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Messages from Mayor Young and Governor Blanchard ...... 7 Season Welcome from David DiChiera, General Director . . .. . 9 1985/86 Board of Directors ...... 11 1985/86 Board of Trustees ...... 12 General Director's Circle ...... 15 Administrative Staff ...... 17 Production, Music and Technical Staff ...... 18 Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra and Chorus ...... 21 Artists of the Company ...... 23 Young Artists Apprentice Program ...... 36 Gianni Schicchi and I Pagliacci ...... 41 Gianni Schicchi Cast and Synopsis ...... 43 The Creation of Gianni Schicchi ...... 45 I Pagliacci Cast and Synopsis ...... 49 Ruggiero Leoncavallo ...... 51 I Pagliacci and the Verismo Movement ...... 52 Martha ...... 57 Martha Cast and Synopsis ...... 59 The Making of Martha ...... 62 West Side Story ...... 67 West Side Story Cast and Synopsis ...... , ... . 69 Between Broadway and the Opera House ...... 72 Turandot ...... 79 Turandot Cast and Synopsis ...... 81 The Riddle of Turandot ...... 84 Michigan Opera Theatre's Community Programs ...... 91 15 Opera Seasons: A Retrospective Photo Album ...... 97 Michigan Opera Theatre Guild ...... 108 1984/85 Contributors ...... 111 Corporate Contributors ...... 113 Foundation Contributors ...... 117 Individual Contributors ...... 119 Memori al Endowments ...... 159 Special Acknowledgements ...... 161 Program Book Acknowledgements ...... 175 Index to Advertisers ...... 176

The 1985/86 Season Program Book Editors Production John P. Finck, Debra S. Valle Michael R. Christy Contributing Editors Printer Wendy Collins, Rebecca Happel TAS Graphic Program Book Coordinator 1985/86 Season Cover Design Rebecca Happel, Geraldine Robak Bruce A. Scott Art and Production 1985/86 Production Illustrations Maureen Walsh, TAS Graphic Simons, Michelson & Zieve

h~ Michigan Council (( 'it j) National Endowment ~ _ for thl! Arts ~ for the Arts Michigan Opera Theatre is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and from the state of Michigan, through the Michigan Council for the Arts. The 1985/86 Michigan Opera Theatre Season is presented in association with WQRS·FM 105. Michigan Opera Theatre is a member of OPERA America.

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR LANSING Dear Patrons/Friends:

As Governor of the State of Michigan, it is a privilege and pleasure for me to extend my sincerest congratulations and best wishes to all affiliated with the Michigan Opera Theatre during this 15th anniversary season.

Michigan citizens are grateful and appreciative of the tremendous cultural entertainment provided by the Michigan Opera Theatre. Throughout its history, the Theatre has remained committed to maintaining high artistic standards and accessibility to all citizens.

The Michigan Opera Theatre was founded fifteen years ago by Dr. David DiChiera. However, MOT's roots go back to 1962. In the very beginning, MOT was established as the Overture To Opera Company which served as an educational program to acquaint Detroiters with the offerings on the annual Metropolitan Opera Tour. The success of this series laid the groundwork for the establishment of Michigan Opera Theatre which launched its first season at the . Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts in 1971 .

Today, fifteen years later, the Michigan Opera Theatre is continuing to develop and expand as it moves its productions and administrative offices from its founding home, the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, to the Fisher Theatre, New Center Area. Beginning in the fall, the Michigan Opera Theatre will embark on its inaugural season at the elegant Fisher Theatre with three opera/musical theatre selections.

Michigan citizen~ have certainly enjoyed the cultural and entertaining performances of the Michigan Opera Theatre. I am very pleased to extend to the members and staff of the Michigan Opera Theatre my wish for future success, happiness and fulfillment.

Sincerely, I-I~'~ JAMES J. BLANCHARD Governor

Welcome to the 1985/86 Michi gan Opera Theatre season. Similar to the great excitement of our first season at the Music Hall Center in 1971, our 1985/86 year is in deed auspicious as Michigan Opera Theatre celebrates its 15th Anniver sary, a celebration filled with impor tant initiatives. Our 15th Anniversary Season is highlighted by the company's move to the 2100-seat elegant Fisher Theatre, the new site of our annual fall series presentations. Additionally, the Mich igan Opera Theatre company head quarters has moved into newly reno vated and expanded facilities in the New Center Area. The decision to seek a new home was both difficult and emotional, but ultimately determined by a natural course of events due to our momen- . tous growth. The costs of producing opera are greater than any other art form and necessitates that at least 50% of our financial resources be derived from ticket revenues. With the Fisher Theatre, we have been able to take ad vantage of the increased seating capaci ty in order to maximize our ticket sales income. In fact, our current season diences witnessed many important re of the company. With the recent an subscription base has grown drama vivals and premieries including nouncement of a prestigiOUS " chal tically, achieving a record level of close Regina, Most Happy Fella, Anoush lenge grant" from the National Endow to 7,000 subscribers. Similarly, our ad and Washington Square. ment for the Arts, the stage is now set ministrative, volunteer and rehearsal Upon reflection, it has been both a for Michigan Opera's next phase - a needs have burgeoned to a point that challenge and a privilege for Karen and period of accelerated growth. As we we had to expand in order to success myself to have played such an integral build upon our new fall series at the fully carry out both immediate and role in the growth of a cultural institu Fisher, and move ahead at achieving a long range company goals. tion whose very existence has been so full international grand opera series at As you may recall, the company's intertwined with the renaissance of the Masonic Temple next spring, our hum ble origins began in 1962 as Over our city. We are most thankful to the future is indeed promising and excit ture To Opera, the educational touring many volunteers, patrons and artists ing. arm of the Detroit Grand Opera Asso who have given so much of their sup To our friends and supporters, thank ciation. Overture To Opera's growth port and tireless work in pursuit of you for believing in our dream. It is led to the formation of a full time pro Michigan Opera's vision. While there truly a special occasion to share with fessional opera company in 1971, and are many individuals to acknowledge, you our 15th Anniversary Season. the founding of the Music Hall Center 1 do wish to recognize the leadership in 1973, as both a home for Michigan of Mr. Lynn Townsend, Chairman of Opera Theatre and a center for the per the Board of Trustees, and Mr. Robert forming arts. Since that time, the Music E. Dewar, Chairman of the Board of Hall stage has been graced by a host of Directors, for their outstanding sup aspiring young artists and renowned port, wisdom and conviction that De luminaries including Wilhelmenia Fer troit could sustain its own nationally David DiChiera General Director nandez, Cleo Laine, Catherine Mal recognized opera company. fitano, Leona Mitchell and Victoria Our 15th Anniversary Season is a Vergara. Simultaneously, Detroit au- significant turning point in the history

9 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre We believe that a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is still a sigh; the fundamental things apply, as time goes by. Ayermakes People used to respond to friendliness. They still do. Housewives used to respond to helpful information. human contact Mr. Robl They still do. Businessmen used to respond to facts that Chairmt helped them solve a problem. They still do. Dr. Dav Presidel People used to smile at gentle humor and warm up to the person who knew how and when to use it. Mr. Can Treasur They still do. Mr. J. A Given a choice between the silly and the sincere, Secreta? people always used to choose the sincere, and they still do. Mrs. Ro Given a choice between beauty and ugliness, Mr. DOl NW Ayer Mrs. Dc people always did choose beauty, and they still would. 2000 Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan 48202 (313) 874-8500 Mr. Joh Mr. Be l Mr. Ric Mrs. A' Mr. Jan Mr. Jot Mr. Fr: Mrs. C Mr. 01 Mrs. R Mr. H. Mr. Jo Mr. Le Mr. D Mrs. 'i Mrs. ( Mr. 'V( Mr. Jt Mr. A Mrs. 1 Mr. F Mr. C Mr. L Mr. F Mrs. Mrs. Mr. I Mr. !

t Mr. Robert E. Dewar FOUNDING COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Chairman MEMBERS 1985-86 Dr. David DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Development President Mr. & Mrs. Jo hn DeCarlo Mr. John A. Betti Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Dr. & Mrs. David DiChiera Education Treasurer Mr. & Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. Frank D. Stella Mr. & Mrs. Do nald C. Graves Mr. J. Addison Bartush Finance Honorable & Mrs. Roman S. Gribbs Secretary Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. and Mrs. John C. Griffin Nominating Mrs. Robyn Arrington Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Jones Mr. Walton A. Lewis Mr. Donald J. Atwood Honorable and Mrs. Wade McCree, Jr. Mrs. Donald C. Austin Puhlic Relations and Marketing )0 Harry J. Nederlander Mr. John A. Betti E. Harw ood Rydholm Mr. Morton Zieve Mr. Bennett E. Bidwell Mr. & Mrs. Neil Snow Special Events Mr. Richard A . Cascio Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard Strichartz Mrs. William P. Vititoe Mrs. A vern L. Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Strategic Planning Mr. James F. Cordes Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mrs. Charles M. Endicott . Mr.John W. Day Mr. & Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. Frank W . Donovan Mr. & Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema Mrs. Charles M . Endicott Mr. Oliver Fretter Mrs. Roger Fridholm Mr. H. James Gram Mr. John C. Griffin Mr. Lee Hanson Mr. David B . Hermelin Mrs. William E. Johnston Mrs. Charles Kessler Mr. Walton A. Lewis Mr. Jules L. Pallone Mr. Andrew M. Savel Mrs. Richard D. Starkweather Mr. Frank D. Stella Mr. C. Thomas Toppin Mr. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. Robert C. VanderKloot Mrs. William P. Vititoe Mrs. Sam B . Williams Mr. Donald E. Young Mr. Morton Zieve

Mr. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Gerbig, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. j o hn T. Parsons Chairman Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Gerisch Mr. & Mrs. David Po llack Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni Mr. & Mrs. Frank Germack, Jr. Mr. j ohn Prepolec Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mrs. Aaron H . Gershenson Mrs. Lucille Prepolec Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Dr. & Mrs. Pierre Giammanco Dr. & Mrs. Oscar E. Remick Mr. & Mrs. john Wendell Anderson II Mr. & Mrs. Alan L. Gornick Mr. & Mrs. H o race j. Rodgers Dr. & Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Mr. & Mrs. H . james Gram Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm Dr. & Mrs. Robyn T . Arrington Honorable & Mrs. Ray Graves Mr. & Mrs. Andrew M. Savel Mr. & Mrs. Donald j . Atwood Mrs. Katherine Gribbs Mr. Thomas L. Schellenberg Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. Austin Honorable Roman S. Gribbs and Ms. joan E. Young Mr. & Mrs. ]. Merriam Barnes Mr. & Mrs. john C. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. William]. Schlageter Mr. & Mrs. ]. Addison Bartush Dr. & Mrs. Berj H . Haidostian Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Schneidewind Mr. L. Karl Bates Mrs. Robert M . Hamady Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. William A. Bell II Mr. & Mrs. Lee C. Hanson Mr. & Mrs. William E. Scollard Mr. & Mrs. W. Victor Benjamin Mr. & Mrs. Hugh G. Harness Mr. & Mrs. Arthur ·R. Seder, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Philip E. Benton, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. E. jan Hartmann Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sloan Mr. & Mrs. john A. Betti Dr. & Mrs. Alan T.Hennessey Mr. & Mrs. Norman W. Smith Mr. & Mrs . .Bennett E. Bidwell Mr. & Mrs. David B. Hermelin Ms. Phyllis D. Snow Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Bloch Dr. & Mrs. Arthur jefferson Mr. & Mrs. David A. Stafseth Mr. john I. Bloom Mr. & Mrs. Wesley R. johnson Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Starkweather Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Borden Mrs. William E. johnston Mr. & Mrs. Frank D . Stella Mr. & Mrs. Donald j . Bortz, jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ernest A. jones Mr. & Mrs. Stanford Stoddard Dr. Elkins L. Bruce Mr. & Mrs. Maxwell jospey Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas T oppin Mr. Peter A. Cartwright Mr. Mitchell I. and Dr. Zofia Kafarski Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Cascio Dr. & Mrs. Charles Kessler Mrs. joseph A. Vance, jr. Mr. & Mrs. Martin]. Caserio Dr. & Mrs. Theodore W. Kilar Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mrs. Maxine Clements Mr. & Mrs. Semon E. Knudsen Mr. & Mrs. William P. Vititoe Honorable & Mrs. A vern L. Cohn Mr. jay Kogan Mr. & Mrs. Harold G. Warner Mr. & Mrs. Peter Cooper Ms . Reva Kogan Mrs. Victor W. Wertz Mr. & Mrs. james F. Cordes Mr. & Mrs. William Ku Honorable & Mr. & Mrs. Rodkey Craighead Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Kughn Mrs. G. Mennen Williams Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Cregar Dr. & Mrs. Ri chard W. Kulis Mr. & Mrs. R. jamison Williams julia Donovan Darlow and Mr. & Mrs. john D . Leighton Mr. & Mrs. Sam B. Wiliams john Corbett O'Meara Mr. Fredric LeVine Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Wollenzin, jr. Mr. & Mrs. john W. Day Mr. & Mrs. David B. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. R. Alexander Wrigley Mr. & Mrs. Stanley R. Day Mrs. Leonard T. Lewis Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Mr. & Mrs. Walton A. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Young Mr. james P. Diamond Dr. & Mrs. Kim K. Lie Mr. & Mrs. Mo rton Zieve Dr. & Mrs. David DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. Tho mas V. LoCicero Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Donovan Mr. & Mrs. Alan Loofbourrow Mr. Lawrence P. Doss Mr. & Mrs. William Lucas Mr. & Mrs. Ernest DuMouchelle Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mack Mr. & Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. john Malasky Lady Easton Mrs. jessie B. Mann Mr. & Mrs. Leo Egan Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Marra Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. & Dr. jack Martin Mr. & Mrs. Alfred]. Fisher, jr. Mr. & Mrs. john C. McCabe Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Fisher III Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McCabe Mr. & Mrs. Louis P. Fontana Honorable & Mr. & Mrs. john B. Ford III Mrs. Wade H . McCree, jr. Mr. & Mrs. Douglas A . Fraser Mr. & Mrs. john McDougall Michigan Opera Theatre was Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Frenkel Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. McElvenny saddened thiS year by the recent Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Fretter Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Mirabito d ea th of a founding member and Mr. & Mrs. Roger Fridholm Mr. & Mrs. E. Clarence Mularoni devoted trustee, Theodore O . Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. GaJlagher Mr. & Mrs. Harry Nederlander Yntema, whose support and Mr. David L. Gamble Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Nine enthusiasm were important factors Mrs. joyce F. Garrett Mr. & Mrs. jules L. Pallone in our growth.

For the arts take us far into the realm of ourselves. A place where we learn - . to understand . our fears and ambitions. Our joys and depressions. And our hopes. . In fact, all those emotions . that make us more MAJ' Mr. , alive. Mr .. , Mr. •.· Mr.· . 1b keep the curtain raised Mr. · the arts must thrive.

They deserve BEl\ our praise and Dr. Dr. support. ·· Mr. Mrs Mr. Rid Dr. Mr. Me Mr. Mr.

The General Director's Circle plays a vital role in nurturing Michigan Opera Theatre s stature as one oJ Detroit s premier cultural institutions. The generosity oj Circle members helps to ensure the Jinancial stability necessary Jor the production oJ the highest quality opera and musical theatre season aJter season.

MAJOR BENEFACTOR SUSTAINER Mr. & Mrs. ). Addison Bartush Mr. & Mrs . Robert A. Allesee Mrs. William E. Johnston Mr.& Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Anonymous 1iss Barbara Johnston Mr. Jay Kogan Dr. & Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Mr. & Mrs. M itchell K3farski Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A . Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Don31d J. Atwood D rs. John & Paul;l Kim Mr. & Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. Warren W . Austin Mr. & Mrs. Semon E. Knudsen Mr. & Mrs. PI1ilip E. Ben ton , Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W illiam Ku Mr. & M rs. Mandell L. Berm an M rs. S;lm uel J. L3ng Mr. & M rs. Bennett E. Biciwell Gilbert Le e Mains, .Ir. BENEFACTOR Mrs. J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John C. McCabe Dr. Lourdes V. And3ya Mr . & Mrs. Donald Cobb Ruth Mott Fund Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. Austin Judge & Mrs. Ave rn L. Cohn Mr. & Mrs. E. Clarence Mularoni Mr. & Mrs. Dougl3s Borden Mr. & Mrs. St3nley R. Day M rs. Lucille Prepolec Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. James P D iamond !VIr. & Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. & Mrs. Max M . Fisher Dr. & Mrs. David DiChier3 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr. Richard and Lind3 Kughn Mr. & Mrs. Ca meron B. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Karl P. Sogoian Dr. & Mrs. Richard W. Kulis Benson & Ed ith Ford Fund 1\l1r. Rich3rd Sonenklar Mr. & Mrs. Alan Loofuourrow Mr. David L. Gamble Mr. S. M . St3Ckpole Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Sci1n iedewind Dr. & M rs. Don31d L. Goluen Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Richard D . Stark weather Mrs. Robert M. Ham3dy Mr. A. Alfred Taubman Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mr. & Mrs. E. J3n Hartnunn Mrs. C Theron Va n D usen Dr. & Mrs. AI3n T. Hennessev Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vincent . ' Mr. & Mrs. David B. H ermelin Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Willi3ms M r. & Mrs. Henry Clyde Johnson Mr. & Mrs. R. Alex3nder Wrigley

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Dr. David DiChiera General Director Melodee A. DuBois Vice President for Administration Evan R. Luskin Vice President for Finance and Planning Karen DiChiera john P. Finck Elizabeth Eckert Director of Community Director of Press and Director of Productions Programs Public Relations Donna L. Meindt Debra S. Valle Deborah L. Micallef Director of Corporate Director of Audience Director of the Development Development and Sales Annual Fund Christine j. Wehrli julie C. Walt Elizabeth jacoby Director of Volunteer Activities Foundations Officer Subscription and Box Office Manager

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Mary Pratt Cooney Administrator Suzanne Acton Bill Kirk Music Director Assistant

COMPANY ADMINISTRATION Michael Hoffman Dianne M. Colquitt Assistant to the General Director Administrative Assistant

Theresa D. Mushenski Toni R. Gillespie Accountant Receptionist and Assistant Bookkeeper

DEVELOPMENT Margaret M. Wittersheim Leah W. Betts Data Processing Manager Secretary

PUBLIC RELATIONS AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Rebecca Happel Kathryne Prost Geraldine Robak Public Relations Associate Group Sales Manager Audience Development Assistant

jeffrey L. Standley Denise Nikcevich Sally Taylor Operations Coordinator Subscription Assistant Subscription Assistant

Fay Conway Helen Conway Frances Dunn Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant Box Office Assistant Pat jackman Delores Tobis jerome Magid Box Office ASSistant Box Office Assistant Staff Photographer TELEMARKETING Neil Martin Manager Mary Polansky jeffrey L. Standley Virginia Sturm Delores Tobis Wanda Trott Theophilus Waters

Diana Dwosh STAGE WIG AND MAKE-UP Assistant to the Director MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 0/ Productions Peggy Imbrie Rebecca Watson Scott Fields Production Stage Manager Wig and Make-up Master Robert C. Nunez Production Sta.!.! Interns William m' Arch McCarty Ivy Loughborough Stage Manager Wig and Make-up Assistant Raymond Fisher Sheryl Turner COSTUME Cathy Kubel Intern DEPARTMENT Stage Management Interns David Bruce Freiman Ulla Hettinger Stage Direction Intern Costume Supervisor Ravae Sharp Wardrobe Mistress TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT T.J Wilcock Intern ' David Moore Technical Director 'MUSIC Marilyn Rennagel DEPARTMENT Lighting Consultant Nicholas Doumanoff David DiChiera Property Master Music Director Tom Bryant Mark D, Flint Production Electrician Principal Guest Mike Litteral Conduc tor/Director, Production Carpenter Young Artists Program Vivien Leone Suzanne Acton Chorus Master Assistant Lighting Designer JoAnn Kulesza Robert Mesinar Coach/Accompanist Assistant Electrician Richard Piippo judy Barrett Orchestra Personnel Manager Lori Lundquist Steven Siegelman Nancy Lynn Rice Interns Music Intern john Ashbaugh Master Carpenter Robert McKeown Master Flyman Robert Fuson . Master Electrician Albert Ashbaugh Master 0/ Properties Lester Hamilton Master Sound Technician Stage Employees Local #38 rA. TS,E

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SUZANNE ACTON • LA WRENCE ADAMS (Chorus Master for the 1985/86 (Artist Intern, 1985) joins Michigan Season) returns to Michigan Opera Opera Theatre as a member of the Theatre for her fifth season as the company's Young Artist Apprentice company's Chorus Master and Program. In this capacity, Mr. Adams, principal coachlpianist. In addition to a baritone, will perform comprimariol her mainstage work, Miss Acton has chorus roles for the company's fall recently been appointed the season productions of Gianni Schicchil company's Music Director for I Pagliacci, Martha and West Side Community Programs including the Story. A graduate of the University of annual state-wide touring productions Wisconsin at Madison, Mr. Adams has and the community-wide Overture To .served as an apprentice with the Des Opera musical programs. Miss Acton, Moines Metro Opera, the Lake George who has garnered unanimous praise Opera Festival and the American Lyric from Detroit-area critics, has coached Theatre. His repertory credits include singers in New York City as well as Romeo et Juliette, La Fille du for the opera companies of Dayton, Regiment, Cosi fan tutte and The St. Louis and San Diego. Magic Flute. MARTINA ARROYO KAREN AZENBERG (Title role in Turandot) returns to (Choreographer for West Side Story) Michigan Opera following her 1979 returns to Michigan Opera Theatre performance as Leonore in II following her choreographic work in Trovatore . As an international vocal last season's highly praised Sweeney luminary of the first magnitude, Miss Todd. Miss Azenberg's numerous Arr.oyo has performed to great credits include The Music Man, Oliver, acclaim with the prestigious opera They're Playing Our Song, A Funny companies of the NY Metropolitan, Thing Happened on The Way To The Vienna State Opera, London's Royal Forum , and a musical revue of the Opera, La Scala, Hamburg and Paris Truman Administration for the as well as the concert halls of Smithsonian Institute. She has . Salzburg, Berlin, Rome and choreographed repertory pieces for Stockholm. A native of NYC, Mfss the Dance Family and performed for Arroyo 's famed soprano repertory several seasons with The Second includes Tosca, Turandot, II Trovatore, Avenue Dance Company, as well as La Forza del Destino, Madama with Stuart Hodes and Rachel Butterfly and the Verdi Requiem . Lampert. • ALICE BAKER MICHAEL BAUMGARTEN (Nancy in Martha) is a Detroit native, (Lighting Designer for Gianni who has recently completed several Schicchi and I Pag/iacci) served as the engagements with the Lyric Opera of resident Assistant Lighting Designer Chicago. While in Chicago, Miss last season. Mr. Baumgarten is a Baker debuted in the title role of graduate of the Yale University Rossini's La Cenerentola. Dorabella in School of Drama and is currently Cosi fan tutte and Ludmilla in The the Resident Lighting Designer for Bartered Bride for the Opera Center's the Arkansas Opera Theatre. Mr. touring productions. For the Lyric Baumgarten has just completed Opera 's main stage productions, Miss lighting the Charlotte Opera's Baker appeared as Peep-Bo in Peter production of Willie Stark, and will Sellar's The Mikado and, as Rose in repeat his lighting for Shreveport Lakme. Miss Baker has also Opera. He has also designed performed with the LA Philharmonic at productions for the Santa Fe Opera, the Hollywood Bowl and is a featured Eugene Opera and Opera Memphis. soloist in Roger Wagner's recent recording of the Messiah. ·PETER DEAN BECK • DON BERNARDINI (Set Designer for Gianni Schicchi and I (Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and Pag/iacCI) has designed scenery and Beppe in I Pagliaccf) is a lighting for more than seventy Metropolitan Opera Regional productions since receiving his MFA Finalist and has received degree from NYU School of the Arts. accolades in other such Mr. Beck's numerous opera credits competitions as the Rosa Ponselle include Puccini's" Trittico for the and Baltimore Opera International Juilliard School American Opera Competition. Mr. Bernardini has Center, as well as productions of recently completed an extensive Madama Butterfly, Faust, Carmen, national tour of Verdi's La Traviata Aida, Rigoletto and La Cenerentola for and Rossini's The Barber of Seville the companies of Baltimore, for the Texas Opera Theatre. His Rochester, Miami and the Texas numerous tenor role credits include Opera Theatre. In addition to his principal roles in Carmen, Madama operatic work, Mr. Beck has designed Butterfly, The Bartered Bride and Stravinsky's Firebird and Petrushka for The Magic Flute. the Eugene Ballet. • denotes Michigan Opera Theatre debut 25 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Artists

·CHARLES R. CAINE SHARON CHRISTMAN (Costume Designer for West Side (Title role in Martha) returns to Story) was the staff costume Michigan Opera following her designer for the Metropolitan renowned performances as The Opera from 1964-79, working with Queen of the Night in last season's Franco Zeffirelli, Nicola Benois, Marc The Magic Flute , a role she has also Chagall and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Mr. sung to great success for the NYC Caine's vast array of recent designs Opera, Dayton Opera and the Hawaii include Die Walkure, Der Opera Theatre. Miss Christman was Rosenkavalier, Turandot, Ernani and recently featured in Pennsylvania Luisa Miller for many opera companies Opera's Cosi fan tutte and as Gilda in including the Met, NYC Opera, San Rigoletto for the New Jersey State Francisco Opera, Opera Opera. A native of Cincinnati, Miss Theatre of Sf. Louis, Lyric Opera of Christman has sung the title role of Chicago and Miami. His recent Lakme with Eve Queler and the Opera musical comedy designs include Orchestra of New York, and in 1986, Annie Get Your Gun and Carousel. will make her Queen of the Night debut with L'Opera de Montreal. CHRISTINE DONAHUE *GHENA DIMITROVA (Title role in Martha) returns to (Title role in Turandot) makes her long Michigan Opera Theatre after having awaited North American role debut in appeared with the company in the Detroit as the oriental princess 1978 spring production of Madama Turandot. A native of Bulgaria and Butterfly. A graduate of the Juilliard frequent performer with the Sofia School, Miss Donahue has sung to Opera, Miss Dimitrova is considered great success the role of The Queen one of the world's most acclaimed of the Night for the Houston Grand VerdilPuccini sopranos today, Opera and the Sarasota Opera, the prompting critics to liken her unto title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for Tebaldi, Callas and Nilson. Her many the Lake George Opera Festival and highly praised international Violetta in La Traviata for the engagements include La Scala, Cleveland Opera. She has also Munich, Berlin , Salzburg, Verona, performed with the opera companies London, Paris, Moscow, Buenos Aires of Omaha, Annapolis, San Antonio and her 1984 Carnegie Hall debut in and Texas Opera Theatre. a concert version of Nabucco.

ANNE EWERS MARK D. FLINT (Stage Director for Turandot) returns to (Conductor for Gianni Schicchi and I Michigan Opera following her praised Pagliacci) returns to Michigan Opera stage work with the company's recent Theatre as the company's Principal successes of Aida with Leona Mitchell Guest Conductor and Director of the and , Anna Bolena with Joan Young Artist Apprentice Program. Sutherland. Recently, Ms. Ewers Maestro Flint's extensive operatic made her directing debut with the credits include recent productions for Canadian Opera in a new production the NYC Opera of Rigoletto and La of Tosca featuring the double cast of Traviata , a highly acclaimed Martina Arroyo and Johanna Meier. In production of The Postman Always addition to her work in Detroit this Rings Twice for Ft. Worth Opera, The season, Ms. Ewers will present the Crucible for Chicago Opera Theatre East Coast stage premiere of Handel's and La Fil/e du Regiment for the Agrippina in Boston, make her Central City Opera Festival. His future directing debut with the Minnesota engagements include Aida with Opera Opera in L 'Elisir d'Amore, and return Memphis, and L 'Enfant Prodiguefor to Toronto to co-direct Salome. the Mobile Opera. ·DAVID GATELY ·PAUL GEIGER (Stage Director for Martha) has (Plunkett in Martha) returns to the served as Staff Stage Director for bass-baritone role of Plunkett he the Houston Grand Opera and the recently performed for the 1983 Texas Opera Theatre where he has Chicago Opera Theatre revival. Mr. presented such works as The Geiger has garnered national praise Daughter of the Regiment, Aida, for his acclaimed work with the Hansel and Gretel, Peter Grimes Chicago Opera Theatre in the title role and La Traviata. Mr. Gately's most of The Marriage of Figaro; Mustafa in recent critical acclaim has come Italian Girl in Algiers and as Belcore in from his Tosca for Tulsa Opera, The Elixir of Love. Mr. Geiger's Gianni Schicchill Pagliacci for success has taken him to the opera Opera/Omaha, La Boheme for the companies of the Chicago Lyric, San Dayton Opera and La Traviata with Francisco, Opera/Omaha, Des Moines Opera Comique in Paris. Mr. Metro and the Mississippi Opera in Gately currently heads the Opera such diverse repertory as Aida, Billy Workshop Program at Westminster Budd, Tales of Hoffmann and La Forza Choir College in Princeton, N.J. del Destino . • denotes Michigan Opera Theatre debut 26 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

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'FRANK GUARRERA , EVANS HAILE (Title role in Gianni Schiccht) a (Conductor for West Side Story) baritone singer of great distinction, currently serves as the company was recently inducted into the dramaturg and artistic advisor for the American Singers Hall of Fame at the Greater Miami Opera. A graduate of Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Arts. the Juilliard School, Mr. Haile is the Mr. Guarrera's illustrious and long co-producer and conductor for the standing career with the Metropolitan " American Music Theatre in Concert" Opera began in 1948, at the request series at New York's historic Town of Arturo Toscanini and includes many Hall', where he worked with MOT international triumphs on both the veterans Judy Kaye, Elaine Bonazzi operatic and concert stage including and John Reardon. Mr. Haile's La Scala, San Francisco Opera, Santa numerous musical theatre credits Fe, Washington and Philadelphia. Mr. include Annie Get Your Gun for the Guarrera's famed operatic repertory Miami Opera, Bernstein! for the includes Carmen, Rigoletto, The Anchorage Opera and as one of the Barber of Seville and Gianni original producers for Broadway's Schicchi. Tintypes. "THOMAS HAMMONS 'CYNTHIA HAYMON (Simone in Gianni SChiccht) is a bass (Liu in Turandot) was recently baritone and a graduate from the Cin acclaImed for her performance in the cinnati Conservatory of Music. Mr. title role of Virginia Opera's world Hammons has appeared in numerous premiere, Harriet, The Woman Called comic works including The Barber of Moses. Cited by the critics as a Seville, The Mikado, The Daughter of " major discovery," Miss Haymon has the Regiment, Sousa's EI Capitan, The appeared in the Santa Fe Opera Impresario, The Marriage of Figaro and productions of Orpheus In the Don Pasquale. Mr. Hammons has also Underworld, Der Liebe Der Danae and had extensive work in contemporary We Come To The River. Miss Haymon opera including Schoenberg's Moses will appear in the title role of Porgy und·Aron, The Doctor in the American and Bess for the 1986 Glyndebourne . premiere of Oliver's The Dutchess of Festival and subsequent 26 American Ma/fi with the Santa Fe Opera and , city tour for 1986/87, and will make the· world premiere of Meecham's her Covent Garden debut in 1987 as Tartuffe with the San Francisco Opera. Liu.

' BERYL HENDERSON PEGGY IMBRIE (Artist Intern, 1985) joins Michigan (Production Stage Manager, 1985/86 Opera as a member of the Young Ar season) returns to Michigan Opera tist Apprentice Program. In this ' for her seventh season. Recently Ms. capacity, Mr. Henderson, a tenor, will Imbrie completed her fifth season with perform comprimario/chorus roles for the Lake George Opera Festival and the company's fall season productions has worked with Ft. Worth Opera and of Gianni Schicchill Pagliacci, Martha the Opera Theatre of St. Louis where and West Side Story. Mr. Henderson is her credits include Fennimore and a graduate of the Cincinnati Conser Gerda, The Postman Always Rings vatory of Music where he performed in Twice for the Edinburgh Festival, The Marriage of Figaro, The Lottery Madama Butterfly, Paul Bunyon, and I Pagliacci. For the Brooklyn Idomeneo and The Barber of Seville. Opera Theatre, Mr. Henderson has This season will mark Ms. Imbrie's sung Alfredo in La Traviata, Luigi in /I debut with Opera Memphis, Sarasota Tabarro for the Richmond Theatre of Opera, Syracuse Opera and the Staten Island and Nemorino in L'Elisir Indianapolis Opera Company. d 'Amore . 'KRISTIAN ]OHANNSSON 'NICKOLAS KAROUSATOS (Lionel in Martha) is a native of (Silvio in I Pagliacct) is a native of Iceland and made his professional Washington, D.C., and a recent operatiC debut as Rodolfo in La graduate of the Juilliard School. Mr. Boheme with the Icelandic National Karousatos has appeared in several Theatre. Cited by the Italian press as leading baritone roles for the the "Tenor of the Year," Mr. American Opera Center productions of Johannsson has sung throughout Italy The Magic Flute, Menotti's The Hero, in such opera productions as /I Sessions' Montezuma and Massenet's Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi, Tosca , La Manon. His extensive European Traviata and in the controversial Ken credits include Don Pasquale in Russell production of Madama Butter/y Brussels, Valentin and Figaro in for the 1983 Spoleto Festival. Lisbon, Wolfram in Tannhauser for the Recently, Mr. Johannsson performed Strasburg Opera and, Germont in La in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom , Traviata for the Frankfurt Opera. Mr. France and made his North American Karousatos has performed at the debut with the Opera Columbus in Un Chautauqua Festival, the Kennedy Ballo in Maschera. Center and Opera Memphis . • denotes Michigan Opera Theatre debut 28 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Artistry • The creation of works of enduring valuei e.g., in the splendor of the opera. • Aesthetic brilliance, as achieved by accom plished artists under inspired direction. • Transcendence in beauty and expression, y) like that achieved by the musical genius my 'irt·a-stre ofcelebrated composers. . for the Jate of is the rthe ~oncert" Town OT ~nazzi s dits Ir the 'e of the lY'S

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"STEVEN LARSEN "MARTIN LEWIS (Conductor for Martha) is the current (Artist Intern, 1985) joins Michigan Music Advisor for the Chicago Opera Opera Theatre as a member of the Theatre, where he has achieved Young Artist Apprentice Program. In critical acclaim for his work, especially this capacity, Mr. Lewis, a baritone, with the 1983 revival of Martha . will perform comprimariolchorus roles Besides his many conducting in the company's fall season assignments with the Chicago Opera, productions of Gianni Schicchill including the recently successful The Pagliacci, Martha and West Side Story. Elixir of Love, Maestro Larsen has A recent graduate of the Boston conducted the Day10n Opera's The Conservatory of Music, Mr. Lewis has Barber of Seville. Coupled with his served as an apprentice with the Des operatic work, Maestro Larsen has Moines Metro Opera and the Santa Fe also conducted the Chicago Opera companies. His operatic credits Symphony Orchestra, the Grant Park include Cosi fan tutte, Ariadne auf Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Naxos, Help! Help! the G/obolinks!, Orchestra and the Tulsa Philharmonic. Don Pasquale and Albert Herring.

CHARLES LONG "LEE MAYMAN (Tonio in I Pagliacc/) returns to (Set Designer for Martha) has Michigan Opera following his two pursued a multi-faceted career in ~rmerengagemen~ wHhthe opera, Broadway and off-Broadway, company in I Pagliacci and in the title regional theatre and television role of Rigoletto. As a baritone singer, since the 1970's. His operatic Mr. Long began his career with the designs include italian Girl in Western Opera Theatre and the Algiers and Don Giovanni for the San Francisco Opera where he Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Don performed such roles as Jack Pasquale, Carmen, Don Giovanni Rance, lago, Don Giovanni and, and Daughter of the Regiment for created the role of Titus in Floyd's the Virginia Opera; and The Merry . Bilby's 0011 for the Houston Grand Widow and Madama Butterfly for Opera. Mr. Long made his Tri-Cities Opera. In NY, Mr. European debut in Menotti's Maria Mayman has been the art director Golovin for the Italian Spoleto for NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live Festival. since 1977, and has won several Emmy Awards for his set designs. WILLIAM M'ARCH McCARTY MICHAEL MONTEL (Stage Manager for Martha) is a (Stage Director for West Side Story) veteran of numerous Michigan returns to Michigan Opera Opera productions including last following his previous engagements season 's Faust, property master for with the company including last the 1981-83 mai nstage seasons, season's hit Sweeney Todd, The costume designer and director for Sound of Music, Copland's The Alice in Wonderland and as Tender Land and Joan of Arc. Mr. technical directorlstage manager Montel recently directed Top Girls for the company's state residency for the University of Connecticut tours in 1981-83. Mr. McCarty has and Miss Firecracker Contest at the recently been a featured performer Cincinnati Playhouse. Last season with the Michigan Renaissance he directed the world premiere of Festival, the Rochester Mime p .D.a . Bach's opera The Abduction Ensemble, as the property master of Figaro for the Minnesota Opera. for the Goodspeed Opera House, Mr. Montel is the former Artistic and stage manager for Dayton Opera. Director for Broadway's New ' Phoenix Repertory Company. "ROBERT O 'HEARN "BRAD PACE (Set Designer for West Side Story) is (Costume Designer for Gianni an acclaimed scenic designer for the Schicchi and Martha) is the Metropolitan Opera, beginning with his acclaimed costume designer for 1960 debut with The Queen of Spades, the Portland Opera's recent followed by such successes as L 'Elisir productions of Martha, Un Ballo in d 'Amore, Meistersinger, Aida, Parsifal Maschera, Lucia di Lammermoor and Le Nozze di Figaro. Mr. and The Bartered Bride. Mr. Pace's O'Hearn has created designs for additional operatic credits include productions of Otello in Boston and supervision and construction of Hamburg; Porgy and Bess at the costumes for La Traviata, Vienna Volksoper and Bregenz; La Wuthering Heights, Die Fledermaus, Traviata in Santa Fe and La Fanciulla La Fanciulla del West and Cosi fan del West for the Houston Opera tutte. and Vienna Staatsoper. In the world of ballet, Mr. O'Hearn 's works have been designed for ABT, NYC Ballet, San Francisco and Ballet West. LET'S GET IT: "denotes Mich igan Opera Theatre debut 30 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

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MARION PRA TNICKI 'RENEE A. REED (Zita in Gianni Schicch/) returns to (Artist Intern, 1985) joins Michigan Michigan Opera following her Opera as a member of the Young debut with the company as Marthe Artist Apprentice Program. In this in Faust and Annina in La Traviata, capacity, Ms. Reed, a soprano, will 1983. Currently an Assistant perform comprimario/chorus rules for Professor of Voice at Western the company's fall season productions Michigan University, Ms. Pratnicki of Gianni Schicchill Pagliacci, Martha has sung with the opera and West Side Story. Currently a companies of Syracuse, senior at Day10n Ohio's Wright State Indianapolis, Rochester and University, Ms. Reed has performed in Chautauqua in such repertory as Manon Lescaut, Ernani, Carmen and The Mikado, Faust, Otello and The E/ixir of Love. For the Day10n Opera, Marriage of Figaro. she has sung the role of Berta in The Barber of Seville and Mme. Praskovia in The Merry Widow and is an active member of Day1on's Opera Funatics.

DAVID REILLY MARILYN RENNAGEL (Artist Intern, 1985) joins Michigan (Lighting Designer for West Side Opera Theatre as a member of the Story) has served as the Staff Young Artist Apprentice Program. In Lighting Designer for Michigan this capacity, Mr. Reilly, a tenor, will Opera for the last seven years and perform comprimario/chorus roles in has designed for Dallas Opera, the company's fall season productions Philadelphia Opera, Ft. Worth and of Gianni Schicchill Pag/iacci, Martha Miami Opera. Most recently she and West $ide Story. A graduate of designed the lighting for the AIDS the University of Wisconsin and Benefit at the Shubert Theatre in NYC Wayne State University's Hilberry and two productions at the Alliance Theatre, Mr. Reilly has enjoyed a Theatre in Atlanta. Ms. Rennagel's diverse background in vocal Broadway credits include Woman performance, theatre, dance and Of The Year, Clothes For A Summer scenic design. A recent member of Hotel, Peter Allen - Up In One, Do MOT's Aida production, Mr. Reilly has Black Patent Leather Shoes Really performed in such productions as The Ref/ect Up? and John Curry's Ice Mikado, Oklahoma and Kiss Me Kate. Dancing. JOSEPH RESCIGNO CHARSIE RANDOLPH (Conductor for Turandot) is Artistic (Artist Intern, 1985) joins Michigan Advisor of the Florentine Opera of Opera as a member of the Young Milwaukee, as well as a frequent Artist Apprentice Program. In this guest conductor of opera and capacity, Ms. Randolph, a soprano, symphony throughout the United will perform comprimario/chorus roles States. Last season, Maestro in the company's fall season Rescigno conducted The Merry productions of Gianni Schicchill Widow and Aida in Milwaukee, Pag/iacci, Martha and West Side Story. L'ltaliana in Algeri for Washington Ms. Randolph was a resident artist Opera, and in St. Louis, The Barber of with the North Carolina Opera in such Seville and the world premiere of operas as Cinderella, The Pirates of Minoro Miki's Joruri. This year finds Penzance, Faust and The Toy Shop. Maestro Rescigno at the NYC Opera Last season, Ms. Randolph was for La Fille du Regiment, Milwaukee awarded the Christine Witter Award by for Rigoletto and Seattle Opera for the San Francisco Opera and Tosca. performed the role of Nanetta in Falstaff for the Merola Opera Program. 'PAMELA SOUTH 'DIANA SOVIERO (Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and (Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Nedda in I Pag/iacc/) made her Nedda in I Pag/iacc/) has been operatic debut in 1975 with the acclaimed throughout North San Francisco Opera where she America and Europe. She has made sang many principal roles. many important debuts including Ann Her recent successes include Trulove in The Rake's Progress and a NYC Opera debut as Mimi in La Norina in Don Pasquale for the San Boheme, Pamina in The Magic Flute Francisco Opera; Nedda in I Pagliacci for Hawaii Opera, Opera/Omaha and for Houston; Mimi in La Boheme Minnesota Opera and in the title role for the Chicago Lyric; and, Liu in of The Merry Widow for the Colorado Turandot for Dallas Opera. Miss Opera. In 1983, Miss South sang Soviero was highly praised for her Musetta opposite Placido Domingo in La Traviata in Paris and her Liu op La Boheme for the Denver Opera. posite Dimitrova's Turandot in Miss South will sing opposite James Vienna. In 1986 she sings Juliette McCracken in I Pag/iacci for the for L'Opera de Montreal. Portland Opera and Musetta for the Miami Opera. , denotes Michigan Opera Theatre debut 32 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre chigan Young In this inO, will ) rules for Jroductions ;i, Martha 1tlya ght State 3rformed in men and 'n Opera, Irta in The raskovia an active Funatics.

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Artists ., 1 98~ ~ "MARIA SPACAGNA • MAURICE STERN ::z:m (Liu in Turandot) is considered one of (Canio in I Pagliacc/) is a dramatic today's leading lyric sopranos. tenor originally from NYC, currently Her extensive credits include Gilda in residing in West Germany. Since Rigoletto and Liu in Turandot for the 1980, Mr. Stern has been a frequent NYC Opera, Micaela in Carmen for performer with the Deutsche Opera both the Portland and Dallas Operas, am Rhein in Dusseldorf and has and Madama Butterfly, Don GiovEjnni garnered critical praise for his work in and L 'Elisir d 'Amore for the Opera Otello, Cavalleria Rusticana , Pagliacci, Theatre of St. Louis. For the Canadian Lohengrin and Fidelio. In 1984, Mr. Opera, Miss Spacagna recently sang Stern had a great success as Calaf in Liu opposite Martina Arroyo's Turandot opposite Olivia Stapp, and Turandot, Mimi in La Boheme and recently debuted in La Fanciulla del returns to Toronto this season as West for both the Charleston and Violetta in La Traviata. Other Italian Spoleto Festivals. Mr. Stern wil highlights of her 1985/86 season appear as Canio for the Day10n include Liu in Portland, Gilda in Opera, Baltimore Opera and as Milwaukee and Mimi in Dallas. 1....;___ -'- __-'-::....- __---1 Otello for L'Opera de Montreal. • ALBERT T AKAZAUCKAS • CELESTE TAVERA (Stage Director for Gianni Schicchi (Artist Intern, 1985) joins Michigan and I Pagliacc/) won an Obie for Opera Theatre as a member of the his direction of David Mamet's Young Artist Apprentice Program. In acclaimed double bill Sexual this capacity, Ms. Tavera, a soprano, Perversity in Chicago and Duck will perform comprimario/chorus roles Variations at the St. Clements and in the eo.mpany's fall season Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC. productions of Gianni Schicchill His extensive Off-Broadway th eatre Pagliacci, Martha and West Side Story credits include Riff-Raff Revue at A native of Orange County, CA, Ms. the Theatre For The New City and , Tavera has been critically acclaimed Piano Bar at the Chelsea Westside for her performance with the Five Theatre. His operatic engagements Penny Opera in the title role of include The Postman Always Rings Manon, The Merry Widow and Hansel Twice for Ft . Worth, Madama Butterfly and Gretel. She has appeared with thl . for Western Opera Theatre and a Long Beach Opera in Christopher future Tasca for the Seattle Opera. Alden's renowned The Coronation of Poppea. MICHAEL V AN ENG EN • ERNESTO VERONELLI ~ (Lord Tristram in Martha) is a native of (Calaf in Turandot) makes his North --- Iowa and a graduate of the Cincinnati American role debut in Detroit as , """'" Conservatory of Music. Mr. van Cala!. He has performed to great ~ Engen, a bass-baritone, is a former success throughout the principal member of the 1980 Michigan Opera European opera houses including La Apprentice Program and a recent Scala, Parma, Covent Garden, Vienm member of the Cincinnati Opera Cologne and Stuttgart. His acclaimed Ensemble Company. He has sung tenor repertory includes Turandot with the Santa Fe Opera, the San opposite Ghena Dimitrova and Eva Francisco Opera Merola Program, Marton, and Cavaradossi in Tosca Western Opera Theatre, Day10n opposite Dame Kiri Te Kanawa for thl Opera , Pittsburgh Opera and has Paris Opera telecast. This season Mr appeared regularly with the Cincinnati Veronelli will make his Met debut in Opera. Mr. van Engen is the recipient I Pagliacci and will sing Radames of the prestigious National Norman opposite Leona Mitchell's Aida for Treigle Memorial Scholarship given by both the Canadian Opera and the the NYC Opera. 1986 Met touring production.

JON FREDRIC WEST "PETER WEST (Calaf in Turandot) returns to Michigan (Lighting Designer for Martha) is a Opera following his performance with transplanted New Yorker living in the the company in the 1979 I Pagliacci Pacific Northwest, where for the past and in the 1981 Tosca . A native of twelve years he has designed lighting Day1on , Ohio, Mr. West successfully for theatre, dance and opera . His debuted with La Scala in 1983 as recent credits with the Portland Opera Canio in I Pagliacci, a role he include Carmen and Martha and a repeated with the NYC Opera as well future engagement with The Marriage as the roles of Calaf, Don Jose and of Figaro. His dance credits include Cavaradossi. He has recently extensive work with the post-modern performed the title role in Samson et Portland Dance Theatre as well as thE Dalila for the Connecticut Opera and lighting design for the Pacific Ballet has performed with the opera Theatre's Nutcracker and Coppelia. companies of Houston, St. Louis, Miami, Frankfurt, Bogota and the We regret that we were unable to Scottish Opera. print all artist profiles due to publication deadline. , denotes Michigan Opera Theatre debut 34 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre dramatic , currently '. Since a frequent :he Opera nd has r his work in a, Pagliacci, 1984, Mr. ; as Calaf in , .. ~.--- " --- '. itapp, and ~ciulla del Ion and M. Stern will 'ayton nd as It real.

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The original Gianni Schlcchi cast and set of the 1918 world premiere. Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Opera Archives

Comedy in on e act Lauretta, Gianni Schiccb i's daughter Music by Giacomo Puccini DIANA SOVIERO, October 1 1, 13 and 19 Synopsis Librett o by Giovatchino FOf za no PAMELA SOUT H , Setting: Floren ce, J 299 October 12, 16 m and 1R English translation b y Gras ping relatives of the w ea lthy Anne and Herbert Grossman Master Spinelloccio , Physician Buoso Donati gather at his deathbed to Fi rst performance: New York City ' DAVID W. REILLY m ourn his passing and inves tiga te his December 14, 19 18 Amantio di Nicolao , Notary beques ts. Rumo r has it that the olel _ DAVID LUDWIG man has left nearly everything to a THE CAST m o nas tery , but if his w ill has no t bee n Pinellino , Shoemaker Zita, " Old W oman," Buoso's cousin filed there is still hope fo r the relatives, RODERICK REESE MARION PRATNICKI w ho begin a frantic search fo r the document. Young Rinuccio suggests La Cies ca , Marco's w ({e Guccio, Dyer that his sweetheart's father, Gianni RENEE REED DAVID PODULKA Sc hicchi, a shrewd selfmade man , can Marco, Simon e's son Conducto r help them : his re sourceful peasa nt MARTIN LEWIS MARK FLINT stock w ill be the salvation o f Florence, which the young m an likens to a tree Rinuccio, Zita 's n ephew Stage Director DON BERNARDINI ALBERT T AK AZAUCKAS in flower (Our Flor ence is a proud and ancient city). While Sc hicchi has bee n Simone, Buoso's cousin Lighting Designer se nt fo r, the will has bee n located and THOMAS HAMMONS MICHAEL BAUMGARTEN read by Simo ne who confirms his Set DeSigner Nella, Cherardo 's w({e gree d y clan's worst fears: Buoso's en PETER DEAN BECK CELESTE TAVERA tire fo rtune has bee n bequea thed to Costumes courtes y o f Po rtland Opera Gherardo, Buoso 's n ep hew the m o nks. Gianni Sc hicchi no w ap Associatio n , des igned by BERYL HENDERSON pear s with his daughter Lauretta. BRAD PACE Disgusted by the h yp ocrispy and Bett o, Buoso's bro ther -in-law Wig and Make·up Des igner avarice he finds, he starts to leave but L LAWRENCE ADAMS REBECCA W AT SON softens w hen Lauretta begs for permis Gherardino, Ghera rdo's ch ild Used b y arrangement w ith sio n to m arry Rinuccio (0 my beloved E KATIE O 'SHAUGHNESSEY Associated Music Publishers, Inc., daddy). Gianni Schicchi, a p easant U .S. age nt fo r G. Ricordiand Co, Reading the will, Schicchi first Iy FRANK GUARRERA Milan . asse rts that no thing can be done, but )-6 43 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre "Iil ,u- I 1 1 1{.. 1 II 1! H.

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. Ie The Creation of \ I Gianni Schicchi he germ idea for Puccini's opera Gianni Schicchi was taken from the briefest of references to the Florentine rogue of that name in Canto XXX of Dante's Inferno. The excellent libret to was explained and worked up for the composer by that gifted play III. wright-cum-producer Giovacchino GIANNI SCHICCHI Forzano. In his invaluable study of Puccini, Dr. Mosco Carner states that Book hy GIO:\ CHINO FOR7.ANO it is a matter of doubt as to which of (:1:\;":SI SCI.fl(:CJII. • . .•.. ...• CIV:SEE'P£. DE LlT.\ 5 1)lO."'\E •. .. . AO.\ }.IO lJIO\ i< l.AUReTIA ...•.. , ", .•...••.. .. ~.FLORENCE EASTON ~\f ARc;o . . .. . • . .10U'5:= J) · -\;\'PE'I .O the two - composer or poet - first L.\.. YECCHI.\ ••.•..•• , . •. •.• . K.\THLEE~ HOWA,RD LI\ CIESC..... -. . .•••• .•.•• \!_\Rl~: SUNnED1) $. had the idea of amplifying a libretto RI S l ; CCIO .. .. _ •. .• • GIULlO CRIMI S PIZ"\£.U.o.Ccro ..... • . • . •. : . ", PO~iT'[IJO MAL\TES'C ,\ C; H ER\ROtI . ... •.• .-\N Gt:LD B.~D ~\ .~ ICR .nIAKTlO DI :'\'JCOL.l.O . • 1\~;. nR.E S DE SEG t.: ROl.,\ from this source. The work was com . . . ~t ;'RfE TlfFAN Y l'1l'\£l.. lrxo . . • •• :. ,.\' !),'CI-:.N·ZO RE ~C HICLt ,':-.: pleted in April 1918 and first produced m· { ER ~,", KlH:" Q . .. ~t.\R10 :\{AL... TESTA (,eecIO . ,CARL SCHT.>-:r.EJ RETTO . , P ~\OlO- - .,7-> ..\ SIAN at the Metropolitan Opera House in :'.f' £[\·E: --TlIl ~ f,S,EllROO .\t OJ" THE LAl'r~ 13,GOSO ' DON .HI. (FLORENce j\X~O 1:.~9J New York on December 14 of the Painted hy' Pieretlo Bianco after a sketdl by Galileo Chini, Florenn'. same year.

COX1JUCTOR.. ROUEJ<:J;"O ~tOR . \ NZONl While based on a fundamentally ~1' ICI.:: nlkF ', TfJR .. . RJ CH \Rll I1RHY X~ ~ 1 Ti:::CH,· !t".\ L OIRECl'flk , ... HJW :\RD SlEDLE macabre theme, Gianni Schicchi is U!(If(r· ...:. .:>f\:-;.HJL .(;I{: UO !-' ETTI ";;1".\ t;r: 7I ! ,\,; ·.t~l-:R . . . .\i n1:\:'\'ll0 :\f;N,IN.I Puccini's only opera devoted in its en

C".S"t umcs executed iJ~ ' ,M ill e. Lvui.:.. ..:: ~1~h J. t't 1 5. tirety to a comic subject, though, in his Prope n i(:s :J.'nd a("Ce,csGTi e.. by the $i~dle Stildio. more dramatic works he shows, by many deft touches, how delightfully he can handle comedy. Gianni Schic The original cast program of Gianni Schicchi, 1918. chi was an historical personage. He g." courtesy of Metropolitan Opera Archives was a member of the Cavalcanti fam ily, originally of peasant extraction. Ac then conceives of a plan to imper fraud is the loss of a hand and exile cording to one version, the story goes sonate the dead man himself. Lauretta from Florence (Farewell, Florence). that he offered to impersonate Buoso is sent from the room while the ,body is When the notary arrives with wit Donati at the request of the latter's son removed from the bed. When the doc nesses, Schicchi bequeaths some small Simone, who feared that his father tor pays a call~ he is convinced by property to the relatives but reserves might have left a substantial part of his Schicchi's imitation of Buoso that the the best of it for " his devoted friend, ill-gotten gains to the church, when he patient is better. Now Schicchi tells the Gianni Schicchi." The notary is hard undertook to dictate a will in ac others to send for the notary; donning ly out of the door when the enraged cordance with Simone's wishes, for Buoso's nightshirt and cap, he pro family falls on Schicchi and pillages the which service he was to receive as his mises to dictate a new will. The rela house while he chases them out. The reward a very beautiful and much tives are overjoyed, un'til they hear the lovers Rinuccio and Lauretta, revealed coveted mare. According to another tolling of the death knell. The jig is up, on the terrace gazing rapturously out verSion, he himself it was who be apparently, but it turns out the bell at the city, are haPIlY. Schicchi asks the queathed himself the mare, along with tolls not for Buoso but for the mayor's audience whether he was not justified a handsome legacy. This latter version major·domo. Their greedy hopes re in tricking the relatives and condemn is the one adopted, adapted and elabo newed, the relatives murmur a ing his own soul (a reference to the ap rated by Forzano and Puccini. delighted requiescat in pace and get pearance of his name in Dante'S The poet Dante, from whose slight down to the business of bribing Schic DIVINE COMEDY) for the sake of the and slighting reference to the genial chi to leave them the choicest items. He young lovers. He asks for applause and scoundrel the germ of the idea for the agrees but warns them they are all ac interprets it as a verdict of "not guilty." opera originated, held the peasant complices and that the penalty for a Courtesy of OPERA NEWS classes in general and all nouveaux 45 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Gianni Schicchi

riches in particular in the greatest con tempt. His sympathies lay very natural ly with the Donatis, whereas it is made amply clear by the context and slant of the libretto in which direction la y those of Forzano and Puccini. The ref erence to the Ghibellines in Schicchi's little ditty Addio Firel1ze appears somewhat mystifying until one re members that, in the prolonged strug gle betwee n Guelph and GhibeJline which rent the length and brea th of Ita ly during the Middle Ages, the latter were expelled from Florence for good and all in 1267. Dante, a supporter of the Ghibellines, suffered exile. Other points which may need some clarification are as follows. Fiesole, built on an eminence from whence a' breath-takingly beautiful panoramic view of Florence may be had, where Rinuccio and Lauretta first declared their mutual affection, is now :1 mere suburb of Florence, but at one time was an important Etruscan settle ment which dominated the entire countryside, till ousted from this proud position by its rapidly expand ing neighbour-city. The Ponte Vec chio, celebrated bridge spanning the Arno upon which river Florence is Situated, was the centre of the gold smith's craft and is lined on either side b y tiny jewellers' shops, so that one is tempted to \,'onder why Lauretta felt impelled to go so far afield as Porta Eossa to buy 'the ring'. The Piazza della Signoria was the political centre o f Florence, whilst in the Piazza Santa Colle Val D'Elsa, the architect who de prematu Croce stands the largest and most signed Florence Cathedral built around Thus the action is seen to derive be lUtiful of the Franciscan churches, the old Church of Santa Reparata, to the mainstream of Italian comedy reputed to have been built by Arnolfo which foundation Buoso Donati had adhere to its traditional conventio eli Cambio. Prato, Empoli and so on, willed the bulk of his fo rtune, the great The brilliant, sparkling where Buoso Donati had his extensive painter Giotto, reputed to be a native of audaciously witty score which a holdings, are , of course, places in the Colle in the fertile Mugello valley, and panies this outrageous farce is very environs of Florence, some of them the celebrated and powerful family of ferent . from any other of Puccin still noted today. Florentine bankers, Medici. With the solitary exception of La The second half of the 13th century The main characters of the,. opera are ta 's 0 mio babbino caro, gone are was a period of tremendo us expansion based upo n the stock characters of the melting lusciously-o rchestrated t both artistically and materially - Commedia dell' Arte, with which they to be replaced by pungent fragmenta Florence, for instance, became the can easily be matched up, while two themes and motives which crop banking centre of Italy - and men of other such - the Spanish Captain and throughout the entire course of talent of every description flocked to his Blackamoor - are mentioned dur droll and caustic intrigue, where the city. Rinuccio alludes to some of ing the scene of false alarm when, hear and whenever called for, with sui tl1em in his aria Firel1ze e' un a/bero ing the tolling of a bell, the dismayed rib-tickling allusiveness . ./iorito - Arnolfo di Cambio, from relatives fancy the news o f Buoso's -Courtesy of Peggie Cochrane

46 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre prematurely. ) derive from comedy and conventions. rkling and ihich aCCOill ~e is very dif Jf Puccini's. JO of Lauret gone are the trated tunes, fragmentary ich crop up Jurse of the

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre a pima voce, 8Ira~ianItJ :>.---.-...... , , Lyric Drama ir >- ::> :> ~.11 '& . ~ ...... --.....- ~ • . .. • -- Words and Lyri LeoncavalJo tJ Hi di Pa - gliac • eio, sui tuo a • mo - rein. First performan l;,ao'i'tB n/. then, Pa - gliac - cio, thouRh your love h~ been May 21, 1892 A A .1 :> :> :>~ j j • ,,~j'...... --..... J , THE CAST ~~ III ... III . Tonio, a memt 14 I ing players If CHARLES LO ~ 4 >- f Canio, bead of players MAURICE STl = ::: ~ ~ .. Beppe, a meml DON BERNAl

Nedda, Canio '.' DIANA SOVII October I I, 1.' PAMELA SOL October 12 , l(

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~, Conductor .------~------MARK FLINT Stage Director ALBERT TAK Co ngratulatio ns . . . Dr. David DiChiera ... Lighting Desigl MICHAEL BA Set Designer The Generous Contributors, PETER DEA!\ The Wonderful Volunteers Wig and Make REBECCA W . . . Who through fourteen years Chorus Master of dedication, have made SUZANNE AC Michigan Opera Theatre an outstanding Metropolitan Sung in Italia Detroit institution ... Through a ge And a special BRAVO ing night p Schicchi an to David DiChiera for sored by A DAVID DiCHIERA., irwolving the total community Company. MOT General Director in Mar productiom The Titles fo Welcome to the Fisher Theatre ,courtesy 0 1 Association and the New Center Area Portland, C by Philip I< Lewis & Thompson Agency, Inc. ROBERT P. LEWIS, Our 45th Year of Insurance Service President 2617 West Grand Blvd. Detroit, 48208 875-7555

Words and Lyrics by Ruggiero Leoncavallo in. First performance: Milan !n May 21, 1892

THE CAST Tonio, (/ member oj tbe troupe oj stroll ing players CHARLES LONG Canio, head oj a troupe oj strolling players MAURICE STERN

Beppe, a member oj tbe troupe DON BERNARDINI

Nedda, Canio's wife DIANA SOVIERO, October II , 13 and 19 PAMELA SOUTH, October 12 , 16m and 18 Silvio, a villager NICHOLAS KAROUSATOS

Conductor MARK FLINT Stage Director ALBERT TAKAZAUCKAS a ... Lighting Designer MICHAEL BAUMGARTEN Set Designer PETER DEAN BECK

Wig and Make-up Designer REBECCA WATSON Chorus Master SUZANNE ACTON

Jon Fredric West in Michigan Opera Theatre's 1979 production of I Pagliacci Sung in Italian with English Surtitles

Through a generous gift, the open arte tradition - it's only a play, we're ing night performance of Gianni only acting - the author and actors Schicchi and I Pagliacci is spon Synopsis want to show that those onstage are sored by ANR PIPELINE Setting.· Outside Montalto, Calabria, in human beings of flesh and blood. Do Company. southern Italy, late 1930's. not be deceived by our costumes, says Tonio: underneath we are flesh and The Titles for I Pagliacci are PROLOGUE: The-hunchback Tonio, blood like you, and the play we bring courtesy of the Portland Opera dressed as the clown Taddeo from you offers a slice oj life. Association SUPERTEXT, commedia dell-arte, steps before the Portland, Oregon. Titles written curtain to address the audience (Si, ACT I. Excited villagers mill around by Philip Kelsey. puo?). The author of the drama, he as a small theatrical road company ar ;, says, wanted to revive the traditional rives at the outskirts of their Calabrian masks and costumes, but with a dif town. Canio, head of the troupe, de ference. Instead of the com media deJI- scribes that night's offering (Un grande

49 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Some people find buying or leasing a new car ,pettaea/o), an much easier tlian others ingly suggests Tonia is secre After you've found the GM car or truck of nience is just one reason why GMAC helps Canio warns t your dreams, don't turn the financial more people get their new car or truck flirting with N arrangements into a hassle. All you really than anyone else in the business. Vesper belL have to do is tell your GM Dealer to arrange So whether you're in the market to buy church and tt your financing or a lease through GMAC or lease, do it the easy way-with GMAC leaving Nedda husband's sus} It's so easy with GMAC You save Equal Credit Opportunity. vies the freedc time because your GM Dealer can overhead (Stri. handle all the arrangements right pears and tries in the showroom. GMAC she laughs at hi And that conve- THE FINANCIAL SERVICES PEOPLE for her, and she FROM GENERAL MOTORS getting rid of h of vengeance. Nedda, in fa· Silvio, who r suades her to midnight. But them, hurries ( the jealous hu guilty pair; N< following Silvi Tonia's glee, ( da tell who he ing Canio put another memt his arm, remin a show to give costumes, and terly that a cl< his heartbreak ACT II. The them, assemb play, "Pagliao the absence of (played by Car is serenaded I (Beppe), who, servant Tadde The two s'" and plot to I soon arrives; window. With assures Pagli~ nocence, fir jealousy. Fa] demands tha lover's name longer the d Pagliaccio n( cheers Canio nounces his w da asks why h, then, and he give her up. I

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre spettacolo), and when someone jok husband openly, enraging him further. stabs Silvio as well. Horrified by the ingly suggests that the hunchbacked Tonio stopS Beppe from interfering, double murder, the villagers seize Tonio is secretly courting his wife, but when Silvio (in the audience) sees Canio who ironically tells the au Canio warns that he will tolerate no Canio grab a knife from under the dience, the comedy is ended flirting with Nedda (Un tal gioco). table, he rushes forward to protect Vesper bells call the women to Nedda, drawing his own dagger. As - Courtesy of Opera News and john church and the men to the tavern Nedda tries to escape, Canio stabs her W. Freeman leaving Nedda alone. Disturbed by he; and when Silvio runs to her side, he husband's suspicious glances, she en vies the freedom of the birds soaring overhead (Stridono lassu). Tonio ap pears and tries to make love to her, but she laughs at him. Enraged, he reaches Ruggiero Leoncavallo for her, and she lashes out with a whip, getting rid of him but inspiring an oath of vengeance. In Leoncavallo's case, the perpetrator Nedda, in fact, does have a lover - of the crime passionelle, after having Silvio, who now appears and per served his prison term, was taken to suades her to run away with him at see the opera. midnight. But Tonio, who has seen Born in Naples, Leoncavallo was a [hem, hurries off to tell Canio. Shortly few years older than Mascagni and one the jealous husband bursts in on the year older than the most famous of the guilty pair; Nedda StopS Canio from verists, Giacomo Puccini. Except for foll owing Silvio, who has escaped. To the great and unexpected success of Tonio's glee, Canio demands that Ned Pagliacci, Leoncavallo's career was a da tell who her lover is. When the rag series of failures. Earning his living as ing Canio pulls out a dagger, Beppe, a cafe pianist in his youth, he traveled another member of the troupe, grabs extensively. Under the spell of his arm, reminding him that they have Wagner's epic ideas, he planned a giant a show to give. It is time to put on their trilogy called Crepusculum, drawn costumes, and Canio alone muses bit from Italian Renaissance history, but terly that a clown's face cannot mask completed only the first part. Of his his heartbreak, (Vesti la giubba). numerous operas, the most interesting ACT II. The villagers, Silvio among were La Boheme - 1897, 'which suf them, assemble to see the evening's fered in comparison with Puccini's play, "Pagliaccio and Columbine." In Fate has bracketed two competitors, version, and Zazd (1900), an attractive the absence of her husband Pagliaccio Pietro Mascagni and Ruggiero Leonca lighter work that served as a vehicle for (played by Canio), Columbine (Nedda) vallo, as standard-bearers of the Geraldine Farrar's farewell to the is serenaded by her lover Harlequin verismo (realism) movement, because Metropolitan Opera. (Beppe), who dismisses her buffoonish their two short operas Cavalleria Apologists for Leoncavallo attribute servant Taddeo (Tonio). Rusticana and Pagliacci were con his neglect in part to the fact that he The two sweethearts dine together ceived around the same time and to chose the wrong publisher - Son and plot to poison Pagliaccio, who day are usually performed as a double zogno, instead of the influential Ricor soon arrives; Harlequin slips out the bill. Verismo actually had its roots in di - and in part to the relative earli window. With pointed malice, Taddeo Verdi's Rigoletto, Bizet's Carmen, and ness of his death (1919), which mark assures Pagliaccio of his wife's in Ponchielli's La Gioconda: what made ed the end of this stipend that the nocence, firing Canio's real life verismo seem so novel was the brevi Italian government paid to theaters jealousy. Forgetting the play, he ty and topicality of the MascagnilLeon· presenting operas by living composers. demands that Nedda tell him her cavallo operas, both of which are on The durable popularity of Pagliacci, lover's name and says that he is no contemporary, local subjects. Where however, would be the envy of any longer the character Pagliaccio (No, as Mascagni based Cavalleria on .a composer. Its most famous exponent, Pagliaccio non son). The audience popular short story that also became Enrico Caruso, sang the role of Canio cheers Canio's "acting" as he de a play, Leoncavallo for Pagliacci chose eighty-three times at the Met and forty nounces his wife for her betrayal. Ned a trial over which his magistrate father three on tour, and his best-selling Vic da asks why he does not send her away had presided. Both operas revolved tor record of Vesti la giubba re then, and he replies that he will not around love triangles in which a sounded on thousands of phono give her up. Nedda finally defies her jealous husband kills his wife's lover. graphs around the world. 51 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre I Pagliacci The Verismo Movement and Leoncavallo By Joseph Kestner

On May 19, 1890, a young man in Rome wrote to his father, "I feel as though I'm losing my mind. It was real ly overwhelming. " The young man was Pietro Mascagni. Two nights be fore, at the Teatro Costanzi, he had started a revolution. Though Italy had endured a major political upheaval, the Risorgimento, during the nineteenth century under Garibaldi and Mazzini, it took the first performance of Cavatteria Rusticana to revolutionize opera. Mas~agni ' s sixty curtain calls would echo, damningly for him, the remainder of his life. Verismo had ar- . rived. While Cavatteria Rusticana was en joying its unprecedented success, ano ther struggling Italian composer was in great frustration. Ruggiero Leoncaval- 10 , commissioned to compose a trilo ].V gy on the Italian Renaissance by the ape publisher Ricordi, produced f Medici, ture only to have it rejected by Ricordi as too costly for performance. Irritated at Wh Ricordi and inspired by the fact that over Ricordi's rival Sonzogno had sponsor mm ed Cavatteria Rusticana, Leoncavallo to p in four months composed Pagliacci, which Sonzogno accepted. It was Wh mounted in triumph on May 21, 1892, incr at the Teatro dal Verme, Milan, con oveJ ducted by Toscanini. Corresponding to the statements by The the Goncourts, Zola and Verga, Leon Car cavallo gave verismo opera its manifes buti to in the prologue to Pagliacci, follow segl ing the suggestion of the first Tonio, mal Victor Maurel. Much influenced by dist Wagner, in the prelude Leoncavallo es tablishes four themes - those of the incr players, of Canio's despair, of love and nea of suspicion - before Tonio emerges from behind the curtain to address the audience. One recognizes immediate ly how similar and yet how different are Mascagni and Leoncavallo: the si ciliana in Cavatteria Rusticana is sung with the curtain down: in Pagliacci the prologue breaches the space between Enrico Caruso as Canio in I Pagliacc; 52 GO( Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre •

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Mascagni, on the other over by his father, young Leoncavallo Rusticana and Pagliacci indicate that hand, with the title Cavalleria had heard the enraged husband de the term verismo is relative and arbi Rusticana, describes and interprets ra clare, "I repent nothing! If I had to do trary. Veristic operas ultimately are a ther than documents the action of his it over again, I'd do it again l " Those created, not a representational truth. opera. Both the prologue and the words he never forgot. The murderer Puccini, even in Il Tabarro, never us siciliana, nevertheless, have the veris in fact offered to defend Leoncavallo ed street or regional language and was tic spontaneity of Verga, intruding in never attracted to genuine paesani. to their preludes. This spontaneity is Mascagni rarely dealt with Italian sub reinforced by confining the action to Leoncavallo titles his jects, and few verismo operas ever had two holidays, Easter in Cavalleria and opera Pagliacci to provide their setting in Italy or among the the Assumption of the Virgin, August lower classes. It is true that verismo 15, in Pagliacci. a documentary universal cornerstones like La Boheme, Tosca Costumed as Taddeo for the forth reference, that all Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea coming commedia dell'arte, Tonio in Chenier depict artist figures ruined by the prologue declares, "The author has mankind are "players," sordid life, but their contexts scarcely taken a slice of life ... The artist is a correspond to the paesanismo of man and writes for men - and he tells Cavalleria or Pagliacci. , the truth." Several words recurring in if Mendes pressed his accusation, Ver "I found your successor in your the' prologue, particularly "spasimi" ga's story "The Mystery Play," more predecessor, Verdi," Hans von Buelow (griefs), "vedrete" (you'll see) and over, recounts how Nanni killed once remarked to Mascagni. From the " uomini" (mankind), stress Tonio's - Venera's lover Cola, with whom she perspective of the twentieth century, and Leoncavallo's - idea that the stage fell in love while he was performing in one realizes that the revolution in and life are not separate, The mUSiC , he a play during Easter. The fact that spired by Cavalleria Rusticana and declares, originated "un giorno" (one Leoncavallo knew of one actual mur Pagliacci had marked antecedents. day), an expression connoting the der gave him the impetus to compose From Rigoletto came the idea of the spontaneous nature of life, the occur the prologue to Pagliacci. " jester jested" in Pagliacci; atmos rence of the opera on a single day, and It is from the prologue that the ten pheric music and a romanticized "low especially, the fact that such events sion of Pagliacci emerges. In his ad life" appear in Carmen; Cavalleria happen every day, That life and the dress to the villagers ("Un tal gioco"), Rusticana with its impassioned pas stage are one is emphasized by Leon Canio declares, " The stage and life are sage recalls Il Trovatore and in its local cavallo's brilliant idea of having Ned not the same thing." This assertion, color even Aida. Opera in modern da's lover, Silvio, be not a part of the clearly made in ignorance, shows how dress had already taken place with La troupe but one of the village specta far Canio is from the brutal truth re Traviata, while the exchanges be tors. vealed in the prologue. His "Vesti la tween Canio and Tonio in Pagliacci Leoncavallo had not only the il giubba," therefore, has unbearable parallel in Otello. lusion of reality but actuality itself on power, because a masker, and actor, "It is a pity I wrote Cavalleria first. his side when he composed Pagliac has been unmasked - about life. I was crowned before I became king." ci, After the performance of Pagliac Leoncavallo makes this particularly evi So confessed Mascagni later in life. But ci, Catulle Mendes charged that Leon dent in Canio's repetition of words the revolution he initiated remains one cavallo had plagiarized from his drama from the prologue, "uom," "singhioz landmark of the transition from the La Femme de Tabarin (1887), involv zo" (sob) and "spasimo." His confus nineteenth to the twentieth century, ing a murder by a man playing a role ed identity from "Tu se' Pagliaccio" to with La Boheme, Jl Tabarro, Andrea on the stage. In 1874, however, Paul " No, PagJiaccio non son" exposes the Chenier, Tiefland, Louise, even Ferrier had produced his own terrifying Similarity between .the stage Wozzeck and Katya Kabanova, reveal Tabarin. Leoncavallo noted, in a res and life. The original score and Leon ing its significance. In his story "leJi" ponse to these charges in 1894, that cavallo's widow attest that the final Verga wrote, "Anybody who knows the idea of a man in stage character line of Pagliacci, "La commedia e how to write is one who keeps words committing murder was quite old, dat finita!," was to be sung, not spoken, in a tinder box." Like Mt. Etna brood ing as far back as Drama Nuevo by the by Tonio, ending the opera as he ing over Sicily, such explosions occur Spanish writer Estabenez earlier in the began it. When uttered by Canio, how - as did Pagliacci and Cavalleria century. In this same letter to Son ever, its bitter truth is revealed. 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NOl11 cllltic Comed)! in three acts Plunkett, a wealthy farmer PAUL GEIGER ~lusic by Friedrich von Flotow Synopsis Lionel, a friend of Plunkett l.ibretto by W. Friedrich Riese KRISTIAN ]OHANNSSON ACT I, Scene 1. The residence of Lady Harriet Durham near Richmond, English tr;Jnslation by Conductor England. George and Phyllis Mead, used by ar STEVEN LARSEN Lady Harriet Durham, Lady-in rangement with G. Schirmer, Inc., Stage Director Waiting to Queen Victoria, is in her Puhlisher and copyright owner. DAVID GATELY boudoir with a group of her friends in First performance: Vienna Lighting Designer attendance. They comment on the fact November 25, 1847 PETER WEST that she seems to have lost interest in THE CAST Scenery courtesy of Portland Opera the pleasures of the Court. She asks Association, designed by them to leave; then confides to her Nancy /Julia, LEE MAYMAN maid Nancy that she is bored and a(riend of Lady Harriet Durham Costumes courtesy of Portland Opera needs some new diversions. ALICE BAKER Association, designed by Sir Tristram Mickleford, Lady Har BRAD PACE riet's cousin and admirer, arrives to in Lady Harriet Durham/Martha, vite her to the cockfights and races. l.ady-in- Waiting to Queen Victoria Wig and Make-up Designer REBECCA WATSON From the street outside comes a song SHARON CHRISTMAN, of a group of young women who are November I, 3 and 8 Chorus Master on their way to the Richmond Fair to CHRISTINE DONAHUE, SUZANNE ACTON hire out as maidservants to the local November 2, 6m and 9 Through a generous gift, the open farmers. Sir Tristram Mickleford, ing night performance of Martha This gives Lady Harriet the idea for Lady Harriet's cousin is sponsored by Cadillac Motor an amusing escapade: she and Nancy MICHAEL VAN ENGEN Car. will go to the Fair dressed as farm girls.

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Although Sir Tristam objects, Lady Harriet persuades him to come along and gives each of them a new name. Nancy will be "Julia," Sir Tristram will be "Bob," and Lady Harriet herself will be "Martha." Scene 2. The Richmond Fair. A crowd is waiting for the opening bell. Among them are Plunkett, a pro sperous farmer, and his foster brother, Lionel, who are discussing the possibility of hiring two good maidser vants. Lionel expresses his gratitude to Plunkett for his kindness through the years, ever since Lionel's father brought him to live at the Plunkett farm. The father, an exile from the Court, never revealed his true identi ty. Plunkett reminds Lionel of his father's deathbed message: the ring he gave to Lionel is, in time of danger, somehow to be shown to the Queen. The fair opens and the Sheriff reads the law to the waiting crowd: 1) a ser A scene from the Metropolitan Opera's 1915 production, featuring Margarethe Ober, vant must agree to be hired for a year Giuseppe de Luca, Enrico Caruso and Frieda Hempel. for a sum agreed to by both parties, Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Opera Achives and 2) the contract becomes binding when money changes hands. Lady the women in. When Sir Tristram ar Plunkett, knowing that the Queen is Harriet, Nancy and Sir Tristram arrive rives in a carriage, they are able to nearby, and worried about the danger too late to hear the Sheriff's proclama escape through a window. that Lionel is in, takes the ring from his tion. The two women, who are in a Scene 2. An Inn, A Hunting Forest foster brother and hurries away to see holiday mood, agree to be hired by Near Richmond. what can be done. Lionel and Plunkett, and accept their The Queen's hunt is in progress. ACT III, Plunkett's Farmhouse. money. At Sir Tristram's urging, they Plunkett and a group of friends are en Outside the farmhouse, Lady Harriet then try to leave. Lionel and Plunkett joying themselves and celebrating the muses on her love for Lionel and assert their legal rights and the Sheriff qualities of British ale. Nancy arrives resolves to win back his heart. Lionel affirms them. The two farmers take with a group of ladies of the Court. steps from the house and resists her "Martha" and "Julia" home with them. Plunkett recognizes her as "Julia" and apologies, even when she explains that ACT II, Scene 1. Plunkett'S' Farm insists that she return to his service. through his ring he has been identified Blvd. house. The ladies rudely send him away. as the long-lost heir to the Earl of Der Lionel and Plunkett arrive with their Lionel appears, thinking sadly of his by, unjustly banished from court. As new "servants." However, the men lost love (In My Dreams). He en Harriet and Lionel part, Nancy enters soon discover that the women are not counters Lady Harriet walking by telling Plunkett that she would never ordinary servants. They don't even herself. Although he is confused by her be separated from her love, where know how to spin; their employers are elegant attire, his feelings of joy at see upon the two resolve to marry. forced to teach them. Meanwhile, ing her again lead him to renew his Evening falls as the ladies and Lionel has fallen in love with "Mar declaration of love. Lady Harriet is gentlemen of the court, disguised as tha." She complies with his request deeply moved, but deliberately insults peasants, set up a replica of the Rich that she sing for him (The Last Rose 0/ him to discourage his impossible mond Fair outside Lionel's house. Har Summer). He declares his love and asks hopes. Lionel angrily asserts his rights riet, dressed as "Martha," cites her her to marry him. Although Lady Har as "Martha's" master, and she calls for qualifications as a servant of true love riett is also attracted to Lionel, she help. Lady Harriet's men arrive and put and wins Lionel's forgiveness. The en forces herself to reject him because of Lionel under restraint. When he hears tire company joins the reunited cou the supposed difference in their sta Nancy address "Martha" as "My ple in a toast to eternal love. tions. At midnight Plunkett decides it Lady," he realizes that he has been the - Courtesy 0/ Fortland Opera and is time to retire for the night, and locks victim of a hoax. Opera News. ts. 61 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Martha

The Making of Martha by Stanley Johnson pean landed gentry in the early nine began to move in fashionable societ teenth century, the family fell on hard and was a guest in private ho times, and was virtually impoverished where Chopin and Liszt played - by the Napoleonic wars. Friedrich, of them almost exactly Flotow's age ...M_.=tI There is no character named " Mar born in 1812, was destined for a He came to know Gounod and part" tha" in the opera of that name, except governmental or diplomatic career; ularly Jacques Offenbach, who -.~ " ~------,! under disguise; and the best-known but he quite early developed an in both a personal friend and a musical in· excerpt from the opera - indeed, the terest in music, and when he was six fluence. So completely did Flotow be· only one that most people know, "The teen his family allowed him to go to come absorbed into Parisian musical Last Rose of Summer" - is not the Paris to study composition at the Paris life that he was often introduced as work of the opera's composer, but is Conservatoire. "Monsieur de Flotteaux." an old Irish folk tune that was borrow He became a student of Anton Meanwhile he began to produce h ed and inserted at random, even Reicha, the Czech composer, an exact own compositions. It is known though it has nothing whatsoever to contemporary and an intimate friend he composed string quartets, do with anything in the opera. of Beethoven, who had settled in Paris. lin sonatas, at least one mass, and Add to these oddities a plot so Though Reicha's own chamber works large quantity of solo piano works lightweight' that it makes the old are still performed occasionally, he is various kinds; but many of these com- Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy probably best remembered for his in positions have been lost and movie musicals seem like profound fluence as a teacher on a whole gene known only from entries in diaries philosophical treatises by compari ration of young French composers. letters. The surviving Flotow corpus Son- and you have the ingredients of Hector Berlioz was one of his out consists almost entirely of vocal works an unlikely but endearing work by a standing pupils; others were Charles - a few operas and many songs. German composer whose musical in Gounod and Cesar Franck. Actually he was very prolific as fluences were French and who used an Although his formal musical studies opera composer, producing app English setting he knew nothing about. emphasized piano and composition, imately thirty works in this·form. The man who created this work, Flotow was strongly attracted to opera. of them, however, do not Friedrich von Flotow, came from an In Paris he attended performances of any form. Some of them had no old and long-established German land works by Boieldieu, Auber, Rossini, performance, being intended only owning family. Like many of the Euro- Meyerbeer, Donizetti, and Halevy. He private entertainment for friends, a

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claim to fame. If not a profound work. it is at least a merry and gOOd-humored one which sends audiences awav the same cheerful mood as an rvi musical or a Broadway show Jerome Kern or Cole Porter. If i pretensions are not great, at least does what it sets out to do very w It is another variation on the old sto of bored, well-born ladies who set in disguise to find adventure. As Soo as they encounter two enterprisin ~ I!!J. young farmers who are looking for set ., vant maids, the outcome is predeter mined. The two couples will be paired off, as soon as the ladies are able ttl realize that true love is more impo than baubles and social status. There _ L..oIII""" are no real complications, no barrier' to their lives - just enough delays t make them as eager as the audience fo the final curtain that signifies that all i~ well at last, that the Queen's attendant can easily transform into farmer. wives. The There is no pretense of reality here rough. ~umps A scene from Act I, Lady Harriet's boudoir. Photo courtesy of Chicago Opera Theatre no suggestion that life could turn 0 other than wonderfully for any of til! Shar:ply some were lost in a fire in 1842 that Martha. Reise began working on the four young lovers. Lady Harriet, till \Nhil~ tl timesjl destroyed several of Flotow's manu libertto and Flotow on the music. It Lady-in-waiting to the Queen, find scripts. Only Martha still holds the was finished and first offered to the that, JUSt like the whole chorus () stage. public on November 25, 1847, in farmers' wives, she can sew and mm\" ~a:~ Flotow's most notable success be Vienna. and bake and brew, all at a moment". fore Martha came with Alessandro Martha turned out to be Flotow's notice, as required by turns of the Stradella in 1844. This was an opera greatest success, perhaps his only last So the harsh realities of life are based on the life of the seventeenth ing one. It became highly popular in pended; even the melancholy I century Italian composer. The work Vienna, ami within a year was also per tune, "This the last rose of summ premiered in Hamburg in 1844 and the formed at Weimar, Munich and Ber takes a happy turn when it is . next year was performed simultane lin. Within a decade it had been ated into this plot. As Lady Harriet ously at two theaters in Vienna. Its done repeatedly in London, first in minds us at the end, "In the bright libretto was by F.W. Reise, a German German, then in Italian, and finally in of spring-time, the rose blooms anew. journalist living in Paris, who wrote English. Its first production in the As if this excursion into a under the pseudonym of W. Friedrich. United States came in New York in where it is perpetual spring were n Later he also collaborated with Flotow \852, in the English version that has optimism enough, the whole cast j on Martha and other works. been used ever since. at the end in the jubilant lines It was as a result of the success of Flotow lived on for many years might summarize the whole spirit Alessandro Stradella that Flotow was without ever achieving another similar Martha: invited to compose a new opera for success, though he never gave up try "The birds are all singing in heave the Court Theater in Vienna. It was a ing. Meanwhile Flotow h;d married above, All nature invites us to join ant story based on a ballet that had been twice and fathered two sons. He and to love. " performed at the Paris Opera early in his family lived for some years in or 1844, to which Flotow had contribu near Vienna, where he was often con Reprinted from the Portland ted the music for one act. Then it had sulted about the staging of operas. Opera Encore Magazine, courtesy oJ been called Lady Harriet, or The Ser Finally he moved to the German city Stanley Johnson, PrOfessor of vant of Greenwich, and told in dance of Darmstadt, where he died in 1883. English at Portland State form substantially the same story as Today Martha is Flotow's single University.

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Musical Drama in two acts

Based on a conception of Jerome Robbins

Book by ARTH UR LAURENTS

Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Entire Original Production Directed and CIH,rcugrap llcd hy JEROME ROBBINS

Originally produced on Broadway by Roben E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince by arrangement with Roger L. Stevens.

First performance: New York City September 26, 1957

Conductor Evans Haile

Stage DirectOr Michael Montel

Choreography Composer leonard Bernstein conducting a recent recording session of West Side Karen Azenberg Story. Photo by S. Bayat

Lighting Designer Marilyn Rennagel vious hatrecl between the gangs, meets Synopsis Tony, who at once falls in love with Set Designer her (Maria). Later, after the dance, Setting 1957, the West Side Robert O'Hearn while the gangs begin to assemble at of New York City Doc's drugstore to choose a place and Costumes ACT 1. A danced Prologue indicates weapons for their rumble - a gang Charles R. Caine the bitter tensions between the Jets, a fight - Tony visits Maria on the fire self-styled "American" street gang, and escape of her apartment, and they Wig and Make-up Design the Sharks, a group of young Puerto Ri pledge their love (Tonight), promising Rebecca Watson cans. The leader of the Jets, Riff, swears to meet the next afternoon at the brid to drive the Sharks, led by Bernardo, al shop where Maria works. As he de Chorus Master Suzanne Acton from the streets (Jet Song). Riff deter parts, the Sharks are taking their girls mines to challenge Bernardo that night home before going off to the drug at a dance in the gym, and prevails \VEST SIDE STORY is presented store; a playful argument develops be through special arrangement with upon his best friend and co-founder of tween Anita and a homesick Puerto the Jets, Tony, to ht!lp him. Tony has Music Theatre International, 49 East Rican girl over the relative merits of life been growing away from the gang and 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022. back home and in Manhattan feels the stirrings of other emotions (America). (Something's Coming), but he agrees. Through a generous gift, the open At the drugstore, the Jets are nervous ing night performance of West Side Bernardo's sister, Maria, newly ar about the approaching meeting with rived from Puerto Rico to marry his Story is sponsored by the Bur the Sharks, but Riff advises them to roughs Corporation. friend Chino, attends the dance (The play it cool (Cool); and when the Dance At The Gym) and despite the ob- Sharks arrive an agreement is reached,

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at Tony's insistence, to have a fair , bare-handed fight - each gang to pick its best man - the next night under the highway. Next day, Tony visits Maria at the shop, and among the man nequins they enact a touching wed MUSICAL NUMBERS ding ceremony (One Hand, One Heart). Maria makes him promise to ACT ONE stop the fight between his gang and her PROLOGUE brother's. In the quintet (Tonight), ...... " '. Tony and Maria sing of their love, JET SONG ...... Instrumental Anita, who is Bernardo's girl, makes plans for a big evening, and Bernardo SOMETHING'S CO ... MING · ...... Riff and jets and Riff and their gangs make their " . .. . · ... own plans for the rumble. THE DANCE AT THE GYM' ...... Tony In a deserted area under the high MARIA ...... way, the gangs meet for the fight. As ' ...... Instrumental it is about to get under way, Tony hur TONIGHT .. " ...... Tony ries in and begs them tc stop, as he has ..... AMERICA . . . " ... . Maria and 7" promised Maria. Bernardo, enraged . . .. . " . lOny that Tony has been making advances COOL ...... Anita, Rosalia and Girls to his sister, pushes him back furious ' ,' . .. ly. Suddenly switch-blade knives ap ONE HAND · ...... RiJJ and jets pear, and Riff and Bernardo begin to , ONE HEART TONIGHT fight (The Rumble). In the ensuing ac . , ...... Maria and T, tion, Riff is knifed and Tony, grabbing . Maria, Tony, Anita, Rdl" ony his weapon, in turn knifes Bernardo. THE RUMBLE .. l.!J and Bernardo Frenzied, the gangs join the battle until they are interrupted by a police whis · ...... Instrumental tle. They flee, leaving behind the ACT TWO -~!)' ~ . u..(ft. bodies of Riff and Bernardo. I FEEL PRETTY . '":.are--m! ....Ix

~=~------west Side Story

Between Broadway and the Opera Hou

David Patrick Stearns

N ow that the repertoire of Amer ica's commercial musical theatre is be ing increasingly accepted as a durable artistic statement, a recording of West Side Story cast with opera stars is perhaps less an anomaly than an in evitability. Both this work and Leonard Bernstein's Candide have been pro duced by opera and operetta houses for years now, and Stephen Sond heim's Sweeney Todd made its opera debut in 1984, only five years after opening on Btoadway. In fact, the fine line between opera and Broadway has rarely before been so blurred. And since West Side Story has a direct . responsibility for this Situation, the piece begs to be reappraised in a fresh and broader context. One may well ask how something so popular, so deeply ingrained in our collective musical consciousness, as West Side Story could become associated with a theatrical medium so encumbered with elitist aSSOCiations. Yet one need only think of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, restored to its operatic full length after decades of popularity in a truncated version with spoken dialogue, to realize how blind even sympathic audiences can be to the true nature of a work of art. Those who have been waiting for the great American opera may have missed several because of looking in the wrong place. In writing West Side Story, Bernstein stage works. And though he achieved previous year, "I am easily assim and his collaborators set out to create a thorough musical integration in ed", may have had a special per a work of operatic power but using Wonderful Town (1952), West Side significance, is nowhere to be found musical comedy techniques. The result Story had the universal resonance of West Side Story, in which his so-ca was initially acclaimed for having ful the Romeo and Juliet theme, and it popular style is merged with that of filled Broadway's long-standing desire realized the ideal of total theatre more symphonic works. for an integrated expression of drama, fully and fluidly than anything Berns But West Side Story's clean b music and dance. Bernstein's musical tein had written before, with a score with Broadway's lighthearted past On the Town had already accomplish more unified, personal and modern at first met with puzzlement. As w ed much the same thing in 1944, even than he had previously dared to com the reception that first greeted B addressing the issue of emotional pose for the Broadway stage. Bernstein Carmen, critics asked why such alienation in the modern world which the eclectic, for whom a line from his digious theatrical talent had been would later become an earmark of his Offenbach-flavored Candide of the at the service of such unsavo

tion vs . the commonplace. Purely in terms of credibility, how could train ed voices be expected to do justice to the "grit" of "Gee, Officer Krupke! "? But how can other than formally train ed VOices be heard in the opera house? This is more a matter of performance practice than of genre. Not dissimilar problems have been resolved in cer· tain vocal works of Mussorgsky, Weill and Schoenberg. Naturally one might ask how many international opera stars could pass on the stage for New York teenagers, though related questions about Madame Butterfly have never stood in the way of productions of Puccini's opera. What most clearly separates opera from lighter forms of musical entertain ment is the function of music in un folding the drama and portraying its characters - the element that allows The Magic Flute to transcend its hum ble singspiel genre and keeps Carmen A.scene from the film West Side Story. from being any less an opera now that it is performed, as Bizet intended, with characters. One even decried the score quire the musical and theatrical spoken dialogue rather than sung for lacking po tential "hits." After the resources that such companies possess. recitatives. Considered thus, the score initial shock waves had subsided, the Viewed in this light, West Side Story of West Side Story can fairly stake show went on to inspire a sporadic but may seem to be at least as much at claim to operatic status. It PO'Ss(~ ss,es ambitious series of musicals - Gypsy, home in the modern opera house as in strong thematic unity; it is fired Company, Cabaret and Sweeney Todd a Broadway theatre, whose means the enormous rhythmic subtlety and varie - which turned their back on Broad show has always strained to their ty, fleshed out with chords built way's unwritten rule that entertain limits. Simply from a logistical stand harmonically unstable augme ment was synonymous with escapism pOint, the music's near-symphonic fourths, most apparent in the co and proved that Broadway audiences scoring requires an orchestra that so tations of the gangs (including the could be challenged both musically over-crowded the pit of New York's " Cool"), but also strongly present and dramatically - and like it. Winter Garden Theatre in the original the music's most lyrical passages, as Meanwhile, in the 1950s and '60s, production that wind players were befits a story of volatile bigotry and many opera houses were going forced to double several different in short-lived romance. A more spe through a period in which music struments. Besides calling for dancers kind of mUSical symbolism is found in dominated all other artistic concerns. with ballet training, West Side Story " Something's Coming" and "Maria," Only in the last decade have they con makes vocal demands in the two prin both based on the same three-note sistently sought to redress the balance cipal roles that are seldom to be found motif - first heard (as D-G#-A) when between music and theatre, partly outside the sphere of opera. The song Tony sings " Who knows?" in the through technological advances in (or aria) "Maria", for example, contains earlier number and then taken up in stagecraft and the expanded role of an extended high B flat. But even set the later one, setting the name " Maria" stage directors. In these changed cir ting the question of tessitura aside, it (Eb-A-Bb). It is the second note of this cumstances, opera companies now is frequently to the operatic voice that motif, the raised fourth degree, that find themselves equipped to open up Bernstein's writing is grateful, rather gives it its special piquancy and elo their repertoire to the previously un than the chest voice of show music. quence - a yearning appoggiatura that categorizable, whether early music Where West Side Story diverges urgently demands resolution as Tony theatre experiments by Poulenc, most obviously from what is tradi is drawn irresistibly toward Maria. By Stravinsky and Weill, or the newer tionally called opera is in its juxtaposi introducing adumbratively the plain non-linear theatre of Robert Wilson tion of " serious" and "popular" sing tive germ cell of "Somewhere" in the and static and iconographic works of ing styles in the secondary roles. This closing bars of "Tonight," Bernstein Philip Glass. All these pieces have been is essential to the work's dichotomy of suggests that the lovers are sealing their accepted on the opera stage: they re- enlightenment vs. primitivism, exalta- tragiC fate along with their relationship.

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~s opera ntertain c in un tying its ,t allows its hum Carmen' tOW that ed, with Il1 sung he score' stake a ossesses fired by ld varie built on mented :onfron the song esent in ,ages, as >try and .specific 'ound in 'Maria," fee-note <\) when in the :n up in "Maria" e of this 'ee, that and elo tura that as Tony (aria. By te plain :" in the ernstein ing their :ionship.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre And by cre Have a Lo of the then acerbic ", precedes i fateful ch which the In the Q various ek as they car frontation declines to thus under portant id matter if, ~ way to the Violence i: justified. It is Be who finall Story is, af denoueme raveling, t: it. Tony is gun and m 'How man thought w; gest aria. tries I mac to make it TRIO. time like a a Puccini;J Con brio. or six bars, But I don' It may not have quite the fire of the Faust finale. Or the spirit of der Rosenkavalier. That doesl But we've orchestrated a trio of our own that's stirring up a little excitement. foundling. More im H The lead is taken, naturally, by our famous Traditional Blue Cross and Blue Shield Side Story # by its ad~ Plan. Known and appreciated throughout the country. • ~ rounelings H It's accompanied by our Blue Preferred Plan, a preferred provider organization houses aro that interweaves the best of Traditional and HMO care. • ing, perhal ~ to upelatin Atlanta, tl Joining in is Health Care NetworK a member of our statewide network of seven Michael Ri HMOs that provide covered services whenever you travel in Michigan. eel the m< styles of th One of this trio should strike just the right note, and we'll be happy to give you ter, can't t more information. Con brio, of course. Allegro, too. of the 19~ gangs of tl tein, "the Blue Cross not becon • .. >of, Blue Shield had, for tt At the ri~ of Michigan ~." , II Story has; +. the muses Blue is better. have tent ' music adju

And by creating the lyrical , resigned " I it actually seems to grow younger. faces. I didn't expect to hear such Have a Love" almost completely out Bernstein couldn't resist making this warmth as I've been hearing. I'm feel of the thematic material in the fiery and observation himself during the recor ing very up and young, identifying acerbic " A Boy Like That" which ding sessions. "It sounds as if I just with this almost three-decade-old piece precedes it, the music reflects Anita's wrote it yesterday. I know I'm not and feeling rather like the way I felt fateful changing of loyalties, from wrong because of the orchestra. I when I was writing it ." which the rest of the drama unfolds. didn't expect to find so early on in the - David Patrick Stearns is a Music In the Quintet, which juxtaposes the proceedings ... beaming, radiant Critic with USA Today. various elemental forces of the drama as they careen toward a climactic con frontation, Bernstein conspicuously declines to differentiate the rival gangs, thus underscoring the work's most im portant ideological point: it doesn't matter if, as both gtoupS sing on their wa y to the gang war, "they began it." Violence is violence, and it cannot be justified. It is Bernstein himself, however, who finally concedes that West Side Story is, after all, not an opera. "At the denouement, the final dramatic un raveling, the music stops and we talk it . Tony is shot and Maria picks up the gun and makes that incredible speech, 'How many bullets are left?' My first thought was that this was to be her big gest aria. I can't tell you how many tries I made on that aria. I tried once to make it cynical and swift. Another time like a recitative . Another time like a Puccini aria. In every case, after five or six bars, I gave up. It was phony . . . But I don't love [the work] any less. That doesn't make it a stepchild or a foundling. It is what it is ." More important, ultimately, is West Side Story's universality, as witnessed by its adaptability to changing sur roundings, in theatres and. opera houses around the world. Less surpris ing, perhaps, is how well it lends itself to updating: in a 1984 production in Atlanta, the choreographer-director Michael Rivera successfully introduc ed the more angular popular dance styles of the 1980s. Why, for that mat ter, can't these Manhattan street kids of the 1950s be South Bronx graffiti gangs of the '80s) "Alas", says Berns tein , " the materials of the work have not become dated. W o'uld that they had , for the sake of our world." At the risk of implying that West Side Story has a Faustian relationship with th e muses of the theatre, some critics have tentatively suggested that its music adjusts so well to modern times,

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A scene from Act II of Turandot with Martina Arroyo photo courtesy of the Canadian Opera Company

ryric Drama in th7"ee acts Conductor JOSEPH RESCIGNO Music by Giacomo Puccini Synopsis Stage DirectOr Libretto by G . Adami and R. Simoni ANNE EWERS Setting: Peking in legendary times ACT I. At sunset before the Imperial Wig and Make-up Designer palace, a Mandarin reads the crowd an Las! due! and final sce ne REBECCA WATSON completed by Franco Alfano edict; any prince seeking to marry the Chorus Master Princess Turandot must first answer Firs! performance Milan SUZANNE ACTON three riddles. If he fails , he must die. April 25, 1926 The latest suitor, the Prince of PerSia, Sung in Italian with English Surtitles is to be executed at the moon's riSing; THE CAST the bloodthirsty citizens rush forward Princess Turandot Through a generous gift, the open to kill him in a surge of mass hysteria, GHENA DIMITROVA , ing night performance of Turandot but are repulsed by the guards. In the March 5 and 8 is sponsored by MICHIGAN BELL tumult a slave girl, Liu, kneels by her MARTINA ARROYO, TELEPHONE and AMERITECH aged master, who has fallen from ex March 7 PUBLISHING, INC. haustion. A handsome youth, Calaf, Liu , a young sim' e girl recognizes the old man as his long-lost MARIA SPACAGNA, Used by arrangement with father, Timur, vanquished king of Tar March 5 and 8 Associated Music Pt,blishers, Inc., tary. CYNTHIA HAYMON, U.S. Agent for G. Ricordi, Milan. When Timur reveals that only Liu March 7 has remained faithful to him Calaf asks CJlaf, the unknown prince her why; she replies it is because once ERNESTO VERONELLI, long ago he smiled at her. As the sky March 5 and 8 darkens, the mob again cries for blood, JON FREDRIC WEST, but greets the moon with sudden, fear March 7 ful silence (La sui monti dell 'Est). The

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onlookers are further moved when the ACT III. Scene 1. In the palace Prince of Persia passes by, and call gardens, Calaf hears a proclamation: upon the princess, hidden in the pa On pain of death no one in Peking lace, to spare him . Calaf, too, demands shall sleep until Turandot learns the that she appear; as if in answer, Turan stranger's name. The prince muses on dot steps onto her balcony, with a con his impending joy (Nessun dorma), temptuous gesture bidding the execu then Ping, Pang and Pong try unsuc tion proceed. cessfully to bribe him to leave the ci The crowd falls prostrate, and Tur ty . As the fearful mob threatens him andot withdraws. As the death cry is with drawn daggers to learn his name, heard, Calaf - who has been transfix soldiers drag in Liu and Timur; Calaf ed by the beauty of the unattainable tries to convince the mob that neither princess - strides to the gong that an knows his secret. When Turandot ap nounces a new suitor. Turandot's mi pears, commanding the dazed Timur nisters, Ping, Pang and Pong, attempt to speak, Liu cries out that she alone to discourage him. When Timur and knows the stranger's identity but she . the tearful Liu also beg him to recon yvill never reveal it (Tanto amore sider (Signore, ascolta/), Calaf seeks to segreto, inconJessator). Though she is comfort them; but as their pleas reach tortured, she remains silent. Impress new intensity (Ah! Per I 'ultima volta/), ed by such endurance, Turandot asks he strikes the fatal gong and calls Liu 's secret: "love," replies the girl (Tu Turandot's name. che di gel sei cinta). When the princess ACT II. Scene 1. In a palace pavilion, signals the ministers to intensify the Ping, Pang and Pong lament Turan torture, Liu seizes a dagger and kills dot's bloody reign, praying that love herself. • will soon conquer her icy heart and Following the procession carrying peace return. The three let their her body, everyone leaves except thoughts dwell on their beautiful and Turandot and the prince. He demands peaceful country homes, but the noise she look on the innocent blood shed of the populace gathering to hear for her sake (Principessa di gelo). Turandot question the new challenger Haughtily, she warns him not to touch calls the ministers back to harsh reali her, but he embraces her passionately ty. and kisses her. She confesses that of all her suitors he was the first she feared, Scene 2. Before the palace, the aged and it is he who has drawn her first Emperor, seated on a high throne, tears (Del primo pianto). Now that he vainly asks Calaf to reconsider. Turan has won, she begs him to leave dot enters to describe how her beau without demanding more. He makes tiful ancestor, Princess Lou-Ling, was her a gift of his life: His name is Calaf, brutally ravished by the Tartar King son of Timur. She too has won, he when he conquered China centuries says, as she summons him before the before (In questa Reggia); in revenge, emperor and the populace. she has turned against all men and Scene 2. Outside the Imperial palace, determined that none shaH ever Turandot brings Calaf in triumph. For possess her (Mai nessun m 'avra). Ghena Dimitrova as Turandot a moment it appears she might an Then, facing Calaf, she asks the first Photo by Zoe Dominic nounce his name and demand his riddle: What phantom is born every death. Instead she says his name is night and dies every morning in the A tense silence prevails until Calaf Love. The crowd hails love as the light human heart? "Hope," Calaf answers triumphantly cries ,"Turandot!". of the world. correctly. Unnerved, Turandot con While the crowd voices thanks the tinues: What flickers red and warm like princess begs her father not to give her - Courtesy oj Opera News a flame, yet is not fire? "Blood," replies to the stranger, but to no avail. Calaf, Calaf after a moment's pause. Visibly hoping to win her love, offers Turan • "Here ends the opera, terminated by shaken, Turandot delivers her third dot a challenge of his own: If she can the death of the Maestro (Puccini)," riddle: What is like ice yet generates learn his name by dawn, he will forfeit said conductor Arturo Toscanini to the fire, enslaving you if you go free, mak his life. Turandot accepts, as the crowd La Scala audience at the world ing you a king if it takes you as a slave? repeats the Emperor's praises. premiere in 1926.

The Riddle Of Turandot by George R. Marek

Turandot is the quiz opera par excellence. The asking of riddles, the test by questioning, the challenge by conun drum - these are devices used in the arts from time immemorial. Almost al LL ways the game is played for high stakes. It was fortunate for Oedipus LL that he knew the answer to the Sphinx's riddle ~ "What is it that LL walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in. the evening?" - LL for had he 'not replied "Man" the Sphinx would have devoured him alive.' In mythology and legend, in drama and novel, the hero is con f(onted with some sort of quiz: he must know a recondite fact, interpret an arcane meaning, or choose the right casket. (One suspects, however, that Portia led Bassanio to the lead casket by winks and hints and sighs.) Nor is the quiz unknown in the operatic field. Mime is allowed to ask Wotan three questions. Wotan retali ates by asking three, knowing perfectly well that the dwarf cannot answer the last question. Here is a fixed quiz if ever there was one. At least the quiz in Turandot is an honest one. The prize is the Princess and the stake is the stake on which is impaled the head of the unfortunate suitor who cannot solve the riddles. Martina Arroyo as Turandot Photo by Robert C. Ragsdale, F.R.P.S. The results are frightful. Not only does the Prince of Persia lose his head (at the long a period to compose this work? preceding work, the " Triptych," Puc beginning of the opera), but later, as What was it that held him back? Why cini might have lived not only to finish the courtiers Ping, Pang and Pong rem did he, a careful but certainly not a the opera but, what is equally impor inisce, they draw up a list of no fewer dilatory craftsman, require more than tant, to make the corrections, the shap than twenty-six previous victims, all three years to create three-quarters of ing and smoothing and cutting, the ad princes, all unable to answer the ques an opera, in total length a littJe shorter justments in balance, the clarification tions, all dead. than La Boheme, which he completed of the character of the Princess, in Three enigmas are propounded. in about two and a half years? What short the creative improvement of de "The riddles are three - death is one." were the difficulties which so pro tail which a masterpiece requires to But outside of the opera itself, in the tracted the task that death intervened? make it a masterpiece.' Turandot history of its creation, there lies a fur The question is nOt an idle one. For * Puccini kepi revising La Boheme up Iu and ther enigma, the solution to which we had the work not progressed at a el'en after its premiere. Consequenlial rel'isions can only guess at. The question is, why snail's pace, had he taken no more were made in Madama Butterfly afler ils inilial did Puccini take so unconscionably time with Turandot than with the failure.

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could have been, as Puccini intended goes further: his three courtiers are second act of Boheme. But up to it to be, the capstone of his edifice. As mercurial fellows: now sentimental Turandot they had always been in it is, it is an opera containing astonish and gentle, now harsh and cynical. cidental or atmospheric additions. For ing greatness. But it is a capstone with They berate Turandot, yet do her bid the first time the chorus takes part in rough edges. ding; they try to save the Prince, yet the action itself, and indeed in the first The answer that while Puccini work do their best to make him betray his act of the opera it has the leading role. ed on Turandot he was a sick man, secret. They are mystics - and con Four themes there are: the legen that the labor proceeded under the tradictory. Not an easy challenge to dary-icy, the cynical-comic, the softly shadow of death, is not satisfactory. meet for a man who had never before romantic, and the theme of the people, Health is not a requisite for the com created contradictory characters, nor exotic and barbarous. Two of the pletion of great works, as innumerable composed music in divided styles, nor themes were new to him, one was examples - Watteau and Renoir, attempted to juggle the comic and the familiar, one only half familiar. We can Robert Louis Stevenson and Friedrich tragic masks (which Strauss and understand why he proceeded so Schiller - can testify. On the contrary, Hofmannsthal had done in Ariadne hesitatingly. He may have known that ill health often acts as a spur. What, aUf Naxos). it was the last composition he was to then, is the answer? But there is more: Puccini required undertake; even before he began it he We must examine the many letters told his wife that he was suffering which Puccini wrote to hIs two li "Put all your strength into strange pains in his chest and had lost brettists, Giuseppe Adami, a successful his voice. If then it was to be his swan playwrighl, and Renato Simoni, it, all the resources of song, Puccini, always exigent with his another playwright and something of your hearts and heads, librettists, turned into a despot who an authority on China; we must read demanded the impossible, scowled at carefully Puccini's other statements and create for me every word and regarded every line of ·about his final aims and ambitions. He something that will make the text with hypercritical eye, chang wanted to go beyond the "slight" the world weep. " ed his mind, fumed, fretted, complain music (the word is his own) he had ed, stopped the work, put it aside, composed and, produce a work of could not rest, started over again. He grand proportions, a new kind of op a third element. Neither the heroic nor begged Simoni and Adami: "Put all era, one of epic breadth and serious the comic sufficed. He could not al your strength into it, all the resources ness. That seriousness was to be leav together abjure the theme which in his of your hearts and heads, and create ened, contrasted with and relieved by previous operas had served as the for me something that will make the comic elements taken from the com mainspring of his inspiration. Call her world weep." He asked Simoni to media dell 'arte. Both elements, Manon or Mimi or Cio-Cio-San, it was drink coffee at night. "You won't be the heroic and the comic, were present always the same character who ac able to sleep and you'll think of Turan in the original play of Turandotte, celerated his romantic pen. Without dot. " written by the eighteenth-century her he could not compose, the char Though Puccini took an active part playwright Carlo Gozzi. There the ming fragrant little creature who meets in the shaping of all his librettos, it is comic figures are four, because the love, is destroyed by it, suffers truer of this one than of any other that company of actors for which Gozzi melodiously, and expires not with a he virtually wrote it himself, and it wrote included four actors who shout but with a sigh. So he added to might have been a lot easier had he in specialized in comic parts and were the old fable of the man-hating god fact written it himself. As it was, he masters of improvisation. Puccini re dess the character of Lill, the faithful used to send Adami detailed prose ver duced the four figures to three and in and loving slave girl with her full heart sions, and when the poets returned the stilled in those three traits of modern and blind adoration. Lill is his inven verses he was not satisffed or wanted nervousness and melancholy, traits tion: you will not find her in Gozzi. to alter a particular dramatic situation. which characterized the composer When we have said all that, we still Ping, Pang and Pong gave him especial himself. have not catalogued the task. For the trouble. He instructed Adami: "Do a Ping, Pang and Pong, the three min first time in any of his operas, Puccini little of what Shakespeare often does, isters who take so lively a part in made the crowd, the chorus, a pro when he brings in three or four ex Turandot's action, emerge as am tagonist. It is possible that he was in traneous types who drink, use bad bivalent characters. Some hint of this spired to do so by Moussorgsky's Boris language, and speak ill of the King. I development is to be found in a later Godunov, with which he had become have seen this done in The Tempest, play, based on Gozzi, by Schiller. The acquainted late in life. Puccini had among the Elves and Ariel and German poet added philosophic ser previously used choruses for musical Caliban." iousness to the comic figures. Puccini effects: he had used them well in the The dramatic plan pivoted on knew Schiller's play. But the composer third act of Manon Lescaut and the andot's conversion into a human

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ing. This was to be accomplished in a final duet, to which the composer at tached the utmost importance. "It must be a great duet. These two almost superhuman beings descend through love to the level of mankind, and this love must at the end take possession of the whole stage in a great orchestral peroration." This he did not live to ac complish. What a pity! What cause for regret that libretto and music were so long in the making! For had the opera - begun in the summer of 1920 and left unfinished by the winter of 1924 - been truly finished and revised by this genius of the theater, we might now be in possession of one of the greatest of the music dramas of the twentieth century. Francis Toye says that Turan dot "brings a particularly vivid realiza tion of what the world lost by Puc cini's premature death." Even as it is, Turandot is a wonder fully fascinating work and contains some of Puccini's finest music. Ernest Newman thought that it was the com poser 's masterpiece. Similarly, Mosco Carner, who recently published a critical biography of the composer, believes that Turandot "represents the consummation of his whole creative career. " The consummation, yes; but to repeat, not a "finished opera," neither in the actual nor the psychological sense. Because the conversion of the Princess from an iciness which is so in human as to be symbolic to a humani ty which Puccini no doubt intended to be as warm and loving as are the hearts of his other heroines - because that :ar conversion is insufficiently motivated and occurs too suddenly, it leaves us but half-convinced. Because that all- . important last scene, which must "take ~raph possession of the whole stage," was never finished, we leave the perfor ,lace mance with a sense of frustration. Yet Turandot is an opera we would not r Trail willingly do without. The unfinished can offer artistic satisfaction, as works ltte by Dickens or Schubert, Leonardo or Michelangelo prove. - © 1960 RCA Records, reprinted by permission. The composer Giacomo Puccini

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Ernest DuMouchelle PUBLIC RELATIONS and Chuck LaVeglia Props MARKETING COMMITTEE Caldwell Printing Leah Marks Dr. Donald Austin Chuck Berger Fashions by Leah, Ltd. Dr. Arnold Cohn Jewish News Dr. Charles Durando Irma Nicholson john Betrus Dr. Thomas Evans Jacobson's Dr. Charles Kessler Big Boy Restaurants Don Pentzien Dr. Richard Kulis Henrietta Fridholm Ad Mail Services Dr. Bob Levine Media Relations Ed Rondino Dr. Benjamin Wailes Lee Hanson Heidi's Salons Physicians WQRS-FM Radio Ray Schneider Detroit Public Schools Gerald Lundy BBD & 0, Inc. A. Philip Randolph Vocational Anthony M. Franco Technical Center Bruce A. Scott William Palmer Artist, Poster Design Roben Simmons Monthly Detroit Intern john Seemann Donald E. Waddell Harmony Business Forms, Inc. j. Addison Bartush R. L. Polk & Associates Vi Slowly Lester Hamilton Mike Whellan Fisher Theatre Abe Maius K mart Maureen Walsh Archival R~cordings Morton Zieve TAS Graphic Simons Michelson & Zieve Lin Ware MICHIGAN OPERA-IN Other participants: Bonwit Teller RESIDENCE COMMUNITY Michigan Opera Theatre Trustees COORDINATORS Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Mary Lou Zieve Voice-Over Talent Dr. Elkins Bruce Mr. Norman Smith Superintendent Mrs. William P. Vititoe Anchor Bay Public Schools Mrs. R. Alexander Wrigley ADDITIONAL THANKS Dr. Arthur jefferson Wendy Collins Superintendent SPECIAL THANKS 'faye Davis Mrs. Ollie McFarland Larry Angelosante Detroit Public Library Director oj Music Education TAS Graphic the Music Staff Detroit Public Schools Sherry Bird Eric Estes Trizec Properties, Inc. Mrs. jan Timmer Lee Horst Coordinator Peter Chang Latoniya jones Grand Haven Public Schools Lutz and Associates Tom LaPointe and S.P.R.I.N.T. Grant Collins Kate McLuskie Music Hall Center Regina Moore Michael Miners Ora Roberts Curator Dayna Eubanks Fred Schneidewind ' Detroit Youtheatre WXYZ-TV 7 jessie Schneidewind Mrs. Margaret Eby Don Gutleber Ron Switzer Director Basically Bach Festival Creative Graphics Dennis Tamburo Mr. Lloyd Miller Mary Hebert Fine Arts Supervisor New Center Area Council Flint Community Schools Micki Hobson Mr. and Mrs. Ed Richards Marketing Consultant Coordinators Bay de Noc Choral Society Michael Kahler Hotel St. Regis and Upper Penninsula Tour Mary Kennedy Dr. Stephen Kelly N BD-M. E. S. R. A. President Superintendent Mrs. Betty Davis Ann Lang Coordinator New Center Area Council South Haven Public Schools

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The engineers who radials do an designed these roads excellent job knew that they'd present of unwinding a challenge. But they the road. never expected that You may some would drive these even know of roads in a Thunderbird Route 112, New Hampshire a special road for precisely that On roads with long, that closely resembles smooth straightaways, an asphalt roller-coaster. Thunderbird's sleek lines On this kind of pave- use the wind to improve ment, Thunderbird's the car's stability and gas-filled struts a"nd road control at highway shocks, and modified speeds. MacPherson front There are also great suspension excel. -- driving roads with twists On roads like these State Road 1%, Florida and turns that define the throughout the country, term "serpentine': On a very select group of Have you driven a Ford ... this kind of road, drivers are discovering lately? Thunderbird's precise the meaning of Route 101, Washington steering and all-season Thunderoads. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Conductor Rinuccio, Zita's nephew Mark Flint Don Bernardini Director Simone, Buoso's cousin Takazauckas Thomas Hammons Lighting Designer Nella, Gherardo's wife Michael Baumgarten Celeste Tavera" Set Designer Gherardo, Buoso's nephew Peter Dean Beck Beryl Henderson· Costumes courtesy of Portland Betto, Buoso's brother-in-law Association, by lawrence Adams· Brad Pace Gherardino, Gherardo's child Wig and Make-up Designer Katie O'Shaughnessey Rebecca Watson lauretta, Gianni Chorus Master Schicchi's Suzanne Acton Diana Soviero, October 11, 13 and 19 Gianni Schicchi Pamela South, Comedy in one act October 12, 16m and 18 Music written by Gianni Schicchi, a nA;l<::~nl Giacomo Puccini Frank Guarrera Libretto by Master Spinelloccio, Physician Giovacchino Forzano David W. Reilly· Amanlio di Nicolao, Notary English Translation by David ludwig Anne and Herbert Grossman, used by with Associated Pinelli no, Shoemaker Music Inc., U.S. agent for Roderick Reese G. Ricordi and Co., Milan Guccio, Dyer First NYC, David Podulka and copyright owner First Performance: NYC, December 14, 1918 I Pagliacci THE Lyric Drama in two acts Zita, "Old Woman, Buoso's Words and lyrics by cousin Ruggiero Leoncavaflo Marion Pratnicki La Marco's wife First Milan Renee Reed" May 21,1892 Marco, Simone's son Martin Lewis" THE CAST Tanio, a member of the troupe of strolling Charles long Canio, head of a troupe of strolling players Maurice Stern Beppe, a member of the troupe Don Bernardini Nedda, Canio's wife Diana Soviero, October 11, 13 and 19 Pamela South, October 12, 16m and 18 Silvio, a villager John Brandstetter The tilles for I are courtesy of the Portland Association Supertext, Portland, Oregon.

Titles written by Philip Kelsey

'MOT Young Artist Apprentice Cast subject to change in case of unforseen exigencies. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Opera Synopses Gianni Schicchi I Pagliacci Florence, 1299 Setting: southern Italy, late 1930's Buoso Donati has died and left his con The audience is addressed in a Prologue name. siderable estate to the friars. His grasping in which they are told of the drama, both The play is about to begin. Alone, Canio reli::lllve:s. deeply shocked, decide to accept "theatrical and real," which is about to un begins to prepare for his "role" as the Rinuccio's advice and ask of Gianni fold. cuckholded husband. He laments that he Schicchi, a well-known local rogue and the The villagers of a Calabrian town must play the clown though his heart is father of Rinuccio's sweetheart lauretta. a company of actors who have breaking (Vestl fa giubba). Schicchi's approach is direct: the deceas there to perform. head of the troupe, The villagers, Silvio them, assem- ed is removed and Schicchi takes his place describes that night's presentation (Un ble to see the and Colom- in bed. When even the doctor is fooled, the grande spettacola). A villager jokingly bina. In the of her husband, delighted relatives call in a notary to hear gests that the hunchback actor Tonio Pagliaccio (played by Canio), Colombina "Donati" make a new testament. The courting Canio's wife, Nedda. (Nedda) is serenaded her lover Harle- delight turns to rage, however, as Canio reveals his jealous nature and warns quin (Beppe), who her servant the resourceful Schicchi wills the bulk of that he would tolerate no from his Taddeo (Tonio). Colombina and Harlequin the old man's property to himself. He wife (Un tal gioco). As Canio and the piotto poison Pagliaccio. Pagliaccio enters. chases them all out of his newly acquired villagers for a Nedda remains As Harlequin slips away, Colombina utters house, all except, of course, his son-In-law behind. Disturbed by husbands the very same words Canio overhead Ned to be, Rinuccio, who remains with lauret cion, she her of the da to her lover that afternoon (A ta in their future home. who soar overhead lassu). stanotte, e sempre tua saro). Sudden- The deformed Tonio approaches and ly, Canio himself torn between real declares his love for her, which she scorn life and the comic play. His mask of pre fully rejects. Enraged, he reaches for her, tense forgotten, Canio violently demands but she strikes him with a whip. that Nedda tell him her lover's name (No, he leaves, swearing vengence. a paIClf18!CCIO non son). Nedda tries to con young villager, and Nedda's secret lover, tinue on with the play while the audience arrives and in an impassioned confronta applauds the "realistic" acting. Delirious tion, asks her to go away with him. Tonia with rage, Canio stabs Nedda. As Silvio has overheard them. He runs off to warn rushes forward to help her, he too is killed Canio of her deception. Urged by Tonia, by the enraged Canio. Canio the lovers, but Silvio As the villagers stare in horror, the au manages to escape. Canio threatens Ned dience is given the grim and immortal da, but she refuses to reveal her lover's benediction La commedia e finita.

MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE SPECIAL THANKS CHORUS Stewart Comedia Costumes for this production lawrence Adams' Szefi by Georgia Baker for Patricia Balysh Celeste Tavera' OPERA COMPANY, INC. Barth Fran Theis Veronica Bell Dean Unick Peter Bamford for Tilis Butler Douglas Webber Trizec Properties, Inc. Canner Lea Woods larea T. Coulson Elizabeth Evans Vanessa Ferriole CHILDREN'S CHORUS PLEASE NOTE Stacey Barrett Louise Fisher Michigan Opera Theatre offers lawrence Formosa Carl Bell exciting opera weekends Yvonne Friday Kelly Boczek Roxythe Harding, Jr. Jed Cohen with the Hotel B73-3000. Beryl Henderson' leah Duncan Coming up next at the Fisher: Armond Jackson Stephen Guerra Martha, November 1 Jennifer Johnson Vito Guerra West Side Story, Gurwin Martin Lewis' November 15-December B. lit! Christopher Jones Andrew Nagrant CAll 313/874-SING for ludwig tickets and James Moore George Nagrant Richard Mox Joshua Neds The Michigan Opera Theatre Anthony Noto Colleen O'Shaughnessey 1985/86 Program Book is David Podulka Katie O'Shaughnessey available in the lobby for further Jan Phillips Rolanda Posley historical information on Gianni Charsie Randolph' Schicchill Pagliacc; and for artists Renee Reed' profiles of this evening's cast. Roderick Reese David Reilly' John Schmidt • MOT Young Artist Alan Spiller CopyrightApprentice 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Music by CAST Friedrich von Flotow NancylJulia, Libretto by W. Friedrich Riese a friend of Lady Harriet Durham English translation by Alice Baker George and Phyllis Mead, used by arrangement with Lady Harriet DurhamlMartha, G. Schirmer, Inc., Publisher Lady-In-Waiting and copyright owner. to Queen Victoria First performance: Vienna Sharon Christman, November 25, 1847 Nov. 1,3and8 Christine Donahue, Conductor Nov. 2, 6m and 9 Steven Larsen Sir Tristram Mickleford, Stage Director Lady Harriet's cousin Michael van Engen • • David Gately Lighting Designer Lionel, a friend of Plunkett • • Peter West Kristian Johannsson Scenery courtesy Plunkett, a wealthy farmer of Portland Opera Paul Geiger Association, designed by Sheriff Lee Mayman Lawrence Adams" Costumes courtesy Servants of Portland Opera Beryl Henderson" Association, designed by Martin Lewis" Brad Pace David Reilly" Wig and Make-up Designer Maidservants Rebecca Watson Renee Reed" Chorus Master Charsie Sawyer" Suzanne Acton Celeste Tavera"

Supernumeraries CHORUS Stacy Barrett Jed Cohen Daniel Aggas Leah Duncan Diane Aron-Calhoun Jacqueline Barth And , introducing the Michael Begian Royal Hunting Beagles Veronica Bell Sir Blue Tilis Butler Jr. Lady Christie John Campbell Lady Honey Rachel Choate Sir Joe George Cooney Lady Lucy Betty DeWilde Sir Morgan Vanessa Ferriole Sir Sam Louise A. Fisher Yvonne Friday Sir Sparky Rosaline Guastella Roxythe L. Harding, Jr. Sir Paul Horn , the Madeline Harrold Royal Beagle Handler Joan Irwin Carol Jimines Clarence E. Jones Michael McCormick Barbara E. Martin James Moore Robert Morency Richard Mox William Pelto Rita Pendleton Mary Robertson John D. Sartor John Schmidt • MOT Young Artist Apprentice William Steiner Stephen Stewart Cast subject to change Judith Szefi in case of unforseen Alan Spiller exigencies Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre PLEASE NOTE Michigan Opera Theatre Synopsis offers exciting getaway weekends with the Hotel ACT 1, Scene 1. The resi year for a sum agreed to by self. Although he is confused St. Regis, 873-3000. dence of Lady Harriet Durham both parties, and 2) the con by her elegant attire, his feel Coming up next at the near Richmond, England. tract becomes binding when ings of joy at seeing her again Fisher. West Side Story, Lady Harriet Durham, Lady money changes hands. Lady lead him to renew his declara in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, is Harriet, Nancy and Sir Tris tion of love. Lady Harriet is November 15-Decembet in her boudoir with a group of tram arrive too late to hear the deeply moved, but deliberately 8. CALL 313/874-SING her friends in attendance. Sheriff's proclamation. The insults him to discourage his for tickets and charge by They comment on the fact that two women, who are in a holi impossible hopes. Lionel phone . she seems to have lost inter day mood, agree to be hired by angrily asserts his rights as The Michigan Opera est in the pleasures of the Lionel and Plunkett, and ac "Martha's" master, and she Theatre 1985/86 Court. She asks them to leave; cept their money. At Sir Tris calls for help. Lady Harriet's Program Book is then confides to her maid tram's urging, they then try to men arrive and put Lionel Nancy that she is bored and leave. Lionel and Plunkett under restraint. When he available in the lobby needs some new diversions. assert their legal rights and the hears Nancy address for further historica~ Sir Tristram Mickleford, Sheriff affirms them . The two "Martha" as "My Lady," he information on Martha Lady Harriet's cousin and ad farmers take "Martha" and realizes that he has been the and for artists profiles mirer, arrives to invite her to "Julia" home with them . victim of a hoax. of this evening's cast. the cockfights and races. From Plunkett, knowing that the The Michigan Opera the street outside comes a Act II, Scene I. Plunkett's Queen is nearby, and worried Theatre 1985/86 Season song of a group of young Farmhouse. about the danger that Lionel is women who are on their way Lionel and Plunkett arrive in, takes the ring from his is presented in to the Richmond Fair to hire with their new "servants." foster brother and hurries cooperation with WQRS out as maidservants to the However, the men soon dis away to see what can be done. FM 105 local farmers. cover that the women are not Th'is gives Lady Harriet the ordinary servants. They don't ACT III. Plunkett's Farm idea for an amusing escapade; even know how to spin; their house. Special she and Nancy will go to the empioyers are forced to teach Outside the farmhouse, Fair dressed as farm girls. them. Meanwhile, Lionel has Lady Harriet muses on her Acknowledgements Although Sir Tristam objects, fallen in love with "Martha." love for Lionel and resolves to The November 1st Lady Harriet persuades him to She complies with his request win back his heart. Lionel performance . come albng and gives each of that she Sing for him (The Last steps from the house and re Sponsorship by them a new name. Nancy will Rose of Summer). He declares sists her apologies, even when Cadillac Motor Car be "Julia," Sir Tristram will be his love and asks her to marry she explains that through his "Bob," and Lady Harriet will him . Although Lady Harriet is ring he has been identified as The November 2nd be "Martha." also attracted to Lionel, she the long-lost heir to the Earl of performance forces herself to reject him be Derby, unjustly banished from Sponsorship by USAir Scene 2. The Richmond cause of the supposed differ court. As Harriet and Lionel Peter Bamford, Trizec Fair. ence in their stations. At mid part, Nancy enters telling Properties, Inc. A crowd is waiting for the night Plunkett decides it is time Plunkett that she would never opening bell. Among them are to retire for the night, and locks be separated from her love, Hunter's Creek Animal Plunkett, a prosperous farmer, the women in . When Sir Tris whereupon the two resolve to Behavior Clinic and his foster brother, Lionel, tram arrives in a carriage, they marry. Maureen Walsh, who are discussing the possi are able to escape through a Evening falls as the ladies Graphic Artist bility of hiring two good maid window. and gentlemen of the court, servants. Lionel expresses his disguised as peasants, set up Dr. Eli Barlia and gratitude to Plunkett for his Scene 2. An Inn, A Hunting a replica of the Richmond Fair Joan Simon, kindness through the years, Forest Near Richmond. outside Lionel's house. Har Beagle Trainers ever since Lionel's father The Queen's hunt is in pro riet, dressed as "Martha," brought him to live at the gress. Plunkett and a group of cites her qualifications as a Plunkett farm. The father, an friends are enjoying them servant of true love and wins exile from the Court, never re selves and celebrating the Lionel's forgiveness. The en vealed his true identity. qualities of British ale. Nancy tire company joins the reunited Plunkett reminds Lionel of his arrives with a group of ladies couple in a toast to eternal father's deathbed message: of the Court. Plunkett recog love. the ring he gave to Lionel is, nizes her as "Julia" and in in time of danger, somehow to sists that she return to his ser - Courtesy of Portland Opera be shown to the Queen. vice. The ladies rudely send and Opera News. The fair opens and the him away. Lionel appears, Sheriff reads the law to the thinking sadly of his lost love waiting crowd: 1) a servant (In My Dreams). He encounters must agree to be hired for a Lady Harriet walking by her-

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre A musical drama CAST in two acts (in order of First performance: appearance) New York City September 26, 1957 The Jets Riff, the leader Conductor Rick Negron + Evans Haile Tony, his friend Stage Director Stephen Bogard us + Michael Montel Action Choreographer Paul Dobie Karen Azenberg A-Rab Lighting Designer Richard Toda Marilyn Rennagel Baby John Set Designer Kevin Cooper Robert O'Hearn Snowboy Costumes Rodney Luck Charles R. Caine Big Deal Wig and Make-up Master David Reilly' Rebecca Watson Diesel Principal Pianist/Coach Jeff Williams Suzanne Acton Gee-Tar Adam Shankman The Jet Girls Graziella The Sharks Bernardo, the leader Kathleen Turak Luis Perez + Velma Maria, his sister Christina Ljungman Beverly Lambert + Minnie Anita, his girl Deborah Tobias Diane Fratantoni + Clarice Chino, his friend Nancy Carroll Martin Lewis' Anybodys Pepe Cynthia Marotti Ovidio Vargas Indio The Shark Aaron Reed Girls Luis Rosalia Andrew Crawford Charsie Randolph * Anxious Consuela Carmen Yurich Suzanne Karle Nibbles Teresita Rob Rodenhisler Carmen Vazquez Juano Francisca James Borstelmann Celeste Tavera * Estella The Adults Doc Gina St. Clair Harvey Keith Margarita Schrank Leesa Humphrey David Jeffrey + Krupke Swing Girl and Boy Harry Carlson Constance Houghton Glad Hand Chester Jamison Michael Mullinger

STEPHEN BOGARDUS (Tony) made his Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of West Side Story and later performed The Jets the role of Tony in Paris and at the Hamburg State Opera. Mr. Bogardus appeared as a soloist on the Live From Wolf KEVIN COOPER Trap series entitled Leonard Bernstein 60: An Appreciation. (Baby John) Mr. Bogardus created the leading role in William Finn's March recently finished his second of The Falsettos at Playwright's Horizons and repeated his season with Candlewood Play performance for Los Angeles audiences. Additional theatre house in Connecticut, appearing credits include The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the New York in Barnum, Evita and Music Shakespeare Festival, the musical Kicks, and She Love Me Man. at Center Stage in Baltimore. He has been a guest star on PAUL DOBIE CBS' "Cagney and Lacey," and can be heard on the recent (Action) Bernstein recording of West Side Story in the role of Baby has also performed the role of John. Riff in West Side Story, as well DIANE FRATANTONI (Anita) comes to MOT directly from as Tom in No, No Nanette, Bar the Baltimore Center Stage where she performed the role of naby in Helly Dolly, and the title Amalia Balash in She Loves Me. For her portrayal of role of Pippin. Grizabella, the Glamour cat in the first National Company of RODNEY LUCK Cats, Ms. Fratantoni received the Helen Hayes Award for Best (Snowboy) Actress in a touring company. She made her Broadway debut has appeared on national TV in in A Chorus Line in the role of Diana Morales, having previous the Chaka Kahn video This Is My ly performed that role with both the National and International Night and was recently in Bar companies. Her additional credits include The Grand Duchy num and Evita at the Candle at the Playwright's Horizons, No Place To Be Somebody, Ring wood Playhouse. Around The Moon, and Bus Stop. Ms. Fratantoni has ap peared in concert with Marvin Hamlisch and Ricky Ian DAVID REILLY Gordon. (Big Deal) is currently an intern with MOT. BEVERL Y LAMBERT (Maria) has appeared in the Broad A graduate of Wayne State, he way productions of Nine, directed by Tommy Tune, and has performed in Oklahoma, Showboat starring Donald O'Connor. Off-Broadway, she has Kiss Me Kate and The Mikado. starred as Louisa in The Fantasticks and as Hilda in Plain and Fancy at the Tony Award-winning Equity Library Theatre. Ms. ADAM SHANKMAN Lambert has also starred in productions of The Gift of The (Gee-tar) Magi, From Berlin to Broadway, Kismet, The Sound of Music, is a native of Los Angeles now Shenandoah, Pirates of Penzance, Carousel and West Side living in NYC. He has studied at Story in such theatres as Actor's Theatre of Louisville and the Juilliard School and HB the Goodspeed Opera House. She portrayed Laura Benson Studios, and is a frequent per on One Life to Live and Martha Henderson on The Guiding former in various NYC area Light. theatre/dance productions.

RICK NEGRON (Riff) born and raised in San Juan, is the RICHARD TODA first Puerto Rican to playa Jet He recently performed the (A-Rab) role of Action in the national touring company of West Side a recent graduate of Syracus Story, starring Rex Smith. He made his Broadway debut University's Music Theatre pro earlier this season in the Tony-nominated musical Leader of gram, appeared as Pepe in The Pack, and off-Broadway's Streetheat and Street Dreams. West Side Story and the Emcee He performed on National television in the 1984 Tony Awards, in Cabaret at the Landmark and can be seen in commercials for Budweiser, Schaefer Theatre. Beer, and HBO's Make the Magic Shine. JEFF WILLIAMS (Diesel) has performed at the Keene Theatre in Merrily We Roll Along, Candide and A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the LUIS PEREZ (Bernardo) is a farmer a member of the Jof Ukraine. He is a graduate of frey Ballet, having received national acclaim in a variety of Syracuse University. principal roles, including "Mercutio" in John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, The Moor in Jose Limon's treatment of Othello, entitled The Moor's Pavane, The Champeen Roper in Agnes de Mille's Rodeo, The Lead Male in Twyla Tharp's "Deuce Coupe II" and several ballets created for him by Gerald Ar pino. His television credits include featured appearances on CBS' "The Body Human," "On Stage America" and PBS' "Great Performances" series. Mr. Perez portrayed the role of Bernardo in the first National Touring Company of West Side Story. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ,

The Jet Girls The Sharks The Shark Girls The Adults

NANCY CARROLL JAMES BORSTELMANN LEESA HUMPHREY HARRY CARLSON (Clarice) (Juano) (Margarita) (Krupke) a graduate of the N.C. School of received a full scholarship to the a gr~lduate of the N.C. School of returns to MOT after "nt..,o~orin1" the Arts, has performed the role Harkne.ss House for Ballet Arts, Arts in dance, is a member as Mr. Peachum in of Cissy in Callbacks, an and recently appeared in Evita of the Detroit Dance Com gar's In addition to off-off Broadway play. She was at the Candlewood Playhouse. pany, where she began studies musical he is featured rl'!r.l'!ntlv in Camelot at the at age 7. in several Detroit area commer ANDREW CRAWFORD cials. (Luis) SUZANNE KARLE CHRISTINA LJUNGMAN actor, model, dancer and cho (Consuelo) DAVID JEFFREY reographer, has appeared with has been a member of the (Schrank) received a dance scholar major companies around the Detroit Dance Company for has ap,>eared locally at the Mea ship to the Alvin American country, including national TV three years, and has aPI)eared do~vbnDok and Attic Theatres, as Dance Center. Since then, she networks, Kids are Too, as the lead dancer in mitiool'lliv in Freedom of has toured with dance com commercials, and and Morrisseau's Rite of Spring. and in tele- throughout Mexico, the Essence magazines. r."rihl~"",n and Japan. CHARSIE RANDOLPH MARTIN LEWIS (Rosalia) MICHAEL MULLINGER CYNTHIA MAROTTI is currently an intern with MOT. (Glad Hand) (Anybodys) is currently an intern with MOT. A former member of the San a frequent performer in various has appeared with Jacques A graduate of Boston Conser- Francisco Merola Pro- Detroit area theatre productions, D:Ambroise and the National vatory, he has in gram, she has in received an "Edie" from the Dance Institute in The Event of Cos; fan tutte, Don and Falstaff, Cinderella and Faust. East Detroit Civic Theatre for the the Year. She recently played Albert dual roles of Gibbs and Lt. Diana Morales in A Chorus Line GINA ST. CLAIR in Arsenic and Old Lace. at the Zecterion Theatre. AARON REED (Indio) was a recipient 01 HARVEY KEITH DEBORAH TOBIAS a resident of New York City, has the Joffrey Ballet and has per (Doc) (Minnie) in such musical formed with Dennis a resident of Grosse Pointe, is a graduate of the Interlochen works as Shenandoah, Dancers. She is featured in a Michigan, is the co-author of the Arts Academy in dance, and has Damn Yankees, No, No, Nanette production of Flashmania. play Children which was performed in off-off Br()adlwav and most Brigadoon. presented to and regional theatre. CELESTE TAVERA NY and CI€1velland. ROB RODANHISLER of the Yale School of he KATHLEEN TURAK (Nibbles) (,;lll'rPl1l1v an intern with MOT. has as Glad Hand in (Graziella) is a member of the Detroit City California, she has West returns to MOT after performing Dance Company. He has re in the title role of in the 1985 production of Aida. ceived scholarships to at The Merry Widow and She has performed with the De the Harkness House Ballet and Hansel and Gretel. troit City Dance Company and the Stuttgartt Ballet Swings Wayne State Dance CARMEN VAZQUEZ Company. OVIDIO VARGAS (Teresita) CONSTANCE HOUGHTON (Pepe) has danced in the Dominican and dancer) is a graduate of the Boston Con HeIPU[)IIC with Jacksonmania. As is a of the Harbinger servatory of Music. His future a member of Michiyio and Dance Company, and has ap engagements include an ap Dancers, she toured Japan and prE1pared with Dance Detroit and pearance in a feature film en ap~)eared at Lincoln Center and Maria del Carmen's Grupo titled Taps in the Park. Riverside Theatre. CARMEN YURICH CHESTER JAMISON (Anxious) Boy) has appeared with the Joffrey returns to after appearing Concert Group in Romeo and in the 1985 production of Aida. Juilet and West Side He He has performed with the recentlv OIi'\rf''1rrrll'!rl in Evita and Prince Street Players in Barnum at the Candlewood Cinderella.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre SUZANNE ACTON CHARLES R. CAINE MICHAEL MONTEL MARILYN RENNAGEL (Principal Pianist/Coach) (Lighting Designer) returns to Michigan was staff costume rlO("l"1r,,," retu rns to fol- has served as the Staff Lighting Theatre for her fifth season as for the Metropolitan Opera lowing his engage- for Michigan Opera the company's Chorus Master 1 working very closely ments with the company includ- Theatre for the last seven and principal coachl pianiSt'. In with such directors and last season's hit Sweeney and has designed for addition to her work, Zeffirelli, The Sound of Music, Cop Opera, Philadelphia Opera, FI. Miss Acton has been Benois, Marc Chagall land's The Tender Land and Worth and Miami Opera com appointed the company's music and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Mr. Joan of Arc. Mr. Montel recent panies. Most recently she de- Director for Community Pro Caine's vast array of recent de ly directed Country Girl with signed the for the AIDS grams the annual signs and include Faye Dunaway and Dick Van Benefit at Theatre state-wide touring productions Die Walkure, Der Rosenkavalier, Dyke for Showtime cable televi in NYC and two productions at and the community-wide Over Turandot, Ern ani, and Luisa sion station, and Miss Fire the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. ture To Opera musical pro Miller for many opera companies cracker Contest at the Cincinnati Ms. Rennagel's Broadway grams. Miss Acton, who has including the Met. NYC Opera, Playhouse. Last season he credits include Woman of The garnered unanimous San Francisco Opera directed the world premier of Year, Tennessee Williams' from Detroit-area critics, has Theatre of SI. Louis, Lyric Opera P.D.O. Bach's opera The Ab Clothes For A Summer Hote/, coached in New York of Chicago and Miami. His re duction of Figaro for the Min Peter Allen Up In One, Do Black City as as for the opera cent musical comedy nesota Mr. Montel is the Patent Leather Shoes Really companies of Dayton, St. Louis include Annie Get Your Gun and former Artistic Director for Reflect Up? and John Curry's and San Diego. Carousel. Broadway's New Phoenix Re Ice Dancing. pretory Company and has ex tensive credits with the NY Hud son Guild, NY's historic Town Hall, the Goodspeed Opera KAREN AZENBERG EVANS HAILE House and Miami Opera. REBECCA WATSON (Choreographer) (Conductor) (Wig and Make-up relurns to Michigan currently serves as the company returns to Michigan Opera Theatre following her choreo dramaturg and artistic advisor Theatre lor her third season as graphic work in last season's for the Greater Miami Opera, the company's Wig and Make highly praised Sweeney Todd. and as co-producer and conduc ROBERT O'HEARN up Master, a pOSition she has Miss Azenberg's numerous tor for the "American Music (Set held with the credits include The Music Theatre in Concert" series at is an acclaimed scenic 1"1""',1"1,""" Dayton on staff Oliver, Playing Our New York's historic Town Hall. for the Metropolitan with both companies, she de A Funny Thing Happened Mr. Haile's numerous musical ginning with his 1960 debut with wigs and make-up for On Way To The Forum, and theatre credits include Berns- The Queen of Spades, followed as A Little a musical revue of the Truman tein! for the Opera by such successes as L 'Elisir "'''''''"0''011 Todd, The Administration lor the Smith and original for D'Amore, Die Meistersinger, Merry Widow, Aida and, most sonian Institute. She has A frequent Aida, Parsifal and Le Nozze di recently, Martha. A former stu choreographed repertory pieces conductor of new music, Mr. Figaro. A native of South Bend, dent of Richard Stead at the for the Dance Family and per Haile has premiered such works Indiana, Mr. O'Hearn has San Francisco formed for several seasons with as Conrad Susa's Love of Don created for productions and Make-up Train The Second Avenue Dance Perlimplin, Richard Wargo's of Ote/lo in and Ham- Ms. Watson's Company, as well as with Stuart Seduction of a the third act Porgy and Bess at the theatre credits include The Hodes, Rachel Lampert, Debo of Lulu for Santa Fe Vienna Volksoper and Rr<,n",n7" Wives of Windsor, Twelfth rah Jowitt and Patricia Birch. Opera Festival, and Berio's La Traviata in Santa Fe La and Anthony and ballet Liebertanz. Mr. Haile's Fanc/ulla del West for the Hous for the Utah Shakes opera credits include Die Fleder- ton and Vienna Staat pare Festival, and A Lion in maus for Ft. Worth asso- soper. In the world of ballet, Mr. Winter and Gypsy for the Santa ciate conductor for Seattle O'Hearn's works have been de Rosa Theatre. Opera's Ring Cycle and work for American Ballet with the companies of Tulsa and NYC Ballet, San Fran Washington, D.C. cisco Ballet and Ballet West.

ACT I. A danced bitter tensions between styled "American" street MUSical NUmb Sharks, a group of young Ricans. ACT ONE ers The leader of the Jets, Riff, swears to drive the Sharks, led by Bernardo, from the JET streets Song). Riff determines to ..... Instrumental challenge Bernardo that at a dance SOMETHING'S ~OM"NG .. ,Riff and in the gym, and prevails his best . , "" , friend and co-founder of the to AT GYM '. Tony him. Tony has been growing away MARIA ...... Instrumental from the gang and feels the stirring of other emotions (Something's Coming), but he TONIGHT . , .... agrees. AMERICA ...... Maria and Bernardo's sister, Maria, newly arrived from Puerto Rico to marry his friend Chino, Anita, Rosalia and Girls attends the dance Dance At The Gym) ONE and the hatred between and Jets the gangs, meets Tony, who at once falls TONIGHT. . Maria and in love With her (Maria). Later, after the ' .. Maria, Antia, Riff and B dance, while the gangs begin to assemble RUMBLE. ernardo . at Doc's drugstore to choose a and . Instrumental weapons lor their rumble - a gang light ACT TWO visits Maria on the fire escape of I FEEL her apartment, and they their love .. Maria and the (Tonight), to meet the next after- neon at the bridal where Maria works. and Tony As he departs, the Sharks are taking their home before going of! to the THAT a playful I HAVE A between Anita and a Puerto Maria and Anita Rican girl over the relative merits of life and Anita back home and In Manhattan (America). , . , '. At the the Jets are nervous Maria and Tony about the approaching meeting with the Sharks, but Riff advises them to play it cool (Cool); and when the Sharks arrive an agreement is reached, at insistence, to have a fair, fight each gang to its best man - the behind the bodies of Riff Tony to come near her (A next under the highway. Next but Maria's answer (I Have A Tony Maria at the Shop, and among its irrefutable force, and at Anita the they enact a ACT II. In her room, Maria is gaily agrees to warn Tony that Chino is wedding ceremony (One Hand, One Heart). paring for her meeting with Tony (I ning for She goes to the drugstore Maria makes him promise to stop the fight Pretty). She is unaware of what has hap- is brutally taunted by the Jets for her na- between his gang and her brother's. In the until Chino bursts into her room and and in hysteria she spits out qUintet (Tonight), Tony and Mana of tells her that her brother has been killed by a different for Tony: that Chino their love, Anita, who is Bernardo's her lover. a gun, he rushes out in has killed Maria revenge. make for a big and Bernar search of Tony. however, has Doc tells Tony what Anita has said, and do and Riff and their gangs make their own climbed the fire escape to Maria's room, Tony leaves his hiding and wanders for the rumble. and in spite of her grief she is unable to numbly on the streets, calling for Chino to In a deserted area under the highway, send him away. Clin.ging together come and get him too. At midnight he runs the meet for the fight. As it is about they a place where into Maria, who has been for to get way. Tony hurries in and they can be free ice him, but their moment is brief: Chino ap- them to stop, as he has promised (Somewhere). In the streets and alleys the pears from behind a and shoots Bernardo, enraged that Tony has been gangs flee the police, panic-stricken by the Tony dead. The stunned the Jets making advances to his sister, him killings. Two of the Jets, Action and Snow- and the Sharks, from shadows back furiously, Suddenly switch-blade boy, have been and and, through by the knives appear, and Riff and Bernardo they to the rest of them how to han- lift up the body of Tony and carry begin to fight (The In the ensu dle the adults (Gee, Officer Krupke). ing action, Riff is knifed and Tony, The sorrowing Anita knocks at Maria's bing his weapon, in turn knifes Bernardo. door, and leaves by the window, tak- Reprinted from the notes to the Original Frenzied, the gangs join the battle until ing refuge in basement of Doc's drug- Broadway Cast recording by courtesy of are by a whistle. Copyrightstore. Anita 2010, MichiganMaria Opera for allowing Theatre CBS Masterworks, 1957 CBS Inc. Acknowledgente11ts

Special acknowledgements to the Michigan Opera Theatre wishes to Please Note following corporations for their thank the following for their support sponsorships of West Side Story: of this production: Michigan Opera Theatre offers exciting getaway weekends with the BURROUGHS CORPORATION Dennis Forbes Hotel St. Regis, 873-3000. Ambiance Recordings, Inc. Friday, November 15 The Michigan Opera Theatre MACCABEES MUTUAL LIFE Juke Boxes Incorporated 1985/86 Program Book is available INSURANCE COMPANY Ed Head in the lobby for further historical Saturday, November 16 Voice-over Talent information on West Side Story. DETROIT FREE PRESS Eric J. Head The Michigan Opera Theatre Friday, November 29 Simons, Michelson, Zieve 1985/86 Season is presented in TOUCHE ROSS & COMPANY Mary Lou Zieve cooperation with WQRS-FM 105. Saturday, December 7, 8:00 p.m. Voice-over Talent WEST SIDE STORY is presented Mort Zieve through special arrangement with Simons, Michelson, Zieve Music Theatre International, 49 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022.

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Puccini's oriental masterpiece Turandot March 5, 7 and 8, 1986 Masonic Temple

fep1uiing the world renowned voices of GHENAI~lIM1TROVA and MARTINA ARROYO and a cast of hundreds. The perfect gift item for this Holiday Season.

Call 313/874-SINGCopyright 2010, for Michigan holiday Opera Theatregift certificates. Lyric Drama in three acts Dramatis Personae Music by Giacomo Puccini Princess Turandot Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni * Ghena Dimitrova (March 5 and 8) Last duet and final scene completed by Franco Alfano Martina Arroyo (March 7)

Based on Carlo Gozzi's The Emperor Altoum drama of the same name David Reilly First Performance: Timur, the dethroned La Scala, Milan, Tartar King April 25 , 1926 James Butler

The Unknown Prince-Calat, his son Conductor * Ernesto Veronelli *Joseph Rescigno (March 5 and 8) Stage Director Anne Ewers Jon Fredric West (March 7) Scenery and Costumes Designed by Liu, young slave girl * Allen Charles Klein * Maria Spacagna for the opera companies (March 5 and 8) of Dallas, Houston, Miami and San Francisco * Cynthia Haymon (March 7) Lighting Design * Kirk Bookman Ping, the Grand Chancellor Wigs and Make-up Master George Massey Rebecca Watson Wigs provided by Pang, the General Purveyor Theatrical Hairgoods Company * Richard Brunner Chorus Master Suzanne Acton Pong, the Chiet Cook * Bernard Fitch Production Stage Manager * Caroline Moores A Mandarin * Assen Vassilev Supertitles for this production of The Prince of Persia Turandot are owned by San Michigan Francisco Opera and were made Robert Paul possible through a generous David DiChiera grant from American Express via The Executioner Opera General Director the San Francisco Opera Guild. James Cowans

CJheatre presents Michigan Opera Theatre is • denotes MOT company debut supported in part by grants from PuCcini's the National Endowment for the Giacomo Arts, a federal agency, and, from Cast subject to change in 3 the State of Michigan th rough the case of unforseen exigencies. ~~ Michigan Council for the Arts. Musical scores used by arrangement Michigan Opera Theatre is a with Associated Music Publishers. Inc., memb'ir of OPERA America. U.S. Agent fo r G. Ricord i, Milan

SUNG IN ITALIAN WITH March 5, 7 and 8, 1986 ENGLISH SUPER TITLES Masonic Temple Auditorium Detroit, Michigan

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre MOT Orchestra Members MOT Chorus Children's Chorus Clarinet Norris Anderson Stanley Richard Binig Violin I Patricia Balysh Kelly Boczek Charlotte Merkerson CarolOber Jacqueline Barth Jedidiah Cohen Concertmistress Principal Tilis Butler Caroline De Fauw Ann Cannell James Forgey John Campbell Deborah De Fauw Marla Smith Linda Borushko Annette G. C. Ciul Michael De Fauw Randolph Margitza Bassoon George Cooney Leah Duncan Kathie Step pula Christy Evans Jonathan Boyd Betty Dewilde Kathy Spratt Michaella Dionne Lissa Renae Goldberg Principal Victoria Haltom Elizabeth Evans Karen Hawk Christine Prince Inez Redman Vanessa Ferriole Leigh Alexandra Jonaitis Kathleen Ferris Trumpet Louise Fisher Christopher Jones James Kujawski James Underwood Larry Formosa Bettie Lyons Yvonne Friday Andrew Nagrant Violin II Principal Gordon Simmons William Goodwin George Nagrant Peruz Zerounian Carolyn Bybee Derek Hood Elizabeth Neds Principal Larry Hooks Joshua Neds Wilma Turco Trombone Terence Horn Katie O'Shaughnessey Brooke Hoplamazian Maury Okun, Principal Susan Hurst Kristin Plater Lina Carcone Greg Near John Irwin Rolanda Posley Constance F. Markwick William Lane Armond Jackson James Schmidt Lorraine Perlman French Horn Carol Jimines Katie Schmidt Laurie Paolini Jennifer Johnson Stacey Seitz Karen Lane Joanne Mahlebashian Clarence Jones Asante Kathleen Taylor Principal Mary Kay Kinlen Viola Arlene Nixon Donnie Lewis Ara Zerounian Alise Oiver Ray Litt Supernumeraries Principal John Grose Bettie Lyons Howard Bowman Harvey Burley James Greer Tuba Michael McCormick Robert Oppelt Laurel Anne Meeker John Canon Kabin Thomas Dan Ciccone Nicholas Wasolwich Merry M. Miller Harp James M. Moore Bob Dietze Linda Puroff Darius L. Dudley Robert Morency Tracey Riggs Patricia Terry-Ross Ed Dyla Richard Mox Cello Timpani Anthony Flemming Romulus Murrel Daryl Gaither Nadine Deleury Gregory White Jane Neil Jeff Genova Principal Percussion Jennifer L. Oliver Frobe Gruenberg Diane Bredesen John Dorsey Carl Payne Cliff Halter Minka Christoff Principal William Pelto Michael Hoffman Debra Lonergan Rita Pendleton Keith Claeys Paul Horn Jan Phillips Bruce Hunt Pamela Bush-Cullers Daniel Maslanka Peggy O'Shaughnessy Eugene Jakubowski Bass Keyboard Patricia Pierobon Edward Kelly Marc Haas Douglas Stanton Robert F. Pirie Thomas Kirby Principal David Podulka Gerald Krause Derek Weller Off Stage Gregory Pond Bruce Leitman Martha Schimelpfenig Instruments Nada Radakovich Roger Marshall Peter Scherer Roderick Reese Ed McNew Trumpet David Reilly Arthur Ortiand Flute Charles Lea Patricia Riccobono Michael O'Toole Sam Phillips Pamela Hill Charles Larkin Ernest J. Richardson William Ribbens Principal Derek Lockhardt John Riley Ernie Sarver Helen Near Mary Robertson Lugene Sharp Wendy Hohmeyer Trombone John Sartor James Stuckey Brian Robson John Schmidt Oboe Scott McElroy Marc Susselman Lisa Scott John Tower Ann Augustin-Jacobs George Troia William Phillippe Sewell Douglas Wartell Principal Personnel Jean Slaughter Elizabeth Werner Carol Guither Versell Smith Jr. Gil Whelden Steve Caplin Manager Alan Spiller Dirk Zuschlag Richard Piippo John Stewart Stephen Stewart John Stokes Moon Dancers Judith Szefi Ursula Buckanes Fran Theis Laura Gavoor Gary Toth LaDonna Leyva Dean Unick Lisa Oulette Douglas Webber Vicki Printzos-Pavlou Oliver Wesley Judith Sheldon Herbert J. Whitby Lea Woods

IMPERIAL GUARDS - THE EXECUTIONER'S ASSISTANTS CHILDREN - PRIESTS - MANDARINS - DIGNITARIES THE EIGHT WISE MEN - TURANDOT'S ATTENDANTS rr:;r;:::;rr=i'T;=ir Copyright 2010, Michigan OperaSOLDIERS Theatre - STANDARD BEARERS - MUSICIANS l!:.I L!:J ~ t.::1 SHADES OF THE DEPARTED - THE CROWD Setting: Peking in legendary times fore (In questa Reggia); in revenge, she Galaf, son of Timur. She too has won, has turned against all men and deter he says, as she summons him before ACT I At sunset before the Imperial mined that none shall ever possess her the emperor and the populace.' palace, a Mandarin reads the crowd an (Mai nessun m 'avra). Scene ii Outside the Imperial palace, edict; any prince seeking to marry the Then, facing Galaf, she asks the first Turandot brings Galaf in triumph. For a Princess Turandot must first answer riddle: What phantom is born every moment it appears she might announce three riddles. If he fails, he must die. night and dies every morning in the his name and demand his death. In The latest suitor, the Prince of Persia, human heart? "Hope," Galaf answers stead she says his name is Love. The is to be executed at the moon's rising; correctly. Unnerved, Turandot con crowd hails love as the light of the world. the bloodthirsty citizens rush forward to tinues: What flickers red and warm like kill him in a surge of mass hysteria, but a flame, yet is not fire? "Blood," replies - Gourtesy of Opera News are repulsed by the guards. In the Galaf after a moment's pause. Visibly tumult a slave girl, Liu,kneels by her shaken, Turandot delivers her third rid '''Here ends the opera, terminated by aged master, who has fallen from ex dle: What is like ice yet generates fire, the death of the Maestro (Puccini)," said haustion. A handsome youth, Galaf, enslaving you if you go free , making you conductor Arturo Toscanini to the La recognizes the old man as his long-lost a king if it takes you as a slave? A tense Scala audience at the world premiere in father, Timur, vanquished king of Tar silence prevails until Galaf triumphant 1926. tary. ly cries "Turandot!". When Timur reveals that only Liu has While the crowd voices thanks the remained faithful to him, Galaf asks her princess begs her father not to give her why; she replies it is because once long to the stranger, but to no avail. Galaf, ago he smiled at her. As the sky hoping to win her love, offers Turandot Acknowledgements darkens, the mob again cries for blood, a challenge of his own: If she can learn Special acknowledgements to the but greets the moon with sudden, fear his name by dawn , he will forfeit his life. following corporations for their ful ' silence (La sui monti dell 'Est). The sponsorship of the opening night of Turandot accepts, as the crowd repeats onlookers are further moved when the Turandot: the Emperor's praises. Prince of Persia passes by, and call Michigan Bell Telephone Company . upon the princess, hidden in the palace, Ameritech Publishing, Inc. to spare him. Galaf, too, demands that ACT 11/ Scene i In the palace she appear; as if in answer, Turandot gardens, Galaf hears a proclamation: Michigan Opera Theatre wishes to thank steps onto her balcony, with a contemp On pain of death no one in Peking shall the following for their support of this tuous gesture bidding the execution sleep until Turandot learns the production: proceed. stranger's name. The prince muses on General Motors and Ford Motor Car for The crowd falls prostrate, and Tur his impending joy (Nessun dorma), then providing transportation of the Turandot andot withdraws. As the death cry is Ping, Pang and Pong try unsuccessful principals. heard, Galaf - who has been transfix ly to bribe him to leave the city. As the Charles Caine, ed by the beauty of the unattainable fearful mob threatens him with drawn Turandot costume supervision princess - strides to the gong that an daggers to learn his name, soldiers drag Dennis Forbes nounces a new suitor. Turandot's mi in Liu and Timur; Galaf tries to convince Ambience Recordings, Inc . nisters, Ping , Pang and Pong, attempt the mob that neither knows his secret. Eric Head to discourage him. When Timur and the When Turandot appears, commanding Simons, Michelson, Zieve AdvertiSing tearful Liu also beg him to reconsider the dazed Timur to speak, Liu cries out Toni Martin and WMJC-FM Radio (Signore, ascolta!), Galaf seeks to com that she alone knows the stranger's Judith Sheldon, fort them; but as their pleas reach new identity but she will never reveal it (Tan Choreographic Assistant intensity (Ah! Per I'ultima volta!), he to amore segreto, inconfessator). Director, Dance Division, DCMS strikes the fatal gong and calls Turan Though she is tortured, she remains Jenny-King Turko, dot's name. silent. Impressed by such endurance, Turandot Wig Master and Turandot asks Liu's secret: "love," re Make-up designer ACT /I Scene i In a palace pavil plied the girl (Tu che di gel sei cinta). Mary Lou Zieve lion, Ping, Pang and Pong lament Tur When the princess signals the ministers Voice Over Talent andot's bloody reign, praying that love to intensify the torture, Liu seizes a dag Morton Zieve will soon conquer her icy heart and ger and kills herself. Simons, Michelson, Zieve Advertising peace return. The three let their Following the procession carrying her ANR Pipeline Company for the purchase thoughts dwell on their beautiful and body, everyone leaves except Turandot of the SupertiUe projection equipment. peaceful country homes, but the noise and the prince. He demands ~he look of the populace gathering to hear Tur on the innocent blood shed for her sake andot question the new challenger, calls (Principessa di gelo) . Haughtily, she Please Note the ministers back to harsh reality. warns him not to touch her, but he em Michigan Opera Theatre offers exciting Scene ii Before the palace, the ag braces her passionately and kisses her. opera getaway weekends with the Hotel ed Emperor, seated on a high throne, She confesses that of all her suitors he St. Regis, call 313/873-3000 for details. vainly asks Galaf to reconsider. Turan was the first she feared, and it is he who The Michigan Opera Theatre 1985/86 dot enters to describe how her beauti has drawn her first tears (Del primo pian Season is presented in cooperation with ful ancestor, Princess Lou-Ling, was to) . Now that he has won, she begs him WQRS-FM 105. brutally ravished by the Tartar King to leave without demanding more. 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