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MESSAGE FROM NC OPERA

Welcome to Carmen! Both first-time operagoers and lifelong fans will recognize all of today’s melodies. Carmen is unique among well-known operas in that every song is a hit—from the tempting “Habanera” to the seductive “Seguidille” to the rousing “Toreador Song.” Bizet’s beguiling score along with the hypnotic dancing and pulsating human drama all combine to make it one of the most popular operas in the repertory. The NCO Orchestra and our terrific cast are all conducted by Keitaro Harada, who returns for his first appearance here since his 2011 debut conducting Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.

Carmen, however, did not start out as a hit. Its 1875 premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris was a legendary failure. Bizet died only three months later and never saw the success his opera would eventually enjoy. The premieres of many of today’s most popular operas–such as Madama Butterfly and La traviata–began under similar circumstances. Yet over time audiences have come to appreciate these works for the masterpieces that they are. I am sure you will enjoy today’s performance!

Our season doesn’t end with Carmen. Soprano Leah Crocetto, who had a great success at NCO last fall singing the title role of Norma, returns on March 3 to present a vocal recital at the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater. She will present a “recital for the ages” (WQXR-FM) featuring works by Respighi, Poulenc and Rachmaninoff, a new song cycle by American composer Gregory Peeples and classics from the Great American Song Book.

The NCO 2018-19 season closes in April with Puccini’s Tosca, the opera that inngaurated our company in 2010. Tosca is Puccini at his finest, a tautly drawn political thriller and a love triangle involving an opera diva, her painter lover and an evil baron. Spoiler alert: not everyone makes it out alive! Joseph Rescigno, who conducted last season’s Rigoletto, returns to conduct the NCO Orchestra with a fantastic cast.

And now, travel with us to Seville for Carmen!

Eric Mitchko General Director

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 3 CARMEN

Music by Georges Bizet Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy Based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée World Premiere: March 3, 1875 at the Opéra-Comique, Paris U.S. Premiere: October 23, 1878 at the Academy of Music, New York City

These performances of Carmen are presented with generous support from: Ross Lampe, Jr. – Sitelink Software

Conductor Keitaro Harada Director Fenlon Lamb

Carmen Aleks Romano Don José Sean Panikkar Escamillo Richard Ollarsaba Micaëla Raquel González Zuniga Donald Hartmann El Dancaïro Takaoki Onishi El Remendado Timothy W. Sparks Moralès Takaoki Onishi Frasquita Sara Womble Mercédès Stephanie Foley Davis Lillas Pastia Michael Byrne

Dancers Alicia Vilá-Geis, Maitri Acharya, and Yuko Cato are members of Durham-based Flamenco Carolina (FB: Flamenco Carolina and FlamencoArtsNC)

Children’s Chorus Kidznotes prepared by Kidznotes Executive Director Nick Malinowski and Kidznotes Teaching Artist David Dowless Lighting Designer Nate Wheatley

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 4 FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2019 7:30PM SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2019 2:00PM MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

Chorus Master Scott MacLeod Production Manager Linda T. Carlson Fight Director Jeff A.R. Jones Properties Master Aline Johnson Properties Assistant Kiernan Bastien Costume Coordinator Denise Schumaker Assistant Conductor Vincent Povazsay Costume Assistant Chris Milner Makeup and Wigs Designed by Martha Ruskai Wig and Makeup Assistants Jillian Leonard, Mallory Evans Master Electrician Jennifer Sherrod Technical Director Matthew Strampe Sound Designer Sean Loepp Supertitle Operator Joanna Helms Production Intern Lucy Calaway

Scenery originally designed by Franco Colavecchia for Chautauqua Opera Costumes designed by Glenn Avery Breed Costumes provided by Wardrobe Witchery English captions for Carmen written and owned by Jonathan Dean © 2019

Production Stage Manager Samantha Greene Assistant Stage Manager Lucy Coarsey

Rehearsal pianists Sahar Nouri, Kent Lyman, Kathryn Lewis, Qiao Zheng Goh

North Carolina Opera is funded in part by the City of Raleigh based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission.

The performance will last three hours, including one intermission.

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 5 SYNOPSIS

ACT 1 is unimpressed: if he really loved her, he would Spain. In Seville by a cigarette factory, soldiers desert the army and join her in a life of freedom comment on the townspeople. Among them is in the mountains. José refuses, and Carmen tells Micaëla, a peasant girl, who asks for a corporal him to leave. Zuniga bursts in, and in a jealous named Don José. Moralès, another corporal, tells rage José fights him. The smugglers return and her he will return with the changing of the guard. disarm Zuniga. José now has no choice but to The relief guard, headed by Lieutenant Zuniga, join them. soon arrives, and José learns from Moralès that Micaëla has been looking for him. When the factory bell rings, the men of Seville gather -INTERMISSION- to watch the female workers—especially their favorite, the gypsy Carmen. She tells her admirers that love is free and obeys no rules. Only one ACT III man pays no attention to her: Don José. Carmen Carmen and José quarrel in the smugglers’ throws a flower at him, and the girls go back to mountain hideaway. She admits that her love is work. José picks up the flower and hides it when fading and advises him to return to live with his Micaëla returns. She brings a letter from José’s mother. When Frasquita and Mercédès turn the mother, who lives in a village in the countryside. cards to tell their fortunes, they foresee love and As he begins to read the letter, Micaëla leaves. riches for themselves, but Carmen’s cards spell José is about to throw away the flower when a death—for her and for José. Micaëla appears, fight erupts inside the factory between Carmen frightened by the mountains and afraid to meet and another girl. Zuniga sends José to retrieve the woman who has turned José into a criminal. the gypsy. Carmen refuses to answer Zuniga’s She hides when a gunshot is heard. José has fired questions, and José is ordered to take her to at an intruder, who turns out to be Escamillo. prison. Left alone with him, she entices José He tells José that he has come to find Carmen, with suggestions of a rendezvous at Lillas Pastia’s and the two men fight. The smugglers separate tavern. Mesmerized, he agrees to let her get them, and Escamillo invites everyone, Carmen away. As they leave for prison, Carmen escapes. in particular, to his next bullfight. When he has Don José is arrested. left, Micaëla emerges and begs José to return home. He agrees when he learns that his mother ACT II is dying. Before leaving, he warns Carmen that Carmen and her friends Frasquita and Mercédès they will meet again. entertain the guests at the tavern. Zuniga tells Carmen that José has just been released. The ACT IV bullfighter Escamillo enters, boasting about Back in Seville, the crowd cheers the bullfighters the pleasures of his profession, and flirts with on their way to the arena. Carmen arrives on Carmen, who tells him that she is involved with Escamillo’s arm, and Frasquita and Mercédès someone else. After the tavern guests have left warn her that José is nearby. Unafraid, she waits with Escamillo, the smugglers Dancaïre and outside the entrance as the crowds enter the Remendado explain their latest scheme to the arena. José appears and begs Carmen to forget women. Frasquita and Mercédès are willing to the past and start a new life with him. She calmly help, but Carmen refuses because she is in love. tells him that their affair is over: she was born The smugglers withdraw as José approaches. free and free she will die. The crowd is heard Carmen arouses his jealousy by telling him how cheering Escamillo. José keeps trying to win she danced for Zuniga. She dances for him now, Carmen back. She takes off his ring and throws it but when a bugle call is heard he says he must at his feet before heading for the arena. José stabs return to the barracks. Carmen mocks him. To her to death. prove his love, José shows her the flower she threw at him and confesses how its scent made Synopsis adapted from and courtesy of Opera News him not lose hope during the weeks in prison. She

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 6 CHARTER SUBSCRIBERS

Charter Subscribers–the following patrons have been season subscribers to North Carolina Opera for nine consecutive years, since our first performance in 2010. Thank you! Francis and Jane Acquaviva Ekaterina Korobkina and Ralph and Francine Roberson Yvonne Bryant Robert Golub Jim and Anna Romano Anne Prince Cuddy Thomas and Kathleen Lada William and Mary Louise Rustin Martha Dimes Ross Lampe, Sr. Steven and Sarah Shaber Marilyn Ehrensaft William and Margaret Rob Tiller James Gray McCulloch Allison Tolksdorf Clark and Karen Havighurst Carol and Rick McNeel Lizbeth Videau Mark Hogan Thomas and Christina Mitchko Phyllis Weldon Dave Horne and Linda Fineman Robert Morrison, Jr. Brigette Wilds and Alan and Senora Karr Linda Murphy Michael Byrne Joann Parkerson Ellen and Douglas Williams Florence and James Peacock

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NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 7 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

KEITARO HARADA FENLON LAMB (CONDUCTOR) (DIRECTOR) Keitaro Harada made Fenlon Lamb makes her NCO his NCO debut in 2011 debut directing this production conducting Britten’s The Turn of Carmen. Most recently, of the Screw. He is in his fourth Fenlon directed the world season as Associate Conductor premiere of Riders of the Purple of the Cincinnati Symphony Sage with Arizona Opera in Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops. a production that BroadwayWorld.com called “epic” and “memorable…literally and figuratively Harada has conducted many orchestras in his blazing trails.” She led Dayton Opera’s Carmen native Japan, including the Yomiuri Nippon and directed the oratorio To Be Certain of the Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Dawn (Stephen Paulus) with the Lexington Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic. Fenlon and her artistic partner, Siena Wind Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Jeff Ridenour, created a unique production of Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, The Juliet Letters with the Resident Artists of Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Lyric Opera of Kansas City, which the Kansas Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, and Tokyo City Star hailed as “a successful, intimate show Philharmonic. His U.S. engagements include [that] delighted the audience in a noteworthy appearances at the Fort Worth Symphony, production.” In another collaboration with Berkeley Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Mr. Ridenour, she débuted with Finger Lakes Memphis Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Opera directing a new production of La traviata. Louisiana Philharmonic, Charlotte Symphony, Fenlon made her company début with Opera Music in the Mountains Festival, Boise Santa Barbara directing a double-bill of Suor Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony, South Angelica/Gianni Schicchi and returned to Palm Bend Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Phoenix Beach Opera for her fourth season to direct a Symphony, Virginia Symphony, and Sierra “delightful, energetic” Don Pasquale. Upcoming Vista Symphony. Upcoming engagements engagements include Charlie Parker’s jazz include returns to the Indianapolis Symphony opera Yardbird for Arizona Opera, Carmen and Louisville Orchestra, performances of The for Annapolis Opera, and Derrick Wang’s Nutcracker and the world-premiere of Victoria Scalia/Ginsburg for OperaDelaware. for Northern Ballet (Leeds, UK), and a debut with Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan. ALEKS ROMANO (CARMEN) His opera conducting credits include Song from Mezzo-soprano Aleks Romano the Uproar at The Cincinnati Opera, Carmen makes her NCO debut singing for Bulgaria’s Sofia National Opera and Ballet, the title role of Carmen. Her Ariadne auf Naxos at the Tanglewood Festival 2018-2019 season includes and Don Pasquale, La fille du régiment, Tosca, and performances as Paquette Carmen at the Arizona Opera. (Candide) with the Seoul Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, and the Israeli From 2010 to 2014, Harada served as Music Philharmonic, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) Director of the Phoenix Youth Symphony. with Portland Opera and Chautauqua Opera, Harada held the position of Associate Conductor and Samira (The Ghosts of Versailles) with for Richmond Symphony from 2014 to 2016. Chautauqua Opera.

Her recent engagements include Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Washington National Opera, Aurelio in The Siege of Calais at the Glimmerglass Festival, the title role in Carmen at Madison Opera, Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos at Austin Lyric Opera, the title role in Rossini’s Tancredi at Teatro Nuovo, Isabella in L’italiana

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 8 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES in Algeri at Piedmont Opera and Portland Opera. Symphonic engagements include appearances Her performance as Arsace in Semiramide at at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Los OperaDelaware was recorded and broadcast Angeles Philharmonic, Phoenix Symphony, over the international WFMT Fine Arts San Francisco Symphony, and Indianapolis Radio Network. Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Romano is a past member of the Domingo- RICHARD OLLARSABA Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington (ESCAMILLO) National Opera and sang in several productions Baritone Richard Ollarsaba there including Dialogues of the Carmelites, made his NCO debut in 2012 Hansel und Gretel and The Little Prince. as Ferrando in Il trovatore. He recently finished his On the concert stage she appeared with the residency with the Ryan Opera Kansas City Symphony for performances of the Center at the Lyric Opera of Mozart Requiem, and the Jacksonville Symphony Chicago, where he appeared in Don Giovanni, for Handel’s Messiah. Ms. Romano given solo Capriccio, Anna Bolena, Tosca, The Passenger, recitals at Yale University and Bard College. Otello, Madama Butterfly, Parsifal, and La traviata. During his time in Chicago, Richard SEAN PANIKKAR performed at the Grant Park Music Festival and (DON JOSÉ) the Ravinia Festival and with such ensembles as Tenor Sean Panikkar makes Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Elmhurst Symphony his NCO debut as Don José. Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. His 2018-19 season includes his LA Opera debut as Gandhi Recent engagements include his return to Lyric in Glass’s Satyagraha, a return Opera of Chicago for productions of Lucia di to the Festival d’Aix en Lammermoor, Les troyens, and Carmen and Wolf Provence in Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Trap Opera as Luciano in Bastianello, Angelotti Mahagonny, Rodolfo in La bohème at Pittsburgh in Tosca, and Asdrubale in La pietra del paragone. Opera, and as Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles The 2017-2018 season included the title role at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. On the in Le nozze di Figaro with Minnesota Opera, concert stage, the American tenor of Sri Lankan Pistola in Falstaff with both Opera Omaha and descent is heard at the Seattle Symphony and Intermountain Opera, and Raimondo in Lucia Las Vegas Philharmonic. di Lammermoor with Virginia Opera. Upcoming engagements include Escamillo in Carmen with Mr. Panikkar created the roles of Adam Annapolis Opera and his debut with Opera Hong in Battistelli’s CO2 at Teatro alla Scala, Kong in the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Wendell Smith in Sonenberg and Campbell’s The Summer King at Pittsburgh Opera and RAQUEL GONZÁLEZ Michigan Opera Theatre, Agent Henry Rathbone (MICAËLA) in David Little’s JFK at the Fort Worth Opera Soprano Raquel González and Opéra de Montréal, and the title role in Jack makes her NCO debut as Perla’s Shalimar the Clown for Opera Theatre of Micaëla. During the 2018-19 Saint Louis. season, she sings Liù in Turandot at New Orleans He has given nearly 50 performances at the Opera, Anna Sørensen in Metropolitan Opera, including appearances in Silent Night at Washington National Opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, Guillaume Tell, Roméo Tatyana in Eugene Onegin at The Atlanta Opera, et Juliette, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Ariadne Violetta in La traviata at Opera on the James, auf Naxos. He also has appeared at Washington Mimì in La bohème at Opera Tampa, and National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Royal Albert Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly at Central Hall in London, Cincinnati Opera, Glimmerglass City Opera. Festival, Atlanta Opera, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

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Recent engagements include appearances with New York City Opera to Lincoln Center. His Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of 2018-19 season includes performances as the Kansas City, West Virginia Symphony, Syracuse Sacristan in Tosca at North Carolina Opera, Dr. Symphoria, Queen City Opera, the Glimmerglass Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opera North, Festival, and the Washington Chorus at the Bonze in Madama Butterfly at Greensboro Kennedy Center. Opera, and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin with Opera Carolina. Donald Hartmann is a Professor She is a past member of Domingo-Cafritz Young of Voice in the School of Music at UNCG. Artist at Washington National Opera, where her roles included Cio Cio San, Micaëla, Mimì, TAKAOKI ONISHI Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Donna (EL DANCAÏRO/MORALÈS) Anna in Don Giovanni, the Sandman in Hansel Baritone Takaoki Onishi is und Gretel. an alumnus of Chicago Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera Center. As a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of At Lyric Opera, he appeared Saint Louis, she appeared in the world premiere in productions of Eugene of Terence Blanchard’s Champion and returned Onegin, Les Troyens, Carmen, to OTSL in the summer of 2014 to sing in Rigoletto, and the world premiere of Bel Canto. The Magic Flute. In Chicago, he also shared a recital program with Renée Fleming and appeared in a Gala tribute to DONALD HARTMANN Plácido Domingo. Mr. Onishi has sung Mahler’s (ZUNIGA) Songs of a Wayfarer with the Elgin Symphony and Bass-baritone Donald Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina at the Grant Park Hartmann has appeared with Music Festival. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall NCO in Le nozze di Figaro, as the baritone soloist in Vaughan Williams’s Aida, Carmen, Rusalka and Hodie with The Cecilia Chorus and in Carmina Tosca. Celebrating 40 years Burana with Oratorio Society of New York. of singing on the operatic stage, his professional career began in 1979 with Mr. Onishi has won several major vocal the Stadttheater Regensburg and continued competitions. Last fall, he won the Grand Prize at the Vereinigte Städtiches Bühnen Krefeld/ and the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Memorial Career Mönchengladbach in Germany. Donald is an Grant in the Premiere Opera Foundation active performer with regional and national International Vocal Competition. He won the opera companies in the United States. He has Top Prize in the Gerda Lissner International performed in over 170 operatic productions, in Vocal Competition, First Prize in Opera Index, over 60 operas singing over 75 different roles. Inc. Vocal Competition and First Prize in the Engagements have included appearances with Licia Albanese-Puccini International Vocal Opéra de Montreal, Madison Opera, Toledo Competition. He was the inaugural First Prize Opera, Opera Carolina, Michigan Opera winner of the IFAC-Juilliard Prize Singing Theater, Nashville Opera, Piedmont Opera, Competition in Japan, which provided him a Opera Delaware, Opera Roanoke, Greensboro full scholarship to attend The Juilliard School. At Opera, Arizona Opera, Florentine Opera, and Juilliard, he sang the title role in Eugene Onegin, Virginia Opera. His 2015-2016 season included the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, and Blansac performances as William Jennings Bryan in the in La Scala di Seta. He sang the role of Jesus in 60th anniversary production of The Ballad Baby Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at Alice Tully Hall at Doe at Central City Opera in Colorado and Lincoln Center. the Sacristan in Tosca in the historic return of

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TIMOTHY W. SPARKS Other engagements include Ilia in Idomeneo at (EL REMENDADO) Opera NEO, the Shepherdess in Tosca at Boston Tenor Timothy W. Sparks has Lyric Opera, Handel’s Messiah with the Winston- appeared with North Carolina Salem Symphony, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro Opera in D.J. Sparr’s chamber with Point Loma Opera, and St. Margaret in opera Approaching Ali and Honneger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher and Lady Ella Patrick Morganelli’s Hercules in Patience with Odyssey Opera. vs. Vampires. He has appeared with opera companies in the United States and STEPHANIE FOLEY DAVIS Europe, including The Israel Vocal Arts Institute, (MERCÉDÈS) Operafestival di Roma, Jacksonville Lyric Opera, Stephanie Foley Davis First Coast Opera, Greensboro Opera Company, appeared in NCO’s 2012 Triangle Opera, National Opera Company production of Il trovatore. (A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute), Brevard Music She has appeared in leading Center, Capital Opera-Raleigh, and Durham roles throughout the United Savoyards, Limited. States with companies such as Arizona Opera, Nashville Opera, Glimmerglass In concert, Mr. Sparks has appeared with the Festival, Nightingale Opera Theatre, Orlando Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, International Philharmonic, Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera, Young Artists Project (Monte San Savino, Italy), and Greensboro Opera. Engagements during the Canton Symphony Orchestra, Statesboro- 2018-19 Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Georgia Southern Symphony, North Carolina Roanoke, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel with Symphony, Eastern Music Festival, Belleayre Greensboro Opera and Handel’s Messiah at the Music Festival, Breckenridge Music Institute and Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Festival, University of Notre Dame, Duke Artists Concert Series, Smedes Parlor Concert Series at She has also appeared with Portland Symphony St. Mary’s School, North Carolina Bach Festival, Orchestra (Maine) and the Winston-Salem North Carolina Master Chorale, Concert Singers Symphony. Ms. Davis created the role of Flo of Cary, Voices-The Chapel Hill Chorus, Choral in the World Premiere of Libby Larsen’s Picnic Society of Greensboro, Greensboro Oratorio commissioned by the UNCG School of Music. Society, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Tar River Orchestra and Chorus, Coastal She is currently Chair of the Voice Faculty and Carolina Community Chorus, and Hillyer Director of Community Engagement at The Community Chorus. Music Academy of North Carolina, where she has been teaching voice since 2011. Mr. Sparks currently serves as a Lecturer in Voice at UNC-Chapel Hill and was an Instructor of KIDZNOTES Voice at Meredith College for ten years. (CHILDREN’S CHORUS) Kidznotes changes lives through ever-expanding SARA WOMBLE participation in youth orchestras, bands, and (FRASQUITA) choirs. It is a music for social change program Soprano Sara Womble made based on the El Sistema model of youth orchestras, her NCO debut last season as which started in Venezuela and has now spread Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto. worldwide. Kidznotes engages students pre-K Her 2018-19 season includes through 12th grade in an intense out-of-school A Girl in Tod Machover’s musical program that includes instrumental Schoenberg in Hollywood and instruction, choir, music theory, general music, Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia both at Boston orchestra, and band. Our classes are taught by Lyric Opera. Sara Womble is a Boston Lyric talented professional Teaching Artists who are Opera Steven and Jane Aiken Emerging Artist committed to teaching young musicians. The alumna, where she made her debut as Barbarina program operates 8 hours per week, 40 weeks a in Le nozze di Figaro. year, and in an intensive three-week Summer Camp. No child pays a dollar for Kidznotes. Learn more by visiting www.kidznotes.org.

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NATE WHEATLEY including Opera North, Utah Festival Opera, (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Opera Omaha, Central City Opera, Mobile Critically acclaimed Lighting Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Greensboro Designer Nate Wheatley Opera, Opera on the James, Eastern Music has collaborated with some Festival, the Tucson Symphony, the North of America’s most sought- Carolina Symphony, the National Symphony of after directors including Costa Rica, and Carnegie Hall. Kristine McIntyre, Matthew Ozawa, Chas Rader-Shieber, Octavio Cardenas, Notable roles include the title characters in Don Dugg McDonough, Fenlon Lamb, Keturah Giovanni and Gianni Schicchi, Count Almaviva Stickann, Dean Anthony, Jeffrey Buchman, Eric in The Marriage of Figaro, Gaylord Ravenal in Gibson, Matthew Haney, and A. Scott Parry. Show Boat, Fred/Petruchio in Kiss Me, Kate, and Mr. Wheatley has enjoyed repeat engagements Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened on with companies such as the Des Moines Metro the Way to the Forum. Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Steamboat, Kansas University Opera, Louisiana JEFF A.R. JONES State University Opera, Baylor Opera, and the (FIGHT DIRECTOR) Sugar Creek Symphony & Song. Jeff A.R. Jones has staged fights for over 100 shows in theatre, Of his production of A Little Night Music with opera, and ballet. His opera stage director Matthew Ozawa and Scenic credits include productions of: Designer Isaac Mizrahi for the Des Moines Metro Carmen, Così fan tutte, Roméo Opera, Opera Today noted “Nate Wheatley’s et Juliette, Otello, Pagliacci, magical, sensitive lighting design captured all The Pirates of Penzance, and West Side Story. the intrigue and mystique of a midsummer night when the sun never quite sets.” Of his production Regional credits include: Beauty Queen of of Maria de Buenos Aires with stage director Leenane; Romeo and Juliet; Macbeth; Dracula; Octavio Cardenas, Opera Today expressed “Nate Birdy; Peter Pan; and Camelot. He has served as Wheatley has contributed an inventive lighting fight director on local professional productions design that beautifully serves the dramatic, of King Lear, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, brooding text and music.” Mr. Burns, and Fairy Tale Lives of Russian Girls. His university show credits include: Sweeney SCOTT MACLEOD Todd; Hookman; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore; (CHORUSMASTER) Spring Awakening; Cry Havoc; A Midsummer Scott MacLeod has served Night’s Dream, and Jane Eyre. His fights have as chorus master for North received rave reviews in The Washington Post Carolina Opera since the May and The New York Times. He is recognized 2013 production of Aida. as a Fight Director, Certified Teacher, and Scott MacLeod’s previous roles Theatrical Firearms Instructor by the Society of with NCO include Marullo in American Fight Directors. He is on faculty at Rigoletto, Monroe/Pangle/Chain Gang Guard Elon and William Peace University and may be in Cold Mountain and Hercules in Hercules vs. contacted at [email protected] about his fight Vampires, Hunter in Rusalka and the Captain classes in Raleigh. in Eugene Onegin. He maintains an active career as a performer and has appeared as a soloist in a variety of national and international venues,

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 12 NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 13 THANK YOU to OUR PRINCIPAL SUPPORTERS! North Carolina Opera would like to thank some of our most generous supporters whose gifts underwrite a portion of production costs and keep the Triangle singing! For additional information on becoming a Principal Supporter, please contact Eric Mitchko at (919)792-3851.

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ANNUAL GIFTS

Annual gifts receievd between June and Tom Roberg Kellie Falk and Joe Patterson January 1 and December 31, 2018 Foundation of the Triangle Ginger and Ed Finley Community Foundation Mrs. F. Owen Fitzgerald, Jr. $100,000 AND ABOVE Mr. and Mrs. James Romano Lois Flaherty Mr. C. Thomas Kunz Michael and Michelle Vaccarello Paula S. Greenman Dr. and Mrs. Ali Zomorodi Judy and Richard Hendrickson $50,000 AND ABOVE Mr. Charles Hochman and Mr. Ross Lampe, Jr. $2,500 AND ABOVE Ms. Phyllis Pomerantz Mr. and Mrs. Chip Anderson Mr. Douglas R. Holbrook $25,000 AND ABOVE Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Arnold Sally and William Johnson Florence and James Peacock Jacobi and Jerry Daley Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kadlick Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Gilliam Chancy and Keith Kapp $15,000 AND ABOVE Clark and Karen Havighurst Mr. Thomas S. Kenan, III Mr. and Mrs. James Gulick Dr. Shaun Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Peter Klopfer Michael Huckabee and Dr. Bill and Dr. Margaret Ms. Ekaterina Korobkina and Brooke Fortson McCulloch Mr. Robert Golub Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Roberson Dr. Robert W. Morrison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arlen Lummus Mr. and Mrs. William C. Rustin, Jr. Bill Brown and Amy Moss Ms. Jane Lynch Wendell and Linda Murphy Mr. John Mazzarino and $10,000 AND ABOVE Dr. Aurora Pajeau Ms. Linda Storm Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Perkinson Mr. Mark A. McDermott Anonymous Dr. Joyce Rico Ms. Patricia McWaters Mr. E. T. Franklin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Russell Carolyn and Peter Olejar Mr. and Mrs. Richard McNeel Dr. Richard Sarles Susan Osborne and Steve Reynolds

Steven and Sarah Shaber Mr. Paul Otto and Mr. Art Sperry $5,000 AND ABOVE Ralph and Renee Snyderman Ms. Jennifer Sapia Anonymous Rosemarie Sweeney Kay Schoellhorn Mr. and Mrs. Francis Acquaviva Dr. Shohreh Taavoni and Edwina Shaw Joel R. Adams Dr. Alan Kronhaus Julie Song Ria Battaglino and Patrick and Alice Turner Mr. James Stringfellow Lawrence Loughlin Mr. Bill Wiggins James and Catherine Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Blass Dr. Jean Wozencraft-Ornellas Paul and Holly Tesar Dr. Yvonne Bryant Robert and Sally Tiller Mr. Michael C. Byrne and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Timmons Ms. Brigette Wilds $1,000 AND ABOVE Trey Bailey Steve and Ann Tyler Richard and Donna Falvo Robert and Laura Bromhal Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Yeazel Ms. Kim Gooden Ms. Heather Brown Mr. William L. Hampton Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Byrne $500 AND ABOVE Mr. Donald Hunter and Mary Laurie and Joseph Cece Dr. Landy and Kelly Anderton Dr. Lewis Lampiris Anne Prince Cuddy John Beck and Wendy Lapish Myungsa Kang and Susan M. Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Chapman, Jr. Anthony Acquaviva Mr. S. Worth Dunn, III Sandra Cook and Kelton Currie John and Beth Lunsford Paul and Pat Elstro Mr. Jerry Davis and Dr. and Mrs. Dale Oller Mrs. Simmie Kastner

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Albert Decker Gary and Natalie Boorman Orage and Linda Quarles Stephan Delallo Mr. Sam Bozzette James Rapp Connie and Bob Eby Anne and Robert Brady William Roberson Mr. and Mrs. Joe Exum Mr. Robert Chapman and James Rogers Mr. Andrew Faulkner Mrs. Mary Lovelock Frances Rollins Jim and Barbara Goodmon Mr. and Mrs. George A. Deaton Jennifer J. Stanigar James Gray Teresa and Thomas DeRogatis Emmett Stobbs Mitch Hazouri Ms. Martha Dimes Ms. Eunice Toussaint Mr. James E. Hopper Sr. and Dr. Marilyn Ehrenshaft and Kristina Troost Ms. Janet Yancey Mr. John Williamson Robert Upchurch Mr. John Idler Tyler Eudy Ioannis Viniotis Mr. & Mrs. Terry Iverson Mr. Douglas Flint John Watson Hannelore and Konrad Jarausch Samantha and Bill Flynn Dr. John Woodall Richard Kadlick Kristine Forney and William Prizer Rosemary and Smedes York Ms. Elizabeth Kahn Mr. Gil Greggs Alan and Senora Karr Anna B. Brown and Eric Hale $150 AND ABOVE Mr. and Mrs. Brian Kileff Thomas and Dorothy Hanson Peter and Denise Bleckner Myra Kornbluth Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Hayman Mr. Lester Czukor Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lang Mark Hogan Juliette Duara Ms. Judith LeGrand Rodney Hood Jim and Jane Ericksen Dorothy L. Lichtwardt Yana James Mr. Russell Geiger Mr. Stephen and Mr. and Ms. Rick Johns James Hargrove Dr. Sarah Mangano Darrell Jones Mr. Timothy A. Kuhn Philip and Kelley Marquis Rachel Kaplan and Jeremy Pienik Ms. Catherine A. Kunz Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Lou and Donald Kline Miss Catherine M. Kunz McGuire, Jr. Helen Krauss Mr. Edward Kunz Mr. David Midvidy Mr. Charles M. Kunz Miss Eleanor Kunz Eileen Greenbaum and Ms. Elizabeth Kunz Miss Elizabeth M. Kunz Larry Mintz James and Inna Kunz Mr. Martin Kunz Ms. Allison Northcutt Ross Lampe, Sr. Miss Sarah Kunz Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roberson Nicholas Malinowski Mr. William J. Kunz Ms. Marjorie Satinsky Amy and David Marschall Kathy and Tom Lada Claude and Sarah Snow Earl and Susan McClanahan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lohr Lynn Splawn Arthur Mellor Margaret Maytan Steven van Westendorp Mr. Leon Meyers Ms. Judith McDaniel Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchko Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Norris VanDewoestine Ms. Claire Morley Dr. Donald and Dr. JoAnn Josephine Walker Waynell Morris Parkerson Mr. W. Kirk Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Charles Neely Sebastian Scharoba Elaine Wood Pamlea Nelson Dr. Joe Tooley and Phyllis and Paul Page Mr. Dan DiGregorio $250 AND ABOVE Philip and Anne Pearce Adela and Jerry Whitten W. Parke Ballantine Ms. Steffen Perry Mr. and Mrs. Victor Winkler Haley Black Danielle Pope Scott and Cortney Baker

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FOUNDATIONS, GOVERNMENT, AND CORPORATIONS

$100,000 AND ABOVE $5,000 AND ABOVE $1,000 AND ABOVE City of Raleigh Arts Commission Anonymous Doctors Making House Calls BlueCross BlueShield of Galloway Ridge at Fearrington $50,000 AND ABOVE North Carolina IBM Matching Program Duke Energy Foundation Carver Fund for The Ann and C. Hamilton Sloan North Carolina Opera Family Foundation $15,000 AND ABOVE Elliott Davis Summit Hospitality Group The John William Pope GSK Matching Program Foundation The George Smedes Poyner $500 AND ABOVE North Carolina Arts Council Foundation Ella Ann and Frank B. Holding PNC Foundation $2,500 AND ABOVE $10,000 AND ABOVE Alamo Drafthouse Cinema $250 AND ABOVE Opera America Bailey’s Fine Jewelry Jill E. Burton & Associates National Endowment for the Arts CEI Croasdaile Opera and Arts Guild Walter Family Foundation Citrix The Allman Bobbie Group/ Eddie and Jo Allison Smith R.W. Baird Family Foundation $100 AND ABOVE Bell Family Foundation Red Hat Matching Program

HONORARY AND MEMORIAL GIFTS

In Memory of Thomas McGuire In Memory of Grandma Bootsie Dr. and Mrs. Clifford Baggett Zack Dahlia and Hannah Gutterman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Barber Ms. Alice Watkins In Honor of the Marriage of Rosi Sweeney Mr. and Mrs. James L Stuart and Tom Kunz Mr. and Mrs. Mac Newsom Catherine Cohen Mr. Sam Register Susan Curtis Ms. Carol Newman Teresa and Thomas DeRogatis Mr. and Mrs. Jim Goodmon/A.J. Fletcher Foundation Richard Kadlick Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kapp James Hargrove and Kim Kotlar The Allman/Bobbie Group/R.W. Baird James and Inna Kunz Mr. and Mrs. Milton Brow Mr. and Mrs. Mark Thompson In Honor of Scott MacLeod Mr. Van Noah Sr. Michelle DeMott Mr. Julian Mann III Mr. and Mrs. Larry Towles In Honor of Chuck Galle Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Funderburk Martha Keravouri Dr. John Woodall Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Newsome III In Honor of Tom Kunz Susan Curtis In Memory of Ivan Korobkina Tyler Eudy Ekaterina Korobkina and Robert Golub In Honor of Joel Adams In Memory of Susan Stocker Jacobi and Jerry Daley Allison Northcutt In Memory of George Kornbluth In Memory of Bob Schoellhorn Myra Kornbluth Kay Schoellhorn In Honor of Eric Mitchko Croasdaile Opera and Arts Guild

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1ST VIOLIN BASS TRUMPET Carol Chung Emily Buccola Alexander Fioto Margaret Partridge Rebecca Marland Van Zimmerman Irina Shelepov Robbie Link Anne Leyland TROMBONE David Prudon FLUTE Michael Kris Leah Peroutka Pam Nelson Wes Parker Ashley Kovacs Carla Burns Russell McKinney 2ND VIOLIN OBOE TIMPANI Joan Beck Michael Schultz John Fedderson Krista Cala Carrie Shull Laura Thomas PERCUSSION Mary Kay Robinson CLARINET Christopher Nappi Bonnie Stoughton Anthony Taylor Julia Thompson Cortney Baker Kevin Streich HARP VIOLA BASSOON Jacquelyn Bartlett Connie Lorber Michael Burns Matthew Chicurel John Pederson PERSONNEL MANAGER Katie Miller Jessica Kunttu Paul Gorski Michael Castelo FRENCH HORN LIBRARIAN CELLO Natalie Fritz Julia Thompson Nate Leyland Grace Salyards Brian Carter Tanner West Debbie Davis Tracy Friedlander Lauren Dunsheath

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 24 NORTH CAROLINA OPERA CHORUS

Gretchen Bruesehoff Jeff Aldridge Jane Ivy Coons Christian Blackburn Madeline Edwards Brent Blakesley Sydel Fisher Mason Cordell Paula Hostetter Adam Dengler Chelsea Huber Corbin Elliott Erica Jackson Michael Heath Emily Krol Jerry Hurley Kaitie Lawson Jacob Kato Jodi Lewis Thomas Keefe Margaret Maytan David Marschall Jean Renze-Eilers Bill Moran Joncie Sarratt Lindon Pearson Lorraine Snyder Scott Robertson Rachel Stenbuck Lucinio Santos Annette Stowe Ted Willis Monica Szabo-Nyeste D’André Wright Lauren Tompkins

CHILDREN’S CHORUS

Aubrey Bone Samantha Perez-Gonzalez Adrian Corona Aubrey Riddick Daniel Fonseca Cesar Toledo Ashton Hardaway Alexandra Torres Geneva Hartman Bailey Valle Jean-Christian McKenzie Dorian Walker Elba Ochoa Celeste Wallace Jessele Perez-Rodriguez

SUPERNUMERARIES

Chuck Galle Patricia McWaters Greg Hirsh Marie Spidale Juan Matamoros Stanley Williams Skylar Mckinney Ed Zahurak

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 25 Proudly supporting the North Carolina Opera fully engaged in our community

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NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 26 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bill Rustin, President Sterling Perkinson, Vice-president John Lunsford, Treasurer James Gulick, Secretary

Francis Acquaviva C. Thomas Kunz Joel Adams Carol McNeel Andrew Blass Susan Oller Yvonne Bryant Florence Peacock Richard Falvo June Roberg Bryan Gilliam Ralph Roberson Kimberly Gooden John Russell Nancy Hablutzel Steven Shaber William Hampton Shohreh Taavoni Donald Hunter Brigette Wilds Ali Zomorodi

PRESIDENTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA OPERA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

James Romano: 2010-2012 Stephen Prystowsky: 2012-2014 C. Thomas Kunz: 2014-2018 Bill Rustin: 2018-present

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Eric Mitchko, General Director Ellen Fort, Director of Development Julie Williams, Company Manager Bruce Loving, Marketing Consultant Kristin Hartzell, Community Relations Manager Linda T. Carlson, Production Manager Kristin Roscoe, Box Office Administrator Tracy Friedlander, Marketing Consultant Kristin Eiffert Foster, Development Intern

NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 27 NORTH CAROLINA OPERA 28 Did You Know? Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are: • 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance • 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem