SEAGLE FESTIVAL 2021 In-Person & Live-Streamed

The Island of Tulipatan Offenbach The Fantasticks Schmidt/Jones Cinderella (Cendrillon) Massenet Opera Scenes La Bohème Puccini The Old Maid & The Thief Menotti Harmony - World Premiere Carl/Banks Broadway Revue

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About Seagle Festival There will be no intermissions for all 2021 productions. Notes from the Directors 1 Seagle Festival Guild 3 Patrons are required to wear face coverings at all times while Seagle Festival Board of Directors 4 indoors. Please refrain from congregating indoors. Once in the History of Seagle Festival 7 theater, please move directly to your assigned seat and remain 2020-2021 Seagle Festival Donors 8-11 seated until the end of the performance. Donor Opportunities 12 The Seagle Festival Hybrid Gala 3 Restrooms are located in the Shames Rehearsal Studio. Handicapped accessible restroom is at the rear of the theater. The Productions The Island of Tulipatan 13 So that all our patrons may enjoy the performance, please turn The Fantasticks 14 all cellphones to the silent or off positions. Cinderella (Cendrillon) 15 Opera Scenes 16 Thank you for attending today’s performance Three Bears 17 La Bohème 18 The Old Maid & The Thief 19 Seagle Festival Harmony 20-21 999 Charley Hill Road, PO Box 366 Broadway Review 22 Schroon Lake, NY 12870 (518) 532-7875 2021 Faculty/Staff & Emerging Artists Faculty & Staff 23-26 seaglefestival.org Emerging Artists 26-28 [email protected]

Seagle Festival Mission, Vision, and Values Statement

Our Mission: To produce the highest quality opera and musical theater showcasing exceptionally talented emerging artists of all backgrounds and identities, while providing career development and performance opportunities to support the resiliency of the art form.

Our Vision: To be a leader in recognizing and promoting rising talent in opera and musical theater and to be a leading cultivator of new American opera and musical theater.

Our Guiding Values: Cultivation of Talent, Creativity, Inclusivity, Equity, Open Communication, Improvement From the General & Artistic Directors

Dear Seagle Festival Family: George Elliot once said, “what greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel they are joined together…to strengthen each other…to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories”. For almost two years, we have had to lean on each other and the memories of our time on Charley Hill Road in the Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater. We have missed greeting each other with hugs at the beginning of the season. We have missed greeting our artists and staff as they bring us art and beauty and joy. And we have missed the unparalleled experience of being in a theater watching and hearing the magic that happens while experiencing a production at Seagle Festival. Welcome back! We are thrilled to welcome each of you back, whether you are sitting in the theater shoulder to shoulder, or tuning in from your home via our live-stream. One thing we are sharing tonight and several times this summer, is the joy of being together watching our wonderful Seagle Festival Emerging Artists give their substantial gifts to our community. During the difficult past year, we have all learned to be nimble and (dare we use the word) pivot! We laid plans that could be accomplished if pandemic restrictions were not lifted, but those plans were made with the ability to adapt as the pandemic situation changed. There were some silver linings to the last year, if you look hard enough. We are presenting operas and musicals that we might not have done before. Wonderful pieces, built for smaller casts, but huge in the scope of what they have to say musically and dramatically. And this season, we will be presenting more productions than ever before! Six mainstage productions, an opera scenes program and a Broadway revue. We have everything from the beloved La Bohème, to a frothy operetta by Offenbach in The Island of Tulipatan, to a world premiere opera set in the heart of the Adirondacks: Harmony by Robert Carl and famed Adirondack novelist Russell Banks, and much, much more. So, thank you for being here today and thank you for all you did this past year to keep us strong and healthy so that we could return this year. Your support was overwhelming and we can never thank you enough. We will continue to count on your ongoing support as we look toward 2022 and a fully restored, back to ‘normal’ Seagle Festival, strengthened by what we have learned and accomplished in 2020 and 2021. For now, enjoy the show wherever you are. You are our extended family and we can’t wait to show you what we can do this year. We say it all the time because we believe it - without you, none of this is possible.

Sincerely, Tony Kostecki, General Director Darren K. Woods, Artistic Director

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2 Seagle Festival Guild

In 2021, the Seagle Festival Guild celebrates its 26th season luncheon, and refreshment sales at performances. Volunteer of supporting the Seagle Festival mission. The Guild raises activities include ushering at performances and serving as host funds to support emerging artists scholarships and provides a families for artists. Additional Guild events include a welcome welcoming atmosphere for the emerging artists and audience dinner at the start of the season and the ‘Happy Endings’ members who attend each year. The funds raised by the Guild reception following the final summer season performance. support the Seagle Festival Guild Scholarship Fund. Fundraising After the 2019 season, the Guild was able to fund $15,000 in activites include a winter and summer raffle, a scholarship emerging artist scholarships.

2021 Guild Officers President Sharon Hieber Vice-President Kathleen Kelly Secretary Deb Peterson Treasurer Patt Rommer

2021Guild Members Linda Beers Suzanne Fremon Christian Holt Dave Lowe Roberta Ponemon Pat Shrope Nancy Belluscio Naomi Goltzman Char Hoskins Noelle McCrum Susan Purdy Nancy Smith Eileen Carnahan K. Kelly Green Kathleen Kelly Janet McManus Barbara Repp Susan Sweetser Barbara Casey Mechylle Hammond Martin Korn Mira Munson Patt Rommer Amelia Taglieri Ginnyann Coppola Nancy Harste Diane Koslov Peter Oberdorf Dottie Rudolf Mary Thompson Ann Durney Jeri Heinzelman Robin Kulwin Deb Peterson Dodie Seagle Marge Tassi Ellie Eldredge Sharon Hieber Paul Leah Ken Peterson Judy Sheridan

To become a Guild Member, please contact Sharon Hieber, Guild President at [email protected]

Save the Date for Seagle Festival’s largest fundraising event of the year - July 31, 2021.

This exciting online event, hosted by alumni Blake Jennings and Amanda Sheriff, will include live-streamed and recorded performances by the 2021 Seagle Festival Emerging Artists, and celebrated alumni Michael Adams, Cristina Castro, Eric Ferring, Edith Grossman, Catherine Goode, Christopher Humbert, Alicia Russell and Jack Swanson.

Plus an opportunity to share specially created gala-meals-to-go by long-time gala caterer Lily & the Rose Gourmet Catering.

Special Thanks to our Hybrid Gala Sponsors

Directors Nick Deflora & Amy Foy Singers Executive Producers Getler, Gomes & Sutton, PC Bill & Judy Klitgaard Glens Falls National Bank & Trust/Upstate Agency James & Judy Allison Laurence & Karen Meltzer John & Sharon Hieber Seth & Margo Bader Ann Breen Metcalfe Producers Dick & Joan Lomnitzer Floyd & Susan Barwig Matthew Rowe Roger & Myriam Friedman and Francis Mayle & Eileen Purdy Frank & Linda Cappabianca Pete & Dodie Seagle Bill & Barbara Foley Nancy Strohmeyer & Joel Friedman Peter Scott Oberdorf Phyllis & Marty Korn Warren Harr Don & Joyce Rice Lisa Reid Kempton & Nancy Smith John & Rosemarie Trainer Joseph Steiniger & Mary McDonald Details: seaglefestival.org/hybrid-gala-2021

3 Seagle Festival Board of Directors

Seagle Music Colony, Inc. DBA Seagle Festival is a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation President Seth Bader Executive Vice-President Robin Kulwin Vice President Frank Cappabianca V.P. for Renaissance Campaign Lisa Reid V.P. for Governmental Affairs Joel Friedman V.P. for Development Judy Klitgaard V.P. for Alumni Nathan Wentworth V.P. for Corporate Development Ed Moore Treasurer Joseph Steiniger Secretary Barbara Repp Assistant Treasurer James Allison General Director Tony Kostecki Artistic Director Darren K. Woods

Board of Directors Advisory Board Floyd Barwig Matthew Rowe Ana De Archuleta Thomas Magee Carole Clifford Tom Seagle Bard Bunaes Michael Mayes Amy Foy Rebecca Singer Mark Carpenter Laurence Meltzer Frank Herbst Kempton Smith Robert Claus Ann Breen Metcalfe Sharon Hieber Anthony Dalto Warner North Barbara Foley Andrew Nwoke Charles Harste Peter Scott Oberdorf Directors Emeritus: Irma Worrell-Fisher David Howson Kerriann Otaño Joan Lomnitzer, Richard McManus, John Trainer Richard Kagey Ava Pine Joseph Kelly Julia Pitkin-Shantz Kathryn Klykylo Jacqueline Posner Phyllis Shames Korn James Seagle Joseph Lesley Nancy Strohmeyer David Lowe From the Board of Directors

Dear Friends: As we said our goodbyes after the summer of 2019, and watched the final production of the 104th Seagle Music Colony season, who among us would have guessed that our world was about to turn upside down? All of us became acutely aware of the preciousness of life as our priorities shifted to an intensified awareness of our own mortality, as we witnessed a cruel pandemic sweep our planet. But while every Broadway playhouse went dark, and the productions at the Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater went onto extended intermission, a light remained glowing on our theater’s stage that served as a reminder and a source of hope for the entire Seagle community. Hope that once the pandemic was behind us, we would emerge from the darkness, not having merely survived, but having grown stronger as a result of the upheaval we all shared. I have always said that your continued support is the linchpin of our success, and in 2020 those words were never truer. In a year of crisis, your support kept the Colony alive. Your faithful generosity allowed flexibility and yielded bravely creative solutions by our management team. The Seagle Music Colony continued to thrive, and so sent a message throughout the North Country that the voices of our artists would forever be heard in the Adirondacks and inspired our leadership to remain steadfastly committed to our mission. And as a result of your commitment to us...... WE ARE BACK...... AND BETTER THAN EVER!!!!! As the pandemic recedes, we emerge from its embers as Seagle Festival. No longer are we simply a beautiful retreat where vocal artists can study and hone their craft. We have grown stronger and become much more. We are now a thriving, multifaceted center, no longer solely devoted to training and promotion of rising vocal talent. We now nurture the cultivation of brand-new American opera and musical theater created by contemporary composers and librettists. Our new name best befits our position as the premier opera and musical theater company in our region. We also emerge stronger than ever. As such, we are one of the few artistic organizations that is able to announce the early return of live, in-person performances. Our members and friends in the North Country have been yearning for the energy that only live performances can bring, and in recognition of this, our management team has worked tirelessly to ensure that our 2021 season will begin with the live performance of The Island of Tulipatan in July. Our leadership team has developed safety protocols consistent with state and local guidelines, making every effort to ensure a safe return to in-person performances. I am thrilled that we will be returning live operaandmusical theater to the Adirondacks this summer, but for those of us who may not be able to attend a live production, our live performances will be complemented by new digital offerings that, in exciting, new ways, connect us with the immediacy and energy that only our artists can create. It is indeed a tribute to the talent and dedication of our General Director Tony Kostecki, our Artistic Director/Development Director Darren Woods, our Director of Productions Richard Kagey and our Technical Director Jim Koehnle, that all of this is possible. But as I’ve always believed, none of this would be possible without each of you, our members, friends and supporters. Aside from our emerging artists, you are the most important part of each production, for it is the audience that energizes our artists and provides them with the inspiration to reach new heights in expressing their enormous talents. As the famous writer and journalist Italo Calvino wrote, “It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.” We need you; your support has allowed us to navigate through a challenging time, for which we at Seagle Festival will always be grateful. However, as we emerge from darkness into the light, your continued support is needed more than ever. We know that if we are to thrive, we must find new ways to energize, engage, and enlarge our audience and community of financial supporters, and inspire each of you to do even more than you have ever done before. Seagle Festival is and will be forever grateful for your support, and we hope that your support of us has enriched your lives. We are so very glad you are here, and we welcome each of you back to our summer family on the hill. Seth D. Bader, President

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6 A History of Seagle Festival

Seagle Festival, the oldest summer singer training singers were frequently called upon to perform. The Colony program in the country, was founded in 1915, by world Opera Guild was formed in 1941 and performed for several renowned baritone, Oscar Seagle. Oscar made several years at the Wikiosko Barn Theatre on Lake George, which concert tours in the United States and Europe, and was the Bolton Road home of Mrs. Charles Peabody. After recorded albums for Columbia, including the popular World Oscar Seagle’s death in 1945, John directed and taught War I hit “Dear Old Pal of Mine.” He served from 1903- voice at the Seagle Colony from 1945 to 1985. The old 1914 as teaching associate in Europe with his teacher, the barn that was Oscar Seagle’s studio in Schroon Lake was great Polish tenor Jean de Reszke. De Reszke was a star of extended into a theatre in his memory. John also taught the Metropolitan Opera as well as Queen Victoria’s favorite voice at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX and continued singer. to sing on radio, television and the concert stage. He was honored in June of 1996 by the Schroon Lake Chamber When Oscar returned home, he opened a studio in of Commerce as Schroon Lake’s Citizen of the Year. John Hague, on Lake George, in 1915. He then moved to Schroon died in 1997, and the John and Helen Seagle Scholarship Lake and taught at the Brown Swan Club, which is now was established in memory of John and his wife, who gave the Word of Life Inn. In 1922, Oscar bought the many years of devoted service Seagle Colony. property where Seagle Festival currently stands. The area was quickly nicknamed “Olowan,” a Under the stewardship of John’s son Peter, his Native American name meaning “Song” Mr. wife Dodie and their three sons, Seagle Colony Seagle’s reputation made the then Seagle Colony carried on many of the same traditions over the a magnet for aspiring singers. During the 1920s, years. In 1996, Darren K. Woods was hired as up to 125 students would come each summer, General Director. Under his leadership, and with and in the winter many would follow him to Nice, a core staff consisting of Richard Kagey and Tony France for further study at the de Reszke-Seagle Kostecki, Seagle Festival has grown to become School. the “Best Summer Vocal Training Program in the United States” (Classical Singer Magazine, “There is about the name of Oscar Seagle a glow of 2000). Today hundreds of applicants vie for the opportunity brilliant years and extraordinary musical associations. to attend Seagle Festival. In the past twenty-six years, His relationship with the immortal de Reszke and his own Seagle Festival has grown from two productions and eight position as a master of many singers have made him unique performances per summer to six full productions and over among American artists.” (New York Morning Telegram) thirty-five performances. This growth mandated the need in 2008 for Tony Kostecki to move to full-time resident Oscar’s son John was among the most prominent of General Director and Darren Woods to transition to part- his pupils. Born in Paris, France on February 15, 1906, he time summer Artistic Director. In 2017, Darren returned grew up hearing fine singing from morning to night. When to Seagle full-time and added to his duties leadership of the Seagles left Europe during World War I, John entered fundraising efforts. To properly reflect its mission Seagle the Choir School of St. John the Divine in New York City, Colony became Seagle Festival in January 2021. where he was the soprano soloist for three years. From its beginning in 1915 and to this day, young John Seagle made recordings for Decca and RCA- singing actors travel from across the country to study with Victor, and sang with a number of weekly network radio the wonderful faculty and staff that gather every summer programs, including Beatrice Lillie, Burns and Allen, “on the hill.” In addition to invaluable performance Palmolive, Firestone, Cities Service, Wildroot, Maxwell experience in opera and musical theater, each emerging House, Showboat and Sal Hepatica. He began singing with artist receives weekly music coachings and private voice the Cavaliers Quartet in the 1920s and recorded over 500 lessons by the exceptional faculty. Artists also take part hymns with them for an NBC program called The Church in career development classes, acting and dance lessons., in the Wildwood, which was broadcast in many countries. Further, they sing in master classes for famous singers and artist managers, and learn the ins and outs of the world of The Seagle Colony Singers were one of the first groups opera and musical theater. to perform before television cameras. John Seagle served on the staff of WRGB in Schenectady, NY, where Colony

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Seagle Festival thanks our Sponsors and Donors for their generous support in 2020-2021

Virtuoso Sponsors Conductors Mr. & Mrs. Warner North National Endowment for the Arts Linda and Joe Bogardus Mr. Ralph F. Ocker Ms. Lisa Reid Boston Scientific Cindy Olsen & Michele Bakkila Bard & Barbara Bunaes Family Fund Ms. Jacqueline A. Posner Premiere Sponsors Linda & Frank Cappabianca Mrs. Barbara Repp Sandy & Peter Koppen Catherine Charlton & Glenn White Reverend & Mrs. Bruce E. Rudolf Kempton & Nancy Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Claus Ms. Valerie Saalbach Tom & Ann Connolly Ms. Ellen Schlaefer Producers Ms. Paula Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles Scholes Wayne & Jennifer Goldberg Jock & Martha Coughlan Mr. James Seagle Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cunningham Brian & Jacqueline Smith John & Sharon Hieber Ms. Joyce E. Falkenbury Barbara and Paul Stamatis Mr. Joseph Kelly Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Lynn Togut & Carl McInroy Judith & William Klitgaard Mr. Bruce S. Gelb Vera L. Trainer & Len Kannapell New York State Council on the Arts Hon. Nina Gershon & Hon. Bernard Fried Therese & Frank Tresco Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust Ms. Ella Grimes-Babione Jennier & Brian Ward Kelly Hamblin Darren K. Woods & Steven W. Bryant Composers Mr. & Mrs. James Himoff Mr. Richard D. Woolley Jim & Judy Allison Mr. & Mrs. M. David Hyman Mr. Bill Zeffiro Seth & Margo Bader International Paper Foundation Mrs. Eileen Carnahan Byron Jones & Ryan Romine Patrons Cloudsplitter Foundation Ms. Jennifer Juzaitis Ms. Barbara Bernstein Ms. Lucy Darden Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Kelly Mr. Seth Carico Nicholas DeFlora & Amy Foy Mr. & Mrs. Paul Leah The Chronicle Mr. & Mrs. William Foley Mr. Wendell G. Lorang & Ms. Sherry Gold Rev. and Mrs. Peter Durkee Roger & Myriam Friedman Evan & Kristin Mack Ms. Sarah Elliott Glenn & Carol Pearsall Adirondack William V. & Patrick Madison-McDonald Bob & Joan Guarnera Foundation Mr. David Mason & Mr. James Herman Mr. & Mrs. Charles Harste Glens Falls National Bank & Trust Ms. Ava Mason Ms. Patricia Hartpence Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herbst Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Murphy Mrs. Haydee A. Kostecki Mr. Ian Kagey Nancy & Richard Nelson Dr. & Mrs. James Newcomb Ms. Terri King Peckham Family Foundation Miklos & Ann Porkolab Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lomnitzer Julia Pitkin-Shantz & Mark Shantz Amanda Robie & Trieste Cordova Francis Mayle & Eileen Purdy Mr. & Mrs. Alan and Hanna Press Patt L. Rommer & K. Kelly Green Mrs. Ann Breen Metcalfe Ms. Pam Cerrone Robert & Barbara Rosoff Peter Scott Oberdorf & Ann Oberdorf Dr. Bret & Katarina Sanders Mr. Jason Stocker & Mr. Justin M. Seward Durney Dr. & Mrs. John Schutze Ms. Joyce Seyller Joyce & Donald Rice Julian & Barbara Smetana Thomas & Joyce Tuffey Mr. Matt Rowe Mr. Frank Smith Ms. Irma Worrell-Fisher Schwab Charitable Fund Stewart’s Shops Rebecca & Jay Singer Ed & Donna Welch Partners Joe Steiniger & Mary McDonald Ms. Alice Abramowicz Singers Bill & Loretta Adler Directors Gwendoline Bowers Joseph W. & Lorraine Altmann Floyd & Susan Barwig Kathy Russell Bradshaw Amazon Smile Joyce Castle Peter & Bonnie Coffin Ms. Alissa Anderson & Mr. Kyle Albertson Dr. Carole Clifford Drs. James C. & Caroline W.Dawson Cynthia & Woody Andrews Cohoes Savings Foundation Rebecca & Jared Doyle Jen & Michael Appleman Ms. Barbara Crowe Ms. Ruth Durkee Ms. Clare Ascani Ellie Eldredge Essex County Arts Council Ms. Wendy Barnet Mr. Joel Friedman Mr. Peter Goldbecker Mrs. Ruth Barney Getler, Gomes & Sutton, PC Dr. & Mrs. David Goltzman Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Barney Fred & Gloria Gleave John & Janwin Goode Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Batson Jessica Strolin-Goltzman & Daniel Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Mr. & Mrs. James M. Beaty Goltzman Region Mr. and Mrs. Larry Belluscio Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kagey Stuart Greene & Jennifer Moses Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bernstein Martin & Phyllis Shames Korn Mr. Randall Grossman Mr. Mark Bernstein Clifford & Robin Kulwin Mike & Stephanie Hunter Ms. Diane Bernstein Laurence & Karen Meltzer Mr. Sean Jeffries Ms. Susan Birdwell Mr. Edward T. Moore Kathy B. Kelly Ms. Leah Bobbey Timothy Olson & Erin Cavanaugh Stephanie & James Kloiber Bob Boehlert & Nancy Wells Mr. David Schlansker Tony Kostecki & Javier Aldaco Ms. Alice M. Bragg Mr. & Mrs. John P. Seagle Mr. David Lowe Mr. Lou Brewer Nancy Strohmeyer & Warren Harr Mrs. Gloria P. Luczynski Mr David Brinkley Touba Family Foundation Meredith P. McComb Angela Brown Mr. & Mrs. John Trainer Ms Karen McShane Elizabeth Ann Bryant-Richards & Ed Mr. Jay J. Meltzer Richards Barbara Merle-Smith Mrs. Kathryn Burdick

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Janet Cabat Jack & Kathy Kavanaugh Alan J. Savada & Will Ms. Sharyn Kerschner Ted & Jane Caldwell Ms. Jacqueline Kerns Stevenson Mrs. Alicia Kostecki Ms. Virginia Case Judith Klingebiel Ms. Dona Schiff Daniel Larson & Victoria Wirth Mr. & Mrs. William Casey Ms. Katherine T. Klykylo Ms. Donna Schulte Ms. Cathy Lazere Ms. Liz Cass Mr. Steven Knight Jack & Melissa Scully Andrea Lefton Gail & Steven Cass Carol & Bob Kobbe Edward & Sally Seward Ms. Sedona Libero Neil & Julia Chippendale Allan & Kathy Koritzinsky Ms. Pat Seyller Mr. Fred Liska Ms. Linda Chiras Ms. Karen Korman Jane & Byron Shafer Ms. Sarah Lockwood Mr. & Mrs. Dan Christoffel Mrs. Diane Koslov Ms. Jill Sheffer Mr. Trevor Martin Hailey Clark & Joseph Dennis Richard Lacki Mr. R. Jason Smith & Mr. David Anita Masiello Mr. Stephen Cohen John Lange Shepard Mr. Richard Mason Robert & Barbara Colegrove Casey LaRose Lynn & Jane Snider Ms. Heidi McNaughton John Collis & Leslie Stevenson Ms. Anna Laurenzo Ms. Kathleen Spahn Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Meader, Jr. Paul & Ann Marie Conolly Ms. Megan Lawless Ms Julia Sparacino Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Milburn Allen & Susan Conroy Maureen Lawless & Todd Diane Willis Stahl & Larry Stahl Ms. Cathy Moses Ms. Louise Costigan-Kerns Mestepey Ms. Doris A. Stoll Ms. Jorie Moss Susan & Donald Davis Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Lee Mack & Sherry Streety Ms. Nancy T. Murphy Solange De Santis Ms. Robin Leichenko Ms. Diane D. Stuto Ms. Eleanor Oberle Ms. Therese Denton Mr. J. David Lessenger Mr. Edward D. Surovell David & Sharon Ohrenstein Mr. & Ms. Charles Dietz Lisa D. Lewis Mrs. Margaret Tahboub Ms. Christina Pecce Josef & Joan D’Jay Ms. Ann Leyden Ms. Linda Tarry-Chard Ms. Sandy Peevers Ms. Laura Donaldson Richard & Marian L. Lloyd Karen Abrams-Thompson Mr. Neal Barlin & Ms. Linda Mr. Edward Donley Susan Long Don & Gerry Tosti Pfeiffer Mr. John Donovan Ms. Sandy Malone Bill & Kristine Tribou Mr. & Mrs. Tom Pospisil Chuck & Donna Drake Dr. Robert C. Mann & Ms. Rita Usher Mr. Scott Purcell Ms. Heidi Lauren Duke Dr. Charlotte Kroeker Katharina Volk & James Zetzel Michael & Sue Purdy Ms. Laurie Edelman Dr. and Mrs. Robert Marshall Ms. Deborah Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reyer Mr. & Mrs. Gene Fader Mr. Wes Mason & Heather Bonita Wells Mrs. Lillian N. Richardson Thomas & Mollie Federle LaKor William & Thelda White Ms. Margaret Rishel Ms. Constance Fee Tad & Abby Matley Ms. Deborah Wick Andrew & Cynthia Rodman Mr. Andrew Feng Scott & Tracy McClelland Ms. Lois J. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Randy Roeser Doug & Linda Fish Noelle & Richard McCrum Ms. Meg Wood Ms. Colleen Russell Ms. Cynthia Fitzgerald Mr. Andrew McGowan Joyce & Joe Zanchelli Ms. Beth Sanz Robert & Brenda Flynn Mr. and Mrs. Richard McManus Sam & Pam Scavera Ms. Brenda Foley Paul & Suzanne McPhillips Friends Mr. & Mrs. Gary Schoelkopf Diana Rose Frances Dorian Mehrotra & Sandra Ms. Susan Ashbaker Roman Hedges & Marian Mr. James Frost Fernandes Ms. Susan Atkinson Schwager Edwin Fry & Janice Doskey Mr. Stephen C. Messner & Ms. Vanessa Becerra Judy K. Sheridan Mr. & Mrs. Fulton Fryar Ms. Elizabeth Prelinger Larry & Joy Boland Ms.Carolyn Smith Mr. Gary Fuller Metcafle-Klaw Fund of the Mary Alice Brankman Mr. Jerome Smith Wayne & Margaret Fuller Philadelphia Foundation Stuart & Susan Brayshaw Mr. Mason Snyder & Mr. James Dan & Johanna Gibbs Anne Milano Ms. Cynthia P. Brown Sams G. Kirk & Dale Gleason Jackie Cartwright-Mills & Mr. Walter Butterfield Mr. Wayne Soloway Rachel Goldberg Tim Mills Mr. Thomas Cipullo Ms. Carol Stegen Ms. Catherine Goode Ms. Barbara F. Moore Anthony Cirillo Mr. Matthew A. Stephens Oliver Goodenough & Alison Mrs. Pilar Morgan Ms. Lauren Cook Ms. Barbara R. Strowger Clarkson Mr. Cameron Moss Mr. William Coover Martha & Richard Strum Camille & James Goodman Mr. Timothy Mount Ms. Susan Culver Mr. Michael Togut Jim & Melissa Goodspeed Mr. and Mrs. William Nathan June Curtis Mr. Michael Unterman Terry Gottesman Julie & Irwin Nathanson Mr. & Mrs. Dana P. Deer Sandra Vanno Mark & Kathy Granger Network For Good Ms. Jennifer Diamond Ms. Joan Weinstein Terry & Marie Haas Mrs. Betty L. Organek John & Mary Ann Dorlon Jerry & Gerry Welcher Mr. Stephen Haber Mr. & Mrs. Gene Ostertag Mr. Robert Dubin Ms. Lora O. Wesner Mr. Joseph Hager Sue & Tom Palisano Ms. Jacinta Ebsworth Ms. Carol T. Whalen Ann & John Hall Mr. Johnathon Pape Ms. Joann Engelberth Mr. Kyle White Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Lee and Pamela Ms. Jane Ergood Mr. Dennis Wilson Mr. Michael Heaney Parker Ms. Catherine Anne Foyle Ms. Patricia Wondra LeNaya Hezel Dr. Chad Payton Melissa & Chip Galagaza Ms. Janice Woodbury Mr. Timothy Hill Mr. & Mrs. David Peterson Mr. Herschel Garfein Ms. Patricia R. Zulch Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Holman Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Anne Gregson-Rendino Ms. Shannon Hsu Prochoroff Ms. Janice Hall Members Mr. Larry Hughes Ms. Honora Raphael Ms. Kayleen Hecksher Ms. Katie Abraham Ms. Phyllis M. Hughes David A. Ray & Mimi Bruce Ms. Jane Hendrick Ms. Jennifer Amstutz & Mr. Imbert Huus III Tom & Mary Reagan Ray & Katherine Henrikson Spencer K. Warnick Pam & Scott Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hoff Ms. Tascha Anderson Eric & Kit Isachsen Charles & Anita Richards Sandra Horwitz Mr. B.W. Grant Barnes Ms. Claire Jeffries Kathy Riggins Roger & Melanie Houck Carol R. Barnwell Ms. Heather Jones Kristine Ring-Wilson Sam & Sharon Jerome Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Beaurgard Steve & Peggy Jurow Kay & Ron Roberts Ms. Barbara Joudry Mr. & Mrs. Allan Becker Mr. and Mrs. John Juzaitis Mr. Anthony Rohr Ms. Ruth Kamerman Jonathan Blalock David & Jane Kaufman Bill Fruci & Mark Ryan Ms. Emily Kelly Blue Ridge Motel

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Richard & Margery Coppola Ms. Francesca Mehrotra Participating Matching Gift Programs Ms. Ruth Crosby Mr John Meyer Amazon Smile Michael Doehring Ms. Barbara Miller Amica Companies Foundation Ms. Susan Fiehl Mrs. Linda Milsom Benevity Community Impact Fund Mr. Christopher Filipowicz Susan & Hugh Moore Chevron Foundation Kurt Funke Mr. & Mrs. Mike Moscinski General Electric Foundation Mr. Wesley Gentle Ms. Bernadette A. Nader IBM Foundation Mr. Mark Gibson Judy & David Poultney Johnson & Johsnon Foundation Jonathan Green & Roberta Fels Mary Pratico Prudential Foundation The Hintze Family Juan & Carol Ramirez Ms. Carolyn Hoehle Mr. & Mrs. Carl Saslow Susan Kearing Paul & Robin Setcavage Ms. Molly Kulwin Ms. Phyllis Solar Ms. Melissa Langlais Mr. Abraham Speiser Ms. Phyllis Baggish Lyte Ms. Margaret Strohmeyer Mr. Rick Martin Mr. Jack Swanson Mr. Patrick Martin Ms. Martha Townley Ms. Deborah Massell Janine Vreatt Mr. Ian McEuen

This listing includes donations made from June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021 If there have been any inadvertent errors or omissions, please accept our apologies. For corrections, please contact Darren Woods at (518) 532-7875 or [email protected]

Seagle Festival is Seagle Festival is made possible Seagle Festival is made possible made possible in part by the New York State Council in part by an Essex County Arts by a grant from the on the Arts with the support of Council CAP Grant supported National Endowment Governor Andrew Cuomo and by the Essex County Board of for the Arts the New York State Legislatre Supervisors

Gifts in Tribute, 2020-2021

In Honor of Seth & Margo Bader In Honor of Laurie Edelman In Memory of Phillip Gubitz Mr. Stephen Haber John & Rosemarie Trainer Stephen Haber

In Memory of Dr. Marvin Bernstein In Honor of the Diversity, Equity & In Honor of Beverly Reed Hay Barbara Bernstein Inclusion Task Force David & Ann Chase Wesley Gentle In Honor of A. Ruth Breen In Honor of Jonathan Heaney Ann Breen Metcalfe In Honor of Ted Federle Michael Heaney Thomas & Molly Federle In Honor of Steven Bryant In Memory of Edith Hill Peter Scott Oberdorf In Honor of Robert Feng Tim Hill Andrew Feng In Memory of Clay Burroughs In Memory of Gus Hubert Dusty & Nancy Rhodes In Honor of Joel Friedman Dr. Carole Clifford Mark Bernstein In Memory of Robert Cabat Michael Miller In Honor of Byron Jones Janet Cabat Lee & Pam Parker Cliff & Robin Kulwin John & Rosemarie Trainer In Honor of Hailey Clark In Honor of Ian Kagey Beth Sanz In Honor of Katarina Galagaza Ann Breen Metcalfe Chip & Melissa Galagaza In Honor of David Cohen In Honor of Richard & Betsy Kagey Stephen Cohen In Memory of Susan Goldbecker Carl McInroy & Lynn Togut Irwin & Julie Nathanson Patrick Martin In Memory of Doris Cohen Lynn & Jane Snider Dan & Johanna Gibbs In Honor of Catherine Goode Ann Leyden In Memory of Harry H. & Dorothy In Memory of Erica Crear “Speed” Kelly Pete & Dodie Seagle In Memory of Lance Gregson Kathy Burnham Kelly Anne Gregson-Rendino In Honor of Pierce Delahunt In Honor of Kathy Kelly Diana Rachel Frances In Memory of Tom Grogan James Frost Irma Worrell-Fisher In Memory of Brenda Donley Pete & Dodie Seagle In Honor of Eric Kephart Edward Donley John & Rosemarie Trainer William Coover

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10 In Memory of Joyce Lawrence In Memory of Aaron & Lillian Raphael In Honor of John Trainer Sam & Pam Scavera Honora Raphael Dr. Martin & Phyllis Korn

In Memory of Phillip Lefton In Honor of Lisa Reid In Honor of John & Rosemarie Trainer Andrea Lefton John Collis & Leslie Stevenson Len Kannapel, Vera Trainer and family

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11 Donor Opportunities

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12 Music by JACQUES OFFENBACH English Book by JACK HELBIG, English Lyrics by GREGG OPELKA

Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - July 8 & 17 at 7:30 PM

Stage Director Meaghan Deiter Music Director/Pianist Neill Campbell Set Designer Richard Kagey Lighting Designer James R. Baker Costume Designer Aaron Chvatal Wig & Makeup Designer Hannah Hiers Stage Manager Allison Gerecke

The Cast

Theodorine Allison Fahey Romboidal Alex Koch Hermosa Daniel Esteban Lugo Duke Cacatois XXII Jake Goz Alexis Andrianna Ayala

Theodorine Cover Maria DeConzo Romboidal/Hermosa Cover Patrick Bessenbacher Duke Cacatois XXII Cover Nicholas Fahrenkrug Alexis Cover Ann-Marie Iacoviello

Plot Summary

“How do you solve a problem like Hermosa?” That’s what her parents ask at the beginning of the delightfully loopy Island of Tulipatan. A refined girl of 18 should be sewing or practicing the piano, not outside shooting guns and dreaming about all things military. Meanwhile, the prince, Alexis, also 18, an unusually gentle young man, is far more interested in ornithology than manly pursuits, like fighting. How will these diametrically opposed lovers ever hook up? Oh, that’s only the beginning. Just wait till you see how convoluted l’amour can get on the remote island of Tulipatan, where nobody is who they appear to be. Oh, mon dieu!

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13 Music by HARVEY SCHMIDT Book & Lyrics by TOM JONES The musical is suggested by the play Les Romanesques by Edmund Rostand

Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - July 9 & 15 at 7:30 PM

Stage Director Richard Kagey Music Director/Pianist John Cockerill Set Designer Richard Kagey Lighting Designer James R. Baker Costume Designer Aaron Chvatal Wig & Makeup Designer Hannah Hiers Production Stage Manager Jerry K. Smith

The Cast

The Narrator (El Gallo) Mario Manzo The Girl (Luisa) Justine Alexander The Boy (Matt) Nicholas Fahrenkrug The Boy’s Mother (Hucklebee) Emily Richter The Girl’s Mother (Bellomy) Grace Heldridge The Old Actor (Henry) Alex Koch The Man Who Dies (Mortimer) Adam Benton The Mute Allison Fahey

El Gallo Cover Jose Olivares Luisa Cover Jayden Goldberg Matt Cover Jake Goz Hucklebee Cover Andrianna Ayala Bellomy Cover Maria DeConzo

Plot Summary

The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two mothers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow him into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in El Gallo’s words that, “without a hurt, the heart is hollow.”

Since its opening in May 1960 at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York, and its subsequent revival at the Jerry Orbach Theatre, THE FANTASTICKS remains the longest-running production of any kind in the history of American theatre.

THE FANTASTICKS and the live-stream are presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.mtishows.com

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14 Music by JULES MASSENET Libretto by HENRI CAIN after Charles Perrault

Sung in French with English supertitles Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - July 10 & 16 at 7:30 PM

Stage Director Richard Kagey Music Director/Pianist Jonathan Heaney Set Designer Richard Kagey Lighting Designer James R. Baker Costume Designer Aaron Chvatal Wig & Makeup Designer Hannah Hiers Stage Manager Margaret Shumate

The Cast

Cendrillon Jayden Goldberg Madame de la Haltière Maria DeConzo Le Prince Charmant Patrick Bessenbacher La Fée Ann-Marie Iacoviello Noémie Emily Richter Dorothée Grace Heldridge Pandolfe Jose Olivares Le Roi Adam Benton

Cendrillon Cover Andrianna Ayala Madame de la Haltière Cover Allison Fahey Le Prince Charmant Cover Daniel Esteban Lugo La Fée Cover Justine Alexander Pandolfe/Le Roi Cover Mario Manzo

Plot Summary

A storybook kingdom. Pandolfe, a country gentleman, has married Madame de la Haltière, an imperious countess. She and her daughters, Noémie and Dorothée, bully Pandolfe’s daughter from his first marriage, Lucette—known as Cendrillon. Cendrillon wishes to go to ball of Prince Charming (Le Prince Charmant), but is refused. Her Fairy Godmother (La Fée) grants her wish, but tells her she must leave by midnight. At the ball, Cendrillon and Prince Charming fall in love, but their joy is interrupted as Cendrillon flees before midnight, losing her glass slipper along the way. Again sad and alone, Cendrillon escapes to the forest to die of grief, but her Fairy Godmother again intercedes, allowing the lovers to see each other, and then setting them into an enchanted sleep. Pandolfe finds his daughter and nurses her to health. Cendrillon is convinced all her experiences were just a dream when news arrives that Prince Charming is searching the kingdom for his lost love, insisting each young woman entering the court try on the lost glass slipper. When Cendrillon and her Fairy Godmother arrive, Prince Charming immediately recognizes her. The two declare their love to each other, and all rejoice in the new future queen.

15 Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - July 14 at 7:30 PM & July 17 at 2:00 PM

Stage Directors Richard Kagey & Meaghan Deiter Lighting Designer James R. Baker Production Stage Manager Jerry K. Smith

Program

Act 1, Scene 1 from La Traviata “A Paradox” from The Pirates of Penzance by Giuseppe Verdi by Gilbert & Sullivan

Music Director/Piano - Jonathan Heaney Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Violetta - Emily Richter Frederic - Patrick Bessenbacher Alfredo - Jake Goz Ruth - Allison Fahey Gastone - Daniel Esteban Lugo The Pirate King - Mario Manzo Barone - Mario Manzo Flora - Maria DeConzo Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor Marchese - Adam Benton by Gaetano Donizetti Dottore - Jose Olivares Company Music Director/Piano - Jonathan Heaney Lucia - Justine Alexander Quartet from Die Entführung aus dem Serail Edgardo - Daniel Esteban Lugo by W.A. Mozart Enrico - Mario Manzo Raimondo - Jose Olivares Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Alisa - Maria DeConzo Constanze - Emily Richter Arturo - Alex Koch Blonde - Andrianna Ayala Belmonte - Patrick Bessenbacher Act 1 Finale from Così fan tutte by W.A. Mozart Pedrillo - Alex Koch Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Aria & Duet from Don Pasquale Fiordiligi - Emily Richter by Gaetano Donizetti Dorabella - Grace Heldridge Ferrando - Daniel Esteban Lugo Music Director/Piano - John Cockerill Guglielmo - Adam Benton Norina - Ann-Marie Iacoviello Alfonso - Jose Olivares Malatesta - Nick Fahrenkrug Despina - Jayden Goldberg

Card Trio from Carmen by George Bizet No. 4 Trio from Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss

Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Music Director/Piano - John Cockerill Carmen - Maria DeConzo Rosalinda - Emily Richter Mercedes - Allison Fahey Eisenstein - Nicholas Fahrenkrug Frasquita - Andrianna Ayala Adele - Jayden Goldberg

Jumper Scene from The Falling & The Rising Act 2 Finale from Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss by Zach Redler & Jerre Dye Music Director/Piano - Neill Campbell Music Director/Piano - Neill Campbell Rosalinda - Emily Richter Doctor - Jose Olivares Eisenstein - Nicholas Fahrenkrug Soldier - Ann-Marie Iacoviello Adele - Jayden Goldberg Jumper - Jake Goz Dr. Falke - Mario Manzo Frank - Adam Benton Prince Orlovsky - Grace Heldridge Company

16 The 2021 Children’s Opera is available as a video and will be shown in various locations and schools througout the coming year.

Stage Director Richard Kagey Music Director/Pianist Neill Campbell Set Designer Evan Johnson Lighting Designer James R. Baker Costume Designer Aaron Chvatal Production Stage Manager Jerry K. Smith

The Cast

Papa Bear Mario Manzo Mama Bear Grace Heldridge Baby Bear Alex Koch Goldilocks Justine Alexander

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17 Music by GIACOMO PUCCINI Libretto by LUIGI ILLICA and GIUSEPPE GIACOSA Abridged musical adaptation by STEPHEN LUSMANN

Sung in Italian with English supertitles Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - August 12 & 21 at 7:30 pm

Stage Director Richard Kagey Music Director/Pianist John Cockerill Set Designer Richard Kagey Lighting Designer James R. Baker Costume Designer Pat Seyller Wig & Makeup Designer Hannah Hiers Stage Manager Allison Gerecke

The Cast (in order of vocal appearance)

Marcello Jake Stamatis Rodolfo Sergio Mandujano Colline Jacob O’Shea Schaunard Adam Rodgers Mimì Laura McCauley Musetta Shannon Richards

Marcello Cover Joel Clemens Rodolfo Cover Timothy Lupia Colline Cover Robert Ellsworth Feng Schaunard Cover Logan Dell’Acqua Mimì Cover Victoria Erickson Musetta Cover Megan Fleischmann

Plot Summary

In 1830’s Paris four arty types shiver in a garret - owing rent, but when one of their number, musician Schaunard, earns money they are all set to buy a meal in a nearby restaurant. Poet Rodolfo stays behind to finish his writing and is interrupted by Lucia, known as Mimì, a seamstress from the next apartment. They are instantly attracted to each other and catch the others up at the restaurant where Rodolfo’s painter friend Marcello is re-acquainted with his flirtatious ex-girlfriend Musetta, who dumps her sugar daddy, after getting him to pay everyone’s bill, for him. Some time later Musetta and Marcello are living together, as are Mimì and Rodolfo, but he is aware that she has tuberculosis and is mean to her in the hopes she will leave him for someone who can take better care of her. Eventually she does, Musetta splits from Marcello and the four men resume garret life. They are visited by Musetta, who has sought out Mimì, now living with a wealthy count, but dying, and has brought her back to die in the presence of her true lover and friends. Musetta and Marcello reunite as Rodolfo cries over his Mimì.

18 Music & Libretto by GIAN CARLO MENOTTI

Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - August 13 & 19 at 7:30 pm

Stage Director Meaghan Deiter Music Director/Pianist Jonathan Heaney Set Designer Richard Kagey Lighting Designer James R. Baker Costume Designer Pat Seyller Wig & Makeup Designer Hannah Hiers Stage Manager Margaret Shumate

The Cast (in order of vocal appearance)

Miss Todd Julia Powers Miss Pinkerton Grace Reberg Laetitia Jasmine Rodriguez Bob Logan Dell’Acqua

Miss Todd/Miss Pinkerton Cover Emily Cottam Laetitia Cover Laura McCauley Bob Covers Adam Rodgers & Jake Stamatis

Synopsis Old maid and town busybody Miss Todd, has had no luck in love for over forty years. Her young and catty housemaid Laetitia is wary of becoming an old maid herself. Bob, a wanderer, comes to Miss Todd’s door one afternoon while the town gossip, Miss Pinkerton is visiting. Enamored of his beauty, Laetitia easily convinces Miss Todd to let him stay. Laetitia then convinces Bob to stay by promising him more food and accommodations without cost, and Bob remains, as Miss Todd’s “cousin Steve” to anyone who asks.

The next day, Miss Todd meets Miss Pinkerton in the street, who tells her of an escaped convict, reportedly in the area. The convict matches Bob’s description, and Miss Todd runs home to warn Laetitia that they are harboring a thief and must get rid of him. Once again, Laetitia convinces Miss Todd to let him stay. To keep him from running away and revealing them as accomplices, Miss Todd leaves money out for Bob to “steal.” However, before long she needs more money, and resorts to stealing from her neighbors. Meanwhile, Laetitia is falling in love with the wanderer. Miss Pinkerton soon encounters Miss Todd again and warns her to be careful because the thief (in actuality, Miss Todd) has stolen from the neighbors. Miss Todd plays along. At home, Bob is sick of confinement and plans to leave the next day. Laetitia stumbles upon him as he packs and, desperate, asks him what it will take to keep him there. Bob replies he would like a drink, but there is no alcohol in the house. Laetitia cleverly convinces Miss Todd that, since stealing and drinking are both sinful, breaking into a liquor store wouldn’t be problematic, and they plan to rob the store that night.

The next day, Miss Pinkerton visits Miss Todd at home and informs her that the liquor store has been violated and the owner attacked. A drunken Bob interrupts their conversation, singing loudly upstairs, prompting the shrewd Miss Pinkerton to add that the police are going to search every house to find the thief. Miss Todd shoos Miss Pinkerton out the door, and then she and Laetitia confront Bob about his true identity. They each try to convince him to run off with them, in order to evade the police, but Bob refuses to run away because he has done nothing wrong. Miss Todd flies into a rage, and storms out, saying she will call the police and blame all the theft on him. Glumly, Bob and Laetitia duet on whether to stay and face the charges or leave, and the persuasive Laetitia eventually wins the argument. Vindictively, they steal all of Miss Todd’s valuables, including her car, and ride off together. Miss Todd returns to find her house empty and, realizing her life is now in ruins, collapses in grief.

19 A WORLD PREMIERE OPERA

Music by ROBERT CARL Libretto by RUSSELL BANKS

Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - August 14 & 20 at 7:30 pm

Stage Director Meaghan Deiter Music Director/Pianist Neill Campbell Set Designer Richard Kagey Lighting Designer James R. Baker Costume Designer Pat Seyller Wig & Makeup Designer Hannah Hiers Production Stage Manager Jerry K. Smith Assistant Music Director/Pianist Collin Lowery

The Cast

Charles Ives, the composer as a young man Joel Clemens Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), the author Timothy Lupia Rev. Joseph Twichell, Twain’s best friend Robert Ellsworth Feng Harmony Twichell, Rev. Twichell’s daughter Victoria Erickson Dr. David Twichell, Ives’ best friend, Harmony’s brother Jake Goz Ghost of Livy Clemens, Mrs. Mark Twain Julia Powers Julia Twichell, Rev. Twichell’s wife Emily Cottam Susan Twichell, Rev. Twichell’s youngest child Megan Fleischmann

Charles Ives Cover Logan Dell’Acqua Mark Twain/David Twichell Cover Sergio Mandujano Rev. Twichell Cover Jacob O’Shea Harmony Twichell Cover Jasmine Rodriguez Livy Clemens/Julia Twichell Cover Grace Reberg Susan Twichell Cover Shannon Richards

Robert Carl - composer Robert Carl’s music is performed regularly throughout the US and abroad. It concentrates on solo piano, chamber, orchestral, choral, and electroacoustic media. Its aim is to create a sense of space that provides the listener with a sense of freedom and openness. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (the 1998 Charles Ives Fellowship as well as a 2016 Arts & Letters Award). Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, UCross, Djerassi, Millay, Bogliasco, Camargo, Copland House, Tokyo Wonder Site, and Bellagio. He lived in Japan for three months as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in 2007. New World Records has released three CDs his works (music for strings; electroacoustic pieces inspired by Japan; and large ensemble/orchestral). In 2021 an all-orchestral CD has been released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project to photo: Karen McCoy international acclaim. While he has a substantial catalogue of vocal music, Harmony is his first opera. His collaboration with Russell Banks has been an ongoing joy through the whole process. Carl writes regularly on new music in a variety of forums and magazines, and is the author of Terry Riley’s In C (Oxford University Press). In 2016 Bloomsbury Press released Jonathan Kramer’s posthumous text Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening, which Mr. Carl edited. In fall 2020 Bloomsbury published a book of his essays titled Music Composition in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide to the New Common Practice. He is currently chair of Composition at the Hartt School, University of Hartford.

Russell Banks - librettist Russell Banks is the internationally acclaimed author of twenty-one works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, The Book of Jamaica, Cloudsplitter, Lost Memory of Skin, and most recently, A Permanent Member of the Family, short stories, and Voyager: Travel Writings. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Two of his novels, Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter, were made into award-winning feature photo: Nancie Battaglia films. His essays and reviews have been published in major magazines, and he has written screenplays and poetry.

20 Synopsis

Setting: Midsummer’s Eve, 1908. Keene Valley, New York. The front porch and interior of the Twichell family’s Adirondack summer home.

ACT ONE

Scene 1 – The Twichell family prepares for dinner, proclaiming the bond between the Twichell and Clemens families, by way of the Adirondacks. Harmony and Ives contemplate their love, and when Ives feels ill, we learn Harmony is a nurse. David and Ives recall their long friendship and mutual admiration. As the scene ends, Ives again feel unwell.

Scene 2 – Rev. Twichell tells Twain of Ives’ recent request for Harmony’s hand in marriage. Since Ives has artistic ambitions, Twain declares he is best suited to examine Ives’ fitness for Harmony – Twichell agrees. In his old age, Twain is embittered with love and conceives the notion to sabotage the marriage, despite the warning voice of Lily in his head.

Scene 3 – Harmony expresses her worry for Ives’ health, but he assures her he is fine. Twain asks to speak with Ives and during his interrogation suggests that if Ives wishes to be an artist worthy of Harmony, he must prove himself in the world as his and Rev. Twichell’s own fathers had done. Suggesting he go north to gain wisdom from the Inuit, Twain points out there’s a train to Montreal that leaves nightly from nearby Westport. Ives pretends to agree.

Scene 4 – As dinner is about to begin, Ives enters dressed for the arctic, saying his farewell to all. Harmony, calling his bluff, says he can’t leave before dinner. Ives tells David he is just teasing Twain, while David asks some leading questions regarding Ives’ health. David diagnoses that Ives is diabetic, which is uncurable. A devastated Ives vows to leave to wrap up his affairs and contemplates suicide so as not to burden Harmony. He implores David to keep his secret.

ACT TWO

Scene 1 - At dinner, Ives announces he must leave in the morning for New York. A stunned Harmony confronts Ives after dinner and Ives tell her he must break off the engagement, quoting Twain’s notion that he must confront adversity before being worthy of her. Harmony tells her parents of the broken engagement and places the blame on Twain. Twichell confronts Twain and blames him for Harmony’s broken heart. Twain is surprised as he hadn’t intended this outcome, but suggests that if a bit of mockery from an old man dissuaded him, perhaps Ives isn’t fit for Harmony after all.

Scene 2 – Harmony has intuited Ives’ illness and asks David’s opinion. David breaks his vow and concurs. Harmony then confronts Ives with the truth and vows to comfort and care for him in marriage, despite his illness. Ives rebuffs her, arguing that if their positions were reversed, she would not allow the marriage to move forward for his sake. He leaves to pack. Twain has overheard the full conversation and now knows the truth as Harmony is consoled by her parents.

Scene 3 – Rev. Twichell and Julia implore Twain to change Ives’ mind. Moved by all he has learned of Ives, he agrees. As Twain and Ives are left alone, the elder man retracts his earlier recommendations as a poor attempt at humor and resumes his interrogation. After Ives alludes to the truth of his illness, Twain tells him that no matter the suffering and pain life offers, not to throw away love, and then predicts Ives’ future success in life, love and art. Ives’ confidence and humor rise as the two men sit at the piano for a harmonious (in an Ivesian way) duet.

Special Thanks to our Media Sponsor for HARMONY - North Country Public Radio

This production of HARMONY is a venture of The American Center for New Works Development at Seagle Festival by arrangement with the composer.

Any unauthorized video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

21 Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater - August 18 at 7:30 PM & August 21 at 2:00 PM

Stage Directors Richard Kagey & Meaghan Deiter Lighting Designer James R. Baker Production Stage Manager Jerry K. Smith

Program “Be Our Guest” from Beauty & The Beast “If I Loved You” by Ashman & Menken from Carousel by Rodgers & Hammerstein Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Music Director/Piano - Neill Campbell Julia Powers, Jake Stamatis & Company Megan Fleischmann & Jake Stamatis

“You Could Drive a Person Crazy” from Company “Comedy Tonight/Love Is In The Air” by Sondheim from Side by Side by Sondheim by Sondheim Music Director/Piano - Jonathan Heaney Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Megan Fleischmann, Laura McCauley & Grace Reberg Joel Clemens, Emily Cottam, Logan Dell’Acqua, Victoria Erickson, Laura McCauley & Julia Powers “It Takes a Woman” from Hello, Dolly! by Herman Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery “Politics & Poker” from Fiorello! by Harnick & Bock Timothy Lupia, Jacob O’Shea, Adam Rodgers Music Director/Piano - Jonathan Heaney & Male Ensemble Logan Dell’Acqua, Jake Goz, Timothy Lupia, Jacob O’Shea, Adam Rodgers & Jake Stamatis “What You Don’t Know About Women” from City of Angels by Coleman “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago by Kander & Ebb Music Director/Piano - John Cockerill Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Emily Cottam & Grace Reberg Emily Cottam, Megan Fleischmann, Grace Reberg, Shannon Richards & Jasmine Rodriguez “Poor Baby/Barcelona” from Company by Sondheim Music Director/Piano - Neill Campbell “Money Isn’t Everything” Victoria Erickson, Megan Fleischmann, Sergio Mandujano, from Allegro by Rodgers & Hammerstein Laura McCauley, Grace Reberg, Shannon Richards, Music Director/Piano - John Cockerill & Jasmine Rodriguez Emily Cottam, Victoria Erickson, Laura McCauley, & Shannon Richards “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” from Follies by Sondheim “Lily’s Eyes” from The Secret Garden by Simon Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Joel Clemens, Victoria Erickson, Logan Dell’Acqua & Timothy Lupia Sergio Mandujano & Jasmine Rodriguez “Journey On” from Ragtime by Ahrens & Flaherty “Elegance” from Hello, Dolly! by Herman Music Director/Piano - Neill Campbell Music Director/Piano - Jonathan Heaney Joel Clemens, Megan Fleischmann, Jake Goz, Timothy Lupia, Grace Reberg, Shannon Richards Jacob O’Shea, Adam Rodgers & Jasmine Rodriguez & Adam Rodgers “A Weekend In The Country” “You’ll Never Get Away From Me” from A Little Night Music by Sondheim from Gypsy by Styne Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Emily Cottam, Victoria Erickson, Robert Ellsworth Feng, Robert Ellsworth Feng & Julia Powers Jake Goz, Laura McCauley, Julia Powers, Shannon Richards, Jake Stamatis & Company “Just In Time” from Bells are Ringing by Styne Music Director/Piano - John Cockerill “I’ll Be Seeing You” by Fain Joel Clemens, Jasmine Rodriguez & Company Music Director/Piano - Jonathan Heaney Company “Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton by Miranda Music Director/Piano - Collin Lowery Sergio Mandujano & Adam Rodgers

22 2021 Seagle Festival Faculty & Staff

General Director Tony Kostecki Artistic Director Darren K. Woods

Managing Director & Lighting Designer James Baker Technical Director Jim Koehnle Props Artisan Olivia Bastien Company Manager Sarah Lockwood Assitant to the Set Designer/ Scenic Artist Evan Johnson Voice Faculty Byron Jones Assistant Technical Director Gabi Ramsundar Stephen Lusmann Carpenter Jake Wallin Chad Payton Technical Intern Ben Niemczyk Music & Coaching Faculty Neill Campbell Video/Streaming Technician Zach Weeks John Cockerill Jonathan Heaney Costume Designers/Directors Aaron Chvatal Collin Lowery Pat Seyller Assistant Costume Director Kathryn Williams Director of Productions Richard Kagey Wardrobe Steward Ana Maria Licon

Stage Directors Meaghan Deiter Wig & Makeup Designer Richard Kagey & Wigmaster Hannah Hiers Production Stage Manager Jerry K. Smith Wig & Makeup Assistant Steven Bryant Stage Managers Allison Gerecke Margaret Shumate Executive Chef Kyra Edmondson Custodian/Sous Chef Eric Kephart Piano Technician John Trainer

2021 Seagle Festival Leadership Profiles

Tony Kostecki, General Director Madrid, Opera Trieste, Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, Baltimore Opera, Santa Tony Kostecki was appointed General Director of Fe Opera and many others. Seagle Festival in January of 2008. Previous to this appointment, Tony held the position of General Jim Koehnle, Managing Director/Technical Director Manager at Seagle from 2006-2007. Before moving Jim Koehnle joined Seagle Festival full-time in 2015 into management, he was on the faculty of Seagle and his duties include oversight of all technical Festival as a vocal coach/pianist and conductor theater aspects of the Festival’s productions, as well for ten years. Between 2002 and 2007, Tony was as oversight of the Seagle Festival buildings and Director of Education at Fort Worth Opera and also grounds. Along with his creative expertise, Jim brings Director of the Fort Worth Opera Studio. From 2002- with him nearly 20 years of professional experience 2007 he was also the Fort Worth Opera Chorus Master and writer of many in the technical theatre industry. He has been one of of the supertitle translations for Fort Worth Opera. As a vocal coach/pianist, the resident scenic designers at Seagle Festival since Tony worked for Fort Worth Opera, Shreveport Opera, Florida Grand Opera, 2015. He is also credited as the associate designer Utah Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera Express, and Kansas City Civic Opera. of the world premiere production of Voire Dire at Fort A native of Topeka, Kansas, he received his BA in Music from Benedictine Worth Opera and associate designer of the world premiere of The Falling College in Atchison, Kansas, and his MM Degree in Piano Accompanying and and the Rising which toured the North Country. Jim received his BFA in Organ Performance from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Production Design and Technology from Ohio University, and his MFA in Scenic Design from Kent State University. Academic work includes teaching Darren K. Woods, Artistic Director technical theatre and design courses at Syracuse University, Kent State Darren K. Woods was appointed General Director of University, and Lindenwood University as well as a position as technical Seagle Festival in the summer of 1996. Since that director and scenic designer for Lindenwood University. His professional time, Seagle has experienced incredible growth in work includes positions as props artisan/carpenter for The Virginia Stage almost every aspect including budget, production Company and Syracuse Stage as well as props master for the Pennsylvania quality, facilities and faculty/staff. Darren transitioned Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Porthouse Theatre. to Artistic Director in January 2008. In February Additionally, Jim continues to work as a cabinetmaker and freelance 2017, Darren returned full-time to Seagle Festival furniture designer. and is now also leading the Colony’s development and fundraising efforts. Darren was General Director of Richard Kagey, Director of Productions the Fort Worth Opera, from 2001 to 2017. Under his Richard Kagey began his career at Seagle Festival leadership, the Fort Worth Opera increased subscription and donor bases as a 16-year-old singer in 1963. Since then he has and also moved from a full season to a festival format company. Prior to his continued to act, direct, design and teach for colleges, appointment in Fort Worth, he was the General Director of the Shreveport universities, the Broadway Theatre, professional opera Opera in Louisiana. Mr. Woods is a frequent vocal competition judge. Over companies and regional and community theatres the past few years, he has served as a panel judge for the Richard Tucker across the US. He has designed and directed more Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Lieber than 300 productions including standard repertoire, Competition, the Denver Opera Guild Competition, the Dallas Opera Guild children’s operas, and world premieres. He considers Competition and the Marguerite McCammon Competition. He has been a himself to be lucky to have spent his career discovering guest grant panelist for the State of Louisiana (Music, Opera and Theater), new works or new approaches to old works and then sharing them with an the National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Nevada and the Fort audience - “there is nothing better.” Worth Arts Council. Mr. Woods performed as a professional operatic tenor for twenty years prior to beginning his management positions in such venues as: The New York City Opera, Carnegie Hall, Washington Opera, L’Opera

23 2021 Seagle Festival Faculty/Staff Profiles

James R. Baker, Lighting Designer director and conductor at Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre in Grand Lake, James R. Baker just graduated from the University of CO for three seasons. He is a company member of Chicago Fringe Opera Memphis with an MFA in Theatre: Lighting and Sound and was featured on the recording of Ross Crean’s The Great God Pan Design. He has worked on many shows like Small (Navona Records, 2017). He is currently the Assistant Conductor at Tri- Mouth Sounds, Inherit the Wind, Be More Chill, and Cities Opera in Binghamton, NY. Working. While he has been a Master Electrician for a lot of shows his main passion is Design. He’s excited Meaghan Deiter, Stage Director to be working with the Seagle Festival team and An Emerging Artist at Seagle from 2008-2010, hopes you enjoy the show. If you would like to check Meaghan Deiter is excited to be returning to the out his work visit his website: https://jrbaker0811. hill to direct three pieces and lead classes in acting wixsite.com/home and movement this summer. Meaghan is currently a Professor of Practice in Music Theatre and Opera Olivia Bastien, Props Master at the College of the Holy Cross where she teaches Olivia Bastien is a currently obtaining her BFA in acting and voice. She holds an MM in Voice from Theatre Design And Technology at the University Of the University of Kansas and an MFA in Acting from Wisconsin – Stevens Point. In their 2020-21 Season Indiana University. Meaghan has performed on the she was a Writer, Director, and Assistant Scenic stages of Virginia Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Saratoga, Chautauqua Designer for In This Moment: Reflections of Our Time, Opera, Kentucky Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, and Ash Lawn Opera among Lighting Designer for Afterimages 2020, and Scenic others, and recent directing engagements include projects with Opera Designer for The Melody Lingers On. Olivia looks Saratoga, College of the Holy Cross, Shenandoah Conservatory, New Voices forward to completing her degree next year. Opera, and Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.

Steven Bryant, Wig & Makeup Artist Allison Gerecke, Stage Manager Steven W. Bryant has designed costumes, wigs and Allison Gerecke is excited to be spending her first make-up for some of the most prestigious companies summer at the Seagle Festival as a stage manager. She in the United States. He has designed for Seagle is currently pursuing her BFA in Stage and Production Festival for more than 20 years. His designs have Management at Carnegie Mellon University, where also been seen on the stages of San Diego Opera, Fort recent credits include the New Works Series and Worth Opera, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Marie Antoinette, as well as assistant stage managing Grand Opera and New York City Opera to name a Yardbird at Pittsburgh Opera. In her free time, she few. World premieres include Bernstein’s Quiet Place, coaches gymnastics and plays the flute. Picker’s Emmeline, Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls and J.F.K. by David T. Little. His Broadway credits include Gentlemen Jonathan Heaney, Vocal Coach/Pianist Prefer Blonds and Julie Taymor’s Green Bird. He has designed costumes for Jonathan Heaney is a pianist, vocal coach, and many operas, including Frau Margot by Thomas Pasatieri and Britten’s The conductor based in New York City. He currently Turn of the Screw for Opera Omaha. He recently completed a project with serves as a staff pianist and vocal coach at Manhattan Francis Ford Coppola called Distant Visions. School of Music, and Music Director of River City Opera in Richmond, VA. In October 2019 he joined Neill Campbell, Vocal Coach/Pianist On Site Opera as rehearsal/orchestral pianist for their Pianist Neill Campbell will take part in his first production of The Turn of the Screw, and rejoined summer season at Seagle Festival having been fall- them as assistant conductor for their February 2020 season pianist/coach for the past two years. Neill production of Das Barbecü. In the summer of 2019, has been a pianist/coach at Fargo-Moorehead Opera, he was a member of the coaching faculty at the Seagle Festival, working on Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center, productions of Oklahoma! and Le Nozze di Figaro. He recently completed a Gulfshore Opera, Pensacola Opera, and Shreveport year as Piano Fellow for the Vocal Arts department at the Juilliard School, Opera. At Shreveport, Neill was a Resident Artist, and returned in the fall of 2018 as pianist for Juilliard Opera’s production of where he served for two years as chorus master, The Turn of the Screw. He spent the summer of 2018 in Italy as a pianist rehearsal pianist, and pianist for the Shreveport and coach at Opera Lucca and Classic Lyric Arts in Novafeltria. Previously, Opera Xpress outreach and touring program. Most recently, Neill was the he served as a staff pianist for the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music coach and Program Director for the Gate City Bank Young Artist Program at Center in 2014-17 for their productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Fargo-Moorehead Opera, where he was Music Director for Three Way and Così fan tutte, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Albert Herring, Don Giovanni, and coach/accompanist for The Barber of Seville. Neill has performed across Sweeney Todd. He was also the assistant conductor for Die Zauberflöte and the United States, and internationally in Italy and in Havana, Cuba. Neill is the world premiere of Falling Angel by J. Mark Scearce. As Music Director a graduate of Michigan State University, where he received both his MM in of City Lyric Opera, he led productions of La Cenerentola, Gianni Schicchi, Collaborative Piano, and his BM in Piano Performance. Roméo et Juliette, and L’elisir d’amore. He earned his bachelor’s degree in piano performance, summa cum laude, from Washington University in Aaron Chvatal, Costume Designer/Director St. Louis, and his master’s degree in vocal accompanying from Manhattan Aaron is thrilled to be returning for a second season. School of Music under the tutelage of Warren Jones. Previous Seagle design credits include Monkey and Francine (Designer), Marriage of Figaro and Evita Hannah Hiers, Wig & Makeup Designer and (Coordinator). Aaron’s regional opera design credits Wig Master include the world premiere of Mayo (Crane School of Hannah Hiers is from Orlando, FL and graduated Music at SUNY Potsdam), two seasons as Resident with a BA in Design Technology with a focus on wigs Costume Designer for the Janiec Opera Company and makeup from the University of West Florida in at Brevard Music Center, six seasons as Resident Pensacola. Her work has previously been seen in Costume Designer and Coordinator for Opera on the various UWF productions. Hannah also works with the James, several summers as Costume Shop Manager for the Castleton Opera Pensacola Opera & the Saenger Theatre as a wigs and Festival, and one year as Resident Costume Designer for the University of makeup artist. This is her third summer with Seagle Kentucky. Festival and is excited for another summer on the hill

John Cockerill, Vocal Coach/Pianist Pianist and vocal coach John Cockerill joined the Seagle Festival music faculty in 2018 and has been music director for The Great Gatsby and The Manchurian Candidate. Cockerill holds an MM in Musicology from UNL and a MM in Collaborative Piano from CU-Boulder. Active in opera and musical theatre, he has served on the coaching staff at Des Moines Metro Opera, and he was the assistant music

24 2021 Seagle Festival Faculty/Staff Profiles

Evan Johnson, Scenic Artist Stephen Lusmann, Voice Teacher Evan Johnson is ecstatic to be returning to the hill Stephen Lusmann has enjoyed a successful this summer! He just finished his Senior year at international career singing over forty leading baritone the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where he roles with major opera houses, including the Oper studied Theatre Design and Technology. In the fall, der Stadt Bonn, Opera de Monte Carlo, Stadttheater Evan will be attending Boston University to continue Luzern, Washington National Opera, Fort Worth his studies in Scenic Design. He would like to thank Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre everyone at Seagle for the opportunities they have and Glimmerglass Opera among many others. As an created and his family for supporting him in his work. active concert soloist he has performed at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall and with numerous symphony Byron Jones, Voice Teacher orchestras and festivals in the United States and Europe. On recordings, Washington DC area artist/teacher Byron Jones is Mr. Lusmann may be heard in Richard Strauss’ opera Der Friedenstag on well-known to audiences, having performed regularly the Koch International label, Operngala on Tonstudio AMOS, and on E. E. for more than three decades in opera, concert, recital Cummings: An American Circus, songs of Logan Skelton on the Centaur and intimate cabaret settings, in such venues as Records label. He also recorded two more CDs of Skelton’s songs that were the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Opera House, and released in April 2013 on the Blue Griffin label:Ohr Songs: The Mad Potter, Millennium Stage, Source Theatre, Lisner Auditorium, Clyburn Songs: A Kind of Weather and Anderson Songs: Through the Eyes the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, of an Islander. His students are having tremendous success performing and numerous smaller regional theatres. A versatile professionally in opera, concert, musical theater and young artist programs artist, he continually seeks out new challenges. Jones throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. They are performing has received critical praise for his warmth and beauty of tone and clear, with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, expressive use of language. He has performed with the Washington Opera, Washington National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Baltimore Opera, Opera Vivente, and Florentine Opera. He remains active as Bayerische Staatsoper München and on Broadway. In addition they are a singer in the National Capital Region. Singers from his Seagle studio have winning prestigious international vocal competitions and are members of gone on to sing at Santa Fe, LA Opera, Glimmerglass, Wolf Trap, Des Moines university voice faculties. He is a Professor of Music at the University of Metro, Norwegian National Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Center, Lyric Opera of Michigan where he was awarded the Harold Haugh Award for Excellence in Chicago, Virginia Opera, Opera Toledo, Opera Carolina, Florid Grand, Opera Studio Teaching in 2020, was the voice teacher for the Fort Worth Opera in the Heights, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and have been award winners in Studio from 2010-2017, taught at Music in the Marché in Mondavio, Italy the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. Dr. Jones is Professor of and has been a voice teacher at Seagle Festival since 2001. Voice at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. A specialist in languages, especially French, he enjoys helping singers Ben Niemczyk, Technical Intern unlock the expressive potential of the languages in which they sing. He Ben Niemczyk has been working professionally in the theater industry for returns to Seagle Festival in 2021 for his 9th season as a member of the five years, and is very excited to be working here at Seagle Festival this voice faculty. He holds degrees in French Language and Literature from the summer. He is now a junior at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point as Universities of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Massachusetts-Amherst, and a technical theater major, with an emphasis in lighting design. degrees in Vocal Performance from the University of Maryland-College Park (Maryland Opera Studio) and Shenandoah University. Chad Payton, Voice Teacher Dr. Chad R. Payton is excited to return to Seagle Ana Maria Licon, Wardrobe Steward Festival for his fourteenth summer! Previous to Ana Maria Licon is currently attending Utah State University and will be beginning teaching voice at Seagle in 2016, he was starting her Senior year this fall, studying theatre technology with an a two-time young artist (2002, 2005) and served emphasis in costume design. Throughout her time there, she has worked as General Manager (2010-2015). Dr. Payton is an in the costume shop creating patterns and stitching for shows such as Our Associate Professor of Voice and Assistant Dean for Town, She Kills Monsters, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Student Success at Capital University in Columbus, She has also worked backstage for several shows including Title of Show OH. Since 2016, his private NYC Studio and Seagle and Xanadu. She is excited to join Seagle Festival for her first season and Emerging Artists have placed in various levels of the continue expanding her costuming experience. Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and are singing with Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Chautauqua Opera Company, Sarah Lockwood, Company Manager Sarasota Opera, Central City Opera, Opera Saratoga, Opera Theatre of St. Sarah Lockwood is excited to return to the hill for her Louis, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Delaware, Middlebury Opera, and have fourth summer! When she’s not in the Adirondacks, received Career Blueprint Awards from Opera America. His music theatre Sarah lives in Minneapolis working at the Children’s artists have been seen in Naked Boys Singing in NYC, have won the national Theatre Company. She graduated with her Bachelor of music theatre NATS competition, and are singing at festivals such as the Music in music industry with a minor in management International Performing Arts Institute in Germany. from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio in May of 2017. She has previously worked with the National Gabi Ramsundar, Asst. Technical Director Theatre for Children, Golden Horseshoe the Musical Gabi Ramsundar graduated with her BA in Theatre in in West Virginia, the Columbus Association for the 2020 and is grateful to be returning to Seagle Festival Performing Arts, Jazz Arts Group Columbus, and the Capital University for her second season. This year, she is serving as Conservatory choral department. Assistant Technical Director for the summer season. She looks forward to collaborating and getting Collin Lowery, Vocal Coach/Pianist back to making theatre with a surreally talented Collin Lowery is a pianist and vocal coach from Mobile, Alabama. He earned team of people. Her family is living in Michigan and his bachelors and masters degrees in piano performance from the University Tennessee, and she plans to return to the south after of Alabama, where he also held a graduate teaching assistantship in the this contract. Department of Theatre & Dance. During that time, Collin performed widely in recitals, master classes, musical theatre productions, and conference Pat Seyller, Costume Designer/Director workshops, including at Southeastern Theatre Conference and the Federal Pat Seyller has been on the Seagle Festival staff since University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. Before pursuing his doctorate in 1996. She is one of the most sought-after costumers collaborative piano at Florida State University, Collin worked as a faculty in the United States today, having served as assistant accompanist and instructor of musical theatre for three years at Auburn to some of the top designers in the world. She is University. He spent several summers accompanying and music directing Costume Director of Opera Theatre of St Louis and for Lees-McRae College’s summer theatre program in Banner Elk, North the Virginia Opera. During the pandemic Ms. Seyller Carolina. At Florida State, Collin has held graduate assistantships in studio worked with the VA Opera and the VA Arts Festival to create and film 2 children’s operas for Virginia schools accompanying and opera accompanying. and a live performance with Kyle Lange (Seagle fame) of Trouble in Tahiti. Her designs for Seagle Festival have been seen in Cinderella, Candide, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Lysistrata, The Merry Widow, Don Giovanni, A Little Night Music, Once Upon a Mattress, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Carmen and many others.

25 2021 Seagle Festival Faculty/Staff Profiles

Margaret Shumate, Stage Manager Zach Weeks, Video/Streaming Technician Margaret Shumate is delighted to be working with the Seagle Festival this Zach Weeks is traditionally a lighting designer summer. Recent credits include As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s and is excited to explore this newer area of live Dream with Much Ado About Shakespeare and, most recently, assistant entertainment. Zach has recently moved to Ohio stage managing Semele with Pittsburgh Opera. Margaret also contributes to after spending the past 4 years designing in New many other flavors of projects, including sound designing for experimental York City. Zach’s recent credits include: Peter and the drive-in theatre and serving as the All-University Orchestra’s Manager at starcatcher (Here Arts Center), Little Shop of Horrors Carnegie Mellon University, where she is currently pursuing her BFA in (Sheen Center), Pushkin (Sheen Center), Your a Good Stage and Production Management. Man Charlie Brown and Little Prince (Flea). Zach has also worked as a programmer and Assistant Designer Jerry K. Smith, Stage Manager on several projects in New York. Zach is excited for the future as things Jerry K. Smith returns for his eighth season. Most begins to safety reopen. To learn more about Zach go to zwdesigns.net. recently working on the Stage Management staff at Minnesota Opera as the stage manager of Edward Kathryn Williams, Asst. Costume Director Tulane (world premiere) and The Barber of Seville Kathryn Williams is a rising sophomore working and managing several virtual COVID safe productions toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts in costume design and such as Albert Herring and Opera in the Outfield. technology at the University of Oklahoma. Recent Some other favorite credits and companies include work at U of Oklahoma includes assistant to the Silent Night & JFK at Fort Worth Opera, Austin Opera, costume designer for Handel’s Rodelinda and stitcher and Michigan Opera Theatre. Jerry has also worked in for Rodelinda, Grand Hotel, A Christmas Carol, and various shops and backstage departments at major arenas, event venues, L’enfant et les sortilèges. She was awarded the on television sets, and in educational settings as both union and non-union Schmidt and Jones award for ‘Excellence in Costume employee. Design’ for her work on Big Fish: A New Broadway Musical at Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy. Currently, Kathryn works as Jake Wallin, Carpenter an undergraduate assistant, in the costume studio where she works at the Jake Wallin is so excited to spend his first summer Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Art’s University Theatre. with the Seagle Festival as a Scenic Carpenter. Jake lives in Cleveland, TN, where he graduated from Lee University in 2020 with a BA in Theatre. Jake loves to make theatre happen in any way he can, and hopes to pursue a career in performance.

2021 Seagle Festival Emerging Artists

KEY: HT = Hometown Patrick Bessenbacher, tenor ED = Education/Training RCT = Recent Engagements HT: Overland Park, Kansas ED: BM, University of Colorado-Boulder; MM Juilliard Justine Alexander, soprano School of Music HT: South Lyon, Michigan RCT: Benedict, Beatrice et Benedict, George Bailey, ED: BM, Michigan State University It’s a Wonderful Life, Tony, West Side Story, Lurcanio, RCT: Eurydice, Orpheus in the Underworld, Servilia, La Ariodante, Eklund Opera; Monkey, Monkey & Francine Clemenza di Tito, Nella, Gianni Schicchi, MSU Opera; in the City of Tigers, Ed Mavole, The Manchurian Pole Star, The Little Prince, Savannah Voice Festival Candidate, Seagle 2019; Willie Mossop, Hobson’s Seagle 2021: Goldilocks, The Three Bears, Luisa, The Choice, CU NOW Fantasticks Seagle 2021: Le Prince Charmant, Cendrillon Joel Clemens, baritone HT: Ashburn, Virginia Andrianna Ayala, soprano ED: BM, James Madison University, MM Boston HT: Orange, Connecticut Conservatory at Berklee ED: BM, Temple University Recent: Manfred, For a Look or a Touch, Boston RCT: Beth, Little Women, Fortuna/Giunone, Il ritorno Conservatory; Stephon, Iolanthe, Valentin, Faust, d’Ulisse, Ensemble, Così fan tutte, Dido and Aeneas, Pirate King, The Pirates of Penzance, Joseph De Rocher, Temple University Opera Theatre Dead Man Walking, Captain Corcoran, H.M.S. Pinafore, Seagle 2021: Alexis, The Island of Tulipatan James Madison University Seagle 2021: Charles Ives, Harmony Emily Cottam, mezzo-soprano HT: Layton, Utah Adam Benton, baritone ED: BM, Utah State University; MM Arizona State HT: Jacksonville, Florida University ED: BM, Stetson University RCT: Charlotte, A Little Night Music, Pinocchio, RCT: Sarastro, The Magic Flute, Achillas, Giulio Cesare, Pinocchio, Tri-Cities Opera; Peron’s Mistress, Evita, L’arbe/La bergere Louis XV, L’enfant et les sortileges, Dora, The Manchurian Candidate, Seagle 2019; Stetson University Opera Theater; Chorus/Fiorello Cendrillon, Cendrillon, Serse, Serse, Marie, Marie (cover), Fiorello, Vero Beach Opera; Bob Becket, Begins, Arizona State University H.M.S. Pinafore, First Coast Opera St. Augustine SMC 2021: Julia Twitchell, Harmony; Seagle Fall- Seagle 2021: Le Roi, Cendrillon, Mortimer, The Season Artist Fantasticks

26 2021 Seagle Festival Emerging Artists

Maria DeConzo, mezzo-soprano Jake Goz, tenor HT: Oradell, New Jersey HT: East Northport, New York ED: BM, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory; MM, Mannes ED: BM, Syracuse University; MM, Boston Conservatory School of Music at Berklee RCT: Hansel (cover), Hansel & Gretel, City Lyric RCT: Beadle Bamford, Sweeney Todd, Lowell House Opera; Mother (cover), Amahl and the Night Visitors, Opera; Younger Thompson (cover), Glory Denied, Sadie Felderman (cover) On Site Opera; Aunt Eller, Eddie Pensier, Bremen Town Musicians, L’Aumonier, Oklahoma!, Marcellina, The Marriage of Figaro, Seagle Dialogues of the Carmelites, Boston Conservatory; Will 2019; Mrs. Emma Jones, Street Scene, Marcellina Parker, Oklahoma!, Don Basilio, The Marriage of Figaro, (cover), The Marriage of Figaro, Mannes Opera; Meg, Seagle 2019; Giuseppe, La traviata, Syracuse Opera; Little Women, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival; Dinah, Gherardo, Gianni Schicchi, Syracuse University Trouble in Tahiti, Mother Marie, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Carmen Seagle 2021: Duke Cacatois, The Island of Tulipatan, David Twitchell, (cover), Mercedes, The Tragedy of Carmen, Balwin Wallce Opera; Hansel, Harmony Hansel & Gretel, Manhattan Opera Studio. Seagle 2021: Madame de la Haltière, Cendrillon Grace Heldridge, mezzo-soprano HT: Omaha, Nebraska Logan Dell’Acqua, baritone ED: BM, University of Kansas HT: Traverse City, Michigan RCT: Sesto, Giulio Cesare, The Mother, Amahl and the ED: BM, DePauw University, MM, University of Michigan Night Visitors, Ensemble, The Elixir of Love, Candide, RCT: Dr. Falke, Die Fledermaus, Marcello, La bohème, KU Opera; Rapunzel, Into the Woods, Becky, Hairspray, Bob, Highway One, Der Lautsprecher, Der Kaiser von PLVCT+; Ensemble, Falstaff, Witches chorus, Macbeth, Atlantis, University of Michigan; Figaro, Le nozze Lawrence Opera Theatre di Figaro, Frank Maurrant, Street Scene, DePauw Seagle 2021: Mama Bear, The Three Bears, Dorothèe, University; Dancaïre/Moralès, Carmen, Bay View Music Cendrillon, Bellomy, The Fantasticks Festival. Seagle 2021: Bob, The Old Maid & The Thief Ann-Marie Iacoviello, soprano HT: North Andover, Massachusetts Victoria Erickson, soprano ED: BM, Ithaca College; MM, Boston University HT: Northfield, Minnesota RCT: Marianna, Forbidden Love, Cambridge Chamber ED: BM, Concordia College; MM, UNC Greensboro Ensemble; Susanna (cover), The Marriage of Figaro, RCT: Nedda (cover), Pagliacci, Greensboro Opera; VOX New England; Queen of the Night, The Magic Blanche de la Force, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Flute, Najade, Ariadne auf Naxos, Miami Music Festival; Saltworks Opera; Alice Ford, Falstaff, Pamina, The Cricket/Chicken/Cub, The Cunning Little Vixen, Selena Magic Flute, UNCG Opera Theatre; Liu, Turandot, North St. George, Dolores Claiborne, Girl, After Life, Emmie, Carolina Summer Opera Albert Herring, Boston University Opera Institute. Seagle 2021: Harmony Twichell, Harmony; Seagle Fall- Seagle 2021: La Fèe, Cendrillon Season Artist Alex Koch, tenor Allison Fahey, mezzo-soprano HT: Carrolton, Texas HT: Sebastian, Florida ED: BM, Texas Christian University ED: BM, Stetson University: MM Yale School of Music RCT: Dick McGann, Street Scene, Announcer, Yeltsin RCT: Third Lady, The Magic Flute, Tolomeo, Giulio in Texas, Dallas, Service Provider, Bardolfo, Falstaff, Cesare, Shepherd, L’enfant et les sortileges, Stetson Pastia, The Tragedy of Carmen, Puck, A Midsummer University Night’s Dream, TCU Opera; Villager, Pagliacci, Festival Seagle 2021: Theodorine, The Island of Tulipatan, Opera Mute, The Fantasticks Seagle 2021: Baby Bear, The Three Bears, Romboidal, The Island of Tulipatan, Henry, The Fantasticks

Nicholas Fahrenkrug, baritone Daniel Esteban Lugo, tenor HT: Davenport, Iowa HT: El Paso, Texas ED: BM, Lawrence Conservatory: MM Louisiana State ED: BM, Boston Conservatory at Berklee University RCT: Ernesto (cover), Don Pasquale, Eddie Pensier, RCT: Il Conte, The Marriage of Figaro, Street Singer, Bremen Town Musicians, First Commissioner, Dialogues Benstein’s Mass, Raimbaud, Le comte Ory, Lawrence of the Carmelites, Younger Brother, Dead Man Walking, University; Harlekin, Ariadne auf Naxos, Utah Vocal Boston Conservatory Arts Academy Seagle 2021: Hermosa, The Island of Tulipatan Seagle 2021: Matt, The Fantasticks

Robert Ellsworth Feng, bass HT: Kailua, Hawaii Timothy Lupia, tenor ED: BM, Peabody Institute; MM, Manhattan School of HT: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Music ED: BA, Lebanon Valley College; MM, Westminster RCT: Il Commendatore, Don Giovanni, Il Conte Rodolfe, Choir College La sonnambula, Opera Alchemy; Dottore Grenvil, La RCT: Dallas, Service Provider, Jazz Trio, Trouble traviata, Pastor Avery, Emmeline, Nourabad, The Pearl in Tahiti, Tamino, The Magic Flute, Alfred, Die Fishers, Manhattan School of Music; Sarastro, The Fledermaus, Chevalier de la Force, Dialogues of the Magic Flute, Bartolo, The Marriage of Figaro, Manhattan Carmelites, Westminster Opera Theatre; Tamino, The Opera Studio Magic Flute, CoOPERAtive Seagle 2021: Rev. Joseph Twitchell, Harmony Seagle 2021: Samuel Clemens, Harmony; Seagle Fall- Season Artist Megan Fleischmann, soprano HT: Santa Rosa, California Sergio Mandujano, tenor ED: BM, Northwestern University HT: Norwalk, Connecticut RCT: Adele, Die Fledermaus, Lisa (cover), Dog Days, ED: BA, Western Connecticut University Miles, The Turn of the Screw, Beadle Bamford, RCT: Burrs, The Wild Party, Aldolpho, The Drowsy Sweeney Todd, Edward Rutledge, 1776, Northwestern Chaperone, Tamino, The Magic Flute, Nemorino, The University; Barbarina, The Marriage of Figaro, Miami Elixir of Love, The Witch, Hansel and Gretel, Marco, Music Festival The Gondoliers, Western Connecticut State University Seagle 2021: Susan Twitchell, Harmony Seagle 2021: Rodolfo, La bohème

Jayden Goldberg, soprano HT: Southlake, Texas Mario Manzo, baritone ED: BA, Boston Conservatory at Berklee HT: Phoenix Arizona RCT: Barbarina, The Marriage of Figaro, Francine, ED: BM, Arizona State University Monkey & Francine in the City of Tigers, Seagle 2019; RCT: Lars, Nora at the Altar Rail, George Jones, Street Female Soldier (cover), The Falling and the Rising, Scene, Betto, Gianni Schicchi, Arizona State University Texas Christian University; Chorus, Don Pasquale, Seagle 2021: Papa Bear, The Three Bears, El Gallo, The Carmen, Fort Worth Opera Fantasticks Seagle 2021: Cendrillon, Cendrillon

27 2021 Seagle Festival Emerging Artists

Laura McCauley, soprano Shannon Richards, soprano HT: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania HT: Arlington Heights, Illinois ED: BM, Ithaca Colllege; MM, Arizona State University ED: BM, University of Miami; MM, Indiana University RCT: Mrs. Gobineau, The Medium, Cactus Chamber RCT: Suor Genovieffa,Suor Angelica, Flower Maiden, Musicians; Step Sister/Fairy Godmother, Cinderella, Parsifal, Indiana University; Clara, The Light in the Arizona Opera OPERAtunity; Clorinda (cover), Satirino, Piazza, Noémie, Cendrillon, Geraldine, Hand of Bridge, La Calisto, Opera Neo; Tiresias, Les Mamelle de University of Miami Tiresias, Esmeralda, The Bartered Bride, Pamina, The Seagle 2021: Musetta, La bohème Magic Flute, Arizona State University Seagle 2021: Mimi, La bohème Jose Olivares, baritone Emily Richter, soprano HT: Grapevine, Texas HT: Arlington, Virginia ED: BM, Texas A&M University – Commerce ED: BM, Lawrence Conservatory, MM McGill University RCT: Kappo/Dr. Rudi, The Path to Heaven, Dr. Greg, RCT: Chorus, Le comte Ory, Lawrence University Gallantry, A&M-Commerce Opera; Holborn Gaines, The Seagle 2021: Noémie, Cendrillon, Huckleberry, The Manchurian Candidate, Slim, Oklahoma!, Seagle 2019 Fantasticks Seagle 2021: Pandolfe, Cendrillon

Jacob O’Shea, bass-baritone HT: Clifton Park, New York Adam Rodgers, baritone ED: BM, Syracuse University; MM, Boston University HT: Columbus, Georgia RCT: Joe Harland, Later the Same Evening, Boston ED: BME Oral Robert University University Opera Institute; Figaro, The Marriage of RCT: Aeneas, Dido & Aeneas, ORU Opera Theater, Figaro, Simone, Gianni Schicchi, Syracuse University Lanceotto, Francesca di Rimini, Russian Opera Program Opera; Il Medico, Macbeth, Morales, Carmen, Syracuse Seagle 2021: Schaunard, La bohème Opera Seagle 2021: Colline, La bohème

Julia Powers, mezzo-soprano HT: Austin, Texas Jasmine Rodriguez, soprano ED: BM, Stephen F. Austin State University; MM, Baylor HT: Santa Fe Springs, California University ED: BM, Chapman University; MM, Arizona State RCT: Musetta, La Boheme (Leoncavallo), Passion Opera University Project; Jo March, Alma March, Little Women, Opera in RCT: Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi, Arizona State the Ozarks; Rinaldo, Rinaldo, Chicago Summer Opera; University; Pamina (cover), The Magic Flute, Dew Fairy, Cornelia, Giulio Cesare, Red River Lyric Opera; Oreste, Hansel and Gretel, Pacific Symphony; Ms. Wordsworth, Oreste, Desiree, A Little Night Music, Baylor University Albert Herring, Opera Chapman Opera Theater Seagle 2021: Laetitia, The Old Maid and the Thief Seagle 2021: Livy Clemens, Harmony, Miss Todd, The Old Maid and the Thief Jake Stamatis, baritone HT: Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania Grace Reberg, mezzo-soprano ED: BM, Susquehanna U.; MM, SUNY Binghamton HT: Chicago, Illinois RCT: Guglielmo, Così fan tutte, Colas, Bastien und ED: BM, Michigan State University Bastienne, Betto, Gianni Schicchi, Doctor, Pretty RCT: Sesto, La Clemenza di Tito, Venus, Orpheus in Little Room (workshop), Opera Memphis; Escamillo, the Underworld, La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi, Prince The Tragedy of Carmen, Secretary of Defense, The Orlovsky (cover), Die Fledermaus, Michigan State Manchurian Candidate, Juan Peron, Evita, Seagle 2019; University Opera Theatre; Prince Orlovsky (cover), Die Paquiro, Goyescas, Erste Bursche, Der Mond, Hub City Fledermaus, Stefano (cover), Romeo et Juliet, Brevard Opera and Dance; Sir Joseph Porter, H.M.S. Pinafore, Music Center; Cinderella, Cinderella, Meg, The Ballad of Tri-Cities Opera; Antonio, The Marriage of Figaro, Music Baby Doe, Opera in the Ozarks Academy of the West Seagle 2021: Miss Pinkerton, The Old Maid and the Thief Seagle 2021: Marcello, La bohème; Seagle Fall-Season Artist

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