Canadian Opera COmpany Fall 2013 Per forman ce

PETER GR IM ES (l –r) Dimitri Pittas as Rodolfo and Joshua Hopkins as Marcello in the Canadian Opera Company/Houston Grand Opera (HGO)/San Francisco Opera co-production of La Bohème , 2012, HGO. Photo: Felix Sanchez

CONTEN TS 4 REMEMBERING LOTFI 6 JOHN CAIRD DIRECTS A NEW BOHÈME BY SUZANNE VANSTONE

12 HEPPNER ON PETER GRIMES BY SUZANNE VANSTONE A scene from the Opera Australia production of Peter Grimes , 2009. 20 CANADA’S FUTURE OPERA STARS Photo: Branco Gaica TAKE CENTRE STAGE BY JENNIFER PUGSLEY 24 COMING THIS WINTER MOZART’S COSÌ FAN TUTTE BY CLAIRE MORLEY

28 COMING THIS WINTER VERDI’S UN BALLO IN MASCHERA BY GIANNA WICHELOW

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Catch up with blogs and enjoy COC Radio at coc.ca. 3 “Lotfi was a legend. There is no question that he was one of opera’s most influential general directors. i am personally very grateful for his friendship and the advice he shared with me ever since i joined the COC.” – COC General Director Alexander Neef

(left) Lotfi Mansouri and Alexander Neef at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 2010. Photo: COC; (below) The COC's 1983 production of Elektra , where SURTITLES™ were first used. Photo: Robert C. Ragsdale

One of Lotfi’s most personal and heartfelt ambitions was achieved when he founded the COC Ensemble Studio in 1980, which is now Canada’s premier training program for young opera professionals. To date, over 180 young opera artists including singers, coaches, stage directors and conductors have received their first major professional operatic experience through the Ensemble Among Lotfi’s many contributions to the Studio, claiming such alumni as Ben COC and the opera world was the Heppner, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Janet unveiling of SURTITLES™ at the company’s Stubbs, John Fanning, and Wendy Nielsen, 1983 production of Elektra . The innovative to name just a few. use of simultaneous projected translations above the stage suddenly allowed the REME MB ERING “Lotfi possessed an infectious COC to make opera more accessible to enthusiasm for all that opera is. audiences. This revolutionized the opera He inspired us. He knew every world, and the use of titles is now standard word and note in every opera practice in all major opera houses around he directed. He loved his ‘kids’, LOTFI the world. the singers whose careers he LOTFI MANSOURI nourished and supported. What a privilege it was to have Mansouri left the COC in 1988 to become (1929 –2013) been one of his ‘kids’!” General Director of the San Francisco – Janet Stubbs, mezzo-soprano and member Opera, but he returned to the COC family of the inaugural Ensemble Studio regularly to direct on the mainstage, and his past August, we at the COC were largest in North America. During his to give masterclasses to the young artists Tdeeply saddened to hear of the loss of tenure, Mansouri’s focus was on of the Ensemble Studio. our third General Director, Lotfi Mansouri. implementing a longer performance Lotfi led the company from 1976 to 1988 season, audience development, more “His larger-than-life personality, broad sense of humor and boundless and played a crucial role in launching the adventurous repertoire and productions, enthusiasm for his work endeared him to everyone. His knowledge COC’s international reputation for artistic and advance planning both financially of the repertoire and stagecraft were daunting, and it benefitted every excellence and creative innovation. and artistically, the accomplishments organization he was associated with.” He grew the company into the largest of which are essential elements of the – San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley opera producer in Canada and one of the COC’s operations today.

4 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season Catch up with blogs and enjoy COC Radio at coc.ca. 5 A scene from the Canadian Opera Company/Houston Grand Opera (HGO)/San Francisco co-production of La Bohème , 2012, HGO. Photo: Felix Sanchez

JOHN CAIRD DI RECT S ANEW BOHÈME BY SUZANNE VANSTONE John Caird

hether you are an opera neophyte or airy feeling, both in the public foyer spaces Wa seasoned aficionado, chances are and in the hall itself. The space is not you have experienced La Bohème ’s beautifu l pretentious but rather incorporates a real music and heart-wrenching tale in some sense of community. It was a great pleasure fashion – be it with a full production, to work there and I look forward to my return excerpted highlights, or perhaps that aria with La Bohème .” on the radio that you can’t quite name, but In creating this new co-production with know intimately. A repertoire staple since Houston and San Francisco, Caird and set the company’s inaugural season in 1950, and costume designer David Farley have the COC is thrilled to bring a brand new taken inspiration from La Belle Époque , Bohème to its stage under the direction of capturing the romance and artistic brilliance Tony-award winning director John Caird. at the heart of this opera. Caird very much enjoyed working at La Bohème is based on Scènes de la vie the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing de bohème , a play by Henri Murger and Arts when he was last here to direct Don Théodore Barrière, which was adapted Carlos in 2007. “The building has a light, from a novel by Murger . But as Caird says,

6 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season John Caird Directs a NEW Bohème

story we know that both men will move on and certainly love again.” “Rather than relationships, their art is what is paramount to them – art is their true passion. No matter what is happening around them, Rodolfo pauses to write down a line of verse and Marcello feverishly paints and sketches. Like all good artists, they don’t want a moment to slip by without, in some way, recording it.” Caird has set this production in the 19th century, inspired by what was happening in Paris at the time. “We drew great inspiration from the great painter Toulouse-Lautrec who was capturing all aspects of street life, feeding the desire for the wealthy classes to peer into the seamier (l –r) Vuyani Mlinde as Colline, Michael Sumuel as Schaunard, Dimitri Pittas as Rodolfo and Joshua Hopkins side of life.” The set design revolves around as Marcello in the Canadian Opera Company/Houston a mosaic of canvases, painted by Marcello, Grand Opera (HGO)/San Francisco Opera co-production of La Bohème , 2012, HGO. Photo: Felix Sanchez that frame the action within the opera’s changing Parisian locales. Some paintings remain fixed, some turn in place to create “In reality, the original works were neither scene changes, and others fly in to enhance a novel nor a play, but rather vignettes, the artistic effect. glimpses into the lives of the bohemian Puccini’s ability to create compelling lifestyle in Paris’s Latin Quarter.” Murger characters and express larger-than-life vividly captured the bohemians’ emotions through unforgettable melodies unconventional attitude towards freedom, is what makes La Bohème a perpetual pleasure and love, as well as their complete favourite of audiences. “A great opera like commitment to art, but he also reminded Bohème is a beautifully crafted construction his readers of the harsh realities of their lives. of melodies and musical dialogue – and At La Bohème ’s core is the heartbreaking Puccini’s craftsmanship is quite astonishing . tragedy of Mimì, an ailing seamstress and As always, it will be an unalloyed pleasure her lover Rodolfo. But Caird ingeniously to share a rehearsal room with his music. uses the four young artists: Marcello, a Having said that, my own work is only ever painter; Rodolfo, a poet; Schaunard, a musician; as good as the cast I am working with, and and Colline, a philosopher; to propel the from whom I draw my own inspiration. In story, each employing their particular talent. this respect I am being doubly rewarded – “All four young men possess wit and talent with two superb casts, both brimming over but they aren't as good at their relationships with youthful energy and enthusiasm.” n as they are at their art. Rodolfo knows he must lose Mimì and Marcello runs hot and Suzanne Vanstone is former Senior Communications cold with Musetta, but by the end of the Manager, Editorial at the Canadian Opera Company

FOR FURTHER INSIGHT INTO LA BOHÈME , PLEASE READ CANVASES COME ALIVE WITH SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER DAVID FARLEY, BY SUZANNE VANSTONE, AVAILABLE IN THE FALL ISSUE OF PRELUDE ONLINE AT COC.CA/PUBLICATIONS .

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DVORˇ ÁK Rusalka Puccini’s La Bohème was adapted from Henri Murger’s series of short stories, Scènes de la FEB 8 ENCORES MAR 29, 31 vie de bohème , depicting the life and times of bohemian artists, social rebels and radicals in Paris’s famed Latin Quarter.

La Bohème premiered in 1896 in Turin, Italy. Through its subject matter of penniless artists living for their ideals, the work’s realism and heartfelt drama reverberated with the larger BORODIN artistic concerns of the verismo tradition. Verismo was a literary movement in southern Prince Igor Italy beginning in the 1870s, characterized by gritty realism, a concern with poverty, the MAR 1 ENCORES APR 12, 14 use of everyday rather than poetic language, quotes from popular songs of the day, and a tragic ending.

At the time of its premiere, Italian audiences were unsure of how to react to the novelty

of the story. Perhaps one reason for this sense of disorientation was that Puccini’s opera MASSENET was staged at Turin’s Teatro Regio, a theatre that earlier in the season had featured the Werther Italian premiere of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung , a work characterized by its comparative MAR 15 ENCORES MAY 24, 26 enormity and stratospherically different content. In contrast, La Bohème ’s subject and style called out to a segment of the urban population and depicted a lower class far different from the privileged group that ordinarily attended the opera house. Mixed reactions notwithstanding, the opera quickly became a popular piece.

PUCCINI The Industrial Revolution radically altered the day-to-day lives of Europeans. The growth La Bohème APR 5 ENCORES JUN 7, 9, 18 of industry brought with it a rapidly expanding workforce and created a divide between the wealthy and the poor which led to the artistic reaction against self-indulgence. The premiere of La Bohème coincided with Labour movements in Italy in the mid-1890s, a period of social unrest. La Bohème ’s democratic appeal and its acknowledgment of poverty and poor living conditions signalled changing times in both life and art. MOZART SHOSTAKOVICH Così Fan Tutte Puccini’s music, along with Giuseppe Giacosa’s and Luigi Illica’s libretto, combined The Nose APR 26 ENCORES JUN 21, 23 to create one of the most popular operas of all time, with enduring themes of young OCT 26 ENCORE NOV 30 love set to incredibly powerful, beautiful music. Starring Paulo Szot Visit Cineplex.com/Opera for tickets and participating theatres. A scene from the Canadian Opera Company/Houston Grand Opera Transmission of The Met: Live in HD (HGO)/San Francisco co-production of La Bohème , 2012, HGO. Encore performances are only available at select theatres. in Canada is made possible thanks to the generosity of Jacqueline and Photo: Felix Sanchez Performances may not be available at all participating ROSSINI theatres for all advertised dates. Paul G. Desmarais Sr. La Cenerentola MAY 10 ENCORES JUL 5, 7, 16 TM/® Cineplex Entertainment LP or used under license.

10 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season The COC presents Peter Grimes . A scene from the Houston Grand Opera production, 2010. Photo: Felix Sanchez

HEPPNER ASIAN INSPIRED. DISTINCTLY CANADIAN. ON PETER

Ben Heppner GRIM ES Photo: Kristin Hoebermann BY SUZANNE VANSTONE

ollowing his deserved ovations in The role is a complex one to perform, FTristan und Isolde last season, celebrated balancing Grimes’s often raging persona tenor Ben Heppner returns to the COC with a softer, wounded man who, because to portray one of the most iconic roles of the death of his young apprentice, is in 20th-century opera – Peter Grimes. forced to defend himself against those who Benjamin Britten’s masterful composition have already decided his guilt. Heppner of a tormented fisherman shunned by feels that, “If you try to soften him too an unforgiving society is a favourite of much, he can appear whiny. You have to Heppner’s, and he has performed the role have the confidence to be disliked. Grimes worldwide in over 40 performances in seven is not a likeable character in many ways. THE SIGNATURE RESTAURANT AND LOBBY BAR AT SHANGRI-LA HOTEL, TORONTO productions. In fact, as soon as the curtain From the beginning he comes across as T: (647) 788 8888, 188 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada comes down in Toronto in October, he being self-righteous, railing, ‘No. I want to www.shangri-la.com/toronto is off to do it again in Vienna. explain myself in court. Don’t leave me to ©2013 Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Brands mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Heppner on Peter Grimes

The COC presents Peter Grimes . (l-r) Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke as John and Stuart Skelton as Peter Grimes in the Opera Australia production, 2009. Photo: Branco Gaica

be judged by the court of public opinion,’ genius – you don’t have to be the most yet the whole time he is judged by the court beloved character on stage to have that of public opinion. extraordinary effect on people.” “It takes courage at the outset of the opera The music creates an extraordinary effect to be your own man and not care what others as well, and Heppner describes the score think – particularly in the dramatic scenes as film-like. When he talks about it with in the pub and then in the hut.” Heppner friends who don’t attend opera regularly continues, “In the pub, Grimes seems to be and may have qualms about 20th-century in some other space. He loves the brewing or “modern” music, he reassures them that storm, while others think him mad or the music is extremely accessible. “It’s very drunk. Then in the hut scene, although he descriptive, has some beautiful melodies is rough and tumble with the boy, you and the music fits the action. It’s like suddenly realize how tender he is. He loves Wagner contemporized – not such a heavy this boy and really wants to care for him. orchestration, but the colours Britten gets Somehow they have a mutual affection that in the orchestra are amazing. T his is really works. And so, at the end of the opera, visceral writing – it just seems to grab your when the curtain comes down, there is heart. ” often silence from the audience. People are One of Heppner’s favourite moments is stunned. I think they are trying to figure in the church scene when Grimes confronts out why they care about this man; perhaps Ellen Orford, a schoolmistress who is one they were wrong about him. I think it’s of the few villagers sympathetic to his plight .

14 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season Heppner on Peter Grimes

“She is there to protect the boy and has also the spaces that separate people, and some sort of relationship with Grimes, the in those spaces we feel fear and mistrust, nature of which, even after 40 performances, anger and love, hope and despair. I saw my I am still unsure. It seems to have romantic job in this production as allowing the world elements, but I created a backstory for myself that Britten creates so vividly in the music that perhaps she taught him how to read to play freely in the audience’s imagination, and he is very appreciative of that. The scene and I was at pains to ensure the experience is filled with enflamed passions – on both of watching and listening to Peter Grimes sides. She approaches him very tenderly: not be blurred by too literal a representation ‘Peter, tell me one thing…’ and he snaps, of this world in the actual images created ‘Take away your hand! The argument’s on stage. In a sense all of my productions finished, friendship lost, gossip is shouting… in theatre have been about trying to share To hell with your ambitions. God have with an audience the experience of play mercy upon you!’ It’s a swirling microcosm that goes on in the rehearsal room before of his various moods. opening – to render that experience in “I think Ellen sees something in him a not entirely finished form, so that the that she doesn’t see in the other men, minds of the audience are all engaged in something that really attracts her. She sees finishing it together.” his interest in the outside world, and there Ben concurs. “I think Neil’s staging are only three characters who have any improves our understanding of the opera. vision of that – Captain Balstrode, Ellen I’ve done Peter Grimes both ways – with and Grimes. If I use my own backstory boats and nets, etc., and I’ve also performed of Ellen having helped him read, she has it with very little on stage. What this kind perhaps suggested things for him to study, of approach does for the audience is so he has a connection with the outside unbelievable. It gets rid of all that other stuff world. Balstrode is a world-travelled sea and focuses in on the relationships between captain and Ellen has, if not actually all the characters. That’s what it’s about. It’s travelled , journeyed through her books. an amazingly well written piece of drama. They are the only people who have an There is a real self-examination that occurs outside perspective. Everybody else is locked when you watch this opera and that is the into their society and their little town.” best kind of theatre – it makes you think, it In portraying that insular town, director involves you, you’re caught up in it. That’s Neil Armfield sets the piece in a community why people need to come to this – it’s such hall, similar perhaps to Britten’s own a great experience.” n Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh. Armfield says, “The music paints pictures not only of the Suzanne Vanstone is former Senior Communications sea and the land around The Borough, but Manager, Editorial at the Canadian Opera Company.

FOR FURTHER INSIGHT INTO PETER GRIMES , PLEASE READ ANATOMY OF AN OPERA: THE MYSTERY OF EVIL , BY NIKITA GOURSKI AND GIANMARCO SEGATO, AVAILABLE IN THE FALL ISSUE OF PRELUDE ONLINE AT COC.CA/PUBLICATIONS .

16 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season PETER GRIMES OPERA BACKGROUND GOOSEBUMPS INCLUDED. Born in Suffolk on the sea-swept east coast of England in 1913, Benjamin Britten is acknowledged as one of the foremost English opera composers of the 20th century. A child prodigy, he composed prolifically from the age of four. By the age of 12 he had composed a dozen large-scale works and later studied with Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams. In 1936 Britten met tenor Peter Pears who was to become his lifelong partner and muse, and in 1939 they fled Britain together, horrified by the rise of Nazism in Europe.

While still travelling in the U.S. and Canada, war was declared and Britten and Pears were unable to return to England. In 1941, while visiting California, Britten was given a copy of George Crabbe’s collection of poems entitled The Borough . In 24 poems, it describes the lives of the people of a small fishing village in Suffolk, one of whom is Peter Grimes.

Crabbe, a poet and clergyman, had grown up in Aldeburgh, England, and depicted the The power of emotions on stage can be experienced in village and its inhabitants with a great deal of precision, though he kept his account thinly many ways. We are proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of veiled as The Borough . Britten grew up very near Aldeburgh and knew the area and the people well. A potent combination of homesickness and his identification with the depiction SURTITLES™ at the Canadian Opera Company, to help patrons of the loner misfit spoke to him on a personal level. Britten immediately seized on the experience every emotion under the sun - along with, of poem as the subject for his first full-scale opera. In 1942 he and Pears finally returned to England, settling in Aldeburgh. course, the goosebumps.

Peter Grimes received its world premiere in June 1945, only weeks after WWII ended, at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, England with Peter Pears in the title role. Embraced by the public and critics, Peter Grimes was generally acknowledged as a watershed moment in operatic history, giving a fresh new feel to the art form. Over the next 15 years Britten established himself as the leading opera composer of the 20th century: Albert Herring , Billy Budd , The Turn of the Screw , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Owen Wingrave , and Death in Venice are the most famous of his operas. Not coincidentally, all of these works share a common theme – an outsider excluded or misunderstood by society. Britten never lost the belief that art could convey fundamental truths by confronting social majorities with evidence of their own intolerance and insensitivity. The COC presents Peter Grimes . A scene from the Opera Australia production, 2009. Photo: Branco Gaica TM SURTITLES is a registered trade-mark ® Making the Arts More Accessible is a registered of the Canadian Opera Company. trade-mark of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada.

18 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season ALEXANDER NEEF , General Director PETER GRIMES by Benjamin Britten Opera in a Prologue and Three Acts, with libretto by Montagu Slater, based on the poem, The Borough , by George Crabbe

By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner First performance: Sadler’s Wells, London, June 7, 1945 Co-Production from Opera Australia, Houston Grand Opera and West Australian Opera Last performed by the COC in 2003 October 5, 8, 11, 17, 20, 23, 26, 2013 Sung in English with English SURTITLES TM THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Hobson, carrier Robert Pomakov Swallow, lawyer Tom Corbeil Peter Grimes, fisherman Ben Heppner ^* Mrs. Sedley, widow Judith Christin Ellen Orford, widow , schoolmistress Ileana Montalbetti ^ Auntie, landlady of “The Boar” Jill Grove Bob Boles, fisherman and Methodist Roger Honeywell ^ Captain Balstrode, retired merchant skipper Alan Held Reverend Horace Adams, rector Owen McCausland †*** First Niece Claire de Sévigné †**** Second Niece Danielle MacMillan †***** Ned Keene, apothecary and quack Peter Barrett ^** Dr. Crabbe Thomas Hauff John, apprentice Jakob Janutka

Conductor Johannes Debus Director Neil Armfield Revival Director Denni Sayers Set Designer Ralph Myers Costume Designer Tess Schofield Lighting Designer Damien Cooper Lighting Design Re-created by Wendy Greenwood Chorus Master Sandra Horst ^ Stage Manager Jenifer Kowal SURTITLES™ Producer Gunta Dreifelds

Performance time is approximately three hours and 15 minutes, including two intermissions. Johannes Debus is generously sponsored by Anne and Tony Arrell *Ben Heppner’s performance is generously sponsored by Françoise Sutton **Peter Barrett's performance is generously sponsored by Carol Swallow ***Owen McCausland’s performance is generously sponsored by Peter and Hélène Hunt ****Claire de Sévigné's performance is generously sponsored by Anne and Tony Arrell *****Danielle MacMillan's performance is generously sponsored by Brian Wilks, Marjorie and Roy Linden

† Current member of the COC Ensemble Studio ^Graduate of the COC Ensemble Studio Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change.

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ne of the remarkable things in Peter in finishing it together. And so our stage PROLOGUE ACT II O Grimes is the sense of place alive is our rehearsal hall — perhaps a version An English fishing village On Sunday morning, as Ellen and John in it, and the way musically that place is of Aldeburgh’s Jubilee Hall, where Britten During a coroner’s inquest at the town hall, are watching the villagers go to church, seen and felt through the minds of the worked amongst his community to find the lawyer Swallow questions the fisherman , she discovers a bruise on the young boy’s protagonist: we experience landscape, the musical expression appropriate to the Peter Grimes, about the death of his neck. Grimes comes to take John fishing. weather, light and atmosphere as energies, the rhythms, the dreams of his apprentice during a storm at sea. Though Ignoring Ellen’s concerns, he hits her and psychological entities. Britten plays so world. It is a space for the good people the room is crowded with villagers hostile drags the child off. The villagers, who have courageously in almost visually creating of The Borough to reveal their lives, to tell to Grimes, Swallow accepts the man’s witnessed this brutality, decide to confront the world that surrounds his characters. their story. explanation of the event and rules that the fisherman, and an angry mob heads The music paints pictures not only of the It is interesting that Britten went to some the boy died accidentally. He warns Grimes off to Grimes’s hut. sea and the land around The Borough, but pains to place inside this story the author, not to take on another apprentice unless At his hut, Grimes hears the mob also the spaces that separate people, and Dr. Crabbe. It provided us with the seed the boy lives with a woman who can care approaching and rushes John out of the in those spaces we feel fear and mistrust, of an idea, perhaps, about the parental act for him. When the hall empties, Ellen Orford, back door. The boy slips and falls down anger and love, hope and despair. of creating the story: Dr. Crabbe has the schoolmistress, asks Grimes to have the cliff and Grimes escapes. The villagers I saw my job in this production as conceived these characters, this story, courage and promises to help him find find the hut empty and orderly and decide allowing the world that Britten creates so and sits back as their father and watches a better life. that they have misjudged Grimes. Captain vividly in the music to play freely in the as these creations of his mind come to life Balstrode looks over the cliff and knows audience’s imagination, and I was at pains and act. To some extent Crabbe’s poem can ACT I better. to ensure the experience of watching and be seen as a speculation on the mystery of As the villagers go about their daily listening to Peter Grimes not be blurred creation — and the creation of human pain, routine, the apothecary Ned Keene tells INTERMISSION by too literal a representation of this world misery, frustration. In 1945, at the end of Grimes that he has found him a new in the actual images created on stage. the most dreadful war in human history, apprentice at a workhouse and Ellen ACT III In a sense all of my productions in Britten wrote this magnificent study of a Orford offers to go and fetch him, in spite A dance is underway in the town hall. theatre have been about trying to share village by the sea. But he is asking all the of the villagers’ hostile comments. Grimes Captain Balstrode and Ellen have been with an audience the experience of play way through it — where does our rage is left alone with Captain Balstrode, one searching for Grimes. Ellen has found the that goes on in the rehearsal room before come from? What is the complex equation of his few friends, who tries to convince boy’s jersey but there is no sign of Grimes opening — to render that experience in in the community, in the human heart, that him to leave the village. The fisherman or John. Once the villagers realize Grimes’s a not entirely finished form, so that the results in evil? explains that first he has to make enough boat has returned they mount another minds of the audience are all engaged money to open a store and marry Ellen. manhunt, convinced that Grimes is guilty Neil Armfield That night, as a storm rages, the of the death of his new apprentice. villagers gather at Auntie’s tavern. When Grimes, deranged and raving, hears the Grimes enters, there is an uncomfortable villagers shouting his name in the distance. silence. Ellen arrives with the new Ellen asks Grimes to come home, but apprentice, John, and Grimes immediately Balstrode tells him to sail out and take his takes the boy back into the storm and own life. He helps Grimes launch the boat, to his hut. and then leads Ellen away. As the dawn breaks, the villagers return to their daily INTERMISSION chores. Swallow tells them that the coast guard has reported a sinking boat, but no one listens to him.

Synopsis courtesy of Houston Grand Opera and Opera Australia

2 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season Please visit coc.ca for additional information 3 EXTRACT FROM LETTER XXII, THE POOR OF THE BOROUGH , “PETER GRIMES” FROM THE BOROUGH BY GEORGE CRABBE (1804 – 1809, 1810) MUSIC STAFF Rachel Andrist ( Head Coach ) Jenna Douglas Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ, Michael Shannon ( Ensemble Studio Intern Coach ) His wife he cabin’d with him and his boy, And seem’d that life laborious to enjoy: ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR To town came quiet Peter with his fish, Derek Bate And had of all a civil word and wish. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR He left his trade upon the Sabbath-day, Marilyn Gronsdal And took young Peter in his hand to pray: But soon the stubborn boy from care broke loose, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS At first refused, then added his abuse: Lesley Abarquez His father’s love he scorn’d, his power defied, Kristin McCollum

But being drunk, wept sorely when he died. ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNERS Wendy Greenwood • • • Jareth Li Davida Tkach Alas! for Peter not a helping hand, So was he hated, could he now command; UNDERSTUDIES Alone he row’d his boat, alone he cast Hobson Doug MacNaughton His nets beside, or made his anchor fast: Swallow Gordon Bintner To hold a rope or hear a curse was non, — Peter Grimes Roger Honeywell He toil’d and rail’d; he groan’d and swore alone. Mrs. Sedley Wendy Hatala Foley Ellen Orford Aviva Fortunata Thus by himself compell’d to live each day, Auntie Deborah Overes To wait for certain hours the tide’s delay; Bob Boles Owen McCausland At the same time the same dull views to see, Captain Balstrode Mark Walters The bounding marsh-bank and the blighted tree; Reverend Horace Adams Andrew Haji The water only, when the tides were high, First Niece Eve Rachel McLeod When low, the mud half-cover’d and half-dry; Second Niece Charlotte Burrage The sun-burnt tar that blisters on the planks, Ned Keene Cameron McPhail And bank-side stakes in their uneven ranks; Heaps of entangled weeds that slowly float, As the tide rolls by the impeded boat.

George Crabbe

4 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season Please visit coc.ca for additional information 5 ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES

PETER BARRETT in Così fan tutte (SFO); and the Witch Gretel , Flaminia in Il mondo della luna , Projects); and Richard in Cruel and Tender Ned Keene in Hansel and Gretel , Third Lady in Die Cunegonde in Candide (University of (Canadian Stage). Films include Adoration , Canadian baritone and Zauberflöte , and the Countess in Andrea Toronto); and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare Away From Her and Who Has Seen the Ensemble Studio graduate Chénier (Met). (Thirteen Strings Orchestra). This season Wind . TV credits include Sue Thomas F.B. Peter Barrett last appeared with the COC Ms de Sévigné also appears Eye , The Listener and regular appearances with the COC as the TOM CORBEIL as Despina in Così fan tutte (Ensemble on several TV series. Jailer in Dialogues des Swallow performance). Carmélites . Other COC roles include Canadian bass-baritone ALAN HELD Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus ; Harlequin Tom Corbeil last JILL GROVE Captain Balstrode in Ariadne auf Naxos ; Marcello in appeared with the COC Auntie American bass-baritone La Bohème ; Prince Yamadori in Madama as the English Clerk in American mezzo-soprano Alan Held recently Butterfly ; Lieutenant Colonel Denisov Death in Venice. Recent Jill Grove last appeared appeared at the COC and General Rayevsky in War and Peace ; performances include Leporello in Don with the COC as Amneris as Jochanaan in Salome , Šapkin in From the House of the Dead ; Giovanni , Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Aida . Her roles include Kurwenal in Tristan und Le Dancaïre in Carmen ; Papageno in The and Rodolfo in La sonnambula with Florida Klytemnestra in Elektra , Isolde , Simone in A Florentine Tragedy Magic Flute ; Nick in The Handmaid’s Tale ; Grand Opera (FGO); Basilio (Michigan Die Amme in Die Frau ohne Schatten , and in the title role in Gianni Schicchi . Sid in Albert Herring ; and Baritone 1 in Opera Theater); Leporello (Fort Worth Countess Geschwitz in Lulu and Amneris He has appeared with major international The Nightingale and Other Short Fables . Opera, Green Mountain Opera Festival); (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Florence Pike opera houses, including the Met, Wiener Other credits include Dr. Malatesta in Don and Faraone in Mosè in Egitto (Chicago in Albert Herring (Santa Fe Opera); Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Pasquale (Met); the King in Transformations Opera Theater). Other credits include Erda and the First Norn in the Ring Cycle Garden, Opéra national de Paris, La Scala, (Wexford Festival); Figaro in Il barbiere di Marquis in La Traviata and the Infernal (Los Angeles Opera/LAO, Met, and Munich Teatre del Liceu, Hamburgische Staatsoper Siviglia (Opera Lyra Ottawa); the Shepherd God in Alceste (Santa Fe Opera); Enrico Staatsoper); Zita in Gianni Schicchi and Lyric Opera of Chicago (LOC). Mr. in Daphne (Pacific Opera Victoria); and in L’isola disabitata (Gotham Chamber (LAO and Spoleto Festival); Haushälterin Held’s recent appearances include Orest Marcello (Minnesota Opera). Opera); Superintendent Budd in Albert in Die schweigsame Frau (Théâtre du in Elektra (LOC); Wotan in Siegfried (Teatro Herring (Opera North); and Colline in Châtelet); the Deaconess in King Roger de la Maestranza); Hans Sachs in Die JUDITH CHRISTIN La Bohème (Eugene Opera, FGO, Opera (Netherlands Opera); and Ulrica in Un ballo Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Nomuri Festival, Mrs. Sedley Omaha, Sacramento Opera). Mr. Corbeil in maschera (New Orleans Opera and Tokyo); Wotan and the title role in Der American mezzo-soprano is also performing Colline in the COC’s Welsh National Opera). fliegende Holländer (Bayerische Staatsoper); Judith Christin is making La Bohème . Upcoming engagements and the title role in Wozzeck (Met). her COC debut. She has include his Nashville Opera debut as Basilio. THOMAS HAUFF performed with leading Dr. Crabbe BEN HEPPNER opera companies CLAIRE DE SÉVIGNÉ Canadian Thomas Hauff Peter Grimes throughout the United States including the First Niece last appeared with the Canadian tenor Ben Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Soprano Claire de Sévigné , COC as the Major-Domo Heppner last appeared Lyric Opera of Chicago (LOC), Houston a native of Montreal, is in Ariadne auf Naxos . with the COC as Tristan Grand Opera and Santa Fe Opera (SFO). a COC Ensemble Studio Theatre roles include in Tristan und Isolde . Her roles include Mrs. Sedley (Met, member. Recent COC Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream A COC Ensemble Studio Norwegian National Opera, Saito Kinen roles include Une Voix (Stratford Festival); Paul Sycamore in You graduate, his many roles include Lohengrin, Festival, SFO); Grandmother Burjya in in Dialogues des Carmélites , the Slave Can’t Take It With You (Theatre Aquarius); Tristan, Florestan ( Fidelio ), Aeneas Jenůfa (Washington National Opera, in Salome , Servilia in La clemenza di Tito Matthew Cuthbert in Anne (Blyth Festival, (Les Troyens ) and Hermann ( The Queen Glimmerglass Opera); Mrs. Lovett in (Ensemble performance) and Ida in Die Theatre Calgary); James Donnelly in Sticks of Spades ) at the Met; as well as Idomeneo, Sweeney Todd (LOC); Mother Herring in Fledermaus . Other credits include Queen and Stones (Blyth Festival); Angus and Parsifal, Otello, Andrea Chénier, Laca Albert Herring , Madame Larina in Eugene of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (Music Morgan in The Drawer Boy (Theatre Passe (Jenůfa ), Walther ( Die Meistersinger von Onegin , Margret in Wozzeck , Mère Marie Academy of the West); the title role in Lucia Muraille, Waterloo Stage Company); Alfred Nürnberg ) and the Prince ( Rusalka ) at the in Dialogues des Carmélites , and Despina di Lammermoor , Gretel in Hansel and in Stretching Hide (Manitoba Theatre Met, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper,

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La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, San lessons, and has been dancing in the in Così fan tutte (Ensemble performance), (Los Angeles Opera); Angelotti in Tosca Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Associates Program at Canada’s National Lord Cecil in Roberto Devereux and Juan and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor Chicago; Tristan (Houston Grand Opera, Ballet School for the past 5 years. He has in Don Quichotte . (Opera Lyra); Hobson and the Bonze in Welsh National Opera, Edinburgh and appeared on stage for several productions Madama Butterfly (Houston Grand Opera); Helsinki festivals, Royal Opera House of The Nutcracker and Alice in Wonderland . ILEANA MONTALBETTI and productions of Attila and Pelléas et Covent Garden); Lohengrin (Deutsche Oper Ellen Orford Mélisande (Met). Berlin); and Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick DANIELLE MACMILLAN Canadian soprano and (world premiere with Dallas Opera, Calgary Second Niece Ensemble Studio graduate Opera). Mr. Heppner, the new host of CBC’s Toronto native Danielle Ileana Montalbetti last JOHANNES DEBUS Saturday Afternoon at the Opera , regularly MacMillan, a first year performed with the Conductor tours Canada in concert and is a Companion COC Ensemble Studio COC as The Voice of COC Music Director of the Order of Canada. member, is making her Antonia’s Mother in The Tales of Hoffmann . Johannes Debus recently COC debut. She holds Her COC appearances include Clorinda conducted the company’s ROGER HONEYWELL a bachelor of fine arts, with honours, in (La Cenerentola ), the Russian Mother/ Dialogues des Carmélites Bob Boles classical vocal performance from York Newspaper Seller ( Death in Venice ), and Salome . COC credits Canadian tenor and University, with additional training at Anna Kennedy ( Maria Stuarda ), Mavra include Tristan und Isolde , Die Fledermaus , Ensemble Studio graduate the International Vocal Arts Institute Kuzminichna ( War and Peace ), and with The Tales of Hoffmann , Love from Afar , Roger Honeywell last in Montreal, Istituzione Teatro Lirico the Ensemble, the First Lady ( The Magic Rigoletto and, at the Brooklyn Academy appeared with the COC Sperimentale di Spoleto in Italy and The Flute ), Elettra ( Idomeneo ), and Fiordiligi of Music, The Nightingale and Other Short in Ariadne auf Naxos . Glenn Gould School (GGS). Her credits (Così fan tutte ). Ms Montalbetti’s credits Fables . This past summer Mr. Debus Other COC roles include Macduff in include Rose in Lakmé (Opera by Request); include Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann conducted a concert with Rufus Wainwright Macbeth , Roderigo in Otello , Narraboth in Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto , Véronique in (Edmonton Opera); Leonore in Fidelio and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid. Salome , and the title role in Giulio Cesare Bizet’s Le docteur Miracle and the Cabaret (Michigan Opera Theater); and the Fifth Other highlights include appearances with in Egitto (Ensemble performance). Recent Singer in Weil’s Mahagonny-Songspiel Maid in Lehnhoff’s production of Elektra the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Boston engagements include Captain Vere in (GGS); and Cherubino in Le nozze di and Anaï (understudy) in Moïse et Pharaon Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Billy Budd (Teatro Municipal de Santiago); Figaro (York University). This season under Riccardo Muti (Teatro dell’Opera Orchestra; Elektra and The Rake’s Progress the title role in Peter Grimes (Des Moines Ms MacMillan also appears as Dorabella di Roma). (Staatsoper unter den Linden); Hänsel und Metro Opera); Aegist in Elektra (Lyric in Così fan tutte (Ensemble performance). Gretel and Die Entführung aus dem Serail Opera of Chicago/LOC); Cavaradossi ROBERT POMAKOV (Bayerische Staatsoper); and appearances in Tosca (Portland Opera and Fort Worth OWEN M cCAUSLAND Hobson at Opéra Festival de Québec, the Spoleto Opera); Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly Reverend Horace Adams Canadian bass Robert Festival and Merola Opera Program at (Portland Opera); Midas in Die Liebe der New Brunswick native Pomakov’s COC credits San Francisco Opera. This season at the Dannae (Bard Festival); James Nolan in and COC Ensemble include Bottom in COC Mr. Debus also conducts Così fan Doctor Atomic (LOC and Met); Jimmy in Studio tenor Owen A Midsummer Night’s tutte and Don Quichotte , and appears with Lillian Alling (Vancouver Opera); and McCausland recently Dream , Leporello in the Orchestra della Toscana, Philharmonia Don José in Carmen (Calgary Opera). appeared as the Second Don Giovanni , Fasolt in Das Rheingold , Orchestra and Oper Frankfurt. Nazarene in the COC’s Salome . Other COC Gorjančikov in From the House of the Dead JAKOB JANUTKA credits include stepping into the title role and Varlaam in Boris Godunov . Recent NEIL ARMFIELD John in La clemenza di Tito on the mainstage as appearances include Monterone (San Director Canadian actor Jakob well as the Ensemble performance and the Francisco Opera); Benoît in La Bohème Director Neil Armfield Janutka is making his Messenger in Il Trovatore . Credits include and Haly in L'italiana in Algeri (Houston returns to the COC after COC debut. Mr. Janutka Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (Opera on the Grand Opera); and Monterone (Met). Other directing Ariadne auf is a grade 5 student Avalon) and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni credits include Leporello in Don Giovanni Naxos , A Midsummer who loves dance, music, (Centre for Opera Studies in Italy). This (Washington Opera); Nikitich in Boris Night’s Dream and Billy drawing and acting, the latter of which he season with the COC Mr. McCausland also Godunov (Teatro Real Madrid); Vodnik Budd . An acclaimed director of theatre, has been pursuing over the course of the appears as Parpignol in La Bohème , the in Rusalka (Opéra de Montréal); Colline in television and film, his opera credits last year. At age 2, he began taking ballet Servant in Un ballo in maschera , Ferrando La Bohème and Pietro in Simon Boccanegra include Tristan und Isolde , Der Ring des

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Nibelungen , Janáček and Britten cycles, RALPH MYERS (Australian Academy Award winner for Shakespeare Theater); The Glass Menagerie and the world premieres of Brett Dean’s Set Designer Best Costume Design). and Tuesdays With Morrie (Globe Theatre); Bliss and Alan John’s The Eighth Wonder Set designer Ralph Myers and Miracle on 34th Street , It’s a Wonderful for Opera Australia. He has also worked is making his COC debut . DAMIEN COOPER Life and Annie (Grand Theatre). Ms with English, Washington, Welsh National, As well as being the Lighting Designer Greenwood is a past guest faculty member Houston Grand, Chicago Lyric and Zurich artistic director of Damien Cooper was at the National Theatre School in Montreal. Operas and Royal Opera House Covent Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre, previously at the COC Garden. Mr. Armfield was artistic director he designs internationally in theatre, dance as lighting designer for SANDRA HORST of the internationally renowned Belvoir and opera. Opera highlights include A Midsummer Night’s Chorus Master St. Theatre in Australia for 17 years. He Caligula (English National Opera); Peter Dream . Working in opera, Sandra Horst’s most directed Geoffrey Rush and Susan Grimes (Houston Grand Opera, Opera theatre and dance, he has collaborated with recent COC credits Sarandon in Exit The King on Broadway, Australia); Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Australian directors Neil Armfield, Benedict include Lucia di and the feature film Candy starring Heath Figaro (Opera Australia); and La Bohème Andrews, Barrie Kosky, Graeme Murphy, Lammermoor and Ledger. In 2007, he was awarded Officer (New Zealand Opera). Other credits Gideon Obarzanek, Jim Sharman and Dialogues des Carmélites . of the Order of Australia for service to the include A Streetcar Named Desire (Sydney Simon Stone; and international directors Also at the COC she conducted Rossini’s arts, nationally and internationally. Theatre Company, touring to Washington Howard Davies, Des McAnuff, David Il viaggio a Reims . As director of musical DC and the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Pountney , Phillip Seymour Hoffman and studies at the University of Toronto’s DENNI SAYERS The Lost Echo , Mother Courage and Her Stephen Soderberg. Credits include Opera Division, she recently conducted Revival Director Children (Sydney Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Donizetti’s L’elisir d'amore . Ms Horst has Revival Director Denni Private Lives , Summer of the Seventeenth Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera/HGO); served as chorus master for Opera Theatre Sayers most recently Doll , The Seagull , The Wild Duck and Peter Grimes , Chorus! (HGO); Dr. Zhivago of St. Louis and Edmonton Opera; a judge worked with the COC Toy Symphony (Belvoir); and a new ballet (Gordon Frost Org.); Peter Grimes , Così fan for the Metropolitan Opera National as choreographer for choreographed by Lucy Guerin for Lyon tutte , Aida , Alcina , and The Magic Flute Council auditions; and music staff of Ariadne auf Naxos . Other Opera Ballet. (Opera Australia); Exit the King (Broadway); the Juilliard Opera Center, Chautauqua COC engagements include Don Carlos , and Swan Lake (Australian Ballet in New Institution, Boston Lyric Opera, and Banff Boris Godunov and Tosca . Ms Sayer’s TESS SCHOFIELD York, London, Paris, Tokyo). Mr. Cooper Centre for the Arts. She was one of the extensive credits include Don Giovanni Costume Designer is the winner of four Green Room Awards, 100 Alumni of Achievement honoured by and Hippolyte et Aricie (Glyndebourne); Award-winning costume three Sydney Theatre Awards and a Mike Wilfrid Laurier University. This season Ms Porgy and Bess (Chicago); The Flying designer Tess Schofield Walsh Fellowship. Horst is also chorus master for La Bohème , Dutchman (Los Angeles and English is making her COC Così fan tutte , Un ballo in maschera , National Opera); Les contes d'Hoffmann debut. Working in WENDY GREENWOOD Roberto Devereux , Hercules and Don (Beijing); Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean theatre, opera and film, Lighting Design Quichotte . (National Theatre); Sweeney Todd her opera credits include Peter Grimes Recreator (Chichester Festival and Adelphi Theatre, (Houston Grand Opera, Opera Australia); Canadian Wendy DEREK BATE Olivier Award Winner for Best Musical Sweeney Todd (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Greenwood has worked for Assistant Conductor Revival); reviving La Fanciulla del West Royal Opera House Covent Garden); 14 seasons with the COC Resident conductor (Paris); and engagements with Royal Opera The Prisoner /Berio Folk Songs /La Strada as lighting co-ordinator Derek Bate recently House Covent Garden (ROH), Paris Opera, (English National Opera); La Traviata and assistant lighting designer. Her associate conducted a performance Mariinsky Opera, Netherlands Opera, (Handa Opera); and Lady Macbeth of lighting designer credits include Eugene of the COC’s Salome . Dresden Opera, Salzburg Festival, Welsh Mtsensk , Jenůfa , and Whitsunday (Opera Onegin , Der Ring des Nibelungen and Also with the COC, he National Opera, Opera Australia, Houston Australia). Theatre credits include The Handmaid’s Tale . She has received has led performances of La clemenza di Grand Opera and Washington Opera. A Streetcar Named Desire (Sydney Theatre Dora Award nominations for Outstanding Tito , Rigoletto , Aida , Madama Butterfly , Future projects include The Flying Dutchman Company) and The Diary of a Madman Lighting Design and in the Best Independent The Flying Dutchman , Luisa Miller , Eugene (Copenhagen), Turandot (La Scala), and (Belvoir Theatre) , both of which toured Production category. Other design credits Onegin , La Bohème , Carmen , Turandot , Manon Lescaut (ROH). to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Most include Agamemnon , Elektra , The Flies La Traviata , Die Fledermaus and served recently Ms Schofield designed the and The Trials of Ezra Pound (Stratford as assistant conductor for Die Fledermaus , costumes for the film The Sapphires Festival); The School for Scandal (Chicago Love From Afar , A Florentine Tragedy/

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Gianni Schicchi , Maria Stuarda , Nixon in VIOLIN I BASS TUBA China , Cinderella , A Midsummer Night’s FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE Marie Bérard, Concertmaster Alan Molitz, Principal Scott Irvine, Principal, The Concertmaster’s chair has Robert Speer, Assistant Principal on leave of absence Dream , War and Peace and the complete We are pleased to offer, for the been endowed in perpetuity Nick Davis* Mark Bonang*, Acting Principal by Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Tom Hazlitt, on leave of absence Ring Cycle , among others. Mr. Bate convenience of all of our patrons, Benjamin Bowman, Associate Paul Langley TIMPANI frequently conducts with Toronto Operetta a pre-order system for intermission Concertmaster Eric Lee* Michael Perry, Principal Diane Tait, Assistant Robert Wolanski* Theatre, and was musical director for purchases. Our pre-order system is Concertmaster PERCUSSION Anne Armstrong FLUTE Trevor Tureski, Principal Les Misérables , The Phantom of the Opera designed to decrease your wait time James Aylesworth Douglas Stewart, Principal Ryan Scott* and Show Boat . at the bar during intermission and we Sandra Baron Shelley Brown Bethany Bergman HARP invite you to make use of it at every Pamela Hinman* PICCOLO Sarah Davidson, Principal JENIFER KOWAL COC performance. Bars are located Nancy Kershaw Shelley Brown Dominique Laplante Douglas Stewart CELESTE Stage Manager throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Yakov Lerner Jenna Douglas* Jayne Maddison OBOE This is Jenifer Kowal’s Sharp City Room’s many levels. Neria Mayer Mark Rogers, Principal 22nd season with the Food and beverages are not permitted Ashley Vandiver* Lesley Young BANDA COC. Her numerous in R. Fraser Elliott Hall. VIOLIN II ENGLISH HORN VIOLIN Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Lesley Young Benjamin Bowman COC stage managing Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal credits include Salome , Corey Gemmell* CLARINET BASS Elizabeth Johnston James T. Shields, Principal Robert Wolanski* La clemenza di Tito , Die Fledermaus , Hiroko Kagawa* Colleen Cook Jamie Kruspe* CLARINET Semele , Tosca , Rigoletto , Aida , Carmen , Renée London* E-FLAT CLARINET James T. Shields The Flying Dutchman , A Midsummer Aya Miyagawa Colleen Cook Colleen Cook Louise Tardif Night’s Dream , Fidelio , War and Peace , Marianne Urke BASSOON TUBA Eugene Onegin , Don Carlos , La Traviata , Sonia Vizante* Eric Hall, Principal Mark Bonang* Joanna Zabrowarna Elizabeth Gowen Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk , the Ring Cycle ORGAN VIOLA CONTRABASSOON Wayne Vogan* and, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Keith Hamm, Principal William Cannaway* The Nightingale and Other Short Fables . Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant PERCUSSION Principal HORN Trevor Tureski She was the production stage manager Carolyn Blackwell* Joan Watson, Principal, Ivan Ivanovich* on leave of absence LIBRARIAN for Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s Miss Shannon Knights* Scott Wevers, Acting Principal * Wayne Vogan Saigon , which also toured to Toronto and Rory McLeod* Janet Anderson Nicholaos Papadakis* Bardhyl Gjevori ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN Schenectady. Ms Kowal studied theatre Rhyll Peel Gary Pattison Ondrej Golias Angela Rudden* at Indiana University. Beverley Spotton TRUMPET STAGE LIBRARIAN Yosef Tamir, on leave of absence Robert Grim, Principal Paul Langley Brendan Cassin* CELLO Robert Weymouth PERSONNEL MANAGER Bryan Epperson, Principal Ian Cowie Alastair Eng, Associate Principal TROMBONE Paul Widner, Assistant Principal Charles Benaroya, Principal * extra musician Peter Cosbey* Ian Cowie Olga Laktionova Marianne Pack* BASS TROMBONE Elaine Thompson Herbert Poole

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY CHORUS

SOPRANOS MEZZO-SOPRANOS TENORS BARITONES Mary Bella Marianne Bindig Vanya Abrahams & BASSES Stacie Carmona Sandra Boyes Craig Ashton Kenneth Baker Andrea Cerswell Wendy Hatala Foley Stephen Bell Peter Barnes Margaret Evans Erica Iris Huang Taras Chmil Sung Chung Ilona Karan Lilian Kilianski Sean Clark Michael Downie Alexandra Lennox- Kathryn Knapp Stephen Erickson Jason Nedecky Pomeroy Jessica Lloyd Jason Lamont Bruce Schaef Ingrid Martin Karen Olinyk James Leatch Michael Sproule Eve Rachel McLeod Lisa Spain Stephen McClare Jan Vaculik Jennifer Robinson Vilma Indra Vitols Derrick Paul Miller Peter Wiens Taylor Strande Paula Wickberg Eric Olsen Marcus Wilson Catherine Tait Cindy Won Conrad Siebert Gene Wu Teresa van der Hoeven Michael York

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OFFICERS MEMBERS Ms Trina McQueen Mr. Tony Arrell, President Mr. Mark Appel Mr. Jonathan Morgan Mr. Philip C. Deck, Chair Ms Nora Aufreiter Mrs. Sue Mortimer Mr. Paul A. Bernards, Mr. Robert Brouwer Mr. Nicholas Mutton Treasurer Ms Marcia Lewis Brown Ms Frances Price Mr. John H. Macfarlane, Mr. Stewart Burton Mr. Arthur R. A. Scace, C.M. Secretary Mr. George S. Dembroski Ms Colleen Sexsmith Mr. Alexander Neef, Mr. William Fearn ( ex officio ) Mr. Philip S. W. Smith General Director Mr. David C. Ferguson Mr. Paul B. Spafford (ex officio ) Mr. Adam Froman Ms Michele Leighton Symons Mr. Robert Lamb, Mr. Michael Gibbens Ms Kristine (Kris) Vikmanis Managing Director Dr. Linda Hutcheon Mr. John H. (Jack) Whiteside (ex officio ) Ms Trinity Jackman Mr. Jeff Lloyd HONORARY DIRECTORS Mr. Stephen O. Marshall Mr. Joey Tanenbaum, C.M. Ms Judy Matthews

VOLUNTEER SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

COC OPERA GUILDS CANADIAN OPERA FOUNDATION Brantford Opera Guild, Mr. William Fearn, Chair David M. Cullen, President Ms. Kathleen McLaughlin, Chair Kingston Opera Guild Mr. Tony Arrell Grace Orzech, President Mr. Jonathan Bloomberg London Opera Guild Mr. J. Rob Collins Ernest H. Redekop, President Mr. David Forster, Treasurer Muskoka Opera Guild Mr. Gary Gard Dr. Hans Heeneman, President Mr. Michael Gough Northumberland Opera Guild Mr. Christopher Hoffman Thais Donald, President Mr. Ken Jesudian Oakville Opera Guild Mr. David Spiro, Secretary Maureen Rudzik, President Sudbury Opera Guild HONORARY DIRECTORS Mike Humphris, President Mr. George Hamilton Western New York Opera Guild Hon. Dennis Lane Dorothy K. Piepke, President

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Please visit coc.ca for additional information 15 ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF ALEXANDER NEEF , General Director

Robert Lamb COC Ensemble Studio Amy Cummings Sharon Ryman Emma Noakes Danielle D’Ornellas CALL CENTRE Security Supervisors Managing Director Gordon Bintner Scene Shop Co-ordinator Wig & Make-up Co-ordinator, Annual Digital Marketing Richard Paradiso Videsh Dookhu Charlotte Burrage Supervisor Programs and Patron Co-ordinator Call Centre Manager Dave Samuels Johannes Debus Sasha Djihanian David Retzleff Engagement Music Director Aviva Fortunata Head Scene Shop Cori Ferguson Eldon Earle Call Centre Security Officers Clarence Frazer Carpenter Head of Wig & Aisha Talarico Marketing Co-ordinator Representatives George Balyasin EXECUTIVE OFFICE Andrew Haji Make-up Crew Senior Development Catherine Belyea Joel Grannum Danielle MacMillan Andrew Walker Officer, Friends of Michelle Hwu Philip Clarke Tammy Hill Executive Assistant Owen McCausland Assistant Scene Shop Shawna Green the COC Retail Co-ordinator Wendy Limbertie Natalia Juzyc to the General Director Cameron McPhail Carpenter Production Co-ordinator DeeAnn Sagar Usman Khalid Marguerite Schabas Claire de Sévigné Kevin Sean Pook Kristin McKinnon Margaret Terry Kathleen Minor (on leave ) Michael Shannon Richard Gordon Gunta Dreifelds Co-ordinator, Friends Assistant Publicist Angela Thompson Heather Reid Head Scenic Artist SURTITLES™ Producer of the COC ARTISTIC Production Assistants EDUCATION AND FINANCE AND Building Operators ADMINISTRATION Adriana Dimitri Scott Williamson Zane Kaneps Francesco Corsaro OUTREACH ADMINISTRATION Dan Bisca Hannah Gordon Rehearsal Head SURTITLES™ Editor Senior Development Katherine Semcesen Dan Popescu Roberto Mauro Technician Officer, Institutional Associate Director, Lindy Cowan, CPA, CA Adrian Tudoran Artistic Administrator PROGRAMMING John Sharpe Gifts Education and Outreach Director of Finance Guy Nokes SURTITLES™ Assistant and Administration Paula Da Costa MUSIC Nina Dragani ´c Properties Supervisor Adriana Formusa Gianmarco Segato Eurest Services Director of Programming Supernumeraries Development Officer, Adult Programs Lorraine O’Connor, Supervisor Sandra Gavinchuk – Free Concert Series Stephanie Tjelios Co-ordinators Institutional Gifts Manager CHRP Music Administrator Resident Properties Analee Stein Human Resources Eurest Services Team PRODUCTION Builder/Co-ordinator Elizabeth Walker Nikita Gourski Vanessa Smith Manager Jennifer Barros Sandra Horst Development Manager, School Malaku Godana Chorus Master Peter Lamb Kathy Frost Child Supervisors Communications Programs Amalie Davis, CPA, CA Nash Lim Director of Production Resident Properties Sherily De Silva Officer Finance Manager Jimmy Pacheco Wayne Vogan Buyer/Co-ordinator Madelyn Watkinson Amber Yared Sugey Torres Music Librarian, Coach Lee Milliken Tracy Briggs Children and Youth General Accountants Production Manager Tracy Taylor DEVELOPMENT Senior Manager, Programs Co-ordinator Florence Huang FOUR SEASONS Elizabeth Upchurch Properties Builder/ Special Events Zoran Orli ´c (FSCPA) CENTRE FOR THE Head of the Ensemble Barney Bayliss Co-ordinator Christie Darville TICKET SERVICES PERFORMING ARTS Studio & Coach Associate Technical Chief Advancement Christine Tizzard Alan Moffat Payroll Accountants Director Properties Builders Officer Development Officer, Patron Relationship Jovana Bojovic Alfred Caron Derek Bate Carolyn Choo Special Events & Manager Jeanny Won Director, Four Seasons Resident Conductor Wendy Greenwood Wulf Kaila LeMaitre Ensemble Circle Centre for the Lighting Co-ordinator Development Associate Andrea Salin Steven Sherwood Performing Arts Music Staff Sandra Corazza Victor Widjaja Associate Manager, Manager, IT Services Rachel Andrist Assistant Technical Costume Supervisor Amy Mushinski Donation Database Ticket Services Elizabeth Jones Matthew Aucoin Directors Manager, Government Officer Brad Staples Associate Director, Timothy Cheung Melynda Jurgenson Cassandra Spence Relations Nikki Tremblay Database Reporting Business Development Jean Desmarais Wendy Ryder Costume Co-ordinator Olena Moldovan Assistant Ticket Specialist Jenna Douglas Stephen Gilles Donation Database Services Manager Jefferson Guzman Esther Gonthier Janice Fraser Costume Assistants Director of Development Officer Tony Sandy Associate Director, Anne Larlee Head Electrician Natassia Brunato David Nimmo IT Services Assistant Patron Services Ben Malensek Christina Del Monte Peter Hussell COMMUNICATIONS Group Sales Co-ordinator Kevin Murphy Joel Thoman Senior Manager, Katarina Božovi ´c Kim Hutchinson-Barber Steven Philcox Assistant Electrician Sue Furlong Advancement Claudine Domingue Lillian Fung Receptionist/ Assistant Manager, Eric Weimer Resident Tailor Operations Director of Public Ticket Services Switchboard Front of House Al Merson Relations Supervisor Olwyn Lewis Head of Sound Assisted by Ali Kashani Branka Hrsum Brigitte Lang Company Manager Nancy Allen Associate Director, Jeremy Elbourne Ticket Services Mailroom Clerk/ Assistant Manager, Craig Kadoke Gulay Cokgezen Institutional Gifts Director of Marketing Representatives Courier Food & Beverage Kathryn Garnett Assistant Sound Sharon Gashgarian James Baldwin Scheduling Manager Karen Hancock Dawn Marie Schlegel Phil Stephens Karen Brown BUILDING SERVICES Patron Services Paul Watkinson Krista Nauman Associate Director, Senior Manager, Sales Ellen Casey Supervisors Hannah Gordon Head Carpenter Donor Relations and Customer Service Ernest Cayemen Joe Waldherr Kelly Bailey Assistant Scheduling Additional Costumes By Holly Coish Associate Director, Stuart Constable Manager Mike Gelfand Arana Enterprises Sarah Heim Gianna Wichelow Anna Kay Eldridge Facilities Management Enrique Covarrubias Assistant Carpenter Christopher Read Donor Relations Officer Senior Communications Peter Genoway Cortes Karen Olinyk Industry Costumes Manager, Creative Maureen Gualtieri Piro Milo Jamieson Eakin Administrative Assistant, Rupert Baker Natalie Sandassie Melissa Haddad Assistant Building Melissa McDonnell Music Head Flyman Paint and Dye By Senior Development Jennifer Pugsley Keith Lam Services Manager Adam Orr Chrome Yellow Officer, Annual Media Relations Manager Ian McDonnell Birthe Joergensen Alison Potter Programs and Patron Kevin Morris Maintenance Assistants Patron Services Leads Archivist – Joan Baillie Head of Properties Nancy Hawkins Engagement Meighan Szigeti Darcy Stoop Ryszard Gad (COC) Carianne Hill Archives Head of Wardrobe Associate Manager, Mitch Yolevsky Branislav Peterman Jennifer Toulmin Core Crew Paige Phillips Digital Marketing (COC) Ian Cowie Scott Clarke Leslie Brown Co-ordinator, Annual Julian Peters (COC) Orchestra Personnel Terry Hurley Assistant Head of Programs and Patron Claire Morley James Esposito (FSCPA) Manager Paul Otis Wardrobe Engagement Communications Officer Mark Healy (FSCPA) Chuck Theil Piotr Wiench (FSCPA) Ondrej Golias Assistant Librarian

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16 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season Please visit coc.ca for additional information 17 E. LOUISE MORGAN SOCIETY

The E. Louise Morgan Society was created to reflect the vision and commitment of its founder and the members who have created a legacy of leadership, passion and philanthropy in support of the goals of the Canadian Opera Company. Each of these donors has contributed a cumulative total of more than one million dollars over the past 15 years. Their support is critical to the company’s success and we are forever indebted to their commitment and generosity.

The Estate of Dr. Larry M. Agranove Jerry & Geraldine Heffernan ARIAS: Canadian Opera Student Kolter Communities Development Fund The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation The Gerard & Earlaine Collins Foundation Roger D. Moore The late John A. Cook E. Louise Morgan Peter M. Deeb Joey & Toby Tanenbaum The Estate of Horst Dantz and Don Quick Anonymous (2)

Major Gifts & Special Projects Every year, the Canadian Opera Company has unique projects operating beyond regular annual activities, each of which relies on private funding to ensure its success. These include: endowment funding, production underwriting, artist and performance sponsorship as well as training, education and outreach programs.

$1,000,000+ Marjorie & Roy Linden Estate of Sarka Spinkova The Estate of Horst Dantz & Roger D. Moore Dr. David Stanley-Porter & Don Quick‡ Michael W. & Wanda Plachta Dr. Colin McGregor Mailer Peter M. Deeb Endowment Fund Ms Kristine Vikmanis & Hon. Henry N. R. Jackman‡ Katalin Schäfer Mr. Denton Creighton Anonymous Robert Sherrin Samara Walbohm & Françoise Sutton Joe Shlesinger $500,000 – $999,999 Estate of Vivian Treacy Brian Wilks Jerry & Geraldine Heffernan The Stratton Trust Estate of Jean Yack Wright The Catherine and Maxwell Ryerson & Michele Symons Anonymous (3) Meighen Foundation Estate of Kathryn Thornton‡ The Slaight Family Foundation William & Phyllis Waters (The commitments listed above Anonymous were made as of August 19, 2013 .) $100,000 – $499,999 Peter A. Allen UP TO $24,999 INDIVIDUAL ANNUAL SUPPORT Mark & Gail Appel Laurie & Fareed Ali Anne & Tony Arrell Estate of Helen Allen (Stacey) GOLDEN CIRCLE Lisa Balfour Bowen & ARIAS: Canadian Opera Walter M. Bowen Student Development Fund GOLDEN CIRCLE COMMITTEE Philip Deck & Kimberley Bozak Paul Bernards Mark Appel George S. Dembroski Nani & Austin Beutel Stewart Burton Judy & Wilmot Matthews Marcia Lewis Brown Stephen Marshall Don McQueen & John Chiu in memory of Judy Matthews Trina McQueen OC Yvonne Chiu, CM Frances Price (Chair) Donald O’Born Classical 96 FM Colleen Sexsmith Tim & Frances Price Ninalee Craig Michele Symons David Roffey & Karen Walsh Estate of Phillipp Eberhardinger‡ Estate of J.M. (Doc) Savage Catherine Fauquier GOLD, $50,000 + Colleen Sexsmith Estate of Judith Howard Anne & Tony Arrell**** Jack Whiteside Peter & Hélène Hunt Cecily & Robert Bradshaw* Anonymous‡ Michael & Linda Hutcheon David G. Broadhurst* Dr. Noëlle Grace & In memory of $25,000 – $99,999 The Shohet Family Gerard H. Collins**** Cecily & Robert Bradshaw J. Hans Kluge Jerry & Geraldine Heffernan**** Earlaine Collins Estate of Borge John Kraglund The Catherine and Maxwell Estate of Walter Carsen Jo Lander Meighen Foundation**** Ethel Harris & Tom C. Logan Roger D. Moore**** the late Milton E. Harris Estate of J. Bruce MacDonald‡ Arthur & Susan Scace**** Estate of Ethel Berney Jackson Sue Mortimer Colleen Sexsmith*** Patrick & Barbara Keenan Rosemary Speirs

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Cherry & Foundation**** COMMITTEE Dean C. Noack**** J. Rob Collins & Mary-Catherine Acheson Frank Ciccolini**** Janet Cottrelle**** Catherine Bergeron The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson Make the most of your Sydney & Florence Cooper* Diane Adamson-Brdar Mr. & Mrs. William J. Corcoran*** Ms Alice J. Court Thomas J. Burton Lindy Cowan† & Chris Hatley*** opera experience! Mrs. Ninalee Craig*** Ninalee Craig Norman Curtis**** Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Dan*** Gladys Fogler Ms Lindsay Dale-Harris & Jean Davidson & Marcia Lewis Brown Mr. Rupert Field-Marsham**** The President’s Council and Golden Circle programs help Paul Spafford**** Sue Mortimer Brian J. Dawson*** make possible many of the company’s activities. New Jill Denham & Katalin Schäfer Dr. Jeanne Deinum**** productions, the COC Ensemble Studio program, our Stephen Marshall** Colleen Sexsmith (Chair) Carol Derk & David Giles** education and outreach initiatives – these are just a few of David & Kristin Ferguson**** Kristine Vikmanis Mrs. A. 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24 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season Please visit coc.ca for additional information 25 Jennifer & Frank Flower*** Karen Olinyk†* THE ENCORE LEGACY Hugh Furneaux*** Mr. Martti Paloheimo* The Encore Legacy is the Douglas G. Gardner**** Mr. James C. Pappas**** planned giving program of the Gordon & Pamela Gibson**** Mr. Joseph & Canadian Opera Company. Elinor Gill Ratcliffe C.M., O.N.L., Mrs. Letizia Paradiso*** LLD (hc) David Peachey & Georgia Planned giving is making the Alison Girling & Paul Schabas** Henderson** decision today to provide Aviva & Andrew Goldenberg** Mrs. Dorothy K. Piepke**** a gift for the Canadian Opera Ricardo Gomez-Insausti* Ed & Beth Price*** Company that may not be Dr. Wilfred S. Goodman**** Mr. Robert Radke realized until after your lifetime. David Gordon & Dr. Shelley Rechner**** Wendy Flores Gordon* In Loving Memory of Rita & Gifts planned today, that will Mrs. Marion A. Green**** Morris Shoichet ultimately affect your estate, Dr. & Mrs. Voldemars Gulens**** Marat Ressin allow you to make a statement Gisele Hall* Ms Laura Rimas* of support that will become Philo Handler** Mr. Jason Roberts** a lasting legacy to the COC. Dr. & Mrs. Brian & Ms Virginia Robeson* Cynthia Hands**** William & The Canadian Opera Company gratefully acknowledges and Roy & Gail Harrison**** Meredith Saunderson**** thanks the following individuals Sandra Hausman** Barbara Sawaszkiewicz**** who have included the COC in In memory of Pauline Hinch** Ms Elisabeth Scarff**** their estate planning: Mr. Sylvain Houle* Patti & Richard Schabas** Dr. Ivan & Mrs. Diana Hronsky**** Henry & Mary Seldon**** Susan Agranove & Estate of In loving memory of Marlene Pollock Sheff* Dr. Larry M. Agranove Joyce Whitney Hughes Ms Linda Sheppard* Isobel Allen Mr. Pierre Hurtubise**** Cheryl Shook** Renata Arens & Elizabeth Frey Mr. David Hutton** C. Anderson Silber** Mrs. Rosalen Armstrong Mr. Sumant Inamdar** D. Bruce Sinclair** Ron Atkinson & Bruce Blandford Mr. Kazik Jedrzejczak**** John Spears**** Lindy Barrow Douglas & Dorothy Joyce**** Dr. & Mrs. W. K. Stavraky*** Mr. L. H. Bartelink Ms Elisa Kearney Scott Steele & Jan Korman* J. Linden Best & James G. Kerr Ms Meredith Keeve Helga & Klaus Stegemann*** David Bowen Heidi & Khalid Khokhar**** Jane & Ted Stephenson**** Marnie M. Bracht Mai Kirch**** Hamish Stewart & Gregory Brandt Dr. & Mrs. L. A. Kitchell**** Susan Taylor**** Mrs. Ann Christie Mr. Christopher J. Kowal Paul & Maria Szasz**** Earl Clark A scene from the COC's Gianni Schicchi, 2012. Photo: Michael Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Armin Kratel**** Ms Michelle Tan** The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson Mr. Jonathan Krehm* Dr. R. Paul Thompson* Brian Collins & Amanda Demers Gediminas P. Kurpis**** Ria Tietz**** Earlaine Collins Mr. James R. Lake**** Dr. Allan Peterkin & David H. Cormack Harry Lane** Mr. Robert Tomas* Mrs. Ninalee Craig Join us! M. J. Horsfall Large** Dr. Claude Tousignant** Anita Day & Robert McDonald Miss Donna Lasecki**** Mrs. Maria Tulip**** Ann De Brouwer Giles le Riche & Mrs. Norene Turvolgyi**** Helen Drake Today’s performance has been made possible, in part, by Rosemary Polczer*** Tobias & Jeanne van Dalen* Rowland D. Galbraith the generosity and loyal support of the Friends of the COC*. Claus & Heather Lenk* Dr. Nancy F. Vogan**** Douglas G. Gardner Our Friends also support our education and outreach Mr. Yakov Lerner† Mr. Wayne Vogan†**** Ann J. Gibson programs and Ensemble Studio training program. Mr. Jason Lewis George Vona & Lark Popov** Michael & Anne Gough Dr. Francois Loubert* Dr. Peter Voore*** L. A. Grover Dr. Deidre Lynch* Angela & Michael Vuchnich**** George & Irene Hamilton Become a Friend of the COC and you can join us in the Ms Andrea Margles**** Mr. John M. Welch**** Joan L. Harris Friends Lounge at all COC performances, enjoy special Kathy Marton* James & Margaret Whitby**** James Hewson behind-the-scenes working rehearsals and events, receive Mary McClymont**** Ms Iris Zawadowski* John R. Higgins Mary McGowan**** Carole & Bernie Zucker*** Mr. Kim Yim Ho & our newsletter Prelude, as well as gain access to single Jil McIntosh** Anonymous (8) Walter Frederic Thommen tickets one week prior to the public. All gifts will be gratefully Mr. Bruce McKeown*** Douglas E. Hodgson acknowledged with a charitable tax receipt. Dr. & Mrs. Martin & Matt Hughes Michael & Linda Hutcheon Deborah McKneally** Lynne Jeffrey Sylvia McPhee**** For more information, please stop by the Friends Lounge Ann Kadrnka Dr. Alan C. Middleton** Ben Kizemchuk located on Ring 3, visit coc.ca, or call 416-847-4949. Frank & Anne Moir** Kathryn Kossow Terry & Dom Morris** Mr. Gurney Kranz Mr. Tomi Nishio**** Jo Lander David Northcote & Peggy Lau Suzanne Betcke* Marjorie & Roy Linden Jean O'Grady** L. Liivamagi Ms Cristina Oke**

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Please visit coc.ca for additional information 27 Ms Lenore MacDonald OPERATOURS DONORS $700 + CORPORATE MATCHING Dr. Colin M. Mailer (From July 2012 – August 2013) PARTNERS R. Manke The Canadian Opera Company Tim & Jane Marlatt Dr. Eric W. Amann** gratefully acknowledges the Mr. Shawn Martin Howard & Ruth Barrett**** following organizations that Margaret McKee Ian & Janet Blue** have matched gifts by their Sylvia M. McPhee Ms Victoria Burenko* employees: Dr. Alan C. Middleton Ms E. Burton*** Eleanor Miller Mr. & Mrs. Norman & Canadian Tire Corporation Sigmund & Elaine Mintz Louise Coxall*** Limited Donald Morse Edward Cummings & IBM Canada Ltd. Sue Mortimer Margaret Kelly**** Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc Mr. & Mrs. James D. Patterson Eleanor Dover* Goodman & Company, Mervyn Pickering Ben & Sarah Glatt**** Investment Counsel Ltd. Gunther & Dorothy Piepke Dr. Irene Gulka* FM Global Foundation Wanda Plachta Donald Gutteridge & Ms Georgia Prassas Anne Millar**** (The above Individual Support K. F. Read Tim Jokela** Gifts were made as of August 20, Dr. John Reeve-Newson Ms Fawzia Khan* 2013) Mrs. Margaret Russell Dr. Elizabeth Kocmur**** Cookie & Stephen Sandler Ms Claire LaVigna*** Claire Shaw Earl Law**** * five to nine years of support R. Bonnie Shettler Mrs. J. L. Malcolm* ** 10 to 14 years of support David E. Spiro Ms Antonieta Marticorena**** *** 15 to 19 years of support Dr. D. P. Stanley-Porter Mr. Alex Moraru* **** 20 or more years of support Doreen L. Stanton Mrs. Christa Nimmo**** † COC administration, chorus Lilly Offenbach-Strauss Mr. Michael R Overbury*** or orchestra member Drs. W. & K. Stavraky David Roffey & Karen Walsh*** ‡ Endowment Janet Stubbs Rainer & Sharyn Rothfuss**** Ann Sutton Mr. Michael Samborsky** Ronald Taber Beverly & Fred Schaeffer**** Despite the staff’s extensive Mrs. L. Treutler Stephen & Jane Smith**** efforts to avoid errors and Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen Ms June Yee** omissions, mistakes can occur. N. Suzanne Vanstone Anonymous (4) If your name was omitted, Marie-Laure Wagner listed incorrectly or misspelled, Hugh & Colleen Washington we apologize for any Marion C. Wilson inconvenience this may have Marion York caused. We would appreciate Tricia Younger being notified of any errors at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Photo: Sam Javanrouh Anonymous (58) 416-847-4949.

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28 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season MAJOR CORPORATE SPONSORS 20 13/2014 SPONSORS 2013/2014 SEASON

DIAMOND PERFORMANCE SPONSORS $1,000 to $1,999 AIMIA BMO Financial Group Pre-Performance Opera Chats D’Avignon Freight Services Inc. and BMO Financial Group Student Dress Rehearsals. LoyaltyOne Inc. Production Underwriter, Mozart’s Così fan tutte McKinsey & Company Milgram Group of Companies Ltd. The Powis Family Foundation

HOSTING SPONSOR CENTRE STAGE : ENSEMBLE STUDIO COMPETITION GALA COMPETITION SUPPORTERS RBC Official Automotive Sponsor Presenting Sponsor of SURTITLES™ Hal Jackman Foundation of the COC at the FSCPA Peter M. Deeb PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Linden & Associates PLATINUM SPONSOR Fionn MacCool’s Mercedes-Benz Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Norton Rose Canada LLP GOLD SPONSOR PwC Scotiabank

PROGRAM SPONSOR OPERANAT10N : A NIGHT OF TEMPTATION Major Supporter, Ensemble Studio Great West Life, London Life and Canada Life, Glencore Ensemble Studio Competition Supporter, Centre Stage : Living Opera Program Sponsor PRESENTING SPONSOR School Tour Ensemble Studio Competition Gala TD Bank Group OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR Fionn MacCool’s VIP SPONSOR J.P. Morgan LA BOHÉME OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR San Pellegrino OFFICIAL FRAGRANCE Calvin Klein DOWNTOWN SUPPORTER, PATRON ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM Quinn’s Steakhouse & Irish Bar PARTNERING SPONSORS Burgundy Asset Management PREFERRED FLORISTS Globalive Communications Corp. Presenting Sponsor Bloom The Flower Company Opera Under 30 Official Canadian Production Sponsor Quince Flowers CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS and Operanat10n: Wine of the COC Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera BMO A Night of Temptation at the FSCPA CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION DONORS WeirFoulds LLP MAJOR GIFTS EVENT SPONSORS $10,000+ Chair-man Mills Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation Knot PR The Hal Jackman Fund Lilium at the Ontario Arts Foundation Media Needs J.P. Bickell Foundation Mill St. Presenting Sponsor Presenting Sponsor The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation Perrier After School Opera Program Weekday Rush Subscriptions Preferred Fragrance The McLean Foundation Toronto Life Anonymous (1) Trius Wines

$5,000 to $9,999 FINE WINE AUCTION 2013 225490 Investments Limited PRESENTING SPONSORS Local 58 Charitable Benefit Fund TD Securities Unit Park Holdings Inc. Bloomberg The Hope Charitable Foundation Shinex Window Cleaning Inc SUPPORTING SPONSOR Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP $3,000 to $4,999 Preferred Hospitality Preferred Medical Classical 96.3 FM CHEESE SPONSOR Sponsor Services Provider Official Media Sponsor Hicks Memorial Fund at Scheffler’s Delicatessen & Cheese The Calgary Foundation Vida Peene Fund at the Canada Council CHOCOLATE SPONSOR for the Arts Rheo Thompson Candies

$2,000 to $2,999 2013/2014 MEDIA SPONSORS & Jarvis & Associates IN-KIND SUPPORTERS MAC Cosmetics Remenyi House of Music Ltd.

30 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season Please visit coc.ca for additional information 31 GOVERNMENT SUPPORT The Canadian Opera Company gratefully acknowledges the generous support of these government agencies and departments.

OPERATING SUPPORT

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

ENSEMBLE STUDIO

SPECIAL PROJECT FUNDING For the many programs and special initiatives undertaken each year by the Canadian Opera Company, we gratefully acknowledge project funding from: Department of Canadian Heritage Employment and Social Development Canada

CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Canadian Opera Company would like to thank all those who volunteer both on a daily basis and for special events with the company. Michael Cooper: Official photographer The COC is a member of Opera America and Opera.ca. The COC operates in agreement with Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The COC operates in agreement with I.A.T.S.E., Local #58, Local #822, Local #828.

SUPERNUMERARIES Nigel Atkinson Christopher Karnay Gayowsky Dylan Jardine-Wong Ezra Keyes Pico Madden Connor McNeil Ben Wismath

32 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season CANAD A’S had scouted from across the country and FUT UR E create a public platform for celebrating the future of opera in Canada. OPERA STARS With the creation of Centre Stage , the COC now opens the Ensemble Studio TAKE Competition to an audience of over 1,000 CE NT RE STAGE opera lovers and interested guests as it moves from the intimate setting of the BY JENNIFER PUGSLEY Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre to R. Fraser Elliott Hall. he evening of November 26, 2013 The growth of the event will most Thas the potential to be the night that certainly ensure that the 2013 competition launches the careers of Canada’s future realizes the prediction of one opera blogger opera stars. On that night the Canadian of it “becoming a firm fixture in the calendar Opera Company holds its fundraising gala for anyone in Toronto who is serious about Centre Stage , a magical evening dedicated opera and its future.” This statement to the discovery and celebration of the is no surprise to past competition patrons young opera talent in this country. who have been treated to performance An event unlike any other in Canada, line-ups that La Scena Musicale has Centre Stage features the competitive vocal described as “a grand night of singing.” showcase of the COC’s Ensemble Studio “It’s the excitement of hearing up-and- Competition with a twist that intensifies coming voices vying for prize money and the already awe-inspiring performances glory that makes competition irresistible – this event has come to feature. For the to me, at least!” said Joseph So, an opera first time, finalists in the Ensemble Studio journalist, in his review of the 2012 Competition will perform from the competition for La Scena Musicale . “Ten mainstage of the Four Seasons Centre for aspiring singers got to strut their stuff, all the Performing Arts, accompanied by the well-schooled, with beautiful voices backed internationally acclaimed COC Orchestra by a solid technique, and a desire to tell conducted by COC Music Director a story, to communicate their art to an COC General Director Alexander Neef (second from Johannes Debus. right) with (l –r) Gordon Bintner, Charlotte Burrage and audience. Some of them have that extra, “I had been thinking of creating a gala Andrew Haji, winners of the 2012 COC Ensemble Studio intangible something called star power, fundraiser for the COC for some time,” says Competition. Photo: Chris Hutcheson musicality, charisma, whatever. It’s that COC General Director Alexander Neef. elusive quality that makes a singer an “Seeing how the Ensemble Studio and Rosalie Sharp City Room. Gala guests Canada’s premier training program for artist, and someone with the promise of Competition has engaged the community will go on to enjoy an elegant formal young opera professionals, competing for a significant career. Competitions such as in past years, the timing was right to dinner from the Four Seasons Centre stage, cash prizes ranging in value from $1,500 – this one are designed to find that singer.” n launch Centre Stage and make it the catered by critically acclaimed Nota Bene $5,000. The competition was launched in occasion to expand our audience with this Executive Chef David Lee, mingling with 2011 by COC General Director Alexander Jennifer Pugsley is the Media Relations Manager much grander showcase of Canada’s rising competition finalists and winners as well Neef to showcase the opera talent the COC at the Canadian Opera Company. opera talent.” as notable COC artists. All patrons who attend Centre Stage The Ensemble Studio Competition FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON OUR 2013/2014 ENSEMBLE STUDIO MEMBERS, PLEASE READ SPOTLIGHT SHINES will enjoy a cocktail celebration in the features singers from the final round of ON COC ENSEMBLE STUDIO BY JENNIFER PUGSLEY, AVAILABLE IN THE FALL ISSUE OF PRELUDE ONLINE AT COC.CA/PUBLICATIONS . Four Seasons Centre’s sparkling Isadore auditions for the COC Ensemble Studio,

20 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season Catch up with blogs and enjoy COC Radio at coc.ca. 21 CANADA’S FUTURE OPERA STARS TAKE CENTRE STAGE

Centre Stage takes place on November 26, MEET THE 2013 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and features the third annual Ensemble Studio Vocal Competition. Tickets MEMBERS to the Ensemble Studio Competition and Centre Stage cocktail celebration are $100. OF THE COC'S Centre Stage Gala tickets, including the black-tie dinner, are $1,500. For more information and to purchase tickets, 2013/2014 visit coc.ca , call COC Ticket Services at 416-363-8231 or go to the Four Seasons Centre ENSEMBLE for the Performing Arts Box Office STUDIO (145 Queen St. W.).

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Friday, November 29 Clarence Frazer Andrew Haji Danielle MacMillan Owen McCausland baritone tenor mezzo-soprano tenor 8pm Massey Hall

“Rumour has it that Compañia Maria Serrano will come this way again, and when it does, it is a run don’t walk.” - Paula Citron, Classical 96.3FM Cameron McPhail Claire de Sévigné Michael Shannon baritone soprano intern coach

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masseyhall.com CALL 416-872-4255 Preliminary costume sketches by set and costume designer Debra Hanson for the COC’s new production of Così fan tutte

COMI NG THI SWINT ER MOZ ART’S COSÌ FAN TU TTE BY CLAIRE MORLEY The Plot in a Minute Fast Facts Two soldiers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, • When it premiered in 1790, Così was are challenged to test the fidelity of their considered trivial, sexist and immoral fiancées, sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi. and had only 10 performances during Ferrando and Guglielmo disguise Mozart’s lifetime themselves and woo the sisters, who, • Così was the final collaboration between although perfectly aware they are being Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte deceived, still develop romantic feelings (the other two being Don Giovanni and for the disguised men. Wedding preparations The Marriage of Figaro ) are made, only to be cancelled when • Critic Edward Said argued that “of the Ferrando and Guglielmo reveal their true three Da Ponte operas, Così fan tutte is identities. The four reconcile, but can their not only the last and… the most complex lives be the same after this masquerade? and eccentric , but also the most internally well organized, the most full of echoes and references, and the most difficult to unlock, precisely because it goes further towards the limits of acceptable, ordinary experiences of love, life, and ideas than either of its two immediate predecessors… What affects us most about Così is of course the music .” • Così is one of Mozart’s most popular operas, along with The Marriage of Figaro , Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.

24 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season Mozart’s Così fan tutte Egoyan Takes On Mozart Celebrated director Atom Egoyan ( Salome , 2013) brings his signature style to Così . Although some period costumes are used for various scenes in the opera, Egoyan creates a sense of the surreal and timeless, pointing to many historical periods without being rooted in any single one. Egoyan’s production pays particular attention to the subtitle of the libretto: La scuola degli amanti (“The School for Lovers”) and places the action in a finishing school, with laboratorial elements and allusions mixed in among more academic “Las Dos Fridas” painting by Frida Kahlo © 2011 Banco de characteristics. México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av. Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D. F.

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P The brooch is a really important prop in the opera – it’s what the two sisters use to reveal Design their loved ones. Ultimately it is removed Costumes and sets were created by Canadian or replaced when the experiment comes to designer Debra Hanson, who drew inspiration fruition and, when the infidelity is actually directly from the timelessness of the opera, consummated, it’s by the switching of the and designed a world that is at once brooch. This painting also had the image period-specific and historically fluid. of a heart, which is at once contained and then completely vulnerable and open, and both Fridas are connected by these very precarious veins which can be switched and clipped and tied. In one hand, the first Frida is holding scissors which are used to sever feeling or emotional connection; the second Frida is holding a brooch. It just seemed eerily appropriate in terms of what the opera is proposing.” n

Claire Morley is Communications Officer at the Canadian Opera Company. Construction of head pieces for Così fan tutte . Photo: COC

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26 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season Reviving 5000 years of civilization

(top and bottom) Scenes from the Berlin Staatsoper production of Un ballo in maschera , 2008. Photos: Ruth Walz COMI NG ALL-NEW 2014 SHOW THI SWINT ER WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA VERD I’S UN BALLO IN MASC HE RA BY GIANNA WICHELOW

his winter, the Canadian Opera Verdi, Assassinations, Censors TCompany presents Giuseppe Verdi’s Verdi had enjoyed huge success with Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Bal l), his three previous operas, Rigoletto , a deeply human tale of forbidden passion La Traviata , and Il Trovatore. He arrived and adult love, whose lovers are also in Naples on January 15, 1858, to start embroiled in a politically charged situation rehearsals for Un ballo in maschera , an beyond their control. opera inspired by the actual assassination of King Gustav of Sweden. However, on the The Plot in a Minute same day, an assassin attempted to kill Sold-Out Shows Across North America Riccardo is a respected governor, secretly Let Shen Yun take you on a journey where the wisdom of ancient China, in love with Amelia, the wife of his secretary , the world’s finest classical Chinese dancers, gorgeous handcrafted costumes, and Renato. Riccardo is also the object of a towering animated backdrops come together in one spectacular performance. planned assassination by a small group of disgruntled conspirators. He and Amelia “It’s so inspiring, I may have found new ideas for the next Avatar movie.” are plagued by guilt for their feelings and —Robert Stromberg, Academy Award-winning production designer resist consummating their growing love. However, Renato discovers their hidden passion and joins with the conspirators JAN 23-26 Toll Free: 1-855-416-1800 to bring his rival down at the governor’s ball. SONY CENTRE Ticketmaster: 1-855-985-5000 SHENYUN.COM Toronto . Hamilton . Mississaugai . Kitchener . Ottawa . Quebec City . Montreal . Vancouver

28 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera

Napoleon III on his way to the theatre in Paris (coincidentally to see an opera). A year previously, the King of Naples had narrowly escaped being assassinated. All this violence made the censors nervous and they came down firmly on Verdi, demanding major changes to his storyline which, after all, centred on the assassination of a king. They didn’t Top: Catherine Naglestad as Amelia and Piotr Beczala as Riccardo in the Berlin Staatsoper production of want the opera to inspire a copycat tragedy. Un ballo in maschera , 2008. Photo: Ruth Walz Verdi was offered an almost unrecognizable Below: A scene from the Berlin Staatsoper production version of his libretto with all the censors’ of Un ballo in maschera , 2008. Photo: Ruth Walz changes made. He wasn’t interested and, instead, offered his opera to Rome. A few setting. Since then, Ballo has often been changes were required there by the censors, produced in its originally intended form, but Verdi was willing to accept them. along with its Boston setting and many others He changed the setting for the opera that imaginative directors have created. from 18th-century Sweden to 17th-century Boston with King Gustav of Sweden Join Us This Winter becoming Riccardo, Count of Warwick, This winter, you’ll see how directorial duo Governor of Boston. Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito have placed their carefully considered production The Premiere in an America of their own imaginings, with Un ballo in maschera premiered in Rome a strong nod to Kennedy-era tensions and on February 17, 1859 and it was soon being power plays. performed all over Europe and in North The striking period sets and costumes America. After all the trouble that Verdi (by designers Barbara Ehnes and Anja Rabes, had experienced with the censors, other opera respectively) bring to mind the television companies took some startling liberties with series Mad Men , full of the colour, optimism the setting of the opera. Two years after and vitality of the early 1960s, with the its premiere, Ballo appeared in Paris with occasional more contemporary detail. Florence as its setting and, later that same Sometimes referred to as Verdi’s Tristan year, at Covent Garden, London, the setting und Isolde , Un ballo in maschera requires was shifted to Naples. In 1935 the opera similarly great artists to scale the heights finally appeared in its original Swedish of the lead roles, and we have them, in Canada’s great diva Adrianne Pieczonka (who starred in Tosca two seasons ago) and the exciting tenor Dimitri Pittas (the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto ). Elena Manistina (a riveting Azucena in our Il Trovatore ) returns as the mysterious fortune teller Ulrica. COC favourite Simone Osborne is the saucy page, Oscar. n

Gianna Wichelow is Senior Communications Manager, Creative at the Canadian Opera Company.

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Etiquette Ticket Services Patrons are reminded that R. Fraser Elliott Hall is Canadian Opera Company subscriptions and individual an extremely lively auditorium and that all audience tickets are available through COC Ticket Services noise will be accentuated and audible to other patrons. ONLINE : coc.ca Turn off all electronic devices, avoid talking, coughing, BY PHONE : 416-363-8231 humming , moving loose seats, kicking the backs of seats, or long distance 1-800-250-4653 rustling programs, and unwrapping candies or cough Monday to Friday – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. drops. In consideration of patrons with allergies please Saturday – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. avoid wearing strongly perfumed beauty products IN PERSON : Four Seasons Centre Box Office and fragrances. Please remain in your seat until the 145 Queen St. W. performance has completely ended and the house Monday to Saturday – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lights have been turned on. or through first intermission Sunday (performance days only) – Electronic Devices 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or through first The use of mobile and smartphones and all other intermission electronic devices is extremely disruptive and is strictly The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts prohibited during performances. If a patron has Box Office also services ticketing needs for The National an emergency and needs to be contacted during Ballet of Canada and all other Four Seasons Centre events. a performance, he or she should contact Patron Services for assistance before the performance. Group Sales Groups of 10 or more enjoy savings on regular individual Cameras/Recording Devices ticket prices. For more information or to reserve seats The use of cameras, video cameras or sound-recording call 416-306-2356 . devices of any kind is prohibited in R. Fraser Elliott Hall during performances. Any person using an unauthorized Parking recording device while the performance is in progress There is parking on a first-come, first-served basis for will be required to surrender or erase any recordings, about 200 vehicles underneath the Four Seasons Centre. photographic or digital images and may be asked to The entrance is located on the west side of York Street, leave. No refunds will be issued. south of Queen Street. Additional parking is conveniently located just steps away in the Green P lot underneath Latecomers Nathan Phillips Square. For directions visit greenp.com . 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Young children should be able Bradshaw Amphitheatre. to sit quietly throughout the performance. If unable to do so, children and their accompanying adult will Food and Beverage Service be asked to leave the auditorium. Babes-in-arms will A pre-order system for intermission refreshments is Creating fine bespoke garments since 1908. not be admitted. available at all bars throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room. Food and beverages are not Patron Services permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall. Located in the Lower Lobby, the following services are available: coat and parcel check, booster seats, back Special Events and Catering supports, infrared hearing-assistive devices and rental The Four Seasons Centre is available for rental for all of binoculars, on a first-come, first-served basis. of your presentation, meeting or special events needs, with spaces accommodating from 20 to 2,000 people Medical Emergencies and First Aid and full catering services. 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