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BUTTERFLY VOLUME 42 ISSUE 1

14 ALL THE WORLD’S (OUR) STAGE Production Essentials By Jessica Murphy Moo 8 Production Sponsors 9 The Cast of Madame Butterfly

10 The Story of Madame Butterfly

11 Artists

16 MY STORY 13 Chorus

By Gabrielle Nomura Gainor 13 Supernumeraries

13 Actors

13 Orchestra 18 ASIAN ARTS LEADERS RESPOND TO MADAME BUTTERFLY Departments

5 From the General Director

6 Board of Directors 23 NEW OPERAS IN NEW PLACES 7 Service Directory 7 From the President

19 Donor Highlight

20 Seattle Opera Staff

21 Staff Chat

22 Education and Community Engagement Sponsors

24 Individual Donors

31 Institutional Donors

31 In-Kind Sponsors

31 Volunteer Fundraising

32 Seattle Opera at the Center

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Editor Contributing Editors 35 Leadership and Producer’s Circles Jessica Murphy Moo Mary Brazeau 36 Annual Fund Graphic Design Jonathan Dean Kelly Colglazier Ed Hawkins 38 Amusements David McDade Marcella Morrow 38 Online at Seattleopera.org Cover Image: © Philip Newton 39 Upcoming Events

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4 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season FROM THE GENERAL

DIRECTOR Welcome to our production of Madame Butterfly, the opening production of our 2017/18 season. As always, we plan our season with a range of different operas in the hope that there will be something there for everyone to enjoy, whether you are a long-time subscriber or coming to the opera for the first time.

One of the ways that Seattle Opera is now moving forward is in creating partnerships with sister opera companies both far and near. The cost of a new production is huge. (A commercial musical can recoup those costs with performance runs lasting months—or in some cases years—but an opera company gives relatively few performances, which means that we have to think very carefully

© RICK DAHMS before investing in a new production.) One solution is to create new productions in partnership with other companies in a co-production arrangement. People often ask me what exactly this entails. Put simply, the partners share the cost of the sets, costumes, and props, and have equal input into the artistic conception of the production, but each company is free to cast as they will. This year we have two such co-productions—and look out for four next season!

Opera Queensland presented our new Barber of Seville with great success last year, and after our run of performances in October, the production will then move to New Zealand Opera to be enjoyed by their audiences. While that production will have some international travel, our co- production of Aida has been created by partners close to home here in the States—San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, and Minnesota Opera. And in February, our new production of Berlioz’s Beatrice & Benedict finds us working with partners even closer to home, as we will feature the artistic leaders of two of Seattle’s most treasured organizations—ACT Theatre and the Seattle Symphony—in a production that kicks off a city-wide celebration of William Shakespeare. The point of all these partnerships is to confirm our commitment to collaboration and to bring you the same art in a manner that is financially sustainable.

I am, of course, very excited about this production of Madame Butterfly, which is new to Seattle. You will, no doubt, have noticed the extensive display work featuring Asian Pacific Islander voices that we have placed throughout the lobby for you to look at prior to taking your seat. Given the popularity of this work, it is easy to forget that its premiere in 1904 was a disaster. In Broadway terms, it opened and closed on the same night! Substantial changes were therefore made to the score over the next two years, the most significant of which were made for its Paris performances in 1906. The effect of all this was to hugely dissipate and sanitize the potency of Puccini’s original material, as its strong critique of the prevailing imperialist attitudes towards Japan was removed, leaving just the human-centered tragedy that we now know so well. We therefore feel it important to give you some of the context for a larger conversation about the work, as well as showing the impact of such imperialist attitudes on members of our own community today. Indeed, one example was in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor. To this end, I am delighted to mention that we will remount our production of An American Dream, which takes a critical look at the impact of the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese American people during World War II. Performances at Washington Hall start on September 7.

Our Madame Butterfly sees a very welcome friend, Carlo Montanaro, return to our podium, but also introduces the work of a creative team new to Seattle Opera: the distinguished Australian director Kate Cherry, and her design team Christina Smith and Matt Scott. I do hope that you will enjoy this marvelous opera; but for those of you who know it well, maybe you will also look at it with new eyes.

Madame Butterfly 5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2017/18 Season

Chairman Treasurer Representatives to the Board John F. Nesholm John Starbard Gayle Charlesworth, Seattle Opera Guild President Secretary Gail Neil, Seattle Opera Chorus Brian Marks Milkana Brace Eoin Hudson, BRAVO! Immediate Past Eric Jacobs, The Seattle Symphony and Opera President Players’ Association Maryanne Tagney Seattle Opera Foundation Vice Presidents Jeffrey Hanna, Brian Marks, President ex officio Susan MacGregor Jonathan Rosoff Charles B. Cossé Steven C. Phelps Coughlin Matthew Segal James D. Cullen Anne M. Redman James D. Cullen Martha Sherman Sandra B. Dunn Michael Tobiason Diana Gale Stephen A. Sprenger Jay Lapin Moya Vazquez A. Richard Gemperle John Sullivan Bruce R. McCaw Moya Vazquez Advisory Board Louise Miller William T. Connie Bloxom Betty Hedreen James David Raisbeck Weyerhaeuser John M. Bloxom, Jr. Victoria Ivarsson Beverly Brazeau Linda Nordstrom Directors Norma B. Croco Judy Schuchart Willie C. Aikens Jeffrey Hanna David R. Davis Eulalie Schneider Thomas H. Allen Kennan ​ Jane Davis Virginia B. Wright Barry Bolding Hollingsworth, M.D. Toby Bright Ron Hosogi Honorary Life Members Barbara Buchman Gary Houlahan Beverly Brazeau Duff Kennedy Susan Buske Michael Hyman Donald L. Johnson Michael M. Scott Gregory Chan, M.D. Bruce E. H. Johnson Lesley Chapin Tom McQuaid Past Presidents Robert Comfort Brendan Murphy Norma B. Croco Sheffield Phelps† Janice C. Condit Rosemary W. Peterson Albert O. Foster† Steven C. Phelps Charles B. Cossé Steven C. Phelps Max E. Gellert† Maryanne Tagney Natalie de Maar • Tom• Puentes Harold H. Heath† Russell F. Tousley Stuart DePina 9 15 17 † Jean Stark H. Dewayne Kreager Richard S. Twiss Susan Detweiler, M.D. Russell F. Tousley Francis A. LeSourd† William T. Carolyn Eagan James Uhlir James M. McDonald Jr.† Weyerhaeuser Adam J. Fountain † Susanne Wakefield, Stanley N. Minor Howard S. Wright Robert Fries Ph. D John F. Nesholm Leslie Giblett Joan S. Watjen Paul Goodrich Scott Wyatt VASHON CENTER FOR THE ARTS 19600 VASHON HWY SW † Deceased

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Madame Butterfly 7 PRODUCTION SPONSORS TAGNEY JONES FAMILY FUND AT SEATTLE FOUNDATION BARBARA STEPHANUS

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Thank you to the caring Seattle Opera donor family—your enduring Annual Fund support fuels this mainstage production and so much more throughout New Zealand Opera, Butterfly Madame the season.

8 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season MADAME BUTTERFLY Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Premiere: First version, Milan, 1904; revised version, Paris, 1906 CONDUCTOR LIGHTING DESIGNER Seattle Opera Premiere: 1966 Carlo Montanaro Matt Scott†

STAGE DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER Performed at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall: Kate Cherry† Roxanne Foster August 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 2017 PRODUCTION DESIGNER ENGLISH CAPTIONS In Italian with English Captions. Christina Smith† Jonathan Dean

Peformances 7:30 p.m. Matinees 2:00 p.m.

Act I: 52 minutes Intermission: 30 minutes CAST Acts II and III: 90 minutes (in order of vocal appearance)

LIEUTENANT PINKERTON REGISTRAR Alexey Dolgov† (August 5, 9, 13, 18) Kwangsuk Ku Dominick Chenes† (August 6, 12, 16, 19) THE BONZE GORO Daniel Sumegi Rodell Rosel PRINCE YAMADORI SUZUKI Ryan Bede Renée Rapier “SORROW,” CIO-CIO-SAN’S CHILD SHARPLESS Scarlett del Rosario† (August 5, 9, 13, 18) Weston Hurt Hazel del Rosario† (August 6, 12, 16, 19)

CIO-CIO-SAN KATE PINKERTON Lianna Haroutounian† (August 5, 9, 13, 18) Sarah Mattox Yasko Sato† (August 6, 12, 16, 19)

IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER Jonathan Silvia

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR CHORUSMASTER Philip A. Kelsey John Keene

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MUSICAL PREPARATION Dan Wallace Miller Philip A. Kelsey, David McDade, † Seattle Opera debut Jay Rozendaal FIGHT DIRECTOR Scenery and costumes created by New Zealand Geoffrey Alm STAGE MANAGER Opera. Yasmine Kiss English captions by Jonathan Dean © 2017. Makeup provided by M·A·C.

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Madame Butterfly 9 THE STORY ACT I Nagasaki, at the turn of the twentieth century. Goro, a Japanese matchmaker, shows B. F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant, a house he is leasing, complete with bride, with the option to cancel on a month’s notice. The marriage is arranged. Sharpless, the US Consul in Nagasaki, is Pinkerton’s only wedding guest. Pinkerton tells Sharpless he isn’t sure whether his feelings for his bride are love or infatuation. Sharpless warns him not to take advantage of the innocent, trusting Cio‑Cio‑San, but Pinkerton ignores him and toasts the day when he will wed a real American wife. Cio‑Cio‑San arrives with her relatives; she tells Pinkerton she has renounced her religion for his. The marriage is finalized, and relatives and friends are celebrating when Cio-Cio-San’s uncle, the Bonze, bursts in. Furious at Cio‑Cio‑San for embracing Pinkerton’s religion, the Bonze ostracizes her from the family, and everyone abandons her. Left alone with her new husband, Cio‑Cio‑San is comforted by the possibility of happiness in her new life, and she and Pinkerton express their love. INTERMISSION

ACT II Three years have passed since Pinkerton’s departure from Nagasaki. Suzuki warns Cio‑Cio‑San they have almost no money and are near destitution, but Cio‑Cio‑San is confident that Pinkerton will return for her. Sharpless enters, bearing a letter from Pinkerton. He doesn’t get a chance to read it, at first because of Cio‑Cio‑San’s constant interruptions and then because Goro arrives with Prince Yamadori, who also wants to wed Cio‑Cio‑San. According to Goro, under Japanese law Pinkerton’s absence is grounds for divorce. Cio‑Cio‑San replies that since she is American, Japanese law doesn’t apply to her.

After Goro and Yamadori depart, Sharpless bluntly asks Cio‑Cio‑San what she will do if Pinkerton doesn’t return. She replies that she would either return to the life of a geisha, or more likely, take her own life. When he urges her to accept Yamadori’s proposal, Cio‑Cio‑San is deeply hurt. She shows Sharpless her son, and asks Sharpless to inform Pinkerton that he is a father—surely this news will make Pinkerton hurry back to her. Sharpless promises her that Pinkerton will know.

Suzuki and Cio‑Cio‑San hear a cannon shot from the harbor. Pinkerton’s ship, the USS Abraham Lincoln, arrives, and Suzuki and Cio‑Cio‑San decorate the house with flowers in preparation for his return. Night falls, and they settle in to wait for Pinkerton.

ACT III At dawn, the drowsy Cio‑Cio‑San sings a lullaby to her boy and goes in to sleep. Pinkerton and Sharpless arrive. Suzuki notices a woman in the garden, and Sharpless tells her that she is Kate, Pinkerton’s American wife, who wants to raise Cio‑Cio‑San’s child as her own. Pinkerton, overcome by remorse, is unable to confront Cio‑Cio‑San.

Cio-Cio-San enters and sees Kate in the garden. Cio‑Cio‑San figures out who Kate is, and Kate asks Cio‑Cio‑San to relinquish her son. Cio‑Cio‑San says she will, if Pinkerton comes to ask for him. Cio‑Cio‑San readies herself for Pinkerton’s arrival, with tragic consequences.

10 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season ROXANNE FOSTER ARTISTS Choreographer (Bainbridge Island, WA) Seattle Opera Debut: The Pearl Fishers (’09) GEOFFREY ALM Previously at Seattle Opera: Count Ory Fight Director (Seattle, WA) (’16); The Marriage of Figaro (’16); The Pearl Fishers (’15) Seattle Opera Debut: War and Peace (’90) Turandot (Opera Philadelphia and Previously at Seattle Opera: The Combat (’17); Recently: La traviata (’17); The Ring (’00-’13) Pittsburgh Opera) Turandot (Vancouver Opera) Recently: Man of La Mancha (5th Avenue Upcoming: Theatre); Dangerous Liaisons (ACT Theatre); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Seattle LIANNA HAROUTOUNIAN Children’s Theatre); Here Lies Love (Seattle Cio-Cio-San Repertory Theatre Soprano (Metsamor, Armenia) Seattle Opera Debut Recently: Cio-Cio-San, Madame Butterfly RYAN BEDE (Staatsoper Hamburg); Leonora, Il trovatore Prince Yamadori (Royal Opera Covent Garden); Elisabetta, Baritone (Tacoma, WA) Don Carlo (Deutsch Oper Berlin) Seattle Opera Debut: Second Priest, Upcoming: Amelia, Simone Boccanegra The Magic Flute (’17) (Concertgebouw Amsterdam); Aida, Aida Recently: Moralès/Le Dancaïre, Carmen (Pacific (Teatro Real de Madrid); Tosca, Tosca (Palau de Northwest Opera); Papageno, The Magic Flute les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia) (Opera Idaho); Bass soloist, Mozart Requiem (Sofia, Bulgaria) WESTON HURT Jim Crowley, An American Dream, Upcoming: Sharpless and Fiorello, The Barber of Seville (Seattle Baritone (Houston, TX) Opera); Bass soloist, Handel Messiah (Bremerton Seattle Opera Debut: Germont, La traviata (’09) Symphony) Previously at Seattle Opera: Giorgio Germont, La traviata (’17); Talbot, Mary Stuart (’16); DOMINICK CHENES Nabucco, Nabucco (’15) Lieutenant Pinkerton Recently: Scarpia, Tosca (Houston Grand Opera); Tenor (Las Vegas, NV) Valentin, Faust (New Orleans Opera); Scarpia, Seattle Opera Debut Tosca (Tulsa Opera) Recently: Rodolfo, La bohème (Welsh National Upcoming: Scarpia, Tosca (Nashville Opera); John Peeribyngle, Il grillo Opera); Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly (Austin del focolare (Teatro Grattacielo); Creon, Medea (Opera Omaha) Opera); Don José, Carmen (Utah Opera) Upcoming: Rodolfo, La bohème (Opera KWANGSUK KU Colorado); Turiddu, Cavalleria rusticana (New Registrar Orleans Opera) Baritone (Seoul, South Korea) Seattle Opera Debut: Messenger, La traviata (’17) KATE CHERRY Seattle Opera Chorus Member since 2016 Stage Director (Sydney, Australia) Recently: Chorus, The Flying Dutchman, Katya Seattle Opera Debut Kabanova, and The Magic Flute (Seattle Opera) Director/CEO, National Institute of Dramatic Art Upcoming: Officer, The Barber of Seville Recently: La traviata and Madame Butterfly (Seattle Opera) (New Zealand Opera); La traviata (Opera Queensland) SARAH MATTOX Kate Pinkerton Mezzo-Soprano (Seattle, WA) ALEXEY DOLGOV Seattle Opera Debut: Fyodor, Boris Lieutenant Pinkerton Godunov (’00) Previously at Seattle Opera: Second Lay Sister, Tenor (Moscow, Russia) Suor Angelica (’13); Second Maid Servant, Seattle Opera Debut Elektra (’08); Alisa, Lucia di Lammermoor (’00) Recently: Lensky, Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Recently: Carmen, Carmen (Pacific Northwest Opera); Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly Opera, Opera Bend, and Walla Walla Symphony) (Bayerische Staatsoper); Edgardo, Lucia di Upcoming: Mezzo-Soprano soloist, Verdi Requiem (UW Symphony); Lammermoor (Israeli Opera) Mezzo-Soprano soloist, Mahler 2nd Symphony (Poulsbo Orchestra); Upcoming: Rodolfo, La bohème (Israeli Opera) TangleTown Trio, Art Song Series (Songs@Tsunami)

Madame Butterfly 11 ARTISTS CONT.

CARLO MONTANARO MATT SCOTT Conductor (Cecina, Italy) Lighting Designer (Melbourne, Australia) Seattle Opera Debut: Don Quichotte (’11) Seattle Opera Debut Previously at Seattle Opera: Mary Stuart (’16); Recently: The Rover (Belvoir); Once in Royal Nabucco (’15); The Consul (’14) David’s City (Queensland Theatre/Black Swan Recently: La bohème (Sydney Opera House); State Theatre Company); The Marriage of Rigoletto (Oper Frankfurt); La bohème (San Figaro (Opera Australia) Francisco Opera) Upcoming: Brigadoon (The Production Upcoming: La traviata (Dallas Opera and Opera Company); The Pearl Fishers (State Opera of Australia Melbourne); La bohème (Korea South Australia); Madame Butterfly (Opera National Opera) Australia)

JONATHAN SILVIA RENÉE RAPIER Imperial Commissioner Suzuki Bass-Baritone (Kirkland, WA) Mezzo-Soprano (Marion, Iowa) Seattle Opera Debut: First Villager, Seattle Opera Debut: Anna, Mary Stuart (’16) Pagliacci (’08) Recently: Suzuki, Madame Butterfly (Opera Previously at Seattle Opera: Second Armored Theatre St. Louis); Secretary, Nixon in China Man, The Magic Flute (’17); Marquis D’Obigny, (LA Philharmonic); Rosina, The Barber of Seville La traviata (’17); High Priest of Baal, Nabucco (’15) (Opera San Jose) Recently: Leporello, Don Giovanni and Zuniga, Upcoming: Flora Bervoix, La traviata (San Carmen (Pacific Northwest Opera); Oroveso, Francisco Opera) Norma (Skagit Opera)

CHRISTINA SMITH RODELL ROSEL Production Designer (Melbourne, Australia) Goro Seattle Opera Debut Tenor (Manila, Philippines) Recently: Set Designer, The Flying Dutchman Seattle Opera Debut: Monostatos, The Magic (Victorian Opera); Set and Costume Designer, Flute (’17) Madame Butterfly (New Zealand Opera); Set and Recently: First Jew, Salome, and Spalanzani, The Costume Designer, La traviata (State Opera Tales of Hoffmann (Los Angeles Opera); Mime, South Australia, New Zealand Opera, Opera Das Rheingold (Lyric Opera of Chicago) Queensland) Upcoming: Tanzmeister, Ariadne auf Naxos Upcoming: Set Designer, Hayfever (Melbourne (Kentucky Opera); Njegus, The Merry Widow Theatre Company); Set Designer, Brigadoon (The (Florentine Opera); Pang, Turandot (Lyric Opera Production Company); Set and Costume of Chicago) Designer, Gloria (Melbourne Theatre Company)

DANIEL SUMEGI YASKO SATO The Bonze Cio-Cio-San Bass (Sydney, Australia ) Soprano (Abiko, Japan) Seattle Opera Debut: Daland, The Flying Seattle Opera Debut Dutchman (’07) Recently: Cio-Cio-San, Madame Butterfly, and Previously at Seattle Opera: Daland, The Flying Aida, Aida (Luglio Musicale Trapanese); Tosca, Dutchman (’16); Fafner and Hagen, Der Ring des Tosca (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Japan) Nibelungen (’09 and ’13) Upcoming: Tosca, Tosca (Fujisawa Civic Center, Recently: Fasolt/Hagen, Der Ring des Japan); Nedda, Pagliacci (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan); Nibelungen (Opera Australia); Johnny Iselin, The Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Tokyo Nissay Hall, Manchurian Candidate (Austin Opera); Walter, Yokosuka Art Hall) Luisa Miller (San Francisco Opera) Upcoming: Don Basilio, The Barber of Seville; Don Pedro, Beatrice and Benedict; Ramfis, Aida (Seattle Opera)

12 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season CHORUS ORCHESTRA

Soprano Violin I Oboe Jennifer Cross Jennifer Bai Mary Lynch, Principal Karen Early Evans Eugene Bazhanov Chengwen Winnie Lai Melanie Hingson Emily Cole Dana Johnson Kelly Farris English Horn Linda Mattos Michael Lim Stefan Farkas Mary McLaughlin Mae Lin, Concertmaster Eleanor Stallcop-Horrox Victoria Parker Clarinet Shelly Traverse Jennifer Caine Provine Emil Khudyev, Principal Lyndee White Mikhail Shmidt, Assistant Concertmaster Sean Osborn Clark Story Mezzo Jeannie Wells Yablonsky Bass Clarinet Lorraine Burdick Arthur Zadinsky Jennifer Nelson Erica Convery Laura Eichelberger Violin II Bassoon YeonSoo Lee Michael Miropolsky, Principal Seth Krimsky, Principal Cheryse McLeod Lewis Kathleen Boyer, Asst. Principal Paul Rafanelli Rachelle Moss Evan Anderson Melissa Plagemann Natalia Bazhanov Horn Allison Brooke Robertson Brittany Boulding Breeden Jeff Fair, Principal Susan Salas Stephen Bryant Jonathan Karschney Linda Cole John Turman Tenor Xiao-po Fei Danielle Kuhlmann Nathan Barnes Artur Girksy Benjamin Cleveland Adrianna Hulscher Trumpet Joel Cummings Alexander White, Principal Andrew Etherington Viola Vincent Green Jon Farmer Mara Gearman, Principal Gabriel Palmer Anthony James Timothy Hale, Asst. Principal Karl Reyes Penelope Crane Trombone Derek Sellers Wesley Dyring Ko-ichiro Yamamoto, Principal Steve Wall Allison Farkas David Ritt Joseph Gottesman Keith Winkle Sayaka Kokubo Stephen Fissel Laura Renz ACTORS Timpani Julee Felts Cello Matt Drumm, Principal Rosetta Greek Meeka Quan DiLorenzo, Principal Nathan Chan, Asst. Principal Percussion Eric Han Michael Clark, Principal Roberta Downey Rob Tucker SUPERNUMERARIES Vivian Gu Matt Kocmieroski Diane Abbey Joy Payton-Stevens Hazel del Rosario Harp Scarlett del Rosario Bass Valerie Muzzolini Gordon, Jimmy Harrop Jordan Anderson, Principal Principal David Lee Jonathan Burnstein Shana Moffatt Jennifer Godfrey Personnel Manager T.J. Mustard Travis Gore, Asst. Principal Scott Wilson Kevin Swantek Annie Walters Flute Assistant Personnel Manager Sarah Yedinksy Jeffrey Barker, Principal Keith Higgins Robin Peery Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Rotating members of the string sections are Piccolo listed alphabetically. Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby The Orchestra is composed of members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Madame Butterfly 13 ALL THE WORLD’S (OUR) STAGE By Jessica Murphy Moo

Madame Butterfly has its roots firmly planted in the Italian opera tradition of the early twentieth century, but our cast attests to opera’s global reach in the twenty-first century.

Our Cio-Cio-Sans hail from Armenia and Japan, and our Pinkertons are Russian and American. Below is a brief introduction of the four singers in these roles and some of the experiences they will bring to the stage. CIO-CIO-SAN

LIANNA HAROUTOUNIAN FOURTH BUTTERFLY: YASKO SATO US DEBUT: This performance marks Yasko Before singing in Seattle, Lianna Haroutounian has performed Sato’s first performance in the US. She first started performing this role in France, in Amsterdam, and at San Francisco Opera. Cio-Cio-San in 2007, and it is the role she has performed the most, FAVORITE MOMENT: When the guns on the ship go off, at least 100 times. It has become her favorite role. CONNECTING announcing Pinkerton’s return. “This moment is so emotionally TO THE CHARACTER: “I resonate with Cio-Cio-San because of her strong. This character has such blind hope and belief that for pride and the fact that she is the daughter of a Samurai warrior a moment the audience might almost fall for it because of the in Japan. I like how she carries that dignity and pride, which amazing chord progression that Puccini has written. You may speaks not just to a Japanese audience. It goes beyond cultural think the end may not be so bad.” EXTREME VOCAL CONTROL: boundaries and speaks to us all as humans.” ON THE RECEPTION Cio-Cio-San is a long sing that involves stamina and technique OF BUTTERFLY IN JAPAN: In general it is well liked. “I do hear that produces many colors. “All this must be done in such a that Butterfly is not a typical Japanese female character… Also, natural form, with such ease, so that the audience doesn’t feel when Japanese people see the set, often times it doesn’t look the strain, so the drama continues.” HOME BASE: She has lived Japanese.” HOME BASE: Italy. She moved there to continue in Paris for 20 years with her family. She has an 18-year-old studying with her voice teacher. THE CALL OF ITALY: Sato started son. ALL IN THE FAMILY: In her childhood home in Armenia she piano at age eight and by age 12 her teacher broke the news that grew up in a musical family. Her father sang Armenian art songs being a concert pianist might be a tough road. At the same time and songs about folklore, but he also had a love of opera. She her choir instructor recommended that she study the Italian played piano and eventually started to sing and attended the classics, and she started to fall in love with them. “They say Conservatory of Music in Armenia. HER ARTISTIC HOME: After that French is the language to communicate love; Italian is the performing Don Carlo at Royal Opera Covent Garden, her career language to communicate poetry.” FAVORITE PLACE TO SING: began to take off.WHAT SHE ALWAYS TRAVELS WITH: “My The southern tip of Italy. NON-OPERATIC INTERESTS: Pop music, pillow. Then it always feels like home.” such as Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga.

14 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season PINKERTON

ALEXEY DOLGOV FIRST PINKERTON: Washington DOMINICK CHENES PINKERTON PAST: Dominick National Opera, 2011. “I have been booed every time I’ve sung Chenes performed the role previously at Austin Opera. DID HE Pinkerton in America. The first time I was shocked. My colleagues GET BOOED? Yes. (Booing Pinkerton is mostly a US tradition, but told me, ‘Don’t worry. Those boos are for Pinkerton, not for you!’” Chenes did hear a Pinkerton get booed in Wales.) LOVE DUET EARLY INSPIRATION: He saw the first concert of The Three “WITH AN EDGE”: At the end of Act I, there is a long love duet—17 Tenors (Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, and Luciano Pavarotti) minutes long!—between Cio-Cio-San and Pinkerton. “The and decided that was what he wanted to do. FAVORITE PLACE TO soprano is singing all the beautiful lines with me. But I need to be SING: Houston Grand Opera. “It was my first serious theater and impetuous. Pinkerton is on a 90-degree edge.” WHEN HE’S NOT the house has incredible acoustics.” HOW HE SEES PINKERTON: ONSTAGE DURING ACT II: “I eat my dinner and run up scales, then “He is a young man who doesn’t think about the consequences I go backstage to watch the action and get back in the moment.” of his actions…. The audience needs to see an evolution in his FIRST INSTRUMENT: Saxophone. CAREER PLAN A: Chenes character, from selfishness to repentance.”DOES PINKERTON originally thought he’d be a pediatrician. FAMILY REACTION TO SEEM AMERICAN? “It’s a difficult question. I think every nation THE CAREER CHANGE: “Some were great. Some were confused.” has people like him who don’t think about their behavior. We AGE HE STARTED SINGING: 18. THE SONG THAT GOT HIM Russians have the same people.” OTHER MUSICAL INTERESTS: NOTICED AT A HIGH SCHOOL TALENT SHOW: Brian McKnight’s The Beatles, Queen, Russian rock. OTHER INTERESTS: Mobile “Back at One." He then started to learn Italian art songs, and his gadgets, reading, and pneumatic (air-pressure) guns from vocal coach asked him to sing for a friend of his. That friend ended England, American, Germany, and Russia. HOME BASE: Moscow. up giving Chenes a full scholarship to UNLV’s school of music. WHEN HE ISN’T SINGING: He’s home spending time with his WHERE HE CALLS HOME: Philadelphia, after going through the kids and his wife. PERFORMANCE DAY REGIMEN: He sleeps program at the Academy of Vocal Arts. FAMILY: He has two young a minimum of eight hours, then does morning exercises with boys (ages 3 ½ and 9 months). SELF DESCRIBED: “Shoe person.” respiratory gymnastics. NEXT UP: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta in RECENT TRAVELS: Welsh National Opera, Geneva, Sweden. Scotland.

Madame Butterfly 15 MYBy Gabrielle Nomura STORY Gainor

Most opera companies performMadame Butterfly because of Puccini’s beautiful melodies. But not everyone can see themselves in this story. For Asian Americans like myself, Butterfly can be uncomfortable, a reminder of how often our stories are taken from us, then twisted, creating caricatures out of our ancestry.

An opera about a submissive Japanese Desdemona Chiang, a stage director people of Asian ancestry are an essential maiden may seem harmless when world- who has worked at Oregon Shakespeare part of the fabric of American life, class music is involved, but the stereotype Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and especially here in the Pacific Northwest. persists beyond the stage. While some ACT, says she doesn’t see herself reflected viewers can enjoy an evening of music and in classical art such as opera, ballet, or For years, my community has been theater, then go home, Asian Americans symphonic music. “I think when we say speaking out regarding issues of don’t have the option of leaving Butterfly ‘classical,’ we really mean ‘European,’” she yellowface, cultural appropriation, and behind. So long as our ancestry remains says. “I might see representations of how minority representation. What’s changed etched on our faces, we will be burdened by white America perceives people who look is who’s listening. Since a production of the exotic lotus blossom, the martial arts like me, but those representations don't The Mikado made national news in 2014, master, and the sidekick. We carry the full usually speak to me, nor do they reflect this broader conversation has permeated weight of these stereotypes wherever how I see myself… I do, however, see the Puget Sound theater community, we go. myself represented in works of art that including here at Seattle Opera. Now, as deconstruct classical art forms, but I think the company mounts Butterfly, changes To be Asian in America means to grow that's usually more about rebellion than are also taking place in the opera world. up amidst mocking depictions of people anything else.” As seen through the Metropolitan Opera’s like you. In the US, our timeless and decision to drop blackface in a 2015 treasured films include characters While Asian representation remains a Otello production, the art form is just resembling buck-toothed propaganda struggle, ironically, our numbers are beginning to reevaluate practices like (Mr. Yunioshi, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) increasing. Asian Americans have become colorblind casting and how it represents and dopey, forever-foreigners (Lung Duk the fastest-growing racial group in both non-European characters. For example, Dong, Sixteen Candles). Is it any wonder the United States and here in Washington, Seattle Opera’s Madame Butterfly will not we Asian Americans get questions like followed by people who identify as two attempt to change a given singer’s race “Where are you really from?” or “How do or more races. So when it comes to works through wigs or makeup. you speak English so well?” Here in the featuring non-European characters, US, it’s normal to see a white Hollywood performing arts troupes simply can’t Of course, art must ultimately do more actress like Emma Stone cast as a mixed- afford to stick with the status quo. than simply mitigate harm. In order to race, Chinese/Hawaiian woman. Or a movie make real strides in racial equity, people remake of a Marvel comic that changes Both the audience and our world have of color need to be involved at every level the race of a Tibetan character in order to changed considerably since Madame of the creative process, from selecting hire Tilda Swinton. At least now we have Butterfly’s 1904 premiere (we now have repertoire, to casting, to directing. Simply Mulan and Moana—neither of whom were Broadway shows about the founding recreating Meiji-era Japan for Butterfly is around when I was small and searching for a fathers told through hip-hop, for example). not what will lead to the empowerment princess who looked like me. When you Westerners don’t need to daydream about of marginalized people. Empowerment can’t see your story, it can feel like you far-away exotic lands of “The Orient”; comes from having a diverse group of don’t matter.

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Above: Gabrielle Nomura Gainor (far right) with members of her family at the 2015 opening of An American Dream. Next to Gabrielle from right: John Nomura (grandfather) who was born behind barbed wire while Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II; Elise Nomura (aunt); Stephanie Nomura-Henley (mother). visionaries and decision-makers at the hit me hard. From that point on, I knew I’d I know the potential is there. I am thankful table—artists like Matthew Ozawa, for never be a performer in opera. I wasn’t part for Lawrence Brownlee, a self-proclaimed example, who recently directed Butterfly of the culture of all these shows. And yet short black man, who not only redefines at Arizona Opera. I chose to make this art form my love and what a prince looks like, but is unafraid my career. So now that I am able to speak to be visible as an opera star who speaks Butterfly had always made Ozawa up I want to see change in the industry.” out on NPR against racism, racial profiling, uncomfortable in the past, so he needed and the “senseless deaths” of young to find a way to connect with it and I too have chosen to dedicate my life to African Americans. I have sat in awe as ultimately direct a production that he art forms that originate from Europe. I am transgender kids discovered aspects of didn’t find offensive at its core. Part also part of the community that protests themselves in opera during As One, the of the answer for him was the racially The Mikado and Madame Butterfly. Like story of a transgender woman’s journey diverse cast. The Arizona production felt Matthew Ozawa, I stay because it’s a to finding her true self. I have even inclusive because there was no yellowface, worthwhile fight. Just as brown girls experienced an opera that illuminated and “there was a representation of all deserve to watch ballerinas with their skin what happened to Japanese Americans humanity.” The Suzukis were African tone dance, and yellow boys deserve to like my family, my bachan and jichan, American and white, the Cio-Cio-Sans see movies with a handsome hero who imprisoned during World War II because were white and Latina, and Pinkerton was looks like them (not just another ninja), they looked like the enemy. As the Latino. He also knew he had to look at people of color deserve to see themselves performers of An American Dream wove the opera with fresh eyes unhampered by represented in this beautiful space: a tale of dignity and pain, the audience opera’s traditions, which have largely been McCaw Hall. We need to see stories that saw more and felt more deeply in a created through a Eurocentric lens. hold up our complexity and potential on way that only art makes possible. They Ozawa’s own multicultural identity surely an equal arm’s length to white people and were connecting to this story. My story. contributed to a more nuanced production, European traditions. Is opera willing to There were no stereotypes or mocking too. “As a kid, I was not allowed to perform help make this happen? caricatures in the room, just powerful in the opera Werther. I was rejected storytelling and music. because I was not white,” he says. “That

Madame Butterfly 17 ASIAN ARTS LEADERS RESPOND TO MADAME BUTTERFLY By Jessica Murphy Moo

Members of the Asian American community are speaking out about Madame Butterfly, and Seattle Opera is listening. On July 9, Seattle Opera hosted “Asian Arts Leaders Respond to Madame Butterfly: A Community Forum and Panel Discussion” at SIFF. There were 93 people in attendance. © Philip Newton

Frank Abe, co-founder of the Asian Several also spoke about the power of a comes away looking “good,” and that American Journalists Association in story—one that some see as a story with a much of the problem with the piece lies in Seattle, moderated the discussion and stereotype—that is repeated again the traditional interpretations that have posed questions to street-styles dancer and again. become accepted over time. Angel Alviar-Langley; artist and activist “I think a lot of the issues surrounding Seattle Opera and our audiences know Kathy Hsieh; artist and performer Jenny Madame Butterfly have less to do with well the place that this work has in Ku; associate professor Dr. LeiLani the actual opera itself or this iteration of the traditional operatic canon, and the Nishime; opera stage director Matthew it and more of the repetition of it and that company is hosting these discussions Ozawa; tenor Karl Reyes; and playwright we tell these stories over and over again to start asking the important questions. and producer Roger Tang. in all sorts of different forms,” said LeiLani We would like to find a way forward— The thoughtful and candid discussion Nishime. There is Puccini’s version, which the right way forward—for this art form involved individual testimonials of the we’ve been telling for more than a century, in contemporary society. We aren’t challenge for Asian Americans in the arts, but also the adaptations for Broadway. presenting opera in a vacuum. We many of whom have charted new territory What does it mean to be represented are Seattle’s opera company, and this without role models. Alviar-Langley in one way again and again? And when role bears responsibility to the many teaches dance to youth, for instance, audiences hear this same story again and communities that make up our region. so they can say, “This is a possibility for again, what impact does that have? Do we For the full transcript of the event and me.” Rates of representation of Asian stop seeing it? Do we stop questioning it? to hear from more Asian American Americans in both film and onstage still Stage director Matthew Ozawa (who voices in our blog interviews please go remain low, and the stats are particularly is one of the few Asian American to seattleopera.org/butterflydiscussion. stark in a community like Seattle where opera stage directors working at major And to learn more about the American the Asian Pacific Islander population is professional companies in the US) decided discussion about this work and the impact at 18 percent and those onstage are 2-4 to question everything when he directed of its story, please see our lobby displays percent (and half of those are at Asian Madame Butterfly for Arizona Opera. during intermission today. American theater companies). His takeaway is that no one in the opera

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20 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season STAFF CHAT: JON FARMER

Jon Farmer, an incredibly versatile musician, has performed with the Seattle Opera Chorus since the 2005 Ring and also performed the Officer Ariadnein auf Naxos. Most recently he WHERE WILL WE SEE AND HEAR THE and it was awesome for us. There were toured nearly 40 schools CHORUS IN MADAME BUTTERFLY? kids who wanted us to sign our autographs on their wrists. as Guillermo (Town The men don’t start singing until the wedding. We’re the extended family. Later WHAT DID YOU TALK TO THE STUDENTS Crier/King’s Assistant) on we sing the famous Humming Chorus. ABOUT AFTER THE SHOWS? Les Mis was written by Claude-Michel We talked about how the production and Margarita (one Schönberg, and “Bring Him Home” does involved more than just singers. There bear a striking resemblance to Puccini’s of the stepsisters) in were people who designed the costumes Humming Chorus from Butterfly. Andrew Seattle Opera’s school and the set and an accompanist, a stage Lloyd Webber lifted music for Phantom of director, a music director. There are all touring showCinderella the Opera from Puccini’s La fanciulla del these career possibilities. en España. He has West. (Puccini’s family and Webber are settling out of court on that matter.) HOW DID YOU GET INTO THIS FIELD? performed the role of My father was a music minister at a Baptist DO YOU REALLY HUM WHEN YOU SING Pinkerton in several THE HUMMING CHORUS? Church in Tennessee. We did gospel quartets—my mom was the alto, my dad productions for other In this production, yes, as specified in the was the tenor, my sister was the soprano, score. We will be singing from the “Red companies, and this and I was the baritone and the pianist. I Zone” in the theater by the high box seats. was also accompanist/assistant director of is the first production It sounds otherworldly. Beautiful. my high school choir and played tuba/ Later we will be mic’d offstage for four where he has performed sousaphone in the marching band, which lines. Sometimes when we’re offstage, led me to bass guitar. I grew up listening to in the chorus for they’ll add an effect, maybe an echo or funk like James Brown, Parliament Madame Butterfly. reverb. In The Flying Dutchman, we were Funkadelic, the Commodores, Rick James, —Jessica Murphy Moo supposed to sound like ghosts. and Sly and the Family Stone. The first I have no idea if we’ll be used when time I heard opera—there was the Grand we’re not singing. In Katya Kabanova I was Ole Opry but that was different—was in a stage hand! college when I decided to major in voice. LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR ROLES IN WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU AREN’T CINDERELLA EN ESPAÑA. WHAT A SUCCESSFUL RUN! SINGING OPERA? Opera is not all I do. I cobble together a The kids really loved it. I think it had to do bunch of things, like Rodolfo in La bohème. with it being a familiar story—and He wrote for the newspaper, though all he being bilingual. wanted to write was plays. We do what we DID YOU HAVE ANY MEMORABLE have to do to do the things we want to do. RESPONSES FROM THE STUDENTS? I perform and I teach. I teach piano, In Quincy, there was a boy who said, “I guitar, bass guitar, and voice. I play piano, didn’t go to assemblies, because I never bass guitar, drums, and guitar—and I sing. understood what they were saying.” We If someone asks me “What do you sing?”—I were singing in Spanish, a language he did sing in most all styles/genres, so I just say, understand. It was awesome for them “What do you want to hear?”

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22 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season NEW OPERAS IN NEW PLACES

This September Seattle Opera’s Education and Community Engagement Department will partner with local Japanese American organizations to present An American Dream, the third production in its new series of chamber operas that tackle contemporary issues in

our community. © Philip Newton , 2015 Dream An American Opera, Seatlte

This year marks the seventy-fifth Seattle’s Japanese American Citizen anniversary of Executive Order 9066, League (JACL) will play an important role which President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a community partner. JACL members signed to enact the forced removal and will host post-show discussions and arrest of Japanese and Japanese American will highlight its role in the national people living on the west coast during “Power of Words” campaign, in which World War II. Executive Order 9066 the organization interrogates the words had an enormous impact on the Pacific we use to describe the incarceration of Northwest. The opera An American Dream, 120,000 Japanese Americans during which premiered in 2015, grew out of a World War II. The campaign looks at community storytelling initiative here in words that were used at the time, such as Seattle. The opera involves the story of calling incarcerated citizens “evacuees,” a family affected by the incarceration of and argues that this word is a euphemism Japanese American citizens during to soften the impact of the true story— World War II. where rights and properties and homes were taken from innocent men, women, "Given the anniversary of Executive and children. Order 9066 and the impact this had on our immediate community,” says Barbara "Racial profiling and anti-immigrant Lynne Jamison, Director of Education and attitudes continue to harm marginalized Community Engagement, “we decided people today," says Gabrielle Nomura that now was the time to program this Gainor, JACL board member and Seattle piece again.” Opera’s Media Relations Manager. "We Japanese Americans understand this WASHINGTON HALL An important aspect of the company’s painfully well. For many of us, sharing PERFORMANCE DATES: new community engagement our incarceration story goes hand in hand September 7, 8, 10m, programming is to bring opera out of with a responsibility to work for justice. its traditional home, which in Seattle is Art, including opera, can be a powerful 14, 15, 17m. McCaw Hall, and into new neighborhoods. ally to our activism." An American Dream will be presented at SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/AMERICANDREAM Washington Hall in Seattle's Central District.

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Seattle Opera greatly appreciates the years of support from our opera family through dedicated attendance and charitable contribution. You bring this art form to life season after season! The list below reflects Annual Fund donors at the Garnet level and higher ($1,000 and more) beginning July 1, 2016, through July 10, 2017.

NEW FORMAT! The following list indicates the combined years of both subscription AND donation history. For example, a 10-year subscriber who is currently a Garnet level donor or higher and also gave a donation of any amount for the past 5 years will reflect 15 combined years.

90+ COMBINED YEARS Margaret Dean Kleyn † Dr. Cynthia C. Holdren and Mr. Robert A. Gold of Subscribing & Donating Kathy Kreps Gary and Parul Houlahan ³ Pamela and the late Dr. Harold Amoss Dr. George S. Kriz Victoria Ivarsson Warren & Anne Anderson The Kuzeja Family Bruce E.H. Johnson and Sandra E. Davis Ellen Bierman « Robert and Joan M. Lawler Marlyn and Gordon Keating Verle M. Bleese Geo and Carol Levin Daniel Kerlee and Carol Wollenberg Karen Carlson-Iffert and Jena Marie Myers ³ Mark P. Lutz Virginia King Glenn and Bertha Eades « Dr. James E. Marcia Ursula Kuepfer and Jon Paddock ³ Ms. Gerry Fardal Dale and Shirley Martin Eric and Janice Lamers ^ Clive and Shari Freidenrich Kathleen Maryatt Gordon D. Lazerte Dr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Grayston Barbara J. Mauer Mr. Everil Loyd Jr. ^ Richard H. Haase Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. McManus Robert Mack Connie and Dan Hungate Ann H. Milam ^ ³ Edith Maffeo Janet Johnson and the late Paul W. Johnson Donald and Linda Miller Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Mandelkorn Travis and Suzanne Keeler Juris Mindenbergs Louise McAllister Isabelle S. Lamb Egon and Laina Molbak Dr. and Mrs. John McFatridge Jean Manwaring Sarah Navarre ^ ³ John and Martha Melcher Renate McVittie Diana Neely D.C. Morse Jr. and Jan Marchbanks Frances Rogers and the late Fred Rogers John F. and Laurel Nesholm ^ Susan and Furman Moseley Mrs. R. Scheumann Lois H. North † Mary Murphy Virginia Senear ^ Gordon H. Orians Christopher L. Myers and Judith Schoenecker ^ Sonia Spear Dr. Zaiga Alksne Phillips « Diana C. and Angela C. Oberti Barbara Stephanus Sylvia B. Pollack and Molly McGee Debbie Pabst Jane and Alec Stevens ^ Douglass and Katherine Raff Barbara B. Peterson Frederick B. Strom Russell and Julia Reid Karen M. Place Beryl A. Thompson ^ Cornelius and Penny Rosse † ^ ³ Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Purdy ^ Gertrud Tobiason James T. and Barbara Russell ^ Anne M. Redman Arthur and Louise Torgerson Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Salzer Drs. Tom and Christine Robertson Betty L. Wagner ^ Frederick and Connie Scheetz the late Arnold and Rosalyn Rom Nancy and Stanley Zeitz Mrs. Chella Schmidt David S. Roys, M.D. the late Mari Stamper Dr. and Mrs. Werner E. Samson 75-89 COMBINED YEARS R. Patton Swaim Irwin and Barbara Sarason ^ of Subscribing & Donating Ian L. Thompson, M.D. ^ Betsy R. and Jason Schneier, MD Anonymous (4) Russell F. and Sarah M. Tousley ^ Doug & Lisa Shaeffer Chap and Eve Alvord Eugene Webb and Marilyn Domoto Webb Drs. Gordon and Mary Starkebaum Jere L. Bacharach and Barbara Fudge Sally Anne West ³ Harold and Helen Tukey Dr. Sanford C. Barnes and Eugene Carlson Judith A. Whetzel ^ ³ Edith Ulatoski « Kathryn Bartholomew Kathryn Williams Vilma Vojta Evelyn and Richard Bateman Donald and Gloria Swisher ^ Judith Warshal and Wade Sowers ^ Dr. Ronald and Ruth Beck Mary A. and David L. Williams Dr. and Mrs. Forrest C. Bennett 65-74 COMBINED YEARS Patricia M. Bentz « of Subscribing & Donating 50-64 COMBINED YEARS Karen and Herb Berry Anonymous (4) ^ ³ of Subscribing & Donating Beverly and the late Phillip Brazeau Mr. and Mrs. Willie C. Aikens † ³ Anonymous (13) † ^ Bonita and David Brewer Byron L. and Pauline P. Anderson Harlan and Asja Adams Steven and Judith Clifford Redmond J. and Suzanne W. Barnett David and Heidi Adkisson Theodore and Patricia Collins Jack and Connie Bloxom ^ ³ Richard R. and Constance Albrecht † Joan and Frank Conlon Thomas and Virginia Brewer Paul G. Allen Dr. and Mrs. Milton T. English William B. and Ann S. Burstiner ^ ³ Linda and Tom Allen ^ ³ Dr. William S. Etnyre ^ William F. Calderhead Carlton C. Anderson Gerald B. Folland Charles and Sandra Cossé Martha K. Bargren Diana Gale and Jerry Hillis ^ Sandra and Richard Counts Leslye and Robert Bohrer Ruth Gerberding In Memory of James H. Crichton Beatrice and William Booth Gene O. Graham Norma Cugini Christopher and Linda Borland Dr. Martin L. Greene and Kathleen Wright Johanna and Bill Dock « J. Cleve and Judith Borth Dr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Grossman Sandra B. Dunn Alec and Maddy Brindle Hylton and Lawrence Hard Bernard Garbusjuk Marilyn Brockman Gini Harmon Claire and Michael Gordon ^ Gilbert and Mary Ann Brokaw Jenny Hartley ^ ³ Richard and Diane Haelsig Marshall and Jane Brown ^ Catherine and the late Frederick Hayes Rod J. Halpin Roger K. Burk and Meg Murch Terrill and Jennifer Hendrickson Lenore Hanauer Rosemary P. Burkhart Hans and Heidi Herrmann Dr. Geraldine A Hashisaki John Butler Bruce and Judy Hutchison Mr. and Mrs. Jahn R. Hedberg Corinne A. Campbell ^ Kathryn Kennedy Jean M. Large and Fred F. Herzberg Joe and Dorothy Canavan George E. and Mary P. Kenny Suzanne Hittman Ruth Cannon

24 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season Gayle and Michael Charlesworth « Walter C. Moore and Susanne M. Forderer Ev Trout Jack Clay Beth Naczkowski Rae Tufts ^ Dan and Karen Clements Eunice Nakao and Roy Tribelhorn † ^ ³ R. Thurbon Tukey Dr. Susan E. Detweiler and the late John W. Nemanich, M.D. and Jim and Camille Uhlir Dr. Alexander Clowes ^ ³ Ellendee Pepper, M.D. Joan Underwood Janice C. Condit ^ Bill and Sally Neukom James and Karen Unkefer ^ Gerry & Fran Conley Susan H. Nivert Hans H. van der Velden James and Wendy Cullen ^ Pamela A. Okano ^ Mark W. and Margaret Van Gasken Laurie and William Daniel ^ John W. O’Meara Alice and Bill Van Pelt « Michael and Natalie de Maar Margaret and John C. Pageler Keith Keyt John J Demakas Teresa Parker Jay S. Wakefield and Susanne M. Suzanne DeWitt and Ari Steinberg Gayle Peach Wakefield, Ph.D. ^ Mary Dickinson Dr. Robert A. Pearlman Raleigh Watts ^ Clinton Diener and Diane Lasko † Shane and Janet Peterson Julie and Mike Weisbach Michael G. Dryfoos and Ilga Jansons ^ ³ Steven C. Phelps ^ Richard D. Weller Lois Gamble Duncan and George Rolfe Jocelyn Phillips and Warren Bakken † ³ Susan Winokur and Paul Leach Christopher and Carolyn Eagan ³ Edward A. and Eleonore Pottenger Jerry and Nancy Worsham Richard D. Eidal Thomas and Marilyn Price Virginia and the late Bagley Wright Jeannie Gayle Engle Lynn Prunhuber and David Stobaugh Scott and Jenny Wyatt l John Erickson James and Sherry Raisbeck ^ Ann P. Wyckoff Victor and Patricia Feltin Murray and Wendy Raskind Frank and Virginia Wyland Kathleen Fischer and Thomas Hart Dana Rasmussen ^ Charles A. Zaragoza ^ Peggy Fogliano Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Susan G. Ford and Geoffrey Ogle Jane Remsberg and Jerome Anderson 40-49 COMBINED YEARS Steve and Kay Frank Steven and Fredrica Rice of Subscribing & Donating Ernest and Elizabeth Scott Frankenberg ^ Joyce C. and Saul Rivkin Anonymous (8) † Donald and Ann Frothingham Joy Rogers and Bob Parker Reverend and Mrs. John M. Allen ^ Joyce E. Ferm ³ Marguerite Russell Mary Ann Allen Richard and Mary Beth Gemperle ^ ³ Norman and Elisabeth Sandler Connie J. Alley Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gibbons ^ James L. Schindler ^ Joan Baldwin and James Walsh « Ben Goetter and Kathryn Hinsch Jean E. Schweitzer ³ Kirk Barker Mr. and Mrs. David Haley Evelyn E. Simpson « ^ Tim and Tony Barrick ³ Mrs. Gail A. Halpern Shannon and Donna Stafford John Bates and Carolyn Corvi Steven T. Haney Mr. and Mrs. John W. Stephanus Ralph and Catherine Bauman Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna ^ Carol J. Teather Dona Strombom Biermann Samuel and Catherine Hardy Tamlyn P. Thomas « Roxanne Blanco-Mitchell Dr. H. Hasche-Kluender and H. Shahri Michael Thompson « Toby Bright and Nancy Ward ^ Dr. and Mrs. Fred I. Hasegawa Evelyn M. Troughton ^ ³ Dr. Joseph and Barbara Buchman Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hedreen Joanne Barbara Hendrickson Patricia Hofmann and Michael O’Brien H. Lee Holcomb Jana C. Hollingsworth « ³ Dr. Kennan Hollingsworth ^ ³ Bob Holtz and Cricket Morgan Robert Howell and Jackie Bardsley Darrell and the late Ruth Jackson Warren and Mary Jane Jessop Charles E. and Joan Johnson Mark J. Johnson Harvey Jones and Nancy Iannucci Ken and Karen Jones Pat and Paul Kaald H. David Kaplan † ^ Martha Noerr and T. Jeffrey Keane Albert and Elizabeth Kobayashi Robert H. Koehler Melissa Lattimore Winnie and Ven T. Lee ³ In memory of Mr. Norman Levin and Mr. Martin Hochfeld Andrea C. Lewis Carla and Don Lewis Patricia A. Magnuson William B. Maschmeier and Patricia Haggerty ^ David and the late Leslie Mattson ^ Michael and Rosemary Mayo Marcella McCaffray Karen and Rick McMichael ³ Our Bayview renaissance is underway. When finished, it will be a Mrs. Carolyn Miller ^ masterpiece of new view apartments, 360° view restaurant, dog park, Howard and Catherine Miller health services tower and more. Come take a hardhat tour and experience beauty in progress.

† = Education & Community Engagement Donor Call (206) 281-5744 or visit BayviewSeattle.org H= Opera Star Monthly Donor ^ = Encore Society Member 62+ Life Plan Community • Variety of Pricing Plans • Amazing Move-In Packages l= SOWING Circle Member Progressive Programming • Pet-Friendly • CCRC with 90% refundable contracts ³= Wagner and More Member

Madame Butterfly 25 NEW FORMAT! The following list indicates the combined years of both subscription AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS CONT. donation history. For example, a 10-year subscriber who is currently a Garnet level donor or higher and also gave a donation of any amount for the past 5 years will reflect 15 combined years.

Melanie A. Burton Peter D. Hiatt Dean A. Pollack and Lizabeth A. Wilson Jonathan Caves and Patricia Blaise-Caves ³ Andrew and Delney Hilen Jack and Carolynn Prelutsky Heidi Charleson Drs. Mary and Marvin Hoffert LaVern and Frances M. Puddy Patricia Church † Charlie and Nancy Hogan Megan and Greg Pursell « ^ ³ Conni and Doug Clarke Michael R. Huber and Danielle E. LaVilla ^ Carol Ann and Thomas Quinsey Bruce and Mary-Louise Colwell Pamela Hughes and Robert Munoz Eckhard Schipull Charles and Nancy Bagley John and Annick Impert ³ Garry and Ruth Schneider Collett Cox Clarence and Rosa Johnson Janet Sears « ^ ³ Corey Darlington Darryl and Kathleen Johnson Janet and Thomas Seery Marc and Maud Daudon Gilbert Joynt Dr. Anita Shaffer Ann De Lancey Jeanne Kanach Susan Simons Wendy H. del Valle Michael and Nancy Kappelman Jane and John Simpson Tim Dreyling Donna Gabriel Kaufman Christopher Snow Jeanne E and Michael Milligan Nancy J. King Rose M. Southall ^ ³ Carolyn and Lindsey Echelbarger Dan and Pat Kinney David and Jannie Spain Julie Elliott Brian and Peggy Kreger Dr. Jay D. Sprenger with Michael Emanuel Don and Kristi Larson Stephen A. Sprenger † ^ ³ Marc D. and Maria Erlitz Dr. Barbara Leigh Martin and Carol Stacey Marian E. Evans « Peggy and David Mainer Sheila and Craig Sternberg Dr. Raya Fidel Bruce R. McCaw Charles and Delphine Stevens Jim Fox Lillian C. McDermott Ann and Daniel Streissguth Robert Fries and Debra Dahlen Mr. and Mrs. James P. McGough M. and H. Sussman Nina Fuller Dr. William McKee Duane and Barbara Swank ^ Natalie Gendler ^ ³ Kelly A. Meagher The late N. Donn Talenti and the late Dr. and Mrs. Michael L. Gilbert Stafford and Louise Miller † ³ l Julian Patrick ³ Paul Goodrich and Shannon Sperry Lesley Chapin Joe N. Terteling Kristopher K. Gould Richard Mills and Karen Covington ³ Thomas J. and C. Susan Thatcher Brian Grimes Karen Rose Mitchell Thomas and Lisa Tocher Lyn and Jerry Grinstein Dr. and Mrs. Dudley T. Moorhead Patricia Torode Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Pete Hale James W. and Pamela Murray Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Vail Adrian Hanauer and Khanh Tran Kirsten Nesholm Moya Vazquez ^ ³ l David and Carole Hardy « Barbara and David Nordfors David Wachter Gerald K. Hauge Joan Ostendorff Susan F. Wagner Janice Hayes « Dr. Mary Lee Peters Mary and Findlay Wallace Barbara and John Ward Joan and the late Craig Watjen ³ John and Jane Whiteley Julie Wieringa ^

30-39 COMBINED YEARS of Subscribing & Donating Anonymous (16) † « ^ ³ Jack Aldrich Live well. Marianna Alexandersdottir Kim A. Anderson Phillip Baldwin and Layne Goldsmith At Mirabella Seattle, our goal Ms. Mary Barta Mike Barta and Cynthia Shelly is for you to live better longer. Charles and Marie Bender Marianne Bergstrom With our premium fitness Rebecca Black Neil M. and Kathleen Bogue ^ and aquatic centers and our Joseph Borden and Sara Marks John and the late Joyce Bozeat countless wellness classes, Gary Bromberg « Paul B. Brown and Margaret A. Watson † staying active and engaged has Carl Bunje and Patricia Costello Cy and Kathleen Butler never been easier. April Cameron Kati Cardea Eugene Carlson Let go of age. Embrace John Carmichael and Michael Partlow Betty R. Carter ^ ³ healthy. Retire at Mirabella. Drs. Darlene and Gregory Chan Annette and Des Chanez 206-254-1441 Adelle and Monte Clements Robert and Loretta Comfort † retirement.org/mirabellaseattle Carol and Carl Corbin ^

† = Education & Community Engagement Donor H= Opera Star Monthly Donor Mirabella Seattle is a Pacific Retirement Services community and an equal housing opportunity. ^ = Encore Society Member l= SOWING Circle Member ³= Wagner and More Member

26 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season Dennis and Judith Cunneen Carol and Daniel De Matteis Leslie Decker John Delo and Elizabeth Stokes ^ ³ Peter and Diane Demopulos David and Helen Dichek Blair and Laura Dillaway Maria M. Durham Pamela Elderkin Russell Elliott † « Helene Ellner Laura and Robert Emmerichs Steve and Susan Ford Maureen Frisch l Kent Lowry and Melinda Gause Leslie Giblett ^ Deborah Giles Peter Goldman and Martha Jane Kongsgaard Allen and Carol Gown Margaret Griffiths « l Patricia Grogan Kristina Haight « Paul and Becky Haley Richard M. Halffman Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Hamon Private Client Wolfram and Linda Hansis Benson and the late Pamela Harer Eric Hawley and Gwen Lowery l & Luxury Real Estate Judith and Alan Hodson Frank and Katie Holland ^ J. Marilyn Holstad ^ William Hoppin ^ Gerald and Gladys Hoshijo Linda L. James † Ann Janes-Waller and Fletch Waller ³ Robert C. Jenkins ^ Laurence Jewell Marshall and Kelly Johnson James L. Johnston and Vivian Mendenhall Andrea and Steve Jones Peter Kelly Ed Kim Joyce and Roger Kirk Mrs. Robert Knopp Ted Korolak ³ Janet Kusler and Mary Pat Connors Jeanne Marie and the late Rhoady Lee Vision. Leadership. Results. Margaret Leiberton and Dr. R. Venkatesan Mark and Vanessa Levine Henry Li Lex Lindsey and Lynn Manley Kathleen Lofstedt and Susan Lofstedt George Lovell and Carrie Cihak Dr. Lois Lowden-Lunde Major General (Ret.) Tim and Mary Lowenberg JAVILA CREER SHAWNA ADER Ann Manly Premier Associate | Executive Premier Director | Managing Broker Broker Richard and E. Ann Marks James Martinek 206 794 5284 206 251 2337 John and Mary Ellen Matthews javila.withwre.com aderberger.com Terry McCarthy Sharon McGrayne and George Bertsch Barbara and Jim Miller ERICA CLIBBORN AMY SAJER Executive Premier Director | Premier Director | Don and Lynn Murphy Broker Broker Linda Nordstrom Lev and Isabella Novik 206 251 1869 206 550 8903 Ralph and Wanda Nuxoll ^ ericaclibborn.com amysajer.withwre.com Vivian Oehler Dr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Olson MICHAEL DOYLE DEIRDRE DOYLE Allan Panitch Premier Director | Executive Premier Director | Managing Broker Broker Soo Park and Jeff Rosenfeld ³ Janice Pecoraro 206 669 0203 206 234 3386 Kathleen Pierce MichaelDoyleProperties.com deirdre-doyle.com Doris Pieroth Vicki L. Pogorelc Ken Powers

Catherine Ramsey and Thomas Ball MIDTOWN COLLECTIVE IS A GROUP OF TOP-TIER LUXURY REAL ESTATE Buddy Ratner and Cheryl Cromer-Ratner BROKERS WHO DELIVER SUPERIOR SERVICE TO THEIR CLIENTS. Mary Lou Reed Dennis Reichenbach, MD

Madame Butterfly 27 NEW FORMAT! The following list indicates the combined years of both subscription AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS CONT. donation history. For example, a 10-year subscriber who is currently a Garnet level donor or higher and also gave a donation of any amount for the past 5 years will reflect 15 combined years.

Paul A. and Mary Ann Roberts Gerard Centioli Heidemarie Lundblad Melanie Ross and Tim Buck Linda Chaves Susan Machler Eric and Margaret Rothchild Carolyn Chawla ^ ³ Robert Mack Paul L. Rowe and R. Michael Sereno Allen Clark Jon Magnussen Carl Sanders Dr. Allen Colic Brian Marks and Carol Maione Lynn and Kathryn Olson Sharp Dow Constantine and Shirley Carlson Fowler Martin and Barbara Warren Stephen Silha Beth and Marc Cordova « Paul and Mary Jo Martin Mr. and Mrs. James Solimano David and Linda Cornfield Peter A. Mathisen Yana Solovyeva and Igor Zverev Susan MacGregor Coughlin and John Lauber † ³ Dorothy E. McBride Janet Stanton and Arthur Hurd George and Carolyn Cox Margaret McGraw Carolann and Gary Steinhoff Jan and Jack Creighton Brian and Lillian W. McKee Lisa and John Stewart Rachel Crum Greg Meldahl ^ ³ Robert Stewart and Harriet Winkelman Gavin Cullen and David Jamieson Bruce and Elizabeth Miller John Sullivan and Paula Stokes Sara Culver Amit Mital James Tanner Stephen L. and Joan Cunha Patricia and Paul Mitchell Marvin Theimer Barry Davison Jens Molbak Patricia Thorpe Thomas DeBoer and Durga Doriasamy Sue Montgomery Julie Trautmann William Diefenbach David and Meg Mourning John and Anne Trench « Corinne Dixon Heidi Munzinger and John Shott Judy Tsou and David Carlson Kathy Donaldson Andrew Murphy and Michelle Duffy Janet Turpen Tom Douglas Linda and J. Patrick Naughton Marjorie and Thomas Tyler Steven Drury Sharon L. Nelson Dallas and Shirley Viall Bill Dubay Erika Nesholm In honor and memory of Lauren Dudley Susan and Gary Neumann Helen English Walker Kenneth Duncan and Tanya Parish Craig Norton and John French Dr. and Mrs. Mike Waring William and Erin Ellis Drs. Lester and Keiko Permut Ruth and Todd Warren K. Carole and the late William Ellison Rosemary Peterson David and Romayne Watt Kristina M. Erickson Sean Pierce Ms. C. A. Wen and Mr. David Garlow Leonardo and Emely Etcheto Julie C. Pifer Jerry and Carol Whitfield Stockton and Janice Forrest ^ Mr. Donald Pogoloff Pat Wilson Carol and Philip Fortuna Stephen Porter Steven and Gail Wish « Dean and Mary Fournier Tom and Gretchen Puentes † Dr. Jon Wongsurawat Jim Fridley and Elaine Scott Judith Ramey Albert and Angelina Yen Geraldine Lindsey and Don Froomer Alice and Dick Rapasky Brian Young Thomas Funk Fred Rasp Gregory A. Ziuzin, CPA Steven Given and Gloria Reeg William C. Rense « Denise Goforth Sheri Richardson and Rick Lappin 15-29 COMBINED YEARS Dr. Jeffrey Norman Golub Richard Robbins of Subscribing & Donating John M. Goodfellow Richard and Nancy Robblee Anonymous (8) Dave and Cheryl Hadley Sharon Robinson John Abrams and Karl Compton Brian Hahn and Mary Klubben Roman Rogalski Stephan Adler Dr. M. Elizabeth Halloran l Koryn Rolstad l Nell Altizer « John and Donna Hamilton Jonathan Rosoff and Kristin Winkel Hans Andersen and Angyl Bender Donald Hatch Lawrence R. Ross Dr. J. Martin Anderson and Ms. Lynn Gabriel Lunell Haught and Robert Pyle Joanna Ryan and Rebecca Ross Jerilyn and Paul Anderson Candy Havens June Ryder and Michael Church In memory of Joseph S. Axup « Drs. Raquel and Russell Hicks Dr. Lupe Salazar and Barry Bolding Steve and Bonnie Baker B. Lane Hill Jean Sanders Joshua and Megan Barnard In Honor of Norm Hollingshead Bev Schaaf and Rick Kirkwood « Dr. Aaron Barnes Ron Hosogi and Marla Beck Thea Lou Seese Leonie Barnes Hideatsu Hosokai Matthew Segal and Corrie Greene Peter and Jane Barrett Dr. Gary and Janice Hudak Kathlyn Shaw Holly and Brent Beckstead Michael and Zhenya Hyman Jeff and Martha Sherman Barbara G. Bedell Ms. Roslyn Isseroff and Mr. Arthur Huntley Sarah Shreeve « Paula Begoun Duke and Brenda Jackson Bernard and Susan Silbernagel Janice Berlin ³ Renan Jeffereis and Gail Kaminishi Evelyn and Leroy Smith Eileen M. Birge ³ John and Pamela Jolley Sarah Soutter Alan and Sarah Black Gary and Susan Jones Cindy and Peter Sprenger † « Karl Bonn Margaret Keenan Sheila Squillace Barry Booher and Mary Ellen Olander Larry Kessler and Bonnie Berk John Starbard ^ Jay and Carol Bowditch Richard Koch Gene and Jean Stark Mr. Alan Boyd Barbara Konkle and Peter Kollros Alan and Bonnie Steele Rebecca Boyd « ³ Dr. and Mrs. Robert Kremers Anne Steele Milkana and Colin Brace Jon and Eva LaFollette Larry Stonesifer and Ron Angress Marilyn J. Braarud Dr. Brian A. LaMacchia Charles Surine John Brazel Gavin Lambie l Chris Suver Brian Bross and Bonnie Daniels Jay and Linda Lapin Pamela and Ronald Taylor Brenda Bruns, M.D. and Richard Deininger M. Adler and M. Lebas Dennis Tierney and Grace Grant Lydia Budak and Bruce Kincy Gerald Lim and Bruce Gross Jack Tilford Richard Cahall Stanton J. and Lucille Linden Dennis and Dorene Tully Irene Campbell † Micheal Lofstedt Manijeh Vail

† = Education & Community Engagement Donor H= Opera Star Monthly Donor ^ = Encore Society Member l= SOWING Circle Member ³= Wagner and More Member

28 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season In Memory of Frank and Mary Iaconetti Greg Wallace Carolyn Wasteneys the late Lyle and Stephanie Waterman Norman Weeks Kenneth and Rosemary Willman David Wilson Wayne Wisehart Craig Wolfe Jeff Wood and Diane Summerhays Leslie and Tachi Yamada Dan Young and Camille Minogue Jennifer Zaccardo

1-14 COMBINED YEARS of Subscribing & Donating Anonymous (14) † « ^ Ahmad and Zeina Abouammo Susan Allan Paul and Karin Allen Susan Allen Ignacio Alvarado John and Marlies Amaya Rebecca Andrews Mr. Ben Armstrong and Mrs. Werona Armstrong David Ashby In Memory of Robert L. Autrey Aldo & Laurie Basile Philip Bayne and Anne Schmidt Lynly Beard Mr. Arnold and Mrs. Judith Bendich Alan and Sherry Bennett David and Lyn Bishop Dr and Mrs. Samuel Bland Tim and Tami Boze Stephen Brenner Benedict J. Brown Julia Buck Grania and Martin Buckley 2017/18 Abra Buffalo Gloria Burch Dr. Boyce Burdick Greg Burns SEASON Lisa Bury and John R. Taylor † ^ l Susan Buske ³ l Jake Call Phil Capp Cynthia Carlson Jeff Carnevali Russell Cheetham Bonnijo Chervenock Peter Chuang and Elaine Tsai Elaine and Eric Clark Cindi Berkovich and Seth Cohen Stephanie Cook James Crouse and Lee Oatey-Crouse Greg and Gina Crumbaker Robert Cumbow John Cusick and Christi McGinley Christine Davis Jayne and Peter Davis Stuart and Joanne Depina © Philip Newton Tim Detweiler and Michelle Bufano Zander and Hilary Doroski Scott Dowling Patricia Dubrow ^ ³ 3- AND 4-SHOW PACKAGES STILL AVAILABLE Erin Earl Season tickets secure your seat at our upcoming blockbuster operas Lewis and Susan Edelheit Duane and Laura Eichelberger and save you up to 40% over the cost of single tickets. You’ll also Ian and Maria Einman enjoy unmatched subscriber benefits, including a free seating Kristen Eliker Rhee Eliker upgrade at the show of your choice. Visit the subscription desk in Bruce and Mary Enter Karen and Elizabeth Faye the Grand Lobby today! Barbara Feasey and Bill Bryant Judith Z. Feigin and Colin Faulkner PHONE 206.389.7676 Ellen Ferguson Glauco Ferrari ONLINE seattleopera.org/subscribe2017 Jack and Marsha Firestone ^

Madame Butterfly 29 NEW FORMAT! The following list indicates the combined years of both subscription AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS CONT. donation history. For example, a 10-year subscriber who is currently a Garnet level donor or higher and also gave a donation of any amount for the past 5 years will reflect 15 combined years.

Jodi Fletcher The Janecke Family † Braiden Rex-Johnson and Spencer A. Johnson ^ ³ Mr. and Mrs. David Fliegel Jeffrey and Christina Johnson Nancy Ritzenthaler and Albert Odmark Jr. Adam and Emily Fountain Jeaneen C. Jones James Roberts Gregory and Kathleen Fowler l Narcisa and Stefan Kaminski Kate Roosevelt & Caroline Maillard Celia and Toby Freeman Gilla Kaplan Kevin Ruddell and Heather Kroll Genevra Gerhart Gary and Susan Keister Travis Sanders Dennis Gibb Benjamin Kendall « Peggy Savlov Phyllis Golden Dong Kim and Rebecca Banset Paul and Terri Schaake Adam Goldin Kristen Kimball Judith and Joseph Schocken Merrie Good Sally Kincaid Charles and Maria Schweizer Janet M. Graeber ³ Mitchell Knox John and Joan Scott Brian and Lynn Grant Timothy Konich « ³ Alison Shuler Douglas and Jane Granum Karen Koon Craig and Nancy Shumate Claudia Greenwald Alyssa Kreider Douglas Smith and Stephanie Ellis-Smith Christopher Gross Aidan Lang and Linda Kitchen Keith Smith Tom Grossi John and Joyce OConnell Peter Smith John and Amy Gunnar Ellen Lehman and Charles Kennel Judy Soferman and Marc Rosenshein Laura Haas Sue Lesser Stephanie Solien Kristi Hafner Jerry and Marguerite Lewis Dorothy Somers Margaret Haggerty † Ellen Mack and Edward Gomez Kathleen Stamm Mary Hale Duncan Maclean Charles and Susan Stillman Catherine Haley Rebecca and Laird Malamed Christine Swanson Rena Hamburger Christopher Maley Aggie and Chick Sweeney Richard L. Hay Drs. Michael and Susan Martin Jane Sylvester Eileen Hershberg Steve and Estela Martinez Nishant Thakkar Ann and Glen Hiner William and Anna Maynard Jennifer Thill Terry and Jane Hipolito « Kathryn McAuley Theresa T. Thoman Adrian and Jane Hobden Judy McBroom C. Rhea and Wendy Thompson Martin and Kathryn Hoffer David McClure ^ Nanette Toyoshima John Holt Caroline McCullam Terrence Turner John Hrncir James McIntire and Christina Koons l Donn Van Dyke and Theresa Dyke Janice Hsia Therissa McKelvey and Heli Roiha Ken Van Hyning Drs. James Hurley and Leslie Dierauf † Don Meberg Case van Rij Francisco Medina William A. Vance Dylan Meissner and Tung Ho James Vernon Gunda and Uwe Meissner Cynthia Walk Jerry Meyer and Nina Zingale Maggie Walker l Dolly and Dave Milkowski John G. Wallace Abraham Miller Annie Walters † « Connie Missimer Carlson Nancy Ward Joseph and Danielle Monaghan Rob Watson Karen Morse Dr. Peter A. Weiss Ernesto Munoz William Weiss Brendan Murphy Anita Weissberg Carmen Murphy Richard Wetmore Andrew Naugle and Chorley Hughes Greg Wetzel Nancy Neraas John and Gerlinde Whetzell Shawn and Bethany O’Neill Alexandra Wilber l Christoph Otto Susan and Peter Wilson Anthony Park Mark Wittlinger « Richard and Sally Parks Elizabeth and Troy Wormsbecker Mary and D. Pat Patterson David Young Nancy Peacock Jill Zaremba Kathryn A. Pearson Christian and Joyce Zobel Mr. Don and Ms. Sue Phillips Peggy Phillips Raimund Pichler Judy Pigott l Mary Pigott Rosalind Poll Steven Poole Lynda & Dan Porter « Ryan Porter Pilates for Every Body Suzanne Powell PERSONAL TRAINING James Powers Lori and Bill Price SMALL GROUP CLASSES Carolyn J. Purnell and Wes C. Uhlman Michael Raftery NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING Chris Randall † = Education & Community Engagement Donor Fleet Ratliff H= Opera Star Monthly Donor Heather Redman ^ = Encore Society Member 314 1st Ave. S. Robert Reece l= SOWING Circle Member [email protected] (206)621-8862 Deborah Relyea ³= Wagner and More Member

30 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season INSTITUTIONAL DONORS OFFICIAL IN-KIND PARTNERS Seattle Opera is exceedingly grateful for the following donations of $1,000 and more made between July 1, 2016, and July 10, 2017. The impact of these organizations and individuals keeps opera and the arts thriving in our community.

$1,000,000 and more Seattle Opera Foundation IN-KIND DONORS Chateau Ste. Michelle • Cossé International $500,000-$999,999 Securities • Delta Air Lines • Garvey Schubert Seattle Opera Guild in memory of Barer • Richard and Mary Beth Gemperle Marian E. Lackovich and Captain Louis J. Lackovich • Morrison Hershfield • Nellis Kim • .M A.C Cosmetics • Talking Rain $250,000-$499,999 VOLUNTEER FUNDRAISING Nesholm Family Foundation $25,000 and more The SOWING Circle Gemperle Holiday Soiree 2016 $100,000-$249,999 $7,500 - $24,999 Anonymous Seattle Opera Guild—Lakeside Preview Group

C.E. Stuart Tagney Jones True-Brown Seattle Opera Guild—Mercer Island Charitable Trust Family Fund Foundation Preview Group $5,000 - $7,499 Seattle Opera Guild—Amici Preview Group $50,000-$99,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Parties and Previews Wagner and More—New York City Trip The Chisholm John Graham Foundation Foundation $3,000 - $4,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Bellini Preview Group $25,000-$49,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Magnolia/Queen Anne Preview Group

Peach Foundation $1,500 - $2,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Allegro Preview Group Seattle Opera Guild—Vivace Preview Group $15,000-$24,999 $3,000-$4,999 $1,000 - $1,499 Costco Wholesale • OPERA America: The Seattle Foundation: Poncho Legacy Opera Plus—Horizon House The Opera Fund Fund • Wyman Youth Trust $500 - $999 $10,000-$14,999 $1,500-$2,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Bel Canto Preview Ackerly Excellence Fund • The Foster ArtsLEAF • Colymbus Foundation • Fales Group Foundation • Nuckols-Keefe Family Foundation Trust • Madden Associates Foundation • U.S. Bank Foundation • • D.V. and Ida J. McEachern Charitable Wagner and More Trust • Moccasin Lake Foundation • Pacific MATCHING GIFTS Coast Feather Company • Stratocent Adobe • BECU • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $5,000-$9,999 Technologies • The Boeing Company • Charles Schwab Cornerstone Advisors, Inc. • The Dabney Foundation • Costco Wholesale • Expedia Inc. Point Fund • Envestnet | Tamarac • $1,000-$1,499 • Exxon-Mobil • General Electric Google • IBM • Firestone Family Foundation • The Hot Carey Family Foundation • Educational Johnson & Johnson • Macy’s Inc. • The Meredith Chocolate Fund • Lease Crutcher Lewis Legacy Fund • Leathercare, Inc. • The Corporation Foundation • Microsoft Corporation • Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Reed McClure Firm • PRCN Foundation • NRG Energy, Inc. • Salesforce.org • Shell Oil Foundation • Richard B. and Barbara B. SkyOpera Fund Company • Starbucks • Symetra • T-Mobile • Odlin Foundation • Thurston Charitable Foundation • Janet Wright Ketcham UnitedHealth Group • Foundation • The Peg and Rick Young Foundation

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Seattle Opera cannot Seattle Opera at the Center, our project to build a new operational facility adjacent to our performance space here in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, is well on its way to opening wait to welcome you to doors in Fall of 2018. This state-of-the-art building will house new and improved our new civic home education, artistic, and administrative spaces to create opera for all! in 2018! On June 20, we officially broke ground on the construction site at the corner of Mercer Street and Speight Jenkins Way (4th Ave N). As the foundation is poured and steel begins to rise, our shared vision for the community will come to life!

Thanks to your individual support, as well as public funding from the city, county, state, and federal level, we are 84 percent of the way toward completely funding this $60 Seattle Opera at the Center has made million project as of July 12. great progress thanks to our volunteer leadership and project team!

$8,436,500 Honorary Co-Chairpersons Public Funding Achieved Frances and the late Fred Rogers $5,563,500 Public Funding Steering Committee Chair Still to Raise Maryanne Tagney $4,243,687 Private Funding $42,029,013 Steering Committee Members Still to Raise Private Funding Achieved Thomas H. Allen Susan MacGregor Coughlin A. Richard Gemperle Brian Marks John F. Nesholm Janet Sears MAXIMIZE YOUR SUPPORT James Uhlir An anonymous donor is offering a $3 million challenge grant for all new and increased Moya Vazquez campaign gifts, and there’s still $2.1 million to go. William T. Weyerhaeuser Scott Wyatt

Community Phase Task Force DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT TODAY! Elena Aleksandrova CALL 206.389.7669 Jan Berlin EMAIL [email protected] Carla Lawrence VISIT seattleopera.org/atthecenter Richard Mills

32 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season © Philip Newton Madame Butterfly Seattle Opera Guild inmemoryof Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation John Graham Foundation The HotChocolate Fund Ron Hosogi andMarlaBeck Dr. Kennan H.Hollingsworth Adrian andJaneHobden Barbara Peterson John Goodfellow and Leslie Giblett Natalie Gendler Richard andMaryBethGemperle The Foster Foundation Chris andCarolyn Eagan Sandra andthelate WilliamDunn Marshall andJaneBrown Milkana andColin Brace John andJoyce Bozeat Jack andConnie Bloxom John Bates andCarolyn Corvi Chap andEve Alvord Richard R.andConstance Albrecht Anonymous (3) $100,000-$249,999 Everil Loyd Jr. andJoane DelBene Joshua Green Foundation Gary andParul Houlahan Robert andLoretta Comfort Toby BrightandNancyWard $250,000-$499,999 WA State DeptofCommerce True-Brown Foundation The Neukom Family Foundation $500,000-$999,999 James andSherryRaisbeck Norcliffe Foundation Marks Family Foundation Lenore M.Hanauer Apex Foundation Anonymous $1,000,000-$2,499,999 Building For Culture 4Culture andKingCounty, $2,500,000-$4,999,999 Foundation Tagney JonesFamily Fund atSeattle Kreielsheimer Remainder Foundation $5,000,000+ CORNERSTONE CIRCLE CENTER JULY BETWEEN 1, 2005, AND JULY 12, 2017: THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING DONORS WHO HAVE GENEROUSLY $5,000 CONTRIBUTED OR MORE TO SEATTLE OPERA AT THE Captain LouisJ. Lackovich Marian E.Lackovich and Diana H.Gale andJerryHillis Ellen Ferguson Ken Duncan andTanya Parish Laurie andWilliamDaniel Susan MacGregor Coughlin andJohnLauber Drs. Gregory andDarlene Chan Marshall andJaneBrown Neil M.andKathleen Bogue Mr. andMrs.WillieC.Aikens Anonymous $25,000-$49,999 Jennifer andScott Wyatt Jay andSusanneWakefield Moya Vazquez Charles andDelphineStevens Barbara andthelate Paul Stephanus Shannon SperryandPaul Goodrich Martha andJeffSherman Seattle Opera Guild Anne M.Redman Steven C.Phelps Rosemary Peterson to honorthe D.V. andIdaJ. McEachern Grousemont Foundation inmemory Robert Fries andDebra Dahlen Jack M.andMarshaS. Firestone William S. Etnyre Dr. SusanE.Detweiler andthelate Janice C.Condit The ChisholmFoundation Blaise-Caves Jonathan Caves andPatricia Thomas H.andLindaL.Allen Anonymous $50,000-$99,999 CENTER CIRCLE The JonathanF. Whetzel Family The Walker Family Foundation Paula Stokes andJohnSullivan Gene andJeanStark Judith Schoenecker and Eulalie Schneider Margaret andEricRothchild Nesholm Family Foundation Laura Lundgren late Richard H.Peterson Charitable Trust of Howard S. Wright Dr. Alexander Clowes Christopher L.Myers

© Philip Newton Jocelyn PhillipsandWarren Bakken Heidi Munzinger and JohnShott,in Richard MillsandKaren Covington Stafford andLouiseMiller Greg Meldahl Andrea C.Lewis Aidan LangandLindaKitchen Martha Kongsgaard andPeter Goldman Mr. DongKimandMs. Rebecca Banset Bruce E.H.Johnsonand Michael andZhenya Hyman Ann andGlen Hiner Paul andBeckyHaley Michael G.Dryfoos andIlga Jansons Jesse andLenora Diller John Delo andElizabeth Stokes Patricia andTed Collins Steven andJudithClifford Betty R.Carter Susan Buske William B. andAnnS. Burstiner Dr. JosephandBarbara Buchman Deininger Brenda Bruns,M.D. andRichard Gary Bromberg Rebecca Boyd Lynly Beard Warren andAnneAnderson Kim A.Anderson Anonymous (3) $10,000-$24,999 James R.UhlirandCamille M.Uhlir Russell F. andSarah M.Tousley John F. Starbard Stephen A.Sprenger Rose M.Southall Mr. andMrs.W. H.Purdy Tom andGretchen Puentes The Peg andRickYoung Foundation Wanda andRalph Nuxoll Sarah Navarre Brendan Murphy Karen andRickMcMichael Fowler MartinandBarbara Warren Jeanne MarieLee Dr. BrianA.LaMacchia H. David Kaplan Eric Hawley andGwen Lowery Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna honor ofLindaandTom Allen Sandra E.Davis Pacifica LawGroup NBBJ Heartland Cosse International Securities Collins Group, adivisionof IN-KIND Albert andAngelina Yen Virginia Wright Terrence Turner Carla Tachau Lawrence, inmemory Rachel R.Schneider Jonathan Rosoff andKristin Winkel Estate ofRalph W. Peoples Soo HyunPark andJeff Rosenfeld Dr. andMrs.Donald W. Miller Jr. Dave andDolly Milkowski Leslie andDavid Mattson Brian Kreger andPeggy MartinKreger John andPamela Jolley Barbara Lynne JamisonandKeith Logan Kathleen FischerandThomasHart Patricia Dubrow Clinton DienerandDianeLasko James andWendy Cullen Barbara and JamesCrutcher Lisa BuryandJohnR.Taylor inhonor Anonymous (2) $5,000-$9,999 COMMUNITY CIRCLE Kenneth andRosemary Willman David andRomayne Watt Wagner andMore Judy Tsou andDavid Carlson Matthew SegalandCorrie Greene Bernard Silbernagel Allen (late) andVirginia Senear Janet andThomasSeery Charles andMariaSchweizer Lupe Salazar andBarryBolding Cornelius andPenny Rosse Megan andGreg Pursell Campbell &Company of Frank andPaula Tachau of Tom andLindaAllen 33 $15,000,000 and more Seattle Opera’s strong Gerard L. Hanauer foundation of support $1,000,000 and more is thanks to donors like Lenore M. Hanauer Kreielsheimer Endowment Fund you who create a lasting Gladys and Sam Rubinstein legacy gift with an $500,000 - $999,999 endowed fund. Anonymous The Clowes Fund, Inc. Max E. Gellert Memorial Fund A gift to the Seattle Opera Foundation Ruth H. Hoffman helps to: Seattle Opera Guild in Memory of Marian E. Lackovich and Captain Louis J. Lackovich Endowed Fund Maintain long-term security for Howard D. Wigle ··Seattle Opera Provide a financial cushion during $250,000 - $499,999 ··economic downturns Anonymous Allow Seattle Opera to take more C. Keith Birkenfeld Memorial Trust for Education ··risks and create better art Susanne F. Hubbach Increase education and community Marion Oliver McCaw Garrison ··engagement activities Eulalie Schneider Fund for Artistic Excellence

To learn more about Seattle Opera Foundation and the Endowment $100,000 - $249,999 $50,000 - $99,999 Dr. Phyllis Bagdi and Dr. Kennan Garvey Schubert Barer for Seattle Opera, please visit Hollingsworth Endowed Fund Edward S. Brignall seattleopera.org/plannedgiving or Diana M. Blackmore Endowed Fund Leopold R. Gellert Family Trust contact Janell Johnson, Associate Carmen Elizabeth Delo Endowed Hartmut B. Gottschau Endowed Fund Director of Development—Estate Fund for Education George H. Lancaster and Gift Planning, at 206.676.5534 or In memory of H. Wendell Endicott Elizabeth Parke [email protected]. Jim and Gretchen Faulstich Mary F. Stowe Fund Endowed Fund Patricia A. Wilson ENDOWMENT FOR SEATTLE OPERA AT Margaret Rose Gray SEATTLE OPERA FOUNDATION William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund $25,000 - $49,999 The Seattle Opera Foundation is a Suzanne Dressler Kellar Rosemarie and Robert L. Anderson separate 503(c)3 organization to hold Eleanor Hale Wilson Charitable Trust Henriette Baum unrestricted and restricted funds for Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna Estate of Egon Baumann Speight Jenkins Endowed Fund Doris H. Caka Seattle Opera’s benefit. The donors Mildred King Dunn Estate of Shirley Callison Miner listed on this page have given cumulative Karen S. Larson Arnold H. Chin gifts of $25,000 or more for endowment Perry Lorenzo Fund for In-School James and Wendy Cullen purposes with outright gifts, estate gifts, Education David B. Felch or irrevocable planned gifts through a Lundgren Endowment for New Works Margery Friedlander charitable remainder trust or charitable Dr. Stanley M. Pier Endowed Fund Estate of Edward P. Goodrich gift annuity from 1968 through Braiden Rex-Johnson and Spencer The Estate of Dale Lehrman July 12, 2017. A. Johnson Endowed Artist Fund Delorez Rossell Gertrude E. Sprenger Education Ruth M. Rystogi Endowment Cecilia Schultz Music Foundation Fund James T. Williams Frances Stillman Hodges The Lawrence W. Wells Trust Judith A. Whetzel Estate of Maureen P. Woodman

Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Take your place in the circle of Seattle Opera’s most visionary supporters.

We give profound thanks to the Through a multi-year Annual Fund following Leadership Circle Members: commitment of $100,000 or more, you as of July 12, 2017 can help realize an unbounded vision Not pictured: for Seattle Opera’s future. Leadership William and Sally Neukom Circle membership gives you premium Ann P. Wyckoff recognition, personalized access to your opera company, and allows you to create Toby Bright and Eric Hawley and a lasting impact on the art you love. Nancy Ward Gwen Lowery

NEW! PRODUCER’S CIRCLE

The Producer’s Circle recognizes donors who have made a three-year Annual Gary and Parul Carol Maione Nesholm Fund commitment of $60,000-$99,999. Houlahan and Brian Marks Family Foundation This new tier of customized giving brings more possibilities than ever before to ensure the present and future of your opera company. Make your pledge today and enjoy memorable behind-the-scenes experiences with Seattle Opera!

LEARN MORE ABOUT MULTI-YEAR GIFTS by contacting Donor Services James and Sherry Eugene and Jean Maryanne Tagney Raisbeck Stark and David Jones at [email protected] or 206.389.7669.

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Your donor support fuels our programming, bringing powerful opera onto the stage here at McCaw Hall and throughout Washington State.

Opera is for all, and it comes to life through YOU! Join the Seattle Opera donor family to make a positive impact on your community. © Philip Newton

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36 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season EAP full-page template.indd 1 6/9/17 2:33 PM AMUSEMENTS SEATTLE OPERA Gifts of Artistic Expression ONLINE Located on the Kreielsheimer Promenade Level of McCaw Hall. Open two and a Visit seattleopera.org to find trailer videos, half hours prior to curtain. photos, audio clips, and interactive guides about Madame Butterfly and all the upcoming MADAME BUTTERFLY HIGHLIGHTS CD operas in our exciting 2017/18 season. Mirella Freni sings Cio-Cio-San and Luciano Pavarotti is Pinkerton in this “highlights” CD featuring more than an hour of the most beloved VIDEOS music from Puccini’s classic work. Herbert von DIRECTOR’S CHAT Karajan conducts Wiener Philharmoniker in the Meet Stage Director Kate Cherry and learn 1974 Decca studio recording. $26.95 more about her concept and inspirations behind this new-to-Seattle production of Puccini’s classic. PUCCINI HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW—INSULATED WATER BOTTLE SO ARCHIVES Bevi Acqua! Drink water! The key to a healthy singing voice is A three-minute collection of video clips from staying hydrated. Why not drink in style? Twenty-six-ounce our recent presentations of Puccini’s most turquoise and silver insulated bottle stays cold for 24 hours popular works: Tosca (2015), La bohème and hot for 12 hours. $32.95 (2013), Madame Butterfly (2012), and Turandot (2012). FAMOUS OPERA DUETS FROM THE SO ARCHIVES NEW—“MINE” MUG When two incredible voices sing as one, the Make sure everyone knows this Seattle Opera mug result is pure magic. In honor of the stirring belongs to you! Light gray porcelain with white and songs for two featured in Butterfly, we’ve dark gray lettering and turquoise accent. Holds 16 created a two-minute montage of notable ounces. $16.95 duets from productions throughout our history—including Lakmé (1967), The Pearl Fishers (2016), and Porgy and Bess (2011). CDS, BOOKS, DVDS Butterfly and Puccini fans will find lots of souvenir options for sale in the main ONE-MINUTE TRAILER gift shop located near the box office in the lower lobby. Prices vary. A montage of dress rehearsal footage from Seattle Opera’s current Madame Butterfly production. EXCLUSIVE ARTWORK T-SHIRTS Designer Kitty Kough created this evocative AUDIO PLAYER illustration for Seattle Opera’s poignant MUSICAL EXCERPTS production of Puccini’s heartbreaking Sample audio clips and highlights from masterpiece. Available in men’s and women’s Madame Butterfly and many other Seattle long sleeve. Prices vary. Opera performances at soundcloud.com/ seattle-opera. SHOP AMUSEMENTS ONLINE AT SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/SHOP. ALSO ON THE WEB

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38 Seattle Opera 2017/18 Season UPCOMING EVENTS

BRAVO! WINE TASTING Seattle Opera Lecture FOR DONORS Sunday, September 24 at 2:00 p.m. Series at SU WAM: DIRECTING BARBER WITH LINDY Novelty Hill Januik Winery Next: September 26, 7:00 p.m. HUME Mix, mingle, and enjoy a tasting with Join us in the Pigott Auditorium at Seattle October 1, 2017 BRAVO! in beautiful Woodinville wine University for a fun and interactive multi- Join Wagner and More for an enlightening country. media experience designed to make you discussion and Q&A with Barber of Seville SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/BRAVORSVP think about opera in new and innovative director Lindy Hume and General Director ways. Free admission. Aidan Lang. BRAVO! AT THE MOVIES: AMADEUS SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/SULECTURES (Annual Fund donors of $100 and more) Saturday, November 4 at 12:00 p.m. SIFF Cinema Uptown THE BARBER OF SEVILLE DRESS Artful Aging Free for BRAVO! members and one guest REHEARSALS In community centers, retirement homes, October 11 & 12, 2017, 7:00 p.m. Join BRAVO! for a viewing of Amadeus, the and memory loss centers, Seattle Opera Watch the final details come together at iconic 1984 film that won eight Academy will provide a host of engaging creative the last rehearsals prior to opening night. Awards including Best Picture. Mozart’s experiences, including recitals, guided (Annual Fund donors of $250 and more) music features prominently in this sing-alongs, workshops to create original fictionalized account of his life. opera scenes, and more. The arts keep our SPOTLIGHT DINNER: THE BARBER OF Reservations will open in Fall 2017. minds engaged and our spirits strong! SEVILLE SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/ARTFULAGING October 12, 2017, 5:00 p.m. General Director Aidan Lang hosts this TALKS AND PUBLIC insightful three-course dinner prior to the Youth Events Dress Rehearsal, featuring a special guest PRESENTATIONS THE YOUTH OPERA PROJECT artist. Pre-Performance Talks (Annual Fund donors of $500 and more) 60 minutes before every Seattle Opera Students ages 7-18 of all experience levels will explore stagecraft, singing, acting, SOUND AND SOWING performance. Free admission with dancing, and more, culminating with public Fall TBD performance ticket. performances of an opera. Next placement Join The SOWING Circle for an intersection Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, McCaw Hall auditions: September 9. of performance, broadcast, cultural Opera Talk Backs SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/YOP criticism, and opera in this special This 30-minute event is hosted by a partnership event with KUOW. member of the artistic or education staff STUDENT DRESS REHEARSALS (Annual Fund donors of $1,000 and more) and will feature a special guest from the Up Next: The Barber of Seville, cast or creative team. Join us to explore Questions? Contact Donor Services at October 11 and 12, 7:00 p.m. a variety of perspectives on performance [email protected] or 206.389.7669. SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/EXPERIENCEOPERA and production. In the Allen Room at SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/DONATE McCaw Hall after every performance. Family Day Matinee Space is limited. Free with admission. The Barber of Seville Family Day, OPERA ON THE RADIO October 22, 2017 Tune to 98.1 Classical KING-FM every SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/FAMILYDAY Saturday evening for more great opera, EDUCATION & including live performance from the COMMUNITY CLASSROOM OPERA FORUMS Seattle Opera stage and great recordings ENGAGEMENT EVENTS A customized classroom-based discussion hosted by Aidan Lang or Jonathan Dean. Speakers Bureau where students will “read between the KING.ORG lines,” engaging with opera through the Previews by Norm Hollingshead are underlying social, historical, and literary available throughout King, Pierce, and connections. Kitsap counties. Visit SEATTLEOPERA. BRAVO! SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/EXPERIENCEOPERA ORG/SPEAKERSBUREAU for a full list of BRAVO! Nights dates and events. BRAVO! members enjoy complimentary wine and coffee in the BRAVO! Lounges during intermission. SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/BRAVO

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