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MICHIGAN OUTREACH & EDUCATION OPERA THEATRE 46 Community Programs 5 Board of Directors and Trustees 9 Administration and Staff ON STAGE 15 The Barber of Seville CAMPAIGN INFORMATION by Giaocchino Rossini 10 Detroit Opera House 18 Figaro here, Figaro there New Century Fund Photo story researched by Timothy Paul Lentz CONTRIBUTORS 20 The Cast 43 New Century Fund Contributors 23 Werther 49 Michigan Opera Theatre by Jules Massenet Contributors 25 The Cast 26 On Suicide and Other Silly Fashions by Dayana Steteo 28 The Discreet Charm of Jules Massenet by Henry Prunieres

31 Ballet Hispanico

ORCHESTRA & CHORUS 41 Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra and Chorus

DETROIT OPERA HOUSE 56 Detroit Opera House Information

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ichigan Opera Theatre's 1998-99 Season W~ look forward to seeing you in the spring as MOT was an undeniable success. Our quest for continues its exciting journey presenting two incredible M artistic excellence reached yet another level operas never before seen on our stage - Der resulting in stellar productions, critical accolades and Rasenkavalier and Peter Grimes. Puccini's powerful sold-out houses. In some cases, we needed to increase and moving Tasca rounds out the spring season with the number of performances to accommodate our sopranos Sylvie Valayre and Amy Johnson singing the growing audience. As if all this momentum weren't role of Tosca and the return of MOT favorites Marcello enough, along came Jose, Placido and Luciano. Giordani and Ian DeNolfo alternating in the role of The Three Tenors concert launched MOT's New Cavaradossi. Century Fund, a fund-raising campaign that will enable In addition to such a grand opera season, audiences us to complete the Detroit Opera House by funding certainly won't want to miss the spectacular dance the renovation of the Broadway tower, retire the season at the Detroit Opera House. In November, construction debt so that the opera company may focus Ballet Hispanico comes to Detroit for the first time and its funds artistically and educationally, and establish brings a sexy, latin flavor to our stage. The famous an endowment for future growth and stability. When Stuttgart Ballet makes its Detroit debut in January, and completed, the Broadway tower will serve as an American Ballet Theatre returns to its midwest home in educational resource center with studios, classrooms, a March bringing with it a new production of Swan Lake. media center, and an intimate theater for young artists. We would like to applaud the 1999-2000 season This renovation equips the Opera House for the next sponsors. Generous underwriting by Ford Motor century. The goal set for the New Century Fund is $25 Company and General Motors Corporation make the million. We are proud to report that The Three Tenors fall and spring seasons possible. DaimlerChrysler concert, made possible by Ford Motor Company, renewed their loyal support of our Dance Series. Many provided the opportunity to raise the first $14 million. thanks also go to the corporations, foundations, With your help we will reach our very attainable goal. government agencies and individuals who make our I encourage you to get involved. productions possible. Thank you for being with us for the 1999 Fall As Michigan Opera Theatre brings opera and dance Season. Michigan Opera Theatre makes history as it into the twenty-first century, it is satisfying for us to brings opera's brightest stars as well as a group of reflect on how these art forms have touched so many young and exciting artists to the stage of the Detroit generations. We hope that the Detroit Opera House Opera House. Among the five great masterpieces that will be an ongoing source of pleasure and enrichment make up the season are three works that hive never for you and your children for decades to come. been seen on MOT's stage. Massenet's Werther takes Thank you for joining us on this exciting journey, center stage for the first time in October. The stars, and enjoy your season! Andrea Bocelli and Denyce Graves, make their MOT debuts and Mr. Bocelli's appearance will be his North American debut in an opera.

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julia Donovan Darlow Mr. Harry A. Lomason Mr. Lawrence N. David Mr. Alphonse Lu carelli Mr. Robert E. Dewar Chairman Mr. David Denn Mrs. jacques Nasser Dr. David DiChi era Presid ent Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. jules L. Pall one Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Treasurer Majorie M. Fi sher, Ph.D. Mr. Charles A. Parcell s, jr. Mr. C. Thomas Toppin Secretary Mr. Herm an Frankel Mrs. Irving Rose Mrs. Lawrence Garberding Mr. William Sandy Mr. Kenneth E. Hart Mrs. Roger F. Sherman Mrs . Robert All esee Mr. Eugene Hartwig Mr. Frank Stella Mrs . Donald C. Austin Mr. Ri chard janes Mrs. George Strumbos Mrs. Bella Marshall Bard en Mr. Gary johnson Mr. Robert C. VanderKloot Mr. j. Addison Bartush Mrs. Charles Kessler Mr. George Vin cent Mr. Rich ard A. Brodie Mrs. Robe rt Kl ein Mr. Gary L. Wasserman Mrs . Willi am C. Brooks Mr. Gerald A. Knechtel Mr. Ri chard C. Webb Mr. Mauri ce Cohen Ri chard W. Kulis D.D.s. Mr. George M. Zeltzer Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. David Baker Lewi s Mr. Morton Zieve Mr. Tarik S. Daoud Mr. A. C. Li ebler trUS tee S Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence N. David Mrs . john C. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. john W. Day Mrs. Berj H. Haid osti an Mr. Robert E. Dewar Chairman Mr. & Mrs . David Denn Mrs. Robe rt M. Hamady Mr. & Mrs . Robert N. Derd eri an Mr. Dav id Handleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Mr. & Mrs. Preston Happel Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni Dr. & Mrs. Fern ando G. Diaz Dr. & Mrs. joseph Harris Mr. & Mrs. Roger Ajluni, jr. Dr. David DiChi era Ms. Maria Harris Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Karen VanderKloot DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Hart Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Ms. Mary jane Doerr Mr. & Mrs. E. jan Hartmann Mr. & Mrs. Thomas An gott Mr. & Mrs . Cameron B. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Eu gene Hartwi g Mr. & Mrs. Robe rt L. Anthony Lady jane Easton Mr. & Mrs. David B. Herm elin Dr. & Mrs . Agustin Arbulu Mr. & Mrs. john Edman Hon . & Mrs. joseph Impastato Dr. Harold M. Arrington Mrs. Charl es M. Endicott Mr. & Mrs. Vern e Istock Dr. & Mrs. In gida Asfaw Dr. Fern Espino & Mr. Tom Short Mrs. David jacknow Mrs. Donald Atwood Mrs. Hilda Ettenhe imer Mr. & Mrs. Darn ell D. jackson Dr. & Mrs. Donald Austin Mr. & Mrs. Rol and C. Eu genio Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard janes Hon. & Mrs. Edward Avadenka Mr. & Mrs . Paul E. Ewing Mrs . Sybil jaques Mr. & Mrs. Don Bard en Mr. Stephen Ewing Mr. & Mrs . Gary johnso n Mrs. james Merriam Barnes Dr. Haifa Fakhouri Miss H. Barbara johnston Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barth el Mr. & Mrs . Alfred j. Fisher, jr. Mrs. William E. johnston Mr. & Mrs. j. Addison Bartush Mr. & Mrs . Alfred j. Fisher, III Mr. & Mrs. Maxwe ll jospey Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alan Baun Mr. & Mrs. Charl es T. Fi sher, III Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell I. Kafarski Mr. & Mrs. W. Vi ctor i:! enjamin Mr. & Mrs . Herbert Fisher Dr. & Mrs . Darne ll Kaigler Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Biggs Mrs. El ain e Fontana Mr. & Mrs. john Kaplan Mr. & Mrs . john Boll Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Forbes Mr. & Mrs. Dani el Karnowsky Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard A. Brodie Mr. & Mrs . Mitche ll B. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Keim Mr. & Mrs. William C. Brooks Barbara & Herman Frankel Dr. & Mrs. Charl es Kessler Mrs. Cl arence G. Catallo Mr. & Mrs. M arvin A. Frenkel Mr. & Mrs . Eugene L. Kle in Mr. & Mrs. Frederi ck Clark Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Garberding Mr. & Mrs. Robert Klein Ms. Virgini a Clementi Dr. & Mrs. Robe rt Gerisch Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Knechtel Mr. & Mrs. Mauri ce Cohen Mrs. Fra nk Germ ack, jr. Mrs. Reva Kogan Hon. & Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Mrs . Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. & Mrs. Mike Kojaian Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. & Mrs . Yousif Ghafari Mr. & Mrs. Willi am Ku Mr. & Mrs. Michael j. Connoll y Mr. & Mrs . Andy Giancamilli Dr. & Mrs. Rich ard W. Kulis Shelly & Peter Cooper Mr. & Mrs . Vito P. Gioia Mr. & Mrs. Angelo Lanni Mr. & Mrs. Tarik S. Daoud Mr. & Mrs . Denni s Gormley Mr. & Mrs. David B. Lewis julia Donovan Darlow Mr. & Mrs. H. james Gram Mrs. Walton A. Lewis & john Corbett O'MearaCopyright 2010, MrMichigans. Katherine Opera Gribbs Theatre Dr. & Mrs. Kim K. Li e OI1IVO 5 DIRECTORS & TRUSTEES

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Mr. & Mrs . A. C. Li ebler Dr. Irvin Reid & Mr. Ron ald F. Switzer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Li sak Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid Dr. & Mrs . Anthony Tersi gn i Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Lomason Mrs. Hans Rogin d Mr. & Mrs . Mark Thomas Mr. & Mrs. James H. LoPrete Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ronan Dr. Robe rta & Mr. Sheldon Toll Mr. & Mrs. Alph onse S. Lu carelli Mr. & Mrs. Irvin g Rose Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Cardinal Adam Maid a Mrs. Carolyn L. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mrs. Jessie B. Mann Dr. & Mrs. Hersc hel Sa ndberg Mr. & Mrs . Tal lal Turfe Mrs. Frank S. Marra Mr. & Mrs. Willi am Sandy Mr. & Mrs . Robert C. VanderKloot Honorable Jack & Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Schafer Mr. & Mrs . George C. Vincent Dr. Bettye Arrington-Martin Dr. & Mrs. Norman Schakne Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Wasserman Ms. Alyssa Martin a Mr. & Mrs. Fred Schneid ewind Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Wasserm an Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard Mc l3ri en Dr. & Mrs . Arthur Schultz Mr. & Mrs . Ken neth Way Mr. & Mrs . Willi am T. McCormick Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs . Ri chard C. Webb Mrs . Wade H. McCree, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gergory Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. White Mr. & Mrs. Euge ne Mill er Mr. & Mrs . Donald Dr. & Mrs . Christopher Wilhelm Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Monolidis Schwendemann Dr. & Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr. & Mrs . Fred Morganroth Mr. & Mrs. Ll oyd A. Semple Mr. & Mrs. Eri c A. Wiltshire Mr. & Mrs. E. Clarence Mul aroni Mr. & Mrs . Frank Shaler Mr. & Mrs. Donald Worsley Mr. & Mrs . Eddi e Munson Ms . Elh am Shayota Mrs . R. Alexander Wrigley Mr. & Mrs . E. Mi chael Mutchler Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Sherm an Hon. Joan E. Young & Mr. & Mrs. Jacques Nasser Ms. Albertin a Simone Mr. Thomas L. Schell enberg Mr. Christopher Nern Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard Sloan Mr. & Mrs. Larry Za ngerl e Mr. & Mrs. Juliu s L. Pa ll one Ms. Ph ylli s F. Snow Mr. & Mrs. Ted Zegouras Mr. & Mrs . James Pamel Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Soave · Mr. & Mrs . George M. Zeltzer Mr. Charl es A. Parcell s, Jr. Mr. Ri chard Sonenkl ar Mr. & Mrs . Morton Zieve Mr. & Mrs . Spencer Partri ch Mr. & Mrs. Ri chard Starkweather Mrs . Paul Zuckerman Dr. Robert E. L. Perkins Mr. Frank D. Ste ll a Ms. Lu cia Zurkowski Mr. & Mrs. Brock E. Plumb Ms. Mary Anne Ste ll a Mr. Roy Zurkowski Mrs. Ralph Polk Mrs. Mark Stevens Mrs. Dav id Pollack Mrs. Ru dolph Sto nisch Mr. & Mrs. John Rakolta, Jr. Mr. & Mrs . George Strumbos

fo unding members Dr. and Mrs . David DiChiera Mr. Harry J. Nederlander Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm Mr. and Mrs . Founding Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Graves Mr. and Mrs . Nei l Snow Lynn A. Townsend Chairmen Honorable and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Ri chard Strichartz Roman S. Gribbs Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. VanderKl oot Mr. and Mrs . John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Honorable and Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Mr. and Mrs . Harry L. Jones Mr. and Mrs . Theodore O. Yntema Mr. and Mrs. John DeCarlo Honorable and Mrs. Wade McCree, Jr.

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throughout the Detroit Opera Hous~ and the apital Campaign donors will remain in perpetuity the Donor Wall in the lobby. But, now we have a .. e New Century Fund.

ego 0 ew Century Fund is to raise a minimum of $25,000,000 in cas edges payable over a three to five year period. The New Century Fund will: • Complete construction of the Detroit Opera House including the Broadway building facade. • Develop a new Educational Resource Center in the Broadway building. • Build an endowment which will allow Michigan Opera Theatre to expand and constandy improve its programming. • Retire the debt from the previous construction costs. The Three Tenors landmark performance at Tiger Stadium on July 17, 1999, officially launched the $25 million capital fund drive. A "quiet phase," which focUsed mainly on leadership gifts, was conducted for 20 weeks prior to the concert. The first phase was extremely successful, raising nearly $14 million from 273 donors.

Call for aJrivate tour! We invite you to walk through the undeveloped space and Imagine ... World class professionals rehearsing for main stage performances; aspiring local artists preparing to be tomorrow's stars; college students utilizing classrooms; children interviewing celebrity performers; and dance instructors and students watching videos, listening to CDs and accessing the Internet. The EdumtionallWsonroo Center will have: • a dance and opera resource center • a media studio • community performance space • classrooms equipped for the study of the performing arts • a costume shop. Please consider a gift to The New Century Fund. Significant benefits and naming opportunities are available. Call 313/237-3433 for information. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre AVANTI SOCIETY

ichigan Opera Theatre is a historically restored annual Avanti Soci pleased to announce the facility. In addition, ety dinner attended M creation of a very special careful estate planning by world -class art membership group-The Avanti can increase the amount ists' The Avanti Society. This unique group is for that you can give to Society Newsletter, people who have included Michigan loved ones or other special informa Opera Theatre in their estate plan. charitable organizations tional events and To become a member of The Avanti because of reduced invitation privileges Society, our only request is that you estate taxes. You can to the Board of name Michigan Opera Theatre in your also increase your income through a tax Trustees Annual Meeting. estate plan. This may be done as a advantaged life income gift. If you have included Michigan designation in your will, trust, or Within the first year of this Opera Theatre in your estate plan, or insurance plan, for example. Through initiative, donors will be included would like to do so, please contact this gift, your generosity can create in the "The Avanti Society" founders Holly B. Barr, Assistant Director of a personal legacy and give future section of the donor wall in the Grand Development, at (313) 237-3268, for generations the wonderful experience Lobby at the Detroit Opera House. more information. 9f world-class opera and dance in Other benefits will include an

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 12 11I11VII Named Gifts We extend our gratitude to the following Chaim, Fanny, Louis, Benjamin donors who have underwritten designated and Anne Florence Kaufman areas in the Detroit Opera House Memorial Trust ...... Grand Side Chandelier Wallis & Robert M. Klein ...... Grand Staircase Mirror Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni ...... Grand Staircase Dolores and Paul Lavins ...... Grand Side Chandelier Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee ...... Allesee Dance Patron Lounge Grand Staircase Mirror Allesee Dance & Opera Resource Library Lear Corporation ...... Trustee Circle Level in Opera Hall Anonymous Donor ...... Grand Lobby The Lomason Family ...... The William K. & Neva Anonymous Donor ...... Broadway Facade Lomason Opera Lounge Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. Austin ...... Grand Central Chandelier Oliver Dewey Marcks Fowldation ...... Third Floor Promenade BASF Corporation ...... Media Studio Classroom MichCon Foundation ...... Balcony Level in Opera Hall Comerica Charitable Foundation ... Grand Dome The Karen & Drew Peslar Foundation . . Co-Star Dressing Room Mr. & Mrs. Tarik S. Daoud ...... Grand Drape Mr. & Mrs. Irving Rose ...... Patron Elevator in Detroit Edison Foundation ...... Mezzanine Level in Opera Hall Lobby Tower Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dewar ...... Trustee Circle Madison Lobby Mrs. Carolyn L. Ross ...... Grand Staircase Mirror Ford Motor Company ...... Backstage Renovation Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Townsend ...... Trustee Circle Broadway Lobby Broadway Lobby Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vincent ...... Madison Lobby Her.man and Barbara Frankel ...... General Director's Circle Lounge Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Wassemlan ...... Box Level Promenade General Motors Corporation ...... Madison Lounge World Heritage Foundation ...... Conductor's Dressing Room Robert & Alice Gustafson ...... Third Floor Lobby Alcove, Madison Mr. & Mrs. E.]. Hartmann ...... Staircase, Broadway Entrance Several named gift opportunities are available in tbe Detroit Richard.& Mary Lou Janes ...... Third Floor Lobby Alcove, Broadway Opera House. For more infor.mation, please call tbe Development Department at 313/237-3433.

Detroit Concert Choir We've been conducting Fire Star Season! !l)l)l)·2l)Ql) business for over 50 years and Gordon Nelson, Artistic Director Glorious Gospel! Soul-stirring music that rouses your spirits! we like the sound of that Sat, October 30,1999,4:00 & 7:30 pm Bethesda Christian Performing Arts Center 14000 Metro Parkway, Sterling Heights Magnificent Bach* & Handel! J.S . Bach's joyous "Magnificat" & popular selections from G.F. Handel's "Messiah". Sat, November 27,1999,8:00 pm SI. C lare of Montefalco 1401 Whittier at Mack, Grosse Pointe Park Star of *Wonder! Classical gems and festive international carols. Sat, December 11, 1999,8:00 pm St. Hugo of the Hills 2215 Opdyke Rd., Bloomfield Hills & Sun, December 12, 1999, 4:00 pm St. Clare of Montefalco 1401 Whinier at Mack, Grosse Pointe Park A Little Bit* of Heaven Songs of the' "Emerald Isle" and a cappella world masterpieces that span the centuries. Sun, March 19,2000,3:00 pm O ld SI. Mary's· G reektown, 646 Monroe, Detroit Opera Stars* Tonight! EXCiting scenes from your favo rite operas! Sat, May 13, 2000, 8:00 pm HARMONY HOUSE '&lnMicai St. Hugo of the Hills 2215 Opdyke Rd., i 29732 Woodward & 12 112 Mile in Royal Oak • 248-398-0422 Bloomfield Hills 00KlT *

THE CAST Opera in two acts In order of vocal appearance Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre Music by Gioacchino Rossini Fiorello/Sergeant Libretto by Cesare Sterbini H Woodrow Bynum Based on the play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and Giuseppe Petrosellini's libretto Count AImaviva for Giovanni Paisiello * BRUCE FOWLER (October 2,6, 9) World Premiere: February 20, 1816, Rome +LORENZO MARROCCU (October 3m, 8, 10m) Figaro STEWART ROBERTSON Conductor * EARLE PATRIARCO (October 2, 6 and 9) DOROTHY DANNER Director * MARIAN POP (October 3m, 8, 10m) JOHN STODDART Set Design Doctor Bartolo MALABAR COSTUMES LTD . Costume Design + DONATO 01 STEFANO TODD HENS LEY Lighting Design Rosina ELSEN ASSOCIATES Make-up and Hair Design * VIVICA GENAUX (October 2,6,9) SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON Chorus Master * ZHENG CAO (October 3m, 8, 10m) JOHN KENNELLY Stage Manager

Berta Surtitles provided by arrangement with San Francisco Opera Association MARY CALLAG HAN LYN CH English translation by Chris Bergen Scenery for this production is owned Basilio by The Canadian Opera Company * MICHELE BIANCHINI Harpsichord provided by Thomas Ciul ~~Y?~ * MOT debut The 1999 Fall Season is made possible by Ford Motor Company. + U.S. opera debut (i) MEDIA PARTNER t Artist Apprentice ~

promptly exchanges with a laundry list as the servant Berta and Don Basilio enter. Figaro soon reappears reporting that their noise can be heard throughout the city. Soldiers knock at the door. All the characters try to explain the situation, creating even more chaos. The officer arrests the count, who shows a document and set en is promptly set free. Bartolo explodes in anger, and everyone expresses total confusion. ev Ie, 16005 ACT II Another knock at the door announces the count, disguised as a music master, "Don Alonso. " He claims to be a student of Don Basilio, sent because his master is ill. To gain Bartolo's confidence, he tells him ACT I At dawn in Seville, Count Almaviva serenades he has stolen from Almaviva a note written by Rosina. the beautz/ul Rosina. With this evidence, he will try to convince Rosina that When Rosina fails to appear at her window, he pays the count merely plays with her affections. Tricked, the musicians, who, delighted by his generosity, make Bartolo goes to fetch his ward for her lesson. Rosina an enormous racket before departing, Figaro, the bar performs a "Rondo" from a new opera, The Useless ber, approaches; he loves his profession, which opens Precaution and, as Bartolo dozes, she and "Lindoro" every door in the city to hin1. He recognizes the count, expresses their mutual affection. Bartolo awakens, but the latter wants his identity hidden, for he bored by this "contemporary music," and sings "some has followed Rosina secretly. Figaro says she is the music of my time." Figaro comes to shave Bartolo, Rosina ward of old Dr. Bartolo, who wishes to marry her him who sends the barber to get shaving materials. Figaro . . self. Bartolo appears, locks Rosina in, and hurries off grabs the opportunity to obtain the balcony key, inquires to organize the wedding. The count, not wanting then drops crockery, forcing Bartolo to come after Rosina to marry him for his title, pretends to be him. Rosina and "Lindoro" again swear their love. As about the "Lindoro," a poor student. As Rosina starts to Figaro begins to shave Bartolo, Don Basilio arrives respond the shutters are firmly closed. Promised gold for Rosina's lesson. The lovers and Figaro convince handsome for his assistance, Figaro concocts a plan: the count Basilio that he is ill-an illness that is accelerated will enter Bartolo's house disguised as a drunken sol by the full purse that Almaviva slips him-and youth she dier and claim lodgings. Inside the house, Rosina has by this method get rid of him. Figaro continues to written a letter to "Lindoro." Figaro appears, prompt- shave Bartolo while the lovers plan their midnight has just 1y followed by Bartolo. Don Basilio, music master and elopement. Bartolo overhears the count speak of friend of Bartolo, brings word that Count Almaviva, his disguise and breaks into a rage. Alone, attracted by Rosina's beauty, has arrived in Seville. He Berta, Dr. Bartolo's housekeeper, comments on the seen. suggests they spread malicious rumors about the foolishness of old men who would marry young Ir count. Bartolo prefers to marry that day, and they go women. Basilio admits to Bartolo he does not know off to draft the contract. Having overheard the con 'Don Alonso'-perhaps it was the count himself. versation, Figaro warns Rosina. Bartolo instructs Basilio to fetch the notary immedi Assuring him she can handle the ately. Producing Rosina's letter to "Lindoro," Bartolo situation, Rosina inquires about tells her he obtained it from Count Almaviva and the handsome youth she has just persuades her to agree to marry him. A storm rages seen with Figaro. He tells her it outside. As Figaro and the count enter through the was his impoverished cousin, balcony, Rosina accuses "Lindoro" of intending to sell madly in love with Rosina. her to that vile Count Almaviva. The count throws Though feigning surprise when himself at her feet and admits his true identity. The Figaro suggests she write to lovers express their joy, while Figaro urges them to "Lindoro," Rosina produces her escape. By the time they are ready, their ladder finished letter and Figaro goes to has disappeared. Basilio enters with the notary. Figaro deliver it. The suspicious Bartolo has him marry the count and Rosina. Offered the accuses Rosina of having written choice between a valuable ring and two bullets in to her lover and threatens to lock her up. The dis the head, Basilio agrees to act as witness. Bartolo, guised count arrives noisily. He tells Bartolo he seeks too late, arrives with soldiers. Count Almaviva reveals lodging. When Rosina appears the count manages to his identity and announces that Rosina is his reveal that he is "Lindoro." Bartolo produces an wife. With no choice remaining, Bartolo blesses exemption from billeting, but the count dismisses it. the marriage. All wish the happy couple love and In the uproar, he slips Rosina a letter, which she eternal fidelity. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 16 Of1lVO • forty years-from the early days of the Detroit Grand Opera Association until today-this signature work has marked portant historical milestones. Rossini's perennial favorite as served as a Detroit platform for established stars and a springboard for opera singers of the future.

Michigan Opera Theatre is bom In 1970 MOT (still calling itself Overture to Opera) mounts its first full -length opera, The Barber 0/ Seville. Renowned director !talo Tajo stages the fledgling opera company's nine performances throughout the metro area. The primary performance is at the

1963 In the spring of 1963 the Detroit Grand Opera Association perfonns scenes from The Barber 0/ Seville to prepare local opera goers for the Metropolitan Opera tour. Recent UCLA graduate David DiChiera is invited to join the panel discussion that follows the perfonnance. The following year he directs the loosely formed outreach arm of the DGOA called a Overture to Opera. 1

International Presence In the spring of 1987 Metropolitan Opera baritone Pablo Elvira brings his famous interpretation of Figaro to MOT. Another legendary Met singer, Ara Berberian, helps round out the cast. The very day Berberian arrives to begin rehearsal, Charles Long, Scarpia in MOT's Tosca, loses his voice. That evening at Music Hall, Ara lends his Detroit Opera House Opens voice to Long, singing from At the gala opening the wings. of the Detroit Opera Met star Pablo House, Pablo Elvira Elvira (left) sings the first a . makes his first heard on its stage, visit to MOT in 1987. Canadian "Largo al Factotum," baritone Pierre from Barber. Charbonneau is David DiChiera and Pablo Elvira, under the shav backstage after the Gala opening ing cream of the Detroit Opera House. 1987 1996

1999 In 1993 Pablo Elvira The Barber reprises his Figaro o/Seville opposite Janet Williams' opens first Rosina. Joyce MOT's final Campana and LeRoy season of the Villanueva are also cast century. Vivica as Rosina and Figaro. Genaux brings Janet Williams as her celebrated interpretation Rosina, Pablo Elvira of Rosina to her Opera as Figaro, in 1993. House debut.

Joyce Campana as Rosina and LeRoy "',,!~~.. '- Villanueva as Figaro in MOT's 1993 production. Pablo Elvira reprises his famous Figaro in 1993. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre lJI'fIVO 19 ON STAGE

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DOROTHY DANNER St. Louis native Dorothy Danner (director) turned to stage directing in 1979 Michigan Opera Theatre is after appearing in numer- proud to present the fo llowing artists . ous Broadway produc tions as a dancer and actress. She has since staged more than one hundred-fifty produc tions of operas, operettas and musicals throughout North America, including five MOT productions (most recently The Magic Flute '97). She has directed at Opera Pacific, Glirnmerglass Opera, and the opera companies in Atlanta, Portland, Orlando and other cities. Recent successes include the world premiere of Richard Wargo's Ballymore at Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee.

SUZANNE ZHENGCAO DONATO DI STEFANO MALLARE ACTON Versatile mezzo-soprano Italian bass Donato Suzanne Acton Zheng Cao (Rosina) Stefano (Don Bartolo), (Chorus Master) has sung a variety of roles in now making his U.S. has been MOT's her young career, including debut, is a prolific Assistant Music Cherubino in The Marrzage competition winner Director and Chorus 0/ Fzgaro, Varvara in Katya with a vast repertoire Master since the Kabanova, Nicklausse in that includes Norma 1981/82 season. She has conducted several The Tales o/Hoffmann, and roles in Die Walkiire, (Oroveso), Die Zauberflote (Sarastro), productions during her tenure, including The Rusalka, Cenerentola and Monteverdi's Ritorno La Boheme (Colline), Gzanni Schiechi Barber 0/ Seville and The Daughter 0/ the d'Ulisse in Patrza. Ms. Cao was a member of (Simone), It turco in Italza (Selim), Regiment. For Dayton Opera , she has New York City Opera's 1994 National Tour, L'italzana in Algeri (Mustafa), I quattro conducted West Side Story, My Fair Lady and a 1996 Adler Fellow with the San Francisco rusteghi (Lunardo), Le Comte Ory (Tuteur), and The Pirates o/Penzanee. Ms. Acton has Opera. She has also sung with San Diego Opera, Rigoletto (Sparafucile) and many more. served as coach and accompanist for the the Grand Teatre in Geneva, Washington Mr. Stefano sang the title role in the world opera companies of St. Louis and Opera, and at the Olympic Games in Japan, premiere of Hanjo, by Marcello Panni. San Diego, and is Music Director of under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. His discography includes The Marrzage 0/ Rackham Symphony Choir. Fzgaro for Naxos and La Serva Pedrona for the Accent label.

MICHElE BIANCHINI WOODROW BYNUM MARY CA LLAGHAN LYNCH Bass Michele Bianchini Arkansas-native Soprano Mary Callaghan (Don Basilio), born in Woodrow Bynwn (Fiorello Lynch (Berta) began as Bologna, made his North and the Sergeant) received an Artist Intern with American debut in 1997 at much of his musical training Michigan Opera Theatre Portland Opera as Don in Michigan-first studying in 1980. Since then she Giovanni, a role he has also at Interlochen Arts has appeared with Dayton sung opposite Dame Kiri Te Academy, thC'ln at the Opera, Toledo Opera Kanawa's Donna Elvira. That same season he made University of Michigan. Just 23, the baritone's and Glirnmerglass Opera, and more than a appearances in Pisa, Livorno, Lucca, Siena and repertoire includes The Elixir 0/ Love, Gzanni dozen times with MOT: As Kate in Madame Mantova before returning to make other company Schicci, A Midsummer Nzght's Dream, Guiseppi Butterfly, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Musetta debuts in North America: as Don Alfonso in in The Gondoliers and Shaunard in La Boheme. in La Boheme, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Cosi fan tutti for Opera Pacific, as Scarpia in He has appeared with Ohio Light Opera, and Franchon in Naughty Marietta, Ywn-Ywn Tosea at Glirnmerglass Opera, as Leporello in several times with the Illinois Symphony, in in The Mikado and Mabel in The Pirates Don Giovanni at Cincinatti Opera, and the cur concert productions of Ravel's 1.: enfant et les 0/ Penzance. She created the role of Jogger rent production at MOT. This spring he will sing Sortzieges, Beethoven's Ninth, and Copland's in MOT's world premiere of Summersnow. his first Banquo in Verdi's Macbeth in Catania. Old American Songs. This is Ms. Lynch 's first portrayal of Berta. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 20 OI'OVO BRUCE FOWLER M ARI AN POP STEWART ROBINSON Bruce Fowler After joining the Stewart Robinson (Almaviva) has sung Vienna Staatsoper and (conductor) is Music numerous bel canto Volksoper ensemble in Director and Principal roles at New York the 1995 season, bari Conductor of the Cit)' Opera, Carnegie tone Marian Pop (title Florida Grand Opera, H all, Ly ric Opera of role) has performed a Glimmerglass O pera, Chicago, and companies wide variety of roles, and the San Bernadino throughout Canada and Europe. Last season, including Marcello in La Boheme, in his Symphony in California. Notable recent the tenor sang Barber at West Australian native Cluj, Rumania; Dandini in La engagements include three world p remieres: Opera, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Cenerentola, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Orpheus Descending for the Lyric Opera of the Dresden Music Festival; Cenerentola at Valentin in Faust, and Ping in Turandot. Chicago, The Midnight Angel for the Opera Opera de Nice, Falstaff at San Diego Opera, H e recently made his North American and Theater of St. Louis and Glimmerglass, and Lucia at Connecticut Grand Op era. South American debuts with the Portland and Dreamkeepers for the Utah Opera. The previous season he sang Cosi jan tutti Opera in Don Pasquale as Malatesta, and Maestro Robertson is active as a pianist, in Palm Beach, Cenerentola in Minnesota Carmina BU/'ana with the Teatro Municipal broadcaster, writer, and lecturer on music and Barber in Seville. His discography in Chile. This is Mr. Pop's Michigan Opera for Swiss-Italian radio and television, and includes recordings for five labels. Theatre debut. fo r National Public Radio in the U.S.

VIVICA GENA UX Although having made her professional debut only fi ve seasons ago, Vivica Genaux (Rosina) is already one of the foremost mezzo sopranos in the world. In 1997 she won an ARIA Award and two years later was named "1999 Artist of the Year" at the Dresden Music Festival. Thus fa r, the Fairbanks-born singer has sung her signature role, Rosina, more than any other, performing it at the Metropolitan Opera, San Diego Opera, West Australian Opera, and several companies throughout North America. She recently assumed the role of H assem in Doruzetti's recently rediscovered Alohor in Granata, for performances and a recording in Seville.

LORENZO M ARROCCU As a child, Lorenzo Marroccu (Almaviva) joined the prestigious chorus of treble voices at La Scala in Milan, and his operatic role debut came in 1993 , as Tebaldo in Bellini's Capulet e Montecchi in Palermo. His repertoire and travels include Don Giovanni, Cosi Ian tutti, Cenerentola, and Doruzettti's Lucrezia Borgia and Olivo e Pasquale, which he has sung in]apan, South Africa, Namibia, Montreal and Ottawa. The tenor's inter pretation of A1maviva is well known th roughout his native Italy; he has sung it in Pisa, Ravenna, Lucca, Siena, Livorno, Mantova an d other cities. This is his U.S. operatic debut. PR I VATE After all, you know where you're going in life. And to get there,

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EARLE PATRI ARCO single Relationship Manager, National City's Private Client Group Over the past several seasons, baritone Earle connects you with a supporting cast of experts dedicated to meeting your Patriarco (title role) has made several complex Jinancial needs. For more information about the Na tional City important debuts: at (248) both the Metropolitan Private Client Group, call Mark Holowicki at 901-2352. Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera as Ping in Turandot, at the Stuttgart Staatsoper as Marcello in La Bobeme, at the Bastille Opera as Valentin in Faust, and at the Welsh National Opera as the barber. The southern Californian has National~ also sung the role of Rossini's Figaro at the F 0 L LOW Y OU ROW N LEA D.· Metropolitan Opera and at San Francisco Opera. Future debuts include engagements at the Munich Staatsoper, H ouston Grand www.national-city.com • Membe r FDIC • ©1999, National City Cor po r ati o n ~ Opera, and the Seattle Opera. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre OIllVO 21 .'

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THE CAST Opera in three acts Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre In order of vocal appearance Music by Jules Massenet Bailiff Libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and STEVEN HENRIKSON Georges Hartmann, after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Johann World Premiere: February 16, 1892, Vienna JAMES PATIERSON Schmidt STEVEN MERCURIO Conductor H PATRICK MARQUES MARIO CORRADI Director Sophie ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN Set Design * YING HUANG MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ Costume Design Werther KENDALL SMITH Lighting Design +ANDREA BOCELLI SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON Chorus Master JOHN KENNELLY Stage Manager Charlotte * DENYCE GRAVES Surtitles owned by The San Francisco Opera Albert English translation by Chris Bergen *CHRISTOPHER SCHALDANBRAND Costumes executed by Seattle Opera Costume Shop

CHILDREN Scenery designed for San Diego Opera, and executed by San Diego Opera Scenic Studio. Hans Clara Matthew Daigler Mary Malaney Gretel Max tJ$;d~Y?~ Jennifer Sc hmidt . * Dennis Strach The 1999 Fall Season is made possible by Ford Motor Company. Karl Fritz * Michael Donigan * Dennison Dorsey (i) MEDIA PARTNER WXYZ *MOT debut ...... +U.S. opera debut Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 5 tJoyce H. Cohn Artist Apprentice urovo 23 ;mc ON STAGE

dren's singing within the house. He watches as Charlotte comes out of the house and busies herself with the children. The magistrate greets Werther and introduces Charlotte. Ali, including a number of other guests, go off to the ball, leaving Sophie to care for the children. Albert then arrives, anxious to have news of Charlotte and goes into the house. As darkness falls, Charlotte and Werther return, arm and arm. Werther '1 becomes increasingly amorous until the magistrate's voice is heard telling Charlotte that Albert is back. When she tells Werther she is to marry Albert, as her dying mother made her promise, Werther, in despair, tells her to fulfill her promise.

ACT II The Church Square at Wetzlar Charlotte and Albert, now married, arrive for church, ,about 1780 blessing their happiness. Werther appears, cursing the happiness he has missed. When Albert comes out of the church he offers Werther consolation for any regrets he may feel at their marriage and suggests Sophie as an alternate bride. Left alone, Werther realizes he must leave. Charlotte emerges from the church and begs him to go, conceding that they may ACT 1 The Garden outside the Magistrate's House, July meet again at Christmas. After she has gone, Werther On the terrace of his house the magistrate is rehears thinks at once of suicide and leaves, telling Sophie that ing his six small children in a Christmas carol. A wid he will not be back. Charlotte, hearing this from ower, he is cared for by his elder daughters, Charlotte Sophie, is clearly distraught and Albert realizes that . (20) and Sophie (15). His two friends Johann and Werther is still in love with Charlotte. "I am Schmidt arrive and discuss a ball to be given that evening in Wetzlar, the possibility that Werther (a ACT III Christmas Eve, Albert's house gOing melancholy young man of 23) may be sent away as an Charlotte re-reads Werther's letters, which stir her ambassador, and the imminent arrival of Charlotte's deeply. Sophie tries, but fails, to cheer her up. Left on a long fiance, Albert. They leave, and soon Werther appears, alone, Charlotte breaks into a passionate prayer for entranced by the beauty of nature and by the chil- spiritual aid, then Werther appears at the door. She Journey. confesses her feelings to him and finds herself in his arms. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she rushes Would from the room. Werther leaves. Albert enters, calling for Charlotte, who appears, obviously distraught. A you lend servant brings a message for Albert from Werther: "I am going on a long journey. Would you lend me your me your pistols?" Albert orders Charlotte to fetch the pistols. As soon as Albert has gone, she rushes out, praying pistols?" that she is not too late. ACT III, Scene two Werther's study Werther lies mortally wounded, the pistols at his side. Charlotte rushes in, finds him, and attempts to revive him. She confesses she loves him and they kiss for the first time. As Werther dies, he hears the children singing "Noel" and imagines he hears angels promis ing forgiveness. , ~ ~ ~ <: .3 ~" 15 i:c ~ 8 6 ~ ~------~------~ 24 OrtlVO Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ON STAGE SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON Suzanne Acton (Chorus Master) has been MOT's Assistant Music Director and Chorus Master since the 1981182 season. She has conducted several productions during her tenure, including The Barber 0/ Seville and The Daughter 0/ weltll the Regiment. For Dayton Opera, she has ist Profi les conducted West Side Story , My Fair Lady and The Pirates o/Penzance. Ms. Acton has M ichiga n O pera Th eatre is served as coach and accompanist for the proud to present the fo llowing artists. opera companies of St. Louis and San Diego, and is Music Director of Rackham Symphony Choir.

ANDREA BOCELLI STEVEN HENRIKSON lAMES PATIERSON Tenor Andrea Bocelli Bass-baritone Steven Since beginning his (title role) was born Henrikson (Bailiff) career as an Adler Fellow in Tuscany and began last sang with MOT with the San Francisco formal musical studies as the Sacristan in Opera in 1983 , bass James at age 6, but did not Tasca. Before that Patterson (Johann) has pursue a singing he was Grandpa Moss given more than 150 career until age 35. in the Community performances with that In 1992 he rose from piano bar performer Program's TheTenderland. Other local company including Sparafucile in Rigoletto, to international superstar while blending appearances include those with the DSO, and Fafoer in the company's widely acclaimed , the worlds of classical and popular music. and at Meadowbrook Summer Festival. Ring cycle. H e has also sung with Chicago His concert audiences have been as large as His repertoire includes the roles of Bartolo, Lyri c Opera (Tasca and The Force a/Destiny, 500,000, television audiences have numbered Don Pasquale, Falstaff and Figaro, which among others), and extensively in Canada. in the tens of millions, and his total record he has sung at Canadian Opera Company, This is Mr. Patterson's eleventh appearance sales have, so' far, exceeded twenty-five Vancouver Opera, Manitoba Opera with MOT; he most recently sang the million. They include the gold record Arta: Association, and companies throughout part of the old Hebrew in The Op era Album. In 1998 People Magazine Europe. At the Bayreuth Festival he created Samson and Delilah. named him one the 50 Most Beautiful Friedrich in Wagner's Das Liebesverbot. People. This is Mr. Bocelli's second staged opera, his first in North America.

MARIO CORRADI YING HU ANG CHRISTOPHER Italian born Mario Shanghai-born soprano SHALDANBRAND Corradi (director) made Ying Huang (Sophie) Since \vinning the his debut in 1982 with embarked on an Metropolitan Opera It Matrimonio Segreto in international operatic Council Auditions in Palermo. Since then he career after capturing 1992, Detroit native has staged opera world the world's attention Christopher Schaldanbrand wide: La sonnamula in in the 1995 film version (Albert) has sung more than Dallas, Don Giovanni and Or/eo ed Euridice of Madame Butterfly. In 1997 she created 150 with the Met, most recently in Madrid, Menotti's Amelia at Ballo in Monte the role of Du Liniang for the world premier appearing as Schaunard in La Boheme. His wide Carlo and Madama Butterfly in Spoleto. of Tan Dun's Peony Pavilion, in Vienna. repertoire includes roles in Les Troyens, Rusalka, His work is well known in St. Gallen, She repeated the role in London, Paris and Death in Venice , The Barber 0/ Seville, Idomeneo, Frankfurt, Athens and Tokyo. His MOT California. Last year she returned to China Pelteas at Melisande, Carmen , Die Meistersinger credits include Carmen , The Elixir 0/ Love, to inaugurate the Shanghai Grand Theatre, von Nurnberg, and Otello. This season Mr. Lucia di Lammermoor, and Madame singing a gala concert with Jose Carreras. Schaldenbrand will create the role of Clayton Butterfly. He recently directed Spontini's Ms. Huang, a favorite among Chinese in the premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Cold It teseo riconosciuto--its first performance audiences, is a regular soloist with the Sassy Tree at Houston Grand Opera. this century. Mr. Corradi returns to MOT Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. to direct Tasca next spring.

DENYCE GRAVES STEVEN MERCURIO PATRICK MARQUES Mezzo-soprano New York-born Steven Last season at Santa Denyce Graves (Charlotte) Mercurio (conductor} Fe Opera, tenor uses rich vocalism and has conducted the opera Patrick Marques elegant stage presence to companies of Rome, (Schmidt) sang the title pursue a wide breadth San Francisco, Brussels, role in Peter Grimes and of operatic portrayals on London, Seattle, Costa the High Priest in Idomeneo . fo ur continents. She is Mesa, Washington, Dallas During a two-year residency particularly well-known as Delilah and Carmen. and Pittsburgh, among others. H e was Music at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, he These signature roles have brought her to the Director of the Spoleto Festival (Italy), appeared in the title roles of both Albert Herring Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Principal Conductor of the Opera Company and Idomeneo, as the Male Chorus in the Rape 0/ Opera-Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, of Philadelphia and Associate Conductor of Lucretia and as Nerone in The Coronation oj Opera Nationale de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He is featured Poppea . His repertoire also includes Ftdelio and Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper Berlin and on many Sony Classical Label recordings Otello. Mr. Marques has been tenor soloist in numerous other companies. The Washington, and videos and has several film credits. The peformances of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester D.C., native was featured on the Emmy Award Juilliard alwnnus is both a champion of Psalms at Carnegie Hall and also in Handel's winning BBC special "The Royal Opera House", contemporaty music and himself a prolific Creation. This is his MOT debut. and was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Copyrightcomposer. 2010, Maestro Michigan Mercurio will Opera also Theatre 60 Minutes profile. conduct MOT's Tasca next spring. Ornvo 25 ON STAGE

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ankenstein,s monster thinks birth; the tale of idle agony too exalted in his perceptions to . kindly of Werther. His borrow that, soon after its publication actually sketch a landscape. He is ed heart learns from that in 1774, stirs an unprecedented a keen observer of human nature, fswooning youth the miseries of suicide craze among the youths of an isolated and sensitive young unrequited love. He, a nameless Europe. Humbled by the experi man, a delicate bourgeois flower. wretch without family, history, ence, Goethe prefaces the 1775 "My whole being is filled with or education, feels for the pallid edition with cautionary verse a marvelous gaiety, like the sweet young man. Ugly, lonely, different, "You lament, you love him, oh spring mornings that I enjoy with the monster pays close attention dear soul,! And rescue from all my heart. I am alone and glad to Werther's opinions, to his disgrace his memory.lLook, his to be alive in surroundings such "lofty sentiments and feelings, " to spirit signals you from hell:lBe a as these, which were created for "the disquisitions upon death and man, and do not follow me" a soul like mine. I am so happy, suicide" fueled by the gloomy only to revise the manuscript best of friends, and so utterly flights of his "imaginations": "I completely in 1787. absorbed by the sensations of a did not pretend to enter into the The revisions do not cast peaceful existence that my work merits of the case, " he says , "yet I the story in a different mold, suffers from it ... I don't know inclined towards the opinions of but merely try to suggest that whether deceptive spirits haunt the hero, whose extinction I wept, Werther's suicide is prompted these parts or whether it is the without precisely understanding it. " by something more than misguid glowing fantasies of my heart that But the monster is not the ed passion. Young and reasonably make everything around me seem only one whose life is altered by well-to-do, Werther travels to so blissful. " The Sorrows 0/ Young Werther. the small village of Wallheim O.K. So Werther is a wimp. This is , after all, the book that where he indulges in long and It's easy to be anguished when Mary Shelley's parents, William exhausting hours of reverie. you don't have to work for a living Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, To put it simply, Werther leaves and can spend your mornings read on the morning of her home to find out who (or why) watching young girls fetch water he is. Years later, from the nearby spring. The skies under the spell are blue, and the air is filled of The Sorrows, with the laughter of children, Frankenstein ' s and you don't have a care in creature echoes the world except the world itself. the same concerns: Enter Lotte. Sweet, innocent "Who was I? What Lotte who takes care of her six was I? Whence siblings while keeping house for did I come? " But her widowed father; lilly-white \ Werther finds quick Lotte, the porcelain doll with answers to his tiny voice and strict morals, / questions. He is a betrothed to another. It is the end poet silenced by of Werther and the beginning of the marvels of the love « ... sun, moon, and stars can universe. He is an do what they will-I haven't the artist swept off his faintest notion whether it is feet by the beauty day or night. The world around of his surroundings, me has vanished. " Copyright 2010,© '999 MaryMichigan Iverson Opera Theatre 26 11I11VII "I want to die. 1 have

Let us not beat around the Goethe both follows and Werther's isolation, his deficient come to a critical bush: it's difficult to breaks the rules of the genre: relationship with the outside world. conclusion sit through Werther's pathetic the obligatory (fictional) editor "One thing is certain: nothing lamentations, as he records them vouching for the authenticity of justifies a man's existence like not of dutifully in long and weepy letters the letters does exist, but all the being 19ved." Far from this con to his friend Wilhelm. It's difficult letters are written by Werther. In viction as we may be at the end of despair, i not to question his judgment, other words, the novel's form sup another violent century, we may ( his perception of suicide as the ports its content. Claustrophobic still find comfort in Werther's but of only way to exit a Romantic trian as it may be, Goethe's decision to words, a warm, nostalgic feeling gle. In his last letter to Lotte, omit Wilhelm's letters emphasizes we thought we'd lost forever. certainty." Werther calls it "self-sacrifice." "I want to die. I have come to a conclusion not of despair but of certainty. I sacrifice myself to you." Werther sees suicide as a noble act. Lotte's fiance, Albert, "NECESS1TY may be the has no time for such foolish digressions. Provincial and dull, this petty ancestor of Charles mother of invention, but Bovary considers suicide an act , of cowardice. "Oh you sensible creativity is most certainly people!" Werther argues, "Passion. Inebriatiol). Madness. You its father." respectable ones stand there so -Anonymous calmly, without any sense of participation . : . I have been drunk more than once and my passion often borders on madness, Creativity. It's the unexpected combination and I regret neither. Because, in of unlike ideas. A combination that can solve a my own way, I have learned to problem. Pen a symphony. Or even advance understand that all exceptional a civilization. people who created something great, something that seemed To be creative means to see things in impossible, have to be decried as new ways. To imagine what is not. To understand each experiment as drunkards or madmen. " another step closer to discovery. Should Werther be admired or despised for his gratuitous act? At Bayer, we help automakers discover One of the book's subplots creative new ways to use our the story of a crime of passion thermoplastics, polyurethanes, rubber appears to support his actions: and coatings raw materia Is to make better to harm yourself than others. your designs more efficient, economical, Goethe's ambivalent attitude and exciting. toward his character, however, The result is innovative technologies reinforces the dilemma: Does for automotive engineering that go beyond Werther depict a case study, or mere necessity. It allows automakers the the "normal" evolution of genius? luxury to be truly creative in anticipating Despite this ambiguity, Werther the desires and tastes of tomorrow's car buyers. is an instant bestseller. Tired of the lively exploits of the adventure novel modeled after Defoe's Crusoe, but still far from the days of the great realistic/ Inno v ati v e technologies for psychological novel, audiences autom o ti v e engineering . discover-via Rousseau and Bayer Corporation Richardson-the joys of the epis Automotive Products Center tolary novel: the novel in letter 2401 Walton Blvd . BayerEB form, an intimate fiction posing as Auburn Hills, MI 48326-1957 248-475-7700 "the truth." Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre orovo 27 the Fugue prize and the Grand Prix de Rome. To learn the technic tOe iscre t of his art had been a difficult thing, but he possessed it perfectly at an age when his fellow-students carma were still groping. Massenet had no desire to remain in obscurity like Cesar Franck or Lalo; he wanted to arrive quickly and, realizing how dangerous jules massenet it was to be labeled a high-brow musician, he strenuously avoided urteen years after Massenet's freshness; he powdered it, painted, writing chamber music and directed death, Henry Prunieres, French perfumed and dressed it, turned his aim toward the theater. The musicologist and editor of it into a coquette of somewhat Prix de Rome gave him three tLa Revue Musicale. sketched this equivocal behavior. Under this years of respite and allowed him intimate portrait. aspect, if his music lost some time for reflection and to form his friends, it conquered the favor plan of action. He was in a hurry to Massenet was the embodiment of the multitude. Massenet cared arrive, as he had become engaged of the will to please. The idee-fixe little for the approval of the elite to a charming young girl whom of his whole life was to charm. and a great deal for large box-office he had met in the course of Unlike Gabriel Faure, his was receipts, applause and the incense his frequent visits to the house not an unconscious seduction. He that salons, both aristocratic and of the Abbe Liszt, at Monte Mario. applied himself passionately to bourgeois, burned in his honor. After the hard years that he had conquer all hearts and minds. Very few artists knew better than passed in Paris, and in view of He was amiability itself, full of he what he wanted. the efforts he would have to make little attentions, of refined politeness; His physiognomy expressed himself known, Massenet fully he never left a letter unanswered, intelligence and will. A sharp appreciated the tranquil existence a favorable criticism without profile, pointed nose and chin, at the Villa Medici. "It was in thanks. Accomplished man of the sloping forehead, quick eye and Rome" he wrote later, "that I began world, he wanted his music to small mustache proclaimed him to live. It was there, during the be ornamented with all the graces no dreamer, but a man of action. joyous excursions with my musical of the society lady. His music had H e wished to please and he comrades, painters, sculptors, in succeeded. Bizet and he were our conversations under the oaks devoured by the same ambition. of the Villa Borghese, or beneath Bizet had shown himself willing the pines of the Villa Pamphili, to make every sacrifice to meet that I felt the first stirrings of the wishes of the great public, admiration for nature and for but for a long time without art. What delightful hours we success. Massenet succeeded at spent in the museums of Naples once, apparently without effort. He and Florence; what emotions those understood that the French wanted dark, mysterious churches of Siena melodies easy to remember, and Assisi aroused in me! How graceful, caressing, and as little quickly one forgot the Paris music as possible in an opera. theater, its noisy crowd and its His pupils, who saw him treating feverish life." a fugue with the sure hand of a Did he really forget all that? master, never doubted that he How could he obtain the applause could have written another kind of that noisy crowd despised, to of music had he so desired. which he was going to sacrifice This composer, whose studies at his most precious gifts? On his the Conservatoire were negligible, return to Paris he had to struggle had the courage to learn his job against want and the indifference thoroughly. Guided by Savard, of the public. He became a kettle whose lessons he paid for by the drummer in an orchestra, and this hardest sacrifices, and deprived son of a bankrupt ironmaster, with of everything, playing the triangle the recollections of a rich childhood, in miserable little orchestras, he suffered from the degradation. finally succeeded in obtaining In Rome, he had composed an © '999Copyright Mary Iverson 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 28 orovo ON STAGE WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

Neil Simon William Shakespeare Richard Nelson Thornton Wilder orchestral suite, Pompeia. He could only basis to his immense popularity. Abroad Hugh Whitemore have it played by a Casino orchestra. He he was to be the representative of French Tennessee Williams composed melodies, Poeme de Souvenir, dramatic music. Poeme d'Avril, in which could be traced All this glory changed his manner very PierTe Augustin de Beaurnarchais the sinuous line, the supple and little; he remained affable, courteous, full caressing inflexion that appeared later in of amiability. At the dress rehearsal his the sensual phrases that characterized one thought was to make everyone forget C6[}u®©~ his later style. At the theater where he the criticisms he had permitted himself in made his debut, in 1872, with Don Cesar the hours of work and preparation. He Q)~ de Bazan , he experimented very little, would compliment the artist, the stage because the next year he found the for manager, the ballet master, the Q)(!J)[f mula which he was to exploit for the prompter, the machinists. Everything remainder of his life with unheard-of was lovely, everything was admirable. [Fw®~[}u success. The success of Ma rie Showering praises on all sides, he would MagJeleine was extraordi- descend the staircase, and C6~@~5~ nary. Its carnal mysticism reaching the stage doorkeep . enchanted the crowd. It was er's den, he would stand in not highbrow music, like ecstasies before his parrot, the Redemption, which had "It was exclaiming, "Oh, the beauti just been given amid gener ful bird. " al indifference. in Rome He had infinite wit Massenet's success was and a spice of malice and so ' great that Bizet was that I began excelled in hiding the sharp alarmed. "The devil," he ness of his point under an wrote to his comrade, "I am to live." armful of flowers. It was getting frightfully worried necessary to weigh one's over you." In the race for words carefully before giv popularity, Massenet and ing him thanks. H e enjoyed Bizet ran neck and neck. Death soon his worldly success and his popularity, delivered Massenet from the only rival he but on the other hand he suffered excru had to fear. Le Roi de Lahore, where the ciatingly from the least epigram. He young composer had skillfully combined loathed criticism. One disagreeable word all that could assure him the sympathies about his operas in some obscure of the opera public, was another tri paper gave him insomnia. He fled from umph. Still at the prodigal age, he spent the general dress rehearsals and pre with full hands those melodic ideas of ferred to leave Paris on the eve of the which he was later to show himself so first night. At 70 he was slim, alert and parsimonious. The music flowed abun smiling, not in the least a morose old dantly, and what charming effects he man. He continued to receive the incense drew from a classic orchestra by the sim of aJulation as in his best years. Call plest harmonic processes! The fluid, Achieving glory in his youth, he did vaporous music exhaled an intoxicating not suffer the grief of surviving it. When 313~577.2972 perfume which exercised a strong empire he died, Manon, Werth er, Th ais, Le for Information over the senses. Massenet had reached Jongleur de Notre Dame, all held their About Our his goal. He was offered the post of place on the billboards of the theaters. Harmony Professor at the Conservatoire, He never seems to have felt any regrets at 1999-2000 Season to replace Fran~ois Bazin, who had once the way he e~ployed his exceptional considered him a black sheep. Massenet gifts. On earth, he had all the advantages was decorated and, at 36, elected a mem that he had coveted. What more could www.theatre.wayne.edu ber of the Institute. He was now about to he desire? begin his reign over the theaters, which Wayne State Univers.ity is on equal opportunity/affirmative were to compete for his works, good or Reprinted from the New York Times. action employer. bad. Manon, Werther, were to give a solid May 30,1926 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre OI'llVO 29 ReARED SEAL PROUDLY PRESENTS DENYCE GRAVES IN HER DEBUT RELEASE Voce di Donna a collection of her best-known signature arias

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The Company PEDRO RUIZ ALESSANDRA CORONA HECTOR MONTERO MARIA BERMAN GLiMCHER ERIC RIVERA WARREN ADAMS . ARLEANE LOPEZ ROCHELLE AYTES JAE-MAN JOO SHILA TIRABASSI FERNANDO CARRILLO SILVIA VRSKOVA

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Ballet Hispanico sa lutes Jody and John Arnhold for th eir leadership through the Arnh old Challenge.

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Ballet Hispanico expresses its deepest gratitude to the National Endowment fo r the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and New York City Department of Cu ltural Affairs for their continued support

INEl Ballet Hispanico's Detroit Opera House appearance is fu nded - in part by the National Dance Project of the New En gland fa Foundation for the Arts, w ith lead fund ing from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Add itional funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Phillip Morris Companies Inc.

ABOUT BALLET HISPANICO Now celebrating its 30th year under the leadership of Artistic Director Tina Ramirez, Ballet Hispanico has forged a reputation as a world-class company, an award-winning school and a leader in arts education through Primeros Pasos, its nationwide public school program.

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, The Ballet Hispanico Company has performed The for nearly two million people in 43 states, Europe and South America. Distinguished choreographers, including Tony Award winners Ann Reinking and George Faison, mod innovative ern innovator David Rousseve and Spain's brightest talent Ramon Oller, have created 70 company has new works expressly for the dancers' innovative repertory, which fuses contemporary American dance and Hispanic culture. inspired distinguished The company has appeared in major venues throughout the United States, including The John F. Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater in New York City, the Annenberg Center in chor~graphers to Philadelphia, Broward Center in Ft. Lauderdale and BankBoston Celebrity Series, and will be seen at UCLA's Royce Hall and the Auditorium Theater in Chicago during the 1999/00 create more than season. The company has also performed at Wolf Trap and in major dance festivals, including 70 new works. the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. This past June, the company was featured in a gala birthday celebration honoring President and Mrs. Bush at the Houston Astroarena.

Ballet Hispanico's international appearances included a tour of Spain in July 1998, where the company was featured for two weeks at Festival Grec in Barcelona and performed at the Conde Duque Theater in Madrid. In 1993 , the company toured in South America, vis iting Panama, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay. While in Buenos Aires, they were the guests at a private reception with President Carlos Menem. Ballet Hispanico represented the United States at Expo '92 in Seville, Spain where they were featured at a special Independence Day Celebration at the invitation of the United States Pavilion.

Begun with an enrollment of75 students, The Ballet Hispanico School of Dance currently provides over 600 young people with a unique regimen of rigorous professional training in classical ballet, traditional Spanish dance and modern dance. A pioneer in the field of arts education, Ballet Hispanico also spon sors an innovative educational initiative, Primeros Pasos ("First Steps"), which last year brought Ballet Hispanico's singular blend of dance and Hispanic culture to over 30,000 public school students and teachers across the nation.

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TINA RAMIREZ has combined her incomparable artistic Teatro dell'Opera, the Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico's vision with years of performance and teaching experience 10th Anniversary Gala and the international gala "Notte di to create and sustain the nation's preeminent Hispanic Stelle" in Italy. He is on the faculty of the Westchester Y in American dance institution, Ballet Hispanico. Born in Westchester, NY and is the Artistic Director for the Venezuela, the daughter of a Mexican bullfighter and a Longwood Performing Arts Center in Longwood, P A. He Puerto Rican educator, Ms. Ramirez came at the age of trained in his native Cuba and in Venezuela. seven to the United States, where she studied dance under New York's grande dame of Spanish dance, Lola Bravo, as ALES SANDRA CORONA has danced with Ballet well as with such noted teachers as Alexandra Danilova and Hispanico for eight years, and has created lead roles for the Anna Sokolow. Her first professional performing experience company in twelve works, including this season's premieres. took her on a tour of North America and Cuba with the She performs annually at the international gala "Notte di Federico Rey Dance Company. Subsequent appearances Stelle" in her native Italy and has been a guest artist with included extensive touring in Spain, Spoleto's Festival of Michael Mao Dance in New York. She has toured through Two Worlds with John Butler's company, the Broadway out the world as a principal dancer with Renato Greco productions of Kismet and Lute Song and the television Dance Company and Vittorio Biagi's company and per adaptation of Man 0/ La Mancha. In 1963 , Ms. Ramirez formed for one year on the Italian National TV (Rai-l) returned to New York to fulfill a promise to take over Lola program Gran Premia directed by Gino Landi. She trained Bravo's studio upon her retirement. In 1967, Ms. Ramirez at the National Ballet School in Rome. conceived and directed Operation High Hopes, a profes sional dance training program for inner-city children. In HECTOR MONTERO joined Ballet Hispanico in 1996 addition to teaching, she arranged performances for her after a ten-year career in Venezuela, where he danced as a young students as the Tina Ramirez Dancers. Encouraged principal dancer with Ballet Nuevo Mundo and Ballet by the skill of her pupils and increasing requests for perfor Teresa Carrefio. He has created roles in ballets by Ann mances, Ms. Ramirez formally established Ballet Hispanico Reinking, Ramon Oller, Elisa Monte, Ulysses Dove, Judith in 1970. Today, Ballet Hispanico is a nationally acclaimed Jamison, Alvin Ailey, John Butler, Dennis Nahat, David company, an award-winning school of dance and a leader in Rousseve and Marfa Rovira, among others, and has per the field of arts education through Primeros Pasos ("First formed with the Cleveland Ballet, Minnesota Dance Steps"), its nationwide public school program. In June Theater and Ballet Arena de Verona. He trained at the Nina 1987, Governor Mario Cuomo presented Ms. Ramirez with Nikanorova School in his native Venezuela. a coveted Governor's Arts Award in recognition of Ballet Hispanico's outstanding contribution to the quality of New MARIA BERMAN GLIMCHER, graduated from the York's cultural life. Among her numerous other achieve Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with a BFA in dance. In ments are the Mayor's Award of Honor for Arts and 1995, she won 2nd place in the National Society of Arts and Culture (1983) and the Mayor's Ethnic New Yorker Award letters Modern Dance Competition, which awarded her a (1986), both presented by Mayor Edward I. Koch, and the Scholarship to train at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Manhattan Borough President's Award (1988), presented Center in New York. Prior to joining Ballet Hispanico this by David N. Dinkins. She received citations of honor at the year, Maria danced with the Dayton Contemporary Dance 1995 New York Dance and Performance Awards (the Company for three years, where she toured nationally and "Bessies") and at the 1992 Capezio Dance Awards and, in internationally and performed works by Ulysses Dove, 1997, was the recipient of the GEMS Woman of the Year Dwight Rhoden, Talley Beatty, and Donald McKayle. Award from the international GEMS Television Network. Originally from Baku, Azerbaijan, Maria grew up in This year, Ms. Ramirez was honored at a gala celebration at Cincinnati, Ohio. the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she was presented with a Hispanic Heritage Award for ERIC RIVERA, a native of Puerto Rico, is in his second Education. Ms. Ramirez currently serves on the board of season with Ballet Hispanieo. He has performed with The New 42nd Street, Inc. She has also served on the NYC Minnesota Ballet, Ballet Theater of Pennsylvania, Ballet Advisory Commission for Cultural Affairs, numerous pan Teatro Municipal de San Juan, and the Purchase Corp, els for NEA and NYSCA, the selection panel for The where he performed in works by Mark Morris, Jose Limon, Rockefeller Foundation's Choreographers Awards and the Kenneth McMillan and George Balanchine. Prior to joining board of the Association of Hispanic Arts. Ballet Hispanico in 1998, he performed in a production of Carousel and a European tour ofJerome Robbins' West Stde PEDRO RUIZ received a 1998 "Bessie" Award for sus Story. He earned a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase. tained achievement in his career with Ballet Hispanico. In his fourteen years with the company, he has created principal WARREN ADAMS was born in Port Elizabeth, South roles in over 20 ballets, and has performed for the President Africa and trained at the Toynbee Dance School. In 1994, in Washington, DC and President Carlos Menem in Buenos he won a scholarship to study at the Rambert Ballet School Aires. This year, Mr. Ruiz choreographed his first commis in London and in the following year received the Rudolph sioned work for the Ballet Hispanico Company, Guajira. In Nureyev award. After graduating, he joined the Phoenix addition to his work with Ballet Hispanico, he has been a Dance Company in Leeds, England, where he performed guest artist at the Nice Dance Festival, with n Piccolo for two years. He was a guest artist for South Africa's Vusa Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 36 OrtlVO

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Dance Company's 1998 Australian Tour and, prior to join studied ballet in Brazil with Tatiana Leskova and Angel and ing Ballet Hispanico, he danced in New York with Donald Klaus Viana, and studied interpretation and theater direction Byrd/The Group. with Maria Clara Machado. She was a guest student of Anna Sokolow at J uilliard, and is a certified movement analyst. ARLEANE LOPEZ was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She began her dance training in 1983 at the RAMON OLLER (Choreographer) is the founder and Julian E. Blanco Ballet School, where she later earned her artistic director of Metros Dansa Contemporania in High School diploma. She was a member of Ballet Teatro Barcelona, Spain. Already an actor at the age of seven, he Municipal of San Juan and also danced and toured with trained as a dancer in Barcelona, Paris and London. He has Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico. She joined Ballet choreographed numerous works for his own company and Hispanico in 1998, after completing a BFA in dance from others throughout Europe, including Compania Nacional SUNY Purchase. de Danza under the direction of Nacho Duato, Ballet Nacional de Espana, Ballet de Cristina Hoyos, Introdans, ROCHELLE AYTES, a native New Yorker, trained at La Festival Aix-en-Provence and Festival Avignon. He has Guardia High School for the Performing Arts, Harlem taught at the Instituto del Teatro de Barcelona, and has School of the Arts and Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. been a guest teacher throughout Europe. She has performed in numerous productions, including West Szde Story and The Nutcracker. She earned a BFA in ANN REINKING (Choreographer), now represented on dance from SUNY Purchase. Broadway by Fosse, is best known for her work in Dancin', Sweet Charity and as Roxie Hart in Chicago, which garnered JAE-MAN JOO graduated from Dankook University in his her the 1996 Tony Award for Best Choreographer. She per native Seoul, Korea. He performed with The Korean formed on television for the American Musical Awards and Contemporary Dance Company for four years. Before mov Kennedy Center Honors George Burns and, among other ing to New York City in 1996, he won the individual dance films , in All That Jazz and Annie. Choreography credits award in the Bagnolet International Choreographers include works for Joffrey Ballet Chicago, Spectrum Dance Competition in Paris. He has performed in New York with Theater of Seattle, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Chicago's Complexions and Neo Labos Dance Theater. Goodman Theater (for which she won a Jefferson Award) and ABC-TV's Bye, Bye, Birdie, among many others. SHILA TIRABASSI received the Martha Hill Award at the American Dance Festival in 1998. She has performed with DAVID ROUSSEVE (Choreographer) founded the The Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Florida West Ballet and at dance/theater company REALITY in 1988, which has since the New Arts Festival. This past May, she graduated from performed to overwhelming critical acclaim in venues The J uilliard School in New York. This is her first year with throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Brooklyn Ballet Hispanico. Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival (1992, 1995). He has written, choreographed and directed for film, television FERNANDO CARRILLO trained at the Alvin Ailey and stage, and has created dance commissions for the American Dance Center in New York and at California Dance Alloy, Atlanta Ballet, Zenon Dance Co. and the State University in Los Angeles. He danced with the Los Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. Currently on Angeles Mexican Dance Company for two years. He has the faculty of UCLA's World Arts and Cultures Dept., also performed with Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and Rousseve has received seven NEA fellowships. Footprints Dance Company and has taught master classes at Connecticut Dance Theater and Cal State. This is his first PHILIP HAMILTON (Composer), currently touring season with Ballet Hispanico. with the Pat Metheny Group, has composed for dance, theater and film and has collaborated with such SILVIA VRSKOVA was born in Bratislava in the Slovak choreographers as Ann Reinking, Kevin Wynn, Dwight Republic. She studied dance for seven years at the Rhoden, Patrick Widrig, Danny Burachezki and Professional Dance Academy in Slovakia and later trained in South Africa's Vincent Mantose. His work can Detroit, Michigan at the American Dance Studio and the be heard in the movie Harriet the Spy and Brighton Dance School. In 1997, she was awarded a scholar PBS 's Emmy Award-winning series Say Brother. ship to study in New York at the Alvin Ailey American Dance He premiered a solo work, Vocalscapes, Center. Her performance credits include work with the Alvin at Dance Theater Workshop in Ailey American Dance Theater and the national tour of The February 1999. "":1.=:::::.. King and 1. She also performed and toured with Het Internacional Danz Theatre of the Netherlands for two years. EDDIE PALMIERI (Composer) made his classical debut at Carnegie Hall at age 11 before REGINA MIRANDA (choreographer) is the founder and joining the Latin music field, first as a pianist, Artistic Director of the Regina Miranda Actors and then as leader of his own renowned Latin orchestra. Dancers Company. Based in Rio de Janeiro, the troupe has He is acclaimed for his fusion of such diverse toured Brazil regularly since its founding in 1979. Several of influences as Afro-Caribbean traditions and avant the awards she has received during her career include the garde jazz. He has made more than 27 recordings Allarde Award (1987) and a Fiat Award (1989);. In 1997, and received numerous awards, including five Ms. Miranda created Counterattack for the Corps de Ballet Grammys and the Eubie Blake Award. His of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, where she also mances have been recorded and documented by opened Bluebeard with her own company. Ms. Miranda Smithsonian Institution. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre orovo 37 Bollet tHsooni

TOBIAS RALPH (Composer) has composed dance scores a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon for Ann Reinking, Nicholas Leichter and Aleta Hayes. He University, and an MFA from Yale. He holds Honorary currently plays with Dripping Goss, Rachid, Dave PhD's from DePaul University and Rhode Island College. Fiuczynski and Defunkt, and has played in studio sessions He is currently represented on Broadway by Ragtime. with Steve Thompson and Bruce Hornsby. In 1996, he toured with Duncan Sheik. Tobias performed in David ROGER MORGAN (Lighting Designer) is the Tony Dorfman's Gone Right Back during the 1998 Joyce season Award-winning designer of over 200 plays on and off of David Dorfman Dance. Broadway and in resident theaters. He is co-author of Space for Dance, commissioned by the NEA. Theatre MARINA ROSSELL (Vocals) began her singing career design projects of his consulting firm include the $100 in 1974, and has performed throughout Europe, South million renovation of the John F. Kennedy Center; America and USSR. She has recorded over 10 a1bwns, Broadway's newest theatre, the Ford Center for the the most recent being Marina, which explores the rich Performing Arts on 42nd Street; and the restoration of traditions of the "havanera." the Oriental Theatre in Chicago.

MAURICI VILLAVECCHIA (Composer) received his JEFF SEGAL (Lighting Designer) created the lighting masters in music from the New England Conservatory. He for Ballet Hispanico's Ritmo y RUldo, Poema Infi,'nito, has created works for film , television and dance in his native Una Mujer Llorando, Crossing Borders and Ginga. Spain, where he is also the founder of "Vox Populi. " He has also worked with Straight Jacket Dance Company, Elisa Monte Dance and Creach and Koester TONI·LESLIE JAMES (Costume Designer) has created Dance Company. His theatre credits include Macbeth , costwnes for such Broadway shows as Foot/oose, Angels in Titus Andronicus, The Cherry Orchard, In the B()om America, Jelly's Last Jam (for which she received Tony and Boom Room, A Shayna Maidel and Burning Bright, Drama Desk nominations and an American Theater Wing among others. Award), Chronicle 0/ a Death Foretold and The Tempest. In addition to her theater work, Ms. James has designed for GINA BUGATTI (Rehearsal Director) danced with the the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Harkness Ballet of New York for three years and was a principal dancer for Ballet Internacional de Caracas. WILLA KIM (Costume Designer) has received Tony Later, she was principal dancer for Ballet Nuevo Mundo Awards for Sophisticated Ladies and the Will Rogers for 15 years, where she rose to become Ballet Mistress, Follies, an Emmy for San Francisco Ballet's The Tempest, Regisseur and Assistant Artistic Director. She has Drama Desk Awards for Promenade, The Screens and performed around the world and has assisted numerous Operation Sidewinder and an Obie for The Old Glory. Ms. major choreographers. Kim has also designed for San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera and Lincoln Center Theater, and for Jiri MICHELE CARREIRO (Company Manager) has man Kylian, Robert Joffrey, Glen Tetley, Michael aged the company's administrative and touring activities for Smuin and Eliot Feld, among others. the past seven years. Prior to joining Ballet Hispanico, she worked at the Sydney Opera House in Australia, and also SUSAN RUDDlE (Costume Designer) has worked for five years at Symphony Space in New York. She created costwnes for Grand Duo, Bedtime, Home and earned an MBA, specializing in arts management, from Spell for the Mark Morris Dance Group; and, for Gina Binghamton University. Ginbey Dance, Landings and Incidence 0/ Light. Other projects include the Metropolitan WILLIAM SCHAFFNER (Production Stage Manager) Opera Guild's Barber 0/ Seville and a segment has been touring with performers and dance companies of "America's Most Wanted." for over twenty years. He was formerly Production Manager for Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company, CHRISTOPHER BARRECA (Set Designer) has designed where he supervised the production of Homage a' Nlkolais extensively on Broadway, in opera and with regional at the Opera Garnier de Paris and the video series theaters, working regularly with such directors as Graciela The World 0/ Alwin Nlkolais. Daniele, George Faison, Richard Hamburger, Mark Lamos and Travis Preston. He is currently on the faculty of VERDERY ROOSEVELT (Executive Director) has over Southern Methodist University. seen the growth of the institution since 1978, as Ballet Hispanico has attained international starure. She is a former EUGENE LEE (Set Designer) is the recipient of many Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Dance/USA and awards, including the Tony Award, The American is a guest speaker at seminars and arts administration Theatre Wing Design Award, The Drama Desk programs, including the University of Wisconsin/Madison, and The Outer Critics Circle Award. He has where she earned her master's degree.

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INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING COLLABORATE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY IIPeace on Opera" is a Learning popular four-lecture series by PROGRAMS Dr. Wallace Peace (right). "We have been bombarded by at the phone calls, letters and e-mail DOH Security Director Rock about the course at the Detroit Monroe, a Chinese Martial Detroit Arts 3rd Degree Black Belt, Opera House," reported Dr. teaches "Self-Defense for Ronald Primeau, Director of the Opera Masters in Humanities Programs at Central Michigan University. _ For five Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. House until 4:00 p.m. during the 1999 MOT Spring season, 35 students from Central Michigan University attended a class on opera taught by Professor Mary Keesgan with help from Karen DiChiera, MOT Director of Community Programs. "The students in the Masters Humanities program are educated, professional people," according to Dr. Primeau, "they are teachers, artists, musicians and writers acquir ing their master's degrees through this unique program at CMU. " All the students attended Eugene Marygrove College Collaborates Onegin and Samson & Delilah. Guest lecturers and MOT with Learning @ The Opera House Production personnel who visited the class included Evgeny Dmitriev, In its third summer, Learning @ from Marygrove College. Other title role in Eugene Onegin; The Opera House '99 was able classes recognized by Marygrove Steven Mercurio, conductor; David to offer Continuing Education included Create Opera! , Musical Osborne, Director of Production; Units (CEU's) for teachers who Theatre Workshop: The Mikado John Kennelly, Stage Manager; created and performed in the abridged, Rappera!, Vocal Irina Mishura, title role in program's first presentation Wisdom, and Opera Workshop. Samson & Delilah; Gregg Baker, of Create Opera! for Adults. "We see this as just the begin High Priest in Samson & Delilah; The class, based on Karen ning of an exciting collaboration Donald H artmann, Abimelech in DiChiera's concept of group between MOT's Department Samson & Delilah; and Gary Moy, creativity applied to the teaching of Community Programs and MOT Veteran Supernumerary. of musical and plot composition, Marygrove College," said "The students were excited waS- specially designed for teachers Victoria Bigelow, of Marygrove to get this behind-the-scenes with movement instruction by Academic Affairs. "We look lesson," continued Primeau, "It Detroit Dance Collective forward to offering college credit was an eye opener for these Instructor Melissa Polio Adults for many of the courses offered new opera-goers ." and yo ungs ters who completed in this innovative summer this workshop received a learning program." Certificate of Completion Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 46 lllllVO Fran Dent's "Rappera" worshop students create and perform their own work.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS TOURS ARE ALL OVER MICHIGAN During the 1999-2000 School Year. We'd love to sing for your community! During the ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS The Department of Community 1999-2000 Programs honors composer lead the Royal Army while her are designed in compliance Seymour Barab (also known as school year, brother, the prince, wants to lead with the Michigan Curriculum "the Dean of Children's Opera the Royal Ballet. A scheming Frameworks standards. Composers") on his 80th birth We'd love Prime Minister, a flighty fairy Schools may tailor their lesson day this year by headlining its godmother, and a dopey gov plans for interactive perfor , tour program with Little Red erness round out this zany tale mances: Students who've learned Riding Hood. Based on the to sing that breaks gender stereotypes. the chorus parts of familiar musi Grimm'siairy tale, Little Red Also available for elementary cal theatre works such as Joseph Riding Hood was composed by for your school age children are and The Amazing Technicolor Mr. Barab in 1%5 and teaches Nanabush: The Great Lakes Dreamcoat, West Side Story, children not to go with strangers. community! Indian Hero, by Karen DiChiera or Les Miserables. are invited, Little Red Riding Hood is and William Kirk, and The Night during the performance, to join noted as being one of the Harry Stopped Smoking, by Ross our singers on stage! world's most produced operas, Dabrusin and John Davies. Matinee performances of selected outdistancing such familiar war Operas are offered throughout horses as Madama Butterfly MIDDLE SCHOOLS & HIGH SCHOOLS the school year at discounted and Carmen in number of The Department of Community group rates. Pre-performance performances each year. Programs offers a variety of in Opera Talks and classroom Community Programs will also school performances ranging Curriculum Guides enhance tour Barab's Fair Mea ns or Foul from singular visits to weekly the students' experience. It is (commissioned by MOT 21 years Theater In-Residence programs also possible to arrange visits ago). Fair Means or Foul is a for music and theater students with members of the cast. story of a princess who wants to of all levels. Curriculum guides Call for details.

COMMUNITY LECIURES CENTER • • • • • LECTURES AND REVUES NO ES Community Programs offers lectures and performances at community centers, churches, libraries, and senior living centers. Your group can learn about musical theater, opera, and classical music. Expert speakers can discuss specific composers or works, or the history of a genre.

SHARE THE VISIT The Department of Community Programs tours and performs annually throughout the state of Michigan, the Midwest, and some parts of Ontario, Canada. Neighboring communities who book tours together can reap substantial savings. If you've booked a visit by Community Programs, don't forget to mention it to your sister communities; "sharing the visit" saves money.

Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully Michigan National Corp. Passageways Carslon Wagonlit Travel acknowledges the generous corporate donors Madame Butterfly Plastomer Corporation Performance Sponsor Schreiber Corporation whose contributions were made between July 1, 1998 Selwa Corporation, Inc. and June 30, 1999. Their generosity plays an FELLOW Sure Fit Metal Products integral part in the Company's financial stability, $10,000 TO $14,999 The Birmingham Musicale necessary for producing quality grand opera, Northern Trust Bank The Kroger Company of Michigan musical theatre and classical ballet. In addition Eugene Onegin The Tuesday Musicale Opening Night Sponsor Veenstra Insurance Agency to enjoying outstanding entertainment on stage, Willis Corroon Corporation of Michigan MOT contributors are offered a number of SUSTAINER opportunities which allow them to observe $5,000 TO $9,999 FOUNDATION the many phases of opera production, Thyssen Inc., N.A. AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT meet the artists, and experience other Michigan Council for Arts PATRON and Cultural Affairs "behind the scenes" activities. $2,500 TO $4,999 Deloitte & Touche LLP SIGNAL BENEFACTOR CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS Eaton Corporation $100,000 and above GRAND BENEFACTOR Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. McGregor Fund $200,000 + The Skillman Foundation Ford Motor Company Fund DONOR 1998 Fall Season Sponsor $1,000 TO $2,499 MAJOR BENEFACTOR 1998 Opera Ball Sponsor AAA Michigan $15,000 - $99,999 General Operating Support Alcoa Foundation Matilda R. Wilson Fund General Motors Foundation Kenwal Steel Corp. 1999 Spring Season Sponsor Mattar Financial Corporation BENEFACTOR Madame Butterfly Meritor Automotive, Inc. $15,000 - $24,999 Opening Night Festivities PHICO Group James and Lynelle Holden Foundation General Operating Support Real Estate One Inc. Hudson-Webber Foundation Royal & SunAlliance Financial Services John S. and James L. Knight SIGNAL BENEFACTOR Textron Automotive Company Foundation $50,000 to $199,000 The Quaker Chemical Foundation David M. Whitney Fund DaimlerChrysler Corporation 1998/99 Dance Series Sponsor CONTRIBUTOR FELLOW Hudson 's $500 to $999 $10,000 - $14,999 Madame Butterfly American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Co-Production Sponsor Arvin North American Automotive Samuel L. Westerman Foundation BridgestonelFirestone Trust Fund MAJOR BENEFACTOR CSX Transportation SUSTAINER $25,000 to $49,000 IATSE Local 38 $5,000 - $9,999 Ameritech PPG Industries Foundation DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Turandot , Opening Night Sponsor The Budd Company Earl -Beth Foundation The W W Group, Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation BENEFACTOR Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation $15,000 TO $24,999 SUPPORTER Ralph L. and Winifred E. Polk ANR Pipeline Co. $100 TO $499 Foundation Madame Butterfly Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. The Mary Thompson Foundation Performance Sponsor Aldoa Company Bank One B & W Cartage Company PATRON Mada me Butterfly Bay Colony Equity Partners, Inc. $2,500 - $4,999 Performance Sponsor Bolton & Company Japan Business Society of Detroit Comerica Incorporated CBS Television Network Foundation Samson & Delilah Dearborn Federal Savings Bank The Karen and Drew Peslar Foundation Performance Sponsor Detroit Heading Company Inc. Consumers Energy Foundation ED. Stella Products Company DONOR Community Programs Touring Sponsor Great Lakes Restorative Care To $2,499 Detroit Edison Foundation John E. Green Company Drusilla Farwell Foundation Samson & Delilah Ma'ddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth eta!' Clarence and Jack Himmel Foundation Performance Sponsor Meijer, Inc. Kalamazoo Foundation Kmart Corporation Mimco Inc. The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Student Matinees Sponsor Motor City Electric Co. Foundation Lear Corporation Mu Phi Epsilon Detroit Village Woman's Club Foundation Eugene Onegin Alumni Chapter World Heritage Foundation Performance Sponsor NTH Consultants, Ltd. Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre DrllVU 49 MOT CONTRIBUTORS

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CelVenak Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Roy E. Allison Mr. & Mrs. Frank Hoag Stollman Mr. David Chivas Mrs. Elaine Fontana Calcagno Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Mr. & Mrs. George Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Mrs. Rema Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hopp Strumbos Ciokajlo Mr. & Mrs. Larry Dewar Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Dr. & Mrs. 1. Murray Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Garberding Herman & Barbara Mr. & Mrs. Raymond G. Kasle Thomas Clark Mrs. Stephanie Germack Frankel Antos Dr. & Mrs. Charles Kessler Mrs. Richard Van Dusen Ms. Virginia Clementi Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. & Mrs. lIVing Rose Mrs. Donald J. Atwood Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Mr. & Mrs. Gary 1. Mr. & Mrs. David Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. Kirby Wasserman Mrs. Adelina C. Colby Gifford BENEFACTOR Austin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Klein Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Way Ms. Vivian Cole Mr. Allan Gilmour $5,000 - $9,999 Hon. & Mrs. Edward Mr. & Mrs. HalVey Kline Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dr. & Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Avadenka Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Webb Connolly Gunderson Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Balint Knechtel Dr. Marilyn 1. Williamson Dr. Mary Carol Conroy Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alan Dr. & Mrs. Richard W. Mrs. Beryl Winkelman Mrs. Ellen R. Cooper Hagopian Mr. & Mrs. MalVin Frenkel Baun Kulis Walter P & Elizabeth B. Shelly & Peter Cooper Mrs. Alice Berberian Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. W. Victor Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lavins Work Mrs. Mary Rita Cuddohy & Haidostian Giancarlo Benjamin Mr. Raymond Lehtinen Mrs. Evelyn Smith Dr. & Mrs. Joel 1. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mr. & Mrs. Mandell 1. Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. DONOR Dr. & Mrs. Victor Curatolo Hamburger Helppie Berman Lomason $1 ,500 - $2,499 Mr. & Mrs. Tarik Daoud Ms. Mary C. Harms Mrs. Roger W. Hull Mrs. Loris G. Birnkrant Dr. & Mrs. Henry W. Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Mr. Charles A. Bishop Maida Applebaum D'Avanzo Hart lstock Mr. & Mrs. G. Peter Blom Mr. & Mrs. William Dr. Harold Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence N. Dr. & Mrs. Jack H. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Janes Mrs. Margaret Borden McCormick Arrington David Hertzler Joyce Urba & David Mr. & Mrs. Bernard T. Mr. Edwin Lee Morrell Dr. & Mrs. Ingida Asfaw Mr. & Mrs. Willianl J. Miss Mary A. Hester Kinsella Brodsky Mrs. Ruth Mott Mrs. Annette Balian Davis Mr. & Mrs. David Hill Mr. (\[ Mrs. Arthur C. Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Mr. & Mrs. E. Michael Mrs. Irene M. Barbour Mrs. Adeline J. DeBiasi Mr. Robert Holland Liebler Cheeseborougb Mutchler Drs. John & Marilyn Mr. John Dee Ms. Mary Ann Hollars Mrs. Carolyn 1. Ross Hon. & Mrs. Avern Cohn Mr. Charles Nave Belamaric Mr. Jeffrey Dell Mr. & Mrs. Gary Johnson Ms. Susan Schooner Julia Donovan Darlow & Mr. & Mrs. Marco Nobili Mr. & Mrs. Ara Berberian Mr. David Denn Miss H. Barbara Johnston Alan E. & Marianne John O'Meara Dr. & Mrs. Moon J. Pak Mrs. Margareta Berker Ted & Bonnie Dickens Mrs. William Johnston Schwartz Dr. David DiChiera Mr. Charles Parcells Dr. & Mrs. John G. Mr. David Disend Mr. & Mrs. Sterling C. Mr. & Mrs: William H. Mr. & Mrs. Cameron Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Bielawski Mr. & Mrs. Keitb Jones, Jr. Smith Duncan Pickl,Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Dodsworth Mr. & Mrs. Maxwell Mr. Richard A. Sonenklar Dr. & Mrs. Cbarles H. Mrs. David Pollack Binkow Ms. Mary Jane Doerr Jospey Nadele & Henry Duncan Dr. & Mrs. John RobertS Dr. & Mrs. David Bloom Drs. Paula & Michael Mr. & Mrs. John Kaplan SpiroMD Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. Wayne J. Ruchgy Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Bright Duffy Dr. & Mrs. Sherman Kay Professor Calvin Stevens Mr. Stephen Ewing Mr. Thomas & Hon. Joan Mr. & Mrs. William Brooks Mr. Don F. Duggan Mr. & Mrs. Donald Keirn Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. 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McNish Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Shillman Mr. Chois Jones Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Peringa, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Neal Shine and Voice Training Specialist. Mr. Paul Y Kadish McNulry Mrs. Joan Petitpren Mr. James Shirley Mr. & Mrs. Mark 1. Kahn Mr. & Mrs. Otto Mr. Carl Philpott Mr. &Mrs.JackD. Mr. Peter Karpawich Mehringer Dr. Robert Piccinini Shumate For more information or to sched ule an Mrs. M. T. Keefe Mr. & Mrs. Harold A. Mr. & Mrs. Jim Piper Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Meininger Mr. & Mrs. Edward 1. Silverman appointment, call the Voca l Health Center at Keller Dr. & Mrs. Herman J. Pokornowski Mr. & Mrs. Wes Simpson Mr. Patrick Keough Merte Mr. & Mrs. David W Mr. Lee William Slazinski (734) 432-7666. Mr. John Keros Ms. Lynne M. Metry Porter Dr. Robert F Sly Mrs. Mary Khouri Dr. & Mrs. Anthony B. Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Tom & Chere Smith Ms. Ida King Michaels Powell Dr. Daniel Snower Th e Ce nter is located in Livoni a, Michig an. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Mr. & Mrs. William Mrs. Barbara Quinn Mr. James S. Snyder Klimko Michaluk Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ms. Dorothy Somerville www. med.umi ch.edu/oto/ Ms. Paulette G. Koffron Mr. & Mrs. Mary & Rabbideau Dr. Rodolfo Son Mr. Robert J. Koffron Robert Michielutti Mr. Marrin Rafal Frank & Susan Sonye vocalhea lthcenter Mr. Zigmund D. Konapski Ms. Laura K. Mikulan Dr. Robin J 0 Ramsay Dr. & Mrs. Yoram Mr. James F Korzenowski. Mr. Myron 1. Milgrom Jack C. &Jeanne Sorokin Keeping you in good voice Mrs. Mary Kramer Ms. Helen Millen Ransome Ms. Renate Soulen Miss Gene M. Kyle Mr. Leonard Miller Ms. Vera Rea Mr. John W Spalding Mr. Chak Lai Mr. & Mrs. Milton J. Dr. Melvin 1. Reed Ms. Anna M. Speck Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Miller Mr. Dennis C. Regan Mr. Theodore J. Lamparter Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Miller Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Reid St. Antoine - Mr. Ray H. Lawson Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Minch Mr. Douglas Rentschler Mr. Stephen M. • ~ University of Michigan Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mr. & Mrs. Glen and Mr. Robert 1. Rewey, J r. Stackpole =;-~ Health System Lazzerin, Jr. Carmel Mitchell John & Verena Rhame Mrs. Judith Stefani _ ._-- Ms. Barbara Leeper Mrs. Lucille A. Monark Fund Ms. Susan Steinhagen Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 54 OfllVO MOT CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. Mildred Ponder Mr. & Mrs. Halton In Memory of STROLLING SUPPER Adrienne & Robert Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Stennis Williams Chorus Member & AFTERGLOW Feldstein Pitts Mr. Allan Stillwagon Mr. Lawrence Williams Ernest Willoughby SPONSORS John & Lynn Ferron Ruth Rothschild Dr. David Stone Dr. Magnus A. Wilson MOT Chorus General Motors Herman & Barbara Robert 1. Ruple Mr. Charles Stutz Mr. Andrew Wise Corporation Frankel Margaret Ryan Dr. & Mrs. Choicru Mr. Earl W Wolfe In Honor of Mary Beth Hudson's Phillip Handleman Joy Squire Sugawa Mr. Alfred Wood Adderley Northern Trust Bank Eugene & Donna Aline Soules Robert & Mary Mr. & Mrs. T. Wallace Ann & Larry Hartwig Claudia & Bradley Margaret Wrathall Garberding GENERAL David Hempstead Stroud Sweeten Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. DIRECTOR'S Joyce Urba & David Gary & Christine Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Yezbick In Honor of Mike Best CIRCLE Kinsella Wofford Swiacki Mr. & Mrs. John E. Adult Learning Institute INTERMISSION Marsha & Jeffrey Miro Dr. Jonathan Swift Young, Jr. SPON SORS Dr. Ali Molin Michigan Opera Ms. Sheila Foley Switzer Walter W. & Marie In Honor of Hon. Herman & Barbara Jennifer & Jacques Theatre is deeply Dr. Barry Szcesny Zelasko Avern Cohn Frankel Nasser grateful for the Mr. Thomas Tapert Mr. & Mrs. Erwin C. Reva Kogan & Harvey Ann & Larry Richard Raisin support of the Miss Mary Ellen Ziegelman Grace Garberding Sheila 1. Sasser followi ng individuals Tappan Gwen GriffIn Leslie Slatkin who have helped Mrs. Ferah Tarockoff In Honor of Mr. & Mrs Rita & Gary 1. Steven Smith sponsor dance. Mr. Thomas Tasky TRIBUTE FUND Yousif Ghafari Wasserman Phyllis Snow Justice Clifford W. January 1, 1999 Riva Sosin & Rose Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Taylor to July 31, 1999 Pancotta Soave Allesee, Performance Ms. Mary Teachout Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Sponsor of Dracula Mr. & Mrs. Frank In Memory of Mrs. In Honor of Ann DANCE Willemain (1997/98), Tenkel Beverly Horn Hansen PATRON CIRClE Lady Susan WilIIis· Performance Mr. Jack W. Theisen John & Carol Apol Ushers of Team Ten Season Sponsor Kushner Co-Sponsor Mrs. Norman Thorpe Gary & Stella Bergin $100,000 + of Giselle (1997/98) Martin D. & Karen R. Lorraine & John Beyer In Honor of Ron DairnlerChrysler Golden Patron and Production Todorov Exair Corporation Lamparter Corporation Fund $1,000 to $1,499 Co-Sponsor of Don Mrs. Dorothy Alice Paul Horn Ann & Larry Garberding Mrs. Jeanne Schlitters QUIxote (1998199) Tomei Mark & Pat Kelly Signal Benefactor Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Letts Mr. Emmet E. Tracy In Honor of Ronald $50,000 - $99,999 Mr. & Mrs. John Boll Mr. & Mrs. Robert & In Memory of Mr. Rice Mr. & Mrs. Robert Patron Performance Sponsor Angeline Trinka William Canever Grace Rice Allesee $500 to $999 of Paul Taylor Dance Mr. & Mrs. Victor Robert & Geraldine Mr. & Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. & Mrs. Warren Company( 1998/99) Troutman Howard IN KIND GIFTS Pearl & George Zeltzer Cooper Ms. Thelma Tumacder Arrangement Flower Barbara & William Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Dr. &·Mrs. Dimitry M. In Memory of Frank Shop Major Benefactor Eversman Cohen, Production Turin Fazzio Blossoms Floral $25,000 - $49,999 Mrs. Gwen Griffin Sponsor of The Mr. Joseph Turinsky Sheila Kasselman Joanne & Richard Mr. David Handleman Ernest Gutierrez Sleeping Beauty Drs. June & Sheldon Brodie Dr. & Mrs. Kim K. Lie (1992193) , Cinderella Turley In Memory of Dr. Brooks Group Principal Benefactor Drs. Orlando & (1993/94) and Swan Mr. & Mrs. John E. Lourdes Andaya's International $10,000 to $24,999 Dorothy Miller Lake (1995195) Utley Mother Campbell & Company Marlene & John Boll Dr. Robert E. 1. Mr. & Mrs. Elliott H. Dr. & Mrs. Charles Detroit Institute of Arts Mr. & Mrs. Tarik Daoud Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Tarik Valentine Kessler Dickinson Wright P.c. Kevin Dennis & Ms. Ruth Rattner Daoud, Performance Mr. & Mrs. Kelvyn Ford Motor Company Jeremy Zeltzer Sponsor of Dracula Ventour In Memory of Betty Joy Herman & Barbara Don Jensen Corps De Ballet (1997/98) Mr. Richard D. Ventura Williams Frankel Eino & Lillian Nurme $499 & below Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Gwen Griffin Beth Abella Mr. David Handleman Violante Adams Interactive Business Benefactor Ellen Batkie Performance Sponsor Mrs. Mary Joyce Waite Mr. & Mrs. Scott Batey Systems $5,000 to $9,999 Frank Brzenk of Giselle (1997198) Mr. Howard H. Roger & Mary Birk Brian Killian Mary Alice & Harry Dr. Stephanie Chun and Romeo et Juliette Waldrop Lawrence N. Bluth Korbel Champagne Lomason Kenneth 1. Cooper (1998/99) Robert D. and Liina M. Steve Brown Rita & Stanley Levy Stanley Deneka Wallin Howard S. Christie Eric McAlpine Sustai ner Mr. & Mrs. Edward Mr. & Mrs. Irving Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Great Lakes Musashi Japanese $2,500 to $4,999 Doll Rose, Performancce Walter Coating Laboratory Cuisine & Susru Bar Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Harold Ellens Co-Sponsor of Giselle Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan T. Eugene & Donna Jennifer & Jacques Dewar Bruce Fuester (1997/98) Walton Hartwig Nasser Louise Peter Granda Mrs. Mary Ward Rosemary Joliat Pangborn Design Mr. & Mrs. James Paul Koeing & Pearl A. & George M. Miss Evelyn A. Warren Junior League of Germack Pistacruo LoPrete Uwe Grosse Zeltzer, Performance Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus H. Birmingham Company Lila and Gilbert Suzanne Hawkins Sponsor of Swan Warshaw Henry & Susan Keller Polite America Silverman Ms. Mary Adelaide Lake (1996/97) and Mr. & Mrs. Leo S. Mark & Haleigh Mautice Orlane Hester Giselle (1997/98) Wasageshik Thomas & Ramona William Schanz Donor Diana Karam and Production Mr. & Mrs. Neil H. McDonald Starbucks Coffee $1,500 to $2,499 Suzanne Leich Co-Sponsor of Don Wasserman John F Mills Style Magazine Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Glenn D. Maxwell Quixote (1998/99) Mr. & Mrs. Cameron NED Bank - Officers & Shannon Terry Mr. Andrew Bergstrom Donald McMechan Waterman Directors J. Walter Thompson Mr. & Mrs. William Joel Morris Ms. Georgianna Watsell Northern Trust Bank Vaniry Fair Brooks Sally & Jim Muir Lane Moore & Lenore Mary & Charles A. Edith & Alvin Gloria & Fred Clark Izumi Suzuki Myers Weiss Parkhill Wasserman John Chapman Jeff King & Regina Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Mrs. Jack A. Tompkins Shana J. Westley Ms. Bonita Coleman Noack Wemhoff Mrs. Edward A. Barbara Wrigley Dodie & Larry David Corinne Opiteck Mr. & Mrs. Robert Schirmer Rosanne & Sandy Nancy Owens Whitman Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. 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Casting Information

Supers (Men) Chester Kosulinski Tony Lynch David Peckens Jonathan Schneider

Supers (Women) Jennifer Secord

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Antiques courtesy of Adam's Antiques St. Clair Shores, MI Garden Fountains courtesy of Gardenviews . Northville, MI Bass courtesy of Wilson Fine Violins Birmingham, MI

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Strobe lights will be in use during this production

Casting Information Woodrow Bynum will sing the role of Briihlmann Andrea Leap will sing the role of Kahtchen Understudies for children's roles Scarlett Brady Jordan Fantauzzo Supers Danny Bradley Debra Mullins Bill Ross James "Clancy" Clarahan David Odenbach Andres Sceglio Ramsay Coronado Genevieve Palczynski Jennifer Secord Henry Coucke David Piotrowski Paul Snyder Bill Kupsky Tarina Pouncy Andrea Sumpter . Ali Moiin Jan Renard Chris Thoms Carolyn Moss Karla Roberson Mandie W oolleott Local Wig and Makeup Crew Mary Elizabeth Corbett Parker Plague Corinne Fine Terese Shmina Violetta Kapayo

Gary Gilmore, Production Electrician Horse provided by Renaissance Farms Arabians Cara Christine Barker, trainer Thank You 1999 Fall Season made possible by Ford Motor Company Opening Night is sponsored by Anthony L. & Darlene Soave Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre