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6 WELCOME TO YOUR LYRIC 40 RYAN OPERA CENTER 8 From the Chairman and the 42 Ryan Opera Center General Director alumni around the world 10 Board of Directors 42 Program staff 12 The thrill of the new 43 Ryan Opera Center contributors

16 TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCE 44 THANK YOU FOR 18 Title page and cast YOUR SUPPORT 19 Introduction 46 Production sponsors 20 Artist profiles 47 Aria Society 24 Orchestra & Chorus 59 Supporting our future— Todd Rosenberg Todd 28 Opera notes endowments at Lyric The thrill of the new | pp. 12-15 31 Director’s note 60 Faces of Lyric 32 After the curtain falls 63 Gift planning 66 Corporate partners 34 BEYOND THE STAGE 68 Annual individual 36 Lyric Unlimited - Learning & creative and foundation support engagement 74 Commemorative gifts

76 Artistic roster 78 Lyric staff 80 Backstage life

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Opera at its best takes the universal themes of humanity and brings them to life in the space and time of a live performance.

Many of the most deeply complex issues human beings will ever face are at the heart of many great , including the one you are about to experience at Lyric. In the emotional and spiritual journeys of its two central characters, makes us think in new ways about basic, life-changing concepts, such as guilt, innocence, punishment, and forgiveness. In the opera, there is no question that death row inmate Joseph De Rocher is guilty, but he is portrayed as thoroughly human, not a monster, allowing us to enter into his painfully conflicted, multilayered emotions. It is also essential to the opera’s cumulative impact that composer and librettist Terrence McNally devote equal attention – and equal sensitivity – to both sides: the agony of the victims’ families, and also that of De Rocher and his family. The creators of this opera do not preach; instead, they present the story straightforwardly and ask audiences to make up their own minds. The opera’s own journey began with the book of the same name by Sister , one of the most remarkable women of her generation, whose passionate advocacy against the death penalty continues to make a worldwide impact today. The book’s operatic adaptation offers audiences an unsparingly honest, devastatingly moving libretto set to superbly imaginative, instantly accessible, totally memorable music. The full impact of the piece in the opera house is something no operagoer will ever forget. It’s hardly surprising that, following its acclaimed world premiere 19 years ago, it has become one of the most frequently performed of all contemporary operas, acclaimed not just in America but all over the world. Dead Man Walking is typical of today’s Lyric, where we are producing more new work than ever before. From the world premiere of Bel Canto at the Lyric Opera House to the Chicago premieres of An American Dream, Fellow Travelers, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, and other chamber operas produced in smaller venues, contemporary work has become a thrilling way for us to attract new audiences to Lyric. Those productions have all earned critical and public acclaim, but the real measure of success is how often and in how many different ways people choose to interact with Lyric. The opera house is our home, and our mission is also to engage people where they are, reflecting the city and communities we serve. In everything we do at Lyric, we strive to use our art form to create connection, understanding, and inspiration. If you are experiencing Lyric for the first time, we hope your initial encounter with Lyric is so impactful and engaging that you will make the company a part of your life. By focusing on building our audience of the future, we will ensure that both Lyric and the art form of opera remain culturally relevant and artistically important for the next generation. Everyone involved in the Lyric premiere of Dead Man Walking has approached it with extraordinary dedication. We know you will find it an overwhelming experience in the opera house.

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Discovery. That’s an essential part of what opera is all about. Much as we love the familiar melodies and stories of our favorite classic operas, there’s a special thrill in hearing and seeing something that’s either new to us or completely new. Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking comes to Lyric this month, having profoundly moved audiences in 60+ productions on five continents over the past two decades. “It is deeply, deeply, deeply human,” says , who created the central role of Sister Helen Prejean and now portrays the death-row inmate’s mother. “It touches something in everybody.” The music in this opera, she assures us, “is gorgeous, very melodic, full of every emotion from turbulence to lyricism. It’s about the world we live in now, about people working through pain.” The midwest premiere next June of the new chamber opera Blue, by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson, Lyric’s latest world premiere, Jimmy López’s Bel Canto, premiered during the 2015/16 season and was subsequently telecast on PBS. addresses another facet of American life: ongoing tensions and confrontations between law enforcement and young black men. Co-commissioned by Lyric, Glimmerglass Festival (world premiere, August), and Washington National Opera, Blue concerns an African American family headed by a police officer and his wife, whose only child is killed by a white police officer. A New York Times review called it “powerful – as well as sadly timely. Drawing on her deep experience in musical theater, her keen ear for elements of contemporary classical music and her abundant imagination, Ms. Tesori has written a strong yet subtle score that avoids the obvious and exudes a personal voice. Mr. Thompson, who also directed the production, has written one of the most elegant librettos I’ve heard in a long time.” Lyric will present Blue in collaboration with Chicago Shakespeare Theater at The Yard on Navy Pier.

“This is a very exciting time for contemporary opera,” Rosenberg Todd says Cayenne Harris, vice president, Lyric Unlimited - Learning & Among the chamber operas presented by Lyric in recent seasons is Daniel Creative Engagement. “Important, new stories are being told on Schnyder’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, seen at the Harris Theater. opera stages across the country, stories that resonate deeply with people from many backgrounds. Lyric is proud to present these works in Chicago, both on and off the mainstage. We’re offering our audiences and broader communities new ways to connect with the art form.” Harris notes that “there’s a buzz in the air that begins before the performances of these new works. Opera aficionados are there alongside first-timers, some of whom have come because the subject matter speaks to their cultural or individual experience and they are hungry to see that represented onstage. The operas are in English (with projected texts) and the theaters we’re in are typically more intimate, so there’s an immediacy to the experience. Contemporary operas tend to be shorter than classic ones, so when audiences want to stay to talk about what they’ve just experienced – and they seem compelled to do just that – it feels Todd Rosenberg Todd

like a natural extension of the experience. There’s a connection to Pepe Martínez and Leonard Foglia’s El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (world the stories and characters that feels very personal, and audiences premiere, 2014/15) is one of two mariachi operas presented at Lyric.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 12 make those connections in their comments.” Harris adds that “the musical language of many contemporary operas is tonal, highly melodic,” and is more welcoming than some may assume. Families have enjoyed delightfully engaging new operas each fall in recent years. This month youngsters and their grownups will explore inner and outer space with Earth to Kenzie. Previous opera adventures for young audiences include Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt, Scorpion’s Sting, and Jason and the Argonauts – relatable stories set to lively, exciting music that gets little heads bobbing and feet swinging, and provokes astonished gasps and giggles. With mainstage world premieres, the excitement really amps up. “Electric! That was the feeling on the opening night of Bel Canto – people were walking into an opera that no one had ever seen or heard,” recalls Mary Burke-Peterson, who observed audience reactions firsthand as a Lyric usher for the past several Hall Richard Termine/Carnegie years. “When we had Q&As after Bel Canto, particularly when The 2012/13 season featured Renée Fleming as Blanche DuBois in André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, which she had previously sung with the composer Jimmy López was there, people were just in awe – how rest of the Lyric cast at Carnegie Hall (pictured here). had he done it? What was the creative process like? Renée Fleming [Lyric’s creative consultant] got lots of props for curating the project and creative team. Book groups talked about the book vs. what they saw and heard onstage.” Based on Ann Patchett’s best-selling novel (inspired by the Peruvian hostage crisis of 1996/97), Bel Canto exemplifies the energy a brand-new work generates. Fleming searched for the right composer for a year before choosing Peruvian-born composer Jimmy López, who’d been immersed firsthand in the hostage-crisis news as a teen, and whose musical style incorporates indigenous instruments not often found in the orchestra pit. He and Cuban-American playwright-librettist Nilo Cruz worked closely with Fleming and Lyric’s music director Sir Andrew Davis to develop the score. The resulting production packed the Lyric Opera House, captivated audiences and critics, and was later televised nationally on PBS’s Great Performances. Lyric’s presentation of An American Dream by Jack Perla and Jessica Murphy Moo at the Harris Theater stirred similar Dan Rest engagement. Audience members for whom the story of wartime The Lyric premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic during the 2007/08 season featured (left to right) Gerald Finley, Eric Owens, and Richard displacement was personally resonant found it intensely Paul Fink. gratifying to witness a variation of their family histories onstage. Many eyes filled with tears, triggered by a profound connection to the onstage drama and poignant music. Audiences were similarly moved by the recent Chicago premieres of Daniel Schnyder’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird and Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers. For anyone hesitating to check out a new opera, remember that pushing the envelope of human emotion and experience through drama and music goes back to ancient times. Operas we now consider classic were often shocking or unsettling in the time of their creation. This season’s 21st-century offerings engage audiences with dynamic, relatable stories that reflect contemporary life and concerns, and with melodic, tonal music that propels the stories. Compelling contemporary operas sung in English have always been central to Lyric’s repertoire since the very beginning. Granted, Lyric’s old nickname was “La Scala West,” referring to the founders’ fondness for Italian operas and singers, but in 1954, Dan Rest the company’s debut season, Lyric premiered the first full-scale Toward the 21st Century, Lyric’s initiative focused on contemporary opera, staging of The Taming of the Shrew by American composer was launched during 1990/91 with Dominick Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Vittorio Giannini to great public and critical acclaim – right Allan Poe.

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The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess was so successful in its Lyric premiere Lyric presented the Chicago premiere of Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers in 2008/09 that it returned in 2014/15 (pictured here). at the Athenaeum Theatre during the 2017/18 season. Dan Rest Nancy Sorensen

The world-premiere production of William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge Lyric’s first world premiere, Vittorio Giannini’s The Harvest, premiered in 1961. (1999/00 season) was covered in an unprecedented nine-installment series of articles in The New York Times. between the two performances of Bellini’s Norma, starring Lyric’s “Toward the 21st Century” artistic initiative had Maria Callas in her American debut. far-reaching impact on American opera here and abroad. Lyric’s commitment to contemporary operas has taken Throughout the 1990s Lyric produced one 20th-century European many forms over the company’s 65-year history. There have and one 20th-century American opera each year as part of been an impressive 50+ mainstage productions of 20th- and the regular season. Within that decade Lyric commissioned and 21st-century operas written or performed in English (including premiered three new works: William Bolcom’s McTeague eight mainstage world premieres); six fully staged operas (1992/93); Anthony Davis’s Amistad (1997/98); and Bolcom’s created under Lyric’s composer-in-residence program (1984 A View from the Bridge (1999/00). The latter world premiere, based through 2002) and presented outside the opera house; and three on Arthur Miller’s play about the personal struggles of an fully staged chamber operas and five operas for young immigrant family living in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, people presented at outside venues. was explored in a nine-part series in The New York Times on Additionally, two bilingual mariachi operas (one a world “The Making of an Opera,” which helped make Lyric the place to premiere) thrilled new audiences at Lyric and in community be to experience the riveting new work. venues. Recalls Burke-Peterson, “There was so much excitement The accompanying timeline is a source of great pride, and pride, with so many families coming into a place they demonstrating Lyric’s enduring commitment to presenting a wide never thought they’d be in, listening to a style of music they range of operatic works well beyond the core repertoire. As part grew up with. It felt like exactly what Lyric was meant to do.” of Lyric’s overall vision for the future, general director Anthony In earlier seasons Lyric presented several 20th-century Freud shares, “We want to be the great opera company of the 21st European operas in English, including Berg’s Wozzeck, century, and producing new work is essential to achieving that Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel, The Love for Three Oranges, and goal. Now more than ever, audiences are ready to be excited by The Gambler; Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, and Janácek’s the new and to make connections between what they see onstage Katya Kabanova. and their own lives.”

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 14 These contemporary operas, written in English or performed in English translation, have been produced at Lyric.

1954 The Taming of The Shrew, Vittorio Giannini (American) 1997 Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk) world premiere, 1955 Lord Byron’s Love Letter, Raffaelo De Banfield (British) Composer-in-Residence Shulamit Ran 1959 Jenufa,˚ Leoš Janácek (Czech), sung in English (Israeli-American), performed by LOCAA: 1961 The Harvest world premiere, Giannini Amistad world premiere, Anthony Davis 1965 Wozzeck, Alban Berg (Austrian), sung in English (American); , Britten 1966 Fiery Angel, Sergei Prokofiev (Russian), sung in English 1998 Mourning Becomes Electra, Marvin David Levy 1968 Oedipus Rex, Igor Stravinsky (Russian), (American); Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, in English and Latin Kurt Weill (German, later American), sung in English 1970 , (English); Bluebeard’s 1999 A View from The Bridge world premiere, Bolcom Castle, Béla Bartók (Hungarian), sung in English 2000 The Great Gatsby, John Harbison (American) 1972 Wozzeck, Berg, sung in English 2001 Lovers and Friends (Chautauqua Variations) world 1974 Peter Grimes, Britten premiere, Composer-in-Residence Michael John 1976 The Love for Three Oranges, Prokofiev, sung in English LaChiusa (American), performed by LOCAA; 1977 Peter Grimes, (Britten) Street Scene, Weill; Billy Budd, Britten; 1978 Paradise Lost world premiere, Krzysztof Penderecki (Polish) Composer-in-Residence program concludes 1979 The Love for Three Oranges with workshop performance of Morning Star, (American) by LOCAA 1984 LYRIC LAUNCHES COMPOSER-IN- 2002 Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim (American); RESIDENCE PROGRAM Susannah, Floyd 2003 , (American) 1986 The Guilt of Lillian Sloan world premiere, Composer- 2004 A Wedding world premiere, Bolcom in-Residence William Neil (American), performed by 2005 The Midsummer Marriage, Sir Michael Tippett (English) the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists (LOCAA, 2007 Doctor Atomic, John Adams (American) now known as The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan 2008 Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin (American) Opera Center) 2010 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Britten 1986 Katya Kabanova, Janácek, sung in English 2013 A Streetcar Named Desire, André Previn 1987 Satyagraha, Philip Glass (American) (German-American); Cruzar la cara de la luna, 1989 The Fan world premiere, Composer-in-Residence José Pepe Martínez (Mexican), sung in English Lee Goldstein (American), performed by LOCAA and Spanish 2014 Porgy and Bess, Gershwin 1989 LYRIC ANNOUNCES “TOWARD THE 2015 El Pasado Nunca Se Termina world premiere, Martínez; 21ST CENTURY” ARTISTIC INITIATIVE, The Property (chamber opera) world premiere, TO PRESENT ONE EACH 20TH-CENTURY Wlad Marhulets (Polish); Second Nature (youth AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN OPERA PER opera) world premiere, Matthew Aucoin (American) SEASON FOR A DECADE 2015 Bel Canto world premiere, Jimmy López (Peruvian-American) 1990 The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Dominick Argento 2016 Jason and the Argonauts (youth opera) world premiere, (American) Gregory Spears (American) 1991 Antony and Cleopatra, Samuel Barber (American) 2017 Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, Daniel Schnyder (Swiss); The Gambler, Prokofiev, sung in English Scorpion’s Sting (youth opera), Dean Burry 1992 McTeague world premiere, William Bolcom (American) (Canadian) 1993 Susannah, Carlisle Floyd (American); 2018 Trouble in Tahiti, Bernstein; Fellow Travelers Orpheus Descending world premiere, Composer-in- (chamber opera), Spears; Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt Residence Bruce Saylor (American), performed (youth opera), John Musto (American) by LOCAA 2019 An American Dream (chamber opera), Jack Perla 1994 Candide, Leonard Bernstein (American); The Rake’s (American); Dead Man Walking, Jake Heggie Progress, Stravinsky (American); Earth to Kenzie (youth opera), 1995 The Ghosts of Versailles, John Corigliano (American) Frances Pollock (American) 1996 The Consul, (Italian-American) 2020 Blue (chamber opera), Jeanine Tesori (American)

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 15 A troubled young man, Joseph De Rocher, commits a horrific crime and awaits his fate on death row. A compassionate nun, Sister Helen Prejean, guides him through his own desperately conflicted spiritual journey. In the process, Sister Helen finds herself experiencing her own turbulent crisis of faith. Widely acknowledged as one of the most riveting operas of the 21st century – this is Dead Man Walking.

Dead Man Walking at the Teatro Real de Madrid, 2018. Javier Del Real/Teatro Real Madrid Javier Del Real/Teatro

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 17 Lyric Premiere Dead Man Walking Jake Heggie | An opera in two acts in English Libretto by Terrence McNally, based on the novel by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ

CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE A teenage boy Miles Borchard+ Kitty Hart, A teenage girl Ari Kraiman+ mother of the murdered girl Talise Trevigne+ Joseph De Rocher Ryan McKinny+ Howard Boucher, Anthony De Rocher, father of the murdered boy Allan Glassman+ Joseph’s younger brother Michael Saubert, Jr.+ Joseph’s 14-year-old brother Ethan Warren+ Sister Helen Prejean Patricia Racette Sister Rose Whitney Morrison•• Conductor Nicole Paiement+ Children Chicago Children’s Choir Director Leonard Foglia A Mother Maia Surace Set Designer Michael McGarty+ Sister Lillianne Corinne Wallace-Crane Costume Designer Jess Goldstein+ Sister Catherine Desirée Hassler Lighting Designer Brian Nason Mrs. Charlton Marie Sokolova Projection Designer Elaine J. McCarthy A motorcycle cop Christopher Kenney• Sound Designer Roger Gans+ Father Grenville, Chorus Master Michael Black the prison chaplain Clay Hilley+ Children’s Chorus Master Josephine Lee George Benton, Wigmaster and the prison warden Gordon Hawkins Makeup Designer Sarah Hatten Prison guards David Weigel•, Anthony Reed•+ Associate Director Katrina Bachus Solo inmates Joe Shadday, Nicholas Ward, Assistant Director David Carl Toulson Matthew Carroll, Kenneth Nichols, Stage Manager Rachel C. Henneberry Nikolas Wenzel Musical Preparation William C. Billingham A paralegal Emily Pogorelc• Noah Lindquist Joseph’s 19-year-old brother Eric Ferring• Matthew Piatt Mrs. Patrick De Rocher, Stefano Sarzani Joseph’s mother Susan Graham Fight Director Chuck Coyl Owen Hart, Intimacy Director Tonia Sina+ father of the murdered girl Wayne Tigges•• Dialect Coach Kate DeVore Jade Boucher, Projected English Titles Colin Ure mother of the murdered boy Lauren Decker• + Lyric debut • Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center First performed by on October 7, 2000 •• Alumni, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on November 2, 2019 Javier Del Real/Teatro Real Madrid Javier Del Real/Teatro

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 18 INTRODUCTION Time early 1980s | Place Louisiana

Joseph De Rocher is on death row at Angola State Penitentiary in LYRIC OPERA Louisiana, awaiting execution for rape and murder. He begins OF CHICAGO corresponding with Sister Helen Prejean. This central relationship Anthony Freud of the opera presents two people from radically different General Director, President & CEO backgrounds and life experiences,who connect with each other through the most horrifying circumstances: a nun devoted Sir Andrew Davis Music Director to community service and a criminal raised in poverty, living as if in a descending spiral that has led him to catastrophe. Enrique Mazzola Music Director Designate Everything about Joseph’s crime horrifies Sister Helen, and yet she’s drawn to the human being writing the letters. A bold, Renée Fleming determined woman who never in her life has heeded the warning Creative Consultant “Be careful,” she sees in his letters someone truly reaching out in need. When she finally meets him face to face and becomes his PRODUCTION SPONSORS spiritual adviser, she discovers a 29-year-old man full of spirit ROBERTA L. AND ROBERT J. WASHLOW and asserting his innocence, yet at the same time overwhelmed and frightened. Commissioned by San Francisco Opera. Meeting Joseph’s family – especially his simple, loving, This production was originally uncomprehending mother – draws Sister Helen more deeply into created by Opera Pacific, Cincinnati Opera, , his situation. She advocates for him to be spared, even when Austin Lyric Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, and confronted by the parents of the dead couple, who castigate her Baltimore Opera. for seemingly ignoring their suffering. By arrangement with Bent Pen Music. Sole Agent: Bill Holab Music. As the date for Joseph’s execution draws near, Sister Helen Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully experiences her own desperate crisis of faith as she’s pursued by acknowledges the support of the Robert and Ellen Marks American dreams of Joseph and the couple he killed. She is motivated by a Opera Endowed Chair. desire to make him understand that he is a child of God and will be Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its Official Airline, American Airlines. forgiven. He remains defiant, even belligerent, and in denial of his The projected titles used in this crime. As he becomes increasingly terrified by what’s to come, production are owned by Houston Grand Opera: , he confronts Sister Helen’s continuing exhortation: “The truth will Artistic and Music Director; Perryn Leech, Managing Director. set you free.”

APPROXIMATE TIMINGS Act One 1 hour, 20 minutes Intermission 30 minutes Acts Two & Three 1 hour, 5 minutes Total 2 hours, 55 minutes

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 19 Artist profiles

JAKE HEGGIE | COMPOSER voix humaine, The Consul, and The Ghosts of Versailles. This season’s Lyric debut highlights include La voix humaine (Dallas), which Racette also directs, and Street Scene (Monte Carlo, where she will perform her one-woman Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead show, “Diva on Detour”). Last season included a reimagined La voix Man Walking, Moby-Dick, It’s a Wonderful Life, humaine (Philadelphia), Kát’a Kabanová (Barcelona), Kostelnicka/ˇ Jenufa˚ If I Were You, , , and (Santa Fe), and Trouble in Tahiti (Ravinia). Among Racette’s honors are Two Remain, among others. He has also composed nearly 300 songs, as the Grammy, Opera News, Richard Tucker, and Marian Anderson awards. well as chamber, choral, and orchestral works. His operas – most created with Terrence McNally or Gene Scheer – have been produced RYAN McKINNY | on five continents. Dead Man Walking has been recorded twice and, JOSEPH DE ROCHER with 70 productions internationally, is one of the most performed Lyric debut operas of our time. Moby-Dick was telecast throughout the United States as part of PBS’s Great Performances’ 40th season and Last season the acclaimed American bass- subsequently released on DVD. Great Scott was a 2019 Grammy Award sang his first (the most nominee for Best New Composition, Classical. A Guggenheim fellow, recent of his many Houston Grand Opera roles) and Wotan/Das Heggie has served as a mentor for the Washington National Opera’s Rheingold (Opéra de Montréal). He also returned to the Bayreuth Festival American Opera Initiative and is a frequent guest artist at universities, (Amfortas/Parsifal) and Dutch National Opera (John Adams’s Girls of the conservatories, and festivals through the U. S. and Canada. Golden West, European premiere). McKinny has also been featured at The (Tannhäuser, , Die Meistersinger TERRENCE McNALLY | LIBRETTIST von Nürnberg, Billy Budd); LA Opera (, The Marriage Lyric debut of Figaro, A Streetcar Named Desire, Handel’s Tamerlano); The Santa Fe Opera (Doctor Atomic, ), Washington National Opera (Ring cycle, The American playwright has had a new work ), and The Glimmerglass Festival (The Flying on Broadway in each of the last six decades. A Dutchman, Carousel). Successes abroad encompass works of Handel member of the American Academy of Arts and (Radamisto, London), Gluck (Alceste, Leipzig), Wagner (The Flying Letters and the Theater Hall of Fame, he received a Special Tony Award Dutchman, Hamburg; Tristan und Isolde, Berlin), Strauss (, for Lifetime Achievement in 2019. He has also received the Dramatists Wiesbaden), and Bizet (Carmen, Hamburg, Dresden). McKinny has been Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lucille Lortel Lifetime heard with the major orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Los Achievement Award, four Tony Awards (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland, among others. Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime). Among many other honors are an Emmy Award, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Obie SUSAN GRAHAM | MRS. PATRICK Awards. In addition to Dead Man Walking, he wrote the libretto for DE ROCHER Jake Heggie’s Great Scott. Other plays include Mothers and Sons; Lips Previously at Lyric: Eight roles since 1989/90, Together, Teeth Apart; The Lisbon Traviata; Frankie and Johnny in the most recently Dinah/Trouble in Tahiti (“Bernstein Clair de Lune; A Perfect Ganesh; The Visit; The Full Monty; Corpus at 100” Celebration, 2017/18); Didon/Les Troyens Christi; Bad Habits; Next; The Ritz; Anastasia; It’s Only a Play; Where Has (2016/17). Tommy Flowers Gone?; and The Stendhal Syndrome. The renowned American mezzo-’s new roles in recent seasons include Mrs. De Rocher/Dead Man Walking (Washington), the Witch/ PATRICIA RACETTE | SISTER Hansel and Gretel (Los Angeles), the title role/Regina (St. Louis), Mrs. HELEN PREJEAN Anna/The King and I (Paris), Countess Geschwitz/ Lulu (Metropolitan Previously at Lyric: Seven roles since 2000/01, Opera), Orlofsky/Die Fledermaus and Clairon/Capriccio (both in Santa most recently title role/Madama Butterfly Fe). Among Graham’s triumphs in French repertoire are the heroines of (2013/14, 2008/09); Mme. Lidoine/Dialogues Les Troyens (Paris, New York, San Francisco), Iphigénie en Tauride (Met, of the Carmelites (2006/07). Salzburg, Madrid, San Francisco, London, Paris, Toronto), Béatrice et The celebrated American soprano, making her role debut, has starred Bénédict (Santa Fe), Werther (Met, St. Louis, Amsterdam, Paris), and La in the world premieres of ’s Dolores Claiborne (San Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Santa Fe). Her recitals have included a Francisco), An American Tragedy (Metropolitan Opera), and Emmeline program themed around Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, debuted at (Santa Fe); Paul Moravec’s The Letter (Santa Fe); and Carlisle Floyd’s London’s Wigmore Hall and heard last season in Urbana-Champaign, Cold Sassy Tree (Houston). Racette has earned acclaim repeatedly with Orange County, and Rochester (New York). This season Graham sings those companies, as well as with the major companies of London, Paris, her first Herodias/Salome (Houston), presents a recital at , Barcelona, Munich, Vienna, San Francisco, Toronto, and Dallas. Recent and returns to one of her signature works, Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été new roles include the heroines of Salome, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, La (Vancouver Symphony).

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 20 WHITNEY MORRISON | Symphony Orchestra, Florestan/Fidelio with the Atlanta Symphony SISTER ROSE Orchestra, Menelaus/Die ägyptische Helena with Odyssey Opera, and Previously at Lyric: Four roles since 2017/18, Strauss’s Feuersnot with the American Symphony Orchestra (Hilley’s most recently Confidante/Elektra, Carnegie Hall debut). The Wagner Society of New York presented First Cretan Woman/ (both 2018/19). Hilley in recital, following their recognition of the with the Robert Lauch Award. He is an alumnus of the University of Georgia, Georgia The soprano, a Chicago native and a Ryan Opera Center alumna, State University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Opera debuts at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera later this season as Floria Institute at Boston University. Tosca/Marina Abramovic’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas (world premiere). Other credits include the Harris Theater’s “Beyond the Aria” series; WAYNE TIGGES | OWEN HART Miss Pinkerton/The Old Maid and the Thief at the Grant Park Music Previously at Lyric: Nine roles since 2002/03, Festival; an appearance at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s most recently Basilio/The Barber of Seville, celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy; her debut at Rochester’s Achilla/ (both 2007/08). Kodak Hall with the Eastman Wind Ensemble; and Donna Anna/Don Giovanni with Chicago’s Floating Opera Company. A graduate of The bass-baritone, a Ryan Opera Center Alabama’s Oakwood University, Morrison completed her training at the alumnus who previously portrayed Owen Hart in Washington, Atlanta, Eastman School of Music (master’s degree), Germany’s Neil Semer and Des Moines, has appeared throughout North America and Vocal Institute (Germany), and Italy’s Georg Solti Accademia di internationally in a diverse repertoire. Among his other achievements Bel Canto. Competition successes include top prizes in the National in contemporary works are Sgt. Aaron Marcum/An American Soldier Classical Singer University Competition, the R. Nathaniel Dett Club (world premiere, St. Louis), Howie Albert/Champion (Washington), NANM Scholarship Competition, and the Musicians Club of Henry Isaacson/Oscar (Philadelphia), Joe St. George/Dolores Claiborne Women Competition. (world premiere, San Francisco), Gideon March/Little Women (Omaha), Blitch/Susannah (Milwaukee), Willy Wonka/The Golden Ticket GORDON HAWKINS | (European premiere, Wexford Festival), Roy Cohn/Angels in America GEORGE BENTON (New York City), and John Proctor/The Crucible (Santa Barbara). Previously at Lyric: Amonasro/Aida (2011/12); Appearances in standard repertoire include Don Giovanni (Costa Mesa, Porgy/Porgy and Bess (2008/09). Austin), Escamillo (Glyndebourne), Don Basilio/The Barber of Seville (Detroit), Wagner’s Dutchman (Atlanta), and Baron Douphol/La traviata Among the renowned American baritone’s many (Los Angeles). Tigges has appeared with the Teatro Regio di Parma successes onstage have been Alberich/Ring cycle (Deutsche Oper orchestra and the major orchestras of Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Berlin, San Francisco Opera), Telramund/Lohengrin (Deutsche Oper and Cleveland, among many others. Berlin), Alberich/Siegfried and Kaspar/Der Freischütz (Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza), the Villains/Les contes d’Hoffmann (Tokyo), the title TALISE TREVIGNE | KITTY HART role/ (New Zealand Festival), Amonasro/Aida Lyric debut (Houston, Cincinnati), George/Of Mice and Men (Houston), Porgy/ Porgy and Bess (Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Washington, Detroit, San The American soprano first attracted significant Francisco), Thoas/Iphigénie en Tauride (Metropolitan Opera), and attention as Pip/Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick (Dallas Renato/Un ballo in maschera (New Orleans, Montreal), and more than world premiere, subsequently San Francisco, 200 performances as Rigoletto to international acclaim. Hawkins has San Diego, Washington, PBS, DVD). Other roles she created are the also appeared in Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony (Kennedy title role/Judith Weir’s Armida (BBC), June Gibbons/Errollyn Wallen’s Center), Jake Heggie’s A Great Hope Fell (EOS Orchestra of New York, The Silent Twins (Almeida Opera), Ma/Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up world premiere). Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (St. Louis Symphony), (Omaha, New York), Beloved/Liza Lim’s The Navigator (Melbourne, and concert selections from American musicals (Deutsche Welle subsequently Moscow and Paris), and Clara/Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful WDR 4, Cologne); with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Life (Houston). Her diverse operatic repertoire also encompasses Albert Hall; and with the major orchestras of Chicago, Washington, Euridice/Orfeo ed Euridice (Caramoor Festival), Heroines/Les contes Baltimore, Cincinnati, Prague, and Vienna. d’Hoffmann (Lyon, Tel Aviv), Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly (Basel, Louisville, Raleigh), title role/Iris (Bard Summerscape), and Bess/Porgy CLAY HILLEY | FATHER GRENVILLE and Bess (Glimmerglass, Cincinnati, UMS). Other successes include Lyric debut Nedda/Pagliacci (Madison), Leila/The Pearl Fishers (Raleigh), and Micaëla/Carmen (San Diego, Honolulu). Major concert engagements Among the American heroic tenor’s successes include Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time onstage in recent seasons have been the title (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - U.K., Dortmund, role/Dvorák’sˇ Dimitrij and Paul/Die Tote Stadt at Hamburg). Trevigne won the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Bard Summerscape, the title role/Idomeneo at Theater Würzburg, and Award for La traviata with Birmingham Opera (U.K.). the Landestheater in Salzburg, Canio/Pagliacci at Virginia Opera, and Erik/The Flying Dutchman at Austin Lyric Opera. Concert highlights include Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Ravinia with the Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 21 LAUREN DECKER | have been a Sara Tucker Study Grant from The Richard Tucker JADE BOUCHER Foundation and a Career Grant from The Sullivan Foundation. Eric Previously at Lyric: Seven roles since 2016/17, Ferring is sponsored by Richard O. Ryan, Richard W. Shepro and most recently Annina/La traviata, First Maid/ Lindsay E. Roberts, and Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon. Elektra (both 2018/19). ETHAN WARREN | The Wisconsin-born contralto, a fourth-year member of the Ryan JOSEPH’S 14-YEAR-OLD BROTHER Opera Center, has been featured at the Grant Park Music Festival and Lyric debut in the Harris Theater’s “Beyond the Aria” series. She debuted at the San Francisco Symphony this summer singing Elgar’s Sea The actor has been seen in a wide variety of Pictures. Decker was a finalist in the 2019 Operalia competition and a roles. Among them are The Brother/All That He national semifinalist in the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Was (Pride Films & Plays), Shermy/A Charlie Brown Christmas Auditions. The UW-Milwaukee alumna has participated in the Institute (Broadway Playhouse), Jack/Into the Woods (Metropolis Performing for Young Dramatic Voices, the American Wagner Project, and the Arts Centre), Pinocchio/Shrek (Marriott Theatre), Prince Herbert/Monty Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto. Decker has appeared with the Python’s Spamalot (Barn Theatre), Kane/Love & Human Remains (Cor Apollo Chorus/Elmhurst Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Theatre), Skiddoo/The Tail of the Little Mermaid (Theatre at the Center), Harare International Festival of the Arts (Zimbabwe). She was awarded and Victor/Cabaret (Entr’acte Theatre). Warren earned a bachelor of the American Opera Society of Chicago’s 2018 Lola Fletcher fine arts degree in musical theater from The Chicago College of Scholarship. Lauren Decker is sponsored by an Anonymous Donor, Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Susan M. Miller, and the Thierer Family Foundation. CHRISTOPHER KENNEY | ALLAN GLASSMAN | MOTORCYCLE COP HOWARD BOUCHER Previously at Lyric: Three roles since 2018/19, Lyric debut most recently Fiorello/The Barber of Seville (2019/20); Marquis d’Obigny/La traviata (2018/19). The tenor appears regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has been featured in 13 works. A Minnesota native and a second-year Ryan Opera Center member, the One of his acclaimed Met roles, Herod/Salome, has also been a great baritone made his Grant Park Music Festival debut in 2018 portraying success at Ravinia and the major companies of San Diego, Fort Worth, Bob/The Old Maid and the Thief. Kenney is a former member of San Antonio, and Cape Town. Among his other leading roles have been Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program the title roles/Les contes d’Hoffmann and Idomeneo (LA Opera), the title (The Barber of Seville, The Little Prince, Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up role/ (Philadelphia, Phoenix, Palm Beach, Dallas, des Moines, – world premiere). He was also a featured soloist in Bernstein’s Chautauqua), Samson/Samson et Dalila (Costa Mesa), and Don José/ Songfest with the National Symphony Orchestra. A former Santa Fe Carmen, Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly, and Cavaradossi/Tosca (all at Opera apprentice artist, Kenney is a three-time winner of the New York City Opera). Appearances internationally include Manrico/Il Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions. The baritone is trovatore (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Samson (New Israeli Opera), the an alumnus of Concordia College, the University of Kentucky, and Prince/ (Frankfurt), and the title role/Ernani, Don José, and Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts. Christopher Kenney is sponsored Arrigo/ (L’Opéra de Nice). Glassman has appeared in by an Anonymous Donor, Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis, concert with the Munich Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, and and Blythe J. McGarvie. Boston Concert Opera, among many other ensembles. DAVID WEIGEL | ERIC FERRING | FIRST PRISON GUARD JOSEPH’S 19-YEAR-OLD BROTHER Previously at Lyric: Dr. Grenvil/La traviata, Previously at Lyric: Five roles since 2018/19, First Minister/Cendrillon, Voice of Neptune/ most recently Sergeant/The Barber of Seville Idomeneo (all 2018/19). (2019/20); Lurcanio/Ariodante (2018/19). Born in California and raised in North Carolina, the bass-baritone is a The Iowa-born tenor, a second-year Ryan Opera Center member, is an second-year Ryan Opera Center member and will also sing the Bonze/ alumnus of Drake University and Boston Conservatory, Ferring is a Madama Butterfly and Sourin/The Queen of Spades at Lyric this season. former Pittsburgh Opera resident artist and Santa Fe Opera apprentice Weigel is an alumnus of Furman University, the University of North artist. He made his role debut as Tamino/The Magic Flute at the 2019 Carolina at Greensboro, the A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute, and the Verbier Festival and will reprise that role later this season at North University of Michigan. A Michigan District winner of the 2016 Carolina Opera, New Orleans Opera, and The Santa Fe Opera. He has Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, he performed with also been heard at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, and San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program in 2017 (Death/Savitri) Seagle Music Colony. This summer he participated in the Britten-Pears and 2013 (Collatinus/The Rape of Lucretia). Weigel, who sang the title Young Artist Programme at Snape-Maltings (England) and the Vocal role/The Marriage of Figaro at the Aspen Festival this summer, has also Residency of the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Among Ferring’s honors been heard with North Carolina Opera, Greensboro Opera, Piedmont

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 22 Opera, Asheville Lyric Opera, Opera North, and the Brevard Music MILES BORCHARD | Center. David Weigel is sponsored by Lois B. Siegel, Michael and A TEENAGE BOY Salme Harju Steinberg, and Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom. Lyric debut

ANTHONY REED | The actor has appeared in a wide variety of roles SECOND PRISON GUARD at the Patrick O’Malley Theatre at Roosevelt Lyric debut University. He was featured there as John Buchanan/Summer and Smoke, Tonino and Zanetto/The Venetian Twins, and David Kingsley/ A first-year member of the Ryan Opera Center, Stage Door, and also portrayed Theseus/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the bass returns to the Lyric stage later this Prof. Claude Knight/Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), and season in Madama Butterfly and The Queen of Spades. Reed was Max/Cabaret. Borchard starred earlier this year at Chicago’s recently seen at Wolf Trap Opera as Friar Laurence/Romeo and Juliet. A Greenhouse Theater Center as Paul Morel/Sons and Lovers. He has former Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, he has appeared there in appeared on film in leading roles for DePaul Productions, Philhouse Aida, The Magic Flute, and La traviata, among other roles. Additionally, Productions, and SHOED! Productions. Borchard graduated with a his repertory encompasses such major roles as Sarastro/The Magic bachelor of fine arts degree in acting from the Chicago College of Flute, Don Magnifico/, and Don Basilio/The Barber of Performing Arts. Seville. He has performed with some of the world’s most esteemed conductors, among them and Donald Runnicles. Reed is CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR an alumnus of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Merola Opera Previously at Lyric: 11 productions since Program. Anthony Reed is sponsored by J. Thomas Hurvis. 2000/01, most recently La bohème (2018/19); Turandot (2017/18). EMILY POGORELC | A PARALEGAL Chicago Children’s Choir (Josephine Lee, Previously at Lyric: Confidante/Elektra, Noémie/ president and artistic director) is the nation’s preeminent youth choral Cendrillon (both 2018/19). organization, serving 5,200 students across the city of Chicago. Founded in Hyde Park in direct response to the Civil Rights Movement The soprano, a Milwaukee native and second-year in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a vast network of in-school Ryan Opera Center member, returns to the Lyric stage later this season and after-school programs driven by one mission: to inspire and in The Queen of Spades. Among her major successes have been change lives through music. CCC has impacted the lives of more than Cunegonde/Candide (Washington National Opera); Romilda/Xerxes, 50,000 diverse youth throughout its 62-year history. Since its founding, Berenice/L’occasione fa il ladro, and Johanna/Sweeney Todd (all at The CCC has focused on building programs that reflect the racial and Glimmerglass Festival); and Chan Parker/Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (New economic diversity of Chicago. Eighty percent of youth served are from York’s Apollo Theater). She has also appeared at Carnegie Hall in Berio’s low-moderate income homes, with over 4,000 students annually Sinfonia. In 2018 Pogorelc received the Ginette Theano Prize for Most participating completely free of charge. All singers in CCC programs Promising Talent at the inaugural Glyndebourne Opera Cup competition. receive some level of subsidy. High-school seniors enrolled in CCC She has participated in England’s Britten-Pears Programme and at the have a 100% graduation and college acceptance rate, becoming global Aix-en-Provence Festival’s Mozart Residency. The soprano is a graduate ambassadors who carry on CCC’s core values in a wide array of of the Curtis Institute of Music. She has received first prize in numerous professional fields. competitions, including The Carolyn Bailey and Dominick Argento Vocal Competition. Emily Pogorelc is sponsored by Sally and Michael Feder, NICOLE PAIEMENT | Ms. Gay K. Stanek, and Jennifer L. Stone. CONDUCTOR Lyric debut ARI KRAIMAN | A TEENAGE GIRL Lyric debut Nicole Paiement is an internationally recognized conductor of contemporary music and opera. The actress has been seen at The August Wilson She is the artistic director of Opera Parallèle in San Francisco and the Center (Tilly/She Kills Monsters), Williamstown principal guest conductor at The Dallas Opera. Also an active guest Theatre Festival (Grandchild/Once Upon a Time…, conductor, Paiement recently appeared with , Prisoner/Far Away), Clock Productions (Becca/Six Views of Love), Cuckoo’s Glimmerglass Festival (2016-2018) and the Washington National Opera. Theatre Project (Kaliope/She Kills Monsters), and Chicago’s Babes with Earlier this year she conducted the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Blades Theater Company (Tilly/The Lady Demands). She has also appeared latest work, If I Were You, with San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program. in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Pittsburgh Musical Theater and, at the In 2020, Opera Parallèle will present a new version of Stewart Wallace’s University of Pittsburgh – of which she is a recent alumna, in such major Harvey Milk in San Francisco with Paiement at the helm. Other roles as Tytania/A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Saraghina/Nine. She has upcoming engagements include George Benjamin’s Written on Skin at trained with the Society of American Fight Directors and is a former L’Opéra de Montréal, a return to The Dallas Opera for a double bill of participant in both the Williamstown Theatre Festival Professional Training Poulenc’s La voix humaine and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, and a debut Program and the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. with the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Joby Talbot’s Everest at the

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 23 Barbican Centre, London. Nicole Paiement is sponsored by the End of the Affair (Houston Grand Opera), Dead Man Walking (New York Loretta Julian/Julian Family Foundation. City Opera, Opera Pacific) and Of Mice and Men, , and The Pirates of Penzance (New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Festival). LEONARD FOGLIA | Designs for film and television include A Walk on the Moon, The DIRECTOR Substance of Fire, and Talking With and Far East for PBS’s Great Previously at Lyric: El Pasado Nunca Se Termina Performances. Goldstein, the 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff (2014/15); Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (2012/13). Lifetime Achievement Award, is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Jess Goldstein is supported by the Richard P. and Susan Leonard Foglia directed the world premieres Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair. of Moby-Dick (filmed for PBS), Everest, It’s a Wonderful Life, Cold Mountain, The End of the Affair, Three Decembers, Stonewall, Cruzar la BRIAN NASON | Cara de la Luna/To Cross the Face of the Moon (also librettist), A Coffin LIGHTING DESIGNER in Egypt (also librettist), and El Pasado Nunca Se Termina/The Past Is Previously at Lyric: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna Never Finished (also librettist). His production of Dead Man Walking, (2012/13). produced by New York City Opera, has been seen across the U.S. and Europe. Broadway productions include Master Class, Wait Until Dark, The lighting designer’s work on Dead Man Thurgood (filmed for HBO), The People in the Picture, On Golden Pond, Walking has been seen at nine companies, among them Houston Grand The Gin Game. Off-Broadway productions include One Touch of Venus, Opera, New York City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and The Stendhal Syndrome, If Memory Serves, About Alice, Let Me Down the Teatro Real de Madrid. Last season Nason returned to San Easy (filmed for PBS), and Notes From The Field (filmed for HBO). Francisco Opera for Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life, also seen in Among the director’s upcoming projects is the world premiere of El Houston and at Indiana University. Other major credits include A Little Milagro del Recuerdo/The Miracle of Remembering (librettist and Night Music (Houston); West Side Story (La Scala); Salome (New York director) at Houston Grand Opera in December. City Opera, Opera Pacific); and numerous contemporary operas, among them Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers (San Francisco, Houston); MICHAEL McGARTY | Pepe Martínez and Leonard Foglia’s Cruzar la Cara de la Luna SET DESIGNER (Houston, Fort Worth, San Diego); Ricky Ian Gordon’s A Coffin in Egypt Lyric debut (Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia); and Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain (Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Raleigh). Nason has been nominated for a Tony Michael McGarty set designs for Dead Man Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and three Audelco Awards. Walking have been seen previously at New York He has won a Barrymore Award for lighting design. Brian Nason is City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Pacific, and most recently the supported by the Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting Teatro Real (Madrid). McGarty also designed the world premiere of Director Endowed Chair. Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair (Houston, subsequently Kansas City, Seattle). Broadway productions include Master Class, Wait Until ELAINE J. McCARTHY | Dark (revival), and Julia Sweeney’s God Said Ha! McGarty has worked PROJECTION DESIGNER extensively in New York and in regional theater nationwide. He has a Previously at Lyric: El Pasado Nunca Se Termina 36-year association with Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, (2014/15). Rhode Island (where he is a resident designer) and is a resident designer at the Gamm Theatre (Warwick, Rhode Island), where he Highlights of the American designer’s work on recently designed Festen (New England premiere) and The Night Broadway include Wicked, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Impressionism, Watch (American premiere). Recent world premieres include The 27th The People in the Picture, Assassins, Man of La Mancha (2002 revival), Man (New York’s Public Theater) and A Tale of Two Cities. McGarty Into the Woods (2002 revival), Thurgood, and Judgment at Nuremberg. headed the design program at Brown University for 14 years and Among McCarthy’s extensive off-Broadway credits are Frequency teaches at Rhode Island School of Design. Hopping (set and projections), Distracted (set and projections), Speaking in Tongues, Suitcase, The Stendhal Syndrome, Once in a Lifetime, and JESS GOLDSTEIN | Gloria: A Life. In addition to Dead Man Walking (New York City Opera, COSTUME DESIGNER subsequently seen nationwide), her association with Jake Heggie’s Lyric debut works includes Great Scott, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Moby-Dick (world premieres, Dallas Opera). Among other world premieres are Jennifer The designer’s Broadway credits include Jersey Higdon’s Cold Mountain (The Santa Fe Opera) and Joby Talbot’s Everest Boys, Disney’s Newsies, On the Town, The Rivals (Dallas). McCarthy has designed projections for Tristan und Isolde (2005 Tony Award), The Merchant of Venice (Tony nomination), Henry (Dallas); Mazeppa and War and Peace (both at the Mariinsky Theatre in IV (Tony nomination), Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Tintypes, St. Petersburg). Buried Child, How I Learned to Drive, and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). Opera designs include Il trittico (Metropolitan Opera), La traviata and (Washington National Opera), Two Women and Heart of a Soldier (San Francisco Opera), The

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 24 MICHAEL BLACK | KATRINA BACHUS | CHORUS MASTER ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR The Australian chorus master held this position Previously at Lyric: Associate director/Luisa Miller (2019/20); five in Sydney at Opera Australia from 2001 to 2013. productions as assistant director, most recently Siegfried (2018/19). Black has served in this capacity for such distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh The American director, who will return to Lyric later this season for the International Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), and, in Australia, Ring cycle, is closely associated with Houston Grand Opera. She has the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Choir, Motet Choir, worked on more than 20 productions there since 2013/14, including Cantillation chamber choir, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. both standard repertoire and contemporary works. The latter have Recent activities include preparing the Damnation of Faust chorus at included the world premieres of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix, Carlisle the Grant Park Music Festival, where he has worked for two seasons. Floyd’s The Prince of Players, and Iain Bell’s A Christmas Carol. Bachus As one of Australia’s most prominent vocal accompanists, Black has returns to HGO this season for La favorite. After working with John regularly performed for broadcasts and recordings. He has served as Neumeier on Orphée et Eurydiceat Lyric, she was associate director for chorus master on four continents, and his work has been recorded and/ that production at LA Opera in 2018. She has also assistant-directed or aired on ABC, BBC, PBS, for many HD productions in movie Bartlett Sher’s new Metropolitan Opera production of Otello. Among theaters, and on television. Michael Black is the Howard A. Stotler the other distinguished directors with whom she has collaborated are Chorus Master Endowed Chair. John Caird, Francesca Zambello, John Cox, Carlos Padrissa, and James Robinson. JOSEPHINE LEE | CHILDREN’S CHORUS MASTER CHUCK COYL | Previously at Lyric: 11 productions since FIGHT DIRECTOR 2000/01, most recently La bohème (2018/19); Previously at Lyric: Five operas since Turandot (2017/18). 2006/07, most recently Porgy and Bess (2014/15, 2008/09); The Damnation of Faust (2009/10). The president and artistic director of Chicago Children’s Choir has revolutionized youth choral music, encompassing cutting-edge A professional fight director for more than 30 years, Coyl is a performances of diverse repertoire; ongoing partnerships with Lyric, three-term president and two-term vice president of the Society of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Ravinia; and extensive national American Fight Directors. Recent credits include the Broadway and international tours. Among Lee’s recent projects have been two production and national tour of August Osage County, The Crucible and world premieres (Long Way Home with the Q Brothers Collective, Sita Superior Donuts at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, World of Extreme Ram with David Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre) and a collaboration Happiness, Magnolia, The Upstairs Concierge, 2666 at the Goodman with Chance the Rapper (Coloring Book). In 2019 she made a Theatre, and Private Lives at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Other conducting debut with members of the National Philharmonic at notable productions include, the world premieres of Killer Joe, Bug, Strathmore. In 2015 Lee founded a new young-people’s chorus, and The Point of Honor. He is a founding member of the Single Action Vocality, heard with the CSO at Ravinia (Porgy and Bess, Bernstein’s Theatre Company, and is on the faculty of the Actor’s Gymnasium and Mass). Future engagements include a new theatrical work by David Roosevelt University in Chicago. Kersnar, J. Nicole Brooks, and CCC composer-in-residence Mitchell Owens III, to premiere in 2020. An experienced singer herself, Lee KATE DEVORE | appeared in the critically praised 2018 world premiere of Ted Hearne’s DIALECT COACH Place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. Previously at Lyric: West Side Story (2018/19).

SARAH HATTEN | The voice coach/speech pathologist, with 25 WIGMASTER & MAKEUP DESIGNER years experience, operates Total Voice, Inc., providing voice, speech, and presence coaching. DeVore teaches at The Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer has School at Steppenwolf, Columbia College, and Acting Studio Chicago. worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines She frequently presents at conferences and workshops nationwide and Metro Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, as is author of The Voice Book: Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your well as Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, Voice, and the eBook Accent Modification: Neutral American Dialect. and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She Select Chicago coaching credits include The King’s Speech (Chicago has also worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major opera Shakespeare Theater); Sweat, A Christmas Carol, A View from the companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central Bridge, Uncle Vanya, The Jungle Book, Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman City, as well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, in Los Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, fml Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Geffen Playhouse. Sarah Hatten (Steppenwolf); And Then There Were None, Matilda, Mamma Mia!, is the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Beauty and the Beast (Drury Lane); Evening at the Talk House, The Endowed Chair. Opponent, Butcher of Baraboo, Abigail’s Party (A Red Orchid Theatre).

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 25 Orchestra & Chorus

MUSIC STAFF Amy Hess Contrabassoon Personnel Manager William C. Billingham, piano Melissa Trier Kirk Lewis Kirk and Stageband Contractor Susan Miller Hult Christine Janicki Roger Kalia Cello Horn Keun-A Lee Calum Cook, Principal Jonathan Boen, Principal CHORUS MASTER Noah Lindquist Paul Dwyer, Assistant Principal Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Michael Black Grant Loehnig Mark Brandfonbrener Utility Horn The Howard A. Stotler Francesco Milioto William H. Cernota Robert E. Johnson, Third Horn Endowed Chair Jerad Mosbey Laura Deming• Samuel Hamzem Matthew Piatt Paula Kosower+ Neil Kimel REGULAR CHORUS Stefano Sarzani Sonia Mantell Soprano Madeline Slettedahl Walter Preucil Trumpet Elisa Billey Becker• Tatiana Vassilieva William Denton, Principal Jillian Bonczek Eric Weimer Bass Channing Philbrick, Sharon Garvey Cohen Ian Hallas, Acting Principal Assistant Principal Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson ORCHESTRA Andrew L. W. Anderson Mike Brozick+ Cathleen Dunn Violin I Andrew J. Keller+ Janet Marie Farr Robert Hanford, Concertmaster Gregory Sarchet Trombone Desirée Hassler The Mrs. R. Robert Collins R. Trier Jeremy Moeller, Principal Rachael Holzhausen Funderburg Endowed Chair Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki Sharon Polifrone, Flute Mark Fry+ Kimberly McCord Assistant Concertmaster Marie Tachouet, Principal Heidi Spoor Alexander Belavsky Dionne Jackson, Assistant Principal Bass Trombone Stephani Springer Kathleen Brauer Alyce Johnson Mark Fry+ Elizabeth Anne Taylor Pauli Ewing Sherry Watkins David Hildner Piccolo Tuba Kelsea Webb Laura Miller Alyce Johnson Andrew Smith, Principal Liba Shacht Mezzo Heather Wittels Oboe Harp Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Bing Jing Yu Judith Kulb, Principal Marguerite Lynn Williams, Principal Marianna Kulikova Judith Zunamon Lewis, Colleen Lovinello Violin II Assistant Principal Timpani Yvette Smith Yin Shen, Principal Anne Bach+ Edward Harrison, Principal Marie Sokolova John Macfarlane, Assistant Principal Maia Surace Bonita Di Bello English Horn Percussion Corinne Wallace-Crane Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Judith Zunamon Lewis Michael Green, Principal Pamela Williams Teresa Kay Fream Douglas Waddell, Michelle K. Wrighte Peter Labella Clarinet Assistant Principal Ann Palen Charlene Zimmerman, Principal Eric Millstein Tenor Irene Radetzky Linda A. Baker, Geoffrey Agpalo• John D. Robinson Co-Assistant Principal Extra Musicians Timothy Bradley David Volfe Susan Warner, Renée-Paule Gauthier, violin Hoss Brock Albert Wang Co-Assistant Principal Injoo Choi, violin William M. Combs Aurelien Pederzoli, viola John J. Concepcion Viola Bass Clarinet Jeremy Attanaseo, bass Kenneth Donovan Carol Cook, Principal Linda A. Baker Joseph A. Fosselman Terri Van Valkinburgh, Librarian Cullen Gandy Assistant Principal Bassoon John Rosenkrans, Principal Cameo T. Humes Frank W. Babbitt Preman Tilson, Principal Tyler Samuel Lee Patrick Brennan Lewis Kirk, Assistant Principal Mark Nienow Karl Davies Hanna Sterba+

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 26 Thomas L. Potter Tenor Steven Michael Patrick CHICAGO CHILDREN’S Joe Shadday Jared V. Esguerra Brett Potts CHOIR Alex Guerrero Joseph Quintana Josephine Lee Bass Ryan Townsend Strand President & Artistic Director Matthew Carroll Bass Hugo Vera Mark Myers David DuBois Michael Cavalieri Associate Artistic Director Robert Morrissey Kirk Greiner Bass Elisabeth Baker Kenneth Nichols Nicolai Janitzky Mason Cooper Assistant Conductor Thomas Sillitti Vince Wallace Thaddeus Ennen John Goodwin Craig Springer David Govertsen Rehearsal Accompanist Jeffrey W. Taylor SUPPLEMENTARY Earl Hazell Nicholas Ward CHORUS Nathaniel Hill Daelyn Calloway Ronald Watkins Mezzo Antoine Hodge Rishi Chandra Nikolas Wenzel Emily Price Brian Hupp Jamion Cotten Max Wier Jonathan Kimple Arianna Fernando Tenor Jess Koehn Amina Gorman CORE SUPPLEMENTARY Justin Berkowitz Dorian McCall Pearl Griffin CHORUS Humberto Borboa De'Ron McDaniel Susana Hernandez Soprano Damon Cole Caleb Morgan Alethia Ikem Carla Janzen Kevin Courtemanche Ian Murrell Bennet McConkey Suzanne M. Kszastowski Matthew Daniel Wilbur Pauley Emerson McConkey Katelyn Lee Andrew Fisher Douglas Peters Zoey Obregon Jeremy Ayres Fisher Ian R. Prichard Maya Reinoso Mezzo Gerald Frantzen Dan Richardson Kaavya Shriram Katie Ruth Bieber Klaus Georg William Roberts Elaine Tang Amanda Runge Jianghai Ho Sean Stanton Ellen Tang Emma Sorenson Garrett Johannsen Jonathan Wilson Kaylee Wellington Luther Lewis Christopher T. Martin + Season substitute Nathan Oakes • Sabbatical

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 27 Still on the journey Sister Helen Prejean, who wrote the best-selling book on which Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking is based, lives her cause both in everyday life and as a character in the opera.

By Sister Helen Prejean

Thursday, January 28, 1999. I’m at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, watching the audience file into the auditorium for my lecture. Someone touches my arm and says there is a man wanting to meet me. I turn and see a young man with a skimpy goatee and I immediately think, “he’s an ex-prisoner.” Happens all the time in my line of work. He comes toward me, his hand extended, and introduces himself as John Packard. “I’m auditioning for the opera Dead Man Walking,” he tells me, and I smile. I know immediately that he will be perfect for the role of Joseph De Rocher. That is how the whole opera version of my book Dead Man Walking came together – the pieces just falling into place one by one. The key people getting involved as if drawn in by some force. Not just a force to make a successful modern opera, but a force Real Madrid Javier Del Real/Teatro strong enough to actually take people on a journey. The music and Measha Brueggergosman (left) as Sister Rose and Joyce DiDonato (right) the words are so powerful that audiences find themselves walking as Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking at the Teatro Real/Madrid (2018). down the path taken by my character – and that path travels through both the brightest and the darkest aspects of our Nobel Prize for literature, said that the only thing worth writing humanity. It’s a difficult path to take, I know, and there are about is the conflict in the human heart. True art brings you to moments of discomfort, heartache, and outrage along the way. both sides of a conflict. Through Dead Man Walking, I see But it’s an important path to travel. I look forward to being audience members going to a deeper place within themselves. We with the people of Chicago as they take this journey. see a murderer, and then we see an execution. Are they essentially Originally, as the opera was coming together, Jake Heggie the same thing, or are they different? Is that the only way to and Terrence McNally shared the libretto and snippets of the respond as a society, or are there alternatives? The opera shows music with me. I told them from the outset that as long as they us we can look at different options in regards to using the death captured the theme of redemption, I would be satisfied. In the penalty. Art helps us explore alternatives, allows us to make new end, I was more than satisfied. They captured the feel and the choices, and brings us to a deeper place where all this reflection struggle of my own spiritual journey, and at the same time gave us can happen. This opera is particularly helpful as audiences a glimpse at the lives of death row inmates and murder victims’ navigate the moral dilemmas that surround capital punishment. families. It is so much more than an opera about redemption: it is In more than twenty years of traveling around the country on a window to a whole new speaking tours, I have realized that the American people are ready world for most people, and it to talk about the death penalty. They need someone to take them shows all sides of the issue. through the discussion. The book Dead Man Walking was my first The savage and heinous crime opportunity to do this. I was pleased when the film was made by is not ignored, but fully Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Sean Penn, because I knew we revealed. The emotional pain were going to have a new, tangible way to help the American experienced by the family people reflect on the death penalty. It’s a moral issue that is not members of the victims is discussed very often, but I think people are more ready for deeper explored. Dead Man Walking is spiritual reflection than we give them credit for. an artistic reflection on what To reach out to people, you have to tell stories. This is one of happens behind the scenes, the reasons I think Dead Man Walking in all its forms touched so away from the public eye, many people, because in my stories I allowed people to see how it when we as a society condemn was for me, and for the inmate, and for the families involved. It and execute a person. was hard, it was like opening your front door and saying, “Well, A true work of art is one come on in,” and then allowing strangers to poke around in your that brings people to a deeper cupboards and drawers. But I know that it is through this baring Scott Langley

Sister Helen Prejean level of reflection. William of the soul that people – who would otherwise never be caught up Faulkner, when he received the in our capital punishment system – will come to understand just

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 28 how the system works, and how it prolongs the grieving and These days, I am still on the journey. Speaking out about suffering of all the families involved. what I have witnessed comes naturally to me. There are many Though it sounds unlikely, this opera was the next logical roads taken as I travel the world, giving talks to help people see step in the unfolding of my story. If you have seen the movie Dead the system for what it really is, and offering alternatives if they’re Man Walking, you know that music is an integral part of the story. ready to change things. My second book was also about the men Most of the music was written specifically for certain scenes. It’s a I‘ve counseled on death row, this time focusing on those who I’m very powerful part of the film. And why not? We know that music certain were innocent, yet were executed anyway. I am amazed can change consciousness and music can open up parts of our when I look back over the last two decades at how the discussion hearts we don’t even know we have. Music also brings about on the death penalty has grown and matured, but yet we are still healing and connectedness among human beings. Jake Heggie finding innocent people on death row. It is going to take the books was incredibly aware of this fact. In the opera, “You Don’t Know and the movies and the news programs and, of course, the operas What It’s Like” is an ensemble sung by both victims’ and death to continue this discussion, and to keep the American people row families and it demonstrates the common unifying experience moving forward in their awareness and their advocacy. It’s a of suffering and loss. Also, Jake allowed a spiritual hymn – “God journey. I thank the people of Chicago for joining me in it. Will Gather Us Around, All Around” – to thread through the story, without resorting to the stereotypes we often see when nuns are Adapted from an article that originally appeared in the program of portrayed. His sensitivity to the issues and emotions involved New York City Opera. make it a stronger and truer production, and I am so proud of him and his work. The journey of Dead Man Walking collaboration must happen. Removing the mandate of comedy, he By Jake Heggie asked us to find a story that would inspire both of us. In mid-1997 in San Francisco, Terrence and I sat down to lunch and he When Terrence McNally and I first met in 1996 to discuss a brought out a list of ten ideas, only one of which he really wanted possible opera collaboration, it was a comedy that the producer to do. He wouldn’t tell me which it was. He started reading had in mind. Something light and celebratory for the millennium. the list. Dead Man Walking. Being virtually unknown as a composer, with this incredible The hair on the back of my neck stood up and I immediately opportunity placed before me, I was hardly in a position to started to hear music. This was the right story. He continued disagree with Lotfi Mansouri, San Francisco Opera’s general reading, but to this day, I can’t remember any other idea because I director. Terrence, however, was. And he did – he couldn’t was already figuring out how Dead Man Walking would sound. have been less interested in such a project. What kind of architecture would the music have? What kinds of With Terrence’s passion for opera and my devotion to musical motifs? The range of characters and their transformations composing for the operatic voice, Lotfi believed that this was incredible. There would be room for large ensembles and great possibilities to build emotional tension, to find transcendence in musical terms. Fortunately, that was the idea Terrence was most enthusiastic about, too. Why was the story so compelling? Sister Helen Prejean, a Louisiana nun, becomes the spiritual advisor to a convicted murderer on death row and accompanies him to his execution. She experiences a journey most of Art & Clarity Art & Clarity us can’t imagine and witnesses Sister Helen Prejean and Jake Heggie at the world premiere of Dead Man Jake Heggie Walking, San Francisco, 2000.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 29 inside her when she’s tested. But I think it puts all of us to the test: How much could I take? How far could I go? What are my convictions? It’s this that makes these characters operatic, for they’re all regular folks thrown into a tornado, being tested, strained, and pushed to the edge. The story puts a human face on capital punishment. It’s no longer a comfortable question one can consider while watching television or reading the paper. Real lives are at stake at every turn in this story. Terrence told me that he intended to write a play, creating language and situations that would inspire music. He recognized that an opera is about the music, and that he’d do whatever he could to serve that. If the music took me in a certain direction, I should follow it. If his words didn’t work for me, I could add my own, checking with him later. It’s the most generous, gratifying Javier Del Real/Teatro Real Madrid Javier Del Real/Teatro collaboration a composer could hope for. Another goal was Michael Mayes as Joseph De Rocher and Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen to explore a medium that was neither traditional theater nor Prejean in Dead Man Walking at the Teatro Real/Madrid. traditional opera, but a music drama, an opera musical, a level of grief that even she hadn’t imagined. Parents. Children. opera theater, or perhaps finally, American opera theater. Families. Torn apart. Amidst all the grief, tragedy, loss, and anger, My compositional voice is based primarily on direct it’s love that transcends, unites, and redeems. Very operatic stuff. emotional portraits of characters. I wanted clear melodic and We wanted our opera to be a contemporary American rhythmic motifs to propel a constantly moving tide of emotion drama. Dead Man Walking is a story of our time, but also timeless with lyricism, without alienating the characters or the audience. – a distinctly American story, but with universal resonance. The piece’s architecture was clear, too: a building of layers This drama makes sense for people to sing and is large throughout Act One – a long crescendo to the point where Sister enough to fill an opera house, yet it’s incredibly intimate. It takes Helen faints, overwhelmed by the emotional intensity and us deep into the most difficult struggles we can experience, and to the demands made on her. Act Two, a gradual stripping away of places that only intensify with music. The more we talked about it, layers to reveal the essence of what is at stake: life and love. the more it seemed like an opera just waiting for the music. Since the San Francisco Opera premiere in 2000, the opera has Much as we admired and respected Sister Helen and her received more than 300 performances by 70 international nonfiction book, Dead Man Walking, the opera wouldn’t be a companies on five continents. Director Leonard Foglia’s documentary or a biography. It would also not be a “soapbox” production, first seen in 2002, has traveled to more than a dozen opera pushing a political agenda. We didn’t want to recreate Tim U.S. opera houses as well as Madrid’s Teatro Real. New casts and Robbins’s brilliant movie, either. We would go from the book, productions continue to bring different perspectives to the telling the story honestly without preaching, while letting people opera. But it’s Sister Helen’s compelling journey that continues to make up their own minds. capture the imagination; our opera, hopefully, continues to Supportive and enthusiastic from the start, Sister Helen take people right along with her. allowed us to do whatever was needed for her story to work onstage, with only one mandate: it had to remain a story of This article was adapted from the original version, printed in the redemption. Right before the announcement of the project, Sister program of Michigan Opera Theatre. Helen called me and said, in a thick Louisiana accent, “When they called and told me that San Francisco wanted my permission to make an opera out of Dead Man Walking, I said, ‘Well of COURSE we’re gonna make an opera out of Dead Man Walking!’ But, Jake, I don’t know boo-scat about opera, so you’re gonna have to educate me.” Why is Sister Helen such an operatic character? Against the enormous background of the prison system, death row, and a man convicted of a monstrous crime, there is this one small woman and her faith: her belief in the individual dignity of every person on earth. She travels this path as a kind of “everyman,” and it’s easy for us to go along: from the security of working with children in the projects to meeting a convicted killer, then his family, then the families of the murder victims, to an execution chamber, all propelling her to a place of spiritual crisis and ultimate resolution. At first, she’s like one of your gal pals, with great humor and zest for life – neither we nor she are aware of the bravery and power

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 30 Director’s note

By Leonard Foglia

WHAT IS OUR CAPACITY OF FORGIVENESS? able to see the face of God in each and every person. What if she That is the question I am confronted with every time I return to finds she is unable see it in this man? Or forgive him? Dead Man Walking. This piece can be viewed (usually by people The centerpiece of the first act is an aria, sung by Sister who have never seen the opera) as a referendum on the death Helen as she travels to the prison for the first time to meet the penalty. I find that lets everyone off the hook far too easily. murderer, Joseph De Rocher: Generally people’s views on capital punishment are fixed: you are either for it or against it, end of discussion. What, I This journey. believe, this piece really asks the audience is something far more This journey to Christ. difficult. Would you have the capacity to forgive someone who This journey to my God. perpetrated a horrible crime, such as the ones depicted in this This journey to myself. piece, against a loved one? To my Jesus. I find myself very low on the forgiveness scale, something of To this man. which I am not proud. When I am confronted with the question This journey. of, could I forgive, I don’t honestly know the answer. Each time I This journey to the truth. work on Dead Man Walking, I carefully chart Sister Helen’s This journey. journey, step by step, and I am constantly surprised when I reach the moment that she cannot answer the question herself, as to Helen’s journey is our journey, our journey to the truth, the whether she has forgiven the killer. Her faith is based on being truth about ourselves.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 31 After the From Lyric’s curtain falls archives

Thank you for attending Dead Man Walking, one of the 21st century’s most remarkable operas. We hope you were moved by the experience.

Having experienced the opera, you’re bound to want to talk about it. Here are a few suggested conversation- starters to get you going: ▪ What moments of the opera grabbed you the most emotionally? ▪ How do you respond to the opera now (as opposed to how you might have responded when it premiered nearly 20 years ago)? Has anything changed in the political landscape that has impacted how you view what you saw onstage? ▪ This is one of the most often-performed operas of the 21st century, with productions all over the world. What do you think accounts for its acclaim?

▪ Do you think it’s different for an artist to portray roles Dan Rest grounded in contemporary reality, as opposed to fictional characters living centuries ago? If you were to trade places with one of the principal artists in this cast, how would you feel about taking on this kind of role? ▪ What do you think is the real root of what makes a story “operatic”? How do you think Dead Man Walking exemplifies that?

MORE, PLEASE Craving to know more about Dead Man Walking? Lyric has lots of suggestions and resources to help you explore more about this production and its stories. Visit lyricopera.org/AfterCurtain for cast profiles, video extras, behind-the-scenes content, and suggestions on further reading and listening.

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Throughout their careers, Patricia Racette and Susan Graham have both enjoyed an extensive association with Lyric Opera of Chicago. Among the highlights have been Racette’s portrayal of Marguerite/Faust in 2003/04 and Graham’s Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni in 2004/05.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 32 MOZART | NOVEMBER 14  DECEMBER 8 From Lyric’s archives

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Lyric Opera Lyricof Chicago Opera of | Chicago 33 | 33 Beyond the stage, and beyond the boundaries that often define opera companies, Lyric is igniting creativity across Chicago. Through innovative learning opportunities, creative exploration, and artistic creation and collaboration, Lyric, with your support, encourages students, educators, families, audiences, and Chicagoans from neighborhoods across the city to share their voices and embrace the power and relevance of opera as a catalyst for growth and change.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 34 Beyond the stage

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 35 We are all Lyric

Some years ago, in a landscape where many performing arts organizations were scaling back their educational and community engagement programs, Lyric took a bold step and increased its commitment to innovative learning, civic engagement, and to of-our-time creative programming.

Launched under a new Lyric Unlimited brand, these This brings forward and integrates the full range of Lyric initiatives for audiences, students, teachers, families and activities, expanding what the Lyric brand means in our city and community groups across the city proved wildly successful, made across the country – from grand opera to community-created real positive differences in people’s lives, and evolved Lyric performances; from chamber operas that explore contemporary into an organization that is deeply connected with the city it is issues to boundary-breaking school and youth programs. here to serve. Through your support and participation, Lyric is truly Now, as Lyric continues to invest in signature learning leading the advancement of opera in America. opportunities, develop new partnerships, and increase its civic footprint, providing value to all we serve, the Lyric Unlimited brand is being retired. Why? Because all of its initiatives are now so integral to Lyric – so central to its vision to redefine what a 21st century opera company can be to an ever more diverse range of constituents – that programs that were once branded Lyric Unlimited will now be known as Lyric. Kyle Flubacker

Teacher Professional Development Workshops | Each fall, Lyric welcomes teachers from across Chicago to free Teacher Professional Development Workshops. Through these events, high school and elementary teachers work side by side with Lyric staff and professional teaching artists to plan lessons, making curricular connections and exploring strategies for bringing opera into their classrooms. In the 2018/19 season, 40,049 students participated in Lyric programs, including 15,227 Chicago public school students from a total of 102 Chicago public school districts.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 36 Earth to Kenzie

Kenzie is a fifth-grader with homework, asthma, and a In creating Earth to Kenzie, “we needed to be sensitive to big imagination. When she and her mother have to move students who were dealing with homelessness,” says into a family shelter, Kenzie finds refuge in the world of Jessica, “and they needed to be the audience we were going video games alongside her avatar, Edwin. Through their to focus on.” She wanted the students to see themselves imaginary space adventures, Kenzie dares to go farther than onstage and feel supported. “I also started thinking a lot ever before. Can she find the confidence to make friends about humor. This is a tough subject, but we needed to have and succeed in the classroom? And can she find her way some lightness and sparkle to balance things out. I’ve seen home? first-hand how humor really draws an audience together.”

This is the heart of Earth to Kenzie, a captivating new opera Frances is very aware that “every audience I compose for, by composer Frances Pollock and librettist Jessica Murphy regardless of age, gravitates towards their own musical Moo. Co-commissioned by Lyric and Seattle Opera, Earth language.” In this opera, “I had to include music that could to Kenzie will be presented by Lyric Unlimited—Learning live in a video-game world. I’m trying to capture a world & Creative Engagement for school groups in venues that sounds adventurous and always full of energy because throughout the Chicagoland area October 15 through that’s what the characters in video games do – they go on November 15. There will also be family performances at the adventures.” At the same time, Frances wants to give young Vittum Theater on November 9 and 10. Featuring a cast of audiences “what we love about opera. You have this music four singers with piano accompaniment, this work is meant that sounds like video games, but also these really touching to introduce audiences ages 7-12 to storytelling through moments between Kenzie and her mom that sound like song, introducing them to the magic of opera. Onegin.”

Jessica considers this opera “a slice of life – there’s no standard happily-ever-after ending. They’re still in the shelter at the end of the opera, but Kenzie does realize that her mom is her home and she doesn’t have to deal with this alone.”

The production is a co-commission with Seattle Opera. Lyric Unlimited’s educational partner for Earth to Kenzie is Codeverse, the world’s first fully interactive coding studio and development platform for kids ages 6-13.

Frances Pollock (composer) Jessica Murphy Moo (librettist)

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 37 Contributors to Lyric Unlimited - Learning & Creative Engagement

Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of Lyric Unlimited - Learning & Creative Engagement initiatives.

With major support provided In recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for from the Nancy W. Knowles Student Excellence, Lyric named the Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. and Family Performances Fund Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in support Opera always played an important role in the of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. life of the late Nancy W. Knowles. Her love for Knowles Student and Family Performances Fund. Ms. Knowles the art form was nurtured by her family’s musical generously underwrote the appearance of Lyric’s world premiere traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of records to Bel Canto on PBS Great Performances in 2017, and had previously play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always in my home.” cosponsored several mainstage operas. In recognition of her Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, and leadership outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she received the Carol abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board of Directors Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity.

Chicago Public Schools Earth to Kenzie Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Paul and Mary Anderson Bus Scholarship Anonymous Donors (2) OPERA America Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. U.S. Bank Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres The Brinson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis Deloitte Robert and Evelyn McCullen Family Day at Lyric The Ferguson-Yntema Family Opera Residencies for Schools Anne and Chris Reyes Bank of America Charitable Trust An Anonymous Donor Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow Elaine Frank Robert & Isabelle Bass Wintrust Community Banks General Support Foundation, Inc. Anonymous Donors (4) Pre-Opera Talks Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Blue The Barker Welfare Foundation Raynette and Ned Boshell Polk Bros. Foundation Allstate Insurance Company Sondra Berman Epstein Baker & McKenzie BNSF Railway Foundation Senior Matinee Performances for Students BMO Harris Bank Helen Brach Foundation Buehler Family Foundation Mrs. James S. Aagaard Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Envestnet Shirley and Benjamin Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Bruyninckx Michael and Leigh Huston Gould Endowment Fund Anonymous Donors (2) Eisen Family Foundation Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Lannan Foundation John and Rosemary Brown Family Magellan Corporation Belytschko The Retirement Research Foundation Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund The Jobs Initiative Chicago Foundation Eisen Family Foundation Debbie K. Wright Dr. Walter S. Melion and Dr. John Siragusa Family Foundation Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, M. Clum and the Dan J. Epstein Family Caminos a la ópera Molex Student Backstage Tours Foundation Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, MUFG Shirley and Benjamin Gould Shirley and Benjamin Gould and the Dan J. Epstein Family Estate of Nancy D. Anderson Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Foundation Northern Trust Dan and Caroline Grossman Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Laurie and Michael Petersen Youth Opera Council James and Brenda Grusecki Charles and M.R. Shapiro Terry J. Medhurst Anne and Craig Linn EmpowerYouth! Foundation, Inc. Penelope and Robert Steiner John Hart and Carol Prins The Beaubien Family Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust JPMorgan Chase & Co. Eisen Family Foundation Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, Dr. Scholl Foundation and the Dan J. Epstein Family NEXT Student Ticket Program Segal Family Foundation Foundation Leadership Funding Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Fifth Third Bank The Grainger Foundation Eric and Deb Hirschfield Additional Support

Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by September 18, 2019.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 38 Drink and dine at Lyric

Make your outing even more delicious with some of Lyric’s on-site dining and refreshment options.

Cheers! Champagne bar Florian Opera Bistro Sarah and Peer Pedersen Room

The William B. and Catherine Graham Room Rosenberg Todd

To learn more about enhancing your visit: lyricopera.org/dining. To keep opera a must-see, must-hear experience, the art form needs outstanding artists who can convey through singing and acting the emotional range and engaging storytelling that are opera’s hallmarks. Lyric, through The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, identifi es exceptionally talented emerging artists from around the world and provides them with comprehensive training and performance opportunities. On the world’s stages, the Center’s impressive roster of alumni continually proves the value of training at Lyric.

The 2019/20 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

Soprano Tenor Mathilda Edge Mario Rojas Sponsored by Sponsored by Maurice J. and Elizabeth Patricia Frank F. Cheney Soprano Foundation Standing, left to right: Ricardo José Rivera, Kathleen Felty, Anthony Reed, Lauren Decker, Emily Pogorelc Baritone David Weigel, Mathilda Edge, Eric Ferrring, Madeline Slettedahl. Sponsored by Christopher Sally and Michael Kenney Feder, Ms. Gay K. Sponsored by Stanek, Jennifer L. An Anonymous Stone Donor, Sasha Mezzo-soprano Gerritson and Kayleigh Decker Eugene Jarvis, Sponsored by Blythe J. McGarvie The C. G. Pinnell Baritone Family Ricardo José Mezzo-soprano Rivera Kathleen Felty Sponsored by Sponsored by Mrs. Myung S. Heidi Heutel Bohn, Chung Family, Dr. Lawrence O. David H. Whitney Corry, Robert C. and Dr. Juliana Marks Chyu, Drs. Joan Contralto and Russ Zajtchuk Lauren Decker Bass-baritone Sponsored by David Weigel An Anonymous Sponsored by Lois Donor, Susan B. Siegel, Michael M. Miller, Thierer and Salme Harju Family Foundation Steinberg, Tenor Mrs. J. W. Van Eric Ferring Gorkom Sponsored by Bass Richard O. Ryan, Anthony Reed Richard W. Shepro Sponsored by J. and Lindsay E. Thomas Hurvis Roberts, Cynthia Pianist Vahlkamp and Madeline Robert Kenyon Slettedahl Sponsored by Nancy Dehmlow, Loretta N. Julian, Philip G. Lumpkin Todd Rosenberg Seated, left to right: Mario Rojas, Kayleigh Decker, Emily Pogorelc, Christopher Kenney. Todd Rosenberg Todd

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Ryan Opera Center

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 41 Ryan Opera Center alumni around the world

WHITNEY MORRISON At Lyric this season: Sister Rose/Dead Man Walking. Pictured here: Countess Ceprano/Rigoletto (2017/18). Upcoming: Floria Tosca/7 Deaths of Maria Callas (world premiere, 2019, reprise 2020), Bavarian State Opera.

The Ryan Opera Center has been, for me, a dream come true. Being a part of this program has afforded me countless opportunities to grow and learn as a budding professional performing artist. From master classes with world-renowned singers and conductors to coaching with accomplished and brilliant staff, I was constantly in the process of collaborative work, which led to creating memorable performances. Equally important were the numerous moments of close observation as an audience member and understudy. Those were the times when I was able to most clearly perceive the high level of execution and consummate artistry to which I aspire. For all these experiences and every other one that the Ryan Opera Center has provided for my development as an artist, I am truly grateful. I count it a

distinct honor and privilege to have been an Ensemble member. Rosenberg Todd

THIS SEASON J’Nai Bridges René Barbera Carmen The Barber of Lohengrin Dutch National Seville Gran Teatre del Opera (Amsterdam) New National Liceu (Barcelona) Theatre (Tokyo)

PROGRAM STAFF Administration Deborah Birnbaum Derek Matson Artistic/Production Personnel Dan Novak Lawrence Brownlee Sharon Peterson Michael Christie Director, The Ryan Opera Center Alessandro Corbelli Marina Vecci Ari Pelto Board Endowed Chair Sir Andrew Davis Alessandra Visconti Conductors Craig Terry Matthew A. Epstein Melissa Wittmeier Louisa Muller Music Director Renée Fleming Foreign Language Patricia Racette The Jannotta Family Enrique Mazzola Instruction Directors Endowed Chair Gerald Martin Moore Dawn Arnold Donald Claxon Julia Faulkner Louisa Muller Katie Klein Bill Walters Director of Vocal Studies Patricia Racette Andrew Gordon Knox Stage Managers Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Anne Sofie von Otter Laurel Krabacher Theresa Ham Renée Fleming Guest Master Artists E. Loren Meeker Wardrobe Advisor William C. Billingham Acting and Movement Alan Darling Instruction Faculty Laurann Gilley Orit Carpenter Julia Faulkner Noah Lindquist Performance Psychology W. Stephen Smith Celeste Rue Roger Pines Vocal Instruction Eric Weimer Guest Lecturer and Consultant The Robert and Ellen Marks Pedro Yanez Vocal Studies Program Coaching Staff Endowed Chair in honor Irina Feoktistova of Julia Savoie Klein

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 42 Ryan Opera Center contributors

Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions in support of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE WFMT RECITAL SERIES Silver Grand Benefactor Julie and Roger Baskes INSTRUCTION Julie and Roger Baskes to Mercury Grand Benefactor Heidi Heutel Bohn Erma S. Medgyesy $10,000 to $24,999 Mrs. Sheila Dulin WORKSHOP Anonymous (2) Stephen and Mary Etherington GUEST MASTER ARTISTS PERFORMANCES Estate of Walter (Fred) Bandi Sally and Michael Feder Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Martha A. Hesse Paul and Robert Barker Foundation The Blanny A. Haganah Family C. Bekerman, M.D. Fund LAUNCHPAD GENERAL SUPPORT Fred L. Drucker and Hon. James and Mary Houston Sally and Michael Feder Aria Society Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Julian Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Go $100,000 and above Erika E. Erich Dr. Katherine Knight Leslie Fund, Inc. Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Philip G. Lumpkin Judith W. McCue and Donna Van Eekeren Foundation David S. Fox Jeffrey and Cynthia McCreary Howard M. McCue III Mary Patricia Gannon Ted and Emilysue Pinnell Reichardt Platinum Grand Benefactor H. Earl Hoover Foundation Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg MASTER CLASSES to Palladium Grand Benefactor Illinois Arts Council Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Mrs. Thomas D. Heath $50,000 to $99,999 Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Thierer Family Foundation Martha A. Hesse Nix Lauridsen and Virginia USMC Memorial Fund Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Croskery Lauridsen Stephen A. Kaplan Marilee and Richard Wehman NATIONAL AUDITIONS Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk American Airlines Dr. Scholl Foundation Foundation Jean McLaren and RENÉE FLEMING Golden Grand Benefactor John Nitschke MASTER CLASS to Titanium Grand Benefactor Helen Melchior Julian Family Foundation $25,000 to $49,999 Charles Morcom The Cozad Family The Elizabeth Morse Charitable RYAN OPERA CENTER Ann M. Drake Trust GALA Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Phyllis Neiman Lead Individual Sponsor Sue and Melvin Gray Margo and Michael Richard O. Ryan Mary Ellen Hennessy Oberman and Family Lead Corporate Sponsor Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Mayer Brown O’Leary D. Elizabeth Price The Susan and Richard P. Kiphart Mrs. Robert E. Sargent TRAINING PROGRAM Family The George L. Shields Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Lyric Young Professionals Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Chauncy and Marion D. McCormick Dan and Patty Walsh VOICE INSTRUCTION Family Foundation Debbie K. Wright Anonymous Donor Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Robert and Isabelle Bass Shigley Benefactor to Foundation, Inc. Ingrid Peters Premier Benefactor Elizabeth F. Cheney Walter Family Foundation $5,000 to $9,999 Foundation Anonymous (4) Mira Frohnmayer Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman and Sandra Sweet

Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by September 18, 2019.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 43 With the generous support of individuals and organizations, Lyric is leading the advancement of opera in America—continually advancing artistic excellence, increasing relevance and reach for both traditional and new audiences, engaging our diverse communities through signature learning and exploration initiatives, and expanding our role as a cultural cornerstone in Chicago. You are our partners in this important shared enterprise—and we sincerely thank you.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 44 Thank you for your support

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 45 Production sponsors

Lyric is grateful for our 2019|20 season production sponsors

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE THE QUEEN OF SPADES Liz Stiffel Margot and Josef Lakonishok Allan and Elaine Muchin Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG LUISA MILLER Marlys A. Beider Helen and Sam Zell

THE RING CYCLE 2016-2020 Lead Sponsor: An Anonymous Donor Julie and Roger Baskes Cosponsors: Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Liz Stiffel Ada and Whitney Addington The Nelson Cornelius Production Endowment Fund

DEAD MAN WALKING Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow

DON GIOVANNI Lead Sponsor: The Negaunee Foundation Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis Additional Support: Robin Angly Nancy and Sanfred Koltun Richard J. and Barbara Franke Mazza Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts

THREE QUEENS STARRING SONDRA 42ND STREET RADVANOVSKY Lead Sponsor: The Negaunee Foundation Ethel and William Gofen An Anonymous Donor Harris Family Foundation Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly Lead Corporate Sponsor: Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Marion A. Cameron

To learn more about Lyric sponsorship opportunities, please visit lyricopera.org/support/Sponsorship-Opportunities.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 46 Aria Society spotlight 2019|20

The Aria Society | The Aria Society is one of Lyric’s most generous donor groups. Members are recognized prominently as champions of the art form and have multiple opportunities throughout the year to engage in meaningful ways with Lyric’s leadership and main stage artists.

ABBOTT FUND Foundation is intended to honor him and his ideals. At Lyric, the Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter of corporate contributors to Lyric Opera of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming, and Chicago, with a longstanding tradition has generously committed to a high level of multi-year support. of dedicated support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has generously cosponsored JULIE AND ROGER BASKES Miles D. White 25 Lyric productions, including this season’s Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership revival of The Barber of Seville. Abbott has championed Lyric’s and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. achievements by making a leadership commitment to the Subscribers for more than four decades, they Breaking New Ground Campaign. “Lyric is one of the treasures have generously supported Lyric’s Ryan Opera that make Chicago the world-class city that it is. We’re proud Center activities as previous cosponsors of to be associated with it,” says Miles D. White, Abbott’s Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the Ryan Opera Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. They have cosponsored many valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors. productions including last season’s Elektra and this season's Luisa Miller. They also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking ADA AND WHITNEY ADDINGTON New Ground Campaign to strengthen the future of Lyric Opera of Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Chicago. Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board Lyric subscribers and donors. They have of Directors and Executive Committee. Julie is also Chairman of contributed generously to the Annual the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of Campaign and the Breaking New Ground the Ryan Opera Center Board. Campaign, and have made a leadership gift in support of Lyric’s new Ring cycle. The Addingtons have MARLYS A. BEIDER also invested in the company’s future through their planned gift As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 to Lyric. Lyric is fortunate to have Dr. Whitney Addington as a years, Marlys has contributed to the Annual member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Campaign and is a Bel Canto Benefactor of the planned giving Overture Society. AMERICAN AIRLINES Her planned gift commitment created the This season we celebrate 38 years of vital Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair corporate partnership with American in memory of her late husband, Harold Beider. Marlys Beider Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera cosponsored several productions including Elektra (2012/13), of Chicago. In recognition of the company’s Parsifal (2013/14) and Tosca (2014/15), and has committed significant contribution to the Building on generous leadership gifts to cosponsor two of Lyric’s new Ring Franco Tedeschi Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine cycle productions, Das Rheingold (2016/17) and this season's level of the Lyric Opera House is named the American Airlines Götterdämmerung. Mezzanine. American Airlines provides important in-kind support for Lyric’s programs and special events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice RANDY L. AND MELVIN R. BERLIN President of American Airlines, proudly Devoted fans of opera education and the arts, serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Randy and the late Melvin Berlin are beloved Labor Relations Committee. members of the Lyric family. “It’s part of Chicago for us. It enriches the city and the PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION community, and we like to be part of that,” The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society said the late Mr. Berlin. The Berlins have contributed significantly through the performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, to the Annual Campaign and made a leadership gift to the and alleviation of poverty. The Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Breaking New Ground Campaign. Together they have generously Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated the early cosponsored many productions including last season's West Side part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member Story and this season's Madama Butterfly. of John Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, self reliance, and optimism, and the

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 47 BMO HARRIS BANK stage technology, we understood that to be a serious problem At BMO, our purpose is to "Boldly Grow that needed to be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s mission to be the Good, in business and life" by driving the best opera company in North America, and in order to be positive change for our customers, the best, we must have access to the best productions.” Lyric is employees and the communities we serve. honored to have John Butler serve on its Board of Directors and BMO is proud to support Lyric through Investment Committee. Richard Pomeroy various special projects and joined the production sponsorship family last season supporting La traviata. MARION A. CAMERON BMO is supporting Lyric’s chamber opera Blue this season. Lyric Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support is honored to have Richard “Rick” Pomeroy, Senior Managing and leadership of Marion A. Cameron. Director, BMO Family Offi ce, serve on its Board of Directors and A subscriber and donor for more than Investment Committee. “Opera is truly an inspiration. It affects 20 years, Lyric gratefully acknowledges how we see and interpret the world around us, and it’s our hope her outstanding generosity, through her that the support we provide Lyric will help increase exposure to leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, and her such a beautiful form of many production cosponsorships, including this season’s Madama artistic expression.” Butterfl y. Ms. Cameron is the CEO of Sipi Metals Corp., which continues to support the widely popular Stars of Lyric Opera HENRY M. AND GILDA R. at Millennium Park concert. Marion Cameron is a member BUCHBINDER FAMILY of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Finance Committees, Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda and Chair of the Investment Committee. Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric family. Committed to sustaining ELIZABETH F. CHENEY the exceptional quality of Lyric’s artistic FOUNDATION product, the Buchbinders made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Lyric remains deeply grateful for the long- Breaking New Ground Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda term generosity of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Buchbinder Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. They have also Foundation, one of Chicago’s nonprofi t been longtime generous donors to the Annual Campaign, and leaders in arts support and their multi-year are members of the production sponsorship family, cosponsoring Elizabeth F. Cheney commitment to Lyric's Ryan Opera Center. this season’s production of Luisa Miller. “I really do believe that During the 2019/20 season, the Cheney Foundation is supporting Lyric is the best opera company in the world,” is Gilda’s heartfelt the Director of Vocal Studies faculty position, the singer sponsor- assessment, to which Hank adds, “the productions are done so ship of tenor Mario Rojas, and Guest Master Teacher and Artist well, and stage sets are marvelous.” Lyric is honored to have Gilda residencies. Lyric is honored to have foundation director Allan Drebin Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the Production serve on its Board of Directors and the Ryan Opera Center Board. Sponsorship Committee. MRS. JOHN V. CROWE BULLEY & ANDREWS Peggy and the late Jack Crowe are generous Founded 1891, Bulley & Andrews is and passionate members of the Lyric family, one of the Midwest’s most trusted and evidenced by their major support of the accomplished construction companies. Breaking New Ground Campaign and the The fourth generation, family-owned fi rm Renée Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy offers clients a full-range of construction Crowe's signifi cant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming Allan E. Bulley, III services including general contracting, the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fi fth fl oor in memory construction management, design/build, and masonry and of Jack Crowe's mother. Lyric was very fortunate to have Jack Crowe concrete restoration. Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, serve as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of supported Lyric Unlimited’s Performances for Students programs, Lyric's Board of Directors. Their beloved daughter Mimi Mitchell, and is a cosponsor of Lyric’s Ring cycle. past President of Women's Board, is proud to carry on the family Lyric is pleased to have Allan E. Bulley, legacy as a newly appointed member of the Board Directors. III as a member of its Board of Directors. THE CROWN FAMILY THE BUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée Longtime members of the Lyric family and Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of from Dubuque, Iowa, John and Alice Butler Lyric. The Crown Family is a sponsor of the recently made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Renée Fleming Initiative and made generous Breaking New Ground Campaign’s stage gifts to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Breaking

improvement project. John says, “When Alice Lester and New Ground Campaign. Mrs. Crown is a past John and Alice Butler and I heard that Lyric was unable to share Renée Crown President of the Women’s Board. Mr. Crown productions with other houses due to our outdated and unreliable joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and serves as Chairman

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 48 of the Executive Committee. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition CHARITABLE TRUST of their outstanding leadership and commitment to Lyric. Lyric is One of two trusts established in memory of also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown serve on its Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th- esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown century industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is of Chicago. Elizabeth Morse a major, and deeply appreciated, leader among Genius Lyric’s contributors. Through the Trust’s support THE DAVEE FOUNDATION of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and Lyric is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late James L. Alexander seek to enrich the quality of life in Chicago, Ruth Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity especially for youth and elderly citizens. In recognition of the over the years. The Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago- Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Campaign support, Lyric area charities reflects the Davees’ wide-ranging interests, named the distinctive Opera House chimes and music library in including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric is fortunate honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along with its sister trust, The to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has sponsored Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s many mainstage productions. In addition to production future for generations to come. The Davee Foundation provided sponsorship, the Trust has helped underwrite Lyric’s ongoing critical preliminary support to enhance amplification and sound efforts to diversify its various boards and preserve Lyric’s history systems used in Lyric's musicals and has generously cosponsored through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric the annual musical including this season’s 42nd Street. named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse Genius Conference Room in order to show its STEFAN T. EDLIS AND GAEL NEESON grateful appreciation for the Trust’s significant gift to the Breaking Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize the Trust’s and Gael Neeson are actively involved with commitment over many years to helping organizations in Chicago, New York, and build the company’s core capacities and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Neeson have institutional infrastructure. supported and subscribed to Lyric for more than 30 years. They have cosponsored six mainstage operas, WILLIAM AND ETHEL GOFEN including last season’s Siegfried. Stefan and Gael also made a William and Ethel Gofen have been attending leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is Lyric Opera of Chicago productions for more honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its Board of Directors and than 50 years. They are generous donors to Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are members of Lyric's Production Sponsorship family, JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION cosponsoring this season's The Three Queens starring Sondra A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Radvanovsky. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Lyric Opera of Chicago) and a Lyric Board New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a member at the time of his death in 1982, member of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. Julius Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a great place to live HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB Julius Frankel and enjoy life. The Julius Frankel Foundation AND BARBARA G. GREIS has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas patrons, Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis and current trustee BMO Harris Bank, N.A. Lyric’s audiences have generously supported Lyric through have benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for major contributions to the Annual Campaign general operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have cosponsored Frankel was particularly interested in making Chicago one of many productions, including this season’s production of Don Giovanni. the greatest places in the world to live and enjoy life,” Nelson Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman of the Glenwood Investment Cornelius once said. “The foundation’s giving supports things Corporation and an accomplished violinist. In 2018, Mr. Gottlieb was that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric given Lyric's highest honor, the Carol Fox Award, for his many years does.” Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius of generous service. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an active Frankel in grateful recognition of the Foundation’s significant gift member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, the Julius Frankel Foundation was a generous cosponsor of Lyric's new GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION coproduction of La bohème. With an unparalleled record as sponsor of almost 30 new Lyric productions since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world- class achievement in the arts. The Gramma Fisher Foundation

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 49 has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor this season's THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION Ring cycle. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship The Harris Family Foundation, represented and leadership of Christine Hunter, Howard Hunter and other by Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, is members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have two members a valued member of Lyric’s production sponsor- of the Gramma Fisher Foundation Family serving in leadership ship family, most recently cosponsoring roles; Matthew Fisher serves on its Board of Directors and last season’s Siegfried and this season’s The Stephanie Fisher is an esteemed member of the Women’s Board. Caryn and King Harris Three Queens. The Harris Family Foundation also supports the Annual Campaign, and made a generous KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help AND JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR. secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of the Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship Foundation Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and support of Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and and serving on its Development and Production Sponsorship John Krehbiel. Karen and John recently Committees. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement joined the production sponsor family with of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the Women’s Board their generous support of the 2016/17 season's Carmen and and has held many leadership positions, most recently as made a leadership gift to Wine Auction 2018. A devoted member Co-Chair of Opening Night/Opera Ball in 2015. of the Women’s Board since 2008, Karen served as Chair of the Opening Night Opera Ball in 2011. Karen has also served on INVESCO QQQ several committees for the Women's Board, most recently as the Invesco QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, 2016 Board of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she Managing Director and Head of Global contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Exchange Traded Funds, is proud to sponsor Campaign in support of stage renovations. The Krehbiel family the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric. They plays a prominent role in the continued success of the company, previously cosponsored the productions of and Lyric is proud to have Karen Gray-Krehbiel as a new member Dan Draper Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet (2015/16), of Lyric's Board of Directors. The Magic Flute (2016/17), Turandot (2017/18), and Cendrillon (2018/19). This season Invesco QQQ is a generous cosponsor of MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS Madama Butterfly and the Lead Corporate Sponsor of 42nd Street. Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring Invesco QQQ global network recognizes the value in helping friendship and tremendous generosity of investors around the world, but as members of the community Dietrich and Erika Gross. Together, they in Downers Grove, "We are proud supporters have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 26 both of Lyric’s innovative programming and Lyric productions since 1987/88, including community engagement, and we laud their this year's Ring cycle. Lyric is honored to name Mezzanine Box efforts to foster a rich artist culture locally.” 20 in grateful recognition for their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an esteemed member ITW of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, Lyric Opera of Chicago deeply appreciates Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of the long tradition of sustaining support from Dietrich Gross by granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company prestigious honor. has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground JOHN R. HALLIGAN Scott Santi Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored CHARITABLE FUND the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber cosponsored many productions, including this season’s revival and patron of Lyric for many years until of Madama Butterfly. Lyric is proud to have Chairman and CEO his death in 2001. With support from his Scott Santi on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Charitable Fund under the direction of the along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs W. John R. Halligan Fund’s President, Norman J. Gantz, Mr. James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues through very generous David Speer. annual contributions to Lyric. The Halligan Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic organizations which JENNER & BLOCK enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading instill knowledge, and advance our appreciation of nature. The law firm with global impact and substantial fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Chicago experience in a broad range of legal issues. and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which The firm has long played a prominent role in Mr. Halligan resided during his lifetime. Chicago’s legal and business communities, Craig C. Martin and is consistently ranked as one of the top firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided significant pro

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 50 bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to MR. AND MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign. Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair dedicated members of the Lyric Opera family. of Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department, as a valued member Lyric gratefully acknowledges their generous of its Board of Directors, Nominating/Governance, and contributions to Wine Auction, the Annual Executive Committees. Campaign, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred Krehbiel is a National Director PATRICIA A. KENNEY of Lyric’s Board of Directors. AND GREGORY J. O'LEARY Pat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime JOSEF AND MARGOT LAKONISHOK subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef with a particular passion for supporting and Margot Lakonishok have subscribed the emerging artists of The Patrick G., and to Lyric for many seasons. They have Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Greg serves on the Ryan Opera contributed to the Annual Campaign and Center Board on its Fundraising Committee, and Greg and Pat made a significant gift to the Breaking have cosponsored the season-culminating Rising Stars in Concert New Ground Campaign. They have also cosponsored several for seven consecutive years. Greg is a proud member of the Lyric mainstage productions, including last season’s Ariodante and this Board of Directors. This season, Pat and Greg are the Mainstage season's Queen of Spades. The CEO of LSV Asset Management, Conductor Sponsors of Enrique Mazzola, leading the production Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, of Luisa Miller. Lyric is deeply grateful for their longstanding serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees. friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric and the Ryan Opera Center with their mission of providing world class opera and NIX LAURIDSEN AND VIRGINIA training for singers, respectively. Every time we think they hit CROSKERY LAURIDSEN the high plateau, they ascend to another." Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen of Des Moines, Iowa, support KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP many initiatives at Lyric, including special Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100- gifts to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan year history of providing exceptional service Opera Center and Lyric Unlimited. This season, they continue to clients in Chicago and around the world as Lead Sponsors of the Ryan Opera Center Final Auditions, in complex litigation, corporate and tax, and also cosponsor Sir Bryn Terfel in Recital, having previously intellectual property, restructuring, and supported Lyric Unlimited's presentation of An American Dream Linda K. Myers counseling matters. The firm is committed last season. As an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, Virginia is to enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, thrilled that she and her husband Nix are able to support these cultural awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. incredible, emerging artists. Nix is the chairman of LGI (Lauridsen Kirkland & Ellis LLP has cosponsored several operas and special Group Inc.) and a recent inductee into the Iowa Business Hall of events in recent seasons, and is the Presenting Sponsor of Wine Fame. He is a relative newcomer to the opera world but loves the Auction 2021. Lyric is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner excitement of the genre. The Lauridsens are pleased to be part of at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member of its Board the Lyric family and look forward to an exciting new season. of Directors.” JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION NANCY AND SANFRED KOLTUN The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports Close members of the Lyric family as creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks longtime subscribers and generous building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is supporters of the Ryan Opera Center placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible and Lyric Unlimited, Nancy and Sanfred on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including are valued members of the production over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and sponsorship family, and cosponsor this season's production of significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In Don Giovanni. "In the fall of 1954, I attended Carmen, staged by addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation the precursor of the Lyric. That night I fell in love with Carmen, supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Nancy grantmaking. The Foundation’s support helps create powerful and I have loved Lyric and have always supported one of the most performances and exhibitions, educate young people, and engage cherished cultural institutions of Chicago. It is our hope that our communities, while providing arts and culture organizations children, grandchildren and those beyond will be able to attend the flexibility to innovate and experiment. the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their midst." Lyric is very grateful for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 51 MAZZA FOUNDATION Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Morrison serve as a member Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding of its Board of Directors. The Morrisons have generously friendship and generosity of the Mazza supported the Opera Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Foundation. Under the guidance of its Annual Campaign for many years. They provided a substantial directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and supported the J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., and Renee Fleming 25th Anniversary Gala. Proud sponsors of Lyric’s Joseph O. Rubinelli, Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the Mazza Musical Theatre Initiative, Susan and Bob have cosponsored Jr., Mary Jane Foundation provided major support for the many of Lyric's musicals including last season's West Side Story. Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Lavezzorio, and Student Matinees for many years, helping “Lyric reaches patrons at every level. People are here because Joan Lavezzorio Lyric introduce the majesty and grandeur they love it. They’re welcomed, embraced, and made to feel part Schniedwind of opera to thousands of young people each of a family.” season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last THE ELIZABETH MORSE season’s production of Elektra and this season’s Don Giovanni. CHARITABLE TRUST Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY ongoing support of The Elizabeth Morse McDermott Will & Emery partners with Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable leaders around the world to fuel missions, leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees

knock down barriers and shape markets. With Elizabeth Morse JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and James L. more than 20 locations on three continents, Genius Alexander. One of two trusts established in our team works seamlessly across practices, memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century Marilyn Pearson industries and geographies to deliver highly industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse effective—and often unexpected—solutions that propel success. Charitable Trust supports non-profit organizations that reflect More than 1,100 lawyers strong, we bring our personal passion the values of thrift, humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self- and legal prowess to bear in every matter for our clients and for sacrifice, such as Lyric. The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the people they serve. Marilyn Pearson, McDermott’s Employment along with its sister trust, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Practice Group, and others at our firm, are Trust, has cosponsored many mainstage productions. To show proud to support Lyric in its mission to enrich its grateful appreciation for The Trust’s generous gift to the Chicago’s communities and art and culture. Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize The Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen years helping build the LAUTER MCDOUGAL company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric CHARITABLE FUND named one of its key meeting rooms Nancy and her late husband Alfred have in its executive offices the Elizabeth provided longstanding, vital support to the Morse Conference Room. Annual Campaign as well as The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, including ALLAN AND ELAINE MUCHIN Fred and Nancy Rising Stars in Concert. Last season, Nancy Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued McDougal generously gave additional support as a members of the Lyric family. Allan served cosponsor of La traviata, Lyric Unlimited’s Chicago premiere as President and CEO of Lyric from 2001 to of An American Dream and the Chicago Urban League arts 2006 and is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus immersion partnership EmpowerYouth! of the Board of Directors and serves on the Executive Committee. The Muchins have staunchly supported THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) the Annual Campaign, Operathon, and the Stars of Lyric Opera Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership gifts and its Chairman of trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign their support for the cosponsorship of Rusalka in 2013/14 and for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Allan five productions since, including last season's Ariodante. The and Elaine recently became members of Lyric's production Monument Trust is a passionate supporter sponsorship family with their cosponsorship of this season's of the arts in the U.K. and U.S. Barber of Seville. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine Muchin’s munificent friendship. MR. AND MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants members of the Lyric Opera family. Both awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have are loyal subscribers and patrons who take played a leading role in the advancement of Lyric’s programming an active role in nurturing Lyric’s success. and expansion of the operatic repertoire, serving the public good Susan Morrison is a leading member of the Women’s Board. by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. Through

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 52 production and program funding as well as a major challenge very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ thoughtfulness grant, awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class and generosity in creating this planned gift. artistic achievements. The Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great NIB FOUNDATION American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. The NEA has Founding owners/managers of former radio provided vital support for numerous Lyric Opera premieres, station WNIB, Sonia and the late William new productions, and revivals, Florian established the NIB Foundation to most recently last season’s Siegfried extend their support to many worthwhile and this season’s Ring cycle. arts and environmental causes. Sonia is Sonia Florian a devoted member of the Lyric family, THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION having subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. The NIB The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions music, the performing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined including this season’s production of Luisa Miller, and made a with a strong admiration of Lyric, have been instrumental in major commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. In bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. The Negaunee Foundation addition to their magnanimous fi nancial support, Mr. and Mrs. has cosponsored many productions, most recently last season’s Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection productions of Idomeneo and West Side Story. This season the of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s foundation is the lead sponsor of both Don Giovanni and 42nd Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive collections Street. The Negaunee Foundation has also made a generous gift of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro located on the third fl oor be among the Chicago cultural institutions benefi ting from The of the Lyric Opera House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s Board Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and fi nancial commitment. of Directors, Executive Committee, and Production Sponsorship Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president Committee, and was awarded the Carol Fox serve as a member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding commitment to the SYLVIA NEIL AND DANIEL FISCHEL company. Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera of Chicago subscribers and donors for JOHN D. AND ALEXANDRA many years, and have cosponsored several C. NICHOLS mainstage opera productions, including last Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in season’s Elektra and this season’s Madama Chicago, John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Butterfl y. They made a generous gift to the Breaking New have steadfastly supported the Annual Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very Campaign, and are generous sponsors of the enjoyable to become part of the Lyric family and to give back Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric is extremely grateful for John and to a place that has given us so much pleasure. There have been Alexandra Nichols’ signifi cant leadership contributions to both many moments for both Dan and me when we have said, tonight the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground is incredible, it is one of the memorable performances of our Campaign, establishing the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international star and it is Grand Staircase. They have also provided a generous gift endowing evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.” Lyric Lyric's Music Director position, the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Endowed Chair, currently held by Sir Andrew Davis. Retired Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Committees. Sylvia also serves as the Chair of the Development Chairman and CEO of The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is Committee and is Lyric's Chair-Elect. also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Our involvement with the opera company is a deeply rewarding THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION experience for both of us,” John said. In 2019, John and Alexandra During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nichols were bestowed Lyric's highest honor, the Carol Fox Nerenberg were passionate supporters Award, in recognition of their leadership and dedication to Lyric. of Lyric and subscribed for more than 30 years. They were especially supportive of NORTHERN TRUST The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera A leading global fi nancial services provider, Jerry and Elaine Center and loved to watch these young artists Northern Trust has enjoyed a long-standing Nerenberg perform and grow at Lyric Opera of Chicago. and signifi cant relationship with Lyric. Based Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away in 2005 and in Chicago, the fi rm has played a major role 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome supporting the Annual Campaign and Lyric and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make Steven L. Fradkin Unlimited. Northern Trust also provides generous annual grants to Lyric for many years to come. Lyric is vital leadership contributions to Lyric as presenting sponsor of

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 53 the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as cosponsor of the PRITZKER FOUNDATION Opera Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter has cosponsored several mainstage productions including last of arts and education philanthropies in season’s West Side Story. Lyric is honored to have William A. Chicago. Lyric Opera of Chicago is truly Osborn, Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as a grateful for the Pritzker Foundation’s member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee, generous support of the Breaking New and Steven L. Fradkin, President of Wealth Management on Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Being a good corporate citizen is very Pritzker Family Concert Shell, designed by renowned important," William Osborn once said. Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. "It allows us to do our part to help Lyric is honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and keep the City of Chicago strong and M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. viable and, in the end, this is beneficial to everyone.” ANNE AND CHRIS REYES Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members MR. AND MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHER of the Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s Lyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of Women’s Board, Anne also serves on Lyric’s David and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric and CEO of closerlook, inc., a Chicago- Unlimited Committees; Chris is an esteemed based digital marketing agency serving the past member of the Board of Directors. Together they have made pharmaceutical industry. closerlook has given important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage generously to Lyric for many years, sponsoring Fantasy of the productions, including the 2017/18 season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Opera from 2009 to 2014 and Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium They have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and are major Park concert as the lead sponsor for eight consecutive years. Lyric supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground is proud to have David T. Ormesher serving as its Chairman of the Campaign, and Lyric Unlimited. Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and on all sub- committees of the Board. PATRICK G. RYAN AND SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members dedication of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh of the Lyric Opera family. They have Ryan. Since 1966 when they first subscribed subscribed to Lyric for over two decades to Lyric as newlyweds, they have shared their and enjoy participating in special events leadership, talents, vision, and resources to advance Lyric’s mission. such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Over the past four decades, the Ryans have contributed generously Wine Auction. The Osborns have generously contributed to the to the Annual Campaign, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. in 1988), and the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was of the Innovation Initiative. In recognition of his leadership role Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern a recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a member of Lyric’s Board they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, underwriting of Directors and Executive Committee. this special project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s PRINCE CHARITABLE TRUSTS premier artist development program was renamed The Patrick The Prince Charitable Trusts support a broad array of programs G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center in recognition of their in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Rhode Island, and Lyric is extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence. Pat and Shirley fortunate to be among the beneficiaries of the generosity of the serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Ryan Opera Center Board. Trusts’ Chicago and Washington, DC branches. Lyric’s esteemed A Vice President and a member of the Executive, Nominating/ Women’s Board includes Diana Prince and Meredith Wood- Governance, Development, and Lyric Labs Committees of Lyric’s Prince as members. The Trusts provided principal support for Board of Directors and a distinguished former President of the Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto through their award of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2007 Carol 2013 Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Work to composer Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of her Jimmy López, as well as sponsoring the many years of devoted service to summer 2014 workshop presentation of the the company. piece. This season, in addition to ongoing general operations funding, The Trusts are generously supporting Lyric's new production of Wagner's Ring cycle.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 54 RICHARD O. RYAN personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion Lyric is deeply grateful for Richard's passionate systems, networked audio systems, award-winning earphones support of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan and headphones, and top-rated phonograph cartridges. Today, Opera Center, Lyric's premier artist-development Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance program, through singer cosponsorship and is a top priority. Lyric is honored to have partnered with Shure last season's Unprohibited fundraiser at the Incorporated for many years and is grateful to have Christine Casino Club. An ardent opera lover, Richard has been a Lyric Schyvinck, President and CEO of Shure Incorporated, on its Board subscriber for more than 45 years. He recently made a generous of Directors. Shure Incorporated generously provided major leadership commitment to Lyric's Breaking New Ground in-kind audio support for Lyric's annual Campaign for the stage improvement project. Richard proudly spring musical, including this season's serves as a member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, and is a 42nd Street. new member of the Lyric Board of Directors. LIZ STIFFEL DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION A passionate devotee of opera and loyal Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a prominent commitment to children, families and member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a educational enrichment through the arts has longstanding member of the Guild Board led it to provide essential support for one of of Directors. She has cosponsored many Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement mainstage productions, most recently last season’s La bohème,

Jack and opportunities available to young Chicagoans, and she was the lead sponsor of the Renée Fleming 25th Catherine Scholl the Student Matinees. Each year, these widely Anniversary Concert & Gala. This season, she cosponsored Barber accessible performances at Lyric reach audiences of junior high of Seville and Luisa Miller. Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 1 in and high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera recognition of her significant gift to the Breaking New Ground for the first time. Lyric Opera of Chicago is deeply grateful to the Campaign. Liz Stiffel was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, Dr. Scholl Foundation for its very generous ongoing support of Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of her continuing Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating dedication to Lyric. “I believe that Lyric and all art forms are Catherine A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that mankind institutional education. has to offer to our children, our nation, and ourselves.”

SHURE CHARITABLE TRUST DONNA VAN EEKEREN Rose and Sydney Shure gave generously FOUNDATION throughout their lifetimes to organizations Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, that brought them joy. Upon her death in Lyric subscriber, and generous supporter 2016, Rose left bequests to several charitable of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys organizations, including Lyric. In addition, encouraging talented young artists as

Rose and Lyric is grateful to receive continued support Donna Van Eekeren Lead Sponsor of Rising Stars in Concert Sydney Shure from the Shure Charitable Trust created and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on 98.7WFMT. under the Will of Sidney N. Shure who passed away in 1995. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people to opera, "She truly loved Lyric; it was one of her most revered charities," the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported Lyric’s her niece Barbara Levie says. "They had four subscription seats Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for college for every opera, and even after my uncle died, my aunt would students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. The Donna Van invite three people to go with her and take them to dinner in the Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage Graham Room before the opera." To honor them, the Trust named productions including last season’s production of La traviata the Shures’ four subscription seats on the main floor of the Ardis and this season's 42nd Street. Donna also made a leadership gift Krainik Theatre with plaques reading, "In Loving Memory of Rose to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s L. and Sidney N. Shure." future. Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and SHURE INCORPORATED Finance Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board. Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is widely acknowledged as the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the company has designed and produced many high- Christine Schyvinck quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones, wireless microphone systems, in-ear

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 55 MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE AND MR. esteemed member of its Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited AND MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE Committee. “Opera has always touched me,” Roberta once Lyric Opera appreciates the generosity and said. “I love the drama, passion, music, and excitement of a live leadership of the Vance Family. The Vances performance at Lyric. Nothing can replace it, and I hope this have sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric beautiful art form will continue for generations.” premieres and new productions, including Carol and WIlliam this season's Queen of Spades. Mr. and Mrs. HELEN AND SAM ZELL Vance William C. Vance are generous sponsors of Helen and Sam Zell are passionate the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an supporters of Chicago’s vibrant cultural esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive scene. They are longtime subscribers of Committee. He also serves as a life member of the Ryan Opera Lyric and have contributed to the Annual Center Board, of which he is a past President. Bill Vance was Campaign for many years. Helen and Sam awarded the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. have cosponsored several new productions, most recently all four installments of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season's ROBERTA L. AND ROBERT J. Götterdämmerung. WASHLOW Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished ANN ZIFF members of the Lyric family. For more than Ann Ziff is one of the country’s leading arts four decades, they have enjoyed attending supporters, serving as Chairman of the Lyric performances and special events, and Metropolitan Opera, Vice Chair of Lincoln have generously supported the Annual Campaign. Since 1986, Center for the Performing Arts, and a the Port, Washlow, and Errant families together have sponsored member of the board of the Los Angeles more than 20 Lyric productions. The Washlows made a generous Opera and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Previously commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support at Lyric, Ann sponsored Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Recital, and Lyric Unlimited activities. Roberta and Bob have annually in honor of her close friendship with Renée Fleming, Ms. Ziff remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, co-sponsored her Lyric appearances in concert with Dmitri and generously cosponsor this season’s production of Dead Man Hvorostovsky in 2012 and Jonas Kaufmann in 2014. Last Walking, their twelfth opera cosponsorship, continuing a beloved season, she was a Platinum Sponsor of the Renée Fleming 25th family tradition. Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow as an Anniversary Concert & Gala. Lyric is a grateful beneficiary of Ann Ziff’s munificent generosity and friendship.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 58 Lyric Opera of Chicago | 59 Faces of Lyric Jaclyn Simpson Kyle Flubacker

Anthony Freud, Nancy Searle, Ellen O’Connor, Elizabeth O’Connor Cole, and We Got Next! participants David Ormesher at Opening Night Robert Kusel Jaclyn Simpson Kyle Flubacker

Kara Killmer and Andrew Cheney on the red Anthony Freud, Mark Tatro and Margarita Chavez, Chicago Public School students rush to see the carpet and Sir Andrew Davis at Opera Ball dress rehearsal of The Barber of Seville.

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Barber of Seville star, Lawrence Brownlee with Liz Stiffel Halloween at the opera Kyle Flubacker Kyle Flubacker

Sister Helen Prejean, Anthony Freud, Jake Heggie, and Roberta Washlow A conversation with Sister Helen Prejean and Jake Heggie moderated by George Preston. Todd Rosenberg Todd Kyle Flubacker Kyle Flubacker

Susan Graham, star of Dead Man Walking, during Ryan Opera Center members Kayleigh Decker Sister Helen Prejean speaks with Whitney the 2017|18 season and Christopher Kenney Morrison, who will portray Sister Rose in Lyric’s Dead Man Walking

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Lyric Opera of Chicago | 62 The Overture Society at Lyric

This group consists of dedicated supporters who have PASSION... designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric into the future.

ARIA BENEFACTORS Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson SOCIETY MEMBERS Ms. Janet E. Diehl Lyric deeply appreciates the Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Anonymous (48) Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon extraordinary support of the following Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y Feng Valerie and Joseph Abel Catherine R. DiNapoli individuals who have made significant Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone Carol Abrioux Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Dobroski Pass it on. leadership gifts and who comprise Amanda and Matthew Fox Ginny Alberts-Johnson Thomas M. Dolan the Aria Benefactors of The Overture Maurice J. and Patricia Frank and Lance Johnson Mary Louise Duhamel Society. Lyric is grateful to all of Rhoda and Henry Frank Judy L. Allen Kathy Dunn them for their generous support. Family Foundation Catherine Aranyi Richard L. Eastline The Overture Society Anonymous (3) Richard J. Franke L. Robert Artoe Carol A. Eastman Paul and Mary Anderson Family James R. Grimes Richard N. Bailey Lowell and Judy Eckberg To learn more about leaving a lasting legacy at Lyric Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy David Gerard Baker Lucy A. Elam, in memory Marlys A. Beider Concordia Hoffmann Susann Ball of Elizabeth Elam please contact Mike Biver, Director of Gi Planning Dr. C. Bekerman Edgar D. Jannotta Lorraine L. and Randolph C. Barba Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Ronald B. Johnson Margaret Basch Cherelynn A. Elliott [email protected] | 312-827-5655 David and Orit Carpenter Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Mrs. Bill Beaton Terrence M. W. Ellsworth James W. Chamberlain Kerma and John Karoly Alvin R. Beatty Dr. James A. Eng Robert F. Finke and Carol Keenan Laura and LeRoy Klemt Martha Bell Martha L. Faulhaber Mary Patricia Gannon Dr. William R. Lawrence Lynn Bennett Nadine Ferguson James K. Genden and Jennifer Malpass, O.D. Julie Anne Benson Felicia Finkelman Alma Koppedraijer Daniel T. Manoogian Charles E. and Nancy T. Berg Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Joan I. Berger Barbara Gail Franch and Donald H. Ratner Nancy Lauter McDougal Barbara Bermudez James Victor Franch Howard Gottlieb Bill Melamed Kyle and Marge Bevers Ms. Susan Frankel Sue and Melvin Gray Margaret and Craig Milkint Patrick J. Bitterman Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. James C. Kemmerer Susan M. Miller M. J. Black and Mr. C. Lancy Allen J. Frantzen Dr. Petra B. Krauledat David and Justine K. Mintzer Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Penny and John E. Freund and Dr. W. Peter Hansen Dr. Elaine Moor D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Dr. Paul Froeschl “ Philip G. Lumpkin Allan and Elaine Muchin Ned and Raynette Boshell Marie and Gregory Fugiel Experiencing great opera Robert C. Marks David J. and Dolores D. Nelson David Boyce Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Lady Witton John Nigh John H. Nelson Robert and Phyllis Brauer George and Mary Ann Gardner has been a rewarding part Irma Parker David and Sheila Ormesher Daniel and Leona Bronstein Mrs. John Wilburn Garland Julia Pernet Drs. Alan and Carol Pohl Carol & Alan Brookes Scott P. George of our lives. We believe it’s Lyn and Bill Redfield Nathaniel W. Pusey Kathryn Y. Brown Lyle Gillman Richard Ryan Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown John F. Gilmore the duty of our generation Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Jacqueline Brumlik Michael Goldberger Drs. Russ and Joan Zajtchuk Chatka Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III John A. Goldstein to make opera available Anne Zenzer Lois B. Siegel George F. and Linda L. Brusky Dr. J. Brian Greis Larry G. Simpson Steven and Helen Buchanan Patricia Grogan for future audiences, that’s BEL CANTO BENEFACTORS Craig Sirles Lisa Bury Carolyn Hallman In addition to their Overture Society Joan M. Solbeck Robert J. Callahan Carl J. Halperin membership earned through making Ms. Gay K. Stanek Carla Carstens and Theodore Herr Ms. Geraldine Haracz why we’ve included Lyric a major planned gift to Lyric, these Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Patrick Vincent Casali Andrew Hatchell members also make a generous Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Esther Charbit William P. Hauworth in our estate plans. annual gift. Lyric is grateful to all Mary Stowell Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Dr. and Mrs. David J. Hayden of them for their generous support. L. Kristofer Thomsen Ramona Choos Mrs. Thomas D. Heath William A. & Rhoda Ann Miller Anonymous (4) Carla M. Thorpe J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Mrs. John C. Hedley Mrs. James S. Aagaard Virginia Tobiason Heinke Clark Josephine E. Heindel Louise Abrahams Paula Turner Robert and Margery Coen Mary Mako Helbert Dr. Whitney Addington Robert and Gloria Turner Peter and Beverly Conroy Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Karen G. Andreae Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Sharon Conway Mrs. Marion Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata David J. Varnerin Sarah J. Cooney Mary and Jim Houston Merrill and Judy Blau Albert Walavich Dr. W. Gene Corley Family H. Eileen Howard and Ann Blickensderfer Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Joseph E. Corrigan Marshall Weinberg Danolda (Dea) Brennan Claudia Winkler Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Kenneth N. Hughes Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Budzik Florence Winters Morton and Una Creditor Michael Huskey Amy and Paul Carbone Barbara L. Dean Cpt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Thomas Doran Phyllis Diamond Memorial Fund La and Philip Engel Roger and Linelle Dickinson J. Jeffrey Jaglois Kyle Flubacker

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 63 Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus George Pepper, M.D. Ultmann Family Charitable Estelle Edlis Barbara Joabson Elizabeth Anne Peters Remainder Unitrust Edward Elisberg Diane and Alan Johnson Susanne P. Petersson Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Joseph Ender John Arthur Johnson Genevieve M. Phelps Kenyon Charitable Trust Regina C. Fain Larry Johnson Frances Pietch Marlene A. Van Skike Roy Fisher Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson Karen and Dick Pigott Nancy Johnson Vazzano Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Barbara Mair Jones Ms. Lois Polakoff Raita Vilnins Lynette Flowers Janet Jones Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Malcolm V. Vye, MD Robert B. Fordham Moreen C. Jordan Kenneth Porrello and Sherry McFall Darcy Lynn Walker Richard Foster Dr. Anne Juhasz D. Elizabeth Price Gary T. Walther Elaine S. Frank Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Mrs. Edward S. Price Albert Wang Henry Frank Kenneth Kelling Mary Raffetto-Robins Barbara M. Wanke Thomas Frisch Chuck and Kathy Killman Roberta Lyn Anderson Rains Louella Krueger Ward Doris Graber Diana Hunt King Linda Raschke Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Evelyn Greene Neil King Sherrie Kahn Reddick Endowment Fund Ann B. Grimes Esther G. Klatz Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Reed Karl Wechter Joseph M. Kacena R. William Klein, Jr. Michael and Susan "Holly" Reiter Patricia M. Wees Stuart Kane J. Peter Kline Evelyn R. Richer Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Robert and Jeanne Kapoun Helen Kohr Jennie M. Righeimer Claude M. Weil Kip Kelley Susan Kryl Gerald L. Ritholz Eric Weimer and Edwin Hanlon Paul R. Keske Mary S. Kurz Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Nancy W. Knowles Larry Lapidus in memory of Robert Kyts Joanna L. Weiss Ruth L. Labitzke Angela Larson and Bamshad Mobasher Sylvie Romanowski Joan and Marco Weiss Sarrah and Sadie Lapinsky Thomas and Lise Lawson James and Janet Rosenbaum Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Ernest Lester Henrietta Leary Joseph C. Russo Sandra Wenner Arthur B. Logan Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Dennis Ryan Caroline C. Wheeler Doris C. Lorz Carole F. Liebson Louise M. Ryssmann Jane B. White Dr. Alexis W Maier Trust Carol L. Linne Eugene Rzym, in memory Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Dr. Bill Moor Candace Broecker Loftus of Adaline Rzym Nora Winsberg Mario A. Munoz James C. and Suzette M. Mahneke David Sachs Christine S. Winter Massie MD & Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Suzanne and William Samuels James G. Massie Foundation Jeanne Randall Malkin Mary T. Schafer Brien and Cathy Wloch Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Ann Chassin Mallow Douglas M. Schmidt Mrs. William Wunder John and Maynette Neundorf Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Franklin R. Schmidt Daniel R. Zillmann Mrs. Oliver Nickels Mrs. John Jay Markham Martha P. Schneider Venrice R. Palmer Daniel F. Marselle Donald Seibert ESTATE GIFTS Richard Pearlman Charitable Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak Sherie Coren Shapiro The following estates have Trust Fund for Music James G. and Laura G. McCormick Charles Chris Shaw generously provided gifts of Helen Petersen Gia and Paul McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw bequests and other planned gifts George T. Rhodes William F. McHugh David Shayne to Lyric. Due to space limitations, Joan Richards Florence D. McMillan Jared Shlaes listings include only planned Merlin and Gladys Rostad Leoni Z. and J. William McVey Joanne Silver bequests received in the past three Pierrete E. Sauvat Martina M. Mead Andrew Barry Simmons and years. With deepest regards, Lyric Lois Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Mitchell Loewenthal-Grassini commemorates and remembers Edwin and Margaret W. Seeboeck Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Margles Singleton and Clay Young those departed Lyric patrons who Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Shure Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Mesrobian Dr. Ira Singer have honored us with these most Joan M. Skepnek Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Thomas G. Sinkovic profound commitments. Barry Sullivan Barbara Terman Michaels Norman and Mirella Smith James S. Aagaard Phil Turner Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Mary Soleiman Sara P. Anastaplo Edmund J. Valonis Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Elaine Soter Nancy D. Anderson Amanda Veazley Vlasta A. "Vee" Minarich Mrs. Jay Spaulding Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Paul and Virginia Wilcox BettyAnn Mocek and Adam R. Walker James Staples Walter Bandi Joseph Yashon Robert and Lois Moeller Sherie B. Stein Constance and Liduina Barbantini Ed Zasadil Dr. Virginia Saft Mond J. Allyson Stern Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Audrey A. Zywicki Julia G. Munoz Carol A. Stitzer Donna Brunsma Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy Daniel and Norene W. Stucka Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger and Mr. Oliver Nickels Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Mr. William Burger Edward and Gayla Nieminen Emily J. Su Terry J. Burgeson Florence C. Norstrom Peggy Sullivan Muriel A. Burnet Patricia A. Noska Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Mrs. Campbell de Frise Linda Moses Novak Cheryl L. Thaxton Ellen Clasen Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Dr. David Thurn Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Trust Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Karen Hletko Tiersky Robert P. Cooke Stephen S. Orphanos Myron Tiersky Nelson D. Cornelius Jonathan Orser Jacqueline Tilles Barbara Coussement Joan Pantsios Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Kathryn Cunningham Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Mrs. William C. Tippens Marianne Deson-Herstein Trust George R. Paterson Paul and Judith Tuszynski in memory of Samuel and Sarah Dr. Joan E. Patterson Deson

More information about becoming an Overture Society member and the related levels and benefits associated with that generous support is available through Lyric’s Gift Planning Office at 312-827-5654 or [email protected].

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 64 Lyric Opera of Chicago | 65 Corporate partners

ARIA SOCIETY $100,000 and above

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

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

To learn more about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at 312-827-5693 or [email protected].

Listings include donors whose gifts or pledges where received by September 18, 2019.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 66 SILVER GRAND ADVOCATE ITW Foundation IN KIND GIFTS BENEFACTOR $2,000 to $2,999 JPMorgan Chase Foundation American Airlines, Inc. $10,000 to $24,999 Enterprise Holdings KPMG Booth One Alexander & Alexander, Foundation John D. and Catherine T. CH Distillery Attorneys at Law Millennium Advisors MacArthur Foundation Coco Pazzo Baird Old Republic International Morgan Stanley CS Magazine Crowe LLP Corporation Motorola Foundation HMS Media Deloitte Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. PepsiCo Foundation M•A•C COSMETICS Envestnet Pfizer Foundation Shure Incorporated Evans Food Group FRIEND Polk Bros. Foundation Vibes Molex Incorporated $1,000 to $1,999 The Prudential Foundation Morgan Stanley BC International Group, Inc. The Rhoades Foundation This performance is partially Reed Smith LLP Bumper Lanes Marketing State Farm Companies sponsored by a grant from Ropes & Gray LLP Concierge Unlimited Foundation the Illinois Arts Council, Stepan Company International Texas Instruments Foundation a state agency. Draper and Kramer, United Way Metro Chicago PREMIER BENEFACTOR Incorporated William Blair and Company Lyric Opera of Chicago is a $7,500 to $9,999 GRAFF Foundation member of OPERA America. Amsted Industries Foundation L. Miller And Son Lumber William Wrigley, Jr. Company Chicago Title and Trust Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Foundation Company Foundation Wainwright Investment YourCause Chicago White Metal Council Charitable Foundation SPECIAL THANKS Michuda Construction, Inc. MATCHING GIFTS American Airlines for its 38 AbbVie year partnership as the Official BENEFACTOR Aetna Foundation, Inc. Airline of Lyric Opera of $5,000 to $7,499 Allstate Giving Program Chicago. BNSF Railway Foundation Aon Foundation Italian Village Restaurants Bank of America Foundation CORT Furniture Rentals for Kinder Morgan Foundation Benevity Community Impact its generous conference room Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund furniture partnership. William Blair BMO Harris Bank Foundation Bright Star Foundation Jenner & Block and Craig C. DEVOTEE Helen Brach Foundation Martin, Partner, for the firm’s $3,000 to $4,999 Caterpillar Foundation, Inc. pro bono legal services American Agricultural Elizabeth F. Cheney throughout the year. Insurance Company Foundation Corporate Suites Network Ernst And Young Foundation Warner Classics as the Official Howard & Howard Attorneys GE Foundation Education and Promotion PLLC HSBC-North America Music Provider. United Way Metro Chicago IBM Corporation

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 67 Annual individual and foundation support

Lyric recognizes and appreciates the gift to its annual campaign made by generous individuals, foundations, and government organizations. Their continued support is vital.

ARIA SOCIETY NIB Foundation Rebecca and Lester Knight GOLDEN GRAND $100,000 and above John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols The Knowles Foundation BENEFACTOR Anonymous Donors (4) Sheila and David Ormesher Chauncey and Marion D. $25,000 to $34,999 Whitney and Ada Addington Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn McCormick Family Foundation Anonymous Donors (2) Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts The C. G. Pinnell Family Ken and Amy Aldridge Julie and Roger Baskes Pritzker Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Paul and Mary Anderson Marlys Beider Anne and Chris Reyes Lois B. Siegel Robert and Isabelle Bass Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Mary Stowell Foundation, Inc. Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Richard O. Ryan Pam Szokol Silvia Beltrametti Krehbiel and Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Mrs. Linda Wolfson Jay Krehbiel The Butler Family Foundation Shure Charitable Trust Heidi Heutel Bohn Marion A. Cameron Lisbeth Stiffel TITANIUM GRAND Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation BENEFACTOR Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie Mrs. John V. Crowe Mrs. Herbert A. Vance $35,000 to $49,999 Ms. Kathryn Y. Brown The Crown Family Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Anonymous Donors (3) Amy and Paul Carbone The Davee Foundation Roberta L. Washlow and The Barker Welfare Foundation David and Orit Carpenter Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson Robert J. Washlow James N. and Laurie V. Bay Greg and Mamie Case Julius Frankel Foundation Helen and Sam Zell Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Elizabeth Morse Genius Ann Ziff Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Vinay Couto and Lynn Vincent Charitable Trust Michael J. McGuinnis Crain-Maling Foundation Ethel and William Gofen PALLADIUM GRAND Martha A. Hesse Nancy Dehmlow Howard L. Gottlieb and BENEFACTOR J. Thomas Hurvis and Cate and Jim Denny Barbara G. Greis $75,000 to $99,999 Ann Andersen Ann M. Drake The Grainger Foundation An Anonymous Donor Annie and Greg K. Jones Drs. George and Sally Dunea Gramma Fisher Foundation of Berggruen Institute The Richard P. and Susan Donald and Anne Edwards Marshalltown, Iowa Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Kiphart Family Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and Mrs. Myung Soon Chung Mr. Thomas V. Linguanti and and the Dan J. Epstein John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Eisen Family Foundation Ms. Olivia Tyrrell Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Illinois Arts Council Robert and Evelyn McCullen Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Julian Family Foundation Susan M. Miller Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Harris Family Foundation Ellen and Jim Stirling Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Sally and Michael Feder Patricia A. Kenney and Virginia Tobiason OPERA America James and Deborah Fellowes Gregory J. O’Leary Segal Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Nancy W. Knowles PLATINUM GRAND Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mary Patricia Gannon Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun BENEFACTOR Morris Silverman and Lori Virginia and Gary Gerst Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krehbiel $50,000 to $74,999 Ann Komisar Brent and Katie Gledhill Josef and Margot Lakonishok Anonymous Donors (3) Thierer Family Foundation Dan and Caroline Grossman Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Katherine A. Abelson Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Mary Ellen Hennessy Croskery Lauridsen Robin Angly Walter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III John D. and Catherine T. The Beaubien Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Komarek-Hyde-McQueen MacArthur Foundation David Q. and Mary A. Bell Foundation/Patricia Hyde Mazza Foundation Foundation Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. The Monument Trust (UK) The Brinson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison The Cozad Family “Lyric is exceptional in providing The Elizabeth Morse Maurice and Patricia Frank Charitable Trust Rhoda and Henry Frank outstanding opportunities for Allan and Elaine Muchin Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Lloyd A. Fry Foundation members of the community to The Negaunee Foundation Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Sue and Melvin Gray expand on their love of opera. Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Walter E. Heller Foundation Foundation Eric and Deb Hirschfield Anne Megan D.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 68 The Edgar D. Jannotta Family Maria C. Green and Oswald Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Elizabeth S. Sheppard The Jobs Initiative Chicago G. Lewis Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC The Shubert Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson James and Brenda Grusecki Memorial Fund Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Heinz Family Foundation Laurie and Michael Jaffe Ilene Simmons Mr. Herbert Kohler, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Ms. Natalie Black Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Stephen A. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stone Victoria M. Kohn Mike and Lindy Keiser Elizabeth Khalil and Peter Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Mr. and Mrs. Donald Levinson Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kizziah Belytschko Tully Family Foundation Philip G. Lumpkin Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Albert and Rita Lacher Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Jim and Kay Mabie Robert C. Marks Marc Lacher Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Daniel and Deborah Manoogian Blythe Jaski McGarvie Lemont Fund Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Michael A. Leppen Ms. Lucinda Wakeman Frank B. Modruson and Phyllis Neiman Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Dan and Patty Walsh Lynne C. Shigley Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Marian Phelps Pawlick Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. and Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Kenneth R. Norgan Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Sandra E. Marjan Kim and Miles D. White Martha C. Nussbaum Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Matt and Carrie Parr SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR Ingrid Peters $10,000 to $14,999 J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Anonymous Donors (7) “We know that if enough people Foundation Mrs. James S. Aagaard Betsy and Andy Rosenfield John and Ann Amboian contribute to Lyric each and every Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation C. Bekerman, M.D. year, collectively, we will keep this Charles and M.R. Shapiro Ross and Patricia D. Bender Foundation, Inc. Patrick J. Bitterman extraordinary art form thriving. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Jim Blinder Angie F. and Takashi N. Michael Steinberg and Salme Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Harju Steinberg Helen Brach Foundation Penelope and Robert Steiner Phyllis Brissenden Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mrs. John A. Wing Cherryl T. Thomas John and Rosemary Brown Family Shari Mayes Mr. and Ms. Benjamin Wolf Robert L. Turner Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. McCreary Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Dr. David H. Whitney and Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Judith W. McCue and Debbie K. Wright Dr. Juliana Chyu Bruyninckx Howard M. McCue III Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Erma S. Medgyesy Marie Campbell Terry J. Medhurst Mr. and Mrs. John Canning, Jr. Helen Melchior PREMIER BENEFACTOR MERCURY GRAND Joyce E. Chelberg Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and $7,500 to $9,999 BENEFACTOR Lawrence Christensen Lois Mills Anonymous Donors (7) $15,000 to $24,999 Sharon Conway Martha A. Mills Kelley and Susan Anderson Anonymous Donors (4) Tamara Conway Mr. and Mrs. Steven Molo Ms. Ronelle D. Ashby Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Lynd W. Corley Charles Morcom Ms. Elizabeth Bakwin Dr. and Mrs. Robert Arensman Winnie and Bob Crawford David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Robert S. Bartolone Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Shawn M. Donnelley and and Family Baumgartner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Christopher M. Kelly The Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Lieselotte N. Betterman Betty Bradshaw Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Foundation Norman and Virginia Bobins/ Buehler Family Foundation Sweeney Drucker Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud The Robert Thomas Bobins Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Stephen Dunbar Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Foundation Margarita Chavez Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Laurie and Michael Petersen Winston and Lally Brown Ann and Reed Coleman The Ferguson-Yntema Family Maya Polsky Joy Buddig Francie Comer Charitable Trust Andra and Irwin Press Mrs. Warren M. Choos Lawrence O. Corry Sonja and Conrad Fischer D. Elizabeth Price Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Bonnie Pritchard Green Gianna Rolandi Davis David S. Fox Jennifer N. Pritzker Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Anne Megan Davis Ms. Elisabeth O. Geraghty Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Helyn D. Goldenberg Hon. S. Louis Rathje and Decyk Charitable Foundation Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Andrea and Jim Gordon/The Maria Rosa Costanzo Mrs. Sheila Dulin Miss Gay Elfline Edgewater Funds Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Paul Dykstra and Susan E. Cremin Sondra Berman Epstein Mrs. Mary Winton Green Ms. Brenda Robinson John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Erika E. Erich Joan M. Hall Rocco and Cheryl Romano Richard B. Egen Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Mira Frohnmayer and Hannigan Susan and David Ruder Mary Etherington Sandra Sweet Irving Harris Foundation Rodd M. Schreiber and Robert F. Finke Susan J. Garner Joan W. Harris Susan Hassan Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann Judy and Bill Goldberg John Hart and Carol Prins Eric and Jana Schreuder Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Mrs. John C. Hedley Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Mary Beth Shea Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 69 Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Patricia Arrington Smythe Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Dr. and Mrs. Anthony DiGianfilippo Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Del Snow Hoellen Family Foundation James K. Genden and Phillip and Norma Gordon The Solti Foundation U.S. Regina Janes Alma Koppedraijer Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Doris F. Sternberg Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Paul Jarvis Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob Ochab Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Howard E. Jessen Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Graber Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Mary Ann Karris Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik David and Elizabeth Graham Angela Tenta, M.D. Tyrus L. Kaufman Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Mrs. Rita Grunwald Mr. O. Thomas Thomas and Mrs. Eldon and Patricia Kreider Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Mrs. John M. Hartigan Sandra Inara Thomas Lannan Foundation Thomas A. Kmetko and Rafael Leon Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Dr. David Thurn Dr. William R. Lawrence Jeanne LaDuke Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Pamela Forbes Lieberman Midge and Frank Heurich Mr. Michael Tobin, M.D. Leslie Fund, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Pat and Lara Pappas Judith Z. and Steven W. Dr. Joe Piszczor Lewis Family Bill and Harlan Shropshire Anne and Craig Linn Dr. and Mrs. R. John Solaro “Opera, as presented in Chicago by Louis and Kristin Margaglione Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Thomas J. McCormick James A. Staples Lyric, is the sublime marriage of music, Florence D. McMillan Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft Dr. Walter S. Melion and Mr. Menno Vermeulen story, acting, and art. Dr. John M. Clum Dr. Catherine L. Webb Lois Melvoin Louis Weber Pamela G. Meyer Sarah R. Wolff and Daggett H. Mary Lou and Jack Miller Joel L. Handelman Carol “Mickey” Norton Anne P. Hokin Howard and Paula Trienens Renate P. Norum DEVOTEE Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor $3,000 to $3,999 James and Mary Houston Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Jean Perkins and Anonymous Donors (2) James Huntington Foundation Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Leland Hutchinson Mrs. John H. Andersen Ronald B. Johnson Lori L. and John R. Twombly Mr. and Mrs. Norman Perman Eric A. Anderson Jared Kaplan and Maridee Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Mr. Jeffry Pickus and Susann Ball Quanbeck Emerick Ms. Mary C. Downie Bastian Voice Institute Nancy Rita Kaz David J. Varnerin Mrs. Jay Pritzker Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Kate T. Kestnbaum Christian Vinyard R. Crusoe & Son Diane and Michael Beemer Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King Marilee and Richard Wehman Merle Reskin Prudence and Francis Beidler Jean Klingenstein Hilary and Barry Weinstein Family Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle John Blosser Dr. Katherine Knight Foundation Candy and Gary Ridgway Ms. Sheila Burke MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Mr. Henry Clark and Frederic S. Lane Stephen R. Winters Maggie Rock and Rod Adams Mrs. Elizabeth Simon Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lans Mr. Charles Yoder Curt G. Schmitt Mr. and Mrs. Gerry V. Curciarello Bernard and Averill Leviton Donna and Phillip Zarcone The Schroeder Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Mrs. Paul Lieberman Ilene and Michael Shaw Robert O. Delaney Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung BENEFACTOR Charitable Trust Patty Litton Delony Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor $5,000 to $7,499 Craig Sirles Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Chris and Eileen Murphy Anonymous Donors (9) Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Mr. and Mrs. John DeWolf John Nigh Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Joan M. Solbeck Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Mr. and Mrs. Michael O’Malley Minka and Matt Bosco Mary Soleiman Kenneth Douglas Foundation Julian Oettinger Danolda (Dea) Brennan Ms. Julie Staley Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Ms. Shelly Challans Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Deane Ellis Harvey R. and Madeleine P. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Andrea and Mark Taylor Jim and Elizabeth Fanuzzi Plonsker Christianson Carl and Marilynn Thoma Adrian Foster Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Jane B. and John C. Colman L. Kristofer Thomsen Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Irene D. Pritzker Hal Coon Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Dr. Maija Freimanis John and Betsey Puth Patricia O. Cox Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres and David Marshall Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Marsha Cruzan David and Linda Wesselink Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman James T. and Karen C. Reid Ms. Elaine Cue Howard S. White Dr. Mona J. Hagyard The Retirement Research The Dancing Skies Foundation Claudia Winkler Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Foundation Ms. Sarah Demet Marsha and David Woodhouse Sandra Hoffman Daryl and James Riley Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dennis Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Edgar Rose La Ferrenn and Philip Engel PARTNER Michael and Leigh Huston J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle $4,000 to $4,999 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Jarabak Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Amanda Fox Karen and Herand Abcarian Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Norman Sackar Melinda Gibson Allison Alexander Judith L. Kaufman George and Terry Rose Saunders John F. Gilmore Mr. and Mrs. George Bayly Neil and Diana King Raymond and Inez Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Go Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Marian Kinney Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier James R. Grimes Alvin R. Beatty J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. George and Joan Segal Daniel Groteke and Patricia Taplick Mark and Judy Bednar Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Mary and Stanley Seidler Donna Gustafsson Astrid K. Birke John and Mary Kohlmeier Dr. S. P. Shah Glen and Claire Hackmann Bolton Sullivan Fund Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. The Siragusa Family Foundation The Blanny A. Hagenah Mr. and Mrs. James Bramsen Charlene T. Handler Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Family Fund Jon W. DeMoss Dr. M. S.W. Lee

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 70 Dr. and Mrs. Alan Leff Richard and Heather Black Ms. Merrillyn Kosier and and Sarah Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Mrs. John R. Blair Mr. James F. Kinoshita Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Bob and Doretta Marwin Ann Blickensderfer Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Susan B. Rubnitz Marilyn and Myron Maurer Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Eleanor Leichenko Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Mrs. David McCandless Leslie Bluhm Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schaeffer Dr. John J. McGrath and Ms. Virginia Boehme Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte Nancy Schmitt Ms. Tola Porter Marcus Boggs Gregory M. Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon David E. McNeel Mrs. Fred Bosselman Mary E. Strek Larry G. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Dr. Ross Slotten and Mr. Ted Grady Ms. Britt M. Miller Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Carole and Bob Sorensen Steven Montner and Scott Brown Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener Lloyd R. Loback Carol D. Stein and James Sterling Mr. and Mrs. Brendan M. Mulshine Alice C. Brunner Craig and Jane Love Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll John H. Nelson Christopher Carlo and Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Pam and Russ Strobel Zehava L. Noah Robert Chaney Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mages Geraldine L. Szymanski Jonathan F. Orser Don Carruthers Robert Mann and Kathryn Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley James W. Chamberlain Voland-Mann Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Katherine Cheng Liz and Arsen Manugian The Trillium Foundation Dr. Wolf Peddinghaus Lauren and David Clark Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Dulcie L. Truitt Jim and Polly Pierce Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. William Mason and Diana Davis Mr. James Unger Karen and Richard Pigott Christine A. Rydel Marilyn McCoy and Raita Vilnins Mary and Joseph Plauche Elaine Collina Charles R. Thomas Suzanne L. Wagner Mr. Tim Pontarelli Mr. Colin Cosgrove Mrs. John H. McDermott Albert R. Walavich Dr. Lincoln and Dr. Carolyn Michael J. Cushing Martina M. Mead and Dr. Richard Warnecke Ramirez Denise and Dr. Ariel David Michael T. Gorey Pam and David Waud Edward and Leah Reicin Ms. Danijela Dedic Ricco Sheila and Harvey Medvin David Wetherbee Carol Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Deli Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Heide Wetzel Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Mr. and Ms. Thomas Donnelley Mrs. Pamela E. Miles Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Dr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Bernard T. Dunkel Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller F. C. Winters Mr. Otis Sanders Kathy Dunn Barry and Sharon Millman Christopher and Julie Wood Erica L. Sandner Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao Robert and Lois Moeller Chip and Jean Wood David Schiffman Susanna and Helmut Epp Firestone Ms. Helen H. Morrison Priscilla T. Yu Julie Schwertfeger and Family Foundation John S. Mrowiec and Dr. Karen L. Alexander Zajczenko Mr. and Mrs. Rick Erwin Granda FRIEND Thomas and Judy Scorza James Fitzgerald Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn $1,000 to $1,999 Dr. Phyllis W. Shafron and Marvin Fletcher Rosemary Murgas Anonymous (19) Mr. Ethan Lathan Anita D. Flournoy Jeffrey Nichols Mr. Steve Abbey and Sherie Coren Shapiro Arthur L. Frank Carol M. Nigro Ms. Pamela Brick Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Jerry Freedman and Janis Wellin Notz and Louise Abrahams MinSook Suh Elizabeth Sacks John K. Notz, Jr. Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Mr. Ken Terao Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Marjory M. Oliker Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Dr. Lucy Freund Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Ann Acker Phil and Paula Turner Patricia H. Gates Mr. Joe Pacetti Duffie A. Adelson Elizabeth K. Twede Generations Fund Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, M.D. Susan S. Adler Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Alfred G. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever Gordon and Nancy Goodman “When I attend a really good Owen and Linda Youngman Jerry Goodman Dr. Ruth Grant and ADVOCATE Dr. Howard Schwartz performance (and there have been $2,000 to $2,999 Greene Family Foundation Anonymous Donors (7) Solomon Gutstein many over the years), I see how my Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Mirja and Ted Haffner Family Fund Mr. David R. Adler Janice H. Halpern contributions directly help Lyric thrive. Mrs. Judy Allen Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman Mary C. Allen Concordia Hoffmann David V. Ms. Joanne B. Alter Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Alison Avery Joel and Carol Honigberg Fund John and Dawn Palmer Judith A. Akers Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Robert and Sandra Ireland George R. Paterson and Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Barack Ms. Valentina A. Isakina Allen J. Frantzen Lance Johnson William and Marjorie Bardeen John G. and Betty C. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright James and Martha Barrett Charlene Jacobsen Marilyn Pearson Mr. Charles Alcaraz and Sandra Bass Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Sandra and Michael Perlow Dr. Liana Tremmel Ron and Queta Bauer Jerry and Judy Johansen Karen Petitte Lou Aledort and Natasha Kavanagh Jennifer Bellini Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Mrs. Zen Petkus Dr. and Mrs. Todd D. Alexander Meta S. and Ronald Berger Dr. and Dr. Yan Katsnelson Ms. Lyneta Grap Piela Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Allen Family Foundation Mr. Robert Kemp Dr. and Mrs. Alan Pohl Peri M. Altan Jacquie Berlin Jennifer A. Kiefer Charles B. Preacher Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Nathaniel W. Pusey Sheila and James Amend Mrs. Arthur Billings Frank and Alice Kleinman Elaine G. Rosen Ken and Mary Andersen

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 71 Doris W. Angell Mrs. Clarissa Chandler Paul Fong Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High Mychal P. Angelos Mrs. Beatrice Chapman Mr. Lance Fortnow Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Daniel J. Anzia Jeffrey K. Chase, Esq. Eloise C. Foster Jackie and James Holland Drs. Vijayalakshmi and Mr. Casimer Chlebek Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Jim and Wanda Hollensteiner Bapu Arekapudi Mr. Michael Christie Diane Tkach and James Freundt Stephen D. Holmes Yuri Z. Aronov Heinke K. Clark Priscilla and Henry Frisch George R. Honig, M.D. and Margaret Atherton and Jean M. Cocozza Samuel and Adriana Front Olga Weiss Robert Schwarz Margery and Robert Coen Mr. John Furrer Larry and Ann Hossack Shirley M. Ballak Maryclaire Collins John A. Gable Michael and Beverly Huckman Leslie and Patrick Ballard Dr. Frank F. Conlon Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gaile Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Stevie Conlon and Sue Skau Ms. Lili Gaubin Humanist Fund Michael A. Barna Dr. Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Mr. and Mrs. Dale J. Garber Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt Richard and Shirley Baron Daniel Corrigan Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Mr. and Mrs. Martin Barrett Ms. Jennifer Cox Carolyn and Stephen Geldermann Dr. Peter Ivanovich Barbara Barzansky Katherine Hutter Coyner Mr. Scott P. George Ms. Marina B. Jacks Ron Bauer and Michael Spencer Evelyn Crews Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Patricia Bayerlein and Gary Crosby Michael Hoffman Karen and John Crotty W.C. Beatty Pamela Crutchfield Roger B. Beck and Ann F. Beck Robert Curley Seth Beckman Barbara Flynn Currie “Lyric gives to me more than I give to it. Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Beggerow Matthew Curtin and Richard Tepp Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Benesh Czarkowski Family I am grateful for that. Roy C. Bergstrom James and Marie Damion Joan Berman Mr. Timothy Daniels Raymond C. Mr. R. Stephen Berry Jason Dantico Mr. and Mrs. Turney P. Berry Rathin Datta Nancy S. Gerrie Ms. Cynthia J. Jameson Kyle and Marge Bevers Ms. Vindya Dayananda Sharon L. Gibson Mrs. Judith H. Janowiak Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Ms. Lisa DeAngelis Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Dr. Nora Jaskowiak and Jerry and Kathy Biederman Ms. Nena Denman Mr. Robert Gienko, Jr. Mr. Matthew Hinerfield Margaret C. Bisberg and Rosanne Diamond Ms. Robyn R. Gilliom and Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Richard VanMetre Mr. and Mrs. Terry Diamond Mr. Richard Friedman Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Cynthia L. Bixel Lyn Dickey Mr. Lyle Gillman Dr. Peter H. Jones and M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Robert and Anne Diffendal Gay L. Girolami Marian M. Pearcy Louis and Catherine Bland Dr. Elton Dixon David L. Gitomer Mr. Edward T. Joyce Elaine and Harold Blatt Mariclaire and Lowell Dixon John J. Glier and Vicki J. Woodward JS Charitable Trust Ms. Elizabeth Blinderman Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey B. Donnell Barbara and Norman Gold Judith Jump Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Mr. Fred M. Donner Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Olivier C. Junod & Dan Dwir E. M. Bluhm Thomas Doran Robert and Marcia Goltermann Dr. and Mrs. James J. Kane D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Dr. and Mrs. Peter E. Doris Arla Gomberg Mrs. Myrna Kaplan Frima H. Blumenthal Ms. Jill Dougherty Drs. Margaret and Richard Gore Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Fran Bly and Charles Hample Tom Draski Motoko Goto Thomas R. Kasdorf Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Ms. Susan A. Duda Ann Gottlieb Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Robert and Anne Bolz Ronald B. Duke Dr. Steven A. Gould Ms. Andrea Katzenstein Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Annemarie H. Gramm Mrs. Helen Kedo Donald F. Bouseman Ms. Kathleen H. Ebbott Mr. Edward A. Grant Larry M. Keer, M.D. Dr. Gilbert W. Bowen Kimberly A. Eberlein Miss Martha Grant Dr. E. Kefallonitis, Ph.D. William Bradt Barbara and John Eckel Greene Family Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Giovanna and Joseph Breu Hugh and Jackie Edfors Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Anne and John Kern Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brey James W. Edmondson Tim and Joyce Greening Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Nicholas Bridges and Mrs. Marlene Eisen John R. Grimes Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kirsch Margaret McGirr Ms. Alexis Ellington Robert Grist Ms. Marian Klaus Candace B. Broecker Ms. Marjorie Elliott Patricia Grogan Elaine H. Klemen Ms. Myrna Bromley Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Devora Grynspan and Sam Stupp Diane F. Klotnia Jerry and Gisela Brosnan Peter Emery Donald Haavind Mary Klyasheff Ms. Suzanne W. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Paul Epner Mr. Allen Hager Emily and Christopher Knight Warren and Patricia Buckler Jim and Pati Ericson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Lionel and Jackie Knight Dr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Budzik Dr. Thelma M. Evans Mary E. Hallman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Knuth Howard and Moira Buhse Ms. Elizabeth M. Fadell Lucy Hammerberg Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Mr. and Mrs. Allan Bulley, III Mr. and Mrs. John H. Faulhaber Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Foundation Bumper Lanes Marketing Joan and Robert Feitler Agnes Hamos Edward and Adrienne Kolb Susan Burkhardt Geraldine K. Fiedler Michael G. Hansen and Martin and Patricia Koldyke George J. Burrows Prof. Carter V. Findley Nancy E. Randa Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal Wiley and Jo Caldwell Penny Friedman Charles Hanusin William Konczyk and Dr. and Mrs. William C. Carithers Suja Finnerty Betty Ann Hauser Stanley Conlon Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Elizabeth W. Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hawver Stephen Kraft Stephen H. Carr and Susan Fisher-Yellen Sheila Ann Hegy Richard Kron and Deborah Bekken Virginia Mc Millan Carr William A. Fleig Mr. and Ms. Ross Heim Ms. Nataskia S. Lampe Patrick V. Casali Abbie Fleming Dr. Allen W. Heinemann and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Langrehr Mr. Mario Cervantes and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Flint Dr. William Borden Eileen Leiderman and Mr. Charles Todd Nona C. Flores Kimberlee S. Herold Ben L. Brener

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 72 Dominique Leonardi Michael W. Payette Ms. Shannon Shin John and Kathleen Vondran Mrs. Chase C. Levey Mrs. Mona L. Penner Ms. Fay Shong and Mr. Tracy Mehr Dr. Malcolm V. Vye Mrs. Nancy Levi Mr. and Mrs. John Pepe Carolyn M. Short April Ware and Jess Forrest David Levinson and Kathy Kirn Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Jane Warner Caroline P. Lippert Shirley Pfenning and Nancy Silberman Benjamin Wasmuth Melvin R. Loeb Robert J. Wilczek Adele and John Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts, Jr. Sherry and Mel Lopata Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper Linda Simon Richard and Karen Weiland Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Lucas Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Mr. and Mrs. Richard Welcome Wayne R. Lueders Mrs. Carol Pollock Paul and Ann Singer Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Lutz Family Foundation William V. Porter Margles Singleton and Clay Young Manfred Wendt Charlene and Gary MacDougal Dorothy M. Press Barbara Smith and Donald R. Wertz William and Karen Mack Mr. Dan E. Prindle Timothy Burroughs Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Wertz Daniel Carroll Madden and Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle Louise K. Smith Patricia and William Wheeler Tuny Mokrauer Mr. David Quell Mary Ann Smith Charles A. Whitver Jeffrey and Paula Malak Mr. Willie Rand Melissa and Chuck Smith James L. Wilson Jennifer Malpass Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Margolies Jeffrey Rappin and Penny Brown Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Witkowski Mr. and Mrs. Warren W. Mark Christina Rashid Susan Somers and Ray Cocco Charles B. Wolf Ms. Andrea R. Markowicz Ms. Mary Ravid The Sondheimer Family Charitable Ted and Peggy Wolff Mr. Dennis A. Marks Mr. and Mrs. Brent Ray Foundation D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Mr. and Mrs. Miles Marsh Mrs. Mary Read and Mr. Ross Read Larry and Marge Sondler Paul Wood and The Honorable Ann and Philip May William H. Redfield Carol Sonnenschein Sadow Corinne Wood Dr. and Mrs. John E. Mazuski Roseanne Zank Rega Phil and Sylvia Spertus Woodland Foundation Maureen and Michael McCabe Dennis C. Regan Michael Sprinker Mark Woodworth and Randi Ravitts Ms. Michelle McCarthy Mrs. Elke Rehbock Joyce L. Steffel Woodworth Dr. W. and Dr. M.J. McCulloch Sandra and Ken Reid Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stein Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and Julie and Herb McDowell John Reppy Mr. and Mrs. Ira N. Stone James C. Kemmerer Bonnie McGrath Alicia and Myron Resnick Walter and Caroline Sueske Michael and Judy Zeddies Therissa McKelvey Evelyn Richer Charitable Trust Barbara Zeleny Zarin and Carmen Mehta Mrs. Mary K. Ring Mr. and Mrs. James Swartchild Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Claretta Meier Jerry and Carole Ringer Anne Taft Richard E. Ziegler Dawn G. Meiners Jared C. Robins Ms. Claudine Tambuatco Camille J. Zientek Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Rolighed Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tarcov Mr. Marvin Zonis and Ms. Lucy L. Jim and Ginger Meyer Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Mr. Charles A. Tausche Salenger Mr. Joseph Michalak Charlotte Puppel-Rose Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Roberta Rosell Mr. Jonathon Thierer Vee Minarich Dr. Karen and Mr. Samuel Linda and Ronald Thisted Mr. and Mrs. David Mintzer Rosenberg Alison Thorngren William Mondi Babette Rosenthal Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Charles Moore Lorelei Rosenthal Lloyd Morgan Drs. Ronald and Linda Rosenthal David and Linda Moscow Marsha and Robert Rosner Ms. Jan Munagian Mr. George Ruhana Mr. George Murphy Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff “There are moments in opera performances Dr. Belverd Needles and Louise M. Ryssmann Dr. Marian Powers Eugene W. Rzym that touch and humanize us. Nancy A. Nichols David Sachs Michael H. and Nancy R. Gayla and Ed Nieminen Dr. Hans Sachse Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Dr. W. E. Null John Sagos Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sagui Joanne Tremulis Jim and Gladys Nutt Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Kay and Craig Tuber Mr. Michael J. O’Connell Dr. Natalia Saprykina Mr. James W. Tucker Gail O’Gorman Robert and Mary Ann Savard Mr. Edward Turkington Abby O’Neil and Carroll Joynes Mary T. Schafer Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tyner Mrs. Virginia A. O’Neill Patricia Schaefer Jean Morman Unsworth Penny J. Obenshain Dr. Michelle Schultz Manuel S. Valderrama Mr. and Mrs. Keith Olson Jim and Joan Sears Mrs. Murray J. Vale Mrs. Richard C. Oughton Dr. Itai Seggev and Dr. Thuong Van Ha Gerald L. Padbury Dr. Dara Goldman Frances and Peter Vandervoort Evelyn E. Padorr Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Dr. Eladio A. Vargas Ms. Lynne L. Pantalena Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Seng A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Alap Patel John and Floria Serpico Rosalba Villanueva Kevin Patti David Shayne John N. Vinci Mr. Bohdan O. Pauk and Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Ms. Lidia B. Vitello Mr. Donald R. Carnahan David Sherman Robert and Camille Von Dreele

Lyric is very grateful to the thousands of donors who give gifts of less than $1,000 to our annual campaign. Due to space limitations, we are unable to list the names of these donors, but their generosity is greatly appreciated.

Listings include donors whose gifts or pledges where received by September 18, 2019.

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 73 Commemorative gifts Gifts of $1,000 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness.

IN MEMORY OF Alexandra Lyons Cooney, from IN HONOR OF Elizabeth Hurley, from Marlene Melvin Berlin, from Sylvia Neil and the Woodland Foundation Julie and Roger Baskes, from Dubas, Mark Ferguson Daniel Fischel Hugo Melvoin, from the Michael and Sally Feder, Sylvia and Elizabeth Yntema John R. Blair, from Barbara Blair Melvoin Foundation Neil and Daniel Fischel, Burton Margot and Josef Lakonishok, Alison Campbell de Frise, from Virginia Byrne Mooney, and Sheli Rosenberg, Peter from Arsen and Elizabeth Richard and Clementina Durkes, from Kathleen Vondran Wender Manugian Elise Paschen, Liz Stiffel Dorothy Nopar, from her Elizabeth O’Connor Cole, Phil Lumpkin, from Pamela Lois Dunn, from Kathleen Dunn many friends and family from Liz Stiffel Crutchfi eld Anne Forbes, from her many Peer and Sarah Pedersen, Mrs. Lester Crown, from Charles Sue Niemi, from BCLLP Foundation, friends and family from Leslie Bertholdt, James and Caroline Huebner, John and Marlene Dubas Anne Gross, from her many and Elizabeth Bramsen Claire Siragusa, Frederick and Ellen O’Connor, from Liz Stiffel friends and family Ken Pigott, from the Tully Family Catherine Waddell David Pountney, from Lou Aledort Jack and Helen Halpern, Foundation, Mariclaire and Stephen Dunbar, from Thomas Regan Rohde Friedmann, from Janice Halpern Lowell Dixon and Diane Cleary from Kay and Craig Tuber Angela Holtzman, Joan L. Richards, from Craig Sirles Anne Edwards, from Joel David S. Ruder, from Robert from Marjory Oliker Shirley Ryan’s parents, from Patrick and Arla Gomberg and Gloria Turner Helen Kedo, from her many G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Renée Fleming, from Cynthia Erica Sandner, from Mirja friends and family Nancy Wald, from The Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon and Ted Haffner William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt, Humanist Fund Anthony Freud, from Franci Crane, Nancy Searle, from Carol from Sheila Hegy Dr. William Warren, from Edward Grant and James Pollock Barbara Lieber, from her many Marshall and Joann Goldin Ruth Ann Gillis, from Sam Townline Liz Stiffel, from James and Laurie friends and family Marco Weiss, from his many Development, Inc., Liz Stiffel Bay, Ruth Ann Gillis and Dixie Lim Go, from her many friends and family Marilyn Hayman, from Robert Michael McGuinnis friends and family Margery S. Wolf, from Benjamin and Gloria Turner Mrs. Richard H. Wehman, Gwyneth Lyon, from Kathryn and Donna Wolf from Liz Stiffel Voland-Mann and Robert Mann Edward T. Zasadil, from Larry Simpson

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SOPRANOS CONTRALTO BASS- DIRECTORS Sarah Cambidge Lauren Decker Brandon Cedel Rob Ashford Jennifer Check Philip Horst Benjamin Davis Yelena Dyachek Eric Owens Tara Faircloth Mathilda Edge Ben Bliss Adam Plachetka Robert Falls Ying Fang Lawrence Brownlee Sir Bryn Terfel Leonard Foglia Christine Goerke Robert Brubaker Wayne Tigges Michael Grandage Raquel Gonzalez Bille Bruley Christian Van Horn Richard Jones Lianna Haroutounian Jonathan Burton David Weigel Louisa Muller Alexandra LoBianco Joseph Calleja Samuel Youn Matthew Ozawa Amanda Majeski Dominick Chenes Ana María Martínez Matthew DiBattista BASSES David Pountney Whitney Morrison Eric Ferring Ildar Abdrazakov Francesca Zambello Diana Newman Burkhard Fritz Krzysztof Baczyk Toni Marie Palmertree Allan Glassman Julian Close ASSOCIATE Emily Pogorelc Clay Hilley Soloman Howard DIRECTORS Patricia Racette Brian Jagde Mika Kares Katrina Bachus Sondra Radvanovsky Brandon Jovanovich Stephen Milling Jodi Gage Krassimira Stoyanova Matthias Klink Anthony Reed Rob Kearley Talise Trevigne Ian Koziara Matthew Rose Laura Wilde Stefan Margita Henning von Schulman PUPPETRY Mary Elizabeth Williams Dominic Rescigno DIRECTOR Rachel Willis-Sørensen Mario Rojas ACTORS Chris Pirie Rodell Rosel Miles Borchard MEZZO- Issachah Savage Ari Kraiman CHORUS MASTER Lindsay Ammann Kyle van Schoonhoven Tyler Sapp Michael Black Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Ethan Warren Kali Skatchke Marianne Crebassa CHOREOGRAPHERS Kayleigh Decker BARITONES PUPPETEERS AND MOVEMENT Elizabeth DeShong Alessandro Corbelli Taylor Bibat DIRECTORS Kathleen Felty Anthony Clark Evans Sean Garratt Linda Dobell Susan Graham Gordon Hawkins Tom Lee Anjali Mehra Jill Grove Levi Hernandez Chris Pirie Denni Sayers Jane Henschel Quinn Kelsey Amy Rose August Tye Alisa Kolosova Christopher Kenney Michele Stine Catherine Martin Davide Luciano FIGHT Deanne Meek Andrew Manea CONDUCTORS CHOREOGRAPHERS Ronnita Miller Ryan McKinny Sir Andrew Davis Chuck Coyl Deborah Nansteel Lucas Meachem Riccardo Frizza Nick Sandys Nina Yoshida Nelsen Brian Mulligan James Gaffigan Taylor Raven Edward Parks Enrique Mazzola Annie Rosen Ricardo José Rivera Henrik Nánási Hugh Russell Nicole Paiement Daniel Sutin Stefano Sarzani Ethan Vincent The American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO (AGMA), Grant Youngblood is the union that represents the singers, dancers, actors, and staging personnel at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO DEVELOPMENT FINANCE MARKETING AND Anthony Freud, OBE, Elizabeth Hurley, Chief Roberta Lane, Chief Financial COMMUNICATIONS General Director, President Development Officer and Administrative Officer Lisa Middleton, Vice President, & CEO, The Women’s Board Marisa Lerman,Executive Assistant Whitney Bercek, Controller Marketing and Communications Endowed Chair to the Chief Development Officer Vincente F. Milianti, Senior Director, Shelby Homiston, Marketing and Sir Andrew Davis, Music Director Omar Mulero, Development Assistant Financial Planning and Analysis Public Relations Coordinator John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Patrick Nugent, Vice President for Nicky Chaybasarskaya, Senior Accountant Laura E. Burgos, Senior Director, Endowed Chair Individual and Organizational Giving Ana Joyce, Senior Accountant Digital and Analytics Enrique Mazzola, Music Director Daniel Moss, Senior Director of Nancy Ko, Accounting Manager Valerie Bromann, Manager of Designate Institutional Partnerships Tom Pels, Payroll Manager Digital Content and Analysis Renée Fleming, Creative Consultant Mike Biver, Director of Gift Planning Dan Seekman, Senior Staff Accountant Michael Musick, Drew Landmesser, Deputy Adriane Fink, Director of Rosemary Ryan, E-Commerce Manager General Director and Chief Institutional Partnerships Accounts Payable Associate Amanda Reitenbach, Operating Officer Angela Larson, Director of Annual Meg Van Dyk, Payroll Associate Social Media Associate Elizabeth Hurley, Chief Giving Gwenetta Almon, Payroll Coordinator Holly H. Gilson, Senior Director, Development Officer Libby Rosenfeld, Philanthropy Officer Scot Weidenaar, Payroll Coordinator Communications Roberta Lane, Chief Financial Jonathan P. Siner, Senior Director Magda Krance, and Administrative Officer of Gift Planning HUMAN RESOURCES Director of Media Relations Cayenne Harris, Vice President, Angela DeStefano, Philanthropy Officer Elizabeth Landon, Vice President, Roger Pines, Dramaturg Lyric Unlimited The Chapters' Scott Podraza, Associate Director of Human Resources Mari Moroz, Endowed Chair for Education Annual Giving Stephanie Strong, Director Public Relations Manager Elizabeth Landon, Vice President, Sarah Sapperstein, Associate of Compensation, Benefits Andrew Cioffi, Human Resources Director of Development Content and HR Operations Digital Content Producer Nicholas Ivor Martin, Kristen Bigham, Gift Planning Associate Charity Franco, Tracy Galligher Young, Vice President, Artistic Dan Meyer, Institutional Human Resources Associate Senior Director, Marketing Operations and Labor Strategy Partnerships Associate Sharai Bohannon, Office Coordinator and Audience Development Andreas Melinat, Vice President, Kelli Dawson, Institutional Mosadi Goodman, Human Jennifer Colgan, Director of Sales Artistic Planning Partnerships Assistant Resources Coordinator and Advertising Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Anna VanDeKerchove, Donor Brittany Gonzalez, Marketing and Communications Engagement and Stewardship INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Director of Group Sales Dan Novak, Vice President and Coordinator Will Raj, Vice President, LeiLynn Farmer, Director, Ryan Opera Center Kate Sheehan, Vice President Information Technology Group Sales Associate The Ryan Opera Center Board for Principal Gifts Eric Hayes, Director of IT Operations Margaret Kellas, Marketing Endowed Chair Lawrence DelPilar, Senior Director, Rita Parida, Director of Data Services Associate, Lyric Unlimited Will Raj, Vice President, Development Jessica Keener, Systems Analyst Stefany Phillips, Creative Project Information Technology Meaghan Stainback, Philanthropy Sean Lennon, Systems Administrator Associate Michael Smallwood, Officer Bob Helmuth, Technology Lindsey Raker, Marketing Associate, Vice President and Technical Kate Later, Senior Director of Board Support Associate Advertising and Promotions Director, Allan and Elaine Management and Special Events Coleman Dieffenbach, Technology Sarah Sabet, Marketing Associate, Muchin Endowed Chair Deborah Hare, Director of Special Support Specialist Special Programs Events OFFICE OF THE Leah Bobbey, Manager, LYRIC UNLIMITED - LEARNING TICKET DEPARTMENT/ GENERAL DIRECTOR Boards Management & CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT AUDIENCE SERVICES Anthony Freud, General Director, Sarah Geocaris, Associate Guild Cayenne Harris, Vice President, Susan Harrison Niemi, President & CEO, The Women’s Board and Chapters Lyric Unlimited, The Chapters’ Director of Audience Services Board Endowed Chair Samus Haddad, Associate, Endowed Chair for Education Alex Chatziapostolou-Demas, Linda Nguyen, Manager, Ryan Opera Center Board and Crystal Coats, Director Sales Manager Office of the General Director Lyric Young Professionals of Community Programs John Renfroe, Tessitura Manager Michelle Hoehne, Assistant, Office Rachel Peterson, Special Events Todd Snead, Director Laura Waters, Customer Service of the General Director Associate of Learning Programs and Call Center Manager Paul D. Sprecher, Special Events Will Biby, Manager of Leigh Folta, VIP Ticketing Associate OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Associate Audience Programs Claire French, VIP Ticketing GENERAL DIRECTOR Devin Bopp, Coordinator, Board Drew Smith, Learning Programs Coordinator Drew Landmesser, Deputy of Directors and Women’s Board Manager Julia Acquistapace General Director and Nick Roman, Coordinator, Board Cameron Murdock, Marnie Baylouny Chief Operating Officer of Directors and Women’s Board Backstage Tours Coordinator Achilles Bezanis Amy Tinucci, Director of LaRob Payton, Lyric Unlimited Benjamin Burney ARTISTIC Development Operations Coordinator Hannah Busch Andreas Melinat, Vice President, Kelly E. Cronin, Manager of Alex Carey Artistic Planning Operations and Data Analytics LYRIC LABS STRATEGIC Emily Crisp Cory Lippiello, Artistic Administrator Stephanie Lillie, Donor Records and PROJECTS OFFICE Erik Dohner Evamaria Wieser, Casting Consultant Reporting Associate Christopher Ainsley, Lyric Labs Ashlyn Elliot Erin Johnson, Donor Records Strategic Projects Office Director Andrew Groble Coordinator Kara Riopelle, Lyric Labs Strategic Shelagh Haney Projects Office Manager Erin Hogan

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 78 Karen Hunt Peggy Stenger Justin Hull Toni Rubino Eve Krueger Amy C. Thompson Ryan McGovern Joanna Rzepka Steve Landsman Rachel A. Tobias Assistant Carpenters Marguerite Scott Mara Lane Bill Walters Anthony Bernardy Rebecca Shouse Madison Lawry Sandra Zamora Connor Ingersoll Ewa Szylak Ian Maryfield Assistant Stage Managers John Ingersoll Barbara Szyllo Jessica Reinhart Ben Bell Bern, Rehearsal Aiden McGovern Carolina Tuazon Aleksander Reupert Department Manager Johnny Rivers Isaac Turner Adam Stubitsch Kevin Krasinski, Chase Torringa Maggie Zabierowski Emily Thornton Artist Services Manager Carpenters Wardrobe Staff Marisa von Drasek Marina Vecci, Michael C. Reynolds, Samantha Holmes, Rosemary Walsh Rehearsal Associate Master Electrician Wardrobe Crew Head Ciera Williams Jeffrey Jauch Soren Ersbak, Board Operator Meriem Bahri Angela Yu, Ticket Staff Danielle Krispin John Clarke, Jr. Scott Barker Kathleen Butera, Emily Crisp, & Rehearsal Assistants Anthony Coia Robert Berry Luke Honeck, Lyric Concierge Thomas Hull Lauren Crotty Representatives RYAN OPERA CENTER Robert Reynolds Dawn Marie Hamilton Dan Novak, Vice President and Assistant Electricians Robert Hilliard OPERATIONS Director, Ryan Opera Center Jason Combs David Hough Nicholas Ivor Martin, The Ryan Opera Center Board Thomas Fernandez Charlie Junke Vice President, Artistic Endowed Chair Gary Grenda Kim Kostera Operations and Labor Strategy Craig Terry, Music Director, The Brian Hobbs Wendy McCay Wendy Skoczen, Chief Librarian Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Daniel Kuh Moira O’Neil Tabitha Boorsma, Operations Associate Julia Faulkner, Director of Vocal Asiel Simpson Dulce Santillan Stephanie Karr, Senior Director Studies, Elizabeth F. Cheney Jose Villalpando Lynn Sparber of Music Administration Foundation Electricians Chris Valente Michael Calderone, Music Emma Scherer, Associate Joe Schofield Roger Weir Administration Associate, Head Audio Technician Kristi Wood Orchestra and Ballet TECHNICAL Nick Charlan Samantha Yonan, Dressers Sarah Cohn, Music Administration Michael Smallwood Matt Eble Sarah Hatten, Wigmaster and Associate, Chorus Vice President and Technical Kelvin Ingram Makeup Designer, The Marlys Director, The Allan and Elaine Audio Technicians Beider Endowed Chair PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS Muchin Endowed Chair Charles Reilly, Allison Burkholder, Charles Tucker, General Manager April Busch, Technical Property Master Department Coordinator Geri LaGiglio, Director of Front of Operations Director Michael McPartlin, House Operations Scott Marr, Wardrobe, Wigs, Properties Crew Head Lynn Koroulis Sharon Lomasney, Director of and Makeup Director Phil Marcotte, Prop Carpenter Robert Kuper Presentations and Events Michael Schoenig, Technical Bob Ladd, Armorer Claire Moores, Staff Megan St. John, Director of Facility Finance Director Rachel Boultinghouse, Operations Scott Wolfson, Associate Upholsterer Bridget Rzymski, Wig Crew Head Maya Stallworth, Presentations and Technical Director Robert Hartge Events Coordinator Maria DeFabo Akin, Properties Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Necole Bluhm Lindsey Wolfeld, Facilities and Scenic Design Director Richard Tyriver DeShawn Bowman Coordinator Chris Maravich, Lighting Director, Assistant Properties Martha Contreras Gregg Brody, Box Office Manager Mary-Louise and James S. Michael Buerger Brittany Crinson Patrick Dowling, Patron Services Aargard Lighting Director Joseph Collins Eric Daniels Manager Endowed Chair Adam Gorsky Lillian Dion Stephen Dunford, Chief Engineer Lea Branyan Gordon Granger June Gearon David Jaworski, Porter Technical Production Coordinator Joe Mathesius David Grant Tiffany Kane, Restaurant Manager Sarah Riffle Kevin McPartlin Chantelle Marie Johnson Briette Madrid, Stage Door Bridget Williams Luigi Trupiano Briette Madrid Supervisor Assistant Lighting Designers Properties Lana McKinnon Sheila Matthews, Front of House Joe Dockweiler, Brian Traynor Megan Pirtle Manager Master Carpenter Charge Artist Jada Richardson Lena Reynolds-Sneed, Assistant Mike Reilly, Head Flyman/ Tim Morrison Lela Rosenberg House Manager Automation Michael Murtaugh Rick Salazar Jeffrey Streichhirsch, Scenic Artists Rachel Stiles PRODUCTION Automation Assistant Maureen Reilly, Costume Kacy Tatus Cameron Arens, Chris Barker Director, The Richard Pat Tomlinson Senior Director, Production Robert Hull, Jr. P. and Susan Kiphart Emily Young, Wig and Katrina Bachus Rigging/Automation Assistants Endowed Chair Makeup Crew Jordan Lee Braun Mark Shanabrough, Lucy Lindquist, David Carl Toulson Head Shop Carpenter Wardrobe Mistress Assistant Stage Directors Brian Grenda, Layout Carpenter Kristine Anderson John W. Coleman Drew Trusk, Head Shop Welder Louie Barrios Rachel C. Henneberry Bruce Woodruff, Layout Welder Molly Herman Rachel A. Tobias Richard “Doc” Wren, Kate Keefe Stage Managers Warehouse Coordinator Cecylia Kinder Alaina Bartkowiak Dan DiBennardi, Assistant Krystina Lowe Rachel C. Henneberry Warehouse Coordinator Talia Newton Daniel Sokalski Dan Donahue Kathy Rubel

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WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AT LYRIC, AND HOW LONG WHAT’S THE MOST CHALLENGING ASPECT HAVE YOU HELD THE POSITION? OF YOUR JOB? I am the second violin principal. I have been in the position I have found trying to play perfectly is the most challenging. for 12 years. In my opinion, there are two types of orchestra parts. Some works, like Verdi’s La traviata, appear to be easy note-wise, yet WHAT LED YOU TO WORK AT LYRIC? stylistically, they are difficult to execute. Other works, like I went to my very first live opera at Lyric – it was such a beautiful Wagner’s Siegfried, are technically hard. Those pieces require performance. I was a graduate student at Roosevelt University, long hours of studying the score, listening to recordings, and and I came with my roommate, who is a soprano. We saw The practicing difficult passages diligently. To me, to achieve and Magic Flute. The staging and singing were great. The orchestra’s maintain a high performance level and to keep fresh insight of playing was first- class, with Sir Andrew Davis conducting. the works is most challenging. It was an unforgettable experience to watch a live performance. I thought it would be great to have a job in the Lyric Opera WHAT KEEPS YOU COMMITTED TO THE WORK Orchestra. I took the audition a couple of years later, when I was YOU DO? a violinist in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. I have been I like my job, and enjoy the music I play. In the beginning years of privileged to serve in the Lyric Orchestra ever since. I started working in the Lyric Opera Orchestra, all the operas performed in playing violin at age four, and had watched some opera videos the season were new to me. It could be challenging, but I enjoyed with my father when I was a kid. I am from Zhejiang, on the east learning them. Through the years, the familiar works accumulated. China coast, and came to the United States in 2002 after I And now, each season, I run into a few of them that I performed graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. before. It’s like revisiting an old book. One is comforted by the familiar characters, and yet refreshed by some new discoveries WHAT’S A TYPICAL DAY LIKE FOR YOU? along the way. I am sure that our paths will across again in the I wake up around 7 a. m. and take care of my two-year-old years to come, and this learning and relearning process is exciting daughter. Around 10 a.m. I take the Orange line to work, just a and gratifying to me. I will say I enjoy any opera when we work couple of stops. Our rehearsals usually start at 11 a.m. I usually get with a good conductor and a good cast. to the pit a half hour before rehearsal, so I can warm up and practice a little bit. After the rehearsal starts, we work through the WHAT’S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR JOB piece with the conductor. Some rehearsals go smoothly, while some THAT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW? can be very intense. After the singers join us, we need to pay more I am responsible for all the second violin part’s bowings. I usually attention to the vocal parts. Following the conductor and listening start to work on the bowing during the summer. It takes some to the singers while we are playing keeps us busy. After rehearsals, readings, comparing the first violin part, and then trying out I go home and make dinner. I try to make simple, mostly Chinese various bowings on the violin to figure out what are the best dishes. I can’t say I enjoy cooking, but I do enjoy making food for options. After the season starts, during the rehearsals, I need to my family. In the evening I practice one or two hours if there is no listen closely if the rest of my section is playing cooperatively performance. After practicing, I have some relaxing time watching with other string sections so we can play together and phrase Chinese drama on TV before going to bed. the same way.

A FAVORITE LYRIC MOMENT? There are many. One of them is last year, when we played Strauss’s Elektra. It is an extremely beautiful piece. There were some moments when I imagined my colleagues and I were all big birds flying together in the wind up high in the sky.

BEYOND OPERA, WHAT ARE YOUR OTHER PASSIONS? Right now, my passion is to spend time with my daughter. It is a priceless experience to watch her grow up every day. I like to take her to the playground. Recently she made a good friend. They like each other a lot. It is so much fun to watch them playing, running, laughing together and trying to copy each other’s movements.

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