CANADIAN COMPANY Winter 2014 Per forman ce

COS ÌFAN TU TTE OR, THE SCHOOL FOR LOVERS

CONTEN TS 4 SIR THOMAS ALLEN: A MUSICAL LIFETIME WITH COSÌ BY GIANMARCO SEGATO 18 TEN THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT VERDI'S A MASKED BALL BY NIKITA GOURSKI

22 THE COC IS THRILLED TO PRESENT OUR 2014/2015 SEASON Discover our six on the following pages: Top: A Masked Ball (Berlin Staatsoper, , pg. 22 2008). Photo: Ruth Walz Madama Butterfly , pg. 24 Bottom: Preliminary costume sketch for the COC's new production of , pg. 26 Così fan tutte by set and costume Die Walküre , pg. 27 designer Debra Hanson , pg. 28 Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung , pg. 29

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n an age in which superlatives such as legendary production, EMI recorded his I“unforgettable,” “legendary” and “greatest” Don Giovanni in 1984 – now considered the are thrown about indiscriminately, few definitive account of Mozart’s notorious would argue Sir Thomas Allen’s status womanizer. For close to four decades he as the pre-eminent lyric baritone of his has been the baritone of choice for star generation. He has earned this title most conductors such as , Riccardo especially for his iconic interpretations of Muti, , John Eliot Gardiner, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva, and Simon Rattle. Allen has Figaro, Papageno, Guglielmo and Don not only mastered the fine balance between Alfonso, both onstage and in the recording singing and acting needed to be a great opera studio. Following his appearances at the singer, but stands as a master interpreter Glyndebourne Festival in Sir Peter Hall’s of the art song, especially in the English

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Sir Thomas Allen: A Musical Lifetime with Così

Preliminary costume sketches for the character of Don Alfonso for the COC's new production of Così fan tutte , by set and costume designer Debra Hanson

and French repertoire. He now passes on to do that and read it as a singer, prepare his expertise to the next generation of and pencil it up and do the things that all artists, giving masterclasses worldwide singers do. And the score chosen was Così , including, since 1996, at his own Samling though I didn’t learn the role [Guglielmo] Academy, located in Allen’s beloved native at the time, maybe just one of the arias country in North East England. perhaps. After that he [Lockhart] became Sir Thomas Allen’s association with music director at Welsh National Opera Mozart’s Così fan tutte goes as far back and one of the first things I did with them as his student days in the 1960s when he was a touring version of Così . That goes came to the attention of the great British back to 1970 or something like that.” vocal pedagogue, James Lockhart. “One Allen’s first Così role, Guglielmo, is often of the things I worked on with him was how regarded as a rite of passage for the budding to go through a score. He taught me how lyric baritone. “I think the reason why we as

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Preliminary set maquette for the COC's new production of Così fan tutte , designed by Debra Hanson a breed feel that way is that it doesn’t seem questions during the course of it in the to have the emotional maturity of a role way Donna Anna has, or had to sing the like that of Ferrando [with whom Guglielmo long-breath lines that Don Ottavio has. schemes to prove the infidelity of their And similarly, Don Alfonso doesn’t have respective fiancées]. The relationship those great [vocal] demands made of him. Guglielmo enjoys with Dorabella is one The thing is to use those moments when of pure pleasure rather than the [more you’ve seemingly not been asked to do emotionally deep] way Ferrando latches onto much… when in fact you are actually doing Fiordiligi. Musically as well, of all the Così a lot. Then it’s a question of listening to roles, Guglielmo is the one that tends most what others are doing, and causing action towards the buffo [comic].” The other three and reaction in them by just being there; young leads sing some of the most sublime , by setting a plan in motion, sowing a seed grand and emotional music Mozart ever of doubt or whatever it might be. A lot of wrote but Guglielmo’s “vocal opportunities it is just sitting down, crossing your legs are just not on the same level.” comfortably, having a cup of coffee whilst On the other hand, Allen relishes the you’re watching everything going on. That’s entirely different demands made of Don the way it often pans out. I have no qualms Alfonso, Così ’s philosopher and cynic, and about that – I don’t crave great lengthy the role which brings him to the COC this stentorian arias – I’m very happy to just winter. He draws some fascinating parallels pull the strings and watch the others dance between Alfonso and Don Giovanni, the to my tune!” Mozart role with which he has the closest Having mastered Così ’s two low-voiced association. “It’s a strange thing about male roles, Allen has taken the next logical Mozart. If one looks at Don Giovanni step and can now be found directing musically, he isn’t all that demanding – Mozart’s effervescent comedy in addition it’s an endurance test and you have to sing to Don Giovanni, very loudly at the end of the piece. But and for companies such you’ve not been asked great musical as Scottish Opera, Arizona Opera and

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Sir Thomas Allen: A Musical Lifetime with Così

Boston Lyric Opera. For the latter he not Having lived with Così for over 40 years, only directed Così but simultaneously Allen has witnessed a huge sea change played Don Alfonso, an undertaking which in attitude with respect to the piece. There required “eyes in the back of your head. might have been a time when critical It’s not easy, but not impossible either.” opinion denigrated the opera for its In Boston he opted to perform the opera perceived immorality and frivolity, but in in English, wanting the text to have an a post-Freudian world fascinating avenues immediate impact on the audience. For have opened up to explore the “lessons Allen, communication through music – of love” which lie beneath its undeniably its actual sounds, pitches and dynamics – frothy exterior. As Allen reasons, “It’s no are definitely the singer’s responsibility, longer possible to regard these characters but even more important is the performer’s simplistically, as no more than decorative ability to personally connect to the text 18th-century porcelain figurines.” This is and enliven it for the audience. By using an especially true of the opera’s ambiguous English translation for his Boston Così , he ending – do the original couples “kiss wished the singers to experience the words and make up,” returning to their original first, rather than second-hand. “Using one’s partners, or are their relationships damaged own language is a distinct advantage. forever? Allen feels the answer is found I don’t care how seriously and intensely in Mozart’s score itself: “You start thinking you work with a second or third language – surely [the two couples] can’t just return there’s nothing like getting back to one’s to everyday life as a result of the lessons own – it’s in your DNA. Also, the colours that have been learned. In a way, Mozart that become available to a singer for indicates this in the finale which is in the expression are that much more telling. very basic key of C major. It’s music that’s It’s a much more advanced process when so simplistic, almost as though he’s you’re learning a role that’s not your native deliberately trying to show us that [the language.” That, says Allen, is “a lifetime wedding between the two “original” study. I’m still doing it.” couples] is a façade – they’re clearly going Just as director will through the motions here – it’s very re-envision Mozart’s “school for lovers” for superficial when you think of all the our audiences, Allen will also be looking glorious music that went before.” How will at it afresh. “The main thing is not to come things end up for the lovers in this with anything assumed. Listen to what winter? Allen and his fellow cast members [the director] gives you and then respond will no doubt have fun playing with the to that rather than relying on the process possibilities when they meet on stage you’ve used for years and years. I keep for the COC’s new production of Così . n on saying this to singers – listen to what you’re hearing and respond to that, not to Gianmarco Segato is Adult Programs Manager, the thing you’ve learned like a parrot from Education and Outreach at the Canadian Opera several recordings.” Company.

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Preliminary set maquette for the COC's new production of Così fan tutte , designed by Debra Hanson COSÌ FAN TUTTE OPERA BACKGROUND

Unlike The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni , Mozart’s previous collaborations with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, Così fan tutte was not adapted from an existing literary source (Beamarchais’ play of the same title and the infamous Don Juan legend, respectively), but was newly written. Così also differs from those works, and from the normal pattern we expect in a play or opera, in that it lacks a hero or any one character to grab the audience’s immediate attention as does, for example, the scandalous Don Giovanni. The other stumbling block which plagued Così for the first 100 years of its existence was its negative reception history – audiences were scandalized by its subject matter, unable to handle the notion of two sisters falling in love with each other’s fiancés. Even once Così had finally re-entered the standard repertoire in the 1930s it was treated with little respect, suffering brutal cuts, including Dorabella’s short Act I aria “Smanie implacabili” (“Implacable restlessness”), one of only two arias she gets to sing in the entire opera!

Like Don Giovanni which came before it, Così is identified in its libretto as a dramma giocoso , an Italian term for operas that contain both comic and tragic elements. Conventionally thought of as light, frothy and joyful, Così is also shot through with a decidedly poignant, sad and cynical edge. Our responses are always being played with: the two sisters are clearly devastated when their fiancés must go off to war, and the men join in on their sorrow… yet, we know the men are just play-acting. Atom Egoyan’s production takes the deception one step further, allowing the women to not only be aware of the scheme, but having them devise a counter-scheme of their own.

Egoyan pays particular attention to the subtitle of the libretto: La scuola degli amanti “The School For Lovers,” a phrase which suggests that the premise of the opera can be understood as an educational experiment. This reading resonates with Così ’s historical position in relation to the ideals of Mozart’s time. The Age of Enlightenment was at its peak throughout the latter half of the 1700s, but towards the end of the century, concerns grew about an excessive elevation of reason above religion; both Mozart and da Ponte (following French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s views) believed that reason, coupled with moral and spiritual guidance, was a superior way to understand human nature. It is this constant switching between reason and emotion that presents the biggest directing challenge, says Egoyan. The score often vacillates jarringly between light-hearted fun and piercingly sincere quasi-tragedy and, in doing so, illuminates how we are all capable of “straying” when we feel an attraction, and that the human heart can shift unexpectedly.

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AleXAnder neef , General director COS Ì FAN TUTTE by Opera in Two Acts. libretto by lorenzo da Ponte

edited for the neue Mozart Ausgabe by faye ferguson and Wolfgang rehm

Used by arrangement with european American Music distributors llC, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Baerenreiter Music Corp. – Alkor editions, publisher and copyright owner.

first performance: Burgtheater, Vienna, January 26, 1790 New COC Production last performed by the COC in 2006 January 18, 24, 29, february 1, 6, 9, 15, 18, 21, 2014 Sung in Italian with english SUrTITleS TM

THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Ferrando, Dorabella’s fiancé Paul Appleby Guglielmo, engaged to Fiordiligi Robert Gleadow ^ Don Alfonso, an old Philosopher Sir Thomas Allen * Fiordiligi Layla Claire Dorabella, her sister Wallis Giunta ^** Despina, maid to Fiordiligi and Dorabella Tracy Dahl

Conductor Johannes Debus Director Atom Egoyan Associate Director Marilyn Gronsdal ^ Set and Costume Designer Debra Hanson Lighting Designer Michael Walton Chorus Master Sandra Horst ^ Stage Manager Jenifer Kowal SURTITLES™ Producer Gunta Dreifelds

Performance time is approximately three hours and 30 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission.

Generously underwritten in part by

*Sir Thomas Allen’s performance is generously sponsored by The Stratton Trust **Wallis Giunta’s performance is generously sponsored by Patrick and Barbara Keenan

^Graduate of the COC ensemble Studio Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change.

Please visit coc.ca for additional information 1 AleXAnder neef , General director COS Ì FAN TUTTE by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera in Two Acts. libretto by lorenzo da Ponte

edited for the neue Mozart Ausgabe by faye ferguson and Wolfgang rehm

Used by arrangement with european American Music distributors llC, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Baerenreiter Music Corp. – Alkor editions, publisher and copyright owner.

first performance: Burgtheater, Vienna, January 26, 1790 New COC Production Ensemble Studio Performance February 7, 2014 Sung in Italian with english SUrTITleS TM THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Ferrando, Dorabella’s fiancé Andrew Haji (Act I) Owen McCausland (Act II) Guglielmo, engaged to Fiordiligi Cameron McPhail (Act I) Clarence Frazer (Act II) Don Alfonso, an old Philosopher Gordon Bintner Fiordiligi Aviva Fortunata (Act I) Sasha Djihanian (Act II) Dorabella, her sister Charlotte Burrage (Act I) Danielle MacMillan (Act II) Despina, maid to Fiordiligi and Dorabella Claire de Sévigné Conductor Johannes Debus Director Atom Egoyan Associate Director Marilyn Gronsdal ^ Set and Costume Designer Debra Hanson Lighting Designer Michael Walton Chorus Master Sandra Horst ^ Stage Manager Jenifer Kowal SURTITLES™ Producer Gunta Dreifelds

Performance time is approximately three hours and 30 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission.

Generously underwritten in part by

This performance is dedicated to the memory of former COC General Director Lotfi Mansouri Aviva Fortunata’s performance is generously sponsored by the COVC Jean A. Chalmers Fund Sasha Djihanian’s performance is generously sponsored by James Nicol and Christine Milne Charlotte Burrage’s performance is generously sponsored by Margaret Harriett Cameron and the late Gary Smith Danielle MacMillan’s performance is generously sponsored by Brian Wilks, Roy and Marjorie Linden Clarence Frazer’s performance is generously sponsored by Catherine Fauquier Cameron McPhail’s performance is generously sponsored by Roger D. Moore Andrew Haji’s performance is generously sponsored by Anne and Tony Arrell Owen McCausland’s performance is generously sponsored by Peter and Hélène Hunt Claire de Sévigné’s performance is generously sponsored by Anne and Tony Arrell Gordon Bintner’s performance is generously sponsored by Marcia Lewis Brown Michael Shannon is generously sponsored by Brian Wilks, Marjorie and Roy Linden

^Graduate of the COC ensemble Studio Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change.

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or those familiar with Così fan tutte , In Cosi , librettist Lorenzo da Ponte shows Fthis production will be immediately us that while reason and clear thinking is surprising in two ways. First of all, we are to be held above all else, it is often made taking the alternative title of the work and unreliable because of shifting emotion. using it literally. It takes place in “A School Mozart’s brilliant music underlines this for Lovers,” with Don Alfonso the teacher tension in an exquisite and at times of this school in which he demonstrates unbearably beautiful way. For the true to his students the laws of attraction. libertine such as Don Alfonso, the total lack The second surprise is that the sisters of rationale behind the laws of attraction seem to be in on Don Alfonso’s experiment is a cause for alarm and certainly a subject from the beginning. I was curious to explore worth illuminating to his students. While what might happen to the dynamics of the butterflies – the very symbol of freedom – opera if there were a parallel wager with can be caught and pinned down, such the two women. While we can’t know the is not the case with the human heart. As specific nature of this wager, we gather it Frida Kahlo’s painting “Two Fridas” makes concerns marriage. Perhaps the two women clear, the heart can be brutally exposed, already understand that “everyone does it” with surgical scissors in one hand, and (a literal translation of Così fan tutte ), the romantic talisman of a beloved brooch but that “doing it” won’t alter the existing in the other. bonds of their marital engagements. With Così fan tutte , the extraordinary What excites me about this concurrent collaboration of Mozart and da Ponte wager is that it makes the two women fully challenges the inherent optimism of the cognizant of the convolutions of the plot Enlightenment itself, with its battle against which follow, and allows them to set their the mysteries of religion and superstition. own agenda. By having the women in While the libretto lays out one set of ideas, on the plot from the very beginning, it the music often tells us something completely simultaneously empowers them while different. This complex alchemy between making the emotional confusions of the objective thought and intense piercing second act even more pronounced. They emotion creates its own mysterious force, challenge their own rational structure. as we experience the human capacity to This idea is at the core of the work. One feel, to hurt, and to love. of the central tenets of Enlightenment philosophy is that reason can be the only guide in an uncertain moral climate. Atom Egoyan

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ACT I ACT II Naples Despina attempts to persuade Dorabella Don Alfonso goads two young men into and Fiordiligi that they should be more a wager regarding their fiancées’ fidelity. receptive to the Albanians’ advances. The Ferrando and Guglielmo are convinced sisters reluctantly agree that a flirtation their lovers – Dorabella and Fiordiligi, might prove a welcome distraction in the respectively – are true, and agree to test absence of their fiancés. The men return the women’s faithfulness through trickery. once more to serenade the sisters, and this The men agree to do everything Don Alfonso time Dorabella exchanges words of love says to pull off their ruse. with Guglielmo – to his astonishment. Sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi are met Ferrando has less luck with Fiordiligi. by Don Alfonso. He tells them that their Ferrando is told of his lover’s betrayal fiancés have been recalled to military and vows revenge. Don Alfonso reminds duty. The two soldiers arrive to bid their the soldiers that the test is not over yet. unhappy fiancées farewell. The sisters are Dorabella confesses her new fondness inconsolable. Once the men have departed, for her Albanian to Despina. Fiordiligi their maid Despina suggests that Dorabella admits that she also has feelings for her and Fiordiligi amuse themselves in the Albanian (the disguised Ferrando), but meantime by meeting other men. The scolds her sister’s lack of control and vows women refuse to be unfaithful to their lovers. to remain true to her fiancé. But when Don Alfonso speaks privately with Ferrando returns, secretly accompanied Despina, enlisting her aid in introducing by Guglielmo and Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi two prospective lotharios to the sisters. He yields to his advances. then presents to Despina two “Albanians,” Ferrando and Guglielmo lament their who are none other than Guglielmo and lovers’ betrayal and express a desire Ferrando in disguise. When Fiordiligi and for revenge. Don Alfonso urges the now Dorabella arrive, the men proclaim their bitterly disillusioned soldiers to marry affection. The women demand that the the women. strangers leave their house. Wedding preparations are quickly Later that day, the Albanians burst into made. Don Alfonso produces a notary – the garden where the two sisters lament Despina in disguise – who in turn produces the absence of their sweethearts. The men a marriage contract. A drum is heard, drink what they claim is poison, expressing signaling the return of the soldiers. Having their wish to die for love. A doctor arrives hastily removed their disguises, Ferrando (Despina in disguise) and “revives” the and Guglielmo appear and feign outrage two men. at the incriminating scene. But when they put on their Albanian disguises, the whole INTERMISSION truth comes out. In the final chorus all four lovers, in the spirit of reconciliation, sing hopefully of accepting life as it presents itself and maintaining a sense of humour. But will they be able to when faced with an uncertain future?

4 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season MUSIC STAFF Anne Larlee Kevin Murphy ( Head Coach ) Michael Shannon ( Ensemble Studio Intern Coach )

ITALIAN LANGUAGE COACH Manuela Scarci

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Derek Bate

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Lesley Abarquez Stephanie Marrs

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNERS Wendy Greenwood Jareth Li Andrea Nelson (Wally Russell Lighting Intern)

UNDERSTUDIES Ferrando Andrew Haji Owen McCausland Guglielmo Clarence Frazer Cameron McPhail Don Alfonso Gordon Bintner Doug MacNaughton Fiordiligi Sasha Djihanian Aviva Fortunata Dorabella Charlotte Burrage Danielle MacMillan Despina Claire de Sévigné

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SIR THOMAS ALLEN the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Don Alfonso (M) Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, St. Paul Sir Thomas Allen is Chamber Orchestra, and the Deutsche making his COC debut. Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken An established star of the Kaiserslautern, to name a few. great opera houses of the world, he has sung over GORDON BINTNER 50 roles at the , Covent Don Alfonso (E) Garden, and in 2006 he celebrated the 25th Regina, Saskatchewan anniversary of his debut at the Metropolitan native and first-year Opera. An acclaimed recitalist, he is equally Ensemble Studio renowned on the concert platform and has member bass-baritone appeared with the world's great orchestras Gordon Bintner, who and conductors. He is Chancellor of Durham won first prize and the Audience Choice University, and his many honours include Award at the Second Annual COC the title of Bayerischer Kammersänger Ensemble Studio Competition, recently awarded by the Bayerische Staatsoper. appeared at the COC as the Customs In 1989 he was created a Commander Officer in La Bohème. Recent performances of the British Empire and in the 1999 he include Bill in ’s A Quiet was made a Knight Bachelor. Among his Place (Ensemble Modern); Escamillo proudest achievements is having a Channel in (Saskatoon Opera), Nardo in Tunnel locomotive named after him. (’s Recently, Buckingham Palace announced Merola Opera Program) and Lescaut in that Sir Thomas Allen will be awarded the Manon (Opéra de Montréal). Other credits Queen’s Medal for Music 2013 later this year. include the title roles in Le nozze di Figaro (Opera NUOVA) and Don Giovanni PAUL APPLEBY (Opera McGill); Colline in La Bohème Ferrando (M) (Angers Nantes Opéra); and he made American Paul his Montreal Symphony Orchestra Appleby is making his debut in 2011 as the OSM Standard Life COC debut. A dynamic Competition’s grand prize winner. and versatile artist, he is an admired and exciting CHARLOTTE BURRAGE presence on the world’s leading concert, Dorabella (E) recital, and opera stages. A recent graduate Originally from of the ’s Lindemann Woodstock , Ontario, Young Artist Development Program, mezzo-soprano Charlotte he was the recipient of a 2012 Leonore Burrage is a first-year Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing Ensemble Studio member . and Visual Arts, among other distinguished She holds a master of music in voice awards. Mr. Appleby has appeared in performance from the productions with the Metropolitan Opera, and graduated from the opera diploma , Boston Lyric Opera, Opera program at University of British Columbia Theatre of St. Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, (UBC). Credits include Pergolesi’s Stabat , and in concerts with Mater with both Kevin Mallon in Italy and

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Christopher Verrette in Toronto; Hansel TRACY DAHL in Hansel and Gretel with Vancouver Opera Despina (M) in Schools; Dorabella in Così fan tutte Canadian soprano Tracy with Banff Centre’s Opera as Theatre Dahl last appeared at the and Jeunesses Musicales ; and the title COC as Zerbinetta in role in Massenet’s Cendrillon with UBC. Ariadne auf Naxos . This Ms Burrage performed with the Vancouver season she sings Mabel Symphony Orchestra under conductor in The Pirates of Penzance (Calgary Opera ) Bramwell Tovey. This season she and (Vancouver Symphony performed Handel’s Messiah with Orchestra). Recent appearances include Orchestra . Gilda in (Edmonton Opera and Opera); the title role in Maria LAYLA CLAIRE Stuarda (Pacific Opera Victoria); and Fiordiligi (M) world premieres of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Canadian soprano Layla Wonderland and Peter Ash’s The Golden Claire is making her COC Ticket (Opera Theatre of St. Louis). Other debut. A 2012 graduate of roles include Adele in , the Metropolitan Opera’s Zerbinetta, Florestine in The Ghosts of Lindemann Young Artist Versailles and Valencienne in The Merry Development Program (LYADP), this Widow (Metropolitan Opera); and Olympia season she sings Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in Les contes d’Hoffmann , Oscar in Un (Pittsburgh Opera and Minnesota Opera). ballo in maschera , and Lucia in Lucia Other roles include Sandrina in La finta di Lammermoor (San Francisco Opera). giardiniera (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence); Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro SASHA DJIHANIAN (Glyndebourne Touring Opera); Donna Fiordiligi (E) Anna in Don Giovanni (Tanglewood and Ensemble Studio Glyndebourne festivals); Fiordiligi in Così soprano and Montreal fan tutte (Tanglewood); Donna Elvira in native Sasha Djihanian Don Giovanni (Curtis Opera Theater); was the winner of the Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (Palm Beach First Annual COC Opera); Tebaldo in Don Carlo (Metropolitan Ensemble Studio Competition. Recently Opera); and Marenka in The Bartered Bride with the COC she appeared as Alisa in (LYADP). Concert appearances include , and stepped in Handel’s Messiah with the New York as Annio in a mainstage performance Philharmonic and an all-Mozart program of as well as the with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Ensemble performance. A graduate of the under conductor Johannes Debus. Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, she was a national finalist in the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; a semi-finalist in the 2011 Queen Elisabeth Competition and 2012 Montreal International Musical Competition; and represented Canada at the 2011 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Recent

Please visit coc.ca for additional information 7 ArTISTS’ BIOGrAPhIeS credits include Nannetta in Falstaff with La Bohème (Calgary Opera); Escamillo Opera Hamilton and Micaëla in Carmen in Carmen (Highlands Opera Studio); and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Italy Dandini in La Cenerentola (Opera NUOVA). and at the Castleton Festival, with Lorin Mr. Frazer won the inaugural Lois Marshall Maazel conducting. Voice Competition.

AVIVA FORTUNATA WALLIS GIUNTA Fiordiligi (E) Dorabella (M) Calgary native soprano Canadian mezzo-soprano Aviva Fortunata is a first- Wallis Giunta is a year Ensemble Studio graduate of the COC member. Notable credits Ensemble Studio and include Desdemona in Metropolitan Opera’s Otello and the Lady with a Cake Box in Lindemann Young Artist Development Postcard from Morocco with San Francisco Program. She recently appeared at the Opera’s Merola Opera Program; Donna COC as Annio and Sesto in La clemenza Anna in Don Giovanni with Concert Opera di Tito . Other COC roles include Second Group, Centre for Opera Studies in Italy Lady in The Magic Flute, English Lady and the University of Toronto; and Poulenc’s in , Woman of Crete 2 Gloria with the Buffalo Philharmonic in and the Alto Solo in The Orchestra. Ms Fortunata was the 2012 Nightingale and Other Short Fables at the Norcop Prize in Song Recital winner and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Other roles was awarded a judges’ commendation include Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto in the Mildred Miller International Voice (Metropolitan Opera); Phénice in Armide , Competition (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh). Wu in Kommilitonen! (The ), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro CLARENCE FRAZER (Fort Worth Opera) and Lola in Cavalleria Guglielmo (E) rusticana (Opera Lyra ). She holds Mississauga native and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard first-year Ensemble School and The Glenn Gould School. studio member baritone Clarence Frazer recently ROBERT GLEADOW appeared at the COC Guglielmo (M) as the Customs House Sergeant in Canadian bass and La Bohème . Upcoming credits include Ensemble Studio Prince Yamadori/Imperial Commissioner graduate Robert in Madama Butterfly (Edmonton Opera). Gleadow recently With Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist appeared with the COC Program, he appeared as Re di Scozia as Publio in La clemenza di Tito and in Ariodante , Count Gil in Il segreto A Steersman in Tristan und Isolde . Other di Susanna and Ramiro in L’heure espagnole . COC credits include the Old Gypsy in Credits include Publio in La clemenza Il Trovatore , the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte , di Tito, both the title role and Masetto in Colline in La Bohème , Theseus in Don Giovanni (Centre for Opera Studies A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Figaro in Italy); Dottore Grenvil in La Traviata , in Le nozze di Figaro. Roles include Sam Ford in Falstaff , Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi , in Un ballo in maschera and Colline (Royal Daggoo in Moby-Dick and Alcindoro in Opera House, Covent Garden); Figaro

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(Opéra de Montréal); Guglielmo and by Request); Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto , Leporello in Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Véronique in Bizet’s Le docteur Miracle , Opera and Peralada Festival); Speaker and Second Lady in The Magic Flute and Leporello (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées); the Cabaret Singer in Weill’s Mahagonny- Colline (Dallas Opera); and the King in Aida Songspiel (GGS); and Cherubino in and Talbot in Maria Stuarda (Houston Le nozze di Figaro (York University). Grand Opera). OWEN M cCAUSLAND ANDREW HAJI Ferrando (E) Ferrando (E) New Brunswick native Originally from London, and COC Ensemble Ontario, tenor Andrew Studio tenor Owen Haji is a first-year member McCausland recently of the COC Ensemble appeared at the COC Studio. He holds a master as Parpignol in La Bohème and Reverend of music in opera from the University Horace Adams in Peter Grimes . Other of Toronto. Mr. Haji’s UofT credits include COC credits include the Second Nazarene Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore , Cecco in in Salome , the Messenger in Il Trovatore Haydn’s Il mondo della luna , Vanderdendur/ as well as stepping into the title role in Ragotski in Candide , Don Ottavio in La clemenza di Tito on the mainstage as Don Giovanni , Lacouf/Reporter from Paris well as the Ensemble performance. Credits in Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias , include Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi the title role in Rob Ford: The Opera and (Opera on the Avalon) and Don Ottavio Ferrando in Così fan tutte . Other roles in Don Giovanni (Centre for Opera Studies include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Music in Italy). This season with the COC Mr. Academy of the West and Accademia McCausland also appears as the Servant in Europea dell’Opera); and Nemorino and A Masked Ball , Cecil in Roberto Devereux Don Ottavio (Centre for Opera Studies in and Juan in Don Quichotte . Italy). This season with the COC, he sings Rodriguez in Don Quichotte . CAMERON M cPHAIL Guglielmo (E) DANIELLE M ac MILLAN COC Ensemble Studio Dorabella (E) member baritone Toronto native mezzo- Cameron McPhail soprano Danielle recently appeared at MacMillan, a first-year the COC as Schaunard COC Ensemble Studio in La Bohème as well as the Officer in member, recently Dialogues des Carmélites . Other credits appeared at the COC as the Second Niece include Nick Shadow in The Rake’s in Peter Grimes . She holds a bachelor of Progress (Music Academy of the West); fine arts, with honours, in classical vocal Ford in Falstaff and the title roles in performance from York University, with Don Giovanni and Gianni Schicchi (UBC additional training at the International Opera); Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia , Vocal Arts Institute in Montreal, Istituzione Masetto in Don Giovanni , Marcello in Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto in La Bohème , Riccardo in I Puritani and Italy and The Glenn Gould School (GGS). George in Of Mice and Men (Yale Opera Her credits include Rose in Lakmé (Opera Studio); Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette

Please visit coc.ca for additional information 9 ArTISTS’ BIOGrAPhIeS and Ford in Falstaff (Opera NUOVA); Staatsoper); and appearances at Opéra Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro Festival de Québec, the Spoleto Festival (Opera on the Avalon); and Schaunard and Merola Opera Program at San (Highlands Opera Studio). Francisco Opera. This season at the COC Mr. Debus also conducts Don Quichotte , CLAIRE DE SÉVIGNÉ and appears with the Orchestra della Despina (E) Toscana, Philharmonia Orchestra and Soprano Claire de Sévigné , Oper Frankfurt. a native of Montreal and a COC Ensemble Studio ATOM EGOYAN member, recently Director appeared as the First Academy Award®- Niece in Peter Grimes . Other COC roles nominated writer and include Une Voix in Dialogues des film director Atom Carmélites , the Slave in Salome , Servilia Egoyan recently directed in La clemenza di Tito (Ensemble Salome at the COC. performance) and Ida in Die Fledermaus . Other credits include the North American Other credits include Queen of the Night premiere of Martin Crimp’s Cruel and in Die Zauberflöte (Music Academy of the Tender (Canadian Stage); the world premiere West); the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor , of Gavin Bryars’ Dr. Ox’s Experiment Gretel in Hansel and Gretel , Flaminia in Il (English National Opera); Feng Yi Ting mondo della luna , Cunegonde in Candide (Spoleto, Lincoln Center and Luminato (University of Toronto); and Cleopatra in festivals) and Elsewhereless , his own Giulio Cesare (Thirteen Strings Orchestra). original opera with composer Rodney Sharman (Tapestry Music). Mr. Egoyan won the Irish Times/ESB Award for Best JOHANNES DEBUS Direction for his production of Samuel Conductor Beckett’s Eh Joe which transferred to COC Music Director London’s West End before being remounted Johannes Debus recently at the Lincoln Center Festival. He has conducted the company’s been knighted by the French Government, Peter Grimes . Other COC received State Honors from The Republic credits include Dialogues of Armenia, and is an Officer of the Order des Carmélites , Salome , Tristan und Isolde , of Canada. His production of the COC’s Die Fledermaus , The Tales of Hoffmann , Die Walküre will be mounted for the third Love from Afar , Rigoletto and, at the time in January 2015. Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables . This past summer DEBRA HANSON Mr. Debus conducted a concert with Rufus Set and Costume Wainwright and the Orquesta Sinfónica Designer de Madrid. Other highlights include Gemini award-winning appearances with the Toronto Symphony Canadian designer Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra Debra Hanson is making and Cleveland Orchestra; Elektra and her COC debut. She The Rake’s Progress (Staatsoper unter moves fluidly between production design den Linden); Hänsel und Gretel and Die and set and costume design for film, Entführung aus dem Serail (Bayerische television and theatre. Current projects

10 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season ArTISTS’ BIOGrAPhIeS include the sci-fi series Orphan Black , SANDRA HORST and in television she has also worked Chorus Master on Combat Hospital (ABC/Shaw), Crash Sandra Horst’s most and Burn (Canwest/Global), Bomb recent COC credits Girls (Global) and The Firm (NBC). include La Bohème and She also recently designed and consulted Peter Grimes . Also at for the film version of the one-man play, the COC she conducted Barrymore , starring Christopher Plummer. Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims . As director Other recent credits include Queen of the of musical studies at the University of Night (with director Atom Egoyan); Casino Toronto’s Opera Division, she recently Jack , starring Kevin Spacey; Chloe and conducted Donizetti’s L’elisir d'amore . Adoration (both with Atom Egoyan); Away Ms Horst has served as chorus master for From Her (with director Sarah Polley); and Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Edmonton Snow Cake, starring Alan Rickman and Opera; a judge for the Metropolitan Opera Sigourney Weaver. Ms Hanson served National Council auditions; and music staff as Stratford Festival’s head of design from of the Juilliard Opera Center, Chautauqua 1989 to 1994. Institution, Boston Lyric Opera, and Banff Centre for the Arts. She was one of the 100 MICHAEL WALTON Alumni of Achievement honoured by Wilfrid Lighting Designer Laurier University. This season Ms Horst Michael Walton is is also chorus master for A Masked Ball , making his COC debut. Roberto Devereux , Hercules and Don Quichotte . Recent credits include Maria Stuarda (Pacific MARILYN GRONSDAL Opera); Associate Director (Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera) ; Marilyn Gronsdal was Fiddler on the Roof , Othello , Henry V , The recently the assistant Matchmaker , Twelfth Night , The Misanthrope , director for Peter Grimes , The Tempest , King of Thieves , Macbeth , Tristan und Isolde and and Hamlet (Stratford Festival); Yoshimi Il Trovatore . Other COC Battles the Pink Robots and Sideways credits include director of La Bohème , (La Jolla Playhouse, California); Venus associate director of , in Fur and Cruel and Tender (Canadian production assistant director for the COC’s Stage); ’Night Mother (Soulpepper); The Ring Cycle and assistant director on several Rocky Horror Show , The Three Musketeers , productions that have been presented Little Women (Citadel Theatre); and And elsewhere – Oedipus Rex with Symphony Slowly Beauty and The Year of Magical of Psalms (Edinburgh), La Traviata Thinking (Belfry, National Arts Centre (New Zealand), Siegfried (Lyon) and and Tarragon). Upcoming projects include The Nightingale and Other Short Fables Enron (National Arts Centre); Mary Poppins (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Other (Citadel and Theatre Calgary); and King credits include directing Carmen and Lear , A Midsummer Night’s Dream and for Saskatoon Opera and Antony and Cleopatra (Stratford Festival). remounting the COC’s Der fliegende Holländer in Montreal. In 2013, she was a jury member in the Helikon-Opera’s International Competition for Young Opera Directors in Moscow.

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DEREK BATE Assistant Conductor FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE Resident conductor We are pleased to offer, for the Derek Bate recently convenience of all of our patrons, served as assistant a pre-order system for intermission conductor for Peter purchases. Our pre-order system is Grimes. Also with the designed to decrease your wait time COC, he has led performances of Salome , at the bar during intermission and we La clemenza di Tito , Rigoletto , Aida , invite you to make use of it at every Madama Butterfly , The Flying Dutchman , COC performance. Bars are located Luisa Miller , Eugene Onegin , La Bohème , throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Carmen , Turandot , La Traviata , Die Sharp City Room’s many levels. Fledermaus and served as assistant Food and beverages are not permitted conductor for Love From Afar , A Florentine in R. Fraser Elliott Hall. Tragedy/ Gianni Schicchi , Maria Stuarda , , Cinderella , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , War and Peace and the complete Ring Cycle , among others. Mr. Bate frequently conducts with Toronto Operetta Theatre, and was musical director for Les Misérables , The Phantom of the Opera and Show Boat.

JENIFER KOWAL Stage Manager This is Jenifer Kowal’s 22nd season with the COC. Her numerous COC stage managing credits include Peter Grimes , Salome , La clemenza di Tito , Die Fledermaus , Semele , Tosca , Rigoletto , Aida , Carmen , The Flying Dutchman , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Fidelio , War and Peace , Eugene Onegin , Don Carlos , La Traviata , Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk , the Ring Cycle and, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables . She was the production stage manager for Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s Miss Saigon , which also toured to Toronto and Schenectady. Ms Kowal studied theatre at Indiana University.

M – Mainstage Performances E – Ensemble Studio Performance

12 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN I VIOLA BASSOON Marie Bérard, Concertmaster Keith hamm, Principal eric hall, Principal The Concertmaster’s chair has Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant elizabeth Gowen been endowed in perpetuity Principal , on leave by Joey and Toby Tanenbaum of absence HORN Benjamin Bowman, Associate Carolyn Blackwell, Acting Joan Watson, Principal, Concertmaster , on leave Assistant Principa l* on leave of absence of absence Shannon Knights* Scott Wevers, Acting Principal * Stephen Sitarski, Acting rhyll Peel Gary Pattison Associate Concertmaste r* Beverley Spotton diane Tait, Assistant Yosef Tamir TRUMPET Concertmaster , on leave robert Grim, Principal of absence CELLO robert Weymouth Jayne Maddison, Acting Bryan epperson, Principal Assistant Concertmaster Alastair eng, Associate Principal TIMPANI Anne Armstrong Paul Widner, Assistant Principal Michael Perry, Principal Sandra Baron Maurizio Baccante Bethany Bergman Olga laktionova PERCUSSION nancy Kershaw elaine Thompson Trevor Tureski, Principal dominique laplante Yakov lerner BASS CONTINUO PIANO neria Mayer Alan Molitz, Principal Johannes debus robert Speer, Assistant Principal VIOLIN II Tom hazlitt Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Paul langley LIBRARIAN Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal Wayne Vogan James Aylesworth FLUTE elizabeth Johnston douglas Stewart, Principal ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN Aya Miyagawa Shelley Brown Ondrej Golias louise Tardif Marianne Urke OBOE STAGE LIBRARIAN Joanna Zabrowarna Mark rogers, Principal Paul langley lesley Young PERSONNEL MANAGER CLARINET Ian Cowie James T. Shields, Principal Colleen Cook * extra musician

COC ORCHESTRA ACADEMY The COC welcomes students selected by audition from The Glenn Gould School at The royal Conservatory of Music and the faculty of Music at the University of Toronto who will participate in a mentorship program with musicians of the COC Orchestra.

COC Orchestra Academy Musicians Ashton lim, cello rebecca Mcleod, violin Alessandro rauli, oboe

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY CHORUS

SOPRANOS MEZZO-SOPRANOS BARITONES Andrea Cerswell Kristina Alexander Stephen Bell & BASSES eliza Johnson Susan Black Taras Chmil Jeremy Bowes Alexandra lennox- erica Iris huang Sam Chung Matthew Cassils Pomeroy Jennifer Kee Conrad Siebert Jeremy ludwig eve rachel Mcleod laura McAlpine Taylor White Michael nyby Katie Murphy Keith O'Brien

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS MEMBERS Ms Anne Maggisano Mr. Tony Arrell, President Mr. Mark Appel Mr. Stephen O. Marshall Mr. Philip C. deck, Chair Ms nora Aufreiter Ms Judy Matthews Mr. Paul A. Bernards, Mr. robert Brouwer Ms Trina McQueen Treasurer Ms Marcia lewis Brown Mr. Jonathan Morgan Mr. John h. Macfarlane, Mr. Stewart Burton Mr. nick Mutton Secretary Mr. Peter M. deeb Ms frances Price Mr. Alexander neef, Mr. George S. dembroski Mr. Arthur r.A. Scace, C.M. General Director Mr. William fearn Ms Colleen Sexsmith (ex officio ) (ex officio ) Mr. Philip S.W. Smith Mr. robert lamb, Mr. Adam froman Mr. Paul B. Spafford Managing Director Mr. Michael Gibbens Ms Michele Symons (ex officio ) Mr. Peter hinman Ms Kristine (Kris) Vikmanis dr. linda hutcheon Mr. John h. (Jack) Whiteside Ms Trinity Jackman Mr. Justin linden HONORARY DIRECTOR Mr. Jeff lloyd Mr. Joey Tanenbaum, C.M.

VOLUNTEER SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

COC OPERA GUILDS CANADIAN OPERA FOUNDATION Brantford Opera Guild, DIRECTORS David M. Cullen, President Mr. William fearn, Chair Kingston Opera Guild Mr. Ken Jesudian, Vice Chair Grace Orzech, President Mr. Tony Arrell london Opera Guild Mr. Jonathan Bloomberg Ernest H. Redekop, President Mr. J. rob Collins Muskoka Opera Guild Mr. david forster, Treasurer Dr. Hans Heeneman, President Mr. Gary Gard northumberland Opera Guild Mr. Michael Gough Thais Donald, President Mr. Christopher hoffman Oakville Opera Guild Mr. david Spiro, Secretary Maureen Rudzik, President Sudbury Opera Guild HONORARY DIRECTORS Mike Humphris, President Mr. George hamilton Western new York Opera Guild hon. dennis lane Dorothy K. Piepke, President

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Robert Lamb COC Ensemble Studio Amy Cummings Nancy Hawkins Managing Director Gordon Bintner Scene Shop Co-ordinator Head of Wardrobe Charlotte Burrage Johannes Debus Sasha Djihanian David Retzleff Leslie Brown Music Director Aviva Fortunata Head Scene Shop Wardrobe Assistant Clarence Frazer Carpenter EXECUTIVE OFFICE Andrew Haji Sharon Ryman Danielle MacMillan Andrew Walker Wig & Make-up Executive Assistant Owen McCausland Assistant Scene Shop Supervisor to the General Director Cameron McPhail Carpenter Sky Fairchild-Waller Claire de Sévigné Cori Ferguson Marguerite Schabas Michael Shannon Richard Gordon Head of Wig & (on leave ) Head Scenic Artist Make-up Crew Production Assistants ARTISTIC Adriana Dimitri Carolina Valenzuela Shawna Green ADMINISTRATION Hannah Gordon Assistant Head Scenic Production Co-ordinator Artist Roberto Mauro PROGRAMMING Gunta Dreifelds Artistic Administrator Daniela Mazic SURTITLES™ Producer Olwyn Lewis Nina Dragani ´c Scenic Artist Company Manager Director of Programming Zane Kaneps Karen Olinyk – Free Concert Series Scott Williamson SURTITLES™ Editor Assistant, Artistic Rehearsal Head Administration & Music PRODUCTION Technician Olwyn Lewis SURTITLES™ Assistant MUSIC Peter W. Lamb Guy Nokes Director of Production Properties Supervisor Supernumeraries Sandra Gavinchuk Co-ordinators Music Administrator Lee Milliken Stephanie Tjelios Analee Stein Production Manager Resident Properties Elizabeth Walker Sandra Horst Builder/Co-ordinator Chorus Master Chuck Giles DEVELOPMENT Technical Director Kathy Frost Wayne Vogan Resident Properties Christie Darville Music Librarian, Coach Barney Bayliss Buyer/Co-ordinator Chief Advancement Associate Technical Officer Elizabeth Upchurch Director Tracy Taylor Head of the Ensemble Properties Builder/ Kaila LeMaitre Studio & Coach Wendy Greenwood Co-ordinator Development Associate Lighting Co-ordinator Derek Bate Properties Builders Amy Mushinski Resident Conductor Assistant Technical Carolyn Choo Manager, Government Directors Wulf Relations Music Staff Melynda Jurgenson Rachel Andrist Wendy Ryder Sandra Corazza Stephen Gilles Timothy Cheung Costume Supervisor Director of Development Jean Desmarais Janice Fraser Jenna Douglas Head Electrician Cassandra Spence Peter Hussell Esther Gonthier Costume Co-ordinator Senior Manager, Stephen Hargreaves Joel Thoman Advancement Anne Larlee Assistant Electrician Costume Assistants Operations Ben Malensek Natassia Brunato Kevin Murphy Bob Shindle Christina Del Monte Ali Kashani Steven Philcox Head of Sound Associate Director, Eric Weimer Sue Furlong Institutional Gifts Craig Kadoke Resident Tailor Gerry Egan Assistant Sound Dawn Marie Schlegel Interim Scheduling Assisted by Associate Director, Manager Paul Watkinson Sharon Gashgarian Donor Relations Head Carpenter Karen Hancock Hannah Gordon Sarah Heim Assistant Scheduling Mike Gelfand Additional Costumes By Donor Relations Officer Manager Assistant Carpenter Industry Costumes Martino Nyugen Natalie Sandassie Birthe Joergensen Rupert Baker Senior Development Archivist – Joan Baillie Head Flyman Additional Millinery By Officer, Annual Archives Kaz Chopican Programs and Patron Alison Potter Leslie Norgate Engagement Ian Cowie Head of Properties Orchestra Personnel Fencing Masks painted by Paige Phillips Manager Core Crew Karen Rodd Co-ordinator, Annual Scott Clarke Programs and Patron Ondrej Golias Terry Hurley Paint and Dye By Engagement Assistant Librarian Paul Otis Chrome Yellow Chuck Theil

16 Canadian Opera Company 20 13/20 14 Season Emma Noakes Danielle D’Ornellas Call Centre Security Officers Co-ordinator, Annual Digital Marketing Representatives George Balyasin Programs and Patron Co-ordinator Catherine Belyea Joel Grannum Engagement Wendy Limbertie Tammy Hill Eldon Earle DeeAnn Sagar Natalia Juzyc Aisha Talarico Marketing Co-ordinator Margaret Terry Usman Khalid Senior Development Angela Thompson Kathleen Minor Officer, Friends of Michelle Hwu Alexandra Varela Heather Reid the COC Retail Co-ordinator FINANCE AND Building Operators Kevin Sean Pook Kristin McKinnon ADMINISTRATION Dan Bisca Co-ordinator, Friends Assistant Publicist Dan Popescu of the COC Lindy Cowan, CPA, CA Adrian Tudoran EDUCATION AND Director of Finance Francesco Corsaro OUTREACH and Administration Paula Da Costa Senior Development Katherine Semcesen Eurest Services Officer, Institutional Associate Director, Lorraine O’Connor, Supervisor Gifts Education and Outreach CHRP Human Resources Eurest Services Team Adriana Formusa Gianmarco Segato Manager Jennifer Barros Development Officer, Adult Programs Malaku Godana Institutional Gifts Manager Amalie Davis, CPA, CA Nash Lim Finance Manager Jimmy Pacheco Nikita Gourski Vanessa Smith Sugey Torres Development Manager, School General Accountants Communications Programs Florence Huang FOUR SEASONS Officer Zoran Orli ´c (FSCPA) CENTRE FOR THE Amber Yared PERFORMING ARTS Tracy Briggs Children and Youth Payroll Accountants Senior Manager, Programs Co-ordinator Jovana Bojovic Alfred Caron Special Events Jeanny Won Director, Four Seasons TICKET SERVICES Centre for the Laura Aylan-Parker Alan Moffat Steven Sherwood Performing Arts Senior Development Patron Relationship Manager, IT Services Officer, Special Events Manager Elizabeth Jones and Ensemble Circle Brad Staples Associate Director, Andrea Salin Database Reporting Business Development Victor Widjaja Associate Manager, Specialist Donation Database Ticket Services Shannon Churm Officer Tony Sandy Business & Events Nikki Tremblay IT Services Assistant Co-ordinator Olena Moldovan Assistant Ticket Donation Database Services Manager Katarina Božovi ´c Jefferson Guzman Officer Receptionist/ Associate Director, David Nimmo Switchboard Patron Services COMMUNICATIONS Group Sales Co-ordinator Branka Hrsum Kim Hutchinson-Barber Claudine Domingue Lillian Fung Mailroom Clerk/ Assistant Manager, Director of Public Ticket Services Courier Front of House Relations Supervisor BUILDING SERVICES Julia Somerville Jeremy Elbourne Ticket Services Assistant Manager, Director of Marketing Representatives Joe Waldherr Front of House James Baldwin Associate Director, Phil Stephens Ellen Casey Facilities Management Brigitte Lang Senior Manager, Sales Ernest Cayemen Assistant Manager, and Customer Service Holly Coish Maintenance Assistants Food & Beverage Anna Kay Eldridge Ryszard Gad (COC) Gianna Wichelow Peter Genoway Branislav Peterman Patron Services Senior Manager, Maureen Gualtieri (COC) Supervisors Creative and Keith Lam Julian Peters (COC) Kelly Bailey Publications Kevin Morris James Esposito Stuart Constable Darcy Stoop (FSCPA) Enrique Covarrubias Jennifer Pugsley Mitch Yolevsky Mark Healy (FSCPA) Cortes Media Relations Manager Piotr Wiench (FSCPA) Jamieson Eakin CALL CENTRE Melissa McDonnell Claire Morley Richard Paradiso Security Supervisors Adam Orr Associate Manager, Call Centre Manager Videsh Dookhu Editorial Dave Samuels Patron Services Leads Carianne Hill Meighan Szigeti Jennifer Toulmin Associate Manager, Digital Marketing

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E. LOUISE MORGAN SOCIETY The e. louise Morgan Society was created to reflect the vision and commitment of its founder and the members who have created a legacy of leadership, passion and philanthropy in support of the goals of the Canadian Opera Company. each of these donors has contributed a cumulative total of more than one million dollars over the past 15 years. Their support is critical to the company’s success and we are forever indebted to their commitment and generosity. The estate of dr. larry M. Agranove The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen ArIAS: Canadian Opera Student foundation development fund roger d. Moore The Gerard & earlaine Collins foundation e. louise Morgan The late John A. Cook Joey & Toby Tanenbaum The estate of horst dantz and don Quick Anonymous (2) Kolter Communities

MAJOR GIFTS & SPECIAL PROJECTS The COC offers its sincere thanks to the individuals listed below for their extraordinary support.

PRODUCTION Up to $25,000 Up to $25,000 UNDERWRITERS Paul Bernards ArIAS: Canadian Opera Demonstrating their robert Sherrin Student development fund leadership and generosity, The Stratton Trust Marcia lewis Brown these donors have Carol Swallow Margaret harriett Cameron underwritten the COC’s dr. david Stanley-Porter & and the late Gary Smith mainstage productions. dr. Colin McGregor Mailer Classical 96.3 fM Ms Kristine Vikmanis & ninalee Craig $500,000 + Mr. denton Creighton Catherine fauquier Jerry & Geraldine heffernan Patrick hodgson family The Catherine and Maxwell foundation Meighen foundation ENSEMBLE STUDIO Peter & hélène hunt SUPPORTERS Marjorie & roy linden $100,000 – $499,999 Encouraging the next Jo lander Mark & Gail Appel generation of artists, Tom C. logan Anne & Tony Arrell these donors support the James nicol and Philip deck & COC’s Ensemble Studio. Christine Milne Kimberley Bozak OCC lasik Tim & frances Price $1,000,000 Brian Wilks david roffey & Karen Walsh Peter M. deeb Colleen Sexsmith $500,000 – $999,999 GENERAL PROGRAM The Slaight family SUPPORTERS PERFORMANCE AND foundation Providing General ARTIST SPONSORS Program support is critical The following donors $25,000 – $499,999 to the COC’s artistic mission. extend their generous Anne & Tony Arrell support to individual ethel harris & $100,000+ artists and performances. the late Milton e. harris George S. dembroski roger d. Moore Judy & Wilmot Matthews $100,000 + The Stratton Trust Jack Whiteside $25,000 – $99,999 William & Phyllis Waters $25,000 – $49,999 earlaine Collins Up to $24,999 Patrick & Barbara Keenan Anonymous (3) françoise Sutton Anonymous (1)

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MAKING THE OLD NEW STOCKHOLM TO BOSTON 1. It was the first and only time in Verdi’s 3. As Verdi worked on the opera with his career that he adapted an already existing translator and librettist, Antonio Somma, libretto, Gustave III, ou Le bal masque by the royal censors in Naples demanded Eugène Scribe. Scribe’s libretto had been a number of changes. The opera went set to music by French composer Daniel through three different titles, and just Auber in 1833 and enjoyed great success as many historical periods and locations at its premiere in Paris. (18th-century Stockholm, 17th-century Pomerania, 14th-century Florence), before A HISTORICAL OPERA ending up at the centre of a legal dispute 2. The libretto was based on the 1792 between Verdi and the management of assassination of the progressive and widely the Teatro San Carlo. The courts released adored King Gustav III of Sweden. Gustav Verdi from his contract in Naples, and the was shot at a masked ball in Stockholm composer took his opera to another theatre and died several days later. in Rome. There, the original Swedish

18 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season Above: The COC presents A Masked Ball . Catherine Naglestad as Amelia and Piotr Beczala as Riccardo in the Berlin Staatsoper production, 2008. Photo: Ruth Walz Below: Portrait of Verdi, 1886, by Giovanni Boldini (Galería Nacional de Arte Moderno de Roma)

setting was also rejected, but Verdi proposed 17th-century Boston as an alternative, with a governor instead of a king, which satisfied all parties involved. It was in this version that A Masked Ball finally premiered in Rome in 1859. The Boston setting was the standard version throughout Europe in Verdi’s life - time, though within two years of the opera’s premiere, a production in Paris had set the action in Italy.

EXTERNAL DETAILS WEREN’T not so much the outer detail – a particular OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE city or a nobleman’s rank – but the universal 4. The opera’s genesis shows that what structures that govern our most private was critical for Verdi in Masked Ball was and public relationships.

Catch up with blogs and enjoy COC Radio at coc.ca. 19 10 Things to Know About Verdi's A Masked Ball

The COC presents A Masked Ball . A scene from the Berlin Staatsoper production, 2008. Photo: Ruth Walz

A COMPLEX LOVE TRIANGLE BLENDING COMEDY 5. A Masked Ball marked Verdi’s move AND TRAGEDY away from melodrama toward subjects of 6. This opera is Verdi’s most successful greater emotional complexity. The characters fusion of light and dark styles. The here are multi-faceted, experiencing intense commingling of tragedy and comedy conflicts of the heart and mind. The Governor is most striking during the opera’s final Riccardo is in love with his best friend’s scene when the stage band at the masked wife, Amelia, but realizes that unchecked ball, apparently unaware that the Governor ardour would only compromise her marriage has been shot, continues to play upbeat and lead to misery. Similarly, Amelia feels dance music while Riccardo succumbs real passion for Riccardo but can’t bring to his wounds. himself to betray her husband Renato. Meanwhile Renato – probably the most VERDI LOOKS TO complex baritone part Verdi ever wrote – is FRENCH MODELS devastated when he discovers what appears 7. In composing to a French libretto, Verdi to be an affair between Amelia and Riccardo, opted to use musical forms associated with the man he has sworn to protect with 19th-century French opera. This is especially his life against a brewing conspiracy. true of the music he wrote for the page Remarkably, Renato never turns into a Oscar, who often sings in straight-forward one-dimensional villain and Verdi gives French couplets (two-versed songs) that him a broad spectrum of conflicting lighten the mood with fun and mischief. emotions, from vengeful bloodlust that The part of Oscar is traditionally performed wants revenge, to grief at the breakdown as a pants role (a male character played of his marriage, and from pain at being by a female singer), but in this production betrayed to sorrow at the loss of a friend Oscar’s character is presented as a young he loved and admire d. woman.

20 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season 10 Things to Know About Verdi's A Masked Ball

A MODERN AMERICAN SETTING A RENOWNED 8. This production takes place in an DIRECTORIAL TEAM America of the 50s and 60s, but makes 10. Two-time winners of the “Directorial references to symbols and iconography Team of the Year” recognition (2002 and outside that epoch – for example the 2012), selected by an international panel extravagant outfit Oscar wears to the of 50 critics contributing to the magazine masked ball is a theatrical wink citing Opernwelt , Jossi Wieler and Sergio Björk’s “swan dress” at the 2001 Oscars. Morabito have also been the recipients In drawing from a broad spectrum of of “Der ” – a major German theatre real and mythic American tropes, this award – for best opera staging (2006 and production presents a completely invented 2012). They are renowned for immersing “modern America,” reinforcing Verdi’s themselves deeply in the score and artistic recommendation that “to copy following the nexus of text and music reality can be a good thing, but to invent to arrive at their production’s aesthetic reality is much, much better.” and thematic focus. When Jossi Wieler was recently appointed head of the A VERSATILE HOTEL Stuttgart Opera, the Financial Times 9. The set is a hotel ballroom that can noted that it meant a welcome return transform seamlessly into different locales to “productions based firmly on score and of the opera. During Act II, for example, text” and praised him and Morabito for when Amelia is in a cemetery by the their “unshakeable faith in the score.” gallows, the lighting dims, the columns of When it premiered in 2008, this production the ballroom suddenly became transparent of A Masked Ball was hailed by Bloomberg to reveal vine-like plants crawling upward, for being “unashamedly entertaining” and chandeliers lower to create the illusion and having the “cinematic dynamism of treetops that rustle and sway in the wind. and the velocity of a good thriller.” n The single set complements the action of A Masked Ball , one of Verdi’s most compact and propulsive operas.

A STELLAR CAST The production stars Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka ( Dialogues des Carmélites , Tosca ), who makes her role debut as Amelia. Tenor Dimitri Pittas returns (La Bohème , Rigoletto ) as the Governor Adrianne Dimitri Roland Elena Riccardo, while English baritone Roland Pieczonka Pittas Wood Manistina Wood makes his COC debut as Renato. (Amelia) (Riccardo) (Renato) (Ulrica) Russian mezzo-soprano Elena Manistina makes a welcome return as Ulrica after Nikita Gourski is Development Communications her Dora-award winning performance in Officer and Gianmarco is Adult Education Manager the COC’s Il Trovatore (2012). at the Canadian Opera Company.

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It takes a goddess to make a hero Director Atom Egoyan and designer Michael Levine breathe life into Wagner’s incredibly powerful drama that was part of the Ring Cycle which opened the Four Seasons Centre in 2006 to rave reviews, and is at once both monumental yet deeply intimate in subject matter. The second of four epic operas that make up Wagner’s enormous Ring Cycle explores the forbidden love between separated-at-birth siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde, whose union marks the beginning of the downfall of the gods. Die Walküre charts their treacherous journey alongside Wotan, ruler of the gods, and Brünnhilde, the mighty Valkyrie heroine who is caught between familial obedience and moral truth. Conductor Johannes Debus leads a star-studded cast, headed by Christine Goerke as the indomitable Brünnhilde, whose COC debut also marks a much- coveted role debut. Clifton Forbis takes on the role of the fierce Siegmund. The ever-impressive full force of the COC Orchestra tackles Wagner’s colossal score that features some of the most impressive music ever conceived . This is a legend of heroes and gods, and forbidden love and revenge, and it sets the stage for the subsequent instalments of Wagner’s most magnificent artistic achievement. DIE WALK ÜRE January 31 – February 22, 2015

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Main image: Christine Goerke. Photo: Gary Mulcahey, 2013. Inset: Die Walküre (COC, 2006). Photo: Michael Cooper

Catch up with blogs and enjoy COC Radio at coc.ca. 27 SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE UP TO THE 60% BARBE R OF SE VILLE ROSSINI Masters of comedy bring colour, whimsy and frenzied perfection to this Rossini romp The work of Spanish theatre troupe Els Comediants came to international prominence in 1992 with the spectacular fire ceremony they designed for the closing of the Barcelona Olympics. Since then they have continued pioneering live theatre of unbounded vitality, combining carnival and circus performance traditions with puppetry, dance, acrobatics and pantomime. With this new COC production of Rossini’s greatest comedy, the freewheeling Spaniards return to Toronto. Their Cubist-inspired sets toy with scale and proportion, while bursts of day-glo colour and innovative lighting conjure a fantasy world hovering between fairy-tale and hilarious vaudeville. Hitting all the high notes is an impressive cast of voices led by “dynamite performer” ( Opera News ) Joshua Hopkins, and “vocally flawless” (Munich Merkur ) Met tenor Alek Shrader. Rossini’s score is a veritable hit parade, with showstoppers and sparkling tunes aplenty, while the creative magic on stage reminds us how much sheer fun can be had at the opera – a confection the entire family can enjoy.

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Main image: Christine Goerke. Photo: Gary Mulcahey, 2013. Inset: The Barber of Seville (Houston Grand Opera, 2011). Photo: Felix Sanchez

28 Canadian Opera Company 2013/20 14 Season SEE SIX OPERAS FROM JUST Mystery. Murder. Madness. $ ’s ground-breaking produc - 169 tion of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung astounded Toronto audiences at its 1993 premiere, establishing the COC as one of the world’s most visionary and compelling opera companies. Lepage’s spectacular and surprising integration of movement, light and theatrical slight-of-hand subsequently garnered world-wide acclaim in New York, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Hong Kong. These two revolutionary early 20th-century scores now return home to Toronto where their stunning sonic and visual effects will be experienced for the first time in the acoustic splendour of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Superstar Canadian bass John Relyea ( The Tales of Hoffmann , 2012) sings the strangely alluring Duke Bluebeard who inhabits a dark, mysterious castle whose secrets he does not want revealed. Powerhouse Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova (Don Quichotte , 2014) portrays his fatally curious new wife, Judit. Schoenberg’s monodrama about a woman spiraling into madness stars Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó ( Love From Afar , 2012). COC Music Director Johannes Debus conducts the extraordinary COC Orchestra. BLUEBE ARD’S CASTL E/ ERW ARTUNG BARTÓK/SCHOENBERG May 6 – 23, 2015

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Main image: John Relyea. Photo: Gary Mulcahey, 2013. Inset: Peter Fried and Sara Fulgoni in Bluebeard’s Castle (COC, 2001). Photo: Michael Cooper

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Etiquette Ticket Services Patrons are reminded that R. Fraser Elliott Hall is Canadian Opera Company subscriptions and individual an extremely lively auditorium and that all audience tickets are available through COC Ticket Services noise will be accentuated and audible to other patrons. ONLINE : coc.ca Turn off all electronic devices, avoid talking, coughing, BY PHONE : 416-363-8231 humming , moving loose seats, kicking the backs of seats, or long distance 1-800-250-4653 rustling programs, and unwrapping candies or cough Monday to Friday – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. drops. In consideration of patrons with allergies please Saturday – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. avoid wearing strongly perfumed beauty products IN PERSON : Four Seasons Centre Box Office and fragrances. Please remain in your seat until the 145 Queen St. W. performance has completely ended and the house Monday to Saturday – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lights have been turned on. or through first intermission Sunday (performance days only) – Electronic Devices 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or through first The use of mobile and smartphones and all other intermission electronic devices is extremely disruptive and is strictly The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts prohibited during performances. If a patron has Box Office also services ticketing needs for The National an emergency and needs to be contacted during Ballet of Canada and all other Four Seasons Centre events. a performance, he or she should contact Patron Services for assistance before the performance. Group Sales Groups of 10 or more enjoy savings on regular individual Cameras/Recording Devices ticket prices. For more information or to reserve seats The use of cameras, video cameras or sound-recording call 416-306-2356 . devices of any kind is prohibited in R. Fraser Elliott Hall during performances. Any person using an unauthorized Parking recording device while the performance is in progress There is parking on a first-come, first-served basis for will be required to surrender or erase any recordings, about 200 vehicles underneath the Four Seasons Centre. photographic or digital images and may be asked to The entrance is located on the west side of York Street, leave. No refunds will be issued. south of Queen Street. Additional parking is conveniently located just steps away in the Green P lot underneath Latecomers Nathan Phillips Square. For directions visit greenp.com . In the interest of safety and for the comfort of all patrons and performers, latecomers may not enter the Four Seasons Centre Facility Tours auditorium or be seated unless there is a suitable break Tours of the Four Seasons Centre now include in the performance (usually intermission). Patrons backstage access! For more information, visit leaving the auditorium during the performance or fourseasonscentre.ca . returning late after intermission may not be readmitted or may be accommodated in an alternate viewing location. BMO Financial Group Pre-Performance Opera Chats The Canadian Opera Company Volunteer Speakers Children and Babes-in-Arms Bureau offers free, insightful chats about the stories, All patrons, including children, must have a ticket for music and background of all COC performances, the performance. All children must be seated next to 45 minutes prior to each performance in the Richard an accompanying adult. Young children should be able Bradshaw Amphitheatre. to sit quietly throughout the performance. If unable to do so, children and their accompanying adult will Food and Beverage Service be asked to leave the auditorium. Babes-in-arms will A pre-order system for intermission refreshments is not be admitted. available at all bars throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room. Food and beverages are not Patron Services permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall. Located in the Lower Lobby, the following services are available: coat and parcel check, booster seats, back Special Events and Catering supports, infrared hearing-assistive devices and rental The Four Seasons Centre is available for rental for all of binoculars, on a first-come, first-served basis. of your presentation, meeting or special events needs, with spaces accommodating from 20 to 2,000 people Medical Emergencies and First Aid and full catering services. For further details visit A house doctor is present at all performances. fourseasonscentre.ca or call 416-363-6671 . Please contact an usher if medical services are required. The Opera Shop Lost and Found Located on the orchestra level of the Isadore and Rosalie During performances please speak with an usher or visit Sharpe City Room, the COC's Opera Shop offers a fine Patron Services at the Coat Check in the Lower Lobby . selection of opera recordings on CD and DVD, as well as Following performances, all lost and found items will opera-related books, giftware and COC souvenirs. be stored at the security desk at Stage Door. Please call 416-363-6671 for information.

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