SAN DIEGO ERA GAETANODONIZETTI THEELIXIR OF LOVE Librettoby FeliceRomani

' Thisproduction of TheElixlr of Lore is dedicatedto TitleCo-Sponsors Pamela and Martin Wygod and Producers'Circle Sponsors Teresa and Merle Fischlowitzand Rusti Bartell Weiss. ' We alsothank Sycuan Casino, Phone Etiquette Sponsor. and PointLoma NazareneUniversity, SupertitlesSponsor.

i_..*,!":'' silT'f$tu*: (in orderof vocalappearance) A small ltalian village in the Nineteenth Century Gianetta StephanieWeiss ACT I Nemorino GiuseppeFilianoti. Adina TatianaLisnic" - 2O Minute lntermission - SergeantBelcore Malcolm MacKenzie ACT II Dulcamara Kevin Burdette

n The runningtime is approximately2 hoursand 3O minutes, Conductor KarenKamensek. ;ncludingone intermission. Director StephenLawless . TheElixlr of Lovepremiered at The TeatroDella Canobbiana, Scenicand Costume Designer Johan Engels- ,ltaly on May 12, 1832. . Co-Productonfrom LightingDesigner Joan Suilivan-Genthe the foilowingcompanies: Los Angeles Operaand GrandTh66tre de Gendve Wig and MakeupDesigner StevenW. Bryant . Set constructionand paintingby R.A.Reed Productions, ChorusMaster CharlesF. Prestinari Portland,Oregon PrincipalPianist DorothvRandall . Costumesby the LosAngeles Opera Costume Shop . DictionCoach EmanuelaPatroncini Castsubject to change. Qrrnortitloc lan D. Campbell San DiegoOpera thanks our CommunityConversations partners SupertitleCoordinators CharlesArthur Ior TheE/ixir of Love. Pfizer and UCSD Health System. Marian Porter San DiegoOpera thanks our Tasteof Operapartners * for TheElixir SanDiego Opera Debut of Love:Great News! Cookware S Cooking School and EclipseChocolate.

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KEVINBURDETTE, Dulcamara KAREN l(AMENSEI( Con ductor American bass Kevin Burdette made San DiegoOpera debut. American con- his Companv debut last season as ductor Karen Kamensekhas been the Sgt. Sulpice in The Daughter of the music directorof StaatsooerHannover Regiment.Recent roles include Stefano since 2O'l1 and was AssistantlVusic in TheTempesr with L'Operade Ouebec, Directorat the Hamburg State Opera k a rolehe reprisedwith the Metropolitan from 2OO8-201'l. In Hannover,she b gpsp6 which recentlyled to a 2014 recently conducted Paghacct/Cavallerla GrammyAward for Best Opera Recording.Other notable rustlcana, Dre Meistersrnger von Nt)rmberg, Suor Angellca. appearancesinclude Gen6ral Boum in La grande duchesse Giannl Schrcchi. ll Tabarro. Cos) fan tutte. Lady Macbeth de G6rolstelnand Mr. JusticeSir AlfredWills and HenryB. of Mtsensk, Das Rhelngold, Dle WalkAre and Ariadne lssacsonin the WorldPremiere of OscarforSanta Fe Opera. auf Naxos. She has conductedin many housesinclud- Other appearancesinclude Leporello in Don Glovannlwith ing Cavalleriarustlcana,/Pagllaccl at Opera Australia, la the Los AngelesPhilharmonic. Death/Loudspeaker in lhe bohdme for the Deutsche Oper .La bohdme and Emperor of Atlantis and the Photographof the Father Der Vogelhdndlerfor the KomischeOper Berlin.ldomeneo in The Afterlmage for Boston Lyric Opera,Osmin in Dre for the Opera National de Bordeaux,La bohdme for Entftihrung aus dem Serail and Colline in La boheme wilh Dortmund Opera.The Turnof the Screw,Romdo et Juliette, TeatroColon in BuenosAires and his debutwith SantaFe Death ln Venice and La traviata for Frankfurt Opera.La Opera as Mr. Scattergoodin lVenotIl'sThe Last Savage. bohdme for for the State Opera in Prague,ll trovatorefor lmmediatelyfollowing these performanceshe heads to OldenburgischesStaatsthealer, Jenufa for Op6raNational OperaGrand Rapids to sing Osmin in Die Entfuhrungaus de Bordeauxand Glass' Clvll Wars at WDR Festivalin dem Serlal. Duisburg. She is active as a concert conductorwith the HamburgerPhilharmoniker, Staatsorchester Hannover, GIUSEPPE FILIANOTI. Nemorino Basel Sinfonietta,Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Duisburger SanDiego Opera debut, Recent engage- Philharmonikerand PhilharmonischesOrchester Freiburg. mentsfor ltaliantenor Giuseppe Filianoti amongmany others. include the title role in at BayerischeStaatsoper. the STEPHEN LAWLESS. Director title role in La clemenzadl Tlto at Teatro Britishstage directorStephen Lawless VerdiTrieste, The Duke in Rlgolettoand madehis Companv debut in 2007 direct- Edgardo in Lucra di Lammermoor aI ir,g ll trovatore. Lawlesswas Director of LyricOpera of Chicago.Ruggero in La rondlneand Tito at Productionfor the GlyndebourneTouring the lvletropolitanOpera. Don Ottavioin Don Glovannlwilh Opera from '1986 to 1991, where his the Teatroalla Scala and at Moscow'sBolshoi Theater. the work includedBritten's Death ln Venrce YerdiRequlem with Op6ranational du Rhin.Don Ottavioat which was recorded bV the BBC for Berlin'sStaatsoper Unter den Linden.the title roleoI Don televisionand video release.He made his debut with CarloinLima, Rodolfo in La bohdme and the title role of Faust the Kirov Opera in Leningradwith Borls Godunov which and Jacopoand Foscariin I due Foscariat Hamburgische becamethe first ever live telecastof an opera from the Staatsoper,Des Grieuxin with ParisOpera Bastille, SovietUnion to the UnitedKingdom. In recentseasons, and Macduffin Macbethat the SalzburgFestival. He made Lawless has directed Die Fledermaus in Geneva,Salome his lVetropolitanOpera debut as Edgardoin 20Ob and has for Portland Opera. The Ellxir of Love, a co-production returnedoften to sing Nemorino,The Duke in Rlgoletto for Los AngelesOpera and GrandTh66tre de Geneve.la which he hassung at LyricOpera of Chicago.Royal Opera clemenza di Tito for the RoyalOpera, Covent Garden,The Covent Gardenand Aix-en-Provence.Other performances Marrlage of Frgaro and La boheme for the Lyric Opera of includeEdgardo at San FranciscoOpera. Nemorino at Los Chicago.Falstaff for LosAngeles Opera, Don Giovannifor AngelesOpera, Bayerische Staatsoper and the LvricOpera the lVetropolitanOpera, ll trovatorefor the CanadianOpera of Chicagoand the title role of Wertherwith Washington Company and Caprlcclofor New York Citv Opera,ll trova- ConcertOpera. Filianotienjoys frequent engagemenTs ar tore aI HoustonGrand Opera, Anna Bolenaat Washington ViennaStaatsoper, the RoyalOpera, Covent Garden, Op6ra NationalOpera, The Marrlage of Flgaroat PortlandOpera. Nationalde Paris,and both the DeutscheOper and the FaustaI SantaFe Opera,Anna Bolenaat The DallasOpera. StaatsoperBerlin, among many others.lVany of his perfor- andMaria Stuardaat the CanadianOpera Company. Other manceshave been recorded on CD and DVD. engagementshave been with the StaatstheaterNurnberg, GlyndebourneFestival Opera. Vienna Staatsoper. Teatro La Fenicein Venice.the BerlinStaatsoper, and the Hong Kong and New ZealandFestivals. PI2 PERFORMANCESI.IAGAZINI TAT|ANAL|SNlC. Adina STEPHANIE WEISS, Gianetta San Diego Opera and North American San Diego-raisedAmerican soprano debut.lVoldovan soprano Tatiana Lisnic's StephanieWeiss made her Company notableengagements include Marguerite debut as lVarianne in 2011's Der in Faust, Rodelindain FlaviusBertarldust Rosenkavalier.She enjoys a long asso- and Liu tn Turandotfor Hamburgische ciationwith DeutscheOoer Berlinwhere Staatsoper.Micadla in Carmenfor Op6ra she has performedsuch variedroles as de Toulonand TeatroMassimo Bellini in Marianne,Frasquita in Carmen,l\,4usetta Catania,Violetta in La traviatafor RomanianNational Opera. in La boheme,The First Lady and The Second Lady in Adina for the New NationalTheatre Tokyo, Paris Opera. The Maglc Flute, Gerhildein Walktire,Schlafittchen in Das ViennaStaatsoper. and Angers-NantesOpera, Donna Anna Traumfresserchen,The Overseerin Elektra,The Landlady in Don GiovanniforT heatre St. Gallen in Switzerlandand the in Der Traumgorge,The Second Servantin Dle Agyptlsche housesof Bergamoand Lucca,Susanna in The Marriage Helena and Grimgerde in Dre WalkAre,among others. of Flgaro for Oper Frankfurtwhere she also performed Othernotable performances include The FirstLady at Berlin Violetta.Leila in The Pearl Flshers,the title role of Lucia di StaatsoperUnter den Linden.Musetta at OperFrankfurt, The Lammermoorand Miml in La bohdme.Other engagements Novicein SuorAngellca with DeutscheOper Berlin,Rose in lncludeSusanna at LaScala. Norina in Don Pasqualefor the Lakm6with the OperaOrchestra of New Yorkand Fiordiligi RoyalOpera House Covent Gardens, Nedda in Pagliacclfor in Coslfan tutte with Acad6mieLvrioue de VendOme. the Th6atrede Monnaiein ,Marguerite in Faustin lVallorcaand for BucharestNational Opera, Lucia at Op6ra Nationaldu Rhin.Giulietta in I Capuletle i Montecchl in JOHAN ENGELS Essen.Mimi at Ravennaand Nannettain Falstaff,Olga in Set and Costume Designer

S:n Dieno Oneravvvrs dchL.l{. Fedora,Susanna and Adinaat ViennaStaatsoper. vvv South African riosinnor lnhan Fnnolc ra.anr ^aar^nc MALCOLM MACI(ENZlE, Belcore includeThe Magtc Flure for the Bregenzer Americanbaritone Malcolm MacKenzie Festspiele,A Mrdsummer Nrght's Dream firstperformed with San DiegoOpera as for OperaNorth, luls for Welsh National Marulloin Rlgolettoin 2OO2,returned in Opera, Parslfal for the Lyric Opera of 2OO5 as Escamilloin Carmen,in 20OB Chicago,Thais Ior FinnishNational Opera, Don Carlosfor tc Tttrnz in Tha Pa.rl FlShefS, in 2OOg HoustonGrand Opera and CanadianOpera Company,The as Marulloin Rigolettoand Sharplessin Passengerfor EnglishNational Opera and lsraeliOpera, MadamaButterfly, in 2O'1O asSchaunard The Elixir of Love and Otello for . He in La bohdme,in 20 1 '1 as Gregorioin studiedat the Universityof Pretoria,then movedto England Romeoand Juliet,2012 as CaptainGardiner in MobV-Dtck in 1980. Othernotable productions include Khovanschina and was heardlast season as Hortensioin TheDaughter of for Welsh NationalOpera, Maskarade for the Bregenzer the Regimenrand the SecondTempter/Second Knight in Festpieleand RoyalOpera. Covent Garden. His designsfor Murder in the Cathedral. Among his recent engagements Electra,flrst performedat the ChichesterFestival Theatre, areSimon Boccanegra for KentuckyOpera, his lVetropolitan went into London'sDonmar Warehouse Theatre and then Operadebut as Dancairein Carmen,returning as Marullo, to Broadway. Count di Luna in ll trovatorefor ArizonaOpera, Germont in La traviataand Marcelloin La bohdme for OperaSanta STEVENW. BRYANT Barbara.Germont for GlimmerglassOpera, Count di Lunain Wig 8 Makeup Designer ll trovatore for Fort Worth Opera,Alfio/fonio in Cavallerla American wig and makeup designer rustlcana/ Pagliacci with Arizona Opera and Jack Rance Steven W. Bryant'swork over the last tn La fanciulladel West with NashvilleOpera. MacKenzie thirtyyears has encompassedover 600 productions began his professionalcareer in 1994 as Harlequinin different in opera,regional Aiadne auf Naxos at GlimmerglassOpera and has since theatre,Broadway and film. He made performedwith WashingtonNational Opera. Op6ra National hisSan DiegoOpera debut in 1985 and production de Paris.Los Angeles Opera and manyothers. has designedevery since2006 Othercredits includeSanta Fe Opera,Opera Theatre of SaintLouis, New YorkCity Opera, The DallasOpera. Teatro Colon (Argentina), and recentlyRoyal Opera in Oman.Notable world premieres includeLeonard Bernstein's A Ouiet Place.Tobias Picker's

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Emmeline and Tom Pasatieri'sFrau Margof (costume JOAN SULLIVANGENTHE design).Broadway credits includeJulie Taymors Green Lighting Designer Bird and Styne'sGentlemen PreferBlondes. Future projects American Lighting Designer Joan includecostume design premiere for the of LibbyLarson's SullivanGenthe made her San Diego new operaA Wnnkleln Time, and the launchof St. Eve's Operadebut lighting Otello in 2003, Dte Formal.a new men'sformal wearaccessory line of clothing. Fledermaus in 2OOb and ll trovatore in 2007. She has designed lighting for CHARLES F. PRESTINARI operacompanies including San Francisco Chorus Master Opera,Lyric Opera of Chicago.Los AngelesOpera, New Charles F.Prestinari made his San Diego YorkCity Opera,Seattle Opera. The DallasOpera. Florida Opera debut as Acting ChorusMaster GrandOpera. Portland Opera, Cleveland Opera, Tulsa Opera, in 2OO8's The Pearl Flshers,returned in lVinnesotaOpera, Atlanta Opera and WashingtonNational 2O11 for Turandot,and was appointed Operawhere she was the residentlighting for twenty-three ChorusMaster in 2012. From 2OO4- seasons.European credtts include Turandot in Sevilleand 2012, he worked on over produc, bO Helsinki, Dialogues des Carmelites in Geneva, ll trova- tions with New York City Opera.first as tore in Goteborg,The Medium and The Telephoneat tne assistantchorus master, and from 2OOB,as chorusmaster. SpoletoFestival and Zeffirelli'sPagliacci production at Royal While obtaininggraduate degrees in choral conducting Opera,Covent Garden. Televised productions have includ- from lndianaUniversity, he was chorusmaster and opera ed Goya,Pagllacci and Le Cid, allwith pl6cido Domingo;l_a coach for the IndianaUniversity OperaTheater. He has Rondlne and Dle Fledermaus.Her work has been featured alsoheld accompanistpositions with the BrevardSummer in TheatreCrafts and Lightlng Dimensions magazinesand lVusicFestival. the CarmelBach Festival. the San Antonio J. N/ichaelGiliette's classic textbook Designlng wlth Llght. Opera,the New Jersey State Opera,and the National Choralein New YorkCity. and has servedas guestchorus masterat the ManhattanSchool of Music.

David Malisand DeborahRiedel in San DiegoOpera's 1996 production of TheElixir of Love

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l:,Lii-:iriii.'ii-l;- JosephHu BASSES LesleyKoenig COSTU\IE SusannahBiller- FrankPorretta AnthonyBallard AndrewSinclair DESIGNERS KathleenKim. JoelSorensen HerveBlanquart KeturahStickann John Conklin TatianaLisnic. JoshuaVincent" KevinBurdette JohannEngels" AdinaNitescu. EduardoChama SCENERYDESIGNERS Ed Kotanen BARITONES MicadlaOeste. lncanh Grianonhornor John Coyne lVissyWest ArisArgiris" ,vv, Yvl KrassimiraStoyanova- KevinLangan JohannEngels. BernardoBermudez- LIGHTINGDESIGNERS StephanieWeiss AshrafSewailam RalphFunicello MichaelStephen Blinco MarieBarrett Scott Sikon I\IEZZO-SOPRAN OS CliffordDerix- PIANISTS GaryMarder StephanieBlythe- MalcolmlVacKenzie CONDUCTORS DorothyS. Randall lVichaelMcNamara AnkeVondung DavidAdam Moore YvesAbel KristinRoach JoanSullivan-Genthe StephenPowell KarenKamensek. JaniePrim MichaelWhitfield (Ba/letPianlst) KarenKeltner .San PiotrBeczala BASS-BARITONES DiegoOpera debut MassimoZanetti- SimeonEsper FerruccioFurlanetto CHORFOGRAPHERS KristinaCobarrubia GiuseppeFilianoti- DIRECTORS Kennethvon Heidecke ChadFrisque StephenLawless

ZheElixir of Lour SAN DIEGOOPERA CHORUS SOPRANOS RitaCantos Cartwright- EnriqueToral EricaAustin Ava BakerLiss. JoshuaSteven Vincent LisaAustin AlexandraRodrick '$ Ren6eCalvo LynseySwiderski BASSES BridgetHogan ElenaVizuet. AnthonyBallard. Artistsand Production Staff are CherylynLarson- BernardoBermudez membersofthe Amerlcan Guid of lVusicaAnists, AFLCl0, rhe labor AnishkaLee-Skorepa TENORS CliffordDerix unr0nthat represents musical artsts PatriciaMcAfee- JamesBoydston. JosephGrienenberger# inopera, concen, and dance n the llnitedStates. Amy Mein ChadFrisque RonHilley GarrettHarris. DavidMarshman- ALTOS SteveHoagland JelrreySntpman t" LauraBueno NickMunson HaroldSkelly- SandraCamarena- BenjaminPlache ChristopherStephenst TiffanyCarmel- TimothySimpson

- Hasappeared in25 or more productions withSan Diego Opera Chorus # Hasappeared in100 or more productions wirhSan Diego 0pera Chorus

TbeElixir oJ'LoueSUPERNUMERARIES MartinAstl MichaelKaye DickBridy ChristineMarshman NormanCullen Tim Morioka Tom Czwornog GeorgePecoraro AnthonyDiLullo HubertPilloud DanielDenison TatianaPotter tr-ikeus sn Max Frisque JacobPurcell ChrisGetsla AlynaSadatmand Facebock EmmaHarris SethWilliams faceb*ak"ccm/5anDieEo*pera

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Musiciansfor thisproduction are members of the SanDiego Symphony Orchestra sAN D'NGO$YKIPHOh'Y ORCN{TSTMA Jahja Ling,Music Director

VIOLIN AJ Nilles ENGLISHHORN BASSTROMBONE JeffThayer DorothyZeavin AndreaOverturf MichaelPriddy Concertmaster GarethZehngut DR. WILLIAMAND EVELYN DEBORAHPATE AND LAMDEN ENGLISHHORN TUBA JOHN FORRESTCHAIR CELLO CHAIR MatthewGarbutt NickGrant YaoZhao Prlncipal Prinnina/ Ae

The musicians employed by the San Diego Symphony are members of the Muslclans'Assoclation of San Dlego County, Local 325, American Federatlon of Muslcians. AFL-CIO.

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