insidewhat’s 2019-2020 SEASON

Letter from Chairman 9 Palm Beach Opera Orchestra 42 Board of Directors 10 Artist Training Programs 43 General Director’s Welcome 11 Alumni Highlights 44 Co-Producer Society & Benenson Young Artists 48 Program Sponsors 12 Bailey Apprentice Artists 49 Hansel and Gretel 26 Palm Beach Opera Studio 51 Cast of Characters 27 Education & Community Director’s Notes 28 Engagement Programs 52 Synopsis 29 PBO Young Friends 53 The History of Hansel and Gretel 31 Community Events & Production Team 32 Adult Engagement 54 Artists 35 Palm Beach Opera Guild 55 Creative Team 38 Supporters 56 Production Staff 40 Palm Beach Opera Staff 64 Children’s Chorus 41 Orpheus Legacy Society 65

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

DEAR PALM BEACH OPERA PATRONS, Welcome to the first production of the 19-20 season! We are grateful that you decided to spend the evening with us and we look forward to sharing the season with you. Thanks to your continued patronage and support, last season Palm Beach Opera achieved an operating surplus for the third year in a row. At the same time, we expanded our young artist and community outreach programs to have a greater impact in our community. Our world-class performances and artists continue to excite and engage audiences, our education and community engagement programs continue to impact the lives of so many throughout our community, and our Palm Beach Opera family continues to flourish. With David Walker as our new general director, we are poised to build upon the momentum created over the last 10 years by our outgoing General Director, Daniel Biaggi, and look forward to the coming seasons of artistic growth, programmatic innovation, and increased national significance under David’s leadership. During the summer months, the Board of Directors focused on maintaining our financial stability, long-term planning, and welcomed new members to the board. Your belief in our mission is our inspiration, and we invite you to join us in discussions about Palm Beach Opera’s exciting future. There are many ways to support Palm Beach Opera and participate in the meaningful work of providing the magic of opera to our community. We hope you consider joining our Board of Directors, Co-Producer Society, Guild, or PBO Young Friends. Tonight, you will hear this season’s talented Benenson Young Artists and Bailey Apprentice Artists in a new, mesmerizing production of Hansel and Gretel, accompanied by members of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra. Thank you for joining us, and enjoy tonight’s performance!

Dennis Williams Chairman

PAST CHAIRS

Marc S. Solomon (2008-2012) William D. Chalek (1977-1979) James W. Beasley, Jr. (2005-2008) Dr. Warner Earle Fusselle (1976) Robert M. Montgomery (1986-2005) James Nemec (1973-1975) Shannon Ginn (1984-1985) Mrs. Carleton R. Dodge (1973) Herb Benn (1982-1983) William K. de Veer (1972) Dr. Elwood Groves (1977-1979)

PALM BEACH OPERA 9 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS DIRECTORS EMERITI Dennis K. Williams Sanford M. Baklor Hans D. Baumann Chairman Dr. Robert Biscup Dr. Elizabeth Bowden Nathan Leventhal David Brodsky Claire Chasanoff* President Annette Y. Friedland Rita Denerstein Ann Fromer John A. Domenico Jeffrey H. Alderton Paul A. Goldner Leon Fassler* Vice President Gray W. Hampton III Arlette Gordon Gladys Benenson* Ronnie Isenberg Robert Gordon* Vice President Florence Kaufman Chuck Hardwick William G. Brown Judith Kaufman Dr. David I. Kosowsky* Vice President Ingrid Kosowsky Howard Lester* Dr. Peter McCombs Virginia Longo Sanford Fisher John J. Pohanka Charlotte Miller Vice President Marc S. Solomon Sunny Miller David Genser Ed Streim Mary M. Montgomery Vice President Robert M. Montgomery* LEGAL COUNSEL Helen K. Persson* Charles Gottesman Vice President Jeffrey I. Pheterson M. Mac Schwebel* Muriel Shapiro* Peter A. Hoffman Reneé Silvester* Vice President Dr. John Strasswimmer Dr. Marsha Laufer Barbara Weimer Vice President Sy Ziv* Ari Rifkin Vice President Marc E. Wise *In Memoriam Secretary & Treasurer

LIFETIME GIVING CONTRIBUTORS

With special thanks to the following individuals who have made cumulative contributions to Palm Beach Opera of $1,000,000 or more.

Mrs. Cornelia T. Bailey*, Mrs. Gladys Benenson*, Mr. Robert* & The Glenn W. and The Edward H. Benenson Mrs. Mary Montgomery Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Helen K. Persson* Charitable Foundation, Mrs. Lorraine Friedman Mrs. Lois B. Pope in loving memory of Mr. Eugene* & Mr. M. Mac Schwebel* Cornelia T. Bailey Mrs. Ronnie Isenberg *In Memoriam

PALM BEACH OPERA 10 GENERAL DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

DEAR PALM BEACH OPERA FRIENDS, It is my pleasure to welcome you to the first opera of Palm Beach Opera’s 19-20 season. We are thrilled to feature our Benenson Young Artists and Bailey Apprentice Artists at Crest Theatre tonight, fulfilling our mission to present world-class performances and train the next generation of opera stars. Featuring a lush musical score, an imaginative set, and a charming story, this captivating production is sure to entertain you, and will also provide these rising singers with another important on-stage opportunity, further preparing them for successful careers in opera. Our growing artist training programs provide launching pads for both © Coastal Click Photography post-graduate and graduate singers, and alumni have gone on to sing at some of the most prestigious opera houses around the world. As they embark on international stardom, we hope you’ll follow their careers as we do. Whether you’re here for the first time or have been a member of our Palm Beach Opera family for years, I want to thank you for joining us tonight at the opera. I look forward to getting to know you in the coming months, and building on Palm Beach Opera’s incredible success as its new General Director. With our highly-anticipated 19-20 season underway, and as new programs and plans are outlined for the future, we have much to celebrate and even more to look forward to. Beginning with an enchanting Hansel and Gretel tonight, our 19-20 season also includes Giacomo Puccini’s sweeping Turandot, featuring much-beloved music and a fantastical set, followed by Gioachino Rossini’s comedic masterpiece, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s deeply moving opera, Eugene Onegin. We hope you will also join us for these 2020 performances held at the Kravis Center, and experience the artistry of our remaining productions. During each season of opera, our Education & Community Engagement team is also traveling across three South Florida counties, impacting our community through thoughtful and engaging programs for learners of all ages. By the end of the season, nearly 20,000 individuals will be reached directly from our unique and curated educational programs. From our storytelling experience for children in Story Time Series, to our special ANIMA program, which brings live opera to those who would otherwise be unable to experience it, these meaningful programs are free to the public, thanks to your generous support. We are most grateful to you for investing in our mission, which enables us to create extraordinary performances, impact our community, and inspire life-long interest in the arts. Thank you for joining us, and for being a part of our opera family!

David Walker General Director

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Eugene OneginEugene CORNELIA T. BAILEY T. CORNELIA PALM BEACH OPERA 12 EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS EXECUTIVE THE GLENN AND CORNELIA W. BAILEY T. CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, IN LOVING MEMORY OF Palm Beach Opera acknowledges with gratitude gratitude with acknowledges Opera Beach Palm appreciation and the underwrite contributions designated whose Co-Producers generous this season’s making in instrumental are and costs, production possible. productions current as of 11/20/2019 to the 2020 season, Contributions opera production. Palm Beach Opera most gratefully acknowledges Cornelia Bailey’s immense support to Palm Beach Opera most gratefully acknowledges Bailey’s keen interest in productions, Palm Beach Opera’s productions and programs. Mrs. and scenery beautiful of appreciation her and repertoire, of variety broad a for love her Last year, Palm Beach Opera mourned costumes led her to become an Executive Producer. Her legacy as a Palm Beach Opera the loss of this dear friend and gracious supporter. the curtain rises on another mainstage patron and supporter will continue every time

CO-PRODUCERSOCIETY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

MR. & MRS. WILLIAM G. BROWN Il barbiere di Siviglia

MRS. RONNIE ISENBERG, IN LOVING MEMORY OF EUGENE ISENBERG

Palm Beach Opera is deeply grateful to Ronnie Isenberg for her magnanimous support in memory of Gene. Ronnie and Gene have alternately been on the Board of Directors for the past 20 years, and have always been among the leaders of Palm Beach Opera. After Gene’s passing, Ronnie significantly increased her support to show their love for grand productions. “He introduced me to opera,” Ronnie said. “I enjoy listening and seeing all operas.” With the formal establishment of the Co-Producer Society, Ronnie became an Executive Producer of Madama Butterfly in 2017, continued as an Executive Producer of Tosca in 2018, Don Giovanni in 2019, and was awarded the board designated “Lifetime Grand Patron Award” for her many years of leadership.

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MRS. ARI RIFKIN ARI MRS. PRODUCERS BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIESBLOOMBERG PALM BEACH OPERA 14 Hansel and Gretel, Turandot, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Eugene Onegin Hansel and Gretel, Turandot, , Turandot, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Hansel and Gretel Sponsor, Turandot, Chief Conductor “I especially love the beautiful melodies in classical operas,” said Ari Rifkin. Her love for the for the beautiful melodies in classical operas,” said Her love Ari Rifkin. “I especially love “Opera a wonderful is combination artsarts, visual includes also movies, and photography. the visual, and dramatic arts, by during the performance vocal, all inspired of orchestral, her continued Chief Ari Rifkin for to grateful Opera is most Beach Palm conductor.” Sponsorship.Conductor Philanthropist and Palm Beach Opera Executive Committee member Ari Rifkin has Committee Opera Executive Beach and Palm Philanthropist and solo violin. music the opera and classical music, in particularorchestral enjoyed always Palm Beach Opera is sincerely grateful for the generous support provided by Bloomberg Bloomberg by support the generous provided for grateful Opera is sincerely Beach Palm areas key five on focuses Philanthropies Bloomberg as a season Producer. Philanthropies innovation, education, government public health, environment, change: last creating for are team and his Bloomberg issues Mike the encompass areas and arts five These & culture. good can be achieved. the greatest believe they about, and where passionate most

CO-PRODUCERSOCIETY PRODUCERS

TONI & MARTIN SOSNOFF Scenery & Costume Underwriters, Turandot

TRIPLE CO-PRODUCERS

MR. SANFORD BAKLOR & MS. ARLENE KAUFMAN Opening Night Sponsors Turandot, Il barbiere di Siviglia, & Eugene Onegin

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Eugene Onegin MRS. KAREN TELL Il barbiere di Siviglia & MR. NATHAN LEVENTHAL

K. WILLIAMS

MR. & MRS. DENNIS

PALM BEACH OPERA 16 DOUBLE CO-PRODUCERS DOUBLE HENRY LAUFER HENRY DRS. MARSHA & Il barbiere di Siviglia Hansel and Gretel & MRS. PATRICIA LESTER PATRICIA MRS.

CO-PRODUCERSOCIETY CO-PRODUCERS

DR. & MRS. HANS CYNTHIA & MR. & MRS. KEN MR. & MRS. D. BAUMANN THEODORE BRODLIEB DOUGLAS DAFT BERENSON Turandot The Daft Family Il barbiere di Siviglia Foundation, Director Sponsor, Keturah Stickann, Turandot

MR. & MRS. RANDELL ISANNE & SANFORD MRS. DAMARIS D.W. MR. & MRS. ROBERT AND REBECCA FISHER FORD FROMER DOANE Hansel & Gretel, Il barbiere di Siviglia Il barbiere di Siviglia Turandot Eugene Onegin

MRS. MARTHA INGRAM

MRS. INGRID DR. DONNA K. & KOSOWSKY MR. JOHN RAGGIO Eugene Onegin

MR. MARC ISRAEL SCHUBERT MR. & MRS. SOLOMON Meridian Capital Group ED STREIM Solomon Family Turandot Foundation Trust, Turandot

PALM BEACH OPERA 17 ASSOCIATE CO-PRODUCERS

MRS. ANNETTE Y. FRIEDLAND JUDY & JERRY KAUFMAN Il barbiere di Siviglia MR. & MRS. PAUL GOLDNER Il barbiere di Siviglia MR. & MRS. ELLIS J. PARKER

MR. & MRS. CHARLES GOTTESMAN MR. & MRS. JOHN POHANKA

MRS. FLORENCE KAUFMAN MRS. SIEGLINDE WIKSTROM

ASSISTANT CO-PRODUCERS

MR. & MRS. JEFFREY H. ALDERTON MR. & MRS. SCOTT LAURANS Turandot DR. & MRS. ROBERT BISCUP MR. MICHAEL McCAFFERTY & MR. & MRS. PAUL EFRON MR. JOSEPH HORTON Eugene Onegin MR. & MRS. DAVID GENSER DR. AND MRS. PETER McCOMBS MS. BARBARA GREIS & MR. HOWARD GOTTLIEB JENNIFER & JAMES TAKATS Eugene Onegin MR. & MRS. DAVID FRISBIE MR. MARC WISE & LAUREN & GRAY HAMPTON III MR. MARIANO MORALES Turandot

CO-PRODUCER SOCIETY EVENT SPONSORS

Season Closing Celebration Sponsor

CELEBRATION COMMITTEE

Palm Beach Opera is sincerely thankful to the following individuals for their commitment to furthering our mission through hosting events.

MR. & MRS. JEFFREY H. ALDERTON MRS. FLORENCE KAUFMAN MR. SANFORD BAKLOR & DRS. MARSHA AND HENRY LAUFER MS. ARLENE KAUFMAN MR. & MRS. DENNIS K. WILLIAMS

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GALA HOST COMMITTEE SPONSORS AND UNDERWRITERS

Palm Beach Opera is sincerely thankful to the following individuals and corporations for their support and commitment to the success of our 2020 Gala.

Contributions to the 2020 Gala, current as of 11/20/2019

GALA CO-CHAIRS COCKTAIL RECEPTION Lee Ann Alderton UNDERWRITERS Rebecca Doane Sidney & Dorothy Kohl Joan Genser Florence Kaufman GOLD SPONSORS Lee Ann & Jeffrey H. Alderton IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMEN Meg & Robert Biscup Lee Ann & Jeffrey H. Alderton Joan & David Genser Florence Kaufman GALA COUNCIL Dr. Donna Kesselman Raggio & Lee Ann & Jeffrey H. Alderton Mr. John. J. Raggio Veronica Atkins Ari Rifkin Sanford Baklor & Arlene Kaufman Roseanne & Dennis K. Williams Meg & Robert Biscup Rebecca & Randell Doane Isanne & Sanford Fisher Joan & David Genser SILVER SPONSORS Florence Kaufman Dr. Frayda Lindemann Dorothy & Sidney Kohl Drs. Marsha & Henry Laufer EVENING MUSIC AND Dr. Donna Kesselman Raggio & ENTERTAINMENT UNDERWRITERS Mr. John. J. Raggio Barbara Greis & Howard Gottlieb Ari Rifkin Toni & Martin Sosnoff INVITATION UNDERWRITERS Roseanne & Dennis K. Williams Lynn Joy & Meyer Sapoff Wilmington Trust, N.A. GOLD ARIA UNDERWRITERS GRAND GALA SPONSOR Carol & Sander Abend Veronica Atkins SILVER ARIA UNDERWRITERS CHRISTIAN VAN HORN Judy & Jerry Kaufman UNDERWRITERS Paul and Roberta Kozloff Isanne & Sanford Fisher BRONZE SPONSORS CRAIG TERRY UNDERWRITERS Roberta & Stanley Bogen Toni & Martin Sosnoff Gerald & Sandra Fineberg Hermé de Wyman Miro PLATINUM SPONSORS Ingrid Kosowsky Rebecca & Randell Doane Drs. Marsha & Henry Laufer Rhea & Morton Mandell DÉCOR UNDERWRITERS AND MAJOR SPONSORS LUNCHEON HOSTS Sanford Baklor & Arlene Kaufman

PALM BEACH OPERA 20 GALA HOST COMMITTEE SPONSORS AND UNDERWRITERS

COUPLE’S SPONSORS Olga & Eric Jorgensen Naomi Brest & David Kaplan Anne & Robert Kraus Carolyn & David Brodksy Monica & Scott Laurans Nancy & Peter Brown Nathan Leventhal & Katherine Brown Louise Cohen Michael McCafferty & Joseph Horton A. Billie & Louis Feher Wilma & Charles Mooney Ann & Robert Fromer Suzanne Niedland Barbara Goldfarb Tepperman & Carol O’Malley & Nick Harry Frank Tepperman Melissa Sullivan Arlette Gordon Beth Grosshans & Dennis Stattman PATRON SPONSORS Lauren and Gray W. Hampton III Lisa L. Huertas Carla & David Herwitz Anka Palitz Lawrence Jarema & Mark Walter Linda Taub

PALM BEACH OPERA 21 BENENSON YOUNG ARTIST & BAILEY APPRENTICE ARTIST PROGRAM SPONSORS

Palm Beach Opera acknowledges with sincere appreciation the generous major donors whose designated contributions have been instrumental in building the next generation of opera stars through our Benenson Young Artist Program and our Bailey Apprentice Artist Program. These extraordinary programs provide a vital stepping stone to a successful career for post-graduate and emerging singers.

MRS. GLADYS BENENSON Benenson Young Artist Program Gladys Benenson was a most refined and elegant lady, with a wonderful sense of humor, and was determined to make a difference in the lives of young singers. Palm Beach Opera is deeply grateful to Gladys for her 25 years of dedicated service and leadership on the Board, and will miss her greatly. Gladys and her late husband Edward H. “Eddie” Benenson shared a passion for opera and enjoyed performances all over the world. Gladys turned her childhood love of singing into her mission to help young singers succeed in their careers and established the Benenson Young Artist Program in loving memory of Eddie Benenson. Palm Beach Opera is eternally grateful to Gladys and her family, and her legacy will live on through the lives and careers transformed through the Benenson Young Artist Program.

“Being associated with Palm Beach Opera and seeing these wonderful young artists grow has given me a great amount of joy.” ―Gladys Benenson

PALM BEACH OPERA 22 BENENSON YOUNG ARTISTS SPONSORS

The Benenson Young Artist Program is generously funded by The Edward H. Benenson Foundation, Inc.

MR. & MRS. WILLIAM MR. & MRS. L. DAVID G. BROWN CALLAWAY Boris Van Druff Cara Collins

DRS. MARSHA & MRS. ROSEANNE HENRY LAUFER WILLIAMS Patricia Westley & Duke Kim Ted Allen Pickell

BAILEY APPRENTICE ARTISTS SPONSORS

MR. & MRS. BARRY W. GRAY

MS. ANNE BAZIK MICKEY & ALLAN MRS. RONNIE Suzannah Waddington GREENBLATT ISENBERG

LINDA TAUB Emily Helenbrook

DRS. MARSHA & TEEDA & SALVATORE THE GLADYS & SY ZIV HENRY LAUFER NUZZO FOUNDATION David Anderson Apprentice Artist Program

PALM BEACH OPERA 23 EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS

Palm Beach Opera is most grateful to The V. Atkins Foundation for its generous support of all Palm Beach Opera educational and community engagement efforts on behalf of opera and classical vocal arts. GOLDNER CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S OPERA EDUCATION Palm Beach Opera acknowledges with deep appreciation the generous major donors whose designated contributions have been instrumental in making possible, and furthering the mission of Palm Beach Opera’s Goldner Center for Children’s Opera Education. The Goldner Center for Children’s Opera Education aims to bring opera to children through interactive programs, and strives to make a difference in the lives of children by sharing the magic of opera.

MR. & MRS. PAUL A. GOLDNER Goldner Center for Children’s Opera Education

DELPHINE & DOUGLAS DAFT, DAFT FAMILY FOUNDATION Goldner Center for Children’s Opera Education CONCERTS IN THE CLASSROOM Sponsored by the Alvin and Louise Myerberg Family Foundation PALM BEACH OPERA STUDIO Sponsored by Suzanne L. Niedland and the Palm Beach Opera Guild OPERA REHEARSAL 101 Sponsored by the Palm Beach Opera Guild and The Honorable & Mrs. Roger H. Lourie SUMMER AL FRESCO Sponsored by Olive and Michael Schaeffer

PALM BEACH OPERA 24 CHILDREN’S PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Palm Beach Opera would like to thank the following for their generous support of Children’s Performance: The Barber of Seville. GRAND PRODUCTION SPONSOR Ms. Marie A. Iandoli

PRODUCTION SPONSOR Ms. Hermine Drezner in loving memory of Mr. Jan Winkler The Palm Beach Opera Guild LIEDERABEND SPONSORS Palm Beach Opera would like to thank the following for their support of our Liederabend concert featuring our Bailey Apprentice Artists.

MR. & MRS. PETER HOFFMAN MRS. HERMÉ DE WYMAN MIRO ANN VAN NESS HANSEL AND GRETEL An opera performed in 3 acts Sung in English translation by Kathleen Kelly With English Supertitles

Music by Engelbert Humperdinck Libretto by Adelheid Wette Based on a version of the folk tale by the Brothers Grimm

First Performance Hoftheater, Weimar December 23, 1893

Last Palm Beach Opera Performance 2004

HANSEL AND GRETEL CO-PRODUCERS

PRODUCER DOUBLE CO-PRODUCER Bloomberg Philanthropies Drs. Marsha and Henry Laufer Ari Rifkin, Chief Conductor Sponsor CO-PRODUCER Isanne & Sanford Fisher

PALM BEACH OPERA 26 CAST OF CHARACTERS

Conductor: David Stern Director: Fenlon Lamb

In order of vocal appearance Gretel: Patricia Westley+* Hansel: Maria Vasilevskaya+* The Mother: Cara Collins+* The Father: Ted Allen Pickell+ Sandman: Emily Blair+ Dew Fairy: Emily Helenbrook^* The Witch: Cara Collins+*

Scenic Designer: Jefferson Ridenour* Costume Designer: Maureen Thomas* Projection Designer: Kris Kirkwood* Lighting Designer: Brian B. Moore* Hair and Make-up Designer: Kathy Waszkelewicz Associate Conductor & Chorus Master: Gregory Ritchey Music Staff: Timothy Cheung Ksenia Leletkina Assistant Stage Director: Alayna Stewart Powell* English Diction Coach: Kathryn LaBouff English Supertitles: Kathleen Kelly

Children’s Chorus appears courtesy of Young Singers of The Palm Beaches.

Scenery, Costumes, Projections, and Properties for this production were realized by Papermoon Opera Productions and are owned by Papermoon Opera Productions.

Orchestral and Text Adaptation created by Kathleen Kelly.

*Palm Beach Opera Debut +Benenson Young Artist ^Bailey Apprentice Artist

PALM BEACH OPERA 27 DIRECTOR’S NOTES

Papermoon Opera Productions was born out of an artistic partnership between myself and Jefferson Ridenour. During our six years of collaboration, we have created 20 productions together as stage director and set designer respectively. As is often the case, necessity was the mother of invention and the medium of paper started as a cost-saving device to create epic sets on a shoestring budget. This solution led to joyful collaboration and out-of-the-box ideas which continue to push our own design boundaries. Maureen Thomas, Kris Kirkwood, Brian B. Moore, and Zoe Still all joined Papermoon Opera Productions for the flagship production of Hansel and Gretel in 2016. The crafting techniques and inspired construction of the costumes brought a delightful twist to the production, and the magic of lighting and projections created a fluid and texture-filled world for the audience while enhancing the flexibility of this medium. Originally, I was overwhelmed with the prospect of creating an entire production out of paper, but after much thought and several creative conversations with Jefferson, the opportunities became clear. A traditional production with a twist of every element in paper was the answer to budget constraints: sets, costumes, props would all be built with this quirky and imaginative medium to simplify installation and cut material costs. No matter the limitations, we wanted to be certain to maintain the epic atmosphere of opera. Finding the intimacy that exists in a familiar material such as paper was an exciting counterpoint. My designers embraced this concept and created an incredible world within which young singers can play and discover their characters. As we all explored this seemingly flat world, the dimensionality of the human experience and the differing textures of shared memories have continued to come to light. The idea that simple child’s play is the gateway to learning more about ourselves and delving into complexities of emotion and expression made the project more joy-filled than I ever thought possible. So, come play with us and discover those depths of human nature both sweet and sour that are buried deep within this familiar fairy tale. I invite you to wander through the woods (our very own paper forest) and take a closer look at the magic we create every day, the way opera touches our hearts and frees our minds. Let yourself play and create and imagine, and be swept away into that child-like place where wonder and imagination create an escape from the weary world. Fenlon Lamb

PALM BEACH OPERA 28 SYNOPSIS

ACT I. Once upon a time there was a poor couple, a broom-maker and his wife, who had two children; the boy was called Hansel, and the girl, Gretel. One day the parents had gone traversing through the countryside to try to sell their goods. On leaving the children, the mother had given them the last bit of bread that was in the house, and had told them to be very industrious while she was away. It was not long before the lively children tired of their work and began to get hungry. Hansel was at the point of tears when Gretel came to the rescue and cheered him up again. So they sang and danced until they both forgot their hunger and work, and at last in tremendous spirits, they tumbled over one another on the floor. Now it happened that just at this moment the mother came home again, tired and frustrated, for she had not made a single penny, and consequently had brought home nothing to eat. When she found the children sitting on the floor and making noise, instead of being quietly at their work, she got very angry and drove them out into the woods. They were not to come back until they had filled their basket with strawberries. Then she sank wearily down in a chair, remorseful at losing her temper, and begged God for help. Soon the voice of her husband was heard in the distance, and he was elated to be returning with a modest feast, for he had sold all of his brooms in a far off village. The parents celebrated the bounty, until the father learned that the children had gone into the woods alone. Concerned that the children might encounter danger, the parents hurriedly set out to find them. ACT II. The children soon got happy again over their strawberry picking, and did not notice that they were losing their way and getting deeper and deeper into the woods, until at last they stopped by the Ilsenstein mountain. Full of fun and high spirits they imitated the cuckoo’s cry, and ate their berries as they pretended to be a cuckoo stealing eggs with his beak. Before they knew it, their basket was empty. Meanwhile it gradually got dark, and the children became frightened. They could not find their way and wandered helplessly around. The woods seemed full of ghosts, and the trees rustled eerily. The birds were all silent, and only the cuckoo was still heard in the far distance. From the Ilsenstein there arose strange shapes in the mist, so that the poor lonely children were frightened out of their wits. They cowered under a great fir-tree to try to find shelter from the terrors of the night, until the Sandman appeared to sprinkle sand over their eyes and bring them peaceful sleep. The children then said their evening prayer and lay down on the soft moss as angels hovered around and watched the good children so that no harm might come to them.

INTERMISSION

PALM BEACH OPERA 29 SYNOPSIS CONTINUED

ACT III. The next morning they were awakened from their dreams by the Dew Fairy, whose business it is to run over the hills and fields awakening everything that is still slumbering. And what should they see before them but a little house all made of cakes and sugar-candy, glistening in the light of the sun and smelling so delicious that the hungry children, who could scarcely believe their eyes, were quite wild with delight. They cautiously approached the cottage, and as they did not see anybody about, they became bolder, and broke a piece off the wall, which tasted exceedingly nice. At this moment a voice was heard from within the house, saying, “Crispy, crispy, crunching, I hear you out there munching.” At first they were rather alarmed, but they soon regained their courage, and called to one another that it was only the wind, and they went on nibbling. But the door of the cottage softly opened, and a very old and ugly woman came out of it. Now there was something very wicked about this old creature. She was a witch, who rode on a broomstick through the air at night, and in the daytime enticed little children into her sugar-house, where she popped them in the oven and made them into gingerbread, which she afterwards ate. She tried to be very friendly with Hansel and Gretel, and coaxed them in with honeyed words. However, the children distrusted the horrible old woman and tried to run away. Then the witch raised her magic wand and spell-bound them both, so that they were rooted to the spot. She next took Hansel and shut him up in a stable, and fed him with almonds and raisins to make him fat. She was so delighted when she had done this, that she seized a broomstick and rode wildly on it ’round her house. After that she called Gretel and told her to look into the oven and see if the cakes were done. But Gretel was sharper than the witch and saw through her trick, so she pretended to be very stupid and begged the old woman to show her how it was to be done. The old woman unsuspectingly bent down over the oven to show Gretel what to do. No sooner had she done this, than the children gave her a good push and in she tumbled. They quickly shut the iron door and left her to bake in her own oven, while they danced away with joy. Suddenly, a crack was heard and the magic oven fell to pieces with a loud crash. And behold, the gingerbreads, which were standing in a row round the cottage, were transformed into living children, who joyfully surrounded Hansel and Gretel, and thanked them for their happy release. And what joy when the sorrowing parents appeared, and Hansel and Gretel rushed delightedly into their arms once more! Then all sadness and want were banished forever, for in the sugar-cottage they had found all sorts of treasures which would make them happy and rich for the rest of their days. And they all thanked God, who had taken care of them in their great need. Adapted from the original synopsis of Adelheid Wette.

PALM BEACH OPERA 30 THE HISTORY OF HUMPERDINCK’S HANSEL AND GRETEL

Appropriately enough, the story of how the opera Hansel and Gretel came to be written begins with two children. Englebert Humperdinck, a German composer who had written vocal music but never a full opera, had two teenaged nieces. Their mother, Humperdinck’s youngest sister, Adelheid Wette, asked Humperdinck to compose a series of four folksongs based on the famous children’s story “Hansel and Gretel” for her daughters to perform at a small family Christmas gathering. Humperdinck agreed, but went above and beyond his commission. With Wette writing the libretto, he created a short singspiel (a dramatic piece in which songs alternate with spoken dialogue) based on “Hansel and Gretel.” His nieces performed it, and the family was so delighted with it that Humperdinck decided to expand it further into a full-scale opera. The opera is based on the story by the Brothers Grimm. Adelheide Wette used the basic elements of two children who are thrust out of their home, get lost in the woods, and are accosted by a hungry witch, but modified it slightly to fit her needs. In Wette’s hands, the story is not about being lost and then found or even necessarily about the witch’s atrocities. Instead, it is about God’s ever-watchful eye and power to care for people in need. Wette changes the evil stepmother from the Grimm tale into a put-upon mother who is desperate because of her family’s near-starvation but is not intrinsically evil. In the Grimm tale, the stepmother dies at the same time as the witch. In Wette’s libretto, the mother comes with the father to rescue the children and lives to sing the moral of the story along with everyone else on stage. Before writing Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck had been invited to Bayreuth to help Richard Wagner with his production of Parsifal. Humperdinck leapt at this opportunity to learn firsthand the inner workings of Wagner’s methods of opera composition and production, and he incorporated these techniques into Hansel and Gretel, including the use of leitmotifs—musical phrases that are repeated in similar dramatic circumstances. For example, we hear the music that becomes associated with the witch when Father speaks about witches in the woods riding on broomsticks, again before we see the witch’s house, and then again when the witch sings. The first performance of Hansel and Gretel took place on December 23, 1893, in Weimar’s Hoftheater. It was originally scheduled to premiere nine days earlier in Munich, but the singer scheduled to play Gretel fell ill. Another illness, this time of the singer playing Hansel in Weimar, caused a shift in casting. The soprano slated to play Gretel switched to Hansel, while another singer took over the part of Gretel on short notice. Richard Strauss, who had declared the score a masterpiece when he first saw it, conducted. The premiere was not perfect—in addition to the casting difficulties, the orchestral parts for the overture had not yet arrived from Munich, and the performance was played without it. Yet despite its inauspicious beginning, the opera was received well and was soon seen in theaters throughout Germany. Its rapid progress was helped along by the creation of a Hansel and Gretel touring company in 1894, and its popularity quickly spread to other countries. Because Hansel and Gretel is meant to be experienced by people of all ages, it is often performed in the vernacular of the audience, with the first performances in English having taken place just one year after its composition. © Copyright 2014 The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

PALM BEACH OPERA 31 DAVID STERN Chief Conductor David Stern’s musical leadership is spread across three continents. Whether conducting a romantic opera, a baroque oratorio or a classical symphony, teaching vocal master classes or defending cultural activities, David Stern keeps his musicians, students and audiences riveted by sharing his strong musical convictions and his belief that music is relevant and indeed essential in today’s world. He is the founder and director of Opera Fuoco, the Paris-based international opera company and young artist program dedicated to lyric repertoire from the mid-18th century to the present, chief conductor of the Palm Beach Opera, artistic advisor and chief conductor of the Shanghai Baroque Festival, and director of the newly founded Heifetz Baroque Program in Staunton, Virginia. Since 2016, he has been the co-chair of the jury of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition. Stern’s repertoire ranges from the mainstream to the eclectic. As music director of the Israel and St. Gallen opera houses, he championed works such as Simone Mayr’s Medea, Berg’s Wozzeck, Britten’s Turn of the Screw, and Weill'’s Mahagonny, as well as Mozart, Strauss, and Puccini. With Opera Fuoco, he has led the modern day premiere of JC Bach’s Zanaida and the French premiere of Korngold’s Die stumme Serenade. He has championed operas of Telemann such as Damon and Richardus and most recently conducted the B-minor Mass in Leipzig to close Bachfest 2019. In 2020, he will bring Mayr’s L’amor coniugale to the Beethovenfest in Bonn. In Shanghai, he has performed Purcell and Handel, Bloch’s Sacred Service, Roussel’s Symphony No. 3, and will soon present the Chinese premiere of Florent Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé. Since launching the Aix-en-Provence Festival’s Academie Internationale d’Art Lyrique with Stéphane Lissner in 1998, David Stern has been committed to developing young voices. He created Opera Fuoco in 2003 as a platform for young professional singers in France, combining both a young artists program, a period-instrument orchestra, and a company which produces concertante and staged projects nationally and internationally. In 2016, he conducted Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Juilliard School in New York, and in 2020 he will appear as part of the Curtis Institute Opera season. In 2019, he inaugurated a very successful baroque vocal workshop at the Heifetz International Institute in Staunton, Virginia, initiating both singers and young string players to baroque performance style and expression. He also participates in the Nordplus Education Network for a series of concerts with young singers from Baltic countries at the Drottningholm Theater in Stockholm. Stern has enjoyed collaborations with international stage directors including David Alden, Stephane Braunschweig, Robin Guarino, Sam Helfrich, Waut Koeken, Jakob Peters-Messer, and Aron Stiehl, among many others. With Yoshi Oïda, he created iconic settings of Britten’s Curlew River and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, and with Francisco Negrin he led performances of Mozart’s Mitridate as artist in residence at the 2014 Drottningholm Opera Festival. Stern has recorded with various ensembles throughout his career. With Opera Fuoco, he has recently recorded Berenice che fai, a compilation of late Baroque and early Classical works with three members of Opera Fuoco’s studio singers which was very well received by the press. Previous recordings with Opera Fuoco include The Romantic Cantatas with Karine Deshayes, Johann Christian Bach’s opera Zanaida, and two Handel oratorios, Semele and Jephtha. He also recorded Simone Mayr’s Medea with the St. Gallen Opera, and John Field’s piano concertos with Concerto Köln and Andreas Staier, as well as works by Otto Nicolai and concertos of Albert Roussel with Jean-Guihen Queyras. His latest recording of arias by Florian Leopold Gassman with Soprano Ania will be released on the CPO label. David Stern is a frequent guest conductor around the globe. He is regularly invited to the Edmonton Opera, the Drottningholm Opera Festival, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Shanghai and Guangzhou Symphonies, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Russian Symphony the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and has led recent performances with the Boston Lyric Opera, the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, and NDR Hannover. In 2020, he will appear with the Opera Orchestra of Marseille and the Sydney Symphony in Australia. Stern received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale College and his Masters of Music from the Juilliard School. He is married to the violinist Katharina Wolff.

PALM BEACH OPERA 32 FENLON LAMB Director Acclaimed director Fenlon Lamb returns to Palm Beach Opera to continue a longstanding collaboration which has included a “lively... spiced up” Tosca, a “delightful” Don Pasquale, an “opulent” La bohème, and a “madcap” Il barbiere di Siviglia in recent seasons on the mainstage, along with several critically acclaimed Young Artist productions while she was an Assistant Director for the company. Fenlon led the world premiere production of Riders of the Purple Sage for Arizona Opera and returned to the company last fall for a new production of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. Recently, she directed Madama Butterfly in a Papermoon Opera Production for Inland Northwest Opera, La traviata with Madison Opera, and Scalia/Ginsburg for Opera Delaware. Fenlon has also directed Carmen for North Carolina Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, Bar Harbor Music Festival Opera, Annapolis Opera, and Dayton Opera, as well as engaging productions of Tosca, La bohème, La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Pasquale, Der fliegender Holländer, and Le nozze di Figaro at companies across the U.S. During her tenure as Director of Opera at University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory of Music, Fenlon raised the level of performance with thoughtful, “well-crafted” productions including Cendrillon, Little Women, Die Zauberflöte, The Turn of the Screw, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Hansel und Gretel, and a double-bill of La voix humaine and L’enfant et les Sortilèges. The Kansas City Star took note: “The Opera Department of the UMKC has become one of the most creative forces in Kansas City. Under its director, Fenlon Lamb, the department has been presenting satisfying and ingenious productions.” Fenlon is the co-creator and Artistic Director of Papermoon Opera Productions, a company which began when she conceived and staged a unique paper-inspired setting of Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters for Lyric Opera of Kansas City with her artistic partner Jefferson Ridenour as set designer. Hänsel und Gretel was Papermoon’s first large scale collaboration in which all design elements were constructed from paper materials, and Fenlon has since created and directed new Papermoon productions of La bohème, Carmen, L’enfant et les Sortilèges, Madama Butterfly, Little Women, and an award-winning La voix humaine which received First Place at the National Opera Association’s 2018 competition. Upcoming productions include a Papermoon Production of Don Giovanni with Pensacola Opera, a remount of Riders of the Purple Sage at Arizona Opera, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird with New Orleans Opera, and Roméo et Juliette with Opera Santa Barbara.

PALM BEACH OPERA 33 KATHRYN LABOUFF English Diction Coach Kathryn LaBouff has coached and prepared more than 300 opera productions in English. She has prepared the US premieres of Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy and John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby for the Metropolitan Opera; Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice and Scott Wheeler’s Democracy for Washington National Opera; Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree, and Andre Previn’s Brief Encounter for Houston Grand Opera; Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata for Houston Grand Opera and New York City Opera; Central Park for Glimmerglass Opera; Jonathan Dove’s Flight for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Lowell Liebermann’s Miss Lonely Hearts for the Juilliard Centennial Celebration; Thomas Pasatieri’s The Hotel Casablanca at the Merola Program of San Francisco Opera; and the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Blue for the Glimmerglass Festival. Recent productions include Showboat, The Ghosts of Versailles, The Queen of Spades, Candide, Sweeney Todd, The Crucible, Silent Night, The Cunning Little Vixen, Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, and Oklahoma for the Glimmerglass Festival, and Die Fledermaus, Candide, and Doctor Atomic for Santa Fe Opera. This season she will be preparing The Mother of Us All with the New York Philharmonic, as well as The Sound of Music and Così fan tutte with Glimmerglass Opera. She teaches on the faculties of The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music in New York City, and is a guest coach for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. Her book, Singing and Communicating in English: A Singer’s Guide to English Diction, was published by Oxford University Press in 2007 and is used by conservatories and music schools internationally. She was also the English Diction contributor to Diction Coach - G. Schirmer Opera Anthology published by Hal Leonard in 2008.

PALM BEACH OPERA 34 ARTISTSHANSEL AND GRETEL

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ARTISTSHANSEL AND GRETEL EMILY BLAIR Sandman Soprano (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) Soprano Emily Blair is a second-year member of the Benenson Young Artist Program, performing the role of Sandman in Hansel and Gretel and covering the roles of Liù in Turan d ot and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin. Last season, Ms. Blair made headlines stepping into the leading role of Rosalinde in Palm Beach Opera’s performances of Die Fledermaus, earning praise from the South Florida Classical Review for her “sweet, rich voice.” Her company debut was as Annina in La traviata, and she also covered the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni last season. Ms. Blair recently returned from The Princeton Festival, where she covered the role of Pat Nixon in John Adams’ Nixon in China. Other engagements include Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw at Opera on the Avalon, and Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with City Lyric Opera in New York. With the Trentino Music Festival in Italy, she has sung the role of Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare.

Ms. Blair earned degrees from Mannes College of Music (MM) and Indiana University (BM), and she completed further training with the CoOPERAtive program at Westminster Choir College and the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute. She is the recipient of an Encouragement Award from the New York District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was a semi-finalist in both the Opera Birmingham Competition and Florida Grand Opera’s Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition.

EMILY HELENBROOK Dew Fairy Soprano (Alexander, New York) Sponsored by Mrs. Linda Taub, in memory of David Taub Soprano Emily Helenbrook is a first-year member of the Bailey Apprentice Artist Program, performing the role of Dew Fairy and covering the role of Gretel in Hansel and Gretel. Ms. Helenbrook spent the summer as a fellow at Tanglewood Music Center, where she performed the role of Sun/ Vole in the American premiere of Richard Ayre’s The Cricket Recovers. She is a former young artist of Opera in the Ozarks, where she performed the roles of Adele in Die Fledermaus and Sarah in The Ballad of Baby Doe, and the Aspen Opera Center, where she covered the roles of La Bergère and La Chouette in L’enfant et les sortilèges.

Ms. Helenbrook earned degrees from Rice University (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (BM). She is a recent winner of the Richard E. McGinty Director Emeritus Award at the Houston Saengerbund Competition, and a first place winner of the “Getting to Carnegie” Competition.

PALM BEACH OPERA 37 CREATIVE TEAM

JEFFERSON RIDENOUR Scenic Designer Jefferson Ridenour is a NYC based designer. After receiving his MFA from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, Jefferson has formed a strong creative partnership with director Fenlon Lamb, co-creating Papermoon Opera Productions and designing more than 15 opera productions, including Cendrillon, Little Women, Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Hänsel und Gretel, and La voix humaine (UMKC Conservatory of Music/Papermoon); La bohème (Bar Harbor Music Festival/Papermoon); La traviata and Tosca (Finger Lakes Opera); The Juliet Letters (Lyric Opera of Kansas City/Papermoon), Carmen (Annapolis Opera/Papermoon); Scalia/ Ginsburg (Opera Delaware); and Madama Butterfly (Inland Northwest Opera/Papermoon). Additionally, he has also designed Dead Man Walking (Opera Delaware), L'elisir d'amore and The Consul (Nightingale Opera Theatre), Die Fledermaus (Finger Lakes Opera), Cabaret (Austin College Theatre/Alumni Produced), Afflicted (Coterie Theatre), Seminar (Unicorn Theatre), and Auntie Mame’d (KC Artists Against AIDS). In NYC, Jefferson recently designed the Off-Broadway premieres of Duck (IRT) directed by Katrin Hilbe, and Party Face (NY City Center) directed by Amanda Bearse. Jefferson has studio assisted acclaimed designers, including George Tsypin on Manon Lescaut (St. Petersburg & Berlin) and the Sochi Olympics Exhibition (Moscow), Derek McLane on Gigi (Kennedy Center/B’way), and he was also Assistant Set Designer in 2015 to Alain Vaes for The Nutcracker (Kansas City Ballet). Upcoming designs include Don Giovanni (Pensacola Opera/Papermoon), and Les contes d’Hoffmann and L'incoronazione di Poppea for the 75th Anniversary festival of Opera Delaware in 2020.

MAUREEN THOMAS Costume Designer Maureen Thomas is a versatile designer whose experience includes theatre, musical theatre, opera, editorial photoshoots, performance art, and drag shows. She is a Dante scholar who holds a BA in Music and Italian Literature from Kent State University, and a Certificate in Acting/Devised Theatre Arts from East 15 Drama Academy in London. Maureen designed for Nightingale Opera in Hudson, Ohio from 2014 to 2016, and joined the team at Meadowbrook Theatre in Rochester, Michigan, where she served as the company’s Wig Designer/Master and Assistant Costume Designer in 2017. Currently, she designs with Evolution Theatre in Columbus, Ohio and partners with local playwrights, bringing new works to the stage. With Papermoon, her designs include Hänsel und Gretel, La voix humaine, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Carmen. This January, she joins the Papermoon team once again to design Don Giovanni for Pensacola Opera.

PALM BEACH OPERA 38 KRIS KIRKWOOD Projections Designer Kris Kirkwood is a lighting, projections, and media designer for theatre, opera, musicals, live events, and installations based out of Kansas City, MO. His recent work includes designs for Trouble in Tahiti and To be Certain of the Dawn for the Lexington Philharmonic; Nelly Don the Musical and Master Harold and the Boys at Kansas City Actor’s Theatre; and Into the Woods, Wit, American Trailer Park, Macbeth, and Front Page News at Cumberland County Playhouse. Upcoming projects include Theatrical Illusion at Benedictine College; Don Giovanni with Papermoon Opera Productions and Pensacola Opera; and Chicago, 9 to 5, and She Kills Monsters.

BRIAN B. MOORE Lighting Designer A native North Carolinian, Brian B. Moore is a lighting designer and technical director who has toured extensively across the U.S., Asia, Australia, and South America. He currently teaches at Ball State University as their Technical Director/Lighting Shop Supervisor, and joined the Papermoon team in 2016 for their flagship production of Hänsel und Gretel. Recently, Brian designed Madama Butterfly with Papermoon Opera Productions and Inland Northwest Opera, Le nozze di Figaro for Charlottesville Opera, Letters from Freedom Summer for UMKC Spencer Theatre, Shamrock Shake for Kansas City Live, and A Christmas Carol for the Kansas City Repertory Theatre. He was the resident Lighting Designer for Highlands Playhouse where credits include Dames at Sea, The Spitfire Grill, and Hear What’s in the Heart. As the Lighting Designer for Weathervane Playhouse, he designed productions of Chicago, Big River, and The Good Heart. His touring experience includes productions of Mickey and Minnie’s Magical Journey, Frozen on Ice, Rocking Ever After and Let’s Celebrate. Upcoming projects include Don Giovanni with Pensacola Opera and Così fan tutte with Bar Harbor Music Festival Opera.

KATHY WASZKELEWICZ Hair and Make-up Designer Since 1981 Kathy has worked with over 20 different opera companies. She was the winner of the William Zauder Award for outstanding makeup at the NCA National Show Case in Las Vegas. Kathy has been a makeup artist for the Tony Awards and the Kennedy Center Honors, and has toured with Disney’s National Tour of Beauty and the Beast as their head makeup and prosthetic artist. She has been with Palm Beach Opera since 1993 and became the resident wig and makeup designer in 1999. Kathy participated with Palm Beach Opera’s Swing & Sings summer camp for kids, and especially enjoys Children’s Performance days.

PALM BEACH OPERA 39 CREATIVE TEAM

GREGORY RITCHEY Associate Conductor & Chorus Master A versatile musician on the podium and at the keyboard, conductor Gregory Ritchey has held positions with companies both in the U.S. and internationally including the Wexford Opera Festival, Palm Beach Opera, the Amalfi Coast Music Festival and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Most notably in recent seasons, he has conducted productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, The Turn of the Screw, Gianni Schicchi, Ariadne auf Naxos, and a workshop of Terence Blanchard’s opera, Champion. This season marks the beginning of Mr. Ritchey’s appointment as conductor of the Palm Beach Atlantic University Symphony Orchestra. As the recently designated Music Director of Gulfshore Opera, he has led performances of Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, and La traviata, returning this season to conduct La bohème. He has also been for several years Associate Conductor at Palm Beach Opera, where after a recent performance on the Waterfront Concert series, for which he served as conductor and Music Director, the Palm Beach Arts Paper noted, “Mr. Ritchey is to be congratulated for leading such massive forces in a splendid and stirring performance. The audience rose to their feet with acclaim.” During his time at PBO, he has also been Chorus Master for more than thirty-five productions.

A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Mr. Ritchey maintains an active chamber music, collaborative and solo piano career, performing throughout the United States and Europe. In a recent recital at the Wexford Festival, Opera News noted that Mr. Ritchey “partnered superbly at the piano.” Mr. Ritchey has previously held music staff positions with companies across the U.S. including the Dallas Opera, Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Bard Music Festival, Virginia Opera, and Sarasota Opera. He has also been a faculty member at the University of North Texas, Louisiana State University, and Texas Christian University. In addition to the MM degree from the Juilliard School of Music, he also earned a BM degree from the University of North Texas. PRODUCTION STAFF

James Barbato Bryce Bullock Director of Artistic Administration Production Stage Manager Jeff Bruckerhoff Kendra Green Director of Production & Facilities Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Schultz Arielle Ingrassia-Smith Artistic Coordinator Assistant Hair & Make-up Designer Julia Fisher Zoe Still Artistic & Production Assistant Charge Painter & Costume Assistant Hallie Dufresne PG Hazard Costume Director Supertitles Manager Jason Barroncini Jayson Tomasheski Technical Director, Crest Theatre Technical Director Alayna Stewart Powell Assistant Director & Production Manager

PALM BEACH OPERA 40 CHILDREN’S CHORUS

GREGORY RITCHEY Associate Conductor & Chorus Master Kayla Bateast Waleska Figueirido Ocasio Rebecca Brunner Andrianna Harstad Caroline Calder Megan Mascaro Becca Cross Gianna Moscariello Ellyn Cross Gabriella Treutle Devin Embrich Adrianna Wagner The Children’s Chorus is comprised of members of the Young Singers of The Palm Beaches. Palm Beach Opera is grateful to Artistic Director Shawn Berry, Executive Director Holly Stewart, Managing Director Melanee Blankstein, and the many parent chaperones for this collaboration.

YOUNG SINGERS OF THE PALM BEACHES Young Singers of The Palm Beaches is an award-winning children’s choir located in West Palm Beach at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. They have won numerous awards such as the “Diversity and Inclusion Award” from the State of Florida, and “Outstanding Programming” by the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. Young Singers of The Palm Beaches believes that choral music education is a valuable resource in the development of productive participants in our society. Through their choirs they provide children from grades 2 through 12 with the opportunity to develop leadership skills, create supportive friendships, and become ambassadors for their communities.

PALM BEACH OPERA 41 PALM BEACH OPERA ORCHESTRA

DAVID STERN Chief Conductor VIOLIN I CELLO PIANO Laura Hilgeman Miller, Christopher Glansdorp* Timothy Cheung Concertmaster Rafael Elvira, BASS ORCHESTRA Associate Concertmaster Mik Groninger* LIBRARIAN Rebecca Lautar Dale D. Sandvold FLUTE VIOLIN II Karen Fuller* ORCHESTRA STAGE Dale D. Sandvold* MANAGER Ruby Berland** CLARINET Kay Kemper Michael Forte* VIOLA *Principal Scott Rawls* HORN **Assistant Principal Eva Conti* Audrey Destito-Stutt

PALM BEACH OPERA 42 ARTIST TRAINING PROGRAMS

The Benenson Young Artist Program and Bailey Apprentice Artist Program are opportunities for emerging professional singers to launch successful careers under the guidance of Palm Beach Opera’s experienced artistic staff. The Young and Apprentice Program participants are selected through a highly-competitive national audition process from over 625 applicants annually. During their five-month residencies, these artists develop and refine essential skills through frequent performance opportunities and rigorous individualized training, receiving vocal, musical, linguistic, dramatic, and movement instruction from luminaries in the field. Palm Beach Opera has assembled a distinguished resident and guest faculty which currently includes:

Guest Voice Teachers Stephen King, Director of Vocal Instruction at Houston Grand Opera & Los Angeles Opera Michael Paul, Faculty member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program Nova Thomas, Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College & Mannes School of Music

Guest Vocal Coaches Craig Rutenberg, Former Head of Music Administration of the Metropolitan Opera Danielle Orlando, Director of Vocal Studies at Curtis Institute of Music Craig Terry, Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center Rachelle Jonck, Music Director of Baltimore Concert Opera

Guest Diction Coaches Corradina Caporello, Italian Diction; The Juilliard School & Curtis Institute of Music Kathryn LaBouff, English Diction; The Juilliard School & Manhattan School of Music

Resident Vocal Coaches Gregory Ritchey, Associate Conductor Timothy Cheung, Principal Coach Ksenia Leletkina, Associate Principal Coach & Russian Diction Coach Ben Malensek, Master Vocal Coach

An essential component of both programs is the chance to put training into practice, and every artist receives valuable opportunities to grow onstage at Palm Beach Opera. Benenson Young Artists are featured in supporting roles in PBO’s mainstage productions while covering the leading roles, and also appear in concerts and recitals throughout the season. They also sing the leading roles in this season’s production of Hansel and Gretel, and in the Children’s Performance of The Barber of Seville. Bailey Apprentice Artists serve as PBO’s community ambassadors, reaching thousands of people each year through free performances in schools, museums, and community centers throughout the region, while also covering supporting roles, studying leading roles, and adding strength to all mainstage production choruses.

2019 Masterclass with Craig Rutenberg

PALM BEACH OPERA 43 ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS

Graduates of the Benenson Young Artist Program and Bailey Apprentice Artist Program have embarked on successful careers in major opera houses all over the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Vienna State Opera, and Deutsche Oper Berlin. Notable in recent seasons are the success stories of the following singers: Irene Roberts, mezzo-soprano (BYAP 2008-2010): Amneris in Aida at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice; title role in Carmen at San Francisco Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and Deutsche Oper Berlin; and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Niklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Deutsche Opera Berlin. Return engagements at Palm Beach Opera include Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (2018), Niklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann (2015), and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (2011). Megan Marino, mezzo-soprano (BYAP 2012-13): Meg Page in Falstaff with The Dallas Opera; Flora in La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera; Wellgunde in Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Opéra National de Paris; Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at The Santa Fe Opera; Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Colorado; and Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Opéra National de Bordeaux. Joseph Dennis, tenor (BYAP 2013-14): Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at Vienna State Opera; Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Jacquino in Fidelio, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Semperoper Dresden; and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at Virginia Opera. Tobias Greenhalgh, baritone (BYAP 2013-14): title role in Dido and Aeneas at Festival d’Aix- en-Provence; Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theater an der Wien; Malatesta in Don Pasquale at Opéra National de Montpellier; Silvio in I pagliacci at Boston Lyric Opera; and the title role in Don Giovanni at Virginia Opera;. Return engagements at Palm Beach Opera include Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus (2019), Samuel in The Pirates of Penzance (2017), Moralès in Carmen (2016), and Schaunard in La bohème (2015). Robert Watson, tenor (BYAP 2014-16): Don José in Carmen at San Diego Opera; Cavaradossi in Tosca at Washington National Opera; title role in Don Carlo at The Dallas Opera; Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos at Opéra National de Montpellier; and Ismaele in Nabucco, Don José in Carmen, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Laca in J e n u˚ f a , and Erik in Der fliegende Holländer at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano (BYAP 2015-16): Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at Opéra National de Montpellier; title role in Orfeo ed Euridice at Cape Town Opera; Baba in The Rake’s Progress at Aldeburgh Festival and Théâtre de La Monnaie; and Olga in Eugene Onegin at Opéra de Toulon. Joshua Conyers, baritone (BYAP 2016-2018): Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin and John Sorel in The Consul at Washington National Opera; and Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos and Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette at Wolf Trap Opera.

Irene Roberts as Cherubino in Palm Beach Opera’s 2018 production of Le nozze di Figaro.

PALM BEACH OPERA 44 BENENSON YOUNG ARTIST ALUMNI

2018-2019 2017-18 Emily Blair, soprano Chelsea Bonagura, soprano Sylvia D’Eramo, soprano Kasia Borowiec, soprano Joanna Latini, soprano Francesca Aguado, mezzo-soprano Natalie Rose Havens, mezzo-soprano Derrek Stark, tenor Robert Stahley, tenor Brian Wallin, tenor Brian Wallin, tenor Joshua Conyers, baritone Ben Schaefer, baritone Andrew Richardson, bass-baritone Ted Allen Pickell, bass-baritone Andrew Simpson, bass-baritone

Former Benenson Young Artist Joshua Conyers in Palm Beach Opera’s 2017 production of Rigoletto.

2016-2017 2015-2016 Kasia Borowiec, soprano Jessica Fishenfeld, soprano Jessica Fishenfeld, soprano Liana Guberman, soprano Tara Curtis, mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano Danielle MacMillan, mezzo-soprano Danielle MacMillan, mezzo-soprano Derrek Stark, tenor Spencer Viator, tenor Spencer Viator, tenor Robert Watson, tenor Joshua Conyers, baritone Jason Duika, baritone Andrew Simpson, bass-baritone Andrew Bogard, bass-baritone

PALM BEACH OPERA 45 BENENSON YOUNG ARTIST ALUMNI

2014-2015 2009-2010 Bridgette Gan, soprano Betsy Diaz, soprano Liana Guberman, soprano Debra Stanley, soprano Rachel Arky, mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts, mezzo-soprano JoAna Rusche, mezzo-soprano Jason Wickson, tenor Nicholas Nestorak, tenor Christopher Johnson, baritone Robert Watson, tenor Bradley Smoak, bass-baritone baritone Jason Duika, 2008-2009 2013-2014 Carelle Flores, soprano Bridgette Gan, soprano Susan Jean Hellman, soprano Claire Kuttler, soprano Irene Roberts, mezzo-soprano Rachel Arky, mezzo-soprano Tanner Knight, tenor JoAna Rusche, mezzo-soprano Rolando Sanz, tenor Joseph Dennis, tenor David Lara, baritone Nicholas Nestorak, tenor David Lowell Young, bass baritone Tobias Greenhalgh, 2007-2008 bass-baritone Peter Tomaszewski, Susan Jean Hellman, soprano 2012-2013 Ellen Wieser, soprano Alexandra Batsios, soprano Cameron Schutza, tenor Bonnie Sherman Brown, soprano Renato Song, baritone Shirin Eskandani, mezzo-soprano Jesús Ibarra, bass-baritone mezzo-soprano Megan Marino, 2006-2007 tenor Kyle Erdos Knapp, Marianne Cope, soprano tenor Marco Stefani, Monika Krajewska, mezzo-soprano baritone Scott Purcell, Sarah Lambert, mezzo-soprano bass-baritone Peter Tomaszewski, Eduardo Aladrén, tenor 2011-2012 Albert Rudolph Lee, tenor Emily Duncan Brown, soprano Tom Corbeil, baritone Shirin Eskandani, mezzo-soprano Sam Smith, bass-baritone baritone Jesse Enderle, 2005-2006 baritone Kenneth Stavert, Marianne Cope, soprano bass-baritone Benjamin Clements, Monika Krajewska, mezzo-soprano 2010-2011 Eduardo Aladrén, tenor Alison Bates, soprano Greta Ball, mezzo-soprano Brandy Lynn Hawkins, mezzo-soprano Evanivaldo Correa, tenor Kenneth Stavert, baritone Christopher Dickerson, bass

PALM BEACH OPERA 46 BAILEY APPRENTICE ARTIST ALUMNI

2018-2019 2017-18 Sooyeon Kang, soprano Maria Brea, soprano Suzannah Waddington, soprano Sooyeon Kang, soprano Maire Therese Carmack, mezzo-soprano Brooklyn Snow, soprano Jenny Anne Flory, mezzo-soprano Kelsey Robertson, mezzo-soprano Michael Anderson, tenor Emily Spencer, mezzo-soprano Anthony Ciaramitaro, tenor Matthew Greenblatt, tenor Pavel Suliandziga, tenor Elliott Paige, tenor Robert Gerold, baritone Robert Gerold, baritone Michael Miller, baritone Samuel Hinkle, baritone Christopher Carbin, bass-baritone James Wright, baritone

Zach Borichevsky, former Bailey Apprentice Artist Michael Anderson, and Benenson Young Artist Emily Blair in Palm Beach Opera’s 2019 production of Die Fledermaus.

2016-2017 Brooklyn Snow, soprano Kelsey Robertson, mezzo-soprano Matthew Greenblatt, tenor Elliott Paige, tenor Samuel Hinkle, baritone Joshua Arky, bass-baritone

PALM BEACH OPERA 47 BENENSON YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM 19-20 SEASON

The Benenson Young Artist Program is generously funded by The Edward H. Benenson Foundation, Inc.

BORIS VAN DRUFF Tenor EMILY BLAIR Sponsored by Soprano Mr. & Mrs. William G. Brown

PATRICIA WESTLEY DUKE KIM Soprano Tenor Sponsored by Sponsored by Drs. Marsha & Henry Laufer Drs. Marsha & Henry Laufer

CARA COLLINS Mezzo-Soprano Sponsored by JOHN TIBBETTS Mr. & Mrs. L. David Callaway Baritone

TED ALLEN PICKELL MARIA VASILEVSKAYA Bass-Baritone Mezzo-Soprano Sponsored by Roseanne Williams

PALM BEACH OPERA 48 BAILEY APPRENTICE ARTIST PROGRAM 19-20 SEASON

Additional funding for the Apprentice Artist Program is provided by The Gladys and Sy Ziv Foundation.

EMILY HELENBROOK Soprano Sponsored by JUAN HERNANDEZ Linda Taub Tenor

SUZANNAH WADDINGTON Soprano Sponsored by PHILIPPE L’ESPERANCE Ms. Anne Bazik Tenor

MAIRE THERESE CARMACK ERIC SMEDSRUD Mezzo-Soprano Baritone

SARAHANN DUFFY MATTHEW SOIBELMAN Mezzo-Soprano Bass

JENNY ANNE FLORY PATRICIA HAZARD Mezzo-Soprano Pianist

DAVID ANDERSON Tenor Sponsored by Drs. Marsha & Henry Laufer

For sponsorship opportunities or to get involved, please contact David Walker at 561.835.7558 or [email protected].

PALM BEACH OPERA 49

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS

Palm Beach Opera is most grateful to The V. Atkins Foundation for its generous support of all Palm Beach Opera educational and community engagement efforts on behalf of opera and classical vocal arts.

GOLDNER CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S OPERA EDUCATION

Palm Beach Opera’s education programs bring live opera to our community, inspire life-long interest in the arts, and present thoughtful, engaging education programs for learners of all ages. Through the following education programs, the Goldner Center for Children’s Opera Education fulfills Palm Beach Opera’s educational mission to engage children in opera’s timeless tales and awaken their musical curiosity.

The Goldner Center for Children’s Opera Education is graciously funded by Sandra and Paul Goldner, with additional support provided by The Daft Family Foundation.

CONCERTS IN THE CLASSROOM (K-12) Sponsored by the Alvin and Louise Myerberg Family Foundation Bailey Apprentice Artists present interactive programs that turn the classroom into a stage.

PALM BEACH OPERA STUDIO (11-12) Sponsored by Suzanne L. Niedland and the Palm Beach Opera Guild Developing the next generation of singers in an eight-month training program for local high school students.

OPERA REHEARSAL 101 (6-12) Sponsored by the Palm Beach Opera Guild and The Honorable & Mrs. Roger H. Lourie Middle and high school students and their teachers are invited to attend a working dress rehearsal and catch a glimpse of the production process.

STORY TIME SERIES (PreK-5) A sing-along storytelling adventure where children are brought into the pages of opera’s famous tales.

OPERA DISCOVERY CONCERTS (K-12) Palm Beach Opera’s Benenson Young Artists and Apprentice Artists present a selection of opera’s famed arias, duets, and ensemble numbers.

Questions? For more information, contact Abbey Ward, Education & Community Engagement Associate, at 561.835.7566 or [email protected].

To support or sponsor a program, contact David Walker, Managing Director, at 561.835.7558 or [email protected].

PALM BEACH OPERA 52 PBO YOUNG FRIENDS

PBO Young friends is a dynamic group of young professionals between the ages of 21 and 39 who are interested in supporting Palm Beach Opera, meeting new people, and experiencing opera at an exceptional price.

Membership is $25 per year and includes the following benefits:

Special ticket and subscription prices Receive discounted subscription and ticket rates, like our special $50 subscription package — a $165 value! Single tickets are also available at a discounted rate of just $25.

Champagne at the performance Toast to a night out at the opera with a complimentary drink at each performance.

Backstage tours See behind the curtain and book a backstage tour before any Saturday night or Sunday matinee performance.

Social and networking events From happy hours to networking opportunities, meet at tailored Young Friends events throughout the year.

PBO Young Friends on Facebook and Opera Insider subscription Keep in touch with PBO Young Friends on Facebook, and stay up to date on Palm Beach Opera happenings with our curated e-newsletter, Opera Insider.

Join today at at pbopera.org/youngfriends. For more information, contact Adina Antonucci, Marketing & PR Manager, at 561.835.7575 or [email protected].

PALM BEACH OPERA 53 COMMUNITY EVENTS & ADULT ENGAGEMENT

OPERA AL FRESCO! Sponsored by Olive and Michael Schaeffer Palm Beach Opera’s unique summer series offers the opportunity to experience opera in a relaxed setting at West Palm Beach’s Elizabeth Avenue Station. Opera al Fresco! features live opera, drinks, games, and fun for the whole family with a different opera-inspired theme for each event!

HAPPY HOUR SERIES Cheers to opera! Enjoy a delightful “cocktail” of education, conversation, and pop-up arias with the Palm Beach Opera Benenson Young Artists. This will be a wonderful opportunity to experience opera arias in an intimate, informal setting that is sure to educate and entertain while you mix and mingle with our singers and other patrons. Even if you don’t know much about opera, you are sure to enjoy this unique and fun series. Be sure to check our website for updates.

ANIMA Sponsored by The Honorable & Mrs. Roger H. Lourie Animate the soul. ANIMA (pronounced AH-nee-mah) brings opera to people who would otherwise be unable to experience the art form in the theatre, so that their lives can be animated and their spirits uplifted.

ANIMA brings the artist and the audience together through songs and personal story-telling. Unlike traditional community concert programs, ANIMA focuses on the heart of opera, exploring why each artist sings and uncovering their personal connections to the art form. Advance reservation required.

CURTAIN WARMERS Before the red velvet rises. Curtain Warmers provide the audience with insider information about the operas, the composers, the music, and the company, from the perspective of the Associate Conductor.

Curtain Warmers show the casual side of Palm Beach Opera, allowing patrons to sit anywhere in the theatre during the program and listen to information delivered in a colloquial and entertaining way. Curtain Warmers take place inside the theater, one hour prior to the performance start time.

SUNDAY Q&A Curious? Sunday Q&A offers Sunday matinee guests the exhilarating chance to talk with Palm Beach Opera artists immediately following their final performance. This program is often light- hearted, humorous, and always enlightening. Sunday Q&A affords participants the opportunity to get to know the artists, to hear their stories, and dive into their artistic choices. Sunday Q&A takes place in the theater, immediately following the matinee performance.

LUNCH & LEARN Join us for a unique blend of education and opera at Lunch & Learn. You’ll enjoy a delicious meal with a glass of wine followed by a musical program presented by Palm Beach Opera’s Benenson Young Artists and artistic staff.

CONVERSATIONS Conversations highlights the inner workings of an opera company through personal conversations with Opera staff, guest artists, and lecturers. Conversations is bolstered by historical context and, when possible, musical interludes performed by Benenson Young Artists and Apprentice Artists.

For more information on community engagement, contact James Clements, Education & Community Engagement Manager, at 561.835.7577 or [email protected].

PALM BEACH OPERA 54 PALM BEACH OPERA GUILD

Our mission is to support Palm Beach Opera, and provide “opera culture” opportunities for Guild members to nurture their appreciation and knowledge of opera. SAVE THE DATE March 3, 2020 18th Annual Luncheon and Opera Interlude

Special Performance by Tenor Taylor Stayton

The Beach Club in Palm Beach

Chairs: Jean Gutkin and Sheryl Wood

Join the Palm Beach Opera Guild The Palm Beach Opera Guild is a group of women and men dedicated to supporting Palm Beach Opera by raising funds for Palm Beach Opera Studio, Opera Rehearsal 101, and Palm Beach Opera's Children’s Performance. Palm Beach Opera Studio is an eight-month training program that fosters the skills high school students will need to pursue a successful music career in college and beyond. The Children’s Performance brings together children, family, and caregivers from throughout the community to experience the magic of opera. Opera Rehearsal 101 is a unique opportunity for middle and high school students to catch a glimpse of the opera production process during a live working rehearsal before opening night. For further information on our Brunch and Annual Luncheon, or to become a part of the PBO Guild, contact Ann Baskind at 561.835.7569 or email [email protected].

PALM BEACH OPERA 55 THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

Palm Beach Opera is sincerely thankful to the following individuals whose donations supports live, world-class opera, as well as educational and community engagement programs that enrich and meaningfully impact our community. Individual contributions are listed cumulatively with support comprised of Co-Producer Society gifts, Young and Apprentice Artist sponsorships, Education and Community Engagement sponsorships, annual gifts, Gala support, corporate matches, and in-kind donations. Contributions to the 2020 season, current as of 11/20/2019

MAJOR SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS OR COUNCIL FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE OR GRAND GIVING CIRCLE

($1,000,000 AND ABOVE) Mrs. Florence Kaufman The Glenn W. and Cornelia T. Bailey Charitable Mr. & Mrs. Amin Khoury Foundation, in loving memory of Cornelia T. Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Ellis J. Parker Mrs. Lois Pope ($250,000 - $999,999) Mr. Marc S. Solomon, Atkins Young Artists Program Solomon Family Foundation Trust The Edward H. Benenson Foundation, Inc. Israel Schubert, Meridian Capital Group Mr. & Mrs. William G. Brown Mr. Ed Streim Mrs. Ronnie Isenberg, in loving memory Mrs. Roseanne Williams of Eugene Isenberg Mrs. Ingrid Kosowsky, in loving memory ($15,000 - $24,999) of Dr. David I. Kosowsky Dr. & Mrs. Sander M. Abend Dr. & Mrs. Robert Biscup ($100,000 - $249,999) Mr. & Mrs. L. David Callaway Drs. Marsha & Henry Laufer Mrs. Annette Y. Friedland Palm Beach Opera Guild Drs. Donna K. and John Raggio Mrs. Ari Rifkin Mr. & Mrs. Barry W. Gray Toni & Martin Sosnoff Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Hoffman Judy & Jerry Kaufman ($75,000 - $99,999) Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Kohl Mr. Sanford Baklor & Ms. Arlene Kaufman Mr. Michael McCafferty & Mr. Joseph Horton Isanne & Sanford Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Salvatore Nuzzo Mr. & Mrs. John J. Pohanka ($50,000 - $74,999) Mrs. Linda Taub The Daft Family Foundation Mrs. Sieglinde Wikstrom Mr. & Mrs. Randell and Rebecca Doane Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Goldner ($10,000 - $14,999) Mrs. Patricia Lester Mr. Roy Bartolomei & Mr. Peter Wronsky Mr. Nathan Leventhal Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bent Mrs. Karen Tell Mr. & Mrs. David Brodsky Mr. & Mrs. Dennis K. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Paul Efron Mr. & Mrs. David Frisbie ($25,000 - $49,999) Mrs. Arlette Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey H. Alderton Ms. Barbara Greis & Mr. Howard Gottlieb Dr. & Mrs. Hans D. Baumann Lauren & Gray Hampton III Ms. Anne Bazik Mr. & Mrs. Scott Laurans Cynthia & Theodore Berenson Dr. Frayda Lindemann Mr. & Mrs. Ken Brodlieb Alvin & Louise Myerberg Family Foundation Mrs. Damaris D.W. Ford Suzanne L. Niedland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Fromer Mr. & Mrs. Meyer Sapoff Mr. & Mrs. David Genser Mr. & Mrs. James Takats Merrill & Charles Gottesman UBS Mr. & Mrs. Allan Greenblatt Mr. Marc E. Wise & Mr. Mariano Morales Mrs. Marie A. Iandoli Mrs. Martha R. Ingram

PALM BEACH OPERA 56 THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

BENEFACTOR SOCIETY Mr. & Mrs. Michael Schaeffer Mr. & Mrs. S. Lawrence Schlager GRAND BENEFACTOR Mr. Conrad Schmitt & Mr. Andrew P. Payti ($7,500 - $9,999) Jane and John Shalam Anonymous Mrs. Rosalie W. Stone Dr. Elizabeth M. Bowden Dr. & Mrs. Charles Tager Ms. Hermine Drezner Barbara & Fred Tepperman Mr. & Mrs. Eric Jorgensen Ms. Lillian Vineberg Mr. & Mrs. John & Jeanette Staluppi Mr. & Mrs. Howard Weinstein Mrs. Hermé de Wyman Miro Mr. & Mrs. Jay M. Wilson PRINCIPAL BENEFACTOR STAR CIRCLE ($5,000 - $7,499) Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Bogen PATRON Mr. John Coats ($1,000 - $2,499) Mr. & Mrs. John Connor Mr. & Mrs. Richard Abedon Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Fineberg Mr. Alan Adams Mrs. Miriam Flamm Mr. & Mrs. Stephen & Madeline Anbinder Mr. Roy L. Furman Mr. Stanley Applebaum Mr. & Mrs. Stanley N. Gaines Dr. Philip Barenfeld & Ms. Barbara Hulnick The Honorable & Mrs. Roger H. Lourie Mr. & Mrs. Richard Behr Mr. & Mrs. Peter Lunder Mr. & Mrs. Roger Beutner Dr. & Mrs. Morton Mandell Dr. Allen H. Bezner Mr. & Mrs. Harold Oelbaum Walter & Hildi Black & Suzan Grandt & Stanley Kaplan Ms. Carol O’Malley & Mr. Nick Harry Mrs. Arlene Blau The Honorable & Mrs. Samuel Raia Dr. Rachael Bloomfield Mrs. Beverly Sommer Ms. Roxanne Brandt Ms. Melissa Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Henry Breyer Mr. & Mrs. Albert Togut Mr. Charles Buchner Mrs. Ann Van Ness Mr. & Mrs. Robert Calman Mrs. Maureen P. Wilkens Mrs. Nancy H. Canary & Mr. William Sullivan Dr. Mona Beth Wolpe Mr. & Mrs. Carl Chernoff Mr. & Mrs. Phil Corso BENEFACTOR Mr. Richard Crone & Mr. Andre Manzi ($2,500 - $4,999) Ms. Ariane Csonka-Comstock Ms. Naomi Alexandroff-Brest & Mr. David Kaplan Mr. Cristian Dumitriu Mr. & Mrs. Theodore & Ruth Baum Mrs. Joan K. Eigen Ms. Jane Beasley Ms. Tibisay Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Belfer Mrs. Jo Ann Engelhardt & Mr. George Elder Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Berenson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen & Linda Epstein Ms. Eileen Berman & Mr. Jay Bauer Mrs. Carol Finn Daniel Biaggi & David Espinosa Dr. Stephanie Flicker Mr. & Mrs. David Bigelow Mr. & Mrs. Charles Foster Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Andrea Brodlieb Mr. & Mrs. Alan Fuirst General Carter Clarke & Ms. Irene Athans Mrs. Joan Galison Mr. Daniel Cochran & Mr. Gregory Sutphin Mrs. Gail Galli Dr. Louise Cohen Mr. & Mrs. George & Sandy Garfunkel Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Early Mr. & Mrs. L. Martin Gibbs Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Eisen Dr. & Mrs. Donald Giddon Mr. Alfonso Fanjul Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Ginsky Mr. & Mrs. Louis Feher Mr. Charles Gradante Mr. & Mrs. Joel Freedman Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Graziano Mr. Eugene F. Gaughan & Ms. Margaret Duffy Mr. & Mrs. James Herscot Mr. & Mrs. Dan L. Goldwasser Mr. & Mrs. Alan Horwitz Mr. & Mrs. Herbert P. & Marylou Gray Mrs. Lisa L. Huertas Mr. & Mrs. Ross Hechinger Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Hyde Mr. & Mrs. David Herwitz Mr. Julio Iguchi Mr. & Mrs. Ashley Hoffman Ms. Sheila Josephberg Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Holien Mr. & Mrs. Henry Kaufman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Klein Dr. Judith Kayloe Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Loring Mrs. Carolyn King Mr. & Mrs. Edward Masterman Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kozloff Mr. & Mrs. Doug McMillen Mr. & Mrs. Charles Kramer Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mooney Mrs. Jill L. Leinbach Mrs. Elayne Mordes Mr. David Leiman Mrs. Anka Palitz Mrs. Shirley F. Levy Mr. Miguel Perrotti* Mr. & Mrs. Lino Liberatore Mr. & Mrs. Tony Petrarca Mrs. Virginia Longo Mr. & Mrs. Harland A. Riker, Jr. Mr. William Lough & Ms. Barbara Pinaire Mr. & Mrs. John Rutherfurd Mr. & Mrs. George Mann

PALM BEACH OPERA 57 THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

Mr. & Mrs. John J. McDonald Mr. & Mrs. Rudolf Stalder Mr. & Mrs. Fred Menowitz Ms. Elizabeth Starr Mrs. Sheila Mondry Mrs. Gail Theodoracopulos Ms. Anka Palitz Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Trautschold Mrs. Cynthia Pappas Mr. Lawrence Uhlick Mr. & Mrs. Samuel S. Polk Mr. & Mrs. Roger Yaseen Mrs. Victoria Preuss Mr. Christian C. Yegen Mrs. Sondra Radvanovsky & Mr. Duncan Lear Mr. Martin Zubatkin Mr. Michael Ramos Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Riley CONTRIBUTOR Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Robinson ($250 - $499) Mr. Russell Robinson Mrs. Patricia Bates Mr. Mark S. Rosen Mr. John Beaton Mr. Vincent Ruisi & Mr. Shawn Cherry Mrs. Ingrid Blau-Meegan Mrs. Mary Rumy Mr. Hartman Blanchard Mr. & Mrs. Howard Ruskin Mrs. Patricia Bradford Mr. & Mrs. S. Lyon Sachs Mr. Murray Brenner Dr. & Mrs. Charles Saunders Dr. & Mrs. Robert Burger Ms. Barbara C. Sidell, Esq. Mr. Richard Cardozo Mr. & Mrs. Ira Smith Mr. Anthony F. Cassa Aimee & Ozzie Stewart Dr. & Mrs. Edgar Covarrubias Mrs. Ruth Summers Mrs. Joan Denton Mr. Eugene Ungar Mr. William Deskin Mr. & Mrs. James Walker Ms. Violet DiGioia Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Mrs. Margaret Donnelley Mr. & Mrs. Morton Weber Ms. Catherine G. Edgar Ms, Crystal White Mr. & Mrs. Mark Eisenberg Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Wolff Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Flanagan Drs. Melisande J. Wolff-Mankevich & Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Foster Claudio Mankevich Mr. Andrew Foti Mr. & Mrs. Ralph & Audrey Friedner SUPPORTER Mr. Joseph Fries ($500 - $999) Mrs. Joan Galiardo Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Ginsberg Mr. Irving Anton Dr. & Mrs. Martin Greenberg Mr. Philip Bathgate Mr. Joseph Guidetti Mr. & Mrs. V.J. & Diedad Benincasa Mr. James Gustafson Mr. Jason Call Ms. Jeanne Gutkin Mrs. Polly U. Champ Mr. Taylor Hagood Mrs. Mary Cirillo-Goldberg Mr. Marvin Hartstein Dr. Carmel Cohen Peter & Barbara Hilleband Mr. Fred Corrado Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Krasker Dr. & Mrs. Charles Dale Ms. Phoebe Kurtz Mr. David Derr Mr. & Mrs. David Lagnado Mr. Dominick DiBona Mr. Edward Levitt & Ms. Ellen Livingston Mrs. Vally Flint Ms. Miriam Lieff Mr. & Mrs. John D. Geberth Mrs. Rhoda Malamut & Mr. Marvin Goldstein Ms. Rona Goldstein Mr. Michael W. Mattingly Dr. Mari G. Jureit-Beamish & Mr. William Beamish Mr. David Moscow Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Kalnitsky Alice and Allan Mostoff Mr. Eugene Kelly Ms. Loretta Neff Mr. Sol D. Kugler Mrs. Heidi Niblack Ms. Isabelle R. Leeds Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Packer Hannah, Barbara, & Eric Malkin Mrs. John Payson Ms. Marjorie J. Marks Mr. Louis Perretta Ms. Anita Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. William J. Pittler Mr. Randolph Michener Dr. Henry Rabinowitz Mr. Richard Nadeau Stanley & Helenan Robin Mr. Gregory L. Richter Mr. & Mrs. Murray Schneider Dr. Richard J. & Mrs. Maureen W. Saab Mr. Charles Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Saltzman Mr. & Mrs. Frank Seuss Mr. & Mrs. Robert Schneider Mr. & Mrs. David T. Sullivan Mr. Arnold Schulberg Mr. Richard Viens & Mrs. Patricia Werhahn Ms. Lora Schwab Dr. Andrew Lloyd Von Gelt Mrs. Susan Schwartz Mr. Robert Weisman Ms. Jean Sharf Dr. Joan Perry Wilcox Mr. & Mrs. Alfredo Siani Mr. & Mrs. Mark Smith *In memoriam Mr. & Mrs. David Spokely

PALM BEACH OPERA 58 IN HONOR OF Donations from 01/01/2018 to 11/20/2019

In honor of Lee Ann & Jeffrey Alderton In honor of Jeanne Gutkin Mr. & Mrs. Randell Doane Ms. Danielle Cameron Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kean Mr. & Mrs. Louis Nicozisis In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Herbert P. Gray In honor of Mrs. Gladys Benenson Mrs. Helen Sweig In honor of Ms. Judith Kauffman Ms. Nancy Edman Feldman & Mr. Mike Chefetz In honor of Daniel Biaggi Mrs. Jo Ann Nyquist Mr. James Long Mrs. Hermé de Wyman Miro In honor of Jerry & Judith Kaufman Mrs. Susan Portnoy In honor of Paul Csonka Ms. Marcia Robinson Ariane, Ariana, and Johannes Csonka-Comstock Dmitri Nabokov In honor of Drs. Marsha & Henry Laufer Mr. Howard Kaplan In honor of Mrs. Estelle Fassler Dr. Mark Staitman Ms. Anita Elias Mrs. Betty Steinberg In honor of Dr. Frayda Lindemann Mrs. Bernice Weinrib Mr. & Mrs. Allen S. Wyett

In honor of Joan & David Genser In honor of Mrs. Elayne Mordes Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Baum Dr. & Mrs. Robert Burger Mr. & Mrs. Peter Brown Ms. Reva Grace In honor of Mrs. Ari Rifkin Mr. & Mrs. James Herscot Dr. & Mrs. Louis M. Rogow Mr. and Mrs. David Herwitz Mr. Alan Horwitz In honor of Toni & Martin Sosnoff Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mooney Mr. Christopher Kellogg Ms. Barbara Sidell Mr. & Mrs. Ira Smith In honor of Mr. David Walker Ms. Elizabeth Starr Mrs. Hermé De Wyman Miro Ms. Lillian Vineberg In honor of David Walker & Ralph Rawe In honor of Allan & Mickey Greenblatt Ms. Lillian Tamayo & Ms. Eileen Diamond Dr. Philip Barenfeld & Ms. Barbara Hulnick Ms. Alice Gross In honor of Kelly Weaver Mr. & Mrs. Fred Menowitz Ms. Barbara Sidell Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Robinson

In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Greenblatt Ms. Diane Kauffman

PALM BEACH OPERA 59 IN MEMORY OF Donations from 01/01/2018 to 11/20/2019 In memory of Mr. Edward H. Benenson In memory of Sarah A. Merrill Mrs. Gladys Benenson Ms. Galina Kogan

In memory of Herbert & Edythe F. Benjamin In memory of Harriet Gould Mertz Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hoffman The Harriet Mertz Trust

In memory of Ted Chichak In memory of Dmitri Nabokov Mr. Russell Robinson Ms. Ariana Csonka-Comstock

In memory of Jessica Marulli Cridle In memory of Mary O’Boyle Connor Ms. Sylvia Chilli Mr. & Mrs. John Connor

In memory of Mrs. Virginia Furey In memory of Muriel A. Shapiro Gerrie Aurre Ms. Leslie Adams Camille Babusik Ms. Pamela Metzger Katy DiGioia Mr. Martin Zubatkin Tess Lindsay Karen Reinhart In memory of Mr. David Taub Mrs. Linda Taub In memory of Mr. Eugene Isenberg Mrs. Ronnie Isenberg In memory of Marshal Wilcox Dr. Joan Perry Wilcox In memory of Mr. Claude Jacquemin The Jacquemin Family Foundation In memory of Mr. Jan Winkler Ms. Hermine Drezner In memory of Dr. David I. Kosowsky Mrs. Ingrid Kosowsky In memory of Gladys and Sy Ziv The Gladys and Sy Ziv Foundation In memory of Robert Kurtz Ms. Phoebe Kurtz

IN MEMORY OF

Palm Beach Opera greatly appreciates all donations made to the Benenson Young Artist Program in memory of Gladys Benenson.

All contributions made as of November 19, 2019

ABS Partners Real Estate* Audrey M. Larman Albert Behler & Robin Kramer Steven and Barbara Leader Mark Ettenger & Jacqueline Cutler* Vicki Lieberman Ess & Vee Acoustical Contractors Lisa Quattrocchi * Albert & Myra Fleischman* Robert Safron* Fleishman, Schulof & Schreiber SBA Plumbing Corp. Robin Gray Gregg Schenker* Kerry Huffman Jane Johnston *contributions $1,000 and above Amy Karpel

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THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

Palm Beach Opera is sincerely thankful to the following corporations, foundations, and government entities whose donations support live world-class opera, as well as educational and community engagement programs, that enrich and meaningfully impact our community.

PRESTO ($100,000+)

The Edward H. Benenson Foundation

VIVACE ($25,000 – $99,999)

Daft Family Foundation The Gladys and Sy Ziv Foundation

VELOCE ($10,000 – $24,999)

Alvin and Louise Myerberg Foundation

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ALLEGRO ($7,500 – $9,999)

ANDANTE ($5,000 – $7,499)

GE Foundation The Ruth Nelson Kraft Foundation

ADAGIO ($2,500 – $4,999)

LARGO (UP TO $2,499)

Mae Cadwell Rovensky Foundation Lawrence and Marjorie Stoll Foundation The Scout Guide Palm Beach

Signature sponsorship opportunities and custom packages are available to Corporate Partners who choose to designate their funds for a specific opportunity that involves the entire season, a single performance within the season, or a specific program such as Education and Community Engagement. For more information, please contact Alexandra Richter at 561.835.7576 or [email protected].

PALM BEACH OPERA 63 PALM BEACH OPERA STAFF

DAVID WALKER General Director INSTITUTIONAL Stacey Martilotta ARTISTIC & ADVANCEMENT Development Operations PRODUCTION Coordinator Alexandra Richter James Barbato Individual Giving & Abbey Ward Director of Artistic Administration Grants Manager Education & Community Engagement Associate Jeff Bruckerhoff Rick Zullo Director of Production & Facilities Marketing & Lylliette Borrajero Advertising Manager Audience Services Associate Sarah Schultz Artistic Coordinator Adina Antonucci Ann Baskind Marketing & PR Manager Guild & Patron Relations Liaison Julia Fisher Artistic & Production Assistant James Clements FINANCE & Education & Community ADMINISTRATION David Stern Engagement Manager Chief Conductor Joe Cremona Jennifer Isola Director of Finance & Greg Ritchey Audience Services Manager Administration Associate Conductor and Stephanie Troughton Chorus Master Office Manager

PALM BEACH OPERA 64 THE ORPHEUS LEGACY SOCIETY

Palm Beach Opera thanks the following donors who, through their foresight and generosity, have included the Opera in their wills or estate plans. You are invited to join other opera lovers by leaving a legacy gift to Palm Beach Opera. Named for the mythological poet who charmed the gods with his music, the Orpheus Legacy Society recognizes those forward thinking individuals.

MEMBERS Dr. & Mrs. Hans D. Baumann Mrs. Rose Marie Morton Mr. Norman Burwen* Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Pannizzo Mr. Richard Crone & Mr. Andre Manzi Mrs. Helen K. Persson* Mrs. Charlotte Kimelman* Mrs. Rose Price Dr. & Mrs. David I. Kosowsky Mr. Conrad Schmitt & Mr. Andrew P. Payti Mr. Nathan Leventhal Mrs. Marjorie Shields Dr. & Mrs. Michael* and Virginia Longo Mr. & Mrs. Gladys and Sy Ziv* Mrs. Chris Marden Mrs. Mary M. Montgomery *In Memoriam

“We consider our Opera the crown jewel of our local cultural endeavors. Cultural events, especially in hard times, are needed to uplift the human spirit. It reminds us of what has been, and what will come again. It gives us hope and joy.”

SIGRID AND HANS BAUMANN Palm Beach Opera Orpheus Legacy Society Members

WHAT IS YOUR PLAN? The Orpheus Legacy Society recognizes those individuals who are supporting Palm Beach Opera in their wills or estate plans. When you join, you make a lasting mark on your community. To learn more about the Orpheus Legacy Society or to inform Palm Beach Opera of a planned gift you have already made, please contact Alexandra Richter at 561.835.7576 or [email protected].

PALM BEACH OPERA 65 JOIN THE PALM BEACH OPERA FAMILY

Every gift to Palm Beach Opera is instrumental to producing world class live opera in our community, and to enriching the lives of thousands of adults and children through our education and community engagement programs.

Join our STAR CIRCLE or BENEFACTOR SOCIETY today, and experience the impact that your support has on our community. You will also enjoy the benefits of recognition, membership, ticket concierge service, parking privileges, premium access, and more.

For more information, please contact Alexandra Richter, Individual Giving Manager, at 561.835.7576 or [email protected], or visit our website.

WHY I SUPPORT PALM BEACH OPERA “We support the Palm Beach Opera because it is a community gem. Not only are the performances superb, but it reaches out to schools, special needs children and the community at large in order to bring performances to those who otherwise may never be exposed to opera.” CHARLES AND SHEILA SAUNDERS Palm Beach Opera Patrons

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