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6 WELCOME TO YOUR LYRIC 40 RYAN OPERA CENTER 8 From the Chairman and the 42 Ryan Opera Center General Director alumni around the world 10 Board of Directors 42 Program staff 12 Rising to the occasion 43 Ryan Opera Center contributors

16 TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCE 44 THANK YOU FOR 18 Title page and cast YOUR SUPPORT 19 Synopsis 46 Production sponsors 20 Artist profiles 47 Aria Society 24 Orchestra & Chorus 59 Supporting our future— 28 Opera notes endowments at Lyric 31 Director’s note 60 Faces of Lyric Jaclyn Simpson

32 After the curtain falls 63 Gift planning Life at the Ryan Opera Center | pp. 12-15 66 Corporate partnerships 34 BEYOND THE STAGE 68 Annual individual 36 Lyric Unlimited - Learning & creative and foundation support engagement 74 Commemorative gifts

76 Artistic roster 78 Lyric staff 80 Backstage life

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 7 From the Chairman and the General Director Welcome to Lyric! We’re delighted that you’re joining us for the opening of what is sure to be a season of tremendously exciting productions and glorious music-making.

One of the most memorable experiences operagoers can have is hearing a great work for the first time. This will true be for the majority of our audience with Luisa Miller, which Lyric has presented only once before. We’re delighted that this wonderful opera is returning to our stage, particularly since it inaugurates a very exciting development in the life of our company: an exploration of works from the early career of Giuseppe Verdi. Over the next few seasons Lyric will be presenting one early Verdi work per season, in productions that will bring them to life for a new generation of audiences. The riches of these pieces are boundless. In their melodies, their incredibly vivid characters, and their sweeping dramatic excitement, they’re simply irresistible. One very exciting element of this season’s Luisa Miller is the conducting of Enrique Mazzola, a truly exceptional artist who we are all thrilled to have joining us as Lyric’s music director designate. Enrique will succeed Sir Andrew Davis at the start of the 2021/22 season. Immensely respected and acclaimed internationally as an interpreter of a wide operatic repertoire, Enrique is particularly celebrated for works of Verdi and the bel canto composers. It’s wonderful that he comes to Luisa Miller with such remarkable distinction in the operas of Rossini and Donizetti, since this is the musical foundation on which Verdi built his early operas. Luisa Miller poses enormous challenges to singers. Consequently, it’s exciting to have such a superb group of Verdians in our cast, headed by Krassimira Stoyanova, Joseph Calleja, and Ryan Opera Center alumni Quinn Kelsey and Christian Van Horn. In Francesca Zambello’s vibrant production, Lyric’s Luisa Miller will launch our early-Verdi adventure in magnificent style. It’s a wonderful time to be part of Lyric. We’re producing more new types of work than ever before. Our musical-theater productions and other Lyric-produced special events are attracting tens of thousands of new patrons and we’re on the cusp of producing an extraordinary new Ring cycle. Lyric is a company striving to become a true visionary arts leader in Chicago and throughout America. The real measure of success is how often and in how many different ways people choose to interact with Lyric. The opera house is our home, but our mission is to engage people where they are, reflecting the city and communities we serve. This means making the entire experience welcoming and engaging by looking at the performance through a variety of lenses. Our goal is to provide new ways to ensure that our audiences’ initial encounter with Lyric is so impactful and entertaining that new patrons will make Lyric a part of their lives. By focusing on building our audience of the future, while we continue to serve our current audiences, we’ll ensure that both Lyric and opera itself remain culturally relevant and artistically important for the next generation. We hope you feel the drumbeat of progress at Lyric as much as we do. Together we are all part of the Lyric story.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 11 Rising to the occasion How emerging artists at the Ryan Opera Center prepare for their careers

By Roger Pines

Becoming an opera singer takes years of very hard work. So why do it? Ask tenor Eric Ferring: “There’s something very gratifying about singing the way opera singers do. Being able to produce that unamplified sound is like nothing else.” The preparation is endless, the sacrifices enormous, so “you can’t do it unless you’re 1000 percent committed,” adds soprano Emily Pogorelc. “You need to love it, and on the toughest days, you say, ‘I’m going to do it again tomorrow.’” To succeed in opera you need not just a terrific voice, but also a foundation of knowledge and skills that can see you through a high-pressure career. Ferring, Pogorelc, and four other singers are solidifying that foundation as second-year members of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Lyric’s world-renowned artist development program. They’re completing their training under top-flight teachers and coaches, and they’re collaborating in rehearsal and onstage with many of the world’s most celebrated artists. All six second-year Ryan Opera Center singers recently took time to reflect on what brought them here and what they learned in their first year at Lyric. Everyone had particular Todd Rosenberg Todd reasons for applying to the program, whether the varied The second-year members of the 2019/20 Ryan Opera Center ensemble. performance opportunities, the vocal instruction, the coaches, First row, left to right: Kayleigh Decker, Christopher Kenney, Emily Pogorelc. or the connections they could make in the professional Second row, left to right: Ricardo José Rivera, David Weigel, Eric Ferring. world. Ultimately, though, they all wanted what mezzo- soprano Kayleigh Decker describes as “experience that bridges the path from student to artist.” These gifted singers hail from as nearby as Wisconsin and Iowa, and as far away as Puerto Rico, North Dakota, North Carolina, and Maryland. (In recent years Ryan Opera Center members have also hailed from Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, and China.) Advancing from preliminary auditions, they all participated in the Center’s Final Auditions in September 2017 – their most life-changing audition to date. “I was ecstatic to walk onto that stage,” says baritone Ricardo José Rivera. At this early stage of his career, “I never in my wildest dreams thought it would happen.” For Pogorelc, “it was surreal to be standing where so many singers I admire have stood.” Once accepted, the singers joined the program in May 2018 and immediately found themselves in a total-immersion experience: three weeks rehearsing 11 opera scenes, presented for an invited audience, in costume and fully staged. The summer also included intensive language instruction taught by native-speakers – group classes in Italian, French, and German. The language work has been

hugely important for bass-baritone David Weigel: Rosenberg Todd Kayleigh Decker (left) and Emily Pogorelc (right) in Cendrillon, 2018/19.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 12 “With native speakers, we can learn the idiomatic details. Because opera is so language-based, having someone who can teach you the idiosyncrasies of the language is essential.” Throughout the year the singers had regular voice lessons with Lyric’s director of vocal studies, Julia Faulkner, who keeps close tabs on them and has been responsible for significant turning points in their progress. “There have Eric Ferring with Alice been several lessons with Julia where I’ve discovered a sound Coote in Ariodante, I wouldn’t have been able to achieve on my own,” notes Cory Weaver 2018/19. Decker. Weigel remains grateful for a discussion he had with Faulkner at a time when he was disappointed in his own singing: “There was a moment when her encouragement opened up a new level of trust in my abilities. The next time I went onstage, it was like a switch had been flipped, and it was by far my best singing of the season.” Faulkner’s work with the singers was supplemented during the summer by guest master teachers, among them Deborah Birnbaum and Gerald Martin Moore. Birnbaum’s work has been important in strengthening singers’ breathing apparatus: “I always try to impress on people that singing is an athletic endeavor,” says Weigel. “To fill the stage, we have to have muscular engagement. We need to train muscles to gain endurance and flexibility. The laryngeal muscles are Todd Rosenberg Todd quite small, but the muscles of respiration are very strong and essential. [With Birnbaum] we’d sit on a medicine ball and Christopher Kenney (left) and David Weigel (center), with Zoie Reams (right), in La traviata, 2018/19. breathe, or lie on our backs and sing a certain way, training just like a bodybuilder.” In the summer there was essential work going on, too, on the dramatic side with guest faculty directors E. Loren Meeker and Matthew Ozawa. The singers polished repertoire each of them would be performing in upcoming auditions. Pogorelc relished going through arias through this lens: “Often it’s hard to create a complete character in an audition when you haven’t done the full role. This dedicated time allowed us to create that character’s world by using our imagination and by unlocking parts of ourselves that connect us to the character.” There were also improv classes led by performers from The Second City. “Those classes are really relatable to

what we do,” notes baritone Christopher Kenney. “It’s how Rosenberg Todd we learn to stay fluid on the stage. An entrance may not Ricardo José Rivera (far right) in La bohème with (left to right) Adrian happen, you may drop a prop, something may malfunction Sâmpetrean, Zachary Nelson, and Michael Fabiano. onstage, and you have to roll with the punches. Being quick-witted is invaluable.” For a number of the singers, the summer was their first Decker recalls her work with coach Eric Weimer: “His chance to meet the program’s advisor, Renée Fleming. work on textual accuracy is very challenging in a good way! The world-renowned soprano, who is also Lyric’s creative We evaluate the syllables of different words, where the consultant, checks in with them throughout the year, giving consonants go, are the vowels closed or open. It’s extremely them all the benefit of her vast experience in individual meticulous, but it brings an aria or role to another level.” coachings, master classes, and chats about “the business.” Working with coach Alan Darling, Ferring appreciates that Coaching is the cornerstone of the Ryan Opera Center, “he makes you think about every choice you’re making and especially in the summer when the repertoire assigned to then defend it. You stop talking about notes and rhythms, and each singer for the mainstage season needs to be prepared. it becomes, ‘What will the audience get from this phrase?’ ” From the start, the singers worked regularly with Ryan Opera During the summer the six singers coached not just their Center music director Craig Terry. “He held me to a higher operatic repertoire, but also song literature for the program’s standard than my previous experience,” says Kenney. “That’s recital series, broadcast throughout the year on 98.7WFMT. why I’m here – to grow and improve my abilities and artistry.” Craig Terry plans the WFMT series programs very carefully,

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(Left) Ryan Opera Center members bowing at last season’s Renee Fleming 25th Anniversary Concert; (right) Christopher Kenney and David Weigel in their 2019 Rising Stars in Concert performance of a scene from Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias. and his huge knowledge of the repertoire has instilled an Ryan Opera Center artists during the season. exciting sense of adventure in all the singers. Throughout the year, the Ensemble artists embraced Once the season begins, voice lessons and coachings every chance to work with major singers individually. When continue, but the schedule of mainstage rehearsals and Pogorelc coached with legendary Swedish mezzo-soprano performances for the operas in which Ryan Opera Center Anne Sofie von Otter, both the inspirational value and the artists are cast takes precedence. On Day 1 of rehearsals for nuts-and-bolts advice were inestimable. “She had such a any production, the singers must arrive thoroughly prepared, range of tools in her toolbox and showed me that I had tools, meaning: “You’ve fully memorized the role – every note is too.” It was invaluable for the soprano’s future to hear from a correct, every word is accurate, and you have a fully great artist that “you can create a world of colors and sounds developed character,” explains Ferring. “You need to come that varies from piece to piece.” with ideas and then meld them with the director’s vision, The program’s challenges are formidable, but tackling and that’s the most fun of the whole process.” them provides the singers with the skills and expertise During the season, every Ryan Opera Center artist has necessary to make a real artistic contribution. Decker is understudy or “cover” assignments. Every time the artists grateful for that: “This art form contributes something so they’re covering are called to a rehearsal, they’re there as fulfilling and important for our society today. It engages me well. Covering teaches them a great deal, especially when it personally with emotions and experiences across the comes to “being able to watch some of my idols up close,” spectrum of what it means to be human. Performing opera is says Decker, “in roles I’d love to sing in the future. You’re not how I want to live my life, how I want to express myself, just seeing the final product, you’re seeing the process – and what I want to offer to the world.” The Ryan Opera how they develop characters, handle challenges, and put Center shows that opera is, above all, about the necessity everything together.” of collaboration, “which is a testament to all people’s Of course, all the singers’ preparation culminates in fundamental wish to connect with each other.” performing onstage, “the very best experience, in terms of learning,” Rivera declares. “We study vocal technique and languages here, and the instructors are phenomenal, but when you go onstage, that’s where you really test everything you know.” At Lyric, the day-to-day contact with important conductors and directors is something Kenney relishes. In Cendrillon last season, it was enlightening for him “to watch Sir Andrew Davis giving specific interpretation of musical impetus and line, to see how an operatic conductor goes about the entire process saying, ‘This is what the orchestra is doing and this is why.’” Besides rehearsals for a particular production, Davis, Lyric’s world-renowned music director, also takes time to work one-on-one with

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 14 In their final season with the Ryan Opera Center, third-year members Madeline Slettedahl (pianist) and Mario Rojas (tenor), and fourth-year member Lauren Decker (contralto) reveal their ambitions for the future. Todd Rosenberg Todd Rosenberg Todd Rosenberg Todd

Madeline Slettedahl at Rising Stars in Concert Mario Rojas in Il trovatore Lauren Decker in I puritani

MADELINE SLETTEDAHL | MARIO ROJAS | LAUREN DECKER | I want to use the skills I’ve gained here: I sang L’elisir d’amore in Mexico, and I I’d love to sing all the Verdi mezzos, and how each voice possesses different want to continue singing that, also La fille also Erda, after covering it here. My qualities; how phrasing through breath du régiment, Lucia di Lammermoor, lifelong dream is to sing Julia Child in can impact all music-making regardless staying with bel canto as long as possible. Lee Hoiby’s opera Bon Appétit – I’m just of instrument (all music is vocal music); Starting as a freelancer, I want to sing as tall as she was, I grew up watchin how to change your sound on the piano everywhere and discover the world in her, and I love the piece. to respond to the diversity of color ways that enrich my singing and my I’d like to be consistently working, and timbre in each person’s voice; how artistic creativity. I want to work with and doing work that is socially relevant, to play as both a soloist and as a part great conductors to learn more about focused on the real-life situations that of a collective whole; how to rejoice in the art form. we’re dealing with as a society. My most the singular beauty of purely playing I learned here to always, always be impactful experiences here have been the piano. prepared. Who knows when you’re going where the art has directly reflected what I aim to achieve a music-staff position to have to go on? I had six hours’ notice we’re living right now. Moving forward, at an opera house and be involved in when I went on as Alfredo in La traviata. I want to do more pieces like Dead Man the rehearsal process, while also pursuing You never know what’s going to happen, Walking that have more of a social impact. outside projects as a performer. who’s going to want to hear you. That’s my greatest ambition.

The 2019/20 seasn’s first-year members of the Ryan Opera Center are (left to right) soprano Mathilda Edge, mezzo-soprano Kathleen Felty, and bass Anthony Reed.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 15 Star-crossed love, betrayal, revenge – they’re all part of this thrillingly dramatic opera. When sweet, vulnerable Luisa falls in love with the son of a powerful count, our heroine and hero confront desperate circumstances and life-changing decisions. Verdi’s music captivates with its beauty and blazes with passion, an operatic rarity to be treasured. Savor your discovery of the masterpiece of romantic Italian opera that is Luisa Miller.

The lovestruck Luisa (Leah Crocetto) and her friends: Luisa Miller at San Francisco Opera, 2015/16 season. Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Cory Weaver/San

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 16 Luisa Miller

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New-to-Chicago Production | Opera in three acts in Italian Music by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) by Friedrich von Schiller

CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE Laura Kathleen Felty+• Conductor Enrique Mazzola Miller Quinn Kelsey •• Director Francesca Zambello Luisa Miller Krassimira Stoyanova Set Designer Michael Yeargan Rodolfo Joseph Calleja Costume Designer Dunya Ramicova Wurm Soloman Howard+ Lighting Designer Mark McCullough Count Walter Christian Van Horn •• Chorus Master Michael Black Federica, Duchess of Ostheim Alisa Kolosova Choreographer August Tye A Peasant Hoss Brock Wigmaster and Sarah Hatten Makeup Designer Actors Jacob Bates Associate Director Katrina Bachus Erik Dohner+ Assistant Director Jordan Lee Braun Nicolas Harazin Stage Manager John W. Coleman Bobby Wilhelmson+ Stage Band Conductor Francesco Milioto Kai Young Musical Preparation Jerad Mosbey Eric Weimer Prompter Susan Miller Hult Fight Director Chuck Coyl + Projected English Titles + Lyric debut Philip Kuttner • Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center ••Alumnus, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

First performed on December 8, 1849, at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on December 1, 1982 Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Cory Weaver/San

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 18 SYNOPSIS Time mid-19th century | Place Tyrol

Act one LYRIC OPERA Luisa, the daughter of an old soldier, is in love with a young man she knows OF CHICAGO as Carlo but who is actually Rodolfo, son of the local lord, Count Walter. Anthony Freud The two lovers proclaim undying fi delity, but Miller, Luisa’s father, is dubious. General Director, President & CEO His fears are confi rmed when Walter’s retainer, Wurm, who also loves Luisa and hopes to marry her, reveals Rodolfo’s true identity. Sir Andrew Davis In Walter’s castle, Wurm tells his master of Rodolfo’s love for Luisa. Music Director Walter resolves to break up their relationship because it is in his interests to Enrique Mazzola have his son marry his niece, the widowed Duchess Federica. Left alone with Music Director Designate Federica, Rodolfo confesses to her that he loves another, but the duchess, Renée Fleming who has worshiped him since childhood, refuses to break their engagement. Creative Consultant At home, Miller tells Luisa that Carlo is in fact Rodolfo and that he has deceived her, intending to marry a wealthy woman. The young man, however, PRODUCTION SPONSORS arrives to plead the sincerity of his love. When Walter storms in and is about to have both Luisa and her father sent to prison, Rodolfo secures their freedom by threatening to reveal how his father, with Wurm’s assistance, murdered his cousin to gain his present position. Julie and Roger Baskes Act two Henry and Gilda Luisa learns that her father, who sprang to her defense after Walter called Buchbinder Family her a whore, has been jailed for insulting the Count. Wurm tells her the only Foundation way she can save Miller is to write a letter admitting she sought Rodolfo for his wealth, and pledging herself to Wurm. After doing his bidding, Liz Stiffel she learns she must go to the castle and declare her love for him before the duchess. The Nelson Cornelius Production Endowment Fund Wurm presents Luisa’s letter to Walter, and the two plot to send it to Rodolfo. Wurm then brings in Luisa. Goaded on with threats by Wurm Production owned by San Francisco and Walter against her father, she professes her love for Wurm to Federica. Opera. Scenery construction and Rodolfo receives Luisa’s letter in the castle courtyard. In despair, he is painting by the San Francisco Opera Scenic Shop. Costumes fabricated about to attack Wurm when Walter appears and persuades him that by the San Francisco Opera marrying Federica will be the best way for him to avenge Luisa’s treachery. Costume Shop. Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully Act three acknowledges the support of the NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair and the Guild Board After returning home from prison, Miller tries to comfort Luisa and realizes of Directors Verdi Endowed Chair. that she plans to commit suicide; he persuades her against it. The two agree Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank to leave the village the next day. As Luisa prays, Rodolfo appears and pours its Offi cial Airline, American Airlines. a vial of poison into a decanter on the table. He confronts Luisa with the Projected English titles © by Philip Kuttner letter. When she cannot deny she wrote it, Rodolfo asks her to pour him a Supertitles for Luisa Miller are provided by drink. When she says it tastes bitter, she swallows some, too. Rodolfo the San Francisco Opera Association. tells Luisa the cup was poisoned, and she, released from her vow, tells him the truth. As Luisa dies in Miller’s arms, Rodolfo shoots Wurm and dies. APPROXIMATE TIMINGS Act One 55 minutes Intermission 30 minutes This synopsis originally appeared in the San Francisco Opera program. Acts Two & Three 1 hour, 20 minutes Total 2 hours, 45 minutes

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 19 Artist profiles

KRASSIMIRA STOYANOVA | QUINN KELSEY | MILLER LUISA MILLER Previously at Lyric: 17 roles since 2003/04, Previously at Lyric: Amelia Grimaldi/ most recently title role/Rigoletto (2017/18); Simon Boccanegra (2012/13). Enrico Ashton/Lucia di Lammermoor (2016/17); Count di Luna/Il trovatore (2014/15). The Bulgarian soprano, a celebrated Verdian internationally, continues in that repertoire this season with the The Hawaiian baritone, a Ryan Opera Center alumnus and 2015 Requiem (Zagreb) and Un ballo in maschera and Otello (Vienna winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Award, is one of State Opera, where she was made a “Kammersängerin” in 2009). today’s few true Verdi baritones. He makes his long-awaited Among other recent Verdi successes are Aida (Munich, Met, role debut as Miller after triumphs as Rigoletto (San Francisco, Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Simon Boccanegra (Berlin, Toronto, London, new productions in Zurich, Oslo, Santa Fe, and La Scala), Don Carlo (Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna), and Paris), Germont/La traviata (recent new Met production, Covent Il trovatore (Munich). Recent seasons have also seen triumphs in Garden debut), Falstaff (Saito Kinen Festival – in the same operas of Donizetti (Lucrezia Borgia, Salzburg); Strauss (Der work, he also recently debuted as Ford in Dallas), Ezio/Attila Rosenkavalier, Salzburg, Vienna, Zurich; Ariadne auf Naxos, (San Francisco), Paolo/Simon Boccanegra (Rome), Amonasro/Aida Dresden, La Scala; Die Liebe der Danae, Salzburg); and Dvorákˇ (Lyric, Met, Bregenz, San Francisco), Count di Luna/Il trovatore (Rusalka, Vienna). Among other rarely performed works in (Dresden, San Francisco), and Montfort/Les vêpres siciliennes Stoyanova’s repertoire are Gomes’s Il Guarany and Fosca (Sofia), (new Frankfurt production). Kelsey’s operatic repertoire Verdi’s La battaglia di Legnano (New York), and Dvorák’sˇ Dmitry additionally encompasses Sancho/Don Quichotte (Toronto), Zurga/ (Vienna). Collaborations with leading conductors have included The Pearl Fishers (London), Athanaël/Thaïs (Edinburgh), and Riccardo Muti (Chicago, Ravenna), the late Sir Colin Davis the Forester/The Cunning Little Vixen (Japan, Florence). He has (St. Paul’s Cathedral), Mariss Jansons (the Vatican), and Christian presented recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and London’s Thielemann (Munich). Wigmore Hall, and has performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the San Francisco Symphony (CD, Grammy winner). JOSEPH CALLEJA | RODOLFO Previously at Lyric: Four roles since 2007/08, CHRISTIAN VAN HORN | WALTER most recently Don José/Carmen (2016/17); Previously at Lyric: 16 roles since 2004/05, Romeo/Romeo and Juliet (2015/16); Alfredo most recently Méphistophélès/Faust Germont/La traviata (2013/14, 2007/08). (2017/18); Escamillo/Carmen, Narbal/Les Troyens (both 2016/17). Past recipient of an Opera News Award, the International Opera Awards’ Readers Award, and Gramophone’s Artist of the Year The American bass-baritone, a Ryan Opera Center alumnus and Award, the world-renowned Maltese tenor returns this season to winner of the 2018 Richard Tucker Award, was acclaimed at the Metropolitan Opera (La bohème), Munich’s Bavarian State the Metropolitan Opera last season for his role debut as Boito’s Opera (Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra), and the Vienna State Opera Mefistofele, and as Colline/La bohème and Publio/La clemenza di (Tosca). Among his recent successes have been Lucia di Tito. He also reprised Narbal/Les Troyens (Paris) and Escamillo/ Lammermoor (Berlin), Norma (Munich), Tosca (Met), and his role Carmen (Munich), and returned to San Francisco Opera as debut in Luisa Miller (Hamburg). Calleja has starred in more Zoroastro/Orlando (his 15th SFO role). The 2019/20 season brings than 25 leading roles with many other prestigious companies, Van Horn to the Met (Wozzeck, La Cenerentola) and SFO (Ernani, including Covent Garden (among his roles there have been Billy Budd). His diverse repertoire also encompasses Mozart’s Alfredo/La traviata opposite Renée Fleming and Gabriele/Simon Figaro (Stuttgart), the Four Villains/Les contes d’Hoffmann (SFO), Bocccanegra, both released on DVD), the Deutsche Oper Berlin Gessler/Guillaume Tell (Amsterdam), Zaccaria/Nabucco (Seattle), and Berlin State Opera, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the and Banco/Macbeth (Geneva). Successes in contemporary opera Vienna State Opera, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the include Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel (Met), Marco Salzburg Festival. The Grammy nominee made his Hollywood Tutino’s La Ciociara (SFO), Tan Dun’s Tea (Santa Fe), David debut in the greatly acclaimed 2013 feature film Carlson’s Anna Karenina (Miami, St. Louis), and Joseph Summer’s The Immigrant, portraying legendary tenor Enrico Caruso. The Tempest (Boston). Concert engagements include the major orchestras of Berlin, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Christian Van Horn’s appearance is generously sponsored by Lois B. Siegel.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 20 SOLOMAN HOWARD | WURM Trouble in Tahiti, the Composer/Ariadne auf Naxos, Paula/Florencia Lyric debut en el Amazonas, Miss Jessel/The Turn of the Screw, Charlotte/ Werther, and Unulfo/Rodelinda. Felty is a former apprentice artist The American bass returns to Lyric later this of The Santa Fe Opera, where she received the Katharine Mayer season as Fafner/Ring cycle. He has sung Award. She made her North Carolina Opera concert debut as Fafner/Das Rheingold at L’Opéra de Montréal Clotilde/Norma and her Dayton Opera debut as Maddalena/ and Washington National Opera. Recent appearances include the Rigoletto. She is a four-time District winner of the Metropolitan Metropolitan Opera (Aida, The Magic Flute), LA Opera (Don Opera National Council Auditions. Kathleen Felty is sponsored by Carlo), Opéra National de Bordeaux (Simon Boccanegra), San Heidi Heutel Bohn, Lawrence O. Corry, and Robert C. Marks. Francisco Opera (Turandot), and The Santa Fe Opera (La bohème). A graduate of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz ENRIQUE MAZZOLA | CONDUCTOR Young Artist Program, he has appeared at WNO in The Magic Previously at Lyric: I puritani (2017/18); Flute, Show Boat, Don Giovanni, Approaching Ali, The Lion, The Lucia di Lammermoor (2016/17). Unicorn, and Me, Nabucco, and Philip Glass’s Appomattox. Future performances include English National Opera (Luisa Miller), Gran The Italian conductor, Lyric’s music director Teatre del Liceu (The Barber of Seville), and the Met (The Magic designate, is renowned as an expert Flute). Recipient of the Kennedy Center’s 2019 Marian Anderson interpreter and champion of bel canto opera, and a specialist in Vocal Award, Howard was recognized in 2016 by the Anti- French repertoire and early Verdi. He is principal guest conductor Defamation League with its “Making a Difference Award” for at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and served as artistic and music raising awareness of voting rights and bringing opera into the director of the Orchestre National d’Île de France (2012-19). larger community. Symphonic guest work has included the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, ALISA KOLOSOVA | London Philharmonic, and Brussels Philharmonic. Mazzola has FEDERICA, DUCHESS OF OSTHEIM conducted bel canto works for Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Previously at Lyric: Olga/Eugene Onegin Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the major houses of (2016/17). Florence, Strasbourg, Berlin, Zurich, Moscow, and Tokyo, in addition to a historic Meyerbeer cycle for Deutsche Oper Berlin. The Russian mezzo-soprano came to Past major European festivals have included Glyndebourne international attention at the 2010 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, (including DVD releases of The Barber of Seville and Poliuto), new singing Mozart’s Betulia liberata under the baton of Riccardo productions in 2019 for Bregenz (Rigoletto) and Salzburg (Orphée Muti. Between 2011 and 2014 she was a member of the Vienna aux Enfers), Pesaro (Rossini Opera Festival), Venice, and Aix-en- State Opera ensemble. Recent highlights include such stylistically Provence. The 2019/20 season also includes appearances with the diverse portrayals as Isoletta/La straniera and Marina/Boris Zurich Opera House (Don Pasquale), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Le Godunov (Amsterdam); Dalila/Samson et Dalila (Basel); prophète, Dinorah) and Glyndebourne (L’elisir d’amore). Enrique Maddalena/Rigoletto (Munich, Rome); Suzuki/Madama Butterfly Mazzola’s appearance on the podium is generously sponsored by (Hamburg); Samaritana/Francesca da Rimini (La Scala); the Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O’Leary. Foreign Princess/Rusalka (Paris) and Néris/Médée. Later this season Kolosova will be heard in Munich (Rigoletto, Nabucco) and FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO | Amsterdam (Eugene Onegin). Greatly sought-after in concert DIRECTOR repertoire, she has collaborated with such major conductors as Previously at Lyric: Five productions since Muti (Scriabin’s Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Alexander 1999/00, most recently West Side Story Nevsky, Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Sir John Eliot Gardiner (2018/19); Porgy and Bess (2014/15, 2008/09); (Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass, Zurich), Gustavo Dudamel (Glagolitic Show Boat (2011/12). Mass, Los Angeles Philharmonic), Kazushi Ono (Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, Netherlands Philharmonic), and Jérémie Rhorer (Verdi General director of The Glimmerglass Festival and artistic director Requiem, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the BBC Proms). of Washington National Opera, Francesca Zambello has also served as artistic advisor to the San Francisco Opera and artistic KATHLEEN FELTY | LAURA director of Skylight Music Theatre. Last season she returned to Lyric debut SFO for Carmen and directed Glimmerglass’s Show Boat and La traviata. This season her productions will be seen in St. Paul The mezzo-soprano, a first-year Ryan Opera (The Barber of Seville), Tulsa (Madama Butterfly), Atlanta and Center member, returns to the Lyric stage Washington (Porgy and Bess). Zambello has worked at more than later this season in Die Walküre. A Texas 50 major opera houses and theaters worldwide, from Houston native, she is an alumna of Texas Tech University and the A. J. Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Opera to La Scala, Covent Fletcher Opera Institute at the North Carolina School of the Arts Garden, and the major houses of Paris, Munich, and Sydney. She (Winston-Salem). Her Fletcher performances included the title is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and has received two French role/La Cenerentola, Geneviève/Impressions de Pelléas, Dinah/ Grand Prix des Critiques, three Olivier Awards, two Evening

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 21 Standard Awards, the Golden Mask from Russia, the Russian MARK MCCULLOUGH | Medal for Service to Culture, and the San Francisco Opera Medal. LIGHTING DESIGNER (See Director’s Note, p. 31) Previously at Lyric: West Side Story (2018/19); Porgy and Bess (2014/15, 2008/09); MICHAEL YEARGAN | Show Boat (2011/12). SET DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Nine productions since The lighting designer’s most notable achievements include 1991/92, most recently Rigoletto (2017/18); productions at the Metropolitan Opera (The Marriage of Figaro), Romeo and Juliet, Nabucco (both 2015/16). Vienna Staatsoper (Macbeth, to be reprised there this season), Bolshoi Theatre (La traviata), Beijing’s National Centre for the The American designer has worked in opera for four decades. Performing Arts (Les contes d’Hoffmann), La Scala (Cyrano de He has created sets (and sometimes costumes) for many major Bergerac), Madrid’s Teatro Real (Luisa Miller), and London’s Royal American companies, among them the Metropolitan Opera (12 Opera (The Queen of Spades); the major companies of Washington, productions to date) and San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, Miami, Seattle, Dallas, San Diego, and St. Louis; and Bard Dallas, Seattle, and Washington opera companies, as well as the College’s Fisher Center and the Glimmerglass Festival. Among Glimmerglass Festival, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, McCullough’s extensive theater credits internationally are the Frankfurt Opera, and Opera Australia. Since 1990/91 he has revival of Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway and U.K. tour); Whistle designed for London’s Royal Opera. This season Yeargan designs Down the Wind (Aldwych Theatre, London); The White Devil and the Met’s new Porgy and Bess, and his work will also be seen at Don Carlos (Royal Shakespeare Company); Der Besuch der alten the Berlin State Opera (Rigoletto) and Tulsa Opera (Madama Dame (Ronacher Theatre, Vienna); Artus (St. Gallen, Switzerland) Butterfly). He has designed many Broadway productions winning and Rebecca (St. Gallen, Stuttgart’s Palladium Theater); and Tony Awards for The Light in the Piazza (2005) and South Pacific numerous off-Broadway productions. McCullough’s regional- (2008). Yeargan has also designed numerous productions theater work has been seen at many of this country’s most off-Broadway and for regional U. S. theaters. He is resident set distinguished companies. Mark McCullough is supported by the designer at the Yale Repertory Theatre and Professor of Mary-Louise and James S. Aagard Lighting Director Stage Design at the Yale School of Drama. Endowed Chair.

DUNYA RAMICOVA | MICHAEL BLACK | COSTUME DESIGNER CHORUS MASTER Previously at Lyric: Doctor Atomic (2007/08); Tannhäuser (1988/89); The Mikado (1983). The Australian chorus master held this position in Sydney at Opera Australia from 2001 to 2013. A native of the former Czechoslovakia, the Black has served in this capacity for such designer has created costumes for the Metropolitan Opera (world distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh International Festival, premieres of Philip Glass’s The Voyage and Tobias Picker’s An Opera Holland Park (London), and, in Australia, the Sydney American Tragedy, Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crociata, company Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Choir, Motet Choir, premiere), San Francisco Opera (John Adams’s Doctor Atomic, Cantillation chamber choir, and with Sir Andrew Davis and the world premiere), Seattle Opera, London’s Royal Opera, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Recent activities include preparing Glyndebourne and Salzburg festivals. She has also designed for the Damnation of Faust chorus at the Grant Park Music Festival, where the Guthrie Theater, Lincoln Center, Public Theater, Mark Taper he has worked for two seasons. As one of Australia’s most prominent Forum, Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and many vocal accompanists, Black has regularly performed for broadcasts and others. Her longtime collaboration with Peter Sellars includes all recordings (including numerous appearances on Australian Broadcast of Ramicova’s Lyric productions, as well as the premieres of John Corporation programs). He has served as chorus master on four Adams’s El Niño, Nixon in China, and The Death of Klinghoffer, continents, and his work has been recorded and/or aired on ABC, Tan Dun’s The Peony Pavilion, and Olivier Messiaen’s St. François BBC, PBS, for many HD productions in movie theaters, and on d’Assise. Ramicova, who has taught costume design and related television. He has also been a lecturer at his alma mater, the Sydney subjects at Yale, Harvard, USC/Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, is Conservatorium of Music. Michael Black is the Howard A. Stotler a founding faculty member of the University of California campus Chorus Master Endowed Chair. in Merced. Dunya Ramicova is supported by the Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 22 AUGUST TYE | KATRINA BACHUS | CHOREOGRAPHER ASSOCIATE STAGE DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: 39 productions since Previously at Lyric: Five productions as assistant director since 1993/94 as dancer, choreographer, or 2016/17, most recently Siegfried (2018/19); Die Walküre, Orpheé et ballet mistress, most recently Cendrillon Eurydice (both 2017/18). (2018/19); The Pearl Fishers, Orphée et Eurydice (both 2017/18). The American director, who will return to Lyric later this season for the Ring cycle, is closely associated with Houston Grand The American dancer-choreographer remounted the Opera. She has worked on more than 20 productions there since choreography of Lyric’s Iphigénie en Tauride at San Francisco 2013/14, including both standard repertoire and contemporary Opera and London’s Royal Opera. She has presented a 20-year works. The latter have included the world premieres of Tarik retrospective of her work at Chicago’s Vittum Theater and Ruth O’Regan’s The Phoenix, Carlisle Floyd’s The Prince of Players,and Page Dance Center, as well as in her hometown, Kalamazoo, Iain Bell’s A Christmas Carol. Bachus returns to HGO this season Michigan. A graduate of Western Michigan University, Tye for La favorite. After working with John Neumeier on Orphée et performed with The Kalamazoo Ballet, dancing leading roles in Eurydiceat Lyric, she was associate director for that production at Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and The Nutcracker. She received LA Opera in 2018. She has also assistant-directed Bartlett Sher’s Regional Dance America’s Best Young Choreographer Award new Metropolitan Opera production of Otello. Among the other and is a two-time recipient of the Monticello Young distinguished directors with whom she has collaborated are John Choreographer’s Award. She has performed in Chicago with Caird, Francesca Zambello, John Cox, Carlos Padrissa, and Lyric, Joel Hall Dancers, Salt Creek Ballet, Second City Ballet, James Robinson. and Chicago Folks Operetta. Tye is artistic director at the Hyde Park School of Dance, which she founded in 1993. Four years later she founded Tyego Dance Project, which has performed at Steppenwolf, the Athenaeum, and throughout America in a revival of Spike Jones’s Nutcracker.

SARAH HATTEN | WIGMASTER & MAKEUP DESIGNER

Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer has worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines Metro Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, as well as Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, and the University of Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music. She has also worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B.A. in music at Simpson College. Sarah Hatten is the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 23 Orchestra & Chorus

MUSIC STAFF Amy Hess Contrabassoon Rich Janicki, percussion William C. Billingham Melissa Trier Kirk Lewis Kirk Jared Moseby, organ Susan Miller Hult Roger Kalia Cello Horn Librarian Keun-A Lee Calum Cook, Principal Jonathan Boen, Principal John Rosenkrans, Principal Noah Lindquist Paul Dwyer, Assistant Principal Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Grant Loehnig Mark Brandfonbrener Utility Horn Personnel Manager Francesco Milioto William H. Cernota Robert E. Johnson, Third Horn and Stageband Contractor Jerad Mosbey Laura Deming• Samuel Hamzem Christine Janicki Matthew Piatt Paula Kosower+ Neil Kimel Stefano Sarzani Sonia Mantell CHORUS MASTER Madeline Slettedahl Walter Preucil Trumpet Michael Black Tatiana Vassilieva William Denton, Principal The Howard A. Stotler Eric Weimer Bass Channing Philbrick, Endowed Chair Ian Hallas, Acting Principal Assistant Principal ORCHESTRA Andrew L. W. Anderson Mike Brozick+ REGULAR CHORUS Violin I Andrew J. Keller+ Soprano Robert Hanford, Concertmaster Gregory Sarchet Trombone Elisa Billey Becker• The Mrs. R. Robert Collins R. Trier Jeremy Moeller, Principal Jillian Bonczek Funderburg Endowed Chair Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Sharon Garvey Cohen Sharon Polifrone, Flute Mark Fry+ Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson Assistant Concertmaster Marie Tachouet, Principal Cathleen Dunn Alexander Belavsky Dionne Jackson, Assistant Principal Bass Trombone Janet Marie Farr Kathleen Brauer Alyce Johnson Mark Fry+ Desirée Hassler Pauli Ewing Rachael Holzhausen David Hildner Piccolo Tuba Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki Laura Miller Alyce Johnson Andrew Smith, Principal Kimberly McCord Liba Shacht Heidi Spoor Heather Wittels Oboe Harp Stephani Springer Bing Jing Yu Judith Kulb, Principal Marguerite Lynn Williams, Principal Elizabeth Anne Taylor Judith Zunamon Lewis, Sherry Watkins Violin II Acting Assistant Principal Timpani Kelsea Webb Yin Shen, Principal Anne Bach+ Edward Harrison, Principal John Macfarlane, Assistant Principal Mezzo Bonita Di Bello English Horn Percussion Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Judith Zunamon Lewis Michael Green, Principal Marianna Kulikova Teresa Kay Fream Douglas Waddell, Colleen Lovinello Peter Labella Clarinet Assistant Principal Yvette Smith Ann Palen Charlene Zimmerman, Principal Eric Millstein Marie Sokolova Irene Radetzky Linda A. Baker, Maia Surace John D. Robinson Co-Assistant Principal Extra Musicians Corinne Wallace-Crane David Volfe Susan Warner, Renée-Paule Gauthier, violin Pamela Williams Albert Wang Co-Assistant Principal Injoo Choi, violin Michelle K. Wrighte Aurelien Pederzoli, viola Viola Bass Clarinet Jeremy Attanaseo, bass Tenor Carol Cook, Principal Linda A. Baker Geoffrey Agpalo• Terri Van Valkinburgh, Stageband Musicians Timothy Bradley Assistant Principal Bassoon Matthew Oliphant, horn Hoss Brock Frank W. Babbitt Preman Tilson, Principal Brian Goodwin, horn William M. Combs Patrick Brennan Lewis Kirk, Assistant Principal Ben Wulfman, horn John J. Concepcion Karl Davies Hanna Sterba+ Renée Vogen, horn Kenneth Donovan

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 24 Joseph A. Fosselman CORE SUPPLEMENTARY SUPPLEMENTARY Ryan Townsend Strand Cullen Gandy CHORUS CHORUS Hugo Vera Cameo T. Humes Soprano Mezzo Tyler Samuel Lee Carla Janzen Emily Price Bass Mark Nienow Suzanne M. Kszastowski Mason Cooper Thomas L. Potter Katelyn Lee Tenor Thaddeus Ennen Joe Shadday Justin Berkowitz David Govertsen Mezzo Humberto Borboa Earl Hazell Bass Katie Ruth Bieber Damon Cole Nathaniel Hill Matthew Carroll Amanda Runge Kevin Courtemanche Antoine Hodge David DuBois Emma Sorenson Matthew Daniel Brian Hupp Robert Morrissey Andrew Fisher Jonathan Kimple Kenneth Nichols Tenor Jeremy Ayres Fisher Jess Koehn Thomas Sillitti Jared V. Esguerra Gerald Frantzen Dorian McCall Craig Springer Alex Guerrero Klaus Georg De'Ron McDaniel Jeffrey W. Taylor Jianghai Ho Caleb Morgan Nicholas Ward Bass Garrett Johannsen Ian Murrell Ronald Watkins Michael Cavalieri Luther Lewis Wilbur Pauley Nikolas Wenzel Kirk Greiner Christopher T. Martin Douglas Peters Max Wier Nicolai Janitzky Nathan Oakes Ian R. Prichard Vince Wallace Steven Michael Patrick Dan Richardson Brett Potts William Roberts + Season substitute Joseph Quintana Sean Stanton • Sabbatical Jonathan Wilson

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 25 HEGGIE/MCNALLY DEAD MAN LYRIC PREMIERE NOVEMBER 2 22 WALKING A New York Times best-selling book, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. An Academy Award-nominated fi lm. And one of the most celebrated contemporary operatic works of our time, staged in nearly 60 productions on fi ve continents. This riveting story of a convicted criminal awaiting execution on Death Row and the nun, 2019/20 Sister Helen Prejean, who becomes his spiritual adviser is inspired by SEASON real-life events. It simply demands to be seen. The Barber of Seville Luisa Miller Lyric premiere of Heggie’s Dead Man Walking generously made possible by Dead Man Walking Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow Don Giovanni Madama Butterfl y The Queen of Spades Gotterdämmerung

The Ring Cycle What happens when a notorious womanizer goes too far? Blue Don Giovanni meets his match in Lyric’s lavish production The Three Queens of Mozart’s masterpiece, which features a fi nale so starring Sondra powerful that it changed music forever. Packed with Radvanovsky thrilling melodies that you know, high drama, and Sir Bryn Terfel In Recital eye-popping costumes, don’t miss the passion and 42nd Street ultimate retribution of this iconic classic.

Lyric production revival of Mozart’s Don Giovanni generously made possible by Lead Sponsor The Negaunee Foundation and cosponsors Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis, Nancy and Sanfred Koltun, and the Mazza Foundation.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 26 Lyric Opera of Chicago | 27 Luisa Miller: Verdi looks to the future

By Roger Pines

There are memorable heroines in Giuseppe Verdi’s early operas, but Luisa Miller is the only one who will make you cry. In the entire opera, Luisa has just one moment of happiness. Once her sparkling, ecstatically lovestruck opening aria is over, the plot leads her on a harrowing path of sorrow and betrayal. We feel for her at every moment, and by the end she’s wrenched our hearts to a degree few other operatic leading ladies can match. Audiences owe Verdi a huge debt of gratitude for that unforgettably touching characterization, and indeed, for all the other strengths of this work that make it a glorious experience in the opera house. Luisa Miller presents a Verdi who at the time (1849) was in his mid-thirties and finally on the brink of fulfilling all his gifts as an incomparable creative artist. If you’re just beginning to explore this opera and others from the first decade of his career, you

have spectacular adventures ahead, for the vocal thrills run high, Act Three: Miller (Vitaly Bilyy) the emotions deep. The wealth of stupendous music illuminates comforts his unhappy daughter stories that exude white-hot passion and rich humanity. Luisa (Leah Crocetto). To his audiences, the Verdi of Luisa Miller had already When the circumstances of a premiere were comfortable for demonstrated extraordinary talent (he had 14 operas under him (not always the case), Verdi was able to relax and work with his belt), so they knew to expect high-quality work from him. a certain confidence. From the very start, though, he was never, While his previous operas hadn’t all been equally triumphant, ever satisfied; like Gaetano Donizetti before him, he often tortured the greatest of them – Nabucco, Ernani, and Macbeth – had himself with worry, doubt, and frustration, especially when he shown everyone that he was capable of profoundly thoughtful, didn’t get the singers he wanted for a premiere or a major revival. meaningful music drama. The feelings communicated by all his Through and through he was a man of the theater, and serving the protagonists reached out to the public with a vividness and an theatrical side of a work was always as crucial to him as musical immediacy that were unique. excellence. Even in the early years, whenever he supervised a production, he insisted on total dedication from the artists and could never rest until a scene was right (the story was told by the first Lady Macbeth that he rehearsed her big duet with the leading man 150 times). By the 1840s he was gaining increasing respect in Italy as someone who represented in every way a new standard – a new vision – of what opera was meant to be onstage. Luisa Miller exemplifies everything that makes the earlier operas of Verdi so exciting for audiences. This work comes at the tail end of Verdi’s self-named “galley years,” when he was perfecting his craft and gradually finding his way as a musical dramatist. But Luisa Miller is also at the same time a transitional piece, a bridge connecting Verdi’s early operas with the mastery of what he would produce just a few years later. In Luisa Miller listeners can relish the vigor and tunefulness of Rigoletto, a dramatic fire anticipating Il trovatore, and a tragic romance reminding us that La traviata was soon to come. If you know the most dramatic works of Verdi’s nineteenth- century predecessors, the early operas will sound familiar to you. Act One: Duchess Federica arrives at Walter’s castle. From the very beginning (his “debut” was Oberto, premiered in

All production photos from San Francisco Opera, 2015/16 season. Photographer: Cory Weaver 1839), Verdi imported the rhythmic energy that characterized the

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 28 operas of Rossini, although on a grander scale. And he employed The first manner was dominated by “the grandiose,” whereas in other basic components that were absolutely essential to Rossini, the second manner, “the grandiosity decreases, even vanishes: Bellini, Donizetti, and all the other Italian composers of the time: every character stands only for himself; and because the emotions the opening choruses, the large-scale finales, and above all, the belong to individuals, they have less need of exaggeration; hence central ingredient of those operas – the solo scena. This is the the vocal lines, however impassioned, proceed more calmly. The audience’s most important opportunity to get to know a principal melodies are lighter and less broad, the rhythms more fluent and character, giving us an in-depth look into that character’s soul. less involved.” That happens through the linking together of several different Luisa Miller almost didn’t happen. Verdi had a longstanding musical elements to form a vivid, totally memorable scene. contract to write a new opera for Naples’s prestigious opera As heard in Luisa Miller, what makes a “scena”? house, the Teatro San Carlo. He tried to cancel the contract, but the San Carlo’s resident librettist, Salvadore Cammarano, begged Opening recitative – through what is essentially sung speech, ▪ Verdi to fulfill his obligation. After the composer’s initial idea for a a dramatic situation is established. subject was rejected by the censors, Cammarano suggested that Cavatina – the character sings a dignified, slow, legato- ▪ the two of them take on a play by Friedrich von Schiller. Verdi oriented aria, expressing his/her emotional state at hoped to create what he described as a “brief drama with plenty that moment. of interest, action, and above all feeling – which would all make Connecting recitative – the situation develops further, usually ▪ it easier to set to music.” Extravagantly devoted to the works of with a new discovery for the character, leading to a change Schiller, Verdi used them as his dramatic sources for three other of heart or an important decision. operas – Giovanna d’Arco (1845), I masnadieri (The Bandits, 1847), Cabaletta – the character responds with a faster, much more ▪ and Don Carlos (1867). driving and aggressive aria than the cavatina, with the Luisa Miller originates with Schiller’s Kabale und Liebe (1784), music generally including some moments of vocal fireworks. a title often translated as Love and Politics but more accurately Intrigue and Love. Only the absolute essentials of the play were Emotional communication in the earlier Verdi operas was kept for the libretto. The 12-character cast required some major direct, unfussy, and basic – painting with primary colors, so to consolidating to create a three-act opera in which the typical speak. The dramatic content also related to royalty and nobility. operatic conventions of Verdi’s day could be employed. There were several real-life personalities, from the Babylonian This drama unfolds through music that seems at every king Nebuchadnezzar in Nabucco to Joan of Arc in Giovanna moment miraculously attuned to character, not always the d’Arco, King Charles V of Spain in Ernani, and Doge Francesco case in Verdi’s early operas. The sweetest and most loving of Foscari of Venice in I due Foscari. But in Luisa Miller, Verdi took a heroines, Luisa moves from the dazzling staccatos and filigree of different turn: referring to Luisa and her father, the critic Andrew her captivating entrance aria (a reminder that Rigoletto’s Gilda Porter succinctly declared that the opera “reflects Verdi’s new was only two years in the future) to the sweeping, despairing, concern with ‘ordinary’ – but interesting – people in interesting grand-scale lines of her scena in Act Two. Then, in Act Three, predicaments.” she faces one of the toughest tests posed to any Verdi soprano: The great difference between where the composer began two huge duets and a trio, sung without a break. In the first duet, with his first operas and where he arrived in Luisa Miller can with Miller (baritone), she moves from misery to hope while be summed up by Verdi’s contemporary, Abramo Basevi, Italy’s negotiating music requiring the absolute ultimate in technical most distinguished musicologist of that time. He labeled pre- and prowess. The second duet, with Rodolfo (tenor), asks her to post-Luisa Miller as Verdi’s “first manner” and “second manner.”

Act Two: Now that Rodolfo (Michael Fabiano) has lost Luisa, he doesn’t care Act Three: Rodolfo (Michael Fabiano) believes Luisa (Leah Crocetto) has what fate may bring him. betrayed him.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 29 plumb the most agonizing emotional depths in music that turns can rejoice in warmly alluring contralto tone. increasingly weighty and dramatic as it proceeds. Then fi nally, This opera’s choral episodes aren’t as abundant or as lengthy in the concluding trio, when the dying Luisa asks for her father’s as those of two better-known early Verdi works, Nabucco and blessing, Verdi gives her a sequence of luminous, exquisitely Macbeth, but those scenes nonetheless contribute notably to the sculpted phrases that could draw tears from a stone. crackling theatrical atmosphere. If you want the thrill of large- Rodolfo, too, has his scena, featuring a cavatina that, when scale Verdi, you need only listen to the Act-One fi nale: Miller’s it comes to Verdi tenor solos, is second in popularity only to violent opening phrases, the passionate responses of Rodolfo the Rigoletto Duke’s “La donna è mobile.” Once he’s sung that and his father, Luisa’s soaring line above the men, and then – at fervently nostalgic cavatina, Rodolfo must turn up the dramatic voltage in the barnstorming cabaletta: stunned by Luisa’s precisely the right dramatic moment – the magnifi cent choral supposed betrayal and with a loveless marriage to Duchess intervention supporting Luisa’s despairing phrases. Federica looming ahead, he gives way to reckless defi ance By comparison to what we hear from Verdi earlier in in music that the eminent Verdi scholar Julian Budden aptly the 1840s, it’s Luisa Miller alone that shows him at a crossroads. described as “almost demented.” About to reach his absolute zenith, he’s building on what he Miller’s big solo scene in Act One gives the baritone learned from Rossini, Donizetti, and the rest, but also pointing the opportunities for excitingly broad, surging phrases, but Verdi asks way forward to his own glorious operatic future. him for more soul-searching, more profoundly expressive singing in the Act Three duet with Luisa. Here is a baritone/soprano Roger Pines, Lyric’s dramaturg, writes for major opera publications scene that, in terms of sheer eloquence, can absolutely stand internationally and has appeared annually on the Metropolitan comparison with the three father-daughter duets in Rigoletto as Opera broadcasts’ “Opera Quiz” for the past 13 seasons. Earlier this well as the Germont/Violetta scene in La traviata. Count Walter, a somewhat softer, less vicious fi gure than in Schiller’s play, is at his year he lectured at both DePaul University and the Merola Program most imposing in his scene with the despicable Wurm. They give at San Francisco Opera. During the 2019/20 academic year he will us a true rarity in opera – a duet for two basses. And then there is be an instructor in opera repertoire at Northwestern University’s Federica, not a character with huge dramatic interest but one who Bienen School of Music.

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By Francesca Zambello

Luisa Miller is one of Verdi’s great heroines. She is not one of the terrify us…Sight is always more powerful to man than subtle, complex women we find in his later operas. She is a simple description; hence the stage acts more powerfully than morality girl, but a girl of enormous strength. Luisa Miller is considered a or law.” transitional piece for Verdi – it came before Rigoletto, Traviata and In Schiller’s Kabale und Liebe, we see vice and venality most his other “greatest hits” – but the music has tremendous force and clearly in the character of Wurm, but I believe the creators are color. I’m always very happy to have a chance to revisit it. also making a larger statement about class in our society, about I find that the characters in earlier Verdi are very sharp and the cavalier way in which Luisa is ultimately destroyed. Wurm, the strong, which makes them exciting to play. Luisa’s feelings for villain, is interesting because he’s not really nobility – he’s a Rodolfo will not be shaken, and her love for her father is even henchman, a climber. He has more power than Luisa and her more fierce. Verdi was drawn over and over to these intense father, and he dresses like he belongs to the upper classes, but he father-daughter relationships, but Luisa stands apart in her will never completely ascend the social ranks. willingness to fight for her father, to make the ultimate sacrifice. In Luisa Miler, Verdi is painting with bold strokes, and I Of course, Verdi and Cammarano, his librettist, did not wanted to do the same thing with this production, contrasting the invent Luisa out of whole cloth. The opera was based on a play, pastoral, idyllic world of Luisa and her father with the noble Kabale und Liebe (“Intrigue and Love”), by Friedrich von Schiller, world. I think people move differently in these kinds of who’s often called the German Shakespeare. His plays inspired so environments. In our production, the peasants are very real, but many operas, including Verdi’s Don Carlos and I masnadieri. when we move into in the world of the Count, it’s a series of Schiller was a playwright, poet and philosopher. He believed postures, as if everyone is always striking a pose. It is a world the theater had a vital role in shaping the world we live in, not by where Luisa is completely at sea. showing some kind of utopian dream of how we should live, but Luisa Miller is Verdi’s fifteenth opera, and people often talk rather by forcing us to confront society’s problems. In his essay about it as a transitional piece. I actually feel the transition “On the Theater as a Moral Institution,” Schiller wrote, “Where happening over the course of the opera. It’s as if we see a talented the influence of civil law ends, that of the stage begins. Where young composer fully growing into his powers as we move from venality and corruption blind and bias justice and judgement, and Act One, which is quite direct, to Act Two, where we begin to see intimidation perverts its ends, the stage seizes the sword and more texture and complexity of character. And Act Three feels to scales and pronounces a terrible verdict on vice. The fields of me like an arrival – it is a truly great play wedded to great fancy and of history are open to the stage; great criminals of the melodies. past live over again in the drama, and thus benefit an indignant Although we no longer live in a literal world of princes and posterity. They pass before us as empty shadows of their age, and peasants, the class warfare at the heart of Luisa Miller feels very we heap curses on their memory while we enjoy on the stage the contemporary to me, which makes the opera’s tragic ending very horror of their crimes. When morality is no more taught, extraordinarily moving. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to religion no longer received, nor laws exist, Medea would still revisit the production here in Chicago with our terrific cast.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 31 After the From Lyric’s curtain falls archives

It’s always wonderful to extend the experience of an opera performance by talking about it afterwards!

Would you like to continue exploring Verdi and Luisa Miller? Here are some topics that can inspire lively conversations among you and your operagoing friends: ▪ What intrigued you the most about the drama of this opera? ▪ What did you most enjoy about Verdi’s music? ▪ Did the music remind you of any other Verdi operas you’d heard before? ▪ How do you respond to Rodolfo’s treatment of Luisa in the final scene? ▪ Two of the principals, Wurm and Federica, don’t have their own arias. If Verdi had given an aria to each of them, what do you think those arias would have been about?

MORE, PLEASE Craving more about Verdi and Luisa Miller? Lyric has lots of suggestions and resources to help you explore more about this production and its stories. Visit lyricopera.org/AfterCurtain for cast profiles and video extras, suggestions on further reading and listening, relive moments from the show, take in notes about the opera and much more. Enjoy! Tony Romano Tony

In Lyric’s first Luisa Miller (1982), American soprano Ellen Shade sang the title role opposite the Rodolfo of Italian tenor Giuliano Ciannella.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 32 From Lyric’s archives

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 33 Beyond the stage, and beyond the boundaries that often define opera companies, Lyric is igniting creativity across Chicago. Through innovative learning opportunities, creative exploration, and artistic creation and collaboration, Lyric, with your support, encourages students, educators, families, audiences, and Chicagoans from neighborhoods across the city to share their voices and embrace the power and relevance of opera as a catalyst for growth and change.

Participants in We Got Next!, a new work performed in 2019 by EmpowerYouth!, a collaborative program between Lyric and the Chicago Urban League. Kyle Flubacker

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 34 Beyond the stage

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 35 We are all Lyric

Some years ago, in a landscape where many performing arts organizations were scaling back their educational and community engagement programs, Lyric took a bold step and increased its commitment to innovative learning, civic engagement, and to of-our-time creative programming. Launched under a new Lyric Unlimited brand, these initiatives for audiences, students, teachers, families and community groups across the city proved wildly successful, made real positive differences in people’s lives, and evolved Lyric into an organization that is deeply connected with the city it is here to serve.

Now, as Lyric continues to invest in signature learning This brings forward and integrate the full range of Lyric opportunities, develop new partnerships, and increase its civic activities, expanding what the Lyric brand means in our city and footprint, providing value to all we serve, the Lyric Unlimited across the country – from grand opera to community created brand is being retired. Why? Because all of its initiatives are now performances; from chamber operas that explore contemporary so integral to Lyric – so central to its vision to redefine what a 20th issues to boundary-breaking school and youth programs. century opera company can be to an ever more diverse range Through your support and participation, Lyric is truly of constituents – that programs that were once branded Lyric leading the advancement of opera in America. Unlimited will now be known as Lyric. Kyle Flubacker

Teacher Professional Development Workshops | Each fall, Lyric welcomes teachers from across Chicago to free Teacher Professional Development Workshops. Through these events, high school and elementary teachers work side by side with Lyric staff and professional teaching artists to plan lessons making curricular connections and exploring strategies for bringing opera into their classrooms. In the 2018/19 season, 40,049 students participated in Lyric programs, including 15,227 Chicago public school students from a total of 102 Chicago public school districts.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 36 LYRIC’S IN-DEPTH SCHOOL RESIDENCY PROGRAMS Lyric’s Opera Residencies for Schools Program uses the power Our teaching artist taught vocal pedagogy and performance of opera to engage students in experiences that are culturally practice, but also entrepreneurship and personal branding. In the relevant, address specific learning goals, and accommodate vocal pedagogy classes, she really focused on freeing the voice and diverse learners. This is achieved through meaningful dialogue allowing the unique colors of each student’s voice to come through. with teachers to tailor programs that meet their students’ needs. She taught that wherever they are in their journey, there are great Lyric offers three unique in-school residency programs: places they can go. She was a vocal coach and a life coach -- we’ve had the residency for three years; she brought us from one choir to four ensembles, and from doing normal concerts in spring and Elementary Opera Residency (Grades 1-5) winter to performing with professionalism at a Cubs game at owner Explore Opera Residency (Grades 6-12) Tom Ricketts’ invitation. High School Choir Residency (Grades 9-12) Trevor Nicholas, SennArts Music program at Nicholas Senn High School For 2019/20, Lyric will have residency programs in 76 classrooms across 29 schools, impacting approximately 2,200 CPS students throughout the city. Read what area teachers have to say about the impact of these programs:

Our teaching artist was great in choosing students who were working on their self-esteem, giving them the adventure of expressing themselves in the art. The residency program speaks to the whole child. In school, we can stay so focused on reading, math, and social studies – we forget that children should have multiple adventures to express themselves and their intelligence. With this program you can bring in the writing, the math, the social studies. It opens up so much for a teacher in a non-traditional setting. Carla Jones, Cook Elementary School

The program also helps students with acceptance of other people, the acceptance of failure when they make mistakes and the resiliency of pressing through – there’s teamwork involved. In terms of curricular value, there’s the vocabulary they learn – what a soliloquy is, an aria, a libretto – this is common for high schools, not Grades 4-6! The creative writing they do within this structure is incredible. A lot of the writing expected of them in class isn’t something they do with a group, it’s individual, so to collaborate with others in creating a written piece is no easy thing, but something that will be very valuable to them in the rest of their lives. Kyle Flubacker Jonathan Zielinski, Drummond Elementary School Kyle Flubacker Kyle Flubacker

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 37 Contributors to Lyric Unlimited - Learning & Creative Engagement

Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of Lyric Unlimited - Learning & Creative Engagement initiatives.

With major support provided In recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for from the Nancy W. Knowles Student Excellence, Lyric named the Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. and Family Performances Fund Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in support Opera always played an important role in the of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. life of the late Nancy W. Knowles. Her love for Knowles Student and Family Performances Fund. Ms. Knowles the art form was nurtured by her family’s musical generously underwrote the appearance of Lyric’s world premiere traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of records to Bel Canto on PBS Great Performances in 2017, and had previously play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always in my home.” cosponsored several mainstage operas. In recognition of her Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, and leadership outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she received the Carol abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board of Directors Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity.

Chicago Public Schools Earth to Kenzie Family Day at Lyric Deloitte Bus Scholarship Anonymous Donors (2) Bank of America The Ferguson-Yntema Family U.S. Bank Foundation Robert and Evelyn McCullen Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow General Support Elaine Frank Wintrust Community Banks Anonymous Donors (4) Jackie and James Holland Opera Residencies for Schools Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie An Anonymous Donor Blue Bruyninckx Pre-Opera Talks Robert & Isabelle Bass Allstate Insurance Company The Barker Welfare Foundation Raynette and Ned Boshell Foundation, Inc. BMO Harris Bank BNSF Railway Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Magellan Corporation Helen Brach Foundation Senior Matinee Polk Bros. Foundation Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Envestnet Buehler Family Foundation Bruyninckx Michael and Leigh Huston Shirley and Benjamin Performances for Students Debbie K. Wright Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Gould Endowment Fund Mrs. James S. Aagaard Belytschko Lannan Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Caminos a la ópera The Jobs Initiative Chicago The Retirement Research Anonymous Donors (2) Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Molex Foundation John and Rosemary Brown Family and the Dan J. Epstein Family MUFG Siragusa Family Foundation Foundation Foundation Estate of Nancy D. Anderson Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Northern Trust Student Backstage Tours and the Dan J. Epstein Family Laurie and Michael Petersen Shirley and Benjamin Gould Foundation EmpowerYouth! Charles and M.R. Shapiro Endowment Fund Shirley and Benjamin Gould The Beaubien Family Foundation, Inc. Endowment Fund Eisen Family Foundation Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust Youth Opera Council Dan and Caroline Grossman Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Terry J. Medhurst James and Brenda Grusecki and the Dan J. Epstein Family Penelope and Robert Steiner Anne and Craig Linn Foundation NEXT Student Ticket Program John Hart and Carol Prins Fifth Third Bank Leadership Funding JPMorgan Chase & Co. Eric and Deb Hirschfield The Grainger Foundation Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Dr. Scholl Foundation OPERA America Additional Support Segal Family Foundation Estate of Pierrette E. Sauvat Paul and Mary Anderson Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Berggruen Institute The Brinson Foundation

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 38

To keep opera a must-see, must-hear experience, the art form needs outstanding artists who can convey through singing and acting the emotional range and engaging storytelling that are opera’s hallmarks. Lyric, through The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, identifies exceptionally talented emerging artists from around the world and provides them with comprehensive training and performance opportunities. On the world’s stages, the Center’s impressive roster of alumni continually proves the value of training at Lyric.

The 2019/20 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

Soprano Tenor Mathilda Edge Mario Rojas Sponsored by Sponsored by Maurice J. and Elizabeth Patricia Frank F. Cheney Soprano Foundation Emily Pogorelc Baritone Sponsored by Christopher Sally and Michael Kenney Feder, Ms. Gay K. Sponsored by Stanek, Mr. and An Anonymous Mrs. Roger Stone Donor and Jennifer L. Baritone Stone Ricardo José Mezzo-soprano Rivera Kayleigh Decker Sponsored by Sponsored by Mrs. Myung S. The C. G. Pinnell Chung Family, Dr. Family David H. Whitney Mezzo-soprano and Dr. Juliana Kathleen Felty Chyu, Drs. Joan Sponsored by and Russ Zajtchuk Heidi Heutel Bohn, Bass-baritone Lawrence O. David Weigel Corry, Robert C. Sponsored by Lois Marks B. Siegel, Michael Contralto and Salme Harju Lauren Decker Steinberg, Sponsored by Mrs. J. W. Van An Anonymous Gorkom Donor, Susan Bass M. Miller, Thierer Anthony Reed Family Foundation Sponsored by J. Tenor Thomas Hurvis Eric Ferring Pianist Sponsored by Madeline Richard O. Ryan, Slettedahl Richard W. Shepro Sponsored by and Lindsay E. Nancy Dehmlow, Roberts, Cynthia Loretta N. Julian, Vahlkamp and Philip G. Lumpkin Todd Rosenberg Robert Kenyon Todd Rosenberg Todd

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Ryan Opera Center

Front row, left to right Mario Rojas, Kayleigh Decker, Emily Pogorelc, Christopher Kenney Back row, left to right Ricardo José Rivera, Kathleen Felty, Anthony Reed, Lauren Decker, David Weigel, Mathilda Edge, Eric Ferring, Madeline Slettedahl

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 41 Ryan Opera Center alumni around the world

DIANA NEWMAN At Lyric this season: Wellgunde/Götterdämmerung and Das Rheingold (pictured here, 2016/17). Currently: The Magic Flute, The Dallas Opera. Recently: Die Fledermaus, Palm Beach Opera; concerts with Los Angeles Philharmonic and Alabama Symphony.

My time in the Ryan Opera Center has been invaluable and transformational. The program has given me a safe environment to experiment and take the risks I needed to grow, while simultaneously pushing me to perform at the highest standard of which I was capable. I’ve had the opportunity to sing alongside some of the greatest talents in our industry and to learn from conductors and directors working at the premier level, and through them to begin to discover what my own voice can do. Most importantly, I have benefitted from the support of a legion of colleagues, administrators, and audience members whom I’m proud to consider my artistic family. Todd Rosenberg Todd

THIS SEASON Roy Cornelius Smith Marjorie Owens Takaoki Onishi Peter Grimes Turandot Madama Butterfly National Theater Canadian Opera Opera Philadelphia Mannheim Company (Toronto)

PROGRAM STAFF Administration Deborah Birnbaum Marina Vecci Artistic/Production Personnel Dan Novak Sir Andrew Davis Alessandra Visconti Michael Christie Director, The Ryan Opera Center Matthew A. Epstein Melissa Wittmeier Ari Pelto Board Endowed Chair Renée Fleming Foreign Language Conductors Craig Terry Enrique Mazzola Instruction Louisa Muller Music Director Gerald Martin Moore Dawn Arnold Patricia Racette The Jannotta Family Louisa Muller Katie Klein Directors Endowed Chair Patricia Racette Andrew Gordon Knox Donald Claxon Julia Faulkner Anne Sofie von Otter Laurel Krabacher Bill Walters Director of Vocal Studies Guest Master Artists E. Loren Meeker Stage Managers Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation William C. Billingham Acting and Movement Theresa Ham Renée Fleming Alan Darling Instruction Wardrobe Advisor Laurann Gilley Orit Carpenter Noah Lindquist Performance Psychology Faculty Celeste Rue Roger Pines Julia Faulkner Eric Weimer Guest Lecturer and Consultant W. Stephen Smith Pedro Yanez Vocal Instruction Coaching Staff The Robert and Ellen Marks Irina Feoktistova Vocal Studies Program Julia Savoie Klein Endowed Chair in honor Derek Matson of Gianna Rolandi Sharon Peterson

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 42 Ryan Opera Center contributors

Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions in support of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE WFMT RECITAL SERIES H. Earl Hoover Foundation INSTRUCTION Julie and Roger Baskes Illinois Arts Council Erma S. Medgyesy Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, WORKSHOP USMC Memorial Fund GUEST MASTER ARTISTS PERFORMANCES Stephen A. Kaplan Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Martha A. Hesse Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation LAUNCHPAD GENERAL SUPPORT Jean McLaren and Sally and Michael Feder Aria Society John Nitschke Leslie Fund, Inc. $100,000 and above Helen Melchior Judith W. McCue and Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Charles Morcom Howard M. McCue III The Elizabeth Morse Platinum Grand Benefactor Charitable Trust MASTER CLASSES to Palladium Grand Benefactor Phyllis Neiman Mrs. Thomas D. Heath $50,000 to $99,999 Margo and Michael Martha A. Hesse Estate of Kip Kelley Oberman and Family Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud NATIONAL AUDITIONS D. Elizabeth Price American Airlines Golden Grand Benefactor Mrs. Robert E. Sargent to Titanium Grand Benefactor The George L. Shields Foundation RENÉE FLEMING $25,000 to $49,999 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood MASTER CLASS Mary Ellen Hennessy Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Julian Family Foundation Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Dan and Patty Walsh Croskery Lauridsen Debbie K. Wright RYAN OPERA CENTER Lyric Young Professionals GALA Ingrid Peters Benefactor to Lead Individual Sponsor Walter Family Foundation Premier Benefactor Richard O. Ryan $5,000 to $9,999 Lead Corporate Sponsor Silver Grand Benefactor Anonymous (2) Mayer Brown to Mercury Grand Benefactor Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman $10,000 to $24,999 Mrs. Sheila Dulin TRAINING PROGRAM Anonymous (2) Stephen and Mary Etherington National Endowment for the Arts Estate of Walter (Fred) Bandi The Blanny A. Haganah Family Fund Paul and Robert Barker Foundation James and Mary Houston VOICE INSTRUCTION C. Bekerman, M.D. Dr. Katherine Knight Anonymous Donor Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Jeffrey and Cynthia McCreary Robert and Isabelle Bass Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Foundation, Inc. Erika E. Erich Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Elizabeth F. Cheney Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Foundation David S. Fox Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Mira Frohnmayer Mary Patricia Gannon Marilee and Richard Wehman and Sandra Sweet Sue and Melvin Gray Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by July 29th, 2019.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 43 With the generous support of individuals and organizations, Lyric is leading the advancement of opera in America—continually advancing artistic excellence, increasing relevance and reach for both traditional and new audiences, engaging our diverse communities through signature learning and exploration initiatives, and expanding our role as a cultural cornerstone in Chicago. You are our partners in this important shared enterprise—and we sincerely thank you.

Two young members of the West Side Story audience at a matinee last season. Kyle Flubacker

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 44 Thank you for your support

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 45 Production sponsors

Lyric is grateful for our 2019/20 season production sponsors

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE THE QUEEN OF SPADES Liz Stiffel Margot and Josef Lakonishok Allan and Elaine Muchin Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG LUISA MILLER Marlys A. Beider Helen and Sam Zell

THE RING CYCLE 2016-2020 Lead Sponsor: An Anonymous Donor Julie and Roger Baskes Cosponsors: Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Liz Stiffel Ada and Whitney Addington The Nelson Cornelius Production Endowment Fund

DEAD MAN WALKING Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow

DON GIOVANNI Lead Sponsor: The Negaunee Foundation Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis Additional Support: Robin Angly Nancy and Sanfred Koltun Richard J. and Barbara Franke Mazza Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts

THREE QUEENS STARRING SONDRA 42ND STREET RADVANOVSKY Lead Sponsor: The Negaunee Foundation Ethel and William Gofen An Anonymous Donor Harris Family Foundation Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly Lead Corporate Sponsor: MADAMA BUTTERFLY Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Marion A. Cameron

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 46 Aria Society spotlight 2019/20

The Aria Society | The Aria Society is one of Lyric’s most generous donor groups. Members are recognized prominently as champions of the art form and have multiple opportunities throughout the year to engage in meaningful ways with Lyric’s leadership and main stage artists.

ABBOTT FUND Foundation is intended to honor him and his ideals. At Lyric, the Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter of corporate contributors to Lyric Opera of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming, and Chicago, with a longstanding tradition has generously committed to a high level of multi-year support. of dedicated support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has generously cosponsored JULIE AND ROGER BASKES Miles D. White 25 Lyric productions, including this season’s Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership revival of The Barber of Seville. Abbott has championed Lyric’s and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. achievements by making a leadership commitment to the Subscribers for more than four decades, they Breaking New Ground Campaign. “Lyric is one of the treasures have generously supported Lyric’s Ryan Opera that make Chicago the world-class city that it is. We’re proud Center activities as previous cosponsors of to be associated with it,” says Miles D. White, Abbott’s Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the Ryan Opera Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. They have cosponsored many valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors. productions including last season’s Elektra and this season's Luisa Miller. They also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking ADA AND WHITNEY ADDINGTON New Ground Campaign to strengthen the future of Lyric Opera of Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Chicago. Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board Lyric subscribers and donors. They have of Directors and Executive Committee. Julie is also Chairman of contributed generously to the Annual the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of Campaign and the Breaking New Ground the Ryan Opera Center Board. Campaign, and have made a leadership gift in support of Lyric’s new Ring cycle. The Addingtons have MARLYS A. BEIDER also invested in the company’s future through their planned gift As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 to Lyric. Lyric is fortunate to have Dr. Whitney Addington as a years, Marlys has contributed to the Annual member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Campaign and is a Bel Canto Benefactor of the planned giving Overture Society. AMERICAN AIRLINES Her planned gift commitment created the This season we celebrate 38 years of vital Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair corporate partnership with American in memory of her late husband, Harold Beider. Marlys Beider Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera cosponsored several productions including Elektra (2012/13), of Chicago. In recognition of the company’s Parsifal (2013/14) and Tosca (2014/15), and has committed significant contribution to the Building on generous leadership gifts to cosponsor two of Lyric’s new Ring Franco Tedeschi Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine cycle productions, Das Rheingold (2016/17) and this season's level of the Lyric Opera House is named the American Airlines Götterdämmerung. Mezzanine. American Airlines provides important in-kind support for Lyric’s programs and special events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice RANDY L. AND MELVIN R. BERLIN President of American Airlines, proudly Devoted fans of opera education and the arts, serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Randy and the late Melvin Berlin are beloved Labor Relations Committee. members of the Lyric family. “It’s part of Chicago for us. It enriches the city and the PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION community, and we like to be part of that,” The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society said the late Mr. Berlin. The Berlins have contributed significantly through the performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, to the Annual Campaign and made a leadership gift to the and alleviation of poverty. The Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Breaking New Ground Campaign. Together they have generously Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated the early cosponsored many productions including last season's West Side part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member Story and this season's Madama Butterfly. of John Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, self reliance, and optimism, and the

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 47 BMO HARRIS BANK stage technology, we understood that to be a serious problem At BMO, our purpose is to "Boldly Grow that needed to be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s mission to be the Good, in business and life" by driving the best opera company in North America, and in order to be positive change for our customers, the best, we must have access to the best productions.” Lyric is employees and the communities we serve. honored to have John Butler serve on its Board of Directors and BMO is proud to support Lyric through Investment Committee. Richard Pomeroy various special projects and joined the production sponsorship family last season supporting La traviata. MARION A. CAMERON BMO is supporting Lyric’s chamber opera Blue this season. Lyric Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support is honored to have Richard “Rick” Pomeroy, Senior Managing and leadership of Marion A. Cameron. Director, BMO Family Offi ce, serve on its Board of Directors and A subscriber and donor for more than Investment Committee. “Opera is truly an inspiration. It affects 20 years, Lyric gratefully acknowledges how we see and interpret the world around us, and it’s our hope her outstanding generosity, through her that the support we provide Lyric will help increase exposure to leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, and her such a beautiful form of many production cosponsorships, including this season’s Madama artistic expression.” Butterfl y. Ms. Cameron is the CEO of Sipi Metals Corp., which continues to support the widely popular Stars of Lyric Opera HENRY M. AND GILDA R. at Millennium Park concert. Marion Cameron is a member BUCHBINDER FAMILY of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Finance Committees, Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda and Chair of the Investment Committee. Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric family. Committed to sustaining ELIZABETH F. CHENEY the exceptional quality of Lyric’s artistic FOUNDATION product, the Buchbinders made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Lyric remains deeply grateful for the long- Breaking New Ground Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda term generosity of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Buchbinder Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. They have also Foundation, one of Chicago’s nonprofi t been longtime generous donors to the Annual Campaign, and leaders in arts support and their multi-year are members of the production sponsorship family, cosponsoring Elizabeth F. Cheney commitment to Lyric's Ryan Opera Center. this season’s production of Luisa Miller. “I really do believe that During the 2019/20 season, the Cheney Foundation is supporting Lyric is the best opera company in the world,” is Gilda’s heartfelt the Director of Vocal Studies faculty position, the singer sponsor- assessment, to which Hank adds, “the productions are done so ship of tenor Mario Rojas, and Guest Master Teacher and Artist well, and stage sets are marvelous.” Lyric is honored to have Gilda residencies. Lyric is honored to have foundation director Allan Drebin Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the Production serve on its Board of Directors and the Ryan Opera Center Board. Sponsorship Committee. MRS. JOHN V. CROWE BULLEY & ANDREWS Peggy and the late Jack Crowe are generous Founded 1891, Bulley & Andrews is and passionate members of the Lyric family, one of the Midwest’s most trusted and evidenced by their major support of the accomplished construction companies. Breaking New Ground Campaign and the The fourth generation, family-owned fi rm Renée Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy offers clients a full-range of construction Crowe's signifi cant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming Allan E. Bulley, III services including general contracting, the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fi fth fl oor in memory construction management, design/build, and masonry and of Jack Crowe's mother. Lyric was very fortunate to have Jack Crowe concrete restoration. Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, serve as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of supported Lyric Unlimited’s Performances for Students programs, Lyric's Board of Directors. Their beloved daughter Mimi Mitchell, and is a cosponsor of Lyric’s Ring cycle. past President of Women's Board, is proud to carry on the family Lyric is pleased to have Allan E. Bulley, legacy as a newly appointed member of the Board Directors. III as a member of its Board of Directors. THE CROWN FAMILY THE BUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée Longtime members of the Lyric family and Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of from Dubuque, Iowa, John and Alice Butler Lyric. The Crown Family is a sponsor of the recently made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Renée Fleming Initiative and made generous Breaking New Ground Campaign’s stage gifts to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Breaking improvement project. John says, “When Alice Lester and New Ground Campaign. Mrs. Crown is a past John & Alice Butler and I heard that Lyric was unable to share Renée Crown President of the Women’s Board. Mr. Crown productions with other houses due to our outdated and unreliable joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and serves as Chairman

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 48 of the Executive Committee. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition CHARITABLE TRUST of their outstanding leadership and commitment to Lyric. Lyric is One of two trusts established in memory of also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown serve on its Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th- esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown century industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is of Chicago. Elizabeth Morse a major, and deeply appreciated, leader among Genius Lyric’s contributors. Through the Trust’s support THE DAVEE FOUNDATION of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and Lyric is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late James L. Alexander seek to enrich the quality of life in Chicago, Ruth Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity especially for youth and elderly citizens. In recognition of the over the years. The Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago- Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Campaign support, Lyric area charities reflects the Davees’ wide-ranging interests, named the distinctive Opera House chimes and music library in including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric is fortunate honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along with its sister trust, The to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has sponsored Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s many mainstage productions. In addition to production future for generations to come. The Davee Foundation provided sponsorship, the Trust has helped underwrite Lyric’s ongoing critical preliminary support to enhance amplification and sound efforts to diversify its various boards and preserve Lyric’s history systems used in Lyric's musicals and has generously cosponsored through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric the annual musical including this season’s 42nd Street. named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse Genius Conference Room in order to show its STEFAN T. EDLIS AND GAEL NEESON grateful appreciation for the Trust’s significant gift to the Breaking Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize the Trust’s and Gael Neeson are actively involved with commitment over many years to helping organizations in Chicago, New York, and build the company’s core capacities and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Neeson have institutional infrastructure. supported and subscribed to Lyric for more than 30 years. They have cosponsored six mainstage operas, WILLIAM AND ETHEL GOFEN including last season’s Siegfried. Stefan and Gael also made a William and Ethel Gofen have been attending leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is Lyric Opera of Chicago productions for more honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its Board of Directors and than 50 years. They are generous donors to Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are members of Lyric's Production Sponsorship family, JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION cosponsoring this season's The Three Queens starring Sondra A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Radvanovsky. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Lyric Opera of Chicago) and a Lyric Board New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a member at the time of his death in 1982, member of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. Julius Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a great place to live HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB Julius Frankel and enjoy life. The Julius Frankel Foundation AND BARBARA G. GREIS has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas patrons, Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis and current trustee BMO Harris Bank, N.A. Lyric’s audiences have generously supported Lyric through have benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for major contributions to the Annual Campaign general operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have cosponsored Frankel was particularly interested in making Chicago one of many productions, including this season’s production of Don Giovanni. the greatest places in the world to live and enjoy life,” Nelson Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman of the Glenwood Investment Cornelius once said. “The foundation’s giving supports things Corporation and an accomplished violinist. In 2018, Mr. Gottlieb was that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric given Lyric's highest honor, the Carol Fox Award, for his many years does.” Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius of generous service. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an active Frankel in grateful recognition of the Foundation’s significant gift member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, the Julius Frankel Foundation was a generous cosponsor of Lyric's new GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION coproduction of La bohème. With an unparalleled record as sponsor of almost 30 new Lyric productions since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world- class achievement in the arts. The Gramma Fisher Foundation

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 49 has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor this season's THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION Ring cycle. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship The Harris Family Foundation, represented and leadership of Christine Hunter, Howard Hunter and other by Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, is members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have two members a valued member of Lyric’s production sponsor- of the Gramma Fisher Foundation Family serving in leadership ship family, most recently cosponsoring last roles; Matthew Fisher serves on its Board of Directors and season’s Siegfried and this season’s The Three Stephanie Fisher is an esteemed member of the Women’s Board. Caryn and Queens. The Harris Family Foundation also King Harris supports the Annual Campaign, and made a KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to AND JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR. help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship the Foundation Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and support of Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and and serving on its Development and Production Sponsorship John Krehbiel. Karen and John recently Committees. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement joined the production sponsor family with of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the Women’s Board their generous support of the 2016/17 season's Carmen and and has held many leadership positions, most recently as made a leadership gift to Wine Auction 2018. A devoted member Co-Chair of Opening Night/Opera Ball in 2015. of the Women’s Board since 2008, Karen served as Chair of the Opening Night Opera Ball in 2011. Karen has also served on INVESCO QQQ several committees for the Women's Board, most recently as the Invesco QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, 2016 Board of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she Managing Director and Head of Global contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Exchange Traded Funds, is proud to sponsor Campaign in support of stage renovations. The Krehbiel family the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric. They plays a prominent role in the continued success of the company, previously cosponsored the productions of and Lyric is proud to have Karen Gray-Krehbiel as a new member Dan Draper Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet (2015/16), of Lyric's Board of Directors. The Magic Flute (2016/17), Turandot (2017/18), and Cendrillon (2018/19). This season Invesco QQQ is a generous cosponsor of MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS Madama Butterfly and the Lead Corporate Sponsor of 42nd Street. Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring Invesco QQQ global network recognizes the value in helping friendship and tremendous generosity of investors around the world, but as members of the community Dietrich and Erika Gross. Together, they in Downers Grove, "We are proud supporters have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 26 both of Lyric’s innovative programming and Lyric productions since 1987/88, including community engagement, and we laud their this year's Ring cycle. Lyric is honored to name Mezzanine Box efforts to foster a rich artist culture locally.” 20 in grateful recognition for their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an esteemed member ITW of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, Lyric Opera of Chicago deeply appreciates Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of the long tradition of sustaining support from Dietrich Gross by granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company prestigious honor. has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground JOHN R. HALLIGAN Scott Santi Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored CHARITABLE FUND the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber cosponsored many productions, including this season’s revival and patron of Lyric for many years until of Madama Butterfly. Lyric is proud to have Chairman and CEO his death in 2001. With support from his Scott Santi on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Charitable Fund under the direction of the along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs W. John R. Halligan Fund’s President, Norman J. Gantz, Mr. James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues through very generous David Speer. annual contributions to Lyric. The Halligan Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic organizations which JENNER & BLOCK enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading instill knowledge, and advance our appreciation of nature. The law firm with global impact and substantial fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Chicago experience in a broad range of legal issues. and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which The firm has long played a prominent role in Mr. Halligan resided during his lifetime. Chicago’s legal and business communities, Craig C. Martin and is consistently ranked as one of the top firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided significant pro

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 50 bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to MR. AND MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign. Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair dedicated members of the Lyric Opera family. of Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department, as a valued member Lyric gratefully acknowledges their generous of its Board of Directors, Nominating/Governance, and contributions to Wine Auction, the Annual Executive Committees. Campaign, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred Krehbiel is a National Director PATRICIA A. KENNEY of Lyric’s Board of Directors. AND GREGORY J. O'LEARY Pat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime JOSEF AND MARGOT LAKONISHOK subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef with a particular passion for supporting and Margot Lakonishok have subscribed the emerging artists of The Patrick G., and to Lyric for many seasons. They have Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Greg serves on the Ryan Opera contributed to the Annual Campaign and Center Board on its Fundraising Committee, and Greg and Pat made a significant gift to the Breaking have cosponsored the season-culminating Rising Stars in Concert New Ground Campaign. They have also cosponsored several for seven consecutive years. Greg is a proud member of the Lyric mainstage productions, including last season’s Ariodante and this Board of Directors. This season, Pat and Greg are the Mainstage season's Queen of Spades. The CEO of LSV Asset Management, Conductor Sponsors of Enrique Mazzola, leading the production Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, of Luisa Miller. Lyric is deeply grateful for their longstanding serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees. friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric and the Ryan Opera Center with their mission of providing world class opera and NIX LAURIDSEN AND VIRGINIA training for singers, respectively. Every time we think they hit CROSKERY LAURIDSEN the high plateau, they ascend to another." Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen of Des Moines, Iowa, support KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP many initiatives at Lyric, including special Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100- gifts to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan year history of providing exceptional service Opera Center and Lyric Unlimited. This season, they continue to clients in Chicago and around the world as Lead Sponsors of the Ryan Opera Center Final Auditions, in complex litigation, corporate and tax, and also cosponsor Sir Bryn Terfel in Recital, having previously intellectual property, restructuring, and supported Lyric Unlimited's presentation of An American Dream counseling matters. The firm is committed to enhancing quality of last season. As an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, Virginia is life through educational opportunities, cultural awareness, youth thrilled that she and her husband Nix are able to support these programs, and community outreach. Kirkland & Ellis LLP has incredible, emerging artists. Nix is the chairman of LGI (Lauridsen cosponsored several operas and special events in recent seasons, Group Inc.) and a recent inductee into the Iowa Business Hall of and is the Presenting Sponsor of Wine Auction 2021. Lyric is Fame. He is a relative newcomer to the opera world but loves the fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis excitement of the genre. The Lauridsens are pleased to be part of LLP, as a member of its Board the Lyric family and look forward to an exciting new season. of Directors.” JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. NANCY AND SANFRED KOLTUN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION Close members of the Lyric family as The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports longtime subscribers and generous creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks supporters of the Ryan Opera Center building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is and Lyric Unlimited, Nancy and Sanfred placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible are valued members of the production on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including sponsorship family, and cosponsor this season's production of over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and Don Giovanni. "In the fall of 1954, I attended Carmen, staged by significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In the precursor of the Lyric. That night I fell in love with Carmen, addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Nancy supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture and I have loved Lyric and have always supported one of the most grantmaking. The Foundation’s support helps create powerful cherished cultural institutions of Chicago. It is our hope that our performances and exhibitions, educate young people, and engage children, grandchildren and those beyond will be able to attend communities, while providing arts and culture organizations the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their midst." the flexibility to innovate and experiment. Lyric is very grateful for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 51 MAZZA FOUNDATION Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Morrison serve as a member Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding of its Board of Directors. The Morrisons have generously friendship and generosity of the Mazza supported the Opera Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Foundation. Under the guidance of its Annual Campaign for many years. They provided a substantial directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and supported the J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., and Renee Fleming 25th Anniversary Gala. Proud sponsors of Lyric’s Joseph O. Rubinelli, Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the Mazza Musical Theatre Initiative, Susan and Bob have cosponsored Jr., Mary Jane Foundation provided major support for the many of Lyric's musicals including last season's West Side Story. Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Lavezzorio, and Student Matinees for many years, helping “Lyric reaches patrons at every level. People are here because Joan Lavezzorio Lyric introduce the majesty and grandeur they love it. They’re welcomed, embraced, and made to feel part Schniedwind of opera to thousands of young people each of a family.” season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last THE ELIZABETH MORSE season’s production of Elektra and this season’s Don Giovanni. CHARITABLE TRUST Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY ongoing support of The Elizabeth Morse McDermott Will & Emery partners with Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable leaders around the world to fuel missions, leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees knock down barriers and shape markets. With Elizabeth Morse JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and James L. more than 20 locations on three continents, Genius Alexander. One of two trusts established in our team works seamlessly across practices, memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century Marilyn Pearson industries and geographies to deliver highly industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse effective—and often unexpected—solutions that propel success. Charitable Trust supports non-profit organizations that reflect More than 1,100 lawyers strong, we bring our personal passion the values of thrift, humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self- and legal prowess to bear in every matter for our clients and for sacrifice, such as Lyric. The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the people they serve. Marilyn Pearson, McDermott’s Employment along with its sister trust, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Practice Group, and others at our firm, are Trust, has cosponsored many mainstage productions. To show proud to support Lyric in its mission to enrich its grateful appreciation for The Trust’s generous gift to the Chicago’s communities and art and culture. Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize The Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen years helping build the LAUTER MCDOUGAL company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric CHARITABLE FUND named one of its key meeting rooms Nancy and her late husband Alfred have in its executive offices the Elizabeth provided longstanding, vital support to the Morse Conference Room. Annual Campaign as well as The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, including ALLAN AND ELAINE MUCHIN Fred & Nancy Rising Stars in Concert. Last season, Nancy Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued McDougal generously gave additional support as a members of the Lyric family. Allan served cosponsor of La traviata, Lyric Unlimited’s Chicago premiere as President and CEO of Lyric from 2001 to of An American Dream and the Chicago Urban League arts 2006 and is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus immersion partnership EmpowerYouth! of the Board of Directors and serves on the Executive Committee. The Muchins have staunchly supported THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) the Annual Campaign, Operathon, and the Stars of Lyric Opera Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership gifts and its Chairman of trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign their support for the cosponsorship of Rusalka in 2013/14 and for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Allan five productions since, including last season's Ariodante. The and Elaine recently became members of Lyric's production Monument Trust is a passionate supporter sponsorship family with their cosponsorship of this season's of the arts in the U.K. and U.S. Barber of Seville. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine Muchin’s munificent friendship. MR. AND MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants members of the Lyric Opera family. Both awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have are loyal subscribers and patrons who take played a leading role in the advancement of Lyric’s programming an active role in nurturing Lyric’s success. and expansion of the operatic repertoire, serving the public good Susan Morrison is a leading member of the Women’s Board. by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. Through

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 52 production and program funding as well as a major challenge very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ thoughtfulness grant, awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class and generosity in creating this planned gift. artistic achievements. The Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great NIB FOUNDATION American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. The NEA has Founding owners/managers of former radio provided vital support for numerous Lyric Opera premieres, station WNIB, Sonia and the late William new productions, and revivals, Florian established the NIB Foundation to most recently last season’s Siegfried extend their support to many worthwhile and this season’s Ring cycle. arts and environmental causes. Sonia is Sonia Florian a devoted member of the Lyric family, THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION having subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. The NIB The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions music, the performing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined including this season’s production of Luisa Miller, and made a with a strong admiration of Lyric, have been instrumental in major commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. In bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. The Negaunee Foundation addition to their magnanimous fi nancial support, Mr. and Mrs. has cosponsored many productions, most recently last season’s Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection productions of Idomeneo and West Side Story. This season the of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s foundation is the lead sponsor of both Don Giovanni and 42nd Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive collections Street. The Negaunee Foundation has also made a generous gift of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro located on the third fl oor be among the Chicago cultural institutions benefi ting from The of the Lyric Opera House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s Board Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and fi nancial commitment. of Directors, Executive Committee, and Production Sponsorship Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president Committee, and was awarded the Carol Fox serve as a member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding commitment to the SYLVIA NEIL AND DANIEL FISCHEL company. Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera of Chicago subscribers and donors for JOHN D. AND ALEXANDRA many years, and have cosponsored several C. NICHOLS mainstage opera productions, including last Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in season’s Elektra and this season’s Madama Chicago, John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Butterfl y. They made a generous gift to the Breaking New have steadfastly supported the Annual Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very Campaign, and are generous sponsors of the enjoyable to become part of the Lyric family and to give back Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric is extremely grateful for John and to a place that has given us so much pleasure. There have been Alexandra Nichols’ signifi cant leadership contributions to both many moments for both Dan and me when we have said, tonight the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground is incredible, it is one of the memorable performances of our Campaign, establishing the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international star and it is Grand Staircase. They have also provided a generous gift endowing evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.” Lyric Lyric's Music Director position, the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Endowed Chair, currently held by Sir Andrew Davis. Retired Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Committees. Sylvia also serves as the Chair of the Development Chairman and CEO of The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is Committee and is Lyric's Chair-Elect. also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Our involvement with the opera company is a deeply rewarding THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION experience for both of us,” John said. In 2019, John and Alexandra During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nichols were bestowed Lyric's highest honor, the Carol Fox Nerenberg were passionate supporters Award, in recognition of their leadership and dedication to Lyric. of Lyric and subscribed for more than 30 years. They were especially supportive of NORTHERN TRUST The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera A leading global fi nancial services provider, Northern Trust has Jerry and Elaine Center and loved to watch these young artists enjoyed a long-standing and signifi cant relationship with Lyric. Nerenberg perform and grow at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Based in Chicago, the fi rm has played a major role supporting Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away in 2005 and the Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust also 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome provides vital leadership contributions to Lyric as presenting and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make sponsor of the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as generous annual grants to Lyric for many years to come. Lyric is cosponsor of the Opera Ball (annually since 1998). In addition,

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 53 Northern Trust has cosponsored several mainstage productions PRITZKER FOUNDATION including last season’s West Side Story. Lyric is honored to have The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, of arts and education philanthropies in serve as a member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Chicago. Lyric Opera of Chicago is truly Committee. “Being a good corporate citizen is very important," grateful for the Pritzker Foundation’s William Osborn once said. "It allows us to do our part to help generous support of the Breaking New keep the City of Chicago strong and Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker viable and, in the end, this is beneficial to Pritzker Family Concert Shell, designed by renowned everyone.” Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric is honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and MR. AND MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHER M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of David and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder ANNE AND CHRIS REYES and CEO of closerlook, inc., a Chicago- Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members based digital marketing agency serving the of the Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s pharmaceutical industry. closerlook has given Women’s Board, Anne also serves on Lyric’s generously to Lyric for many years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric Opera from 2009 to 2014 and Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Unlimited Committees; Chris is an esteemed Park concert as the lead sponsor for eight consecutive years. Lyric past member of the Board of Directors. Together they have made is proud to have David T. Ormesher serving as its Chairman of the important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and on all sub- productions, including the 2017/18 season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. committees of the Board. They have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and are major supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN Campaign, and Lyric Unlimited. Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the Lyric Opera family. They have PATRICK G. RYAN AND subscribed to Lyric for over two decades SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN and enjoy participating in special events Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and dedication of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Wine Auction. The Osborns have generously contributed to the Ryan. Since 1966 when they first subscribed Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. to Lyric as newlyweds, they have shared their Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was leadership, talents, vision, and resources to Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, the Ryans and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern have contributed generously to the Annual Campaign, Wine Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a member of Lyric’s Board Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in 1988), and the Breaking of Directors and Executive Committee. New Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation Initiative. In recognition of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness PRINCE CHARITABLE TRUSTS Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 Carol The Prince Charitable Trusts support a broad array of programs Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Rhode Island, and Lyric is Commentaries, underwriting this special project to honor the fortunate to be among the beneficiaries of the generosity of the memory of their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Trusts’ Chicago and Washington, DC branches. Lyric’s esteemed Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s premier artist development program Women’s Board includes Diana Prince and Meredith Wood- was renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Prince as members. The Trusts provided principal support for in recognition of their extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto through their award of the Excellence. Pat and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the 2013 Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Work to composer Ryan Opera Center Board. A Vice President and a member of Jimmy López, as well as sponsoring the the Executive, Nominating/Governance, Development, and Lyric summer 2014 workshop presentation of the Labs Committees of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a distinguished piece. This season, in addition to ongoing former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan general operations funding, The Trusts are was awarded the 2007 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious generously supporting Lyric's new production honor, in recognition of her many years of devoted service to of Wagner's Ring cycle. the company.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 54 RICHARD O. RYAN SHURE INCORPORATED Lyric is deeply grateful for Richard's passionate Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is support of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan widely acknowledged as the world's leading Opera Center, Lyric's premier artist-development manufacturer of microphones and audio program, through singer cosponsorship and electronics. Over the years, the company last season's Unprohibited fundraiser at the has designed and produced many high- Casino Club. An ardent opera lover, Richard has been a Lyric Christine Schyvinck quality professional and consumer audio subscriber for more than 45 years. He recently made a generous products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, leadership commitment to Lyric's Breaking New Ground and value. Shure’s diverse product line includes world-class Campaign for the stage improvement project. Richard proudly wired microphones, wireless microphone systems, in-ear serves as a member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, and is a personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion new member of the Lyric Board of Directors. systems, networked audio systems, award-winning earphones and headphones, and top-rated phonograph cartridges. Today, DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s is a top priority. Lyric is honored to have partnered with Shure commitment to children, families and Incorporated for many years and is grateful to have Christine educational enrichment through the arts has Schyvinck, President and CEO of Shure Incorporated, on its Board led it to provide essential support for one of of Directors. Shure Incorporated generously provided major in- Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement kind audio support for Lyric's annual spring Jack and opportunities available to young Chicagoans, musical, including this season's 42nd Street. Catherine Scholl the Student Matinees. Each year, these widely accessible performances at Lyric reach audiences of junior high LIZ STIFFEL and high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera A passionate devotee of opera and loyal for the first time. Lyric Opera of Chicago is deeply grateful to the subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a prominent Dr. Scholl Foundation for its very generous ongoing support of member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating longstanding member of the Guild Board Catherine A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and of Directors. She has cosponsored many institutional education. mainstage productions, most recently last season’s La bohème, and she was the lead sponsor of the Renée Fleming 25th SHURE CHARITABLE TRUST Anniversary Concert & Gala. This season, she cosponsored Barber Rose and Sydney Shure gave generously of Seville and Luisa Miller. Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 1 in throughout their lifetimes to organizations recognition of her significant gift to the Breaking New Ground that brought them joy. Upon her death in Campaign. Liz Stiffel was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, 2016, Rose left bequests to several charitable Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of her continuing organizations, including Lyric. In addition, dedication to Lyric. “I believe that Lyric and all art forms are Rose and Lyric is grateful to receive continued support beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that mankind Sydney Shure from the Shure Charitable Trust created has to offer to our children, our nation, and ourselves.” under the Will of Sidney N. Shure who passed away in 1995. "She truly loved Lyric; it was one of her most revered charities," DONNA VAN EEKEREN her niece Barbara Levie says. "They had four subscription seats FOUNDATION for every opera, and even after my uncle died, my aunt would Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, invite three people to go with her and take them to dinner in the Lyric subscriber, and generous supporter Graham Room before the opera." To honor them, the Trust named of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys the Shures’ four subscription seats on the main floor of the Ardis encouraging talented young artists as Krainik Theatre with plaques reading, "In Loving Memory of Rose Donna Van Eekeren Lead Sponsor of Rising Stars in Concert L. and Sidney N. Shure." and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. The Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions including last season’s production of La traviata and this season's 42nd Street. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Finance Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 55 MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE AND MR. HELEN AND SAM ZELL AND MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE Helen and Sam Zell are passionate Lyric Opera appreciates the generosity and supporters of Chicago’s vibrant cultural leadership of the Vance Family. The Vances scene. They are longtime subscribers of have sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric Lyric and have contributed to the Annual premieres and new productions, including Campaign for many years. Helen and Sam Carol and WIlliam this season's Queen of Spades. Mr. and Mrs. have cosponsored several new productions, most recently all four Vance William C. Vance are generous sponsors of installments of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season's the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an Götterdämmerung. esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He also serves as a life member of the Ryan Opera ANN ZIFF Center Board, of which he is a past President. Bill Vance was Ann Ziff is one of the country’s leading arts awarded the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. supporters, serving as Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera, Vice Chair of Lincoln ROBERTA L. AND ROBERT J. Center for the Performing Arts, and a WASHLOW member of the board of the Los Angeles Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished Opera and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Previously members of the Lyric family. For more than at Lyric, Ann sponsored Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Recital, and four decades, they have enjoyed attending in honor of her close friendship with Renée Fleming, Ms. Ziff Lyric performances and special events, and co-sponsored her Lyric appearances in concert with Dmitri have generously supported the Annual Campaign. Since 1986, Hvorostovsky in 2012 and Jonas Kaufmann in 2014. Last the Port, Washlow, and Errant families together have sponsored season, she was a Platinum Sponsor of the Renée Fleming more than 20 Lyric productions. The Washlows made a generous 25th Anniversary Concert & Gala. Lyric is a grateful beneficiary commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support of Ann Ziff’s munificent generosity and friendship. Lyric Unlimited activities. Roberta and Bob have annually remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, and generously cosponsor this season’s production of Dead Man Walking, their twelfth opera cosponsorship, continuing a beloved family tradition. Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. “Opera has always touched me,” Roberta once said. “I love the drama, passion, music, and excitement of a live performance at Lyric. Nothing can replace it, and I hope this beautiful art form will continue for generations.”

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 56 Sir Bryn Terfel in Recital SUNDAY | FEBRUARY 2 | 2PM

“A big voice, capable of hall-fi lling Sir Bryn Terfel is one of the most beloved power but also gentleness and artists of our time. His magnifi cent voice, penetrating interpretive insight, and extraordinary subtlety, and a poet’s affi nity for stylistic versatility combine with a matchlessly words and their underlying worlds communicative personality that captivates any audience. His fi rst Chicago recital in many years will of color and emotion.” certainly be one of the most memorable musical

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LYRIC ENDOWED CHAIRS LYRIC ENDOWMENT FUNDS Supports Established by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowment Chorus Master Howard A. Stotler Sarah and A. Watson Armour III Endowment Concertmaster Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg, Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment in honor of Sally Funderburg Costume Designer Richard P. and Susan Kiphart RYAN OPERA CENTER ENDOWMENT FUNDS General Director The Women’s Board, Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center in loving memory Vocal Studies Program+ of Ardis Krainik Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment+ Lighting Director Mary-Louise and James S. Dr. C. Bekerman Endowment+ Aagaard, in honor Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Endowment+ of Duane Schuler James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment+ Music Director John D. and Alexandra C. Joanne Silver Endowment+ Nichols Lois B. Siegel Endowment+ Production and Technical Director+ Allan and Elaine Muchin Thomas Doran Endowment+ Wigmaster and Makeup Designer+ Marlys Beider, in loving memory of Harold Beider Ryan Opera Center Music Director Edgar D. Jannotta Family LYRIC UNLIMITED - LEARNING & CREATIVE Opera is... Ryan Opera Center Director Multiple donors ENGAGEMENT ENDOWMENT FUNDS Katherine A. Abelson Education Endowment The Chapters’ Education Endowment, in memory of Alfred Glasser LYRIC PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUNDS George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Education Endowment Supports Established by James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment+ American Operas+ Robert and Ellen Marks Dr. C. Bekerman Endowment* Baroque Operas Anonymous thrilling! Bel Canto Operas+ Mr. and Mrs. William H. This list includes endowments that have received partial Redfield funding and endowments that will be funded with a future French Operas W. James and Maxine P. commitment—to learn more about contributing to an existing Farrell endowment or establishing your own endowment please Support music that moves you. + German Operas Irma Parker contact Lyric’s Gift Planning Office at 312.827.5654 Italian Operas NIB Foundation or email [email protected]. Mozart Operas Regenstein Foundation, in honor of Ruth Regenstein Puccini Operas+ Mary Patricia Gannon Verdi Operas Guild Board Wagner Operas Anonymous

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 58 Lyric Opera of Chicago | 59 Faces of Lyric Todd Rosenberg Todd

Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park — bringing people together for 19 years Kyle Flubacker Andrew Cioffi Todd Rosenberg Todd

General director Anthony Freud and music director designate The first 5,000 people to arrive at Millennium Park were sure to pick up their free Lyric Enrique Mazzola. water bottle Jaclyn Simpson Dan Rest Andrew Cioffi Kyle Flubacker

Future Lyric Young Professionals? People of all ages came out to hear a preview of the 19|20 Season Enjoying a day out for Opera in the Neighborhoods

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General director Anthony Freud, music director Sir Andrew Davis, and newly Behind-the-scenes fun between collaborators and friends. named music director designate Enrique Mazzola toast to the future of Lyric. Jaclyn Simpson Kyle Flubacker

Ryan Opera Center baritone, Christopher Kenney, with Lyric’s Creative Women’s Board member, Susan Noyes, with West Side Story cast members, Consultant, Renée Fleming, during a masterclass Brett Thiele and Manuel Stark Santos Todd Rosenberg Todd Andrew Cioffi

Picnics were packed and good times were had at Lyric’s annual concert Ryan Opera Center members Mario Rojas, Alan Higgs, and Ann Toomey after Rising Stars in Concert with Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly (lead sponsors) and Richard and Deborah Pomeroy of BMO Harris Bank

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 61 “With 100 years of Lyric attendance between us, we have indelible memories of brilliant voices, moving dramas, and stagecraft of the highest order. Because it has so enriched our lives, the future of opera matters to us. That's why we've named Lyric in our wills.

George Paterson & Allen Frantzen

PASSION... Pass it on. The Overture Society

To learn more about The Overture Society and leaving a lasting legacy at Lyric please contact Mike Biver, Director of Gift Planning [email protected] | 312-827-5655 Kyle Flubacker

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 62 Gift planning at Lyric

The Overture Society | This group consists of dedicated supporters who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric into the future. Lyric is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society and the other additional levels of support provided by many of its members.

ARIA BENEFACTORS Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson SOCIETY MEMBERS Ms. Janet E. Diehl Lyric deeply appreciates the Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Anonymous (48) Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon extraordinary support of the following Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y Feng Valerie and Joseph Abel Catherine R. DiNapoli individuals who have made significant Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone Carol Abrioux Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Dobroski leadership gifts and who comprise Amanda and Matthew Fox Ginny Alberts-Johnson Thomas M. Dolan the Aria Benefactors of The Overture Maurice J. and Patricia Frank and Lance Johnson Mary Louise Duhamel Society. Lyric is grateful to all of Rhoda and Henry Frank Judy L. Allen Kathy Dunn them for their generous support. Family Foundation Catherine Aranyi Richard L. Eastline Anonymous (3) Richard J. Franke L. Robert Artoe Carol A. Eastman Paul and Mary Anderson Family James R. Grimes Richard N. Bailey Lowell and Judy Eckberg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy David Gerard Baker Lucy A. Elam, in memory Marlys A. Beider Concordia Hoffmann Susann Ball of Elizabeth Elam Dr. C. Bekerman Edgar D. Jannotta Lorraine L. and Randolph C. Barba Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Ronald B. Johnson Margaret Basch Cherelynn A. Elliott David and Orit Carpenter Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Mrs. Bill Beaton Terrence M. W. Ellsworth James W. Chamberlain Kerma and John Karoly Alvin R. Beatty Dr. James A. Eng Robert F. Finke and Carol Keenan Laura and LeRoy Klemt Martha Bell Martha L. Faulhaber Mary Patricia Gannon Dr. William R. Lawrence Lynn Bennett Nadine Ferguson James K. Genden and Jennifer Malpass, O.D. Julie Anne Benson Felicia Finkelman Alma Koppedraijer Daniel T. Manoogian Charles E. and Nancy T. Berg Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Joan I. Berger Barbara Gail Franch and Donald H. Ratner Nancy Lauter McDougal Barbara Bermudez James Victor Franch Howard Gottlieb Bill Melamed Kyle and Marge Bevers Ms. Susan Frankel Sue and Melvin Gray Margaret and Craig Milkint Patrick J. Bitterman Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. James C. Kemmerer Susan M. Miller M. J. Black and Mr. C. Lancy Allen J. Frantzen Dr. Petra B. Krauledat David and Justine K. Mintzer Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Penny and John E. Freund and Dr. W. Peter Hansen Dr. Elaine Moor D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Dr. Paul Froeschl Philip G. Lumpkin Allan and Elaine Muchin Ned and Raynette Boshell Marie and Gregory Fugiel Robert C. Marks David J. and Dolores D. Nelson David Boyce Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Lady Witton John Nigh John H. Nelson Robert and Phyllis Brauer George and Mary Ann Gardner Irma Parker David and Sheila Ormesher Daniel and Leona Bronstein Mrs. John Wilburn Garland Julia Pernet Drs. Alan and Carol Pohl Carol & Alan Brookes Scott P. George Lyn and Bill Redfield Nathaniel W. Pusey Kathryn Y. Brown Lyle Gillman Richard Ryan Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown John F. Gilmore Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Jacqueline Brumlik Michael Goldberger Drs. Russ and Joan Zajtchuk Chatka Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III John A. Goldstein Anne Zenzer Lois B. Siegel George F. and Linda L. Brusky Dr. J. Brian Greis Larry G. Simpson Steven and Helen Buchanan Patricia Grogan BEL CANTO BENEFACTORS Craig Sirles Lisa Bury Carolyn Hallman In addition to their Overture Society Joan M. Solbeck Robert J. Callahan Carl J. Halperin membership earned through making Ms. Gay K. Stanek Carla Carstens and Theodore Herr Ms. Geraldine Haracz a major planned gift to Lyric, these Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Patrick Vincent Casali Andrew Hatchell members also make a generous Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Esther Charbit William P. Hauworth annual gift. Lyric is grateful to all Mary Stowell Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Dr. and Mrs. David J. Hayden of them for their generous support. L. Kristofer Thomsen Ramona Choos Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Anonymous (4) Carla M. Thorpe J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Mrs. John C. Hedley Mrs. James S. Aagaard Virginia Tobiason Heinke Clark Josephine E. Heindel Louise Abrahams Paula Turner Robert and Margery Coen Mary Mako Helbert Dr. Whitney Addington Robert and Gloria Turner Peter and Beverly Conroy Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Karen G. Andreae Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Sharon Conway Mrs. Marion Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata David J. Varnerin Sarah J. Cooney Mary and Jim Houston Merrill and Judy Blau Albert Walavich Dr. W. Gene Corley Family H. Eileen Howard and Ann Blickensderfer Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Joseph E. Corrigan Marshall Weinberg Danolda (Dea) Brennan Claudia Winkler Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Kenneth N. Hughes Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Budzik Florence Winters Morton and Una Creditor Michael Huskey Amy and Paul Carbone Barbara L. Dean Cpt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Thomas Doran Phyllis Diamond Memorial Fund La and Philip Engel Roger and Linelle Dickinson J. Jeffrey Jaglois

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 63 Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus George Pepper, M.D. Ultmann Family Charitable Estelle Edlis Barbara Joabson Elizabeth Anne Peters Remainder Unitrust Edward Elisberg Diane and Alan Johnson Susanne P. Petersson Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Joseph Ender John Arthur Johnson Genevieve M. Phelps Kenyon Charitable Trust Regina C. Fain Larry Johnson Frances Pietch Marlene A. Van Skike Roy Fisher Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson Karen and Dick Pigott Nancy Johnson Vazzano Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Barbara Mair Jones Ms. Lois Polakoff Raita Vilnins Lynette Flowers Janet Jones Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Malcolm V. Vye, MD Robert B. Fordham Moreen C. Jordan Kenneth Porrello and Sherry McFall Darcy Lynn Walker Richard Foster Dr. Anne Juhasz D. Elizabeth Price Gary T. Walther Elaine S. Frank Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Mrs. Edward S. Price Albert Wang Henry Frank Kenneth Kelling Mary Raffetto-Robins Barbara M. Wanke Thomas Frisch Chuck and Kathy Killman Roberta Lyn Anderson Rains Louella Krueger Ward Doris Graber Diana Hunt King Linda Raschke Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Evelyn Greene Neil King Sherrie Kahn Reddick Endowment Fund Ann B. Grimes Esther G. Klatz Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Reed Karl Wechter Joseph M. Kacena R. William Klein, Jr. Michael and Susan "Holly" Reiter Patricia M. Wees Stuart Kane J. Peter Kline Evelyn R. Richer Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Robert and Jeanne Kapoun Helen Kohr Jennie M. Righeimer Claude M. Weil Kip Kelley Susan Kryl Gerald L. Ritholz Eric Weimer and Edwin Hanlon Paul R. Keske Mary S. Kurz Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Nancy W. Knowles Larry Lapidus in memory of Robert Kyts Joanna L. Weiss Ruth L. Labitzke Angela Larson and Bamshad Mobasher Sylvie Romanowski Joan and Marco Weiss Sarrah and Sadie Lapinsky Thomas and Lise Lawson James and Janet Rosenbaum Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Ernest Lester Henrietta Leary Joseph C. Russo Sandra Wenner Arthur B. Logan Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Dennis Ryan Caroline C. Wheeler Doris C. Lorz Carole F. Liebson Louise M. Ryssmann Jane B. White Dr. Alexis W Maier Trust Carol L. Linne Eugene Rzym, in memory Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Dr. Bill Moor Candace Broecker Loftus of Adaline Rzym Nora Winsberg Mario A. Munoz James C. and Suzette M. Mahneke David Sachs Christine S. Winter Massie MD & Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Suzanne and William Samuels James G. Massie Foundation Jeanne Randall Malkin Mary T. Schafer Brien and Cathy Wloch Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Ann Chassin Mallow Douglas M. Schmidt Mrs. William Wunder John and Maynette Neundorf Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Franklin R. Schmidt Daniel R. Zillmann Mrs. Oliver Nickels Mrs. John Jay Markham Martha P. Schneider Venrice R. Palmer Daniel F. Marselle Donald Seibert ESTATE GIFTS Richard Pearlman Charitable Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak Sherie Coren Shapiro The following estates have Trust Fund for Music James G. and Laura G. McCormick Charles Chris Shaw generously provided gifts of Helen Petersen Gia and Paul McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw bequests and other planned gifts George T. Rhodes William F. McHugh David Shayne to Lyric. Due to space limitations, Joan Richards Florence D. McMillan Jared Shlaes listings include only planned Merlin and Gladys Rostad Leoni Z. and J. William McVey Joanne Silver bequests received in the past three Pierrete E. Sauvat Martina M. Mead Andrew Barry Simmons and years. With deepest regards, Lyric Lois Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Mitchell Loewenthal-Grassini commemorates and remembers Edwin and Margaret W. Seeboeck Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Margles Singleton and Clay Young those departed Lyric patrons who Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Shure Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Mesrobian Dr. Ira Singer have honored us with these most Joan M. Skepnek Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Thomas G. Sinkovic profound commitments. Barry Sullivan Barbara Terman Michaels Norman and Mirella Smith James S. Aagaard Phil Turner Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Mary Soleiman Sara P. Anastaplo Edmund J. Valonis Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Elaine Soter Nancy D. Anderson Amanda Veazley Vlasta A. "Vee" Minarich Mrs. Jay Spaulding Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Paul and Virginia Wilcox BettyAnn Mocek and Adam R. Walker James Staples Walter Bandi Joseph Yashon Robert and Lois Moeller Sherie B. Stein Constance and Liduina Barbantini Ed Zasadil Dr. Virginia Saft Mond J. Allyson Stern Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Audrey A. Zywicki Julia G. Munoz Carol A. Stitzer Donna Brunsma Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy Daniel and Norene W. Stucka Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger and Mr. Oliver Nickels Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Mr. William Burger Edward and Gayla Nieminen Emily J. Su Terry J. Burgeson Florence C. Norstrom Peggy Sullivan Muriel A. Burnet Patricia A. Noska Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Mrs. Campbell de Frise Linda Moses Novak Cheryl L. Thaxton Ellen Clasen Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Dr. David Thurn Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Trust Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Karen Hletko Tiersky Robert P. Cooke Stephen S. Orphanos Myron Tiersky Nelson D. Cornelius Jonathan Orser Jacqueline Tilles Barbara Coussement Joan Pantsios Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Kathryn Cunningham Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Mrs. William C. Tippens Marianne Deson-Herstein Trust George R. Paterson Paul and Judith Tuszynski in memory of Samuel and Sarah Dr. Joan E. Patterson Deson

More information about becoming an Overture Society member and the related levels and benefits associated with that generous support is available through Lyric’s Gift Planning Office at 312-827-5654 or [email protected].

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 64 Lyric Opera of Chicago | 65 Corporate partnership

Lyric appreciates the generosity of its corporate partners.

ARIA SOCIETY $100,000 and above

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR $50,000 to $99,999

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR $25,000 to $49,999

To learn more about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at 312-827-5693 or [email protected].

Listings include donors whose gifts or pledges where received by July 29, 2019.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 66 SILVER GRAND ADVOCATE ITW Foundation IN KIND GIFTS BENEFACTOR $2,000 to $2,999 JPMorgan Chase Foundation American Airlines, Inc. $10,000 to $24,999 Enterprise Holdings KPMG Booth One Alexander & Alexander, Foundation John D. and Catherine T. CH Distillery Attorneys at Law Millennium Advisors MacArthur Foundation Coco Pazzo Baird Old Republic International Morgan Stanley CS Magazine Crowe LLP Corporation Motorola Foundation HMS Media Deloitte Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. PepsiCo Foundation M•A•C COSMETICS Envestnet Pfizer Foundation Shure Incorporated Evans Food Group FRIEND Polk Bros. Foundation Vibes Molex Incorporated $1,000 to $1,999 The Prudential Foundation Morgan Stanley BC International Group, Inc. The Rhoades Foundation This performance is partially Reed Smith LLP Bumper Lanes Marketing State Farm Companies sponsored by a grant from Stepan Company Concierge Unlimited Foundation the Illinois Arts Council, International Texas Instruments Foundation a state agency. PREMIER BENEFACTOR Draper and Kramer, United Way Metro Chicago $7,500 to $9,999 Incorporated William Blair and Company Lyric Opera of Chicago is a Amsted Industries Foundation GRAFF Foundation member of OPERA America. Chicago Title and Trust L. Miller And Son Lumber William Wrigley, Jr. Company Company Foundation Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Foundation Chicago White Metal Wainwright Investment YourCause Charitable Foundation Council Michuda Construction, Inc. SPECIAL THANKS MATCHING GIFTS American Airlines for its 38 BENEFACTOR AbbVie year partnership as the Official $5,000 to $7,499 Aetna Foundation, Inc. Airline of Lyric Opera of BNSF Railway Foundation Allstate Giving Program Chicago. Italian Village Restaurants Aon Foundation Kinder Morgan Foundation Bank of America Foundation CORT Furniture Rentals for Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Benevity Community Impact its generous conference room William Blair Fund furniture partnership. BMO Harris Bank Foundation DEVOTEE Bright Star Foundation Jenner & Block and Craig C. $3,000 to $4,999 Helen Brach Foundation Martin, Partner, for the firm’s American Agricultural Caterpillar Foundation, Inc. pro bono legal services Insurance Company Elizabeth F. Cheney throughout the year. Corporate Suites Network Foundation Howard & Howard Attorneys Ernst And Young Foundation Warner Classics as the Official PLLC GE Foundation Education and Promotion United Way Metro Chicago HSBC-North America Music Provider. IBM Corporation

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 67 Annual individual and foundation support

Lyric recognizes and appreciates the gift to its annual campaign made by generous individuals, foundations, and government organizations. Their continued support is vital.

ARIA SOCIETY Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Lloyd A. Fry Foundation GOLDEN GRAND $100,000 and above Foundation Sue and Melvin Gray BENEFACTOR Anonymous (4) NIB Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation $25,000 to $34,999 Whitney and Ada Addington John D. and Alexandra Eric and Deb Hirschfield Anonymous (2) Paul M. Angell Family Foundation C. Nichols Rebecca and Lester Knight Ken and Amy Aldridge Julie and Roger Baskes Sheila and David Ormesher The Knowles Foundation Paul and Mary Anderson Marlys Beider Mr. and Mrs. William Chauncey and Marion D. Robert and Isabelle Bass Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin A. Osborn McCormick Family Foundation Foundation, Inc. Henry M. and Gilda R. Prince Charitable Trusts Polk Bros. Foundation Silvia Beltrametti Krehbiel Buchbinder Foundation Pritzker Foundation Candy and Gary Ridgway and Jay Krehbiel The Butler Family Foundation Anne and Chris Reyes Lois B. Siegel Heidi Heutel Bohn Marion A. Cameron Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mary Stowell Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Richard O. Ryan Pam Szokol Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie Mrs. John V. Crowe Dr. Scholl Foundation Mrs. Linda Wolfson Ms. Kathryn Y. Brown The Crown Family Shure Charitable Trust Amy and Paul Carbone The Davee Foundation Lisbeth Stiffel TITANIUM GRAND David and Orit Carpenter Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson Donna Van Eekeren Foundation BENEFACTOR Greg and Mamie Case Julius Frankel Foundation Mrs. Herbert A. Vance $35,000 to $49,999 Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Elizabeth Morse Genius Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Charitable Trust Roberta L. Washlow and The Barker Welfare Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation Ethel and William Gofen Robert J. Washlow James N. and Laurie V. Bay Nancy Dehmlow Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara Helen and Sam Zell Eisen Family Foundation Cate and Jim Denny G. Greis Ann Ziff James and Deborah Fellowes Ann M. Drake The Grainger Foundation Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Drs. George and Sally Dunea Gramma Fisher Foundation of PALLADIUM GRAND Michael J. McGuinnis Donald and Anne Edwards Marshalltown, Iowa BENEFACTOR Martha A. Hesse Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. $75,000 to $99,999 The Richard P. and and the Dan J. Epstein Family Krehbiel, Jr. Anonymous (1) Susan Kiphart Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Berggruen Institute Robert and Evelyn McCullen Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Mrs. Susan M. Miller Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Harris Family Foundation Myung Soon Chung Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Sally and Michael Feder Patricia A. Kenney and James and Deborah Fellowes OPERA America Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Gregory J. O'Leary Illinois Arts Council Segal Family Foundation Mary Patricia Gannon Nancy W. Knowles Julian Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Virginia and Gary Gerst Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Ellen and Jim Stirling Thierer Family Foundation Brent and Katie Gledhill Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krehbiel Virginia Tobiason Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Dan and Caroline Grossman Josef and Margot Lakonishok Walter Family Foundation Mary Ellen Hennessy Nix Lauridsen and Virginia PLATINUM GRAND Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Croskery Lauridsen BENEFACTOR J. Thomas Hurvis and John D. and Catherine T. $50,000 to $74,999 Ann Andersen MacArthur Foundation Anonymous (3) Mazza Foundation Katherine A. Abelson Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Robin Angly The Monument Trust (UK) The Beaubien Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison David Q. and Mary A. “Lyric is exceptional in providing The Elizabeth Morse Bell Foundation Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. outstanding opportunities for Allan and Elaine Muchin The Brinson Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Cozad Family members of the community to The Negaunee Foundation Maurice and Patricia Frank Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Rhoda and Henry Frank Family expand on their love of opera. Foundation Anne Megan D.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 68 Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Susan J. Garner Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Elizabeth S. Sheppard Foundation/Patricia Hyde Judy and Bill Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner The Shubert Foundation The Edgar D. Jannotta Family Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund The Jobs Initiative Chicago Maria C. Green and USMC Memorial Fund Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Oswald G. Lewis Laurie and Michael Jaffe Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stone Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton James and Brenda Grusecki Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Mr. Herbert Kohler, Jr. Heinz Family Foundation Stephen A. Kaplan Tully Family Foundation and Ms. Natalie Black Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Elizabeth Khalil and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Victoria M. Kohn Annie and Greg K. Jones Peter Belytschko Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Mr. and Mrs. Donald Levinson Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Albert and Rita Lacher Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Mr. Thomas V. Linguanti Mike and Lindy Keiser Marc Lacher Ms. Lucinda Wakeman and Ms. Olivia Tyrrell Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kizziah Lemont Fund Dan and Patty Walsh Philip G. Lumpkin Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Michael A. Leppen Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Jim and Kay Mabie Robert C. Marks Jeanne Randall Malkin Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Daniel and Deborah Manoogian Blythe Jaski McGarvie Family Foundation Kim and Miles D. White Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Frank B. Modruson Phyllis Neiman and Lynne C. Shigley Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Marian Phelps Pawlick Kenneth R. Norgan Rosy and Jose Luis Prado “We know that if enough people Martha C. Nussbaum Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR contribute to Lyric each and every Matt and Carrie Parr $10,000 to $14,999 Ingrid Peters Anonymous (7) year, collectively, we will keep this The C. G. Pinnell Family John and Ann Amboian J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. extraordinary art form thriving. Family Foundation Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Angie F. and Takashi N. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi C. Bekerman, M.D. Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Ross and Patricia D. Bender Charles and M.R. Shapiro Patrick J. Bitterman Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mrs. John A. Wing Foundation, Inc. Jim Blinder Shari Mayes Mr. and Ms. Benjamin Wolf Morris Silverman and Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. McCreary Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Lori Ann Komisar Helen Brach Foundation Judith W. McCue and Debbie K. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Phyllis Brissenden Howard M. McCue III Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Michael Steinberg and John and Rosemary Brown Erma S. Medgyesy Salme Harju Steinberg Family Foundation Terry J. Medhurst PREMIER BENEFACTOR Penelope and Robert Steiner Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Helen Melchior $7,500 to $9,999 Robert L. Turner Marie Campbell Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon Anonymous (7) Dr. David H. Whitney Mr. and Mrs. John Canning, Jr. and Lois Mills Kelley and Susan Anderson and Dr. Juliana Chyu Joyce E. Chelberg Martha A. Mills Ms. Ronelle D. Ashby Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Lawrence Christensen Mr. and Mrs. Steven Molo Ms. Elizabeth Bakwin Sharon Conway Charles Morcom Robert S. Bartolone MERCURY GRAND Tamara Conway David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. William H. BENEFACTOR Lynd W. Corley Margo and Michael Baumgartner, Jr. $15,000 to $24,999 Winnie and Bob Crawford Oberman and Family Lieselotte N. Betterman Anonymous (2) Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta The Bruno and Sallie Norman and Virginia Bobins/ Mrs. James S. Aagaard Shawn M. Donnelley and Pasquinelli Foundation The Robert Thomas Bobins Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Christopher M. Kelly Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Robert Arensman Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Seymour H. Persky Winston and Lally Brown Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Charitable Trust Joy Buddig Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau M. Stephen Dunbar Laurie and Michael Petersen Mrs. Warren M. Choos Betty Bradshaw Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Maya Polsky Thomas A. Clancy Buehler Family Foundation Timothy R. Farrell Andra and Irwin Press and Dana I. Green Rosemarie and Dean L. The Ferguson-Yntema D. Elizabeth Price Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Buntrock Family Charitable Trust Bonnie Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Margarita Chavez Sonja and Conrad Fischer Jennifer N. Pritzker Decyk Charitable Foundation Ann and Reed Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert Mrs. Sheila Dulin Francie Comer David S. Fox Hon. S. Louis Rathje and Paul Dykstra and Susan E. Cremin Lawrence O. Corry Ms. Elisabeth O. Geraghty Maria Rosa Costanzo John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Richard B. Egen Gianna Rolandi Davis The Edgewater Funds Ms. Brenda Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Anne Megan Davis Mrs. Mary Winton Green Rocco and Cheryl Romano Mary Etherington Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Joan M. Hall Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Robert F. Finke Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Susan and David Ruder Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Miss Gay Elfline Hannigan Rodd M. Schreiber Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann Sondra Berman Epstein Irving Harris Foundation and Susan Hassan Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Erika E. Erich Joan W. Harris Eric and Jana Schreuder Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Mira Frohnmayer John Hart and Carol Prins Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein and Sandra Sweet Mrs. John C. Hedley Mary Beth Shea

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 69 Mr. and Mrs. William The Siragusa Family Foundation Glen and Claire Hackmann Dr. and Mrs. Anthony DiGianfilippo M. Goodyear, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund James K. Genden and Alma Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Patricia Arrington Smythe Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Koppedraijer Phillip and Norma Gordon Del Snow Hoellen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob Chester A. Gougis The Solti Foundation U.S. Regina Janes Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. and Shelley Ochab Doris F. Sternberg Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Paul Jarvis Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Graber Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Howard E. Jessen Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus David and Elizabeth Graham Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Mary Ann Karris Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Mrs. Rita Grunwald Angela Tenta, M.D. Tyrus L. Kaufman Thomas A. Kmetko and Rafael Leon Mrs. John M. Hartigan Mr. O. Thomas Thomas and Eldon and Patricia Kreider Pamela Forbes Lieberman Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Mrs. Sandra Inara Thomas Lannan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Dr. David Thurn Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lans Pat and Lara Pappas Dr. William R. Lawrence Bill and Harlan Shropshire Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Dr. and Mrs. R. John Solaro Leslie Fund, Inc. Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis James A. Staples “Opera, as presented in Chicago by Judith Z. and Steven W. Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft Lewis Family Mr. Menno Vermeulen Lyric, is the sublime marriage of music, Anne and Craig Linn Dr. Catherine L. Webb Louis and Kristin Margaglione Louis Weber story, acting, and art. Thomas J. McCormick Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Florence D. McMillan Handelman Lois Melvoin Daggett H. Pamela G. Meyer DEVOTEE Mary Lou and Jack Miller $3,000 to $3,999 Midge and Frank Heurich Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Carol "Mickey" Norton Anonymous (2) Anne P. Hokin Mr. Michael Tobin, M.D. Renate P. Norum Mrs. John H. Andersen Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Howard and Paula Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Eric A. Anderson James and Mary Houston Trienens Foundation Jean Perkins and Leland Susann Ball James Huntington Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Hutchinson Bastian Voice Institute Ronald B. Johnson Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Mr. and Mrs. Norman Perman Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Jared Kaplan and Lori L. and John R. Twombly Mr. Jeffry Pickus and Diane and Michael Beemer Maridee Quanbeck Scott D. Vandermyde Ms. Mary C. Downie Prudence and Francis Beidler Nancy Rita Kaz and Julie T. Emerick Mrs. Jay Pritzker John Blosser Kate T. Kestnbaum David J. Varnerin R. Crusoe & Son Mr. Henry Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Marilee and Richard Wehman Merle Reskin Mrs. Elizabeth Simon Jean Klingenstein Hilary and Barry Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Mr. and Mrs. Gerry V. Curciarello Dr. Katherine Knight Family Foundation Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Maggie Rock and Rod Adams Robert O. Delaney Frederic S. Lane Stephen R. Winters Curt G. Schmitt Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Bernard and Averill Leviton Mr. Charles Yoder The Schroeder Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John DeWolf Mrs. Paul Lieberman Donna and Phillip Zarcone Ilene and Michael Shaw Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Charitable Trust Kenneth Douglas Foundation and Sandra E. Marjan BENEFACTOR Craig Sirles Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung $5,000 to $7,499 Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Deane Ellis Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Anonymous (8) Joan M. Solbeck Jim and Elizabeth Fanuzzi Craig Morris Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Mary Soleiman Adrian Foster Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Malley Minka and Matt Bosco Ms. Julie Staley Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Julian Oettinger Danolda (Dea) Brennan Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Dr. Maija Freimanis Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Andrea and Mark Taylor and David Marshall Harvey R. and Bruyninckx Carl and Marilynn Thoma Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Madeleine P. Plonsker Ms. Shelly Challans L. Kristofer Thomsen Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Irene D. Pritzker Christianson Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres Sandra Hoffman John and Betsey Puth Jane B. and John C. Colman David and Linda Wesselink Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Hal Coon Howard S. White Michael and Leigh Huston James T. and Karen C. Reid Patricia O. Cox Claudia Winkler Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Jarabak The Retirement Research Marsha Cruzan Marsha and David Woodhouse Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Foundation Ms. Elaine Cue Judith L. Kaufman Daryl and James Riley The Dancing Skies Foundation PARTNER Neil and Diana King Edgar Rose Ms. Sarah Demet $4,000 to $4,999 Marian Kinney J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dennis Karen and Herand Abcarian J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse La Ferrenn and Philip Engel Allison Alexander Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Norman Sackar Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Mr. and Mrs. George Bayly John and Mary Kohlmeier George and Terry Rose Saunders Amanda Fox Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Mr. Craig Lancaster and Raymond and Inez Saunders Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis Alvin R. Beatty Ms. Charlene T. Handler Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Melinda Gibson Mark and Judy Bednar Dr. M. S.W. Lee George and Joan Segal John F. Gilmore Astrid K. Birke Dr. and Mrs. Alan Leff Mary and Stanley Seidler James R. Grimes Bolton Sullivan Fund Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Dr. S. P. Shah Daniel Groteke and Patricia Taplick Mr. and Mrs. James Bramsen Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Ilene Simmons Donna Gustafsson Jon W. DeMoss Bob and Doretta Marwin

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 70 Marilyn and Myron Maurer Ms. Virginia Boehme Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Susan B. Rubnitz Mrs. David McCandless Marcus Boggs Eleanor Leichenko Dr. Natalia Saprykina Dr. John J. McGrath Mrs. Fred Bosselman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff and Ms. Tola Porter Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schaeffer David E. McNeel Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Nancy Schmitt Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Mr. and Mrs. Eric Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Ms. Britt M. Miller Brandfonbrener Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Larry G. Simpson Steven Montner and Scott Brown Alice C. Brunner Lloyd R. Loback Dr. Ross Slotten and Mr. Ted Grady Mr. and Mrs. Brendan M. Mulshine Ms. Sheila Burke Craig and Jane Love Carole and Bob Sorensen Chris and Eileen Murphy Christopher Carlo Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Carol D. Stein and James Sterling John H. Nelson and Robert Chaney Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mages Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Zehava L. Noah Don Carruthers Robert Mann and Pam and Russ Strobel Jonathan F. Orser James W. Chamberlain Kathryn Voland-Mann Geraldine L. Szymanski Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Katherine Cheng Liz and Arsen Manugian Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Lauren and David Clark Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Jim and Polly Pierce Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. William Mason and Diana Davis The Trillium Foundation Karen and Richard Pigott Christine A. Rydel Marilyn McCoy and Dulcie L. Truitt Dr. Joe Piszczor Elaine Collina Charles R. Thomas Raita Vilnins Mary and Joseph Plauche Mr. Colin Cosgrove Mrs. John H. McDermott Suzanne L. Wagner Mr. Tim Pontarelli Michael J. Cushing Martina M. Mead Albert R. Walavich Dr. Lincoln and Denise and Dr. Ariel David and Michael T. Gorey Dr. Richard Warnecke Dr. Carolyn Ramirez Ms. Danijela Dedic Ricco Sheila and Harvey Medvin Pam and David Waud Edward and Leah Reicin Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Deli Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad David Wetherbee Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. Eben Dorros Mrs. Pamela E. Miles Heide Wetzel Dr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Bernard T. Dunkel Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Mr. Otis Sanders Kathy Dunn Barry and Sharon Millman F. C. Winters Erica L. Sandner Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao Robert and Lois Moeller Christopher and Julie Wood David Schiffman Susanna and Helmut Epp Ms. Helen H. Morrison Chip and Jean Wood Thomas and Judy Scorza Firestone Family Foundation John S. Mrowiec and Priscilla T. Yu Dr. Phyllis W. Shafron James Fitzgerald Dr. Karen L. Granda and Mr. Ethan Lathan Marvin Fletcher Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn FRIEND Sherie Coren Shapiro Anita D. Flournoy Rosemary Murgas $1,000 to $1,999 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Arthur L. Frank Jeffrey Nichols Anonymous (19) MinSook Suh Jerry Freedman and Carol M. Nigro Mr. Steve Abbey and Mr. Ken Terao Elizabeth Sacks Janis Wellin Notz Ms. Pamela Brick Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner and John K. Notz, Jr. Louise Abrahams Phil and Paula Turner Dr. Lucy Freund Marjory M. Oliker Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Elizabeth K. Twede Patricia H. Gates Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Generations Fund Mr. Joe Pacetti Ann Acker Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, M.D. Duffie A. Adelson Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Go John and Dawn Palmer Susan S. Adler Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin George R. Paterson Judith A. Akers Owen and Linda Youngman Alfred G. Goldstein and Allen J. Frantzen Ginny Alberts-Johnson Gordon and Nancy Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman and Lance Johnson ADVOCATE Jerry Goodman $2,000 to $2,999 Dr. Ruth Grant and Anonymous (7) Dr. Howard Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Greene Family Foundation “When I attend a really good Mr. David R. Adler Solomon Gutstein Mrs. Judy Allen Mirja and Ted Haffner Family Fund Mary C. Allen Janice H. Halpern performance (and there have been Ms. Joanne B. Alter Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman Alison Avery Concordia Hoffmann many over the years), I see how my Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Barack Joel and Carol Honigberg Fund contributions directly help Lyric thrive. William and Marjorie Bardeen Robert and Sandra Ireland James and Martha Barrett Ms. Marina B. Jacks David V. Sandra Bass John G. and Betty C. Jacobs Ron and Queta Bauer Charlene Jacobsen Sandra and Michael Perlow Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Jennifer Bellini Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Karen Petitte Mr. Charles Alcaraz Meta S. and Ronald Berger Jerry and Judy Johansen Mrs. Zen Petkus Lou Aledort and Natasha Kavanagh Family Foundation Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Ms. Lyneta Grap Piela Dr. and Mrs. Todd D. Alexander Jacquie Berlin Dr. and Dr. Yan Katsnelson Dr. and Mrs. Alan Pohl Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Allen Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin Mr. Robert Kemp Charles B. Preacher Foundation Peri M. Altan Mrs. Arthur Billings Jennifer A. Kiefer Nathaniel W. Pusey Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Richard and Heather Black Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Mrs. Elke Rehbock Sheila and James Amend Mrs. John R. Blair Frank and Alice Kleinman Carol Roberts Ken and Mary Andersen Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Ms. Merrillyn Kosier and Elaine G. Rosen Doris W. Angell Ann Blickensderfer Mr. James F. Kinoshita Saul and Sarah Rosen Mychal P. Angelos Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Daniel J. Anzia Leslie Bluhm Jeanne LaDuke Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 71 Drs. Vijayalakshmi Mr. Michael Christie Diane Tkach and James Freundt George R. Honig, M.D. and Bapu Arekapudi Heinke K. Clark Priscilla and Henry Frisch and Olga Weiss Yuri Z. Aronov Jean M. Cocozza Samuel and Adriana Front Larry and Ann Hossack Margaret Atherton Margery and Robert Coen Mr. John Furrer Michael and Beverly Huckman and Robert Schwarz Maryclaire Collins John A. Gable Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff Shirley M. Ballak Dr. Frank F. Conlon Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gaile Humanist Fund Leslie and Patrick Ballard Stevie Conlon and Sue Skau Ms. Lili Gaubin Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Dr. Peter and Beverly Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Michael A. Barna Ann Conroy Carolyn and Stephen Geldermann Dr. Peter Ivanovich Richard and Shirley Baron Daniel Corrigan Mr. Scott P. George Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Mr. and Mrs. Martin Barrett Ms. Jennifer Cox Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson Ms. Cynthia J. Jameson Barbara Barzansky Katherine Hutter Coyner Nancy S. Gerrie Mrs. Judith H. Janowiak Ron Bauer and Michael Spencer Evelyn Crews Sharon L. Gibson Dr. Nora Jaskowiak and Patricia Bayerlein Gary Crosby Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Mr. Matthew Hinerfield and Michael Hoffman Karen and John Crotty Mr. Robert Gienko, Jr. Carl Johnson's Gallery W.C. Beatty Pamela Crutchfield Ms. Robyn R. Gilliom and in Galena Roger B. Beck and Ann F. Beck Robert Curley Seth Beckman Barbara Flynn Currie Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Beggerow Matthew Curtin and Richard Tepp Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Benesh Czarkowski Family Roy C. Bergstrom James and Marie Damion “Lyric gives to me more than I give to it. Joan Berman Mr. Timothy Daniels Mr. R. Stephen Berry Jason Dantico I am grateful for that. Mr. and Mrs. Turney P. Berry Rathin Datta Kyle and Marge Bevers Ms. Vindya Dayananda Raymond C. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Ms. Lisa DeAngelis Jerry and Kathy Biederman Patty Litton Delony Mr. Richard Friedman Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Margaret C. Bisberg and Rosanne Diamond Gay L. Girolami Dr. Peter H. Jones and Richard VanMetre Mr. and Mrs. Terry Diamond David L. Gitomer Marian M. Pearcy Cynthia L. Bixel Lyn Dickey Mr. John J. Glier Mr. Edward T. Joyce M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Robert and Anne Diffendal Barbara and Norman Gold JS Charitable Trust Louis and Catherine Bland Dr. Elton Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Judith Jump Elaine and Harold Blatt Mariclaire and Lowell Dixon Robert and Marcia Goltermann Olivier C. Junod & Dan Dwir Ms. Elizabeth Blinderman Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey B. Donnell Arla Gomberg Dr. and Mrs. James J. Kane Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Mr. Fred M. Donner Drs. Margaret and Richard Gore Mrs. Myrna Kaplan E. M. Bluhm Thomas Doran Motoko Goto Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Dr. and Mrs. Peter E. Doris Ann Gottlieb Thomas R. Kasdorf Frima H. Blumenthal Ms. Jill Dougherty Dr. Steven A. Gould Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Fran Bly and Charles Hample Tom Draski Annemarie H. Gramm Ms. Andrea Katzenstein Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Ms. Susan A. Duda Mr. Edward A. Grant Mrs. Helen Kedo Robert and Anne Bolz Ronald B. Duke Miss Martha Grant Larry M. Keer, M.D. Charitable Trust Ms. Kathleen H. Ebbott Greene Family Dr. E. Kefallonitis, Ph.D. Donald F. Bouseman Kimberly A. Eberlein Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Dr. Gilbert W. Bowen Barbara and John Eckel Tim and Joyce Greening Anne and John Kern William Bradt Hugh and Jackie Edfors John R. Grimes Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Giovanna and Joseph Breu James W. Edmondson Robert Grist Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kirsch Nicholas Bridges and Mrs. Marlene Eisen Patricia Grogan Ms. Marian Klaus Margaret McGirr Ms. Alexis Ellington Devora Grynspan and Sam Stupp Elaine H. Klemen Candace B. Broecker Ms. Marjorie Elliott Donald Haavind Diane F. Klotnia Ms. Myrna Bromley Mr. and Mrs. James G. 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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 73 Commemorative gifts Gifts of $1,000 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness.

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SOPRANOS TENORS Adam Plachetka Leonard Foglia Sarah Cambidge Ben Bliss Sir Bryn Terfel Michael Grandage Jennifer Check Lawrence Brownlee Wayne Tigges Richard Jones Yelena Dyachek Robert Brubaker Christian Van Horn Louisa Muller Mathilda Edge Bille Bruley David Weigel Matthew Ozawa Ying Fang Jonathan Burton Samuel Youn David Pountney Christine Goerke Joseph Calleja Francesca Zambello Raquel Gonzalez Dominick Chenes BASSES Lianna Haroutounian Matthew DiBattista Ildar Abdrazakov ASSOCIATE Alexandra LoBianco Eric Ferring Krzysztof Baczyk DIRECTORS Amanda Majeski Burkhard Fritz Julian Close Katrina Bachus Ana María Martínez Allan Glassman Soloman Howard Jodi Gage Whitney Morrison Clay Hilley Mika Kares Rob Kearley Diana Newman Brian Jagde Stephen Milling Toni Marie Palmertree Brandon Jovanovich Anthony Reed PUPPETRY Emily Pogorelc Matthias Klink Matthew Rose DIRECTOR Patricia Racette Ian Koziara Henning von Schulman Chris Pirie Sondra Radvanovsky Stefan Margita Krassimira Stoyanova Dominic Rescigno ACTORS CHORUS MASTER Talise Trevigne Mario Rojas Jon Beal Michael Black Laura Wilde Rodell Rosel Miles Borchard Mary Elizabeth Williams Issachah Savage Ari Kraiman CHOREOGRAPHERS Rachel Willis-Sørensen Kyle van Schoonhoven Wilbur Pauley AND MOVEMENT Ethan Warren Tyler Sapp DIRECTORS MEZZO-SOPRANOS Kali Skatchke Linda Dobell Lindsay Ammann BARITONES Anjali Mehra Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Alessandro Corbelli PUPPETEERS Denni Sayers Marianne Crebassa Anthony Clark Evans Taylor Bibat August Tye Kayleigh Decker Gordon Hawkins Sean Garratt Elizabeth DeShong Levi Hernandez Tom Lee FIGHT Kathleen Felty Quinn Kelsey Chris Pirie CHOREOGRAPHERS Susan Graham Christopher Kenney Amy Rose Chuck Coyl Jill Grove Davide Luciano Michele Stine Nick Sandys Jane Henschel Andrew Manea Alisa Kolosova Ryan McKinny CONDUCTORS Catherine Martin Lucas Meachem Sir Andrew Davis Deanne Meek Brian Mulligan Riccardo Frizza Ronnita Miller Edward Parks James Gaffigan Deborah Nansteel Ricardo José Rivera Enrique Mazzola The American Guild of Musical Nina Yoshida Nelsen Hugh Russell Henrik Nánási Artists, AFL-CIO (AGMA), is the union that represents the singers, dancers, Taylor Raven Daniel Sutin Nicole Paiement actors, and staging personnel at Annie Rosen Ethan Vincent Stefano Sarzani Lyric Opera of Chicago. Grant Youngblood CONTRALTO DIRECTORS Lauren Decker BASS-BARITONES Rob Ashford Brandon Cedel Benjamin Davis Philip Horst Tara Faircloth Eric Owens Robert Falls

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 76 Lyric Opera of Chicago | 77 Lyric staff

LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO DEVELOPMENT FINANCE MARKETING AND Anthony Freud, OBE, Elizabeth Hurley, Chief Roberta Lane, Chief Financial COMMUNICATIONS General Director, President Development Officer and Administrative Officer Lisa Middleton, Vice President, & CEO, The Women’s Board Marisa Lerman,Executive Assistant Whitney Bercek, Controller Marketing and Communications Endowed Chair to the Chief Development Officer Vincente F. Milianti, Senior Director, Shelby Homiston, Marketing and Sir Andrew Davis, Music Director Omar Mulero, Development Assistant Financial Planning and Analysis Public Relations Coordinator John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Patrick Nugent, Vice President for Nicky Chaybasarskaya, Senior Accountant Laura E. Burgos, Senior Director, Endowed Chair Individual and Organizational Giving Ana Joyce, Senior Accountant Digital and Analytics Enrique Mazzola, Music Director Daniel Moss, Senior Director of Nancy Ko, Accounting Manager Valerie Bromann, Manager of Designate Institutional Partnerships Tom Pels, Payroll Manager Digital Content and Analysis Renée Fleming, Creative Consultant Mike Biver, Director of Gift Planning Dan Seekman, Senior Staff Accountant Michael Musick, Drew Landmesser, Deputy Adriane Fink, Director of Rosemary Ryan, E-Commerce Manager General Director and Chief Institutional Partnerships Accounts Payable Associate Amanda Reitenbach, Operating Officer Angela Larson, Director of Annual Meg Van Dyk, Payroll Associate Social Media Associate Elizabeth Hurley, Chief Giving Gwenetta Almon, Payroll Coordinator Holly H. Gilson, Senior Director, Development Officer Libby Rosenfeld, Philanthropy Officer Communications Roberta Lane, Chief Financial Jonathan P. Siner, Senior Director HUMAN RESOURCES Magda Krance, and Administrative Officer of Gift Planning Elizabeth Landon, Vice President, Director of Media Relations Cayenne Harris, Vice President, Angela DeStefano, Philanthropy Officer Human Resources Roger Pines, Dramaturg Learning & Creative Engagment, Scott Podraza, Associate Director of Stephanie Strong, Director Mari Moroz, The Chapters' Endowed Chair Annual Giving of Compensation, Benefits Public Relations Manager for Education Sarah Sapperstein, Associate and HR Operations Andrew Cioffi, Elizabeth Landon, Vice President, Director of Development Content Charity Franco, Digital Content Producer Human Resources Kristen Bigham, Gift Planning Associate Human Resources Associate Tracy Galligher Young, Nicholas Ivor Martin, Dan Meyer, Institutional Sharai Bohannon, Office Coordinator Senior Director, Marketing Vice President, Artistic Partnerships Associate Mosadi Goodman, Human and Audience Development Operations and Labor Strategy Kelli Dawson, Institutional Resources Coordinator Jennifer Colgan, Director of Sales Andreas Melinat, Vice President, Partnerships Assistant and Advertising Artistic Planning Anna VanDeKerchove, Donor INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Brittany Gonzalez, Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Engagement and Stewardship Will Raj, Vice President, Director of Group Sales Marketing and Communications Coordinator Information Technology LeiLynn Farmer, Dan Novak, Vice President and Kate Sheehan, Vice President Eric Hayes, Director of IT Operations Group Sales Associate Director, Ryan Opera Center for Principal Gifts Rita Parida, Director of Data Services Margaret Kellas, Lyric Learning & The Ryan Opera Center Board Lawrence DelPilar, Senior Director, Jessica Keener, Systems Analyst Creative Engagement Marketing Endowed Chair Development Sean Lennon, Systems Administrator Associate Will Raj, Vice President, Meaghan Stainback, Philanthropy Bob Helmuth, Technology Stefany Phillips, Creative Project Information Technology Officer Support Associate Associate Michael Smallwood, Kate Later, Senior Director of Board Coleman Dieffenbach, Technology Lindsey Raker, Marketing Associate, Vice President and Technical Management and Special Events Support Specialist Advertising and Promotions Director, Allan and Elaine Deborah Hare, Director of Special Sarah Sabet, Marketing Associate, Muchin Endowed Chair Events LYRIC UNLIMITED - LEARNING Special Programs Leah Bobbey, Boards Manager & CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT OFFICE OF THE Sarah Geocaris, Guild Board and Cayenne Harris, Vice President, TICKET DEPARTMENT/ GENERAL DIRECTOR Chapters Associate Lyric Unlimited, The Chapters’ AUDIENCE SERVICES Anthony Freud, General Director, Rachel Peterson, Special Events Endowed Chair for Education Susan Harrison Niemi, President & CEO, The Women’s Associate Crystal Coats, Director Director of Audience Services Board Endowed Chair Paul D. Sprecher, Special Events of Community Programs Alex Chatziapostolou-Demas, Linda Nguyen, Manager, Associate Todd Snead, Director Sales Manager Office of the General Director Devin Bopp, Board of Directors of Learning Programs John Renfroe, Tessitura Manager Michelle Hoehne, Assistant, Office and Women’s Board Coordinator Will Biby, Manager of Laura Waters, Customer Service of the General Director Nick Roman, Board of Directors and Audience Programs and Call Center Manager Women’s Board Coordinator Drew Smith, Learning Programs Leigh Folta, VIP Ticketing Associate OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Amy Tinucci, Director of Manager Claire French, VIP Ticketing GENERAL DIRECTOR Development Operations Cameron Murdock, Coordinator Drew Landmesser, Deputy Kelly E. Cronin, Manager of Backstage Tours Coordinator Julia Acquistapace General Director and Operations and Data Analytics LaRob Payton, Lyric Learning Julie Anderson Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Lillie, Donor Records and & Creative Engagement Marnie Baylouny Reporting Associate Coordinator Achilles Bezanis ARTISTIC Erin Johnson, Donor Records Benjamin Burney Andreas Melinat, Vice President, Coordinator LYRIC LABS STRATEGIC Alex Carey Artistic Planning PROJECTS OFFICE Emily Crisp Cory Lippiello, Artistic Administrator Christopher Ainsley, Lyric Labs Erik Dohner Evamaria Wieser, Casting Consultant Strategic Projects, Office Director Ashlyn Elliot Kara Riopelle, Lyric Labs Project Andrew Groble Manager Shelagh Haney Erin Hogan

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 78 Karen Hunt Alaina Bartkowiak Dan DiBennardi, Assistant Talia Newton Caitlyn Johnson Rachel C. Henneberry Warehouse Coordinator Kathy Rubel Kerri Killeen Daniel Sokalski Dan Donahue Toni Rubino Eve Krueger Peggy Stenger Justin Hull Joanna Rzepka Steve Landsman Amy C. Thompson Ryan McGovern Marguerite Scott Madison Lawry Rachel A. Tobias Assistant Carpenters Rebecca Shouse Ian Maryfield Bill Walters Anthony Bernardy Ewa Szylak Amy Munroe Sandra Zamora Connor Ingersoll Barbara Szyllo Jessica Reinhart Assistant Stage Managers John Ingersoll Carolina Tuazon Aleksander Reupert Ben Bell Bern, Rehearsal Aiden McGovern Isaac Turner Elizabeth Schroeder Department Manager Johnny Rivers Maggie Zabierowski Adam Stubitsch Kevin Krasinski, Chase Torringa Wardrobe Staff Emily Thornton Artist Services Manager Carpenters Samantha Holmes, Marisa von Drasek Marina Vecci, Michael C. Reynolds, Wardrobe Crew Head Rosemary Walsh Rehearsal Associate Master Electrician Kristine Anderson Ciera Williams Jeffrey Jauch Soren Ersbak, Board Operator Scott Barker Angela Yu, Ticket Staff Danielle Krispin John Clarke, Jr. Lauren Crotty Kathleen Butera, Emily Crisp, & Rehearsal Assistants Anthony Coia Dawn Marie Hamilton Luke Honeck, Lyric Concierge Thomas Hull David Hough Representatives RYAN OPERA CENTER Robert Reynolds Charlie Junke Dan Novak, Vice President and Assistant Electricians Kim Kostera OPERATIONS Director, Ryan Opera Center Jason Combs Wendy McCay Nicholas Ivor Martin, The Ryan Opera Center Board Thomas Fernandez Moira O’Neil President, Artistic Operations Endowed Chair Gary Grenda Dulce Santillan and Labor Strategy Craig Terry, Music Director, The Brian Hobbs Lynn Sparber Wendy Skoczen, Chief Librarian Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Daniel Kuh Chris Valente Tabitha Boorsma, Operations Associate Julia Faulkner, Director of Vocal Asiel Simpson Roger Weir Stephanie Karr, Senior Director Studies, Elizabeth F. Cheney Jose Villalpando Kristi Wood of Music Administration Foundation Electricians Samantha Yonan, Dressers Michael Calderone, Music Emma Scherer, Associate Joe Schofield Sarah Hatten, Wigmaster and Administration Associate, Head Audio Technician Makeup Designer, The Marlys Orchestra and Ballet TECHNICAL Nick Charlan Beider Endowed Chair Sarah Cohn, Music Administration Michael Smallwood Matt Eble Allison Burkholder, Associate, Chorus Vice President and Technical Kelvin Ingram Department Coordinator Director, The Allan and Elaine Audio Technicians Bridget Ryzmski, PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS Muchin Endowed Chair Charles Reilly, Wig Crew Head Geri LaGiglio, Director of Front of April Busch, Technical Property Master Necole Bluhm House Operations Operations Director Michael McPartlin, DeShawn Bowman Sharon Lomasney, Director of Scott Marr, Wardrobe, Wigs, Properties Crew Head Martha Contreras Presentations and Events and Makeup Director Phil Marcotte, Prop Carpenter Brittany Perez Crinson Megan St. John, Director of Facility Michael Schoenig, Technical Bob Ladd, Armorer Eric Daniels Operations Finance Director Rachel Boultinghouse, Lillian Dion Maya Stallworth, Presentations and Scott Wolfson, Associate Upholsterer June Gearon Events Coordinator Technical Director Robert Hartge David Grant Lindsey Wolfeld, Facilities Maria DeFabo Akin, Properties Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Chantelle Marie Johnson Coordinator and Scenic Design Director Richard Tyriver Lynn Koroulis Gregg Brody, Box Office Manager Chris Maravich, Lighting Director, Assistant Properties Robert Kuper Patrick Dowling, Patron Services Mary-Louise and James S. Michael Buerger Briette Madrid Manager Aargard Lighting Director Joseph Collins Lana McKinnon Stephen Dunford, Chief Engineer Endowed Chair Adam Gorsky Claire Moores David Jaworski, Porter Lea Branyan Gordon Granger Megan Pirtle Tiffany Kane, Restaurant Manager Technical Production Coordinator Joe Mathesius Jada Richardson Briette Madrid, Stage Door Sarah Riffle Kevin McPartlin Lela Rosenberg Supervisor Bridget Williams Luigi Trupiano Rick Salazar Sheila Matthews, Front of House Assistant Lighting Designers Properties Rachel Stiles Manager Joe Dockweiler, Brian Traynor Kacy Tatus Lena Reynolds-Sneed, Assistant Master Carpenter Charge Artist Pat Tomlinson House Manager Mike Reilly, Head Flyman/ Tim Morrison Emily Young Charles Tucker, Front of House Automation Michael Murtaugh Wig and Makeup Staff Manager Jeffrey Streichhirsch, Scenic Artists Automation Assistant Maureen Reilly, Costume PRODUCTION Chris Barker Director, The Richard Cameron Arens, Robert Hull, Jr. P. and Susan Kiphart Senior Director, Production Rigging/Automation Assistants Endowed Chair Katrina Bachus Mark Shanabrough, Lucy Lindquist, Jordan Lee Braun Head Shop Carpenter Wardrobe Mistress David Carl Toulson Brian Grenda, Layout Carpenter Louie Barrios Assistant Stage Directors Drew Trusk, Head Shop Welder Molly Herman John W. Coleman Bruce Woodruff, Layout Welder Robert Hilliard Rachel C. Henneberry Richard “Doc” Wren, Kate Keefe Rachel A. Tobias Warehouse Coordinator Cecylia Kinder Stage Managers Krystina Lowe

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 79 Backstage life: Kenneth Nichols

WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AT LYRIC, AND HOW LONG WHAT KEEPS YOU COMMITTED TO THE WORK HAVE YOU HELD THE POSITION? YOU DO? I am currently in the Regular Chorus. August marked the I love it! It’s what I’ve wanted to do since I saw my first opera when beginning of my 19th season. I was in high school. And I plan on doing it for as long as I am physically and vocally able to do so. It’s one of the reasons that I WHAT LED YOU TO WORK AT LYRIC? work out. Being in shape physically helps me to stay in shape While in Chicago performing in Show Boat [at the Auditorium vocally. The other thing that keeps me committed is the audience. Theatre], I saw David Hockney’s production of Turandot [at Lyric] There may be someone in the audience who’s never been to an and absolutely loved it. Getting to hang out with Ben Heppner at a opera before. If what I’m doing onstage can contribute in any way, sushi restaurant afterwards was an added bonus! When Show shape, or form to that person falling in love with opera, then it’s all Boat closed a couple of years later, it was the only logical choice, worth it. as I was now based in Chicago and musical-theater options were fewer and farther between. I started with the Ryan Opera Center WHAT’S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR JOB back when it was called LOCAA [Lyric Opera Center for American THAT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW? Artists], performing in their education programs. I was eventually We have more fun offstage than onstage. Not that we don’t enjoy hired for the Supplementary Chorus, and then Regular Chorus being onstage – it‘s just a different kind of fun. Onstage, it’s the joy the following season. of making music, and trying to stay in the moment when the music is so beautiful that you don’t know whether to scream or WHAT’S A TYPICAL DAY LIKE FOR YOU? break down and cry. Offstage, we’re just silly. Whether it’s the I get up around 5-5:30 to spend some time in prayer. Then, “Cool” dance from West Side Story, the White Elephant doing the depending on the rehearsal schedule, I’ll either have breakfast and Running Man in The King and I, or the Star Wars sound effects in go to the gym, or have breakfast and come to the theater. After Turandot. We have a blast! rehearsal, if I don’t get to the gym in the morning, I usually go for a run or a long walk when I get home. Pretty low key, but I like it that A FAVORITE LYRIC MOMENT? way. There have been so many. The fight in Die Meistersinger was one of the rare times we got to be silly onstage. I was the Birdseller in WHAT’S THE MOST CHALLENGING ASPECT Sweeney Todd and got to speak with a cockney accent, which was OF YOUR JOB? a new experience for me. And Cendrillon – if we performed that There are two: the first is learning and singing in Russian. I think opera every season, I would be totally fine with it. we’ve only done three Russian operas since 2000, and, at least for me, it’s not a language you can just pick up, as it bears absolutely BEYOND OPERA, WHAT ARE YOUR no resemblance to English and there’s nothing to hang on to. The OTHER PASSIONS? other is trying to remember an opera that we haven’t done in a Musical theater, motorcycles, health, and fitness. I started in while. This season, we’ll revisit The Queen of Spades. It’s a double musicals playing Woody in Finian’s Rainbow in junior high school. whammy for me, because it’s been close to 20 years since we last All the seeds were planted while I was in New York but didn’t come performed it. In fact, it was my very first production at Lyric to fruition until I came to Chicago. A choir member at a church Opera of Chicago. And it’s in Russian. Challenge accepted. where I was singing loaned me a book about an African American from the Northeast, who took a road trip on his BMW K75 to see if or how race relations had progressed in the South. I was hooked. All I wanted after reading that book was a BMW K75. I still haven’t found one. Neither have I been able to locate the book – the search continues. I’ve had a long love-hate relationship with health and fitness; I have been on and off that wagon more times than I care to remember. About three years ago, I decided to get on and stay on. I didn’t just go on a diet, I changed my diet and dramatically increased my workouts. The results have been both rewarding and lasting.

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