ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Garnett Bruce, co-producer, Emilie Garnett Bruce has had an active directing career at national houses including Chicago Lyric, Cleveland, Houston, Dallas, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Wolf Trap and also abroad in Vancouver and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He has served on the sta‹ of the Santa Fe Opera and since 1993 at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Bruce has assisted such figures as Harold Prince, , David Hockney, and, on a continuing basis, Francesca Zambello. Born in Washington, D.C., Bruce sang for five years as a choirboy at the Washington National Cathedral, and received a continuing faculty appointment in 2006 following three productions as a guest artist. Bruce earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude at Tufts University. , co-producer, Emilie Elizabeth Futral is in her third year on the voice faculty at Peabody. As one of the world’s leading , she has embraced a repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to world premieres. In 2011 she sang the American premiere of Emilie at the Spoleto Festival. She has collaborated with the great conductors of our time including , , Sir , , Sir , Loren Maazel, , and Sir . She has been acclaimed for her performances in the world’s leading opera houses, including the , Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Theatre an der Wien. Futral has appeared with the , London Symphony, , Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, Hannover Band, Boston Symphony, Munich Radio Orchestra, and many others. Reared in Louisiana, Futral studied with at . She joined the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at the , won the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions in 1991, and was catapulted to stardom with critically acclaimed performances of Delibes’ Lakmé at the in 1994. Career milestones include a win in Placido Domingo’s Competition, the title role in Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran in , her debut at the as Stella in the world premiere of ’s A Streetcar Named Desire, and her Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of . Since that time she has returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Princess Eudoxie in a new production of La Juive, Princess Yeuyang in the world premiere of ’s , Elvira in , and additional performances of Lucia. With the Lyric Opera of Chicago she has sung a vast range of roles including Cunegonde in , Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Handel’s Partenope, La Traviata, and The Merry Widow. She has notable relationships with the Washington, Houston, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York City, Vancouver, and Minnesota opera companies. Internationally, she has been heard at Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the , the Grand Theatre de Genève, the Gran Teatre del , and Hamburg Staatsoper. 3