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4ry"fi"A DER ROSENI(AVALIER bv RichardStrauss

Our 201'1Season Sponsor is the ViterbiFamily. This production of Der Rosenkavalierisdedicated 'ln LovingMemory of Muriel S. Gluck'TitleSponsorship, and to TitleCo-Sponsors Carol Lazier and FayeWilson, Producers' Circle Sponsors Merle and TeresaFischlowitz and Ruth and Ron Leonardi. SanDiego is pleasedto recognizeAmerican Express as our CorporateProducing partner.

*A$-: .Til_-i-fii.i* : (in orderof vocalappearance) ACT I Octavian Anke Vondung- The Bedroomof the Marschallin The Marschallin Twyla Robinson. The Marschallin'sMajor-Domo John Duykers - 2O Minute lntermission - BaronOchs auf Lerchenau Andrew Greenan ACT ThreeNoble Orphans NatalieMann II Ava Baker Liss The GrandHall at HerrVon Faninal,s Cherylyn Larson - 2A Minute A lVilliner TiffanyCarmel lntermission - An AnimalTrainer Manuel PazCastillo ACT ill Valzacchi Joel Sorensen A PrivateRoom at an Inn A Singer Stephen Costello A Notary KevinLangan Annina HeleneSchneiderman. . Therunning time is approximately 4 hours and g minutes, Herrvon Faninal l-{ans-Joachim Ketelsen. includingtwo 20-mlnuteintermissions. lVlarianneLeitmetzerin StephanieWeiss. . Sceneryconslruction and painting \,ronFan inal's Major-Domo bythe Simeon Esper OperaScenic Shop. Sophievon Faninal PatriziaCiofi. . Costumes An lnnkeeper fabricatedby the Costume Simeon Esper Shop Footmenof the . Libretto Marschallin,/FourWaiters Andrew Bennett- by Hugovon Hofmannsthai. . StephenBranch. Firstperformance was held in Dresdenon January Anthony Ballard 26,1911. . MichaelBlinco. Castsubject to change. A PoliceCommissioner KevinLangan Leopold Matthew Roehl. Specialthanks to San Diego Museum of Art and Torrey Mohamet FrancisGoonan. PinesChristian Church and La Jolla CountryDay School,our 2011 CommunityConversation parrners Conductor Christof Perick for Der Rosenkavalier. Director Lotfi Mansouri ScenicDesigner ThierryBosquet CostumeDesigner ThierryBosquet ri:ftt- *fr Ltt\lt* il l].:*1il5 LightrngDesigner MichaelWhitfield Sunday April 3,2011 2pm Wig and MakeupDesigner StevenW. Bryant WednesdayApril 6,2O11 7pm ActingChorus lVaster Walter Huff" Saturday April 9,2011 6pm PrincipalPian istlPrompter PaulHarris Tuesday Apnl 12,2011 7pm Pianist Rita Kaufman Supertitles CharlesArthur Thisproduction of Der Rosenkavalierwill be broadcaston " SanDtego Opera Debut Saturday,June 4 at 7:OOpmon KpBSRadio B9.b FM. B9 1FM La Jollaand 97.7FMlmperial Valley

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PATRIZIA ClOFl, Sophie Opera of Chicago in the title role of Tannhajuser,San Francisco Opera in "Der Rosenkavalieris oneof the znostof tbe rnost Brl/y Budd, Eugene Onegin and Grand Macabre, the Grand Theatre beautifuloperas that I bai sung.It's"uery dffi- of Genevaas Cellini in BenvenutoCellini, Opera de Marseille cult to sing witlt Strauss'sintricate rnusic and-the as Mime in Siegfried,Los Angeles Opera in Strauss,Dr'e Frau ohne German dialect. But the hard work is worth it, Schatten,Santa Fe Operaas RedWhiskers in BillvBudd. when it all cornestogetlter tbe operais wonderful, the OperaCompany of Philadelphiaas Shuiskyin Boris Godunov it is pure magic," comments ltalian soprano and Herodin ,as well as with HoustonGrand Opera, Royal Opera Covent PatriziaCiofi. debut. She Garden,Netherlands Opera, Frankfurt Opera, the Canadian made her La Scaladebut as Violettain La tra- OperaCompany and SeattleOpera. He hassung in over 50 world premieres viata,relurning for Amelia in A Masked Bal/,the title roleof Lucla dl includingcreating the roleof Mao TseTung in Lammermoor. Corinna in ll vlaggioa Reims and llia tn ldomeneo: 'Nixon ln China,Ihe premiereof Glass'White Raven,ln King of Crere.Recent engagements include the title role of Maria The Penal Colony and Ihe title role of Galileo Galilei, amonq others. Stuardain Athens. Marie in TheDaughter of the Regimenrat Gran Teatredel in Barcelona,Gilda in Rlgolettowjth the Vienna SIMEON ESPER Staatsoper and Teatro Real in Madrid. Ophelia in with Ha ushofm e iste r to Fa n ina l/ n n keepe r BayerischeStaatsoper and Op6rade Marseille.Violetta with Teatro "I loueSan Diego Operaand I loueStrauss' , La Fenicein .Deutsche Opera Berlin and Tokyo,Amenaide especiallyDer Rosenkavalier.There are so Tnany in Tancrediat Teatro Regio in Turin,Donna Anna in Don Giovannl colorful supporting roles! When lan ofered ne for RoyalOpera House.Covent Garden,Cleopatra in Julius Caesar two of them, it wasn't hard to sign on!" says in Egypt at Bilbao Opera.NanneiIa in Falstaffand Giuliettain / Americantenor Simeon Esperwho made his Capuletie i Montecchi for ParisOp6ra Bastilleand Susannain Ihe Marrlage of Figaro. San Diego Operadebut in 2OO7as Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhduserand returned in 2008 as Beppe in Pagliacci.He made his debut with Theater STEPHEN COSTELLO, Singer Bielefeld in Germany as David in Wagner's Meistersinger von "The Italian is a drearu iob. He enters the Nurnberg and returnedas Jaquino in Fidelio,the Steersmanin Ihe scenein the opera, sings a beautfu/ aria, and FlyingDutchman and Graf Elemerin Arabella.With SeattleOpera, walks rigbt back of rhi stage.h's'afue-rninute he has sung Haushofmeisterto Faninalin Der Rosenkavaller, rok t.hathas been sung by a lot ofgreit ,one Heinrichin Tannhduser,Diener in ,Sir BrunoRobertson in / oJwhich was Luciano Pauzrotti," sa1s American Purltani and a young Seaman/A Shephardin Tristanund lsolde. a tenor StephenCostello. He made his San rolehe hasalso sung at SemperOper Dresden. Diego Opera debut last seasonas Romeo in Romeo and Jullet and sang the roje for Opera ANDREW GREENAN Companyof Philadelphia.He made his MetropolitanOpera debut Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau as Arturo in Lucradi Lammermoorand sang Edgardothat same season.and recentlymade hisVienna Staatsoper debut as Rodolfo "Ochs (which does indeed translate as "ox") is a in La bohdme. He createdthe role of Greenhornfor the world singularly appropriate namefor ny characti:er;he premiere of Moby-Dlck tor The DallasOpera. sang Cassioin Ote/lo charga tbrough hfe llke tbe prouerbial bull at a with the SalzburgFestival. Edgardo at Fort g1le, talking Worth Opera.Camille incessantl4 listening rare['. Yet,for in . Leicester in Mary, Oueen of Scots (Maria all bis boorishbehauiour and oierweeniogrirrc Stuarda) and the title role oI Roberto Devereux with The Dallas both of his own importanceand his attraciueness Opera. Christian in Cyrano and Rinuccio in wirh to azmen, there is an opennessand zestfor lfe in the Opera Companyof Philadelphia hirn that is alznost and ltaly.sSpoleto Festival, childlike. I,t/bat isfor suri, is thar if the M)rsciailin Romeowith BaltimoreOpera and The Dukeof Mantuain Rigo/etto had notfound her country cousinendearing o, o*riirg on someleuel, at DeutscheOper Berlin.Prior to theseperformances, he sanq his shewould bauehad him thrown out quite irly o, and"theopera would firstAmerican solo recitalin KansasCity. hauebeen a rrtuchshorter one!" says British bass-baritoneAndrew Greenan. He made his San Diego Opera debut as Biterolfin JOHN DI.'YI(ERS Tannhliuserin 20OB and returnedthe sameyear to singLord Cecil in Mary Oueen of (Maria Major Domo to the Marschallin Scots Stuarda).Greenan has appeared at the MetropolitanOpera as Heinrichin Lohengin, The Royal "I am honored to uork. with Lot/i Mansouri to Opera,Covent Garden as LandgrafHermann in Tannhduser,pielro create the ro/e of Struban - the Marscballin\ in Slmon Boccanegra,Tom jn,4 Masked Ba//,Crespel in The Tales Major Domo. Lotf was one of my most influ- of Hoffmann, and Swallow in peter Grlmes which he has also ential teachersduring my drreiopiig yarc ai on sung with the StaatsoperHamburg and Klingsorin parsifalwith operasinger, and his influencehas had a profound GrandTh66tre de Gen6ve.Other recentappearances include the ,fi?r,.?n. me. I look tu uncouiring the forward title rolein FalstaffaI the PragueNational Theatre, Superintendent untold life of Struhan, whose brief apprionrc Budd in Albert Herrlngat the Op6raComique. paris, Waldner in iz Der Rosenkavaliercould leauernany unansweredquestions,,' says Arabella at Theatredu Chateletand his latest performancesas Americantenor John Duykers.He made his San Diego Opera BaronOchs at CapeTown Opera. Earlier this seasonhe achieveda debut in 199'1 as PratLin The passlon of Jonathan Wade (return_ notablesuccess in the centralrole of Arnolphein the Frenchpre_ ing in 1996) and in'1997 as Chieflnquisitor in TheConquistador. miereof Liebermann'sDte Schuleder Frauenat Op6raNational de He hasappeared in San Franciscoas Heurtebicein Orphee. Lvric Bordeauxand will come to San Diegodirectly from performances

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of Titurelin Parsifalwilh EnglishNational Opera. a companywith TWYLA ROBf NSON , The Marschallin which he has enjoyeda long associationcovering a largeand var- "Tbere are a bandful of works in rbe world of ied repertoire.An accomplishedrecording artist. he appearedon aocal music which I a uerytreal reuerence the Grammy@Award-winning recording of Les Troyenswith the for feel - whereone plans tlte entire day around bringing LondonSymphony Orchestra with Sir ColinDavis. it into tbe practicestudio; wbereonefeels a kind of awe and priuilege merely to open the couer; HANS-JOACHIM KETELSEN wherepracticalfu euerytliue recording has its own Herr Von Faninal once-in-a-centurymornent in which time and cir- ""1amfrom Draden, wheretbis operapremiered cuznstanceand artist collided to bring something to the work that can neuer be recreated; wltere c,neseeks legaqt - to 100ltears ago. I'ue beenuery fortunate to singit all ouerthe uorld. I made my La ScalaDremiere learn itfrorn thosewho can pass on tbe style and tradition and trace in this role. It! a ueryd,ficuit role ro sing, almost that knowledgethrough the musicalgenerations back to its source.For '[4/hen uncomfortable becauseof the tessitura. the me, Der Rosenkavalierepitomizes such a work. Tbe day will neuer public saysI'rn good then I'ue done my job since cornein ahich I can't opentltis scoreto yt anotlter mysteryor rniracle," they don't know bow dfficult this role is to sing," sharesAmerican soprano Twyla Robinson. San Diego Opera saysGerman baritone Hans-Joachim Ketelsen. San Diego Opera debut. Robinsonrecently sang the role of Eva in Die Mersterslnger debut. He enjoys a long history with Dresden'sSemperoper von Nurnbergwith CincinnatiOpera. Other notableroles include appearingas Jochanaanin Salome,Mandryka in Arabella.Orest in Fiordiligiin Cosifan tutte wilh ArizonaOpera. Countess Almaviva Elektra,Amfortas in Parslfal,Heerrufer and Telramundin Lohengrin, in TheMarriage of Frgarowith SeattleOpera, San FranciscoOpera. Geisterbotein DreFrau ohne Schatten.Kothner and Beckmesserin New OrleansOpera. Florida Grand Opera and Atlanta Opera. Donna Die Meistersinger von Ntirnberg, Kurwenal in Tristan und lsolde, Anna in Don Gtovannifor , San Francisco Morone in Palestrrna,Donner in Das Rheingold,Eisenstein in Dre Opera. FloridaGrand Opera and Arizona Opera, and Arminda Fledermaus,Peter in Hansel and Gretel,fhe Speakerin TheMagrc in Finta giardrnreraat Florida Grand Opera. Other roles In her Flute and as Faninal.He made his BayreuthFestival debut as repertoireinclude the title rolesin Strauss'sArabella and Carlisle Kothnerand his Met debut as Mandryka.returning for Beckmesser Floyd'sSusannah Robinsonhas sung with many of the world's and Faninal.Other performancesinclude Telramund for the New leadingorchestras including London SymphonyOrchestra, Berlin NationalTheatre in Tokyoand StaatsoperHamburg and Guntherin Staatskapelle,Atlanta Symphony.Houston Symphony. Cleveland GcitterdammerunoaI TeatroReal Madrid. Orchestra,Los Angeles Philharmonic,and Seattle Symphony. among others. Notable concert performancesinclude Richard KEVIN LANGAN Strauss'sLast Four Songs with the AmericanSymphony Orchestra. Pol ice Co m m ission e r/N ota ry and MahlersSymphony No. 4 and the world premiereof Augusta ReadThomas's Absolute Ocean with HoustonSymphony. She can "Der Rosenkavalieris an operaabout realpeople also be heardon the recordingsof RrchardStrauss's Elektra and in uery lturnan relationshios. The two character Daphnemade with West GermanRadio Orchestra. roles i ploy are foibles to the central character of Baron Ochs. The rnusicfor the roles is structured HELENE SCHNEIDERMAN, Annina in conuersational text, yet still, quite rnelodic in "For its deliuery. This h the magic of Strauss' rnusic, a small role, Annina ruakesfor a lot offun, that he could ernbolden all of his character roles slteseems to alwaysbe running in and out of other uith as rnuch ntelodic beauty as his prirnary charactersin the opera," people'sscenes. I/ocally,4nnina is also challenging saysAmerica bass Kevin Langan. He made his San DiegoOpera Although it's calledfor a rnezzo-topranoor euen debut as Duke of Norfolkin Henry Vlll in 1983, returningas Dr. cltaractertlho, this role has a rangefronn lou E to Bartoloin The Marriage of Ftgaroin 19BG and 2OO7.Basilio in a high Aflat. The uoiceforAnnina needsat times TheBarber of Seville( /987 and in /993)and Dalandin TheFlylng to cut ouer a large orcbestra,and also euena bit '1987. 'l Dutchman in Raimondoin Luciadi Lammermoorin 989. of coloratura is askedfor. ,4nnina needswarrnth Collinein La bohdme in 1990 and 2000. Alcindoroin Cinderella in her ooicefor the waltz rnusicand cbaracterand cutting edgeto get in 1996, Timurln Turandotin 1997,Sarastro in TheMaglc Flutein ouer the orcbestraand children'schoir. Hauing alreadysung nurnerous 2001. OlivierMichaud in ThdrdseRaguln in 2OO3and lastseason Octauians, and adoring this opera, I now can enjoy the cballenge of as FriarLaurent in Romeo and Julret.He has apoearedwith San Annina,"shares American contralto Helene Schneidermanwho FranciscoOpera in 40 productionsincluding Samson and Delilah, is making her Company debut. Schneiderman'sperformances and as Timur,Colline. Ramfis in Arda,Padre Guardiano in La forza include Nicklaussein The Talesof Hoffmann, Cornelia in Julrus de/ destino, Henry Vlll in Anna Bolena, Sparafucilein Rigoleno, Caesar rn Egypt, Olga in Eugene Onegtn and lsabella in lhe Sobakinin The Tsar'sBride and Sarastro.a role he has sung in Itallan Girl in Algrers at Seattle Opera and Flora in La traviata Dallas,Houston. Philadelphia. St. Louis.Toronto, Calgary. West at the SalzburgFestival. She is a member of the Staatstheater Palm Beachand WashingtonDC. He has appearedmany times Stuttgartwhere rolesinclude Larina in Eugene Onegin,Emilia in with LyricOpera of Chicagoand SantaFe Opera. , Genevidve in Pelleas et Melisande, Despina in Cosi fan rutte. Medea in Teseo,Hansel in Hansel and Gretel,Penelope in ll Ritorno D'Ulrsse ln Patrta, Rosina in The Barber of Sevtlle, Suzuki in Madama Butterflv and the title role oI Carmen.

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.JOEL SORENSEN. Valzacchi aflirt andyou can hear tlti.sin the musicas sltesings to and about the Baron, with the useof the uabz," saysSan Diego+aisedAmerican "'tr/alzauhi is a schemer,and schemersare a lot soprano StephanieWeiss who is making her Company debut. offun n play. He is also a challenge to perform Weissenjoys a longassociation with DeutscheOper Berlinin such bauing sorneof the rrlosttongue-taisting, texiualll rolesas Marianne,Frasquita in Carmen,Musetta in La bohdme, czm?licatedpages in the opera. I enjoy the chai- The Firstand Second Lady in TheMagic Flute,Gerhilde in Wa/kure, lenge,"offers American tenor Joel Sorensen Schlafittchen in Das Traumfresserchen.The Overseerin Elektra. who made his San Diego Opera debut as The Landlady in Der Traumgorge,fhe Second Servant in Dr'e Curleyin Of Mice and Men in 1999, returning Agyptlsche Helena and Grimgerdein Die Walktire,among others. as CampWilliams in Cold SassvTree in 2OO1. Other performancesinclude The First Lady at BerlinStaatsopet asAndres in Wozzeckin2OO7, Rodriguez in Don euixotein 2009. Musetta at Oper Frankfurtand the Novice in Suor Anaelica with Tybaltin Romeoand Julietin 20'10 pang and earlierthis seasonas DeutscheOper Berlin. in .For the MetropolitanOpera he has sung in Samson and De/i/ah. Sly, Madama Butterf/y, Der Rosenkava/ier.Tosca. The Magic Flute, and War and peace. With THIERRY BOSQUET New York City Opera he has sung in The Magic Flute, Madama Set and CostumeDesign Butterfly, , Turandot, The Marrlage of Flgaro. prince lgor, Belgian La Rondlne, The Seven Deadly.Srns and Margaret Garner For Los designerThierry Bosquet made his San Diego Angeles Opera he debuted in Tbsca.returning as Guidobaldin Operadebut in 20Ob as the cos- tume designer Die Gezeichnerer.sung King Herod in Sa/ome with the Florentine Ior Die Fledermaus,originally designedfor San Francisco Opera,Pedrillo in Dre Entftihrungaus dem SerailIor Atlanta Opera Opera.He has a long association and Mime in Siegfriedfor OperaTheatre of pittsburgh. with San FranciscoOpera. designing The Merry Widow. Caprlccio. Ruslan and Lyndmila, Don Giovanni, . ANKE VONDUNG. Octavian Carmen,Pelldas et Mdlisande and Loulse. He designed sets and "For a mezzo-soprano, the part of Octauian is costumesfor over 75 operasand balletsat the Th6atreRoyal de one of the longestparts in mlt whole repertoire. As la Monnaie in Brussels.Other works rnclude The Magic Flute, Octauianlou are alwalr onstagein euery single Werther, The Mlkado and La traviata for New york City Opera, aa. The last part in the operahas to be sung with Tosca for Seattle Opera, The Merry Widow with Utah Opera. a wonderful piano-cubure and has to bi abso- and Otello in Lidge. La Belle Hdl1ne for the Canadian lutely beautful," says German mezzo soprano Opera Company and Capriccrbfor Washington NationalOpera. AnkeVondung. San DiegoOpera debut. She made her debut at OpernschuleMannheim STEVEN W. BRYANT as Nancyin BenjaminBritten's Albert Herrlng She enjoyeda long Wig A Makeup Designer relationshipwith SemperoperDresden as a residentartist and American is now a frequentguest artistsinging such rolesas the title role wig and makeup designerSteven W. of Jullus Caesar in Egypt. Marguerite in La Damnation of Faust, Bryant's work has encompassed over Angelina in ,Octavian in Der RosenkavalierOrlofsky 500 differentproductions in opera,regional in Dle Fledermaus. Cherubino in , Silbel theater,Broadway and film. He made his San in Faust, Wellgunde in Das Rheingold.Waltraute in Dle Walktjre, Diegodebut in 2006 and has designedevery Tebaldoin Don Carlos,Hansel in Hansel and Gretel,Meg page in productionsince then. Currently he is the wig Falstaff,and the litle role of Carmen,among others.She is known designerfor McCarterTheatre and the Fort for her portrayalof Octavianwhich she performedat the Munich Worth OperaFestival. Other credits include ,Opera OperaFestival, Opera de Bastilleand DeutscheStaatsoper. Other Theatreof St. Louis,Cleveland Opera. New york Citv Opera.The performances include Cherubino in The Marrlage of Figaro and DallasOpera and TeatroCol6n in Argentina.He hasworreo on sev- Dorabellain Cos)fan tutte at BayerischeStaatsoper. as well as her eralnotable world premieresincluding Leonard Bernstein,s,4 Ourel lvletropolitan Operadebut as Cherubinoand Annio in La c/emenza Place and CarlisleFloyd's Willie Stark aI . di Tito. Stewart Copeland'sHoly Blood at ClevelandOpera, pasatieri,s Frau Margot and Martin's Before Night FallsaI Fort Worth Opera. STEPH,ANIE WEISS, Marianne His Broadwaycredits include Julie Taymors production oi Gozzi,s Merle and TeresaFlschlowitz young Artist Green Bird and Styne's Gentlemen prefer Blondes. "I^am really lookingforward to perforrningone of .rnyfauorin and mostfreq"int-fi ptrfir*rd rolesin my hometown!!ihi; witt'b; $e third continent,fotothcotmtr!, andffih city in uhich I haueperformed this role. For a srnallerrole, it is surprisinglydfficub. SinceMarianne b such a high-energy . cltaracter, as opposedt0 so?hie's sad demeanor at the beginning of Act 2, all of ber entrancescltange the tempo t!! rn1.sic.S, he is .of uerytchatty and showsher exciternent/or the arriual of the Rosenkaualierwith outbursts of high notes.She is a b;t of

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WALTER HUFE, ActingChorus Master Lyndmila at The Mariinskyand his new book Lotfi Mansouri: An OperatlcJourney was just published. "Wlten one assurnesthe role of Chorus Masterfor Der Rosenkavalier,it is actualfi a uery unique CHRISTOF PERICK, Conductor assignment. Strauss was not well-known for his opera choruses.In fact, rnost of his operasdo not "Der Rosenkavalieran operafor euerybodywith use tbe chorus as a musical/drarnatic element. a wonderful stor!, great znusic and wonderful The chorus role in Rosenkavalier can almost be roles.And, it'sfun. Still, it is a uery dfficub opera uiewed as a series of bomprimario' or srnaller- for a conductor lt's a big orchestratltat, at tirnes, part appe/xrances (ahhough sorne are quite rnust be kept sof as to not laerpouer the sing- rnusically complex). Wesee uarious scenes with lackey,footrnen, waiters, er. The dfficulties corne in the balance between seruants, children. Theseall serueas to populate the backdrop of the addressingthe technical aspectsofthe opera while Viennesesociety ixelf and prouide contrastto the more centralpoignant keeping that relationshlp between the orchestra relationships. Being a chorister lz Rosenkavalier is to stand back, and and singers; to keep the rnagic aliue so it seemssimpl{' German realize thatyou prouide an important thread within the imrnensefabric conductorChristof Perick made his San Diego Operadebut con- of Hofrnannsthal's libreao and Strauss' magnif.cent music," shares ducting Fldelio in 2003 and returned in 2006 for The Magic chorusmaster Walter Huff who is makinghis Companydebut with Flute.He is Music Directorof Germany'sNiJrnberg Philharmonic theseperformances. Huff has beenChorus Master for The Atlanta and Opera,Music Directorof the CharlotteSymphony and was Operafor twentytwo yearsin over70 productions.He hasdegrees PrincipalGuest Conductor of the SiichsischeStaatsoper. Dresden. from Oberlinand Peabodyconservatories and has been a coach Recent performances include Ariadne auf Naxos. The Marrtage for PeabodyOpera Theater. Washington National Opera, Baltimore of Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, Tannhduser.Lohengrin. The Flying Opera.and Tanglewood Music Festival. He hasperformed in master Dutchman and Dle Entftihrung aus dem Serail. He has held Music classespresented by singerssuch as SirPeter Pears. Licia Albanese, Director positionswith the NiedersaechsischesStaatsorchester EileenFarrell, and EllyAmeling. He has servedon the facultyof and Staatsoperin Hannover,Germany. the Los AngelesChamber GeorgiaState University as coachand conductor.Huff receivedthe Orchestra,the BadischeStaatskapelle Karlsruhe. and the Rundfunk- f irstLoridans Arts Award, honoring exceptional contributions to the SinfonieorchesterSaarbrijcken, Germany. For the Metropolitan arts in Atlanta.In 2008. the AtlantaOpera Chorus sang acclaimed Opera. he has conducted Fidelio, Tannhduser. Die Frau ohne performancesof Porgyand Bessat Paris'Op ra-Comiqueand in Schatten, Hansel and Gretel and Die Meistersinger von Ntirnberg. Spain.Normandy. and Luxembourg. ln Ni.irnberg.he conducted Tannhduser Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute and Arladne auf Naxos. At Lyric Opera of Chicago, he has conducled Parsifal and The Magtc Flute. an opera he also LOTFI MANSOURI, Director conductedfor San FranciscoOoera. "Der Rosenkavalieris one of tbe great Tnaster- pieces of the operatic repertoire, the product of MICHAEL WHTTFIELD the collaboration of two artistic giants: Richard Lighting Designer Snauss and Hugo aon Hofmannsthal. I feel it is a perfect exaft4)le of opera as ntusic theater. For "When collaborating in the creation of the uisual rne, Rosenkaaalier is a rich tapany of a group world of an operalike Der Rosenkavalier,I like "painting of characters ranging from the highest ranks - to think of rrytselfas with ligh/! While Princess,Cheualier Baron to major-dorno, rnilli' soTn€o?eras unquestionably dernand uerl bold ner, rnusicians,coachmen, euen tao Italian intrigants. Eaclt one isgiuen and broad applications oflight, this operarequires a distinct cbaracter and personalitl, tbrough the text and music," says a much rnore defi touch using delicate,fne and lranian-borndirector Lotfi Mansouri in his introductionnotes in this carefully placed brush strokes. The lighting pic- programwhich appear in their entiretyon page three.He is the tures mast accord with Lotf. Mansouri's uision of the work and Thierrlt formerGeneral Director of San FranciscoOpera and the Canadian Bosquet'seuocatiue sets and costurnes,but they znust breatlte, shirt and Opera and made his San Diego Opera debut in 191-/ directing shirnrner in responseto Strauss'sinspired score. Ideally, the li.ghting Die Fledermaus. Recent productions here include Turandot in should be sosubtle as to go almost unnoticed, but at the sametirne assist 2011, Nabucco in 2O1O,Rrgoletto in 2009. Cavalleriarusticana in infusing tlte audience with the atr/'tosplr€r€and ernotions of each / Pagliacci in 2008. Boris Godunov and Samson and Delilah in mornentof the opera,"shares Canadian Michael Whitfield.He made 2OOl, The Barber of Seville in 2006. Die Fledermaus and Simon his companydebut in 2O06 designingThe Barber of Seville,relurn- Boccanegra in 2OO5 along with Don Carlo, Turandot, Otello and ing in 2007 ior Cavalleriarusticana/Pagliacct. in 2OO9 Ior Rrgoletto ldomeneo in previousseasons, He attendedUCLA and took U.S. and in 20'10 for La bohdme and Nabucco. He has designedfor citizenshipbefore becoming resident stage director at Opernhaus L'Operade Montr6al.San FranciscoOpera. Houston Grand Opera, ZLirichin 1976.He hasdirected at manyopera houses throughout The DallasOpera and Los AngelesOpera. He has designedlight- Italyincluding Teatro alla Scalain Milan.His work has been seen ing for over 70 productionsat the CanadianOpera Company. at the lvletropolitanOpera. New YorkCity Operaand in Chicago, including Madama Butterfly. The Cunning Little Vixen and Death in Houston,Santa Fe, Philadelphia. Dallas and many othercities. and Venice. During his over 25 yearsas ResidentLighting Directorfor he has a lengthyassociation with OperaAustralia at the Sydney the StratfordShakespeare Festival of Canadahe has lit over iOO Opera House.His productionshave been videotapedfor telecast productions including The Trojan Women, Fuente Ovejuna,King and commercial sale: Mefistofele. Orlando furtoso. Capriccio, Lear, Othello and TheMikado (includingthe 1984 engagementat Turandot. The Dangerous Liaisons and A Streetcar Named Desire. London'sThe OldVic). He hasalso designed for numeroustheatres, ln 2009. he was a recipientof a 2009 NEA OperaHonor in the balletcompanies and for the CanadianBroadcasting Corporation. category of GeneralDlrector, he recently directed Ruslan and PERFORMANCESIIAGAZIiII PI3 2(e^t I ARTISTS 4flafih

SOPRANOS TENORS BASSES PI,A,NISTS RachelCopeland' Andrew Bennett Anthony Ballard PaulHarris PatriziaCiofi. StephenBranch MichaelBlinco RitaKaufmann. Priti Gandhi StephenCostello GreerGrimsley JaniePrim (Ballet) Ermonela Jaho John Duykers ReinhardHagen DorothyRandall AnishkaLee-Skorepa SimeonEsper KevinLangan LiseLindstrom. JosephFrank CHOREOGRAPHERS Ailyn P6rez JosephHu CONDUCTORS KristinaCobarrubia Twyla Robinson- SalvatoreLicitra" KarenKeltner JavierVelasco. TaliseTrevigne. ManuelPaz Castillo EdoardoMuller StephanieWeiss- Joel Sorensen ChristofPerick COSTUME DESIGNERS CarloVentre SusanMemmott Allred MEZZO-SOPFIANOS DIRECTORS ThierryBosquet Jane Bunnell BAR]TONES AND SonjaFrisell lan Falconer TiffanyCarmel BASS-BARITONES DavidGately RobertPerdziola. SarahCastle Andrew Greenan LotfiMansouri Nino Surguladze. JoshuaHopkins" LIGHTING DESIGNERS AnkeVondung. Hans-JoachimKetelsen' SCENERY DESIGNERS GaryMarder Jeff Mattsey ThierryBosquet MichaelWhitfield CONTRALTO ScottSikon John Conklin HeleneSchneiderman. WayneTigges .San DavidHockney DiegoOpera debut RobertPerdziola-

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SOPRANO LisaAustin MelissaM. Carter JuliaTeal Kermott CherylynLarson Artists and Production Slaff are members of AnishkaLee-skorepa the AmericanGuild of l\l usicalArrists, AFL- ClO,the laborunion );;?J:M:ti"" that representsmusi- ShounaShoemake cal artjsts in opera. concert, and dance in the United States. ,:l $riii:

Der RosenkaualierCH I LDREN'S CHORUS D er RosenkaualierSU PERN U M ERAR IES CharlieD'Amico+ Bob Borntrager,Supernumerary Captain MeganJohnson. Jesi Betancourl.Supern umera rV Capta ln JonasMcMullen AlbertoAlvarado Lane Lee ClaireTimmons Nelson* Dogs: MartinAstl Larry MagdalenaPolitis+ McKee Maddy DickBridy John Yokoyama+ DanielMyers Vicky John Cochran LouisPerez MartinGreen. Musical Preparation; Canon for Music.Organist g StanCollins Angel Philp Choirmasterof St.Paul's Cathedral NathanDaum AnthonyOuirk + St.Paul's Cathedral Chorister Anne-Marie ' SanDiego Children's Choir Member Flores CharlesRamsey GeorgeGonzalez AlessandroSette RichardHerring DominiqueTindall SteveHummel RichardTrujillo StevenJensen Frederickter Veer MichaelKaye RayWilson

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Musiciansfor thisproduction are members of the SanDiego Symphony Orchestra SAN *'NG* SYMPh{#NY*RCh{N*TreA Jahja Ling,Music Director

VIOLIN Wanda Law ENGLISH HORN TUBA Jeff Thayer(D. Pate OingLiang AndreaOverturf Matthew Garbutt,Pnnclpal end I Fnrroct Chair\ ThomasMorgan Concertmaster LindaPiatts CLARINET HARP Nick Grant.Principal DorothyZeavin Sheryl Renk.Pnncipal Julie Ann SmiIh,Princlpal Associa te Con certm aste r uareln^.'-,.1 4ennguT' TheresaTunnicliff JisunYang. Associate FrankRenk TIMPANI Principal I CELLO Ryan DiLisi,Princlpal AlexanderPalamidis, t av Lt tav, I t u tctPal BASS CLARINET AndrewWatkins, Assrstant Chia-LingChien, Associa te Prlnclpal ll FrankRenk Principal Jeff Zehngut,Associate Princrpal MarciaBookstein Prrncipal ll BASSOON PERCUSSION GlenCampbell RandallBrinton ValentinMartchev Prin cipa I GregoryCohen, Pincrpal MichaelDeatherage YumiChoL RyanSimmons JamesPlank KarlaHolland-lVoritz HernanConstantino LeylaZamora Andrew Watkins AliciaEngley RichardLevine Otto Feld RonaldRobboy CONTRA BASSOON PIANO/CELESTE/ORGAN PatFrancis l\/l:rv Ode Qzantn LeylaZamora Mary Barranger KathrynHatmaker AngelaHomnick BASS HORN PERSONNEL MANAGER Mei-ChingHuang Jeremy Kurlz, PrincipaI | | Benjamin Jaber,Prin cipa I MagdalenaO'Neill LdUIUI^,,"^^^^ ILU LEUIdI^^t^^! IU SusanWulff. Associate Wei-pingChous, Assistant lonnre lanne+fS Princlpal Prlncipal/Utrllty MarthaNilsen W. GregoryBerton PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Warren Gref lgorPandurski SamuelHager NancyFisch TriciaSkye JuliaPautz Jory Herman DouglasHall SusanRobboy lVargaretJohnston+ ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN ShigekoSasaki AllanRickmeier CourtneyCohen TRUMPET EdmundStein MichaelWais John Stubbs CalvinC. Price,Prlncipal PIANO TECHNICIAN John lVacFerranWilds Pei-chunTsai FLUTE Bud Fisher MarkBedell Jing Yan DemarreMcGill, Prlnclpal JoanZelickman SarahTuck ASSISTANT PERSONNEL MingzhaoZhous ElizabethAshmead TROMBONE MANAGER KyleR. Covington, Pnncipal DouglasHall Ganrno lnhnctnn VIOI_A PlccoLo vvv' vv RichardGordon+ L on Leave Che-YenChen (Karen I ElizabethAshmead MichaelPriddy s SubstituteMusician WarrenKessler Chair), + StaffOpera Musician Princlpal OBOE BASS TROMBONE NancyLochner, Associate Sarah Skuster, PrinclpaI MichaelPriddy Prlncipa/ BetsySpear Raholzeh l^emnholl AndreaOverturf Chi-YuanChen

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

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