweler, the dance master and his accompanist. Cinderella's natural dancing ability only makes her ugly stepsisters seem more awkward. When her stepmother orders a halt to her dance the dancing master angrily departs. As the rest of the family files upstairs for final fittings, Cinderella is once more left alone in the living room. The old hag reappears, transformed into a beautiful fairy godmother. With a wave of her wand she changes the rustic living room into an enchanted evening filled with dancing stars. The four seasons are beckoned to dance and bestow their gifts. Spring brings the glass slippers created from old shoes given to the hag; Fall , an orange pumpkin; Summer, a gossamer cape; Winter, a shimmering crown. The Guardians of Midnight warn Cinderella that she must leave the ball before midnight or the magic will be reversed. The stars and seasons dance a waltz while Cinderella is transformed into a radiant beauty. She enters her pumpkin-turned-coach drawn by two white mice-turned unicorns, and is rushed off to the dancing and gaiety of the Royal Ball.

Copyright 2010, Michigan18 Opera Theatre ACT II Vhe Royal Ball is in progress. The stepsisters arrive and C7 are asked to dance by two fortune-hunting suitors. The court jester arrives to entertain. The Prince is announced, dashes into the ballroom, greets his quests and assumes the throne. Soon the stars, seasons, and fairy godmother appear to herald the arrival of Cinderella. She enters, astounding the Prince with her beauty. During a waltz with the stars and seasons Cinderella dances for the Prince and he pledges his love by dancing for her. The guests leave the ballroom and Cinderella finds herself alone with the Prince. The hour grows late, the party returns to the ballroom and, as Cinderella and the Prince watch from the balcony, the clock begins to strike midnight. Cinderella remembers what her fairy godmother told her, but it is too late. On the stroke of twelve the fairy godmother appears and changes Cinderella back into her rags. Cinderella rushes from the ballroom, losing a glass slipper which the jester discovers and gives to the Prince.

ACT III Uhe Prince searches everywhere for the owner of the t:J slipper. The next morning finds Cinderella back in her living room, asleep by the fireplace and dreaming of the Royal Ball and her handsome Prince. The stepsisters enter the kitchen looking worn and complaining of sore feet. A family fight ensues, interrupted by villagers spreading the news of the Prince's search for the beautiful owner of the glass slipper. The Prince arrives and orders the women of the house to tryon the glass slipper. Cinderella finds the matching slipper in her trunk and is told by her father to show it to the Prince. When she presents the slipper to the Prince he asks her to become his Princess. The fairy godmother appears and once more transforms the living room. This time it becomes a beautiful sunset. The Prince and Cinderella enter their enchanted coach, which takes them to their kingdom, where they live happily ever after. - Courtesy of San Francisco Ballet

""" ;/fichigan Opera Theatre is pleased to be V,I/ the recipient of proceeds from the original art exhibit "Once Upon a Time .... Happily Ever After", at the Galleria Officentre. Detroit area artists have donated original works of art on the fantasy theme of the event's title, and those works are on display and for sale from April 8 - May 7 at the Galleria Officentre in Southfield. For further information, please call the MOT volunteer office, (313) 874-7850.

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PRELUDE .r'>.Patan, also known as Mephistopheles, is awakened by a stream of light which guides his l!J attention to the study of the aged scientist/philosopher, Dr. Faust. The demon understands the purpose of his vision and, with the help of his Shades, prepares to walk in the human world disguised as someone from the 1830s. Faust, living in medieval times, will consider Satan a man from the future, and find him philosophically and scientifically interesting, challenging to comprehend. ACT I Scene 1, Dr. Faust's Study. Dr. Faust has attempted to solve the mysteries of the world and life. Early one morning, despairing and emotionally isolated, he decides to die and prepares to take poison. His resolve is interrupted when he recalls the innocence of young peasants in their daily routine. He envies them and curses God for making him old and devoid of feeling, unable to change his empty existence. In his desperation, Faust calls upon Satan for help. Mephistopheles obligingly appears and offers Faust money, glory and power in exchange for his soul. Faust, however, demands youth and all of the joys he missed while buried in his studies. Satan agrees to this request and, when Faust has second thoughts, he conjures a vision of a beautiful, untouched girl, Marguerite. Faust weakens and signs his soul away, whereupon he is transformed into a young man. They leave medieval times and jump forward into the 1830s. Scene 2, The Kermesse. Townspeople, soldiers and students are celebrating the god Bacchus and the abundant grape harvest. Valentin , a young soldier leaving immediately for war, is having a final drunken outing with some of his fellow soldiers and Siebel and Wagner, two students friends. For protection at the front , he carries a religious medal given to him by his sister, Marguerite. What starts as a mocking song by a drunken soldier, ends as an earnest plea by a young man about to face possible death . While all get back into a festive drinking mood, Mephistopheles and Faust appear. Mephistopheles pays homage to the pagan Golden Calf which all applaud. Then he begins to tell fortunes , predicting people 's woes, one of which includes the name of Marguerite. Valentin is irritated that the stranger speaks of his sister in such a light. Mephistopheles responds by predicting Valentin's death.

Vcying to make peace, Wagner offers Mephistopheles a cup of wine. The devil c7 proclaims the wine unacceptable and gestures to a crude statue of Bacchus. When wine magically pours from it, the crowd is both excited and frightened . Mephistopheles offers to toast Marguerite. Valentin, suspicious of the garish stranger, considers the toast an insult and draws his sword. The power of evil breaks the sword in half. Valentin and his comrades use their sword hilts to make crosses and subdue the frightening demons. Faust and Mephistopheles seem suspended in time. Faust wants to know when he will meet the innocent girl from his vision . No sooner has he asked than the crowd becomes active again and Marguerite appears. Faust stops her and offers to escort her home. She modestly declines and Mephistopheles urges Faust to pursue her. The festival continues at a frenetic pace as the struggle for Faust's conscience begins between Mephistopheles and the unknowing Marguerite. ACT II Marguerite's Garden. Siebel, quietly in love with Marguerite, steals into the garden and gathers flowers intended for her. As predicted earlier by Mephistopheles, each flower withers and dies at his touch. He blesses himself from a stream which surrounds the sanctified ground on which Marguerite lives. The spell is broken. Faust and Mephistopheles arrive and watch Siebel leave his flowers for Marguerite. The devil retires to conjure a gift for Faust to give to the young girl. Faust reflects on the perfection and purity of the place where his ideal love lives. Mephistopheles returns with a case of brightly colored jewels and fabrics which is to be Faust's offering to Marguerite, gifts one might use to appeal to the sensorial/sensual side of a child. They both hide as she enters. Copyright 2010, Michigan21 Opera Theatre """ ;/Jarguerite sings the ballad of the King of ThUle. The ballad .V,tI brings to mind the handsome stranger who offered to walk her home. She discovers Siebel 's flowers and the next moment comes upon the gems and materials. Unable to resist touching items she has never experienced before, she discovers a mirror and begins to study herself. Her first sin : vanity. Mephistopheles' manipulation of Marguerite begins. Marguerite's busybody neighbor, Marthe, catches her and scolds the girl for this vanity. Mephistopheles, wishing to stop the intrusion, interrupts and informs Marthe of her husband's death. Their conversation allows Faust to approach Marguerite. The devil whisks Marthe away and the two young people sing of their new love. Marguerite attempts to leave, but her attraction to Faust causes her to remain. Touched by her innocence and purity, Faust bids Marguerite goodnight. Mephistopheles mocks Faust's gentlemanly attitude. Soon, Marguerite can be heard indoors, murmuring dreamily of her desire for Faust. Faust breaks into her room, and he and Marguerite consummate their passion. Mephistopheles, alone, delights in his brilliance at furthering Marguerite's demise.

ACT III Scene 1, Marguerite's House. Pregnant and ostracized by friends and villagers, Marguerite wonders why Faust has not returned. As she recalls their time together, the fragile state of her mind becomes evident. Mephistopheles and runs Valentin through. Before he dies, however, Scene 2, A Church. Marguerite prays for help and forgiveness. Valentin curses his sister for bringing disgrace to them. Mephistopheles plays on her inner fears and accuses her of sin . She tries Scene 5, Marguerite's Prison Cell. Continuing her downward spiral, to join fellow worshippers in prayer, but her voice is overwhelmed by the totally abandoned and losing touch with reality, Marguerite has drowned Devil 's. Satan an'nounces that she is a lost soul before the gates of Hell. her baby and, consequently, has been sentenced to death. Faust enters Scene 3, A Field Outside o/Town. Local militiamen return from the with Mephistopheles and begs her to escape with them. But Marguerite war, exhausted, some wounded. Among them is Valentin. He spies slips in and out of reality. When she finally sees the devil , she regains her Siebel in the crowd which has assembled to welcome them home. mind. She repulses both Faust and his mentor and begs Heaven to accept Scene 4, A Village Street. Faust has returned to the village, her soul. Faust pleads with her to join them and Mephistopheles urges concerned for Marguerite. As always, Mephistopheles is by his side. The Faust to forget her. Marguerite is on the brink of death, and devil is more sardonic than ever. He sings an insulting ode, aimed at Mephistopheles proclaims that she is damned. But a celestial choir Marguerite which Valentin overhears. Angry and humiliated, Valentin announces the dawning of Easter. At the moment of death, Marguerite's engages Faust in a duel. However, Faust's sword is guided by sins are forgiven and her soul is reborn.

for Marguerite. When we encounter Marguerite in the second act, there Notes from is a blue strip of light representing a stream, consecrated by Marguerite's presence, which no one with impure thoughts can cross. When Siebel blesses himself with the waters, it immediately loses its sacred Ken Cazan properties. In a similar way, when Siebel, who has been cursed by Mephistopheles in the first act, attempts to gather flowers for Marguerite, p'oeth~ ' s Faust, Part One is not simply a prose play discussing the their once- colorful auras are lost at his touch. ~-' ancient concept of the battle between good and evil. It was A more fantastic element is seen in the costumes. Mephistopheles written by a sensitive young man on a journey of self-discovery is conceived in classical terms as a medieval satyr. Yet after hi s living in the Age of Enlightenment. The brilliance of the play is the transformation into more human form, he maintains one cloven hoof as a fantastic way in which it is written: it is episodic and floats through no reminder of his condemnation. specific chronological time. Marguerite is perceived as a pre-Raphaelite beauty, a cross between A surface view reveals a simple morality play. However, as we dig for the lushness of Rosetti and the innocent sensuality of Maxfield Parrish. the truth, we can easily recognize that Mephistopheles and Marguerite The chorus is seen as Faust wants to see them. Mephistopheles represent the struggle within Faust to come to terms with balancing two manipulates them to appeal to Faust's baser instincts, his just-awakening extremes in his personality - to remain an enlightened man with a spark sensual, sexual side. Marguerite creates a self--conscious quality among of idealism. What we witness in Gounod 's opera is the first part of the populace, emphasizing their inherent wickedness. Faust 's journey during which he does not come to any conclusions. On the one hand, the central characters themselves symbolize In this production, locations are suggested through symbols. A universal qualities found in mankind. On the other, we are attempting to large dragon swallowing its own tail, the alchemical sign of death and create real people in extraordinary circumstances. We have conjured for rebirth, hangs over Faust's study and later creates a more ominous prison you exciting theatre that is thought- provoking and challenging. Copyright 2010, Michigan22 Opera Theatre JOHN WILLETT As Goethe, Hofmannsthal and a host of other composers and librettists before, between and after them knew, the Faust legend and A Devil of a music were made for each other. The simplest explanation of why may be that when a man, for whatever reason, gets in league with the Lord of Evil, every aspect of life seems to intensify. The exotic becomes erotic; Faust the threatening becomes terrifying. The beautiful becomes exquisite; the unusual, totally mystifying. Words may fail at expressing these extremes The legend and its music were made for each other in and the emotions they can generate; words amplified by music can bridge Michigan Opera Theatre's season finale the chasm. "Faust, which, as Hofmannsthal puts it, 'postulates music at every step,' is therefore the archetypal opera." I (7he Devil, as the Commendatore, coming for Don Giovanni's soul J would be hokey without Mozart's transmogrifying music (1787). «ahann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), who wrote the drama Von Weber's Der Freischutz (1821) without a score simply will not work if to which all subsequent treatments of the Faust legend - musicai as dark Kaspar, in .league with the Devil, casts his magic bullets - guided and otherwise - are indebted, thought of music as "the mediator of the missiles of the day, symbols of ultimate power. ineffable." He believed his Faust had much in common with Don Times change and the legend becomes Hector Berlioz' The . Giovanni and The Magic Flute and wished Mozart had lived long enough Damnation of Faust (1828 - 46). Somewhere between a huge symphony to transform his monumental theatrical piece into opera. and an opera, it reflects the tenants of the early Romantic era. Faust is Twenty-seven years after the great poet the poet stumping about on the and dramatist's death, Charles Gounod would moors, detached, broody, fulfill Goethe's dream with the operatic melodramatic and bored. He masterpiece, Faust (1859), Michigan Opera barely notices Marguerite. Theatre's 1993/94 season finale. But neither Mephistopheles is naught but a Gounod nor Goethe were the first - or the last supplier of transportation and - to be fascinated by the idea of exchanging musical diversions. one's soul for something deeply desired. In Gounod's Faust (1859), How far back does this "Faust legend" based closely on Goethe's 1808 go? Well, what about the saga of Adam and Faust, Book I, the protagonist is Eve? When Adam agreed to taste the sick of knowledge and power. He forbidden fruit, wasn't he making a deal with wants youth and the love of a the Devil to exchange his soul for knowledge beautiful woman. As women and power? Remember, the apple was from enter the ring with the Prince of the Tree of Knowledge. Darkness, what was somewhat If that's too much of a stretch, come idealized desire in Gounod's Faust forward to the Middle Ages when records first becomes sexual obsession. Senta appear of a legend about a certain Faust who trades her soul for her weird sailor sold his soul to the Devil for - you guessed it in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman knowledge and power! By then, the story had (1841). Renata spends five acts of already become theatre; it played untold incredible music inflamed and thousands of times as a puppet show at maddened by her infernal lover in medieval fairs and markets. The legend, in Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery tum, may well have stemmed from the plays Angel (1923). Demonic .,::" presented on the steps of churches and 'u possession and hysterical desire &: cathedrals to teach Bible stories and Christian '" are everything in Krzysztof 15- morality to an illiterate populace. There was a o Penderecki's The Devils of real Dr. Johann Faust, circa 1480 - 1538, a ~ Loudon (1969). c.. German magician, alchemist and astrologer. And there's more: Eine Faust in its medieval form had been around for a while by then, though; Faust- Symphonie (1957) by Franz Liszt; Mephistopheles (1867) by Westem civilization was already well into the Renaissance. Arrigo Boito; the final ascent of Faust's soul to heaven at the conclusion The Tragical History of Dr. Faust (1588) by Christopher Marlowe, of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony (1907); Doktor Faust (1924) by Shakespeare's contemporary, was one of the first real attempts to Ferruccio Busoni. translate the Faust legend into theatre as we know it. The entertainment And we haven't even mentioned what the movies with their words, element of Faust had been evident from the earliest telling of the tale - music and, now, spectacular special effects have made of the old tale. similarly, its moral teaching capabilities. With Marlowe - and definitely Nor can we but affirm that Faust, the opera, has been set in virtually 220 years later (1808) when Book I of Goethe's Faust appeared - the every era from the Middle Ages to our own times - discover the latest legend is transformed into a powerful vehicle for the expression of interpretation when the curtain rises at the Masonic Temple on May 14! changing human philosophies and values. And, as the years have - John Willett is the music critic for San Diego Magazine continued to roll by, Faust has come to reflect widely varying theatrical I Peter Conrad: A Song of Love and Death : The Meaning of Opera. Hugo von Hofmannsthal production concepts. ( 1874 ~ 1929). superlative German poet and librettist for Richard Strauss' most famous operas. Copyright 2010, Michigan23 Opera Theatre 1 I e Acton Catherine Peter Blanchet Batcheller Tenor (Canada) Principal Dancer (Maine) MOT Debut MOT Credits Chorus Master/Assistant MOT Debut 1994 Spring Season Music Director since 1981 Pang, Turandot 1994 Spring Season 1994 Spring Season Cinderella, Fairy Godmother, Chorus Master, Turandot and Cinderella Faust New York City Opera, I Pagliacci, From the House of the Dead, Conductor, Michigan Opera Theatre, The Barber of Seville, The Doktor Faustus, The Mother of Three Sons (world premiere), A Music Man, Mikado, The Pirates ofPenzance; Dayton Opera, West Little Night Music, Carmen, Street Scene, La Fanciulla del West; Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Pirates of penzance; Coach, Opera Lyric Opera of Chicago, Susannah; Canadian Opera Compan y, Der Theatre of St. Louis, San Diego Opera; Visiting Assistant Professor Rosenkavalier, Boris Godunov, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Tales of of Music, Oakland University Hoffmann, Wozzeck; Hawaii Opera Theatre, I Pagliacci, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Turandot; Dallas Opera, The Merry Widow; The Tales of Hoffmann; Calgary Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro

Gabor Andrasy Dennis Bergevin Ken Cazan Bass (Romania) Jeffrey Frank Stage Director (Ohio) MOT Debut Co-Directors, Elsen MOT Debut Associates (New York) 1994 Spring Season MOT Credits 1994 Spring Season Mephistopheles, Faust Resident Hair and Make-Up Production, Faust Designers, since 1988 1994 Spring Season Resident Hair and Make-Up Seattle Opera, Don Carlo, The Ring, Die Meistersinger, Fidelio, Don Designers Seattle Opera, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, The Giovanni; Paris, Opera de Nice, Die Meistersinger; Houston Grand Magic Flute; Canadian Opera Company, Werther, Suor A'lYelica; Opera, Die Meistersinger; Carnegie Hall, Beethoven Ninth Opera Pacific, Miami Opera, Faust; Boston Lyric Opera, Carmen; Symphony; Theatre de Geneva, Katya Kabanova; Flanders Opera, New York Shakespeare Festival; Radio City Music Hall; Washington Austin Lyric Opera, Die Entfilhrung aus dem Serail; Santa Fe Macbeth; Washington Opera, The Tsar's Bride, Turandot, Tiefland; Opera; Opera Pacific; Philadelphia Opera; Greater Miami Opera; Opera, Intermezzo, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute; Opera The Netherlands Opera, Samson et Dalila, La Wally; Strasbourg, Dallas Opera; Pittsburgh Opera; Spoleto Festival, USA, Italy, Theatre of St. Louis, II Turco in Italia J{hovanschina, Boris Godunov Australia; Edinburgh Festival; Merchant of Venice, Broadway; PBS and HBO

Zack Brown Evelyn Cisneros I Baritone (North Carolina) Designer (Hawaii) Principal Dancer (California) MOT Credits MOT Credits MOT Debut Schaunard, La Boheme 1993 Costume Designer, La Harlequin, Ariadne auf Naxos, Boheme and The Merry 1994 Spring Season 1991 Widow, 1993 Title role, Cinderella 1993 Spring Season Costume Designer, Turandot

San Francisco Ballet, Principal Dancer, Helgi Tomasson's Swan New York City Opera, Marilyn, Madama Butterfly, Regina, La Metropolitan Opera, Rigoletto; Washington Opera resident designer, Boheme, I Pagliacci, Turandot and Die Fledermaus; Edmonton Turandot, The Daughter of the Regiment, Otello, Der Fliegende Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Menuetto, Guiliani: Variations On A Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos; Pittsburgh Symphony, Allantida; Holliinder, Les Contes D'Hoffmann, Manon, The Magic Flute, Theme, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hearts, Stravinsky Piano Minnesota Opera, The Aspem Papers; Opera Company of Boston at Werther, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Boheme, The Rake's Progress; Pieces, Brahms/Haydn Variation, PBS telecast, title role of Bolshoi Opera, The Balcony; Pittsburgh Opera, The Threepenny Spoleto Festival, Porgy and Bess, The Saint ofBleeker Street, Cinderella, The Tempest, A Song for Dead Warriors, Romeo and Opera; Banff Summer Festival, The Rape of Lucretia; PBS "Live Anthony and Cleopatra; NYC Opera, La Traviata; San Francisco Juliet, Live from the White House; Detroit Symphony Orchestra, From Lincoln Center"; Opera Pacific, Turandot; Opera Theatre of Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Gioconda Nutcracker st. Louis, Die Fledermaus Copyright 2010, Michigan24 Opera Theatre \ I Candace de Lattre Terese Fedea Donald c. Mezzo-Contralto (Michigan) Mezzo-soprano (Michigan) Hartmann MOT Credits MOT Credits Bass-baritone (Michigan) Mama McCourt, The Ballad of Peep-Bo, The Mikado, 1992 Baby Doe, 1988 Second Lady, The Magic MOT Debut Flute, 1991 1994 Spring Season Echo, Ariadne, 1991 1994 Spring Season Marthe, Faust 1994 Spring Season Wagner, Faust Siebel, Faust Mandarin, Turandot Arizona Opera, Pacific Northwest Wagner Festival, Kalamazoo Lyric Opera (Chicago) Center, The Song ofMajnun , La Tragedie de Madama Butterfly; Opera Delaware: Aida, La Traviata; St. Matthew Opera, Dayton Opera and Chamber Opera of Chicago, The Ballad of Carmen, The Spanish Hour, Don Giovanni; Chatelet in Paris, PaSSIOn, Verdi ReqUiem, Beethoven s Nmth Sy,(,phony, MeSSiah; Baby Doe, Die Walkiire, 11 Trittico; Spoleto Festival, USA; Yeats France, three concerts; Lyric Opera of Chicago, Elektra, McTeague; Stadttheater Rege nsbur~ , Toledo Opera, Opera.Lenawee, Theatre Festival; Petite Messe Sollenelle, Beethoven's Ninth Santa Fe Opera, La Traviata; Dayton Opera, Mikado; Chautauqua Greensboro Opera, Virginia Opera Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, Verdi's Requiem, soloist; Japan Institute, Dido and Aeneas; Young Artist Apprentice, Michigan Philharmonic, Grosse Pointe Symphony, Rochester Symphony Opera Theatre; Sarasota Opera, La Boheme and COS! fan Tutte

Leslie Dunner Cristina Constance Conductor (New York) Gallardo-Domas Hoffman MOT Credits Soprano (Chile) Costume Designer (New York) Conductor, The Sleeping Beauty, 1993 MOT Debut 19M Spring Season 1994 Spring Season Conductor, Cinderella Costume Designer, Faust

Associate Conductor, Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Music Director, Silver medalist, 1992 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels, La Mama E.T.C., East Coast Artist's Faust Gastronome; Ohio Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, Dearborn Symphony Orchestra; Belgium; National Symphony Orchestra of Belgium, Symphony Theatre, the Arden Party Company's Antigone; Saratoga Performing Music Advisor, Harlem Festival Orchestra; Principal Conductor, Orchestra de I:Monnaie, soloist; Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Arts Center, L' Histoire du Soldat; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival , Dance Theatre of Harlem; Guest Conductor, Chicago Symphony Madama Butterfly; Opera Company of Philadelphia, Connecticut Macbeth, Measure for Measure; Shapiro and Smith Dance, Almost a Orchestra, National Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Louisville Grand Opera, La Boheme; Spoleto Festival , Italy, Suor Angelica; Tango, Rhapsody, Square Dance, (with Welsh National Dance Co.) Orchestr~, New York City Ballet, Opera Ebony, San Diego New Israeli Opera, Faust; upcoming, Vienna Staatsoper Never Enough; Maggi o Musicale (Florence, Italy), Die Zauberfldte Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ohio Chamber Orchestra

Craig Estep Brenda Harris lacoh Lascu Tenor (North Carolina) Soprano (New York) Director/Choreographer (Michigan) MOT Debut MOT Debut MOT Credits 1994 Spring Season 1994 Spring Season Director/Choreographer, Pong, Turandot Marguerite, Faust Sleeping Beauty, Samson et Dalila, King Roger, Aida 1994 Spring Season Cinderella

San Francisco Opera, L'elisir d'amore, Falstafr, War and Peace, New York City Opera, Moses und Aron; New York Oratorio Society, 20th Anniversary Season, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Nutcracker; Boris Godunov, Attila, Turandot, The Daughter of the Regiment, Das Carmina Burana, Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Missa Solemnis; Principal Dancer, Ballet Master and Choreographer of the verratene Meer; Washington Opera, The Daughter of the Regiment, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Le Nozze di Figaro; Opera Pacific, Fort Rumanian National Ensembles Rapsodia Romana and Ciocirlia; Otello, Don Pasquale; San Francisco Symphony, Bach Magnificat; Worth Opera, Faust; Washington Opera, Agrippina, Don Giovanni; Rumanian Opera, Ballet Master and Assistant Choreographer; Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Carmina Burana; Vancouver Spoleto Festival, Die Meistersinger; Lake George, Don Giovanni, Choreographer, Coppelia, Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Symphony, Mitridate, Re di Ponto; PBS "Live From Lincoln Center," Der Rosenkavalier; Minnesota Opera, Giulio Cesare Paganini, Swan /.Ake, Eccentric; Ballet Master, Dance Detroit, Rossini Gala Concert; Cologne Opera, II ritomo d'Ulisse in patria Lascu School of Ballet, Marygrove College. Copyright 2010, Michigan25 Opera Theatre Yefim Maizel Martha Sheil Soprano (Virginia) Stage Director (New York) MOT Debut MOT Debut 1994 Spring Season 1994 Spring Season 1994 Spring Season Turandot Title role, Turandot Stage Director, Faust

San Francisco Opera, Pique Dame; Opera Pacific, Faust; Portland New York City Opera, Principal Guest Conductor; Frankfurt Opera, New York City Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, La Opera, Eugene Onegin; Santa Fe Opera, Don Giovanni; New York Principal Guest Conductor; Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Music Clemenza di Tito, The Merry Wives of Windsor; Lyric Opera of Director; Guest Conductor, National Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City, Tosca; Stadttheater Lucerne, Hawaii Opera, Un Ballo State Theatre, Boris Godunov; New York Opera Forum, Fidelio; Connecticut Grand Opera, Portland Opera, Canadian Opera, in Maschera; Austin Lyric Opera, Aida; Buffalo Opera, Hawaii Tallinn Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte; Kirov, The Nursery; Moscow Cincinnati Opera, Philadelphia Opera, Manitoba Opera, Edmonton Opera, Cleveland Opera and Syracuse Opera; Turandot; Minnesota Chamber Opera, The Marriage, Imeneo; Bolshoi Opera, Boris Opera, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Pittsburgh Opera, Calgary Opera, Opera, The Aspem Papers; Atlanta Opera, Cosi fan tulle; Iowa City New Orleans Opera Bach Festival , St, Johns Festival; University of Michigan School of Music, Professor John McLain Vladimir Popov Victor Shost Lighting Designer Tenor, (Russia) (Connecticut) MOT Credits MOT Debut MOT Credits Samson, Samson et Dalila, American operatic debut Porgy and Bess, 1987; 1992 La Boheme, 1993 1994 Spring Season Cinderella

National Tours, The Wiz, Porgy and Bess, Ken Hill's Phantom Metropolitan Opera, Eugene Onegin, Aida, Fanciulla del West, Bolshoi Theatre, Rusalka, The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of of the Opera, Ice Capades; Bally's in Las Vegas; Paris, Lido; Carmen, Turandot; Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera de la Figaro, Concert of Young Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre; Perm Resident Lighting Designer, The Washington Opera, Spoleto Bastille, Pique Dame; Houston Grand Opera, Samson et Delila; Theatre, Lucia di Lammermoor; Charkov Theatre; Crystal Festival, Amersterdam Opera House; Kennedy Center, Mass, Pagliacci, Fedora, II Tabarro, La Gioconda Cathedral, Nixon Library, concert engagements; Winner, Amahl and the Night Visitors; Cleveland Opera, Holy Blood International Competition of Chaliapin; Prince Igor, Crescent Moon; Portland Opera, Boston Opera, Houston Grand Khovanshchina, Boris Godunov Opera, Connecticut Opera

Stephen Ross mi Elizabeth Lighting Designer (Missouri) 'th MOT Credits Don Giovanni, 1990 MOT Credits 1994 Spring Season Aida, The Sleeping Beauty, Faust 1993 1994 Spring Season Fai ry Godmother, Cinderella

Opera Columbus, Rigoletto, II Trovatore; Spoleto Festival, Italy, Broadway, Toronto, Shenandoah; Opera Pacific, Faust, The Pearl Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Nutcracker; Monroe Ballet Tosca; New York City Opera, Madama Butterfly; Greater Miami Fishers; Lyric Opera of Chicago, Boston Lyric Opera, Dallas Opera, Company, Graduation Ball, Nutcracker, Pas de Quatre, Cinderella; Opera, Cristoforo Colombo, Tosca; Shreveport Opera, Turandot; Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Michigan Classical Ballet Company, Giselle; School of Pennsylvania Carnegie Hall, concert; Merkin Hall, Enrico Caruso International New Orleans Opera, Miami Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Ballet, Houston Ballet Academy, School of American Ballet, Central Voice Competition; Baton Rouge Opera, Tosca; Des Moines Montreal Opera, Edmonton Opera; Canada, Cabaret, Guys and Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Symphony, Cavalferia Rusticana; Opera Theatre of St Louis; Dolls, Toad ofToad Hall, Fantasticks, Dames at Sea, Damn Yankees NYCO concert tour Copyright 2010, Michigan26 Opera Theatre Kendall Smith Roman Terleckyj Joseph Wolverton Lighting Designer (Michigan) Director (Michigan) Tenor (Illinois)

MOT Credits ~IOT Credits MOT Debut Lighting Consultant since Ariadne auf Naxos, 1991; 1989; The Barber of Seville, Carmen, 1989; La Boheme, 1994 Spring Season The Merry Widow, 1993 1988 Title role, Faust 1994 Spring Season 1994 Spring Season Turandot Turandot

Opera Pacific, Tosca; Dayton Opera, Madama Butterfly; Malibu Washington Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, La Cenerentola, Manon, Metropolitan Opera, Dayton Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte; Syracuse Opera, American Stage Fest ival, Jesus Christ Superstar; MOT, Madama Semele, Christopher Columbus; Opera Pacific, Lucia di The Tales Of Hoffmann; Toledo Opera, La Traviata; Palm Beach Butterfly, Ariadne auf Naxos, Candide, Mikado; Pioneer Theat re, Lammermoor; Rome Opera, Birthday of the Infanta; Berlin Opera, Opera Gianni Schicchi, Madama Butterfly; Winnipeg Opera, A Penny for a Song; Attic Theatre, Teibele and Her Demon Suor Angelica, The Marriage of Figaro, Tasca, La Boheme; Spoleto Daughter of the Regiment; Houston Grand Opera, Lucia di Festival, Italy, Th e Rakes Progress, Premio Abb lati for Direction; Lammermoor; Chicago Opera Center for Ame ri can Artists, Gianni Upcoming: Bath and Essex Opera, Belfast Opera, Don Giovanni; Schicchi; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Otello; Indianapolis Th e Washington Opera, The Marriage of Figaro, Semele, Tiefland Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Paul Steinberg Ealynn VOSS Sheryl Woods Set Designer (New York) Soprano (Pennsylvania) Soprano (New York)

MOT Credits ~IOT Credits MOT Debut Faust, 1977 Mother, Hansel & Cretel, 1989 1994 Spring Season 1994 Spring Season Marguerite, Faust Faust

San Francisco Opera, I Vespri Sicillani, Das Veratene Meer; Chicago San Francisco Opera, Australian Opera, Opera Pacific, Greater New York City Opera, La Traviata, Rigoletto, The Merry Wives of Symphony, MozartJDa Ponte cycle; Tel Aviv Opera, Cavalleria Miami Opera, New York City Opera, Baltimore Opera, Arizona Windsor; Washington Opera, The Impresario, Don Giovanni; Santa Rusticana, I PagliaCC/~' Opera-Comique, Don Procopio, Dr. Miracle, Opera, Ital y, Arena di Verona Japan tour, Turandot; Los Angeles Fe Opera, Orpheus in the Underworld, Die Fledermaus; CBS Djamileh; Seattle Opera, Don Giovanni; New York City Opera, Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos; Baltimore Opera, Don Carlo; Seattle recording, Satyagraha; Koch recording, The Ballad of Baby Doe; Count Dry; Washington Opera, I Capuletti e I Montecchi; Welsh Opera, Aida; Pacific Symphony, Salome; Winnipeg Opera Un Balla Dallas Ope ra, The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe; Chicago Opera National Opera, Turandot; Opera Zuld, Holland, LEtoile; Geneva In Maschera; Pasadena Symphony, Verdi Requiem Theatre, Romeo et Juliette; Central City Opera, Don Pasquale; Ope ra, Lohengrin Connecticut Grand Opera, Carmen

Willie Anthony Jianyi Zhang Waters Tenor (Shanghai) Conductor (Florida) MOT Credits Rodolfo, La Boheme, 1993 MOT Credits Il Trovatore, 1979, Rigoletto, 1994 Spring Season 1980, Faust, 1983, Aida, 1993 Title role, Faust 1994 Spring Season Prince, Cinderella 1994 Spring Season Faust Stuttgart Ballet, Principal Dancer, Eugene Onegin, Romeo and Opera de Paris~Bastille , Faust, Carmen, Padmavati; Teatro Juliet, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Medea, Artistic Director, Greater Miami Opera, Cristofer Colombo, Salome, Communale di Firenze, Ital y, Rigolello; New York City Opera. La Wien, Wien, Nu r Du Allein, Bejar!'s The Magic Flute, No More Plan, Die Walkiire, Bianca e Falliero, Trouble in Tahiti, Aida, Of Mice and Boheme; Washington Opera, The Pearl Fishers; Connecticut Opera, Men, Falstaff; DSO, Cologne Opera, Australian Opera, San Diego LElisir dAmore; Greater Miami Opera, Faust; Opera Pac ific, La Stepping Stones, Firebird; Guest Artist, European ballet companies Boheme; Opera de Lyon, Opera de Nice, Opera Comique de Paris, Opera, Connecticut Opera, San Francisco Opera; Spoleto Festival, The Chate let Music Th eat re of Paris USA, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 27 ,,-, ;{Jichigan Opera Theatre's Young Artists Apprentice Program is now in its 15th year ~11 CHI C;\ \' 0 PER A THE.\ T RE V'1i of training aspiring young vocal artists and production apprentices for the rigors of the professional theatre world. Young Artists This fall, talented young singers recruited from across the country will take up residence with Michigan Opera Theatre for multiple-week sessions of masterclasses with Apprentice the conductors, directors and singers from current productions; private coachings with MOT's professional music staff preparing their assigned comprimario roles for the season's Program productions; and many rehearsals and performances, designed to assist them in making the transition from student to professional. Additionally during the 1993-94 season, the company will also train and utilize production apprentices in the areas of stage management, stage direction and costuming. Young Artists Since its inception, Michigan Opera Theatre has been committed to the development of young American talent, and regards with pride those who have gone on to establish careers Apprentice Program in the field. Many singers as well as several company production and artistic staff have Awards returned to MOT in full professional capacities after apprenticeships with the company. Furthermore, the list of now prominent artists who made their debuts or had early starts The Joyce H. Cohn Apprentice with MOT is impressive; Carmen Balthrop, Kathleen Battle, Rockwell Blake, Richard Award Fund Charles Edwin Spencer 1993-94 Cowen, Maria Ewing, Terese Fedea, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Rebecca Luker, Catherine Malfitano, Leona Mitchell, David Parsons, Kathleen Segar, Neil Schicoff and Victoria DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Vergara, among others. Apprentice Award For further information on auditions and application requirements for the Apprentice Tracey Plester 1993-94 Program, please dial the MOT Production Office at (313) 874-7850.

Oboe Percussion Ursula Davis David Reilly *Rebecca Hammond *John F. Dorsey Michaella Dionne Julie Rose Principal Principal Sarah Dornblaser Kenneth R. Shepherd *Ann Augustin Maria Flurry Alvis-Wayne Duncan Robert Louis Stevens Vanessa Ferriole John S. Steward ~11 CHI C A\,O PER.~ THE.H R E Robin Johnson Cary Kocher Dan Maslanka Louise A. Fisher Judi th Szefi Clarinet Ron Strinad Yvonne M. Friday Jim Talpos Orchestra *Brian Bowman Dave Taylor Christopher Garvey Dean Unick Principal Mitchell Gillett Grack Ward *Jane Carl Harp Holly Graham James R. We lls and Chorus Steve Millen *Patricia Terry-Ross Monique Grotloh r Jim Wilking Kenen White Principal Rosalin Contrera Ernest D. Willoughby Craig Ryding Guastella Virginia "Ginni" Keyboard Michael Hammonds Winters Bassoon Steven Gathman Jeanine Head Ammaria Ylizaliturri *Kirkland D. Ferris Donald Jackson Eugene Zweig Principal Diane Bredesen Clarence E. Jones Scott Armstrong Personel Manager Rita Jury The American Guild of Orchestra Viola Jeff Lyman Thomas J. Kabala Musical Artists is the *Jessica Nance *=Member, Michigan Opera Harvey W. Krage official union of the Violin I Principal Horn Theatre Orchestra Michigan Opera Theatre *Susan Mutter Detroit Federation of Robert W. Ligaj vocal performers. *Charlotte Merkerson Janine Dennis Jeff Krueger Concertmaster Barbara Zmich Principal Musicians, Local #5, *Carrie Banfield American Federation of Ray Litt *Theodore Schwartz Charlet Givens Musicians David Llewellyn *Randolph Margitza Linda Tolias Breda Anderson Steve Mumford Robin Lounsbury Childre n's *Ve lda Kelly Tracey Riggs Barry J. McDonald *Kathleen Brauer Trumpet Chorus Erin McFall Chorus Janet Olis Violoncello Cynthia Merritt Charles Roth *Nadine Deleury *Brian Rood Principal Ida Arlene Abbington Kim Millard Brooke Andres Kathryn Stepulla Principal Lisa Aggazi James Mackey Moore Nora Bonner Sharon Reum *D iane Bredesen *Gordon Simmons Lindsay -Calhoun Carolyn Bybee Barbara Becker Robert L. Morency James Kujawski *Minka Christoff Veronica Bell Anthony Noto Amanda Clampitt Kathy Ferris John Iatzko Darin Kelly Jenny Florkowski Paul Willington Hattie Black Nancy A. Oeswein Cecilia Bohorquez- Jennifer L. Oliver Sarah Habitz Violin II Trombone Courtois Wesley Oliver Michael Jackson *Victoria Haltom Contrabass *Maury Okun *Derek Weller Kevin Lee Branshaw Moira O'Brien Andrew Keenan-Bolger Principal Principal Celia Keenan-Bolger Principal *G reg Near Martin Britsch Peggy O'Shaughnessey *Brooke Hoplamazian K. Wayne Brooks Jan R. Phillips Maggie Keenan-Bolger *Anna Weller *Peter Guild Paul Eachus Gregg Powell Gregory L. Bryant Patricia Pierobin David Langham *Angelina Carcone Kristen Bryant Mary Anne Pilette Ariadne Lie Mary Richards Tuba Eric Moss Flute Fritz Kaenzig Cheryl Bubar David Podulka Ruth Whetstone *Pamela Hill Fred Buchalter Joseph Anthony Danny Oravec Lorraine Perlman Principal Adam Carey Pokorski Christine Price Constance Markwick Timpani Annie Ramsey *Laura Larson *Gregory White Patrick Jay Clampitt Matthew Pozdol Wendy Hohmeyer Mary Margaret Clennon Alahundro Reese Copyright 2010, Michigan28 Opera Theatre ".11d poetry iJ the harmony of woriJd~

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ~ Afot only does Michigan Opera Theatre perform its mainstage season in Detroit, it V, champions the company name throughout Michigan all year through the Department of Community Programs, currently celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. Founded in 1978, MOT's award-winning Department is nationally known for its innovative and comprehensive programming. Offering entertainment and education for all ages, the Department provides approximately 300 services a year and reaches almost 100,000 people throughout Michigan with full and one-act operas and operettas, musical revues and age-appropriate school performances and classes. Full operas and operettas are part of the Opera-in-Residence format with professional MOT Community Program Artists residing on location, giving school programs during the weekdays with full-length performances on weekends featuring MOT artists and a community chorus. Mini-residencies for your community can also be created by combining any of our season's offerings.

The 1993-94 Season: Celebrating American Composers

('7his year, the Department of Community Programs features (7 five works by contemporary American composers. Michigan Opera Theatre is proud to be, according to the national service organization OPERA America, the only opera company in the U.S. to present this broad and comprehensive a repertory of contemporary music. Through the presentation and commissioning of such important American works, the Department is fulfilling its mission to foster future consumers and creators of opera. You can celebrate American composers with us by donating a children's opera to an elementary school or by booking one for your club, home or business.

For Children My House is Too Small- Maia Aprahamian. One of the nation's foremost women composers and a proponent of the "Create An Opera" concept, Aprahamian was commissioned by the San Francisco Opera Guild to create this opera offering children an opportunity to contribute words, music and artwork. Based on a European folk tale. Elementary school children from the Flint Community The Tiger of Chungshan - Nicholas Scarim. Based on a Schools enjoy an after-performance workshop with Diane Chinese folk tale, Tiger was commissioned by Downtown Music Alexander who played the widow, Anna Glawari, in the MOT Productions in New York City. student matinee of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, November 17, 1993 at the Fisher Theatre. A student matinee The Night Harry Stopped Smoking - Dabrusin and Davies. for the ballet, Cinderella is scheduled for Friday, May 6 at Harry is an anti-smoking musical, in which Harry takes a trip to the Masonic Temple. Call Dolores Tobis at (313) 874-7894 his lungs and, with the help of two cells, Fred and Ginger, learns for group tickets and workshop information. the harm he causes his body by smoking. Michigan performances of Harry are sponsored in part by the American Lung Association of Southeast Michigan. Cheering Up a Princess - Richard Berent and Douglass Braverman. Community Programs commissioned Princess in 1990 to teach children the joys of reading and libraries. Copyright 2010, Michigan30 Opera Theatre For Teens to Adults La Pizza con Funghi (The Pizza with Mushrooms) - Seymour Barab. This award- winning operatic spoof is back by popular demand to delight high school students and adults, opera lovers and opera novices. From Broadway to Hollywood. A revue of musical favorites that were either written for or converted to the silver screen. Workshops "Create An Opera" has been a departmental program since 1978. Department founder and director, Karen VanderKloot DiChiera, teaches the program to students throughout Michigan and the country. This season "Create An Opera" was enjoyed by the Flint Community Schools.

UOr information on all activities of the Department and for bookings, contact U Community Program Sales Manager, Dolores Tobis at (313) 874-7894.

"Time Out For Opera" Reaches Cable Television Audiences ~ ;/fjchigan Opera Theatre enthusiast and area television personality, Dr. Jonathan Swift, V'II conceived of and hosts a television series on Bloomfield Community Television (BCTV, Channel II) entitled "Time Out For Opera". Consisting of performances by and interviews with opera performers who live locally, perform nationally and often internationally, and have appeared with Michigan Opera Theatre, the programs are co- hosted by Director of Community Programs Karen Vanderkloot DiChiera, who also helped produce the programs. A thing ofbMUP The nine week series will air several times throughout 1994. Artists include sopranos Maria Cimarelli, Mary Callaghan Lynch, Dina Kessler, Glenda ~ a joy forever. Kirkland; mezzo-soprano Barbara Youngerman; tenors Karl Schmidt and George Shirley; baritones Lance Ashmore and Mark Vondrak; basses Ara Berberian and James Patterson; and accompanists Kevin Bylsma and David Wilson. Station Manager of BCTV, Nadine Maynard, is Executive Producer, and Tim Pamplin is MOT ... J Director/Producer. Program Sponsors are Evola Music, Frames Unlimited, Huntington Bank and Texel Land Company, Inc. Video tapes of the series are available for purchase from BCTV; and your car after phone (810) 646--6230. Detailing Treatment at Ziebart TidyCar.

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre "'"" 4§ichigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges its generous corporate, foundation V'~ and individual donors whose contributions were made between July I, 1992 and June 30, 1993. Their generosity plays an integral part in the Company's financial stability, necessary for producing quality grand opera, musical theatre and classical ballet. In addition to enjoying outstanding entertainment on the stage, MOT contributors are offered a number of benefits which allow them to observe the many phases of opera production, meet the artists and experience other "behind the scenes" opportunities. For more information on becoming involved in these exclusive and exciting donor benefits and services, contact the Development Department (3 13) 874-7850.

Donors Contributors Simpson Industries Inc. $1,000- $2,499 $500-$999 TRW Fastener Division Takata, Inc . Corporate 3M / Detroit Sales Center A.G. Simpson Company Ltd. The Budd Company ABB Paint Finishing Adamo Demolition, Signal Benefactors Time Inc. Arbor Drugs, Inc. A Divi sion of Mich. Constru cti on Towers, Perrin, et al. $50 ,000 and above BASFCorp. Arvin North American Automoti ve Trico Products Corporation Ameritech Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Atl as Tool, Inc. Trinova Corporation, Aeroq ui p Division Chrysler Corporati on CME- KHBB Adve rtising Becker Ma nu fac turing, Inc. Ford Motor Company U.S. Manufacturing Corporation Chrysler & Pl ymouth Dealers Adverti sing CBS Television Network U.S. News and Wo rld Report General Mot?rs Corporation Coopers & Lybrand CIG NA Special Ri sk Facilities Westwood One Companies Dura Mechani cal Components, Inc. Casey Communicati ons Management, Inc. Woodbridge Sales & Engineering, Inc. Major Benefactors Durr Ind ustries, Inc . Central Transport Inc . ZF Industries, Inc. $25 ,000- $49,999 Eagle Pac kag ing Corp. City Management Corporati on Ziebart International Corp. 'AN R Pipeline Co. Eaton Corp. Cold Heading Company Hudson's Department Store Co. Electro - Wire Products, Inc. Consolidated Rail Corporation Kmart Co rporati on Ernst and Young Crain Communications Inc. Supporters Findl ay Industries, Inc. D'Arcy, Mas ius, Benton & Bowles $100- $499 Benefactors Gencorp Automoti ve Delta Dental Fund A & E Communicati ons Corporation $15 ,000- $24 ,999 General Electric Company Detroit Center Tool, Inc. A P Parts Manu facturi ng Co. Cadillac Motor Car/General Motors Corp. General Tire/Detroit Automoti ve Sales Discovery Networks A. G. De Lorenzo Associates, Inc. Comeri ca, Inc. 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Tower Corporation 1992 Opera Ball Silent Auction. However, we R.L. Polk & Company are deeply grateful for the outstanding . Radar Industries Inc . support we received from the over 100 Ritter-Smith Inc. individuals and corporations that donated Rogind/Parker Inc. items for the Auction. Rosati Associates P.c. S & H Fabricating & Engineering Inc. ~ SKF Automotive Business Unit ::E Siegel-Robert Inc. Foundation & ~ Smith, Hinchman & Gryll s Associates Inc. ~ Sparton Engineered Products, Inc. Governmen t t Sports Impact ~ Stu Evans Lincoln-Mercury Support ~ Superior Industries International, Inc. Charles M. Campbell Company Jorgenson Ford Superior Plastic Inc. Government Clayton - de Windt Associates, Inc. Joscelyn & Treat, P.c. Sur-Flo Plastics & Engineering Inc. 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Knight Foundation Detroit Monitor Lason Systems Inc. Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc. Matilda R. Wilson Fund Dold, Spath and McKelvie Law, Weathers and Richardson Turner Construction, Co. McGregor Fund Dominion Tool & Die Co. Inc. Leo Burnett Company, Inc . Union Carbide Corp. Englehart Sales Service M.S./. Warren Stamping Valeo Engine Cooling - Auto. Division Fellows Exotic Metals , Inc. MMI Inc. Vandeveer Garzia, P.c. $10 ,000-$14,999 Fabex Inc. MTD Products Inc. Webasto Sunroofs Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Federal Screw Works Maddin, Hauser, Wartell & Roth Weir Manuel Synder & Ranke James & Lynelle Holden Fund First American Title Insurance Company Madias Brothers Inc. Weldmation Inc . The Samuel L. Westerman Foundation Flavin Associates, Inc. Maintenance Services, Inc. William Kessler & Assoc. Inc. David M. Whitney Fund Forberg Scientific Inc. Mattar Financial Corp. Wineman Investment Company Frank B. Hall & Co. of Michigan Mayne- McKenny Sustainers Frank 's Nursery & Crafts Inc. McGraw - Hill , Inc. (Business Week) 1993 Opera Ball $5,000-$9,999 Fritz Enterprises Mead Data Central, Incorporated In Kind Donors Hudson-Webber Foundation GKN Automotive Inc. Michigan Disposal Inc. American Airlines GTE Products Corporation Michigan Group Realtors Brian Killian & Company Donors GZA GeoEnvironmental , Inc . Milwaukee Investment Company Chrysler Corporation $1,000-$2,499 Computer Decisions International, Inc Geauga Company Motor City Ford Truck, Inc. Drusilla Farwell Foundation Four Bears Water Park General Dynamics Land Systems Multifastener Corporation Young Woman 's Home Association George Williams Interiors, Ltd. NGK - Locke, Incorporated Hiram Walker Grant - Durban, Inc. NGK Spark Plugs (USA), Inc. Kmart Corporation Contributors Grunwell-Cashero Company Inc. National Bank of Royal Oak Mandell Display Design $500-$999 H & L Tool Co. Inc. National Lumber Company MOT Production Staff Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation Harman Automotive Inc. Newcor, Inc. Ross Roy Communications The Clarence and Jack Himmel Foundation Hartle & Heth , Inc. Newland Medical Associates, P.c. Saks Fifth Avenue Meyer and Anna Prentis Family Fdtn . Inc. Hawthorne Metal Products Neyer, Tiseo & Hindo Ltd. Health Enrichment Center, Inc. Nippondenso Sales Inc. 1993 Opera Ball Hines Park Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. Nissan Trading Live Auction Donors Hofley Manufacturing Company Norfolk Southern Corp.lFoundation Mrs Maggie Allesee Huntington Banks of Michigan North Brothers Ford, Inc. American Airlines Beginning with the 1993-94 season, Evola Music has graciously agreed to Huron, Inc. Ogihara America Corporation Mr & Mrs Donald Bortz provide and service Baldwin pianos for Indian Head Industries Inc. Olsonite Corp. Chrysler Corporation Michigan Opera Theatre's rehearsal and peiformance needs. We are grateful to Industrial Experimental & Manufacturing PPG Industries Foundation Neiman- Marcus Ben Evola and his associates for their International Jensen Inc. Pangborn Design , LTD Franco Moretti enthusiastic cooperation, and look forward to greatly enhanced musical satisfaction Jernberg Industries Paulstra CRC Corporation Frank Stella with the addition of these pianos to the Jidosha Kiki Co. LTD Perry Drug Stores, Inc. The Somerset Collection opera company's anistic process. John E. Green Co. Petersen Publishing Company Mr and Mrs David Weinberg John V. Carr and Son, Inc. Plastech Engineered Products Mr. and Mrs Robert Wendzel Copyright 2010, Michigan35 Opera Theatre Mr. Richard A. Sonenklar Dr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Schultz Dr. & Mrs. Nathaniel Holloway Impresario Circle Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hurst $10,000 and above Mr. & Mrs . James 1. Trebilcott Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Shaler Miss H. Barbara Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. 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• Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre within. Then, behind the wheel tern and dual air bags~* you'll be FORD TAURUS you'll notice that the driver able to concentrate on a world AMERICA'S oriented instrumentation and class driving experience. articulated bucket seats are Isn't it time to awaken the BEST-SELLING CAR. designed so your attention stays performance driver within? Ford AGAIN.* on the road. Taurus SHOo Your commute Skip the coffee. There's no better EYE-OPENING PERFORMANCE. will never be the same. * Based on 1993 CY manufacturer's reported retail deliveries. way to begin the day than with This 220-horsepower eye """ Always wear you r safety belt. a serious dose of Taurus SHOo opener will turn your commute Right there in your garage is a into the ideal way to enjoy speed 24-valve caffeine-free wake-up sensitive variable-assist steering call. But the SHO's stimulating and the newly refined four-wheel HAVE YOU DRIVEN qualities are not limited to its sport-tuned suspension. And since A FORD LATELY? performance alone. the power of SHO's 24-valve SHO's sleek good looks are a DOHC engine is balanced by a subtle hint at the power that lies standard anti-lock braking sys- Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre - CINDEREI.I.A SYNOPSIS Act I. Cinderella's thoughts tum to her family ... her father, whom she loves, her two stepsisters, Lueretia and Anastasia, who are always unkind, and the domineering stepmother who makes Cinderella's life difficult. As the stepsisters embroider they begin to quarrel over the material and tear the cloth. An invitation to the Royal Ball arrives from the Prince. Meanwhile Cinderella toils with her broom while her father looks on helplessly. The family leaves the living room. Alone, Cinderella uses her broom as a partner and imagines it is a handsome prince. Her father, who has watched her; from the background, startles her from her reverie. Cinderella takes out a silhouette of her real mother. The two of them are temporarily transported by memories of her mother's beauty. Snatching the invitation from Cinderella, the stepmother and stepsisters are in an uproar over what to wear to the ball. The father is ordered to the village to fetch the needed craftspeople for the transformation of the family. Unexpectedly, darkness descends and an old hag appears, begging food and kindness. She is rejected by all but Cinderella, who goes to her trunk and gives the old hag her mother's dancing slippers. The gift is gratefully accepted and the stranger disappears up the chimney in a puff of smoke. Soon the town merchants arrive: a dressmaker and helpers, a wigmaker and hairdresser, a tailor, jeweler, the dance master and his accompanist. Cinderella's natural dancing ability only makes her stepsisters seem more awkward. When her stepmother orders a halt to her dance the dancing master angrily departs. As the rest of the family files upstairs for final fittings, Cinderella is once more left alone in the living room. The old hag reappears, transformed into a beautiful fairy godmother. With a wave of her wand she changes the rustic living room into an enchanted evening filled with dancing stars. The four seasons are beckoned to dance and bestow their gifts. Spring brings the glass slippers created from old sh~s given to the hag; Fall, an orange pumpkin; Summer, a gossamer cape; Winter, a shimmering crown. The Guardians of Midnight warn Cinderella that she must leave the ball before midnight or the magic will be reversed. The stars and seasons dance a waltz while Cinderella is transformed into a radiant beauty. ~he enters her pumpkin-turned-coach drawn by two white mice-turned-unicorns, and is rushed off to the dancing and gaiety of the Roy;,!l Ball.

Act II. The Royal Ball is in progress. The stepsisters arrive and are asked to dance by two fortune-hunting suitors. The court jester arrives to entertain. The Prince is announced, dashes into the ballroom, greets his guests and assumes the throne. Soon the stars, seasons, and fairy godmother appear to herald the arrival of Cinderella. She enters, astounding the Prince with her beauty. During a waltz with the stars and seasons Cinderella dances for the Prince and he pledges his love by dancing for her. The guests leave the ballroom and Cinderella finds herself alone with the Prince. The hour grows late, the party returns to the ballroom and, as Cinderella and the Prince watch from the balcony, the clock begins to strike midnight. Cinderella remembers what her fairy godmother told her, but it is too late. On he stroke of twelve the fairy godmother appears and changes Cinderella back into her rags. Cinderella rushes from the ballroom, losing a glass slipper.

Act m. The Prince searches everywhere for the owner of the slipper. The next morning finds Cinderella back in her living room. The stepsisters enter the kitchen looking worn and complaining of sore feet. A family fight ensues, interrupted by villagers spreading the news of the Prince's search for the beautiful owner of the glass slipper. The Prince arrives and orders the women of the house to try on the glass slipper. Cinderella finds the matching slipper in her trunk and is told by her father to show it to the Prince. When she presents the slipper to the Prince he asks her to become his Princess. The fairy godmother appears and once more transforms the living room. The P£ince and Cinderella enter their enchanted coach, which takes them to their kingdom, where they live happily ever after.

Directed and Choreographed by Iacob Lascu Conducted by Leslie B. Dunner

CAST

Cinderella: EVELYN CISNEROS (S/6e and 7e) CATIIERINE BATCHELLER (S/6m, 7m and 8m) Prince: WOLFGANG STOLLWITZER Fatry Godmotber: CATIIERINE BATCHELLER (S/6e and 7e) AMI EUZABETH SMITH (S/6m, 7m and 8m)

Spring Fatry: TIFFANY E. KMET Summer Fatry: . KIRSTEN BLOOM Autumn Fatry: LAURA MOORE Wtnter Fatry: MEREDITII DINCOLO

Anastasia: CAROLE COTTER Grizalda: MOIRA DORSEY

Jester: GREG ZANE

. Prince:S- Compantons: ROBERT S. BtITAY DMITRI KOROBEINIKOV Ctnderella:S- Stepmotber: MARGO COHEN Ctnderella~ Fatber: DON J. MAZZOLA

Court Ladtes: JENNI BROWN DANIELLE CAP JENNIFER CURRY MARCELLA FIGUEROA DEBORAH KAUFMAN CHRISTINA KOSMAS ELOISA NARVAEZ AMYTOTII

Court Gentlemen: EDGARBADUA PATRICK SINFUEGO BADUA JOSEPH RODGERS ALEJANDRO CURTIS ANDREW DROST DMITRY MIKHEYEMKO KEITII SCHEAFFER JAMES WASHINGTON

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Star Fatries: ANDREA BUSSELL STEPHANIE BUSSELL LINDSAY CARTER MOLUE CASEY MElANIE DERRO MEGAN FUQUA EUZABETII LOVE ERIN MOORE KAmERINE NASON MIRIAM NOBLE GABRIELLE ROBERTS ROBYN SACKEYFIO VALRIE SANDERS MARGARET WALL EVEUNA WANG ERICA WETTER

DancemaSter. ANDREW DROST Corsettere: PATRICK SINFUEGO BADUA Dressmaker; EDGARBADUA jeweler: DMITRY MIKHEYEMKO

Ttmekeepers: Pages: MARTA CASTAING ERIN KIPPE NATALIA DREUCHMAN JULIE SHULMAN ERIN EAGEN EMILY ZAMBRICKI SARAH HABITZ MARIE LASCU AMANDA ]EsSE MEGAN JORDAN JENNIFER KACZMAREK MARYAUNK CAITIJN MUNDTII MARY PAVLOCK KELLEY PETERS UESLRINKE Supernumeraries MessengerNtoitntsllUntcorn: CLYDE BLAKES Asststants: STEPHEN GALL JODI GERMAIN MELVIN JONES LYNN VECSERNYES PATIY CERESNIE

Understudies Prince. Keith Scheaffer Spring Fatry. Eloisa Navaez, Ami Toth Summer. Christina Kosmas Autumn: Jenni Brown Winter: Jennifer Curry jester: Edgar Badua Ballet Mistress: USA PEUO Accompanists: DAVID WILSON JOYCE PENNINGTON

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following sponsors of the ''C.~rella ~r a W.I..,.J" contest Hudson's The Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn WQRS-FM 105 and the additional support of Northville Diamond Jewelers Continental Limousine Gallery Animato Woven Treasures

Michiaan Opera Theatre would like to thank the man~ volunteers and businesses that have provided support for this production throuah their contributions to the Friends of the Ballet Jami~ ~tb,.afion c:func~Otl.

Special thanks the to the luncheon committee. chaired b~ Marlene Habitz and Frances Kaxzmarek.

friends of the Ballet is a member of the Michigan Opera Theatre Uolunteer Association

DanGers from Southeastern Michigan performing in this production . of Clnderellaare members of the following companies, studios, and dance schools:

Birmingham Dance Academy Brighton City Ballet Bunny Sanford Studio (Livonia) Center for Creative Studies Dance Detroit Festival Dancers Lascu School of Ballet Lena Pelio School of Dance (Flint) Madame Cadillac Dancers Marygrove College Metropolitan Ballet Theatre Miss Carole--'s Dance School of Ballet (Farmington)

SUPERTITLES for this production of Faust are owned by San Francisco Opera SUPERTITLES translation by Paul Moor

Michigan Opera Theatre wishes to thank Evola Music for providing the organ for this production of Faust

Danielle DeFauw is the French language advisor to the Chorus

SUPERNUMERARIES

Demons Empire: Kimerica Ottogalli Renaissance: Wendy Shapero Renaissance: Mark Kessler Bishop: Gregory Patterson Fright: Chris Pearce Drag: Eddie Sugannan

Madonna: Bonnie Voss

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First Lady: Rosalin Contrera Guastella Second Lady: Vanessa Ferriole Voice of the Prince of Persia: Kim Millard

Supernumeraries

Prince of Persia: Don Shane* (4/23) Thomas Jacobs (4/27, 30 and 5/1) Executioner: Denean Williams

Carolina Andrakovich Ron Morris Don Andres Julie Moylan Mark Boynton Sandra Pettway Krishna Cobb Enrique Reiners Joe Comainni Michael Sanders Helene Dopierala Allen Sendler Fred Florkowski Rich Shannon Jody PIorkowski Denise Smith Gerard Gaskey Alan Sorscher Ricca Gonzalez Jan Stano Tony Grant Rose Marie Stolk Ira Harris Art Taitt Paul Horn Richard Valente Luke Huber Jim Walsh Darrell Ison Alfred Wilson Richard Jeryan Courtney Yeager Tom Kinunel Bob Yost James Moore .. -Don Shane appears courtesy of WXYZ-1V 7.

MASONIC TEMPLE THEATRE

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DETROIT MASONIC TEMPLE

The Masons of Detroit welcome you to their home. As you enjoy the show, you will see just a small portion of this vast building, one of the best kept architectural treasures in the city of Detroit. The Masonic Temple has over 1,037 rooms. If you have dinner with us, during MISS SAIGON, or go downstairs during this show for a drink in the Fountain Ball Room, you will see a few of our dining facilities. Allow us to whet your appetite and explain how you might enjoy the other areas of this historic facility.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre The Detroit ,Masonic Temple has a romantic chapel (shown above), and dining rooms for both your wedding ceremony and the reception. The wedding chapel offers gothic charm, a pipe organ, seating for 300, and a wonderful setting for pictures. The chapel's parlor will impress your guests as they gather just prior to the ceremony.

After the wedding, the wedding party and the guests ri.de the elevators to the magnificently renovated Crystal Ballroom. No need for your guests to drive around town for hours looking for the reception hall. Having the reception in the same building as the ceremony will also increase the number of people who attend both events.

On the first floor is the 1550 seat Scottish Rite Cathedral, which is rented for high school and college graduations, corporate board meetings, plays, and musical programs. Other events held in the Cathedral include union meetings, memorial services, chur-Eh services, television award shows, and civic activities.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre The Crystal Ballroom, having been recently renovated, is one of the most beautiful and magnificent ball rooms in the state of Michigan. One has to see it to enjoy the beauty of this ballroom.

Bowmans Catering, named best caterer by Detroit Monthly Magazine, will prepare a dinner equal to the splendor of the ballroom.

The Crystal Ballroom is perfectly suited for any elegant dinner you are planning. Retirement parties, award dinners, ceremonial dinners, and wedding anniversaries are just a few events we have hosted.

Enjoy ballroom dancing or square dancing? Both our ball rooms have hardwood floors throughout, not the little portable dance floors most modern ballrooms offer. The Crystal Ballroom will accommodate 550 guests and the Fountain Ballroom will accommodate over 1,000 guests.

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DETROIT MASONIC TEMPLE

With additional support by the ON POINTE CLUB

$1.000 - The Producer's Circle

Mr. Eric Cohen Mr. Jeffrey Cohen Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson Dr. Marvin Klein, Kate and David Klein

$500 - The Choreographer's Ensemble

Mr. Ross Ainley Mr. and Mrs. Donald Benyas Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Celani Mr. and Mrs. David Goldburg Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Knechtel Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pollack Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Ursu

$250 - The Pas De Deux

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Binkow Mr. and Mrs. Francois Castaing Mr. and Mrs. Max Dubrinsky Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forbes Mr. Stanley Frankel Mrs. Bernice Gershenson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Grand Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hill Mr. and Mrs. Larry Nemer Mr. and Mrs. Milford Nemer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pollack The Ritz Carlton Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Sackeyfio Mrs. Ann Woolf Mr. and Mrs. George York, Jr.

Contributions

Dr. and Mrs. Elroy Woolf

In cooperation with the Michigan Opera Theatre Volunteer Association Friends of the Ballet.

The May 8th performance is supported in part by a grant from Target Stores.