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1819-Cover--Final.indd 1 9/11/18 2:17 PM LYRIC OF CHICAGO Table of Contents KYLE FLUBACKER

IN THIS ISSUE Siegfried – pp. 20-34

6 From the General Director 11 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ 43 Aria Society 8 From the Chairman Executive Board/Young Professionals/ 53 Supporting Our Future – Ryan Opera Center Board 10 Board of Directors Endowments at Lyric 12 Administration/Administrative Staff/ 54 Major Contributors – Special Events Production and Technical Staff and Project Support 14 Master Mentor: Julia Faulkner 55 Lyric Unlimited Contributors

DEVON CASS 20 Title Page 56 Commemorative Gifts 21 Synopsis 57 Ryan Opera Center 23 Cast 58 Ryan Opera Center Alumni 24 Artist Profiles Around the World 28 Join us for the Ring Cycle 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 30 Opera Notes 60 Planned Giving: The Overture Society 33 Director's Note 62 Corporate Partnerships 34 After the Curtain Falls 63 Matching Gifts, Special Thanks, 36 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus and Acknowledgements 64 37 Backstage Life Annual Individual and Foundation Support 38 Artistic Roster 70 Facilities and Services/Theater Staff 40 Patron Salute 42 Production Sponsors THE RYAN OPERA CENTER’S JULIA FAULKNER pp. 14-18 On the cover: Photo by Kyle Flubacker

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the General Director STEVE LEONARD There is nothing more ambitious for an opera company to undertake than a newRing cycle. In terms of the vocal, orchestral, and visual requirements, Wagner’s tetralogy is the ultimate challenge. It calls on artists, musicians, and backstage personnel to contribute their last ounce of skill to do justice to the four , which stand among the greatest works of art ever produced. When Sir Andrew Davis and I first spoke to director David Pountney about creating Lyric’s new Ring, we told him we wanted to reclaim this masterpiece for the theater. Over the years so much has been done to the Ring, to the point that we felt it had lost its true connection to its theatrical roots. David took that literally, and is setting each opera within the skeleton of an old theater. Within that structure, the worlds of each opera are quite different. After getting off to a great start with the first two operas of the cycle, and Die Walküre, we’ve arrived at Siegfried, unquestionably the liveliest portion of the tetralogy and frequently referred to as the Ring’s “scherzo.” David and his brilliant designers have created a fantastical, whimsical, imaginative world that will be extraordinarily potent in its telling of the story. Sir Andrew’s conducting of the major Wagner operas at Lyric has been one of the company’s greatest joys for nearly two decades. It will be hugely exciting for us to witness his return to the stupendously exhilarating music of Siegfried, and to hear our orchestra revel in such highlights as the stirring “Forging Song” of Act One, the “Forest Murmurs” of Act Two, and the luminous music that accompanies Brünnhilde’s awakening in Act Three. Singing the title role for the first time – truly a Mount Everest for tenors – is Burkhard Fritz, in a very eagerly awaited Lyric debut. He comes to us after scoring repeated successes internationally not only in the heldentenor roles of Wagner and Strauss, but also as the romantic heroes of Weber, Berlioz, and Offenbach. Another remarkable tenor, singing the pivotal role of Mime, is another debuting artist, Burkhard’s compatriot Matthias Klink, who will bring exceptional musicality to a role that does not always receive it. Joining us to continue their traversal of two of Wagner’s most magnificent characterizations are our Brünnhilde, Christine Goerke, and our Wanderer (Wotan), Eric Owens. In Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Eric exhibited a thrilling majesty in his portrayal, which he sang with all the beauty, power, and sensitivity for which he has become celebrated. After captivating our audiences as the heroic warrior-maiden in Die Walküre, Christine’s stupendous singing and passionate acting will show us all the warmth and womanliness of Brünnhilde as the character discovers love. Korean bass-baritone Samuel Youn – so extraordinary as the Rheingold – will be back with us to reveal more of that fiendishly vindictive character, and the rich-voiced American mezzo-soprano Ronnita Miller will debut at Lyric as Erda, which has become her signature role. I’m delighted to welcome back to our stage two remarkably gifted alumni of the Ryan Opera Center, Diana Newman (Forest Bird) and Patrick Guetti (Fafner). All of us at Lyric are excited that you’ve joined us as we continue our Ring journey with Siegfried. We hope it will prove as great an adventure for you as it is for us.

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

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

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

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Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director and Chief Operating Officer The 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 The 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 The 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 The Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed Chair

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

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

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 13 DEVON CASS Faulkner with Ryan Opera Center alumni James Kryshak and Emily Birsan

Faulkner as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Netherlands Opera Faulkner (seated) as the Countess in The Marriage of Faulkner as the Countess in Figaro, Bavarian State Opera Capriccio, her first Strauss role, Bavarian State Opera Julia Faulkner JACLYN SIMPSON

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Master TheMentor Ryan Opera Center’s Julia Faulkner is helping today’s young artists fulfill their potential

By Roger Pines

Julia Faulkner adores beautiful, interpretively meaningful, technically accomplished singing. The American soprano was known for giving audiences exactly that on major stages during an outstandingly successful international career. Today a new generation of singers is benefiting from Faulkner’s knowledge and experience at Lyric’s renowned artist- development program, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, where she is director of vocal studies. Faulkner also teaches at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music and at other prestigious programs for young singers, including those of The Santa Fe Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival. She recently finished a residency in London with the artists of both the Jette Parker () and Harewood (English National Opera) Young Artist programs. In the past two years, her students have First appearance on the Met stage: been finalists in several of the world’s “Marietta’s Lied” most prestigious vocal competitions, and from Die tote she works with many stars of the world’s Stadt, Metropolitan major houses. Opera National The self-described “Wisconsin girl” Council Auditions, National Winners’ grew up with parents who encouraged Concert, 1985. her involvement in the performing arts (Faulkner’s mother was a singer, her father a professor who founded the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point theater arts department). She started with children’s theater and, by age 12, she was in summer-stock productions learning stagecraft. Hearing something special in

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(Clockwise from right) her singing voice, her father brought her to a Faulkner's first publicity local teacher, for whom she auditioned with the shot; Met debut in the ballad "Moon River." She eventually fell in love LISA KOHLER title role of Arabella, with classical repertoire, “and once I found that I 1994; as Gutrune in sang it well, it just seemed natural to go to school Götterdämmerung, and study it.” She did so at Indiana University. Vienna; European debut: Her mentor there – as for so many other successful as Alice Ford in Falstaff singers – was Wagner soprano Margaret Harshaw, with Jean-Philippe at that time one of America's most formidable Lafont in the title role, Opéra de Lyon, 1986. voice teachers. Early on, Faulkner discovered her own gift for teaching. After two semesters on the Northern Arizona University faculty, she got a tenure-track position at Iowa State, “but something in me said, ‘Sing for the Met Auditions and see what happens.’” She was a national winner in the 1985 competition. “When I came back to my dressing room, there were ten agents’ cards on my table. The next day I had signed with one!” Within barely a year she’d made her European debut, singing Mozart’s La finta giardinierain Lyon. Choosing to build her career initially in supporting roles, the young soprano accepted an ensemble position at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, “where I knew I’d be around the greatest singers on the planet.” She discovered her core repertoire when the house assigned her 16 (!) roles in challenging operas by to learn in one year (“It was amazing and life-changing”). In both Munich and Vienna, Faulkner triumphed in Strauss’s Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Arabella, and Der Rosenkavalier, scoring great successes in Mozart as well. Her career path came full circle in 1994, when she returned to the Met to star as Arabella in her company debut. During nearly 15 years of singing in Europe, Faulkner continued to teach. After family circumstances brought her back to Wisconsin, a faculty position became available at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she jumped at it. A decade later she was a tenured professor. Looking back, she firmly believes that “what happened was for the best and had a purpose.” During her UW-Madison years, Faulkner also took private students, including a soprano who, beginning at age 15, commuted from Milwaukee for lessons. Seven years later, Emily Pogorelc is now a first-year Ryan Opera Center member who, earlier this year, won the “Most Promising Talent” award at the inaugural Glyndebourne Opera Cup competition in England and debuted at Washington National Opera as Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide. “I remember being in awe of Julia,” says Pogorelc. “She was a great teacher, and also so wonderful to be around – she had amazing energy. I loved singing, but didn’t know what to do with it. Julia saw someone who was willing

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Faulkner with one of her most celebrated students, American tenor Michael Fabiano.

Faulkner with Ryan Opera Center alumni Laura Wilde, Anthony Clark Evans, and Richard Ollarsaba. to learn. Her brilliance in seeing potential allowed me to develop which gives singers an invaluable chance to develop the non-operatic everything I have now. I’ve found a soul mate in her. Rather than side of their performing. telling me what I want to hear, she tells me what I need to hear. She Faulkner, Novak, and Terry hear singers in scheduled auditions makes me the best person I can be. Who doesn’t want that?” in New York and Chicago, but many come to their attention via Once Faulkner’s son left home, she looked to the future, their own contacts. About three years ago, recalls Faulkner, “my realizing that “I wanted to be around an opera house in a big city, student, Michael Fabiano [Rodolfo in Lyric’s La bohème this season], with singers of top quality.” She already had two UW-Madison was singing in San Francisco when this kid came up to him in the students at the Ryan Opera Center, soprano Emily Birsan and tenor opera house. Michael generously heard him sing and texted me that James Kryshak (both are now launched on splendid international he was great. Then Renée Fleming told us how wonderful this young careers). Their artistry prompted the program’s administrators – tenor was. That was good enough for us!” After participating in the director Dan Novak and music director Craig Terry – to make final auditions, Mario Rojas was invited to join the program – he’s Faulkner’s acquaintance. Ultimately, they invited her to teach at the currently a second-year Ensemble member. Ryan Opera Center starting in 2013, and appointed her director of In listening to auditions, the most important thing for Faulkner vocal studies in 2015. is that “the singer has something to say. If the voice is perfect but Collaborating with Terry and Novak, Faulkner helps make uninspiring, if the performance doesn’t engage me, I usually tune major decisions regarding the singers’ activities day to day. “That was out.” Besides beautiful sound, “I’m listening for intelligence in their important for me when asked what I wanted in the job. The physical technique, and to be sure that vocal issues can be solved in a relatively presence of all three of us here, seeing the singers on a daily basis, is short time.” very important.” Faulkner is also part of the decision-making panel at Sometimes singers’ potential will be obvious, but major changes the final auditions. Looking at the artists she’s guided from beginning may be necessary for them to move forward vocally. For example, to end of their time at Lyric, "we're investing a great deal in each and alumna Laura Wilde entered the Ryan Opera Center after having just every one of our artists from the moment they arrive to their final moved from mezzo to soprano. “I was in vocal transition, getting the day. Our goal is for them to leave with representation and a fairly full muscles to work differently,” Wilde recalls. “Julia understood so well season of engagements." where my voice was going, while inching me along and keeping me The program’s thoroughness is exceptional. There’s extensive sane. She’s a miracle worker.” musical coaching, language coaching, improvisation and acting work, For Wilde, Faulkner’s expertise as a working singer with years of and sessions regarding the non-musical side of singing professionally, teaching have created “a deep, genuine caring about the young singers from financial management to proper attire. And of course, there’s she’s guiding through this program. At the Ryan Opera Center, you the mainstage season and its challenges: in 2018/19, everyone in have an administration for whom you are the priority. Julia, Craig, and the Ensemble is singing supporting roles onstage while “covering” Dan just want to help you succeed.” Wilde has indeed succeeded, with (understudying) featured or leading ones. “It’s wonderful that they’re exciting engagements this season at Scottish Opera, Stuttgart Opera, learning major roles while they’re here,” says Faulkner. “We do a and The Santa Fe Opera. ‘cover run’ for every show, attended by Lyric’s artistic management, The Ryan Opera Center singers benefit continually from working so they’re in a relatively protected situation. Of course, we make with someone who has achieved everything they want for their own absolutely sure that everyone who covers a role could step in for a careers. “Julia is able to give invaluable career advice because she had a performance, if needed.” great career,” says alumnus Anthony Clark Evans, a star of last season’s Other important performance opportunities include Grant Park I puritani at Lyric. “And when it came to my voice getting bigger, she Music Festival concerts; the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series, was able to help me corral it until it became feasible for the repertoire in which Ensemble members perform alongside with Lyric stars; and we were aiming for – the Verdi parts.” Evans moves into Verdi in a big the WFMT broadcast recital series, the only such series in the world, way this season, singing his first Rigoletto at Kentucky Opera.

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One of the program's most imposing voices recently has been The topics Faulkner and her colleagues discuss with the singers are that of bass Patrick Guetti. After their three years working together limitless, from working with agents to conversing with donors. During in Chicago, Faulkner finds most compelling “Patrick’s ability to Faulkner’s own student days, social media didn’t exist and “we didn’t scale down the voice’s magnificence when necessary and really show think that much about how to market ourselves. Nowadays mass himself in his singing. In his time here, he became a consummate appeal is important, and there’s an incredible amount of information artist.” This season Guetti, who recently made his European debut at that you need to communicate.” Overriding everything else is simply Glyndebourne, returns to Lyric in Siegfried and in 2019/20 will join the “learning how to be a good colleague, which is so important.” ensemble of the renowned Deutsche Oper Berlin. Many Ryan Opera Center singers choose to continue working Guetti views Faulkner as “a very peaceful person – she gives you with Faulkner once they leave Lyric. “Before they leave, they know a sense of calm when you sing.” In her teaching, Faulkner is about they can always consider me their mentor. I’m there for them, and am making music, as opposed to just having well-produced tone. “She’ll thrilled to have been part of sending them out into the professional say, ‘It’s technically right, but we’re here to tell a story and be part world. In what I’m doing now, I can use every aspect of my life of the artistic process.’” What has always impressed Guetti is “how and pass on what I know. I hope these singers will do the same one humble and unassuming Julia is. She comes to you with such an open day. I think it’s so important to have a purpose in this art form, and heart, not this air of ‘I’ve sung at the Vienna Staatsoper.’ You walk into whatever it is, we all do our part.” the room with her and you feel safe.” Roger Pines, dramaturg of Lyric Opera of Chicago, has appeared When a singer is preparing for a production, Faulkner observes annually on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts’ “Opera Quiz” for the how it’s going, especially towards the end. “I’ll try to go to the Sitzprobe past 12 years and also contributes regularly to opera-related publications [the singers’ first rehearsal with the orchestra] and dress rehearsal. I and recording companies internationally. He taught a seminar, “The Glory might say, ‘You turned too far offstage and I couldn’t hear you. You of Great Singing,” last spring at Chicago’s renowned Newberry Library. have to cheat at that point.’ I love to tell them when they’ve hit the ‘sweet spots’ onstage, where the sound kind of shoots out.” Assuming technical, musical, and textual matters are totally in hand, Faulkner can then talk to singers about character “and how their vocalization enhances – or distracts – from what they want to say dramatically.” It’s vital to Faulkner that singers have a complete idea of role preparation. For example, “you don’t just translate your part – you need to know exactly what everyone is saying all the time, even if you’re not onstage.” Faulkner encourages intellectual and artistic curiosity: “Chicago has so many offerings that can help in that regard. Theater, ballet, symphony, museums – this is the world you’re going to live in! It creates the artist within you and helps to make you a world citizen.”

(Top) During the 2017 season of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, three Ryan Opera Center alumni appeared in La clemenza di Tito – mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall, soprano Laura Wilde, and tenor René Barbera. Pictured at OTSL after a Tito performance are (left to right) Ryan Opera Center music director Craig Terry, Hall, Julia Faulkner, Wilde, Barbera, and Ryan Opera Julia Faulkner in voice lessons with soprano Emily Pogorelc (top) Center director Dan Novak. and tenor Eric Ferring (above). The pianist is Celeste Rue.

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Siegfried Synopsis

PLACE AND TIME: Legendary ACT ONE As dawn breaks, Mime and Siegfried arrive. Mime warns Siegfried of Mime’s hut the lethal venom that gushes from Fafner’s mouth, and of the power of the Mime, one of the mythical race of Nibelung dwarves, works at his forge to monster’s tail to encircle and crush all adversaries. Unperturbed, Siegfried create a sword for his foster child, Siegfried. He knows that the new weapon merely verifies that his foe has a heart like any other beast. He drives Mime will not satisfy the youth, whose powerful arm will shatter the blade at the away, then stretches out beneath a tree. Thinking of what he has heard first blow. Mime is desperate to achieve his goal – possession of the Ring from Mime about his birth, Siegfried wonders what his parents were like. and the Tarnhelm. This could be accomplished if Siegfried slays Fafner, Fashioning a flute from a reed, he attempts to imitate a bird’s song. Failing, who has assumed the shape of a dragon and now guards the stolen Nibelung he sounds his hunting horn, arousing Fafner, whom he kills. As Siegfried treasures. Mime could then dispose of Siegfried and have the Ring’s power withdraws his sword from Fafner’s body, blood spatters his fingers, which to himself. Siegfried appears, terrorizing Mime with a wild bear. Mime he impulsively draws to his lips. He can then understand the birds, and can hands him the new sword, which Siegfried immediately destroys. also read Mime’s innermost thoughts. The forest bird urges him to enter Siegfried instinctively distrusts Mime, despite his apparent kindness. Fafner’s cave to seize the Ring and the Tarnhelm. Mime’s reproaches provoke a quarrel during which the youth extracts from Siegfried disappears into the cave as Mime approaches to make him the name of his mother and the circumstances of his birth. Mime shows certain that Fafner is dead. Alberich rushes forward barring his way, and Siegfried the broken pieces of Nothung, his father’s sword. Siegfried orders the brothers quarrel over who shall possess the treasures. Both leave as Mime to reforge it, for he is eager to strike out on his own. He rushes back Siegfried emerges from the cave. The forest bird warns him to beware of into the forest. Mime. When Mime speaks to Siegfried, he is able to reply to Mime’s secret Wotan, disguised as the Wanderer, enters the hut seeking rest. Mime thoughts rather than his cajoling words. Realizing what Mime plans to do, tries to keep him out, but he wagers his head against a moment’s shelter Siegfried kills him. Alberich’s laughter rings out in the distance. Siegfried that he can answer any riddle. Mime is unable to outwit him. It is Mime’s learns from the bird that Brünnhilde sleeps on a mountaintop, surrounded turn to solve his guest’s riddles, and he easily guesses the first two answers: by a circle of fire penetrable only by one who has never known fear. He sets The Volsungs are the race Wotan most loves and most oppresses; and out to find her. Nothung is the sword Fafner’s slayer must wield. Mime fails to answer the third riddle: “Who shall forge together the fragments of Nothung?” The ACT THREE Wanderer supplies the solution: “One who has never known fear.” The Scene 1. A desolate landscape Wanderer departs, declaring that he forfeits to the unknown hero his prize Wotan summons the earth-goddess Erda to consult her wisdom. When – Mime’s head. she cannot help him to forestall impending events, he resigns himself to Mime realizes he has erred by never teaching Siegfried fear. He is whatever Siegfried and Brünnhilde bring to pass. Once Siegfried appears, confident that Fafner will teach the youth this emotion, and when Siegfried the youth’s arrogant fearlessness first amuses, then antagonizes Wotan, who returns, he proposes that they go immediately to the dragon’s lair. Siegfried warns him against the sea of flames. When Siegfried disregards the warning, insists upon first having his father’s sword but, since Mime is unable to Wotan bars the path with his spear, but Siegfried’s sword shatters it. Sadly forge it, Siegfried sets to work himself. Mime is torn by a dilemma: Siegfried picking up the pieces, Wotan offers no further opposition. must have the sword to kill Fafner; yet if he forges the weapon, he may also fulfill the Wanderer’s prophecy and claim Mime’s life. Having decided Scene 2. The summit of the Valkyries’ rock to drug Siegfried after the encounter with Fafner and kill him when he is Siegfried emerges from the flames and comes upon the sleeping Brünnhilde. unconscious, Mime brews the potion that will destroy Siegfried. Seizing his He initially mistakes her for a warrior, but as he removes her armor he realizes reforged weapon, Siegfried splits the anvil in half. that she is a woman. When he kisses her lips, she awakens and is ecstatic upon learning the hero’s name. At first she recoils from his wooing and, prompted ACT TWO by memories of her former godhood, she contemplates human love with The edge of the forest shame. Finally Siegfried arouses in her a passion to equal his own. Near Fafner’s cave, Alberich keeps a vigil, waiting for his curse on the Ring’s possessor to claim its new victim and thus enable him to recover the Ring and the Tarnhelm. When the Wanderer appears, Alberich sees Approximate Timings through the disguise and recognizes Wotan, king of the gods. Wotan tells Alberich he is simply an observer, not a participant. He informs Alberich ACT ONE 85 minutes that Mime is coming with Siegfried to destroy Fafner; afterwards, Alberich Intermission 30 minutes must contend with his brother Mime for control of the treasures, for Wotan does not covet them. At Wotan’s suggestion, Alberich warns the dragon of ACT TWO 75 minutes the approaching danger and urges him to return the Ring to its rightful Intermission 30 minutes owner in order to preserve his life and the remainder of his hoard. Fafner ACT THREE 80 minutes refuses. Wotan withdraws, and Alberich swears that he will have vengeance Total 5 hours on the gods.

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New Production • Specialty inflatable scenery and props provided by Signs & Shapes International, Inc. SIEGFRIED

• Scenery constructed by Adirondack Music drama in three acts in German Studios, Ravenswood Studio Inc, and Bay Libretto by the composer Productions, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. First performed at the Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany • Costumes provided by: Will Skeet, on August 16, 1876 Roxy Cressy, Angelina Pieroni, Robert First performed by Lyric Opera on October 31, 1973 Allsopp, Sally Payne, Karen Crichton and Trevor Collins. Dyeing by Nicola Characters in order of vocal appearance: Killeen Textiles. Additional dyeing and Mime MATTHIAS KLINK* distressing by Laura Whitlock. Siegfried BURKHARD FRITZ** The Wanderer (Wotan) ERIC OWENS • Erda's blanket specialty painting Alberich SAMUEL YOUN by Iris Color Studio, Minneapolis, Fafner PATRICK GUETTI°° Minnesota. Forest Bird DIANA NEWMAN°° Erda RONNITA MILLER* • Puppet Adviser: Brandon Kirkham. Brünnhilde CHRISTINE GOERKE

Actors: BRIAN J. BARBER, JON BEAL, NICHOLAS HARAZIN, CHRIS LAFFERTY, • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully JOSHUA LEE, JOHN B. LEEN, DAVID LINTZENICH, RICHARD MANERA, acknowledges the support of the Irma JOSHUA MOANEY, MICHAEL SAUBERT, JR., LAURENCE STEPNEY, Parker German Opera Endowed Chair KAI YOUNG; KATHERINE COYL, MICHELLE FORD, and the Wagner Endowed Chair - a gift KELLY MARYANSKI, MAGGIE CLENNON REBERG, SARAH SAPPERSTEIN from an Anonymous Donor. Conductor SIR ANDREW DAVIS • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes Director DAVID POUNTNEY to thank its Official Airline, American Original Scenery Designer JOHAN ENGELS Airlines. Scenery Designer ROBERT INNES HOPKINS Costume Designer MARIE-JEANNE LECCA Lighting Designer FABRICE KEBOUR • Projected English titles © Lyric Choreographer DENNI SAYERS Opera of Chicago, 2018. Wig and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Associate Director ROB KEARLEY • This season’s projected English titles Assistant Scenery Designer MATT REES are funded in part by a generous grant Assistant Director KATRINA BACHUS from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN Deutsch Foundation. Costume Supervisor RACHEL DICKSON Stage Band Conductor ERIC WEIMER Musical Preparation JERAD MOSBEY MADELINE SLETTEDAHL° Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Projected English Titles COLIN URE

* Lyric debut ** American operatic stage debut ° Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °° Alumni, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

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BURKHARD FRITZ Best Choral Performance) and Britten’s War Der Freischütz, Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus, (Siegfried) Requiem under her mentor, Robert Shaw (Best Policeman/Doctor/Archangel/Mark Andre’s American operatic Choral Performance). The soprano initiated her Wunderzaichen (world premiere), Faust/ stage debut ascent to prominence with Iphigénie en Tauride The Damnation of Faust, and the Captain/ (Glimmerglass Opera Festival, New York City Wozzeck. Other recent credits include Alwa/ The German tenor is Opera, CD) and as Mozart’s Donna Elvira (Met, Lulu (Hamburg, Munich) and the Earl of especially renowned for Seattle, Paris, Tokyo), Donna Anna (Covent Kent/Lear (Salzburg Festival). Klink debuted heroic Wagner roles. Garden, Tokyo), and Elettra and Vitellia (both at the Metropolitan Opera in 2009 (Tamino/ The past several seasons in Paris). Her many awards include the Richard The Magic Flute) and has also performed in the have included triumphs Tucker Award, the Musical America Vocalist of major opera houses of Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, as Tannhäuser (Oper Leipzig, Berlin State the Year Award, and the Opera News Award. , Amsterdam, and Barcelona. This spring Opera, Vlaamse Opera); (Vienna he returns to Stuttgart to portray Mao Zedong/ State Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Deutsche ERIC OWENS Nixon in China. He has appeared in concert at Oper am Rhein); (, (The Wanderer) Paris’s Salle Pleyel, the Kölner Philharmonie, Beijing Music Festival); Siegmund/Die Previously at Lyric: the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Salzburg Walküre (Oper Leipzig); and Erik/The Flying Six roles since 2007/08, Easter Festival, and Vienna’s Musikverein. On Dutchman (Cologne Opera). After studying most recently Wotan/ DVD the tenor has recorded Belmonte/The medicine at the University of Hamburg, Fritz Die Walküre (2017/18); Abduction from the Seraglio (performances with joined first the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and Wotan/Das Rheingold both Stuttgart State Opera and Les Musiciens subsequently Gelsenkirchen’s Musiktheater, (2016/17); Porgy/Porgy du Louvre), Don Polidoro/La finta semplice before spending six years at one of Europe’s and Bess (2014/15). (Salzburg Festival), and Narraboth/ (La most prestigious theaters, the Berlin State Scala). He can be heard on CD with the Munich Opera. Besides Wagner, stage successes The celebrated American bass-baritone’s Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony encompass roles by Beethoven (Florestan/ successes in Wagner roles include the Dutchman Orchestra, SWR Vokalensemble, Stuttgart Fidelio, Tel Aviv, Florence, Amsterdam), (Washington) and Alberich (Metropolitan Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Southwest Weber (Max/Der Freischütz, Hamburg, Berlin), Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, DVD). This German Radio Symphony Orchestra. and Strauss (Emperor/Die Frau ohne Schatten, season he returns to the Met for another major Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt). Later this season Wagner role, Hagen/Götterdämmerung, and RONNITA MILLER Fritz stars in Parsifal (Munich), Die tote Stadt reprises Porgy (Amsterdam). In recent seasons (Erda) (Dresden), and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Owens has triumphed at the Met in three other Lyric debut (Berlin). He recently performed in concert with roles: Vodník/Rusalka (new production), Jaufré/ the Staatskapelle Berlin and at the Berlin State Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin (new production, The American mezzo- Opera’s Wagner Gala. The tenor is featured on company premiere), and Orest/Elektra (new soprano reprises a role DVD in Benvenuto Cellini, Les vêpres siciliennes, production), all seen worldwide in HD. Recent she has made her own Gurrelieder, and The Mahler Project: Mahler highlights also include Méphistophélès/The in recent years, including No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand.”He has Damnation of Faust with the New Zealand at the world-renowned recorded with the Bavarian State Orchestra, Symphony and Orest at the Verbier Festival; Deutsche Oper Berlin Netherlands Radio Orchestra, and Frankfurt Philip II/Don Carlo (Opera Philadelphia); where she is currently a member of the Opera and Museum Orchestra. and bass soloist/Bach’s St. Matthew Passion ensemble. She has sung 27 roles in Berlin since (Berlin Philharmonic). Owens earned repeated the 2013/14 season, ranging stylistically from CHRISTINE successes premiering contemporary works, Marcellina/The Marriage of Figaro and Marthe GOERKE (Brünnhilde) such as Goldenthal’s Grendel (Los Angeles), Schwertlein/Faust to Fenena/Nabucco, Ulrica/ Previously at Lyric: John Adams’s A Flowering Tree (Vienna’s New Un ballo in maschera, and Bianca/The Rape Brünnhilde/Die Walküre Crowned Hope Festival, CD) and Doctor of Lucretia; she also won great acclaim for (2017/18); Cassandre/ Atomic (San Francisco, DVD, CD). Owens’s her performance as Fidès/Le prophète. Other Les Troyens (2016/17); operatic versatility encompasses The Magic recent highlights include Erda/Das Rheingold title role/Elektra Flute (Paris); Norma (Covent Garden); Rigoletto and Siegfried and First Norn/Götterdämmerung (2012/13). and Il trovatore (Los Angeles); and Macbeth, (San Francisco Opera), Amando/Ligeti’s Le Lost in the Stars, and The Rape of Lucretia grand macabre (Berlin Philharmonic), Fricka/ The American soprano is (Glimmerglass Festival, where Owens has Die Walküre (Odense Symphony Orchestra internationally celebrated for many of opera’s been artistic adviser since 2017). The Houston Denmark), and Mary/The Flying Dutchman most formidable roles, including Brünnhilde Grand Opera Studio alumnus serves Lyric (Ravinia Festival, LA Opera). Miller soon takes (Houston, Toronto, Edinburgh); Turandot as a Community Ambassador and the Curtis Erda/Das Rheingold to Madrid’s Teatro Real (London, Philadelphia, New York); Elektra Institute as co-director of the Curtis Vocal and returns to the Metropolitan Opera as First (London, Madrid, Houston, Boston, New York, Studies Department and Curtis Opera Theatre. Norn (she debuted there in the role in 2011). San Francisco); the Dyer’s Wife/Die Frau ohne Concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem Schatten (New York); and Ariadne (Santiago, MATTHIAS KLINK at Hannover’s Staatstheater. She appears on Houston). Goerke has won particular acclaim (Mime) DVD in Aribert Reimann’s L’Invisible (world for Brünnhilde, which she reprises this season Lyric debut premiere, Deutsche Oper), and can be heard in Ring cycles at the Metropolitan Opera. on CD in Dett’s oratorio The Ordering of Before returning to the Met, she will star The German tenor, Moses with the May Festival Chorus and the as Elektra at the Canadian Opera Company. Opernwelt magazine’s Cincinnati Symphony as well as in “Diex, She has appeared on many other major opera 2017 Singer of the Year, Com Leur Avient” part of a complete set of stages worldwide, among them the Deutsche is a native of Stuttgart. Stravinsky’s works. The mezzo-soprano is well Oper Berlin, the Opéra National de Paris, and He performs frequently known on the Berlin jazz scene. Madrid’s Teatro Real. Goerke has been featured there at the city’s State on Grammy Award-winning recordings of Opera, with 14 major roles since 2013/14, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony conducted among them Aschenbach/Death in Venice, by Robert Spano (Best Classical Recording and Don José/, Herod/Salome, Max/

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SAMUEL YOUN to Life Again (UCLA Camarades Ensemble, world to Lyric’s Idomeneo, Siegfried, and Cendrillon, (Alberich) premiere), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (American 2018/19 highlights include a Mozart/Duruflé Previously at Lyric: Youth Symphony Orchestra), and Curly’s Wife/ program with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Alberich/Das Rheingold Of Mice and Men (Grant Park Music Festival). and Act One of Die Walküre with the Melbourne (2016/17). In Chicago she has also appeared in the Harris Symphony Orchestra (where Sir Andrew is Theater’s Beyond the Aria series. The soprano is currently chief conductor). The complete In the Ring cycle, the an alumna of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Walküre was a triumph for Sir Andrew at the South Korean bass- Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival. He has baritone has scored recent Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, the Aspen Opera also earned acclaim for recent appearances with successes as both Alberich Theater Center, and the Oberlin in Italy program. the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Detroit (Edinburgh International Festival) and Wotan She can be heard on the soundtracks of three and Frankfurt Radio symphony orchestras. (Deutsche Oper Berlin). Youn, who achieved a feature films: TheSorcerer’s Apprentice (2010), Sex Former music director of Glyndebourne Festival significant international breakthrough in 2012 and the City 2 (2010), and The Spirit (2008). Opera, Davis is also conductor laureate of the as Wagner's Dutchman at the Bayreuth Festival BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto and later took on that role at the Deutsche PATRICK GUETTI Symphony Orchestra (for which he is currently Oper Berlin, has also sung other demanding (Fafner) interim artistic director). Operatic successes German roles, including Jochanaan/Salome Previously at Lyric: include productions at many major international (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Kurwenal/Tristan und Six roles since 2015/16, companies, from the Metropolitan Opera, Isolde (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Kaspar/Freischütz most recently Mandarin/ Covent Garden, and La Scala to the Bayreuth (Cologne Opera), and Gunther/Götterdämmerung Turandot (2017/18); Festival and the leading houses of San Francisco, (Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden). He made Dr. Grenvil/La traviata Munich, and Santa Fe. Davis has appeared a memorable debut at London's Royal Opera (“Celebrating Plácido!” with virtually every internationally prominent House as Scarpia/ in 2016. Youn’s versatility concert), Zaretsky/Eugene orchestra, including those of Chicago, New York, also encompasses such diverse roles as Iago/ Onegin (both 2016/17). London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. Otello (Dresden), Leporello/Don Giovanni A vast discography documents his artistry, with (Cologne), Tonio/Pagliacci (Berlin), and Orest/ A New Jersey native and a Ryan Opera Center recent releases including programs of Berlioz and Elektra (Wiesbaden). Later this season, he reprises alumnus, the bass has recently undertaken Ives, as well as Handel’s Messiah in Sir Andrew’s Alberich/Das Rheingold (Madrid’s Teatro Real) company debuts as Sparafucile/Rigoletto new orchestration. Sir Andrew Davis is the John and returns to the Cologne Opera as Vodník/ (Wolf Trap), Sciarrone/Tosca (Los Anegeles D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair. Rusalka and Scarpia. Concert appearances Philharmonic), and Nightwatchman/Die include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Essen Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Glyndebourne). DAVID POUNTNEY Philharmonic Orchestra) and Brahms’s German Guetti returns to Opera Philadelphia later this (Director) Requiem ( Philharmonic). The bass-baritone season as Snug/A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Previously at Lyric: has recorded three Wagner operas: Lohengrin Next season he joins the prestigious Deutsche Five productions (Royal Concertgebouw), Das Rheingold (Hallé Oper Berlin ensemble. As a Santa Fe Opera since 1987/88, most Orchestra), and The Flying Dutchman (Bayreuth apprentice, Guetti appeared in Carmen, Fidelio, recently Die Walküre Festival). Youn began his career as first-place Theodore Morrison’s Oscar (world premiere) (2017/18); Das Rheingold winner of several international competitions, and Huang Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (American (2016/17); The Passenger including the Treviso Toti dal Monte, the Seoul premiere). He studied at Philadelphia’s Academy (2014/15). Chung-Ang, the Franz Schubert Contest, of Vocal Arts (title role/Don Quichotte, Prince and the Francesco Albanese Contest. Gremin/Zaretsky/Eugene Onegin, Don Basilio/ Artistic director of Welsh National Opera since Samuel Youn is sponsored by Drs. Young, Byong The Barber of Seville, Tom/Un Ballo in Maschera, 2011, the internationally celebrated British Uk, and Mrs. Myung Soon Chung. Crespel and Wilhelm/Les contes d’Hoffmann). director in recent seasons has created productions He has been featured with soprano Nicole of such formidable and stylistically diverse works DIANA NEWMAN Cabell in the Harris Theater’s “Beyond the Aria” as Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto (Naples), Francesca da (Forest bird) series, and can be heard on CD in Bernstein’s Rimini (La Scala), Lulu (Bolzano), Guillaume Previously at Lyric: Songfest with the National Symphony Orchestra. Tell and The Haunted Manor (both in Warsaw), Seven roles since The bass is a past recipient of the Metropolitan and the world premieres of Rolf Wallin’s Elysium 2015/16, most recently Opera National Council Auditions grand (Oslo), Elena Langer’s Figaro Gets a Divorce Jazz Trio Member/ prize, the Richard Tucker Foundation’s Sarah and Iain Bell’s In Parenthesis (both in Cardiff). Trouble in Tahiti, Tucker Grant, first prize in the Gerda Lissner Among his new productions this season are Page/Rigoletto (both 2017/18); competition, Audience Favorite Award at the War and Peace (WNO), Manon Lescaut (La Frasquita/Carmen; (2016/17). Giargiri Bel Canto Competition, and first prize Scala), and I vespri siciliani (Bonn). Pountney’s in the Prémio “Verdi” Competition. historic production of Mieczysław Weinberg’s The American soprano, a recent winner of the The Passenger was first seen at the Bregenz Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions SIR ANDREW DAVIS Festival (world stage premiere), where Pountney (Illinois District), returns to Lyric for the first time (Conductor) was Intendant from 2003 to 2014. It has been since her Ryan Opera Center tenure. Newman Previously at Lyric: remounted at Lyric, London’s English National received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees 58 operas since 1987, Opera, New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, and in music from the University of Southern most recently Idomeneo the major companies of Warsaw, Houston (U.S. California (title role/L’incoronazione di Poppea, (2018/19); Turandot, premiere), Miami, and Detroit. Former director Miranda/The Tempest, Pamina/The Magic Flute, The Pearl Fishers (both of production at English National Opera and Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi, Belisa/Conrad Susa’s 2017/18). Scottish Opera, Pountney holds the Janáček The Love of Don Perlimplin). Her many concert Medal, the Martinů Medal, and two Olivier credits include Bach’s “Coffee” Cantata (Whittier Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Awards. He is both a CBE and a Chevalier Bach Festival), Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning renowned music director began this season des Arts et Lettres, has the Cavalier’s Cross of Walks (Lucerne Festival), Barber’s Knoxville: conducting the Last Night of the BBC Proms the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Summer of 1915 (Eastern Sierra Symphony at London’s Royal Albert Hall and concerts with and was awarded the Ehrenkreuz des Bundes Summer Festival), Francesco Cilluffo’s The Land the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In addition Österreich in 2014. (See Director’s Note, page 33.)

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JOHAN ENGELS Dutchman, WNO; Lohengrin, San Francisco FABRICE KEBOUR (Original Set Designer) Opera; , Venice), Janáček (The (Lighting Designer) Previously at Lyric: Cunning Little Vixen, San Francisco Opera), Previously at Lyric: Four productions since Britten (Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, both at The Die Walküre (2017/18); 2013/14, most recently Santa Fe Opera), Puccini (Madama Butterfly, Das Rheingold (2016/17); Die Walküre (2017/18); Den Jyske Opera in Aarhus, Denmark), and The Passenger (2014/15). Das Rheingold (2016/17); Bernd Alois Zimmermann (Die Soldaten for The Passenger (2014/15). the Ruhr Triennale, which won Germany’s In addition to Lyric’s highly prestigious Opernwelt Award). The Siegfried, the French lighting The South African designer designer’s theater credits include productions designer’s work will be seen (1952-2014) was renowned internationally for at the Chichester Festival (King Lear, also seen in five other new productions this season, his work in opera, theater, and ballet. His at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), in London among them Michael Jarrell’s Bérénice (world designs for The Passengerhave been integral to for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the premiere, Opéra National de Paris), Un ballo in the success of Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse, and Bristol maschera (Welsh National Opera), and Manon – first in its world stage premiere at the 2010 Old Vic, among other companies. Lescaut (La Scala). Revivals of other productions Bregenz Festival and subsequently in London, will be seen in nine other major European opera Warsaw, Houston (American premiere), MARIE-JEANNE houses, among them the Vienna Volksoper New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Miami. In LECCA and Staatsoper, the Polish National Opera, addition to his Bregenz productions, highlights (Costume Designer) the Opéra de Lausanne, and the Israeli Opera. of Engels’s operatic career included productions Previously at Lyric: Kebour’s most recent work also includes Simon for London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Die Walküre (2017/18); Boccanegra (Flanders Opera), La forza del destino Garden (Arne’s Artaxerxes), the Zurich Opera Das Rheingold (2016/17); (Vienna State Opera), Faust (Opéra National House (such rarities as Johann Strauss II’s The Passenger (2014/15). de Paris), The Magic Flute (Bregenz Festival), Simplicius, Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re, and productions for Paris’s Châtelet, and the and Chabrier’s L’étoile), the Opéra de Marseille The Romanian-born, Mariinsky Theater, among many other houses. (Ring cycle), LA Opera (L’elisir d’amore, also London-based designer’s Kebour’s non-theatrical work includes designing seen in Madrid, Geneva, and Graz), the operatic work has been seen internationally in the 2006 opening and closing ceremonies of Salzburg Festival (Turandot), Welsh National more than 40 productions directed by David the 15th Asian Games in Doha and the Prague Opera (Khovanshchina, Lulu, Don Carlos, Pountney, most recently War and Peace (Cardiff Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space the latter coproduced with Houston Grand premiere, subsequent tour to five British exhibit “Light Speaks”, a retrospective of Opera), the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra theaters), La forza del destino (Cardiff), and a world-renowned lighting designers. Kebour has National de Paris, Opera North, and Finnish Weill/Schoenberg triple bill (Opéra National received three Molière Award nominations and National Opera, among many other companies. du Rhin). Lecca later this season will design one Welsh Theatre Award nomination for best In British theater the designer was associated for Pountney’s new productions of Un ballo in lighting design. with the Donmar Warehouse (including maschera (WNO), Manon Lescaut (La Scala), David Leveaux’s production of Sophocles’s and I vespri siciliani (Bonn Opernhaus). She has DENNI SAYERS Electra, which transferred to Broadway), Royal collaborated extensively with other prominent (Choreographer) Shakespeare Company, Almeida Theatre, and directors, among them Keith Warner and Previously at Lyric: Chichester Festival. Francesca Zambello. Her costumes for The Eight productions since Passenger have been seen in Bregenz (world 2000-01, among them ROBERT INNES stage premiere), Warsaw, London, Houston Die Walküre (2017/18); HOPKINS (Set Designer) (U.S. premiere), Chicago, New York, Miami, The Magic Flute(2016/17); Previously at Lyric: and Detroit. Lecca’s diverse repertoire also Porgy and Bess (2014/15, Die Walküre (2017/18); encompasses Mozart (The Magic Flute, 2008/09). Das Rheingold (2016/17); Bregenz); Wagner (Rienzi, Vienna; Tristan und Rigoletto (2012/13, Isolde, Cologne; Ring cycle, Covent Garden); The British choreographer and director began 2005/06). Puccini (Il trittico, Lyon; Turandot, Salzburg); the current season collaborating with David French works (Carmen, Moscow, Houston, Pountney as assistant director and choreographer The renowned British Seattle; Salammbo, Paris; La juive, Zurich; of War and Peace at Welsh National Opera. designer has earned equal Pelléas et Mélisande, Cardiff); 20th-century Later in the season she will choreograph acclaim in opera and theater. Highlighting German repertoire (Die Frau ohne Schatten, Pountney’s new Manon Lescaut at La Scala. the 2018/19 season are The Lady in the Van Zurich; Moses und Aron, Munich; Wozzeck, Sayers, who has worked on eight productions (Theatre Royal, Bath), Julius Caesar (Royal Covent Garden; Die Soldaten, Ruhrtriennale, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Shakespeare Company), and a new production New York; Lulu, WNO); Slavic works (Prince since 1999, collaborates regularly with many of War and Peace (Welsh National Opera), Igor, Zurich; King Roger, Bregenz); and musical other major directors, including Neil Armfield the latter a collaboration with his frequent theater (Pacific Overtures, London; West Side (Hamlet, Glyndebourne), Adrian Noble (Hansel colleague, director David Pountney. Among Story, Bregenz). Lecca received the Martinů und Gretel, Vienna), and Jonathan Kent (Manon Hopkins’s many previous productions with Medal for Julietta (Opera North) and The Greek Lescaut, Covent Garden). She has also enjoyed Pountney have been Prince Igor (Zurich Passion (Covent Garden). close associations with Francesca Zambello Opera House), Carmen (Bolshoi Theatre), (including Washington National Opera’s Ring and most recently Iain Bell’s In Parenthesis cycle, remounted last season at San Francisco (Welsh National Opera, world premiere). Opera) and the late Nikolaus Lehnhoff (six Among the designer’s most important operatic productions, among them Turandot at La achievements are works of Verdi (Rigoletto, Scala‚ Elektra at the Salzburg Festival, and Welsh National Opera), Wagner (The Flying Parsifal at English National Opera). Sayers’s

26 | November 3 - 16, 2018 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO directing credits include new productions of worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the Theatre, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, and the Tosca (Toronto), West Side Story (Tel Aviv), major opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Bregenz Festival. Kearley has collaborated with and The Pearl Fishers (Tulsa); Rachel Portman’s Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well numerous renowned directors, among them The Water Diviner’s Taleand two Doctor Who as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, David Pountney, Christopher Alden, Tim concerts (all for the BBC Proms). Upcoming in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Albery, Robert Carsen, Chen Shi-Zheng, and next year she will revival-direct Zambello’s Geffen Playhouse. Sarah Hatten is the Marlys Yoshi Oida, among others. Recent engagements Carmen in San Francisco and direct a new Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer include Portraits de Manon at the Wexford production of Don Giovanni (Tulsa Opera). Endowed Chair. Festival; revivals of The Passenger for Florida Her work has also been seen at the Bregenz Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Festival and the leading opera houses of Sydney, ROB KEARLEY Houston Grand Opera; directing at the Europa Amsterdam, Berlin, and San Francisco. (Associate Director) Cantat Festival in Turin; Judith Weir’s Miss Previously at Lyric: Fortune at the Royal Opera House, Covent SARAH HATTEN Five productions Garden; working with the Opéra Comique in (Wigmaster and Makeup since 2014/15, most Paris; Faust (new production) and Death in Designer) recently Turandot, Venice for Opera North; The Magic Flute for Wigmaster and makeup Die Walküre (both the Bregenz Festival; and Peter Grimes for the designer since 2011/12. 2017/18); Das Rheingold Opéra de Lyon. (2016/17). Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer has The British director returned to the U. S. worked in a wide repertoire two seasons ago for his San Francisco Opera at Des Moines Metro debut (Rigoletto). He has worked with Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, sa well as companies across Europe and North America Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo including English National Opera, Canadian Music Festival, and the University of Cincinnati Opera Company, Opera North, Opéra de College-Conservatory of Music. She has also Lyon, Prague State Opera, Prague National

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f the myriad musical Meistersinger von Nürnberg, marvels that flow from Wagner’s only comedy of his Richard Wagner’s mature operas. RingO des Nibelungen cycle, one An amnesty from King of the most significant takes Ludwig II served as a pardon place shortly after the midpoint for Wagner’s role in the 1849 of Siegfried, the third opera in Dresden Uprising, making the the tetralogy. composer no longer persona non It’s not a musical moment. grata in Germany. Wagner set Indeed, it’s anything but a up shop in Munich, this time moment. Between finishing with a new wife, Cosima von work on Act Two of Siegfried in Búlow, the daughter of Liszt the summer of 1857 and starting and former wife of conductor Act Three, Wagner took a bit of Hans von Bülow (Wagner’s first a break – a 12-year break. wife, Minna, had died in 1866). How long is 12 years? Wagner’s affair with Cosima Consider these diverse historical had been one of the worst-kept examples: approximately the secrets in Europe, yet von Bülow length of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s still agreed to conduct the world three-plus terms as president, or premieres of Tristan in 1865 as long as Voyager 2’s Grand and Meistersinger in 1868. Tour of the outer planets When Wagner finally between 1977 and 1989. It’s returned to Siegfried, he was more than one-third of poor simply a different composer. Mozart’s short life and the The groundbreaking harmonic number of full seasons Michael and rhythmic structures of Jordan was a member of the Mime cowers as Tristan – one of the most Siegfried brandishes Chicago Bulls. influential compositions in the the sword Nothung, Wagner nearly stopped history of music – had carved imagined composing the opera shortly after by the celebrated a permanent place in Wagner’s Siegfried skewers the treacherous English illustrator creative imagination. Act Three Mime and sits exhausted in the Arthur Rackham of Siegfried is new, certainly in a noonday sun under a linden (1867-1939). musical sense. tree. In a letter to Franz Liszt, “When listening to Siegfried Wagner wrote, “[Siegfried] will Act Three we sometimes wonder starting to fall under the spell of Tristan und be better off there than anywhere else.” if we are listening to Tristan instead,” wrote Isolde. By 1859 the new opera was complete, The composer eventually finished Act Two the late British musicologist Derrick Puffett: although Tristan would not enjoy its debut on August 9, 1857, and then departed the performance until six years later in Munich. world of the Ring until 1869. It is almost as if we have been listening to And there was more on Wagner’s plate: in Why did Wagner stop work on a two different operas, two different Siegfrieds 1861 he revised his earlier opera Tannhäuser project that had dominated his creative life composed before and after Tristan. After for a new production in Paris, described by since 1848, the year he wrote the libretto the pastoral fun and games of Acts One and one opera historian as “one of the greatest for Siegfried’s Death (which later became Two, we are plunged back into the world of operatic flops of all time.” When Wagner had Götterdämmerung)? myth…the world of Rheingold and Walküre; the audacity to place the Venusberg ballet Certainly crushing financial troubles and the musical expression of that world is right after the overture, the French were played a role, stemming from Wagner’s the familiar stock of leitmotifs, incomparably outraged, including the august Jockey Club inability to stage the two previous Ring intensified through their contact with swells who booed vociferously throughout operas. Das Rheingold was not given its Wagner’s new harmonic language. the entire opera. Tannhäuser closed after world premiere until 1869, Die Walküre only three performances, and Wagner never not until 1870 (both were composed in the Act Three of Siegfried, which Wagner returned to Paris. 1850s). And the composer, who often had completed in 1871 (the premiere took place Finally, there was that minor piece his next operatic project well in view, was as part of the first complete Ring cycle of business at decade’s end called Die

30 | November 3 - 16, 2018 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO at Bayreuth in 1876), is not superior to shards of Narsil were remade for Aragorn tempo reminiscent of Schubert’s “Death and the first two acts, just different. In their as the mighty sword Anduril, Flame of the the Maiden” string quartet, turn much slower, magnificently comprehensive text A History West. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the literary as if allowing Siegfried to ascertain their true of Opera, Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker trilogy, borrowed liberally from Wagner. meaning. Mime is toast. wrote that “Wagner’s taste in harmonies and Act Two of Siegfried is one of Wagner’s The act concludes as the once-quiet sonorities grew stranger and more complex most creative enterprises, a darkness to light “Forest Murmurs” burst with noontime in the 1860s and 1870s.” musical odyssey. It begins with sounds of energy. Instead of soft woodwinds, a triumphal Indeed, from Tristan on, much of menace and foreboding from the drums and trumpet and the full orchestra escort Siegfried Wagner’s music begins to display a plaintive tubas, what the composer called “Fafner’s out of the woodland and toward the “wondrous and at times even a haunting quality, one Repose.” The deep forest is not a place for woman who sleeps on a high rock.” that began with the fiveWesendonck Lieder beginners. Midway through the act, however, After 12 years Wagner did not return to composed during late 1857 and early 1858. the mood shifts as the beautiful “Forest the Ring with subtlety or restraint. The start of And listen to the moment when Brünnhilde Murmurs” section – seemingly Wagner’s Act Three finds the composer throwing open recognizes her horse Grane in Act Three: response to Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony the doors and windows to Haus Ring (so to for a few measures, with the horns playing – is quietly introduced by the higher strings speak) and clearing out the dust and cobwebs so tenderly, the music seems to foreshadow and woodwinds. with a new sense of mission. Erda’s music, Richard Strauss, as if Brünnhilde were Once Siegfried slays the slow-moving so slow and mysterious in Das Rheingold, is channeling her inner Marschallin. Fafner (who resembles an aging heavyweight urgently dramatic as Wotan seeks advice one As for the plot, there are no new fighter who hasn’t faced a legitimate challenge final time from the “eternal woman.” Few significant twists to the opera after Act in years), the forest sounds as liberated acts in all Wagner begin with so much pace Two, and the character of Siegfried doesn’t as Berlin did the night the Wall fell. The and power. really change. Just as the teenage hero’s Woodbird sings with great joy that Siegfried The late Wagner biographer Robert deeds drive the action of the first two acts “will own the Nibelung hoard…and if he Gutman viewed the Wotan-Erda scene as with the forging of the sword Nothung desires to find the Ring, it will make him ruler a turning point, calling it the composer’s and the slaying of the dragon Fafner, he of the whole world.” And the Woodbird’s “emotional and sad farewell to the complete will dominate the narrative in Act Three, advice for Siegfried to beware of Mime artwork; music drama now gives way to grand culminating with the awakening and wooing sets up perhaps the most inventive musical opera, the genre in which Götterdämmerung of the onetime warrior-maiden Brünnhilde. sequence of the act: Mime’s words, which was originally conceived.” Wotan, one of the two or three most have been accompanied by a scherzo-like And following the dramatic important characters in the entire Ring cycle, confrontation between Siegfried remains a supporting player. In the guise of and Wotan and Siegfried’s the Wanderer, he is more of a commentator monologue after he has on the opera’s ebbs and flows rather than conquered the magic fire, grand Sketch by costume designer a controlling force – the former star Marie-Jeanne Lecca opera is what transpires with the athlete who now sits in the TV for Lyric's new production Siegfried-Brünnhilde duet that booth. Once Siegfried splinters his of Siegfried closes the work. For the first time spear early in Act Three, Wotan’s in the Ring, two characters actually presence in the Ring is over. sing to one another simultaneously. The “pre-Tristan” In the rapturous duet that closes Act portion of Siegfried contains One of Die Walküre, Siegmund and numerous treasures. Sieglinde, Siegfried’s parents, had The forging scene that taken turns pledging their love but closes Act One is music their voices never joined. Tristan communicating an energy und Isolde, with perhaps the most and verve that seldom famous of all love duets, provided appear in the Ring’s Wagner the foundation for combining earlier operas. Lord voices. of the Rings fans will As with the brother-sister romance note the similarity o f of Walküre, the power and beauty of Siegfried reconstructing Wagner’s music overshadows the fact his father’s broken weapon that Brünnhilde – as Anna Russell to what happened famously reminded us – is Siegfried’s when the aunt. It’s a romantic connection

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Game of Thrones aficionados might recall from the passionate scene between Jon Snow Modern Match - Siegfried and Daenerys Targaryen that ended the Despite the centuries that separate the But there is another important question most recent season of the blockbuster cable two, Wagner turned to ancient folktales as we must ask. Why, when we have Gaiman’s series. Of course, Brünnhilde knows she is source material for his Ring cycle. Today, and Marvel’s and so many other retellings of Siegfried’s aunt and doesn’t care. (Daenerys, if the contemporary success of writer Neil these myths, do we still care so much about the the Mother of Dragons, doesn’t realize this Gaiman is any indication, we’re still gripped Ring cycle? Though we’ve left behind so many inconvenient truth – at least not yet). by mythology. Gaiman borrows from folktales, of Wagner’s political and social ideas, his artistic Perhaps the best-known music of recontextualizing characters, symbols, and work still looms large in the canon. Gaiman Act Three is the lulling passage sung by tropes in his fiction – Stardust, American Gods also has an answer for this in Norse Mythology: Brünnhilde that forms the central theme – and in Norse Mythology. In the introduction “That’s the joy of myths. The fun comes in of Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll.” As the to this last work, Gaiman explains his lifelong telling them yourself – something I warmly love of myths, saying, “It was the fact that the encourage you to do, you person reading this.” Siegfried world and the story ends, and the way that it Each time the Ring is presented, the at Lyric, DAN REST ends and is reborn, that made the gods and the potential is there for audiences to discover 2004/05 frost giants and the rest of them tragic heroes, new lessons and ancient truths that resonate season: John tragic villains. Ragnarok made the Norse as much today as they did centuries ago. Lyric Treleaven in world linger for me, seem strangely present is attempting, then, to reclaim traditional the title role and current.” theatricality from high-tech modern-world with David That sentiment surely would have productions and allow audiences to experience Cangelosi been meaningful for Richard Wagner, the beauty of the music alongside all the richness as Mime.. who, despite using ancient source material, of a new Lyric production. As Siegfried grows viewed his Ring cycle as revolutionary. His from naive boy to culture hero, audiences can retelling of the myths was a way to reflect his recall their own path to maturity and perhaps understanding of his own place in culture. (we hope) the progression of society as well. His conceptualization of Wotan, for example, In this way, Lyric does more than merely differs from the classical character from which polish an old work. Through reimagining, the he is derived, and differs from Gaiman’s company repossesses the Ring cycle, creating a interpretation, Mr. Wednesday. mythology that belongs to everyone. onetime Valkyrie contemplates her new While all these characters assume the In the end, I believe we tell and retell these life as a mortal woman, the music turns form of a wanderer, and all are missing one myths out of a deep-rooted need to understand more introspective and intimate, a welcome eye, Siegfried’s Wotan (a.k.a. The Wanderer) our own culture through storytelling. That is change of pace from the scene’s romantic expresses frustration with Valhalla, hoping to what keeps Siegfried returning to stages, keeps tension. cede power to a new race of men. Gaiman’s Gaiman retelling his stories, and keeps our For all his boyish charm and courage, Wednesday, however, is quite the opposite; collective mythologies alive. Siegfried never really sees the big picture. seeking to reinstate the gods’ power, he’s wary - Meg Huskin He tells Brünnhilde, “My mind fails to of the perceived human worship of media The writer, an intern in Lyric’s marketing grasp far-off things.” Siegfried can come and technology. One could speculate that and communications department last spring, is across as limited or even, dare we say, these different iterations of the same character currently the relationship marketing associate at ignorant. Götterdämmerung, the Ring’s final reflect contemporary fears and consciousness. the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. opera, will show this heroic lad is not the TODD ROSENBERG master of all situations (John Culshaw, (Right) Eric Owens as Wagner's who produced the first complete recording Wotan; (left) Ian McShane as of the Ring cycle in 1958-65, said of him, novelist Neil Gaiman's character “Wisdom is not, and never will be among Mr. Wednesday. his attributes”). Whatever his faults, the confident and joyously happy Siegfried closes his eponymous opera wearing a beautiful, shining new musical mantle. Wagner’s 12 years away from the Ring truly paid major dividends.

Richard Rothschild of Oak Park has written about opera for more than 30 years, including during a 21-year stint at the Chicago Tribune.

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Director's Note KYLE FLUBACKER Siegfried is often referred to as the “Scherzo” of the Ring – and it is true that it fulfills the definition of a comedy in that it has a happy ending: the boy does indeed get the girl. Brünnhilde has waited long enough for the fulfilment of her fiery dreams, and at the end Siegfried is in that blissful state of not yet knowing just what he has found! It’s not so funny from Wotan’s point of view. He has been the victim of a very blatant Freudian encounter with his rampant grandson who, unaware of this relationship, shatters his spear in order to get the old fool out of the way. As it is the story of a child, it is also appropriate that Siegfried is a fairy tale. Its prelude delights in the rumblings and roarings of the dragon, the type of creature that children love to be scared by. And it glories in the apparatus of fairy tale – magic swords, dragons, talking birds, and a naïve child forging its way into the world. Innocence, then, is the primary subject During a technical rehearsal, David Pountney (right, foreground) tries out the prop forge equipment and characteristic of Siegfried. This gives it used by Siegfried. Pountney is grabbing the red-hot sword Nothung that is being forged. Lighting its naïve coloring – and you will find color designer Fabrice Kebour (left) holds the other end of Nothung, since they are also testing how aplenty in this production which is, I think, a the forged sword lights up. relief between the more somber worlds of Die Walküre and Götterdämerung. might imagine it. And in so far as period offering no role models for romantic bliss. Innocence is, by contrast, surrounded matters at all – it doesn’t really – we seem to Brünnhilde was brought up in a sort of girl’s on all sides by its opposite – the guilty have crept forward into that postwar era that military boarding school, by an ultra alpha residues of old complexities and corruptions. to many of us seems to define innocence. male, Wotan, against whom she rebelled and Protagonists from past intrigues lurk in the Riddles are a fundamental part of fairy who, as punishment, threatened her with forest, awaiting developments and powerless tales – a good way of incorporating wisdom abandonment to any passing male predator. to intervene, as the future lies in the hands of into a game – but in Siegfried this game is This was a threat of astonishing coldness, an innocent youth, far too preoccupied with played out by two representatives of the immediately followed by a parting of great the egotistical crises of adolescence to notice corrupt old order: Mime and Wotan. Mime emotional as well as literal fire. Plunged from the dangers, and contemptuous of them when famously omits to ask Wotan the question to a position of extreme privilege to one of he does stumble over them. As the story which he desperately needs the answer: “Who extreme submission to fate, it is no wonder progresses, the corpses of these players from can re-forge the magic sword, Nothung?” But that she finds the prospect of a normal the past litter the stage: Mime and Fafner the answer, when he finally gets it, having relationship very difficult. Siegfried of course the dragon fall victim to a child’s simplistic forfeited his own head, is so gnomic that it likewise has been grotesquely parented by view of a universe explained to him in the probably would not have helped: “Only he Mime, who tries to pass himself off as a workings of nature: “You’re bad, so I have to who has not learnt fear can forge the sword.” mother and father rolled into one. The kill you!” And though he does not kill Wotan, Needless to say, Mime’s desperate touching quality of this mammoth children’s the shattering of his spear leaves Wotan with attempts to teach Siegfried fear are doomed to opera’s final scene is of two wounded, nothing more to look forward to except death failure, but when Siegfried meets Brünnhilde vulnerable, and lonely personalities reaching and the destruction of the gods. his awesome first encounter with the opposite towards each other with a combination of Of course, within this child’s coloring- sex teaches him fear in no uncertain terms. ecstasy and terror. It completes this “Scherzo” book world we are still within the framework Fear and love, it seems, are closely linked and in a blaze of happiness, coloured by great of our “visible theater” with all the tricks – the great charm and perceptive insight of the psychological insight into the developmental and there are quite a few of these, as is proper final scene is that these two mighty heroes, lives of Wagner’s favorite children. for a fairy tale – created out in the open for Brünnhilde and Siegfried, are as nervous and you to see. But this time the visual language shy as old-fashioned pre-sexting teenagers. - David Pountney very much reflects the child’s viewpoint. We Their crisis of adolescent discovery is of see the world very much as Siegfried himself course deepened by their bizarre parenting,

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 33 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Siegfried: After the Curtain Falls Your opera experience doesn’t have to end here! When the performance is over, you can continue your exploration of Siegfried in conversation with your companions. Here are some topics to consider:

During the interwar years, German • What did you find most striking about the opera? heldentenor Max Lorenz • Siegfried only ever acts out of anger and resentment. (1901-1975) What vital emotions does he lack (aside from fear), and why? defined the role of Siegfried for audiences • Wagner’s style of composition is especially challenging for throughout singers. Europe. What effect does the music have on the mood of the opera?

• The Wanderer claims he believes in fate. Why, then, does he try to stop Siegfried from reaching Brünnhilde?

• In your opinion, should Siegfried be considered a hero?

• What lesson, if any, do you think audiences should take away from the story?

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

CD DVD Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Gerhard Manfred Jung, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Sir Donald McIntyre, Stolze, Gustav Neidlinger, Dame Joan Sutherland; Vienna Heinz Zednik, Hermann Becht, Norma Sharp; Bayreuth Festival Philharmonic, cond. Sir Georg Solti (Decca) Orchestra, cond. , dir. Patrice Chéreau (DG) René Kollo, Jeannine Altmeyer, Theo Adam, Siegmund Nimsgern, Lance Ryan, Susan Bullock, Terje Stensvold, Jochen Norma Sharp; Staatskapelle Dresden, cond. Marek Janowski (Sony Schmeckenbecher, Kateryna Kasper; Frankfurt Opera and Museum Classical) Orchestra, cond. Sebastian Weigle, dir. Vera Nemirova (Oehms Simon O’Neill, Heidi Melton, Matthias Goerne, David Cangelosi, Classics) Valentina Farcas; Hong Kong Philharmonic, cond. Jaap van Zweden (Naxos) Stephen Gould, Linda Watson, Albert Dohmen, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Shore, Robin Johannsen; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, cond. (Opus Arte)

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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 Michael Shelton, violin Jennifer Condon Renée-Paule Gauthier* Dionne Jackson, Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Rika Seko, violin Aram Demirjian Peter Labella Assistant Principal Utility Horn Karyn Macfarlane, violin Susan Miller Hult Ann Palen Alyce Johnson Robert E. Johnson, Third Horn Benton Wedge, viola Keun-A Lee Irene Radetzky Samuel Hamzem Michael Lieberman, viola Noah Lindquist John D. Robinson Piccolo Neil Kimel Andrew Hesse, cello Grant Loehnig David Volfe Alyce Johnson Tim Shaffer, bass Francesco Milioto Albert Wang Trumpet Rachel Blumenthal, flute Jerad Mosbey Oboe William Denton, Principal Amy Barwan, oboe Matthew Piatt Viola Judith Kulb, Principal Matthew Comerford, Sergey Gutorov, clarinet Stefano Sarzani Carol Cook, Principal Judith Zunamon Lewis Co-Assistant Principal Gabby Webster, horn/Wagner Madeline Slettedahl Terri Van Valkinburgh, Acting Assistant Principal Channing Philbrick, tuba Eric Weimer Assistant Principal Anne Bach* Co-Assistant Principal Matthew Oliphant, horn/ Maureen Zoltek Frank W. Babbitt Wagner tuba Patrick Brennan English Horn Trombone Ben Wulfman, horn/Wagner tuba Orchestra Karl Davies Judith Zunamon Lewis Jeremy Moeller, Principal Dana Sherman, horn Amy Hess Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Douglas Rosenthal, bass trumpet Violin I Melissa Trier Kirk Clarinet Mark Fry* David Becker, contrabass trombone Robert Hanford, Aurélien Fort Pederzoli* Charlene Zimmerman, Graeme Mutchler** Alison Attar, harp Concertmaster Principal Ellie Kirk, harp The Mrs. R. Robert Cello Linda A. Baker, Bass Trombone Lauren Hayes, harp Funderburg Calum Cook, Principal Co-Assistant Principal Mark Fry* Endowed Chair Paul Dwyer, Assistant Principal Susan Warner, Graeme Mutchler** Stageband Musicians Sharon Polifrone, Mark Brandfonbrener Co-Assistant Principal Jennet Ingle, English horn Assistant Concertmaster William H. Cernota Tuba John Zirbel, horn Alexander Belavsky Laura Deming Bass Clarinet Andrew Smith, Principal Kathleen Brauer Sonia Mantell* Linda A. Baker Librarian Pauli Ewing Walter Preucil Harp John Rosenkrans, Principal David Hildner Bassoon Marguerite Lynn Williams, Laura Miller Bass Preman Tilson, Principal Personnel Manager Liba Shacht Ian Hallas, Principal and Stageband Contractor Heather Wittels Acting Principal Lewis Kirk, Timpani Christine Janicki Bing Jing Yu Andrew L. W. Anderson Assistant Principal Edward Harrison, Principal Jeremy Attanaseo* Hanna Sterba* *Season substitute Violin II Andrew J. Keller* Percussion **Sabbatical Yin Shen, Principal Gregory Sarchet Contrabassoon Michael Green, Principal John Macfarlane, Collins R. Trier Lewis Kirk Douglas Waddell, Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Injoo Choi* Eric Millstein 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 The 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 Thomas 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 Thomas L. Potter Walton Westlake

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BACKSTAGE LIFE: Scott Marr

What is your role here at What keeps you committed to Lyric, and how long have you the work you do? held the position? Remembering that working at I am the wardrobe, wigs and Lyric, working in the arts in makeup director, and this is general, is a privilege. Every my 29th season. In my role, I morning when I enter both the manage the budgets, vendors, wig and wardrobe departments and wardrobe/wig department and see all of the amazing staffing for each of our craftsmanship and skill productions. I oversee the wigs, involved, it is very inspiring. makeup, and costumes for our Seeing a production’s creative shows, which means ensuring team present a design for the the overall look for each of the first time, and realizing the performers matches the vision imagination of what might of the production’s design team. be possible, is also intriguing. Because I have a background in I feel fortunate to have the art and design, I’ve also designed opportunity to work with the sets and costumes for Lyric’s Ernani, The Pearl Fishers, The Girl of legendary, trailblazing, gifted visual artists whose work graces the the Golden West, The Magic Victrola, and El Pasado Nunca Se Termina.. Lyric stage. The first time I hear the orchestra for every production In addition to that, I am a co-curator of the Mary B. Galvin Opera we do, hearing the chorus sing full out, witnessing world-renowned Club Gallery, located in the lower level of the Lyric Opera House. opera stars caress every note they sing, seeing a beautiful scenic and lighting transition executed by our amazing crews. These moments What led you to work at Lyric? foster my yearning obsession for the artform. I’ve always had an interest in art and architecture. I majored in scenic design, which allowed me to combine all of my interests into an What’s something about your job that people might not know? area of study. Before I finished school, I met former Lyric general I am constantly using my calculator. When a design is presented, one director Ardis Kranik and then-technical director Drew Landmesser of the first items of business is pricing it out. I take the sketches and when I presented one of my set designs at a convention, and was estimate what materials and labor will cost. I then gather bids from ultimately granted an internship with the company in 1990. I was vendors for actual construction costs. It is important for me to ensure immediately struck by the scale and artistry of Lyric’s productions – it we are on track within the budget we have. The same goes for labor was breathtaking. I knew very little about opera but the sublime sound costs. I meet with the costume director and wigmaster to determine the of the music, the mix of all the arts into one, was really evocative to house labor and time needed to mount each production. me. The opportunity to work for such an established company was the chance of a lifetime. Favorite Lyric moment? The first opera I ever saw was Phillip Glass’sSatyagraha at Lyric in 1987, What’s a typical day like for you? and that left me mesmerized and speechless. Twenty-one years later, I I typically begin each day around 7am reading and responding to was asked to design both the sets and costumes for a new production emails. Once I’m in the office, I touch base with my teams to see of Ernani, and that was beyond any dream or opportunity I could have what the plan is for the day and what tasks need to be accomplished. imagined. Another highlight was last season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Broadly speaking, the rest of my day consists of problem-solving, That production showed Lyric’s stamina, evolution, capabilities, and scheduling, discussing budgets, and dealing with staff needs. I also the expansive resources and talent the company has to offer. spend time answering questions from designers and vendors. Beyond opera, what are your other passions? What’s the most challenging aspect of your job? My husband, Andy, reminds me daily of the joy and beauty of life. I Completely understanding the intricacies and logistical work necessary like spending time with our dog, Gunner, who reminds me to laugh to put costumes and wigs on the stage within the allotted time and and love. I am a DIY’er and avid gardener. Fitness keeps my inner resources. I am always challenged with learning to attack problems fire burning. At the end of the day, I am in bliss when I am painting from different angles while thinking of creative solutions. In my role, it in my studio. I originally came into my career as an artist, and while is important to be a great collaborator, team member, and leader. My I love collaborating with others, creating something of my own is a goal is to always be open to change and letting things evolve as they soulfully personal experience. need to, within the reality of budgetary parameters. - Kamaria Morris

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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 The American Guild of Tracy Cox David Portillo David Kneuss Karine Girard Adrienne Danrich Mario Rojas Sir David McVicar Austin McCormick Musical Artists, AFL-CIO Danielle de Niese Russell Thomas Laurent Pelly Denni Sayers (AGMA), is the union Renée Fleming Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Laura Scozzi that represents the singers, Susan Foster Baritones David Pountney Danielle Urbas dancers, actors, and staging Christine Goerke Weston Hurt Roy Rallo personnel at Lyric Opera of Alexandra LoBianco Christopher Kenney Nick Sandys Ballet Mistress Chicago. Angela Mannino Zeljko Lučić August Tye Anya Matanovic 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 Colin Ure Tamara Wilson Cait O’Connor

David Weigel DAVID H. FISHMAN Derek Welton Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Mezzo-Sopranos Samuel Youn Brigitte Reiffenstuel 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 Finn Caldwell Contralto Dancers Django Allegretti Lauren Decker Puppet Designers Jaime Borkan Kristian Brooks Nick Barnes Countertenors Finn Caldwell Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Jourdan Epstein Iestyn Davies Andrew Harper Joseph A. Hernandez Chorus Master Michael Black Tenors Demetrius McClendon Noah Baetge Antonio Montalvo Children’s Chorus Giorgio Berrugi Jimi Loc Nguyen Master Robert Brubaker Ela Olarte Jonathan Burton Andrea Pugliese Josephine Lee Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005), whose 100th birthday was Michael Fabiano Michelle Reid commemorated worldwide this year, is pictured in the Lyric Eric Ferring Jacqueline Stewart Luis Vazquez premiere of Siegfried as Brünnhilde, one of the Swedish Burkhard Fritz Benjamin Holliday Wardell soprano’s signature roles. Allan Glassman Clay Hilley

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PATRON SALUTE | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Jim Staples: “That’s Showbiz”

Were it not for the Guild Board thought, how about creating a huge neon of Directors at Lyric Opera of Chicago, cross for the party? It was the centerpiece Jim Staples may have never discovered of the space and ended up being 14 his passion for opera. Growing up in feet tall. It turned out great.” Lyric Chicago with his grandparents, opera exceeded the event’s fundraising goal and and classical music were present in his guests experienced an electrifying evening childhood home, but he didn’t develop indeed. his interest in music until much later Now in his third year as President, in life. strategic thinking on Guild Board growth Upon graduating from the is top of mind. “I’ve already thought about University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jim’s my succession, the strengths of every finance and business development career officer and what they can bring to bear propelled him around the world to in their role.” The Guild Board’s directive Bogotá, Miami, New York City, Tokyo, for the future is clear. “Our goal is to and back to Chicago. The stars seemed initiate 10 new Guild Board members this to align when Jim reconnected with year. There’s a multiplier effect and there his acquaintance and then-Guild Board are always possibilities.” The addition of member Joe Starshak. “I met with Joe new Guild Board members will bring and he said ‘you’re joining the Guild more people from their networks to Board of Directors at Lyric, what do you Lyric whether they are opera regulars or know about opera?’ And I responded not. “They might not know a lot about ‘not a lot.’” opera and they might not have a lot of Though Jim had seen Tosca at the experience, but the more you go, the more Met in New York and Madama Butterfly you get an addiction to it.” in Tokyo, he had not been to Lyric Increasing membership goes hand- until after he was recruited to the Guild in-hand with Jim’s ultimate goal: to see Board. “I think the grandeur of the Lyric this group of opera aficionados develop Opera House is what first struck me. Just loved the tours.” Jim fondly recalls memories into a fundraising powerhouse for Lyric. being here; it’s beautiful. Then my knowledge from the Guild Board’s Fantasy of the Opera “We can’t think in the old way anymore, we of the art form grew. I was introduced to Maria days, and proudly notes that he did not miss have to evolve. We are working on diversity, Callas by my friends. Her voice was so unique, a single gala. “I worked with Jan Largay and from cultural backgrounds to different I thought she was so great. I loved listening to her husband Bob on decorations when I was industries. We don’t have enough diversity Luciano Pavarotti. To this day, I can honestly chair of Fantasy. The theme was Carnival. We yet. My vision is that the Guild Board grow, say I don’t know of another male opera star worked late into the night cutting, putting and grow, and grow so that we don’t blink an that I like better. My emotions at performances glitter on things, drinking.” He laughs, “I can’t eye at fundraising $2 million dollars a year. I’m continue to surprise me.” say the decorations were that professional but thinking out 5 years, from a strategic business When Jim first interviewed with Guild with lots of glitter and low lights, it worked out. development point of view.” Board leaders Sherry Kelley and Jan Jentes back That is a great memory.” In addition to Jim’s dedicated service on in 1992, he recalls, “I was very intimidated. Fantasy of the Opera was retired in 2014 the Guild Board, he is a season subscriber and We were sitting in front of this giant fireplace and the Guild Board now collaborates with the generous donor to Lyric’s annual campaign. Jim in Jan’s home, one interviewer on my right Women’s Board to produce the Spring Musical has also made arrangements for a gift through his and the other on my left, and I’m this little Celebration. Jim embraces the evolution and estate to support The Guild Board of Directors neophyte sitting there talking about my life and new partnership. “Not everything should Verdi Endowed Chair. When asked what my interest in the board. I realized it wasn’t just be tradition; we need more outside-the-box inspired him to make a planned gift, Jim said, “it about money, but who you were.” thinking.” Last May’s Jesus Christ Superstar was the natural thing to do. The beauty of opera Shortly after Jim joined the ranks, he Celebration provided the opportunity for just is that you are combining so many arts together. started volunteering for the Guild Board’s that. Following the epic performance, guests It’s really difficult to pull it off. But when you Premium Backstage tours each spring. “I was were transported off-site to The Murphy for the do, it’s amazing. It brings an incredible energy the bartender. It was a great way to meet After Party hosted by the Guild Board. The late to the audience. That’s showbiz.” people and I knew how to make drinks.” night dance party delivered, with members of In time, Jim was summoned to lead tours the cast attending, dancing, and even posing for — Angela DeStefano himself. “I never went back to the bar. I selfies. “We didn’t have a big budget. But we

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ABBOTT FUND JULIE and ROGER BASKES Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of four decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s dedicated support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has Ryan Opera Center activities as previous cosponsors of generously cosponsored 24 Lyric productions, including this Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the season’s new coproduction of La bohème. Abbott has championed Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. They Miles D. White Lyric’s achievements by making a leadership commitment to the have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, last season’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. “Lyric is one of the treasures that make Chicago Rigoletto and this season's Elektra. They also made a leadership commitment to the world-class city that it is. We’re proud to be associated with it.” says Miles the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. D. White, Abbott’s Chairman and Chief Executive Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors and Executive Officer and a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Committee. Julie is also Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board. Directors. MARLYS A. BEIDER ADA and WHITNEY ADDINGTON As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys has con- Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Lyric tributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Canto Benefactor subscribers and donors. They have contributed generously of the planned giving Overture Society. Her planned gift com- to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground mitment created the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Campaign, and have made a leadership gift in support of Designer Endowed Chair in memory of her late husband, Harold Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season’s Siegfried. Beider. Marlys Beider cosponsored several productions including Elektra (2012/13), Parsifal (2013/14), and Tosca (2014/15), and The Addingtons have also invested in the company’s has committed generous leadership gifts to cosponsor two of Lyric’s new Ring cycle future through their planned gift to Lyric. Lyric is fortunate to have Dr. Whitney productions including Das Rheingold (2016/17) and next season's Götterdämmerung. Addington as a member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee RANDY L. and MELVIN R. BERLIN AMERICAN AIRLINES Devoted fans of opera education and the arts, Melvin This season we celebrate 37 years of vital corporate partnership and Randy Berlin are vital members of the Lyric Opera with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of family. “It’s part of Chicago for us. It enriches the city Chicago. In recognition of the company’s significant contribution and the community, and we like to be part of that,” says Melvin. The Berlins have contributed significantly to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine to the Annual Campaign and made a leadership gift to level of the Lyric Opera House the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Melvin and Randy have cosponsored several Franco Tedeschi is named the American Airlines productions including last season's Cosi fan tutte and this season's West Side Story. Mezzanine. American Airlines Lyric is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors. provides important in-kind support for Lyric’s programs and special events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice President of American Airlines, BMO HARRIS BANK proudly serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. BMO Harris Bank is a proud supporter of Lyric Opera. BMO, which is celebrating its bicentennial this year, has demonstrated PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION its strong commitment to supporting the communities it serves for the past 200 years. BMO has generously supported special The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the projects through Lyric’s Annual Campaign and is proud to join performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. The the production sponsorship family supporting this season's La Richard Pomeroy Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated traviata. Lyric is honored to have Richard “Rick” Pomeroy, Senior the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John Managing Director, CTC | my CFO, BMO Harris Bank, serve on 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 truly an inspiration. It self reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his affects how we see and interpret the world around ideals. At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter us, and it’s our hope that the support we provide of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming and has generously Lyric will help increase exposure to such a beauti- ful form of artistic expression.” committed to a high level of multi-year support. HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDER ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from ten are longstanding members of the Lyric Opera family. anonymous contributors during the 2018/19 season. Committed to sustaining the exceptional quality of Lyric’s artistic product, the Buchbinders made a leadership gift AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUST to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign to name Michael and Susan Avramovich were ardent supporters of theater, the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation opera, and classical music in Chicago. Longtime subscribers, Rehearsal Room. They have also been longtime generous donors to the Annual Campaign, and are cosponsors of this season’s production of the Lyric was a special favorite. Michael had deep roots in Italy, Il 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. significant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming Kay’s incredible continued matching support made possible the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fifth floor in The 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. The most trusted and accomplished construction companies. The Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming Initiative fourth generation, family-owned firm offers 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 programs, and is a cosponsor joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the of Lyric’s Ring cycle, including this Executive Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients season’s Siegfried. Lyric is pleased to have Allan E. Bulley, of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and III as a member of its Board of Directors. commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family THE BUTLER FAMILY for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago. 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 The 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. The project. John says, “When Alice and I heard that Lyric Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago-area charities reflects 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 John and Alice Butler to our outdated and unreliable stage technology, we to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee Foundation’s enduring understood that to be a serious problem that needed to be addressed. We believe in philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to come. The Lyric’s mission to be the best opera company in North America, and in order to be Davee Foundation provided critical preliminary support to enhance amplification the best, we must have access the best productions.” Lyric Opera is honored to have and sound systems used in the Musical Theater Initiative, and has generously John Butler serve on its Board of Directors and Investment Committee. cosponsored each production in the initiative, including this season’s West Side Story.

DAVID and ORIT CARPENTER STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESON David and Orit Carpenter have been staunch supporters Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael of Lyric for many years and made a generous planned gift Neeson are actively involved with organizations in to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help ensure Chicago, New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. that Lyric will be available for many future generations to Neeson have supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera for enjoy. In addition to their longtime personal support of more than 30 years. They have cosponsored six mainstage Lyric’s Annual Campaign, David has helped secure eight operas, including last season’s Faust and this season’s production cosponsorships, including this season's company premiere of Ariodante, Siegfried. Stefan and Gael also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground through Sidley Austin LLP, where he was a Partner for more than 30 years. Orit is a Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its Board of Directors and valuable resource for the Ryan Opera Center, working with the artists on performance Production Sponsorship Committee. psychology. Lyric is honored to have David serve on its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. EXELON The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has Lyric remains deeply grateful for the long-term generosity of the generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s nonprofit and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community engagement leaders in arts support. The Cheney Foundation has made a multi- programs. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included Rusalka (2013/14), Lyric’s year commitment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Opera. During second mariachi opera, El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), and The Marriage of the 2018/19 season, the Cheney Foundation is supporting the Figaro (2015/16). This season, Exelon is generously cosponsoring Lyric’s production Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; the singer sponsorship of Elektra. Lyric is fortunate to have Exelon as an Elizabeth F. Cheney of tenor Mario Rojas, and Guest Master Teacher and Artist outstanding 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 BARBARA G. GREIS A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera of Chicago) Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and patrons, and a Lyric Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis have generously Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a supported Lyric Opera through major contributions to great place to live and enjoy life. The Julius Frankel Foundation the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime Campaign. They have cosponsored many productions, dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas including this season’s production of La bohème. Julius Frankel and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman of the Glenwood Investment Corporation and benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general an accomplished violinist. In 2018, Mr. Gottlieb was given Lyric's highest honor, the operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. Frankel was particularly Carol Fox Award, for his many years of generous service. Lyric is honored to have him interested in making Chicago one of the greatest places in the world to live and serve as an active member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. enjoy life,” Nelson Cornelius once said. “The foundation’s giving supports things that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric does.” Lyric has GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius Frankel in grateful recognition of the With an unparalleled record as sponsor of more than 28 new Lyric productions Foundation’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. This season, since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a the Julius Frankel Foundation is a generous cosponsor of Lyric's new coproduction cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma of La bohème. Fisher Foundation has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the four operas that make up Wagner’s Ring cycle, continuing with Siegfried this season. Lyric ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUST is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse and other members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Matthew Fisher Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer serve on its Board of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, Women’s Board. and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL and Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander seek to enrich the JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR. Elizabeth Morse Genius quality of life in Chicago. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship and support of Greatness Capital Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel. A devoted Opera House chimes and music library in honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along member of the Women’s Board, Karen has served on with its sister trust, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has several committees, most recently as the 2016 Board sponsored many mainstage productions. In addition to production sponsorship, the of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she Trust has helped underwrite Lyric’s ongoing efforts to diversify its various boards and contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support preserve Lyric’s history through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric of stage renovations. The Krehbiel family plays a prominent role in the continued named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse success of the company. Karen and John joined the production sponsor family with Genius Conference Room in order to show its grateful appreciation for the Trust’s their generous support of Carmen and last season made a leadership gift to Wine significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Auction 2018. Campaign, as well as to recognize the Trust’s commitment over many years to helping build MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS the company’s core capacities and institutional Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and infrastructure. tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 24 BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILL Lyric productions since 1987/88, including last season’s Brent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes Die Walküre and this season's Siegfried. Lyric is honored in Chicago, and they have made a leadership gift to to name Mezzanine Box 20 in grateful recognition for Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an Brent and Katie were sponsors of Lyric Unlimited's esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, youth opera, The Scorpion's Sting, and Lyric's 30th Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by Anniversary Wine Auction. Brent Gledhill is the Global granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. Head of Investment Banking at William Blair & Company, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lyric is honored to have Brent serve on its Board of JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND Directors, Executive Committee, and Audit Committee. John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric for many years until his death in 2001. With support from his WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, William and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues Opera productions for more than 50 years. They are through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. The Halligan generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic members of Lyric's Production Sponsorship family, most John R. Halligan organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense recently cosponsoring Lyric’s new production of Faust of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our last season. They have also made a leadership gift to the appreciation of nature. The fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a member Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. Halligan resided during his lifetime.

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THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ITW The Harris Family Foundation, represented Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining by Pam and Joe Szokol and King and support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company has Caryn Harris, is a valued member of Lyric’s made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking production sponsorship family, most New Ground Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has recently cosponsoring last season’s Faust and cosponsored many productions, last season’s new production of Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris this season’s Siegfried. The Harris Family Scott Santi Faust and this season's production of La traviata. Lyric is proud Foundation also supports the Annual to have Chairman and CEO Scott Santi on its Board of Directors Campaign, and made a generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground and Executive Committee, along with past ITW Chairmen Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President and CEOs W. James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late David of the Foundation Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and serving Speer. on its Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the Women’s Board and EDGAR D. JANNOTTA has held many leadership positions, most recently as Co-Chair of Opening Night/ Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding support of Ned Opera Ball in 2015. 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 of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving as Tom Hurvis is an avid opera fan and longtime Lyric subscriber. Co-Chairman Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received a As part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom and his leadership gift from the Jannottas for the Breaking New Ground Campaign to beloved late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in create the Ryan Opera Center Music Director Endowed Chair, in addition to their support of Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education generous gifts to the Annual Campaign. and community engagement activities. Tom Hurvis sponsors the Renée Fleming Initiative, and made a generous leadership gift JENNER & BLOCK in support of Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative during the 2016/17 season. Lyric Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with global gratefully acknowledges the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of contributions to impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal issues. the Annual Campaign, including several production sponsorships, as well as their The firm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s legal and business communities, and is consistently ranked as one of the top support of The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. Most recently, Tom has given a generous gift firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided significant pro to the Ryan Opera Center, endowing a singer in perpetuity in memory of dear friend bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to Dick Kiphart. “Opera enriches lives. That is why it is so important to introduce Craig C. Martin the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign, young people to opera, and for them to experience productions done by the best in Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair their fields. How fortunate we are to have all this right here in Chicago.” Lyric is of Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department, as a valued member of its Board honored to have Tom Hurvis serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Lyric Labs, of Directors, Nominating/ and Lyric Unlimited Committees. Governance, and Executive Committees. INVESCO QQQ Invesco QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing Director PATRICIA A. KENNEY and GREGORY J. O'LEARY and Head of Global Exchange Traded Funds, is proud to sponsor Pat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, with a the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric Opera. They previously particular passion for supporting the emerging artists cosponsored the productions of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. (2015/16), The Magic Flute (2016/17), and Turandot (2017/18). Greg serves on the Ryan Opera Center Board on Dan Draper This season Invesco QQQ is a generous cosponsor of Lyric’s its Fundraising Committee, and Greg and Pat have premiere of Cendrillon. Invesco QQQ global network recognizes cosponsored the season-culminating Rising Stars in the value in helping investors around the world, but Concert for six consecutive years. Greg was recently with headquarters in Downers Grove, "We are proud elected to the Lyric Board of Directors. Pat and Greg joined the Aria Society last supporters both of Lyric's innovative programming season with their generous Mainstage Singer Sponsorship of celebrated Ryan Opera and community engagement, and we laud their Center alumnus Matthew Polenzani in his appearances in The Pearl Fishers. Lyric efforts to foster a rich artist culture locally." is grateful for their longstanding friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric Opera and the Ryan Opera Center with their mission of providing world class opera and training for singers, 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 immediate past President of the Ryan Opera members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully Center Board, Chair of the Ryan Opera Center Nominating acknowledges their generous contributions to Wine Committee, and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. Auction, the Annual Campaign, and the Breaking New Along with her beloved late husband Dick Kiphart, Susie Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and is a passionate philanthropist. They have made leadership cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign.They have given major support for Lyric's radio programming as members of the broadcast consortium, JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members, and have been generous sponsors Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot of the Renee Fleming Initiative. Lyric will forever be grateful for the visionary leadership Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. of the late Dick Kiphart. He was a past President and CEO as well as Chairman of They have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee, and a member of the Executive, Finance and Production Sponsorship Committees. made a significant gift to the Breaking New Ground The Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt commitment to Lyric are tremendous Campaign. They have also cosponsored several mainstage assets to the company, and in recognition of their passion and immense dedication they productions, including last season’s Orphée et Eurydice and received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2013. this season's new coproduction of Ariodante. The CEO of LSV Asset Management, Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Directors, serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees. 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. The 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 The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, Linda K. Myers Kirkland & Ellis LLP has cosponsored several operas, most including cosponsorship of Rising Stars in Concert and recently The Merry Widow (2015/16), and was Lead Corporate Lead Sponsorship of the 2018 Ryan Opera Center Final Sponsor of the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit (2016/17). Lyric Opera is fortunate Auditions. As an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, Virginia is thrilled that she and to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner at her husband Nix are able to support these incredible emerging artists. Nix is the Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member of chairman of LGI (Lauridsen Group Inc.) and a recent inductee into the Iowa Business its Board of Directors, Executive, and Hall of Fame. He is a relative newcomer to the opera world but loves the excitement of Production Sponsorship Committees. the genre. The Lauridsens are pleased to be part of the Lyric family and look forward to an exciting new season. NANCY W. KNOWLES Opera always played an important role in the life of the late Nancy JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and records to play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always in my home.” Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress and leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over- of Directors and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. In incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric named the capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in Foundation supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture grantmaking. support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. Knowles The Foundation’s support helps create powerful performances and exhibitions, Student and Family Performances fund. Ms. Knowles generously underwrote several educate young people, and engage communities, while mainstage operas. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she providing arts and culture organizations the flexibility received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be to innovate and experiment. Lyric is very grateful for the grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity. ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation.

MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION NANCY and SANFRED KOLTUN Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC Close members of the Lyric family as longtime subscribers Corporation, was a fervent fan of opera and music, and Lyric and generous supporters, Nancy and Sanfred were Ryan was delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, and Opera Center Singer Cosponsors for many years and generous supporter. The Malott Room was named in his family’s cosponsored the Lyric Unlimited family opera The Magic honor in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness Victrola. Last season they joined the production sponsorship Capital Campaign, and in recognition of the Malott Family’s Robert H. Malott family with their generous support of Così fan tutte, and commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Box 18 is enjoyed the experience so much they are cosponsors of this season’s La traviata. "In the named in perpetuity in honor of Robert H. Malott for his extraordinary generosity and fall of 1954, I attended Carmen, staged by the precursor of the Lyric. That night I fell in steadfast dedication to Lyric Opera. He also played a leadership role as a Life Director love with Carmen, opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Nancy and of Lyric’s Board of Directors. I have loved Lyric Opera and have always supported one of the most cherished cultural institutions of Chicago. It is our hope that our children, grandchildren and those beyond will be able to attend the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their midst."

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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 The 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, N.A. directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in memory J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Mazza Foundation provided major Elizabeth Morse Genius Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust supports non-profit organizations that reflect the values of thrift, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas support for the Student Matinees for J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind many years, helping Lyric introduce humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self-sacrifice, such as Lyric. The Elizabeth the majesty and grandeur of opera to Morse Charitable Trust, along with its sister trust, the Elizabeth Morse Genius thousands of young people each season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been Charitable Trust, has cosponsored many mainstage productions. To show its grateful part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last season’s appreciation for The Trust’s generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, new production of Die Walküre and this season’s production of Elektra. as well as to recognize The Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen years to LAUTER McDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUND helping build the company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric Nancy and her late husband Alfred have provided named one of its longstanding, vital support to the Annual Campaign key meeting rooms as well as The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera in its executive Center, including Rising Stars in Concert. Last season, offices the Elizabeth Nancy generously gave additional support as a cosponsor Morse Conference of the Ryan Opera Center fundraising event Ladies’ Room. Fred and Nancy McDougal Choice, Piotr Beczała in Recital, Lyric Unlimited’s Chicago premiere of Fellow Travelers and the new ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHIN Chicago Urban League arts immersion partnership EmpowerYouth! Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President and Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and is currently history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors and initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American serves on the Executive Committee. The Muchins have operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for staunchly supported the Annual Campaign, Operathon, Lyric premieres. During the 2012/13 season, the Mellon Foundation provided and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership funding to launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, leadership gifts to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for which included the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s first Mariachi opera. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for partnership with Lyric Unlimited by providing outstanding support for Lyric’s world Allan and Elaine Muchin’s munificent friendship. premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continued its unparalleled legacy by cosponsoring Lyric’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel Canto. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS Most recently, the Mellon Foundation has provided generous leadership funding Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants awarded by for Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative, specifically focused on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played a leading role in the the Community Created Performances component, which advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of the operatic repertoire, plays a vital role in bringing together Chicago’s diverse serving the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. communities and vocal traditions in celebration of the Through production and program funding as well as a major challenge grant, human voice. awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class artistic achievements. The THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman of Horizons, Great American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. The NEA trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of has provided vital support for numerous Rusalka (2013/14) and cosponsored Anna Bolena (2014/15), Wozzeck (2015/16), Lyric Opera premieres, new productions, The Magic Flute (2016/17), and Orphée et Eurydice (2017/18). The Monument Trust and revivals, most recently last season’s is a passionate supporter of the arts in the I Puritani, and this season’s Siegfried. U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors Lyric’s new coproduction of Ariodante this season. THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of performing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers of Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. and patrons who take an active role in nurturing The Negaunee Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently last Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member season’s productions of Così fan tutte and Jesus Christ Superstar. This season the of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob foundation is the lead sponsor of both Idomeneo and West Side Story. The Negaunee Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Directors. Foundation has also made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. The Morrisons have generously supported the Opera Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Annual Campaign Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cultural institutions benefiting from for many years. They provided a substantial gift to the The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial commitment. Lyric is honored Breaking New Ground Campaign and were cosponsors of Lyric's production of to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president serve as a member of its Board of Turandot last season. Proud supporters of Lyric’s Musical Theatre Initiative, Susan Directors and Audit Committee. 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. They’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 Lyric is honored to have Jana R. Schreuder, retired chief operating and donors for many years, and have cosponsored several officer of Northern Trust, serve as a member of Lyric’s Board of mainstage opera productions, including last season’s Directors, Executive, and Finance Committees, and William A. The Pearl Fishers and this season’s Elektra. They made a Osborn, Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very enjoyable A leading global financial services provider, Northern Trust has to become part of the Lyric family and to give back to a Jana R. Schreuder place that has given us so much pleasure. There have been many moments for both enjoyed a longstanding and significant relationship with Lyric. Dan and me when we have said, tonight is incredible, it is one of the memorable Based in Chicago, the firm has played a major role supporting the Annual Campaign performances of our lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international star and it and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust also provides vital leadership contributions is evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.” Lyric is honored to have to Lyric as presenting sponsor of the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Production Sponsorship, and cosponsor of the Opera Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust has Lyric Unlimited Committees. cosponsored several mainstage productions including this season’s West Side Story. "Being a good corporate citizen is very important," William Osborn once said. "It THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION allows us to do our part to help keep the City During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg of Chicago strong and viable and, in the end, were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and this is beneficial to everyone." subscribed for more than 30 years. They were especially supportive of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center and loved to watch these OGILVY young artists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Ogilvy is one doorway to a creative network, re-founded to make brands matter Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away in a complex, noisy, hyper-connected world. Lyric is grateful for the significant in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and in-kind contribution in 2018 to launch a new marketing campaign “Are You Opera Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants Enough?”. The Ogilvy Chicago team was tasked with changing the perception of Lyric to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ to make it more appealing and accessible to millennials. They needed to highlight the thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. “all too human” core of opera in a different, more compelling, and contemporary way. The resulting series of print, poster, and billboard adverts illustrated the interesting NIB FOUNDATION cultural and historical aspects of opera. Ogilvy Chicago’s informative and humorous Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia execution of the campaign provided prospective opera and the late William Florian established the NIB Foundation to extend their support to many worthwhile arts and environmental goers with a large set of tools to not be intimidated causes. Sonia is a devoted member of the Lyric family, having by their first experience, and to better understand any subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. The NIB aspect of the opera art form. Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions Sonia Florian including this season’s production of Cendrillon and Anna MR. and MRS. DAVID T. Netrebko in recital, and made a major commitment to the ORMESHER Breaking New Ground Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous financial Lyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of David support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder and CEO collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational of closerlook, inc., a Chicago-based digital marketing Library Collection one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country. agency serving the pharmaceutical industry since 1987. Sonia Florian very generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro closerlook has given generously to Lyric Opera for many located on the third floor of the Lyric Opera House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Opera from 2009 to 2014 and the Stars of Lyric Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Opera at Millennium Park concert for seven consecutive years. Most recently, Production Sponsorship Committee, and was David and Sheila generously provided an Operathon Challenge Grant, supported awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most the Opera Ball, and made a leadership gift towards the Breaking New Ground prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding Campaign. Lyric is proud to have David T. Ormesher serving as its Chairman of commitment to the company. the Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and on all sub-committees of the Board. JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLS Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, John MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly supported Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the Lyric the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric Opera is extremely Opera family. They have subscribed to Lyric for over grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ significant two decades and enjoy participating in special events leadership contributions to both the Campaign for such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Auction. Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. The Osborns have generously contributed to the Annual and Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. They have also provided a generous gift Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. endowing Lyric's Music Director position, the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of Endowed Chair, currently held by Sir Andrew Davis. Retired Chairman and CEO Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Chairman and CEO of The Marmon William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. 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 The 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 available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family Each year, these widely accessible performances at Lyric Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Jack and Catherine Scholl Opera of Chicago reach audiences of junior high and Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric is high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera for the first time. Lyric Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of the EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s Women’s Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda Board, Anne was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. The Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, Committees; Chris is an esteemed past member of the including this season's Il trovatore. Lyric is honored to have Brenda Board of Directors. Together they have made important Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as the Executive, contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage productions, including last Brenda Shapiro Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. They have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and are major supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground Campaign, SHURE INCORPORATED and Lyric Unlimited. Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is widely acknowledged as the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the Company CANDY AND GARY RIDGWAY has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio Candy and Gary Ridgway are devoted members of the products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s Lyric family. They have provided continued support diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones, wireless microphone systems, in-ear personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion systems, of the Annual Campaign for many years and made a networked audio systems, award-winning earphones and headphones, and top- significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. rated phonograph cartridges. Today, Shure products are the first choice whenever Candy and Gary recently joined Lyric's Production audio performance is a top priority. Lyric is honored to have partnered with Shure Sponsorship family with their sponsorship of Verdi's Incorporated for many years. Shure Incorporated generously provided major in-kind Rigoletto last season. Candy's love for opera came from audio support for last season’s Broadway at Lyric her mother, Mary Sue. They shared a mutual love for their favorite art form here premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar and will again for at Lyric. In talking about Candy and Gary's sponsorship of Rigoletto, Candy stated, this season’s premiere of West Side Story. "this one's for mom." SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP PATRICK G. RYAN and A leader in the international legal arena, the law firm of Sidley SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN Austin is a generous corporate contributor to arts and culture in Chicago. Lyric deeply appreciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsorship Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication of Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06), of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when Lulu (2008/09), Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), Rusalka they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have (2013/14), The Passenger (2014/15), and Les Troyens (2016/17). shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources Larry Barden This season, Sidley Austin LLP generously cosponsors Lyric’s to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, company premiere of Ariodante. Lyric is proud the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual to have Larry Barden, Chairman of the firm’s Campaign, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in 1988 and was the Honoree Management Committee, on its Board of Directors in 2018), and the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation and Compensation Committee. Initiative. In recognition of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many LIZ STIFFEL seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, underwriting this special A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a longstanding project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée member of the Guild Board of Directors. She has cosponsored Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s premier artist development program was renamed The many mainstage productions, most recently last season’s new Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center in recognition of their extraordinary production of Orphée et Eurydice, Faust and the Celebrating gift to the Campaign for Excellence. Pat and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs 100 Years of Bernstein concert. This season Liz has generously of the Ryan Opera Center Board. A Vice President and a member of the Executive, sponsored the new coproduction of La bohème and is a sponsor of Nominating/Governance, and Lyric Labs of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a the Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Concert & Gala. Lyric has named Mezzanine distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was Box 1 in recognition of her significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. awarded the 2007 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition Liz Stiffel was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, of her many years of devoted service to the company. in recognition of her continuing dedication to Lyric. “I believe that Lyric and all art forms are beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that mankind has to offer to our children, our nation, and ourselves.”

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MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and THE WALLACE FOUNDATION MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE The 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. The 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 of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members. In addition, initiative; the grant is funding research and analysis Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the of Lyric audiences, and will reveal ways in which Carol and William Vance Breaking New Ground Campaign, and are generous Lyric can maximize its reach in the community. sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an Lyric’s work will inform lessons that will be shared esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He with the broader field. 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. The encouraging talented young artists as Lead Sponsor of Rising Washlows made a generous commitment to the Breaking Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on New Ground Campaign to support Lyric Unlimited activities. Roberta and Bob 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people have annually remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported and generously cosponsor this season’s production of La bohème, their eleventh Donna Van Eekeren Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for opera cosponsorship, continuing a beloved family tradition. Lyric is honored to college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. The Donna have Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors and Lyric Van Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions including Unlimited Committee. “Opera has always touched me,” Roberta once said. “I love Lyric’s premiere of Les Troyens (2016/17), last season’s production of I Puritani, the drama, passion, music, and excitement of a live performance at Lyric. Nothing and this season's La traviata. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking can replace it, and I 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. They 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 VERDI season's Siegfried and next season's Götterdämmerung.

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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. This 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 Office 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 The 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 The 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. Redfield French Operas W. James and Maxine P. Farrell German Operas* Irma Parker Italian Operas The NIB Foundation Mozart Operas Regenstein Foundation, in honor of Ruth Regenstein Puccini Operas* Mary Patricia Gannon Verdi Operas The 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* Thomas Doran Endowment* Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment* James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment* J. Thomas 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 The Chapters’ Education Endowment, in memory of Alfred Glasser James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment* Generous endowment gifts help to make possible productions *Future Planned Gift such as Gounod's Romeo and Juliet.

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 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 October 1, 2018.

Anna Netrebko in Recital NIB Foundation

Annual Meeting Dinner 2018 Strategy&, part of the PwC network

Audience Development Initiative The Wallace Foundation

Cast Parties Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss

Innovation Initiative Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan

Lyric Signature Events PwC United Scrap Metal, Inc.

Official Airline American Airlines Additional Support Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Chavez-Tatro Foundation Concert & Gala Opening Night Opera Ball 2018 Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Premium Sponsors Opening Night Gala Sponsor Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann The Crown Family Aon Anne Perillo Michuda Jenner & Block Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Liz Stiffel Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Molo Opera Ball Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Ellen and Jim Stirling ITW J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Northern Trust Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Overture Society Luncheons The Poet Premium Sponsors Susan M. Miller West Side Story Celebration Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau The Crown Family Premium Table Sponsors Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan An Anonymous Donor

Liz Stiffel Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Planned Giving Seminars ITW The Painter Premium Sponsors Morgan Stanley (2) Annie and Gregory K. Jones An Anonymous Donor J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder Projected English Titles Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan closerlook, inc. Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Liz Stiffel Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Harris Family Foundation Renée Fleming Initiative Blythe Jaski McGarvie An Anonymous Donor Additional Support Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Anonymous Andy and Betsy Rosenfield The Crown Family Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva J. Thomas Hurvis The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family The Philosopher Premium Sponsors John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Nancy S. Searle Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Thierer Family Foundation

The Performer Premium Sponsors Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel

54 | November 3 - 16, 2018 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 October 1, 2018

With Major Support from Students from the Chicago the Caerus Foundation, Inc. Urban League participate in Lyric Unlimited's An American Dream EmpowerYouth! initative

Leadership Funding TODD ROSENBERG The Wallace Foundation Additional Support Baker & McKenzie Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Mary Stowell 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 The Beaubien Family Eisen Family Foundation Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Eric and Deb Hirschfield Estate of Pierrete E. Sauvat Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres Kenneth R. Norgan Pre-Opera Talks Family Day at Lyric Northern Trust Raynette and Ned Boshell Bank of America Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Senior Matinee Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust General Support Buehler Family Foundation Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Anonymous (4) Lannan Foundation Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx NEXT Student Ticket Program Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund The Barker Welfare Foundation Leadership Funding The Retirement Research Foundation BNSF Railway Foundation The Grainger Foundation Siragusa Family Foundation Helen Brach Foundation Additional Support Student Backstage Tours Envestnet Paul and Mary Anderson Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Michael and Leigh Huston Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, and the Dan J. Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Belytschko The Brinson Foundation Epstein Family Foundation Molex Deloitte MUFG Youth Opera Council Elaine Frank Terry J. Medhurst Jackie and James Holland Penelope and Robert Steiner Nuveen Investments

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 An Anonymous Donor 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 (2) Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Francie Comer Crain-Maling Foundation and the Dan J. Epstein Family and the Dan J. Epstein Family Robert and Evelyn McCullen Fifth Third Bank Foundation Foundation Sage Foundation Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/Patricia Hyde Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Shirley and Benjamin Gould Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow Allan and Elaine Muchin Foundation/Patricia Hyde Endowment Fund Jane Wilson and David Mayhew Sipi Metals Corp. Opera Residencies for Schools John Hart and Carol Prins Stone Charitable Trust Music Performance Trust Fund An Anonymous Donor JPMorgan Chase & Co. Wintrust Community Banks Film Funds Trust Funds Robert & Isabelle Bass Dr. Scholl Foundation Foundation, Inc. Segal Family Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 55 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO 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: William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt Irving and Ruth Waldshine Caroline Huebner Ken Babe from Sheila Hegy from Deane Ellis, from Jason and Rachel Mersey from the Riverside Chapter Nancy Knowles Marcia Purze Lori Julian John R. Blair from Roberta and Robert Washlow Dr. William Warren from Charles Brooks and Suzan Bramson from Barbara Blair Gordon G. Lakin from Marshall and Joann Goldin Mary Klyasheff Sandra Box from Lawrence and JoAnne Winer Sarita Warshawsky from Peoples Gas from Barbara Box Robert H. Malott from Carol Warshawsky Margot and Josef Lakonishok John "Jack" V. Crowe from John Furrer, Nikolay Zhizhin from Arsen and Elizabeth Manugian from John and Judy Keller, Lincoln Academy of Illinios, from Larisa Zhizhin Frank and Lynne Modruson Lisbeth Stiffel from Wainwright Investment Council, LLC, from Donna Gustafsson Larry Fox Vivi Martens In Honor Of: Frank Modruson from Julie Benson, from James Karr Julie Baskes from Protiviti Mary and Larry Selander Armida Melino Melone from Peter Wender Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis Myron and Karen Tiersky Household from Bernadette McCarthy Marion Cameron from Tom Shapiro Dixie Lim Go Hugo Melvoin from Susan Payne Sylvia Neil & Dan Fischel from Gregory Chen, from Lois Melvoin Marie Campbell's Birthday from Andrea Markowicz Robert Dow, Virginia Byrne Mooney from Patti Fazio Sue Niemi Gregg and Wendy Elstien, from Kathleen Vondran Renee Crown from BCLLP Foundation Lionel Go, Dr. Antonio E. Navarrete from Minow Family Foundation Greg O'Leary Jonathan Lichter, from Virginia Navarrete Angela DeStefano from Suzanne Wagner Jimmy Lim, Peer and Sarah Pedersen from Jerry and Kathy Biederman Richard O. Ryan Daniel and Tracey Murray, from James Bramsen Erika Erich from Ardell Arthur, Kenneth Pollard, Ken Piggott from Richard Moore Michael and Sally Feder Mary Ruscher, and from Tully Family Foundation Sally Feder Shirley Ryan Filemon and Elizabeth Yao Dr. Robert A. Pringle from Dan Feder, from Rodney and Keith Goldstein Jane Rolandi Gray from Marla Pringle Carroll Joynes and Abby O'Neil, Erica Sandner from William Porter Diane Ragains Paula Kahn, from Mirja and Ted Haffner Elaine De G. Harvey from James Tucker Philip Lumpkin, Nancy Searle from Daggett Harvey and Yvonne Yamashita Marilyn and Roland Resnick Julia Nowicki from Carol and James Pollock, Thomas W. Hill from J. Kline Dr. Bradley Fine and family Michael and Lynne Terry from Richard Nora Joan Richards from Bradley Fine Nancy Searle and Keith Goldstein Angela Holtzman from Harris Family Foundation, Anthony Freud and Colin Ure from Prince Charitable Trusts from Marjory M. Oliker Alan and Drue Huish, from James and Laurie Bay Mary Selander Katie Jacobson Harry Roper and Helen Marlborough' Regan Friedmann from William and Carol Vance from Lisbeth Stiffel Craig Sirles , from Eisen Family Foundation, Chelsea Southwood Lee and Billye Jennings Gisela Elizabeth Rill Leslie and Donna Pinsof from James and Laurie Bay from Alfred Goldstein from Mary Ring Kay and Craig Tuber Liz Stiffel Kip Kelley, Sr. Shirley Ryan's parents Ruth Ann Gillis from Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnis from Anonymous, from Patrick and Shirley Ryan from Lisbeth Stiffel Dr. Bryan Traubert Aon Corporation, Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGinnis from Pritzker Foundation Kip and Sarah Kelley, from Sheldon Schiff from James and Laurie Bay Charles and Mary Shea, Stephen Schulson Keith Kiley Goldstein Lisbeth Stiffel, from Susan Schulson from Patricia Cox John Sullivan, Edwin J. Seeboeck Agnes Hamos' Birthday William and Kathie Vit from James Heim from Barbara Currie Kip Kelley, Sr. and Ed Zasadil Nancy Wald Gillian Larkin from James Alexander and Curtis Drayer from The Humanist Fund William and Ethel Gofen Richard and Martha Schoenfeld John Casey

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56 | November 3 - 16, 2018 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The 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 The Ryan Opera Center The Jannotta Family Elizabeth F. Cheney W. Stephen Smith Board Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Foundation Voice Instruction The Robert and Ellen Marks Vocal Studies Program 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 Guest Master Artists

William C. Billingham Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Contralto Dana Brown WHITNEY EMILY ANN KAYLEIGH LAUREN Alan Darling MORRISON POGORELC TOOMEY DECKER DECKER Laurann Gilley Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Celeste Rue The C. G. Pinnell J. Thomas Hurvis Sally and Michael Feder, The Susan and Richard P. Anonymous Donor, Eric Weimer Ms. Gay K. Stanek, Kiphart Family, Richard O. Family Susan M. Miller, Pedro Yanez Ms. Jennifer L. Stone Ryan, Richard W. Shepro Thierer Family Coaching Staff and Lindsay E. Roberts Foundation 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 Stepan Company, Maurice J. and Elizabeth F. Cheney Anonymous Donor Dr. David H. Whitney Cynthia Vahlkamp Patricia Frank Foundation and Dr. Juliana Chyu, Orit Carpenter and Robert Kenyon Drs. Joan and Russ Performance Psychology Zajtchuk Roger Pines Guest Lecturer and Consultant

Artistic/Production Personnel Christopher Allen Andrew Grams Conductors

David Paul Director

Peggy Stenger Bill Walters Bass-Baritone Bass-Baritone Pianist ALAN DAVID MADELINE Stage Managers HIGGS WEIGEL SLETTEDAHL Robert S. Kuhn Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Lucy Lindquist Heidi Heutel Bohn, Lois B. Siegel, Nancy Dehmlow, 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

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 57 Alumni Perform at Lyric — and Around the World — in 2018/19

DAVID PORTILLO (Arbace/Idomeneo) My experience as a member of the Ryan Opera Center was nothing short of extraordinary. The unparalleled opportunity to perform roles on the Lyric Opera stage and to train with the company’s roster of artists and instructors prepared me to enter the professional opera world with assuredness. I am very proud to be an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center, and I always look forward to returning to Lyric to spend time with its amazing patrons, many of whom have become good friends. My sincere thanks to all of the Ryan Opera Center donors for your continued support of this program and its work.

LAURA MEREDITH WILDE ARWADY Scottish Opera L’Opéra de Montréal Katya Kabanova Das Rheingold

JAMES KRYSHAK Deutsche Oper Berlin Tosca

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 The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to The 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 October 1, 2018. CORY WEAVER Artist Support, Special Events, and Project Sponsors Final Auditions Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen The Cozad Family Foreign Language Instruction Erma S. Medgyesy Guest Master Artist Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ladies’ Choice Celebration Lead Individual Sponsor James N. and Laurie V. Bay Lead Foundation Sponsor Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Benefit Table Purchasers Anonymous (3) Julie and Roger Baskes Last season, during the second of his two years with the Ryan Opera Center, baritone Emmett O’Hanlon Heidi Heutel Bohn (left) played Wagner in Faust with bass-baritone Christian Van Horn (right), an alumnus of the program, Sally and Michael Feder as Méphistophélès. Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Julian Family Foundation Philip G. Lumpkin Golden Grand Benefactors Donna Gustafsson Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley ($25,000 to $49,999) The Blanny A. Haganah Family Fund William J. Neiman Family Anonymous James and Mary Houston Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mary Ellen Hennessy Jeffrey and Cynthia McCreary Dr. Scholl Foundation Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Phyllis Neiman Thierer Family Foundation Lyric Young Professionals D. Elizabeth Price Debbie K. Wright Ingrid Peters Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Ensemble Friends Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Launchpad Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Marcus Boggs ($10,000 to $24,999) Anonymous (2) Dan and Patty Walsh Leslie Fund, Inc. Marilee and Richard Wehman Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Master Classes Adrienne and Arnold Brookstone Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Tamara Conway Martha A. Hesse Anne Megan Davis National Auditions Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Rising Stars in Concert American Airlines Drucker April 7, 2018 Erika E. Erich Renée Fleming Master Class Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Lead Sponsor Julian Family Foundation Mary Patricia Gannon Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Sue and Melvin Gray Training Program Sponsors National Endowment for the Arts Illinois Arts Council Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial BMO Harris Bank Voice Instruction Fund Dentons US LLP Anonymous Stephen A. Kaplan Ann M. Drake Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Sue and Melvin Gray Mira Frohnmayer and Sandra Sweet Helen Melchior Patricia A. Kenney and WFMT Recital Series Margo and Michael Oberman and Family Gregory J. O’Leary Julie and Roger Baskes Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Nix Lauridsen and Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Workshop Performances The George L. Shields Foundation Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Martha A. Hesse Ms. Billie Jean Smith Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Walter Family Foundation Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley General Support Debbie K. Wright Aria Society Additional Support Artist Circle Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen ($100,000 and above) ($5,000 to $9,999) Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Anonymous (2) Rising Stars in Concert Broadcast Platinum Grand Benefactor Thomas Doran Donna Van Eekeren Foundation ($50,000 to $99,999) Mrs. Sheila Dulin Rising Stars in Concert Reception Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Stephen and Mary Etherington The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Sally and Michael Feder Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Planned Giving 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 The Overture Society The 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. These 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 The Lyric Opera acknowledges with deep appreciation the extraordinary support of the following individuals who comprise the Aria Benefactors of the Overture Society. These 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 These 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 Thomas 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. Thorpe Catherine Aranyi Firestone Daniel T. Manoogian Nathaniel W. Pusey Virginia Tobiason L. Robert Artoe Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Paula Turner Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Rhoda and Henry Frank Nancy Lauter McDougal Chatka Ruggiero Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason Alvin R. Beatty Family Foundation Bill Melamed Lois B. Siegel Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Merrill and Judy Blau Richard J. Franke Margaret and Craig Milkint Ilene Simmons Claudia Winkler Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Julian W. Harvey Susan M. Miller Larry G. Simpson Florence Winters Danolda (Dea) Brennan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Craig Sirles Society Members Anonymous (46) Constance and Liduina M. J. Black Richard M. and Andrea Muriel A. Burnet Sharon Conway Valerie and Joseph Abel Barbantini Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz J. Brown Lisa Bury Sarah J. Cooney Carol A. Abrioux Margaret Basch Ann Blickensderfer Jacqueline Brumlik Robert J. Callahan Dr. W. Gene Corley Family Mrs. Judy Allen Mrs. Bill Beaton D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Patrick V. Casali Joseph E. Corrigan Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Lynn Bennett Blumenthal Bruske III Esther Charbit Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Julie Anne Benson Ned and Raynette George F. and Linda L. Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Cottey Catherine Aranyi Charles E and Nancy Boshell Brusky Ramona Choos Morton and Una L. Robert Artoe T. Berg David E. Boyce Steven and Helen J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Creditor Richard N. Bailey Joan I. Berger Robert and Phyllis Brauer Buchanan Heinke K. Clark Barbara L. Dean David G. Baker Barbara Bermudez Leona and Daniel Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Robert and Margery Coen Donald A. Deutsch Susann Ball Kyle and Marge Bevers Bronstein Burger and Mr. Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Phyllis Diamond Patrick J. Bitterman Kathryn Y. Brown William Burger Conroy Roger Dickinson

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Ms. Janet E. Diehl Stephanie and Allen Carole F. Liebson Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Eugene Rzym, in memory Cheryl L. Thaxton Mr. and Mrs. William S. Hochfelder Carol L. Linne Murphy of Adaline Rzym L. Kristofer Thomsen Dillon Mrs. Marion Hoffman Candace Balfour Broecker Mr. Oliver Nickels David Sachs Dr. David Thurn Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. James and Mary Lunz and the Estate of Edward A. Nieminen Suzanne and William Myron Tiersky Dobroski Houston Howard W. Broecker Florence C. Norstrom Samuels Karen Hletko Tiersky Thomas M. Dolan H. Eileen Howard Mary Mako Helbert Renate P. Norum Mary T. Schafer Jacqueline Tilles Mary Louise Duhamel Kenneth N. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Linda Novak Moses Douglas M. Schmidt Lawrence E. Timmins Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. Michael Huskey Malatesta Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Franklin R. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kathy Dunn Cpt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Jeanne Randall Malkin Oliver, Jr. Lois K. Schmidt Turner Richard L. Eastline USMC Memorial Fund Ann Chassin Mallow Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Martha P. Schneider Jean M. Turnmire Carol A. Eastman J. Jeffrey Jaglois Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Olson Donald Seibert Paul and Judith Lowell and Judy Eckberg Barbara A. Joabson Manders Stephen S. Orphanos Sherie Coren Shapiro Tuszynski Lucy A. Elam, in memory John Arthur Johnson Mrs. John Jay Markham Jonathan Orser Charles Chris Shaw Ultmann Family of Elizabeth Elam Laurence P. Johnson Daniel F Marselle Joan Pantsios Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Charitable Remainder Mr. and Mrs. Don Roy A. Johnson Christine S. Winter Robert W. Parsons, M.D. M. Shaw Unitrust Elleman Barbara Mair Jones Massie MD & James George R. Paterson Mett and David Shayne Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn- Cherelynn A. Elliott Janet Jones C. Massie Dr. Joan E. Patterson David Sherman Mason Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Moreen C. Jordan Michael M. and Diane George Pepper, M.D. Jared Shlaes Marlene A. Van Skike Dr. James A. Eng Dr. Anne Juhasz Mazurczak Elizabeth Anne Peters Joanne Silver Nancy Johnson Vazzano Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis James G. and Laura G. Susanne P. Petersson Andrew Barry Simmons Raita Vilnins Engel Wayne S. and Lenore M. McCormick Genevieve M. Phelps and Mitchell Malcolm V. Vye, MD Martha L. Faulhaber Kaplan Gia and Paul McDermott Frances Pietch Loewenthal-Grassini Darcy Lynn Walker Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng Gary T. Walther Nadine Ferguson Albert Wang Felicia Finkelman “My passion for Lyric motivated me to structure my estate plan Barbara M. Wanke Mr. and Mrs. John C. to help ensure the Chicagoans will always be able to hear and see Louella Krueger Ward Forbes Boyd Edmonston & James Victor Franch the world’s best operas on the Ardis Krainik Theatre stage.” Edward Warro Ms. Susan Frankel -Mary Patricia Gannon Karl N. Wechter Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. Patricia M. Wees Penny and John E. Freund Mrs. Richard H. Dr. Paul Froeschl Kenneth Kelling William F. McHugh Karen and Dick Pigott Larry G. Simpson Wehman Marie and Gregory Fugiel Paul R. Keske Florence D. McMillan Alan and Carol Pohl Dr. Ira Singer Claude M. Weil Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Chuck and Kathy Leoni Zverow McVey Ms. Lois Polakoff Thomas Sinkovic Eric Weimer and Edwin Lady Witton Killman and J. William McVey Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Norman and Mirella Hanlon George and Mary Ann Neil King Martina M. Mead D. Elizabeth Price Smith Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gardner Diana Hunt King Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Mrs. Edward S. Price Mary Soleiman Weinberg Susan Boatman Garland Esther G. Klatz Meader Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Elaine Soter Joanna L. Weiss Scott P. George R. William Klein, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Roberta Lyn Anderson Mrs. Jay Spaulding Joan and Marco Weiss Mr. Lyle Gillman J. Peter Kline Melamed Rains Philip and Sylvia Spertus Mrs. Robert G. Weiss John F. Gilmore Helen Kohr Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Robert L. Rappel, Jr. James A. Staples Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Michael Goldberger Susan Kryl Mesrobian Sherrie Kahn Reddick Sherie B. Stein Sandra Wenner John A. Goldstein Mary S. Kurz Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Keith Reed K. M. Stelletello Caroline C. Wheeler Dr. J. Brian Greis Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, Meyers Michael and Susan J. Allyson Stern Dr. and Mrs. Peter James R. Grimes M.D., in memory of Ms. Barbara Terman "Holly" Reiter Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Willson Patricia Grogan Robert Kyts Michaels Evelyn R. Richer Mr. and Mrs. James P. Nora Winsberg Carolyn Hallman Larry Lapidus Edward S. and Barbara Jennie M. Righeimer Stirling David G. Winter Carl J. Halperin Barbara K Larsen L. Mills Gerald L. Ritholz Carol A. Stitzer Brien and Cathy Wloch Ms. Geraldine Haracz Angela Larson and Vlasta A. "Vee" Minarich Mary Raffetto-Robins Norene W. Stucka Mrs. William Wunder Andrew Hatchell Bamshad Mobasher David and Justine K. James and Janet Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Daniel R. Zillmann William P. Hauworth Thomas and Lise Lawson Mintzer Rosenbaum Stuffers Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Henrietta Leary BettyAnn Mocek and Dr. John Gregory Russo Emily J. Su Ronald G. Hedberg Marilyn E. Miller Adam R. Walker Joseph C. Russo Peggy Sullivan Mrs. John C. Hedley Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Robert and Lois Moeller Dennis Ryan Sherwin A. Swartz Josephine E. Heindel Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Louise M. Ryssmann Mr. and Mrs. John C. Martha A. Hesse Lewicky Telander

Estate Gifts The 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 Edward Elisberg Sara P. Anastaplo Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Joan M. Skepnek James Ascareggi Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Thomas Frisch Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Gerald Sunko, M.D. Walter Bandi Trust Regina C. Fain John and Maynette Neundorf James M. Wells Velma Berry Doris C. Lorz Lynette Flowers Mrs. Oliver Nickels Paul and Virginia Wilcox Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Warren F. Best Dr. Doris Graber Robert B. Fordhamqes Venrice R. Palmer Audrey A. Zywicki Eleanor Briggs Evelyn Greene Dr. Martin L. Gecht and Francey Ira J. Peskind Robert P. Cooke Ann B. Grimes Gecht Helen Petersen Marianne Deson-Herstein Trust Lester and Betty Guttman Carlyn E. Goettsch George T. Rhodes in memory of Samuel and Dr. Alexis W Maier Trust Elaine H. Hansen Merlin and Gladys Rostad Sarah Deson Joseph Yashon Joseph M. Kacena Margart R. Sagers Christopher D. Doemel Kathryn Cunningham Stuart Kane Thomas W. Scheuer Edmund J. Valonis Kip Kelley Nancy W. Knowles Edwin and Margaret W. Anonymous Phil Turner Ernest Lester Seeboeck Elaine S. Frank Richard Pearlman Charitable Amanda Veazley Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Henry Frank Trust Fund for Music Arthur B. Logan Shure

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 61 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Corporate Partnerships

Lyric gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received by October 1, 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 BENEFACTOR FRIEND $10,000 to $24,999 $5,000 to $7,499 $1,000 to $1,999 Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys at Law BNSF Railway Foundation Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation Italian Village Restaurants Concierge Unlimited International CNA Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Deloitte Kinder Morgan Foundation Envestnet BRAVO CIRCLE Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Michuda Construction, Inc. $3,500 to $4,999 L Miller & Son Lumber Co. Molex Corporate Suites Network One Smooth Stone Morgan Stanley Old Republic International Corporation Protiviti Nuveen Turks’ Greenhouses Quarles & Brady LLP IMPRESARIO Reed Smith LLP $2,000 to $3,499 SUSTAINER Ropes & Gray LLP American Agricultural Insurance Company $500 to $999 Starshak Winzenburg & Co. Enterprise Holdings Foundation DonationXchange Strategic Reimbursement Group, LLC Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Network for Good Winestyr Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. Peoples Gas Wintrust Community Banks OPERA America Shoe Center Fund PREMIER BENEFACTOR $7,500 to $9,999 Amsted Industries Foundation Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation

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 The Retirement Research Foundation Aon Foundation Doing Good LLC Johnson Controls Foundation The Rhoades Foundation Bank of America Foundation Emerson Electric JPMorgan Chase Foundation The 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 Thanks • 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

The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric’s efforts: Generous Gifts CH Distillery Notable Gifts Glo Rolighed Calihan Catering Northern Trust, Palm Beach, FL Artists Frame Service The Second City Coco Pazzo Segall Bryant & Hamill Lloyd’s Chicago Temperance Beer Company HMS Media, Inc. by Alfred Bryant Martha Nussbaum Booth One Harrison and Held, LLP Naples, FL and Chicago, IL Modern Luxury Nico Osteria by Attorney Robert T. Napier Vinny's Pizza Bar Naples, FL and Chicago IL

This 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.

November 3 - 16, 2018 | 63 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support

Lyric deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations, and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received by October 1, 2018.

ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above Anonymous (10) Mr. and Mrs. William C. Florian The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Patricia A. Kenney and Ada and Whitney Addington Franke Family Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Gregory J. O'Leary Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Brent and Katie Gledhill Estate of Nancy W. Knowles Sheila and David Ormesher The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ethel and William Gofen Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn The Michael and Susan Avramovich Howard L. Gottlieb and Josef and Margot Lakonishok Pritzker Foundation Charitable Trust Barbara G. Greis Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Julie and Roger Baskes The Grainger Foundation Lauridsen Foundation Marlys Beider Gramma Fisher Foundation of Malott Family Foundation Candy and Gary Ridgway Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Marshalltown, Iowa Mazza Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Krehbiel, Jr. The Monument Trust (UK) Lisbeth Stiffel The Butler Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Donna Van Eekeren Foundation David and Orit Carpenter The Harris Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe J. Thomas Hurvis The Negaunee Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance The Crown Family The Edgar D. Jannotta Family Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel The Wallace Foundation The Davee Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Roberta L. Washlow and Dr. Scholl Foundation Foundation Foundation Robert J. Washlow Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson John R. Halligan Charitable Fund NIB Foundation Helen and Sam Zell Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Julius Frankel 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 Annie and Greg K. Jones Ada and Whitney Addington Illinois Arts Council Family Foundation Rebecca and Lester Knight The Beaubien Family Julian Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ The Chicago Community Trust Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Sue and Melvin Gray Patricia Hyde The Crown Family Foundation The Ferguson-Yntema Family Eric and Deb Hirschfield Nancy Dehmlow Polk Bros. Foundation Charitable Trust Greg and Mamie Case Eisen Family Foundation Betsy and Andy Rosenfield The Brinson Foundation Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Segal Family Foundation J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Mrs. Myung Soon Chung Foundation Lois B. Siegel Foundation Mrs. Linda Wolfson

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (5) Mary Patricia Gannon Frederic S. Lane Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Paul and Mary Anderson Virginia and Gary Gerst Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Matt and Carrie Parr Robin Angly Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Philip G. Lumpkin Ingrid Peters The Barker Welfare Foundation Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Robert and Evelyn McCullen John Raitt Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Michael J. McGuinnis Blythe Jaski McGarvie The C. G. Pinnell Family Amy and Paul Carbone Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Joyce E. Chelberg Sage Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole “We love opera and have made Lyric our opera home. Erica L. Sandner The Cozad Family We are pleased with the quality productions provided. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Crain-Maling Foundation We believe Lyric is a good steward of our gifts and Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Sir Andrew Davis and Morris Silverman and Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis appreciate the Lyric’s community programs and creative Lori Ann Komisar Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny stimulus beyond the performance hall.” Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Ann M. Drake Penelope and Robert Steiner Drs. George and Sally Dunea Winston and Lally B. Mary Stowell Donald and Anne Edwards Joseph and Pam Szokol Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Thierer Family Foundation Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings David Drew and Marcie Hemmelstein Susan M. Miller Carl and Marilynn Thoma Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Mary Ellen Hennessy Frank B. Modruson and Cherryl T. Thomas Sally and Michael Feder Martha A. Hesse Lynne C. Shigley Robert L. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Allan and Elaine Muchin Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Renée Fleming Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Walter Family Foundation Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Victoria M. Kohn Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Kenneth R. Norgan Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Wood Prince Elaine S. Frank Fund Silvia Beltrametti and Jay Krehbiel Make It Better Media Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (4) Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Marc Lacher The Rhoades Foundation Ken and Amy Aldridge Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Lannan Foundation Roger and Susan Stone Family John and Ann Amboian James and Deborah Fellowes Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Mira Frohnmayer and Sandra Sweet Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Rocco and Cheryl Romano Dr. and Mrs. Robert Arensman Film Funds Trust Funds Daniel and Deborah Manoogian John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Sonja and Conrad Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Juliette F. Bacon Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Robert C. Marks Susan and David Ruder E. M. Bakwin Susan J. Garner Shari Mayes Richard O. Ryan Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Ms. Elisabeth O. Geraghty Judith W. McCue and Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Mr. Robert Gienko Jr Howard M. McCue III Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Robert S. Bartolone Judy and Bill Goldberg Erma S. Medgyesy Eric and Jana Schreuder Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Mrs. Richard Gray Terry J. Medhurst Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Ms. Catharine Bell and Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Dawn G. Meiners Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Mr. Robert Weiglein Mrs. Mary Winton Green Helen Melchior Mary Beth Shea Ross and Patricia D. Bender Dan and Caroline Grossman Martha A. Mills Richard W. Shepro and Leslie Bertholdt Joan M. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Lindsay E. Roberts Patrick J. Bitterman Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau The Shubert Foundation Jim Blinder “My favorite Lyric moment happens when I am literally Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Heidi Heutel Bohn Ilene Simmons Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland transported by the music....when I’m ‘not in the opera Siragusa Family Foundation Betty Bradshaw house’ and completely unaware of people around me The Smart Family Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie Ms. Billie Jean Smith Adrienne and Arnold Brookstone and even the chair I occupy.” Ms. Gay K. Stanek John and Rosemary Brown Family Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Foundation -Helena S. Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Buehler Family Foundation Ellen and Jim Stirling Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Irving Harris Foundation Music Performance Trust Fund Ms. Jennifer L. Stone Marie Campbell John Hart and Carol Prins Phyllis Neiman Norene W. and Daniel A. Stucka Mr. and Mrs. John Canning Jr Mrs. Thomas D. Heath David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Anonymous Mrs. John C. Hedley Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Ann and Reed Coleman Helen Brach Foundation Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Virginia Tobiason Francie Comer Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Tamara Conway Stu Hirsh Orchestra Martha C. Nussbaum Tully Family Foundation Lynd W. Corley Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Margo and Michael Oberman and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Lawrence O. Corry Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Family Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Winnie and Bob Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC The Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Anne Megan Davis Memorial Fund Foundation Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer M. Dillon Laurie and Michael Jaffe Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Kim and Miles D. White Shawn M. Donnelley and The Edgar D. Jannotta Family Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Dr. David H. Whitney and Christopher M. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Elizabeth Anne Peters Dr. Juliana Chyu Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Marian Phelps Pawlick Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Fred L. Drucker and Stephen A. Kaplan Maya Polsky Mrs. John A. Wing Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Klaff Family Foundation Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Paul Wood and Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Andra and Irwin Press The Honorable Corinne Wood James Huntington Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Erika E. Erich Albert and Rita Lacher Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Debbie K. Wright PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (3) Sondra Berman Epstein Eldon and Patricia Kreider Norman Sackar Kelley and Susan Anderson Stephen and Mary Etherington MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum George and Terry Rose Saunders Ms. Ronelle D. Ashby Robert F. Finke Bernard and Averill Leviton George and Joan Segal Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baumgartner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann Julius Lewis Mary and Stanley Seidler Mark and Judy Bednar Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Raymond and Inez Saunders Patricia Arrington Smythe Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Ms. Michelle McCarthy Del Snow Lieselotte N. Betterman Helyn D. Goldenberg Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung The Solti Foundation U.S. Norman and Virginia Bobins/The Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Michuda Construction, Inc. Doris F. Sternberg Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation Phillip and Norma Gordon Julian Oettinger Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Winston and Lally Brown Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Malley Mr. O. Thomas Thomas and Joy Buddig Mrs. John M. Hartigan Karen and Tom Phillips Mrs. Sandra Inara Thomas Audre Carlin Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Harvey R. and Madeleine P. Plonsker Dr. David Thurn Mrs. Warren M. Choos Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Howard and Paula Trienens Lawrence Christensen Midge and Frank Heurich Irene D. Pritzker Foundation Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. John and Betsey Puth Christian Vinyard Susan E. Cremin Ronald B. Johnson James T. and Karen C. Reid Dan and Patty Walsh Rosemary and John Croghan Jared Kaplan The Retirement Research Foundation Marilee and Richard Wehman Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Nancy Rita Kaz Angela Tenta, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Kate T. Kestnbaum Daryl and James Riley Stephen R. Winters Decyk Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Edgar Rose Donna and Phillip Zarcone Mrs. Sheila Dulin Jean Klingenstein Sheli and Burt Rosenberg Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Richard B. Egen Dr. Katherine Knight J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko Miss Gay Elfline Martin and Patricia Koldyke Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse

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

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

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Lloyd Morgan Mrs. Marlene Phillips Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Elaine Soter April Ware and Jess Forrest Mr. Greg Morris Ms. Lyneta Grap Piela Patricia Schaefer Ron Bauer and Michael Spencer Dr. Richard Warnecke Ms. Helen H. Morrison Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper Mary T. Schafer Ms. Julie Staley Benjamin Wasmuth Corinne Morrissey Mr. and Mrs. Les Pinsof Robert P. Schaible Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Steele Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts Jr David and Linda Moscow Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Nancy Schmitt Joyce L. Steffel Pam and David Waud Mary Anne Lynskey Mrs. Carol Pollock Dr. Michelle Schultz Carol Stein and Doris Ashkin Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weiland Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky Jim and Joan Sears Ms. Catherine E. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Richard Welcome Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell William V. Porter Paul R. Seidlitz Geraldine L. Szymanski Adele and Joseph R. Wells Dr. Belverd Needles and Charlene Posner Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Anne Taft Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Dr. Marian Powers Dorothy M. Press John and Floria Serpico Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Peter J. Wender Ms. Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle Tom Shapiro Gilbert Terlicher Manfred Wendt David and Lynne Nellemann Mr. David Quell Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Shaw Ilene Patty and Thomas Terpstra Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wertz Elaine T. Newquist William H. Redfield Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Genevieve Thiers and Daniel Ratner Mr. Stefan Westerhoff Jeffrey Nichols Roseanne Rega McGrath David Sherman Linda and Ronald Thisted Patricia and William Wheeler Nancy A. Nichols Dennis C. Regan Ms. Shannon Shin Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Mrs. John White John Nigh Alicia and Myron Resnick Ms. Carolyn M. Short Eleanor W. Tippens Charles A. Whitver Carol M. Nigro Evelyn Richer Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Arlene and Michael Winfield Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Mrs. Mary K. Ring Nancy Silberman Diane Tkach and James Freundt Kathryn B. Winter Dr. W. E. Null Jerry and Carole Ringer Linda Simon Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Michael A. Wislek Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Townsend Charles B. Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nutt Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Paul and Ann Singer Kay and Craig Tuber Mr. and Ms. Francis Wolfe Penny J. Obenshain Charlotte Puppel-Rose Margles Singleton and Clay Young Mr. James W. Tucker Ted and Peggy Wolff Gail O'Gorman Roberta Rosell Barbara Smith and Judith Tuszynski Christopher and Julie Wood Mr. and Mrs. Keith Olson Saul and Sarah Rosen Timothy Burroughs Professor Harald and D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Virginia A. O'Neill Mr. Samuel Rosenberg Suzanne L. Hoffman and Dale Smith Mrs. Christine Uhlig Kathleen Arthur and Stephen Wood Mr. and Mrs. John Ostrem Babette Rosenthal Louise K. Smith United Way Metro Chicago Mark Woodworth and Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Harding Lorelei Rosenthal Mary Ann Smith Manuel S. Valderrama Randi Ravitts Woodworth Evelyn E. Padorr Marsha and Robert Rosner Robert A. Sniegowski Marlene A. Van Skike Michael and Judy Zeddies John and Dawn Palmer Dolores Ruetz Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Frances and Peter Vandervoort Barbara Zeleny Allen J. Frantzen and Louise M. Ryssmann The Sondheimer Family Charitable Rosalba Villanueva Marianne and Ted Zelewsky George R. Paterson Eugene W. Rzym Foundation Robert and Camille Von Dreele Richard E. Ziegler Mrs. Mona L. Penner David Sachs Larry and Marge Sondler John and Kathleen Vondran Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Carol Sonnenschein Sadow Mr. Malcolm V. Vye Shirley Pfenning and Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos Walter and Caroline Sueske Robert J. Wilczek Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sagui Carole and Bob Sorensen Charitable Trust SUSTAINER · $500 to $999 Anonymous (24) Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Ms. Marsha Clinard and Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Evanich Dr. Paul B. Glickman Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond, Sr. Mr. Charles Boast Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Evans Cai Glushak and Martin DiCrisci Andrew Abbott and Susan Schlough Laurence and Patricia Booth Ms. Kimberly K. Coday Ms. Patti Eylar Mr. Richard Gnaedinger Phillip Adams and Carmen Wilcox Jordan Bouchard Susan and John Combes Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Dr. Susan R. Goldman Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Stevie Conlon and Sue Skau Marion and Burt Fainman Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Mrs. Carol E. Adelman Dr. Gilbert W. Bowen Sharon Conway Mr. David Fannin Dr. Robert Golub Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Ms. Barbara Box Dr. Joseph P. Cousins and Mr. and Mrs. John H. Faulhaber Amy and Michael Gordon Judith L. Allen David E. Boyce Dr. Kate L. Forhan Joseph Feldman, MD Drs. Margaret and Richard Gore Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Allie Mary and Carl Boyer Nancy Crawford Steven E. Feldman Anne H. Gorham Peri M. Altan Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Robert C. Cronin Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Ken and Mary Andersen Wendy and Norman Bradburn Czarkowski Family Mr. Jim Ferneborg Sarah J. Gottermeyer Carol L. Anderson Michael Bradie Ms. Lisa DeAngelis Dr. Bradley Fine Mr. and Mrs. Delmon Grapes Judith C. Anderson Robert Bradner Paul B. Dekker Howard and Charlotte Fink Rick Greenman Ms. Louise E. Anderson Mr. Richard H. Brewer and Ms. Sarah Demet Mr. Emmett Finneran Ginger Griffin William Ankenbrandt Robert Grist Drs. Vijayalakshmi and Charles R. Grode Bapu Arekapudi “When the opera’s staging, the chorus and soloist voices, Mrs. Kathleen Grzybek Drs. Andrew and Iris Aronson John Gustaitis Ms. Ardell Arthur and the conducting all come together, one is transported Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Dr. David Ashbach Mr. and Mrs. Cameel Halim Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Asner and everyday concerns disappear.” Lucy Hammerberg Mr. Vadim Backman -Raita V. David Hanson Mr. Richard Baer Charles Hanusin Ms. Shirley M. Ballak John and Sharon Hanusin Leslie Ballard Dr. Mary Ann Schwartz Patricia K. Denman Mr. Anthony K. Fisher Mr. Gregory J. Harms Mr. Stan Balog Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brey Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. William E. Fishman Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Banks Dr. John H. Brill Michael DePriest Marilyn E. Fites Dr. and Mrs. David Jerome Hayden H. Barefield Ms. Myrna Bromley William Diaz and Ms. Karen E. Flanagan Mrs. John S. Hayford Marilyn R. Barmash Leona and Daniel Bronstein Theresa Gross-Diaz Abbie Fleming Dr. and Mrs. Robert Heidenry Barbara J. Barnes Mr. Charles Brooks and Ms. Wendy DiBendedetto R. Michael Flores, MD and Robert and Raynelle Heidrick Mr. Merrill Z. Barnes Mrs. Suzan S. Bramson Brooks Dr. Gary Dillehay Prof. Alan Grigg Josephine E. Heindel Mrs. and Mr. Martin S. A. Beck John A. Bross, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Lafayette J. Ford Stephen Heller Elizabeth S. Beck Todd Brueshoff Maureen Dooley Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Valerie A. Hendricks Hans F. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Ms. Jill Dougherty Richard W. Foster Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Hennessy Benevity Community Impact Fund Mr. Dan Bujas and Mrs. Mary Reyes Roy and Rachel Downing Anne and Willard Fraumann Kimberlee S. Herold Julie Anne Benson Dr. Jack Bulmash Ms. Nancy Dreher Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fried Mr. Theodore W. Herr and Diane and Karl Berolzheimer Ms. Pamela A. Cabeen Paul E. Drennan Priscilla and Henry Frisch Ms. Carla Carstens Herr Mr. and Mrs. Loren M. Berry III Mary Ellen Cagney Ms. Jody Lewis Michael and Jane Fritz Norman K. Hester Mr. Thomas Berry Lidia Calcaterra and Paul Barger Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Lori Fulton Caren B. Hiatt Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Bevers Hon. and Mrs. Michael T. Caldwell Ms. Roma Dybalski Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Gahlon Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Agnes B. Canning Joan M. Eagle Leota P. Gajda Thomas W. and Helen C. Hill Richard Blackwell and Elena Carbajal-Gaule Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Thomas F. Gajewski Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Linda Christianson Walter and Nancy Carlson Mrs. B. Englert Easterbrook Dr. Sandra Garber Ms. Sarai Hoffman Diane and Tom Blake Carnot & Luceile Allen Foundation Ralph D. Ebbott Thomas and Patricia Germino John E. Holland Louis and Catherine Bland Patrick V. Casali Adrienne Eckerling Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert Mr. Rodney Holmes Ms. Elizabeth Blinderman Donald and Bonnie Chauncey Ms. Martha Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Joel Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Ms. June F. Choate Ryan Jay Eikmeier and Ms. Robyn R. Gilliom and William Hosken James Blum Ms. Angela Cici Timothy Silver Mr. Richard Friedman Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Mr. Robert A. Blumberg Connie Clark Ms. Marjorie Elliott Mr. Lyle Gillman Mr. Robert Hudson D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Mr. Henry Clark and Mrs. Richard J. Elrod Kik and S. I. Gilman William and Sarah Hufford Fran Bly and Charles Hample Mrs. Elizabeth Simon David Elzinga Dale and David Ginsburg Mr. and Mrs. Alan Huish Erminio Bonacci Ms. Kathleen Clark Mr. and Mrs. James Estes David L. Gitomer Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt

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Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Paul M. Liebenson Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Nichols Ms. Barbara Ruben Coleman S. Kendall Dr. Stephen and Kathy Irwin Robert E. Lindgren Eleanor A. Nicholson Ms. Mary Rundell Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Howard Isenberg Carol Linkowski Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nolen Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff Mr. Robert Tanaka Virginia A. Jach DeAnn Liska Richard Nora MD Lena M. Ruppman Bradley L. and Douglas and Lynn Jackson Mr. Alan Littmann Anna Marie Norehad Joe and Natalie Sacchetti Simone Himbeault Taylor Merle L. Jacob Dr. Vassyl A. Lonchyna and Ms. Sandra Norlin Mary Ann Sadilek Mr. Harold Temple Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Dr. Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna Patricia A. Noska Mr. Eugene Saenger Jr Dr. and Mrs. Michael Terry Dr. Robert P.F. Buerglener and Richard Lord Mrs. Ellen Noth Natalie Saltiel Mr. and Mrs. Otto Teske Dr. Paul B. Jaskot Sharon and Henry Lorsch William Novshek and Richard H. Sanders Mr. Ernest Thompson Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Jensen Ms. Janet Lubin Lynda Thoman Ms. Joyce Saxon Ms. Michele M. Thompson Ms. Barbara Jillson Lutz Family Foundation Julia Nowicki Marie-Claude Schauer Thomas B. Thuerer Mr. Tim Johnson John and Roseanne Lynch Dr. Dragic M. Obradovic Anne McMillen Scheyer Ms. Elizabeth Tisdahl Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston Mrs. Diane L. Macewicz Mr. Michael J. O'Connell Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Schiele Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tittle Barbara Mair Jones Suzanne C. Mack Mr. Michael K. Oman Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Jay and Kelly Tunney Janet Jones Miss Joan C. Madden Sandra L. Osborn Mrs. Rosita M. Schloss Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Turcotte Mr. Edward T. Joyce Ms. Svetlana Magdel Mary Otto Marcia G. Schneider Brig. Gen. Sue E. Turner Abby O'Neil and Carroll Joynes George and Roberta Mann Paloucek Family Fund Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Scholly Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tyner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Kaeser Philanthropic Fund Mr. Tomas Palubinskas Susan B. Schulson Mr. and Mrs. Tal Tzur Paula Kahn Martha Marberry Joan L. Pantisios Mark Schultz Aris Urbanes & Bill Hulsker Mr. Roman Kahn Frank and Jeanette Marchese David Paris Stacy and Robert Schultze Mr. Richard Uszynski Beth Kalov Dr. Lawrence and Sylvia Margolies Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Deborah and George Schulz Mrs. Denise M. Utter Ethel R. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Miles Marsh Alap Patel Linda S. Schurman Mrs. Murray J. Vale Mr. James Karr Jeordano Martinez Mr. Bohdan O. Pauk Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwartz Jr Sharon Van Dyck and Richard Kelber Ms. Andrea Katzenstein Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Marzec Bruce and Nancy Payne Judy and John Scully Andre Van Ee Matthew J. Keller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Burnett Ms. Susan Payne Barbara and John T. Seaman, Jr. Marie Vanagas Sarah and Kip Kelley II Leslie Bradberry Susan Carter Pearsall Dr. Itai Seggev and Dr. Eladio A. Vargas Douglas and Christine Kelner Mr. and Ms. Francois Velde Thomas E. Kerber Ms. Antoinette Vigilante Jeffrey R. Kerr “At every single opera, I am enthralled; I even cried at a couple! John N. Vinci Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Kessler Mr. and Mrs. William P. Vit Ms. Emily Kessler and And I love the moments with my family.” Mrs. Barbara Vlack Ms. Kay E. Hughes -Simone R. Dmitro Voinorovich Chuck and Kathy Killman Dr. Annabelle Volgman Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn Kind Mr. Richard Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Suzanne L. Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Kittle-Kamp Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Matz Jean T. Pennino Dr. Dara Goldman Ms. Lucinda Wakeman Esther G. Klatz Mrs. John May Mr. and Mrs. John Pepe Richard and Betty Seid Albert R. Walavich Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Knuth Edward and Myrna Mazur Victorina Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Seng Prof. John S. Walker Gerald A. and Karen A. Bernadette McCarthy Viktoras Petroliunas Dr. Robert F. Shankland Robert D. Wallin Kolschowsky Foundation, Inc. Ms. Hope McFadden Mr. Robert Phelan Mr. and Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro Gary T. Walther Dr. and Mrs. Howard Konowitz Andrew S. McFarland Mr. and Mrs. William Pinsof Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro The Warranty Group Amy Kontrick and Mark Mycyk Condon McGlothlen Roland and Karen Porter Ellen and Richard Shubart Nancy E. Webster Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kracum John and Etta McKenna Dr. David Alexander Powell Barbara Fulton Sideman Joanne Michalski and Michael Weeda Stephen Kraft Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Dr. Kathryn Press Roberta E. Singer Claude M. Weil Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Kretchmer Joann H. Meigs Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Preston Thomas Sinkovic Mr. James Weinberger Konrad K. Kuchenbach Ernst Melchior Mr. Dan E. Prindle Mr. Christopher Skrable Mrs. and Mr. Susan Weindruch Thomas P. Kuczwara Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Marla McCormick Pringle Edward W. and Alice L. Smeds Marco and Joan Weiss Dr. Klaus and Erzsebet Kuettner Dr. Patricia A. Merwick Mr. Sunil Puri Arthur B. Smith, Jr. and Ellen Werner Walfrid and Sherry Kujala Barb and Bob Meyer Judith Purta Tracey L. Truesdale Ms. Suzanne K. Westerhold Axel Kunzmann and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr. Chris and Elizabeth Quigg Melissa and Chuck Smith Floyd and Judith W. Whellan Bruce J. Nelson David E. Miller Ms. R. L. Anderson Rains Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Whisler John and Lynn LaBarbera Gerry M. Miller J. Usha Raj, MD Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Mr. Chad Williams and Laimonis and Kristina Laimins Vee Minarich Dorothy V. Ramm Ms. Elizabeth Smyth Ms. Amy Williams Susan Laing Edward J. Mitchen Jeffrey Rappin and Penny Brown Michael and Donna Socol Margaret E. Williams Elisabeth M. Landes Sanford Moltz Judge S. Louis Rathje and Edward and Eileen Soderstrom Rabbi Larry and JoAnne Winer John T. Lansing Mr. Richard Moore Maria R. Costanzo Dr. and Mrs. R. John Solaro Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Witkowski Mrs. Frederick Larsen Martin W. Morris Dr. and Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein Ann S. Wolff Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen John A. Morrison Ms. Anne Ray Mr. Ryan Spohn Mr. Hak Wong Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Laser Larry Morrison Biswamay Ray, M.D. Michael Sprinker Robert E. Woodworth, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Laughlin James E Morstadt John Reppy Phillip V. St. Cloud and Teana and Abbott Wright Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Lawrence Beverly Mortensen Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Richert Charles P. Case Mark Zajackowski Marsha Lazar Mr. and Mrs. Karlos Moser Dr. Patricia C. Rieger Michael and Cheryl Stack Tom and Elena Zanussi Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lee Helga Muench Ed and Susan Ritts Helena Stancikas Mr. and Mrs. John G. Zasi Eileen Leiderman and Ben L. Brener Zane F. Muhl Helen H. Roberts Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Sterkin Dr. Antoinette Zell and Dr. Michael C. Leland Ms. Jan Munagian Dr. Diana M. Robin Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Stern Kenneth R. Walter Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lenahan Mr. George Murphy Mary Raffetto-Robins Mrs. James H. Stoner Ms. Wei Zhang Bonnie and Ed Leracz Thomas F. Murphy James Engel Rocks Joanne Storm Larisa Zhizhin Ms. Kiyoko Lerner Barbara B. Murray The Philip and Myn Rootberg Timothy J.S. Dr. and Mrs. Eric Zickgraf Ralph and Carol Lerner Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Foundation Mr. John Strasswimmer Camille J. Zientek Laurence and Mary Levine Holly I. Myers Susan Rosborough Gary L. Strawn Michael and Diane Levy Mr. William F. Myers Elaine G. Rosen Mrs. Kelly J. Sullivan Soley Mr. Randy Lewis Harvey A. Nathan Maureen L. Shea Charles Sullivan Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Virginia Navarrete Drs. Ronald and Linda Rosenthal John B. Sullivan Dr. Arnold Tobin J. Robin Naylor Thomas and Barbara Rosenwein Mary W. Sullivan and

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 The 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. The Ardis Lyric, for safety reasons, has the right Krainik Theatre 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. The 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 Thank 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 All photos by Jaclyn Simpson, Todd Rosenberg.

Front of House Managers: Sheila Matthews, Chuck Tucker Box Office Assistant Treasurers: John Thor 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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