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36628_Journal 2017.pdf 2 11/13/17 12:48 PM Dear Friends,

Welcome to our 32nd annual Opera Gala! 2017 was another exciting year for the Opera Foundation. We received 180 applications for our audition in January. The representatives from the three opera houses, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Regio di Torino and the Bayerische Staatsoper picked three For more than a century, the name C.J. Lawrence exciting young singers for the 2017/18 season. Berlin chose Soprano Sandra Hamaoui, a French-American has been synonymous with providing sound singer from New York. She received our Björn Eklund Scholarship investment advice to individuals and institutions. and will sing the roles of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Ninette in L’amour des trois oranges, Annina in La Traviata among others. Berlin also picked Baritone, Dean Murphey winner of the Curt Engelhorn Scholarship and will sing supporting roles in twelve Analytical rigor and proprietary investment operas throughout the 2017-18 season. Tenor Joshua Sanders joins the Teatro Regio di Torino after disciplines are the foundation of our portfolio winning our Foundation's Amber Capital Scholarship. At the Teatro Regio, he will sing roles in Tristan und Isolde, Turandot, and Le nozze di Figaro among others. Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper kept management process. our 2016 winner of the Björn Eklund Scholarship, Tenor Galeano Salas, for a second year.

The musical program tonight is heavily ‘Mozart’ themed. Our guest of honor, Soprano Kathryn Lewek is currently the Queen in Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera. Katie began her career at the Deutsche Oper Berlin thanks to our sponsorship in 2011. We are so proud to welcome her here tonight. Joining Katie is the exciting Bass Tobias Kehrer from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, who is also performing with her at the Met. We are equally honored that fellow Deutsche Oper Berlin lyric Tenor Matthew Newlin will be singing for us tonight. Matthew joined the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2013 as a result of our program and regularly performs such roles as Tamino and Belmonte among others.

To date we have supported 67 singers with professional scholarships. Our annual auditions in New York are today well established among young graduates of the major music schools. We are especially grateful to our long-term sponsors: The Ladenburg Foundation, the Eklund and Dupire families, and Amber Capital. Thanks to your commitment we have been able to maintain our programs for another year.

Tonight, we welcome once again Intendant Dietmar Schwarz from the Deutsche Oper Berlin who has been a strong supporter of our Berlin program from the start and, for the first time, Maestro Gianandrea Noseda of the Teatro Regio di Torino who was instrumental in launching our Turin program in 2008 together with our friends here in New York Fiorenza Scholey Cohen and Joseph Oughourlian.

This evening would not be possible without the dedicated work of our Executive Director, Elizabeth Walbroel. The board is grateful that Liz has kept our programs running smoothly for the past 24 years. As one the Opera Foundation’s Trustees since 1993 and its President for the past 12 years, I have been privileged to work with a very dynamic board of directors who make all of this possible. Thank you all for your loyal support.

Wishing you an enjoyable evening!

PROUD SUPPORTER OF Bernhard Koepp THE OPERA FOUNDATION President, The Opera Foundation FOR MANY YEARS

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 3 11/13/17 12:48 PM Dear Guests of the Opera Foundation and Friends of the Deutsche Oper Berlin,

As I join you here in New York, the Deutsche Oper Berlin is preparing its next major premiere: Giacomo Mayerbeer’s LE PROPHETE is a masterpiece of Grand Opera as relevant and contemporary today as it was at its opening. Although it is set during the Lutheran reformation, the story of the innkeeper Jean de Leyde’s rise as leader of a radical sect and his subsequent suicide bombing and murder of hundreds at the palace of Munster resembles all too well the shocking incidents that appear in the headlines today.

But Meyerbeer’s opera goes a step further: it seeks to understand why people become fanatics and presents to us human beings in all their complexity and ambiguity. And this is why we need art – and opera – today more than ever: because the answers are almost never as simple as we want them to be. Because understanding is more important than judging.

It is our task to communicate this to every young singer who comes to our house: That opera is not only about wonderful singing, but about us. That the stories we present on the stage are not just a pretext for making music, but relate to our own lives.

I strongly believe that this spirit is one of the most important things we can give to our scholars and looking back at all the wonderful young singers you have sent us over the years, I am proud to say that we have had great success.

I am grateful that you have given us the chance to instill the spirit of opera in young artists for more than three decades, and I hope many more talented musicians will be able to enjoy this unique opportunity. For that, I offer my deepest thanks.

Dietmar Schwarz General Manager, Deutsche Oper Berlin

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 4 11/13/17 12:48 PM Dear Guests of the Opera Foundation,

The Teatro Regio has just opened the 2017-2018 Season with a beautiful production of Tristan und Isolde directed by Gianandrea Noseda. Also this year we welcome a young artist emerging from the selections of Opera Foundation to our stage. This happens only thanks to the tireless work of Bernhard Koepp, Elizabeth Walbröl and the support of Joseph Oughourlian, allowing each year, an American singer to participate in all of our productions.

Since 2008, when our collaboration began, we have had the joy of hosting twelve young singers in Turin who have studied and worked with us, experiencing intense artistic and human experience that has led them to the development of a strong friendship.

The star of this freshly started ‘adventure’ is Joshua Sanders, the 25-year-old tenor from New York, whose dream is that of continuing his musical education in Italy and to learn our language.

Thanks to the scholarship made available by Amber Capital, he will see his dream come true. I hope that he, like the many young men and women who have preceded him, finds in Teatro Regio Torino, a new family and new stimuli for a life dedicated to art.

Best Regards,

Walter Vergnano General Manager, Teatro Regio Torino

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 5 11/13/17 12:48 PM Dear Members and Friends of the Opera Foundation,

Over the past six years, the collaboration between the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Opera Foundation has proven to be a very important and fruitful support for our Young Artist Program.

I am sure you will be happy to know that the young tenor, Galeano Salas, who was our Opera Foundation singer last year, is still part of the studio and will be singing this season interesting roles in operas such as Vêpres siciliennes, Die Gezeichneten, Nabucco and Traviata. Furthermore, he will be covering the role of Ein Sänger in Der Rosenkavalier for the Bayerische Staatsoper’s guest performance at Carnegie Hall as well as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi here in Munich.

The origins of the Young Artist Program of the Bayerische Staatsoper - the Opernstudio - date back to the 1970s. Today, the program supports highly talented young singers from all over the world and prepares them for an international career as opera singers. Former members perform in important opera theaters worldwide. Our program typically runs one or two seasons and consists of role studies, voice lessons, acting and movement classes as well as language training. The fact that our program is completely integrated into the extensive performance schedule of the Bayerische Staatsoper with over forty different opera productions per year, gives our singers the invaluable experience to work side by side with the world’s leading opera singers, conductors and stage directors.

Last season Galeano Salas began his term with us in Munich by singing the role of Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor as well as roles in operas such as La Bohème, Mefistofele and Semiramide aside Joyce di Donato. We are grateful that the Opera Foundation has continued to help us find interesting young American singers that we have welcomed in Munich over the past seasons.

I wish you all the best on behalf of my colleagues at the Bayerische Staatsoper and I look forward to welcoming many of you at our performances in Munich.

Sincerely,

Tobias Truniger Artistic Director, Opernstudio

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 6 11/13/17 12:48 PM THE LADENBURG FOUNDATION

Thank you for supporting a scholarship for 22 years bearing the name of Curt Engelhorn, the prominent German philanthropist. Thanks to your support, an entire generation of young American opera talent have launched their singing careers. Your support has had a major impact on the Arts and strengthened long standing cultural ties across continents.

THE CURT ENGELHORN SCHOLARS

BAVAT MAROM / Soprano Curtis School of Music 1996 CATHERINE CANGIANO / Soprano Juilliard School 1997 MARK TEVIS / Tenor Mannes School of Music 1998 ANNE MARIE SEAGER / Mezzo-Soprano Juilliard School 1999 LAURE DE MARCELLUS / Mezzo-Soprano Tel Aviv School of Music 2000 RAQUELA SHEERAN / Soprano Juilliard School 2001 HAROLD WILSON / Bass-Baritone Indiana University 2002 JESSICA MILLER / Soprano Manhattan School of Music 2003 CHERI ROSE KATZ / Soprano Universitaet Salzburg 2004 MELISSA SHIPPEN / Soprano Juilliard School 2005 NICOLE PICCOLOMINI / Mezzo-Soprano Academy of Vocal Arts 2006 JULIA BENZINGER / Mezzo-Soprano Royal Northern College of Music 2007 ERICA MILLER / Soprano University of Southern California 2008 JAMES KEE / Baritone Curtis School of Music 2009 REBECCA JO LOEB / Mezzo-Soprano Juilliard School 2010 KATHRYN LEWEK / Soprano Eastman School of Music 2011 ANDREW HARRIS / Bass West Virginia University 2012 MATTHEW NEWLIN / Tenor Chicago College of the Performing Arts 2013 THOMAS LEHMAN / Baritone Eastman School of Music 2014 NICOLE HASLETT / Soprano Manhattan School of Music 2015 ABIGAIL LEVIS / Mezzo-Soprano Moores School of Music 2016 DEAN MURPHY / Baritone Yale University 2017

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 7 11/13/17 12:48 PM OUR UNDERWRITERS

The Opera Foundation thanks our underwriters Amber Capital and the Dupire and Eklund Families:

AMBER CAPITAL SCHOLARS

DIEGO MATAMOROS / Baritone Yale University 2008 DOMINIC MICHAEL ARMSTRONG / Tenor Juilliard School 2009 JOHN PAUL HUCKLE / Bass Boston University 2010 MATTHEW PEÑA / Tenor Manhattan School of Music 2011 RACHEL HAUGE / Mezzo-Soprano Boston University 2011 ANNIE ROSEN / Mezzo-Soprano Mannes School of Music 2012 SCOTT JOHNSON / Baritone University of Wisconsin 2012 RYAN MILSTEAD / Baritone University of Illinois at Urban Champaign 2013 SAMANTHA KORBEY / Mezzo-Soprano Manhattan School of Music 2014 KATE FRUCHTERMAN / Soprano Mannes School of Music 2015 CULLEN GANDY / Tenor Juilliard School 2016 JOSHUA SANDERS / Tenor Manhattan School of Music 2017

BJÖRN EKLUND SCHOLARS

MATTHEW GRILLS / Tenor Eastman School of Music 2013 JOHN CARPENTER / Baritone Penn State School of Music 2014 LEELA SUBRAMANIAM / Soprano Manhattan School of Music 2015 GALEANO SALAS / Tenor Yale University / Academy of Vocal Arts 2016 SANDRA HAMAOUI / Soprano San Francisco Conservatory 2017

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PERFORMANCES BY

2013/14 WINNER OF THE CURT ENGELHORN SCHOLARSHIP Matthew Newlin Tenor

SPECIAL GUEST THE DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN Tobias Kehrer Bass

2017 GUEST OF HONOR Kathryn Lewek Soprano

Craig Ketter Piano

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 9 11/13/17 12:48 PM 2017 GUEST OF HONOR Kathryn Lewek / Soprano

Soprano Kathryn Lewek began her career as the grand prize winner of the Opera Foundation’s International Vocal Scholarship, and was granted a contract with the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she performed roles in thirteen productions including Die Zauberflöte, Carmen, Don Carlo, Hänsel und Gretel, Le nozze di Figaro, and Verdi’s I due Foscari. Ms. Lewek has established herself as one of opera’s strongest coloratura sopranos of this generation and now is expanding her resume with some of the most vocally challenging roles in the soprano repertoire. Ms. Lewek’s interpretation of her signature role, a quintessential Mozart villain, Queen of the Night, has garnered international critical acclaim. She performed the role in productions of Die Zauberflöte in débuts with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bregenzer Festspiele, the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Opera Leipzig, Opera de Toulon, English National Opera, Nashville Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Royal Danish Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Houston Grand Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Teatro Real in Madrid. This season, she will reprise the role in her début at Lyric Opera of Chicago and in a return to The Metropolitan Opera.

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 10 11/13/17 12:48 PM 2013/14 CURT ENGELHORN SCHOLARSHIP WINNER Matthew Newlin / Tenor

Lyric tenor Matthew Newlin has been a member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2013, where he regularly performs such leading roles as Tamino, Belmonte, Don Ottavio, Ferrando, and Count Almaviva. Additional roles performed include Rosenkavalier’s Italian Singer, Lucia di Lammermoor’s Arturo, Turandot’s Pong, Der fliegende Holländer’s Steuermann, and Boris Godunov’s Holy Fool, among others. Matthew has had the pleasure of singing under the baton of many conductors, such as Donald Runnicles, Nicholas Carter, Moritz Gnann, Ivan Repušić, Pietro Rizzo, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, and Kirill Karabits.

Matthew has made several debuts outside of Deutsche Oper Berlin, such as at Opéra National de Paris with director Thomas Jolly and conductor Leonardo Garcia Alarcon in a new production of Cavalli’s Eliogabalo, a co-production with Dutch National Opera.

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36628_Journal 2017.pdf 13 11/13/17 12:48 PM SPECIAL GUEST, DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN 2017/18 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

/ Bass Tobias Kehrer BJÖRN EKLUND SCHOLARSHIP Sandra Hamaoui / Soprano

French-American soprano Sandra Hamaoui is a young and promising artist on the rise. Ms. Hamaoui starts the 2017/18 season joining the prestigious Ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she will sing the roles of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Ninette in L'amour des trois oranges, Annina in La Traviata, and participates in the premieres of Wir Aus Glas and Frankenstein.

CURT ENGELHORN SCHOLARSHIP Dean Murphy / Baritone

American baritone Dean Murphy has been a featured artist with many of New England’s premier opera companies. In the fall of 2017, Dean joins the ensemble Tobias Kehrer, born in Dessau, began his musical education in private lessons after of Deutsche Oper Berlin, singing supporting roles in he completed his studies at the University of Arts in Berlin with Professor Siegfried twelve operas throughout the 2017-18 season. Lorenz. Since the 2012/13 season he has been a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, having already been a "Franz Josef Weisweiler" fellow of the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin. He performed as Zuniga in Carmen, AMBER CAPITAL SCHOLARSHIP Mandarin in Turandot, Masetto and Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Sarastro in Joshua Sanders / Tenor The Magic Flute, Steffano Colonna in Rienzi and Fafner in The Rheingold. Tenor Joshua Sanders joins the Teatro Regio di Torino In 2012, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in a new production of Ariadne as a resident artist for the 2017/18 season after winning Auf Naxos as Truffaldin and returned there in 2013 as a night watchman in Stefan the Opera Foundation's Amber Capital Scholarship. Herheim's production of Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg. He also sang the role of At Teatro Regio he will sing roles in Tristan und Isolde, Jacobus of Arc in the concertante performance of Walter Braunfels' Jeanne D'arc. Turandot, Salome, Montedverdi's Orfeo, Verdi's I Lombardi In the 2014/15 season, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York alla prima crociata, and Le nozze di Figaro. as Sarastro in The Magic Flute and at the Glyndebourne Festival as Osmin The Extraction From The Serail.

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 14 11/13/17 12:48 PM SPECIAL GUEST, DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN 2017/18 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

/ Bass Tobias Kehrer BJÖRN EKLUND SCHOLARSHIP Sandra Hamaoui / Soprano

CURT ENGELHORN SCHOLARSHIP Dean Murphy / Baritone

36628_Journal 2017.pdf 15 11/13/17 12:48 PM PAST GUESTS OF HONOR

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36628_Journal 2017.pdf 16 11/13/17 12:48 PM PAST GUESTS OF HONOR

Karan Armstrong / Hildegard Behrens / Francisco Casanova / Vladimir Chernov / Diana Damrau / Ghena Dimitrova / Plácido Domingo / Alexander T. Ercklentz / Simon Estes / Barbara Frittoli / Denyse Graves / Kirsten Harms / Ben Heppner / Kristan Johannsson / Dr. Bernd von Maltzan / Eva Marton / Maestro Kurt Masur / Angela Meade / Sherrill Milnes / Catherine Naglestad / Danielle De Niese / Rene Pape / Luciano Pavarotti / Susanna Phillips / Hermann Prey / Samuel Ramey / Maestro Julius Rudel / Matti Salminen / Bryn Terfel / Maestro Christian Thielemann / Joseph Volpe / Bernd Weiki / Robert Wilson / Gösta Winberg

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36628_Journal 2017.pdf 17 11/13/17 12:48 PM HONORARY COMMITTEE

Ambassador Christoph Heusgen Rainer Hansen Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi Nadia Koepp Michael Bucheit Anne Charlotte Marcantetti Sylvie Chantecaille Maestro Gianandrea Noseda Lena Eklund Joseph Oughourlian Alexander T. Ercklentz Alexander von Perfall The Honorable Francesco Genuardi Dietmar Schwarz Brigitte Gerney Annaliese Soros Sylvie del Giudice-Weilman Walter Vergnano Richard Karl Goeltz The Honorable David Gill Günter Greiner Werner Walbröl Wassila Guiga-Lotfi Peter Prinz Wittgenstein

UNDERWRITERS

Amber Capital C.J. Lawrence LLC A.T. Kearney, Inc. The Ladenburg Foundation Eklund and Dupire Families