Il Trovatore Verdi LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Table of Contents

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6 From the General Director 44 Patron Salute 8 From the President 46 Aria Society A Wondrous 10 Board of Directors 55 Breaking New Ground 12 Women’s Board/Guild Board/ 56 60th Anniversary Gala Contributors Sound: Chapters’ Executive Board/ 57 Major Contributors – Special Events The Lyric Opera Chorus Ryan Opera Center Board and Project Support Celebrates a New Season 14 Administration/Administrative Staff/ 58 Lyric Unlimited Contributors/ Saturday, November 22, 2014, 3 pm Production and Technical Staff Alice Millar Chapel Northwestern University, Evanston Look To The Future 16 Prime Time: The Ryan Opera Center Tickets just $20 at lyricopera.org 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors PHOTO: MIKE RUEGG 24 Tonight's Opera 60 Annual Corporate Support/ 25 Story of the Opera Matching Gifts 27 Cast 62 Planned Giving: 28 Cast Profiles The Overture Society 35 Opera Notes 64 Annual Individual and Foundation 39 Director’s and Designer’s Notes Support 40 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus 70 Commemorative Gifts 42 Artistic Roster 71 Special Thanks/Acknowledgements 43 Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Unlimited/ 72 Facilities and Services/ Education Corps/Supernumeraries Theatre and Facilities

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From the General Director Throughout Lyric’s history, Verdi’s operas have been both the company’s artistic lifeblood and enormously popular with our audiences. These magnificent works represent the absolute summit of Italian opera, abounding with melodic genius and dramatic intensity. For many operagoers the ultimate in true Verdian excitement is Il trovatore, and I’m thrilled that it’s returning to our stage this season. The powerful, highly atmospheric production by Sir David McVicar (which triumphed at both the Met and San Francisco Opera following its premiere at Lyric) is one of the biggest shows we have. Its sheer scale presents quite a challenge to Lyric’s extraordinarily skilled technical team. Onstage, of course, the piece works only when a company can offer it with a phenomenal cast, such as we have this season. Our principals have all been extremely successful in their performances STEVE LEONARD at Lyric in the past, beginning with Yonghoon Lee, the Korean tenor who is returning to us in the title role. He debuted with the company as a riveting Don José in Carmen four seasons ago, and he’s now a specialist in Verdi and Puccini roles in major houses worldwide. Stephanie Blythe, our Azucena and one of America’s most distinguished singers, captivated the Lyric audience in two contrasting roles, Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera and Katisha in The Mikado, both in 2010-11, her debut season with us. Andrea Silvestrelli (Ferrando), a frequent performer with the company since 2000-01, is the only cast member of this season’s Trovatore to have appeared in the premiere of the McVicar production. The other two principals, Amber Wagner (Leonora) and Quinn Kelsey (Count di Luna), are both alumni of Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center, the company’s world-renowned young-artist development program. Each is now embarked on an exceptionally successful career, and we can expect both of them to figure prominently in Verdi productions worldwide for many years to come. It’s a source of enormous pride to all of us at Lyric whenever singers who have trained with us return as seasoned, accomplished artists of the highest international caliber. Il trovatore opera is full of spectacular vocal showpieces. It is also one of Verdi’s most elemental scores, with demonic energy at its heart. Asher Fisch, one of today’s most eminent Verdians, returns to Lyric to conduct this marvelous opera.

Anthony Freud

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From the President

Welcome to Lyric Opera and our 60th anniversary season! I know you’ll have a memorable experience in the Ardis Krainik Theatre, and I hope it will inspire you to return throughout the season. Excellence. Relevance. Fiscal responsibility. These are the core values of Lyric Opera, and we can anticipate that the 2014-15 season will in every way exemplify them, showing clear evidence of the company’s continuing aspiration to be the great North American opera company for the 21st century. Excitement and momentum are palpable under the leadership trio of general director Anthony Freud, music director Sir Andrew Davis, and creative consultant Renée Fleming. The entire company demonstrates extraordinary dedication to producing artistic excellence onstage. At the same time, Lyric is expanding its reach and relevance to the vast Chicago community through events presented under the Lyric Unlimited umbrella. Our audience is continuing to grow and so is our donor DAN REST base, as we continue to seek to earn your loyalty through all our activities, both on and off the stage. Ongoing financial sustainability is, of course, critical to Lyric’s future. Our “Breaking New Ground” campaign – unanimously affirmed by the Board of Directors in early 2013 – is designed to support our new strategic initiatives that are now in place. We already enjoy the support of a large and enthusiastic number of subscribers and single-ticket buyers. But we need to broaden and deepen the cultural service we provide to a larger number of people, and to do this, we must diversify and grow our activities. We want to increase the number of new productions in our opera season, annually produce a major musical, and significantly increase the range of activities both inside the opera house and around the city through our Lyric Unlimited initiative. We want to reach more children by increasing our presence in schools around the city. We need to invest substantially in new technology. We are redesigning our website, intensifying our digital communications activities and updating our information technology systems. We urgently need to modernize and upgrade our stage facilities and equipment, where we have fallen behind over the last 20 years. The investment is now needed to safeguard Lyric’s position as one of the world’s foremost opera companies. As we move forward to secure a successful, vibrant future for the company, our reliance on funded long-term contributed revenue support is greater than ever. We want to increase the endowment by $100 million over the next three to five years, to be achieved principally through legacy gifts. Please consider including Lyric Opera in your estate planning and join our illustrious Overture Society of planned givers. Breaking New Ground is receiving broad and generous support from the Board of Directors, but to be successful we must secure financial support from a broader range of patrons and donors. We welcome and encourage your support as we work to ensure Lyric’s long-term viability at the standards of excellence we all expect and demand. Please know how grateful we are to each and every one of you. As audience members and donors, you are vital to Lyric’s health and success. I thank you on behalf of Lyric’s artists, staff, and volunteer boards. With your support we’ll maintain this company’s stature as not only one of the crown jewels of Chicago cultural life, but also one of the most respected and distinguished opera companies in the world.

Kenneth G. Pigott

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Board of Directors Life Directors W. James Farrell Sylvia Neil Mark E. Ferguson † John D. Nichols The Honorable Pat Quinn Frank W. Considine Michael W. Ferro, Jr Ken Norgan The Honorable James W. Cozad Rick Fezell Sharon F. Oberlander Rahm Emanuel Edgar Foster Daniels Russell W. Fisher * John W. Oleniczak Honorary Chairmen Richard J. Franke * Renée Fleming Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D. of the Board Edgar D. Jannotta * Sonia Florian * David T. Ormesher James W. Cozad George E. Johnson * Anthony Freud * William A. Osborn Co-Chairman Emeritus Robert H. Malott † Gordon P. Getty Matthew J. Parr Edgar D. Jannotta James J. O’Connor Ronald J. Gidwitz * Kenneth G. Pigott Co-Chairman Emeritus Gordon Segal * Ruth Ann M. Gillis Don M. Randel Allan B. Muchin Robert E. Wood II Brent W. Gledhill Anne N. Reyes Co-Chairman Emeritus Ethel Gofen J. Christopher Reyes Richard P. Kiphart Directors * Howard L. Gottlieb Thomas A. Reynolds III Chairman Katherine A. Abelson Avrum Gray † William C. Richardson, Ph.D. Melvin Gray Kenneth G. Pigott * Whitney W. Addington Collin E. Roche President and Chief Executive Maria C. Green * James L. Alexander Ricardo Rosenkranz Officer * Dietrich M. Gross John P. Amboian Edward B. Rouse Mary Pat Hay Lester Crown Paul F. Anderson Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Chairman of the Carrie J. Hightman Larry A. Barden * Shirley Welsh Ryan Executive Committee Eric L. Hirschfield * Julie Baskes John F. Sandner Anthony Freud * J. Thomas Hurvis James N. Bay, Jr. Claudia M. Saran General Director and Gregory K. Jones Melvin R. Berlin Rodd M. Schreiber Chief Operating Officer † Stephen A. Kaplan Gilda R. Buchbinder Jana R. Schreuder Sir Andrew Davis Kip Kelley II Allan E. Bulley III Marsha Serlin Vice President * Richard P. Kiphart * Marion A. Cameron * Brenda M. Shapiro * Nancy W. Knowles Renée Fleming * Paul J. Carbone * Eric S. Smith Vice President † Fred A. Krehbiel David W. Carpenter Pam Szokol * Josef Lakonishok James L. Alexander Timothy L. Christen Franco Tedeschi † Robert W. Lane Vice President Richard W. Colburn Mark A. Thierer Richard A. Levy Shirley Welsh Ryan Michael P. Cole Cherryl T. Thomas Robert A. Livingston Vice President Vinay Couto * William C. Vance * James W. Mabie William C. Vance * Donna Van Eekeren * John V. Crowe * Craig C. Martin Vice President Mark Wagner * Lester Crown Maura Ann McBreen Donna Van Eekeren Marsha Cruzan Robert J. McCullen Roberta L. Washlow Secretary * Andrew Davis Blythe J. McGarvie Miles D. White Paul J. Carbone † Gerald Dorros Andrew J. McKenna Treasurer Ann M. Drake Frank B. Modruson William Mason General Director Emeritus Brent Fisher John D. Edelman Robert S. Morrison Assistant Treasurer Stefan T. Edlis * Allan B. Muchin * Indicates member of the Mary Ladish Selander Sheri Eichelberger Linda K. Myers Executive Committee Assistant Secretary Lois Eisen Jeffrey C. Neal † Indicates National Director

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Women’s Board Life Members Chapters’ Executive Board Hyde Park/Kenwood † Mimi Mitchell Paula Hannaway Crown † Mrs. Sherie Shapiro President Ms. Vee Minarich President * Mrs. A. Campbell de Frise † Mrs. Peggy Beata Lake Geneva † Margot Stone Bowen * Jane Duboise Gargiulo Vice President – Development Ray Ring Vice President of Board Activities Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker † Mrs. Carla Thorpe Near North † Mrs. Michael Ferro Mrs. Gordon Segal Vice President – Education Awareness Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Northfield Vice President of Education * Former President † Ms. Susan M. Miller Ms. Margareta Brown † Rebecca Walker Knight † Executive Committee Vice President – Membership Northwest Vice President of Fundraising † Ms. Vee Minarich Ms. Dorothy Kuechl † Corinne Wood Guild Board of Directors Vice President – Program † Oscar Tatosian President † Ms. Agnes Canning Treasurer Riverside Vice President of Special Events Kathleen E. Manning † Rick Greenman Secretary Rick Greenman Vice President – Backstage Tours Ms. Judith A. Akers Wilmette Trisha Rooney Alden Craig R. Milkint Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Mrs. Anthony A. Antoniou Vice President – Membership Mrs. Robert C. DeBolt Winnetka Suzette B. Bulley † Ms. Julie Ann Benson Ms. Ingrid Dubberke Mrs. Julie McDowell Marie Campbell Vice President – Fundraising * Jonathon Eklund Mamie Biggs Case † Michael Tirpak Secretary Joseph Ender The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. † Edmund H. Lester Treasurer Ms. Erika Erich Opera Center Board of Directors † Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Maggie Rock Adams Ms. Nancy R. Fifield Susan Kiphart President Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Ms. Allison Alexander Ms. Margie Franklin Janet Burch Vice President * Mrs. Lester Crown Ms. Lorraine Marie Arbetter Ms. Aida Guidice John Nitschke Vice President * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes *†Patrick J. Bitterman Dennis C. Hayes Joan Zajtchuk Vice President * Mrs. W. James Farrell Minka Bosco Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Terese Marie Connolly Joseph Kashickey Brent Fisher Assistant Treasurer Frank de Vincentis Mrs. Robert W. Galvin * Ms. Dorothy Kuechl Richard W. Shepro Secretary Eben Dorros Ms. Lili Gaubin Ms. Kate Letarte Dan Novak Assistant Secretary Mrs. Amanda Fox Craig Love † Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Laurie Jaffe Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein David Nellemann * Katherine A. Abelson G. Louise Johnson Ms. Claudia Winkler Mrs. William B. Graham Mark Kozloff, M.D. Nicole M. Arnold Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm Marc Lacher Sustaining Members * Julie Baskes Karen Z. Gray Mrs. Daria M. Lewicky * Ms. Julie Ann Benson Marcus Boggs Mrs. King Harris Ms. Kathleen E. Manning Mrs. William Hamilton Heidi Heutel Bohn Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Daniel T. Manoogian * Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu Tanja Chevalier † Caroline T. Huebner * Mrs. Martina A. Mead Lester Marriner Lawrence O. Corry Elinor Addington Jannotta Linda Curtis O’ Bannon, M.D. * Mrs. Michael Oberman Mrs. James W. Cozad Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Kimberly Palmisano * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer * Allan Drebin Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Jeffrey Port, M.D. Howard Robins Lafayette J. Ford Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Ms. Christina M. Rashid Mrs. Karl Stein Anthony Freud * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mary Lynne Shafer Mr. and Mrs. Myron Tiersky Melvin Gray Mrs. Florence D. McMillan † Ms. Joan M. Solbeck Mrs. Dorothy V. Wadley Anne Gross James A. Staples Alison Wehman McNally Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Kathryn Sullivan Life Members Mrs. Christopher C. Milliken Mary Ellen Hennessy Ms. Cathy Wloch * Mrs. Anthony Antoniou Chester T. Kamin Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Ms. Anne Zenzer * Mrs. J William Cuncannan Mrs. Christopher Murphy * Kip Kelley Mr. Roy Fisher Phillip G. Lumpkin Mrs. Susan B. Noyes Sustaining Members Mrs. Herbert A. Glieberman Mrs. John H. Anderson Jeanne Randall Malkin * Mrs. James J. O’Connor * Mrs. Donald Grauer * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Robert C. Marks * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Erma S. Medgyesy Mrs. William A. Osborn * Mrs. Merwyn Kind * Robert F. Finke Frank B. Modruson Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman * Mrs. Jonathon R. Laing Mrs. William R. Jentes William J. Neiman Mrs. Frederick H. Prince Mrs. Frank M. Lieber Chester T. Kamin Susan Noel Mrs. James C. Pritchard * Mrs. Howard S. Smith * Kip Kelley Michael A. Oberman M.K. Pritzker * Mrs. William C. Tippens John M. Kohlmeier Jane DiRenzo Pigott *†Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes * Mrs. Eugene E. White Mrs. Robert E. Largay Orli Staley Mrs. John M. Richman James G. McCormick * William C. Vance Betsy Bergman Rosenfield † Ms. Britt M. Miller Chapter Presidents Barrington Donna Van Eekeren * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan * John H. Nelson Ms. Marlene Boncosky Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. † Mrs. James L. Sandner Ms. Lisbeth Stiffel Evanston Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Nancy S. Searle R. Todd Vieregg Barbara Eckel Jack Weiss Mrs. Benjamin Shapiro Far West Young Professionals Life Members Mrs. Alejandro Silva Joseph Kashickey Patrick M. Callahan President * Mrs. Anthony A. Antoniou Mrs. John R. Siragusa Flossmoor Area Kimberly Palmisano Vice President Bernard J. Dobroski Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Ms. Sharon Gibson Lisa DeAngelis Event Logistics Barbara Heil Howard Mrs. James P. Stirling Glencoe Catherine Ketter Event Promotion * Keith A. Reed Marilynn Thoma Carolyn Fitzgerald Marketing Mrs. Brenda Lenahan * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom * Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Kieran Shanahan Membership Highland Park/Deerfield Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Emily Vietoris Social Media Mrs. Caroline Siegel * Former President Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Charlotte Bohrer Special Projects Hinsdale Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Jenny Tola Volunteer Coordinator Joseph Ender † Executive Committee

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Anthony Freud, OBE General Director The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair

Mary Ladish Selander Brent Fisher Lisa Middleton Director of Development Director of Finance Director of Marketing

Nicholas Ivor Martin Andreas Melinat Cayenne Harris Director of Operations Director of Artistic Administration Lyric Unlimited Director and Special Initiatives

Kelley Ahuja Dan Novak Director of Human Resources Director, Ryan Opera Center The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL DIRECTOR Jenny Seidelman Leslie B. Mastroianni HUMAN RESOURCES Anthony Freud Associate Director of Deputy Director of Development Kelley Ahuja General Director Corporate, Foundation, and Warren Davis Director of Human Resources The Women’s Board Endowed Chair Government Support Director of Chapters and Tiffany Tuckett Madeleine Walsh Meaghan Stainback Guild Board Activities Talent Manager, Administrative Staff Executive Programs Administrator Donor Relations Manager Katarina Visnevska Stephanie Strong Geary S. Albright Emily Esmail Coordinator of Chapters Benefits Manager Executive Assistant to the Coordinator, Corporate and and Guild Board Activities General Director Foundation Support Hilary Pieper Amanda Allen Administrative Assistant – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Administrative Coordinator – Chapters and Guild Board Will Raj OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Individual and Planned Giving Director of Information Technology GENERAL DIRECTOR Christian Carranza Drew Landmesser FACILITIES Manager of IT Operations Erin L. Koppel Rich Regan Deputy General Director Deputy Director of Development Mary Mueller Sarah Generes Director of Facilities Tessitura Administrator Bridget Monahan Nora O’Malley Executive Assistant to the Deputy Associate Director of Rita Parida General Director and the Music Director Facility Operations Manager Senior Applications Specialist Women’s Board Activities Sharon Lomasney Marta Garczarczyk René Calvo Events and Sales Manager Help Desk Coordinator ARTISTIC Associate Director of Annual Giving Eric Bays Andreas Melinat Judy I. Lipp Facilities Coordinator Director of Artistic Assistant Director of Development – Steven Farrell LYRIC UNLIMITED Administration Donor Records and Reporting Chief Engineer Cayenne Harris Christoph Ptack Nicole Eubanks Charles Holliday Lyric Unlimited Director Associate Artistic Assistant Director of Development Security Services Coordinator Mark Riggleman Administrator Donor Services and Special Events Director of Education Amy Alvarado Chapters’ Endowed Chair Evamaria Wieser Annual Giving Specialist FINANCE for Education Casting Consultant Chelsea Southwood Brent Fisher Alejandra Boyer Stefanie Duff Director of Finance Lyric Unlimited Manager Administrative Assistants – Cynthia Darling Jesse Gram DEVELOPMENT Women’s Board Teresa Hogan Audience Education Manager Mary Ladish Selander Jeffrey Dziedzic Senior Accountants Lisa Della Pia Director of Development Karolina Sledz Marie L. Connolly Program Coordinator Suzanne Singer Administrative Assistants – Manager of Administrative Services Drew Smith Assistant to the Donor Records Emily Cohen Program Assistant Director of Development Contina Harris Accounting Assistant Deborah Hare Development Associate Debbie Dahlgren Development Associate Payroll Supervisor Adriana Halbac Lawrence DelPilar Payroll Analyst Deputy Director of Development Susan Harant Jonathan P. Siner Receptionist Senior Director of Planned Giving Katy Hall Director of Indivdual, Foundation, and Government Giving

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MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Stephanie Karr Eric Watkins Robert Ladd Lisa Middleton Chorus, Orchestra, and Ballet Manager Assistant Lighting Designers Dan Lang Director of Marketing Elise R. Kerr Joe Mathesius Holly Gilson Administrative Coordinator, Operations Technical Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Deputy Director of Communications Wendy Skoczen William Reilly, Jr. Frank Taylor Tracy Galligher Staff Assistant Librarian Master Carpenter Properties Deputy Director of Marketing Gretchen Eng Michael Barker Roger Pines Music Administration Assistant Head Flyman WARDROBE/WIGS AND MAKEUP Dramaturg Mike Reilly Scott Marr Magda Krance Production and Rehearsal Staff Automation/Rigging Production Design Director Manager of Media Relations Cameron Arens Bradley Long Maggie Berndt Director of Rehearsal Administration Shop Carpenter Wardrobe Public Relations Specialist Robert Barros Maureen Reilly Joel Friend Garnett Bruce Layout Carpenter Costume Director Drew Trusk Group Sales Manager Shawna Lucey The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Shop Welder Sarah Kaplan Matthew Ozawa Endowed Chair Bruce Woodruff Marketing Manager Elise Sandell Lucy Lindquist Paula Suozzi Layout Welder Wardrobe Mistress Donna Sauers Richard “Doc” Wren Audience Development Manager Assistant Directors Bradley Baker Warehouse Coordinator Sarah Brownewell Andrew Cioffi Joe Dockweiler Digital Content Producer John W. Coleman Cecylia Kinder Rachel C. Henneberry Ryan McGovern Vija A. Klode Carrie Krol Michael O’Donnell Graphic Designer Caroline Moores Krystina Lowe Daniel Sokalski Jeffrey Streichhirsch Kathy Rubel Amanda Reitenbach Assistant Carpenters Social Media Coordinator Rachel A. Tobias Tony Rubino Stage Managers Chris Barker Joanna Rzepka Jocelyn Park Mike Bowman Marketing Production Coordinator Barbara Szyllo Kristen Barrett Dan DiBennardi Wardrobe Staff Bailey Couture Dan Donahue Ticket Program Sales Coordinator Darin Burnett Scott Barker Jodi Gage Brian Grenda Stefany Phillips Terese Cullen Jennifer Harber Justin Hull Kelly Davis Marketing and Public Relations Derek Matson Robert Hull, Jr. Tim Dedinsky Coordinator Jayme O’Hara John Ingersol Michelle DiBennardi Anya Plotkin Phil Marcotte Anna Krysik Matthew Reilly Ticket Department Daniel Sokalski Ed Mack Ray Schmitz Paul A. Molinelli Peggy Stenger Wendy McCay Carpenters Director of Ticketing Services Amy C. Thompson Christina Mitsch Michael C. Reynolds Paula Getman Rachel A. Tobias Mary Monahan Master Electrician Ticket Operations Supervisor Bill Walters John Salyers Soren Ersbak Susan Harrison Niemi Assistant Stage Managers Isaac Turner Phone Sales Supervisor Board Operator Paul Christopher Chris Valente Miguel González Ben Bell Bern Roger Weir Patron Relations Representative Head Audio/Visual Technician Rehearsal Scheduler Nick Charlan Dressers Shelley Cameron Josie Campbell Group and Special Matt Ebel Artistic Services Coordinator Audio/Visual Wigs and Makeup Ticketing Coordinator Amy Greene Sarah Hatten Chris Notestine Kevin Reynolds Operations Coordinator Surtitle Operator Wigmaster and Makeup Designer VIP Tickets and Subscriber Marina Vecci Kathleen Evans Relations Coordinator John Clarke, Jr. Rehearsal Associate Joseph Haack Department Coordinator Gabrielle Gottlieb Michael A. Manfrin Chantelle Marie Johnson Kirsten Alfredsen Jason Byer Robert Kuper Justin Berkowitz Robert Reynolds Rehearsal Assistants Assistant Electricians Lynn Koroulis Tabitha Boorsma Anthony Coia Claire Moores Teléya Bradford TECHNICAL AND LIGHTING Jason Combs Brittany Crinson Sarah Diller Michael Smallwood Gary Grenda Staff Amber Doss Technical Director Thomas Hull Lauren Cecil Sam Fain Allan and Elaine Muchin Daniel Kuh Anelle Eorio Melissa King Endowed Chair Jeremy Thomas Lauren Marchfield Stephanie Lillie April Busch Electricians Anita Trojanowski Dana McGarr Production Manager Charles Reilly Chris Payne Carol Michelini Michael Schoenig Property Master Nelson Posada John Schell Technical Finance Manager Michael McPartlin Rochelle Fisher Lindsay Trinowski Scott Wolfson Properties Crew Head Rachel Tenorio Zachary Vanderburg Assistant Technical Director Brian Michael Smith Sarah Squire Jordan Wright Stephen Snyder Armorer Jada Richardson Ticket Staff Technical Assistant José Trujillo Wig and Makeup Crew Maria DeFabo Upholsterer OPERATIONS Properties Coordinator Thomas Coleman, Jr. Scenic Art Nicholas Ivor Martin Robert Hartge Brian Traynor Director of Operations and Lighting Richard Tyriver Charge Artist Special Initiatives Chris Maravich Assistant Properties Maggie Bodwell Thomas Young Lighting Director Michael Buerger Vivienne Marie Director of Music Administration Heather Sparling Joseph Collins Scene Artists

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Ryan Opera Center alumni who have gone on to important careers are pictured here in Lyric Opera productions. Clockwise from top left: Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto); Matthew Polenzani and Dina Kuznetsova (Roméo et Juliette); Robynne Redmon (with Johan Botha in La Gioconda); Amber Wagner (with Brandon Jovanovich in Ariadne auf Naxos); Roger Honeywell and Elizabeth Futral (The Merry Widow ); and Nicole Cabell (L’elisir d’amore). Photo credits: DAN REST, TONY ROMANO LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

Chicago’s Civic Opera House is filled with the developing artists as a constant presence in our echoes of legendary stars. So many have graced mainstage season is an incredible artistic asset for its grand stage! Every young singer finds looking Lyric.” And the Ryan Center boasts a gold medal out into that massive and extravagant hall an awe- roster of alumni, many of whom return to their home inspiring experience. For 40 years now, The Patrick theater on a regular basis. G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center has been Current and past Ensemble members describe preparing young artists to perform in that hallowed their training as life-changing. Says Robynne hall, and others like it, with confidence, knowing that Redmon, who, since 1983 has assayed 18 roles at they are finally ready for the big time. Lyric, “From the beginning we were held to the General director Anthony Freud calls the Ryan highest standard in professionalism and vocalism…, Opera Center “one of the crown jewels of the not to mention that we were onstage with, and company. Together with the chorus and orchestra, learning from, the greatest singers of the time, it is one of the pillars on which Lyric’s artistic identity including Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, is built.” The Ryan Center has its own board of Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, Alfredo Kraus, and directors who, together with Lyric’s development Plácido Domingo!” department, raise some $1.9 million to support its Quinn Kelsey, the formidable baritone who activities. Since 2013, Dan Novak has served as the sings the villainous Count di Luna in Lyric’s current Ryan Center’s director, with Craig Terry as music production of Il trovatore, concurs: “The training I director. received was remarkable…... I truly don’t know where You have to be good to be accepted into the I would have ended up had I not been welcomed to

Pictured at the reception following "Rising Stars in Concert," 2013 are (left to right) former Ryan Opera Center director Gianna Rolandi, current program director Dan Novak, and music director Craig Terry.

Ryan Opera Center–-very, very good. Talent is the the Opera Center.” primary consideration, as well as a skill level worthy Most artists chosen for the Ensemble have of Lyric’s mainstage. Then there’s what Novak advanced degrees, and many, including current first- describes as that special “’it’ factor” that makes year bass Bradley Smoak and second-year soprano someone shine onstage. Each season, nearly 500 Laura Wilde, have already sung professionally hopefuls apply; four to six new members are usually at other companies.​ Some, like alumna Harolyn chosen to join those who are returning for another Blackwell, a sparkling Oscar in Lyric’s 1986-87 year. Novak and Terry hold auditions across the production of Un ballo un maschera (opposite country, and then later with Freud, music director Sir Pavarotti), came via a different road. “I’d spent two Andrew Davis, and director of artistic administration years on Broadway in West Side Story and several Andreas Melinat, select the final Ensemble. Held in people, including Leonard Bernstein, encouraged September, these final auditions are now open to me to pursue a career in opera.” the Lyric family – a unique opportunity to get a first In many ways, the Ryan Opera Center’s look at opera’s future stars. Each Ensemble member administrative structure mirrors that of Lyric Opera. receives a 12-month contract plus benefits, and must As director, Novak’s job encompasses all executive re-audition to return for a second year. Some remain responsibilities. Music director Craig Terry is for a third. responsible for all things musical: repertoire choices, Last season, Ensemble members sang 36 roles performance planning, and musical coaching. Both and understudied 42, with alumni singing 13 principal are constantly monitoring each artist’s progress roles and understudying four. Explains Freud, and staying up-to-date with the Center’s resident “Having a small number of outstanding young and guest instructors about their work with the

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With the exception of Giuseppe Filianoti (Edgardo, far left), all the principals in the new 2011-12 production of Lucia di Lammermoor were current or alumni Ryan Opera Center members, including Susanna Phillips as Lucia (left of center), Christian Van Horn as Raimondo and David Cangelosi as Normanno (both far right).

Ensemble. New to the program’s Ensemble roster is artists of our time? “Awesome” and “amazing” are the position of pianist (Maureen Zoltek this season). frequent descriptions. “Everyone wants to work with Says Terry, “Training a pianist to both coach and her,” says third-year mezzo-soprano J’nai Bridges. perform with the singers is vital to the excellence of Laura Wilde, who is covering Fleming in Capriccio, the art form. Having a pianist as a colleague to help explains why: “She immediately knows exactly what facilitate learning music, as well as having musical to work on when she hears you.” consistency and a well-rehearsed product for their While all singers participate in the full Ryan auditions, is a tremendous asset for the singers.” Opera Center curriculum, instruction and coaching The broad skill set required to be a successful geared to each individual is pivotal. Explains Terry, opera singer is reflected in the Ryan Opera Center’s “Working with each singer is different, because each demanding and intensive curriculum. As alumna one brings particular strengths and challenges when Susanna Phillips says, “Being part of the Ryan Center they begin the program.” is an awesome opportunity, but it’s no walk in the park.” Novak and Terry also partner in the all-important Novak stresses that “you have to be able to do it all.” task of finding jobs for Ensemble members when Voice lessons focus on developing and solidifying they graduate! Because of the Ryan Opera vocal technique. Even though Ensemble members Center’s reputation, artist managers and general have been studying for years, this advanced training directors frequently come to Chicago to audition is critical because every singer’s voice evolves as he and “check out the talent,” but both Novak and or she matures. Vocal coaching, however, is all about Terry actively solicit those visits as well. Frequently musicianship – musical expression and style, practice these have resulted in singers being signed by and performance, including work on diction and the important management firms and receiving offers interpretation of text. Language training includes for prestigious engagements in the future. extensive work in Italian, German, and French, as The Ryan Opera Center has a strategic plan well as study in non-standard languages included that is both ambitious and specific in its goals. One in Lyric’s season repertoire (for example, Russian, of its key tenants is addressing the needs of the Czech, and Polish for this season’s production of 21st- century performer. As Freud explains, “The The Passenger).​ Theatrical and movement training skills required today are very different from what covers the gamut, including detailed character and they were ten years ago.” So Ensemble members text work, how to move onstage, dancing, and more. receive training from specialists in a variety of areas Instruction in this wide spectrum of specialties is including developing a personal branding strategy, provided by the Ryan Opera Center’s expert faculty. media training, dressing for success onstage and Then there are the all-important master classes off, and more. with the “best in the business,” including in recent Constant enhancement of current offerings is seasons Ana María Martínez, Eric Owens, Thomas also integral to the plan. A new addition is training Hampson, and Stephanie Blythe, as well as Sir in comedy and improv, taught by members of Andrew Davis and Lyric creative consultant Renée Chicago’s renowned Second City. “When you Fleming (whose role as Ryan Opera Center think about the discipline and the timing needed advisor has expanded to include more coaching for great comedy, you understand how beneficial Emily Birsan (Servilia) and Cecelia Hall (Annio) and mentoring for Ensemble members). What’s a partnership like this can be in increasing an artist’s in La clemenza di Tito, 2013-14 season. it like to study with Fleming, one of the greatest range and experience, “says Freud. Bridges says

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working with The Second City is “incredibly helpful live audience of 3,600 people in the Civic Opera in becoming a better actor,” and first-year Ensemble House,” Freud says. member Bradley Smoak heartily agrees: “The days But ask current and former members what most of ‘park and bark’ in opera are long gone. You must excites them, and performing in the Lyric season have a real connection with your colleagues onstage. always tops the list. “The mainstage performances The improv training really helps us achieve that.” were some of the best preparation I received for Building on the longstanding excellence of the my career,” superstar tenor Matthew Polenzani says. Ryan Center program also means giving artists more “Singing with people like Kiri Te Kanawa, Samuel performing opportunities outside the mainstage Ramey, Robert Lloyd, and Ben Heppner was not season, and it’s a priority for Freud, Novak, and only thrilling for a young singer – their work ethic, Terry. The Grant Park Music Festival, Ravinia, Rush technique, musicality, everything that we strive to be Hour Concerts, special programs at the Art Institute as performers, was evident in these greats. It was so of Chicago, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the important and informative for my career.” newly announced Beyond the Aria series at the J’nai Bridges agrees that it’s the opportunity to Harris Theater, individual recitals, not to mention perform in the mainstage season that really makes Lyric’s own Lyric Unlimited events and the Stars the singers ready for prime time. “Since my first year, of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert – Ryan I’ve been given so much onstage experience that my Opera Center artists are becoming an ever-present confidence level has really grown. We don’t have force on Chicago’s musical scene. time not to be confident.” “These activities help broaden the artists’ And every “graduate” – no matter how long performing experience and create an even greater they’ve been famous on the world opera scene – awareness of the Ryan Center and Lyric in the clearly remembers every detail of his or her inaugural broader community,” Freud explains. So, too, does appearance on the Lyric stage. Says Quinn Kelsey, the WFMT Recital Series, brainchild of Freud “Even though I’d sung a handful of smaller roles in and WFMT vice president Steve Robinson, and the years leading up to my first Lyric appearance as currently heard at 6pm on the first Monday of every Wagner in Faust, a rush of accomplishment flooded month. “Available online, this series gives our Ryan over me to be on such a world stage….there was Center artists tremendous exposure, not to mention so much history there – and I was honored to be expanding their repertoire and developing their inhabiting the same space as all the big stars who’d Ryan Opera Center soprano Tracy Cantin as Berta in recording and broadcasting skills, which are quite sung there.” Il barbiere di Siviglia (2013-2014). different from those required to sing in front of a This season’s audience can expect to be dazzled

In Lyric’s 2013-14 production of Parsifal, with Paul Groves (center) in the title role, the solo Flower Maidens were sung by six Ryan Opera Center artists: (left to right) Laura Wilde, J’nai Bridges, Kiri Deonarine, Emily Birsan, Tracy Cantin, and Angela Mannino.

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Ryan Opera Center alumna Harolyn Blackwell (Oscar) with Luciano Pavarotti (Gustavo), Un ballo in maschera, 1986-87 season.

in both Il trovatore and Tannhäuser by Amber Wagner, who sang Annina in La traviata (2007-08) “with the magnificent Renée Fleming as Violetta The full 2014-15 ensemble of the Ryan Opera Center. Front row, left to right: and the incredible Matthew Polenzani as Alfredo. J’nai Bridges, Maureen Zoltek, Will Liverman. Second row, left to right: Laura Wilde, Tracy Cantin, I was nervous because it was my first time onstage, Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, Julie Miller, Jonathan Johnson. Third row, left to right: Richard Ollarsaba, but more nervous because it was with Renée! She’s Bradley Smoak, Jesse Donner, Anthony Clark Evans, John Irvin. one of the reasons I pursued a career in opera, so singing with her, and I use that term loosely – she A testament to the Ryan Opera Center’s caliber and success is the roster of distinguished alumni. In addi- sang, I stared at her – was thrilling. She was so kind tion to those quoted in this article, others currently appearing on major stages nationally and internationally and encouraging to me, as was Matthew.” include Meredith Arwady, René Barbera, Evan Boyer, Nicole Cabell, David Cangelosi, Andriana Chuchman, Elizabeth Futral, the elegant Elsa Schraeder in Elizabeth DeShong, Mark S. Doss, Christopher Feigum, Emily Fons, Gregory Frank, Roger Honeywell, Lyric’s recent new production of The Sound of Music Joseph Kaiser, Maria Kanyova, Gregory Kunde, Dina Kuznetsova, Gary Lehman, Emily Magee, Amanda made her stage debut in Dominick Argento’s The Majeski, Nancy Maultsby, Lauren McNeese, Marlin Miller, Marjorie Owens, Phyllis Pancella, Franco Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe (1990-91 season). “I Pomponi, Stephen Powell, David Portillo, Patricia Risley, Rodell Rosel, Stacey Tappan, and Erin Wall. was cast as Poe’s little sister, and loved the whole process,” she recalls. “The experience further sparked my enthusiasm for modern music and modern A brief history of the Ryan Opera Center opera.” Christian van Horn made his big entrance as In working to ensure the Ryan Opera Center’s Pearlman, a highly respected stage director and the King in Aida (2004-05 season): “First I was ongoing success and excellence, Dan Novak and educator. (Pearlman had been director of opera carried in on a gold sedan chair. Then, for the Craig Terry are carrying on a 40-year legacy. at Rochester’s Eastman School of Music where Triumphal Scene, I was carried in again – this time In 1974, Lyric’s first general director Carol Fox, his students included Renée Fleming.) Pearlman on a 15-foot-tall pyramid chair. I made my debut music director Bruno Bartoletti, and then assistant made many important changes, including an even without ever actually putting my feet on the stage! manager Ardis Krainik created the Lyric Opera more extensive audition process, more emphasis It was incredible on so many levels – including School, choosing the multi-talented American lyric on American music, and hiring Dan Novak as man- performing with Dolora Zajick. Now, nearly a tenor and conductor Herbert Handt as its first ager and the celebrated soprano Gianna Rolandi as hundred performances later on the Lyric stage, the director. Earl Schub managed the School in 1976, director of vocal studies. When Lyric lost Pearlman thrill for me is still there.” followed by the internationally renowned American to cancer in 2006, Rolandi took over as the pro- That thrill has just became a reality for Bradley conductor Lee Schaenen, who served as direc- gram’s director and served with distinction until Smoak, the bass who made his debut earlier this tor from 1977 to 1991. During his tenure, in 1981, 2013. Says former general director William Mason, season, following in the footsteps of hundreds of the School was renamed the Lyric Opera Center “Gianna took the level of vocal teaching to an ever other first-year Ryan Opera Center artists: “I was for American Artists. Schaenen’s accomplishments higher level of excellence. Under her leadership, the Fifth Servant in Capriccio, with Renée Fleming,” included administering the country’s first composer- the Center really became known as the best in the he says, and “being on that Lyric stage – well, it’s a in- residence program that featured the young field when it came to their overall training of young very, very big deal.” singers in new works. Next to lead was the noted singers. “Also in 2006, the Center was given a new American bass-baritone Andrew Foldi (whose name: The Patrick G. and Shirley Ryan Opera —Susan Mathieson Mayer is an independent famous portrayals included a remarkable Schigolch Center, in recognition of a magnificent gift made public relations and marketing consultant for the arts. in Alban Berg’s Lulu, a hit of Lyric’s 1987/88 season). by two of Lyric’s most longstanding and ardent For 25 years, she served with distinction as Lyric Opera of Chicago’s director of Foldi’s successor in 1995 was the ebullient Richard supporters. marketing and communications.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago

Giuseppe Verdi

Il trovatore

Lyric Opera revival generously made possible by an Anonymous Donor, Julie and Roger Baskes, the Howard Family Foundation, and the Mazza Foundation.

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IL TROVATORE — Story Of The Opera

stops him. Leonora mistakes the Count for her her son, who has abandoned her. When the gypsy Time: 19th century lover and is, in turn, accused by the troubadour reveals that she comes from Biscay, the Count Place: Spain of infidelity. Challenged to make himself known, questions her about his brother’s disappearance. Manrico identifies himself. The Count’s jealousy Ferrando recognizes her, and when she calls out ACT ONE — The Duel boils over at a rebel leader daring to enter the to the absent Manrico for help, the Count exults Scene 1 A hall in the palace of Aliaferia royal palace (Trio: Di geloso amor sprezzato). The at his chance for revenge. Azucena curses the Scene 2 The ramparts of the palace two men rush off to fight a duel. Count (Finale: Deh! rallentate, o barbari) before she is dragged away. ACT TWO — The Gypsy ACT TWO Scene 1 A gypsy camp Scene 1. As dawn breaks over the gypsy camp, Scene 2. Manrico, about to be married to Scene 2 A convent the usual work goes on (Anvil Chorus: Vedi! Le Leonora, assures her that love will unite them fosche notturne spoglie). Azucena broods on even in death should he be killed in the upcoming Intermission her mother’s death (Canzone: Stride la vampa!). battle (Cavatina: Ah! sì, ben mio). When Ruiz Manrico, who is recovering from wounds received brings news of Azucena’s capture and ensuing ACT THREE — The Gypsy’s Son in battle, fails to understand his mother’s words. execution, Manrico swears to save her (Cabaletta: Scene 1 The Count’s camp Once alone with Azucena, he asks her to tell him Di quella pira). Scene 2 Manrico’s fortress the old story. She ironically comments that his ambition had led him far away so that he never ACT FOUR ACT FOUR — The Punishment learned the story of his grandmother’s death. Scene 1. Ruiz accompanies Leonora to the Count’s Scene 1 The Count’s castle Retelling it, her emotions overpower her (Aria: castle, where Manrico has been imprisoned Scene 2 A prison cell Condotta ell’era in ceppi). Azucena lets slip that, following his failed rescue attempt. Determined after stealing the Count’s child, in her delirium she to save his life, Leonora hopes that thoughts threw her own child into the flames. of her love will comfort Manrico in his despair ACT ONE When Manrico asks who he really is, Azucena (Cavatina: D’amor sull’ali rosee). Hearing the Scene 1. Ferrando, captain of the guard, rouses insists that she was hallucinating and that he is monks’ prayer for the condemned and Manrico’s the soldiers resting in the guardroom. They are indeed her son. She wonders why he spared the voice raised in farewell (Ensemble: Miserere d’un under the orders of the Count di Luna to keep Count when given the chance to kill him in their alma già vicina), Leonora again swears to save watch for a troubadour who serenades Leonora, duel. Manrico answers that a voice from heaven Manrico, even if she must die (Cabaletta: Tu the Queen’s lady-in-waiting, with whom the restrained him. Azucena orders him to swear to vedrai che amore in terra). Count is also in love. Ferrando keeps the men avenge her (Duet: Mal reggendo). A messenger When the Count appears, lamenting awake by telling them the story of a baby, the informs Manrico that he must take command of Leonora’s disappearance, she pleads for Count’s brother (Aria: Abbietta zingara): Many Castellor, adding that Leonora, assuming he is Manrico’s life, offering herself to the Count years before, a gypsy had been burned at the dead, will enter a convent that evening. Azucena instead (Duet: Mira d’acerbe lagrime). While he stake for supposedly casting a spell on the baby. pleads with him not to leave (Cabaletta: Perigliarti gives orders to free the prisoner, she takes poison. In revenge, the gypsy’s daughter stole the child. ancor languente), but Manrico ignores her and Later an infant’s bones – presumably those of rushes away. Scene 2. Awaiting execution, Azucena is troubled the Count’s brother – were found in the ashes. by visions of her mother’s death. She and Manrico Legend has it that the gypsy’s ghost still haunts Scene 2. The Count arrives at the convent with long to return to their life in the mountains (Duet: the castle. his men. Tormented by his love for Leonora Ai nostri monti). Azucena has just fallen asleep (Cavatina: Il balen del suo sorriso), he determines when Leonora appears, telling Manrico he is free Scene 2. As she awaits the troubadour, Leonora to abduct her before she can take her vows (Finale: Ciel! Non m’inganna quel fioco lume?). tells her companion Inez how she fell in love (Cabaletta: Per me l’ora fatale). Manrico arrives When she refuses to leave with him, he accuses with an unknown knight (Cavatina: Tacea la in time to stop him (Finale: E deggio…e posso her of giving herself to his rival. As he curses her, notte placida). When civil war broke out, she crederlo?). Leonora begins to feel faint. Manrico is horrified heard nothing from him until one night when when she reveals her sacrifice for him. Witnessing she heard his voice serenading her. Faced with ACT THREE her death, the Count orders Manrico’s immediate Inez’s disapproval, Leonora nevertheless swears Scene 1. The Count’s soldiers are relaxing before execution. Manrico’s farewell awakens Azucena. that she would die for the troubadour (Cabaletta: the assault on Castellor (Chorus: Squilli, echeggi). She turns on the Count, revealing that he has Di tale amor). The Count is about to force his Suddenly Azucena is brought in. Suspected of killed his own brother before crying out, “You are attention on Leonora, but the troubadour’s voice spying, she protests that she is only searching for revenged, oh, Mother!”

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• By arrangement with Hendon Music, Giuseppe Verdi Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, Sole Agent in the US, Canada and IL TROVATORE Mexico for Casa Ricordi-BMG Ricordi S.p.A., Milan, a BMG Editions company, Opera in four acts in Italian. publisher and copyright owner. Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano (with additions by Leone Emanuele Bardare), after Antonio García Gutiérrez’s play El trovador • Scenery constructed and painted in Performed in the critical edition by David Lawton, published by the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi Wales by Cardiff Theatrical Services,

Ellen Street, Cardiff, Wales, UK . First performed at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, on January 19, 1853 First performed by Lyric Opera on November 5, 1955

• Costumes supervised by Anna Watkins. Ferrando ANDREA SILVESTRELLI Inez J’NAI BRIDGES° • Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcasts are Leonora AMBER WAGNER°° generously sponsored by Count di Luna QUINN KELSEY°° The Hurvis Family Foundation, with Manrico YONGHOON LEE matching funding provided by Azucena STEPHANIE BLYTHE The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum An Old Gypsy KENNETH NICHOLS Family, The John and Jackie A Messenger TIMOTHY BRADLEY Ruiz JONATHAN JOHNSON° Bucksbaum Family, and Richard P. and Susan Kiphart. Actors: Brian Barber, Jon Beal, Thomas Boettcher, Matthew Cobb, Chuck Coyl, Wesley Daniel, William Patrick Dunham, Cody Evans-Gan, Dave Gonzalez, Marckarthur Johnson, Ted Kramer, Mark Lancaster, B.J. Macias, Kurt Merrill, • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully Joshua Moaney, Xander O’Connor, Stephen August Schmidt, Jeremy Sonkin acknowledges the support of the NIB Foundation Italian Opera Conductor ASHER FISCH Endowed Chair and the Guild Board of Original Director DAVID McVICAR Directors Verdi Endowed Chair. Revival Director and Choreographer LEAH HAUSMAN Set Designer CHARLES EDWARDS Costume Designer BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank Lighting by JENNIFER TIPTON its Official Airline, American Airlines. Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Assistant Director ELISE SANDELL • This season’s projected English titles Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN are funded in part by a generous grant Stage Band Conductor EMANUELE ANDRIZZI from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM Deutsch Foundation. SUSAN MILLER HULT CRAIG TERRY Fight Director NICK SANDYS • The performance will last approximately three hours. °Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °°Alumna/Alumnus, Ryan Opera Center

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YONGHOON LEE AMBER WAGNER STEPHANIE BLYTHE (Manrico) (Leonora) (Azucena) Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: Don José/Carmen (2010-11). Six roles since 2007-08, Ulrica/Un ballo in maschera, Also this season: Carmen, most recently Prima Donna Katisha/The Mikado Bayerische Staatsoper and title role/Ariadne auf (both 2010-11). (Munich); Don Carlo, Naxos (2011-12); Elsa/ Also this season: Metropolitan Opera; Lohengrin (2010-11). Semele, Seattle Opera; Turandot, Opera Australia. Also this season: The Rake’s Progress, Tannhäuser, Lyric Opera; Verdi Requiem, Metropolitan Opera; recital, Stern Auditorium The Korean-born tenor earned considerable Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre at Carnegie Hall. critical acclaim for his first Manrico last year Philharmonique de Nice. in the Vienna Festival’s new production of Il Azucena’s scene with Manrico in Act Two is trovatore. When choosing a new role, “I don’t “Il trovatore is a story about revenge, and it “probably the first time she’s told him the truth, initially look at the dramaturgy and whether revolves around Manrico, the Count, and laying out exactly what’s happened to her,” dramatically it suits me, or as a person I can Azucena,” says the California-born soprano. the celebrated American mezzo-soprano told identify with the role,” Lee told Das Opernglas “Even though the Count is obsessed with San Francisco Opera’s website. “He’s heard magazine. “It’s always the musical component Leonora, I think she’s a beautiful distraction from many times what happened to her mother, but that prompts the decision – this instinctive, the main plot. We do see her fire and passion he doesn’t know the end of the story. What I logical, and yet hard-to-describe feeling that in her first aria. She’s so excited, explaining think is so fascinating is that this is her time to it’s within the realm of the possible and makes about this troubadour who’s been serenading show in earnest who she really is. We’re not all the attempt worthwhile. The music always takes her and how she’s fallen madly in love with so fortunate to have our designs on our lives the top position; great dramaturgy paired with him. And then she says, ‘You know what? so distilled, to know that this one thing – in her unattractive music is not for me. In my thinking, That’s it. It’s death or love!” Wagner’s favorite case, having revenge – is what you’re all about.” the plot, or what the piece offers on the visual music in the opera is the fourth-act “Miserere,” Blythe has previously portrayed Azucena at side, will take second place.” Another Verdi which “just grabs me. This is what’s magical the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, role, Don Carlo, Lee regards as his “destiny about Verdi! Some of the greatest moments and Covent Garden. Other Verdi triumphs part,” having triumphed with it ever since his in his operas are when he’s writing for the include Ulrica (Met, Covent Garden), Amneris 2007 debut at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, chorus.” The Ryan Opera Center alumna’s rise (Seattle, Pittsburgh), and Mistress Quickly Chile. He has sung this role in the original to prominence has been confirmed by her Elsa (Met, Seattle, Covent Garden, Opéra National French version (Hamburg Staatsoper, Vienna and Ariadne at Lyric, and by similarly prestigious de Paris). At the Met her successes have also Staatsoper), and in Italian at the Metropolitan appearances such as Leonora/La forza del encompassed pre-1800 operas (Giulio Cesare, Opera (new production, New York and on tour in destino (Washington), Ariadne (Toronto and Rodelinda, Orfeo ed Euridice), Wagner (Ring Japan), Valencia, Liège, Munich, Frankfurt, and Valencia, both conducted by Sir Andrew Davis), cycle, HD, CD, DVD), Puccini (Il trittico), most recently with the forces of the Mariinsky Amelia/Un ballo in maschera (Metropolitan and Stravinsky (The Rake’s Progress). Her Theatre under Gergiev at the Baden-Baden Opera), Sieglinde (Frankfurt), both Elsa and versatility elsewhere has been demonstrated in Festival. A leading interpreter of lirico-spinto Senta (Finland’s Savonlinna Festival), and both dramatic repertoire (Carmen in Seattle, roles worldwide, Lee has returned to the Met as Brangäne (European debut, Prague). She has Dalila in Pittsburgh, Fricka in Seattle), and also Don José/Carmen, which has also introduced also sung Act One of Die Walküre in concert as such comic heroines as Rossini’s Isabella his artistry to audiences in Berlin and Zürich. with the Colorado Symphony. Among her (Philadelphia, Seattle) and Offenbach’s Grand Other major successes have included Turiddu/ other concert engagements have been Mahler’s Duchess (Boston). Earlier this year Blythe Cavalleria rusticana (La Scala), Cavaradossi/ Symphony No. 8 (Aspen Festival, Robert Spano portrayed Gertrude Stein/Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27 Tosca (London, Vienna, Hamburg, Dresden, conducting), Strauss’s Four Last Songs (Oregon (world premiere, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis). Sydney), Calaf/Turandot (Bologna, Munich), Symphony, Carlos Kalmar conducting), and She has appeared with many leading orchestras, and Macduff/Macbeth (Glyndebourne Festival Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Verdi’s including those of Chicago, New York, Boston, Opera). Last season Lee added the title role/ Requiem (Tucson Symphony). A former Grand Philadelphia, and London. Collaborating with Andrea Chénier to his repertoire (Zürich), Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera pianist and Ryan Opera Center music director as well as leading roles in two rarely heard National Council Auditions, she is featured Craig Terry, the mezzo-soprano has appeared works, Arrigo/Verdi’s La battaglia di Legnano in MONCA’s feature film The Audition. A at Lincoln Center (PBS telecast), Ravinia, and (Hamburg) and Hagenbach/Catalani’s La Wally recipient of the Richard Tucker Foundation and other important venues nationwide singing (Geneva). Sullivan Foundation career grants, Wagner is a repertoire of Kate Smith, much of which she former winner of the Liederkranz Foundation recorded in a solo CD. Blythe was Musical Competition and the Kirsten Flagstad Award of America’s 2009 Vocalist of the Year and the the George London Foundation. 1999 winner of the Richard Tucker Award.

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QUINN KELSEY ANDREA J’NAI BRIDGES (Inez) (Count di Luna) SILVESTRELLI Previously at Lyric Opera: Previously at Lyric Opera: (Ferrando) Seven roles since 2012-13, 16 roles since 2003-04, Previously at Lyric Opera: most recently Second most recently Giorgio Eight roles since 2000- Wood Nymph/Rusalka, Germont/La traviata 01, most recently Rosina/The Family Barber, (2013-14); Paolo/Simon Commendatore/Don Flora Bervoix/La traviata Boccanegra (2012-13); Giovanni (2014-15); (all 2013-14). Amonasro/Aida (2011-12). Sparafucile/Rigoletto, Also this season: The Also this season: La bohème, Metropolitan Colline/La bohème (both 2012-13). Passenger, Lyric Opera; Daniel Schneider’s Opera; La traviata, Opernhaus Zürich; Also this season: Don Giovanni, Canadian Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, Opera Philadelphia; Rigoletto, The Santa Fe Opera. Opera Company; Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ring chamber concert with Chicago Symphony cycle, Erl Festival, (Germany). Orchestra at Art Institute of Chicago. “He’s definitely the bad guy,” says the Hawaiian baritone of Count di Luna. “He doesn’t feel that The renowned Italian bass sang Ferrando in the Last season the mezzo-soprano, a third-year way – he feels he’s the love struck nobleman! premiere of Lyric’s Trovatore production (2006- Ryan Opera Center member, enjoyed singing At times you forget that, by the way, he’s 07 season): “I actually hadn’t ever thought of Rossini’s Rosina for the first time: “It was exciting doing these really awful things. I’d like to think singing this role until Maestro Bruno Bartoletti to delve into that side of my voice, and I know that with his position comes a good helping asked me to do it in Chicago. Ferrando is now that I can do it. I’ll continue to work on of intelligence and quick thinking. He hasn’t more of a bass-baritone part. His aria is quite my coloratura every day! I also really like the maintained his nobility without something to high and fast, needing a lot of agility. I’m glad character – I can relate to her sass and her wit.” back it up. In Act Two he’s trying to convince I was able to prepare my debut in the role with Bridges was also thrilled to appear in Lyric’s new himself that he’s in the right, reiterating his Bartoletti. I remember him telling baritone Mark productions of Parsifal (“Every singer was so authority in front of his men and, in so doing, Delavan and me, ‘Don’t sing this music too connected to what they were saying, in a way confirming his self-confidence.” A Ryan Opera heavily – and the words are more important that I hadn’t experienced before”), La traviata Center alumnus, Kelsey sang his first Count than the voice! You really should be speaking’ (“Playing Flora was awesome – I felt like Carmen di Luna at San Francisco Opera, where he He said that to us every day, from the very first in those dresses”), and Rusalka (“My favorite returned as Germont/La traviata earlier this rehearsal.” Among Silvestrelli’s other successes production that I’ve been in at Lyric”). The 2013- year. Il trovatore has also recently brought him to in Verdi are Sparafucile/Rigoletto (two Lyric 14 season also brought the mezzo to Knoxville Dresden’s Semperoper. Kelsey’s many triumphs productions, also at the Metropolitan Opera, Opera, where she earned acclaim as Adalgisa/ in Verdi include Rigoletto (Toronto, London’s Los Angeles, Washington, and Houston), Norma. A native of Lakewood, Washington, English National Opera, new productions in Philip II/Don Carlos (Cardiff, Graz, Houston), Bridges has portrayed Polly/The Beggar’s Opera Oslo and Zürich), Falstaff (role debut at 2014 Zaccaria/Nabucco (La Scala, Macerata), Banco/ and Ino/Semele at the Manhattan School of Saito Kinen Festival, Fabio Luisi conducting), Macbeth (Amsterdam), and Pistola/Falstaff Music, and roles of Mozart, Bellini, Bizet, Barber, Ezio/Attila (San Francisco, opposite Ferruccio (last season in San Francisco, where he also sang Henze and Stravinsky at the Curtis Institute Furlanetto), Paolo/Simon Boccanegra (Rome, Basilio/Il barbiere di Siviglia). German-language of Music. She made her professional debut Muti conducting), Amonasro (Bregenz, San portrayals include Hagen (Mexico City, Seattle), in 2008 with Opera North in Die Zauberflöte Francisco), Germont (Seoul, Memphis), Hunding (Mexico City), the Landgrave/ and later sang the title role/Carmen at the Monterone (Metropolitan Opera debut), and Tannhäuser (Tokyo), King Henry/Lohengrin and Glimmerglass Festival. She repeated that role Montfort/Les vêpres siciliennes (Frankfurt, new King Marke/Tristan und Isolde (Erl Festival), and this summer at Finger Lakes Opera (Geneseo, production). San Francisco has also heard La Roche/Capriccio (Parma). Silvestrelli has New York). Other recent engagements include Kelsey as Marcello and Sharpless, English triumphed in the Ring cycle at San Francisco a Ravel/Stravinsky program with the Chicago National Opera as Zurga, the Edinburgh Opera and at the Passionspielhaus in Erl. He has Symphony Orchestra and performances at the Festival as Athanaël/Thaïs, the Deutsche appeared extensively in Mozart, including the Kennedy Center and with the New Jersey Oper Berlin as Enrico/Lucia di Lammermoor, Commendatore/Don Giovanni with no fewer Symphony Orchestra and Opera Orchestra and Florence’s Teatro Comunale (DVD) and than 30 companies, from Lyric and Los Angeles of New York. A two-time winner of the Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival as the Forester/The Opera to La Scala, Covent Garden, Paris, Metropolitan Opera National Council District Cunning Little Vixen. Last May he renewed his Bologna, Amsterdam (DVD), and Ludwigsburg Auditions and recipient of a 2013 Luminarts collaboration with Furlanetto in Don Quichotte (CD). His successes onstage also encompass Cultural Foundation Fellowship, Bridges has (Toronto), making his role debut as Sancho. Berlioz (La damnation de Faust, Florence), received a Sara Tucker Grant, a Sullivan Award, Kelsey has performed in recital at Carnegie’s Thomas (Hamlet, Trieste), Bartok (Bluebeard’s and the Marian Anderson Award. J’nai Bridges is Weill Recital Hall and as baritone soloist in Castle, Erl, Cardiff), and Penderecki (The Devils sponsored by an Anonymous Donor. Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the San Francisco of Loudon, Turin). Silvestrelli can be seen on Symphony (CD, Grammy winner). DVD as Simone/Gianni Schicchi in Woody Allen’s production from Los Angeles Opera.

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JONATHAN overall shaping of the work,” says the renowned it can become incredibly corny. We want to JOHNSON (Ruiz) Israeli conductor. “It’s not the real bel canto style, prove that it’s not a corny story – we believe Previously at Lyric Opera: where you’re bending to the vocal abilities of the in its passion and vast emotions. It needs epic Servant/Capriccio singer, but neither is it the later Verdi, where the proportion. The theme in the play that got (2014-15). conductor is shaping the music symphonically. Verdi’s attention was a nation pulling itself It’s in the middle, and that’s what makes it apart, and the idea of two brothers in conflict “We can all sing – that got interesting. Some of the accompaniments can not realizing they’re from the same family. That us to our first audition – be repetitive, but it’s about how you marry that interests me – the idea that as a community, a but it’s being onstage and to the vocal line, and how you achieve flexibility nation, a world, we could be ripping ourselves telling a story, creating a compelling drama, within a repeated motive so the vocal line can apart because we can’t recognize our similarities, that keeps people coming to performances” bloom.” Recently appointed principal conductor only our differences.” The Glasgow native says the Georgia-born tenor, a first-year Ryan and artistic advisor of the West Australian trained as an actor and directed straight theater Opera Center member. “If they just wanted Symphony Orchestra (Perth), Fisch is currently before ascending to prominence with his 1996 beautiful singing, they could listen to a CD! I principal guest conductor of the Seattle Opera, Idomeneo at Scottish Opera. Among his nine hope it’s a lifelong task for me that I’m always whose quadrennial Ring cycle he led in 2013. Covent Garden productions are Les Troyens, pushing for some kind of excellence in the His previous posts include music director of Salome, Rigoletto, and Le nozze di Figaro. At storytelling. Your voice is going to be different the New Israeli Opera (1998-2008) and the the Metropolitan Opera he has directed Giulio every day, but you can always tell the story, Vienna Volksoper (1995-2000). Fisch enjoys Cesare, Il trovatore, Anna Bolena, and Maria and if you ignore it, you’re not doing your a close relationship with Munich’s Bayerische Stuarda, the latter two company premieres. job.” Johnson recently completed his tenure Staatsoper, where he led six operas last season. His work has also earned acclaim at La Scala as a fellow of the A. J. Fletcher Institute of Other recent operatic successes include Tristan (Les Troyens), the Vienna Staatsoper (Tristan the University of North Carolina School of the und Isolde (Dresden), Parsifal (Metropolitan und Isolde), English National Opera (Der Arts, pursuing a Professional Artist Certificate. Opera), and Manon Lescaut (Hamburg). Last Rosenkavalier, The Turn of the Screw, The Rape His roles there included Ruggero/La rondine, season brought him to the major orchestras of Lucretia, Alcina, Charpentier’s Médée), Paris’s Lechmere/Owen Wingrave, Azaël/Debussy’s of Brussels, Munich, Stuttgart, Melbourne, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (L’incoronazione L’enfant prodigue, and Fenton/Die lustigen Cincinnati, and Milwaukee. A favorite of di Poppea), and in Turin (The Rake’s Progress), Weiber von Windsor. Other performance audiences at the Vienna Staatsoper, he has Barcelona (Agrippina), Brussels (A Midsummer credits include Ezekiel Cheever/The Crucible conducted at all the other prestigious German Night’s Dream, Don Giovanni, Agrippina), (Piedmont Opera, debut), and the title role/ and Austrian opera houses, La Scala, the Opéra Strasbourg (Ring cycle, Cosi fan tutte), St. Candide and Rev. Horace Adams/Peter Grimes National de Paris, and Covent Garden, as well Petersburg (Macbeth), and the festivals of Aix- (Aspen Summer Music Institute). The tenor as the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, en-Provence (La clemenza di Tito), Salzburg received his bachelor of music degree from and the major orchestras of Boston, Chicago, (Les contes d’Hoffmann), and Glyndebourne Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music, New York, and Philadelphia among many (Die Meistersinger, Giulio Cesare, Carmen, La where he sang the title role/Cavalli’s L’Egisto, others. Fisch has recorded the Ring cycle bohème). Knighted in 2012, McVicar also holds Camille de Rosillon/The Merry Widow, and (acclaimed performances with the Adelaide the rank of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Lettres et Nemorino/L’elisir d’amore, “my most rewarding Symphony Orchestra and State Opera of South des Arts, received from the French government. role. Nemorino challenged me vocally, and Australia), the Rossini Stabat Mater, and – as a it pushed me in my acting. I began to put pianist – Liszt’s paraphrases and transcriptions LEAH HAUSMAN that character into myself and myself into based on the operas of Wagner. (Revival Director and the character, to find this other person to be Choreographer) onstage.” Jonathan Johnson is sponsored by Mr. SIR DAVID McVICAR Previously at Lyric Opera: and Mrs. William C. Vance. (Original Director) Rusalka (2013-14); Il Previously at Lyric Opera: trovatore (2006-07); Billy ASHER FISCH Seven productions since Budd (2001-02). (Conductor) 2001-02, most recently Also this season: Previously at Lyric Opera: Rusalka, La clemenza di Benvenuto Cellini, Four productions since Tito (both 2013-14); Die Netherlands Opera; Die Zauberflöte, Royal 1997-98, most recently Un Meistersinger von Nürnberg Opera House, Covent Garden; Les Troyens, ballo in maschera (2010-11); (2012-13). San Francisco Opera. Die Fledermaus (2006-07); Also this season: Andrea Chénier, Royal Macbeth (1999-00). Opera House, Covent Garden; Cavalleria The American choreographer/director has Also this season: Un ballo rusticana/Pagliacci, Metropolitan Opera; Die worked three times on this production (Lyric, in maschera, Hamburg Staatsoper; Elektra, Entführung aus dem Serail, Glyndebourne Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera): Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich); Schumann/ Festival Opera. “Unlike so many other Verdi operas, which Dorman/Prokofiev concerts, Boston Symphony deal with father-daughter relationships, with Il Orchestra. At the time of this production’s premiere, the trovatore you’re dealing with a very complex British director noted that in approaching Il mother-son relationship coupled with a vicious “The greatest challenge in Verdi works from the trovatore, he wished to create “something new, case of sibling rivalry. The love interest acts period of Trovatore is in the ensemble and in the powerful. It needs to be visceral – otherwise, as a kind of volleyball game between the two.

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Structurally, this opera is a series of stories many companies internationally. Active as both designs been seen in many major companies told. Almost all the characters narrate events a director and a designer, last season he revived worldwide, in repertoire including Handel from their past, sometimes describing the same his own 2003 production of Elektra at Covent (Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, Semele in event with a new twist. It’s why the plot of Il Garden. For the same company he has created Paris, Tamerlano in Berlin); other Verdi works trovatore is sometimes so hard to understand! designs for Sir David McVicar’s productions of (Macbeth in Houston, Falstaff at La Scala, Dramatically it’s very beautiful and naive in the Faust and Adriana Lecouvreur, and for Benoît Covent Garden, and Netherlands Opera); best sense of the word.” Hausman is closely Jacquot’s production of Werther (all three French works ranging from Faust (Covent associated with Glyndebourne Festival Opera have been released on DVD). As designer, Garden, Lille, Monte Carlo, Trieste) and La (L’elisir d’amore, Gianni Schicchi, La bohème) Edwards has worked for many major companies damnation de Faust (English National Opera) to and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden (Les including English National Opera, Opera North, Les contes d’Hoffmann (Antwerp) and Werther Troyens, Aida, Le nozze di Figaro, Elektra, Die Opera Australia, and Houston Grand Opera. (Tel Aviv); Strauss (Salome in Stuttgart, Elektra Zauberflöte, Il turco in Italia, Rigoletto). Recently Recent productions include three Verdi rarities at Covent Garden); Britten (Peter Grimes in she collaborated with film director Terry Gilliam (I Lombardi, I due Foscari, and La battaglia di Berlin); and Slavic works (Eugene Onegin in on Benvenuto Cellini and La damnation de Faust Legnano) at the Hamburg Staatsoper, Peter Mannheim, Boris Godunov in Stuttgart). Among at London’s English National Opera. Hausman Grimes in Karlsruhe, and Handel’s Joshua at other productions in her native Germany have has directed major revivals for Covent Garden, Opera North. Edwards made his directing debut been both Tosca and Lulu in Munich and ENO, Ghent and Antwerp, San Francisco, with Così fan tutte (Mid-Wales Opera) in 2001. Eötvos’s Three Sisters in Düsseldorf. For the Oslo, and Palermo opera companies. Theater Since then he has directed Joshua, Oedipus Rex, Wexford Festival she has designed such rarities work includes most recently Fortune’s Fool at and Rigoletto at Opera North, Turandot at the as Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan and Fibich’s Sarka. The Old Vic and productions at the Royal Nationale Reisopera in the Netherlands, Maria Shakespeare Company (Romeo and Juliet, di Rohan at Ireland’s Wexford Festival, and both JENNIFER TIPTON Twelfth Night, Pedro the Magnificent, As You Idomeneo and Don Quichotte at Grange Park (Lighting) Like It); London’s National Theatre (The Game Opera in London. Previously at Lyric Opera: of Love and Chance); the Goodman Theatre Seven productions since (Twelfth Night); Théâtre de Complicité (The BRIGITTE 1988-89, most recently La Lamentations of Thel, The Phantom Violin); REIFFENSTUEL clemenza di Tito (2013-14); and Britain’s Channel 4 TV (Howard Goodall’s (Costume Designer) Hansel and Gretel, Elektra Great Dates). Also in London, Hausman has Previously at Lyric Opera: (both 2012-13); Il trovatore directed at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Five operas since 1995-96, (2006-07). and co-directed with Neil Bartlett for the Royal most recently Giulio Cesare Also this season: La traviata, Teatro Real; Court Theatre and National Theatre. (2007-08); Il trovatore The Etudes, Brooklyn Academy of Music; The (2006-07); Billy Budd Rake’s Progress, Metropolitan Opera; mentor in CHARLES EDWARDS (2000-01). the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. (Set Designer) Also this season: Falstaff, Canadian Opera Previously at Lyric Opera: Company (Toronto); Un ballo in maschera, “I’ve often called lighting for the stage the ‘music Five operas since Metropolitan Opera; Adriana Lecouvreur, for the eye,’ because it has the same way of 1993-94, most recently Opéra National de Paris. making an atmosphere, making a landscape, Il trovatore (2006-07); changing fluidly from one place to another Billy Budd (2001-02); The Munich-born, London-based designer has without seeming effort,” the American designer Macbeth (1999-00). created Trovatore costumes inspired by the told Hamilton Dramaturgy’s theatrenow website. Also this season: Gianni art of Francisco de Goya. Starting in the early “And I feel that the same rules apply as in music: Schicchi, Opera North (Leeds, U.K.); Adriana 1800s “Goya began painting in a different way variation, structure and form, and statement of Lecouvreur, Opéra National de Paris; Samson – the brushstrokes were much heavier, and theme, and development of theme, etc., etc. et Dalila (Staatstheater Darmstadt) his art became much darker. You’ll see that And I feel also that the rhythm of a production in the costumes for the gypsies, though we’re is made by the lighting. If it feels like it’s too The Trovatore set, represents the corner of keeping the colors very warm.” Reiffenstuel also long and too slow, it may well be because an imposing fortress, “monumental and studied photographs of Spain from the time of the light is changing in a way that makes the impenetrable, which will appear to almost be Franco to the present: “In the photos of women audience feel that way. Definitely I feel that light part of the earth itself,” says the British designer. especially but also of men, clothing hasn’t really and music are very closely related.” Tipton’s “The opera is basically a story of siege, and that’s changed much, especially in the rural areas, recent projects in dance includes productions what the design reflects.” Edwards cites Moorish so the feel of the costumes is slightly period, by choreographers Alexei Ratmansky architecture and southwestern Native American slightly folkloric, with some military influence.” (Shostakovich Trilogy, San Francisco Ballet) and desert habitats as the production’s main visual Reiffenstuel, whose work on Trovatore has also Paul Taylor’s American Dreamer. Recent work references. For the famous Anvil Chorus, “the been seen at the Metropolitan Opera and San in theater includes The Testament of Mary, idea is to create a landscape with iron ore seeping Francisco Opera, won the 2013 Oscar della directed by Deborah Warner on Broadway; through the rocks, with a real sense of the gypsies Lirica award for achievement in costume design Richard Nelson’s The Apple Family Plays at New using the actual elements.” The Newcastle at the International Opera Awards. Born in York’s Public Theater; Shakespeare’s Henry native, an alumnus of London’s Central School Munich, she studied at the London College IV/V, directed by Joseph Haj and Michael of Art and Design, has enjoyed successes in of Fashion and St Martin’s School of Art. Her Donahue at Playmaker’s Repertory Company

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In 2008 she “We don’t want to change Travesties, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. became a United States Artist “Gracie” Fellow people’s appearances in this and a MacArthur Fellow. production,” says Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup “In Il trovatore I’m involved in the fighting that designer. “It’s important to Sir David McVicar goes on in the gypsy camp, and then later MICHAEL BLACK and to our revival director, Leah Hausman, to Manrico’s storming of the nunnery, defeating (Chorus Master) make people realistic if they’re supposed to be the Count,” says Lyric’s fight director for Previously at Lyric Opera: realistic! We’re not putting a lot of the men in this production. Sandys created the fight Chorus master since wigs. With Amber Wagner’s Leonora, we’re just choreography for this production in its premiere 2013-14; interim chorus giving her hair a darker shade than her own – she at Lyric and then in its first presentation at the master, 2011-12. looks great in reds and auburns. The production Metropolitan Opera. A certified teacher and team really liked Stephanie Blythe’s wig for her fight director with The Society of American “Verdi composed this opera Azucena in San Francisco, so we’ve borrowed Fight Directors, Sandys has created fight with great modulation in the it – it’s the one you see in Lyric Opera’s choreography throughout the Chicago area, music,” says Lyric’s chorus master. “I just follow advertising for Trovatore. Yonghoon Lee has a including the Goodman Theatre (more than 25 his very specific markings and go from there. great head of hair and a great face, so we’ll use productions), Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Anvil Chorus is famous for a reason – both to make him look the part. We’ll also match First Folio, Shattered Globe, Victory Gardens, it’s so well written! In the next scene, with Quinn Kelsey’s own hair color with his wig; he Remy Bumppo, Lookingglass, Northlight, the lovely unaccompanied offstage chorus of plays a lot of older roles, but we want him to look Timeline, Light Opera Works, Silk Road, and nuns, the whole opera stops and all you hear his own age! As for Andrea Silvestrelli, he’s so The Theatre School at DePaul University is gorgeous, creamy, subtle, unaccompanied flexible in his own look, so we’ll have no problem (faculty member since 1995). His work regionally singing. The men in Act Three need to be creating exactly the right sort of appearance includes the Metropolitan Opera (Prince Igor, stentorian, militaristic – it’s full, open-throated for his Ferrando.” Hatten has worked in a wide Giulio Cesare, Il trovatore), Portland Opera, Italianate singing – but still incredibly precise. repertoire at Des Moines Metro Opera and and Florentine Opera, as well as at the major For the ‘Miserere’ in Act Four I like really Michigan Opera Theatre (both since 2006), as theater companies of Kansas City, Baltimore, dark, rich tone without a lot of inflection. It’s a well as Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Indianapolis, Dallas, and Fort Worth, among menacing, foreboding sound in the background, Cabrillo Music Festival, and the University of many others. “I also just did Julius Caesar for with a creamy, rich sound from Leonora in Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She Elements Theatre Group in Cape Cod, an the foreground.” Chorus master from to 2001 has also worked at the Glimmerglass Festival amazing artistic enclave, really. It’s a Christian to 2013 at Opera Australia in Sydney, Black and the major opera companies of Los Angeles, community that uses theater to teach values prepared the OA chorus for more than 90 Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, in a different way.” In Chicago Sandys’s fight operas and many concert works. He returned as well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre choreography has received four Joseph there earlier this year for musical preparation and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and Jefferson Award nominations, winning in 2008 of Otello. At OA he progressed from rehearsal the Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A. in (Requiem for a Heavyweight). Sandys is also pianist to assistant chorus master and children’s music at Simpson College. producing artistic director of Remy Bumppo chorus master, before his appointment as chorus Theatre Company. As an actor he has appeared master. He has served in that capacity for such with numerous Chicago area theatres, receiving distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh another six Jeff nominations for acting and one Festival, Holland Park Opera (London), and, for directing Remy Bumppo’s production of Our in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Class. He holds a 2011 Meier Foundation Award (including Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, led by for Artistic Achievement. Vladimir Ashkenazy), Philharmonia Choir, Motet Choir, and Cantillation chamber choir. One of Australia’s most prominent vocal accompanists, Black regularly performed for recitals, broadcasts, and recordings (he was heard numerous times in Australian Broadcast Corporation programs). He has been a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, of which he is an alumnus. Black also holds a

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ALL OR NOTHING: THE VOCAL CHALLENGES OF IL TROVATORE By Roger Pines

Singing Giuseppe Verdi’s music demands everything of a singer. Beautiful sound only begins to fill the bill; there are also the require- ments of substantial power, huge range, spec- tacular technical control, exceptional musicality, and penetrating textual communication. And of all the Verdi operas, there’s none more formi- dable vocally than Il trovatore. In all five principal roles, this work provides a textbook example of all the obstacles singers face in dealing with the master’s music. When composing Il trovatore (1853), Verdi had 17 operas behind him. He’d begun by build- ing on the legacy of Gaetano Donizetti, whose career as an opera composer ended in 1843 (by that time Verdi’s first four stage works had been produced). The two shared an instinct for theatricality and for what a “well-made” opera entailed. Where “middle-period” Verdi depart- ed from Donizetti (not to mention the other masters of bel canto, Rossini and Bellini) was in the sheer scale, tessitura, and rhythmic energy required in his operas’ principal roles. Most Verdi operas of this period begin with a chorus, followed by a big solo scene for tenor or baritone. This one, surprisingly, begins with a brief a cappella declaration – “All’erta!” (“Wake up!”) – from the bass, Ferrando, head of Count di Luna’s guards, who remains at the center of this first scene. His contribution to us, the view- ers/listeners, is huge, since he tells his sleepy colleagues the entire backstory we need to understand all the dramatic events to follow. In Verdi, basses aren’t generally asked for this kind of almost Rossinian flexibility. It’s impressive to hear a bass produce the necessary lightness of touch for this music, while at the same time giv- ing all the required intensity and involvement to his storytelling. Proceeding to the garden scene, we meet Ricordi’s first edition of theTrovatore piano-vocal score. Il trovatore’s leading lady, Leonora, the embodi-

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Enrico Tamberlik, who popularized Manrico’s interpolated high C ending Act Three of Il trovatore, The legendary Spanish mezzo-soprano is pictured with Jenny Ney (Leonora), his partner in the London premiere of Il trovatore in 1855. Pauline Viardot, one of the earliest interpreters of the role of Azucena. ment of the spinto soprano (poised halfway feminine vocal timbre – that’s a constant in the vocalism must be beautifully shaped at all between lyric and dramatic). We now have a all the ravishing music Verdi gave this lov- times.) Their trio with Leonora that concludes typical example of what is meant by the Italian ing, ultimately self-sacrificing noblewoman. Act One is one of those glorifications of the word scena when referring in bel canto or Verdi In the elegant two-verse cavatina, when she human voice that invariably make Verdi finales to a solo episode for an operatic character: recalls Manrico coming at night to serenade so terrifically invigorating: Leonora and Manrico Recitative – Brief conversation (Leonora her, her voice lifts in the role’s first glorious singing in unison and in a driving, sweeping style speaks to her friend Inez). arch of melody. Inez’s apprehension brings her and the Count vehemently punching out a con- Cavatina – A graceful, straightforwardly down to earth only temporarily before she trasting staccato melody below them, before all structured legato aria (Leonora gives launches into one of Verdi’s most exhilarating three go full throttle in the final pages. details of how she came to love Manrico). cabalettas. It’s almost giddy in character, as our In Act Two, the second the chorus finishes Recitative – Another brief conversation, heroine asserts that if she can’t live for Manrico, pounding those anvils in hearty and robust style, more vigorous than before (Inez attempts she’ll gladly die for him. Many phrases of this Verdi gives us the greatest possible contrast in to talk Leonora out of loving the trouba- bouncy number are punctuated with a trill, Azucena’s opening aria. The first of two identi- dour). employed by Verdi with an expressive rightness cal verses begins very intimately (Verdi marks it Cabaletta – Exceedingly lively second aria, to match that of his bel canto predecessors. pianissimo), as she recalls her mother’s execu- with major opportunities for vocal display Within seconds of Leonora’s exit we meet first tion. She mesmerizes her listeners through the (Leonora proclaims her devotion to Count di Luna (baritone), then Manrico (tenor). aria’s extremes of dynamics and lengthy trills; Manrico). Verdi’s music for both characters brings an the latter are sustained through four full bars, So what does Leonora need to navigate extraordinary degree of machismo to the score. with uneasy harmony underneath them, creating this obstacle course? Of course, a warm, ultra- (No yelling or shouting allowed, however – a truly unnerving effect.

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Two of Italy’s greatest tenors, Roberto Stagno and, a generation later, Enrico Caruso, both excelled as Manrico. Maria Callas, Lyric Opera’s first Leonora (1955).

But Azucena’s just getting started: once distinct parts: a stately, dignified section (Manrico There’s wonderful choral writing in the Act alone with Manrico, she quickly moves into the remembers the duet with the Count); connecting Two convent scene (vigorous and imposing for most harrowing five minutes ever composed for recitative (Manrico receives the message that the warriors, exquisitely ethereal for the nuns) operatic mezzo-soprano. As she recalls her con- Leonora is about to take the veil); and then a fast and a lovely moment for Leonora (her farewell demned mother’s walk to the pyre, the music concluding section (Azucena attempts to keep to Inez – four slow, stately, gracefully sculpted builds slowly, quietly, with phrases centered Manrico from rushing off into certain danger). lyrical phrases). Still, what most listeners remem- right in the middle of the voice except for sud- While the tenor music here needs a typically ber here is the Count’s soliloquy apostrophizing den wide leaps and plunges down into contralto Verdian mix of vigor and warmth, it’s Azucena Leonora’s smile. Like Carlo in Verdi’s Ernani range, building to Azucena’s reiteration of her who has the tougher row to hoe. At every point, (which came nine years before Trovatore), the dying mother’s cry, “Avenge me!” The lines not just in Act Two but in her other scenes as well, Count offered 1850s audiences something new then turn jerky and breathless, before Azucena the tone and weight of her music confirm Verdi from the baritone voice; it hadn’t been tested at explodes on the horrifying words “I’d burned my as the virtual creator of the dramatic mezzo- the top to such a degree before. If the upper- own son!” The singer needs her darkest, deep- soprano. Other opera composers had made range ease is there, as well as the unimpeded est, most sepulchral sounds to do justice to the stabs in that direction, but Verdi consolidated all flow of legato, a baritone can stop the show aria’s final hushed phrase: “I can still feel the hair the qualities of this vocal category in Azucena: with this aria. It’s also special in allowing the on my head standing on end.” It’s hair-raising the wide range (nearly two-and-a-half octaves), singer to humanize a character who without the not just for her, but certainly for us as we listen! the pile-driving strength at the top, and, above aria would seem in many respects a “standard” Barely two minutes after that tour de force, all, a degree of thrust and breadth in the middle operatic villain. Azucena is in high gear once again, duetting with of the voice that Verdi’s predecessors hadn’t As if the opera weren’t white-hot enough Manrico. This is a hugely challenging scene in two required of their mezzos. by now, Verdi gives us riveting drama in the

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The dramatic Act Two duet for Azucena and Manrico in two Lyric Opera productions: (left) Grace Bumbry and Franco Corelli in 1964; (above) Giuliano Ciannella and Shirley Verrett in 1987-88.

recitative and then in a loving aria requiring a shimmering soft phrasing, while coloring each noble sweetness Verdi demanded from many of note with her overwhelming love for Manrico. his tenor heroes. These lines should exude both The test at the climax is a high C where the calm and affection. The aria’s second section voice can really sail, followed by a florid but calls for two trills (male singers of the 1850s were deeply expressive cadenza. The aria exemplifies actually expected to have trills in their vocal all the elegance we associate with bel canto sing- armory). Then, once he hears that Azucena ing, but with a somber color that is Verdi’s own. is about to be burned at the stake, that’s the The “bridge” between cavatina and signal for Manrico to burst into his cabaletta. He cabaletta is unusual. Rather than a recitative epi- gathers his men with a call to arms that rings in sode, this passage is a full-scale number on its our ears. But this isn’t merely about producing own: the so-called “Miserere,” in which Leonora opening of Act Three, Azucena’s capture and pile-driving sound; if he relies on all-out power hears Manrico’s voice in the tower asking her interrogation. This demands tremendous bite exclusively, he won’t be able to articulate all not to forget him, as the monks offstage say a in putting the text across, both for the Count those 16th-notes! By the way, the cabaletta’s prayer for the dying. The juxtaposition of these and for Ferrando (for example, when the latter concluding famous final C was not composed elements works brilliantly, but the whole num- declares the gypsy is Manrico’s mother). As for by Verdi; one of the first dramatic tenors, Enrico ber is certainly dominated by Leonora – first in the gypsy herself, Azucena initially needs velvet Tamberlik (1820-1889), is generally considered stabbingly anguished plunges into her bottom smoothness in her voice and deep melancholy in the first singer to give the aria the big finish that range, and then her repeated jumps to top notes her expression to do justice to the gravely beau- audiences have come to expect. as she declares, “Di te, di te scordarmi?” (“Could tiful lines in which she recalls happier days with And so we come to Act Four, in many I forget you?”) her son. When the Count knows that his enemy ways the most thrilling portion of this work, Leonora’s now halfway to the finish line of Manrico is that son and his men then take and beginning with an especially rewarding this scene: there’s still a cabaletta and duet to Azucena prisoner, her music simply explodes in sequence of numbers for the heroine. Onstage go! The cabaletta may not be absolutely first- furious defiance. Here again, the power required Leonora has been a fairly passive figure up to class Verdi, but its breathless excitement and in the middle voice is downright awesome. now, but when she arrives at di Luna’s castle, passion impart an inspiring determination in this The scena that follows is all about Manrico, she’s in pro-active mode (note the ring with woman. She then stands her ground opposite di and it’s music that every Italian (or Italianate) poison in it that she stares at with such signifi- Luna in the most exhilarating of Verdi’s soprano/ tenor dreams of performing. First he must calm cance). Her first challenge is a glorious cavatina, baritone duets. Rather than a flowing, sustained the apprehensive Leonora, initially in soulful all about “lifting” the voice into great arches of legato portion, he makes the duet’s two major

38 | OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 29, 2014 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO sections almost hyper-energetic. They’re largely his agitated concern for her takes over. She made up of brief, thrusting phrases, in which responds with a moment of classically Verd- DAN REST both singers need extraordinary rhythmic drive. ian eloquence:“ “Rather than live belonging to Beyond that, the performers must truly connect another…” she begins; the line moves slowly, musically and maintain absolute ensemble with sedately, with extreme dignity, step by step, the conductor, even in the fast-and-furious clos- up to a high A-flat that is exquisitely sustained, ing pages. only to be cut off – as if with a stab of pain – as A sense of foreboding pervades the open- Leonora swoops down the octave to complete ing of the final scene. Initially the distracted Azu- the phrase with the words “…I wanted to die cena’s frantic ravings take center stage, moving yours.” She sings this twice, forcing us, as usual, again from one extreme of range and dynamic. to suspend disbelief: the woman is dying, yet she Manrico’s dulcet-toned attempt to soothe her has endless breath to manage this very long line, leads into the opera’s quietest and most inti- Once Leonora expires and the Count mate number, the nostalgic duet universally (who’s entered in time to witness her final referred to by English-speakers as “Home to moments) sends Manrico to his death, it’s Azu- Our Mountains.” Here Verdi gives two big cena who gets the final word: “He was your voices a welcome chance to sing gently, within brother! You are avenged, oh, Mother!” The an unexpectedly limited range, and in lines the final phrase blazes forth on a sustained, trium- composer has given a unique sweetness. When phant high B-flat, setting the seal on an opera the mezzo and tenor are able to achieve a fine that offers boundless pleasure to the listener. blend of timbres, the duet proves ineffably and Yes, Verdi’s demands on singers in Il trovatore almost painfully touching. are superhuman, but when all goes well, it sets Verdi’s most agitated style returns as Man- the opera house alight with sheer, unadulterated rico confronts the quickly-weakening Leonora. excitement. Thinking she’s betrayed him with di Luna, he erupts with one angry, vocally grandiose phrase Roger Pines, Lyric Opera’s dramaturg, writes after another. After realizing that the woman frequently for major opera publications and Dolora Zajick sang Azucena at Lyric Opera he thought he loved is, in fact, at death’s door, recording companies internationally. in both 2006-07 (pictured here) and 1993-94. DAN REST

Leonora’s final moment with Manrico: Sondra Radvanovsky and Walter Fraccaro at Lyric Opera (2006-07).

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Music Staff Violin II Bass Linda A. Baker*, Trombone Yin Shen, Principal Michael Geller, Principal Co-Assistant Principal Jeremy Moeller, Principal Head of Music Staff John Macfarlane, Assistant Brian Ferguson, Assistant Sergey Gutorov** Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Philip Morehead Principal Principal John Schwalm Bonita Di Bello Andrew L. W. Anderson Bass Clarinet Music Staff Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Aventino E. Calvetti, Jr. Susan Warner Bass Trombone Emanuele Andrizzi Teresa Kay Fream Gregory Sarchet John Schwalm William C. Billingham Peter Labella Collins R. Trier Bassoon Susan Miller Hult Ann Palen James T. Berkenstock, Tuba Jonathan Khuner Irene Radetzky Flute Principal Andrew Smith, Principal Grant Loehnig John D. Robinson Marie Tachouet, Principal Lewis Kirk, Assistant Principal Francesco Milioto David Volfe Dionne Jackson, Assistant Preman Tilson Harp Jerad Mosbey Albert Wang Principal* Marguerite Lynn Williams, Matthew Piatt Alyce Johnson, Acting Contrabassoon Principal Craig Terry Viola Assistant Principal Lewis Kirk Eric Weimer Carol Cook, Principal Jennifer Bouton** Timpani Maureen Zoltek Terri Van Valkinburgh, Jenny Robinson** Horn Edward Harrison, Principal Assistant Principal Jonathan Boen, Principal Orchestra Frank W. Babbitt Piccolo Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Percussion Eva Carol Beck Violin I Alyce Johnson Utility Horn Michael Green, Principal Patrick Brennan Robert Hanford, Robert E. Johnson, Third Horn Douglas Waddell, Assistant Sunghee Choi Concertmaster Oboe Neil Kimel Principal Karl Davies Sharon Polifrone, Judith Kulb, Principal Paul Straka** Eric Millstein Melissa Trier Kirk Assistant Concertmaster Robert E. Morgan, Assistant Alexander Belavsky Principal Trumpet Librarian Cello Kathleen Brauer Judith Zunamon Lewis William Denton, Principal John Rosenkrans, Principal Calum Cook, Principal Pauli Ewing Matthew Comerford, Walter Preucil, Acting Bing Y. Grant English Horn Co-Assistant Principal Personnel Manager Assistant Principal David Hildner Robert E. Morgan Channing Philbrick, Peter Labella Patrick Jee, Assistant Principal* Ellen Hildner Co-Assistant Principal Mark Brandfonbrener Laura Miller Clarinet Stageband Contractor William H. Cernota Eugene Pazin Charlene Zimmerman, Christine Janicki Laura Deming Principal Liba Schacht Barbara Haffner Heather Wittels Susan Warner, Acting Assistant *On leave, 2014-15 season Andrew Hesse** Principal **Season substitute Paula Kosower**

Chorus Master Tenors Core Supplementary Chorus Kisma Jordan Ernest C. Jackson, Jr. Michael Black Geoffrey Agpalo Joelle Lamarre Luther Lewis Jason Balla Sopranos Rosalind Lee Juan Carlos Mendoza Regular Chorus Timothy Bradley Carla Janzen Amanda Noelle Neal Taiwan Norris Harold Brock Suzanne M. Kszastowski Susan Nelson Drew Ochoa Sopranos William Combs Kaileen Erin Miller Tammie Woods Brett Potts Elisa Billey Becker John J. Concepcion Christine Steyer Peder Reiff Jillian Bonczek Kenneth Donovan Mezzos/Altos Adam J. Smith Sharon Garvey Cohen Joseph A. Fosselman Mezzos/Altos La’Shelle Allen Chase Taylor Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson Lawrence Montgomery Corinne Wallace-Crane Jeanette Blakeney Cathleen Dunn Mark Nienow Michelle K. Wrighte Yolanda Denise Bryant Baritones/Basses Janet Farr James Odom Prenicia Clifton Dennis Blackwell Desirée Hassler Thomas L. Potter Tenors Leah Dexter Gregory Brumfield Rachael Holzhausen Walton Westlake Jared V. Esguerra Rachel A. Girty Charles Carter Elizabeth Gray Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki Anthony P. McGlaun Claude Cassion Ginger Inabinet Kimberly McCord Baritones/Basses Dane Thomas Michael Cavalieri Silvie Jensen Heidi Spoor Matthew Carroll Todd von Felker Kamaran-Alexis Madison Stephani Springer David DuBois Baritones/Basses John Fulton Samantha McElhaney Elizabeth Anne Taylor Nicolai Janitzky Scott Holmes Karmesha K. Peake Kirk Greiner Sheryl Veal Robert Morrissey Martin Lowen Poock Earl Hazell Nikolas Wenzel Adrienne Price Kenneth Nichols AnnMarie Sandy Aaron Ingersoll Mezzos/Altos Steven Pierce Supplementary Chorus Donald Craig Manuel Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Robert J. Prindle Tenors Jason S. McKinney Marianna Kulikova Thomas Sillitti Sopranos Ken Alston, Jr. LaRon McNichols Colleen Lovinello Craig Springer Dana Campbell Curtis Bannister Wilbur Pauley Lynn Lundgren Jeffrey W. Taylor Veronica Chapman-Smith Matt Blanks Douglas Peters Maia Surace Nicholson Ronald Watkins Katy Compton Errin Brooks Markel Reed Janet Mensen Reynolds Bianti Curry Jermaine Brown, Jr. Aaron Reeder Yvette Smith Rebecca O-G Eaddy Matthew Daniel Dan Richardson Marie Sokolova LaTanya M. Foster Joseph A. Diehl Joseph T. Roberts Laurie Seely Vassalli Julie-Ann Green Maurio Hines Vince Wallace Pamela Williams Kimberly E. Jones Cameo T. Humes Nicholas Ward

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Sopranos Baritones Directors Chorus Master Adina Aaron Mark Delavan Tim Albery Michael Black Uliana Alexyuk Anthony Clark Evans John Caird Valerie Bernhardt Gerald Finley John Cox Children’s Chorus Master Emily Birsan Norman Garrett Robert Falls Josephine Lee Tracy Cantin Eric Greene Leah Hausman Andriana Chuchman Joshua Hopkins Peter McClintock Choreographers Adrienne Danrich Audun Iversen Val Caniparoli Renée Fleming Sir David McVicar Quinn Kelsey Leah Hausman Hui He Kevin Newbury Mariusz Kwiecień Denni Sayers Kelly Kaduce David Pountney Will Liverman August Tye Alexandra LoBianco Francesca Zambello John Moore Jasmin Vardimon Indira Mahajan Bo Skovhus Amanda Majeski Daniel Sutin Associate Directors Angela Mannino Associate Choreographer Hyung Yun Rob Kearley Ana María Martínez Mafalda Deville Denni Sayers Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Bass-baritones Sondra Radvanovsky Ballet Mistress Bradley Garvin Marina Rebeka Set and Costume Designers August Tye David Govertsen Carter Scott Bunny Christie Kyle Ketelsen Tatiana Serjan Peter J. Davison Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Karen Slack Evgeny Nikitin Charles Edwards Sarah Hatten Richard Ollarsaba Amber Wagner Johan Engels Eric Owens Nina Warren Jessica Jahn Fight Directors Derrick Parker Chuck Coyl Laura Wilde Ana Kuzmanic John Relyea Nick Sandys Marie-Jeanne Lecca Mezzo-sopranos Michael Sumuel Jamie Barton Dale Travis Michael Levine Translators for English Titles Stephanie Blythe Jon Morrell Cori Ellison J’nai Bridges Basses Mauro Pagano Paul Hopper Judith Forst Gustav Andreassen Neil Patel Roger Pines Suzanne Hendrix Wilbur Pauley Robert Perdziola David Pountney Daveda Karanas Peter Rose Brigitte Reiffenstuel Francis Rizzo Megan Marino Andrea Silvestrelli Walt Spangler Colin Ure Lauren McNeese Bradley Smoak Paul Tazewell Julie Miller Richard Wiegold Kelley O’Connor Lighting Designers Agnieszka Rehlis Actors Michaela Schuster Dev Kennedy David Finn Fabrice Kebour Anne Sofie von Otter John Lister The American Guild of Musical Artists, Brian McCaskill Mark McCullough AFL-CIO (AGMA), is the union that Contralto Duane Schuler represents the singers, dancers, actors, Gwendolyn Brown Principal Dancers Jennifer Tipton and staging personnel at Lyric Opera of Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry D. M. Wood Chicago. Tenors Brittany Amoroso Corey Bix Jacob Ashley Johan Botha Brenna Dwyer DAN REST William Burden Jennifer Goodman David Cangelosi Veronica Guadalupe Jorge de Leon Randy Herrera Juan José de León Jeffery B. Hover, Jr. Richard Decker Elizabeth Luse Matthew DiBattista Luke Manley Misha Didyk Jesse Donner Alanna Nielsen Jeffrey Hartman Ashley Rockwood Bernard Holcomb Greg Sample Bryan Hymel Abigail Simon John Irvin James Monroe Stevko Keith Jameson J. P. Tenuta Jonathan Johnson Nicole von Arx Brandon Jovanovich Yonghoon Lee Conductors Robert McPherson Sir Andrew Davis Antonio Poli Asher Fisch Rodell Rosel Dmitri Jurowski Jermaine Smith Patrick Summers Russian soprano Ljuba Kazarnovskaya debuted at Lyric Opera as Leonora Eduardo Villa Ward Stare in Il trovatore during the 1993-94 season.

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The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Lyric Unlimited

Dan Novak, Director Bass-baritone Derek Matson Opera in the Neighborhoods: The Ryan Opera Center Richard Ollarsaba Marina Vecci The Brothers Grimm Board Endowed Chair Lois B. Siegel Claudia Vining Michael La Tour, Director Craig Terry Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Alessandra Visconti Codrut Birsan, Music Supervisor Music Director Eric Weimer Sandra Zamora, Stage Manager Renée Fleming Bass Foreign Language Instruction Advisor Bradley Smoak Erik Friedman The Magic Victrola The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Anne Libera David Kersnar, Director Matthew Ozawa Ensemble & Sponsorship Support Matthew Ozawa, Assistant Director Sopranos Pianist Daniel Pelzig Tracy Cantin Maureen Zoltek August Tye Rachel A. Tobias, Stage Manager The C. G. Pinnell Family Anonymous Acting and Movement Instruction Jodi Gage, Jayme O’Hara, Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Roger Pines Amy C. Thompson, Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Faculty Guest Lecturer and Consultant Assistant Stage Managers Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Julia Faulkner Laura Wilde W. Stephen Smith Artistic/Production Personnel The Property Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Voice Instruction Carrie-Ann Matheson Eric Einhorn, Director Robert and Ellen Marks Conductor Tara Faircloth, Assistant Director Mezzo-sopranos Vocal Studies Program Endowed Matthew Ozawa Kristen Barrett, Stage Manager J’nai Bridges Chair in honor of Gianna Rolandii Director Donald Claxon, Assistant Stage Manager Anonymous Stephanie Blythe Sarah Hatten Julie Miller Sir Andrew Davis Wigs and Makeup El Pasado Nunca Se Termina Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Matthew A. Epstein Peggy Stenger Leonard Foglia, Director Renée Fleming Stage Manager Elise Sandell, Assistant Director Tenors Kathleen Kelly Bill Walters Rachel C. Henneberry, Stage Manager Jesse Donner Gerald Martin Moore Stage Manager Kristen Barrett, Derek Matson, Anne Gross Peter Rose Theresa Ham Anya Plotkin, Robert C. Marks Anne Sofie von Otter Wardrobe Assistant Stage Managers John Irvin Guest Master Artists Lucy Lindquist Stepan Company Alan Darling Wardrobe Jonathan Johnson Laurann Gilley Maureen Reilly Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Philip Morehead Wardrobe Celeste Rue Baritones Eric Weimer Administration Anthony Clark Evans Pedro Yanez Laura Chambers Sanfred and Nancy Koltun Coaching Staff Admin. Coordinator Richard W. Shepro and Wendy Skoczen Lindsay E. Roberts Staff Librarian Will Liverman Anonymous Debbie K. Wright For more information, visit: www.lyricopera.org/RyanCenter

Education Corps Supernumeraries Howard & Mary Robins Sharon Conway Barbara Joabson Gary Pett (Il trovatore) Co-chairs Mary DeCresce Jean Joslyn John Piepgras * Charlie DeWitt Kip Kelley Kathrine Coffin Piepgras Children Marilyn Ablan Carl DiNello Rochelle Klapman Joanne Poder Weston Ford Carol Abrioux Ingrid Dubberke Bob Klassy Belinda Potoma Michael Goto * Neil Adelman Frances Dutton John Kohlmeier Heather Refetoff Jacob Macias Catherine Alexander Gerry Ellensohn Elizabeth Kurella Marilyn Resnick Nolan Moss Evelyn Alter Michael Fish Larry Lapidus Maria Rigolin Kamohelo Muhammad Joyce Altman Roy Fisher Dona LeBlanc Barbara Roseman India Rose Renteria * Michael Altman Margaret Fournier Barbara Lieber Arn Schenk Thomas Serges Karen Andreae Maggie Galloway Babs Lieberman Dora Schenk Kathleen Banks Karen Genelly Dan Lome Peggy Shake Julie Anne Benson * Marian Goldberg Helen Magid Jeffrey Sherman Penelope Blake Jerry Goodman Nina Maimonis Marjorie Sherman David Blecher Katy Hall Judith Marshall Joseph Sjostrom Lindy Bloom Cameron Hanses Barbara Maxson Joan Solbeck Ann Boyle Denny Hayes *Sue McCandless * Carla Thorpe Sandra Broughton Mary Hobein Don McVicker Caroline Wheeler John Buccheri Mary Houston Liz Meenan Roberta Whitworth Gerald Budzik Diana Hunt King George Meschel Claudia Winkler Loretta Caputo Marie Ifollo Michelle Murff-Arrington Christine Casey Virginia Jach William Nelson Florence Winters Estelle Chandler Charlene Jacobsen Penny Pagenkopf Richard Wright Lisa Cleveland Karen Jared Noel Perlman *Coordinator

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Patricia Schaefer: A Lyric Lover Next Door

Fans carried away by Lyric Opera productions are not limited to metropoli- now known as the Masterworks Chorale in Muncie (22 years). She is careful tan Chicago. Lyric also transports people across state lines. Case in point: to clarify, however, that “I didn’t do it just from research; I listened to the Indiana resident Patricia Schaefer, who loves attending Lyric when her music and analyzed it. I wrote the notes as sort of a map for listeners who schedule permits traveling the distance from her Muncie home. But then, were not acquainted with it – not strictly an analysis but also something opera has been transporting her for many years. pleasant to read.” Pat grew up surrounded by classical music and musicals such as those Reading and writing were great interests of Pat’s and led her to a job at by Sigmund Romberg. Both of her grandfathers brought their musical the Columbus Public Library in Ohio. After accepting a higher position at talents over from Germany, and her mother played piano. Though Pat the Muncie Public Library, she went on to earn a second master’s degree, began piano lessons as a third-grader in her parochial school, her mother in library science, from the University of Michigan. She was named assistant soon put an end to that arrangement: “The music teacher at the school director (1981) and then director (1986) of the Muncie Library before her would slap my fingers with a baton retirement in 1995. But that wasn’t when I made a mistake. My mother the end of her recognitions as, in already knew Fred Church, a local 2003, she was awarded an honorary piano teacher, so she had me switch doctorate in library science from to him.” And with that, both mother Indiana Tech. and daughter were playing under Being a high achiever seems the tutelage of a fine teacher who to run in the family. Pat’s father, was generous, kind, and delightfully Edward J. Schaefer, cofounded eccentric. “Mr. Church was quite Franklin Electric Company, based a character,” remembers Pat. “He in Bluffton, Indiana, in 1944 and always chewed on cigars; he didn’t remained active in its leadership until smoke them. And he had a German his death at age 90. Franklin Electric shepherd in his studio when he gave is now a multimillion dollar interna- lessons. He never had children, and tional company. During his lifetime, I imagine that was a substitute. He Schaefer was generous to his alma had such a good sense of humor.” mater, Johns Hopkins University Mr. Church must also have been in his native Baltimore. He played one in a million, for he went above an important role in establishing and beyond to offer enrichment to its Whiting School of Engineering, his charges. “He would take small and later endowed the Edward J. groups of students to Chicago and Schaefer Professorship in Electrical to the Cincinnati Zoo Opera [the Engineering at Whiting. Pat served zoo’s pavilion was the former home on Franklin’s Board of Directors for of the Cincinnati Opera, which a number of years. moved to the city’s Music Hall in Pat has been active with many 1972]. Faust was the first opera I had civic and professional organizations ever seen. I saw it in Chicago when I was in the eighth grade.” Church throughout her life, championing arts, education, and community welfare would drive the kids to Chicago for a Saturday opera performance, and and donating her time and expertise on boards and in advisory capaci- also plan some other enjoyable diversion in the city before returning to ties. Her tireless hours of service earned her Indiana’s highest honor, the Indiana. Pat’s operatic initiation would have been in 1943, 11 years prior to Sagamore of the Wabash Award, from Governor Evan Bayh in 1995. These the founding of Lyric Opera, so it might have been a performance by the days, along with attending musical events, she pursues an interest in art, Chicago Opera Company. Regardless, it was a treat for the youngster, and specifically glass sculpture. She and a glass-artist friend love attending the the start of a lifelong love of opera. SOFA Chicago expo each November, and works by her friend, and such Lessons with Mr. Church also ensured Pat’s enduring love of the piano. masters as Dale Chihuly, adorn her home. Traveling is also a joy, bringing Years later, she majored in piano at Northwestern University, where she the opportunity to attend opera performances in other locales. was in the same class as Ardis Krainik. Though Miss Krainik was a theater Pat Schaefer is drawn to Chicago by more than its sentimental con- major, she studied voice in the music school, where their paths crossed. nection as the city of her first opera. Lyric Opera’s outreach and education Later Pat earned a master’s degree in musicology from the University of efforts, and its all-around excellence, make it a special favorite of hers. She Illinois. That came in handy when she was called upon to write program should know that her appreciation and support are very special to Lyric. notes for both the Muncie Symphony (40 years) and, concurrently, what is —Sonia Ness

44 | OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 29, 2014 The songs you know. The story you’ll love.

Porgy and Bess Gershwin Nov 17 - Dec 20

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ABBOTT FUND season, Julie and Roger Baskes generously cosponsor Il Trovatore. They also Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help contributors to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on tradition of generous support. Over the last three decades, its Board of Directors, Executive, and Production Sponsorship Committees, and Abbott has generously cosponsored 20 Lyric productions, as immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board. including the 2014/15 season-opening production of Don Giovanni and last season’s Otello. Abbott has championed JAMES N. and LAURIE V. BAY Lyric’s achievements as a contributor to the Great Opera Jim and Laurie Bay are passionate sup- Miles D. White Fund, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, and porters of the arts in Chicago. They Wine Auctions, among other efforts. Lyric is have previously contributed to Lyric’s honored to have Abbott’s Chairman and Chief Wine Auction, Stars of Lyric Opera at Executive Officer, Miles D. White, serve on its Millennium Park, Annual Campaign, and Board of Directors. education programs. They also cospon- sored Madama Butterfly (2013/14). This KATHERINE A. ABELSON and season, the Bays are supporting the Wine Auction and are Emerald Patrons ROBERT J. CORNELL of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric is honored to have Kathy Abelson and Robert Cornell are Jim Bay, a principal of Bays Corporation, serve on its Board of Directors and longtime friends of Lyric Opera. Kathy Compensation Committee. comes from generations of opera lovers and is a former singer, having trained with MARLYS A. BEIDER some of the best voice teachers in the world, As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys including Elvira de Hidalgo, who taught has contributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Maria Callas. Kathy has been a donor and a season subscriber to Lyric since Canto Benefactor of the planned giving Overture 1977. Deeply committed to Lyric Opera’s renowned artist development program, Society. Her planned gift commitment created the Marlys The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Kathy is a Past President Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair and current member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, in addition to being a in memory of her late husband, Harold Beider. Marlys leadership donor to the Ryan Opera Center for over twenty years. Lyric is also Beider cosponsored several productions including Elektra honored to have Kathy Abelson on its Board of Directors. This season Kathy and (2012/13) and Parsifal (2013/14) and this season generously cosponsors Lyric’s Robert are generously supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond new production of Tosca. Marlys has also made a leadership commit- Ball as Emerald Gala Patrons. ment to cosponsor Lyric’s new productions of Das Rheingold (2016/17) and Götterdämmerung (2019/20), part of Lyric’s new Ring Cycle. AMERICAN AIRLINES This season we celebrate 33 years of vital corporate part- MELVIN R. and RANDY L. BERLIN nership with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Devoted fans of opera education and Opera. In recognition of the company’s significant contribu- the arts, Melvin and Randy Berlin are tion to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the vital members of the Lyric Opera fam- mezzanine level of the Civic Opera House is named the ily. They have contributed significantly to American Airlines Mezzanine. American Airlines provides the Annual Campaign and are Diamond Franco Tedeschi important in-kind support for Lyric’s programs and special Sponsors of the 60th Anniversary Concert events such as the Annual Meeting, Fantasy of the Opera, Operathon, The and Diamond Ball this season. Melvin and Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center National Auditions, and the Wine Randy have cosponsored several productions such as Simon Boccanegra Auction. Franco Tedeschi, Vice President (2012/13) and The Barber of Seville (2013/14). Melvin and Randy generously of American Airlines, proudly serves on cosponsor this season’s new production of Don Giovanni. Lyric is honored to Lyric’s Board of Directors. have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors.

ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS HENRY M. and GILDA R. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from seven BUCHBINDER anonymous contributors during the 2014/15 season. Committed lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda Buchbinder are longstand- JULIE and ROGER BASKES ing members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership The Buchbinders have contributed to the and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. future of Lyric Opera by making a leader- Subscribers for more than three decades, ship gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground they have generously supported Lyric’s Campaign. They have also been long-time generous donors to the Annual Ryan Opera center activities as cosponsors Campaign, including sponsoring their first production, Boris Godunov (2011/12). of Rising Stars in Concert, and sponsors This season, they are supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond of the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series Ball as Emerald Patrons. Lyric is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its on 98.7 WFMT. They have cosponsored numerous productions including, most Board of Directors and the Nominating/Governance Committee. recently, Simon Boccanegra (2012/13) and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). This

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CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM the Celebrating Oklahoma! Gala, and Opening Night/Opera Ball, for which Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leader- Elizabeth served as Chair in 2010. Michael serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors, ship and generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and lends his business acumen as a member of the Investment Committee. and longtime patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum Family’s very generous challenge grant re- MR. and MRS. JOHN V. CROWE established Lyric’s regional and national/international radio Jack and Peggy Crowe are generous and broadcasts in 2006. Kay’s incredible continued matching passionate members of the Lyric family, support makes possible The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which evidenced by their production sponsor- draw 16 million listeners annually. “Lyric is a great national institution,” Matthew ship of Turandot (2006/07) and Tosca once said, “and it gives our family great pleasure to know these broadcasts bring (2009/10) and major support of the Lyric’s wonderful performances to so many in Chicago and around the globe.” Breaking New Ground Campaign. The Crowes are one of eight couples who THE JOHN and JACKIE sponsor the Renée Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy Crowe’s significant BUCKSBAUM FAMILY contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Passionate philanthropists in the Chicago Foyer on the fifth floor in memory of Jack Crowe’s mother. The Crowes were community, John and Jackie Bucksbaum leading contributors to the Campaign for Excellence. Lyric is very fortunate are major supporters of the arts. John to have Jack Crowe as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Bucksbaum is founder and CEO of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC, a fully integrated owner and developer of retail real THE CROWN FAMILY John and Jackie Bucksbaum estate. This past season, John and Jackie, with Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, their family, generously provided matching funding for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, Renée and Lester Crown are devoted which air on 98.7 WFMT live during each opening night performance. patrons of Lyric Opera. The Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming PAUL and AMY CARBONE Initiative and has made a generous com- Lyric is very appreciative of the friendship mitment to Lyric’s new Breaking New of Paul and Amy Carbone. A dynamic Ground Campaign. They have also member of Lyric’s Board of Directors Lester and Renée Crown made major contributions to the Annual since 2007, Paul currently serves as its Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Treasurer, chairs the Finance Committee, Excellence, and the Great Opera Fund. The Crown Family provided major and is a vital member of the Executive support for Lyric’s return to the airwaves in 2006 as members of the radio Committee. Having previously sponsored broadcast matching grant consortium. In 2014/15, they are supporting the Lyric’s NExT student ticket initiative and Backstage Tours, Paul and Amy are 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Mrs. Crown Co-Chairs of this year’s 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and is a past President of the Women’s Board. Mr. Crown joined Lyric’s Board of support the event as Diamond Sponsors. The Carbones have also made a Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is grateful for the ever since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients of the Carol Fox dedicated leadership of Paul and Amy Carbone. Award, presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and commit- ment to Lyric. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family for their many THE ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Lyric Opera remains deeply grateful for the long term generosity of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of MR. and MRS. A. STEVEN CROWN Chicago’s nonprofit leaders in arts support. The Cheney Steven and Nancy Crown are ardent Foundation has made an enhanced multi-year commit- supporters of a wide range of cultural ment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Opera. During the and educational initiatives in Chicago 2014/15 season, The Cheney Foundation will fund guest and beyond. A new member of Lyric’s Elizabeth F. Cheney artist Stephanie Blythe’s residency, allowing Ensemble esteemed Women’s Board, Nancy Crown members to work intimately with this famed soprano; access and her husband Steven support two to a behind-the-scenes view of the Ensemble selection process by opening important events this season as Emerald the Ryan Opera Center’s Final Auditions to a greater number of Lyric donors Patrons of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and Platinum and subscribers for the second year; and singer sponsorship of bass Bradley Sponsors of Wine Auction 2015. As food and wine enthusiasts, Steven and Smoak. Lyric Opera is honored to have as a major supporter The Elizabeth Nancy actively participate in Lyric’s triennial Wine Auction. We are fortunate to F. Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. deepen our long-standing relationship with the Crown Family as we welcome Cheney’s legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts. this valued couple into the Lyric Opera family.

MR. and MRS. MICHAEL P. COLE THE DAVEE FOUNDATION Michael and Elizabeth Cole are vital mem- Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth bers of the Lyric Opera family, serving as Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The Co-Chairs and Diamond Sponsors of the Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago area charities reflects the Davees’ 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond wide-ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric Ball this season. With Elizabeth’s active Opera is fortunate to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee participation as a member of Lyric’s Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for gen- esteemed Women’s Board, the Coles erations to come. Recently, The Davee Foundation provided critical support have previously supported an array of events such as Wine Auction 2012, to enhance amplification and sound systems used in the American Musical

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Theater Initiative. The Foundation has generously cosponsored Lyric premieres the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. In prior seasons, the Trust cospon- of Oklahoma! (2012/13) and The Sound of Music (2013/14), and has committed sored numerous productions including Le nozze di Figaro (2003/04), and The to support the remaining three installments of Lyric’s five-year partnership Cunning Little Vixen (2004/05). Along with The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, with the Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, cosponsoring this season’s the Trust provided challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06). Both Carousel, The King and I (2015/16) and South Pacific (2016/17). Trusts sponsored Salome and Dialogues of the Carmelites (2006/07), Julius Caesar (2007/08), Porgy and Bess (2008/09), Ernani (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12), STEFAN EDLIS and GAEL NEESON Elektra (2012/13), and Parsifal (2013/14). This season, they are sponsoring Porgy and Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis Bess. The Trust funds Lyric’s ongoing board diversity efforts, and helped preserve and Gael Neeson are actively involved with Lyric’s history through support of the Archives project. James L. Alexander is a Vice organizations in Chicago, New York, and President of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Neeson have Committee, and serves on the Executive, Finance, Investment, and Nominating/ supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera Governance Committees. In 2010, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and for more than 30 years. They have previ- vital involvement of James L. Alexander ously cosponsored the Stars of Lyric Opera by awarding him the Carol Fox Award, at Millennium Park concert and named their seats through the Your Name Here Lyric’s most prestigious honor. program. Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson cosponsored Hercules (2010/11), Elektra (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) and are generously cosponsoring this season’s ANN and GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION new production of Tosca. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Lyric is extremely grateful for the long-standing support of the Ann and New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis on its Board of Gordon Getty Foundation. The Foundation has made vital contributions to Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. the Annual Campaign, providing essential general operating support to foster Lyric’s achievements. Gordon Getty is an esteemed National Director of Lyric’s EXELON Board of Directors. The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon MR. AND MRS. RONALD J. GIDWITZ has generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Longtime members of the Lyric Opera fam- Auction, and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community- ily, Christina and Ron Gidwitz are dedi- engagement programs. Amongst Exelon’s many cosponsorships have been cated to ensuring the future of Lyric Opera The Mikado (2010/12), the Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Subscriber remains vital and culturally relevant. The Appreciation Concert (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), and Rusalka (2013/14). This Gidwitzes made generous contributions to season, Exelon is a Sapphire Patron of the 60th the Building on Greatness Campaign and Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric Campaign for Excellence, and have also Opera is fortunate to have found in Exelon an sponsored Wine Auction and the Renée Fleming and Susan Graham Concert outstanding corporate partner. Dinner. As an active member of the Women’s Board, Christina currently serves on the Executive Committee as Membership Chair. Ron, a member of the Board JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION of Directors, serves on its Nominating/Governance Committee and Innovation A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera) and a Committee. This season, Ron and Christina sponsor their first Lyric production Lyric Opera Board member at the time of his death in 1982, as cosponsors of Don Giovanni. Julius Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a great place to live and enjoy life. In past seasons, BRENT W. and CATHERINE H. Julius Frankel sponsored Lyric productions of Andrea Chénier GLEDHILL (1979) and Lohengrin (1980) in memory of Betty Frankel. The Brent and Katie are passionate supporters of Julius Frankel Julius Frankel Foundation has sustained this noble legacy under numerous causes in Chicago. Last season, the the guidance and longtime dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Gledhills cosponsored Lyric’s production of Georgas and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have benefited The Sound of Music and in 2014/15 they are greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general operating support and produc- supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and tion sponsorships. The Julius Frankel Foundation has generously sponsored/cospon- Diamond Ball as Ruby Patrons. Brent Gledhill sored many celebrated new productions at Lyric including Die Fledermaus (1989/90), is the Global Head of Investment Banking at William Blair & Company; and a mem- Xerxes (1995/96), Carmen (1999/00) in memory of Ardis Krainik, Cavalleria rusticana ber of the firm's Executive Commitee. Lyric is proud to have Brent Gledhill serve on (2002/03), Pagliacci (2002/03), and Il Trovatore (2006/07). This past season, the Julius the Board of Directors and its Audit and Innovation Committees. Frankel Foundation generously cosponsored a new production of La Traviata in honor of Nelson D. Cornelius. WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN William and Ethel Gofen have been attend- THE ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE ing Lyric Opera productions for over 50 TRUST years. They are generous donors to Lyric’s One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Annual Campaign, and have cosponsored Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles the Overture Society Luncheons. In 1997, Hosmer Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust Bill and Ethel named seats for each other is a major, and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s con- in the Ardis Krainik Theatre as part of the tributors. Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Building on Greatness Campaign. In 2014/15 they are supporting the 60th Elizabeth Morse Genius Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Ruby Patrons, and during the 2015/16 seek to enrich the quality of life in Chicago, especially for youth and elderly citi- season, the Gofens are cosponsoring Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto, based zens. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Campaign sup- on the novel by Ann Patchett. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a new port, Lyric named the distinctive Opera House chimes and music library in honor of member of the Board of Directors.

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GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION With an unparalleled record as sponsor of 25 Lyric new productions since the After decades of support to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa, is a cornerstone Howard Family Foundation joins the production sponsor fam- of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma Fisher ily with its generous cosponsorship of this season’s production Foundation has generously sponsored new productions of Eugene Onegin of Il Trovatore. Barbara Howard’s steadfast commitment to (1984/85), Lucia di Lammermoor (1990/91), La Traviata (1993/94), Nabucco Lyric Opera is shown through her longtime subscribership, as (1997/98), Un ballo in maschera (2002/03), Manon Lescaut (2005/06), Macbeth well as her service as a member of Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center (2010/11), and The Barber of Seville (2013/14). Lyric is sincerely grateful for the Barbara Howard Board. Dedicated to the bright futures of the Ryan Opera enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter and other members of Center Ensemble members, Barbara has sponsored the program’s Rising Stars in the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Russell Fisher serve on its Board of Concert for the past several years. Lyric is grateful for the friendship of Barbara Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the Women’s Board. Howard, and the generosity of the Howard Family Foundation.

MR. and MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS TOM and JULIE HURVIS Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring As part of the Breaking New Ground friendship and tremendous generosity of Campaign, Tom and Julie Hurvis have Dietrich and Erika Gross. Together, they made a generous leadership commitment have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 18 in support of Lyric Unlimited comprising Lyric productions since 1987/88 including the company’s education and community Die Meistersinger (1998/99 and 2012/13), engagement activities. Tom and Julie are Die Fledermaus (1999/00 and 2006/07), Die avid fans of opera and longtime Lyric sub- Walküre (2002/03), Siegfried (2003/04), Ring cycle (2004/05), The Barber of Seville scribers. In their effort to help keep Chicago a haven for the cultural arts, (2007/08), Lohengrin (2010/11), The Magic Flute (2011/12), Otello (2013/14), and they are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, which brings the renowned this season’s coproduction of Don Giovanni. Through yearly challenge grants, they soprano to our city multiple times each year. Lyric gratefully acknowledges also help generate important momentum for Operathon – Lyric’s annual fundrais- their more than 20 years of generous contributions to the Annual Campaign, ing broadcast heard live on 98.7WFMT. They have also made a leadership gift to their exclusive sponsorship of Aida (2011/12), and their co-sponsorships of A the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of Lyric’s future. Dietrich Gross is Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13) and this season’s production of Capriccio, an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In along with support for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. Lyric is honored to have 2009, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Tom Hurvis serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Lyric Gross by awarding him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. Unlimited Committee.

GUGGENHEIM PARTNERS ITW The Guggenheim name has long been synonymous with philanthropy and has Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sus- a reputation for its contributions to the advancement of humanity. This season, taining support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The Lyric is the grateful beneficiary of Guggenheim’s generosity as they support Wine company has made vital contributions to the Annual Auction 2015 as Onstage and Catalogue Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Sponsor. the Great Opera Fund, and Wine Auction, and since 2002, it has cosponsored the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND Maria C. Green most important traditions. ITW cosponsored The Pearl John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Fishers (1997/98 and 2008/09), The Barber of Seville (2001/02), The Elixir of Lyric for many years until his death in 2001. With support Love (2009/10), Hansel and Gretel (2012/13), and this season’s production from his Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s of Tosca. This season the company cosponsors the Diamond Ball, which follows President, Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic the 60th Anniversary Concert. Lyric is proud to have Maria C. Green, Senior legacy continues through very generous annual contribu- Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, serve on its Board of Directors tions to Lyric. The Halligan Fund is proud to support and Lyric Unlimited Committee, as well as past ITW John R. Halligan numerous artistic, cultural, and civic organizations which Chairmen and CEOs W. James Farrell, John Nichols, enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, instill knowl- and the late David Speer on its Board of Directors. edge, and advance our appreciation of nature. JENNER & BLOCK HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with The Harris Family Foundation joins the production sponsorship family this year global impact and substantial experience in a broad range as a cosponsor of Lyric’s new production of Tosca. Having previously supported of legal issues. The firm has long played a prominent role the Annual Campaign, the Foundation supports the 60th Anniversary Concert in Chicago’s legal and business communities, and is consis- and Diamond Ball this season as Emerald Patrons. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice tently ranked as one of the top firms in the country. Jenner President of the Foundation Pam Szokol as a new member of its Board of & Block has provided significant pro bono legal expertise Directors, and also serving on its Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is Craig Martin to Lyric, along with generous contributions to the Breaking also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active New Ground Campaign, the Annual Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, member of the revered Women’s Board and has held many leadership positions, Fantasy of the Opera, Opera Ball, and Wine Auction. This season the firm most recently as Opera Ball Chair in 2012. also supports the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Sapphire Patrons. Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, a Partner at Jenner & Block, as a valued member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

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JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. NANCY W. KNOWLES Lyric gratefully acknowledges the vital corporate leadership Opera has always played an important role in the life of and support of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Along with the Nancy W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured bank’s predecessors The First National Bank of Chicago by her family’s musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and Bank One, JPMorgan Chase has generously contrib- and hundreds of records to play,” she fondly recalls, “so clas- uted to the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness sical music was always in my home.” A devoted subscriber Capital Campaign, Lyric Unlimited, Facilities Fund, the and patron, Nancy Knowles is a prominent member of the Eric S. Smith Great Opera Fund, and Wine Auction. The bank has Lyric family. She generously invests her time, talents, and also cosponsored Madama Butterfly (2003/04), The Magic Flute (2005/06), La leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board of Directors and Traviata (2007/08), Tosca (2009/10), The Tales of Hoffmann (2011/12), and Otello Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. Chairman Emeritus (2013/14). This season, JPMorgan Chase is supporting the 60th Anniversary of Knowles Electronics, a manufacturer of hearing-aid components, Nancy Knowles Concert and Diamond Ball as a Ruby Patron. Lyric is honored to have Eric S. is president of The Knowles Foundation. The Knowles Foundation is a leading Smith, Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase, serve as a member of its Board contributor to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and, as part of the Building on Greatness of Directors, Executive and Nominating/ Capital Campaign, provided an assisted listening system to enhance the operatic Governance Committees, and as chairman experience for hearing-impaired patrons. Ms. Knowles cosponsored La Traviata of the Lyric Unlimited Committee. (2007/08), Tosca (2009/10), and Macbeth (2010/11). This season, Mrs. Knowles is generously cosponsoring Lyric’s production of Capriccio, and is supporting the RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as a Sapphire Patron. In 2007, Lyric Dick and Susie Kiphart are esteemed members named the Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in recognition of her extraordinary gift to the of the Lyric Opera family and visionary philan- Campaign for Excellence, and in recognition of her outstanding generosity and thropists. They have generously cosponsored enthusiasm, she received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. several Lyric productions including Madama Butterfly (2003/04), Roméo et Juliette (2006/07), MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci (2008/09), and Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding Hercules (2010/11). In honor of Lyric’s Golden dedicated members of the Lyric Opera Jubilee (2004/05), they made a significant gift family. Lyric gratefully acknowledges their to Lyric to establish the Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Director generous contributions to Lyric’s Wine Endowed Chair. They have made leadership contributions to the Campaign for Auction, the Annual Campaign, the Excellence, of which Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Campaign. They also continue to provide major support for Lyric’s radio pro- and the Campaign for Excellence. This sea- gramming as members of the broadcast consortium and are generous sponsors son, they are Diamond Patrons of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond of the Renée Fleming Initiative. This season, they are cosponsoring The Passenger Ball. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald and Fred Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Patrons. Dick Kiphart is head of William Blair & Company’s Private Client Advisors Business and a member of the firm’s executive committee. He is the JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK immediate past President and CEO and current Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee, and a member Margot Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for of both the Finance and Production Sponsorship Committees. Susie Kiphart is many seasons. They have contributed to the President of the Ryan Opera Center Board and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Annual Campaign, and they made a significant gift Committee. The Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt commitment to to the Campaign for Excellence. They cospon- Lyric are tremendous assets to the company, and in recognition of their passion sored The Pearl Fishers (2008/09), Katya Kabanova and immense dedication they received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest (2009/10), A Masked Ball (2010/11), Rinaldo honor, in 2013. (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), and The Barber of Seville (2013/14). This season, Josef and Margot generously cosponsor Lyric’s KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP production of Capriccio and have made a generous gift to the new Breaking New Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of pro- Ground Campaign. The CEO of LSV Asset Management, Josef Lakonishok is viding exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive and the world in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellec- Investment Committees. tual property, restructuring, and counseling matters. The firm is committed to enhancing quality of life through JIM and KAY MABIE educational opportunities, cultural awareness, youth pro- Lyric Opera cherishes the vital leadership and Linda K. Meyers grams, and community outreach. For many years, Kirkland long-standing support of Jim and Kay Mabie. & Ellis LLP sponsored Lyric Opera’s Board of Directors Annual Meeting. More They are avid operagoers, having subscribed to recently, Kirkland & Ellis LLP cosponsored Boris Godunov (2011/12) and A Lyric for several decades. The Mabies have fos- Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13). Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the Lead Sponsor of tered Lyric’s success through generous contribu- the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric Opera is fortunate to tions to the Annual Campaign, the Building on have Linda K. Myers, a Partner at Greatness Capital Campaign, and the Campaign Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a mem- for Excellence. They have also made a leader- ber of its Board of Directors and ship gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They cosponsored Candide Production Sponsorship Committee. (1994/95), The Great Gatsby (2001/02), Porgy and Bess (2008/09) and Rigo- letto (2012/13). Jim Mabie is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive and Investment Committees. JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION

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The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions JIM and VICKI MILLS/ committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition JON and LOIS MILLS to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human Lyric is most grateful for the dedica- rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and tion and generosity of Jim and Vicki understand how technology is affecting children and society. Support for arts Mills and Jon and Lois Mills. Jim, and culture organizations in Chicago and the region is an expression of civic Vicki, Jon, and Lois have attended commitment to the place where the Foundation has its headquarters and where Lyric performances for many seasons John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur made their home. Grants are designed to Jon and Lois Mills Vicki and Jim Mills and generously supported the Annual help sustain the cultural life of the city and region. Lyric Opera is very grateful for Campaign and the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign. Together, they the ongoing support of the John D. and Catherine T. cosponsored Samson et Dalila (2003/04), Rigoletto (2005/06), La bohème MacArthur Foundation. More information is at www. (2007/08), Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci (2008/09), The Merry Widow macfound.org. (2009/10), The Mikado (2010/11), Show Boat (2011/12), Oklahoma! (2012/13), and The Sound of Music (2013/14). This season, Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and MALOTT FAMILY Lois Mills generously cosponsor Lyric’s premiere/new production of Carousel. FOUNDATION Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC MONUMENT TRUST (UK) Corporation, is a fervent fan of opera and music and Lyric Lyric is grateful for the generosity of the Monument Trust and its Chairman of is delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of and generous supporter. The Family Foundation made a Rusalka in 2013/14. The Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in leadership commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground the U.K. and U.S. and is cosponsor of Robert Malott Campaign, and the Malott Room was named in his family’s Anna Bolena this season. honor in recognition of their gift to Building on Greatness. He also plays a leader- ship role as a Life Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of MAZZA FOUNDATION the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding and patrons who take an active role in nurturing friendship and generosity of the Mazza Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member Foundation. Under the guidance of of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have its directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Bob Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Nicholas J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Directors. The Morrisons have generously support- Rubinelli, Jr., and Joan Lavezzorio ed the Opera Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Schniedwind, the Mazza Foundation Annual Campaign for many years. They provided has provided major support for the a substantial gift to the Campaign for Excellence, and cosponsored Oklahoma!

Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Lavezzorio, Student Matinees beginning in 1994 (2012/13) and The Sound of Music (2013/14). Susan and Bob generously cospon- and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind and continuing to 2004, helping Lyric sor Lyric’s new production of Carousel this season. introduce the majesty and grandeur of opera to thousands of young people each season. Most recently, the Foundation THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST cosponsored La Cenerentola (2005/06), Iphigénie en Tauride (2006/07), Die Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing sup- Frau ohne Schatten (2007/08), The Pearl Fishers (2008/09), The Damnation of port of The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the Faust (2009/10), The Girl of the Golden West (2010/11), Show Boat (2011/12), invaluable leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan La bohème (2012/13), and Otello (2013/14). This season, the Mazza Foundation Chase Bank, N.A. and James L. Alexander. One of two generously cosponsors Il Trovatore. Lyric is honored to have Joseph O. Rubinelli, trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, Jr. serve on its Board of Directors and Compensation Committee. daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer Elizabeth Morse Genius Morse, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust has spon- THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION sored or cosponsored numerous productions and special programs at Lyric, and Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and has provided leadership challenge grants that helped garner new support for the tremendous history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s company. In prior seasons, the Trust provided leadership support of the Stars of American Horizons initiative, the Foundation encouraged presentation of Lyric Opera concerts at Grant Park and Millennium Park (2000-2008). In honor American operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major of Lyric’s Golden Jubilee, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust cosponsored support for Lyric Opera premieres of The Great Gatsby (2000/01), Street Scene The Cunning Little Vixen (2004/05). The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust pro- (2001/02), Sweeney Todd (2002/03), Regina (2003/04), A Wedding (world vided challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06) and cosponsored premiere, 2004/05), and Doctor Atomic (2007/08). In addition, the Mellon Dialogues of the Carmelites and Salome (2006/07), Julius Caesar (2007/08), Foundation provided support for Lyric’s premiere/new production of The Porgy and Bess (2008/09), Ernani (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12), Elektra Midsummer Marriage (2005/06), Lulu (2009/10), and Porgy and Bess (2009/10). (2012/13), and Parsifal (2013/14). The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust cospon- The Mellon Foundation provided essential matching funds which enabled Lyric sored A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11). This season, the Trust is cospon- to resume radio broadcast in 2006. During the 2012/13 season The Mellon soring Porgy and Bess. James L. Alexander is a Vice President of Lyric’s Board of Foundation spearheaded visionary support of Lyric’s new Lyric Unlimited pro- Directors, Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and serves on the gram and the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna/To Cross the Face Executive, Finance, Investment, and Nominating/Governance Committees. In of the Moon, the world’s first Mariachi opera. This past season and this current 2010, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of James one, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continues its visionary and generous L. Alexander by support of Lyric Unlimited, including support for El Pasado Nunca se Termina/ presenting him The Past is Never Finished, as well as providing leadership support for the prepa- with the Carol ration of Lyric’s upcoming world premiere of Bel Canto (2015/16). Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor.

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THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION mous financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the per- valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s forming arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration of Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive collections of its kind in Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. The the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Negaunee Foundation cosponsored Così fan tutte (2006/07), The Abduction from Opera Bistro located on the third floor of the Civic Opera House. Sonia Florian the Seraglio (2008/09), The Mikado (2010/11), The Magic Flute (2011/12), Oklahoma! is a vital member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. (2012/13), and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). This season, The Negaunee Foundation is generously cosponsoring Don Giovanni and Carousel, and has made a leadership gift JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the NICHOLS Chicago cultural institutions benefitting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in and financial commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s Chicago, John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols president serve as a member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. have steadfastly supported the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL the Renée Fleming Initiative. By provid- Sylvia and Daniel have been loyal Lyric ing major support to Lyric’s endowment, Opera subscribers and donors for many Mr. and Mrs. Nichols established the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Music years. They sponsored the Symposiums for Director Endowed Chair. Principal Dressing Room 110 is named in their honor Lyric productions of Hercules (2010/11) and due to their very benevolent contribution to the Building on Greatness Capital Show Boat (2011/12). They cosponsored Campaign. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ Rigoletto (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) significant leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Excellence and and this season cosponsor Lyric’s produc- the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and Alexandra tion of The Passenger. They have also made a generous gift to the Breaking C. Nichols Grand Staircase. This season, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols support the 60th New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Sylvia is Lecturer in Law, Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Vice Chairman of University of Chicago Law School. She is founder and chair of the Project on The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Gender, Culture, Religion and Law at Brandeis and is co-editor of its book series Lyric’s Board of Directors. Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generos- (Brandeis University Press). Daniel is President, Chairman and Co-Founder ity of John and Alexandra Nichols. of the Compass Lexecon consulting firm. He is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School. NORTHERN TRUST Lyric is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Production A banking and financial services leader, Northern Trust Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. is a long-standing, generous corporate contributor to Lyric. The company has given major support to the Annual THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION Campaign, Facilities Fund, Great Opera Fund, and Lyric During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Unlimited. Northern Trust provided vital leadership contribu- Nerenberg were passionate supporters of tions to Lyric as Presenting Sponsor of Wine Auctions (2000, Lyric Opera and subscribed for more than Jana R. Schreuder 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012) and cosponsor of the Opera Ball 30 years. They were especially supportive (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust cosponsored Faust (2009/10) of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan and was Lead Corporate Sponsor of Oklahoma! (2012/13) and cosponsor of Opera Center and loved to watch these The Sound of Music (2013/14). This season, Northern Trust generously cospon- Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg young artists perform and grow at Lyric sors the Diamond Ball which follows the 60th Anniversary Concert. They are Opera. Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away in 2005 and 2007, the anchor of Wine Auction 2015 as its Presenting Sponsor. Lyric is honored to respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg have Jana R. Schreuder, Chief Operating Officer of Northern Trust, serve as a Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants to Lyric Opera for member of its Board of Directors and Finance Committee, and Northern Trust’s many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ thoughtfulness Retired Chairman and CEO William A. and generosity in creating this planned gift. Osborn serve as a member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. NIB FOUNDATION Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN Sonia and William Florian established the NIB Foundation Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted mem- to extend their support to many worthwhile arts and envi- bers of the Lyric Opera family. They have ronmental causes. The Florians are devoted members subscribed to Lyric for nearly two decades of the Lyric family, having subscribed to Lyric for more and enjoy participating in special events than three decades. The NIB Foundation cosponsored such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Sonia Florian La Traviata (2002/03), Lucia di Lammermoor (2003/04), Wine Auction. The Osborns have gener- Tosca (2004/05), Rigoletto (2005/06), Il Trovatore (2006/07), La bohème ously contributed to the Annual Campaign, (2007/08), Madama Butterfly (2008/09), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), A Masked the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and Ball (2010/11), The Tales of Hoffmann (2011/12), Don Pasquale (2012/13), and Wine Auctions. This season, they are supporting the Wine Auction and the 60th The Barber of Seville (2013/14). This season, the NIB Foundation generously Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Cathy Osborn, a cosponsors Lyric’s production of Tannhäuser, and the Florians personally support valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Diamond Patrons. The successful Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Foundation made a significant and deeply appreciated contribution to Lyric’s Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading member of endowment, establishing The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair, and Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. the NIB Foundation made a major contribution to the Campaign for Excellence, which helped strengthen Lyric’s financial reserves. In addition to their magnani-

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MR. and MRS. MICHAEL POLSKY to the Annual Campaign, the Great Opera Fund, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan Subscribers and generous Annual Campaign initiated in 1988), and the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign for which Lyric donors, Michael and Tanya Polsky join the named the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family Rehearsal Center located backstage to production sponsorship family this year as honor their major contribution. In recognition of his leadership role in the Building cosponsors of Tosca. Michael is President on Greatness Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For and CEO of Invenergy LLC, an innovator several seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, underwriting this in clean energy, which is headquartered in special project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Chicago. The company has previously sup- Renée Fleming Initiative, and support the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond ported Women’s Board Gala events for Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music. Lyric Ball this season as Diamond Patrons. In recognition of their extraordinary gift to the Opera is grateful for the lasting friendship of Michael and Tanya Polsky. Campaign for Excellence, Lyric’s premier artist development program was renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Lyric is deeply grateful for their PRINCE CHARITABLE TRUSTS major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of the The Prince Charitable Trusts supports a broad array of programs in Chicago, Innovation Initiative. A Vice President and a member of the Executive and Innovation Washington, DC, and Rhode Island, and Lyric Opera is fortunate to be among Committees of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a distinguished former President of the beneficiaries of the generosity of the Trusts’ Chicago and Washington, DC the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2008 Carol Fox Award – branches. This season, the Prince Charitable Trusts are Diamond Patrons of Lyric’s most prestigious honor – in recognition of her many years of devoted service the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball in honor of Lyric’s esteemed to the opera company. Women’s Board, which includes Diana Prince and Meredith Wood-Prince as members. The Trusts have also provided principal support for Lyric’s 2015/16 DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION commission Bel Canto by awarding a grant to composer Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s com- Jimmy López, as well as sponsoring a summer 2014 workshop mitment to children, families and education- presentation of the piece. The Prince Charitable Trusts have al enrichment through the arts has led it to supported Lyric’s Annual Campaign, Wine Auction, Building provide essential support for one of Lyric’s on Greatness Campaign, and Great Opera Fund, and were most popular cultural engagement oppor- cosponsors of the 2004/05 Ring Cycle. tunities available to young Chicagoans, the

Jack and Catherine Scholl Student Matinees. Each year, these widely MR. and MRS. J. CHRISTOPHER accessible performances at the Civic Opera REYES House reach full-house audiences of junior-high and high school students, many Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent of whom are experiencing opera for the first time. The Foundation also supported members of the Lyric family. Immediate last season’s hugely-successful family opera, The Family Barber. Lyric Opera is Past President of Lyric’s Women’s Board, deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing support Anne was recently elected to serve on of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine A. Lyric’s Board of Directors; Chris is also a and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. valued member of the Board of Directors, and serves on its Nominating/Governance Committee. Together they have EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION made important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of Thaïs (2002/03) A Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Masked Ball (2010/11), Don Pasquale (2012/13), and Madama Butterfly (2013/14). Brenda Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital sup- They are again Platinum Grand Benefactor sponsors of Wine Auction, and are port to the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness major supporters of the Annual Campaign. In addition, they provided a significant Capital Campaign, and the Campaign for Excellence. The and much appreciated gift to the Campaign for Excellence as well as a major Shapiros cosponsored The Magic Flute (2005/06), Falstaff leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. This season, Mr. and (2007/08), The Abduction from the Seraglio (2008/09), A Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes are Diamond Patrons of the 60th Anniversary Concert Brenda Shapiro Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11), and Hansel and Gretel and Diamond Ball and cosponsors of Carousel. (2012/13). Mrs. Shapiro has made a major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and is cosponsoring The Passenger this season. Lyric is honored to have BETSY and ANDY ROSENFIELD Brenda Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as Executive, Production Lyric is grateful for the devotion of Andrew Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. M. and Betsy Bergman Rosenfield, who are active members of the Lyric Opera family. SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP Andy served as a member of the Board A leader in the international legal arena, of Directors from 1993 to 2007, and Betsy the law firm of Sidley Austin is a gener- is a leader on Lyric’s esteemed Women’s ous corporate contributor to arts and Board. Betsy chairs this season’s Opening culture in Chicago. Lyric deeply appre- Night Dinner and Performance. The Rosenfields also provide generous gifts to ciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsorship of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball and Opening Night. Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo ed David Carpenter Larry Barden Euridice (2005/06), Lulu (2008/09), PATRICK G. RYAN and SHIRLEY WELSH Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), and Rusalka (2013/14). Additionally, RYAN Sidley Austin has supported Operathon, Fantasy of the Opera, and the Annual Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedica- Campaign. This season, Sidley Austin LLP generously cosponsors Lyric’s produc- tion of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 tion of The Passenger. Lyric is proud to have Larry Barden, Chairman of the firm’s when they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, Management Committee, on its Board of Directors and Compensation Committee they have shared their leadership, talents, vision, and and David Carpenter, Senior Counsel, serve on its resources to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past Board of Directors and Civic Engagement Committee. three decades, the Ryans have contributed generously

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MANFRED and FERN STEINFELD MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and MR. and Longtime subscribers and supporters of Lyric’s MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE Annual Campaign, Manny and Fern Steinfeld Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary gener- join the production sponsorship family this osity and leadership of the Vance Family. For more season with their generous cosponsorship than 20 years, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance provided of Weinberg’s The Passenger. Also substan- Lead Sponsorship of Opera in the Neighborhoods, tial supporters of the Jewish United Fund of one of Lyric’s most popular youth-enrichment pro- Metropolitan Chicago, Lyric is deeply grateful grams. The Vances have generously sponsored/ to have Manny and Fern play an integral role in bringing this moving piece to cosponsored several Lyric premieres and new pro- Chicago for its Midwest premiere. The Steinfelds also supported Lyric’s Building Carol and William Vance ductions including Hänsel und Gretel (2001/02), on Greatness Campaign through the “Name a Seat” program. The Pirates of Penzance (2003/04), The Midsummer Marriage (2005/06), The Damnation of Faust (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12) Oklahoma! (2012/13), and LIZ STIFFEL The Sound of Music (2013/14). For many years, the Vances have supported A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at young singers through their sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center ensemble mem- Lyric, Liz is a prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s bers. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the Campaign Board and a long-standing member of the Guild Board for Excellence and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. of Directors. She has generously supported The Patrick Vance is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Compensation, and G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, as well as the Executive Committees. He also serves on the Ryan Opera Center Board, of Opening Night Pre-Opera Cocktail Buffet, the Opera which he is past President. This season, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. Ball Reception, and the Wine Auction Honored Guest William C. Vance generously cosponsor Lyric’s production of Carousel. Mr. and Dinner. Previously, Liz Stiffel was the Lead Sponsor of the Renée Fleming Mrs. William C. Vance have also made a significant commitment to the Breaking Subscriber Appreciation Concert (2010/11), and she generously cosponsored New Ground Campaign. productions of La bohème (2001/02), The Magic Flute (2005/06), Falstaff (2007/08), and Manon (2008/09). She also supported Lyric’s Building on ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. Greatness Capital Campaign. This past season, Liz Stiffel was the Lead Sponsor WASHLOW of the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert and this year she is sponsor- Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished ing the Wine Auction Honored Guest Dinner and is a Diamond Patron of the members of the Lyric family. For more 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. than two decades, they have enjoyed attending Lyric performances and special CHERRYL T. THOMAS events, and have generously supported the Cherryl Thomas is a lifelong Chicagoan, having worked Annual Campaign. Since 1986, the Port, for the City of Chicago for 30 years in the Departments of Washlow, and Errant Families sponsored more than 20 Lyric productions. The Public Works, Water, Aviation and Buildings, and as Deputy Washlows cosponsored Porgy and Bess (2008/09), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), Chief of Staff for Infrastructure in the Mayor’s Office before A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11), Show Boat (2011/12), Don Pasquale accepting an appointment by President Clinton to serve as (2012/13), and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). Roberta and Bob Washlow gener- Chairman of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board for 5 years. ously cosponsor this season’s Porgy and Bess. Lyric is honored to have Roberta Founder, President and CEO of Ardmore Associates, who Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors. generously support Operathon, Cherryl personally sponsors her first production this season as a cosponsor of Porgy and Bess. Lyric is honored to have Cherryl HELEN and SAM ZELL serve on its Board of Directors and Civic Engagement Committee. Helen and Sam Zell are passionate sup- porters of Chicago’s vibrant cultural DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION scene. They are longtime subscribers Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscrib- to Lyric Opera and have contributed to er, and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She the Annual Campaign and special proj- enjoys encouraging talented young artists in her roles as a ects including the Wine Auction for many Ryan Opera Center Distinguished Benefactor and Lead years. Helen and Sam Zell generously Sponsor of Rising Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor cosponsored Lyric’s new production of Rinaldo (2011/12), Rigoletto (2012/13), La of its radio rebroadcast on 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her pas- Traviata (2013/14) and this season are cosponsors of the Lyric premiere of The Donna Van Eekeren sion for introducing young people to opera, the Donna Van Passenger. Eekeren Foundation has supported Lyric’s Performances for Students, NExT Discount Tickets for College Students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods, as well as Fantasy of the Opera and as a Singer Sponsor for the Ryan Opera Center. This season, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation generously cosponsors Anna Bolena, having previously cosponsored The Merry Widow (2009/10), Carmen (2010/11), Ariadne auf Naxos (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13) and Die Fledermaus (2013/14). She has also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to secure Lyric’s future, and supports Wine Auction 2015 and the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as a Sapphire Patron. Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Production Sponsorship Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board.

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For sixty years, Lyric Opera of Chicago has produced world-class opera with many of the world’s greatest artists. With decades of dedicated support from donors and subscribers, the company has flourished, gaining global recognition for its artistic excellence and fiscal stability. Building our reputation for the future will rely on continued commitment to the broad, deep and relevant cultural service we provide to our city, while also advancing the development of opera as a vital art form. Lyric is seizing new opportunities to present opera at the highest level, re-define our audiences, and enhance our infrastructure. After a year-long strategic planning process led by Lyric’s Board and senior management, the Breaking New Ground campaign has been launched to implement the company’s blueprint for a world-class, twenty-first century opera company. Breaking New Ground will allow Lyric to continue to produce major productions of the highest caliber while also modernizing the stage of the Ardis Krainik Theatre with state-of-the-art equipment. The campaign will also contribute toward updated media, marketing and audience development programs, and plans to strengthen the company’s financial position, including continued efforts to build Lyric’s endowment in accordance with industry best practice. Lyric Opera is grateful to the members of the Board of Directors and donor family who have made generous contributions to the Campaign (as of October 1, 2014):

Anonymous Paul and Amy Carbone Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Catamaran Monument Trust (UK) Brent and Katie Gledhill The Negaunee Foundation Jenner & Block LLP John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Jim and Kay Mabie J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Nuveen Investments Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Julie and Roger Baskes PwC David and Orit Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Ada and Whitney Addington Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation John and Ann Amboian Allan and Elaine Muchin The Crown Family Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Anonymous Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP

Anonymous (2) John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn The Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Stephen A. Kaplan and Alyce K. Sigler Josef and Margot Lakonishok Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Robert H. Malott Blythe Jaski McGarvie Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander

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60th Anniversary Concert and Gala

Lyric Opera of Chicago expresses its deep gratitude to the following generous contributors who have made significant gifts in support of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Gala.

CONCERT LEAD SPONSOR Kirkland & Ellis

DIAMOND BALL SPONSORS ITW Northern Trust

DIAMOND PATRONS Anonymous (2) Sonia Florian J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Paul and Amy Carbone Kay and Fred Krehbiel Liz Stiffel Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Prince Charitable Trusts

EMERALD PATRONS Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Colburn Edgar D. and Deborah R. Jannotta Family Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Cornell Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Richard P. and Susan Kiphart James N. and Laurie V. Bay The Crown Family John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder GRAFF Diamonds Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Harris Family Foundation

SAPPHIRE PATRONS Ada and Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Sharon and Lee Oberlander James L. Alexander and Curtis D. Drayer/ Jenner & Block Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Kenneth R. Norgan Mr. and Mrs. Gregory K. Jones and Family Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Segal Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Sipi Metals Corporation Dover Corporation Nancy W. Knowles Spencer Stuart Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Blythe Jaski McGarvie Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Stephen and Lois Eisen Allan and Elaine Muchin Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Exelon Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan J. Cellmer Ann Ziff

RUBY PATRONS AT&T Brent and Katie Gledhill Mr. and Mrs. John W. Oleniczak Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Ethel and Bill Gofen Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Parr Julie and Roger Baskes Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa David and Orit Carpenter The Edgewater Funds Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Greg and Mamie Case JPMorgan Chase & Co. Brenda M. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Jim and Kay Mabie Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Carl and Marilynn Thoma Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Susan and Nick Noyes/ Paul Wood and the Honorable Corinne Wood Yntema Ferguson Make It Better Media Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II

ADDITIONAL GIFTS Craig and Janet Duchossois Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Walter E. Heller Foundation

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Major Contributors, 60th Anniversary Season Special Event And Project Support Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects during the 2014/15 Season. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and more were received by October 1, 2014.

Annual Meeting Dinner Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Lyric Opera Chapters Crain-Maling Foundation Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company Lyric Opera Overture Society Ernst & Young LLP Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Backstage Tours Mr. and Mrs. James McClung Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater Funds Paul and Amy Carbone Egon and Dorothy Menker Lois B. Siegel Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Music Performance Trust Fund and the Film Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Allan and Elaine Muchin Fund The Hurvis Family Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation With Matching Funding by: Dr. David Thurn Wine Auction The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family Joan and Marco Weiss/ Presenting Sponsor: The John and Jackie Bucksbaum Family Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Northern Trust Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Operathon Merchandise Sponsors Catalogue and Onstage Auction Sponsor: Champagne On Stage Fellowes, Inc. Guggenheim Partners Albert and Rita Lacher Sidley Austin LLP Dinner Wine Sponsor: Choral Concerts Operathon Trip Auction Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Lieselotte N. Betterman American Airlines Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly SONG Commemorative Wine Sponsor: Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Olofson Overture Society Luncheons Abbott Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Grand Benefactor Dinners Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank James N. and Laurie V. Bay Latham & Watkins LLP Susan M. Miller Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Innovation Initiative Planned Giving Seminars J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan BMO Harris Bank Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Lyric Signature Events William Blair & Company Anonymous (2) Baker & McKenzie Bain & Company PwC Projected English Titles Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Official Airline The Harris Family Foundation American Airlines Renée Fleming Initiative ITW Anonymous Ann and Gregory K. Jones Opening Night Gala Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Aon Corporation The Crown Family Mayer Brown LLP Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Sherry McFall and Ken Porrello Opening Night Gala Dinner Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Anonymously sponsored in memory of John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Susan and Nicholas Noyes and Debby Jannotta Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Make It Better Media Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Operathon Nancy S. Searle Ardmore Associates Season Preview Concert Lisbeth Stiffel Walgreens Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Carl and Marilynn Thoma 98.7WFMT Patricia Hyde Underwriters Laboratories Lake Geneva Chapter Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly Operathon Challenge Grants Anonymous Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Amsted Industries Foundation Lead Sponsor: Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Julie and Roger Baskes closerlook, inc. White Pine Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Cosponsors: Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross AT&T

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Lyric Unlimited With Major Support From The Hurvis Family Foundation General Support El Pasado Nunca Se Termina Opera in the Neighborhoods Program Evaluation Leadership Funding: Anonymous Anonymous The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ken Norgan OPERA America Opera Residencies in Schools The Property Additional Funding By: United Scrap Metal, Inc. Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Anonymous Anonymous (2) Inc. Ross and Patricia D. Bender Senior Matinee The Barker Welfare Foundation The Magic Victrola CME Group Foundation Buehler Family Foundation Baxter International, Inc. Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Estate of Rev. Thomas Gannon Shirley and Benjamin Gould Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun BNY Mellon Polk Bros. Foundation Endowment Fund Helen Brach Foundation Louise H. Landau Foundation CNA Foundation NExT Student Ticket Program Performances for Students Lannan Foundation Anonymous Nancy Dehmlow Anonymous Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson John W. and Rosemary K. Brown The Retirement Research Richard B. Egen Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Family Foundation Foundation Envestnet T. G. Bligh Foundation Fund The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn The Siragusa Foundation Helyn D. Goldenberg The Brinson Foundation Foundation Adam and Harriette Swierz Donor- Goldman Sachs Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Dover Advised Fund The Hearst Foundations Yntema Ferguson Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Elaine Frank General Mills Foundation Student Backstage Tours John Hart and Carol Prins John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis J. Douglas Gray Dr. Scholl Foundation Shirley and Benjamin Gould Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. Family Segal Family Foundation Endowment Fund O’Leary Morgan Stanley Foundation Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Northern Trust Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Vocal Partnership Program Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Parr Mrs. Roy I. Warshawsky Bank of America Patricia Hyde H. A. Vance Foundation Andra and Irwin Press NiSource Pre-Opera Talks Charles and M.R. Shapiro Satter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Youth Opera Council Foundation, Inc. Mary Sue and Michael Shannon Kip Kelley Terry J. Medhurst Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Donna Van Eekeren Foundation James and Michelle Young Penelope and Robert Steiner Look To The Future

ENDOWED CHAIRS Regenstein Foundation Mozart Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED PROGRAM The Women’s Board General Director Endowed Chair In Honor Of Ruth Regenstein Distinguished Conductor Award In Loving Memory Of Ardis Krainik William E. and Mary Gannon Hay Puccini Sarah and A. Watson Armour III Endowed Chair John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Music Director The Guild Board of Directors Verdi Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED FUNDS Endowed Chair Estate of Robert and Isabelle Bass Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift From An Anonymous Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair Donor George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Education Endowment Fund Chapters’ Endowed Chair For Education In Memory Of Alfred Glasser Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Concertmaster Thomas Doran The Ryan Opera Center Board Opera Center Director Endowed Chair Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Endowed Chair Richard P. And Susan Kiphart Costume Director Endowed John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair Estate of Marjorie A. Mayhall Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting Designer Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Robert and Ellen Marks American Opera Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Baroque Opera Endowed Chair – In Honor Of Duane Schuler Lois B. Siegel A Gift From An Anonymous Donor Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Studies Joanne Silver Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Bel Canto Opera Program Endowed Chair The Lois L. Ward Trust Endowed Chair In Honor Of Gianna Rolandi Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Allan and Elaine Muchin Production and Technical W. James and Maxine P. Farrell French Opera Director Endowed Chair Endowed Chair PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair Chair James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair In Memory Of Harold Beider Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan

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The Patrick G. And Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and over were received between July 1, 2013 and October 1, 2014.

Artist Support, Special Event Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom James Lancaster Debbie K. Wright Michael A. Leppen And Project Sponsors Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Jean McLaren and John Nitschke The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Bel Canto Workshop Training Program Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman OPERA America National Endowment for the Arts Beverly Persky Prince Charitable Trusts The George L. Shields Foundation Voice Instruction Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Duds for Divas Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Heidi Heutel Bohn Anne Gross Mark and Kimbra Walter Lawrence O. Corry Mary Ellen Hennessy Anne Gross Jennifer L. Stone Artist Circle ($5,000 to $9,999) Final Auditions WFMT Recital Series Anonymous The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes Doris Conant Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cozad Anne Megan Davis Workshop Performances Thomas Doran Foreign Language Instruction Martha A. Hesse Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Cornell Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Susann Ball John and Betsey Puth Erma S. Medgyesy General Support Marilee and Richard Wehman Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Guest Master Artist Aria Society The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation ($100,000 and above) Anonymous (2) Rising Stars In Concert Launchpad Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan March 21, 2015 Marcus Boggs Lead Sponsor: Leslie Fund, Inc. Platinum Distinguished Benefactors Donna Van Eekeren Foundation ($50,000 to $99,999) Master Classes Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory Additional Support Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. Susan M. Miller Martha A. Hesse McDougal Rising Stars In Concert Broadcast National Auditions Distinguished Benefactors Donna Van Eekeren Foundation American Airlines ($25,000 to $49,999) Ingrid Peters Rising Stars In Concert Reception Renée Fleming Master Class Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Mentors ($10,000 to $24,999) Singer Sponsors/Cosponsors L. Robert Artoe Anonymous (3) Paul and Robert Barker Foundation The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Heidi Heutel Bohn Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Lawrence O. Corry Anne Gross Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Erika Erich Sanfred and Nancy Koltun Renée Fleming Robert C. Marks Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Charitable Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Giving Fund The C. G. Pinnell Family Sue and Melvin Gray Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Miriam U. Hoover Lois B. Siegel Illinois Arts Council Stepan Company Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance USMC Memorial Fund

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Annual Corporate Support

Lyric Opera gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received between July 1, 2013 and October 1, 2014. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above Abbott Fund ITW Northern Trust Miles D. White, Chairman & CEO E. Scott Santi, Frederick H. Waddell, American Airlines President & CEO Chairman & CEO Franco Tedeschi, Maria C. Green, Jana R. Schreuder Vice President - Chicago SVP, General Counsel and Secretary Chief Operating Officer Ardmore Associates Jenner & Block LLP Sidley Austin LLP Cherryl T. Thomas, President Craig C. Martin, Partner Larry A. Barden, Partner & Chairman of Exelon JPMorgan Chase & Co. Eric S. Smith, Managing Director Management Committee Chris Crane, David W. Carpenter, President and CEO Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Senior Counsel Guggenheim Partners Linda K. Myers, Partner Andrew M. Rosenfield, Managing Partner

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999 Aon Corporation closerlook, inc. Make It Better Media Gregory C. Case, President & CEO David T. Ormesher, CEO Susan B. Noyes, Founder & President Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Dover Nuveen Investments Mark Ferguson, Robert A. Livingston, President & CEO John P. Amboian, CEO Founding Partner GRAFF Diamonds OPERA America Baxter International Inc. Eve R. Rogers, Director Marc A. Scorca, President & CEO Robert L. Parkinson, Jr., Latham & Watkins, LLP PwC Chairman & CEO Richard A. Levy, Office Managing Partner John W. Oleniczak, Partner GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999 Accenture Fellowes, Inc. Skadden Dean J. Teglia, Managing Director James E. Fellowes, Chairman & CEO Rodd M. Schreiber, Partner AT&T Goldman Sachs Spencer Stuart Sheri A. Eichelberger, Eric L. Hirschfield, Kevin M. Connelly, Chairman & CEO Vice President, Signature Client Group Managing Director, Investment Banking Division Stepan Company Bain & Company Edward B. Rouse, Jordan Industries, Inc. F. Quinn Stepan, Chairman & CEO Vice President & Managing Director John W. Jordan II, Chairman & CEO Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company Baker & McKenzie KPMG LLP Vinay Couto, Senior Vice President Michael A. Smith, Managing Partner Claudia M. Saran, Advisory Partner, U.S. Leader - Tamsen Z, LLC Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP People & Change Practice Ann Ziff, Founder & Designer Timothy L. Christen, CEO Mayer Brown LLP Underwriters Laboratories Bank of America Paul W. Theiss, Chairman Keith E. Williams, President & CEO Sharon Oberlander, Managing Director Morgan Stanley United Scrap Metal, Inc. Bulley & Andrews LLC Matthew J. Parr, Managing Director Marsha Serlin, Founder & CEO Allan E. Bulley III, President NiSource Catamaran US Bank Mark A. Thierer, President & CEO Carrie J. Hightman, Marsha Cruzan, Market President Chicago Executive VP and Chief Legal Officer Ernst & Young LLP Walgreens Rick Fezell, Vice Chair & Sipi Metals Corporation Mark A. Wagner, President, Operations & Midwest Managing Partner Marion A. Cameron, President Community Management

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR • $10,000 to $24,999 Aetna BNY Mellon Invenergy Quarles & Brady LLP Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys Chicago Title and Trust Company Jones Lang LaSalle Takeda Pharmaceuticals at Law Foundation The Quaker Oats Company William Blair & Company

PREMIER BENEFACTOR • $7,500 TO $9,999 Amsted Industries Foundation Chicago White Metal Charitable DLA Piper LLP (US) KlearSky Solutions, LLC BMO Harris Bank Foundation Envestnet Starshak Winzenburg & Co.

BENEFACTOR • $5,000 TO $7,499 Robert W. Baird & Company CNA Foundation Italian Village Restaurants Shure Incorporated BBJ Linen General Mills Foundation Sahara Enterprises, Inc.

BRAVO CIRCLE • $3,500 to $4,999 American Funds Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Old Republic International Bessemer Trust Corporate Suites Network Corporation

IMPRESARIO • $2,000 TO $3,499 BNSF Foundation KD Mailing Service Opera Volunteers International Horwood Marcus & Berk MWM Consulting RBC Wealth Management Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. Rendezvous Music

FRIEND • $1,000 TO $1,999 American Agricultural Insurance Concierge Unlimited International Kinder Morgan Foundation Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Company Galois Group Mesirow Financial S & C Foundation Asher, Gittler & D'Alba, Ltd. Hafner Printing Company, Inc. Michuda Construction, Inc. Turks' Greenhouses

SUSTAINER • $500 to $999 Carl Johnson's Gallery in Galena Madison Opera Trips Network for Good

Matching Gifts

A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees' gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous (2) CME Foundation Johnson Controls Foundation Peoples Gas Aetna Foundation, Inc. CNA Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation PepsiCo Foundation Alliant Energy Foundation Deutsche Bank North America Kirkland & Ellis PNC Foundation American Express Foundation Emerson Electric Company Kraft Employee Involvement Programs Polk Bros. Foundation Aon Foundation Exxon Mobil Lannan Foundation The Prudential Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur The Rhoades Foundation ArcelorMittal GE Foundation Foundation Skadden AT&T Foundation General Mills Foundation Microsoft Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Bank of America Foundation Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Inc. BMO Harris Bank Foundation Grenzebach Glier and Associates National Joint Powers Alliance Toro Foundation BP Matching Funds Program Houghton Mifflin Company Newedge USA UBS Foundation Helen Brach Foundation IBM Corporation Northern Trust Company The Warranty Group Caterpillar Foundation Inc. ITW Foundation Oracle W. K. Kellogg Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Johnson & Johnson Peak6 W. W. Grainger Inc.

For purposes of recognition, we are pleased to combine matching gifts with an individual's personal gift. If your employer has a matching gift program, please request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Affairs office, and send it to us along with your contribution.

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FromThe Overture the Director Society

The Overture Society consists of those esteemed supporters who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric Opera in the future. These generous gifts ensure Lyric Opera’s artistic progress well into the 21st Century for the benefit of future Lyric audiences. Lyric Opera is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society: Bel Canto Benefactors These Overture Society members have made a major planned gift to Lyric Opera as well as a generous annual gift. For information about the Bel Canto Benefactors, please call Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Director of Planned Giving, at (312) 827-5677. Anonymous (16) Marianne Deson-Herstein Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Susan M. Miller Chatka Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard in memory of Samuel and Mrs. John C. Hedley David and Justine K. Mintzer Mary T. Schafer Valerie and Joseph Abel Sarah Deson Josephine E. Heindel James and Mary Beth Martha P. Schneider Louise Abrahams Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson Concordia Hoffmann Morehouse Charles Chris Shaw Dr. Whitney Addington Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Edgar D. Jannotta Allan and Elaine Muchin Rose L. Shure Karen G. Andreae Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng John and Kerma Karoly Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Lois B. Siegel Catherine Aranyi Robert F. Finke Kip Kelley Murphy Larry G. Simpson L. Robert Artoe Jack M. and Marsha S. James C. Kemmerer David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Craig Sirles Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Firestone LeRoy and Laura Klemt John H. Nelson Mrs. Jay Spaulding Marlys A. Beider Roy Fisher Nancy W. Knowles John D. and Alexandra C. Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Julie Anne Benson Elaine Frank Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Dr. Nichols Mary Stowell Merrill and Judy Blau Rhoda and Henry S. Frank W. Peter Hansen William A. Osborn Gerald Sunko, M.D. Ann Blickensderfer Richard J. Franke Dr. William R. Lawrence Joan L. Pantsios Carla M. Thorpe Dr. Gregory L. Boshart George and Mary Ann Gardner Thomas and Lise Lawson Irma Parker Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Danolda (Dea) Brennan Francey Gecht Carol L. Linne André and Julia Pernet Phil and Paula Turner George F. and Linda L. Brusky James K. Genden and Alma Daniel T. Manoogian Frances Pietch Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason David W. Carpenter Koppedraijer Robert C. Marks Kenneth Porrello and Sherry Joan and Marco Weiss James W. Chamberlain Sue and Melvin Gray Paul Mavros McFall Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Nelson D. Cornelius Harry J. Griffiths, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Nathaniel W. Pusey Claudia L. Winkler Paula Hannaway Crown Julian W. Harvey Nancy Lauter McDougal Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Renée Crown William E. and Mary Gannon Bill Melamed Lyn and Bill Redfield Edward T. Zasadil Thomas Doran Hay Margaret and Craig Milkint Joan L. Richards Society Members Anonymous (47) Sharon Conway Susan Boatman Garland Paul R. Keske Marilyn E. Miller Carol A. Abrioux Sarah J. Cooney Scott P. George Chuck and Kathy Killman Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Joseph E. Corrigan Mr. Lyle Gillman Diana Hunt King Robert and Lois Moeller Elizabeth M. Ashton Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey John F. Gilmore Neil King Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Richard N. Bailey B. A. Coussement John A. Goldstein Esther G. Klatz Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Susann Ball Morton and Una Creditor Jane Yager Goodman R. William Klein, Jr. Renate Moser Constance and Liduina Barbantini Kathryn M. Cunningham Dr. J. Brian Greis J. Peter Kline Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Munoz Margaret Basch Donald A. Deutsch James R. Grimes Helen Kohr Dr. Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Mrs. Bill Beaton Phyllis Diamond Patricia Grogan Dr. Bruce Korth John and Maynette Neundorf Alvin R. Beatty Roger Dickinson Carl J. Halperin Mary S. Kurz Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nickels Joan I. Berger Ms. Janet E. Diehl Mrs. Elaine Hansen Larry Lapidus Edward A. Nieminen Barbara Bermudez Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Barbara K. Larsen Florence C. Norstrom Patrick J. Bitterman Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Dobroski Ms. Geraldine Haracz Millicent Leibfritz James F. Oates M. J. Black Ms. Barbara J. Doerner Andrew Hatchell Ernest L. Lester Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Thomas M. Dolan William P. Hauworth Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Levy Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Ned and Raynette Boshell Mary Louise Duhamel Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Jonathan F. Orser David Boyce Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. Ronald G. Hedberg Carole F. Liebson Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Parsons Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Kathy Dunn Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Rosalie Loeding George R. Paterson Robert and Phyllis Brauer Richard L. Eastline Mrs. Marion Hoffman Doris C. Lorz Dr. Joan E. Patterson Mrs. William A. Briggs Carol A. Eastman James and Mary Lunz Houston Eva Lutovsky George Pepper, M.D. Leona and Daniel Bronstein Lowell and Judy Eckberg H. Eileen Howard Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Ira J. Peskind Candace Balfour Broecker and the Lucy A. Elam, Joseph H. Huebner Jeanne Randall Malkin Elizabeth Anne Peters Estate of Howard W. Broecker in memory of Elizabeth Elam Kenneth N. Hughes Ann Chassin Mallow Genevieve M. Phelps Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman Dagmar Hurbanek Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Karen and Dick Pigott Kathryn Y. Brown Cherelynn A. Elliott Michael Huskey Mrs. John Jay Markham Ms. Lois Polakoff Jacqueline Brumlik Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, James Massie and Dr. Christine Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Donna Brunsma Joseph R. Ender USMC Memorial Fund Winter Massie Mrs. Edward S. Price Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Dr. James A. Eng Barbara A. Joabson Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak Robert L. Rappel, Jr. Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger and Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Engel John Arthur Johnson James G. and Laura G. Sherrie Kahn Reddick Mr. William Burger Martha L. Faulhaber Laurence P. Johnson McCormick Keith A. Reed and Beth Kesterson Muriel A. Burnet Nadine Ferguson Nancy E. Johnson Gia and Paul McDermott Reed Lisa Bury Felicia Finkelman Roy A. Johnson Florence D. McMillan Michael and Susan “Holly” Reiter Robert J. Callahan Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Ms. Barbara Mair Jones Leoni Zverow McVey and J. Evelyn R. Richer Esther Charbit Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Janet Jones William McVey Jennie M. Righeimer Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Ms. Susan Frankel Moreen C. Jordan Martina M. Mead Gerald L. Ritholz Ramona Choos Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. Dr. Anne Juhasz Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Charles and Marilynn Rivkin J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Allen J. Frantzen Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Howard M. and Mary Raffetto- Heinke K. Clark Dr. Paul Froeschl Stuart Kane Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Mesrobian Robins Robert and Margery Coen Marie and Gregory Fugiel Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Conroy Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Lady Witton Kenneth Kelling Ms. Barbara Terman Michaels in memory of Robert Kyts

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Mrs. Beth Wheeler Rome Jared Shlaes Carol A. Stitzer Ultmann Family Charitable James M. Wells James and Janet Rosenbaum Dr. Alfred L. and Mildred Siegel Norene W. Stucka Remainder Unitrust Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Dr. John Gregory Russo Joanne Silver Marlene A. Van Skike Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Sandra Wenner Joseph C. Russo Jonathan P. Siner Emily J. Su Raita Vilnins Dennis Ryan Joan M. Skepnek Peggy Sullivan Dr. Malcolm Vye Caroline C. Wheeler Eugene Rzym, in memory of Joan M. Solbeck Sherwin A. Swartz Darcy Lynn Walker Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Adaline Rzym Mary Soleiman Gary T. Walther Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Nora Winsberg David Sachs Elaine Soter Albert Wang Mrs. Philip H. Schaff, Jr. Ms. Geraldine A. Spatz Lauritz K. Thomsen Louella Krueger Ward Brien and Cathy Wloch Franklin R. Schmidt James A. Staples Karen Hletko Tiersky Karl N. Wechter Mrs. William Wunder Myron Tiersky Lois K. Schmidt Sherie B. Stein Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Dr. Debra L. Zahay Edwin J. Seeboeck K. M. Stelletello Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Claude M. Weil Donald Seibert J. Allyson Stern Jean M. Turnmire Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Daniel R. Zillmann Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Paul and Judith Tuszynski Joanna L. Weiss Audrey A. Zywicki Estate Gifts The following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric Opera. With deepest regards, Lyric Opera commemorates those departed friends who have honored us with this most profound commitment. Anonymous (6) Kelli Gardner Emery Deborah Jannotta Joan Ruck Nopola David Wm. Smitches Mrs. Julius Abler William J. Evans Lenore S. John William A. Novy, Jr. and Paul A. Lindgren Mrs. Elmer E. Abrahamson Milton D. Faber Albert J. Johnson Mary S. Oldberg Edward Byron Smith Arthur A. Acheson Yvette Fairshter Diana T. Jones Roberta R. Oliff Dr. Edward C. Smith Jean L. Acker Dr. James D. Fenters Phyllis A. Jones Ms. Joan H. Smith Dr. Anne Hardwick Addington Larry Ferguson Dr. Stephen E. Juhasz Rex N. Olsen Mrs. Louis A. Smith Ralph E. Adler Lorin Adrian Fillmore Joseph M. Kacena Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Paige L. Smith Donald Alderman Marguerite B. Finch Andrew Karzas Edmond and Alice Opler Irene Smoller, in memory of her Dr. Harry S. and Irene K. Arkin Trust Harold Finley Theodore Kassel Foundation late son, Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson Armour III Robert A. Fischer Sherry Kelley Mary G. Oppenheim William Rothwell Smoller Joan Armstrong Agnes Joern Fowler Dorothy E. Kemp Eugenia Patche Willis B. Snell James E. S. Baker Brena and Lee Freeman Miss Emily Kernkamp, in memory of Suzanne Pirie Pattou Marilyn J. Snoble Elsa F. Bandi Don B. Freeman Dr. Lorraine McGuire Anna Sovish Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Vincent Barresi Mrs. Charles Goodlett Frey Ms. Ruth Kiewe Jay Spaulding Estate of Patricia Anne Barton Lucille Friday Mrs. Israel Kirsh Fund for Music Eleanore E. Starek Trust Robert and Isabelle Bass Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Robert Kispert Ralph M. Perlick Clarke and Adine Stayman Trusts Mrs. Henry Beard Robert M. Friedman R. Eustice Klein Bendix L. Peterson James L. Stein Mrs. B. Edward Bensinger Robert S. Friend Russell V. Kohr Mrs. Howard R. Peterson Franz S. Steinitz, M.D. Mrs. Edwin P. Berndtson Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Muriel Kolinsky Harold H. and Elaine Plaut Robert D. Stewart Rev. Dr. Warren Best Betsy Thayer Fricke Fyfe Ardis Krainik Sidney L. Port Howard A. Stotler Mrs. Edward McCormick Blair Mrs. Hildreth Jane Gaebe Herman Kuhn Frank D. Stout Trust Jack and Eleanor Portis Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Blettner In memory of Carl and Fern Anne C. Lacovic Lucile L. and Joseph J. Strasburger Mary L. Block Gaensslen Medard C. Lange Trust Joann M. Potvliet Gertrude & Walter E. Swanson, Jr. Berenece A. Boehm Florence Gambino Marjorie Lanterman Frank J. Prah Foundation Raymond J. Bradley Mrs. Nicholas Gannam Susanne E. Larsh Hal Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. Morton F. Swift Joanell C. Breen Dr. Martin L. Gecht Walter Leibfritz William Reily Helen L. Teich John P. Britz Trust In memory of Larry W. Gelfius, Louis L. Lerner and David L. Lerner Gayle Ann Rentschler Dean Terrell Estate Theresa J. Brosamer member of the Lyric Opera Mrs. John Woodworth Leslie William G. Rice Glenn E. Thiel Mrs. T. von Donop Buddington Lecture Corps Robert C. Lietz Joseph Tiritilli Michael Richter Inge Burg George Gifford Dean A. Linton Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Nara Cadorin Rosalie E. Gingiss Trust Dr. Richard A. Livingston Theresa M. Rill Annuity Trust Madeleine G. Camilleri Alfred Glasser Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd Rosemary D. Roberts Estate of Ruben Tross Carol N. Cane Joe Richard Glover Arthur B. Logan Harry A. Root Edgar William Trout Elizabeth Capilupo Myles C.. and Gloria M. Gogan Eleanor Lonek Rev. George Nash Ross John T. Trutter Rose Mary Carter Jeanne Brown Gordon Mrs. Arthur M. Long H. Cary Ross Dr. John E. Ultmann Warren Choos Shirley and Benjamin Gould Mary Longbrake Norman Ross Charitable Trust Dr. Paul D. Urnes William J. Ciulla Endowment Fund Babette Irene Louis John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley George M. Rubenstein Harry R. Clamor John D. Gray Dale B. Louiso Trust Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Frank E. and Sarah Graydon John P. Lundin Arthur Rubloff Residuary Trust Irvin J. Valovic Trust Eleanor Green Mary Louise Maher Burton Rubloff Trust Sheila von Wiese-Mack Anne and Milton Colman Jerome A. Gross Dr. Alexis W. Maier Trust Edith S. Ruettinger Cecilia Wade Charitable Trust Dorothy F. Cooney Lester and Betty Guttman Herman R. and Sylvia Margolis Margaret R. Sagers Nancy L. Wald John W. Coutts Ann Hall Ellen R. Marks Gladys S. Sailor Living Trust Lydia Walkowiak Robert Cowell David C. Hall Mrs. Edward A. Maser Suzanne Hewson Sammann Adele A. Wallace Claudia Cassidy Crawford Trust Kenneth L. Harder Trust Richard M. Mattern Carmen W. Walsh Mrs. Lee Schaenen Kathryn Kryder Crittenden Donna E. Harrison Augustus K. Maxell, Jr. Lois L. Ward Kathleen A. Crosby Dr. Melville D. Hartman Marjorie A. Mayhall Philip H. Schaff, Jr. Richard W. Wathen Joanne Toor Cummings Mrs. Ruth M. Harwell Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust S. Leder (Lee) Schiff Lyman Watson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dabovich Camille C. Hatzenbuehler Alfred L. McDougal Alice F. Schimberg Trust Virginia O. Weaver Ruth B. Dean Hatti Hayes Gerald E. Meyers Roy Schmaltz William D. Weaver Richard D. Deason Thomas D. Heath Ruth J. Milner Katherine M. Schultz Eva L. Weber, M.D. Marjorie Louise DeBoos Josephine A. Hedges Lisa D. Mogensen Robert G. Schweitzer Melvin “Bud” Weil Jo Hopkins Deutsch John C. Hedley Ralph Weil Mrs. Winston C. Moore Margaret W. Seeboeck Jane Warner Dick, in honor of Dr. Erich and Tamara Heinrichs Ann A. Mortenson Mrs. Miriam T. Weiss Edison Dick Trust Dorothy Mosiman, in honor of Romana K. and Clay Seipp Susanne Wells Helen L. Dickerman J. Raymond Helbert Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Jannotta Dr. Joseph Semrow Claire M. Wilhelm The Edward & Rose Donnell James C. Hemphill Ms. Kathryn Mueller Ingeborg Haupt Sennot Bernard E. Williams Foundation The Margaret E. Hertline Family Doris A. Murdoch Michael N. Shallow Frances B. Wilson Marjorie Donovan Trust Muriel Neave Henry Shapiro In memoriam, Henry J. Witka Mrs. Lyman Drake, Jr. Margot S. Hertz Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Joseph Jeffrey Shedd Sophie F. Wolff Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque James and Gail Hickey Foundation Peter Wolkonsky, M.D. Lenore T. Sherwin Carl Dumke Richard J. Hofemann Dawn Clark Netsch Mrs. Peter Wolkonsky Mrs. Ray Duncan Martha and Walter Honigman Thomas G. Neumiller Sidney N. Shure Cynthia Wood Bettie B. Dwinell Carl E. Horn Mrs. Frances Newman Adeline Elizabeth Sigwalt Mrs. William Wood Prince Barbara H. Eckholt Hugh Johnston Hubbard Jaye and Piri Niefeld Ellen Smith Simmons Mrs. Herman E. Woods Carl B. Eklund Mrs. Alfred Jacobshagen Elisabeth A. 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Annual Individual and Foundation Support

Lyric Opera deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received between July 1, 2013 and October 1, 2014. ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous (7) Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Julius Frankel Foundation Foundation Foundation Cornell Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Jim and Kay Mabie Estate of Harry A. Root, Jr. Elsa E. Bandi Trust Trust Robert H. Malott Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Julie and Roger Baskes Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Mazza Foundation Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh James N. and Laurie V. Bay Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ryan Marlys Beider Brent and Katie Gledhill Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Mills Dr. Scholl Foundation Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Ethel and William Gofen Monument Trust (UK) Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Gramma Fisher Foundation of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison James L. Stein Revocable Trust Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Marshalltown, Iowa The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Manfred and Fern Steinfeld The John and Jackie Bucksbaum Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross The Negaunee Foundation Lisbeth Stiffel Family Estate of Betty Guttman Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Cherryl T. Thomas/ Paul and Amy Carbone John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Foundation Ardmore Associates Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Trust The Harris Family Foundation Estate of Dawn Clark Netsch Joseph Tiritilli Trust Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Howard Family Foundation John K. Neundorf Charitable Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Remainder Unitrust Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance The Crown Family Estate of Phyllis A. Jones NIB Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Richard P. and Susan Kiphart John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. The Davee Foundation Nancy W. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Washlow Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky Helen and Sam Zell Estate of William J. Evans Josef and Margot Lakonishok Prince Charitable Trusts

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 TO $99,999 Anonymous (2) The Hearst Foundations Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Polk Bros. Foundation Ada and Whitney Addington Walter E. Heller Foundation The Knowles Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Foundation The Brinson Foundation Hugh Johnston Hubbard Trust Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Janet V. Burch, M.D. and Illinois Arts Council Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Joel R. Guillory, M.D. Edgar D. and Deborah R. Jannotta McDougal The Chicago Community Trust Family Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Mead, Jr. Estate of Margot S. Hertz Greg and Annie Jones/ National Endowment for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Edgewater Funds Estate of Mary G. Oppenheim

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 TO $49,999 Anonymous (7) Larry and Barbara Field Blythe Jaski McGarvie Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Paul and Mary Anderson Elaine Frank Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Estate of Dr. Joseph Semrow Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Susan M. Miller Mary Sue and Michael Shannon Christine and Paul Branstad Family Maurice and Patricia Frank Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation Barbara and Richard Franke Allan and Elaine Muchin Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Rose L. Shure Estate of Elizabeth Capilupo Avrum Gray Family Ken Norgan Lois B. Siegel Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Sue and Melvin Gray Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Bill and Orli Staley Foundation The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Parr Joseph and Pam Szokol Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy The Pauls Foundation Carl and Marilynn Thoma Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cozad Mary Ellen Hennessy Ingrid Peters Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Crain-Maling Foundation Martha A. Hesse The C. G. Pinnell Family H. A. Vance Foundation Inc. Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Estate of Martha Honigman Andra and Irwin Press Rolandi Davis Patricia Hyde JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation Mrs. Roy I. Warshawsky Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Collin and Lili Roche Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Ann M. Drake Joseph M. Kacena Endowed Fund H. Cary Ross Trust Kim and Miles D. White Drs. George and Sally Dunea Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Paul Wood and the Honorable John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn O'Leary Sage Foundation Corinne Wood Eisen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Ann Ziff Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Lewis Nancy S. Searle Yntema Ferguson Robert and Evelyn McCullen Segal Family Foundation

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 TO $24,999 Anonymous (6) Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crawford, Jr. James Huntington Foundation Candy and Gary Ridgway Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Rosemary and John Croghan Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Kenneth Aldridge Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Memorial Fund Roberts Family Foundation John and Ann Amboian M. Dillon Laurie and Michael Jaffe The Rooney Family Kelley and Susan Anderson Edward and Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kip Kelley John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe L. Robert Artoe Kelly Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Richard O. Ryan Mrs. Robert H. Bacon Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Albert and Rita Lacher Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sandner E. M. Bakwin Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden James Lancaster Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Michael A. Leppen Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Erika E. Erich Arthur B. Logan Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen The Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Philip G. Lumpkin Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Joan and Robert Feitler Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baumgartner, Jr. The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan The Shubert Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Sonja and Conrad Fischer Robert C. Marks Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Ross and Patricia D. Bender Russell W. and Christina Fisher Mason Foundation, Inc. Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil Estate of Dr. Warren Best Renée Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau The Foster Charitable Trust Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark T. G. Bligh Foundation Fund Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Charitable Erma S. Medgyesy Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Marcus Boggs Giving Fund Terry J. Medhurst Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Heidi Heutel Bohn Susan J. Garner Dawn G. Meiners Penelope and Robert Steiner Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Jennifer L. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. MRB Foundation Helen Brach Foundation McGuinnis Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stone Betty Bradshaw Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Mary Stowell Thomas Broadie The Edgewater Funds Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family David and Elizabeth Graham Martha C. Nussbaum Howard and Paula Trienens Foundation Foundation Mrs. William B. Graham Julian and Sheila Oettinger Tully Family Foundation The Buchanan Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Mr. and Mrs. John W. Oleniczak Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Buehler Family Foundation Mrs. Mary Winton Green Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Olofson Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley, Jr. Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Pasquinelli Family Foundation Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Beverly Persky Cynthia Walk The Butler Family Foundation Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Seymour H. Persky Walter Family Foundation Marie Campbell The Irving Harris Foundation Maya Polsky White Pine Charitable Trust David and Orit Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Greg and Mamie Case Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Mrs. John A. Wing Joyce E. Chelberg Mrs. John C. Hedley Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II CME Group Foundation Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Mary and John Raitt Marcia S. Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Merle Reskin Charitable Fund Debbie K. Wright Reed and Ann Coleman Miriam U. Hoover The Retirement Research Foundation James and Michele Young Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Considine Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner The Rhoades Foundation Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Lawrence O. Corry Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull William C. and Nancy Richardson Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 TO $9,999 Anonymous (3) Robert F. Finke Mrs. Helen Kedo Edgar Rose Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Arbetter Dr. Jorge Galante Kate T. Kestnbaum Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Robert S. Bartolone Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffery Geldermann Martin and Patricia Koldyke Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Mary Ann and Lloyd Gerlach Louise H. Landau Foundation Susan and David Ruder Lieselotte N. Betterman Virginia and Gary Gerst Lannan Foundation George and Terry Rose Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bobins, The Robert George and Maureen Gilmore Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Leonard Thomas Bobins Foundation Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Bernard and Averill Leviton Raymond and Inez Saunders Charles Bower Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Mary and Stanley Seidler Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Helyn D. Goldenberg Julius Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Joy Buddig Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Jim and SuAnne Lopata Mary Beth Shea Mrs. Laurence A. Carton Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Daniel T. Manoogian The Siragusa Foundation Dr. Robert W. Carton Phillip and Norma Gordon Shari Mayes Patricia Arrington Smythe Mrs. Hammond Chaffetz Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Dorie Sternberg Mrs. Warren M. Choos Dr. Doris Graber Egon and Dorothy Menker Lynd W. Corley Joan M. Hall Martha A. Mills Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Susan E. Cremin John Hart and Carol Prins David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Mrs. Robert D. Stuart, Jr. Anne Megan Davis Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Bolton Sullivan Fund Decyk Charitable Foundation Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Monica L. Parry Angela Tenta, M.D. Nancy Dehmlow James E. and Mary Lunz Houston Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Dr. David Thurn Jon W. DeMoss Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Harvey S. and Sheila Dulin Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jaffee Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker Christian Vinyard Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Jan and Bill Jentes Irene D. Pritzker Marilou and Henry von Ferstel Donald and Anne Edwards Louise Johnson John and Betsey Puth Richard B. Egen Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Daryl and James Riley Marilee and Richard Wehman Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Nancy Rita Kaz J. Timothy Ritchie Frieda and Judd Weinberg

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BENEFACTOR · $5,000 TO $7,499 Anonymous (5) Mrs. John M. Hartigan Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Kit and Bob Simon Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Reinhardt H. and Shirley R. Jahn Foundation Kate B. Morrison Estate of Willis B. Snell Maria C. Bechily and Scott Hodes Regina Janes Chris and Eileen Murphy Del Snow Mark and Judy Bednar Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Ellen and Jim Stirling David Quentin Bell Annette Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. James N. Perry Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Carol L. Bernick James and Linda Leahy Estate of Bendix L. Peterson Pam and Russ Strobel Helen and Charles Bidwell Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Genevieve Phelps Adam and Harriette Swierz Donor-Advised Richard and Heather Black Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Tom and Karen Rafter Fund Wiley and Jo Caldwell Barbara and Frank Lieber Mr. and Mrs. James T. Reid Tawani Foundation Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green Jane B. and John C. Colman Doris Conant "We want the opera to be available to future generations, and be in a strong position to continue to Francie Comer bring internationally recognized opera productions with great singers and producers." Marsha Cruzan Elgin The Dancing Skies Foundation David and Dolores Nelson, Thomas Doran Craig and Janet Duchossois Jim and Pati Ericson Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau Mr. and Mrs. John M. Richman Andrea and Mark Taylor James and Deborah Fellowes Thomas A. Marshall Rocco and Cheryl Romano O. Thomas Thomas Adrian Foster William Mason and Diana Davis Rita and Norman Sackar Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Maura Ann McBreen Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Estate of Rev. Thomas Gannon James G. and Laura G. McCormick Cecelia Samans Jean Morman Unsworth John F. Gilmore Thomas J. McCormick Satter Family Foundation John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Trust Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III George and Joan Segal Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick J. Douglas Gray Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally V Arch W. Shaw Foundation Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. James and Brenda Grusecki Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Mrs. Michael S. Shaw Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Milliken Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Claudia Winkler BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 TO $4,999 Anonymous Lafayette J. Ford Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Craig Sirles Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Amanda and Matthew Fox Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Joan M. Solbeck Katherine Abele Tim and Joyce Greening Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Eric A. Anderson James R. Grimes John H. Nelson Mrs. John Stanek Mychal P. Angelos Rose Ann Grundman Zehava L. Noah, M.D. Irving Stenn, Jr. Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Sandra L. Grung Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas, Jr. Susann Ball Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Jonathan F. Orser L. Kristofer Thomsen Mrs. Robert G. Bartle William M. Hegan Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Michael Tobin, MD C. Bekerman, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Dr. Pat and Lara Pappas Phil and Paula Turner Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Joseph H. Huebner Mrs. Harold E. Pendexter, Jr. Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Elizabeth K. Twede Mrs. Arthur Billings Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Johnson Karen and Richard Pigott Lori L. and John R. Twombly Nicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirr Douglas M. Karlen Dr. Joe Piszczor David J. Varnerin Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler Gerald and Judith Kaufman Harold H. Plaut Trust Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Lawrence Christensen Tyrus L. Kaufman Dr. and Mrs. Lincoln Ramirez Dr. Catherine L. Webb Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Gerould and Jewell Kern Edward and Leah Reicin Marco and Joan Weiss B. A. Coussement John and Mary Kohlmeier Charles and Marilynn Rivkin David and Linda Wesselink Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Dorothy Kuechl J. Kenneth and Cheryl Rosko Drs. David Whitney and Juliana Chyu Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Lee Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wimmer Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin The Schroeder Foundation Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Drs. Donald and Helen Edwards Pamela Forbes Lieberman Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation Cherelynn A. Elliott Marilyn and Myron Maurer Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and James C. Deane Ellis Sherry McFall and Kenneth Porrello Bill and Harlan Shropshire Kemmerer Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. David E. McNeel Ilene Simmons Donna and Phillip Zarcone IMPRESARIO · $2,000 TO $3,499 Anonymous (10) Alice Childs James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Howard E. Jessen Allison Alexander Heinke K. Clark Mary and Michael Goodkind Joy Jester Mrs. Robert W. Allen Robert Curley Annemarie H. Gramm Ronald B. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. John H. Andersen Lidia and David Devonshire Karen Z. Gray Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Antoniou Family Fund Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Greene Family Foundation Judith L. Kaufman Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Bill Donaldson Janet Wolter Grip, M.D. Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Bastian Voice Institute Fred Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob Kenneth Douglas Foundation Ronald Bauer and Michael Spencer Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Norm Kidder Daniel J. Bender La and Philip Engel Dr. and Mrs. Rolf M. Gunnar Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Julie Anne Benson Susanna and Helmut Epp Carol and Solomon Gutstein Neil and Diana King Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Philip and Nancy Zimmerman Hablutzel Hersch and Avril Klaff Patrick J. Bitterman Firestone Family Foundation The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Elizabeth W. Fischer Dr. Mona J. Hagyard J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Mr. and Mrs. David S. Fox, Jr. Ann Hokin Jean Klingenstein Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Edmund A. and Virginia C. Horsch Thomas A. Kmetko Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Michael Huston Dr. Katherine Knight Paul Carman Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Cavallino Peter G. O. Freund Betty and John G. Jacobs George Koch James W. Chamberlain Norman and Patricia Gates Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Eldon and Patricia Kreider

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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Britt Miller Alicia and Myron Resnick James A. Staples Marianne Tralewski Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Robert and Lois Moeller Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Michael and Salme Harju The Trillium Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Elaine T. Newquist Dolores E. Ruetz Steinberg Dulcie L. Truitt Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Howard and Cathy Niden Lena M. Ruppman Nancy and Bruce Stevens Stephen Wadsworth Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Dr. Linda Curtis O'Bannon Robert Russell Walter and Caroline Sueske Howard Walker Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Love Cindy and Marc Oberdorff Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Charitable Trust Louis Weber Nordstrom Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Lynda Schultz MinSook Suh Hilary and Barry L. Weinstein Liz and Arsen Manugian Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, MD Paul R. Seidlitz Kathryn M. Sullivan Manfred Wendt Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Herman M. and Bea L. Silverstein Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Caroline C. Wheeler Mrs. David McCandless Sandra and Michael Perlow Foundation Mrs. Henry S. Tausend Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Martina M. Mead and Michael Mrs. Zen Petkus Adele and John Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Dr. Wendall W. Wilson T. Gorey Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Gilbert Terlicher Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Sheila and Harvey Medvin Mary and Joseph Plauche Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Janet D. Thau Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Jennifer N. Pritzker K. Soltani Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Pamela G. Meyer Nathaniel W. Pusey The Sondheimer Family Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Robert O. Middleton Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft FRIEND · $1,000 TO $1,999 Anonymous (15) Dr. Lia Brillhart Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Michael G. Hansen and Nancy Emily and Christopher Knight A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Candace B. Broecker Virginia Feleppa, M.D. E. Randa Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Jerry Brosnan and Gisela Brodin Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hartigan Foundation Louise Abrahams Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Brown Shaw Daggett Harvey, Jr. Edward and Adrienne Kolb Richard Abram and Paul Howard and Moira Buhse James G. Fitzgerald Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Hauser William Konczyk and Stanley Chandler George J. Burrows Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Sheila Ann Hegy Conlon Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Jeffrey Bussean Anita D. Flournoy Drs. Allen Heinemann and Paul L. Kraus Ann Acker Agnes B. Canning Paul Fong William Borden Richard Kron and Deborah Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Irma Caprioli Dr. Jacek Franaszek and Kathleen Janet and Bob Helman Bekken Adelman Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter McQueeny Ms. Kimberlee S. Herold Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Susan S. Adler Drs. James and Stephanie Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Edward and Teresa Hintzke Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Cavanaugh Arthur L. Frank, MD Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Carol and Jerome Lamet Lance Johnson Robert and Laura Chen Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Carolyn Landwehr Cleo Alexander John Chiu Paterson Douglas R. Hoffman Frederic S. Lane The Carnot & Luceile Allen Mrs. Raymond A. Clasen Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Sandra Hoffman Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen Foundation Susan Somers and Ray Cocco Penny Friedman Andrée S. Hognestad Nancy Lass Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Dr. William R. Lawrence Dr. Michael Angell Dr. M. S. W. Lee Daniel J. Anzia "The benefit that we most appreciate is great music with great artists - we are Phillip Lehrman Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. lucky to have you here in Chicago." Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Eva Redel Edmund H. Lester Robert M. Arensman Richard and Dorothy Nopar, Winnetka Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Edith M. Ballin Strek Peter and Elise Barack Margery and Robert Coen Samuel and Adriana Front John E. 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Commemorative Gifts Gifts of $500 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness.

In Memory Of: June B. Pinsof Sonia Florian Elsa E. Bandi from Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker from an Anonymous Donor from Walter F. Bandi Dr. Robert A. Pringle Anthony Freud Robert G. Bartle from Marla McCormick Pringle from the Evanston Chapter from Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Bertha Rabin Paula Getman Bruno Bartoletti from Dr. Sondra C. Rabin from Concierge Unlimited from Robert and Laura Chen Marilyn and Roland Resnick International Roman Block from J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. and her many friends and family from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama and their many friends and family Ron and Christina Gidwitz Dr. W. Gene Corley Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff from Bob and Mimi Murley from Lynd W. Corley from Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Catherine Graham Lois Dunn Dr. Robert J. Strzyz from Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison from Kathy Dunn from Dr. Bernadette Strzyz Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Yu Morris and Anna Fishbein King Stutzman and her many friends and family from Justin and Marianne Fishbein from Patricia J. Janas John Flanzer and his many friends and family Edgar D. Jannotta from Sandra L. Grung from Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Henry S. Tausend Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen from Mrs. Henry S. Tausend Richard P. and Susan Kiphart from Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil from Robert E. Gaensslen Stephen A. Thau and their many friends and family Betty Rae Gilbert from Janet D. Thau Margot and Josef Lakonishok from her family George and Helen Toscas from Liz and Arsen H. Manugian John D. Gray from Jacquelyn Toscas-Fuchs Lyric Opera Women’s Board from J. Douglas Gray Bruce M. Turnmire from Bob and Mimi Murley Laura Ladish Jacobson from Jean Milnarik Turnmire Prince Charitable Trusts from Mary Ladish Selander and her Dr. Ronald Milnarik family Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Nancy Wald William Mason Deborah Jannotta from an Anonymous Donor from an Anonymous Donor from Marilyn E. Fites Ruth and Irving Waldshine Sandra L. Grung Michael and Margo Oberman from Marcia Purze and Deane Ellis Bill and Vicki Hood from the Jack and Goldie Wolfe William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt Arthur Weiner Miller Fund from Sheila Ann Hegy from Fredrick and Susan Gohl Phyllis N. Segal Jim and Nelly Kilroy Ardis Krainik Cathy Osborn and his many friends and family from Elizabeth Upjohn Mason from Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Carol Winston John H. Ladish Welsh Ryan from an Anonymous Donor from Mary Ladish Selander and his Kenneth G. Pigott and her many friends and family family from Julie and Roger Baskes Bernarr Wixon John A. Leer, Jr. MD Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau from Mary Anne Leer from the Riverside Chapter Duffie Adelson Dr. Ernest Mond Dale E. Wooley Glen O. Reeser from Mary and John Gedo from Regina James from David Quentin Bell M. Jean Trowbridge and his many friends and family Anne N. Reyes Jeffrey and Debra Trowbridge Virginia Byrne Mooney from Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley from Kathleen Vondran Nikolay Zhizhin Welsh Ryan from Larisa Zhizhin Dr. Antonio E. Navarette Andrea and Jim Gordon/ from Virginia Navarette The Edgewater Funds George Nichols, Jr. In Honor Of: Jan Shucart and the Chapter Office Staff from Nancy Nichols Julie and Roger Baskes from Dorothy Kuechl and his many friends and family from Patricia A. Kenney Lois Siegel Salvatore L. Nigro, M.D. and Gregory J. O’Leary from Ramona O. Mitchell from Carol M. Nigro Suzanne L. Wagner Jack and Dee Singleton Niel Oberg Lester and Renée Crown from Margles Singleton and from Susan and Bryan Erler from Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Clay Young Richard Pearlman Elizabeth Cole The Honorable Corinne Wood from Howard and Cathy Niden Prince Charitable Trusts from Lidia and David Devonshire

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Special Thanks American Airlines for its 33 year partnership as The Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. Chicago Tribune Media Group for its promotional support of The Magic Victrola. Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. Jeanne Gang and the Studio Gang Architects for design of the Concert Shell to debut at Lyric’s 60th Anniversary Concert on November 1, 2014. Acknowledgements The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric Opera’s efforts: Generous Gifts Special Gifts Notable Gifts Art Institute of Chicago BBJ Linen Hall’s Rental Calihan Catering Brook Furniture Rental KD Mailing & Fulfillment cinevative Bruce Packaging, Inc. Martha C. Nussbaum Classic Color Cru Cafe Coco Pazzo e.leaven Food Company HMS Media, Inc. Frankie’s Scaloppine Hoy Lee Freeman, Jr. Jewell Events Catering Lloyd’s Chicago Piccolo Sogno

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The management of Lyric Opera of Chicago earnestly requests patrons to preserve complete silence during the performance. As a gesture of respect for all other audience members as well as for our artists onstage and in the pit, patrons are asked to remain seated until an act or the opera is completely over. The management reserves the right to refuse admittance or remove any person who may create a disturbance. Patrons are urgently reminded to check that their cellular phones, pagers, and electronic beepers (including watches) are SWITCHED OFF before the performance begins. Perfumes, hairsprays, colognes, and other body lotions should be avoided or used sparingly when attending the opera, as allergies are commonplace. Noise from theater elevators may disturb patrons in the auditorium during the performance. We therefore respectfully ask that the elevators only be used before performances, at intermission, and after performances have concluded, except in cases of emergency. Your understanding and cooperation are appreciated.

TICKETS The Civic Opera House Box Office (at the corner of PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES The Opera House is accessible Wacker and Madison) is open from noon to 6:00 p.m. Monday to physically disabled persons with elevator service to all floors except through Friday, and from noon through the first intermission on the Opera Club. The Ardis Krainik Theatre contains seating that is performance days. During season, Lyric Opera’s phone sales staff accessible to persons in wheelchairs, as well as seats with removable is on duty from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, armrests. The Opera House has automatic door-openers on exterior and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. On performance doors, and accessible drinking fountains and public telephones. A evenings and matinees, our phone lines are open until curtain TTY phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only. time. Call (312) 332-2244, ext. 5600, for ticket information. Should Restroom facilities for female patrons with disabilities are located on you need to visit the Ticket Department, we are located at 20 N. all levels of the Opera House except the Opera Club level. For male Wacker Drive, Suite 840, Chicago, IL 60606. Hours are 9:00 a.m. patrons, these facilities are located on all levels except the Opera to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Buy tickets online anytime via Club level and the sixth floor. Lyric Opera’s website, www.lyricopera.org. Assistive listening devices for persons desiring amplification are Should you be unable to attend a performance, we would available at no cost at any open checkroom. A valid driver’s license, greatly appreciate you donating your tickets to Lyric state identification, or major credit card is required as a security Opera. We can accept your ticket donation as late as five deposit. minutes prior to curtain at (312) 827-5600, or donate your High-powered opera glasses for the visually impaired are available at tickets online up to four hours prior to curtain at lyricopera.org/ no cost at the checkroom on the main floor. A valid driver’s license, donatetickets. You may also mail or fax your ticket donation — the state identification, or major credit card is required as a security fax number is (312)332-8120. Donating your ticket(s) as soon as deposit. possible will increase our chances of reselling them. A personalized For additional information or questions, call (312) 332-2244, ext. statement of all ticket donations will be sent to you in January for the 5600. previous calendar year. DINING options are available before, during (intermission), and Attention Box-Seat Holders: In order for each party seated in your after most Lyric Opera performances on the main and third floor of box to have equivalent front-of-box seating opportunities for all the Civic Opera House. Refreshments are also available throughout performances throughout the season, Lyric asks that you agree upon most lobby areas on each floor and on the Opera Club level. Visit an equitable seating rotation plan with your neighbors seated within lyricopera.org/dine for complete details. Outside food and bever- your box. Please remember that you may need to adjust your front- ages may not be brought into the Civic Opera House. of-box seating expectations in consideration of patrons who do not NO SMOKING POLICY In compliance with the City of Chicago regularly sit in your box and therefore are unaware of any previous ordinance, Lyric Opera of Chicago enforces a no smoking policy arrangements. throughout the Opera House and within 15 feet of our theatre entrances. Thank you for your cooperation. The use of a ticket acknowledges a willingness to appear in pho- tographs taken for print, television, or film in the public areas of the LATECOMERS will not be seated once the performance theater and releases Lyric Opera of Chicago from liability resulting has begun. Patrons who must leave will not be re-admit- from the use of such photo­graphs. The program and artists are ted during the performance. These patrons must remain in the subject to change without notice. lobby until a suitable break, which is usually the next intermis- sion. There is no standing room. Evening performances of For patrons attending the pre-performance lectures, the doors will Tanhäusser begin PROMPTLY at 6:00 p.m., except for Friday, open 75 minutes before curtain. May 2, which begins at 8:00 p.m. Matinee performances of Tanhäusser begin PROMPTLY at 1:00 p.m. CAMERAS, recording equipment, food, and beverages are not allowed in the seating area of the Civic Opera House. For the safety PHONES As a courtesy to our patrons, complimentary phone and comfort of our audience, management reserves the right to have service is available in the Vaughan Family Hospitality Foyer. all large parcels, backpacks, luggage, etc. checked in the Civic Opera LOST AND FOUND Please telephone (312) 827‑5768 for lost House checkrooms. items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days. FIRST AID In case of illness or injury, please inform an usher, who will EMERGENCY EXIT Walk, do not run, to the nearest marked exit call the house manager and house doctor for assistance. EXIT which is the shortest route to the street.

Front of House Managers Box Office Assistant Treasurers Concessions Supervisor Usher Supervisor Charles Youmans Joseph Dunn Geri LaGiglio Dolores Abreu Laura LaChirco John Thor Sandquist Checkroom Supervisor Patron Relations Box Office Treasurer Hospitality Services Manager Myrna Maciel Miguel González Timothy M. Finnigan Patricia Lutz

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