Marlis Petersen

Marlis Petersen COVER: PHOTO BY STEFANOS DAN REST PHOTO BY BY PHOTO MARLIS PETERSEN, who debuted at Lyric Opera of Chicago as Adele/ Die Fledermaus (see photo above), is currently starring in the title role of the company’s new production of Lulu. She will be interviewed tonight by Roger Pines, the company’s dramaturg. Among the topics to be discussed by Ms. Petersen will be her remarkable association with the demanding role of Lulu; the diversity of her operatic roles; her experience in theatrically provocative productions; her passionate interest in concert repertoire; her background and training; the European gay community’s response to her performances, and to opera in general; and her non-musical interests. A reception follows in the Irving Harris Family Foundation Reception Hall. Visit www.lyricopera.org for more information on the Lyric Opera A conversation with Marlis Petersen production of Lulu. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 2008 Visit www.centeronhalsted.org for more information about 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Center on Halsted. 3656 north halsted street chicago, illinois 60613 HOOVER-LEPPEN THEATRE tel 773-472-6469 tty 773-472-1277 Reception Immediately Following www.centeronhalsted.org 3656 north halsted street l chicago l www.centeronhalsted.org Community and cultural programming sponsored in part by The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust. Marlis Petersen Roger Pines Chicago’s Center on Halsted is the Midwest’s community center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. As a resource and gathering place for youth and adults in a safe, inviting atmosphere, the Center offers comprehensive support networks and programming to meet the cultural, emotional, social, educational and recreational needs of all LGBT and non-LGBT persons. LAPIDUS LARRY BY PHOTO LAPIDUS LARRY BY PHOTO With the opening of the Center’s facility in June 2007, the Chicago area LGBT community took a bold step toward a bright new future. A community center, however, is only the starting point for creating a MARLIS PETERSEN’s return to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Lulu is the ROGER PINES, dramaturg at Lyric Opera of Chicago, came to the society that affi rms us, that meets our physical, mental, spiritual and latest triumph in a series of appearances in this role including major company in 1995 after fi ve years as director of education at San Diego cultural needs and celebrates the full range of our lives. productions in numerous major European houses, including those of opera. A writer for many notable opera publications internationally, Vienna, Hamburg, Kassel, Nuremberg (role debut), and most recently he has been commissioned by the Decca, EMI, DG, Erato, and RCA/ Center on Halsted is caring for LGBT youth with educational, fi tness, Athens. In contrast, she has also triumphed in such comic roles as BMG recording labels for program notes accompanying CDs of many vocational and arts programs. The Center is working to strengthen the Zerbinetta/Ariadne auf Naxos (Monte Carlo, London) and Adele/Die renowned artists, among them Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo, Jonas safety net for the growing number of LGBT seniors. The Center is nur- Fledermaus (Lyric Opera and Metropolitan Opera debuts, also Paris, Kaufmann, and Juan Diego Flórez. Many of Mr. Pines’s more than 30 turing small organizations such as Windy City Rainbow Alliance of the Munich, Dresden, Düsseldorf). Having developed her repertoire at translations for projected English titles have been rented to major North Deaf and Amigas Latinas. And the Center is presenting performances Nuremberg’s Städtische Bühnen and Düsseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am American opera companies. A frequent judge for the Metropolitan and exhibitions by Chicago’s most talented actors, writers, musicians Rhein, she remains associated with the latter company, with recent Opera National Council Auditions, he has also appeared three times as and thinkers. role debuts including Ophélie/Hamlet and Fiorilla/The Turk in Italy. a panelist on the Met radio broadcasts’ Opera Quiz. You can be part of this work by making a tax-deductible gift to support She began this season appearing in the world premiere of Manfred Center on Halsted’s programs. We especially encourage you to join our Trojahn’s La Grande Magia at Dresden’s Semperoper. Her freelance Director’s Circle with a gift of $600 or more each year—as little as career encompasses such successes as Ännchen/Der Freischütz (CSO $50 per month. Please consider helping us continue to provide a safe at the Ravinia Festival), Elisa/Mozart’s Il re pastore (Salzburg Festival, and nurturing environment for Chicago’s LGBT community. now available on DVD), Konstanze/The Abduction from the Seraglio (Dresden, Aix-en-Provence), Oscar in A Masked Ball (Bregenz Festival), For more information visit www.centeronhalsted.org. the Nightingale/Braunfels’s The Birds (Geneva). She performs frequently with Stuttgart’s International Bachakademie and has appeared with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Rome’s Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and Radiotelevisione Italiana/Torino..

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