Hansel Gretel

2019

7, –DECEMBER 15 –DECEMBER

NOVEMBER NOVEMBER HANSEL

GRETEL

BY ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK

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November/December 2019 | Volume 15, No. 3

Vol. 97, No. 3 • 2019–20 Season • November/December 2019

Adam Snellings, Art Direction Susan L. Wells, Design Consultant

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ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK’S HANSEL & GRETEL BY PAUL THOMASON 37 Often considered a one-hit wonder, Humperdinck accomplished in Hansel and Gretel what few others in opera history could: a work that perfectly balances innocence and sophistication. PAUL HEPPNER President MIKE HATHAWAY Senior Vice President THE POLITICS OF CHILDHOOD BY KIRSTEN PAIGE KAJSA PUCKETT Vice President, Sales & Marketing In Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck and Adelheid GENAY GENEREUX Accounting & 40 Wette offered a critique, in music and text, of 1890s social Office Manager and political tensions surrounding childhood, labor, gender, Production and domesticity. SUSAN PETERSON Vice President, Production JENNIFER SUGDEN Assistant Production Manager REWRITING THE TALE BY MELISSA NGAN ANA ALVIRA, STEVIE VANBRONKHORST Production Artists and Graphic Designers Just as Hansel and Gretel confronts themes of poverty and Sales survival, Compass Family Services and Community Housing MARILYN KALLINS, TERRI REED 42 San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Partnership are working to confront homelessness in the BRIEANNA HANSEN, AMELIA HEPPNER, Bay Area. SHERRI JARVEY, ANN MANNING Seattle Area Account Executives CAROL YIP Sales Coordinator Marketing SHAUN SWICK Brand & Creative Manager CIARA CAYA Marketing Coordinator

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Susan Anderson-Norby George H. Hume + Matthew Shilvock +▴ χ Helen Berggruen J. Burgess Jamieson Ruth A. Short Dawn Yates Black Philip M. Jelley Mrs. George P. (Charlotte) Shultz Timothy Blackburn Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. + William R. Stensrud Romana Bracco Timothy F. Kahn Dianne Marie Taube Carol Franc Buck Lawrence A. Kern Mrs. David T. (Joan) Traitel Jack Calhoun + Mark R. Kroll Soo Venkatesan Barbara Bruser Clark, Merola Opera Karen J. Kubin Barbara Moller Ward Program President ▴ χ Thomas A. Larsen + Diane B. Wilsey + W. M. Coughran, Jr. + Sylvia R. Lindsey Barbara A. Wolfe Jayne C. Davis James Patterson McBaine Melinda Yee Franklin Ira Dearing Patrick McCabe S. Shariq Yosufzai + Jerome L. Dodson Anne G. McWilliams Join us for an exciting night Carol Pucci Doll + Teresa Medearis + Executive Committee Member Dixon R. Doll Steven Menzies + ▴χ Ex Officio of unforgettable music Shannon Eliot, BRAVO! President ▴ χ Helen Meyer Robert A. Ellis + Karl O. Mills + featuring the renowned Lisa Erdberg + Justin Moore CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL: San Francisco Opera Peter Fenton Nancy S. Mueller Reid W. Dennis Sarah Fenton Ben Nelson Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. Resident Artists, the 2019 Margarita Gandia J. Boyce Nute + Bernard Osher Adler Fellows, in their final Keith B. Geeslin + Masashi Oka Susan Graham Johnston Bernard Osher + concert of the year. Louise Gund + Mary Poland, Guild President ▴ χ Conducted by Eun Sun Kim John A. Gunn + Anne Brandeis Popkin Jane M. Hartley Mary A. Powell I. Craig Henderson, M.D. Randall Reynoso + FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 , 2019 John Hendrickson Richard J. Rigg, Ph.D. 7 : 30P M Doreen Woo Ho C.P. Russell Charles Edward Hudson III Bill Russell-Shapiro + HERBST THEATRE Sylvia Hughes Jack Schafer 401 VAN NESS AVENUE SAN FRANCISCO PRESIDENTS 1923 Timothy Healy 1974–84 Walter M. Baird 1924–31 Robert I. Bentley 1985–90 Tully M. Friedman 1932–36 Wallace M. Alexander 1990–93 Thomas Tilton 1937–44 Robert Watt Miller 1993–95 David M. Chamberlain 1945–51 Kenneth Monteagle 1995–2002 William W. Godward 1952–68 Robert Watt Miller 2002–06 Karl Mills 1969–70 Prentis Cobb Hale 2006–13 George H. Hume 1971–73 William H. Orrick, Jr. 2013– Keith B. Geeslin

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BILLY THE MARRIAGE OF

ROMEO FIGAROOCT 11, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 27; NOV 1 & BUDDSEP 7, 12, 15, 17, 20, 22 BY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART JULIET BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN SEP 6, 13, 18, 21, 24, 29, OCT 1 BY CHARLES GOUNOD

MANON HANSEL

ERNANIJUN 7, 13, 16, 19, 26; JUL 2, 2020 BY GIUSEPPE VERDI LESCAUTNOV 8, 13, 16, 20, 24, 26 BY GIACOMO PUCCINI

GRETEL NOV 15, 17, 21, 23, 30; DEC 1, 3, 7

BY ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK

SUNG IN ENGLISH

PARTENOPE THE (R)EVOLUTION OF JUN 12, 18, 21, 23, 27, 2020 BY GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL STEVE JOBS JUN 20, 24, 25, 28, 30; JUL 1, 3, 2020

MUSIC BY MASON BATES LIBRETTO BY MARK CAMPBELL

CO-PRODUCED WITH THE SANTA FE OPERA AND SEATTLE OPERA

MATTHEW SHILVOCK GENERAL DIRECTOR

The Dolby Family Burgess and Elizabeth Jamieson Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Bertie Bialek Elliott Franklin and Catherine Johnson Dianne and Tad Taube SEASON OFFICIAL COMPANY SPONSOR AIRLINE SPONSORS Keith and Priscilla Geeslin Edmund W. and Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Fund Phyllis C. Wattis Endowment Funds Ann and Gordon Getty Steven M. Menzies Diane B. Wilsey John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Bernard and Barbro Osher Barbara A. Wolfe

All performances feature English supertitles. All dates, prices, programs, artists, and productions subject to change. Tickets subject to availability. Photos: Romeo and Juliet, Alain Hanel; Billy Budd, Alastair Muir/Glyndebourne Productions Ltd.; Manon Lescaut, Terrence McCarthy; Ernani, Valerie Bromann/Lyric Opera of Chicago; Partenope, Cory Weaver; The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Norman Seeff. Get in the Know November 2019 New.qxp_Getintheknow 10/16/19 8:41 PM Page 2

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A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF SAN FRANCISCO OPERA EXTEND YOUR Welcome to San Francisco Opera’s 97th EXPERIENCE season! Whether you have been a subscriber for decades or are joining us for WITH A the very first time, you are an important GIFT FROM member of our family. This is your THE OPERA! company, and our mission is to share the transformative power of opera with you. For the final performances of the fall season, we are proud to present Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini and an Keith B. Geeslin and John A. Gunn D REW ALTIZ ER exciting new production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, both emotionally resonant works that speak to themes of love, attachment to home, and childhood experience. We believe that these themes act as powerful reminders during the holiday season, and we are excited to share them with you. We also look forward to presenting our outstanding San Francisco Opera Chorus, led by Chorus Director Ian Robertson in a special concert on November 22. We follow this with our annual The Future Is Now program with the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows in their final concert of the year at the Herbst Theatre on December 6. We encourage you to join us and delight in the artistry, dedication, and talent of our resident artists. Reflecting on the remarkable productions this fall, including the triumphs of Billy Budd and Romeo and Juliet and our beautiful new Legacy Production of IN THE MARKET FOR The Marriage of Figaro, we are incredibly grateful to our patrons and donors. A NEW FASCINATOR OR These achievements would not be possible without your partnership. Ticket SEEKING A MEMORABLE GIFT FOR A FRIEND? sales only cover a quarter of our expenses, so we rely on the support of our community to ensure this uniquely compelling art form thrives at the highest THE SAN FRANCISCO levels of excellence in the Bay Area. As we embark upon the holiday season of OPERA SHOP WELCOMES YOU! giving, we hope you will consider supporting San Francisco Opera with a year- end gift. Stop by the San Francisco Opera Shop Thank you for joining us for the fall season, and we look forward to seeing during your performance. Located on the South Mezzanine (level 2), you in the summer for Partenope, Ernani, and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. the shop is open 90 minutes before curtain, during all intermissions, Sincerely, and 20 minutes after 昀nal curtain.

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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA NEWS

OPEN YOUR HEART & EARN YOUR WINGS This season, San Francisco Opera continues to build on the Earn Your Jake Heggie, Sasha Cooke, and Gene Scheer RICK GYDESEN Wings campaign begun last year. This initiative is an invitation to patrons to engage with and support the Company’s community partners SASHA COOKE TO GIVE in meaningful and demonstrative ways. We are asking our audiences to HOLOCAUST WORLD PREMIERE consider what it means to be a “global citizen” who participates in and advocates to support the arts, even as we fight to address critical societal Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, currently in the title role issues, like homelessness. (along with Heidi Stober) in San Francisco Opera’s Hansel and Gretel, will have a strong Bay Area pres- In Fall of 2018, San Francisco Opera partnered with Community ence for the first six months in 2020. In addition to Housing Partnership and Compass Family Services to instigate a new bringing her critically acclaimed interpretation of Lau- era of civic practice. Buoyed by a grant from OPERA America, San rene Powell Jobs in the Mason Bates opera The (R)evo- Francisco Opera engaged these flagship organizations in our lution of Steve Jobs and as Artist in Residence with the community in a cross-sector partnership with the goal of redefining San Francisco Symphony, the American artist will be at how an arts organization and a social service agency might the center of a dramatic new work by Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer drawn from the Holocaust. collaborate. These efforts are about building community and working Commissioned by Burlingame’s Music at Kohl Man- together in strategic ways to make the art of opera more accessible sion and director Patricia Kristof Moy, San Francisco and the critical work of our community partners better known. Opera’s French language coach for the past 40 years, Community Housing Partnership’s mission is to help people Heggie’s Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope will experiencing homelessness secure housing and become self-sufficient. To feature Cooke on January 18 and 19, along with award- this end, they operate 17 facilities across the city of San Francisco, winning South African violinist Daniel Hope, and a string quartet comprised of musicians from the San Francisco providing a wide array of supportive services. The staff of these facilities Opera Orchestra. work tirelessly to interrupt the scourge of homelessness among both This new chamber work will be presented as part of single adults and families. Founded in 1914, Compass Family Services is an eight-week project featuring over 50 recovered and passionately engaged in helping homeless and at-risk families become restored Holocaust-era string instruments, the Violins of stably housed, providing resources to support the emotional, physical, and Hope, in performance and exhibition. More than 41 Bay economic health and well-being of families. Area organizations are participating with eight weeks of concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, school These agencies will have a distinct presence in the War Memorial programs, and community forums. Sasha Cooke’s per- Opera House during the presentation of San Francisco Opera’s new formances coincide with the 75th anniversary of the lib- production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. The opera is more than eration of the Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the a children’s fairy tale, it’s an opportunity for community conversation many camps where Jewish musicians were forced to and deliberation about how we might better address food insecurity and play in orchestras or individually on their violins while homelessness in our community. At the intersection of arts, culture, and bearing witness to unspeakable atrocities. “This is a world premiere unlike others that I’ve per- community, there are new opportunities to learn from and support one formed given the historical context,” offered Cooke. another, no matter our context. The metaphoric wings referenced in the “While it is shameful how these instruments were used campaign can represent a growing consciousness around civic duty. in the camps, it is my hope that I can give voice to the What is civic duty, and how do we harness it? Or, perhaps a more heroic stories of these musicians and that this new pertinent question is, have you earned your wings yet? work will serve as a musical bridge of compassion and grace.” Though we cannot change the past, we can, Charles Chip Mc Neal through works like these, change our relationship to Director of Diversity, Equity, and Community these events. Violinsofhopesfba.org.

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SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT JOHN A. & CYNTHIA FRY GUNN

TERRENCE MCCARTHY

nce again, the unprecedented generosity of and CEO of Dodge & Cox Investment Managers. He joined Cynthia and John Gunn has set the stage for a the firm in 1972, the year he received his MBA from dazzling season at San Francisco Opera. Since Stanford Business School and married Cynthia, who 2002,O when John joined the Opera Board, the couple has graduated from Stanford with an A.B. in political science underwritten numerous productions and provided in 1970. Early in her career, Cynthia was the editor and exceptional support for many of the Company’s innovative director of The Portable Stanford book series for ten endeavors. In September 2008, the Gunns made a historic years. She edited twenty-eight books by Stanford commitment—believed to be the largest gift ever made by professors on a vast array of topics, including Economic individuals to an American opera company—to help fund Policy Beyond the Headlines by George Shultz and Ken the signature projects of General Director David Gockley, Dam. In addition to their support of San Francisco Opera, including new operas and productions, multimedia the Gunns are active members of the community. John projects, and outreach programs, and they have proudly chairs the advisory board for the Stanford Institute for continued that support for General Director Matthew Economic Policy Research, is Vice Chairman of the Board Shilvock. This season, the Gunns’ inspired generosity is of Stanford Hospital Care, and is a former trustee of helping make possible five productions—Romeo & Juliet, Stanford University. Cynthia currently serves as an Billy Budd, The Marriage of Figaro, Manon Lescaut, and overseer of Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a trustee of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. The Gunns hope that their the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and has been a support inspires others to give. John comments, “Opera is member of the advisory board of Family and Children a dynamic art form and all of us play a role in keeping it Services and the board of the Lucile Packard Foundation vital. We must expand our repertoire and our audiences for Children’s Health. Opera lovers are grateful to Cynthia and strive for financial flexibility. And we depend on and John and applaud their commitment to keeping San donors to keep opera alive.” John is the former chairman Francisco Opera a leading-edge company.

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SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT

Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions (Production Sponsor, Hansel & Gretel) San Francisco Opera will always owe a debt of gratitude to Phyllis C. Wattis for her many generous and visionary gifts to San Francisco Opera that include an endowment that established the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions. This season’s Hansel & Gretel is made possible by the sponsorship support of the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions. Phyllis C. Wattis passed away in June 2002 at the age of 97. During her life she generously supported many Bay Area nonprofit organizations engaged in health care (California Pacific Medical Center, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital), education (University of California, Stanford University), displays of scientific wonders (Academy of Sciences, Exploratorium), and production of music (Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Symphony). She was especially interested in the arts, contributing also her time, wisdom, and leadership to fine arts and performing arts. She served prominently on the boards of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco Opera, and San Francisco Symphony and was a committed financial and ideological supporter of each of these organizations as well. Her vision was instrumental in shaping the arts community in San Francisco. Phyllis C. Wattis helped underwrite San Francisco Opera’s world premiere productions, including Dangerous Liaisons (1994), A Streetcar Named Desire (1998), and the critically acclaimed Dead Man Walking (2000). She provided additional support to many other productions including a new production of War and Peace (1991), Lulu (1998), Wozzeck (1999), and Kat’a Kabanova (2002). San Francisco Opera deeply appreciates the many generous gifts from Phyllis C. Wattis and takes this opportunity to recognize the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions for its exclusive sponsorship support of The Makropulos Case (2010), The Flying Dutchman (2013), Two Women (2015), and sponsorship of this season’s The Marriage of Figaro, Hansel & Gretel, and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.

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Burgess and Elizabeth Jamieson Fund (Production Sponsor, Manon Lescaut) Libby and Burgess Jamieson have made an extraordinary commitment to San Francisco Opera for over three decades by supporting traditional, classical productions. Their ongoing generosity has assured an enduring place on the War Memorial Opera House stage for such applauded and memorable works as: Die Meistersinger, Il Trittico, La Bohème, Madama Butterﬂy, Turandot, Tosca, and La Traviata. They consider their sustained support of the arts, especially of San Francisco Opera, as a means of preserving important cultural links for future generations. “Libby and I believe in the enduring love of great works KRISTEN LOKEN appealing to seasoned and new audiences alike and to attract the next generation of opera lovers,” Burgess says, and “we are so pleased to play a role in bringing Manon Lescaut to the stage. We have a special fondness for supporting Puccini operas and look forward to this grand production, especially as it features the return of former music director Nicola Luisotti to conduct such outstanding artists as Lianna Haroutounian and Brian Jagde.” With over 45 years of experience in private and public investment management, Burgess is active on the San Francisco Opera’s Board of Directors and its investment committee.

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s Jan Shrem explains, “For Maria, it is all about the artists. Though I had loved opera for years before I met her, it was Maria who opened my eyesA to the dedication and sacrifice of the artists.” Jan and Maria have provided significant support for opera artists through the establishment of four major funds. Through the Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund, they support many classic works of the Italian repertoire, including this season’s Manon Lescaut and Ernani. Through the Conductors Fund, appearances of renowned conductors are assured at San Francisco Opera, this season for Romeo & Juliet, The Marriage of Figaro, and Manon Lescaut. Through the Emerging Stars Fund, Jan and Maria help bring some of opera’s most exciting rising talents to the stage, with appearances this season in Romeo & Juliet, Billy Budd, The Marriage of Figaro, Manon Lescaut, Ernani, and Partenope. And finally, the Luminaries Concert Fund enables San Francisco Opera to bring legendary artists to the stage for special events and performances. Maria, born in Florence, Italy, says, “Opera has been one of my greatest passions since I was 13 years old.” When she saw Madama Butterfly at San Francisco Opera in 1974 starring Renata Scotto, the two had an emotional backstage meeting. “She was so far from home and so DREW ALTIZER grateful to be able to speak Italian with me—we both young artists succeed and grow into the next generation cried. I began to understand the challenging life of opera of stars. It is a pleasure to partner with them on the artists. Since then, I have been motivated to do what I can Emerging Stars program and to celebrate the finest to welcome artists when they are working in San voices making an impact on the world. San Francisco Francisco.” Jan concurs, “They dedicate their lives for our Opera has always been one of the great nurturers of new pleasure, and their artistry elevates our lives.” voices, and this program helps us take that even further.” The Emerging Stars of San Francisco Opera’s 2019 Maria declares, “It is immensely satisfying to support season include virtuoso singers Pene Pati and Amina San Francisco Opera in this way. We can appreciate the Edris (Romeo & Juliet), John Chest (Billy Budd), Jeanine benefits of our philanthropy here and now as we enjoy De Bique, Serena Malfi, Levente Molnár, and Michael these young, exciting artists and become their friends.” Sumuel (The Marriage of Figaro), and Anthony Clark Evans Maria feels that artists want friends in the audience, and (Manon Lescaut). What does it take to be an Emerging she and Jan are pleased to know that their presence gives Star? In the Shrems’ view: “a beautiful voice, a good ear, artists greater confidence. “We hope others will join us in strong acting skills, and the ability to perform from the contributing to these funds and these friendships.” heart.” Andriana Chuchman, who made her Company Jan says, “Opera is what brought us together, and it will debut as Mary Hatch in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life always be central in our lives. It is a joy to share in Maria’s last season, was named “2019 Emerging Star of the Year” overwhelming enthusiasm, and it is important to ensure based on a popular vote. General Director Matthew that San Francisco Opera has the support and stability it Shilvock observes, “Maria and Jan have an incredible deserves to continue its transformative work.” sensitivity to the needs of artists and a passion for seeing

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OPERA IN THREE ACTS BY ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK LIBRETTO BY ADELHEID WETTE

ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY DAVID POUNTNEY BASED ON THE ORIGINAL FAIRYTALE BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM

This production is made possible, in part, by the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions, Bertie Bialek Elliott, and the San Francisco Opera Guild.

Additional support provided by Anne & Timothy Kahn and Kaiser Permanente.

NOVEMBER 15, 17, 21, 23, 30; DECEMBER 1, 3, 7, 2019

The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes including one intermission.

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SYNOPSIS HANSEL & GRETEL

ACT I and Gretel nibble at the house, they hear a voice, and the Hansel and Gretel are meant to be working, but are restless Witch emerges. She tells the children that her name is and hungry. Gretel tells Hansel that their mother has been Rosina Lickspittle and invites them in. given a jug of milk and will make a rice pudding for supper. When Hansel and Gretel try to run away, the Witch Hansel tries to steal the cream and Gretel scolds him. Brother stops them with a spell. She traps Hansel and orders and sister decide to stop working and have some fun. Their Gretel to feed him as the Witch eagerly anticipates her mother, Gertrude, returns home to find them dancing and is forthcoming meal. The Witch decides that Hansel isn’t fat angry. She accidentally knocks over the jug of milk. Now enough to eat yet and must be fed. While she does this, there is no supper, so Gertrude sends the children out into Gretel steals her magic wand to free Hansel. The Witch the forest to find strawberries. Gertrude is exhausted, asks Gretel to check how her baking is doing. Gretel depressed, and worried about her family’s poverty. pretends that she doesn’t know what to do. When the The children’s father, Peter, returns cheerful after a Witch demonstrates, Hansel and Gretel push her into the successful day’s work selling brooms. Gertrude at first huge bowl of chocolate mixture. suspects he is drunk, but is overjoyed when she sees the Children, trapped and blinded by the Witch, appear. vast quantities of food he has purchased. Peter wonders Hansel and Gretel restore their sight by touching them, where the children are, and Gertrude explains that she and Hansel frees them using the Witch’s wand. Hansel has sent Hansel and Gretel out into the forest. Peter is and Gretel’s parents arrive to find their children safe and worried and tells Gertrude about the terrifying witch who happy. The family are overjoyed to be together again, and lives there, who lures children into her home to eat them. everyone celebrates. The parents hurry off to find their children.

ACT II First performance: Hoftheater, Weimar, December 23, 1893 Gretel makes a garland of ﬂowers while Hansel gathers First performance in the United States: New York, strawberries. Hansel crowns Gretel queen of the forest. October 8, 1895 (in English); November 25, 1905 (in German) The children hear a cuckoo and mimic it. They pretend to First San Francisco Opera performance: Dreamland be cuckoos themselves and feed each other strawberries Auditorium, September 14, 1929. Hansel & Gretel has been until they are all gone. Gretel worries that their mother performed in 4 previous seasons at San Francisco Opera. will be angry with them. She tries to look for more For complete information on all past casts and productions, berries, but it is too dark. visit archive.sfopera.com. Hansel and Gretel realize they are lost. The sound of Orchestra: 2 flutes; 1 piccolo; 2 oboes their voices echoing scares them. The Sandman arrives (2nd doubles English horn); 2 clarinets; 1 bass clarinet; and soothes the children with a song. Hansel and Gretel 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones and become sleepy. They say their evening prayers and fall 1 bass trombone; 1 tuba; 1 timpani; 3 percussion; 1 harp; asleep. Fairytale characters from the forest come to watch 40 strings (12 first violins, 9 second violins, 7 violas, 7 cellos, 5 basses); 65 total. over them. Personnel: 7 principals, 1 soloist dancer; —INTERMISSION— 22 chorus (all women), 8 supernumeraries; 20 children’s chorus, 58 total.

ACT III The Dew Fairy arrives to wake up the children. Hansel The children singing in today’s performance (listed after the and Gretel tell each other about their mysterious and artist profiles) are members of the San Francisco Girls and Boys marvellous dreams. They now feel ready for anything. Choruses. The San Francisco Girls Chorus is led by Artistic Suddenly the children see a house appear as if by Director Valérie Sainte-Agathe. The San Francisco Boys Chorus magic. It is partly edible, and they can’t resist it. As Hansel is led by Artistic Director Eric Choate.

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HANSEL & GRETEL (Sung in English with English supertitles)

Conductor CAST Christopher Franklin (in order of vocal appearance) Director

Antony McDonald* Gretel Heidi Stober Associate Stage Director Danielle Urbas* Hansel Sasha Cooke

Production Designer Gertrude, the Mother Michaela Martens Antony McDonald* Peter, the Father Alfred Walker Associate Set Designer The Sandman Ashley Dixon† Ricardo Pardo* The Dew Fairy Natalie Image† Lighting Designer Lucy Carter* The Witch Robert Brubaker Revival Lighting Designer Will-o’-the-wisp Chiharu Shibata Neill Brinkworth*

Choreographer Grimm Fairytale Characters and the Gingerbread Children Lucy Burge*

Chorus Director * San Francisco Opera debut † Current Adler Fellow Ian Robertson

Assistant Conductor William Long

Prompter Dennis Doubin TIME AND PLACE: Early 20th Century. The Black Forest.

Musical Preparation ACT I: A Cottage in the Woods Bryndon Hassman Maureen Zoltek † ACT II: The Forest César Cañón John Churchwell —INTERMISSION— Fabrizio Corona Diction ACT III: The Witch’s House Lynne Soffer

Assistant Director Jimmy Marcheso

Stage Manager Latecomers may not be seated during the performance after the lights have dimmed. Andrew G. Landis Patrons who leave during the performance may not be reseated until intermission. Assistant Stage Managers The use of cameras, cell phones, and any kind of recording equipment is strictly forbidden. Thea Railey Anna Reetz Please turn off and refrain from using all electronic devices. Shawna Lucey

Costume Supervisor Galen Till

Wig and Makeup Jeanna Parham

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ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK’S HANSEL & GRETEL BY PAUL THOMASON

CORY WEAVER

curious phenomenon occurred in the world of ples of this, and while Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die Tote opera at the turn of the last century. Italian opera Stadt looms large in operatic history, one is much more saw virtually an entire school of composers who likely to encounter Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and areA remembered today for a single work: Ponchielli, Boito, Gretel in the theater. In fact, ever since is premiere on Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Giordano, Catalani, Cilea, Zandonai, December 23, 1893, Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera has all wrote numerous operas, some of which flourished for a enchanted audiences, never being out of the repertoire. time, but today their name is associated with only one Though Humperdinck is virtually unknown today (aside work. By contrast, German opera has only a couple exam- from Hansel and Gretel) in his day he was a significant fig-

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sion Wagner—jokingly one assumes—suggested that he write an opera called Egmont, “taking the words from Goethe and the music from Beethoven.” On another occasion during a non-musical rehearsal of Parsifal’s second act, Humperdinck and another young man jumped in and sang the music of the Flower Maidens, causing Wagner to quip, “if not Flower Maidens, then at any rate, Radish Boys.” As the ﬁnal pieces of the Parsifal production were being put together it was discovered that the machinery responsible for the Transformation Scene in Act I took too long for the scene change and Wagner needed to write more music. “They always complain my music is too long, now it is too short,” he exploded and ran out of the theater. Years later Humperdinck explained what happened next:

I ran home, quickly sketched out a few transi- tional bars, orchestrated them and incorporated them into the original score. Then, ﬁlled with anxious expectancy, I took the original to the Master. He looked through the pages, nodding affably, then said, ‘Well, why not? It should work! Be off with you to the Chancellery and copy out of parts, so that we can get on.’ No sooner said than done. The sets and music were now in glo- rious accord and no one in the audience had the least suspicion at any of the performances that

Engelbert Humperdinck, 1854–1921 the score had been patched together by a back LEBRECHT MUSIC ARTS / BRIDGEMAN IMAGES street cobbler plying his modest trade.

ure in the musical world, an intimate friend of composers By the time Parsifal was given at the following year’s festival like Wagner, Strauss, and Mahler, a teacher of note, a the machinery had been adjusted to fit Wagner’s original critic, and one of the people responsible for the Berlin score and Humperdinck’s contribution was dropped. opera company known today as the Deutsche Oper. In fact, After Wagner’s death Humperdinck continued his as the company was being formed it was Humperdinck friendship with the Wagner family as he pursued his own who was chosen to write to no less than Gustav Mahler on career as composer, teacher, and critic. Cosima asked him May 30, 1909, offering him the post of general director of to be the musical tutor to their son, Siegfried (who had a “our Richard Wagner Theater.” (As it turned out, Mahler very modest career as an opera composer in his own died before the company opened in 1912.) right). Humperdinck also regularly served as assistant When Humperdinck won the Mendelssohn Award in conductor at the Bayreuth Festival where he introduced 1879 at the age of twenty-five, he went to Naples where the composers Max von Schillings and Hans Pfitzner to he made the acquaintance of Richard Wagner. After a few each other. It seems to have also been at Bayreuth where visits, Wagner invited him to come to Bayreuth and be his he first met another of the assistants, a fellow composer assistant. Humperdinck accepted and lived at Bayreuth ten years younger than Humperdinck named Richard during 1880–81 where, among his other duties, he copied Strauss—who would conduct the world premiere of the score of Parsifal in preparation for its first perfor- Humperdinck’s best-known work. mance in 1882. The diaries of Wagner’s wife, Cosima, give Hansel and Gretel began very inauspiciously in 1890 when a glimpse into how the family viewed “Friend Humperdinck’s sister Adelheid Wette, asked him to write Humperdinck” (as Cosima referred to him): on one occa- music for four children’s songs to be sung by her own chil-

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dren in a play she had written, based on the Grimm Broth- great master, and you’ve given the Germans a ers fairy-tale, Hansel and Gretel. Humperdinck happened to work they scarcely deserve, but let us hope all be looking for a libretto for a comic opera, and he was per- the same that they will very soon learn how to suaded to expand the four songs into a Singspiel (a play appreciate it fully … I implore you to insist on with music). When this version—sixteen songs with piano me conducting it—that old simpleton Lassen accompaniment with connecting dialogue—was performed [the theater’s elderly chief conductor] must not at the Wette home it worked so well that Humperdinck was be allowed near it! And young Hansel is devil- urged to expand the material into a full-fledged opera. He ishly difficult! was not at all certain the rather brief fairy-tale could sus- tain an entire opera, but set to work. The “devilishly difficult” role of Hansel was to have been The libretto for the opera, written by his sister, differs sung by Strauss’s protégé, a young soprano named Pauline significantly from the Grimms’ darker, quite horrific de Ahna, but she jumped around so energetically at the story. In it, the children’s mother convinces her reluctant dress rehearsal she sprained her ankle and so missed cre- husband that to avoid all four of them dying from hunger ating the role. (She rejoined the cast at the third perfor- they must take the children into the forest and leave them mance—and married Strauss the following September.) there. (In later editions “mother” was changed to “step- There are several reasons for Hansel and Gretel’s suc- mother.”) The children overhear the conversation and cess. It tells a familiar story with a superb blending of Hansel foils this plan by gathering stones he then drops innocence and sophistication. Many of the melodies are along the way to reflect the moonlight so they can find either folk songs or they sound folk-like, yet they are their way home. But when he overhears plans to repeat often blended with extremely complex harmony. The the act, he discovers the door is locked, so he cannot orchestration is lavish. The orchestra approaches Wagne- gather the stones and is forced to leave a trail of bread- rian size and the percussion section includes triangle, crumbs, which the birds eat. It is a bird that eventually small bells, glockenspiel, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, leads them to the Witch’s house, and after they kill the castanets, xylophone, cuckoo, tambourine, and a thunder Witch they discover chests filled with jewels. They take as machine. But Humperdinck uses these forces deftly. many jewels as they can carry and return home (having Purely orchestral passages like the Prelude, the Witches’ been ferried over a lake by a duck) to discover their Ride and the Pantomime with the fourteen angels can mother/step-mother is dead, which means they can live utterly sweep away listeners with the dramatic power of happily with their father, thanks to the jewels. For the the music. But thanks to the flexibility of the score, mov- softer operatic version, the characters of the Sandman ing from folk music and child-like innocence to complex and the Dew Fairy as well as the whole Dream Pantomime orchestral writing, the music never swamps the naïveté of were invented by Adelheid Wette, who also introduced the the story itself. As Michael Kennedy pointed out, “At no idea of the Witch’s previous victims coming back to life point does [Humperdinck] condescend, patronize, or sen- and the arrival of the very concerned parents who have timentalize the children or the fairytale. The music of the been looking for the children after sending them into the Evening Prayer has a touching and naïve simplicity that woods to gather strawberries. represents the absorption of the folk-song into art-music The first performance of the opera was scheduled for done with supreme skill and taste.” Munich, but a flu epidemic forced its postponement. The Hansel and Gretel was the first complete opera to be premiere took place in Weimar where it was conducted by broadcast on the radio when it was transmitted from the twenty-nine-year-old Richard Strauss. When he had seen stage of London’s Covent Garden on January 6, 1923. It was the score two months before, he wrote to Humperdinck: also the first radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera on December 25th, 1931, when it inaugurated the series of [It is] truly as masterpiece of the first class … regular broadcasts from the Met that continues to this day. after a very long time, it’s something that really Humperdinck was never able to repeat Hansel and Gretel’s impresses me. Such heart-refreshing humor, perfect blend of innocence and sophistication—but then such deliciously naïve melodies, such art and again, no one since has managed to do it either. refinement in the orchestration … such resplen- dent polyphony, and it’s all new, original and so Writer, lecturer, and teacher Paul Thomason is currently writing a authentically German. My dear friend, you are a book on the music of Richard Strauss.

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BY KIRSTEN PAIGE

CORY WEAVER

y the end of the nineteenth century, readers of Bismarck’s rule, constitutional reform seemed imminent, fairy tales had come to expect certain themes, and representatives of the German states and their political including Christian moral ideals, happy end- parties were in near constant dispute over suffrage, educa- ings,B and scenes depicting the socialization of children tional laws, religious freedoms, and social and economic within domestic and school settings. Engelbert modernization. New banking regulations, investment Humperdinck’s 1893 adaptation of Hänsel und Gretel for opportunities, currency standardization, free trade, and the Hoftheater in Weimar participated in this literary and industrialization, especially in rural regions, brought opti- didactic tradition. The libretto, written by the composer’s mism in the 1860s and 1870s, which came to an abrupt halt sister Adelheid Wette, accommodated social expectations with the devastating 1873 worldwide depression. As agricul- around the fairy-tale genre: it offered an opportunity for tural imports from America and Russia flooded the Euro- opera-goers to learn what constituted “proper” and pean markets, at least twenty percent of German businesses “improper” traits in children, as well as the ideal relation- filed for bankruptcy and more than one million Germans ship of children to their parents, all while leading towards emigrated to North and South America to escape economic a happy ending. But Hänsel und Gretel did not simply and social stress. It is little wonder, then, that Humperdinck reproduce convention: in diverging from tradition to imagined that a fairy tale—a vehicle for moral and cultural comment upon contemporary events, debates, and prob- education with a guaranteed cheerful conclusion—might lems, Humperdinck and Wette reflected in both text and appeal to German opera audiences in 1893. music social and political tensions around childhood, As Jeff Vandrimmelen has shown in Children All Grown labor, gender politics, and domesticity in 1890s Germany. Up: Child Labor, Gender Roles, and Pedagogical Function in Hänsel und Gretel premiered at a moment of political Engelbert Humperdinck’s ‘Hänsel and Gretel’ (2006), unrest and social turmoil across Europe. Under Otto von Humperdinck and Wette placed the opera’s familiar narra-

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“Humperdinck and Wette reﬂected in both text and music social and political tensions around childhood, labor, gender politics, and domesticity in 1890s Germany.”

tive in direct conversation with contemporary political anxi- assigning the father this occupation, he—not his wife, as eties, particularly around child labor, education and peda- in the Grimms’ tale—is aligned with the witch, a gesture gogy, gender roles in the household, and religious liberties. that could be understood as critiquing contemporary In the decades of European depression, it was common for trends in patriarchal authority. Hänsel and Gretel’s children to be punished, mistreated, and even abandoned; mother is not much kinder: she reinforces the children’s the Brothers Grimm and Ludwig Bechstein’s earlier versions role as laborers, reprimanding them for playing instead of of Hänsel und Gretel emphasize these themes. Humperdinck working and ordering them to march into the woods to and Wette’s version, however, expands this element of the find food. The children’s status in this household is clear, story to include scenes of child labor (also common in the even as they are punished for their inability to fully func- period) and the children’s broader adoption of traditional tion in what Humperdinck and Wette might have per- adult responsibilities. In Act I, for example, Hänsel and Gre- ceived as roles suitable only for adults. tel work together in the home in equal capacities alongside In general, Wette’s libretto might be read as a critique of their working parents; every member of this household child labor and the sometimes callous treatment of children works, with scenes of labor presenting a foil to the children’s during this period, advocating before an audience of chil- longing for an innocent childhood. While the children work dren and parents for a more innocent, carefree vision of side-by-side, unlike in earlier versions of the fairy tale, childhood that would not become commonplace until the Hänsel does not adopt a protective stance over his sister; first decades of the twentieth century. At the time of its instead, it is Gretel who teaches her brother to control his premiere, the moral lessons of the opera were clear: partic- emotions, focus on the tasks at hand, and draw on Christian ularly given their familiarity with the tale, audience mem- teachings to remain steadfast. In one moment, she instructs bers would have noticed Humperdinck and Wette’s her brother: “Wenn die Not aufs Höchste steigt, Gott der narrative liberties and their relevance to contemporary pol- Herr die Hand euch reicht!” (“When the need rises to its itics. One reviewer writing in 1907, for example, called the highest point, God will take your hand!”). In an age of opera a “mirror of life” with strong ethical connotations. increasing emancipation of women and education of girls, The fading of these resonances over time has undoubtedly Humperdinck and Wette imply that children—including, and caused the opera to seem more conventional today than it especially, girls—hold resilience and strength within them- did to its initial audiences. Revisiting the politics of Wette’s selves and deserve positions of value within the home and libretto and understanding the social and political connec- German society more generally. tions it drew permits Hänsel und Gretel to resonate once The parents’ occupations also differ in Humperdinck’s again, per Vandrimmelen, as “a discourse about how chil- opera from earlier, more familiar versions of the tale. The dren deserve a childhood free of abuse and adult anxiety, a children’s father is not a woodcutter but a broom-maker childhood that equally educates both genders, and a child- in Humperdinck’s opera. Not a neutral or innocent sym- hood that instills confidence and religious faith.” bol, the broom was a symbol of patriarchal authority and sacred power that can literally sweep evil away; when it Kirsten Paige is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, hav- fails to do so, the broom symbolizes a desire to control or ing received her Ph.D. in Music History from the University of even embody evil, one reason why brooms are often asso- California, Berkeley in 2018. She is currently at work on a book on ciated with witches. Vandrimmelen suggests that by Richard Wagner and environmental discourse.

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COURTESY OF COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP REWRITING THE TALE ADDING HUMAN DIMENSION TO A CLASSIC STORY

BY MELISSA NGAN

reated 80 years after the Brothers Grimm tions serving individuals and families transitioning from released their Children’s and Household Tales homelessness in San Francisco this season, the lens Adel- in 1812, librettist Adelheid Wette’s softer setting heid places on the opera Hansel and Gretel mirrors the ofC the “Hansel and Gretel” story brings subtlety and complexities in what these organizations address and how dimension to the themes of poverty and survival present they teach the public to support neighbors experiencing in this classic fairy tale. homelessness in our home city. As we explore partnerships with Community Housing Instead of an evil stepmother who plots to abandon Partnership and Compass Family Services, two organiza- Hansel and Gretel in the woods, Adelheid’s version cen-

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“Today, families with children represent 33% of the homeless population, the majority of whom are single mothers.”

ters on Hansel and Gretel’s biological behavioral and mental health coun- mother and father, overwhelmed by seling for the children, their parents, the pressures of trying to provide for and families to enable them to grow their children. This stress is evident and rebuild their lives,” says Dr. in the mother’s scolding of her chil- Warren Browner, CEO of Sutter dren, as she sets them off into the Health CPMC. woods to gather food for the family. Throughout the story Hansel and Today, families with children repre- Gretel use song and dance as a means sent 33% of the homeless population, of escape. So too does Sophia, an 11- the majority of whom are single moth- year-old Compass client, whose ers. “The reality is that the most visible favorite Compass programs are after- homeless population are the single school activities like ice skating, adults that you see on the street. The bowling, and concerts. Last spring, population we serve, homeless fami- San Francisco Opera artists sup- lies, are the less visible population. You ported Community Housing Partner- could walk by a homeless family, and ship’s annual “A Night With the Stars” you wouldn’t realize they were strug- by coaching residents in creating gling,” says Compass’ Executive Direc- moving musical performances. This tor, Erica Kisch. season, we work with both organiza- COURTESY OF RAY MINA/COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES At a Community Housing Partner- tions to co-create experiences for ship event last season, we learned that many people expe- clients and staff that use art-making as a means of sharing riencing homelessness may go as long as a week with no stories, processing trauma, and cultivating deeper human human interaction. The close relationships clients form relationships. with support staff are a literal lifeline, as are the benevo- In the end, “one tender touch” from Gretel is the most lent characters added by Adelheid to watch over the chil- powerful magic, awakening the frozen children into song. dren during their ﬁrst night away from home. Both Martin, one of the 90% of Compass’s clients who have Community Housing Partnership and Compass provide achieved stable housing, thanks the agency for providing wrap-around services, helping clients to achieve self-suf- “a lot of help, and most importantly, a lot of love.” ﬁciency through stable housing, economic stability, and For more information on our work with Compass Family access to legal services. Services and Community Housing Partnership and for ways After the witch is defeated through their resourceful- to support individuals and families experiencing homelessness, Hansel and Gretel are surprised when more captured ness this season, visit sfopera.com/earnyourwings. children emerge from their gingerbread forms, frozen, Earn Your Wings is supported by a Civic Practice Grant blind, and in need of healing even after danger has passed. from OPERA America’s Opera Fund. “When children and their families go through major trauma like losing their home, it has long-lasting effects Melissa Ngan is a founding member and Executive Director of Fifth on children’s health and their families’ health. Not only House Ensemble, a Chicago-based national leader in collabora- does Compass provide a full range of childcare with tive, arts-integrated program design for educational and social enrichment activities for children, they also provide impact, and is San Francisco Opera’s Civic Practice consultant.

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* San Francisco Opera Debut ♪ Role Debut Violins of Hope (Music at Kohl Mansion Opera of Chicago); Herodias in Salome Burlingame) (Seattle Symphony, American Symphony CHRISTOPHER Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording Orchestra); Dialogues des Carmélites FRANKLIN (John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, 2011; Mason (Metropolitan Opera); Dalila in Samson (Pittsburgh, Bates’ The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, 2018) et Dalila concert (North Carolina Opera); Pennsylvania) @sashamezzomama Susan B. Anthony in Virgil Thomson’s The Conductor @sashamezzo Mother of Us All (Hudson Opera House) San Francisco www.sashacooke.com Merola Opera Program 1992, 1994 Opera Highlights: Turandot; The Future HEIDI STOBER ALFRED WALKER ♪ Is Now: Adler Fellows Soprano (Waukesha, Bass-Baritone Concert Recent and Wisconsin) (Craryville, New York) Upcoming: La Bohème (Teatro Verdi di Gretel Peter, the Father Trieste); Kurt Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der San Francisco San Francisco Opera Stadt Mahagonny (Parma); CD recording Opera Highlights: Highlights: Orest in project (Czech Philharmonic Prague); Zdenka in Arabella; Elektra Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas Angelica in Orlando; Recent and (Yale University); La Traviata (Minnesota Johanna in Sweeney Upcoming: Crown Opera); Tosca (Festival Granda Lima); I Todd; Norina in Don in Porgy and Bess Puritani (Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona); Pasquale; Magnolia Hawks in Show Boat (Metropolitan Opera); Oroveso in Norma Lucia di Lammermoor (Auditorio de Recent and Upcoming: Dalinda in Ariodante (Boston Lyric Opera); title role of Porgy Tenerife); Nabucco (Trieste); Concerts (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Antigone in George and Bess (Seattle Opera, Washington with Tokyo New City Orchestra (Suntory Enescu’s Oedipe (Dutch National Opera); National Opera); Speaker in The Magic Flute Hall), Oviedo Filarmonia, Palau de les Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Deutsche Oper (Metropolitan Opera); Ruler in Das Wunder Arts Valencia, Münchner Symphoniker Berlin); Micaëla in Carmen (Berlin); Donna der Heliane (Bard Summerscape); Man with Elvira in Don Giovanni (Berlin); Despina the Helmet in Martinů’s Julietta (American SASHA COOKE in Così fan tutte (Metropolitan Opera); Symphony Orchestra Carnegie Hall); Titurel Mezzo-Soprano Musetta in La Bohème (Komische Oper in Parsifal (Metropolitan Opera); Amonasro (Spring, Texas) Berlin); Stravinsky’s Cantata (Los Angeles in Aida (Seattle Opera); Méphistophélès in Hansel Philharmonic); Beethoven’s Symphony No. Faust (Portland Opera) San Francisco Opera 9 (LA Phil); Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (Grand Highlights: Title role Teton Music Festival); Mahler’s Symphony ASHLEY DIXON ♪ of Mark Adamo’s No. 2 (Grand Teton Music Festival) Mezzo-Soprano The Gospel of Mary (Peachtree City, Magdalene; Anna in Les ROBERT BRUBAKER Georgia) Troyens; Magdalene in Tenor (Manheim, The Sandman Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; title role of Pennsylvania) San Francisco Opera Orlando The Witch Highlights: Angel First Recent and Upcoming: Laurene Jobs San Francisco Opera Class in Jake Heggie’s in Mason Bates’ The (R)evolution of Steve Highlights: Aegisth It’s a Wonderful Life; Jobs (San Francisco Opera); Hansel in in Elektra; Guillot de Mercédès in Carmen; Hansel and Gretel (LA Opera); Eduige in Morfontaine in Manon; Third Wood Nymph in Rusalka; A Singer in Rodelinda (Gran Teatre del Liceu); Mahler’s Emperor Altoum Manon Lescaut Symphony No. 2 Resurrection (New York in Turandot; Red Recent and Upcoming: Angelina in La Philharmonic, Barbican Hall London, Royal Whiskers in Billy Budd Cenerentola (Dayton Opera); Mrs. Splinters in Concertgebouw Amsterdam); Mahler’s Recent and Upcoming: The Witch in Hansel Copland’s The Tender Land (Michigan Opera Symphony No. 3 (Accademia Nazionale and Gretel (Metropolitan Opera); Loge in Das Theatre); Merola Opera Program: Popova di Santa Cecilia); Beethoven’s Missa Rheingold (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Aegisth in William Walton’s The Bear; La Ciesca in Solemnis (Atlanta Symphony, Carnegie Hall); in Elektra (Chicago); Dr. Caius in Falstaff Gianni Schicchi; Mrs. Nolan in Menotti’s The Ravel’s Shéhérazade (Radio Filharmonisch (Dallas Opera); Monostatos in The Magic Medium. Orkest); Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied Flute (Metropolitan Opera) San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow 2018, 2019 (Houston Symphony); Mendelssohn’s Die Merola Opera Program 2015, 2017 Erste Walpurgisnacht (Houston); Michael MICHAELA MARTENS Tilson Thomas’ Rilke Songs (Cleveland Mezzo-Soprano NATALIE IMAGE ♪ Orchestra); Cavalleria Rusticana in concert (Seattle, Washington) Soprano (Tsawwassen, (Chicago Symphony); Residency and Gertrude, the Mother Canada) solo recital (San Francisco Symphony); San Francisco Opera The Dew Fairy Brahms and Schumann (Wigmore Hall Highlights: Countess San Francisco Opera London); Beethoven’s An die Ferne Geliebte, Adelaide Waldner in Highlights: Frasquita Schumann’s Frauenliebe und leben, Arabella; Klytemnestra in Carmen; First Wood Schumann’s Zwölf Gedichte nach Justinus in Elektra; Cassandre Nymph in Rusalka; Kerner (92nd Street Y New York, Kennedy in Les Troyens Barbarina in Le Nozze Center Washington D.C.); Solo recital of Recent and Upcoming: Amneris in Aida di Figaro Fauré, Debussy, Berlioz, Schumann, and (Houston Grand Opera); Ježibaba in Recent and Upcoming: The Future Is Now: Beethoven (Santa Fe Chamber Music Rusalka (Santa Fe Opera); Klytemnestra Adler Fellows Concert; A Viennese New Festival); Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s in Elektra (Philadelphia Orchestra, Lyric Year (Victoria Symphony); Pamina in Die

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CHIHARU SHIBATA (Sapporo, Japan) Will-o’-the-wisp San Francisco Opera Highlights: Wu Ching- Hua in John Adams’ Healthy together Nixon in China; Solo Dancer in Aida; Duncan Kaiser Permanente is a proud supporter of SF Opera in Macbeth Tenured dancer in San Francisco Opera Corps We all want to make healthy choices. You deserve health care that’s simple, de Ballet personalized, and hassle-free. Care and coverage that fits your life.Visit kp.org

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DANIELLE URBAS * National Opera); Elektra (Göteborg Opera); (London, UK) Lohengrin (Greek National Opera, Polish Associate Stage National Opera, Welsh National Opera); La Director Finta Giardiniera (Glyndebourne, Milan’s Recent and Teatro alla Scala); Peter Grimes (Aldeburgh Upcoming: Beach); Salome (ENO Royal Festival Hall); Collaborated with The Dream of Gerontius (ENO Royal Festival Antony McDonald Hall); Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, on: Hansel and Gretel Obsidian Tear, AfteRite, Yugen, Multiverse, (Royal Opera Covent Autobiography; Threshold (Le Patin Libre); Proud to Garden); Gerald Barry’s The Importance The Most Incredible Thing (Charlotte Ballet); of Being Earnest (Northern Ireland Opera On the Town (Hyogo Performing Arts Japan); Belfast); Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face Home I’m Darling (National Theatre, West (Belfast); Assistant and revival movement End); The Almighty Sometimes (The Royal Support the director for Richard Jones on La Bohème Exchange); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Covent Garden, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Lyric (Apollo, UK tour); Oil (Almeida); The End of Opera of Chicago); Boris Godunov (Covent Longing (Playhouse) Garden); Assisted Oliver Mears on Eugene Arts in the Onegin (Scottish Opera); Director of Einstein’s NEILL BRINKWORTH * Dreams (Tête à Tête) (London, UK) Revival Lighting RICARDO PARDO * Designer Bay Area (Galicia, Spain) Recent and Associate Designer Upcoming: Lohengrin Recent and (National Opera of Upcoming: Roméo et Greece); Mozart vs Juliette (Ingoldstadt Machine (Mahogany Germany); Luke Opera, touring); Styles’ Unborn in Dido & Aeneas (English Touring Opera); America (Vaults Bridgetower (City of London Festival, English Festival London); The Touring Opera); Lohengrin (Poland National Marriage of Figaro (King’s Head London); Opera); Jephthe (English Touring Opera);

FAMILY LAW FAMILY The Medium (Cochrane Theatre London); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Tristan und Isolde (Opéra National du Rhin); (Chester Storyhouse); The Firm (Hampstead Hansel and Gretel (Royal Opera Covent Theatre); The Dark (Fuel Theatre, national Garden); Julietta (English National Opera); tour); Dark Sublime (Trafalgar Studios, West Katya Kabanova (Covent Garden); L’Enfant et End); Coat (Roundhouse, national tour); PERSONAL ATTENTION les Sortilèges (Bolshoi Theatre); Le Nozze di Blank (National Theatre); Billy the Kid (NYMT, THOUGHTFUL LITIGATION Figaro (Milan’s Teatro alla Scala); Lohengrin Leicester Curve); The Meeting (Hampstead (Greek National Opera); Fiddler on the Roof Theatre); In the Night Garden Live (Minor FINAL RESOLUTION (Grange Park Opera); Alice (Croatian National Entertainment); Tamburlaine (Yellow Earth, Ballet); Rigoletto (Opera North); Il Trovatore; touring); Children of Killers (National Theatre) The Miserly Knight; A Florentine Tragedy; Our goal is to preserve Suddenly Last Summer (Adam Mickiewicz LUCY BURGE * our client’s Theatre Poland); 9 Minutes (Jackson’s Lane (London, UK) Theatre London); Richard III (Courtyard Choreographer dignity and humanity. Theatre); Mwana (The TRON and Traverse Recent and Theatres Scotland); Spring Time (Glasgow Upcoming: Hansel TRON); The Knight and the Crescent Hare and Gretel (Royal (Scotland tour); JukeBox (TRON Theatre, Opera Covent Garden); Asian Centre London); Olympics of the Every Parsifal (Paris Opéra); Day (Bellahouston Sports Centre Glasgow); Ariodante (Lyric Old Bags (Wimbledon Theatre London) Opera of Chicago); La www.ricardopardo.com Fanciulla del West (English National Opera); FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (ENO); Billy LUCY CARTER * Budd (Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Amsterdam); (Macclesfield, UK) Les Contes d’Hoffmann (ENO, Munich’s Lighting Designer Bavarian State Opera); Lohengrin (Munich); 575 Market Street Recent and Britten’s Gloriana (Covent Garden, Hamburg); Suite 4000 Upcoming: Orphée L’Heure Espagnole / Gianni Schicchi (Covent San Francisco, CA 94105 (English National Garden); Werther (Bergen National Opera); Opera); Katya Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face (Lyric 415.834.1120 Kabanova (Royal Opera Theatre Belfast, Irish National Opera); A www.sflg.com Covent Garden, Teatro Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hyogo Arts dell Opera); Hansel Centre Japan); On the Town (Japan); Ariadne and Gretel (Covent Garden); Werther (Bergen auf Naxos (Scottish Opera, Holland Park);

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Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera); Rusalka (Grange Park Opera); The Queen of Spades (Grange Park Opera); Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest (Northern Ireland Opera) HANDEL’S

IAN ROBERTSON (Dundee, Scotland) Judas Chorus Director Maccabaeus Mainstage: Conductor of Lohengrin; Lady Nicholas philharmonia.org Phan Macbeth of Mtsensk; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Traviata; Don Carlo;

Turandot; La Bohème. EAP 1_6 H template.indd 1 10/4/19 2:58 PM Chorus Director for over 300 productions, including world premiere commissions. Concerts: Conductor of San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus at Stern Grove Festival; Yerba Buena Gardens; Northern California tour. Merola Opera Program: Conductor of La Perichole; Così fan tutte; Grand Finale concerts. Awarded Olivier Messiaen Foundation Prize for Saint François dʼAssise (2003); San Francisco Opera Medal (2012). Artistic Director Emeritus of the San Francisco Boys Chorus which he led as Artistic Director for 23 years

SUPERNUMERARIES Michael Bragg Stacey Chien Holly MacCormick Sarah Nadreau Christina “Nina” Rocco Kay Thornton Sarah Yune

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IN MEMORIAM

We honor the members of San Francisco Opera that we lost this past year

HEATHER HARPER, FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI, soprano director Heather Harper’s flexibility cat- Opera is written into the very apulted her to the greatness her legend of Franco Zeffirelli’s life. voice merited. Early in her Faced with naming a child born career, when the BBC Chorus out of wedlock, his mother had no openings for her voice allegedly turned to the operas of type, the Belfast-born soprano Mozart, plucking the word for a GREG PETERSON LOUIS MELANCON successfully claimed a spot little breeze—“zeffiretti”—from singing as a mezzo-soprano. Years later, with only 10 one of his arias. A subsequent misspelling gave the world a days’ notice, she would step on stage to perform in the name that would become synonymous with cinematic and world premiere of composer Benjamin Britten’s War theatrical opulence: Zeffirelli. He brought his larger-than- Requiem. It was a move that would cement her status life touch to San Francisco Opera in 1962, with a set design among her generation’s greatest performers. While she for Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In its review, the San Francisco would go on to sing in other world premieres—for works Chronicle puzzled over the “super-colossal architecture” including Michael Tippett’s The Ice Break—her association that appeared in one scene and the “dwarfed proportions” with Britten proved to be lasting. Her portrayal of Ellen that appeared in the next. Zeffirelli remains best known for Orford in Britten’s opera Peter Grimes is often considered his monumental opera productions, including his 1981 stag- definitive. She performed that role with San Francisco ing of La Bohème and 1987 Turandot (both of which are in Opera in 1976 for her final appearance here after making the Metropolitan Opera’s repertory this season), his 1968 her 1975 Company debut as Charlotte in Werther. film Romeo and Juliet, and his work with some of the 20th century’s biggest stars, including Maria Callas, Elizabeth ANDRÉ PREVIN, composer Taylor, and Richard Burton. and conductor It was a titan of a task: how to ALAN MALOUF, adapt one of Tennessee Williams’ patron and San Francisco literary milestones, A Streetcar Opera Guild supporter Named Desire, for the opera If you happened to wind your way stage. The composer gutsy up to Box B in the War Memorial

MARTY SOHL enough to tackle that work had Opera House during a Tuesday to be inventive. Ambitious. Flu- night performance, chances are

ent in both classical music and jazz. San Francisco DREW ALTIZER you’d bump into longtime San Opera’s fourth general director, Lotﬁ Mansouri, ulti- Francisco Opera patron Alan mately found just the man: André Previn. Propelled to Malouf. Referred to as “the dentist to the stars,” Malouf was pop-culture royalty by his third marriage, to actor Mia a passionate supporter of the arts, himself an avid pianist. Farrow, Previn was best known as a virtuoso composer, He was also a frequent and head-turning presence at San as well as for his work behind the piano and the conduc- Francisco Opera’s galas, where he leant his support to the tor’s podium. The “wunderkind in a turtleneck” nabbed 11 San Francisco Opera Guild. Malouf’s appearances were par- Academy Award nominations and four wins for his musi- ticularly notable for his fashion savvy: The son of a textile cal scores, and his jazz improvisations earned him the manufacturer, he boasted a formidable collection of sharply admiration of legends like Dizzy Gillespie and Ella cut suits and cufflinks. His support helped make San Fran- Fitzgerald. His world premiere adaptation of A Streetcar cisco Opera’s productions possible, and San Francisco Named Desire here in 1998 starred one of opera’s budding Opera Guild President Mary Poland says Malouf is remem- luminaries: Renée Fleming. bered as a “true standard-bearer for our community.”

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WILLIAM “BILL” Milk. Then, in 2000, he went on GODWARD, to create another original role former president of the on our stage—that of Owen Hart San Francisco Opera Association in Jake Heggie and Terrence A champion for new talent. McNally’s Dead Man Walking. That’s how General Director But becoming one of opera’s Matthew Shilvock remembers most sought-after leading men

William “Bill” Godward, a pillar RON SCHERL was not his original career tra- of the San Francisco Opera com- jectory. Orth spent nine years munity. Born in 1913, he moved to California at age eight, teaching in Chicago public schools before making the leap before there was even a San Francisco Opera to attend. He to opera. As a singer, Orth worked on new pieces with an spent a lifetime enjoying classical music in the Bay Area, array of composers, including André Previn, Terence even seeing Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in a Blanchard, and Ricky Ian Gordon. In his last appearance San Francisco performance. His enthusiasm led him to a on our stage, Orth reprised yet another role he originated: seat on the Opera Board in 1971—and eventually, to the that of Stubb in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Board presidency. The longtime lawyer and Navy veteran helped San Francisco Opera to navigate a seismic retroﬁt HAROLD “HAL” PRINCE, that closed the War Memorial Opera House for 18 months, director ensuring that the show did indeed go on, if but elsewhere. “No show gets a free ride He passed away this February at age 105. because you had a success before. You are as naked as you ALLAN ULRICH, arts critic were the ﬁrst day you worked.” For over four decades, Allan Despite his 21 Tony wins—an Ulrich advocated passionately unprecedented number in INTERFOTO / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO for the highest standards in Broadway history—director and dance, opera, and classical producer Hal Prince had a reputation for pursuing ever music in the Bay Area and more ambitious projects. Best recognized for musical beyond. His critical opinions, theater blockbusters like West Side Story and Cabaret,

KAREN MALKSON supremely informed and Prince also worked in opera, and two of his productions forthright, were eagerly read by were presented on the San Francisco Opera stage. His the public and commanded the respect of industry pro- staging of La Fanciulla del West came in 1979, followed by fessionals. He joined the San Francisco Examiner in 1980, Madama Butterfly in 2010. In its Butterfly review, the San and he soon began covering dance and classical music. Francisco Chronicle marveled at the “ornate beauty” of Ulrich eventually landed a position as San Francisco Prince’s work, but Prince himself never publicly put Chronicle’s chief dance critic—though he had an insatiable much stock in accolades. As he told The New York Times, appetite for arts of all stripes—and his articles appeared “History is littered with great works of art that got in publications the world over, from the Los Angeles Times terrible reviews.” to London’s Financial Times. In 2018, his health failing, Ulrich undertook what would be his final review of San JESSYE NORMAN, Francisco Opera: a look at Wagner’s Ring cycle for Opera soprano magazine. San Francisco Chronicle’s classical music critic “Pigeonholes are only comfort- Joshua Kosman described Ulrich’s writing as “erudite, able for pigeons.” Those words, acerbic, and elegantly crafted.” credited to a young Jessye Nor- man, would come to define her ROBERT ORTH, baritone career. While her first concert The Bay Area knows well the originality of baritone Robert here, in 1986, was devoted solely Orth. He embodied one of San Francisco’s most iconic fig- to the music of Richard Strauss, ures, tackling the title role at San Francisco Opera’s world Norman’s next two recitals tripped from composer to premiere of Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie’s Harvey composer, never constrained by style or era. Those 1989

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and 1993 performances allowed her to bring her regal, and makes the ultimate sacrifice as Edgardo in Lucia di velvety sound to composers as distinct as Handel and Lammermoor, to name a few of his roles. His Company Schönberg. Critic Allan Ulrich raved that Norman stood debut came in 1991, when he played Alfredo in that sea- “at the vanguard of a new generation pledged to exploring son’s opening production of La Traviata. In its review, the this most intimate of musical forms”—the recital. But her San Francisco Chronicle remarked on Giordani’s “dark, legacy radiated far beyond the concert stage. The Ameri- firm and even tenor voice,” calling him “wholly persua- can soprano was a prolific recording artist and performed sive” in the opera’s devastating final act. But opera wasn’t the world over in operas including Ariadne auf Naxos, Die the singer’s first career: He got his start working at a bank Walküre, Bluebeard’s Castle, and Oedipus Rex. Her work until age 19, when his father agreed to support him as he earned her four Grammy Awards, including the award for pursued a singing career in Milan. He ultimately appeared lifetime achievement, as well as a National Medal of Arts in 27 roles at the Metropolitan Opera, where general man- and a 1997 Kennedy Center Honors Award. She was also a ager Peter Gelb referred to him as “one of our most tireless advocate for diversity and representation in the important singers.” arts, promoting the careers of black artists while also ele- vating the legacies of long-forgotten trailblazers like DOROTHY JEFFRIES, Sissieretta Jones. patron and supporter No challenge was too great for MARTIN BERNHEIMER, Dorothy Jeffries. The Mas- critic sachusetts-born Jeffries was the “This was opera by the numbers. first in her family to go to col- Dull numbers.” Los Angeles lege, and when her ambitions Times music critic Martin Bern- took her beyond New England, DREW ALTIZER heimer never minced his words she left for California and a job when reviewing a show. But like as a flight attendant, flying from Honolulu to San Fran- all great reviewers, his aim was cisco. While her career changed and her family grew, she UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES PHOTO COLLECTION not to dismiss but to elevate. established deep roots in the Bay Area as a bastion of the LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY Passion seeped into his every arts community. A San Francisco Opera subscriber since word, transforming his reviews 1982, Jeffries became part of the Company’s board in 1998, into the thrilling, vicarious experiences that ultimately a position she held for 21 years. She and her husband, earned him the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Opera Brad Jeffries, made one of the lead gifts to help build the was foundational to his career: In an interview with Wilsey Center’s John M. Bryan Education Studio, and they Brown University’s alumni magazine, he recalled how supported a generation of young artists through the Adler opera was his “first love”—and how he submitted his first Fellowship Program, including Efraín Solís, Daniela Mack, article to Opera News at age 14. It was cut just prior to Alek Shrader, David Lomeli, and Melody Moore. publication. But that did not deter Bernheimer, who went on to review productions at San Francisco Opera and elsewhere. He established a legacy as a champion of the art form—and of criticism itself.

MARCELLO GIORDANI, tenor Doomed romances were something of a hallmark for Marcello Giordani at San Francisco Opera. The dashing Sicilian tenor starred in six of opera’s

CORY WEAVER great love stories here: He held a dying Aida in his arms as Radamès, ﬂirted by candlelight as Rodolfo in La Bohème,

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ADMINISTRATION

Matthew Shilvock, ARTISTIC Chivly Krouch, Donor Records Coordinator General Director Amir Magid, Donor Benefits Coordinator ARTISTIC AND MUSIC PLANNING Bella Mello, Philanthropy and Audiences Associate Sean Waugh, Artistic Planning Manager DeAnna Sherer, Music Planning Manager ARCHIVES Jennifer Good, John Churchwell, Head of Music Staff Barbara Rominski, Director of Archives Managing Director: Production Ilana Rainero-de Haan, Associate to the Managing Director: Artistic DEVELOPMENT Lee Helms, Valentina Simi, Artist Services Coordinator Managing Director: Operations Michael Bragg, Music Planning Associate and Kyle Polite, Deputy Director of Development Opera Librarian Gregory Henkel, Michael Hoke, Development Associate Managing Director: Artistic MUSIC STAFF John Churchwell, Dennis Doubin, Alden Gatt, Lisa Bordachar, Jennifer Lynch, Ronny Michael Greenberg, Bryndon Hassman, Director of Prospect Research and Strategy Managing Director: Philanthropy and Audiences Anne Larlee, Noah Lindquist, Vito Lombardi, Mandala Pham, Director of Legacy Giving William Long, Joseph Marcheso, Michelle Merrill, Joanna Taber, Strategic Initiatives Manager Michael Simpson, Robert Mollicone, Sahar Nouri, Matthew Piatt, Barbara Lundy, Legacy Giving & Research Associate Managing Director: Administration/ Laura Poe, Tamara Sanikidze, Maureen Zoltek Chief Financial Officer Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad, César Cañón, ANNUAL GIVING Adler Fellows Roya Clune, Director of Annual Giving

LANGUAGE COACHES INDIVIDUAL AND LEADERSHIP GIVING David Gockley, General Director Emeritus Radoslava Biancalana, Czech Deborah Banks, Alessandra Cattani, Italian Director of Individual and Leadership Giving

Patricia Kristof Moy, French Dana Gordon, Lynne Soffer, English Diction Associate Director of Individual & Leadership Giving EXECUTIVE OFFICES Hans Cardenas, Senior Individual Giving Officer Aileen Tat, Senior Individual Giving Officer Jordan Amann, Executive Assistant SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CENTER Sheri Greenawald, Opera Center Director to the General Director Mark Morash, Director of Musical Studies INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Ellen Presley, Board Relations Chris Bragg, Administrative Director Donna Batson, Director of Institutional Giving and Special Projects Manager SPECIAL EVENTS OPERATIONS Karman Ferrell Pave, Director of Special Events ADMINISTRATION Katie Cagampan, Senior Manager, Special Events Katherine Baltrush, Associate Operations Director

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND COMMUNITY FINANCE MUSIC OPERATIONS Charles Chip Mc Neal, Christopher Tom, Controller Clifford Cranna, Dramaturg Emeritus Director of Diversity, Equity, and Community Jess G. Perry, Senior Budget Manager Kali Wilson, Music Operations Manager Ryan Marchand, Community Engagement Manager Mingsy Yan-Lau, Senior Accountant Clara Choi, Community Engagement Coordinator Linda Rodriguez, Senior Accountant CHORUS AND BALLET Linda Baird, Tajma Beverly, Joshua Raoul Brody, Heidi Carlsen, Robert Chastain, Marcelle Dronkers, Gracie Tang, Senior Accountant Ian Robertson, Chorus Director Fabrizio Corona, Associate Chorus Master Patricia Drozda, Kevin Gordon, Lua Hadar, Dave Maier, Timmy Yuen, Staff Accountant Mary Finch, Chorus and Dance Personnel Manager Albert Montañez-Sanchez, Michael Orlinsky,

Katelyn Tan, Ballet Pianist Max Perkoff, Katherine Issel Pitre, Emily Shisko, INFORMATION SERVICES Christopher Street, Matthew Wolka, Eric Rubio, Chief Information Officer ORCHESTRA Teaching Artists Mark Wladika, DevOps Manager Carrie Weick, Orchestra Librarian Arcadia Eckmayer, Natalie Mitchell, Qiying Hu, Nancy Herrick, Program Manager, Tracy Davis, Orchestra Manager Interns Timothy Spears, Assistant Orchestra Librarian/ Business Operations Assistant Orchestra Manager MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Paul Goetz, Systems Administrator

Steve Long, Network & Systems Administrator Farrah Hammond, Marketing Associate Sara Lee, Programmer/Analyst PHILANTHROPY AND AUDIENCES AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING HUMAN RESOURCES Kathryn Appleton, Associate Director of David Odenkirchen, Director of Philanthropy and Audience Development and Marketing Sarah DeCuir, Director of Human Resources Audiences Operations Stephanie Gianni, Manager of Heidi Arcilla, Human Resources Generalist New Audiences and Engagement Bradley Hall, Human Resources Coordinator Jess Levy, Patron Data Specialist Alyssa Feskanin, Marketing Coordinator, Anamaria Ramey, Donor Services Manager Special Events and Promotions Sarah Benjamin, Patron Data Assistant Amy Humke, Web and Email Manager

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Steven Shear, Manager of Relationship Marketing COSTUME DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL DIRECTION Megan Searcy, Audience Development and Daniele McCartan, Costume Director* Erik Walstad, Technical and Safety Director* Marketing Coordinator Jai Alltizer, Costume Shop Manager Ryan O’Steen, Production Manager* David Doré, Senior Production Accountant Chris Largent, Associate Technical Director COMMUNICATIONS Galen Till, Production Supervisor Julia Inouye, Associate Director of Communications Amy Ashton-Keller, Master Draper WARDROBE Jeffery McMillan, Senior Manager, Communications Sally Thomas, Master Tailor Tony Gorzycki, Head Of Department Teresa Concepcion, Communications Manager Irene Murray, Senior Draper Cynthia Fusco, Robert Horek, David McKain, Allison Griner, Communications Coordinator Santiago Suanes, Men’s Draper Catherine Verdier, Assistants Gillian Haratani, Emma Lehman, Kristen Tracy, CREATIVE AND DIGITAL Carolann Voltarel, WIG AND MAKEUP Adam Snellings, Graphic Designer Assistant Cutters Jeanna Parham, Head of Department Katy Zolfaghari, Creative Project Manager Manuel Gutierrez, Production Coordinator Ashley J. Landis, Paula Wheeler, Senior Milliner Assistant Head of Department RESEARCH AND ANALYTICS Amy Van Every, Senior Dyer Christina Martin, Chi-Hsuan Yang, Jersey McDermott, Senior Craftsperson/Shoe Specialist Administrative Assistant & Wig Assistant Senior Manager, Research and Analytics Nicole Diascenti, Stock Coordinator Maura Sela, Sophia Smith, Wig Assistants Nikki Anderson-Joy, Lindsey Eifert, Costume Assistants Karalynne Fiebig, Ashley Landis, Christina Martin, BOX OFFICE Miriam Acosta, Breanna Bayba, Sophia Smith, Connie Strayer, Mark Sackett, Box Office Manager, Treasurer Adela Cantor, Alicia Castaneda, Danielle DeVeaux, Foremen Jessica Fauver, Assistant Box Office Manager, Hoa Lam Fong, Aries Limon, Xing-Fong Luo, Richard Battle, Tatyana Fateyeva, Karalynne Fiebig, First Assistant Treasurer Amanda Mitchell, Sonia Olivares, Lena Sage, Denise Gutierrez, Chri Holmgren Greene, Rebecca Page, Medallion Society Concierge Manager Costume Technicians Christina Martin, Toby Mayer, Lisa Patnoe, Subscriptions Manager, Assistant Treasurer Emily Tilles, Elizabeth Poindexter, Maurisa Rondeau, Jennifer Hughes, Roberto Bonilla, Assistant Treasurers Sophia Smith, Connie Strayer, ELECTRICS Ruth Van Slyke, Telephone Sales Manager Principal Artists Leon Parsons, Master Electrician Khalil El-Kareh, Nick Gueli, Beverlee G. Hassid, Richard Battle, Melanie Birch, Rick Burns, Michael Anderson, Assistant Master Electrician Yasmine Love, Charles McGraw, Kyle Minor, Sarah Coy, Gretchen Davis, Karalynne Fiebig, Russell E. Adamson III, Jennifer Pollack, Dale Whitmill, Denise Gutierrez, Ashley Landis, Christina Martin, Lighting and Projection Systems Administrator Telephone Sales Assistants Toby Mayer, Jodi Maxwell, Lisa Patnoe, FIGHT DIRECTION FRONT OF HOUSE Elizabeth Poindexter, Thomas Richards Keyes, Dave Maier, Fight Director Jamye Divila, House Manager Maur Sela, Sophia Smith, Connie Strayer,

Marialice Dockus, Head Usher Journeymen LIGHTING Rodney Anderson, Danica Burt, Frank Chow, Kensia Antonoff, Shana Astrachan, Justin A. Partier, Lighting Director* Martin Dias, Dave Doering, Jonathan Drogin, Vanessa Blanchard Lee, Tara Escobedo, Eric Watkins, Assistant Lighting Designer Chip Heath, Elaine Kawasaki, Eileen Keremitsis, Tatyana Fateyeva, Dulce Gastelum, Erin Hennessy, Davida Tkach, Assistant Lighting Designer Ryszard Koprowski, Bill Laschuk, Sharon Lee, Chri Holmgren Greene, Arina Izadi, Anthony Forchielli, Hemsley Lighting Intern Marilyn Leong, Lenore Long, Doug Luyendyk, Consuelo Lopez, Sharon Peng, Sophia Robinson, Aaron Curry, Lighting Intern Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Sam Mesinger, Maurisa Rondeau, Erica Villanueva,

Dale Nedelco, Wayne Noel, Beth Norris, Jan Padover, Associates PROPERTIES Julie Peck, Robert Remple, Bill Repp, Rilla Reynolds, Lori Harrison, Master of Properties Robyn Sandberg, Kelly Smith, Stephanie Somersille, Frederick Wielandt, Assistant Master of Properties Melissa Stern, Theresa Sun, Claire Tremblay,

Richard Wagner, Steve Weiss, Elaine Yee, Dr. Myron Marx, Company Medical Adviser REHEARSAL Ushers Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Counsel Hui Ming Wu, Show Maid Marin Venturi, Rehearsal Department Director* Armanino LLP, Independent Public Accountants Trey Costerisan, Rehearsal & Facilities Manager Asero Insurance Services, Insurance Brokers OPERA SHOP Melanie Alameda, Rehearsal Administrator Cory Weaver, Official Photographer Jay Stebley, Retail Manager Savannah Criswell, Senior Rehearsal Assistant Karen Topp, Assistant Manager Nick Grieneisen, Rehearsal Assistant Yamaha is the Official Piano of San Francisco Opera

SCENE SHOP Pianos supplied by Piedmont Piano PRODUCTION John Del Bono, Scene Shop Foreman *Senior Production Staff Member Steve McNally, Scenic Artist in Charge

PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATION STAGING STAFF Jeremy Patfield, Production Finance Director* Darin Burnett, Production Stage Manager* Sylvia Jiang, Production Finance Assistant Lawrence Pech, Dance Master Celine Strouts, Production Associate Darin Burnett, Jennifer Harber, Andrew G. Landis, Paul Dana, Support Services Coordinator Jayme O’Hara, Thea Railey, Stage Managers Jose Maria Condemi, E. Reed Fisher, Shawna Lucey, AUDIO Jimmy Marcheso, Roy Rallo, Morgan Robinson, Doug Mitchell, Master Audio/Video Engineer Assistant Stage Directors Ziggy Tomcich, Assistant Master Audio/Video Engineer Jessica Barker, E. Reed Fisher, Rachel Garoon, Jennifer Harber, Andrew G. Landis, Shawna Lucey, CARPENTRY Jimmy Marcheso, Jayme O’Hara, Thea Railey, David Hatch, Master Carpenter Anna Reetz, Mark Baumann, Assistant Master Carpenter Assistant Stage Managers

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PRINCIPAL ARTISTS Pene Pati º CHOREOGRAPHERS Ian Robertson, Chorus Director Hadleigh Adams º Simone Piazzola* Lucy Burge* Fabrizio Corona, Associate Chorus Master Louise Alder** Christian Pursell † Lawrence Pech Mary Finch, Chorus and Dance Personnel SeokJong Baek † Curtis Resnick* Manager Zhengyi Bai † Brenton Ryan SET DESIGNERS Lilia Bernstein Alek Shrader º Eric Chevalier* REGULAR CHORUS Michelle Bradley* Nadine Sierra º Andrew Lieberman Nadima Avakian Sally Mouzon* John Brancy* Philip Skinner º Scott Marr Buffy Baggott Sally Porter Munro Robert Brubaker Garrett Sorenson Antony McDonald* Elizabeth Baker Erin Neff William Burden Heidi Stober Christopher Oram* Kathleen Bayler William O’Neill Yolotzin Cervantes Michael Sumuel  Erhard Rom C. Michael Belle Rachelle Perry John Chest* Russell Thomas Frank Philipp Schlossmann William Bryan* Phillip Pickens Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen † Wayne Tigges Victoria Tzykun* Janet Campbell William Pickersgill Christopher Colmenero*† Marvin B. Valdez* Ricardo Pardo* Alan Cochran Chester Pidduck* Catherine Cook º Christian Van Horn Sara Colburn Virginia Pluth† Sasha Cooke Eugene Villanueva COSTUME DESIGNERS Chris Corley Laurel Cameron Porter* James Creswell Alfred Walker Paul Carey* Dvora Djoraev Valery Portnov Rafael Davila* Lucas Willcuts* Constance Hoffman Mary Finch Laurel Rice† Jeanine De Bique* Wei Wu* Scott Marr Anders Fröhlich* Colby Roberts Ashley Dixon † Antony McDonald* Claudia Haider Carole Schaffer Benjamin Drever CONDUCTORS Jon Morrell* Daniel Harper Sigmund Seigel Amina Edris º Yves Abel Christopher Oram* Christopher Jackson Shelley Seitz Anthony Clark Evans Michael Christie Frank Philipp Schlossmann Ken Johnson Dan Stanley Franco Fagioli** Christopher Franklin Carola Volles* David Kekuewa Jesslyn Thomas* Greg Fedderly James Gaffigan Claire Kelm Jere Torkelsen* Eve Gigliotti* Eun Sun Kim LIGHTING DESIGNERS Bojan Knežević* Andrew Truett Noah Glickman* Nicola Luisotti Neill Brinkworth* Elisabeth Rom Lucio Donna Turchi Mary Evelyn Hangley † Christopher Moulds Lucy Carter* Frederick Matthews Richard Walker† Lianna Haroutounian Henrik Nánási Paule Constable Angela Eden Moser* Mitzie Weiner Talinn Hatti* Lawrence Renes Jane Cox* Nicole Heaston* David Manion* * Solo Role Philip Horst º STAGE DIRECTORS Gary Marder † Chorus member on Leave of Absence Natalie Image♫ † Christopher Alden Duane Schuler Brian Jagde º Michael Cavanagh Adam Silverman Rhoslyn Jones º Jose Maria Condemi º Roberto Venturi* EXTRA CHORUS Stephanie Lauricella* Vanessa D’Ayral De Serignac** Japhy Weideman* Ben Brady Jim Monios Daniela Mack º Michael Grandage* Angela Cadelago Jess G. Perry Serena Malfi* Jean-Louis Grinda** VIDEO/PROJECTION DESIGNER Cheryl Cain Aimée Puentes Michaela Martens Antony McDonald* 59 Productions Katie Carlson Cartwright Samuel Rabinowitz Simone McIntosh † Kevin Newbury Christopher Filipowicz Pedro Rodelas Lucas Meachem º Roy Rallo Kevin Gino Clifton Romig Timothy Mix Ian Rutherford Peter Girardôt Jason Sarten Levente Molnár* Olivier Tambosi * San Francisco Opera debut Patrick Hagen Jonathan Smucker Daniel Montenegro º Danielle Urbas* ** U.S. debut Phillip Harris Whitney Steele Edward Nelson º º Former Adler Fellow Harlan Hays Alexander Taite Christopher Oglesby † † Current Adler Fellow Glenn Healy Nicole Takesono Matthew O’Neill º  Former Merola Opera Program Michael Jankosky Michael Taylor Jakub Józef Orliński** participant Silvie Jensen Igor Vieira Sidney Outlaw* Cover Artist Mitchell Jones* Nicholas Volkert Kenneth Overton Bradley Kynard Jacque Wilson Edward Parks* William Lawley Daniel Yoder Eileen Meredith

San Francisco Opera extends its gratitude and appreciation to the following labor organizations whose members, artists, craftsmen, and craftswomen greatly contribute to our performances:

American Federation of Musicians, Local 6 United Scenic Artists Local Usa – 829, I.A.T.S.E. American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc. Box Office and Front of House Employees Union, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Local B-18 Employees, Local 16 Theatrical Wardrobe Union, Local 784, I.A.T.S.E Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Union, Local 706, I.A.T.S.E. The Art Directors Guild & Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists Local 800

54 SFOPERA.COM CORPS DANCERS ORCHESTRA

Lawrence Pech, Dance Master FIRST VIOLIN ENGLISH HORN Kay Stern, Concertmaster Janet Popesco Archibald Alysia Chang Laura Albers, Associate Concertmaster* Brett Conway ^* Heidi Wilcox, Assistant Concertmaster CLARINET Jamielyn Duggan Jennifer Cho Jose Gonzalez Granero, Principal Alexandra FitzGibbon Dawn Harms Joanne Burke Eisler, Assistant Principal* Blanche Hampton ^* Mariya Borozina Anthony Striplen Bryan Ketron ^ Lev Rankov Rachel Speidel Little ^* Barbara Riccardi BASS CLARINET Beth Maslinoff* Dian Zhang Anthony Striplen Jackie McConnell Leonid Igudesman Christopher Nachtrab* Jennifer Hsieh BASSOON Jekyns Pelaez ^ Asuka Annie Yano Rufus Olivier, Principal Chiharu Shibata ^* Daniel MacNeill* Maxwell Simoes SECOND VIOLIN Michael Severance Marcos Vedovetto Jeremy Preston, Principal Martha Simonds, Associate Principal CONTRABASSOON * Solo Dancer Beni Shinohara, Assistant Principal Michael Severance ^ Tenured Eva Karasik Maya Cohon HORN Leslie Ludena Kevin Rivard, Co-Principal Craig Reiss Mark Almond, Co-Principal SUPERNUMERARIES Heeguen Song** Keith Green Brian McCarty Michael Bragg VIOLA William Klingelhoffer** Ely Orquiza Carla Maria Rodirgues, Principal Sarah Nadreau Sergey Rakitchenkov, Associate Principal* TRUMPET Holly MacCormick Paul Nahhas, Assistant Principal† Adam Luftman, Principal Kay Thornton Patricia Heller William Holmes† Christina "Nina" Rocco Jonna Hervig Scott Macomber** Natalia Vershilova John Pearson* Joy Fellows Elizabeth Prior** TROMBONE Samuel Schlosser, Principal CELLO Donald Kennelly David Kadarauch, Principal David Ridge Thalia Moore, Associate Principal Peter Myers, Assistant Principal TUBA/CIMBASSO Nora Pirquet Zachariah Spellman Emil Miland Victoria Ehrlich TIMPANI Ruth Lane John Burgardt

BASS PERCUSSION Joseph Lescher, Principal Richard Kvistad, Principal/Associate Timpani Jonathan Lancelle, Associate Principal* Patricia Niemi Steven D’Amico, Assistant Principal Shinji Eshima HARP Mark Drury Olga Ortenberg-Rakitchenkov

FLUTE LIBRARIAN Julie McKenzie, Principal Carrie Weick Patricia Farrell† Timothy Spears, Assistant Barbara Chaffe** Stephanie McNab* ORCHESTRA MANAGER Tracy Davis PICCOLO Timothy Spears, Assistant Stephanie McNab * Principal for one or more Fall season operas OBOE † Leave of absence Mingjia Liu, Principal ** Season substitute Gabriel Young* Janet Popesco Archibald

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ORCHESTRA

Kay Stern Laura Albers Heidi Wilcox Jennifer Cho Dawn Harms Mariya Borozina Barbara Riccardi Concertmaster Associate Assistant First Violin First Violin First Violin First Violin Concertmaster Concertmaster

Dian Zhang Leonid Igudesman Jennifer Hsieh Asuka Annie Yano Jeremy Preston Martha Simonds Beni Shinohara First Violin First Violin First Violin First Violin Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin

Eva Karasik Leslie Ludena Maya Cohon Craig Reiss Heeguen Song Carla Maria Rodrigues Sergey Rakitchenkov Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin Second Violin Principal Associate Principal Regular Substitute Viola Viola

Paul Nahhas Patricia Heller Jonna Hervig Natalia Vershilova Joy Fellows Elizabeth Prior David Kadarauch Assistant Principal Viola Viola Viola Viola Viola Viola Principal Leave of Absence Regular Substitute Cello

Thalia Moore Peter Myers Nora Pirquet Emil Miland Victoria Ehrlich Ruth Lane Joseph Lescher Associate Principal Assistant Principal Cello Cello Cello Cello Principal Cello Cello Bass

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Jonathan Lancelle Steven D’Amico Shinji Eshima Mark Drury Julie McKenzie Patricia Farrell Stephanie McNab Associate Principal Assistant Principal Bass Bass Principal Flute Flute & Piccolo Bass Bass Flute Leave of Absence

Barbara Chaffe Mingjia Liu Gabriel Young Janet Popesco Jose Gonzalez Joanne Burke Eisler Anthony Striplen Flute Principal Oboe Archibald Granero Assistant Principal Clarinet & Regular Substitute Oboe Oboe & English Horn Principal Clarinet Clarinet Bass Clarinet

Rufus Olivier Daniel MacNeill Michael Severance Kevin Rivard Mark Almond Keith Green Brian McCarty Principal Bassoon Bassoon & Co-Principal Co-Principal Horn Horn Bassoon Contrabassoon Horn Horn

William Klingelhoffer Adam Luftman William Holmes John Pearson Scott Macomber Samuel Schlosser Donald Kennelly Horn Principal Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet Principal Trombone Trombone Regular Substitute Trumpet Leave of Absence Regular Substitute

David Ridge Zachariah Spellman John Burgardt Richard Kvistad Patricia Niemi Olga Ortenberg Tracy Davis Trombone & Tuba/Cimbasso Timpani Principal Percussion & Percussion Rakitchenkov Orchestra Manager Bass Trombone Associate Timpani Harp

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Carrie Weick Timothy Spears Librarian Assistant Orchestra Manager & Librarian Most photos by John Martin. Not pictured: Lev Rankov, First Violin. SAN FRANCISCO OPERA REGULAR CHORUS

Nadima Avakian Kathleen Bayler Sara Colburn Dvora Djoraev Mary Finch Claire Kelm Elisabeth Rom Lucio Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano

Angela Eden Moser Rachelle Perry Virginia Pluth Carole Schaffer Jesslyn Thomas Mitzie Weiner Buffy Baggott Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Leave of Absence

Elizabeth Baker Janet Campbell Claudia Haider Sally Mouzon Sally Porter Munro Erin Neff Laurel Cameron Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Porter Mezzo-Soprano

Laurel Rice Shelley Seitz Donna Turchi C. Michael Belle Alan Cochran Chris Corley Daniel Harper Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Leave of Absence

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Christopher Jackson Phillip Pickens Chester Pidduck Colby Roberts Sigmund Seigel Dan Stanley Andrew Truett Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor Tenor

Richard Walker William Bryan Anders Fröhlich Ken Johnson David Kekuewa Frederick Matthews Jere Torkelsen Tenor Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Baritone Leave of Absence

Bojan Knežević William O’Neill William Pickersgill Valery Portnov Bass Bass Bass Bass

Most photos by John Martin. Carole Schaffer and Claudia Haider photos by Pamela Dale.

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CORPS DANCERS

Brett Conway Blanche Hampton Bryan Ketron Rachel Speidel Little Jekyns Pelaez Chiharu Shibata

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San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to the many individuals whose generous support keeps the powerfully thrilling and transformative experience of great opera alive in the Bay Area. Each year, support from individuals—including Company Sponsors, Producers Circle, Leadership Circle, Medallion Society, and Members—accounts for 80% of the contributed revenue that sustains the Company’s activities.

COMPANY SPONSORS Robert* & Julie Dickson Thomas E. Horn $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Marie & Palmer* Hotz Ann & Gordon Getty Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton Mr. & Mrs.* C. Bradford Jeffries The Dolby Family Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur J. Fritz, Jr. Anne & Timothy Kahn Bertie Bialek Elliott Stephen & Diane Heiman Candace Zander Kahn Keith & Priscilla Geeslin Stephen & Choongja Kahng Jeffrey & Anne Marie Katz John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn William & Gretchen Kimball Fund Mr. Lawrence A. Kern Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Dr. Susan Kroll & Mr. Mark R. Kroll Jack Klingelhofer Franklin & Catherine Johnson Mr.* and Mrs. Peter Magowan Laurie Kottmeyer & Bianca Duarte Steven M. Menzies The McMurtry Family Dr. & Mrs. John Lavorgna Bernard & Barbro Osher Mrs. James K. McWilliams Ms. Noelle M. Leca & Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Ronald D. Morrison Mr. Michael D. Moradzadeh Dianne & Tad Taube Marina & Ben Nelson Bernice Lindstrom, Phyliss C. Wattis Endowment Funds Peggy & Boyce Nute in memory of John W. Lindstrom Diane B. Wilsey Carol Potter Peckham George & Patricia Locke Barbara A. Wolfe Neil & Elsa S. Pering Dr. & Mrs. H. H. Loomis, Jr. Betty Ann Prien Yasmin & Oren Lukatz PRODUCER Ruth Quigley Jennifer Coslett MacCready $250,000–$999,999 Pamela & Richard Rigg Susan & Philip Marineau Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Charles P. Russell Nion McEvoy & Leslie Berriman Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran Denise Littlefield Sobel Teresa & Mark Medearis Leslie & George Hume Mr. William R. Stensrud & Christine Miller & Gary Glaser Mr. & Mrs. David T. Traitel Ms. Suzanne Vaucher Sara & Bill Morgan Anonymous Roselyne Chroman Swig Michael Moritz & Harriet Heyman James & Beth Wintersteen Paul Nordine EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Anonymous (3) Sally & Craig Nordlund $200,000–$249,999 Julian & Willie Sue Orr Gladyne Kenderdine Mitchell GOLD CIRCLE Mrs. Carol E. Parker & Dr. Gerhard H. Parker Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock $25,000–$49,999 Harold* & Gertrud Parker Anonymous Eleonore Aslanian, Norman & Janet Pease in memory of Edward Aslanian Anne B. Popkin CO-PRODUCER Mr. Brian G. Atwood & Dr. & Mrs. George T. Rab $150,000–$199,999 Ms. Lynne H. Edminster Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Betty & Jack Schafer Marcia Barinaga & Corey Goodman Linnea & George Roberts Anonymous Brigid S. Barton The Theodore Rosenberg Darla & Richard Bastoni Charitable Foundation, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Betty & Fred Bialek in honor of Rose O’Shaughnessy $100,000–149,999 Dawn Yates Black Chandra & Michael Rudd Robert Mailer Anderson & Nicola Miner Athena & Timothy Blackburn Sakana Foundation Helen Berggruen, for Five Arts Foundation Lucia Bogatay & Thomas D. Wickens* Drs. Martin E. & Corazon D. Sanders Jane Bernstein* & Bob Ellis Edward Paul Braby, M.D. Felipe R. Santiago & Barry T. Joseph Carol & Dixon Doll Romana D. Bracco Christopher & Trudi Seiwald Peter Fenton Eva K. Breyer Abraham & Marian Sofaer Sylvia & John Hughes David & Karin Chamberlain Mr. & Mrs. James R. Swartz Karen J. Kubin Bob Epstein & Amy Roth Ann Classen Treadwell Mr. & Mrs. J. Patterson McBaine Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons Ronald & Emely Weissman Nancy S. Mueller Ms. Jacqueline Evans Sharon & Clark Winslow The Oshman Family Foundation Ms. Margarita Gandia & Ms. Diana Campoamor Sheila Wishek Barbara Moller Ward Ms. Wanda Lee Graves Judith B. Workman Anne Gray S. Shariq Yosufzai & Brian James PLATINUM CIRCLE Mrs. Clelia M. Gray Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Zderic $50,000–$99,999 Michael A. Harrison & Susan Graham Harrison Anonymous (4) Norby Anderson Jane & David Hartley Mr. & Mrs. Joachim Bechtle James A. Heagy, Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris in memory of Jayne Heagy Paul* & Valerie Crane Dorfman Mary & Craig Henderson Peter & Jayne Davis Brian & Rene Hollins

* deceased

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Elizabeth Boardman Ross Doreen Woo Ho & James Ho Ms. Marimar Torres MEDALLION SOCIETY Bob & Terri Ryan Linda Joyce Hodge Ms. Lisa Tough PRESIDENTS Michael Sack Susan K. Hoerger Barbara L. Traisman J. Boyce Nute, Paul Sack & Shirley Davis Ked & Cecilia Hogan Mr. & Mrs. James S. Tunnell Drs. Edward & Dale Sickles Emily Hsi Urbanek Family Foundation 2018–Present Maureen Sullivan Vincent & Christina Hu Drs. Oldrich & Silva Vasicek Kristina Flanagan, Valli Benesch & Bob Tandler Ms. Margaret C. Hutchins Soo & Raj Venkatesan 2013–2018 Mr. & Mrs.* Joseph O. Tobin II Arlene Inch William & Mikiko Walker Diane & Howard Zack Patricia & Philip Jelley Hon. James L. Warren (Ret.) Cathy MacNaughton, Lida & Alejandro Zaffaroni Susan & Eric Johnston Arlene Wasserman 2008–2013 Ward & Diane Zumsteg Michael Kalkstein & Susan English Lucie & Jerry Weissman Anonymous (2) Mr. Paul Kaplan & Ms. Susan Kaplan-Simon Linda A. Whittaker Mrs. Harry Wetzel*, Fred Karren The Brayton Wilbur Foundation 1995–2003 INTERMEZZO Mrs. Mark O. Kasanin Mr. & Mrs. Y. Wood Wong $10,000–$14,999 Barbara & Ron Kaufman Mrs. Edna Yanofsky, Diane B. Wilsey, Ed & Peggy Kavounas in memory of Dr. Charles Yanofsky 1988–1994 Dorrit Ahbel, M.D. Victoria Kirby Tatyana & Lev Yurovsky Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Allison Mr. Sven E. Kjaersgaard Harriet Meyer Quarré*, Kenneth & Anna Zankel, The Grove Mr. Paul B. Althouse Mr. & Mrs. William W. Klaproth Peter & Donna Zuber Founding President, 1983–1987 Sig Anderman Robert & Linda Klett Zuni Café James & Cheryl Babcock Bill & Jeanne Landreth Anonymous (11) Michael Bassi & Christy Styer Ms. Katharine Lange SILVER CIRCLE Frank S. Bayley Mr. & Mrs. William Larkin BRONZE CIRCLE $15,000–$24,999 Ruth & Frank Belvin Mr. John E. Lee Jennifer M. Bienaime $7,500–$9,999 Linda & Andrew Ach Mary Lemmon Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Dr. Nancy L. Ascher Ms. Miranda Leonard David & Judith Preves Anderson Frederick & Kathryn Baron Mrs. Barbara Bloom Allan Lerch, Donald Blais & Michael McGinley Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Berkowitz Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Brenholz in memory of his wife, Anne Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brock Dr.* & Mrs. Joseph Bernstein Ms. Barbara Brown Mark & Debra Leslie Robert V. Brody & Andrea Jacoby Jared & Claire Bobrow Theodore Brown Hank & Eileen Lewis Mr. Donald D. Campbell & Ms. Sue Bennett Dr. Sean P. Bohen & Mrs. Tanum Davis Bohen Carol Franc Buck Mr. J. Stoner Lichty, Jr. & Dr. Darryl L. Raszl Paula Dieli & Michael Schubert Mr. & Mrs. Philip Bowles Elissa Buie & Dave Yeske David & Lillian Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Duluk Alan R. & Sally J. Brudos Rike & Klaus Burmeister Lisa P. Lindelef Mr. & Mrs. Vladimir Ermakoff Michael & Marilyn Cabak Mrs. John C. Callan Sylvia R. Lindsey Donald E. & Patricia D. Frischmann Lorna Meyer Calas & Dennis Calas Mr. & Mrs. Lyman H. Casey Cynthia & Richard Livermore Mr. John Gray Frank & Pat Carrubba Ms. Carolyn Chandler Drs. May Loo & William Thurston Ian Hinchliffe & Marjorie Shapiro Julia Frohlich Cherry Dr. J. Samuel Chase Mr. Neil MacPhail Judith & Patrick Hobin Maureen Clarke Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Child Arlee & Paul* Maier Terrance Hodel Marion M. Cope Janet & Lloyd* Cluff Charlot* & Gregory Malin Dr. H. Nona Hungate Michèle Beigel Corash & Laurence Corash Leonard & Marie Collins Mr. Charles D. Mann Judith Hunt George & Susan Crow Chris & Julie Corley Lori & David Marquardt Mr. Guyton N. Jinkerson Drs. John & Lois Crowe James Cross & Charles Antonen Al Medvitz & Jean McCormack Mr. Jeffrey Jordan Timothy D. Dattels & Kristine M. Johnson John Cullison & Diana Kissil Mr. Robert B. Mison Drs. Phyllis A. Kempner & David D. Stein Ms. Christina & Dr. Elizabeth DeBruin Warren Mrs. Denise Cutler Ann-Marie Mix Sujitpan Lamsam & Scott D. Sagan Reid & Peggy Dennis Yogen K. & Peggy Dalal Rene & Don Morgan Kurt Latta Donald & Janice Elliott Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Dauber Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch Nathaniel M. Lopez Dr. & Mrs. Eric Fain Richard H. Davis, Ph.D. Steve & Betsy Moulds Sylvia & Paul Lorton Jr. Edward Frank & Sarah Ratchye John* & Bonnie Demergasso Robert Munday & Evamarie Doering James & Deborah Lyerla Mr. Paul Gantz Marvin Dennis* Mr. Manfred Mundelius Dr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Glasser Family Fund Mr. Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Dr. Lois Levine Mundie Marco Magarelli & Hon. Barry Goode & Dr. Erica Goode* Mr. & Mrs. J. Philip DiNapoli Heidi Munzinger & John Shott Geraldine Martinez-Magarelli Mr. & Mrs. Warner Henry Mr. Peter Dinkelspiel John O. Nigh Deborah Marion, Tax CPA & Joe Losch Peggy Hill Sarah Douglas & Marie Vitulli Judy O’Young, M.D. & Gregg Hauser Phyllis Moldaw Brian & Rene Hollins Donna Dubinsky & Leonard Shustek Mr. David Oldroyd Mr. Karl Nygren Mr. Ron Holloway & Mr. Doug Hammerich Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. & Ms. Deepa Pakianathan & Dorothy R. Saxe Ms. Mary Kay Kane Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell Mr. Philip Pemberton Gary & Dana Shapiro Jeannie Kaufman Jacqueline & Christian P. Erdman Marianne H. Peterson Vandana & Arvind Sharma Thomas D. King Doris Fisher Maria Pitcairn Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Smoller Mr. Randall E. Laroche & Mr. David Laudon Mr. & Mrs. Warren W. Flack Bill & Mary Poland Mr. Donald Sobelman & Sheila & Thomas Larsen Dr. Julita Fong David & Joy Powell Ms. Leishia Woolwine Tom Lockard & Dr. Alix Marduel Mrs. Carlo S. Fowler Patric & Mary Powell Dr. Kenneth & Laurel Stein Betty Maddux, Mr. Michael M. Garland & Ms. Virginia A. Coe Peggy & Peter Preuss Duty and Devotion Memorial Fund in memory of Ed Koester Dr. Nanette Gartrell & Mr. Gordon Radley Ms. Gloria Valair Dr. Timothy J. Marten, M.D. & Ms. Mary C. Heylin Dr. Dee Mosbacher, Ph.D., M.D. Linda J. Reiff Dr. Catharine van Ingen & Dr. W. J. Wisniewski Patrick McCabe Candace & Vincent Gaudiani Angèle & Michael Rice Peggy & Lee Zeigler Ellen & Paul McKaskle Kurt Tristan Geselbracht & Francisco Guevara Barbara Roach Anonymous (3) Elaine McKinley & Kit Durgin Arlene & Doug Giancoli Barbara J. Ross Bill Medigovich Mrs. Rolf Gille, Mrs. Afie Royo BENEFACTOR Maya D. Meux, MD in memory of Rolf Gille Deborah & Paul Sagues Karl & Kristen Mills Ann & Daniel Girard Anthony & Shipley Salewski $5,000–$7,499 Dr. Judy C. Miner David Gockley & Linda Kemper Dr. Stephen Sherwin & Merrill Randol Sherwin Kendall & Claire Allphin Cathy & Howard Moreland Don & MaryAnn Graulich Ms. Ruth A. Short Robert M. Anderson & Kyong Shik Eom Alice Ames Morison & Dr. Oakley Hewitt Geoffrey & Marcia Green Dr. Bruce L. Smith, Ph.D. & Ms. Nadine M. Tang Mr. & Mrs. Steven Anderson Steven Ng & Mark Posner Bernice E. Greene Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Stark Ms. Anna Antoniucci Mrs. William H. Orrick, Jr. & Diana V. Rogers Drs. Christine Guthrie & John Abelson Ms. Zornitza Stefanova & Mr. Payam Mirrashidi Ms. Christine Augustin Marie Kendrick Otto Foundation Mrs. Peter E. Haas Jeffrey L. Stern, M.D. Constance Goodyear Baron & Suzanne & Robert Redfern-West Bro Halff Patricia Stich Barry C. Baron, M.D. Mr. Glenn H. Reid Lyndsey Harrison Isobel & Roger Sturgeon William J. Bennington Louise & Paul Renne Mr. Richard B. Hechler & Ms. Malin Giddings Dr. & Mrs. W.C. Sweeting, Jr. Brad & Susie Berenson James & Sheryl Reuben Dr. M. Henry Heines & Ms. Katherine Fines Amy Tan & Louis De Mattei Dr. Barbara Lynn Bessey Mrs. William C. Robison Martha & Michael Helms TL Trust Scott J. Bever Deborah Romer & William Tucker Austin & Sara Hills Lucy S. Tompkins MD PhD Ms. Marcia Bieber

* deceased

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Barbara Bishop, M.D. & Mr. Michael Saroyan David & Marilyn Nasatir Mr. Richard L. Hay William & Nancy Burnett Dix Boring & Marilyn Moore Boring Ms. Jeanne E. Newman Riki & Robert Intner Charles R. Bush & Calvin Lau Gary Bottone Mark H. Nishiki, M.D. James Earl Jewell Dr. Robert Paul Cabaj Elizabeth Bowman Helen W. O’Hanlon Suzan Kaufmann Clark & Elizabeth Callander Mr. Jim Bowsher Dennis Otto & Robert Meadows Mrs. Louis Kelso Cathleen Cameron Judy Brady & Drew W. Browning Berniece & Pat Patterson Jill Doré Kent Betty J. Carmack Chris & Jennifer Brahm Mr. & Mrs. Dale L. Petterson Joan Kwansa Janet Carpenter Joseph & Linda Bronson Bernadino J. Pistillo, Jr. Ms. Barbara Laferriere Mr. & Mrs. Dennis L. Carter Jeanne & William Cahill Patricia Rees-Miller Mr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Levin Charles & Deryl Castellano John & Patricia Cahill Randall E. Reynoso & Martin Camsey Mrs. Nancy Donnell Lilly Oscar Celli & Roger Busse Ms. Annette Campbell-White & David Richardson & Eliza Linley Charles & Nancy Mack Ben Chai & Bob Nelson Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Orli & Zack Rinat Mrs. Alexandra Marston & Mr. Michael Marston Mr. Mark R. Chaitkin & Ms. P. C. Storr Dr. James M. Campbell Mr. Arthur S. Roosa & Ms. Keiko Kiyuna Marcia & Bill* McConnell Jim Chanin & Rachel Richman Dr. Heidi H. Cary Mr. Charles W. Roth A. Kirk McKenzie Martin Checov & Timothy J. Bause Solomon Cera Mr. Paul L. Rowe & Mr. R. Michael Sereno Dr. Mary McNabb & Daniel McNabb Thomas & Virginia Chen Melvin & Hella Cheitlin Richard E. Rowland Julian T.* & Robin M.W. Parer Carol T. Christ Frederick S. Chung & Kimberly Chun Mr. M. Duane Rutledge Thomas & Sheryl Paukert Richard & Susan Christie Rudy Ciuca & Joseph Lawrence Steve & Sally Schroeder Mr. Les Quock Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Ciabattoni Mrs. Hazel Clegg Mr. & Mrs. John Sebastian Varda Rabin Jerry & Linda* Cimmet Vicki L. Coe M.D. & Jennifer Mitchell Joan & Lynn Seppala Fran Rominger Ms. Carlyn Clause & Mr. Alexander L. Brainerd Mr. Robert D. Cooter Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Shapiro Mr. John N. Rooney George & Laura Cline Mr. Craig Corbitt & Ms. Nancy Stoltz Mr. & Mrs. Gerald V. Sharp Dorothy Schimke & Cliff Jarrard Patricia T. Coffin Alice Corning Steven E. Shladover William & Judith Shilstone Katie Colendich Dr. Michael Craig Cox The Honorable & Mrs. George P. Shultz Stephen Smoliar & Linda Dembo Arthur D. Colman, M.D. & Pilar Montero, Ph.D Dr.* & Mrs. Alexander Cross Evangelos & Kathleen Simoudis Kenneth & Joanne Snow Charles Connor, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Dienstbier Mrs. Linda Snyder Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Stamper Mrs. Moira Conzelman Mrs. Michael D. Dooley* Ms. M. Melanie Searle & Mr. Robert F. St. John Mr. Richard D. Tuck & Mr. Neale A. Grasham Michael & Jean Couch Mr. & Mrs. William G. Doolittle Mr. & Mrs. Reginald D. Steer Rosemarie Wagner Dr. Joan Claire Cucek Barbara J. Dwyer Michael & Susanna Steinberg Carol A. Weitz Mary A. Culp Mr. Michael H. Fahey Melchior Thompson & Ronald B. Wilkerson Dr. James Cuthbertson Mr. Steve N. Fecher Nell Lee Stinson-Thompson William Wisniewski & Catharine van Ingen Mr. Fred J. Dal Broi Ms. Susan Feichtmeir, Samuel Test Dr. Sherry Wren Dandelion, in honor of Pamela Rosenberg In memory of Rachael Balyeat William Laney Thornton & Pasha Dritt Thornton Ms. Colleen Yeates Marsh Ms. Julie K. Daniels Alexander L. Fetter & Lynn B. Bunim Dr. Naomi R. Thorpe Frank Zepeda Dr. Stephen J. Danko Cheryl Fippen & Mary True Ms. Heidi Ulrich Anonymous (4) Ms. Lisa Danzig Dr. Harvey & Deborah Fishman Leslie & Judy Vadasz Mrs. Arthur Dauer Jacques Fortier Ms. Elizabeth Vobach FOUNDER Jim & Marge Dean Barbara B. Friede Dr. & Mrs. Herbert H. Dedo Bruce & Fran Walker $3,000–$3,999 Elise & Tully Friedman Bob & Gail Walker Jan Deming & Jeff Goodby Mr. Sameer K. Gandhi & Ms. Monica Lopez Rosalie V. Weaver Dr. Valerie Abad & Mehdi Ghadiani Mrs. Pam DeWeerd Dorothy Gietzen Daphne & Stuart Wells Mrs. Lloyd Ackerman Mr. J. P. Richards Dillingham Mr. Stephen P. Gill & Mrs. Margaret Gill Mr. Richard P. West Dr. Lefkos Aftonomos Mag Dimond Sallie Griffith Matthew Williams & Amanda Maystead Dr. Daniel S. Alegria & Dr. Mary Page Hufty Marion Dodd Simone Haas & Scott Zumsteg Florette Yen Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Allen Mr. Keith E. Doerge Kathleen A. Hart Mr. E. William & Mrs. Mary Alice Yund Mr. Benjamin C. Anderson Ph.D. Ms. Eileen M. Dong Mollie Hedges & Laurel Lembo Anonymous (5) Robert C. Anderson Sandra D. Donnell & Justin M. Faggioli Miranda Heller & Mark Salkind Arlene Anthony Mr. Gregory J. Kelly & Dr. Kathy E. Down Ralph Hexter & Manfred Kollmeier PARTNER Ms. Maloos S. Anvarian & Mr. Franklin R. Jackson Katherine Herrick Drake Al Hoffman & David Shepherd Greer & Veronica Arthur Mr. Paul S. Duffey Mr. Larry Horton $4,000–$4,999 Matthew Austern & Janet Lafler Jeffrey Dunn & Carolyn Bruguera Charles & Brandi Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Jose R. Alonso Ms. Elizabeth Avakian Claudette Duran Kimberly M. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Atwater Mr. Richard Axelrod Jeff & Medina Earl Mr. David S. Hugle & Mr. Haggai Niv Victoria Barkan Mrs. Margot Shinnamon Bach Helene & Lawrence Edelman Mrs. Andrew Imbrie David Bertoni Zachary Baker Ms. Margaret Hart Edwards Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger Mr. & Mrs. Frank Bliss Eugene & Kathleen Bales Joseph Ehrman III Alfred & Sally Jones Linda Blondis Ms. Virginia Bamford Dr. Mary Eichbauer & Dr. Greg Gartrell Barbara E. Jones, Bill & Alison Boeckmann Mrs. Linda Barrett Ms. Barbara J. Eisenhauer in memory of William E. Jones Dr. Maurizio Bonacini Kimiko & Ivan Barta Ms. Dianne J. Ellsworth Mr. David A. Kadish Karen Burtness Prak & Jan Willem Prak Mr. & Mrs. Fedele Bauccio Ed & Barbara Eschbach Ms. Kathryn Kersey Dr. Richard L. Caplin Mrs. Mary Baxter Mrs. Caroline Eshleman Mehrzad Khajenoori Park & Joan Chamberlain Mr. Scott Bays Gregory & Anne M. Evans Richard A. La Cava, Esq. & Hilary & Richard Clark Robert H. Beadle Pauline Eveillard & Doug Gould Tomas van der Haase Emmy & Donald* Clausing Mr. Stephen Beitzel & Ms. Lise Quintana Patricia & Richard Farnsworth Regina Lackner Annelle Clute Dr. Robert & Irene Belknap Concepción S. & Irwin Federman Ms. Patricia Lee-Hoffmann Guy Cross & Erika Nelson Dr. Daniel Benson Drs. Bette & James Felton Anthony Leuin & Jean Bertrand Mr. Orville W. Dale Paul & Mildred Berg First Street Leather of Solvang, Mrs. Constance Marvin Jan & Jeannie de Vries Roy C. Bergstrom California and Mammoth Lakes Mr. Robert E. McCleskey Ms. Victoria Donald Mr. Josef Betz Daniel & Carla Flamm Ms. Linda M. McKay Peter G. Drewliner Vinny & Shalini Bhutani Kristina Flanagan James R. Meehan Mrs. Marilyn Dunn Paul & Kathy Bissinger Mr. & Mrs.* Thomas L. Frankel Carleton E. Meyer & Joan Tom Susan & Bruce Dzieza Harold Blajwas & Alisa S. Burgess Barbara B. & Joseph P. Fredrick Mr. & Mrs. John Meyer Ms. Nancy J. English Susan S. Blake & Joel Kaufmann Ms. Ellen A. Friedman Mr. James C. Moora Janice & Jack Eskridge Mrs. Robert N. Bloch Joyce Bleadon Friedman Thomas & Lydia Moran Dorothy Finger Mr. Noel T. Blos Karen L. Gabrielson Janet Morris & Frederick Martin Jessena Finn J. Dennis Bonney Lisa Zuckerman Gamshad William O. & Susan W. Morris David & Sheridan Foster Bruce Bowen & Junona Jonas Ms. Ching-Ching Ganley Margaret & Frank Morrow Mr. Richard J. Galbraith Barbara & Robert Brandriff Marlena & Julia Gee James & Katherine Moule Mr. & Mrs. Dane Gillette Ms. Jennifer Braun & Mr. Raymond Ryan Mr. Rich Gerhardt Ruth & James Murad Dr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon Mrs. Karen Broido Brendan Glackin & Emily Arnold Kate Murashige & Chris Zones Diane Green Lynda L. Brothers Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Gleason Mr. Peter Johnson Musto Ms. Violet Grgich & Mr. Colin Shipman Timothy & Margaret Brown Robert C. Goodman & John Bankston Janet Napolitano Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Gunning Don Buhman & Wray Humphrey Dr. Kathleen Grant & Dr. Thomas Jackson

* deceased

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Mr. Frederick Grauer Dr. Britt-Marie Ljung Skip Paul David & Barbara Sloss Mr. Benjamin Gregorski Kate Lord Ms. Cori Dollette Peele Mr. Mark Small Andy* & Eva Grove Thomas & Kathryn* Loughran Mauree Jane & Mark W. Perry Prof. & Mrs. Alan Jay Smith Drs. Bill & Nancy Grove Claude L. Lowen Peter & Patricia Peterson Frederic H. Smith Johnnie Johnson Hafernik & John Hafernik Ophelia A. Lum You Ms. Nancy Pfund & Phil Polakoff, M.D. Mr. Jordan H. Smith Helen & Dr. Glenn Hakanson Ms. Jennifer Lynch & Mr. Justin Schuster Ralph & Jane Pica Pamela D. Smith Ms. Bronwyn H. Hall Gus Manning & Rena Kirkpatrick Dr. Judith Pickersgill James K. Sokol Sandra Handler Richard A. Marciano & Teresa Middleton Ms. Shauna Pickett-Gordon Sonia Soo & Alan Seem Charles F. Hanes John Marcom & Arif Hasyim Genevieve Plusa Gideon* & Cheryl Sorokin Dr. John R. Heckenlively Treva Jo Marcus Kyle Polite & Rob Snow Robert L. Speer & John Wong Fred & Peggy Heiman Daniel Mardesich & Ritchie & Melissa Post Joelle Steefel Peggy Heineman Virginia Anawalt Mardesich Susan K. Prather Mrs. Ann Marie Steig Alfred & Ruth Heller Dr. Pamela Marron Jeanette M. Prato Mary Jean Stempien & James Stricker Paula Heller & Robert Yohai Henry Massey & Amie Chang Margaret & Vic Quattrin Ms. Barbara Stewart Zheyla M. Henriksen Robin & Karl May Mr. & Mrs. Martin Quinn Nobuyuki & Megumi Sugiura Mr. Robert Hero Mr. Frank T. Maynard Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Ratner Ms. Theresa Sweeney Mr. & Mrs. David Hodges Eileen McCauley Charles & Patricia Raven Ms. Susan Sweet Mr. & Mrs. Charles Holden Drs. Jack M. McElroy & Mary Ann Skidmore Shirley & Robert Raymer Sharon & John Tastor Wilma S. Horwitz Dr. Patricia McEveney Ms. Danielle Rebischung Martin & Elizabeth Terplan Ms. Antonia Patricia Hotung Caryl McIvor Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes Nancy Terry Carol L. & David G. Hough Dr. & Mrs. Thomas O. McLaughlin Audrey & Paul L. Richards Ms. Joan Thoma Ms. Gladys K. Howard Ms. Sharon McNalley Kathryn E. Ringgold Judy & Harold Ticktin Joanne Howard Ronald & Judith McWilliams Robert Ripps & Steven Spector Dean & Jeanice Tipps Mr. Joseph C. Howard, Jr. Robert Meister Martin & Edis Robinson Ms. Carol J. Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Howard Dr. Beryl & Mrs. Renee Mell Ronald Rogness Norman & Carol Traeger Timothy G. & Cara R. Hoxie Mr. David Mellor Scot Rohrer & Anne Scanlan-Rohrer Sharon Tsao Dr. & Mrs. David Huchital Edith P. Mendez Yvette & Philip Rosedale Gisela & Peter Turner Bradford L. Humphrey Mr. & Mrs. Russell Merritt Ms. Susan Rosenblatt Moya & Alyosha Verzhbinsky Nancy A. Hutcheon Mr. & Mrs. Donald Michener Dr. & Mrs. Roberto P. Rosenkranz Mary & Terry Vogt Edward & Patricia Hymson Judith & Irwin Miller Messrs. Richard R. Rossi & Kimberly Mark Webb Mrs. Louis M. Vuksinick David K. & Kay Duke Ingalls Beverly Mitchell & John Pringle Mrs. Joan Rost Dr. Bradford W. Wade & Dr. Linda K. Riebel Dr. & Mrs. Norman Jacobson Mr. D. G. Mitchell Dr. Gwendolyn Rothman Arthur & Susan Walenta Mr. Keith Jantzen & Mr. Scott Beth Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mocker Stephen & Marcia Ruben Ms. Adrian Walker Robin & Virginia Jaquith Thomas & Cassandra Moore Mr. John E. Ruden Ms. Ann Y. Walker & Mr. David M. Jones William & Leticia Jarvis Lawrence J. Morgan Francis & Andrea Rush Cmdr. & Mrs. Homer Wallin Rosemary Joyce & Russell Sheptak Camille Morishige Todd & Sandra Sachs Alice & C.C.* Wang Anne Kaiser & Robert Taylor Thomas* & Anne Morton Louise Adler Sampson Mr. & Mrs. William J. Watt Dr. Avi Katz & Dr. Raluca Dinu Berit & Robert Muh Michael & Gini Savage Ron & Anne White Robert S. Keagy Renate M. Nadler, M.D. Marlys & Joseph Saveri Ms. Faye C. Wilson Daniel Kelley Joseph C. Najpaver & Deana Logan Mr. David Sawle Vivian W. Wing, M.D. & Sheila Doyle Kiernan Donna Hall Neff Ms. Janine Scancarelli & Elizabeth Grace Wickersham Nelda Kilguss Jim Newman & Jane Ivory Mr. Christopher McMahon Susan & Jonathan Wittwer Dick & Marianne Kipper Ms. Mary D. Niemiller George Scangos & Leslie Wilson Josiah & Michelle Wolcott Mrs. Claudia Bray Kitka Gerald & Ortrun Niesar Ms. Beth Scanlan Ms. Eileen C. Wong Mr. Edson Kong Mary L. Nilan Betty J. Schreiner, M.D. Ms. Shirley Woo Maj. Floyd R. Krey Matthew & Nancy Noel Ms. Barbara J. Schrock Dan Woods Bettine Kuh Marilyn Oronzi Mrs. Ronald Schroeder Margaret VB Wurtele Elinor Lacy Lise Deschamps Ostwald Mr. & Mrs. Michael Schroeder Russell & Marilyn Wylie Lane Fertility Institute Ms. Catherine A. Owen Ms. Andrea Schultz Dennis & Lena Yang Ms. Marcia Lazer Ms. Siu M. Owyeung John R. Schwabacher Family Lowell S. Young & Celeste Young Dr. & Mrs. John Lenahan Mr. & Mrs. F. Ward Paine Ms. Margaret V. Sheehan Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Zaccalini Brahm & Deborah Levin Mrs. Jeraldine M. Palazzi Kate and Matthew Shilvock Pierluigi Zappacosta & Enrica D’Ettorre Meagan S. Levitan Maxwell G. Paley & Gregory J. Corrales Mr. Leslie M. Shinozawa Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Zilles Norman & Helen Ann Licht Dean & Kim Pananides Neal H. Shorstein, MD Mary & Harold Zlot Family Foundation Raymond Lifchez Ms. Nicki Parisi Barbara Silverberg Anne Zucchi Barry & Marie Lipman Dr. Richard & Jean Park Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Silverberg Dr. Richard A. Zuniga & Mr. Sean M. SeLegue Mr. Wen-Pen Liu Ms. Barbara Paschke Judith & Walter Sleeth Anonymous (9)

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PRINCIPAL PATRON Anita Stapen & Richard Granberg Mrs. Maria Canizales Mr. Leo & Mrs. Jane Gaspardone Matt & Tami Stolte Ms. Frances Carlson Margaret M. Gates $2,000–$2,999 David & Jane Stringer Peter & Jane Carpenter Mr. Sam Genirberg Norm Abramson & David Beery* Ms. Terri Stuart Bruce & Mary Alice Carswell Mr. & Mrs. Robert Goldman Mr. & Mrs. John S. Arnold Ms. Jennifer Taylor Mr. Steven Cassinelli Kathryn A. & Kevin Gorges Ms. Beverly R. Benson Mary Van Voorhees Dr. Karen Castle Ms. Patricia Gotchall & Ms. Jean Meeks John & Diane Benson Ms. Nora E. Wagner Mr. Eugene B. Ceccotti Ms. Barbara Goza Stuart & Helen Bessler Helena Troy Wasp Dr. Michael Charney Mr. James Grant Ms. Debbie Booth Mr. Frederick T. Williams Mr. Man Wah Cheng Zane O. Gresham & Carole J. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. David W. Brady Ann L. Williamson Mr. Paul Cheng Patricia L. Griffin Ms. Kathleen Braunstein Mr. Mason Willrich Mrs. Eunice M. Childs Ann C. Grove & Richard Green Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Breitbart Ms. Merilyn Wong Mr. Alexandre Chorin Claude & Nina* Gruen Dr. Roberta Brokaw Dr. Sondra Zentner & Ms. Sophie Neubert Ms. Patricia Christensen Miss Ursula Grunfeld Ms. Brenda Brown George Zimmerman Ms. Ann D. Claesgens Patricia C. Gumbel Mrs. Kathleen M. Brown William Robertson & Ieva Zvargulis Rev. David L. Clarke M. M. Hadcock, M.D. Andrzej & Nancy Brzeski Anonymous (6) Mr. Paul C. Clifford Mr. Nathan Haese Mr. Audrius Budrys Dr. Cara Coburn Ms. Holly Haight Clark & Elizabeth Callander SUSTAINING PATRON Mrs. Ralph L. Coffman Mr. Jeff Han Mrs. Ronald E. Cape $1,000–$1,999 Ms. Emily G. Cole Dr. S. Hand Mr. Robert Clark Mr. Stephen L. Collier & Mr. Frank A. Patt Ms. Margaret Handelman Richard & Sylvia Condon Jane & Christopher Adams Marian E. Collins Mr. Joseph Hansen & Mr. Richard R. Cicinelli Dr. Nancy Davidson & Mr. Steen Pedersen Ms. Muriel W. Adcock Mr. David Combies Mr. & Mrs. Eric Hanson Ronald Denchfield & Patricia Molvar Amir V. Adibi & Shannon R. Clawson Carol & Lewis Connolly Mr. Roy Dean Hardy Mary Lou Dorking Sophie & Ted Aldrich Ms. Aileen Cooke Betty-Lou Harmon John & Roberta Eidson Ms. Lois Aldwin Clyde & Ann Coombs Ms. Anette L. Harris Kathryn Carole Ellison Scott R. & Catherine Q. Alexander Ms. Marilyn Cooper Diana Harris Phyllis M. Faber Mr. Ignacio M. Aliagas Lauri Corrigan Jon & Connie Hartung Firestone Family Foundation Dolores M. Allen Carol Gray Costigan Julia & Gordon Held William O. Fisher & Kathryne Bernick Dr. Maria D. Allo Carmen Côté-De Vaughn* Alan & Joan Henricks Richard L. Frank Trust Mrs. Linda Anderson Hugh J. Coughlin Ms. Diane Henry Eliot & Cynthia Fried Paul W. Anderson Mrs. James E. Court Lynn & Robert Hetland David & Betsy Fryberger Dr.* & Mrs. Theodore W. Anderson Dr. & Mrs. William R. Crain Walter & Esther Hewlett Janet Gallin & Sissel Ramirez Margaret Ann Augustine Mr. John C. Cromack Terence Hird John & Paula Gambs Ms. Mary Baiamonte Mr. Bradford Crowell Fred & Sandra Hirschfield Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Goodman Dr. Barbara Baker Ms. Anne Curran Ms. Margaret Ho Philip Goward Ms. Virginia Bale Mr. & Mrs. James Daley Mr. Melvin S. Hodges Ms. Maud Hallin Frances Balfour Mr. A. S. Damji Kurt & Melanie Hoefer Mary & Michael Hanemann Dr. Flora Banuett Ms. Jean L. Dana Mr. Stephen C. Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Claude M. Hiramoto-Hess David N. Barnard Mr. Max Daneri Diane & Richard Hohl Dr. Lucie Hirmina Ms. Joanne Barnes Mr. Christopher Davies Mr. Atticus Honore Raymond & Karen Houck Melanie & Stephen Baron Mr. Craig Davis Dr. Richard T. Hoppe Hing On Hsu Ashley Barrington-Mace & Kelly Wagner Mr. William P. Davis Dr. Michael Horn Glen Jarvis Albert Bartridge Mr. John G. Day Ms. Sally V. Houston Ms. M. Anne Jennings Paul & Linda Baumann Miss Judith Deniz Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Huff III Mr. Clovis Darryl Jones Ms. Elizabeth Beitzel Ulric & Glenda Dennis Mr. Robert Hultman Paul S. Jones Keith Bentley Carol & Joseph DePond Ms. Mary Idso Dr. & Mrs. Samuel D. Kaplan Richard & Maureen Bergson Ms. Marta De Pierris Mr. & Mrs. Ken Imatani Mr. Thomas L. Kardos Adam Arthur Bier & Rachel Lem Thomas P. & Veronica C. Devitt Alex Ingersoll & Martin Tannenbaum Ms. Elizabeth D. Kelker Ms. Linda Billings Nina Dickerson Mr. Stephen Iremonger Ms. Claudia Kennedy Charles and Lenore Bleadon Sue & John Diekman Ms. Laura Jacobson & Mr. John Denton Ms. Alyssa T. Koo Mr. Nicholas Bloisa Mr. Stanley J. Dirks Dr. Michael A. Jaffe M.D. Dr. Judith A. Lamberti Ms. Susan Blomberg Dave & Helen Dix Mrs. Jo Jagoda Michael Lamm Janet Nye Blomquist Ms. Maureen Dobiesz Mr. Alexander Jakle Dr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Lazarus Mr. Wolfgang Bluhm Mr. John D. Drago Mr. & Mrs. Claude Jarman, Jr. Peter Lee Ms. Linda S. Blum William H. Draper III Jeraldine S. Johnson Mr. Kenneth Leitch Dr. Jennifer Bock Hughes & Dr. Michael J. Drinnan, M.D. Harvey L. Jones Ms. Michelle Li Mr. Harold O. Hughes Edma Dumanian Andrea G. Julian Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ludgus Dr. Morris Bol & Mr. Lewis A. Crickard Fynnette Eaton & James Miller Mr. & Mrs. George Jurkowich Mr. John E. Major Mr. Jonathan Bonato Kirk & Thara Edson Sy Kaufman & Kerstin Edgerton Joan Mansour Ms. Jennifer Bonilla Kathryn Carole Ellison Mr. Loren Kayfetz Dr. & Mrs. Robert Martin Ms. Patricia Jones Boone Dr. Cornelis Elmes Kathryn Kearney Robert McDowell Kenneth Borelli Anna Engle John Keeley Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Melchior Ms. Moura Borisova Shaari Ergas Mr. Christopher Kelly Denis Moore & Paul Garza Ben & Noël Bouck Mrs. Joyce Mishel Ettinger Erwin Kelly Ms. Kathleen E. Mulaney Malcolm H. Bowles Mr. & Ms. Al Falchi Mr. Frank Kelly Mrs. Jane G. Petersen Ms. Joan K. Boyd Ms. Phoebe Farnam Mr. Chenghung Ker Clifford Popejoy Mr. Lawrence Brackett Cantor & Mrs. Martin Feldman Ms. Diane Ketelle Felice S. Price Stevan D. Bradley Mr. Robert M. Ferencz Mr. & Mrs. James F. Kirkham Mr. Gregory Price Mr. Robert C. Brandt Mr. Jeffrey Fine Ms. Katharine Kleinke Ms. Norma Quan Ms. Hillary Braun Leah Fine Mrs. Chuen Kleiser Mr. & Mrs. Arvo Rehemets Ms. Lucille Breslow Candace Fitzgerald Judith & Harlan Koch Dr. Andrew Rombakis Ms. Wendy Breuer & Mr. Charles Crane Mr. Jeffrey R. Fox Jane Koegel Dr. Andrew & Erica Rosenblatt Mr. Richard Brinker Mr. Zephyr Frank Mr. Martin Kooi Richard W. Ross Mr. Michael Broach Jim & Karen Frassetto Dr. Bob & Christine Kradjian Randy Schekman & Patty Coffin Gabe & Trish Brovedani Mr. Ian Friedland Mrs. Caroline Krauskopf Mr. Daniel Schoerner and Ms. Donna Pitteri Sam and Ginger Brown Ms. Gaye Frisby Charles Kredensor & Frederic Saunders Laura & Carlton Seaver Kay Miller Browne James H. & Alison M. Fritzsche Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kuckein Dr. Carolyn M. Senger Wendy Buchen Miss Judy N. Fu Kenneth & Monica Kulander Katherine Setar & Brad Fischer Mr. Audley Burford Mrs. Mary Gallo Joan Lam Dr. Marilyn N. Silva Barbra & Eric Burman Mr. Paul Gardner Andrew Lan Mr. & Mrs. Dennis & Kagari Smith Mr. Gerald Cahill & Ms. Kathleen S. King Ms. Judith E. Garvens David Larson Dr. Steven Sorenson Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cameron Max Gasner James P. Laumond, M.D.

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Mrs. Jan V. Lawler John H. & Elizabeth B. Munz Floyd W. Ross Mr. Martin Stidham Mr. & Mrs. Roger A. Lazarus Ms. Majbritt Murdock Mary Ellen Rossi Mr. John Stocker Mr. & Mrs. G. B. Lebedeff Mrs. Pamela Murdock Mr. George E. Rossmann Ann Stone Kewchang Lee, M.D. John & Diane Musgrave Barry Roth Mr. Edward Storm Ms. Lucille C. Lee Mr. Tom Myers Jeffrey Ruda & Leonard Whitney Ms. Theresa Sweeney Richard & Patricia Taylor Lee Mr. Anthony Nash & Mrs. Dorene Cotter Nancy J. Russell Valerie E. G. Talmage Mr. Roy Leggitt & Ms. Courtney Clarkson Mrs. Terrylin Neale David & Bonnie Sachs Marvin C Tanigawa Edgar & Joyce Lehmann Mr. Warwick Neasmith Jordan Sachs & Jeannie Sack Dr. Ruedi F. Thoeni, M.D. Catherine Lehmann Mr. Charles & Dr. Laura Nelson Barbara Sahm & Steven Winkel Charlise Tiee & Scott Grieder Dr. & Mrs. Hoyle Leigh Wanda Nervi Brigitte Sandquist Mr. Ralph Tiegel Amy & Stan Leopard Jonathan & Barbara Newhall Mr. Jeffrey Sant Mary S. Tilden Mr. Mark Levi Mr. Carl & Mrs. Wenlan Ng Bruce & Nancy Mosbacher Ms. Martha D. Toppin Adrelle K. Levy Mr. Richard Niemi Mr. Yuval Scharf Lynne Toribara & Brian Howard Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Jim & Brenda Nirenstein Dr. Brendan Scherer Mrs. Anita R. Tortorici James & Michelle Lewis Ms. Kay Noel Mr. Frank Schirrmeister Gunnel Tottie Dr. T. Juhani Linna Mr. Terrence M. Nordstrom Philip Schlein Jeanie Nieri Treichel Mr. Ivan R. Linscott Allen & Gayle Notowitz Mrs. Irmgard Schmid-Maybach Mr. Joe Tupin Mr. & Mrs. Steven Lipson Ms. Annie Nunan Rev. Paul J. Schmidt & Rev. Gerard K. Moran Mr. Earl Turner John Livingston & Frances Etow Dr. Michael O’Connor & Dr. Patricia O’Connor Mr. Robert P. Schneider Cornelis van Aalst Ronald & Mary Loar Ms. Ellen A. O’Donnell Phoebe & Christopher Schreiber Mr. Gregory Van Acker Frank & Sally Lopez Fran & John O’Sullivan Mr. James Scillian Mr. Paul E. van Dyk Stan Lore Nancy Ober Alward & Eugene Alward Ms. Marilyn Sefchovich Ms. Jessica Vapnek Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Lovett, Jr. Mrs. Judith Ocken Tom & Robin Selfridge Mr. George Varian Dr. & Mrs. Jerold Lowenstein George* & Karen Offen Ms. Louise Shalit Ms. Belinda C. Vega Frances Lozano Ms. Jan Ogren & Mr. Dean Watson Drs. Charles & Andrea Shapiro Dr. Conrad Vial & Catalina Zapata-Vial Dr. & Mrs. G. Karl Ludwig, Jr. Stefanie Olivieri Dr. & Mrs. James Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Clark Vilas Kurtice C. Luther Mr. & Mrs. Robert Olness Ms. Marcey Shapiro Mr. Grant Vincent Mr. Stuart Mabon Brian Olson Mr. Andrey Shaw Fred & Ridley Virdeh Hon Mai & Joseph Goodman Karin Orsic & Greg Davis Dr. David Shearn Ms. Benay W. von Husen Mr. Laird Malamed Ellice J. Papp Mr. Neil Sheffield Mr. Charles Wagner & Mr. Thomas F. Culp Mr. Peter Mansfield Ms. Rachel Parker Judy & Wylie Sheldon Susan Walker Richard & Patricia Marcogliese Peter Pastreich & Jamie Whittington James R. Shevock Ms. Emily Wang & Mr. Aaron Hoffer Roberta A. Marlowe Mr. Alec Pedersen Elias Shikaloff Ms. Edna Warnecke Ms. Virginia G. Martin Dr. Lenore Pereira & Dr. Richard Niles Dr. & Mrs. Richard Shoop Mr. & Mrs. John H. Warren Ms. Alex Marzano Jason Perry & Brian Rusch Diana & Richard Shore Ms. Victoria Weatherford & Dr. William H. Mason Miss Donna Petersen Louis Silcox Mr. Jordan Gardner Mrs. Charlene Mathias Ms. Susan D. Peterson Mr. Scott Silveira Mrs. Carolyn Webber Mr. Gilbert E. Matthews Andrew & Myrto Petreas Dr. Patricia Silver Mr. Keith R. Weed Ms. Katherine McClellan Dr. Lawrence & Elizabeth Petz Ms. Marjorie Simon Ms. Mariquita West John G. McGehee John & Kristina Philpott Mr. Will Simpson Karen Wetherell Michael & Linda McIlvoy Allen & Joyce Phipps Mrs. Alice Sklar Robert Mark Wright Mr. & Mrs. David Meckler Peter Pierson Ms. Michaelene C. Skronski Mr. Doug Williams & Mr. & Mrs. Greg Mei Mr. Scott Plakun & Dr. Milton P. Schafer Lawrence & Jacqueline Slayen Ms. Madelyn Bedig-Williams Mr. Peter C. Meier Mr. Burr Preston Mr. Albert G. Smith Ms. Erika Williams Jason N. Meiers Karl Pribram & Sweta Arora Mr. Fred B. Smith John R. Williams David & Erika Meinhardt Dr. David Priest & Rev. Eric Nefstead Mr. & Mrs. George D. Smith Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Dale A. Wise Craig Melchert Mr. John Proffitt Ms. Joyce T. Smith Mr. Michael S. Wise Ms. Suzanne R. Mellen Robert & Consuelo Purvis Smith Family Mr. Brendan Wood Thomas & Barbara Metcalf Mr. & Mrs. Sergey Rakitchenkov Dr. Stephen R. Smith Mr. Donald R. Worn Dr. Allison Metz Mr. Robert W. Rankin Judy & Bill Snow Ms. Janet S. Wright Carolyn Meyer Ayag Ann Ratcliffe Richard Sogg Lenore Wyatt Knute Michael & Ginna Dean Miller David & Mary Raub Mr. Kevin E. Solliday Ms. Dale E. Young Karnig & Santoukht Silva Mikaelian Rossannah Reeves Mary Ann Somerville Mr. Babak Yousefzadeh Mr. & Mrs. Barry Miller Mr. William E. Reller Gary J. Sorgen Mr. Barry Zacherle Sean Minnig & Matt Evans Mr. Seth Rice Ms. Kim Spitler Ms. Mona Zander Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Moffett Julie & Christopher Ridley Mr. Fred Spitz Vincent & Joyce Zarcone Mr. J. Jeffrey Mojcher Mr. & Mrs. James M. Rockett Leela & Sam Stake Mr. William T. Zaumen Mr. Douglas G. Moore Rick & Stephanie Rogers Ms. Fran Stancavage Ming Zhao Lisa Moore Theres & Dennis Rohan Nick & Jeanne Stathakos Anonymous (26) Bill Morgan & Gwen Herrin Lynn Roller & John Wagoner Harvey Steiman Mr. Robert Mukai Marguerite Romanello Susan K. Stevens, M.D.

Individual donors receive unique benefits at each membership level that connect them to the Company in a multitude of ways, including priority seating, personalized ticket service, behind-the-scenes access, and more. To learn more about becoming a donor, contact our Development Department at (415) 565-6401. Listed gifts were received between August 1, 2018 and October 10, 2019. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of our donor listings. If we have misspelled or omitted a name, please accept our apology and notify us at (415) 565-6401 so that we may update our records accordingly.

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TRIBUTES

San Francisco Opera is grateful to the following donors for their tribute gifts received in the past twelve months.

IN HONOR OF

Joanne Bourland Ms. Dana Gordon Mr. Andrew Maguire Miss Donna Jean Petersen Mark Sackett James A. Heagy Dr.* & Mrs. Joseph Bernstein Dr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Sara Ganz Emily Scott Mr. Glenn H. Reid Bruce Bowen & Junona Jonas Ms. Lianna Haroutounian Anonymous Christian Pursell Sigmund Seigel & Karen Topp Ms. Paula Reynolds Dr. Bob & Christine Kradjian Dr. Sandra Lillie Amy & Stan Leopard Mr. Richard P. Mills Darin Burnett and James A. Heagy Ms. Elisabeth Walton Plácido Domingo Dana Shapiro the entire Staging Staff Thomas Heagy Ruth Quigley Allan Lerch Frank Zepeda Andrew Morgan & Danny Richard Karen J. Kubin Edward Frank & Sarah Ratchye Patricia Racette Matthew Shilvock Dr. Melvin & Hella Cheitlin Bruce & Nancy Mosbacher Bill Morgan & Gwen Herrin Dr. Nanette Gartrell & David Gockley & Linda Kemper Nicole McGrouther Skip Paul Dr. Dee Mosbacher, Ph.D., M.D. Mrs. Terrylin Neale Ms. Blanca Ojeda Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Ms. Beth Clayton Priscilla Lore Mr. Alfonso Rodriguez Ms. Sissel Ramirez Dr. Nanette Gartrell & Stanton Lore Ms. Janet Gallin Mr. Jay Siegel Dr. Dee Mosbacher, Ph.D., M.D. Rufus Olivier Ms. Catherine A. Owen The Magnificent Orchestra Anonymous Louise Fuller and Chorus Ms. Pamela Appel Anonymous

IN MEMORY OF

Mr. Samuel Auron Rolf Gille Louise M. Davies Foundation Gordon Katznelson John B. and Zelda M. Quigley Mr. Ari Auron Mrs. Rolf Gille Mr. & Ms. Robert Faussner Dr. Avraham V. Giannini and Joan Quigley Miss Mary Franck Ruth Quigley Madi Bacon William W. Godward Ms. Alexis Harrington Fr. John Kindall, S.J. Scotty Brookie & Andrew Purchin Ms. Christine Augustin Jane & David Hartley Jane Ma Delwin H. Rimbey Jane Bernstein* & Bob Ellis David & Nancy Heilbron James K. Sokol Mrs. Rachael Balyeat Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Bob & Linda Holden Andrea Manson Krueger Ms. Susan Feichtmeir Ms. Karen Haines Mrs. Catherine Hughes Ms. Marylouise Serrato Ms. Nettie Robinson Mr. Edwin Huddleson Leslie & George Hume Ms. Elizabeth Avakian Alicia Bentley Karen J. Kubin Mr. Dane Johnson Anne Lerch Keith Bentley Bernard & Barbro Osher Karen J. Kubin Allan Lerch Mr. Randolph Robinson Ms. Rhoda W. Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. Lindsay MacDermid Ms. Adora Matthews Ms. Arlene Bush Roselyne Chroman Swig Ms. Susan Milazzo Jane Lew Mrs. Susan Anderson Barbara Moller Ward Ms. Lisa Mizono Ms. Colette A. Verdun Mr. James Ross Thomas* & Anne Morton Janet & George Gardiner Edith Cohen Mrs. Susan K. Gore Ms. Ellen A. O’Donnell John W. Lindstrom John Canarina Mr. Gordon Gore Odd Foggies Book Club Bernice G. Lindstrom James H. Schwabacher Marianne H. Peterson Peter & Jayne Davis Dr. Richard Cohen Jayne Heagy Mrs. Harrison Robinson Mr. Peter Magowan Candace Zander Kahn James A. Heagy Louis Silcox Caterpillar Inc. Ervin H. Schwarcz Ms. Tamar Sanikidze & Mr. Kevin E. Solliday Barbara Oseroff Dr. Alexander Cross Mr. Norman W. Crossley Ms. Linda Squires-Grohe Miss Vivienne E. Miller Jennifer M. Bienaime Ms. Tina Taylor Mrs. Mark O. Kasanin Dr. Manuel Stapen Sue & John Diekman J. Scott Hendrickson, Supernumerary Barbara Moller Ward Anita Stapen & Richard Granberg The Hendrickson Family Hon. James L. Warren (Ret.) Ms. Gloria Mittelstaedt Mr. Bruce Della-Santina Mr. Barry Zoob Ms. Pia Hinckle Mr. Mark T. Stuart Ms. Lisa Della-Santina Mr. Jay Hinde Ms. Terri Stuart Ms. Paula Lim Barbara K. Jackson Mildred Newman Paul Crane Dorfman Mrs. Karen Broido Mrs. Gloria S. Kaplan Ms. Sara Van Dyke Mr. & Mrs. Philip Bowles Michael & Connie Hooker Ms. Stacy Cullison Ms. Kathleen A. Esselstyn Agnes Chen Brown Laine Buckingham James A. Heagy George Offen Ms. Kathleen Burke Donald & Janice Elliott Richard A. Ward Mr. Craig Corbitt & Ms. Nancy Stoltz Mr. George Hutzler Louise Jenkins Ms. Edith Gelles Linda J. Reiff John Cullison & Diana Kissil Mrs. Andrew Imbrie Mr. Philip A. Riedel & Peggy & Lee Zeigler Ms. Stacy Cullison Ms. Carolyn D. Bailey Dr. Charles Yanofsky Eliot & Cynthia Fried Mr. Bruce W. Hyman Mr. David LeRoy Osborne Mrs. Edna Yanofsky Leslie & George Hume Scott R. & Catherine Q. Alexander William E. Jones Ms. Jane Johnston Jane G. Petersen Norby Anderson Barbara E. Jones Karl Ernst Zimmer Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Nita Roethe Paul & Kathy Bissinger Ms. Rosalind Ow-Wing Dr. Dan Slobin Dr. & Mrs. James Shapiro J. Dennis Bonney Shirley Kalgaard Ms. Sharon Ow-Wing Barbara Moller Ward Dix Boring & Marilyn Moore Boring Sharon & Peter Lingane Mr. Stanley Zuckerman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bransten Donna Purvis Lisa Zuckerman Gamshad Ann W. Eliaser Ms. Sandra Brown Mrs. Margaret J. Kaplan Franklin & Lilo Battat Mrs. Robert N. Bloch Carol Franc Buck Mr. Paul Kaplan & Ms. Diane A. Fitzgerald Mr. & Mrs. Philip Bowles Mr. Donald D. Campbell & Ms. Susan Kaplan-Simon Mr. Arthur Guffanti Judith & Patrick Hobin Ms. Sue Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Richard Laurence Carol Potter Peckham Mr. & Mrs. Clinton Coddington Ms. Joan Loftus Ms. Hilary Colwell Ms. Sandra Sawyer

* deceased

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THE ENDOWMENT FUND

San Francisco Opera honors those whose endowment contributions since 1972 have helped ensure that our tradition of excellence continues in perpetuity. To learn more about endowment opportunities, contact Kyle Polite, Deputy Director of Development, at (415) 551-6226 or [email protected].

NAMED FUNDS COMPOSERS’ CIRCLE Lucile C. Monteagle Estate ARTISTS’ CIRCLE Barbara V. Morse Estate William Randolph Hearst Young Artists Fund $500,000–$999,999 $25,000–$49,999 Milton J. Mosk & Thomas Foutch Francesca Deering Howe R. Joseph Berard Estate Mr. & Mrs. George Otto Dr. John Alden Fund Principal Artist Fund Mai G. Coggin Estate Ms. Karen Richardson & Mr. Jon Rubinstein Carolee Anderson Estate Caroline H. Hume Music Director Fund Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis Dr. & Mrs. Richard Rigg Fritzi Benesch* Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Fund Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons Keith W. & Marjorie J. Riley Marjorie B. Bonthrone Trust Pitch & Cathie Johnson Student Ticket Fund Francis Goldsmith Trust Gerald B. Rosenstein* George Bowles The Diana Dollar Knowles Richard B. Gump Estate Lurline B. Roth Charity Foundation Marion Zimmer Bradley Estate Fund for Emerging Artists Claramae Turner Hoffmann Estate Ruth Sanderson Estate Nancy W. Bridgwater Estate Edmund W. & Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Susan & Eric Johnston Ilse Sauerwald Estate Broadway-Hale Stores Fund Karen J. Kubin James H. Schwabacher Estate Mrs. Harry F. Camp Bernard Osher Endowment Fund Peggy & Boyce Nute Eunice B. J. Senderman Estate Meyer M. Camp Jordan Joseph Popkin Opera Outreach Fund Mr. & Mrs. David Packard Prof. Kurt Servos Estate Ms. Annette Campbell-White & Madeleine H. Russell Jefferson Peyser Estate Edward Meade Smith Estate Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Night at the Opera Fund K. Hart Smith Estate Nellie D. Stephens Estate Philip Carlson Estate Thomas Tilton Production Fund Harry J. Wagner Estate Alice Vincilione Dr. & Mrs. Herbert H. Dedo Phyllis C. Wattis Opera Fund Carole Wagner Estate Edward P. Eassa Trust Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions Barbara M. Ward & Mr. & Mrs. William C. Edwards Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for the Opera Center LIBRETTISTS’ CIRCLE The Honorable Roy L. Wonder* Sidney M. Ehrman Estate Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for $250,000–$499,999 Whitney Warren Estate David B. Felch Estate the Maintenance of the Opera House Carole B. Berg Estate Karyl Lynn Kopelman Zietz Barbara Marie Fontaine Estate Phyllis C. Wattis Opera Fund for Tickets Anita Uhl Brothers Estate Hilda Gard Trust Patricia Yakutis Endowment Fund Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris DIVAS’ CIRCLE Frank Gerbode Eleanor Guilford Ms. Ginger Dostrow* $50,000–$99,999 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Phyllis Edwards Estate Vija Hovgard $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Dr. Maurice Eliaser, Jr. Estate Marguerite Arends Estate William S. & Vivienne Howe Estate Gertrude Baker Trust Mrs. Frederick Kohlenberg Norby Anderson in memory of Stella & Maurice Eliaser Bank of America Foundation Betty Ford Lingo—The Cerimon Fund Dr. Ross Armstrong Estate Roberta Empey Estate Katherine R. Blyth Estate Edward Maker II Estate Andrew J. Bellotti* Janet C. Griffiths* Frank A. Campini Foundation Thelma Marken* Mr. & Mrs. William* K. Bowes, Jr. Dr. Samuel C. Hughes Estate Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc. Russell J. Matthias Estate Bette Jean Clute Estate James Irvine Foundation Del Monte Corporation Diana L. McClure Estate Columbia Foundation in honor of Myron Du Bain Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Donnell Naomi Maryann McHugh Estate Dr. & Mrs. William M. Coughran R. Earl Robinson Fund Fireman’s Fund American Foundation Morris Trust Franklin C. Deters Estate Ruth C. Samson Estate Fleishhacker Foundation Louisette C. Murdoch Estate Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson, Claudia Stoop Estate Lawrence Foster Estate Agda Eleonora Olson Estate in honor of David Gockley Earl H. Teass Trust Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Fromm Pacific Lighting Corporation Ray* & Dagmar Dolby Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Zderic I. P. Patrick Gallagher Fund Pacific Telesis Carol & Dixon Doll William G. Gilmore Foundation Christopher Page 1985 Trust Bertie Bialek Elliott CONDUCTORS’ CIRCLE Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Harris Deborah Pentz Trust Jane Bernstein* & Bob Ellis $100,000–$249,999 Marco P. Hellerman Estate Mr. & Mrs. Louis A. Petri Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton Mr.* & Mrs. John M. Bryan Mrs. Griffith Henshaw Estate Agnes D. Porter Estate John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Chevron USA Hewlett-Packard Foundation Retail Dry Goods Association Mr. & Mrs. James Heagy Mrs. Sheldon Cooper Estate Marian Prentice Huntington Estate of San Francisco The William Randolph Hearst Foundation in memory of Robert Watt Miller Joan J. Jacobs R.C. Samson Estate The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Valerie & Paul Crane Dorfman Effiellen Jeffries Estate Casey L. Scott Francesca Deering Howe Estate Ms. Leonie Darwin* G. William Jewell Estate Dr. A. Jess Shenson Sylvia & John Hughes Mr. & Mrs. William H. Draper, III Lorraine Jones Estate Emmett G. Solomon The Hume Family Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich Estate Sidney & Vivian Konigsberg Lynda Spence Dora Donner Ide Estate Robert F. Ewing Edith Koshland Estate Jonas Waxman* Barbara K. Jackson Derek M. Fairman Estate Elizabeth Katherine Lady Estate Wells Fargo Bank Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Charles D. Field Estate Sheila & Thomas Larsen Zucchi Family Trust Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries R. Gwin Follis Foundation M.E. Lorenz Estate Anonymous (1) Franklin & Catherine Johnson William W. Godward McBean Family Foundation Mr. Lawrence A. Kern Mr. & Mrs. William Hamm III Florence N. Mel Estate The Diana Dollar Knowles Trust MUSICIANS’ CIRCLE Hewlett-Packard Company Mr. Robert B. Mison Norman T. Larson Estate $10,000–$24,999 Holmes Foundation Marie J. Niemann Estate Jeannik Méquet Littlefield* Bruce Hyman* & Simone Quarré The Hon. & Mrs. William Orrick, Jr. Nerzig Apkarian Estate Lorry I. Lokey Anne & Timothy Kahn Ailsa C. Pender Estate Roy Backus Estate Dr. Jesse F. Minnis, Jr. Estate Hugh Keenan Estate Janet L. Pynch Estate Mr. J. P. Barger National Endowment for the Arts Donald Khulke Trust James D. Robertson Muriel C. Barnett Estate Bernard Osher Foundation Dr. Susan Kroll & Mr. Mark R. Kroll Earl Robinson Estate V. Lorel Bergeron Estate Jordan Joseph Popkin Opera Outreach Fund Evelyn Lorenz Estate Mrs. William P. Roth John L. Blake In memory of Frank D. Stout Mary Lorenz Violetta Sharpe Estate Miss Louise Boyd Estate Lorna Talbot Estate Emily Prettyman Lowell Estate Heidi Munzinger & John Shott Florence W. Bruce Dianne & Tad Taube Russell J. Mays 1994 Trust Syntex Corporation Neil Buckley Estate Mrs. Paul L. Wattis Estate Robert McAlpin Moore Donald & Rachel Valentine Roy Cadenasso Estate Barbara A. Wolfe Patrick McCabe Carole Wagner Estate Robert W. Cahill Estate Patricia Yakutis Estate Alicia H. McEvoy Estate Crown Zellerbach Foundation Lillian Miller Carlson Memorial Fund Anonymous (2) Dr. Frank E. McLaughlin Harold & Doris Zellerbach Emanuela N. Catena Estate Mrs. James K. McWilliams Harold L. Zellerbach Estate Francis & Lainee Chen Ralph R. Michaelis Estate Anonymous (1) David Chierichetti Estate Karl & Kristen Mills Edward J. Clark

* deceased

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B. B. Cohen Estate Mr. Arnold A. Grossman* Kathleen Dale Oscarson Mrs. F. J. Thomas Tilton Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Coughlin Lewis W. Hale Estate Thelma C. Owen Estate Sarah Tilton & Lawrence Low Ruth Hiene Dahl Estate Mrs. Griffith Henshaw Joseph E. Padula Estate Henry F. Trione Charles & Dorothy Davis Mr. & Mrs. Reuben W. Hills Marion Stuart Parker Estate Tallant Tubbs Estate Helen Dennis Estate Milan Milton Holdorf Estate Kathleen R. Poer Estate Constance Tydeman Di Giorgio Foundation David R. Hyman Estate Ruth Prager Estate Mr. & Mrs. Willard Vernon Thelma Dry Estate Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Siegfried B. Puknat Estate Mr. & Mrs. Brooks Walker, Jr. DWD Foundation William R. & Nancy Ely Kales Mrs. John P. Renshaw Jonas Waxman Estate Elaine Eklund* Ruth Kaufman Estate Marcia Robinson Estate Marie Welch West Estate Richard J. Elkus Jesse Koshland Alfred Sbarboro Estate Mr. & Mrs. Harry Wetzel Richard Everett* Marion R. Kramer, M.D.* Dr. Robert R. Schmidt Estate Mr. & Mrs. Palmer Wheaton Michael Fagan Grover Magnin Estate Carolyn Shaw James Wilson Estate Richard Farley Estate Matson Navigation Company Mary Shoch Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Field Anne E. Matthew* Jack D. Soldate Estate Tully M. Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Fred Moller Muriel McKevitt Sonné Robert Gallo Diane L. Morris Peter S. Talea Estate * deceased

MATCHING GIFTS

Adobe Community Safety Foundation Johnson & Johnson Salesforce American Endowment Foundation ExxonMobil Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Thomson Reuters American Online Giving Foundation, Inc. Franklin Templeton Investments Levi Strauss & Co. Union Bank Applied Materials Gap Inc. Morrison & Foerster Foundation United Way of the Bay Area Bank of America GE NVIDIA U.S. Bank Bright Funds Foundation Google Pacific Gas & Electric Company Zephyr Real Estate Chevron GoPro Refinitiv The Clorox Company IBM Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

IN-KIND GIFTS

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE GOLD CIRCLE SILVER CIRCLE MEMBER $100,000 AND ABOVE $25,000–$49,999 $10,000–$24,999 $1,000–$2,999 Fitness SF Asero Insurance Services, Inc. Global Gourmet Catering Arnold & Porter KDFC Radio Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards and Winery The St. Regis San Francisco Jamie Nicol Bowles San Francisco Chronicle Kate Siegel Fine Events Simon-Kucher & Partners Piedmont Piano Company BENEFACTOR Anonymous PSAV $5,000–$9,999 United Airlines Pianos provided by Anonymous (2) bloomers Piedmont Piano Company Seyfarth Shaw LLP Yamaha is the official piano of tinyB chocolate LLC San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera extends its deepest appreciation to all donors of matching and in-kind annual gifts received between August 1, 2018 and October 10, 2019.

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FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT GRANTS

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE PLATINUM CIRCLE SILVER CIRCLE BENEFACTOR $500,000 AND ABOVE $50,000–$99,9999 $10,000–$24,999 $5,000–9,999 William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation Louise M. Davies Foundation The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation The Walter S. Johnson Foundation Grants for the Arts The Charles D. & Frances K. Field Fund Frank A. Campini Foundation The Kingsley Foundation Koret Foundation The Diana Dollar Knowles Foundation John & Marcia Goldman Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Mimi & Peter Haas Fund FOUNDER Walter & Elise Haas Fund $1,000–$4,999 DIAMOND CIRCLE GOLD CIRCLE Heising-Simons Foundation Zellerbach Family Foundation Bright Funds Foundation $100,000–$249,999 $25,000–$49,9999 Joyce and William Brantman Foundation Carol Franc Buck Foundation California Arts Council Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Frances K. & Charles D. Field Foundation William & Gretchen Kimball Fund Karl and Alice Ruppenthal The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation OPERA America/The Opera Fund Foundation for the Arts OPERA America Innovation Grant, supported Anonymous by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation CORPORATE COUNCIL

SEASON SPONSOR

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE PLATINUM CIRCLE GOLD CIRCLE SILVER CIRCLE BENEFACTOR $100,000 AND ABOVE $50,000–$99,9999 $25,000–$49,9999 $10,000–$24,999 $5,000–$7,499 Caterpillar Inc. Chevron Bank of America Charitable Gap Foundation Asset Management Company San Francisco Opera Guild Kaiser Permanente Foundation Jurika, Mills & Keifer— Wells Fargo Meyer Sound Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Private Wealth Management MEMBER United Airlines Union Bank Foundation San Francisco Opera Guild/ $1,000–$2,999 East Bay Chapter Schoenberg Family Law Group, P.C. DM Stone Recruitment Solutions Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors League of the San Francisco AG Zurich Consular Corps Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation

San Francisco Opera is pleased to recognize the generosity of foundations, government agencies, and corporate donors for their support received between August 1, 2018 and October 10, 2019.

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Daniela Mack in the 2015 production of The Barber of Seville CORY WEAVER

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BEL CANTO LEGACY SOCIETY

The following patrons have made a legacy commitment to San Francisco Opera Association and have joined the Bel Canto Legacy Society as of October 10, 2019. Their generosity helps support our long-range ﬁnancial stability and artistic planning. Please consider joining this extraordinary group. Please contact Legacy Giving at (415) 565-6431 to learn more. Marilyn Horne, Honorary Chairwoman

Elie Abi-Jaoude Eileen Bobrow* Doug & Vivian Crisman David F. Freedman Norman Abramson & David Beery* Alison Boeckmann Camille Crittenden Kathi Freeman* Evelyn Acitelli* Diane Hoar Bond Carl Croft-Steve Fletcher-Delwin Rimbey* Barbara & William* Friede Kenneth & Barbara Adams Drs. Seymour & Sylvia Boorstein Dr.* & Mrs. Alexander Cross Joseph & Antonia Friedman Dorrit Ahbel, M.D. Christine M. Boulanger, MD George & Susan Crow John H. Frykman & Cheryl C. Arnold* Mr. Carlos R. Alas, Jr. & Mr. Philip Beckerman Christopher & Renee Bowen John & Lois Crowe Karen L. Gabrielson Ms. Karin Albright Jamie Nicol Bowles Vivian Cullen* Louis B. Gagliardi Sophie & Ted Aldrich Malcolm H. Bowles John Cullison & Diana Kissil Parley Gagne Anthony J. Alfidi Randall Bowman Gerald F. Currier & Cleveland M. Smith Ms. Ching-Ching Ganley Lt. Col. James M. Alfonte Dr. Lois Brainard* Douglas P. Cyr Gregory S. Garbin, M.D. & Kenneth J. Denhard Robin Lee Allen Barbara & Robert Brandriff Friedericka A. Dalbey* Sheilah Purcell Garcia Paul B. Althouse Cathryn J. Brash* Mr. Orville W. Dale Jack & Carroll Gardner David & Judith Preves Anderson John* & Eva Breyer David Dall Al Garren Fund Robert C. Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Melvin C. Britton Arif Damji Dewey Garrett Dr. Ross Armstrong* Karen Broido Anne Dauer Keith & Priscilla Geeslin Carol Arnold* Scotty Brookie Charles & Dorothy Davis Nancy Gentry Geller Elizabeth Lawler Ashley Lynda L. Brothers Nancy Ann Davis* Kurt Tristan Geselbracht & Mrs. Jeanine Augst Ms. Agnes Chen Brown Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Davis Francisco Guevara Frances Y. Austin* Mr.* & Mrs. John Maxwell Bryan Richard H. Davis, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon P. Getty Mrs. F. G. Austin James Logan Buhler* James De Hart* Arlene & Doug Giancoli Elizabeth Avakian Donald Buhman & C. Wray Humphrey Cornelia Y. de Schepper Dennis Gibbons & Lisa Erdberg Margot Shinnamon Bach Ralph & Clairelee Leiser Bulkley J. C. De Tata, M.D.* Ione Gille Bobbi & Marty Bach James R. Burch Martha Debs John S. Gilmor M. L. Baird, John D. Burke Virginia Debs Jane Gitschier in memory of Travis & Marion Baird Karen L. Burtness Prak & Jan Willem L. Prak Judith Deniz Rudolf Gauser, PhD* Martha Baker Charles Bush & Calvin Lau Ulric & Glenda Dennis David Gockley & Linda Kemper David & Christine Balabanian Roger Busse & Oscar Celli Ms. Jackie Deskin William W. Godward* Ms. Rachael Balyeat* Richard Buth & James Schull Franklin C. Deters* Doris W. Grau Deborah Banks & Randy Porter Mrs. James P. Butler Eric Dew Don & MaryAnn Graulich Cantor Roslyn Barak Robert* & Joan Cahen Paula Dieli & Michael Schubert Wanda Lee Graves & Stephen Duscha Josephine Barbano* Jack Calhoun Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Anne Patricia Gray Nancie Barker Frances Campra Carol & Dixon Doll Geoffrey & Marcia Green Elizabeth Barlow & Stephen McClellan James Carlson Jeanne Dorward Ms. Julie Green Joyce Barnett* Betty J. Carmack Sarah Douglas & Marie Vitulli Roger W. Green Marie L. Bartee June B. Carr Dr. Nancy Doyle & Dr. George L. Smith, Jr.* Mrs. Robert M. Greenhood* Beata E. Bartholomay Ronald Casassa* Stephen Ringland Drewes Flora Greenhoot* Betty Basham Emanuela N. Catena* Pat Dubrow Zane O. Gresham & Carole J. Robinson John* & Mary Ann Basler* Marilyn A. Cereghino* Arnold & Trudy* Duncan Mr.* & Mrs.* Edward M. Griffith Michael Bassi & Christy Styer Benedick Chai & Robert Nelson John* & Dimitra Efstathiou Ellen Braner Grinnell* Clare Louise Bates* Mark R. Chaitkin Alan F. Egan, J.P. Arnold A. Grossman Fund Ruth Laine Bauer* Hella H. Cheitlin Ludmila & Peter Eggleton Claude & Nina* Gruen Steve & Ina Bauman Julia Frohlich Cherry Arnold Ehlers Trust Ursula Grunfeld Robert H. Beadle David Chierichetti* Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich* Eleanor Guilford* Merle Becker Mrs. Johanna Childhouse Joseph Ehrman III Patricia C. Gumbel Milada Belaya Gillian Clark Stephen Eimer & Kevin Ann Cartwright John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Robert Henry Bellamy Harry Gilbert Clarke* Muriel Anita Eisen* Yvette* & John G. Gurley Pascal J. F. Belloncle Maureen Clarke Christine M. Englund William A. Hage & Elizabeth Wong Hage* Ruth & Frank Belvin Courtney Clarkson Barbara & Ed Eschbach Timothy F.* & E. Ann* Haggerty Trish Benedict Carlyn Clause & Alexander L. Brainerd Patricia M. Evans Harry C. Haines* Raymond J. Berard*, Mariel Claxton Rod* & Ingrid Evans Fran Hall in memory of Jean Cleverly & Frank Warner Richard B. Everett* Kristina K. Hall Freda Marie Levesque Berard Dr. Carolyn J. Cline Robert F. Ewing Ms. Laila Halsteen Carole B. Berg* Lloyd* & Janet Cluff Phyllis M. Faber Edith L. Hammerslough* V. Lorel Bergeron Trust Bette Jean Clute* Michael H. Fahey Peter & Harriet Hanauer Dawne Bernhardt Roberta Colin Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Fenwick Hunter Pittenger Harris Jane Bernstein* & Bob Ellis Marie Collins Jessena Finn Michael A. Harrison & Susan Graham Harrison Dr. Barbara L. Bessey & Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin* Tony & SueAnn Converse Cheryl Fippen & Mary True Jane & David Hartley Shannyn Bessoni Mr. & Mrs. Ransom S. Cook Jack & Marsha Firestone Fred Hartwick Heide Betz Mrs. Marion Moore Cope Candace Fitzgerald Mrs. Janine A. Hawkins Jo Ann Biasotti & David T. Crowder Ruth Alberta Copley* Lucille V. Fjoslien Mr. & Mrs.* James A. Heagy Betty Bispo Dewayne Cornelious Ms. Kristina Flanagan Lisa A. Heilman-Cozzalio Phyllis B. Blair William B. Cornfield Carl Wilhelm Folk Mary & Craig Henderson Susan S. Blake & Joel Kaufmann Susan Costello Martha J. Foltz Donald A. Hermann Linda Blondis Jennifer Cowan Mary & Tom Foote Joan Hett Mr. Noel T. Blos Dr. & Mrs. William R. Crain Barbara Jean Fopp John S. Higgins, Jr. Claire & Jared Bobrow Valerie & Paul* Crane Dorfman Lawrence Foster* Peggy Hill

* deceased

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Ian Hinchliffe Jeffrey & Anne Marie Katz Mr. George B. Lewis Tom McEachern* Frederick J. Hirth* Jeannie Kaufman Mr. J. Stoner Lichty, Jr. & Donald L. McGee Robert W. Hofer Suzan Kaufmann Darryl L. Raszl, M.D. John G. McGehee Kenneth L. Holford Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner & Dr. David D. Stein Elizabeth Lim Michael McGinley Brian & Rene Hollins Lawrence A. Kern Lawrence & Silvia Lin Anne* & Malcolm McHenry Dr. Michael Horn Ms. Eiko Kikawada Lisa P. Lindelef Ellen & Paul McKaskle Marilyn Horne Nelda Kilguss Bernice Gucker Lindstrom Linda M. McKay Wilma S. Horwitz Mrs. Richard Kinninger Donald R. Lipp Giselle McKellar Sally V. Houston Sally Lane Kirby Jeannik Méquet Littlefield* Elaine McKinley & Kit Durgin Margaret E. Hoyt Harleigh Thayer Knott* Allan M. Lluch Dr. Frank E. McLaughlin* Linda Humber Diana Dollar Knowles* John Lockley* & Marti Lochridge Ruth McManus Trust Leslie & George Hume Edson K. Kong, Esq. Vera M. Long* Ms. Marilyn McMillan Marian Huntoon Laura M. Kozel Maurice E. Loomis The McMurtry Family Ms. Margaret C. Hutchins Christine Stevens Kradjian Shirley & Hersch Loomis Ronald & Judith McWilliams Bruce Hyman* Ms. Barbara Kral Nathaniel Lopez & Jerry Orecchia* Bill Medigovich Libby Ingalls Marion R. Kramer, M.D.* Sylvia & Paul Lorton Jr. Kerrin Knudtsen Meis Marsha Irwin Nancy Ann Kraus George F. Lucas & Thomas Rothgiesser Dixie Lee Meiselbach* James A. Ito Charles C. Kredensor & Rita & Nicola Luisotti H. Craig Melchert Barbara K. Jackson* Frederic S. Saunders Dr. & Mrs. Laurence R. Lyons Edward Merrick Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger Herbert* & Barbara Kreissler Betty Maddux, Lucinda Merrill Elizabeth Ann Jacobs* Karen J. Kubin in memory of Edward Koester Robert Messick Yorke & Jacqueline Jacobson Michael L. Kurt Andrew F. Maguire Carol L. Meyer* John* & Nancy Jalonen Joan Kwansa Cynthia & John Major Mr. & Mrs. Donald Michener Robin & Ginny Jaquith Regina Lackner Edward Maker II* Christine Miller & Gary Glaser Ms. Christine Jarc Elizabeth Katherine Lady* Jackie & Art Mancini Diane Compagno Miller Mr. & Mrs.* C. Bradford Jeffries Judith Lamberti M.D. Robert G. Manette George P. Miller* & Walter G. Zimmerman, Jr. Bruce M. Jewett Barbara J. Lane James F. Manser* George M. Miller Lorraine Jones* Judy & Donald Langley Peter Mansfield J. Sanford Miller Mrs. Mary Jopé William P. Langley Joseph Marino, Jr. Vivienne E. Miller* Mac & Mary Jordan Randall E. Laroche & David G. Laudon Deborah Marion, Tax CPA & Joe Losch Birgit & Eitan Milstein Sally Jordan Norman T. Larson* Mrs. Thelma Marken* Dr. Judy C. Miner Dr. Devorah Joseph, Beverly & Richard Lavine David Marsten John Minnich in memory of Irving Joseph Dr. & Mrs. John Lavorgna Letha Ann Martin* Bill & Susan Mirbach Joan Juster Olive Lawton Evelyn S. Martinez D. G. Mitchell Bradley & Susan Justice Samuel Leask Marilyn Mathers Sandra Mock* Candace Zander Kahn Paul E. LeMal M.D. Anne E. Matthew* C. Kenneth More Lilli Kalis M.D.* Mary Lemmon James S. Mattingly & Paul Quintilian Cathy & Howard Moreland William* & Margaret* Kaplan Marcia Lowell Leonhardt Mrs. Alice T. May* Andrew Morgan & Danny Richard Barbara Karn Cliff Leventhal, James McCarthy Ms. Camille Morishige Elizabeth Karnazes in memory of Arlene Leventhal Eileen McCauley Andrew Morris Dick & Sherry Karrenbrock Frank & Ildiko Lewis Florence & William McConnell Thelma C. Morris

* deceased

OPERA STAR

Bel Canto Legacy Society member Brian Olson is an exuberant opera fan, fencer, and structural engineer who helped design the suspended catwalk at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater in the Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera. He became an opera fan in college after seeing Salome with a group of friends. “It was amazing! It was so easy to get caught up in the passion on stage, it felt real. I’ve never had that sort of connection to a performance before.” Brian joined the Bel Canto Legacy Society “because the world is a rapidly changing place, and SF Opera is adapting to show that opera is still a vibrant, contemporary art form. I’m excited to see where this goes in my lifetime and want to help it continue on beyond that. Money is tight for almost everyone, which is where making a legacy gift can be a wonderful option. It’s a way to support the Opera now even if your current ﬁnances are stretched. It helps the Opera know that there are people who want to support it and to plan for long-term projects. Opera productions aren’t planned on a whim but are literally years in the making. Legacy gifts make the Opera part of your legacy and a part of the Opera’s future.”

To learn more about Legacy Giving at San Francisco Opera, please contact Kyle Polite, Deputy Director of Development, at (415) 551-6226 or [email protected] KRISTEN LOKEN

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William O. & Susan W. Morris Barbara J. Ross Mark Vallarino Josephine P. Wiik, R.N. Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch Elizabeth Boardman Ross Paul E. van Dyk Michelle Wilcox & Rob Kuhling Kathleen Much James Ross* Soo & Raj Venkatesan Miles* & Virginia Willard Nancy S. Mueller Maxine Rosston* Mr. & Mrs. Willard E. Vernon S. Grace Williams* Manfred K. Mundelius Paul L. Rowe & R. Michael Sereno Shirley Wilson Victor* Ann L. Williamson Heidi Munzinger Karl Ruppenthal* & Jo Maxon Virginia E. Vida Conni Wilson* Majbritt Murdock Louise A. Russell Richard Viehweg* Sheila M. Wishek Lorenzo Murguia, M.D. Richard Russell John E. Vinton & Richard Miller Gerhard P. Woelke Mrs. John* H. Musey Bob & Terri Ryan Albert J. Vizinho Marcia E. Wolfe* Peter J. Musto Philip Mark Ryan Eunice L. Vogel Ms. Virginia Wong Vija Hovgard Nadai Carol* & Jordan Sachs Garry Waba Bonnie Woodworth* Marilyn & David Nasatir Mrs. John M. Sanderson* Drs. Bradford Wade & Linda Riebel Sylvia Stein Wright* Julia Nash* Mr. Jeffrey Sant Cmdr. & Mrs. Homer Wallin Stanley M. Yantis, M.D. Howard Neckel Mr. Felipe R. Santiago & Mr. Barry T. Joseph Barbara M. Ward Joan F. Yates Theresa Nelson & Barney Smits Michael & Gini Savage Hon. James L. Warren (Ret.) Ms. Nancy Yee Kenneth J. Ness Dorothy R. Saxe Ramona Wascher* Dr. & Mrs. Robert Yoerg H. Andrea Neves, Ph.D., H.L.D. Daryl A. Schilling Ms. Lola Watson S. Shariq Yosufzai & Brian E. James Roselee Nichols Betsey Schneider Jonas Waxman* William T. Zaumen Leif Fredebo Nielsen Debra Schoenberg Rosalie V. Weaver Joan Zawaski* & Rona Siegel Marie J. Niemann* Hanne Schultz Mr. & Mrs. William C. Webster Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Zderic John O. Nigh Thea Lou Seese Mitzie Naff Weiner Mr.* & Mrs. Stephen A. Zellerbach Mary L. Nilan Harold E. Segelstad Maurice & Gale Weir Karyl Lynn Kopelman Zietz Paul Nordine Marilyn G. Seiberling Ronald & Emely Weissman Stephen & Connie Zilles Dante Noto Sigmund Seigel & Karen Topp Daphne & Stuart Wells Anne Zucchi Norman* & Hillevi Null Pearl Anne Seipp Janet Gray Welter Zucchi Family Trust Ms. Jan Ogren & Mr. Dean Watson Cynthia B. Selfridge George White Diane & Michael ZumBrunnen Mr. David Oldroyd Christine Selle Mr. Thomas D. Wickens* Anonymous (125) Brian Olson Lorenzo Severino Commodore & Mrs. K.R. Orcutt Gary & Dana Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Julian E. Orr James & Connie Shapiro Brenda Osborne Carolyn Shaw LEGACY GIFTS RECEIVED Sheldeen Germaine Osborne* Mrs. Carter Parrish Sherlin Kathleen Dale Oscarson Jim & Mai Shields Lise Deschamps Ostwald Ruth A. Short August 1, 2018 through October 10, 2019. Father David F. Pace John Shott Joseph E. Padula* Robert Shultz Raquel Epifania Aragones Thomas Pajak Natalie O. Shuttleworth Dr. Ross Armstrong Robert E.* & Jeraldine M. Palazzi Paul J. & Sheri Siegel Ruth Laine Bauer Barbara H. Paley Ms. Joan M. Silva Raymond J. Berard Mrs. Verna Parino* Donna Silverberg Marion Zimmer Bradley Ms. Iris Parris Cynthia L. Slezak Cabaniss Memorial Fund Mr. & Mrs.* Robert Parvin Derek* & Stephanie* Smith Emanuela N. Catena Virginia Patterson* George L. Smith, Jr.* Bette Jean Clute Carol Potter Peckham Ilia & Timothy C. Smith Nancy Ann Davis Anette Penner Dr. Lorraine E. Smith Thelma Diana Dry David & Gail Perin Pamela D. Smith Elaine Eklund Neil & Elsa Pering Stephen Smoliar & Linda Dembo Lawrence Foster Jess G. Perry Kenneth & Joanne Snow Ynez Ghirardelli Cinda & Spence Perry Steven Souza & Therese Souza William W. Godward Dame Donna Petersen Robert L. Speer & John Wong Janet C. Griffiths Mandala Pham Lynda Spence Arnold A. Grossman Fund Allen & Joyce Phipps Gail Andersen Stark Eleanor Guilford John* & Maria Pitcairn The Honorable & Mrs.* Wm. D. Stein Richard B. Gump Herbert C. Ploch* Eric Stevens Edith L. Hammerslough Mrs. Jan Popper Lawrence L. Stitt* Milan Milton Holdorf Roger & Deborah* Potash James R. Stockton Bruce Hyman Patric & Mary Powell Howard & Ruth Strassner Barbara K. Jackson Jeanette M. Prato Merna Strassner Lorraine Jones Janet & Michael Quartaroli Blossom F. Strong Harleigh Thayer Knott Ruth Quigley Terri Stuart Marion R. Kramer, M.D. Robert E. Rabourn* Dr. Jerome D.* & Mary K. Swalen Norman T. Larson Michael Raddie Charo Switalski & Paul Eisenman Thelma Marken Mrs. Jennie Rafton* Tom Taffel & Bill Repp Dr. Frank E. McLaughlin Cynthia & Terry Ramseyer Peter S. Talea* Carol L. Meyer Thomas R. Ranweiler Amy Tan & Louis De Mattei Oscar E. Olson William D. Rasdal* Bob Tandler & Valli Benesch Mrs. Ernest Rogers Alan & Nancy Raznick Dianne & Tad Taube Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund Glenn H. Reid Robin Donald Taylor Mildred Shurtleff Sattler Marie R. Rhein Jack E. Teeters K. Hart Smith Jennifer Richardson Dr. Sam Thal Jonas Waxman Keith W. & Marjorie Riley Ms. Carol J. Tomlinson Patricia Yakutis Richard* & Jean Ringe Barbara L. Traisman Zucchi Family Trust Kathryn E. Ringgold Ricardo D. Trimillos Dr. & Mrs. C. Stewart Ritchie Maxine Trost Marcia Robinson* Michael E. Tully Rusty Rolland* Mr. & Mrs. James S. Tunnell Dr. Andrew Rombakis Suzanne E. Turley & William R. Jackson* Deborah Romer & William Tucker Mr.* & Mrs. Paul A. Tuttle Fran Rominger Florence E. Twyman* Arthur S. & Keiko Kiyuna Roosa Yvonne Upsher Margaret Ropchan Martin Eric Vahur Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund Gloria Valair

* deceased

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MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM The Merola Opera Program is dedicated to the development of the finest young operatic talent into professional artists of the highest caliber. Merola operates in close collaboration with San Francisco Opera but is an independent nonprofit organization, responsible for its own fundraising. Graduates of the Merola Opera Program include Anna Netrebko, Ailyn Pérez, Patricia Racette, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Carol Vaness, Deborah Voigt, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Dolora Zajick, Brian Jagde, Stuart Skelton, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson, Quinn Kelsey, Lucas Meachem, and Patrick Summers. Merola is the future of opera. Please visit us at merola.org.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS PAST PRESIDENTS DIRECTORS Dr. Joan B. Kelly Dennis Zhang Jean Kellogg, Executive Director Patrick Wilken, Chairman Mrs. Starr Bruce Adam Arthur Bier William W. Kwan, MD Stephen Zilles Tracy Grant, Director of Contributed Giving Barbara Bruser Clark, (1957–1962) Jennifer Brahm Sylvia R. Lindsey Mark Shattuck, President James H. Schwabacher Carlyn Clause Scott Lord Director of Finance & Administration Jayne C. Davis, (1962–1991) Michael Colbruno Lindsay MacDermid EMERITUS DIRECTORS Ruben B. Pimentel, Jr., Director of Vice Chairman Dr. A. Jess Shenson The Hon. Donald L. McGee Mary Sue Bizzarri Marketing & Communications Dr. James Cross, (1991–1995) Marie Bertillion Collins James Meehan Donna L. Blacker Amy Kessler, Donor Relations & Vice President Jayne Davis (1995–1999) Ashley Crawford Dr. Pamela Zell Rigg Peggy Dennis Events Manager Dr. Myron Marx, Rusty Rolland (1999–2003) Michael Darnaud Suzanne Gelber Rinaldo Blanche Germain Streeter Cindy Ho, Bookkeeper/Accountant Vice President David S. Hugle (2003–2007) Jeanne Dorward Dr. David D. Stein Anita Weissberg Amanda Pursell, George Crow, Treasurer Patrick Wilken (2007–2011) Beatrice Gomory Ruth Uchimura Community Engagement Manager Robert B. Mison, Secretary Donna L. Blacker Mary Henderson Susan Walker Hilda Li, Development & Marketing Assistant (2011–2015) David S. Hugle Carol A. Weitz Carla Befera Public Relations, Carlyn Clause (2015–2019) Robert B. Jacoby Christopher E. Wiseman Communications Consultant Michael H. Kalkstein Susan York

We extend our sincere appreciation to all donors and acknowledge the following individuals, foundations, and corporations, for their generous gifts totaling $1,000 or more made between October 1, 2018, and August 1, 2019, in support of the Merola Opera Program. For more information about supporting the Merola Opera Program, please contact (415) 936-2324, email [email protected], or visit our website at Merola.org.

$100,000+ $15,000–$24,999 Mary & Tom Foote Ms. Jeanne Dorward San Francisco Opera Guild Jean Kellogg & Henry Tang FOUNDATIONS INDIVIDUALS Miss Ursula Grunfeld Margareta Encrantz Marin Chapter Mr. Sven Kjaesgaard Bettye Poetz Ferguson Sallie Arens, in memory of James Heagy, Ms. Judith Gadaldi Arthur & Charlotte Zitrin Joan Shelbourne Kwansa Foundation Cameron Waterman III in memory of Janey Heagy Ms. Pamela George Foundation Ms. Shirley Kwok Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Jennifer & Chris Brahm Drs. Joan B. & James Kelly Beatrice & Paul Gomory Ms. Kathe Lange Jack H. Lund Charitable Trust Mrs. Annina R. Demmon Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Michael A. Harrison & INDIVIDUALS Dr. & Mrs. John Lavorgna Mr. John Lee Ellen & Paul McKaskle Susan Graham Harrison Ms. Cathi Ahearn Mr. Roy Levin & INDIVIDUALS Michael Moritz & James R. Meehan Mr. & Mrs. David Hartley Mr. Clyde Allen Ms. Jan Thomson John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Harriet Heyman Anne L. Morton Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn Hetzel Ms. Yoshika Asada Mr. Mark Lewis Mrs. Diane B. Wilsey Ms. Amy Roth & Mr. Milton Mosk & Greer & Thayer Hopkins Mary Sherrill Baxter Mrs. Nancy Donnell Lilly Mr. Robert Epstein Mr. Thomas Foutch H. Nona Hungate Mr. & Mrs. Joel Bean Mr. William Lokke $50,000–$99,999 Bob & Terri Ryan Mr. Paul D. Nordine Mrs. Dana T. Horner Mr. & Mrs. Allen Bertillion Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ludgus FOUNDATIONS Mr. Glenn H. Reid Mr. Robert Jacoby Mr. & Mrs. Fred Bialek Betty Maddux Hearst Foundations $10,000–$14,999 Drs. Richard & Pamela Rigg Mr. & Mrs. C. Bradford Jeffries Adam Arthur Bier & Deborah Marion, Tax CPA, EA FOUNDATIONS Mrs. Barbara J. Ross Ms. Nelda Kilguss Rachel Bier Lem Mr. & Mrs. J. Patterson McBaine INDIVIDUALS The Henry W. & Jeannie Sack & Jordan Sachs Karen J. Kubin Mrs. Peter H. Black Mr. Donald L. McGee Barbara Bruser & Richard Clark Nettie Robinson Foundation Jack & Betty Schafer William W. Kwan, MD Dr. Phyllis B. Blair Mrs. Anne G. McWilliams Mary & Craig Henderson Sack Family Fund Dr. David D. Stein & Nafiseh & Karl Lindberg Ms. Brooke Bourland John & Tessa Melvin Scott & Susan Lord Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner Ms. Sylvia R. Lindsey Ms. Langley Brandt Victoria Nakamura Susan York INDIVIDUALS Doug Von Qualen Eve & Niall Lynch Florence & Eric Buatois Mr. & Mrs. Boyce Nute The Hon. Marie Bertillion Collins Olivia Ware Midge Mansouri Klaus & Rike Burmeister Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. O’Hanlon $25,000–$49,999 Dr. James Cross & Mr. Patrick Wilken & Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Mardesich Mr. & Mrs. Michael Cabak Dr. & Mrs. Hans Orup FOUNDATIONS Mr. Charles Antonen Mr. David Dickson Ms. Maura Markus Ms. Carmen J. Suzanna G. Pollak The Yvonne & Edgar Baker Fund The Hon. Thomas E. Horn Diana C. Yee Myron Marx & Cora Yang Castro-Franceschi & Ms. Mary Powell & Frances K. & Charles D. Field Mr. David Hugle & Mrs. John A. Zderic David Miller Mr. Greg Franceschi Mr. Patric Powell Foundation Mr. Haggai Niv Mr. Dennis Zhang D. G. Mitchell Mr. Martin S. Checov & Ms. Susan K. Prather Steve & Diane Heiman, Mr. Michael H. Kalkstein & Stephen & Connie Zilles Cathy & Howard Moreland Mr. Timothy J. Bause Mr. & Mrs. David Rinaldo the UIulani Foundation Ms. Susan English David & Marilyn Nasatir Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Cheitlin Ms. Jo-Ann Rose The Bernard Osher Foundation Robert Mison $2,500–$4,999 Ms. Annie Nunan Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Cluff Ms. Kathleen Rydar Patricia Weeden FOUNDATIONS Mr. & Mrs. John Renard Ms. Ashley Crawford Mr. Paul Sack CORPORATION Mr. Christopher E. Wiseman & Amphion Foundation Miss Dorothy Schimke Mr. Robert Crow Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Schroeder Dandelion Chocolate Mr. Eric W. Sleigh H.B. & Lucille Horn Foundation Mr. Steven Shladover Michael Darnaud & Jodi Klein Gary & Dana Shapiro Anonymous San Francisco Opera Guild Ms. Jean Shuler Peggy & Reid Dennis Dr. & Mrs. Jon F. Sigurdson GOVERNMENT East Bay Chapter J. H. Silveira, M.D. Keith Doerge David L. & Barbara G. Sloss National Endowment for the Arts $5,000–$9,999 San Francisco Opera Guild Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sonnenblick Mr. Justin Faggioli & Mr. & Mrs. Gary Sorgen FOUNDATION Peninsula Chapter Ms. Blanche Germain Streeter Ms. Sandra Donnell Mrs. Richard Swig INDIVIDUALS Bob Ross Foundation San Jose Opera Guild Dr. & Mrs. W. Conrad Sweeting Mr. Peter Felleman Martha Toppin Nordin & Donna Blacker Five Arts Foundation William Karl Schwarze Trust Ruth Hartman Uchimura Mr. & Mrs. Hugh W. Foster Susan Walker Carlyn Clause & Il Cenacolo Italian Cultural Club Mrs. Carol A. Weitz Barbara B. Friede Kirby & Amy Wilcox Alexander L. Brainerd Kia Ora Foundation INDIVIDUALS Ms. Faye Wilson Dr. Gwen Fyfe Ms. Ann L. Williamson George & Susan Crow Mr. & Mrs. David Anderson Mr. & Mrs. A. Lee Zeigler Mr. Gary Garabedian Ms. Shirley Woo & Peter & Jayne Davis INDIVIDUALS James Scott Bays Anonymous Mr. Fred Hartwick Mr. David Rosenfeld Robert Ellis Norby Anderson Maurice & Mary Sue Bizzarri Mr. & Mrs. Claude M. Hess Mr. Shariq Yosufzai & Franklin P. & Catherine Johnson Darla & Richard Bastoni Ms. Lucia Bogatay $1,000–$2,499 Mr. Patrick Hitchcock Mr. Brian James Bernice Lindstrom Helen Breck Ms. Annette Campbell-White FOUNDATIONS Wilma Horwitz Ms. Anne Zucchi James A. Noe III Maureen Clarke & Dr. Ruediger Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Dr. Hing On Hsu Anonymous Bernard & Barbro Osher Mr. Michael Colbruno Naumann-Etienne Opera Standees Association Ms. Marian Huntoon Leslys Vedder, in memory of Mrs. Antonia Cross Mr. Hugh J. Coughlin Karl & Alice Ruppenthal Bridget & Dennis Hupp James Forrest Vedder Drs. John & Lois Crowe Dr. Lisa Danzig Foundation for the Arts Ms. Andrea G. Julian Bruce & Fran Walker Tim Dattels & Kristine Johnson Mr. & Mrs. James F. Dean Mrs. Jeannie Kaufman

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Merola gratefully acknowledges the following Producer Sponsors of the Merola Spring Benefit Gala. Nordin and Donna Blacker • James A. Noe III • John & Judith Renard • Bruce and Fran Walker • Mrs. Anita Weissberg

IN-KIND DONORS August (1) Five R. David and Ginny Freeman, Liong-Bing Liem Port of Oakland San Francisco Opera Mary Sue and Maurice Bizzarri Co-Founders, The Sonoma Valley James R. Meehan Drs. Richard and Pamela Rigg Jack and Betty Schafer Culinary Excellence Catering Authors Festival Meyer Sound Bob and Terri Ryan Mrs. Carol A. Weitz Jayne and Peter Davis The Glimmerglass Festival Betty Newman San Francisco Fire Department

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFT DONORS Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough LLC • Union Bank of California

MEROLA LEGACY SOCIETY The Merola Legacy Society honors those who have included Merola Opera Program in their will, trust, or other estate plans. For more information on how you can support Merola Opera Program through your estate planning, please call (415) 936-2321.

Norman Abramson & David Beery Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Dwelly Jean Kellogg & Henry Tang Ms. Camille Morishige Jean A. Sherlin Ms. Barbara Adams Roberta & Mark Emerson Drs. Joan B. & James Kelly Ms. Thelma Morris Natalie O. Shuttleworth Mr. & Mrs. David Anderson Mr. Robert F. Ewing & Ms. Ludmila Kisseleva-Eggleton & Mr. Albert L. Mosher David L. & Barbara G. Sloss Mrs. John Anderton Mr. Cesar L. De Joya, Jr. Mr. Peter Eggleton Mr. Milton Mosk & Mr. Thomas Foutch Ms. Sue Sommer & Mr. Ray White Ms. Wilma Avery Mary & Tom Foote Ken Kolby Carl Noelke Ms. Nancy Soper & Robert Soper Kathleen H. Barr Mario Fracchia Ms. Barbara F. Kral Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. O’Hanlon Dr. David D. Stein & James Scott Bays Barbara B. Friede Barbara Graham Kreissler Brenda Osborne Dr. Phyllis A. Kempner Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Bowen Joseph & Antonia Friedman Joan Shelbourne Kwansa Ms. Sheldeen G. Osborne & Ms. Blanche Germain Streeter Mr. Donald Buhman & Ms. Magda Gabali Ms. Olive Lawton Mr. Steven E. Tirrell Dr. Sam Thal Mr. Wray Humphrey Mr. J. Gerald Gagnon Mr. John Lee Robert & Carol Parvin Miss Carol Tomlinson Russell P. Chappell Mrs. Rolf Gille Ms. Marcia Leonhardt Frances Quittel James S. & Gayle G. Tunnell Donna Chazen Beatrice & Paul Gomory Bernice Lindstrom Mr. Glenn H. Reid Ms. Suzanne Turley Agnes Chen Brown, Ms. Tracy Grant & Ms. Mélanie Grant Dave Gomberg & Diana Lum Mr. Robert Robertson Mr. & Mrs. Herman Victor in memory of Robert Elliott Brown Ms. Doris W. Grau Jean & Lindsay MacDermid Peter & Bettina Rosenbladt Mr. Albert J. Vizinho Maureen Clarke Miss Ursula Grunfeld Betty Maddux Mr. Kimberly M. Webb & Doug Von Qualen Carlyn Clause & Alexander L. Brainerd Dr. & Mrs. John G. Gurley Ms. Norrine L. Marchegiani-Lewis Mr. Richard R. Rossi Ms. Gladys Wagman Mr. Michael Colbruno James Heagy, Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Mardesich Ms. Louise A. Russell Bruce & Fran Walker Mr. Jose María Condemi in memory of Janey Heagy Myron Marx & Cora Yang Kenneth Ruta Mrs. Barbara Wanvig George & Susan Crow Mr. David Hugle & Mr. Haggai Niv Ms. Denise E. Mauldin Bob & Terri Ryan Mr. Patrick Wilken & Mr. David Dickson Mr. Gerald F. Currier & Ms. Marian Huntoon Bill Medigovich Jeannie Sack & Jordan Sachs Ms. Ann L. Williamson Mr. Cleveland M. Smith Dagmar L. Jamison Ms. Christine Miller Debra R. Schoenberg Stephen & Connie Zilles Peter & Jayne Davis Ms. Joanie Juster D. G. Mitchell Ms. Marilyn G. Seiberling Anonymous Mr. Stephen Drewes Mrs. Jeannie Kaufman Cathy & Howard Moreland Ms. Carolyn Shaw

The Merola Opera Program honors the memory of the following friends who have provided a legacy of support through their bequests and other planned gifts this year. Eloise Bouye • Zanette Cornman • James Donahue • Al Garren • Barbara K. Jackson • Dagmar Jamison • Mr. Jack H. Lund • MZB Trust • Marie J. Niemann William Risser • Rusty Rolland • Jane Roos LeRoux • Winifred Slausen • Derek and Stephanie Smith • Mr. Hugh C. Trutton • Ruth Zucchi

TRIBUTES Merola Opera Program expresses its sincere appreciation for all memorial and honorary donations made betweenOctober 1, 2018 and August 1, 2019.

IN MEMORY OF Zheng Cao Barbara K. Jackson Henry W. Robinson and IN HONOR OF Ronny Michael Robert Mison Brian Asawa Janey Heagy Eleanor Kenney Nettie Robinson Jody Bourland Greenberg Glenn Reid Freida Batten Susan Meadows Hone Vivienne Miller James Forrest Vedder Michael Colbruno Jean Kellogg Marion Ross Robert Elliott Brown Dana Turkington Horner Valerie Pope Cameron Waterman III Pamela George Sylvia Lindsey

MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM ENDOWMENT The Merola Opera Program acknowledges with thanks those groups and individuals who have established or support the following endowment funds, which provide lasting tributes and generate continual support for developing the artists of the future.

Kurt Herbert Adler—Merola Endowment Fund Nicholas & Mary Ann Gannam Endowment Fund Meltzer Family Memorial Fund Amici di Merola Fund L. Henry Garland Memorial Fund Merola Members Endowment Fund The Anthony I. Balestrieri Endowment Fund Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund Albert L. Mosher & John E. McCormick AIDS Memorial Fund Richard J. Bartlett Memorial Fund Richard N. Goldman Fund Oreste J. di Muro Endowment Fund Jean E. Bennett, Jr. Fund Donna Lee Grassman Memorial Fund Verna Osborne Fund The Sidney & Phyllis Blair Fund Gary Griffith Memorial Endowment Fund The Bernard Osher Foundation Career Grant Endowment John S. Brooks Memorial Fund Gropper Memorial Fund Mary A. Powell Career Grant Fund Florence Bruce Fund Anneliese Gruenberg-Bremer Fund In Honor of Leontyne Price Endowment Fund Bruser Family Fund Otto Guth Fund Charles Rolle, M.D. Endowment Fund Carlton F. Bryan Fund Mark Haffner Apprentice Coach Fund Marie Louise Rosenberg Memorial Endowment Fund Betty Cable Fund In Memory of James T. Heavey Fund Gerald B. Rosenstein Fund Zheng Cao Opera Fund Elaine Henderson Endowment Fund Mary Roy Fund Cooper Endowment Fund Vija Hovgard Endowment Fund Schick Memorial Fund Reid & Peggy Dennis Endowment Fund David S. Hugle and Haggai Niv Endowment Fund James H. Schwabacher, Jr. Fund Grace A. Diem & Alice E. Siemons Endowment Fund The Jacobs Family Trust The Shenson Family Fund In Memory of Jean Donnell Fund Grace & Mildred Johnson Endowment Fund Margery Tede Endowment Fund Querita Eybel Endowment Fund In Memory of Peter G. Kavantjas Endowment Fund Blanche Thebom Trust Fund Mr. & Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson Endowment Fund Leona Gordon Lowin Memorial Fund Dickson Titus III Fund Alfred Fromm and Otto E Meyer, Jack H. Lund Fund Alma Brooks Walker Memorial Fund in Memory of Dr. Angel Grooper Lotfi Mansouri Apprentice Director Fund Frank W. & Matilda O. Weymouth Living Trust Fund I. P. Patrick Gallagher Fund Sandra McCabe Fund In Memory of Patricia Yakutis Endowment Fund The Merola Opera Program also extends its most sincere appreciation to all those contributors who helped meet our annual income needs through gifts of $1 to $999.

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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD LEADERSHIP AND STAFF

OFFICERS HONORARY DIRECTORS Mary Poland, President Matthew & Kate Shilvock Maryam Muduroglu, Vice President, Administration David Gockley Eve Wertsch, Vice President, Associate Directors Silvia Lin, Vice President, Chapters STAFF Diana Kissil, Vice President, Community Outreach Susan Malott, Executive Director Ileana Facchini, Vice President, Development Montine Felso, Director of Special Events Belinda Steyer, Vice President, Education Theodora Reich, Special Events and Marketing Associate Courtney Labe, Vice President, Fundraising Caroline Altman, Creative Director Virginia Cartwright Ziegler, Vice President, Marketing John C. Morris, Education Program Manager San Francisco Opera Guild Cynthia Schreuder Kalev, Secretary Maya Rath, Finance Manager gives voice to potential through Claire Fluhr, Treasurer Ellen Kerrigan, Opera à la Carte Coordinator education and outreach programs Carol Benz, Director-at-Large Rita Milner, Education Fund Chairman that bring opera center stage into the life of the community.

San Francisco Opera Guild is a separate organization from San Francisco Opera and operates under a distinct board of directors. We extend our sincere appreciation to all our event and program supporters and acknowledge the following individuals, corporations, and foundations for their generous support of $1,000 or more between August 1, 2018 and July 31, 2019. For more information about supporting San Francisco Opera Guild, please contact Susan Malott at (415) 565-3291, [email protected], or visit our website at sfoperaguild.com.

CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS

$100,000 & ABOVE Bill & Bridget Coughran Sandra Farris James J Ludwig Foundation Kelsey Cullen John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn Shannon & Dan Cronan Paula Fiscal Paragon Real Estate Group Courtney Dallaire Denise Littlefield Sobel Michael & Holly Cuggino Claire & Jeff Fluhr San Jose Opera Guild Lisa Danzig Carol & Dixon Doll Mr. & Mrs. James N. Froeb SFOG Marin Chapter Shahla Davoudi $50,000–$99,999 Lynne Edminster & Brian Atwood Ann & Daniel Girard SFOG Peninsula Chapter Christine DeSanze CORPORATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS John & Marcia Goldman Şaduman Güzel & Paul van Dyk Jesus O. Diaz Accenture Jane & David Hartley Cynthia Schreuder Kalev & INDIVIDUALS Theodore Dobos Neiman Marcus Group Kathy Huber & Larry Binkley Ovadia Kalev Anonymous Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Leslie & George Hume Mrs. William R. Kimball Steve & Maura Abernathy Jessica & Michael Eisler INDIVIDUALS Dorothy* & C. Bradford Jeffries Gisel Kordestani Elie Abi-Jaoude Jennifer Emerson Franklin & Catherine Johnson Lawrence A. Kern Karen J. Kubin Abigail Akers Jacqueline & Christian Erdman Virginia Cartwright Ziegler Courtney & Jim Labe John & Joan Lavorgna Marie Allman Bryan Fabiano Gregory Malin Patricia Lee-Hoffmann & Mary Anderson & Salvador Gutierrez Ileana Facchini $25,000–$49,999 Teresa & Mark Medearis Steven Hoffmann Navid P. Armstrong Jennifer Fearon CORPORATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS Helen & John Meyer Brenda Leff Ann & Bart Baer Mr. & Mrs. Noel Fenton AT&T Corporation Norman & Janet Pease Cynthia & Richard Livermore Laura Sagues Barr & Melinda Yee Franklin California Arts Council Anne B. Popkin Andrew Martin-Weber Noah Michael Barr Clayton Fritz Harrah’s & Harveys Lake Tahoe Stephen Revetria Dr. Maya D. Meux Thomas Barrett & Belinda A. Berry Gary Garabedian Shreve & Co. Karen Richardson & Jon Rubinstein Lorna Meyer & Dennis Calas Jarrod Baumann James & Elizabeth Gassel Lionel Shaw Mr. & Mrs. James Milner Cheryl Baxter Mrs. Malin Giddings & INDIVIDUALS Roselyne C. Swig Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch Linda & Nils Behnke Mr. Richard B. Hechler Olivia Hsu Decker Dianne & Tad Taube Deborah Mosser & Donald MacLean Nina & Charles E. Belle Krista Giovara Kim & Mark Dempster Jennifer & Steven Walske Jane Mudge J. Riccardo Benavides Gail Glasser Elizabeth Pang Fullerton Diane B. Wilsey Maryam & Oran Muduroglu Carol Benz Stacy Gnuse Keith & Priscilla Geeslin S. Shariq Yosufzai & Brian E. James Deepa Pakianathan & Phil Pemberton Helen & Roger Bohl Joel Goodrich Ann & Gordon Getty Ann & Jim Paras J. Dennis Bonney Shelley Gordon Sylvia & John Hughes $5,000–$9,999 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi & Ron & Beverly Borelli Karen Gorman Arlene Inch CORPORATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS Mr. Paul Pelosi Melissa & Tracy Boxer Zill Lisa & John Grotts Victor & Farah Makras Abbot Downing Maria Pitcairn Jennifer Dal Bozzo Aaron Gruver Mary & Bill Poland Dodge & Cox Clint & Janet Reilly Todd Bradley & Alison Newport Margot Hall Kai Peng Tan & Eric W. Ormsby Find Your Light Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Karen & Anton Bruehl William Harvey Todd & Lisa Zabelle Saks Fifth Avenue Louise & Paul Renne Florence E. Bryan Dixie & Clifford Hersh SFOG East Bay Chapter Pamela & Richard Rigg Simon & Christine Buesnel Peggy Hill $10,000–$24,999 SFOG Sonoma Chapter Deborah & Paul Sagues Alisa Burgess-Blajwas & Roberta Cohen Holden & CORPORATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS Walter & Elise Haas Fund Komal Shah & Gaurav Garg Harold Blajwas Alex Holden Alexander McQueen Merrill Randol Sherwin Karen Caldwell Susan Hopkinson-Fishman Bank of America INDIVIDUALS Mary Beth & David Shimmon Tiara Cameron George & Cathy Huber First Republic Bank Francesca & Jeff Amann Randy & Belinda Steyer Lucretia Carney Lisamarie Inesi San Francisco Giants Susan Anderson-Norby Maryjo Tisor & Todd Kaplan Debra & Richard Carpeneti Donald & Jacqueline Jacobberger TriplePoint Capital Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Natalia Urrutia-Hernandez & Mrs. Walter L. Carpeneti Jorge Jaramillo Wells Fargo Bank Celeste & Mick Bobroff Israel Hernandez Mary Catlin Jennifer Jeffries Union Bank Romana Bracco Ronald & Emely Weissman Dr. Carolyn Chang & Lynn Jurich Yerba Buena Fund Ms. Barbara Brown Toni Wolfson & Robert Federighi Mr. Patrick King Kristen Kadner & Brian Roddy Carol Franc Buck Celeste & Darryl Woo Simi Chehazi Timothy & Anne Kahn INDIVIDUALS Marilyn & Michael Cabak Hilary & Richard Clark Caitlin Kalinowski Christopher & Camille Bently David & Karin Chamberlain $1,000–$4,999 Janet Coastes Ostler Daru Kawalkowsky Elizabeth & David Birka-White Carolyn Chandler CORPORATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS Katie Colendich Andrea Kennedy Maria & Jerry Brenholz Mrs. Newton A. Cope Burberry Martha Ehmann Conte David Kensington Eleanor & Theodore Brown Frank & Susan Dunlevy Cartier Julie Coplon Jill Doré Kent Jack Calhoun & Trent Norris Adm. James Ellis, Jr. & EACH Foundation Phoebe Cowles & Robert Girard John Kerns Paula & Bandel Carano Dr. Elizabeth Paté-Cornell Kaiser Permanente Joan Cucek Diana Kissil & John Cullison

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CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL DONATION S CONTINUED

Juanita & Alan Kizor Pamela Marron Julia Noel Chandra Rudd Andrea & Joe Thomas Claire & Mark Kostic Anne Marie & Stephen Massocca J Boyce Nute Nancy Russell Hernando Torres-Fernandez Joanne Kwong Gregg Mattner Susan O’Brien Dilara Saatci Barbara Traisman Caroline Labe Mr. Jorge Maumer Teri O’Brien Arash Salkhi Stephanie Tuttle Drs. Danielle & Rondell Lane Mr. & Mrs. Michael Mauzé David Todd Oldroyd Andrea Schultz & Michael Wood Yuka Uehara Randall E. Laroche & Linda & Stephen Mayne Laurie Olshansky Sobia Aziz Shaikh Herbert K. Uetz David G. Laudon Bobbie McChristy Nazan & Charles Orr Kimberlee Sharp-Dutto Micaela van Zwoll & John Green KC Lauck Daniel & Kerry McMutrie Bernard & Barbro Osher Dr. Clara Shayevich Nic & Claudia Volpi Adam Lauridsen Amy & Michael McNamara Janet Ostler Roberta Sherman Margaret Wadhwani Nafiseh & Karl Lindberg Elaine Mellis Fr David Pace Mai Shiver Douglas S. Waggener Marie Lipman Steven Menzies Carol & Gerry Parker Carol Simmons Thurlow Washam Patricia Ferrin Loucks Sydney Minnerly Tanya Peterson Katherine & Dan Simon Victoria Weatherford Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Ludgus Robert B. Mison Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Poole Mary Sky Amy Wender-Hoch Elzaveta Lutz Kimberly Hughes & Steve Moazed Tanya Powell Frank Knowles Smith III Eve Wertsch Jennifer Lynch & Justin Schuster Natasha & Tim Monahan Ursula Ralph Russell Stanaland Keith Wetmore & Andrew Hinek Maggie Mack Patricia Montag & John Swain Avani Rau Zornitza Stefanova Beatrice Wood Mary & Terry McRae Douglas G. Moore Maria Rescalvo Patricia Stephens Anita Wornick Elizabeth & Patrick Malkassian Joshua Morgan Michelle Ritchie Norbert Sy Mia Wright Adrienne Mally David Mueller Veronica Rivard-Tramontozzi France Szeto Victoria Yeager Susan & James Malott Bahya Murad Patricia Rock Steven Talan Chip Zecher & Chris Menza Monica Mary March & Sheila & Paul Nahi Laura Rockwell Susan Tamagni Enrique Rodriguez Roxanne & Alex Najafi John D. Rosin Lynne Tan *Deceased

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD EDUCATION FUND The Opera Guild acknowledges with thanks those groups and individuals who have contributed $2,500 or more in support of San Francisco Opera Guild’s Education Fund by July 31, 2019. For information on supporting the Guild’s Education Fund, please call (415) 565-3291.

Cheryl & Ralph Baxter Anna Freiman Karen J. Kubin Virginia Miller* Deborah Sagues Karen & Anton Bruehl Ann & Daniel Girard Joan & John Lavorgna Susan Mooradian San Francisco Opera Guild, Paula & Bandel Carano Katharine Harahan* Eileen D. Ludwig* Mary Louise Myers East Bay Chapter The Estate of Mrs. Sheldon Cooper Alfred Hartley Cathy & Angus MacNaughton Susan O’Brien San Francisco Opera Guild, Mary Corroon Jane Hartley The Malin Family Elizabeth Pfau* Marin Chapter Beverly Coughlin James Heagy Susan & James Malott Maria Pitcairn San Francisco Opera Guild, Ena & Mark Cratsenburg Barbara Henry Lois Manbert Mary & Bill Poland Peninsula Chapter Olivia Hsu Decker Jacquelin H. Hume* Anne Marie Massocca Ursula Ralph Ann Simpson Carol & Dixon Doll Katie & Claude Jarman Kathleen McEligot Joyce Reitman Claire Collins Skall* Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich* Mrs. Mark O. Kasanin Teresa & Mark Medearis Venetta & John Rohal Susan Tamagni Bettye Poetz Ferguson Foundation Diana Kissil & John Cullison Karen Merritt Diane Rubin *Deceased

CHARLOT D. MALIN SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD EDUCATION FUND We express deep appreciation to the following groups and individuals who have made gifts of $500 or more by July 31, 2019 in memory of Charlot D. Malin, Past President and a leader of San Francisco Opera Guild. For information on how to contribute to this fund, please contact Susan Malott at (415) 565-3291, [email protected], or visit sfopera.com/charlotmalinfund.

Steve & Maura Abernathy Sean Dowdall Sigrun Graeff John McQuaid Karen Ann Richardson Family Kimberlee Stryker Elizabeth Birka-White Lynne Edminster Rong Hu Gene & Richard Morey Foundation Swartz Foundation Kristy Brabec Jennifer Emerson Arlene Inch Christina Noren Deborah Sagues Barbara Traisman Erik Breivik Sue Firestone Cynthia Schreuder Kalev Bernard & Barbro Osher San Francisco Opera Guild, Natalia Urrutia-Hernandez Barbara Brown Claire Fluhr Juanita Kizor John & Sherry Peterson East Bay Chapter Martha Chesley Malin Giddings Nina Klotz Bill & Mary Poland John Shea Shannon & Dan Cronin Ann & Daniel Girard Nicola Luisotti Junius & Rose, Reuben LLP Mai Shiver Suzy Kellems Dominik Daniel & Inger Golob Susan & James Malott Karen Richardson Sarah Somberg

IN-KIND DONATIONS

Accenture Georgina Chapman Farah & Victor Makras Roederer Estate Allegra Print & Imaging Copymat SF Marchesa San Francisco Opera Mark Alman Kim & Mark Dempster Maisons Marques & Domaines Santa Fe Opera J. Riccardo Benavides Event Styling Dependable Letterpress McCalls Catering & Events Soirée Valet Burberry Drew Altizer Photography Rita Milner The St. Regis San Francisco Karen Caetano, Id-alist llc Four Seasons Resort Ranch Encantado Maryam & Oran Muduroglu Town & Country Calhoun & Company Communications Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Neiman Marcus Union Square United Airlines Carpe Diem J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines The Nob Hill Gazette The Westin St. Francis San Francisco Castellucci Napa Valley Jay Siegan Presents Mary & Bill Poland on Union Square Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards and Winery George F. Lucas Ritz-Carlton San Francisco Virginia Cartwright Ziegler

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD LEGACY SOCIETY The San Francisco Opera Guild Legacy Society honors those who have included San Francisco Opera Guild in their will, trust, or other estate plans. For more information on how you can support San Francisco Opera Guild through your estate planning, please call (415) 565-3291.

Ben D. & Dorothy Coppersmith Bruce M. Jewett Estate of Leontine Sassell Rod & PJ Handeland Mr. Maurice Kanbar Catherine Stafford Revocable Living Trust Jane & David Hartley James J. Ludwig Mrs. W. Carroll Tornroth

More than 75,000 Bay Area families, students, and teachers experience the excitement of opera with a variety of educational and community engagement programs presented through the combined efforts of San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera Guild, and the Merola Opera Program.

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POSTLUDE EMOTIONAL MEMORY AND OPERA BY GENERAL DIRECTOR MATTHEW SHILVOCK

he children have said their prayers can have such resonance in memory. For me and fallen asleep in the forest; the there are three key elements that come angels have surrounded them to together in opera. Tkeep them safe; and the orchestra swells to a • The first is the human voice. Most of us are monumental moment of soaring emotion. In blessed with a voice, and so we can identify in the dream sequence of Hansel and Gretel, a very real way with someone using the voice Humperdinck opens a door of nostalgia to all to convey emotion. As infants, we recognize that is good in childhood, reminding us of the emotional cadence of the voice well before moments in our lives when we yearned to feel we understand the meaning of words. Opera safe and protected. KRISTEN LOKEN singers may convey emotion at an Olympian- This is one of those intangible moments of level of virtuosity, but they’re fundamentally doing what all magic in opera: a moment where something unlocks our of us do when we express emotion with our voices. emotional memory and we are invited into a complete • The second is the abstraction of music. Music both synergy between what we’re experiencing onstage and what engages our conscious thoughts and bypasses them, we’ve experienced in our own life. Oftentimes these linking us to the deepest layers of our emotions and moments will be deeply personal: loves found and lost, experiences. difficult parental relationships, anguish at choices we must • Thirdly, opera frames all of this in a dramatic make. Interestingly, in our two final operas of the fall season, narrative—a scaffold that enables us to weave our these moments of memory are deeply elemental, deeply experiences and identities with those of the characters private: our childhoods, in the case of Hansel and Gretel, and onstage. A great symphony can unlock powerful emotions, our first loves, in the case of Manon Lescaut. Both operas but a great opera allows us to clothe those emotions in premiered in 1893 but, through emotional resonance, these personal stories. works still invoke powerful personal memories for us now. I am in awe at the connection between opera and memory. Memory and experience are unique to each of us, and At San Francisco Opera we have 259 people who have been each of us will resonate differently with different operas subscribing for 50 years or more, and when I talk with these onstage. Different operas can unlock different reactions at dedicated, life-long opera lovers, it’s amazing how almost different points in our lives. But to know that, amidst a everyone can remember their very first opera experience. group of thousands of people, we can have these moments People talk animatedly with photographic detail about of personal resonance is quite extraordinary. Opera specific performances from decades ago. Opera both unlocks invites us to a place of vulnerability and openness with personal memories and creates them at the same time. ourselves. It invites us to visit deep places in our own life There has been some wonderful writing in recent years on stories. And, with a work of such nostalgia as Hansel and the connection between music and the brain, and music’s Gretel, it invites us to go all the way back into childhood unique ability to make and unlock neurological pathways. and connect our current selves with our origins. From Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia to Daniel Levitin’s This Is I encourage you to think about your own connections Your Brain on Music to work by the San Francisco of opera and memory—moments onstage that have Conservatory of Music’s Indre Viskontas—there is fascinating unlocked something very personal for you. And, if this is research being done on the power of music to affect us your first opera, I am excited to welcome you here and neurologically, physiologically, and emotionally. hope that you might experience something of that I’ve often wondered why opera is so affecting and how it extraordinary connectivity during this performance.

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