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Summer Cover Hr.Pdf 1 8/17/16 4:22 PM triangles_w_borders_OC_summer_cover_hr.pdf 1 8/17/16 4:22 PM OPERAVOLUME 57 NUMBER 01 | SUMMER 2016 CUES 16 | 17 Launching in September 2016 at British International School of Houston The Juilliard-Nord Anglia Performing Arts Programme. To learn more about our innovative performing arts curriculum developed by The Juilliard School in collaboration with Nord Anglia Education, our new campus opening in August 2016 in Katy, or to attend an information session visit www.bishouston.org or call 713 290 9025. Now accepting applications for students from Pre-Kindergarten through High School. BISH Juilliard School Full Page Ad.indd 2 3/16/16 9:50 PM > SEASON PREVIEW 2016 | 17 . PATRICK SUMMERS PERRYN LEECH mmerung Artistic & Music Director Managing Director ä Margaret Alkek Williams Chair tterd ö G A scene from A scene from Photo by Tato Baeza/Palau de les Arts Photo by Tato Opera Cues is published by Houston Grand Opera Association; all rights reserved. Opera Cues is produced by Houston Grand Opera’s Communications Department, Judith Kurnick, director. Director of Publications Laura Chandler Art Direction / Production Pattima Singhalaka Contributors Kelly Finn Paul Hopper Perryn Leech Brian Speck Jim Townsend For information on all Houston Grand Opera productions and events, or for a complimentary season brochure, please call the Customer Care Center at 713-228-OPERA (6737). Houston Grand Opera is a member of OPERA America, Inc., and the Theater District Association, Inc. FIND HGO ONLINE: HGO.org facebook.com / houstongrandopera twitter.com / hougrandopera instagram.com/hougrandopera Luscious Silks. Rich Colors. Always Elegant in NINA. Nina McLemore Boutique 1965 West Gray · Houston · 713.993.6662 New York, Aspen, Vail, Chevy Chase, MD, Atlanta, Palm Desert, Seattle, Scottsdale, San Francisco, Birmingham, MI, Cleveland, Chestertown, MD www.ninamclemore.com HELPING NAVIGATE YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE For more than 40 years, clients have trusted us to find the right course. We offer a personalized solution to fit each client’s unique situation and needs. ARE MY INVESTMENTS APPROPRIATELY STRUCTURED? HOW DO I EFFICIENTLY TRANSFER WEALTH TO MY HEIRS? HOW DO I MAXIMIZE THE BENEFIT OF MY CHARITABLE GIFTS? www.linscomb-williams.com 713.840.1000 1400 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1000, Houston, TX 77056 CONTENTS FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 20 ONE OF A KIND 6 A message from HGO mourns the Patrick Summers and passing of Rudy Perryn Leech Avelar—and prepares Cover design by to honor his life. 12 Production Funders Pattima Singhalaka. YOUR GUIDE TO THE This page: A scene 25 14 News & Notes from Nixon in China, 2016–17 SEASON Canadian Opera Context, casting, and Company. Photo by 52 HGO Studio Michael Cooper. more on the entire season’s repertoire! 54 HGOco 40 MAGIC MOMENTS HGOco creates 56 Spotlight musical enchantment all season long. 57 Special Events 44 GUIDING LIGHT 60 Impresarios Circle Composer Laura Kaminsky discusses 64 HGO Donors her HGOco commission Some 76 Calendar Light Emerges. 47 UNSUNG HEROES: 78 Your HGO The unusual journey of Molly Dill. SM © 2016 United Airlines, Inc. All rights reserved. © 2016 United Airlines, Inc. All rights reserved. Proud to be the Official Airline of Houston Grand Opera. from the ARTISTIC & MUSIC DIRECTOR A MESSAGE and the MANAGING DIRECTOR Welcome back from your summer travels—and into HGO’s rapidly approaching 2016–17 season. Every season is unique in some way, and one important distinction in 2016–17 is that we are presenting three works by distinguished living American composers: It’s a Wonderful Life, Nixon in China, and Some Light Emerges. Th e world premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life continues our series of holiday operas in the Cullen Th eater. While just as heartwarming as the fi lm and the short story that inspired it, it is much more than a musical version of the movie and is perfect family entertainment. John Adams and Alice Goodman’s Nixon in China returns to our stage this winter Patrick Summers for its 30th anniversary: this HGO commission, which helped inaugurate the Wortham Th eater Center in 1987, is now one of the most frequently performed contemporary operas. Some Light Emerges, a new work commissioned by HGOco by composer Laura Kaminsky and librettists Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed, represents our ongoing commitment to collaborate and connect with the entire Houston community. It explores the creation of Houston’s Rothko Chapel as part of Dominique de Menil’s unique vision and the extraordinary eff ect this secular but spiritual space has had on many. Contemporary works are important to our company identity, but we are equally committed to favorite operas that have stood the test of time. Both of our fall operas fi t that description—Donizetti’s Th e Elixir of Love and Gounod’s Faust—and our spring operas include Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, which brings our fi rst-ever Perryn Leech production of Wagner’s entire Ring cycle to a cataclysmic end, and Mozart’s tenderly comic Th e Abduction from the Seraglio. We also present Verdi’s Requiem—a powerful, cathartic work for four soloists, orchestra, and an enormous chorus—which has been called an opera in disguise. It was the perfect piece to program alongside Nixon in China in the winter when Houston hosts Super Bowl LI. For a two-week period, all city-owned buildings, including the Wortham Th eater Center, will be called into service for the events surrounding the big game on February 5. We could not logistically present two fully staged operas in tandem, so we seized this opportunity to showcase our superb HGO Orchestra and Chorus. It is not to be missed! Find out more about everything this season has to off er in this 2016–17 preview issue of Opera Cues, and we look forward to seeing you this fall. Patrick Summers Perryn Leech Artistic and Music Director Managing Director Margaret Alkek Williams Chair 6 > SUMMER 2016 that offers epicurean inspired cuisine, enriching programs, luxurious apartment homes, individualized services and signature amenities. This distinctive lifestyle is centered around you and the life you deserve. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016 | 17 James W. Crownover Janet Langford Carrig Robert C. Hunter * Allyn Risley Development Committee Chairman of the Board Houston Grand Opera Endowment, Alfred W. Lasher III Inc., Chairman Vice Chair Lynn Wyatt Perryn Leech Vice Chairman of the Board Zane Carruth Glen A. Rosenbaum Claire Liu Jack A. Roth, M.D. John Mendelsohn, M.D. Anna Catalano Finance Committee Vice Chair Senior Chairman of the Board Marketing and Communications Mark R. Spradling Richard A. Lydecker Jr. Committee Chair General Counsel and Secretary; Beth Madison Finance Committee Chair Chairman Emeritus Albert Chao Audit Committee Vice Chair Frances Marzio Harlan C. Stai MEMBERS AT LARGE Donna P. Josey Chapman Studio and Training Committee Special Events Committee Richard E. Agee Chair Patrick Summers Vice Chair Robin Angly Brucie Moore Ignacio Torras N. A. (Neil) Chapman Development Committee Sara Morgan John G. Turner Vice Chair Mrs. Bobbie-Vee Cooney Terrylin G. Neale Margaret Alkek Williams John S. Arnoldy Albert O. Cornelison Jr. * Houston Grand Opera Endowment Frederica von Stade Marcia Backus Dan Domeracki Inc., Senior Chairman Honorary Director Philip A. Bahr David B. Duthu Franci Neely Samuel Ramey Governance Committee Chair Michelle Beale Ward Pennebaker Honorary Director Development Committee Chair Larry Faulkner Cynthia Petrello * Senior Director Astley Blair Benjamin Fink HGOco Committee Vice Chair Audit Committee Chair Dr. Ellen R. Gritz Gloria M. Portela Pat Breen Studio and Training Committee David Powell Vice Chair Finance Committee Vice Chair Houston Grand Opera ASSOCIATION CHAIRS 1955–58 1973–74 1987–89 2004–07 Elva Lobit Gray C. Wakefield John M. Seidl John S. Arnoldy 1958–60 1974–75 1989–91 2007–09 Stanley W. Shipnes Charles T. Bauer James L. Ketelsen Robert L. Cavnar 1960–62 1975–77 1991–93 2009 William W. Bland Maurice J. Aresty Constantine S. Nicandros Gloria M. Portela 1962–64 1977–79 1993–95 2009–11 Thomas D. Anderson Searcy Bracewell J. Landis Martin Glen A. Rosenbaum 1964–66 1979–81 1995–97 2011–13 Marshall F. Wells Robert Cizik Robert C. McNair Beth Madison 1966–68 1981–83 1997–99 2013–16 John H. Heinzerling Terrylin G. Neale Dennis R. Carlyle, M.D. John Mendelsohn, M.D. Susan H. Carlyle, M.D. 1968–70 1983–84 2016–present Lloyd P. Fadrique Barry Munitz 1999–2001 James W. Crownover Archie W. Dunham 1970–71 1984–85 Ben F. Love Jenard M. Gross 2001–03 Harry C. Pinson 1971–73 1985–87 Joe H. Foy Dr. Thomas D. Barrow 2003–04 James T. Hackett 8 > SUMMER 2016 TRUSTEES Samuel Abraham Catherine Crath Richard Husseini Maria Papadopolous Gary Adams Mary Davenport Joan B. Johnson Marion Roose Pullin ‡ Mrs. Anthony G. Aiuvalasit ‡ Joshua Davidson Carey Jordan Gary Reese Thomas Ajamie Darrin Davis Marianne Kah Todd Reppert Edward H. Andrews III Sasha Davis Stephen M. Kaufman Jill Risley Christos Angelides June Deadrick John Keville David Rowan Hon. Mary E. Bacon Tracy Dieterich Yolanda Knull Jean B. Rowley ‡ Denise Bush Bahr Gislar R. Donnenberg Claudia Kreisle Thomas Rushing C. Mark Baker David Dorenfeld Connie Kwan-Wong Nan Schissler ‡ Saúl Balagura, M.D. Connie Dyer Michele LaNoue Helen Shaffer Jonathan Baliff Brad Eastman The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee Denmon Sigler Dr. Barbara Lee Bass Barbara Eaves Marcheta Leighton-Beasley Hinda Simon Martin D. Beirne Warren A. Ellsworth IV, M.D. Dr. Mike Lemanski Janet Sims Judith A. Belanger Mark Evans David LePori Kristina Hornberger Somerville Linda Bertman Richard E. Evans Carolyn J. Levy C. Richard Stasney, M.D. Dr. Michael Bloome Dr. Mauro Ferrari Kevin Lipson Ishwaria Subbiah, M.D. Adrienne Bond Carol Sue Finkelstein ‡ Heide Loos Rhonda Sweeney Nana Booker Richard Flowers Gabriel Loperena Becca Cason Thrash Margaret Anne Boulware Patricia B.
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