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Turandot Program Cover.indd 1 11/2/2017 4:19:31 PM LYRIC OF CHICAGO Table of Contents REED HUMMELL/NASHVILLE OPERA

IN THIS ISSUE – pp. 20-35

6 From the General Director 12 Administration/Administrative Staff/ 53 Look to the Future Production and Technical Staff 8 From the Chairman 54 Major Contributors – Special Events 14 From the Inside Out: 10 Board of Directors and Project Support Lyric's Backstage Tours 11 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ 20 Tonight’s Performance 55 Lyric Unlimited Contributors Executive Board/Young Professionals/ Ryan Opera Center Board 21 Synopsis 56 Commemorative Gifts 23 Cast 57 Ryan Opera Center 24 Artist Profiles Lyric's 58 Ryan Opera Center Alumni 30 Opera Notes Around the World Backstage 34 Director's Note Tours 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 35 After the Curtain Falls pp. 14-18 60 Planned Giving: The Overture Society 36 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus 62 37 Backstage Life Corporate Partnerships 38 Artistic Roster 63 Matching Gifts, Special Thanks and 39 Lyric and Social Media Acknowledgements 40 Patron Salute 64 Annual Individual and 43 Aria Society Foundation Support 52 Breaking New Ground 71 Facilities and Services/Theater Staff

On the cover: Painting by Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

2 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018

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4 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018

LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

From the General Director

Giacomo Puccini and go back together to the very beginning of the company, with La bohème and featured in our first season in 1954. The following season we produced our first , in 1956 came , and then in 1958 we presented our first production of the most formidable of all the Puccini , his mighty Turandot, which we’re delighted to welcome back to the Lyric stage this season. STEVE LEONARD From those early years to today, Lyric has gone the extra mile to bring authenticity of style and powerful theatricality to the Puccini operas, and Turandot is no exception. This company has always recognized the unique appeal of Puccini’s last opera, with its astoundingly atmospheric and brilliantly colorful orchestration, its massively scaled choral episodes (quite atypical for Puccini, whom we don’t normally associate with choral music), and above all, the opportunities he gave the principal artists. We come away from Turandot with the sound of Calaf’s “” still ringing in our ears – it’s no surprise that this has become the world’s favorite aria, used in any number of movies, commercials, and televised voice competitions – but it’s doubly exciting to hear it fulfilling its proper dramatic function within the opera itself. In contrast, the exquisitely delicate arias of the slave Liù invariably reduce listeners to tears with their sweetness and sheer heart. Puccini composed some of his liveliest music for the three ministers, Ping, Pang, and Pong. And, of course, we have the awe-inspiring title character – the “ice princess” Turandot, whose big scene in Act Two contains genuinely hair-raising music that leaves any audience breathless with excitement. It’s been very gratifying for all of us at Lyric to follow the career of Ryan Opera Center alumna Amber Wagner, culminating in her star-making performance as Senta in The Flying Dutchman at the last season. Having already captivated Lyric audiences in four leading roles, she has returned to us this season to star as Turandot. Opposite her is Stefano La Colla, one of the most promising in the new generation of Italian and now making his Lyric debut as Calaf. Along with the return to our stage of Andrea Silvestrelli as Timur, you can look forward to the debuts of the two who share the role of Liù, Maria Agresta and Janai Brugger, who have been hailed as dazzling new stars at many major houses internationally. I’m thrilled that our remarkable music director, Sir Andrew Davis, is returning to Turandot, an opera that brought him great success when he conducted it here during the 2006/07 season. On the podium to lead the final performance of the run will be Robert Tweten, who has led a wide variety of operatic repertoire with major companies throughout North America. With ancient China giving extraordinary scope for the imagination, Turandot has always been a priceless gift to any talented designer. An example is one of American opera companies’ most distinguished designers, Allen Charles Klein, whose captivating vision of Turandot has been applauded by audiences all over the country. With Rob Kearley’s new staging, the magnificence of Lyric’s chorus and orchestra, and our topflight cast, this is sure to be a Turandot in the grand Lyric tradition.

Anthony Freud General Director, President & CEO The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

6 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018

LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

From the Chairman

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I’m delighted to welcome you to Lyric Opera of Chicago. This season is a particularly varied and distinctive one. We began with Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice in John Neumeier’s historic new production. Then came a powerfully dramatic revival of Verdi’s , the second installment of Lyric’s monumental new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle with Die Walküre, and Bizet’s ravishing The Pearl Fishers. Following Turandot our audiences can look forward to Bellini’s captivating I Puritani; a gem of the TODD ROSENBERG Mozart repertoire, Così fan tutte; and a return to French repertoire with Gounod’s romantic . Speaking personally, one of the most rewarding aspects of Lyric – not only as chairman, but as a longtime subscriber and patron – is my joy in introducing family, friends, and business colleagues to the company and the art form. I hope you’ll consider doing the same! When I receive out-of-town visitors during the opera season, I always try to include an evening at Lyric. It’s inevitably a major highlight of their stay. A Lyric performance isn’t only an opportunity to dress up and go out with your significant other or with close friends for an elegant evening – it’s also an unforgettable and rewarding experience of timeless stories set to some of the world’s greatest music and performed by many of the top artists of our day. Lyric’s mainstage productions are, of course, the core of every season we present. I also encourage you to explore the unique activities of Lyric Unlimited, our initiative focused on community engagement and education. It is one of the ways that the company stays relevant as a cultural service provider to all of Chicago, whether with newly commissioned works, community-created performances or the special programs presented in dozens of public schools all over Chicago every year. The level of creativity at work in Lyric Unlimited presentations has been truly inspiring, and it has exposed the art form of opera to tens of thousands of students across Chicagoland. By presenting opera in new and non-traditional ways, Lyric Unlimited helps to grow and expand our audiences. I invite you to join me at one of the Lyric Unlimited performances of Fellow Travelers in March or Family Day at Lyric on April 7. At Lyric, we truly cherish our donors and patrons. We consider each one of you as members of the Lyric family. It can sometimes be trite to declare, “Every gift counts,” but at Lyric it’s true: you’re going above and beyond what you’re paying for the ticket price. You’re investing in Lyric, entrusting that we will turn your gift into great art. We take that responsibility very seriously and are constantly imagining new ways to enhance your personal experience at Lyric, build new audiences for opera, and do it all in the most cost-effective way we can. Many thanks to all of you who play a vital role in ensuring that our great art form and our great company continue to serve Chicago and the world of opera today and in the years to come.

David T. Ormesher

8 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018

LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Board of Directors

OFFICERS LIFE DIRECTORS Anthony Freud*+ Anne N. Reyes* The Honorable Bruce Rauner Edgar Foster Daniels Mary Patricia Gannon J. Christopher Reyes The Honorable Rahm Emanuel Richard J. Franke Ronald J. Gidwitz William C. Richardson, Ph.D.° Honorary Chairmen of the Board Edgar D. Jannotta Ruth Ann M. Gillis* Brenda Robinson Edgar D. Jannotta George E. Johnson Brent W. Gledhill*+ Collin E. Roche Co-Chairman Emeritus Robert H. Malott Ethel C. Gofen Edward B. Rouse Allan B. Muchin James J. O’Connor Howard L. Gottlieb* Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Co-Chairman Emeritus Gordon Segal Melvin Gray Shirley Welsh Ryan* David T. Ormesher Robert E. Wood II Maria C. Green+ E. Scott Santi* Chairman of the Board Dietrich M. Gross* Claudia M. Saran Lester Crown DIRECTORS Dan Grossman Rodd M. Schreiber Chairman of the Executive Katherine A. Abelson Carrie J. Hightman Jana R. Schreuder* Committee Whitney W. Addington, M.D.* Elliot E. Hirsch Marsha Serlin Anthony Freud James L. Alexander* Eric L. Hirschfield Brenda M. Shapiro* General Director, President & John P. Amboian J. Thomas Hurvis* Richard W. Shepro CEO Paul F. Anderson Gregory K. Jones Eric S. Smith* Sir Andrew Davis Larry A. Barden Stephen A. Kaplan° Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Vice President Julie Baskes* Kip Kelley II Pam F. Szokol Renée Fleming James N. Bay, Jr. Fred A. Krehbiel° Franco Tedeschi Vice President Melvin R. Josef Lakonishok* Mark A. Thierer James L. Alexander Gilda R. Buchbinder Robert W. Lane° Cherryl T. Thomas Vice President Allan E. Bulley, III James W. Mabie* William C. Vance* Shirley Welsh Ryan John E. Butler Craig C. Martin* Donna Van Eekeren* Vice President Marion A. Cameron* Robert J. McCullen Roberta L. Washlow William C. Vance Paul J. Carbone*+ Blythe J. McGarvie Miles D. White Vice President David W. Carpenter Andrew J. McKenna Donna Van Eekeren Richard W. Colburn+ Frank B. Modruson+ Secretary Michael P. Cole Robert S. Morrison Paul J. Carbone William Mason Vinay Couto Allan B. Muchin* Treasurer General Director Emeritus Lester Crown* Linda K. Myers* Mary Ladish Selander Marsha Cruzan Jeffrey C. Neal Assistant Secretary Sir Andrew Davis* Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Roberta Lane Gerald Dorros, M.D.° Sylvia Neil Assistant Treasurer Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis John D. Nichols° Ann M. Drake Kenneth R. Norgan Dan Draper Sharon F. Oberlander Allan Drebin+ John W. Oleniczak*+ Stefan T. Edlis Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D. * Executive Committee Lois Eisen David T. Ormesher*+ + Audit Committee W. James Farrell William A. Osborn* ° National Member Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Matthew J. Parr Matthew A. Fisher Jane DiRenzo Pigott* Renée Fleming* Jose Luis Prado Sonia Florian* Don M. Randel Michael T. Foley Elke Rehbock

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Women’s Board Guild Board of Directors Michael J. Brahill Members at Large † Nancy S. Searle † James A. Staples Dr. Gerald Budzik Vindya Dayananda President President Mrs. Robert C. DeBolt Lena Dickinson † Mrs. Christopher Murphy † Marc Lacher Ms. Ingrid Dubberke Fritzi Getz Vice President of Board Activities Vice President – Benefit * Mr. Jonathan Eklund Laura Guili † Caroline T. Huebner † Cathy Wloch Mr. Joseph Ender Joe Michalak Vice President of Education Vice President – Family Day Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Shannon Shin † Mrs. Julian W. Harvey *† Ms. Martina M. Mead Rick Greenman J.J. Williams Vice President of Fundraising Vice President – Fundraising Dennis C. Hayes † Mrs. Anne M. Edwards † Maggie Rock Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Vice President of Special Events Vice President – Membership Virginia Jach Ryan Opera Center Board † Nathaniel W. Pusey Mrs. Jackie Knight Silvia Beltrametti Vice President – * Ms. Kate Letarte of Directors Margot Stone Bowen Membership Engagement Mrs. Carole Luczak Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Suzette Bulley † Dorothy Kuechl Judy Marshall Honorary Co-Chairs Marie Campbell Secretary Ms. Vee Minarich John Nitschke President Mamie Biggs Case † Ms. Christina M. Rashid Karen W. Porter * Julie Baskes Vice President – At Large Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. Treasurer Mrs. Maria Rigolin Janet Burch Vice President – At Large † Elizabeth O’Connor Cole † Leslie Bertholdt Mrs. Carla Thorpe ^ Philip G. Lumpkin Vice President – Mrs. Gary C. Comer Vice President at Large Mr. Albert R. Walavich Fundraising Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Sally Feder Vice President – * Mrs. Lester Crown Allison Alexander Sustaining Members Fundraising Co-Chair * Mrs. W. James Farrell *† Patrick J. Bitterman * Ms. Julie Anne Benson *^ Susan Kiphart Vice President – Mrs. Michael Ferro † Minka Bosco Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Nominating Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Justin Breitfelder Mrs. William Hamilton Jane DiRenzo Pigott Vice President – § Renée Fleming Sarah Demet * Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu Nominating Co-Chair Regan Rohde Friedmann Eben Dorros * Dorothy Kuechl ^ Joan Zajtchuk Vice President – Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Timothy R. Farrell Lester Marriner Strategic Planning Ms. Lili Gaubin Robert Gienko, Jr. * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer Juliana Chyu Vice President – Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Mark Kozloff, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Tiersky Strategic Planning Co-Chair † Keith Kiley Goldstein Daria M. Lewicky Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm John F. Mamon, M.D. Life Members Roberta Lane Assistant Treasurer Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel † Daniel T. Manoogian * Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Chester T. Kamin Secretary Mrs. King Harris Craig R. Milkint * Mrs. Donald Grauer Dan Novak Assistant Secretary Mrs. Philip E. Kelley † Melissa Mounce Mithal * Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan Rebecca Walker Knight † Megan Burke Roudebush * Mrs. Merwyn Kind Nicole M. Arnold Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Mary Lynne Shafer * Mrs. Jonathan R. Laing Marcus Boggs Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Fay M. Shong * Mrs. Frank M. Lieber Heidi Heutel Bohn Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez † Ilene Simmons * Mrs. Howard S. Smith ^ Tanja Chevalier * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Ms. Joan M. Solbeck * Mrs. William C. Tippens Tamara Conway D. McMillan * Oscar Tatosian * Mrs. Eugene E. White Lawrence O. Corry Alison Wehman McNally Michael Tirpak * Allan Drebin Mrs. Susan H. Mesrobian Karianne Wardell Chapter Presidents Erika E. Erich *† Mimi Mitchell Ms. Anne Zenzer Barrington Anthony Freud Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Mary Robins Mary Patricia Gannon † Mrs. Susan B. Noyes Sustaining Members Evanston Melvin Gray * Mrs. James J. O’Connor Mrs. John H. Andersen Barbara Eckel Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Mrs. William A. Osborn * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Far West Mary Ellen Hennessy Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Judy Marshall Martha A. Hesse Mrs. Frederick H. Prince * Robert F. Finke Flossmoor Area Loretta Julian Mrs. James C. Pritchard Mrs. Amanda Fox Ms. Sharon Gibson * Kip Kelley M.K. Pritzker Mrs. William R. Jentes (Jan) Glencoe Jeanne Randall Malkin * Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes Chester T. Kamin Anne Ruzicka Robert C. Marks Mrs. Ronald A. Rolighed * Kip Kelley Hinsdale Erma S. Medgyesy Trisha Rooney John M. Kohlmeier Karen W. Porter Frank B. Modruson Betsy Bergman Rosenfield Mrs. Robert E. Largay Hyde Park/Kenwood ^ Phyllis Neiman * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan * Ms. Britt M. Miller Ms. Vee Minarich Susan Noel Erica L. Sandner * John H. Nelson Lake Geneva Gregory J. O’Leary Mrs. E. Scott Santi Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Vivian Fabbro Keenan Michael A. Oberman Mrs. Alejandro Silva R. Todd Vieregg Near North Ted Reichardt Mrs. Jackie Knight Richard O. Ryan Mrs. John R. Siragusa Northfield Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel † Executive Committee Richard W. Shepro Mrs. James P. Stirling * Former President Ms. Margareta Brown Billie Jean Smith Riverside Salme Harju Steinberg † Marilynn Thoma Mary Kitzberger * Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Chapters’ Executive Board ^ Nasrin Thierer † Mrs. Sherie Shapiro Wilmette Donna Van Eekeren Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Mrs. Robert G. Weiss President Mrs. Richard H. Wehman † Mary Robins Winnetka Jack Weiss Hon. Corinne Wood Mrs. Julie McDowell Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Vice President, Community Relations † Ms. Erika E. Erich Life Members Life Members Vice President, Development † Executive Committee * Katherine A. Abelson * Former President Paula Hannaway Crown † Mrs. Linda Budzik Mrs. James W. Cozad Bernard J. Dobroski * Mrs. A. Campbell de Frise Vice President, Membership Lyric Young Professionals * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes † Ms. Margie Franklin Anne Gross * Jane Duboise Gargiulo Vice President, Programs Lisa DeAngelis, President * Keith A. Reed * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. † Ms. Claudia Winkler Martha Grant, Vice President Orli Staley Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker Treasurer Chris Hanig, Secretary * William C. Vance Mrs. Gordon Segal † Laura Shimkus Marne Smiley, Branding Chair * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Secretary Tania Tawil, Events Chair Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. * Former President Jonathon Thierer, Fundraising Chair † Executive Committee Ms. Judith A. Akers Evan Fry, Membership Chair * Former President § Honorary Member Mrs. Peggy Beata Lauren Wood, Social Media Chair ^ Team Chair Mrs. Gerry Bellanca Claudine Tambuatco, YP Outreach Chair

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Anthony Freud, OBE General Director, President & CEO The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Chief Operating Officer and Deputy General Director The John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair Roberta Lane Mary Ladish Selander Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Chief Development Officer

Cayenne Harris Elizabeth Landon Nicholas Ivor Martin Vice President, Lyric Unlimited Vice President, Human Resources Vice President, Artistic Operations and Labor Strategy The Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Andreas Melinat Lisa Middleton Dan Novak Vice President, Artistic Planning Vice President, Marketing and Communications Vice President and Director, Ryan Opera Center The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair Will Raj Rich Regan Michael Smallwood Vice President, Information Technology Vice President and General Manager, Vice President and Technical Director Presentations and Events The Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL Jenny Seidelman Nicky Chaybasarskaya Rebecca Edmonson DIRECTOR Associate Director of Corporate Senior Accountant Backstage Tours Coordinator Anthony Freud Partnerships Ana Joyce Jacob Stanton General Director, President & CEO Pavitra Ramachandran Senior Accountant Assistant to the Vice President, The Women’s Board Endowed Chair Institutional Partnerships Associate Lupe Juarez Lyric Unlimited Linda Nguyen Irvin Andrea Rubens Payroll Director MARKETING AND Manager, Office of the General Director Guild Board and Young Professionals Nancy Ko COMMUNICATIONS Grace Vangel Coordinator Accounting Manager Lisa Middleton Assistant, Office of the General Director Lee Stevens Payroll HRIS Manager Vice President, Marketing OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Kate Later Guirlaine Augustin and Communications GENERAL DIRECTOR Director of Women’s Board Accounts Payable Associate Stefany Phillips Drew Landmesser Chelsea Southwood Ebonie McDuff Marketing and Public Relations Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Associate Director of Women’s Board Payroll Associate Coordinator General Director Justin Berkowitz Tom Pels Women's Board Assistant ARTISTIC Payroll Associate Holly H. Gilson Leah Bobbey Andreas Melinat Dan Seekman Senior Director, Communications Women’s Board Coordinator Staff Accountant Vice President, Artistic Planning Blaire Shaffer Magda Krance Cory Lippiello Women's Board Assistant HUMAN RESOURCES Director of Media Relations Artistic Administrator Elizabeth Landon Roger Pines Evamaria Wieser Vice President, Human Resources Dramaturg Casting Consultant Deborah Hare Stephanie Strong Kamaria Morris Associate Director of Donor Services Public Relations Manager DEVELOPMENT Director of Compensation, Benefits, and Special Events Andrew Cioffi Mary Ladish Selander and HR Operations Paul D. Sprecher Digital Content Producer Chief Development Officer Jessica Drew Donor Services and Special Events Human Resources Associate Amanda Reitenbach Zachary Vanderburg Coordinator Social Media Associate Executive Assistant to the Chief Charity Franco Development Officer Human Resources Coordinator Benjamin Montalbano Amy Tinucci Anna VanDeKerchove Tracy Galligher Young Assistant to the Chief Director of Systems, Reporting, Office Coordinator Senior Director, Marketing Development Officer and Donor Records INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY and Audience Development Stephanie Lillie Will Raj Laura E. Burgos Donor Records and Reporting Associate Director of Audience Research Lawrence DelPilar Vice President, Information Technology Hanna Pristave and Analytics Senior Director, Development Eric Hayes Data Analytics and Operations Associate Director of IT Operations Jennifer Colgan Jonathan P. Siner Erin Johnson Director of Sales and Advertising Senior Director of Planned Giving Parida Donor Records Coordinator Director of Data Services Brittany Gonzalez Ellen Barkenbush Amanda Ramsey Director of Group Sales Director of Individual Giving and Christina Bledsoe Prospect and Research Coordinator Systems Analyst Valerie Bromann Chapters Manager of Digital Content Libby Rosenfeld Sean Lennon Systems Administrator and Analysis Major Gifts Officer Scott Podraza Carrie Krol Meaghan Stainback Associate Director of Annual Giving LYRIC UNLIMITED Graphic Design Manager Associate Director of Individual Giving Meghan Pioli Cayenne Harris Michael Musick Sarah Geocaris Donor Relations and Stewardship Vice President, Lyric Unlimited E-Commerce Manager Chapters Coordinator Associate Jocelyn Park Rachel Peterson Karoline Reynolds The Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Creative Project Manager Planned and Individual Giving Digital Fundraising Coordinator Lindsey Raker Coordinator Alejandra Boyer FINANCE Director of Community Programs Marketing Associate, Special Programs Roberta Lane Todd Snead Margaret Stoltz Daniel P. Moss Chief Financial and Administrative Director of Learning Programs Marketing Associate, Advertising Senior Director of Institutional Officer Will Biby and Promotions Partnerships Aaron Andersen Manager of Audience Programs LeiLynn Farmer Angela DeStefano Senior Director, Financial Planning Dana McGarr Group Sales Coordinator Associate Director of Guild Board and Analysis Community Programs Associate Sarah Kull Whitney Bercek Drew Smith Associate Director of Foundation Controller Learning Programs Associate and Government Partnerships

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TICKET DEPARTMENT/ PRODUCTION Richard “Doc” Wren Brian Traynor AUDIENCE SERVICES Cameron Arens Warehouse Coordinator Charge Artist Susan Harrison Niemi Senior Director, Production Dan DiBennardi Tim Morrison Director of Audience Services Katrina Bachus Assistant Warehouse Coordinator Michael Murtagh Alex Chatziapostolou (Demas) Jordan Braun Scenic Artists Sales Manager Elise Sandell Dan Donahue John Renfroe David Toulson Justin Hull Tessitura Manager Assistant Stage Directors Ryan McGovern Scott Marr Laura Waters John W. Coleman Assistant Carpenters Wardrobe, Wigs, and Makeup Director Call Center Manager Rachel C. Henneberry Kristi Wood Kelly Cronin Rachel A. Tobias Anthony Bernardy Costume Project Coordinator Adam Gorsky VIP Ticketing Associate Stage Managers Maureen Reilly Brian Hobbs Costume Director Emma Andelson Kristen Barrett Robert Hull, Jr. The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Sebastian Armendariz Rachel C. Henneberry John Ingersol Endowed Chair Katarina Bakas Anderson Nunnelley Ray Schmitz Lucy Lindquist Sharai Bohannon Daniel Sokalski Jacob Sullivan Wardrobe Mistress Alex Carey Peggy Stenger Chase Torringa Áine Collins Amy Thompson Phil Wilkerson Jessica Doan Esteban Andres Cruz Rachel A. Tobias Carpenters Jenah Hensel Alicia Dale Bill Walters Kate Keefe Leigh Folta Sandra Zamora Cecylia Kinder Chris Maravich Andrew Groble Assistant Stage Managers Michael Lopez Lighting Director Virginia Howard Krystina Lowe Ben Bell Bern The Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Steve Landsman Kathy Rubel Rehearsal Department Manager Endowed Chair Katelyn Lee Tony Rubino Josie Campbell Sarah Riffle Marisa Lerman Joanna Rzepka Artistic Services Manager Heather Sparling Tina Miritello Marguerite Scott Marina Vecci Assistant Lighting Designers LaRob Payton Rebecca Shouse Tony Portella Rehearsal Associate Michael C. Reynolds Ewa Szylak Daniel Quinn Michael Calderone Master Electrician Barbara Szyllo Will Roberts Christine Wagner Soren Ersbak Damillia Taylor Stephanie Sprauer Rehearsal Assistants Board Operator Carolina Tuazin Kellie Springfield THE PATRICK G. AND SHIRLEY W. Issac Turner Megan St. John RYAN OPERA CENTER John Clarke, Jr. Maggie Zabierowski Caitlin Patricia Stigler Dan Novak Anthony Coia Wardrobe Staff Destiny Strothers Vice President and Director, Gary Grenda Adam Stubitsch Ryan Opera Center Michael A. Manfrin Scott Barker Mary Kate Von Lehn The Ryan Opera Center Board Robert Reynolds Tracy Curran Claire Watkins Endowed Chair Assistant Electricians Dawn Marie Hamilton Ticket Staff Craig Terry Charlie Junke Music Director Jason Combs Kim Kostera Emily Crisp Thomas Fernandez Alexandra Madda The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Ed Mack Julia Faulkner Thomas Hull Wendy McCay Margaret Reberg Daniel Kuh Lyric Concierge Representatives Director of Vocal Studies John Salyers The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Jeremy Thomas Chris Valente OPERATIONS Jimmy Byrne Jose Villalpando Roger Weir Nicholas Ivor Martin Manager Electricians Dressers Vice President, Artistic Operations and Labor Strategy TECHNICAL Michael Smallwood Joe Schofield Sarah Hatten Stephanie Karr Head Audio Technician Director of Music Administration Vice President and Technical Director Wigmaster and Makeup Designer The Allan and Elaine Muchin Nick Charlan The Marlys Beider Endowed Chair Wendy Skoczen Matt Ebel Chief Librarian Endowed Chair Kathleen A. Evans April Busch Kelvin Ingram Department Coordinator Tabitha Boorsma Audio Technicians Operations Associate Technical Operations Director Michael Schoenig Amanda Clark Gretchen Meyerhoefer Chantelle Marie Johnson Music Administration Associate Technical Finance Director Maria DeFabo Akin Madeleine Borg Lynn Koroulis Janis Sakai Props and Scenic Art Director Robert Kuper Music Administration Coordinator Production Manager – Lyric Unlimited and Ryan Opera Center Charles Reilly Claire Moores PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS Property Master Staff Rich Regan Michael McPartlin Scott Wolfson DeShawn Bowman Vice President and General Manager, Properties Crew Head Brittany Crinson Presentations and Events Associate Technical Director Stephen Snyder Phil Marcotte Eric Daniels Sharon Lomasney Anelle Eorio Director of Presentations and Events Technical Coordinator Prop Carpenter Bob Ladd June Gearon Nora O’Malley Joe Dockweiler David Grant Director of Facility Operations Armorer Master Carpenter Briette Leslie MacLean Rachel Boultinghouse Mike Reilly Patrick Munoz Facilities Coordinator Upholsterer Head Flyman/Automation Nelson Posada Eleanor Sanchez Jeffrey Streichhirsch Thomas Coleman, Jr. Jada Richardson Presentations and Events Coordinator Robert Hartge Stephen Dunford Automation Assistant Lela Rosenburg Chris Barker Richard Tyriver Bridget Ryzmski Chief Engineer Assistant Properties Gregg Brody Matt Reilly Melanie Shaw Box Office Manager Rigging/Automation Assistants Michael Buerger Pat Tomlinson Bernard McNeela Joseph Collins Anita Trojanowski Engineer Brian Grenda Gordon Granger Wig and Makeup Crew Briette Madrid Layout Carpenter Nick Malloy Stage Door Supervisor Drew Trusk Joe Mathesius Nathan Tuttle Shop Welder John Miulli Facilities Porter Bruce Woodruff Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Layout Welder Properties

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14 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 KYLE FLUBACKER LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO From the inside

OUT Tour guide Mary Houston demonstrating a prop candlestick.

By Magda Krance

Attending a performance at Lyric is a magnificent experience, similar in many ways to dining in an elegant restaurant. You get to enjoy the cumulative efforts of many individuals, seen and behind the scenes, whose particular talents and expertise come together to create a beautifully polished entertainment when the curtain rises or the lid is ceremoniously lifted. While it might be hard to score an invitation into a top chef’s kitchen to see where the magic is made, at Lyric we now open our kitchen doors, as it were, to public backstage tours a couple of times each month. For just $15, you can explore the inner workings of the Lyric in a small group of new acquaintances, friends, and/or family, with an expert docent engaging you in a lively Q&A while leading you from one discovery to the next. On designated dates throughout the year, guides and guests meet in the beautiful Rice Grand Foyer, spend a little time getting to know each other, then set off on their tours. Like Lyric audiences, tour-takers come from all over the region, the country, and the world. Some are area residents curious about a hometown attraction; some are in Chicago on vacation, on business, on job interviews, or as prospective students. Tours on a single morning recently included visitors from Mississippi, Peru, Pasadena, Dallas, Madison, Indianapolis, and South Korea, as well as the Chicago area. When you take a backstage tour at Lyric, the docents make sure everyone is part of the conversation, rather than simply delivering a walking monologue. Are you an opera aficionado? An architecture buff? Curious about the backstory of a building you may have come to for performances or walked past hundreds of times? A first-time visitor to Chicago? They ask questions and let the answers lead to revelatory gems of information about what you see as you stroll. (Be sure to wear comfortable footwear; casual attire is fine.) The docents are enthusiastic opera lovers who generally have long relationships with Lyric as subscribers, volunteers, and employees. They undergo rigorous training by Lyric Unlimited staff to become fonts of fascinating knowledge about the opera house and Lyric in particular, and opera in general.

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Jerry Goodman points out some details in the set of My Fair Lady.

From the starting point in the Art Deco-Art Nouveau splendor of the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Grand Foyer, with its stunning Austrian crystal chandeliers, beautifully stenciled ceiling, stately columns, and elegant brass rails and sconces, tours enter the magnificent 3,563-seat Ardis Krainik Theatre. Eyes widen and there are often audible gasps from those who have never crossed the threshold before. Countless clever decorative details can be spotted in both in the auditorium and in the foyer – comedy and tragedy masks, musical instruments, and the like – all underscoring the raison d’être of the space, which is the only opera house that is part of an office building. Tours proceed to the front row of the theater (curiously, the first row is B), to peek into the orchestra pit and gaze back at the sweep of the full auditorium, all the way up to the top row of the upper balcony, on the sixth floor. From here, the route varies. During the performance season, when work is generally being done onstage, touring visitors walk down temporary stairs into the orchestra pit and explore below Guide Joseph Rippin shows young visitors the costume storage area. the stage before heading into the backstage areas, scenery handling area, etc. In the off-season, the tour may exit, house left, through the door off Aisle 6 that leads to the stage via Peacock Alley, so named for the gowned, bejeweled, tuxedoed first-night VIPs of yore who would crowd the corridor on their way backstage to congratulate the diva and maestro after the final curtain. If the stage isn’t in use, tour-takers may briefly be allowed to walk where countless international opera stars have stood and delivered glorious arias and ensembles to packed houses. It’s a thrilling perspective, and a favorite spot for selfies, of course. The docents will urge an upwards glance to the top of the fly space, an astonishing 12 stories up – the highest in North America – before heading upstage to the huge roll-up doors that lead to the scenery-handling area, formerly the stage of the Civic Theatre. There you’ll see a seemingly jumbled but actually well-organized collage of scenery from up to three opera productions that may be in repertoire Guide Charlene Jacobsen (center) observes visitors having some fun with fake noses or rehearsal during the season. Depending on the show and whether in a display near the wig and makeup department. there’s a need for quick changes, makeshift dressing rooms may be set

16 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO up for chorus members or soloists in this area. Looking up reveals the skeleton of the old theater proscenium, and a gigantic second- floor sliding door, so scenery can be moved on a huge truck lift from stage level to the main rehearsal room. When the tour is actually backstage, visitors can see the principal artists’ dressing rooms before riding the supersized elevator that can transport a couple-dozen fully costumed chorus members, dancers, or supernumeraries on performance days. (Early on rehearsal and performance days, the jumbo elevator is used to get racks of wigs and costumes to the right dressing rooms.) Behind- the-scenes tour stops include peeks into the fourth-floor chorus dressing rooms and adjacent wig and makeup department, and a clever show-and-tell display case that allows tour-takers to examine and even try on fascinating examples of stagecraft transformation, such as yak hair (used for powdered wigs) and a fake nose. There’s also a stop in the 7th-floor wardrobe department to see up close the incredibly intricate construction of operatic costumes, and a traversal of the 6th-floor catwalk, with its vertigo-inducing view of the stage far below. The rails are chest-high and very sturdy, so you’re at no risk of falling. Photos aren’t allowed here – too risky for those working below. Tours then descend to the basement by elevator to see the orchestra lounge and instrument lockers, the massive mechanism for lifts and turntable under the stage, the entrance into the orchestra pit, and the tiny cubbyhole where the prompter sits under the stage out of sight of the audience, helping singers with cues and words as needed during performances. On the east side of this lower level there’s a curio cabinet with assorted props including a blood-squirting fake knife, a fake candle that can be blown out, stage food, chalices, and other nifty bits. There’s also an old-timey hand-cranked wind machine that takes a surprising amount of strength to crank. A few more questions and answers on the way back to street level and the front of the theater, where tour takers emerge, invigorated and enriched, into the daylight. Indianapolis resident Jamie Remien declared the tour experience “wonderful! So informative! You understand what’s going on onstage after going backstage. I’m glad we did this!” Yenny Hong, a South Korean voice-performance student at the University of Hartford-Connecticut, was visiting Chicago for the first time to celebrate her 21st birthday and see a friend at Roosevelt University. She was positively starry-eyed about the tour: “It was amazing! It’s my dream place, very interesting to explore.” Longtime Lyric patron Nancy Herman vividly recalls her tour experience: “Backstage tours are wonderful! It’s just absolutely eye opening and fascinating. Walking on the catwalk - my gosh! The wigs, all the clothes and shoes, the armory....It’s an entirely different world, it’s enormous, it’s fascinating. It makes you realize this whole busy beehive is back there working together to put it all together. It was great!” Says Christopher McCauley from Pasadena, “This is wonderful! The most extensive tour we’ve ever had.” Lyric’s tour guides justifiably beam and blush at such accolades. Claudia Winkler has given backstage tours at Lyric since 1995 because “I love opera. I’ve been a subscriber since 1974, so it makes perfect sense to give tours. Interacting with visitors is second nature From top: Tour guide Claudia Winkler starting a tour in the Rice Grand Foyer; on the catwalk, high above the stage; and near the wig and makeup department.

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and a lot of fun! Each year I’ve learned new things during training, others.” Banks was a music major at the American Conservatory of and from people I know who work at Lyric, so I keep adding that new Music in the Fine Arts Building, earned a master’s in English literature, information to the tours. It’s so much fun to show visitors what goes into and taught high school at Kenwood Academy for 30 years. “With my making an opera, and to point out that what they see and hear during teaching experience, I felt confident that I could conduct interesting our tours also applies to TV, to movies, and to theater productions. I tours for students as well as for adults. My experience has been very love hearing people say at the end of a tour that they had no idea how rewarding and mind-expanding. I hope those who take my tours feel the many people are involved and how much goes into creating an opera same way about their experience! I’ve had children ask me how much production. They leave with a very good understanding and appreciation tickets cost because they wanted to have their parent bring them to a real of the complexity of the process.” live opera performance. I’ve also had adults ask me whether the orchestra Kathleen Banks started giving tours at Lyric in 2010. “What pit was ever moved or deepened, and I found out it has. Someone even made me want to be a tour guide was the fact that I knew I could do asked where the marble floor of the Rice Grand Foyer was mined!” it and I cared about doing it. I wanted to become involved with an Charlene Jacobsen started attending Lyric performances in 1994 arts organization, and I thought Lyric would give me the best learning and started giving tours at Lyric in 2007. “Since I was a music teacher I have always been interested in opera but never had time to really pursue it, so I thought this would be a wonderful way to learn more about the inside of opera and also to introduce young people and adults to this form of music. Giving tours allows me to continue to teach and lead KYLE FLUBACKER both students and adults to this most intriguing and unique art form. Giving tours is fun! Meeting various people, revealing to them the inside of opera, helping them to understand this complicated, magical world of music, drama, art, costumes, design, dance and how they combine to be an opera. Opening up the world of opera to others is very exciting!”

Magda Krance is Lyric’s director of media relations. Prior to joining the company in 1992, she was a fulltime freelance journalist for The New York Tour guide Marilyn Barmash (left) in the wardrobe department. Times, Time, People, Chicago Tribune, and other publications. For more information on Lyric's backstage tours, visit lyricopera.org/backstagetours. experience to expand my own knowledge while doing the same for KYLE FLUBACKER

Tour guide Nina Maimonis in the Ardis Krainik Theatre and (below) in the scenery-handling area behind the stage. KYLE FLUBACKER

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO KAREN ALMOND/THE DALLAS OPERA

Giacomo Puccini

Turandot

Lyric Opera presentation generously made possible by:

ROBERT S. AND SUSAN E. MORRISON

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Turandot Synopsis

ACT TWO Turandot may strike in her desperation to Scene 1. Ping, Pang, and Pong prepare learn the stranger’s name. TIME: Legendary antiquity for what may be a wedding or a funeral, City guards drag in Timur and Liù, depending on Calaf’s success or failure. Life whom they apprehended near the city walls. PLACE: Beijing was always smooth in China, they reflect, The crowd gathers before Turandot suddenly until the birth of Turandot. Since then, appears. She orders Timur to speak, and the many unlucky suitors have lost their lives. guards are about to torture him when Liù Each minister longs to leave Beijing and declares that she alone knows the prince’s ACT ONE enjoy a quieter existence. They ruminate on name and that she will keep it a secret. The people of Beijing hear a mandarin recite how wonderful it would be if love finally When Turandot orders that she be tortured, ’s decree: she will marry conquered Turandot. All three depart, since the guards twist her arms as Ping repeatedly only the nobleman who can correctly answer the ceremony of the riddles is about to begin. demands the name, but she refuses to reveal three riddles. All who fail will be executed. it. When Turandot asks what gives her such The latest unsuccessful candidate, the Prince Scene 2. The crowd cheers the arrival of the strength, Liù answers that it is love. Before of Persia, will die this very day when the moon ministers and wise men. When Calaf appears, dawn, she says, her eyes will close forever and rises. It is now evening, and the excited crowd he is addressed by Turandot’s father, Emperor Turandot will love the prince. Seizing a dagger is eager to wake Pu-Tin-Pao, the executioner. Altoum, who cannot persuade the prince from a soldier, Liù stabs herself and falls Many people are nearly trampled, including to abandon his desire to win Turandot. The lifeless. The stunned crowd carries her body Timur, the exiled king of Tartary. A young mandarin again summarizes the law regarding away, accompanied by the heartbroken Timur, man rushes to him – his son, Calaf, who Turandot’s marriage. When she finally and leaving Turandot alone with Calaf. embraces the old man joyfully. Timur explains appears, she reveals that she cannot forget Furious at her coldness, the prince that Liù, the slave who is accompanying the story of her ancestor, Princess Lo-u-Ling: tears away the veil covering Turandot’s face. him, has been his guide and support. When many years before, a conqueror of China Ignoring her insistence that he not touch her, Calaf asks why she chose to share his father’s dragged Lo-u-Ling from the palace and killed he kisses her passionately. Overwhelmed by suffering, Liù answers that it’s because the her. Turandot now will not let herself to be new feelings, Turandot confesses that she is prince once smiled at her. possessed by any man. weeping her first tears. She begs the prince to Pu-Tin-Pao’s assistants prepare for the The princess poses her three riddles, and leave her, taking his mystery with him, but execution, and children lead in the procession. each time Calaf answers correctly. When the he declares that he will now give her both his When the crowd sees the Prince of Persia, its crowd hears the third answer, it bursts with name and his life: he is Calaf, son of Timur. scorn turns to pity. When Turandot appears, joy. Turandot implores her father not to yield The ecstatic Turandot commands that he her beauty dazzles Calaf. Once she signals her to the unknown prince, but Altoum appear before the people with her. to proceed with the execution, the Prince of insists that the law is sacred. Calaf now offers Persia is heard crying her name, but his voice the princess a bargain: If Turandot can learn Scene 2. Before her father and the people of cuts off: the execution has taken place. his name before dawn, he will release her and Beijing, Turandot declares that she now knows Despite the gruesome scene, Calaf is give up his life. If she is unsuccessful, she will the stranger’s name: “His name is Love!” Calaf now obsessed with Turandot. He is about to have no choice but to belong to him. ascends the staircase to embrace Turandot as strike the – the signal that a new suitor the crowd joyfully sings love’s praises. is ready to meet his fate – when Ping, Pang, ACT THREE and Pong confront him. These three ministers Scene 1. Turandot’s heralds proclaim that urge Calaf to return to his own country. no one may sleep that night; the unknown TURANDOT Turandot’s handmaidens insist on silence, stranger’s name must be revealed by morning. Approximate Timings since she is sleeping. Alone in the palace garden, the prince ACT ONE: 30 minutes Timur and Liù plead with Calaf to turn repeats, “No one may sleep” and looks Intermission: 25 minutes away from this dangerous passion. The prince forward to the dawn, when Turandot will be ACT TWO: 45 minutes begs Liù to remain with his father, no matter his. The ministers offer him beautiful women, Intermission: 25 minutes what happens. Ignoring everyone’s protests, sparkling gems, and fabulous adventures, if Calaf strikes the gong. he will leave Beijing. They are concerned for ACT THREE: 45 minutes their own lives, since no one knows where Total: 2 hours and 50 minutes

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• Production owned by Lyric Opera New-to-Chicago Production of Chicago, originally created by Bliss Hebert and Allen Charles Klein Giacomo Puccini for Florida Grand Opera, The Dallas Opera, , TURANDOT and . Opera in three acts in Italian Libretto by G. Adami and R. Simoni, • Additional scenery constructed by after the dramatic fairy tale by Ravenswood Studios, Inc. First performed at the Teatro alla Scala, , on April 25, 1926 First performed by Lyric Opera on October 18, 1958

• Additional costumes provided by Characters in order of vocal appearance: Seams Unlimited, Costume Gallery – Newport, LLC, and Ingrid Helton. A Mandarin PATRICK GUETTI o Timur ANDREA SILVESTRELLI Calaf STEFANO LA COLLA* • By arrangement with Hendon Music, Liù MARIA AGRESTA* (December dates) Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, JANAI BRUGGER* (January dates) sole agent in the U.S., Canada and Prince of Persia GEOFFREY AGPALO Mexico for Casa Ricordi-BMG Ricordi S.p.A., Milan, , a BMG Ping ZACHARY NELSON oo Editions company, publisher and Pang RODELL ROSEL copyright owner. Pong KEITH JAMESON Turandot’s Handmaidens DESIRÉE HASSLER STEPHANIE SCHOENHOFER* • The yricL Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Emperor Altoum JOSH LOVELL*o are generously sponsored by The Turandot AMBER WAGNER oo Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family, The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Actors: JACK DECESARE, KAI YOUNG Family, and The John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Foundation. CHICAGO CHILDREN’S

Conductor SIR ANDREW DAVIS • Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges the support of the Mary Patricia Gannon ROBERT TWETEN (January 27) Puccini Endowed Chair. Director ROB KEARLEY Production Designer ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN* Lighting Designer CHRIS MARAVICH • Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK the support of the NIB Foundation Children’s Chorus Master JOSEPHINE LEE Italian Opera Endowed Chair. Movement Director AUGUST TYE Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Assistant Stage Director DAVID TOULSON • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN its Official Airline, American Airlines. Stage Band Conductor ROBERT TWETEN Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM MATTHEW PIATT • Projected English titles © 1992 by ooo Francis Rizzo. STEFANO SARZANI* Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Fight Director CHUCK COYL • This season’s projected English titles Projected English Titles FRANCIS RIZZO are funded in part by a generous grant from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. * Lyric debut ° Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Deutsch Foundation. °° Alumna/Alumnus, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °°° Solti Fellow

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AMBER WAGNER STEFANO she sang in . Since (Turandot) LA COLLA then, she has been invited to prestigious Previously at Lyric: (Calaf) venues worldwide, such as Covent Garden, Eight roles since Lyric debut the Opéra National de , and Carnegie 2007/08, most recently Hall. Career highlights include (Tel Elisabeth/Tannhäuser, The celebrated Italian Aviv, Zurich, Paris), Lucrezia/I due Foscari Leonora/ tenor has triumphed (Covent Garden), Marguerite (Salzburg (both 2014/15); Title previously as Puccini’s Festival), Mimì (Covent Garden, , role/ (2011/12). Calaf in major European theaters such Met, , ), the title role/ as , ’s Teatro San Carlo, Donizetti’s Gemma di Vergy (Bergamo), Acknowledged internationally as possessing Munich’s , the Leonora/Il trovatore (Covent Garden, La one of the most remarkable voices of her , and the Vienna Scala, , Salerno), and Donna generation, the American , a Ryan State Opera. Important highlights of the Elvira/ (La Scala), where her Opera Center alumna, successfully debuted current season include Cavaradossi/Tosca performance was especially praised. Her the role of Turandot earlier this season (’s Teatro dell’Opera), Pollione/Norma career has also encompassed performances at Vancouver Opera. Other highlights in (Oper ), and Ismaele/ (La at Spoleto’s Festival of Two Worlds, the 2017/18 include her debut in the title role/ Scala). Cavaradossi has become a signature Opéra National de Lorraine, and Macerata’s (Opera Australia) and a reprise of Senta/ role, with successes in Toulon, St. Gallen, Sferisterio Opera Festival, among many The Flying Dutchman (Rome’s Accademia Naples, Berlin, and Pisa. Other important other venues. On CD Agresta sings sacred di Santa Cecilia, Turin’s National RAI career achievements include such starring music of Verdi with Symphony Orchestra). Last season Wagner roles as Radames/Aida (San Carlo Opera conducting, and she can be seen on DVD in triumphed as Senta at the Metropolitan Festival, , Macerata’s Arena , Gemma di Vergy, Faust, and I due Opera, where she previously starred as Sferisterio), Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly Foscari. Amelia/. Other (Deutsche Oper Berlin, ), successes include Senta and Elsa/ Rodrigue/Le Cid (St. Gallen Festival), JANAI BRUGGER (Savonlinna Festival), Sieglinde/Die Walküre Turiddu/ (’s (Liù – January dates) (Opera Australia, , DVD), the Semperoper, La Scala), and both Turiddu Lyric debut title role/Ariadne auf Naxos (Bavarian State and Canio/Pagliacci (Opéra National du Opera, Opéra National de Lorraine, Théâtre Rhin). La Colla is the 2002 winner of the A Chicago native, des Champs-Elysées, Minnesota Opera, High Accreditation Academy of the Puccini the soprano has Palm Beach Opera), and Leonora/La forza Repertory of Torre del Lago and 2006 portrayed Liù at the del destino (Washington National Opera). winner of the International Competition Metropolitan Opera Wagner has sung Verdi’s with the Ismaele Voltonlini of Buscoldo. Concerts and Hawaii Opera Theatre. The current Melbourne Symphony under Sir Andrew have brought him to Wigmore Hall in season finds Brugger singing three Mozart Davis and with the Taipei Symphony, Pacific , Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, and roles: Pamina/The Magic in her return Chorale, Kansas City Symphony, Tucson the prestigious Goldene Deutschland gala in to Covent Garden, Susanna/The Marriage of Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and Grant Munich, among other venues. An alumnus Figaro at Palm Beach Opera, and Servilia/ Park Music Festival. She has also appeared of the Conservatorio in at the Dutch National in Lyric’s Millennium Park concerts and the Livorno, the tenor studied under soprano Opera in Amsterdam. She earned acclaim in Met’s summer concert series in New York’s Luciana Serra and later under Carlo three roles at the Met last season: Pamina, Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Meliciani. Jemmy/Guillaume Tell (new production), The soprano is a winner of the Metropolitan and Micaëla/. As a member of the Opera National Council Audition Grand MARIA AGRESTA Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program, Finals, the Liederkranz Foundation (Liù – Dec. dates) Brugger’s LA Opera appearances include Competition, and the Palm Springs Opera Lyric debut Barbarina/ under Guild Competition. the baton of Plácido Domingo, Page/ Acclaimed as one of Rigoletto with James Conlon, and Musetta/ the most remarkable La bohème with Patrick Summers. Career Italian singers of highlights include her performances as her generation, the Pamina (U. K. debut at Covent Garden, LA soprano has been heard as Liù at La Scala, Opera), Helena/The Enchanted Island(Met), the Verona Arena, and earlier this season at Micaëla (Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera. Later this season Lyric Opera of Kansas City), Norina/Don Agresta returns to the Met and Deutsche Pasquale (Palm Beach Opera), and the High Oper Berlin as Leonora/Il trovatore and to Priestess/Aida (Hollywood Bowl with Los the Zurich Opera House as . Angeles Philharmonic). Brugger appears Her breakthrough came in 2011, when frequently in concert and in recital. She sang

24 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO at the Peter Dvorsky Festival in the Czech ZACHARY and Goro/Madama Butterfly Republic; with the Cincinnati Symphony NELSON (Ping) at , while also returning to LA Orchestra; at Ravinia with the Chicago Previously at Lyric: Opera as the First Jew/ and Spalanzani/ Symphony Orchestra; at the Grant Park Donner/Das Rheingold Les contes d’Hoffmann. Recent successes Festival’s Fourth of July performance; and (2016/17). include singing his first Don José/Carmen with the in their (Los Angeles County’s Center Stage Opera), 2013 gala concert performance. This season the creating the role of Anthony Candolino/Jake American baritone Heggie’s Great Scott (The Dallas Opera), and ANDREA reprises his portrayal Mime/Siegfried (Houston Grand Opera). SILVESTRELLI of the title role/The Marriage of Figaroat Other highlights include performances at the (Timur) Dresden’s Semperoper and Belcore/L’elisir Metropolitan Opera (Les contes d’Hoffmann, Previously at Lyric: d’amore at Pittsburgh Opera. Last season, Der Rosenkavalier), LA Opera (The Magic Twelve roles since Nelson was heard as Enrico Ashton/Lucia Flute, Tosca, ), The 2000/01, most recently di Lammermoor (The Santa Fe Opera) and (Ong Chi Seng/’s , Nourabad/The Pearl Escamillo/Carmen (Den Norske Opera, world premiere), Pittsburgh Opera (Madama Fishers (2017/18); ), the latter a role he previously sang Butterfly), Wolf Trap Opera Company (John Oroveso/Norma (2016/17); Ferrando/Il at San Francisco Opera and Palm Beach Musto’s Volpone, nominated for a Grammy trovatore (2014/15). Opera. He has portrayed both Escamillo on CD), Florentine Opera (title role/Albert and Masetto/Don Giovanni (company Herring), the Cleveland Orchestra (Salome), The Italian , who has made a specialty of debut) at Toronto’s Canadian Opera and Ravinia (The Marriage of Figaro, The German repertoire in recent years, recently Company. In 2013/14 Nelson joined the Magic Flute, ). A Metropolitan performed in the Ring cycle, marking his permanent ensemble of the Semperoper, Opera National Council Auditions Grand return to the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, where he portrayed Paolo/, Prize winner, Rosel has received awards from (his fourth Ring with the company). He Guglielmo, Belcore, and Marcello. Last the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition will be heard as both Fasolt and Hagen in season he returned to Dresden as the Figaros and the Lotte Lenya Vocal Competition. San Francisco Opera’s Ring later this season. of Rossini and Mozart. His portrayal of Silvestrelli is a favorite at these venues, Mozart’s Figaro has been heard with the Aix- KEITH JAMESON having also portrayed King Marke/Tristan en-Provence Festival on tour in Manama, (Pong) und Isolde and King Henry/Lohengrin in Erl, Bahrain; and at The Santa Fe Opera, where Previously at Lyric: and the Nightwatchman/Die Meistersinger he has also sung Malatesta/. Seven roles since von Nürnberg, Wurm/Luisa Miller, Pistola/ Successes in other roles include appearances 2007/08, most recently Falstaff, the Grand Inquisitor/Don Carlo, with the Music Academy Opera Triquet/ Eugene Don Basilio/The Barber of , and Project in (Falke/) and Onegin (2016/17); Sparafucile/Rigoletto in San Francisco. Washington Concert Opera (Duke Robert/ Basilio/The Marriage The bass’s achievements in Wagner and Strauss’s Guntram). The Maryland native of Figaro (2015/16); Monsieur Taupe/ Verdi are mirrored by his successes in was awarded first place in the 2012 Licia Capriccio (2014/15). Mozart, including performances as the Albanese, George London, and Liederkranz Commendatore/Don Giovanni (Lyric, La Competitions as well as the 2011 Opera This season the tenor, a South Carolina native, Scala, London, Bologna, Parma, Paris, Los Index Vocal Competition. reprises his portrayal of Flute/A Midsummer Angeles, among many other companies), Night’s Dream (Palermo’s Teatro Massimo) Sarastro (Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Santa RODELL and A Novice/ (Rome’s Teatro Fe), and Osmin (Lyric, San Francisco, ROSEL (Pang) dell’Opera). He recently earned acclaim as Houston, Munich). Silvestrelli has recorded Previously at Lyric: Sancho Panza/Man of La Mancha at Utah Donizetti’s rarely heard Adelia (CD, Haydn 22 roles since 2005/06, Opera and Don Basilio/The Marriage of Orchestra), as well as Don Carlo (CD, La most recently Figaro at Washington National Opera. In the Scala Orchestra, conducting) Monostatos/The 2015/16 season Jameson created the role of and Rigoletto (DVD, Toscanini Foundation Magic Flute, Mime/ Yab the Elf/Mark Adamo’s Becoming Santa Orchestra). Among his previous successes in Das Rheingold (both Claus at The Dallas Opera and made his concert have been Verdi’s Requiem (Siena, 2016/17); Valzacchi/Der Rosenkavalier Houston Grand Opera debut as Basilio/The Sydney, Munich), Rossini’s Stabat (2015/16). Marriage of Figaro, previously a success for Mater (Berlin), Mahler’s Symphony No. him at Lyric and The Santa Fe Opera. Other 8 (Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw), and A Ryan Opera Center alumnus, the Filipino- recent portrayals include the Gamekeeper/ Puccini’s Messa di Gloria (). American tenor was heard earlier this season (Houston) and Sellem/The Rake’s as the Dancing Master/Ariadne auf Naxos Progress (Pittsburgh). Santa Fe appearances (Kentucky Opera) and will later portray include featured roles in Falstaff, Billy Njegus/The Merry Widow (Florentine Budd, Madama Butterfly, and two world Opera). Last season he reprised Monostatos/ premieres, Paul Moravec’s The Letter and

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Lewis Spratlan’s . Jameson PATRICK GUETTI 85 city schools and ten neighborhoods, an has also starred as Bernstein’s Candide at (A Mandarin) ensemble for young male voices, and the Florence’s Maggio Musicale. He has Previously at Lyric: world-renowned Voice of Chicago. Under recorded Haydn’s Creation and Lord Nelson Four roles since president and artistic director Josephine Mass (both with Boston Baroque), and he 2016/17, most Lee, Chicago Children’s Choir has can be seen on Met DVDs of Carmen under recently Zuniga/ undertaken many highly successful national Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Falstaff under Carmen, Zaretsky/ and international tours, has been featured . Eugene Onegin, in national broadcasts, including NBC’s Second Armored Man/The Magic Flute (all Today, Oprah, and the PBS series From JOSH LOVELL 2016/17). the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall, and was (Emperor Altoum) featured in the Chicago/ Midwest Emmy- Lyric debut The third-year Ryan Opera Center bass, a winning documentary Songs on the Road to native of Highland Park, New Jersey, made Freedom (2008). CCC regularly collaborates The Canadian tenor, a his European debut in 2016 at Glyndebourne with major Chicago musical organizations. first-year Ryan Opera Festival Opera (Die Meistersinger von It has performed throughout the world and Center member, was a Nürnberg), followed by his Los Angeles for many dignitaries, from Bill and Hillary 2017 national semi- Philharmonic debut (Tosca, Gustavo Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama to finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Dudamel conducting). Highlights of recent Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. CCC Council Auditions. He made his Canadian seasons include debuts at The Dallas Opera has also collaborated onstage with such operatic debut in 2013 with Pacific Opera (Fifth Jew/Salome) and Opera Philadelphia celebrities as Chance the Rapper, Luciano Victoria as Bardolfo/Falstaff, subsequently (José Tripaldi/Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar), Pavarotti, Beyonce Knowles, Yo-Yo Ma, and returning as Normanno/Lucia di as well as Guetti’s return to The Santa Fe Celine Dion, among many others. Among Lammermoor. Recent performance credits Opera for a second consecutive year as an CCC’s recordings are We All Live Here include Handel’s Messiah (Victoria apprentice artist (Carmen, Fidelio, Dr. Sun (2016), Holiday Harmony (2010), Songs Symphony, Toledo Symphony Orchestra), Yat-Sen – world premiere, The Impresario/Le on the Road to Freedom (2008), Sita Ram Bach’s St. John Passion (Victoria Baroque Rossignol). The bass is an alumnus of Catholic (2006) and Open Up Your Heart (2004). Players), Mozart’s Requiem (Detroit University of America and Philadelphia’s Symphony Youth Orchestra), Mozart’s Academy of Vocal Arts. At AVA his roles SIR ANDREW Coronation Mass and Vesperae solennes de included Don Quichotte, Prince Gremin and DAVIS (Conductor) confessore (Capriccio Vocal Ensemble), Bach’s Zaretsky/Eugene Onegin, Don Basilio/The Previously at Lyric: Mass in B minor (The Handel Society of Barber of Seville, Tom/Un ballo in maschera, 56 operas since 1987, Music), and Handel’s Jephtha (Oakland and Arkel/Pelléas et Mélisande. Honors and most recently The Pearl Choral Society). An alumnus of the awards include first place in the 2015 Gerda Fishers, Die Walküre University of Victoria (bachelor’s degree) Lissner Foundation Competition, grand prize (both 2017/18); Don and the University of Michigan at Ann in the 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Quichotte (2016/17). Arbor (master’s degree, performances as Council Auditions, a 2014 Sara Tucker Study Rinuccio/, Ferrando/Così fan Grant, the Audience Favorite Award at the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s internationally tutte, and Lysander/A Midsummer Night’s 2013 Giargiari Bel Canto Competition, and renowned music director returned last Dream), he recently portrayed Bao Yu/Bright first prize in the Premio “Verdi” competition. summer to the Melbourne Symphony Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber in a Patrick Guetti is sponsored by The C. G. Orchestra (of which he is chief conductor), workshop performance of the work, newly Pinnell Family. the BBC Symphony Orchestra (at the BBC commissioned by San Francisco Opera. In Proms), and the International addition to numerous vocal programs across CHICAGO Festival (Die Walküre with the Scottish Canada, Lovell has participated in San CHILDREN’S Chamber Orchestra, Elgar’s King Olaf Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program CHOIR with the Philharmonia Orchestra). Recent and is past recipient of the Johann Strauss Previously at Lyric: appearances have also included concerts with Foundation Scholarship. Josh Lovell is Six operas since 2000- the Detroit, Frankfurt Radio, Toronto, and sponsored by Maurice J. and Patricia Frank. 01, most recently Royal Liverpool symphony orchestras. Former Carmen (2016/17); music director of Glyndebourne Festival Wozzeck (2015/16); Opera, Davis is also conductor laureate Tosca (2014/15). of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (which he is Founded as a single choir in Hyde Park at currently serving as interim artistic director). the height of the civil rights movement in Operatic successes include productions at 1956, today Chicago Children’s Choir serves many major international companies, from 4,600 youth representing all 57 Chicago zip the Metropolitan, Covent Garden, and codes. The CCC encompasses programs in La Scala to the and the

26 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO leading houses of San Francisco, Munich, and ROB KEARLEY Scottish Opera, and Glyndebourne Festival Santa Fe. Davis has appeared with virtually (Director) Opera, among many other companies. every internationally prominent orchestra, Lyric directorial Premiered at The Dallas Opera and seen including those of Chicago, New York, debut nationwide, Klein’s Turandot production was London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. Previously at Lyric: originally directed by his frequent colleague A vast discography documents his artistry, Associate director/Die Bliss Hebert, with whom he collaborated with recent releases including programs of Walküre (2017/18), recently for Cincinnati Opera’s Aida and Berlioz and Ives, as well as Handel’s Messiah in Das Rheingold with whom he will return to that company Davis’s new orchestration. Sir Andrew Davis (2016/17), The Passenger (2014/15). later this season for . Klein’s sets is the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols and costumes were seen at Pittsburgh Opera Endowed Chair. The British director returned to the U. S. in (2014) and Carmen (2015). last season for his San Francisco Opera debut ROBERT TWETEN (Rigoletto). He has worked with companies CHRIS MARAVICH (Conductor – Jan. 27) across Europe and North America including (Lighting Designer) Previously at Lyric: English National Opera, Canadian Opera Previously at Lyric: The Magic Flute Company, Opera North, Opéra de Lyon, Six productions (student matinees, Prague State Opera, Prague National since 2014/15, most 2001/02). Theatre, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, and the recently Rigoletto, Bregenz Festival. Kearley has collaborated Orphée et Eurydice The Canadian with numerous renowned directors, among (both 2017/18); Don conductor has led productions throughout them David Pountney, Christopher Alden, Quichotte (2016/17). the U. S. and Canada, and has performed as a Tim Albery, Robert Carsen, Chen Shi- collaborative pianist with many of today’s most Zheng, and Yoshi Oida, among others. Currently Lyric’s lighting director, Maravich prominent singers. Associated with The Santa Recent engagements include Portraits de served in the same position from 2006 to Fe Opera for 27 seasons, Tweten currently Manon at the Wexford Festival; revivals 2012 at San Francisco Opera, where he serves as the company’s head of music staff. of The Passengerfor Florida Grand Opera, has created lighting for many productions Operas conducted during his tenure include Michigan Opera Theatre, and Houston including The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, ’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs Grand Opera; directing at the Europa Così fan tutte, Turandot, Cyrano de Bergerac, (world-premiere production, 2017), as well as Cantat Festival in Turin; Judith Weir’s Miss Il trittico, Tosca, Simon Boccanegra, Don Ermione, Katya Kabanova, Don Giovanni, The Fortune at House, Covent Giovanni, Nixon in China, and . He Marriage of Figaro, and The Pirates of Penzance. Garden; working with the Opéra Comique has collaborated on the lighting designs Tweten has conducted extensively in Canada, in Paris; Faust (new production) and Death for at Staatsoper Stuttgart, including Vancouver Opera (Tosca, The in for Opera North; The Magic Flute Tannhäuser for the Greek National Opera, Barber of Seville), Edmonton Opera (Lucia for the Bregenz Festival; and for and La fanciulla del West, The Makropulos di Lammermoor, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Opéra de Lyon. Case, The Daughter of the Regiment, Il Fidelio), Canadian Opera Company (Haydn’s trovatore, Samson et Dalila, and L’isola disabitata), and Calgary Opera (Otello, ALLEN CHARLES for San Francisco Opera. Maravich has also The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, KLEIN designed lighting for , San Pagliacci/Gianni Schicchi, The Barber of (Production Designer) Diego Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Lyric Seville, L’italiana in Algeri). In addition, he Lyric debut Opera of Kansas City, Florida Grand Opera, has led performances at Sarasota Opera, Madison Opera, Cal Performances and Dayton Opera, , Austin Lyric The celebrated Opera San Jose. Opera, Opera Birmingham and Madison American designer, Opera. He has also served for many seasons as whose career spans MICHAEL BLACK an assistant conductor at Lyric. This season's more than half a century, has created sets (Chorus Master) engagements include and/or costumes for productions across Chorus master since (Kentucky Opera), as well as a return to Utah America and in many major European 2013/14; interim Opera (La bohème, his eleventh opera with the houses. Among his most important credits chorus master, company since 2005). Tweten recently joined are Les contes d’Hoffmann, starring Plácido 2011/12. the faculty of the New England Conservatory Domingo and Joan Sutherland, at the as music director of opera. Metropolitan Opera; The Marriage of Figaro Chorus master from to at The Santa Fe Opera, featuring the U.S. 2001 to 2013 at Opera Australia in Sydney, debut of ; the world premiere during his tenure Black prepared the OA of Thomas Pasatieri’s The Seagull at Houston chorus for more than 90 operas and many Grand Opera; and productions for the concert works. He has served in this capacity , the Deutsche Oper for such distinguished organizations as the Berlin, La Scala, Venice’s Teatro , Edinburgh International Festival, Opera

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Holland Park (London), and, in Australia, and young vocal artists from a wide array SARAH HATTEN the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (including of communities within and surrounding (Wigmaster and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, led by Vladimir Chicago, exemplifying the highest level Makeup Designer) Ashkenazy), the Philharmonia Choir, Motet of choral singing with an emphasis on Wigmaster and Choir, and Cantillation chamber choir. excellence and diversity. Vocality debuted makeup designer since Black has also worked with the Melbourne in 2015 at Ravinia Festival in Porgy and Bess 2011/12. Symphony Orchestra in Australia with Sir with the CSO. Lee was recently featured Andrew Davis. His recent activities include in “The Transformative Power of Music,” Lyric’s wigmaster preparing the Damnation of Faust chorus, a segment on Oprah Winfrey Network’s and makeup designer has worked in a wide continuing his association with Grant Park show, Super Soul Sunday. repertoire at Des Moines Metro Opera Music Festival, where he has worked for two and Michigan Opera Theatre, as well as seasons. As one of Australia’s most prominent AUGUST TYE Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the vocal accompanists, Black has regularly (Movement Director) Cabrillo Music Festival, and the University of performed for broadcasts and recordings (he Previously at Lyric: Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. has been heard numerous times in Australian 37 productions since She has also worked at the Glimmerglass Broadcast Corporation programs). He has 1993/94 as dancer, Festival and the major opera companies of served as chorus master on four continents, choreographer, or Los Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and his work has been recorded and/or aired ballet mistress, most and Central City, as well as Wisconsin’s on ABC, BBC, PBS, and for many HD recently The Pearl American Players Theatre and, in Los productions in movie theaters as well as on Fishers, Orphée et Eurydice (both 2017/18); Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Geffen television. He has also been a lecturer at the (2016/17). Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A. in music at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, of which Simpson College. Sarah Hatten is the Marlys he is an alumnus. Black holds a master’s The American dancer-choreographer’s Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer degree in musicology from the University operatic credits include remounting the Endowed Chair. of New South Wales. Michael Black is choreography of Lyric’s Iphigénie en Tauride the Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master (San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden) and Endowed Chair. Salome (Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, Supernumeraries Japan). Tye has choreographed for Chicago Turandot JOSEPHINE LEE Folks Operetta and will choreograph her (Children’s Chorus second production at DePaul University, Boys Master) The Merry Widow, in March. She is currently Dane Bialas Previously at Lyric: finishing a two-year training program with Stephen Bialas Seven operas since the Royal Academy of Dance, London, to Joel Scribner David Yurick 2000/01, most recently become a registered teacher of the RAD. Carmen (2016/17); Tye teaches ballet exclusively at the Hyde Men Wozzeck (2015/16); Park School of Dance, which she founded Phillip Christian Tosca (2014/15). in 1993. She is a past recipient of Regional James Edward Dauphin Dance America’s Best Young Choreographer Bill DuBois The president and artistic director of Award and a two-time recipient of the James Fazzini Chicago Children’s Choir has revolutionized Monticello Young Choreographer’s Award. Kenneth Giambrone youth choral music through cutting-edge In addition to Lyric and Joel Hall Dancers, Henry (Hank) Mandziara performances of diverse repertoire and Tye has performed in Chicago with Salt David McClintock innovative collaborations with worldclass Creek Ballet and Second City Ballet. In 1997 Frank Novak artists. Her vision and leadership have she founded Tyego Dance Project, which has Mike Ortyl Reuben Rios established CCC as one of the city’s premier performed at Steppenwolf, the Athenaeum, Alexander Trice and throughout America in a revival of Spike cultural institutions, solidifying partnerships Christopher Vaughn with Lyric, the Chicago Symphony Jones’s Nutcracker. Theo Vlahopoulos Orchestra, and Ravinia. Recent projects Irvin (Ham) Wagner include a revival of the original world musical Sita Ram at the Harris Theater with David Women Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre and Natya Phoenix Alazam Dance Theatre, as well as the development Genevieve Essig of a fully staged theatrical work with the Q Hillary Gokenbach Brothers. The Chicago native has led tours Jenny Hale nationally and internationally to 20 countries Amy Lynn Nicholson Caroline Wattelle since 1999. In 2015 she founded Vocality, Lucy Zukaitis a festival chorus comprising CCC alumni

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Turandot: Modernity, Orientalism, and Love By Susan Halpern

“I wanted something human, and when the

METROPOLITAN OPERA ARCHIVES OPERA METROPOLITAN heart speaks, whether in China or Holland, it says only one thing, and the outcome is the same for everyone….” — Giacomo Puccini, 1924

(Left) Birgit Nilsson, Lyric’s first Turandot in 1958, returned in 1970 to sing the role in the same production in which she previously starred at the Metropolitan Opera. She is pictured wearing that production’s costume, designed by Cecil Beaton. (Right) Turandot in Carlo Gozzi’s play, depicted by Austrian artist Arthur von Ramberg in an engraving dating from 1859.

uccini’s final opera, Turandot, written story for opera: his teacher, Antonio Joseph Liù’s funeral procession, many critics would between 1920 and 1924, was widely Bazzini, wrote Turanda (1867) and Ferruccio claim, Puccini remained true to himself, that is, considered a success, and yet most found Busoni Turandot (1917). Puccini, who hadn’t to his pre-Turandot self. Pits eponymous heroine truly enigmatic. In the heard Busoni’s opera, instructed his librettists, Perhaps the biggest question the opera intervening century, we’ve struggled to make Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, “Put raises is whether Turandot, silent until Act sense of Turandot and the opera, and Puccini’s all your strength into [the libretto], all the Two, can be seen as emblematic of Puccini’s intentions. Turandot isn’t romantic and doesn’t resources of your heads and hearts, and create intentions for the meaning of the opera as a follow the verismo tradition, with its emphasis for me something which will make the world whole. With her coldness and rigid appearance, on realistic stories about ordinary people who weep. They say that emotionalism is a sign of what cultural values does she represent? Are love each other with supreme passion. Instead, weakness, but I like to be weak! To the strong, we meant to have compassion for her? What the opera seems to make assumptions that we, so-called, I leave the triumphs that fade; for is Puccini saying about the apparent decline in the 21st century, find shocking and culturally us, those that endure.” That statement seems of the human in the Machine Age? Was he insensitive. Dualities seem to underpin the surprising indeed, considering what the opera making a deliberate, if tentative, move towards tale, and its message seems elusive. Did Puccini and its heroine turned out to be. updating his operatic style, exploring the ways favor one of his protagonists? Or did he die Following Puccini’s death, the much- in which opera might connect with modernist before he could decide how to complete this anticipated premiere of Turandot took place preoccupations evident in the other arts? perplexing work? Understanding Puccini’s at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on April 25, 1926. Turandot’s malice didn’t disturb the worldview may help unpack issues of cultural The opera had been completed by Franco critics, but her mechanical nature did. Puccini stereotypes, orientalism, and misogyny, which Alfano, whom the Ricordi publishing house didn’t intend us to empathize with her, making seem embedded in the work. and conductor Arturo Toscanini commissioned her the antithesis of what Italian operagoers Turandot finds its source in Venetian to create the ending by shaping the extensive expected. Identification with the characters dramatist Carlo Gozzi’s play, Turandotte sketches Puccini had left. On opening night, had always been Italian opera’s goal, what (1762), itself taken from a Persian story in Les however, after the death of Liù, Toscanini faced audiences desired. Puccini said he planned “a Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix the audience and announced, “At this point the Turandot filtered through the modern mind”; (1721). Puccini was not the first to utilize the Master laid down his pen.” In his final music, he intended her as a fitting emblem of her time.

30 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 In crafting her, Puccini drew on futurism, an avant-garde artistic and social movement founded in Milan in 1909, glorifying modernity and emphasizing technology over humanity. Turandot can be understood as fitting within the context of futurist Italian theater development. In the early 1920s, to be “mechanical” was to be modern, if inhuman. Inspired by the marionette- like figures ofcommedia dell’arte, puppets – literal and metaphorical – inhabited the stage; puppets, robots, and masked figures became avant-garde emblems. Futurist theater’s machine-like characters had a mechanistic style of declamation without human emotion. In futurism, war and patriotism became linked themes. Michael Steinberg theorized, “The delivery of opera to spectacle is also its delivery to fascism, to its aesthetic of power through spectacle.” In Gozzi’s Turandotte, the crowds contained slave-women, eunuchs, soldiers, and priests; Puccini’s crowds were homeless Chinese needing leadership and direction, and The most famous image related to the early years could be analogized to post-World- of Turandot – the cover of the score printed by War-I Italians awaiting a leader like Ricordi, Puccini's publisher. Mussolini. Puccini believed Italy needed Mussolini’s “Signore ascolta”), provided the lyricism firm hand. Turandot seems to reinforce what listeners craved. Why must Liù die? Puccini’s fascists considered “deviant” women; “deviants” librettists created this self-sacrificial heroine were femmes fatales or working women who especially for him. Undoubtedly, the warm challenged men by disobeying their husbands Liù represents Puccini’s past strengths, while and remaining childless. Puccini described cruel, mechanical Turandot points to a colder Turandot as a “tiny viperous woman” (“donnina future. The contrast between Liù and Turandot viperina”) with the heart of a hysteric (“un artistically replicates the tension between cuore strano di isterica.”) The librettists gave traditionalism and modernism in the early her pride (“orgoglio”), a domineering attitude, twentieth century. Symbolically, must Liù die an arrogant gaze, and imperious gestures, but so that beauty will not haunt the living? the dramatic change that Turandot brought to Gozzi’s play presented Turandot as purely Puccini’s operatic style troubled audiences and malicious. Puccini retained essential parts of critics because it represented a retreat from Gozzi’s version, although he and his librettists the emotionalism of his gentle and suffering simplified its complicated plot and invented heroines (Butterfly, Mimì, Tosca), who had Turandot’s ancestress to justify her unremitting been a characteristic, integral aspect of his cold behavior. In Puccini’s version, Turandot From top: Giacomo Puccini; work. Puccini felt Italian culture was under gradually becomes more understandable the ailing Puccini at the time of Turandot, attack as weak and “feminized” and aimed and sympathetic, and as in a fairy tale, she with his first radio, the only one he ever owned; to counter this notion by elevating a strong, is released from revenge’s stranglehold and the legendary Russian actor-director Yevgeny mechanistic, rigid Turandot. restored to humanity with Prince’s Calaf’s kiss. Vakhtangov’s production of Gozzi’s play Turandot contrasts strongly with the The play’s adherence to commedia dell’arte Turandotte, , 1922; Franco Alfano, the composer who completed Turandot; Arturo sympathetic slave, Liù. In her, Puccini created traditions included having actors wearing Toscanini, who conducted the premiere, in which a character who (especially in her first aria, masks, negating their individuality. Gozzi's he chose not to perform Alfano’s ending.

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 31 work combined fantasy, caricature, and stock dramatic logic but compounds her perceived characters, which were paired with extravagant inhumanity. In the second scene of Act Two, sets. He intended his play to illustrate the when she finally sings, she doesn’t reveal her righteousness and power of all-conquering love. character, although the story she tells justifies Puccini also employed masks as a significant her behavior. Her hatred of men is passionately element, paired with distinctive music evoking invoked when she recounts that a foreign prince the jerky movements of marionettes. The raped and murdered her ancestor, Princess German playwright , who Lo-u-ling. She believes it her sacred duty to adapted Gozzi’s play, pointed out a puppet- avenge that cruelty and plans revenge against all like quality common to all Gozzi’s characters, foreigners for the insult to Lo-u-Ling’s purity. not only those designated as masks: “The Turandot has additional reason to resent men: figures have the appearance of marionettes in ancient Eastern cultural traditions, male- operated by wires; there is a certain pedantic dominated society considered women inferior, stiffness running through the whole thing.” By at times enslaving them or using them merely the mid-1920s, puppets, robots, and masked for sexual gratification. figures had become avant-garde emblems, icons of a moment of cultural crisis, particularly appropriate for Puccini’s aims. Puccini’s Ping, Pang, and Pong are DAN REST derived from Gozzi’s masks; they act like a mini Greek chorus, observing and commenting, testing characters’ thoughts and motivations. In their trio in the first scene of Act Two, they remark on Turandot’s identity as the feminine destroyer of men, national identity, and culture. Puccini wanted authentic Chinese music not only for this trio but to use throughout. He wrote to Adami, “I shall get some old Chinese music...and drawings of different instruments which we shall put on the stage (not in the orchestra).” He took four melodies from J. A. van Aalst’s book Chinese Music and included melodies from a Chinese music box he received from his friend Baron Fassini Camossi, the former Italian ambassador to China, assigning (Left to right) David Gordon, Earle Patriarco, the longest of the melodies to Ping, Pang, and and Jerold Siena, as Pang, Ping, and Pong at Lyric, 1997/98 season. Pong. He consulted ethno-musicological texts, studied transcriptions of Chinese music, and listened to a large number of phonograph Critics have pointed out that Italy’s recordings of Chinese music; he assimilated colonialist attempts in Libya – its determination elements from them, transforming them with to impose Christian and classical identity his own personal idiom. onto that country’s Islamic and Arab identity He expanded the traditional Chinese folk and the issue of the colonizer-colonized song “Mo-li-hua,” and treated it thematically relationship – are implicit symbolically in throughout; it made its first and lengthiest Puccini’s opera and are complicated by the appearance in Act One, in the children’s chorus; racial and religious differences of Turandot and it’s heard every time Turandot appears and is the Prince of Persia, Calaf, and Liù. The opera repeated when Calaf cries out her name in Act engages tensions and dichotomies at all levels: One. Although Puccini used Chinese music between the two principal women, between the for Chinese characters, he had no alternative human and the machine, between two stylistic but to write tonal music for the non-Chinese manners, between past and present, between characters, which serves, metaphorically, to what Puccini may have intended and what the From top: At the opera’s world premiere at accentuate the exoticism of Turandot and the critics perceived. Contrasts between Calaf’s Milan’s La Scala in 1926, Rosa Raisa sang Europeanness of Calaf and Liù, especially Central Asian identity and Turandot’s Chinese Turandot opposite the Calaf of Miguel Fleta. evident in the Romantic music of Liù’s funeral identity, between his exile and her stability, Galileo Chini designed the elaborate sets cortege. and between his humanity and her cruelty are (pictured is the Riddle Scene in Act Two). In Act One, Turandot’s muteness has central to the opera’s meaning.

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Calaf’s role has great significance: he asserts his masculine authority when he solves Modern Match - Turandot Turandot’s riddles. Calaf’s initial marginalized Heroes, princesses, trusty sidekicks, and true love masculine identity, a result of his being an make for the perfect fairytale. But when the princesses exile, highlights what can be seen as Chinese are too willful to be won over by their “knights in “orientalization” of other cultures, a symbol of shining armor,” what happens? Turandot takes the the racial theory that circulated in Italy in the notion of a classic fairytale and turns it on its head, with early twentieth century. life-or-death stakes and a surprising journey to find love. Orientalism usually now refers to the This opera’s story is not foreign to the fairytale world, West’s patronizing attitude toward Middle however, as it bears resemblance to the internationally Eastern, Asian, and North African societies in popular DreamWorks animated feature, Shrek. the ways that the West imagines, emphasizes, These two pieces take fairy-tale character tropes exaggerates, and distorts their differences and to a new level, bringing a fresh look to true love. The cultures, often seeing them as a combination masculine hero in both pieces didn’t set out to be a of exotic, backward, uncivilized, and even savior – instead, he was undertaking a selfish mission. dangerous. (Implicit in orientalism is the In Turandot, Calaf is the Prince of Tartary, who is hiding from discovery to avoid being belief that the West is rational and hence killed or harmed. When he sees Turandot, he becomes transfixed with her beauty and superior.) The display of Calaf’s humanity is wants to win her over for himself. The ogre Shrek is hiding in the swamp, hoping to be set against Turandot’s inflexibility, her staunch left alone. When his swamp is invaded, he goes to Lord Farquaad of Duloc, who agrees to evacuate the creatures if Shrek rescues Princess Fiona. Chinese identity, and her cruelty. Turandot’s On these selfish missions, both characters end up putting their lives at risk. allegiance to her ancestor and nation-state For Calaf to win Turandot’s hand, he has to correctly answer three riddles or he’ll be also reflects then-current Western imperialist executed. Shrek has to defeat a fire-breathing dragon to rescue Fiona. The two men must and orientalist notions about China. The put their lives on the line for what they want, and surprisingly, they both succeed! Yet ministers, in their Act-Two trio “Ho una the road ahead is not smooth. Luckily, they both have trusty sidekicks in their corners. casa nell’ Honan,” explicitly reveal the racial Calaf has Liù, who’s willing to die to protect him. Shrek has Donkey, who willingly goes thinking behind the comparison between off on a dangerous mission to save the princess. Chinese and Central Asian identity. And yet, Speaking of princesses, Turandot and Fiona have more in common than their ironically, the character of Calaf thematically crowns. Both princesses are stubborn individuals; Turandot begs her father to not force serves as a metaphor for the remaking of Italian her to marry Calaf, and Fiona refuses to be taken to Duloc except on her own terms. masculinity and the building of an Italian These women are in need of love, but they don’t mean to fall in love! Turandot is known empire. (Italy had annexed Eritrea [1890], to be cold as ice; she needs true love to allow her to feel emotion. Fiona needs true love’s declared Somalia a colony [1908], annexed kiss to keep her from alternating between human (during the day) and ogre (at night). Libya and the Dodecanese islands in Greece In the end, the heroes prevail: Calaf wins over Turandot’s heart and teaches her how to [1912, after the Italo-Turkish War].) love, while Shrek wins over Fiona, saving her from the dragon and marriage to Lord Puccini declared that uncovering “the Farquuad. It seems happily ever after can exist for everyone after all! amorous passion of Turandot which she has — Margaret Rogers smothered for so long beneath the ashes of her The author, Lyric’s dramaturgy intern last summer, pride…is the goal of the opera.” He allowed is in her senior year at the University of Minnesota. Romantic sentiment to share the limelight with the grandiose, sumptuous, mechanistic,

and exotic, but finally, he wanted gender, race, DAN REST and nationalist issues to yield to universality, allowing geographical and cultural barriers to fall, toppled by the universal language of love, which conquers all.

Susan Halpern has been writing program notes and liner notes nationally and internationally for chamber music, symphonic concerts, operas, and vocal recitals for the past two decades. Originally trained as a professional flutist, she earned a B. A. in music and a doctorate in English literature and has taught at the City College of New York, Pace University, and Marymount College. She currently writes program notes fulltime. Vladimir Galouzine as Calaf and as Turandot at Lyric, 2006/07 season; (above) Shrek and Princess Fiona.

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Act Two of Turandot at The Dallas Opera, 2012-13 season. KAREN ALMOND/THE DALLAS OPERA

The operas of Puccini are a rich mine satisfactory conclusion. The motivations of death to present, or indeed, to present for a stage director. The characters, their the heroine are understandable, informed it unfinished as it famously was at its motivations, their emotions, and the as they are by the example of her ancestor, premiere. world they inhabit are vividly described but her transformation by a forced kiss is Furthermore, in the 21st century in the score. Furthermore, the composer’s unsatisfactory, unsavory, even unpalatable, we cannot ignore either the misogynistic innate theatricality means that marrying particularly to a modern audience. portrayal of the female characters or the stage action to the musical drama is While one can try to dismiss this racial stereotyping of the Chinese in usually a happy and fulfilling process. problem by explaining that Turandot is the piece. While Puccini’s world would After the failure of his second opera, a fairy story, and anything is possible in a not have found this at all jarring, a Edgar (which suffered from a weak fairy story, it is nonetheless the case that contemporary audience cannot help but libretto and flawed plot), Puccini took the most enduring fairy stories (fantastical question the sexism and Orientalism great pains to ensure that his operas though they may be) remain very real in inherent in the piece. were as strong dramatically as they were their understanding of humanity. This This presents us with a unique musically, insisting on many revisions to story fails that test. theatrical challenge. A production of the libretti, and subjecting the score to Puccini struggled for four years to Turandot is, to some extent, an exercise the refiner’s fire in rehearsal. The result, finish the opera, insisting on revision after in creation as we try to find a fitting in his mature operas, are pieces of musical revision of the libretto. Up to his death, he conclusion to the opera that eluded Puccini theater that are involving and engrossing, remained dissatisfied with the conclusion himself for so long, while presenting the but masterfully tight and economic in and text of the final scene. The version of story in a way that does not patronize. their construction. that scene completed shortly afterwards by As I write, it is still some weeks before With Turandot Puccini took a brave Alfano drew on the composer’s sketches, rehearsals for this production begin, but new direction, choosing a fairy tale of but they were subject to Alfano’s own very soon artists will fly in from around intense fantasy far from the verismo extensive editing and musical taste. It the country and the globe, bringing with aesthetic of his earlier pieces. A score cannot be said to represent the master’s them their own deep understanding of that acknowledged modernism, the highly vision -- particularly in the finale, which this work from years of study and other developed form of late-19th-century Puccini indicated would be reflective in productions. opera, and a story by Carlo Gozzi rooted nature, far from the Hollywood treatment Questioning and discussion is a vital in the tradition of commedia dell’arte given it by Alfano. While Alfano’s part of any rehearsal process, but never were the thrilling ingredients. Puccini conclusion is musically thrilling, it leaves more so that with this opera. challenged himself and his librettists, one feeling compromised. Our job in the rehearsal room will be Simoni and Adami. to create something Every production starts with the to listen carefully to the score, seek out the new and extraordinary. score, but in this case the score does not heartbeat of Puccini, and ultimately offer However, the further the opera’s present a complete vision. Each company our own solution to the final unanswered creators pushed the envelope, the more must choose which of the various endings riddle of Turandot. difficult it became to bring the opera to a which have been proposed since Puccini’s — Rob Kearley

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When the performance is over, try discussing it with your companions and any other opera lovers you know! You can continue your pleasure in Turandot for hours – even days – by exchanging ideas about it. Here are some topics we can suggest: DAN REST • What did you find most fascinating about this production?

• Even though Turandot’s kingdom has conquered his own, why do you think Prince Calaf still falls in love with her? Is this a betrayal of his homeland?

• Turandot is known for being cold to love. Why does she not want to fall in love?

• Why does Liù choose not to reveal Calaf’s name to Turandot? Why does she remain faithful to him?

• What changes Turandot’s mind and melts her icy heart?

• “Nessun dorma” is one of the most famous arias in opera. When you heard it, what impressed you the most?

• This opera is also famous for its orchestration. Were there particular moments from the orchestra that you found especially striking?

(Left to right) Kallen Esperian as Liù, Alexander Anisimov as Timur, and as Calaf: Turandot at Lyric, 1997/98 season.

To continue enjoying Turandot, Lyric dramaturg Roger Pines suggests the following performances: CD – Birgit Nilsson, Renata Scotto, Franco Corelli, Bonaldo DVD – Nina Stemme, Maria Agresta, Aleksandrs Antonenko; Giaiotti; Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera di Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, cond. Riccardo Chailly, dir. Roma, cond. Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (EMI Classics) (Decca)

CD – Dame Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Luciano DVD – Eva Marton, Leona Mitchell, Plácido Domingo, Paul Pavarotti, Nicolai Ghiaurov; John Alldis Choir, London Plishka; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, cond. James Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. (Decca) Levine, dir. Franco Zeffirelli (DG)

CD – , , Eugenio Fernandi, DVD – Eva Marton, Lucia Mazzaria, Michael Sylvester, Kevin Nicola Zaccaria; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, cond. Tullio Langan; San Francisco Opera Chorus and Orchestra, cond. Serafin (Warner Classics) , dir. Peter McClintock (Arthaus Musik)

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Music Staff Violin II Bass Preman Tilson, Percussion William C. Billingham Yin Shen, Principal Michael Geller, Principal Acting Assistant Principal Michael Green, Principal Scott Ellaway John Macfarlane, Ian Hallas, Acting Assistant Principal Hanna Sterba* Douglas Waddell, Assistant Principal Andrew L. W. Anderson Assistant Principal Susan Miller Hult Bonita Di Bello Gregory Sarchet Eric Millstein Keun-A Lee Hanna Sterba* Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Timothy Shaffer* Noah Lindquist Extra Musicians Mario Antonio Marra Teresa Kay Fream Collins R. Trier Horn Peter Labella Jonathan Boen, Principal Rich Janicki, percussion Francesco Milioto Flute Ann Palen Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Michael Kozakis, percussion Jerad Mosbey Marie Tachouet, Principal Irene Radetzky Utility Horn Joe LaPalomento, percussion Steven Mosteller Dionne Jackson, John D. Robinson Robert E. Johnson, Third Horn Tina Laughlin, percussion Matthew Piatt Assistant Principal David Volfe Samuel Hamzem Alison Attar, harp Stefano Sarzani Alyce Johnson Andrea Swan, celeste Madeline Slettedahl Albert Wang Neil Kimel Piccolo Robert Tweten Viola Stageband Musicians Alyce Johnson Eric Weimer Carol Cook, Principal William Denton, Principal David Inmon, trumpet Kevin Hartman, trumpet Orchestra Terri Van Valkinburgh, Matthew Comerford, Assistant Principal Judith Kulb, Principal Co-Assistant Principal Ross Beacraft, trumpet Violin I Frank W. Babbitt Robert E. Morgan Channing Philbrick, Margaret Philbrick, trumpet Robert Hanford, Patrick Brennan Assistant Principal Co-Assistant Principal Michael Brozick, trumpet Concertmaster Karl Davies Judith Zunamon Lewis Matt Lee, trumpet The Mrs. R. Robert Amy Hess Reed Capshaw, trombone English Horn Jeremy Moeller, Principal Funderburg Melissa Trier Kirk Adam Moen, trombone Robert E. Morgan Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Endowed Chair Di Shi Tom Stark, trombone Graeme Mutchler Sharon Polifrone, David Becker, trombone Cello Assistant Concertmaster Charlene Zimmerman, Bass Trombone Jan Berry Baker, saxophone Calum Cook, Principal Alexander Belavsky Principal Graeme Mutchler J. Michael Holmes, saxophone Paul Dwyer, Assistant Principal Kathleen Brauer Linda A. Baker, Joel Cohen, percussion Mark Brandfonbrener Pauli Ewing Co-Assistant Principal William C. Billingham, organ William H. Cernota Andrew Smith, Principal Laura Ha Susan Warner, Laura Deming Librarian David Hildner Co-Assistant Principal Harp Barbara Haffner John Rosenkrans, Principal Ellen Hildner Marguerite Lynn Williams, Walter Preucil Laura Miller Principal Personnel Manager Liba Shacht Linda A. Baker and Stageband Contractor Heather Wittels Christine Janicki Bing Jing Yu Edward Harrison, Principal Lewis Kirk, Acting Principal *Season substitute

Chorus Master Tenor Core Supplementary Mezzo Chicago Children’s Choir Michael Black Geoffrey Agpalo Chorus Robin Bradley Josephine Lee Jason Balla Sarah Ponder President & Artistic Director Chorus Master Soprano Timothy Bradley Emily Price Elisabeth Van Schoonhoven The Howard A. Stotler Jill Dewsnup Hoss Brock Amanda Runge Assistant Conductor Endowed Chair Carla Janzen William M. Combs Stephanie Schoenhofer John Goodwin Suzanne M. Kszastowski Regular Chorus John J. Concepcion Ashley Sipka Rehearsal Accompanist Kenneth Donovan Kaileen Erin Miller Soprano Tenor Joseph A. Fosselman Kyla Cisneros Elisa Billey Becker Mezzo Humberto Borboa Beltran Lawrence Montgomery Amber Cloud Jillian Bonczek Katie Ruth Bieber Matthew Daniel Mark Nienow Triniti Cole Sharon Garvey Cohen Amanda Tarver Klaus Georg James Odom Lauren Cusick Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson Cameo Humes Thomas L. Potter Tenor Nicoletta Dowd Cathleen Dunn Luther Lewis Walton Westlake Jared V. Esguerra Zachariah Elliott Janet Marie Farr Tyler Samuel Lee Brett J. Potts Arielle Feller Desirée Hassler Bass Joe Shadday Bass Hana Friedheim-Javed Rachael Holzhausen Matthew Carroll Michael Cavalieri Teddy Gelman Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki David DuBois Bass Kirk Greiner Emerson Good Kimberly McCord Robert Morrissey Claude Cassion John E. Orduña Sean Harres Heidi Spoor Kenneth Nichols Nicolai Janitzky Douglas Peters Theo Hinerfeld Stephani Springer Steven Pierce Wilbur Pauley Martin Lowen Poock Avonlea Hong Elizabeth Anne Taylor Robert J. Prindle Supplementary Chorus Vincent P. Wallace, Jr. Natalie Kim Sherry Watkins Thomas Sillitti Lydia Kuhr Craig Springer Soprano Mezzo Kate Mueller Jeffrey W. Taylor Joelle Lamarre Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Colin Nelsen Ronald Watkins Katelyn Lee Marianna Kulikova Wyatt Parr Nikolas Wenzel Rosalind Lee Colleen Lovinello Olivia Roman Susan Nelson Lucia Ross Yvette Smith Christine Steyer Marie Sokolova Varun Shriram Kelsea Webb Katherine Talmers Maia Surace Boya Wei Laurie Seely Vassalli Avahn Tellis-Nayak Corinne Wallace-Crane Ellora Tellis-Nayak Pamela Williams Aaliyah Torres Michelle K. Wrighte Laelia van der Bijl

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BACKSTAGE LIFE: Josie Campbell

What is your role here at Lyric, rehearsals the next day for Romeo and how long have you held the and Juliet. I was on the phone position? scrambling, trying to get everyone’s flight reorganized and ensuring I am the artistic services manager that people would have enough and I’ve worked at Lyric since time to rehearse. Every time there’s 1984. I arrange travel and bad weather, it’s a nail-biter! accommodations for artists, choreographers, designers, and What keeps you committed to the conductors who travel here for the work you do? opera season. In addition to that, I am often the first stop for artists I’m a big opera geek; I love the when they need assistance with art form and the atmosphere something locally, such as finding backstage. It’s satisfying to a school for their child, booking complete arrangements for all of hotel rooms for their families, these people so their lives here are scheduling doctors or massage enjoyable. That allows them to appointments, etc. Essentially, I concentrate on what they’re here am the liaison between the artists to do, which is rehearse, sing, and and whatever they might need to perform. They often have very make their time here at Lyric comfortable and successful. specific needs about what kind of atmosphere they want to live in, and it’s gratifying to find them exactly what they’re looking for. What led you to work at Lyric? What’s something about your job that people might not know? I’ve always loved the arts and singing; I come from a family of opera-lovers. I majored in music in college, but realized after a few Sometimes my job includes dog-walking! If a production calls for years that I preferred to work in the industry in a behind-the-scenes an animal to be cast, the rehearsal department helps take care of it. I capacity. I decided to do a master’s program in arts administration at helped walk the three dogs for Der Rosenkavalier, which were housed the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. The backstage for every performance; same with the two goldens for director of my program had been a singers’ manager and knew Ardis Magic Flute. They had to be walked about 30 minutes before going Krainik, so he encouraged me to apply for an internship here. I was on stage to avoid any accidents. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s fun accepted, and began my internship in January of 1984. They hired when it does. me that summer and I’ve been here ever since. A favorite Lyric moment? What’s a typical day like for you? In 2004 during Lyric’s 50th Anniversary Gala, I was in the wings The first thing I do is check to make sure the correct scheduling with while was onstage singing. information is posted and up to date for the cast and crew. After Susan, who is the generation following von Stade, was overcome that, I can typically be found booking travel and hotel arrangements, with emotion. The mutual admiration of these two incredible artists fielding lots of questions from artists or staff, and being alert to any was amazing to witness. artist coming in the stage door with questions or needs. If I’m there in the evening for a performance, I assist with making sure all of the Beyond opera, what are your other passions? artists (including chorus members) are here on time and that they are comfortable in their dressing rooms, while also helping out if I enjoy listening to early music, which typically means music anything unexpected arises. originating before the 1700s (i.e., medieval, Renaissance, etc.). I also love good food and trying new restaurants, and traveling is a big What’s the most challenging aspect of your job? passion. In my free time, I’m a sucker for old Hollywood films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and the Thin Man movies from the 1930s. It’s challenging to need to start the planning that goes into artist There’s nothing like the classics. travel and lodging so far in advance, but it’s necessary. I have to communicate over different time zones with singers and their — Kamaria Morris agents where there might be language barriers as well. It can take a surprisingly long time to arrange what at first seems a simple flight and apartment search. And then comes another huge chasllenge: weather! The day after New Year’s one season in the '90s, there was a huge winter storm that shut everything down, and we were to start

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Artistic Roster

Sopranos Graham Maverick Marie-Jeanne Lecca Assistant Choreographer Maria Agresta Alessandro Corbelli Jeraldine Mendoza Ming Cho Lee Michael Mizerany Kate Baldwin Anthony Clark Evans Jacqueline Moscicke John Neumeier Emily Birsan Aaron Renteria Robert Perdziola Ballet Mistress Janai Brugger Joshua Hopkins Christine Rocas Zandra Rhodes August Tye Andriana Chuchman Paulo Rodrigues Vita Tzykun Rosa Feola Chloé Sherman Michael Yeargan Wigmaster and Makeup Christine Goerke Zachary Nelson Temur Suluashvili Designer Pureum Jo Emmett O’Hanlon Olivia Tang-Mifsud Associate Set Designer Sarah Hatten Alexandra LoBianco Takaoki Onishi Alonso Tepetzi Heinrich Tröger Ana María Martínez Edward Parks Elivelton Tomazi Fight Choreographers Whitney Morrison Hugh Russell Alberto Velazquez Assistant Set Designer Chuck Coyl Diana Newman Todd Thomas Joanna Wozniak Matt Rees Nick Sandys Marina Rebeka Joan Sebastián Zamora Albina Shagimuratova Bass-baritones Lighting Designers Translators for Lauren Snouffer Alan Higgs Fabrice Kebour Projected English Titles Marcy Stonikas Philip Horst Jacob Ashley Chris Maravich Carol Borah Kelly Elisabet Strid Eric Owens Nikolas Chen John Neumeier Roger Pines Ann Toomey Christian Van Horn Sam Crouch Duane Schuler Francis Rizzo Elena Tsallagova Marian Faustino Ron Vodicka Colin Ure Amber Wagner Basses Tom Mattingly Ain Anger Ginny Ngo Projection Designer The American Laura Wilde Scott Conner Jimi Loc Nguyen David Adam Moore Guild of Musical Patrick Guetti Michelle Reid Artists, AFL- Mezzo-sopranos Adrian Sâmpetrean Todd Rhoades Chorus Master CIO (AGMA), Lindsay Ammann Andrea Silvestrelli Jacqueline Stewart Michael Black is the union that Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Alexander Tsymbalyuk Nicholas Strasburg represents the Marianne Crebassa Jessica Wolfrum Choreographers and singers, dancers, actors, and Susan Graham Dancers Movement Directors staging personnel at Lyric Jill Grove The Joffrey Ballet Conductors John Malashock Opera of Chicago. Catherine Martin John Neumeier Matthew Adamczyk Marco Armiliato Lindsay Metzger Denni Sayers Derrick Agnoletti Harry Bicket Julie Miller August Tye Yoshihisa Arai David Chase Deborah Nansteel DAN REST Amanda Assucena Sir Andrew Davis Annie Rosen Edson Barbosa James Gaffigan Zanda Švēde Miguel Angel Blanco Kristy Swann Anais Bueno Robert Tweten Fabrice Calmels Emmanuel Villaume Contralto Raúl Casasola Lauren Decker Valeriia Chaykina Directors Nicole Ciapponi Tenors Lucia Connolly Eric Einhorn Thor Abjornsson April Daly Rob Kearley Piotr Beczała Fernando Duarte E. Loren Meeker Benjamin Bernheim Olivia Duryea John Neumeier Michael Brandenburg Cara Marie Gary Kevin Newbury Lawrence Brownlee Stefan Goncalvez David Pountney Alec Carlson Luis Eduardo Gonzalez Andrew Sinclair Rafael Davila Dylan Gutierrez Keith Jameson Rory Hohenstein Associate Directors Jonathan Johnson Dara Holmes Rob Kearley Brandon Jovanovich Riley Horton Bruno Ravella Dmitry Korchak Yuka Iwai Stefano La Colla Victoria Jaiani Set and Costume Designers Josh Lovell Hansol Jeong Johan Engels Matthew Polenzani Gayeon Jung John Frame Mario Rojas Yumi Kanazawa Peter J. Hall Rodell Rosel Brooke Linford Constance Hoffman Turandot in a vulnerable moment: Issachah Savage Greig Matthew Robert Innes Hopkins Andrea Gruber at Lyric, 2006/07 season. Andrew Stenson Allen Charles Klein

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PATRON SALUTE | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Elizabeth Upjohn Mason: A Loving Ambassador of Ardis Krainik’s Legacy

Like many children of her generation, Subscribing regularly since 1990, Elizabeth Upjohn Mason was surrounded Betty and Jerry had many wonderful years by classical music growing up. “When I at Lyric during Ardis Krainik’s tenure. was a little girl in the ‘30s, there was a Favorite memories include Catherine lot of classical music on the radio. I mean Malfitano’s Salome and ’s it wasn’t just the Metropolitan Opera Faust and Mefistofele. “Samuel Ramey as on Saturday afternoons; there was the the devil was so sophisticated, so worldly, NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo and so evil! I was fortunate to meet Toscanini and The Telephone Hour him and many other artists as Ardis’s with Gladys Swarthout. We had music guest, and I will never forget listening appreciation at my grade school. Music to Catherine Malfitano talk about her was very accessible. I went to my first unique approach to Salome, portraying opera when I was nine.” her as a spoiled adolescent girl. It was so Being a native of Lake Forest, that intriguing, and I am very fortunate to first opera was Aida at the Civic Opera have had these experiences.” House, though it predated Lyric Opera Ardis’s influence extended well of Chicago’s residency here by several beyond Chicago, thanks to Betty’s years. This visit marked the beginning philanthropic spirit. “After her death in of a lifelong relationship with opera, 1997, I had an opportunity to replenish specifically opera – and those producing a fund that brought semi-staged operas it – in this iconic building. Jerry and Elizabeth Upjohn Mason to the mainstage of the Kalamazoo Betty dabbled in music performance Symphony. I called it the Ardis Opera herself, taking the obligatory piano Decade, in her memory. It made a huge lessons, not practicing, until she “Ardis [Krainik, Lyric’s second general impact in a midsize community, and it discovered the sweet sounds of the cello. Opera director] and I were in the same sorority, Chi was because of her that I was inspired and able always enthralled her and she treasured her Omega, at Northwestern. She was ebullient to do that. grandmother’s Rigoletto recording of the great and delightful as the song leader, and she “Ardis was such an enchanting and Enrico Caruso’s Duke of Mantua. When Betty succeeded me as president. She was very sharp, honorable person. A great testament to that found herself as a contestant on the Quiz Kids, very businesslike; a combination of musical was the 1996 Gala Concert Lyric hosted in her a 1940s game show that originated in Chicago, gifts and organizational skills, showing early on honor. Many international stars came together she aced the opera-related questions. her great potential as a leader. And we just kept to perform and tell wonderful stories about Clearly no dummy (only the brightest track of each other, as friends do. her, such as Plácido Domingo, who recounted children were selected as participants on “In 1979, Ardis came to Kalamazoo and how she had released him from a contract after Quiz Kids), Betty enrolled in Northwestern sang at our daughter’s wedding, which meant some of his family was affected by a terrible University’s Medill School of Journalism, so much to me because she also had sung at earthquake in Mexico City. Ardis was in poor after meeting someone very significant at that our wedding. At that point, of course, she was health by then, but she came onstage in her university’s National High School Institute, really immersed in Lyric, and on the way from wheelchair with the same verve, having fun more fondly known as the Cherubs. “I met my our house to the airport to fly back to Chicago, and teasing people. That was just who she first husband, Burton Upjohn, between our we had a chance to talk about the situation, was.” junior and senior years in high school. I was in which was a bit dire, financially. Ardis was Betty continues to embody her dear the radio division and he was a debater. They very loyal to Lyric’s first general director, Carol friend’s kindness and generosity, supporting [at Northwestern] think we are the only two Fox, and concerned about her health, but Lyric in addition to many worthy institutions Cherubs who went back to NU for school and knew that she needed to step in. It was very in Kalamazoo. Betty’s impact in her home then married. They’re making a search, so that hard for her.” community, although perhaps inspired will be fun to know.” Distance and her husband’s illness kept by Ardis, is a legacy all her own, and her After graduating and marrying, the Betty away from Chicago for many years, but munificence enriches the lives of many, couple moved to his hometown of Kalamazoo, one of the first things she did after his passing particularly in arts education for children. Michigan, where Betty still resides. She was a was to subscribe to Lyric. “I knew that it would We can all consider ourselves lucky to know journalist for the Kalamazoo Gazette, briefly be helpful and rewarding for me. Then five women like Betty, and Ardis Krainik, who relocating to an airbase in Minneapolis while years after Burton’s death, I remarried, and my have markedly shaped the arts in the Midwest, her husband served as a naval reservist during second husband, Lowell ‘Jerry’ Mason, was a and provided the next generation with the the Korean War. Being more than a hundred very good musician. He had perfect pitch, and exposure they as young women were blessed to miles from Chicago precluded them from he had a 15-piece band in high school in Oak absorb readily and eagerly. attending performances at the newly-established Park. He loved opera, so he also was blessed Lyric Opera of Chicago with regularity, but to get to know Ardis, which was lovely for us — Meaghan Stainback Betty never lost touch with the opera. both.”

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PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION BMO HARRIS BANK The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the BMO Harris Bank is a proud supporter of Lyric Opera. BMO, performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. The which is celebrating its bicentennial this year, has demonstrated Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated its strong commitment to supporting the communities it serves the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John for the past 200 years. BMO has generously supported special Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, projects through Lyric’s Annual Campaign, most recently as the self reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his Exclusive Sponsor of both the Plácido Domingo and Ana María Alexandra ideals. At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter Dousmanis-Curtis Martínez Concert (2015/16) and the Celebrating Plácido Concert of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming and has generously (2016/17). Lyric is honored to have Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis, committed to a high level of multi-year support. Group Head, U.S. Retail and Business Banking, BMO Harris Bank, serve on its Board of Directors and Investment Committee. “Opera is truly an inspiration. ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS It affects how we see and interpret the world around us, and it’s our hope that Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from six the support we provide Lyric will help increase anonymous contributors during the 2017/18 season. exposure to such a beautiful form of artistic expression.” JULIE and ROGER BASKES Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP of Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is the world’s leading three decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s advisor on business strategy. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Ryan Opera Center activities as previous cosponsors of their support and dedication this season in offering their pro bono Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the services to help Lyric to better understand our financial model, Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. They and to identify creative and promising paths to growth. Lyric have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, last season’s Opera is honored to have Dan Dan Grossman Norma and this season’s Rigoletto. They also made a leadership commitment to Grossman, Partner & Managing the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Director, on the Lyric Board Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors and Executive of Directors and Finance Committee. Committee. Julie is also Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board.

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HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDER MARION A. CAMERON Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support and leadership Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric of Marion A. Cameron. A subscriber and donor for more Opera family. Committed to sustaining the exceptional than 20 years, Lyric gratefully acknowledges her outstanding quality of Lyric’s artistic product, the Buchbinders generosity through her leadership gift to the Breaking New made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Ground Campaign, and her many production cosponsorships, Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder including this season’s Così fan tutte. Ms. Cameron is the CEO of Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. They have also been longtime generous donors Sipi Metals Corp., which continues to support the widely popular to the Annual Campaign, and are cosponsors of this season’s new production of Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert. Marion Cameron is a member of Faust. “I really do believe that Lyric is the best opera company in the world,” is Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Finance Committees, and Chair of the Gilda’s heartfelt assessment, to which Hank adds, “the productions are done so well, Investment Committee. and stage sets are marvelous.” Lyric is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the Production Sponsorship Committee. CENTENE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION Charitable outreach is an important part of Centene Corporation's business CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM philosophy. Since 2004, Centene Charitable Foundation has contributed a Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership and substantial amount to initiatives that improve the quality of life and health in our generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and longtime communities. Through our donations to organizations in the arts, we are not only patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum sustaining the ongoing cultural traditions, but also paving the way for future Family’s very generous challenge grant re-established Lyric’s generations to experience the arts. This season, Centene Charitable Foundation is regional and national/international radio broadcasts in 2006. providing leadership support for EmpowerYouth! Igniting Creativity through the Kay’s incredible continued matching support makes possible The Arts, a groundbreaking multi-disciplinary afterschool program offered in Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which draw 16 million listeners annually. partnership between Lyric Unlimited and the Chicago Urban League that will “Lyric is a great national institution,” Matthew once said, “and it gives our family culminate in the presentation of a fully great pleasure to know these broadcasts bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so staged, youth-centric opera based on many in Chicago and around the globe.” participants’ real-life experiences.

THE JOHN and JACOLYN BUCKSBAUM ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION FOUNDATION Lyric Opera remains deeply grateful for the long-term generosity Passionate philanthropists in the Chicago community, of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s John and Jackie Bucksbaum are major supporters of nonprofit leaders in arts support. The Cheney Foundation has the arts. John Bucksbaum is founder and CEO of made an enhanced multi-year commitment to the Ryan Opera Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC, a fully-integrated Center/Lyric Opera. During the 2017/18 season, the Cheney owner and developer of retail real estate. John and Foundation is supporting Guest Master Teacher and Artist John and Jackie Bucksbaum Jackie, with their family, generously provide matching Elizabeth F. Cheney residencies; the Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; access funding for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which air on to a behind-the-scenes view of the Ensemble selection process 98.7WFMT live during each opening night performance. by opening the Ryan Opera Center’s Final Auditions to a greater number of Lyric donors and subscribers for the fifth year; and singer sponsorship of tenor Mario BULLEY & ANDREWS Rojas. Lyric Opera is honored to have foundation director Allan Drebin serve on its Founded 1891, Bulley & Andrews is one of the Midwest’s most Board of Directors, Ryan Opera Center Board and Audit Committee. trusted and accomplished construction companies. The fourth generation, family-owned firm offers clients a full-range of MRS. JOHN V. CROWE construction services including general contracting, construction Peggy and the late Jack Crowe are generous and management, design/build, and masonry and concrete restoration. passionate members of the Lyric family, evidenced Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, supported Lyric by their major support of the Breaking New Ground Allan E. Bulley, III Unlimited’s Performances for Students programs, and is a cosponsor Campaign and the Renee Fleming Initiative. Jack and of Lyric’s Ring cycle, including last Peggy Crowe's significant contribution to Lyric was season’s Das Rheingold and this season’s Die Walküre. Lyric recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Opera is pleased to have Allan E. Bulley, III as a member Foyer on the fifth floor in memory of Jack Crowe's mother. Lyric was very fortunate of its Board of Directors. to have Jack Crowe serve as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Lyric's Board of Directors. THE BUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION Longtime subscribers from Dubuque, Iowa, John and THE CROWN FAMILY Alice Butler recently made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée and Breaking New Ground Campaign’s stage improvement Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of Lyric Opera. project. John says, “When Alice and I heard that Lyric The Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming was unable to share productions with other houses due Initiative and made generous gifts to Lyric’s Annual to our outdated and unreliable stage technology, we Campaign and Breaking New Ground Campaign. Mrs. John and Alice Butler understood that to be a serious problem that needed to Crown is a past President of the Women’s Board. Mr. be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s mission to be the best Lester and Renée Crown Crown joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and opera company in North America, and in order to be the best, we must have access has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée the best productions.” Lyric Opera is honored to have John Butler serve on its Board and Lester Crown were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of Directors and Investment Committee. of their outstanding leadership and commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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THE DAVEE FOUNDATION JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera) and a Lyric Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The Opera Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago-area charities reflects the Davees’ wide- Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric Opera is great place to live and enjoy life. The Julius Frankel Foundation fortunate to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee Foundation’s has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas come. The Davee Foundation provided critical preliminary support to enhance Julius Frankel and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have amplification and sound systems used in the Musical Theater Initiative, and has benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general generously cosponsored each production in the initiative, including this season’s operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. Frankel was particularly Jesus Christ Superstar. interested in making Chicago one of the greatest places in the world to live and enjoy life,” Nelson Cornelius once said. “The foundation’s giving supports things MARIANNE DESON-HERSTEIN that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric Opera does.” Lyric Marianne Deson-Herstein was a long-time supporter and lover of has named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius Frankel in grateful recognition of Lyric Opera until her death in 2015. Her Trust left a substantial the Foundation’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. bequest to the Lyric Opera Production Endowment Fund for designers and scenery expenses, in memory of her parents, ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUST Samuel and Sarah Deson. To fulfill her intentions, Marianne’s One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse bequest is being used to cosponsor Lyric’s production of Wagner’s Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer Die Walküre this opera season. Her gift will help support the Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, designer and scenery expenses for this new Lyric Opera production. Lyric is greatly and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. appreciative of Marianne’s thoughtfulness in making this very generous planned gift Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees to endow these essential mainstage opera production expenses. Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander seek to enrich Elizabeth Morse Genius the quality of life in Chicago, especially for youth and elderly STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESON citizens. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael Capital Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive Opera House chimes and Neeson are actively involved with organizations in music library in honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along with its sister trust, The Chicago, New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has sponsored many mainstage Neeson have supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera productions and was most recently one of the cosponsors of last season’s company for more than 30 years. They have previously cosponsored premiere of Les Troyens. In addition to production sponsorship, the Trust has helped five mainstage operas, including last season’sLucia di underwrite Lyric’s ongoing efforts to diversify its various boards and preserve Lyric’s Lammermoor and this season’s Faust. Stefan and Gael also made a leadership gift to history through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric named one of its the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse Genius Conference its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. Room in order to show its grateful appreciation for the Trust’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well EXELON as to recognize the Trust’s commitment over The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain many years to helping build the company’s core Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has capacities and institutional infrastructure. generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community engagement BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILL programs. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included The Mikado (2010/12), Brent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes the Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Subscriber Appreciation Concert in Chicago, and they have made a leadership gift to (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), Rusalka (2013/14), Lyric’s second mariachi opera, Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), and The Marriage of Figaro (2015/16). Last Brent and Katie were a Diamond Record Sponsor of the season, Exelon cosponsored Lyric’s production of Chicago Voices Gala Benefit Concert. Brent Gledhill is Carmen. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Exelon as the Global Head of Investment Banking at William Blair an outstanding corporate partner. & Company, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lyric is honored to have Brent serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Audit ELAINE FRANK Committee. A member of the Lyric family since its calling card performance of Don Giovanni in 1954, Elaine Frank has generously supported WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN Lyric’s education programs by underwriting the NEXT Student William and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric Discount tickets since 2014. Elaine and her family named Opera productions for more than 50 years. They are the Elaine and Zollie Frank Rehearsal Room as part of their generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are major contribution toward the Building on Greatness capital cosponsoring Lyric’s new production of Faust this season. campaign. Most recently, Elaine gave generously to the Breaking New Ground They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Campaign’s stage renovation project to ensure Lyric’s technology is competitive New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel with its sister institutions. “Opera has been a part of my life since I was a young Gofen as a member of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. girl and still is as I am turning 100. I am grateful for all the wonderful memories my involvement at Lyric has afforded me.” Lyric is grateful for the decades-long HOWARD GOTTLIEB and BARBARA GREIS friendship of Elaine, her family, and her late husband and former Board of Directors Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and patrons, member, Zollie Frank. Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis have generously supported Lyric Opera through major contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have cosponsored many productions, including this season’s production of Rigoletto. Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman of the Glenwood Investment Corporation and an accomplished violinist. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an active member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

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GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION WALTER E. HELLER FOUNDATION With an unparalleled record as sponsor of more than 27 new Lyric productions Alyce H. DeCosta was a dedicated philanthropist who loved since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a Chicago and helped nurture cultural life in the city through cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma her generous support for the arts and higher education. Mrs. Fisher Foundation has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the DeCosta was a leading member of the Lyric family, having served four operas that make up Wagner’s Ring cycle, which began with Das Rheingold last as a National Director of Lyric’s Board. For many years, she was season and will continue with Die Walküre this season. Lyric is sincerely grateful president of the Walter E. Heller Foundation, a philanthropic for the enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter and other members Alyce H. DeCosta foundation named after her late husband, the founder and of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Matthew Fisher serve on its Board past Chairman of Walter E. Heller Co. The Walter E. Heller of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the Women’s Board. Foundation has generously funded many Lyric productions, most recently Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto (2015/16) and Don Quichotte (2016/17). KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL and JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR. J. THOMAS HURVIS Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship and support of Tom Hurvis is an avid opera fan and longtime Lyric subscriber. Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel. A devoted As part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom and his member of the Women’s Board, Karen has served on beloved late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in several committees, most recently as the 2016 Board support of Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she and community engagement activities. Tom Hurvis sponsors the contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support Renée Fleming Initiative, and made a generous leadership gift in of stage renovations. The Krehbiel family plays a prominent role in the continued support of Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative during the 2016/17 success of the company. Last season, Karen and John joined the production sponsor season. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of family with their generous support of Carmen and this season made a leadership gift contributions to the Annual Campaign, including several production sponsorships, to Wine Auction 2018. as well as their support of The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. Most recently, Tom has given a generous gift to the Ryan Opera Center, endowing a singer in perpetuity MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS in memory of dear friend Dick Kiphart. “Opera enriches lives. That is why it is Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and so important to introduce young people to opera, and for them to experience tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. productions done by the best in their fields. How fortunate we are to have all this Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 23 right here in Chicago.” Lyric is honored to have Tom Hurvis serve on its Board Lyric productions since 1987/88, including last season’s of Directors, Executive Committee, Innovation Committee, and Lyric Unlimited Das Rheingold and this season’s Die Walküre. Through Committee. yearly challenge grants, they also help generate important momentum for Operathon, Lyric’s annual fundraising broadcast heard live on ITW 98.7WFMT. Lyric is honored to name Mezzanine Box 20 in grateful recognition for Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company has esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by New Ground Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored the granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has cosponsored many productions, including this season’s new Scott Santi JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND production of Faust. Lyric is proud to have Chairman and CEO John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric Scott Santi on its Board of Directors and for many years until his death in 2001. With support from his Executive Committee, along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, W. James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late David Speer. Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. The Halligan EDGAR D. JANNOTTA Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding of support from John R. Halligan organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense Ned Jannotta and his beloved late wife Debby. A lifelong opera of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our lover, Ned has been an integral part of the Lyric Opera family, appreciation of nature. The fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the joining the Board of Directors in 1987, serving as President and Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. CEO of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving Halligan resided during his lifetime. as Co-Chairman Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received a leadership gift from the Jannottas for the Breaking New Ground Campaign to THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION create the Ryan Opera Center Music Director Endowed Chair, in addition to their The Harris Family Foundation, represented generous gifts to the Annual Campaign. by Pam and Joe Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, is a valued member of Lyric’s JENNER & BLOCK production sponsorship family, most recently Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with global cosponsoring last season’s Carmen and this impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal issues. season’s Faust. The Harris Family Foundation The firm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s legal and Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris also supports the Annual Campaign, and business communities, and is consistently ranked as one of the top made a generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided significant pro secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of the Foundation bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and serving on its Production Craig C. Martin the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign, Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the revered Women’s Board and has of Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department, as a valued member of its Board held many leadership positions, most recently as Co-Chair of Opening Night/Opera of Directors, Nominating/ Ball in 2015. Governance, and Executive Committees.

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JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. NANCY W. KNOWLES Lyric gratefully acknowledges the vital corporate leadership and support of Opera always played an important role in the life of the late Nancy JPMorgan Chase. Along with the bank’s predecessors The First National Bank of W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s Chicago and Bank One, JPMorgan Chase has generously contributed to the Annual musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of Campaign, Lyric Unlimited, and Wine Auction. The bank has also cosponsored records to play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always many mainstage productions, including this season’s in my home.” Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Lyric’s first and leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board collaboration with The Joffrey Ballet. of Directors and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. In recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric named the THE ANNE and BURT KAPLAN FUND Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in The Kaplan Fund is a longstanding supporter of numerous arts organizations support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. Knowles throughout Chicago, fostering a vibrant visual and performing arts environment. They Student and Family Performances fund. Ms. Knowles generously underwrote the are joining the Lyric production sponsorship family this season with their generous appearance of Lyric’s world premiere Bel Canto on PBS Great Performances on January sponsorship of Orphée et Eurydice, Lyric’s historic collaboration with The Joffrey Ballet. 13, 2017, and had previously cosponsored several mainstage operas. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest PATRICIA A. KENNEY and GREGORY J. O'LEARY honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity. Pat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, with a particular passion NANCY and SANFRED KOLTUN for supporting the emerging artists of The Patrick Close members of the Lyric family as longtime subscribers G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. They have and generous supporters, Nancy and Sanfred were generously cosponsored the season-culminating Rising Ryan Opera Center Singer Cosponsors for many years Stars in Concert for six consecutive years, and Greg and cosponsored the Lyric Unlimited family opera The was recently elected to the Ryan Opera Center Board Magic Victrola. This season, they join the production and serves on its Fundraising Committee. Pat and Greg join the Aria Society this year sponsorship family with their generous support of Così fan with their generous Mainstage Singer Sponsorship of celebrated Ryan Opera Center tutte. "In the fall of 1954, I attended Carmen, staged by the precursor of the Lyric. That alumnus Matthew Polenzani in his appearances in this season's production of The Pearl night I fell in love with Carmen, opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Fishers. Lyric is grateful for their longstanding friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric Nancy and I have loved Lyric Opera and have always supported one of the most Opera and the Ryan Opera Center with their mission of providing world class opera cherished cultural institutions of Chicago. It is our hope that our children, grandchildren and training for singers, respectively. Every time we think they hit the high plateau, they and those beyond will be able to attend the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their ascend to another." midst."

THE RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART FAMILY MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Susie Kiphart is an esteemed member of the Lyric Opera Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding dedicated family. She is immediate past President of the Ryan Opera members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully Center Board, Chair of the Ryan Opera Center Nominating acknowledges their generous contributions to Wine Committee, and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. Auction, the Annual Campaign, and the Breaking New Along with her beloved late husband Dick Kiphart, Susie Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and is a passionate philanthropist. They have made leadership cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They also continue to provide major support for Lyric’s radio programming as members of the broadcast JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK consortium, sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members, and are generous Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric will forever be grateful for the visionary Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. leadership of the late Dick Kiphart. He was a past President and CEO as well as They have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/Governance made a significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Committee, and a member of the Executive, Finance and Production Sponsorship Campaign. They have also cosponsored several mainstage Committees. The Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt commitment to Lyric productions, including last year’s Eugene Onegin and are tremendous assets to the company, and in recognition of their passion and immense this season’s Orphée et Eurydice. The CEO of LSV Asset dedication they received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2013. Management, Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees. KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of providing JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around the world The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful restructuring, and counseling matters. The firm is committed to world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, cultural on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. Kirkland & global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for Linda K. Myers Ellis LLP has cosponsored several operas, most recently The Merry the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation Widow (2015/16), and was Lead Corporate Sponsor of the Chicago supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture grantmaking. The Voices Gala Benefit last season. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner Foundation’s support helps create powerful performances and exhibitions, educate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member young people, and engage communities, while providing of its Board of Directors, Executive and arts and culture organizations the flexibility to innovate Production Sponsorship Committees. and experiment. Lyric Opera is very grateful for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation.

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MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of Corporation, is a fervent fan of opera and music, and Lyric is the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, and and patrons who take an active role in nurturing generous supporter. The Malott Room was named in his family’s Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member honor in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Capital Campaign, and in recognition of the Malott Family’s Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Directors. Robert H. Malott commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Box 18 is The Morrisons have generously supported the Opera named in perpetuity in honor of Robert H. Malott for his extraordinary generosity and Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Annual Campaign steadfast dedication to Lyric Opera. He also plays a leadership role as a Life Director for many years. They provided a substantial gift to the of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Breaking New Ground Campaign, and have previously cosponsored Lyric’s Musical Theatre Initiative, including My Fair Lady last season. This season the Morrisons MAZZA FOUNDATION are generously sponsoring Lyric’s production of Turandot. “Lyric reaches patrons at Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding every level. People are here because they love it. They’re welcomed, embraced, and friendship and generosity of the Mazza made to feel part of a family.” Foundation. Under the guidance of its directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable Mazza Foundation provided major leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas support for the Student Matinees for and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in memory J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind many years, helping Lyric introduce of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist the majesty and grandeur of opera to Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust thousands of young people each season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been Elizabeth Morse Genius supports non-profit organizations that reflect the values of thrift, part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last season’s humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self-sacrifice, such as Lyric Opera. The Carmen and this season’s new production of Die Walküre. Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust most recently cosponsored last season’s company premiere of Les Troyens as well as many past productions, along with its sister trust, LAUTER McDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUND the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. To show its grateful appreciation for Nancy and her late husband Alfred have provided The Trust’s generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to vital support to the Annual Campaign as well as recognize The Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen years to helping build the The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric named one of its In addition, Nancy generously sponsored Lawrence key meeting rooms in its executive offices the Elizabeth Morse Conference Room. Brownlee and Eric Owens in Recital, Lyric Unlimited’s Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD, and Rising Stars in

Fred and Nancy McDougal Concert last season. This season, Nancy continues this support as a cosponsor of Piotr Beczała in Recital, Lyric ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHIN Unlimited’s Fellow Travelers, EmpowerYouth!, Rising Stars in Concert, and the Ryan Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members Opera Center fundraising event Ladies’ Choice. of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President and CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous Directors and serves on the Executive Committee. history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons The Muchins have staunchly supported the Annual initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American Campaign, Operathon, and the Stars of Lyric Opera operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for Lyric at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership gifts to the Building Opera premieres. During the 2012/13 season, the Mellon Foundation provided on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking leadership funding to launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine Muchin’s which included the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s munificent friendship. first Mariachi opera. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous partnership with Lyric Unlimited by providing outstanding support for Lyric’s world NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continued its unparalleled Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants awarded by legacy by cosponsoring last season’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played a leading role in the Canto. Most recently, the Mellon Foundation has provided generous leadership advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of the operatic repertoire, funding for Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative, specifically focused on the Community serving the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. Created Performances component, which plays a vital role Through production and program funding as well as a major challenge grant, in bringing together Chicago’s diverse communities and awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class artistic achievements. vocal traditions in celebration of the human voice. The Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. The THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) NEA has provided vital support for numerous Lyric Opera premieres, new Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman of productions, and revivals, most recently last season’s Les Troyens and this season’s trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of I Puritani. Rusalka in 2013/14 and cosponsored (2014/15), Wozzeck (2015/16), and The Magic Flute (2016/17). The Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in the U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors Lyric’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice this season.

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THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLS The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, John performing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly supported of Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of The Negaunee Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric Opera is extremely last season’s productions of The Magic Fluteand My Fair Lady. This season The grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ significant Negaunee Foundation is of the lead sponsor of both Così fan tutte and Jesus Christ leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Superstar. The Negaunee Foundation has also made a generous gift to the Breaking Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cultural Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. Retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool institutions benefitting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial Works and Retired Vice Chairman and CEO of The Marmon Group, Inc., John commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president serve Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Our as a member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. involvement with the opera company is truly a deeply rewarding experience for both of us.” Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity of John and SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL Alexandra Nichols. Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera subscribers and donors for many years, and have cosponsored several NORTHERN TRUST mainstage opera productions, including last season’s Lyric is honored to have Jana R. Schreuder, chief operating officer and this year’s The Pearl Fishers. of Northern Trust, serve as a member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, They made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Executive and Finance Committees, and William A. Osborn, Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as a member enjoyable to become part of the Lyric family and to give of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A leading back to a place that has given us so much pleasure. There have been many moments global financial services provider, Northern Trust has enjoyed a long- for both Dan and me when we have said, tonight is incredible, it is one of the Jana R. Schreuder standing and significant relationship with Lyric. Based in Chicago, memorable performances of our lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international the firm has played a major role supporting the Annual Campaign star and it is evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.”Lyric is and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust also provides vital leadership contributions honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Production to Lyric as presenting sponsor of the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. cosponsor of the Opera Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust has cosponsored several mainstage productions including last season’s My Fair THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION Lady. "Being a good corporate citizen is very During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg important," William Osborn once said. "It were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and allows us to do our part to help keep the City subscribed for more than 30 years. They were of Chicago strong and viable and, in the end, especially supportive of The Patrick G. and Shirley this is beneficial to everyone." W. Ryan Opera Center and loved to watch these young artists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. NUVEEN INVESTMENTS Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away Nuveen Investments, represented by Lyric Board of Directors in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and and Finance committee member John P. Amboian, has been an Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants enthusiastic supporter for more than three decades. “Lyric Opera to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ is one of the gems of Chicago; a world-class endeavor in every thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. aspect of its operation” proudly says John. Dedicated to developing the next generation of opera lovers, Nuveen Investments provided NIB FOUNDATION John P. Amboian general support for Lyric’s education and community engagement Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia initiatives, and has underwritten NEXT student discount tickets. and the late William Florian established the NIB Foundation to Nuveen Investments has also cosponsored several extend their support to many worthwhile arts and environmental mainstage opera productions and has committed causes. Sonia is a devoted member of the Lyric family, having a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. The NIB Campaign. Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions Sonia Florian including this season’s production of Orphée et Eurydice, and made MR. and MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHER a major commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of David In addition to their magnanimous financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder and CEO NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings of closerlook, inc., a Chicago-based digital marketing to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive agency serving the pharmaceutical industry since 1987. collections of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided a closerlook has given generously to Lyric Opera for naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro located on the third floor of the Lyric many years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Opera from 2009 Opera House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s to 2014 and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Park concert for six consecutive years. Most recently, David and Sheila generously Production Sponsorship Committee, and was provided an Operathon Challenge Grant, supported the Opera Ball, and made a awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most leadership gift towards the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is proud to prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding have David T. Ormesher serving as its Chairman of the Board of Directors, on the commitment to the company. Executive Committee, and on seven sub-committees of the Board.

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MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN PATRICK G. RYAN and Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN Lyric Opera family. They have subscribed to Lyric for Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication over two decades and enjoy participating in special of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when events such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have Auction. The Osborns have generously contributed to shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, Campaign. Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction Campaign, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s in 1988), and the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Initiative. In recognition of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness Capital Executive Committee. Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, underwriting this special POWERSHARES QQQ project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée PowerShares QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s premier artist development program was renamed The Director and Head of Global ETFs, PowerShares by Invesco, is Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center in recognition of their extraordinary proud to sponsor the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric Opera. gift to the Campaign for Excellence. Pat and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs They previously cosponsored the productions of Cinderella and of the Ryan Opera Center Board. A Vice President and a member of the Executive, Romeo and Juliet, and they generously cosponsored Lyric’s new Nominating/Governance, and Innovation Committees of Lyric’s Board of Directors production of The Magic Flute last season. During the 2017/18 and a distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Dan Draper season, PowerShares QQQ generously cosponsors Turandot. Ryan was awarded the 2007 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in PowerShares global network recognizes the value in helping recognition of her many years of devoted service to the company. investors around the world, but with headquarters in Downers Grove, "We also support Lyric Opera’s RICHARD O. RYAN deep engagement with the local community to foster A passionate supporter of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan a rich culture of arts right here in Chicago." Opera Center, Lyric’s premier artist development program, Richard cosponsors Ryan Opera Center soprano Ann Toomey. PRITZKER FOUNDATION An ardent opera lover, Richard has been a Lyric subscriber for The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of more than 45 years. He recently made a generous leadership arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign for the Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker stage improvement project. Richard proudly serves as a member of the Ryan Opera Foundation’s generous support of the Breaking New Center Board, and was formerly a Guild Board member. Lyric is grateful for the Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family munificent support of Richard Ryan. Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric Opera is DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. children, families and educational enrichment through the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of the Each year, these widely accessible performances at Lyric Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s Women’s Board, Jack and Catherine Scholl Opera of Chicago reach audiences of junior high and Anne was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Board of high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera for the first time. Lyric Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Committees; Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing Chris is also a valued member of the Board of Directors, support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine and serves on its Nominating/Governance and Finance A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. Committees. Together they have made important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage productions, including this EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. They have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda are major supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground Campaign, Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the and Lyric Unlimited. Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. The Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION most recently last season’s presentation of Norma. Lyric is honored A graduate of the University of Illinois and life-long arts philanthropist Lloyd E. to have Brenda Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well Rigler established the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation in 1977 in Brenda Shapiro as the Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited memory of his partner to provide major support to arts organizations in Los Angeles Committees. and nationwide. In 1994, the late Mr. Rigler established the Classic Arts Showcase in an effort to provide free arts programming to those who could not afford to attend WILLIAM and ARLENE STALEY live performances. Mr. Rigler’s nephew James Rigler now serves as President of the Loyal subscribers for more than four decades, Bill and Foundation and continues the important legacy established by his late uncle. As Orli Staley have contributed to the Annual Campaign Lyric strives to expand its reach and relevance, it is grateful to the Rigler-Deutsch as well as provided vital support for the Ryan Opera Foundation for its support of the annual Operathon broadcast on 98.7WFMT. The Center. Recently, they have enabled hundreds of students Rigler-Deutsch Foundation also generously cosponsored Lyric’s company premiere to see mainstage Lyric productions by supporting Lyric of Les Troyens last season and is cosponsoring Die Walküre this season. Unlimited’s Performances for Students initiative. Lyric is honored to have Orli Staley serve as a life member of the Ryan Opera Center Board. The Staleys join the production sponsor family this season with their generous cosponsorship of Lyric’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice.

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LIZ STIFFEL THE WALLACE FOUNDATION A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a The Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a longstanding and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for member of the Guild Board of Directors. She has cosponsored everyone. Wallace has an unusual approach: funding projects to test innovative several mainstage productions, most recently Carousel (2014/15), ideas for solving important social problems, conducting research to find out what Das Rheingold and My Fair Lady (both 2016/17), and this season’s works and what doesn’t and to fill key knowledge gaps – and then communicating new production of Orphée et Eurydice. Lyric has named Mezzanine the results to help others. Lyric Opera is the recipient of a multi-phase grant as Box 1 in recognition of her significant gift to the Breaking New part of the Foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative; the grant Ground Campaign. Liz Stiffel was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most is funding research and analysis of Lyric Opera prestigious honor, in recognition of her continuing dedication to Lyric. “I believe audiences, and will reveal ways in which Lyric can that Lyric and all art forms are beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that maximize its reach in the community. Lyric’s work mankind has to offer to our children, our nation, and ourselves.” will inform lessons that will be shared with the broader field. MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. WASHLOW Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generosity Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished members and leadership of the Vance Family. The Vances of the Lyric family. For more than four decades, have generously sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric they have enjoyed attending Lyric performances and premieres and new productions, most recently last special events, and have generously supported the season’s My Fair Lady. For many years, the Vances have Annual Campaign. Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, supported emerging singers through their sponsorship and Errant Families together sponsored more than 20 of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members. In addition, Lyric productions. The Washlows made a generous Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support Lyric Unlimited Carol and William Vance Breaking New Ground Campaign, and are generous activities. Roberta and Bob have annually remained valued members of the sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an production sponsorship family, and generously cosponsor this season’s production esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He of Rigoletto, their tenth opera cosponsorship, continuing a beloved family tradition. also serves as a life member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, of which he is a Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board past President. Bill Vance was awarded the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. “Opera has always touched me,” prestigious honor, in recognition of his leadership, steadfast support, and many years Roberta once said. “I love the drama, passion, music, and excitement of a live of devoted service to Lyric Opera. performance at Lyric. Nothing can replace it, and I hope this beautiful art form will continue for generations.” DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, HELEN and SAM ZELL and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys Helen and Sam Zell are passionate supporters of encouraging talented young artists as Lead Sponsor of Rising Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. They are longtime Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on subscribers to Lyric Opera and have contributed to the 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people Annual Campaign for many years. Helen and Sam have to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported cosponsored several new productions, most recently Donna Van Eekeren Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for the first two installments of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, Das college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. The Donna Rheingold (2016/17) and this season’s Die Walküre. Van Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions including Lyric’s premiere of Les Troyens (2016/17) and this season’s production of I Puritani. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Finance Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board.

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The Breaking New Ground Campaign was launched in January 2013 to implement the company’s blueprint for a world-class, twenty-first century opera company. This Campaign allows Lyric to continue to produce major productions of the highest caliber, update media, marketing, and audience development programs, and fortify Lyric’s endowment. The current focus of the Campaign is to modernize the stage of the Ardis Krainik Theatre with state-of-the-art equipment. To that end, we have established a new Insull Society comprised of loyal patrons who are contributing $10,000 or more for this critically important stage project. To join the Insull Society, please call 312.827.5675. Lyric Opera is grateful to the following donors who have made contributions of $5,000 and above to the Campaign as of July 1, 2017.

Anonymous Jim and Kay Mabie Caerus Foundation, Inc. Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel David and Orit Carpenter Nuveen Investments The Monument Trust (UK) Sheila and David Ormesher The Negaunee Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols PwC J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation David Ramon* Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Estate of Marilyn J. Snoble

Julie and Roger Baskes John and Ann Amboian Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Robert and Evelyn McCullen Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross* Allan and Elaine Muchin Nancy W. Knowles Northern Trust Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Susan and Robert E. Wood II

Anonymous Anonymous (2) Abbott and Abbott Fund Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Estate of Nelson D. Cornelius The Barker Welfare Foundation* The Crown Family Marion A. Cameron Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson* Ann and Reed Coleman* Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Nancy Dehmlow Estate of Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque Anonymous (2) John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Julius Frankel Foundation Elaine Frank* Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust* Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz and The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust* Sue and Melvin Gray* Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Lavin Family Foundation Josef and Margot Lakonishok Brooks and Hope McCormick Foundation Estate of Arthur B. Logan Blythe Jaski McGarvie Robert H. Malott Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan J. Cellmer Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Edward B. Rouse and Barbara R. Rouse Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Stephen A. Kaplan and Alyce K. Sigler Anne Zenzer Rose L. Shure Trust Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas* Anonymous Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. Washlow The Butler Family Foundation* Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Jack and Peggy Crowe Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Anonymous ITW Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Edgar D. Jannotta Family Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family Foundation NIB Foundation Joyce Chelberg* Pritzker Foundation Vinay Couto and Lynn Vincent Estate of Harry A. Root, Jr. Ann M. Drake Richard O. Ryan Lois and Steve Eisen/Eisen Family Foundation Clark and Adine Stayman Trusts Lloyd Gerlach, in memory of Mary Ann Gerlach* Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance* Virginia and Gary Gerst* Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis Ada and Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein James N. and Laurie V. Bay Phillip and Norma Gordon* Bulley & Andrews HMR Designs Amy and Paul Carbone Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Considine Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Patricia Hyde Ethel and William Gofen Susan M. Miller* Jenner & Block Near North Chapter*

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Breaking New Ground - continued

William C. and Nancy Richardson* Mrs. John H. Andersen* Michal C. Wadsworth Candy and Gary Ridgway* Dr. Michael Angell* Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Collin and Lili Roche Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr.* David and Linda Wesselink Mrs. Robert E. Sargent E. M. Bakwin Marsha Serlin Helen Brach Foundation Anonymous (2) Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil* Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Mary Stowell Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield* Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman* Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Anonymous Howard E. Jessen Jane B. and John C. Colman Ken and Amy Aldridge* Dr. Anne M. Juhasz* Mitch Crask, Ph.D. American Airlines Elizabeth A. Khalil* Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Burt and Mary Ann Lewis* Drs. George and Sally Dunea Diane and Michael Beemer* Maura Ann McBreen Daniel Groteke and Patricia Taplick Ross and Patricia D. Bender* Sarah Miller* Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Davis Matt and Carrie Parr Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Erika E. Erich* Karen and Tom Phillips* Carrie and Harry Hightman Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Allan and Meline Pickus Foundation Capt. Bernardo Iorgulesco USMC Memorial Fund Mary Patricia Gannon Ellie Radvanovsky* Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan James R. Grimes The Rhoades Foundation* John and Mary Kohlmeier Carl J. Hildner* Norman Sackar* Richard and Susan Levy James and Mary Houston Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell* Lester and Mary Jane Marriner Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Claudia Saran Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor The King Family Foundation Alan Schriesheim* Kate B. Morrison Reinhardt H. and Shirley R. Jahn Foundation* Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Ellie Radvanovsky Kenneth R. Norgan Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander* Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Ilene Simmons Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Mrs. John Stanek Howard Solomon and Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Virginia Tobiason* Ms. Carla M. Thorpe David J. Varnerin* Richard and Marietta Toft* Gwenyth B. Warton W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp* Pam and David Waud Owen and Linda Youngman* U.S. Bank* Mrs. John A. Wing Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice *Insull Society Member: Gifts of $10,000 or more allocated to the stage renovation. Lyric is extremely grateful to the many donors who have made gifts of less than $5,000 to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Space limitations prevent listing the names of these donors but their generosity is sincerely appreciated. Look To The Future – Endowed Chairs and Programs ENDOWED CHAIRS The Guild Board of Directors LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED FUNDS The Women’s Board General Director Verdi Endowed Chair Estate of Robert and Isabelle Bass Endowed Chair Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift From An George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth In Loving Memory Of Ardis Krainik Anonymous Donor Education Endowment Fund John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Music Director Endowed Chair Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Concertmaster John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Director Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair Endowed Chair RYAN OPERA CENTER ENDOWED Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Chapters’ Endowed Chair For Education FUNDS Lighting Designer Endowed Chair In Memory Of Alfred Glasser Anonymous In Honor Of Duane Schuler The Ryan Opera Center Board Opera Center Thomas Doran Jannotta Family Ryan Opera Center Director Endowed Chair J. Thomas Hurvis In Memory of Richard P. Kiphart Music Director Endowed Chair Edgar D. Jannotta Family Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Philip G. Lumpkin Robert and Ellen Marks American Opera Vocal Studies Program Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Robert Marks In Honor Of Gianna Rolandi Estate of Marjorie Mayhall Baroque Opera Endowed Chair – A Gift From Allan and Elaine Muchin Production and An Anonymous Donor Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Fund for Music Technical Director Endowed Chair Lois B. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Bel Canto Opera Endowed Chair Joanne Silver Endowed Chair The Lois L. Ward Trust W. James and Maxine P. Farrell In Memory Of Harold Beider French Opera Endowed Chair Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment Fund Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED PROGRAM Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Distinguished Conductor Award Endowed Chair Sarah and A. Watson Armour III PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND Regenstein Foundation Mozart Endowed Chair Nelson Cornelius Trust In Memory Of Ruth Regenstein James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Mary Patricia Gannon Joanne Silver Puccini Endowed Chair

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 53 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors—Special Events and Project Support Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by October 1, 2017. Annual Meeting Dinner 2017 Thierer Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. and Daria M. Lewicky Strategy&, part of the PwC network U.S. Bank/Marsha Cruzan Florence D. McMillan/Cynthia Sargent Audience Development Initiative Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Quarles & Brady LLP/Patrick J. Bitterman The Wallace Foundation Operathon Reed Smith LLP Collin and Lili Roche Ardmore Associates Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse 98.7WFMT The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family Operathon Merchandise Sponsor Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen The John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Foundation Fellowes, Inc. Nancy S. Searle Cast Parties Orphée et Eurydice PBS Great Performances Mary Lynne Shafer Donald and Anne Edwards Lead Sponsor Skadden/Rodd Schreiber and Susan Hassan Judy and Bill Goldberg Liz Stiffel Spencer Stuart Liz Stiffel Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Meredith and Patrick Wood Prince/ Sonia Florian Prince Charitable Trusts Innovation Initiative Margot and Josef Lakonishok Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Additional Support Wine Auction 2018 Lyric Signature Events Ethel and William Gofen Presenting Sponsor: PwC Jim and Kay Mabie Northern Trust United Scrap Metal, Inc. Overture Society Luncheons Catalogue Sponsor: Official Airline Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Liz Stiffel American Airlines Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Susan M. Miller Dinner Wine Sponsor Opening Night Gala Anonymous Aon Piotr Beczała in Recital Lauter McDougal Family Foundation Wine Auction Reception Sponsor: Opera Ball Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. ITW Planned Giving Seminars Northern Trust William Blair & Company Official Airline: American Airlines Opening Night Gala and Opera Ball Fund Morgan Stanley (2) Abbott Projected English Titles Premium Patrons: Ada and Whitney Addington Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Anonymous BMO Harris Bank Foundation Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder Renée Fleming Initiative Mrs. Audre D. Carlin CIBC Bank USA Anonymous Amy and Paul Carbone Donald and Anne Edwards Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Greg and Mamie Case Brent and Katie Gledhill The Crown Family closerlook, inc. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein J. Thomas Hurvis The Comer Foundation Fund ITW The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family The Crown Family Make It Better Media John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Eisen Family Foundation Jenner & Block LLP Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro Jr. Annie and Gregory K. Jones Family Foundation Harris Family Foundation Spring Musical Celebration 2017 Rebecca and Lester Knight King and Caryn Harris Lead Sponsor: Silvia and Jay Krehbiel Pam and Joe Szokol Zurich Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison William and Cathleen Osborn Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Premium Patrons: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation Bain & Company John Raitt Jenner & Block Baird Rebecca and Lester Knight Erica L. Sandner Bulley & Andrews/Suzette and Allan Bulley Sipi Metals Corporation Nancy W. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. Michel W. Ferro, Jr. Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Carl and Marilynn Thoma Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz UL Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn First Midwest Bank J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Additional Support: Betsy and Andy Rosenfield J. Thomas Hurvis Greg and Mamie Case Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan ITW Lois and Steve Eisen Nancy S. Searle Annie and Greg Jones Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Edgar D. Jannotta Liz Stiffel KPMG LLP Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Ellen and Jim Stirling Lazard Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Stu Hirsh Orchestra

54 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of Lyric Unlimited programs. Listings include contributors of gifts of $5,000 and above received by October 1, 2017. With Major Support from the Caerus Foundation, Inc. Caminos a la ópera (Pathways to Opera) Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Rosy and Jose Luis Prado

Chicago Voices Leadership Funding: J. Thomas Hurvis The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ford Foundation Additional Support: The Chicago Community Trust City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Hundreds of students go behind the scenes at the Lyric Opera House though Lyric Unlimited Student Backstage Tours Eisen Family Foundation Baxter International, Inc. Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Empower Youth! Helen Brach Foundation Patricia Hyde Igniting Creativity through the Arts Renée Fleming Nuveen Investments Leadership Funding: Eric and Deb Hirschfield Centene Charitable Foundation The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Pre-Opera Talks Additional Support: Morris & Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund Raynette and Ned Boshell Eisen Family Foundation Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Molex Senior Matinee MUFG Buehler Family Foundation Family Day at Lyric Northern Trust Lannan Foundation Bank of America Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Fellow Travelers Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer The Retirement Research Foundation The Wallace Foundation Siragusa Family Foundation Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund NEXT Student Ticket Program Leadership Funding: Student Backstage Tours General Support The Grainger Foundation Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Leadership Funding: Additional Support: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Youth Opera Council Paul and Mary Anderson Terry J. Medhurst Additional Support: Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Penelope and Robert Steiner Anonymous (3) The Brinson Foundation The Barker Welfare Foundation Elaine Frank

With Major Support provided from the Nancy W. Knowles Stars of Lyric Opera at Student and Family Performances Fund Millennium Park 2017 Chicago Public Schools Bus Scholarship John Hart and Carol Prins Lead Sponsor: U.S. Bank Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation closerlook, inc. Segal Family Foundation Cosponsors: Opera in the Neighborhoods Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Anonymous Anonymous Donor The Scorpions’ Sting Amy and Paul Carbone Opera Residencies for Schools Anonymous (2) Crain-Maling Foundation Anonymous Joyce Chelberg Fifth Third Bank BNY Mellon Dover Foundation Annie & Greg Jones Family Foundation Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Brent and Katie Gledhill Sipi Metals Corp. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Robert and Evelyn McCullen Lake Geneva Chapter Polk Bros. Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Walter Family Foundation Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Performances for Students Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow Patricia Hyde Bulley & Andrews Wintrust Community Banks Music Performance Trust Fund and Film Funds Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund

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Join the best wineries, collectors, and sommeliers as we celebrate 30 years of wine, women, and song. A project of the Women’s Board, this marquee fundraiser auctions some of the world's greatest wines, luxury trips to exotic locales, and one-of-a- kind experiences, all from The Ken Pigott Stage of the historic Ardis Krainik Theatre!

Wine Auction Co-Chairs: Keith Kiley Goldstein and Nancy S. Searle Catalogue Sponsor: Liz Sti el Dinner Wine Sponsor: Anonymous Reception Sponsor: Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. LYRIC’S FAMED 2018 Honored Guest Winery: Château Margaux 2018 Honoree: Shirley Welsh Ryan O‡ cial Airline: American Airlines WINE AUCTION Auctioneers: Hart Davis Hart

RETURNS APRIL ,   PRESENTING SPONSOR

Donations of rare and fine wines, champagnes and spirits, rooms in five-star hotels, and luxury gift items are appreciated at this time. Please contact the Women’s Board office at 312-827-5682 or visit us at www.lyricopera.org/wineauction2018.

Commemorative Gifts Gifts of $500 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness. In Memory Of: Ardis Krainik Ruth and Irving Waldshine Christina and Ron Gidwitz Dorothy A. Angelos from Mr. and Mrs. Mead Montgomery from Deane Ellis from Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kearney from Mychal P. Angelos and Elizabeth Welsh Sheila von Wiese Ruth Ann Gillis Irene Antoniou John A. Leer Jr., MD from her many friends and family from Lisbeth Stiffel from her many friends and family from Mary Anne Leer Nikolay Zhizhin Keith Kiley Goldstein Jeane Ayers Millicent Leibfritz from Larisa Zhizhin from Patricia O. Cox from her many friends and family from Ms. Linda Kutt Edgar D. Jannotta John R. Blair Hugo Melvoin In Honor Of: from Sandra L. Grung from Mrs. John R. Blair from Melvoin Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes Baby Krehbiel Sandra Box Virginia Byrne Mooney from Michael and Sally Feder, The Irving from Marie Campbell from Barbara Box from John and Kathleen Vondran Harris Foundation, Ruth Ann M. Gillis Margot and Josef Lakonishok Martha A. Boyce Dr. Antonio Navarrete and Michael J. McGuinnis, and from Liz and Arsen Manugian from David E. Boyce from Virginia Navarrete Sheli and Burt Rosenberg Mary Anne Leer Jack Crowe Kenneth G. Pigott Julie Baskes from The Warranty Group from Lisbeth Stiffel from Renée Fleming from John Holzhueter and Peter J. Wender Jeanne Malkin Lois Dunn Dr. Robert A. Pringle Jim Baughman from Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg from Kathy Dunn from Marla McCormick Pringle from Marilyn and Lillian Spracker and and an Anonymous donor Floyd Fulkerson Bertha Goodman Rabin Michael and Sally Feder Mrs. Chris Murphy from Mr. and Mrs. David Bomier from Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Janet Burch from Prince Charitable Trusts Catherine Graham Joan Richards from Mr. Gordon Brodfuehrer and Sue Niemi from Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan, from Craig A. Sirles Roberta Evans from Elaine and Harold Blatt James N. and Laurie V. Bay, Howard Morton Robins Renee Crown Rachel Peterson Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa, from his many friends and family from Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow from Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss, Edwin J. Seeboeck Lois and Steve Eisen Sondra Radvanovsky Lisbeth Stiffel, and Elizabeth Taylor from James Heim from Mrs. Myrna Kaplan and from Ellie Radvanovsky Marion Greenman Stephen Schulson Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Karger Jr. Richard Ryan from her many friends and family from Susan B. Schulson Maxine Farrell from Sally and Michael Feder Katie Jacobson Dr. Alan J. Shapiro from Abbott Fund Shirley Ryan from Lisbeth Stiffel from Sherie Coren Shapiro Sally and Michael Feder from J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Lee and Billey Jennings Donald Sinclair from Nora Jaskowiak and Foundation and Marlene Phillips from Alfred G. Goldstein from Mr. Edward Sanderson Matthew Hinerfeld Mary Selander Richard P. Kiphart Janet Thau Sally Feder from Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Hennessy and from Renée Fleming, J. Thomas Hurvis, from Evanston Chapter and her many from Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Melissa Hennessy and his many friends and family friends and family Renée Fleming Liz Stiffel William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt Dr. William Warren from Ms. Paula Milone, Robert L. Turner, from Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. from Sheila Ann Hegy from Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin and The Eloise Susanna Gale Foundation McGuinnis and Janis Wellin Notz and Nancy W. Knowles Isabel H Thompson Regan and Philip Friedman John K. Notz Jr. from Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow from an Anonymous Donor from Mrs. Myrna Kaplan and Roberta and Robert Washlow Nancy Wald Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Karger Jr. from Dr. and Mrs. Mark D. Blitstein from Humanist Fund

56 | December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Dan Novak Craig Terry Julia Faulkner Renée Fleming Faculty Director Music Director Director of Vocal Studies Advisor Julia Faulkner The Ryan Opera Center The Jannotta Family Elizabeth F. Cheney Gianna Rolandi Board Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Foundation W. Stephen Smith Voice Instruction Ensemble The Robert and Ellen Marks Vocal Studies Program Endowed Chair in honor of Gianna Rolandi

Marco Armiliato Harry Bicket Deborah Birnbaum Sir Andrew Davis Matthew A. Epstein Renée Fleming Matthew Polenzani Guest Master Artists Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Contralto WHITNEY DIANA ANN LINDSAY LAUREN MORRISON NEWMAN TOOMEY METZGER DECKER Alan Darling Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Laurann Gilley J. Thomas Hurvis Anonymous Donor, The Susan and Richard P. Anonymous Donor Anonymous Donor, Bénédicte Jourdois Michael and Salme Kiphart Family, Richard O. Susan M. Miller, Celeste Rue Harju Steinberg, Ryan, Richard W. Shepro Thierer Family Eric Weimer Mrs. J. W. and Lindsay E. Roberts Foundation Pedro Yanez Van Gorkom Coaching Staff

Julia Klein Derek Matson Marina Vecci Alessandra Visconti Melissa Wittmeier Foreign Language Instruction

Dawn Arnold Tenor Tenor Tenor Baritone Baritone Katie Klein ALEC JOSH MARIO EMMETT TAKAOKI CARLSON LOVELL ROJAS O’HANLON ONISHI Elise Sandell Acting and Movement Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Stepan Company Maurice J. and Elizabeth F. Cheney George L. Jewell, Renée Fleming Instruction Patricia Frank Foundation Lois B. Siegel, Foundation, Drs. Joan and Russ International Orit Carpenter Zajtchuk Foundation for Arts Performance Psychology and Culture Roger Pines Guest Lecturer and Consultant

Artistic/Production Personnel Kathleen Kelly Edwin Outwater Conductors

Elise Sandell Director

Bass-Baritone Bass Pianist Peggy Stenger ALAN PATRICK MADELINE HIGGS GUETTI SLETTEDAHL Bill Walters Stage Managers Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Heidi Heutel Bohn, The C. G. Pinnell Nancy Dehmlow, Lawrence O. Corry, Family Loretta N. Julian, Theresa Ham Robert C. Marks Philip G. Lumpkin Lucy Lindquist Maureen Reilly Wardrobe

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 57 Alumni Perform at Lyric — and Around the World — in 2017/18

AMBER WAGNER (Title role/Turandot) I can say without hesitation that my time in the Ryan Opera Center launched my singing career. I started the program as green as they come, and with the support of the coaching staff, Gianna Rolandi and Sir Andrew Davis, I was able to hone my craft and carve out a niche for myself that has allowed me to sing all over the world! I had some amazing moments on and off stage during my three-year tenure, but I would have to say my favorite was going on as Annina, Violetta’s maid, in La traviata. It was actually my Lyric stage debut, and Violetta was being sung by the amazing Renée Fleming! Getting to be on stage with her and watch her from the wings was indescribable—plus, I got my own dressing room with my name on the door! There are so many things I can say and share about this outstanding and remarkable program, the most important being THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone at Lyric for taking me on and giving me memories and opportunities that have completely changed my life!

WILL LIVERMAN JOHN IRVIN Seattle Opera Pesaro, Italy Il barbiere di Siviglia Le siège de Corinthe ELIZABETH DeSHONG The Metropolitan Opera Semiramide

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago is recognized as one of the premier professional artist-development programs in the world. To make a gift in support of the Ryan Opera Center’s efforts, or for more information, please visit lyricopera.org/ryanoperacenter, or call Meaghan Stainback at 312.827.5691. LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by October 1, 2017. ANDREW CIOFFI Artist Support, Special Events, (Left to right) First year bass-baritone Alan Higgs with Ryan Opera Center alumni and Project Sponsors Quinn Kelsey and Matthew Polenzani in Rigoletto.

Duds for Divas Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross

Final Auditions Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Cozad Family

Foreign Language Instruction Erma S. Medgyesy

Guest Master Artist Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Launchpad Marcus Boggs Leslie Fund, Inc. General Support Artist Circle Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III ($5,000 to $9,999) Aria Society Anonymous (3) Master Classes ($100,000 and above) Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Anonymous Thomas Doran Martha A. Hesse Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mrs. Sheila Dulin Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Lloyd A. Fry Foundation National Auditions Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis American Airlines Distinguished Benefactors James and Mary Houston ($25,000 to $49,999) The Kip Kelley Family No Tenors Allowed Celebration Ingrid Peters Lyric Young Professionals Lead Individual Sponsor: Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Ensemble Friends Marilee and Richard Wehman Lead Corporate Sponsor: ($10,000 to $24,999) Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Mayer Brown LLP Anonymous Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Benefit Table Purchasers: C. Bekerman, M.D. Anonymous (3) Tamara Conway Julie and Roger Baskes Anne Megan Davis Michael and Sally Feder Rising Stars in Concert Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney April 1, 2017 Julian Family Foundation Drucker Philip G. Lumpkin Erika E. Erich Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Lead Sponsor: Michael and Sally Feder Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mary Patricia Gannon Dr. Scholl Foundation Sue and Melvin Gray Sponsors: Thierer Family Foundation Miriam U. Hoover Debbie K. Wright Dentons US LLP Illinois Arts Council Ann M. Drake Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial Don and Abby Funk Renée Fleming Master Class Fund Julian Family Foundation Sue and Melvin Gray Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Howard Family Foundation Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Patricia A. Kenney and Training Program The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust National Endowment for the Arts Gregory J. O’Leary Phyllis Neiman Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Margo and Michael Oberman and Family Voice Instruction Family Foundation Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Anonymous The George L. Shields Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood OptumRx Mary Ellen Hennessy Dan and Patty Walsh Jennifer L. Stone Walter Family Foundation Rising Stars in Concert Broadcast Harriet Weinstein Donna Van Eekeren Foundation WFMT Recital Series Dr. David H. Whitney and Dr. Juliana Chyu Julie and Roger Baskes Debbie K. Wright Rising Stars in Concert Reception Estate of Audrey A. Zywicki Workshop Performances Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Martha A. Hesse

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Overture Society The Overture Society consists of those esteemed supporters who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts, or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric in the future. These generous gifts ensure Lyric’s artistic progress well into the twenty-first century for the benefit of future Lyric audiences. Lyric is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society: Bel Canto Benefactors These Overture Society members have made a major planned gift to Lyric as well as a generous annual gift. For information about the Bel Canto Benefactors, please call Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Senior Director of Planned Giving, at 312.827.5677. Anonymous (18) James W. Chamberlain Concordia Hoffmann Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Larry G. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Paula Hannaway Crown Edgar D. Jannotta Murphy Craig Sirles Louise Abrahams Renée Crown Ronald B. Johnson David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Joan M. Solbeck Dr. Whitney Addington Thomas Doran John and Kerma Karoly John H. Nelson Mrs. Jay Spaulding Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson Kip Kelley John D. and Alexandra C. Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Ross C. Anderson Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. James C. Kemmerer Nichols Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Karen G. Andreae Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng LeRoy and Laura Klemt John Nigh Mary Stowell Catherine Aranyi Robert F. Finke Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Joan L. Pantsios Carla M. Thorpe L. Robert Artoe Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone Dr. W. Peter Hansen Irma Parker Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Elaine Frank Dr. William R. Lawrence Julia Pernet Virginia Tobiason Alvin R. Beatty Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Thomas and Lise Lawson Frances Pietch Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason Marlys A. Beider Rhoda and Henry S. Frank Carol L. Linne Kenneth Porrello and Sherry Joan and Marco Weiss Julie Anne Benson Richard J. Franke Philip G. Lumpkin McFall Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Merrill and Judy Blau Mary Patricia Gannon Daniel T. Manoogian Nathaniel W. Pusey Claudia L. Winkler Ann Blickensderfer George and Mary Ann Gardner Robert C. Marks Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Florence Winters Dr. Gregory L. Boshart James K. Genden and Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Lyn and Bill Redfield Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Danolda (Dea) Brennan Alma Koppedraijer Nancy Lauter McDougal Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk George F. and Linda L. Brusky Sue and Melvin Gray Bill Melamed Chatka Ruggiero Edward T. Zasadil Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Harry J. Griffiths, M.D. Margaret and Craig Milkint Mary T. Schafer Anne Zenzer Budzik Julian W. Harvey Susan M. Miller Martha P. Schneider Christopher Carlo and Robert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy David and Justine K. Mintzer Charles Chris Shaw Chaney Mrs. John C. Hedley James and Mary Beth Morehouse Lois B. Siegel David and Orit Carpenter Josephine E. Heindel Allan and Elaine Muchin Ilene Simmons

Society Members Anonymous (43) Esther Charbit Kenneth Fiske Laurence P. Johnson Gia and Paul McDermott Valerie and Joseph Abel Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Nancy E. Johnson William F. McHugh Carol A. Abrioux Ramona Choos Barbara Gail Franch Roy A. Johnson Florence D. McMillan Judy Allen J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo James Victor Franch Ms. Barbara Mair Jones Leoni Zverow McVey and Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Heinke K. Clark Ms. Susan Frankel Janet Jones J. William McVey Elizabeth M. Ashton Robert and Margery Coen Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. Moreen C. Jordan Martina M. Mead Richard N. Bailey Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Conroy Allen J. Frantzen Dr. Anne Juhasz Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader David G. Baker Sharon Conway Dr. Paul Froeschl Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Susann Ball Sarah J. Cooney Marie and Gregory Fugiel Stuart Kane Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Constance and Liduina Dr. W. Gene Corley Family Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Lady Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Mesrobian Barbantini Joseph E. Corrigan Witton Kenneth Kelling Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Margaret Basch Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Susan Boatman Garland Paul R. Keske Ms. Barbara Terman Michaels Mrs. Bill Beaton B. A. Coussement Scott P. George Chuck and Kathy Killman Marilyn E. Miller Lynn Bennett Morton and Una Creditor Mr. Lyle Gillman Diana Hunt King Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Joan I. Berger Kathryn M. Cunningham John F. Gilmore Neil King Vlasta A. “Vee” Minarich Barbara Bermudez Barbara L. Dean Bruce A. Gober, M.D. and Esther G. Klatz BettyAnn Mocek and Patrick J. Bitterman Donald A. Deutsch Donald H. Ratner R. William Klein, Jr. Adam R. Walker M. J. Black Phyllis Diamond John A. Goldstein J. Peter Kline Robert and Lois Moeller Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Roger Dickinson Dr. J. Brian Greis Helen Kohr Dr. Virginia Saft Mond D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Ms. Janet E. Diehl James R. Grimes Shirley Krsinich Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Patricia Grogan Mary S. Kurz Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Munoz Ned and Raynette Boshell Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Carolyn Hallman Larry Lapidus Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nickels David Boyce Dobroski Carl J. Halperin Barbara K. Larsen Edward A. Nieminen Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Ms. Barbara J. Doerner Ms. Geraldine Haracz Henrietta Leary Florence C. Norstrom Robert and Phyllis Brauer Thomas M. Dolan Andrew Hatchell Ernest L. Lester Linda Moses Novak Mrs. William A. Briggs Mary Louise Duhamel William P. Hauworth Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Levy Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Candace Balfour Broecker and Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David J. Hayden Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson the Estate of Howard W. Kathy Dunn Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Lewicky Stephen S. Orphanos Broecker Richard L. Eastline Ronald G. Hedberg Carole F. Liebson Jonathan Orser Leona and Daniel Bronstein Carol A. Eastman Mary Mako Helbert Doris C. Lorz Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Kathryn Y. Brown Lowell and Judy Eckberg Martha A. Hesse Eva Lutovsky George R. Paterson Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown Lucy A. Elam, in memory of Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Dr. Joan E. Patterson Jacqueline Brumlik Elizabeth Elam Mrs. Marion Hoffman Jeanne Randall Malkin George Pepper, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman James and Mary Lunz Houston Ann Chassin Mallow Elizabeth Anne Peters III Cherelynn A. Elliott H. Eileen Howard Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Susanne P. Petersson Steven and Helen Buchanan Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Joseph H. Huebner Mrs. John Jay Markham Genevieve M. Phelps Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger Joseph R. Ender Kenneth N. Hughes James Massie and Karen and Dick Pigott and Mr. William Burger Dr. James A. Eng Michael Huskey Dr. Christine Winter Massie Ms. Lois Polakoff Muriel A. Burnet Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Engel Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Michael M. and Diane Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Lisa Bury Martha L. Faulhaber USMC Memorial Fund Mazurczak Mrs. Edward S. Price Robert J. Callahan Nadine Ferguson Barbara A. Joabson James G. and Laura G. Roberta Lyn Anderson Rains Patrick V. Casali Felicia Finkelman John Arthur Johnson McCormick Robert L. Rappel, Jr.

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Sherrie Kahn Reddick Eugene Rzym, in memory of Mary Soleiman Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Eric Weimer and Edwin Hanlon Keith A. Reed and Adaline Rzym Elaine Soter Jean M. Turnmire Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Beth Kesterson Reed David Sachs Philip and Sylvia Spertus Paul and Judith Tuszynski Joanna L. Weiss Michael and Susan “Holly” Mrs. Philip H. Schaff, Jr. James A. Staples Ultmann Family Charitable James M. Wells Reiter Douglas M. Schmidt Sherie B. Stein Remainder Unitrust Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Evelyn R. Richer Franklin R. Schmidt K. M. Stelletello Marlene A. Van Skike Sandra Wenner Jennie M. Righeimer Lois K. Schmidt J. Allyson Stern Raita Vilnins Caroline C. Wheeler Gerald L. Ritholz Donald Seibert Carol A. Stitzer Dr. Malcolm Vye Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Mary Raffetto-Robins Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw Norene W. Stucka Darcy Lynn Walker Nora Winsberg Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Mette and David Shayne Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Gary T. Walther David G. Winter in memory of Robert Kyts David A. Sherman Emily J. Su Albert Wang Brien and Cathy Wloch Mrs. Beth Wheeler Rome Jared Shlaes Peggy Sullivan Louella Krueger Ward Mrs. William Wunder James and Janet Rosenbaum Dr. Alfred L. and Mildred Siegel Sherwin A. Swartz Boyd Edmonston & Edward Dr. Debra L. Zahay Dr. John Gregory Russo Joanne Silver Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Warro Endowment Fund Daniel R. Zillmann Joseph C. Russo Andrew Barry Simmons and Cheryl L. Thaxton Karl N. Wechter Audrey A. Zywicki Dennis Ryan Mitchell Loewenthal-Grassini Lauritz K. Thomsen Patricia M. Wees Louise M. Ryssmann Dr. Ira Singer Karen Hletko Tiersky Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Norman and Mirella Smith Myron Tiersky Claude M. Weil

Estate Gifts The following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric. Due to space limitations, listings include all bequests received from July 1, 2012 to the present. With deepest regards, Lyric commemorates those departed friends who have honored us with this most profound commitment. Anonymous (2) Regina C. Fain Mrs. Israel Kirsh Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Philip and David Slesur Family Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Roy Fisher Russell V. Kohr Mary G. Oppenheim Trust Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson Armour Darlene Fiske Nancy W. Knowles Venrice R. Palmer Marilyn J. Snoble III Lynette Flowers Dr. Bruce Korth Richard Pearlman Charitable Ms. Geraldine A. Spatz James Ascareggi Robert B. Fordham Anne C. Lacovic Trust Fund for Music Jay Spaulding Elsa E. and Walter (Fred) Bandi Thomas Frisch Marjorie Lanterman Andre Pernet Clarke and Adine Stayman Trusts Vincent Barresi Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Sarrah Lapinsky Seymour H. Persky Charitable James L. Stein Velma Berry In memory of Carl and Fern Walter and Millicent Leibfritz Trust Howard A. Stotler Rev. Dr. Warren Best Gaensslen Ernest Lester Ira J. Peskind Gerald Sunko, M.D. Edward F. Blettner Marital Trust Dr. Martin L. Gecht and Francey Dr. Arthur G. Lipman Helen Petersen Joseph Tiritilli Joanell C. Breen Gecht Rosalie Loeding Sidney L. Port Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Donna Brunsma Carlyn E. Goettsch Arthur B. Logan Jack and Eleanor Portis Annuity Trust Elizabeth Capilupo Shirley and Benjamin Gould Mary Longbrake Lyn Redfield Phil and Paula Turner Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Endowment Fund Eva Lutovsky Joan L. Richards Dr. John E. Ultmann Trust Allen Greenberger Marjorie A. Mayhall George T. Rhodes Dr. Paul D. Urnes Robert P. Cooke Lester and Betty Guttman Paul Mavros Howard M. Robins John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Nelson D. Cornelius Elaine H. Hansen Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Harry A. Root Trust Marianne Deson-Herstein Trust, Capt. Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Alfred L. McDougal H. Cary Ross Sheila von Wiese-Mack in memory of her parents Kenneth L. Harder Trust Bette S. McGee Margaret R. Sagers Lydia Walkowiak Samuel and Sarah Deson John C. Hedley Renate Moser Thomas W. Scheuer James M. Wells Jane Warner Dick, in honor of Margot S. Hertz Doris A. Murdoch S. Leder (Lee) Schiff Jane B. White Edison Dick James and Gail Hickey Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Roy Schmaltz Paul and Virginia Wilcox Christopher D. Doemel Dagmar Hurbanek Foundation Edwin J. and Margaret W. Josephine S. Dryer Deborah Jannotta Dawn Clark Netsch Seeboeck Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque Amyl W. Johnson, Jr. Dr. Robert and Brigitte Nehaus Dr. Joseph Semrow Mrs. Ray Duncan Diana T. Jones John and Maynette Neundorf Michael N. Shallow Bettie B. Dwinell Joseph M. Kacena Mrs. Oliver Nickels Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Kelli Gardner Emery Stuart Kane Joan Ruck Nopola Shure William J. Evans Sherry Kelley Rex N. Olsen Joan M. Skepnek

Planned Giving Advisory Council Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chairman

Patrick Bitterman, Quarles & Brady LLP Michael A. LoVallo, Reed Smith Christopher Brathwaite, William Blair Louis Marchi, Fidelity Investments Mary C. Downie, BMO Financial Group Judy McCue, retired, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Barbara Grayson, Jenner & Block David McNeel, CIBC Marguerite H. Griffin, Northern Trust Gina Oderda, Mayer Brown Benetta Jenson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank Lynne L. Pantalena, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management Neil Kawashima, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Kathleen O’Hagan Scallan, Loeb & Loeb Dorothy Korbel, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management Anita Medina Tyson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 61 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Corporate Partnerships

Lyric Opera gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received by October 1, 2017. For more information about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at 312.827.5693 or [email protected]. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR BENEFACTOR FRIEND $10,000 to $24,999 $5,000 to $7,499 $1,000 to $1,999 Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys at Law Italian Village Restaurants Cartier Baird Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Concierge Unlimited International BNY Mellon Shure Incorporated Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation Kinder Morgan Foundation CNA BRAVO CIRCLE Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust Evans Food Group $3,500 to $4,999 Michuda Construction, Inc. First Midwest Bank Corporate Suites Network Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Molex Old Republic International Corporation MUFG Morgan Stanley S&C Foundation OPERA America IMPRESARIO Turks’ Greenhouses Quarles & Brady LLP $2,000 to $3,499 Reed Smith LLP American Agricultural Insurance Company SUSTAINER Wintrust Community Banks BNSF Foundation $500 to $999 Enterprise Holdings Foundation Law Office of Phillip Brigham LLC PREMIER BENEFACTOR Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Children’s Law Group LLC $7,500 to $9,999 MWM Consulting Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Amsted Industries Foundation Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. Network for Good Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation Rooney Rippie & Ratnaswamy LLP Envestnet William Blair & Company Matching Gifts A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees’ gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous CNA Foundation ITW Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Allstate Giving Program ConAgra Johnson & Johnson The Retirement Research Foundation Aon Foundation Doing Good LLC Johnson Controls Foundation The Rhoades Foundation Bank of America Foundation Emerson Electric JPMorgan Chase Foundation The Warranty Group Baxter International Foundation General Mills Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur United Technologies Corporation Benevity Community Impact Fund Graham Holdings Foundation W. W. Grainger Inc. BMO Harris Bank Foundation Grenzebach, Glier, and Associates Kimberly Clark Foundation William Harris Investors Helen Brach Foundation HSBC-North America Morgan Stanley Caterpillar Foundation Inc. IBM Corporation Nuveen Investments Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ingredion Incorporated Pfizer Foundation For purposes of recognition, we are pleased to combine matching gifts with an individual’s personal gift. If your employer has a matching gift program, please request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Affairs office, and send it to us along with your contribution. Special Thanks • American Airlines for its 36 year partnership as the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Boston Consulting Group and Dan Grossman, Partner and Managing Director, for the firm’s pro bono services to help Lyric to better understand our financial model, and to identify creative and promising paths to growth. • Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner, for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. • Strategy& and Vinay Couto, Principal, as well as PwC and John Oleniczak, Midwest Region Assurance Managing Partner, and Paul Anderson, Retired Senior Advisor, for their firm’s pro bono consulting services on our organizational assessment. • Warner Classics as the Official Education and Promotion Music Provider. Acknowledgements

The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric Opera’s efforts: Generous Gifts Notable Gifts Vision Wine and Spirits Calihan Catering Artists Frame Service Glo Rolighed Coco Pazzo Cochon Volant Insomnia Cookies HMS Media, Inc. Pearl Brasserie Beavers Donuts CH Distillery Lloyd’s Chicago Nespresso Modern Luxury CS Martha Nussbaum Pastoral

This performance is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Lyric Opera of Chicago is a member of OPERA America.

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 63 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support

Lyric Opera deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations, and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received by July 1, 2017.

ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above Anonymous (6) Ford Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Estate of Venrice R. Palmer Ada and Whitney Addington Julius Frankel Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Josef and Margot Lakonishok Pritzker Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes Trust Estate of Ernest Lester J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes James N. and Laurie V. Bay Brent and Katie Gledhill John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Marlys Beider Ethel and William Gofen Foundation Candy and Gary Ridgway Randy and Melvin Berlin Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis Malott Family Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder The Grainger Foundation Mazza Foundation Foundation Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Gramma Fisher Foundation of Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan The John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Marshalltown, Iowa The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Foundation Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. The Monument Trust (UK) Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Marion A. Cameron Krehbiel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Bill and Orli Staley Foundation The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn John R. Halligan Charitable Fund National Endowment for the Arts Lisbeth Stiffel Foundation The Harris Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Estate of Phil Turner Estate of Nelson D. Cornelius Walter E. Heller Foundation Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe J. Thomas Hurvis Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance The Crown Family The Edgar D. Jannotta Family Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation The Davee Foundation The Anne and Burt Kaplan Fund NIB Foundation The Wallace Foundation Marianne Deson-Herstein in memory The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. of Samuel and Sarah Deson Family Sheila and David Ormesher Washlow Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson Nancy W. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Helen and Sam Zell

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous (2) Renée Fleming Foundation / Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater James Rigler The Brinson Foundation International Foundation for Arts Funds Nancy S. Searle Greg and Mamie Case and Culture Mrs. Loretta N. Julian Lois B. Siegel The Chicago Community Trust Robert B. Fordham Revocable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Joan M. Skepnek Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Howard Solomon and Sarah Mrs. Myung Soon Chung Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Charitable Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Billinghurst Solomon The Cozad Family Trust Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Sue and Melvin Gray Susan M. Miller Carl and Marilynn Thoma Eisen Family Foundation Eric and Deb Hirschfield Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Estate of Regina C. Fain Howard Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Illinois Arts Council Polk Bros. Foundation GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (5) Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Mr. and Mrs. Jay Krehbiel Collin and Lili Roche Paul and Mary Anderson The Ferguson-Yntema Family Frederic S. Lane Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Robin Angly Charitable Trust Estate of Arthur Lipman James and Erica Sandner Mr. and Mrs. Andreas A. Antoniou Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Lucas Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. Vance T. Antoniou Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Philip G. Lumpkin Mrs. Robert E. Sargent The Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Jim and Kay Mabie The Schroeder Foundation Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Estate of Dr. Edwin J. Seeboeck C. Bekerman, M.D. Don and Abby Funk Shari Mayes Segal Family Foundation Heidi Heutel Bohn The Eloise Susanna Gale Foundation Judith W. McCue and Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Amy and Paul Carbone Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Howard M. McCue III Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. David and Orit Carpenter Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Robert and Evelyn McCullen Richard W. Shepro and Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Michael J. McGuinnis Blythe Jaski McGarvie Lindsay E. Roberts Joyce E. Chelberg Joseph and Madeleine Glossberg Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Hal Coon Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Frank B. Modruson and Morris Silverman and Lori Ann Komisar Crain-Maling Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Lynne C. Shigley Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna The Harris Family Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Penelope and Robert Steiner Rolandi Davis Mary Ellen Hennessy Estate of Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Joseph and Pam Szokol Nancy Dehmlow Martha A. Hesse Kenneth R. Norgan Thierer Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Patricia A. Kenney and Robert L. Turner Ann M. Drake Patricia Hyde Gregory J. O’Leary Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Regina Janes Matt and Carrie Parr Walter Family Foundation Drs. George and Sally Dunea Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Ingrid Peters Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Donald and Anne Edwards Joseph M. Kacena Endowed Fund J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Julian Family Foundation Foundation Jane B. White Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Estate of Stuart Kane John Raitt Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Wood Prince Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy The C. G. Pinnell Family Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (7) M. Dillon Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Edward and Joyce McFarland Ms. Linda Kutt Mary F. Robins Ken and Amy Aldridge Dlugopolski Albert and Rita Lacher The Rooney Family John and Ann Amboian Shawn M. Donnelley and Lavin Family Foundation Sheli and Burt Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Christopher M. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Fred L. Drucker and Andrew O. and Daria M. Lewicky Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Juliette F. Bacon Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe E. M. Bakwin Erika E. Erich Malott Family Foundation Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Daniel T. Manoogian Susan and David Ruder Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Michael and Sally Feder Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Richard O. Ryan Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Joan and Robert Feitler Robert C. Marks Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Robert S. Bartolone Estate of Dr. W. Fessenden Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Sonja and Conrad Fischer Erma S. Medgyesy Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Ross and Patricia D. Bender Elaine Frank Terry J. Medhurst Mary Beth Shea Estate of Dr. Warren Best Mary Patricia Gannon Dawn G. Meiners The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Patrick J. Bitterman Susan J. Garner Jon and Lois Mills The Shubert Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau David and Elizabeth Graham Martha A. Mills James A. Staples Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark “That unique moment in an opera when I am brought to tears by the beauty of the music and singing.” Starshak Winzenburg & Co. Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher -Ron B. Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Ellen and Jim Stirling Marcus Boggs Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Jennifer L. Stone Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Mrs. Mary Winton Green Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Judy and Bill Goldberg Chris and Eileen Murphy Mary Stowell Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Betty Bradshaw Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Music Performance Trust Fund and Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Christine and Paul Branstad Family The Irving Harris Foundation Film Funds Virginia Tobiason Foundation James Huntington Foundation Phyllis Neiman Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie John Hart and Carol Prins David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Buehler Family Foundation Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mrs. John C. Hedley Martha C. Nussbaum Dan and Patty Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Helen Brach Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor Harriet Weinstein The Butler Family Foundation Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Margo and Michael Oberman and Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Marie Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Family Kim and Miles D. White Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Miriam U. Hoover The Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Dr. David H. Whitney and Ann and Reed Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Foundation Dr. Juliana Chyu Francie Comer Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Mrs. John A. Wing Tamara Conway Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Harvey R. and Madeleine P. Plonsker William Wolf and Meredith Bluhm-Wolf Lawrence O. Corry Memorial Fund Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Paul Wood and The Honorable Winnie and Bob Crawford Laurie and Michael Jaffe Andra and Irwin Press Corinne Wood Susan E. Cremin Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Elizabeth Ann Price Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Mr. George L. Jewell Prince Charitable Trusts Debbie K. Wright Lauridsen Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard James and Michele Young Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Mike and Lindy Keiser Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Reilly Jr Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Anne Megan Davis Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton The Rhoades Foundation Estate of Audrey A. Zywicki

PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (3) Robert F. Finke Martin and Patricia Koldyke Edgar Rose Kelley and Susan Anderson Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann The Dolores Kohl Education J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Lloyd Gerlach Foundation - Morris & Dolores Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Ms. Ronelle D. Ashby Virginia and Gary Gerst Kohl Kaplan Fund Norman Sackar Mark and Judy Bednar George and Maureen Gilmore Mr. Mark L. Koten Raymond and Inez Saunders Meta S. & Ronald Berger Family Bruce A. Gober, M.D. MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum George and Terry Rose Saunders Foundation Bill and Judy Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lans George and Joan Segal and Rebecca & Jonathan Berger Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Bernard and Averill Leviton Mary and Stanley Seidler Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Helyn D. Goldenberg Julius Lewis Mary Lynne Shafer Lieselotte N. Betterman Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Ms. Michelle McCarthy Siragusa Family Foundation Phyllis H. Brissenden Phillip and Norma Gordon Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Joy Buddig Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Florence D. McMillan Patricia Arrington Smythe Audre Carlin Dr. Doris Graber Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Milliken Del Snow Mrs. Warren M. Choos Joan M. Hall Julian and Sheila Oettinger Doris F. Sternberg Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Marian Phelps Pawlick Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Lynd W. Corley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Karen and Tom Phillips Angela Tenta, M.D. Rosemary and John Croghan David Drew and Marcie Hemmelstein Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Dr. David Thurn Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Midge and Frank Heurich Irene D. Pritzker Howard and Paula Trienens Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. John and Betsey Puth Foundation Decyk Charitable Foundation James and Mary Houston Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Christian Vinyard Mrs. Sheila Dulin Mr. Richard M. Jaffee James T. and Karen C. Reid Marilee and Richard Wehman John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan The Retirement Research Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Richard B. Egen Nancy Rita Kaz Daryl and James Riley Kathleen Arthur and Stephen Wood Sondra Berman Epstein Kate T. Kestnbaum J. Timothy Ritchie Donna and Phillip Zarcone Ms. Lorna Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Rocco and Cheryl Romano

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BENEFACTOR · $5,000 to $7,499 Anonymous (6) David S. Fox Lannan Foundation Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Ellen M. Salter Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Basler Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Leslie Fund, Inc. Dr. Janet Gilboy and Mr. John Schmidt David Q. Bell and Mary A. Bell John F. Gilmore Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Bent Judy and Bill Goldberg Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Pam and Russ Strobel Leslie Bertholdt Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Mrs. Paul Lieberman Bolton Sullivan Fund Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Mr. and Mrs. Dan Grossman Thomas J. McCormick Andrea and Mark Taylor Wiley and Jo Caldwell Sandra L. Grung Lois Melvoin Genevieve Thiers and Daniel Ratner Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Calvin James and Brenda Grusecki Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint O. Thomas Thomas Lawrence Christensen Glen and Claire Hackmann Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow L. Kristofer Thomsen Jane B. and John C. Colman Mrs. John M. Hartigan Mr. and Mrs. Mead Montgomery Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Mr. Erik Jaeger and Mr. Andreas Woytowitz Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore Michael Tobin, M.D. Marsha Cruzan Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Paul Jarvis Charles and Ellen Mulaney Marianne Tralewski Mr. and Mrs. Gerry V. Curciarello Howard E. Jessen Ms. Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Ksenia A. and Peter Turula The Dancing Skies Foundation Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Renate P. Norum Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick Thomas Doran Tyrus L. Kaufman Mrs. Richard C. Oughton David and Linda Wesselink Estelle Edlis Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kearney Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Estate of Paul and Virginia Wilcox Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden The Kip Kelley Family Norman and Lorraine Perman Claudia Winkler Cherelynn A. Elliott Jean Klingenstein Elizabeth Anne Peters Jim and Pati Ericson Dr. Katherine Knight Merle Reskin James and Deborah Fellowes Victoria Mitchell Kohn Joseph Rochetto BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 to $4,999 Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Mary Lou and Jack Miller Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus John H. Nelson Bill and Harlan Shropshire Allison Alexander Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Zehava L. Noah Ilene Simmons Eric A. Anderson Joy Jester Mickey Norton Craig Sirles Mychal P. Angelos Ronald B. Johnson Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Joan M. Solbeck Susann Ball Douglas M. Karlen Jonathan F. Orser Mary Soleiman Astrid K. Birke Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Dr. Gregory L. Boshart and Gerald and Judith Kaufman Dr. Pat and Lara Pappas Mrs. John Stanek Dr. William R. Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Mrs. Karl H. Stein Danolda (Dea) Brennan Thomas A. Kmetko Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus MinSook Suh Winston and Lally Brown John and Mary Kohlmeier Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft B. A. Coussement Eldon and Patricia Kreider Karen and Richard Pigott Phil and Paula Turner Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Dr. Joe Piszczor Elizabeth K. Twede Jon W. DeMoss Mr. Craig Lancaster and Joel and Vivianne Pokorny Lori L. and John R. Twombly Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Ms. Charlene T. Handler Nathaniel W. Pusey David J. Varnerin Deane Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Dr. Lincoln and Dr. Carolyn Ramirez Dr. Catherine L. Webb Amanda Fox The Barbara and Frank Lieber Family Edward and Leah Reicin Louis Weber Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Charitable Trust Estate of George T. Rhodes Hilary and Barry Weinstein Foundation Peter G. O. Freund Pamela Forbes Lieberman Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Howard S. White James R. Grimes Marilyn and Myron Maurer Dr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Mr. Otis Sanders Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob David E. McNeel Curt G. Schmitt Owen and Linda Youngman Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Julie Schwertfeger and Alexander Zajczenko Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Thomas and Judy Scorza James C. Kemmerer Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Ms. Britt M. Miller Dr. S. P. Shah IMPRESARIO · $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (7) Mr. and Mrs. Roger Deromedi Mari L. Harrer Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Mrs. Robert W. Allen Mr. and Mrs. John DeWolf Mr. Daggett Harvey Jr and Mrs. Yvonne Marc Lacher Steven Ashby Lyn Dickey Yamashita Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Mr. Wayne Baden Ms. Kathleen DiIorio James Heim Dr. M. S.W. Lee Ronald and Donna Barlow Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Bastian Voice Institute Mr. and Mrs. Eben Dorros Hoellen Family Foundation Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Ron and Queta Bauer Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Sandra Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Alvin R. Beatty Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao Concordia Louise Hoffmann Liz and Arsen Manugian Dee Beaubien La Ferrenn and Philip Engel Joel and Carol Honigberg Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks Diane and Michael Beemer Susanna and Helmut Epp Bill and Vicki Hood Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Jennifer Bellini Mr. John Ettelson Edmund A. and Virginia C. Horsch William Mason and Diana Davis Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Firestone Family Foundation Humanist Fund Mrs. David McCandless Mrs. Arthur Billings Anita D. Flournoy Michael Huston Marilyn McCoy and Charles R. Thomas Richard and Heather Black Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Martina M. Mead and Michael T. Gorey Mrs. John R. Blair Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Robert and Sandra Sheila and Harvey Medvin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Dr. Segun Ishmael Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Minka and Matt Bosco Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner John G. and Betty C. Jacobs Pamela G. Meyer Mrs. Fred Bosselman Mrs. Norman Gates Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Richard Boyum and Louie Chua James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Mr. Jason Kalajainen Mrs. Pamela E. Miles Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Mrs. Myrna Kaplan Robert and Lois Moeller Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Brown Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Karger Jr. Rosemary Murgas Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Judith L. Kaufman Dr. and Mr. Andy Nawrocki Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Gordon and Nancy Goodman Mrs. Helen Kedo Mrs. Linda A. Neilson Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Cavallino Annemarie H. Gramm Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Mrs. A. M. Neumann James W. Chamberlain Greene Family Foundation Neil and Diana King Elaine T. Newquist Charles B. Preacher Foundation Richard Greenman Klaff Family Foundation Gayla and Ed Nieminen Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Kenneth Douglas Foundation Jason Dantico Solomon Gutstein Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Janis Wellin Notz and John K. Notz, Jr. Mr. John D’Asto The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Foundation Margory M. Oliker Robert O. Delaney Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Mr. John Kouns Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson

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Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Harding Megan Roudebush Carole and Bob Sorensen Bill and Vicki Hood Gerald L. Padbury Susan B. Rubnitz Ron Bauer and Michael Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Waddell Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, M.D. Robert Russell Mr. Tom Startek Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Kevin Patti Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Carol D. Stein and James Sterling Caroline C. Wheeler Laurie and Michael Petersen Robert and Mary Ann Savard Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Mrs. Zen Petkus Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schaeffer Gilbert Terlicher F. C. Winters Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin The Schaerli Family Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Witkowski Mary and Joseph Plauche David J. Seleb and John P. Cialone Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle Sherie Coren Shapiro Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Chip and Jean Wood Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Adele and John Simmons The Trillium Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever Christina Rashid Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Dulcie L. Truitt Priscilla T. Yu Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil Kay and Craig Tuber Susan Zick Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Mr. Edward Smeds Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Maggie Rock and Rod Adams The Sondheimer Family Charitable Foundation Robert Mann and Kathryn Voland-Mann FRIEND · $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (12) Susan Burkhardt James and Jane Fitzgerald Nora Jaskowiak and Matthew Hinerfeld Jeffrey and Paula Malak A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund George J. Burrows William A. Fleig Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Mr. and Mrs. Warren W. Mark Ms. Katherine A. Abelson Joseph A. Caprini, M.D. Nona C. Flores Bill and Louanne Holland Robert Markowski and Louise Abrahams Irma Caprioli Margaret Byrne, Attorney Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Randi Ragins Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Paul Fong Stephen D. Holmes William Maroney Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Stephen H. and Virginia McM. Carr Stephen and Rosamund Forrest George R. Honig, M.D. and Olga Weiss Ms. Karin Martin Ann Acker Mr. Donald Carruthers Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Horwich Mr. and Mrs. Sean Martin Duffie A. Adelson Patrick V. Casali Adrian Foster Michael and Beverly Huckman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Susan S. Adler Drs. James and Stephanie Cavanaugh Anne and Willard Fraumann Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff Bob and Doretta Marwin Judith A. Akers Barry and Marcia Cesafsky Mr. and Mrs. Michael Freeborn Ms. Janice Humphrey Ann and Philip May Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Robert Cieslak Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt John E Mazuski Lance Johnson Heinke K. Clark Mrs. Michelle B. Fries Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Maureen and Michael McCabe Dr. and Mrs. Todd D. Alexander Keith and Barbara Clayton Priscilla and Henry Frisch Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Jackson John F. McCartney Ms. Joanne B. Alter Jean M. Cocozza Samuel and Adriana Front Generations Fund Mrs. John H. McDermott Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Margery and Robert Coen John A. Gable Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Bonnie McGrath Sheila and James Amend David and Carolyn Colburn Thomas F. Gajewski Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Therissa McKelvey Doris W. Angell Elaine Collina Ms. Kristine Garrett Judith H. Janowiak Michael McKinney Daniel J. Anzia Dr. Frank F. Conlon Mrs. Lisa Gaspero Jerry and Judy Johansen Maryjanet McNamara Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Mr. Scott P. George JS Charitable Trust Kathie Y. McReynolds Family Dr. Eva Redel James M. Cormier Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson Judith Jump Mr. and Mrs. Zarin Mehta Robert Austin Daniel Corrigan Gregory Geuther Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Claretta Meier Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Ms. Jennifer Cox Sharon L. Gibson Mary Ann Karris Helen Melchior Peter and Elise Barack Patricia O. Cox Cai Glushak and Martin DiCrisci Christine Kassa-Skaredoff Rachel and Jason Mersey William and Marjorie Bardeen Katherine Hutter Coyner Barbara and Norman Gold Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Jim and Ginger Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Evelyn Crews Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Larry M. Keer, M.D. Dominion and Company, Inc. Michael A. Barna Mr. Martyn Crook Alfred G. Goldstein Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Michuda Construction, Inc. Mr. Merrill Z. Barnes Gary Crosby Robert and Marcia Goltermann Marian Kinney Ms. Barbara Mikolajczyk Richard and Shirley Baron Karen and John Crotty Jerry Goodman Linda Kinzelberg Rev. Dr. Mary L. Milano Peter Barrett Robert Curley Jaimy Gordon and Peter Blickle Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Barbara Barzansky Barbara Flynn Currie Ms. Jill Gordon Mr. Stephen Kitchen Barry and Sharon Millman Sandra Bass Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills W.C. Beatty Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Milnarik Mr. Matthew Beaty “At [my first] opera of the season [...] when the fire curtain goes up, Bette Mitchell Roger B. Beck Dr. Virginia Mond Seth Beckman I know I am in a very special place…" -Jo Ann P. William Mondi Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III Steven Montner and Scott Brown John C. Benitez Timothy and Cheryl Dahlstrand Alan Salpeter and Shelley Gorson Esther G. Klatz Charles Moore Roy C. Bergstrom James and Marie Damion Motoko Goto Frank and Alice Kleinman Lloyd and Donna Morgan Jacquie Berlin Rathin Datta Dr. Steven A. Gould Janice Klich Ms. Helen H. Morrison Lois M. Berman Patty Litton Delony Dr. Ruth Grant and Mary Klyasheff Dr. Nicole Mott and Mr. and Mrs. Turney Berry Ms. Sarah Demet Dr. Howard Schwartz Emily and Christopher Knight Mr. Charles Elliott Jerry and Kathy Biederman Rosanne Diamond Anthony Green Lionel and Jackie Knight John S. Mrowiec and Margaret C. Bisberg and Dr. Elton Dixon Nancy and Jonathan Green Richard and Carol Knop Dr. Karen L. Granda Richard VanMetre Jill S. Dodds Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Edward and Adrienne Kolb Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Cynthia L. Bixel Michael L. Dollard Tim and Joyce Greening Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Dr. and Mrs. Peter E. Doris Ginger Griffin William Konczyk and Matthew A. Nash Judy Stanley Bland Catherine and Patrick Dowd John R. Grimes Stanley Conlon Dr. and Mrs. Belverd E. Needles Elaine and Harold Blatt David and Deborah Dranove Patricia Grogan Mr. and Mrs. Christos N. Kritikos David and Lynne Nellemann Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Tom Draski Donald J. Grossman and Richard Kron and Deborah Bekken Jeffrey Nichols Ann Blickensderfer Ms. Susan A. Duda Elaine T. Hirsch Carol and Jerome Lamet Nancy A. Nichols Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Ronald B. Duke Ms. Lili Gaubin Elisabeth M. Landes John Nigh Berle Blitstein Bernard T. Dunkel Donald Haavind Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Carol M. Nigro John Blosser Kathy Dunn Mirja and Ted Haffner Family Fund Mrs. Nancy Levi Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Frima H. Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dusek Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Laurence and Mary Levine Dr. W. E. Null Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Michael and Paula Dwyer Mary E. Hallman Anne and Craig Linn Penny J. Obenshain Robert and Anne Bolz Charitable Trust Barbara and John Eckel Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Caroline P. Lippert Gail O’Gorman Mr. and Mrs. David Bomier Hugh and Jackie Edfors Michael G. Hansen and William and Diane Lloyd Mr. and Mrs. Keith Olson Donald F. Bouseman Ms. Jan Elfline Nancy E. Randa Lloyd R. Loback Virginia A. O’Neill Dr. Charles Bower Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Charles Hanusin Melvin R. Loeb Allen J. Frantzen and David E. Boyce Peter Emery Joan W. Harris Candace B. Broecker George R. Paterson Nicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirr Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hartigan Knox and Gabrielle Long Mr. and Mrs. Bernard C. McGrane IV Carline Bronk Dr. Thelma M. Evans Betty Ann Hauser Sherry and Mel Lopata Michael Payette Jerry and Gisela Brosnan Jim and Elizabeth Fanuzzi Dr. Gillian M. Headley Craig and Jane Love Marilyn Pearson Ms. Kathryn Y. Brown Farley Family James Heger Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Mrs. Mona L. Penner Giovanna and Joseph Breu Mr. Michael Farmer Sheila Ann Hegy Wayne R. Lueders Viktoras Petroliunas Alice C. Brunner Penny Friedman Dr. Allen W. Heinemann and Kurtice Luther Mrs. Marlene Phillips Angelo Buscaglia, Jr. Howard and Charlotte Fink Dr. William Borden Ms. Bonghee Ma Ruth A. Phillips Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Suja Finnerty Joseph Heiney Charlene and Gary MacDougal Jim and Polly Pierce Howard and Moira Buhse Elizabeth W. Fischer Robert and Janet Helman Daniel Carroll Madden and Mr. and Mrs. Les Pinsof Dr. Mary Louise H. Burger Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Dr. and Mrs. Leo M. Henikoff Tuny Mokrauer John Podjasek Ms. Sheila Burke Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Shaw Carrie and Harry Hightman Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mages Dr. and Mrs. Alan Pohl

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani David Sachs Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Mr. Theodore Tetzlaff Joanne Michalski and Michael Weeda William V. Porter Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Paul and Ann Singer Linda and Ronald Thisted Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weiland Charlene Posner Carol S. Sadow Margles Singleton and Clay Young Dr. Andrew J. Thomas Adele and Joseph R. Wells Dorothy M. Press Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Dr. Ross Slotten Karen J. Tjarksen Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Jennifer N. Pritzker John Sagos Barbara Smith and Diane Tkach and James Freundt Manfred Wendt Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Timothy Burroughs Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Townsend Heide Wetzel Mr. David Quell Mr. Edward Sanderson Suzanne L. Hoffman and Dale Smith Joanne Tremulis Patricia and William H. Wheeler William H. Redfield Patricia Schaefer Louise K. Smith Mr. James W. Tucker James L. Wilson Roseanne Rega Mary T. Schafer Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith Vicky Tusken Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Sandra and Ken Reid Robert P. Schaible Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Smith Judith Tuszynski Kathryn B. Winter Alicia and Myron Resnick Marie-Claude Schauer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Professor Harald and Charles B. Wolf Joan L. Richards David Schiffman Robert A. Sniegowski Mrs. Christine Uhlig Ann S. Wolff Evelyn Richer Edgar Schiller Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Jean Morman Unsworth Ted and Peggy Wolff Jerry and Carole Ringer Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Schuler Dr. and Mrs. R. John Solaro Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon Christopher and Julie Wood Carol Roberts Jim and Joan Sears The Sondheimer Family Charitable Manuel S. Valderrama D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit William and Cheryl Roberts Segal Family Foundation Foundation Dr. Thuong Van Ha Marsha and David Woodhouse Jared C. Robins Paul R. Seidlitz Phil and Sylvia Spertus Frances and Peter Vandervoort Mark Woodworth and Randi Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Charlotte Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Ms. Julie Staley Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Ravitts Woodworth Puppel-Rose John and Floria Serpico Joyce L. Steffel Rosalba Villanueva Michael and Judy Zeddies Roberta Rosell Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Carol Stein and Doris Ashkin Dr. Annabelle Volgman Barbara Zeleny Saul and Sarah Rosen Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stein John and Kathleen Vondran Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Mr. Samuel Rosenberg Ms. Darlene Shearer Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Mr. Malcolm V. Vye Richard E. Ziegler Babette Rosenthal David Sherman Ms. Verna Stovall Walter and Caroline Sueske Lorelei Rosenthal Carol and Roger Shiffman Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stuart Charitable Trust Marsha and Robert Rosner Ms. Shannon Shin Mr. and Mrs. James Swartchild April Ware and Jess Forrest Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Ellen and Richard Shubart Sandra Sweet Dr. Richard Warnecke Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Geraldine L. Szymanski Metro Pedix SC Mrs. Dolores E. Ruetz Nancy Silberman Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts, Jr Louise M. Ryssmann Linda Simon Ilene Patty and Thomas Terpstra Nancy E. Webster SUSTAINER · $500 to $999 Anonymous (27) Richard Blackwell and Sharon Conway Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Amy and Michael Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Linda Christianson Mrs. D. S. Corbett Ms. Patti Eylar Mr. Andrew Gore Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Diane and Tom Blake Ms. Mercedes Corujo Ms. Elizabeth M. Fadell Drs. Margaret and Richard Gore Andrew Abbott and Susan Schlough Louis and Catherine Bland Dr. Kate L. Forhan and Marion and Burt Fainman Anne H. Gorham Jay Aber Ms. Elizabeth Blinderman Dr. Joseph P. Cousins Dr. Robert A. Fajardo Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Phillip Adams and Carmen Wilcox Dr. and Mrs. Mark D. Blitstein James Cox Marilyn Faklis Ruiz Birgit Gottelt Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Mrs. Judy Block Anatole Crane Mrs. Fran Faller Sarah J. Gottermeyer Mrs. Carol E. Adelman Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Nancy Crawford Mr. David Fannin Mr. and Mrs. Delmon Grapes Standby and Go, Productions Inc. E. M. Bluhm Robert C. Cronin John and Joann Faulhaber Mr. W. L. Griffith Mr. Dirk Alander D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Pamela Crutchfield Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Feldman, M.D. Robert Grist Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Ms. Virginia Boehme Anna Beth Culver Steven E. Feldman Charles R. Grode Judith L. Allen Erminio Bonacci Czarkowski Family Mr. Austin Feller Dan Groteke and Pat Taplick Mrs. Ronald L. Allen Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Greg Davis Dr. Eva D. Ferguson D. Grynspan and S. Stupp Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Allie Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond, Sr. Paul B. Dekker Susan Fisher-Yellen Mrs. Kathleen Grzybek Peri M. Altan Mr. Donald W. Bonneau Tania Del Rio Marilyn E. Fites John Gustaitis Evelyn Alter Laurence and Patricia Booth Pablo Denes Ms. Joanne H. Fitzgerald Beth Hadley Mr. Zakwan Alzein Jordan Bouchard Patricia K. Denman Ms. Karen E. Flanagan Mr. Allen Hager Ms. Emilyjane Andaya Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Mr. and Mrs. John Deppong, Jr. Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Ken and Mary Andersen Sandra Box Mrs. Marcia Devlin Archibald E. Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Cameel Halim Carol L. Anderson Mary and Carl Boyer Dr. Lawrence Devoe Marvin Fletcher Janice H. Halpern Judith C. Anderson Barbara MacDowall and Ms. Louise E. Anderson “We love being backstage and on stage among all the singers -- Robert Hanlon Nancy E. Anderson Mr. Randall Hanssen Elizabeth Newkirk and music is our passion; opera and singing in particular.” John and Sharon Hanusin Christa Andrepont -Miriam S. Mr. Gregory J. Harms Dr. Michael Angell Dr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Harris William Ankenbrandt HolliBoyleStainglass.com Ms. Wendy DiBendedetto Lafayette J. Ford Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Stephen M. and Barbara J. Arnold Michael Bradie Mr. John D. DiBuono Richard W. Foster Malcolm Harsch and Matthew Killen Drs. Andrew and Iris Aronson Robert Bradner Robert and Anne Diffendal Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fried Mr. Steve Hastalis Ms. Ardell Arthur Ms. Vivian Brandt Dr. Gary Dillehay Ms. Pauline Friedman Dr. and Mrs. David Jerome Hayden Susan and Bob Arthur Mr. Gordon Brodfuehrer Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Michael and Jane Fritz Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hayden Mr. Derek Ashbaugh Leona and Daniel Bronstein Ms. Violeta Dirvonis Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gabanski Mrs. John S. Hayford Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Asner Dr. Annie Brown Ms. Louise Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Gahlon Dr. and Mrs. Robert Heidenry Margaret Atherton Steven Borkan and Lauren Brown Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey B Donnell Leota P. Gajda Robert and Raynelle Heidrick Ms. Shirley M. Ballak Todd Brueshoff Maureen Dooley Ms. Jennifer Garner and Ms. Nancy Heil Mr. Stan Balog Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Marilyn F. Dore Mr. Landon Raford Josephine E. Heindel H. Barefield Warren and Patricia Buckler Ms. Jill Dougherty Dr. George Gay & Brian Soper Stephen Heller Marilyn R. Barmash Dr. Jack Bulmash Roy and Rachel Downing Dedre Gentner Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Hennessy Barbara J. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Bunge Paul E. Drennan Ms. Esther Geppert Kimberlee S. Herold David Baron and Susan Kay Lidia Calcaterra and Paul Barger Ms. Jody Lewis Thomas and Patricia Germino Mr. Theodore W. Herr and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Barrett Hon. and Mrs. Michael T. Caldwell Douglas F. Duchek Florence Gibaldi Ms. Carla Carstens Herr Joseph P. Basile Neal J. Campbell Ms. Roma Dybalski Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert Norman K. Hester Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Baum Christina Canham Joan M. Eagle Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Caren B. Hiatt Mr. and Ms. Beck Mr. and Mrs. Michael Canmann Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Mr. Lyle Gillman Cyndi l. Hicks Mrs. and Mr. Martin S. A. Beck Agnes B. Canning Mrs. B. Englert Easterbrook Dale and David Ginsburg Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High Elizabeth S. Beck Walter and Nancy Carlson Kimberly A. Eberlein Dr. Howard P. Girard Dr. and Mrs. Roger D. Hilbert Mr. and Mrs. Alvin R. Becker Kimberly Renee Carmen Adrienne Eckerling Gay L. Girolami Thomas W. and Helen C. Hill Mr. Robert Becker and Carnot & Luceile Allen Foundation James W. Edmondson David L. Gitomer Dr. Leroy J. Hirsch and Bebe Awerbuch Ms. Karen Heller Donald and Bonnie Chauncey Ms. Martha Edwards James W. and Patricia T. Gladden Ms. Sarai Hoffman Hans F. Bell Ms. Anne M. Chien Mrs. Marlene Eisen Robert Dunn Glick Dr. and Mrs. James M. Holland Mr. Edward A. Berman Ms. Angela Cici Mrs. Richard J. Elrod Dr. Paul B. Glickman John E. Holland Diane and Karl Berolzheimer Connie Clark R. Vincent Embser Ms. Christine Goerke Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hollensteiner Mr. and Mrs. Loren M. Berry III Mrs. Paula Clayton Lenczycki Joseph R. Ender Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Bernard H. and Edith A. Holst Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Bevers Michael Cleveland and Grazia Nunzi Northwest Indiana Pathology Dr. Susan R. Goldman Joel Horowitz Mrs. Keki Bhote Susan Somers and Ray Cocco Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ertman Dr. Deirdre Dupre and William Hosken Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Parker Colvin Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Evanich Dr. Robert Golub Larry and Ann Hossack Donald H. Bittner Susan and John Combes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Evans Mary C. Goodman Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr.

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William and Sarah Hufford Mr. and Mrs. Harold Laughlin Dr. Arthur Moswin Heidi Stevenson Rothenberg, M.D. Anne Taft Ms. Michelle Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Lawrence Helga E. Muench Zhaosong Ruan Bradley L. and Simone Himbeault G. Todd Hunt Marsha Lazar Zane F. Muhl Andrew Ruggles Taylor Anita A. Hutchinson Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lee Mary Anne Lynskey Alex Ruiz Susan C Taylor Dr. Stephen and Kathy Irwin Mary Anne Leer Maxwell Mulmat Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff Ms. Michele M. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Isaacson Eileen Leiderman and Ben L. Brener Thomas F. Murphy Melanie and Joseph Ryan Sheila J. Thuesdee Howard Isenberg Dr. Michael C. Leland Barbara B. Murray Eugene W. Rzym Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Virginia A. Jach Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lenahan Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Mary Ann Sadilek Eleanor W. Tippens Ms. Marina B. Jacks Dominique Leonardi Holly I. Myers Mr. Eugene Saenger, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tittle Douglas and Lynn Jackson Ralph and Carol Lerner Harvey A. Nathan Natalie Saltiel F. Joseph Tomecek Better Godparents Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Virginia Navarrete Richard H. Sanders Larry and Carol Townsend Merle L. Jacob David Levinson and Kathy Kirn J. Robin Naylor Mr. Jeffrey Sanfilippo Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Charlene Jacobsen Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Arne Rode and Nancy Needles Nancy A. Sans Miss Wan-Lin Tsai David Jaffe Mary Beth Liccioni Wayne W. Nestander Mr. Larry Scattaglia Jay and Kelly Tunney Reinhardt H. and Shirley R. Jahn Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Nichols Anne McMillen Scheyer Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tyner Foundation Dr. Arnold Tobin Mr. and Mrs. George Nichols, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Schiele Dr. Aris Urbanes Marqui Jamison Lorin Liberman Eleanor A. Nicholson Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Mrs. Denise M. Utter Dr. Paul B. Jaskot Myron and Eleanor Lieberman Andrew Noha Mrs. Rosita M. Schloss Mrs. Murray J. 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Kaplan Jennifer Malpass Bruce and Nancy Payne Mr. and Mrs. Neal Seltzer Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Walter Mrs. Jack Karp Ms. Gwen Maneke Jean T. Pennino Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Seng Mr. and Mrs. John H. Walter Mr. Louis Kartsimas George and Roberta Mann Mr. John Pepe Dr. Robert F. Shankland Gary T. Walther Thomas R. Kasdorf Philanthropic Fund Children’s Law Group LLC Mr. and Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Wardell Harriet Z. Katz Mark and Wendy Manto Victorina Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Elizabeth K. Ware Ms. Andrea Katzenstein Mr. Damiano Marchiafava Karen Petitte Terry and Maureen Shea Sara and Kevin Warner Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kavanagh Dr. Lawrence and Sylvia Margolies Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Barbara Fulton Sideman Ms. Lisa Warshauer Matthew J. Keller, Jr. Dr. Maija Freimanis and David Marshall Shirley Pfenning and Robert J. Wilczek Joanne Silver Benjamin Wasmuth Alfred Kelley David J. Martin Mr. Robert Phelan Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Simon Claude M. Weil Douglas and Christine Kelner Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Marzec Ms. Lyneta Grap Piela Roberta E. Singer Mr. James Weinberger Jeffrey R. Kerr Harold L. Mason Mr. and Mrs. William Pinsof Christopher Skrable Dr. and Mrs. Howard Weiss Patricia Kersey and Charles Erlichman James Massie and Christine Winter John J. W. Plampin Arthur B. Smith, Jr. and Marco and Joan Weiss Ms. Emily Kessler and Fernando and Leslie Mastroianni Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Podolak Tracey L. Truesdale Dr B. Craig Weldon and Terri Monk Ms. Kay E. Hughes Mr. Michael Mattingly Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr. Peter J. Wender Mr. and Mrs. Algimantas Kezelis Mrs. John May Felix Ponce Therese G. Smith Ellen Werner Chuck and Kathy Killman Mr. and Mrs. George P. McAndrews Ms. Karen W. Porter Michael and Donna Socol Donald R Wertz Ms. Mary Kinney Drs. William and Margaret McCulloch Mr. William Preller Edward and Eileen Soderstrom Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wertz Ms. Tracy L. 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Miller Dr. Patricia C. Rieger Scott Stoeffler and Jill Krieg Mr. and Mrs. John G. Zasi Konrad Kuchenbach Vee Minarich Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Rinkenberger Mrs. James H. Stoner Regina W. Zehr Thomas P. Kuczwara Helen Hill Minsker Ed and Susan Ritts Joanne Storm Dr. Antoinette Zell and Dr. Klaus and Erzsebet Kuettner Edward J. Mitchen Helen H. Roberts Timothy J.S. Kenneth R. Walter Mr. Eric J. Kurdziel Lori Mivshek Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Mr. John Strasswimmer Robert Zentner John and Lynn LaBarbera Sanford Moltz James and Abagail Rollins Gary L. Strawn Dorene Zerfas Jeanne LaDuke Deborah A. Morrin The Philip and Myn Rootberg Laura Sturdevant Larisa Zhizhin Laimonis and Kristina Laimins Mr. Greg Morris Foundation Mr. Charles Sullivan Dr. and Mrs. Eric Zickgraf Susan Laing Martin W. Morris Elaine G. Rosen Mary W. Sullivan and Camille J. Zientek John T. Lansing Steven W. Morris Drs. Ronald and Linda Rosenthal Coleman S. Kendall Mr. Max Lanz John A. Morrison Thomas and Barbara Rosenwein Ms. Svetlana Sutic Mrs. Frederick Larsen Larry Morrison Jason Rosnick Sherwin A. Swartz Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen Beverly Mortensen Merlin and Gladys Rostad Arts Fund Sally Sylvan Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen Mr. and Mrs. Karlos Moser Mrs. Donald I. Roth Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan

Lyric is very grateful to the thousands of donors who give gifts of less than $500 to our annual campaign. Due to space limitations, we are unable to list the names of these donors, but their generosity is sincerely appreciated.

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 69 LYRIC’S NEW CHAMPAGNE BAR

Champagne and an evening at Lyric make the perfect pairing! Now you can choose from a variety of delicious champagnes before any Lyric show or at intermission. Enjoy a glass or split of your favorite bubbly, or treat yourself to a delicious mimosa or Bellini. Located across from the grand staircase in the Rice Grand Foyer on the Main Floor. LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Facilities and Services

Patrons with Disabilities: media from the lobby and other parts of The Lyric Opera House is the public, non-performance spaces in the accessible to persons with house, as well as the house itself, but not physical disabilities, with during the performance. elevator service to all floors except the Opera Club. The Ardis Lyric, for safety reasons, has the right Krainik Theatre contains seating to inspect any large bags or packages that is accessible to persons in and insist that all large backpacks, bags, wheelchairs, as well as seats with luggage, etc. be stored at coat check. removable armrests. The Lyric Welcome to the Lyric Opera House! Here Opera House has automatic door-openers are a few guidelines designed to ensure all on exterior doors, and accessible drinking of our audience members have the best fountains and public telephones. A TTY experience possible. phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only. • Please remain silent during the performance. Restroom facilities for female patrons with • As a gesture of respect for other disabilities are located on all levels except audience members and the the Opera Club. For male patrons, these performing artists, please remain facilities are located on all levels except the seated until intermission or the end Opera Club and the sixth floor. of the show. If you need to leave the auditorium, you may not be Assistive listening devices for persons readmitted while the performance is desiring amplification are available at no in progress. cost at the Main Floor coat check. A valid • Program and artists are subject to driver’s license or state identification is Outside food and beverages may not be change without notice. required as a security deposit. brought into the Lyric Opera House. • Please turn off or silence all electronic Refreshments may be purchased onsite and and personal devices and refrain Large print and Braille programs may be limited items may be brought in with you from using any device with a glowing available at the Main Floor coat check. to the performance. screen at any time during the performance. Audio description, touch tours, and Thank you again for joining us at Lyric American Sign Language interpretation is Opera of Chicago! Your understanding and cooperation available for select performances; please see are appreciated. Please let a member of www.lyricopera.org/accessibilty for dates Lyric’s house staff know if you have any and details. questions. Lost and Found: Please call 312.827.5768 for lost items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days.

Other important policies: Photography and/or audio and video recording of any kind are prohibited during the performance. You are encouraged to take photographs and share your experience on social

Front of House Manager: Laura LoChirco Box Office Assistant Treasurers: John Thor Sandquist and Joseph Dunn Food & Beverage Manager: Geri LaGiglio Restaurant Manager: David Adelsperger Box Office Manager: Gregg Brody Usher Supervisor: Dolores Abreu

December 5, 2017 - January 27, 2018 | 71 EXPERIENCE

FAMILY DAY AT LYRIC

BALDWIN GRAHAM GUNN BECZAŁA

ELECTRIFYING MUSICAL PIOTR BECZAŁA IN RECITAL THEATER, EXCITING Feb 25 ONE NIGHT ONLY CONCERTS, CELEBRATING  YEARS OF BERNSTEIN Featuring Kate Baldwin, Susan Graham, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMMING Nathan Gunn, and the Lyric Opera Orchestra conducted by David Chase Create Your Own Series*: Mar 10 you choose the titles, Family FAMILY DAY AT LYRIC Friendly you choose the dates. Tickets Apr 7 $5/$10

*Does not include Family Day at Lyric JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Webber/Rice Apr 27 - May 20

.. | LYRICOPERA.ORG Be swept away by romance and vocal fi reworks | FEB ‡ ˆ 

Lawrence Brownlee and Albina Shagimuratova star in Bellini’s 17th-century tale of love and political intrigue

Performed in Italian with projected English translations NEWTOCHICAGO PRODUCTION

This production was originally directed by Sandro Sequi and premiered at The Metropolitan Opera. All scenery, properties, and costumes constructed by The Metropolitan Opera. OPERA HOWARD‚METROPOLITAN KEN C.

PRODUCTION SPONSORS DONNA VAN EEKEREN ANONYMOUS .. FOUNDATION DONOR LYRICOPERA.ORG

Love, laughter—and a twist!—in Mozart’s beloved masterpiece Così fan tutte FEB  ‰ MAR 

Performed in Italian with projected English translations

Così fan tutte is a joint production of Opéra de Monte-Carlo and San Francisco Opera. C. CORY WEAVERSAN FRANCISCO OPERA FRANCISCO WEAVERSAN CORY C.

PRODUCTION SPONSORS LEAD SPONSOR: THE NEGAUNEE RANDY L. AND MARION A. NANCY AND .. FOUNDATION MELVIN R. BERLIN CAMERON SANFRED KOLTUN LYRICOPERA.ORG