1991-92 Season
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SEVILLE, table of § ontents Messages 3 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra 5 The Cast 18 The Story 19 The Composer 20 Indianapolis Opera Chorus and Production Staff 22 Calendar of Upcoming Events 22 Director's Notes 24 Indianapolis Opera Ensemble 27 Education Activities 27 Artists' Profiles 29 Contributors' Benefits 35 Indianapolis Opera Corporate Contributors 37 Indianapolis Opera Individual Contributors 39 COVER "Woman in Black at the Opera," by Mary Cassatt With permission of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts "This is one of the few loge pictures by Mary Cassatt [painted in 1880] which does not incorporate a mirror reflection. Here the occupant of the box is seen from the side with the other loges in the background. In this case a humorous interplay had been created: the woman in the foreground, intently viewing the theater through her opera glasses, is in turn being scrutinized by the man in the background box. The two figures are visually linked by the red velvet arm-rail, which curves through the compostion." Mary Cassatt, E. John Bullard BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bonnie Reilly, President Tory Callahan Jeffrey Maess Ann M. Stack Robert D. Knapp, Executive Vice Charles W. Culp Alice McKinney Mary M. Sutherland President Patricia D. Curran M. Kathleen McKinney James S. Telfer Michael Barth, Jr., Vice President Sue M. DeMars Susanah M. Mead Norma Winkler Clare Coxey, Vice President Andre Donikian Alan K. Mills Joan Wolf Arnold Hanish, Treasurer Rosalie Ferguson F. Timothy Nagler John W. Wynne Pat Garrett Rooney, Secretary Richard E. Ford Diana B. Nering Robert H. Zeigler Donald Galante Edith Owings Douglas P. Zipes Dorothy Alig Vaughn Hickman F. Bruce Peck, Jr. Sonny Swimley Margaret Bannister Betty Ann Holmes Lortaine Price (Guild Representative) Sarah C. Barney Thomas W. Kincannon James E. Rogers, Jr. Walter S. Blackburn Kyle E. Lanham Marlyne Sexton ADMINISTRATION Acting Artistic Director Administrative Assistant Advertising Sales James Caraher Director of Public Relations Marina Hardin Nancy Burris General Director Donna Noblitt Program Editor Ticket Service Durand L Pope Director of Education Patricia Harvey Clowes Memorial Hall Director of Development and Patricia Harvey Playbill Manager Marketing Controller John C. Pickett John C. Pickett Carole Schott INDIANAPOLIS OPERA GUILD OFFICERS Sonny Swimley, President Nancy Baetzhold, Second Vice Ruth Beyer, Third Vice President Alice Ross, Corresponding Secretary Sue McTurnan, First Vice President President Juanita Harris, Recording Secretary Barbara Hayford, Treasurer 1991-1992 Season Expand Your Horizons With the Gold Card. The Gold Club gives you more benefits than ever before! Developed exclusively for people age 55 plus, the Gold Card stretches your spending power. You receive discounts on everything from prescriptions to travel services. For only $19.95 a year (or $29.95 per couple), the Gold Club offers: • 10% off Average Wholesale Price of prescription drugs (plus $2.00 dispensing fee) • Over-the-counter drug discounts • More than 600 pharmacies ready to serve you— including 3 major pharmacy chains and more than 100 local independent pharmacies. • Vision and hearing care discounts • Car rental discounts • Key Horizons magazine • Personalized stationery • Senior services directory, Seminars and more Become a Gold Club member, and you'll experience new horizons, too! Senior Benefits 1-800-752-8614 Key Horizons Club is administered by Acordia Senior Benefits for people 55 plus. Membership in the Club does not replace or alter your Medicare supplement insurance benefits. ess ages Dear Friends of Indianapolis Opera, Welcome to the drama, the tragedy and the romance that is opera. The Board of Directors and the staff of the Indianapolis Opera are pleased to provide you with the opportunity to experience the queen of the arts in our city. This season's repertory is a very popular one which has resulted in the sale of an unprecedented number of season tickets. As you join us, you will take an imaginary journey in time and space from Charleston's Catfish Row to Japan, proceeding to the moors of Scotland and finally ending in eighteenth-century Italy. Gershwin, Puccini, Donizetti and Mozart, along with the Indianapolis Opeta, will do their best to entertain you. We hope you enjoy the excursion. This year, as we develop a strategic plan for the Opera and undertake the search for a new artistic director, we are continally evaluating our productions and our organization with the intention of improving the quality of both wherever possible. There are exciting times ahead fot the Indianapolis Opera. Your continued attendance and financial support will enable you to patticipate in that future. Yours very truly, Bonnie Reilly President, Board of Directors Indianapolis Opera's 1991-92 season is one of the most popular in recent years, and at the same time, one of the most diverse. George and Ira Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS opens the season. Everyone is familiar with hit tunes like "Summertime," "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" and "It Ain't Necessarily So," but most listeners will be truly amazed at the grandeur and the complexity of this great American opera. Next, for our Italian opera lovers in the audience, we offer Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY and Donizetti's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. BUTTERFLY is an exciting example of the dramatic "veiismo" or realistic school of Italian opera. LUCIA, by contrast, featutes the beautiful melodies and simple accompaniments that define the delightful "bel canto" school of Italian opera. And finally, in honor of the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death, we conclude our season with his comedy COSI FAN TUTTE, universally agreed to contain some of his most beautiful music. Sevetal familiar artists will be returning throughout the season for various title roles. Among them are Arthut Woodley (last season's Leporello in DON GIOVANNI) as Porgy, Nova Thomas, an Indianapolis Opera favorite, as Buttetfly, and Lisa Saffer, our recent Queen of the Night (THE MAGIC FLUTE), as Lucia. Also singing in the LUCIA cast will be tenor Michael Rees Davis, who sang Tonio in our DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT in 1989 with Miss Saffer. With this mixture of great operas and guest artists, we promise you a 91-92 season not to be missed! Please join us! James Caraher Acting Artistic Director 1991-1992 Season We salute all the musicians, actors and dancers who have more artistic talent in one toe than we have in our entire bodies. BANKEONE Equal Opportunity Under. ©1991 BANC ONE CORPORATION Whatever it takes. BANK ONE INDlANAPQUS, NA Memtwi FDIC INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RAYMOND LEPPARD, Music Director Alfred Savia, Associate Conductor Erich Kunzel, Pops Music Director First Violins Celli Contrabassoon Hidetaro Suzuki, Arkady Orlovsky, Charles Rader Concertmaster Principal Philip Palermo, Perry Scott, Horns Associate Concertmaster Associate Principal Robert Danforth, Principal Christal Phelps Steele, Robert Sansone, Richard Graef, Assistant Assistant Concertmaster Assistant Principal Principal Dean Franke Sarah Boyer Peter Kline Assistant Concertmaster Ingrid Fischer-Bellman Gerald Montgomery Barbara Fisher Agresti Geoffrey S. Lapin Jill Boaz Gino Agresti Mark Maryanovsky Trumpets David Collins Anne Duthie McCafferty Marvin C. Perry II, Judith Cox Katherine Vaccaro Natali Principal William Earnhart Jiro Yamaguchi Paul Hilgeman Carol Frohlich Contrabasses Robert Day Vladimir Krakovich Stewart Arfman, Principal Dinah Montgomery Robert Goodlett II, Trombones Raye Pankratz Assistant Principal James Beckel, Principal Blake Schlabach Yefim Pastukh Henry W. Boerner III John Bart Marc Silberger Leonard Bennett Gary Sliauzis Crantford Bass Trombone Gregory Dugan John Bart Second Violins Peter A. Hansen Konstantin Umansky, Michael Hartt Tuba Principal Leigh Mesh Daniel Corrigan, Principal David Bartolowits, Flutes Timpani Associate Principal Karen Moratz, Principal Mary Anne Berens, Timothy Adams, Jr. Philip G. Sample Principal Assistant Principal Rebecca J. Price, Sharon Bauerlein The Thomas N. Akins Anne Day Assistant Principal