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Dear Opera Lovers, inter Opera Saint Louis is excited to enter into our 12th season! We would Wnot be here without the support and generosity of our patrons. Thank you to this year’s sponsors: Nancy Pillsbury, Mary Pillsbury, The Regional Arts Commission, and the The Student Prince • 2017 Missouri Arts Council — we are humbled by your kindness and generosity. We are thrilled that our production of L’Italiana in Algeri will be performed at Missouri Baptist University’s Pillsbury Chapel, in collaboration with the University’s music department. Les Pêcheurs de Perles • 2018 We look forward to seeing you at the opera. Many thanks for your patronage! Sincerely, L’Elisir d’Amore • 2018 Gina Galati Please consider supporting Winter Opera with a tax-deductible contribution. Any amount is greatly appreciated and helps support local artists! Amici $50–$99 *The Impresario Club is an exclusive Listed as a donor club for donors of $2,500 or more. Coro $100–$349 in the program An Impresario is a patron who Comprimario $350–$499 understands the importance of the arts and is a major financier and Lirico $500–$999 2 tickets in supporter. We could not maintain Section I & donor listing our season without you! Dramatico $1,000– 4 tickets in In addition to the benefits listed in $2,499 Section I & the chart, you get: donor listing • First choice of seating Impresario* $2,500– 2 tickets to Fall $4,999 Gala, 4 tickets in • Drink vouchers Section I, & • Private concert to donor listing entertain your guests Spinto* $5,000– 2 tickets to Fall • Invitations to cast $9,999 Gala, 6 tickets in Section I, & parties and special donor listing events Maestro* $10,000+ 4 tickets to Fall • A one-of-a-kind Gala, 6 tickets in Winter Opera Section I, & Impresario membership pin donor listing designed by Mary Pillsbury (above) 1 STAFF General Director .......................................Gina Galati Administrative Director ..................................Clare Wall Technical Director ...................................Joseph Novak Scenic Designer .......................................Scott Loebl GIOACHINO ROSSINI Costume Designer .....................................JC Krajicek Property Master ....................................Laura Skroska Lighting Designer ......................................Natali Arco A shipwrecked Italian beauty Digital Director .......................................Dan Salmo turns out to be more than the vain Bey of Algiers Poster and Program Designer ......................... Mark Freiman can handle! Development Director ................................Trish Saleeby Media Relations ....................................Karen Kanakis Sung in Italian with English supertitles Orchestra Personnel Manager ......................... Sarah Browdy Music Director .....................................Darwin Aquino Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7:30pm Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3pm Collaborative Pianist ....................................Gail Hintz Pillsbury Chapel at Missouri Baptist University Chorus Master .....................................Benedetta Orsi One College Park Dr., St. Louis, MO 63141 BOARD MEMBERS President ...................................Nancy Pillsbury Shirley Treasurer .............................................Gina Galati KATE TOMBAUGH GREGORY SCHMIDT ALEX SOARE DARWIN AQUINO Board member .....................................Mary Pillsbury Isabella Lindoro Mustafà Conductor Board member ............................. George and Melissa Paz 314-865-0038 • www.winteroperastl.org Board member .........................................Lu Barnes 2 3 4 5 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018 Chorus Aleksandar Dragojevic, Grace Fisher, Jason Geer, David Goldman, Caitlin Hadeler, Emily Heyl, Kaytlin Houghtaling, Ryan Keller, Emily Moore, Dale Obermark, Michael Oelkers, Jonathan Richey, Joel Rogier, Kat Rubush, Tina Sayers, Chris Stanfill, Thomas Taylor, Sarah Vlodek Orchestra Violin 1 Bass Horns Holly Huelskamp Wendy Hyman-Fite Tricia Jostlein Concertmaster Stephen Hanrahan Flute The Vengeance of the Bat Manuela Kaymakanova Jennifer Gartley Trumpet Music by Johann Strauss, Jr. Tova Braitberg Laura Dwyer Jason Harris Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée Dawn Weber Violin 2 Oboe English translation by Ruth & Thomas Martin Katie Collins Dialogue adapted by Mark Freiman Carrie Smith Trombone Sarah Browdy Matthew Hoormann Production sponsored by Mary Pillsbury Clarinet Viola Dana Hotle Timpani/percussion Conductor Scott Schoonover Amy Greenhalgh Mary Bryant Tim Crockett Stage Director Mark Freiman Mitchell Stumpf Jeff Barudin Technical Director Joseph Novak Bassoon Cello Peg Bumb Scenic Designer Scott Loebl Harp Ranya Iqbal Megan Stout Costume Designer JC Krajicek Jake Brookman Lighting Designer Natali Arco Collaborative Pianist Gail Hintz Synopsis Chorus Master Benedetta Orsi Act 1 Stage Manager Robert Klein Outside an apartment in Vienna, the tenor Alfredo serenades his old flame Assistant Stage Managers Emma Hersom Rosalinda, who is now married to Gabriel von Eisenstein. Dr. Falke has Matt Knight called Alfredo to town to help him play an elaborate practical joke on Assistant Conductor David Galant Eisenstein. Meanwhile, Adele, Rosalinda’s maid, has been invited by her Property Master Laura Skroska sister Sally to attend a glamorous ball. To get the night off, she tells her Wigs and Makeup Jessica Dana mistress she must visit a sick aunt, but Rosalinda refuses to let her go. Supertitles Sharifa Black Alfredo appears and declares his love for Rosalinda, who resists him until Cast he begins singing. But she shoos him off when they hear Eisenstein and his lawyer, Dr. Blind, approaching. Alfredo vows to return later that night. Rosalinda Karen Kanakis Eisenstein has been sentenced to jail for striking a police officer and must Gabriel von Eisenstein Thomas Gunther begin his term that night. His friend Dr. Falke arrives to calm him. The two Adele Karla Hughes laughingly recall the time when Eisenstein left Falke, dressed as a bat for Dr. Falke Jacob Lassetter a costume ball, drunk on a park bench—making him the laughingstock of Alfredo Brandon Scott Russell Vienna. Falke convinces Eisenstein to delay going to jail until morning and Frank Mark Freiman secretly join him that night at a fancy ball hosted by Prince Orlofsky—and Prince Orlofsky Ksenia Berestovskaya to bring along his infamous pocket watch to charm the ladies. Adele joins Dr. Blind Jason Geer Rosalinda in a sad farewell as her husband heads off to “prison,” while Sally Leann Schuering each thrills secretly at their real plans for the evening. A note arrives from Frosch Jonathan Richey Dr. Falke inviting Rosalinda to the ball as well, noting that if she comes Ivan Michael Oelkers in disguise, she’ll see her husband flirting with the ladies. Angry at Eisen- 6 7 stein’s deception, she tells Adele to go ahead and visit her “sick aunt”—then receives the ardent Alfredo. But their rendezvous is interrupted by the pris- A Druid priestess, secretly in love on warden Frank, who has come to arrest Eisenstein. Caught in compro- with an enemy Roman officer, mising situation, Rosalinda persuades Alfredo to preserve her good name is betrayed. Will she risk deadly by posing as her husband, and Frank hauls Alfredo off to jail. consequences to expose him? Intermission VINCENZO BELLINI Act 2 Adele arrives at the ball to the surprise of her sister Sally, a ballet dancer, who claims she never invited her. Dr. Falke tells Adele to pose as an actress and introduces her to Prince Orlofsky. Falke then tells the perpetually bored prince of his elaborate, vengeful practical joke. Orlofsky says he will give Falke a gold medallion if Falke can make him laugh. Orlofsky then en- courages his guests to feel free to do anything they like. Eisenstein arrives posing as a French dignitary, per Falke’s instructions. He immediately iden- tifies Adele as his wife’s maid, but she laughs him off in front of the guests. The jail warden Frank then arrives, also posing as a French dignitary, and Sung in Italian he and Eisenstein become fast friends. Rosalinda arrives disguised as a with English supertitles Hungarian countess and sees her husband flirting. And when Eisenstein starts flirting with her, she cleverly steals his pocket watch. Falke leads the guests in a toast to love and brotherhood, but as the clock strikes, both Eisenstein and Frank panic and rush off to jail. Orloksfy finally bursts into laughter and presents Dr. Falke with the promised medallion. Intermission Act 3 In jail, Alfredo irritates the other prisoners with his singing. Frosch the jailer takes advantage of the late arrival of his boss, Frank, to become glo- riously drunk. Frank dances in drunk, enraptured by memories of the eve- ning. Adele and Sally arrive, still believing Frank to be a French dignitary and hoping he might further Adele’s stage aspirations. Frank sends them off when Eisenstein shows up to serve his sentence. They both confess their true identities, but Frank refuses to lock him up since he had already ar- Friday, March 8, 2019 at 7:30pm rested “Eisenstein” at home with his wife. Eisenestein flies into a rage just Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 3pm as Dr. Blind arrives, claiming to have been summoned by him. Eisenstein snatches Blind’s cloak, glasses, and wig to disguise himself as the lawyer Skip Viragh Center for the Arts at Chaminade 425 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131 and confront the impostor. Rosalinda rushes in, trying to secure Alfredo’s release and asking “Blind” to press divorce charges against