Jeanine De Bique IN CONCERT May 14 | 7:30 p.m. CT
Available on demand through June 13, 2021 Program
Symphony No. 21 in A Major, K. 134 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) I. Allegro
“Da tempeste il legno infranto” George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) from Giulio Cesare in Egitto
“Ritorna, o caro e dolce mio tesoro” George Frideric Handel from Rodelinda, regina de’ Longobardi
Symphony No. 21 in A major, K. 134 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart IV. Allegro
“Che sento? oh Dio … Se pietà di me non senti” George Frideric Handel from Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Symphony No.29 in A major, K. 201 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart IV. Allegro con spirito
“Tra le procelle assorto” Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759) from Cesare e Cleopatra
Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I. Exsultate II. Fulget amica dies III. Tu virginum corona IV. Alleluja
Credits
Ben Doyle Video Director The entire staff of HGO contributed to the success of this production. Daniel James Producer For a full listing of the company’s staff, please visit Ciara Ayala Assistant Producer HGO.org/about-us/people. Ryan Edwards Audio Producer Shannon Smith Audio Producer Performing artists, stage directors, and choreographers are represented Brian August Stage Manager by the American Guild of Musical Artists, the union for opera profes- Kristen Burke Production Manager sionals in the United States. Michael James Clark Lighting Designer Dotti Staker Hair & Makeup Orchestral musicians are represented by the Houston Professional Judy Malone-Stein Wardrobe Musicians Association, Local #65-699, American Federation of Musicians. Joshua McIntosh Technical Director Jeremy Johnson English Subtitles Stage crew personnel provided by IATSE, Local #51.
Wardrobe personnel provided by Theatrical Wardrobe Union, Local #896.
Video Production Streaming Partner Produced in association with Austin Opera
HGO Orchestra
Patrick Summers BASSOON Artistic and Music Director Amanda Swain*, Principal Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Michael Allard*
VIOLIN FRENCH HORN Denise Tarrant*, Concertmaster Sarah Cranston*, Principal Chloe Kim†, Assistant Concertmaster Kimberly Penrod Minson* Natalie Gaynor*, Principal Second Violin Spencer Park† Carrie Kauk*, Assistant Principal Second Violin Hae-a Lee-Barnes* TRUMPET Miriam Belyatsky* Tetsuya Lawson†, Principal Anabel Detrick* Randal Adams† Rasa Kalesnykaite† Chavdar Parashkevov† TROMBONE Mary Reed*, Acting Assistant Concertmaster Thomas Hulten†, Principal Erica Robinson* Mark Holley† Linda Sanders* Oleg Sulyga* TUBA Sylvia VerMeulen* Mark Barton†, Principal Melissa Williams† HARP VIOLA Joan Eidman†, Principal Eliseo Rene Salazar*, Principal Lorento Golofeev†, Assistant Principal TIMPANI Gayle Garcia-Shepard*, Acting Assistant Principal Alison Chang†, Principal Erika Lawson* Suzanne LeFevre† PERCUSSION Dawson White† Richard Brown†, Principal Elizabeth Charles Golofeev HARPSICHORD/ORGAN CELLO Kirill Kuzmin Barrett Sills*, Principal Erika Johnson*, Assistant Principal ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Ariana Nelson† Richard Brown* Wendy Smith-Butler* Steven Wiggs†
DOUBLE BASS * = Core Member Dennis Whittaker†, Principal † = Core Member on leave for this production Erik Gronfor†, Assistant Principal Carla Clark*, Acting Assistant Principal Donald Howey, Acting Principal
FLUTE Henry Williford*, Acting Principal Flute Izumi Miyahara
OBOE Elizabeth Priestly Siffert*, Principal Mayu Isom*
CLARINET Sean Krissman†, Principal Eric Chi† Who’s Who
JEANINE DE BIQUE Music Festival’s opera program alongside Renée Fleming. During the (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO) 2019–20 season at HGO, he conducted Saul and Aida. Other recent SOPRANO engagements included Dead Man Walking at the Israeli Opera.
Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, Jeanine DENISE TARRANT De Bique has established herself in recent (UNITED STATES) years as a charismatic, diverse, and sensitive Sarah and Ernest Butler Concertmaster Chair artist with great vocal agility. She recently made her debut with HGO CONCERTMASTER as Maria in My Favorite Things: Songs from The Sound of Music. Previous engagements include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at Texas native Denise Tarrant began her profes- San Francisco Opera, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at sional violin career at the age of 16 with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Folie in Platée with William Christie at Midland-Odessa (Texas) Symphony. Afterward she studied at the Theater an der Wien and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the University of Houston, Rice University, Trinity University (London), and title role in Rodelinda at Opéra de Lille and Théâtre des Champs- the Royal College of Music (London). She became HGO’s concert- Elysées (for which the DVD recording won the Opus Klassik Award master under the baton of Patrick Summers in 1999. Highlights of for 2020), Aida in Caruso a Cuba at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, her work at HGO include the world premieres of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Bess in Porgy and Bess at Theater an der Wien, Cleopatra in Giulio The House without a Christmas Tree (2017), Jake Heggie’s It’s a Cesare at Theater St. Gallen, Händel’s Jephtha at the BBC Proms, Wonderful Life (2016), Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree (2000), and Annio in La clemenza di Tito/Mozart’s C Minor Mass at the Salzburg Tod Machover’s Resurrection (1999), as well as Floyd’s Of Mice and Festival, concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Men (2002) and Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas (2001), all of Fischer in New York and Los Angeles, Brahms’s Requiem with which have been released on CD. She further performed in the world Raphaël Pichon, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Teodor Currentzis premieres of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix (2019); Carlisle Floyd’s and MusicAeterna, as well as Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Marin Prince of Players (2016); André Previn’s Brief Encounter (2009); Alsop and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Future engage- Heggie’s Three Decembers (2008) and The End of the Affair (2004); ments include performing Agathe in Weber’s Der Freischütz with Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata (2005); Catán’s Salsipuedes (2004); and Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Christoph Eschenbach, the title Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince (2003). She has been concert- role in Handel’s Alcina at l’Opéra national de Paris and Thomas master of the Houston Ballet Orchestra since 1988 and has been Hengelbrock, Poppea with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and featured as a violin soloist in numerous Houston Ballet productions Ivan Fischer, and her debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker in including Stanton Welch’s Maninyas (Ross Edward’s Violin Concerto), Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang. Clear (Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe), The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), and Natalie Weir’s Steppenwolf (Bruch Violin Concerto). PATRICK SUMMERS (UNITED STATES) Margaret Alkek Williams Chair CONDUCTOR
Patrick Summers was named artistic and music director of HGO in 2011 after having served as the company’s music director since 1998. Some highlights of his work at HGO include conducting the company’s first-ever complete cycle of Wagner’s Ring and its first performances of the Verdi Requiem; collaborating on the world premieres of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix, André Previn’s Brief Encounter, Christopher Theofanidis’s The Refuge, Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life, The End of the Affair, and Three Decembers, Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree and Prince of Players, and Tod Machover’s Resurrection; leading the American premiere of Weinberg’s Holocaust opera The Passenger, both at HGO and on tour to the Lincoln Center Festival; and nurturing the careers of such artists as Christine Goerke, Ailyn Perez, Joyce DiDonato, Ana María Martínez, Ryan McKinny, Tamara Wilson, Albina Shagimuratova, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Norman Reinhardt, Jamie Barton, and Dimitri Pittas. Maestro Summers has enjoyed a long association with San Francisco Opera (SFO) and was honored in 2015 with the San Francisco Opera Medal. His work with SFO includes conducting Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, which was recorded and telecast on PBS’s Great Performances. In 2017, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree by Indiana University. He was recently named artistic director of the Aspen