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B | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 WELCOME In 1907, The New York Times announced, “Tomorrow night is coming to town a young person who has attracted an enormous amount of attention in foreign parts and who is expected to attract as much here… Great preparations have been made for her and her wiles are expected to be potent.” The arrival was Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Since its debut, this masterpiece has enthralled and delighted audiences around the world. And the widow herself, Hanna Glawari, has proved to be a woman of substance for generations. Life at the height of the gilded age, or La Belle Époque, aspired to be merry, lavish, and carefree. However, they were all dancing on the precipice of disaster: the Great War. We recognize it in the irresistible cast of characters who seduce, sway and swoon their way to true love or farewell. And we hear it in the unforgettable melodies of a Polish mazurka, the cancan, and, of course, the indelible “Merry Widow Waltz.”

Sandra Piques Eddy and Alex Richardson in “As we refl ect on our time on this venerable stage, we are Boston Lyric Opera's production of Werther. sincerely thankful to Joe Spaulding and his entire staff at T. CHARLES ERICKSON the Citi Performing Arts Center.SM We raise a toast to our memories here and salute our 18-year partnership.”

For BLO, this production marks an important milestone in our history. We stand PROGRAM on the cusp of our 4OTH Anniversary Season, making us the longest-running opera in Boston. And we bid our own farewell to the Shubert Theatre. CONTENTS As we refl ect on our time on this venerable stage, we are sincerely thankful to Joe Spaulding and his entire staff at the Citi Performing Arts Center.SM We raise a Welcome 1 toast to our memories here and salute our 18-year partnership. We will continue to About BLO 2 produce exceptional art and are immensely proud of the strong opera community that we, together, have built in the heart of Boston over the last four decades— Events Calendar/ nearly half of which were at the Shubert. Board of Directors 3 BLO’s commitment to being Boston’s hometown opera company continues, and A Few Words Regarding we are thrilled to welcome new productions and venue partners for the 4OTH The Merry Widow 4 Anniversary Season, as we blaze our very own tour de Boston and take on the feat 4O Days Of Opera 7 of four extraordinary productions on four iconic stages. Our choices for the 2016/17 Season marry our productions to the venues in which they will be performed BLO's Next Season: and refl ect not only our commitment to the popular works that we bring to the Tales of Two Cities 10 community but also the lesser known works. Cast & Synopsis 12 We look forward to celebrating the Season with you. Thank you for your ongoing Meet the Artists 14 support and for making opera possible. Production Staff & 19 Acknowledgments BLO Staff & Volunteers 20 Esther Nelson Michael J. Puzo Stanford Calderwood General Chair, Board of Directors Donors 25 & Artistic Director ABOUT BOSTON LYRIC OPERA Both locally and beyond, Boston Lyric Opera leads the way in celebrating the art of the voice through innovative programming and community engagement initiatives that redefi ne the opera-going experience.

Under the vibrant leadership of Stanford Calderwood BLO’s programming remains faithful to tradition General & Artistic Director Esther Nelson, BLO’s while blazing new ground, building audiences, and productions have been described by the magazine creating new ways to enhance the opera-going Musical America as “part of the national dialogue” experience. Our Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artists because of their role as entry points for new audiences. work to hone their craft, and prepare themselves for The New York Times observed that BLO “clearly other world-leading stages. BLO’s wide-reaching intends [its productions] to catch the interest of education initiatives introduce opera to new audiences operagoers around the country.” across generations.

This view is shared by the nearly 25,000 people Through your support and attendance, BLO employs who experience BLO each year through dynamic nearly 350 artists and creative professionals annually— performances, extensive partnerships with leading vocalists, artisans, stagehands, costumers, and scenic cultural organizations, like the Museum of Fine Arts, designers—many of whom are members of our own Boston and Boston Public Library, and programs community. The Company is proud to play a signifi cant throughout our vastly diverse and exuberant community. and meaningful role in Boston’s vibrant arts community.

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BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 | 3 Models of John Conklin’s set design for The Merry Widow. Right, costume sketch for the characters of Count Danilo, the Wives, and Camille de Rosillon by Gail Astrid Buckley, costume designer.

A FEW WORDS REGARDING othing is lost, no matter how antiquated, without rue. My dad, who was Viennese, used to say that the downbeat of a regular waltz was just thud while the downbeat of a Viennese waltz was “regret.” In his Nwonderful book A Nervous Splendor, Frederick Morton talks about a discernible unease at the core of the Viennese Waltz, refl ecting the unease of the culture that produced it. This prick of bittersweet melancholy that pervades the great score of The Merry Widow always made me think of the approaching end of a certain world. That thought led us to set this production much closer to 1914 and the outbreak of the Great War, which was, in eff ect, the actual end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The pomp and glamour of courtly balls and waltzes, of an entire civilization, were suddenly eclipsed by trench warfare, by mustard gas, by the loss of a generation of young men.

This production is a multi-language attempt to refl ect the principal countries involved in WWI. Cascada is Italian; St. Brioche is one of those Russians with French surnames; Camille and Valencienne are French; and Zeta, Bogdanovitsch, Pritschtisch, Kromow, and Njegus are Pontevedrian (i.e. “Balkan”). Danilo is Pontevedrian too, but with the cosmopolitan, European air of a fi n de siècle Viennese playboy who moves comfortably and with assured ease between various cultures and people. We have given depth and realism to Camille and Valencienne’s story, which too often barely exists in the libretto as a fl imsy excuse for the beautiful music they sing. This way we have two passionate love stories happening at the very moment when, in the famous words of British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, “the lamps are going out all over Europe.”

Hanna—and this is the most notable diff erence from the original libretto—is American, an ex-Ziegfeld girl who married a Balkan multimillionaire upon being regretfully jilted by Danilo, whose ties to the royal family in Pontevedro would have never allowed such a union. Why this change? To keep in mind that America joined the Great War and its responsibility in it, as well as for the whiff of fresh air Hanna brings with her, albeit not without a hint of rapacity and youthful ruthlessness, without which any happy ending would be inconceivable in this context.

4 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 THE MERRY WIDOW Everything comes at a cost. The 20th Century was wonderful, and it wasn’t. The Edwardian Age was wonderful, and it wasn’t. The Titanic sank without enough lifeboats for everybody, and Benjamin Guggenheim, Jack Astor and a couple of friends gave up their places in the boats to women and children, dressed up in white tie with their valets and went down with the ship smoking on the deck, or in the card room playing whist, because this is what a gentleman does. This is at the very core of Danilo’s diffi culty in marrying a very rich woman: one just…doesn’t. Hanna already has a foot in the shining and terrible new century. Without her by his side, Danilo might never make the crossing. All the merry young blades in this Merry Widow will be killed in WWI. Nevertheless: we hope to be light, witty and true to the gaiety that lit the last moments of the Belle Époque, as well as to the famous words from Joseph Conrad’s short story “Youth”: Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour—of youth!… A fl ick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh, and—good-bye!—Night!—Good-bye…! A toast to this greatest of all Viennese operetta scores and to the waltzes that my grandmothers hummed as they pinned white orchids to their hair, getting ready for The Ball. LILLIAN GROAG Stage Director, The Merry Widow

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HAPPY 4OTH ANNIVERSARY TO YOU! That’s right…our milestone 4OTH Season is a celebration not only for us, but also for the entire opera community of Boston—our fellow opera producers, large and small, all you loyal patrons and supporters, and the friends, neighbors, co-workers, and acquaintances we haven’t met—yet!

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BOSTON LYRIC OPERA’S NEXT SEASON BRINGS TALES OF TWO CITIES wo of the operas are set in Seville, two in London; Company of Boston bought it, and for the next dozen the music and the action will unfold in four years some of the most admired operatic productions Tvenues in downtown Boston, two of them new to of that era took place on its stage. BLO—and all within walking distance of each other. But Caldwell had also purchased 50 years' worth of The Season opens with Bizet’s Carmen in an already- deferred maintenance, and taking care of all the real iconic but still-explosive production by Calixto Bieito. estate issues (or not) was more than the company Over the last 15 years, the Catalan stage director has could sustain. The dilapidated and vandalized building become one of the most sought-after fi gures working ultimately passed into the hands of Clear Channel, which in opera. He is also, by far, the most controversial. First undertook a $38 million restoration and renovation. It seen in Barcelona in 1999, Bieito’s Carmen production now seats 2,677 and serves as the home of the Boston has been staged in nearly a dozen European cities, but Ballet and numerous touring Broadway productions. much of his operatic work has yet to be seen in America, except on DVD. Carmen is a co-production with the In November, BLO’s Opera Annex series brings San Francisco Opera—it opens there in May, and the belated but welcome New England premiere of September 23 through October 2, it takes over Boston. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s brilliant opera Greek, based Jennifer Johnson Cano will be the untamable Carmen, on the British playwright Steven Berkoff ’s response to with Roger Honeywell as Don José, currently singing Sophocles’ Oedipus The King. Berkoff shoved the story Count Danilo in The Merry Widow. into the raw and raunchy world of 1980s East London; Eddy—Oedipus—still murders his father and marries his BLO’s production will take place in the Opera House, mother, and the opera stays true to the anger, sex and the fi rst opera to be performed there in 25 years. The violence in Berkoff ’s X-rated text. gilded Washington Street venue opened in 1928 as a memorial to B. F. Keith, the presiding spirit of American BLO will perform Greek in the Emerson/Paramount vaudeville; it was intended to stand as the fl agship Center on Washington Street, another long-shuttered vaudeville theater in America, with a mirrored tunnel former movie palace. Originally built in 1930 in the Art leading directly into it from the Park Street subway Nouveau style, it closed in 1976 and stood silent and dark station. But the theater was built at precisely the wrong for 30 years until Emerson College bought it in 2005 and moment—the stock market crash and talking pictures then, over the next fi ve years, restored it as a splendid soon killed vaudeville, and the building became a 596-seat performance space (there are also a new movie theater. In 1979 Sarah Caldwell and the Opera screening room and black-box theater in the building).

10 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 JOHN HANCOCK HALL EMERSON/PARAMOUNT CENTER AT THE BACK BAY EVENTS CENTER

The performances take place November 16–20, and the down the road to destruction. He dies, mad, at the end, New York-based Sam Helfrich, whose adventurous work in the arms of Anne Trulove, who never gave up on him. has been seen here at Boston Baroque, Opera Boston, London in the 18th century is as garish and dangerous as and BLO (Britten’s The Turn of the Screw), will direct. the London of the 1980s in Greek. The British baritone Marcus Farnsworth, the composer’s The fi nal venue is the recently spruced-up 1,100-seat preferred interpreter of Eddy to date, returns to the role. John Hancock Hall at the Back Bay Events Center With Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, BLO returns to on Berkeley Street. Built in 1947, it has been used for the Cutler/Majestic Theatre, its home for 11 seasons concerts, recitals, lectures, panels, meetings, trade shows, between 1989 and 1998 (the performances are March dance events, and Celebrity Series of Boston attractions. 12–19). Built in 1903, the handsome Beaux-Arts theater It has even been used for operas, often introductory has off ered opera, spoken plays, musicals, vaudeville performances for children; but BLO’s performances and, for decades as the Saxon Theater, movies. It had of The Marriage of Figaro will be its fi rst major opera fallen into deplorable condition long before Emerson performances in decades. College bought it in 1983 and began a 20-year process The fi nal opera of the Season, Mozart’s The Marriage of of rehabilitation and renovation. Moving to the Majestic Figaro, needs no introduction; it is central repertory for in 1989 was a major step in the development of BLO. every opera company in the world (the performances The theater’s size (1,186 seats), makes it especially apt for are April 28–May 7). The story is based on a stage Baroque opera and opera from the Classical period—the play by Beaumarchais that was a factor in igniting the Boston Early Music Festival has presented historically French Revolution; Mozart’s music richly humanizes the important revivals of Baroque opera there. characters: the dangerous Count, the rebellious Figaro, his plucky fi ancée Susanna, the abandoned Countess, So both BLO and The Rake’s Progress should be and the horny teenager Cherubino. thoroughly comfortable in this space, which combines intimacy with splendor. The Rake’s Progress, premiered in The opera off ers hilarity—the situations and jokes are 1951, stands as the culmination of Stravinsky’s neoclassical still fresh and funny after 227 years. But it is also an edgy period—it is an opera of Mozartean proportions and opera, with sex as a promise and a threat, a fulfi llment textures. The distinguished libretto by W. H. Auden and and a rejection; strong emotions are always near a tipping Chester Kallman is based on a series of eight paintings point. At its core, the opera is about transgression—and by the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth, which forgiveness, Mozart’s sublime message to the world. tell a cautionary tale about a gullible and feckless young SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR BLO’S 2O16/17 4OTH man who travels to London to make his fortune, guided ANNIVERSARY SEASON GO ON SALE APRIL 30— by Nick Shadow, a devil, who leads the eager youth VISIT BLO.ORG OR CALL 617.542.6772!

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AN OPERETTA IN THREE ACTS CONDUCTOR ALEXANDER JOEL* Sponsored by Alicia Cooney Music by FRANZ LEHÁR STAGE DIRECTOR LILLIAN GROAG Book by LILLIAN GROAG after Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stata the original by VICTOR LÉON and LEO STEIN SET DESIGNER JOHN CONKLIN with English lyrics by JOHN WELLS Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stata Additional English lyrics by JOHN COSTUME DESIGNER GAIL ASTRID BUCKLEY CONKLIN, ADRIAN ROSS and Sponsored by Susan and Dennis Shapiro BASIL HOOD LIGHTING DESIGNER ROBERT WIERZEL French lyrics by GASTON DE CAVAILLAVET and ROBERT DE CHOREOGRAPHER KYLE LANG* FLERS Sponsored by Larry and Beverly St. Clair

Dramaturgy by JOHN CONKLIN WIG AND MAKEUP DESIGNER JASON ALLEN Music Director DAVID ANGUS 2015/16 Season Sponsor, SUPERTITLE ADAPTATION JOHN CONKLIN & ALLISON VOTH Linda Cabot Black

Sung in German, English, French, Italian, Russian and Serbian with projected BOSTON LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA SANDRA KOTT translations. Concertmaster

PERFORMANCES: BOSTON LYRIC OPERA CHORUS MICHELLE ALEXANDER FRIDAY, APRIL 29 AT 7:30 PM Chorusmaster SUNDAY, MAY 1 AT 3 PM REHEARSAL COACH/ACCOMPANIST JAMES MYERS WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 AT 7:30 PM FRIDAY, MAY 6 AT 7:30 PM FRENCH LANGUAGE COACH SOPHIE MICHAUX SUNDAY, MAY 8 AT 3 PM GERMAN LANGUAGE COACH BERND ULKEN

Performed in three acts with one ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NATHAN TROUP† intermission after Act I. Performance running time approximately 2 hours and PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CHELSEA ANTRIM DENNIS 50 minutes.

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* Boston Lyric Opera Debut † BLO Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist ‡ BLO Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist Alumnus A NEW BLO PRODUCTION CAST & MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF SYNOPSIS HORACE H. IRVINE II

CAST SYNOPSIS BARON MIRKO ZETA, ANDREW WILKOWSKE New Year’s Eve, 1913. Europe feverishly Pontevedrian Ambassador Sponsored by Alan and Lisa Dynner dances on the edge… VALENCIENNE, his wife CHELSEA BASLER‡ At the Pontevedrian Embassy in Paris, Sponsored by David Shukis and Susan Blair ambassador Baron Zeta is desperately trying to marry off the American heiress, COUNT DANILO DANILOWITSCH, First Secretary ROGER HONEYWELL* Hanna Glawari, the recent widow of the JAKO NJEGUS, Chargé d’affaires JESSE BLUMBERG head of Pontevedrian State Bank, to a Sponsored by Maria Krokidas and Bruce Bullen native son so that her inheritance can remain in the country and forestall an impending government bankruptcy. GENERAL SERGIUS KROMOW, Chief of Staff BRAD RAYMOND† For this delicate task, he lights upon OLGA (LOLO), his wife MICHELLE TRAINOR‡ Count Danilo, First Secretary at the Embassy and a somewhat reckless bon COLONEL JOVAN BOGDANOVITSCH, VINCENT TURREGANO*† vivant. But he and Hanna have a past… Senior Military Advisor Years before, when Danilo was in New SYLVIANE (DODO), his wife HEATHER GALLAGHER† York on a diplomatic mission and Hanna was a young showgirl in the Ziegfi eld GENERAL RADOMIR PRITSCHTISCH, NEAL FERREIRA‡ Follies, they had an intense aff air. It was Senior Military Advisor quickly terminated when his aristocratic family heard about this most unsuitable PRASKOVIA (JOUJOU), his wife VERA SAVAGE† liaison, leaving Hanna brokenhearted and furious. So their potential reunion is JELENA PETROVIC (FROU-FROU), Embassy wife EMMA SORENSON† complicated by feelings of guilt, confl ict, POLA KANKARAS (CLO-CLO), Embassy wife STEPHANIE SCARCELLA* and an underlying, undeniable attraction. NATALJIA MARTINOVIC (MARGOT), MOLLY CROOKEDACRE Meanwhile, Valencienne, Baron Zeta’s Embassy wife young wife, is torn between her own attraction to the French military attaché, VICOMTE CAMILLE DE ROSILLON, JOHN TESSIER Camille (who ardently pursues her), and French Military Attaché Sponsored by Jane and Steven Akin her desire to be “a respectable wife.” The Embassy is full of other erotic intrigues, VISCONTE ALESSANDRO CASCADA, DAVID MCFERRIN‡ complications, misunderstandings Italian Military Attaché Sponsored by Willa and Taylor Bodman (including a scandalous incident NICOLAI IVANOVICH ST. BRIOCHE, JON JURGENS† concerning a secret rendezvous in the Russian Military Attaché Sponsored by the Susan A. Babson Opera Embassy garden). Finally, Danilo and Fund for Emerging Artists, Part of the Hanna can no longer deny their love Paul and Edith Babson Foundation and are passionately reunited—and all must face the New Year of 1914 with PAVAL KIVOWITZ, Orderly ALEX PORTENKO* its yearned-for hopes—and its threats, perhaps now no longer avoidable. HANNA GLAWARI, Rich American widow ERIN WALL* Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee Perry

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ALEXANDER JOEL Conductor JOHN CONKLIN Set Designer/BLO Artistic Advisor Alexander Joel, who grew up in London and Vienna (where he also studied conducting), John Conklin has designed sets on and off makes his North American debut with The Broadway, at the Kennedy Center, and for Merry Widow for Boston Lyric Opera. opera companies around the world, including Operatic productions this season include the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Carmen at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (he has Chicago, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Bastille Opera previously conducted La Traviata and La Bohème and returns for in Paris, The Royal Opera and the opera houses of Munich, Rigoletto in 2017/2018), Turandot for Deutsche Oper Berlin and Amsterdam, and Bologna, among others. Locally, his work has Opernhaus Zürich, Don Giovanni in Stockholm, Manon for the been seen in Boston Lyric Opera’s I Puritani (2014), La Bohème Opéra de Marseille and La Traviata at Hamburg Staatsoper and (2015), and Werther (2016), as well as at the American Repertory Vienna Volksoper. On the concert stage, his highlights include Theater and Boston Ballet. Additionally, Mr. Conklin develops his symphonic debut with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande lecture series and community events for BLO that enrich the and WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln. Highlights for 2016/17 include audience experience and strengthen the presence of opera new productions of Manon Lescaut at the Netherlands Opera, in Boston’s arts community. He is on the faculty at New York Simon Boccanegra at the Flemish Opera, and a complete Ring University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a recipient of the Cycle at the Staastheater Wiesbaden. 2011 NEA Opera Honors.

LILLIAN GROAG Stage Director GAIL ASTRID BUCKLEY Costume Designer Argentinean-born director Lillian Groag returns to BLO with a brand new book for Boston-based costume designer Gail Astrid The Merry Widow, having previously directed Buckley has worked with BLO for nearly 20 Madama Butterfl y (2013), Idomeneo (2010) years in a number of capacities, and The Merry and Agrippina (2011) for the Company. Widow marks her debut as solo costume Recent credits include The Girl of the Golden West at Opera designer. Her recent work includes A Christmas Carol at The Omaha, War Music at American Conservatory Theater, and Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Casa Valentina at The Marriage of Figaro and Where Angels Fear to Tread at Opera SpeakEasy Stage Company, My Fair Lady at Lyric Stage Company San Jose and Virginia Opera. She is one of the playwrights of Boston, and Sweet and Sad at Gloucester Stage Company. Ms. involved in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s project Play on!, Buckley has earned two “Small Theater: Best Costume Design” 36 playwrights translate Shakespeare. She has directed opera and awards from The Independent Reviewers of New England and theatre across the country and in New York and is a published two Elliot Norton Awards for best costume design and for group playwright, produced throughout North America, Europe and design for The Adding Machine at SpeakEasy Stage. Japan. As an actress, she has performed in regional theatres, and on and off Broadway. She is an Associate Artist at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

14 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 ROBERT WIERZEL Lighting Designer ERIN WALL Soprano Robert Wierzel returns to Boston Lyric Erin Wall makes her Boston opera debut with Opera where his latest production with the BLO’s The Merry Widow. Recent highlights Company was The Love Potion. He has include Mahler’s Eighth Symphony under the worked with artists from diverse disciplines direction of Andris Nelsons at the Tanglewood and backgrounds in art, opera, theatre, and 75th anniversary celebration, the title role dance on stages throughout the country and abroad. His opera in Arabella and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream—both credits include productions with the companies of Paris Palais- at the Metropolitan Opera—and Elgar’s oratorio The Kingdom on Garnier, Tokyo, Toronto, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, the first night of the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall. She has Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington DC, and Seattle, among sung leading roles in many of the world's great opera houses, many others. His theater work has been seen at many major including La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, Opéra National de companies throughout the country, as well as on and off Paris, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and appears in concert with Broadway, including Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill, staring leading conductors and symphony orchestras worldwide. Ms. Audra McDonald, and the Broadway musical Fela! (Tony Award Wall's recording of Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Melbourne nomination). Mr. Wierzel has a 31-year history with the director/ Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis was released in 2014 choreographer Bill T. Jones and the BTJ/AZ Company. Mr. to critical acclaim and was followed by tour performances in the Wierzel is a faculty member of New York University’s Tisch Concertgebouw and the Edinburgh Festival. School of the Arts. ROGER HONEYWELL Tenor KYLE LANG Choreographer Roger Honeywell makes his Boston Lyric Kyle Lang’s career includes directing as well Opera debut as Count Danilo, a role he as choreographing for many companies in reprises after performing it at Michigan the US and abroad. This season, Mr. Lang Opera Theatre in the 2014/15 Season. Mr. has directed La Bohème (Virginia Opera), Honeywell recently performed with the Don Quixote and the Duchess (Central City Théâtre du Châtelet as Torasso in Sondheim’s Passion and in Opera), L’Enfant et les Sortileges and Gianni Schicchi (Simpson the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain in the College). He has also choreographed The Merry Widow with Utah role of Veasey with the Santa Fe Opera. He also returned to Opera as well as assistant directed To s c a for San Diego Opera. Calgary as Nikolaus Sprink for the Canadian premiere of Kevin He has performed as a soloist and in the corps de ballet with Puts’ Silent Night and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with Vancouver the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera. This July, he will appear as Archbishop Roche in the world National Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera, among others. premiere of John Estacio’s Ours with Opera on the Avalon in Newfoundland, Canada, and he will return to BLO for the 2016/17 JASON ALLEN Wig and Makeup Designer Season in September as Don José in Carmen. Jason Allen has been BLO’s Resident Wig and Makeup Designer JOHN TESSIER Tenor since 2003. A fi xture of the Boston performing arts community, he also works with Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Ballet, and John Tessier returns to BLO as Camille de many other organizations in Boston and throughout the country. Rosillon. Recently, Mr. Tessier performed as Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de Perles and as Leicester in Maria Stuarda (Seattle Opera). As a concert soloist, he has sung the Mozart Requiem with Jaap van Zweden and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Händel’s Messiah with Robert Porco and the Cleveland Orchestra, and Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio with Ty Patterson conducting the Ottawa Singers. At BLO, Mr. Tessier received rave reviews as Count Almaviva in the 2012 production of The Barber of Seville, and was last seen in BLO’s 2014 production of I Puritani. He has worked with many of the most notable conductors of our day including David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Plácido Domingo, John Nelson, Franz Welser-Möst, Emmanuelle Haïm, Charles Dutoit, Donald Runnicles, Robert Spano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Bernard Labadie.

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 | 15 CHELSEA BASLER Soprano JON JURGENS Tenor Chelsea Basler is a BLO Jane & Steven Akin Jon Jurgens is a BLO Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist alumna and the 2014 recipient Emerging Artist who has established himself of the Company’s Stephen Shrestinian Award as a versatile young talent with a wide range for Excellence. Her extensive BLO credits of repertoire. Most recently, he performed the include Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Glascha in title role in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Opera Kátya Kabanová, Isolt the Fair in The Love Potion, Flora Bervoix Fayetteville) and the roles of Rodolfo in La Bohème (Opera in La Traviata, and more. Ms. Basler recently debuted the role of Raw) and Don José in Carmen (Opera Neo). As a studio artist Sara in the world premiere of Cold Mountain with Santa Fe Opera, with Sarasota Opera, he has also sung the roles of Curley in Of played Josephine in HMS Pinafore (Opera Saratoga), and Curley’s Mice and Men, Borsa in Rigoletto and has covered Edoardo in Wife in Of Mice and Men (Sarasota Opera). Other recital and Un Giorno di Regno and the Duke in Rigoletto. Mr. Jurgens was oratorio credits include a recital at the National Opera Center highly acclaimed as Tristan in BLO’s 2014 production of The in New York City and Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate with the Atlantic Love Potion, and earlier that year made his Company debut as Symphony Orchestra. She will perform the role of Susanna in The Gastone in La Traviata. He was most recently seen as Schmidt Marriage of Figaro for Opera Saratoga this summer. in BLO’s Werther.

ANDREW WILKOWSKE Baritone JESSE BLUMBERG Baritone Known for his versatility, Andrew Wilkowske Jesse Blumberg has appeared in numerous was last seen at BLO as Emperor Overall in operatic roles including Papageno in The the 2011 critically-acclaimed Opera Annex Magic Flute (Minnesota Opera), Mercutio production of The Emperor of Atlantis. in Roméo et Juliette (Kentucky Opera), The Recently, Mr. Wilkowske was showcased in Count in Le Nozze di Figaro (Fargo-Moorhead Verdi’s King for a Day as La Rocca at Glimmerglass Festival. His Opera), Charlie in Three Decembers (Atlanta Opera), Poliferno in other opera credits include Papageno in The Magic Flute with Niobe, Regina di Tebe (Boston Early Music Festival), and Harlekin Minnesota Opera and Komische Oper Berlin; and Ponchel in the in the Boston Lyric Opera production of Ariadne auf Naxos. On Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night with Lyric Opera Kansas City, the concert stage, Mr. Blumberg has performed recitals with the Cincinnati Opera, and Opera Philadelphia, a role he created in New York Festival of Song and Marilyn Horne Foundation and is 2011 with Minnesota Opera. His concert highlights include the a frequent soloist with American Bach Soloists, Berkshire Choral rock recital Guns N’ Rosenkavalier with the Five Boroughs Music Festival, Boston Baroque, and Apollo’s Fire. Mr. Blumberg is also Festival and Glimmerglass Festival, a project he created with the founder of Five Boroughs Music Festival in New York City. composer John Glover. ALEX PORTENKO Actor DAVID MCFERRIN Baritone Alex Portenko makes his BLO debut as David McFerrin is a BLO Jane & Steven Kivowitz in The Merry Widow. He is originally Akin Emerging Artist alumnus who has from Uzbekistan and received his BFA in appeared in numerous Company productions, theatre arts from Salem State University. His including Kátya Kabanová, The Love recent Boston-area credits include O Happy Potion, Lizzie Borden, Clemency, Madama Port! and Six Degrees of Separation (Bad Habit Productions) and Butterfl y, and Agrippina. This Season, he appeared with BLO as The Normal Heart (Salem Theatre Company). He is an alumnus the Offi cer in In the Penal Colony and Johann in Werther. His of the First Stage Program with Lyric Stage Company of Boston other opera credits include Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Florida as an actor and director’s assistant, and has received honors as Grand Opera, and the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, Germany. As both an actor and director from the Kennedy Center American a concert soloist, Mr. McFerrin has sung with Gustavo Dudamel College Theatre Festival. and the Israel Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, with the early music ensemble TENET at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and with the Boston Pops. Upcoming concert highlights include performances at the Carmel Bach Festival and with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston and New York.

16 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 VERA SAVAGE Mezzo-Soprano BRAD RAYMOND Tenor A BLO Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist, Brad Raymond has been a BLO Jane & Steven Vera Savage’s recent opera credits include Akin Emerging Artist since 2014. He recently appearances with Florentine Opera, Opera appeared in Candide with Glimmerglass in the Heights, and Opera Saratoga. She has Festival, Eugene Onegin with Opera performed as a soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with Theatre Middlebury, Manon Lescaut with MIT, Mozart’s Requiem at the Tanglewood Institute, and Handel’s Chautauqua Opera, and Amahl and the Night Visitors with Cincinnati Israel in Egypt with Commonwealth Chorale. Chamber Orchestra. His opera credits also include Opera Saratoga, Aspen Opera Theater, and Columbus Opera. NEAL FERREIRA Tenor VINCENT TURREGANO Neal Ferreira is a BLO Jane & Steven Akin Baritone Emerging Artist alumnus and most recently Vincent Turregano made his Boston Lyric appeared with BLO as the Visitor in In the Opera debut as a Jane & Steven Akin Penal Colony. Other BLO productions Emerging Artist in the ensemble of La include The Magic Flute, Clemency, and The Bohème. His most recent opera credits include Inspector. He sings regularly as an oratorio soloist throughout New Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, Alwan England and recently appeared as Ferdinand in the world premiere in Mohammed Fairouz’s Sumeida’s Song, John Sorel in Menotti’s of Joseph Summer’s The Tempest with The Shakespeare Concerts. The Consul, and the Marquis de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. HEATHER GALLAGHER Mezzo-Soprano EMMA SORENSON Mezzo-Soprano Heather Gallagher is a BLO Resident A BLO Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist, Teaching Artist as well as a Jane & Steven Emma Sorenson made her BLO debut in 2015 Akin Emerging Artist and has performed in the ensemble of La Bohème and returned with BLO in Werther, Kátya Kabanová and to the Company for the Signature Series The Love Potion. Her recent credits include Charlotte in Les performance of Brindisi! Italian and French Lettres de Werther with Boston Opera Collaborative, the title Drinking Songs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the role in Carmen with Metro West Opera, and Cherubino in Le winner of the Ileana Ingraham Encouragement Award at the 2015 Nozze di Figaro with Vero Beach Opera. Kansas City Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions and and will be a returning Apprentice Artist as Javotte in Des MICHELLE TRAINOR Soprano Moines Metro Opera’s Manon this summer. Michelle Trainor is a BLO Jane & Steven Akin STEPHANIE SCARCELLA Emerging Artist alumna, having performed in Mezzo-Soprano BLO productions of The Inspector, The Magic Flute, and The Love Potion. As a concert Stephanie Scarcella was last seen on the soloist, she has performed at Carnegie BLO stage in the ensemble of La Bohème Hall and in Boston Ballet’s production of A Midsummer Night’s earlier this season. She has performed with Dream as the soprano soloist. She is the 2011 winner of BLO’s Tanglewood Music Center, Opera Company Stephen Shrestinian Award for Excellence and will perform with of Middlebury, St. Petersburg Opera, Odyssey Opera, and Boston the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its 2016/17 production of Opera Collaborative, and she was the 2011 New Orleans District Der Rosenkavalier. winner for Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards.

MOLLY CROOKEDACRE Soprano Molly Crookedacre has appeared in several BLO productions including Macbeth and The Inspector and has been a member of the BLO chorus since 2008. She is a winner of BLO’s Stephen Shrestinian Award for Excellence and placed fi rst in her division of the NATS Competition in Boston in 2013.

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ORCHESTRA CHORUS

VIOLIN I FLUTE SOPRANO Sandra Kott Concertmaster Ona Jonaityte Acting Principal Samina Aslam Annie Rabbat Solos Elzbieta Brandys Alisa Cassola Natalie Favaloro Marie McCarville OBOE Roksana Sudol Kathryn McKellar Mary Cicconetti Acting Principal Rohan Gregory Janani Sridhar Lynda Jacquin Lilit Hartunian ALTO Andrew Eng CLARINET Bethany Hickman Annegret Klaua Jan Halloran Principal Stephanie Kacoyanis Olga Kouznetsova Steven Jackson Vanessa Schukis Liesl Doty BASSOON Lee Sullivan VIOLIN II Donald Bravo Principal Stephanie Zuluaga Tera Gorsett Acting Principal Sally Merriman TENOR Lena Wong Stefan Barner Piotr Buczek FRENCH HORN Ethan Bremner Nivedita Sarnath Brian Nichols Acting Principal Brendan Buckley Robert Curtis Dirk Hillyer Frank Levar Susan Carrai Kenneth Pope Omar Najmi Rebecca Katsenas Iris Rosenstein Thomas Oesterling Asuka Usui TRUMPET Patrick Waters VIOLA Greg Whitaker Acting Principal BASS Abigail Cross Acting Principal Mary-Lynne Bohn Ryne Cherry Andra Voldins TROMBONE Carlton Doctor Don Krishnaswami Donald Davis Acting Principal Attila Dobak Emily Rome Robert Hoveland Simon Dyer Russell Wilson David Hagee Fred Furnari Sharon Bielik Taylor Horner TIMPANI CELLO Ron Williams Nicholas Tolle Acting Principal Loewi Lin Principal Patrick Owen PERCUSSION SUPERNUMERARIES Michael Curry William Manley Acting Principal Jan Pfeiff er-Rios Abraham Finch Kurt Hakansson Nicole Cariglia Jesse Martin HARP Domenico Mastrototaro BASS Hyunjung Choi Acting Principal Robert Lynam Principal Kevin Green Katherine Foss

18 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 PRODUCTION & ARTISTIC STAFF

Bailey Costa Lighting Director/Assistant Lighting Designer Patrick Glynn Head of Production Properties Rachel Arditi Assistant Stage Manager Emily Picot Second Assistant of Production Properties Anderson Nunnelley Assistant Stage Manager James McCartney Head of Production Audio Anthony Schiavo Production Assistant Dianna Reardon Wardrobe Supervisor David Bradke Technical Supervisor Lynn Jeff ery Costume Supervisor Jeremy Smith Head Production Carpenter Ryan Goodwin Costume Design Assistant Bryan Salmon First Assistant Production Carpenter Rachel Padula Shufelt Wig-Makeup Artist Joseph St. Croix Second Assistant Production Carpenter Susie Moncousky Wig-Makeup Artist Marco Caceres Head Production Electrician Allison Voth Surtitle Operator Mike Wellman First Assistant Production Electrician Bridget Doyle Lighting Intern Whitney Brinton First Assistant Production Electrician Kate Ellingson Music Librarian Miguel Caravajal Second Assistant Production Electrician Maynard Goldman Orchestra Personnel Manager

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BLO extends its gratitude to the following Denka Trucking | Dick Butler The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common individuals and organizations for their Elderhostel, Inc./Road Scholar Robert Silman Associates Structural extraordinary courtesy in making our Eric Antoniou Photography Engineers | Michael Auren and productions possible: T. Charles Erickson Ben Rosenberg Acentech, Inc. | Carl Rosenberg and Fessenden & Sykes Ryder Transportation Ben Markham Films Around the World, Inc. | Santander Advanced Lighting and Production Alexander W. Kogan, Jr. Sebastians Services | Jim DeVeer Four Seasons Hotel Boston Starburst Printing | Jason Grondin AKA Goodman Media International, Inc. Tessitura Alexander Aronson Finning Haute History Theatre Project Consultants Beacon Hill Seminars Mark Howard United Staging & Rigging | Eric Frishman Susan Bennett, M.D., Company HUM Properties | Casey Smith WBUR Physician Consultant, Associate The HYM Investment Group WGBH/WCRB Physician, General IATSE Local #11 JACET | Colleen Glynn Wheelock Family Theatre Hospital Intersection | Steve McCarthy Winston Flowers Boston Athenæum IRN Internet Services | Jay Williston Boston Center for the Arts Leapfrog Arts | Scenery constructed by American Boston Public Library Melissa Wagner-O’Malley Repertory Theater and BLO Boston Public Market Massachusetts Bay Transportation Lighting Equipment provided by Boston Symphony Orchestra Authority Advanced Lighting & Production Caff é Nero mindSHIFT Technologies Inc. Services, Inc. Catherine Truman Architects | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Catherine Truman Myles Standish Business Condominiums Costumes supervised by Costume CBT Architects NEPS Primary Freight Works, Inc., Somerville, MA Chandler Inn New England Professional Systems | The edition of Franz Lehár’s Njegus aria Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, Bill Miller as well as the English translation of lyrics LLP | Andrew Eisenberg and Pierce Harman Photography by John Wells, are used by arrangement Will Krasnow Production Advantage with European American Music Costume Works, Inc. | Liz Perlman ProPrint Boston Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian Amy Holland Crafton Quality Graphics, Inc. agent for Glocken Verlag, Ltd. London.

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Esther Nelson Stanford Calderwood General & Artistic Director Sharon Barry Terri Mazzulli David Angus Music Director Katie Baner Diane McGary John Conklin Artistic Advisor Lynn Bregman Patti McGovern Jane Cammack Anne McGuire ARTISTIC Jeannie Ackerman Curhan Amy Molloy Nicholas G. Russell Director of Artistic Operations Ann D’Angelo Meg Morton Nancy McDonald Artistic Manager Karla De Greef Katherine Nash Zachary Calhoun Artistic Associate Marsha de Poo Kameel Nasr PRODUCTION Mary DePoto Amy O’Connell Bradley Vernatter Director of Production Frances Driscoll Cosmo Papa Anna B. Labykina Technical Director Marian Ead Jane Papa Jessica Johnson Brock Production Operations Manager Susan Eastman Barbara Papesch Julia Noulin-Mérat Associate Producer Hugh Fitzgerald Jutta Scott Lily Kaufman Properties Master & Technical Assistant Audley Fuller Alexandra Sherman Lindsay Conrad Production Administration Assistant Ralph Gioncardi Barbara Trachtenberg Mencken Graham Jessica Tybursky FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Bruce Houston Amy Walba Karen T. Frost Director of Finance and Administration Eva Karger Gerry Weisenberg David J. Cullen Accounting Manager Milling Kinard Debbie Wiess Reingard Heller Finance Manager Nicholas Kopp Alfred Williams Caitlin Hayes Finance & HR Associate Esther Lable Joe Williams Samantha Ferello Offi ce Associate Richard Leccese Lynn Williams EXTERNAL RELATIONS Nancy Lynn Sybil Williams Eileen Nugent Williston Director of External Relations Domenico Mastrototaro Riley Cameron External Relations Assistant Sarah B. Blume Director of Major Gifts Erin Coff ey Associate Director of Major Gifts Cathy Emmons Director of Institutional Gifts Danielle Schmidt Special Events Manager Robin Whitney Individual Giving Manager Bailey Kerr Patron Services Associate Carrie Phillips Marketing & Communications Manager Jeila Irdmusa Marketing & Sales Coordinator Derrick A. Martin Audience Services Manager Rebecca Kittredge Audience Services Coordinator Lacey Upton Director of Community Engagement The Artists and Stage Managers employed on this production Rebecca Kirk Manager of Education Programs are members of the American Guild of Musical Artists. Brendan Buckley Resident Teaching Artist All musicians are members of the American Federation of Heather Gallagher Resident Teaching Artist Musicians of the United States and Canada. Julia Propp Director of Operations The scenic, costume, and lighting designers are members Andrew J. Moreau Analytics and Projects Manager of United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Robin Schweikart Database Administrator Stagehands are represented by Local #11 of the International Goodman Media International, Inc. Public Relations Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. IRN Internet Services Website Boston Lyric Opera is a member of OPERA America, the Leapfrog Arts Graphic Design national service organization for opera in the U.S. and Canada.

20 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 PERFORMANCE & VENUE INFORMATION LATE SEATING At the request of our patrons, Boston Lyric Opera observes the national opera standard of a no late seating policy. While we understand that traffi c conditions, public transportation, weather, and other fac- tors can have unexpected eff ects on your arrival, we wish to minimize disruptions for our seated patrons and for our artists on stage. Latecomers will be asked to wait in the lobby until the earliest possible break in the perfor- mance, which in some cases may be intermission. Should you arrive late, the Company provides a video monitor in the lobby where you may view the performance until you are seated. AS A COURTESY to the artists and for the comfort of those around you, please turn off all mobile phones, pagers, watch alarms, and any other device with audible signals prior to the start of the performance. Patrons who leave the theatre during the performance may not be seated again until intermission. THE USE OF CAMERAS or recording devices in the theatre is strictly prohibited. CHILDREN UNDER SIX will not be admitted, in con- sideration of Boston Lyric Opera patrons. CITI PERFORMING ARTS CENTERSM SHUBERT THEATRE is not entirely wheelchair-accessible. For pa- trons with disabilities, wheelchair-accessible and compan- ion seating, as well as removable-arm chairs, are available in a variety of locations and prices on the Orchestra level. There is no elevator in the Shubert Theatre; staircases are available for access to the Mezzanine and Balcony level seating areas. A wheelchair-accessible restroom and concession station are located off the main lobby. STAYING CONNECTED WITH US PAYS A wheelchair-accessible telephone is located in the box OFF — RECEIVE EARLY ANNOUNCEMENTS, offi ce lobby. The Shubert Theatre is equipped with an SPECIAL OFFERS, AND MORE VIA OUR FM assistive listening device for patrons with hearing im- EMAIL LIST AND BLOG! pairments; headsets are available free of charge at the Head Usher’s desk. A pay-TTY device for deaf patrons Buy tickets, learn more about our events, check out is located in the box offi ce lobby. Patrons requiring as- our restaurant partners, and peek behind the scenes sistance should contact Citi Performing Arts CenterSM in — at our website BLO.ORG! advance of their visit. Please call 617.482.9393 or (TTY) 617.482.5757. Patrons who are deaf are encouraged to use the Massachusetts Relay Service at 800.439.2370 for purchasing tickets to BLO productions. Please direct in- quiries and requests for ADA guidelines to: Access Ser- vices Administrator, Citi Performing Arts CenterSM, 270 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02116. TICKET INFORMATION For information on Boston Lyric Opera productions, subscriptions and tickets, visit blo.org, call BLO Audience Services at 617.542.6772, or visit the Shubert Theatre box offi ce, open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6:00 p.m., also available by telephone at 866.348.9738 or (TTY) 888.889.8587. 22 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE MERRY WIDOW 2016 | 23

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Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano sings the title role in Carmen.

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