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4 WI'VB HAD on BUml' fOB. YOU. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre I am very pleased to be able to serve as an honorary chairman of the 10th season of Michigan Opera Theatre and to participate in the anniversary celebration. MOT is an important and integral part of the cultural life of Michigan, and it has greatly enriched residents all across the state.

During the past decade, the company has gained national stature and acclaim. The 10th anniversary will herald the outstanding achievement and excellence of Michigan Opera Theatre. I send my best wishes for an exciting and successful season. Sincerely, WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN Governor

On behalf of the citizens of Detroit, I congratulate the Michigan Opera Theatre on its tenth anniversary season.

The City of Detroit has benefitted greatly from the numerous educational programs sponsored by MOT, as well as its highly professional and entertaining productions that are acclaimed throughout the nation.

The Michigan Opera Theatre is, indeed, one of the focal points of Detroit's cultural renaissance.

I ~xtend best wishes for your continued growth and success.

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6 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Michigan Opera Theatre's tenth anni versary season. In this first decade, we have established ourselves as a primary force in Detroit's cultural renaissance, an important arts resource throughout the entire State of Michigan and a company of national stature responsible for major productions televised coast-to-coast.

Our success continues to create new challenges and opportunities as we enter the 1980's. I invite you to join us in the excitement that lies ahead.

Lynn Townsend Chairman of the Board MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE

It hardly seems possible that ten years have slipped by since Many artistic highlights are called to mind by the photographs we reopened Music Hall with no money, some dedicated in the Anniversary Supplement, and by the repertoire volunteers, and lots of dreams about giving Detroit its very featured on this year's program cover. In these ten years we own opera company. We knew there was an audience out have helped develop some of America's foremost talents, there; seven years spent wandering through schools and now performing on stages throughout the world. We have community centers in Southeastern Michigan as Overture to been widely recognized for significant contributions to Opera had assured us of that. But the year was 1971, and American musical theatre through important revivals and a many doubted that opera would be a strong enough attrac major world premiere; we have also presented some of the tion to bring people back into the city - especially to a theatre great masterworks in exciting and innovative productions. that had not been frequented for a decade. We have made great organizational and financial strides over But these ten years are history now, and we can look back the past decade; much, of course, remains to be done. This is with great pride at the results of those dreams: the launching the second season to be concentrated into a two-month time of the Music Hall. Center for the Performing Arts and the span instead of being spread throughout the year. While emergence of MOT as one of our nation's major regional some patrons have been unhappy with the change, it is opera companies to serve Detroit and the State of Michigan. emphatically succeeding in its goal of allowing us to work with singers and musicians on a more consistent, less disjointed basis . It has also allowed the development of our Artist Intern Program, and these two factors have resulted in a greater depth of talent for each production.

As we enter our second decade, we are faced with the enor mous challenge of sustaining an opera company against a backdrop of rampant inflation and economic recession. We must strive for broader and increased corporate and individual support to provide financial assistance in a variety of ways: by contributing to our operational support, by financ ing special projects, by underwriting the costs of specific pro ductions, through memorial gifts of funds or securities and through bequests.

A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation has enabled us to establish for the first time a Department of Develop ment; Stefanie Ott-O'Toole has been appointed to administer and coordinate our current and future fund-raising efforts. Among the positive results to date are first-time gifts from a number of foundations, including the Knight Foundation, the McGregor Fund, and the Sage and Polk Foundations.

Support can be on a large scale or small, and both are impor tant. Such mutually beneficial commitments as advertising in this program book or attending one of our fund-raising benefits are vital to our continued well -being. Ticket sales, of course, represent the most fundamental means of support for any performing arts organization; and we hope to greatly expand our corporate subscriptions along with a steady increase in individual season patrons.

So Michigan Opera Theatre has achieved a decade through the enthusiasm, talent and support of many, many people. I am extremely proud of our accomplishments to date, and look forward with renewed excitement to the challenges that lie ahead. You will be hearing much in coming weeks and months about our future plans - and problems! Meanwhile, thank you for being a part of this very special anniversary season - and for providing the love, support and enthusiasm that have allowed Michigan Opera Theatre to reach this important milestone .

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10 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Board of Directors J. Addison Bartush Walton A. Lewis Mrs. Avern L. Cohn John McDougall Robert E. Dewar John Prepolec Dr. David DiChiera E. Harwood Rydholm Frank W. Donovan Arthur R. Seder, Jr. Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Harold L. Smith H. James Gram Mrs. Richard Starkweather John C. Griffin Lynn A. Townsend David Hermelin Robert VanderKloot Mrs. William E. Johnston Donald E. Young

Governor William G. Milliken Mayor Coleman A. Young Honorary Chairmen Founding Members Mr. and Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Officers Mr. and Mrs. John DeCarlo Lynn A. Townsend Dr. and Mrs. David DiChiera Chairman of the Board Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Graves Dr. David DiChiera Honorable and Mrs. Roman S. Gribbs President Mr. and Mrs. John C. Griffin H. James Gram Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Jones Treasurer Honorable and Mrs. Wade McCree, Jr. E. Harwood Rydholm Harry J. Nederlander Secretary E. Harwood Rydholm Mr. and Mrs. Neil Snow McClintock, Donovan, Carson and Roach Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strichartz Legal Counsel Mr. and Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot 'Wells, Rich, Green/Detroit, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Advertising Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema Deloit!e Haskins and Sells Accountants

MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE was saddened this year by the death of Trustee and Founding Member AARON H. GERSHENSON, whose support and enthusiasm were an important factor in our growth over the past decade.

MICHIGAN OPERA THEA TRE is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC. a federal agency.

This MOT season is also made possible with the support of the State of Michigan through funds from the Michigan Council for the Arts. For further information on available services and programs, contact the Council at 1200 Sixth Avenue in Detroit. 11 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Advertising is the song of business.

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12 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Michigan Opera Theatre Board of Trustees Dr. and Mrs. Roger Ajluni Mr. and Mrs . Leonard T. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. John Wendell Anderson II Mr. and Mrs . Walton A. Lewis Dr. and Mrs. Robyn Arrington Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Livingston Mr. and Mrs. J . Addison Bartush Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. LoCicero Mr. and Mrs . J . Merriam Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Alan Loofbourrow Mr . L. Karl Bates Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Macdonald Mr. and Mrs . W. Victor Benjamin Mrs . Jessie B. Mann Mr. and Mrs. Bennett E. Bidwell Mr. and Mrs. John McCabe Mr . John Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCabe Mr. and Mrs . Eugene A. Cafiero Honorable and Mrs . Wade McCree, Jr. Mrs. Emil Capano Mr . and Mrs. John McDougall Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Caserio Mr. and Mrs. Scott McKean Mr. and Mrs . Frederick K. Cody Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Mirabito Judge and Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nederlander Mrs. Abraham Cooper Mrs . Jeanne Nederlander Mr. and Mrs. Rodkey Craighead Mr. and Mrs. Richard O'Connor Dr. and Mrs . Harold J . Daitch Mr. and Mrs. Julius L. Pallone Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Dr. Francis Palmer Dr. and Mrs . David DiChiera Mr . and Mrs. David Pollack Mr. and Mrs . Frank W. Donovan Mr. and Mrs. John Prepolec Mr. Larry Doss Mr . E. Harwood Rydholm Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. and Mrs . Alan Schwartz Mr . and Mrs. Elliott M. Estes Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Seder, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Fisher III Mrs. Florence Sisman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fraser Mr . and Mrs. Richard Sloan Mrs . Joyce Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Gerbig, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Frank Germack, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Snow Mrs. Aaron Gershenson Mr. and Mrs . Richard Starkweather Mr. and Mrs . H. James Gram Mr. and Mrs . Frank Stella Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Graves Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Stoddard Honorable and Mrs. Roman S . Gribbs Mr . and Mrs. Richard Strichartz Mr. and Mrs. John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs . Lyn1'\ A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Craig Hall Mrs. Joseph A. Vance, Jr. Mrs. Robert Hamady Mr. and Mrs. Robert VanderKloot Mr. and Mrs. E. Jan Hartmann Mr . and Mrs. William Vititoe Mr. and Mrs. David Hermelin Mr. and Mrs. Dudley A. Ward Mr. and Mrs . Wesley R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Harold G . Warner Mrs. William E. Johnston Mr . and Mrs . Victor Wertz Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Jones Mr. and Mrs . David D. Williams Mr . Jefferson Jordan Justice and Mrs . G . Mennen Williams Mr. and Mrs . Maxwell Jospey Mr. and Mrs . R. Jamison Williams Mr. and Mrs. Semon Knudsen Mr . and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Jay Kogan Mr. and Mrs . Charles Wollenzin, Jr. Dr. and Mrs . Richard Kulis Mr. and Mrs. R. Alexander Wrigley Mr. and Mrs. John D. Leighton Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O . Yntema Mr. Fredric LeVine Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Young Mr. and Mrs . David Lewis

MEMORIALS The following memorial gifts have been received during the past year: HONORING DONORS Cecelia T. Ott Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hakes Arthur Stock Mrs. Arthur J. Stock Glenn L. Minster and Family Wayne County Department of Social Services, Schoolcraft District Glenn L. Minster Irene Heard Glenn L. Minster Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Bromble

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For routeJare and schedule information, call 962-5515 in Detroit or call toll-free 1(800) 462-5161. 14 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Administrative Staff Dennis Krause Sarah Wines Assistant to the ASSistant to the General Director Director of Finance Maggie Porter Peter Robbins Receptionist Subscription Coordinator Deborah Micallef Betty Ann Schneider Administrative Assistant Public Relations Assistant Joseph J . Anzur Administrative Assistant Music Staff Mark D. Flint John Dion Music Director Orchestra Personnel Robert Myers Manager Dr. David DiChiera Chorus Master Mark Gibson General Director George Darden Music Intern Coach/ Accompanist Dwight Bowes Director of Productions Production Staff

Karen DiChiera Mark D. Flint David Sugar Master Fly man Director of Education Director, Young Artist's Program Tom Bryant Marilyn Rennagel Master Electrician Richard A. Johnson Lighting Consultant Director of Finance Sandra Cottone Robert Murphy Assistant Technical Technical Director Director Stefanie Ott-O'Toole Steven Horak Director of Development Deborah Myers Administrative Assistant Make-up Supervisor Tony Davis Bernadine Vida R. Edward Townley Executive Stage Manager Wardrobe Mistress Director of Public Relations/ Marketing Bonnie Whalen Betsy Adams Costume Supervisor Assistant Lighting Peggy Imbrie Designer Stage Manager J . C. Sealy Marc Cervania Movement Instructor Stage Manager Stage Employees Local lt38 IATSE Abe Maius Stage Production Carpenter

Production Interns Sharon Dick Stephanie Savin Stage Management Stage Management Elizabeth Eckert Beverly A. Smith Music Costuming Gilbert Hutchins Julie Stork Technical Costuming Jim McMann Technical 15

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Operetta in Three Acts

THE CAST

Gabriel von Eisenstein . .. . Charles Roe - Sept 12, 14, 17, 20 September 12, 13, 14, Howard Hensel - Sept 13, 19 17, 19, 20, 1980 Rosalinda, his wife . .. . Eleanor Bergquist - Sept 12, 14, 19 Alma Jean Smith - Sept 13, 17, 20

Adele , their maid . ... Barbara Meister - Sept 12, 14, 19 In English Jan Albright - Sept 13, 17, 20

Alfred, a singer . ... George Shirley - Sept 12, 13, 19, 20 Edward Kingins - Sept 14, 17

Dr. Falke . . .. George Massey

Dr. Blind, a law yer . . . . David Parks' - Sept 12,14, 17,20 George Bufford· - Sept 13, 19

Frank, the prison warden . . .. Michael Van Engen·

Sally, Adele's sister . ... Coleen Downey·

Prince Orlofsky, a rich Russian .... Imogene Coca

Frosch, the jailer . .. . King Donovan

Prima Ballerina .... Joanne Danto

• Member, MOT Artist Intern Program

21 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE SCENE Vienna, Austria, in the late nineteenth century MOT Artist Interns ACT ONE Jeff Allyn The house of Gabriel von Eisenstein George Bufford Holly Cairns Vertrelle Cameron intermission Peter Clegg Michael Doll ACT TWO Cole en Downey James Longacre Prince Orlofsky's grand ballroom Carol Madalin Robert Mince intermission Anne Nispel David Parks ACT THREE Maggie Rees Paul Schmidt The warden's office in the city prison Kevin Skiles David Stork Ross Stutzman - ( Michael van Engen

MOT Auxiliary Chorus Patricia J . Balysh Cheryl C. Barnes Larry N. Bate Miriam Bate Fred Buchalter Ed R. Cartwright Marie Fiorillo Elizabeth A. Mar-Aston Kimberly L. Phillips Mary Anne Pilette Ann Marie Reeves Diane Rowlands Leslye Sklar Patricia Beach Smith A. Michael Sochacki Jr. Anna Speck Robert Winston Sullivan Hezekiah Williams

This cartoon from a Viennese paper of 25 April, 1874, shows Johann Strauss and his new operetta "Die Fledermaus" soaring triumphantly - less than three weeks after its premiere!

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22 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre lQ)IT~ to sneak her into a ball that night at ACT TWO: The ball at Prince the home of Prince Orlofsky; her Orlofsky's Is an enormous success, IfIL~lQ)~I&~~(QI~ problem Is how to get the evening off although the host himself is as bored work. Rosalinda, her mistress, turns with the proceedings as he Is with life a deaf ear to Adele's pleas about a In general. The disguised Eisenstein sick aunt. Since her husband Gabriel makes his entrance and Is stunned to Is leaving to serve a brief prison recognize his maid among the guests! sentence (never mind why), Rosa But Adele brazenly Insists he Is linda wants Adele on duty to serve mistaken and enlists the rest of the WHO'S WHO his farewell supper. Rosalinda Is fur party in her behalf. Eisenstein does ther distracted when Alfred tells her not, however, recognize his own The title character in Die Fledermaus that he will return that evening to wife , who Is masked and pretending is DR . FALKE, although his is far woo her In her husband's absence. to be a Hungarian Countess. He Is from the largest role. Some time (Even though she Is contentedly completely enamoured of the before our story begins, Dr. Falke married, Rosalinda has a weakness unknown Hungarian, who flirta and his friend GABRIEL VON for tenors.) tiously walks off with his special EISENSTEIN went together to a chiming watch. Eisenstein also en masquerade party, at which Falke Eisenstein makes his entrance railing counters Frank - in disguise, of got very drunk. His friend Eisenstein, at the incompetence of his attorney, course - but neither knows who the as a practical joke, left him In the whose bungling has succeeded In other Is . The party continues riot street to sleep it off, which meant that increasing Eisenstein's sentence. Dr. ously until six a.m. the good doctor was forced to walk Falke arrives with an invitation to home in broad daylight dressed as a Prince Orlofsky's ball, and he urges ACT THREE: The prison. Frank bat (die f/edermaus) and feeling very the fun-loving Eisenstein to join him. and his jailer are both drunk, and foolish . He has been plotting his He can attend In disguise, Falke sug Alfred Is amusing himself by singing revenge ever since. gests slyly, report to prison after the in his cell. One by one, the principal ball, and Rosalinda need know In addition to Eisenstein, the prin characters show up for various nothing about It . Eisenstein declares cipal characters are Eisenstein's wife reasons and succeed In furthering the this an excellent Idea and leaves for ROSALINDA; their maid ADELE; confusion as to who is who. Eisen prison in full evening dress! Rosa ALFRED, a tenor In love with stein, arriving to begin his jail term, .linda, meanwhile, suddenly gives Rosalinda; FRANK, a prison gover disguises himself as a lawyer to find Adele the night off so the house will nor; FROSCH, the jailer; and out why his wife Is there seeking the PRINCE ORLOFSKY, who hosts the be empty for tenor Alfred's return. release of Alfred , still pretending to grand ball in Act Two. be Eisenstein! Rosalinda, in return, No sooner have Gabriel and Adele defies her outraged husband to gone their separate ways than Alfred explain his missing watch. returns and sits down to eat Eisen stein's neglected supper. Frank, the Finally Dr. Falke enters to explain his new prison governor, arrives to role in creating most of the confusion THE STORY escort his prisoner to jail and as revenge for the episode of the bat assumes that Alfred is Eisenstein. costume. Alfred and Rosalinda, see ACT ONE: The von Eisenstein The mistaken identity cannot be cor Ing an easy way out, are quick to home. The first voice heard is that of rected without compromising blame their own Indiscretions on the Alfred, who is singing a serenade to Rosalinda's reputation, so poor same plot, which leads everyone to Rosalinda. Adele, the maid , rushes Alfred goes off to jail as the curtain sing in praise of the wonderful in with a letter from her sister offering falls . powers of champagne!

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Copyright 2010, Michigan OperaElectronics Theatre IGenerallndustries The genesis of Die Fledermaus result Rosalinda, and achieved wide IQ)rr~ begins with The Prison, an old Ger success in Berlin, Paris, London and ~[L~IQ)~I&~~(ill~ man farce by one Roderich Bendix. New York. The tradition of incor Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy porating various specialty features as - who had collaborated on several entertainment in Act Two apparently libretti for Offenbach and would later stems from a benefit performance at write the book for Bizet's Carmen - the Met in New York February 16, adapted it into a French vaudeville 1905, when the "entertainment" called Le Reveillon which was the hit included Caruso and 29 other opera of Paris in 1872. (A vaudeville in the stars. French theatre tradition is a light comedy used as a framework for a Die Fledermaus has always been potpourri of folk tunes, dances, associated with celebrations and arias, popular songs and other pre special festivities, from its holiday existent music.) premiere to the tradition in many opera houses, including London's The younger Johann Strauss was Royal Opera Covent Garden, of fea already the most popular composer turing it on New Year's Eve. Thus it in Vienna (although his first two is the most appropriate possible operattas had not achieved great choice to launch the gala tenth anni success) when Le Reveillon was versary season of Michigan Opera offered as the basis for a third Theatre! attempt. The French play was first translated by Carl Haffner, then Illustration courtesy of the adapted by Richard Greene. The Greater Miami Opera Association libretto flowed smoothly once it was decided to abandon the overly French Christmas night atmosphere Friends of the Program Book that would have seemed foreign to Michigan Opera Theatre wishes to Viennese tastes, substituting the thank the Patrons and Friends, listed masked ball at Prince Orlofsky's in its Johann Strauss throughout the follOWing pages, who 1825-1899 stead. As for the music, Strauss have helped defray the cost involved reportedly accomplished his most in producing this program book. enduring score in just 42 nights dur ing the fall and winter of 1973-74. It is hard to believe today, when we PATRONS associate it with ballrooms, evening Dulany'S Gallery clothes and formal elegance, but the Strauss himself conducted the world premiere of Die Fledermaus in Fisher's Market, Inc. waltz was considered quite dis- Gerald's Franklin Salon, Incorporated -reputable in its early years. Like the Vienna's Theatre an der Wien on Easter Sunday, April 5... 1874. It was Grosse Pointe Hunt Club charleston, jitterbug and frug of later Dr. and Mrs . Berj H. Haidostlan days, the new dance - in which a hit from: .the first, althOugh some churlish critics objected to characters Steven A. Turner couples actually touched each other! The League Shop, Inc. - seemed to signal a total collapse spending the evening in formal dress instead of the more exotic costuming Midwestern Educational of moral values to a generation train Resources Centers, Inc. ed in hands-off court balls. then popular on stage. The operetta's subsequent success in Mr . and Mrs . Jack Milen Paul's Cut Rate Drugs The two men most responsible for Berlin truly launched the Strauss masterpiece into world orbit. Quarton Food Market changing those attitudes were both Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Schwartz named Johann Strauss. 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by arrangement with Belwln·Mills Publishing Corporation, New York publisher and copyright owner Music Drama in Three Acts

September 26, 28 October 1, 3, 4, 1980 THE CAST

Lennie Small .... Moulson - September Busse - September

George Milton .... Lawrence Cooper

Curley .... James Longacre·

Candy .. . Jack Bittner

Curley's Wife .... t.1I;~aoetn Wakefield

Slim .... Louie

Ballad Singer ... Kevin

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35 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre When she is gone, the ranch hands and is hiding it in the loft of the barn begin harassing Candy to give up his when Curley's wife enters, carrying a old dog, whose smell is becoming suitcase and obViously preparing to unbearable in the bunkhouse. Candy run away. She and Lennie begin to is finally forced to surrender the dog, confide their dreams and fantasies, which is taken out and shot. A young each caught up and unaware that the ranch hand comforts the old man by other is speaking. She wants to singing a lonely ballad as Lennie become a glamorous movie star; he pleads with a distressed George for wants a farm with pets to stroke. WHO'S WHO one of Slim's puppies. When Lennie is attracted to her soft, LENNIE is a California migrant -.- smooth hair, Curley's wife allows worker, slow-witted and child li ke by ACT TWO: George finds an ad in him to stroke it. When he refuses to nature but physically very strong. the newspaper offering a small house stop , however, she becomes GEORGE, another migrant worker, and farm for sale. Rebuffing Slim's frightened . Lennie, terrified of being has become his close friend and pro attempts to gently discourage the found with her, tries to smother her tector. The third central character is dream, George reads the ad to screams and then, shaking her CURLEY'S WIFE - attractive, flir Lennie, who is playing with his new violently in anger, breaks her neck. tatious and bored. CURLEY owns puppy. Overhearing the conversa Dimly realizing what he has done, the ranch on which much of the tion , Candy offers to join in their Lennie furtively leaves the barn. action takes place; SLIM is his plans, contributing his own savings foreman and CANDY is an old ranch The body is discovered by Candy, toward the purchase price. With hand. who calls George and Slim to the mounting enthusiasm the three men scene. Slim urges George to find calculate that they will be able to pur Lennie and shoot him , since the only THE STORY chase the property in just one alternative is his capture at the month. vengeful hands of Curley. Candy ACT ONE: The opera begins with curses the body of Curley's wife as flashing searchlights and the wail of The merriment stops abruptly when Curley's wife returns and refuses to George brokenly exits in search of his police sirens as George and Lennie friend . enter, fleeing from another in a series leave despite the men's warnings. of situations caused by Lennie's When Curley returns and finds her George finds Lennie in a nearby pathetic inability to stay out of trou there, he takes out his anger on clearing , still unaware of the ble . The exasperated George finds Lennie, lashing out at him with a magnitude of their problem this time . that Lennie is carrying with him the riding crop. When George shouts to Distracting the childlike man by body of a mouse he aCcidentally kill Lennie to protect himself, Lennie describing again their dreams of a ed by stroking it too forcefully. While crushes Curley's hand. After the farm , George finally succeeds in George disposes of the dead mouse, room empties, George, Lennie and fir ing the pistol and killing his friend Lennie describes his love for soft Curley are alone again, re-reading at the moment Lennie ecstatically things he can stroke and pet. In order the want ad that represents their imagines he sees his house and farm to console his friend , George fading dream. in the distance. The ranch hands reminds him of their common converge on the two lonely figures dream: to own a small house and ACT THREE: Lennie has killed his and the Ballad Singer whistles a frag farm of their own . Lennie, unable to puppy through excessive fondling, ment of his song as the curtain falls . restrain his excitement, joins George in remembering the many details. As the two men settle down for the Friends of the Program Book night, a police siren wails ominously in the distance. Mr. and Mrs . Henry S . Booth Mr . and Mrs . William H. Ehlhardt Robert S . Boris Maya Elmer The scene shifts to the bunkhouse on David Boulton The Ettenheimer Foundation Curley's ranch the following evening, Ruth E. Bozian (Hilda Ettenheimer) where Curley and his wife are argu Mr. and Mrs . Gerald Bright Mr. and Mrs . Ernie Fackler ing . She complains that he is neglect Mr. and Mrs . J . Lawrence Buell, Jr. Mrs. George R. Fink ing her, and threatens to find some Irene D. Casaroll Dr. and Mrs . Lionel Finkelstein one else to treat her better. He orders Bernard Chodorkoff, M.D. Earl A. Foucher her to go back to the house and for Edward Chupka Mr . and Mrs . M. Kelly Fritz bids her to enter the bunkhouse Mr. and Mrs . Wm. P. Conlin Velma Froude again. The building fills with ranch Mr. and Mrs . Keith D. Danielson Mr. and Mrs . Ralph Garcia hands - among them George and Mr. and Mrs . John W. Day Louis and Philomena Gasparott Lennie , who have just been hired . Mrs . Selden S . Dickinson Mr. and Mrs. Alfred R. Glancy III Slim , the stalwart ranch foreman , an Virginia F. Dickson (Mrs . James E.) Mr. and Mrs . George Gravila nounces a new litter of puppies and, Mr. and Mrs . Milton Dresner Mr. and Mrs . Paul Groffsky as the men clamor for them, Curley's DuMouchelle Art Galleries Company Harriet Helms wife reappears. She pretends to be Dorothy Duris Mr. and Mrs . Robert J . House looking for her husband while flirting Mr. and Mrs . Peter P . Dusina, Jr. Mr. James C . Howard brazenly with the embarassed Jan & Joel Ebersole . Mr. and Mrs . Henry Clyde Johnson workers. Mr. and Mrs . John S . Ecclestone Nina T. 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37 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre "I can safely say that no other work brothel in which George - despite (Q)[f of mine has been as problematic, as the scorn of the madam, the girls and trying, and occasionally as disheart the other ranch hands - refuses to ~ll~~ ening as Of Mice and Men," Floyd spend any of the money he and Len was to write In retrospect - adding nie are saving for their farm. Set and #1Il~HQ) that "as is sometimes the case with costumes were ready and ladies of difficult and willful children, no other the chorus were relishing their new ~~~ opera gave me as much pleasure roles when It became apparent to once it was finished ." Floyd and director Frank Corsaro that the scene served no purpose The first version of the libretto, except to retard the action by George and Lennie, the doomed finished by the summer of 1966, repeating themes and attitudes drifters John Steinbeck created in Of adhered very tightly to the Steinbeck already well established. So two arias Mice and Men, have become an original. The result, according to the were moved elsewhere and the rest Integral part of the American several opinions Floyd trusted most, of the scene was scrapped: folklore, as emblematic of One aspect was a dull, static work with a few of our national identity as Tom attractive moments. Determined to The music for the second version of Sawyer, George Babbitt or Daniel salvage the project, the composer/ Of Mice and Men was completed in Boone are of others. The original librettist pulled back for a fresh late 1968, the scoring in November, novel - published In February, perspective. "I realized finally," he 1969, and the Seattle Opera 1937 - went through eight hard says, "that I had misled myself Into presented the world premiere on back editions in just five years. Five thinking Steinbeck had already done January 22, 1970. It has garnered different paperback editions have most of my work for me by writing a critical praise and audience ovations subsequently amassed an impressive book so stripped of nonessentials. ever since, Including a bicentennial 208 printings. The result . . . was a libretto . . . revival In Seattle in Fall, 1976. It has which had totally failed to convert been staged by opera companies In Steinbeck's theatrical adaptation of the book into an opera; mine was St. Paul, Boston, San Francisco, his own novel appeared hard on the essentially just another dramatization Cincinnati and Central City, Col heels of the original book, opening . . . for the spoken rather than the orado. The Houston Opera mounted on Broadway in November, 1937, lyric theatre." . a major production in May, 1977, with a cast headed by Broderick which subsequently traveled to the Cra~ord as Lennie, Wallace Ford as Floyd set to work again - this time Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, George and Claire Luce as Curley's without referring back to either the and to New York City. Wife. It won the New York Drama book or the play. This new freedom Critics Circle Award as Best Play that allowed him to isolate the single, sim Of Mice and Men has been heard in season and is still - 43 years later - ple dramatic thrust of the story and major European cities, both in a consistent fa-Jorite with theatre then to recreate it in uniquely English and in German. It was per groups across the world. It has been operatic terms. For example, the formed in June, 1976, at the adapted for film and television and opening scene of the original version Holland Festival, allowing audiences received a major Broadway revival has a languid, almost pastoral quality in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The several years ago with Kevin Con as the two men bed down for the Hague to see It as The Netherlands way and James Earl Jones in the night in a field. By adding sirens, salute to the American bicentennial. central roles _ search lights and the men's attempt to avoid the police, Floyd was able to Probably the greatest characters in Carlisle Floyd began thinking about launch the opera musically at a more opera are those - such as Violetta, an opera based on Of Mice and Men fevered pitch. The Act One, Scene Don Giovanni, Otello, Faust - who in 1%3, after reading the Steinbeck Two argument between Curly and have established a universal appeal original. Two years later, when San his wife and the use of a newspaper to readers and audiences alike in a Francisco Opera General Director want ad to make tangible the dream number of different art forms over Kurt Herbert Adler offered the com of a home are also Floyd inventions long periods of time. George and poser a commission to create a new which proved essential in translating Lennie seem destined to become a opera and suggested Steinbeck as a Of Mice and Men into operatic form. uniquely American addition to that libretto source, the coincidence must distinguished roster. have seemed a happy omen_ One change, however, did not sur Funded by the Ford Foundation, vive the rehearsal process. The com Floyd set to work_ poser added a scene set in a local

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Opera in Two Acts

October 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 1980 THE CAST

Leporello .. .. Pierre Charbonneau

In English Donna Anna .... Carolyn Val-Schmidt - October 10, 12, 17 Doralene Davis - October 15, 18

Don Giovanni .... Andreas Poulimenos - October 10, 15, 18 Marc Embree - October 12, 17

The Commendatore . .. . Paul Schmidt·

Don Ottavio .... Robert Guarino

Donna Elvira .. .. Wilhelmenia Fernandez

Zerlina .... Mary Callaghan Lynch

Masetto .... Michael van Engen·

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49 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE SCENE MOT Artist Interns Seville, Spain, in the mid-seventeenth century Jeff Allyn George Bufford ACT ONE Holly Cairns Vertrelle Cameron Scene One: outside the Commendatore's palace Peter Clegg Scene Two: a street Michael Doll Scene Three: Don Giovanni's palace Coleen Downey Scene Four: a garden nearby James Longacre Carol Madalin Scene Five: Don Giovanni's ballroom Robert Mince Anne Nispel intermission David Parks Maggie Rees ACT TWO Paul Schmidt Kevin Skiles Scene One: beneath Donna Elvira's window David Stork Scene Two: a dark courtyard Ross Stutzman Scene Three: a cemetery Michael van Engen Scene Four: Donna Anna's home Scene Five: Don Giovanni's palace MOT Auxiliary Chorus Scene Six: the ruins of the palace Marie Fiorillo Elizabeth A. Mar-Aston Leslye Sklar Anna Speck Robert Winston Sullivan Hezekiah Williams

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50 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre excesses. He Is Interrupted when As three different dances proceed, Don Giovanni senses a woman Leporello distracts Masetto while approaching and hides to eavesdrop. Don Giovanni entices Zerlina Into DON GIOVANNI is history's most The two men hear Donna Elvira be another room. Her subsequent notorious libertine, moving from moan her unhappy fate: seduced, screams lead Anna, Elvira and conquest to conquest through 17th abandoned, and left to seek the man Ottavio to unmask and confront century Spain with the sometimes responsible - either for marriage or Giovanni with accusations of his reluctant assistance of his servant for revenge. Don Giovanni comes crimes. Giovanni jublilantly escapes, LEPORELLO. Mozart's great opera out from hiding to offer help, only to fending off Ottavio's drawn sword, as examines the title character's effect realize that he is the guilty party! He the curtain falls . on six people variously concerned · distracts her attention and escapes, with their own (and each other's) leaving Leporello to discourage her ACT TWO: Under Donna Elvira's honor. by describing the extent of his balcony, Leporello and Don master's conquests: 640 in Italy, 231 Giovanni exchange cloaks so that DONNA ANNA - noble and highly in Germany, 100 In France, 91 in Elvira will follow the servant. The moral is outraged at Don Turkey and 1,003 in Spain. ruse works, Leporello and Elvira go Giovanni's seduction attempt. Her off in the dark, and Giovanni is free honor is defended by her father, the Don Giovanni and Leporello next to serenade Elvira's maid . When COMMENDATORE of Seville, who come upon Zerlina and Masetto, Masetto and a band of peasants Is slain in the ensuing duel. DON who are to be married that day. The appear In search of Don Giovanni, OTTAVIO is Donna Anna's fiance; nobleman takes a fancy to Zerlina he pretends to be Leporello, sends his honor requires him to avenge her and invites all the peasants to his them off in several directions, and humilation and her father's murder. home for a celebration. Leporello then beats up Masetto. Zerlina rushes and his master finally force a reluc to console her fiance . DONNA ELVIRA Is a Spanish tant and suspicious Masetto to go off, noblewoman who has already lost leaving Giovanni alone with Zerlina. Leporello is trying to Jose Elvira in her virginity to Don GiovannI. Her the dark when Donna Anna, Don honor dictates that he be punished; The nobleman begins his seduction Ottavio, Zerlina and Masetto appear, this is complicated, however, by the by promising to marry Zerlina and eager to punish the supposed Don sexual desire he has awakened In make her a great lady if she'll only go Giovanni despite Elvira's sudden her. with him. Zerlina wavers and has protests. Leporello discloses himself finally agreed when Donna Elvira to be only the servant, promises to Don Giovanni's lust and its destruc comes upon them and, over help them and then escapes in the tive effect cut through class lines with Giovanni's strenuous objections, confusion. impunity. Thus ZERLINA, a young takes the thoroughly bewildered Giovanni and Leporello meet in a peasant woman celebrating her Zerlina away to safety. forthcoming marriage to MASETTO, deserted cemetery by the tomb of finds It necessary to defend her own Donna Anna and Don Ottavio come Donna Anna's slain father. A newly concept of honor - as well as her to request Don Giovanni's assistance erected statue of the Commendatore fiance's - once she has attracted in finding her father's murderer. suddenly speaks, warning Giovanni Don Giovanni's attention. Donna Elvira returns to reproach him of his doom. Leporello is terrified, but Giovanni, relieved that Anna but his master defiantly orders him to ACT ONE: The opera opens in a does not recognize him and dismiss invite the statue to dinner, and the garden by the Commendatore's ing Elvira as a mental case, goes off. statue solemnly accepts. palace, where Leporello is waiting for his master and complaining about Suddenly a horrified Donna Anna In Anna's palace, Ottavio urges her his duties. In a sudden commotion recognizes his voice as that of her to forget her grief and accept his Donna Anna and Don Giovanni father's murderer. She paSSionately love, but she Implores him to wait enter from her bedroom, which he describes the events of that night and until her father is avenged. has· entered to seduce her. She is again calls on her fiance to avenge Meanwhile, Don Giovanni and crying for help; he is trying to conceal her. Don Ottavio promises to share LeporeJlo are completing supper his identity until he can escape. She her burden and discover the truth. arrangements as an orchestra plays a finally runs off without seeing her After their departure, an exuberant medley of tunes from popular operas attacker's face. (Including Mozart's own "Le Nozze Don Giovanni prepares for his party, de Figaro"). Elvira rushes in, begging Don Giovanni is immediately con ordering Leporello to keep the wine Giovanni to reform, but he mocks fronted by Donna Anna's father, the flowing and promising twelve new her. As she is leaVing she suddenly Commendatore, who challenges him conquests by dawn. screams, and Leporello is sent to to a duel. Giovanni refuses to fight so En route to the party, Zerlina tries to investigate. He returns, terrified, an old a man, but the Commendatore nounces that the statue has arrived, insists and is qUickly slain. Giovanni appease Masetto's anger at her and hides. Don Giovanni bravely and Leporello flee as Donna Anna apparent infidelity. After a sort of "hide and seek" with greets the statue, which offers him a returns with her fiance , Don Ottavio. unintentional chance to repent. When he refuses, Finding her father murdered by the the jealous Masetto, Don Giovanni the statue leads him into hell. The unknown intruder, she makes ushers In all his guests. He even has other characters converge on the Ottavio swear vengeance. Leporello invite Donna Anna, Donna Elvira and Don Ottavio, who scene to make plans for the future The next morning Leporello arrive masked, determined to punish and underline the moral: sad Is the attempts to lecture his master on his the libertine. fate of a libertine. 51 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre The character of Elvira was grafted Da Ponte was an Italian Jew who onto the basic story by Moliere in his later became a Catholic priest, a 1665 play Le Festin de Pierre, as was notorious womanizer and a literary Zerlina, who replaced a fisherwoman lion in Vienna. After his collabora and a shepherdess in the earlier ver tions with Mozart he emigrated to the sion. So popular had the legend United States, becoming a grocer in become by 1676, when another ver New Jersey and a professor at Col sion by Shadwell ca.lled The Libertine umbia College. He died unknown at Opera at its finest represents an was produced in England, that age 89 and, ironically, both he and amalgam of all the arts, and many of London audiences were assured the Mozart lie today in unmarked graves, its greatest works have traced cir story was "famous all over Spain, half a world apart. cuitous routes through other art Italy and France." forms before finding places on the In 1787 Mozart and/ or Da Ponte opera stages of the world. Indeed, Carlo Goldoni, Italy's leading play (who always insisted the idea was each of the four operas in Michigan wright, added Don Giovanni Tenorio his) became aware of a new one-act Opera Theatre's tenth anniversary o sia il Dissoluto in 1736; but his opera which had just premiered in season has passed through not one most important contribution to Venice. Entitled Don Giovanni 0 sia but several earlier incarnations before Mozart's later masterpiece was a II Convitato di Pietro, it had a book being molded into the forms we now question of style rather than plot or by Giovanni Bertati and music by know. characters. It was Goldoni who first Giuseppe Gazzaniga; it became the combined "serious" opera, with ex most direct model on which Mozart With Die Fledermaus, Of Mice and c1usivelynoble characters and impor and Da Ponte worked - expanding Men and Rigoletto, the path from tant themes, and "buffo" opera (ser it into two acts, eliminating several original creation to operatic adapta vants and peasants in comic situa characters, greatly enhanCing the tion was a fairly simple one - even tions) , added a few roles that lay role of Donna Anna and audaCiously when, as with Fledermaus, it somewhere in between, and called mixing comic and tragic elements not meandered through several coun the resulting hybrid "Dtamma only within the same character, but tries and cultures en route. With Don Giocoso" - the label which Mozart within the same moment. Giovanni, however, the genius of later chose to apply to his own Don Mozart and the eternal fascination of Giovanni. It is this middle line be Several legends have grown up the character himself combine to tween comic and tragic, noble and around the opening performance of make the tracing of literary or base, sentimental and cynical that Don Giovanni at Prague's National dramatic roots a complex task. probably represents Mozart's own Theatre on October 29, 1787. One greatest contribution to the legend of has it that Mozart composed the Don Juan Tenorio's first published Don Juan. famous overture between midnight appearance was in El Burlador de and three a . m. on the eve of the first Sevilla, a play of the early 1600s by Mozart did not, of course, create performance. Another better the Spaniard Tirso de Molina. Don Giovanni alone. It was his documented - has the composer Burlador is an almost untranslatable second collaboration with librettist greatly dissatisfied with Zerlina's off word suggesting a sexual trickster or Lorenzo Da Ponte, and it came stage cry when the Don is attempting gamesman - which would indicate about because of the great success in to seduce her. At the next rehearsal, that the character of Don Giovanni Prague of their first joint effort, The Mozart hid himself in the wings and, himself was already well established Marriage of Figaro . Hoping to when the soprano's cue came, in this earliest version of his life and capitalize on the public's enthusiastic pinched her resoundingly on the up times. Molina's play also included reception of Figaro, company direc per leg, causing her to shriek quite Dona Ana, Don Octavio and the tor Pasquale Bondini commissioned conVincingly. 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MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE has its roots in OVERTURE worked with MOT en route to major international careers. TO OPERA, which began as an educational arm of the The company was clearly established and ready to take flight. Detroit Grand Opera Association devoted to performing ex What was sorely needed was a home. cerpts - in English - from the operas to be sung during the Metropolitan Opera's annual visit to Detroit, using local After a checkered career as legitimate theatre, symphony hall singers and working in schools and other public centers in the and movie house, the Music Hall had been empty for years area. when OVERTURE TO OPERA discovered it and arranged to use it on a temporary basis. Armies of volunteers led by Karen Under the direction of Dr. David DiChiera, then chairman of DiChiera cleaned, swept, scoured and polished as singers the Oakland University Music Department, OVERTURE TO and musicians rehearsed and sets went up on the long-bare OPERA developed enthusiastic audiences wherever it ap stage. OVERTURE TO OPERA which became peared, and increasingly high professional standards. Even MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE two years later - had a tually vocal and directorial talent was imported whenever a home; and it is the tenth anniversary of that landmark season project required more experience than could be found locally, - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and La and the production of complete operas independent of the Rondine - that we celebrate this year. Met season began.

By 1970, OVERTURE TO OPERA was taking full produc The cover to this year's program book features an Honor Roll tions to such out-state cities as Flint, Grand Rapids, Midland of aU the productions involved in leading up to that first and Alpena in addition to an expanding repertoire in Detroit. season, and all the works we have presented in the sub Clearly Dr. DiChiera was moving the company toward a solid sequent ten years. It is unlikely that anyone in our Music Hall separate identity as an independent opera company in audience - no matter how dedicated - will remember each digenous to Detroit with its own unique goals, priorities and one; several were performed at Matrix: Midland Festival of ideas. The 1970-71 season at the Detroit Institute of Arts was Arts and Sciences, and others were part of the Opera-In a major step, with a Barber of Seville directed by Italo Tajo Residence touring program. But many of our patrons will (back this season to direct Don Giovanni) and featuring Maria remember most of the operas featured and illustrated on the Ewing, the first in a continuing series of singers who have following pages.

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55 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 1972·73 COSI FAN TUTTE Mozart TOSCA Puccini THE TELEPHONE and THE MEDIUM David Patrick Kelly In "Joseph and the Menotti Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," 1971 1971·72 JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAM COAT Webber and Rice LA RONDINE Puccini THE PERFECT FOOL Holst

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October, November 1, 1980 In Italian THE CAST

October 26, 29, 31, 1980 The Duke of Mantua .... Riccardo Calleo - October 24, November 1 Tonio DiPaolo - October 26, 29, 31 In English Rigoletto .. .. Charles Long - October 24, November 1 Rodney Stenborg - October 26, 29, 31

Count Monterone .... Paul Schmidt'

Sparafucile .... Matteo de Monti

Gilda .. . . Leigh Munro - October 24, November 1 Gwendolyn Bradley - October 26, 29, 31

Maddalena . ... Alexandra Hughes

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61 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE SCENE Mantua, Italy, in the sixteenth century MOT Auxiliary Chorus MOT Artist Interns ACT ONE Jeff Allyn Larry N. Bate George Bufford Scene One: the palace of the Duke Johnathan Blackshire Holly Cairns Norman Brinkman Vertrelle Cameron Scene Two: Rigoletto's home Fred Buchalter Peter Clegg Ed R. Cartwright Michael Doll intermission Peter A. Cartwright Coleen Downey Christian P. Caubet James Longacre ACT TWO Timothy Hanel Robert Kinnear Carol Madalin The palace Robert Mince Donald M. Matthews Anne NispeJ intermission Robert L. Morency David Parks A. Michael Sochacki, Jr. Maggie Rees ACT THREE Robert Winston Sullivan Paul Schmidt Fred Turner Kevin Skiles An inn on the banks of the Mincio Hezekiah Williams David Stork Ric hard L. York Ross Stutzman Michael van Engen

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62 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre brooding on Monterone's curse. On despite his threats and pleas for his way he encounters Sparafucile, a mercy. Just then Gilda appears, professional assassin, who offers his dishevelled, and runs to her father, services against Rigoletto's enemies. who orders the others to leave. The jester dismisses him, however, Alone with Rigoletto, Gilda tells of WHO'S WHO reflecting that his own tongue is as the Duke's courtship and , of her sharp as the assassin's blade. abduction. As Monterone is led to Rigo/etto unfolds within the court the dungeon, Rigoletto swears of the DUKE OF MANTUA, an Gilda greets her father in their garden vengeance for his daughter's defile arrogant libertine proud of his suc and asks about her mother. Rigoletto ment as Gilda begs her father to cess with women. RIGOLETTO is laments his wife's untimely death and forgive the Duke. the cynical, hunchbacked court explains that Gilda is now everything jester; his sharp tongue has earned in his life . Fearful for his daughter's him the enmity of everyone at court, innocence, he warns her nurse to ad ACT THREE: Late at night, outside but the Duke's favor protects him . mit no one to the house, then goes a lonely inn, Gilda is still trying to out. At once the Duke slips into the persuade her father that the Duke Unknown to the Duke and the court, garden, bribes the nurse and declares truly loves her. She is shocked when Rigoletto has a daughter, GILDA, his love to Gilda, who has admired the Duke, laughing at the fickleness whom he keeps hidden away as pro him at church. He teU her that he is of women, arrives for an assignation tection from the evils of the world - "Gaultier Malde," a poor student, with Maddalena, Sparafucile's sister. especially from the Duke's roving and leaves before being discovered In the famous Quartet Maddalena eye. as the enraptured Gilda lOVingly and the Duke conduct a teasing The other father in the opera is repeats his name. seduction while the eavesdropping COUNT MONTERONE, whose Gilda voices her despair and Meanwhile Rigoletto is stopped in Rigoletto swears revenge. daughter the Duke has already the street by the scheming courtiers; seduced. SPARAFUCILE, a profes they ask for his help in abducting Rigoletto sends Gilda off to disguise sional assassin, and his sister Count Ceprano's wife and carrying herself as a boy and flee to Verona. MADDALENA are the other prin her to the Duke. Agreeing to help, He then hires Sparafucile to kill the cipals in the unfolding tragedy. Rigoletto allows himself to be blind Duke, arranging to return at mid folded; he is then tricked into holding night to claim the body. the ladder against his own house THE STORY while the laughing courtiers enter A storm gathers and breaks as Gilda returns disguised as a boy and ACT ONE: The curtain rises on a and abduct Gilda, whom they sup pose to be the jester's mistress. overhears Maddalena asking her festive scene at court as the Duke of brother to spare the Duke's life . Mantua discusses a young girl of the Realizing he has been tricked, Rigoletto tears off the blindfold, finds Finally Sparafucile agrees to kill town whom he, disguised as a poor instead the next person who enters student, has been wooing for several his daughter's scarf, remembers Monterone's curse, and collapses. the inn and to substitute the body for months. He is distracted by the the Duke's. Still in love despite her Countess Ceprano, dances with her betrayal, Gilda decides to sacrifice and takes her off to a private room as ACT TWO: The Duke has learned herself to save her beloved. She his jester, Rigoletto, mocks her of Gilda's abduction and is fearful for enters the inn and is stabbed. furious but helpless husband. When her safety. When his courtiers report Rigoletto has gone, a courtier enters that it was they who carried off the The storm has ebbed as Rigoletto with a new bit of gossip: the hunch girl, and that she is now in the Duke's returns to gloat over the body, which backed jester is reportedly living with chamber, he rushes off to his new Sparafucile presents to him in a sack. a beautiful young mistress! conquest. Suddenly he hears the Duke's VOice, singing in the distance. Frantically Rigoletto returns with the Duke and Rigoletto comes in, searching for opening the sack, he finds his uses the protection of his master's Gilda . The courtiers, although sur daughter, who dies begging his favor to increase his attacks on prised to learn that she is his forgiveness as Rigoletto cries out Count Ceprano, who joins with daughter, continue to bar his way "Ah, the curse!" other courtiers to plot a vendetta against the jester. Suddenly Count Monterone forces his way into court Friends of the Program Book to denounce the Duke for seducing Mrs. William E. Johnston Mr . and Mrs . George Mallos his daughter. Rigoletto taunts the old Mr. and Mrs . William E. Judy Lois K. MacKenzie man mercilessly and Monterone, as Edward and Estelle Kahn Mr. and Mrs. Julio C . Mazzoli he is arrested, pronounces a curse on Rev. Bernard L Karaskiewicz Mrs . Garbis P . Mechigian both the Duke and the jester. The Mr. Stephen F. Keller The Rev. and Mrs . F.R. Meyers Duke laughs it off, but Rigoletto is Dr. and Mrs . Richard W. Kulis Dr . and Mrs . Gerald Michael terrified . Mrs . J . Benton Lackey Michigan Lyric Opera Company Mr. and Mrs . Robert E. Lazzerin, Jr. Mr . and Mrs . Albert A. Miller SCENE TWO: Rigoletto's supposed Barbara Leeper Dr . Herbert and Susan Miller mistress is actually his daughter, Dr. Leonard and Ms. Lorraine Lerner Mr. and Mrs . Philip M. Mistretta Gilda, and he is hurrying from court Elizabeth A. Long Mr. and Mrs. David A. Mittler to the house he shares with her, still Robert B. MacKay 63 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre tion worthy of Shakespeare," and days; but his letters to the censors' there could scarcely be higher praise make it clear that he had already from the composer of Macbeth, developed a clear idea of what he Otella and Falstaff. wanted to accomplish musically.

Verdi and librettist Francesco Piave Verdi was 37 in 1851, and Rigaletta No one but Giuseppe Verdi himself were commissioned by the T eatro La was to be the first in an unpre had any enthusiasm for the prospects Fenice in Venice to create a new cedented series of opera master of a new opera based on Le rai opera to premiere in February, pieces: II Trovatare came next, s'amuse by Victor Hugo. The shock 1851; despite Piave's grave appre followed by La Traviata, I Vespri ing and controversial play caused hensions, Le rai s'amuse was chosen Siciliani, Simane Baccanegra and near riots at its 1832 Paris premiere as the subject and the two set to Un Ballo in Maschera within the next and had been banned immediately work, planning to call the opera La decade. Each represented an addi after its first performance, not to be Maledizione, or The. Curse. When tional step in Verdi's restructuring of seen again on any stage for fifty the libretto was finished, however, opera into an art form whose basic years! (Human nature being what it and despite private assurances that unit is no longer the aria, but the is, of course, the scandal ensured there would be no objection, the cen scene - a change that was noted that the printed script was well sor rejected the project out of hand, with much displeasure by critics and known and widely read.) noting his "profound regret that the singers alike . There was difficulty poet Piave and the celebrated finding anyone to Sing Maddalena in The controversy was largely caused Maestro Verdi have not chosen some the original production, because she by Hugo's presenting Le rai s'amuse other field to display their talents has no aria. There is only one aria in as historic drama, based on events in than the revolting immorality and each of Rigoletto's first two acts - the dissolute court of Francois I, King obscene triviality forming the story of the Duke's in Act One and Gilda's in of France. It is the King's womanizing the libretto La Malediziane. " Act Two - and even these were not that creates the tragedy, and it is the written in a way guaranteed to stop King who, when Blanche (Gilda) There ensued more than a month of the show, but in order to further its seeks to avoid his advances by lock delicate negotiations. Verdi agreed development. "I imagined Rigoletto ing herself in a room of the castle, to move his setting out of the French almost without arias and without laughingly produces a key and goes court, to change the names of most finales," Verdi explained, "just an in and rapes her. major characters, to remove the unbroken string of duets, because scene with the key (substituting a this form satisfied me." The pandemonium created by this more subtle seduction for Hugo's scene was nothing compared to what rape), and even to change the name It satisfied the opera public, as well, happened next, when the hunch of the work to Rigaletta, since the for Rigoletto was an enormous suc back jester is rebuffed by the king's censor felt the whole idea of a curse cess from the first. Even its first courtiers in his attempt to rescue his was blasphemous. On important performance was so eagerly awaited daughter. Addressing them by name points, however, Verdi held firm and that Verdi withheld the melody for as members of all the first families of eventually won out. Francois "La donna e mobile" until the very France, the jester shrieks, "Your became the Duke of Mantua, but his last minute for fear it would be mothers gave themselves to lackeys. character was in no way softened by pirated all over Venice before open You are all bastards." Since the transformation. The central ing night. Despite fluctuating for members of those same families were character remained an ugly hunch tunes at the hands of various cen sitting complacently in the boxes at back, despite the censor's protest sors, the opera grew in popularity the performance in question, the that he was grotesque and unbe from year to year. Perhaps the last play's immediate banishment was lievable. ("A hunchback who sings?" holdout against it was Victor Hugo virtually inevitable. Verdi retorted, "Why not''') And the himself, who felt his drama had been curse, while dropped from the title, trivialized in adaptation . He Verdi was attracted to Le rai remained the unifying thread prevented its production in Paris for s'amuse, not by the radical politics of through the revised libretto . more than six years, just as the the piece, but by the tragic humanity authors of Le Reveillon embargoed of the central character: "this The altered libretto was finally Die Fledermaus some 25 years later. extremely deformed and ridiculous approved on January 25, 1851, and As in the latter case, however, the creature who yet is inwardly pas the premiere set for March 11. This popularity of the opera won out, and sionate and full of love." He has given rise to the supposition that eventually even Hugo was forced to described the court jester as "a crea- Verdi composed the score in just 40 concede its success.

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68 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre JAN ALBRIGHT, a great favorite with Michigan Opera Theatre audiences, returns this season for three performances of Die Fleder maus as Adele - a role for which she is well remembered, having sung it here previously in 1974. She began with MOT in 1971 as Yvette in La Rondine and most recently o appeared as Musette in last season's Jan Albright Eleanor Bergquist La Boheme; in between, her roles here have included Olga in Merry Widow, Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Flora in La Traviata and the title role in Naughty Marietta. With MOT's Opera-In-Residence company, Miss Albright has appeared throughout Michigan as Lucia di Lammermoor and as Violet ta in La Traviata. Jack Bittner Gwendolyn Bradley A Birmingham resident, Miss Albright teaches voice at Oakland JACK BITTNER, Candy in Of Mice University and has performed as a and Men, comes to the MOT anni soloist with the Detroit Symphony. versary season from the Goodspeed Opera House, where he was ELEANOR BERGQUIST, who is featured in their hit revival of George Singing Rosalinda in three perfor M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jones. His mances of Die Fledermaus, is one of Broadway credits include such hits as the most exciting young artists of our Nobody Loves an Albatross, Tiger at day. She has sung leading roles with the Gates, Witness for the Prosecu opera companies throughout the tion, Rashomon and Beggar's Holi United States, including New York day. Nominated for the Clarence City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Derwent Award for his performance and companies in Miami, Louisville, in Margaret Webster's production of San Antonio and other major cities. Richard III, Mr. Bittner later won an At the Lake George (NY) Opera Obie for his work in Ivanov; other Festival she has been starred for off-Broadway appearances include three consecutive summers as Fior Threepenny Opera, John diligi in Cos; fan tutte, the Countess Houseman's Coriolanus, Hogan's in Marriage of Figaro, Donna Elvira Goat, What Every Woman Knows, in Don Giovanni and the title role in By Bernstein and Shaw's The The Merry Widow . Philanderer. Along with her operatic engagements, Miss Bergquist is much in demand as soloist with GWENDOLYN BRADLEY, sing orchestra and for oratorio with major ing Gilda in the English-language choral societies. She has appeared performances of Rigoletto, made her many times at Carnegie Hall and profeSSional operatic debut with the Lincoln Center in performances of Lake George Opera Festival in 1976, Messiah and in works by Bach, when her roles were Nanetta in Haydn , Mozart, Poulenc, Brahms, Falstaff, Clara in Porgy and Bess and Dvorak and Koda'ly. She has several Pousette in Manon. Since then she times been guest soloist with the SI. has sung Titania in A Midsummer Louis Symphony and with the Night's Dream with the Central City orchestras of Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Opera, the title role of Lakme with Flint, Kalamazoo and Albuquerque. Opera/ South and, in her debut with Detroit audiences have heard Miss the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Bergquist in concert versions of Cosi Aurelia in Rumplestiltskin. fan tutte and Tancredi. HELP Miss Bradley is also active both as a Michigan Opera Theatre say recitalist and as an orchestral soloist . "Thanks!" Patronize our advertisers Her New York recital debut in June, 1978, was a tremendous success, - and tell them you saw their ads prompting The New York Times to in the MOT Program Book! call her "a real winner ... a soprano 69 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre to be on the lookout for in the Mr. Busse has appeared with the San Recent United States appearances future." She has been soloist with the Francisco Opera in Billy Budd, include a Rigoletto with the Cincin Philadelphia Orchestra, Kansas City Fidelio, Norma and Otel/o. His nati Opera, Don Jose in Carmen Philharmonic, Charleston Sym Miami Opera debut was as Des with the New York City Opera in phony and Pittsburgh Youth Grieux in Manon Lescaut; he returns both New York and Los Angeles, Symphony, among others. this season as Cavaradossi in their and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammer Tosca. He has previously sung moor for the Washington Opera Lenny with the Houston Grand earlier this year. Mr. Calleo divides Opera, and last season appeared his time in Europe among the opera with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City houses of Innsbruck, Linz, in Vanessa and as Don Jose in Strasbourg and Basel. Carmen.

RICCARDO CALLEO, singing the OUR Barry Busse Riccardo Calleo Duke in the Italian-language Rigo ADVERTISERS BARRY BUSSE, who is Lennie for letto, made his debut with Michigan are an important source of the two performances of Of Mice and Opera Theatre in the 1979 produc Men, has been described by the tion of La Boheme in Kalamazoo. A money that allows us to prestigious English publication native of Endicott, N. Y., and present tonight's OPERA as having "vocal timbre and graduate of Yale, the tenor has performance. intonation reminiscent of the young studied voice at the Conservatorio Jon Vickers." The occasion for that G. Verdi in Milan, the Curtis Institute comment was his portrayal of of Music and the Music Academy of PLEASE Bothwell in Thea Musgrave's Mary the West. He made his opera debut patronize their businesses Queen of Scots with both the San while in Stuttgart on a Fulbright Francisco Spring Opera and Virginia grant; he was then engaged as first and be sure they know that Opera. He was equally as successful tenor in Bqnn, during which time he you are there because you saw with the Santa Fe Opera as Alwa in appeared extenSively throughout their ads here! the first American staging of the Germany, France, Switzerland and complete Lulu. ,Belgium. res era Discover Musicland's wide selection of fine classical recordings. 27.983-LP Set

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------LAWRENCE COOPER - George in Of Mice and Men - has pre viously sung the role with the Nevada Opera in Reno; from Detroit he will travel to Wexford, Ireland, to repeat his portrayal there. A native of Cali fornia, he began his professional career by winning the Grand Finals of the San Francisco Opera Audi Pierre Charbonneau ·lawrence Cooper tions. He has since performed with Imogene Coca many opera companies throughout PIERRE CHARBONNEAU makes the United States and Canada, his Michigan Opera Theatre debut as including the Canadian Opera Com Leporello in Don Giovanni, but his pany (Germont in La Traviata, IMOGENE COCA - Prince Orlof career has already spanned the Figaro in Barber of Seville, Marcello sky in Die Fledermaus - was not North American continent, from in La Boheme), the Western Opera quite born in a trunk. But as the Vancouver where he has Theatre (Dandini in La Cenerentola, daughter of violinist/conductor appeared for five consecutive Germont, Belcore in Elisir d'Amore, Joseph F. Coca and Sadie Brady, seasons in such roles as Hunding, Figaro), the Hawaii Opera Theatre who had been magician's assistant to Ramfis, Sulpice, Lothario and Don (Sharpless in Madame Butterfly) and the famous Howard Thurston, she Basilio - to Mexico City, where he many others. He repeated Dandini in found herself in show business at an made his debut last season with La Cenerentola this summer for the early age. She sang, danced, later Jorge Velazco conducting Verdi's Chautauqua Opera Festival. added comedic pantomime and Requiem. made a smash Broadway debut in Mr. Cooper has also sung with the New Faces of 1934. Charbonneau · appears regularly in San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg in in Mahler's Eighth Symphony and For five consecutive summers she his native Canada, and has sung in the Bach Magnificat, and with Arthur worked for Max Liebman on the the United States with opera com Fiedler and the San Francisco Sym Poco nos resort circuit with the likes panies in Washington, Miami, New phony Pops. His opera repertOire of Danny Kaye, Jules Munshin, Orleans, Pittsburgh, Providence, also includes two roles with which Jerome Robbins and Carol Chan Dayton and Toledo. His New York MOT audiences have reason to be ning. When Liebman was given debut was as Peneois in Strauss's familiar: Lionel in Tchaikovsky's charge of a new television revue, he Daphne at Avery Fisher Hall, Joan of Arc, which he performed sent for Miss Coca, suggesting that Lincoln Center. with the Nevada Opera, and Morris she try working with the comedian Townsend in Pasatieri's Washington Sid Caesar. The result, of course was His roles during the 1980-1981 Square, which he sang with the Your Show of Shows, for which she season will include Arkel in Pelleas et Augusta Opera. was to receive three Emmys Melisande, Timur in Turandot, Fer (nominated five times) and the rando in II Trovatore and Don coveted Peabody Award . Magnifico in Rossini's Cinderella. On Broadway, Miss Coca appeared in The Billy Rose Concert Revue, Janus and The Girls in 509. King Donovan was in the cast of the latter show. He and Miss Coca met, mar you ried and have toured the country numerous times together in such shows as Once Upon a Mattress, The ought to Fourposter, Luv, A Thurber Carnival and Prisoner of Second Avenue. know a Their most recent appearances have been in the Abe Burrows play Four DETROIT on a Garden, and in Deathtrap. Imogene Coca was last in Detroit at the Fisher Theatre as Letitia BANK-er Primrose, the batty evangelist in On the Twentieth Century - the role for which she was nominated for Broad ~ way's Tony Award in 1979 and DETROIT awarded the Los Angeles Drama BANK Critics Award in 1980. She has & TRUST appeared frequently with TV partner Sid Caesar in concerts and night clubs; the two were jointly honored recently with a special Emmy Award for outstanding artistry. 71 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre JOANNE DANTO, dance soloist at stage with Dame Margot Fonteyn for returning for this tenth anniversary the Fledermaus ball, was raised in more than 50 performances during season as a veteran of Michigan Detroit and began her dance studies that period. Her subsequent Opera Theatre's earliest days. When here under Joey Harris and Osvald appearances as principal dancer with David DiChiera first assembled area Lemanis. After academic and dance the Pennsylvania Ballet have won talent under the banner of Overture classes at the University of Indiana Miss Danto highest praise from all to Opera to perform excerpts from and New York University, she major dance critics, including Clive those works scheduled for the appeared in productions with the Barnes, Anna Kisselgoff and Arlene Metropolitan Opera tour, Doralene New York City Opera Company and Croce, who described her perfor Davis - then Doralene McNelly of the Frankfurt, Germany, Opera mance in "Concerto Barocco" as Pleasant Ridge - protrayed Aida Ballet Company. "one of the performing highlights of and Donna Elvira. amonq others. the dance season." Her professional debut with an Since then the acclaimed soprano American company was with the DORALENE DAVIS, who is sing has been a soloist in Handel's National Ballet in Washington, D.C. ing two performances as Anna in Messiah for five consecutive seasons She toured as a featured soloist with Don Giovanni, is - along with Jan with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In them for two seasons, sharing the Albright and Rodney Stenborg - 1979 she sang Haydn's Creation with Eugene Ormandy in Phil adelphia, in New York's Carnegie Hall and in the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. She has made many appearances with the Detroit Sym phony, Including a staged version of Strauss's Elektra conducted by Antal Dorat!.

Joanne Danto MATTEO DE MONTI, singing Sparafucile in both Italian and English language performances of Rigo/etto, made his Michigan Opera Theatre debut in the 1977-78 season as Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen. He has performed most extensively In England, where he studied voice with Audrey Langford and Andrew Field. Doralene Davl. De Monti's opera background in cludes roles In a number of unusual and distinctive works, such as Q1coc)!?te Riches at Walton's The Bear, Rossini's La Gazzetta and the world premiere of La Calisto by Cavalli. He sang rhtnrJ:= ti.ssirro Seneca in The Coronation of '--.J J~l~l ULTIM4TE IN ou:o~m Poppea at the Woburn Festival in England, and appeared for two SOMERSET MALL · TROY · (313) 6Ll 3-77 Ll 8 seasons as an apprentice artist at the Matteo de Monti Santa Fe Opera. He has also sung oratorio throughout Europe. BOB STERN BUILD,ING CO. Complete Building Services IL TRAVATORE. (Striking with their hammers upon anvils, In regular measure.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'~~~'~~g-~~~ ==-~-- - ~=- __ [email protected] ~ ~ ~ ~tJ1 Cbi del gi. ~ • no i gior. ni ,b· bel • I,' WAo maul "" gip • 'y'" CI life willa plea.ure la • cI.,.' -4- -.- /.-=- --.--::.. f. +~ .. :- -- -... :-=... --~~ ~~~,~~~~~g~:t===~- -~t::::::~.~~r~~tE=±r:: :';I11-==~ A Building Company of Note Bob Stern Helping to Build a Notable Opera Company. 557·3882

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1981 SCHEDULE LA GIOCONDA Monday, May 25 "THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY Tuesday, May 26 "MANON LESCAUT Wednesday, May 27 "QUEEN OF SPADES Thursday, May 28 TURANDOT Friday, May 29 "COSI FAN TUTTE Saturday matinee, May 30 "LA TRAVIATA Saturday evening, May 30

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For Additional Information Please Call 832-5200 73 Copyright 2010,to Scalia Michigan in the lille rOperaole of Puccini's Theatre "Monon Lescoul'" KING DONOVAN (Frosch in Die American tenor TONIO DI PAOLO Fledermaus) was born into show makes his MOT debut this season as business, the son of Keith-Albee the Duke in the English-language headliners Donovan & Lee. He was performances of Rigoletto. Other acting professionally in his teens and highlights of his 1980 schedule have by age twenty was featured on included a Houston Grand Opera Broadway in My Sister Eileen, debut in Die Fledermaus, Lucia di directed by George S. Kaufman. Lammermoor and Tristan und Isolde After four years in the Eighth Air for Washington Opera, Gurrelieder Force and several short-lived Broad for Sergiu Comissiona and the King Donovan Tonlo DIPaolo way runs, his career took him to Baltimore Symphony, and a Hollywood for some 50 films, Carnegie Hall debut in Bizet's Te including Singing in the Rain, Deum and Mozart's Coronation Mass Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The with the New York City Choral Defiant Ones, Cowboy and The Society conducted by Robert de Perfect Furlough. Cormier. When national television began mov As a member of the American Opera ing west, Mr. Donovan was active as matthews et al. Center of the Juilliard School of both actor and director: three fine apparel for women Music at Lincoln Center, Di Paolo seasons with Burns and Allen, four 148 pierce st. made his New York debut in the title with The Bob Cummings Show, one birmingham, mi. 48011 role of Chabrler's Le Rot Malgre Lui; with Please Don't Eat the Daisies. other roles with AOC included Steva Simultaneously, he could boast of a in Jenufa. His many appearances five-year period of literally non-stop with the San Francisco Opera theatre activity - acting and direc include the live national telecast of ting - in the Los Angeles area. phone: 642-3064 La Gioconda; and his performance Mr. Donovan's Broadway role in The in the Manhattan Theatre Club Girls in 509 led to his meeting and premiere of Conrad Susa's Transfor marrying Imogene Coca; this pro mations caused New Yorker critic duction of Die Fledermaus marks Andrew Porter to write that "if I were their 28th show (and first opera) a composer I should want to write together. music for him to sing."

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74 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre MARC EMBREE, who is singing MARK D. FLINT, conductor for Don Giovanni Die Fledermaus Don BY APPOINTMENT the title role in on Oc both and 882-3760 tober 12 and 17, is equally at home Giovanni, comes to his fourth season in opera, oratorio, recital and as Music Director of Michigan Opera musical comedy. His 1978 New Theatre directly from the Pennsyl York City Opera debut was as vania Opera Festival in Pittsburgh, Zuniga in Carmen ; he has since sung where he conducted their production Colline in La Boheme, Polkan in Le of Carmen. In December he will add Coq d'Or and Des Grieux in Manon to his responsibilities the role of L. KARL BATES both at the State Theatre in lincoln Music Director for Western Opera INTERIOR DESIGNER Center and on company tours to Los Theatre, for whom he is to conduct Angeles and Washington, D.C. Elixir of Love and Romeo and Juliet, repeating the latter work with the Mr . Embree has previously sung Don San Francisco Spring Opera. Giovanni with the Lake George The BATES & CO. Opera Festival and the Virginia For MOT Flint has conducted 912 LINCOLN Opera Association, and he will per Pearl Fishers, Carmen. La Boheme. GROSSE POINTE, form the same role later this season Showboat and The Student Prince; MICHIGAN 48230 in Annapolis and Chattanooga. He is he both staged and conducted tour a regular with the Opera Theatre of ing productions of Madame Butter St. Louis, where his roles have fly , La TraViata and Hansel and CARLISLE FLOYD is one of the included the Music Master in Ariadne Gretel. As Principal Conductor of the foremost composers of opera in the auf Naxos, Emmons in Paulus' The Lake George Opera Festival, he has United States today, and is no less Village Singer, Peutemann in Von led performances of The Merry distinguished as a director and Resnicek's opera Spiel oder Ernst Widow Don Giovanni, Student teacher. His Susannah, among the and the Speaker in The Magic Flute. Prin ce ~nd Madame Butterfly. most successful American operas This season he will return to St. ever written, premiered at Florida Louis as the Count in their Marriage Flint serves as Music Director of the State University in 1955 and was of Figaro. Young Resident Artists at Lake immediately included in the reper George, and is Director of the Young toire of New York City Opera. It was Artist Intern Program at MOT. This also selected for the innaugural spring he staged and conducted an season of the Metropolitan Opera acclaimed production of La Boheme National Company and was WILHELMENIA FERNANDEZ for the Los Angeles Opera and, in America's opera entry in the Brussels returns for her second consecutive March, not only staged MOT's tour World's Fair. During 1976 alone, season with Michigan Opera Theatre ing production of Don Pasquale, but Susannah received nineteen as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. also stepped in at the last moment to separate productions in England, Her debut here last season was as portray the title role. Germany and the United States. Musetta in La Boheme - the same role in which she had previously Subsequent to Susannah and Of triumphed at the Paris Opera. Hav Mice and Men, which premiered in ing 'first come to international atten 1970, Floyd wrote Bilby's Doll on tion as Bess in the Houston Opera commission for the Houston Grand Porgy and Bess on Broadway and on Opera, which first presented it in tour throughout Europe, the young 1976. It was also produced by soprano followed her last Omaha Opera later the same year. appearance here with a revival of La His current opera project is Willie Boheme in Paris and work in Europe Stark, based on Robert Penn War on her first feature film. Marc Embree Mark D. Flint ren's award-winning novel All the King's Men; commissioned by the A graduate of the Academy of Vocal Kennedy Center, it has been Arts in Philadelphia, her professional scheduled for performance in 1981. opera debut was in 1974 as Antonia Floyd holds the prestigious M.D. in Tales of Hoffmann with the New Anderson Professorship in the Dra-Mu Opera, where she subse School of Music. University of quently added Violetta in La Traviata Houston; he is also co-director of the and Marguerite in Faust to her Houston Opera Studio - a joint pro repertoire. ject of the university and Houston Grand Opera. He is currently chair Other credits include the title role in man of the newly created Opera Aida with the Kansas City Lyric Wllhelmenla Carlisle Floyd Musical Theatre Panel of the Opera (which will be revived next Fernandez National Endowment for the Arts. fall). Later this season she will sing His published works include four full Porgy and Bess with the Charlotte length operas, three one-act operas, Opera, and she is scheduled to open and a number of compositions for their 1981-82 season with another piano, orchestra and voice. La Boheme. 75 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Best Wishes

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ALEXANDRA HUGHES - Mad dalena in Rigoletto - received her Developers and owners Masters in Opera degree from the of regional retail Juilliard School, where her roles in centers throughout cluded Hermia in Midsummer the United States. Night's Dream and La Natura in Cavalli's La Calisto. A winner of the Connecticut Opera Guild annual competition, she recently sang Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro for the New York Opera Ensemble, as well as working with the Bel Canto Opera and The American Opera Center. ROBERT GUARINO. who is Don HOWARD HENSEL (Gabriel von Ottavio in this season's performances Eisenstein in two Die Fledermaus This summer Alexandra fulfilled her of Don Giovanni, has previously performances) made his debut with first apprenticeship with the Santa Fe appeared with the Lake George the New York City Opera in 1975 Opera Company, where she sang Opera Festival, the St. Paul Opera, and has made numerous appear Annina in La Traviata. Providence Opera Theatre, Eastern ances with that company since. This Opera Theatre of New York, and versatile tenor was featured in the Brooklyn Opera Society, among East Coast premiere of Thomas others. He was highly praised in The Pasatieri's The Seagull (which he has ROBERT JARED, lighting designer New York Times recently for his per recorded for Primavera Records), for Of Mice and Men, has just com formance as Nemorino in L'Elisir and has sung leading roles with the pleted lighting designs for the full d 'Amore. Houston, Baltimore , Miami, Des 1980 repertory of the Pacific Moines, Arizona, Washington, and Conservatory for the Performing Mr. Guarino has appeared in concert Charlotte opera companies. Mr. Arts . A graduate of Birmingham at the Waterloo Music Festival in Hensel was soloist with the Seaholm High School, Albion Col New Jersey, with the Eastern Con Washington National Symphony in lege and the Yale School of Drama, necticut Symphony, the Long Island the Beethoven Symphony No.9, as he was on the MOT lighting staff last Choral Society, and with the Boston well as singing the tenor part in season and has worked with such Symphony at Tanglewood, where Bach's B Minor Mass at Kennedy designers as Tharon Musser, he was awarded a fellowship for two Center . Additional orchestra,l, Thomas Skelton, Marilyn Rennagel summers. His many other awards engagements include the Pittsburgh and David F. Segal. include first prize in the 1978 and Baltimore Symphonies. Liederkranz Foundation Awards, Mr. Jared created lighting for Yale first prize in the Washington Interna Upcoming dates for Mr. Hensel in Repertory Theatre premiere produc tional Competition for Singers, and a clude return engagements with the tions of The Bundle by Edward National Arts Club Award. Pittsburgh Symphony and the Wolf Bond, Terra Nova, Guesswork and Trap Festival; he sings Danilo in The Identity Crisis. He was principal MOT Pub Crawl Merry Widow with the Miami Opera, designer for the entire touring reper a Beethoven Ninth with the Virginia tory of the Connecticut Ballet Com Thursday, October 30 Festival of the Arts , and Don Jose in pany, and for the 1978 and 1979 details in lobby a Minnesota Opera Carmen. Connecticut Dance Festivals. 76 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 77 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre RADIO' 1090 AM

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78 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre EDWARD KINGINS, singing appearances have included an Alfred in two performances of Die engagement at the Village Gate in F/edermaus, is one of several New York City, as well as numerous veterans of MOT's earlier production television and radio commercials. of the same operetta to return for this anniversary season. He has also been featured at MOT in The Merry CHARLES LONG, who sings the Widow, Boris Godunov, Regina, title role in Italian language perform Mary Callaghan ances of Rigo/etto, will be Carmen and the tour of Lucia di Lynch Charles Long Lammermoor. He was principal remembered by MOT audiences as tenor in Des Moines Metro Opera As a choreographer Miss Levine has Tonio in our 1979 Pagliacci. He Festival productions of La Rondine worked with the Spoleto Festival, the comes to Detroit this season directly and /I Tabarro, and made his Metropolitan Opera National Com from New York City Opera, where Cleveland Opera debut last spring as pany and City Center Opera, among he has been appearing as Figaro in Edgardo in their Lucia. others. Her Broadway choreography Barber of Seville. A former Belle Isle Auditions winner, credits include Pantagleize, War and A native of Pittsburgh,· Long made he has appeared as soloist on Peace, The Grass Harp and The his New York City Opera debut as numerous occasions with the Detroit Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana and has Symphony, Detroit Chamber Television credits include NBC since added Tonio, Escamillo in Orchestra, Detroit Concert Band and Opera, NET Opera, DuPont Show Carmen, Rance in Fanciulla del the Buffalo Philharmonic. He has of the Month, Story Theatre, West, Marcello in La Boheme, also sung with the Flint Symphony, National Theatre of the Deaf and a Count Almaviva in Marriage of the Saginaw Symphony, the CBS special entitled The Gershwin Figaro and Ford in Fa/staff to his Kalamazoo Symphony, Scandina Years. repertoire there, as well as with other vian Symphony and the Niagara major companies throughout the Falls Philharmonic. MARY CALLAGHAN LYNCH, world . He has been acclaimed at the who is singing Zerlina in Don Charleston Spoleto Festival in the Giovanni, has previously worked title roles of two unusual works, Cim with MOT in Madame Butterfly, marosa's II Marito Desperato and Naughty Marietta, and The Student Donizetti's /I Furioso dell Iso/a di San Prince, among others. Last season ta Domingo. she was Musetta in La Boheme with The handsome baritone's future MOT and the Allen Park Symphony, schedule includes Lescaut in Manon and Gretel in our touring production Lescaut in Seattle, John Proctor in of Hansel and Gretel. Edward Klnglns Rhoda Levine The Crucible with Kentucky Opera, Ms. Lynch began her studies with the Achilla in New York City Opera's RHODA LEVINE, director of Interlochen Opera Theatre, where revival of Giulio Cesare and his Rigoletto, has won acclaim as both she worked with Boris Goldovsky, Opera Company of Philadelphia director and choreographer in and received her BFA from Mary debut in the title role of Eugene theatres and opera houses on two grove College . Her professional Onegin. continents. MOT audiences have enjoyed her distinctive approach twice before, in productions of Friends of the Program Book Mozart's Magic Flute and the dual bill of Emperor Jones and Pagliacci. Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Morgenstein Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Mr. and Mrs . Bernd E. Mueller Associates, Inc. Miss Levine came to international Dr . Brian & Antonia Sanchez-Murphy "B" and Daisy Starkweather attention with the world premiere Mr. and Mrs . Walter R. Naas Brad & Bobbi Stevens production of The Emperor of Atlan Barbara Osborn Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stocker tis for the Netherlands Opera - a Rev. Thaddeus J . Ozog Ulrich Stoll company with which she has fre Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Papp Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Sublette quently been associated, most Mr . and Mrs. Charles A. Parcells, Jr. Salvatore and Martha Tabacco recently in last season's new produc Nicholas and Leslie Parsons Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Targan tion of Macbeth . She has also Dr. and Mrs. Branko Peric, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. C . Thomas Toppin directed often for the San Francisco Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Pitts M. C. Turowski Opera, including Tancredi, Savitri, Blanche and David Pollack Mr. and Mrs. Allan H. Tushman L 'Amico Fritz and last season's Good Dr. Seymour D. and Susan Raynes Mr. and Mrs. Gerald S. Viedrah Soldier Schweik, which she also Mr. and Mrs. Mayford L. Roark Warren Pipe & Supply Company choreographed. This summer she Geneva and Hans Rogind Irma J. Wertz created a new production of Salome Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Rosenfeld Mr. and Mrs . F. E. Westlake for Teresa Stratas at the National Mr. and Mrs . Aaron R. Ross Justice and Mrs . G. Mennen Williams Opera of Greece in Athens, and her Marion E. Ryan (Mrs. Isadore) Beryl Winkelman 1980-81 schedule includes a revival Emanuel Sahanek Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Woityra of her 1977 Lulu and a new Don Mr. and Mrs. Irving E. Shirley Michigan Sclerotherapy Center Quichotte, both for Netherlands Miss Frances Singer (Dr. and Mrs. J . D. ZeBrankek) Opera. Lee William Slazinski Mr . and Mrs. Stephen A. Zipay 79 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre BARBARA MEISTER the vibrant green-eyed redhead returns to Michigan Opera Theatre to play Adele in three performances of Die Fledermaus. She is well-known to audiences in the Detroit area through her performances as Magnolia in MOT's Show Boat and as Maria - a role for which Richard Barbara Meister Rodgers selected her personally - in the national company of Sound of Music at the Fisher Theatre. She has also appeared in concert at Grosse Pointe War Memorial with her hus band David Bender, with whom she has concertized throughout the United States and Europe.

Television audiences have seen F Barbara in guest appearances on Today, The Mike Douglas Show, Bell Telephone Hour and special TV productions of The Mikado and West Side Story. She has starred at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse with Jean Pierre Aumont and in Atlanta with Dick Van Dyke. Her Los Angeles Civic Light Opera appear • ances include Candide and a pro duction of Die Fledermaus in which she co-starred_e_ with Cyril Ritchard.

This season's Die Fledermaus is the fifth full-length MOT production to the credit of stage director DOMINIC MISSIMI, who has been responsible in past seasons for Naughty Marietta, Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, and a second produc tion of The Pearl Fishers at Matrix: Midland. For MOT Opera-In-Resi dence he also directed one-act pro Dominic Mlsslml ductions of Rumplestiltskin and Rita, and for the Music Hall Center he created stagings of EI Capitan and Bernstein's Mass.

Missimi received his BA from the University of Detroit, later serving on that school's faculty while obtaining a Masters from Wayne State. He has taught and administered in the arts at And we're part of that future. We're "Wheelman" by Ted Gall from the University of DetrOit , Marygrove Col the men and women of Borg-Warner's Borg-Warner collection. This powerful lege and Long Island University in Transportation Equipment Group. contemporary sculpture suggests the New York. He returned to the Mid Suppliers of over 100 components for complex relationship of man and his west to direct the premiere of the almost any vehicle that rolls-on the invention, the wheel. road or off the road. Working in 44 Leslie Bricusse musical Scrooge and plants worldwide. Helping our cus- Transportation Equipment Group the Chicago Opera Theatre's ltalian tamers respond to the imperatives of Borg -Warner Corporation Girl in Algiers. conservation, economy and safety. 3001 West Big Beaver Road Finding answers. Inventing tomorrow. Troy, Michigan 48084 Watch us. We' re rolling. FolloWing this production of Die Fledermaus, Mr. Missimi has been signed to stage Puccini's La Rondine in Chicago and Verdi's La Traviata in Augusta.

80 80212 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Baritone GEORGE MASSEY, Dr. Faulke In this season's Die Fleder maus, began his professional career as a charter member of the Cincin nati Opera Ensemble. He was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions and a na tional finalist In both the WGN Audi tions of the Air and the Washington Curt Ostermann International Competition George Massey Robert Moulson Leigh Munro LEIGH MUNRO, who is singing Fledermaus for Boston Opera and A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Mr . Gilda in our Italian-language Zerlina in the New York City Opera's Massey debuted last season with the performances of Rigoletto, made an Don Giovanni this February. San Francisco Opera in Gianni indelible impact on Michigan Opera Schicchi and La FanciuJ/a del West. Theatre patrons in Bizet's The Pearl Last season also saw him in Jackson Fishers two seasons ago. She comes CURT OSJERMANN, lighting ville for L'Elisir d'Amore, in Palm to us this season directly from her designer for Rigoletto, has designed Beach forLa Boheme and Cosi fan New York City Opera debut as Kathy the lighting for productions at the tutte, and debuting with the Min in The Student Prince . New York Shakespeare Festival, nesota Orchestra In The Messiah. A Manhattan Theatre Club, Hudson frequent soloist with the Cincinnati It was as Gilda that Miss Munro first Guild, Circle Repertory, Missouri May Festival, he has also sung with appeared with Sarah Caldwell's Repertory Theatre, Wolftrap and the symphonies in San Antonio, Boston Opera, later adding Susanna Hartford Stage Company. He Jacksonville and San Francisco. in Marriage of Figaro. She received designed 'lighting for the New York standing ovations and world-wide premiere of the Richard Owen opera press attention in 1978 as a last Mary Dyer, and for Manhattan minute replacement for Anna Moffo School of Music p~oductions of in Boston Opera's production of Hindemith's News of the Day and Verdi's Stiffelio. Since then she has Rota's The Italian Straw Hat. been seen as Magda in La Rondine ROBERT MOULSON, who will with the San Francisco Spring Mr. Ostermann was assistant lighting portray Lennie for three perform Opera, The Bohemian Girl in Cen designer for the Broadway produc ances, created his role in Of Mice tral City and Lucia di Lammermoor tions of I Ought to be in Pictures, and Men for the world premiere with in LOUisville, plus concert ap Children of a Lesser God, Clothes the Seattle Opera Company. He has pearances in Atlanta, Milwaukee and for a Summer Hotel, Romantic sung it since in many cities and the Hollywood Bowl. Comedy, Tribute and Cold Storage. returned to Seattle for the 1976 A graduate of the University of revival. He began his formal voice Following her MOT performances, Michigan and NYU, he teaches at training after high school, when he the soprano's busy season will the Parsons School of Design and turned down a football scholarship at include Norina in Don Pasquale in was the recipient of the J .S. Seid Auburn University and registered at Baltimore, Gretel and Adele in Die man Award. ·the University of Georgia. Further study followed at the New England Conservatory. Then on the advice of Jerome Hines he went to New York and within a year became a winner of GOOD SHOW! the Experimental Opera Auditions, sang in New Orleans and made his debut with the New York City Opera Company in Carlisle Floyd's Susan YOUR SPEAR CARRIERS nah. A year's study in Milan followed before he returned to sing in Central WENDY and JEFFREY ROTH City, Boston, San Francisco, Kansas City, Chautauqua, and on tour for two seasons with Kurt Adler's Golden Curtain Quartet. He has COMPLETE EXPORT SHIPPING SERVICE given more than 350 performances SPECIALISTS IN HEA VY MACHINERY BOXING of leading tenor roles in Hanover, EXPERT PACKAGING TO ALL SPECIFICATIONS Frankfurt, Cologne, Stuttgart, Bonded Warehouse International Freight Forwarders Dusseldorf and Bonn. On this side of Containerization FMC1524 lATA 01-1-4201 Consolidation Local Truck Service the Atlantic he has recently perform NOW IN ITS 40TH YEAR ed in Rigoletto in Central City, Don Carlos in Vancouver, CavaJ/eria Florida Rusticana and I Pagliacci in Edmon ,,~:;:'" [I KENNEW' ~ ... ~ II Operations ton and in Susannah in Mobile and (313) 822-3116 ~ -~ / Fort Worth. TWX: 810-221-1210 563 LYCASTE. DETROIT, MI48214 Port of Palm Beach 81 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre phony Hall, as well as performing the lighting designer for the Oldsmobile St. Matthew Passion with the Chorus show for the past two years. Pro Musica. Mr. Poulimenos is cur rently on the faculty of Bowling CHARLES ROE, singing Eisenstein Green State University. in four performances of Die Fleder maus, holds a very special place in the first decade of Michigan Opera MARILYN RENNAGEL, who is Theatre. Through 1977-78, he was Lout. Otey Andrea. Poullmeno. designing the lighting for Don the only principal singer to appear in Giovanni as well as serving as every MOT season at the Music Hall. lighting consultant for the overall His roles here have included Captain season, will be remembered by MOT Dick in Naughty Marietta, Prince Karl patrons for her work last season on Franz in Student Prince, DanilO- in Joan of Arc and II Trovatore. In Merry Widow, Figaro in Barber of Miami she designed lighting for Seville and Eisenstein in our previous Rigoletto and La Fanciulla del West; Die Fledermaus. and in Dallas she has designed Aida, The Barber of Seville, Manon and La Mr. Roe has become a favorite at the Traviata. New York City Opera through such Marilyn Rennagel Charln Roe roles as Eisenstein, Papageno in Ms. Rennagel was recently Magic Flute, Silvio in Pagliacci, Franz LOUIE OTEY makes his Michigan represented on Broadway by the in Die Tote Stadt and the baritone Opera Theatre debut as Slim in Of lighting of Clothes for a Summer soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana. Mice and Men. A member of Carlisle Hotel and Peter Allen Up in One. Last month he opened the New York Floyd's Houston Opera Studio, he She has created lighting for such City Opera season as Dr. Engel in appeared last season with Houston entertainers as Rod Stewart, Billy their new production of The Student Grand Opera as Montano in Otello Preston, Linda Ronstadt, Diana Ross Prince. and as Yamadori and the Imperial and Bernadette Peters. She recently Commissioner in Madame Butterfly. designed the Los Angeles Civic Light On the concert stage Charles Roe Opera production of On a Clear Day has sung with symphony orchestras While studying with Ethel Maxwell at You Can See Forever, and was in Wichita and Duluth, as well as at Memphis State University, Mr . Otey lighting consultant for the Barry Artpark, Meadowbrook and the appeared with Opera Memphis as Manilow World Tour. She has been Caramoor Festival. Silvio in I Pagliacci and Angelotti in Tosca, with Southern Opera Theatre as Dandini in Cinderella, Sharpless in Madame Butterfly and Father in BREAKF AST-LUNCH-DINNER Hansel and Gretel, and with the Memphis Oratorio Society as Raphael in Haydn's Creation and Joseph in Berlioz' Childhood of Christ.

ANDREAS POULIMENOS, sing ing the title role in three perfor mances of Don Giovanni, will be remembered by MOT patrons for DETROIT'S MOST TH EATRICAL two roles last season: Marcello in La DELI-RESTAURANT Boheme and Lionel in Joan of Arc. Michigan audiences have also seen FEATURING him as Sharpless in Madame Butter BEFORE & AFTER THE THEATRE fly for MOT, as Don Alfonso in Cosi SNACKS & MEALS SERVED IN A SETTING fan tutte with Michigan State Univer THAT TAKES YOU TO sity and as Falstaff for the Opera BROADWAY & BACKSTAGE Association of Western Michigan .

Mr. Poulimenos was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera New England OPEN 7 DAYS Regional Auditions and the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Rome. He appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra under 1020 WEST SEVEN MILE ROAD AT Arthur Fiedler in the nationally tele WOODWARD AVENUE vised Canticle of Christmas, and has DETROIT - (313) 892-9645 sung Messiah at both the Worchester Music Festival and in Boston's Sym- 82 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 1Juick~. When a car lookS tI\iS good, it's nice to knOW it is tIds good.

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83 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre GEORGE SHIRLEY, appearing in The Marriage of Figaro . She made four times as Alfred in Die Fleder her European debut as Flordiligi In maus, grew up in Detroit, studied at Cosi fan tutte at the 1977 and 1978 Wayne State University, and has Spoleto Festivals. gone on to become one of America's most exciting and versatile tenors. [n constant demand for orchestral His previous Michig1.1n Opera appearances, Miss Smith has a Theatre performance - as Pinkerton J I.~~ repertOire ranging from standard in Madame Butterfly at Matrix: George Shirley works such as the Schubert Mass in Midland - was acclaimed by critics G and The Messiah to such contem and audiences alike in the summer of porary pieces as Les Noces and The 1978. Children's Crusade by Pierne. She has sung the Verdi Requiem with Mr . Shirley's opera credits include La Eugene Ormandy and the Mozart Boheme in Tokyo and again - Exsultate in Cleveland. opposite Monserrat Caballe - for the Connecticut Opera Association; i Shuisky in Boris Godunov in Tulsa; Alma Jean Smith Rodney Stenborg It is fitting indeed that ITALO TAJO, Loge in Das Rheingold at Royal director of Don Giovanni, be part of Last season saw Mr . Stenborg with this MOT anniversary season; for he Opera Covent Garden, and major the Houston Grand Opera, perform appearances with the Metropolitan was the director of the very first full ing a widely acclaimed lago in Otello length production presented by Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San as well as Sharpless in Madame But Francisco Opera , Netherlands Overture to Opera, Rossini's Barber terfly , Kothner in an English version of Seville in 1970. He later returned Opera, Teatro Colon in Buenos of Meistersinger and Oscar Hubbard Aires, the Scottish Opera, L'Opera to the rechristened Michigan Opera in Blitzstein's Regina. He also spent Theatre to mount a new production de Monte Carlo and summer festivals part of last season in Memphis as at Glyndebourne and Santa Fe . of the same opera in 1975. His direc Ezio in Verdi's Attila, with Met basso ting credits with other major com Jerome Hines (who will be in concert He has sung Mahler's Das Liede von panies include Don Quichotte for der Erde in Indianapolis, Dublin and with MOT this season) in the title Chicago's Lyric Opera and another · role. Tehran; the Strauss Electra with Barber of Seville in Seattle. Artist in Antal Dorati and the Detroit Sym Rodney Stenborg was engaged for Residence and Professor of Voice phony, and the Verdi Requiem with several years with the Staedtischen and Opera at the University of Cin the Philadelphia Orchestra under Buehnen of Osnabrueck and Ober cinnati College Conservatory of Eugene Ormandy both at the Phila hausen, Germany; he also made Music , he has also served as Director delphia Academy of Music and at many guest appearances throughout of Productions at the International New York's Carnegie Hall. Holland. Locally, he has sung with Opera Festival in Barga, Italy . both the Pontiac Symphony and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It is, however, as one of the foremost RODNEY STENBORG, a native basso voices of his time that Italo born Detroiter who now lives in ALMA JEAN SMITH, who will sing Tajo achieved his first and greatest · -Houston, is singing the title role in three Rosalindas in Die Fledermaus fame. He began to perform at age 11 Rigoletto for the first time in his this season, won the coveted in his hometown of Pinerolo, Italy , career in MOT's English-language Metropolitan Opera National Audi and made his opera debut in Turin in performances this Fall . Technically tions In 1974. Since then, she has 1935. He has since mastered an he is also making his Michigan Opera been a regular member of the Met astounding 160 roles, performing in Theatre debut, although he was very company; her roles there have virtually every major opera house in involved in the performances of included Papagena in The Magic the world - including the Metro- . Overture to Opera out of which MOT Flute, Nlade in Ariadne auf Naxos, . politan, Covent Garden, Paris Opera evolved. Tebaldo in Don Carlo and Barbarina and La Scala.

84 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ELIZABETH WAKEFIELD, Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men, is a native of Michigan who has previously appeared with MOT in The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus and The Student Prince, in which she sang the leading role of Kathy. She was also one of the pioneers in • the Opera-In-Residence program . Cuolyn Val·Schmldt Elizabeth Wakefield She has been a scholarship student W. Anthony Waters Richard Winkler at Interlochen, the University of CAROLYN VAL·SCHMIDT, who Michigan, the Hochschule fur Musik RICHARD WINKLER, lighting is Donna Anna in three perform in Munich and Indiana University, designer for Die Fledermaus, has ances of Don Giovanni, debuted where she received her Master of designed for the past six seasons of with the Metropolitan Opera in the Music degree. the Dallas Civic Opera. Some of his widely-acclaimed production of Ben credits include La Cenerentola, jamin Britten's Death in Venice. Last Ms. Wakefield has sung with the Rigoletto, La Boheme, Salome and season she pleased both audiences New York Lyric Opera, the Bronx Madame Butterfly. For the 0reater and critics as Donna Anna in Artists Opera, the National Opera Com Miami Opera Guild he created the Internationale's production of Don pany and Western Michigan Opera; lighting design for The Abduction Giovanni, which featured Justino her roles have included Musetta in and for the Houston Grand Opera he Diaz in the title role. La Boheme, Norina in Don Pas· recreated his Cenerentola. quale, Martha and others. She has Miss Val-Schmidt has sung leading sung in concert for Columbia Artists His Broadway designs include the roles at the Temple University Music in New York and throughout the current Your Arms Too Short to Box Festival, the Lake George Opera United States; she recently returned With God, and Shirley Bassey Can· Festival and Asolo Opera. She was a from a concert tour of Europe. cert, Something's Afoot, Best Friend member of the Mini-Met, and and The Play's the Thing. He has created the role of Betsy Hamilton in supervised lighting for The Concert the AI Carmines opera The Duel. starring Frank Sinatra, both of Her professional debut was with the Shirley MacLaine's Palace Theatre Turnau Opera, where she starred in engagements, George Benson at the the roles of Countess in Le Nozze di W. ANTHONY WATERS, who is Belasco and Ashford and Simson at Figaro and Belissa in Don Perlimplin. conducting Rigoletto this season, is the Palace. Miss Val-Schmidt inaugurated making his second appearance on BONNIE WHALEN, who designed Manhattan's Soho Baroque Opera the MOT podium; he was the con the costumes for Carlisle Floyd's Of Company in performances featuring ductor for last season's acclaimed Mice and Men, is in her fourth works of Rameau, Gretry, Tele production of II Trovatore. season as wardrobe coordinator for mann, Paisiello and Cimarosa. Michigan Opera Theatre. A graduate Mr. Waters has been associated with of the University of Detroit with a On the concert stage Miss Val the Greater Miami Opera, Memphis Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design, she Schmidt has been soloist with the Opera Theatre, and Opera South, has worked with the New York esteemed Clarion Concerts in among others. At San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Santa Fe performances of Messiah, Mozart's Opera he served as musical assistant Opera and two seasons of Michigan's Requiem and Poulenc's Gloria. She to General Director Kurt Herbert Matrix:Midland Festival. has appeared with the Newport Adler. His conducting credits include Music Festival in its 1978 and 1979 Abduction from the Seraglio, Don In the Detroit area, Miss Whalen has seasons, and has been soloist for Pasquale, Trouble in Tahiti, worked with the Harbinger Dance several seasons with the Joffrey Carmen, and Amahl and the Night Company, Meadowbrook Theatre Ballet. Visitors. and Greenfield Village Players.

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great artistry of Corelli's full-throated Corelli personifies the romantic voice and clarion thrust in the upper Italian tenor and, what's better, he register won him legions of admirers. looks the part. It is quite possible to see why a Tosca, a Juliette or a Franco Corelli first became known to Turandot could fall in love with a American music lovers in the film Cavaradossi, a Romeo, or a Prince version of Tosca with Franca Duval. Calaf, if that lover is the imposing In January, 1961, his long-awaited and dashing Mr. Corelli. To this must Metropolitan Opera debut took place be added critic Alan Rich's ap when he sang the role of Manrico to preciative comments, "It's Mr. Cor Leontyne Price's Leonora in II elli, hands down. There is no tenor in Trouatore, a glittering debut for both modern times, Italian or otherwise, artists. Commenting on Corelli's whose voice rings out with greater voice, critic Harold C. Schonberg vibrancy, whose every tone carries wrote in The New York Times, "It with it emotion at white heat. The has something of an exciting animal sounds he makes, seemingly without drive about it, and when Mr. Core IIi effort, are dazzlingly bright, urgent FRANCO CORELLI Is unique in lets loose he can dominate the and communicative." the singing world today in confessing ensemble." that he is entirely self-taught. Born in Franco Corelli has sung in every the town of Ancona on the Adriatic Since his Metropolitan debut and major opera house throughout the Sea - the region in Italy known as subsequent performances at that world, including the Metropolitan, "The Marches" - Mr. Corelli verifies opera house, he has also sung with La Scala, Vienna, San Francisco, the tradition that beautiful voices are the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago, Covent Garden, Paris, born in this region. In this he follows San Francisco Opera where he has Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Buenos a distinguished precedent set by such brought artistic finesse, colorful Aires, Munich, Moscow, Florence, other great singers from the area as individuality and an intensity of feel Palermo and Verona. He has also Gigli, Tebaldi, Siepi, Del Monaco ing to a variety of roles. As the herald sung recitals in Japan, Australia, and Cerquetti. of a new generation of bel canto New Zealand, Russia and the Far artists, he not only ranges from East. Mr. Corelli first chose engineering as dramatic stage roles to exquisite a career, but at the insistence of Neapolitan songs and inspirational Mr. Corelli has also shared many friends, entered the vocal competi songs of a religious genre, but he has joint recitals with the famed soprano tion at Florence's Maggio Musicale also starred in revivals of neglected Renata Tebaldi throughout the and won it - with no previous masterpeices such as Meyerbeer's Gli world. One of the most recorded formal training! Nor has he had any Ugonotti and Handel's Giulio artists of all time, Corelli has made since; his only teacher in voice pro Caesare. over 50 albums of complete operas, duction has been his collection of operatic arias, duets, Neapolitan and records, especially those of Caruso. In every sense of the word, Franco religious songs. For years he listened to these record ings, analyzing, imitating and learn "Baldwin . .. brilliant tone combines admirably with the ing - learning so well that the New multi-colored sound of a great orchestra and York Post could later write "he is welcome addition to it's tonal palette." conceivably the greatest tenor cur ANTAL DORA TI rently occupied in the business of Music Director of Detroit Symphony Orchestra Italian opera." Core IIi's formal operatic debut in 1952 at Spoleto as Don Jose in Carmen was followed by an equally successful appearance at the Rome Grands, Spinets Opera House in Zandonai's Giulietta Consoles & e Romeo. In 1954 he opened the Studios season at Milan's famed La Scala in The choice of concert artists, musIcians and over Spontlni's La Vesta/e, returning to 1,000,000 satisfied customers. For over 117 years, open the 1960 season with Maria BALDWIN has been the standard of touch tone and Callas in Donizettl's Poliuto. durability. - Buy BALDWIN ... the BEST costs no more! Engagements followed throughout O.lroll 875-7100 Italy and in Paris, Munich, Berlin, Birmingham 847·11n O.arbom His. 278-1324 Smiley Brothers'" Stuttgart, Salzburg, Vienna and Lon Roch.sl.r 852-8283 "A TRUSTED NAME IN MUSIC" , , don's Covent Garden, where the 88 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ll~ ~(Q)~~~I&u ~(Q)W~WiUlli3~I& n ®9 n ®®(Q\ [F(Q)I&@ #1@@llu(Q)I&ll@WiU as Boris Godunou, Attila, King Each year, in addition to his perform Phillip II in Don Carlo, the title role in ances at the Metropolitan, Mr . Hines Don Quichotte, Mephistopheles in all gives numerous concerts with three operas dealing with the Faust orchestra and in recital; his solo legend (Boito's Mefistofele, performances in the United States Gounod's Faust, and The Damna and Canada number well over 1200. tion of Faust by Berlioz), Wotan in Das Rheingold and Die Walkure, Jerome Hines's forays into the Silva in Ernani, Gurnemanz in Par Broadway musical have proven to be sifal, Zaccaria in Nabucco and many eminently successful. His interpreta others. tions of Emile de Becque in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific have evoked critical praise that In 1953 Jerome Hines made recalled the success of Ezio Pinza in operatic history as the first native the role; and his Don QUixote in Man born American to sing the title role in of La Mancha has earned kudos Boris Godunou at the Met or, from both audiences and critics alike. indeed, at any major theatre in the world. Thus began an association Born in Hollywood, California with this greatest of all bass parts that (where his father was an associate continues still today. In the 1975-76 movie producer), his first foray into season Mr. Hines scored one of his music at age 11 was unceremoni Celebrating his thirty-fifth con greatest triumphs when he again ously terminated by his being kicked secutive season at the Metropolitan sang Boris Godunov at the Metro out of the Junior High Glee Club Opera during the 1980-81 season, politan Opera House. His 30th because he "couldn't carry a tune." JEROME HINES breaks all records season with the company was feted Yet by the time he had graduated for a major artist's continued associa with a gala on-stage ceremony from UCLA with degrees in tion with that company. Besides his attended by luminaries of the music chemistry, mathematics and physics, distinguished career at the Metro world as well as Governor Byrne of he had already appeared with the politan, the six-foot-six singer from New Jersey, who had just pro San Francisco Opera, the New California has won renown in all the claimed January 6, 1976, Jerome Orleans Opera, the Los Angeles great lyric theatres of the world - Hines Day for that state. During the Civic Light Opera, and the Los the Bolshoi, La Scala, Teatro Coton 1979-80 season Mr. Hines appeared AngeJes Philharmonic with Sir John in Buenos Aires, the Wagner Festival at the Metropolitan in Le Prophete, Barbirolli. in Bayreuth, Teatro Massimo in Eugene Onegin, Rigoletto, Don Palermo, and many others. Carlo and Parsifal. In the coming Mr. Hines now resides in New Jersey season he will appear in Poulenc's and is married to the Italian soprano, The repertoire of Mr. Hines encom Dialogues des Carmelites and Saint Lucia Evangelista. 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MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE'S movement, acting, stage fighting, and participate in as many rehearsals Artist Intern Program, now in its role interpretation and vocal as possible. second full year, offers talented coaching - all conducted by a young American singers an oppor distinguished group of artist-teachers The benefits of the Artist Intern Pro tunity to combine an intensive ten under the general direction of Music gram are twofold: the training and week training program with profes Director Mark D . Flint. experience it offers are invaluable to sional performance experience in the participants' individual careers, MOT's major productions. This Interns form the core of the chorus in and the careful development of season eighteen singers from all parts the four MOT fall productions, and promising young talent will create a of the country were chosen - after many have the opportunity to per new generation of exciting perfor extensive auditions - to come to form featured and comprimario mances - not only at MOT, but in Detroit for this unique program . roles; this season, for example, such opera houses throughout the world. roles as Frank in Die Fledermaus, From their first day at the Music Hall Curley in Of Mice and Men , the We are pleased to introduce this (or rehearsal facilities at the Leland Commandante in Don Giovanni and season's MOT Artist Interns; and we House) to the final performance of Count Monterone in Rigoletto will be are sure that if you refer back to this the season, MOT interns are caught performed by MOT interns. Others, program book at some point in the up in a hectic schedule of classes , who have been assigned principal future , you will be reminded that rehearsals and performances. Their roles to cover (or understudy), will be more than one major career was areas of workshop and study include required to prepare them thoroughly developed here this season .

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COLEEN DOWNEY first appeared JAMES R. LONGACRE, a native CAROL MADALIN is in her second on the Music Hall stage in the of Philadelphia, received his BM season as a MOT Artist Intern . A choruses of Leonard Bernstein's from the Philadephia College of Per· graduate of the University of Mass and EI Capitan. Her roles at forming Arts in Opera. He was a Michigan's School of Music, her roles MOT have included Papagena in featured soloist with the All· here last season included Inez in II The Magic Flute and Nanette in Philadelphia Boys' Choir and Men's Trovatore with Martina Arroyo and Naughty Marietta . She was a Chorale for performances which Hansel in our touring production of member of the MOT Artist Intern included the Bob Hope Special Hansel and Gretel. This summer at program last season, and has just taped in Peking, China, and a com Midland she was featured in returned from the 1980 Opera mand performance for Anwar Sadat Menotti's The Old Maid and the Festival at Lake George, NY. in Alexandria, Egypt. He has ap Thief. Carol has received the Henry peared in supporting roles with the E. Wenger Award in the Detroit Opera Company of Philadelphia, as Grand Opera Association auditions. well as in dinner theatres and com mercials. He will make his debut with Opera Omaha this season as Little Bat in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, directed by the composer.

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102 © 1980 Florists' Transworld Delivery. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre CONTRIBUTORS (continued from page 31) Mr. and Mrs . Edmond B. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Firaneck Mrs. Margret Coss Paul P. Fischer Randi Besbris Mr . and Mrs . Robert Courter Mr . and Mrs. Vernon F. Fishtahler Dr. H . L. Bienenfeld Anne D. Curtis Mrs . D.W. Flom Dr. and Mrs. Eric Billes Miss Phyllis S . Day Mrs. William Flournoy Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bird Mr. Loren A. Deer Mr. and Mrs . Gordon T. Ford The Birmingham Musicale Jon M. DeHorn Dr. and Mrs. William R. Fulgenzi Rev. Hal Blay Peggy deSalle Mr. and Mrs. George W. Funk Alice M. Bone Mary A. De Tomaso Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell T. Gail Mr . and Mrs . Thomas Bonner R.C . Dickenman, M.D. Albert Bonucchi Constance P .K. Dickinson Mary L. Borgerson Norrene M. Dreffs Robert S. Boris Lawrence M. DuCharme Mr. Richard F. Borsos Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Duncan Great Success In Your Mr . and Mrs. William A. Bostick Dorothy Duris 10th Season Ruth E. Bozian Mr . and Mrs. Peter Dusina, Jr. Robert A. Braun, M.D. Alexander E. Dziewit Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bright Patricia Eames Proto-Dynamics Mr. and Mrs . E. David Brockman Mr. a.nd Mrs. David K. Easlick Manufacturing Corp. Dominick R. Carnovale Dr. George T. Eldis 34197 Doreka Dr. Albert E. Chabot Maya Elmer Allan Christie Mrs. Richard C. Ensign Fraser, Michigan 48026 Mr. and Mrs . H.S. Christner Wayne C . Everly (313) 294-0500 Judge and Mrs. Gus Cifelli Drusilla Farwell Foundation Mr. and Mrs . Stanley J . Clamage Mr. and Mrs . Louis F. Felder Mr. and Mrs. Frederick K. Cody Mrs . Jerome J. Fellrath ~fgrs Proto-Type John H. Coleman Mrs. Harold B. Fenech Sheet ~etal Parts Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colker David Ferger Zinc Alloy Dies Kenneth Collinson Judith Fietz Mr. and Mrs. Wm. P. Conlin Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Fink Mr . and Mrs. Bernard L. Conn Dr. and Mrs. Lionel Finkelstein

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translation Ted Puffer

conductor Mark D. Flint

director and choreographer Dominic Missimi

sets Robert O'Hearn for the Greater Miami Opera Association

costumes Malabar, Ltd. Toronto

JOHANN STRAUSS lighting Richard Winkler IWlllE [FILIEIWIE[&~~(ill~

Operetta in Three Acts

September 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 1980

In English

':.-___-c::- . / . This cartoon from a Viennese paper of 25 April, 1874, shows Johann Strauss and his new operetta "Die Fledermaus" soaring trium phantly - less than three weeks after its premiere'

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE CAST Gabriel von Eisenstein ... .. Charles Roe - Sept 12, 14, 17, 20 Howard Hensel - Sept 13, 19 Rosalinda, his wife. .. . Eleanor BergqUist - Sept 12, 14, 19 Alma Jean Smith - Sept 13, 17, 20 Adele, their maid. .. Barbara Meister - Sept 12, 14, 19 Jan Albright - Sept 13, 17, 20 Alfred. a singer .. ... George Shirley - Sept 12,13.19,20 1 Edward Kinglns - Sept 14, 17 Dr. Falke. . George Massey Dr. Blind, a lawyer . ... . David Parks' - Sept 12, 14, 17. 20 George Bufford' - Sept 13, 19 Frank, the prison warden . .... Michael Van Engen' Sally. Adele's sister ..... Coleen Downey' Prince Orlofsky, a rich Russian . .... Imogene Coca Frosch. the jailer . .... King Donovan Prima Ballerina .. . Joanne Danto and guests of Prince Orlofsky 'Member, MOT Artist Intern Program

THE SCENE Vienna, Austria, in the late nineteenth century ACT ONE The house of Gabriel von Eisenstein intermisSion ACT TWO Prince Orlofsky's grand ballroom intermission ACT THREE The warden's office in the city prison

MOT MOT MOT Artist Interns Auxiliary Chorus Supers Jeff Allyn Patricia J. Balysh Melanie AI-Shabkhoun George Bufford Cheryl C. Barnes Walter AI-Shabkhoun Holly Cairns Larry N. Bate Dale Austin Vertrelle Cameron Miriam Bate Stanley Beattie Peter Clegg Fred Buchalter David Blenkle Michael Doll Ed R. Cartwright Richard Brownes Coleen Downey Marie Fiorillo Meghan Heffernan James Longacre Elizabeth A. Mar-Aston Edward J. Kroll Carol Madalin Kimberly L. Phillips Jerry Orlowski Robert Mince Mary Anne Pilette Terry Prim Anne Nispel Ann Marie Reeves George Schmidt David Parks Diane Rowlands Maggie Rees Leslye Sklar Paul Schmidt Patricia Beach Smith Kevin Skiles A. Michael Sochacki Jr. David Stork Anna Speck Ross Stutzman Robert Winston Sullivan Michael van Engen Hezekiah Williams

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre DIE FLEDERMAUS WHO'S WHO The title character in Die Fledermaus is DR. FALKE, although his is far from the largest role. Some lime before our story begins, Dr. Falke and his friend GABRIEL VON EISEN STEIN went together to a masquerade party, at which Falke got very drunk. His friend Eisenstein, as a practical joke, left him in the street to sleep it off, which meant that the good doctor was forced to walk home in broad daylight dressed as a bat (die jledermaus) and feeling very foolish. He has been plotting his revenge ever since. In addition to Eisenstein, the principal characters are Eisenstein's wife ROSALINDA; their maid ADELE; ALFRED, a tenor In love with Rosalinda; FRANK, a prison governor; FROSCH, the jailer; and PRINCE ORLOFSKY, who hosts the grand ball in Act Two. THE STORY ACT ONE: The von Eisenstein home. The first voice heard Is that of Alfred, who is. sing Johann Strauss .ing a serenade to Rosalinda . Adele, the maid, 1825-1899 rushes in with a letter from her sister offering to sneak her Into a ball that night at the home of ACT TWO: The ball at Prince Orlofsky's Is an Prince Orlofsky; her problem is how to get the enormous success, although the host himself is evening off work. Rosalinda, her mistress, as bored with the proceedings as he is with life turns a deaf ear to Adele's pleas about a sick in general. The disguised Eisenstein makes his aunt. Since her husband Gabriel· Is leaving to entrance and is stunned to recognize his maid serve a brief prison sentence (never mind among the guests! But Adele brazenly Insists why), Rosalinda wants Adele on duty to serve he is mistaken and enlists the rest of the party his farewell supper. Rosalinda is further in her behalf. Eisenstein does not, however, distracted when Alfred tells her that he will recognize his own wife , who is masked and return that evening to woo her in her pretending to be a Hungarian Countess. He is husband's absence. (Even though she is con completely enamoured of the unknown tentedly married, Rosalinda has a weakness Hungarian, who flirtatiously walks off with his for tenors.) special chiming watch. Eisenstein also encounters Frank - in disguise, of course - Eisenstein makes his entrance railing at the but neither knows who the other is. The party incompetence of his attorney, whose bungling continues riotously until six a.m. has succeeded In increasing Eisenstein's sentence. Dr. Falke arrives with an invitation ACT THREE: The prison. Frank and his to Prince Orlofsky's ball, and he urges the fun jailer are both drunk, and Alfred is amusing loving Eisenstein to join him. He can attend In himself by singing in his cell. One by one, the disguise, Falke suggests slyly, report to prison principal characters show up for various after the ball, and Rosalinda need know reasons and succeed in furthering the confu nothing about it. Eisenstein declares this an sion as to who is who. Eisenstein, arriving to excellent Idea and leaves for prison in full begin his jail term, disguises himself as a evening dress! Rosalinda, meanwhile, sudden lawyer to find ollt why his wife is there seeking ly gives Adele the night off so the house will be the release of Alfred , still pretending to be empty for tenor Alfred's return. Eisenstein! Rosalinda, in return , defies her outraged husband to explain his missing No sooner have Gabriel and Adele gone their watch. separate ways than Alfred returns and sits down to eat Eisenstein's neglected supper. Finally Dr. Falke enters to explain his role in Frank, the new prison governor, arrives to creating most of the confusion as revenge for escort his prisoner to jail and assumes that the episode of the bat costume. Alfred and Alfred is Eisenstein. The mistaken identity can Rosalinda, seeing an easy way out, are quick not be corrected without compromising to blame their own indiscretions on the same Rosalinda's reputation, so poor Alfred goes off plot, which leads everyone to sing In praise of to jail as the curtain falls . the wonderful powers of champagne!

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre revue, he sent for Miss Coca, suggesting that THE COMPANY she try working with the comedian Sid Caesar. The result , of course, was Your Show of . JAN ALBRIGHT, a great favorite with Shows, for which she was to receive three Michigan Opera Theatre audiences, returns Emmys (nominated five times) and the this season for three performances of Die coveted Peabody Award. Fledermaus as Adele - a role for which she Is wel i remembered, having sung it ' here On Broadway, Miss Coca appeared in The previously in 1974. She began with MOT in Billy Rose Concert Revue, Janus and The Girls in 509. King Donovan was In the cast of 1971 as Yvette in La Rondine and most recently appeared as Musette in last season's the latter show. He and Miss Coca met, La Boheme; in between, her roles here have married and have toured the country Included Olga in Merry Widow, Kate Pinker numerous times together in such shows as Upon a Mattress , The Fourposter, Luv, ton in Madame Butterfly, Flora in La Traviata Once and the title role in Naughty Marietta. With A Thurber Carnival and Prisoner of Second MOT's Opera-In-Residence company, Miss Avenue. Their most recent appearances have Albright has appeared throughout Michigan as been in the Abe Burrows play Four on a Lucia dl Lammermoor and as Violetta in La Garden, and in Deathtrap. Traviata. Imogene Coca was last in Detroit at the Fisher A Birmingham reSident, Miss Albright teaches Theatre as Letitia Primrose, the batty voice at Oakland University and has perform evangelist in On the Twentieth Century - the ed as a soloist with the Detroit Symphony. role for which she was nominated for Broad way's Tony Award in 1979 and awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award in 1980. ELEANOR BERGQUIST, who is singing She has appeared frequently with TV partner Rosalinda in three performances of Die Fleder Sid Caesar in concerts and night clubs; the two maus, is one of the most exciting young artists were Jointly honored recently with a special of our day. She has sung leading roles with Emmy Award for outstanding artistry. opera companies throughout the United States, Including New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, and companies In Miami, JOANNE DANTO, dance soloist at the Louisville, San Antonio and other major cities. Fledermaus ball , was raised In Detroit and At the Lake George (NY) Opera Festival she began her dance studies here under Joey Har has been starred for three consecutive sum ris and Osvald Lemanis. After academic and mers as Flordillgl In Cosi fan tuNe, the dance classes at the University of Indiana and Countess In Marriage of Figaro, Donna Elvira New York University, she appeared In produc In Don Giovanni and the title role in The Merry tions with the New York City Opera Company Widow. and the Frankfurt, Germany, Opera Ballet Along with her operatic engagements, Miss Company. Bergquist is much in demand as soloist with Her professional debut with an American com orchestra and for oratorio with major choral pany was with the National Ballet in societies. She has appeared many times at Washington, D.C. She toured as a featured Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center In perfor soloist with them for two seasons, sharing the mances of Messiah and in works by Bach, stage with Dame Margot Fonteyn for more Haydn, Mozart, Poulenc, Brahms, Dvorak than 50 performances during that period. Her and Kodaly. She has several times been guest subsequent appearances as principal dancer soloist with the SI. Louis Symphony and with work with the Pennsylvania Ballet have won the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Fli nt, Miss Danto highest praise from all major dance Kalamazoo and Albuquerque. Detroit au critics, including Clive Barnes, Anna Klsselgoff diences have heard Miss Bergquist in concert and Arlene Croce, who described her perfor versions of Cosi fan tutte and TancredI. mance in "Concerto Barocco" as "one of the performing highlights of the dance season." IMOGENE COCA - Prince Orlofsky in Die Miss Danto has become especially noted as an Fledermaus - was not quite born in a trunk. Interpreter of the works of George Balanchine, But as the daughter of violinist/conductor including "Serenade," "Symphony in C," Joseph F. Coca and Sadie Brady, who had "Raymonda" and "Four Temperments." been magician's assistant to the famous David Vaghan, in Dance Magazine, has called Howard Thurston, she found herself In show her "one of the best Balanchine dancers business at an early age. She sang, danced, anywhere - which is to say, one of the best later added comedic pantomime and made a dancers." smash Broadway debut in New Faces of 1934. For five consecutive summers she worked for KING DONOVAN (Frosch In Die Fleder Max Liebman on the Poconos resort circuit maus) was born Into show business, the son of with the likes of Danny Kaye, Jules Munshln, Keith-Albee headliners Donovan & Lee. He Jerome Robbins and Carol Channing. When was acting professionally In his teens and by Liebman was given charge of a new television age twenty was featured on Broadway in My

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Sister Eileen , directed by George S. Kaufman . The Merry Widow with the Miami Opera, a After four years in the Eighth Air Force and Beethoven Ninth with the Virginia Festival of several short-lived Broadway runs, his career the Arts, and Don Jose in a Minnesota Opera took him to Hollywood for some 50 films, Carmen. including Singing in the Rain, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Defiant EDWARD KINGINS, singing Alfred in two Ones, Cowboy and The Perfect Furlough . performances of Die Fledermaus, Is one of several veterans of MOT's earlier production When national television began moving west, of the same operetta to return for this anniver Mr. Donovan was active as both actor and sary season. He has also been featured at director: three seasons with Burns and Allen, MOT in The Merry Widow, Boris Godunov, four with The Bob Cummings Show, one with Regina, Carmen and the tour of Lucia di Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Simultaneously, Lammermoor. He was principal tenor in Des he could boast of a five-year period of literally Moines Metro Opera Festiva'i productions of non-stop theatre activity - acting and direct La Rondine and II Tabarro, and made his ing - in the Los Angeles area. Cleveland Opera debut last spring as Edgardo Mr . Donovan's Broadway role in The Girls in in their LUCia. 509 led to his meeting and marrying Imogene Coca; this production of Die Fledermaus A former Belle Isle Auditions winner, he has marks their 28th show (and first opera) appeared as soloist on numerous· occasions together. with the Detroit Symphony, Detroit Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Concert Band and the Buf falo Philharmonic. He has also sung with the SENATOR JACK FAXON (D-Detroit) has Flint Symphony, the Saginaw Symphony, the long combined his political career with artistic Kalamazoo Symphony, Scandinavian Sym and performing achievements. MOT phony and the Niagara Falls Philharmonic. audiences have enjoyed him in previous seasons as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and as Lt . Governor Grandet in Naughty Baritone GEORGE MASSEY, Dr. Faulke In Marietta . He narrated Peter and the Wolf with this season's Die Fledermaus, began his pro the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has fessional career as a charter member of the appeared with the Lansing Symphony and Cincinnati Opera Ensemble. He was a regional other symphony orchestras throughout the finalist In the Metropolitan Opera National state. An accomplished artist, he has had Auditions and a national finalist In both the exhibitions at the Cranbrook Academy, WGN Auditions of the Air and the Washington Wayne State University and at the State International Competition Capitol; his most recent exhibit was at Detroit's A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Mr . Massey Scarab Club. debuted last season with the San Francisco In recent years, Senator Faxon has been Opea in Gianni Schlcchi and La Fanclulla del widely recognized for his many contribulions West. Last season also saw him in Jacksonville to the arts in Michigan, including awards from for L'Elisir d'Amore, In Palm Beach for La the City of Detroit, Cranbrook Arts Academy, Boheme and Cosi fan tuite, and debuting with Scarab Club and the Michigan State Senate. the Minnesota Orchestra in The Messiah. A He was recently appointed to the National frequent soloist with the Cincinnati May Task Force for the Arts. Festival, he has also sung with symphonies in San Antonio, Jacksonville and HOWARD HENSEL (Gabriel von Eisenstein San Francisco. In two Die Fledermaus performances) made his debut with the New York City Opera in BARBARA MEISTER - the vibrant green 1975 and has made numerous appearances eyed redhead - returns to Michigan Opera with that company since. This versatile tenor. Theatre to play Adele In three performances of was featured in the East Coast premiere of Die Fledermaus. She is well-known to Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull (which he has audiences In the Detroit area through her' per recorded for Primavera Records), and has formances as Magnolia in MOT's Show Boat sung leading roles with the Houston, and as Marla - a role for which Richard Baltimore, Miami, Des Moines, Arizona, Rodgers selected her personally - In the Washington , Charlotte, and Michigan Opera national company of Sound of MusiC at the companies. Mr. Hensel was soloist with the Fisher Theatre. She has also appeared in con Washington National Symphony in the cert at Grosse Pointe War Memorial with her Beethoven Symphony No.9, as well as sing husband David Bender, with whom she has ing the tenor part in Bach's B Minor Mass at concertized throughout the United States and Kennedy Center. Additional orchestral Europe. engagements include the Pittsburgh and Television audiences have seen Barbara in Baltimore Symphonies. guest appearances on Today, The Mike Upcoming dates for Mr. Hensel include return Douglas Show, Bell Telephone Hour and engagements with the Pittsburgh Symphony special TV productions of The Mikado and and the Wolf Trap Festival; he sings Danilo in West Side Story. She has starred at New

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse with Jean Pierre there have Included Papagena In The Magic Aumont and in Atlanta with Dick Van Dyke. Flute, Nlade In Ariadne auf Naxos, Tebaldo in Her Los Angeles Civic Light Opera appear Don Carlo and Barbarlna in The Marriage of ances Include Candide aSld a production of Figaro. She made her European debut as Flor Die Fledermatls In which she co-starred with dlligl in Cosi fan tutte at the 1977 and 1978 Cyril Ritchard . Spoleto Festivals. In constant demand for orchestral appear CHARLES ROE. singing Eisenstein In four ances, Miss Smith has a repertOire ranging performances of Die Fledermaus, holds a very from standard works such as the Schubert special place in the first decade of Michigan Mass in G and The Messiah to such contem Opera Theatre. Through 1977-78. he was the porary pieces as Les Noces and The Children's only principal singer to appear In every MOT Crusade by Pierne. She has sung the Verdi season at the Music Hall . His roles here have Requiem with Eugene Ormandy and the Included Captain Dick In Naughty Marietta, Mozart Exsultate in Cleveland. Prince Karl Franz in Student Prince, Danilo In Merry Widow, Figaro In Barber of Seuille and Eisenstein In our previous Die Fledermaus. MOT Artist Interns GEORGE BUFFORD holds BA and MA Mr . Roe has become a favorite at the New degrees In Voice from Eastern Michigan York City Opera through such roles as Eisen University, where he also taught voice and stein, Papageno In Magic Flute, Silvio In directed the Opera Workshop. His theatrical Pagllacci, Franz in Die Tote Stadt and the experience ranges from Kaspar in Amahl and baritone soloist In Orff's Carmlna Burana. Last the Night Visitors to Scratch in The Deuil and month he opened the New York City Opera Daniel Webster and Snoopy in You're a Good season as Dr. Engel in their new production of Man, Charlie Brown. His ,latest appearances The Student Prince. were with the Comic Opera Guild In the 1980 On the concert stage Charles Roe has sung Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at the Red Barn with symphony orchestras In Wichita and Theatre In Saugatuck. Duluth, as well as at Artpark, Meadowbrook and the Caramoor Festival. COLEEN DOWNEY first appeared on the Music Hall stage in the choruses of Leonard Bernstein's Mass and EI Capitan . Her roles at GEORGE SHIRLEY. i'lppearing four times MOT have included Papagena in The Magic as Alfred in Die Fledermaus, grew up in Flute and Nanette In Naughty Marietta . She Detroit, studied at Wayne State University, was a member of the MOT Artist Intern pro and has gone on to become one of America's gram last season, and has just returned from most -exciting and versatile tenors. His the 1980 Opera Festival at Lake George, NY . previous Michigan Opera Theatre perform ance - as Pinkerton In Madame Butterfly at DAVID PARKS is a graduate of Westminster Matrix: Midland - was acclaimed by critics ChOir college in Princeton, NJ, and a candi and audiences alike in the summer of 1978. date for his Masters in Voice from the Univer sity of Michigan. This summer he appeared as Mr; Shirley's opera credits include La Boheme Alfred in Die Fledermaus with the Interlochen in Tokyo and again - opposite Monserrat Opera Theatre; this spring he sang Frederic In Caballe - for the Connecticut Opera Associa Pirates of Penzance with Ann Arbor's Gilbert tion; Shuisky in Boris Godunou In Tulsa; Loge and Sullivan SOCiety and Lucano in Coro in Dos Rhelngold at Royal Opera Covent nation of Poppea with the University of Garden, and major appearances with the Michigan Opera. He was a member of the .. Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera. chorus for the Spoleto Festival In Italy for four San Francisco Opera, Netherlands Opera, years. Teatro Colon In Buenos Aires, the Scottish MICHAEL VAN ENGEN. an Iowa native Opera, L'Opera de Monte Carlo and summer and graduate of Morningside College there, festivals at Glyndebourne and Santa Fe. has just completed his studies at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. During He has sung Mahler's Das Liede uon der Erde his course of study there, he received the in Indianapolis, Dublin and Tehran; the Norman Trelgle Memorial Scholarship, award Strauss Electra with Antal Dorati and the ed nationally through the New York City Detroit Symphony, and the Verdi Requiem Opera. He has apprenticed for two seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene with the Santa Fe Opera, and has appeared Ormandy both at the Philadelphia Academy of with the Cincinnati Opera and the Center Music and at New York's Carnegie Hall. Civic Opera in Covington, Kentucky. ALMA JEAN SMITH. who will sing three Rosalindas In Die Fledermaus this season, MOT Pub Crawl won the coveted Metropolitan Opera National Thursday, October 30 Auditions In 1974. Since then, she has been a details In lobby regular member of the Met company; her roles

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre This season's Die Fledermaus is the fifth full MOT Orchestra length MOT production to the credit of stage F1RSTVIOUN OBOE director DOMINIC MISSIMI, who has been Charlotte Merkerson. Paul Amarello. Principal responsible in past seasons for Naughty Concertmaster Mae Wong Marietta, Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, and a Patricia Karakas Mary Calherlne Edwards ENGLISH HORN second production of The Pearl Fishers at Calhy Spratt Mae Wong Matrlx:Mldland . For MOT Opera-In-Residence Paula Klblldls CLllRINET he also directed one-act productions of Francis Peterson Joel Warren, Prlnclpol Rumplestiltskin and Rita, and for the Music SECOND VIOLIN CarolOber Hall Center he created stagings of EI Capitan Peruz Zerounian, Principal BASSOON Wilma Turco and Bernstein's Mass. Pamela Dlon. Prlnclpol Phyllis Fleming VlclOrla King Missimi received his BA from the University of Lina Carcane Detroit, later serving on that school's faculty VIOU. HORN while obtaining a Masters from Wayne State. Ara Zerounlan, Principal John Dlon . Principol He has taught and administered in the arts at Gory Syrold Karen Nixon . Margaret Lang University of Detroit, Marygrove College and TRUMPET Long Island University in New York. He Meyer Shapiro James Underwood. Principal returned to the Midwest to direct the premiere CELLO Gordon S.mmons Laura Deming. Princlpol of the Leslie Bricusse musical Scrooge and the TROMBONE Mlnka Chrisloff Chicago Opera Theatre's Italian Girl in Algiers. Maury Okun, Principal Debra Mulder Gregory Near Following this production of Die Fledermaus, Pamela Bush TIMPANI Mr. Missini has been signed to stage Puccini's DOUBLE BASS Donald liUZZi La Rondine in Chicago and Verdi's La Laura Slas. Principal Traviata in Augusta . Marton Wengert PERCUSSION Le.lie David FLUTE MARK D_ FLINT, conductor for both Die Wendy Hohmeyer, Principol HARP Fledermaus and Don Giovanni, comes to his Dayno Hartwick Palrlcla Terry fourth season as Music Director of Michigan PICCOLO Opera Theatre directly from the Pennsylvania Dayna Hartwick Opera Festival in Pittsburgh, where he con Detroit Federation 0/ Musicians. ducted their production of Carmen. In Decem Local '5 A .F. OF M. ber he will add to his responsibilities the role of Music Director for Western Opera Theatre, for whom he is to conduct Elixir of Love and Production Staff: Romeo and Juliet, repeating the latter work Dwight Bowes, Director 0/ Productions with the San Francisco Spring Opera. Mark D. Flint. Director, Artist', Intern Program For MOT Flint has conducted The Pearl Manlyn Rennagel, LightIng Consultant Fishers, Carmen, La Boheme, Showboat and Roberl Murphy. Technical Director The Student Prince; he both staged and con Deborah Myers, AdminlstraUve Assistant ducted touring productions of Madame Butter Tony Davis. Executive Stage Manager fly , La Traviata and Hansel and Gretel. As Bonnie Whalen, Costume Supervisor Principal Conductor of the Lake George Peggy Imbrie, Stage Manager Opera Festival, he has led performances of Marc Cervanla. Stage Manager The Merry Widow, Don Giovanni, Student Abe Maius, Stage Production Carpenter Prince and Madame Butterfly. Dave Sugar, Moster Flyman Tom Bryanl, Mosler Electrician Flint serves as Music Director of the Young Jack Brock. Properly Master Resident Artists at Lake George, and is Direc sandra Cottone. Assistant Technical Dlreclor tor of the Artist Intern Program at MOT. This Bernadine Vida, Wardrobe Mi$lre.u spring he staged and conducted an acclaimed Betsy Adams, ReSIdent Assistanl Lighting DeSigner production of La Boheme for the Los Angeles Steven Horak. Make -up Supervisor Opera and, in March, not only staged MOT's J. C. Sealy. Movement Instructor touring production of Don Pasquale, but also Siage Employees Local '38 IATSE stepped in at the last moment to portray the title role . Music Staff Mark D. Flint. Music Director RICHARD WINKLER, lighting designer for Robert Myers, Chorus Moster Die Fledermaus, has designed for the past six George Darden, Coach/Accompanist seasons of the Dallas Civic Opera. Some of his John Dian, Orchestra Personnel Manager credits include La Cenerentola, Rigoletto, La Mark Gibson. Music Intern Boheme, Salome and Madame Butterfly. For the Greater Miami Opera Guild he created the Production Interns lighting design for The Abduction and for the Houston Grand Opera he recreated his Sharon Dick , Stage Management Cenerento/a. Elizabelh Eckert. Music Gilbert Huochln •. Technical His Broadway designs include the current Jim McMann, Technical

Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, and Stephanie Savin I Stage Management Shirley Bassey Concert, Something's Afoot, Bev.,ly A. Smllh. Coslumlng Best Friend and The Play's the Thing. Julie Stofk, Costuming

Die Fledermaus Of Mice and Men Sept. 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20 Sept. 26, 28, Oct. 1, 3, 4

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NEXT AT THE MUSIC HALL: Carlisle Floyd's powerfu~ rousing new American opera based on the John Steinbeck classic OF MICE AND MEN directed by the composer

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after the nouel and play by John Steinbeck

conductor John DeMain

director Carlisle Floyd

lighting Robert Jared

CARLISLE FLOYD costumes Bonnie Whalen

scenery Jules Lauve for the Neuada_e_ Opera Association

assistant conductor Music Drama in Three Acts George Darden

reduced orchestrations September 26, 28 James Medvliz October 1, 3, 4, 1980 chorus master Robert Myers

stage manager Marc Cervanla

By orrangement with Belwln-Mills Publishing Corporation, New York, publisher and copyright owner.

Lennie Small .... Robert Moulson September 26, October 1, 4 Barry Busse September 28, October 3

"""'V'!:I'" Milton _ ... Lawrence vVVIJ''''

.... James Longacre'

Candy ... _Jack Bittner

Curley's Wife .... Elizabeth Wakefield

Slim .... Louie Otey

Carlson __ .. Jeff Allyn'

Ballad Singer .... Kevin Skiles'

Ranch Hands . . . . Bufford', Peter Michael Doll' , Robert Mince', David Schmidt' , Ross Stutzman', David , Michael van Engen'

Dog .... Liz Keogh)

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THE SCENE An agricultural in northern California

Scene One: a dearing in the woods Scene Two: the bunkhouse

ACT TWO The Bunkhouse

ACT Scene One: the barn Scene Two: a c1ei~rirlg in the woods

There will be fifteen-minute intermissions between acts.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre WHO'S WHO young ranch hand comforts the old man by singing a lonely ballad as Lennie pleads with a LENNIE is a California migrant worker, slow distressed George for one of Slim's puppies. witted and childlike by nature but physically very strong. GEORGE, another migrant ACT TWO: George finds an ad In the worker, has become his close friend and pro newspaper offering a small house and farm for tector. The third central character is sale. Rebuffing Slim's attempts to gently CURLEY'S WIFE - attractive, flirtatious and discourage the dream, George reads the ad to bored. CURLEY owns the ranch on which Lennie, who is playing with his new puppy. much of the action takes place; SLIM is his Overhearing the conversation, Candy offers to foreman and CANDY is an old ranch hand. join in their plans, contributing his own savings toward the purchase price. With mounting enthusiasm the three men calculate that they THE STORY will be able to purchase the property in just one month. ACT ONE: The opera begins with flashing searchlights and the wail of police sirens as The merriment stops abruptly when Curley's George and Lennie enter, fleeing from wife returns and refuses to leave despite the another in a series of situations caused by men's warnings. When Curley returns and Lennie's pathetic inability to stay out of trou finds her there, he takes out his anger on ble. The exasperated George finds that Lennie Lennie, lashing out at him with a riding crop. is carrying with him the body of a mouse he When George shouts to Lennie to protect accidentally killed by stroking it too forcefully. himself , Lennie crushes Curley's hand. After While George disposes of the dead mouse, the room empties, George, Lennie and Curley Lennie describes his love for soft things he can are alone again, re-readlng the want ad that stroke and pet. In order to console his friend , represents their fading dream. George reminds him of their common dream: ACT THREE: Lennie has killed his puppy to own a small house and farm of their own. through excessive fondling, and is hiding it in Lennie, unable to restrain his excitement, joins the loft of the barn when Curley's wife enters, George in remembering the many details. As carrying a suitcase and obviously preparing to the two men settle down for the night, a police run away. She and Lennie begin to confide siren wails ominously in the distance. their dreams and fantasies, each caught up The scene shifts to the bunkhouse on Curley's and unaware that the other is speaking. She ranch the folloWing evening, where Curley wants to become a glamorous movie star; he and his wife are arguing. She complains that wants a farm with pets to stroke. he is neglecting her, and threatens to find When Lennie is attracted to her soft, smooth someone else to treat her better. He orders her hair, Curley's wife allows him to stroke it . to go back to the house and forbids her to When he refuses to stop, however, she enter the bunkhouse again. The bUilding fills becomes frightened . Lennie, terrified of being with ranch hands - among them George and found with her, tries to smother her screams Lennie, who have just been hired. Slim, the and then, shaking her violently in anger, stalwart ranch foreman, announces a new lit breaks her neck. Dimly realiZing what he has ter of puppies and, as the men clamor for done, Lennie furtively leaves the barn. them, Curley's wife reappears. She pretends to be looking for her husband while flirting The body is discovered by Candy, who calls brazenly with the embarassed workers. George and Slim to the scene. Slim urges When she is gone, the ranch hands begin George to find Lennie and shoot him , since harassing Candy to give up his old dog, whose the only alternative is his capture at the smell is becoming unbearable in the vengeful hands of Curley . Candy curses the bunkhouse. Candy is· finally forced to sur body of Curley's wife as George brokenly exits render the dog, which is taken out and shot. A in search of his friend . George finds Lennie In a nearby clearing, still unaware of the magnitude of their problem WARNING this time. Distracting the childlike man by The use of recording equipment or describing again their dreams of a farm, cameras (with or without flash attach George finally succeeds In firing the pistol and ment) during performance is strictly killing his friend at the moment Lennie prohibited by law. ecstatically imagines he sees his house and farm in the distance. The ranch hands con Violations may result in suspended per verge on the two lonely figures and the Ballad formance and will be prosecuted. Singer whistles a fragment of his song as the curtain falls.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Mr. DeMain was selected by Leonard Berns THE COMPANY tein to be conductor and Music Director for the current Broadway revival of West Side Story; he will again conduct that work at the Bregenz Festival in Austria next summer.

Mr. DeMain has guest conducted with orches tras in Pittsburgh, San Diego, Houston, Boston and SI. Paul. He will debut this season with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in con certs December 12 and 14, and also with the Vienna Symphony. He will conduct produc tions of Carmen and Die Fledermaus for the Houston Grand Opera this season, as well as Carlisle Floyd John De Main the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Willie Stark and an anniversary gala featuring Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo and the CARLISLE FLOYD is one of the foremost Houston Symphony. composers of opera in the United States to day, and is no less distinguished as a director and teacher. His Susannah, among the most -. successful American operas ever written , JEFF ALLYN, from Howell, Michigan, premiered at Florida State University in 1955 received his BA degree in Vocal Performance and was immediately included in the reper from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, toire of New York City Opera. It was also and his MM from the University of Michigan , selected for the innaugural season of the where roles have included Don Curzio in The Metropolitan Opera National Company and Marriage of Figaro, Rodolfo in La Boheme, was America's opera entry in the Brussels Nero in The Coronation of Poppea and Alfred World's Fair. During 1976 alone, Susannah in Die Fledermaus. He appeared as Luiz in received nineteen separate productions in The Gondoliers at Lansing Community Col England, Germany and the United States. lege and Charlie in Brigadoon at the Croswell Subsequent to Susannah and Of Mice and Opera House. Men, which premiered in 1970, Floyd wrote Bilby's Doll on commission for the Houston JACK BITTNER, Candy in Of Mice and Grand Opera, which first presented it in 1976. Men, comes to the MOT anniversary season [t was also produced by Omaha Opera later from the Goodspeed Opera House, where he the same year. His current opera project is was featured in their hit revival of George M. Willie Stark, based on Robert Penn Warren's Cohan's Little Johnny Jones. His Broadway award-winning novel All the King's Men; com credits include such hits as Nobody Loves an missioned by the Kennedy Center, it has been Albatross, Tiger at the Gates, Witness for the scheduled for performance in 1981. Prosecution, Rashomon and Beggar's Holi day. Nominated for the Clarence Derwent Floyd holds the prestigious M.D. Anderson Award for his performance in Margaret Professorship in the School of Music, Universi Webster's production of Richard III, Mr. ty of Houston; he is also co-director of the Bittner later won an Obie for his work in Houston Opera Studio - a joint project of the Ivanov; other off-Broadway appearances university and Houston Grand Opera. He is include Threepenny Opera, John currently chairman of the newly created Houseman's Coriolanus, Hogan's Goat, What Opera-Musical Theatre Panel of the National Every Woman Knows, By Bernstein and Endowment for the Arts. His published works Shaw's The Philanderer. include four full-length operas, three one-act operas, and a number of compositions for A veteran of some 32 Shakespearean produc piano, orchestra and voice. tions and over 300 television shows, Mr. J Bittner was a member of the New York City Op~a Company for seven years. Boston and j JOHN DeMAIN is beginning his second Washington audiences recently saw him as season as Music Director of the Houston Lenin in Stoppard's Travesties , and in Buffalo Grand Opera, where he has conducted pro he played a key role in the acclaimed premiere ductions of Werther, La Traviata, The Grand of Semmelweiss. His most recent Broadway Duchess of Gerolstein, The Vagabond King, appearance was earlier this year, in the short Otello, Madame Butterfly, Regina, Hello lived Harold and Maude, with Janet Gaynor. Dolly, The Merry Widow, Aida, A robello, Felstaff and Tosca. He was also Music Director BARRY BUSSE, who is Lennie for two per for the Houston Grand Opera's Porgy and formances of Of Mice and Men, has been Bess, for the recording of which he was described by the prestigious English publica honored with a Grammy Award and the tion OPERA as having "vocal timbre and Grand Prix du Disque of France. intonation reminiscent of the young Jon

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Vickers." The occasion for that comment was Ballet Company, and for the 1978 and 1979 his portrayal of Bothwell in Thea Musgrave's Connecticut Dance Festivals. Mary Queen of Scots with both the San Fran cisco Spring Opera and Virginia Opera. He JAMES R. LONGACRE, a native of was equally as successful with the Santa Fe Philadelphia , received his BM from the Opera as Alwa in the first American staging of Philadephia College of Performing Arts in the complete Lulu. Opera. He was a featured soloist with the AII Mr. Busse has appeared with the San Fran Philadelphia Boys' Choir and Men's Chorale cisco Opera in Billy Budd, Fidelio, Norma and for performances which included the Bob Otello. His Miami Opera debut was as Des Hope Special taped in Peking, China, and a Grieux in Manon Lescaut; he returns this command performance for Anwar Sadat in season as Cavaradossi in their Tosca. He has Alexandria, Egypt. He has appeared in sup sung with the Houston Grand Opera, and last porting roles with the Opera Company of season appeared with the Lyric Opera of Philadelphia, as well as in dinner theatres and Kansas City in Vanessa and as Don Jose in commercials. He will make his debut with Carmen. Opera Omaha this season as little Bat in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, directed by the composer. LAWRENCE COOPER - George in Of Mice and Men - has previously sung the role with the Nevada Opera in Reno; from Detroit ROBERT MOULSON, who will portray he will travel to Wexford, Ireland, to repeat his Lennie for three performances, created his portrayal there. A native of California, he role in Of Mice and Men for the world began his professional career by winning the premiere with the Seattle Opera Company. Grand Finals of the San Francisco Opera He has sung it since in many cities and Auditions. He has since performed with many returned to Seattle for the 1976 revival. He opera companies throughout the United began his formal voice training after high States and Canada, including the Canadian school, when he turned down a football Opera Company (Germont in La Traviata, scholarship at Auburn University and Figaro in Barber of Seville, Marcello in La registered at the University of Georgia. Further Boheme), the Western Opera Theatre (Dan study followed at the New England Conser dini in La Cenerentola, Germont, Belcore in vatory. Then on the advice of Jerome Hines Elisir d'Amore, Figaro), the Hawaii Opera he went to New York and within a year Theatre (Sharpless in Madame Butterfly) and became a winner of the Experimental Opera many others. He repeated Dandini in La Auditions, sang in New Orleans and made his Cenerentola this summer for the Chautauqua debut with the New York City Opera Com Opera Festival. pany in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah. A year's study in Milan followed before he returned to Mr. Cooper has also sung with the San Fran sing in Central City, Boston, San Francisco, cisco Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Eighth Kansas City, Chautauqua, and on tour for two Symphony and the Bach Magnificat, and with seasons with Kurt Adler's Golden Curtain Arthur Fiedler and the San Francisco Sym Quartet. He has given more than 350 perfor phony Pops. His opera repertoire also mances of leading tenor roles in Hanover, includes two roles with which MOT audiences Frankfurt, Cologne, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and have reason to be familiar: lionel in Tchaikov Bonn. On this side of the Atlantic he has sky's Joan of Arc, which he performed with recently performed in Rlgoletto in Central the Nevada Opera, and Morris Townsend in City, Don Carlos in Vancouver, Cavalleria Pasatieri's Washington Square, which he sang Rusticana and I Pagliacci in Edmonton and In with the Augusta Opera. Susannah in Mobile and Fort Worth.

LOUIE OTEY makes his Michigan Opera ROBERT JARED, lighting designer for Of Theatre debut as Slim in Of Mice and Men. A Mice and Men, has just completed lighting member of Carlisle Floyd's Houston Opera designs for the full 1980 repertory of the StudiO, he appeared last season with Houston PaCific Conservatory for the Performing Arts. Grand Opera as Montano in Otello and as A graduate of Birmingham Seaholm High Yamadorl and the Imperial Commissioner in School, Albion College and the Yale School of Madame Butterfly. Drama, he was on the MOT lighting staff last season and has worked with such designers as While studying with Ethel Maxwell at Memphis Tharon Musser, Thomas Skelton, Marilyn State University, Mr. Otey appeared with Rennagel and David F. Segal. Opera Memphis as Silvio in I Pagllacci and Angelotti in Tasca, with Southern Opera Mr. Jared created lighting for Yale Repertory Theatre as Dandini in Cinderella, Sharpless in Theatre premiere productions of The Bundle Madame Butterfly and Father in Hansel and by Edward Bond, Terra Nova, Guesswork and Gretel, and with the Memphis Oratorio Identity Crisis. He was principal designer for SOciety as Raphael In Haydn's Creation and the entire touring repertory of the Connecticut Joseph in Berlioz' Childhood of Christ.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre KEVIN SKILES is a graduate of the Univer MOT Orchestra sity of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He FIRST VIOLIN OBOE has sung Fernando in Cosi fan tutte and CharloHe Merkerson, Paul Amorello Nankl-poo In The Mikado with the Pacific Concertmaster Patricia Karakas ENGLISH HORN Opera Theatre, as well as Tony in West Side Mary Catherine Edwards Paul Amorello Story and Lieutenant Cable in South Pacific Cathy Spratt with the Delta Summer Theatre. He spent this Paula Kibildis ClJ\RINET past summer at Artpark in Lewiston, NY, Francis Peterson Joel Warren where he sang the role of Elder Hayes in SECOND VIOLIN BASSOON Carlisle Floyd's Susannah. Peru! Zerounlan, Pr incipal Pamela Olon Wilma Turco PhylliS Fleming HORN ELIZABETH WAKEFIELD, Curley's Wife in Una Carcone John Dion, PrincJpol Of Mice and Men, is a native of Michigan who VIOlA Kl'lren Nixon has previously appeared with MOT in The Ara Zerounlan, Princfpol TRUMPET Gary Syrold Merry Widow, Die F/edermaus and The Stu James Underwood Margaret Lang dent Prince, in which she sang the leading role Meyer Shapiro TROMBONE of Kathy. She was also one of the pioneers in Maury Okun the Opera-In-Residence program. She has CEllO Laura Deming, Principal TIMPANI been a scholarship student at Interlochen, the Mtnka Christoff Donald liuzzi University of Michigan, the Hochschule fur Debra Mulder Muslk in Munich and Indiana University, Pamela Bush PERCUSSION Leslie David where she received her Master of Music DOUBLE BASS degree. Laura Slas. Prlnclpol HARP Marion Wengert Patricia Terry Ms. Wakefield has sung with the New York A.UTE Celeste Dayna Hartwick Lyric Opera, the Bronx Opera, the National George Darden Opera Company and Western Michigan PICCOLO Opera; her roles have Included Musetta in La Dayna Hartwick Boheme, Norina in Don Pasquale, Martha Detroit Federation 0/ MUSicians, and others. She has sung in concert for Col Local '5 A.F. OF M umbia Artists in New York and throughout the United States; she recently returned from a concert tour of Europe. Production Staff Dwight Bowes, Director of Productions BONNIE WHALEN, who designed the Mark D. flint, Director, Artist's Intern Program costumes for Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Marilyn Rennagel, Lighting Consultant Men, is in her fourth season as wardrobe coor Robert Murphy, Technical Director dinator for Michigan Opera Theatre. A Deborah Myers, Administrative Assistant graduate of the University of Detroit with a Tony Davis, Executive Stage Manager Bachelor of Fine Arts In Design, she has work Bonnie Whalen, Costume SupervIsor ed with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Peggy Imbrie, Stage Manager Santa Fe Opera and two seasons of Michigan's Marc Cervanla, Stage Manager Abe Malus, Stage Production Carpenter Matrlx:Midland Festival. Dave Sugar. Moster Flyman Tom Bryant, Moster Electrician In the Detroit area, Miss Whalen has worked Jack Brock, Property Master with the Harbinger Dance Company, Sandra Cottone, Assistant Technical Director Meadowbrook Theatre and Greenfield Village Bernadine Vida, Wardrobe Mistress Players. Betsy Adams, Resident Assistant Lighting Designer Steven Horak, Make ·up Superu;sor Bill Rayburn, Make·up Artisl Patrice Winslow. Make·up Arlfst J .e . Sealy. Movement Instructor Production Credits Stage Employees Local '38 IATSE Floyd the Puppy courtesy of Music Staff Macomb Pet Supplies, Mark D. Flint , Mus Ic Director St. Clair Shores. Robert Mye .. , ChoNs Moster Celeste courtesy of the George Darden, Coach/ AccompanIst Detroit Symphony Orchestra. John Dlon, Orchestra Personnel Manager Mark Gibson, MusIc Intern Siren prOVided by Lt. Stesiak of the Detroit Fire Department. Production Interns Sharon Dick, Stage Management Elizabeth Eckert , Music -e- Gilbert Hutchins, Technical Jim McMann, Technical Stephanie Savin, Stage Management MOT Anniversary Cake from Beverly A. Smith, Costuming G. N. Paris Bakery, Livonia_ Julie Stork, Costuming

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continuo October George Darden

chorus master Robert Myers

stage managers Tony Davis Peggy Imbrie

makeup and wig Lena Rashkovsky Steven Horak

Donna Anna .... Carolyn Val-Schmidt - October 10, 12, 17 Doralene Davis - October 15, 18

Don Giovanni .... Andreas Poulimenos - October 10, 15, 18 Marc Embree - October 12, 17

The Commendatore ... . Paul Schmidt'

Don Ottavio .... Robert Guarino

Donna Elvira .. ". . Wilhelmenia Fernandez

Zerlina .. . . Mary Callaghan Lynch

Masetto .... Michael van Engen'

• Member, MOT Artist Intern Program

MOT ARTIST INTERNS Jeff Allyn Coleen Downey Maggie Rees George Bufford James Longacre Paul Schmidt Holly Cairns Carol Madalin Kevin Skiles Vertrelle Cameron Robert Mince David Stork Peter Clegg Anne Nispel Ross Stutzman Michael Doll David Parks Michael van Engen MOT AUXILIARY CHORUS MOT DANCERS MOT SUPERS Ed R. Cartwright Dale Austin Joe Anzur Marie Fiorillo Greg Butler Helene Mayo Elizabeth A. Mar-Aston Holly Cairns Boo McNamara Leslye Sklar Ed R. Cartwright Terry Prim Anna Speck Carol Madalin Robert Paul Robert Winston Sullivan Maggie Rees Michael Wellman Hezekiah Williams Chris Robinson

dances choreographed by Stephanie Savin

ON·STAGE BANDA Deanna Burrows Timothy Hill Alfred Payton Therese Ciaramitaro Sharon LeMieux Shawn Rodger John Dunn Lenore Mcintyre Oneonta Smith Julie Endicott Margaret Parkins Joseph Tucker AI Flanagan Alison Paskal Sue Wilson

THE SCENE Seville, Spain, in the mid-seventeenth century

There will be one intermission.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre paSSionately describes the events of that night and again calls on her fiance to avenge her. Don Ottavio promises to share her burden and ACT ONE: The opera opens in a garden by discover the truth. the Commendatore's palace, where Leporello is waiting for his master and complaining about After their departure, an exuberant Don his duties. In a sudden commotion Donna Giovanni prepares for his party, ordering Anna and Don Giovanni enter from her bed Leporello to keep the wine flowing and pro room, which he has entered to seduce her. miSing twelve new conquests by dawn. She is crying for help; he is trying to conceal En route to the party, Zerlina tries to appease his identity until he can escape. She finally Masetto's anger at her apparent infidelity. runs off without seeing her attacker's face. After a sort of unintentional "hide and seek" Don Giovanni is immediately confronted by with the jealous Masetto, Don Giovanni ushers Domna Anna's father, the Commendatore, in all his guests. He even has Leporello invite who challenges him to a duel. Giovanni Donna Anna, Donna Elvira and Don Ottavio, refuses to fight so old a man, but the Com who arrive masked, determined to punish the mendatore insists and is quickly slain. Gio libertine. vanni and Leporello flee as Donna Anna As three different dances proceed, Leporello returns with her fiance, Don Ottavio. Finding distracts Masetto while Don Giovanni entices her father murdered by the unknown intruder, Zerlina into another room. Her subsequent she makes Ottavio swear vengeance. screams lead Anna, Elvira and The next morning Leporello attempts to lec Ottavio to unmask and confront Giolianni with ture his master on his excesses. He is inter accusations of his crimes. Giovanni jublilantly rupted when Don Giovanni senses a woman escapes, fending off Ottavio's drawn sword, as approaching and hides to eavesdrop. The two the curtain falls. men hear Donna Elvira bemoan her unhappy fate : seduced, abandoned, and left to seek the ACT TWO: Under Donna Elvira's balcony, man responsible - either for marriage or for Leporello and Don Giovanni exchange cloaks revenge. Don Giovanni comes out from hiding so that Elvira will follow the servant. The ruse to offer help, only to realize that he is the guilty works, Leporello and Elvira go off in the dark, party! He distracts her attention and escapes, and Giovanni is free to serenade Elvira's maid. leaving Leporello to discourage her by describ When Masetto and a band of peasants appear ing the extent of his master's conquests: 640 in in search of Don Giovanni, he pretends to be Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Leporello, sends them off in several directions, Turkey and 1,003 in Spain. and then beats up Masetto. Zerlina rushes to Don Giovanni and Leporello next come upon console her fiance. Zerlina and Masetto, who are to be married Leporello is trying to lose Elvira in the dark that day. The nobleman takes a fancy to when Donna Anna, Don Oltavio, Zerlina and Zerlina and invites all the peasants to his home Masetto appear, eager to punish the supposed for a celebration. Leporello and his master Don Giovanni despite Elvira's sudden pro finally force a reluctant and suspicious Masetto tests. Leporello discloses himself to be only the to go off, leaving Giovanni alone with Zerlina. servant, promises to help them and then The nobleman begins his seduction by promis escapes in the confusion. ing to marry Zerlina and make her a great lady Giovanni and Leporello meet in a deserted if she'll only go with him. Zerlina wavers and cemetery by the tomb of Donna Anna's slain has finally agreed when Donna Elvira comes father. A newly erected statue of the Com upon them and, over Giovanni's strenuous mendatore suddenly speaks, warning Giovan objections, takes the thoroughly bewildered ni of his doom. Leporello is terrified, but his Zerlina away to safety. master defiantly orders him to invite the statue Donna Anna and Don Ottavio come to re to dinner, and the statue solemnly accepts. quest Don Giovanni's assistance in finding her In Anna's palace, Ottavio urges her to forget father's murderer. Donna Elvira returns to her grief and accept his love, but she implores reproach him but Giovanni, relieved that An him to wait until her father is avenged. na does not recognize him and dismissing Elvira as a mental case, goes off. Meanwhile, Don Giovanni and Leporello are completing supper arrangements as an or Suddenly a horrified Donna Anna recognizes chestra plays a medley of tunes from popular his voice as that of her father's murderer. She operas (including Mozart's own "Le Nozze de Figaro"). Elvira rushes in, begging Giovanni to reform , but he mocks her. As she is leaving WARNING she suddenly screams, and Leporello is sent to The use of recording equipment or investigate. He returns, terrified, announces cameras (with or without flash attach that the statue has arrived, and hides. Don ment) during performance is strictly Giovanni bravely greets the statue, which of prohibited by law. fers him a chance to repent. When he refuses, the statue leads him into hell. The other Violations may result in suspended per characters converge on the scene to make formance and will be prosecuted. plans for the future and underline the moral: sad is the fate of a libertine.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre PIERRE CHARBONNEAU makes his THE COMPANY Michigan Opera Theatre debut as Leporello in Don Giouanni. but his career has already spanned the North American from Vancouver where he has five consecutive seasons in such as Hunding. Ramfis, Lothario and Don Basilio - to Mexico where he made his debut last season with Velazco conducting Verdi's Requiem. Charbonneau appears regularly in Edmonton and Winnipeg in his Canada, and has in the United States with opera Washington. Miami, New Orleans, Providence. Dayton and Toledo. His New debut was as Peneois in Strauss's Daphne at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. His roles during the 1980-1981 season will in clude Arkel in Pelleas et Melisande. Timur in Turandot, Ferrando in 1I Troua/ore and Don Magnifico in Rossini's Cinderella.

DORALENE DAVIS, who is singing two per formances as Anna in Don Giovanni, is with Jan and Rodney Stenborg ret,unninlg for this anniversary season as a veteran of Theatre's earliest days. When first assembled area talent under the banner of Overture to excerpts from those works for the Metropolttan tour. Doralene Davis then Doralene of Pleasant Ridge protrayed Aida and Donna Elvira, among others. and La Since then the acclaimed soprano has been a soloist in Handel's Messiah for five consecutive COI1dllct()r for both seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In to 1979 she sang Haydn's Creation with Eugene as Music Director of Michigan in Philadelphia. in New York's directly from the Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh. where he and in the Saratoga Performing production of Carmen. Arts She has made many appearances will add to his responsibilities with the Detroit Symphony. including a staged Director for ,Western Opera version of Strauss's Elektra conducted by he is to conduct Elixir of Antal DoratL Romeo and Juliet, repeating the laller work with the San Francisco Spring MARC EMBREE, who is the title role Opera, in Don Giovanni on October and 17, is equally at home in opera, oratorio, recital and musical comedy His 1978 New York City and con Opera debut was as Zuniga in he has Butter since sung Colline in La Boehme. in Hansel and Gretel. As Le Coq d'Or and Des Grieux in Manon both at CondIJcl()r of the Lake George the State Theatre in Lincoln Center and on led performances of tours to Los Angeles and Don Giovanni, Student Was:hingiton. D.C. Prince Madame Butterfly. Mr. Embree has sung Don Gio- Flint serves as Music Director of vanni with the George Opera Festival Resident at Lake George, and the Opera Association, and he Artist Intern staged and cor1dulcte'd will perform same role later this season in Annapolis and He is a regular acdaimE~d PI'OdllCti()O of La and. in with the Opera Theatre of where his production roles have included the Music in stepped jn at the Ariadne auf Naxos. Emmons in Paulus' The title role' Vii/age Singer. Peutemann in Von Resnicek's

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre opera Spiel oder Ernst and the Speaker in The ANDREAS POULIMENOS, singing the title Magic Flute. This season he will return to St role in three performances of Don Giovanni, Louis as the Count in their Marriage of Figaro. will be remembered by MOT patrons for two roles last season: Marcello in La Boheme and WILHELMENIA FERNANDEZ returns for Lionel in Joan of Arc. Michigan audiences her second consecutive season with Michigan have also seen him as Sharpless in Madame Opera Theatre as Donna Elvira in Don Butterfly for MOT, as Don Alfonso in Cosi fan Giovanni. Her debut here last season was as tutte with Michigan State University and as Musetta in La Boheme - the same role in Falstaff for the Opera Association of Western which she had previously triumphed at the Michigan. Paris Opera. Having first come to international Mr. Poulimenos was a winner of the attention as Bess in the Houston Opera Porgy Metropolitan Opera New England Regional and Bess on Broadway and on tour through Auditions and the recipient of a Fulbright out Europe, the young soprano followed her Scholarship to study in Rome. He appeared as last appearance here with a revival of La soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra under Boheme in Paris and work in Europe on her Arthur Fiedler in the nationally televised first feature film. Canticle of Christmas, and has sung Messiah A graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in at both the Worchester Music Festival and in Philadelphia, her professional opera debut Boston's Symphony Hall, as well as perform was in 1974 as Antonia in Tales of Hoffmann ing the St. Matthew Passion with the Chorus with the New Dra-Mu Opera, where she sub Pro Musica. Mr. Poulimenos is currently on sequently added Violetta in La Traviata and the faculty of Bowling Green University. Marguerite in Faust to her repertoire. Other credits include the title role in Aida with PAUL SCHMIDT currently lives in Pitts the Kansas City Lyric Opera (which will be burgh, and has sung with the Pittsburgh revived next fall). Later this season she will Opera, Pittsburgh Chamber Opera and the sing Porgy and Bess with the Charlotte Opera, Pennsylvania Opera Festival, among others. and she is scheduled to open their 1981-82 As an apprentice at the Lake George Opera season with another La Boheme. Festival this summer, he portrayed Von Mark ROBERT GUARINO, who is Don Ottavio in in The Student Prince and also achieved this season's performances of Don Giovanni, second place in the David Lloyd Awards com has previously appeared with the Lake George petition. Schmidt holds degrees in music and Opera Festival, the St. Paul Opera, Provi opera from William Jewell College in Liberty, dence Opera Theatre, Eastern Opera Theatre Missouri, and Memphis State University. of New York, and Brooklyn Opera Society, among others. He was highly praised in The CAROLYN VAL-SCHMIDT, who is Donna New York Times recently for his performance Anna in three performances of Don Giovanni, as Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore. debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in the Mr. Guarino has appeared in concert at the Widely-acclaimed production of Benjamin Waterloo Music Festival in New Jersey, with Britten's Death in Venice. Last season she the Eastern Connecticut Symphony, the Long pleased both audiences and critics as Donna Island Choral Society, and with the Boston Anna in Artists Internationale's production of Symphony at Tanglewood, where he was Don Giovanni, which featured Justino Diaz in awarded a fellowship for two summers. His the title role. many other rewards include first prize in the Miss Val-Schmidt has sung leading roles at the 1978 Llederkranz Foundation Awards, first Temple University Music Festival, the Lake prize in the Washington International Com George Opera Festival and Asolo Opera. She petition for Singers, and a National Arts Club was a member of the Mini-Met, and created Award. the role of Betsy Hamilton in the AI Carmines MARY CALLAGHAN LYNCH, who is sing opera The Duel. Her professional debut was ing Zerlina in Don Giovanni, has previously with the Turnau Opera, where she starred in worked with MOT in Madame Butterfly, the roles of Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro Naughty Marietta, and The Student Prince, and Belissa in Don Perlimplin. Miss Val among others. Last season she was Musetta in Schmidt inaugurated Manhattan's Soho Baro La Boheme with MOT and the Allen Park que Opera Company in performances featur Symphony, and Gretel in our touring produc ing works of Rameau, Gretry, Telemann, tion of Hansel and Gretel. Paisiello and Cimarosa. Ms. Lynch began her studies with the On the concert. stage Miss Val-Schmidt has Interlochen Opera Theatre, where she worked been soloist with the esteemed Clarion Con with Boris Goldovsky, and received her BFA certs in performances of Messiah, Mozart's from Marygrove College. Her professional Requiem and Poulenc's Gloria. She has ap appearances have included an engagement at peared with the Newport Music Festival in Its the Village Gate in New York City, as well as 1978 and 1979 seasons, and has been soloist numerous television and radio commercials. for several seasons with the Joffrey Ballet.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre MICHAEL VAN ENGEN, an Iowa native and graduate of Morningside College tfJere, MOT Orchestra FIRST VIOLIN OBOE has just completed his studies at the C( liege Charlone Merkerson. Paul Amorello. Prlnclpol Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. Dclring Conce rtmaster Jane Green his course of study there, he received the Patricia Karakas Mary Catherine Edwards ENGLISH HORN Norman Treigle Memorial Scholarship, award Calhy Spratt Jane Green ed nationally through the New York City Paula Kibildis Opera. He has apprenticed for two seasons FranCis Peterson ClARINET Joel Warren. Principal with the Santa Fe Opera, and has appeared SECOND VIOLIN CarolOber with the Cincinnati Opera and the Center Peruz Zerounian. Principal Wilma Turco BASSOON Civic Opera in Covington, Kentucky. As a PhylliS Fleming Pamela Dien, Principal concert soloist, he toured Poland and Russia Lina Carcone Vidoria King and has sung with symphonies in North VIOLA HORN Carolina and Cincinnati. As an MOT Artist In Ara Zerounian . Principal John Dion. Principal tern, he was featured as Frank the prison Gary Syro id Karen Nixon. warden in this season's production of Die Margarel lang Meyer Shapiro TRUMPET Fledermaus. James Underwood. Principai· CEllO Gordon Simmons MARILYN RENNAGEL, who is design ing Laura Deming. PrinCipal the lighting for Don Giovanni as well as serving Minka Christoff TROMBONE Debra Mulder Maury Okun. Principal as lighting consultant for the overall season, Pamela Bush will be remembered by MOT patrons for her Gregory Near work last season on Joan of Arc and II DOUBLE BASS Thomas Cook Laura Sias. Principal TIMPANI Trovatore . In Miami she designed lighting for Marion Wengert Donald Liuui Rigoletto and La Fan ciulla del West; and in FLUTE Dallas she has designed Aida, The Barber of Dayna Har1wick. PrinCipal HARP SeVille, Manon and La Traviata. Pamela HIli Patricia T erry Ms . Rennagel was recently represented on MANDOLIN PICCOLO linda Puroff Broadway by the lighting of Clothes for a Dayna Hartwick Summer Hotel and Peter Allen Up in One. HARPSICHORD She has created lighting for such entertainers George Darden as Rod Stewart, Billy Preston, Linda Ronstadt, Detroit Federation of Musicians. Diana Ross and Bernadette Peters. She Local '5 A.F. OF M. recently designed the Los Angeles Civic Light Production Staff Opera production of On a Clear Day You Can Dwight Bowes, Director of Productions See Forever, and was lighting consultant for Mark D. Flint. Director, Artist's Intern Program the Barry Manilow World Tour. She has been Marilyn Rennagel, Ughting Consultant lighting designer for the Oldsmobile show for Robert Murphy. Technical Director the past two years. Deborah Myers, Administratiue Assistant Tony Davis. Executive Stage Manager Production Credits Bonnie Whalen. Costume Superuisor Lynch's Inc. Peggy Imbrie. Stage Manager Marc Cervania, Stage Manager Universal Wig Center Abe Malus, Stage Production Carpenter Dave Sugar. Moster Flyman • Tom Bryant. Master Electrician Jack Brock. Property Master Sandra Conone. Assistant Technical Director Betsy Adams, ReSident Assistant Lighting DeSigner Sleven Horak , Make·up Superuisor Julie Siork, Wardrobe Mistress Bill Rayburn. Jr., Make·up Artist Patrice Winslow. Make-up Artist Stephanie Savin. Mouement Instructor Diane Jamison. Seamstress Siage Employees Local -38 IATSE Music Staff Mark D. Flint, Music Director Robert Myers. Chorus Moster George Darden. Principal Coach/ Accompanist John Oion . Orchestra Personnel Manager OPERA CJHEATER Mark Gibson. MUSiC Intern 1980 Production Interns Sharon Dick, Stage Management Thursday, October 30 Elizabeth Eckert. Music Administration Gilbert Hutchins. Technical 6 p.m. to Midnight Jim McMann. Technical Buttons on Sale In Lobby Stephanie Savin. Stage Management

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English Version Joseph Machlis by arrangement with Associated Music Publishers, Inc. U.S. agen'" for G. Rlcordi & Company, Milan

conductor W. Anthony Waters

director Rhoda Levine

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October 26, 29, 31, 1980 stage managers Tony Davis In English Peggy Imbrie Marc Cervania

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE CAST The Duke of Manlua . . . Riccardo Calleo - Oclober 24, November 1 Tonio DiPaolo - Oelober 26, 29, 31 Rigoletto ... .. Charles Long - Oclober 24, November 1 Rodney Slenborg - Oelober 26, 29, 31 Gilda . .... Leigh Munro - Oclober 24, November 1 Gwendolyn Bradley - Oclober 26, 29, 31 Sparafucile . . . Malteo de Monli Maddalena ... Alexandra Hughes Giovanna . · Carol Madalin' - Oclober 24, November 1 Holly Cairns' - Oclober 26,29,31 Counl Monlerone .... . Paul Schmidl' Marullo · Michael Doll' - October 24, November 1 Robert Mince' - October 26,29,31 Borsa . · Peter Clegg' - October 24, November 1 Jeff AUyn' - October 26, 29, 31 Count Ceprano ..... Ross Stutzman' The Counless .. . . . Margaret Rees' The Court Usher .. ... David Stork' The Duchess' Page ... . . Anne Nispel' 'Member, MOT Artist Intern Program

MOT Artist Interns MOT Auxiliary Chorus MOT Supers Jeff Allyn Larry N. Bate Melanie AI-Shabkhoun George Bufford Jonathan Blackshire Joe Anzur Holly Cairns Norman Brinkman Dale Austin Vertrelle Cameron Fred Buchalter Stanley Beattie Peter Clegg Ed R. Cartwright Richard Brownes Michael Doll Peter A. Cartwright Diane Dobson Coleen Downey Christian P. Ch"aubet Sarah Fraser James Longacre Timothy Hanel Leone Gierczak Carol Madalin Robert Kinnear Don Johannes Roberl Mince Donald M. Matthews Terry Prim Anne Nispel Robert L. Morency Barbara Sadowski David Parks A. Michael Sochacki, Jr. George Schmidl Maggie Rees Robert Winston Sullivan Stephanie Savin Fred Turner Paul Schmidt Hezekiah Williams Kevin Skiles Richard L. York Ross Stutzman David Stork Michael van Engen

THE SCENE Mantua, Italy, in the sixteenth century

ACT ONE ACT THREE The palace of the Duke The palace

ACT TWO ACT FOUR Rigoletto's home An inn on the banks of the Mincio

There will be fifteen -minute intermissions between acts.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre WHO'S WHO one to the house, then goes out. At once the Duke slips into the garden, bribes the nurse Rigoletto unfolds within the court of the and declares his love to Gilda, who has ad DUKE OF MANTUA, an arrogant libertine mired him at church. He tell her that he is proud of his success with women. RIGO "Gaultier Malde," a poor student, and leaves LETIO is the cynical, hunchbacked court before being discovered as the enraptured jester; his sharp tongue has earned him the en Gilda lovingly repeats his name. mity of everyone at court, but the Duke's favor protects him. Meanwhile Rigoletto is stopped in the street by the scheming courtiers; they ask for his help in Unknown to the Duke and the court, Rigoletto abducting Count Ceprano's. wife and carrying has a daughter, GILDA, whom he keeps hid her to the Duke. Agreeing to help, Rigoletto den away as protection from the evils of the allows himself to be blindfolded; he is then world - especially from the Duke's roving tricked into holding the ladder against his own eye. house while the laughing courtiers enter and The other father in the opera is COUNT abduct Gilda, whom they suppose to be the MONTERONE, whose daughter the Duke has jester's mistress. Realizing he has been tricked , already seduced. SPARAFUCILE, a profes Rigoletto tears off the blindfold, finds his sional assassin, and his sister MADDALENA daughter's scarf, remembers Monterone's are the other principals in the unfolding curse, and collapses. tragedy. ACT THREE: The Duke has learned of THE STORY Gilda's abduction and is fearful for her safety. When his courtiers report that It was they who ACT- ONE: The curtain rises on a festive carried off the girl, and that she is now in the scene at court as the Duke of Mantua discusses Duke's chamber, he rushes off to his new con a young girl of the town whom he , disguised quest. as a poor student, has been wooing for several months. He is distracted by the Countess Rigoletto comes in, searching for Gilda. The Ceprano, dances with her and takes her off to courtiers, although surprised to learn that she a private room as his jester, Rigoletto, mocks is his daughter, continue to bar his way despite her furious but helpless husband. When his threats and ple.as for mercy. Just then Rlgoletto has gone, a courtier enters with a Gilda appears, dishevelled, and runs to her new bit of gossip: the hunchbacked jester is father, who orders the others to leave. Alone reportedly living with a beautiful young with Rigoletto, Gilda tells of the Duke's court mistress! ship and of her abduction. As Monterone is led to the dungeon, Rlgoletto swears vengeance Rigoletto returns with the Duke and uses the for his daughter's defilement as Gilda begs her protection of his master's favor to increase his father to forgive the Duke. attacks on Count Ceprano, who joins with other courtiers to plot a vendetta against the ACT FOUR: Late at night , outside a lonely Jester. Suddenly Count Monterone forces his inn, Gilda is still trying to persuade her father way into court to denounce the Duke for that the Duke truly loves her. She is shocked seducing his daughter. Rigoletto taunts the old when the Duke, laughing at the fickleness of . man mercilessly and Monterone, as he is ar women, arrives for an assignation with rested, pronounces a curse on both the Duke Maddalena, Sparafuclle's sister. In the famous and the Jester. The Duke laughs it off, but Quartet Maddalena and the Duke conduct a Rlgoletto Is terrified. teasing seduction while the eavesdropping Gilda voices her despair and Rigoletto swears ACT TWO: Rigoletto's supposed mistress Is revenge. actually his daughter, Gilda, and he is hurrying from court to the house he shares with her, still Rigoletto sends Gilda off to disguise herself as brooding on Monterone's curse. On his way a boy and flee to Verona. He then hires he encounters Sparafucile, a professional Sparafucile to kill the Duke, arranging to assassin, who offers his services against return at midnight to claim the body. Rigoletto's enemies. The jester dismisses him, A storm gathers and breaks as Gilda returns however, reflecting that his own tongue is as disguised as a boy and overhears Maddalena sharp as the assassin's blade. asking her brother to spare the Duke's life. Gilda greets her father in their garden and asks Finally Spat'afucile agrees to kill instead the about her mother. Rigoletto laments his wife's next person who enters the inn and to substi untimely death and explains that Gilda is now tute the body for the Duke's. Still in love everything in his life . Fearful for his daughter's despite her betrayal, Gilda decides to sacrifice innocence, he warns her nurse to admit no herself to save her beloved. She enters the inn and is stabbed. WARNING The storm has ebbed as Rigoletto returns to The use of recording equipment or gloat over the body, which Sparafucile cameras (with or without flash attach presents to him in a sack. Suddenly he hears ment) during performance is strictly the Duke's voice, singing in the distance. Fran prohibited by law. tically opening the sack, he finds his daughter, Violations may result in suspended who dies begging his forgiveness as Rigoletto performance and will be prosecuted. cries out "Ah, the curse!"

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Mr . Waters' future commitments include THE COMPANY Macbeth for Connecticut Opera and Don Pasquale for Utah Opera. GWENDOLYN BRADLEY,.singing Gilda In the English-language performances of Rlgoletto, made her profeSSional operatic debut with the Lake George Opera Festival In 1976, when her roles were Nanetta In Falstaff, Clara In Porgy and Bess and Pousette In Manon. Since then she has sung Titania In A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Central City Opera, the title role of Lakme with Opera/South and, in her debut with the Rhoda Levine W. Anthony Waters Opera Company of Philadelphia, Aurelia In Rumplestlitskln.

RHODA LEVINE, director of Rigoletto, has Miss Bradley Is also active both as a recitalist won acclaim as both director and and as an orchestral soloist. Her New York choreographer In theatres and opera houses recital debut in June, 1978, was a tremendous on two continents. MOT audiences have en success, prompting The New York Times to Joyed her distinctive approach twice before, In call her "a real winner ... a soprano to be on productions of Mozart's Magic Flute and the the lookout for In the future ." She has been dual bill of Emperor Jones and Pagllaccl. solOist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Kansas Miss Levine came to International attention City Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony and with the world premiere production of The Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, among others. Emperor of Atlantis for the Netherlands Opera - a company with which she has frequently The young soprano has won a number of been associated, most recently In last season's Important prizes, Including the 1977 Metro new production of Macbeth. She has also politan Opera National Auditions (finalist) , the directed often for the San Francisco Opera, In National SOCiety of Arts and Leiters Competi cluding Tancredi, Saultrl, L'Amlco Fritz and tion (first place), and the New Jersey State last season's Good Soldier Schwelk, which she Opera Competition (first place) . She has been also choreographed. This summer she created the reCipient of a National Opera Institute a new production of Salome for Teresa Stratas Grant, Philadelphia Foundation Grant and at the National Opera of Greece In Athens, Sullivan Musical Foundation Grant. and her 1980-81 schedule Includes a revival of her 1977 Lulu and a new Don QUichotte, both HOLLY A. CAIRNS (Glovanna In English for Netherlands Opera. performances) is a graduate of Pennsylvania's Indiana University currently on a graduate As a choreographer Miss Levine has worked assistantship to Bowling Green University In with the Spoleto Festival, the Metropolitan Ohio, where she has sung In productions of Opera National Company and City Center Cendrlllon, Noye's Flood and Messiah. Stock Opera, among others. Her Broadway choreo and university music theatre credits include graphy credits Include Pantaglelze, War and Peace, The Grass Harp and The Sign In HMS Pinafore, Man of La Mancha, Stop the Sidney Brusteln's Window. Television credits World, Guys and Dolls, The Amourous Flea Include NBC Opera, NET Opera, DuPont and No, No, Nanette. Show of the Month, Story Theatre , National RICCARDO CALLEO, singing the Duke In Theatre of the Deaf and a CBS special entitled the Italian-language Rlgoletto, made his debut The Gershwin Years. with Michigan Opera Theatre In the 1979 pro duction of La Boheme In Kalamazoo. A native W. ANTHONY WATERS Is making his of Endicott, N.Y., and graduate of Yale, the second appearance with MOT as conductor tenor has studied voice at the Conservatorlo for Rigoletto; he conducted last season's G. Verdi In Milan, the Curtis Institute of Music highly acclaimed II Trouatore. He has worked and the Music Academy of the West. He made with major opera companies throughout the his opera debut while In Stuttgart on a country, and served as musical assistant to Fulbright grant; he was then engaged as first ) Kurt Herbert Adler at the San Francisco tenor In Bonn, during which time he appeared Opera. extenSively throughout Germany, France, j Since last season's II Trouatore, Mr . Waters Switzerland and Belgium. has conducted a Madame Butterfly with Utah Recent United States appearances Include a Opera, Abduction from the SeragliO with Rigoletto with the Cincinnati Opera, Don Jose Opera South, La Trauiata for Opera/Omaha, in Carmen with the New York City Opera In Merry Widow (with Anna Moffo) for the Con both New York and Los Angeles, and Edgar necticut Opera and an acclaimed revival of do In Lucia dl Lammermoor for the Lost in the Stars for the Western/Spring Washington Opera earlier this year. Mr . Calleo Opera of San Francisco. He spent the summer divides his time In Europe among the opera as musical director for the Merola Opera Train houses of Innsbruck, L1nz, Strasbourg and ing Program of the San Francisco Opera. Basel.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre MATTEO DE MONTI, singing Sparafuclle in A native of Pittsburgh, . Long made his New both Italian and English-language perfor York City Opera debut as Alflo In Cavallerla mances of Rigoletto, made his Michigan Rustlcana and has since added Tonlo, Opera Theatre debut in the 1977-78 season as Escamillo In Carmen, Rance in Fanciulla del Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen. He has performed West, Marcello In La Boheme, Count most extensively in England, where he studied Almavlva In Marriage of Figaro and Ford In voice with Audrey Langford and Andrew Falstaff to his repertOire there, as well as with Field . other major companies throughout the world. He has been acclaimed at the Charleston De Monti's opera background includes roles in Spoleto Festival In the title roles of two a number of unusual and distinctive works, unusual works, Clmmarosa's 11 Marlto such as Walton's The Bear, Rossini's La Desperato and Donlzettl's 11 Furioso dell Isola Gazzetta and the world premiere of La Calisto dl Santa Domingo. by Cavalli. He sang Seneca in the The Coronation of Poppe a at the Woburn Festival The handsome baritone's future schedule In In England, and appeared for two seasons as cludes Lescaut In Manon Lescaut in Seattle, an apprentice artist at the Santa Fe Opera. He John Proctor In The Crucible with Kentucky has also sung oratorio throughout Europe. Opera, Achllla In New York City Opera's revival of Glulio Cesare and his Opera American tenor TONIO DI PAOLO makes Company of Philadelphia debut In the title role his MOT debut this season as the Duke In the of Eugene Onegln. English-language performances of Rlgoletto. Other highlights of his 1980 schedule have in CAROL MADAUN (Glovanna In the Italian cluded a Houston Grand Opera debut In Die Rigoletto Cast) is in her second season as a Fledermaus, Lucia dl Lammermoor and MOT Artist Intern . A graduate of the Universi Tristan und Isolde for Washington Opera, ty of Michigan's School of Music , her roles Gurrelleder for Serglu Comlsslona and the here last season Included Inez in 11 Trouatore Baltimore Symphony, and a Carnegie Hall with Martina Arroyo and Hansel In our touring debut In Bizet's Te Deum and Mozart's Cor production of Hansel and Gretel. This summer onation Mass with the New York City Choral at Midland she was featured in Menotti's The Society conducted by Robert de Cormier. Old Maid and the Thief. Carol has received the Henry E. Wenger Award In the Detroit As a member of the American Opera Center Grand Opera Association auditions. of the Jullliard School of Music at Lincoln Center, 01 Paolo made his New York debut In LEIGH MUNRO, who Is singing Gilda In our the title role of Chabrler's Le Rol Malgre Lui; Italian-language performances of Rlgoletto, other roles with AOC Included Steva In made an Indelible Impact on Michigan Opera Jenufa. His many appearances with the San Theatre patrons In Bizet's The Pearl Fishers Francisco Opera Include the live national two seasons ago. She comes to us this season telecast of La G/oconda; and his performance directly from her New York City Opera debut In the Manhattan Theatre Club premiere of as Kathy In The Student Prince. Conrad Susa's Transformations caused New Yorker critic Andrew Porter to write that "If I It was as Gilda that Miss Munro first appeared were a composer I should want to write music with Sarah Caldwell's Boston Opera, later for him to sing." adding Susanna In Marriage of Figaro. She received standing ovations and world-wide ALEXANDRA HUGHES - Maddalena In press attention in 1978 as a last-minute replacement for Anna Moffo in ' Boston Rlgoletto ~ received her Masters In Opera Opera's production of Verdi's StifleI/o. Since degree from the Jullliard School, where her then she has been seen as Magda In La roles Included Hermia In Midsummer Night's Rondlne with the San Francisco Spring Opera, Dream and La Natura In Cavalli's La Calisto. The Bohemian Girl In Central City and Lucia A winner of the Connecticut Opera Guild dl Lammermoor In LOUisville, plus concert annual competition, she recently sang appearances in Atlanta, Milwaukee and the Marcellina In Le Nozze di Figaro for the New Hollywood Bowl. York Opera Ensemb!e, as well as working wlih Following her MOT performances, the the Bel Canto Opera and The American soprano's busy season will include Norlna in Opera Center. Don Pasquale In Baltimore, Gretel and Adele This summer Alexandra fulfilled her first in Die Fledermaus for Boston Opera and apprenticeship with the Santa Fe Opera Zerlina In the New York City Opera's Don Company, where she sang Annina In La Giovanni this February. Traviata. PAUL SCHMIDT, Monterone in Rigoletto, CHARLES LONG, who sings the title role in currently lives in Pittsburgh, and has sung with italian-language performances of Rigoletto, the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Chamber will be remembered by MOT audiences as Opera and the Pennsylvania Opera Festival, Tonlo In our 1979 Pagliaccl. He comes to among others. As an apprentice at the Lake Detroit this season directly from New York George Opera Festival this summer, he por City Opera, where he has been appearing as trayed Von Mark in The Student Prince and Figaro in Barber of Seville. also achieved second place In the David Lloyd

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Awards competition. Schmidt holds degrees in MOT Orchestra music and opera from William Jewell College FIRST VIOLIN OBOE in Uberty, Missouri, and Memphis State Charlotte Merkerson, Paul Amorello. Principal University. An MOT Artist Intern this season, Concertmaster Jane Greene he was the Commendatore in Don Giovanni. Patricia Karakas Mary Catherine Edwards ENGLISH HORN RODNEY STENBORG, a native-born Calhy Spratt Jane Green Paula Kibildis Detroiter who now lives in Houston, is singing Francis Peterson CLARINET the title role in Rigoletto for the first time in his Joel Wanen, PrinCipal SECOND VIOLIN CarolOber career in MOT's EngUsh-language perform Pvruz Zerounlan, Principal ances this Fall. Technically he is also making Wilma Turco BASSOON his Michigan Opera Theatre debut, although PhylliS Fleming Pamela Dion, PrinCipal Una Carcone he was very involved in the performances of Victoria King Overture to Opera out of which MOT evolved. VIOLA Ara Zerounian, Principal HORN Last season saw Mr. Stenborg with the Gary Syroid John Olon , Principal Margaret Lang Karen Nixon Houston Grand Opera, performing a widely Meyer Shapiro acclaimed [ago In Otello as well as Sharpless in TRUMPET Madame Butterfly, Kothner in an English CELLO James Underwood. PrinCipal Laura Deming, Principal Gordon Simmons version of Meistersinger and Oscar Hubbard in Minka Christoff Blitzstein's Regina. He also spent part of last Debra Mulder TROMBONE season in Memphis as Ezio in Verdi's Attila, Pamela Bush Maury Okun. Prlncipol Gregory Near with Met basso Jerome Hines (who will be in DOUBLE BASS concert with MOT this season) in the title role. Wendy Hohmeyer. Principal TIMPANI Marion Wengert Donald liuzzi Rodney Stenborg was engaged for several FLUTE PERCUSSION years with the Staedtlschen Buehnen of Dayna Hartwick Leslie David Osnabrueck and Oberhausen, Germany; he also made many guest appearances through PICCOLO out Holland . Locally, he has sung with both Dayna Hartwick the Pontiac Symphony and the Detroit Sym Delroit Federation 0/ Musicions, phony Orchestra. Local '5 A.F OF M CURT OSTERMANN, lighting designer for Rigoletto, has designed the lighting for pro Production Staff ductions at the New York Shakespeare Dwight Bowes, Director 0/ Productions Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Hudson Mark D . Flint , Director, Artist's Intern Program GUild, Circle Repertory, Missouri Repertory Marilyn Rennagel, LIghting Consultant Theatre, Wolftrap and the Hartford Stage Robert Murphy. Technical Director Company. He designed lighting for the New Deborah Myers. Admlnlstratlue Assistant York premiere of the Richard Owen opera Tony Davis, Executiue Stage Manager Mary Dyer, and for Manhattan School of Bonnie Whalen, Costume Superulsor Peggy Imbrie. S tage Manager Music productions of Hlndemith's News of the Marc Cervania, Stage Manager Day and Rota's The Italian Straw Hat. Abe Maius, Stage Production Carpenter Mr. Ostermann was assistant lighting designer Dave Sugar, Master Ffyman Tom Bryant, Mo ster Electrician for the Broadway productions of I Ought to be Robert Mesinar, Assistant Electrlclon In Pictures, Children,of a Lesser God, Clothes Jack Brock, Property Moster for a Summer Hotel, Romantic Comedy, Sandra Cottone. Assistant Technical Director Tribute and Cold Storage. A graduate of the Betsy Adams, Resident Assistant lighting Designer University of Michigan and NYU, he teaches Steven Horak, Make-up Superulsor at the Parsons School of Design and was the Julie Stork, Wardrobe Mistre ss recipient of the J.S. Seidman Award . Bill Raybun. Jr. Make-up Artist Patrice Winslow. Make-up Artist Stephanie Savin. Mouement Instructor Production Credits Diane Jamison, Seamstress Lynch's Inc. Stage Employees Local "38 IATSE Music Staff Mark D. Flint, MusiC Director Robert Myers, Chorus Master George Darden, Principal Coach I Accompanist John Dion, Orchestra Personnel Manager Mark Gibson, Music Intern Production Interns Sharon Dick. Stage Management Elizabeth Eckert, Music Administration OPERA <:JHEATER Gilbert Hutchins. Technical Jim McMann, Technical 1980 Stephanie Savin. Directing

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