Composer: , Libretto: Alasdair Middleton Based on the novel by

Conductor: Sandra Horst Director: Tim Albery Set Design: Michelle Tracey Costume Design: Lisa Magill Lighting and Video Design: Wesley McKenzie Surtitles™: John Sharpe Stage Manager: Kristin McCollum* Assistant Conductor: Kate Carver Assistant Director: Mario Pacheco Assistant Stage Manager: Ardavan Taraporewala Répétiteurs: Brandon Tran, Benjamin Zsoldos

Additional support for new costumes generously provided by Sheila Waengler.

The opening night performance is generously supported by a gift from the estate of Morton Greenberg.

*By permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association

The Faculty of Music is a partner of the Bloor St. Culture Corridor bloorstculturecorridor.com On composing Mansfield Park

When I first read Mansfield Park, some 30 years ago, I heard music. That doesn’t always happen when I read, and it certainly didn’t happen with Jane Austen’s other novels. But there’s something about this particular book that provoked musical ideas.

Of course, music is often involved in Austen’s stories: there are dances and private concerts, many of her heroines play the (as did Jane Austen herself) and some of them sing. In Mansfield Park, ’s opponent Mary Crawford plays that dangerously romantic instrument, the harp.

But while I was reading the novel, what elicited music was not the literal presence of instruments in the story, but something beneath the surface. I think it was the way the heroine, Fanny Price, so often suffers in silence. There are clues to her feelings, but unlike the lively Emma Woodhouse, or the high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet, she does not express them. Her reticence invited music, as a way of revealing those hidden emotions.

Two scenes particularly stood out as especially poignant, and musical. Fanny’s beloved Edmund is distracted and entranced by Mary Crawford, but one evening he joins Fanny to gaze out of the window at the stars. Fanny is overjoyed to be reunited with him – but then Mary Crawford starts to sing, and Edmund is drawn back to her, away from the window where Fanny now stands alone, looking out at the stars. This follows a scene where Fanny helplessly watches Edmund going off into a wilderness with Mary Crawford, leaving Fanny alone in silent suffering.

These scenes have haunted me for years: Fanny’s pained silences gave me the impulse to write music for her and I began to think about a Mansfield Park . I wrote it first with a two piano accompaniment, and later for a little chamber orchestra, with a piano still playing a prominent role, but using all the instrumental colours of the period.

Program note written by composer Jonathan Dove. CAST Mar 12/14 Mar 13/15

Fanny Price Renee Fajardo Renee Fajardo Lady Bertram Alexandra Fee Alexandra Fee Sir Adam Kuiack Alex Halliday Saige Carlson Mélissa Danis Julia Bertram Lindsay Connolly Lindsay Connolly Korin Thomas-Smith Parker Clements Aunt Norris Julianna Krajčovič Sacha Smith Mary Crawford Midori Marsh Maeve Palmer River Guard River Guard Mr. Rushworth Elias Theocharidis Elias Theocharidis

There will be one intermission of 20 minutes after Act 1.

UNDERSTUDIES

Fanny Price Alessia Vitali Lady Bertram Maria Milenic Julia Bertram Danielle Nicholson Edmund Bertram Nicholas Higgs Henry Crawford Angelo Moretti Mr. Rushworth David Walsh

SURTITLES™ invented at the Canadian Opera Company in 1983 and introduced worldwide with their production of Elektra by Richard Strauss

Please note that photography and recording are strictly prohibited during the performance. Kindly turn off all electronic devices as a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons. MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Violin I /English Jamie Godber, Ciara Wheeler concertmaster Violin II Marco De Conno Hannah Corbett Viola Michael Quigley Samuel Edwards Horn I Cello Paolo Rosselli Michelle Liu Horn II Double Bass Noah Hawryluck Shaun Rogers Percussion Flute/Piccolo Alland Gordon Fry IV Karen Chiang

Coming up

Parlami d’Amore (Speak to me of love) Friday, March 27 at 5 pm | Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park

Drawing upon operatic repertory of three centuries, Parlami d’Amore captivatingly explores aspects of love promised, fulfilled and betrayed. Following the staged performance in Walter Hall, the audience will have a chance to mingle with the Artists of U of T Opera over tea and pastries in the Geiger-Torel Room.

$20, $10 student

U of T students admitted free with a valid TCard, space permitting.

TICKETS: music.utoronto.ca or call 416-408-0208

Made possible in part by a generous gift from Earlaine Collins. U OF T OPERA AT THE FACULTY OF MUSIC

Sandra Horst Director of Musical Studies Michael Patrick Albano Resident Stage Director

Russell Braun Resident Operatic Specialist Wendy Nielsen, Steven Philcox, Laura Tucker, Daniel Taylor, Andrea Grant, Rachel Andrist, Kate Carver, Susan Black Music Coaching Jason Nedecky Diction Anna Theodosakis Movement Christina Bell Scheduling and Administration

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Cover artwork: Elias Theocharidis

PRODUCTION

Ian Albright Technical Director, MacMillan Theatre Les Stockley Technical Assistant Ross Hammond Production Assistant Lisa Magill Head of Wardrobe Julia Helms Wardrobe Assistant James Bolton Hair and Makeup Artist Andrew McTaggart Head Carpenter Susanna Feng Scenic Artist Marie Gravelle Head Props

Karen Wiseman Librarian, Performance Collection CONTINUO The Opera Division is grateful to the many donors who support us. We are pleased to acknowledge those donors who have made annual gifts of $500 or more between July 1, 2018 and March 1, 2020:

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