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Dear Friends, develop a solution to this evergrowing On behalf of Michigan Opera Theatre, challenge. it is my great pleasure to welcome you back to the Detroit Opera House. We hope In 1999, we launched the New Century tha~ you have enjoyed your summer, and Fund with the historic Three Tenors we look forward to sharing with you Concert. While we have made great another extraordinary season of world strides in our fund-raising efforts, we still class opera and dance productions. have a long way to go. The successful completion of this campaign will ensure While the summer months provided that Michigan Opera Theatre and all a brief rest to the action on stage, the its cultural and educational activities at the Detroit Opera House bustled with the Detroit Opera House will remain a vital award-winning Learning at the Opera force for our community in this new House program and a variety of youth century: At the top of our priorities is the based programs, including American completion of the Education Resource Ballet Theatres summer dance intensive, Center, the retirement of our construction which was attended by students from and after performances. I am also very debt and the establishment of a Significant around the nation. pleased that, as part of this restoration, endowment. we will be able to provide a fully accessible The past few months have also allowed restroom fa Cility on our main floor. In addition to all these initiatives, we us to continue the ongoing restoration of have planned an extraordinary season of the Detroit Opera House. Specifically, The 1996 opening of the Detroit opera and dance for your pleasure. Our you will notice improvements to the Opera House became the catalyst for fall opera season will feature two com Broadway facade, which we anticipate the revitalization of the sports and enter pletely new productions of Carmen and will be completed by the holidays. I hope tainment district that surrounds Grand Anoush, with a host of exciting artists to you will take a moment to revel in the Circus Park and Harmonie Park. While bring them to life. As always, I truly exquisite architectural beauty of this we remain inordinately proud of our role appreciate your support and hope that portion of a magnificent theater. in the tremendous development of this you will enjoy your experiences at the area and enjoy the success of the new Opera House . The large lounge, located near the businesses, restaurants and the beautiful Madison Street entrance, will be closed Comerica Park, we have become painfully throughout the fall and winter seasons, aware that this growth has its price. We and will reopen as the General Motors share the concern that many of you have Opera Cafe in time for our spring about the increased difficulty in parking; season. This new faCility will allow we have thus been working with many of our guests to enjoy light fare before our neighbors and the City of Detroit to David DiChiera

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DON]OSE .1 Hugh Smith* (Oc tober 13, 17 & 20) Gerard Powers* (October 14m, 19 & 21m) ZUNIGA Salvador Ginori CARMEN Irina Mishura (October 13, 17,19 & 21m) Kate Aldrich (October 14m & 20) FRASQUITA ValerieYova MERCEDES Eliza Wam er*+ ESCAMILLO ,Kyle Ketelsen LE DANCAIRO Terence Murphy LE REMENDADO Matthew Tuell+ * Michigan Opera Theatre Debut + Michigan Opera Theatre Young Artist Apprentice

Conductor John DeMain Director Ron Daniels* Chorus Mas ter Suzanne Mallare Acton Set Design Riccardo Hernandez* Costume Design Constance Hoffman Lighting Design James Ingalls* Choreographer Lili del Castillo Makeup & Hair Design Elsen Associates Stage Manager Kenneth Sal~

Surtitle translation Christopher Bergen Surtitles Jar this production oj Carmen are owned by Christopher Bergen Acts I & II will each be followed by a 20 minute intermission Carmen is a Co-Production of Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Pacific and Houston Grand Opera. ~ I g~;~k By arrangement with Baerenreiter Music Corporation for Alkor-Edition, publisher and Michigan Opera Theatres 2001 Fall Season is made The Opening Night Performance of Carmen copyright owner. possible by Ford Motor Company is sponsored by Ameritech. The October 17th performance is sponsored by the Ida & Conrad H. Smith Fund, which was established by the Raymond C. Smith Scott Shuptrine Presents: Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation ()1pE:RA [7ALKS for Southeastern Michigan. One hour prior to the performance

Detroit Opera House www.MichiganOpera. org BRAVO 9 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Setting: 'II S · SCVI C, paIn ACTI I In a square in Seville, townspeople and soldiers relax in the sun. A pretty r country girl, Micaela, comes in looking for her sweetheart, Corporal Don Jose; an officer, Morales, tells her Jose will be there later, and she leaves. As the guard is changed, a band of children parade around, imitating the soldiers ("Avec la grande montante"), .whose number now includes Jose. To the sound of the noon bell, girls from the nearby cigarette fac- _ tory wander in to smoke and chat, as the arena ("Votre toast") When the inn vante"). A shot rings out, and she flees. passersby look on in fascination ("Dans closes, Carmen tells four friends - It was Joses gun, aimed at Escamillo, l'air"). Carme~ enters last, flirting, joking Frasquita, Mercedes, Dancairo, who has come looking for Carmen. The and explaining her philosophy of life: Remendado - that love for Jose keeps two start to fight with knives and are Love is a wild bird that cannot be tamed her from going along on their next separated by the gypsies; Escamillo (Habanera: "I:amour est un oiseau smuggling trip (quintet: "Nous avons en invites them all to his next bullfight and rebelle") . Jose sits apart, sullen and dis tete"). They laugh at her, then hide as leaves after insulting Jose, whose jeal tracted. Drawn by his indifference, Jose is heard approaching. Carmen sings ousy is reaching dangerous bounds. Carmen tosses him a flower as the work and dances for him, but a bugle is heard Remendado brings in Micaela, and she bell calls the girls back. The square sounding the retreat, and he starts to begs Jose to return home. Carmen, tired grows quiet, and Micaela returns to give return to his barracks. This angers her, as she is of him, agrees, but he knows Jose news of his mother ("Parle-moi de and he pauses to show her the flower whats on her mind and vows to find her rna mere"). No sooner has she left than she threw at him, telling what it meant after he has seen his mother. a disturbance is heard in the factory; to him in prison ("Le fl eur que tu Carmen is involved in a fight, and the m'avais jetee"). She invites him to join girls run out arguing over who started it. her wild mountain life , but he refuses. ACT IV Captain Zuniga orders Jose to arrest Suddenly, Zuniga breaks in, provoking In Seville's Plaza de Toros, the crowd Carmen, but she resists their questions an attack by Jose. Carmen calls the gyp with brazen nonchalance. Her wrists gathers for the bullfight, hailing sies, who seize Zuniga. Jose is now Escamillo. Carmen is with him and bound, she sings "to herself' about the forced to join the outlaws. rendezvous she might arrange with Jose assures him of her love; she waits in the (Sequidilla: "Pres des ramparts de square, though her girlfriends warn that Seville") Falling under her spell, he ACT III Jose has been seen prowling around, looking desperate. Carmen is a fatalist; loosens her bonds. The crowd returns to In their mountain hideout, the smug she knows she must face Jose eventually see Carmen led to prison, roaring with glers congratulate themselves on their Sure enough, he enters ("C'est toi7" delight when she escapes; Jose is arrest successful career, but Jose is unhappy in "C'est moil"), demanding that she give ed for letting her get away their midst. Carmen finds his homesick up Escamillo. But she and Jose are fin ness tiresome and busies herself with her ished, she says tossing his ring in his ACT II friends in telling their fortunes at cards face, as the crowd is heard cheering for A month later, at Pastia's Inn, Carmen Frasquita sees an ardent lover, Mercedes Escamillo. When Carmen tries to run joins her companions in a gypsy song a wealthy husband and Carmen only past Jose into the arena, he stabs her, ("Les tringles des sistres tintaient") and death ("En vain pour eviter"). The gyp exerts her charms on the matador sies leave, and Micaela enters in search falling in despair by her body OJ Escamillo, who boasts of his exploits in of Jose ('Je dis que rien ne m'empou- Courtesy of Opera News

10 BRAVO www.MichiganOpera.org Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Mitchell Krieger talks to Director Ron Daniels about Carmen Mitchell Krieger is the Director of Seville - the world for Cannen. Operations for Opera Pacific. We also discussed how the opera is clearly When asked to do Carmen, what were divided into musical numbers - almost like your first thoughts? a Broadway musical - separated by spoken I was tremendously excited, of course. dialogue. By then, we already knew that Not too long before you phoned, I had we wanted to use the opera-comique ver i:mended a concett performance of sion and not the later Carmen in the Berkshires, so I could still recitatives. Each of these numbers has its vividly remember the voluptuous music, own separate and sometimes conflicting its exuberance as weII as its delicacy I felt musical identity, defining each of the at once that this was a perfect opera for characters with a stylistiC boldness that is me to work on - a strong narrative and quite breathtaking. How could we create a passionate, even violent characters; a framework that would embrace this daring story of love, obsession and murder. I eclecticism? Realistic, but also theatrical? coulfin't wait to get started. But I felt a touch of panic, too. Never having seen I had worked with both Riccardo and Why did you pick the 1940s and 1950s the opera performed on stage, this would Constance several times before; I have a as the setting for this version of Carmen? really be a voyage of discovery tremendous admiration for their work When Constance and I met, it had and great trust in their instincts. By the become more clear than ever that gender Where did your research take you? time I met with Riccardo, I already had - the dangerous struggle between the gen First of all, I listened to several recordings this notion of the "fantasy of the South": ders - was crucial to the opera. Don Jose - Bernstein, Pretre, Lombard - over and the image of all these men (Merimee is a man from an ancient landowning fam over again, trying to get a deeper feeling among them) from the cold north of ily, a man of violent temper who has run for the music, to understand its richness Europe, traveling to sun-drenched Spain away from his home country because he and eclecticism. I studied the score in to watch the women from the cigarette killed a man after a game of boules. detail, comparing it to the various record factory as they made their way down to Though he was intended for the priest ings, noting the possible cuts and the dif the Guadalquivir to bathe - men yearn hood, his violent and obsessive nature had ferent choices to be made. I read the his ing for a freedom impossible for them in already turned him into a murderer (in tory of the opera and of the opera their northern homes. Riccardo and I, the Merimee, he also murders Carmens comique, and earlier ~ritical evaluations. both of us having been born in warmer Romany husband). Carmen, on the other also looked at various contemporary climes and now living in the cold north hand, is a free spirit and a gypsy - an out studies of opera, among them Suzan ern hemisphere, always dreaming of far sider who warns that "love is a bird that McClary's Carmen and Catherine off southern homes, discussed this cannot be tamed." Sexually liberated as Clements Opera or the UndOing of Women. "fantasy" with some degree of whimsy any man, choosing her own partners according to her own desire, she was And by then , the novel by Merimee had and wondered what "the South" could born free and refuses to be possessed by become obligatory reading, every time I pOSSibly mean to the people of southern anyone. Constance and I poured over rode the subway in New York l California. Mexico, perhaps? When books on period costume, and it soon Riccardo returned from our second meet struck us that a silhouette which we felt Can you tell us something about the ing, he brought with him some beautiful portrayed an utterly uninhibited and discussions you had with set designer sketches Startling yellow sunlit walls, almost defiant female sensuality was that Riccardo Hernandez and costume rose-pink floors, white stucco buildings of the Fifties - Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia designer Constance Hoffman that led .. these drawings became a point of Loren. Spain in the Forties and Fifties to the visual concept? departure and an inspiration for our

then became our choice of period - a Our job is to create imaginary inevitable clash between men and period not too far removed from our women who refuse to be possessed and own, but sufficiently distant from us worlds. As far as I am controlled. Women who recognize that [or this not to be a "modem-dress" li fe and love are in continual flux. This concerned, the brighter and production that might lose some abstract notion is given real f1 esh and sense of fantasy the bolder these worlds, blood by the li ves of the characters in the opera - and ultimately, also by their You've talked about the southern (i.e., the better. deaths. Spanish) sensibility filtered through the eyes of the northerners (M erimee, You've now done three operas. How is it Bizet). That's a reversal of your own that they would like to see, whether in different from and how is it similar to Hamlet or Carmen. But at the same time I history, isn't it? How did your Brazilian "straight" theater? j' upbringing and your residence in we each have to find our own way into Well, it is obvious to say so, but in the London contribute to your perceptions these masterpieces, almost as if we were ater there is no music to guide you. In and directorial approaches? pioneers; to fo llow our own lines of opera, music is the imperative, and there In one sense, yes, it is a reversal of my thought, our instincts - indeed, our can be no question about that. The text own history, though after so many years sense of who we are and the world we of any "straight" play is a map, which away from South America, I too now live in, as we embrace these great works. directors and actors have to learn how to dream of Brazil as this sun-drenched Otherwise, they will become museum read, much as any traveler has to learn beautiful landscape. - which is utterly pieces, dead as the legendary dodo. I the map of a new landscape. This map untrue, by the way I spent three months believe they have to speak to us, here can be read in a number of ways, of in Sao Paulo this year; it was bitterly and now. What I hope to do is infuse course. But in opera, the music remains cold, 'there was no heating anywhere, tradition with fresh new thinking - with the determining factor, outlining the - and I suffered terribly from the polluted a sense of urgency and passion that will emotional dynamiC as well as the impor help bring these masterpieces to life. city air 1 tant narrative moments of each scene. The great delight is in trying to under I cannot really tell you how being South What I often say to my collaborators, stand this dynamic, in accepting the American, having matured artistically deSigners, actors and singers is "Let us gUidance of the music and fulfilling the in Europe and now living in North try to imagine this work has never been necessity of the score, and in finding America, contributes to my work. My performed before. Let us consider our freedom within these carefully defined hope is that, in being a kind of world selves immensely fortunate that this great parameters. gypsy, partaking both of the passionate masterpiece has just arrived through the and turbulent "South," where my roots mailbox Let us pretend that we are dis Music also allows, indeed demands, are, and of the more rational and disci covering it for the first time, astonished broader solutions. The behavior of char plined "North," where I have lived for and thrilled that it has been written and acters on any stage always has to be many years - an inevitable syntheSiS will composed espeCially for us!" within the bounds of credibility emerge in everything I do. Otherwise, the audience will not recog Can you tell us some of what you want to nize and engage with the story But the When you and your designers first accomplish with Carmen's characters? musical infrastructure in opera often presented the set model to us, we were Much the same as in ButteJjly, I think. makes other demands, and sometimes blown away by the striking colors. However resonant the narrative, whatever credibility has to be set aside. Or rather, Were those difficult choices? its larger implications, the point of depar sometimes an additional suspension of Not at all . Our job is to create imaginary ture must, in my opinion, be the human disbelief is called for. For instance, it is worlds As far as I am c;gncerned, the situation. This is what interests me: the late at night at Lillas Pastia's tavern. brighter and the bolder these worlds, the stories of people who are chOOSing their Everything is still and quiet. Suddenly better. lives and inventing themselves event by the stage is full of smugglers, more than event, moment by moment - and who sixty of them, singing about the gypsys Is it confining or liberating to be are continuall y changing. yearning for freedom. Where have they asked to direct pieces as well-known suddenly sprouted from? In many ways it as Carmen? In Butterfly, the core drama stemmed is simply not believable. The logic here is I am quite used to both the perils and from a clash of cultures, East and West, not really worth examining. In "straight" pleasures of directing well-known pieces, but this clash is deeply imbedded in their theater, too many questions would be having directed so many Shakespearean personalities of Cio·-cio-san, young asked. But somehow, in the opera, the productions. Up to a point, tradition has Pinkerton, Sharpless, Suzuki and the finale of Act II makes a deeper emotional to be taken into account and respected, rest. It seems to me that, in Carmen, the and gratifying sense. It is a brave and otherwise expectations will not be met - core drama stems from an equally broad bold gesture, amply supported by music. and everyone has favorite moments central idea: the tragic and seemingly

aa; Do you have any preference? find the exact "tone" I was looking for. I never had any training - I dropped out I consider myself a storyteller who works The tradition in Brazilian theater for of school and became a professional actor with different forms - I have also just com Shakespearean performance is grandilo at seventeen. Everything I learned, I pleted my first film. Each of the forms has quent and archaic style, imitating English learned through experience and hard its own language, of course. Film is pri recordings of the Forties and Fifties - the work. So first, my advice to anyone want mariLy about visual narrative: The image is voice beautiful. I was looking for some ing to come into the business is: Don't what counts. Whereas complex ideas can thing natural, contemporary and very ... unless you really, really have to l The best be discussed in the theater; perhaps Brazilian - in fact, as if the play had been pleasure and the joys are enormous, but here, the word is what matters. In opera, written in Portuguese. I invited my actors unless you are really lucky (and, fortu it is the music that makes our hearts beat and my audience to pretend Shakespeare nately, I have been), the disappointment faster. It is music that gives it its over was Brazilian. What pleased me enor can also be great. If that advice is not whelming emotional sweep. But this is mously is that it seemed as if the audi going to be taken, I'd say it is important only a matter of emphasis, as these bound ence was astonished to realize that they to acquire the broadest possible educa aries are constantly overlapping ... theater could understand every word of the text. tion; to read everything you can lay your and opera' also require their visual compo And because of this, the text became a hands on: theory, biographies, novels, nent, and so on. real point of access into Shakespeares anything. But remember that doing it characters and themes. So Lear was no yourself is more important than any read Are you planning to do more opera? longer an alien, imported "cultural" event, ing: Act, direct, conduct whatever you I very much hope so. but a narrative that spoke about their can. Learn at least one foreign language. own lives and a world they could recog If possible, two. Travel. Go to the theater One of your recent successes was King nize. They seemed to be discovering the and the opera, to museums while abroad. Lear (the play) in Brazil, in Portuguese. play for the first time. Open your mind. Be respectful of the past what is it like dealing with Shakespeare but also hunger for what is fresh and new. in translation? If I were a young person aspiring to Learn to be patient, very patient. And, to I am fluent in Portuguese, so I translated direct, what skills and training would quote Polonius in Hamlet: "To thine own the text myself. And I think I was able to you advise me to get? self be true." m

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KATE ALDRICH KYLE KETELSEN City Recent career highlights include The Barbet' oj Carmen Escamilla (all perfornnnces) Seville at [Opera de Montreal, The Ballad oj Baby (October 14m, 20) Michigan Opera Theatre debut Doe and Tosca at New York City Opera and Les I Michigan Opera Theatre debut La Boheme 2000. HlJguenots with Opera Orchestra of New York. ~ Falstaff 200 l. Bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen Future engagements include a return to Opera Mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich, is originally from Clinton, Iowa. Orchestra of New York for Ad/iana Lecouvreur and who hails from Maine, returns The twenty-nine-year-old singer Marilla Falino and LItaliana in Algeri for [ Opera to the United States after a suc performed graduate work at de Montreal. cessful debut as Amneris in a Indiana University, where he studied with the now-retired Metropolitan Opera production of Aida in Busetto, directed by Franco GERARD POWERS bass-baritone, Giorgio Tozzi. Career highlights include Zeffirelli. Ms. Aldrich was the winner of the Palm Don}ose (October 14m, 19, 21m) Carmen at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Orlando Opera Beach Opera Vocal competition and a two-time Michigan Opera Theatre debut. and Dayton Opera, La Boheme at Opera Theatre of St. semifinalist of the Metropolitan Opera National AmClican Gerard Powers is one Louis and La Fanciulla del West at the Canadian Opera Council Auditions. Ms. Aldrich has also performed of todays most promising Company Future engagements include Tile Tales oj Maddalena in Riga/etta with the Glimmerglass tenors. Career highlights HoJJmann and Carl11en with the Washington Opera, Opera, Cherubino with Central City Opera, and include La Boheme and La Don Giovanni with the Madison Opera and Opera Preziosilla in La Forza del DesUno and Fennena in Traviata at New York City Pacific, and The Barber oj Seville at Greensboro Opera. Nabucc (J at l'arena di Verona. Future engagements Opera, Carl11en at Opera include Rigo/etto in Cleveland, Carl11C11 in Genova, Festival of New jersey and Houston Grand Opera, - Norma in Palm Beach and a debut as Dulcinee in IRINA MISHURA The Tales oj Hoffl11 ann in Antwerp and Ghent, and Don QuL~otL e at the Vienna Festival. Carmen La Boheme at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Mr. (October 13, 17, 19, 21m) Powers also recently performed the role of Gasta NICOLLE FOLAND Michigan Opera Theatre debut Berling in Zandonai's rarely performed I Cavalieri di Micaela (all performances ) Madama BLLLte/fly 1992. EllebCL Future engagements include Tosca at the Michigan Opera Theatre debut In a short period, Russian-born New York City Opera and a return to Detroit next La Ti'aviata 200l. mezzo-soprano hina Mishura spring as Gerald in Lahme. A winner of the prestigious has established herself as one 1997 ARIA award, Nicolle of the most exciting performers HUGH SMITH Foland is quickly establishing on the opera and concert scene. Ms. Mishura Don Jose (October 13, 17,20) herself as a leading soprano completed her musical studies at the prestigious Michigan Opera Theatre debut. throughout the U.S. and Gnesinikh Music Institute, where she earned a doc Hugh Smith is one of Americas Europe. Previous career highlights include La torate in vocal arts. Her earliest performances on the most important young tenors. Traviata in Chicago and Houston, and TIle Maniage operatic stage were with the Moldavian State Opera, Since winning the 1995 oj Figaro in Philadelphia, Boston and Minnesota. Ms. where she sang Carmen, Amneris, Azucena, Adalgisa Luciano Pavarotti International Foland also has a longstanding relationship with the and Princess Eboli in Don Carlo, to name only a few Competition, Mr. Smith has San Francisco Opera, where she has perfonned in In 1992, Irina Mishura immigrated to the United appeared \vith the San Don Gio vanni, The Maniage oj Figaro, La Boheme States and was soon engaged by David DiChiera. Francisco Opera and Houston Grand Opera in and the world premiere of jake Heggies Dead Man Since her auspicious debut, Ms. Mishura has per Madama Butte/fly, Lyric Opera of Chicago in La Wa/l1ing. Later this season, Ms. Foland will travel to formed in MOT productions of Aida, Carl11en, Samson Traviata, JenuJa and Attila, as well as other opera and Boston and Minneapolis for La Boheme and will also et Dalila and at the gala opening of the Detroit Opera concert performances throughout Europe and North reprise her Micaela at the San Francisco Opera and House in 1996. Irina Mishura began the 2000-01 America. Recently, Mr. Smith sang the role of Enee the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile. season with her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as in Les Tl'Oyens at the Edinburgh Festival and Pollione Dalila in Sal11son et Dalila, opposite Placido Domingo in Nanna in Berlin. Future engagements include She later returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Arabella and the title role in Benvenuto Cellini in SALVADOR GINORI performances of the title role in Cannen and as Paris, MallOl1 LescmLt in Munich and Katya Kabanova Zuniga (all performances) Azucena in the new production of nli'ovator e. The role in Geneva. Michigan Opera Theatre debut of Azucena was also the vehicle for Ms . Mishura's La li'aviaJg 200 l. debut with The Washington Opera, in performances MATTHEW TUELL Mexican bass-baritone Salvador conducted by Placido Domingo Later this season, Le Remendado (all performances) Ginori received a diploma in the mezzo-soprano returns to the Metropolitan Michigan Opera Theatre debut vocal perfonnance from the Opera as Maddalena in Rigaletto, repeats her portray La Traviata 200l. ConservatOlio de las al as Cannen in Santiago and debuts in Geneva in n Tenor Matthew Tuell, recently Rosas in Morelia. Recent Ti-ovatore. Ms. Mishura is also a regular on the leading perforn1ed the role of Edgardo engagements include the Mozart Requiem and stages of the world, notably the Vienna Staatsoper, in Arbor Opera Theatres Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the International Dallas Opera, Teatro San Carlo in Lisbon and the San production of Lucia di Festival of the Organ. Mr. Ginori is also a member Francisco Opera. Laml11erl11oOl; as well as of the Enrico Caruso Lyric Ensemble, which recently Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at the Pine Mountain performed scenes from Don Giovanni, Tile Elixir oj Music Festival. Mr. Tuell has also performed ,vith TERENCE MURPHY Love, Rigolello and Don Carlo on tour throughout the Utah Festival Opera Company, the Natchez MorctieslEI Dancairo Mexico. Mr. Ginori is currently studying with Opera Festival and Sarasota Opera. Mr. Tuell was (all performances) Metropolitan Opera bass Ara Berberian. recently named the joyce H. Cohn Apprentice for Michigan Opera Theatre the 2001-02 season and will appear in each debut La Boheme 2000. Michigan Opera Theatre production this season. Baritone Terence Murphy hails from Missouri and holds a master of music from the University of Missouri, Kansas

14 BRAVO ww"v.MichiganOpe ra.org Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ELIZA WARNER LILI DEL CASTILLO JAMES INGALLS Mercedes (all performances) Choreogmplrer Lighting DeSigner Michigan Opera Theatre debut. Michigan Opera Theatre debut Michigan Opera Theatre debut. Mezzo-soprano Eliza Warner Carmen 1996. The work of James Ingalls has been seen throughout holds a master of music in Lili del Castillos dramatic style the world. Career highlights include the 1987 world vocal performance from the has graced stages throughout premiere of Nixon in China, a production that won University of Michigan. the U.s. She trained in Spain, an Emmy Award. Mr. Ingalls has designed for the Previous credits include the where she was a member of Kirov Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and the role of Mrs. McLean in the the Antonio Alonso Troupe. Netherlands Opera. Toledo Opera production of Susan/wlr, Olga in She has perfOlmed or choreographed Cannen in Eugene Onegin with Opera San Jose and roles for the Orlando, New Orleans, Houston, Costa Mesa and Santa Fe Opera. Ms. Warner will also appear in the Milwaukee. She has been the choreographer, dance Michigan Opera Theatre production of Anoush this and movement coach, and a performer in La fall. She will return to Michigan Opera Theatre next Ji-aviata for both Atlanta Opera and Opera Pacific. spring as Rose in Lakme.

VALERIE YOVA Frasquita (all _performances) Michigan Opera Theatre debut Rigoletto 1990 Soprano Valerie Yova is a national winner of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Auditions as well as a finalist for the Frederich Schorr and Loren Zachary Society Auditions. Previous appearances include performances with New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Theatre and the Toledo Opera. Ms. Yovas extensive oratorio experience includes appearances with the Grosse Pointe, Plymouth, Dearborn and -Birmingham-Bloomfield symphonies.

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• THE CAST ANOUSH Hasmik Papian* Nov 10,14,17 Aline Kutan* Nov 11m, 16, 18m SARO Yeghishe Manucharyan* Nov 10, 14,17 Sarkis Barsernian* Nov 11m, 16, 18m MOSSY Yuri Nechaev* ANOUSH'S MOTHER (please see prog~am insert) SARO'S MOTHER Edna Garabedian * OHAN Matthew Tuell+ VILLAGE ELDER Karekin Odabashian * NIGHT WATCHMAN Christop~er Vaught* FIRST GIRL Karla Hughes*+ , SECOND GIRL Eliza Warrier THIRD GIRL Heidi Bowen * . FOURTH GIRL Katherine Schmidt* FIFTH GIRL Tamara Whitty BEST MAN Rubick Maihan* * Michigan Opera Theatre Debut + Michigan Opera Theatre Young Artist Apprentice Conductor Raffi Armenian Director Gerald Papasian Clwrus Master Suzanne Mallare Acton Choreographer Eldar Aliev Opera in Three Acts Set Design Franco Colavec<;bia Music by Armen Tigranian Costume Design Melissa Bruning* Libretto by G. Ya. Burkovich Lighting Design Kendall Smith Revised orchestration arranged by Julian Miran Makeup & Hair Design Based on a poem by Hovhannes Toumanian Elsen Associates World Premiere: Alexandropol, Peoples City Hall, August 17, 1912 Stage Manager Kenneth Saltzman DYE Energy Surtitle Translation Christopher Bergen ~__ DTE Eneryg Technologies Surtitles Jar this production oj Anoush owned by Christopher Bergen Michigan Opera Theatres 2001 Fall Season is made -~ The November 17th perfom1ance is Scenery Construction Virginia Scenic possible by Ford Motor Company sponsored by DTE Energy Technologies Costumes constructed by Piedmont Opera Scott Shuptrine Presents, Costume Shop & Michigan Opera Theatre Costume Shop (9pE:RA [YALKS One hour prior to the performance Detroit Opera House www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO 17 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Setting: S · · ; pnngtlme, in the mountains of Armenia ACT I Anoush is set in the Armenian moun After the men have left, the young girls tain village of Lori and is rooted in the begin their traditional holiday fortune traditions of the people who inhabit that telling. Anoush's fortune indicates that harsh and beautiful land. her lover will die, shot through the heart; despite the other maidens' efforts to calm The young girl Anoush lives with her her, she exclaims that a curse laid on her mother and brother, Mossy As the opera as a child has been confirmed opens, it is spring, and Anoush is feeling a restless longing she scarcely understands. From a distance can be heard the voice ACT II _of Sar~, the young shepherd who is The village gathers for a wedding. Mossy's best friend, singing about the Carried away by the general merriment, beauty of Ano1".tsh. Saro and Mossy agree to entertain the As Alloush's worried mother orders her guests with a wrestling match. Saro, to go insiqe and ignore the young boy, however, caught up in the excitement of Saro appears to continue his serenade in the match and shOwing off to his beloved person. When he leaves, Anoush describes Anoush, forgets the traditional rules and to her mother the heartache and sadness defeats Mossy, thus humiliating him in she often feels, for no apparent reason. front of the entire village. Enraged, Hoping to cheer herself, she decides to Mossy vows revenge, as his terrified sister take the empty water jugs down the hill looks on helplessly to the spring, where the village maidens are gathering. ACT III At the fountain by the banks of the River Debet, Anoush arrives as the young Mossy angrily refuses to forgive Saro for girls sing a song to the river, asking if it the accidental insult. Saro and Anoush, passed their future loves in its wanderings realizing that they will never be allowed through the mountains. They fill their to marry and will, in fact, be forbidden water jugs and then sit by the fountain, to see each other, run off together into happily singing rhymed couplets about the mountains. sad and unrequited love. +he worried voice Some months later, Anoush goes into of Anoushs mother sounds a counterpoint, the village, hoping to effect a reconcilia calling her daughter to come home. tion, while Saro, knOwing that Mossy is Anoushs premonitions of misfortune still seeking to kill him, waits in the hills are intensified at the village fe stival above the village. Mossy finds Saro and celebrating Ascension Day The villagers kills him with a bullet through the heart, confirming the prophecy of Act One. dance and sing, and then undertake When his body is discovered, Anoush traditional wrestling matches - all of goes mad with grief -and flings herself which, according to strict custom, must end in draws, so that no one is to her death from a high cliff m humiliated by losing in front of his friends. The villagers want Saro and Mossy to wrestle, but Mossy declines.

By Dr: David DiChiera Any music lover has the opportunity to hear th~ major works of the western European operatic repertoire on recordings, and those fortunate enough to live in or travel to a city with a thriving cultural climate may also have the opportunity to see them performed. However, there are equally musical, dramatic and passionate works that, by accident of language or national origin, stand outside the main stream of Italian, French and German opera. Dedicated opera buffs may know their names, but chances are they have never actually heard them. The per formance of any generally unfamiliar ope~a therefore is a noteworthy event. If the opera in question is also a fine representative of a distinctive culture and its traditions, the production is doubly significant. I feel particularly privileged to have been involved in bringing the first distinguish one nationality from another. When Tigranian began to compose English-language production of Anoush, Anoush provides a stimulating and mov Anoush in 1908, he was on his way to the most important work of the Armenian ing introduction to the dances, music, creating an enduringly popular national composer Armen Tigranian, to the visual arts, literature and customs that opera, rooted in both sources. He had American stage, when Michigan Opera constitute the Armenian heritage, and in received his formal training at the conser Theatre produced it at the Music Hall this way, Anoush bridges the gap between vatory in Tbilisi, where he studied the Center for the Performing Arts in 1981. the culture of the Armenian homeland theory of composition under Nikolay Twenty years later, it is with an even and the musical and cultural conventions Semyonovich Klenovsky, who had him greater sense of pride and nostalgia that I better known to most American audi self studied under Tchaikovsky After present the first western, original-lan ences. graduating in 1901, Tigranian began a guage production of Anoush, now with Armen Tigranian himself was con career as a choral director and teacher. sets deSigned and built speCifically fo r the scious of his role as a continuator and a The inspiration for Anoush and the expansive stage of the magnificent conservator of music and customs. As a circumstances of its first performance Detroit Opera House. For a long time, profeSSional composer, he knew that the are described in a memoir Tigranian I have believed that Detroit, given its foundations of his craft were laid both in wrote in 1948. generous mixture of nationalities and Armenian folk song and in the various I read Ho vhannes Toumanian 's [poem] an enthusiastic musical community, is genres of Europe~n art music. By the last "Anoush" for the first time in 1907, and a natural location for Michigan Opera quarter of the nineteenth century, from that time on the great poet became Theatre to mount a series of major Armenian composers had written an dear to me. I decided to wlite the opera nationalistic operas. The very nature of impressive variety of European-influ Anoush. I corresponded with the poet until I opera enables the audience to experience enced works and had done a great deal fina lly met him personally in 1913. In 1912 a panorama of the cultural elements that to collect and preserve native folk music. we had peljonned the opera ... with local

Detroit Opera House www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO 19 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre talent in Alexandropol [present-day The central dramatic situation the extreme importance of family and Leninakan). ... The performance brought community approval of an individual's about great interest ... which was under - the story of lovers who are behavior, we might find it hard to under standable, since the poem ... enjoyed such trapped and destroyed by stand why Anoush and Saro (who even great popularity. I felt the artistic success of get married in the original poem) cannot the great poet, and that day became a holi the conflicting demands of go away and live together happily ever day for me .... Almost all of Hovhannes after. In our versi.on, the two are not mar Toumanian's works can be put to music, rigid social codes and their ried when they run to the mountains, because they are so inspiring and sonorous. own passions and Mossy's desire for vengeance can be ... In 1933, fifteen years ago, the great poet's linked to his concern for his sister's lyre became silent, but his writings remain. honor as well as to his own humiliation Today our new generation has every oppor Anoush, I have made some large-scale and outraged traditionalism. In other tunity to use Toumanian's works, to study changes to the original with the intention words, the broad outlines of family them and to create new works and new tal of making it more readily understandable honor, community codes and a strongly ents for our homeland. to modern-day audiences. The central patriarchal system are represented in the dramatic si.tuation - the story of lovers What Tigranian modestly did not say original libretto. We must be able to look who are trapped and destroyed by the was that the popularity of his opera beyond the actual incidents and contem conflicting demands of rigid social codes stems in great part from the lyrical and plate their reflections of deeply felt and their own passions - is immediately dramatic qualities of his own music. Armenian folk morality and pride. affecting to any group. On the other Combining the forms of western opera Certain other changes have been made hand, it must seem somewhat strange to with the melodic and modal traditions of for purely dramatic and theatrical reasons. a contemporary audience that the lovers Armenian music, and making skillful use When Tigranian divided Toumanians must die because a young man forgot the of his background in choral directing, he poem into five acts, he seems to have rules of a wrestling match. Furthermore, gave the worla a unique masterpiece. been as much interested in presenting while Tigranian could assume that his different aspects of peasant life as he was In preparing our original-language audience knew and sympathized with in developing a sustained dramatic pro gression and theatrical climax. I felt that a sense of continuity would be better served if Acts I and II were combined to set up the dramatic situation. The original Act III thus became a presentation of a wedding scene - though not that of Anoush and Saro - with its dances and Great customs climaxed by the fateful wrestling ;Oet. match. Tigranians Acts IV and V have become our Act III, enabling the audi ence to experience the death of Saro and Anoush's descent from despair into sui cide as an increaSingly intense emotional Grand Valley State University brings together outstanding faculty, talented progression. Present and future audiences will students, and state-of-the-art facilities in a well-orchestrated educational make the final judgment on the success of Anoush in its new dress, but I know production. It's a perfOlmance that has made Grand Valley one of the most that all those who have worked to present it share my gratification at bring selective yet affordable universities in ing an Armenian national classic onto another stage. As we present Anoush Michigan. Visit www.gvsu.edu in commemoration of the adoption of @) Christianity in Armenia 1,700 years ago, I would also like to express my immense for a look backstage or call GRANDVALLEY gratitude specifically to the "Armenians STATE UNIVERSITY for Anoush" committee and to the broad 1.800.748.0246 for more information. www.gvsu.edu er Armenian community for their extra ordinary commitment and support for this project. m

SARKIS BARSEMIAN RAFFI ARMENIAN HASMIK PAPIAN Sara (Nov 11m, 16, 18m) Conductor Anoush November 10, 14, 17 Michigan Opera Theatre debut. Michigan Opera Theatre debut Michigan Opera Theatre debut. Recent career highlights for Anoush 1981 Of Armenian origin, Hasmik young Canadian tenor Sarkis One of Canadas most prominent Papian studied violin and Barsemian include performances conductors, Raffi Armenian was singing at the conservatory in in an exciting co-production of music director of the Kitchener the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Carl Orffs Carmina Bumna Waterloo symphony for twenty She made her professional between the Edmonton and two years. Maestro Armenian debut with the Yerevan opera as Calgary symphonies, Bachs Magnificat with the has conducted productions at companies such as t Mimi in La Boheme, where she also perforn1ed the Choeur Classique in Ottawa, and Ariadne mif Naxos Opera de Montreal, Opera Hamilton, Canadian role of Rosina in nBarbiere di Siviglia and Micaela in at the Orforu Festival. Other operatic appearances Opera Company and Opera Columbus. Maestro Carmel1. Recent career highlights include the title include Fenton in Falstaff, Count Almaviva in the Armenians legacy is secured by his highly acclaimed role of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, Don Cado at Barber oj Seville and Armand de Clavat in Massenets interpretation of Parsifal, in which legendary tenor the Choregies d'Orange, Desdemona in Otello at ·Therese. Mr. Barsemian holds a bachelor of music Jon Vickers made his final public appearance in tOpera de Montpellier and the role of Olympia in degree fro m McGill University This appearance 1989. Recent engagements include II Trovatore and Arshak II at the San Francisco Opera. Future perfor marks Mr. Barsemian's U.s. debut. Rigoletto at the Fresno International Grand Opera. mances include Aida in Berlin, Don Giovanni in Maestro Armenian is also currently the director of Munich and the title role of Norma at the Teatro orchestral studies at the University of Toronto and Regio in Torino, Italy. ALINE KUTAN Montreals Conservatoire de Musique. Anoush (Nov 11m, 16, 18m) KAREKIN ODABASHIAN Michigan Opera Theatre debut. GERALD PAPAS IAN Village Eldel' Canadian soprano Aline Stage Di rector (all performances) Kutan is a past winner of the Michigan Opera Theatre debut Michigan Opera Theatre debut. Metropolitan Opera National AnoLlsh 1981 Born in Turkey of Armenian Council Auditions. Career high Gerald Papasian studied theater heritage, baritone Karekin lights include performances in in Armenia for five years, where Odabashian studied at the The Magic Flute at the New York he received his masters degree Colleggio Armeno Moorat City Opera, tOpera de Tours, Avignon and Massy in in fine arts from the Dramatic Raphael in Venice. After France, Aliadne auJ Naxos in Naples, The Rake's Insti tute of Yerevan State appearing as prinCipal soloist in various churches, Progress at tOpera de Metz and The Tales oj Hoffmann University Driven by a passion to introduce major 1997 marked the year of his stage debut when he in Liege and Massy Future engagements include The Armenian poets to a broader audience, Gerald was invi ted to give a solo recital at the State Opera Magic Flute at tOpera de Montreal and tOpera de Papasian staged a theatrical performance, Sojourn House in Yerevan. The success of this recital garnered Vichy and her first Kostanze in Die Enifuhrung auJ at Aramt, based on poems in English translation. Mr. Odabashian the prestigious Kohar Kasparian del11 Serail with the Orcheste Metropolitan in The production won international acclaim in the Best New Talent Award. Other career highlights Montreal. Ms. Kutan will return later this season to U.S, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. As a include the role of Germont in La Y,-aviata in sing the title role in Lakme, a role she has already professor, Papasian has lectured on Armenian the Casal maggiore, Italy, the title role in Gianni Schicchi sung at the Arizona Opera, tOpera de Montreal, ater at the American Armenian International with proVoce Studios in Toronto, and Madal11a tOpera d'Avignon and tOpera de Toulon in France. College, La Verne, California. He currently lectures Butte/fly with Opera Mississauga. This appearance at the University of Venice. As director of the Dikran marks Mr. Odabashian's American debut. Tchounadjian research Center in Paris, Papasian YEGHISHE MANUCHARYAN co-published a critical edition of the original version ~~iiii;:\, FRANCO COLAVECCHIA Sara ( ov 10, 14, 17) of T. Chouhadjians opera Arshak II , which ,viII be Set Designer Michigan Opera Theatre debut performed this season at the San Francisco Opera. Michigan Opera Theatre debut A native of Yeravan, Armenia, .~.r;!N Regina 1977. tenor ¥eghishe Manucharyan YURINECHAEV One of America's most graduated from the Tchaikovsky Mossy (all performances) lIIi~i:II•• eminent set designers, Franco Central Music School in 1988. Michigan Opera Theatre debut. Colavecchia's has created In 1995, he was engaged by the Born in the Ukraine, bali tone Yuri Nechaev graduat productions that have been Armenian National Opera ed from the Moscow Conservatoire and went on to seen on stages throughout J Theater as pJincipal artist and sang leading roles become a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the world. Recent productions include The Tales oj in Anoush, n y,'ovato re and La Cenerentola among where he perforn1ed roles such as the title role in HoJJmann [or Toledo Opera, Faust for Lyric Opera of others. During the 2000-01 season, he perfol1Tled Eugene Onegin, Conte di Luna in TI Tl'Ovatore and Chicago and Los Angeles Opera, and The Dialogues extensively in recital, debuted with Boston Lyric Dunois in The Maid oj Odeans. Career highlights oj the Carmelites for the Juilliard Opera. Mr. Opera in Salome and performed in Verdis Messa da include the tile role in Mazeppa at La Scala, Rigoletto Colavecchia has designed more than twenty produc ReqUiem and Otello at New Yorks Caramoor Music for both Oper St. GalJtn and Opera Bonn, and his tions [or the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Festival. Future engagements include a debut ,vith Canadian debut in TI Tabano and Cavalletia including La Boheme, starring Luciano Pavarotti. Mr. the Baltimore Opera as Tamino in The Magic Flute , RLlsticana. Future engagements include a return to Colavecchias international career includes designs appearances in Bethovens Symphony NO.9 and La Scala in Pique Dame. This appearance marks Mr. for Monte Carlo Opera, Opera New Zealand and the Choral Fantasy with the Westchester Oratorio Society Nechaevs American debut. Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland, among others. and a return to the Caramoor Music Festival.

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Detroit Opera House www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO 23 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ORCHESTRA & CHORUS Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra VIOLIN I VIOLA FLUTE CELESTE HARP 'Charlotte Merkerson, *John Madison, Plincipal *Pamela Hill , Principal Larry Picard *Patricia Terry-Ross, Concertmaster James Greer, Acting *Laura Larson Plincipal *Carol Evans PJincipal, Anoush TRUMPETS *Scott Stefanko OBOE *David Kuehn, Plincipal PERSONNEL MANAGER *Velda Kelly Diane Bredesen Kevin Filewych *Kathleen Grimes *Jeannette Bittar, Plincipal *Gordon Simmons Sally Pituch Jean Moorehead-Libbs Elizabeth Rowin *Barbara Zmich *Core orchestra member, James Kujawski Barbara Stolberg Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra CLARINET Ewa Uziel Julianne Zinn TROMBONE *Brian Bowman, Principal *Maury Okun, Principal Katherine Franklin Detroit Federation of Musicians, Janet Sullins *Greg Near Sam Martin Local #5, American Federation of Daniel Stachyra Michael Tyrrell CELLO Musicians. AndrewWu BASSOON Mary Stolberg *Nadine Deleury, Pri11cipal *Diane Bredesen *Kirkland Ferris, Principal TUBA Jason Bendler *Minka Christoff *Scott Armstrong Phillip Snider *Robert Reed VIOLIN II John latzko HORN TIMPANI 'Victoria Haltom, PJincipal Andrew Mclntosh *Carrie Banfield, Acting *Gregory White, Plincipal *Brooke Hoplamazian Plincipal David Taylor _ *Lydia Lui Martin Limoges BASS PERCUSSION *Blyan Johnst0l} Janine Gabouri-Sly *Derek Weller, PrinCipal Steve Mumford *John Dorsey, PIi11cipal *Anna Weller *Clark Suttle Katherine Widiar David Taylor KathrynStepulla Shawn Wood Susan Mutter Julia Kurtyka Greg Sheldon Michael McGillivray Michigan Opera Theatre Ch oms CARMEN Miroslav Manovski AUXILIARY CHORUS Mary Helen Malaney Jennifer Oliver (RACKHAM SYMPHONY Dan Aggas Kim Millard Patty Malaney Darren Orta Cynthia Menitt CHOIR) Anna R. Sklut Christopher Bauder Maureen Abele Angela Peavey Jennifer Oliver Johnny Sklut Ronald Bemrich Christine Birac Marc Ricard Darren Ona Philip T Smith Chlistopher Borowitcz Mark Birac Peggy O'Shaughnessey Dennis Strach Monique Ricard Heidi Bowen Susan Cucuzza Patricia Pierobon Nicholas Yocum Katherine Schmidt Kim W Brooks Joseph Dluzniewski Alaina Brown Marc Ricard Robert Schram Betty Lyons ANOUSH Stacey Brown Monique Ricard Anthony Ruda William Steiner Christopher Bauder Kristen Bryant Mary Robenson Alan Sebastian Stephen Stewart Heidi Bowen Panick Clampitt Katheline Schmidt Clifton Shaw Kim W Brooks Lawrence Stotsbery Deborah Dailey Roben Schram Linda Van Buren Rebecca Engelhard William Steiner Alaina Brown Jim Talpos Vanessa Feniole Stephen Stewart CHILDREN'S CHORUS Kristen Bryant Dean Unick Louise Fisher Lawrence Stotsbery Alexander Acton Patrick Clampitt David Vaughn Yvonne Friday Judith Szefi Kerry Banish Douglas Cox Chlistopher Vaught Deborah Dailey Janet Geisler Lucille Thompson Lauren Elizabeth Bezerko Eliza Warner Conda Green Dean Unick Ashlyn Brady Louise Fisher Jim Wells Leslie Hill David Vaughn Adam Lawrence Zahller Yvonne fliday Clarence Jones Kristin Walukas Brown Janet Geisler Tamara Whitty Tom Kabala Justin Watson Hallie Dorsey Leslie Hill Jason Wickson Jeff Krueger Jim Wells Denny Dorsey Karla Hughes Richard Levitsky Karin White Jordan Fantauzzo Clarence Jones The American Guild of Musical Ray Litl Tamara Whitty Chris Feniole Gayaneh Kachadourian Anists is the official union of the Susan Lowrie Tracy Wolstoncroft Carrie Fisk Susan Lowrie Michigan Opera Theatre vocal Anthony Lynch Eugene Zwieg Brandon LePage Miroslav Manovski perfonners 24 BRAVO www.MichiganOpera.org Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre DIRECTORS & TRUSTEES

2,000-2001 Board of Directors t Dr. David DiChiera, President Mrs. Lawrence Garberding My. William Sandy Mr. Cameron B. Duncan, Treasurer Mr. David Handleman Mr. Gregory Schwartz J Mr. C Thomas Toppin, Secretary My. Kenneth E. Hart Mrs. Roger F Sherman My. Eugene Hartwig Mr. Mark Silverman Mrs. Robert A Allesee Mr. Richard j anes Mr. Frank Stella Mrs. Donald C Austin Mr. Gary j ohnson Mrs. George Strumbos Mrs. Bella Marshall Barden Ms. Cherlon Kanode Mr. Robert C VanderKloot Mr. J Addison Bartush Mrs. Charles Kessler Mr. George C Vincent Mr. Richard A Brodie Mrs. Robert Klein Mr. Gary L Wasserman Mrs. William C Brooks My. Gerald A Knechtel Mr. Richard C Webb Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. A C Liebler Mr. R j amison Williams jr. Mr. Tarik S Dao,ud Mr. Harry A Lomason Mr. George M. Zeltzer julia Donovan Darlow Mr. Alphonse Lucarelli Mr. Lawrence N. David Mrs. jennifer Nasser Directors Emelitus Mr. David Denn Mr. jules L Pallone Frank W Donovan Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. Charles A. Parcells, jr. james H. Gram Mr. Paul Ewing Dr. Charlotte Podowski Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher Mr. Roy Roberts Mr. Herman Frankel Mrs. Irving Rose

Th e arts enrich our lives in ways that go beyond the spoken word or musical note. They make us laugh. Th ey make us cry. They lift our spirits and bring enjoyment to our lives. Th e arts and cultural opportunities so vital to this community are also important to us. That's why (omerica supports the arts. And we applaud those who join us in making investments that enrich peoples lives.

We listen. We understand. We make it work~

2000-2001 Trustees

Mr. &: Mrs. Randolph Agley Me Kevin Dennis &: Mr. Jeremy Zeltzer Mr. &: Mrs. Darnell D. Jackson Dr. &: Mr~ . Mohamad K AJjour Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Mr. &: Mrs. Richard Janes Dr. &: Mrs. Roger M. Aj luni Dr. Fernando G. Diaz Mrs. Sybil Jaques Mr. &: Mrs. Robert A Allesee Dr. David DiChiera Mr. Don Jensen Mr. &: Mrs. Douglas F Allison Karen VanderKloot DiChiera Mr. &: Mrs. Gary E. Johnson Dr. Lourdes V Andaya The Hon. &: Mrs. John Dingell Mrs. William E. Johnston Mr. &: Mrs. Thomas V Angott Ms. Mary Jane Doerr Mr. &: Mrs. Maxwell Jospey Mr. &: Mrs. Robert L Anthony IV Mr. &: Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. &: Mrs. Mitchell L Kafarski Dr. &: Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Dr. &: Mrs. Darnell Kaigler Dr. Harold Arrington Dr. Fern R. Espino &: Mr. Tom Short Ms. Cherlon Kanode Dr. &: Mrs. Ingida Asfaw Mr. &: Mrs. Roland C Eugenio Mr. &: Mrs. John Kaplan Mrs. Donald]. Atwood Mr. &: Mrs. Paul E. Ewing Mr. &: Mrs. Donald W Keirn Dr. &: Mrs. Donald C Austin Mr. Stephen Ewing Dr. &: Mrs. Charles Kessler Hon. &: Mrs. Edward Avadenka Dr. Haifa Fakhouri Mr. &: Mrs. Eugene L Klein Mr.&: Mrs. Don H. Barden Mr. &: Mrs. Anthony Ferlito Mr. &: Mrs. Robert Klein Mrs. Jame? Merriam Barnes Mr. &: Mrs. Alfred ]. Fisher,jr. Mrs. Carol Knechtel Mr. &: Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. &: Mrs. Herbert Fisher Mr. Gerald A Knechtel -Mr. &: Mrs. ]. Addison Bartush Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher Mr. &: Mrs. Mike Kojaian Mr. &: Mrs. MaFk Alan Baun Mrs. Elaine L Fontana Mr. &: Mrs. William Ku Ms. Joan Behrmann Mr. &: Mrs. Mitchell B. Foster Dr. &: Mrs. Richard W Kulis Mr. &: Mrs. W Victor Benjamin Barbara Frankel &: Ron Michalak Mr. &: Mrs. Angelo Lanni Mr. &: Mrs. Ara Berberian Me &: Mrs. Herman Frankel Mr. &: Mrs. Paul Lavins Mr. &: Mrs. Mandell Berman Mr. &: Mrs. Marvin A Frenkel Mrs. Walton A Lewis Mr. &: Mrs. Raymond Biggs Hon. Hilda R. Gage Dr. &: Mrs. Kim K Lie Mr. &: Mrs. John Boll Mr. &: Mrs. Lawrence Garberding Mr. &: Mrs. A C Liebler Mr. W Wayne Booker Dr. &: Mrs. Robert A Gerisch Dr. &: Mrs. Robert P. Lisak Mrs. Thomas Bright Mrs. Frank Germack, Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. Harry A Lomason Mr. John Broad Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. &: Mrs. James H. LoPrete Mr. &: Mrs. Richard A Brodie Mr. &: Mrs. Yousif B. Ghafari Mr. Alphonse S. Lucarelli Mr. &: Mrs. William C Brooks Mr. &: Mrs. Andrew Giancamilli Mr. &: Mrs. Kevin Mahoney Mrs. Clarence G. Catallo Mr. &: Mrs. Vito P. Gioia Cardinal Adam Maida Mr. &: Mrs. Avrelio Cence Mr. &: Mrs. Harvey Grace Mrs. Jessie B. Mann Mr. &: Mrs. Alfred Cheesebrough, III Mr. &: Mrs. H. James Gram Mrs. Frank S. Marra Mr. &: Mrs. Frederick H. Clark Mrs. Katherine Gribbs Dr. &: Mrs. Ronald Martella Ms. Virginia Clementi Mrs. John C Griffin Hon. Jack &: Dr. Bettye Arrington-Martin Mrs. Margo Cohen Mr. &: Mrs. Jacques K Haddad Ms. Alyssa Martina Mr. Maurice Cohen Mrs. Berj H. Haidostian Mr. &: Mrs. Richard McBrien Hon. &: Mrs. Avern L Cohn Mrs. Robert M. Hamady Mr. &: Mrs. William T McCormick, Jr. Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. David Handleman Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. Michael ]. Connolly Me &: Mrs. Preston B. Happel Mr. &: Mrs. Frank McKulka Mr. &: Mrs. Peter Cooper Ms. Maria Harris Mr. &: Mrs. Eugene A Miller Ms. Rosalind L Cooperman Mr. &: Mrs. Steven Harris Mr. &: Mrs. Jeffrey Mir &: Mr. Woody Robertson Me &: Mrs. Kenneth E. Hart Mr. &: Mrs. Theodore Monolidis Mr. &: Mrs. Tarik S. Daoud Mr. &: Mrs. E. Jan Hartmann Mr. &: Mrs. Fred Morganroth Julia Donovan Darlow &: John C O'Meara Mr. &: Mrs. Eugene Hartwig Mr. &: Mrs. E. Clarence Mularoni Mr. &: Mrs. Jerry P. D'Avanzo Mrs. David B. Hermelin Dr. &: Mrs. Stephen Munk Mr. &: Mrs. Lawrence N. David Hon. &: Mrs. Joseph N. Impastato Mr. &: Mrs. E. Michael Mutchler Mr. &: Mrs. John W Day, Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. Verne G. Istock My. Jacques A Nasser Mr. &: Mrs. David Denn Mrs. David Jacknow Mrs. Jennifer Nasser

26 BRAVO www.MichiganOpera.org Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Mr. Christopher Nern Mr. &: Mrs. Gary Torgow Mr. &: Mrs. George M. Zeltzer Mr. &: Mrs. Ralph Nichols Mrs. Lynn A Townsend Mr. &: Mrs. Morton Zieve Mr. &: Mrs. Harry Nosanchuk Mr. James TrebiIcott Mrs. Paul Zuckerman Mr. &: Mrs. Jules L Pallone Mr. &: Mrs. Tallal Turfe Mr. Roy Zurkowski Mr. &: Mrs. James Pamel Mr. Robert C VanderKloot I Mr. Charles A Parcells, Jr. Mr. Raymond Vecci FOUNDING MEMBERS Mr. and Mrs. Lynn A Townsend, Mr. &: Mrs. Spencer Partrich Mr. &: Mrs. George C Vincent Founding Chairrnen Dr. Robert E. L Perkins Mrs. Alvin Wasserrnan Hon. and Mrs. Avern L Cohn Mr. &: Mrs. Brock E. Plumb Mr. &: Mrs. Gary L Wasserrnan Mr. and Mrs. John DeCarlo Dr. Charlotte &: Mr. Charles Podowski Mr. &: Mrs. Kenneth Way Dr. and Mrs. David DiChiera Mrs. Ralph L Polk Mr. &: Mrs. Richard C Webb Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H Gershenson Mrs. David Pollack Mr. &: Mrs. Gary L White Mr. and Mrs. Donald C Graves Mrs. Heinz Prechter Mrs. Amelia H. Wilhelm Hon. and Mrs. Roman S Gribbs Ms. Patricia Preston Dr. &: Mrs. Christopher D. Wilhelm Mr. and Mrs. John C Griffin Mr. &: Mrs. John Rakolta, Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. R Jamison Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry L Jones Mrs. Ruth F Rattner Dr. &: Mrs. Sam B. Williams Hon . and Mrs Wade Mc(ree, Jr. Dr. Irvin Reid &: Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid Mr. &: Mrs. Eric A Wiltshire Mr. Harry J Nederlander Mr. &: Mrs. Roy S. Roberts Mr. &: Mrs. Donald E. Worsley Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm . Ms. Patricia H. ROdZik Mrs. R Alexander Wrigley Mr. and Mrs. Neil Snow Mrs. Hans Rogind Hon. Joari E. Young &: Mr. Thomas L Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strichartz Mt'. &: Mrs. Peter Ronan Schellenberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert C VanderKloot Mr. &: Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. &: Mrs. John E. Young Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. &: Mrs.'Norrnan Rosenfeld Dr. Lucia Zamarano Mr. and Mrs. Theodore o. Yntema Mrs. Carolyn L Ross Mr. &: Mrs. Larry Zangerle Mr. &: Mrs. Anthony Rugiero Mr. &: Mrs. Ted Zegouras Dr. &: Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Mr. '&: Mrs. William Sandy Mr. &: Mrs. Arnold Schafer SEE YOUR DONATION Dr. &: Mrs. Norrnan R Schakne DOLLARS AT WORK Mr. &: Mrs. Fred C Schneidewind DONATE YOUR VEHICLES, CLOTHING, Mr. &: Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz FURNITURE, APPLIANCES AND REAL ESTATE Mr. &: Mrs. Gregory J Schwartz DIRECTLY TO ST. VINCENT DE PAUL Mr. &: Mrs. Donald E. Schwendemann Mr. &: Mrs. Merton Segal A Mrs. Frank C Shaler ~. Ms. El ham Shayota Mr. &: Mrs. Roger F Sherman Mr. Mark Silverman Mr. &: Mrs. Richard Sloan Ms. Phyllis Funk Snow Mr. &: Mrs. Anthony L--Soave Proceeds from your vehicle donation go directly to Mr. Richard A Sonenklar St. Vincent de Paul's programs such as the brand new Van Mr. &: Mrs. Richard D. Starkweather Elslander Family Center on Gratiot in Detroit. The center Mr. Frank D. Stella provides many free valuable services to our communities families, helping raise these families from poverty. Ms. Mary Anne Stella Donate your vehicle today. Mrs. Mark C Stevens • Free Towing • Any Condition Accepted Mrs. Rudolph Stonisch • Donation Is Tax Deductible Mr. &: Mrs. George Strumbos of • Free Home Appraisal Services ~Society for vehicles with a fair market Mr. Ronald F Switzer St. Vincent de Paul value of $5,000 or more. Dr. &: Mrs. Anthony R Tersigni Mr. &: Mrs. Mark Thomas For Automobile donations, call 1(800) 309-AUTO (2886) Dr. Roberta &: Mr. Sheldon Toll For all other donations, call 1(877) ST-VINCENT (788-4623) Mr. &: Mrs. C Thomas Toppin www.svdpdet.org

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Department of Community Programs Karen DiChiera, Director The Cadillacs and Their Great Lakes Adventure Back row, L to R; Betsy Bronson (Mme. Cadillac); Mark Vondrah (Cadillac & a French Voyageur); Karl Schmidt (Tonti & Father joli); Maria Cimarelli (Mme. Tonti) and David Pulice (Indian Native, Jiimanina), with boys and girls from Neinas Elementmy School, who portrayed Time Out for Opera- the children of the Cadillacs, the Tontis and Jiiminana. -Introducing opera and opera The 300th Anniversary singers to the public. of the founding of Detroit Our Award-winning television series, TIME OUT FOR OPERA, is taped and The year 2001 presents a unique well as the southern route, (later taken by aired at Bloomfield Community opportunity for Michigan organizations to the women and children). Television (BCTV) to a much larger sub create special works about Detroit and A workshop performance was presented scriber audience than ever before. This Michigan and their histories at the Neinas Elementary School in is because BCTV has enlarged its cable With the Department's long association southwest Detroit on June 1, 2001. After viewing audience, so that besides the with Harriet Berg, founder and director of some rewriting, a premiere preview was communities of Bloomfield, Bloomfield the Madame Cadillac Dance Theatre, and performed in Studio 1 at the Detroit Hills and Bloomfield Township over with a generous grant from the Grayling Opera House in front of an invited, Channel 15, the station also broadcasts Fund of the Community Foundation of enthusiastic audience on July 13. With to Birmingham, Beverly Hills, Bingham Southeast Michigan, it was decided to last-minute details now worked out, The Farms and Franklin on Channel 18. create a piece about the Cadillacs, their Cadillacs and Their Great Lakes There are now approximately 65,000 friends the Tontis and their adventures Adventures is ready for the roadl Call subscribers. crossing the Great Lakes, which led to the Dolores Tobis, marketing manager for In July 2001, TIME OUT FOR OPERA founding of Detroit. community programs, to book The was a second-place winner in the; Arts It had been a while since Karen V Cadillacs and Their Great Lakes Category at The Home Town Video DiChiera, director of community pro Adventures for your school, if you are a Festivals North American competition. grams, had composed a new work, and teacher - or if you are a parent, grandpar We wish to thank BCTV Station Manager, she approached her childhood friend , the ent, aunt or uncle, book it for your young Leslie Helwig, Production-Director James award-winning playwright Bonnie Lee family members. You can help MAKE Gillis, co-producers Jonathan Swift and Moss Rattner, about writing a libretto. HISTORYI Karen V DiChiera, and all the station Excited about the project, Ms. Rattner For a limited time, we are offering volunteers for their hard work. A special and Ms. DiChiera met with Harriet Berg, The Cadillacs and Their Great Lakes thank you to mezzo-soprano, VisnJ3 and a new opera was on its way to being Adventures, together with our highly suc T~ardo vic, who was the singer on the created 1 cessful The Night Harry Stopped program that was sent to the judges. MOT Main Stage Costume Director, Smoking, as a package. Through under A new season of seventeen shows has Suzanne Hanna researched the period writing from the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan and the been recorded. Be sure to check your and created breathtaking costumes 1 cable listings, so you can tune in. And Familiar Set Designer for Community Southeast Michigan Healthy Youth and remember, each January, Flint Public Programs Allison Norfleet spent time in Healthy Seniors Fund, your favorite Television Station WFUM chooses thirteen the Detroit Public Library Map school can have the two operas for $400001 Contact Dolores Tobis at (313) of the programs to broadcast on Sundays Department and painted a backdrop of to Cable viewers throughout Southeast Michigan, all of the Great Lakes and the 237-3429. Or e-mail her Michigan and into Ontario, Canada. HI northern route, (taken by the men,) as at dtobis@motoperaorg HI

o ~ Arts Centered Education (ACE) Partner "Clown Workshop" children from the LATaH, A proud participant of the Decorative Plaster School- Poe Developmental. Karen V. ARTS CAMp, dance around the Jester "Mark," Worl1shop shows off her project, a capital, DiChiera, 'centel; with fliends from the a member of STAR CAMP MICHIGAN. made from opera house restoration moulds. Celebration of Self Partnership, part of the Funded by the Widman Fund of the This popular class is taught at LATaH each summer by Detroit Opera HOLlse Plaster ACE Program. Community Foundation of Southeastern Restoration SupervisOJ; Chlistopher Michigan, STAR CAMP MICHIGAN is a Richardson. camp for artistically gifted adults who are mentally impaired. A new partnership program! , The Department of Community another cultural organization. But by For a name of the newly formed entity, Programs is beginning a new partnership stating that we have a PARTNERSHIp, it Gretchen Coleman, the prinCipal of the with the-Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse, means that we have carefully discussed Detroit Day School for the Deaf, suggest a Detroit Public School Academy char what our goals are and have agreed to ed "The Celebration of Self Partnership." tered by Central Michigan University. who does what, for how long, for how All of the partners loved it l The name many participants, for how much Beginning in the fall of 2001, the reflected what we all believe and strive money and for what kind of a result. MOT Department of Community for with our young people. We have often applied for funding Programs is partnering with the Nataki together, which even further cements Michigan Opera Theatres Community Talibah Schoolhouse for three years the idea of being partners. Programs Department strives to allow under a grant awarded to the school young people to discover their ability from the 21st Century Community What kinds of organizations could to create, perform, produce and feel partner with an opera company? Learning Centers Program through the that any art form from any century or Office of Elementary and Secondary Opera is such a combination of any country can be theirs to enJoy The Education, Washington, D.C. things that the imagination can become Detroit Public Library believes that Through the partnership, The overwhelmed with creative directions. world knowledge should be available Department of Community Programs We have already had collaborations to everyone. The Heritage Museum for will perform age-appropriate one-act with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Youth shares the talents of people from operas at the school, make students the Charles Wright African-American many nations and ethnic backgrounds. aware of the architecture and buildings Museum, the Detroit Community Music Preservation Wayne yearns to preserve School, and Your Heritage House of their community, teach Create Opera I , our past by preserving our built history Museum. arrange field trips to the Detroit Opera while making it accessible to future House for tours and performances, Through the Arts Centered Education generations of citizens. First Circle stu bring professionals-in the field of the Partnership Program (ACE), several dents move, feel, experience and dream. arts to the school, include Nataki groups of cultural organizations had the We are entering our final year of Talibah students in Learning at the opportunity to create partnerships with funding through the ACE Program. We Opera House programs and work with clusters of Detroit Public Schools for a are so privileged to have had the oppor the schoolteachers to use the arts in five-year period. This exciting pOSSibility tunity to work with all the participating school curriculum and after-school and led to the grouping together of Michigan cultural partners and with the schools weekend programs. Opera Theatre, the Detroit Public Library, the newly renamed Heritage Museum and their wonderful students. It is What are partnerships? for Youth, Preselyation Wayne and hoped by the entire partnership that, We in arts organizations have actually First Circle. The school cluster is the somehow, funding can be found to been involved in partnerships over Detroit Day School for the Deaf Poe continue the work we have begun. many years, but they didn't have a Developmental, Edmonson Elementary, We have all been enriched I We truly name. We simply stated that we were Pelham Middle and Murray Wright understand the real meaning of what a doing a program with a school or with High Schools PARTNERSHIP can be. m

Detroit Opera House www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO 29 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre - TheA · S · FOUNDING MEMBERS Mrs. Adel Amennan .l1V antI OCIety Dr. Lourdes V Andaya Mr. &: Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Chester &: Emelia Arnold Mr. &: Mrs. Brett Batterson he Italian word "avanti" means "ahead" bequests, trusts, life income plans and other Mr. &: Mrs. An Blair or "forward." The Avanti Society of charitable gifts to Michigan Opera Theatre. Roy E. &: lise Calcagno Gladys Caldrone)' Michigan Opera Theatre is a special group o Recognition on the donor wall in the Detroit T Victor]. lSI Katherine V Cervenak Opera House and in the season program of forward-thinking donors who have designated Mr. &: Mrs. Tarik Daoud a special gift to benefit the organization in the books. Karen VanderKloot DiChiera * future. These generous gifts ensure our artistic If you are interested in making a planned gift to Mr. &: Mrs. Charles H. Duncan Mrs. Charles M. Endicott progress in the future for the benefit of genera Michigan Opera Theatre and thereby qualifying Barbara Frankel * tions to come. for membership in The Avanti Society, please Mr. Hennan Frankel* contact: Priscilla R. Greenberg, Ph.D* Gifts can be made through a variety of estate Mr. Lawrence W Hall planning instruments, including bequests, trusts Jane Fanning, Associate Director of Mr. lSI Mrs. Jerome Halperin and other planned giving arrangements. Development at (313) 237-3268 or Mr. lSI Mrs. Kenneth E. Han Mr. lSI Mrs. Eugene L. Hanwig Benefits of The Avanti Society include: [email protected] or return the Dr. Cindy Hung Christine Jaramillo o Invi,tations to dress rehearsals and other special reply form below to: Mr. Donald Jensen events not offered to the general public. Jane Fanning Ms. Phyllis Korn o Annual recognition event, featuring guest Michigan Opera Theatre Mr. &: Mrs. Erwin H. Klopfer' artists. 1526 Broadway Virginia Mascali Mrs. Wade H. McCree o Educational seminars. Detroit, MI 48226 Ms. Jane McKee o Individualized estate planning assistance for Drs. Orlando &: Dorothy Miller Mr. Ronald K. Morrison Mr. Dale]. Pagonis Mr. Richard M. Raisin Ms. Susan Schooner THE AVANTI SOCIETY OF I Drs. Heinz lSI Alice Platt Schwarz I Ms. Phyllis Funk Snow MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Mr. lSI Mrs. Richard Starkweather I Mrs. Mark C. Stevens * I am interested in receiving further information on The Avanti Society and Mr. Jonathan Swift lSI Mr. Thomas A. o I St. Charles planned giving arrangements with Michigan Opera Theatre. I Mr. Ronald F Switzer I would be interested in attending an educational seminar on planned giving and Mary Ellen Tappan * o Donald &: Margaret Thurber the tax advantages available through planned giving. My preferred time to attend I Mr. Edward D. Tusseu a seminar would be: I Mr. &: Mrs. George Vincent Mrs. Amelia H. Wilhelm* o midday 0 evening 0 weekend I Mrs. Elizabeth B. Work o I have already included Michigan Opera Theatre in my estate plans. I Mr. lSI Mrs. George M. Zeltzer I BEQUESTS Mr. Allen B. Christman NAME(S) I Ms. Marjorie Adele DeVlieg Priscilla A.B. Goodell I Mr. Ernest Goodman ADDRESS Mr. BlUce Hillman I Mr. Gordon V Hoialmen I Mr. Carl]. Huss CITY/STATE/ZIP CODE Ms. Helen Barbara Johnston I Ms. Helen Miller I Mrs. Ella M. Montroy DAY TIME TELEPHONE Ruth Rawlings Mott I Clarice Odgers Percox Mr. Thomas G. Poner I Mr. Mitchell]. Romanowsk E-MAIL Mr. Edward L. Stahl I • TOUCH THE FUTURE I CAMPAIGN DONOR

30 BRAVO www.MichiganOpera.org I Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre I I In the spring of 1999, Michigan Opera Theatre was proud to be selected as a Leadership Grant participant in the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan's (CFSM) Touch the Future program. Originally, thirteen organizations were chosen for this honor, and after March 31 , 2001, only nine organizations, TOUCHTHE including Michigan Opera Theatre, remained in the program. We are working together with the other organizations and the Community Foundation to build FUTURE endowments for the future of this community and southeastern Michigan.

As a participant, Michigan Opera Theatre is eligible to receive over $300,000 in match ing grant funds into MOT's endowment at the Community Foundation and $130,000 in operating support from CFSM. In order to receive these funds, we must raise over $2,000,000 in qualified planned gifts, such as Charitable Gift Annuities, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Life Insurance or Pooled Income Funds.

To date, Michigan Opera Theatre has raised over $330,000 (face value) of new endowment gifts through the Touch the Future program and has received $50,000 in matching funds for its endowment at the Community Foundation.

If you would like more infor mation about how you could be a part of this unparalleled opportunity for Michigan Opera Theatre, please call Jane Fanning in the planned giving department at (313) 237-3268.

Together, we can touch the future. By giving to the endowment of your favorite charity, your generosity and your belief in community will touch lives for years and years to come. And if that's not immortality, what is{ Find out more by contacting the Michigan Opera Theatre TOUCH THE at 313-237-3268 or the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan at FUTURE 1-888-WE-ENDOW or www.cfsem.org. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Young Artist . Apprentice Program

Michigan Opera Theatre's Young Artist Apprentice Program is now in its twenty first year of training aspiring young vocal artists and production apprentices for the rigors of the professional theater world. This year, talented young singers, recruit ed from across the country, will take up residence with Michigan Opera Theatre, participating in multiple-week master classe~ with the conductors, directors _ and singers from current productions. Apprentices a1so receive private coaching with Michigan Opera Theatre's profes sional music staff, preparing their aSSigned comprimario roles for the sea son's productions. Rehearsals and perfor manCes assist them in making the transi Karla Hughes - DeRoy Testamentary Matthew Tuell - Joyce H. Cohn Young tion from student to professionaL Foundation Young Artist. Artist. Since its inception, Michigan Opera Theatre has been committed to the devel Michigan Opera Theatre's Young Artist opment of young American talent and Apprentice Program is sponsored in part regards with pride those who have gone by an endowment from the Joyce H. on to establish careers in the field. Many Cohn Apprentice Award Fund. singers, as well as several company pro Additional support for the 2001-02 sea duction and artistic staff, have returned son provided by DeRoy Testamentary to Michigan Opera Theatre in full profes Foundation and Robert A. Cornette, sional capacities after apprenticeships Ph.D, Pc. with the company We invite you to participate in spon The impressive list of now-prominent soring an artist apprentice. Sponsors artists who made their debuts or had provide opportunities for a new genera early starts with Michigan Opera Theatre tion of promising young singers. To includes Carmen Balthrop, Kathleen sponsor a young artist, please call Battle, Rockwell Blake, Richard Cowan, 313/23 7 -3408. Maria Ewing, Terese Fedea, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Rebecca Luker, Catherine Malfitano, Leona Mitchell, David Eliza Warner - Robert A. Cornette Parsons, Kathleen Segar and Victoria Young Artist. Vergara among others. For further infor mation on auditions and application requirements for the Apprentice Program, please call the Michigan Opera Theatre Production Office at 313/961- 3500.

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Foundation Schwartz Dr Haifa Fakhouri, ACC Foundation He rbert and Betty Fishe r Burnstein Detroit Ed ison Foundation Mr. David Fischer The Karen and Drew Peslar The Gilmour Fund Simmons and Clark Jewelers Dr and Mrs. joseph L Mr. and Mrs. Raben E. Foundation Mr. Gordon A. Hoialmen Mrs. Rosemary Skupny Cahalan Dr. Mmjorie M. Fisher Dewar Standard Federal Bank Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Mr. Frank D. Stella Campbell &1 Co. Mrs. Rema Frankel Herman &1 Barbara Frankel Mrs. Ruth Rattner/Ann F Jospey Ronald and Eileen Weiser Sa lly Ca rlso n Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Garberding Robert &1 Alice Gustafson Katz and Nornlan D. Nancy and Bud Liebler Mr. J Ernest Wilde Mrs. Maria M. Chirco john S &1 james L Knight Katz Ann &1 William McCormick, Mr David Cl,ivas Ms. Stephanie Germack Foundation Mr. Joseph A. Giacalone jr. DEVOTEES Mrs. Eleanor A. Christie Richard &1 Ma lY Lou janes Dr. and Mrs. Thomas ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Orley $5,000 TO $9,999 Mr. and Mrs. Fredelick H. The Lo mason Family Giancarlo $25,000 TO $49,999 Mr. and Mrs. E. Steve n Anonymous (2) Clark McGregor Fund Robinson &1 Family Keith and Eileen Gifford Mrs. LOIis G. Birnkram The Randolph J and judith Mr William G. Clark Mr. Richard Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Vito P. Gioia Linden D. Nelson The Wayne Booker A. Agley Foundat ion Dr. Mary Carol Conroy Foundation Mrs. John C. Griffin Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sloan The Ai rasian Family Mr. john AConti Mr. &1 Mrs. Roger Penske Charles and Ela ine The Budd Company St John Health System She lly and Peter Cooper Dr. and Mrs. Roger M. Gunderson Raymond C. Smith Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas Ajluni Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cotter Mrs. Alice Berberi an Foundation Fund of Consumers Energy Toppin Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. Mary and Sal Craparona Haidostian Com mulllty Foundation Foundation TRW Foundation of Southeastern Michigan Mrs. john E. AmermanIMrs. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mr. David Hall Crain Communications, Inc. 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We extend our gratitude to Detroit Edison Foundation- Lear Corporation - Mr. &: Mrs. George Vincent- the following donors, who Mezzanine Level in Trustee Circle Level in Madison Lobby have underwritten designat- Opera Hall Opera Hall Mr. &: Mrs. Alvin Wasserman- ed areas in the Detroit Mr &: Mrs. Roben E. Dewar- The Lomason Family - Box Level Promenade Opera House: Trustee Circle The William K. &: Neva Dr. &: Mrs. Sam Williams - Madison Lobby Lomason Barbara Gibson Trustee Dr. &: Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni- Ford Motor Company - Opera Lounge Staircase Grand Staircase Backstage Renovation Oliver Dewey Marcks World Heritage Foundation- Mr. &: Mrs. Roben A. Broadway Lobby Foundation - Conductors Dressing Allesee- Herman &: Barbara Frankel- Third Floor Promenade Room Allesee Dance Patron General Director's Circle Staircase Lounge Lounge Lobby to 2nd Floor, Madison Several named gift Allesee Dance &: Opera- General Motors Corporation- opporturtities are available Resource Library General Motors Opera MichCon Foundation - Lobby Boutique in the Detroit Opera House. Anonymous Donor - Cafe For more information, Grand Lobby Raben &: Alice Gustafson- The Karen &: Drew Peslar Foundation- please call the Development Anonymous Donor - Third Floor Lobby Co-Star Dressing Room Department at Broadway Facade Alcove, Madison Richard &: Mary Lou Janes - Mr. &: Mrs. Irving Rose- (313) 237-3433. Dr. &: Mrs. Donald C Austin- Patron Elevator in Grand Central Third Floor Lobby Lobby Tower Chandelier Alcove, Broadway Chaim, Fanny, Louis, Mrs. Carolyn L Ross - BASF Corporation - Grand Staircase Mirror Media Studio Classroom Benjamin and Ann Florence Kaufman Raymond C Smith Come rica Charitable Memorial Trust - Foundation Fund of the Foundation - Grand Side Chandelier Community Foundation Grand Dome Wa llis &: Roben M. Klein - of Southeastern DaimlerChrysler Grand Staircase Michigan- Corporation- Mirror Raymond C. Smith Community Lobby Performance Theater Dolores &: Paul Lavins - Grand Side Chandelier Mr. &: Mrs. Lynn Townsend- Mr. &: Mrs. Tarik S. Daoud- Grand Staircase Trustee Circle Broadway Grand Drape Mirror Lobby

Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges In addition to enj oying outstanding entertainment the generous corporate, foundation, government and on stage, MOT contributors are offered a number of individual donors whose contributions were made opportunities that allow them to observe the many between July 1, 2000, andJune 30, 2001. Their gen phases of opera and dance production, meet the erosity plays an integral part in the Company's finan artists and experience other "behind-the-scenes" cial stability, necessary for producing quality grand activities. opera, musical theater and dance.

CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS DONOR BENEFACTOR BENEFACTOR GRAND BENEFACTOR $1,000 TO $2,499 $15,000 - $24,999 $5,000-$9999 $200,000 + AM Michigan Hudson-Webber Foundation Mr. &: Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Ford Motor Company Fund Alcoa Foundation Mr &: Mrs. Douglas E Allison 2000/2001 Fall Seasbn Sponsor Kenwal Steel Corp. FELLOW Mr &: Mrs. Thomas Anderson 2000 Opera Ball Sponsor Meritor Automotive, Inc. $10,000 - $14,999 General Operating Support Dr. &: Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Real Estate One Inc. The Eli zabeth , Allan and Warren Shelden Dr. &: Mrs. Donald C Austin GENE RAL MOTORS CORPORATION Fund 2000/200 1 Spring Season Sponsor The Quaker Chemical Foundation Mr. &: Mrs. J. Addison Bartush La Ti·aviata Opening Night Festivities The W W Group, Inc. The Mary Thompson Foundation Mr. David Clark General Operating Support Ralph L. and Winifred E. Polk Foundation Mr. Thomas Cohn DA IMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATI O·N CONTRIBUTOR The Samuel L. Westemlan Foundation Mr. &: Mrs. Marvin 1. Damo FUN D $500 TO $999 Widman Fund of the Community Mrs. Charles M. Endi cott 2000/200 1 Dance Season Sponsor Foundation for Southeaste rn Mich igan Les BalieLs de Monte Carlo Production Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. Dr. MaJj orie M. Fisher Sponso r BridgesLOne!Firestone Trust Fund Herman &: Sharon Frankel SUSTAINER Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Opening Night IATSE Local 38 Meyer &: Anna Prentis Fami ly Foundation Fest ivities $5,000 - $9,999 PPG Industries Foundation Trustees: Ba rbara P Frenkel , Alice Kales Hartwick Foundat ion Marvin A. Frenkel, SIGNAL BENEFACTOR Ann and Gord on Getty Foundation SUPPORTER Dale P Frenkel, $50,000 TO $199,999 Capital Region Community Foundation $100 TO $499 Ronald P Frenkel, CaITs Crackers Detroit 300 Bolton &: Co mpany Denise L. Brown, Intermission Sponsor Fanclub Foundati on for the Arts FCS. Industries, Inc. Cindy Frenkel Kamer, Marshall Fie lds Project Imagine James and Lynelle Holden Fund La Ti·aviata Production Sponsor John E. Green Company Nelson P. Lande Mu Phi Epsilon Detroit Alumni Chapter Mrs. Roge r W Hull PATRON MAJOR BENEFACTOR Plastomer Corporation Mr. &: Mrs. Richard Janes $2,500 - $4,999 $25,000 TO $49,999 Ash Stevens, Inc. Mr. &: Mrs. Maxwelljospey Drusi lla Farwell Foundation Ameritech The Birmingham Musicale Joyce Urba &: David Kinse lla Meyer &: Anna Prentis Family Foundation La Boheme Opening Night Sponso r Mr. &: Mrs. Thomas G. Kirby Trustees: Barbara I' Frenkel, Marvin A. Ba nk One, Michigan FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT Louise La Tra viata Perfomlance Sponsor Frenkel, Dale I' Frenkel, Ronald I' SUPPORT Frenkel, Denise L. Brown , Ci ndy Frenkel Mr Alphonse S. Lucarell i Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Kamer, Ne lson P Lande Mon ica Moffat &: Patrick McGuire BENEFACTOR Affairs Saginaw Community Foundation Mr. Charles Nave $15,000 TO $24,999 National End owment for the Arts Mr. &: Mrs. Drew Peslar ANR Pipeline Co. DONOR Robert &: Sharon Pew Come rica Incorporated SIGNAL BENEFACTOR TO $2,499 Drs. Irvin &: Pamela Troutma n Reid Falstaff Perfo rmance Sponsor $100,000 + The Cla rence and Jack Himmel Foundation Mrs. Carolyn L. Ross DTE Energy Foundation McGrego r Fund The Sigmund and Sophie Rohli k Foundation Alan E. &: Marianne Schwanz Gannett Foundation, Inc. The Skillman Foundation The Village Womans Club Foundation Ms. Elham Shayota The Nlitcracker Production Sponsor Mr. &: Mrs. WJ!iiam H. Smith MAJOR BENEFACTOR FELLOW GENERAL DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE Mr. Richard A. Sonenklar $25,000 - $99,999 IMPRESARIO $10,000 TO $14,999 Professor Ca"on L. Steve ns Community Foundation for Southeastern $10,000+ Mrs. Ruth Townsend Consumers Energy Foundation Michiga n Community Programs Touring Sponsor Mr &: Mrs. Roy E. Calcagno Mrs. Richard Van Dusen DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Kmart Co rporation Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Janet &: Paul Victor Tir e Tal es oj Horrmann Perfomance StudentlSenior Matinees Sponsor Mr. &: Mrs. Paul E. Ewin g Mr. &: Mrs. George C. Vincent Sponso r Barbara Frankel &: Ronald Michalak Walter P. &: Elizabeth B. Work Matilda R. Wilson Fund PATRON Sage Foundat ion Mr &: Mrs. Irving Rose $2500 TO $4,999 Falstaff Performance Sponsors SUSTAINER MlchCon Foundation Whitney Fu nd $2,500-$4,999 Mrs. Donald J. At wood

Hon. & Mrs. Edward Avadenka Mr. & Mrs. George Strumbos Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Gifford Gerald Padilla & Linda Orlans Mrs. Irene M. Barbour Dr. & Mrs. L. Murray Thomas Mrs. Sharon Gioia Mr. & Mrs. Jules Pallone Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Valerie & Francis Ward Carolyn & Arnold Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Papp Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alan Baun Mrs. Alvin Wasserman Mr. Ernest Gutierrez Mr. Charles A. Parcells, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W VicLDr Benjamin Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Webb Dr Harlan L. Hagman Dr. Robert E. L. Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Mandell L. Berman Dr. Marilyn L. Williamson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hagopian Mr. & Mrs. William T. Phillips Mrs. Lons G: Birnkrant Mrs. Beryl Winkelman Mrs. Alice Berberian Haidostian Dr. & Mrs. Leonard M. Pickering Mr. Charles A. Bishop Mr. Robert Zincone Mr. Lawrence Hall Mr. & Mrs. Brock E. Plumb Mrs. Margaret Borden Mrs. Paul Zuckennan Dr. & Mrs. Joel L. Hamburger Mr. Richard M. Raisin Mrs. Betty J Bright Mr. David Handleman Ms. Ruth F Rattner Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Bright DONOR Dr. Raina N. Ernstoff & Mr. Sanford Hansell Mr. & Mrs. John B. Renick Mr. & Mrs. Bernard T. Brodsky $1,500,$2,499 Ms. Mary C. Harms Dr. & Mrs. John H. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Cheesebrough III Mr. & Mrs. Raymond G. Antos Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Hart Ms. Rosalind Cooperman & Mr. Woody Mr. David Chivas Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Applebaum Dr. & Mrs. Jack H. Henzler Robenson Dan Clancy Mr. & Mrs. Harold Arnoldi Miss Mary A. Hester Mr. & Mrs. Jack Robinson Hon. & Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Dr. Harold Mitchell Arrington Mr. Robert M. Holland Ms. Patricia H. Rodzik Mr. & Mrs. Tarik Daoud Dr. & Mrs. Ingida Asfaw Ms. Mary Ann Hollars Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Rosenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Jerry DAvanzo Mrs. Annette Balian Edward & Paula Hughes Dr. & Mrs. Norman Rosenzweig Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence N. Dmod Drs. John & Marilyn Belamaric Alan & Eleanor Israel Mr. Alan Jay Ross Dr. & Mrs. John M. Dee Mr. & Mrs. Ara Berberian Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Ross Dr. David DiChiera Mrs. Margareta Berker Mrs. David Jacknow Dr. & Mrs. Mark Rottenberg Mr. & Mrs. Keith Dodswonh Dr & Mrs. John G. Bielawski Mrs. Wendy Jansen Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Ruben Mr. & Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Maurice S. Binkow Ms. Amy Jidov Dr. Bradley Selvick & Ms. Laurie Sall Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Dunca~ Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Blanchard Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd C. Fell Lee & Paul Blizman Mr. Sterli ng C. Jones, Jr. Mr. Richard Sanders Mr. & Mr~. Max M. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. G. Peter Blom Mr. & Mrs. John Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. William Sandy Mrs. Rema Frankel Dr. & Mrs. David Bloom Mr. & Mrs. Nonnan D. Katz Dr. & Mrs. Norman R. Schakne ' Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Frankel Mr. & Mrs. John Booth Dr. & Mrs. Shennan Kay Hon. Joan E. Young & Mr. Thomas L. Schellenberg Mr. & Mrs. Larry Garberding Mr. & Mrs. William C. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Donald W Keim Mrs. R.]. Schlitters Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Dr. Karl H. Brose Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kesler Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schmidt Mrs. John Griffin Dr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Cahalan Dr. & Mrs. Charles Kessler Mr. Joseph Schwanz Mr. & Mrs. Preston B. Happel Mr. & Mrs. George Callas Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Klein Mr. & Mrs. Merton Segal Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Hanwig Drs. Margaret & John Casey Father Ralph E. Kowalski Mr. & Mrs. Mark Shaevsky Mr. & Mrs.·Da\od H. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Harry T. Cendrowskl Dr. & Mrs. Alfred M. Kreindler Mrs. Frank C. Shaler Mr Anthony Hopp Dr. & Mrs. Victor J Cervenak Mr. & Mrs. William Ku Ms. Ellen Sharp Mr. & Mrs. Roben Klein Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Ciokajlo Mr. David Nowakowski & Mr. Martin J. Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Kline Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Clark Lappe Dr. & Mrs. Michael J Shon Mr. Gerald Knechtel Ms. Virginia Clementi Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lavins Patricia Hill Burnett & Robert Siler Dr. & Mrs. Richard W Kulis Mrs. Margo Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Elmore Leonard Mrs. Marge Slezak Mr. Raymond Lehtinen Vivian & Jerry Cole Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Lerner Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sloan Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Letts, Jr. Dr. Mary Carol Conroy Dr. & Mrs. Melvin A. Lester Ms. Evelyn S Smith Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Lomason Mrs. Ellen R. Cooper Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Levy Karen & Paul Spica Dr. & Mrs. Henry W Maicki Shelly & Peter Cooper Dr. & Mrs. Kim K. Lie Nadele Spiro Mr & Mrs. William T. McConnick Mrs. Mary Rita Cuddohy Dr. & Mrs. Roben P Lisak Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Stark Mr & Mrs. Jeffrey H. Miro Dr. & Mrs. Victor Curatolo Mrs. Florence LoPatin Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Starkweather Glen & CaJmel Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. George Dambach Dr. Charles E. Lucas Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Stefanutti Mr. Edwin Lee Morrell Mrs. Barbara Darin Elaine & Mervyn Manning Mr. Frank D. Stella Dr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Munk Julia Donovan Darlow & John O'Meara Mr. Jack Martin & Dr. Bettye Arrington Mrs. Mark C. Stevens Mr & Mrs. E. Michael Mutchler Mr. & Mrs. Wi lliam J Davis Martin Dr. & Mrs. Mack C. Stirling Mr & Mrs. Marco Nobi li Mr. & Mrs. WiliiamJ DeBiasi Dr Roben Matthews Mrs. Rudolph Stonisch Jack Perlmutter Mr. Jeffrey W Dell Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. David Susser Dr. Charlotte & Mr. Charles Podows.ki Mrs. Margaret Demant Mr. & Mrs. Stanley C. McDonald Ronald f Switzer Mrs. Dal~ d Pollack Mr. & Mrs. David Denn Mr. & Mrs. Angus J McMillan Mr. & Mrs. Norman Tabor, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Reid Dr. Fernando Diaz Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Joel D. Tauber Mr. Wayne J Ruchgy Ted & Bonnie Dickens Drs. Orlando & Dorothy Miller Mr. & Mrs. A. Alfred Taubman Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Schafer Mr. David Disend Mr. & Mrs. Morkus Mitrius Mr. & Mrs. Robert Taubman Dr. Robert F Schinner Drs. Paula & Michael Duffy Mr. & Mrs. Carl Mitseff Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Thomas Ms. Susan Schooner Mr. Don F Duggan Dr. & Mrs. Van C. Momon,Jr. Dr. Roberta Toll & Mr. Sheldon Toll Dr. & Mrs. Karl F Schroeder Mrs. William Eversman Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Mondry Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J Schwanz Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Feldman Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Monolidis Mr. James J Trebilcott Mr & Mrs. Donald E. Schwendemann Adrienne & Roben Feldstein Mr. & Mrs. Fred Morganroth Mrs. Paula Tucker Mr & Mrs. ET\vin S. Simon Dr. & Mrs. Paul Firnschild Ms. A. Anne Moroun Mr. & Mrs. Melvin C. Vanderbrug Mrs. Rosemary Skupny Mrs. Elaine Fontana Mr. & Mrs. E. Clarence Mularoni Mr. Raymond Vecci Mr. & Mrs. S Kinnie Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell B. Foster David & Julie Mulligan Mr. & Mrs. Steven I. Victor Ms. Phyllis Funk Snow Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Freeman Mrs. Jennifer Nasser Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Wasserman Dr. & Mrs. Robert J Sokol Hon. Hilda R. Gage Mr. & Mrs. Harry Nosanchuk Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Way Dr. & Mrs. Sheldon Son kin Mrs. Irene M. Garcia Mr. & Mrs. George W Nouhan Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Weissman Dr. & Mrs. Gerald H. Stoll man Mrs. Frank Germack Mr. & Mrs. Graham A Orley Mr. & Mrs. William Widmeyer

36 BRAVO www.MichiganOpera.org Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Mrs. Amelia H. Wilhelm Dr & Mrs. Christopher D. Wilhelm Mr R. JmTIlson Williams, Jr. Mr & Mrs. Eric H. Winter Mr & Mrs. Lawrence E. Witkowski Mr. & Mrs. GregOlY)' Wronkowicz Dr. &,Mrs Clyde Wu Dr. & Mrs. jose E. Yanez Mr. & Mrs. Larry Zangerle

CAMERATA $1,000-$1,499 Gail Kahn & Gerry Allen Dr Lourdes V Andaya Mr & Mrs. William L Black Mrs. Doreen Bull Mr & Mrs. R{)bert B. Fair, Jr Mr & Mrs. Drew Fishburn Mr John Fleming Mr & Mrs. George E. Frost Dr. & Mrs. William R. Fulgenzi Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Halperin Dr. & Mrs. Gerhardt A Hein Judith & Eric Hespenhe\de Mr. & Mrs. Derek Hodgson Sam & Donna Kountoupes ' I BIRMINGHAM 248-644-1919 NOVI 248-348-0090 690 OLD S, WOODWARD 48700 GRAND RIVER Mr.' & Mrs. Richard M. Lar.son Mr. HelllY Martin Lee IffI/IfCI£f- LIVONIA 734-522-9200 OPENING SOON IN 29500 W . 6 MILE RD. SHELBY TOWNSHIP Dr. & Mrs. Zvi,Levran TOLL FREE Mrs. Dorothy Lewis 1-888-560-.JIMS Please call for store hours. Mr. & Mrs. Basil Marrella Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Martella ~ Mr. Kenneth). Moriarty Mr E;r Mrs. Adolph). Neeme Mr & Mrs. Daniel H. Olson Mrs. Mary A Perna Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rentschler Mr. Kenneth Robinson Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell,jr Mr. & Mrs. Lee C. Saperstein Drs. Theodore & Michelle Schreiber Mr & Mrs. Neal Shine Mrs. Carolyn Stubbs Mrss Mary Ellen Tappan Mrs. Burt E. Taylor Mrs. jay H. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Terrell Mr. & Mrs. john P Tierney Dr. & Mrs. Vainutis K. Vaitkevicius Mrs. C. Theron Van Dusen Mr Robert Vanlente Dr john White Mr.). Ernest Wilde Ms. Nancy S. Williams

GDC OPENING NIGHT INTERMISSION SPONSORS Ms. Ginny Clementi Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. & Mr.s. Tarik Daoud Herman & Sharon Frankel Mr. jack Martin & Dr. Bettye Arrington Martin Barbara Frankel & Ron Michalak Ronald F Switzer & jim McClure

MEMBERSHIP DONORS LUMINARY $500 - $999 Mr Robert G. Abgarian

Mr. & Mrs. Felix 1. Adams Mr. & Mrs. James Kuykendall Mrs. Stanley J Winkelman Mr. & Mrs. John W Crump Mr. & Mrs. Richard L Alonzo Miss Gene M. Kyle Ms. Hildegard Wintergerst Mr. & Mrs. Douglas E. Cutler Mr. & Mrs. John Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Ge rald Laker Dr. Ruth A. Worthington Mr. & Mrs. Doug Cygnar Mrs. Charles C. Andrews Dr. Glendon M. Gardner & Leslie Landau Mr. & Mrs. Ervin M. Yura Ms. Carol A. Czestkowski Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Lee E. Landes Mr. Dave Zmyslowski Mr. & Mrs. Norman Dancy Dr. & Mrs. Joel Appel Mr. Edward Lekki Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Danielson Mrs. Doris ,'Arms Mr. & Mrs. Michael Leonard SUPPORTER Mr. & Mrs. Richard de Bear Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Bakonyi Ms. Carmen Setta Ludy $250 - $499 Dr. & Mrs. Anthony De Luca Mr. John H. Barbes Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Lysinger Mr. & Mrs. Ansel Aberly Mrs. Mary DeTomaso Mr. & Mrs. J D. &auvais Dr. & Mrs. M. David Madorsky Mrs. Eileen Aboulafia Mr. & Mrs. Joe Decker Miss Elaine Be resh Cardinal Adam J Maida Mrs. Maryan F Abramson Roy K. 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he Michigan Opera Theatre and the Detroit Opera House pre sent one of the finest and most diverse opera and dance series in the country The theatrical experiences encompass vocal ffiir-1?WJt;f1ltCtm~ T and orchestral music, dance, drama, costumes, sets and lighting. 21;8.61;2.2650 The achievement of this multipliCity requires many voices and many willing hands. The talented, giving hands of our Opera League, Ushers, Dance Council, Young Professionals, Ambassadors, Office and Boutique workers, Movers, Supers, Education &: Outreach, and AdagiO volunteers have a significant impact on the overall operation of the company

MICHIGAN OPERA VOLUNTEER Richard Hill, Education & Outreach ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Sue Dimattia, Membership Dodie David, President Nancy Krolikowski, Movers Gloria Clark, Vice President Corinne Opiteck, Opera House Ushers Eva Mehan)" Secretary Sharon Wallace Snyder, Opera Linda Watters, Treasurer League of Detroit Hoffmann and Betty Brooks, Past President Ali Moiin, Supers other productions Jeanette Pawlaczyk, Volunteers, etc. sing works by CHAIRMEN OF STANDING Phil Hughes, Volunteer Voice Strauss, Mozart, COMMITTEES Randall Fogelman, Young Professionals Delibes and Roberta Starkweather, AdagiO Helen Millen, Ambassadors Annette Balian, Bylaws and Procedures MEMBERS·AT·LARGE Arda Barenholtz Betty Brooks, Cookbook Kevin Dennis Linda Watters, Cookbook Caroline Addison Peace Hill in rec ital GlOlia Clark (Intelim Chair), Dance Don Jensen Sunday Council October 21 Vicki Barnett, Di vaslDivos Queenie Sarkisian 2:00 pm Wallace Peace, Education & Outreach Next on our series - Durufle: Requiem All Soul's Day· November 2 • 7:00 pm St. John's Tickets: Episcopal Church $15 individual On Woodward next to $35 family Come rica Park· Gated Advance free parking on site purchase: 313.962.7358 ......

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DAVID DICHIERA Matthew S. Birman Annette M. Lozon MUSIC Costumes DETROIT General Director Communications Man1cer of DEPARTMENT Suzanne M. Hanna OPERA HOUSE Coordinator Foun ation & David DiChiera Costume Trish Almquist BRETT BATTERSON Jane Coe Government Music Director Coordinator Event Coordinator Kimberly Gray Grants Suzanne Mallare Mary Ellen Shindel Rock Monroe Chief Operating Ticket Services Lauren Allion First Hand Director of Officer Acton Assistant Membership Assistant Music Margaret Bronder Security Managers Manager Director, Chorus Second Hand Elisa Giuliani DEPARTMENT Christy Gray Heather Hamilton Master Ulla Hettinger Hous e Manager DIRECTORS Ticket Services Volunteer Lawrence Picard Pricia Hicok Calvin Williams Karen VanderKloot Representative Coordinator Repetiteur Genevieve Maintenance DiChiera Timothy Lentz Kathleen M. Diane Bredesen Palczynski Supervisor Director of Archivist McNamara Orches tra Stitchers Demetrius Barnes Community Jeanette Pawlaczyk Corporate Personnel Alice Moss Jesse Carter Programs Public Relations Campaign Manager Wardrobe Mistress Building Engineers John Eckstrom Assistant Manager Jean Schneider Jocelyn Doodell Aubrell Hicks Director of Bill Carroll Jane Westley Rehearsal Assistant Darron Smith Administration Public Relations Development Accompanist Wardrobe Mistress Concessions Roberto Mauro Volunteer Associate, General Rubik Mailian Supervisor Director Of Artistic Directo r's Circle Armenian Diction Make-up & Hair Bobby Abrams Administration Community Danielle DeFauw Coach Elsen Associates Lorraine Monroe David W. Osborne Programs Boutique Manager Danielle DeFauw Joanne Weaver Stage Door Director of Mark Vondrak French Diction Allison Mazurski Security Production Tour Manager Finance/Computer Coach Local Crew Mary Parkhill Betty Lane Services Director of Program Manager William T. Schulz Stage Management Stage Crew Development Dolores Tobis Controller Kenneth Saltzman John Kinsora Jennifer Turner Office & Kimberly Burgess- Production Stage Head Carpenter Director of Facilities Marketing Rivers Manager Robert Mesinar Laura R. Wyss Manager Rita Winters Lisa Marie Lange Head Electrician Director of Betsy Bronson Accountants Ellen Marie Peck Alan Bigelow Communications Alaina Brown Joseph Rusnak Assistant Stage Head Propertyman Maria Cimarelli Systems Manager Managers Robert Martin ADMINISTRATION Jennifer Gale Keith Bibbins Head Flyman Bill Austin Lawrence Picard Systems Technical Staff Steve Kemp Assistant to the David Pulice Programmer Randall L. Mauck Head Soundman General Director Karl Schmidt Technical Director Gary Gilmore Linda DeMers Mark Vondrak PRODUCTION Monika Essen Production Executive Assistant Chancellor Wyman Production Property Master Electrician Beverly A. Moore Outreach Touring Administration Kendall Smith Mary Ellen Shindel Receptionist Company Elizabeth Neds-Fox Lighting Head of Wardrobe Production Coordinator lATSE Local #38 Communications l)evelopment Coordinator Dee Dorsey Stagehands Michael Hauser Jane Fanning Kendra Moyer Surti tle Operator lATSE Local #786 Marketing Associate Director Assistant to Shawn Kaufman Wardrobe Manager of Development Director of Assistant Lighting Kimberly A. Stephani Miller Production Designer Mogielski Yates Greg Fortner Dan Patterson Patron and Ticket Assistant Director Elizabeth Stevens Lighting Assistant Services Manager of De velopment Assistant Brian Slocum Jenise Collins Bradley L. Stroud Directors Assistant to Mr. Group Sales and Director of Dance Nancy Krolikowski Colavecchia Patron Services Development Local Keith Kalinowski Supervisor Transportation Technical Coordinator Assistant Pat Lewellen Audition Volunteer

Detroit Opera House www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO 45 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre - General Information PHOTOGRAPHY & RECORDING usher, please call the usher hotline at members to hear the music is a prerequi DEVICES Unauthorized cameras and 313/237-3253. site to enjoyment of the performance. In recording devices are not allowed inside all cases, babes in arms are not permitted. LATE SEATING Latecomers will be seat the theater at any time. The taking of ed only during an appropriate pause in SERVICES Concession stands are photographs of the theater or any per the program and may view the program located in all levels. Please note that food formance is strictly prohibited. As a on closed-circuit television monitors and drinks are not allowed in the audito courtesy to our guests, we ask that all located in the lobbies until an appropri rium at any time. Coat check is located paging devices, cell phones and alarm ate program pause occurs. Late seating watches be switched to silent mode in the Ford lobby The cost is $1.00 per poliCies are at the discretion of the pro prior to the start of a performance. coat. Please note that the Detroit Opera duction, not opera house management. House does not accept responsibility for IN CASE OF EMERGENCY Doctors LOST & FOUND Lost and Found is any personal articles that are not checked and parents are advised to leave their seat located in the Security Department. at the coat check. Drinking fountains location (located on ticket) and our emer Please see an usher if you have misplaced are located in the lobbies on floors one gency number, 313/237-3257, with the an article, or call 313/961-3500 if you and three. Public pay phones are located service or sitter in case of an emergency have already left the theater. Items will be in the vestibule of the Ford Lobby Please observe the lighted exit signs locat held in Lost and Found for thirty days. Patrons in wheelchairs can access pay ed throughout the .theater. In the event of phones outside the third-floor ladies' fire or similar emergency, please remain PARKING Parking for all events is avail restrooms. calm and walk - do not run - to the near able in the Opera House Garage, located est exit. Our ushers are trained to lead you directly across from the Detroit Opera RENTAL INFORMATION The Detroit out of the building' safely A trained House (on John R. and Broadway streets). Opera House is available for rent by your Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) is Prepaid parking is available through the organization. Please call Jennifer Turner, on site during most events. Please see an box office. Please call 313/237-SING for Director of Facilities, at 313/961-3500 to usher or staff member to contact the EMT. parking information. receive rental information. RESTROOMS Ladies' restrooms are ACCESSIBILITY Accessible seating TICKET INFORMATION The Detroit locate'd off the Ford Lobby (Broadway locations for patrons in wheelchairs are Opera House Ticket Office hours are as street entrance), down the stairs and also located in all price ranges on the orches follows: Non-performance weeks - on the third floor (Madison street tra level. When inquiring about tickets, Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to entrance) - please press "3R" on the ele please ask about these locations if you 5:30 p.m. Performance days - 10:00 a.m. vator to reach these facilities. Gentlemens require speCial accommodations. through the first intermission of the restrooms are located under the Grand Assisted Listening Devices are available evening's performance, except Saturdays Staircase, and also on the third floor on a first-come, first-served basis. 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SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON Chorus Master Michigan Opera Theatre debut-Mikado, 1982. Now celebrating 20 years with Michigan Opera Theatre, Suzanne Mallare Acton has served as the Opera Company's Assistant Music Director and Chorus Master since the 1981-1982 season. She has conducted several productions during her tenure, including The Barber of Seville and The Daughter of the Regiment. For Dayton Opera, she has conducted West Side Story, My Fair Lady and The Pirates of Penzance. Ms. Acton has served as coach and accompanist for the opera companies of St. Louis and San Diego, and is the Music Director of Rackham Symphony Choir.

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Alice Berberian Haidostian Chairman

Edmond Azadian Edgar Hagopian Co-Chairmen

Committee Members Michigan 'Opera Theatre's "Anoush" Mary J 0 Agbabian LET IT BE KNOWN, That it is a pleasure and a privilege to extend my Varsenick Apkarian heartiest congratulations on behalf of the State of Michigan on the opening night performance of the opera "Anousb". Annette Balian Michigan Opera Theatre's presentation is part of a worldwide commemoration of the 17001lo anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as Shakeh Basmajian the state religion of Annenia. This highly anticipated production also serves Silva Ficici, MD as a tribute to the extraordinary contributions ofthe Armenian community in this tn-centennial year of the City of Detroit. This event was made possible Lucine Hartunian by the generous support of the Michigan Opera Theatre. charitable donations from the Armenian community, as well as contributions from those who Jeanette Keramedjian support the arts. We commend them for their investment in the State of Michigan. Fr. Garabed & Roberta Kochakian IN SPECIAL TRIBUTE, therefore, this document is signed and dedicated to celebrate the opening night performance of the opera "Anoush". Mike & Shirley Kojaian May each participant know of our admiration and warmest wishes for their Richard Manoogian success~ both with this event and in their future endeavors. Dolly Maloian Emma B. Minasian //~ Dick Posthumus Margaret Keteyian Reese LlliUTENANTGOVERNOR Shirley Anne Sarkisian October 20, 2001 Fr. Antoine Saroyan ~ Martin & Diana Shoushanian Fr. Daron Stephanian Rev. Dr. Vahan H. Tootikian Edward & A~trig Tutelian Dan Yassian W3UUSlf\.t. WVt'u... esnt-f

ON THE OCCASION OF THE PERfORMANCE OF I\NOUSH OPERA AT THE MICHIGAN OPElIA THEATR E

It is with great ple;uure that I con"'e)' my m05t heartfelt greetings to tnt;

perfOnT\Crs, tb~ musicians and the management of the MichiCtn Opera Tht=aue on the SLaginC of Anoush ()pera i.n one oflhe mOSI celebuted Opera houses in the world .

The United Stales has long ago become bome (or milny of our compatriots They have enjoyed vast opportunities (or prtstn'ing their national identiry and sharin, their cultu re with thtil [dlo_ Ameri can'S The performance of Anoush Opera. one of the most rcnoWf')«:d pieces of Armenia's musical cur.urc. is;s rtm.1t'kablc tribl.lu: to the contribution of the Atmt:nian American 'S to the deplh of Arr.eriaft

multicUlturalism. The po~r of human civilisation rests in the diversiry of its c.ultural herirnfC · The 'IIalucs oftTc:C'doll"l, aU thc more cherished in today's turbultnl times. continue to offer unequalled oppoounitiC5 (or the best ('xpression ofhum':ln ta llo-nL This event is particularly dear to our hearu as it is taking [)Iace at a time when the Armenian people art celebr1.lins: 1700 yellrs of Cltristianit)' as the state rc:ligion.

r thank all the sponsors for their urup:uing efforts in m!lcing this production possible. J c.ommend greatly the dedication and vigour of Or. Q.lvid DiCt,iera,

General Director o( the Michigar.. Opera lhe3[tc". l.r.d the: su;ff of I~U:' Theiltre. who have displayed profound inspiratinn towards iMurin; Ihe succ.ess orthe perfonnanct:.

I h3vt 1'10 doubt Ihal the audienc~ in ~tt o; 1 will vah).; hiShly these efforts.

Robert Kocharian President, Republic of Armenia

ARMENIAN Blessings from the Calholicos of AU Armenians CATHOLICOSATE OF We are extremely pleased to leam that Armen Tigranian's ~ Anoush · opera will be CIUCIA perfonned at the renowned Michigan Opera Theater, with the initiative of the Detroit ANTEl,.IAS-I.ESANON Armenian community and the administration of the Michigan Opera Theater I in celebration of the 17001h anniversary of Armenia's conversion to Christianity. .. 314/01 Ar..teli2s, 11th Aug\lsl. 2001 The Opera .. ~.. is one of the jewels of Armenian musical art, and thanks 10 its typical Armenian character it enthralls and moves the listening audience with the Dr. Da\·jd Oi Chiena echoes of the Armenian highland. We are confident that the production of this opera Ceneral Director will bond ~oples ' souls together and bridge the friendship of dilteren! nationalities Michigan Opera Theater thanks to the miraculous power of the art. 1526 Broadway Detroit, Mich. 48226 We extend our Pontifical blessings from the 1700 year old Holy See of USA Etchmiadzin and our sincere appreciation to the responsible parties who have made this achievement possible, to the performers and the music-loving audience. Our special Dear Or. Oi Chieru appreciation to the MOT General Director Or. David DiChiera, wishing that the performance of -Anoush" is warmly received and successfully performed on Ihe stage of t came to learn with special joy that th~ Michigan Opera Theater in this famous opera theater. l'ovember 2001. will prescnt to the public the "Anol1sh" Opera.

Let the Lord give you strength and bless your good deeds. In fact. "Anoush" Opera is not merely an important musical achieve· ment; it expTll!sse5 the love and joy. the suffering ar,d itspirations of our peo· Amen, pIe. Therefore, the performance of ~ A noush ~ by Michigan Opera Theater ,,,HI not only d isplAY to the public the cultural I.'~lues but also the mner With blessings, yearnings ~nd dream' of a who has survivt>d in the midSot of the tensions Garegin II .1nd po!erizatlons of history. Catholicos of All Armenians I ~eep l }' appreciate this initiative of the Michigan Opera Theater. r atso Holy Etchmiadzin - ap~reCla.te. the full support of the Arme)'\ian community of Detroit to this OCtober 5, 2001 major proJect.

God bless you alt, Prayerfully

ARM! I CAntOlICOS OF ClLICI~

Nerses-Bedros XIX Vahan Tootikian

ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL WORLD COUNCIL

PATRlARCAT ARM:ENIEN CATHOLlQUE ...... ~""JiI¥J'~ ~I1S llNtSllPll"11"11" ~11U'I1CIu1lP~U.S"" IuANIlI-M. IEYkOUTH · U8Al'f iAl-~ CONSEIL MONDIAL EVANOELIQUE ARMENIEN

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August 30, 2001

A Word Frol1llhe Armenian Evangeli.cal World Council Dr. David DiChiera ""''''''4.,lj/l'feuIkGl General Director T'Mft",.t)r. VahPU. T..... bb Michigan Opera Theater ..tlOV, ·. J1M.II....t.', I,),~~1 The year 200 I i. a highpoint for all llumkincl, being the (ir&t year of the 21" ~IolNI.~'.uv. Detroit-Michigan "fotlt8( l.tll).''''Ut century lIud the beginning of the third millennium. For the ArMeniun people (ltr_II . H.)"~ throughout the world. the }'CM 2001 it. nn c\'en more .significant year, Ilince, r.... ( ' · ' . ~n' < _ bellidea the afOrtlDlentioned milel8tonea. it ia the 1700d' annivertary 1)£ the Dear Dr. DiChiera...... " "" ~v ~ prociamst:ion of ChrisLianity till the 5Ulle religion of ArmcGia. Th.. rear Tloclt:Y~~~ Armeninlll in ever)' cornur of tho world are .olemnl}' and joyfully ~kbratiniltru. roa.,u.o,,, With great joy and spiritual deep gratification the "Anoush" opera commiuee's _...... onniverAary. members informed us of the musical presentation of Hovhannes Toumanian's epic poem. ' ... bo.: jHIoII ...· t" ...... '"I .. J_. Anneniana of Greater Detroit, along with their 1700" annivertary Indeed. this poem describes the life of an Annenian village with its noble traditions and ·...,t ....., .... ·,. commemoration&.. M\'O joined their fellow American ci til'.ttllll of ~ troi l in the purity of human love and emotion. which ends in the tragic death of the coupLe celebratioa: the tri·amt.ennial annivcnlary of the City of Detroit. bringing sadness and sorrow over the entire village. U .. ~Io " !l It I>,..~.., T'M1.". (".... u..;.. l .... l~_ lIofichignn ()pcra Theatre's pn!lCntation o f --AnoU8h~ is a fitting tribute to thelle As Armenians, we are proud and bonored to see Annen TIgranian's n Anoush" "A.e.~ dual celebrulwna. The --Anoush" opera i. an Armenian musical maaterpiece. "'M~r- opera, produced first in 1981 in.. English, to again be presented in Annenian native 1 .... (' .. 11 41.. ...".., conlpoee

Catholicos·Patriart.h of th e House ofCilicia With all or my best wishcl For Annenian Catholics ~. --v.:z.~/ ~'IN;~

Rey. Dr. Vahan H. Tootikian President. Armenian Evangelical 'Vorld Council Given at Beirut, October 2, 2001 The second year of our Calooticossate

Notes from the Director by Gerald Papasian

Back in 1981, the use of surtitles was not as We've completed the 20th Century with great common as it is today Anoush was sung in hopes manifested in the collapse of the Berlin English, in accordance with Michigan Opera wall, the break-up of the Soviet Union and I Theatre's mandate to render opera widely the creation of new independent Republics accessible. Today, Michigan Opera Theatre will (Armenia being one of them) - only to begin make history once again by staging its the 21st Century with a set of tragic events, Western World Premier of Anoush sung in its which suddenly make us see the harsh original Armenian language. realities of our times. Directing Anoush once again, twenty years Anoushs beautiful, innocent music may seem later at Michigan Opera Theatre, is a joy and a somewhat out of place in view of today's challenge for me. When Dr. DiChiera invited realities. However, we have to remember that me to discuss this new production, I had an behind Tigranians delicately evocative melodies obvious feeling of deja vu. Maestro Raffi lays Hovhannes Toumanians epic poem 'Anoush' Armenian, as well as set designer Franco upon which the opera is based. Toumanian Colaveccia, both of whom collaborated with has offered a harsh social commentary on me in 1981, were also there. As we began the old-fashioned mores and fundamentalist rehearsals, it seemed that nothing had attitudes that provoke the destruction of pure changed, except the few additional wrinkles and innocent love. Is it so incomprehensible we each had acquired. And yet the world has then that Tigranians seemingly light melodies changed tremendously since those days. are written mostly in minor keys?

It is easy to describe Anoush as a moody young VIloman verging on 1 depression )

NICOLE PHILIBOSIAN Samual Beckett Theatre, Harold Clurman Theatre, Sara's Mother The Actors Studio, Expanded Arts Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre debut. American Opera Projects, and several other Off and It is easy to dismiss Anoush as a moody Nicole Philibosian's ravishing Off-Off Broadway theatres. Film Credits Include: young woman verging on depression and soprano has sung with distinc SuperTroapers; selected for Sundance Film Festival tion in opera houses through 2000, Kissing]essica Stein, selected for LA wonder upon the sadness of Saro's melan out the United States, Asia, and Independent Film Festival, Just One Time, also cholic aria in the middle of a joyous wed in Europe, featuring [,Opera de selected for LA Film Festival and Toronto ding scene, where everyone is supposed to Nice, France, the Gloria Opera International Film Festival, and many more. in Seoul, Korea, the New York City Opera, Seattle, Commercial credits include such products as be happy - or are they? In this 19th Century Portland, Hawaii, Dallas, and the Chamber Opera Discovery Channel Stores, IBM, ESPN Classic Sports remote Armenian village lost in the lofty Theatre of New York. She has appeared as soloist Channel, Viagra and Ex-lax, among others. with such distinguished conductors as Gerard Caucasian Mountains, a' mother giving away Schwarz, Andrew Litton, Valery Gergiev, David RUBIK MAILIAN her daughter was well aware of the womens Zinman, Yael Levi, Eve Queler, Jorge Mester, Arthur Best Man condition'in a society such as theirs. In our Fagan, Richard Westenburg, Gerhardt Michigan Opera Theatre debut. Zimmermann, Hal France, and Catherine Comet. Music Director and soloist at St. new production of Anoush I propose to take She has sung with the Symphony Orchestras of John's Armenian Church, Rubik a young maiden, trapped in a web of rigid Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Rochester, Grand Rapids, Mailian is a familiar face in and the American Symphony Orchestra of New Detroits Armenian Community and oppressive social order without the York. As a singer, Mr. Mailian is glimpse of hope for future emancipation, on equally versatile in opera and a journey back down memory lane: a flash MATTHEW TUELL concert repertOire, performing in New York, Boston, Ohan Miami and Houston. His operatiC experience back in Anoushs mind before her final leap Michigan Opera Theatre includes performances with Houston Grand Opera to her destiny Toumanian himself had six debut La Traviata 2001. and Des Moines Metro Opera, among others. In Detroit, he has led the Komitas Choir of St. Johns daughters and didn't wish them to grow up Tenor, Matthew Tuell, recently performed the role of Edgardo and the Armenian Community Chorale group in under those circumstances. He gave each of in Arbor Opera Theatre's numerous churches and cultural halls. During the them a brilliant education and allowed them production of Lucia di pontifical Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Holiness Lammermaar as well as Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, Rubik was unprecedented freedoms, with the hope that Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at the Pine Mountain invited as one of the guest conductors to lead the others would follow his example. He was a Music Festival. My. Tuell has also performed with 300 member choir in Central Park, New York in the Utah Festival Opera Company, the Natchez May 2001. pacesetter in his time. In that particular area Opera Festival and Sarasota Opera Mr. Tuell was of the world perhaps things have changed - recently named the Joyce H. Cohn Apprentice for BARBARA BLAND Anoush's Mother or perhaps not! One certainty is that the the 2001-02 season and will appear in each Michigan Opera Theatre production this season. Michigan Opera Theatre debut "mores" Toumanian fought against still exist La Traviata 1996 in the world today and there are still many SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON Mezzo-soprano Barbara Bland Chorus Master received her BA in Music from Anoushes and Saros (or Romeos and Michigan Opera Theatre debut the University of Michigan and Juliette'S, if you will) who suffer the evils of - Mikado, 1982. went on to Oakland University _ ...~ ____... where she earned her Masters deeply rooted superstitions, heavy-handed Now celebrating 20 years with Michigan Opera Theatre, Degree in Vocal performance. Barbara was thrilled traditionalism, outdated cod€s of honor and Suzanne Mallare Acton has to be selected as one of the finalists in the absurd religious and social hatreds. served as the Opera Companys Metropolitan Opera Auditions for the Detroit 1 Assistant Music Director and District Competition in 1995, and a winner of the Understanding the overall sadness of this Chorus Master since the 1981-1982 season. She has Michigan Opera Theatre Young Artist Apprentice Award in 1996-97. Barbaras roles with the Michigan ] 'winters tale', as Shakespeare would have it, conducted several productiOns during her tenure, including The Barber oj Seville and The Daughter oj Opera Theatre include, "Mercedes" in Carmen, is understanding cultures in need of help in the Regiment For Dayton Opera, she has conducted "Second lady" in The Magic Flute, "Annina" in La Traviata, "The High Priestess" in Aida, "Countess their quest for emancipation towards uni West Side Story, My Fair Lady and The Pirates oj Penzance. Ms. Acton has served as coach and Ceprano" and "Giovanna" in Rigaletta and "Kate" in versal standards of human relations, so cru accompanist for the opera companies of St. Louis Madama Butterfly. Currently, Ms Bland is a voice cial in our drive to conquer all hatred and and San Diego, and is the Music Director of instructor at Oakland University, where she also Rackham Symphony Choir. teaches Vocal Techniques. evil. Music, dance, and drama create this SUSANNA TCHOUBARIAN is covering the role of understanding through the emotions they MELISSA BRUNING Anoush. Costume Designer generate. Could opera, as a true internation SUPERNUMERARIES Michigan Opera Theatre debut Richard Hill, Priest al art form, be an answer to our modern Melissa Bruning received a MFA from NYU Tisch Denny Dorsey School of the Arts in Costume Design and a BFA in problems? I Sincerely believe it can! Hallie Dorsey Technical Theatre from Nebraska Wesleyan Corey Graff University Ms. Brunings New York theatre credits include productions with Overture Theatre This production of Alloush will utilize the Original orchestration CopyrightCompany, 2010, MichiganLincoln Center Opera Theatre TheatreFestival 98', krih~~~ ~~~;~~ ~or!d~e of the revised version by Julian A NOTE OF THANKS CONTRIBUTORS Armenian~ and

Under the leadership of Alice Berberian Haidostian Charles (Chase) Kojaian Chelsea Kojaian Christopher Kojaian GRAND BENEFACTOR $100,000 Like many American cities, Detroit is comprised of a rich diver Claire Kojaian Richard 1St Jane Manoogian Gram Kojaian sity of peoples. This community involves an intermingling of Alice Manoogian BENEFACTOR $10,000 John 1St Rose Manoogian many cultural heritages, giving our City its own unique history Edward 1St Janet Mardigian Roben 1St Maggie Allesee Zaven 1St Gladys Margosian and characteristics. Since the founding of Michigan Opera Theatre In Memory of Leo Boodakian Solange 1St Norman Messelian I have always believed that opera, with its synthesis of literary, Steve 1St Dee Hagopian Gary 1St Mary Najarian Alice Berberian Haidostian Jennifer Nasser musical and visual elements, is the ideal vehicle to showcase and Home Style Foods Inc. Ma~orie 1St George Ossian Suren A. Hovsepian Margaret Babigian Reason share with the entire community the unique ethnic and national Mike 1St Shirley Kojaian Roderick 1St Margaret Keteyian Reese qualities of each of our peoples. Thomas 1St Deborah Krikorian Elizabeth Robens Helen Mardigian Peter 1St Marilyn Sarkesian Martin 1St Diana Shoushanian Melvin 1St Barbara Vander Brug While American operagoers have ample opportunity to enjoy Marie Vanerian Sarah 1St Steve Va~abedi a n Italian, French, German and Anglo-American works, there are Westbom Market Inc. Dr. Joyce Marie Yeghissian many other cultures that are rarely experienced in our opera FELLOW BENEFACTOR $5,000-$9,999 Noubar 1St Anna Afeyian, Lexington, MA PATRON $500-$999 houses. The opportunity to bring to our community the works Gerald 1St Marceline Bright Manoogian Manor Norman 1St Seta Akarakcian inspired by other cultures, such as African-American, Polish, Phillip 1St Catiana Mooradian Anonymous Russian and Armenian, strengthens our understanding and appre Ardash 1St Charlene Apigian SUSTAINER $2,500-$4,999 Elizabeth Aprahamian ciation. I am espeCially grateful for the enthusiasm and commit Mirijan 1St Anita Arslanian Anonymous Rose Assarian ment demonstrated by these various communities, all of whom Edward 1St Eleonore Aslanian, San Francisco, CA Howard 1St Catherine Atesian have participated in bringing these works to our stage - often for Sarah 1St Edgar Hagopian Dr. Carlos 1St Dr. Ursula Bedrossian, Oak Park, IL Lucine Hanunian Armen Boladian ~he first time in America. Kirkor 1St Hasmig B. lmirzian Daughters of Vanan In Memory of Dr. Aram Janigian James 1St Genya Derian As one who was possessed and Alben 1St Althea Kabak George 1St Flora Dunaians, Pasadena, CA Vaughn 1St Stella Koshkarian Susan, John and Shami Entenman driven by a dream to provide our George 1St Marge Manoogian Charles E. Fine John 1St Janet Sheke~ian Friend community with a world-class Laurence E. 1St Mary Sue Trevarrow,]r. George 1St Phyllis Googasian opera house, I could not resist a Suzanne Hagopian SPONSOR $1,500-$2,400 Dr. Anhur Hamparian similar dream of a talented musi- Edward, Susan 1St Krista Haroutunian Anonymous Violet Herbekian, Cathedral City, CA cian and Armenian community Edmond 1St Nora Azadian David 1St Joan Hill George 1St Shakeh Basmajian Gar 1St Brooke Hoplamazian leader to bring to America its first Detroit Armenian Women's Club John 1St Cynthia Jamian production ever of the Armenian C Michael 1St Elizabeth Kojaian Alex 1St Lily Jemal Ken 1St Carolyn Kojaian Paul 1St Millie Jingozian opera Anoush. In 1981, Alice Armen Haig Ovlianesian Susan Kapagian Alfred 1St Balig Berberian Stein, Chilliwack, B.C Richard 1St Jeanette Keramedjian Haidostian persuaded me that Roy 1St Cynthia Haidostian Wilbanks Alben Z. Keteyian Richard A. Yarmain Dr. Armen 1St Mary Korkigian the Armenian community would Dan 1St Kathleen Yessian Brian Manoogian support this American premiere Douglas Manoogian Michael 1St Dolly Matoian Alice Haidostian FEUOW SPONSOR $1,000-$1,499 and she indefatigably provided Brian 1St Lisa Keramedjian Meer Dr. Vahagn 1St Mary Jo Agbabian Michael 1St Emma Minasian the leadership to ensure its success. With the opening of the Dr. Hashim 1St Dr. Mary Alani Annand 1St Nadia Mirijanian, Monon Grove, IL Detroit Opera House, Alice further dreamed that Anoush would Dr. Ashod Rafli Aprahamian Richard 1St Audrey Mooradian Dr. Roben 1St Patricia Aranosian Mark 1St Zepur Karougian Moore one day be seen in a new production, befitting our expansive new Armenian General Benevolent Union, Detroit Chapter Agnes O. Nigoghosian Armenian Renaissance Association Dr. Neshan 1St Deborah Ohanian stage - this time sung in its original language. Mike 1St Marale Arzoumanian Gary 1St Susan Reizian Annette Balian Osep 1St Dr. Nadya Sarafian It has been a great pleasure to work with the Armenian com Vankess 1St Rita Balian, Arlington, VA Dr. Armen 1St Susan Sheke~ian Dr. Garabed 1St Zabel Belian Thomas 1St Lola Sinelli munity in bringing this project to fruition. I have been greatly George 1St Angela Benian Peter 1St Anahid Sirian Roben 1St Margaret Benian Sun Medical, Inc. impressed with the leadership and dedication that they have Ara 1St Ginny Berberian Paul 1St Alice Tomboulian demonstrated in this drive to provide the necessary funds to help Elizabeth Brazilian Dr. Salpi Toroyan Dr. Vigen 1St Rosemary Darian Dr. Daron Ya~anian 1St Dr. Kathleen Baltz make Anoush a reality On behalf of Michigan Opera Theatre, I Gerald 1St Mary Demi~ian, Decatur, IL Rose Yeghissian Dr. Silva Ficici Ara Zerounian salute the Armenians for Anoush Committee, Alice Haidostian, Samuel 1St Jean Frankel Ralph 1St Frances Garabedian Chairman , Edmond Azadian and Edgar Hagopian, Co-chairmen , DONOR $250-$499 Lauren, Armen and Kristen Garry, Barrington, IL and the hundreds of Armenians and friends who contributed their Dr. Michael Shahan 1St Christine Haidostian Garry 1St Roben 1St Olga Arabian, Danville, CA Family, Barrington, IL Dr. Michael 1St Karen Armoudlian time and resources to the success of Anoush. Archie 1St Susan Gopigian B. Paul 1St Penelope Avesian Allison 1St Lisa Haidostian Edward 1St Mary Bedikian Dicran 1St Aralynn Haidostian Dr. Roben A. 1St Linda Bennett Bagramian Hennan H. 1St Shoushan Hintiryan Harold 1St Sylvia Bjornstad Mihran Hoplamazian Ruth E. Bozian David 1St Esther Yessayian Howell Michael 1St Jill Dolik Gregory 1St Paula Imirzian Mike 1St Loucin Dorian Marlene Imirzian 1St Carl Kuehn, Phoenix, AZ Masis 1St Albena Godoshian Maro Imirzian, Lakewood, WA Dr. Michael 1St Laurie Haroutunian David DiChiera Richard 1St Christine Jeryan Earl 1St Stefi Hovious Harry 1St Elaine Kalajian Alice and SimonJavizian General Director, Michigan Opera Theatre Dr. Charles M. Keoleian 1St Ms. Audrey S. Armoudlian Ani Kavaflan, Goldens Bridge, NY Copyright 2010, MichiganArmen 1St Dede Opera Keteyia nTheatre, New Canaan, CT. John 1St Sima Kchikian Friends for Anoush

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GERALD PAPASIAN was born in Egypt of Armenian Parents. After graduating from the Armenian State Dramatic Arts Academy as a Diaspora student with an M.A. in Directing, he joined his family in the US, living in Detroit then in Los Angeles. He received further theatre training in thli US and in France where he currently resides. Gerald has acted in, directed, translated, adapted numerous 'plays and has lectured on Theatre and Opera at various universities internationally.

His US directorial debut was the Western World Premiere of the Armenian Opera Anoush in his own English translation (MOT). Other credits include Caesar and Cleopatra (Cairo Opera House), Arms and the Man (Young Vic-London) and most recently Taparnigos, Dentiste Pour Dames (Dejazet Theatre-Paris). He has adapted and directed numerous plays from an early age in Cairo, Paris, London, Los Angeles and Yerevan ranging from musicals, opera, operetta, straight plays to TV and video productions.

Gerald Papasian recently completed the drama¥gic restoration of Dikran Tchouhadjian's opera Arshak II in collaboration with Musicologist Haig Avakian. The work was recently released in a complete 26-volume public_ation including piano and orchestral scores as well as separate iristruments and had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera in . Sep,tember of this year, 133 years after its creation.

Gerald Papasian was twice awarded Best Actor by the Cinematographers' and Theatre Unions of Armenia respectively, and was made Honorary Member of the National Theatre there in 1992.

He is the Founding Director of the Dikran Tchouhadjian Research Centre for the Preservation of the Treasures of Western Armenian Culture in Paris since 1998 where he currently resides with Nora Armani.

* * * Due to Family concerns, Edna Garabedian was forced to withdraw from this production ofAnoush. The thoughts ofthe Michigan Opera Theatre staffare with her and we wish her well.

Yeghishe Manucharyan will perfonn the role of Saro in all six perfonnances of Anoush.

Dancers appear courtesy of Ballet Internationale, , Indianapolis, Indiana Women: Kerrie-Anne Dunn Chieko Oiwa Svetlana Kazonina Karen Scalzitti-Kennedy (Bride) So-Yon Nam Marie Tyukova

Men: Yuri Beletski Vadim Pijicov Ogulcan Borova Sergei Sergiev Vadim Dulepa Alexei Tyukov (Groom)