WINTER/SPRING 2020 DANCE SEASON B R AVO Malandain Ballet Biarritz FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Dance Theatre of Harlem MARCH 14 AND 15, 2020

American Ballet Theatre Swan Lake APRIL 16-19, 2020

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s Michigan Opera Theatre (MOT) embarks on a new elcome to Dance 2020 at Michigan Opera Adecade of artistic excellence, we are thrilled to begin WTheatre. As we embark on our Winter/Spring our 2020 dance season with a series of performances that 2020 season of dance, we offer you a full spectrum of represent the essence and breadth of our dance program. ballet from contemporary to neoclassical to classical. With performances by Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Dance Making their Detroit debut, Malandain Ballet Theatre of Harlem and American Ballet Theatre, our series Biarritz represents one of the best contemporary welcomes old and new, celebrating ballet companies from France. Known for the forward, the beloved classics as well as innovative, beautiful and captivating choreography embracing exciting new works. of artistic director Thierry Malandain, this mixed- The season begins with the MOT repertoire program offers a debut of the French contemporary smorgasbord of movement ballet company Malandain Ballet that captures the imagination. Biarritz. The works explore themes “Boléro,” in particular, is a of liberty, death and ascension, dramatic piece danced to and we are proud to continue our Ravel that explores themes commitment to presenting diverse of liberation with dancers companies and artistic perspectives. performing in an enclosed and Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) returns to the Opera limited space. House in March celebrating their golden anniversary with Celebrating their 50th a repertoire showcasing their commitment to access, Anniversary, Dance Theatre opportunity and excellence. The performance marks their of Harlem (DTH) was founded by Arthur Mitchell who seventh at the Detroit Opera House and is supported in made his performing career as the first Black principal part by awards from DTE Energy Foundation and the New dancer with New York City Ballet. Because of Mr. England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Mitchell’s heritage as a disciple of George Balanchine, We remain thrilled to continue our longstanding relationship DTH is rooted in the neoclassical style. Known for with the company, which began nearly 20 years ago. its passionate and dramatic interpretations, touring Our winter/spring dance season concludes with the internationally to celebrate African-American culture company that launched MOT’s dance program in 1996: through dance, DTH will perform a mixed-repertoire American Ballet Theatre (ABT). Swan Lake will be the program that includes “Passage,” a ballet which speaks company’s 10th performance at the Detroit Opera House to the resilience and determination of the human and is another long-cherished dance partnership for MOT. spirit. We are also proud to present the world premiere It is a performance made possible by our partnership with of Robert Garland’s “The Threshing Floor,” performed University Musical Society (UMS), which is our fifth co- to music from Detroit icon, Stevie Wonder. presentation since 2016. Following 2016’s The Sleeping American Ballet Theatre returns to the Opera Beauty and 2018’s Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake marks our House with the classic “ballet blanc.” A magical mix of third co-presentation of ABT. Our engagement with ABT and tragedy and romance, Swan Lake is one of the most UMS is supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union beloved in the classical ballet cannon. In addition to and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. being a true test of the ballerina’s virtuoso technique With DTH and ABT, we have been proud to bring dance – whipping off 32 fouettés in the Black Swan pas to our community with a series of classroom presentations de deux – Swan Lake is also a test of the ballerina’s and master classes to expose and educate our local students dramatic skills as she must convincingly portray both to the art form. We’ve also been able to bring in nearly 3,000 the pure White Swan and the evil (imposter) Black area students to professional dance performances at the Swan. The ballet also includes the “Dance of the Small Detroit Opera House this season as part of our commitment Swans,” arguably the most iconic and recognizable to community engagement and education. pieces of ballet choreography in history. Tchaikovsky‘s Finally, we express our appreciation to our sponsors, score is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever without whom this dance season would not have been written and will be performed by our Michigan Opera possible: With Cadillac at the forefront as our 2020 Spring Theatre Orchestra. Season Sponsor, we also thank our 2019-20 Dance Season Representing the best of ballet past and present, sponsors Joanne and Richard Brodie and the Maxine and please join us as we dance into the next decade at Stuart Frankel Foundation, along with additional support MOT, from the Marvin, Betty & Joanne Danto Family Foundation, Jeremy Zeltzer and Kevin Dennis, and Donald and Antoinette Morelock. We invite you to enjoy your performance and look Jon H. Teeuwissen forward to seeing you again at the Detroit Opera House! Artistic Advisor for Dance

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Dancers Giuditta Banchetti, Raphaël Canet, Clémence Chevillotte, Mickaël Conte, Jeshua Costa, Frederik Deberdt, Clara Forgues, Loan Frantz, Michaël Garcia, Irma Hoffren, Cristiano La Bozzetta, Hugo Layer, Guillaume Lillo, Claire Lonchampt, Nuria López Cortés, Arnaud Mahouy, Alessia Peschiulli, Ismael Turel Yagüe, Patricia Velazquez, Allegra Vianello, Laurine Viel, Yui Uwaha

Technical Director Paul Heitzmann Stage Managers Chloé Brèneur, Jean Gardera, Gilles Muller 2020 MOT Spring Dance Lighting Managers Frédéric Bears, Christian Grossard, Mikel Perez Season Sponsor: Sound Managers Nicolas Rochais, Jacques Vicassiau Stage Technicians Bertrand Tocoua, Maxime Truccolo Dressmaker Véronique Murat Wardrobe Mistress Karine Prins, Annie Onchalo Set and Accessories Production Frédéric Vadé Drivers Guillaume Savary, Vincent Ustarroz

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About represents invaluable resources for Created in 1998 in Biarritz on the dancers. A classical choreographer initiative of the Ministry of Culture for some, a contemporary one for and Communication and the Town others, I play with it, simply trying to of Biarritz, with the support of find a dance I like. A dance that will not Aquitaine Region and the Atlantic only leave a lasting impression of joy, Pyrenees General Council, Malandain but that will also restore the essence Ballet Biarritz is one of 19 National of the sacred things and serve as a Choreographic Centers in France response to the difficulty of being.” today. The particularity of Malandain Ballet Biarritz is that it is made up of 22 permanent dancers trained in classical technique and whose expression in Thierry Malandain’s choreographies is contemporary. Today Malandain Ballet Biarritz is one of Europe’s most widely-seen companies with 80,000 spectators per season and almost 100 performances per year, a third of which are abroad. As a National Choreographic Center, Malandain Ballet Biarritz also works intensely in terms of public awareness of dance – with an average of 450 events per year – and to support artists and companies, thanks to the Accueil Studio program. Its local presence has led it to forge fertile partnerships with numerous cultural actors in the Euro-region. RODNEY WHITAKER JAZZ ENSEMBLE It has thus constructed the Ballet T project, a partnership between CHI AMEN-RA Malandain Ballet Biarritz and San THE NGOMA ZA Sebastian’s Teatro Victoria Eugenia, AMEN-RA with support from Europe and the NEW AFRIKAN Aquitaine Euskadi fund. Its aim is CULTURAL THEATRE to spread choreographic art in the Basque Country, by co-producing ALVIN WADDLES and disseminating choreographic works, and also through awareness CHRIST CHURCH CHOIR campaigns and audience mobility within the Euro-region. 7:30 PM HARTFORD MEMORIAL BOTH DATES BAPTIST CHURCH CHOIR Thierry Malandain DOORS OPEN: 7 PM Author of a repertoire of 80 FREE TO ALL choreographies, Thierry Malandain FRIDAY, MARCH 13 has developed a very personal vision CHRIST CHURCH of dance, closely linked to ballet, CRANBROOK, where priority is given to the dancing BLOOMFIELD HILLS body, its power, virtuosity, humanity and sensuality. The search for meaning and aesthetics guide a powerful and sober style, which can be both serious SATURDAY, and insolent, based on the pursuit of MARCH 14 harmony between history and today’s HARTFORD MEMORIAL world. BAPTIST CHURCH, “My culture is that of classical DETROIT ballet, and I confidently remain attached to it. Because while I readily CHRISTCHURCHCRANBROOK.ORG admit that its artistic and social codes are from another time, I also think that this heritage from four centuries

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 5 MALANDAIN BALLET BIARRITZ BALLET NOTES principles of musical writing. In 1963, place where sky and earth meet. When the choreographer John Cranko I chose Vivaldi, the spiritual reason (1927-1973) used this audacious score of Stabat Mater (the Mother Stood), Estro to create L’Estro Armonico for the which celebrates the compassion of Music: Antonio Vivaldi Stuttgart Ballet, where he was the the Virgin toward the suffering of her Choreography: Thierry Malandain artistic director. Unadorned, precise and crucified son, led me to replace this Lighting Design: Jean-Claude Asquié devilishly technical, this choreographic trick by another one: lanterns made of Costumes: Karine Prins work entered the repertoire of the paint cans. It would probably have been Accessories: Frédéric Vadé, Christian Ballet Théâtre Français de Nancy in better to get rid of the excess, especially Grossard 1979. As early as the following year, as the music of Vivaldi enables us to Coproduction with Teatro Victoria I had the opportunity to perform it a reach the heights of human beings Eugenia, Ballet T, Opéra de Reims, high number of times. The challenges by filling us with an inner, deep and Malandain Ballet Biarritz of the choreography were not simple to indescribable joy. However, as the overcome. It was sometimes an ordeal Dominican André Lendger (1929-2005), World Premiere to go on stage; it was like a long and the chaplain to artists who also exerted Nov. 8, 2014, Teatro Victoria Eugenia winding road. One evening, as I was on his ministry in nightlife in 1970s, said: “It under the Ballet T project the ascent, I burst into tears, incapable is now easier to climb an 8,000 meters of surpassing myself. Was it too much? mountain than to elevate your inner self French Premiere As any author seeking inspiration a few inches.” Nov. 15, 2014, Opéra de Reims in his own life, I created Estro as a —Thierry Malandain, May 2014 remembrance of this anecdote of my ’Estro Armonico Op.3 is the most life and then wrote a new story by famous concertante work by *INTERMISSION* L combining the three concertos chosen Antonio Vivaldi (1678- 1741) after The by John Cranko, added together with Four Seasons. Released in Amsterdam Nocturnes some extracts of Stabat Mater (RV in 1711 and dedicated to Ferdinando Music: Frédéric Chopin 621) composed by Vivaldi in 1712. de’ Medici, it marked the advent of the Choreography: Thierry Malandain At first, as I had chosen a completely concerto genre and the beginning of Lighting Design: Jean-Claude Asquié different score, I wanted to use the the “Red Priest” fame in Europe. With a Costumes: Karine Prins stools we bought for some previous composition system combining fantasy ballets to compose a clump of final (“estro” means imagination) to harmony, Coproduction with Teatro Victoria poses serving as a symbolical image to the title of this collection of twelve Eugenia, Ballet T, Opéra de Reims, explain the desire for elevation and the concertos for one, two and three violins Centre Chorégraphique National, efforts needed to reach the summit could be interpreted as the desire Malandain Ballet Biarritz of a mountain, seen as the privileged to link extravaganza to conventional World Premiere e Katherine McGregor Dessert Parlor …at e Whitney. Named a er David Whitney’s daughter, Katherine Whitney McGregor, our intimate dessert parlor on the Mansion’s third  oor features a variety of decadent cakes, tortes, and miniature desserts.  e menu also includes chef-prepared specialties, pies, and “Drinkable Desserts.” Don’t miss the amazing  aming dessert station featuring Bananas Foster and Cherries Jubilee.

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Nov. 8, 2014, Teatro Victoria Eugenia In the synopsis, the action took place parallel, I chose to represent the liberty under the Ballet T project in an Andalusian tavern, where a gypsy, gradually won from confinement French Premiere dancing on a table, provoked sensual and took the challenge to confine Nov. 15, 2014, Opéra de Reims euphoria amongst men. I departed the performers in an enclosed and from this storyline, updated by Maurice limited space. This limit exists in onsumed by his feelings, Frédéric Béjart in 1961, to only focus on the the uniqueness and the mechanical CChopin explored the depth of his musical motive that Maurice Ravel repetition of the musical theme, which melancholic nature to express the repeats in an obsessive way until the literally explodes in an intense finale, languor of love in his Nocturnes – 21 final apotheosis. The composer made followed by silence, when dancers find pieces for piano written between no secret of the “music-sexual” style of themselves “locked outside.” 1827 and 1846. The dominant this orchestral crescendo and finale. —Thierry Malandain feeling shrouded by a dark veil, the Instead of showing this erotic taste for the morbid, the dark gothic romanticism fostered by Chopin and other Romantics justified a comparison with the Danse Macabre, a very popular genre at the end of the Middle Ages. This genre was mostly represented by wall paintings depicting a series of characters from all ages, genders, stations, led to the grave by a skeleton, which does not personify Death but the dead, in SUPPORTING other words a posthumous reflection of the living. Beyond the idea of associating two things as disparate as dancing and dying, the Danse THE ARTS macabre symbolized the passing of time and showed that Death unites people of all ranks. Remnants of “a day gloomier than the night”, as said Honigman celebrates by Charles Baudelaire, Nocturnes describes itself as a fresco, as a dream Michigan Opera Theatre’s crushed under the weight of endless melancholy. 2019-2020 season —Thierry Malandain

*INTERMISSION* Boléro Music: Maurice Ravel Choreography: Thierry Malandain Set and Costumes: Jorge Gallardo Lighting Design: Jean-Claude Asquié Coproduced with Festival International Madrid en Danza, Malandain Ballet Biarritz World Premiere May 19, 2001, la Gare du Midi de Biarritz ubjected to the obsessive Srepetition of the orchestral theme by Ravel, twelve dancers perform almost soullessly in an enclosed and limited space. When sounds the liberating finale, they break free, plunging into silence, now “locked outside.” Commissioned by the Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein, a friend and patron to Maurice Ravel, this “Spanish www.honigman.com character ballet” was created by the Rubinstein company at the Paris Opera, on the Nov. 22, 1928, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska.

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 7 Michigan Opera Theatre

www.malandainballet.comwww.malandainballet.com www.facebook.com/MalandainBallet www.facebook.com/MalandainBallet Artistic director / Choreographer Thierry Malandain B R AVO ArtisticBallet masters director Richard / Coudray,Choreographer Giuseppe Chiavaro Thierry MAGAZINE MalandainDancers Giuditta Banchetti, Raphaël Canet, Clémence Chevillotte, Mickaël Conte, Jeshua Costa, Frederik Deberdt, Clara Forgues, Loan Frantz, Michaël Garcia, Irma Hoffren, Cristiano La Bozzetta, Hugo BalletLayer, masters Guillaume Lillo, Richard Claire Lonchampt, Coudray, Nuria GiuseppeLópez Cortés, Arnaud Mahouy, Alessia Peschiulli, Ismael Turel Yagüe, Patricia Velazquez, Allegra Vianello, Laurine Viel, Yui Uwaha Chiavaro METRO DETROIT’S BEST AUDIENCE! Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Centre Chorégraphique National, is funded by the Ministry of Culture - DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the City of Biarritz, the Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the DepartmentReserve Council ofyour the space in the next issue of Bravo magazine DancersPyrenees -GiudittaAtlantiques. InBanchetti, view of their Raphaëleuro regional Canet, cooperation, Malandain Ballet Biarritz and the ClémenceTheater Victoria Chevillotte, Eugenia created Mickaël with the Conte,cities of San Sebastián and Biarritz a cultural cooperation Jeshuaproject Costa, named « BalletFrederik T », initiated Deberdt, and developed Clara thanks to the support of the Fonds Européens de Développement Régional (FEDER) / Programme Opérationnel de Coopération Territoriale Espagne- Forgues,France-Andorre Loan (POCTEFA). Frantz, The Michaël Communauté Garcia, d’Agglomération Irma Pays Basque and the Diputaciónwww.echopublications.com Foral de or call (248) 582-9690 Hoffren,Gipuzkoa Cristianosupport Malandain La Bozzetta,Ballet Biarritz forHugo his actions Layer, in Iparralde and Gipuzkoa in the territorial cooperation and in the development of the territorial attractivity. Guillaume Lillo, Claire Lonchampt, Nuria LópezPrincipal Cortés, Patron : RepettoArnaud Mahouy, Alessia

Peschiulli,Great Patrons Ismael : Banque Turel Populaire Yagüe, Aquitaine Patricia Centre Atlantique - BPACA, Association des Amis du Velazquez,Malandain Ballet Allegra Biarritz, Vianello,FIDAL, Pyrenex Laurine Viel, Yui Uwaha

Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Centre Chorégraphique National, is funded by the Ministry of Culture - DRAC Nouvelle- Aquitaine, the City of Biarritz, the Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Department Council of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques. In view of their euro regional cooperation, Malandain Ballet Biarritz and the Theater Victoria Eugenia created with the cities of San Sebastián and Biarritz a cultural cooperation project named « Ballet T », initiated and developed thanks to the support of the Fonds Européens de Développement Régional (FEDER) / Programme Opérationnel de Coopération Territoriale Espagne-France- Andorre (POCTEFA). The Communauté d’Agglomération Pays Basque and the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa support Malandain Ballet Biarritz for his actions in Iparralde and Gipuzkoa in the territorial cooperation and in the development of the territorial attractivity.

Principal Patron : Repetto

Great Patrons : Banque Populaire Aquitaine Centre Atlantique - BPACA, Association des Amis du Malandain Ballet Biarritz, FIDAL, Pyrenex For more info, please contact Colin Knapp, Manager of Donor Engagement, 313.965.4271 or [email protected]

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10 BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 www.MichiganOpera.org Michigan Opera Theatre † Deceased “The Threshing Floor” Exploring the Social Relevancy of Stevie Wonder’s Music Through Time BY ROBERT GARLAND, CHOREOGRAPHER

s a child, growing up in the 70s, it had become increasingly Aclear that the world promised by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a world he referred to as his “Beloved Community,” was much farther off than we realized. In that post Civil Rights movement time, his prescient revelation that he “may not get there with you” created a haunting awareness coupled with a cultural anxiety that lingers even to this day. I often wonder, as Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Founder Arthur Mitchell drifted off into an eternal sleep, if indeed he knew that there was still much more work to be done. It has been said that African American people are the conscience of America. If that be so, then Stevie Wonder was, and still is, the conscience of Black America. His music loved us, taught us, admonished us, held us up, broke us down and turned us around. It is no accident that the music of Wonder served as the fitting background musical theme in the culminating events leading to the election of the first African American President of the United States. Former President Barack Obama has called Wonder his “musical hero”, utilizing his “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours,” on the final night of the Democratic National Convention the year of his election. MURAL AT MUSIC HALL BY RICHARD WILSON, PHOTO BY ERICA HOBBS “The Threshing Floor” represents a reflection on our current times. From his song “You music to a new generation of artists and audiences. The Haven’t Done Nothing,” written to address the impending music’s cultural relevance and timeless messages are impeachment at that time of President Nixon, to the crucial to understating art that can address social issues. complicated reflections on faith and social justice in I’m thrilled to premiere “The Threshing Floor” in Detroit, “(Heaven Is) 10 Zillion Light Years Away,” the questions that is not only Wonder’s hometown, raised by Wonder within this music are wholly applicable but a city I performed in many times today. when I was a principal dancer with Add to this his “Village Ghetto Land”, which juxtaposes Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) lyrics outlining the horrors of urban blight and poverty, under our founder Arthur Mitchell. As buttressed by the sounds of a sweet, classical cadence DTH celebrates its 50th anniversary, worthy of Bach or Mozart; or his “Saturn,” yearning for I’m proud to contribute a piece that an entirely different world, the music retains culturally continues the work of our late founder relevant decades later. and shares his vision with generations ROBERT GARLAND, I feel that it is my responsibility to introduce Wonder’s to come. CHOREOGRAPHER

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 11 March 14 and 15, 2020 Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson Artistic director

2020 MOT Spring Dance Season Sponsor:

The 2019-2020 Dance Season is made possible through the generosity of Joanne and Richard Brodie and the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, with additional support from the Marvin, Betty & Joanne Danto Family Foundation, and Jeremy Zeltzer and Kevin Dennis.

FOUNDERS Arthur Mitchell Karel Shook

ARTISTIC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson Anna Glass is additionally supported by

BALLET MASTER Marie Chong

INTERIM GENERAL MANAGER Melinda Bloom The presentation of Passage was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with additional support ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS from DTE Energy Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Michigan Arthur Mitchell Humanities Council

DANCE ARTISTS Lindsey Donnell Yinet Fernandez Alicia Mae Holloway Alexandra Hutchinson Daphne Lee Crystal Serrano Ingrid Silva Amanda Smith Stephanie Rae Williams Derek Brockington Kouadio Davis Da’Von Doane Dustin James Choong Hoon Lee Christopher McDaniel Sanford Placide Anthony Santos Dylan Santos

Support for Dance Theatre of Harlem’s 2019/2020 professional Company and National Tour activities made possible in part by: Anonymous; The Arnhold Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; The Dauray Fund; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Elephant Rock Foundation; Ford Foundation; Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Howard Gilman Foundation; The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; The Klein Family Foundation; John L. McHugh Foundation; Margaret T. Morris Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project; Tatiana Piankova Foundation; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation; and Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

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FIFTY YEARS OF DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM he past half century of Dance Theatre of Harlem is The social impact of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s national Ta landscape of peaks and valleys inhabited by a race and international touring over these 50 years is often of dreamers, achievers, and yes, history makers. DTH noted, but as significant is the depth and breadth of the co-founder Arthur Mitchell was all the above as well as company’s artistic prowess. With a repertoire that ranges premier danseur, choreographer, and teacher. We used to from Mitchell’s own neoclassical works (he learned his call him “our fearless leader” because he marched forward craft at George Balanchine’s knee, after all), historic Ballet never thinking that what he sought to do would have been Russes, classics such as Scheherazade and Prince Igor, impossible for anyone else. His passing on September 19, to great American narrative works such as Billy The Kid, 2018 left us bereft but determined that the institution he Fall River Legend, and the groundbreaking productions and Karel Shook incorporated on February 11, 1969, will of Creole Giselle and Firebird that linger in the collective endure and thrive. consciousness, throughout its history Dance Theatre of Arthur Mitchell believed in the power of art to change Harlem has expanded the notion of what ballet could be. lives and open minds. The DTH Company, School, and Yes, there have been valleys along the way and, like the “Dancing Through Barriers,” our arts education program, phoenix, Dance Theatre of Harlem rose again and again became the manifestation of that idea. While the School because the expression we bring to the art form is unique and DTB served the Harlem community, with the Company, and necessary. The milestone of 50 is not an endpoint but a Arthur Mitchell was able to take his vision across the marker along the way. We glance backward at this moment, globe. The DTH Company, a mix of African Americans but our eyes are on the future. like me, Hispanics, Asians and Caucasians, was a vivid — Virginia Johnson demonstration of the premise that the art form of classical Artistic Director ballet belongs to us all.

THE THRESHING FLOOR THE GREATEST enslaved Africans. The ballet reflects, Premiere Date: March 14, 2020 Premiere Date: May 8, 1977 in abstract, the fortitude of the human Choreography: Robert Garland Choreography: Arthur Mitchell spirit and an enduring will to prevail. Costume Design: Music: Michael Masser Support for Passage was made Pamela Allen-Cummings possible by the New England Lighting Design: Roma Flowers ALEXANDRA HUTCHINSON Foundation for the Arts’ National DA’VON DOANE Dance Project, with lead funding AMANDA SMITH, DAPHNE LEE, from the Doris Duke Charitable ALEXANDRA HUTCHINSON Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon INTERMISSION Foundation. Additional commissioning DUSTIN JAMES, ANTHONY SANTOS, funds provided by the Virginia B. KUADIO DAVIS Toulmin Foundation through Dance PASSAGE Theatre of Harlem’s Women Who The Threshing Floor is an Premiere Date: May 3, 2019 Move Us initiative, O’Donnell-Green agricultural reference that has been Choreography: Claudia Schreier Music and Dance Foundation and the metaphorically used to describe the Music: Jessie Montgomery Princess Grace Foundation-USA, the process of spiritual growth. Costume Design: Martha Chamberlain City of Norfolk, Virginia, the Friedrich Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Ludwig Diehn Fund of the Hampton Threshing floors are locations where Roads Community Foundation, and people perform the agricultural CRYSTAL SERRANO, the National Endowment for the Arts. activities of threshing and winnowing, LINDSEY DONNELL, The Virginia Arts Festival separating the wheat from the chaff. YINET FERNANDEZ, production residency for Passage As a metaphor, challenging times can DAPHNE LEE, was funded by the New England appear in our lives as a “threshing”, INGRID SILVA, Foundation for the Arts’ National separating and identifying what is STEPHANIE RAE WILLIAMS Dance Project, with funding from The most essential, what really matters. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Passage was commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival in partnership INTERMISSION ARTHUR MITCHELL with American Evolution for TRIBUTE FILM the 50th Anniversary of Dance Theatre of Harlem and the 2019 Director: Daniel Schloss Commemoration, recognizing the Choreography: Robert Garland 400th anniversary of a series of pivotal Music: Tim Rosser events in America’s history — including the first documented arrival of

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BALAMOUK THE DANCE THEATRE Theater. Repertoire includes works Premiere Date: Oct. 5, 2018 by George Balanchine, Christopher Choreography: Annabelle Lopez OF HARLEM COMPANY Huggins, Arthur Mitchell, Billy Wilson Ochoa and Donald Byrd. Da’Von is a rising DEREK BROCKINGTON Music: Les Yeux Noirs, Lisa Gerrard, Choreographer. Born: Chicago, IL. Training: Grand René Aubry Rapids Ballet School, Interlochen Costume Design: Mark Zappone LINDSEY DONNELL Arts Academy, Lighting Design: Les Dickert Born: Midland, TX. Training: A Petite Ballet West and Dance Studio, Midland Festival Ballet Pennsylvania Ballet March 14, 2020, 7:30P under Susan Clark. Education: cum Summer Intensives. INGRID SILVA laude graduate of Butler University, Professional CRYSTAL SERRANO degree in Dance Experience: Dance AMANDA SMITH Arts Administration Theatre of Harlem STEPHANIE RAE WILLIAMS and Journalism. (second season), ALICIA MAE HOLLOWAY Professional Cincinnati Ballet, Experience: Dance Grand Rapids Ballet. Repertoire DA’VON DOANE Theatre of Harlem includes works by George Balanchine, DYLAN SANTOS (eighth season), Anabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Kirk DEREK BROCKINGTON Nashville Ballet Peterson. CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MCDANIEL (trainee). Repertoire

CHOONG HOON LEE includes works by Robert Garland, KOUADIO DAVIS Nacho Duato, Ulysses Dove, George Born: Oneonta, NY. Training: March 15, 2020, 2:30P Balanchine, Donald Byrd, Elena Holbrook-Wade School of Dance, INGRID SILVA Kunikova and Dianne McIntyre. Fokine Ballet, New York State Summer CRYSTAL SERRANO School of the Arts with Daniel AMANDA SMITH YINET FERNANDEZ Ulbricht, NYCB. STEPHANIE RAE WILLIAMS Born: Mariano’ La Carolyn Adams. ALICIA MAE HOLLOWAY Habana, Cuba. Alvin Ailey, Nutmeg Training: Provincial Ballet, Charlotte DA’VON DOANE School of the Ballet, Alonzo SANFORD PLACIDE Arts, National King Lines, French DEREK BROCKINGTON School of Ballet, Academie of Ballet, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MCDANIEL Ballet Nacional de Pacific Northwest CHOONG HOON LEE Cuba. Professional Ballet, and experience: Dance Springboard Danse Montreal. Awards: Commissioned by New York City Theatre of Harlem (third season), Youth America Grand Prix in 2017 Center for the Fall For Dance Festival, Connecticut Ballet, Ballet Nacional and 2018, where he and his partner the development of Balamouk was de Cuba. Repertoire includes: won second and then first place in the supported through 50th anniversary Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan contemporary Pas de Deux category. commissioning support provided by Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, La Fille mal Professional Experience: Dance the Seattle Theater Group and by gardée, Don Quixote and works by Theatre of Harlem (first season). the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation George Balanchine, Robert Garland, through Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Christopher Wheeldon, Darrell Grand DA’VON DOANE Women Who Move Us Initiative. Moultrie and Dianne McIntyre Born: Salisbury, MD. Training: Salisbury Support for new dance works at City Studio of Dance (now Salisbury Center is provided by the Virginia B. ALICIA MAE HOLLOWAY Dance Academy), Betty Webster, Toulmin Foundation and Doris Duke Born: Morgantown, WV. Training: Kat Tatiana Akinfieva-Smith, and Elena Charitable Foundation. and Company Studio, Morgantown Manakhova, Atlantic Dance Studio with Desiree Witt, Lauren Contemporary Stone, Marilyn Pipes, Eunice Kim, and Ballet Theatre, Robert Steele, and Eastern Shore School of American Ballet Theatre, Ballet with Suki Kirov Academy of Schorer, Suzy Pilarre, Ballet, and Atlantic Darci Kistler, Kay Contemporary Mazzo, and Jock Ballet Theatre. Soto. Professional Named 2014 Dance Magazines experience: Dance one of “25 to Watch”. Professional Theatre of Harlem experience: Dance Theatre of (fifth season) and Suzanne Farrell Ballet Harlem (eighth season), Claudia (apprentice) Repertoire includes works Schreier & Company, Ballet Noir by George Balanchine, Robert Garland, and Classical Contemporary Ballet

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Dianne McIntyre, Ulysses Dove, Nacho DAPHNE LEE Iris Project. Repertoire includes Duato and Arthur Mitchell. Rahway, NJ. Training: works by Jessica Lang, Benoit Swan- Rahway Dance Pouffer, Darrell Grand Moultrie, ALEXANDRA HUTCHINSON Theatre, Dance among others. Daphne is currently a Born: Wilmington, DE. Training: Theatre of Harlem MFA candidate at Hollins University. The Washington School of Ballet, School. Education: Wilmington BFA in Dance, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES Academy of Dance, Fordham University. MCDANIEL Summer intensives Professional Born: East Harlem, NY. Training: Dance with Alvin Ailey, Experience: Dance Theatre of Theatre of Harlem School, LaGuardia Alonzo King, Harlem, Collage Dance Collective, School of Performing Arts, Ballet Carolina Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Alvin Ailey II, Black Academy East, Boston Ballet, Jacob’s Ballet Chicago, and Nashville Ballet. Education: Bachelor of Science in Ballet, Indiana University. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season), Nashville Ballet. Repertoire includes: Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Western Symphony, Swan Lake, Concerto Barocco and Giselle. 430 North Old Woodward, Birmingham 248-642-2650 DUSTIN JAMES www.greenstonesjewelers.com Born: New Orleans, LA. Training: Houston School for the Performing Arts, Houston Ballet. The Forevermark Professional ™ Experience: Dance Tribute Collection Theatre of Harlem (forth season), Sumin Ballet, BalletMet Columbus, Sierra Nevada Ballet, Midland Festival Ballet. Repertoire includes works by Anabelle Lopez Ochoa, Michael Sumin, Stanton Welch, Jiri Killian, Helen Pickett, Dwight Rhoden, Ma Cong, Ulysses Dove and Robert Garland.

CHOONG HOON LEE Born: Seoul, South Korea. Training: Korean National University of Arts FOR ALL and School of American Ballet. Early experience: semi-finalist, Varna THAT YOU ARE International Ballet Competition, A diamond for each Gwanju International of your qualities Competition (gold medal in Pas de Deux). Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Mariinsky Ballet, Korean National Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and New York Theatre Ballet. Repertoire includes works by Robert Garland and Ulysses Dove, and soloist roles in Othello, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Spartacus, Paquita, Le Corsaire, and Giselle.

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Pillow. Professional Experience: Dance Darrell Grand Moultrie, Robert Garland Donald Byrd, George Balanchine, Theatre of Harlem (third season), and Nacho Duato. Dianne McIntyre, John Alleyne, Darrel Ballet San Antonio, Grand Moultrie, Francesca Harper, Los Angeles Ballet. DYLAN SANTOS Robert Garland, David Fernandez, Carol Repertoire includes Born: São Paulo, Brazil. Training: Armitage, Deborah Colker and Rodrigo works by Robert Centro de Artes Pavilhao D under Pederneiras. Garland, Ulysses Ricardo Scheir Dove, Darryl Grand and Harid AMANDA SMITH Moultrie, Coleen Conservatory. Born: Orange County, CA. Training: Neary, Thordal Professional Charlotte Ballet, SUNY Purchase, Christensen, George experience: Dance Joffrey Ballet Balanchine, Christopher Stowell and Theatre of Harlem School, Anaheim Kitty McNamee. (sixth season), Ballet, Pointe Houston Ballet of Grace, SANFORD PLACIDE trainee, Orlando Ballet Pacifica. Born: Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Training: Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Chicago, and Professional Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Paris Opera Ballet. Repertoire includes Experience: Dance Manhattan Youth Ballet, The French works by George Balanchine, Nacho Theatre of Harlem Academie of Ballet, Duato, Robert Garland, and Ulysses (third season), Nadege Hottier, Dove, and Marius Petipa. Charlotte Ballet, New York Theatre American Ballet Ballet, Black Iris Project. Repertoire Theatre, Dance CRYSTAL SERRANO includes works by George Balanchine, Theatre of Harlem, Born: Denver, CO. Training: Pacific Mark Diamond, Sasha James, Dwight Ballet Austin, Northwest Ballet, School of American Rhoden, Alonzo King, Jiri Killian, Ballet Hispanico, Ballet, Olympic Ballet Theatre. Dianne McIntyre and Helen Pickett. Lines Ballet, and Professional Miami City Ballet. experience: STEPHANIE RAE WILLIAMS Professional Experience: Dance Dance Theatre Born: Salt Lake City, Utah. Training: Theatre of Harlem, Alberta Ballet in of Harlem (third Dallas Dance Academy with Canada, Ballet West, Charlotte Ballet, season), Ballet San Lyndette Galen and Fiona Fairrie, Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Vorhees Antonio, Oregon Hubbard Street Ballet Theatre, Ballet Des Ameriques, Ballet Theatre, Dance Chicago, Fjkdance, Collage Dance Collective, Sacramento Springboard Danse Black Iris Dance Project, Boca Ballet Ballet, Pacific Montreal, The Theatre, Ballet Northwest, Traverse Northwest Ballet. Repertoire includes: Juilliard School, City Dance Project and Accent Dance. Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Peter Alonzo King’s Special Honors: Sanford partnered Pan, Firebird, Donizetti Variations, LINES Ballet, with the Consulate General of Haiti Cinderella, The Four Temperaments, and Houston in New York to organize and produce Allegro Brillante, The Sleeping Beauty, Ballet Academy. UNI, an art collective where he Cinderella, Serenade, La source, Valse Professional experience: Dance premiered the riveting ballet MAGA. In Fantasie, Swan Lake and works by Theatre of Harlem (eighth season), 2019 he was honored by the Consulate Robert Garland, Christopher Wheeldon The Francesca Harper Project, General of Haiti in New York for his and Darrell Grand Moultrie. Complexions Contemporary Dance work in preserving Haitian culture. Company, Ballet Black, and Texas Repertoire includes works by George INGRID SILVA Ballet Theatre. Special Awards: Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Glenn Born: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Training: The Dallas Dance Council’s 2017 Tetley, Desmond Richardson, Robert Projeto Dan-cando Para Nao Dancar, Natalie Skelton Award, 2013 Dance Garland, Mark Diamond, Yukicchi Escola de Danca Magazine “On the Rise”, 2006 National Hattori, Wen Wei Wang, Aszure Maria Olenewa, Foundation for the Arts Award, 2006 and Centro de Youth America Grand Prix finalist, ANTHONY SANTOS Movimento Debora and 2004 Texas Commission on Born: New York, NY. Training: Alvin Colker. Education: the Arts Young Master. Repertoire Ailey School, North Carolina School Universidade da includes works by Arthur Mitchell, of the Arts. Cidade. Professional Donald Byrd, George Balanchine, John Professional experience: Alleyne, Dianne McIntyre, Darrel Grand experience: Dance Dance Theatre of Moultrie, Francesca Harper, Liam Theatre of Harlem Harlem (eighth season), Grupo Corpo Scarlett, Robert Garland, and David (third season), (apprentice), Dance Theatre of Harlem Fernandez. Zest Collective, Ensemble, Dancado Para Nao Dancar, and Caitlin Trainor Armitage Gone! Dance, and the Dance. Repertoire Francesca Harper Project. Repertoire includes works by includes works by Arthur Mitchell,

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VIRGINIA JOHNSON (Artistic Mitchell began his dance training at the Dutch National Ballet, where he Director) New York City’s High School of the was when his former student, Arthur A founding member of Dance Theatre Performing Arts, where he won the Mitchell, asked him to return to New of Harlem, Virginia Johnson was one coveted annual dance award and York to help create the Dance Theatre of its principal ballerinas over a career subsequently a full scholarship to the of Harlem. Mr. Shook was an advocate that spanned nearly 30 years. After School of American Ballet. In 1955, of the universality of classical ballet. retiring in 1997, he became the first male African His book, Elements of Classical Ms. Johnson went American to become a permanent Ballet explores the development on to found Pointe member of a major ballet company of classical ballet in such countries Magazine and was when he joined New York City Ballet. across the globe as China, Turkey, editor-in chief for 10 Mr. Mitchell rose quickly to the rank Iran, Japan, Cuba, and Mexico. In 1980 years. of Principal Dancer during his fifteen- he was awarded the United States A native of year career with New York City Ballet Presidential Award for “Excellence and Washington, D.C., and electrified audiences with his Dedication in Education.” Ms. Johnson began performances in a broad spectrum of her training with Therrell Smith. roles. Upon learning of the death of MARIE CHONG (Ballet Master) She studied with Mary Day at the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Marie Chong has worked in Europe, Washington School of Ballet and and with financial assistance from Mrs. Asia, and the Americas as a dancer, graduated from the Academy of the Alva B. Gimbel, the Ford Foundation director, teacher, and choreographer. Washington School of Ballet and and his own savings, Mr. Mitchell After her work as a professional went on to be a University Scholar founded Dance Theatre of Harlem dancer with Pacific in the School of the Arts at New with his mentor and ballet instructor Northwest Ballet, York University before joining Dance Karel Shook. Eugene Ballet, Theatre of Harlem. With an illustrious career that has Atlanta Ballet, and Virginia Johnson is universally spanned over fifty years, Mr. Mitchell Spectrum Dance recognized as one of the great is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Theater, Chong ballerinas of her generation and Honors, a National Medal of the Arts, founded ARC is perhaps best known for her a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Dance Productions performances in the ballets Giselle, the New York Living Landmark Award, in Seattle in 1999. A Streetcar Named Desire, and Fall the Handel Medallion, the NAACP She commissioned new works by River Legend. She has received such Image Award, and more than a dozen Edwaard Liang, Wen Wei Wang, and honors as a Young Achiever Award honorary degrees. Alex Ketley—among others. Chong from the National Council of Women, Karel Shook (Co-Founder) played was the Artistic Assistant/Director of Outstanding Young Woman of a key role as teacher and mentor to Cirque du Soleil’s big top touring show America and the Dance Magazine African American dance artists in KOOZA and has integrated new artists Award, a Pen and Brush Achievement New York in the 1950s. In addition to into additional Cirque du Soleil’s Award, the Washington Performing cofounding Dance Theatre of Harlem shows at its headquarters in Montreal. Arts Society’s 2008-2009 Pola with Arthur Mitchell in 1969, he also She has also worked with Walt Disney Nirenska Lifetime Achievement Award was a ballet master, choreographer Theatricals as a teaching artist. Her and the 2009 Martha Hill Fund Mid- and author. Born in 1920, Mr. Shook choreography has been presented at Career Award. was a native of Renton, Washington. Seattle International Dance Festival, Encouraged to study ballet, at Men in Dance, Arts Umbrella (Canada), ARTHUR MITCHELL (Co-Founder) age 13 he was a protégé of Nellie and ARC Dance Company. Chong has Arthur Mitchell was known around Cornish and received a scholarship taught for professional companies, the world for creating and sustaining to the Cornish School of Allied Arts colleges, private schools, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the in Seattle. While his performance coached elite athletes and dancers internationally acclaimed ballet career was brief, he appeared on in preparation for competitions. She company he co- Broadway and also danced with the is a Certified Teacher with American founded with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and New Ballet Theater® in Primary through Karel Shook in York City Ballet. Mr. Shook’s brief Level 5 of the ABT® National Training 1969. Following a performance career led to teaching Curriculum. She is honored to join brilliant career as a and choreographing, mainly in Europe the Dance Theater of Harlem’s artistic principal artist with but also in New York. In the early 50s team. the New York City he opened Studio Arts, one of the Ballet, Mr. Mitchell few dance studios in the city where dedicated his life to African Americans could study ballet. changing perceptions and advancing Among his students were Carmen the art form of ballet through the de Lavallade, Pearl Primus, Geoffrey first permanently established African Holder, Louis Johnson, Alvin Ailey, and American and racially diverse ballet Arthur Mitchell, who first came to him company. at age 17. Mr. Shook left New York in Born in New York City in 1934, Mr. 1959 to become the ballet master of

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ROBERT GARLAND (Resident Presenters. She has served as a Hub Administrative Staff Choreographer) Site for the New England Foundation Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director “Robert Garland was a member of the for the Arts’ National Dance Project Anna Glass, Executive Director Dance Theatre of Harlem Company grant program. After receiving her Juris Jordan Oldham, Assistant to the achieving the rank of principal Doctor from the University of Dayton Executive Director dancer. After School of Law, Anna became the Sharon Duncan, Director, Individual creating a work for Artist Representative for the Dayton Giving the DTH School Contemporary Dance Company, Trudi Cohen, Development Assistant Ensemble, Arthur a company she performed with Sallie Sanders, Grant Writer Mitchell invited for three years (DCDC2). She is a Keyana K. Patterson, Marketing Robert Garland to licensed attorney in the State of Manager create a work for New York and lives in Harlem with her Neveah Rudder, Marketing Assistant The Dance Theatre husband and daughter. Christopher Charles McDaniel, Social of Harlem Company Media Coordinator and appointed him the organization’s Nicole Frisina, Controller, Your Part-Time first Resident Choreographer. He Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. Controller is also Director of the Professional Everett Center for the Performing Arts Mark Rowan, Staff Accountant Training Program of the DTH school, 466 West 152nd Street Nejeree Wallace, Accountant and the organization’s webmaster. New York, NY 10031-1814 Hero Doucas, Human Resources In addition to choreographing (212) 690-2800, (212) 690-8736 fax Manager several ballets for DTH, Mr. Garland www.dancetheatreofharlem.org Kenneth Thomas, Building Operations has also created works for New York Manager City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, LaShawn Wallace, Matthew Akins, Oakland Ballet and many others. His Board of Directors Kanika Brown, Prema Cruz, Luidgine commercial work has included Ackneil M. Muldrow, III | Chairman Faustin, Liz McAllister, Receptionists music videos, commercials and Leslie Wims Morris | Vice Chairman Alberto Recinos, Lillian Recinos, Marco short films, including the children’s Zandra Perry Ogbomo | Treasurer Recinos, Altagraciá Tejada, Jennifer television show Sesame Street, a Don M. Tellock, Esq. | Secretary Tejada, Maintenance Nike commercial featuring New York Nancy Aronson Yankee Derek Jeter, the NAACP Image Kendrick F Ashton Jr. Company Staff Awards, a short film for designer Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III Ballet Master: Marie Chong Donna Karan, and the “Charmin Cha- Kevin M. Cofsky Resident Choreographer: Robert Cha” for Proctor and Gamble. ​Mr. Richard E. Constable III Garland Garland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Isabel Kallman Interim General & Company Manager: Degree from the Juilliard School in Martino Moore Melinda Bloom New York City. China White Production Stage Manager: Heather Anna Glass (Executive Director) Olcott Anna has been involved in the National Advisory Board Lighting Supervisor: William E. Cotton performing arts as both an artist and Dr. Ruby H. Herd Wardrobe Supervisor: Katy Freeman arts administrator for over twenty Leontyne Price Booking Manager: Edward Schoelwer years. She produced Carmen de Alex Radin Physical Therapists: Alison Deleget Lavallade’s solo show, As I Remember Morleen Rouse & Joshua Honrado, Harkness Center It, an intimate portrait of this Jacquelyn Rush for Dance Injuries legendary artist. Anna previously Kerry E. Schaeffner served as the Managing Director of Edward I. Tishelman, Esq. Dance Theatre of Harlem School & 651 ARTS, a presenting/producing Cicely Tyson Community Programs arts organization dedicated Ben Vereen Director: Robert Garland to celebrating contemporary Lena Horne * Associate Director Lower/Upper performing arts of the African Jessye Norman* School: Augustus van Heerden Diaspora. While at 651 ARTS, she Judith Peabody* Associate Director, Tendu Program: co-produced numerous projects, *IN MEMORIAM Rachel Sekyi including the highly regarded Student Affairs Officer: Karen Farnum- national tour of FLY: Five First Ladies Williams of Dance. Arts Education and Outreach Manager: Anna has served as a consultant Sophia Morris-Pittman providing strategic planning and Community Program fundraising guidance to various Associate: Theara Ward non-profit arts organizations, including Urban Bush Women and the Weeksville Heritage Center. She currently serves on the board of the Association of Performing Arts

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Welcome letter from UMS President Matthew VanBesien elcome to the Detroit Opera House! WAs president of the University Musical A National Medal of Arts recipient (2014), Society of the University of Michigan UMS contributes to a vibrant cultural (UMS), I am thrilled to welcome you to community by connecting audiences this performance at what is truly one of with performing artists from around the most beautiful and beloved opera and the world in uncommon and creative dance houses in the Midwest. experiences. By juxtaposing innovative/ For five consecutive years, UMS has creative work with traditional/interpretive partnered with our friends at MOT to bring work, UMS frames an exploration of wonderful dance to our region, and I can performance forms within a diverse, say with great certainty and enthusiasm international cultural lens. One of the that the field of dance is alive and well in Southeast Michigan. oldest performing arts presenters in This year marks our third collaboration to bring ABT to Detroit, the country, UMS is committed to bold following The Sleeping Beauty in 2016 and Romeo and Juliet artistic leadership, engaged learning in 2018. During the other two years, our organizations worked through the arts, and access and together to bring Mark Morris Dance Group’s Layla and Majnun inclusiveness. and the Martha Graham Dance Company to the Power Center in Also known as the University Musical Ann Arbor. Over the years our partnership has grown stronger, Society, UMS is an independent non- and we have many more exciting things in store for dance lovers in profit organization affiliated with the Michigan. University of Michigan, presenting Our collaboration has meant an expanded audience for all of over 70 music, theater, and dance these productions, not to mention the related educational and performances by professional touring community activities that have reached hundreds of students and artists each season, along with over 100 free educational activities for K-12 young people throughout the state. And by working together, we students, teachers, university students, have also been able to ensure that everyone is welcome; as part and the community, with sustained of a Community Day initiative, we set aside 1,000 free or low- efforts to engage and celebrate regional cost tickets this year for underserved communities to attend the communities of shared heritage. Since Saturday matinee performance of Swan Lake. its founding in 1879, strong leadership, UMS thanks all of the wonderful supporters across Southeast coupled with outstanding venues, Michigan who have made these performances possible, and authentic artistic and community would like to especially recognize the Community Foundation collaborations, dynamic education for Southeast Michigan, which provided a generous three-year programs, and an enduring commitment grant to make these programs happen; longtime UMS supporters to excellence, has placed UMS in a Maxine and Stuart Frankel, who are also sponsoring the Detroit league of internationally-recognized Opera House spring dance season; the University of Michigan performing arts presenters. Since 1990, Credit Union for their enthusiastic support as lead production the organization has co-commissioned sponsor for this year’s ABT appearance; and Saint Joseph Mercy and supported the production of nearly Health System, which is sponsoring the Friday night performance. 80 new or reimagined works. Matthew UMS is excited about and proud of our relationship with VanBesien became the organization’s Detroit, which this season also includes a presentation of Milka seventh president in July 2017. Djordevich’s ANTHEM at the Jam Handy in March. And we would also like to welcome you to attend our dance presentations in Ann Arbor. We’ll be announcing our 2020/21 season in early April, and there will be many exciting companies waiting for enthusiastic audiences like you, both here in Detroit and in Ann Arbor. Thank you for continuing to support dance in Southeast Michigan.

Warm regards,

Matthew VanBesien, President UMS is recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts from President Obama

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 19 Swan Lake American Ballet Theatre CO-PRESENTED BY Kevin McKenzie Kara Medoff Barnett Artistic Director Executive Director Alexei Ratmansky Artist in Residence STELLA ABRERA · ISABELLA BOYLSTON · MISTY COPELAND HERMAN CORNEJO · SARAH LANE · GILLIAN MURPHY HEE SEO · CHRISTINE SHEVCHENKO · CORY STEARNS DEVON TEUSCHER · JAMES WHITESIDE JOO WON AHN · ARAN BELL · SKYLAR BRANDT · ZHONG-JING FANG THOMAS FORSTER · JOSEPH GORAK · ALEXANDRE HAMMOUDI · BLAINE HOVEN CATHERINE HURLIN · LUCIANA PARIS · CALVIN ROYAL III · ARRON SCOTT CASSANDRA TRENARY · KATHERINE WILLIAMS · ROMAN ZHURBIN Alexei Agoudine · Sierra Armstrong · Alexandra Basmagy · Lauren Bonfiglio · Kathryn Boren · Jacob Clerico · Zimmi Coker Luigi Crispino · Jarod Curley · Claire Davison · Brittany DeGrofft · Michael de la Nuez · Léa Fleytoux · Scout Forsythe Patrick Frenette · April Giangeruso · Carlos Gonzalez · Breanne Granlund · Kiely Groenewegen · Sung Woo Han · Emily Hayes Simon Hoke · Connor Holloway · Andrii Ishchuk · Anabel Katsnelson · Jonathan Klein · Erica Lall · Courtney Lavine Virginia Lensi · Fangqi Li · Carolyn Lippert · Isadora Loyola · Xuelan Lu · Duncan Lyle · Tyler Maloney · Abbey Marrison Hannah Marshall · Betsy McBride* · Cameron McCune · João Menegussi · Gary Pogossian · Lauren Post · Wanyue Qiao Luis Ribagorda · Rachel Richardson · Javier Rivet · Jose Sebastian · Gabe Stone Shayer · Courtney Shealy · Kento Sumitani Eric Tamm · Ingrid Thoms · Nathan Vendt · Marshall Whiteley · Stephanie Williams · Remy Young · Jin Zhang Apprentices Leah Baylin · Kanon Kimura · Melvin Lawovi · Joseph Markey · Duncan McIlwaine · Chloe Misseldine

Clinton Luckett Assistant Artistic Director Ormsby Wilkins Music Director Charles Barker David LaMarche Principal Conductor Conductor Principal Ballet Mistress Susan Jones Ballet Masters Irina Kolpakova · Carlos Lopez · Nancy Raffa · Keith Roberts *2020 Jennifer Alexander Dancer

Lead Production Sponsor:

2020 MOT Spring Dance Season Sponsor: Funded in part by:

2019-20 Dance Season made possible through the generosity of Joanne and Richard Brodie and the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation

Swan Lake is additionally supported by

Joanne Danto and Dr. Arnold Weingarden Jeremy Zeltzer and Kevin Dennis Donald and Antoinette Morelock

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marries her can she find release; only sorcerer is vanquished and his power Swan Lake then can the spell be broken. But if he destroyed. should forswear her, she must remain Choreography by KEVIN MCKENZIE a swan forever. Apotheosis after MARIUS PETIPA and LEV The lovers are united in life after IVANOV At that moment, von Rothbart death. Music by PETER ILYITCH appears. The prince, in his passion, TCHAIKOVSKY reaches for his crossbow, but Odette Sets and costumes by ZACK BROWN immediately protects the sorcerer Production History with her body, for she knows that if he Lighting by DUANE SCHULER is killed before the spell is broken, she The first production of Swan Lake, too will die. The sorcerer disappears, with choreography by Julius (Wentzel) and Odette slips away into the forest. Reisinger, received its World Premiere SYNOPSIS Siegfried realizes his fate is now by the Russian Imperial Ballet at the entwined with hers. Dawn approaches, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on March Prologue and Odette is compelled by the spell 4, 1877, danced by Pelagias (Paulina) Long before our story begins, Odette, to return to her guise as a swan. Karpakova as Odette-Odile and a beautiful princess, falls under Siegfried is left awestruck. Stanislav Gillert as Prince Siegfried. the spell of von Rothbart, a wicked Swan Lake as we know it, with the sorcerer. Intermission Petipa/Ivanov choreography, was given its first full-length production ACT I: The prince’s birthday party ACT III: The great hall at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. It is Prince Siegfried’s coming of age, Heralds and trumpets announce Petersburg on January 27, 1895, with and he is celebrating with friends. The the start of the ball. Eligible young Pierina Legnani as Odette-Odile and Queen Mother arrives to give him his princesses from all over the world Pavel Gerdt as Prince Siegfried. present—a crossbow—and reminds him arrive to be introduced to Prince American Ballet Theatre (then that as he is to become king, he must Siegfried so that he may choose a Ballet Theatre) first performed Act choose a bride at the ball the next bride. They present their national II of Swan Lake, with choreography evening. She leaves, bidding him to dances for the entertainment of the by Anton Dolin after Lev Ivanov and enjoy himself but reminding him again prince and the Queen Mother, who Marius Petipa, at the Center Theatre to think about his royal obligation to reminds Siegfried that he must choose in New York City on January 16, 1940, be wed. Siegfried, realizing that his one for his wife. As Siegfried struggles with Patricia Bowman as Odette carefree days are at an end, leaves the with his responsibility to marry, his and Mr. Dolin as Prince Siegfried. Mr. party at the height of the festivities to thoughts remain with Odette, and he Dolin also choreographed the grand seek the solace of the woods. Benno, cannot choose. pas de deux from Act III as the “Black his friend, finds him and suggests that Swan Pas de Deux,” which premiered they go hunting. Siegfried declines, Trumpets announce an uninvited at the Metropolitan Opera House preferring to be alone. guest. It is von Rothbart, with his on October 23, 1944, with Tamara daughter, Odile. She seduces Siegfried Toumanova as Odile and Mr. Dolin as ACT II: Some hours later, by the lake as von Rothbart holds the court in Prince Siegfried. Prince Siegfried enters a moonlit thrall. When Siegfried announces his Act II of David Blair’s staging for clearing in the forest and sees a intention to marry Odile, von Rothbart ABT was first given at the New York magnificent swan in flight. He carefully asks him to swear fidelity. Siegfried State Theater at Lincoln Center on takes aim, but to his astonishment, the realizes too late that he has been the January 18, 1966, with Lupe Serrano bird transforms into a breathtakingly victim of a terrible plot. The scene and Royes Fernandez. The first beautiful girl, and he withdraws into darkens. Odette is seen at the castle performance of the complete ballet the trees to observe her. Unable to door, weeping. Grief-stricken, Siegfried staged by David Blair was given by restrain his curiosity, he steps out, only rushes to the lakeside. ABT at the Civic Opera House in to startle and frighten her. He assures Chicago on February 16, 1967, with her that he will do her no harm and ACT IV: The lakeside Nadia Nerina and Royes Fernandez. asks her to explain the marvel he has A great storm rages. Siegfried, It received its first New York just seen. Impressed by his gentleness, bursting into the glade, discovers performance at the New York State Odette tells him the story of her plight: Odette and begs her forgiveness. Theater on May 9, 1967, with Toni She is a princess of high birth who fell Odette tells him that she must kill Lander and Bruce Marks. A re-staged under the spell of an evil sorcerer, and herself, or she will forever be a swan. production of Swan Lake received its now her fate is to be a swan. Only in Siegfried, knowing that his destiny is ABT premiere at the Kennedy Center the hours of darkness may she assume forever changed, declares he will die for the Performing Arts in Washington, her human guise. Indeed, this very with her, thus breaking von Rothbart’s D.C. on March 27, 1981, with Martine lake is filled with her mother’s tears. power over Odette. As dawn van Hamel and Kevin McKenzie. Odette tells him she is condemned approaches, von Rothbart appears. A new production of Swan Lake, for eternity, and only if a virgin youth The lovers answer his threat by with additional choreography by swears eternal fidelity to her and throwing themselves into the lake. The Mikhail Baryshnikov after Lev Ivanov

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 21 SWAN LAKE and Marius Petipa, was given its American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancers Appearing This Season world premiere on December 2, 1988, at the Orange County Isabella Boylston Performing Arts Center in Costa Cory Stearns Sun Valley, Idaho Mattituck, New York Mesa, California, danced by Susan Joined ABT 2006 Joined ABT 2005 Jaffe and Andris Liepa. This Principal since 2014 Principal since 2011 production received its New York Sponsored by Sponsored by Theo Ueng, Linda Allard, The Mathey Family premiere on May 8, 1989, at the Andrea and Ken Brodlieb Metropolitan Opera House, danced again by Ms. Jaffe and Ross Stretton. Swan Lake was revived, with Gillian Murphy Devon Teuscher staging by Kevin McKenzie and Florence, South Carolina South Burlington, Vermont Joined ABT 2007 lighting by Thomas Skelton, on May Joined ABT 1996 Principal since 2002 Principal since 2017 21, 1993, at the Metropolitan Opera Sponsored by Sponsored by House, danced by Susan Jaffe and Mary Jo and Ted Shen Donna Calamari Jeremy Collins. The World Premiere of ABT’s current production was given on Hee Seo James Whiteside March 24, 2000, at the Kennedy Seoul, South Korea Fairfield, Connecticut Center for the Performing Arts in Joined ABT 2005 Joined ABT 2012 Principal since 2013 Washington, D.C., danced by Julie Principal since 2012 Sponsored by Sponsored by Kent and Angel Corella. The New Vicki and Lloyd Goldman Sharon Patrick York premiere of this production was given on May 19, 2000, at the Metropolitan Opera House, danced Christine Shevchenko Odessa, Ukraine by Susan Jaffe and Jose Manuel Joined ABT 2007 Carreño. Principal since 2017 Sponsored by This production has been generously Theresa Khawly underwritten by R. Chemers Neustein.

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VIOLIN I Barbara Zmich - McClellan+ OBOE TRUMPET Eliot Heaton James Greer Nermis Mieses Charles Saenz Concertmaster+ Julianne Zinn Principal + Gordon Simmons+ Laura Roelofs Sally Hefflefinger-Pituch+ Assistant Concertmaster+ CELLO TROMBONE Kevin Fllewych+ Jonathan Tortolano CLARINET Brittany Lasch Molly Hughes+ Principal+ Brian Bowman Principal + Bryan Johnston+ Yuliya Kim+ Principal + Christopher Hernacki Velda Kelly+ Andrea Yun+ J. William King+ Jenny Wan+ David Huckaby TUBA Andrew Wu+ David Peshlakai BASSOON Philip Sinder David Ormai Irina Tikhonova Francisco Delgado Mallory Tabb Principal + TIMPANI BASS Gregory Quick+ Elliot Beck VIOLIN II Derek Weller Acting Principal Victoria Haltom Principal + HORN Principal+ Clark Suttle+ Andrew Pelletier PERCUSSION Emily Barkakati+ Greg Sheldon Principal + John Dorsey Anna Bittar-Weller+ Aaron Keaster Carrie Banfield-Taplin+ Principal + Henrik Karapetyan+ David Denniston David Taylor Beth Kirton+ HARP Tamara Kosinski Keith Claeys Daniel Stachyra+ Patricia Terry-Ross Susan Mutter Yuri Popowycz Principal+ + Michigan Opera Theatre Core Koko Watanabe CORNET Orchestra FLUTE David Ammer VIOLA Seo Hee Choi Principal + Detroit Federation of Musicians John Madison Principal + Derek Lockhart Local #5 American Federation Principal + Laura Larson of Musicians Jacqueline Hanson+ Helen Near Scott Stefanko+

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Stella Abrera – Mary Jo and Ted Shen Luigi Crispino – Damien Calderini and Aurelie Abbey Marrison – Yubeteh and Dennis Misty Copeland – Valentino D. Carlotti Flejo-Calderini Fitzgerald Herman Cornejo – Sheila Grant Claire Davison – Kathleen and Matthew Hannah Marshall – The Junior Council of ABT David Hallberg – Avery and Andrew F. Barth Baldwin Cameron McCune – Brian Vincent in honor of Sarah Lane – Donna and Richard Esteves Brittany DeGrofft – Jay Grossman and Phoebe Brantley Daniil Simkin – Sharon Patrick Maxwell Murphy Lauren Post – Amy Astley/AD Joo Won Ahn – Mr. and Mrs. William H. Told, Léa Fleytoux – Denise Littlefield Sobel Wanyue Qiao – Yalan Wang Jr. Scout Forsythe – Mr. and Mrs. George Reeves Rachel Richardson – Marianne Goodman, Aran Bell – Alan and Laraine Fischer, Theo Patrick Frenette –Lisa R. Rose, M.D., Ueng Susan Winokur and Paul Leach The Mathey Family Skylar Brandt – Dr. Joan Taub Ades April Giangeruso – Brian and Darlene Heidtke Javier Rivet – Stuart Gordon and Wayne Zhong-Jing Fang – Jolene Rapino Carlos Gonzalez – Linda and Edward Morse Daniel Thomas Forster – Donna Calamari, Breanne Granlund – Daniel Healy Jose Sebastian – Karen C. Phillips, Lisa Towbin ABT’s Golden Circle Council Kiely Groenewegen – Sarah Arison Gabe Stone Shayer – Irene Fuchsberg Minkoff Joseph Gorak – Susan Winokur and Paul Sung Woo Han – Marla Behrman Courtney Shealy – Linda and Martin Fell Leach Emily Hayes – James Brown and Helen Kento Sumitani – Marianne Goodman, M.D. Blaine Hoven – Jay B. Rosenberg, Altman Brown Ingrid Thoms – Nicole Boutmy de Katzmann ABT’s Golden Circle Council Simon Hoke – Mrs. Linda B. Strumpf and R. Christopher Whalen Catherine Hurlin – Donna Calamari, Connor Holloway – Susan and Steven Nathan Vendt – The Junior Council of ABT The Georgia Hiden Charitable Foundation Jacobson† Marshall Whiteley – Mary Lynn Bergman- Luciana Paris – Jill S. Slater Andrii Ishchuk – J. Barclay Collins II and Rallis and John Rallis Calvin Royal III – Harlan M. Blake, Kristina Durr Stephanie Williams – Emily and James Levin Sharon Patrick Anabel Katsnelson – Kathleen Condon Remy Young – Mark Casey and Carrie Gaiser Arron Scott – Avery and Andrew F. Barth, in Jonathan Klein – Mr. and Mrs. Austin T. Casey; Margaret King Moore Dancer Award memory of Rudolph Barth; Joan T. Mischo Fragomen Jin Zhang – Yalan Wang Cassandra Trenary – Amy and Gary Churgin Erica Lall – Susan Fales-Hill Leah Baylin – Samantha Brand Katherine Williams – Avery and Andrew F. Courtney Lavine – Arianna and Samantha Melvin Lawovi – The John Palatinus Trust Barth, Netter Joseph Markey – Patty Morton in memory of Laima Barth Virginia Lensi – Iain and Mariko Drayton Duncan McIlwaine – The John Palatinus Trust Roman Zhurbin – Mark Casey and Fangqi Li – Irene Shen Chloe Misseldine – Suzy Mendik, Carrie Gaiser Casey Carolyn Lippert – Mr. and Mrs. Austin T. Mary Jo and Ted Shen Sierra Armstrong – Fabienne and Doug Fragomen Silverman Isadora Loyola – Barbara Scher † In Memoriam Lauren Bonfiglio – Mr. Roger Fine and Dr. Xuelan Lu – Angela Chao Rebecca Fine Duncan Lyle – Daniel Healy Zimmi Coker – Nancy Havens-Hasty Tyler Maloney – Steven Backes

24 BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 www.MichiganOpera.org Michigan Opera Theatre The Swan Lake Mystery: An Amalgam of Different Fairytales The exact authors of Swan Lake are unknown — but the ballet shows the influence of a variety of different fairytales.

BY RACHEL BEAUMONT, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

o you know who wrote There’s no evidence to suggest the original story for Swan whether one version in particular DLake, most famous of inspired the 1877 libretto, but the classical ballets? Well, neither one most commonly proposed does anybody else. The programs is German writer Johann Karl for the original performances in August Musäus’s story Der 1877 gave no clue as to either geraubte Schleier (The Stolen author or sources – which, Veil) – one of the many versions in frustrating as it might be, has left which the swan maiden’s power is the field open for those who like held by a veil, which is stolen from to speculate. It’s also contributed her by an amorous mortal. to the ballet’s fluidity; probably Another potentially influential more than any other work in myth is that of the water the art form, Swan Lake has nymph Undine or Melusine. inspired a multitude of different She, like the swan maiden, readings, from Matthew Bourne’s appears in countless stories, male-swan version to Darren many of which share elements Aronofsky’s film Black Swan. with Swan Lake – a love triangle, The easiest question to where Undine’s mortal lover is answer is over the identity distracted by another; and the of those uncredited authors watery end, as the water nymph at the 1877 premiere – returns to her lover to give almost certainly Bolshoi the kiss of death. Undine had Theatre artistic manager Vladimir been given a new lease of life Petrovic Begichev and dancer in Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Vasily Fedorovic Geltser, likely 1811 novella (inspired by writings with input from composer Pyotr of Goethe and Paracelsus,

Il’yich Tchaikovsky. The original SCHIAVONE GENE PHOTO: among others) – iterations story requires quite a bit of Isabella Boylston in Swan Lake that followed included Hans exposition that is not very ballet- Christian Andersen’s The friendly, and has been cited as one Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest (Pyotr Little Mermaid and Aleksandr of the reasons that the ballet failed Il’yich having died in 1893). This Pushkin’s 1830s unfinished verse to take flight in its original staging. pared-down story has a crucial drama Rusalka (and even Gilbert and In this version, Odette is hiding from difference from the original in its Sullivan’s 1882 fairytale-cum-political her wicked stepmother with her sympathetic depiction of Siegfried. satire Iolanthe). Tchaikovsky had been grandfather, a sorcerer. He allows He’s now tricked into his treachery working on an Undine opera at the her to roam at night disguised as a by an Odette-like apparition sent by time he wrote Swan Lake and recycled swan, and has given her a protective Von Rothbart, the evil sorcerer who some of its music in the ballet. tiara. She falls in love with Siegfried; has Odette cursed as a swan. There’s As it stands, there’s no known he betrays her at a ball; she refuses the same denouement of death by precursor that exactly matches the to forgive him and Siegfried angrily lake, as Odette and Siegfried fling story for Swan Lake. Perhaps we snatches the charmed crown off her themselves into its waters to escape should consider it the amalgam of a head. The stepmother seizes her Von Rothbart’s power. number of different European and chance and sends a wave that sweeps All this is very well – but where did Russian folktales, collaboratively the lovers to their deaths. that accursed swan maiden come concocted by a small group at the The story was simplified for the from? The legend of the shapeshifting Bolshoi. Whatever their sources, 1895 production that has gone on swan maiden is a long-standing together they produced one of the to become the primary source for folkloric trope that has countless most enduring stories in ballet history. all classical productions of the ballet manifestations. She is most commonly This article is shared courtesy of the today. Begichev and Gelster worked pursued by a mortal man, whose Royal Opera House together to hone the ballet’s narrative, relationship with the swan maiden this time with contributions from represents a weakening of her power.

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Jacqueline Hanson, Viola iolist Jacqueline Hanson fell in love with opera as a child, when her violin Vteacher gave her a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. When she joined the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra at the beginning of its 2018- 19 season, she was thrilled her first opera orchestra job was to perform the work that started it all. “Eugene Onegin was my first opera, and I fell in love with the lush symphonic score and the gorgeous singing,” she said. “It felt very special to return to the first opera I ever loved.” Jacqueline started her musical training on the violin at 10 years old but switched to viola in her sophomore year of college. “I switched to viola, because I played it in a chamber music group and felt I had found my voice,” she said. “I love the gorgeous array of colors the instrument is able to produce and the unique role it has been given by many composers.” Jacqueline was raised in Kalamazoo before earning her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and then her Master of Music degree the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In addition to MOT, she performs with orchestras throughout the region, including the symphonies in Detroit, Toledo, Flint and Ann Arbor, where she currently resides. She also performs chamber music with her orchestra colleagues around Metro Detroit. Outside of performing, Jacqueline teaches both violin and viola from her home. She and her partner Josh also enjoy spending time in Detroit, visiting Eastern Market and trying new restaurants, as well as spending time with their Chihuahua, Remy.

Henrik Karapetyan, Violin ne might not expect a classical musician to be able to assemble and Odisassemble an AK-47 in under a minute. But Armenian-born violinist Henrik Karapetyan said this is one difference between the culture he was born into and the one he lives in now. “It was part of our high school education in a country that only recently had to fight for its existence,” he said. “In the U.S., I had to learn how to not run late for rehearsals. It was still customary for a 3 p.m. rehearsal in Armenia to start at 3:15 and nobody was too tight about it.” Henrik began playing the violin at age 6. He moved to the United States in 2002, eventually earning his Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. He began performing with the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in 2004. He said his favorite memory performing with MOT was when Denyce Graves was singing “Deep River” at David DiChiera’s Grand Salute concert in 2017. “I had to stop playing for a few seconds, my whole body was in shock, all in goosebumps, and my muscles just didn’t want to obey,” he said. “I was completely transfixed! It was one of the two or three best musical experiences in my life.” Outside of MOT, Henrik plays in two to three local bands with music encompassing a variety of styles including classical, folk, jazz, Balkan, Klezmer, Celtic, Gypsy jazz and original compositions. In addition to music, he enjoys writing, drawing, painting, soccer, European films and good coffee.

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Master Classes Offer Learning Opportunities Learn from professional dancers when they come to Detroit to perform on the Opera House stage! This is a great opportunity for intermediate to advanced level dancers looking to learn from the professionals. Classes include Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Dance Theatre of Harlem and American Ballet Theatre. Class styles and age restrictions vary from company to company. All classes are open to the public and free with a corresponding ticket stub or $25 without a ticket stub and take place in the Margo V. Cohen Center for Dance in the Ford Center for Learning at the Detroit Opera House. Pre-registration is required because of space limitations. For information and to register, please go to www.michiganopera.org/learning/dance-education/.

Enjoy Dance Film, Refreshments, and Discussion! Dance lovers from all over Detroit come together for dance films, food, drink, and discussion on Tuesday evenings. The Dance Film Series continues for its 14th season this winter and includes performances by Alessandra Ferri, The Royal Ballet, Broadway and more. All dance films take place at the Detroit Opera House in the Ford Center for Learning in the Chrysler Black Box Theatre. A $10 donation is payable at the door and includes refreshments. No reservations are required. For more information call 313-237-3251 or go to www.michiganopera.org/learning/dance-film-series/.

AUDITIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES The Detroit Opera House is a stop for many major dance companies and programs on their nationwide audition tours. Large-scale productions are also often in need for a small cast of extras for walk-on roles. Dates and information can be found at www.michiganopera.org/working-with-us/dance-auditions/.

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 27 Michigan Opera Theatre Donor Honor Roll Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous donors for their cumulative life-time giving. Their support has played a key role in the establishment of Michigan Opera Theatre since its founding in 1971 along with the building of the Detroit Opera House. Their leadership has and continues to play an integral part in the company’s viability, underwriting quality opera and dance performances, alongside award-winning community and educational programs.

$10,000,000 and above Ford Motor Company Fund $7,500,000 and above $5,000,000 and above General Motors Foundation Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs The Kresge Foundation William Davidson Foundation

$2,000,000 and above Mr.† & Mrs. Douglas Allison Mr. & Mrs. Herman Frankel The Skillman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Barthel John S. & James L. Knight Foundation The State of Michigan Community Foundation for Southeast Lear Corporation Karen & R. Jamison Williams Michigan McGregor Fund Marvin, Betty and Joanne Danto Dance Endowment & Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation

$1,000,000 and above Mr. & Mrs. Robert Allesee Mrs. Barbara Frankel Masco Corporation Mr.† & Mrs. Eugene Applebaum & Mr. Ronald Michalak Matilda R. Wilson Fund † AT&T Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Frankel Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Bank of America Hudson-Webber Foundation Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John A. Boll Sr. JPMorgan Chase & Co. National Endowment of the Arts DTE Energy Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karmanos Dr. & Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mrs. Margo Cohen Feinberg & Mr. Mrs. Linda Dresner Levy The Andrew W. Mellon Robert Feinberg & Mr. Edward Levy, Jr. Foundation Compuware Corporation Mandell L. & Madeleine H. Berman Foundation Contributors to Michigan Opera Theatre Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous corporate, foundation, government, and individual donors whose annual cumulative contributions were made between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. Their generosity is vital to the company’s financial stability, which is necessary to sustain MOT’s position as a valued cultural resource.

FOUNDATION, CORPORATE, $50,000 - $99,999 $10,000 - $24,999 Henry E. and Consuelo Wenger & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT J. Addison Bartush and Marion M. AVL Michigan Holdings Corporation Foundation Bartush Family Foundation (Don Manvel) The Karen & Drew Peslar Foundation $500,000+ J. Ernest & Almena Gray Wilde Fund DTE Energy Foundation MGM Grand Detroit The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Kresge Foundation Fifth Generation, Inc. Michigan Humanities Council Ford Motor Company Fund Marvin and Betty Danto Family Ida and Conrad H. Smith Endowment Ralph L. and Winifred E. Polk William Davidson Foundation Foundation for MOT Foundation Penske Corporation Kyyba Kidz Foundation The Samuel L. Westerman $250,000+ The State of Michigan Making Waves USA, LLC Foundation Community Foundation for Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC The Mary Thompson Foundation Southeast Michigan Worthington Family Foundation Michigan Council for Arts and $1,000 - $4,999 John S. and James L. Knight Cultural Affairs 4th Wall Theatre Company, LLC Foundation $25,000 - $49,999 Milner Hotels Foundation Albert Kahn Associates DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Moroun Family Foundation Antonio’s Cucina Italiana $100,000+ The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family OPERA America AOM, LLC The Dolores And Paul Lavins Foundation The Rattner and Katz Charitable Arts Midwest Foundation Hudson-Webber Foundation Foundation The Ashley General Motors Corporation Masco Corporation Center For Financial Planning Lear Corporation Matilda R. Wilson Fund $5,000 - $9,999 Comerica Incorporated Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher MGM Resorts Foundation Allegra Print & Imaging Dance Theatre of Harlem Foundation National Endowment of the Arts Duran Healthcare Advisory Detroit 300 Conservancy Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Flagstar Foundation Detroit Industrial School Detroit Rotary Foundation

28 BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 www.MichiganOpera.org † Deceased Michigan Opera Theatre FOUNDATION, CORPORATE, & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT continued…

Detroit Zoological Society Joyce Cohn Young Artist Fund Northern Trust Bank Techmode Edward C And Linda Dresner Levy Key Private Bank Pepsico Foundation Inc. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Foundation Lee & Maxine Peck Foundation Planterra UHY LLP Forte Belanger Matrix Human Services Real Integrated VDV Concessions, LLC Fox Run Retirement Community Morgan Stanley Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Wayne State Univ. Music Dept. Grosse Pointe War Memorial Moroch Partners LP Foundation Young Woman’s Home Association Huron Valley Council for the Arts Neogen Corporation Smith Family Foundation Your Cause, LLC James & Lynelle Holden Fund Nerds Xpress, LLC Somerset Collection Charitable Josephine Kleiner Foundation Network For Good Foundation

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT Françoise Colpron-Schwyn Brock & Katherine L. Plumb Ronald & Zvjezdana Martella & James Schwyn Prof. Sara A. Pozzi Ph. D Mr. Dexter C. Mason $100,000+ Ms. Julia Donovan Darlow & Hershel & Dorothy Sandberg Benjamin Meeker & The Estate of Robert C. & Hon. John C. O’Meara Mark & Lois Shaevsky Meredith Korneffel RoseAnn B. Comstock Shauna Ryder Diggs Susan Sills-Levey & Michael Levey Dr. Lisa Meils Mrs. Linda Dresner Levy Mr. Michael Einheuser Frank & Susan Sonye Van Momon & Pamela L. Berry & Mr. Edward Levy, Jr. Marianne Endicott Dr. Gregory Stephens E. & Dolores A. Mutchler Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karmanos Alex Erdeljan Ms. Danielle R. Stewart Dr. & Mrs. Peter Nickles Richard Sonenklar & Dr. Raina Ernstoff & Ronald Switzer & Jim McClure Barbara Nusbaum Gregory Haynes Mr. Sanford Hansell Joel & Shelley Tauber Juliette Okotie-Eboh, Ph.D. Lloyd Fell & Kathleen Lieder Thomas & Kae Terrell Richard & Debra Partrich Spencer & Myrna Partrich $50,000 - $99,999 Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher Norman Thorpe Daniel & Margaret Pehrson Richard & Mona Alonzo Carl & Mary Ann Fontana John & Barbara Tierney John & Terry Rakolta Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Dean & Aviva Friedman Dr. John Weber & Dr. Dana Zakalik David & Jacqueline Roessler Ethan & Gretchen Davidson Priscilla R. Greenberg PhD David & Bernadine Wu Audrey Rose Karen & R. Jamison Williams James & Nancy Grosfeld Mary Lou Zieve Mr. Robert Hage Anthony & Sabrina Rugiero Laurence & Barbara Schiff $20,000 - $49,999 John & Kristan Hale $2,500 - $2,999 Addison & Deborah Igleheart Kenn & Liz Allen Donald & Kim Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. John A. Boll Sr. Alan Schwartz Ms. Edith S. Briskin Kent & Amy Jidov Sarah Allison Marvin, Betty and Joanne Danto Dance Endowment & Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation Ellen Kahn Beverly Avadenka Ms. Rosalind B. Sell Robert Brown & Geraldine Arlene Shaler Ford-Brown Thomas & Deborah Krikorian Mark & Caprice Baun Ms. Debra Bernstein-Siegel Sheila Sloan James & Elizabeth Ciroli John & Arlene Lewis Paul & Lee Blizman Mrs. Phyllis F. Snow Hon. Avern Cohn & Ms. Lois Pincus Stephan & Marian Loginsky James LoPrete Joseph & Barbra Bloch Ms. Mary Anne Stella Kevin Dennis & Jeremy Zeltzer Stephen & Paulette Mancuso Richard & Gwen Bowlby Jeffrey Tranchida & Noel Baril Mrs. Elaine Fontana Mrs. L. William Moll Betty Bright Mr. James G. Vella Mrs. Barbara Frankel & Donald & Antoinette Morelock Thomas & Dorothy Carson Marilyn Victor Mr. Ronald Michalak † Ms. Anne Moroun Michael & Mary Chirco Inge A. Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Herman Frankel Allan & Joy Nachman Philanthropic Gloria Clark Bradley Wakefield & Michael & Barbara Kratchman Fund William & Kelly Connell Meghann Rutherford Alphonse Lucarelli Graham & Sally Orley Peter & Rochelle Cooper Stanley Waldon Susanne McMillan Charlotte & Charles Podowski Helen Daoud Ms. Margaret Winters Ali Moiin & William Kupsky Waltraud Prechter Jerry & Maureen D’Avanzo Joan Young & Thomas Schellenberg Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner Paul & Amy Ragheb Walter & Lillian Dean Roy & Maureen Roberts Irvin & Pamela Reid Carolyn Demps & Guy Simons $1,000 - $2,499 Ms. Patricia H. Rodzik Mrs. Carolyn L. Ross Mrs. Karen V. DiChiera Nina & Howard Abrams Ankur Rungta & Mayssoun Bydon Bernard & Donna Rubin Lisa DiChiera & John Kane Mr. James Anderson Ms. Merle H. Scheibner Dr. Mildred Ponder Stennis Debbie Dingell Ms. Deborah L. Anthony Dr. Harold M. Arrington Jesse & Yesenia Venegas Dorothy Tomei Ms. Mary J. Doerr Mrs. Chacona Baugh C. Thomas & Bernie Toppin Kenneth & Frances Eisenberg Cecilia Benner $10,000 - $19,999 Barbara Van Dusen Fern Espino & Tom Short Mr. Stanislaw Bialoglowski Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Ms. Anne Wilczak Robert & Margo Feinberg Maurice & Linda Binkow Stephen & Jana Brownell Ned & Joan Winkelman Oscar & Dede Feldman Herbert Danziger Adrienne & Robert Z. Feldstein Eugene & Roselyn Blanchard Richard & Joanne Brodie Enrico & Kathleen Digirolamo $3,000 - $4,999 Robert & Amy Folberg Mr. Charles D. Bullock Dilip & Sonal Dubey Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Barbara Garavaglia Edward & Judith Christian Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Richard & Susan Bingham Glendon M. Gardner & Douglas & Minka Cornelsen Paul & Mary Sue Ewing Ms. Nicole A. Boelstler Leslie Landau Harvey & Edith Covensky Richard & Aurora Goetz Bob & Rosemary Brasie Yousif & Mara Ghafari Dr. Devon Hoover Keith & Eileen L. Gifford Daniel & Susan Drucker Dr. Lynne Carter Mr. George Evans Donald Manvel Dr. Mary Carol Conroy Allan Gilmour & Eric Jirgens Ms. Mary C. Mazure Dr. Judie R. Goodman Mr. John Fleming Lawrence & Doris David Burke & Carol Fossee Mr. Cyril Moscow † Carolyn Gordon Dr. David DiChiera Ms. Sharlene F. Gage William & Wendy Powers Dr. & Mrs. Saul Forman Samuel & Toby Haberman Mrs. Alice B. Haidostian Thomas M. Gervasi Matthew & Mona Simoncini Harvey & Lois Freeman Eugene & Donna Hartwig Mr. Lawrence Glowczewski Joe Skoney & Luisa Di Lorenzo Ralph & Erica Gerson Gerhardt & Rebecca P. Hein Mr. William Greene William Smith Derek & Karen Hodgson Doreen Hermelin Robert & Ann Greenstone Mr. Richard D. Ventura Mr. William Hulsker Ms. Una C. Jackman Mr. Mark J. Harbeck Gary Wasserman & Charles Kashner Ann Katz Don Jensen & Leo Dovelle Myke & Tonya Hawkins Mrs. Stephanie Germack Kerzic Gary & Gwenn Johnson Fay & Allen Herman $5,000 - $9,999 Chak & Beth Lai Mr. George Johnson Paul & Nancy Hillegonds Mr. & Mrs. Robert Allesee Arthur & Nancy Liebler Ms. Jill Johnson Eleanor & Alan Israel Pernilla & Daniel Ammann Mr. & Mrs. Emanuel N. Maisel Maxwell & Marjorie Jospey Mrs. Esther Jaruga Thomas & Gretchen Anderson The Hon. Jack & Dr. Bettye Linda & Thomas Klein Richard & Involut Jessup Gene P. Bowen Arrington Martin Mark Kolins & Maria Abrahamsen David & Theresa Joswick Elizabeth Brooks Eugene & Lois Miller Robert & Julia Kelly Kevin Browett Paul Lavins Phillip & Dawn Minch Melvin Lester Ida King Wayne Brown & Brenda Kee Xavier & Maeva Mosquet Mado Lie Joyce Urba & David Kinsella Ilse Calcagno Mr. George & Mrs. Jo Elyn Nyman Mary Alice Lomason William & Jean Kroger Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. Jonathan Orser Ms. Denise Lutz Al & Susan LaCroix David Osborne & Suzanne Acton Ms. Florine Mark Mr. Lawrence Larson Ms. Susan Peslar

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 29 Meria Larson Colin Knapp & Frank Kong William & Jacqueline Lockwood IN TRIBUTE Congressman Andrew & Mary Levin Gregory Knas Mrs. Mary Loria Mr. Ron Lipson Express Employment Professionals Mr. John Lovegren & In memory of Gerard Beneteau Stephen Lord Troy & Rochester Hills Mr. Daniel Isenschmid Anita Krebs Tamara Luchini Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Levin John & Vivienne Lucksom Mr. Joe Luther Ms. Lynne M. Metty Bridget MacDonald In memory of Bill Brooks Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Robert & Terri Lutz Dr. James L. Moseley Ms. Margaret MacTavish Mr. Loreto A. Manzo Ms. Nicole New Steven & Jennifer Marlette In memory of Marvin Frenkel Ms. Janet Groening Marsh Walter & Elizabeth Newgeon Mr. Jeffrey D. Marraccini Ellsworth & Janet Levine, Ms. Christy George & Tatyana Matish George & Nancy Nicholson Mr. John McElroy C. Torgler, Lewis & Cindi Wagner Ms. Mary McGough Mrs. Rosalva Parada Patrick & Patricia McKeever Ms. Patricia A. McKanna Peter & Teresa Roddy Brian & Lisa Meer In memory of Nicholas Kondak Ms. Laurie Mickiewicz James Rodgers & Kathleen Mrs. Carmen R. Mejia-Sosa Mrs. Diane Binkowski, Mr. George Bruce Miller Brozowski-Rodgers Ms. Evelyn Micheletti Hirth, Mrs. Christine Mason, Mrs. Sylvia P. Whitmer Dr. Anne Missavage & Mr. Robert Ms. Charlotte Singewald Chuck & Alice Moss Borcherding Gabriel & Martha Stahl Brian & Toni Sanchez Murphy In memory of Eduardo Munoz Manuel & Nora Moroun Ms. Lois Norman Perou Peter Oleksiak $500 - $749 Mr. Ronald Northrup Mr. & Mrs. Nestor A. Kleer Ms. Linda Orlans James & Catherine Allen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Nuyen Anne Parsons & Donald Dietz Robert & Catherine Anthony Jennifer L. Pajak In memory of Eduardo and Katty Mark & Kyle Peterson Hon. Dennis W. Archer & Mr. D. Sean Panikkar Munoz Perou Peter & Marguerite Polidori Hon. Trudy Duncombe Archer Mr. Michael Parisi James & Cristina Sunstrum Mrs. Janet Pounds Angie & Rick Armstrong Charles & Mary Parkhill Fred & Erika Baer In memory of James Michael Ryan Rob & Linda Powers Nicole Patrick Ms. Shelzy Ryan Rip & Gail Rapson Emily Belcher Ms. Haryani Permana Dr. Monique Reeves Mr. Brian Benson Phil Phillips In memory of Maritza Sabbagh- Mr. Dennis C. Regan & William & Marcia Betz Richard Rattner & Linnea Lannon Kozora Miss Ellen M. Strand Ms. Kanta Bhambhani Ms. Paula Rausch Andrea Guttilla, Norman & Solange Jeanne Reichert Ms. Barbara A. Blanock Benjamin & Florence Rhodes Messelian, Ms. Lucille Sabbagh, Ms. Cheryl Reynolds Gerald & Marceline Bright Adam D. Rubin, M.D, Lakeshore Dr. & Mrs. Michael Wayne Brenda & Howard Rosenberg Dr. & Mrs. Ronald T. Burkman Professional Voice Center In memory of Hector & Catherine George & Aphrodite Roumell Mrs. Beverly H. Burns Charles & Adam Russman Glenn & Joan Carpenter Somerville William & Marjorie Sandy Professor Alvin & Mrs. Harriet Ms. Lee A. Somerville Mary Schlaff & Sanford Koltonow Tonino & Sarah Corsetti Saperstein Dr. Christina Shanti James & Christine Cortez Johanne & Claus Schaefer In memory of Deborah Weathers Ms. Cynthia Shaw Cristina DiChiera & Neal Walsh Drs. Franziska & Robert Schoenfeld Alaina & Aria Williams Terry Shea & Seigo Nakao Dr. Joshua Dilworth Diane & Morton Scholnick Ms. Bethany Shorb Mr. Leonard R. Dimsa Mr. David Schon In honor of Suzanne Acton Mr. Zon Shumway Donald & Anne Ditmars Marc & Naomi Shaberman Mr. George Evans Mr. Michael Smith & Ms. Margo Downes Herbert & Melody Shanbaum In honor of Joanne Danto and Mrs. Katie Williams Smith Eugene & Elaine Driker Mrs. Cynthia B. Shaw & Dr. Alan Eiser Arnie Weingarten Ms. Theresa Spear & Mr. Tom Kirvan Ms. Carole Slotkin Mr. Jeff Douma James Eng Patrick & Carol Sheehy Mr. Theodore J. St. Antoine Mr. Robert E. Epstein Donald & Joyce Sherman In honor of Douglass Diggs James & Cristina Sunstrum Mrs. Shirley M. Flanagan Ted & Mary Ann Simon Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Lorna Thomas, M.D. Ms. Sue Force Mr. & Mrs. Anthony R. Skwiers Michele & Scott Toenniges Daniel & Susan Fox Ms. Carole Slotkin In honor of Feodora Earls Mathew & Barbara Vanderkloot Daniel & Katharine Frohardt-Lane Mr. Carl R. Smith Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner Gerrit & Beate Vreeken Lawrence & Ann Garberding Wesley & Sheila Smith Lawrence & Irene Garcia In honor of Marvin Frenkel William Waak Ms. Janet Stevens Ms. Mary E. Sestok Robert & Liina M. Wallin William & Janet Goudie Gretchen Thams & James Bowman William & Martha Walsh Philip & Martha Gray Buzz Thomas & Daniel Vander Ley In honor of Priscilla and Kenneth & Marilyn Way Verna Green Alice & Paul Tomboulian John Kirlin Ms. Leslie Wise Anonymous Stuart & Barbara Trager Stephen & Jana Brownell Jose & Jocelyne Yanez Kristina K. Gregg Anne Marie Turnage Ellen Hill Zeringue & Giacinta Gualtieri Leo & Jennifer Wasageshik In honor of Dr. William Kupsky and Dr. Ali Moiin Anthony Zeringue Jamie Hall, MD Prof. Michael Wellman Gregory & Julia Hays David Kupsky Law Group LLC, Meredith Weston-Band & Mrs. Elizabeth S. Kupsky $750 - $999 Mr. Stephan Hodge Jeffery Band Joshua & Judith Lowitz Adler Beth Hoger & Lisa Swem Mrs. Jennifer R. Whip In honor of Donald Morelock Ali & Hanaan Alhimiri Anonymous Christopher & Susan Wilhelm Gerson & Beverly Geltner Robert & Elaine Appel Mario & Jane Iacobelli Ms. Kathryn Wilson Ms. Geraldine Atkinson Nezha Jioudi Mr. Curtis Wolfe In honor of Patricia Nieman Vernon & Hilary Blevins Geraldine & Jacqueline Keller Mrs. Cathy C. Wood Ms. Helen C. Bauer Frank & Jenny Brzenk Shelley & Eric Kerr Mr. David D. Woodard Ms. Joyce E. Delamarter Steve & Judith A. Kesler In honor of Ruth Rattner Dr. Ruth A. Worthington Lila Silverman Mr. Terry Dewey Mr. Daniel W. Ketelaar Thomas & Cynthia Yates Howard & Nedra Downing Mr. & Mrs. Gerd H Keuffel Mr. Dominick Zaccone Ms. Carole Hardy Harvey & Aileen Kleiman Dr. Susan E. Harold M.D. Justin & Joanne Klimko Michael & Margaret Keefe Drs. Richard & Valmy Kulbersh Charles H. Keys & Ms. Laura Lamberti Mrs. Mary L. Elwart-Keys Barbara Levin

30 BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 † Deceased www.MichiganOpera.org Michigan Opera Theatre AVANTI SOCIETY

Ensuring the Future

Imagine a gift that outlives you, allowing future generations to experience and enjoy the world of opera and dance. That’s the goal of The Avanti Society, Michigan Opera Theatre’s planned gift recognition program.

The Italian word avanti means “ahead,” or “forward.” The Avanti Society at Michigan Opera Theatre represents a designated group of patrons Michigan Opera Theatre who have made plans to include the organization in their estates — whether by will, trust, insurance, or life income arrangement. Membership in The Avanti Society is open to all.

Michigan Opera Theatre is grateful for the generosity and foresight of those listed below, who have chosen to declare their intentions and join the Avanti Society.

AVANTI SOCIETY MEMBERS In recognition of their foresight and commitment, Michigan Opera Theatre profoundly thanks and recognizes members of the Avanti Society.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee# Mrs. Anne E. Ford† Mr. & Mrs. Erwin H. Klopfer*# Ms. Laura Sias Mr.† and Mrs. Doug Allison Ms. Pamela R. Francis*† Mr. † & Mrs. Daniel Kolton Mr. & Mrs. Harold Siebert Mrs. Adel Amerman*#+ Ms. Barbara Frankel & Mr. Ronald Misses Phyllis & Selma Korn*† Mrs. Marge Slezak Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya* Michalak*# Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Krolikowski* Mr.† & Mrs. Richard Sloan† Mr. & Mrs. Agustin Arbulu* Mr. & Mrs. Herman Frankel*# Mr. Max Lepler & Mr. Rex Dotson Ms. Anne Sullivan Smith Mr.† & Mrs. Chester Arnold* Mrs. Rema Frankel*#† Mr. Philip Leon† Ms. Phyllis Funk Snow* Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Freeman Mr. Stephen H. Lord Mr.† & Mrs. Richard Mr. & Mrs. J. Addison Bartush*#† Mrs. Jane Shoemaker French Ms. Jane McKee* Starkweather*#+ Mr. & Mrs. Brett Batterson* Dr. & Mrs. Byron P. Georgeson* Drs. Orlando & Dorothy Miller* Mr. Stanford C. Stoddard Mr.† & Mrs. Mandell Berman Priscilla R. Greenberg, Ph.D.*#† Ms. Monica Moffat & Mr. Pat Dr. Jonathan Swift† & Mr. Thomas Mr.† & Mrs. Art Blair* Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hagopian McGuire A. St. Charles* Mr. Robert Bomier Mr. Lawrence W. Hall* Demetra & Theodore Monolidis† Mr. Ronald F. Switzer* Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bowlby Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Halperin* Drs. Stephen & Barbara Munk Mr. Edward D. Tusset* Mr.† & Mrs. Roy E. Calcagno* Ms. Heather Hamilton Mr. Jonathan F. Orser Mr.† & Mrs. George Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Mr. Kenneth E. Hart* Ms. Julie A. Owens Vincent*#+ Dr.† & Mrs. Victor J. Cervenak* Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Hartwig* Mr. Dale J. Pangonis* Mrs. Amelia H. Wilhelm*# Mr. Gary L. Ciampa Dr. & Mrs. Gerhardt A. Hein Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Parkhill Mr. & Mrs. Walter P. Work* Miss Halla Claffey† Ms. Nancy B. Henk Mr. Richard M. Raisin* Mr. & Mrs. Larry Zangerle Prof. Kenneth Collinson Mrs. Fay Herman Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner*# Mr. & Mrs. George M. Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Comstock#† Mr. & Mrs. Derek Hodgson Ms. Deborah Remer Zeltzer*† Dr. Robert A. Cornette*# Mr. Andrew Howell Dr. Joshua Rest Mrs. Mary Rita Cuddohy Ms. Carol Howell Mr. & Mrs. James Rigby* Avanti Logo & Pin Design: Ms. Mattie Cunningham† Dr. Cindy Hung* Mr. Bryan L. Rives Ms. Monica Moffat Mr.† & Mrs. Tarik Daoud*# Alan & Eleanor Israel Ms. Patricia Rodzik* & Mr. Pat McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Marvin I. Danto† Drs. Heidi & Dale Jacobs Ms. Joanne B. Rooney† Mr. Thomas J. Delaney Ms. Kristin Jaramillo* Mr.† & Mrs. Giles L. Ross Key: Dr. David DiChiera†# Mr. Donald Jensen* Aphrodite & George Roumell *Founding Members Mrs. Karen V. DiChiera*# Mr. John Jesser† Ms. Merle H. Scheibner† #Touch the Future donors Ms. Mary Jane Doerr# Mr. Patrick J.† & Mrs. Stephanie Ms. Susan Schooner* +Avanti Society sponsors Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Duncan*† Germack Kerzic Drs. Heinz & Alice Platt Schwarz* †deceased members (italicized) Mrs. Charles M. Endicott*# Mr. & Mrs. Robert Klein# Mrs. Frank C. Shaler* Mr. & Mrs. Herb Fisher* Mrs. Josephine Kleiner† Mr. Stephan Sharf†

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 31 Historic Path to a Bold Future The Campaign for Michigan Opera Theatre

Pursuant to a comprehensive strategic plan, the Board and Trustees of Michigan Opera Theatre have launched a Historic Path to a Bold Future campaign to invest $50 million in exceptional artistic experiences, broad-based community initiatives, enhanced institutional efficiencies, and facilities improvement. This campaign is designed to ensure that the David DiChiera legacy thrives beyond his tenure by positioning MOT for continued artistic success and community engagement well into the future. The following individuals, businesses, and foundations have declared their initial leadership gifts to the campaign. As of October 31, 2018, more than $25.7 million has been committed.

$1 Million and above $100,000 - $249,999 Sarah and Doug† Allison AVL — Don Manvel William Davidson Foundation Avern Cohn, Lois Pincus and Thomas Cohn Ford Motor Company Mary Rita Cuddohy† Danialle and Peter Karmanos Gretchen and Ethan Davidson John S. and James L. Knight Foundation DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Lear Corporation Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Linda Dresner Levy and Edward Levy, Jr. Alphonse Lucarelli The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ali Moiin and William Kupsky Ruth F. Rattner $500,000 - $999,999 Maureen and Roy Roberts Floy and Lee Barthel Mona and Matthew Simoncini Sharon and Herman Frankel Anthony Soave Karen and R. Jamison Williams $50,000 - $99,999 $250,000 - $499,999 Elizabeth and James Ciroli Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Gloria Clark Marvin and Betty Danto Foundation Cameron Duncan Ann E. Ford† Michael Einheuser Rema Frankel† Aviva and Dean Friedman Richard Sonenklar and Gregory Haynes Kristan and John Hale Donna and Bernard Rubin Ankur Rungta and Mayssoun Bydon Yesenia and Jessie Venegas World Heritage Foundation-Prechter Family Fund † = Avanti Society

32 BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 www.MichiganOpera.org Michigan Opera Theatre Administration & Staff

Wayne S. Brown MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE STUDIO PRODUCTION President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Sherman, Principal Coach/Accompanist Edward Graves, Tenor ADMINISTRATION Avery Boettcher, Soprano Elizabeth Anderson, Production Coordinator DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS Darren Lekeith Drone, Baritone and Artistic Administrator Richard Leech, Director of Resident Artist Katherine DeYoung, Mezzo-soprano Kathleen Bennett, Production Administrator Programs Allen Michael Jones, Bass Ken Saltzman, Stage Manager Nancy Mims, Director of Human Resources Christine Elliott, Nan Luchini, Hailli Ridsdale, Rock Monroe, Director of Safety and Security, TOURING ARTISTS OF COMMUNITY Colter Schoenfish, Assistant Stage DOH and DOHPC PROGRAMS Managers Laura Nealssohn, Director of Soprano: Clodagh Earls Communications Mezzo-Sopranos: Aja Dier, Olivia Johnson MUSIC Angela Nelson-Heesch, Director of Tenor: David Moan Suzanne Mallare Acton, Assistant Music Development Baritones: Branden C.S. Hood, Director and Chorus Master David W. Osborne, Director of Production DeVonte King Molly Hughes, Orchestra Personnel Manager Andrea Scobie, Director of Education Pianist: Joseph Jackson Jean Posekany, Orchestra Librarian Patricia Walker, Chief Administrative Officer Percussionist: Marwan Aman-Ra Jean Schneider, Repetiteur Arthur White, Director of External Affairs TECHNICAL AND DESIGN STAFF MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ADMINISTRATION Daniel T. Brinker, Technical Director CHILDREN’S CHORUS STAFF William Austin, Executive Assistant Monika Essen, Property Master and Scenic Suzanne Mallare Acton, Director Timothy Lentz, Archivist and Director, Artist Dianna Hochella, Assistant Director, Allesee Dance and Opera Resource Library Heather DeFauw, Assistant Lighting Designer Principal Chorus Conductor Catherine Nicolia-Staples, Archivist and Assistant Technical Director Jane Panikkar, Preparatory Chorus Bryce Rudder, Senior Librarian, Allesee Dance Kevin Neuman, Assistant Technical Director Conductor and Opera Resource Library Dee Dorsey, Supertitle Operator Twannette Nash, Chorus Administrator Zach Suchanek, Human Resources Assistant Shane O’Connor, Technical Assistant Joseph Jackson, Principal Chorus PATRON SERVICES Accompanist COSTUMES Development Maria Cimarelli, Preparatory Chorus Suzanne M Hanna, Costume Director Chelsea Kotula, Associate Director of Accompanist Emily Christianson, Wardrobe Mistress Development, Institutional Giving Emily Crombez, Theory Teacher Susan A. Fox, First Hand Jocelyn Aptowitz, Development Associate, Maureen Abele, Kristina Hales, Individual Giving COMPUTER SERVICES Mary Ellen Shuffett, Patricia Sova, Stitchers Christy Gray, Development Administrator Chris Farr, Information Technology Manager Colin Knapp, Manager of Donor Engagement STAGE CREW Maery Simmons, Assistant Manager – DANCE John Kinsora, Head Carpenter CRM Operations Jon Teeuwissen, Artistic Advisor to Dance Frederick Graham, Jr., Head Electrician Sonya Thompson, Development Resource Kim Smith, Dance Coordinator Pat McGee, Head Propertyman Coordinator Chris Baker, Head of Sound FINANCE Mary Ellen Shuffett, Head of Wardrobe Marketing/Public Relations Kimberley Burgess, Rita Winters, Robert Martin, Head Flyman Maxwell Bolton, Communications & Accountants Gary Gilmore, Production Electrician Marketing Operations Manager Kathy Kercorian, CFO Mitchell Carter, Website Coordinator Kimberly Reaves, Controller IATSE Local #38, Stage Crew John Grigaitis, Photographer IATSE Local #786, Wardrobe Michael Hauser, Marketing Manager DETROIT OPERA HOUSE Erica Hobbs, Communications Manager HOUSE MANAGEMENT Jon Rosemond, Marketing Operations Randy Elliott, House Manager Associate

Ticket Office FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Tunisia Brown, Box Office Manager Juan Benavides, Building Engineer Evan Carr, Patron Services Associate, Jesse Carter, Senior Building Engineer Ticketing Dennis Wells, Facilities Manager Joy Charleston, Ticketing Associate David Bradley, Building Maintenance

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY CATERING AND SPECIAL EVENTS PROGRAMS Holly Clement, Events Manager Mark Vondrak, Associate Director of Bridgette Leising, Associate Director of Sales, Community Programs Detroit Opera House Matthew Murray, Education and Community Tiiko Reese-Douglas, Events Assistant Programs Coordinator Jennifer Consiglio-George, Events

SAFETY AND SECURITY Darrin Cato, Stage Door Sergeant A.M. Hightower, Control Center Officer Lt. Lorraine Monroe, Supervisor Demetrius Newbold, Control Center Officer Kenneth Blue, Stage Door Officer

Michigan Opera Theatre www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO • Winter/Spring 2020 33 In remembrance of our founder and long term general director, The David DiChiera Artistic Fund has been established to support and honor his artistic vision. This fund enables Michigan Opera Theatre to produce compelling opera, present innovative dance, and engage with thousands of students and members of our community through our educational and outreach programs. Most importantly, it allows MOT to preserve David’s legacy and his dedication to the young people of Southeast Michigan and young emerging artists from all over the country. To contribute or for more info, please visit www.michiganopera.org or contact Colin Knapp, Manager of Donor Engagement at 313.965.4271 or [email protected].

Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous corporate, foundation, and individual donors Michigan Opera Theatrewhose gifts gratefully to The acknowledgesDavid DiChiera theArtistic generous Fund were corporate, made before foundation, June 30, and 2019. individual donors whos gifts to The David DiChiera Artistic Fund were made before March 14, 2019. Individuals Nick Dorochoff & John Beason Lisa Meils Buzz Thomas & Daniel Vander Ley Richard & Mona Alonzo Keith O. Edwards Lynne M. Metty Patricia Thull CarlINDIVIDUALS Angott LuisaMarianne Di Lorenzo Endicott & Joe Skoney ReneeSarah Lounsberry Mumford BuzzJeffrey Thomas Tranchida & Daniel & VanderNoel Baril Ley Hon.Carl Angott Dennis & W. Tom Archer Ball & Hon. Trudy ElaineDaniel Ellison Enright EvanAli Moiin Luskin & William Kupsky PatriciaElliott Thull & Patti Trumbull Hon.Duncombe Trudy Duncombe Archer Archer MarianneAndrew Fisher Endicott AlexMOT May Orchestra Fund c/o William PattiMathew & Elliott & Barbara Trumbull Vanderkloot Gordon & Hon. & Dennis Pauline W. Arndt Archer DanielBarbara Enright Fisher & William Gould MaryKing Mazure — in honor of Nadine Deleury’s BarbaraWilliam & &Mathew Martha Vanderkloot Walsh TimothyPauline & & Gordon Linda Arr Arndt AndrewCarl & Mary Fisher Ann Fontana LisaRetirement Meils MarthaGary Wasserman& William Walsh & Charles Kashner Jeffrey Atto Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Julia O’Brien Kevin & Andrea Webber Linda & Timothy Arr Nancy & Peter Gaess Sarah Mumford Andrea & Kevin Webber Virginia Berberian BarbaraPeter & FisherNancy & Gaess William Gould JuliaGraham O'Brien & Sally Orley CarolBradford & Bradford & Carol White White JereJeffrey & CaroleAtto Berkey Lawrence & Ann Garberding Charles & Mary Parkhill R. Jamison & Karen Williams Mary Ann & Carl Fontana Sally & Graham Orley Karen & R. 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PHOTOGRAPHY, RECORDING & COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES Photography or recording during any performance is strictly prohibited. You are welcome to take photographs in the lobby before or after a performance and during intermission. As a VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION courtesy to our guests, please switch all electronic devices to silent mode and refrain from using them during the performance.

Greetings from the MOT Volunteer Association. IN CASE OF EMERGENCY Doctors and parents are advised to leave their seat location (located on ticket) and our emergency number, (313) 237-3257, I have been a music lover for many years and with their service or sitter in case of an emergency. Please Michigan Opera Theatre is very important to me. observe the lighted exit signs located throughout the theater. Our MOTVA volunteers provide the company a In the event of an emergency, please remain calm and walk – tremendous level of support. We have over 700 do not run – to the nearest exit. Our ushers are trained to lead members who serve as ushers, tour guides, and you out of the building safely. A trained Emergency Medical Boutique volunteers. Our Divas and Divos provide Technician (EMT) is onsite during most events. Please see an artist hospitality, and the Opera League and Dance usher or staff member to contact the EMT. Council members host parties to celebrate events RESTROOMS such as opening night performances. Last year our Ladies’ restrooms are located off the Ford Lobby (Broadway members logged almost 20,000 volunteer hours. Street entrance), down the stairs; and on the third floor (Madison Bravi! Street entrance) – press “3R” on the elevator to reach this facility. Gentlemen’s restrooms are located under the Grand Staircase If you are hearing about our and also on the third floor (Broadway Street side) – press “3” on volunteer programs for the first the elevator to reach this facility. All third floor restrooms are time and you would be interested wheelchair accessible. A unisex, wheelchair accessible restroom is located in the Cadillac Opera Café. in joining us, please give us a call. Volunteering is a great way NO SMOKING to meet other interesting and The Detroit Opera House is a smoke-free facility. involved patrons. Membership information is located on USHERS the MOTVA web page at Ushers are stationed at the top of each aisle. If you have a question michiganopera.org/get-involved/volunteers/ or concern, please inform an usher, who will contact management. or call Colin Knapp at (313) 965-4271 or email If you are interested in becoming a volunteer usher, please call [email protected]. Colin will be happy to the House Manager at (313) 237-3252. speak with you and connect you with a volunteer ATM’s opportunity to meet your needs. Located in the Ford lobby of the theatre and the John R Street lobby of the Detroit Opera House Parking Center. I offer my sincere thanks to all of our current volunteers. You are THE BEST! LOST & FOUND Lost and Found is located in the Safety and Security Department. Sincerely, Please see an usher if you have misplaced an article, or call (313) 961-3500 if you have already left the theater. Items will be held in Lost and Found for 30 days.

SERVICES Terry Shea, President, MOTVA Concessions stands are located on all levels. Please note that food and drinks are not permitted in the auditorium at any time. Coat Check is located at the Guest Services desk in the Vincent MOTVA Committees, Chair(s) Lobby (Madison Street side). Please note that the Detroit Opera Dance Films, Larry Glowczewski House does not accept responsibility for any personal articles Divas and Divos, Helen Arnoldi-Rowe that are not checked at the coat check. Opera House Tour Guides, Myrna Mazure Opera League, Dodie David IMPORTANT CONTACT INFORMATION Publicity, Annette Marchesi Website...... www.MichiganOpera.org Secretary, Nancy Moore EMERGENCIES...... (313) 237-3257 Special Events, Gwen Bowlby, Don Jensen Michigan Opera Theatre...... (313) 961-3500 & Curtis Posuniak General Information...... (313) 961-3500 Ushers, Kathie Booth Lost and Found...... (313) 961-3500 Ticket Office...... (313) 237-7464 Past Presidents Theater Rental Information...... (313) 961-3500 Steven Marlette, Dodie David, Detroit Opera House Fax...... (313) 237-3412 Betty Brooks, Gloria Clark Press and Public Relations...... (313) 237-3403 Herman Frankel | Opera House Parking Center...... (313) 965-4052

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