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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Table of Contents ROBERT KUSEL

IN THIS ISSUE Elektra – pp. 20-34

6 From the General Director 21 Synopsis 40 Patron Salute 8 From the Chairman 23 Cast 42 Production Sponsors 10 Board of Directors 24 Artist Profi les 43 Aria Society 11 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ 30 Opera Notes 53 Supporting Our Future – Executive Board/Young Professionals/Ryan Endowments at Lyric 34 Director's Note Opera Center Board 54 Major Contributors – Special Events and 35 After the Curtain Falls 12 Administration/Administrative Staff / Project Support Production and Technical Staff 36 Musical Staff /Orchestra/Chorus 55 Lyric Unlimited Contributors 14 Joining the Lyric Family 37 Backstage Life 56 Commemorative Gifts 20 Title Page 38 Artistic Roster 57 Ryan Opera Center 58 Ryan Opera Center Alumni Around the World DAN REST 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 60 Planned Giving:  e Overture Society 62 Corporate Partnerships 63 Matching Gifts, Special  anks, and Acknowledgements 64 Annual Individual and Foundation Support 70 Facilities and Services/ eater Staff

GO BEHIND THE SCENES WITH On the cover: Klytämnestra in Elektra, painted by John Macfarlane, set and LYRIC'S FUNDRAISING TEAM – pp. 14-18 costume designer for the Lyric production.

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the General Director STEVE LEONARD Certain works are impossible to present onstage unless the right protagonist is on hand. One of those operas is Richard Strauss’s Elektra, which presents dramatic sopranos with their most awe-inspiring challenge.  e title role is a veritable Matterhorn, replete with stupendous heights and depths of emotion requiring the ultimate in vocal, musical, and dramatic excellence.  is isn’t a one-woman opera. Remarkable artistry is required of the artists portraying the other principals in this drama: warm, womanly, desperate Chrysothemis, terrifi ed and terrifying Klytämnestra, mysterious Orest, and arrogant Aegisth. Each role off ers extraordinary opportunities to its interpreter, including a confrontation with the heroine that can produce some of the most vivid moments of any Elektra performance. A few seasons ago Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, already a celebrated Brünnhilde and Isolde, made her eagerly awaited role debut as Elektra. At the Metropolitan Opera and the major houses of Vienna, Berlin, and Munich, ecstatic praise from press and public alike has confi rmed Nina’s stature as a truly exceptional exponent of this role. She brings to it a uniquely warm, voluminous, deeply expressive voice, to which she adds incomparable musicality and extraordinary gifts as an actress.  e power of her emotional communication will most certainly ensure an experience in the opera house that our audiences will long remember. It’s exciting to welcome back to Lyric a recent Met Chrysothemis, the marvelous South African soprano Elza van den Heever, who dazzled Lyric earlier in her career as the sorceress Armida in Handel’s Rinaldo; and the riveting American mezzo-soprano Michaela Martens, whose Klytämnestra was recently a great success at San Francisco Opera. Our two debuting male principals are the grand-voiced Scottish bass-baritone Iain Paterson (Orest) and one of America’s most gifted singing actors, tenor Robert Brubaker (Aegisth). Elektra is also a magnifi cent showpiece for a great orchestra. Strauss was one of the most brilliantly skilled orchestrators of his time – indeed, of any time. With this opera he created a panoply of astonishing colors, moving eff ortlessly from passages of the most exquisite intimacy to outbursts boasting unparalleled intensity.  is score deserves a great Straussian on the podium, which we have in Donald Runnicles, in his Lyric debut. For years Donald has been one of my favorite conductors. He conducts an enormously varied repertoire, but at its heart is German romantic music. He and Nina Stemme have a longstanding professional association, and I know how excited they are to be working together at Lyric. Sir David McVicar’s Elektra production delivers a punch to the solar plexus like no other Elektra I’ve seen.  e world that set and costume designer John Macfarlane and lighting designer Jennifer Tipton have created with David is extraordinarily oppressive, threatening, and terrifying, in which the tragedy of the central characters comes devastatingly to life.  is will be an Elektra of truly epic proportions. We hope you’ll relish the beauty, the horror, the savagery – all the qualities that make this work one of the summits of opera.

Anthony Freud General Director, President & CEO e Women’s Board Endowed Chair

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the Chairman TODD ROSENBERG Welcome to the second half of Lyric’s thrilling 2018/19 season! I know you’ll have a terrific time at this performance, and it’s my great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the board of directors. One of my distinct pleasures as chairman is to work with an extraordinary board. It’s really a “brain trust” of experience and leadership that is fully engaged in helping us confront the challenges, as well as the opportunities, of operating a world-class opera company in the 21st century. Together we work with senior management to consider new ways of thinking about the business of opera. For the past year, our board meetings have been dominated by the very important work of examining our operations, streamlining our processes, and building a new business model. As technology, social, and entertainment options change all around us, Lyric must continue to evolve. We must work together to develop new strategies to stay relevant while maintaining our high standards of quality. is is all necessary, of course. It is part of our fiduciary duty as trustees. But it’s also important that we don’t miss the forest for the trees. Why are we here? Why do we do what we do? What is special about this art form and this company and why has it captured our minds, our hearts, our passion, our pocketbooks? We often talk about the “transformative power of opera.” How do you experience this? Personally? Is it when you witness an exciting new rising star from the Ryan Opera Center making their opera debut? Or when school children and communities throughout Chicagoland encounter the powerful stories of opera through Lyric Unlimited? Is it in the Ardis Krainik eatre, where families come together for the annual musical, and music lovers from all over the world come to experience the brilliance of our orchestra and chorus supporting the best opera singers in the world? When I was a teenager, I used to think it was silly that grown women and men would cry at the opera...until it happened to me for the first time during Act ree of Madama Butterfly. When did you first feel a surge of emotion at the opera? And left with a poignant feeling of resonance or joy? A lasting memory of artistic excellence, of musical athleticism that took your breath away? Each one of us approaches art, and is impacted by art – whether the visual arts or the performing arts – in very personal ways. And yet there is something special, powerful, transformative even, about opera, with its unique combination of the visual, the musical, the storytelling, the ageless themes of myth and humanity. If you know what I’m talking about, I want you to join me as ambassadors for Lyric. To spread the word about this unique company, this crown jewel in Chicago’s cultural life, whose reputation extends beyond our city to every musical capital in the world. To invite your neighbors, your colleagues, your family members to come experience Lyric like you do. It’s only as we roll up our sleeves and work, in every way we can, not simply to produce performances at the top level, but to sell out every one of those performances, that we have a future of which we can be proud. A future that Lyric deserves. A future that Chicago needs. Onward and upward! I look forward to greeting many of you at performances throughout the season.

David T. Ormesher Chairman

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

Board of Directors

OFFICERS LIFE DIRECTORS Anthony Freud*+ William A. Osborn* e Honorable Bruce Rauner Edgar Foster Daniels Mary Patricia Gannon Matthew J. Parr e Honorable Rahm Emanuel Richard J. Franke Ruth Ann M. Gillis*°+ Jane DiRenzo Pigott* Honorary Chairmen of the Board Edgar D. Jannotta Brent W. Gledhill*+ Richard Pomeroy Edgar D. Jannotta George E. Johnson Ethel C. Gofen Jose Luis Prado Co-Chairman Emeritus James J. O’Connor Howard L. Gottlieb* Don M. Randel Allan B. Muchin Gordon Segal Melvin Gray Elke Rehbock Co-Chairman Emeritus Robert E. Wood II Maria C. Green+ Anne N. Reyes* David T. Ormesher Dietrich M. Gross* William C. Richardson, Ph.D. ° Chairman of the Board DIRECTORS Dan Grossman Brenda Robinson Lester Crown Katherine A. Abelson Elliot E. Hirsch Collin E. Roche Chairman of the Executive Whitney W. Addington, M.D.* Eric L. Hirschfield Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr.* Committee James L. Alexander* J. omas Hurvis* Shirley Welsh Ryan* Anthony Freud John P. Amboian Gregory K. Jones E. Scott Santi* General Director, President & Paul F. Anderson Stephen A. Kaplan° Claudia M. Saran CEO Larry A. Barden Kip Kelley II Rodd M. Schreiber Sir Andrew Davis Julie Baskes* Susan Kiphart Marsha Serlin Vice Chair James N. Bay° Sanfred Koltun Brenda M. Shapiro* Renée Fleming Melvin R. Berlin Lori Ann Komisar Richard W. Shepro+ Vice Chair Gilda R. Buchbinder Fred A. Krehbiel° Eric S. Smith* James L. Alexander Allan E. Bulley, III Josef Lakonishok* Pam F. Szokol Vice Chair John E. Butler Robert W. Lane° Franco Tedeschi Shirley Welsh Ryan Marion A. Cameron* James W. Mabie* Mark A. ierer Vice Chair Paul J. Carbone* Daniel T. Manoogian Cherryl T. omas William C. Vance David W. Carpenter Craig C. Martin* Olivia Tyrrell Vice Chair Richard W. Colburn+ Robert J. McCullen Donna Van Eekeren* Donna Van Eekeren Michael P. Cole Blythe J. McGarvie William C. Vance* Secretary Vinay Couto Andrew J. McKenna Roberta L. Washlow Ruth Ann M. Gillis Lester Crown* Mimi Mitchell Miles D. White Treasurer Marsha Cruzan Frank B. Modruson+ Elizabeth Hurley Sir Andrew Davis* Robert S. Morrison Assistant Secretary William Mason Gerald Dorros, M.D.° Allan B. Muchin* Roberta Lane General Director Emeritus Ann M. Drake Linda K. Myers* Assistant Treasurer Dan Draper+ Jeffrey C. Neal Allan Drebin+ Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Charles Droege+ Sylvia Neil* Chaz Ebert John D. Nichols° Stefan T. Edlis Kenneth R. Norgan * Executive Committee Lois Eisen Gregory J. O’Leary + Audit Committee James Fellowes Sharon F. Oberlander ° National Member Matthew A. Fisher John W. Oleniczak*+ Renée Fleming* Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D. Sonia Florian* David T. Ormesher*+

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Women’s Board Guild Board of Directors Members Members at Large † Nancy S. Searle † James A. Staples Ms. Judith A. Akers Vindya Dayananda Mrs. Geraldine Bellanca Phil DeBoer President President Lena Dickinson † Mrs. James C. Pritchard † Minka Bosco Mr. Michael J. Brahill Dr. Gerald Budzik Katherine "Fritzi" Getz Vice President Board Activities Vice President – Benefit Marian Klaus † Caroline T. Huebner † Sarah Demet Mrs. Robert C. Debolt Joe Michalak Vice President Education Vice President – Benefit Mrs. Ingrid Dubburke Natalie Pace Mrs. Barbara M. Eckel Marne Smiley † Mrs. Julian W. Harvey † Michael Tirpak * Mr. Jonathan Eklund Vice President Fundraising Vice President – Family Day J.J. Williams Mrs. Gwen Faust Lauren Wood † Mrs. Anne M. Edwards † Fay M. Shong Mr. Peter B. Faust Vice President Special Events Vice President – Fundraising Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield † Maggie Rock Ms. Sharon L. Gibson e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Margot Stone Bowen Vice President – Membership Mr. Denny C. Hayes Ryan Opera Center Suzette Bulley † Nathaniel W. Pusey Ms. Virginia A. Jach Board of Directors Marie Campbell Vice President – Mrs. Jackie Knight Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mamie Biggs Case Membership Engagement * Ms. Kate Letarte Honorary Co-Chairs Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. † Dorothy Kuechl Mrs. Carole A. Luczak John Nitschke President † Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Secretary Mrs. Judith M. Marshall *^ Julie Baskes Vice President – At Large Mrs. Gary C. Comer † David Marshall Vee Minarich Janet Burch Vice President – At Large Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Treasurer Mrs. Harolyn Pappadis Karen W. Porter ^ Philip G. Lumpkin Vice President – * Mrs. Lester Crown † Marc Lacher Fundraising * Mrs. W. James Farrell Vice President at Large Mrs. Maria Rigolin Ms. Sherie Shapiro ^ Sally Feder Vice President – Mrs. Michael Ferro Fundraising Co-Chair Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Allison Alexander Ms. Laura Shimkus Leslie Bertholdt Mrs. Carla orpe ^ Jane DiRenzo Pigott Vice President – § Renée Fleming Nominating Regan Rohde Friedmann *† Patrick J. Bitterman Henry Clark Sustaining Members * Susan Kiphart Vice President – Mrs. Robert W. Galvin * Ms. Julie Anne Benson Nominating Co-Chair Ms. Lili Gaubin Mrs. Suzy Cobin Eben Dorros Mrs. Ron Beata ^ Joan Zajtchuk Vice President – Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Strategic Planning Keith Kiley Goldstein Stephen Dunbar Mrs. Jeanne Hamilton † Timothy R. Farrell Juliana Chyu Vice President – Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm Mrs. Beatriz E. Iorgulescu Strategic Planning Co-Chair Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel Robert Gienko, Jr. * Dorothy Kuechl Camille Gifford Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Mrs. King Harris Mr. Lester Marriner Roberta Lane Assistant Treasurer Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Olivier C. Junod * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer Mark Kozloff, M.D. Chester T. Kamin Secretary Rebecca Walker Knight Mrs. Karen H. Tiersky Dan Novak Assistant Secretary Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Daria M. Lewicky Mr. Myron Tiersky Louis Margaglione Silvia Beltrametti Krehbiel Nicole M. Arnold Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Robert S. Marjan Life Members Heidi Heutel Bohn * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer * Ms. Martina M. Mead * Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Tanja Chevalier Florence D. McMillan Craig R. Milkint * Mrs. Donald Grauer Tamara Conway Alison Wehman McNally † Melissa Mounce Mithal * Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan Lawrence O. Corry Tim Pontarelli * Mrs. Merwyn Kind Nancy Dehmlow Mrs. Susan H. Mesrobian * Mrs. Jonathan R. Laing * Allan Drebin *† Mimi Mitchell Ms. Christina M. Rashid Mary Lynne Shafer * Mrs. Frank M. Lieber Erika E. Erich Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Ilene Simmons * Mrs. Howard S. Smith Jack Forsythe Suzanne W. Mulshine Ms. Joan M. Solbeck * Mrs. William C. Tippens David S. Fox † Mrs. Eileen Murphy * Mrs. Eugene E. White Anthony Freud Claudine Tambuatco Mira J. Frohnmayer Mrs. Susan B. Noyes * Oscar Tatosian * Mrs. James J. O’Connor Chapter Presidents Mary Patricia Gannon Cathy Wloch Melvin Gray Mrs. William A. Osborn Ms. Anne Zenzer Barrington Mrs. omas D. Heath Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman Mary Rafetto-Robins Mary Ellen Hennessy Mrs. Frederick H. Prince Sustaining Members Evanston Martha A. Hesse * Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes Mrs. Barbara M. Eckel Loretta Julian Mrs. John H. Andersen Far West Mrs. Ronald A. Rolighed * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Jeanne Randall Malkin Trisha Rooney Mrs. Judith M. Marshall Robert C. Marks Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Flossmoor Area Erma S. Medgyesy Betsy Bergman Rosenfield * Robert F. Finke * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Ms. Sharon L. Gibson Helen Melchior Mrs. Amanda C. Fox Glencoe Frank B. Modruson † Erica L. Sandner Mrs. William R. Jentes Phyllis Neiman Mrs. E. Scott Santi Anne Ruzicka Chester T. Kamin Hinsdale Susan Noel † Mrs. Alejandro Silva John M. Kohlmeier Karen W. Porter Gregory J. O’Leary Mrs. John R. Siragusa Mrs. Robert E. Largay Michael A. Oberman Lake Geneva ^ Ted Reichardt Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel * Ms. Britt M. Miller Mr. Peter D. Connolly Mrs. James P. Stirling Richard O. Ryan * John H. Nelson Near North Richard W. Shepro Marilynn oma Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel David E. Miller Salme Harju Steinberg * Mrs. eodore D. Tieken R. Todd Vieregg Northfield Nasrin ierer Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Margareta Brown Cynthia Vahlkamp Mrs. Robert G. Weiss † Executive Committee Riverside Donna Van Eekeren Hon. Corinne Wood * Former President Mrs. Mary Kitzberger Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Wilmette Jack Weiss Chapters’ Executive Board Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Winnetka Life Members Life Members † Richard Greenman Paula Hannaway Crown Mrs. Julie McDowell * Katherine A. Abelson President Mrs. James W. Cozad * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes † Ms. Erika E. Erich Bernard J. Dobroski * Jane Duboise Gargiulo † Executive Committee Vice President – Fundraising * Former President Anne Gross * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. † Mary Rafetto-Robins * Keith A. Reed Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker Vice President – Community Relations Orli Staley Mrs. Gordon Segal Lyric Young Professionals * William C. Vance † Mrs. Linda Budzik Lisa DeAngelis, President * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Vice President – Membership * Former President Martha Grant, Co-Vice President Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. † Mrs. Margie Franklin Shannon Shin, Co-Vice President † Executive Committee Vice President – Programs § Honorary Member Christopher Hanig, Secretary * Former President † Claudia Winkler Tania Tawil, Events Chair ^ Team Chair Treasurer Jonathon ierer, Fundraising Chair † Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Secretary

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 11 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Anthony Freud, OBE General Director, President & CEO e Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director and Chief Operating Officer e John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair Elizabeth Hurley Roberta Lane Chief Development Officer Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Cayenne Harris Elizabeth Landon Nicholas Ivor Martin Vice President, Lyric Unlimited Vice President, Human Resources Vice President, Artistic Operations and Labor Strategy e Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Andreas Melinat Lisa Middleton Dan Novak Vice President, Artistic Planning Vice President, Marketing and Communications Vice President and Director, Ryan Opera Center e Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair Will Raj Rich Regan Michael Smallwood Vice President, Information Technology Vice President and General Manager, Vice President and Technical Director Presentations and Events e Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL Daniel Moss Dan Seekman MARKETING AND DIRECTOR Senior Director of Institutional Senior Staff Accountant COMMUNICATIONS Anthony Freud Partnerships Rosemary Ryan Lisa Middleton General Director, President & CEO Adriane Fink Accounts Payable Associate Vice President, Marketing e Women’s Board Endowed Chair Director of Institutional Partnerships Gwenetta Almon and Communications Linda Nguyen Angela DeStefano Payroll Coordinator Laura E. Burgos Manager, Office of the General Director Philanthropy Officer Megan Walker Director of Audience Analytics and Kathleen Butera Sarah Sapperstein Payroll Coordinator Digital Initiatives Assistant, Office of the General Director Associate Director of Institutional Shelby Homiston Partnerships HUMAN RESOURCES Marketing and Public Relations OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Elizabeth Landon GENERAL DIRECTOR Pavitra Ramachandran Coordinator Institutional Partnerships Associate Vice President, Human Resources Drew Landmesser Stephanie Strong Holly H. Gilson Deputy General Director and Director of Compensation, Benefits, Amber Cullen Chief Operating Officer and HR Operations Senior Director, Communications Director of Philanthropy Magda Krance ARTISTIC Charity Franco Libby Rosenfeld Director of Media Relations Andreas Melinat Human Resources Associate Philanthropy Officer Roger Pines Vice President, Artistic Planning Sharai Bohannon Dramaturg Cory Lippiello Office Coordinator Artistic Administrator Angela Larson Mosadi Goodman Nathaniel Hamilton Evamaria Wieser Director of Annual Giving Human Resources Coordinator Public Relations Manager Casting Consultant Scott Podraza Andrew Cioffi Associate Director of Annual Giving INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Digital Content Producer DEVELOPMENT Karoline Reynolds Will Raj Amanda Reitenbach Elizabeth Hurley Digital Fundraising Associate Vice President, Information Technology Social Media Associate Chief Development Officer Sarah Geocaris Eric Hayes Zachary Vanderburg Chapters Coordinator Director of IT Operations Tracy Galligher Young Executive Assistant to the Chief Anna VanDeKerchove Rita Parida Senior Director, Marketing and Development Officer Donor Engagement and Stewardship Director of Data Services Audience Development Marisa Lerman Coordinator Jessica Keener Jennifer Colgan Development Assistant Systems Analyst Director of Sales and Advertising Amy Tinucci Sean Lennon Brittany Gonzalez Lawrence DelPilar Director of Development Operations Systems Administrator Director of Group Sales Senior Director, Development Hanna Pristave Bob Helmuth Valerie Bromann Mike Biver Technology Support Associate Manager of Digital Content Director of Gift Planning Manager of Operations and Data Analytics Jazmin Segura and Analysis Jonathan P. Siner Technology Support Specialist Senior Director of Gift Planning Stephanie Lillie Michael Musick Meaghan Stainback Donor Records and Reporting Associate LYRIC UNLIMITED E-Commerce Manager Philanthropy Officer Erin Johnson Cayenne Harris Daniel Crespo Kristen Bigham Donor Records Coordinator Vice President, Lyric Unlimited Graphic Designer Gift Planning Associate e Chapters' Endowed Chair for Margaret Kellas Andrea Rubens FINANCE Education Lyric Unlimited Marketing Associate Individual Giving and Lyric Young Roberta Lane Crystal Coats Stefany Phillips Professionals Coordinator Chief Financial and Administrative Director of Community Programs Creative Project Associate Officer Todd Snead Lindsey Raker Kate Later Whitney Bercek Director of Learning Programs Marketing Associate, Advertising and Promotions Senior Director of Special Events and Controller Will Biby Women’s Board Vincente F. Milianti Manager of Audience Programs Sarah Sabet Marketing Associate, Special Programs Deborah Hare Senior Director, Financial Planning Drew Smith Director of Special Events and Analysis Learning Programs Manager LeiLynn Farmer Group Sales Coordinator Leah Bobbey Nicky Chaybasarskaya Cameron Murdock Women’s Board Manager Senior Accountant Backstage Tours Coordinator Rachel Peterson Ana Joyce LaRob Payton Special Events Associate Senior Accountant Lyric Unlimited Coordinator Paul D. Sprecher Nancy Ko Special Events Associate Accounting Manager Devin Bopp Lee Stevens Women's Board Assistant Payroll Director Teresa Fleming Tom Pels Women’s Board Assistant Payroll Supervisor

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TICKET DEPARTMENT/ Briette Madrid Richard “Doc” Wren Scott Marr AUDIENCE SERVICES Stage Door Supervisor Warehouse Coordinator Wardrobe, Wigs, and Makeup Director Susan Harrison Niemi Nathan Tuttle Dan DiBennardi Facilities Porter Assistant Warehouse Coordinator Maureen Reilly Director of Audience Services Costume Director Alex Chatziapostolou-Demas e Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Sales Manager PRODUCTION Dan Donahue Cameron Arens Justin Hull Endowed Chair John Renfroe Lucy Lindquist Tessitura Manager Senior Director, Production Ryan McGovern Assistant Carpenters Wardrobe Mistress Laura Waters Katrina Bachus Call Center Manager Jordan Lee Braun Anthony Bernardy Meriem Bahri Kelly E. Cronin David Carl Toulson Adam Gorsky Louie Barrios VIP Ticketing Associate Mo Zhou Brian Hobbs Jenah Hensel Daniel Quinn Assistant Stage Directors Robert Hull, Jr. Molly Herman VIP Ticketing Coordinator Connor Ingersoll James Herrity John W. Coleman John Ingersoll Robert Hilliard Sebastian Armendariz Rachel C. Henneberry Dan Lang Kate Keefe Marnie Baylouny Rachel A. Tobias Johnny Rivers Cecylia Kinder Abigail Brown Stage Managers Chase Torringa Krystina Lowe Edmond Burkhart Carpenters Talia Newton Benjamin Burney Kristen Barrett Kathy Rubel Alex Carey Rachel C. Henneberry Toni Rubino Emily Crisp Anderson Nunnelley Chris Maravich Joanna Rzepka Erik Dohner Daniel Sokalski Lighting Director Marguerite Scott Jerry Downey Peggy Stenger e Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Rebecca Shouse Ashlyn Elliot Amy C. ompson Endowed Chair Ewa Szylak Leigh Folta Rachel A. Tobias Sarah Riffle Barbara Szyllo Claire French Bill Walters Heather Sparling Carolina Tuazon Michaela Gleason Sandra Zamora Assistant Lighting Designers Isaac Turner Andrew Groble Assistant Stage Managers Maggie Zabierowski Michael C. Reynolds Wardrobe Staff Amy Gruttadauria Ben Bell Bern Master Electrician Bailey Howard Rehearsal Department Manager Soren Ersbak Samantha Holmes Karen Hunt Kevin Krasinski Board Operator Wardrobe Crew Head Zach Hutchinson Artist Services Manager Kerri Killeen Marina Vecci John Clarke, Jr. Kristine Anderson Eve Krueger Rehearsal Associate Anthony Coia Scott Barker Steve Landsman Gary Grenda Breena Cope Michael Calderone Lauren Crotty Madison Lawry Christine Wagner Robert Reynolds Assistant Electricians Tracy Curran Ian Maryfield Rehearsal Assistants Dawn Marie Hamilton Stephen Reineccius Jason Combs David Hough Jessica Reinhart THE PATRICK G. AND SHIRLEY W. RYAN OPERA CENTER omas Fernandez Charlie Junke Ben Ross omas Hull Kim Kostera Erin Sheets Dan Novak Vice President and Director, Daniel Kuh Wendy McCay Destiny Strothers Asiel Simpson Moira O'Neil Adam Stubitsch Ryan Opera Center e Ryan Opera Center Board Jeremy omas John Salyers Marisa von Drasek Jose Villalpando Dulce Santillan Ryan Wood Endowed Chair Craig Terry Electricians Lynn Sparber Ticket Staff Chris Valente Music Director e Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Joe Schofield Roger Weir Emily Crisp Julia Faulkner Head Audio Technician Samantha Yonan Michaela Gleason Dressers Director of Vocal Studies Nick Charlan Ben Ross Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Lyric Concierge Representatives Matt Eble Emma Scherer Sarah Hatten Kelvin Ingram Wigmaster and Makeup Designer OPERATIONS Associate Audio Technicians Nicholas Ivor Martin e Marlys Beider Endowed Chair TECHNICAL Allison Burkholder Vice President, Artistic Operations and Michael Smallwood Maria DeFabo Akin Department Coordinator Labor Strategy Vice President and Technical Director Props and Scenic Art Director Stephanie Karr e Allan and Elaine Muchin Chantelle Marie Johnson Senior Director of Music Administration Endowed Chair Charles Reilly Lynn Koroulis Robert Kuper Wendy Skoczen April Busch Property Master Chief Librarian Michael McPartlin Lana McKinnon Technical Operations Director Claire Moores Tabitha Boorsma Michael Schoenig Properties Crew Head Operations Associate Staff Technical Finance Director Phil Marcotte Gretchen Meyerhoefer Madeleine Borg Bridget Rzymski Music Administration Associate Prop Carpenter Production Manager – Lyric Unlimited Bob Ladd Wig Crew Head Claire Potter and Ryan Opera Center Music Administration Coordinator Armorer John Bivins III Rachel Boultinghouse DeShawn Bowman PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS Scott Wolfson Upholsterer Martha Contreras Rich Regan Associate Technical Director Brittany Crinson Vice President and General Manager, Stephen Snyder Robert Hartge Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Toywa Curington Presentations and Events Technical Coordinator Eric Daniels Joe Dockweiler Richard Tyriver Sharon Lomasney Assistant Properties June Gearon Director of Presentations and Events Master Carpenter David Grant Nora O’Malley Mike Reilly Michael Buerger Carla Hubbs Director of Facility Operations Head Flyman/Automation Joseph Collins Alicja Klosek Leslie MacLean Jeffrey Streichhirsch Gordon Granger Briette Madrid Facilities Coordinator Automation Assistant Nick Malloy Patrick Munoz Megan St. John Chris Barker Joe Mathesius Nelson Posada Presentations and Events Coordinator Matt Reilly Kevin McPartlin Sunni Powell Stephen Dunford Rigging/Automation Assistants Properties Monique Rhue Chief Engineer Mark Shanabrough Jada Richardson Gregg Brody Head Shop Carpenter Brian Traynor Lela Rosenberg Box Office Manager Brian Grenda Charge Artist Rick Salazar Rebecca Scott Bernard McNeela Layout Carpenter Tim Morrison Engineer Drew Trusk Kacy Tatus Michael Murtaugh Pat Tomlinson Head Shop Welder Scenic Artists Bruce Woodruff Emily Young Layout Welder Wig and Makeup Crew February 2 - 22, 2019 | 13 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO DAN REST

Lyric music director Sir Andrew Davis with donors at a Ryan Opera Center master class. Joining The Lyric Family By Roger Pines  ere’s no getting around it – thirty-year career in American opera is a very expensive business. “People in the Chicago community and philanthropy, following key You might be surprised to learn that in this region want access to grand opera positions at the Art Institute of ticket sales cover less than 50 per- Chicago, the Grant Park Music cent of the operating costs for Lyric ... they believe a great Festival, the Chicago Symphony Opera of Chicago.  e rest must city deserves a great opera company.” Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, be raised through contributions and most recently as vice president from individuals, corporations, and — Elizabeth Hurley of development and public foundations. Lyric’s fundraising aff airs for  e Juilliard School in is managed by its development New York. department, recognized in Chicago and, indeed, throughout the Although there have been changes in leadership in the develop- national performing-arts scene, as one of the leaders in the fi eld. ment department, one thing that remains the same is Lyric’s  e department’s extraordinary track record was maintained for admiration for and gratitude towards its donors. “Philanthropy is a 22 years by former chief development offi cer Mary Ladish uniquely American pastime,” says Hurley. “Citizens come together Selander. While under her leadership, Lyric completed three very to create the organizations and services that make our communities successful capital campaigns and tripled its endowment, but it is an vibrant places to raise families and do business. Great institutions are ongoing eff ort to secure Lyric's future. created by and for the communities they serve. ”  e department has been headed since March 2018 by chief Lyric is very much a refl ection of this American philanthropic development offi cer Elizabeth Hurley. She arrived at Lyric after a drive and was founded because “people in the Chicago community

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Stefan Edlis, a member of the Board of Directors and a production Meaghan Stainback (second from right), philanthropy offi cer, with sponsor, visits with Elizabeth Hurley, Lyric's chief development offi cer. Ryan Opera Center Board member Tanja Chevalier (far left) and two longtime Lyric donors and volunteers, Jorge and Beatriz Iorgulescu. and in this region want access to categorically impossible to present grand opera, and because they “Any investment in Lyric indicates grand opera on the scale we do believe a great city deserves a great at Lyric.” opera company,” Hurley notes. a patron’s realization that ticket purchases However, Larson also empha- “Our patrons make it all possible alone don’t cover the entire cost sizes that Lyric’s mission goes through their philanthropic invest- of producing grand opera.” beyond what the audience sees on- ment in the company. Lyric exists in stage. “When patrons contribute to collaboration with our audiences — Meaghan Stainback Lyric, they aren’t just supporting the and our donors, and it is an honor beautiful performances they see on- and a privilege to serve this stage.  ey’re supporting emerging incredible community.” artists through the Ryan Opera Philanthropy in the performing arts is the result of relationship Center.  ey’re supporting arts education in schools. And they are building, whether the source of the contribution is a corporation, a helping ensure that Lyric remains embedded in the community foundation, or an individual family. Lyric’s reputation for innova- through our Lyric Unlimited eff orts.” tive, personalized fundraising continues to be noted by donors city- Lyric is deeply grateful for all gifts it receives. “Just as it takes an wide.  at reputation, says Lawrence DelPilar, senior director of army of artists and artisans to put on an opera, it takes an army of development, has much to do with “our desire to customize the supporters to make the season a success — and to pay for it,” says donor experience so that the outcome is sincerely memorable and Stainback. “Any investment in Lyric indicates a patron’s realization meaningful for each individual.” that ticket purchases alone don’t cover the entire cost of producing As donors become more invested in the company, their grand opera. It also shows that he or she trusts that Lyric will use his relationship with Lyric deepens. Meaghan Stainback, philanthropy or her donation for the enjoyment of everyone.  at donor trust is offi cer for  e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, something we have to earn every day.” frequently sees this process in action: “I fi nd that Ryan Opera How important is Lyric to some of our patrons? Larson Center donors truly become fans of the artists they support and recently met a couple who had their fi rst date at Lyric and have been follow them all over the world. Our donors get to watch them grow donors ever since: “Because being in the opera house meant so much as performers while they’re here, and it’s a mutual relationship when to them and their relationship, he brought her back to the same seats they leave.  e artists understand that the patrons make it they sat in for their fi rst date to propose. And of course, she said all possible.” ‘Yes!’ Now, the young couple is eagerly planning their very own Gifts of all sizes matter to Lyric “because it’s the collective ‘happily ever after’ and is looking forward to bringing their fi rst power of individual donors who share a passion all acting together child to the opera, although they agreed that it would be a few years that transforms an organization,” says Angela Larson, director of from now.” annual giving. “Without our donors,” Larson asserts, “it would be “Corporations and foundations contribute to Lyric because we

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Lang Lang with Lyric Board of Directors member Robert McCullen, wife Evelyn, and guests. help match their philanthropic It’s wonderful when Lyric vision to our programs,” says provides a donor with an opportu- Daniel Moss, senior director of “ ere is definitely a sense of civic nity to have a special experience institutional partnerships. "Some pride when corporations and foundations with an artist, or a journey behind may be new to opera and curious to support major cultural institutions. ey the scenes. “It’s taking that next step learn, while others truly love and want to know what Lyric is doing onstage, from sitting in the theater watching understand this complex art form. the show to dipping your toe in the Institutions may be interested and in the community, and how they water of what goes into making the in recognition and/or employee can make a difference.” production happen,” says DelPilar. engagement, but they contribute “Frequently they’re impressed by primarily because they believe in — Daniel Moss the complexity, the grandeur of supporting a major Chicago arts the art form. But also, they’re organization. ey also appreciate astonished by the down-to-earth, our work in the Chicago Public Schools, and in our community, and accessible personalities of artists like Matthew Polenzani and Ana they want to help make this possible. ere is definitely a sense of María Martínez. ey can see them onstage in costume and under civic pride when corporations and foundations support major the lights, and there’s a magic there, but then they go backstage and cultural institutions. ey want to know what Lyric is doing onstage see them as real people.” and in the community, and how they can make a difference. We’re Lyric’s special events are a marvelous way to not only attract thrilled to have these institutions as an important part of the new donors by introducing them to the spirit of the Lyric family, Lyric family." but also celebrate existing donors and thank them for their support

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Lawrence DelPilar, senior director, development, with Lyric Board of Kate Later, senior director of special events and Women's Board, with Directors member Sylvia Neil. Women's Board member Caroline Huebner. of the company. events so important. Many of “Each event, whether a gala or a Lyric’s most high-profile events are master class by Renée Fleming, also successful fundraisers. “e provides special access to the com- “You don’t want to miss your Wine Auction is one of our most pany,” says Kate Later, senior direc- significant fundraising events,” notes tor of special events and Women’s chance to celebrate Renée Fleming in Later. “is is the only event where Board. ere are important occa- an intimate setting on March 23!” patrons can eat dinner onstage. Our sions spearheaded by the company’s production team works their amaz- Women’s Board, including the — Kate Later ing magic on the décor for the Opening Night Opera Ball, the evening, so it is a true company- Spring Musical Gala, the triennial wide effort.” is year the Women’s Wine Auction, and numerous stew- Board is hosting a gala following the ardship events. For example, “at the concert celebrating the 25th anni- musical gala, patrons dine in the box tier of the Lyric Opera House, versary of Renée Fleming’s Lyric debut. Tickets are available now, which is a unique experience. After enjoying the performance, they and Later declares, “you don’t want to miss your chance to celebrate dance onstage with the cast. at has happened at every musical Renée in an intimate setting on March 23!” since e Sound of Music in 2014. e exception was last season’s Gift planning (which includes naming Lyric in estate plans, Jesus Christ Superstar: the gala wasn’t onstage – it was at e Murphy, insurance policies, IRAs, or trusts) is exceptionally vital at Lyric. and Jesus himself came to the after-party!” “We rely on planned gifts as an important element to be able to plan It’s not just the chance to mingle with artists that make these for the company’s future,” explains Jon Siner, senior director of gift

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 17 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO planning. “We have about 600 estate that will help ensure Lyric’s planned givers – members of our future for the next generation of op- Overture Society – who have loved “I think of gift planning as being era lovers.” Lyric over the years.  ey want to the democratization of donating. Lyric’s donors become part of give back and make sure future gen- Lyric’s legacy through their generos- erations have the same enjoyment in It’s a way of allowing all Lyric patrons ity, and their contributions are not the company that they do. Opera to engage with supporting Lyric in only a gift to Lyric today, but also to gets more and more expensive, and profound, meaningful ways.” the future of opera. At Lyric, our we need these funding sources to do generous donors who are passionate major projects. Planned gifts helped — Mike Biver believers in the arts “can say ‘I us produce Les Troyens and the helped put that onstage and helped current Ring cycle.” share that amazing performance  ere is no minimum planned with others,’ ” says DelPilar. “ is is gift, and gift planning can also mean strategic giving during your what a career in development is all about,” states Hurley. “My lifetime, explains Mike Biver, director of gift planning: “Often colleagues and I are called to create a connection between Lyric, the donations come in the form of cash (credit card or check), but there fi eld of opera, and our audience--and we believe in this call deeply are many other opportunities for donors to be more strategic with and personally.” Whether it is at a performance in the theater, at a their giving, and we try to make sure they are aware of all options gala in the opera house, or at a Lyric Unlimited activity in the great- such as transferring appreciated stock directly to Lyric and avoiding er Chicago community, a member of Lyric’s development team is capital gains tax. Likewise, if you have an IRA and you’re of a certain probably there. Start up a conversation and learn how you can age, you can transfer your required distribution directly to Lyric and become further connected. Yes, opera is expensive, but it is also avoid it being counted towards income taxes.” inspiring, all-encompassing, and life-changing, so very much worth You don’t have to be a millionaire to create a gift plan that the eff ort.  e work of Lyric’s development department and the includes Lyric. “A few thousand dollars is a very meaningful gift,” incredible generosity of Lyric’s donors strengthens the arts in says Biver. “I think of gift planning as being the democratization of Chicago and secures Lyric’s future for generations to come. donating. It’s a way of allowing all Lyric patrons to engage with supporting Lyric in profound, meaningful ways. We recently had a Roger Pines, Lyric's dramaturg, is a regular contributor to opera-company donor who sat in the upper balcony and gave a modest gift each year programs and music publications internationally. He has appeared annually for decades who was able to leave a bequest to Lyric through her as a panelist on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts' Opera Quiz since 2006. DAN REST

At a 2018 donor reception entitled “Costumes and Canapés,” Ring cycle costume designer Marie-Jeanne Lecca (right) explained the details of her costumes for Wotan.

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO ROBERT KUSEL

Richard Strauss Elektra

Production Sponsors JULIE AND ROGER BASKES

SYLVIA NEIL AND DANIEL FISCHEL

MAZZA FOUNDATION

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Elektra – Synopsis

e Trojan War began after Helen, sister-in-law of Mycenae’s King Agamemnon, eloped with Paris, Prince of Troy. Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces, set off to reclaim Helen, sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia to ensure favorable winds for the journey. His traumatized wife Klytämnestra sought comfort in the arms of Agamemnon’s nephew, Aegisth (himself a child of incest). When Agamemnon returned, Klytämnestra and Aegisth murdered him and usurped his throne, to the horror and despair of Elektra, daughter of Klytämnestra and Agamemnon. Elektra was able to ensure that her brother Orest was sent away to safety before his mother and her lover could harm him.

In the courtyard of Agamemnon’s palace, five maids discuss the Elektra reveals to Chrysothemis that she has kept the axe that erratic behavior of Elektra, who has lost her rightful place in the was used to murder their father. She had intended to give it to royal household and been condemned to a menial existence. Orest so he could seek vengeance on Klytämnestra and Aegisth. One of the maids unleashes the hostility of her companions by Now there is no alternative but immediate action. Elektra’s declaring her loyalty to Elektra who, despite her strange ways, is request for help in the double murder horrifies Chrysothemis, still a royal princess and daughter of the late king. e overseer, who rushes away, leaving Elektra resolved to exact her revenge who shares in the censure of Elektra, sends the maids inside, unaided. where they continue to abuse their companion. A stranger enters, explaining that he is waiting to give Elektra enters the courtyard, brooding on the murder of Klytämnestra an eyewitness account of Orest’s death. is new her father and upon his unpunished assassins. She swears that confirmation of the awful news releases a torrent of grief in she and her siblings, Orest and Chrysothemis, will dance at Elektra, who discloses her identity. e stranger – Orest himself, Agamemnon’s tomb when their vengeance will have set his soul who had not previously recognized her – wonders that the dogs at peace. Chrysothemis comes to warn Elektra that Klytämnestra at the gate knew him, but his sister does not. Now aware that the and Aegisth are plotting to imprison her. She begs Elektra to man before her is her own brother, she is ecstatic. flee with her from the tortured existence they must endure in Orest informs Elektra that he is on a mission of vengeance. the palace. Chrysothemis longs for a happier life – above all, to His tutor appears, chiding the siblings for recklessly discussing bear children. She advises her sister to avoid Klytämnestra, who their plans where they can be overheard. He tells Orest that the night before had been plagued by terrifying dreams. Elektra Klytämnestra awaits, and the two men enter the palace. Almost replies that she must speak to Klytämnestra, and Chrysothemis immediately Klytämnestra’s shrieks ring out. e courtyard leaves as their mother approaches. quickly fills with terrified servants, who flee to avoid fatal reprisals e sight of Elektra inspires fear in Klytämnestra and elicits from Aegisth when he hears that Klytämnestra has been murdered. hostile remarks from the queen’s confidante and trainbearer, who When Aegisth reaches the courtyard, he finds no one there are sent away. Klytämnestra asks her daughter if she knows a but Elektra. Although disturbed by her suddenly gentler and remedy for the nightmares and the suffering they provoke. Elektra sweeter demeanor, he allows her to light his way across the suggests that the sacrifice of an appropriate victim would end her threshold. Once inside, he is heard desperately calling for help. To mother’s torment. When Klytämnestra presses her for details, his shouts of “Can no one hear me?” Elektra cries, “Agamemnon Elektra exultantly reveals that the queen herself must be the hears you!” Only a moment after Aegisth is killed, Chrysothemis victim whose blood is to be offered by the exiled Orest. Servants and the maids run out to tell Elektra that Orest has avenged the rush in to whisper news to Klytämnestra, who begins to laugh as murder of Agamemnon. Elektra performs a triumphal dance and if in triumph. then falls senseless to the ground. Chrysothemis rushes to the After the queen has left the courtyard, Elektra learns from palace door, frantically calling for Orest. Chrysothemis that the news inspiring such joy in Klytämnestra was the death of Orest. His legitimate claim to his father’s throne had threatened the power and lives of his mother and her paramour. Elektra refuses to believe her brother is dead, yet a young servant seems to confirm the news when he asks an older Approximate Timing: colleague for a horse to rush the tidings to Aegisth. 1 hour, 40 minutes No Intermission

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• Costumes constructed by the Richard Strauss San Francisco Opera Association. ELEKTRA Opera in one act in German Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles’s tragedy • Scenery constructed by Bay Productions Limited, Cardiff, First performed at the Sächsische Staatsoper, Dresden, on January 25, 1909 Wales, U. K. First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on October 10, 1975 Characters in order of vocal appearance: Five Maids LAUREN DECKER° MARY PHILLIPS* • Lyric Opera of Chicago KRYSTY SWANN gratefully acknowledges the support ALEXANDRA LoBIANCO of the Irma Parker German Opera ANN TOOMEY° Endowed Chair. Overseer SUSAN FOSTER°° Elektra NINA STEMME* Chrysothemis ELZA VAN DEN HEEVER Klytämnestra MICHAELA MARTENS Confidante WHITNEY MORRISON° • Lyric Opera of Chicago Trainbearer EMILY POGORELC° wishes to thank its Official Airline, Young Servant ERIC FERRING*° American Airlines. Old Servant KENNETH NICHOLS Orest IAIN PATERSON* Orest’s Tutor PHILIP HORST Aegisth ROBERT BRUBAKER*

• Projected titles © 2012 by Actors: TYLER GABRIELLE BROWN*, KATHERINE COYL, MARK LANCASTER, Lyric Opera of Chicago. JOSHUA MOANEY, MAGGIE CLENNON REBERG, DANIELLA RUKIN, MICHAEL SAUBERT, JR., CHELSEA SHEPHARD, PHILIP SOULIDES, CLAUDIA URBANO*, KAREN ANNE YATES

• is season’s projected English Conductor DONALD RUNNICLES* titles are funded in part by a Original Director SIR DAVID McVICAR generous grant from the Lloyd Revival Director NICK SANDYS** Set and Costume Designer JOHN MACFARLANE E. Rigler-Lawrence E.Deutsch Lighting Designer JENNIFER TIPTON Foundation. Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Assistant Director DAVID CARL TOULSON Stage Manager RACHEL A. TOBIAS Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM MATTHEW PIATT Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Projected English Titles COLIN URE

* Lyric debut **Lyric directorial debut ° Current member, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °°Alumna, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

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NINA STEMME successes in concert have been Britten’s War Requiem other prestigious engagements. Paterson is equally (Elektra) with the Kölner Philharmonie under Semyon Bychkov, celebrated for Strauss, with successes including Elektra Lyric debut and Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Symphony (Vienna), Peneios/Daphne (Brussels), and Jochanaan/ No. 8 (Grammy-winning CD) with Michael Tilson Salome (Stuttgart). In 2017 he created the central Winner of the 2018 omas and the San Francisco Symphony. role of Leontes/Ryan Wigglesworth’s e Winter’s Birgit Nilsson Prize, the Tale at English National Opera. He has appeared internationally celebrated MICHAELA MARTENS with many major orchestras and has collaborated with Swedish soprano debuts (Klytämnestra) such distinguished conductors as Daniel Barenboim, at Lyric with a portrayal Previously at Lyric: Christian ielemann, Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon that previously earned Nurse/Die Frau ohne Rattle, and Christoph von Dóhnanyi. Paterson can be unanimous acclaim at the Metropolitan Opera, Schatten (2007/08). seen on DVD in Aida (Bregenz Festival) and Gloriana the major houses of Vienna, Berlin, and Munich, (Opera North). and in a Paris concert with the orchestra of Radio e American mezzo- France. Stemme began the current season as soprano is renowned ROBERT BRUBAKER Brünnhilde/Ring cycle at London’s Royal Opera internationally for portrayals (Aegisth) House Covent Garden, before returning to the of some of the most Lyric debut Italian repertoire as Turandot (Madrid) and Tosca memorably dramatic roles in the repertoire. In addition (Vienna). e season also includes both Kundry/ to Klytämnestra (San Francisco, Houston) and the e American tenor is Parsifal and Turandot in Munich and the Dyer’s Nurse/Die Frau ohne Schatten (Oper Graz), her other established internationally Wife/Die Frau ohne Schatten in Vienna. In addi- successes in Strauss include Adelaide/Arabella (San as a formidable singing tion to solo discs of Wagner and Strauss, Stemme Francisco earlier this season) and Herodias/Salome actor, singing an immensely can heard on CD as Isolde (twice), Leonore/ (e Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera). Among her varied repertoire. Prominent Fidelio, and the Walküre Brünnhilde. Her Isolde other German roles are Kundry/Parsifal (Metropolitan among his numerous is also available on DVD (Glyndebourne), as Opera), Gertrud/Hansel and Gretel (Bavarian State Metropolitan Opera roles have been Mime/Das are the heroines of Siegfried (La Scala), Aida and Opera, Met, English National Opera) and Fricka/Das Rheingold and Siegfried, the Witch/Hansel and Gretel, Der Rosenkavalier (both from Zurich), La forza Rheingold (North Carolina Opera). Martens has taken Golitsyn/Khovanshchina, Mephistopheles/Doktor del destino and La fanciulla del West (both from on works of composers as varied as Berlioz (Cassandre/ Faust (company premiere), and Chairman Mao/ Vienna). Stemme first attracted international Les Troyens, San Francisco, Geneva), Massenet (title Nixon in China (company premiere, DVD). His attention as the winner of Plácido Domingo’s role/Hérodiade, Washington), Giordano (Countess/ many exceptionally challenging roles in 20th- and 1993 Operalia competition. Engagements fol- Andrea Chénier, Met), Bartók (Judith/Bluebeard’s 21st-century repertoire have ranged from the Captain/ lowed at the Met, La Scala, the Bayreuth Festival, Castle, New Japan Philharmonic, ENO), Janáček Berg’s Wozzeck (Santa Fe), Alviano/Schreker’s Die the Vienna State Opera, and Covent Garden. (Kostelnička/Jenůfa, ENO), Virgil omson (Susan Gezeichneten (Los Angeles, Salzburg, CD, DVD), e soprano, appointed a Swedish Court Singer B. Anthony/ e Mother of Us All, New York’s and the title role/ Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules and an Austrian “Kammersängerin,” is a past Hudson Opera House), and John Adams (Marilyn (Vienna, Salzburg, CD) to Pierre/Prokofiev’s War recipient of the “Premio Abbiati” critics’ award, Klinghoffer/ e Death of Klinghoffer, Met, ENO, St. and Peace (Paris, DVD), the Jailer and Inquisitor/ Olivier Award, International Opera Award, and Louis Symphony). She debuted at Carnegie Hall with Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero (Barcelona), Bégearss/ Opera News Award. (See “How ey Handle the American Symphony Orchestra in the title role Corigliano’s e Ghosts of Versailles (Los Angeles, CD), Elektra,” pp. 30-32.) of Magnard’s rarely heard Bérénice. Additional recent Old Man Marshall/Turnage’s Anna Nicole (Brooklyn concert engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony Academy of Music), Don Ignacio/Eötvös’s Of Love and ELZA VAN DEN No. 9 (Cleveland Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony) Other Demons (Strasbourg), and Wilmer McLean and HEEVER and the Verdi Requiem (Grant Park Music Festival, J. Edgar Hoover/Glass’s Appomattox (Washington). (Chrysothemis) Spoleto Festival USA). Brubaker has triumphed as Peter Grimes at the Previously at Lyric: Canadian Opera Company, the Aldeburgh Festival, Armida/Rinaldo IAIN PATERSON and English National Opera. Another British success (2011/12). (Orest) was Bacchus/Ariadne auf Naxos at Covent Garden Lyric debut (opening night of Antonio Pappano’s first season as e much-acclaimed South music director). Following Lyric’s Elektra, the tenor African soprano scored a One of today’s leading will portray Dr. Caius/Falstaff at Dallas Opera. Last triumph as Chrysothemis interpreters of heroic bass- season brought him to San Francisco (Turandot, last season at the Metropolitan Opera, where she has baritone repertoire, the Elektra, Manon) and to Turin’s Teatro Regio (Salome). also earned similarly lavish praise as Elettra/Idomeneo, Scottish artist began the Elisabetta/Maria Stuarda (company premiere, HD), season with performances SUSAN FOSTER and Donna Anna/Don Giovanni. She began the current at the Berlin State Opera (Overseer) season at the Vienna State Opera as Elsa/Lohengrin (a as Creonte/Medea. Following Lyric’s Elektra he Previously at Lyric: portrayal previously heard in Zurich and Munich). will sing Wotan/Ring cycle (Oper Leipzig, where Seven roles since Following Lyric’s Elektra she will return to the Met as he starred in the complete Ring last season) and in 1989/90, most recently Vitellia/La clemenza di Tito and to Oper Frankfurt as the title role/ e Flying Dutchman (Deutsche Oper ird Maid/Elektra Norma (which she has also sung in Toronto, Dallas, Berlin). Recent Wagner successes include Gunther/ (1992/93); Gaudy Lady/ and Bordeaux). Van den Heever has scored successes Götterdämmerung (company debut, Semperoper e Gambler, in an astonishingly varied repertoire, including operas Dresden) as well as Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde Peasant Girl/ e Marriage of Mozart (Così fan tutte, Paris, Dallas); Beethoven (Bayreuth Festival, Dutch National Opera, Bavarian of Figaro (both 1991/92). (Fidelio, Zurich); Britten (Peter Grimes, Vienna, State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Opera London); Verdi (I Lombardi, Hamburg; Ernani, House Covent Garden), the Dutchman (Flanders e American soprano, an alumna of the Ryan Frankfurt; Il trovatore, Bordeaux; Otello, Frankfurt; Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Accademia di Santa Cecilia). Opera Center (formerly the Lyric Opera Center Don Carlo, Bordeaux, Strasbourg); and Puccini Wotan/Das Rheingold (Bayreuth, Hallé Orchestra - for American Artists), has been widely acclaimed (Il trittico, Frankfurt). At San Francisco Opera, where CD), Wotan/Die Walküre (Houston Grand Opera), in dramatic repertoire, such as Puccini’s Turandot she participated in the company’s Merola Opera and Wotan/Siegfried (Edinburgh International Festival), (Opera Australia/DVD, San Francisco Opera, Adler Fellowship programs, she appeared in the world and Hans Sachs/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Hawaii Opera eater, Finland’s Savonlinna Opera premiere of Philip Glass’s Appomattox. Among her (English National Opera, Hallé Orchestra), among Festival, Greek National Opera). Foster debuted at

24 | February 2 - 22, 2019 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO the Bavarian State Opera as Helmwige/Die Walküre, the Metropolitan Opera she has portrayed both Opera, Opera Colorado), Ariadne (Austin Lyric Opera which she has reprised with the Berlin Philharmonic, Rossweisse and Schwertleite/Die Walküre, Ježibaba/ debut), Turandot (Des Moines Metro Opera), and LA Opera, the Berlin State Opera, La Scala (DVD), and Rusalka, and Mrs. Alexander/Philip Glass’s Satyagraha Leonore/Fidelio (Vienna State Opera, European debut). the BBC Proms. Among her other successes are Isolde (company premiere). She sings Rossweisse again this She debuted at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera as (Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, Russia’s Stars of the spring with the Met. Her many successes encompass Gerhilde/Die Walküre, and has portrayed Helmwige White Nights Festival) Sieglinde (Festspiel Baden- such varied repertoire Azucena/Il trovatore (Seattle, in that work for a tour of Japan with the Vienna State Baden), and Leonore/Fidelio (Opera Roanoke). Foster Phoenix), Eboli/Don Carlo (Austin, Sarasota, Toronto, Opera. Other major successes include the title role/La has collaborated with such distinguished conductors Vancouver), Herodias/Salome (Edmonton), Gertrude/ fanciulla del West (Des Moines), Amelia/Un ballo in as Barenboim, Conlon, Gergiev, Rattle, Petrenko, and Hamlet (Birmingham), Madame Larina/Eugene Onegin maschera (Miami), Miss Jessel/ e Turn of the Screw Nagano. Among the other companies with which she (Spoleto, USA), Eduige/Rodelinda (Dallas), and Sister (Dallas), Tosca (Grand Rapids, St. Paul), Donna Anna/ has performed are Washington National Opera, Florida Helen Prejean/Dead Man Walking (Austin). Phillips’s Don Giovanni (Seattle), and Magda Sorel/ e Consul Grand Opera, Vancouver Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, facility with contemporary works led to her New York (Santa Barbara). LoBianco has performed the complete New York City Opera, and Chautauqua Opera, in Philharmonic debut in Michael Torke’s Four Seasons role of Brünnhilde with St. Louis’s Union Avenue addition to appearances with the Chicago Symphony and Aaron Jay Kernis’s Garden of Light (both world Opera, and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, premieres) and Jake Heggie’s song cycle e Starry for its production of Il trovatore. Later this season Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, and West Virginia Night at Ravinia, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, and the soprano brings her portrayal of Tosca to North Symphony. She can be heard on CD in the Lyric Opera the Library of Congress. Concert engagements include Carolina Opera. She will also star as Senta/ e Flying Center recording of Hugo Weisgall’s Six Characters in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (New York Philharmonic) Dutchman with Baltimore Concert Opera and will Search of an Author. and Symphony No. 2 (Los Angeles Philharmonic, return to the Madison Symphony Orchestra (where she Atlanta Symphony), and performances with the Boston was previously heard in Rachmaninoff’s e Bells) for LAUREN DECKER Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Philharmonia Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. (First Maid) Baroque. Previously at Lyric: ANN TOOMEY Five roles since 2016/17, KRYSTY SWANN (Fifth Maid) most recently Inez/ ( ird Maid) Previously at Lyric: Il trovatore (2018/19); Previously at Lyric: Musetta/La bohème Enrichetta/I puritani Grimgerde/Die Walküre (2018/19); First Lady/ Schwertleite/Die Walküre, (2017/18); Rebecca e Magic Flute (2016/17). (both 2017/18). Parker/Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (2016/17). A Michigan native and e contralto, a third-year member of the Ryan Opera third-year Ryan Opera Center, was featured last season alongside Christine is season the Philadelphia- Center member, the soprano Goerke and Eric Owens in the Harris eater’s born mezzo-soprano returned appeared last season at the Grant Park Music Festival “Beyond the Aria” series. She was a national semifinalist to the Metropolitan Opera for Nico Muhly’s Marnie as Laetitia/Menotti’s e Old Maid and the ief and in the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council (world premiere), Die Walküre, and Il tabarro. alongside tenor Lawrence Brownlee in the Harris Auditions, having previously been a two-time recipient Highlights during the 2017/18 season included eater’s “Beyond the Aria” series. Toomey has also of an Encouragement Award in the MONCA’s Upper Grimgerde/Die Walküre (Dallas Symphony Orchestra), been heard with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Midwest Region. e Wisconsin native holds a B.F.A. Grandma/Douglas Tappin’s I Dream (Opera Carolina She holds a master’s degree from the University of in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin- and Toledo Opera), and Irina/Kurt Weill’s Lost in Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (Fiordiligi/ Milwaukee, and has performed in opera scenes with the Stars (Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis). Among Così fan tutte, Boonyi/Jack Perla’s new opera Shalimar Milwaukee’s Kalliope Vocal Arts. She also participated other important achievements have been Amneris/ the Clown – studio production, soprano soloist/ Brahms’s in Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, Aida (Bucharest National Opera); Maddalena/Rigoletto German Requiem). She earned her bachelor of music the American Wagner Project (Washington, D.C.) and (Atlanta Opera); Rebecca Parker/Daniel Schnyder’s degree at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto (Italy). Decker Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (Madison Opera); and her (Despina/Cosi fan tutte, Nella/Gianni Schicchi, soprano portrayed Sally/Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge at the Milan debut with the Laverdi Orchestra. Swann's soloist/Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Haydn’s Lord Up North Vocal Institute (Boyne Falls, Michigan) and New York credits include Lola/Cavalleria rusticana Nelson Mass). Toomey portrayed Gabrielle/La rondine has performed in concert with the Apollo Chorus/ (Opera Orchestra of New York), Suzuki/Madama at Opera eatre of Saint Louis while participating in Elmhurst Symphony (Verdi Requiem), Civic Orchestra Butterfly (New York City Opera), Emilia/Weill’s e the 2015 Gerdine Young Artist program. She was a of Chicago, and the Harare International Festival of the Firebrand of Florence (Alice Tully Hall), the Mozart 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Arts (Zimbabwe). Winner of the 2018 Lola Fletcher Requiem (Carnegie Hall), and the Verdi Requiem national semifinalist and an award recipient in the 2015 scholarship in voice from the American Opera Society (Lincoln Center). She has also appeared with the Corbett Opera Scholarship Competition at UCC-CM. of Chicago, she returns to the Lyric stage later this major orchestras of Boston, Baltimore, and Rochester. Ann Toomey is sponsored by e Susan and Richard P. season in La traviata. Lauren Decker is sponsored by an Swann is a winner of the 2013 Marcello Giordani Kiphart Family, Richard O. Ryan, and Richard W. Anonymous Donor, Susan M. Miller, and e ierer International Vocal Competition in Italy and the Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts. Family Foundation. Intermezzo Foundation Award (Elardo International Opera Competition), as well as a two-time winner of PHILIP HORST MARY PHILLIPS the coveted Richard F. Gold Career Grant. (Orest’s Tutor) (Second Maid) Previously at Lyric: Lyric debut ALEXANDRA Pantheus/Les Troyens LOBIANCO (2016/17); Count The American mezzo- (Fourth Maid) Capulet/Roméo et Juliette soprano has been widely Previously at Lyric: (2015/16); Gamekeeper/ heard in Wagner, includ- Helmwige/Die Walküre Rusalka (2013/14). ing Brangäne/Tristan und (2017/18). Isolde (Dallas, Winnipeg), e American bass-baritone Erda/Das Reingold (Scottish Recent highlights in the returned to San Francisco Opera earlier this season Opera), Fricka/Das Rheingold (Pittsburgh Festival American soprano’s burgeon- in one of his Lyric roles, the Gamekeeper/Rusalka. Opera), and in full Ring cycles with Canadian Opera ing career include acclaimed He has previously been featured at San Francisco as Company, Scottish Opera, and Seattle Opera. With performances in four formidable roles: Aida (Seattle Pantheus/Les Troyens, Fritz Kothner/Die Meistersinger

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 25 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO von Nürnberg and Leporello/Don Giovanni. Among Glyndebourne Opera Cup; debuted at Washington Don Giovanni (DuPage Opera eatre). He was an his other major successes are performances at Seattle National Opera as Cunegonde/Candide; and ensemble member and sang many performances of Opera (Scarpia/Tosca), London’s English National participated in the prestigious Mozart Academy at the the featured role of Joe in Harold Prince’s production Opera (Don Pizarro/Fidelio), and Des Moines Metro Aix-en-Provence Festival. Later this season she returns of Show Boat (1993-98) in New York, Toronto, Opera (Orest/Elektra). Important Metropolitan to the Madison Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Chicago, and London. Since 1998 Nichols has made Opera credits include e Gambler (company debut), Symphony No. 8. Among other previous successes seven appearances with “Night of 1,000 Voices,” the Francesca da Rimini, and e Nose, which he also sang are Romilda/Xerxes, Berenice/Rossini’s L’occasione fa annual charity concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. in Aix-en-Provence. He has premiered roles in many il ladro, and Johanna/Sweeney Todd (Glimmerglass His concert activities have also included “An Evening productions – among them Tortsheiner/Ben Moore’s Festival); Chan Parker/Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (New of Gershwin” earlier this year with Sarasota’s Artist Enemies, A Love Story (Palm Beach Opera, world York’s Apollo eater); and Musetta/La bohème, Series. Nichols is an alumnus of the Crane School of premiere), Lieutenant Horstmayer/Kevin Puts’s Silent Fire/L’enfant et les sortilèges, and Lucia/ e Rape of Music/ State University of New York at Potsdam. Night (Wexford Opera Festival, European premiere), Lucretia (all at Curtis). Pogorelc has also appeared and Doctor/Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice at Carnegie Hall (Berio’s Sinfonia) and with the Bel DONALD RUNNICLES (Washington National Opera, American premiere). Canto Chorus of Milwaukee and the New Jersey (Conductor) His international presence extends from the New Symphony Orchestra. She has received first prize Lyric debut Israeli Opera (title role/Wozzeck) and Komische in numerous competitions, including e Carolyn Oper Berlin (Tomsky/Pique Dame) to eater St. Bailey and Dominick Argento Vocal Competition, e Scottish conductor is Gallen and Oper Frankfurt (both as Mandryka/ the Hal Leonard Art Song Competition, and the general music director of Arabella). Horst is a past winner of the Liederkranz Classical Singer Magazine Competition. Emily Pogorelc the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Competition’s Wagner division, the Metropolitan is sponsored by Sally and Michael Feder, Ms. Gay K. music director of the Grand Opera National Council Auditions, and the Marian Stanek, and Jennifer L. Stone. Teton Music Festival, and Anderson Prize for Emerging Classical Artists. principal guest conductor ERIC FERRING of the Atlanta Symphony WHITNEY MORRISON (Young Servant) Orchestra. He is also conductor emeritus of the (Confidante) Lyric debut BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, having served Previously at Lyric: as chief conductor from 2009 to 2016. Highlights First Cretan Woman/ e Iowa-born tenor, a first- of his 2018/19 season include conducting the world Idomeneo (2018/19); year Ryan Opera Center premiere of Detlev Glanert’s opera Oceane at the Gerhilde/Die Walküre, member, is an alumnus Deutsche Oper Berlin and guest engagements at the Countess Ceprano/ of Drake University and Tonhalle Orchester, and the Cincinnati, Dallas, and Rigoletto (both 2017/18). Boston Conservatory. Toronto symphony orchestras. Maestro Runnicles’s As a Resident Artist former posts include music director of San Francisco e soprano, a Chicago at Pittsburgh Opera (2016/17, 2017/18), he Opera (1992 to 2008), principal conductor of the native and second-year Ryan Opera Center appeared as Spoletta/Tosca, Basilio and Curzio/ e Orchestra of St. Luke’s (2001 to 2007), and general member, is an alumna of Alabama’s Oakwood Marriage of Figaro, Ricky/ Jeremy Howard Beck's music director of the eater Freiburg and Orchestra University, the Eastman School of Music, e Long Walk, Flask/ Jake Heggie's Moby Dick, (1989 to 1993). His recording of Wagner arias with Germany’s Neil Semer Vocal Institute, and the 2018 Nemorino/L’elisir d’amore, and e Protagonist/ Jonas Kaufmann and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto. Among her Douglas J. Cuomo’s one-man opera Ashes and Snow Oper Berlin won the 2013 Gramophone Award for operatic roles are Donna Anna/Don Giovanni (world premiere, based on Wilhelm Müller’s Best Vocal Recording, and his recording of Janáček’s (Chicago’s Floating Opera) and Miss Pinkerton/ Winterreise poetry). Ferring was a 2017 apprentice Jenůfa with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche e Old Maid and the ief (Grant Park Music singer at e Santa Fe Opera, where he received Oper Berlin was nominated for a 2016 Grammy Festival.) Morrison has appeared in concert with the Richard Tucker Memorial Award. He has also Award for Best Opera Recording. Born in Edinburgh, the Eastman Wind Ensemble and the Rochester been seen at Opera eatre of Saint Louis, Wolf Runnicles was appointed OBE in 2004, and holds Philharmonic Orchestra. She also performed the Trap Opera, and Seagle Music Colony. In 2017/18 honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, National Anthem at the 2016 Bank of America he received a Sara Tucker Study Grant from e the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Chicago Marathon. In addition to winning the Richard Tucker Foundation, a Career Grant from e and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. (See Minnesota District Metropolitan Opera National Sullivan Foundation, and ird Prize in the Gerda “How ey Handle Elektra,” pp. 30-32.) Council Auditions, Morrison has earned top Lissner Foundation International Voice Competition. prizes in the National Classical Singer University In 2015, Opera eatre of Saint Louis presented SIR DAVID McVICAR Competition, the R. Nathaniel Dett Club NANM Ferring with a career award from the Richard Gaddes (Original Director) Scholarship Competition, and the Musicians Club Fund for Young Artists. Eric Ferring is sponsored by Previously at Lyric: of Women Competition. She is a two-time recipient Richard O. Ryan, Stepan Company, and Cynthia Nine productions since of the UNCF John Lennon Endowed Scholarship Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon. 2001/02, most recently and a former finalist in the Luminarts Classical Il trovatore (2018/19, Music Competition. Whitney Morrison is sponsored KENNETH NICHOLS 2014/15, 2006/07); by J. omas Hurvis. (Old Servant) Wozzeck (2015/16); Previously at Lyric: La clemenza di Tito EMILY POGORELC Chorus member since (2013/14). (Trainbearer) 2000; ten solo roles since Previously at Lyric: 2002/03, most recently e 2018/19 season includes 16 productions Noémie/Cendrillon Old Gypsy /Il trovatore internationally by the renowned Scottish director, (2018/19). (2018/19, 2014/15); among them new productions of Les Troyens at Undertaker/Porgy and Bess, the Vienna State Opera, Adriana Levouvreur at In 2018 the soprano, a Fourth Servant/Capriccio the Metropolitan Opera, and I masnadieri at La Milwaukee native and first- (both 2014/15). Scala. McVicar began his association with the Royal year Ryan Opera Center Opera House in 2001. His achievements there have member, graduated from the Among the American bass-baritone’s roles in Chicago encompassed ten productions, ranging stylistically Curtis Institute of Music; earned the Ginette eano have been the King and the Herald/ e Love for ree from e Marriage of Figaro to Salome. e Met Prize for Most Promising Talent at the inaugural Oranges (Chicago Cultural Center) and Leporello/ has produced his Donizetti “ree Queens” trilogy,

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Giulio Cesare, Il trovatore, Tosca, and Cavalleria JOHN MACFARLANE “Gracie” Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow. Jennifer rusticana/Pagliacci. His international career has also (Set and Costume Designer) Tipton is supported by the Mary-Louise and James S. encompassed other works of Handel (Agrippina, Previously at Lyric: Aagard Lighting Director Endowed Chair. Barcelona, Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt; Semele, Paris; Rusalka (2013/14); Giulio Cesare, Glyndebourne, Chicago; Alcina, Hansel and Gretel MICHAEL BLACK English National Opera/London) and Mozart (Così (2012/13, 2001/02); (Chorus Master) fan tutte, Strasbourg, Scottish Opera; La clemenza di Elektra (2012/13). Chorus master since Tito, Aix-en-Provence; e Marriage of Figaro, Don 2013/14; interim chorus Giovanni, Sydney), as well as Cherubini (Medea, e Scottish designer, who master, 2011/12. ENO); Verdi (Macbeth, St. Petersburg; Don Carlo, studied at the Glasgow Tokyo; Falstaff, Vienna); Wagner (Ring cycle, School of Art, works extensively in opera and dance. Chorus master from to 2001 Strasbourg; Tristan und Isolde, Tokyo, Vienna; Die His frequent collaborators in opera include directors to 2013 at Opera Australia in Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Glyndebourne, Chicago); Sir David McVicar, Willy Decker, Richard Jones, Sydney, Black prepared the Offenbach (Les contes d’Hoffmann, Salzburg); Strauss and Francesca Zambello. Among his opera credits OA chorus for more than 90 (Der Rosenkavalier, Scottish Opera, Opera North, internationally are Tosca (Metropolitan Opera), operas and many concert works. He has served in this ENO); and Britten (Billy Budd, Lyric; e Turn Benvenuto Cellini (Geneva), Hansel and Gretel (Welsh capacity for such distinguished organizations as the of the Screw, ENO). In 2012 McVicar received a National Opera, Met), e Queen of Spades (WNO), Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Holland Park knighthood and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des War and Peace and La clemenza di Tito (Paris), (London), and, in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Arts et des Lettres. Agrippina (Brussels), Boris Godunov (Amsterdam), Orchestra (including Rachmaninoff’s e Bells, led by Euryanthe (Glyndebourne), A Midsummer Night’s Vladimir Ashkenazy), the Philharmonia Choir, Motet NICK SANDYS Dream (Cologne), Les Troyens (English National Choir, and Cantillation chamber choir. Black has also (Revival Director) Opera), Don Giovanni (Brussels, San Francisco), worked with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Lyric directorial debut Idomeneo (Vienna), and Maria Stuarda (Met). Australia with Sir Andrew Davis. His recent activities Previously at Lyric: Macfarlane made his Royal Ballet debut in 1985 with include preparing the Damnation of Faust chorus, Fight choreographer for Giselle. He has since returned regularly to the Royal continuing his association with the Grant Park Music 48 productions since Opera House, designing Glen Tetley’s La Ronde and Festival, where he has worked for two seasons. As one 1995/96, most recently Liam Scarlett’s Asphodel Meadows, Sweet Violets, e of Australia’s most prominent vocal accompanists, Il trovatore (2018/19, Age of Anxiety, Frankenstein, and Swan Lake for e Black has regularly performed for broadcasts and 2014/15); Jesus Christ Royal Ballet, and Erwartung/Bluebeard’s Castle, Peter recordings (he has been heard numerous times in Superstar, Faust (both Grimes, e Magic Flute, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Australian Broadcast Corporation programs). He has 2017/18). Gianni Schicchi, and L’heure espagnole. His many served as chorus master on four continents, and his other designs include e Nutcracker, Le Baiser de work has been recorded and/or aired on ABC, BBC, A resident fight director at Lyric for over 20 years, la fée and Cinderella for Birmingham Royal Ballet. PBS, and for many HD productions in movie theaters Sandys directed the McVicar Elektra production Macfarlane’s painting and printmaking are widely as well as on television. He has also been a lecturer in Houston last January, having worked on the exhibited across the U.K. and Europe. He was created at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, of which violence and movement for the Lyric premiere. a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006. he is an alumnus. Black holds a master’s degree in Sandys has been an artistic associate at Chicago’s John Macfarlane is supported by the Richard P. and musicology from the University of New South Wales. Remy Bumppo eatre Company since 2002 and Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair. Michael Black is the Howard A. Stotler Chorus artistic director since 2012. For Remy Bumppo, Master Endowed Chair. he has directed Puff: Believe It Or Not (world- JENNIFER TIPTON premiere adaptation), Great Expectations (U. S. (Lighting Designer) SARAH HATTEN premiere), Pirandello’s Henry IV, Life of Galileo, Previously at Lyric: (Wigmaster and Travesties (2015 Jeff Award nominations for direction, Eight productions since Makeup Designer) production), Our Class (2014 Jeff nominations 1988/89, most recently Wigmaster and makeup for direction, production, ensemble), Seascape, and Il trovatore (2018/19, designer since 2011/12. Fiction, among others. He has performed in many 2014/15, 2006/07); shows for the company, most recently Frankenstein Romeo and Juliet Lyric’s wigmaster and and Pygmalion. Sandys has also directed for First (2015/16); La clemenza makeup designer has worked Folio, Eclipse eatre, Chamber Opera Chicago, di Tito (2013/14). in a wide repertoire at Des Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park, and Stage West, Moines Metro Opera and among others. His Jeff-winning fight direction has e American lighting designer is well known for Michigan Opera eatre, as well as Columbus Opera, been seen throughout Chicagoland, on Broadway, her work in theater, dance, and opera. Her designs Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, and the and at the Metropolitan Opera (Il trovatore, Giulio for La traviata were seen in seven cities throughout University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Cesare, Prince Igor). Adjunct faculty at e eatre Britain earlier this season in Welsh National Opera’s Music. She has also worked at the Glimmerglass School at DePaul University since 1995, Sandys production. Other projects this season include David Festival and the major opera companies of Los has received 15 Jeff nominations (winning once for Lang’s e Loser at LA Opera. Tipton’s most recent Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central combat choreography), an After Dark Award, a Dallas opera productions include L’elisir d’amore and Maria City, as well as Wisconsin’s American Players eatre Critics Circle Award, and a 2011 Achievement Award Stuarda (the latter in its company premiere) at the and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages eatre and the from e Meier Foundation for the Arts. Metropolitan Opera, David Lang’s Love Fail at the Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B.A. in music at Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Bartlett Sher’s Simpson College. Sarah Hatten is the Marlys Beider production of Romeo and Juliet at both the Met and Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair. La Scala. Her recent work in dance includes e Age of Anxiety for the Royal Ballet, and, in theater, Harold Pinter's e Room for the Wooster Group. Tipton teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. She received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003, and in April 2004 the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008 she was made a United States Artists

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How ey Handle Elektra By Eric Myers

Nina Stemme in Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera. MARTY SOHL/METROPOLITAN OPERA SOHL/METROPOLITAN MARTY

n its tight hour and forty minutes – the length of the average feature film – Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra manages to pack in enough terror, tension, and unexpected beauty to leave an audience weak at the knees. It was the sheer genius and creative synergy of StraussI and Hofmannstahl in this, their first collaboration, that spawned a work whose savage brilliance remains unique in the operatic canon. It almost didn’t happen. Following the success of Salome, with its libretto based on Oscar Wilde's scandalous play, Strauss was drifting toward other tales out of history and the Bible. Hofmannsthal GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL MUSIC FESTIVAL TETON GRAND had been pursuing a collaboration with the elusive Strauss for years, during which time he successfully steered him away from taking on the Borgias, Semiramis, Saul and David, and even a comedy. (at would come later, with Der Rosenkavalier.) Finally, in 1905, Strauss saw Hofmannsthal’s stage version of Sophocles’s Elektra in Berlin, and knew that it should be his next opera. Hofmannsthal had, of course, made the ancient Greek drama newly relevant to a German-speaking world that was now embracing the revolutionary psychological theories of Sigmund Freud. Opera was ready to grow beyond the more broadly drawn protagonists of the nineteenth century and face the challenge of infusing itself with a new level of sexual and psychological insight. Salome had already been a harbinger of this trend, which would soon be taken up by other German and Austrian composers such as Franz Schreker, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Alexander von Zemlinsky. To Hofmannsthal’s visceral emotional poetry, Strauss brought a score that hit with the force of a sledgehammer. Audiences were stunned, and they remain so over a hundred years later. is Donald Runnicles uncompromising, cathartic work still has detractors among operagoers who would rather hear L’elisir d’amore or La bohème. Strauss pushed musical violence and brutality to its limits in Elektra, so much so that he never again composed another work so steeped in horror. Only in certain passages of Die Frau ohne Schatten would he again make use of such a nightmarish tonal palette. It was as if he had completely wrung out that aspect of himself – and then moved on. As director Rudolf Hartmann put it in Richard Strauss: e Staging of His Operas and Ballets, “Salome and Elektra – no matter how contrasted they may be – constitute an impressive foundation to Strauss’s dramatic work; they represent a chapter complete in itself, with no sequel.” But what does Elektra require from those who actually perform it – and what does it take out of them? Nina Stemme, this season’s Elektra at Lyric, has sailed through the score and its huge orchestration numerous times with her full-scaled dramatic soprano voice. Yet a performance of Elektra always leaves its mark. “It’s all about how you learn the part,” she says. “You have to be very careful to savor the softer moments, and pace your voice so that it’s still in the best of shape for the key scene which, for me, is the Recognition Scene with Orest. It’s the most emotional one, but the scene with Klytämnestra is the most dramatically challenging one. So if you scream your vocal cords out of your throat, you are in deep trouble. Also, when you are singing Elektra, you are, at every moment, in the here and now. I remember the first time I sang it, and I was thinking, ‘Oh! I can’t believe she has this other big scene coming up!’” Solitude is Stemme’s way of preparing herself for this taxing role. “On the day of the performance, I do tend to go into my own mental corridor, to

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Donald Runnicles in rehearsal at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

of Strauss’s heavy orchestration, it’s essential for a conductor – and his orchestra – to be alert to the demands this opera makes on singers. “I think it’s primarily a matter of sensitizing the orchestra to the fact that there are people singing,” explains Runnicles. “You want them to be able to listen to the singers, to hear them from the pit. If it’s played really meticulously, and if the orchestra takes the dynamics seriously, there are very few places where you’ll have to reduce the dynamics. But that’s a conductor’s job – to make it very clear to the players that what they have in front of them is what they should be playing, and that they should not gravitate to the strongest dynamic. If the dynamics are played exactly as printed, there should be no huge balance problems with the sound between the pit and Nina Stemme in Elektra at the Vienna State Opera. the stage. Of course, every opera house has a different acoustic, and this will be my first time at Lyric – so I plan to get out of the pit at some point focus on who I am for that performance. I want things to be as normal as during rehearsals and into the house to see how the balance is being possible. I only want my family around. Because it’s such a long day before maintained. e work is phenomenally orchestrated and phenomenally Elektra starts. Once, the day of an Elektra performance in New York, I composed, and that’s what rehearsals are for – context, context, context.” wanted to hide a bit, and so I went to an exhibition, but I was recognized. A role like Elektra demands such vocal weight and interpretive And for Elektra, I really want to stay in my bubble before I go onstage that authority that a dramatic soprano must grow into it. It cannot be taken on night.” in the early stages of a career. “I had heard that Elektra was so dramatic,” It’s not an easy role to shake. Stemme says that “all the emotions of says Stemme, “and so difficult, that I waited as long as I could to sing it. the opera, particularly the emotional climaxes, stay with me for a long time Somehow my schedule took care of that by itself, once I had said yes to after each performance. e character of Elektra may be gone, but not the Isolde and Brünnhilde. And I tried to sing the Italian repertoire as long as emotions of hers that I have sung. I try to just keep on and not do too possible. You know, Verdi doesn’t make it as easy to know the layers and much about it – otherwise, I don’t think my own family would be very emotions of his characters as a playwright like Hoffmannsthal does. It’s all happy! ere are times when I have to tell myself, ‘Stop acting like Elektra! there in the text. And Strauss responds to this text in the most fantastic And don’t go for that axe!’” way. Now I’m starting the Dyer’s Wife [in Die Frau ohne Schatten]. For Lyric’s debuting conductor, Donald Runnicles, a night spent I don’t know if she’s exploding or imploding her emotions, but she can’t with Elektra is, if anything, invigorating. “I don’t ever feel exhaustion after express them. Elektra is perfectly able to express them, but the Dyer’s Wife conducting Elektra,” he says. “I feel elation. Certainly it’s a complex work needs an entire opera to learn how to express herself!” to conduct and to keep together. But it doesn’t lead to exhaustion. If it It’s said that Strauss’s own advice to Elektra conductors was that it did, that would mean there was something I hadn’t done right. Certainly, should be conducted like “fairy-tale music.” Realistically, that can only be there is some emotional exhaustion, due to the roller-coaster you’ve just applied to one or two sections of the score, but it gives us an idea of how been on for 100 minutes. But it’s really not until a couple of hours later, a conductor can harness his enormous orchestra and allow the voices to or even the next morning, that I realize – ‘Hmmm…I conducted Elektra come through. “I think what he was getting at,” says Runnicles, “is that last night.’ It’s the same way with the Ring. At the end of any of the Ring there are moments of heavy articulation, but there are also moments that operas, yes, I’m emotionally quite tired. But I could probably physically should be played lightly. I think he’s also implying that the orchestra conduct another act!” players need to be aware of their specific role in the melodic line, and the Runnicles and Stemme are close friends and colleagues, and they need to keep it in a Mendelssohnian vein. In movie footage of Strauss have done numerous performances of Elektra in Berlin together. Because conducting his music – and he was a master conductor – you can see that

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 31 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO WILFRIED HÖSL/BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER he uses very minimal gestures.  e smaller the gesture, the more lightly the orchestra will play.  e horse doesn’t need to be fl ogged all the time.” Following Elektra’s premiere, Strauss made a few pages of cuts in the score, totaling under a minute of music, to the scenes with Klytämnestra and with Orest.  ese cuts have now become standard practice, and will be observed in Lyric’s performances. “ ey were made largely to accommodate the stamina of the singers,” says Runnicles, “and I think the singers are grateful for them. Frankly, it’s not the best music in the score. Strauss realized that less was more. And I don’t think the cuts distort the structure, or interfere with the drama or the tension. We’re already impatient to get to the dénouement; the feeling is that you want to keep things moving, and the audience is eager to get to the climax. When this opera is done well, it just races by.” Although Elektra fl ows smoothly, its structure is divided into four distinct major scenes, each with its own climax, and each building upon the previous one until the opera reaches its gruesomely celebratory conclusion. One of the many concerns for an Elektra conductor is to maintain the opera’s framework as an organic whole. Runnicles does not see that as a problem. “In any given moment while I’m conducting,” he says, “I’m not thinking about structure, or about what’s going to happen a half an hour later.  e score itself is so brilliantly paced that the biggest challenge is just doing what’s there. Just trying to realize what Strauss wants. If you can achieve what Strauss has written, then that’s really something. Don’t mess with it! If anybody is wondering what Runnicles’s Elektra is going to be like – well, I’ll be perfectly happy if what they hear is Strauss’s Elektra.”

Nina Stemme in Elektra at the Eric Myers has written for Opera News, Opera (U.K.), Time Out New York, Variety, and  e New York Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Times. He is also the author of Uncle Mame:  e Life of Patrick Dennis (St. Martin’s Press, 2000).

Modern Match – Elektra Spend enough time watching Netfl ix and, soon enough, it starts to recommend content using what can only be described as mind-reading. Television shows featuring a strong female lead? Sign me up! Political/revenge dramas? I’m hooked! But to binge-watch something – to invest time and emotions in a story – it must have the greatest actors, thrilling plot twists, and an undercurrent of psychological sizzle that keeps viewers watching. In short, it must follow the formula that Richard Strauss used more than a century ago in Elektra. What makes Elektra so compelling?  e title character, to start. Elektra is opera’s antihero, one who elicits horror and pity in equal measure; horror due to her all-consuming desire for revenge, and pity due to…well, who wouldn’t be driven to extremes by history’s most dysfunctional family?  e antihero is a trope that modern audiences are familiar with. Elektra has the ruthlessness of Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood in House of Cards, the lethal love of Emily VanKamp’s Emily  orne in Revenge, and the inner intensity of Viola Davis’s Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder. Just as these shows need top-tier actresses to pull off these characters, Strauss’s opera requires a singer at the height of her musical and acting talent. Just as in the opera, these kinds of shows are adept at mining the characters’ relationships to heighten the drama. Family members often fi nd themselves on opposite sides of a moral disagreement, such as on Scandal, Empire, or e Good Wife.  ey seem to suggest that love among parents, siblings, and spouses is more conditional than we’d imagined. In the opera, Elektra’s mother Klytämnestra presumably loves her children (that is, until they plot to kill her), and the love between siblings is strained as they disagree over the best course of action.  rough this, audiences discover what happens when family is not the comfort it’s supposed to be, but a source of stress, anxiety, drama. All of this leads to the fi nal tier of the Elektra formula: intensely emotional writing.  e best dramas employ writers who weave a character’s inner thoughts naturally into dialogue. In television they rely on longstanding themes to unify the show over many seasons. It’s not an easy task, but when done well, the show becomes electric.  is is why writers like Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy are household names; their dramas don’t shy away from honest, emotional confrontation or artistic risks.  e same is true of Hofmannsthal’s libretto and Strauss’s music.  e composer delves into his characters’ psychology using leitmotifs and colorful dissonance. He associates Elektra’s character with harmonies that can’t quite resolve, just as Elektra’s mind cannot resolve as she is consumed by revenge. It’s no wonder that while some adore this opera, others fi nd its music off -putting and exceptionally modern despite its age; just as Elektra makes no eff ort to please her audience, neither does Strauss. He captures the gritty, sizzling drama (Top to bottom) Robin Wright as Claire that makes the Elektra formula so enduring. House of Cards; Underwood in Viola Davis  Meg Huskin as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder; Emily VanCamp as Emily e writer, an intern in Lyric’s marketing and communications department in spring 2018, is currently the relationship marketing associate at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  orne in Revenge.

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Director’s Note ROBERT KUSEL Shortly before Lyric’s production of Elektra premiered in 2012, its original director, Sir David McVicar, responded to Sir David McVicar responded to questions from the company’s director of media relations, Magda Krance. (Edited by the company’s dramaturg, Roger Pines.)

What makes Elektra a great opera?  e score – it’s a combination of libretto and music that is simply a marriage made in heaven.  is was Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s fi rst collaboration with Richard Strauss, a turning point in both their lives. It was Hofmannsthal who made the relationship happen, having recognized something in the Salome score – Strauss’s music is, after all, so refl ective of the time in which he lived. In Salome he was exploring his characters’ inner psychology, and Hofmannsthal knew Strauss could Christine Goerke (standing) in the title role and Jill Grove as Klytämnestra in do the same with Elektra.  is piece is really a Sir David McVicar’s production of Elektra at Lyric (2012/13). wonderful meeting of minds, and on every level, it absolutely works. Elektra has been compared to a Elektra is the third Strauss opera you’ve directed. I don’t have to, it’s all been done for me in the hunk of black granite: where Salome is shimmering Chronologically speaking, you’ve zigzagged from score. If it were any longer, it would be too long. and exotic, Elektra is brutal and uncompromising. the later with Der Rosenkavalier to the earlier, Salome and Elektra are both short, yet not a bar Salome, before arriving at Elektra. too long – perfect pieces, both of them. e era in which it was written is rather Yes, working through Strauss’s musical language, signi cant, isn’t it? experiencing him in a non-linear way – it’s certainly Our designer, John Macfarlane, was inspired by Yes, 1909 – think of Russia, with revolution an interesting way of looking at Strauss’s music, North African tribal traditions, and the set happening initially in 1905-06, then 1911-14, then from the most popular to the most controversial design is inspired by the bombed-out institutional 1917-24.  ere’s a strong political element here of his scores. When it premiered, Elektra was buildings from the Bosnian-Croatian con ict. that’s very interesting, in that we’re dealing with a really shock-horror-shock-horror.  is was the We’ve actually made a decision to root the piece closed society that needs to change – the old order most arduous score ever written. Even Ernestine in an environment that’s mythological. I wanted to is massacred. You can compare Elektra to a Schumann-Heink, who created the role of buck the trend of being too specifi c regarding freedom-fi ghter! In Strauss’s closing bars you have Klytämnestra, said it was insanity – screaming like placement of the story in our time, and to root it in one of the most chilling things in the opera: as the Furies, absolute chaos and anarchy.  ere an environment that is freer, avoiding the reductive Elektra dies, Chrysothemis turns and calls for were strikes by the orchestra, with people saying it clichés. We are dealing with resonant images of Orest’s help, but the doors are barred shut.  ere is wasn’t singable or playable or listenable. No war, but also with mythology. no explanation for that in Hofmannsthal’s text, one had ever heard such large orchestration, and but it’s very telling. And think about it – a regime the psychological density of it was diffi cult for In speaking about Elektra, Anthony Freud has change hardly ever solves anyone’s problems. the Austro-Hungarian-German public. Everything described it as an excellent introduction to opera  is is a 20th-century political sensibility that about the piece was disturbing. for  rst-timers, especially those who appreciate Hofmannsthal brings to Greek myth, still very powerful theater and  lm experiences. resonant for us now. And it’s still as di cult to perform as it was in I would agree, especially teenagers – it will blow that  rst performance. their minds!  ink of the anger expressed in this Is Elektra a piece that you wanted to stage for But it’s such a well-written score! If the cast is piece. It’s about rage, matricide, disempowerment some time? true to the drama, they’ll fi nd a way to sing it. between generations. It’s also about revolution and For a long, long, long time. I fi nally did Salome at Of course, it’s an opera for herculean, Olympically not accepting the status quo.  e music will also Covent Garden fi ve years ago, and that was also athletic singers.  ey have to be dramatic rather grab young people – the sheer loudness of it. the fulfi llment of a long-held ambition. Once I got than careful. At the same time, they must have the (You think a rock concert is loud?)  is score it under my belt, I knew Elektra was the next one. stamina to get from A to Z – that’s a prerequisite. screams from a very primal part of the psyche. It’s just so damned visceral. Even if we ignore And they have to throw themselves into the drama, In the end, that’s what is fundamentally gripping the psychology and mythology, it’s totally gripping especially the three principal women. In singing about the music and the story – they speak about drama – I don’t think there’s anything in opera to and acting any role in the piece, you have to primal impulses and family relationships that compare with it. It’s kind of like an opera written inhabit it 100 percent and simply lose yourself in it. are not always healthy. Its Freudian connection by Quentin Tarantino in the way it notches up the speaks about rites of passage, psychological needs tension. You know the explosion of violence has to It’s a short, intense opera – shorter than a lot of for children to supplant their parents. Very, very come, and it’s incredibly shocking and cathartic  lms. Consider the Klytämnestra-Elektra scene: few people in the audience will fi nd nothing to when it does. that’s a pretty complicated relationship. How do relate to in experiencing this opera. you  esh it out in barely 20 minutes?

34 | February 2 - 22, 2019 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Elektra: After the Curtain Falls

Your opera experience doesn’t have to end here! When the performance is over, you can continue your exploration of Elektra in conversation with your companions. Here are some topics to consider:

• What were the most exciting moments of the performance for you musically, dramatically, and visually?

• Do you agree that, for a story that definitely has its horrific side, Elektra has a surprising amount of breathtakingly beautiful music? If you agree, which passage in the score seemed most beautiful to you?

• Have you ever known anyone who had an obsession as consuming as Elektra’s?

• Have you read any newspaper accounts of contemporary stories that you find are somewhat similar to Elektra?

• Chrysothemis is desperately unhappy and powerless to change her situation. What would you have done in her position? And what do you think happens to her after the opera is over?

• The Elektra-Klytämnestra confrontation is one of the most fascinating scenes in opera. Although Klytämnestra has done something horrible, did ever you find yourself sympathizing with her in the course of the scene?

• How did you respond to the production team’s decision to move this ancient Greek story away from that traditional setting? If you were going to set Elektra in a totally contemporary milieu, where would you place it? Vienna favorite Anna Bahr-Mildenburg (1872-1947), although a soprano, was one of the first great interpreters of the contralto role of Klytämnestra.

To continue exploring Elektra, Lyric dramaturg and program editor Roger Pines suggests the following performances:

CD DVD Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, Eberhard Waechter, Leonie Rysanek, Catarina Ligendza, Astrid Varnay, Dietrich Fischer- Wolfgang Windgassen; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, cond. Dieskau, Hans Beirer; Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Karl Böhm, dir. Karl Böhm (Orfeo) Götz Friedrich Eva Marton, Cheryl Studer, Marjana Lipovšek, Bernd Weikl, Hermann Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Mignon Dunn, Sir Donald McIntyre, Winkler; Bavarian Radio Orchestra, cond. Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI Robert Nagy; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, cond. James Levine, Classics) prod. Herbert Graf, dir. Paul Mills (DG) Inge Borkh, Marianne Schech, Jean Madeira, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Eva Marton, Cheryl Studer, Brigitte Fassbaender, Franz Grundheber, Fritz Uhl; Staatskapelle Dresden, cond. Karl Böhm (DG) James King; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, cond. Claudio Abbado, dir. Harry Kupfer (Arthaus Musik) Iréne eorin, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Waltraud Meier, René Pape, Robert Gambill; Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Daniele Gatti, dir. Nikolaus Lehnhoff (Arthaus Musik)

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Music Staff Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Flute Horn Extra Musicians William C. Billingham Teresa Kay Fream Marie Tachouet, Principal Jonathan Boen, Principal Ying Chai, Violin Jennifer Condon Renée-Paule Gauthier* Dionne Jackson, Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Paula Kosower, Cello Aram Demirjian Peter Labella Assistant Principal Utility Horn Tim Shaffer, Bass Susan Miller Hult Ann Palen Alyce Johnson Robert E. Johnson, ird Horn Luke Fitzpatrick, Flute Keun-A Lee Irene Radetzky Samuel Hamzem Margaret Butler Padilla, Oboe Noah Lindquist John D. Robinson Piccolo Neil Kimel Andrea DiOrio, Clarinet Grant Loehnig David Volfe Alyce Johnson Leslie Grimm, Clarinet Francesco Milioto Albert Wang Trumpet Erika Shrauger, Clarinet Jerad Mosbey Oboe William Denton, Principal Gene Collerd, Bassett Horn Matthew Piatt Viola Judith Kulb, Principal Matthew Comerford, David Tuttle, Bassett Horn Stefano Sarzani Carol Cook, Principal Judith Zunamon Lewis Co-Assistant Principal Vincent Disantis, Bassoon Madeline Slettedahl Terri Van Valkinburgh, Acting Assistant Principal Channing Philbrick, Gabby Webster, Horn/Wagner Eric Weimer Assistant Principal Anne Bach* Co-Assistant Principal Tuba Maureen Zoltek Frank W. Babbitt Ben Wulfman, Horn/Wagner Patrick Brennan English Horn Trombone Tuba Orchestra Karl Davies Judith Zunamon Lewis Jeremy Moeller, Principal Devin Gossett, Horn/Wagner Amy Hess Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Tuba Violin I Melissa Trier Kirk Clarinet Mark Fry* Kelsey Williams, Horn Robert Hanford, Aurélien Fort Pederzoli* Charlene Zimmerman, Graeme Mutchler** Kevin Hartman, Trumpet Concertmaster Principal Matt Lee, Trumpet e Mrs. R. Robert Cello Linda A. Baker, Bass Trombone Margaret Philbrick, Trumpet Funderburg Calum Cook, Principal Co-Assistant Principal Mark Fry* Reed Capshaw, Bass Trumpet Endowed Chair Paul Dwyer, Assistant Principal Susan Warner, Graeme Mutchler** David Becker, Contrabass Sharon Polifrone, Mark Brandfonbrener Co-Assistant Principal Trombone Assistant Concertmaster William H. Cernota Tuba Matt Kibort, Timpani/ Alexander Belavsky Laura Deming Bass Clarinet Andrew Smith, Principal Percussion Kathleen Brauer Sonia Mantell* Linda A. Baker Michael Kozakis, Percussion Pauli Ewing Walter Preucil Harp Katie Ventura, Harp David Hildner Bassoon Marguerite Lynn Williams, Andrea Swan, Celeste Laura Miller Bass Preman Tilson, Principal Liba Shacht Ian Hallas, Principal Librarian Heather Wittels Acting Principal Lewis Kirk, Timpani John Rosenkrans, Principal Bing Jing Yu Andrew L. W. Anderson Assistant Principal Edward Harrison, Principal Jeremy Attanaseo* Hanna Sterba* Personnel Manager Violin II Andrew J. Keller* Percussion and Stageband Contractor Yin Shen, Principal Gregory Sarchet Contrabassoon Michael Green, Principal Christine Janicki John Macfarlane, Collins R. Trier Lewis Kirk Douglas Waddell, Assistant Principal Assistant Principal *Season substitute Injoo Choi* Eric Millstein **Sabbatical Bonita Di Bello

Chorus Master Mezzo Bass Core Supplementary Supplementary Chorus Michael Black Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Matthew Carroll Chorus Tenor Marianna Kulikova David DuBois Chorus Master Soprano Humberto Borboa Beltran e Howard A. Stotler Colleen Lovinello Robert Morrissey Matthew Daniel Yvette Smith Kenneth Nichols Carla Janzen Endowed Chair Suzanne M. Kszastowski Klaus Georg Marie Sokolova Steven Pierce Luther Lewis Maia Surace Robert J. Prindle Kelsea Webb Regular Chorus Laurie Seely Vassalli omas Sillitti Bass Soprano Corinne Wallace-Crane Craig Springer Mezzo Katie Ruth Bieber Michael Cavalieri Elisa Billey Becker Pamela Williams Jeffrey W. Taylor Kirk Greiner Jillian Bonczek Michelle K. Wrighte Ronald Watkins Sarah Ponder Stephanie Schoenhofer Dorian McCall Sharon Garvey Cohen Nikolas Wenzel John E. Orduña Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson Tenor Tenor Douglas Peters Cathleen Dunn Geoffrey Agpalo William Roberts Janet Marie Farr Timothy Bradley Jared V. Esguerra Cameo T. Humes Scott Tomlinson Desirée Hassler Hoss Brock Todd von Felker Rachael Holzhausen William M. Combs Joe Shadday Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki John J. Concepcion Kimberly McCord Kenneth Donovan Bass Heidi Spoor Joseph A. Fosselman Claude Cassion Stephani Springer Tyler Samuel Lee Nicolai Janitzky Elizabeth Anne Taylor Lawrence Montgomery Vince Wallace Sherry Watkins Mark Nienow James Odom omas L. Potter Walton Westlake

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BACKSTAGE LIFE: Rachel Tobias

What is your role here at Lyric, and and on deadline, and that everything is how long have you held the position? progressing at the same rate. I am a stage manager and this is my 18th season. I work with directors and creative What keeps you committed to the work teams during the rehearsal process to you do? establish they have everything they need I see opera as a team sport. Working for their vision to be realized on stage. I backstage at Lyric, I’m surrounded by so also run the rehearsals for a handful of many unsung heroes that are incredibly productions each season. In that capacity, talented and passionate about their I make sure everyone is in attendance, I craft. eir commitment and integrity monitor the scenes to track if the singers to creating the best possible work keeps have the props they need, I mark the me moving forward and doing my performers’ entrances and exits from the best work. Even though we’re not on stage for followspot purposes, and I take stage singing or in the orchestra pit notes from the directors and designers playing an instrument, that’s still our on what they might want changed or work up there and that’s amazing to see. adjusted. I distribute those notes to the necessary parties, all the while ensuring What’s something about your job that the production is on track to be ready for people might not know? its opening performance. As stage managers, we know everyone in the company because that’s a What led you to work at Lyric? necessity. We’re familiar with the stage- Music has always been a big part of my hands, dressers, wig and makeup crew, life. My parents put a guitar in my hand when I was five! I was a chorus and orchestra members, plus most of the administrative staff. Lyric season subscriber during college and would sit in the last row My job is one of the few at Lyric that touches every single of the upper balcony thinking, I need to be a part of this somehow. department. We also are the ones who work most closely with the I loved the spectacle of opera and the way that even in such a vast designers, directors, and creative teams, because we are the liaison theater, directors could create an intimate moment for 3,600 people. between them and the rest of the company. I majored in piano and vocal performance and was working at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when I was put in touch with Marina A favorite Lyric moment? Vecci, who works in Lyric’s rehearsal department. I was eventually After 18 seasons, I have a lot of favorites! My most recent happened hired as a rehearsal assistant and learned all about the company, and during a student matinee performance of Jesus Christ Superstar. e how I could contribute with my interest and abilities. at led to show began with the fire curtain down, and the bright light would me becoming an assistant stage manager, and then a stage manager a slowly start to seep underneath the curtain as it went up. When few years later. the music started and the electric bass began to swell, the entire audience just erupted in applause and screams. In those moments, What’s a typical day like for you? you realize how much of an impact music has on people’s lives. No day is the same for me. In the morning, I might be rehearsing It was such a diverse audience, and for them to be able to look a huge scene with 90 people on stage, and then running an intimate at the stage and see an equally diverse cast, with people who scene with two principals later that same day. I could be overseeing a looked like them, I think that made them love it even more. ey sitzprobe (seated onstage rehearsal) with a full orchestra and chorus, felt represented in the piece and that was an amazing moment. and afterwards finalizing paperwork and notes that need to be disseminated to different members of the company. Beyond opera, what are your other passions? Because I spend so much time in a dark theater, I enjoy being What’s the most challenging aspect of your job? outside as much as possible outside of work. My husband Communication. It’s the job of the stage managers to synthesize and I have two sons and a rescue dog, and we love being active. the notes we receive during the rehearsals and get those notes to the Anything from hiking to swimming to basketball, and everything correct people. If a director or designer decides to change even a in between. Spending time together around a firepit at night tiny detail, that change can affect four or five different departments. is our idea of fun. We’re an extremely energetic bunch! I have to make sure those notes are being communicated accurately

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Artistic Roster

Sopranos Jonathan Johnson Directors Choreographers and Maria Agresta Matthias Klink Arin Arbus Movement Directors Emily Birsan Josh Lovell Benjamin Davis Lucy Burge Janai Brugger Matthew Polenzani Richard Jones Sarah Fahie Tracy Cox David Portillo David Kneuss Karine Girard e American Guild of Adrienne Danrich Mario Rojas Sir David McVicar Austin McCormick Musical Artists, AFL-CIO Danielle de Niese Russell  omas Laurent Pelly Denni Sayers (AGMA), is the union Renée Fleming Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Laura Scozzi that represents the singers, Baritones David Pountney Susan Foster Danielle Urbas dancers, actors, and Weston Hurt Roy Rallo Christine Goerke staging personnel at Christopher Kenney Nick Sandys Alexandra LoBianco Ballet Mistress Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anya Matanovic Zeljko Lučić August Tye Jana McIntyre Andrew Manea Associate Directors Whitney Morrison Zachary Nelson Benoît De Leersnyder Wigmaster and Makeup Marie-Eve Munger Ricardo José Rivera Simon Iorio Designer Anna Netrebko Artur Ruciński Rob Kearley Sarah Hatten Diana Newman Reginald Smith, Jr. Emily Pogorelc Daniel Sutin Set and Costume Designers Fight Choreographers Brenda Rae Barbara de Limburg Chuck Coyl Bass-Baritones Albina Shagimuratova Charles Edwards Nick Sandys Kyle Albertson Siobhan Stagg Johan Engels Jake Gardner Nina Stemme Riccardo Hernandez Translators for Alan Higgs Heidi Stober Robert Innes Hopkins Projected English Titles Philip Horst Ann Toomey Stewart Laing Kenneth Chalmers Kyle Ketelsen Marie-Jeanne Lecca Elza van den Heever Eric Owens Roger Pines John Macfarlane Erin Wall Iain Paterson Francis Rizzo Cait O’Connor Tamara Wilson David Weigel Colin Ure Derek Welton Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Mezzo-Sopranos Samuel Youn Brigitte Reiff enstuel DAVID H. FISHMAN Jamie Barton ULTZ Elizabeth Bishop Basses Angela Brower Patrick Guetti Lighting Designers Ariana Chris Adrian Sâmpetrean Marcus Doshi Alice Coote Roberto Tagliavini Fabrice Kebour Kayleigh Decker Chris Maravich Michaela Martens Conductors Duane Schuler Julie Miller Marco Armiliato Mimi Jordan Sherin Ronnita Miller Harry Bicket Jennifer Tipton Deborah Nansteel Michael Christie Mary Phillips Sir Andrew Davis Projection Designer Zoie Reams Domingo Hindoyan Christopher Ash Annie Rosen Francesco Milioto Krysty Swann Donald Runnicles Puppetry Director Stefano Sarzani Finn Caldwell Contralto Dancers Lauren Decker Puppet Designers Django Allegretti Jordan Beyeler Nick Barnes Countertenors Finn Caldwell Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Jaime Borkan Iestyn Davies Kristian Brooks Andrew Harper Chorus Master Michael Black Tenors Joseph A. Hernandez Noah Baetge Demetrius McClendon Children’s Chorus Master Giorgio Berrugi Antonio Luis Montalvo Josephine Lee Robert Brubaker Jimi Loc Nguyen Jonathan Burton Ela Olarte Michael Fabiano Andrea Pugliese Eric Ferring Michelle Reid Jacqueline Stewart Burkhard Fritz Luis Vazquez Allan Glassman American mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn was a remarkable Benjamin Holliday Wardell Clay Hilley Klytämnestra in Lyric’s 1976 production of Elektra.

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PATRON SALUTE | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Kip Kelley Family: Together Onstage and Off

Hands together, seated in ROBERT KUSEL Greg Case (Aon’s CEO) the same seats that held and I had a chat about the over 60 years of memories, possibility of my joining Kip Kelley shared a the Lyric board, I jumped performance of e Sound at the opportunity. I for- of Music with his grand- got how much I love daughter, Ferrill. As the opera. I loved it as a kid story unfolded onstage, through my parents’ pas- Kip also shared the story sion for opera, but I was of his family with her, a away from opera for about story intertwined and 25 years.” weaved into the life of Lyric is honored to Lyric. Timeless as the have Kip Kelley II serve on operas presented onstage, its Board of Directors and the Kelley family’s rela- the Nominating and tionship with Lyric has Governance Committee. seen the passing of “I’m proud that my dad decades, milestones come was able to see me join the and gone, and memories Lyric Board. Every time forged in the walls of this we got together he’d ask, great place. ‘So, son, what’s the latest In 1955, Kip Kelley Lyric Board news?’ It began coming to Lyric. became another point of Single, young, and intel- Kip Kelley (far right, in red robe) onstage at Lyric in one of his connection between my lectually driven, he came many performances as the Cardinal in Tosca. dad and me. I was able to to the opera to try to share in his lifelong expand his horizons. Soon passion. I started with an he started to bring a date, Sherry Ferrill, and the this scene with you guys because they need some appreciation and a good understanding of the art couple quickly thereafter fell in love, not only one to drive you there and back home.’” Sherry form, and now I have an appreciation for the with each other, but also with opera.  ey spent also joined the supernumeraries, and often audi- business side as well.  is is where it ties togeth- their honeymoon in the birthplace of opera, Italy, ences would see the entire Kelley family onstage. er for me. I so admire the leadership of Anthony seeing as many performances as they could at the Kip became best known for his role as the Freud, David Ormesher, and the entire Lyric team.” Teatro alla Scala in Milan. As the couple became Cardinal in Tosca, which he fi rst played in the For Kimberly, she attributes her growing up a family with the birth of Kimberly and then Kip mid-’80s and for many years thereafter. backstage at Lyric to her becoming a company II, they became a part of a bigger family, the In the fall of 1996, Sherry Kelley died of manager on Broadway. “I learned to love the Lyric family. cancer. “When Ardis Krainik died shortly after theater here.” Kimberly says. When they were “I remember the fi rst opera my dad took me my mom’s death,” Kimberly remembers, “my fi nished onstage, Kimberly and Kip II would to,” Kimberly recalls, “it was I puritani, and dad and I attended Miss Krainik’s celebration walk through Peacock Alley and join their par- although I slept through Act Two, I was wide concert in the opera house and it seemed that in ents in their row AA subscription seats to watch awake for Acts One and  ree.” Kimberly, who life or death, Lyric was always there.” Kip passed the rest of the show the way Kip and Sherry now works on Broadway as a company manager, away 20 years later in the fall of 2017. wanted it, as a family. came to her fi rst opera at the age of seven. “My Over their time at Lyric, Kip and Sherry Kip II says, “Lyric is something that has run parents would have Kip and me study up before gave back in many ways, joining the Guild Board through my life in diff erent ways, starting as a the opera so that we would appreciate it more. in 1959, and subsequently each serving as kid, moving into my involvement on the Board, We would sit at the kitchen table and learn about president, lecturing through Lyric’s Lecture and now bringing my daughter to the opera. It’s the plot and the music with our parents.” Corps, and joining the Ryan Opera Center Board more than just something that I enjoy, it has In 1973, Kimberly and Kip II became super- where they sponsored a singer every year. If the become a part of me.” numeraries, playing the parts of pageboys, altar doors were open, chances were good that Kip and In honor of the Kip Kelley Family’s great boys, and many other characters as needed.  eir Sherry were in the house. Kip was a subscriber for generosity and years of support, Lyric is proud to father soon joined them and was often put in 62 years, and he was Lyric’s greatest cheerleader. name Peacock Alley the Kip Kelley Family scenes with his children. Kip II, who now serves  e Kelley family’s heart was at Lyric. It still Peacock Alley. Kimberly and Kip II can now on Lyric’s Board of Directors and is Chief is today. walk through the hallway named for their family Executive Offi cer of Aon Affi nity US, smiles as he “I came back because of Aon’s relationship and sit in the same row AA seats and know that talks about sharing the stage with his parents. with Lyric. It created an opportunity for me to the legacy of their parents lives on. “We were put into the procession scene as altar become involved again,” Kip II states. “Aon has boys in the fi rst act of Tosca,” Kip II recalls. “My been a supporter of Lyric’s Opening Night for 34 — Zachary Vanderburg dad was all of a sudden in the procession with us, years, and my wife, Sarah, and I have attended and he told us after rehearsal, ‘I am going to be in the last 10 openings to wave the Aon fl ag. When

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Lyric is grateful for our 2018/19 Season Production Sponsors

LA BOHÈME IDOMENEO

JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION

LIZ STIFFEL

THE MICHAEL AND SUSAN AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUST

HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB AND BARBARA G. GREIS

ROBERTA L. AND ROBERT J. WASHLOW

THE RING CYCLE  SIEGFRIED

ANONYMOUS DONOR STEFAN EDLIS AND GAEL NEESON

MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION

GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION HELEN AND SAM ZELL OF MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA

ADA AND WHITNEY ADDINGTON

IL TROVATORE CENDRILLON

HENRY AND GILDA BUCHBINDER FAMILY FOUNDATION

EARL AND BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION

ELEKTRA LA TRAVIATA

JULIE AND ROGER BASKES SYLVIA DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION

NEIL AND DANIEL FISCHEL THE MICHAEL AND SUSAN AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUST MAZZA FOUNDATION NANCY AND SANFRED KOLTUN

LAUTER MCDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUND

ARIODANTE WEST SIDE STORY

MARGOT AND JOSEF LAKONISHOK THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION

ANONYMOUS DONOR

RANDY L. AND MELVIN R. BERLIN

ROBERT S. AND SUSAN E. MORRISON

MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE

MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE

To learn more about Lyric sponsorship opportunities, please visit lyricopera.org/SponsorshipOpportunities. ARIA SOCIETY SPOTLIGHT | 2018-2019

ABBOTT FUND JULIE and ROGER BASKES Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of of Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than dedicated support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has four decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s generously cosponsored 24 Lyric productions, including this Ryan Opera Center activities as previous cosponsors of season’s new coproduction of La bohème. Abbott has championed Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the Lyric’s achievements by making a leadership commitment to the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. ey Miles D. White Breaking New Ground Campaign. “Lyric is one of the treasures have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, last season’s that make Chicago the world-class city that it is. We’re proud to be associated Rigoletto and this season's Elektra. ey also made a leadership commitment to with it.” says Miles D. White, Abbott’s Chairman the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. and Chief Executive Officer and a valued member of Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors and Executive Lyric’s Board of Directors. Committee. Julie is also Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board.

ADA and WHITNEY ADDINGTON MARLYS A. BEIDER Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Lyric As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys has con- subscribers and donors. ey have contributed generously tributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Canto Benefactor to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground of the planned giving Overture Society. Her planned gift com- Campaign, and have made a leadership gift in support of mitment created the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season’s Siegfried. Designer Endowed Chair in memory of her late husband, Harold e Addingtons have also invested in the company’s Beider. Marlys Beider cosponsored several productions including future through their planned gift to Lyric. Lyric is Elektra (2012/13), Parsifal (2013/14), and Tosca (2014/15), and fortunate to have Dr. Whitney Addington as a member of its Board of Directors has committed generous leadership gifts to cosponsor two of Lyric’s new Ring cycle and Executive Committee productions including Das Rheingold (2016/17) and next season's Götterdämmerung.

AMERICAN AIRLINES RANDY L. and MELVIN R. BERLIN is season we celebrate 37 years of vital corporate partnership Devoted fans of opera education and the arts, Melvin with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of and Randy Berlin are vital members of the Lyric Opera Chicago. In recognition of the company’s significant contribution family. “It’s part of Chicago for us. It enriches the city to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine and the community, and we like to be part of that,” level of the Lyric Opera House is named the American Airlines says Melvin. e Berlins have contributed significantly Mezzanine. American Airlines provides important in-kind support to the Annual Campaign and made a leadership gift to Franco Tedeschi for Lyric’s programs and special the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Melvin and Randy have cosponsored several events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice President of American productions including last season's Cosi fan tutte and this season's West Side Story. Airlines, proudly serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors Lyric is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors. and Lyric Unlimited Committee.

BMO HARRIS BANK For over 200 years, BMO has been financing economic expansion PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION and supporting the communities it serves. BMO Harris is proud e Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the to support the Lyric Opera through the Lyric’s Annual Campaign performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. e and join the production sponsorship family for this season’s Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated La traviata. Lyric is honored to have Richard Pomeroy, Senior the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John Managing Director, BMO Wealth Management U.S., serve on Richard Pomeroy Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, its Board of Directors and Investment Committee. “Opera is self reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his truly an inspiration. It affects how we see and interpret the world ideals. At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter around us, and it’s our hope that the support we of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming and has generously provide Lyric will help increase exposure to such committed to a high level of multi-year support. a beautiful form of artistic expression.”

HENRY and GILDA BUCHBINDER FAMILY ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS FOUNDATION Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from ten Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda anonymous contributors during the 2018/19 season. Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric Opera family. Committed to sustaining the exceptional quality of Lyric’s artistic product, the Buchbinders made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUST Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Michael and Susan Avramovich were ardent supporters of theater, Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. ey have also been longtime generous donors opera, and classical music in Chicago. Longtime subscribers, to the Annual Campaign, and are cosponsors of this season’s production of Il the Lyric was a special favorite. Michael had deep roots in Italy, trovatore. “I really do believe that Lyric is the best opera company in the world,” is and his mother, Margherita, was from Rome. In a salute to Gilda’s heartfelt assessment, to which Hank adds, “the productions are done so well, that heritage and to many years of Lyric, the Trust is pleased to and stage sets are marvelous.” Lyric is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its cosponsor La bohème and La traviata this season. Board of Directors and the Production Sponsorship Committee.

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CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM MRS. JOHN V. CROWE Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership and Peggy and the late Jack Crowe are generous and passionate generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and longtime members of the Lyric family, evidenced by their major patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign and Family’s very generous challenge grant re-established Lyric’s the Renée Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy Crowe's regional and national/international radio broadcasts in 2006. signifi cant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming Kay’s incredible continued matching support made possible the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fi fth fl oor in  e Lyric Opera Broadcasts from 2006-18. “Lyric is a great national institution,” memory of Jack Crowe's mother. Lyric was very fortunate to have Jack Crowe serve Matthew once said, “and it gives our family great pleasure to know these broadcasts as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Lyric's Board of Directors. bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so many in Chicago and around the globe.”

THE CROWN FAMILY BULLEY & ANDREWS Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée and Founded in 1891, Bulley & Andrews is one of the Midwest’s Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of Lyric Opera.  e most trusted and accomplished construction companies.  e Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming Initiative fourth generation, family-owned fi rm off ers clients a full range of and made generous gifts to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and construction services including general contracting, construction Breaking New Ground Campaign. Mrs. Crown is a past management, design/build, and masonry and concrete restoration. President of the Women’s Board and is this season's Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, supported Lyric Lester and Renée Crown Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Gala Chair. Mr. Crown Allan E. Bulley, III Unlimited’s Performances for Students joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the programs, and is a cosponsor of Lyric’s Executive Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients Ring cycle, including this season’s Siegfried. Lyric is pleased of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and to have Allan E. Bulley, III as a member of its Board of commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Directors. serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to  e Crown Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago.

THE BUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION Longtime subscribers from Dubuque, Iowa, John and THE DAVEE FOUNDATION Alice Butler recently made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to  e Davee Foundation and the late Ruth Breaking New Ground Campaign’s stage improvement Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years.  e project. John says, “When Alice and I heard that Lyric Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago-area charities refl ects the Davees’ wide- was unable to share productions with other houses due ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric is fortunate to our outdated and unreliable stage technology, we to be among the organizations benefi ting from  e Davee Foundation’s enduring John and Alice Butler understood that to be a serious problem that needed to philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to come.  e be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s mission to be the best Davee Foundation provided critical preliminary support to enhance amplifi cation opera company in North America, and in order to be the best, we must have access and sound systems used in the Musical  eater Initiative, and has generously the best productions.” Lyric Opera is honored to have John Butler serve on its Board cosponsored each production in the initiative, including this season’s West Side Story. of Directors and Investment Committee.

STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESON DAVID and ORIT CARPENTER Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael David and Orit Carpenter have been staunch supporters Neeson are actively involved with organizations in of Lyric for many years and made a generous planned gift Chicago, New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help ensure Neeson have supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera for that Lyric will be available for many future generations to more than 30 years.  ey have cosponsored six mainstage enjoy. In addition to their longtime personal support of operas, including last season’s Faust and this season’s Lyric’s Annual Campaign, David has helped secure eight Siegfried. Stefan and Gael also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground production cosponsorships, including this season's company premiere of Ariodante, Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its Board of Directors and through Sidley Austin LLP, where he was a Partner for more than 30 years. Orit is a Production Sponsorship Committee. valuable resource for the Ryan Opera Center, working with the artists on performance psychology. Lyric is honored to have David serve on its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. EXELON  e philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, Lyric remains deeply grateful for the long-term generosity of the and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community engagement Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s nonprofi t programs. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included Rusalka (2013/14), Lyric’s leaders in arts support.  e Cheney Foundation has made a multi- second mariachi opera, El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), and e Marriage of year commitment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Opera. During Figaro (2015/16).  is season, Exelon is generously the 2018/19 season, the Cheney Foundation is supporting the cosponsoring Lyric’s production of Elektra. Lyric Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; the singer sponsorship is fortunate to have Exelon as an outstanding Elizabeth F. Cheney of tenor Mario Rojas, and Guest Master Teacher and Artist corporate partner. residencies. Lyric is honored to have foundation director Allan Drebin serve on its Board of Directors, and the Ryan Opera Center Board.

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JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB and A founding patron of Lyric eatre (now Lyric Opera of Chicago) BARBARA G. GREIS and a Lyric Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and patrons, Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis have generously great place to live and enjoy life. e Julius Frankel Foundation supported Lyric Opera through major contributions to has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas Campaign. ey have cosponsored many productions, Julius Frankel and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have including this season’s production of La bohème. Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general of the Glenwood Investment Corporation and an accomplished violinist. In 2018, operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. Frankel was particularly Mr. Gottlieb was given Lyric's highest honor, the Carol Fox Award, for his many interested in making Chicago one of the greatest places in the world to live and years of generous service. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an active member of enjoy life,” Nelson Cornelius once said. “e foundation’s giving supports things Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric does.” Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius Frankel in grateful recognition of the Foundation’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. is season, the Julius Frankel Foundation is a generous cosponsor of Lyric's new coproduction GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION of La bohème. With an unparalleled record as sponsor of more than 28 new Lyric productions since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. e Gramma Fisher Foundation has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the four ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUST operas that make up Wagner’s Ring cycle, continuing with Siegfried this season. Lyric One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer and other members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Matthew Fisher Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, serve on its Board of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. Women’s Board. rough the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander seek to enrich the Elizabeth Morse Genius quality of life in Chicago. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL and Opera House chimes and music library in honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR. with its sister trust, e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship and support of sponsored many mainstage productions. In addition to production sponsorship, the Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel. A devoted Trust has helped underwrite Lyric’s ongoing efforts to diversify its various boards and member of the Women’s Board, Karen has served on preserve Lyric’s history through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric several committees, most recently as the 2016 Board named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she Genius Conference Room in order to show its grateful appreciation for the Trust’s contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize of stage renovations. e Krehbiel family plays a prominent role in the continued the Trust’s commitment over many years to success of the company. Karen and John joined the production sponsor family with helping build the company’s core capacities and their generous support of Carmen and last season made a leadership gift to Wine institutional infrastructure. Auction 2018.

BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILL MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS Brent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and in Chicago, and they have made a leadership gift to tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 24 Brent and Katie were sponsors of Lyric Unlimited's youth Lyric productions since 1987/88, including last season’s opera, e Scorpion's Sting, and Lyric's 30th Anniversary Die Walküre and this season's Siegfried. Lyric is honored Wine Auction. Brent Gledhill is the Global Head of to name Mezzanine Box 20 in grateful recognition for Investment Banking at William Blair & Company, and a their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lyric is honored to have Brent serve on esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Audit Committee. Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor.

WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN William and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND Opera productions for more than 50 years. ey are John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are for many years until his death in 2001. With support from his members of Lyric's Production Sponsorship family, most Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, recently cosponsoring Lyric’s new production of Faust Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues last season. ey have also made a leadership gift to the through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. e Halligan Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a member Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. John R. Halligan organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our appreciation of nature. e fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. Halligan resided during his lifetime.

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THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ITW  e Harris Family Foundation, represented by Pam Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, is a valued support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW).  e company has member of Lyric’s production sponsorship family, made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking most recently cosponsoring last season’s Faust and New Ground Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored the this season’s Siegfried.  e Harris Family Foundation Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has Caryn and King Harris also supports the Annual Campaign, and made a Scott Santi cosponsored many productions, last season’s new production of of the Harris Family Foundation generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Faust and this season's production of La traviata. Lyric is proud Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of to have Chairman and CEO Scott Santi on its Board of Directors and Executive the Foundation Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and serving Committee, along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs W. on its Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late David Speer. involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the Women’s Board and has held many leadership positions, most recently as Co-Chair of Opening Night/ Opera Ball in 2015.

EDGAR D. JANNOTTA Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding support of Ned Jannotta and his beloved late wife Debby. A lifelong opera lover, Ned has been an integral part of the Lyric Opera family, joining the Board of Directors in 1987, serving as President and CEO J. THOMAS HURVIS and ANN ANDERSEN of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving as Tom Hurvis and Ann Andersen are avid opera fans Co-Chairman Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received a leadership gift from and longtime Lyric subscribers. Tom and Ann sponsor the Jannottas for the Breaking New Ground Campaign to create the Ryan Opera the Renée Fleming Initiative and made a generous Center Music Director Endowed Chair, in addition to their generous gifts to the leadership gift in support of Lyric’s Chicago Voices Annual Campaign. initiative during the 2016/17 season. Most recently, they have given a generous gift to the Ryan Opera Center, endowing a singer in perpetuity in memory of dear friend Dick Kiphart. As part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom JENNER & BLOCK and his beloved late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in support of Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law fi rm with global Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education and community engagement impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal issues. activities. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of  e fi rm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s legal and contributions to the Annual Campaign, including several production sponsorships, business communities, and is consistently ranked as one of the top as well as their support of  e Lyric Opera Broadcasts. “Opera enriches lives.  at fi rms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided signifi cant pro is why it is so important to introduce young people to opera, and for them to Craig C. Martin bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to experience productions done by the best in their fi elds. How fortunate we are to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign, have all this right here in Chicago.” Lyric is honored to have Tom Hurvis serve on Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair of Jenner & Block’s its Board of Directors, Executive, Lyric Labs, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. Litigation Department, as a valued member of its Board of Directors, Nominating/ Governance, and Executive Committees.

PATRICIA A. KENNEY and GREGORY J. O'LEARY INVESCO QQQ Pat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime Invesco QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing Director subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, with a and Head of Global Exchange Traded Funds, is proud to sponsor particular passion for supporting the emerging artists the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric Opera.  ey previously of  e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera cosponsored the productions of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet Center. Greg serves on the Ryan Opera Center (2015/16), e Magic Flute (2016/17), and Turandot (2017/18). Board on its Fundraising Committee, and Greg and Dan Draper  is season Invesco QQQ is a generous cosponsor of Lyric’s Pat have cosponsored the season-culminating Rising premiere of Cendrillon. Invesco Stars in Concert for six consecutive years. Greg was recently elected to the Lyric QQQ global network recognizes the value in Board of Directors. Pat and Greg joined the Aria Society last season with their helping investors around the world, but with generous Mainstage Singer Sponsorship of celebrated Ryan Opera Center alumnus headquarters in Downers Grove, "We are proud Matthew Polenzani in his appearances in e Pearl Fishers. Lyric is grateful for their supporters both of Lyric's innovative programming longstanding friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric Opera and the Ryan Opera and community engagement, and we laud their Center with their mission of providing world class opera and training for singers, eff orts to foster a rich artist culture locally." respectively. Every time we think they hit the high plateau, they ascend to another."

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THE RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART FAMILY MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Susie Kiphart is an esteemed member of the Lyric Opera Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding dedicated family. She is a member of Lyric's Board of Directors members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully and immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center acknowledges their generous contributions to Wine Board, Chair of the Ryan Opera Center Nominating Auction, the Annual Campaign, and the Breaking New Committee, and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and Committee. Along with her beloved late husband Dick cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred Kiphart, Susie is a passionate philanthropist. ey have Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. made leadership contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign.ey have given major support for Lyric's radio programming as members of the broadcast consortium, sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members, and have been generous JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK sponsors of the Renee Fleming Initiative. Lyric will forever be grateful for the Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot visionary leadership of the late Dick Kiphart. He was a past President and CEO Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. as well as Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/ ey have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and Governance Committee, and a member of the Executive, Finance and Production made a significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Sponsorship Committees. e Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt Campaign. ey have also cosponsored several mainstage commitment to Lyric are tremendous assets to the company, and in recognition of productions, including last season’s Orphée et Eurydice and their passion and immense dedication they received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s this season's new coproduction of Ariodante. e CEO of highest honor, in 2013. LSV Asset Management, Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees.

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of providing exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around the world NIX LAURIDSEN and VIRGINIA CROSKERY in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, LAURIDSEN restructuring, and counseling matters. e firm is committed Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen of Des to enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, Moines, Iowa, join the Aria Society this year with special cultural awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. gifts to e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Linda K. Myers Kirkland & Ellis LLP has cosponsored several operas, most recently including cosponsorship of Rising Stars in Concert and e Merry Widow (2015/16), and was Lead Corporate Sponsor of the Chicago Voices Lead Sponsorship of the 2018 Ryan Opera Center Final Gala Benefit (2016/17). Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner Auditions. As an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, Virginia is thrilled that she and at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member of its Board of Directors, Executive, and her husband Nix are able to support these incredible emerging artists. Nix is the Production Sponsorship Committees. chairman of LGI (Lauridsen Group Inc.) and a recent inductee into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame. He is a relative newcomer to the opera world but loves the excitement of the genre. e Lauridsens are pleased to be part of the Lyric family and look forward NANCY W. KNOWLES to an exciting new season. Opera always played an important role in the life of the late Nancy W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of records to play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION in my home.” Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, e John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, and leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and of Directors and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. In peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric named the is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over- Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. Knowles capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Student and Family Performances fund. Ms. Knowles generously underwrote several Foundation supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture grantmaking. mainstage operas. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she e Foundation’s support helps create powerful performances and exhibitions, received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be educate young people, and engage communities, while grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity. providing arts and culture organizations the flexibility to innovate and experiment. Lyric is very grateful for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation. NANCY and SANFRED KOLTUN Close members of the Lyric family as longtime subscribers and generous supporters, Nancy and Sanfred were Ryan Opera Center Singer Cosponsors for many years and cosponsored MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION the Lyric Unlimited family opera e Magic Victrola. Last Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC season they joined the production sponsorship family with Corporation, was a fervent fan of opera and music, and Lyric their generous support of Così fan tutte, and enjoyed the was delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, and experience so much they are cosponsors of this season’s La traviata. "In the fall of 1954, generous supporter. e Malott Room was named in his family’s I attended Carmen, staged by the precursor of the Lyric. at night I fell in love with honor in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness Carmen, opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Nancy and I have loved Capital Campaign, and in recognition of the Malott Family’s Lyric Opera and have always supported one of the most cherished cultural institutions of Robert H. Malott commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Box 18 is Chicago. It is our hope that our children, grandchildren and those beyond will be able to named in perpetuity in honor of Robert H. Malott for his extraordinary generosity and attend the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their midst." Lyric is honored to have steadfast dedication to Lyric Opera. He also played a leadership role as a Life Director Sanfred serve on the Board of Directors. of Lyric’s Board of Directors.

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MAZZA FOUNDATION THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of friendship and generosity of the Mazza e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable Foundation. Under the guidance of its leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas N.A. and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, e Elizabeth Morse Mazza Foundation provided major Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust supports non-profit organizations that reflect the Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas support for the Student Matinees for values of thrift, humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self-sacrifice, such as Lyric. J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind many years, helping Lyric introduce e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, along with its sister trust, the Elizabeth Morse the majesty and grandeur of opera to Genius Charitable Trust, has cosponsored many mainstage productions. To show thousands of young people each season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been its grateful appreciation for e Trust’s generous gift to the Breaking New Ground part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last season’s Campaign, as well as to recognize e Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen new production of Die Walküre and this season’s production of Elektra. years to helping build the company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices the Elizabeth Morse LAUTER McDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUND Conference Room. Nancy and her late husband Alfred have provided longstanding, vital support to the Annual Campaign as well as e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, including Rising Stars in Concert. is season, Nancy generously gave additional support as a cosponsor ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHIN of La traviata, and Lyric Unlimited's second year of the Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members Chicago Urban League arts immersion partnership of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President Fred and Nancy McDougal Empower Youth! and An American Dream. and CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION Directors and serves on the Executive Committee. Lyric is deeply grateful for e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous e Muchins have staunchly supported the Annual history of support. rough a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons Campaign, Operathon, and the Stars of Lyric Opera initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership gifts to the Building operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking Lyric premieres. During the 2012/13 season, the Mellon Foundation provided New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine Muchin’s leadership funding to launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, munificent friendship. which included the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s first Mariachi opera. e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous partnership with Lyric Unlimited by providing outstanding support for Lyric’s world premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continued its unparalleled NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS legacy by cosponsoring Lyric’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel Canto. Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants awarded by Most recently, the Mellon Foundation has provided generous leadership funding the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played a leading role in the for Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative, specifically focused advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of the operatic repertoire, on the Community Created Performances component, serving the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. which plays a vital role in bringing together Chicago’s rough production and program funding as well as a major challenge grant, diverse communities and vocal traditions in celebration awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class artistic achievements. e of the human voice. Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. e NEA THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) has provided vital support for numerous Lyric is grateful for the generosity of e Monument Trust and its Chairman of Lyric Opera premieres, new productions, trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of and revivals, most recently last season’s Rusalka (2013/14) and cosponsored Anna Bolena (2014/15), Wozzeck (2015/16), I Puritani, and this season’s Siegfried. e Magic Flute (2016/17), and Orphée et Eurydice (2017/18). e Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in the U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors Lyric’s new coproduction of Ariodante this season. THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION e founder of e Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON performing arts, and Mozart. ese interests, combined with a strong admiration Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of of Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers e Negaunee Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently last and patrons who take an active role in nurturing season’s productions of Così fan tutte and Jesus Christ Superstar. is season the Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member foundation is the lead sponsor of both Idomeneo and West Side Story. e Negaunee of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Foundation has also made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Directors. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cultural institutions benefiting from e Morrisons have generously supported the Opera e Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial commitment. Lyric is honored Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Annual Campaign to have e Negaunee Foundation’s president serve as a member of its Board of for many years. ey provided a substantial gift to the Directors and Audit Committee. Breaking New Ground Campaign and were cosponsors of Lyric's production of Turandot last season. Proud supporters of Lyric’s Musical eatre Initiative, Susan and Bob have cosponsored many of Lyric's musicals including this season's West Side Story. “Lyric reaches patrons at every level. People are here because they love it. ey’re welcomed, embraced, and made to feel part of a family.”

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SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL NORTHERN TRUST Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera subscribers A leading global fi nancial services provider, Northern Trust has enjoyed a and donors for many years, and have cosponsored several longstanding and signifi cant relationship with Lyric. Based in Chicago, the fi rm mainstage opera productions, including last season’s has played a major role supporting the Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited. e Pearl Fishers and this season’s Elektra.  ey made a Northern Trust also provides vital leadership contributions to Lyric as presenting generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign sponsor of the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as cosponsor of the Opera to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very enjoyable Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust has cosponsored several to become part of the Lyric family and to give back to a mainstage productions including this season’s West Side Story. Lyric is honored place that has given us so much pleasure.  ere have been many moments for both to have William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as Dan and me when we have said, tonight is incredible, it is one of the memorable a member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. "Being a good performances of our lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international star and it corporate citizen is very important," William is evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.” Lyric is honored to have Osborn once said. "It allows us to do our Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Production Sponsorship, and part to help keep the City of Chicago strong Lyric Unlimited Committees. and viable and, in the end, this is benefi cial to everyone." THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and OGILVY subscribed for more than 30 years.  ey were Ogilvy is one doorway to a creative network, re-founded to make brands matter especially supportive of  e Patrick G. and Shirley in a complex, noisy, hyper-connected world. Lyric is grateful for the signifi cant W. Ryan Opera Center and loved to watch these in-kind contribution in 2018 to launch a new marketing campaign “Are You Opera young artists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Enough?”.  e Ogilvy Chicago team was tasked with changing the perception of Lyric Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away to make it more appealing and accessible to millennials.  ey needed to highlight the in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established  e Jerome and “all too human” core of opera in a diff erent, more compelling, and contemporary way. Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants  e resulting series of print, poster, and billboard adverts illustrated the interesting to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ cultural and historical aspects of opera. Ogilvy Chicago’s thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. informative and humorous execution of the campaign provided prospective opera goers with a large set of tools NIB FOUNDATION to not be intimidated by their fi rst experience, and to Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia better understand any aspect of the opera art form. and the late William Florian established the NIB Foundation to extend their support to many worthwhile arts and environmental causes. Sonia is a devoted member of the Lyric family, having subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades.  e NIB MR. and MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHER Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions Lyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of David Sonia Florian including this season’s production of Cendrillon and Anna and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder and CEO Netrebko in recital, and made a major commitment to the of closerlook, inc., a Chicago-based digital marketing Breaking New Ground Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous fi nancial agency serving the pharmaceutical industry since 1987. support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable closerlook has given generously to Lyric Opera for many collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Opera from 2009 to Library Collection one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country. 2014 and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert for seven consecutive Sonia Florian very generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro years. Most recently, David and Sheila generously provided an Operathon Challenge located on the third fl oor of the Lyric Opera Grant, supported the Opera Ball, and made a leadership gift towards the Breaking House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s New Ground Campaign. Lyric is proud to have David T. Ormesher serving as its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and on all sub- Production Sponsorship Committee, and was committees of the Board. awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding commitment to the company. MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the Lyric JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLS Opera family.  ey have subscribed to Lyric for over Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, John two decades and enjoy participating in special events D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly supported such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Auction. the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of  e Osborns have generously contributed to the Annual the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric Opera is extremely Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ signifi cant Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading and Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase.  ey have also provided a generous gift member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. endowing Lyric's Music Director position, the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair, currently held by Sir Andrew Davis. Retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Chairman and CEO of  e Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Our involvement with the opera company is a deeply rewarding experience for both of us”, John said. Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity of John and Alexandra Nichols.

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PRITZKER FOUNDATION DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION  e Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric children, families and educational enrichment through Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of Foundation’s generous support of the Breaking New Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Each year, these widely accessible performances at Lyric Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric is Jack and Catherine Scholl Opera of Chicago reach audiences of junior high and honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera for the fi rst time. Lyric Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of the Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s Women’s EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION Board, Anne was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the Committees, and she is the Co-Chair of the Development Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Committee. Chris is an esteemed past member of the  e Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, Board of Directors. Together they have made important including this season's Il trovatore. Lyric is honored to have Brenda contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage productions, including last Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as the Executive, season’s Jesus Christ Superstar.  ey have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and Brenda Shapiro Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. are major supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground Campaign, and Lyric Unlimited. SHURE INCORPORATED Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is widely acknowledged as the world's leading CANDY AND GARY RIDGWAY manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the Company Candy and Gary Ridgway are devoted members of the has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio Lyric family.  ey have provided continued support products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s of the Annual Campaign for many years and made a diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones, wireless microphone signifi cant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. systems, in-ear personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion systems, Candy and Gary recently joined Lyric's Production networked audio systems, award-winning earphones and headphones, and top- Sponsorship family with their sponsorship of Verdi's rated phonograph cartridges. Today, Shure products are the fi rst choice whenever Rigoletto last season. Candy's love for opera came from audio performance is a top priority. Lyric is honored to have partnered with Shure her mother, Mary Sue.  ey shared a mutual love for Incorporated for many years. Shure Incorporated generously provided major in-kind their favorite art form here at Lyric. In talking about Candy and Gary's sponsorship audio support for last season’s Broadway at Lyric of Rigoletto, Candy stated, "this one's for mom." premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar and will again for this season’s premiere of West Side Story. PATRICK G. RYAN and SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when A leader in the international legal arena, the law fi rm of Sidley they fi rst subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have Austin is a generous corporate contributor to arts and culture in shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources Chicago. Lyric deeply appreciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsorship to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, of Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06), the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual Lulu (2008/09), Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), Rusalka Campaign, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in (2013/14), e Passenger (2014/15), and Les Troyens (2016/17). 1988 and was the Honoree in 2018), and the Breaking Larry Barden  is season, Sidley Austin LLP generously cosponsors Lyric’s New Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation Initiative. In recognition of company premiere of Ariodante. Lyric is proud to have Larry Barden, Chairman of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was a the fi rm’s Management Committee, on its Board of recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Directors and Compensation Committee. Opera Commentaries, underwriting this special project to honor the memory of their parents.  e Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s premier artist development program was renamed  e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera LIZ STIFFEL Center in recognition of their extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence. Pat A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Ryan Opera Center Board. A Vice Liz is a prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a President and a member of the Executive, Nominating/Governance, and Lyric Labs longstanding member of the Guild Board of Directors. She has of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a distinguished former President of the Women’s cosponsored many mainstage productions, most recently last Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2007 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most season’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Faust and the prestigious honor, in recognition of her many years of devoted service to the company. Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein concert.  is season Liz has generously sponsored the new coproduction of La bohème and is a sponsor of the RICHARD O. RYAN Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Concert & Gala. Lyric has named Mezzanine Box A passionate supporter of  e Patrick G. and Shirley W. 1 in recognition of her signifi cant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Liz Ryan Opera Center, Lyric's premier artist-development program, Stiff el was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in Richard cosponsors Ryan Opera Center soprano Ann Toomey recognition of her continuing dedication to Lyric. “I believe that Lyric and all art and tenor Eric Ferring, as well as the Ryan Opera Center forms are beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that mankind has to off er fundraiser.An ardent opera lover, Richard has been a Lyric to our children, our nation, and ourselves.” subscriber for more than 45 years. He recently made a generous leadership commitment to Lyric's Breaking New Ground Campaign for the stage improvement project. Richard proudly serves as a member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, and was formerly a Guild Board member. Lyric is grateful for the munifi cent support of Richard Ryan.

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MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and THE WALLACE FOUNDATION MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE e Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generosity and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for and leadership of the Vance Family. e Vances everyone. Wallace has an unusual approach: funding projects to test innovative have generously sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric ideas for solving important social problems, conducting research to find out what premieres and new productions, including this season's works and what doesn’t and to fill key knowledge gaps – and then communicating West Side Story. For many years, the Vances have the results to help others. Lyric is the recipient of a multi-phase grant as part of the supported emerging singers through their sponsorship Foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative; the grant is funding of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members. In addition, research and analysis of Lyric audiences, and will Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the reveal ways in which Lyric can maximize its reach Carol and William Vance Breaking New Ground Campaign, and are generous in the community. Lyric’s work will inform lessons sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an that will be shared with the broader field. esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He also serves as a life member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, of which he is a past President. Bill Vance was awarded the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. WASHLOW prestigious honor, in recognition of his leadership, steadfast support, and many years Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished members of of devoted service to Lyric Opera. the Lyric family. For more than four decades, they have enjoyed attending Lyric performances and special events, DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION and have generously supported the Annual Campaign. Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, and Errant Families and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys together sponsored more than 20 Lyric productions. encouraging talented young artists as Lead Sponsor of Rising e Washlows made a generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on Campaign to support Lyric Unlimited activities. Roberta and Bob have annually 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, and generously to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported cosponsor this season’s production of La bohème, their eleventh opera cosponsorship, Donna Van Eekeren Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for continuing a beloved family tradition. Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. e Donna as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. Van Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions including “Opera has always touched me,” Roberta once said. “I love the drama, passion, Lyric’s premiere of Les Troyens (2016/17), last season’s production of I Puritani, music, and excitement of a live performance at Lyric. Nothing can replace it, and I and this season's La traviata. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking hope this beautiful art form will continue for generations.” New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, HELEN and SAM ZELL serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Finance Committees, and Helen and Sam Zell are passionate supporters of on the Ryan Opera Center Board. Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. ey are longtime subscribers to Lyric Opera and have contributed to the Annual Campaign for many years. Helen and Sam have cosponsored several new productions, most recently all four installments of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season's Siegfried and next season's Götterdämmerung.

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To donate: VISIT lyricopera.org/donate TEXT LYRIC to 41444 EMAIL [email protected] CALL 312.827.3500 PHOTO: TODD ROSENBERG TODD PHOTO: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Supporting Our Future – Endowments at Lyric As a perpetual fund, annually distributing a designated portion of earnings and investment income, endowments provide a steady source of funding so Lyric can be a leader in the opera world – now and into the future.  is list includes endowments that have received partial funding and endowments that will be funded with a future commitment - to learn more about contributing to an existing endowment or establishing your own endowment please contact Lyric’s Gift Planning Offi ce at 312. 827.5654 or email [email protected]. Lyric Endowed Chairs Supports Established by Chorus Master Howard A. Stotler Concertmaster Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg, in honor of Sally Funderburg Costume Designer Richard P. and Susan Kiphart General Director  e Women’s Board, in loving memory of Ardis Krainik Lighting Director Mary-Louise and James S. Aagard, in honor of Duane Schuler Music Director John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Production and Technical Director* Allan and Elaine Muchin Wigmaster and Makeup Designer* Marlys Beider, in loving memory of Harold Beider Ryan Opera Center Director  e Ryan Opera Center Board Ryan Opera Center Music Director Edgar D. Jannotta Family

Lyric Production Endowment Funds Supports Established by American Operas* Robert and Ellen Marks Baroque Operas Anonymous Bel Canto Operas* Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfi eld French Operas W. James and Maxine P. Farrell German Operas* Irma Parker Italian Operas  e NIB Foundation Mozart Operas Regenstein Foundation, in honor of Ruth Regenstein Puccini Operas* Mary Patricia Gannon Verdi Operas  e Guild Board Wagner Operas Anonymous

Lyric Endowment Funds John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowment Sarah and A. Watson Armour III Endowment Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Ryan Opera Center Endowment Funds Dr. C. Bekerman Endowment*  omas Doran Endowment* Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment* James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment* J.  omas Hurvis Endowment Fund, in memory of Richard P. Kiphart Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Studies Program*, in honor of Gianna Rolandi Lois B. Siegel Endowment* Joanne Silver Endowment* Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Endowment* Lyric Unlimited Endowment Funds Katherine A. Abelson Education Endowment Dr. C. Bekerman Endowment* Raynette and Ned Boshell Endowment George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Education Endowment  e Chapters’ Education Endowment, in memory of Alfred Glasser James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment* Generous endowment gifts help to make possible productions such as Bartlett Sher's of Gounod's *Future Planned Gift Romeo and Juliet.

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 53 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors — Special Events and Project Support Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by December 31st, 2018.

Anna Netrebko in Recital NIB Foundation

Annual Meeting Dinner Strategy&, part of the PwC network

Audience Development Initiative  e Wallace Foundation

Cast Parties An Anonymous Donor Anne and Don Edwards Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Make It Better Media Guests enjoy the pre-performance dinner in the boxes at the annual Spring Musical Celebration. Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Orphée et Eurydice PBS Great Performances Kohler Co. Innovation Initiative Lead Sponsor Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Liz Stiff el Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Allan and Elaine Muchin Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Lyric Signature Events Sonia Florian J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes PwC Margot and Josef Lakonishok UL LLC United Scrap Metal, Inc.  e Galvin Family Additional Support Silver Sponsor Offi cial Airline Ethel and William Gofen Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen American Airlines Jim and Kay Mabie Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Rosemary and Dean L. Buntrock Andi and Jim Gordon,  e Edgewater Funds Opening Night Opera Ball 2018 Pam and Russ Strobel Make It Better Media Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Opening Night Gala Sponsor Virginia Tobiason Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly Aon Overture Society Luncheons Susan M. Miller Additional Support Opera Ball Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross ITW Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation Julian Family Foundation Northern Trust Planned Giving Seminars West Side Story Celebration e Poet Premium Sponsors Morgan Stanley (2) Maria & Tony Premium Sponsor  e Crown Family An Anonymous Donor (2) Projected English Titles Donald and Anne Edwards Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Liz Stiff el Annie and Gregory K. Jones Renée Fleming Initiative KPMG e Painter Premium Sponsors An Anonymous Donor Lazard An Anonymous Donor Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Make It Better Media Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder  e Crown Family J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes closerlook, inc. J.  omas Hurvis Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr.  e Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Skadden/Rodd Schreiber and Susan Hassan Spencer Stuart  e Harris Family Foundation John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Liz Stiff el Blythe Jaski McGarvie Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Sharks & Jets Premium Sponsor Betsy and Andy Rosenfi eld Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Baird Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Concert & Gala Patrick J. Bitterman/ Quarles & Brady Lead Sponsor Marion A. Cameron e Philosopher Premium Sponsors Liz Stiff el Crowe LLP Nancy S. Searle Sarah Demet and Minka Bosco M. Stephen Dunbar  ierer Family Foundation Platinum Sponsors  e Crown Family Eisen Family Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan ITW e Performer Premium Sponsors Sage Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Ann Ziff Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. and Sandra E. Marjan Florence D. McMillan/ Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Additional Support Golden Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Chavez-Tatro Foundation An Anonymous Donor Matt and Carrie Parr/ PJT Partners Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Amy and Paul Carbone Reed Smith LLP Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Brenda Robinson Ropes & Gray LLP Anne Perillo Michuda Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Heinz Family Foundation Ilene Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell ITW Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Molo Jenner & Block Ellen and Jim Stirling Rebecca and Lester Knight Additional Support 54 | February 2 - 22, 2019 An Anonymous Donor LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support Lyric Unlimited programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by December 31st, 2018. With Major Support from the Caerus Foundation, Inc. An American Dream

Leadership Funding TODD ROSENBERG  e Wallace Foundation Additional Support Lester S. Abelson Foundation/ Katherine A. Abelson Mary Patricia Gannon Baker & McKenzie Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Mary Stowell Eric and Deb Hirschfi eld Eisen Family Foundation Caminos a la ópera (Pathways to Opera) Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, and the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Empower Youth! Igniting Creativity through the Arts  e Beaubien Family Students from the Chicago Urban League participate in Lyric Unlimited's EmpowerYouth! initative. Eisen Family Foundation Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Estate of Nancy D. Anderson Jackie and James Holland Eric and Deb Hirschfi eld Kenneth R. Norgan Nuveen Investments OPERA America Northern Trust Pre-Opera Talks Estate of Pierrete E. Sauvat Laurie and Michael Petersen Raynette and Ned Boshell Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Family Day at Lyric Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust Senior Matinee Bank of America Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Buehler Family Foundation Lannan Foundation General Support NEXT Student Ticket Program Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Leadership Funding Anonymous (4)  e Retirement Research Foundation  e Grainger Foundation Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx  e Siragusa Family Foundation  e Barker Welfare Foundation Additional Support Student Backstage Tours BNSF Railway Foundation Paul and Mary Anderson Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Helen Brach Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, and the Dan J. Envestnet Berggruen Institute Epstein Family Foundation Michael and Leigh Huston  e Brinson Foundation Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Belytschko Deloitte Youth Opera Council Molex  e Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Terry J. Medhurst MUFG Elaine Frank Penelope and Robert Steiner With Major Support provided from the Nancy W. Knowles Stars of Lyric Opera at Student and Family Performances Fund Millennium Park 2018 Lead Sponsor Chicago Public Schools Bus Performances for Students Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt closerlook, inc. Scholarship Paul M. Angell Family Leadership Funding U.S. Bank Foundation Foundation J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Cosponsors Anonymous (2) An Anonymous Donor Opera in the Neighborhoods John and Rosemary Brown Family Additional Support Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation An Anonymous Donor Foundation An Anonymous Donor (3) Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation and the Dan J. Epstein Family and the Dan J. Epstein Family Brent and Katie Gledhill Fifth  ird Bank Foundation Foundation Robert and Evelyn McCullen Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/Patricia Hyde Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Shirley and Benjamin Gould Sage Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Foundation/Patricia Hyde Endowment Fund Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow Sipi Metals Corp. Opera Residencies for Schools Dan and Caroline Grossman Jane Wilson and David Mayhew Music Performance Trust Fund An Anonymous Donor James and Brenda Grusecki Stone Charitable Trust Film Funds Trust Funds Robert & Isabelle Bass John Hart and Carol Prins Wintrust Community Banks Foundation, Inc. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Segal Family Foundation

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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: Kip Kelley, Sr. and Ed Zasadil Nancy Wald from Barbara Currie Ken Babe from James Alexander and Curtis Drayer from e Humanist Fund Gillian Larkin from the Riverside Chapter William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt Irving and Ruth Waldshine William and Ethel Gofen John R. Blair from Sheila Hegy from Deane Ellis, Richard and Martha Schoenfeld from Barbara Blair Nancy Knowles Marcia Purze John Casey Sandra Box from Roberta and Robert Washlow Dr. William Warren Caroline Huebner from Barbara Box Gordon G. Lakin from Marshall and Joann Goldin from Jason and Rachel Mersey John "Jack" V. Crowe from Lawrence and JoAnne Winer Sarita Warshawsky Elizabeth Hurley from John and Judy Keller, John A. Leer, Jr., M.D from Carol Warshawsky from Mark Ferguson and Liza Yntema Lisbeth Stiffel from Ms. Mary Anne Leer Margery S. Wolf Lori Julian Larry Fox Robert H. Malott from Benjamin Wolf from Charles Brooks and Suzan Bramson from Julie Benson, from John Furrer, Nikolay Zhizhin Mary Klyasheff Mary and Larry Selander Lincoln Academy of Illinios, from Larisa Zhizhin from Peoples Gas Myron and Karen Tiersky Household from Wainwright Investment Council, LLC, Margot and Josef Lakonishok Alison Campbell de Frise Vivi Martens In Honor Of: from Arsen and Elizabeth Manugian from Liz Stiffel from James Karr Julie Baskes Frank and Lynne Modruson Dixie Lim Go Armida Melino Melone from Peter Wender from Donna Gustafsson from Gregory Chen, from Bernadette McCarthy Marion Cameron Frank Modruson Robert Dow, Hugo Melvoin from Susan Payne from Protiviti Gregg and Wendy Elstien, from Lois Melvoin Marie Campbell's Birthday Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis Lionel Go, Virginia Byrne Mooney from Patti Fazio from Tom Shapiro Jonathan Lichter, from Kathleen Vondran Renee Crown Sylvia Neil & Dan Fischel Jimmy Lim, Dr. Antonio E. Navarrete from Minow Family Foundation from Andrea Markowicz Daniel and Tracey Murray, from Virginia Navarrete Angela DeStefano Sue Niemi Kenneth Pollard, Peer and Sarah Pedersen from Jerry and Kathy Biederman from BCLLP Foundation Mary Ruscher, and from Anonymous Stephen Dunbar Greg O'Leary Filemon and Elizabeth Yao Ken Piggott from Diane Shorr Cleary from Suzanne Wagner Jane Rolandi Gray from Tully Family Foundation Erika Erich David Pountney from William Porter Dr. Robert A. Pringle from Richard Moore from Lou Aledort and Natasha Kavanagh Elaine De G. Harvey from Marla Pringle Sally Feder Richard O. Ryan from Daggett Harvey and Yvonne Yamashita Diane Ragains from Dan Feder, from Ardell Arthur, omas W. Hill from James Tucker Carroll Joynes and Abby O'Neil, Michael and Sally Feder from Richard Nora Marilyn and Roland Resnick Paula Kahn, Shirley Ryan Angela Holtzman from J. Kline Philip Lumpkin, from Rodney and Keith Goldstein from Marjory M. Oliker Joan Richards Julia Nowicki Erica Sandner Katie Jacobson from Harris Family Foundation, Dr. Bradley Fine and family from Mirja and Ted Haffner from Lisbeth Stiffel Alan and Drue Huish, from Bradley Fine Nancy Searle Lee and Billye Jennings Harry Roper and Helen Marlborough' Anthony Freud and Colin Ure from Carol and James Pollock, from Alfred Goldstein Craig Sirles , from James and Laurie Bay Michael and Lynne Terry Kip Kelley, Sr. Gisela Elizabeth Rill Regan Friedmann Nancy Searle and Keith Goldstein from Anonymous, from Mary Ring from Eisen Family Foundation, from Prince Charitable Trusts Aon Corporation, Shirley Ryan's parents Leslie and Donna Pinsof Mary Selander Kip and Sarah Kelley, from Patrick and Shirley Ryan Kay and Craig Tuber from William and Carol Vance Charles and Mary Shea, Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff Ruth Ann Gillis Chelsea Southwood Lisbeth Stiffel, from Sheldon Schiff from Lisbeth Stiffel from James and Laurie Bay John Sullivan, Stephen Schulson Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGinnis Liz Stiffel William and Kathie Vit from Susan Schulson from James and Laurie Bay from Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnis Edwin J. Seeboeck Keith Kiley Goldstein Dr. Bryan Traubert from James Heim from Patricia Cox from Pritzker Foundation Agnes Hamos' Birthday

Be Loyal to the Realm Leave part of your Kingdom to Lyric!

Lyric is fortunate to have had thousands of loyal subscribers and ticket buyers who have been thrilled for more than sixty years by the operas they have seen here. If you are one of these dedicated opera lovers, consider leaving part of your estate to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Planned giving is a meaningful way to help Lyric continue to produce grand opera at the highest possible level and ensure that opera will be enjoyed for years to come. All planned givers are invited to join The Overture Society, and enjoy exclusive benefi ts of membership. For more information, please contact Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Senior Director of Planned Giving, at 312.827.5677 or [email protected], or Mike Biver, Director of Planned Giving, at 312.827. 5655 or [email protected]. PLANNED GIFTS

You can include a bequest for Lyric in your will or trust, or name Lyric as the benefi ciary of your IRA, retirement plan, or life insurance policy. You can also use charitable gift annuities, other charitable trusts, or even real estate to make a planned gift to Lyric.

Cendrillon (Cinderella) by Massenet OPERA HOUSE ‰ ROYAL BILL COOPER

56 | February 2 - 22, 2019 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Dan Novak Craig Terry Julia Faulkner Renée Fleming Faculty Director Music Director Director of Vocal Studies Advisor Julia Faulkner e Ryan Opera Center e Jannotta Family Elizabeth F. Cheney W. Stephen Smith Board Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Foundation Voice Instruction e Robert and Ellen Marks Vocal Studies Program 2018/19 Ensemble Endowed Chair in honor of Gianna Rolandi

Marco Armiliato Deborah Birnbaum Sir Andrew Davis Matthew A. Epstein Michael Fabiano Renée Fleming Gerald Martin Moore Matthew Polenzani Anne Sofi e von Otter Guest Master Artists Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Contralto William C. Billingham WHITNEY EMILY ANN KAYLEIGH LAUREN MORRISON POGORELC TOOMEY DECKER DECKER Dana Brown Alan Darling Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Laurann Gilley J. omas Hurvis Sally and Michael Feder, e Susan and Richard P. e C. G. Pinnell Anonymous Donor, Family Celeste Rue Ms. Gay K. Stanek, Kiphart Family, Richard O. Susan M. Miller, Eric Weimer Ms. Jennifer L. Stone Ryan, Richard W. Shepro ierer Family Pedro Yanez and Lindsay E. Roberts Foundation Coaching Staff

Julia Savoie Klein Derek Matson Marina Vecci Alessandra Visconti Melissa Wittmeier Foreign Language Instruction

Dawn Arnold Sarah Ashley Katie Klein Tenor Tenor Tenor Baritone Baritone E. Loren Meeker ERIC JOSH MARIO CHRISTOPHER RICARDO JOSÉ Matthew Ozawa FERRING LOVELL ROJAS KENNEY RIVERA Acting and Movement Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Instruction Richard O. Ryan, Maurice J. and Elizabeth F. Cheney Anonymous Donor Dr. David H. Whitney Stepan Company, Patricia Frank Foundation and Dr. Juliana Chyu, Orit Carpenter Cynthia Vahlkamp Drs. Joan and Russ Performance Psychology and Robert Kenyon Zajtchuk Roger Pines Guest Lecturer and Consultant Artistic/Production Personnel Christopher Allen Andrew Grams Conductors

Louisa Muller David Paul Directors

Peggy Stenger Bass-Baritone Bass-Baritone Pianist Bill Walters ALAN DAVID MADELINE Stage Managers HIGGS WEIGEL SLETTEDAHL Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Robert S. Kuhn Heidi Heutel Bohn, Lois B. Siegel, Nancy Dehmlow, Lucy Lindquist Lawrence O. Corry, Michael and Salme Loretta N. Julian, Maureen Reilly Robert C. Marks Harju Steinberg, Philip G. Lumpkin Wardrobe Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom DeShawn Bowman Hair and Makeup

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 57 Alumni Perform at Lyric — and Around the World — in 2018/19

ERIN WALL (Elettra/Idomeneo) My time in the Ryan Opera Center was completely transformative. I arrived for my first year straight out of graduate school, never having set foot on a professional opera stage. I needed intensive stage training, and the program provided me with exactly that — working with world-class directors, conductors, and teachers. It also gave me baptism by fire, singing roles on the Lyric mainstage, beginning with Second Nursemaid in Street Scene and ending with Marguerite in Faust! Being fully immersed in the art form for three years was a life-changing experience, for which I’ll always be grateful.

ELIZABETH STACEY DESHONG TAPPAN LA Opera Metropolitan Opera La clemenza di Tito Marnie; Suor Angelica

WILL LIVERMAN Metropolitan Opera Marnie

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago is recognized as one of the premier professional artist-development programs in the world. To make a gift in support of the Ryan Opera Center’s efforts, or for more information, please visit lyricopera.org/ryanoperacenter, or call Meaghan Stainback at 312.827.5691. LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to e 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 above were received by December 31st, 2018. TODD ROSENBERG Special Events and Project Support Final Auditions Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen e Cozad Family Foreign Language Instruction Erma S. Medgyesy Guest Master Artist Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Launchpad Marcus Boggs Leslie Fund, Inc. Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III Master Classes Mrs. omas D. Heath Martha A. Hesse National Auditions American Airlines Mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Decker (left, as Dorothée) and soprano Emily Pogorelc (right, as Noémie), both first- year Ryan Opera Center members, are pictured with mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop (as Mme. de la Haltière) Renée Fleming Master Class in this season’s Lyric premiere of Massenet’s Cendrillon. Julian Family Foundation Ryan Opera Center Gala: Unprohibited Golden Grand Benefactors Stephen and Mary Etherington Lead Individual Sponsor ($25,000 to $49,999) Sally and Michael Feder Richard O. Ryan Anonymous Donna Gustafsson Lead Corporate Sponsor Mary Ellen Hennessy e Blanny A. Haganah Family Fund Mayer Brown Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen James and Mary Houston Lyric Young Professionals Dr. Katherine Knight Benefit Table Purchasers Ingrid Peters Jeffrey and Cynthia McCreary Anonymous (2) Ensemble Friends Phyllis Neiman Julie and Roger Baskes ($10,000 to $24,999) D. Elizabeth Price Heidi Heutel Bohn Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Sally and Michael Feder Anonymous (2) Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Julian Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O'Leary Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Dan and Patty Walsh Philip G. Lumpkin C. Bekerman, M.D. Marilee and Richard Wehman Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Adrienne and Arnold Brookstone Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Ted and Emilysue Pinnell Reichardt Tamara Conway Dr. Scholl Foundation Anne Megan Davis ierer Family Foundation Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Training Program Erika E. Erich National Endowment for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Rising Stars in Concert Voice Instruction David S. Fox April 7, 2019 Anonymous Mary Patricia Gannon Sue and Melvin Gray Lead Sponsor Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation H. Earl Hoover Foundation Mira Frohnmayer and Sandra Sweet Illinois Arts Council Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial Fund Sponsors WFMT Recital Series Stephen A. Kaplan BMO Harris Bank Julie and Roger Baskes Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O'Leary Workshop Performances Helen Melchior Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Martha A. Hesse Charles Morcom Margo and Michael Oberman and Family Family Foundation Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund General Support Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley e George L. Shields Foundation Aria Society Ms. Billie Jean Smith Rising Stars in Concert Broadcast ($100,000 and above) Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Walter Family Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Platinum Grand Benefactor Debbie K. Wright ($50,000 to $99,999) Artist Circle Rising Stars in Concert Reception Estate of Kip Kelley ($5,000 to $9,999) Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Anonymous (2) e Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust omas Doran Dr. Scholl Foundation Mrs. Sheila Dulin

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Gift Planning at Lyric Advisory Council Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chairman Patrick Bitterman, Quarles & Brady LLP Michael A. LoVallo, Reed Smith Christopher Brathwaite, William Blair Louis Marchi, Fidelity Investments Mary C. Downie, BMO Financial Group David McNeel, CIBC Barbara Grayson, Jenner & Block Gina Oderda, Mayer Brown Marguerite H. Griffin, Northern Trust Lynne L. Pantalena, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Benetta Jenson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank Management Neil Kawashima, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Kathleen O’Hagan Scallan, Loeb & Loeb Dorothy Korbel, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Anita Medina Tyson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank Management e Overture Society e Overture Society consists of dedicated supporters of Lyric who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts, or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric. ese generous gifts will ensure Lyric’s artistic success well into the twenty-first century for succeeding generations of Lyric audiences. Lyric is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society. Aria Benefactors Lyric acknowledges with deep appreciation the extraordinary support of the following individuals who comprise the Aria Benefactors of the Overture Society. ese individuals have made leadership gift plans which will benefit Lyric far into the future and in gratitude we are pleased to offer annual benefits at the Aria Society level. For information about becoming an Aria Benefactor, please call Lyric’s Gift Planning Office at at 312 827-5654 or email [email protected].

Paul and Mary Anderson Family Mary Patricia Gannon Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Lyn and Bill Redfield Marlys A. Beider James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Dr. W. Peter Hansen Richard O. Ryan Dr. C. Bekerman Bruce A. Gober, M.D. and Philip G. Lumpkin Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Donald H. Ratner Robert C. Marks Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk David and Orit Carpenter Howard Gottlieb John Nigh Anne Zenzer James W. Chamberlain Sue and Melvin Gray Irma Parker Robert F. Finke and Carol Keenan James C. Kemmerer Julia Pernet Bel Canto Benefactors ese Overture Society members are making a major planned gift to Lyric as well as generous annual gifts each year. Anonymous (9) Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Concordia Hoffmann Allan and Elaine Muchin Joan M. Solbeck Mrs. James S. Aagaard Budzik Edgar D. Jannotta David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Ms. Gay K. Stanek Louise Abrahams omas Doran Ronald B. Johnson John H. Nelson Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Dr. Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson John and Kerma Karoly Kenneth Porrello and Sherry Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. LeRoy and Laura Klemt McFall Mary Stowell Karen G. Andreae Jack M. and Marsha S. Jennifer Malpass, O.D. Sheila and David Ormesher Carla M. orpe Catherine Aranyi Firestone Daniel T. Manoogian Nathaniel W. Pusey L. Kristofer omsen L. Robert Artoe Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Virginia Tobiason Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Rhoda and Henry Frank Nancy Lauter McDougal Chatka Ruggiero Paula Turner Alvin R. Beatty Family Foundation Bill Melamed Lois B. Siegel Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason Merrill and Judy Blau Richard J. Franke Margaret and Craig Milkint Ilene Simmons Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Julian W. Harvey Susan M. Miller Larry G. Simpson Claudia Winkler Danolda (Dea) Brennan Mr. and Mrs. omas C. Heagy Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Craig Sirles Florence Winters Society Members Anonymous (46) Mrs. Bill Beaton D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Ramona Choos Morton and Una Valerie and Joseph Abel Lynn Bennett Blumenthal Bruske III J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Creditor Carol A. Abrioux Julie Anne Benson Ned and Raynette George F. and Linda L. Heinke K. Clark Barbara L. Dean Mrs. Judy Allen Charles E and Nancy Boshell Brusky Robert and Margery Coen Donald A. Deutsch Catherine Aranyi T. Berg David E. Boyce Steven and Helen Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Phyllis Diamond L. Robert Artoe Joan I. Berger Robert and Phyllis Brauer Buchanan Conroy Roger Dickinson Richard N. Bailey Barbara Bermudez Leona and Daniel Muriel A. Burnet Sharon Conway Ms. Janet E. Diehl David G. Baker Kyle and Marge Bevers Bronstein Lisa Bury Sarah J. Cooney Mr. and Mrs. William S. Susann Ball Patrick J. Bitterman Kathryn Y. Brown Robert J. Callahan Dr. W. Gene Corley Family Dillon Constance and Liduina M. J. Black Richard M. and Andrea Patrick V. Casali Joseph E. Corrigan Catherine R. DiNapoli Barbantini Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz J. Brown Esther Charbit Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Margaret Basch Ann Blickensderfer Jacqueline Brumlik Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Cottey Dobroski

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omas M. Dolan James and Mary Lunz Candace Balfour Broecker Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Eugene Rzym, in memory Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mary Louise Duhamel Houston and the Estate of Murphy of Adaline Rzym Telander Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. H. Eileen Howard Howard W. Broecker Mr. Oliver Nickels David Sachs Cheryl L. axton Kathy Dunn Kenneth N. Hughes Mary Mako Helbert Edward A. Nieminen Suzanne and William Dr. David urn Richard L. Eastline Michael Huskey Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Florence C. Norstrom Samuels Myron Tiersky Carol A. Eastman Cpt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Malatesta Renate P. Norum Mary T. Schafer Karen Hletko Tiersky Lowell and Judy Eckberg USMC Memorial Fund Jeanne Randall Malkin Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Douglas M. Schmidt Jacqueline Tilles Lucy A. Elam, in memory J. Jeffrey Jaglois Ann Chassin Mallow Oliver, Jr. Franklin R. Schmidt Lawrence E. Timmins of Elizabeth Elam Barbara A. Joabson Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Lois K. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Mr. and Mrs. Don John Arthur Johnson Manders Olson Martha P. Schneider Turner Elleman Laurence P. Johnson Mrs. John Jay Markham Stephen S. Orphanos Donald Seibert Jean M. Turnmire Cherelynn A. Elliott Roy A. Johnson Daniel F Marselle Jonathan Orser Sherie Coren Shapiro Paul and Judith Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Barbara Mair Jones Christine S. Winter Joan Pantsios Charles Chris Shaw Tuszynski Dr. James A. Eng Janet Jones Massie MD & James Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ultmann Family Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Moreen C. Jordan C. Massie George R. Paterson M. Shaw Charitable Remainder Engel Dr. Anne Juhasz Michael M. and Diane Dr. Joan E. Patterson Mett and David Shayne Unitrust Martha L. Faulhaber Mr. eodore Kalogeresis Mazurczak George Pepper, M.D. David Sherman Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn- Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng Wayne S. and Lenore M. James G. and Laura G. Elizabeth Anne Peters Jared Shlaes Mason Nadine Ferguson Kaplan McCormick Susanne P. Petersson Joanne Silver Marlene A. Van Skike Felicia Finkelman Kenneth Kelling Gia and Paul McDermott Genevieve M. Phelps Andrew Barry Simmons Nancy Johnson Vazzano Mr. and Mrs. John C. Paul R. Keske William F. McHugh Frances Pietch and Mitchell Raita Vilnins Forbes Chuck and Kathy Killman Florence D. McMillan Karen and Dick Pigott Loewenthal-Grassini Malcolm V. Vye, MD James Victor Franch Neil King Leoni Zverow McVey Alan and Carol Pohl Larry G. Simpson Darcy Lynn Walker Ms. Susan Frankel Diana Hunt King and J. William McVey Ms. Lois Polakoff Dr. Ira Singer Gary T. Walther omas H. Franks, Ph.D. Albert Wang Penny and John E. Freund "My wife and I cherish our evenings at Lyric as they are a vital part of our Barbara M. Wanke Dr. Paul Froeschl Louella Krueger Ward Marie and Gregory Fugiel cultural life. Lyric also plays an instrumental role in making Chicago a Boyd Edmonston & Sheilah Purcell Garcia, world-class city. We are pleased to continue supporting Lyric during our Edward Warro Lady Witton lifetime and have also included Lyric in our estate plan." Karl N. Wechter George and Mary Ann Patricia M. Wees Gardner -Allan Muchin Mrs. Richard H. Susan Boatman Garland Wehman Scott P. George Esther G. Klatz Martina M. Mead Martilias A. Porreca, CFP omas Sinkovic Claude M. Weil Mr. Lyle Gillman R. William Klein, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. D. Elizabeth Price Norman and Mirella Eric Weimer and Edwin John F. Gilmore J. Peter Kline Meader Mrs. Edward S. Price Smith Hanlon Michael Goldberger Helen Kohr Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Mary Soleiman Mr. and Mrs. Arnold John A. Goldstein Susan Kryl Melamed Roberta Lyn Anderson Elaine Soter Weinberg Dr. J. Brian Greis Mary S. Kurz Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Rains Mrs. Jay Spaulding Joanna L. Weiss James R. Grimes Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, Mesrobian Robert L. Rappel, Jr. Philip and Sylvia Spertus Joan and Marco Weiss Patricia Grogan M.D., in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sherrie Kahn Reddick James A. Staples Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Carolyn Hallman Robert Kyts Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Keith Reed Sherie B. Stein Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Carl J. Halperin Larry Lapidus Ms. Barbara Terman Michael and Susan K. M. Stelletello Sandra Wenner Ms. Geraldine Haracz Barbara K Larsen Michaels "Holly" Reiter J. Allyson Stern Caroline C. Wheeler Andrew Hatchell Angela Larson and Edward S. and Barbara Evelyn R. Richer Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Dr. and Mrs. Peter William P. Hauworth Bamshad Mobasher L. Mills Jennie M. Righeimer Mr. and Mrs. James P. Willson Mrs. omas D. Heath omas and Lise Lawson Vlasta A. "Vee" Minarich Gerald L. Ritholz Stirling Nora Winsberg Ronald G. Hedberg Henrietta Leary David and Justine K. Mary Raffetto-Robins Carol A. Stitzer David G. Winter Mrs. John C. Hedley Marilyn E. Miller Mintzer James and Janet Norene W. Stucka Brien and Cathy Wloch Josephine E. Heindel Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy BettyAnn Mocek and Rosenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Mrs. William Wunder Martha A. Hesse Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Adam R. Walker Dr. John Gregory Russo Stuffers Daniel R. Zillmann Stephanie and Allen Lewicky Robert and Lois Moeller Joseph C. Russo Emily J. Su Hochfelder Carole F. Liebson Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Dennis Ryan Peggy Sullivan Mrs. Marion Hoffman Carol L. Linne Linda Novak Moses Louise M. Ryssmann Sherwin A. Swartz Mrs. Mario A. Munoz

Estate Gifts e following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric. Due to space limitations, listings include only all planned bequests received in the past three years. With deepest regards, Lyric commemorates and remembers those departed Lyric patrons who have honored us with these most profound commitments. James Aagaard Kathryn Cunningham Carlyn E. Goettsch John and Maynette Neundorf Joan M. Skepnek Sara P. Anastaplo Marianne Deson-Herstein Dr. Doris Graber Mrs. Oliver Nickels Geraldine A. Spatz Nancy D. Anderson Trust in memory of Samuel Evelyn Greene Venrice R. Palmer Barry Sullivan Anonymous and Sarah Deson Ann B. Grimes Richard Pearlman Charitable Gerald Sunko, M.D. James Ascareggi Christopher D. Doemel Lester and Betty Guttman Trust Fund for Music Phil Turner Walter Bandi Edward Elisberg Elaine H. Hansen Ira J. Peskind Edmund J. Valonis Velma Berry Joseph Ender Joseph M. Kacena Helen Petersen Amanda Veazley Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Warren F. Best Regina C. Fain Stuart Kane Joan Richards James M. Wells Eleanor Briggs Kenneth Fiske Kip Kelley George T. Rhodes Paul and Virginia Wilcox Donna Brunsma Lynette Flowers Nancy W. Knowles Merlin and Gladys Rostad Joseph Yashon Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger Robert B. Fordhamqes Ernest Lester Margart R. Sagers Ed Zasadil and Mr. William Burger Richard Foster Arthur B. Logan Pierrete E. Sauvat Audrey A. Zywicki Ellen Cole Charitable Elaine S. Frank Doris C. Lorz omas W. Scheuer Remainder Trust Henry Frank Dr. Alexis W Maier Trust Edwin and Margaret W. Ellen Clasen omas Frisch Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Seeboeck Robert P. Cooke Dr. Martin L. Gecht and Mario A. Munoz Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Barbara Coussement Francey Gecht Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Shure

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 61 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Corporate Partnerships

Lyric gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors.  e following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received by December 31st, 2018. For more information about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at 312.827.5693 or [email protected]. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR PREMIER BENEFACTOR FRIEND $10,000 to $24,999 $7,500 to $9,999 $1,000 to $1,999 Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys at Law Amsted Industries Foundation Bumper Lanes Marketing Baird Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation Concierge Unlimited International CNA BENEFACTOR Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Crowe LLP $5,000 to $7,499 Kinder Morgan Foundation Deloitte BNSF Railway Foundation Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Envestnet Italian Village Restaurants L Miller & Son Lumber Co. Michuda Construction, Inc. Sahara Enterprises, Inc. One Smooth Stone Molex Protiviti Morgan Stanley BRAVO CIRCLE Turks’ Greenhouses Nuveen $3,500 to $4,999 Quarles & Brady LLP Corporate Suites Network SUSTAINER Reed Smith LLP Old Republic International Corporation $500 to $999 Ropes & Gray LLP DonationXchange Starshak Winzenburg & Co. IMPRESARIO Network for Good Strategic Reimbursement Group, LLC $2,000 to $3,499 Peoples Gas Winestyr American Agricultural Insurance Company Wintrust Community Banks Enterprise Holdings Foundation Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. OPERA America Shoe Center Fund Matching Gifts A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees’ gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous CNA Foundation ITW Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Allstate Giving Program ConAgra Johnson & Johnson e Retirement Research Foundation Aon Foundation Doing Good LLC Johnson Controls Foundation e Rhoades Foundation Bank of America Foundation Emerson Electric JPMorgan Chase Foundation e Warranty Group Baxter International Foundation General Mills Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur United Technologies Corporation Benevity Community Impact Fund Graham Holdings Foundation W. W. Grainger Inc. BMO Harris Bank Foundation Grenzebach, Glier, and Associates Kimberly Clark Foundation William Harris Investors Helen Brach Foundation HSBC-North America Morgan Stanley Caterpillar Foundation Inc. IBM Corporation Nuveen Investments Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ingredion Incorporated Pfizer Foundation 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. Special anks • American Airlines for its 37 year partnership as the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Corporate Suites Network for its partnership as the Broadway at Lyric preferred housing provider. • CORT Furniture Rentals for its generous conference room furniture partnership. • Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner, for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. • Warner Classics as the Official Education and Promotion Music Provider. Acknowledgements

e following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric’s efforts: Generous Gifts Katie O's Food Carnival Notable Gifts Martha Nussbaum CH Distillery Northern Trust, Palm Beach, FL Artists Frame Service Modern Luxury Calihan Catering Segall Bryant & Hamill BiXi Beer Nico Osteria Coco Pazzo by Alfred Bryant Booth One e Second City HMS Media, Inc. Naples, FL and Chicago, IL Glo Rolighed Temperance Beer Company Harrison and Held, LLP Vibes Lloyd’s Chicago by Attorney Robert T. Napier Naples, FL and Chicago IL is performance is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Lyric Opera of Chicago is a member of OPERA America.

February 2 - 22, 2019 | 63 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support

Lyric deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations, and government organizations. eir continued support is vital to our success. e following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received by December 31st, 2018. ARIA SOCIETY  $100,000 and above Anonymous (10) Mr. and Mrs. William C. Florian e Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Patricia A. Kenney and Ada and Whitney Addington Franke Family Charitable Foundation Family Gregory J. O'Leary Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Brent and Katie Gledhill Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Sheila and David Ormesher e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ethel and William Gofen Estate of Nancy W. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn e Michael and Susan Avramovich Howard L. Gottlieb and Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Pritzker Foundation Charitable Trust Barbara G. Greis Josef and Margot Lakonishok J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Julie and Roger Baskes e Grainger Foundation Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Foundation Marlys Beider Gramma Fisher Foundation of Lauridsen Candy and Gary Ridgway Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Marshalltown, Iowa Malott Family Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Mazza Foundation Richard O. Ryan Family FoundationN Krehbiel, Jr. Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross e Monument Trust (UK) Lisbeth Stiffel e Butler Family Foundation e Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Donna Van Eekeren Foundation David and Orit Carpenter J. omas Hurvis and Ann Andersen National Endowment for the Arts Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe e Edgar D. Jannotta Family e Negaunee Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance e Crown Family John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel e Wallace Foundation e Davee Foundation Foundation Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Roberta L. Washlow and Dr. Scholl Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Foundation Robert J. Washlow Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson Julius Frankel Foundation NIB Foundation Helen and Sam Zell Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR  $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous (3) Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Lester S. Abelson Foundation/ Eric and Deb Hirschfield Family Foundation Patricia Hyde Katherine A. Abelson Illinois Arts Council Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Eric and Deb Hirschfield Ada and Whitney Addington Julian Family Foundation Sue and Melvin Gray Greg and Mamie Case Berggruen Institute Lannan Foundation e Ferguson-Yntema Family Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor e Beaubien Family Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson e Chicago Community Trust Foundation e Brinson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier e Crown Family Polk Bros. Foundation J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Nancy Dehmlow Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Foundation Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Eisen Family Foundation Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Annie and Greg K. Jones Mrs. Myung Soon Chung Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Michael J. McGuinnis Rebecca and Lester Knight Mrs. Linda Wolfson Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Lionel and Jackie Knight Foundation Segal Family Foundation Make It Better Media Lois B. Siegel GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR  $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (6) Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Victoria M. Kohn Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Ken and Amy Aldridge Renée Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Matt and Carrie Parr Paul and Mary Anderson Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Silvia Beltrametti and Jay Krehbiel Ingrid Peters Robin Angly Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Frederic S. Lane John Raitt e Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny e C. G. Pinnell Family Mr. Herbert Kohler Jr. and Elaine S. Frank Fund Mr. omas V. Linguanti and Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Ms. Natalie Black Mary Patricia Gannon Ms. Olivia Tyrrell Inc. Heidi Heutel Bohn Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Sage Foundation Lawrence Christensen "We think the arts are underfunded in the USA. Erica L. Sandner Amy and Paul Carbone We love opera and want Lyric to have the money to Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Inc. continue to produce great performances." Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Joyce E. Chelberg -Barbara and Kathryn W. Morris Silverman and Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Lori Ann Komisar e Cozad Family Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Crain-Maling Foundation Virginia and Gary Gerst Philip G. Lumpkin Penelope and Robert Steiner Sir Andrew Davis and Dan and Caroline Grossman Robert and Evelyn McCullen Mary Stowell Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Michael J. McGuinnis Blythe Jaski McGarvie Joseph and Pam Szokol Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna ierer Family Foundation Ann M. Drake David Drew and Marcie Hemmelstein Susan M. Miller Carl and Marilynn oma Drs. George and Sally Dunea Mary Ellen Hennessy Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Cherryl T. omas Donald and Anne Edwards Martha A. Hesse Frank B. Modruson and Robert L. Turner Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Lynne C. Shigley Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Allan and Elaine Muchin Walter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Wood Prince Sally and Michael Feder Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Kenneth R. Norgan Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR  $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (4) James and Deborah Fellowes Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Hon. S. Louis Rathje and John and Ann Amboian Mira Frohnmayer and Sandra Sweet Robert C. Marks Maria Rosa Costanzo Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Film Funds Trust Funds Shari Mayes Rocco and Cheryl Romano Dr. and Mrs. Robert Arensman Sonja and Conrad Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Judith W. McCue and Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Juliette F. Bacon Susan J. Garner Howard M. McCue III Susan and David Ruder E. M. Bakwin Ms. Elisabeth O. Geraghty Erma S. Medgyesy Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Mr. Robert Gienko Jr. Terry J. Medhurst Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Judy and Bill Goldberg Dawn G. Meiners Eric and Jana Schreuder Robert S. Bartolone Mrs. Richard Gray Helen Melchior Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata James and Brenda Grusecki Martha A. Mills Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior C. Bekerman, M.D. Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Steven Molo Mary Beth Shea Ms. Catharine Bell and Mrs. Mary Winton Green Charles Morcom Richard W. Shepro and Mr. Robert Weiglein Joan M. Hall Music Performance Trust Fund Lindsay E. Roberts Ross and Patricia D. Bender Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Phyllis Neiman e George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Patrick J. Bitterman Irving Harris Foundation David J. and Dolores D. Nelson e Shubert Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Ilene Simmons Jim Blinder Siragusa Family Foundation Marcus Boggs " e opera house is our happy place. Some of the finest e Smart Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Ms. Billie Jean Smith Betty Bradshaw moments in our lives have taken place at Lyric." Ms. Gay K. Stanek Dr. and Mrs. omas A. Broadie -Ron and Peggy B. James A. Staples Adrienne and Arnold Brookstone Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark John and Rosemary Brown Family Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Ellen and Jim Stirling Buehler Family Foundation Mrs. omas D. Heath Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Ms. Jennifer L. Stone Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mrs. John C. Hedley Foundation Norene W. and Daniel A. Stucka Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Heinz Family Foundation Martha C. Nussbaum Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Marie Campbell Helen Brach Foundation Margo and Michael Oberman and Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. omas Mr. and Mrs. John Canning Jr. Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Family Virginia Tobiason Lawrence Christensen Stu Hirsh Orchestra Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Ann and Reed Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Tully Family Foundation Francie Comer Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC e Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Tamara Conway Memorial Fund Foundation Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Lynd W. Corley Laurie and Michael Jaffe Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon Lawrence O. Corry e Edgar D. Jannotta Family Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Winnie and Bob Crawford Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Elizabeth Anne Peters Ms. Lucinda Wakeman David S. Fox Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Laurie and Michael Petersen Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Stephen A. Kaplan Marian Phelps Pawlick Kim and Miles D. White Anne Megan Davis Mike and Lindy Keiser Maya Polsky Dr. David H. Whitney and M. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kizziah Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Dr. Juliana Chyu Shawn M. Donnelley and Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Belytschko Andra and Irwin Press Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Christopher M. Kelly Klaff Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Mrs. John A. Wing Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Mr. and Ms. Benjamin Wolf Fred L. Drucker and Albert and Rita Lacher Ms. Brenda Robinson Paul Wood and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Marc Lacher e Rhoades Foundation e Honorable Corinne Wood Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Lannan Foundation Roger and Susan Stone Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II James Huntington Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Foundation Debbie K. Wright Erika E. Erich Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Mr. Randy Rissman and Dr. Petra Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Daniel and Deborah Manoogian Rissman

PREMIER BENEFACTOR  $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (4) Miss Gay Elfline Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Sheli and Burt Rosenberg Kelley and Susan Anderson Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Jean Klingenstein J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko Ms. Ronelle D. Ashby Sondra Berman Epstein Dr. Katherine Knight Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Mr. and Mrs. William H. Stephen and Mary Etherington Martin and Patricia Koldyke Norman Sackar Baumgartner, Jr. Robert F. Finke Eldon and Patricia Kreider George and Terry Rose Saunders Mark and Judy Bednar Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum George and Joan Segal Mr. and Mrs. D. eodore Berghorst Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Bernard and Averill Leviton Mary and Stanley Seidler Lieselotte N. Betterman Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Julius Lewis Patricia Arrington Smythe Norman and Virginia Bobins/e Helyn D. Goldenberg Raymond and Inez Saunders Del Snow Robert omas Bobins Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Ms. Michelle McCarthy e Solti Foundation U.S. Phyllis H. Brissenden Phillip and Norma Gordon Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Doris F. Sternberg Winston and Lally Brown Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Michuda Construction, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Joy Buddig Graber Family Foundation/ Julian Oettinger Mr. O. omas omas and Audre Carlin Mr. Jack Graber Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Malley Mrs. Sandra Inara omas Mrs. Warren M. Choos Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Karen and Tom Phillips Dr. David urn David and Elizabeth Graham Mrs. John M. Hartigan Harvey R. and Madeleine P. Plonsker Howard and Paula Trienens omas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Foundation Susan E. Cremin Mr. and Mrs. omas C. Heagy Irene D. Pritzker David J. Varnerin Rosemary and John Croghan Midge and Frank Heurich John and Betsey Puth Christian Vinyard Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. James T. and Karen C. Reid Dan and Patty Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Ronald B. Johnson e Retirement Research Foundation Marilee and Richard Wehman Decyk Charitable Foundation Jared Kaplan Angela Tenta, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Mrs. Sheila Dulin Nancy Rita Kaz Daryl and James Riley Stephen R. Winters Richard B. Egen Kate T. Kestnbaum Edgar Rose Donna and Phillip Zarcone

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BENEFACTOR  $5,000 to $7,499 Mrs. James S. Aagaard Glen and Claire Hackmann Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. McCreary Merle Reskin Anonymous (4) e Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund Florence D. McMillan Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Dr. Michael Angell Jackie and James Holland Lois Melvoin Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Arch W. Shaw Foundation James and Mary Houston Mary Lou and Jack Miller Mr. and Mrs. Michael T Sawyier Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Michael and Leigh Huston Jon and Lois Mills e Schroeder Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Basler Shirley R. Jahn Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Mr. and Mrs. Chip Seelig David Q. Bell and Mary A. Bell Regina Janes Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Bolton Sullivan Fund Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Paul Jarvis Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore Dr. S. P. Shah Minka and Matt Bosco Howard E. Jessen Craig S. Morris Sherie Coren Shapiro Wiley and Jo Caldwell Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Cathleen Cameron "We want to leave a legacy. We love opera and want Elizabeth S. Sheppard Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Jane B. and John C. Colman to ensure the art form stays around forever." Joan M. Solbeck Patricia O. Cox Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Ms. Elaine Cue -Ryan E. and Timothy S. Craig Sirles e Dancing Skies Foundation Mary Soleiman Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dennis Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Ms. Sarah Demet Joy Jester Zehava L. Noah Andrea and Mark Taylor omas Doran Tyrus L. Kaufman Mickey Norton Mrs. M. James Termondt Stephen Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kearney Renate P. Norum L. Kristofer omsen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Mrs. Richard C. Oughton Mrs. eodore D. Tieken Jim and Pati Ericson Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, MD Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Handler Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Mr. Michael Tobin M.D. Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft John F. Gilmore Leslie Fund, Inc. Norman and Lorraine Perman Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Alfred G. Goldstein Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Sherry McFall and Kenneth Porrello Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres James R. Grimes Mrs. Paul Lieberman D. Elizabeth Price Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick Daniel Groteke and Patricia Taplick Jennifer Malpass Jennifer N. Pritzker David and Linda Wesselink Sandra L. Grung Mrs. Beatrice C. Mayer Nathaniel W. Pusey Claudia Winkler Donna Gustafsson omas J. McCormick Edward and Leah Reicin BRAVO CIRCLE  $3,500 to $4,999 Anonymous (3) Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Marilyn and Myron Maurer James H. Stone Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Dr. Lucy Freund Dr. John J. McGrath and Ms. Tola Porter MinSook Suh Eric A. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob David E. McNeel Ms. Carla M. orpe Mychal P. Angelos Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Phil and Paula Turner Susann Ball Solomon Gutstein Ms. Britt M. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Ron and Queta Bauer Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. John H. Nelson Elizabeth K. Twede Mr. and Mrs. George Bayly Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Jonathan F. Orser Lori L. and John R. Twombly Astrid K. Birke Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Jean Morman Unsworth Dr. Gregory L. Boshart and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Pat and Lara Pappas Mr. Menno Vermeulen Dr. William R. Lawrence Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Mr. and Mrs. James Bramsen Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Jarabak Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Dr. Catherine L. Webb Danolda (Dea) Brennan Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Jim and Polly Pierce Louis Weber Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Karen and Richard Pigott Hilary and Barry Weinstein Family Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Dr. Joe Piszczor Foundation Jon W. DeMoss J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Dr. Lincoln and Dr. Carolyn Ramirez Howard S. White Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison omas A. Kmetko Dr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Mr. Otis Sanders Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Dr. and Mrs. Anthony DiGianfilippo John and Mary Kohlmeier omas and Judy Scorza Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Owen and Linda Youngman Deane Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Bill and Harlan Shropshire Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and James C. Jim and Elizabeth Fanuzzi e Barbara and Frank Lieber Family Dr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel Kemmerer Amanda Fox Charitable Trust Dr. and Mrs. R. John Solaro Julie Schwertferger and Alexander Zajczenko Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Pamela Forbes Lieberman Glenn and Ardath Solsrud IMPRESARIO  $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (11) Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cecchini James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Mr. John Kouns Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Lance Johnson Barry and Marcia Cesafsky Mr. Scott P. George Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Allison Alexander James W. Chamberlain Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Mrs. Judy Allen Katherine Cheng Gordon and Nancy Goodman Mr. Fred Latsko Mary C. Allen Charles B. Preacher Foundation Greene Family Foundation Dr. M. S.W. Lee Ms. Joanne B. Alter Mr. and Mrs. David R. Clark Mirja and Ted Haffner Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. omas M. Leopold Mrs. John H. Andersen Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Dr. Frank F. Conlon Janice H. Halpern Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Ronald and Donna Barlow Mr. Colin Cosgrove Daggett Harvey Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Bastian Voice Institute Katherine Hutter Coyner James Heim Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Dr. Allen W. Heinemann and Knox and Gabrielle Long Alvin R. Beatty Mr. and Mrs. Gerry V. Curciarello Dr. William Borden Luminarts Diane and Michael Beemer Michael J. Cushing Hoellen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mages Jennifer Bellini Robert O. Delaney Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. John F. Mamon Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Benesh Dorothy Deppen Sandra Hoffman Liz and Arsen Manugian Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Roger Deromedi Concordia Louise Hoffmann Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks Mrs. Michele Bergman Mr. and Mrs. John DeWolf Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Joel and Carol Honigberg Fund Bob and Doretta Marwin Mrs. Arthur Billings Mr. and Mrs. Eben Dorros Bill and Vicki Hood William Mason and Diana Davis Richard and Heather Black Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Edmund A. and Virginia C. Horsch Mrs. David McCandless Mrs. John R. Blair Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao Robert and Sandra Ireland Marilyn McCoy and Charles R. omas Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Bernard T. Dunkel Generations Fund Mrs. John H. McDermott Ann Blickensderfer Cherelynn A. Elliott Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally V Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block La Ferrenn and Philip Engel Dr. Peter H. Jones and Marian M. Pearcy Martina M. Mead and Michael T. Gorey John Blosser Susanna and Helmut Epp Mary Ann Karris Sheila and Harvey Medvin Leslie Bluhm Dr. elma M. Evans Dr. and Dr. Yan Katsnelson Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Ms. Virginia Boehme Firestone Family Foundation Judith L. Kaufman Susan Hill Mesrobian Mrs. Fred Bosselman Nancy Fifield Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Pamela G. Meyer Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Mr. Robert Kemp Mrs. Pamela E. Miles Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener James Fitzgerald Jennifer A. Kiefer Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Alice C. Brunner Anita D. Flournoy Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx Adrian Foster Neil and Diana King Steven Montner and Scott Brown Ms. Sheila Burke Arthur L. Frank Marian Kinney Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Elaine H. Klemen Rosemary Murgas Don Carruthers Mrs. Norman Gates Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Chris and Eileen Murphy

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Dr. and Mr. Andy Nawrocki Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid Mr. Jim Seng e Trillium Foundation Gayla and Ed Nieminen Mrs. Elke Rehbock Ms. Fay Shong and Mr. Tracy Mehr Dulcie L. Truitt Kenneth Douglas Foundation Sandra and Ken Reid Adele and John Simmons Raita Vilnins Janis Wellin Notz and John K. Notz, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Robert Mann and Kathryn Voland-Mann Marjory M. Oliker Ms. Danijela Dedic Ricco Larry G. Simpson Cate and Rick Waddell Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Carol Roberts Dr. Ross Slotten and Mr. Ted Grady Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Mr. Joe Pacetti Maggie Rock and Rod Adams Mr. Edward Smeds Donald R Wertz Gerald L. Padbury Elaine G. Rosen Mr. and Mrs. David Snyder David Wetherbee John and Dawn Palmer Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Phil and Sylvia Spertus Heide Wetzel Kevin Patti Megan Roudebush Carol D. Stein and James Sterling Caroline C. Wheeler Laurie and Michael Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Mrs. Karl H. Stein Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Karen Petitte Susan B. Rubnitz Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Mrs. Zen Petkus Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stopeck F. C. Winters Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin Robert Russell Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Mary and Joseph Plauche John Sagos Devora Grynspan and Sam Stupp Chip and Jean Wood Ms. Lyneta Grap Piela Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Geraldine L. Szymanski Marsha and David Woodhouse Dr. and Mrs. Alan Pohl Robert and Mary Ann Savard Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Priscilla T. Yu Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schaeffer Dr. Andrew J. omas Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel David Schiffman Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Christina Rashid Nancy Schmitt Joanne Tremulis FRIEND  $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (10) Dr. and Mrs. William C. Carithers Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle John R. Grimes Diane F. Klotnia A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Ms. Elizabeth M. Fadell Patricia Grogan Mary Klyasheff Mr. Steve Abbey and Stephen H. Carr and e Feder Family Donald Haavind Emily and Christopher Knight Ms. Pamela Brick Virginia McMillan Carr Joan and Robert Feitler Mr. Allen Hager Lionel and Jackie Knight Louise Abrahams Mrs. Clarissa Chandler Dr. and Mrs. Carl Fetkenhour Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Edward and Adrienne Kolb Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Mrs. Beatrice Chapman Geraldine K. Fiedler Mary E. Hallman Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Jeffrey K. Chase Esq Penny Friedman Lucy Hammerberg William Konczyk and Ann Acker Anonymous Suja Finnerty Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Stanley Conlon Duffie A. Adelson Robert Cieslak Elizabeth W. Fischer Agnes Hamos Michael Krco Susan S. Adler Heinke K. Clark Susan Fisher-Yellen Barbara MacDowall and Jeanne LaDuke Judith A. Akers Mitchell Cobey James and Jane Fitzgerald Robert Hanlon Carol and Jerome Lamet Dr. and Mrs. Todd D. Alexander Susan Somers and Ray Cocco William A. Fleig Charles Hanusin Dr. and Mrs. Alan Leff John Almasi Jean M. Cocozza Marvin Fletcher Michael G. Hansen and Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Margery and Robert Coen Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Flint Nancy E. Randa Dominique Leonardi Sheila and James Amend Elaine Collina Nona C. Flores Betty Ann Hauser Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Doris W. Angell Dr. Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Paul Fong Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hawver Mrs. Nancy Levi Daniel J. Anzia Sharon Conway Eloise C. Foster James Heger David Levinson and Kathy Kirn Dr. Edward Applebaum and James M. Cormier Michael and Nancie Freeborn Sheila Ann Hegy Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Dr. Eva Redel Daniel Corrigan Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Mr. and Ms. Ross Heim Mrs. Chase C. Levey Margaret Atherton Evelyn Crews Ms. Pauline Friedman Carrie and Harry Hightman Myron and Eleanor Lieberman Leslie and Patrick Ballard Gary Crosby Priscilla and Henry Frisch Dr. and Mrs. Roger D. Hilbert Anne and Craig Linn Peter and Elise Barack Karen and John Crotty Samuel and Adriana Front Mr. and Mrs. omas H. Hodges Caroline P. Lippert William and Marjorie Bardeen Pamela Crutchfield Mr. John Furrer Mr. and Mrs. James A. William and Diane Lloyd Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Robert Curley John A. Gable Hollensteiner Lloyd R. Loback Mr. and Mrs. William Barker Melvin R. Loeb Michael A. Barna Lutz Family Foundation Richard and Shirley Baron Candace B. Broecker Mr. Jim Barrett "We enjoy the whole experience of being a Lyric donor and Abby and George Lombardi Barbara Barzansky Sherry and Mel Lopata Sandra Bass subscriber: planning the next season, going straight to "our" seats, Craig and Jane Love Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Baum Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Lucas Patricia Bayerlein and seeing the familiar faces around us, and experiencing the old Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Michael Hoffman Wayne R. Lueders W.C. Beatty as well as the new." Kurtice Luther Roger B. Beck and Ann F. Beck Ms. Bonghee Ma Seth Beckman -Valentine S. Charlene and Gary MacDougal Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Beggerow Daniel Carroll Madden and Hans F. Bell Barbara Flynn Currie Dr. Anthony W. Gargiulo and Stephen D. Holmes Tuny Mokrauer John C. Benitez Mr. Matthew Curtin Mrs. Jane Duboise Gargiulo George R. Honig, M.D. and Jeffrey and Paula Malak Roy C. Bergstrom Timothy and Cheryl Dahlstrand Ms. Lili Gaubin Olga Weiss Mark and Wendy Manto Jacquie Berlin James and Marie Damion Carolyn and Stephen Geldermann Larry and Ann Hossack Mr. and Mrs. Warren W. Mark Lois M. Berman Mr. Timothy Daniels Dedre Gentner Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell Ms. Andrea R. Markowicz Jane Berry Jason Dantico Ms. Esther Geppert Michael and Beverly Huckman Robert Markowski and Mr. and Mrs. Turney P. Berry Rathin Datta Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff Randi Ragins Jerry and Kathy Biederman Greg Davis Nancy Gerrie Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt William Maroney Dr. Vanice (Van) Billups Rosanne Diamond Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis Humanist Fund Dr. Maija Freimanis and Margaret C. Bisberg and Lyn Dickey Gregory Geuther Dr. Kamal Ibrahim David Marshall Richard VanMetre Robert and Anne Diffendal Sharon L. Gibson Bea Irminger Ms. Karin Martin Cynthia L. Bixel Dr. Elton Dixon Dr. Howard P. Girard Marina B. Jacks Mr. Michael Mattingly M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Jill S. Dodds Gay L. Girolami Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Jackson Ann and Philip May Elaine and Harold Blatt Michael L. Dollard David L. Gitomer John G. and Betty C. Jacobs John E Mazuski Ms. Elizabeth Blinderman Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey B Donnell John Glier Charlene Jacobsen Maureen and Michael McCabe E. M. Bluhm Mr. Fred M. Donner Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Go Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Mr. John G. McCord Frima H. Blumenthal Dr. and Mrs. Peter E. Doris Barbara and Norman Gold Ms. Cynthia J. Jameson Drs. William and Margaret Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Tom Draski Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Mrs. Judith H. Janowiak McCulloch Robert and Anne Bolz Charitable Douglas F. Duchek Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Jerry and Judy Johansen Julie and Herb McDowell Trust Ms. Susan A. Duda Robert and Marcia Goltermann Carl Johnson's Gallery in Galena Bonnie McGrath Mr. Donald W. Bonneau Ronald B. Duke Jerry Goodman Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. erissa McKelvey Donald F. Bouseman Kathy Dunn Jaimy Gordon and Peter Blickle JS Charitable Trust Maryjanet McNamara Giovanna and Joseph Breu Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Mr. Andrew Gore Judith Jump Mr. and Mrs. Zarin Mehta Nicholas Bridges and Kimberly A. Eberlein Alan Salpeter and Shelley Gorson Olivier C. Junod & Dan Dwir Claretta Meier Margaret McGirr Barbara and John Eckel Motoko Goto Dr. and Mrs. James J. Kane Mr. Herbert Meltzer Joan and Tom Broderick Hugh and Jackie Edfors David Gould Mrs. Myrna Kaplan Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Jerry and Gisela Brosnan James W. Edmondson Dr. Steven A. Gould Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Ms. Kathryn Y. Brown Mrs. Marlene Eisen Annemarie H. Gramm omas R. Kasdorf Rachel and Jason Mersey Warren and Patricia Buckler Lou Eledort and Natasha Kavanagh John S. Mrowiec and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Jim and Ginger Meyer Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Ms. Jan Elfline Dr. Karen L. Granda Mrs. Helen Kedo Mr. Joseph Michalak Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Ms. Alexis Ellington Dr. Ruth Grant and Larry M Keer, M.D. Rev. Dr. Mary L. Milano Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Budzik Peter Emery Dr. Howard Schwartz Alfred Kelley Sally S. Miley Howard and Moira Buhse Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Miss Martha Grant Dr. E. Kefallonitis Ph.D. Barry and Sharon Millman Dr. Mary Louise H. Burger Foundation Edward A. Grant Anne and John Kern Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Susan Burkhardt Mr. and Mrs. Paul Epner Anthony Green Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Milnarik George J. Burrows Ernst And Young Foundation Greene Family Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kirsch Vee Minarich Agnes B. Canning -Matching Gifts Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Frank and Alice Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. David Mintzer

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William Mondi Robert J. Wilczek Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sagui Elaine Soter Walter and Caroline Sueske Charles Moore Mrs. Marlene Phillips Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Ron Bauer and Michael Spencer Charitable Trust Lloyd Morgan Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper Patricia Schaefer Ms. Julie Staley April Ware and Jess Forrest Mr. Greg Morris Mr. and Mrs. Les Pinsof Mary T. Schafer Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Steele Dr. Richard Warnecke Ms. Helen H. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Robert P. Schaible Joyce L. Steffel Benjamin Wasmuth Corinne Morrissey Mrs. Carol Pollock Dr. Michelle Schultz Carol Stein and Doris Ashkin Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts Jr David and Linda Moscow Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky Jim and Joan Sears Ms. Catherine E. Stewart Pam and David Waud Mary Anne Lynskey William V. Porter Paul R. Seidlitz Mr. and Mrs. James Swartchild Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weiland Mr. and Mrs. Brendan M. Mulshine Charlene Posner Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Anne Taft Mr. and Mrs. Richard Welcome Ms. Jan Munagian Dorothy M. Press Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Seng Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tarcov Adele and Joseph R. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle John and Floria Serpico Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Dr. Belverd Needles and Mr. David Quell Tom Shapiro Charles A. Tausche Peter J. Wender Dr. Marian Powers William H. Redfield Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Shaw Gilbert Terlicher Manfred Wendt Ms. Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Roseanne Rega McGrath Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Ilene Patty and omas Terpstra Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wertz David and Lynne Nellemann Dennis C. Regan David Sherman Genevieve iers and Daniel Ratner Mr. Stefan Westerhoff Elaine T. Newquist Alicia and Myron Resnick Ms. Shannon Shin Mr. Jonathon ierer Patricia and William Wheeler Jeffrey Nichols Evelyn Richer Ms. Carolyn M. Short Linda and Ronald isted James L. Wilson Nancy A. Nichols Mrs. Mary K. Ring Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Mrs. John White John Nigh Jerry and Carole Ringer Nancy Silberman Eleanor W. Tippens Charles A. Whitver Carol M. Nigro Jared C. Robins Linda Simon Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Arlene and Michael Winfield Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Ms. Brenda Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Diane Tkach and James Freundt Kathryn B. Winter Dr. W. E. Null Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Paul and Ann Singer Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Michael A. Wislek Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Margles Singleton and Clay Young Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Witkowski Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nutt Charlotte Puppel-Rose Barbara Smith and Kay and Craig Tuber Charles B. Wolf Penny J. Obenshain Roberta Rosell Timothy Burroughs Mr. James W. Tucker Mr. and Ms. Francis Wolfe Mr. Michael J. O'Connell Saul and Sarah Rosen Suzanne L. Hoffman and Dale Judith Tuszynski Ted and Peggy Wolff Gail O'Gorman Dr. Karen and Mr. Samuel Smith Professor Harald and Christopher and Julie Wood Mr. and Mrs. Keith Olson Rosenberg Louise K. Smith Mrs. Christine Uhlig D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Virginia A. O'Neill Babette Rosenthal Mary Ann Smith United Way Metro Chicago Kathleen Arthur and Stephen Wood Mr. and Mrs. John Ostrem Lorelei Rosenthal Robert A. Sniegowski Manuel S. Valderrama Mark Woodworth and Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Harding Marsha and Robert Rosner Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Marlene A. Van Skike Randi Ravitts Woodworth Evelyn E. Padorr Dolores Ruetz e Sondheimer Family Charitable Frances and Peter Vandervoort Michael and Judy Zeddies Allen J. Frantzen and Louise M. Ryssmann Foundation Rosalba Villanueva Barbara Zeleny George R. Paterson Eugene W. Rzym Larry and Marge Sondler John N. Vinci Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Mrs. Mona L. Penner David Sachs Carol Sonnenschein Sadow Robert and Camille Von Dreele Richard E. Ziegler Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos John and Kathleen Vondran Camille J. Zientek Shirley Pfenning and Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Carole and Bob Sorensen Mr. Malcolm V. Vye SUSTAINER  $500 to $999 Anonymous (24) Erminio Bonacci Donald and Bonnie Chauncey Joan M. Eagle Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Gieser Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Ms. June F. Choate Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Dr. and Mrs. Frank R. Greer Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Mr. and Mrs. addeus M. Bond, Sr. Ms. Angela Cici Mrs. B. Englert Easterbrook Prof. Alan Grigg Andrew Abbott and Susan Schlough Laurence and Patricia Booth Ms. Diane S. Cleary Ralph D. Ebbott Lafayette J. Ford Phillip Adams and Carmen Wilcox Anastasia Boucouras Mr. and Mrs. Peter L Ciocci Ms. Kathleen H. Ebbott Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Jordan Bouchard Connie Clark Adrienne Eckerling Richard W. Foster Mrs. Carol E. Adelman Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Mrs. Doris M. Clark Ms. Martha Edwards Mr. and Mrs. James Foster Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Dr. Gilbert W. Bowen Mr. Henry Clark and Ryan Jay Eikmeier and Anne and Willard Fraumann Judith L. Allen Ms. Barbara Box Mrs. Elizabeth Simon Timothy Silver Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fried Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Allie David E. Boyce Ms. Kathleen Clark Ms. Marjorie Elliott Michael and Jane Fritz Peri M. Altan Mary and Carl Boyer Ms. Nancy J. Clawson Mrs. Richard J. Elrod Lori Fulton Ken and Mary Andersen Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Ms. Marsha Clinard and David Elzinga Mr. and Mrs. omas L. Gahlon Carol L. Anderson Wendy and Norman Bradburn Mr. Charles Boast Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ertman Leota P. Gajda Judith C. Anderson omas F. Gajewski Ms. Louise E. Anderson Dr. Sandra Garber William Ankenbrandt "Our twice-yearly visits to Lyric have led us to try to offer as much omas and Patricia Germino Drs. Vijayalakshmi and Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert Bapu Arekapudi support as possible because of the absolutely wonderful quality of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Drs. Andrew and Iris Aronson Lyric productions, both in musicality and in theatricality." Ms. Robyn R. Gilliom and Ms. Ardell Arthur Mr. Richard Friedman Dr. David Ashbach -Frank C. Mr. Lyle Gillman Mr. and Mrs. eodore M. Asner Kik and S. I. Gilman Mr. Vadim Backman Dale and David Ginsburg Mr. Richard Baer Michael Bradie Ms. Kimberly K. Coday Mr. and Mrs. Rick Erwin James W. and Patricia T. Gladden Ms. Shirley M. Ballak Robert Bradner Susan and John Combes Mr. and Mrs. James Estes Dr. Paul B. Glickman Leslie Ballard William Bradt Stevie Conlon and Sue Skau Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Evanich Cai Glushak and Martin DiCrisci Mr. Stan Balog Mrs. Cheryl Braude and Dr. Joseph P. Cousins and Michael and Colleen Evans Mr. Richard Gnaedinger Mr. and Mrs. eodore Banks Kevin Braude Dr. Kate L. Forhan Mr. and Mrs. omas W. Evans Dr. Susan R. Goldman H. Barefield Mr. Richard H. Brewer and Nancy Crawford Ms. Patti Eylar Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Marilyn R. Barmash Dr. Mary Ann Schwartz Robert C. Cronin Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Dr. Robert Golub Barbara J. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brey Czarkowski Family Marion and Burt Fainman Amy and Michael Gordon Mr. Merrill Z. Barnes Dr. John H. Brill Ms. Vindya Dayananda Mrs. Fran Faller Drs. Margaret and Richard Gore Mrs. and Mr. Martin S. A. Beck Ms. Myrna Bromley Ms. Lisa DeAngelis Mr. Michael Farmer Anne H. Gorham Elizabeth S. Beck Leona and Daniel Bronstein Paul B. Dekker Mr. David Fannin Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Benevity Community Impact Fund Mr. Charles Brooks and Patricia K. Denman Mr. and Mrs. John H. Faulhaber Sarah J. Gottermeyer Julie Anne Benson Mrs. Suzan S. Bramson Brooks Anonymous Ms. Patti C. Fazio Mr. and Mrs. Delmon Grapes Diane and Karl Berolzheimer John A. Bross, Jr. Michael DePriest Joseph Feldman, MD Beth Graue Mr. and Mrs. Loren M. Berry III Todd Brueshoff William Diaz and Steven E. Feldman Rick Greenman Mr. omas Berry Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III eresa Gross-Diaz Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Ginger Griffin Mr. R. Stephen Berry Mr. Dan Bujas and Ms. Wendy DiBendedetto Mr. Jim Ferneborg Robert Grist Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Bevers Mrs. Mary Reyes Dr. Gary Dillehay Dr. Bradley Fine Charles R. Grode Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Dr. Jack Bulmash Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Howard and Charlotte Fink Mrs. Kathleen Grzybek Richard Blackwell and Charlotte Byers Maureen Dooley Mr. Emmett Finneran John Gustaitis Linda Christianson Ms. Pamela A. Cabeen Ms. Jill Dougherty Mr. Anthony K. Fisher Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Diane and Tom Blake Mary Ellen Cagney Roy and Rachel Downing Dr. and Mrs. William E. Fishman Mr. and Mrs. Cameel Halim Louis and Catherine Bland Lidia Calcaterra and Paul Barger Ms. Nancy Dreher Marilyn E. Fites Mr. Larry Hanes Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Hon. and Mrs. Michael T. Caldwell Paul E. Drennan Ms. Karen E. Flanagan David Hanson James Blum Elena Carbajal-Gaule Ms. Jody Lewis Abbie Fleming John and Sharon Hanusin Mr. Robert A. Blumberg Walter and Nancy Carlson Ann Patricia Duffy R. Michael Flores, MD and Mr. Gregory J. Harms D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Carnot & Luceile Allen Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Mr. John Flynn Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Fran Bly and Charles Hample Patrick V. Casali Ms. Roma Dybalski Mr. Richard Gatto Richard L. Hay

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Dr. and Mrs. David Jerome Hayden Konrad K. Kuchenbach David E. Miller Dr. Patricia C. Rieger Timothy J.S. Mrs. John S. Hayford omas P. Kuczwara Gerry M. Miller Ed and Susan Ritts Mr. John Strasswimmer Dr. and Mrs. Robert Heidenry Dr. Klaus and Erzsebet Kuettner Edward J. Mitchen Helen H. Roberts Gary L. Strawn Robert and Raynelle Heidrick Walfrid and Sherry Kujala Sanford Moltz Dr. Diana M. Robin Mrs. Kelly J. Sullivan Soley Josephine E. Heindel Axel Kunzmann and Mr. Richard Moore Mary Raffetto-Robins Charles Sullivan Stephen Heller Bruce J. Nelson Martin W. Morris James Engel Rocks John B. Sullivan Valerie A. Hendricks John and Lynn LaBarbera John A. Morrison e Philip and Myn Rootberg Mary W. Sullivan and Mr. John E. Hennessey Laimonis and Kristina Laimins Larry Morrison Foundation Coleman S. Kendall Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Hennessy Susan Laing James E Morstadt Susan Rosborough Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Kimberlee S. Herold Elisabeth M. Landes Beverly Mortensen Maureen L. Shea Mr. Robert Tanaka Mr. eodore W. Herr and John T. Lansing Mr. and Mrs. Karlos Moser Drs. Ronald and Linda Rosenthal Bradley L. and Ms. Carla Carstens Herr Mrs. Frederick Larsen Helga Muench omas and Barbara Rosenwein Simone Himbeault Taylor Dr. JF Sarwark MD and Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen Zane F. Muhl Ms. Barbara Ruben Mr. Harold Temple Ms. Ann Herring Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Laser Mr. J. omas Mullen Ms. Mary Rundell Dr. and Mrs. Michael Terry Norman K. Hester Mr. and Mrs. Harold Laughlin Mr. George Murphy Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff Mr. and Mrs. Otto Teske Harriet E. Heyda Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Lawrence omas F. Murphy Lena M. Ruppman Mr. Ernest ompson Caren B. Hiatt David Lawver Barbara B. Murray Joe and Natalie Sacchetti Ms. Michele M. ompson Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High Marsha Lazar Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Mary Ann Sadilek omas B. uerer omas W. and Helen C. Hill Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lee Holly I. Myers Mr. Eugene Saenger Jr Ms. Paula Tironi and Dr. Nora Jaskowski and Mary Anne Leer Mr. William F. Myers Natalie Saltiel Mr. Richard G. Ziegler Mr. Matthew Hinerfield Eileen Leiderman and Ben L. Brener Ms. Mary Nair Richard H. Sanders Ms. Elizabeth Tisdahl Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Dr. Michael C. Leland Harvey A. Nathan Lauren M. Pachman, M.D. and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tittle Kathleen Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lenahan Virginia Navarrete Mark A. Satterthwaite Jennifer Tipton Mr. David Hoffman Bonnie and Ed Leracz J. Robin Naylor Ms. Joyce Saxon Ms. Diane Trannel Ms. Sarai Hoffman Ms. Kiyoko Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Nichols Marie-Claude Schauer Jay and Kelly Tunney John E. Holland Ralph and Carol Lerner Eleanor A. Nicholson Anne McMillen Scheyer Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Turcotte Mr. Rodney Holmes Brig. Gen. Sue E. Turner Joel Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tyner William Hosken "I very much enjoy the opera and like to help with the expenses that Mr. and Mrs. Tal Tzur Mr. and Mrs. R. omas Howell, Jr. Aris Urbanes & Bill Hulsker Mr. Robert Hudson are needed to have these great performances." Mr. Richard Uszynski William and Sarah Hufford -Charlene J. Mrs. Denise M. Utter Mr. and Mrs. Alan Huish Mrs. Murray J. Vale Julia Hulcher Sharon Van Dyck and Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Laurence and Mary Levine Andrew Noha Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Schiele Richard Kelber Dr. Stephen and Kathy Irwin Michael and Diane Levy Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nolen Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Lorrie and Dave VanderArk Howard Isenberg Mr. Randy Lewis Richard Nora MD Mrs. Rosita M. Schloss Andre Van Ee Virginia A. Jach Mr. Jonathan Lichter Anna Marie Norehad Marcia G. Schneider Marie Vanagas Ms. Marina B. Jacks Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Ms. Sandra Norlin Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Scholly Dr. Eladio A. Vargas Douglas and Lynn Jackson Dr. Arnold Tobin Patricia A. Noska Susan B. Schulson Mr. and Ms. Francois Velde Merle L. Jacob Paul M. Liebenson Mrs. Ellen Noth Mark Schultz Ms. Antoinette Vigilante Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Robert E. Lindgren William Novshek and Stacy and Robert Schultze Mr. and Mrs. William P. Vit Dr. Robert P.F. Buerglener and Carol Linkowski Lynda oman Deborah and George Schulz Ms. Lidia B. Vitello Dr. Paul B. Jaskot DeAnn Liska Julia Nowicki Linda S. Schurman Mrs. Barbara Vlack Mr. and Mrs. Ross H. Jannotta Mr. Alan Littmann Dr. Dragic M. Obradovic Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwartz Jr. Dmitro Voinorovich Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Jensen Dr. Vassyl A. Lonchyna and Mr. Michael K. Oman Ann Schmidt Dr. Annabelle Volgman Barbara Jensen-Schweighauser Dr. Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna Sandra L. Osborn Judy and John Scully Mr. Richard Wagner Ms. Barbara Jillson Richard Lord Mary Otto Robert Kent Scott Suzanne L. Wagner Mr. Tim Johnson Sharon and Henry Lorsch Ms. Natalie Pace Barbara and John T. Seaman, Jr. Albert R. Walavich Mr. and Mrs. omas Johnston Andrew Barry Simmons and Paloucek Family Fund Dr. Itai Seggev and Prof. John S. Walker Barbara Mair Jones Mitchell Loewenthal-Grassini Mr. Tomas Palubinskas Dr. Dara Goldman Robert D. Wallin Janet Jones Ms. Janet Lubin Joan L. Pantisios Richard and Betty Seid Gary T. Walther Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Jordan John and Roseanne Lynch David Paris Dr. Robert F. Shankland Elizabeth K. Ware Mr. Edward T. Joyce Mrs. Diane L. Macewicz Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro e Warranty Group Abby O'Neil and Carroll Joynes Suzanne C. Mack Alap Patel Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Ms. Lisa Warshauer Mr. and Mrs. omas P. Kaeser Miss Joan C. Madden Mr. Bohdan O. Pauk Ellen and Richard Shubart Nancy E. Webster Paula Kahn Ms. Svetlana Magdel Bruce and Nancy Payne Mr. Michael S. Sherry Joanne Michalski and Michael Mr. Roman Kahn George and Roberta Mann Ms. Susan Payne Barbara Fulton Sideman Weeda Beth Kalov Philanthropic Fund Susan Carter Pearsall Linda Soreff Siegel Claude M. Weil Marianne E. Kalinke Martha Marberry Mark Pelletier and Dr. David Berrier Roberta E. Singer Mr. James Weinberger Ethel R. Kaplan Frank and Jeanette Marchese Jean T. Pennino omas Sinkovic Mrs. and Mr. Susan Weindruch Mr. James Karr Dr. Lawrence and Sylvia Margolies Mr. and Mrs. John Pepe Mr. Christopher Skrable Mr. and Mrs. James Wees Ms. Andrea Katzenstein Mr. and Mrs. Miles Marsh Victorina Peterson Edward W. and Alice L. Smeds Marco and Joan Weiss Matthew J. Keller, Jr. Jeordano Martinez Viktoras Petroliunas Arthur B. Smith, Jr. and Ellen Werner Sarah and Kip Kelley II Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Marzec Mr. Robert Phelan Tracey L. Truesdale Ms. Suzanne K. Westerhold Douglas and Christine Kelner Mr. and Mrs. Donald Burnett John J.W. Plampin Beth and Gerard Smetana Zita Wheeler omas E. Kerber Leslie Bradberry Mr. and Mrs. William Pinsof Melissa and Chuck Smith Floyd and Judith W. Whellan Jeffrey R. Kerr Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Matz Roland and Karen Porter Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Whisler Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Kessler Mr. William F. Marutzky Dr. David Alexander Powell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Mr. Chad Williams and Ms. Emily Kessler and Mrs. John May Dr. Kathryn Press Ms. Elizabeth Smyth Ms. Amy Williams Ms. Kay E. Hughes Edward and Myrna Mazur Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Preston Michael and Donna Socol Margaret E. Williams Chuck and Kathy Killman Bernadette McCarthy Mr. Dan E. Prindle Edward and Eileen Soderstrom Rabbi Larry and JoAnne Winer Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn Kind Ms. Hope McFadden Marla McCormick Pringle Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein Ann S. Wolff Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Andrew S. McFarland Mr. Sunil Puri Mr. Ryan Spohn Mr. Hak Wong Mr. and Mrs. omas L. Kittle- Condon McGlothlen Judith Purta Dr. and Mrs. Eric M. Spratford Robert E. Woodworth, Jr. Kamp John and Etta McKenna Chris and Elizabeth Quigg Michael Sprinker Teana and Abbott Wright Esther G. Klatz Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Ms. R. L. Anderson Rains Phillip V. St. Cloud and Mark Zajackowski Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Knuth Joann H. Meigs J. Usha Raj, MD Charles P. Case Tom and Elena Zanussi Gerald A. and Karen A. Ernst Melchior Dorothy V. Ramm Michael and Cheryl Stack Mr. and Mrs. John G. Zasi Kolschowsky Foundation, Inc. Dr. Patricia A. Merwick Jeffrey Rappin and Penny Brown Helena Stancikas Dr. Antoinette Zell and Dr. and Mrs. Howard Konowitz Barb and Bob Meyer Dr. and Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Sterkin Kenneth R. Walter Amy Kontrick and Mark Mycyk Ms. Charlene Meyer Ms. Anne Ray Scott G. and Beth F.J. Stephenson Ms. Wei Zhang Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kracum Mr. a Gene Mikota Biswamay Ray, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Stern Larisa Zhizhin Stephen Kraft nd Mrs. Gearold D. Miles John Reppy Mrs. James H. Stoner Dr. and Mrs. Eric Zickgraf Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Kretchmer Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Richert Joanne Storm

Lyric is very grateful to the thousands of donors who give gifts of less than $500 to our annual campaign. Due to space limitations, we are unable to list the names of these donors, but their generosity is sincerely appreciated.

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Patrons with Disabilities: from the lobby and other parts of the e Lyric Opera House is public, non-performance spaces in the accessible to persons with house, as well as the house itself, but not physical disabilities, with during the performance. elevator service to all floors except the Opera Club. e Ardis Lyric, for safety reasons, has the right Krainik eatre contains seating to inspect any large bags or packages that is accessible to persons in and insist that all large backpacks, bags, wheelchairs, as well as seats with luggage, etc. be stored at coat check. removable armrests. e Lyric Welcome to the Lyric Opera House! Here Opera House has automatic door-openers are a few guidelines designed to ensure all on exterior doors, and accessible drinking of our audience members have the best fountains and public telephones. A TTY experience possible. phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only. • Please remain silent during the performance. Restroom facilities for female patrons with • As a gesture of respect for other disabilities are located on all levels except audience members and the the Opera Club. For male patrons, these performing artists, please remain facilities are located on all levels except the seated until intermission or the end Opera Club and the sixth floor. of the show. If you need to leave the auditorium, you may not be Assistive listening devices for persons Outside food and beverages may not be readmitted while the performance is desiring amplification are available at no brought into the Lyric Opera House. in progress. cost at the Main Floor coat check. A valid Refreshments may be purchased onsite and • Program and artists are subject to driver’s license or state identification is limited items may be brought in with you change without notice. required as a security deposit. to the performance. • Please turn off or silence all electronic and personal devices and refrain Large print and Braille programs may be ank you again for joining us at Lyric from using any device with a glowing available at the Main Floor coat check. Opera of Chicago! screen at any time during the performance. Audio description, touch tours, and American Sign Language interpretation is Your understanding and cooperation are available for select performances; please see appreciated. Please let a member of Lyric’s www.lyricopera.org/accessibilty for dates house staff know if you have any questions. and details.

Lost and Found: Please call 312.827.5768 for lost items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days.

Other important policies: Photography and/or audio and video recording of any kind are prohibited during the performance. You are encouraged to take photographs and share your experience on social media Photos by Jaclyn Simpson and Todd Rosenberg.

Front of House Managers: Sheila Matthews, Chuck Tucker Box Office Assistant Treasurers: John or Sandquist and Joseph Dunn Food & Beverage Manager: Geri LaGiglio Restaurant Manager: David Adelsperger Box Office Manager: Gregg Brody Usher Supervisors: Lena Reynolds-Sneed, Nate Tuttle

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