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2006 Spring Opera Season is sponsored by Cadillac Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre LaSalle Bank salutes those who make the arts a part of our lives. Personal Banking· Commercial Banking· Wealth Management Making more possible LaSalle Bank ABN AMRO ~ www. la sal lebank.com t:.I Wealth Management is a division of LaSalle Bank, NA Copyright 2010,i'ENm Michigan © 2005 LaSalle Opera Bank NTheatre.A. Member FDIC. Equal Opportunity Lender. 2006 The Official MagaZine of the Detroit Opera House BRAVO IS A MICHI GAN OPERA THEAT RE P UB LI CATION Sprin",,---~ CONTRI BUTORS Dr. David DiChiera Karen VanderKloot DiChiera eason Roberto Mauro Michigan Opera Theatre Staff Dave Blackburn, Editor -wELCOME P UBLISHER Letter from Dr. D avid DiChiera ...... .. ..... ...... 4 Live Publishing Company Frank Cucciarre, Design and Art Direction ON STAGE Bli nk Concept &: Design, Inc. Production LES GRAND BALLETS CANADIENS de MONTREAL .. 7 Chuck Rosenberg, Copy Editor Be Moved! Differently . ............................... ... 8 Toby Faber, Director of Advertising Sales Physicians' service provided by Henry Ford AIDA ............... ..... ...... ... .. ... .. .... 11 Medical Center. Setting ................ .. .. .................. .... 12 Aida and the Detroit Opera House . ..... ... ... 14 Pepsi-Cola is the official soft drink and juice provider for the Detroit Opera House. C INDERELLA ...... ....... ... ......... ..... .... 15 Cadillac Coffee is the official coffee of the Detroit Setting . ......... ....... ....... ... .. .. 16 Opera House. Steinway is the official piano of the Detroit Opera ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER .. ..... 17 House and Michigan Opera Theatre. Steinway All About Ailey. 18 pianos are provided by Hammell Music, exclusive representative for Steinway and Sons in Michigan. SALOME ........ ... ......... .. ... ... 23 President Tuxedo is the official provider of Setting ............. .. ..... .......... ..... 24 formal wear for the Detroit Opera House. Salome: An Exploration of Artistic Decency ..... .... .. ....... 25 Michigan Opera Theatre is a nonprofit cultural organization, whose activities are supported in part by the Michigan Council for Arts and Artist Profiles ............ .. ...... ..... .. .. .. 26 Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for Chorus and Orchestra ..... ...... .. ... .. ...... 32 the Arts, and other individuals, corporations and foundations. Michigan Opera Theatre is MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE an Equal Opportunity Employer. Administration and Staff. ....... .......... ....... .. 33 Board of Directors and Trustees .. .. .. ..... .. .... .. ... 34 Avanti Society ... .. ..... .. ..... .. ... .. 36 CONTRIBUTORS Campaign to Restore the Detroit Opera House ....... .. 37 Michigan Opera Theatre Contributors ..................... 39 IN MEMORIAM Elizabeth Parcells . .. .................... .......... 42 • 4lam and culrural,,"""P affairs MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Made possible with the support of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, :1 parlncr agency of the National Endowment Community Programs ..... .. ..... .......... ...... 44 ror Ihe Ans General Information ......... ... ......... .. ..... .. 46 Detroit Opera House www.MichiganOpera.org BRAVO 3 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre {welcome} Welcome to Michigan 0rera Theatre~ Spring Season. Greetings, dear friends, and welcome to American Dance Theater, and also mount the Detroit Opera House. This spring marks a production of Strauss' powerful and con Michigan Opera Theatres 35th opera season, troversial Salome. and yet another season presenting the We'll also welcome the department of worlds great dance companies. Continuing Community Programs, and their award what now seems to be a long-standing tra winning Learning at the Opera House series dition, our spring opera productions are to the new Ford Center. These exceptional brought to you with the generous support camps, classes, lectures, tours and work of Cadillac, and our dance engagements are shops have enriched the lives of learners made possible by DaimlerChrysler. I extend of all ages since the program's inception my sincerest gratitude to both organizations some 10 years ago. With the move to the for their exemplary support of our Ford Center, offerings continue to expand. programming. I encourage you to visit our website, In addition to celebrating our 35th season, www.MichiganOpera.org, for all of the this spring marks a very special milestone for details. Michigan Opera Theatre, the 10th anniver And of course, we are already hard at sary of our beloved home, the Detroit Opera work planning for our 36th season. We've House. For the first quarter century of its his taken care in creating a season of diverse tory, Michigan Opera Theatre existed as a productions, celebrating a broad spectrum largely nomadic company, presenting opera of human emotion and artistic expression. on several of Detroits great stages. When Our fall opera season will feature exceptional the time came that our companys growth productions of Gershwins Porgy and Bess warranted a move to a permanent home we and then demolished a parking structure, and Rossinis Barber of Seville. Spring will sought out a theater that would not only opening a new state-of-the-art parking facil feature two favorites in Puccinis Turandot meet our growing audience's needs but also ity in its place, and constructed a learning and Gounods Romeo and Juliette , as well as the technical demands of world class grand center to provide the community with a an opera new to the Michigan Opera opera. We also required that our new home resource unlike any other. We proudly com Theatre repertoire, Mozarts Abduction From be part of the rich fabric of Detroit-a cul memorate this speCial anniversary on Aplil the Seraglio. Dance, too, will feature exciting tural centerpiece which would strengthen 27 , 2006, with the opening of our new Ford debuts alongSide audience favorites , with the community Center for Arts and Learning and a gala The Royal Winnipeg Ballets Dracula, The And so it was that in 1989 we purchased concert featUring artists from both Aida and Joffrey Ballet 's Nutcracke r, Dayton a historic, though neglected, movie palace Cinderella. The celebration, however, will Contemporary Dance Company's Jacob and its restoration began. Despite moun continue throughout the season as we stage Lawrence Project, American Ballet Theatre's tainous obstacles, the support of the com fresh and exciting programming along with Swan Lake, and a very special childrens bal munity prevailed and our dream became a fun and unique events like the seventh let, Where The Wild Things Are, based on the reality In April of 1996, we opened the annual BravoBravo l May 5, a special classic story by Maurice Sendak and danced opera house with a grand gala and concert. Community Programs day on May 20, a by the Grand Rapids Ballet. It has been ten years since that momentous day of exceptional dance programs on May I thank you for being a part of this season, 27, and the Michigan Opera Theatre Golf occasion, and the Detroit Opera House has and for helping us to celebrate these monu not only become one of the nations premier Outing on June 26. mental achievements. As we move into our venues for opera, dance, music and theatrical This spring, our magnificent stage will play next decade, I hope you'll be here to share entertainment, but has also served as a type host to another incredible season of opera in all of the excitement. m of catalyst for the neighborhoods rebirth. and dance. We are thrilled to welcome Les Enjoy the performance! Progress at the opera house has continued Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal to throughout the last 10 years. We've worked our stage, give you a brand new production to finish the theaters restoration, moved our ofVerdis masterpiece Aida, stage our first-ever steadily growing organization into the main stage production of Rossinis Cinderella, Madison Avenue office tower, purchased, bring back the ever-popular Alvin Ailey 4 BRAVO www.MichiganOpera.org Detroit Opera House Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre PRIVATE CLIENT II GROUP The Private Client Group is proud to announce that with every $1 million new investment management or trust account you open, we will donate $ 5,000 to the Detroit Opera House in your name. So, while we help clients preserve and grow their wealth through sound investment management, private banking, trust and estate management, we will also ensure the arts remain for future generations . To experience the Private Client Group, call Bill Goodhue at (248) 901 -2136. M anaging weal th for over 160 years. National~ Some restrictions apply. ©2005, National City Corporation® Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre {Les Grand Ballets Canadiens de Montreal} Be moved. Differently! Staff Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Dance knows no boundaries. That's ARTISTIC Montreal is dedicated to introducing all why Les Grands Ballets also goes on Pierre lapointe Principal Ballet Master forms of contemporary ballet. Since the tour around the world. During the last Margret Kaufmann Ballet Mistress and Assistant arrival of Artistic Director Gradimir few years, public and critical acclaim in to the Artistic Director Pankov in 2000, the company has again Germany, Spain, Berlin, and at jacob's Michelle Proulx Artistic Coordinator and again stimulated the imagination, Pillow Dance Festival, has bolstered the Pino Alosa Guest Teacher amazed and moved audiences,