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CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 3 EUGENE ONEGIN

Mariusz Kwiecien as Onegin and Ana María Martínez as Tatyana in a scene from the COC’s production of Eugene Onegin (Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2017)

4 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 BY PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Lyric Scenes in Three Acts (Seven Tableaux) w Libretto by the composer and K.S. Shilovsky, after Aleksandr Pushkin’s verse novel First performance: Malïy Theatre, Students of the Moscow Conservatory, March 29, 1879 Last performed by the COC in 2008 NEW PRODUCTION Production premiered by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on March 13, 1997. All scenery, properties and costumes constructed by the Metropolitan Opera Shops. Sept. 30, Oct. 4, 10, 18, 20, 26, 30, Nov. 3, 2018 Sung in Russian with English SURTITLES™

THE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM (in order of vocal appearance)

Tatyana, Madame Larina’s Monsieur Triquet, a Frenchman Assistant Set & Costume daughter Christophe MortagneD Designer Joyce El-Khoury Victoria Wallace Zaretsky Olga, Madame Larina’s Joel AllisonD† Original Lighting Designer daughter Jean Kalman Varduhi Abrahamyan Prince Gremin, a retired general Revival Lighting Designer Madame Larina, who owns Oleg Tsibulko Christine BinderD an estate Helene Schneiderman Choreographer Conductor Serge Bennathan Filipyevna, Tatyana’s nurse Johannes Debus Margaret LattimoreD Price Family Chorus Master Original Director Sandra Horst^ Lensky, Olga’s fiancé Robert Carsen Joseph Kaiser^ Stage Manager Associate Director Jen Kowal D Eugene Onegin, Lensky’s Peter McClintock friend SURTITLES™ Author Set & Costume Designer Cori Ellison Gordon Bintner^ Michael Levine A Captain Associate SURTITLES™ Samuel Chan† Producer John Sharpe

Johannes Debus is generously underwritten by George & Kathy Dembroski Gordon Bintner is generously sponsored by Marcia Lewis Brown Samuel Chan is generously sponsored by June Shaw Joel Allison is generously sponsored by The Stratton Trust Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim & Frances Price

DCOC mainstage debut †Current member of the COC Ensemble Studio ^Graduate of the COC Ensemble Studio

Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change.

Performance time is approximately two hours and 50 minutes, including one intermission.

ACT I: 70 minutes INTERMISSION 25 minutes ACTS II & III: 75 minutes

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 5 Ana María Martínez as Tatyana in a scene from DIRECTOR’S NOTE the COC’s production of Eugene Onegin (Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2017) Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, based on Pushkin’s verse novel of the same title, has come to represent Russian character and emotion at its most intense. When Michael Levine and I developed our production for the Metropolitan Opera, we sought to find a poetic response to this most intensely subjective and emotive of operas. Pushkin’s original work, however, is much cooler, distant and critical in tone, and so we also tried — where appropriate — to re-capture some of the distinctive spirit of the original.

Tchaikovsky was unique in dealing with tormented male psyches, perhaps because of his own tormented nature. One also has only to think of Herman in The Queen of Spades, another Tchaikovsky opera based on another great work by Pushkin. Onegin, like Herman, is an anti-hero with whom the audience finds it difficult to sympathize until late on in the action. A victim of his cold and snobbish codes of correct social behaviour, bored by what he considers to be the unsophisticated behaviour of people in the provinces, Onegin fails to recognize Tatyana’s qualities when he first meets her. It is only when he rediscovers her later on, after she has married musical prelude beginning at the end, at and become an unattainable Princess in St. the very moment in which Tatyana rejects Petersburg high society, that he realizes how and leaves Onegin. We tried also to let the much he loves her. By this time it is of course memories of the seven scenes develop around too late: she has now become as principled Onegin, in an almost impressionistic way, as he instructed her to be when he first met with the scenes flowing from one to another and coldly rejected her. Whatever her true without the need for any elaborate scenic feelings for Onegin, Tatyana is now able to changes. master them. Michael Levine and I were delighted when There are many ways for a director and Alexander Neef decided to acquire this designer to tell the story of Eugene Onegin. production for the Canadian Opera Company. When we first began to work on our Since that moment the production has production, we noticed that sometimes been shown in a number of other theatres Tatyana tends to dominate the narrative. But internationally, and we are both genuinely ultimately it is Eugene Onegin’s story, so delighted that it is now finally being we thought it would be interesting to tell it presented in Toronto, our hometown, and the as much as possible from his point of view. basis of some of our most powerful memories. To that end we shaped the production as a memory piece, with the action of the opening Robert Carsen, 2018

6 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 SYNOPSIS

ACT I Monsieur Triquet, the French teacher at a Scene i neighbour’s house, sings some verses that he At the Larin country estate, the widowed has composed in honour of Tatyana. Lensky Madame Larina lives quietly with her two accuses Onegin of flirting with Olga and daughters, the vivacious Olga and the dreamy of being a disloyal friend. The argument and reserved Tatyana. Lensky, a poet and escalates and Lensky challenges Onegin to a Olga’s suitor, comes to visit and brings his duel. new neighbor Eugene Onegin to meet the family. Tatyana falls in love with Onegin Scene ii instantly, believing him to be the one she has It is barely dawn and Lensky and Zaretsky, his been waiting for. second, await Onegin at the site of the duel. Lensky sings of his lost innocence, his love Scene ii for Olga, and of his impending death. Onegin Tatyana cannot sleep and asks her old nurse arrives with Monsieur Guillot, his second. As Filipyevna to tell her about her own youth the men prepare to fight, they sing regretfully and marriage. After Filpyevna leaves, Tatyana of their lost friendship. The duel proceeds and pours out her overwhelming feelings in a Lensky falls, dead. Onegin is devastated. letter to Onegin. As dawn breaks, she finishes the letter and gives it to Filpyevna to have ACT III delivered. Scene i It is several years later and Onegin has been Scene iii trying to escape his unhappiness with travel. The women of the estate have been working Now he has returned to St. Petersburg and is in the grounds. Tatyana enters, remorseful attending a ball. Prince Gremin enters with about her letter. Onegin finds her and gives Tatyana on his arm. Onegin asks the prince, a her back the letter. He tells her that while relation, who she is. The prince tells him that her candour has touched him, he is not she is his wife — in old age he has found love. meant for marriage — a union between them Prince Gremin presents Tatyana to Onegin. would only bring mutual unhappiness and Onegin is stunned to recognize that the same misery. His feelings for her are like those of shy and simple girl he scorned in the past is a brother, and he warns her to control her now a beautiful and cultured woman. Tatyana emotions in the future, as not all men might manages to hide her intense emotion at this be so understanding. Tatyana, completely reunion and complains of tiredness; she and humiliated, remains totally silent. her husband leave the ball.

INTERMISSION Scene ii Onegin has written to Tatyana declaring ACT II his love. He arrives at her home and begs Scene i forgiveness from her. She reminds him of his A ball is underway at the Larin estate to treatment of her in the past and how happy celebrate Tatyana’s name day. Neighbours they might have been. She begs him to leave; gossip about Tatyana and Onegin; angered he refuses, passionately declaring his love by this, and resenting Lensky for insisting for her. Tatyana admits to Onegin that she that he attend, Onegin monopolizes Olga’s still loves him, but duty bids her to remain attention, which in turn angers Lensky. with her husband. She bids him farewell and leaves. Onegin is left alone, in despair.

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 7 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN I Rory McLeod* HORN Marie Bérard, Concertmaster Nicholaos Papadakis* Scott Wevers, Acting Principal* The Concertmaster’s chair has Beverley Spotton Janet Anderson been endowed in perpetuity by Yosef Tamir Bardhyl Gjevori Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gary Pattison Aaron Schwebel, Associate CELLO Concertmaster (leave of David Hetherington, Acting TRUMPET absence) Principal* Robert Weymouth, Principal Jamie Kruspe, Assistant Paul Widner, Assistant Principal, Andrew Dubelsten* Concertmaster, Acting Acting Associate Principal Associate Concertmaster Olga Laktionova, Acting Assistant TROMBONE Jayne Maddison, Acting Assistant Principal Charles Benaroya, Principal Concertmaster Maurizio Baccante Ian Cowie Anne Armstrong Naomi Barron* Sandra Baron Elaine Thompson BASS TROMBONE Bethany Bergman Herbert Poole Hiroko Kagawa* BASS Nancy Kershaw Tony Flynt, Principal TIMPANI Dominique Laplante Robert Speer, Assistant Principal Nicholas Stoup, Acting Principal* Renée London* Tom Hazlitt Yakov Lerner Paul Langley HARP Joanna Zabrowarna Robert Wolanski* Sarah Davidson, Principal

VIOLIN II FLUTE Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Douglas Stewart, Principal Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal Shelley Brown MUSIC LIBRARIAN James Aylesworth Wayne Vogan Elizabeth Johnston PICCOLO Lynn Kuo* Shelley Brown ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN Clara Lee* Ondrej Golias Aya Miyagawa OBOE Alexey Pankratov* Mark Rogers, Principal STAGE LIBRARIAN Aysel Taghi-Zada* Lesley Young Paul Langley Louise Tardif CLARINET PERSONNEL MANAGER VIOLA Dominic Desautels, Principal Ian Cowie Keith Hamm, Principal Colleen Cook Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant *extra musician Principal BASSOON Catherine Gray Eric Hall, Principal Sheila Jaffé Lisa Chisholm

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY CHORUS

SOPRANOS MEZZO-SOPRANOS TENORS BARITONES/BASSES Lindsay Barrett Marianne Bindig Vanya Abrahams Grant Allert Christina Bell Susan Black Tonatiuh Abrego Kenneth Baker Margaret Evans Sandra Boyes Stephen Bell Jesse Clark Virginia Hatfield Wendy Hatala Foley Taras Chmil Bruno Cormier Alexandra Lennox Erica Iris Huang Stephen Erickson Michael Downie Ingrid Martin Lilian Kilianski William Ford Jason Nedecky Eve Rachel McLeod Kathryn Knapp John Kriter Michael Sproule Kathleen (Katie) Murphy Erin Lawson Jason Lamont Michael Uloth Jennifer Robinson Anne McWatt James Leatch Jan Vaculik Teresa van der Hoeven Karen Olinyk Stephen McClare Peter Wiens Carrie Wiebe Megan Quick Derrick Paul Miller Gene Wu Cindy Won Kevin Myers Michael York Eric Olsen

8 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 MUSIC STAFF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR UNDERSTUDIES Ira Hochman (Head Coach) Marilyn Gronsdal Eugene Onegin Samuel Chan† Hyejin Kwon^ Tatyana Lauren Margison† Stéphane Mayer† (Ensemble ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Olga Lauren Segal^ Studio Coach) Kristin McCollum Prince Gremin David Leigh Kate Porter Filipyevna Megan Quick^ ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Monsieur Triquet John Kriter Dionysis Grammenos ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Captain Gene Wu Mikael Kangas RUSSIAN DICTION COACH DANCERS Ilana Zarankin Stephanie Bergeron Andrea Ciacci Gavin Law Brett Andrew Taylor

†Current member of the COC Ensemble Studio ^Graduate of COC Ensemble Studio

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Alisa Kolosova as Olga and Mariusz Kwiecien as Onegin (centre) in a scene from the COC’s production of Eugene Onegin (Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2017)

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 9 BIOGRAPHIES: EUGENE ONEGIN

VARDUHI ABRAHAMYAN, Olga (Mezzo-soprano; Yerevan, Armenia) COC CREDITS: Polinesso, Ariodante (2016). RECENT: Mistress Quickly, Falstaff; Ulrica, A Masked Ball (Opéra national de Paris [ONP]); Bradamante, Alcina (Théâtre des Champs Elysées); Carmen, Carmen (Opernhaus Zürich/Opera Hong Kong/Atlanta Opera). UPCOMING: Malcolm, La donna del lago (Opéra de Marseille); Carmen, Carmen (Opera de Oviedo); Eboli, Don Carlo (Opera Las Palmas); Isabella, The Italian Girl in Algiers (Gran Teatre del Liceu); Siébel, Faust (Royal Opera House); Preziosilla, La forza del destino (ONP)

JOEL ALLISON, Zaretsky (also Superior Senator in Hadrian; Bass-baritone; Ottawa, ON) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Baritone Soloist, Ode to Purcell (Lamèque International Baroque Music); Leporello, Don Giovanni (Westben/Music Niagara); Imeneo, Imeneo (UofT Opera); Basilio, The Barber of Seville (Saskatoon Opera); Antonio, The Marriage of Figaro (Brott Opera). UPCOMING: Schaunard, La Bohème (COC); Bass Soloist, Handel’s Messiah (Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra/Choral Connection St. Thomas)

CHRISTINE BINDER, Revival Lighting Designer (Oak Park, IL, USA) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Parade (Writers Theatre); The Pearl Fishers (Tulsa Opera); Bright Half Life (About Face Theatre Company); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Plantation! (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The Agitators (Geva Theatre Center). UPCOMING: Eugene Onegin (Washington National Opera); A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Mansfield Park (Northlight Theatre); Swan Lake (Joffrey Ballet)

GORDON BINTNER, Eugene Onegin (Bass-baritone; Regina, SK) SELECT COC CREDITS: Belcore, The Elixir of Love (2017); Count Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro (Ensemble Studio Performance, 2016). RECENT: Papageno, The Magic Flute; The Count, Capriccio; Alexandr Petrovicv Gorjancikov,v From the House of the Dead; Bogdanovitch, The Merry Widow (Oper Frankfurt); Astolfo, Lucrezia Borgia (Salzburg Festival). UPCOMING: Harlekin, Ariadne auf Naxos; Argante, Rinaldo; Vladislav, Dalibor; Count Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro (Oper Frankfurt)

ROBERT CARSEN, Director (Toronto, ON) COC CREDITS: Falstaff (2014); Dialogues des Carmélites (2013); Iphigénie en Tauride; Orfeo ed Euridice (2011). RECENT: The Beggar’s Opera (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, and on tour); The Tempest (Comédie Française, Paris); Wozzeck (Theater an der Wien, Vienna); Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera). UPCOMING: Die tote Stadt (Komische Oper Berlin); Hänsel und Gretel (Opernhaus Zürich); Idomeneo (Teatro Real Madrid); Oceane (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Giulio Cesare (La Scala)

SAMUEL CHAN, Captain (also Sycophantic Senator in Hadrian; Baritone; Calgary, AB) SELECT COC CREDITS: Japanese Envoy 2, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables; Usher, Rigoletto (2018); Papageno, The Magic Victrola (Opera for Young Audiences, 2017). RECENT: Baritone soloist, Cantos para Hermanar al Mundo (Teatro Isauro Martinez); Baritone soloist, Opening Night Gala (Elora Festival). UPCOMING: Customs House Sergeant, La Bohème (COC)

JOHANNES DEBUS, Conductor (also conducting Hadrian; COC Music Director; Berlin, Germany/ Toronto, ON). SELECT COC CREDITS: The Nightingale and Other Short Fables; The Abduction from the Seraglio (2018); Louis Riel; Götterdämmerung (2017); Ariodante (2016). RECENT: Beatrice Cenci (Bregenz Festival); The Tales of the Hoffmann, Salome (Metropolitan Opera). UPCOMING: Elektra, Otello (COC), Jenufao (Santa Fe Opera)

10 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 A scene from the COC’s production of Eugene Onegin (Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2017)

JOYCE EL-KHOURY, Tatyana (Soprano; Ottawa, ON) COC CREDITS: Violetta, La Traviata (2015); Musetta/Mimì, La Bohème (2013). RECENT: Imogen, Il Pirata (Theater St. Gallen); Sylvia, Donizetti’s L’Ange de Nisida (Opera Rara/Royal Opera House – world premiere); Mirra, Liszt’s Sardanapalo (Weimar Staatskapelle – world premiere); Musetta, La Bohème (Teatro Real Madrid). UPCOMING: Mìmì, La Bohème (Opera Australia); Elisabetta, Roberto Devereux (Welsh National Opera/Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe)

DIONYSIS GRAMMENOS, Assistant Conductor (Athens, Greece) COC CREDITS: The Abduction from the Seraglio. RECENT: Conducting Fellowship (Aspen Music Festival); The Flying Dutchman (Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra); L’isola disabitata (Vienna Young Philharmonic Orchestra). UPCOMING: Engagements with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Southwest German Philharmonic. ADDITIONAL: Founder and Music Director of Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra; European Young Musician of the Year 2008 (European Broadcasting Union); ECHO Rising Star Award

MARILYN GRONSDAL, Assistant Director (Toronto, ON) SELECT COC CREDITS: Revival Director, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables (2018); Assistant Director, Rigoletto (2018); Götterdämmerung (2017); Norma (2016); Maometto II, Pyramus and Thisbe with Lamento d’Arianna and Il combattimento di Clorinda e Tancredi (2015/2016); Associate Director, Siegfried (2015/2016); Director, La Bohème (2009); RECENT: Director, Don Giovanni (UoT Opera). UPCOMING: Così fan tutte (COC); Revival Director, Così fan tutte (Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv)

SANDRA HORST, Price Family Chorus Master (also for Hadrian; Toronto, ON) SELECT COC CREDITS: Anna Bolena, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Rigoletto (2018). RECENT: (as conductor) Vengeance, Of Thee I Sing, Prima Zombie: The Diva that just wouldn’t stay dead (UofT Opera). UPCOMING: Elektra, Così fan tutte (COC); Street Scene (UofT Opera). ADDITIONAL: Director of Musical Studies at UofT Opera

JOSEPH KAISER, Lensky (Tenor; Montreal, QC) COC CREDITS: Pylade, Iphigenia in Tauris (2011). RECENT: Idomeneo, Idomeneo (Opernhaus Zürich); Nobile, The Exterminating Angel; Števa Buryja, Jenufao (Metropolitan Opera); Matteo, Arabella (Wiener Staatsoper). UPCOMING: Števa Buryja, Jenufao (Bayerische Staatsoper); Loge, Das Rheingold (Teatro Real de Madrid); Various roles, The Phoenix (Houston Grand Opera)

JEAN KALMAN, Original Lighting Designer (Paris, France) COC CREDITS: Peter Grimes (2003). RECENT: Billy Budd (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma/Teatro Real de Madrid); Tristan und Isolde (Dutch National Opera); The Tempest (Salzburg Festival); King Lear (Old Vic Theatre); Life is a Dream (Rambert). UPCOMING: Billy Budd (Royal Opera House); La Traviata (as set & lighting designer, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées); Otello (Vienna State Opera)

CANADIANCANADIAN OPERAOPERA COMPANYCOMPANY 2018/20192017/2018 11 JENIFER KOWAL, Stage Manager (Thornhill, ON) COC CREDITS: The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, Rigoletto (2018); Arabella, Tosca (2017); Norma (2016). UPCOMING: Così fan tutte, Otello (COC)

MARGARET LATTIMORE, Filipyevna (Mezzo-soprano; Chappaqua, NY, USA) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Gertrude, Roméo et Juliette; Praskowia, The Merry Widow (Metropolitan Opera); Dame Marthe, Faust (Houston Grand Opera); Alto Soloist, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Costa Rica National Symphony); Mrs. Patrick De Rocher, Dead Man Walking (Opera on the Avalon). UPCOMING: Mezzo Soloist, Verdi’s Requiem (National Philharmonic); Alto Soloist, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Sheboygan Symphony)

MICHAEL LEVINE, Set & Costume Designer (Toronto, ON) SELECT COC CREDITS: Rigoletto (2018); The Ring Cycle (2006/2016); Bluebeard’s Castle/ Erwartung (2015); Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms (1997); Idomeneo (1987). RECENT: Madama Butterfly (Opernhaus Zürich); The Rake’s Progress (Festival D’Aix-en-Provence); Billy Budd (Rome Opera House); The Encounter (Complicité Theatre). UPCOMING: Die tote Stadt (Komische Oper Berlin); Sweeney Todd (Opernhaus Zürich); Jenufao (Royal Opera House)

PETER MCCLINTOCK, Associate Director (New York, NY, USA) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Khovanshchina, Ernani, Simon Boccanegra, Queen of Spades, La Gioconda, La clemenza di Tito, I vespri Siciliani, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Moses und Aron, Il Trovatore, Faust, Eugene Onegin, Carmen, Samson et Dalila, Manon (Metropolitan Opera). UPCOMING: Elektra (Teatro alla Scala); La clemenza di Tito (Metropolitan Opera); Eugene Onegin (Washington National Opera)

CHRISTOPHE MORTAGNE, Monsieur Triquet (Tenor; Paris, France) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Aegisth, Elektra (Opéra National de Bordeaux); Roi Carotte, Le Roi Carotte (Opéra de Lille); the Four Valets, The Tales of Hoffmann (Metropolitan Opera/Los Angeles Opera). UPCOMING: Goro, Madama Butterfly(Gran Teatre del Liceu); Dr. Caius, Falstaff (Teatro Real de Madrid); Le Roi Bobêche, Barbe-bleue (Opéra de Lyon)

HELENE SCHNEIDERMAN, Madame Larina (Mezzo-soprano; Flemington, NJ, USA) COC CREDITS: Marcellina, The Marriage of Figaro (2016). Recent: The Old Lady, Candide (Santa Fe Opera); Neris, Medea; The Old Countess, Queen of Spades (Oper Stuttgart); Annina, Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera). UPCOMING: Mayor’s Wife, Jenufa (Royal Opera House); Teresa, La sonnambula (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Die Kurfürstin, Der Prinz von Homburg (Oper Stuttgart)

OLEG TSIBULKO, Prince Gremin (Bass; Moscow, Russia) COC CREDITS: The Emperor, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables (2018). RECENT: Gremin, Eugene Onegin (Opéra de Nice/Teatr Wielki/Angers Nantes Opéra); Frate, Don Carlos (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino); Banquo, Macbeth (Buxton Festival); Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro (Bolshoi Theatre). UPCOMING: Tiresias, Oedipus Rex (MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra); Verdi’s Requiem (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra)

VICTORIA WALLACE, Assistant Set & Costume Designer (Newton Aycliffe, UK) SELECT COC CREDITS: Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung (2015); Oedipus Rex with Symphony of Psalms (2002); The Ring Cycle (2003-2017); (as set & costume designer), The Bear/Swoon (2006). RECENT: Le Petit Prince (National Ballet of Canada); (as costume designer) A Doll’s House (Soulpepper); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage). UPCOMING: (as set and costume designer) Every Brilliant Thing (Canadian Stage)

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14 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 MUSIC BY RUFUS WAINWRIGHT LIBRETTO BY DANIEL MACIVOR Opera in four acts w Commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company October 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 2018 Sung in English and Latin with English SURTITLES™

THE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM (in order of vocal appearance)

Angelic Boy/Herald Turbo Projection Designer Madelaine Ringo-Stauble* David LeighD Laurie-Shawn Borzovoy Josh Fralick* Sabina Choreographer Lavia Ambur Braid^ Denise ClarkeD Anna-Sophie NeherD† Dinarchus Price Family Chorus Master Hermogenes Ben Heppner^ Sandra Horst^ Gregory Dahl Antinous Stage Manager Fabius Isaiah Bell Stephanie Marrs John Mac Master SURTITLES™ Author Hadrian Conductor Cori EllisonD Thomas HampsonD Johannes Debus Associate SURTITLES™ Nervous Senator Director Producer Thomas Glenn Peter Hinton John Sharpe Sycophantic Senator Set Designer Dramaturg Samuel Chan† Michael Gianfrancesco Cori EllisonD Superior Senator Costume Designer Musical Assistant Joel Allison† Gillian Gallow Conrad WinslowD Plotina Lighting Designer Additional lyre music Karita MattilaD Bonnie Beecher Michael LevyD** Trajan Roger Honeywell^

Johannes Debus is generously underwritten by George & Kathy Dembroski Thomas Hampson is generously sponsored by Robert Sherrin Karita Mattila is generously sponsored by Jack Whiteside Anna-Sophie Neher is generously sponsored by Joy Levine Samuel Chan is generously sponsored by June Shaw Joel Allison is generously sponsored by The Stratton Trust Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim & Frances Price

*members of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company Madelaine Ringo-Stauble: Oct. 13, 19, 21, 23, 25 Josh Fralick: Oct. 17, 27 DCOC mainstage debut †Current member of the COC Ensemble Studio ^Graduate of the COC Ensemble Studio **Ancient lyre music adapted from a theme, Hymn to Zeus, by Michael Levy. Used by permission. Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change. Performance time is approximately three hours including one intermission.

ACTS I & II: 80 minutes INTERMISSION 20 minutes ACTS III & IV: 80 minutes

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 15 PRODUCTION OF HADRIAN GENEROUSLY UNDERWRITTEN BY Colleen Sexsmith Paul Bernards

WITH ADDITIONAL MAJOR SUPPORT FROM Mark & Gail Appel Virginia Atkin & Keith Ambachtsheer Justin S. Linden Peter M. Partridge Jay Smith & Laura Rapp Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen

Composer Rufus Wainwright in rehearsal.

16 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 His stabilizing of the Empire; his focus on COMPOSER’S NOTES philosophy, arts and architecture; his emphasis on diplomacy instead of brute force; and When I first read the fabulousMemoirs of eventually his successful transfer of power. Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, a novel which These achievements, as well as the dark stain of inspired at least three generations of gay men, I the massacre, would be better known and more was instantly struck with the idea of transforming deeply understood had it not been for Hadrian’s this historical subject into operatic form. overt homosexuality. Almost immediately after Hadrian’s death, the patriarchal dictates of Both its intimate nature and wild grandeur mankind took over the narrative, leaving the seemed perfectly suited for what opera does pathetic ancient observation that he “wept like a best: creating a hyper-illustration of the dark woman” when Antinous drowned to overshadow inner lives of people up against formidable outer all his accomplishments. circumstances, while at the same time musically careening through the surreal dimensions of what I continue to explore the fascinating ideas which lies in between. In my opinion, no other theatrical swirl around the subject of my second opera. form truly refracts life into myriad vibrantly But I am a composer, and therefore my armchair bright colors as much as opera does, and the tale intellectual reach should be superseded by the of the Roman emperor Hadrian is a diamond music – music that I hope you enjoy. perfectly cut for such a task.

In this new piece, I continue to follow my sincere love of long melodic lines mixed with rich Thank you to all my advisors: orchestral textures, a pattern begun in my first opera, Prima Donna. But whereas the rainbow Gerard Mortier refraction is occurring, it’s through a much darker Robert Wilson and harsher lens. Conrad Winslow Atom Egoyan This story unfolds amidst the upper echelons of Daniel Mendelsohn a brutal militaristic state and involves historical Adrienne Clarkson facts wrapped up in total speculation and Giorgio Lupano surrounded by the supernatural. My Hadrian is a Karen Hopkins surreal romp through time and space, mixing true Laurie Anderson occurrences with complete fabrication in order Ann Carson to illustrate a vivid “creative snap shot” of the Gill Graham Classical era. Jim Keller Alexander Neef The opera focuses on the emperor’s true but Martin Engstroem problematic love of the beautiful male youth, Antinous. All the while, the dark specter of And last but certainly not least: monotheism rises in the distance, heralded by the Jews and early Christians, which would ultimately My incredible husband, Jörn Weisbrodt, whom destroy the lovers’ ancient pagan belief system. without his love, guidance and support I would Historical research shows how huge tracts of definitely still be sitting around in some dingy Hadrian’s life and legacy were purposefully backstage dreaming of composing my first opera. destroyed by vicious detractors — a tremendous Bunny, this is our second! I love you. tragedy, since judging by surviving accounts, he was a productive and just ruler. This, of course, Rufus Wainwright, composer is heavily complicated by his massacre of Jews, 2018 which cannot be forgotten, and is a major focal point of the opera, the results of which we are still Rufus Wainwright is managed by Jim Keller, St Rose confronting today. Music and Paula Quijano, Little Empire Music

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Hadrian creates the story of the last day of the and most concerningly for Hadrian’s entourage, Roman Emperor who ruled from 117-138 CE. Antinous was treated by Hadrian as an equal Hadrian seems best known for the building of partner in their love. the wall in Britannia that bears his name, and for his conflict with Judea against the rise of Hadrian met Antinous while on a tour of the monotheism. But he is mostly unknown for what Empire and they spent the next six years together might be his greatest legacy, his having lived continuing that tour. Near the end of their travels, openly as a homosexual and his deep, unshakable facing the happy promise of a life together at love for another man, Antinous. Tibur, Hadrian’s magnificent villa outside Rome, Antinous died under suspicious circumstances by Homoerotic relationships were acceptable within drowning in the Nile. the Roman nobility at the time but only when the aim was carnal instruction between an adult male In our opera, we offer explanation for Antinous’ and a youth who was a slave and subservient to death, and for Hadrian’s politics. We enter his master. Antinous was both a free man and Hadrian’s heart and hold up his relationship with too old for this relationship to be sanctioned, Antinous as one the great love stories upon which an era began its end.

SYNOPSIS ACT I Knowing that time is short, Plotina strikes a deal: The last night of Hadrian’s life. In Tibur, outside two nights with Antinous and the truth if Hadrian Rome. signs a document that would destroy those who would destroy them. Hadrian agrees. Hadrian is gravely ill and grieving the death of his lover Antinous. After a year of preparations, ACT II Antinous’ body is to be entombed. Hadrian’s Seven years earlier, in Greece. entourage feels Hadrian will die tonight, from either sickness or sadness. Plotina leads Hadrian through the night he met Antinous: the feast of Robigalia, celebrated Hadrian is visited by two deities only he can tonight to honour Hadrian’s tour of the Empire. see: Emperor Trajan and his wife Plotina. Trajan, Guests sing Hadrian’s praises. We meet Hadrian’s like a father to him, is here to comfort Hadrian. wife Sabina. Her sadness reveals itself: her Plotina, having secured Hadrian the throne, is on husband has no heart for her. a mission. Hadrian only wants to know the truth of what happened to Antinous. Present is Antinous, who was magnificent in the hunt today, killing a boar that was charging the Convinced he is mad with grief, Hadrian orders Emperor. Preparations begin for a ceremonial his physician Hermogenes to kill him. Turbo, his sacrifice. Hadrian insists Turbo bring forward the long-time friend and head of his military, tries to hero of the hunt; Turbo is reluctant, concerned reason with Hadrian. Hermogenes’ loyalty to his about the Emperor’s tastes. Emperor brings him to kill himself. Hadrian longs to take Antinous in his arms, but Plotina and Trajan return. Plotina begins her knows the night must play out just as it did. We campaign. see their attraction is deep and true.

Turbo addresses affairs of state: enemies of the For Hadrian’s amusement, a Sibyl has been status quo rise in power. This is of no concern procured. She predicts that Antinous will to Hadrian; he’s busy memorializing Antinous. “sacrifice” and become a “saviour.” Hadrian turns his attention back to the celebration.

18 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 A sacrifice is brought to the altar, small groups and has Sabina taken away. Alone with Antinous, form. Hadrian and Antinous have found their Turbo admits the deception then kills Antinous, destiny. Turbo and Sabina have found a common delivering his body to the Nile. enemy in Antinous. The entourage considers political implications. The people gossip. ACT IV Tibur, outside Rome. Hadrian’s last moments. Plotina reveals herself to us: she had been the Sibyl. Back in the real world. Hadrian, now more broken than he was, makes a show of signing the INTERMISSION document, thus ending Judea. Plotina is elated, monotheism will die. She will live eternal. ACT III Egypt. A barge on the Nile. Turbo is delighted, Hadrian is himself again, the Empire will thrive. Hadrian explains this In a world between worlds, Hadrian and Antinous’ document will see the Empire fall. Then he tells love expresses itself as all consuming. Turbo what he knows: Turbo killed Antinous. Turbo admits it with no remorse. Hadrian moves It is six years since the night Hadrian and to stab Turbo in the heart, but stops, he asks Antinous met. Over time Antinous has shown “Why?” himself to be a wise and gentle man. Hadrian recognizes this night as the night Antinous died. Turbo explains he was protecting the legacy of his friend and Emperor. Hadrian disdains all material Unable to escape his real-world illness, and facing concerns naming his own legacy in his final the worst night of his life, Hadrian begs Plotina to words, “He loved.” In this moment Turbo sees the change the rules. She refuses. truth. Hadrian dies.

The entourage, sick of life on the road, amuse All deities present lead Hadrian into death. themselves with drinking games. When Antinous Hadrian and Antinous are reunited. The gods appears we see that he has captured their hearts. ponder their future as a dark chorus of unrest Antinous has a peaceable approach to the Jews gathers. A time has ended. A time has begun. and Nazarenes. Turbo sees this as supporting the power of monotheism. He worries that Hadrian is Daniel MacIvor, librettist too influenced by Antinous. 2018

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Hadrian’s villa near Tivoli is less than 20 miles from Rome and among its effigies of emperors and images of Roman, Greek and Egyptian gods are 40 memorial statues of Hadrian’s doomed lover, Antinous. Villa is an understatement, it was more of a town (larger than Pompeii) and not simply a retreat but rather a working ceremonial centre of government. It was Hadrian’s manifestation of the Roman world. Marble and precious stones from all over the empire were used to decorate its halls and reception rooms. It was the Roman world as Hadrian saw it; those parts that held the most meaning for him. There was a recreation of the painted porch in Athens, and from Egypt, the Canopus; a long rectangular pool representing the canal outside Alexandria replete with a crocodile and a half-domed canopy where marble images of Egyptian gods looked down on the emperor and his guests. One of the villa’s most mysterious features is a large underground series of corridors and its purpose (l-r) Thomas Hampson (Hadrian) in rehearsal with Peter Hinton (director). has troubled historians for centuries. Maybe here is a gateway to the afterlife. A liminal space for religious rituals where the living might encounter Antinous became one of the gods, one of the last the shades of noble ancestors and lost lovers. It is in the ancient world. In Egypt, he was identified here, where I imagine the opera takes place. with Osiris, who had died in the Nile and then resurrected, bringing fertility to the earth. In When the body of Antinous was pulled from the the Greco-Roman world he was a contemporary Nile in 130 CE, the beautiful young Greek man incarnation of Dionysus, and even early Christian notoriously connected to the Roman Emperor sects transformed images of Antinous into Hadrian as his lover, sparked the imagination a young Jesus Christ, enacting miracles and of poets for nearly 2,000 years. Was his death bringing loaves and fishes to the poor. He was an accident, suicide, sacrifice or even murder? venerated as a holy being with divine powers, These questions and their implications have been a former mortal whose death and resurrection debated ever since. promised salvation. It was a turning point in Western civilization. At the site of Antinous’ death, Hadrian built the city of Antinoopolis as a memorial to his Momentous shifts in Roman history have long beloved. Pilgrims from across the empire flocked been represented by incredible love stories: Dido to its temples to hear oracles pronounced by and Aeneas with the founding of Rome, Anthony a priesthood of Antinous and to participate in and Cleopatra with the fall of the republic and rise ecstatic mysteries which were later condemned of the empire. Hadrian and Antinous continue by Christians as homosexual orgies. Four years that trajectory, marking the beginning of the end after drowning in the Nile, a cult of Antinous had of the Roman Empire and the rise of monotheism extended throughout the empire. A new star in and the modern world. the heavens was proclaimed as the eternal soul of a divinity. Peter Hinton, director 2018

20 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Top left: Karita Mattila (Plotina) with Rufus Wainwright (composer)

Top right: Johannes Debus (conductor)

Left: Ambur Braid (Sabina) and Thomas Hampson (Hadrian)

Below: Peter Hinton (director)

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VIOLIN I CELLO HORN Marie Bérard, Concertmaster David Hetherington, Acting Scott Wevers, Acting Principal* The Concertmaster’s chair has Principal* Janet Anderson been endowed in perpetuity by Paul Widner, Assistant Principal, Bardhyl Gjevori Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Acting Associate Principal Gary Pattison Aaron Schwebel, Associate Olga Laktionova, Acting Assistant Concertmaster Principal TRUMPET Jamie Kruspe, Assistant Maurizio Baccante Robert Weymouth, Principal Concertmaster Naomi Barron* Andrew Dubelsten* Anne Armstrong Elaine Thompson Michael Fedyshyn* Sandra Baron Bethany Bergman BASS TROMBONE Hiroko Kagawa* Tony Flynt, Principal Charles Benaroya, Principal Nancy Kershaw Robert Speer, Assistant Principal Ian Cowie Dominique Laplante Tom Hazlitt Yakov Lerner Paul Langley BASS TROMBONE Jayne Maddison Robert Wolanski* Herbert Poole Louise Tardif FLUTE TUBA VIOLIN II Douglas Stewart, Principal Sasha Johnson* Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Leslie Newman* Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal TIMPANI James Aylesworth PICCOLO Nicholas Stoup, Acting Principal* Christine Chesebrough* Shelley Brown Terri Croft* PERCUSSION Elizabeth Johnston OBOE Trevor Tureski, Principal Renée London* Mark Rogers, Principal Chung Ling Lo* Aya Miyagawa Jasper Hitchcock* Ryan Scott* Alexey Pankratov* Stephen Wassmansdorf* Joanna Zabrowarna ENGLISH HORN Josh Wynnyk* Lesley Young VIOLA HARP Keith Hamm, Principal CLARINET Sarah Davidson, Principal Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant Dominic Desautels Principal Sanya Eng* Principal Colleen Cook Carolyn Blackwell* Michele Verheul* Catherine Gray MUSIC LIBRARIAN Sheila Jaffé BASS CLARINET Wayne Vogan Rory McLeod* Colleen Cook Nicholaos Papadakis* ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN Beverley Spotton (leave of BASSOON Ondrej Golias absence) Eric Hall, Principal Yosef Tamir Lisa Chisholm STAGE LIBRARIAN Paul Langley CONTRA BASSOON William Cannaway* PERSONNEL MANAGER Ian Cowie

*extra musician

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SOPRANOS MEZZO-SOPRANOS TENORS BARITONES/BASSES Lindsay Barrett Marianne Bindig Vanya Abrahams Grant Allert Christina Bell Susan Black Tonatiuh Abrego Jesse Clark Margaret Evans Sandra Boyes Stephen Bell Bruno Cormier Virginia Hatfield Wendy Hatala Foley William Ford Michael Downie Alexandra Lennox Erica Iris Huang John Kriter Jason Nedecky Ingrid Martin Lilian Kilianski James Leatch Michael Sproule Eve Rachel McLeod Kathryn Knapp Stephen McClare Michael Uloth Kathleen (Katie) Murphy Anne McWatt Derrick Paul Miller Jan Vaculik Jennifer Robinson Karen Olinyk Kevin Myers Gene Wu Teresa van der Hoeven Cindy Won Eric Olsen Michael York

22 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Isaiah Bell (Antinous, standing centre) and Thomas Hampson (Hadrian, reclining in front) in rehearsal with dancers.

MUSIC STAFF INTIMACY COACH DANCERS Michael Shannon^ (Head Siobhan Richardson Rodney Diverlus Coach) Robert Halley Christopher Bagan ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Gavin Law Rachael Kerr† (Ensemble Lesley Abarquez Jack Rennie Studio Coach) Chris Porter Brett Andrew Taylor

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Derek Bate Nick Andison Antinous photograph used in the projection design for Hadrian by ASSISTANT DIRECTOR UNDERSTUDIES Howard J. Davis Russell Wustenberg Hadrian Gregory Dahl Plotina (and a Sibyl) Adrienne Danrich Cruciform Nude photograph ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Trajan Jason Lamont used in the projection design for Liza Balkan Sabina (and a Sibyl) Lauren Eberwein† Hadrian by Freddy Krave Hermogenes Joel Allison† FIGHT DIRECTOR Lavia Lindsay Barrett Motion graphics used in the James Binkley Nervous Senator Stephen Bell projection design for Hadrian by Sycophantic Senator Jan Vaculik Peter O’Neill Superior Senator Michael Uloth^ Dinarchus Eric Olsen

† Current member of the COC Ensemble Studio ^ Graduate of COC Ensemble Studio

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT DANIEL MACIVOR Composer (Los Angeles, CA) Librettist (Toronto, ON and Halifax, NS) COC DEBUT. Canadian-American vocalist, composer, and songwriter COC DEBUT. Daniel MacIvor Rufus Wainwright has released is an award-winning Canadian eight studio albums, three DVDs, playwright, actor, and screenwriter. and three live albums. He has He has received the Governor collaborated with artists such as Elton John, David General’s Award for Drama, Obie and GLAAD awards, Byrne, Robbie Williams, Mark Ronson, Joni Mitchell, a Canadian Screen Award and in 2008 he was and Burt Bacharach. In 2006, his album Rufus Does awarded the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Judy, recorded at Carnegie Hall, was nominated for a From 1986 – 2007, he ran da da kamera, a respected Grammy. His first opera,Prima Donna, premiered at international touring theatre company. His selected the Manchester International Festival in 2009 and has works include Marion Bridge, See Bob Run, The Best since been presented in London, Toronto, New York, Brothers, His Greatness, and a number of solo works Hungary, and Germany. In 2018/2019, Wainwright developed with Daniel Brooks including House, Here revisits his first two studio albums,Rufus Wainwright Lies Henry, Monster, and Who Killed Spalding Gray?. and Poses, on an international tour marking the 20th Currently he is developing Here’s What It Takes, a new anniversary of his eponymous album. musical for the Stratford Festival with Steven Page, and his play New Magic Valley Fun Town premieres at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto this February.

JOEL ALLISON, Superior Senator (also Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin; Bass-baritone; Ottawa, ON) RECENT: Baritone Soloist, Ode to Purcell (Lamèque International Baroque Music); Leporello, Don Giovanni (Westben/Music Niagara); Imeneo, Imeneo (UofTOpera); Basilio, The Barber of Seville (Saskatoon Opera); Antonio, The Marriage of Figaro (Brott Opera). UPCOMING: Schaunard, La Bohème (COC); Bass Soloist, Handel’s Messiah (Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra/Choral Connection St. Thomas)

DEREK BATE, Assistant Conductor (Toronto, ON) COC CREDITS: The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, Rigoletto (2018); Arabella, Götterdämmerung (2017); Norma (2016). RECENT: (as conductor) Candide, The Pirates of Penzance, The Student Prince (Toronto Operetta Theatre); Rigoletto (Opéra de Québec). UPCOMING: Elektra, Otello (COC); (as conductor) Die Fledermaus (Toronto Operetta Theatre)

BONNIE BEECHER, Lighting Designer (Toronto, ON) COC CREDITS: Louis Riel (2017); Don Giovanni/Renard (2008); La Traviata (2007); Tancredi (2005). RECENT: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pacific Opera Victoria);Alcina , Persée, The Magic Flute, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Der Freischutz, The Marriage of Figaro, La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo (Opera Atelier); Oh What a Lovely War (Shaw Festival); Paradise Lost (Stratford). UPCOMING: Aknahten (Dortmund Opera)

ISAIAH BELL, Antinous (Tenor; Victoria, BC) COC CREDITS: Hotel Porter, Arabella (2017). RECENT: Morfeo, Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne (Innsbruck Festival of Early Music); Eurimaco, The Return of Ulysses (Opera Atelier); The Madwoman, Curlew River (Brooklyn Academy of Music with the Mark Morris Dance Group). UPCOMING: Britten’s War Requiem (National Arts Centre Orchestra); Handel’s Messiah (Carnegie Hall); Acis, Acis and Galatea (San Francisco Chamber Orchestra)

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(l-r) Michael Gianfrancesco (set designer) and Gillian Gallow (costume designer) in conversation with Daniel MacIvor (librettist) V

LAURIE-SHAWN BORZOVOY, Projection Designer (Toronto, ON) COC CREDITS: Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung (1992, 1995, 2015). SELECT CREDITS: Projection Design, Frame by Frame; The Weight of Absence (National Ballet of Canada); Design projects for CBC, Ex Machina, Canadian Stage, and numerous others for over 30 years; Creative direction and design of award-winning multi-media live events. ADDITIONAL: Freelance communications strategist/creative director; Volunteer Chair of UrbanArts Community Arts Council

AMBUR BRAID, Sabina (Soprano; Terrace, BC) SELECT COC ROLES: Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute (2017); Dalinda, Ariodante (2016); Vitellia, La clemenza di Tito (2013, Ensemble Studio performance); Adele, Die Fledermaus (2012); Amore, Orfeo ed Euridice (2011). RECENT: Floria Tosca, Tosca (Calgary Opera); Elisabetta, Roberto Devereux; Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute (Oper Frankfurt). UPCOMING: Helmwige, Die Walküre; Scintilla, Satyricon (Oper Frankfurt)

SAMUEL CHAN, Sycophantic Senator (also the Captain in Eugene Onegin. Baritone; Calgary, AB) SELECT COC CREDITS: Japanese Envoy 2, The Nightingale and Other Fables; Usher, Rigoletto (2018); Papageno, The Magic Victrola (Opera for Young Audiences, 2017). RECENT: Baritone soloist, Cantos para Hermanar al Mundo (Teatro Isauro Martinez); Baritone soloist, Opening Night Gala (Elora Festival). UPCOMING: Customs House Sergeant, La Bohème (COC)

DENISE CLARKE, Choreographer (Calgary, AB) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Moon, Moon, No Moon Cabaret; All The Little Animals I Have Eaten (One Yellow Rabbit); Marquise de Merteuil, Dangerous Liaisons (Alberta Ballet); Performance We live in a country with a rich and deep appreciation for arts and culture, Ensemble Member (Järna Festival Academy). UPCOMING: Damien Frost (One Yellow Rabbit). ADDITIONAL: Member of The Order of Canada; Associate Artist, One Yellow Rabbit and we’re committed to fund programs that enable Canadians of all means and backgrounds to enjoy the very best.

GREGORY DAHL, Hermogenes (Baritone; Toronto, ON) Proud Presenting Sponsor of the new Share the Opera program at the SELECT COC CREDITS: Sharpless, Madama Butterfly; Silvano, A Masked Ball (2014); Crespel/ Schlemil, The Tales of Hoffmann (2012). RECENT: Scarpia, Tosca (Calgary Opera/L’Opéra de Canadian Opera Company and proudly Canadian. Montréal); Sharpless, Madama Butterfly (Manitoba Opera); Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Opéra de Québec); Iago, Otello (Vancouver Opera). UPCOMING: Donner, Das Rheingold (L’Opéra de Montréal); Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Calgary Opera); Handel’s Messiah (Winnipeg Symphony)

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We live in a country with a rich and deep appreciation for arts and culture, and we’re committed to fund programs that enable Canadians of all means and backgrounds to enjoy the very best. Proud Presenting Sponsor of the new Share the Opera program at the Canadian Opera Company and proudly Canadian. JOHANNES DEBUS, Conductor, COC Music Director (Berlin, Germany/Toronto, ON) SELECT COC CREDITS: The Nightingale and Other Short Fables; The Abduction from the Seraglio (2018); Louis Riel; Götterdämmerung (2017); Ariodante (2016). RECENT: Beatrice Cenci (Bregenz Festival); The Tales of the Hoffmann, Salome (Metropolitan Opera). UPCOMING: Elektra, Otello (COC); Jenufao (Santa Fe Opera)

CORI ELLISON, Dramaturg (New York, NY, USA) COC DEBUT. SELECT: (as Staff Dramaturg) Glyndebourne Festival (2012-2017), New York City Opera (1997-2010); (as Production Dramaturg) The Coronation of Poppea (Cincinnati Opera), Orphic Moments (National Sawdust), The Ring Cycle (Washington National Opera), The Nose (Opera Boston); Various new works development (Opera Philadelphia, Arizona Opera). ADDITIONAL: Dramaturg, Santa Fe Opera; Faculty Member at The Juilliard School, Ravinia Steans Music Institute

GILLIAN GALLOW, Costume Designer (Toronto, ON) COC CREDITS: Louis Riel (2017). RECENT: Long Days Journey Into Night (Stratford Festival); Stage Kiss, An Octoroon (Shaw Festival); Orlando, Idomeneus (Soulpepper). UPCOMING: The Runner (Human Cargo); The Russian Play (Shaw Festival). ADDITIONAL: Dora Mavor Moore Award for Set and Costume Design, Virginia and Myrtle Award for Costume Design

MICHAEL GIANFRANCESCO, Set Designer (Toronto, ON) COC CREDITS: Louis Riel (2017); The Barber of Seville (Ensemble Studio School Tour [ESST], 2008); (as set design coordinator) The Marriage of Figaro (2007); The Magic Flute (ESST, 2002). RECENT: Ricciardo e Zoraide (Rossini Opera Festival); Frame By Frame (National Ballet of Canada/Ex Machina); The Music Man, The Rocky Horror Show (Stratford Festival), Dracula (Shaw Festival), The Hockey Sweater (Segal Centre)

THOMAS GLENN, Nervous Senator (Tenor; Calgary, AB) COC CREDITS: Charles Mair, Louis Riel (2017). RECENT: Nemorino, The Elixir of Love (Opera Idaho); Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus (Cincinnati Opera); McAlpine, Filumena (Calgary Opera); The Shepherd, Oedipus Rex (Philharmonia Orchestra of London)

THOMAS HAMPSON, Hadrian, (Baritone; Elkhart, IN, USA) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Simon Boccanegra, Simon Boccanegra (Wiener Staatsoper); Scarpia, Tosca (Bayerische Staatsoper); Graf Danilo Danilowitsch, The Merry Widow (Opéra national de Paris); Soloist, The Bernstein Centennial Celebration (Tanglewood Music Festival). UPCOMING: Giorgio Germont, La Traviata (Semperoper Dresden); Scarpia, Tosca (Wiener Staatsoper); Lorenzo Da Ponte, The Phoenix (Houston Grand Opera); Altair, Die Ägyptische Helena (Teatro alla Scala)

BEN HEPPNER, Dinarchus (Tenor; Toronto, ON) SELECT COC CREDITS: Peter Grimes, Peter Grimes; Tristan, Tristan und Isolde (2013). SELECT CREDITS: Host, Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and Backstage with Ben Heppner (CBC Radio); Engagements with the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Dutch National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. ADDITIONAL: Three-time Grammy Award winner; Companion of the Order of Canada

PETER HINTON, Director (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON) COC CREDITS: Louis Riel (2017). RECENT: Oh What a Lovely War; An Octoroon (Shaw Festival); Dido, Queen of Carthage (York University); Missing (Pacific Opera/City Opera Vancouver); The Millennial Malcontent (Tarragon Theatre); All’s Well that Ends Well (The Shakespeare Company). UPCOMING: Sex, by Mae West (Shaw Festival); All For Love (University of Alberta). ADDITIONAL: Artistic Director, National Arts Centre English Theatre (2005–2012); Officer of the Order of Canada (2009)

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CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 29 ROGER HONEYWELL, Trajan (Tenor; Stratford, ON) SELECT COC CREDITS: Bob Boles, Peter Grimes (2013); An Officer,Ariadne auf Naxos (2011); Macduff, Macbeth (2005). RECENT: Charlie, Mahagonny Songspiel; Father, The Seven Deadly Sins (Opéra National du Rhin); Captain Ahab, Moby-Dick (Pittsburgh Opera/Utah Opera); Dick Johnson, La Fanciulla del West (Virginia Opera). UPCOMING: Loge, Das Rheingold (L’Opéra de Montréal); Shuysky, Boris Godunov (Royal Opera House)

SANDRA HORST, Price Family Chorus Master (Toronto, ON) SELECT COC CREDITS: Anna Bolena, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Rigoletto (2018). RECENT: (as conductor) Vengeance, Of Thee I Sing, Prima Zombie: The Diva that just wouldn’t stay dead (UofT Opera). UPCOMING: Elektra, Così fan tutte (COC); Street Scene (UofT Opera). ADDITIONAL: Director of Musical Studies at UofT Opera

DAVID LEIGH, Turbo (Bass; New York, NY, USA) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Colline, La Bohème (Bolshoi Theatre); Le Surintendant des plaisirs, Cendrillon (Metropolitan Opera); Il Commendatore, Don Giovanni (Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg/Opéra National de Lorraine). UPCOMING: Zuniga, Carmen (San Francisco Opera); King, The Thirteenth Child (Santa Fe Opera), Sparafucile, Rigoletto (Kentucky Opera)

JOHN MAC MASTER, Fabius (Tenor; Moncton, NB) SELECT COC CREDITS: Aegisth, Elektra (2007); Laca, Jenufao (2003). RECENT: Choral Spectacular (Brott Festival); Carmina Burana (McGill Chamber Orchestra); Verdi’s Requiem (Laval Symphony); Aegisth, Elektra (Opéra de Montréal). UPCOMING: Carmina Burana (Ottawa Symphony); Tribute to Lili Boulanger (McGill University)

STEPHANIE MARRS, Stage Manager (Toronto, ON) COC CREDITS: Anna Bolena, The Abduction from the Seraglio (2018); The Magic Flute, Louis Riel (2017); Ariodante, Carmen (2016); La Traviata (2015); Madama Butterfly (2003, 2009, 2014); Hercules (2003); Assistant Stage Manager: Arabella (2017); Siegfried (2016); Don Giovanni, Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung (2015). RECENT: Louis Riel (National Arts Centre/Opéra de Québec). UPCOMING: Elektra (COC)

KARITA MATTILA, Plotina (Soprano; Somero, Finland) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Sieglinde, Die Walküre (San Francisco Opera); Leokadja Begbick, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Opernhaus Zürich); Kundry, Parsifal (Turku Music Festival); Ariadne, Ariadne auf Naxos (Bayerische Staatsoper). Upcoming Credits: Kostelnickav Buryjovka, Jenufao (Bayerische Staatsoper); Cizí knezna,v v Rusalka (Opéra national de Paris); Madame de Croissy, Dialogues des Carmélites (Metropolitan Opera)

ANNA-SOPHIE NEHER, Lavia (Soprano; Gatineau, QC) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Blanche, Dialogues des Carmélites (Opera McGill); Adele, Die Fledermaus (Opera McGill); Pamina, The Magic Flute (Bard College); Belinda, Dido and Aeneas (Montreal Conservatory of Music); Barbarina, The Marriage of Figaro (Orford International Summer Festival). UPCOMING: Clorinda, WOW Factor: A Cinderella Story (COC). ADDITIONAL: First place OSM Manulife Competition; Wirth Vocal Prize Winner; Jacqueline Desmarais Scholarship

RUSSELL WUSTENBERG, Assistant Director (Farmington, MN, USA) COC DEBUT. RECENT: Oksana G (Tapestry Opera); Die Fledermaus (Opera 5); Carmen (Brott Opera); (as director) Abraham and Isaac (Rose Festival Montréal); (as stage manager) Engagements with Eugene Opera, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Opera McGill, and Opera 5

30 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 “5,000 years of Chinese music and dance in one night.”

—The New York Times

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE MAR 26–31 • FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

JAN 8 • Kitchener JAN 9–13 • Mississauga MAR 23–24 • Hamilton Entirely New 2019 Production | With Live Orchestra | Presented by Local Falun Dafa Associations

Use code COC19 before Nov 5, enjoy a complimentary refreshment (one voucher per guest) & flexible tickets (exchange for another show one month before show date). Toronto tickets are available at COC box office (416-363-8231). ShenYun.com/GTA 855-416-1800 BACKSTAGE AND BEYOND! Here is a look at some of our recent activities, many shared with our wonderful COC donors, including parties, galas, and backstage meet-and-greets with artists.

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[1] Last spring members of Opera Club enjoyed an [4] Another free Opera Insights event invited on-stage toast with the set of The Nightingale and members of the public to take part in a chorus Other Short Fables. These events are always great sing-along. This is one of the COC’s most popular photo/selfie opportunities! interactive events.

[2] Operanation 2018 featured electro-pop duo [5] At a Spotlight Series event for donors, Brave Shores in a genre-bending collaboration COC Wig & Makeup Supervisor Sharon Ryman with Ensemble Studio artists Danika Lorèn and transformed soprano Tracy Cantin into Anna Bolena. Bruno Roy. As usual the Four Seasons Centre was Costume Supervisor Sandra Corazza was also on transformed into a glittering party. This year’s hand to complete the transformation. theme, Into the Stars, was inspired by the COC’s upcoming world premiere opera, Hadrian. [6] It takes a village to raise an opera singer! Here all the coaches and advisors to the artists of the [3] The COC’s free Opera Insights series features Ensemble Studio gather with the artists after An a wide variety of interactive events. This past spring, Evening with the Ensemble Studio last spring. acrobat/puppeteer Noam Markus (who appeared in the COC’s The Nightingale and Other Short Fables) [7] COC Director of Brand & Content Nikita led an event called “Playing with Puppetry.” Pictured Gourski led a conversaton with Price Family Chorus here, Noam led the audience in some hand-shadow Master Sandra Horst and Music Director Johannes artistry! Debus at the Working Rehearsal Dinner for The Nightingale and Other Short Fables.

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[8] Keri Alkema (Giovanna Seymour) and Sondra and family. After all this activity, our opera house got Radvanovsky (Anna Bolena) were rivals on stage a break for maintenance and improvements. for the king’s affections, but are true best friends offstage. Here they enjoyed the opening night toast [10] The Ensemble Studio kicked off their 18/19 of the COC’s Anna Bolena. season with a performance of Popera at the Drake Devonshire in Prince Edward County. [9] Three one-week Summer Opera Camps rounded out the active part of the year at the Four [11] The operatic emotions that accompany Seasons Centre. Young people studied singing, bidding on fine wines and spirits were in full force movement, design, and much more, culminating in last spring during the COC’s 19th Annual Fine weekly performances of their own operas for friends Wine Auction, which took place at the Four Seasons Centre. CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 33 CELEBRATING A DECADE!

This fall marks 10 years since Alexander Neef was appointed General Director of the Canadian Opera Company.

For the occasion, we take a trip down memory lane to spotlight the work he has done to transform the COC “into one of the most interesting opera houses in North America” (New York Times).

34 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Clockwise from top left: Alexander celebrates the opening of Tristan und Isolde (2013) with (l-r) director Peter Sellars, video artist Bill Viola and his wife Kira Perov, executive producer of video. Alexander with Tibetan singer Amchok Gompo Dhondup backstage at Semele (2012). With his wife Clare at Operanation: Into the Stars (2018). With Kaija Saariaho, composer of Love from Afar (2012) at opening night. Playing a duet with former COC Board Chair Colleen Sexsmith at a holiday event (2017). With Rufus Wainwright, composer of Hadrian (2018) during the rehearsal process.

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 35 AN OPERA FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES WOW factor A CINDERELLA STORY

A MODERN TWIST ON A CLASSIC FAIRYTALE When the hit singing show WOW Factor arrives at Cindy’s school, students jump at the chance to compete for the top prize—especially with pop sensation Lil’ Charm rumoured to be there. Featuring music by Gioachino Rossini and a new English adaptation by Against the Grain Theatre’s Joel Ivany.

Performance lasts 50 minutes, suitable for grades 1 to 6.

Saturday, Dec. 1 and Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Imperial Oil Opera Theatre, Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre 227 Front St. E.

ADULTS: $40 each CHILDREN UNDER 12: FREE (maximum of two free children’s tickets for each adult ticket sold) ADDITIONAL CHILDREN: $10 each Includes pre-show activities

coc.ca/OYA or 416-363-8231 For school performances (Nov. 28 and 29) email [email protected] or call 416-306-2356.

36 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 File Name: SPONS-AD-Canadian Opera Company-0818 Trim: 6.5”x 9.25” Publication: Canadian Opera Company Creative & Production Services Bleed: None Safety: 0.25” Mech Res: 300dpi Material Deadline: August 2018 100 Yonge Street, 10th Floor Insertion Dates: August 2018 Toronto, ON M5C 2W1 Colours: CMYK

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® Registered trademarks of The Bank of Nova Scotia. MEET THE NEW ENSEMBLE! For the 2018/2019 season, the Canadian understudying and performing mainstage Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio roles, and participating in masterclasses welcomes bass-baritone Joel Allison, mezzo- with internationally renowned opera soprano Simona Genga, and sopranos professionals. Lauren Margison and Anna-Sophie Neher. The four singers joined the Ensemble Studio Genga, Allison and Neher are no strangers in August and are already working hard in to the COC stage—all three artists took one of the most highly regarded training home prizes in the 2017 Centre Stage: programs of its kind in North America. Ensemble Studio Competition. Genga took home the First Prize (the Chair’s Prize) and These four artists join returning baritone the Audience Choice Award, and Allison Samuel Chan, soprano Lauren Eberwein, and Neher earned second and third prizes, mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh, and respectively. Margison has gained practical pianists/intern coaches Rachael Kerr and performance experience as a member of Stéphane Mayer. Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal.

Built around an individually-tailored, multi-year program, the newcomers For more information on this year’s are learning what it takes to pursue a Ensemble Studio Competition, see professional operatic career through page 15 of this program. collaborative coaching, language and #COCCentreStage #COCEnsemble acting studies, career skills development,

38 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 JOEL ALLISON SAMUEL CHAN LAUREN EBERWEIN Bass-baritone Baritone Soprano Ottawa, ON Calgary, AB Qualicum Beach, BC

SIMONA GENGA RACHAEL KERR LAUREN MARGISON Mezzo-soprano Pianist/Intern Coach Soprano Vaughan, ON Grand Rapids, MI Toronto, ON

STÉPHANE MAYER SIMONE MCINTOSH ANNA-SOPHIE NEHER Pianist/Intern Coach Mezzo-soprano Soprano Edmonton, AB Vancouver, BC Gatineau, QC

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 39 DID YOU KNOW?

The Canadian Opera Company produces opera performances specifically for families to experience together. This year, Opera For Young Audiences presents WOW Factor: A Cinderella Story running Dec. 1 & 2.

For more information see page 36 of this program. #COCWowFactor

40 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Reaching their Someday is music to everyone’s ears.

The hard work, perseverance and vision of emerging artists demonstrate the power of having – and the joy of realizing – a Someday™. Together with programs like Ensemble Studio at the Canadian Opera Company, we support a diverse range of Canadian talent in communities across the country through the RBC Emerging Artists Project.

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® / ™ Trademark(s) of Royal Bank of Canada. VPS93441 39782A (05/2015) Three Questions with AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE

Toronto’s Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) is an opera collective presenting classical music in innovative ways and unusual venues. For the last two seasons, it has also participated in a pilot project at the COC — the Company-in-Residence stream of the COC Academy — designed to help emerging companies establish themselves for sustainable success in the 21st century.

Over its residency, AtG has grown its creative capacity substantially, launching a multi-year workshop to develop a new piece (BOUND), mounting its first international co-production (the award-winning Orphée+), and developing a hugely popular series of monthly Opera Pub events, pairing beer pints with operatic arias and ensembles.

On the eve of a pivotal season, AtG’s Founder & Artistic Director Joel Ivany (right) and General Manager Jonathan MacArthur (far right) reflect on what’s next.

42 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 This is your last season in the COC Academy. What has surprised you about the residency?

Joel: In some ways I was surprised by how well it’s worked. Specifically with Jon [MacArthur, AtG General Manager] — the experience he’s having you literally can’t get anywhere else. The mentorship and development that he’s receiving is directly translating to the work we’re doing at AtG, which is really, really good for us.

Jonathan: Last season, we demanded more of our organization than ever before by mounting an international co-production (Orphée+) — we would not have been able to do that without the support of the many dedicated administrators at the COC.

What are you excited about these days?

JM: As a company, we’re establishing a permanence that will benefit our generation of opera singers and especially our colleagues in Toronto.

JI: By giving us a physical space to get organized, [the Company-in-Residence stream] has allowed us to create structure, to focus our energies, to work better as a team. And all of that actually lets us dream and look further ahead. So I’m excited about what role our company can play in the future, given the foundation we’ve put in place.

What is the future of opera?

JM: What excites me about opera are the individuals leading our scene. We need to listen to those who have something to say, and nurture those with potential.

JI: I think the future of opera is not what we think it is, which means that it could be Previous page: scenes from Kopernikus. This anything. It may just look a little different page: (top) Justin Welsh and Miriam Khalil from what we’re used to, and maybe even and (bottom) Danika Lorèn in BOUND, with sound a bit different. AtG Music Director Topher Mokrzewski in the background.

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 43 AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE 18/19 SEASON

BOUND KOPERNIKUS The second instalment of this three-year Canadian composer Claude Vivier’s concept-to-realization project continues convention-defying opera. The cast features to explore narratives of displaced and mezzo-soprano Danielle MacMillan making marginalized people through Handel’s music. her AtG debut and welcomes back acclaimed Composer Kevin Lau keeps the backbone of mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó and bass Alain Handel’s exquisite compositions, while infusing Coulombe, among others. his own themes, music, and ideas. AtG Music Director Topher Mokrzewski collaborates with April 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, and 13, 2019, 8 p.m. digital sound-artist Acote. The cast includes Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Avenue) soprano Miriam Khalil, countertenor David Trudgen, and tenor Andrew Haji. Libretto by Joel Ivany. AtG OPERA PUB Opera arias and ensembles alongside witty November 19 – 21, 2018, 8 p.m. banter and craft beers. Longboat Hall at The Great Hall (1087 Queen St. W.) First Thursday of every month, 9 p.m. Amsterdam Bicycle Club (54 The Esplanade) AtG RETRO A one-hour retrospective concert that takes a look back at some of AtG’s most acclaimed For tickets or more information visit works. againstthegraintheatre.com December 11, 2018, 12 p.m. Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre (145 Queen St. W.) (Below) A scene from BOUND

Against the Grain Theatre is a participant of the COC Academy – a home for Canada’s new wave of opera creators and an incubator for the future of the art form.

44 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF ALEXANDER NEEF General Director

Managing Director Head Vocal Consultant Assistant Electricians Robert Lamb Wendy Nielsen Douglas Claus Josh McGill Executive Director, Performance Kinetics Consultant Philanthropy & Audiences Jennifer Swan Head of Sound Christie Darville Bob Shindle Lyric Diction Coach Music Director Steven Leigh Assistant Sound Johannes Debus Craig Kadoke COC Ensemble Studio Joel Allison Head Carpenter Samuel Chan Paul Watkinson EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lauren Eberwein Simona Genga Assistant Carpenter Executive Assistant to the Rachael Kerr David Middleton General Director Lauren Margison Marguerite Schabas Stéphane Mayer Head Flyman Simone McIntosh Michael Gelfand Anna-Sophie Neher MUSIC AND ARTISTIC Head of Properties Daniel Graham ADMINISTRATION Company-in-Residence Against the Grain Theatre Head of Front of House Director of Music & Artistic Alex Maitland Administration Roberto Mauro Core Crew ACCESS Doug Closs Contracts Manager Gregg Feor Karen Olinyk Education and Outreach Terry Hurley Paul Otis Company Manager Associate Director, Olwyn Lewis Education & Outreach Scene Shop Co-ordinator Katherine Semcesen Amy Cummings Price Family Chorus Master Sandra Horst Children, Youth and Family Programs Head Scene Shop Carpenter Manager David Retzleff Assistant to the Music Director Bryna Berezowska Derek Bate Assistant Scene Shop Carpenter School Programs Manager Andrew Walker Scheduling Manager Maureen Callaghan Kathryn Garnett Head Scenic Artist Adult Programs Manager Richard Gordon Interim Scheduling Assistant Catherine Willshire Kaitlyn Smith Assistant Head Scenic Artist Katherine Lilley Production Assistants Free Concert Series Noa Katz Head Scenic Artist (Hadrian/Eugene Emily Roughley Program Manager, Free Concert Series Onegin) Dorian Cox Richard Mongiat Orchestra Personnel Manager Ian Cowie Assistant Head Scenic Artist (Hadrian/ Eugene Onegin) Music Librarian, Coach PRODUCTION Anna Treusch Wayne Vogan Director of Production Rehearsal Head Technician Assistant Music Librarian Chuck Giles Scott Kitcher Ondrej Golias Technical Director Properties Supervisor Music Staff Mike Ledermueller Wulf Higgins Christopher Bagan (Hadrian) Dionysis Grammenos (Onegin) Production Manager Properties Shop Ira Hochman (Onegin) Michael Freeman Emily Dyck Hyejin Kwon (Onegin) Nina Hartt Michael Shannon (Hadrian) Lighting Supervisor Fraser Pace Daniele Guevara Jonathon Parisi Eugene Paunil Associate Technical Director Tracy Taylor ACCESS & TRAINING Jake Gow Costume Supervisor Director, Access & Training Assistant Technical Director Sandra Corazza Nina Draganic Melynda Jurgenson Costume Coordinators COC ACADEMY Assistant Production Manager Chloe Anderson Murphy Diggon Cassandra Spence Ensemble Studio Head Electrician Assistant Costume Coordinator Joe Nalepka Natassia Brunato Head of the Ensemble Studio & Coach Liz Upchurch

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 45 Costume Assistants Senior Manager of Operations, PUBLIC RELATIONS Sequoia Erickson Philanthropy & Audiences Angela Cabrera Andrea Salin Director, Public Relations Avril Sequeira Cutter Senior Manager of Operations, Tracey Glas Brand & Media Publicist and Content Producer Eldon Earle Kristin McKinnon Assisted by Manon De Gagné Senior Manager, Sales and Acquisition Public Relations Assistant Laura Delchiaro Richard Paradiso Davin Leivonen-Fok Karen Hancock Jennifer Howard Andrea Kuntz Jenni Lee Manis GOVERNMENT RELATIONS TICKET SERVICES Dorothy Marczinko Associate Director, Public Affairs Ticket Services Manager Amy Mushinski Additional Costumes Chris Mercredi Christine Audet Assistant Manager, Ticket Services Assisted by ADVANCEMENT Manda Kennedy Mary Furlong Judy MacDougall Advancement Associate Group Sales Co-ordinator Janet Stubbs David Nimmo Margie Berggren Director of Development Ticket Services Supervisor Kim Crossley Stephen Gilles Lillian Fung Ken Dubblestyne Manager, Special Events Part-time Ticket Services Supervisors Assisted by Erin Koth Nick Davis Jennifer Macdonald Alan Gawalko Senior Development Officer, Special Geoff Hughes Events Ticket Services Representatives Assisted by Brianna Chase Rachel Barna Ellie Furtney Taylor Balint Janet Pym Manager, Stewardship Joseph Black Emma Noakes Brandon Davis Chris Read William Ford Development Officer, Events & Peter Genoway Avril Stevenson Engagement Cat Haywood Assisted by Stephanie Kallay Kevin Kashani Rebecca Boyd Christine Klein Senior Development Officer, Annual Keith Lam Denis Pizzicalla Costumes Programs & Patron Engagement Dylan MacVicar Industry Costumes Natalie Sandassie Bernadka Mazgola Martino Designs Caitlin McCaughey Seamless Costumes Ltd. Development Officer, Annual Programs Elena Milenkovski & Patron Engagement Megan Miles Head of Wardrobe Soojin Ahn Kevin Morris Nancy Hawkins Oriana Pagnotta Co-ordinator, Annual Programs & Karen Rajamohan Wardrobe Assistant Patron Engagement Lane Ripco Leslie Brown Meghan Carlow Wig & Make-up Supervisor Senior Development Officer, SALES & ACQUISITION Sharon Ryman Friends of the COC Victor Widjaja Manager, Sales & Acquisition Head of Wig & Make-up Crew DeeAnn Sagar Cori Ferguson Individual Giving Co-ordinator, Friends of the COC SURTITLES™ Author Sarah Westgarth Call Centre Cori Ellison Call Centre Representatives Senior Development Officer, Catherine Belyea Associate SURTITLES™ Producer Partnerships Frank Bushe John Sharpe Francesca Perez Katarzyna Paradecka Mark Schildroth SURTITLES™ Assistants Senior Development Officer, Margaret Terry Olwyn Lewis Partnerships Larissa Zajac-Elzinga Aislinn Ritchie Jennifer Pugsley Supernumeraries Co-ordinators Advancement Operations Officers Analee Stein John Kriter FINANCE AND Amelia Smart Elizabeth Walker ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance & Administration PHILANTHROPY & BRAND & CONTENT Lindy Cowan, CPA, CA AUDIENCES Director, Brand & Content Finance Manager Nikita Gourski Saptarsi Saha, CPA, CA Executive Director, Philanthropy & Audiences Senior Manager, Creative & General Accountants Christie Darville Publications Pamela Curva Gianna Wichelow Florence Huang Executive Assistant to the Executive Director, Philanthropy & Audiences Web Manager Payroll Accountants Elizabeth Scott Abena Asomaning Jovana Bojovic Jeanny Won Digital Engagement Officer Taylor Long

46 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Every season, the Canadian Opera Company makes approximately $100,000 worth of tickets available to community partner organizations to share the transformative experience of opera.

DID YOU KNOW?

Finance Assistant Business & Events Co-ordinator Maintenance Assistants (COC) Lorrie Element Melissa McDonnell Ryszard Gad Branislav Peterman Accounting Clerk Patron Services Manager, Julian Peters Vera Brjozovskaja Front of House Julia Somerville (on leave) Maintenance Assistants (FSCPA) Associate Director, IT Enrique Covarrubias Cortes Steven Sherwood Interim Patron Services Manager, James Esposito Front of House Nile White Database Reporting Specialist Christian Coulter Piotr Wiench Brad Staples Daniel Zerihun Patron Services Manager, IT Services Assistant Food & Beverage Security Supervisor Tony Sandy Brigitte Lang Dave Samuels Archivist, Joan Baillie Archives Assistant Manager, Security Administrator Birthe Joergensen Patron Services Kathleen Minor Kim Hutchinson-Barber Receptionist/Switchboard Security Guards Katarina Božovic Senior Patron Services Supervisors Evan R. Bawtinheimer Stuart Constable Abdi Gulleed Mailroom Clerk/Courier Kimberly Wu Natalia Juzyc Branka Hrsum Usman Khalid Patron Services Supervisors Amir Khan Karol Carstensen Nicholas Martin Jamieson Eakin Pavithra Sugumar HUMAN RESOURCES Lori MacDonald Susannah Mackay Building Operators Human Resources Manager Steven McDermott Dan Bisca Lorraine O’Connor, CHRP Deena Nicklefork Dan Popescu Sophia Wiens Adrian Tudoran Patron Services Lead Carillion Services Supervisor FOUR SEASONS CENTRE Diana Pfeffer Paula Da Costa FOR THE PERFORMING Carillion Services Team ARTS Jennifer Barros Building Services Hirut Drese Director, Four Seasons Centre for the Associate Director, Facilities Nash Lim Performing Arts Jimmy Pacheco Alfred Caron Management Joe Waldherr Esete Tesfaye Sugey Torres Associate Director, Business Kinfe Wolde Nida Development Assistant Manager, Operations Elizabeth Jones Christian Coulter

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 47 Six series—vocal, chamber, piano, dance, jazz and world music—feature a range of performers from international stars to emerging young artists. ALL FOR FREE!

Fall programming includes solo recitals by Oleg Tsibulko, bass (Oct. 2); Helene Schneiderman, mezzo-soprano (Oct. 23); Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio (Oct. 9, Oct. 18, Oct. 25, Dec. 4); and Artists of the COC Orchestra (Oct. 10).

For complete listings, and to sign up for e-mail updates, visit coc.ca/FreeConcerts

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48 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Let yourProud imagination to support the wander Manitoba Chamber Orchestra PROUD TO SUPPORT THE CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY COC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS Ms. Marcia Lewis Brown Mr. Huston Loke Mr. Justin Linden, Chair Ms. Helen Burstyn Ms. Anne Maggisano Mr. Jonathan Morgan, Vice-Chair Mr. Stewart Burton Ms. Judith Matthews Mr. John H. Macfarlane, Secretary Mr. Philip C. Deck (ex officio) Ms. Bernadette Murphy Mr. Paul Bernards, Treasurer Mr. Peter Deeb Mr. James (Jim) Nicol Mr. Alexander Neef, General Mr. George S. Dembroski Mr. Johannes Pastor Director (ex officio) Mr. William Fearn Ms. Frances Price Mr. Rob Lamb, Managing Director Mr. David Ferguson (ex officio) Mr. Jeffrey Remedios Ms. Christie Darville, Executive Mr. Michael Gibbens Ms. Colleen Sexsmith Director, Philanthropy & Dr. Eudice Goldberg Mr. Allen Smith Audiences Ms. Halina von dem Hagen Mr. Philip S. W. Smith Mr. Peter Hinman Mr. Paul Spafford MEMBERS Dr. Linda Hutcheon Mr. David Spiro Mr. Anthony (Tony) Arrell Mr. Roy Linden Ms. Kris Vikmanis Ms. Nora Aufreiter Mr. Jeff Lloyd Mr. Graham Watchorn Mr. John H. (Jack) Whiteside

CANADIAN OPERA FOUNDATION DIRECTORS

OFFICERS DIRECTORS Mr. Michael Gibbens Mr. Philip C. Deck, Chair Mr. Tony Arrell Mr. Christopher Hoffmann Mr. David Spiro, Secretary Mr. Jonathan Bloomberg Mr. Justin Linden Mr. J. Rob Collins

CREDITS AND COC OPERA ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GUILDS

The Canadian Opera Company would like to thank all those Brantford Opera Guild who volunteer both on a daily basis and for special events David M. Cullen, President with the company. Kingston Opera Guild Grace Orzech, President Michael Cooper, Official Photographer London Opera Guild Musical excerpts provided Ernest H. Redekop, by Universal Classics President Muskoka Opera Guild The COC is a member of Opera America, Opera.ca and TAPA. Mr. Pierre Couture, President The COC operates in agreement with Canadian Actors’ Equity Sudbury Opera Guild Association. Dianne Moore, President

The COC operates in agreement with IATSE Local #58, For more information, Local #822, Local #828. visit coc.ca/Guilds.

50 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 The Canadian DID Opera Company was among the first arts YOU organizations in Toronto to establish a KNOW? discount program for young people.

Opera Under 30 offers $22 tickets to anyone between 16 and 29 and includes show admission, a free pre-show chat, and time to explore the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

OPERAUNDER30 presented by

SUPERNUMERARIES EUGENE ONEGIN HADRIAN Ray Bielawski Nyla Jeffery Nancy Mellow Verlin Lloyd James Rene Gommaar Elst David Johnston Daniel Nau Sepehr Reybod Nolan Ethier Gerald King Marnie Bellemont Neef Harrison (Harry) Thomas Rob Foerster Maxim Korzh Lee Perenack Jacques Gamache Alex Krapivinsky Carey Unger James Garron Todd Langis Chloe Walker Mark Garron Ethan Langois John Winfield Doug Hamilton Graham Leather Asna Wise Ward Jardine Ralph Manore

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 51 MANY THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS

Life Trustees Council The Life Trustees Council salutes the leaders of the COC community whose efforts have been integral to the company’s artistic evolution and transformative history of accomplishment.

Earlaine Collins Jerry and Geraldine Heffernan Michael Levine J. Rob Collins Ben Heppner Adrianne Pieczonka A. J. Diamond Henry N. R. Jackman Arthur R. A. Scace, C. M. David Ferguson, Chair David Stanley-Porter

Emeritus Council Executive Committee The COC Emeritus Council, led by the Executive Committee, salutes those Board Members who have completed their term and whose leadership efforts have been integral to the company’s artistic evolution and transformative history of accomplishment.

Rosemary Dover Anne Maggisano Colleen Sexsmith Catherine Fauquier Sue Mortimer Keith Sjögren Michael Gough, Co-Chair Frances Price Jack Whiteside, Co-Chair

E. Louise Morgan Society A legacy of leadership, passion, and philanthropy achieved through individual lifetime giving in support of the Canadian Opera Company.

Anne & Tony Arrell Roger D. Moore ARIAS: Canadian Opera Student Development Fund Sheila K. Piercey Earlaine Collins in memory of Gerard H. Collins Frances & Tim Price John A. Cook Arthur & Susan Scace Philip Deck & Kimberley Bozak Colleen Sexsmith Estate of Horst Dantz & Don Quick Estate of James Drewry Stewart Peter M. Deeb Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Jerry and Geraldine Heffernan Anonymous (2) The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation

Major Gifts and Special Projects The COC offers its sincere thanks to the individuals listed below for their extraordinary support.

PRODUCTION $100,000 – $499,999 Up to $25,000 UNDERWRITERS Paul Bernards Mark & Gail Appel Advancing the art form Mr. Phil Lind Virginia Atkin & through visionary productions. Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Keith Ambachtsheer Foundation in honour of Justin S. Linden $500,000 + Gerard Mortier Peter M. Partridge The Catherine and Maxwell Jay Smith & Laura Rapp Meighen Foundation Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen Colleen Sexsmith

52 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 PERFORMANCE AND $500,000 – $999,999 June Shaw ARTIST SPONSORS Sheila K. Piercey Janet Stubbs Building a community of world- The Slaight Family Foundation Brian Wilks class artists, both established and emerging. $100,000 - $499,999 Marjorie & Roy Linden GENERAL PROGRAM $100,000 + SUPPORTERS $25,000 – $99,999 George & Kathy Dembroski Providing general program Keith Ambachtsheer & Jack Whiteside support is critical to the COC’s Virginia Atkin artistic mission. $50,000 – $99,999 Ethel Harris & the late Milton E. Harris Sue Mortimer $1,000,000 + Hal Jackman Foundation Robert Sherrin Jerry and Geraldine Heffernan Patrick and Barbara Keenan The Henry White Kinnear Foundation $25,000 – $49,999 Foundation Deborah Moorthy Earlaine Collins Frances & Tim Price The Stratton Trust Marcia Lewis Brown The Estate of Kristine Vikmanis & Denton James Drewry Stewart Up to $24,999 Creighton Anonymous (1) ARIAS: Canadian Opera Student Development Fund Up to $24,999 $100,000 + Margaret Harriett Cameron and Marjorie & Roy Linden Anne & Tony Arrell David E. Spiro the late Gary Smith Catherine Fauquier $25,000 – $99,999 David & Kristin Ferguson James & Christine Nicol Patrick Hodgson Family COC ACADEMY Nora Wilson SUPPORTERS Foundation Peter & Hélène Hunt Up to $24,999 Encouraging the next generation Joy Levine Simon Nyilassy of artists and celebrating Roger D. Moore Lenore Jane Wilson in memory of Canada’s wealth of talent. Colleen Sexsmith Ruth McCreery $1,000,000 Peter M. Deeb

Canadian Opera Foundation Securing the future and long-term vitality of the Canadian Opera Company through visionary, permanent investments

$2,000,000 + John A. Cook John B. Lawson, C.M. Q.C. Earlaine Collins in memory of Evelyn Ellen Elrick Anthony V. Mason Gerard H. Collins Estate of N. Faye Wood Rob & Penny Richards Free Concert Endowment Fund David E. Spiro Jerry & Geraldine Heffernan $100,000 – $249,999 Lilly Offenbach Strauss Estate of Isobel May Allen Amy & Claire Stewart $1,000,000 – $1,999,999 Frances V. Blue Janet Stubbs Dr. & Mrs. Larry M. Agranove Ruth Eileen Day Sun Life Financial Estate of Horst Dantz & Don Quick George & Kathy Dembroski TransCanada Corp. The Hon. Henry N. R. Jackman Estate of Marion Gertrude Farr Anonymous (1) The Henry White Kinnear Foundation Leonore Hetherington Roger D. Moore Helen Inch $25,000 – $49,999 Sheila K. Piercey Ruby Mercer Mrs. Leonard G. (Anne) Delicaet Michael V. & Wanda Plachta Edwin & Ann Mirvish Estate of Lynne Jeffrey Frances & Tim Price Estate of Howard Frederick Rock Marjorie & Roy Linden Frank and Emily Riddell Memorial Trust J. M. Doc Savage Cecilia M. Longstaffe George J. Zebrowski David Stanley-Porter Estate of Esther Jean Macdonald Mrs. Ruth E. Vanderslip Kenneth F. Read $500,000 – $999,999 Anonymous (5) Ann D. Sutton Ethel B. Jackson Anonymous (1) R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation $50,000 – $99,999 The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen The J.P. Bickell Foundation Canada Cultural Investment Foundation David Bowen Fund—Endowment Incentives Mr. Walter Carsen, O.C. $250,000 – $499,999 Dr. Rodney C. Ellis ARIAS: Canadian Opera Student Estate of Mildred H. M. Hamilton Development Fund John G. Hunter Ontario Arts Foundation Dr. Daphne Bell Michael & Linda Hutcheon

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 53 Individual Giving Annual Support GOLDEN CIRCLE Sue Mortimer in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Eric Belli-Bivar*** Clive Bennett Mortimer**** Tom Bogart & Kathy Tamaki** GOLD, $50,000 + Bernadette Murphy Dr. Jane Brissenden & Anne & Tony Arrell**** Peter M. Partridge**** Dr. Janet Roscoe**** In memory of Gerard H. Collins**** Mr. Johannes Pastor Mrs. Donna Brock*** Jerry & Geraldine Heffernan**** Frances & Tim Price**** Alice Burton*** The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Margaret Harriett Cameron**** Foundation**** Ms R. Raso**** Sharon & Howard Campbell** Jim & Christine Nicol Annie & Ian Sale* Dita Vadron & Jim Catty ** Colleen Sexsmith*** J. Allen Smith & Cesaroni Management Limited*** Katherine Megrue-Smith Neil Chander SILVER, $25,000 – $49,999 Philip & Maria Smith*** The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson* Stephen & Jane Smith**** Tony Comper** Mark & Gail Appel**** Marion & Gerald Soloway*** Mary and Bill Corcoran*** Barbara Black** David E. Spiro**** Bram & Beth Costin Philip Deck & Kimberley Bozak*** Françoise Sutton*** Lindy Cowan† & Chris Hatley*** Michael Gibbens & Julie Lassonde* Ryerson & Michele Symons Peter Deeb* Rennie & Bill Humphries**** Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen** Angelo & Carol DelZotto*** Ronald Kimel & Vanessa LaPerriere**** Ms Kristine Vikmanis & Carol Derk & David Giles** Susan Loube & William Acton** Mr. Denton Creighton**** Mrs. Shirley Diamond & Family**** Judy & Wilmot Matthews** Halina & Kurt von dem Hagen** Peter & Anne Dotsikas*** Jack Whiteside*** David Roffey & Karen Walsh**** Jeffrey Douglas Anonymous (2) The Youssef-Warren Foundation**** Dr. & Mrs. Dean G. Dover** Vreni & Marc Ducommun**** BRONZE, $12,500 – $24,999 Joseph Fantl & Moira Bartram** Dr. & Mrs. Hans G. Abromeit**** Darren Farwell Keith Ambachtsheer & PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Ms Lindsay Dale-Harris & Virginia Atkin**** Mr. Rupert Field-Marsham**** Ms Nora Aufreiter* TRUSTEE, $7,500 – $12,499 Margaret & David Fountain**** Paul Bernards*** Margaret Atwood & Graeme Gibson*** Susan Gerhard** Walter M. & Lisa Balfour Bowen**** Frank Ciccolini Sr.**** Deanna A. Gontard**** Mr. Philip J. Boswell**** Bud & Leigh Eisenberg*** David Gordon & Beth Greenblatt** Susanne Boyce & Brendan Mullen**** George Fierheller**** Michael & Anne Gough**** Marcia Lewis Brown* Andrew Fleming** Dr. Noëlle Grace & Helen Burstyn & Family Peter & Shelagh Godsoe*** The Shohet Family**** Stewart & Gina Burton** Chris Hoffmann & Joan Eakin** Ronald & Birgitte Granofsky**** Dr. John Chiu in memory of Dr. Joshua Josephson & Douglas & Ruth Grant* Yvonne Chiu, C.M.**** Ms Elaine Lewis**** John & Judith Grant** Stephen Clarke & Elizabeth Black** J. Hans Kluge** Ms Carol Gray The Max Clarkson Family Dr. Elizabeth Kocmur & John Groves & Vera Del Vecchio**** Foundation**** Mr. James C. Baillie**** George & Irene Hamilton**** J. Rob Collins & Janet Cottrelle**** Amy & John Macfarlane** Beverly Hargraft** Marilyn Cook** Frederick J. Marker & Anne W. Dupré Mr. Harquail & Dr. Sigfridsson** Ninalee Craig**** Jill Denham & Stephen Marshall** Hon. & Mrs. Paul Hellyer**** Jean Davidson & Paul Spafford**** Kathleen McLaughlin & Tim Costigan** Mr. David J. Hiebert & Catherine Fauquier**** Mr. Robert N. McMillan Dr. Paul E. Cooper David & Kristin Ferguson**** John & Esther McNeil**** Michiel Horn & Cornelia Schuh**** Lloyd & Gladys Fogler*** Dr. Judith A. Miller**** Ken Hugessen & Jennifer Connolly** Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts*** Bruce & Vladka Mitchell** Lorraine Kaake**** Robert Fung** Douglas L. Parker**** The Patrick & Barbara Keenan Ira Gluskin & Rob & Penny Richards*** Foundation**** Maxine Granovsky Gluskin*** Dr. David Shaw** James & Diane King** Dr. Eudice Goldberg* Barrie D. Rose, Karen Solomon and Michael & Sonja Koerner*** The Hon. William C. Graham & Family*** Kimberley Fobert & Robert Lamb†**** Mrs. Catherine Graham**** John & Ellen Spears**** Paul Lee & Jill Maynard**** Ethel Harris & the late Milton Harris**** Carol Swallow**** Mr. J. Levitt & Ms E. Mah** William & Nona Heaslip Foundation**** Wendy J. Thompson**** Marjorie & Roy Linden**** Mr. Peter Hinman & Mr. Jose A. Vizquerra & Peter H. Lunney* Ms Kristi Stangeland Mrs. Jessica Schwarz Peter & Jocelyn Luongo Douglas E. Hodgson**** Mr. Brian Wilks** James & Connie MacDougall**** Michael & Linda Hutcheon**** Helen Ziegler*** Mr. Jed MacKay**** Bernhard & Hannelore Kaeser**** Tom MacMillan**** Valarie Koziol* PATRON, $3,750 – $7,499 Mrs. J. L. Malcolm** Justin S. Linden* Sue Armstrong**** Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. McGillivray**** Jeff Lloyd & Barbara Henders** Philip Arthur & Mary Wilson** Paul & Jean McGrath**** Jerry & Joan Lozinski**** Ron Atkinson & Bruce Blandford**** Ronan McGrath & Sarah Perry* Ms Anne Maggisano Mona H. Bandeen, C.M.*** June McLean**** Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain*** Henk Bartelink in memory of Mr. Timothy McNicholas* John McVicker & B. W. Thomas**** Oskar & Irmgard Gaube*** Don McQueen & Trina McQueen O.C.*** Delia M. Moog*** Dr. Frank Bartoszek & Mr. Ian McWalter* Jonathan Morgan & Shurla Gittens** Mr. Daniel O’Brien**** Mr. Ulrich Menzefricke****

54 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 16_3626_FSCOR_COC_Support_Ad_FA_Outline.indd 1 2016-07-14 10:13 AM Dr. Alan C. Middleton*** Richard J. Balfour**** J. E. Fordyce**** Dr. M. L. Myers**** Annette Balgord Nick & Sally Forrest*** Matt & Debbie Mysak*** Alice & Tom Bastedo*** Robert & Julia Foster** Dr. Shirley C. Neuman*** Dr. Thomas H. Beechy**** Leslie Foster Eileen Patricia Newell*** Mr. N. Beilstein & Mr. A. Lee R. Dalton Fowler**** Dr. Emilie Newell** Ms Marie Bérard†**** Mrs. Ingrid Fratzl Sally-Ann Noznesky**** Nani & Austin Beutel**** Rev. Ivars Gaide & Simon Nyilassy** Dody Bienenstock*** Rev. Dr. Anita Gaide**** Janice Oliver*** John & Mandy Birch** Judy & David Galloway Julia & Liza Overs**** Douglas Birkenshaw and Mr. W. Bowen & Ms S. Gavinchuk**** Dr. & Mrs. William M. Park**** Ginger Sorbara Miss Ann J. Gibson**** John & Gwen Pattison** Anneliese and Walter Blackwell**** Aviva & Andrew Goldenberg*** Dr. Roger D. Pearce**** Ian & Janet Blue*** Dr. Fay Goldstep & John & Carol Peterson*** Howard & Caroline Booth Dr. George Freedman*** Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Mr. Christopher Bozek Ricardo Gomez-Insausti* Foundation Mrs. Carolyn Bradley-Hall & Tina & Michael Gooding**** June C. Pinkney**** Mr. William Bradley**** Wayne A. Gooding†**** Polk Family Charitable Fund** Mrs. Richard Bradshaw**** David & Wendy Flores-Gordon** Julian & Anna Porter Dr. David & Constance Briant**** Bryan Grant Margrit & Tony Rahilly**** Thomas J. Burton** Mr. Darryl Green Douglas L. Ludwig & Karen J. Rice*** Maureen Callahan & Douglas Gray*** Mr. Finn Greflund & Mrs. M. Ortner*** Margaret A. Riggin** Ken & Denise Cargill** Ellen & Simon Gulden**** Ms Sharon Cookie Sandler**** Brian & Ellen Carr**** Joyce Gutmann**** Helen & John Scott*** Gail Carson**** Dr. Albert J. Haddad & June Shaw & the late Drs. Carol & David Cass Mr. Rodney Rousseau Dr. Ralph Shaw**** Wendy M. Cecil**** Dan Hagler & Family*** David & Hilary Short**** Lee Chambers Mrs. Pamela Hallisey Hume Smith**** Prof. Alfred L. Chan & Mr. Adrian J. Hamel* Mr. Philip Somerville** Mr. Michael Farewell**** Paul & Natalie Hartman** Rosemary Speirs Dr. & Mrs. Albert Cheskes*** Maggie Hayes*** Dr. John Stanley & Mr. Amar Choksi Jacques & Elizabeth Helbronner**** Dr. Helmut Reichenbächer*** John D. Church* Dianne W. Henderson Wayne Stanley & Marina Pretorius** Dr. Howard M. Clarke**** William E. Hewitt*** David Stanley-Porter and Ms Jacqueline Code** Sally Holton**** Colin Mailer**** Edward Cole & Adrienne Hood*** Mr. Roland Hoy*** Doreen L. Stanton**** Brian Collins & Amanda Demers** Frances Humphreys in memory of James H. Stonehouse** Fred & Anne Conlin Anthony C. J. Humphreys**** Janet Stubbs†** Katherine Robb Corlett**** Peter & Hélène Hunt**** Ronald & Lee Till**** Dr. Lesley S. Corrin**** Mr. Sumant Inamdar** Ian Turner*** Gay & Derek Cowbourne*** Dr. Melvyn L. Iscove**** Sandra & Guy Upjohn*** Mary & John Crocker**** Elliott Jacobson & Judy Malkin** Dita Vadron & Jim Catty** Ruth & John Crow*** Laurence Jewell*** Edmond & Sylvia Vanhaverbeke**** Greg Cumming & Bianca Marcus*** The Norman & Margaret Jewison Donald & Margaret Walter**** Mary Beth Currie & Jeff Rintoul Charitable Foundation**** Hugh & Colleen Washington*** Carrol Anne Curry**** Asma Jinnah Ruth Watts-Gransden**** Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Dan**** Ms Elizabeth Johnson*** Virginia Wesson*** Mr. Stuart Davidson* Dr. Albert & Bette Johnston** Ms Lilly Wong** Dr. & Mrs. Michael & Ute Davis*** George & Ann Kadrnka Mrs. Richard Wookey**** Brian J. Dawson*** Miriam Kagan Linda Young* Jayne & Ted Dawson**** H. L. Katarynych*** Susan Zorzi*** Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Diamond** Dr. Joel Keenleyside**** Anonymous (6) J. DiGiovanni** Claire M. C. Kennedy Dr. John H. Dirks Ms. Kristina Kerr MEMBER, $2,250 – $3,749 Sandra Z. Doblinger** Inta Kierans**** D. C. Adamson-Brdar**** Ms Petrina Dolby*** Thea Herman & Gregory King**** Joan H. Addison Mr. Steven D. Donohoe**** Ellen & Hermann Kircher**** Donna & Lorne Albaum*** Mrs. Sharon Dowdal William & Eva Krangle**** Mr. & Mrs. Roberto & Nancy Albis**** Dr. James & Mrs. Ellen Downey** Peter W. Lamb & Veronica Tennant Mr. Thomas & Mrs. Claire Allen*** Ms Jill Presser & Mr. John Duffy** Elizabeth & Goulding Lambert**** Clive & Barbara Allen**** Marko Duic & Gabriel Lau**** Jo Lander**** Dr. D. Amato & Ms J. Hodges**** Dr. Alicia Dunlop* Mr. Philip Lanouette** Louis Amato-Gauci & David Hopley Mr. Albert D. Dunn** M. J. Horsfall Large*** Mr. Mark Andrews William & Gwenda Echard**** John B. Lawson, C.M. Q.C.**** Stephanie, Kate & Jean Patterson Edwards** Dr. Connie Lee**** Anne-Marie H. Applin**** Wendy & Elliott Eisen**** Neal & Dominique Lee*** Ms. Valerie Armstrong Jordan Elliott & Lynne Griffin* Alexander & Anna Leggatt**** Gail Asper, O.C., O.M., L.L.D. & Robert Elliott & Paul Wilson*** Martin & Raja Leistner Michael Paterson Christoph Emmrich & Srilata Raman Joy Levine**** Mr. Jeff Axelrod & Dr. John Goodhew George A. Farkass** Mr. Peter Levitt & Ms Mai Why*** K. R. I. Bailey** Catherine Fauquier**** Leanne & George Lewis John Bailey*** Bill Fearn & Claudia Rogers**** L. Liivamagi & Dr. D. N. Cash* Marilyn & Charles Baillie**** Lee & Shannon Ferrier**** Dr. & Mrs. W. G. Lindley**** Andrew & Cornelia Baines**** William & Rosemary Fillmore*** Janet & Sid Lindsay**** Janice A. Baker**** Goshka Folda* Anthony Lisanti****

56 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Tom C. Logan** Janet Rieksts-Alderman Examine Ms Hope Elizabeth Anna Clement Dr. Vance Logan**** Consultants Canada Mr. James Hamilton** Mr. Huston Loke Ms Nada Ristich* Roy & Gail Harrison**** Jonathan & Dorothea Lovat Dickson*** Emily & Fred Rizner*** Mr. Kazik Jedrzejczak**** Dr. Jan Lusis**** Clara Robert** Mr. Mikk Jerkavits Dr. & Mrs. Richard Mackenzie**** J. E. Robinson Dr. Paul & Mrs. Marcia Kavanagh Macro Properties Ltd.*** In Memory of John & Norma Rogers Robin Korthals & Janet Charlton** Dr. & Mrs. M. A. Manuel** Dr. Michael & Mary Romeo**** P. Anne Mackay**** Mr. & Mrs. R. Gordon Marantz**** Rainer & Sharyn Rothfuss**** Janina Milisiewicz**** Roberto Mauro† & Erin Wall† Ms. Veronika Roux-Vlachova Dr. Kevin Morse Mrs. Ettore Mazzoleni*** Mallory Morris Sartz & John Sartz**** Mrs. Sara Nixon Don McLean & Diane Martello* David Schauer Annette Oelbaum* Diane McArthur Fred & Mary Schulz** Drs. Elizabeth & Norbert Perera**** Georgina McLennan**** Carol Seifert & Bruno Tesan*** Andy Pringle* M. E. McLeod**** Robert & Geraldine Sharpe**** Mrs. Gertrude Rosenthal**** Shawn McReynolds & Elaine Kierans** Allan & Helaine Shiff**** Mr. Anthony Rubin**** Eva Innes & David Medhurst** Dr. Bernie & Mrs. Bobbie Silverman*** David Smukler & Patricia Kern*** Dr. Don Melady & Rod & Christina Simpson Dr. J. H. Tait** Mr. Rowley Mossop*** Alan Sinclair Ms Ruth Thornbury Pauline Menkes Helen Sinclair & Paul Cantor Eileen Mercier**** Ms Joan Sinclair*** ASSOCIATE FRIENDS Ms Theresa Mersky Mr. Keith & Mrs. Dorothy Sjögren $1,150 – $1,749 Mrs Cornelia Mews In memory of Dr. Bernard Slatt** Michael & Janet Barnard*** Ms Elizabeth Paton Miller* Jay Smith & Laura Rapp** Michael Benedict & Martha Lowrie**** Patricia & Frank Mills*** Dr. Harley Smyth & Ellen & Murray Blankstein* Dr. & Mrs. Steven Millward** Carolyn McIntire Smyth** Darlene & Peter Blenich** Dr. Judy Miner Dr. Joseph So**** James E. Brown*** Florence Minz The Sorbara Group of Companies**** Theresa & John Caldwell**** Audrey & David Mirvish*** Cameron Rusaw & Anne-Marie Sorrenti Patricia Clarke** Varqa Mirzaagha Martha E. Spears**** Sylvain Crozon* Dr. David N. Mitchell & F.E.A. Specht**** Mr. Darren Day**** Dr. Susan M. Till**** Ms Gillian Stacey Howard & Kathrine Eckler*** Mr. Donald Mitchell* R Paul Steep & Anne McNeilly** Mr. Anthony Georges Mr. Robert Morassutti**** Oksana R. Stein**** Georgia & Stephen Gerring** Alice Janet Morgan**** John D. Stevenson**** Alison Girling & Paul Schabas*** Ms Rosalind Morrow*** Martin Stone Les & Marion Green**** Gael Mourant & Caroline Hubberstey* Mr Philip Street & Ms Vanessa Grant Mr. Carmen & Mrs. Vittoria Guglietti*** Mr. Noel Mowat** Dr. David Surplis Ms Alison Harvison Young & Professor David J. Murray*** Dr. William Siegel & Mr. Herman J. Wilton-Siegel** David & Mary Neelands*** Margaret Swaine*** Sylvie Hatch**** Dr. Steven Nitzkin**** Anna Talenti**** David Holdsworth & Nicole Senécal** James Norcop** Eric Tang & Dr. James Miller*** Richard & Susan Horner**** Donald O’Born*** Tesari Charitable Foundation** Dr. Ivan & Mrs. Diana Hronsky**** Dr. James & Mrs. Valda Oestreicher*** Elizabeth Tory**** In Memory of Patricia Johnson Emile Oliana & Alvin Iu**** Mr. Alex Tosheff** Alanne & David Kee** Mr. Ashkan Omidi Vernon & Beryl Turner**** Ms Suanne Kelman and Martin & Myrna Ossip** Dory Vanderhoof & Rosalind Bell**** Dr. Allan J. Fox** Eileen & Ralph Overend** Dr. Yvonne Verbeeten*** Mr. & Mrs. I. P. & O. M. Komarnicky*** Sherrill Owen Mr. Sam Virgilio Alan & Marti Latta**** Clarence & Mary Pace*** Karen & Thomas Von Hahn Mr. Tom Le Seelleur*** Dr. & Mrs. N. Pairaudeau**** Dr. Helen Vosu & Donald Milner**** Andrew & Harriet Lyons Richard A. R. Paradiso+ Elizabeth & Michael Walker**** Mrs. Janet Maggiacomo*** Gail Asper and Michael Paterson Ted & Erica Warkentin Mary McClymont**** Barbara & Peter Pauly** Melanie Whitehead*** Mr. Carl Morey**** Dr. A. Angus Peller** Frank Whittaker** Sean O’Neill & Victoria Cowling**** John & Penelope Pepperell** Elizabeth Wilson & Ian Montagnes**** Mr. Vlad Ovchinnikov & Dr. R. G. Perrin** Ms Durhane Wong-Rieger Mrs. Lesia Menchynska* Linda Lee & Michael Pharoah**** John Wright & Chung-Wai Chow** Mervyn Pickering Robin B. Pitcher**** Dr. Jackson Wu & Dr. Viviana Chang** Ms Victoria Pinnington*** Wanda Plachta**** Ms June Yee*** Dr. Peter Ray**** Mr. & Mrs. Domenic Porporo** Morden Yolles**** Dr. Shelley Rechner**** Mary Jean & Frank Potter*** Carole & Bernie Zucker*** Mr. Michael Samborsky*** Georgia Prassas**** Anonymous (20) Ms Elisabeth Scarff**** Dr. Mark Quigley**** Helga & Klaus Stegemann**** Dr. Linda Rabeneck & Norma & George Steiner**** Dr. Catherine Campbell FRIENDS OF THE COC Ms Peg Thoen** Margrit & Tony Rahilly**** Mr. Robert P. Tomas and Stephen Ralls & Bruce Ubukata**** SUSTAINING FRIENDS Dr. Allan Peterkin* Carol & Morton Rapp**** $1,750 – $2,249 Mr. & Mrs. David G. Trent**** Dr. Reza Rastegar Carol & Ernest Albright**** Mr. Takahiro Yamanaka Grant L. Reuber**** Murray & Judy Bryant*** Anonymous (2) Mrs. Gabrielle Richards*** Iivi Campbell**** Carolyn Ricketts**** Geoffrey & Bilgi Chapman****

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 57 CONTRIBUTING FRIENDS Gerda Marz Estate of Isobel May Allen $750 – $1,149 Jil McIntosh*** Ms Sandra Alston Sean Adams Sylvia M. McPhee**** Estate of John H. Anderson Nancy and Arthur Ameis Charitable Ingrid & Daniel Mida* Ms Ann Andrusyszyn Fund*** Kamini & Lynne Milnes* Callie Archer Leila Appleford*** Dr. Judy Miner Renata Arens & Elizabeth Frey Dr. I. L. Babb Fund at the Toronto John Mogan* Mrs. Rosalen Armstrong Community Foundation**** James & Mary Morgan* Tony & Anne Arrell In memory of M. Baptista*** Peter Naylor* Ron Atkinson & Bruce Blandford Alyson Barnett Cowan*** Karen Olinyk†** Mr. L. H. Bartelink Karen & Bill Barnett* Joan Pape**** David K. Bernhardt Ms Vernis Barnwell*** Dr. Wadermar A. Pieczonka**** J. Linden Best & James G. Kerr Peter & Leslie Barton*** Ed & Beth Price**** Mr. Philip J. Boswell Mrs. Lynn Bayer*** Robert Radke Estate of David Bowen Jeniva Berger**** Ms Cecille Ratney**** Marnie M. Bracht Mr. Spencer Bibby* Juta Reed** Estate of Shirley Anne Braithwaite Don Biderman**** Guylaine Rheault-Oliver* Gregory Brandt M. I. Bohn* Ms Virginia Robeson** Ms Cindy Breslin-Carere Staunton St. C. M. Bowen Gordon Robison & David Grant** Marcia Lewis Brown Gabrielle and Karina Bray Joe & Diane Rosenthal in memory*** Brian Bucknall & Mary Jane Mossman R + J Burkholder** Robert & Dorothy Ross**** Estate of Edith Chapman Ms Judith Burrows*** Janice and Paul Sabourin Mrs. Ann Christie Mr. & Mrs. George Butterfield** Amye & DeeAnn Hagler Sagar† Earl Clark Dr. Barbara Caffery Patti & Richard Schabas*** Stephen Clarke & Elizabeth Black Mr. Bill Cameron** Valerie Schweritzer & Chris Reed**** The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson Betty Carlyle**** Marlene Pollock Sheff** Brian Collins & Amanda Demers Mark Cestnik & Natercia Sousa**** Mr. Peter W. Skoggard Earlaine Collins Dr. Wendy C. Chan* Kevin and Sabine Smart In Memory of John A. Cook Dr. Paul & Mrs. Joyce Chapnick** Donald A. Smith*** David H. Cormack Joe T. R. Clarke**** Mrs. Pamela Smith**** Ninalee Craig William Cowan & Elodie Fourquet*** John Spears and Elisabeth Marsden**** Estate of Jean Croggon Mrs. Heather Craigie Dr. & Mrs. W. K. Stavraky*** Anita Day & Robert McDonald Anita Day Pavel and Vera Straka*** Ruth Eileen Day Mr. Stephen F. Dineley & Piano Synergy (Dr. Ruslan Sviridov & Ann De Brouwer Ms Penelope Rose*** Dr. Irina Khovanskaya) Estate of Anne Margaret Delicaet Mr. Michael Disney** Terry S. Tator*** Helen Drake Olwen & Frank Dixon*** Ms Laura Trachuk & Mr. Martin Katz* Yvonne Earle Ms Eleanor L. Ellins**** Ms Laurie Ubben Estate of Philipp Eberhardinger Joe & Helen Feldmann*** Dr. Peter Voore**** Estate of Evelyn Ellen Elrick Margaret & Jim Fleck* Dr. Leonard Waverman and Estate of Marion Gertrude Farr Ms Rosario Flores* Dr. Eva Klein David & Kristin Ferguson Jennifer & Frank Flower**** Peter Webb & Joan York**** Carol Fordyce Angelo Furgiuele & Family* Mr. John M. Welch**** Rowland Galbraith Hugh Furneaux**** In Memory of Victoria Woods** Douglas G. Gardner Dr. Hugh Gayler & Ms Eileen Martin**** Zorzella Family Susan Gerhard Mr. M. Gerwin & Mrs. J. Rutledge** Anonymous (6) Ann J. Gibson Ms Julianna A. Greenspan Estate of Evelyn M. Glendenning Ms Cathryn Gregor**** Tina & Michael Gooding Dr. & Mrs. Voldemars Gulens**** The Encore Legacy Michael & Anne Gough Donald I. F. Graham Dr. & Mrs. Brian & Cynthia Hands**** The Encore Legacy is the planned Colin Gruchy Sandra Hausman*** giving program of the Canadian Opera Donald Gutteridge and Anne Millar W. L. B. Heath**** Company. In memory of Pauline Hinch** David G. Hallman George & Irene Hamilton Dr. Elizabeth Hodby* Planned giving is making the decision Estate of Mildred Helen Margaret Nigel & Bridget Hodges**** today to provide a gift for the Hamilton Richard & Donna Holbrook**** Canadian Opera Company that may Joan L. Harris Mr. Josef Hrdina** not be realized until after your lifetime. James Hughes*** Estate of Helen Kathleen Harrop Estate of Leonore Hetherington Margaret and Chris Ibey**** Gifts planned today, that will ultimately William E. Hewitt Mai Kirch**** affect your estate, allow you to make a James Hewson Dr. & Mrs. L. A. Kitchell**** statement of support that will become Mr. Kim Yim Ho & Christopher Kowal* a lasting legacy to the COC. Dr. Milos Krajny**** Walter Frederic Thommen Douglas E. Hodgson Mr. James R. Lake**** The Canadian Opera Company Estate of Egon Homburger Harry Lane*** gratefully acknowledges and thanks Estate of Mrs. Lucie Homburger Mr. Darcy Latremouille the following individuals who have Michiel Horn Giles le Riche & Rosemary Polczer*** included the COC in their estate Matt Hughes Claus & Heather Lenk*** planning: Yakov Lerner†* Michael & Linda Hutcheon Elaine Iannuzziello John & Michele Lewis Marie Agay Estate of Helen Inch Susan Lockwood* Susan Agranove & Estate of Dr. Ingrid Jarvis Gil & Dorota Lorenson Dr. Larry M. Agranove Lynne Jeffrey Dr. Francois Loubert** Ken R. Alexander Mary P. MacLean**** Estate of Mr. Gordon Cecil Johnson

58 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 Ann Kadrnka Estate of Maneck Khurshed Sanjana MEMORIAL AND Estate of Betty Kalmanasch J. M. Doc Savage Estate of Barbara Lynn Kelsey Estate of Norma Yvonne Sawden HONORARY DONATIONS Ben Kizemchuk Estate of Helen F. H. Schaller The COC expresses its sincere Estate of Henri Kolin Fred & Mary Schulz appreciation to all donors who Kathryn Kossow John & Helen Scott have made memorial and honorary Estate of Borge John Kraglund Colleen Sexsmith donations. Estate of Helen Lazier Claire Shaw Jo Lander June Shaw, in memory of In Memory of Peggy Lau Dr. Ralph Shaw Henk Bartelink Marjorie & Roy Linden R. Bonnie Shettler Ninalee Craig Tom C. Logan, A.R.C.T. Dr. Joseph So Louise Goldring Estate of Esther Jean Macdonald William Siegel & Margaret Swaine Marta Marton Ms Lenore MacDonald Paul Spafford Victor McCaffrey Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Mackenzie David E. Spiro Ruth McCreery Estate of Eluned MacMillan Estate of Helen Kathleen Allen Stacey John McNeil Dr. Colin M. Mailer Dr. D. P. Stanley-Porter Johanna Metcalf Estate of Pauline Mandsohn Doreen L. Stanton Emily Rankin R. Manke Drs. W. & K. Stavraky Grant Reuber Estate of William Allan Henry Manula Estate of James Drewry Stewart Juan Rodriguez Tim & Jane Marlatt The Stratton Trust Elizabeth Strathdee Mr. Shawn Martin Lilly Offenbach Strauss Ernie Zucker Estate of Anthony V. Mason Janet Stubbs† Margaret McKee Ann D. Sutton In Honour of Sylvia M. McPhee Ronald Taber Tony and Anne Arrell John McVicker & B. W. Thomas Susanne Tabur Earlaine Collins Dr. Alan C. Middleton Wendy J. Thompson Vance Logan Eleanor Miller Mrs. Ann C. Timpson William and Nona Park Sigmund & Elaine Mintz Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen Donald Morse Dita Vadron & Jim Catty Sue Mortimer Tony & Mary van Straubenzee Roald Nasgaard & Lori Walters N. Suzanne Vanstone Corporate Mr. & Mrs. James D. Patterson Marie-Laure Wagner Mervyn Pickering Estate of Jeanie Irwin Walker Matching Partners Gunther & Dorothy Piepke Hugh & Colleen Washington The Canadian Opera Company Wanda Plachta William R. Waters gratefully acknowledges the following Frank Potter Estate of Harris Wetstein organizations that have matched gifts Mary Jean Potter Brian Wilks by their employees: Ms Georgia Prassas Mr. Leonard J. Willschick K. F. Read Estate of Marion Caroline Wilson Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. Dr. John Reeve-Newson Estate of Mary Louise Wratten Canadian Tire Corporation Limited Florence Richler Estate of Jean Elizabeth Yack Wright IBM Canada Inc. Estate of Howard Frederick Rock Estate of Nancy Faye Wood John & Norma Rogers Marion York Mrs. Margaret Russell Tricia Younger Sharon Ryman† Estate of Susan Zador Paul Sabourin in memory of Estate of George Zebrowski Lynne Jeffrey Anonymous (43) Cookie & Stephen Sandler

The above Individual Support Gifts were made as of August 27, 2018. * five to nine years of support ** 10 to 14 years of support *** 15 to 19 years of support **** 20 or more years of support † COC administration, chorus or orchestra member ‡ Endowment Despite the staff’s extensive efforts to avoid errors and omissions, mistakes can occur. If your name was omitted, listed incorrectly or misspelled, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We would appreciate being notified of any errors at 416-847-4949.

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 59 2018/2019 CORPORATE SPONSORS AND FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS

Presenting Sponsor, Opera Under 30, Operanation, and Centre Stage

Supporter of Ensemble Studio Presenting Sponsor of Official Canadian Wine and Centre Stage Share the Opera of the COC at the FSCPA

Production Sponsor Verdi’s Otello Production Sponsor

Presenting Sponsor After School Opera Program & Summer Opera Camps Artist Hosting Partner

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT The Canadian Opera Company gratefully acknowledges the generous support through operating grants from these government agencies and departments:

OPERATING ENSEMBLE STUDIO AND SUPPORT ENDOWMENT SUPPORT

an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario

SPECIAL PROJECT FUNDING For many programs and special initiatives undertaken each year by the Canadian Opera Company, we gratefully acknowledge project funding from:

Employment and Social Development Canada Ontario Arts Council

60 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 $100,000 + $1,000 - $2,499 Contributing Sponsors The Slaight Family Foundation Conam Charitable Foundation KSV Advisory Gill Ratcliffe Foundation Torys LLP $50,000 – $99,999 Jarvis & Associates The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Judith Teller Foundation Artist Supporter Foundation K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation The Drake Chair-man Mills Inc. O’Shanter Development Company The Hal Jackman Foundation at the The Powis Family Foundation Event Sponsors Ontario Arts Foundation Anonymous Aperol BT/A $10,000 – $49,999 HOSTING SPONSORS Campari Canada Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Drake One Fifty Chair-man Mills Corp. Foundation Nota Bene Restaurant FASHION Magazine The Azrieli Foundation Faulhaber Communications Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Mill Street Brewery Burgundy Asset Management Limited CENTRE STAGE GALA 2017 Nestle Waters Canada Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Perrier Goldman Sachs Platinum Supporter Pink Twig Great-West Life Assurance Company RBC Capital Markets Ryan Emberley Photography Jackman Foundation Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto Linden & Associates Opera Under 30 Sponsor Spirit of York Distillery Co. The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation TD 10tation Event Catering McCarthy Tetrault Toronto Life The Mclean Foundation Competition Supporter Trius Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Hal Jackman Foundation Wellington Printworks Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP PwC Gold Sponsors Shangri-La hotel, Toronto Brookfield Asset Management FINE WINE AUCTION 2018 Tesari Charitable Foundation Gluskin Sheff & Associates Vida Peene Fund at the Canada Scotiabank Presenting Sponsor Council for the Arts Graywood Developments Anonymous (1) OPERANATI0N 2018 Supporting Sponsors $5,000 – $9,999 Donnelly Financial Solutions The Hope Charitable Foundation Presented by Geoffrey Pennal of CIBC Wood Gundy JMV Food Services Ltd. TD Bank Group Local 58 Charitable Benefit Fund Official Storage Supplier for the COC Mill Street Brewery VIP Dinner Sponsor Fine Wine Auction Shinex Window Cleaning Inc. Cartier Iron Gate – Private Wine Management Unit Park Holdings Inc. Partnering Sponsor Event Sponsors $2,500 – $4,999 Burgundy Asset Management 10tation Event Catering Hicks Memorial Fund at the Calgary The Cheese Boutique Foundation Supporting Sponsor Nadège Ernst & Young Stephen Ranger Toronto Life Waddingtons Wine & Spirit Education Trust Woodman Wines & Spirits

PHOTO CREDITS FRONT COVER: photo: COC, 2018. PAGES 4, 6, 9, 11: photos: Todd Rosenberg. PAGE 14: Gerry Egan (former COC Scheduling Assistant) and Shawn Molko (COC Event Staff): photo: Gaetz Photography. PAGES 16, 20, 21, 23: photos: Gaetz Photography. PAGE 25 (left): photo courtesy of Gillian Steinhardt; (right): photo: Lucia Graca. PAGE 26: photo: Gaetz Photography. PAGES 32 & 33: photos 1, 5, 6, 7, 11: Gaetz Photography; 2: photo: Ryan Emberley; photos 3, 4, 9, 10: COC; photo 8: Dan Truong. PAGE 34: photo: Gaetz Photography. PAGE 35 (clockwise from top left): photos by: Dave Cox; COC; Gaetz Photography; Dave Cox; Gaetz Photography; COC. PAGES 38 to 40: photos: Gaetz Photography. PAGE 42: production photos: Don Lee. PAGES 43 & 44: photos: Darry Block Photography. PAGE 47: photo: Institute for Canadian Citizenship/Alyssa K. Faoro. PAGE 48: photo: Karen E. Reeves. PAGE 51: COC. PAGE 63: photo: Joey Lopez.

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LATECOMERS In the interest of safety and for the comfort of GO SCENT FREE all patrons and performers, latecomers may not In consideration of patrons with allergies, enter the auditorium or be seated unless there please avoid wearing perfumed beauty is a suitable break in the performance (usually products and fragrances. intermission). Patrons leaving the auditorium during the performance or returning late after intermission may not be readmitted. COAT AND PARCEL CHECK To uphold the safety of the building, oversized FOOD AND BEVERAGE bags and parcels may be prohibited from Outside food and beverages are prohibited entering R. Fraser Elliott Hall. Patrons from entering the Four Seasons Centre. attending COC performances may be offered Food and beverages are not allowed in the complimentary parcel check. Coat check is auditorium. located in the Lower Lobby, where the following services are also available: booster seats, back RECORDINGS supports, infrared hearing-assistive devices and Patrons consent to appear in recorded material rental of binoculars, on a first-come, first-served by attending FSC performances/events. basis. OBJECTIONABLE BEHAVIOUR NOISE ETIQUETTE Management reserves the right to refuse Patrons are reminded that R. Fraser Elliott Hall admission without refund, and expel from is an extremely lively auditorium and that all the premises, any person whose presence or audience noise will be accentuated and audible conduct is deemed objectionable. to other patrons. Turn off all electronic devices, avoid talking, coughing, humming, moving CHILDREN AND BABES-IN-ARMS loose seats, kicking the backs of seats, rustling All patrons, including children, must have a programs, and unwrapping candies or cough ticket for the performance. All children must drops. Please remain in your seat until the be seated next to an accompanying adult. performance has completely ended and the Young children should be able to sit quietly house lights have been turned on. throughout the performance. If unable to do so, children and their accompanying adult will be ELECTRONIC DEVICES asked to leave the auditorium. Babes-in-arms The use of mobile and smartphones and all will not be admitted. other electronic devices is extremely disruptive and is strictly prohibited during performances. MEDICAL EMERGENCIES AND FIRST AID If a patron has an emergency and needs to A house doctor is present at all performances. be contacted during a performance, he or she Please contact an usher if medical services are should contact Patron Services for assistance required. before the performance. LOST AND FOUND CAMERAS/RECORDING DEVICES During performances please speak with an Please feel free to take selfies and videos at the usher or visit Patron Services at the Coat Check opera house — it’s a breathtaking space — in the Lower Lobby. Following performances, and share on social by tagging us please e-mail [email protected] or call (@canadianopera) and using our show 416-342-5200 for information. hashtags (#COCOnegin and #COCHadrian). However, no pictures, video or sound recordings are permitted during the performance.

62 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 2018/2019 PARKING There is parking on a first-come, first- TICKET SERVICES served basis for about 200 vehicles underneath the Four Seasons Centre. Canadian Opera Company subscriptions and The entrance is located on the west side individual tickets are available through COC Ticket of York Street, south of Queen Street. Services: Additional parking is conveniently located just steps away in the Green P ONLINE: coc.ca lot underneath Nathan Phillips Square. For directions visit greenp.com. BY PHONE: 416-363-8231 or long distance 1-800-250-4653 FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FACILITY Monday to Friday – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. TOURS Tours of the Four Seasons Saturday – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Centre include backstage access! Sunday (performance days only) – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, visit fourseasonscentre.ca. IN PERSON: Four Seasons Centre Box Office PRE-PERFORMANCE OPERA CHATS 145 Queen St. W. COC Education and Outreach staff and Monday to Friday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. guest speakers offer free, insightful Saturday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. chats about the stories, music and Sunday (performance days only): 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. background of all COC productions, 45 minutes prior to each performance in the Hours are extended to the end of the first Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Doors intermission on performance days. open one hour before each performance. Seating is limited and available on a first- EMAIL INQUIRIES: [email protected] come, first served basis. Please join the line-up early to avoid disappointment. The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Box Office also services ticketing needs for SPECIAL EVENTS AND CATERING The National Ballet of Canada and all other Four The Four Seasons Centre is available Seasons Centre events. for rental for all of your presentation, meeting or special events needs, GROUP SALES Groups of 10 or more enjoy savings with spaces accommodating from on regular individual ticket prices. 20 to 2,000 people and full catering For more information or to reserve seats, email services. For further details visit [email protected] or call 416-306-2356. fourseasonscentre.ca or call 416-342-5233.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE We are pleased to offer, for the convenience of all our patrons, a pre-order system for intermission purchases for all COC performances. Place your intermission pre- order at any bar before the performance begins, to decrease your wait time during intermission. Bars are located throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room’s many levels. Food and beverages are not permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall.

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