Eugene Onegin An opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

March 15-17 Eugene Onegin: March 15-17 C-2 Nathan Bala,AnastasiaMuszynski Dancers Rodgers, SkylerSchlenker, NatalieSimpson,EmilySkeen,EvanStark,DavidStarry, Tyler Vinnola Picasso-Hobin (Tatyana cover),CaseyKlopp,LoganMoore, MasonOwens,PaulReynerson.Mack Michael Crone, BethanyCrosby, ShyanneFreeman, Dominique Grogan, AnnaHansil, JohnHealy, Elza Karl Allen,PatrickBessenbacher, ElizabethBowersox,SamBruckner, AlexisCairy, Berenice Carrera, Chorus John Livery Guillot Waterhouse Michael Captain/Zaretsky Sam Triquet Madame Larina Ritter Filipyevna Karl Bruckner Berenice Michael Prince Gremin Lensky Sam Allen Carrera Olga Ritter Bethany Tatyana Andrew Bruckner Claire Eugene Onegin Crosby Role TaylorErin McCahan Friday/Sunday Name Saturday Jacob Hodgson Cast Name Meagan Baker This production contains live, simulatedgunshots. Mahlberg Content note Kilcoyne • • • Special thanksto The production willrunapproximately 2hoursand45minutes,includingtwo15-minuteintermissions. March 15-17,2019 An operabyPyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Center forArtsandHumanitiesProject GrantGraduateCommitteeontheArtsandHumanitiesVisiting Albert andBetsyHandforhostingMr. Aniolek The CostumeHouse,LLCforproviding costumesfortheproduction Scholar/Artist GrantforRussianDictionCoaches Skyler Schlenker Natalie Simpson Ashraf Sewailam Dominic Aragon · cupresents.org · 303-492-8008 Logan Moore Rebecca Myers John Waterhouse Skyler Schlenker Casey Klopp Ashraf Sewailam Brandon (Tyler) Padgett

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Rosalee Walsh Holly Sidney Natalie Smith Sophia Thaut Jenna Kramer Soria Nguyen Kristen Olson * Elizabeth Potter Mackenzie Hoffman Lindsie Katz Paul Kim Benjamin Ehrmantraut Mary Evans + Jonathan Galle Violin Ingrid Anderson Jackson Bailey Christie Conover Orchestra Opera TA Erin Hodgson Assistant Production Associate Director Michael Aniolek Choreographer Marla Schulz Technical Director Technical Ron Mueller Costume Designer Robbins Tom Set and Lighting Designer Set and Lighting Peter Dean Beck Music Director and Conductor and Music Director Carthy Nicholas Stage Director Leigh Holman Production staff Production Eugene Onegin: March 15-17 C-4 Synopsis Sarah Opstad Hair Stylist Tom Robbins Designer Hand Properties &Wig Jeanette Hickok Makeup Designer Lelah Radostis Amy Campion Assistant ScenicArtists Jennifer Melcher Scenic Artist Justin Tamplin Dan Sjaastad Ben Smith Andrew Koenig Carpenters Alaina Brown Sabina Balsamo Assistant StageManagers Joel Atella Production StageManager Jeff Rusnak Assistant Technical Director Production andtechnicalstaff marry attheage of13.Evenso,thenurse livedahappylifewith herhusband.Tatyana sends heraway love andmarriage.Thenurse tellsTatyana thatinherday, lovedidn’t exist,thatshewasarrangedto That evening: Onegin andTatyana. the top.”Thecouplesreturn tothehousefor dinnerandthenursenoticesaspecialsparkbetween gardens whileLenskyproclaims hisloveforOlga,wholoveshiminreturnbutthinksheisacting“over with whomTatyana fallsmadlyinloveatfirstsight.Tatyana andOnegingoforawalkamongthe The poetLensky, whoiscourtingOlga,arrivesunexpectedly. HebringsalonghisfriendEugeneOnegin, Olga becausesheisalwaysplayful. and ennui,whileOlgashowsherfree-spirited self.LarinaworriesaboutTatyana’s dispositionandteases and joinincelebration.Duringthecelebration,Tatyana hasherheadinabook,filledwithdeeppassion favorite childhoodsongfrom insidethehome.Theworkersoffarmarrive withthelastofharvest husband butlovedanother. Sheisnowawidowwithtwodaughters:Tatyana andOlga,whosinga harvest celebration.Larinareflects uponthedaysbefore shemarried,whenwascourtedbyher End ofAutumnintheRussiancountryside: ACT I Tatyana, unsettledand illfrom beingstrickenbylove,asksthenursetotellher ofherfirst · cupresents.org · 303-492-8008 Xi Zhang Barbie Noyes Nathália Kato Rehearsal Pianists Stephanie RhodesRussell Kenneth Griffiths Russian DictionCoaches Sara Parkinson Assistant Conductor Mutsumi Moteki Vocal Coach Jeremy Reger Chorus Master Head Vocal Coach/ MUSIC STAFF Yvonne Hines Costume Stitcher Whitney Wolanin Costume Assistant/Dresser Alison Milan Costume Stitcher/Dresser Madame LarinaandNurseFilipyevnaprepare foranafter-

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Shattered from murdering his companion, Onegin has spent the last the last his companion, Onegin has spent murdering from Shattered his love for Olga, and death upon his poetry, the duel, Lensky is left to reflect Before finds Tatyana the garden, and dance in boy gather berries women and As the working The local community has been invited to the Larin estate to celebrate Tatyana’s name day. name day. to celebrate Tatyana’s has been invited to the Larin estate The local community but decides to stay with her husband. Onegin is left alone, desperate, and heartbroken amid the frozen amid the frozen and heartbroken but decides to stay with her husband. Onegin is left alone, desperate, Russian snowfall. Outside on the palace grounds, Tatyana reads Onegin’s letter. Her love for him arouses her again, and and her again, Her love for him arouses letter. Onegin’s reads Tatyana Outside on the palace grounds, him, claiming that it’s Onegin arrives and begs her to run away with she becomes full of uncertainty. admits that she still loves him, but her true self. Tatyana not her new status that has made him love her, tells Onegin that he is deeply in Prince Gremin that he is in love with her. and realizes is flabbergasted leave, Onegin becomes and Gremin to Onegin. When Tatyana Tatyana then introduces love with Tatyana, her a letter declaring his love to her. and decides to write by the thought of Tatyana enraptured Gremin. Again, Onegin is bored by the party, this time by the nobles of the Russian court. this time by the nobles of the Russian court. by the party, Again, Onegin is bored Gremin. Onegin and his new wife, who happens to be Tatyana. Prince Gremin The guests talk about the arrival of ACT III several years later: St. Petersburg, to a ball at the palace of Prince and is invited to St. Petersburg several years traveling. Onegin returns and his choice of a second (the Frenchman Guillot) to be insulting. Lensky and Onegin are full of regret, full of regret, and Onegin are Guillot) to be insulting. Lensky and his choice of a second (the Frenchman first and kills Lensky. fires though neither stops the duel. Onegin distraught over the potential outcome of the duel. of the duel. distraught over the potential outcome The next morning: late arrival second, finds both Onegin’s Lensky’s arrives. Zaretsky, as he waits for Onegin. Onegin finally all the attention. Lensky, even more outraged by Onegin’s behavior and persistence with Olga, confronts with Olga, confronts behavior and persistence by Onegin’s outraged more even all the attention. Lensky, causing Lensky to deny his friendship and challenge Onegin him. Onegin acts nonchalant and innocent, and Larina and Olga behavior, disappointed in Onegin’s with Tatyana to a duel. The party ends abruptly dancing with Olga. Lensky becomes jealous and confronts Olga, who tells him not to worry. Olga, who tells him not to worry. Lensky becomes jealous and confronts dancing with Olga. by who becomes embarrassed song in honor of Tatyana, sings a beautiful nobleman Triquet The French The guests are treated to a beautiful dinner and an evening of dancing. Onegin has reluctantly agreed agreed Onegin has reluctantly dinner and an evening of dancing. to a beautiful treated The guests are and crowd evening. Annoyed by the large to what he thinks will be an intimate to accompany Lensky on Lensky by flirting and revenge Onegin takes him as he dances with Tatyana, hearing gossip about ACT II January: smiles through is devastated but Tatyana her like a brother. only offer to love it and can cannot accept her emotions, lest to control advises her sermon,” Onegin as “Onegin’s Commonly known her pain. advantage of her innocence. another man take One week later: One week to and her heart begins at the estate, sees Onegin arrive Tatyana a book and the outdoors. solace in declaration, he was moved by her that while he her and admits approaches turmoil. Onegin flutter with and stays up all night writing a passionate love letter to Onegin. In the morning,Onegin. letter to love passionate writing a all night stays up and nurse the persuades she to Onegin. letter deliver the her grandson to have Eugene Onegin: March 15-17 C-6 Scenes,” rather thananopera,forthis very reason. what Tchaikovsky leftout, asforwhatheputin.Infact,endedupdescribing One ofthedifficultieswith ourcomprehension oftheopera confine intothetheatre oftheConservatoire… Thisismuchmore suitabletomymodestwork.” in Sergei Taneev, “BecauseIwasmoved toexpress inmusicall thatseemstocryoutforsuchexpression And yetthedoubtspersisted:“Icomposedthisopera,” hewrote inafamous lettertothecomposer original verseformandtaking(unusuallyforhim)great prideinthemusicthat hehadcomposed. the libretto—which hisbrother ModestandKonstantinShilovskyhadpennedforhim—backtoPushkin’s after initialmisgivings,hedevotedhimselfenthusiastically tothetask,changinginflectionofmuch national treasure, and based onAlexanderPushkin’s novel-in-verse When theRussiansopranoYelizaveta Lavrovskaya approached Tchaikovsky aboutwritinganopera Tchaikovsky wasalwaysoftwomindsaboutmaking Music director Notes from NicholasCarthy with thatlovelygoalinmind.Enjoy! artistic challenge.We hopenowyoucanloseyourselfintheexperienceofopera—we haveallworked Tchaikovsky inthisEklundOperaproduction. Allofourliveshavebeentransformedbythisbeautiful All ourstudentsexplore richcharacterwork,theRussianlanguageandsublimemusicof Hodgson andMeaganMahlberg Kilcoyne,expertlyportraythehighlydevelopedcharacterarc ofTania. humiliation afterhisrejection—eventually givingupherpassionsforprinciples.Oursopranos,Erin innocence andyouthbefore shemeetsOnegin,howischangedaftertheirmeetingandher The role ofTatyana—so richandcomplex—isadelighttounpack.Thesinger-actor explores Tatyana’s written page,thataptlydemonstratestheoldtheatricaladage,“Show, don’t tell.” help tounderlinethealienationandisolationOneginfeels.Itisthiskindof“excavating”work,noton portrayed bythehighsocietychorusandorchestral andvocalexpression ofTchaikovsky’s richscore Petersburg atthesocietyballgivenbyPrinceGremin. Thiswell-executedactingchallenge,thecoldness the music,actorandmetodepictthatremorse andexhaustionwhenOneginhasreturnedtoSt. tragedy ofhisfriendLensky. Intheopera,withPushkin’s wanderingscenesnotincluded,itrequires audience members.Inthenovel,Oneginspendsyearswanderinginremorse anddistress afterthefatal the dramaticstructure thatthepublicneeded—missingscenescouldbe“filledin”inmindsof Pushkin’s novelissowellknowninRussiathatthelyricscenesTchaikovsky composedprovided allof to unfold. covered gardens ofthefinalpassion-filledscene,Beckhascreated atruly remarkable placeforourstory the Larins’countryhouse,ill-fatedoutdoorduellocale,Gremin’s elegantmansionandthesnow- This newproduction, designed byPeterDeanBeck,isstunning.WiththeRussiancountrylandscape, unfortunately—most ofuscanidentifywiththefamiliartalebroken heartsandunrequited love. 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In Pushkin, as has been letters and notes, staged through separately; events are sometimes disparate characters brings these Tchaikovsky another. said, characters often slide by one scenes with instantly recognizable themes and motifs that guide the listener through the story. the listener through themes and motifs that guide recognizable scenes with instantly draws the different evocative music and the way he genius is not just in this rich, And Tchaikovsky’s audience that didn’t take Pushkin in with its mother’s milk. 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Schlenker is an MM candidate Garland. with John Seesholtz and Andrew The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Si Parla Si Canta, performed scenes through coming Before Music Center. and the Brevard Italy, end for Ithaca to CU, Schlenker played defensive where he performed Luther in where d’Hoffmann Lucretia Jesus (Mark Adamo’s Jesus (Mark Adamo’s Magdalene Music Festival, was an Opera Fellow at the Aspen Skyler Schlenker, Captain/Zaretsky Skyler Schlenker, as Sweeney Todd Schlenker has appeared ( Eugene Onegin Opera’s to be a part of Eklund Padgett is honored work. of this great production include Bartolo in include Bartolo in King in in Robert Ward’s Padgett is a student of Andrew Garland. This Garland. This of Andrew Padgett is a student with Eklund production second will be Padgett’s performance credentials past Opera. Padgett’s Brandon (Tyler) Padgett, Eugene Onegin Padgett, Eugene Brandon (Tyler) student of CU Padgett is a first year graduate Tyler of Music in vocal performance. pursuing a Master Screw Abigail Nims. student of role credits include: Cherubino ( Cherubino include: credits role Figaro ( ( and Mrs. Grose of Olga the roles the pleasure of participating in the Composer’s the Composer’s in of participating the pleasure Other last May. CU NOW of Initiative Fellowship Eugene Onegin: March 15-17 C-10 for HawaiiOpera Theatre, where hehas been Algiers productions of Opera andChautauquaOpera. Hehasdesigned Florida GrandOpera,Glimmerglass Opera,Virginia et Juliétte Gretel Don Giovanni his operacredits are 300 productions around NorthAmerica.Among Eklund Operafor25seasonsandmore than Beck hasdesignedsceneryandlightingfor Peter DeanBeck,SetandLightingDesigner theatre andopera. passionate advocateofthepowermusic,live Presidential ScholarintheArts,Atellaisa Opera SouthwestandSyracuseOpera.A2005 Colorado, ChautauquaOpera,OperaOmaha, Other companiesincludeSantaFeOpera,Opera Celebration Opera andworkingasstagemanagerfor as theresident assistantdirector forSanDiego his include tourmanagingforItzhakPerlmanand assistant director andtourmanager. Highlights maintained afreelance career asastagemanager, a degree invoiceperformance.Since2008hehas distinction from theEastmanSchoolofMusicwith Eklund OperaProgram. Atellagraduatedwith thrilled tobeworkinghisfirstseasonwiththe Joel AtellaisanativeofFortCollinsand Joel Atella,Production StageManager CU BoulderandtheEklundOperaProgram. 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