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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre DuPont is proud to be a contributor to the construction of the new Detroit Opera House. Credits MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE .Mitchell Krieger, Laura R. Wyss Editors Grand River Printing Spring Season 1997 Printer RED GROUP Tom Putters Production Director Karen Sunman Art Director Toby Faber Director Advertising Sales Cover Photo: Detail/rom Detroit Opera House stage torchere CONTENTS Photo by: Mark Mancinelli

MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL DIRECTOR ...... 2

BUILDING ON A DREAM ...... 6

DETROIT OPERA HOUSE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN ...... 7

1997 SPRING-SEASON Michigan Opera Theatre would like to thank RIGOLETTO ...... 13 Harmony House Records for the donation of season recordings and videos.

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO ...... 16 The 1996/97 Michigan Opera Theatre Season is presented in cooperation with classical radio station WQRS-FM 105.1 . THE FLYING DUTCHMAN ...... 19 Michigan Opera Theatre's 1996/97 subscription and single tickets have been graciously sponsored by SPRING SEASON ARTIST PROFILES ...... 22 Voice-Tel. Additionally, this year's ticket envelopes have been generously sponsored by Hammel Music. CONDUCTORS AND DIRECTORS ...... 25 Steinway is the official piano of the YOUNG ARTISTS ApPRENTICE PROGRAM ...... 25 Detroit Opera House and Michigan Opera Theatre. Steinway pianos are provided by Hammell Music, exclusive representative for MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Steinway and Sons. President Tuxedo is the official provider of BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES ...... 26 formal wear for the Detroit Opera House. Michigan Opera Theatre is a non profit cultural organization whose ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF ...... 28 activities are supported in part by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS .... 29 Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other individuals, corporations and foundations. Michigan Opera Theatre is an MOT CONTRIBUTORS ...... 31 equal opportunity employer. Lighting equipment provided by Production Arts Lighting, Inc. VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION ...... 38 Archive recordings engineered by Daniel Dene.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ...... 41 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT

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t is hard to believe that nearly one year has passed since that unforgettable landmark in Detroit's cultural history - the grand opening of the magnificent Detroit Opera House. During this past year, we have enjoyed a series of extraordinary opera productions, launched our Dance Initiative with one of the world's great dance companies, and are fast achieving an enviable reputation world-wide for having an ideal acoustical and presentational venue. We have made considerable progress toward completion of the Opera House since last April. In September; we opened the elevator tower, which has provided barrier-free access to upper levels and three additional lobbies for the enjoyment and convenience of all of our patrons. Also opened is the Madison Lounge, where theatergoers can enjoy refreshments in a comfortable environment before, during and after a performance. On March 2, we inaugurated the magnificent General Director's Circle Lounge for the plea sure of all our donors whose annual support makes our seasons possible. 04r 1997 Spring Season is destined to be among the most exciting and artistically challenging seasons -to date, promising-something for everyone. For the ardent opera fan, we present The Flying Dutchman, our very first Wagner opera, which I promised to present upon completion of the Opera House. We will also present two proven favorites of the opera repertoire, Rigoletto and The Marriage 0/ Figaro. We have assem bled an international cast of celebrated luminaries including the company debut performances of Sumi Jo, Darin~ Takova, Nicholas Loren, Carlo Ventre, Pamela Armstrong, Jee Hyun Lim, Richard Bernstein, Thomas Barrett, Eduardo del Campo, Susan Marie Pierson, Victor von Halem and Marek Gasztecki. The new season also embraces the return engagements of Haijing Fu, Tito Beltran, Janet Williams, Helen Donath, Louis Otey, Terese Cullen, Thomas Hammons, Ealynn Voss and Richard Cowan. Making his direc torial debut is Dejan Miladinovic, and director Roman Terleckyj will return. Our maestros Steven Mercurio and Klaus Donath, both MOT veterans, will experience our fabulous new orchestra pi t for the first time; and John Mauceri, with whom I have had a long, wonderful relationship at Opera Pacific, will at last make his long-awaited Michigan Opera Theatre debut with The Flying Dutchman. While the Detroit Opera House is now functioning, or operable, the fund-raising proces.s continues. There are many ways to get involved! Whether you underwrite a seat, buy a brick or make a contribution (please see page 4 for details) you are ensuring the completion of your opera house. We hope that you will support our efforts to make this land mark building a home for the performing arts for generations to come.

Enjoy the opera!

David DiChiera, General Director

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We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to become a part of the history of the magnificent Detroit Opera House. One way you can do this is by putting your name on "the best seat in the house." Over 1,000 seats in the theater have been underwritten through the generosity of our donors. Our goal is to name every seat, so there are still 1,700 available for you to choose from in all sections of the house. You; gift will be recognized by a plaque on the seat, so you will receive recognition for your contribu tion in perpetuity. Gifts may honor you, your company or a loved one. Any gift of $1,000 and above may be paid over five years. Another way to participate in this effort is to set your name "in stone." You can buy a brick for $100 that we will inscribe according to your wishes. The named bricks will be installed on the wall of the First Floor Elevator Tower Lobby for all theatergoers to see. More than 700 people have bought bricks already, but we need about 1,300 more to cover the entire wall. Please join the growing number of supporters who have already contributed to this exciting project and put your name on a seat or a brick. Become a part of history by filling out the form below and returning it to Michigan Opera Theatre.

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Michigan Opera Theatre, cited by the located next to the newly renovated Fox open the Detroit Opera House, bringing Detroit media as "one of the city's cultural Theatre, though this arrangement was not the building project to the attention of the jewels," is the State of Michigan's premiere considered ideal because the facility was public at large. opera company, serving as a state-wide cul not for sale, only rent. While in the midst In the spring of 1993, the wrecking ball tural resource committed ro producing the of these discussions, the Grand Circus came down on the Roberts Fur Building on very best professional productions from the Theater became available for purchase. the Grand Circus Theater block, making grand opera, operetta, musical theater and David DiChiera considered the magnifi way for a new 75,OOO-square-foot stage ballet reperrory. Founded and directed by cent structure ideal for its "opera house" house. With the $1.25 million Kresge internationally recognized impresario style interior and the possibilities for build Challenge grant, the acquisition of the last Dr. David DiChiera, ' Michigan Opera ing a new stagehouse. He brought in facil of the six parcels in the Grand Circus Theatre is npw recognized as one of the ities experts to substantiate its structural Theater block, and the 1994 Opera Ball nation's most successful opera companies. soundness, acoustical excellence and tech inside the unrestored auditorium before a Since its inception in 1971, Michigan nical capabilities when updated. On crowd of many who had never before seen Opera Theatre has called three different December 31, 1987, the ball got rolling as the interior, the project gained unstoppable theaters "home" prior ro the opening of the the company secured the first parcel in the momentum. Construction began in earnest Detroit Opera House. In 1971 the Grand Circus Theater block as the compa on the stage house that same summer. The Company became the catalyst for the revi ny's future performance site. monumental task before Michigan Opera talization . of Detroit's celebrated Theatre, the renovation of the Detroit Theater District, as it re-opened the Opera House, has been considered a Music Hall Center for the Performing key component for the economic, cul Arts. Music Hall was home until 1985. tural and civic revitalization of Detroit. In 1985, the company, in an effort ro accommodate its growing audience and AN OPERA HOUSE FOR increased production needs, began per DETROIT forming the fall season in the Fisher On April 21, 1996, a date that Theatre (primarily a Broadway style coincided with the Company's twenty house seating 2,100), and the spring fifth season, David DiChiera's dream season in the 4,000-seat Masonic became a reality as the Detroit Opera Temple Theatre. While the move to the House was declared "open and ready Fisher and Masonic Temple Theatres for music" with an inaugural gala con achieved a temporary solution to the The Detroit Opera House. cert, featuring history-making perfor- Company's need for great~ technical mances by Luciano Pavarotti and a star resources, seating capacity and audience studded cast of world-renowned artists. amenities, it became clear that the future of In 1990, the capital campaign to raIse All eyes were on Detroit, as the city cele Michigan Opera Theatre as a permanent funds for the project began. With the brated the opening of its very own opera resource for the city and state would be support of several prominent business house - a world-class theater for the enter jeopardized if the company could not con leaders, Michigan Opera Theatre ran a suc tainment of generations to come. trol its own destiny. Michigan Opera cessful campaign to name the private grand The 1996-1997 season at the Detroit Theatre, under the leadership of David tier boxes, enabling the Company to Opera House has been lovingly dubbed DiChiera and the Board of Directors, set acquire the remaining parcels of the Grand "Building on a Dream". On January 12, out to find a building ideally suited for Circus Theater block (this included three 1997, the original structure that is now the grand opera and ballet productions. parking lots, the theater proper and the Detroit Opera House, reached its 7S'h Roberts Fur Building). In the fall of 1991, birthday. It is our sincere hope that you, MOMENTUM BUilDS during a pre-concert press conference in the your families and generations to come In the late 1980's the company seriously Grand Circus Theater, Luciano Pavarotti enjoy the Detroit Opera House - a considered renovating the State Theater made his memorable promise to return to reclaimed piece of our culture and history. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Ph oto: Mark Mancinelli 6 Michigan Opera Thearre Michigan Opera Theatre

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Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave (after Le Roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo) First Performance: Venice, March ll, 1851

April 5, 9, ll, 12 at 8 PM April 6, 13 at 2 PM

Conducted by STEVEN MERCURIO Directed by DEJAN MILADINOVIC* Designed by ZACK BROWN Lighting Design by KENDALL SMITH Chorus Master SUZANNE ACTON Make-up and Hair Design by ELSEN ASSOCIATES Stage Manager: JOHN KENNELLY

Sets, costumes and props for this production prrwided by The Washington Opera

Production made possible by a grant from Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshallt()Wn, I ()Wa

Additional costumes prrwided by Seattle Opera

Supertitles translation by Henri Venanzi Supertitles for this production are ()Wned by Opera Pacific

Sound Effects by Daniel Galeski

There will be intermissions foll()Wing Act I Scene 2 and Act II CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE:

The Duke of Mantua Count Monterone TITO BELTRAN DINGGAO* (April 5, 9, 12) CARLO VENTRE * Sparafucile, a bravo (April 6, 11, 13) JAMES PATTERSON

Borsa, a courtier SCOTT PIPER Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter SUMIJO* (April 5, 9, 12) Countess C eprano BARBARASCHERRER+ DARINA TAKOVA * (April 6, 11, 13)

Rigoletto, the Duke's jester April 5'h Opening April 11 ' h Performance Giovanna, Gilda's nurse HAIJINGFU Night Performance Sponsored by (April 5, 9, 12) BARBARASCHERRER+ Sponsored by NICHOLAS LOREN* ~ Magna Interior Systems THOMAS GROUP (April 6, 11, 13) The Duchess' page ~ RACHAEL UNITE*+ Marullo, a cavalier April 12'h Performance DONALD CONRAD HARTMANN A court usher Sponsored by EUGENE ZWEIG £... Michigan Count Ceprano National FRANK E. PITTS+ Maddalena, Sparafucile's sister Bank CAROL SPARROW*

*Michigan Opera Theatre debut +Michigan Opera TheatrCopyrighte Young Arti 2010,st Apprent Michiganice Opera Theatre 1997 Spring Season 13 ACT I, SCENE 1 ACT II The Duke's l'}alace The Duke's Palace In the court of the profligate Duke of Mantua, a wild, hedonistic The Duke had also returned to find Rigoletto's house empty, and is banquet is in progress. The Duke tells his courtier Borsa of his inter angry that his newest love has been taken from him; but the courtiers est in an unknown maiden he had secretly followed to church; at the gleefully tell him of their trick, and the Duke, learning that they have same time, he admires the Countess Ceprano, in attendance at the brought Gilda to the palace, rushes to be with her. banquet. The Duke does not care if women know that he is attracted Rigoletto enters the hall, mournfully searching for some evidence of to many; nor does he worry about the jealous eyes of husbands and Gilda's whereabouts. When the courtiers tell the Duchess' page that fathers. As he courts the Countess, Rigoletto, his jester, mocks the he is not to be disturbed, Rigoletto realizes the truth, and tells the Count. Meanwhile, the cavalier Marullo has learned that Rigoletto has courtiers it is his daughter they have taken. Cursing the entire vile a mistress. Count Ceprano, enraged at Rigoletto's mockery, enlists the race of courtiers, he demands in vain to see her. other courtiers in a plan for vengeance. Finally, Gilda emerges from the Duke's bedchamber, and alone with At the height of the argument, Count Monterone enters. His her father, tearfully confesses the entire story. Rigoletto tells her they daughter had been seduced by the Duke, and Monterone demands sat will leave the city, but before they can go, they are interrupted by isfaction. Rigoletto insults him in a cruel and lewd fashion; and Monterone, who, on his way to the scaffold, once more curses the Monterone, denouncing bt;>th the Duke and his serpent of a jester, pro Duke. Rigoletto swears he will carry out vengeance for himself, nounces upon Rigoletto a father's curse ("maledizione" in Italian). Gilda, Monterone, and all who have been betrayed by his evil master. ACT I, SCENE 2 ACT III The'Street outside Rigoletto's home An inn outside Mantua Rigoletro has left the court to make his nightly visit to his home. Outside a tawdry inn on the outskirts of the city, Rigoletto and As he pauses outside his courtyard, deeply disturbed by Monterone's Gilda appear. Rigoletto has brought her here to show her the truth imprecation, he is approached by Sparafucile, a man who lives by his about her love, to whom she still wishes to be faithful. sword. Offering his services to Rigoletto as a paid assassin, Sparafucile They secrete themselves, and shortly, the Duke, dressed as a cava explains his pIethod and price, and tells Rigoletto that he can find lier, enters the inn, asking the innkeeper-Sparafucile himself-for him at this' location each evening. some wine, and his sister. The Duke rhapsodizes on the fickleness of Alone, Rigoletto ponders how alike. he is to the killer, using his women, as Maddalena, Sparafucile's sister, serves him wine. As the tongue to wound instead of a sword, and cursing the entire race of Duke seductively woos Maddalena, the heartbroken Gilda observes courtiers who have, in their cruelty and mockery, made him into the through a crack in the wall, unable to hear her father's attempts at twisted jester. consolation. But at home he becomes another man. As he enters the courtyard, Rigoletto sends Gilda home to don the clothes of a boy for their he is greeted exuberantly by his daughter, Gilda. On hearing his sigh, journey, then hands Sparafucile a down payment on the murder of his she asks him about her family, about her mother. Rigoletto confesses master. As storm clouds gather, Maddalena, who is charmed by the that her mother, now dead, was the only person who ever treated him handsome stranger, begs her brother to spare the Duke. Finally with compassion. Still, in his zeal to protect his daughter from the life Sparafucile agrees that if someone else knocks on the inn door before he leads, he tells her no more, and refuses to permit her out, except for midnight, the newer arrival can take the Duke's place in the sack des church. He charges Giovanna, Gilda's nurse, with her care, and takes tined to be his shroud. his leave. Gilda, in a frenzy of confused love, has changed her clothing and Meanwhile, the Duke has, with Giovanna's paid help, sneaked into returned, and she overhears the murderous discussion. Realizing that the courtyard. When he finds himself alone with Gilda, he passion her sacrifice can save her love, Gilda pounds on the door, and, at the ately tells her of his love. The-mnocent young maiden is thrilled and height of the storm, enters the inn, knowing that the point of a sword confesses to sharing his feelings. Telling her that he is a poor student will be her welcome. named Gualtier Malde, the Duke takes his leave. Alone, Gilda relives The storm moves on. Rigoletto, returning, exults in the feeling of the thrill of her passion, and swears that she will belong to her love power that elates him as he waits to dispose of the dead body of his until death. evil master. At midnight, the door opens, and Sparafucile brings him Outside the wall, the courtiers have gathered to carry out Ceprano's a body in a sack, colleers his money, and bids his client good night. vengeance by abducting the girl they believe to be Rigoletto's lover. Rigoletto, about to throw the body into the river, is stopped by the The jester, returning, is told that the plan is to kidnap the Countess voice of the Duke drunkenly singing from the inn. Realizing that an Ceprano. Relieved, Rigoletto agrees to take part. The courtiers mask . innocent victim is in the sack, he rips the fabric open, to find his him, secretly covering his eyes, and make off with Gilda as he holds daughter inside. Gilda has just enough life left to confess her decep the ladder. When Rigoletto realizes that he has been betrayed, it is too tion, and to tell her distraught father that she will be waiting for him late; the curse of Monterone has begun to operate. in heaven, with her mother. As she falls lifeless, Rigoletto once more cries out, "the curse of Monterone!"

The great Verdi baritone Sherrill Milnes says that Rigoletto is the ii) of his newest love. Since Ceprano's attraction, if sweet, was short, most difficult role he has ever sung, because the humps on the singer's his love for Gilda must be taken as insincere. When the courtiers tell shoulder and back needed to create the "hunchback" effect of the jester him they have kidnapped Rigoletto's "mistress," he runs to "console" of the Duke of Mantua are not enough. "You also must bend over for Gilda. four acts. It takes enormous strength," says Milnes. Rigoletto pleads for his daughter's release in the aria, "Cortigiani," Cr~tics questioned Verdi in 1851 when he composed the opera for one of opera's finest moments. Coincidentally, Gilda runs in as he fin Venic~'s Teatro la Fenice about the advisability of a singing hunch ishes. Tastefully, the "deflowering" scene was eliminated from the back. Verdi was adamant. "The subject is grand, immense and there's opera, and it is through Gilda's words we learn of the rape (although a character in it who is one of the greatest creations the theatre of all she claims she loves the Duke). countries can boast." In Act III, the Duke has been lured by the tart Maddalena to her This grand creature is directly from Victor's Hugo's shocking play brother Sparafucile's sleazy inn to be assassinated. Inside, the Duke Le Roi s'amuse, banned in France in 1832 after one performance. The sings what has become the all-time hit aria, "La donna e mobile" play, about the debauched King Francois I (1515-1547) and his jester (Women are fickle). Outside, Rigoletto admonishes Gilda for her Triboulet ("little mocking laugh") was considered obscene for its unrequited love of the Duke, which seems inconceivable until we depiction of toyalty. In Italy, Verdi's Austrian censors agreed, forcing learn from the play that Gilda became the Duke's mistress in the him to set the story in Mantua, probably using the scandalous month between Act III and IV. His infidelity here makes her future Gonzaga Duke Vicenzo I (1587-1612) as a prototype. bleak. The famous quartet "Bella figlia dell'amore" that follows is The opera opens with one of the Duke's infectious melodies, musically unsurpassed. "Questa 0 quella," with words revealing his true libertine colors. His While Gilda does change to male attire for her escape, she returns latest whim is a mysterious beauty (Rigoletto's daughter) found in to the inn, disobeying her father and, violating her Catholic faith, church. At court, he charms the Countess Ceprano with a seductive commits suicide. She sacrifices herself to save the life of the Duke and menuetto. probably her father's life as well. In the preface to his play, Hugo describes his jester as deformed, "Assassination of a duke in Italy at that time would result in some sick, and, t~erefore, evil. In the opera, the Duke calls his jester a fool, horrible act," says Williams. "If he were caught, Rigoletro's death and the courtiers ridicule him for his deformity. Rigoletto ret'urns would be violent, probably with torture beforehand." their slurs with malice, such as suggesting Ceprano be decapitated for The tragedy seems like poetic injustice. A man vilely treated, with objecting to the Duke's flirting with his wife. When Count cause for malice, meets with fate's cruel curse as he opens the bag to Monterone vehemently protests the Duke's rape of his daughter, find his daughter a victim of his hate. Rigoletto mocks him. Monterone's response, "La Maledizione," is the "If the singer has done his job, the audience should be in tears," curse that sets the tragedy in motion. says Milnes. "Rigoletto is two people," says Milnes. "At work, he is sarcastic and bitter. At home he is a loving father." That love, expressed in the Mary Jane Doerr is a Detroit based free-lance writer specializing in opera Act II duet, "Figlia! ... Mio padre," between Rigoletto and Gilda, typ and musical theater. ifies Verdi's great father/daughter scenes. Gilda's mother died soon after her birth, and she has lived in Mantua only three months. She is naturally curious about her family, but Rigoletto avoids her ques tions. Deformed people were more prevalent in the 16th century due to improper diet and medical care, according to Ralph Williams, U-M professor and former director of the U-M Florence program, sug gesting there would have been more acceptance of them, but accord ing to Milnes such babies were abandoned by their families if not killed or kept hidden. "Rigoletto has been very clever, for he has Fine cuisine in a relaxed, managed to keep a jOb and make a living for his daughter," says contemporary seHing Milnes. 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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (after Le Mariage de Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais) First performance: Vienna, May 1, 1786

~ May 3, 7, 9, 10 at 8 PM May 4,11, at 2 PM I Conducted by KLAUS DONATH Directed by ROMAN TERLECKYJ Scenery Design by CONSTANTINOS KRITIKOS Costumes and Props by JEAN-PIERRE PONELLE Lighting Design by KENDALL SMITH Chorus Master SUZANNE ACTON Make-up and Hair Designed by ELSEN ASSOCIATES Stage Manager JOHN KENNELLY

Sets provided by the New Orleans Opera Association Costumes and props for this production provided by The Washington Opera

Supertitles for The Marriage of Figaro are owned by the San Francisco Opera Association

Supertitles translation by CLIFFORD CRANNA

There will be intermissions following Acts I and II CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE:

Figaro, valet to the Count Don Basilio, music-teacher RICHARD BERNSTEIN* CESAR ULLOA * (May 3, 7, 10) THOMAS BARRETT* Countess Almaviva (May 4, 9, 11) HELEN DONATH (May 3, 7, 10) May 3'd Opening Night May 7'" Performance Susanna, Figaro's betrothed, and PAMELA ARMSTRONG chambermaid to the Countess Performance Sponsored by (May 4, 9, 11) JANET WILLIAMS Sponsored by (May 3, 7, 10) Antonio, the Count's gardener JEE HYUN LIM* and Susanna's uncle ~ 'fA (May 4, 9, 11) FRANK PITTS* May 9'" Performance May 10'" Performance Don Bartolo, doctor Barbarina, Antonio's daughter THOMAS HAMMONS RACHAEL UNITE* Sponsored by Sponsored by ,_il',[9,8\ Marcellina, Bartolo's former Don Curzio, jurist Oh~~~' O N housekeeper JOSEPH POKORSKI MELODY 1. RACINE* Two Bridesmaids Cherubino, the Count's page JENNIFER OLIVER TERESE CULLEN ROSALIN CONTRERA GUASTELLA Count Almaviva LOUISOTEY (May 3, 7, 10) EDUARDO del CAMPO (May 4, 9, 11)*

*Michigan Opera Theatre debut +Michigan Opera Theatre YoungCopyright Artist Apprentice 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 16 Michigan Opera Theatre ACT I ACT II

A room in Count Almaviva's palace The bedchamber of Countess Almaviva It is ihe wedding day of Susanna (maid to Countess Almaviva) and Figaro The Countess, in her boudoir, mourns the fading of her husband's love. (manservant to the Count). As the curtain rises, the couple are in a sparsely fur Susanna enters, and then Figaro. He tells the Countess that, ro distract the nished toOm in the Count's castle. Figaro is preparing the room as their bed Count from his pursuit of Susanna, he has sent a note to the Count falsely stat room, bur Susanna warns him that it is unsuitable. The room is too close to the ing that the Countess has a rendezvous that evening with a lover. Furthermore, Count's rooms, and the Count is interested in Susanna. Figaro is furious and he plans ro send Cherubino, disguised as Susanna, ro the meeting with the determines to thwart his master's aims. Count. Figaro leaves. Cherubino enters. He submits ro being dressed as a girl. Susanna and Figaro leave, and Marcellina (the Count's housekeeper) and A knock on the door is heard. It is the Count. Cherubino hides. The Count Bartolo enter. Figaro is in debt to Marcellina and has promised to marry her enters and senses his wife's confusion. A noise is heard from the dressing room if he does not pay her back. Bartolo would love to see his old enemy Figaro ,but the Countess contends that it is only Susanna and refuses to unlock the forced to marry Marcellina. Susanna rerurns, and has a brief encounter with the door for the Count. The Count is determined to break down the door and departing Marcellina. Cherubino, the Count's page, enters. He tells Susanna leaves the room in order to get tools, taking the Countess with him. that he is to be sent away since the Count caught him with Barbarina (the Susanna, who was in her own room and entered the Countess' boudoir daughter of Antonio, the gardener). Cherubino does not want to leave, as he unnoticed, appears and tells Cherubino that he may come out. Cherubino does loves the Countess, Susanna, and in fact all womankind. The Count approach so, and quickly jumps out of the window; and Susanna takes his place. The es, and Cherubino quickly conceals himself behind a chair. Count and Countess rerum. She confesses that Cherubino is in the dressing The Count begins EO tell Susanna of his desire for her, bur they hear Don room, and as the Count prepares to break down the door, Susanna steps for Basilio approaching. The Count quickly hides himself. Basilio enters and tells ward. Both the Counr and Countess are baffied. Susanna of Cherubino's love for the Countess. The Count, furious with what he Figaro enrers. He denies sending the letter which the Countess and Susanna has heard, reveals himself. Cherubino is also soon discovered. have confessed was a falsity. Antonio, the gardener, enters to complain that his Figato enters with a group of village folk. Figaro asks the Count ro give prize plants have been ruined by someone leaping from the window. Antonio Susanna away in marriage, but the Counr evades the issue by postponing the has discovered a document in the flowerbed. The Count questions Figaro on ceremony, promising a lavish party later. The villagers leave. The Count orders its content, since Figaro has admitted to having leapt from the window so as Cherubino off to take up a commission in his own regiment and Figaro light to cover the actions of Cherubino. To add to the confusion, Marcellina, Bartolo heartedly warns Cherubino abour the rigors of military life. and Basilio enter and demand justice of Figaro for Marcellina. Technological "The Furrier Yo u Trust"

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But it is discovered that Figaro is in enters and does not waste the opportunity to flirt, but is interrupted when the fact Marcellina's long lost son, and that Bartolo is the futher. Susanna enters Count arrives. The Count flirts with the woman he believes is Susanna. Figaro momentarily confus~ . It is decided that a double wedding is in order. enters and sees Susanna (in disguise as the Countess) and believes that he is The Countess, alone, weeps in sadness as she struggles to regain the love of telling the Countess of the Count's infidelity. Susanna forgets to disguise her her husband. The strategy to ensnare the Count continues as the Countess dic voice, and Figato discovers the ploy but plans to tease the ladies. tates to Susanna a letter suggesting a rendezvous. They seal it with a pin. A The Count sees Figaro and his "wife" in a passionate embrace and sets out group of peasant girls, led by Barbarina, enter (Cherubino, in disguise, is to publicly humiliate his wife. The real Countess steps forward and the Count ~ among the group). Antonio and the Count enter. Barbarina tells the Count asks for forgiveness, which the Countess grants. All proceed joyfully ro the '".~ .~ that she wants Cherubino in return for her affections towards the Count. banquet to celebrate the end of the crazy day. Europe courtly minuet, allow the servants to challenge their masters in sub <..~ C for its political content: the notion of a Count getting his come tle ways. Finally, Mozart develops a musical style that fully meets the e uppance for 'his wicked designs on Susanna, the fiancee of his servant, demands of comedy. This is especially apparent in the glorious ~ E Figaro, at the hands of his wife, the Countess, and of his social inferi ensembles. Two structural procedures that Mozart was currently (.; ors was clearly inflammatory. Louis XIV called the play "detestable," developing in his instrumental works come to fruition here: contra while Napoleon claimed it "the revolution in action." puntal techniques that enable characters to present different points of But social satire apart, the play is also a sparkling comedy of man view simultaneously, and sonata-form organization exploiting the ners: the harridan Marcellina and the pedantic lawyer Dr. Bartolo-- abiliry of tonality to establish and resolve musical conflicts that mir who are both enlisted to help the Count, but who turn against him ror the conflicts and resolutions of the action. The best example is the on the discovery that they are Figaro's parents-plus the fawning Act III sextet, "Riconosci in questa amplesso"-reportedly Mozart's music-master, Don Basilio, and the love-sick adolescent, Cherubino, favorite piece in the opera-where the drama of Figaro recovering his are splendid characters. Moreover, Lorenzo da Ponte was a good long-lost parents is matched perfectly by Mozart's music. Similarly, librettist who knew what worked on a stage. He could write polished the magnificent Act II finale elaborates a well-founded musical struc verse well suited to music. He had to tone down the more obviously ture of unprecedented length to support the ebb and flow of the seditious passages of the play, but he did not alter it as much as one action. Perhaps for the first time, Mozart has fully realized the poten might expect (or as much as the Emperor, who had banned the play tial of the Classical style. The result is a comic masterpiece. from Vienna, was led to believe). Michael Kelly wrote of the premiere on May 1, 1786, "At the end Many of the resulting ari~ such as Figaro's "Se vuol ballare," the of the opera, I thought the audience would never have done applaud Count's "Vedro mentre io sospiro," Susanna's "Deh vieni, non tardar," ing and calling for Mozart ... Never was any thing more complete, and the Countess' "Porgi amor" and "Dove sono," take the opera into than the triumph of Mozart, and his Marriage of Figaro." Mozart a different world: the carefully calculated transformation of the wrote excitedly from Prague the following January: "here they talk Countess, whose renewed self-understanding becomes the focal point about nothing but 'Figaro.' Nothing is played, sung or whistled but of the action, is particularly striking. And if the libretto had to delve 'Figaro.' No opera is drawing like 'Figaro.' Nothing, nothing but more deeply into the characters than Beaumarchais might have 'Figaro'. " wished, Mozart's music delves deeper still. For everyone in the opera, what starts out as a rather innocent game becomes (by the middle of Tim Carter is Reader in Music, University of London. Extracted by kind Act II) an intense and ultimately revelatory experience. permission from the St. James Opera Encyclopedia Mozart renders his characters far more human than their derivation

10 (May 31 -June 8, 1997) le ro Richard Wagner is Libretto by the composer er First performance: Dresden, January 2, 1843 May 31, June 4,6,7 at 8 PM Jt June 1, 8 at 2 PM at ~ le '". ~ Conducted by JOHN MAUCERI* Directed by ROMAN TERLECKYJ Designed by ZACK BROWN Lighting Designed by KENDALL SMITH Chorus Master SUZANNE ACTON ~ Make-up and Hair Design by ELSEN ASSOCIATES .c~ U Stage Manager JOHN KENNELLY E 0 ..:: Sets, costumes and props for this production provided ! by The Washington Opera ~ Production made possible by a grant from Gramma Fisher Foundation '(; of Marshal/t()W11, Iowa al:i 'r:: Additional costumes supplied by Malabar Limited, Toronto :I .s e '§ Supertitles for The Flying Dutchman are ()W11ed by the San Q Francisco Opera Association '(; e g>- Supertitles translation by CHRISTOPHER BERGEN ~ Sound Effects by DANIEL GALESKI 0 y u There wil/ be intermissions fol/owing Act I and II If e CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE:

Daland, a merchant captain MAREK GASZTECKI*

The Steersman of Daland's vessel SCOTT PIPER

The Dutchman VICTOR von HALEM (May 31,june 4, 7)* ACT I RICHARD COWAN (June 1, 6, 8) Sandwike Cove The ship of the Norwegian merchant Daland is driven into a cove by a Mary, Senta's nurse MELODY 1. RACINE heavy storm. Upon landing, the captain recognizes it as Sandwike, only seven miles away from his home. He decides to wait here for the storm to abate Senta, Daland's daughter and, leaving the helmsman on watch, goes below deck with the rest of the EALYNNVOSS crew to sleep. The helmsman, although he tries to keep himself awake with (May 31,june 4, 7) a sea shanty, is gradually overcome by sleep; this allows another ship, with SUSAN MARIE PIERSON* striking blood-red sails, to approach unnoticed and drop anchor. i (June 1, 6, 8) The captain of the second ship, the Flying Dutchman, goes ashore and in Erik, a huntsman a long monologue tells his sorry tale. He is condemned to wander forever on IAN DeNOLFO* the seas. Only a woman faithful unto death could deliver him from this fate . Once every seven years he is allowed to land and thus be afforded the chance of meeting such a woman, but so far it has been in vain. *Michigan Opera Theatre debut +Michigan Opera Theatre Young Artist Apprentice Daland comes on deck and, having seen the other ship, approaches the Dutchman. The initial response to his approach is very guarded; but soon the Copyright 2010, Michigan DutchmanOpera Theatre has a crate of jewels brought out for Daland in return for an invi- 1997 Spring Season 19 tation to spend a night in his house. Then the Dutchman shows a sttong reac- standing before them, they recognize the convergence of their wishes. The tion upon hearing that Daland has a loyal and devoted daughter. Straight Dutchman sees his deliverance appear within reach when in the end, Senta away he asks Daland for her hand in marriage, and the father, who has been swears eternal fidelity to him. Daland returns and learns to his satisfaction looking for a wealthy son-in-law for some time, agrees without more ado. (without suspecting the identity of the stranger) that the interview between Meanwhile, the wind has changed so that both ships are able to sail towards the twO has led to an engagement, in accordance with his wishes. Daland's home ro introduce the Dutchman to Daland's daughter Senta. ACT II ACT III

Daland's house The cove in front of Daland's house While the village g irls sing a simple tune as they get on with their spin The Norwegian sailors are on the shore celebrating their return with rev ning, thus earning praise from Senta's old nutse Mary, Senta is lost in con elry, singing and dancing. The girls bring them delicacies ro eat and wonder templation of the image of the Dutchman, hanging as a ghostly warning. at the silence on the Dutchman's ship. In spite of their calling out many When she is teased by the girls, firstly about her suitor Erik, who is not a sea times, everything there remains quiet. The men of Daland's crew become farer, but a huntsman, and then because of her obvious interest in the boisterous and joke about the sailors on the other ship. All at once, wind and Dutchman, she calls upon Mary ro sing the already familiar ballad of the waves rise up around the Dutch ship, and a ghostly chorus is heard from its Flying Dutchman . .Mary refuses, however, and so Senta sings the ballad her- crew. The Norwegians attempt to shout down this eerie manifestation with self, telling of the curse for blasphemy but also of the damned man's chance their own song, but this is soon abandoned as they draw back in fear. for redemption. As she sings, she gradually loses herself in the ballad, final Senta rushes out of the house, followed by Erik, who makes a last attempt ly assuming the role of the redeeming woman herself, to the horror of the oth to prevent her imminent union with the Dutchman, entreating her to think ers present. When Erik enters to announce the arrival of Daland, Mary and of happy times spent together. When he speaks of her having assured him of the girls leave the room to prepare food for the seafarers . her devotion, the Dutchman steps forward, having heard all of this unnoticed. Erik, having overheard Senta's declaration of her role as redeemer, pleads Believing that Senta has betrayed her oath of loyalty, he reveals himself and for his unhappy heart, especially as he fears that Daland may indeed one day resol ves to strike out to sea at once, in order to save Senta from the eternal find a wealthy husband for her. Senta, however, refuses to answer his damnation that would befall her if she were to swear her devotion before God. entreaties. When Erik warns her that he has seen her in a dream running Unable to prevent the Dutchman's departure in spite of her protestations, away to sea with this Dutchman, his intended warning has just the opposite Senta is however determined to prove her devotion at all costs. She tears her effect. Senta is encouraged in her desire to put an end to the curse hanging self away from the arms of Erik, Daland and Mary, runs to a rocky reef jut over the damned, and Erik leaves in despair. ting out into the sea and, after declaring her devotion once more, plunges Daland comes into the room with the Dutchman. After greeting his after the Dutchman into the sea. Now, as the Dutchman's ship sinks, he and daughter, het father pres~nts the stranger to her as a wealthy seafarer who has Senta with their arms around each other ascend transfigured. asked for her hand in marriage. Thereupon he leaves her alone with the Dutchman, whom Senta has immediately recognized . After each of them has By kind permission o/The D ecca Record Company Ltd. given voice to their own thoughts as they see the answer to their longings

THE DUTCHMAN'S VOYAGE

In July of 1839, the twenty-six-year-old composer Richard Wagner and his is well known to seafarers. Captain of a merchant ship trying ro round the wife embarked on the sailing vessel Thetis, entoute from Konigsberg to Cape of Good Hope, the Dutchman fights a raging storm for many days, and London. During the trip, the ship was caught in a wild storm, and was fotced swears by all the devils in Hell that he will never yield to the elements. The to put into the Norwegian fjord of Sandwike. The Flying Dutchman is filled powers of Hell take him literally: he is condemned to sail forever, permitted with the composer's reaction to that voyage; it has been said that, wherever you to touch land only once every seven years. Just one possibility for his eventu open the score, the sea leaps out at you. The music abounds with myriad wave al release is granted: if he can find a woman who will remain true to him unto like chromatic scales or arpeggios; high, intense repeated or sustained notes, death, his cutse will be lifted. often in open fifths, like the wail~g of srormy winds; flowing figures that look How this legend must have resonated for Wagner! He had probably sworn and sound like the never-ending swells of the sea; and other aural representa to himself that he would never cease working for the triumph of his composi tions of the ocean. tions; and he must have brooded many times on how far his wife Minna (who However, The Flying Dutchman is not about the ocean. It is about defiance had actually deserted him for an affair at one point) was from the ideal woman of impossible odds; a love that transcends mortality; about courage, faith, fate, of the legend. Wagner's words and music for the Dutchman make us share the and despair. Throughout his career, Wagner would return to these themes, intense anguish of one who was eternally trapped by his defiance of the rest of themes so fertile for him that he left us an unparalleled body of ten operatic the world. The Dutchman tells us, in his first monologue, how, seeking release masterpieces, an operatic legacy rivaled only by Verdi. These two great thtough death, he has hurled himself into the depths, steered his ship onto the geniuses, both born in 1813, have dominated the operatic world since the rocky shores, and challenged pirate ships, but to no avail; he can neither die nineteenth century, and no doubt will continue to dominate in the twenty nor live. His only hope is a woman, faithful unto death (another theme which first. Wagner returned ro many times); failing that, Judgement Day. But the Wag ner of 1839 to 1843, when The Flying Dutchman premiered in The Dutchman's monologue, as the centerpiece of Act I, is the first key Dresden, was not yet a member of the pantheon of composers. He was a young moment of the opera. The ballad sung by Senta, daughter of the Norwegian musician, deeply in debt, saddled with a troubled marriage, and frustrated merchant captain Daland, is the second. This ballad, which opens Act II, was with attempts to get his earlier operas produced. Several times he found him the first piece composed by Wagner, and serves in many ways as the musical selfleaving a city barely ahead of his creditors. It is clear from his writings and source material for the entire opera. Wagner makes clear to us that Senta is letters of the period that Wagner identified with the DutCopyrightchman, whose 2010, legend Michigan obsessed Operawith the Theatre legend of the Dutchman. With great animation, she nar- 20 Michigan Opera Theatre rates the tale of the cursed mariner, crying at the end, "I'll be the one who of the Durchman, until the g hos tly crew appears, singing a redeems you through her faith !" It is easy ro believe that Wagner yearned for maniacal, hellish song of their own. As the two choruses contend, and the a woman ro redeem himself as well. storm rises, Wagner conjures up the winds of hell in the orchestra, calling for Not surprisingly, the next key event is the meeting. When Daland brings extra piccolos ro shriek at the top of their ranges, and a wind-machine to the Durchman to meet Senta, they are so thunderstruck by the sight of each frighten us with a threatening roar. The infernal storm strikes the morral other that they remain motionless and speechless for quite a while (long sai lors-and the audience-with terror. enough for Daland to sing a lyrical aria, expressing his hope that they will be The last great moment is the denoument. Erik, the young hunter who murually p leased). The ensuing duet is miraculous. In its first section, the cwo hopes to marry Senta, pleads with her to abandon her folly of marrying the do no:: address each other directly, bur rather speak of the disbelief of finally Dutchman. In a wrenching, tempesruous trio, the Dutchman cries to rerurn experiencing a long-awaited event. Time seems suspended; exquisite, soaring to his ship, doubting Senta's fidelity; Erik begs her to remain and save herself; melodies unfold slowly, intertwining in a musical embrace, foreshadowing the and Senta pleads for the Durchman ro rrust in her fairh. Finally the Dutchman love duets of Tristan und Isolde. The Dutchman, thrilled as he is by Senta's reveals to all his true identity, rushes aboard his ship, and puts to sea; but Senta, protestations of love, warns her that swearing fidelity to him has dire conse swearing ro be true ro death, leaps into the waves. At the very end, Wagner quences, but Senta, to an angelic accompaniment, says she will share his fate. calls for an apotheosis, showing the Dutchman and Senta ascending to heaven, Act III also has two greatly telling moments. The first occurs as the and playing a transcendent, heart-wrenching melody in the orchestra. Nocwegian sailors, with the women of the town, are, as one would expect from Such transcendence would become a hallmark of Wagner's work, serving rhe sailors on shore leave, drunkenly celebrating. They call to the dark, silent ship central theme of his arristic life: redemption through love. Perhaps Wagner found that redemption for himself with his second wife, Cosima, who was the great love of his life. As we live through The Flying Dutchman and Wagner's Curious About Cremation.? other masterpieces, perhaps we find it, roo. 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TITO DnL1J,,"," .l ~ DENNIS BERGEVIN TENOR (CHIlE) JEFFREY FRANK MOT Credits CO-DIRECTORS. ELSEN ASSOCIATES (PENNSYLVANIA) Detroit Opera House Inaugural .Gala 1996 MOT Credits Rodolfo. w Boheme 1996 Resident Hair and Make-Up Designers si nce 1988 1997 Spring Season 1997 Spring Season Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto Residem Hair and Make-Up Carmen, To!ca, MecroJXllican Opera; The Magic Flute, L'ltaliana in Algeri, Rigo/etto, The Marriage of Figaro, Flying Dutchman Los Angeles Opera; Don Giovanni, Opera Pacific; The Marriage of Figaro, l..4 Boheme, Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Opera North, Toulouse; The Pittsburgh Opera; Aich, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; A Midsummer Night's Rigolello, Monte Carlo, Geneva, Toulouse; La Rondine, Ludwigshafen; Der Opera Companies of Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Denver, Dream, Teatro Regio di Torino; San Francisco Opera, Atlanta Opera, Rosenkavalier, Coven t Garden; Nabucco , Santiago; L'Elisir dAmore, Sev ille; San Juan, Milwaukee, Sarasota and Cincinnati; Festivals of Edinburgh. Portland Opera, Tokyo, Italy; Enrico Caruso Scholarship, Metropolican Geneva Opera; concerts in Wales, Halle Orchestra, BBC Gianni Schiechi, Opera National Council Award recipient Concert Orchestra, Ireland, Chatelet of Paris; two solo recordings Jerusalem and Spoleto (U.S.A., Italy, Australia). Siegfried and Roy Show; PBS .nd HBO.

RICHARD COWAN TERESE CULLEN EDUARDO DEL CAMPO BASS-BARITONE (OHIO) MEZZO-SOPRANO (MICHIGAN) BARlTONE (SPAIN) MOTCredi" MOTCredilS MOT De/;n/ Carmen, AnoUlh, Tasca 198 1 Second Lady. The Magic Fin" 1991 1997 Spring Season Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni 1990 Echo, AriadneallfNaxos 1991 Count Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro ScarP;" Tosca 1994 S;ebel. Fan" 1994 La Bohenu, Metropolitan Opera; II Tr()1!atore, Luria di LammemUXJr, San 1997 Spring Season 1997 Spring Season Francisco Opera; A Masked Ball, Covent Garden; Hirodiade, Carnegie Title Role, The Flying Dutchman Cheubino, The Marriage of Figaro Hall; Rigo/ello, Bil bao; Don Giovanni, Cordoba; New York City Opera, Don Giovanni, Metropolitan Opera, Opera Pacific, Aix-en-Provence, World Premiere of Berio's Olltis, La Scala; Don Quichollt, COJ} fan tUIte, Virginia Opera, Aspen Festival, San Francisco Symphony, Phoenix Berlin, StraJbourg, Toronto, Santa Fe; TOlca, Montreal; Salwlt, Santa Fe, Elektra, La Traviata, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Carmen, L'Heure Espagnol, Symphony, Venice Opera, Kirov Opera, The Washington Opera, Puerto Rico; Cos} fan tutte, La Boheme, Metropolitan Opera; Antony and Orpheus Descending, Lyric Opera Cencer; The Mikado, Dayton Opera; DicW Pirtsburgh Opera, Houston Grand Opera; Sony recording of Hirodiade C/rojJatra, Don Giovanni, Carmen, Lulu, Lyric Ope..J]. of Chicago; Lohengrin, and Aeneas, Chautauqua Fesrival; La Traviata, Santa Fe Opera; concens at Bonn; Bluebeard's CaJtle, Geneva, Turin, Melbourne, Liege Chatelet of Paris, Ravi nia Festival ,t

IANDENOLFO HELEN DONATH HAIJINGFU TENOR (HAWAII) SOPRANO (TEXAS) BARITONE (CHINA) MOT Debu/ MOT Credits MOT Credits 1997 Spring Season Detroit Opera House Inaugural Gala 1996; Mimi, La Boheme 1996 Germont, La Traviata 1996 Er;k. The Flying DutchTnan 1997 Spring Season 1997 Spring Season Countess, The Marriage of Figaro Title role, Rigolello Otello, Opera Pacific; Macbeth, Berlin; La Boheme, Basel, Dresden; Metropolitan Opera. Salome, l! Trovatore, Gblterdiimmerung. Cannen, Don Berlioz' Requiem, Hamburg; II Viaggio a Reims, The Merry Widow, Basel; L:t Boheme, Metropol itan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Florida Grand Carlo, Tristan und lsolde, Aida, Parsifal, Arabella, Die Walkiire,jenufa, Don Giovanni, Opera Theatre of St. Louis; winner 1996 Lauritz Melchior Opera; La Traviata, Metropolitan Opera, Opera Pacific, Vancouver Elektra, Tannhiiuser; Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, New Heldentenor award; fi nalist, Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Opera, Calgary Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor, I Puritani, A Masked Ball, Yotk Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Ch icago Sy mphony, La Scala, Competition, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Fal!tal/. Metropolitan Opera; Rigoletto, San Diego Opera, Edmonton Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera, Boston Lyri c Opera; Luisa Miller, Washington Opera; A MaJked Alice Tully Hall; over 100 recordings Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Ball, Florida Grand Opera; Pavarolli Plus telecast 22 Michigan Opera Theatre DING GAO MAREK GASZTECKl THOMAS HAMMONS BASS-BARITONE (CHINA) BASS (POLAND) BASS-BARITONE (OKLAHOMA) MOT DebJlt MOT Debut MOTC,edits J 997 Spring Season 1997 Spring Semon Simone, Gianni Schicchi 1985; Benoi[/Alcindoro, w Boheme 1993; Moncerone, Rigo/etto Daland, The Flying Dutchman Dr. Bartolo, The Barber o/Seville 1993; Sui pice, The Daughter of the Regiment 1994 Cannen, La Bohevu, YOJca, The Magic Fillte, New York Cicy Opera; SaiWllt, The Magic FIII/e, Les Troyens, La Scala; The Abduction /rw'J the 1997 Spring SeaJon Lucia di LaTIJllImnoor, Seacde Opera; Ernoni, Sarasota Opera; The Magic Seraglio, Linz, Wiesbaden; De,- Freischiitz, Salzburg; opera companies of Dr. Banolo, The Marriage 0/ Figaro Flute, Austin Lyric Opera; Turandot. Edmonton, Maniroba; Verdi's Hamburg, Munich, Dresden, Sturrgart, Bonn, Zurich, Basel, Brussels, LA., Frankfurr, Paris, HoustOn; New York City Requiem, Florida Philharmonic, Hartford Chorale, EI Paso Chorale; The Netherlands; Israel Philharmonic, Accademia di Santa Cecilia of Rome Nixon in China, Martha, Marriage of Figaro, Shanghai Opera Opera; The Death 0/ Klinghof/er, Brussels, Lyon, Vienna, San Francisco, Brooklyn Academy; Tosca, LA Boheme, The Marriage 0/ Figaro, The Barber 0/ Seville, Opera Pacific; Florida Grand Opera, Washingron Opera, L'Opera de Montreal, Chautauqua Opera, Opera Theaere of Sr. Louis

DONALD CONRAD HARTMANN SUMIJO JEEHYUN LIM BASS-BARITONE (NORTH CAROLINA) SOPRANO (SOUTH KOREA) SOPRANO (SOUTH KOREA) MOTC""i" MOT Debut MOT Debut Benoit/Alcindoro. La Bohbne. 1996; Sacristan, TOlca 1995; Bonze, Madame 1997 Sprillg Season 1997 Spring Seasoll Blltlerf/y, 1994; Wagner, Fa11Jl1994; Mandari n, Turamlot 1994 Gi lda, Rigoletto Susanna, The Marriage 0/ Figaro ] 997 Spring Season - Marullo, Rigo/etto Rigolello , Lucia di Lammermoor, A Masked Ball, Metropolitan Opera; La BohblJt, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesoea Opera, Seatele Opera; The Magic Flute, The Tales oj Holflllaml, Covent Garden; Le Comle Ory, The Marriage oj Figaro, Vancouver Opera; Tllrandot, L'Opera de Monereal, Stadctheater Regensberg, Toledo Opera, Opera Delaware, Virginia Opera Pra Diavolo, La Scala; Lyri c Opera of Chicago, Salzburg Festival, Vienna Poreland Opera; The Magic Fillte, Cincinnati Opera, Austin Lyri c Opera, Association, Greensboro Opera Company, New Mexico Symphony, Staee Opera, Teaeco Colon, Santiago, Bologna, Bi lbao, Naples, Barcelona, Memphis Opera; Fam!, Ausein Lyric Opera; Don GifJVanni, Opera Pacifi c, Eastern Philharmonic, Greater lansing Symphony Orchestra; Professor of Madrid, Israel, Japan; recordi ngs of The Magic Fillte, A Masked Ball, Minnesota Orchestra, Poreland Opera; The Tales 0/ Hoffmann, 'Voice, Eastern Michigan Universi ty Die Fra" ohne Schattm, Tancredi, solo reciral albums Spolew Festival

NICHOLAS LOREN LOUIS OTEY JAMES PAITERSON BARITONE (ILLlNOIS) BARITONE (SOUTH DAKOTA) BASS (CANADA) MOT Debut ."'IOT Credits MOT Credits 1997 Spring Season Slim , 0/ Mice and Men 1980; Escamillo, CanJlen 1982; Colline, La Boheme 1993; Zuniga, Carmen 1996; First Nazarene, Salome Tide Role, Rigolello Coune, A Little; Night Mmic 1983 1996; Docwr Grenvil, La Traviata 1996 1997 Spring Season 1997 Spring Semon Don Gi(Wanni, Don Carlo, Kentucky Opera; Rigoletto, Aspen Festival , Count, The Ma,.riage 0/ Figaro Sparafucile, Rigo/etto Opera Roanoke; concerts in Maryland, Chattanooga, Carnegie Hall, Wagner's Ring, San Francisco Opera, Seatele Opera; Tosca, l..4 Forza del Florida, Columbus, Tang lewood Festival, Blossom Festival; upcomi ng Lyric Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera, Covene Garden, Opera Pacific, Die New York Ciry O pera, Dallas Opera, Merry Widow; Paris Destino, The Barber 0/ Seville, Lyric Opera of Chicago; The Barber o/Seville, appearances with Detroit Symphony, Opera Grand Rapids, Wesr Virg inia FledemulIIs; The Opera, Houseon Grand Opera, Opera Theater of Sr. Louis, Albert Herring, Werther, Romeo et J uliette, The Marriage 0/ Figaro, Canadian Symphony, Arizona Opera LA Cenerentola; Graz, Victoria Sraee Opera, Auseralia, Hawaii O pera Theaeer, Indianapolis Opera Company; The Magic Flute, / Puritani, Camlen, Vancouver Opera; Opera, Don Gi(Wanni; Greater Miami Opera, Greensboro Opera, Rigolello, Aida, II Ritomo d'UliJse in Po/ria, Lady Macbeth 0/ M/sensk, Connecricue Opera, Canllen; Opera Pacific, The Marriage 0/ Pigaro San Francisco Opera t f

SUSAN MARIE PIERSON SCOIT PIPER FRANK E. PlITS SOPRANO (OREGON) TENOR (COSTA RICA) BASS (MICHIGAN) MOT Debfll MOTC""i" MOT Credit! 1997 Spring Semon Goro, Madame Blltlerfly 1994; Spolena, Tosca 1995 ; Cappadocian/Fifeh Jew, Salome 1996 Senta, The Flying Dutchman Gastone, La Traviata 1996; First J ew, Salomt 1996 Servant, L:t Traviata 1996 1997 Spring Season Sergeant, La Boheme 1996 A Masked Ball, Philadelphia, La Scala, Bologna; Wagner's Ring, Cleveland Borsa, Rigo/etto 1997 Spring Season Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Nantes, Paris, San Francisco, Seattie, The Steersman, The Flying Dlltchman Coum Ceprano, Rigo/etto Finnish National Opera, O rchestre Nationale-Rad io de France; Elektra, Anconio, The Marriage of Pigaro Otello, Regina, Opera Pacifi c; Mozarc's Reqlliem , Handel's Messiah, Toronto; Aida, Mexico Ci ty; Don Carlo, Netherlands Opera; Regina, Rackham Society; Pare's Te Deum, Detroit Oratorio Society; L'Elisir Baltimore Opera InstructOr of voi ce and piano, Michigan Christian College; Handel's dAmore, The Magic Fillte, Fa/staff, Saint Bleeker Street, Vanessa, 0/ Messiah, Rochester Symphony O rchestra Copyright 2010, UniversityMichigan of Mic hiOperagan Theatre 1997 Spring Season 23 JOSEPH ANTHONY POKORSKI MELODY RACINE BARBARA SCHERRER TENOR (MICHIGAN) MEZZO-SOPRANO (FLORIDA) MEZZO·SOPRANO (OHIO) MOT Credits MOTO,bllt MOTCredi" Jailer, Tosca 1995 1997 Spring Set/son Annina, LA Traviata 1996 Parp;gnol, La Bohime 1996 MarceUina, The Matriage of Figaro Mercedes, Canlum 1996 Second J ew, Sal_ 1996 Mary, The Flying Dutchman 1997 Spring Sea.ron Chorus Member si nce 1993 Countess Ceprano/Giovanna, Rigoletto 1997 Spring Season Turn 0/ the Screw, Don Giovanni, Four Soims ill Three AdS, Aspen Opera Don Curzio, The Marriage of Figaro Theatre; Turn 0/ the Screw, The Magic Flute, Otello, COSI fan lillie, University Soloist, Pontiac-Oakland Symphony, Oakland U niversity-Communicy of Michigan; Tanglewood Festival, Flim, Ann Arbor, Barcie Creek Chorus; South Pacific, Lllle Mary Sunshine, Anything Goes, The Sound of Sragecrafcers, Oklahoma; Cargill Proouceions, Red Stocking Review; Redford Symphonies MUJic, Bye Bye Birdie, Oakland University; Metropolitan Opera District Theatre, Vaudeville, The Night ofJ an nary 16th, The Bell, are Ringing, The Audition Finalist MUli, Man, Hello Dolly!, Once Upon A Mattress, Chess

KENDALL SMITH CAROL SPARROW DARINA TAKOVA LIG HTING DESIGNER (MICHIGAN) MEZZO-SOPRANO (NO RTH CAROLINA) SOPRANO (BULGARIA) MOTCredi" MOT Debllt MOT Debut Lighting Consultant since.1989 1997 Sprillg Sea.rOIl 1997 Spring Sea.rOfl 1997 Spring Sea.ron Maddalena, Rigo/etto Gilda, Rigolello Lighting Designer, Rigo/etto, TIfe Marriage of Figaro, The ~/ying Dutchman Carmen, Mexico City, Opera Columbus, Virg inia Opera, Greater Buffalo Rigoletto, Rome, Geneva, Opera Pacific, Sofia Opera; Arabella, Tdsca, Madame Butterfly, The Daughter 0/ the Regiment. Ariadne alii Naxos, Opera; Tristan und holde, Mexico City; Debora eJtlele, Netherlands Radio Argia, Geneva; The Magic Flute, Treviso, Sofia; I.e Coq d'Or, Rome, Candide, The Mikado, Carmen, MOT; Tosca, The Merry WidfJW, II Trovtltore, Orchestra; Ariadne aufNaxos, Mexico City, Virgin ia Opera; Madmfle Covent Garden; La Sonnambula, Palermo; winner of 1994 Toti Dal My Fair Lady, Opera Pacific; Madame Butterfly, Candide, Dayton Opera; Butterfly, Opera Carolina, Opera Grand Rapids; COSI Jan tutte, Virgina Monte competition j esus Christ Superstar, Malibu, American Stage Festival; A Penny lor a Song, Opera. Knoxville Opera; Don Giovanni, Cleveland Opera, Sarasota Opera Pioneer Theatre; Teibele and her Demon, Attic Theatre

ULLOA RACHAEL UNITE CARLO VENTRE TENOR (CUBA) SOPRANO (MICHIGAN) TENOR (URUGUAy) MOT Debut MOTO,blll MOT Debllt 1997 Spring Sea"n 1997 Spring Season ]997 Spring Sea.ron Don Basilio, The Marriage of Figaro Page, lVgo!ttto Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto Barbarina. The Marriage Figaro The Marriage of Figaro, The Daughter of the Regiment, Andrea Chellier, 0/ Rigolel/o, NabJlcco, La Scala; Rigolello, Rome, Ascoli, Opera Pacific; Saffo, Mer[opoii can Opera; The Marriage of Figaro, Madame Butterfly. FaIJtaf!. Albert Herring, Opera!Lenawee; The Marriage of Figaro, 11 Campanella, Wexford Festival; Verdi 's Requiem, Tenerife; LA Boheme, Trieste, Welsh New York Cicy O pera; The Coronation of Poppea , Glimmerg lass Opera; University of Michigan; The COnJul, L'Enfant et leI SortilegeI, National Opera; La Traviata, Koln, Glyndebourne; winner, 1995 Turandol, The Washington O pera, Cincinnati Opera, Cleveland Orchestra; University of Houscon Pavaro[[i competition The Tales of Hoffmann, San Diego Opera, Florentine Opera; Canadian Opera, Israel Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, DaUas Opera

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.) ~ ..JiI VICTOR VON HALEM EALYNVOSS JANET WILLIAMS BASS (GERMANY) SOPRANO (PENNSYLVANIA) SOPRANO (MICHIGAN) MOT Debut MOT Credi" MOTCredi" 1997 Spring Sea"n: Turan,,"t 1986 and 1993; Han,,1 & Gretel 1989 Gretel, Hansel & Gretel 1989 Tide Role, The Flying Dutchman '1997 Spring Season Ros;na, The Barber of Seville, 1993 Sema, The Flying Dutchman Susanna, The Marriage of Figaro La Scala, San Francisco, Die Walkiire; San Francisco Opera, Tannhiiustr, Turandot. Verona, Australian Opera, Baltimore, Copenhagen, Rome, Die Fledermaus, Metropolitan Opera; Der Rosenkavalier, Washingron Dallas, Denver, Carania, Montreal, The Flying Dutchman; Spolero, Houston, New York Ciry Opera, Opera Pacific, San Francisco Opera; Opera; Semele, Cleopatra, Orfeo, The Magic Flute, Berlin Staatsoper; Carmina Die Meistersinger, Salzburg, Orange, Edinburgh, Tanglewood, Barcelona, Aida, Rusalka, Seattle Opera; The Flyj,lg Dlitchman, A Masked Ball, Burana, Chicago Symphony; The Magic Flute, Opera Pacific, San Francisco Vienna, and Athens Festivals; upcoming debuts in Verona, Paris, Bologna Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos, Los Angeles Music Cencer Opera; Don Car/a, Opera; II Re Pastore, Nice Opera; II Trittico, Dallas Opera; Detroit Baltimore Opera; Macbeth, Manitoba Opera, La Forza del De.rtino, Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Minneso(a Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, OperaCopyright; Concertgebouw 2010, Orchestra ,Michigan Aspen FestivaJ , PasadenaOpera Symphony, Theatre New York Chamber Orchestra Washington Concert Opera 24 Michigan Opera Thearre KLAUS DONATH JOHN MAUCERI STEVEN MERCURIO CONDucrOR (GERMANY) CONDUcrOR (NEW YORK) CONDUCTOR (NEW YORK) MOTCm/its MOTD,bu/ MOT Credits Conductor, Don Giovanni 1990 1997 Spring Season Conductor, Tosca 1994, 1997 Spring Season Conductor, The Flying Du/chman Detroit Opera House Gala 1996 Conductor, The Marriage oj Pigaro 1997 Spring Season Music Diceccor, The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra; Music Conductor, Rigo/etto Music Director, Bath City Symphony Orchestra; Don Giovanni, The Director, Teacro Regia Torino; former Music Director, Scottish Opera, Marriage of Pigaro, The Magic Flute, Opera Pacific; Der Rosenkavalier, Washington Opera, American Symphony Orchestra; opera companies La Traviata, La Bohhne, The Ta /es of Hoffmann, San Francisco Opera; Portland Opera; The Flying Dutchman, Opera Colorado; La Boheme, Dido include Merropolican Opera, New York City Opera. Covent Garden, San Andrea Chenier, Seattle Opera; La Traviata, English National Opera; and Aenear, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Bath & Wessex Opera; concerts and Francisco Opera, Lisbon, Nice, Monte Carlo, Geneva. La Scala, Wolf Er11lione, Brussels; La Traviata, La Boheme, Otello, Rigoletto, Opera Pacific; operas in Hannover, Salzburg, Darmstadt, Cologne, Leipzig, Chemnir-.l, Trap, Opera Pacific, Santa Fe; orchestras include N ew York The Nose, Birthday 0/ the In/anta, Goya, II Trittico, Wozzeck, Mahler's Berlin, Munich, Prague, Lincoln Center, Toronto, San Francisco Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Symphony No.2, Berlioz' Requiem, Corigliano'S Symphony No. I , Spoleto Orchestra. Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Israel Festival; RlISalka, The Saint of Bleeker Street , La Gazza Ladra, The Marriage Philharmonic, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Philarmonia of Figaro, Rigolelto, La Traviata, 'l osca, Turantior, Carmen, Romeo etJ llliette, Orchestra, Orchestra of 5ama Cecilia in Rome, Orchestra National de Eugene Onegin, Caval/tria RlISticaTlaIPagliacci, Opera Company of France, Rad io Symphony of Berlin, National Orchestra of Portugal; Philadelphia; Washing ron Opera, Dallas Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Rome Recipient of Grammy, Tony, Emmy, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison, Opera, Bonn Opera; orchestras of Antwerp, Scockholm, Luxembourg, Billboard and Deucsche Schallpiatten awards; conductor for soundtrack of Minnesota Orchestta, Brooklyn Philharmonic; composition For Lost film version of Evira; numerous recordings, videos, television appearances Loved Ones premiered by New York PhilhatmonicTheacre

DEJAN MILADINOVIC ROMAN TERLECKYJ DIRECTOR (yuGOSLAVIA) DIREcrOR (ENGLAND) MOTD,but MOTCredi/I 1997 Spring Semon Direcror, La Bohetlu 1996, 1988; Turandot 1993; Ariadne aujNaxos 1991; Director, Rigo/etto CamJeTl 1989; Assisranc to the General Director 1971-75 1997 Spring SeaJon Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin, The Flying Dutchman, Aida, Dallas Opera; Director, The Marriage of Figaro, The Flying DUlchman Aida, Elektra, Rigoletto, The Flying Dutchman, Plorenrine Opera of La Bohbne, The Washing ron Opera, Philadelphia Opera, Berlin, Opera Mi lwaukee; Prince Igor, New York City Opera; Don Car/os , Seartle Opera; Genoa, Modena, Beijing, Opera Pacific; Cos} jan If/tte, Christopher Car-metl, Rigo/etto, Opera Pacific; Aida, San Diego Opera; Opera companies Columbus, Semele, Manon, Pique Dame, Tiejland, The Washington Opera; of Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Split; H ead Director of Belgrade Porgy and Bess, Die Meistersinger, The Rake's Progress, Birthday 0/ the Infanta, National Opera The Nose, Spoleto Festival; Awarded Affiati Prize for The Rake's Progress

YOUNG ARTISTS ApPRENTICE PROGRAM

ichigan Opera Theatre's Young Artists Apprentice Balthrop, Kathleen Battle, Rockwell Blake, Richard Cowan, Maria Program is in its 17th year of training aspiring Ewing, Terese Cullen, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Rebecca Luker, young singers and production apprentices for the Catherine Malfitano, Leona Mitchell, David Parsons, Kathleen riggrs of the professional theatre world. This year, Segar, Neil Schicoff and Victoria Vergara, among others. talented young singers recruited from across the country will take Michigan Opera Theatre's Young Artists Apprentice Program is up residence with Michigan Opera Theatre for multiple-week ses sponsored annually by the Joyce H. Cohn Apprentice Award Fund, sions of masterclasses with the conductors, directors and singers the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation, and the Ruth Hill from current productions; private coachings with MOT's profes Apprentice Award Fund. sional music staff preparing their assigned comprimario roles for the season's productions; and many rehearsals and performances, 1996/97 Michigan Opera Theatre Young Artists Apprentices: designed to assist them in making the transition from student to professional. SAMIABAHU Since its inception, Michigan Opera Theatre has been co~mitted (Winner, the Ruth Hill Apprentice Award) to the development of young American talent, and regards with FRANK E. PIITS pride those who have gone on to establish careers in the field. Many (Winner, the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Apprentice Award) singers as well as several company production and artistic staff have returned to MOT in full professional capacities after apprentice BARBARA SCHERRER ships with the company. (Winner, the Joyce H. Cohn Apprentice Award) Furthermore, the list of now prominent artists who made their RACHAEL UNITE debuts or had early starts with MOTCopyright is impressive 2010,: MichiganCarmen Opera Theatre 1997 Spring Season 25 MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE

OFFICERS Mrs. Donald C. Austin Mr. Kenneth E. Hart Mr. Jules 1. Pallone Mr. J. Addison Bartush Mr. Eugene Hartwig Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. Robert E. Dewar Mr. Richard A. Brodie Mr. Leonard C. Jaques Mrs. David Ruwart Chairman Mrs. William C. Brooks Mrs. William E. Johnston Mr. Alan E. Schwartz Dr. David DiChiera Hon. Avern 1. Cohn Mrs. Charles Kessler Mrs. Roger F. Sherman President Mr. Jeff Connelly Mrs. Robert Klein Mr. S. Kinnie Smith, Jr. Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. Gerald A. Knechtel Mr. Frank Stella Treasurer Julia Donovan Darlow Richard W. Kulis D.D.S. Mrs. George Strumbos Mr. C. Thomas Toppin Mr. Lawrence N. David Mr. David Baker Lewis Mr. Robert C. VanderKloot Secretary Mr. Ronald Dobbins Mr. A. C. Liebler Mr. Gary Wasserman Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. Harry A. Lomason Mr. Richard C. Webb Mrs. Robert Allesee Mr. Herman Frankel Mr. Alphonse Lucarelli Mrs. R. Alexander Wrigley . Mrs. David Aronow Mrs. Lawrence Garberding Mrs. Jacques Nasser Mr. Morton Zieve

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Mr. Robert E. Dewar Hon. & Mrs. Avern 1. Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher, III Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Hart Chairman Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Fisher, III Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Hartwig Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Connelly Mr. & Mrs. Louis P. Fontana Mr. & Mrs. E. Jan Hartmann Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Connolly Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Forbes Mr. & Mrs. David B. Hermelin Mr. & Mrs. Roger Ajluni, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Herman Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Keith Honhart Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cregar Mr. & Mrs. Marvin A. Frenkel Hon. & Mrs. Joseph Impastato Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Cutler Mrs. Roy Fruehauf Mr. & Mrs. Verne Istock Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Angott Julia Donovan Darlow Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Mrs. David Jacknow Mr. & Mrs. Robert 1. Anthony & John Corbett O'Meara Garberding Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Jaques Dr. & Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence N . David Dr. & Mrs. Robert Gerisch Miss H. Barbara Johnston Mr. & Mrs. David Aronow Mr. & Mrs. John W. Day Mr. & Mrs. Frank Germack, Jr. Mrs. William E. Johnston Mrs. Donald Atwood Mr. & Mrs. David Denn Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. & Mrs. Maxwell Jospey Dr. & Mrs. Donald Austin Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Mr. & Mrs. Yousif Ghafari Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell 1. Kafarski Hon. & Mrs. Edward Avadenka Derderian Mr. & Mrs. Andy Giancamilli Mr. & Mrs. John Kaplan Mrs. James Merriam Barnes Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Mr. & Mrs. Vito P. Gioia ' Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Karnowsky Mr. & Mrs. J. Addison Bartush Dr. David DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Gormley Dr. & Mrs. Charles Kessler Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alan Baun Karen VanderKloot DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. Alan 1. Gornick Mr. & Mrs. Eugene 1. Klein Mr. & Mrs. W. Victor Benjamin Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Dobbins Mr. & Mrs. H. James Gram Mr. & Mrs. Robert Klein Mr. & Mrs. John Boll Mr. & Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Mrs. Katherine Gribbs Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Knechtel Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Bortz, Jr. Lady Jane Easton Mrs. John C. Griffin Mr. Semon E. Knudsen Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mrs. Berj H. Haidostian Mr. & Mrs. Mike Kojaian Mr. & Mrs. William C. Brooks Mrs. Hilda Ettenheimer Mrs. Robert M. Hamady Mr. & Mrs. William Ku Mr. & Mrs. Clarence G. Catallo Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Ewing Mr. David Handleman Dr. & Mrs. Richard W. Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Clark Mr. Stephen Ewing Mr. & Mrs. Preston Happel Kulis Ms. Virginia Clementi Mr. & Mrs. AlfredCopyright J. Fisher, 2010, Jr. MichiganDr. & Mrs Opera. Joseph Theatre Harris 26 Michigan Opera Theatre Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Mr. & Mrs. E. Clarence Mr. & Mrs. Fred Schneidewind Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Lamparter Mularoni Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Schultz VanderKloot Mr. & Mrs. David B. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Munson Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vincent Mrs. Walton A. Lewis Mrs. Reva Muss Mr. & Mrs. Donald Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Wasserman Dr. & Mrs. Kim K. Lie Mr. & Mrs. E. Michael Mutchler Schwendemann Mr. & Mrs. Gary Wasserman Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Liebler Mr. & Mrs. Jacques Nasser Mr. & Mrs. Frank Shaler Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Way Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lisak Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Nern Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Webb Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Lomason Mr. & Mrs. Julius 1. Pallone Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sloan Mr. & Mrs. Gary 1. White Mr. & , Mrs. James H . LoPrete Mr. & Mrs. James Pamel Mr. & Mrs. S. Kinnie Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Mr. 8! Mrs. Alphonse S. Dr. Robert E. 1. Perkins Ms. Phyllis D. Snow Williams Lucarelli Mr. & Mrs. Brock E. Plumb Mr. Richard Sonenklar Dr. & Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mrs. Jessie B. Mann Mrs. Ralph Polk Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Wiltshire Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Marra Mrs. David Pollack Starkweather Mr. & Mrs. Donald Worsley Honorable Jack & Dr. Bettye Mr. & Mrs. John Rakolta, Jr. Ms. Mary Anne Stella Mr. & Mrs. R. Alexander Arrington Martin Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Robelli Mr. Frank D. Stella Wrigley Mr. & Mrs. William T. Mr. & Mrs. Hans Rogind Mrs. Mark Stevens Hon. Joan E. Young & Mr. McCormick Mr. & Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. & Mrs. George Srrumbos Thomas 1. Schellenberg Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Louis Ross Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Mr. & Mrs. Ted Zegouras Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Miller Mrs. David Ruwart Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Morton Zieve Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Monolidis Mr. & Mrs. William Sandy Mr. & Mrs. James J. Trebilcorr Mrs. Paul Zuckerman Dr. & Mrs. Norman Schakne Ms. Lucia Zurkowski Mr. Roy Zurkowski

Mr. and Mrs. Lynn A, Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm Founding Chairmen Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Graves Mr. and Mrs. Neil Snow Honorable and Mrs. Roman S. Gribbs Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strichartz Mr. and Mrs. Avern 1. Cohn Mr. and Mrs. John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mr. and Mrs. John DeCarlo Mr. and Mrs. Harry 1. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Dr. and Mrs. David DiChiera Honorable and Mrs. Wade McCree, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema Mr. Harry J. Nederlander

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Brett Batterson Mitchell Krieger William E. Schoettle Detroit Opera House Facility Manager Director of Artistic Resources Chief Financial Officer Karen)VanderKloot DiChiera David W. Osborne Bradley L. Stroud Director of Community Programs Director of Production Director of Dance Steve Haviaras Mary Parkhill Laura R. Wyss Director of Marketing Director of Development Director of Public Relations .Aa:/nv/P~/'Cd@/P Dianne Lord 9Md'ad@/p Lawrence Picard Allan Grasso Surtitle Operators Administrative Assistant to the General Director ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION COSTUMES Linlia DeMers Ulla Hettinger Board Secretary/Administrative Assistant Dee Dorsey Production Coordinator Costume Supervisor Beverly A. Moore Alice Moss Receptionist Monica Lee Jackson Assistant to Director of Production Wardrobe Mistress COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Roman Hurko Susan Hamilron Ute Krepulat Dolores Tobis Copeland Woodruff Assistant Directors Pauline McMullen Office and Marketing Manager Genevieve Palzcynski Mark Vondrak Nancy Krolikowski Stitchers Associate Director of Transportation Coordinator Community Programs Pat Lewellen MAKE-UP & HAIR Audition Volunteer Kathy Waszkelewicz DEVELOPMENT Rebekah Cam Kim Forastiere Thomas N f Richardson, Sr. Admistrative Assistant Make-Up & Hair Designers for Elsen Associates Assistant Director of Developmen't 'Katrina L. Paradine Leonard Sullivan !if?ehJ.M ~ .9{1o-a.w Administrative Intern Corporate Campaign Manager Kerry A. Painter Stephani Miller MUSIC DEPARTMENT House Manager Capital Campaign Coordinator Dr. David DiChiera Lynn Smyth Roberta Starkweather Music Director Head Usher Volunteer Coordinator Suzanne Acton Harry Skrdla Jane Westley Assistant Music Director, Building Engineer Development Associate Chorus Master Jesse Carter FINANCE/ Diane Bredesen Assistant Building Engineer COMPUTER SERVICES Orchestra Personnel Manager Kimberley Burgess Steven Gathman Administrative William T. Schulz Coordinator Controller Ann Lewin Elaine Rinaldi Calvin Williams Sharon A. Subjeck Repetiteurs Maintenance Accountant Dianne Lord Supervisor Mary E. Pihajlich David Wilson Bruce Smith Systems Manager Rehearsal Accompanists Head ofSecurity MARKETING/ STAGE MANAGEMENT Jose Bernal, Jr. PUBLIC RELATIONS Rock Monroe John Kennelly Jim Steel Marci Schramm Production Stage Manager Stage Door Security Assistant Director of Marketing Dee Dorsey John Kinsora Sandy Prekratic - Head Carpenter Membership Manager Michael McCormack Jean Thill Robert Mesinar Dolores Tobis Assistant Stage Managers Head Electrician Group Sales Nicole Jolly John Johnson Jerome Magid Head of Properties MOT Photographer Stage Management Assistant Robert Marcin Mark J. Mancinelli TECHNICAL STAFF Head Flyman DOH/MOT Photographer Vladimir Vukovic Steve Kemp Jeanette Pawlaczyk Technical Director Head Soundman Public Relations Volunteer Rita Grrardi Stagehands TICKET OFFICE Property Master IATSE Local #38 Kimberly Mogielski Kendall Smith Wardrobe Ticket Services Manager Lighting Coordinator IATSE Local #786 Kimberly Gray Ticket Services Assistant Manager . Kenneth Schurz Assistant Lighting Designer Kyra Busby Jane Coe Dana Gamarra Ticket Services Staff Copyright Techni2010,cal Michigan Assistant Opera Theatre 28 Michigan Opera Theatre MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS $/v1? /~~o-~7.7eaM-n

ORCHESTRA~ VIOLIN I Eugenia Song CONTRABASS *Jane Carl * Greg Near * Charlotte Merkerson * Anna Weller * Derek Weller Concertmaster Principal BASSOON TUBA Lorien Benet VIOLA Jennifer Bilbie * Kirkland D. Ferris Phillip Sinder Peter Guild Principal * Kathleen Brauer *~essica Nance * Grace Hong rincipal Chad Kuypers * Scott Armstrong TIMPANI * Velda Kelly * Bridget Lamarsche Keith Orr * Gregory White Brown HORN James Kujawski Acting Principal Gregg Powell Principal * Susan Mutter * Randolph Margitza Reed Anderson Principal FLUTE Jennifer Ross Kathleen Grimes Celeste McClellan PERCUSSION Charles Roth * Pamela Hill *J ohn F. Dorsey *John Madison Principal Breda Anderson Elizabeth Rowin Principal Michael McGillivray Wendy Hohmeyer * Carrie Banfield Kathryn Stepulla David Taylor * Scott Stefanko * Laura Larson Connie Hutchinson Melody Wooton Christine Swanson Alice Lenaghan Steve Mumford HARP * Barbara Zmich Helen Near Emilie Sargent VIOLIN II * Patricia Terry-Ross Johanna B. Sennett * Victoria Haltom VIOLONCELLO Principal Principal Tamara Thweatt TRUMPET * Nadine Deleury * Brian Rood Diane Bredesen * Brooke' Hoplamazian Principal Principal Personnel Manager OBOE Julia'Kurtyka * Diane Bredesen Charles Daval * Rebecca Hammond Constance Markwick * Minka Christoff * Gordon Simmons Detroit Federation 1. Principal Musicians, Local # , Katie Mclin Robert Clemens * Ann Augustin American Federation Janet Murphy of Musicians. * Sarah Cleveland Robin Johnson TROMBONE * Christopher Neal John Iatzko * Maury Okun Lorraine Perlman PrincIpal Robert Reed CLARINET * member, Michigan Opera Sharon Reum Paul Eachus Theatre Orchestra Kang Xia * Brian Bowman Marla Smith Principal Anthony Giles

CHORUS ~ Suzanne Acton Michaella Patches Dionne Stephanie L Kruger Darren Orta Nate Topie Chorus Master Ken Ebaugh Cobett Leibler Peggy O'Shaughnessey Dean Unick Daniel Aggas Vanessa Ferriole Ray Litt Michael S. Parr Steven Vedder Carol Ambrogio Louise A. Fisher Tony Lynch Jan R. Phillips Justin Watson Christopher Bauder Yvonne M. Friday Joel Mapes Patricia Pierobon Jim R. Wells Barbara Becker Jennifer Taylor Mcclure Trish Reid Ernest Willoughby 'r Todd Ian Galloway Victoria Bigelow Monique Grotloh Cynthia Merritt Amy Lynn Rice Larry Wolf Heidi Bowen Rosalin Contrera Guastella Kim L. Millard J olante Rode Timothy Wolf K. Wayne Brooks ~ Donald Thomas Jackson Jeanine Head Miller Robert H. Schram Eugene Zweig Alaina J. Brown Clarence E. Jones James Mackey Moore Kathryn Schumacher Kristen A. Bryant Kenneth R. Shepherd The American Guild Of Tom Kabala Boris Nicoloff Musical Artists is the ~cial Fred Buchalter Harvey Krage Anthony C. Noto Judith M. Szefi union of the Michigan tpera Theatre vocal performers Patrick Jay Clampitt Jeff Krueger Jennifer L. Oliver Jim Talpos AUXILIARY CHORUS *Julius Becker * Donald F. Gay *Janet Oakes *John Saetta * William B. Yeats * Michael Boettcher * Robert W. Ligaj * Steven Pejuan * Robert M. Savage Jr: * Member, Rackham * Byron Burbank * F. Homer Matthews * Anthony Ruda * Alan Sebastian Symphony Choir Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 1997 Spring Season 29

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GOVERNMENT BENEFACTORS SUSTAINERS DONORS Michigan Council for $15,000 - $24,999 $5,000 - $9,999 $1,000 - $2,499 Arts and Cultural Affairs Hudson-Webber Foundation DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Drusilla Farwell Foundation National Endowment for the Arts David M. Whitney Fund The Mary Thompson Foundation Earl-Beth Foundation Matilda R. Wilson Fund Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation SIGNAL BENEFACTORS PATRONS The Village Woman's $50,000 AND ABOVE FELLOWS $2,500 - $4,999 Club Foundation The John S. and $10,000 - $14,999 Japanese Society of Detroit Young Woman's Home Association James L. Knight Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Foundation The Skillman Foundation James and Lynelle Holden Fund CONTRIBUTORS The Samuel L. $500 - $999 Westerman Foundation The Clarence and Jack Himmel Foundation CONTRIBUTORS

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 1997 Spring Season 31 Mr. & Mrs. Ara Berberian Mr. & Mrs. Alan L. Gornick Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Miller Mrs. Mark C. Stevens CONTRIBUTIO NS OF Mr. & Mrs. Mandell 1. Berman Mr. & Mrs. F. W . Gridley Drs. Orlando and Dorothy Miller Mr. & Mrs. George Strurnbns $500 - $999 Dr. & Mrs. John G. Bielawski Mr. & Mrs. John C. Griffin Dr. & Mrs. Harvey Minkin Dr. & Mrs. David Susser Mr. & Mrs. G. Peter Blom Mr. & Mrs. Carson C. Grunewald Mr. & Mrs. Morkus Mirrius Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Sweeney LUMINARY Dr. & Mrs. David Bloom Mr. & Mrs. Charles G . Gunderson Mr. & Mrs. Carl Mitseff Mr. & Mrs. A. Alfred Taubman Mr. Charlie Antal Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Borden Mrs. Alice Berberian Haidostian Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Monolidis Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Mr. & Mrs. John A. Ashron Mr. & Mrs. Donald J, Bortz Mrs. Robert M. Hamady Mr. & Mrs. Fred Morganroth David Kinsella and Joyce Urba David S. Balle, MD Dr. & Mrs. Joseph 1. Cahalan Dr. & Mrs. Joel r. Hamburger Mr. Michael J. 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COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ON THE MOVE!

Artists of Michigan Opera Theatre's Community Programs had a rollicking two Department of Community Programs, Maria weeks together! From Emmit County to Cimarelli , Barbara Wiltsie, Amy Dolan Charlevoix County, Michelle Conklin, new Malaney, Karl Schmidt, Mark Vondrak director of Petoskey's Crooked Tree Art (Associate Director, Community Programs) Council, had our performers hopping. A sur and Kevin Bylsma, accompanist, have traveled prise trip was happened when Michelle called the state performing Nanabush, Music by Mark Vondrak asking if the performers would Karen VanderKloot DiChiera and book by mind a trip to some youngsters who couldn't William Kirk, The Broadway Revlle and The make it to the mainland due to ice flows. Kevin Bylsma, Karl Schmidt, Maria Cimarelli, Mark Night Harry Stopped Smoking. An extra "big Intrigued, Mark agreed to shepherd his flock Vondrak board plane to perform Nanabush on hit" this season is a revue involving middle of performers on a plane trip to Beaver Island Beaver Island. and high school students - The MtlSic of in Lake Michigan to perform Nanabush for the Andrew Lloyd Webber. 80 students who attend the island school. Our friends in Pet~skey and the artists of A.C.E. PROGRAM RE-GRANTED

COMMUNITY WEEK AT THE DETROIT OPERA HOUSE The Arts Centered Education program, in cooperation with the Detroit Public Detroit Jazz, high school choirs, profes Community Week offered a taste of all these Schools, has received a hearty green light sional Michigan dance companies, children's activities for the nominal fee of $5 pet event. from the A.C.E. funders and Michigan activities and performances were all made Almost 250 volunteets helped stamp, mail, possibl~ at the Detroit Opera House by the usher, host, feed, distribute, sell, tOut, teach, Council for Arts and Cultutal Affairs for a John S. and James 1. Knight Foundation, the narrate and perform! Thank you to all vol second year of curriculum programs. week of November 25-30,1996. unteers organizets, ushers and the abundantly Michigan Opera Theatre is part of a part talented performers who filled the Opera nership with the Center for Creative House with sounds and activities that were Studies (The College of Art and Design upbeat and uplifting. We hope Community and The Institute of Music and Dance), the Week 1996 is just the first of many commu Detroit Public Library, Preservation Wayne nity-based events at Out magnificent new home. and Your Heritage House Museum. Parmer schools are Murray Wright High TIME OUT FOR OPERA School, Edmonson Elementary School and If you would like to have Michigan Opera the Detroit Day School for the Deaf. Theatre in your home once a week all year tound, tune into Flint WFUM on Sunday afternoons at 5:00 P.M. The award winning PBS station. Flint WFUM reaches 450,000 Community Week - Activity Center on Family Fun series, produced at Bloomfield Community direct viewers and an extra 425,000 via cable Day. Television, has been accepted by the Flint throughout Southeast Michigan and Canada.

QUOTABLE QUOTE "The Community Outreach Program of Michigan Opera Theatre is a vital and needed activity for the northern rural area of Michigan. This program brings a cultural presen tation to people who would live a lifetime and never be exposed to, or see a professional opera presentation. The present showing of Nanabush is a cross-cultural educational tool. .. this type of outreach by a major urban cultural institution should be a standard by which all granting agencies evaluate their giving." Victor Kishego Owner, Indian Hills Trading Company and Indian Art Gallery Community Week - Rick May teaches the "Un Blues!"

THANK YOU JOAN SANKOVICH! * If you would like to request a program, Thanks to Joan Sankovich and the Franklin Council for the Visual and Performing Arts, or desire more information on the Karen DiChiera will be able to teach the Create Opera! curriculum this March, 1997 to learning Department of Community Programs, please call Doloris Tobis at 313/874-7894 disabled and mentally impaired childrenCopyright at the Miller 2010, Middle Michigan School inOpera Detroit. Theatre 1997 Spring Season 41 Join our third annual fully-escorted tour to Florence, Verona, Venice and Lake Como. Enjoy Aida, Madame Butterfly, and in LaScala, Puccini's Tosca! Departing Detroit July 8, 1997. Call Karen Street or John Kosta at V800-392-6869 HURON VALLEY l1 Trade rks of greaJt , Hygrade Food Products has a mouthwatering

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Supernumeraries / Mary Basmaji Maria Luis Guion Jennifer Bateman Madeline Merritt Brian Bateman Gary Moy Emelina Brincat Debra Mullins Bud Ellsinger Joey Piro Peter Gough Parker Plague Pete Gumina Jan Renard Julie Richard Hill Cheryl Rockwell Ashton Hooker Therese Shrnina Andrew Hooker David Silverman Ashton Hopkins Jan Stano Jeff Kirsch Rose Stolk David Kirsch AI Wisnieski . Christine Lee Sally Wisnieski

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WIG & MAKE-UP VOLUNTEER CREW Mira Stefaniuk, Crew Coordinator Vicki Barnett Linda Bohanon Marta Sawczuk Therese Shmina Marta Stefaniuk

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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN ...... 3

COMING EVENTS ...... 4 Idea with a capital E. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ...... 5 BUILDING ON A DREAM ...... 7

DANCE PATRON CIRCLE ...... 9

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN DONORS ...... 10

PROGRAM NOTES ...... 14

GENERAL INFORMATION ...... 27

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A Message from the General Director

n behalf of Michigan Opera Theatre, welcome co a Season of Dance ar Detroir Opera House. I am delighred rhar you could join us, and hope rhis will be one of many visirs ro rhis magnificenr rhearer. THE DETRO IT OPERA HOUSE For rwenry-five years we dreamed of someday having a world-class faciliry perfecrly sui red for grand producrions of opera and baller. Lasr April our dream came rrue. And now, wirh rhe expansive srage and superb acousrics of Detroir Opera On April 21, 1996, rhe doors to rhe beaurifully restored Derroir Opera H ouse House, we are poised co presenr rhe mosr lavish producrions of grand opera and were open to the public for the Inaugural Gala. Luciano Pavarorti and a hosr of orher operatic luminaries performed in a Grand Concerr to celebrare rhe occasion. G lorious baIler. We are delighred co begin rhe rradirion of dance ar Derroir Opera House music filled the thearer and delighred rhe 2,700 people in attendance. It was truly a wirh rwo very special presenrarions by America's premiere bailer company - magnificenr momenr in Mi chigan Opera Theatre's twenry-five year history of excellence American Baller Theatre. in rhe metropolitan Detroir community. Finally, MOT has irs own home - and ir is a American Baller Thearre lasr appeared in Derroir in 1984, and now rhe wonderful home. company rerurns co presenr a mixed reperrory program of George Balanchine's Dr. David DiChiera, General D irector, always knew rhar to make MOT a permanenr Apollo, Kevin McKenzie's Transcendental Ettldes, Agnes de Mille's Rodeo and rhe resource for rhe city and stare, the opera co mpany would need to have a world-class facil Grand pas de Deux from Don Quixote, February 4 & 5, as well as a world ity to accommodare all of its activities. In 1989, MOT acquired the Grand Circus Thearre, and seven years larer the dream became a realiry. More rhan 1,500 donors have acclaimed performance of Tchaikovsky's rimeless masrerpiece Swan Lake, conrribured $20 million to help open rhe doors - individuals, corporarions and foun February 6-9. This unique blend of classic works will be performed by some of darions. They have underwrirren all of rhe grand tier boxes and some of rhe lobbies, rhe world's grearesr and mosr soughr-after dancers. chandeliers, individual seats and bricks. However, more work needs to be dune and rhere In April, our Season of Dance conrinues as Cleveland San Jose Baller presenrs are many more naming opportunities. W e need to raise an addirional $13 million to rhe Detroit premiere of the electrifying Blue Suede Shoes, an exciring dance complere the first phase of rhis project which includes finishing the elevator tower, lob experience set ro rhe music of Elvis Presley. We conclude our inaugural Season of bies and public lounge. Dance at Detroit Opera House on May 17 wirh An Extraordinary Evening of To help raise rhese funds, we have a lofry goal, bur an achievable one - to name every seat in the rheater. We invite you to help us build on our dream and pur your name on Dance. This one-evening evenr fearures some of rhe mosr exciring artists from a sear. If you look around rhe thearer, you will notice rhat some seats have gold ribbons rhe world of dance. on rhem designating the sear underwrirers. One day we hope to have permanenr brass I would like ro rake this opporruniry ro rhank all of our supporrers whose name plaques on every sear. generosiry is making this firsr Season of Dance ar Derroir Opera House a Sears can be named from $500 to $25,000 and gifrs of $1,000 or more can be fu lfil ed wonderful reality. World-class dance programming ar Derroir Opera House is up to a five year period. So, please join us in the ca mpaign to complete rhe restoration of not possible withour your fi nancial supporr - ticket sales cover less rhan 50% of Derroir Opera House. For more information on how you can get involved eirher call rhe performance cosrs! In order to assure rhat bailer will remain an imporranr Developmenr Deparrmenr ar 3 13-874-7850; complete rhe form below and mail to Michigan Opera Theatre, 104 Lothtop, Detroir, Michigan 48202 or FAX the completed com ponen t of D erroi t Opera H ouse form to 313-87 1-7213. programming, I invite you to become parr of our Dance Patron's Circle (see page 9 for derai ls). This is your opporrunity co ensure the PLEASE SEND ME A BROCHURE ON WAYS TO PARTI CIPATE IN THE CAMPA IGN furure of dance ar Detroit Opera H ouse. TO RESTORE DETRO IT OPERA HOUSE. NAME ______Enjoy the performance! ADDRESS ______

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2 Mi chigan Opera Theatre American Ballet Theatre 3 COMING SOON TO DR. DAVID DiCHIERA G eneral Director DETROIT OPERA HOUSE Michigan Opera Theatre & D etroit Opera House

An Evening with MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE

Jose Carreras J ohn Le berg March 19, 1997 Managing Director Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre in conjunction with Karen VanderKloot DiChiera William E. Sc hoettle February 18-23, 1997 Hoffmann Concerts Director 0/ Commlil/ity Programs Chief Financial Officer Steve Haviaras David W. O sborne Bradley L. Stroud Made possible by Director of Marketing Director 0/ Prodllction Director of Dance Mitchell Krieger Mary Parkhill La ura R . W rss Director 0/ Artistic Resollrces Director of Developmmt CLEVELAND SAN JOSE BALLET Director of P"blic Relations '!P !;. 1i~'( ] rene Pon ee Monica Lee J ac kson AHiJlant A ccountant Assistant to Director of Production Allan G rasso Administrative A ssistant Mary E. Pihajlich Nancy Kro likowski to the General D irec/or Systems J\'lanager Transportation Coordinator Linda DeMers MARKETING! Pat Lewellen *t~ Board SecretarylAdminstrative Assistant P U BLIC RELATIONS Audition Voillmeer Marc i Schramm CLv5J~ Beverl y A. Moore A ssis/ant D irec/or o[ Ma rketing COSTUMES Receptionist Ull a Heninger April 15-20, 1997 Sandy Pre kratic Costllme SIIpervisor COMMU NITY PROG RAMS Membership Manager Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre 5J~4 Dolores Tobis Alice Moss Office and Marketing Manager Dolores Tobis Wardrobe Mistress 9)GnCe/ Group Sales April 15'h Opening Night and May 17, 1997 Mark Vondrak Genevi eve Palzcynski Associale Direc/or of Jerome Magid Stitcher April 19'h Performances Sponsored by MOT Photographer Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre Comlllunity Programs MUSIC DEPARTMENT DEVELOPMENT Mark J. Ma ncinelli Dr. David DiChi era • AT&T T homas N. Richardson, Sr. OnH!MnT Photographer Mllsic Director Assistant Director of Development Jeanette Pawlaczyk Suzanne Acton We wish ro thank NBD for their generous Katrina L. Paradine P"blic Relations Volllnteer Assistant MIISic Director, April 16,h Student Performance Sponsored by support of The Detroit Dance Series, Corporate Campaign Manager T ICKET OFFICE Chorm Master which includes American Ballet Theatre Stephan i Miller Ki mberl y Mogielski Diane Bredesen Kmart Corporation Ticket Services Manager Orchestra Personnel Manager and Cleveland San Jose Bal let Capital Campaign Coordinator Roben a Starkweather Kimberl y G ray STAGE MANAGEMENT Volllnteer Coordinator Ticket Services Assistant Manager J ohn Kennell y Prodllction Stage Manager J ane Wes tley Anne Marie Esperc i Development Associate Ticket Services Associate TECHNICAL STAFF Vladimir Vukovic FINANCE! Technical Director COMPUTER SERVICES 9},o-aUcko·n W ill iam T. Schulz Rita Girardi Controller ARTISTIC Property Master ADMINISTRATION The 1997 Spring Season is Sponsored by Sharon A. Subjeck A ccountant Prod~~~nD C::rd;nator mrGeneml Motors. DETROIT OPERA HOUSE Credil1 'Ihe Marriage of$ igaro Brett Batterson Calvin Will iams John J ohnson Grand River Printing Fadlity Manager Maintenance Head of Properties Printer April 5-13, 1997 SlIpen;isor May 3-11, 1997 Robert Martin TPC/RED G ROUP Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre Kerry A. Painter Bruce Smith Hl!dd Fiyman Tom Putters Home Manager Head ofSeCilrity Prodllaion Director £.. April 12'" Performance May 10'" Perfo rmance Sponsored by Steve Kemp Karen Sunman Michigan Sponsored by Lear Corporation Lynn Smyth Jose Bernal, Jr. Head SOllndman Art Director Head UIher Rock Monroe National Stagehands Toby Faber Jim Steele Director Bank Harry Skrdla IATSE Local #38 Advertising Sales Bllilding Engineer Stage Door Secllrity Wardrobe Cover Photo by: THE FLYING DUTCHMAN John Kinsora Palll Kolnik, COllrtesy Jesse Carter IATSE Local #786 American Ballet Theatre May 31 - June 8, 1997 Assistant Head Carpenter PRofil e Communications Contents Page I mage: Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre Building Engineer Robert Mes inar Publications & Promotions Detail from Detroit Opera Head Electrician Kimberley Burgess H o/lSe stage torchere For tickets and information, please call (313) 874-SING or to charge by phone call (810)Copyright 645-6666. 2010, Michigan OperaAdministrative Theatre *Shows and 'times subject to change. Coordinator ~t~ko ~:ncinelli

4 Michigan Opera Thearre American Ba ll et Theatre 5 Michiga n Opera Theatre ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN I * Scott Stefanko ENGLISH HORN Brian Robson Ron Oakland Kathleen G rimes * Ann Augustin Paul Eachus Concertmaster, Christine Swanson American Ballet Janine Bradbury CLARINET TUBA Phi ll ip Sinder BUILDING Theatre * Brian Bowman VIOLONCELLO Principal * Theodore Schwartz TIMPANI Nadine Deleury * Velda Kelly * * Jane Carl Principal Terrence Farmer ONA Jennifer Ross BASSOON Acting Principal * Diane Bredesen Melody Wooton Kirkland D. Ferris * Minka Christoff * Kathryn Stepulla Principal PERCUSSION James Kujawski * Sarah Cleveland * John F. Dorsey Kang Xia * Scott Armsttong Lorien Benet Principal Michael Mcgillivray Robert Reed HORN David Taylor Dan Maslanka Kathleen Ferris CONTRABASS * Susan Mutter Principal Jennifer Bilbie HARP ___ AM VIOLIN II Acting Principal * Carrie Banfield Christopher Neal Sreven Mumford * Patricia Terry-Ross Acting Keith Orr Principal Jean Marie Posekany Emile Sargent Principal PIANO * Brooke Hoplamazian FLUTE TRUMPET Charles Daval David Wilson * Katie Mclin * Pamela Hill Eugenia Song Principal Acting Principal Diane Bredesen Marla Smith * Laura Larson * Gordon Simmons Personnel Manager Derek Lockhart Sharon Reum Helen Near Janet Murphy Mark Flegg * Member, Michigan OBOE TROMBONE Opera Theatre Orchestra VIOLA * Rebecca Hammond Detroit Federation of * John Madison Principal * Maury Okun Michigan Opera Theatre, cited by the the spring season in the 4,000 seat Masonic Principal Musicians, Local ' 5, Acting Principal Robin Johnson American Federation * Greg Near Detroit media as "one of the city's cultural Temple Theatre. While the move to the * Barbara Zmich of Musicians jewels," is the State of Michigan's premiere Fisher and Masonic Temple Theatres opera company serving as a state-wide cul achieved a temporary solution to the rural resource committed to producing the Company's need for greater technical Steinway is the official piano of Detroit very best professional productions from the resources, seating capacity and audience Opera House and Michigan Opera grand opera, operetta, musical theater and amenities, it became clear that the furure of Theatre. Steinway pianos are provided by "The Furrier You Trust" ballet repertory. Founded and directed by Michigan Opera Theatre as a permanent Hammell Music, exclusive representative internationally recognized impresario Dr. resource for the city and state would be jeop for Steinway and Sons. Come to Our Factory Showroom featuring the Finest Fur From David DiChiera, Michigan Opera Theatre is ardized if the company could not control its President Tuxedo is the official provider Around the World now recognized as one of the nation's most own destiny. Michigan Opera Theatre, of formal wear of Detroit Opera House. successful opera companies. under the leadership of David DiChiera and Michigan Opera Theatre is a non MINK - BEAVER - RACCOON - FOX Since its inception in 1971, Michigan the Board of Directors, set out to find a profit cultural organization whose SAVE ON EXPERT FUR & Opera Theatre has called three different the building ideally suited for grand opera and activities are supported in part by the LEATHER CLEANING - $30.00 aters "home" prior to the opening of Detroit ballet productions. Michigan Council fo r Arts and Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the • QUICK REPAIRS Opera House. In 1971 the Company became Arts, and other individuals, corporations RESTYLING the catalyst for the revitalization of Detroit's MOMENTUM BUILDS celebrated Theater District, as it re-opened In the late 1980's the company seriously and foundations. Michigan Opera Theatre • MONOGRAMS AND is an equal opportunity employer. COVER-UPS the Music Hall Center for the Performing considered renovating the State Theater Arts. Music Hall was home until 1985. In located next to the newly renovated Fox • INSURANCE APPRAI SALS 1985, the company, in an effort to accom Theatre, though this arrang~ment was not NATIONA L ENDOWMENT COLD STORAGE - modate its growing audience and increased considered ideal because the facility was not FOR. T H E 2 COATS FOR $25.00 production needs, began performing the fall for sale, only rent. While in the midst of ARTS 230 E. GRAN D RIVER season in the Fisher Theatre (primarily a these discussions, the Grand Circus Theater near BROADWAY Broadway style house seating 2,100), and became available for purchase. David 961-0620Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

6 Michigan Opera Theatre American Ballet Theatre 7 DiChiera considered the magnificenr struc Theater block, and the 1994 Opera Ball ture ideal for its "opera house" style inrerior inside the unresrored auditorium before a On behalf of and the possibilities for building a new crowd of many who had never before seen Michigan Opera Theatre and Dr. David DiChiera, General Director stagehouse. He brought in faci lities experts the inrerior, the project gained incredible you are invited to participate in the Dance Patron Circle ro substanriate its structural soundness, momenrum. Construction began in earnest at Detroit Opera House acoustical excellence and technical capabili on the stage house that same summer. The Become a Member of the Dance Patron Circle and get in on the ground ties when updated. On December 31 of monumenral task before Michigan Opera floor of our inaugural dance program 1987, the ball got rolling as the company Theatre, the renovation of Detroit Opera BENEFITS secured the first parcel in the Grand Circus House, has been considered a key compo Theater block as the company's furure per nent for the economic, cultural and civic StGNAL BENEFACTOR ...... $50,000 and above DONOR . . ... $1,500 to $2,499 formance site. revitalization of Detroit. • Benefits as listed in Sponsorship Proposal • Benefits as listed below, plus • Free valet porking In 1990, the capital campaign ro raise MAJOR BENEFACTOR ...... $25,000 to $49,999 • Benefits as listed in Sponsorship Proposol • General Director's Circle Lounge for one couple funds for the project began. With the AN OPERA HOUSE FOR DETROIT • Priority seating in Diamond Circle or Inner Circle PRINCIPAL BENEFACTOR ... .$10,000 to $24,999 GOLDEN PATRON ...... $1,000 to $1,499 support of several prominent business On April 21 of 1996, a date that • Benefits as listed below, plus leaders Michigan Opera Theatre ran a suc coincided with the Company's twenry-fifth • General Director's Circle Lounge for one • Benefits as listed below, plus • One time poss for General Director's Lounge cessful campaign season, David couple and six guests • Dinner with the ortists and Dignitories for one couple to name the pri DiChiera's dream • Priority see ting in Inner Circle BENEFACTOR ...... $5,000 to $9,999 vate g rand tier became a reality as • Invitation to a dress rehearsal and reception • Benefits as listed below, plus • Special preview of the season boxes, enabling Detroit Opera • General Director's Circle Lounge for • Special invitations to dance events one couple and four guests the Company [0 House was throughout the year • Invitation to a cast porty PATRON ...... acquire the declared "open and • Box Sect subscription availobility $500 to $999 remaining parcels ready for music" • Benefits as listed below, plus SUSTAINER ...... $2,500 to $4,999 • An invitation to the annual Dance Gola of the Grand with an inaugural • Benefits as listed below, plus • An autographed, limited edition poster Circus Theater gala concert, fea- • General Director's Circle Lounge for • Priority handling of subscription upgrades one couple and two guests CORPS DE BALLET . . .. block (this includ turing history • Priority seating in Trustee Circle $499 and Below ed three parking • listing in MOT's Dance Program Book making perfor- • Pre-public notice of special events with lots, the theater man,ces by Luciano priority ticket information proper and the Pavawtti and a Detroit Opera House after it was inaugurated by o ""-', I wont to become a Member of the DANCE PATRON CIRCLE Roberts Fur Michigan Opera Theatre. star-studded cast N~ ______Building). In the of world-renowned ADDRESS ______.,.- ______fall of 1991 during a pre-concert press con artists. All eyes were on Detroit, as the ci ty STATE ______ZIP CODE ____ ference in the Grand Circus Theater, Luciano celebrated the opening of it's very own opera TELEPHONE IDayi ______(Eveningl, ______Pavarotti made his memorable promise [0 house - a world-class theater for the enrer , 0 Signal Benefactor $50,000+ 0 Benefactor $5,000+ o Golden Patron $1 ,000+ return [0 open Detroit Opera House, bring tainmenr of generations to come. i 0 Major Benefactor $25,000+ 0 Sustainer $2,500+ o Patron $500+ Corps De Ballet $499 and below ing the building project to the attenrion of The 1996-1997 season at Detroit Opera : 0 Pr incipol Benefactor $10,000+ 0 Donor $1 ,500+ o the public at large. House has bee n lovingly dubbed "Building Enclosed is my check. Check No. ____ In the Spring of 1993, the wrecking ball on a Dream". On January 12, 1997, the Please charge $____ to my credit card: came down on the Roberts Fur Building on original structure, that is now Detroit o VISA 0 MasterCard 0 American Express 0 Discover the Grand Circus Theater block, making Opera House, reached it's 75''' birthday. It is Account Number ______Exp. Date __ / __ Signature ______way for a new 75,000 square foot stage our sincere hope that you, your fami li es and house. With the $1.25 million Kresge generations to come enjoy Detroit Opera Please return to: Challenge granr, the acquisition of the last House - a reclaimed piece of our culture MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE , Da nce Patron Circle of the six parcels in the Grand Circus and history. 104 Lothrop, Detroit, Michigan 48202 or FAX 313/871·72 13

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8 Mi ch i~an Opera Theatre American Ballet Theatre 9 Michigan Opera Theatre DETROIT OPERA HOUSE . Mr. & Mrs. Louise Mrs. Alfred Kuschinski CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS William T. McCormick,Jr. The Meyer and Anna Prencis Honorable Mitchell I. Kafarski As ofJanuary 6, 1997 Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. O'Connell Family Foundation and Zofia Drozdowska, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Moon J. Pak Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller with sons Erik M. Kafarski & SIGNAL BENEFACTOR Comerica, Inc. Thyssen Inc. North America Mr. & Mrs. Hughes L. Potiker Mr. & Mrs. Jacques Nasser Konrad C. Kafarski $2,000,000 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Reuss Mr. & Mrs. Graham A. Orley Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. The Kresge Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David B. Hermelin Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Tyner Mr. & Mrs. Jack A. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Partrich Kasle & Family Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Jaques Mr. & Mts. George C. Vincent Mt. & Mrs. Richard Rogel Mt. John E. Petry Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Kirby GRAND BENEFACTORS Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Lomason,II Dr. & Mrs. Sam B. Williams Diane & Motton Scholnick Phillips Service Industries, Inc Mt. & Mrs. John A. Kirlin $1 ,000,000 Michigan National Corporation Mr. Joseph Schwartz Mr. Mickey Shapito Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Klein Chrysler Corporation Olivet Dewey Marcks Foundation Mr. & Mrs. S. Kinnie Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William H. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kojaian Ford Motor Company Fund Omnicare Health Plan TRUSTEE CIRCLE Standard Federal Bank Dr. & Mrs. David Susser Mollie & Bruno Leonelli General Motors Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Louis R. Ross $25,000 TO $49,999 Mrs. Mark C. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Melvin C. Vander Brug Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Lerner The Skillman Foundation Mr. Raymond C. Smith Anonymous Mt. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mr. Charles Marks Mr. & Mrs. Anchony L. Soave Anonymous Mt. & Mrs. Att VanElslander Mr. & Mrs. Steven I. Victor Mr. & Mrs. E. R. Milnet MAJOR BENEFACTOR United Technologies Automotive Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Consuelo S. & Henry E. Wenger Mr. Clune Walsh Marsha & Jeffrey H . Miro $500,000 Mr. & Mrs. Gebran S. Anton Henry Penn Wenger Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Wasserman Sally & Harry Nosanchuk John S. & GOLD CIRCLE Dr. & Mrs. Agustin Arbulu The Samuel L. Mr. & Mrs. Keith Weber Opus One James L. Knight Foundation $50,000 TO $99,999 Dr. & Mrs. Robyn Arrington, Sr. Westerman Foundation Dr. Marilyn L. Williamson Mr. Michael W. Pease Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni Dr. & Mrs. John V. Balian Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. White World Heritage Foundation Dr. Roberr E. L. Perkins LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. J. Addison Bartush Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Plunkett & Cooney, P.c. $250,000 TO $499,999 Allied Signal Foundation, Inc. Caprice W. & Mark Alan Baun Williams, Jr. DIAMOND CIRCLE Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ronan Ameritech Mt. & Mrs. David Atonow Mr. & Mrs. Mandell L. Berman Diane W. & Charles L. 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Butzel Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Ghafari Associates, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher, Jr. DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Mr. & Mts. Tarik S. Daoud Mr. David Chivas Starkweather Hudson-Webber Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Max M. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Dr. & Mrs. George Dean Mr. & Mrs. Rodkey Craighead Mr. Andrew P. Teitel Kmart Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel Mrs. Charles M. Endicott David & Karen DiChiera Cherill & Richard Cregar & Family Dr. & Mrs. L. Murray Thomas Lear Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Alan L. Gornick Ernst & Young Eaton Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Peter Cummings Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Vallee, Sr. McGregor Fund Mr. & Mrs. John C. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. E;"'ing Mr. & Mrs. John R. Edman Mr. & Mrs. David Denn Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Wasserman NBD Bank Mr. & Mrs. Preston B. Happel Mr. & Mrs. Edward Frohlich Mt. & Mrs. Burton D. Farbman Ruth Drazin Gevercer Trust Mrs. Beryl Winkelman Ralph L. & Winifred E. Polk Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Mts. Aaron H . Gershenson Mr. Kenneth H . 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12 Michi ga n Opera Theatre Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. presents AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE ~ ApOLLO ~ Choreography by George Balanchine Original Lighting by Ronald Bates Kevin McKenzie Michael Kaiser MlIJic by Igor Stravinsky Recreated by Brad Fields Artistic Director Executive Director FEBRUARY 4'" 1997 Apollo Jose Manuel Carreno Calliope Julie Kent Terpsichore Susan Jaffe Leto, Mother 0/ Apollo Kathleen Moore Victor Barbee • Gil Boggs • Jose Manuel Carreno • Wes Chapman • Angel Corella PolyhYlllnia Katie Lydon Handmaidens Rebecca Massey, Christine Dunham • Guillaume Graffin • Paloma Herrera • Robert Hill Rosalie O'Connor Susan Jaffe • Julie Kent • Amanda McKerrow • Kathleen Moore • Michael Owen F EBR UARY 5'" 1997 Apollo Guillaume Graffin Calliope Ashley Tuttle .Terpjichore Julie Kent Leto, Mother 0/ Apollo Kathleen Moore Charles Askegard • Maxim Belotserkovsky • Shawn Black • Ethan Brown PolyhYlllnia Yan Chen Handmaidens Rebecca Massey, Sandra Brown • Martha Butler • Yan Chen • Christina Fagundes • John Gardner Rosalie O'Connor Conductor: Charl es Barker Lucette Katerndahl • Veronica Lynn • Parrish Maynard • Keith Roberts • Ashley Tuttle Costumes executed by Batbara Matera Balanchine has wrirren: "Apollo - I look back on as the turning point of my life. In its discipline and restraint, Stella Abrera • Jennifer Alexander • Erin Baiano • Tamara Barden in its sustained oneness of tone and feeling, the score was a revelat ion. It seemed to tell me that I could dare not use Griff Braun • Marian Butler· Shannon Chain • Michael Cusumano· Irene D'Amesroy everything, that I, tOO, could eli minate." Andrei Dokukin • Irina Dvorovenko • Jonathan Fagan • Elizabeth Ferrell Apollo was the first classical baller Cteated and not simply revived for Oiaghilev in the twenty years that followed Fokine's Us Sylphi"". It was first performed by Oiaghileys Ballets Russes on June 12, 1928 ar the Theatre Erica Fischbach • Elizabeth Gaither • Mark Grothman • Stefanie Hamburg Sarah-Berhnardt in Paris and entered the repertOire of American Ballet Theatre on April 25, 1943 ar the Metropolitan Opera Vladislav Kalinin • Oksana Konobeyeva • Michael Levine • Denise Lewis • Anna Liceica House in New York City. Stravinsky's music for Apollo is used by arrangement with Katherine Linden • Katie Lydon • Clinton Luckett • Chrisropher Martin • Laura Martin Boosey & Hawkes Inc., publisher and copyright owner. The perfo rmances of Apollo, a Balanchineo Ballet, are P!"eS(.'fIted by arrangement with the George Balanchine Trus~ and have Rebecca Massey • Sara Mau • Eleena Melamed • Anne Milewski • Justin Morris been produced in accordance with the BaJanchine Stylesw and Balanchi neo Technique Service standards established and provided by the Trust. Gillian Murphy • Rosalie O'Connor· Seth Olson· Sascha Radetsky • Brian Reeder Flavio Salazar. Gennadi Saveliev • Valentina Scala • John Selya • Johanna Snyder Intermission Sean Stewart • Stephanie Walz • Amy Wilder· Yu Xin • Olga Yaroslavtzeva ...x~ TRANSCENDENTAL ETUDES ~ Choreography by Kevin McKenzie CostUllleJ by Kevin McKenzie Apprentice • Christin Severini Music by Frank Lisz t Lighting by Brad Fields Music Director Assistant Artistic Director Ballet Master FEBRUARY 4'" 1997 FEBRUARY 5n • 1997 Pre/udio Veronica Lynn and Preludio Chtistina Fag undes and Jack Everly David Richardson Terrence S. Orr Karie Lydon, Laura Marrin, Erin Baiano, Johanna Snydet, Andrei Dokukin, Christopher Marrin ClintOn Luckett, Sascha Radetsky Principal Conductor Ballet Mistresses Company Class Teacher Mazzeppa Vetonica Lynn and Gil Boggs Mazzeppa Gtiff Braun and Christina Fagundes Charles Barker Georgina Parkinson Diana Cartier* Katie Lydon, Laura Marrin, Erin Baiano, J ohanna Snyder, Andrei Dokukin, Christopher Martin ClintOn Luckett, Sascha Radecsky Irina Kolpakova Harmonies du Soir Yan Chen and John Gardner HamlOnies dll Soir Sandra Brown and Robert Hill Alaine Haubert Veronica Lynn, Katie Lydon, Laura Marrin, Chrisrina Fagundes, Erin Baiano, Andrei Kokukin, Christopher Martin Johanna Snyder, Clinton Luckett, Etude in F. Minor Veronica Lynn and Full Cast Sascha Radetsky The Board, dancers and staff of American Ballet Theatre wish to express Etllde in F. Millor Christina Fagundes and Full Cast their gratitude to Peter T. Joseph for his remarkable commitment and generosity. AggresJion ij a thing IInto im/f Hannony can not be wished i1lto being Ballet Theatre Foundation expresses its gratitude to the National Endowment The Children can only obmw for- the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts for their support. And Community can only hope To contain Uj all American Ballet Theatre's 1997 National and International Tours, and PianiJt: Howard Barr Metropolitan Opera House season are sponsored in part by Philip Morris Companies Inc. Tramcendental £111"" was Cteated for the New Amsterdam Ballet and rece ived its world premiere on July 20, 1991 at Jacob's Pillow, Massac husetts under rhe rirle Liszl £IU"", It entered the repertOire of Ameri can Ballet Theatte on October 8, 1996 at the Norrhrup AuditOrium in Minneapoli s, Minnesota. Baldwin is the official piano of American Ballet Theatre. Major support for t~i~ in~wM~~~~ ~~~ ~1~i~~ ~~e 1=~J~~r;.~wS~~~r~ ( ion Fund of which Lancome Paris, the makeup of American Ballet Theatre. Additional underwriting for this new work has been generously provided by Freed is the official shoe of American Ballet Theatre. Cindy and John Sites The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. , nd American Ballet Theatre celebrates Movado Watch Company and its 10,h Anniversary of support. The Harkness Foundations for Dance. 'PrincipallMeher for ABT's Open ClaJseJ. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Pause

14 Michigan Opera Theatre American Ballet Theatre 15 FrBIU "ARY 6 '" - 9 '''~ - (r) ~ ,,) ({ 11 cl. ({ (~ Q Ballet ill ['ulII' Acts ~ DON QUIXOTE ~ Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (Grand pas de Deux from Act III) Choreography for the Peasant Dance, Goblet Dance, Act I; . and the Storm Scene, Act IV by David Blair Chorevgraphy after Marius Petipa Arranged by Jack Everly Staged by Kevin McKenzie CostumeJ by Santo Loquasto Staged by Kevin McKenzie MUJic by Leon Minkus Ughting by N atasha Katz Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Scenery by Oliver Smith n FEBRUARY 4 < 1997 FEBRUARY 5~ 1997 Costumes by Freddy Wittop Paloma Herrera Angel Corella Susan Jaffe Jose Manuel Carreno Lighting by Thomas R . Skelcon after Jean Rosenthal Conductor: Jack Everly SYNOPSIS ------Intermission Act I: A meadow near the castle. Afternoon. Prince Siegfried has organized a hunting party to celebrate his twenty-first birthday. The peasants of the district have been given a holiday and have arranged a ~ RODEO ~ picnic, which the Prince has promised to attend. The picnic is interrupted by the arrival of the Queen Choreography by Agnes de Mille CostumeJ by Santo Loquasto Mother, who reminds her son that it is his duty at his coming-of-age ball to choose a bride from one of six eligible princesses. As the day draws to a close, the peasants take their leave. The Prince, sad at Music by Aaron Copland Lighting by Thomas R. Skelton the thought of his carefree youth slipping away, is roused out of his mood by Benno, who has sight Scenery by Oliver Smith ed a flight of swans. The Prince, deciding the night is still to be enjoyed, orders pursuit, and the hunters leave. Throughout the American Southwest, the Saturday afternoon Rodeo is a tradition. On the remOte ranches as well as in trading centers and the [Owns, the "hands" get together to show off their skill in roping, riding, branding PAUSE and throwing. Often, on the most isolated ranches the Rodeo is done for an audience that consists only of a handful Act II: Some hours later. By the lake. As Prince Siegfried enters rhe forest to hunt, he suddenly sees a of fellow-workers, womenfolk and those nearest neighbors who can make the eighty mile or so run over. magnificent swan in flight. He carefully takes aim, but, to his astonishment, the bird transforms into The afternoon's exhibition is usually followed by a Saturday night dance at the Ranch House. The theme a most beautiful girl, and he withdraws into the trees to observe her. Unable to restrain his curiosity, of the ballet is basic. It deals with the problem that has confronted every American woman from the earliest he steps out, only to startle and frighten her. He assures her he will do her no harm and asks her to pioneer times and which has never ceased to occupy her throughout the hjstory of the building of our explain the marvel he has just seen, Impressed by his gentleness, Odette unburdens the stoty of her country: how to get a suitable man. plight. She tells him she is a Princess of high birth who feU under the spell of an evil sorcerer, and SCENE I now her fate is to be a swan; only in hours of darkness may she assume her human guise. Indeed, this Rodeo: Saturday Afternoon - The Corral very lake is filled with her mother's tears. She cells him she is condemned for eternity, and only if a Interlude: Retrospect virgin youth swears eternal fidelity to her and marries her can she find release. Only then can the spell be broken. But, if he should forswear her, then she must remain a swan forever. At that moment, the SCENE II sorcerer appears. The Prince in his passion reaches for his crossbow, but Odette immediately protects Ranch House: Saturday Night Dance the sorcerer with her body, for she knows that if he is killed before the spell is broken, she too will die. The sorcerer disappears, and Odette slips away into the forest. Siegfried realizes his destiny is m FEBRUARY 4m 1997 FEBRUARY 5 1997 changed. Dawn approaches and Odette is compelled by the spell to return to her guise as a swan. The Head Wrangler Ethan Brown The Head Wrangler Charles Askegard Siegfreid is left distraught. The Champion Roper Griff Btaun The Champion Roper John Gardner The Cowgirl Elizabeth Ferrell The Cowgirl Shawn Black INTERMISSION The Ranch Owner's Daughter Rosalie O'Connor The Ranch Owner's Daughter Denise Lewis Act III: The next night. The Great Hall. Guests ftom many royal houses assemble for the birthday ball, Her Ea1tern Prienth Tamara Barden, Laura Martin, Her EaJtern Friends Itene D'Amestoy, Katie Lydon, including six princesses and rheir retinues, whom the Queen Mother has chosen as eligible maidens frum KamaJ City Olga Yaroslavtzeva from KansaJ City Marian Butler for her son's hand. The Queen Mother commands the entertainment to begin, then invites the Square Dance Caller Jonathan Fagan Square Dance Caller Jonathan Fagan princesses to dance. Prince Siegfried dances with each of the beautiful young maidens in turn. The Cowhands Andrei Dokukin, Jonathan Fagan, Cowhands Griff Braun, Andrei Dokukin, Mark Grothman, Vladislav Kalinin, Michael Levine, Queen Mother urges Siegfried to make a decision, but, haunred by the memoty of Odette, he refus Jonathan Fagan, Matk Grothman, Vladislav Kalinin, Clinton Luckett, Christopher Marrin, Brian Reeder, es, to his mother's consternation. A fanfare announces the arrival of the Baron von Rothbart with his Michael Levine, Clinton Luckett, Christophet Martin, Flavio Salazat daughter Odile. Siegftied, who is dazzled by Odile's beauty and seduced by her resemblance to Womenfolk Marian Butler, Irene D'Amestoy, Brian Reeder Odette, declares his love and fidelity. Rothbart and Odile triumphantly reveal their deception, and Oksana Konobeyeva, Katie Lydon Womenfolk Jennifer Alexander, Siegfried realizes he is the victim of an evil plot. He rushes into the night. Stefanie Hanburg, Eleena Melamed, Anne Milewski INTERMISSION Conductor: Jack Everly Act IV: The lakeside. That night, The swan-maidens are anxious at the disappearance of Odette. She appears and tells of Rothbart's treachety; before dawn, she intends to die. A great storm rages. Rodeo was first performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on Ocrober 16, 1942 and entered the repertory Siegfried, bursting into the glade, discovers her and begs her forgiveness. As dawn approaches, of American BaUet Theatre on August 14, 1950 at the Hessiches StaatStheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Music is used by atrangement with Boosey and Hawkes, Inc., publisher and Aaron Copland, copyright owner. Rothbart appears again in his disguise as a sorcerer. Odette tells Siegfried she must kill herself, or she will forever be a swan. Siegfried, knowing chat his destiny is forever changed, declares he will die with

Major supporr for this produceion of ROtko has been provided by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. her, thus breaking the power of Rothbart. The lovers throw themselves into the lake. Rothbarr is mor This gift was g iven in honor of Miss de MiUe·s long association with American Ballet Theatre. tally struck and his power ended. Apotheosis: The lovers are united in life after death. American BaUet Theatre gratefully acknowledges the special contribution of The Rita). and Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation, Inc. toward chis proouceion. Swan Lake was first performed by Imperial Ballet at Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow on March 4,1877. It entered the repertory Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatreof American Ballet Theatre on February 16, 1967 at Civic Opera House in Chicago, Illinois. * February 8" Malina Per/ormana 1ponsored by Kmart Corporation. 16 Michigan Opera Theatre American Ba ll et Theatre 17 AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE JACK EV-ERLY, Music Director Theatre, dancing both soloist and principal roles. As it begins its sixth decade, American Ballet American Ballet Theatre's 1997 Season is spon A graduate of t~e Indiana University School of In 1969, she joined The Joffrey Ballet as a princi Theatre is recognized as one of the great dance sored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. which has Music, Jack Everly joined American Ballet Theatre pal dancer. Mter ten years with that company, Miss companies in the world. Recognized as a living granted operating, touring, new work and special as Conductor in 1984 and was appointed a Princi Haubert began teaching and coaching in New national treasure since its founding in 1940, ABT project support to American Ballet Theatre for the - pal Conductor in November 1987 and became York, Europe, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. annually tours the Unites States performing for past twelve years. Music Director in January 1997. Miss Haubert returned to American Ballet The more than 600,000 people and is the only major Mr. Everly J>egan his conducting career in the atre as Ballet Mistress in the Spring of 1993. cultural institution to do so. It has also made more KEVIN McKENZIE, Artistic Director Broadway theatre in 1978 with Hello Dolly! than 15 international tours to 41 countries as per Mr. McKenzie was a leading dancer with both Immediately following the Broadway engagement IRINA KOLPAKOVA, Ballet Mistrers haps the most representative American ballet the National Ballet of Washington and The Jof of this' musical, were the London company and Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova was born in company and has been sponsored by the United frey Ballet before joining American Ballet Theatre national tours, as well as national tours ofA Chorus Leningtad and studied at the Lenningrad Choreo States' State Department on many of these as a Soloist in March 1979. He was appointed a Line and They're Playing Our Song and the Broadway graphic School where she was an outstanding engagements. Principal Dancer the following December and revival of Showboat. member of the great pedagogue Agrippina When American Ballet Theatre was launched in danced with the Company until 1991. Mr. Everly was music director and orchestrator Vaganova's last graduating class (1951). She the autumn of 1939, the aim was to develop a A native of Vermont, Mr. McKenzie received for PBS' In Performance at the White House salute to entered the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet at the age of repertoire of the best ballets from the past and to his ballet training at the Washington School of Broadway. eighteen and danced her first leading role, at the encourage the creation of new works by gifted Ballet. In 1972, he was awarded a silver medal at Mr. Everly has recorded his Styne Project for the age of twenry-two. young choreographers. wherever they might be the Sixth International Ballet Competition in TER label (London), creating the complete edi Miss Kolpakova was honoted with the title of found. Under the direction of Lucia Chase and Varna, Bulgaria. tion of overtures to all ofJule Styne's great Broad Merited Artist of the R.S.F.S.R. in 1957 and Peo Oliver Smith, from 1940 to 1980 ABT more than During his performing career, Mr. McKenzie way scores. ple's Artist of the R.S.F.S.R. in 1960. She is mar fulfilled that aim. The repertoire, perhaps has appeared as a guest artist in cities around the ried to Vladilen Semenov, who partnered her in unmatched in the history of ballet, includes all of world, including Spoleto, Italy, Paris, London, CHARLES BARKER, Principal Conductor many of her most famous roles. the great full-length ballets of the nineteenth cen Tokyo, Havana, Moscow, Vienna and Seoul. In Charles Barker has conducted numerous Prior to joining American Ballet Theatre as Bal tury such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and September 1989, Mr. McKenzie was appointed a orchestras throughout the United States and let Mistress in 1990, Miss Kolpakova taught and Giselle; the finest works ftom the early pare of this permanent guest artist with Washington Ballet abroad including the Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo coached with ABT in May 1989. century such as Apollo, Us Sylphides,Jardin aux Lilas and in 1991 assumed the position of Artistic Asso City Philharmonic, Kyoto and New Japan Phil and Rodeo and acclaimed contemporary master ciate of that company. harmonics, National Symphony of London, Patis GEORGINA PARKINSON, Ballet Mistrers pieces such as Airs, Push Comes to Shove and Duets. Mr. McKenzie was appointed Artistic Directot Opera Orchestra, Danish Radio Symphony, La Georgina Parkinson was born in Brighton, Eng In 1980, Mikhail Baryshnikov became Artistic of American Ballet Theatre in October 1992. Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires and Pacif land and studied at The Royal Ballet School before Director of American Ballet Theatre. Under Mr. ic Symphony. being taken into the company in 1955. She became Baryshnikov's leadership, numerous classical bal DAVID RICHARDSON, Currently, Mr. Barker is Music Director and a soloist in 1959 and was then promoted to princi lets were staged, restaged and refurbished and the Assistant Artistic Director Conductor of the American Chamber Orchestra pal dancer .. Company experienced a strengthening and refin Mr. Richardson was born in New York and and Principal Guest Conductor of the National Known for her strong classical technique and ing of the classical tradition. received his first ballet training at the Ballet Russe Symphony of London. great dramatic abilities, Miss Parkinson has been In 1990, Jane Hermann and Oliver Smith suc de Monte Carlo School and, as a scholarship stu Mr. Barker joined American Ballet Theatre as particularly noted for her performances as the lead ceeded Mr. Baryshnikovas Directors and immedi dent, at the School of American Ballet - the official Conductor in December 1985 and was appointed ing women in The Song ofthe Earth, La Garconne in ately established an agenda that was dedicated to school of the New York City Ballet. Prior to join Principal Conductor September 1992. Bronislava Nijinska's Les Bicher, as well as Ju1iet in maintaining the great traditions of the past while ing the New York City Ballet he danced for two MacMillan's Romeo andJuliet. aggressively pursuing a vital and innovative years (1961-63) with American Ballet Theatre ALAINE HAUBERT, Ballet Mistrers Miss Parkinson was appointed Ballet Mistress future. ABT has recently enjoyed triumphant suc touring extensively throughout the United States. California-born Alaine Haubert received her with American Ballet Theatre in 1978. cesses with engagements in Tokyo, London, Paris, As a member of the New York City Ballet, Mr. early dance training in the San Francisco-Bay Area. Madrid and Palermo. Richardson appeared in over 70 ballets, 40 of At the age of fifteen, she and her family moved to TERRENCE S. ORR, Ballet Master In October 1992, former American Ballet The them company premieres. His film work is repre New York where she studied at the School of Terrence S. Orr was born in Berkeley, California atre Principal Dancer Kevin McKenzie was sented by the Oscar®-winning documentary Nor American Ballet. Returning to San Francisco, she and received his ballet training at San Francisco appointed Artistic Director. Mr. McKenzie, stead man Rockwell's World, An American Dream. continued her training at San Francisco Ballet Ballet School. He was principal dancer with the fast in his vision of ABT as "American" is com Mr. Richardson rejoined American Ballet School. When the national touring company of San Ftancisco Ballet for three years. mitted to maintaining the Company's vast Theatre as a Ballet Master in October 1983 and Camelot arrived in San Francisco she auditioned, Mr. Orr joined American Ballet Theatre in repertoire and to bringing the magic of dance the was appointed Assistant Artistic Director in was accepted, and became the youngest member of 1965 and was promoted to the rank of Soloist in ater to the great stages of the world. August 1996. that company. 1967 and Principal Dancer in 1972. Copyright 2010, Michigan OperaIn 1965, Theatre Miss Haubert joined American Ballet Mr. Orr was appointed Rehearsal Assistant in

18 Michigan Opera Theatre American Ballet Theatre 19 1970, Associate Ballet Master in 1973 and Ballet JOSE MANUEL Ballet Theatre as a Soloist and was appointed a Miss Hetrera was a Finalist at the Fourteenth Master in 1978. He has been assistant ro Mikhail CARRENO, Principal Dancer in August 1996. International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bul Baryshnikov, Jerome Robbins and Agnes de Mille. Principal Dancer garia in 1990. After the competition, she was Jose Manuel Carreno CHRISTINE invited by Natalia Makarova to take class with the VICTOR BARBEE, was born in Cuba, where DUNHAM, English N ational Ballet in London and by Hector AJSiJtant to the ArtiJtic he received his training at Principal Dancer Zaraspe ro continue her studies at the School of Staff and Principal Dancer the Provincial School of Christine Dunham was American Ballet in New York. She joined Ameri Vicror Batbee was born Ballet and the N ational born in Dallas, Texas and can Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de bal in Raleigh, North Caroli Ballet School. He won the began her dance training let in June 1991, was promoted to Soloist in June na and received his ballet Gold Medal at the N ew York International Ballet with Lorraine Cranford at 1993 and to Principal Dancer in March 1995. training at the North Car Competition in 1987 and the Grand Prix at the the age of seven. She rhen olina School of the Arts International Ball et Competition in Jackson, Mis stud ied wi th M yrtha SUSAN JAFFE, and the School of Ameri sissippi in 1990. Rosello and was offered a scholarship to the School Principal Dancer can Ballet, and also studied at the Mr. Carreno joined American Ballet Theatre as of American Ballet at the age of twelve. Miss Susan Jaffe was born in Leningrad-Kirov Ballet School in Leningrad. a Principal Dancer in June 1995. Dunham joined American Ballet Theatre in 1985 , Washing ton, D. C. and Mr. Barbee made his musical comedy debut on was appointed a Soloist in 1987, and a Principal began her dance training Broadway in Woman 0/ the Year and also appeared WES CHAPMAN, Dancer in 1989. In 1991, Mi ss Dunham appeared at the Maryland School of on Broadway in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Principal Dancer as a g uest artist with The Australian Ballet. Ballet with H orte nsia Dance, co-starring with Bernadette Peters. He also Born in Union Springs, Fonseca, Elizabeth Statler appeared in the television series Hart to Hart and Al abama, Wes Chap"?an and Michell e Lees. Sh e Laverne and Shirtey and in the films The Turning began his ball et training GUILLAUME later studied at the School of Amer'ican Ballet and Point and DancerJ. at the age of nine with GRAFFIN, spent twO summers as a scholarship student at tbe Mr. Barbee was appointed a Soloist with Amer Emily Caruso. H e also Principal Dancer Ameri can Ballet Tbeatre Scbool. In 1980, Miss ican Ball et Theatre in 1979 and a Principal studied at American Bal Guillaume Graffin, Jaffe joined American Ballet Tbeatre and made Dancer in 1984. In 1994, he became Ass istant ro let Theatre's school and who was born in N euilly her debut witb tbe Company at tbe Kennedy Cen the Artistic Staff. with Dame Sonia Arova and Thor Sutowski at the sur-Seine, France, began ter in December, dancing "Pas d'Esclave" from Le Alabama School of Fine Arts. hi s ballet training at the Conaire. Sbe became a Soloist in 1981 and was GIL BOGGS, Mr. Chapman joined American Ballet Theatre Paris Conservatory and appointed a Principal Dancer in 1983. Principal Dancer in 1984, was appointed a Soloist in 1987 and a joined the Paris Opera Born in P ensacola, Principal Dancer in 1989. Mr. Chapman left School in 1981. He joined the Paris Opera Ballet JULIE KENT, ~...... ,/.-:. Florida and raised in American Ballet Theatre in 1993 to join the in 1983 and was appointed coryphee (leader of a Principal Dancer . \; ' . ../ Atlanta, Georgia, Gil Bavarian National Ballet of Munich Opera. He chotus) the following year. Mr. Graffin joined the Julie Kent began her Boggs studied ballet at returned to ABT in the spring of 1995. Ballets de Monte Carlo, and , in 1986, was dance training with '\ the Atlanta Ballet School Mr. Chapman formed his own company, Wes appointed premier danJeltr by Princess Caroline of Hortensia Fonseca at the with Robe rt Ba rnett . Chapman's American Ballet in 1991. Monaco. Academy of the Maryland Prior ro joining American Mr. Graffin joined American Baller Theatre as a Youth Ballet. She attend Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet ANGEL CORELLA, Principal Dancer in 1988. ed the American Ballet in 1982, Mr. Boggs danced with the Atlanta Bal Principal Dancer Theatre II su m mer ses let as a principal dancer for five years. Angel Corella was born PALOMA HERRERA, sion and the School of Ameri can Ballet before Mr. Boggs joined American Ballet Theatre in in Madrid in 1975. He Pri'lcipal Dancer joining American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice the Spring of 1982, was appointed a Soloist in began hi s baller studies in Born in Bu enos Aires, in 1985. In tbat same year, Mi ss Kent won first 1984, and a Principal Dancer in 1991. Colmenar Viejo and later Paloma Herrera began her place in the regional fin als of the National Society In 1987, Mr. Boggs took a leave of absence studied in Madrid with ballet studies with Olga of Arts and Letters at the Kennedy Center. In from American Ball et Thearre to dance with Karemia Moreno. Ferri at the age of seven. 1986, she was tbe only American to win a medal Twyla Tharp and Dancers. H e returned to the In May 1991 , Mr. As a young dancer, she at the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Com Company in 1988. Corella won First Prize in the National Ballet was a first prize winner at petition, and became a member of ABT's corps de Competition of Spain. In December 1994, he won several major competi ballet tbat year. the Grand Prix and Gold Medal at the Concours tions in South America and at the age of eleven, Sbe was appointed a Soloist with ABT in 1990 International de Danse de Paris. studied at the Minsk Ballet School in Russia and a Principal Dancer in 1993, the year in wbi cb Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre In April 1995, Mr. Corella joined American before returning to Buenos Aires. sbe won tbe Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto.

20 Michigan Opera Theacre American Billet Theatre 21 ROBERT HILL, Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham with AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE Principal Dancer Dame Sonia Arova and Thor Sutowski. After Gel/eral Manager Claudette Donlon Property Master John Rolland Born in West Babylon, a'ttending the School of American Ballet and Director of Press, ' Robert Pontarell i Assistant Property Master Paul Wells PR and Marketirtg Wardrobe S1Ipervisor New Yotk, Robert Hill Ameri can Ballet Theatre School for summer ses Bruce A. H. Horowitz Director of Development Lynn Thommen Assistant Wardrobe H ilari e J enkins began his dance training sions, she joined ABT II in 1980. Controller Susan Neiman Assistant Wardrobe Caryn Conway at the age of seventeen in Miss Moore entered American Ballet Theatre as Wig and Make"p SlIpervisor AnneMichelie Radcl iff Coordinator for the Artistic Staff Florence Pettan Florida at the Dussich a member of the corps de ballet in 1982, was Dance Studio. In 1979, he appointed a Soloist in 1988 and a Principal D EVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REHE ARSAL DEPARTMENT Campaign Director Annie Matson joined the School of D ancer in 1991. Rehearsal Administrator Cristina Escoda Deputy Director of Developlllem Lucie Miller American Ballet on a scholarship, then attended Ass;jtant to the Artistic Staff VictOr Barbee Director, Special Projects Mary Keating the Philadelphia College of the Performing Am MICHAEL OWEN, Special Projects Assistant Lynn Fenwick Director, Individual Giving Lindsay Bernal for a year. Principal Dancet· Manager, Special Events Cathy Schroth COMPANY ADMlNISTRATION Appointed a Soloist with American Ballet The Mic hael Owen was Manager, Dancers' Cird e Christine Larchian Company Manager Donya Corry atte in 1986, Mr. Hill left the Company in 1988 Asst. Manager, Golden Cirde J ennifer Smith born in Carlisle, Penn\:yl Associate Company Manager Kerry Kane Am. Mgr. institutional Support Patricia H . Sumi and danced with the New York City Ballet, The vania a nd received his ExeC1ltive Assistant Rhoda Oster Developmel/t Associate.r Royal Ballet, Ballet Teatro alia Scala, Scottish Bal early training there with o/fice Manager Roseanne Forni Stephanie Decker, Carol Mitchell , let and San Francisco Ballet. Assistant to Gel/eral Manager J ean Haring M arcia Weary. He tben Christina Mitrakos, Cathy Modecki Mr. Hill appeared with American Ballet The studied at the Pennsylva Telefimdraising MUSIC DEPARTMENT atre as a guest artist in 1990 and rejoined the nia Ballet School, School Mitchell A. Chaitin, Manager Music Administrator Harold Tbemmen Company as a Principal Dancer in 1993. Mary Orrner, J esse Kirtzman, Steve Kirtzman of American Ballet and American Ballet Theatre Concert Master Ron Oakland School. Company Pianists PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AMANDA Mr. Owen joined American Ballet Theatre in Howard Barr, G ladys Celeste, Martha J ohnson, Company Physical Therapist McKERROW, Daniel Pressler, Steven Rosenthal, Henrietta Stern 1974, became a Soloist in 1977 and was promot Peter Marshall, M.A., PT. Principal Dancer ed ro Principal Dancer in 1987. Consulting Orthopedist Dr. William Ham il ton ABT STUDIO COMPANY Amanda McKerrow was Massage Therapist, L.M. T. Olinda Cedeno Director J eremy Blanron born in Albuquerque, Labor C oumel Ballet M istre.rs Gage Bush Jerome B. Kauff of Kauff, McClain and McGuire New Mexico and began Company Manager Catherine Levine Special Counsel her ballet training at the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison age of seven at the Twin l1erndwdrks PRESS DEPARTMENT Accol/ming Ernst & Young -----Since 1978 ----- Associate Director, Pre.rs, Elena Gordon brook School of Ballet. i1lJllrance Brokers DeWitt Stern Group Inc. PR and Marketing She began studying wi rh Mary Day at tbe age of Travel Agency Press Representative Kelly Ryan Joyce Stogo, Zenith Travel, Inc. fourteen and joined The WashingtOn Ball et as an Press Associate Myra Armstrong apprentice in 1979. After becoming a full company imerne Sujatha Raman American Ballet Theatre's edllcational progra1!lJ have been member in 1980, she won the Gold Medal at the gmerollJly IIndetwrium by the Chemical Banking Corporation; Moscow International Ballet Competition in 1981. FINANCE DEPARTMENT Citibank, NA ; Movado Watch Company FOllnriation, Inc.; Assistant Controller Catherine P. Brown NYNEX Corporation;jeffry M. and Barbara Picower Miss McKerrow was the recipient of a Princess Foundation: The Doris and Stanley Tanonbal/Ill Foundation; Assistant, Accoltl1fs Payable Manya Levin Grace Foundation Dance Fellowship in 1986. The Chase Manhattan Bank; Tribllne New York FOllnriation; Piancnvorks oftet·s the most noteuxnthy Bookkeeping Assistant Mirlene Cornet and the Unilever United Stales FOllndalion, Inc. Miss McKerrow joined American Ballet The instruments in the lvodd Programs and casting sIIbject to change atre as a member of the corps de ballet in 1982. PROD UCTION DEPARTMENT She was appointed a Soloist in 1983 and a Princi JII ... n & }!anUm ; .ii1Ai f,·,·1:l4Ji:i Production Manager David Lansky American Ballet Theatre grateJlllly acknowledges Assistant Production Manager N . James Whitehilllll The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trml and pal Dancer in 1987. .. j oseph and Silllone GOHner for lheir generOIlJ Sllpporl SE:lLER Principal Stage Manager Lori Rosecrans PETROF GROTRlAN of the /njllry Prevention Program, which is vital Stage Manager Randal Fippinger 10 the well-being of the Company. KATHLEEN MOORE, Assistant Stage Manager J ean-J acques Cesbron American Ballet Theatre is a member of lhe American Arts Principal Dancer OEAI..ER FOR Lighting S1Ipervisor Brad Fields SlJl'}iERLANO HAflPSICHOROS I ,~ I Alliance, lhe Arts and BlIsiness COllncil, Inc. and Dance/U.S. A. Born in Chicago, Illi Master Carpel/ter Paul Koval The Dancers alld Slage Managers are members of the Independmt nois, K athleen Moore CONSULTATION • SALES FlY1llan Frank A. LaMantia Artists of A1/lerica. COllmel started her dance training SERVICE • CONCERT RENTALS Assistant Carpel/ter Peter Koval for the IAA; law offices of Leonard Leibowitz Master Electrician J ennifer Carr in Huntsvi lle, Alabama. by Assistant Electrician J ames Elrod Trucking Clark Tramfer 11Ic. At the age of twelve, she 23225 W oodward Ave. Pianos cOllrtesy of Frank and Camille's Keyboard Assistant Electrician Larry Holder ...... L- ...... _ _ began studying at the Ferndale • (81 0) Copyright54 1-6334 2010, Michigan OperaAssistant TheatreElectrician Brian McGarity * Principalteacber for A BT's Open Classes

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BOARD OF GOVERNING TRUSTEES MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS

Honorary Chairman Emerittts Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)

Honorary Chairman Caroline B. Kennedy American Ballet Theatre wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary generosity of the late Lawrence A. Wien who made it possible for ABT and Feld BalletslNY to secure our home at 890 Broadway, Chairman Peter T. Joseph now The Lawrence A. Wien Center for Dance and Theater. Vice Chairmen Mildred C. Brinn American Balle,t Theatre is deeply grateful to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for irs leadership assistance David Koch in making possible new creative work thar will profoundly enrich the art istic future of ABT. Abby Leigh American Ballet Theatre gives special thanks to its generous donors which are li sted on the following pages. Secretary & Chair, Mrs. John C. Sites, Jr. Their support, along with the thousands of other individuals, corporations and foundations who we are unable Development Committee to list, enables the Company to dance brilliantly throughout the year. Chair, Finance Committee Anne M. Tatlock Philip Morris Companies Inc. is the Founding Sponsor of ABT's New Prcx:luction Fund. Chair, Nominating Committee David W. Zalaznick

Trustees Sherrell]. Aston, M.D. Kevin McKenzie LEADERSHIP GIFTS David H . Koch Charitable Trust GOVERNMENT Debra Black S. Chrisropher Meigher III The Andrew W. Mellon New York Ci ty Department of John S. Chalsty Frank Meister INDIVIDUALS Foundation Cultura l Affairs Ricki Gail Conway Dawn Mello Mi ldred C. Brinn National Dance Residency Peter Duchin Mrs. Herbert D. Mendel Estate of Joanne Toor Cummings Program* CORPORATIONS Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Dyson The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Ellen Tracy, Inc. Patricia Duff Anka K. Palitz Me. and Mrs. Gedalio Grinberg The Equitable Financial Stephen]. Friedman, Esq . Sharon Patrick Peter T. and Wendy J oseph * The National Dance Residency Compani es and Gedalio Grinberg Nancy Schacht David H . Koch Program is a three-year program The Equitable Foundation Nancy E. Havens-Hasty June Schneider, Ph.D. Herbert D. and Audre Deckmann developed and underwritten by Interface Flooring Systemsl Hamilron E. J ames Mrs. Bernard L. Schwartz Mendel The Pew Charitable Trusts and Prince Street Mr. and Mrs. John C. Sites Jr. administered at the New York Pentagram Design, Inc. Michael M. Kaiser Margaret M. Sharkey Barbara and David Zalaznick Foundation for the Arts United Airlines George L. Knox Sharon L. Haugh Stein Two Anonymous Donors U.S. News & World Report Lady MacMillan Leonard Tow CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE William A. McIntosh Thomas E. Tuft GOVERNMENT FOUNDATIONS IN DIVIDUALS The Eleanor Naylor Dana John L. Warden, Esq . National Endowment for the Arts New York State Counci l Linda M. Allard Charitable Trust on the ArtS Mr. and Mrs. Leon Black The Muriel Linsky Karasik Mr. and Mrs. Ward S. Hagan Foundation Honorary Trustees Chairmen Emeriti Trustees Emeriti CORPO /~ATlONS Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton E. James Jeffry M. and Barbara Pi cower Charles Dyson Charles Dyson Mrs. Richard Englund Gi lman Paper Company Abby and Mitch Leigh Foundation Movado Watch Company William A. McIntosh The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Mrs. Ward S. Hagan Stephen]. Friedman, Esq Charles K. McWhorter Philip Morris Companies Inc. William D. Rollnick and Foundation, Inc. K. Mrs. Byam Stevens, Jr. Melville Straus Lucia Chase (1897-1987) Nancy Ell ison Rollnick Roger Stevens Charles Payne (1909-1994) FOUNDATIONS Me. and Mrs. Bernard L. Schwartz TRUSTEES' CIRCLE Mrs. William Zeckendorf Nora Kaye Ross (1920-1987) Booth Ferris Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Tuft Oliver Smith (1918-1994) The Howard Gilman Foundation Marillyn B. Wilson INDIVIDUALS Copyright 2010, Michigan OperaThe Peter Theatre T. Joseph Foundation Bob Boyett

24 Michigan Opera Theatre Ame rican Ballet Theatre 25 DETROIT OPERA Cynthia Green Colin CORPORATIONS The New York Times Company HO USE Ricki and Bob Conway Beehive Distribution Corporarion Foundation, Inc. Parricia Duff NYNEX G ENE R A L N FORMAT o N Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Friedman PARTNERS Peter J oseph Gall ery Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Gossner Rosecliff, Inc. PHOTOGRAPHY AND LOST AND FOUND RECORDING DEVICES Nancy Havens-Hasty and INDIVIDUALS Sullivan & Cromwell Lost and Found is locared in rhe Administrative Unaurhorized cameras and recording devices are Coordinator's office. Please see an usher if you have J. Dozier Hasty Roberto Buaron Unilever United States not allowed inside the theater ar anyrime. m isplaced an acricle, or call 313/96 1-3500 if you Mr. and Mrs. James Owen Dr. and Mrs. Worrh B. Daniels, Jr. Foundation, Inc. The taking of photographs of rhe rheater or any have already left the theater. Herlands Ann Kaplan and Roben Fippinger Warner-Lam ben Company performance is strictly prohibited. As a courtesy ro Frank Meister Sheila O'Malley Fuchs our guests, we ask rhat all paging devices and alarm PARKING Mr. and Mrs. Jeff c. Tarr Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ganek FOUNDATIONS watches be switched ro a silent mode prior ro the Parking is available for all events ar rhe Opera Mr. and Mrs. John L. Warden Mr. and Mrs. Sandor Garfinkle The Jane and start of a performance. Hbuse Garage locared directly across John R. from One Anonymous Donor Mrs. Dale A. Hedges Worth B. DanielsJr, M.D. Detroit Opera House on Broadway. Pre-paid parking Judith M. and Richard S. Hoffman Fund of the Baltimore IN CASE OF EMERGENCY is avai lable. Please call 313/961 -3500. GOVERNMENT Mr. and Mrs. J onarhan I1any Community Doctors and parents are advised to leave their Sear Natural Heritage Tru st Mrs. Marjorie Isaac The Gladys Krieble Delmas locarion (located on ricker) and our emergency num ACCESSIBILITY Mr. and Mrs. S. Christopher Foundation ber, 313/237 -3257 wirh rhe service or sitter in case Accessible searing locarions for parrons in wheel CORPORATIONS Meigher III The William and Mary G reve of an emergency. chai rs are locared in all price ranges on the orchestra Citibank, NA Dawn Mello Foundation, Inc. Please observe rhe lighred exit signs locared level. When inquiring abour rickers, please ask abour Credit Suisse Mr. Roberto Mendoza The J ohn D. & Catherine T. rhroug hour rhe rhearer. In rhe event of fire or simi rhese locations if you require special accommoda Elle and Mirabella magazines Mr. and Mrs. Roberr Meyerhoff MacArthur Foundation lar emergency, please remain calm and walk - do nor tions. Ernst & Young LLP Carlos Neira Milstein Family Foundation, Inc. run to the nearest exit. OUf ushers are trained to Assisted Listening Devices are available on a Jordan 1 Zalaznick Capital Caroline Newhouse Newman's Own, Inc. lead you our of rhe building safely. first-come basis. Please see an usher or Ticket Office Company Sharon Patrick The Owen Cheatham Foundation A rrained Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) representative to request this service. Alrhough rhis is is on si re during all events. Please see an usher or a complimentary service, we will request ro hold a Lancome Paris Esrare of Charles Payne J acqueline Kennedy Onassis Trust sraff member ro COntaCt rhe EMT. piece of personal identification while you are usi ng Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Dr. J ames and J anis Quinn Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust rhe device. & Garrison Mr. and Mrs. William H. Risley The Doris and Stanley Tananbaum RESTROOMS Elizaberh P. Ruml Foundation Ladies' resrrooms are located off the Broadway CHILDREN FOUNDATIONS David and June Schneider lobby, down rhe srairs and also on rhe rhird floor Children are welcome however, all g uesrs are The Bodman Poundation Mary Sennort-Shaw THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (Madison side). Please press 3R on rhe elevator. required ro hold a ricker, regardless of age. We kind Charles E. Culpeper Foundarion Leila and Melville Straus DETROIT AREA Gentlemens' restrooms are locared under rhe ly ask rhat parental discrerion be exercised for certain The Robert S. Finkelstein Anne M. Tadock Grand Theatre sraircase, down rhe stairs and also on programs, and thar all g uests remember rhar during Memorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. Frederi ck R. Ulrich INDIVIDUALS the rhird floor (Broadway side). Please press 3 on the a program such as opera or baller, rhe abiliry of all The Jerome and Anne C. Fisher Celeste and Stephen Weisglass Mr. and Mrs. David S. Aronow elevator. audience members to hear rhe music is a prerequisite Foundation Dr. O. William and Susan Brown Please nore: All rhird floor resrrooms are wheel to enjoyment of rhe performance. In all cases, babes The Harkness Foundations for CORPORATIONS Charles Crook chair accessible. in arms are nOt permitted. Dance Arthur Andersen & Co. Susan Falk F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. Baldwin Piano and Organ James R. G iuliano III and Susan NO SMOKING SERVICES Meyer & Minn Manischewitz Company Lau-Giuliano Derroir Opera House is a smoke-free faci lity. Ash Concession stands are locared on all levels in the Foundation, Inc. Capital Cities 1 ABC ScOtt R. Isdaner receptacles are provided on rhe exterior of all entry lobbies. Please nore: Food and Drinks are NOT Pred and Sharon Stein Foundarion The Chase Manhattan Bank Mr. and Mrs. J ohn F. Jacobs doors for rhose who wish to smoke. Allowed in rhe Auditorium at any rime! The Norma and Rosita Winston Clark Transfer Inc. 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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Michigan Opera Theatre invites you ... A Message from the General Director to become a part of history We are pleased ro offer you the opporrunity ro become a parr of the hisrory of the magnificenr Detroit Opera House. One way you can do this is by purring your name on "the best seat in the elcome to a very special occasion at Detroit Opera house. " Over 1,000 seats in the theater have been underwritten through the generosity of our House-An Evening with J ose Carreras. This performance is donors. Our goal is ro name every seat, so there are still 1,7 00 available for you ro choose from a wonderful prelude co our forthcoming Spring Season, and its in all sec tion ~ of the house. memory is cerrain to charm us long after the final encore. Your gift will be recognized by a plague on the seat, so you will receive recognition for your conrri'burion in perpecuity. Gifts may honor you , your company or a loved one. Any gift of As we approach our first year anniversary in the new Detroit Opera $1,000 and above may be paid over five years. House, how fitting it is that we should ce lebrate with one of the gteat Another way ro parricipate in this effort is ro set your name "i n srone." You can buy a brick singers of our time. for $100 that we wi ll inscribe according ro your wishes. The named bricks will be installed Mr. Carreras is well-known to opera lovers for his many recordings and stage on the wall of the First Floor Elevacor Tower Lobby for all theatergoers co see. More than 700 appearances and, since 1990, following the successful Three Tenors concerr in Rome, people have bought bricks already, but we need about 1,300 more ro cover the enrire wall. he has reached a vast world-wide audience. It is a testament co Mr. Carreras that he has Please join the growing number of supporrers who have already conrribured ro this exciting been able ro embrace and welcome new audiences to the classical repertoire. The project and pur your name on a seat or a brick. Become a parr of hiscory by filling our the timelessness of the songs of our day has bee n confirmed in Mr. Carreras' command of form below and recurning it ro Michigan Opera Theatre. secular songs and modern reperroire as well as in his recordings and recitals. For an artist as much in demand as Mr. Carreras, hi s appearance this evening at Detroit Opera r------, House is truly a memorable occasion. NAME I wish to extend my sincere appreciation ro Ford Motor Company whose generosity , i ADDRESS ______has made Mr. Carreras' appearance possible. We have been fortunate over the years to i CITY, STATE, ZIP ______enjoy the long-time support of Ford Motor Company for many of our outstanding i PHONE ______events. Your presence tonight will benefit the Detroit Opera House Capital Campaig n which Enclosed is my check for $ ____for: allows us ro continue the restoration and transformation of this historic building into a seat(s) in seCtion N o. ___ world-class Opera House. We have made considerable progress towards completion of brick(s) the Opera House since last April. In September, we opened the elevacor tower which genera l restoration contribution has provided barrier-free access to upper levels and three additional lobbies for the (Gifrs of 1,000 and above may be paid over five years.)

enjoyment and convenience of our patrons. Also opened is the Madison Lounge where My pledge is fo r $ theatergoers can enjoy a refreshment and snacks. Soon to open is the magnificent P' payment 4,h payment General Director's Circle Lounge for the pleasure of all our donors whose annual 2'" payment 5th payment 3'" payment support make our seasons possible. Still ro be accomplished is the restoration of the LEGEND Broadway facade, the Education Resource Center on the top four floors of the Please charge $ ___tO my credit card : Broadway Office Tower, the Administration and Production Office Tower on Madison o Visa 0 Masterca rd 0 AMEX 8. All Upper Balcony seats Account Number ______have been named and the completion of decorative surfaces within the Expiration Dare ______7, $500 Balcony auditorium and the lobbies. Sig nature ______6. $750 Mezzanine There are many ways to partic ipate in this mag nificent project. Whether you underwrite a seat, Please insc ribe thislthese name(s) on the seat plaque(s)/brick(s): 5. $1,000 Orchestra buy a brick, participate in a naming opportunity or 4a. 2,500 Inner Circle (last 5 Rows) make a contribution (please see Page 3 for details), you 4b. $5,000 Inner Circle are ensuring the completion of your opera house. (First 5 Rows) j 0 My company will match this contribution. I look forward to welcoming you again. 3. $10,000 Diamond Circle 2. $25,000 Tmstee Circle iii::, Retllrn 10: Detroit Opera House Campaign Michigan Opera Theatre 104 Lothrop I. All Box Seats have Detroit, MI 48202 been named : or Fax to: (3 13) 871-7213 L______.J David DiChieraCopyright, General D2010,irector Michigan Opera Theatre 2 Michi gan Opera Thea tre An Evening with Jose Carreras 3 April 15'h Opening Night and BUILDING CLEVELAND SAN JOSE BALLET April 19'hPerformances Sponsored by ONA

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We wish to thank NBD for their generous support of The Detroit Dance Series, April 15-20, 1997 which includes American Ballet Theatre Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre and Cleveland San Jose Ballet ,~,

ctv~~~~49)~ Michigan Opera Theatre, cited by the the spring season in the 4,000 seat Masonic May f7, 1997 Detroit media as "one of the city's cultural Temple Theatre. While the move to the jewels," is the State of Michigan's premiere Fisher and Masonic Temple Theatres Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre opera company serving as a state-wide cul achieved a temporary solution to the tural resource committed to producing the Company's need for greater technical The 1997 Spring Season is Sponsored by very best professional productions from the resources, seating capacity and audience m'-Genem. Motors. grand opera, operetta, musical theater and amenities, it became clear that the future of ballet reperrory. Founded and directed by Michigan Opera Theatre as a permanent i(~latc 'The Marriage internationally recognized impresario Dr. resource for the city and state would be jeop April 5-13, 1997 oj$igaro David DiChiera, Michigan Opera Theatre is ardized if the company could not control its Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre May 3-11, 1997 now recognized as one of the nation's most own destiny. Michigan Opera Theatre, successful opera companies. under the leadership of David DiChiera and April 11 'h Performance Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre Since its inception in 1971, Michigan the Board of Directors, set our to find a Sponsored by May 3,d Opening Night Performance Opera Theatre has called three different the building ideally suited for grand opera and THO~UP Sponsored by aters "home" prior to the opening of Detroit ballet productions. ~ Opera House. In 1971 the Company became April 12'h Performance ~ the catalyst for the revitalization of Detroit's MOMENTUM BUILDS May lO'h Performance Sponsored by £..Sponsored by celebrated Theater District, as it re-opened In the late 1980's the company seriously Michigan National O~~~!t , the Music Hall Center for the Performing considered renovating the State Theater Bank Arts. Music Hall was home until 1985. In located next to the newly renovated Fox 1985, the company, in an effort to accom Theatre, though this arrangement was not THE FLYING DUTCHMAN modate its growing audience and increased considered ideal because the facility was not May 31 - June 8, 1997 production needs, began performing the fall for sale, only rent. While in the midst of Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre season in the Fisher Theatre (primarily a these discussions, the Grand Circus Theater Broadway style house seating 2,100), and became available for purchase. David

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre An Evening with Jose Carreras 5 DiChiera considered the magnificent struc Theater block, and the 1994 Opera Ball ture ideal for its "opera house" style interior inside the unrestored auditorium before a and the possibilities for building a new crowd of many who had never before seen Co-ordinated by MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION (MO'IVA) stagehouse. He brought in facilities experts the interior, the project gained incredible - A SELECTION OF ITEMS - Open during Opera House performances ro substantiate its structural soundness, momentum. Construction began in earnest Enhance your evening at Michigan Opera Theat:re's spring opera season productions by listening acoustical excellence and technical capabili on the stage house that same summer. The ahead of time to some of the finest recordings of the operas we will present. ties when updated. On December 31 of monumental task before Michigan Opera 1987, the ball got rolling as the company Theatre, the renovation of Detroit Opera secured the first parcel in the Grand Circus House, has been considered a key compo Theater block as the company's future per- nent for the economic, cultural and civic formance site. revitalization of Detroit. In 1990, the capital campaign to raise funds for the project began. With the AN OPERA HOUSE FOR DETROIT support of several prominent business On April 21 of 1996, a date that leaders Michigan Opera Theatre ran a suc coincided with the Company's twenty-fifth RIGOLETTO cessful campaign season, David Verdi Wagner ro name the pri DiChiera's dream with Sherrill Milnes, Joan Sutherland, Luciano with Robert Hale, Hildegard Behrens, Josef vate grand tier became a reality as Pavarotti Protschka, Kurt Rydl boxes, enabling Detroit Opera London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by the Company ro House was Richard Bonynge. Christoph von Dohnanyi London , 1971 - 2 CDs, total time 11 8:38 London, 1994 - 2 CDs, total time 145:07 acquire the declared "open and $32.00 $32.00 remaining parcels ready for music" This legendary recording offers Milnes, Hailed by Gramophone as " ... the most success of the Grand with an inaugural Sutherland and Pavarotti in sp lendid form. An ful recordi ng of the work to date." Behrens' Senta Circus Theater gala concert, fea- added surprise is a young Kiri te Kanawa as La is touching and von Dohnanyi 's con du cting is mu s block (this includ turing history Contessa demonstrating the promise of her now cular. ed three parking making perfor- illustrious caree r. lots, the theater mances by Luciano proper and the Pavarotti and a Detroit Opera House after it was inaugurated by Roberts Fur Michigan Opera Theatre. star-studded cast Building). In the of world-renowned fall of 1991 during a pre-concert press con artists. All eyes were on Detroit, as the city ference in the Grand Circus Theater, Luciano celebrated the opening of it's very own opera Pavarotti made his memorable promise to house - a world-class theater for the enter- return to open Detroit Opera House, bring tainment of generations to come. ing the building project to the attention of The 1996-1997 season at Detroit Opera LE NOZZE DI FIGARO SERENATA the public at large. House has been lovingly dubbed "Building Mozart Jose Carreras In the Spring of 1993, the wrecking ball on a Dream". On January 12, 1997, the with Kiri Te Kanawa, Lucia Popp, with Lorenzo Bavaj on piano came down on the Roberts Fur Building on original structure, that is now Detroit Frederica von Stade, Samuel Ramey, Erato, 1995 - 23 track CD, total time 65:54 the Grand Circus Theater block, making Opera House, reached it's 75'h birthday. It is Thomas Allen, Kurt Molt. $16.00 way for a new 75,000 square foot stage our sincere hope that you, your families and London Philharmonic Orchestra, Recorded live in Vienna, Serenata captures Conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Carreras in fine voice and style. This recital pro house. With the $1.25 million Kresge generations to come enjoy Detroit Opera London, 198. 3 CDs, total time 166:94 gramme spans a century of delightful songs, from Challenge grant, the acquisition of the last House - a reclaimed piece of our culture $48.00 Gounod's Le Soir, composed in 1840 to Nacho's of the six parcels in the Grand Circus and hisrory. Anyone of the fine singers on th is recording Intima composed in 1941. Piano accompaniment wou ld suffice but to have them all is divine. by Lorenzo Bavaj is commanding. Solti's orchestration fulfills the promise of Photo: Mark Mancinelli Copyright 2010, Michigan OperaMozart's muTheatresic. It is all very enchanting. 6 Mi chi gan Opera Theatre An Evening with Jose Carreras 7 Michigan Opera Theatre DETROIT OPERA HOUSE

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 14 Michigan Opera Theatre An Evening with Jose Carreras 15 ALESSANDRO SCARLATII Ma se pensa ... ru allor piano piano, Bur if she is pensive ... then very, (born 1659 - died 1725) Zitro zireo la devi accostar, very sofrl y you should approach her; Se ghermire ti vuolcon la mana if she wants co seize you in her hand GIA. IL SOLE DAL GANGE PrestO in perro ru I'hai da saltar. yo u must swifrly leap into her bosom. Gia il sole dal Gange Already the sun over rhe Ganges Piu chiaro sfavilla is shining more brighrly, Se ti bacia a t'afferra vezzosa, If she kisses you and holds you affectionately, E terge ogni stilla drying every teardrop . Allor tu cosl a dirle ti fa: then you must say this CO her: Dell'alba che piange. wept by the dawn. II padrone per te non ripasa "My master cannot sleep because of you: Poveretto, ei ~ r te marra! poor man, he wi ll die because of you!" Col raggio doratO With gilded rays Ingemma ogni stelo every stem is bejeweled, T'accarezza, ti bacia ... ah! Beaco, If she fondles and caresses you .. . ah! E gli ami del cielo and the stars of the heavens Cardellin, piu di me ti puoi dir; goldfinch, you can call yourself luckier than I! Dipinge sui pratO. are painted in the meadow Or con te se cangiarmi m'e daco, If it were given me now CO exchange with you, Text by Felice ParnaHo Voglio dopa davvero morir! I would truly be willing then co die! Unknown Poet GIOVANNI BATIISTA BONONCINI (born 1672 - died 1750) GEORGES BIZET (born 1838 - died 1875) PER LA GLORIA D'AOORARVI Per la gloria d'adorarvi I want to love you, dear eyes, ABSENCE Voglio amarvi, 0 luci care. for the glory of adoring you. Reviens, reviens rna bien aimee; Come back, come back, my love! Amando penero, In loving, I shall suffer, comme une fleur loin du soleil, Like a flower far from the sun Ma sempre v'amero nel mio penare. but in my suffering I shall always love you. la fleur de rna vie est fermee The flower of my life remains closed loin de con sourire vermeil. When cut off from your rosy smile. Senza speme di dilettO With no hope of delight, Ah! Reviens! Ah, come back! Vano affereo e sospirare. sighing is a vain conceit. Ma i vostri dolci rai But who could yearn for your sweet gaze Entre nos coeurs tant de distance! What a distance between our hearrs! Chi vagheggiar puo mai e non v'amare. and not love you? Tant d'espace entre nos baisers! What space between our kisses! Text by Paolo Antonio Rolli 6 sorr amer! 6 dure absence! o bireer fate! 0 cruel absence' o grands desirs inapaises! o deep, unsatisfied desires! SAVERIO MERCADANTE Au pays qui me prend rna belle. If only I could go, alas' (born 1795 - died 1870) Helas! Helas! To the land that scole my love; Si je pouvais aller; Alas! LUCARDILLO et si mon corps avai tune aile If only my body had wings Sro crescendo un gentil cardellino, I am training a dear litrle goldfinch; comme mon arne, pour voler! Like my soul, in order that I might fly' Quante cose gli voglio insegnar! how many things I wish to teach it! Helas! Helas' Alas! Vo'imparargli un ben noco cammino, I want it to learn a well-known route Le ambasciate per farmi portar. co carry messages for me. Au pays qui me prend rna belle. If only I could go, alas! si je pouvais, si je pouvais aller; To the land that scole my love; Senti qua, caro mia, poco innante Listen, my dear: a litrle way ahead par dessus nos verres collines, Above our green hills, Ce una casa, una bella vi sta; is a house where a fair one lives; les montages au front d' azur, Our azure-faced mountains, Tu 10 vedi che non e distante, you see that it is nor far off; les champs rayes et les ravines, Striped fields and ravines, Quella bella a trovare ne va! go and find that beauty! j'irais, oui, j'irais d'un vol rapide, How swifrl y and surely I'd fly. j'irai d'un vol rapide et sur. The body cannot follow thought! Se la trovi che dorme in quell'ore, If you find she is asleep at the time, Le corps ne suit pas la pensee! For me, my soul, fly straight as an arrow, Una fata potrebbe sembrar, she could seem co be a fairy. Pour moi, mon arne, va tout droit, Like a wounded dove, Deh! non far con Ie penne rumore, Oh, make no noise with your wings, comme une colombe blessee, And sink down on the edge of her roof. o gentil, non valeria destar! my dear, I do not wish CO wake her' t'abarrre au rebord de son coit. And say, my soul, co this beautiful woman: Et dis, mon arne, a cerre belle: You know he is counting the days, Se affacciata al vecone la vedi, If you see her appear on the balcony, Tu sais bien qu'il compte les jours, Oh my dove! Take wing Tu l'avessi per rosa a scambiar' would you mistake her for a cose? 6 rna colombe! A tire d'aile, And rerum co our love nest. o gentil, se all 'errore non credi If you do not bel ieve in that error, recourne au nid de nos amours. Vanne via, non andarla a fiurar! my dear, go away, do nOt try CO smell her! Text by Tlophile Galltier

Se la trovi facendo all'amore, If you find her making love, Uno stile ru devi celar, you must hide a dagger, Glielo immergi dirittO nel core, plunge it right into her heart Ed il sangue me n'hai da mostrar! and show me the blood from Copyrightit! 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 16 Michigan Opera Theatre An Evening with Jose Carreras 1 7 JULES MASSENET L'ESULE (born 1842 - died 1912) Vedi! La bianca luna splende sui colli, Look' The white moon shines on the hills; la notturna brezza smrre leggera ad increspare the evening breeze tuns lightly rippling ELEGIE il vago grembo del quieto lago. the pretty tomb of the calm lake. 6 doux printemps d'autrefois, o gentle springtimes of yore, Perche, sol io nell'ora Why I alone verres saisons, So freshly green, ' piLI tranquilla e piLI soave in an hour more tranquil and sweeter vous avez fui pour toujours! How ye forever are fled! muto e pensoso mi staro' Silent and thoughtful I will remain' Je ne vois plus Ie ciel bleu; I see no more heaven's blue; Qui tutto e gioia; il ciel, la terra Here is all the joy; je n'entends plus I hear no more songs di natura sorridono allfincanto, nature's heaven and earth smile at the les chants joyeux des oiseaux! of the birds full of joy! l'esule solo e condannato al pianto enchantment. En emportant mon bonheur, Bearing with thee all my heart, Ed io pure tra I' aura native The lone refugee is condemned to weeping. 6 bien-aime tu t'en es aile! Thou, my beloved, thou art gone ftom me! palpitava d'ignoto piacer, And still I among the native breezes, Oh, del tempo felice ancor vive trembled with unknown pleasure. Et c'est en vain Now all in vain la memoria nel caldo pensier. Oh, the warm thought of a happy time que revient Ie printemps! doth the springtime rerum! still lives in my memory. Oui, sans retour. Yes, gone forever with thee, Corsi lande, deserti, foreste, I ran through moors, deserts, forests Avec toi Ie gai soleil, Sunlight so gay, vidi luoghi olezzanti di fior, I saw places fragrant with flowers; les jours riants sont parris! Bright days of gladness are fled. m' aggirai fra Ie danze e Ie feste I turned among the dances and festivals, Comme en mon coeur How in my hearr rna compagno ebbi sempre il dolor. Bur I was always the companion of sorrow. tour est sombre er glace! all is gloomy and cold! Or che mi resta' Togliere alia vira Now I should stay thus' To be taken to a life Tour est fleeri! Pour toujours! Withered and dead evermore! quella forza che misero mi fa. that forces me to be miserable. Text by Lolli, Gallet Vieni, vieni 0 morre a chi t'invita Oh, come, come, oh death, to him who invites e Halma ai primi gaudi rornera. you OUVRE TES YEUX BLEUS Open your bright blue eyes, my darling: And the soul of my first joys will return. Ouvre tes yeux bleus, rna mignonne: It is day. Oh, che allor Ie patrie sponde Oh, then the native banks will not be forbidden voici Ie jour. Already the warbler pipes a love song. non saranno a me vietate to me; Deja la fauvette fredonne un chant d'amour. Dawn opens the tose: fra quell'aure su quell'onde Among those breezes, on those waves L'aurore epanouit la rose: Comewirh me nudo spirro volero, my unadorned spirit will fly; viens avec moi And pick the unopened daisy! bacero Ie guance amate I will kiss the loving cheeks cueillir la marguerite eclose; WakeUp! della cara genitrice of my dear mother, reveille-toi! What is the good of observing rhe earrh and its ed il pianto all'infelice and the tears of the unseen unhappy ones A quoi bon contempler la terre beaury? non veduto tergero. I will dry. et sa beaure? Love is a sweerer mystery Ed il pianto, il pianto all 'infelice tergeto. And the tears, the tears of the unhappy I will dry. L'amour est un plus doux mystere Than any summer's day; Text by Temistode So/era qu'un jour d'ete. It is within my breast that the songbird pipes c'est en moi que l'oiseau mondule Irs song of victory, un chant vainqueur, And the noonday sun that burns us RICCARDO ZANDONAI et Ie grand solei I qui nous brule Is here inside my hearr! (born 1883 - died 1944) est dans mon coeur! Text by Palll Robiqllet NOTTI DI NEVE Pace, grida la campana, GIUSEPPE VERDI rna lontana, rna fioca. Peace, cries the bell (born 1813 - died 1901) La, un marmoreo cimitero weakly, in the distance sorge, su cui l'ombra race. There stands a marble cemetery IL POVERETTO Passerby, with the sweet appearance E ne sfuma al cielo nero on which the shadows are stilled. Passegger che al dolce aspetto of a gentle heart, un chiatore ampio e fugace. And ftom it a broad, fleeting dawn par che serbi un gentil cor Give a penny to the poor one Pace, pace, pace, pace, softens the black sky. porgi un soldo al poveretto Who is still begging nella bianca oscuri ca. Peace, peace, peace, peace , che da man digiuno e ancor. Text by Giovanni Pascali in the blank obscurity. Fin da quando era figliuolo I have been a soldier sono stato milirar until I had a son e pugnando pei mio suolo And fighting for my soul ho trascorso e terra e mar; I have eraversed earrh and sea. Ma or che il tempo su me pesa, Bur now that time weighs on me, or che forza piLI non ho, Now that I am no longer sttong, fin la terra che ho difesa, Until now the earrh which I have defended , la mia patria m'oblio. My country has forgotten me. Text by Andrea Maffei Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

18 Michigan Opera Theacre An Evening with Jose Carreras 19 NOTII D'AGOSTO SERENADE FRAN<;:AISE Oh! Dolcissime norti sconsolate! Oh, sweet nights of dejection! Au clair de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot, In the light of the moon, my sweet Pierrot, Un pallor quero e arcano A mysterious, still pale light la blonde et la br4ne sortent sans falot, The blonde and brunette go out without a si diffonde per boschi e per vallate; shines amid the trees and down valleys; a l'amour chacune payant son ecot. lantern, muore un fischio lontano The sound of a whistle dies in the distance Au clair de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot, Each paying her due ro love. si come un'eco di cose passate. like the echo of things gone by. viens-tu sur la dune voir mourir de flot? In the light of the moon, my sweet Pierrot, Oh! Dolcissisme notti luminose! Oh, sweet, radiant nights! La voix de Neptune est comme un sang lot, Have you come to the dune ro see the wave die' SentO un cane larrare I hear a dog bark la voix de Neptune est comme un sangloto Neptune's voice is like a sob. nel placido silenzio delle cose; in the silent peace of nature; Au claire de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot! In the light of the moon, my sweet Pierrot, intorno e un'alitare near by, fragrant branches rustle and stir. Au claire de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot! In the light of the moon, my sweet Pierrot e uno stotmire di fronde odorose. Nights made for dreams and for love, d 'ou vient ta rancune. Whence comes your rancour? Notti create al sogno ed all'amore, I drop my head back Tu ne me dis mot, ne dis mot! You speak not a word, io reclino la testa under the weight of unknown grief; Toi que plus qu'aucune j'aime, pauvre sot! You whom I, poor fool, sorto il peso d'incogniro dolore; you would be great nights of rejoicing Au clair de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot .. ! love more than anyone else. grandi notti di festa for my dying dream. Au clair de la lune mon gentil Pierrot, In the light of the moon, my sweet Pierrot, voi sareste pel mio sogno che muore. plains mon infortune, souffrir est mon lot . Lament my misfortune; my fate is ro suffer .. Text by Cipriano Giachetti Ma peine est commune, j'en mourrai bientot! My pain is shared, I'll die of it soon! Au claire de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot' In the light of the moon, my sweet Pierrot! Text by Emile Collet

RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO (born 185 7 - died 1919) SERENADE NAPOLITAINE Joyeux troubadour, je veux nuit et jour, Life is made for love! DECLARATION chanter mon amour, rna belle! Blithe troubadour that I am, I long Quel charme est donc en vous, Madame, What enchantment is yours, Madame, Je suis pres de toi, Ie coeur plein d'emoi To sing of my love night and day, my fair! si fort, si penetrant, si doux, So powerful, penetrating and sweet prends pitie de moi, ctuelle! I am close ro you, my heart's all a-flutter, que je ne me sente plus d'ame That I feel courage only Encore une fois , mechante! Take pity upon me, cruel woman! sinon pour la tendre vers vous? To offer you my soul? Ecoute rna voix qui chante: Once again, wicked woman! Quels feux vos yeux ont-ils dans l'ombre, How your eyes flash in the dark, La vie est d'aimer! Je veux t'adorer. Hear my voice as I sing. comme ceux d'un astre luisant, Like those of a dazzling star, Et cueillir un dernier baiser! Life is made for love! I long ro adore you que dans mon ciel si long temps sombre Like a star in my heavens Re~ois mes aveux, reponds it mes voeux, And steal one last kiss. une eroile mise a present, That have been dark for so long' c'est roi que je veux, rna belle! Receive my vows, respond ro my wishes, Quelle jeunesse vous decore How your youthfulness becomes you, Vivre aupres de roi, c'est Ie sort d'un Roi. It is you that I want my fair! que mon coeur soudain rajeuni So that my heart, suddenly youthful, Viens, et sois it moi ... Fidele! To live with you is a right royal fate. se reprenne a rever encore Begins to dream once again Pour toi j'oublierais Ie monde, Come and be true ro me! Ie reve qu'il croyait fini' Of the dream that it thought was over? et je me damnerais, rna blonde! For you I'd forget the world Le reve qu'il croyait fini! Of the dream that it thought was over' La vie est d'aimer, je veux t'adorer. And suffer eternal perdition, my fair-haired Text by Armand SilveJtre Et cueillir un dernier baiser! maid! Voici les beaux jOutS, Ie temps des I long ro adore you and steal one last kiss. amours, Fine weather has come, a time for love, LA CHANSON DES YEUX partons pour roujours, rna belle! Let us go for ever, my fair! Ne me regarde point Look nOt upon me, Fuyons rous les deux vers les pays bleus Let us flee ro those az ure lands cache, cache tes yeux, But hide, hide your eyes! ou mon coeur joyeux t'appelle! Where my joyful heart calls out for you! mon sang en est brUle My blood is on fire, Sous Ie ciel charmant du reve May our romance find fulfillment tes regards sont de feu! Your gaze burns right through me! que nOtre roman s'acheve! Beneath this dream's enchanting sky! Viens! Come! La vie est d'aimer! Je veux t'adorer. Life is made for love! I long ro adore you Viens! Come! Mourons dans un dernier baiser! And die on one last kiss. quoique vivant, Although you're alive Text by Emile Collet et dans la fleur premiere, And in the first flower of youth, je veux avec mes mains I want ro close your eyelids te fermer la paupiere. With my hands. Ou malgre tes efforts Or, in spite of your efforts, je prendrai tes cheveux I'll take your hair pour te faire un bandeau And make a blindfold qui te cache les yeux! To hide your eyes. Ne me regarde pas! Look not upon me! Ne me regarde pas' Look not upon me! Text by Andre Chinier Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

20 Michigan Opera Theatre An Evening with Jose Carreras 21 GIACOMO PUCCINI. JOSE CARRERAS Salzburg singing the tenor part in Verdi 's (born 1858 - died 1924) Requiw, and their artistic and personal relation Very few singers could have made their ship lasted over 12 seasons, as Mr. Carreras per SOLE E AMORE debuts in an international opera house at the formed and recorded with the Maestro in I sole allegramente batte ai tuoi verri; The sun joyfully taps at your windows; age of eleven, as was the case of Jose Carreras. Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin and Lucerne. The Jose Amor pian pian batte al tuo euore Love very softly taps at your heart, This was no small undertaking, moreover, Carreras discography includes recordings of E l'uno e l'altro chiama. And they are both calling you. because he sang the role of El Tru;aman, the over 60 complete operas, including Un Ballo in II sole dice: The sun says: narrator boy in de Falla's Master Peter's Puppet Maschera, II Trovatore, Aida, Turandot, Don "0 dormente mostrati che sei bella! " Oh, sleeper, show yourself for you are beautiful Show, whose music is so difficult that it is more Carlos, La Boheme, Lucia di Lammermoor, Andrea Dice l'amore Love says: frequently ~ntrusted to a high mezzo. Jose Chenier, Werther, Carmen, Tosca , as well as "Sorella, col tuo primo pensier Sister, with your first thought Carreras made this important first appearance at Rossini's difficulc Otello and Nemorino in Pensa a chi t'ama! Pensa a chi t'ama! think of the one who loves you! Think of who the Liceo in his native Barcelona with Jose Donizetti's L Elisir d'A.more. Pensa! " loves you! Iturbi conducting. "It was an exiting experi During his career Mr. Carreras has made a U n~nown Poet Think! " ence", he recalls. He made his adult debur in great number of excursions into the "light" the same opera house at age twenty-two, by repertoire, not just popular Spanish and Italian which time he was a highly promising tenor. songs, bur the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, TERRA EMARE The music student, who at his parents' wish West Side Story, and South Pacific as well. Then, I pioppi curvati dal vento, The long rows of poplars, bent by the wind, had also read chemistry for a few semesters, of course, there was The Three Tenors concert in Rimugghiano in lungo filare. are roaring again. then won the International Verdi Singing Rome before the World Cup Final in 1990, an Dal buio, tra il sonno, Ii sento In the darkness , half asleep, I hear them Competition in Parma, Italy. Among the audi event which was seen by one billion people on E sogna la voce del mar. and I dream of the voice of the sea. ence for the final competition concert was the television. The video and record from this con E sogno la voce profonda And I dream of the deep voice world famous tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, who cert reached number two in the pop charts in Dai placidi ritmi possenti; With its peaceful, mighty rhythms; prophesied a glittering career for the young England. The World Cup 1994 concert in Los Mi guardan, specchiate dall'onda, Reflected in the wave, Catalan. Mter the competition Mr. Carreras Angeles, The Three Tenors - Encore!, was also Le stelle nel cielo fulgenti. the stars shining in the sky sang his first Rodolfo (La Boheme) in Parma and an enormous success, accracting record televi Ma il vento pili forte tempesta, Are looking at me. received rapturous ovations from the demand sion audiences all over the world. de'pioppi nellungo filare, But the wind rages more strongly ing Teatro Regio audience. In 1971 he was Mr. Carreras' engagement as Musical dal sonno giocondo mi desta ... In the long toWS of poplars, invited to London to make his international Direcror of the opening and closing ceremonies lontana e voce del mar! I awake from my joyous dream ... debut opposite Madame Monserrat Caballe and at the spectacular 1992 Olympic Games kept Text by Enrico Panzacchi Far from the sound of the sea! Madame Shirley Verrett in a concert perfor him busy in his home tOwn of Barcelona. In the mance of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at Festival same year, Jose Carreras also made his stage Hall and later Mr. Carreras took part in the debut in the part of Loris in Giordano's opera British premiere of Caterina Camara when, on Fedora , which he has since performed at the MENTIA 1'AVVISO only two days notice, he stepped into what was, Opernhaus in Zurich, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Menda l'avviso .. . The warning was false ... for him, a new role of rare difficulty. Covent Garden in London and the Staatsoper in Eppur d'Ausena e questa And yet , this is the nartow Deburs in important roles and cities fol Vienna. In January 1993 he made his universal l'angusta valle ... Valley of Ausena ... lowed: in 1972 he sang his first PinkertOn in ly acclaimed stage debur in Verdi's Stiffelio at e qui fatal dimora and here the fatal abode, Puccini's Madame Butterfly in the United States the Royal Opera House in London, an opera Mi presagiva la segreta voce The place that the secret voice portended, with the New York City Opera and in 1974 he that Mr. Carreras, for many years, insisted upon Che turba da pili notti il mio riposo, A voice that for many nights celebrated deserved triumphs in no less than being staged. This triumphant performance, il mio riposo. disturbed my resc. three opera houses - at London's Royal Opera heard for the first time ever in this version, won Tu cui nomar non oso, You , whom I dare not name, House as Alfredo (La Traviata) at Vienna the 1992/93 Sir Laurence Olivier Award. He Tu! funesta donna, dall'avel risorra You, woeful woman, resurrected from the tomb Staatsoper as the Duke in Verdi 's Rigoletto and has also performed Stiffelio at Teatro alla Scala in Per mio supplizio, un'altra volta ancora At my entreaty, you swore then at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Milan. In December 1995 he sang in a new pro Promertesti vedermi ... You would see me once again ... Cavaradossi in Tosca. San Francisco, duction of Verdi's Jlfrusalw at the Viennese e in rio momento. in an evil moment. Philadelphia, Chicago and HoustOn are just a Staatsoper. Ah! Chi geme? .. M'inganno Ah! Who is moaning' .. . I am mistaken ... few of the many other American cities where Among the national and international e l' onda, e il vento. it is JUSt the sound of a wave, it is the wind. Mr. Carreras soon performed in operatic reper awards and recognitions which have been £. la norte che mi reca It is the night which brings me tOire as well as in recitals and concerts. bestOwed upon Jose Carreras are the following: Le sue iarve, i suoi timori, Its ghosts, its fears, In 1975 he conquered the Teatro alla Scala in an Emmy Award from the American Academy Che gli accenti punitori and makes me hear accusing words Milan as Riccardo in a glorious production of of Arts and Sciences for Television; the Grand Del rimorso udir mi fa . Of remorse. Un Ballo in Maschera, returning over the years as Prix du Disque from the Academy of Paris; the Text by Felice Romani Rodolfo, Don Carlo Alvaro (La Forza del Premio Luigi Illica; a 1991 Grammy Award; Destino), Andrea Chenier and in productions of the Sir Laurence Olivier Award for his interpre Carmen, and I Pagliacci among others and just tation of "Stiffelio" at the Royal Opera House, recently as Loris Ipanoff (Fedora). Covent Garden; "Kammersanger" of the Maestro Herbert von Kara;an engaged Jose Viennese Staatsoper as well as being named a Carreras in 1976 for his Easter Festival in Lifetime Honorary Member; Honorary Member Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 22 Mi chigan Opera Theatre An Evening with Jose Carreras 23 of the London Royal Academy of Music; the Oncology and Honorary Parron of the of the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine for the most pressing goals of the Foundation to broad Gold Medal of the New York Spanish Institute; Leukemia Support Group. Furthermore he is devel

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Your gift will be recognized by a plaque on tbe seat, so you will receive recognition for yout hope thar this will be one of many en joyable visirs to this contribution in perpetuity. Gifts may bonor you, your company or a loved one. Any gift of magnificent theater. $1,000 and above may be paid over five years. After twenty-six years, our dream of a world class tbeater perfectly suited to Anotber way to participate in this effort is to set YOut name "in stone." You can buy a brick the presentation of grand opera and ballet productions finally came true in April for $1 00 tbat we will inscribe according to your wisbes. Tbe named bricks will be installed on 1996. Now with the expansive stage and superb acoustics of the Detroit Opera tbe wall of the First Floor Elevator Tower Lobby for all theatergoers to see. More tban 700 House, we are realizing yet another dream - the presentation of lavisb, first-rate people have bought bricks already, bur we need abour 1,300 more to cover tbe entire wall. dance works by the some of the world's great dance companies. Please join tbe growing number of supporters wbo bave already contributed to tbis exciting Following American Ballet Theatre's triumphant return ro Detroit earlier this year projec t and put your name on a seat or a brick. Become a part of bistory by filling out tbe to initiate our first annual Season 0/ Dance, we are proud to welcome back the form below and returning it to Micbigan Opera Tbeatre. outstanding Cleveland San Jose Ballet in a new work conceived and choreographed I' 7. by the ballet company's artistic director (and native Detroiter) Dennis Nahat. Blue 6. 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Tbis is your 5. $1,000 Orchestra opportunity to protect the future of Dance at tbe Please inscribe thislthese name(s) on the seat plaque(s)lbrick(s): 4b. $2,500 Inner Circle Detroit Opera House. (last 5 I?O/us) 4a. $5,000 Inner Circle Long live the King, and enjoy the performance! (First 5 I?ows) My company will match this contribution. o 3. 10,000 Diamond Circle Return to: Detroit Opera House Campaign 2. $25,000 Trustee Circle Michigan Opera Theatre 104 Lothrop 1. All Box Seats have Detroit, MI 48202 been named or Fax to: (313) 871-7213 David DiChiera,Copyright General 2010, Director Michigan Opera Theatre

2 Michigan Opera Theatre Cleveland San J ose Ballet 3 David D iChi era considered the magni fi block, and the 1994 Opera Ball inside the BUILDING cent structure ideal for its "opera house" unresrored auditotium before a crowd of style interior and the possibilities fo r many who had never before seen the interior, ONA building a new stagehouse. H e bro ug ht in the projec t gained unsroppable momentum. fac il ities experts ro substantiate its struc Construction began in earnest on the stage tural so undness, acoustical excellence and house that same summer. The monumental technical ca pabilities when updated . On task before Michigan Opera Theatre, the December 3 1, 1987, the ball got rolling as renovation of the Detro it Opera House, has the co mpany secured the fi rst parcel in the been considered a key component fo r the Grand Ci rcus Theater block as the compa economic, cultural and civic revi tali zation of - --~AM ny's future performance site. Detroit. In 1990, the capital campaign ro raise funds fo r the project began. With the AN OPERA HOUSE FOR DETROIT suppOrt of several prominent business On April 21, 1996, a date that coincided leaders, Michigan Opera Theatre ran a suc with the Company's twenty-fifth season, cessful campaign Dav id DiChiera's ro name the Pfl dream became a vate g rand tier reality as the Mi chigan Opera Theatre, cited by the 2,100), and the spring season in the 4,000- boxes, enabling Detroi t Opera Detroit media as "one of the city's cultural seat Masoni c Temple Theatre. While the the Co mpany ro H ouse was jewels," is the State of Michigan's premiere move ro the Fi sher and Masonic Temple acquire the declared "open and opera company, serving as a state-wide cul Theatres achieved a temporary solution ro remaini ng parcels ready for music" tural resource committed ro producing the the Company's need for greater technical of the Grand with an in augural very best profess ional productions from the resources, seating capacity and audience Circus Theater gala concert, fea- grand opera, operetta, musical theater and amenities, it became clear that the future of block (this incl ud turing hisrory- ballet reperrory. Founded and directed by Michigan Opera Theatre as a permanent ed three parking making perfor- internationally recognized imptesari o resource for the ci ty and state would be jeop lots, the theater mances by Luciano Dr. Dav id DiChiera, Michigan Opera ard ized if the co mpany could not control its proper and the Pavarotti and a Detroit Opera House. Theatre is now recogni zed as one of the own destiny. Michigan Opera Theatre, under Roberts Fur star-s tudded cast nati on's most successful opera co mpanies. the leadership of David DiChiera and the Building). In the of world-renowned Since its inception in 1971, Michigan Board of Direcrors, set out ro fi nd a building fall of 1991, during a pre-concert press con artists. All eyes were on Detroit, as the city Opera Theatre has called three different the ideally suited for grand opera and ballet pro ference in the Grand Circus Theater, Luciano celebrated the opening of its very own opera aters "home" prior ro the opening of the ductions. Pavarotti made his memorable promise ro house - a world-class theater fo r the enter Detroit Opera House. In 1971 the Company return ro open the Detroit Opera House, tainment of generations ro come. became the catalyst for the revitali zation of MOMENTUM BUILDS bringing the building project ro the atten The 1996-1 997 season at the Detroit Detroit's celebrated Theater District, as it re In the late 1980's the co mpany se tiously tion of the public at large. Opeta House has been lov ingly dubbed opened the Music H all Center for the co nsidered renovating the State Theater In the spri ng of 1993, the wrec king ball "Building on a D ream". On January 12, Performing Arts. Music Hall was home until located next ro the newly tenovated Fox came down on the Roberts Fur Build ing on 1997, the original structure that is now the 1985. In 1985, the company, in an effort ro Theatre, thoug h this arrangement was not the G rand Circus T heater block, making Detroit Opera House, reached its 75'" birth accommodate its growing audience and consi dered idea l because the fac ility was way fo r a new 75,000-sq uare-foor stage day. It is our sincere hope that you, your fa m increased production needs, began perform not for sale, only rent. While in the midst house. W ith the $ 1. 25 million Kresge ilies and generations ro come enj oy the of these disc uss ions, the Grand Circus ing the fall season in the Fisher Theatre (pri Challenge grant, the acq ui sition of the last of Detroit Opera House - a reclaimed piece of T heater became available for purchase. marily a Broadway style house seating the six parcels in the G rand Circus Theater our culture and hisrory.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Photo: Mark Mancinelli 4 Michig an Opera Thea tre Cleveland San J ose Ball et 5 M:HUn O AN Q>lHdt~ A 1I:U: Alt~ Michigan Opera Theatre g)~g>W~~ Dance Patron Circle On behalf af We would like to express our appreciation to the following donors for their generosity in Michigan Opera Theatre and supporting the Dance Initiative at the Detroit Opera House. Dr. David DiChiera, General Director you are invited to participate in the Dance Patron Circle SIGNAL BENEFACTOR $50,000 SUSTAINER $2,500 TO $4,999 PATRON $500 TO $999 AND ABOVE at the Detroit Opero House Mr. & Mrs. Harry Lomason Dr. & Mrs. Ag ustin Arbulu AT&T Become a Member of the Dance Patron Circle and get in on the ground Mr. & Mrs. J acques Nasser Rosanne & Sandy Duncan floor of our inaugural dance program Chrysler Corporation Mrs. Charles Endicott George M. & Pearl A. DONOR $1,500 TO $2,499 BENEFITS Mrs. Susan J Ruwart Zeltzer Mr. & Mrs. Philip SIGNAL BE NEFACTOR ...... $50,000 and above DONOR ...... $1,500 to $2,499 Handleman CORPS DE BALLET $499 AND • Benefits as listed in Spanscrship Propasal • Benefits as listed below, plus PRINCIPAL BENEFACTOR Kevin S. Dennis and J eremy BELOW • Free valet parking $10,000 TO $24,999 MAJOR BENEFACTOR ...... $25,000 to $49,999 J Zeltzer Dr. & Mrs. Hugh Beckman • Benefits as listed in Spansorship Propasal • General Director's Circle Lounge for one couple Mr. & Mrs. Robert Allesee • Priority seeting in Diamond Circle or Inner Circle Mrs. Robert J Bryanron PRINCI PAL BEN EFACTOR .... $10,000 to $24,999 Mr. & Mrs. Sam Frankel GOLDEN PATRON ...... $1,000 to $1,499 GOLDEN PATRON $1,000 TO Dr. LS. Hotchkiss & Family • Benefits as listed below, plus Eino & Lillian Nurme $1,499 • Generol Director's Circle Lounge for one • Benefits as listed below, plus Dr. Ali Moiin & Dr. • One time pass for General Director's Lounge David & Marjorie Aronow couple and six guests Hossein Nabai for one couple • Dinner with the ortists and Dignitories Dr. & Mrs. David R. • Priority seating in Inner Circle BENEFACTOR ...... $5,000 to $9,999 • Invitotion to 0 dress rehearsol and receptian Weinberg • Benefits as listed below, plus • Special preview of the seescn • General Director's Circle Lounge for • Special invitations to dance events one couple ond four guests throughout the year • Invitation to a cost party PATRON ...... • Box Seat subscription avoilability $500 to $999 • Benefits os listed below, plus SUSTAINER ...... $2,500 to $4,999 • An invitotion to the onnual Dance Gala • Benefits as listed below, plus • An outographed, limited edition paster • General Director's Circle Lounge for • Priority handling of subscription upgrodes one couple ond two guests CORPS DE BALLET ...... • Priority seeting in Trustee Circle $499 and Below • listing in MOT's Donce Progrom Book • Pre-public notice of speciol events with priority ticket informotion r------O-cy =,-I- :~-~;~~- ~~~~-~ -M~-~-~~-~f-;h~-D~~~;--p~~~~~--C~~~-~;------l

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Smith Mr. Thomas Cohn $2,000,000 Great Lakes Exteriors Honorable Mitchell I. Kafa rski Mr. Gennaio DiMaso The Kresge Foundatio n Mr. & Mrs. Anthony L. Soave Complete Business Solutions Guardian Indusrries-Glass and ZoEia Drozdowska, M.D. Ms. Mary Jane Doerr United Tec hnologies Automotive Consumers Power Foundation Division with sons Erik M. Kafarski & Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence E GRAND BENEFACTORS Julie Donovan Darlow & Mr. David Handleman Konrad C. Kafarski DuMouchelle $1,000,000 GOLD CIRClE John C. O'Meara Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Hart Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Kas le Mr. & Mrs. Alex Erdeljan Chrys ler Corporation $50,000 To $99,999 Deloirre & Touche Mr. & Mrs. John Kaplan & Family Hilda R. Errenheimer Ford Motor Company Fund Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Aj luni DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David Baker Lewis Mt. & Mrs. Thomas G . Kirby Dr. & Mrs. Herbert Feldstei n General Motors Foundation Allied Signal Foundation, In c. Mr. & Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Walton A. 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Schlafer $10,000 TO $14,999 Ann Kirk Warren Mr. & Mrs. Fred Motgantoth TRW Foundation Mrs. Rosemary Skupny Diane & Morton Scholnick Mr. & Mrs Chester Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Wasserman Mt. Edwin Lee Morrell Mr. & Mrs. R. J amison Mr. Richard A. Sonenklar Mr. Joseph Schwartz Arias Tool, Inc. Mrs. Beryl Winkelman Mt. & Mrs. Joel Morris Williams, Sr. Thyssen Inc. North Ameri ca Mr. & Mrs. S. Kinnie Smith, Jr. Mrs. Donald J. Atwood Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Zegouras Mr. & Mrs. E. Clarence Mularoni Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Standard Federal Bank Bethlehem Steel Corporation Mr. & Mrs. David e. Mull igan BENEFACTORS Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Tyner Mrs. Mark e. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Bernard T. Brodsky SUSTAINERS Mr. & Mrs. E. Michael Murchler Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vincent Mr. & Mrs. e. Thomas Toppin $100,000 TO $249,999 Mrs. Pearl Brodsky $5,000 TO $9,999 Mr. & Mrs. Eino Nurme Dr. & Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Art VanElslander Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Applebaum Mrs. Martin L. 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12 Mi chigan Opera Theatre CLEVELAND SAN JOSE BALLET Michigan Opera Theatre presents DENNIS NAHAT Artistic Director

CHRISTOPHER TABOR CLEVELAND SAN JOSE BALLET Regisseur KAREN GABAY RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ Repetiteur Repetiteur Dennis Nahat, Artistic Director The Company DEIDRE BYRNE / ALEJANDRA COBO / GRETHEL DOMINGO :I KAREN GABAY / LUANA HIDALGO / LINDA JACKSON / JOANNE JAGLOWSKI NANCY LATOSZEWSKI / ANA LOBE / HOLLY MORROW / JULIA ORTEGA MAYDEE PENA / DALIA RAWSON / ANNE-MARIE SAVOIE QUICKSILVER LAUREN SCHULTZ / LAUREL SKOUSEN

- intermission - OLIVER ARANA / KWANG-SUK CHOI / ARIEL CISNEROS / COREY COLFER GONZALO ESPINOZA / TODD FOX / SERVY GALLARDO / MATTHEW GASPER WEIREN HESEN / JOSEPH KONICKI / PETER KOZAK / LE MAl LINH BLUE SUEDE SHOES' OLIVIER MUNOZ / MARK OTLOSKI / RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ RAMON THIELEN / ADRIEN THORNE / MARK TOMASIC

Tuesday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m. Apprentices Wednesday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m. Andrea Blankstein / Jenni Chiarelli / Tamara Del Giorno / Maria Jacobs Thursday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m. Victoria Moses / Marielena Ruiz / Stefani Schrimpf / Christine Schwaner Friday, April 18 at 8:00 p.m. Krista Shokalook / Amy Smith / Dylann Stokes Saturday, April 19 at 2:00 p.m. Lee Clayton / David Strobbe / Juan Pablo Trujillo Saturday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, April 20 at 2:00 p.m. Trainees Catherine Grow / Bryan Cunningham

*Blue Suede Shoes is a production of New Dance Ventures and DWIGHT OLTMAN DAVID GUTHRIE Cleveland San Jose Ballet Music Director & Principal Conductor Resident Designer

For the complete story, credits and making of Blue Suede Shoes, please refer to NICHOLAS UNDERHILL LOWEY & COMPANY JUNE De PHILLIPS the Blue Suede Shoes Souvenir Book on sale in the lobby. Original Blue Suede Shoes Company Pianist Resident Lighting Designers Administrative Director recording available on the RCA label and in the lobby of this theater. School of Cleveland San Jose Ballet Touring support provided by 1 LESLIE DelPRINCE ELLEN COSTANZA RONIMAHLER Administrative Director GLADISA GUADALUPE Artistic Associate eATa.T School of San Jose Artistic Coordinators For program casting, please consult the casting insert. Cleveland Ballet School of Cleveland Ballet The use of cameras, cellular phones or any kind of recording equipment is strictly forbidden. The performance will last approximately two hours and fifteen minutes. OHIO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SAN JOSE SYMPHONY Ballet Orchestra Ballet Orchestra Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Cleveland San Jose

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Choreography Dennis Nahat Music Felix Mendelssohn "Mendelssohn composed his first piano concerto very quickly, almost (Concerto No.1 in G Minor, Op. 25) off the rop of his head, when he was very young," says Dennis Nahat. Costumes & Set David Guthrie "First it goes in one direction, and then another. It is very youthful. The Lighting Marilyn Lowey dancers must mQve as fast as the music suggests." Everything about the Allegro ballet is contemporary - the silver sculpture hovering in the back Andante ground, the shiny white costumes and the intricate movements. It is the Presto essence of Nahat as choreographer and dancer - fast paced, athletic and

First performed by Cleveland San Jose Ballet at the Hanna strong, with untesticted movements. Yet, the Andante for three women Theatre, Cleveland, March 25, 1980. Costumes executed by is graceful and lyrical. The finale movement, however, rockets the entire Cleveland San Jose Ballet Costume Department. ensemble into a whirling finish. Sculpture created by Cleveland San Jose Ballet Scenic Studios. Quicksilver was created in 1980 and had its premiere at the Hanna This ballet was originally made possible by a grant from the Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. It was to have been performed with Clark Lucille and Robert B. Gries Charity Fund. Tippet, then a dancer with Cleveland Ballet. Tippet sustained an injury - INTERMISSION - at the last minute preventing him from going on with the performance. At that time there were no extra male dancers available in the Company, BLUE SUEDE SHOES' so Nahat had to step up into the lead role. On opening night the

Conceived, Directed and Choreographed Dennis Nahat Company was in top form. The ballet had an overwhelming success and quickly became a signature piece for Cleveland Ballet. Costumes & Scenery Bob Mackie In 1981, it was widely acclaimed when performed in New York City and throughout the United States during the Company's Fifth Additional Musical Arrangements William Ross Anniversary Season. Since then, Quicksilver has been staged for the Lighting Marilyn Lowey Ballet Nuevo Mundo de Caracas, which performed it throughout the United States, Europe and South America. Original Recordings Elvis Presley On opening night in Caracas, the lead dancer injured himself. Once again, one half hour before curtain, Nahat, who was in Caracas, was First performed by Cleveland San Jose Ballet at the State Theatre, Playhouse phoned and asked to step in. In the middle of the first movement, Nahat Square Center, Cleveland, May 29, 1996. Costumes executed by Cleveland San Jose Ballet Costume Department. realized that an upside down lift was about to happen momentarily. Scenery constructed by Cleveland San Jose Ballet Scenic Shop. Having never done the lift with these dancers, he simply exclaimed, Matthew Della Polla, Music Production Assistant/Editing Engineer. "Just do it!" And they did! At last, the ballet was finally remounted Millinery by Rodney Gordon. Costume shoes provided by Capezio, without incident in 1987, and Cleveland San Jose Ballet dancer Freed of London LT~ and Maimai Contemporaries. Raymond Rodriguez performed the lead male role brilliantly. Blue Suede Shoes gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Elvis Presley Enterprises and RCA Records. Elvis and Elvis Presley are registered trademarks of Elvis Presley Enterprises. Original master recordings used in this production are the property of RCA Records, a division of BMG Entertainment; and used by special permission. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

16 Michigan Opera Theatre Cleveland San Jose Ballet 17 BLUE SUEDE SHOES WHY THE MUSIC OF ELVIS? SCENES AND M USICAL NUMBERS To my astonishmenr, I've been asked repeat Then in September of 1956, the same year I HIGHSCHOOL edly, "Why the music of Elvis'" I said to had seen Elvis li ve, he appeared on the Ed myself, "Why am I being asked this kind of Sullivan Show. Who didn't see him that night? Guitar Man / Blue Suede Shoes / My sister and I were stuck to the TV screen. We Wear My Ring Around Your Neck question so often?" Now I realize even more how importanr it was for me to tackle this long all tried ro dance li ke him, sing like him, dress I Want You, I Need You / Stuck On You time dream of making a ballet - musical - the like him, talk like him. Our elders were so (All Shook Up) atrical fanrasy a reality. afraid for us, bur we were only youths who had Don't Be Cruel / I:m not the first to say that Elvis Presley is become alive and were having a good time. We (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear the 20,h cenrury's most significanr enrertainer, saw Elvis as one of us, just a decent guy with a movie star, cult figure and more importanrly, message, a message we could all understand: pop si nger. I believe that the popular phrase, freedom. Isn't that what America stood for? We HOT DOG DRIVE-IN "The American Dream" took on a new and didn't think about whethet he was talenred ot truer meaning with the emergence of Elvis. In not, that was beside the poinr. Still, today some Hot Dog / Tutti Fmtti 1955, when we first heard his music, it was as forty years later, I li sten ro his music and find (You're the) Devil in Disgllise / if a sledgehammer had come down on the heads the true genius of his talent. Oh yes, thete were A Big Hunk 0' Love of all Americans. We had a wake up call - so did other fine talenrs on the charts then, but when the rest of the world. it comes ro vocal clatity, range, delivery, and Hard Headed Woman / Steadfast, Loyal and Trtte While gtowing up in Detroit, the first song believability, as in his song Anyway You Want I ever heard of Elvis', in early 1955, was You're Me, it's Elvis, like no one before or since. a Heartbreaker. It was on the cat radio as I was "Why the music of Elvis' You're a direcror of IN THE ARMY being driven to church for alter boy practice on a classical ballet company. You choreograph the a Wednesday night by a young woman. She was classics." Soldier Boy / Frankfort Special so excited we almost had an accidenr during the Wooden Heart / You're So Young and Beautiflll broadcast of his song. Being so young, I didn't Yeah baby, Elvis is classic. ... understand what all the noise was about. - Dennis Nahat Are You Lonesome Tonight? / Love Me Tender However, because I was around so many musi cally orienred people, and studied dance at the Ricatdeau Dance Studio where music of all HIGHWAYS AND LONELY STREETS kinds rang our from every studio, I got swal It's a Long Lonely Highway / lowed up in the pop culture of Elvis and all that Heartbreak Hotel was to come. I used to take a bus on Woodward Avenue to Stranger in My Hometown / Mama Liked the Roses and from the dance school almost daily, past the famous Fox Theatre which I had never enrered. In the Ghetto / Starting Today Once for a week I could see on the marquee a name in big letters, E L V I S PRE S LEY and lines of people forming daily ourside for letraits lelest lestmnt SATURDAY NIGHT tickets. One night after dance classes, I got off SHR~S - SERFOOO - PRSTR Got a Lot 0' Livin' To Do / Rip It Up the bus in front of the Fox Theatre and wanred to go inside like everyone else. Being a kid and ....·hi· .... I.·S; Long Tall Sally / Bossa Nova Baby alone, I said with a franric voice ro the man at Big Boss Man / Trouble the door, "My mom is inside and I gotta get -.~.~ in!" To my surprise he let me in. I stood at the ...... back of the theater on a side aisle and to this day ftJoiu US ~efore JAILHOUSE I do not remember what I heard - but I do remember what I saw. A gyrating body, twist an~or after One Night / Jailhollse Rock ing legs and a voice I'd never heard before com the theatre" ing out of loud speakers, and this large theater of screaming people. I was afraid and at the ROCKIN' GOLDEN GOODIES same time excited, I started screaming too - I 4265IUoodwdrd • 313. 832.3200 Hound Dog / Shake Rattle and Roll didn't know why. I do now. It was that earth quake of a performer on the Fox Theatre stage. Blue Sttede Shoes Copyright 2010, Michigan OperaAn evenr Theatre I can remember clearly to this day.

18 Michigan Opera Theatre Cleveland San Jose Ballet 19 BIOGRAPHIES WILLIAM ROSS is a the CBS Television Neil Diamond special prolific, award-win Hello Again, winning an Emmy for DENNIS NAHAT Cleveland San Jose Ballet, Nahat is the head ning composer, con Outstanding Lighting for a Special or has created over 70 of both professional schools of ballet in d ucror and arranger Miniseries. Her television credits include ballets for this com Cleveland and San Jose. whose work has Star Trek-The Adventure, Lido de Paris, pany. He co-founded spanned feature films, Halloween On lee-TNT, Nancy Kerrigan the School of BOB MACKIE IS television, theme lee SPecial, The Little Mermaid (pilot) Cleveland Ballet in an internationally parks and the record Disney Channel and Yo! MTV Laughs. 1972 and Cleveland renowned costume ing industry. He has Lowey's spectaculars include the Olympic & Ballet in 1976. In and fashion designs composed music for films including Tin World Figure Skating Champions 1987 - 1986, he founded the creating his first set Cup, Black Sheep, The Amazing Panda 1996, and Into The Light for Btoadway. co-vemure known as Cleveland San Jose and costume designers Adventure, The Little Rascals and Ballet with the city of San Jose, California. with this production Thumbelina. He recently finished the score DAVID GUTHRIE, is the designer for the He has fashioned one of the most highly of Blue Suede Shoes. to The Evening Star and My Fellow scenery and costumes acclaimed ballet companies in the councry. With countless credits Americans. His orchestration credits include for Quicksilver. As Nahat has performed and choreographed for film, television, opera and theater, he has Forrest Gump, The Bodyguard, Waiting To resident designer for major works for American Ballet Theatre, earned numerous honors and awards includ Exhale, Judge Dredd, Star Trek Cleveland San Jose Atlama Ballet, Hartford Ballet, The Royal ing three Academy award nominations, nine Generations, Robin Hood-Prince of Thieves Ballet, Guthrie has Swedish Ballet, The London Festival Ballet Emmy nominations and seven Emmy awards. and Father of the Bride. designed over 60 pto and Ballet Nuevo Mundo de Caracas. A for After studying at Pasadena City College The artist received an Emmy award for hi s ductions for the com mer principal dancer with American Ballet and earning a degree in costume design from score for the Steven Spielberg television series pany. In addition to his Theatre and The Joffrey Ballet, he has per Chouinard Art Institute, Mackie worked Tiny Toon Adventures and his music, com holiday production of formed in ballets by Agnes de Mille, Amony with legendary designers Jean Louis and posed with David Foster, for the mini-series The Nutcracker, Guthrie's work includes the Tudor, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Edith Head. He began a long list of television Goldenfiddles, garnered a Gemini Award company's Swan Lake, The Gift, Jose Limon, Leonide Massine, Kurt Joos and credits with The Judy Garland Show in nomination. Celebrations & Ode, Romeo and Juliet and many others. He has performed with interna 1963, designing for The Carol Burnett As an arranger and conductor, Ross has co l Summerscctpe among others. Guthrie has tional ballet stars Cynchia Gregory, Natalia Show throughout its 11 year run as well as laborated with a remarkable list of artisrs received many accolades including the 1989 Makarova, Carla Fracci and Zhandra for The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour. In including Barbra Streisand, Whirney Peggy Ezekiel Award for his costume designs Rodriguez. addition to his show business projects, Houston, Kenny G., Mi chael Jackson, Celine for Cleveland San Jose Baller's A Midsttmmer His Broadway choreographic credits Mackie designs furs, jewelry, eyewear, watch Dion and Babyface. Night's Dream. Guthrie has also designed include Good Time Charlie, Tom Sroppard's es, knitwear, scarves, menswear and fra ballet productions for American Ballet Jumpers and the Tony Award-winning hit grances for men and women. He is one of MARILYN LOWEY Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Limon Dance musical version of Two Gentlemen of America's top designers with a diverse client IS the lighting Company and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Verona. He has performed in the original list that includes Cher, Diana Ross, Carol designer for Blue casts of Sweet Charity and How Now Dow Burnett, Ann Margret, Bernadette Peters, Suede Shoes and Jones. He has performed principal roles in Rosemary Clooney, Madonna, Carol Quicksilver. She has West Side Story, Milk and Honey and Paint Channing and Ru Paul. worked in TV and Your Wagon. In addition ro choreographing His most recent Emmy nomination was for fi lm and live shows for Anne Bancroft's ballet sequences in The the CBS Special Evem Presemation of Gypsy, many famous per Turning Point, Nahat portrayed himself in starring Bette Midler. His most recem forming artists around the same movie. Other credits include chore Btoadway credits include Moon Over Buffalo the world. Among them are Harry Connick, ography for the New York Shakespeare which starred Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco. Jr., on Broadway, Whirney Houston and Festival, San Francisco Opera, New York City In December 1996, Mackie designed the cos Kenny G. for President Clinton, Lena Horne, Opera and Seattle Opera. tumes for the CBS production of Jerry Liza Minelli, Bette Midler, Debbie Reynolds, In June 1995, Nahat received the presti Herman's musical Mrs. Santa Claus starring Johnny Mathis and Lou Rawls. gious American Dance Guild Award for out Angela Lansbury. He cominues to design his standing achievement in the field of dance. In collection of special cocktailCopyright and 2010,evening Michigan OperaIn 1986, Theatre Lowey designed the lighting for addition to his duties as artistic director of dresses which he introduced in Fall 1996.

20 Michigan Opera Theatre Cleveland San Jose Ballet 21 STAFF FOR BLUE SUEDE SHOES Music Credits (YOU'RE THE) DEVIL IN DISGUISE Note: All Songs are protected by Internati onal (Bernie Baum/Bill Giant/Florence Kaye) (c) General Management C01Ilpany Manager ...... Karen Ki ckel Copyright. 1963 {Renewed] Elvis Presley Music New Dance Ventures Public Relations Manager ...... Amanda Hams All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission: (Administered by Williamson Music) DAVID OAKLAND, Producer Costume Supervisor ...... Raymond J. Zander II Draper ...... Estelle Painter ARE YOU LON ESOME TONIGHT? DON'T BE CRUEL (TO A HEART THAT'S General Press Representation Tailor ...... Ann e C. de Velder (Roy TurkILou Handman) (c) 1960 TRUE) Encore Communications First Hand ...... Chri stine Krysa {Renewed)Bourne Co. & Cromwell Music, Inc. (Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley) (c) 1956 JON PETER FINCK, President Stichers ...... Janet Bolick (Administered by Bourne Music, Int. and {Renewed] Elvis Presley Music (Administered Diana Gil-Osorio, Brenda Hughes Delores Carpenter, Dana Hansen, Carol Lynch, Cromwell Music, Inc.) by Williamson Music) Exc/"sive Touring Representation Heidi Massengill, Kathy Paulson, Sharyn Rhys The Booking Group Scenic Painter ...... Ruth Lohse BIG BOSS MAN (Luther Dixon/AI Smith) (c) GOT A LOT 0' LlVIN' TO DO (Ben MICHEL VEGA, President W'igs ...... Beth Thompson, Rebecca Russell 1967 {Renewed] EMI Unart Catalogue Inc. Williams/Aaron Schroeder) (c) 1957 Rachel's Facilities ...... Jim Lenzer (Administered by EMI Publishing) Own Music (Administered by A. Schroeder Legal Representation Administrative Assistant ...... Gina Sutbey International Ltd) Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff A BIG HUNK 0 ' LOVE (Aaron Schroeder/Sid BETZY DELLINGER, Partner Credits Wyche) (c) 1959 {Renewed] Elvis Presley Music GUITAR MAN (Jerry Reed) (c) 1967 Accounting Principal Scenic Constructi on by Cleveland San (Administered by Williamson Music and {Renewed]l6 Stars Music and Vector Music Wright, Wesley & Mills Jose Ballet Scenic Studios, J ohn Bukala, Shop Rachel's Own Music) (Administeted by 16 Stars Music) MARK MILLS, Partner Foreman. Additional Sceni c Materials by Rose LYNNE DAY, Bookkeeper Brand Theatrical Supplies. Principal Costume BLUE SUEDE SHOES (Carl Perkins) (c) 1955 HARD HEADED WOMAN (Claude Construction by Cleveland San Jose Ballet {Renewed] Carl Perkins Music Inc. (BMI) (All DeMetrius) (c) 1958 {Renewed] Gladys Music Video and Creative Support Costume Shop, Raymond Zander II, costume rights adminisrered by Unichappell Music Inc.) (Administered by Williamson Music) The Glazen Creative Group J. supervi sor. Additional Costume Construction ALAN GLAZEN, President by Elizabeth Courtney Costumes, Michael-Jon BOSSA NOVA BABY (Jerry Leiber/Mike HEARTBREAK HOTEL (Mae Boran Creative/Marketing Support Costumes, Martin Izquierdo Studio and Rodney Sroller) (c) 1962 {Renewed] (Administered by Axron/Johnny Dirdenl Elvis Presley) (c) 1956 CKS Partners Gordon Millinery. Jerry Leiber Music & Mike Sroller Music) {Renewed]Tree Publishing Co. (Administered RICH NELSON, TIM KAIN by Sony/ATV Music and Tree Publishing Co.) Special Thanks To: DIRECTOR OF COMPANY The invesro rs and foundation supporters of New OPERATIONS ...... Alan Hills Dance Ventures; the Trustees and administrative staffs of Cleveland San J ose Ballet; Priscill a Scenic & Production Engineer ...... John Bukala Pres ley, J ack Soden, Carol Butler, Debbie Digital MlISic Engineering .... Mathew Della Polla Johnson, Gary Hovey and Todd Morgan of Elvis Production Stage Manager ...... Jennifer 1. Grohol Presley Enterprises for their dedicated support Stage Manager ...... Jenni fe r 1. Fausnight of this project; David Beckwith; Marry Olinick; Assistant Stage Manager .... Kimberly A. Sroltzfus Maxyne Lang and Flora Griggs ar Williamson Regisseur ...... Chrisropher Tabor Music; Fred Kemp; Lee Marshall; Michel Vega Accompanist ...... Ni cholas Underhill and The Booking Group staff; Alan Glazen and Lighting Equipment Glazen Creative staff; and CKS Partners ...... Bash Theatrical Lighting, Inc. Sound Equipment ...... Eighth Day Sound Dancers of Cleveland San J ose Ballet are mem Master Carpenter ...... John Bukala bers of the American Alliance of Dance Artists, Master Electrician ...... R ick ZiteUo Local I. Shop and technical crew are members of Electrician ...... Annie Padient I.A .T.S.E ., Local 27. Traveling wardrobe crew MlWing Light Electrician ...... Paul Sharwell are members of I.A.T.S.E. Local 883. New Prop Master ...... Gil Gerity, Jr. Dance Ventures is a member of the League of Wardrobe Supervisor American Theatres and Prod ucers. Cleveland ...... St ephanie Ri chardi-Sweigard San Jose Ballet is a member of DanceUSA and is Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor ...... D esiree Baird supported by The N arional Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council and Califotnia Arts CLEVELAND SAN JOSE BALLET STAFF Council. Continental - the wings of Cleveland Artistic Director ...... D ennis Nahat San Jose Ball et. Executive Director, Cleveland ...... Richard Bennett Executive Director, San J ose ...... St ephanie Schiro Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

22 Michigan Opera T heacre Cleveland San J ose Bail ee 23 HOT D OG (Jerry Leiber/Mike Sroller) (c) 1958 SOLDIER BOY (D . Jones/T. Williams, Jr.) {Renewed} Lei ber & Sroller Music . (c) 1960 {Renewed} Edward B. Marks Music (Administered by Leiber & Sroller Music) Co. (Administered by E.B. Marks Music Co. ) Does vour voice ever fail vou? ~ . H OUND DOG (Jerry Lei ber/Mike Sroller) (c) START I NG TODAY (Don RobertSon) (c) 1956 {Renewed} Gladys Music and MCA 1961 Gladys Music {Renewed} Ass igned ro Is your voice iInportant to you? Music, a Division of MCA, Inc. (All rights Don RobertSon Music Corp. (Administered by administered by Williamson Music) the Harry Fox Agency) "Your "[ called this I WANT YOU, I NEED YOU, I LOVE YOU STEAD FAST, LOYAL AND T RUE (Jerry m eetin,g because ... " (George Mysels/l ra Kosloff) (c) 1956 {Renewed} Lei ber/Mi ke Sroller) (c) 1958 {Renewed} Honor ... " Gladys Music (Administered by Williamson (Administered by Leiber & Sroller Music) Music) STRANGER IN MY HOME TOWN (Percy "Do, re, mi, fa, I N THE GHETTO (Scott (Mac) Dav is) (c) Mayfield) (c) 1969 {Renewed} J oe Adams so, la, ti, do .. . " "In 1969 (Administered by Screen Gems/EMI (Administered by The Harry Fox Agency) today:,; Music Corp.) news ... " STUCK ON YO U (Aaron Sehroeder/). Leslie J AILHOUSE RO CK (Jerry Leiber/Mike McFarland ) (c) 1960 {Renewed} G ladys Music "Open Sroller) (c) 1957 (Administered by Jerry Leiber (Adminisrered by Williamson Music and yow- buoks Music & Mike Sroller Music) Rachel's Own Music) to page ... "

(IT'S A) LONG LONELY H I GHWAY (LET ME BE YOUR) T EDDY BEAR (Kal (Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman) (c) 1963 {Renewed} Mann/Bernie Lowe) (c) 1957 {Renewed} Gladys Elvis Presley Music (Administered by Music (Administered by Williamson Music) Williamson Mus ic) TROUBLE (Jerry Leiber/Mi ke Sroller) (c) 1958 LONG TALL SALLY {Renewed} (Admi nistered by Jerry Leiber Music (Johnson/Penniman/Blackwell) (c) 1956 ATV & Mike Sroller Music) SO, Music Co. Uniehappell Music Inc. ... if consider a trip to the TUTTI FRUTTI (Ri chard Penniman and University of Michigan Vocal Health Center. LOVE ME TEN DER (E lvis PresleyNera Dorothy LaBosrrie) (c) 1956 {Renewed} Matson) (c) 1956 {Renewed} Elvis Presley SONY/ATV Songs L15 (Administered by We can diagnose and treat your voice problem, as well Music (Administered by Williamson Music) EMI Blackwood Music, Inc.) as help you enhance and protect your vocal potential. MAMA LIKED T H E ROSES (Johnny WEAR MY RING AROUND YOUR NECK Chrisropher) (c) 1969 Screen Gems/EM! Music (Bert Carroll! Russell Moody) (c) 1958 Professional staff include a Laryngologist, Speech Pathologist, (Administered by Screen Gems/EMI Music {Renewed} (Administered by Lolli pop Music) Corp. ) and Voice Training Specialist. WOO D EN HEART (Ben Weisman/Kay ONE N I GHT (Dave Bartholomew/Pearl King) Twomey/ Fred Wise/Berthold Kaempfert) (c) For more inform ation or to sc hedule an appo in tme nt, call the (c) 1957 {Renewed} Unart Music, Inc. All 1960 {Renewed} Gladys Music (Administered Vocal llealt h Ce nter at (313) 432-7666. The Cente r is located at rights for the USA and Canada controlled by by Will iamson Music, 19900 llaggerty Road (b e t~' een 7 & 8 Mile Roads) in Livoni a, Michiga n. Elvis Presley Music (Administered by Chappell & Co. and Erika Publishing) Williamson Music) (YOU'RE SO) YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL RIP I T UP (Robert Blackwell/John Marasealo) (Aaron Schroeder/Abner Silver) (c) 1957 Keeping you in good 'Voice (c) 1956 Sony/ATV Songs LLC (Administered {Renewed}Raehel's Own Music (Administered by EMI Blackwood Music Inc.) by A. Schroeder International Ltd.)

SHAKE RATTLE AND ROLL (Charles Visit the Blue Suede Shoes Web Site at: www.bluesuedeshoes.c01l2 =.. __ =:iii University of Michigan Calhoun) (c) 1954 {Renewed} Uni ehappell -== ~ Health System Music Inc. (BMI) (Administered by Warner Origi1lal Blue Suede Shoes soundtrack recordi1lg ~ Chappell Music) available 011 the RCA label aCopyrightl1d ill the lobb y2010, 0/ this Michigan Opera Theatre theater.

2 4 Michigan Opera T heatre Michigan Opera Theatre ADMINISTRATION & STAFF DR. DAVID DiCHIERA General D irector DETROIT OPERA HOUSE GENERAL NFORMATION J ohn Leberg Interim Managing Director

Brett Bacrerson Mitchell Krieger W i II iam E. Schoettle Detroit Opera Home Facility Manager Director of Artistic Resources Chief Financia! Officer Karen VanderKloor DiChiera David W. Osborne Bradley L. Stroud PHOTOGRAPHY AND NO SMOKING Director of Community Programs Director of Production Director of Dance RECORDING DEVICES Detroit Opera House is a smoke-free faci l Steve Haviaras Mary Parkhill Lau ra R. Wyss Director of Marketing Director 0/ Development Director of P"blic Relations Unaut hori ze d cameras and recording ity. Ash receptacles are provided on the exte devices are not allowed inside the theater at rior of all entry doors for those who wish to A~;U;;Ihd,0/p Allan G rasso anytime. smoke. ARTISTIC Kerry A. Painter Administrative Assistant House Manager to the General Director ADMIN ISTRATION The taking of photographs of the theater Dee Dorsey Lynn Smyth Linda DeMers Head Usber or any performance is strictly ptohibited. As USHERS Board Secretary/Administrative Assistant Produdion Coordinator Mon ica Lee J ackson Harry Skrdla a courtesy to our guests, we ask that all pag Ushers are stationed at the top of each Beverly A. Moore Bllilding Engineer Receptionist Assistant to Director of Prodllction ing devices and alarm watches be switched to aisle. If you have a q uestion or concern, Roman H urko Jesse Caster COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Copeland Woodruff Assistant Building Engineer a silent mode prior to the start of a perfor please inform an usher, and they will con Dolores Tobis Assistant Directors Kimberley Burgess mance. tac t management. If you are interes ted in Offiet and Marketing Manager Nancy Krolikowski Administrative Coordinator Mark Vondrak Transportation Coordinator becoming a volunteer usher, please call the Associate Director of Community Programs Calvin Will iams Pat Lewellen IN CASE OF EMERGENCY Audition Volunteer Maintenance usher hotline at 313/237-3253. DEVELOPMENT Supervisor Doctors and parents are advised to leave Thomas N. Richardson, Sr. Rebekah Cam Admistralive Assistant Bruce Smith Assistant Director of Development Head of Secllrity their seat location (located on ticket) and our LATE SEATING POLICY Katrina L. Paradine Leonard Sullivan J ose Bernal, Jr. Corporate Campaign Manager Administrative Intern Rock Monroe emergency number, 313/237-3257 with the Latecomers will be seated only during an J im Steel Srephani Miller MUSIC DEPARTMENT service or si n er in case of an emergency. appropriate pause in the program, and will Capital Campaign Coordinat.,. Slage Door Security Dr. David DiChiera John Kinsora Please observe the lighted ex it signs locat be asked to view the program on closed-cir Roberta Starkweather MlIJic Director Volunteer Coordinator Head Carpenter ed throughout the theater. In the event of fi re cuit television monitors located in the lob Suzanne Acton Robert Mes inar J ane Wesdey Assistant MlISic Director, Development Associate Head Electrician or similar emergency, please re main calm and bies until an appropri ate program pause Chams Master J ohn Johnson walk - do not run to the nearest exit. Our occurs. FINANCE! Diane Bredesen Head of Properties COMPUTER SERVICES Orchestra Personnel Manager Robert Martin ushers are trai ned to lead yo u out of the Will iam T. Sc hulz STAGE MANAGEMENT Head Flyman Controller building safely. LOST AND FOU ND John Kennelly Steve Kemp Sharon A. Subjeck Production Slage Manager Head SOIl11dlllan A trained Emergency Medical Technician Lost and Found is located in the Adminis Accountant T ECHNICAL STAFF Stagehands (EMT) is on site during all events. Please see trative Coord inator 's office. Please see an Mary E. Pihajlich IATSE Lixal #38 Syster"s A,tanager Vladimir Vukov ic an usher or staff member to contact the EMT. usher if you have misplaced an article, or call Technical Director Ward robe MARKETING! IATSE Lixal #786 PUBLIC RELATIONS Rita Girardi 313/961-3500 if you have already left the Property Master Marci Schramm RESTROOMS theater. Assistant Director of Ma rketing COSTUMES Ladies' restrooms are located off the Broad Sandy Prekratic U lla Hettinger Membership Manager Costume Supervisor CreditJ way lobby, down the stairs and also on the PARKING Dolores Tobis Alice Moss Grollp Sales Laura R. W yss third floor (Madison side). Please press 3R on Parking is available fo r all events at the Wardrobe Mistress Edit.,. Jerome Magid Susan Hamilton the elevator. Opera House Garage located direc tly across MOT Photographer Grand River Printing Ute Krepular Printer Gentlemens' res trooms are located under J ohn R. fro m Detro it Opera House on Broad Mark J. Mancinelli Pauline McMull en DOH/MOT Photographer Genevieve Palzcynski RED G ROUP the Grand Theatre staircase, down the stairs Stitchers way. Pre-paid parki ng is available. Please call J eanette Pawlaczyk Tom Putters Public Relations Volunteer MAKE-UP & H AIR Prodllction Director and also on the third fl oor (Broadway side). 313/961-3500. Karen Sunman Please press 3 on the elevator. T ICKET OFFICE Kathy Waszkelewicz Art Director Kim Forastiere Kimberl y Mogielski Make-Up & Hair Designers Toby Faber Please note: All third fl oor restrooms are Ticket Services Manager for Elsen Ass{)(iales Director wheelchair accessible. Kimberly Gray Advertising Sales Ticket Services Assistant Manager Cover Phoro: Kyra Busby Image cOllrtesy CopyrightCleveland San J ose 2010, Ballet Michigan Opera Theatre J ane Cae Ticket Services Staff 26 Mich igan O pera Thearee Cleveland San Jose Ballet 27 • IS ACCESSIBILITY FOR YOUR INFORMATION Murphy's ••• Accessible seating locations for parrons Detroit Opera House is avai lable for rent in wheelchairs are located in all price ranges by your organization. Please call Brerr Bat J LOTS for your MONEY. on the orchesrra level. When inquiring about terson, Facility Manager, at 313/237-3250 2 , FUN after the SHOW. tickets, please ask about these locations if ro receive rental information. you req uire spec ial accommodations. Tours are available for individuals at pre :1 ALWAYS READY with superb food, Assisted Listening Devices are avai lable determined times throughout the year and spirits, and atmosphere. on a first-come basis. Please see an usher or for groups by appointment. Please call Brerr Ticket Office representative ro request this Batterson, Facility Manager at 313 /237 - Now GO, Cats, GO, to ... service. Although this is a co mplimentary 3250 ro inquire about our rour sched ules and service, we will req ues t ro hold a piece of per prices. sonal identification while you are using the devi ce. TICKET INFORMATION Detroit Opera House Ticket Office hours are: MURPHY'S CHILDREN Non-performance week s: M onday Children are welcome however, all g ues ts through Friday, 10:00 a. m. ro 6:00 p.m. llub & ~rub are required ro hold a ticket, regard less of Performance days: 10:00 a. m. rhrough age. We kindly as k that parental discretion the first intermiss ion of rhe eve ning's perfor In the Eastern Market be exercised for cerrain programs, and that mance, except Sacurdays and Sundays when all guests remember that during a program the Ticket Office will open two hours prior such as opera or ballet, the abi lity of all audi to cllrrai n. ence members ro hear the music is a prereq Ti ckets for all public events held at ui site ro enjoyment of the performance. In all Detroi t Opera H ouse are also available cases, babes in arms are not permi rred. through all TicketMas ter phone and retai l outlets. ANGUS SERVICES BEEFTM Concession stands are located on all lev IMPORTANT NUMBERS els in the lobbies. Please note: Food and EMERGENCIES: ...... 313/237-3257 Drinks are NOT Allowed in the Audirorium We proudly serve Detroit Opera House at any time! only CERTIFIED ANGUS BEEFTM products, Coat Check is loca ted in the Madiso n General Informati on: ...... 313/96 1-3500 the highest quality Beef available. lobby. The cost is $1 .00 per coat. Please note Lost & Found: ...... 313 /961-3500 Onlr minutes from the Detroit Opera House. 1408 East Fisher Service Drive, at that Detroit Opera House does not accept Ti cket Office: ...... , ...... , ...... 313/874 -7464 Gratiot and Russell. Take Madison EAST to Gratiot, turn LEFT about one mile responsibility for any personal arricles that Usher Hotline: .... , ...... 3131237-3253 to Russell. Turn LEFT one block to the Fisher Service Drive. Turn RIGHT and are not checked at the Coat Check. you're at Murphy's. Open for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday. Phone: D rinking fou ntains are located in the Theater Rental (313) 567-7990. Mention this ad and receive a 10% discount on your meal. lobbies on floors 1 and 3. Information: ...... 313/237 -3250 WEDNESDAYS: Martini, Steak & Cigar Night P ublic pay p ho nes are located in the Mi chigan Opera Theatre: .. .. 313/874-7850 vestibule of the Broadway lobby and in the FRIDAYS: Piano Night with Show Tunes & Golden Oldies Detroit Opera House Fax: .. 3131237-3251 res trooms. Parrons in wheelchairs can access And, we Love Elvis! All the t ime! pay phones throug h the Broadway storm Press and Media Relations: .. 313/874-7850 lobby. E-Mail address: ...... [email protected] There's good Beef, and there's great Beef. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera TheatreOURS IS GREAT BEEF! MURPHY'S.