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Dear Friends,

II • •• I am grateful for this opportunity to convey my gratitude and my admiration for the outstanding accomplishments of Music Hall Center. In a nation which reveres its growing cultural heritage, the efforts of Music Hall Center to enhance and encourage involvement with the performing arts are truly to be commended. You have not only enriched the I ives of the many people in the Detroit area who have had the opportun ity to attend your performances, you have also created for the entire community a spirit of expectation, excitement and appreciation. With admiration for your program and warmest best wishes",

Sincerely, f J~

------Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 1975-76 Season Program PORGY AND BESS October 3 through 11 • LA BOHEME November 7, 9, 12, 14, 15 • LUCIA di LAMMERMOOR January 16, 18, 21, 23, 24 • THE BARBER OF SEVILLE February 6, 8, 11, 13, 14

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OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr. and Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Co-chairmen, Board of Directors Mr. and Mrs. John H. DeCarlo Dr. David DiChiera Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Dewar President Dr. and Mrs. David DiChiera Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Donovan Mr. John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Treasurer Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Graves Mr. Robert M. Heuer The Honorable and Mrs. Roman S. Gribbs Assistant Treasurer, Secretary Mr. and Mrs. John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Jones Mr. E . Harwood Rydholm The Honorable and Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Assistant Secretary Mr. Harry J. Nederlander McClintock, Donovan, Carson & Roach Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm Legal Counsel Mr. and Mrs. Neil Snow Touche Ross & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strichartz Accountants Mr. and Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Young

MOT - 1975-76 CAPTAINS ADVERTISING COMMITTEE Chairman Co-Chairmen Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ciupak Mr. and Mrs. Victor Wertz Mrs. Julian Becker Miss Elea nor Bennink Marcy Bright Mrs. James J . Bird Mrs. Edmund B. Campbell Mrs. John R. Brooks Mrs. Peter Cooper f Mr. Edward Bush Mrs. David DiChiera Mrs. Thelma E. Connely Mrs. Lloyd H. Diehl, Jr. Mrs. Abraham Cooper Mrs. Hanna Dietz Mrs. Julio Davila Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hanson Mrs. Philip B. Fischer Mr. Mitchell 1. Kafarski Mrs. Glen Gordon Mr. Neil Snow Mrs. James Gorden Mr. James VanderKloot Mrs. Eric Goullaud Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mrs. H. Thomas Hunt Mrs. Lawrence Lee Mrs. Robert Lyons Mrs. Thomas V. Lo Cicero Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Mrs. Lee H. Olmstead Mrs. John J. Puleo Mrs. Neil Snow Mrs. William L. Thompson Mrs. Robert VanderKloot Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 3

A Message From Our General Director

Mich:igan 'U"IJ''''. "" Theatre welcomes you to our fifth season pn~selltirlg opera in English at Music HaU I look ",h."ril1'o with you a season of standing ovations as we world - from America's South, to 1975-76 Season of Paris, on to the Scottish Highlands, and finally sunny Seville - aU on the of music and ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF This year also will be hiJl:hlighlled by five beautiful young sopranos who, critics agree, to reach international stardom. Leona Mitchell will alternate in the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess; is Mimi in Robert M. La Boheme; Catherine Malfitano will Lucia in Lucia di Managing Dil"ector Lammermoor; and Ruth Welting is The Barber of Seville. Our outstate tour of communities from Livonia to Traverse City has estabilshed as one of Michigan's major cultural resources. Thousands of our fellow citizens have had the opportunity to enjoy as our traveling company has presented workshops, and productions in classrooms, gym- nasia, and throughout the state. Plans are now nn,n"'lr_ way to Copland's The Tender Land to more com- April of 1976. Looking ahead, MOT, in its first commissioned production, has engaged the renowned Thtonlas Pa~iatjleri to compose an original opera for a world premiere. The most sought COinpOSf~r in America, Mr. Pasatieri written the widely acclaimed Black Widow for the Seattle Opera Company, The Seagull for Houston Grand Opera and The Trial of Mary for National Public Television. This promises to be a landmark event in cultural history, and will attract critics and lovers from throughout the nalti0l1.

AU of these - our and diverse season, our dynamic 'U'U''''''' Program, and the Pasatieri - are giving MOT a national reputation as a company in the forefront of American and ideas. For this I am grateful to a dedicated staff, a supportive board of all, to the generosity and of our many contributors and patrons. To allCopyright of you, 2010, a heartfelt Michigan thank Opera you.Theatre 4

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CAST (In order of appearance)

Sporting Life ...... Robert Monroe Bess ...... Leona Mitchell (Oct. 3, 8*, 10, 11) Lily ...... Gerri Adams Irene Oliver (Oct. 4,5,7,8,9, 11*) Annie ...... Synthia Maddox Reese Ruby ...... Florence Pate Sampson Clara ...... Bernadine L. Oakley Ruby's husband ...... J. C. Blue Lady with laundry bundle ...... Bertha Mae Adams Policeman ...... Roman Terleckyj Man and wife George Franklin Williams, Burial Voices ...... Patricia J. Lewis, Dorothea A. Pullen Douglas C. Rowland, Mingo ...... Dennis Rowland Augustus Williamson, Men in crap game ... .. Chester Carter, Billy L. Mack, Faye Blakely Washington, James E. Parks, James G. St. Clair Herbert L. Rawlings, Jr., Boy in crap game ...... Robert Brantley Bill Broyles, Fighting couple ...... Augustus Williamson, Doris J. Berry, Amina Rahaman Sherman Patrick Garner, Man on third floor ...... lnysses L. Wolf James E. Parks Serena ...... Earnestine F. Nimmons Detective ...... John O. Peters Jake ...... Sherman Patrick Garner Undertaker ...... " ...... Van Fore Robbins ...... Ned Wright Frazier ...... C. Cass Hudson Maria ...... Marguerite Lenora Motley Neighbor lady and her cronies ...... Doris J. Berry Jim ...... Leroy Winston Edris L. Banks Jim's wife ...... Anna C. Aycox Penelope Jones Serena's children ...... LaMon Griffin, Strawberry woman ...... Billie Joyce Bowden Tracy Monique Hines Crab man ...... Marvin-earl Skip, Maria's helper ...... Herbert L. Rawlings, Jr. Coroner ...... Fred J . Bush Peter the Honeyman ...... Melvyn Hardiman Talkative couple ...... Carl M. Temple, Scipio ...... Johnny Johnson Penelope Jones Porgy ...... Robert Mosley (Oct. 3, 5, 8*, 9, 11*) Porgy's goat ...... Arrowhead Benjamin Matthews (Oct. 4, 7, 8, 10, 11) Young man on breezeway ...... Robert E. Helms Crown ...... Leonard Parker *Matinee performance Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 26

Other residents ofCatfish Row: Mattye Gaither Anderson, ACT ONE Veda M. Bryant, Perry L. Brown, Tilis Butler, Billie 1. Catfish Row. A summer evening Carter, Christopher A. Hall, Abu Bakr Hamilton, Gracie 2. Serena's Room. The following night. Hanks, Alice Harris, Larry L. Johnson, Sandi Johnson, 3. Catfish Row. A month after Lewis H. Martin, Gloria L. McKee, Art Robinson, 4. Kittawah Island, Evening of the same day. Charletter Sanders, Myles G. Savage, Monique Shelton, James S. Simmons, Josephine M. Smith, Silas N . Waldon, ACT TWO Charmaine Bailey Whitehead, Carolyn Williams, Renee 1. Catfish Row. Before dawn, a week later Williams, Myrna J . Wilson. 2. Serena's Room, Dawn of the following day. 3. Catfish Row. The next night. Other children of the community: Darah Arrington, 4. Catfish Row . The following morning. Yvonne L. Butler, Jerrilyn Mack 5. Catfish Row . Five days later, afternoon.

Asst. Musical Coach - Asst. to the Director ...... Ned Wright Rehearsal Accompanist - Asst. to the Conductor Randolph Mauldin Costume Crew ...... Beth Cordial Debra Scott, Mary Whalen Prop Coordinators ...... Deborah Hazlett Beth Cordial, Roman Terleckyj, Karen DiChiera Acknowledgements Scenery constructed in Detroit with the assistance of the University of DetroiUMarygrove College Theatre. The stage props used in this production were loaned by: Wayne State University Theatre Department; Jinny's Antiques, Rochester; Looking Back Antiques, Rochester; Mamie Riley's Antiques, Troy; Miss Rose's Nursery School; Mr. and Mrs. William Greenwalt; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hanson; Mr. and Mrs. Robert VanderKloot. Arrowhead, the goat, is courtesy of Mrs. Virginia Guwwski, of Lapeer, and is being' housed at the Michigan Hwnane Society's Central Shelter. Arrowhead's handler is Mr. Cliff Sevier. Sporting Life's suits are courtesy of Louis the Hatter Clothier, Detroit. Special thanks to the Public Radio WDET-FM for sound assistance, and to Jesse Mann and Kathy Lyon for their assistance in the preparation of costumes. Porgy and Bess is presented through special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., New York. All casts subject to change without notice.

PORGY AND BESS Porgy is left behind, unable to make the trip, They huddle in Serena's room during the but happy for Bess and blissfully content storm. Crown bursts in, intending to take The Story with the security of their love. Bess with him , but is interrupted by the sight ACT I. A tranquil Saturday night in the lives The festivities of the picnic, led by the ing of lake's boat, upside-down in the river. of the hard-working residents of Catfish Row worldly Sporting Life, are ended by the Clara runs out into the storm to find him, and is interrupted by sudden violence, springing sound of a hom from the boat that will take Crown follows, being the only able-bodied from a crap game squabble between the ami them all back to to the mainland, but Crown man brave enough to rescue her. He prom able Robbins and drunken Crown. Robbins is suddenly appears and detains Bess. Her ini ises once again to return for Bess. brutally killed within sight of his wife, tial resistance to his advances is weakened The following night, a spriritual is sung in Serena, and Crown escapes before the police by his sexual dominance, and he carries her behalf of Clara, Jake, and Crown, all pre arrive, leaving his woman Bess, behind. otT into the thicket, his hiding place. sumed lost in the storm. Crown unexpec Porgy, a crippled beggar, sympatheticially tedly returns, intent on stealing Bess and kil offers her refuge when the rest of the ACT II: At dawn a week later, lake and the ling Porgy, but Porgy surprises him with a community refuses. fisherman depart for the blackfish banks, al knife, and succeeds in killing him. Robbins' funeral expenses are raised by though his wife, Clara, fears bad weather. the community during a wake. The proceed Bess is heard from within Porgy's room, de A detective and coroner arrive the next ings are interrupted by the arrival of a detec liriously moaning with a fever contracted on day to investigate Crown's death. Porgy is taken off to jail to identify the body, supers tive who takes the aging Peter otT to jail as a the island. Serena le ads a prayer in Bess' titiously fearful of the thought of looking on material witness to the killing, and by the behalf, more confident of her own spiritual undertaker who promises to give Robbins a powers than trusting in the treatment Bess the face of the man he killed, Sporting Life convinces Bess that Porgy will be convicted decent burial. would receive in the white man's hospitaL and subsequently jailed for a long time, and A month later, Crown has still not returned After a buzzard (considered an evil omen) for Bess, who is living happily with Porgy. has been sighted and driven off, Bess' de succeds in luring her away from Catfish Row. Frazier, a mock-lawyer, takes advantage of lirium ceases just as Serena predicted. Porgy They leave together, seeking a new, ex travagant, amoral life in New York. Porgy, selling him a "divorce" which Porgy reconfirms his love for her, although he is believes will legally free Bess from Crown. fully aware of her rendezvous with Crown, Porgy returns from jail a week later, only The community, including Bess (still consi and he promises to protect her from him to discover that Bess has left him. dered an outsider unacceptable to the self when Crown comes for her. Suddenly, the Heartbroken, yet firmly resolved, he leaves righteous ladies of Catfish Row), leaves for hurricane bell is rung, a storm warning that on his goat cart, intending to travel alone, all the annual church picnic on Kittiwah Island. causes the residents to take shelter. the way to New York, to find her. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 27 The History an agreement with Jerome Kern and Oscar Ironically, Porgy and Bess was not an im The history of Porgy and Bess began in 1925 Hammerstein n, who had aligned themselves mediate success. It opened in New York in with a best-selling novel called Porgy, written with AI Jolson to set Porgy to music. The par 1935 to mixed reviews and was a box-office by DuBose Heyward. The CatfISh Row of ties were unable to consummate the flop, quietly closing after only 124 perfor· Heyward's story had a real-life counterpart: arrangement and the deal fell through. mances. Gershwin was never to see another Cabbage Row, a neighborhood of dilapidated Gershwin and Heyward were an unlikely production of his creation after the original buildings and a run down mansion surround alliance. Gershwin was the bumptious, closed. ing a courtyard. Heyward modeled his Porgy quick-moving, quick-talking New Yorker of A streamlined, faster-moving version of on an actual Charleston character, a local new immigrant background; Heyward was a Porgy and Bess was revived on Broadway in beggar named Goat Sammy, who made his Southern aristocrat of plantation-owner stock 1942 and was a smash success, both critically way about the community in a little box on who could trace his lineage to Thomas Hey and financially. The rest is history, Porgy and wheels drawn by a goat. What emerged from ward, a signer of the Declaration of indepen Bess has become a worldwide favorite, playing Heyward's transformation of Goat Sammy dence. Yet, together they achieved a consis to millions. Ironically, Gershwin did not live to was the successful novel, followed two years tency of style that defies discernment of where witness any of this belated success. He died in later by die triumphant Broadway play, also the New Yorker hegins and the Southerner 1937 at the age of 38 of a brain tumor. called Porgy, which ran for 367 performances. leaves off. Much of this artistic partnership The longest-lasting, most widely seen pro George Gershwin read Heyward's novel a is attributable to Ira Gershwin, George's duction of Porgy and Bess opened in Dallas in year after it was published and was profoundly brother, who served as a creative middleman, 1952. After setting a box-office record, it affected by it. Here was a warm yet powerful offering refinements and original ideas in text, moved on to triumphs in Chicago, Pittsburgh, basic human story told with feeling and com music, and lyrics. and Washington. By the time it reached passion by someone obviously familiar with Gershin actually composed Porgy and Bess Washington, it had created such a tremendous the locale and the people he described. He during a four-month hiatus at Folly Beach, a impact that it was sent to Europe under the immediately wrote to Heyward and proposed small island ten miles from Charleston. His sponsorship of the State Department. Opening a collaboration on a musical version of the tale. residents of CatfISh Row are based on the Gul in Vienna in September 1952, it began an in Heyward was most interested and responded lahs who inhabited adjacent SI. James Island. ternationally triumphal tour that continued affirmatively. What resulted was eight years Physically and emotionally removed from the for six years. of negotiating and correspondence before mainstream of American life, they had re Michigan Opera Theatre takes great pride Gershwin was able to interrupt his busy tained more of their African heritage in their in presenting the greatest of American Operas schedule and devote himself to creating the customs and language than any black group in as part of our nation's Bicentennial Celebra music. During this period Heyward reached America. tion.

opera tic performances in Germany, Holland, and throughout the United ~~~ States. He sang the role of Campere in the Metropolitan Opera's revival of the Four ~ Saints and has sung with the Philadelphia Grand Opera, the Milwaukee Florentine Opera, Opera South, and the St. Paul CURTAIN CALL Opera Association.

REMI GHILESPI, musical director, conductor, and chorus master for Porgy and Bess, has been Musical Director at Casa Manana Musicals of Fort Worth, Texas, since 1959. He also has been Assistant to the Con ductor and Chorus Master ofthe Fort Worth Civic Opera for the past five years. Mr. LEONA MITCHELL, who alternates Ghilespi has composed two full-length musi in the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess, is only cals, a children's comedy version of Hansel 24 but already has appeared with the San ELLA GERBER, known the world and Gretel and a drama,Francis, based on the Francisco Opera, the London Symphony, over for her association with Porgy and life of St. Francis of Assisi. the Washington Opera Society, the Bess, is the director of MOT's production of Houston Grand Opera, and the Cleveland the classic folk opera. Miss Gerber's Orchestra. Miss Mitchell, who has been extensive travels with the production have selected to sing Bess in the first full taken her throughout the world, including length record i ng 0 f Porgy and Bess, enjoyed Israel, Portugal, New Zealand, and her most recent success in this part at the Australia. In all, she has directed 20 Los Angeles Music Center. Following her difTerent productions of Porgy, including Detroit engagement she will debut with the New York City Center Opera the Strasbourg (France) Opera and the Production. Porgy and Bess is but a single Geneva (Switzerland) Opera. Her Ameri facet of Miss Gerber's directorial dossier, can schedule includes appearances with or which embraces three decades of work on chestras and opera companies and numer Broadway, ofT-Broadway, in musical-tent ous solo recitals around the country. Next theatres, in summer stock and BENJAMIN MATTHEWS, who December, Miss Mitchell will make her internationally in South Africa, Japan, alternates in the role of Porgy in Porgy and Metropolitan Opera debut, singing Micaela Korea, Italy, and England. Bess, has appeared in recital, oratorio, and in Carmen. (Continued Next Page) Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 28 CURTAIN CALL

ROBERT MONROE, who sings Sporting Life, grew up in Washington, D.C., where he was discovered by his high school music teacher, songstress Roberta Flack. EARNESTlNE NIMMONS, who sings LEONARD PARKER, who sings the His musical talent earned him Serena, is a Detroiter who teaches role of the villain Crown, is a veteran actor scholarships to Howard University and to elementary school and holds a masters and singer whose long list of credits includes George Washington University. Mr. degree from Wayne State University. Miss Broadway and off-Broadway productions, Monroe made his debut in the role of Nimmons is no stranger to Detroit music Hollywood films, television dramas, and Sporting Life in 1974 with the Los Angeles lovers. She sang for four years with summer stock. Since 1958, he has appeared Light Opera Company. This role has Overture to Opera, MOT's predecessor as Crown in nine different productions of subsequently taken him to productions in company, and the Detroit Chamber Opera Porgy and Bess throughout the world. Mr. Atlanta, Lisbon, Portugal, and Madrid, Theatre. She also has sung with the Detroit Parker's background includes: Broadway, Spain. He also has appeared in an all-black Symphony Orchestra, the National One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and The cast version of The Music Man in Association of Negro Musicians, the Flint Physicists; off-Broadway, Dark of the Moon Washington, Symphony Orchestra, and has performed and Black Girl; films, The Hustler and recitals over WTVS-TV Channel 56, and at Nothing But a Man; television, The the Detroit Institute of Arts and Defenders and As the World Turns; and Marygrove College. summer stock, Cry the Beloved Country and Carmen Jones. Mr. Parker is currently the Director of Arts and Culture of the Haryou-Act Community Corporation of Central Harlem.

ROBERT MOSLEY, who alternates in the role of Porgy, has appeared with many opera companies throughout the country, in addition to a widely acclaimed New York Town Hall debut. He has sung with the New York City Opera, the Boston Opera Co., and the San Francisco Opera, in such roles as Porgy, Valentin. Rigoletto and Trinity Moses. More recently, he starred in IRENE OLIVER, who alternates in the his first Wagnerian role, Flying Dutchman role of Bess in Porgy and Bess, began her with the Opera South, where he also operatic career in Italy as a Fulbright created the part of Leonce in William student and has since established herself Grant Still's Bayou Legend. In recital, Mr. as a leading soprano in Europe. Miss Oliver Mosley has toured from Iceland to South has sung lead roles in Milan, Florence, America and throughout the U.s.A. He has Parma, Rome, Berlin and other cities. In also appeared with various symphony 1971, she toured Russia in concert to orchestras, notably the New York critical acclaim, and has appeared Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, extensively in concert, on radio and Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony television throughout Europe. Her ~~~ and the Philadelphia Symphony. Last European experience includes more than season he was introduced to Detroit 150 performances in the role of Bess. Miss ~ audiences by the Detroit Symphony. For Oliver made her triumphal American the coming season, Mr. Mosley will appear debut in 1973 with the Dallas Civic Opera. in the part of Amonasro in Aida with the She continues in repertoire at the Royal Seattle Opera in Denver and in Seattle. Opera House, Copenhagen. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 29

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Dear Friends, ". . . I am grateful for this opportun ity to convey my gratitude and my admiration for the outstanding accomplishments of Music Hall Center. In a nation which reveres its growing cultural heritage, the efforts of Music Hall Center to enhance and encourage involvement with the performing arts are truly to be commended. You have not only enriched the I ives of the many people in the Detroit area who J have had the opportun ity to attend your performances, you have also created for the entire community a spirit of expectation, excitement and appreciation. With admiration for your program and warmest best wishes,"

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PORGY AND BESS October 3 through 11 • LA BOHEME November 7, 9, 12, 14, 15 • LUCIA di LAMMERMOOR January 16, 18, 21, 23, 24 • THE BARBER OF SEVILLE February 6, 8, 11, 13, 14

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OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr. and Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Co-chairmen, Board of Directors Mr. and Mrs. John H. DeCarlo Dr. David DiChiera Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Dewar President Dr. and Mrs. David DiChiera Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Donovan Mr. John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Treasurer Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Graves Mr. Robert M. Heuer The Honorable and Mrs. Roman S. Gribbs Assistant Treasurer, Secretary Mr. and Mrs. John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Jones Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm The Honorable and Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Assistant Secretary Mr. Harry J. Nederlander McClintock, Donovan, Carson & Roach Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm Legal Counsel Mr. and Mrs. Neil Snow Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strichartz Touche Ross & Co. Accountants Mr. and Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Young

MOT - 1975-76 CAPTAINS ADVERTISING COMMITTEE Chairman Co-Chairmen Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ciupak Mr. and Mrs. Victor Wertz Mrs. Julian Becker Miss Eleanor Bennink Marcy Bright Mrs. James J. Bird Mrs. Edmund B. Campbell Mrs. John R. Brooks Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. Edward Bush Mrs. David DiChiera Mrs. Thelma E. Connely Mrs. Lloyd H. Diehl, Jr. Mrs. Abraham Cooper Mrs. Hanna Dietz Mrs. Julio Davila Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hanson Mrs. Philip B. Fischer Mr. Mitchell 1. Kafarski Mrs. Glen Gordon Mr. Neil Snow Mrs. James Gorden Mr. James VanderKloot Mrs. Eric Goullaud Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mrs. H . Thomas Hunt Mrs. Lawrence Lee Mrs. Robert Lyons Mrs. Thomas V. Lo Cicero Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Mrs. Lee H. Olmstead Mrs. John J. Puleo Mrs. Neil Snow Mrs. William L. Thompson Mrs. Robert VanderKloot Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 3

A Message From Our General Director

Dr. David DiChiera

Michigan Opera Theatre welcomes you to our fifth season of presenting opera in English at Music Hall Center. I look forward to sharing with you a season of standing ovations as we travel throughout the world - from America's Deep South, to 1975-76 Season the Left Bank of Paris, on to the Scottish Highlands, and finally to warm and sunny Seville - all on the wings of music and ADMINISTRA TIVE drama. STAFF This year also will be highlighted by five beautiful young sopranos who, critics agree, have the potential to reach interna Dr. David DiChiera tional stardom. Leona Mitchell and Irene Oliver will alternate in General Director the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess; Marianna Christos is Mimi in Robert M. Heuer La Boheme; Catherine Malfitano will sing Lucia in Lucia di Managing Director Lammermoor; and Ruth Welting is Rosina in The Barber of Seville. Yael Gani Assistant to the Our outstate tour of communities from Livonia to Traverse General Director City has estabilshed MOT as one of Michigan's major cultural resources. Thousands of our fellow citizens have had the oppor Mamie Pinkett tunity to enjoy opera, as our traveling company has presented Bookkeeper workshops, seminars, and productions in classrooms, gym nasia, and theatres throughout the state. Plans are now under Timothy F. Trainor Public Relations way to bring Aaron Copland's The Tender Land to more com munities during March and April of 1976. Looking ahead, MOT, in its first commissioned production, has engaged the renowned Thomas Pasatieri to compose an original opera for a Detroit world premiere. The most sought after opera composer in America, Mr. Pasatieri has written the widely acclaimed Black Widow for the Seattle Opera Company, The Seagull for the Houston Grand Opera and The Trial of Mary Lincoln for National Public Television. This premiere promises to be a landmark event in Detroit's cultural history, and will attract critics and opera lovers from throughout the nation. All of these elements - our exciting and diverse season, our dynamic Opera in Residence Program, and the Pasatieri premiere - are giving MOT a national reputation as a company in the forefront of American operatic trends and ideas. For this I am grateful to a dedicated staff, a supportive board of directors and, above all, to the generosity and encouragement of our many contributors and patrons. To allCopyright of you, 2010,a heartfelt Michigan thank Opera you. Theatre 4

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November 7, 9, 12, 14, 15 1975 LA BOHEME" An opera in four acts by

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Libretto Based on episodes from Giuseppe Giacosa and Henri Murger's lHica Scenes de Vie Boheme

Adaptation Richard Pearlman and Francis

First performance in February 1,

CAST

Marcello, a Allan Glassman Rodolfo, a poet Jerold Norman Colline, a Saverio Barbieri a musician Robert K. Benoit, the landlord William Morris Mimi, a seamstress Marianna Christos Parpignol, a toy vendor Gene A. Wabeke Musetta, a coquette Sberi Greenawald Alcindoro, her elderly admirer Roman Terleckyj

Paris during reign of Louis-Phillipe

ACT 1. A garret ACTH. The Cafe Momus, the Latin Quarter Intermission ACT III. A tollgate at the of Paris Int ermis s ion ACT IV. A garret

Conductor Joseph Carmen De .... U'~"""'" Francis Rizzo John Wright Stevens Costume Suzanne Mess Designer! Technical Director C. Alan Cordial Chorus Master Dr. Raynold AHvin Vocal Stephen Lord Production Coordinator Yael Gani Stage Valerie A. nelrnlll'KI Assistant to the General Director Roman Terleckyj Assistant to Mr. Rizzo Neil "' ...... " ...

Set Supervision James Nomikos Wardrobe Mistress Bonnie Whalen Property Mistress Beth Cordial Musical Preparation Lawrence Skrobacs Rehearsal Accompanist Beverly Labuta Make up Supervisor Marta Guran

Michigan Opera Theatre Chorus Roman Terieckyj, Chorus Manager Childrens Chorus Sopranos Tenors Adil AI-Shabkhoun Susan B. Anthony Karl-Heinz Multhaup Melanie AI-Shabkhoun Jacqueline T. Bacus Justin Parrott Cheryl Binig Patti Dell Joseph Siciliano Rosemarie Binig Irene Gordon Gene A. Wabeke Anthony Blackshear Constance Hintzen Nick Young Mikehl Blackshear Barbara Jackson Greg DesRosiers Liga Jekabson Baritones Michele DesRosiers . lohn Alexander Gordon Astra Kalnins Michael Albright Maggie Motil Leslie Gordon Patrick Donnelly Richard Andrew Gordon Claudia Newberry William H. Hoffmann Rachel L. Inselman Veda Pesda Kenneth Piotrowski Gretchen McGough Margilee Ruby Wesley B. Powell Mary Ellen McGough Joan D. Tallman David Roosma Tom Philliben Jerome Tomaszycki lane Spencer Mezzos William Morris lenny Stanczyk Harriet Bray Laura Stanczyk Leata Dockett Paul Walling Gracie Hanks Pat Kushner Elizabeth Macaulay De Shaheen The Michigan Chamber Orchestra Patricia Beach Smith Virginia Catanese, General Manager Redford High School Band, Ronald Jones, Director Auralee Childs, Carol Church, Ken Dawe, Janet Fischer, Dave Griffin, Lynn Koch, Barb Maxwell, Jerry Nardecchia, Debra Rhodes, Robert Smolak, Janet Thomas, Greg Todd, Dave Trost.

Acknowledgements "By arrangement with BELWIN MILLS PUBLISHING CORP., sole U.S. agent for G. Ricordi & Co., Milan, publisher and copywright owner." MOT wishes to thank the following for their assistance: Meyers Music Company; Mr. William Koerper, Director of Music Education, Detroit Public Schools; Mr. L. Eugene Fenby, Fine Arts Department Head, Redford High School.

Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, the Michigan Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Background material to which he could react personally, sired) was not one of stars, not one of 'vir "It is pretty music, sweetly melodious. emotionally, and passionately, recalling as it tuosos of the throat', but a group of singing Nevertheless, we cannot believe that there is did his own struggling student days in Milan. actors, (for) La Boheme was to be a music permanent success for an opera constructed as drama in which youth was to have its sway." this one is." Thus spoke the venerable New So strong was his reaction that he worked York Times, following the Metropolitan Opera three years, relentlessly demanding revisions The premiere performance of La Boheme was premiere of Puccini's fourth opera, La from his, at times, exasperated librettists. held February 1, 1896, at the Teatro Reggio in Boheme, in December, 1900. The public dis (These same librettists were later to furnish Turin. The rest is history. Just as Puccini him agreed, however, as it had four years earlier in Puccini with texts for Tosca and Madame self fell in love with Mimi, so did the world. Turin, when Arturo Toscanini conducted the Butterfly - a most successful collaboration!) And not only Mimi, but all the Bohemians, and most especially Puccini's glorious music, first performance of what was to become one Puccini's publisher, GiuJio Ricordi, was also of the most popular operas in the world. sensuously warm, meltingly radiant and closely involved in the creation of the work. He lushly romantic. Giacomo Puccini was thirty-five when he acted as arbitrator for the many disputes began composing music to a text prepared for which arose between Puccini and his libret La Boheme is the fourth Puccini work to be him by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi lIIica, tists, and even added suggestions of his own. presented by Michigan Opera Theatr'e (the based on Henri Murger's Scenes de fa Vie de And it was to Ricordi that Puccini entrusted others were La ROlldine. Tosca. and Madame Boheme. He had experienced moderate suc the task of casting the opera for its premiere Butterfly), and we are proud to present this cess with his first opera, Le Villi. This was performance. According to a famous Puccini work in the spirit of its first performance, with followed by Edgar, which was a fiasco, and biographer, George R. Marek, "The cast a cast of "singing actors ... and youth will then Manon Lescaut. But SCelleS afforded him CopyrightRicordi was 2010,seeking Michigan (and which Opera Puccini Theatrede- have its sway". 27 LA BOHEME her a new bonnet. Mimi is then introduced to but her health is quickly deteriorating, made CoUine, Schau nard and Marcello by Rodolfo worse by the poverty in which they are liv The Story who also proclaim s that she is his Muse, the ing. Mimi overhears Rodolfo and rushes to ACT I. In their bleak and cheerless Latin inspiration for hi s poetry. him . Quarter garret, Marcello, a painter, and As the friends order dinner, the toy vendor Laughter from Musetta prompts Marcello Rodolfo, a poet try to keep warm as they do Parpignol enters, flanked by excited c hil to reenter the tavern. Mimi and Rodolfo, left their work. Their spirits are high but their dren. The next one to enter is Mu setta, alone, sadly bid each other farewell. funds are low. They are soon joined by com Marcello's former sweetheart , with her el Marcello and Musetta reappear, once again panions Colline, a philosopher. and derly friend Alcindoro, who take a table next furious and quarreling with each other. The Schaunard, a musician, who bring food, fuel to Marcello and friend s. In the midst of this act ends with a quartet in which Marcello and and wine. Musetta sings her famous waltz, to further Musetta continue their quarrel. as Rodolfo A knock on the door announces the arrival taunt Marcello and remind him of how lovely and Mimi tenderly decide to remain together of Benoit , the landlord. He demands rent, she is. until spring. but the four misc hievously refer to his Suddenly, Mu setta screams th at her shoe romantic escapades. When he confesses, is pinching her foot, and she sends Alcindoro ACT IV. Marcello and Rodolfo are in the they throw him out in mock indignation. off to buy another pair. The minute he leaves, garret, once again trying to work, but both Since it is Christmas Eve, they decide to go she is in Marcello's arms, and all join in a are distracted by thoughts of Musetta and to the Cafe Momus. Rodolfo decides to re musical climax which in interrupted by the Mimi. Schau nard and Colline enter with main behind for a short time to finish some arrival of the patrol. The crowd hails the "yesterdays dinner", bread and a fish. The work. soldiers and everyone follows the formation, four try to make light of the dismal situation There is a knock o n the door, and Mimi leaving Alcindoro to pick up the check. with a mock duel and a dance. Their gaiety is enters. Her candle has blown out, and interrupted by Musetta who appears and Rodolfo, seeing how pale she is, (and how ACT III. At one of the gates of Paris, on a says that Mimi is with her and is very ill. lovely), invites her in. He relights her candle cold, wintry dawn, a guard admits some Mimi enters. She happil y but weakly and as she is about to leave, both candles are street-sweepers and farm women with their greets her old friends and murmers that her blown out, and she drops her key. The two produce. Late merry makers can be heard in hands are so very cold. Marcello and search for the key and their hands touch in a nearby tavern. Mimi enters, coughing and Mu setta leave to get a muff for Mimi and, the darkness. At this touch, Rodolfo begins shivering, looking for Marcello who is hopefully, some medicine. Colline bids his famous aria in which he tells Mimi of staying at the tavern with Mu setta. farewell to his beloved overcoat and leaves himself and his dreams. When Marcello appears, Mimi implores to pawn it. She answers with her equally famous aria, him to help her. She tells Marcello that she Left alone, Rodolfo and Mimi sing of their describing her lo nely life embroidering flow and Rodolfo must part. They quarrel con former happiness and great love. The others ers. The act closes with a rapturous duet in stantly over Rodolfo'sjealousy. Rodolfo en return and give the muff to Mimi. Warm and which each declares hi s love for the other. ters and Mimi hides before he appears to talk happy, she falls asleep. As Musetta prays for to Marcello. At first Rodolfo in sists th at Mimi's recovery, Schau nard realizes that ACT II. The crowds have gathered at the Mimi is nothing more than a flirt, but on Mimi is dead. Rodolfo turns and faces the Cafe Momus for the Christmas Eve celebra further questioning, he breaks down and con others whose looks betray the truth. In tion. Mimi a nd Rodolfo enter, and he buys fesses to Marcello that he loves her deeply despair, he falls on the lifeless body of Mimi. CURTAIN CALL

SAVERIO BARBIERI, who si ngs the role MARIANNA CHRISTOS, who sings the JOSEPH CARMEN DE RUGERIIS, ofColiine, was born in New York, grew up in role of Mimi, is a 1975 Metropolitan Opera conductor of La Boheme, has worked exten Florida, and attended the University of Auditions winner who lives in New York. sively in It aly. the Philippines and the United States. as a conductor. stage director, drama Miami. His first professional work was with She attended Duquesne University in director. and instructor of music, English, the Saint Louis MuniCipal Opera. and he has Pittsburgh where she received a Masters and aesthetics. He has served as assistant to since sung with Teatro de Bellas Artes in the degree in Music. Her roles include Donna s uch operatic luminaries as Thomas Dominican Republic, the Saint Paul Opera Elvira with the New York Lyric Opera. Sil Schippers, Christopher Keene and Franco Association, the Duluth Symphony Or via with the Bel Canto Opera, Nella with the Zeffirelli. For two years Mr. De Rugeriis was chestra, the Hawaii Opera Theatre. the Met Fort Worth Opera, and Lady Billows with personal assistant to composer Gian Carlo ropolitan Opera Studio, the New York the Carnegie-Mellon Opera Theater. Two Menotti. The operas he has conducted in Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the summers with the Santa Fe Opera included clude The Most Important Mall. Amahl and Pittsburgh Symphony, the New Jersey Sym the roles of the Princess and the Bat the NiRht Visitors, (Menotti), and most re cently 0011 Pasquale (Donizetti) in Palermo. phony. and the Opera Orchestra of New (L 'E1l/lIllt Et Les SortileRes), and Bellezza Mr. De Rugeriis has staged scenes from York. In 1974. Mr. Barbieri appeared with and Ora II (L'ERisto). Just last month. Mi ss FlIlI st. Madame BUllerfly. and Ri!:olello. the New York City Opera (Cllrmen and Christos made her New York City Opera RiRolello). and made hi s Michigan Opera debut as Liu in Turandot. Theatre debut in the role of Pimen in last season's production of Boris Godunov. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 28

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WILLIAM MORRIS, who sings the character role Benoit, has been studying voice for five years. He first pelformed for Michigan Opera Theatre in the 1973 produc tion of Rigoletto, singing the role of Borsa, In 1974, Mr. Morris sang Missail in Boris Gudunov, and has been a member of the Michigan Opera Theatre chorus since 1973, performing in most MOT productions.

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ALLAN GLASSMAN, who sings the role ROMAN TERLECKYJ, who sings the of the painter Marcello, is only 22 years old - ~ , role of Alcindoro, made his MOT debut and has already performed Silvio in in 1971 (The Perfect Fool) , and has since Pagliacci, Marcello in La Boheme, Germont performed in Beauty and the Beast, in La Traviata and Figaro in The Barber of Cosi fan TUll e, Tasca, Rigoletto, Seville. He was born in New York and Madame Bullerfiy, Merry Widow, and .\ studied at the Juilliard School of Music and "'. both MOT Opera in Residence prog Hartt College of Music. In the summer of rams. He is currently personal assistant 1974, Mr. Glassman was a member of the JEROLD NORMAN, who sings the role of to Dr. DiChiera, and has also worked as J Wolf Trap Company in Vienna, Virginia, and Rodoifo, holds degrees from Oklahoma prop and costume designer, chorus this past spring he sang Figaro with Michigan University and Indiana University. While at manager, and assistant to MOT stage Opera Theatre's Opera in Residence prog Indiana, Mr. Norman was acclaimed for his directors. This past summer Mr. Ter ram in eight Michigan cities. performances in the School of Music leckyj was assistant stage manager for productions of Carmen, lenufa, Arabella, the Santa Fe Opera. and Tales of Hoffman. This past season he has sung Alfred (The Merry Widow), Alfredo (La Traviata), Faust (Mephistopheles), Rodolfo (La Boheme), Pinkerton (Madame Butterfly), Don Jose (Carmen), Erik (The Flying Dutchman), and Narraboth(Salome), these last two roles with Cincinnati Opera and Canadian Opera, respectively. Im mediately following his MOT debut, Mr. Norman will perform Don Jose with the Columbus Symphony, and next spring he ROBERT K. GRA Y, who sings the role of will do his first Des Grieux (Manon) for the Charlotte Opera. the musician Schaunard , won the Metropoli GENE A. WABEKE, who sings the role of tan Opera Auditions in San Diego and placed the toy vendor, Parpignol, has appeared ex in the Western Regional Finals in Los tensively in the Detroit area and Michigan as Angeles. He then went to the Juilliard Schoo! a soloist with various groups, including the of Music and studied with Giorgio Tozzi. Mr. Cranbrook Festival, Dearborn Choral Arts Gray has sung with the San Diego Sym Society and the Opera Association of West phony, Aspen Festival, Central City Opera, ern Michigan. Mr. Wabeke first performed and the New York Philharmonic. Last sea with MOT under its predecessor Overture to son Mr. Gray made his MOT debut as Baron Opera (La Rondine, 1971). His other MOT Douphol in La Traviata. credits include Beauty and the Beast, Rigolello, Madame Butterfly, The Merry Widow , Boris Godunov and Die Fledermaus.

FRANCIS RIZZO, stage director for La Boheme, returns to Michigan Opera Theatre after his highly successful Boris of last sea son. Mr. Rizzo has been personal assistant to Gian Carlo Menotti, noted composer and stage director, and in 1967 was appointed director of the American Sector of the Spoleto (Italy) Festival of Two Worlds. Cur rently, he is Artistic Administrator of the SHERI GREENA WALD, who sings the Wolf Trap Foundation in Vienna, Virginia. role of Musetta, was a 1968 winner in the Mr. Rizzo has directed productions for Santa Metropolitan Opera Auditions. She has per Fe Opera, New York City Opera, Houston MR!~~ formed with the Hunter College Opera Grand Opera, Baltimore Opera, and in Theatre, the Brooklyn College Opera Europe for Teatro Verdi in Trieste, and the Theatre, Temple Music Festival, and the Opera House in Marseilles. He also is a ~ Manhatten Theater Club. Recently, she sang frequent contributor to Opera News. Despina (Cosi fan Tutte ), Miss Jessel (Turn ofthe Screw), and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) forTexas Opera Theatre, and Rosina(Barber of Seville) for the Omaha Opera Company. Immediately following her MOT debut, Miss Greenawald will debut with the Houston Grand Opera in Bilby's Doll, and Don Giovanni (Zerlina). Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 29

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The best ideas are the I mm International Telephone and Telegraph Cor00f3tion. 320 Park Avenue. New YOt'k, NY 10022. ideas that help people. .1...1.. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR An opera in three acts by Gaetano DonizeUi (1797-1848) Libretto Translation by Salvatore Cammarano Anne Grossman Additional Materials by Based on Sir Walter Scott's Christopher and David Alden novel The Bride of Lammermoor First performance in Naples, September 26, 1835 CAST (in order of appearance) Normanno, Aide to Enrico Ashton Alan Glassman Lord Enrico Ashton _ Robert Termine Raimondo, Chaplain of Ashton Clan Joseph McKee Lucia, Enrico's Sister Catherine Malfitano Alisa, her Nurse Eleanor Felver Edgardo, Master of Ravenswood Neil Shicoff Lord Arturo Bucklaw Ja mes Hopkins

Seventeenth century Scotland ACT I Scene I Outside Ravenswood Castle Scene 2 Ravenswood Graveyard Intermission ACT II Scene I Ravenswood Castle Chapel Scene 2 Great Ha ll of the Castle Intermission ACT III Scene I Abandoned Wolfs Crag Tower Scene 2 Great Hall Scene 3 Ravenwood Graveyard

Conductor ...... Andrew Meltzer Stage Director ...... David Alden Set Designer ...... Paul Steinberg Costume Designer ...... Suzanne Mess Lighting Designer/Technical Director . . .. . Donald Martin Vocal Coach/Accompanist ...... Stephen Lord Production Coordinator ...... Yael Gani Stage Manager ...... Valerie A. Bernacki Apprentice to the Stage Manager . .. .. David A. Pretzlaff Apprentice to Technical Director ... . John M. Theuerkauf Rehearsal Accompanist ...... Grace Wa lters Supernumeraries ...... David Wassenaar Costumes from Malabar, Ltd. Toronto Scenery in cooperation with the Augusta Opera Company Michigan Chamber Orchestra, Virginia Catanese, General Manager Mi chigan Opera Theatre Chorus, Roman Terleckyj, chorus manager Michael Albright Barbara Jackson Karl -Heinz Multhaup Jacqueline T . Bacus Astra Kalnins Nanette Peraino Emily Bristah Elizabeth Kanasty Mary Ann Pilette Leata Dockett Shirley Kraemer David Roosma Patrick Donnelly Lois Ann Lawson Nicholas Young Charles Fickeau Elizabeth Macaulay John Raleeh Gracie Hanks Scott McCue William T. Hoffmann Brya n McNeil

Acknowledgements The Eller Outdoor Advertising Company of Michigan Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of the Legisla ture of the State of Michigan, the Michigan Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. All casts subject to change without notice. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre The Background due in to the novel on which it is Gaetano Donizetti was born six based, Walter Scott's tale, The Bride of after the death of Mozart, and died Lammel'lnoOl', had many elements which before the premiere of Rigole/lo, make it a story: an exotic setting-a the 51 years of his life (l797-1848) gloomy in 17th century Scotland' an 75 works for the lyric stage, and ill fated love between two innocent; of was pan of the triumverate, the others warring families; the madness of the being Rossini and Bellini, the works of heroine; her brother's scheming intrigue; which are considered the high point of and murder. Italian bel canto opera. BUI it is Donizelli's u~"e of these ele ments, setting them to music which is Donizetti's education him well for his life's work, studied music al once laden with glorious melody and at (voice, organ, Ilute, and double the same time characteristic of the indi viduals and dramatic situations which he bass), mythology, Latin, and which has secured for this work rhetoric, all the while exhibiting an un- in the history and common to compose "like of opera, ing", It was ability which him a comfonable living in an when people Writing of the famous mad scene, Her went to the thealer to see latest opera bert Weinstock, biographer of Donizelti as we, today, go to the theater for the and opera historian, said, "II is only when latest play or musical comedy, the soprano's voice, under control, The immense and immediate popularity has been made the vehicle a display of which Donizetti enjoyed is documented by , . virtuoso characterization as well (as the himself, writing to his pub- vocal pyrotechnics), tearing at the listener lisher, following the opening of with understanding of a human mind going his 35th and most famous opera: "Lucia m and out of that Donizelti's di Lammermoor has gone on stage and artistic wisdom has justified." kindly permit me to shame myself and tell To Donizelli's artistic wisdom you the truth. It has pleased, and pleased is the aim of Michigan Opera very much". Theatre's production of Lucia di Lam The success of Lucia di Lammermoor is mermoor,

The Story Lucia Arturo by showing her a by David Alden Edgardo unfaithful. to do as her In feud between the Scottish families brother asks. Crushed and confused, she of Ashton and Ravenswood, Enrico Ash consents, ton has won the upper hand, and estab lished his family in the Ravenswood castle, Scene 2 Edgardo Ravenswood a bitter out cast. political winds of Scotland are hall, the Ashton clan greets shifting, and Enrico fears disfavor with the Enrico warns Arturo that if new monarch; unless he can marry his sis Lucia appears melancholy, it is because ter' Lucia to Lord Arturo Bucklaw, hea'd of she mourns her mother. Lucia enters, and a powerful clan, his power may crumble, is forced to sign the marriage contract. At that moment, Edardo enters claiming Act I Scene I Lucia as his bride, Seeing her signature on the contract, he curses her, and storms Outside the castle, Normanno and mem out. bers of the Ashton clan search for a mys terious trespasser. Enrico is angry at Act III Scene 1 Lucia's refusal to to a political mar- Edgardo, in the Wolfs Crag but the Raimondo, pleads tower, is by Enrico who exp- in favor. Normanno tells Enrico that lains that couldn't the wedding Lucia is in love with a whom he suspects is Edgardo. When searchers knowing that his enemy The two return and confirm Normanno' s sus pi decide to meet the next morning for cians, Enrico swears vengeance on his duel. sister and her lover. Scene 2 The wedding festivities are interrupted Scene 2 Raimondo who tells the horrified guests Anticipating a tryst with Edgardo, Lucia Lucia has lost her mind and stabbed has come to the where her Arturo to death in their wedding chamber. mother is buried near an fountain, Lucia enters and relives her anguish and She tells her nurse Alisa of the fountain's ecstasy to the dismay' of all, and to the - a terrible omen, according to remorse of her brother. and of her love for Edgardo, who soon arrives, He must leave immediately Scene 3 for France, but first he wants to end the Edgardo, awaiting his enemy for the feud of the families, and marry Lucia. duel, is overcome with grief at Knowing her brother's hatred, Lucia begs betrayal and desires Edgardo to keep their love a secret. Be guests enter and tell fore parting, the lovers exchange tokens Lucia dying and calling for and swear eternal vows. about to rush to her side when Raimondo arrives with the news that she is dead, Ed Act II Scene 1 slabs himself, and dies with his In the chapel, Enrico plots to force name on his lips, CAMER4.S OR TAPE RECORDERS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE THEATRE Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre CURTAIN CALL

DA VID ALDEN makes his MOT debut as director for Lucia in a production which he successfully this past Fall in Augusta, Georgia, Actor, director, and translator, he apprenticed at the Lake and Santa Fe directed his first opera, The of Seville, in He spent the three years resident stage director of Houston Texas Opera Theater Future assignments include the world of Carlisle Doll and a new Don Giovanni Houston, a repeat Bilby Omaha, and debuts with the Cincinnati Opera and the Wolf Trap Festival.

ELEANOR FELVER, who sings the role of Alisa. was born and educated in Scotland, The contralto came to Canada in 1965, after establishing herself as a recitalist in Britain, The recipient of a Canada Council grant, Miss Felver made her Canadian operatic debut in 1971 at the National Arts Centre in Ollawa, Her Michigan Opera Theatre debut was as the innkeeper in last season's production of Boris Godllnov, and she has in ora lorio, and as soioisl with the orchestras Detroit, and Windsor.

ALLAN GLASSMAN, who sings the role of Normanno, most recently was heard Marcello in MOT's production of La Boheme. The 23 year old baritone from New York studied at Juiltiard and the Harlt of Music. Mr. Glassman spent the last two summers as a of the Wolf Trap and in the Spring of 1975 he sang the role of in in Residence (The Barber Seville), in March and April. Mr. Glassman will sing in the Residence production of Lucia,

JAMES HOPKINS, who sings the role of Arturo, most Rodolfo in the University of Michigan production Boheme, and in will sing Don lose in their Carmen. A native New Yorker, tenor has appeared as guest soloist at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and with the university orchestras of Michigan, Oakland, and Florida State. He is cur a doctorate in voice at the University of Michigan, to the Dean of the Music School.

CATHERINE MALFITANO, who sings the title role of Lucia, is currently on the roster of New York City The 27 old soprano made her, professional debut in has sung with the of Santa Fe, Lake George, Trap, Portland, D,C" Houston, Minneapolis, Her engagements include the Festival and an Covent Garden debut. She has appeared at Carnegie in recital, and has recorded for Musical Heritage Society. In October, Miss Malfitano returns 10 MOT for the season opening world premiere. JOSEPH MCKEE sings the role of the sympathetic Raimondo, Presently a member of the American Opera Center at Juilliard, the bass-baritone from Pennsylvania is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, and has with the opera companies of Tuscon, and Future include Kansas City Theater and Kentucky In February, Mr. McKee the role of Bartolo Michigan Opera The Barber of Sel'ille.

ANDREW MELTZER, music director and conductor of Lucia di Lammermoor, received his training at the Oberlin Conservatory, His engagements have included work with Santa Fe Geneva Centre Lyrique International, and In 1974 Mr, Meltzer made his and he was music director of Western Opera Theater for the season and music director of the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, In the spring of 1975, he debuted with the Vancouver Opera Association,Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre NEIL smCOFF sings the role of Lucia's lover, Edgardo. The tenor from New York is a recipient of National Opera Institute and the first Jennie Tourel Memorial scholarship. Mr. attended the luilliard School, and has performed with the American Opera the Santa Fe Opera, and the Opera Society of Washington. Cincinnati debut was the title role in Ihe 1975 May Festival production of Ernani, Other upcoming include Cavaradossi in the Miami Opera's Tosca, title role in Houston Grand Opera's Faus/,

ROBERT TERMINE, who sings the pivotal role of Lucia's brother Enrico, attended Hunter College and the Manhatten School of Music. The New York baritone appeared with the Lake George consecutive seasons. 18 major The recipient of a Corbett for study in Europe, Mr. Termine has performed the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in Austria, and the Regensburg, as well as the American Opera Center at

MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE GENERAL DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Welcome to the third of our fifth season at Detroit's Music Center. We look back with pride on the first two of the season, and Bess, classic, drew unanimous critical and popular acclaim, and La Boheme, Puccini's tender love at the end of which there "wasn't a dry In . And now Lucia, the most famous the bel canto operas, with Malfitano, whose name is destined for the bright lights of Yet to come, in February, Rossini's Barber of Seville will end our season on a joyous note. But even we present Barber in Detroit, rehearsals will be well under way for in Residence III. the third of our and well received program taking opera throughout the state, From far west as Kalamazoo to Cheboygan in the north, MOT travels for six weeks to Michigan communities, lecturing, and entertaining the residents of our state. and for the general excellence of our earned the designation as one of six DR. DAVID DICHIERA major cultural institutions. As a salute to the American Bicentennial, Michigan Opera Theatre will present the world of an American opera to 1976-77 season, This event not only will to our country's birth, but our company in the forefront of the opera companies in America. I to us for what promises 10 be step forward" for Michigan Opera our and stale. all thaI we are, a major cultural resource serving the of Detroit and U!C:~'''UU;"' opera company which showcases the of the as well as for the of the 20th century all musical theatre, for this thank a dedicated staff, a supportive generous contributors, and you, without whom we would cease to be,

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Coming next ... THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Rossini's gay, witty, ever-fresh classic comedy will end our season with a laugh. Starring New York City Opera baritone Charles Roe (MOT's Ei senstein, Danilo, Guglielmo), and directed by world famous basso halo Tajo, THE BARBER, in English, will be proof that opera can be great, hilarious fun.

February 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 1976

"Washington Square" to open MOT's 1976-77 season

A first for Detroit, a first for Michigan, an event of national and internationa l significance in the arts, MOT has commissioned the renowned Thomas Pasatieri to compose an opera - MOT's salute to the Bicentennial - to open our 1976-77 season in October. Washington Square, Henry James' psychologically penetrating novel which became a successful stage play and an award winning movie (The Heiress). is transformed into an opera, the ultimate artistic experience. Tickets are now available on season subscription only.

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre The Background The Story by Italo Taja T he chapter on Ros ini in Brockway and Weinstock's ACT I book, THE WORLD OF OPERA. i entitled " Tht: Divine Cou nt Al maviva, a Spani h nobleman pretending to be Opera Grind er". An output of thrrt y-eight operas in Lindoro. a poor tudent. come to serenade Rosina . a ward nineteen years qualifies Rossini as an per.! grinder. Work of Dr. Rartolo. who want to marry her himself. He meets that spa rkle with musical humor. gaiety. effervescence. Figaro. barber and genera l fa ctotum in Rarto lo ' s infectiou rhythm, and which are lo ved by miUion -, qualify household. and Ihe two plot 10 gain enlrant'C for Al maviva Ro ini as divine. Richard Wagner i upposed to have in tll Bartolo's house. Figa ro suggest. that Al maviva present said , "Oh Rossini! Rossini! How I love him'" himself as a " drunken ' oldier". a moke ' creen for hj Chronologically , Ro ini is the tirst of the "big three" of amorous intentions. Italjan bel canto opera composers (the others are Donizelli and Bellini). Their works dominated the lyric stage during ACT II the first half of the nineteenth century, and showcased Ro ina. alone . mu ses on Almaviva' . erenade. which has singers po ses cd of the bel canto style: beautiful tone and touched her heart. She writes him a nOle whic h she. plans dazzling tec hnique. to send vIa Figaro, Bartolo enter with the mu sic ma ter, Basilio. Bartolo lells of hi plan to marry Rosina. a nd hear The fi rst of Ro ini 's thil1 y-eight works premiered in from Sa ilio lh al Alma viva . of whom Ba rt olo i 1I piciou , 1810 when he was eighteen years old : and his final opera is in town . Basilio ugge t " a little slander" again 'l the wa wrillen in 1829 when the composer wa thlrty-seve.n. Count. Figaro, ha ving overheard Basilio and Barlolo. lell . Thougo he lived nearly fon y year longe r. he never wrote Ro ina about the Dr.'s desire for her hand. and then another opera, but inslead retired to become a n promise to deliver Rosina's nOle to Lindoro. Ro ina is international wil and famed ho t of Pa ri . At the time , he sharply que tioned by her jealou5 and suspi cious guardian. wa very famou , ve ry popular, and very ri ch. Soon Almaviva appear . disguised a a drunken soldie.r. A Although Rossi ni wrote ~e riou works as well a comic long argument ensues, during whic h Almaviva slips a love ones, it is wil h the laller that he enjoyed his grelilest note \(l Ro ina. When Ba rlolo demand:. to ee it , he ucce es. One of his biographer . Fra ncis Toye. has a id quickly sub titllt es laundry Ii I. T he nQi e allracts the that Ro inj' ou tanding contribulion to mu ic was gaiety. atle.ntion of soldiers. and when the sergeant i~ about 10 that hi comic opera. workoo because they reflected the arrest lmaviva. he reveals hi true identity. BartolQ is personalilY of the composer. Rossini himself said . " Give tupefied . T cover hi mi take the. ergeant an e t me a la undry li st and I will set it to mu ic"; lind on anolher Ambrogio. a ervan!. Bartolo fainls and the lover occasion. following the composition of a religious work. he embrace. wrote, "Dear God: Well th i ~ poor lill ie Ma i comple-ted. Ha ve I for once wrillen real Sacred Music or just damned ACT III bad music? I was born for opera buffa. as Thou knowest.·· Alma viva no w return di gui ed a the ID U ic teacher Don Alonso. " pupil of Don Basilio" . who, according to Bel canto was his s tyle, comic o pera was his arl. the Tire Alonso, is ick. Rosina recognizes her Lindor • and begins Barber oj Se"ille was his rna terpiece. Based on the fi rst her music le ' StlO . Figaro arrive s 1\) shave Ba rt olo, and pl ay of a 13eaumarchais trilogy, 71. e Barber premiered to Bas.ilio come in looking the piclure of health. The others the hoots and catcalls of Pai iello fa ns Pai iello had a bribe him to leave. Figaro haves Bart olo while Ro ina and popula r work of the ame name on the board at the same time). The premiert: was also plagued with poor singing. a AlmavivlI plan to el ope. Be rt a complai ns that she i going mad. Bartolo tells Rosina thaI Lindoro is not true to her. si nger who tripped and had 10 sing wil h a bloody nose. and and is pl anning to hand her over to his rn a ler Almaviva . a cat who wandered in and up laged everyone. Rosina hdieves Bal1olo a nd unhappily con ent to marry But Rossini had the last laugh: The Barber has fulfilled him . Bal1olo send s fo r a ootary. Almaviva and Figaro the prophecy of Beethoven who ·aid . " It will be played a arri ve with a ladder to get Rll si na. but s he ae use Lindoro long a Italian opera exis ts '. One hundred and sixty years of treachery. He reveals his truc id entity and she. i joyou '. aft er it s premiere the work remai ns not only in the tandard When Ba ilio enlers with a notary to marry Rosina and repertoire of mo t opera companies and hQuses throughout Ba rtolo. a gold ring from Almaviva convinces Ba ilia 10 the world. il rank with Th e Mllrriage oj Figa ro. Die witnes the marriage of Rosina and the Count. RII hing in Meistersinger. Rosenkavalier, and Fa/staff as the very best too lale. Bartolo find s his ward already married. and admits of comi c: opera . he wa II fool. .. AII '~ well thaI end well. "

BATT LE, oprano. ROBERT K. GRA Y, baritone. who '. a lternate ~ in the role of Rosina. A graduate sing~ the role of Fiorello. tudied with of the ollege onservatory of Music in Giorgio Tozzi as a _cholar hip recipient at intinnali. Mi Baule i the recipient of Juilliard where he received hi B.M. ~. . Corbell and Ford Foundation cholar. hip' . and M.M. degree.. He was an Eastern and was the nntional winner in the ,.~ t - Regional finalist in the an Francisco f~ ~ Federation of Music Club' 197 " Young Opera and Metropolitan Opera auditions. , . - Artist Auditions" _ A. olois! she has Mr. Gray made hi MOT debut in 1974 a appeared with mae 'lri James Levine, Baron Douphol in La Traviata. and thi Thom!l.\ Schippers. Robert haw. and Luka Fa . and her opera season performed chaunard in MOT' La Boll/ime. Currently, Mr. roles in Cincinnati include Rosina. u. anna. and Emily (Help, Help. Gray ill the hairman of the Voice Department at Oakland Tire Globolinks). Mo ·t recently. Miss Battle performed Treemonisha University. un Broadway_

RICHARD KAPP, conductor for Tile Barber. i well known a ' II conductor through hi regular appearance. on the BRENDA BOOZER, mezzo- 'oprano, Europel:ln continent and in orth America_ who alternate in the role of Rosina, i~ 11 n accompli he4 pillOi t !Ind composer. Metropolitan Opera Regional Audition Mr. Kapp i. the recipient of a Fulbright winner. Her operatic experience include Pdtuw hip. He wa ational Mu -ic performance~ with Ihe opera companies of Directo, of Young udience. Inc., and Central City. anla Fc. Los Angeles, San Musical Director of the Opera Theillre of Francisco, and the Goldovsky Opera the Manha1l3n ChUbl of Music. He is pre -ently comluctol of the Theatre. Mi . Boozer i. also a dancer, Phil harmonia VirtuOsi of ew York (It chamber orchestra consi~ting currently tudying with Martba Graham, of leading member of the ew York Philharmonic). He hl\ more i\nd he hn made gue t appearance on the Mike Douglas and Merv than twenty-live recordings to hIs credJt. reITectlOg hi~ immen e Grimn show. he recently made her ew York debut at very operatic and orchestml repertoire. Mr. Kapp is also a graduate of i her Hall S ' 50loi t with the New York Choral Society. ew York niver 'ity Law School. nd a progrnm office, fo r the Ford Foundation.

JOHN CHEEK , bas -·baritone, who ing JO EPH MCKEE sings the role of Dr. the role of Basilio is a native of North Bartolo. Presently 11 member of the Carolina, and a graduate of the North American Opera Center at luilliard. the Carolina S hool of the Art . He aI . 0 bass-baritone from Pennsylvania i a a\tended the Accademia Mu icule Chigiana graduate of Oberlin Con ervatory. and has in Italy. and the Manbattan chool of performed with the opera companies of Music in New York. He a appeared with Tuc on. Omaha, and Augusta. Future the ymphonie of North Carolina and engagement include Kansas ily Lyric Baltimore. and with t,he National Gallery Theatre and Kentucky Opera. Last month Orchestra, the Wa hington Cathedral Choral Society, and the Opera Mr. McKee won con iderable critical acclaim fo r his moving ociety of Washington. For tbe past four year , Mr. Cbeek ha been portrayal or Raimondo in Michigan Opera Theatre' production of :1 member and featured 'oloi t with the United tate Army Chorus. Lucia di Lammermoor.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre HARLES ROE baritone, who -ings lhe JOHN WALKER, lenor, sings the role role r Figaro, i. currently on lhe 1"0 ter of of ALmaviva. A native of Illinois, he the ew York City Opera. He made his attended De:nver and (nlliana Universities MOT debut in 1971 as Rambaldo in La and the spen chool of Music, and then ROJl(JiJlI!, and has performed in each went to Europe where he performed in uccecding sea 'on for a total of nine fole Stuttgart, B ru sel , Frankfurt, and Zurich. with the company. A native of Cleveland, Mr. Walker' Canadian debut wa in 1970 Mr. Roe was Assi tant ?rofes or of Mu 'ic wilh the Canadian Opera Company (the at Ea 'tern Michigan University for ix litle role in Gounod' Faust). and he years. He ha performed with the orcbestras of Cleveland. Toledo, sang Prunier in Ihe: CBC te:levision production of La RondiJle. He ltas and Detroit. and with the Opera Association of We tern Michigan , performed wilh the companie of an Fmnci 'co, Dalla . Chicago. and Music Theater of Wicltita. lind the Oberlin Music Theater. Seattle, Portland. an Diego, and anta Fe. MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Welcome to the fourth and final production of our fifth season at Music Hall Center. We hope you have enjoyed Porgy and Be.u. La KAREN RUCZYNSKl, who sings the Boheme. and Luria di Lam role f Berta, i a graduate of Western merm(lur: lind we hope too. Michgian University and the University of t/rdl Tile Barber of Sellilie. Ro sini' Michigan with a Master' degree in Voice comic masterpiece. will be as Performance. The soprano from Gr\lnd memorable for you as it Ita been Rapids made her profe ional debut with for us to present it. lhe Western Michigan Opera 550clatl01) Curtain going down at Mu..'iic HaJJ as Ro alinda in Die Fleclermaus , a role she means curtain going up f.or Opera in al 0 performed with the Ann Arbor Comic Re idence. our i", week touring, Opera Guild. Mi Rucz.yn ki appeared a.~ oloist with the Flint educational program which takes Dr. David DICIIiera ymphony. and sang Rosina and Berta in the MOT Opera in opera throughout OUT entire state. General Director Re idence production of The Barber of eville last spring. I invite you to renew your ea on tickets nOw for next eason wbich will open with a world premiere. II "giant step forward" for Michigan Opera Theatre. our cily. and our state. My sincere thank to the entire company, the board of directors. and to you. for enabling u to wear proudly our designation as a ml\ior culturaJ in titutiort. IT ALO TAJ O , i tage director for Tire ADMlNISTRATTVE STAFF Barber. His singing career includes 160 Dr. David DiChierl'.eln, Chicago Lyric Opera.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre to open MOT's 1976-77 season "Washington Square" Composer: Thoma Pasatieri Libretti t: Kenward Elmslie A fi r t for Detroit, a fi rst for Michigan, an event of nationaJ and international ignificance in the art , MOT a commi ioned the renowned Thoma Pasatieri to compo e an opera - MOT's alute to the Bicentennial - to open our 1976-77 sea on in October. Washington Square. Henry Jame ' psychologicall y penetrating novel which became a succe fu t stage play and an award winning movie (The Heires ), i tran formed into an opera, the ultimate artistic e perience. Ticket are now available on eason subscription only. - Starring- New York City Opera Soprano Metropolitan Opera Bass-Baritone (MOT's Lucia) GIORGlo-rozzr GIORGIO TOZZI CATHERINE MALFIT ANO

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre The role of COUNT ALMA VN A wiJI be sung by GRAYSON HI RST , a Julliard graduate who has appeared i.n a wide repertoire of operas and has been soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of both Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Scltippers. He was recently acclaimed for his Carnegie HaJJ debut in wh ich he sang the leading male role opposite Beverly Sills in a revival of Donizetti's The Daughter oj the Regiment. In the fall of 1970, na tionwide television audiences will have the opportunity to view him in the role of Belmonte in NET Opera's production of Mozart's The A bduction from the Seraglio.

SOLDIERS and MUSICIANS

Joe Brown Carmen CavaJJero Sean MacKenzie David Munson Gary Wilson