music by José “Pepe” Martínez libretto by Leonard Foglia LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Table of Contents TODD ROSENBERG IN THIS ISSUE El Pasado Nunca Se Termina pp. 16 - 32

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán in Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s first mariachi opera.

8 Board of Directors 50 Lyric Unlimited Contributors/Look To The Future 10 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ Executive Board/ 51 Ryan Opera Center Contributors Ryan Opera Center Board 52 Annual Corporate Support/Matching Gift 12 Administration/Administrative Staff/Production and 54 Planned Giving: Technical Staff The Overture Society 16 Tonight's Opera 56 Annual Individual and Foundation Support 17 From the General Director 62 Commemorative Gifts 19 Cast for Preview Performances 63 Special Thanks/Acknowledgements 21 Cast for World Premiere 64 Facilities and Services/Theatre Staff 22 Cast Profiles 26 Opera Notes 28 A Backdrop of Revolution 34 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus 35 Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Unlimited/Education Corps/ Supernumeraries 36 Patron Salute 38 Aria Society 47 Breaking New Ground 48 60th Anniversary Gala Contributors 49 Major Contributors – Special Events and Project Support The appearance of Halley's Comet is an important sign in El Pasado Nunca Se Termina.

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Board of Directors Life Directors W. James Farrell Ken Norgan Frank W. Considine Mark E. Ferguson Sharon F. Oberlander The Honorable Bruce Rauner Michael W. Ferro, Jr James W. Cozad * John W. Oleniczak Rick Fezell The Honorable Edgar Foster Daniels Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D. Rahm Emanuel Russell W. Fisher Richard J. Franke * David T. Ormesher Honorary Chairmen * Renée Fleming Edgar D. Jannotta of the Board * Sonia Florian * William A. Osborn George E. Johnson * Anthony Freud Matthew J. Parr James W. Cozad Robert H. Malott Co-Chairman Emeritus † Gordon P. Getty Don M. Randel James J. O’Connor Ronald J. Gidwitz Anne N. Reyes Edgar D. Jannotta Gordon Segal * Ruth Ann M. Gillis Co-Chairman Emeritus J. Christopher Reyes Robert E. Wood II Brent W. Gledhill Thomas A. Reynolds III Allan B. Muchin Ethel Gofen † William C. Richardson, Ph.D. Co-Chairman Emeritus * Howard L. Gottlieb Directors Avrum Gray Collin E. Roche Richard P. Kiphart Katherine A. Abelson Melvin Gray Ricardo Rosenkranz Interim President and Chief * Whitney W. Addington Executive Officer/Chairman Maria C. Green Edward B. Rouse * James L. Alexander * Dietrich M. Gross Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. John P. Amboian Lester Crown Mary Pat Hay Chairman of the Paul F. Anderson * Shirley Welsh Ryan Carrie J. Hightman Executive Committee John F. Sandner Larry A. Barden Eric L. Hirschfield Anthony Freud * Julie Baskes * J. Thomas Hurvis Claudia M. Saran General Director and James N. Bay, Jr. Gregory K. Jones Rodd M. Schreiber Chief Operating Officer Melvin R. Berlin † Stephen A. Kaplan Jana R. Schreuder Sir Andrew Davis Sarah Billinghurst Kip Kelley II Marsha Serlin Gilda R. Buchbinder * Richard P. Kiphart Vice President * Brenda M. Shapiro Allan E. Bulley III * Nancy W. Knowles Renée Fleming * Eric S. Smith * Marion A. Cameron † Fred A. Krehbiel Vice President Pam Szokol * Paul J. Carbone * Josef Lakonishok Franco Tedeschi James L. Alexander David W. Carpenter † Robert W. Lane Vice President Mark A. Thierer Timothy L. Christen Richard A. Levy Robert A. Livingston Shirley Welsh Ryan Richard W. Colburn Cherryl T. Thomas * James W. Mabie Vice President Michael P. Cole * William C. Vance * Craig C. Martin William C. Vance Vinay Couto * Donna Van Eekeren Maura Ann McBreen Vice President * John V. Crowe Mark Wagner Robert J. McCullen * Lester Crown Roberta L. Washlow Donna Van Eekeren Blythe J. McGarvie Marsha Cruzan Secretary Andrew J. McKenna Miles D. White * Andrew Davis Frank B. Modruson Paul J. Carbone † Gerald Dorros Treasurer Robert S. Morrison William Mason Ann M. Drake * Allan B. Muchin General Director Emeritus Brent Fisher John D. Edelman Linda K. Myers Assistant Treasurer Stefan T. Edlis Jeffrey C. Neal * Indicates member of the Mary Ladish Selander Sheri Eichelberger Sylvia Neil Executive Committee Assistant Secretary Lois Eisen † John D. Nichols † Indicates National Director

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Women’s Board Life Members Chapters’ Executive Board Lake Geneva † Mimi Mitchell Paula Hannaway Crown † Mrs. Sherie Shapiro President Ray Ring President * Mrs. A. Campbell de Frise † Mrs. Peggy Beata Near North † Margot Stone Bowen * Jane Duboise Gargiulo Vice President – Development Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Vice President of Board Activities Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker † Mrs. Carla Thorpe Northfield † Mrs. Michael Ferro Mrs. Gordon Segal Vice President – Education Awareness Ms. Margareta Brown Vice President of Education * Former President † Ms. Susan M. Miller Northwest † Rebecca Walker Knight † Executive Committee Vice President – Membership Ms. Dorothy Kuechl Vice President of Fundraising † Ms. Vee Minarich Riverside † Corinne Wood Guild Board of Directors † Oscar Tatosian President Vice President – Program Rick Greenman Vice President of Special Events Kathleen E. Manning † Ms. Agnes Canning Treasurer Wilmette Vice President – Backstage Tours † Rick Greenman Secretary Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Trisha Rooney Alden Craig R. Milkint Ms. Judith A. Akers Winnetka Mrs. Anthony A. Antoniou Vice President – Membership Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Mrs. Julie McDowell Suzette B. Bulley † Ms. Julie Ann Benson Mrs. Robert C. DeBolt Marie Campbell Vice President – Fundraising Ms. Ingrid Dubberke The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Mamie Biggs Case † Michael Tirpak Secretary * Jonathon Eklund Ryan Opera Center Board Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. † Edmund H. Lester Treasurer Joseph Ender † Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Ms. Erika Erich of Directors Maggie Rock Adams Susan Kiphart President Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Ms. Allison Alexander Ms. Nancy R. Fifield Janet Burch Vice President * Mrs. Lester Crown Ms. Lorraine Marie Arbetter Ms. Margie Franklin * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Leslie Bertholdt Ms. Aida Guidice John Nitschke Vice President * Mrs. W. James Farrell *†Patrick J. Bitterman Dennis C. Hayes Joan Zajtchuk Vice President Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Minka Bosco Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Regan Friedmann Terese Marie Connolly Virginia Jach Brent Fisher Assistant Treasurer Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Frank de Vincentis * Ms. Dorothy Kuechl Richard W. Shepro Secretary Ms. Lili Gaubin Eben Dorros Ms. Kate Letarte Dan Novak Assistant Secretary † Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Mrs. Amanda Fox Craig Love Keith Kiley Goldstein Laurie Jaffe David Nellemann * Katherine A. Abelson Mrs. William B. Graham G. Louise Johnson Ms. Claudia Winkler Nicole M. Arnold Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm Mark Kozloff, M.D. * Julie Baskes Karen Z. Gray Sustaining Members Marc Lacher Marcus Boggs Mrs. King Harris * Ms. Julie Ann Benson Mrs. Daria M. Lewicky Heidi Heutel Bohn Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Mrs. William Hamilton Jonathan B. Lewis, Sr. Tanja Chevalier † Caroline T. Huebner Ms. Kathleen E. Manning * Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu Lawrence O. Corry Elinor Addington Jannotta Daniel T. Manoogian Lester Marriner Mrs. Philip E. Kelley * Ms. Martina M. Mead * Mrs. Michael Oberman Mrs. James W. Cozad Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Kimberly Palmisano * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer * Allan Drebin Susan Lenny Jeffrey Port, M.D. Howard Robins Lafayette J. Ford Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Ms. Christina M. Rashid Mrs. Karl Stein Anthony Freud * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mary Lynne Shafer Mr. and Mrs. Myron Tiersky Melvin Gray Mrs. Florence D. McMillan † Ms. Joan M. Solbeck Mrs. Dorothy V. Wadley Anne Gross Alison Wehman McNally James A. Staples Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Mrs. Christopher C. Milliken Kathryn Sullivan Life Members Mary Ellen Hennessy Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Ms. Cathy Wloch * Mrs. Anthony Antoniou Chester T. Kamin Mrs. Christopher Murphy Ms. Anne Zenzer * Mrs. J William Cuncannan * Kip Kelley Mrs. Susan B. Noyes Mr. Roy Fisher Sustaining Members Phillip G. Lumpkin * Mrs. James J. O’Connor Mrs. Herbert A. Glieberman Jeanne Randall Malkin Mrs. John H. Andersen * Mrs. Donald Grauer * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Robert C. Marks Mrs. William A. Osborn * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Erma S. Medgyesy Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman * Mrs. Merwyn Kind * Robert F. Finke Frank B. Modruson Mrs. Frederick H. Prince * Mrs. Jonathon R. Laing Mrs. William R. Jentes Mrs. James C. Pritchard Mrs. Frank M. Lieber William J. Neiman Chester T. Kamin M.K. Pritzker * Mrs. Howard S. Smith Susan Noel * Kip Kelley *†Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes * Mrs. William C. Tippens Michael A. Oberman John M. Kohlmeier Mrs. John M. Richman Jane DiRenzo Pigott Mrs. Robert E. Largay * Mrs. Eugene E. White Mrs. Glo Rolighed Orli Staley James G. McCormick Chapter Presidents * William C. Vance Betsy Bergman Rosenfield † Ms. Britt M. Miller Barrington Donna Van Eekeren * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan * John H. Nelson † Mrs. James L. Sandner Ms. Marlene Boncosky Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Ms. Lisbeth Stiffel Evanston Nancy Santi R. Todd Vieregg Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Nancy S. Searle Barbara Eckel Jack Weiss Mrs. Benjamin Shapiro Far West Young Professionals Life Members Mrs. Alejandro Silva Patrick M. Callahan President Ida Lee Mrs. John R. Siragusa Kimberly Palmisano Vice President Flossmoor Area * Mrs. Anthony A. Antoniou Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Lisa DeAngelis Event Logistics Ms. Sharon Gibson Bernard J. Dobroski Mrs. James P. Stirling Catherine Ketter Event Promotion Glencoe Barbara Heil Howard Marilynn Thoma Carolyn Fitzgerald Marketing Mrs. Brenda Lenahan * Keith A. Reed * Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Kieran Shanahan Membership Hinsdale * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Emily Vietoris Social Media Joseph Ender Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Charlotte Bohrer Special Projects Hyde Park/Kenwood * Former President Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Jenny Tola Volunteer Coordinator Ms. Vee Minarich † Executive Committee

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Anthony Freud, OBE General Director The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair

Mary Ladish Selander Brent Fisher Lisa Middleton Director of Development Director of Finance Director of Marketing

Nicholas Ivor Martin Andreas Melinat Cayenne Harris Director of Operations Director of Artistic Administration Lyric Unlimited Director and Special Initiatives

Perry Sartori Dan Novak Interim Director Director, Ryan Opera Center of Human Resources The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE Daniel P. Moss Leslie B. Mastroianni HUMAN RESOURCES GENERAL DIRECTOR Director of Corporate Partnerships Deputy Director of Development Perry Sartori Anthony Freud Jenny Seidelman Warren Davis Interim Director of Human Resources General Director Associate Director of Corporate Director of Guild Board, Chapters Tiffany Tuckett The Women’s Board Endowed Chair Partnerships and Young Professionals Talent Manager, Administrative Staff Madeleine Walsh Linda Nguyen Irvin Katarina Visnevska Stephanie Strong Executive Programs Administrator Corporate Partnerships Coordinator Coordinator of Guild Board, Chapters Benefits Manager Geary S. Albright Katy Hall and Young Professionals Executive Assistant to the Director of Individual, Foundation, Hilary Pieper INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY General Director and Government Giving Administrative Assistant – Guild Will Raj Meaghan Stainback Board, Chapters and Young Director of Information Technology OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Donor Relations Manager Professionals Christian Carranza GENERAL DIRECTOR Hanna Pristave Manager of IT Operations Drew Landmesser Research Coordinator FACILITIES Mary Mueller Deputy General Director Sarah Kull Rich Regan Tessitura Administrator Sarah Generes Grants and Research Manager Director of Facilities Rita Parida Executive Assistant to the Deputy Nora O’Malley Senior Applications Specialist General Director and the Music Erin L. Koppel Facility Operations Manager Nikoleta Atanassova Director Deputy Director of Development Sharon Lomasney Systems Administrator Tina Harris Events and Sales Manager René Calvo ARTISTIC Development Associate Eric Bays Help Desk Coordinator Andreas Melinat Marta Garczarczyk Facilities Coordinator Director of Artistic Director of Annual Giving Steven Farrell LYRIC UNLIMITED Administration Amy Alvarado Chief Engineer Cayenne Harris Christoph Ptack Annual Giving Manager Charles Holliday Lyric Unlimited Director Associate Artistic Emily Esmail Security Services Coordinator Jacob Stanton Administrator Donor Communications Manager Assistant to the Lyric Unlimited Director Judy I. Lipp FINANCE Mark Riggleman Evamaria Wieser Director of Donor Records and Brent Fisher Director of Education Casting Consultant Reporting Director of Finance Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Jeffrey Dziedzic Cynthia Darling Alejandra Valarino Boyer DEVELOPMENT Senior Coordinator – Donor Records Teresa Hogan Lyric Unlimited Manager Mary Ladish Selander Bridget Monahan Senior Accountants Jesse Gram Director of Development Director of Women’s Board Marie L. Connolly Audience Education Manager Suzanne Singer Chelsea Southwood Manager of Administrative Services Todd Snead, Ph.D. Assistant to the Director of Stefanie Duff Emily Cohen School Engagement Manager Development Senior Coordinators – Women’s Board Accounting Assistant Lisa Della Pia Deborah Hare Nicole Eubanks Debbie Dahlgren Lyric Unlimited Coordinator Development Associate Assistant Director of Development – Payroll Supervisor Drew Smith Donor Services and Special Events Susan Harant Program Assistant Lawrence DelPilar Allison Taylor Receptionist Deputy Director of Development Administrative Assistant – Donor Jonathon P. Siner Services and Special Events Senior Director of Planned Giving

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MARKETING AND OPERATIONS Lighting Joe Mathesius PUBLIC RELATIONS Nicholas Ivor Martin Chris Maravich Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Lisa Middleton Director of Operations and Lighting Director Frank Taylor Director of Marketing Special Initiatives Heather Sparling Properties Thomas Young Eric Watkins Assistant Lighting Designers WARDROBE/WIGS AND Holly Gilson Director of Music Administration MAKEUP Deputy Director of Communications Stephanie Karr Technical Scott Marr Roger Pines Chorus, Orchestra, and Ballet Manager William Reilly, Jr. Production Design Director Dramaturg Elise R. Kerr Master Carpenter Magda Krance Administrative Coordinator, Michael Barker Wardrobe Manager of Media Relations Operations Head Flyman Maureen Reilly Maggie Berndt Wendy Skoczen Mike Reilly Automation/Rigging Costume Director Public Relations Specialist Staff Assistant Librarian Bradley Long The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Andrew Cioffi Gretchen Eng Shop Carpenter Endowed Chair Digital Content Producer Music Administration Coordinator Robert Barros Lucy Lindquist Layout Carpenter Wardrobe Mistress Tracy Galligher Production and Rehearsal Staff Drew Trusk Bradley Baker Deputy Director of Marketing Cameron Arens Shop Welder Sarah Brownewell Joel Friend Director of Rehearsal Administration Bruce Woodruff Cecylia Kinder Group Sales Manager Layout Welder Garnett Bruce Richard “Doc” Wren Vija A. Klode Sarah Kaplan Shawna Lucey Warehouse Coordinator Krystina Lowe Marketing Manager, Opera Matthew Ozawa Joe Dockweiler Kathy Rubel Kira Lowe Elise Sandell Ryan McGovern Tony Rubino Marketing Manager, Special Projects Paula Suozzi Michael O’Donnell Joanna Rzepka Donna Sauers Assistant Directors Jeffrey Streichhirsch Barbara Szyllo Audience Development Manager Assistant Carpenters Wardrobe Staff Carrie Krol John W. Coleman Chris Barker Scott Barker Graphic Designer Rachel C. Henneberry Mike Bowman Caroline Moores Dan DiBennardi Terese Cullen Valerie Bromann Daniel Sokalski Dan Donahue Kelly Davis Digital Marketing Coordinator Rachel A. Tobias Brian Grenda Tim Dedinsky Bailey Couture Stage Managers Justin Hull Michelle DiBennardi Ticket Program Sales Coordinator Robert Hull, Jr. Anna Krysik Jocelyn Park Kristen Barrett John Ingersol Ed Mack Marketing Production Coordinator Darin Burnett Phil Marcotte Wendy McCay Stefany Phillips Jodi Gage Matthew Reilly Christina Mitsch Marketing and Public Relations Jennifer Harber Ray Schmitz Derek Matson Carpenters Mary Monahan Coordinator Jayme O’Hara Michael C. Reynolds John Salyers Amanda Reitenbach Anya Plotkin Master Electrician Isaac Turner Social Media Coordinator Daniel Sokalski Soren Ersbak Chris Valente Board Operator Peggy Stenger Roger Weir Ticket Department Amy C. Thompson Paul Christopher Dressers Paul A. Molinelli Rachel A. Tobias Head Audio/Visual Technician Director of Ticketing Services Bill Walters Nick Charlan Wigs and Makeup Paula Getman Assistant Stage Managers Matt Ebel Audio/Visual Sarah Hatten Ticket Operations Supervisor Ben Bell Bern Kevin Reynolds Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Susan Harrison Niemi Rehearsal Scheduler Surtitle Operator Kathleen Evans Phone Sales Supervisor Josie Campbell John Clarke, Jr. Department Coordinator Miguel González Artistic Services Coordinator Joseph Haack Chantelle Marie Johnson Patron Relations Representative Marina Vecci Michael A. Manfrin Robert Kuper Shelley Cameron Rehearsal Associate Robert Reynolds Lynn Koroulis Group and Special Gabrielle Gottlieb Assistant Electricians Claire Moores Ticketing Coordinator Jason Byer Anthony Coia Joshua Hills Jason Combs Brittany Crinson Chris Notestine Rehearsal Assistants Gary Grenda Staff VIP Tickets and Subscriber Thomas Hull Lauren Cecil Relations Coordinator TECHNICAL AND LIGHTING Daniel Kuh Anelle Eorio Michael Smallwood Jeremy Thomas Lauren Marchfield Kirsten Alfredsen Electricians Technical Director Anita Trojanowski Justin Berkowitz Allan and Elaine Muchin Charles Reilly Chris Payne Tabitha Boorsma Endowed Chair Property Master Nelson Posada Teléya Bradford April Busch Michael McPartlin Properties Crew Head Rochelle Fisher Sarah Diller Production Manager Brian Michael Smith Rachel Tenorio Amber Doss Michael Schoenig Technical Finance Manager Armorer Sarah Squire Sam Fain Scott Wolfson José Trujillo Jada Richardson Anna Laurenzo Assistant Technical Director Upholsterer Wig and Makeup Crew Stephanie Lillie Stephen Snyder Thomas Coleman, Jr. Dana McGarr Robert Hartge Technical Assistant Scenic Art Carol Michelini Maria DeFabo Richard Tyriver Brian Traynor John Schell Properties Coordinator Assistant Properties Michael Buerger Charge Artist Lindsay Trinowski Joseph Collins Maggie Bodwell Zachary Vanderburg Robert Ladd Vivienne Marie Ticket Staff Dan Lang Scene Artists

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El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (The Past Is Never Finished)

Music by José “Pepe” Martínez and libretto by Leonard Foglia

El Pasado Nunca Se Termina is generously made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an Anonymous Donor, Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz, OPERA America, Exelon, Ken Norgan, United Scrap Metal, Inc., Mexico Tourism Board, The Field Foundation of Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay, Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation, Judy Guitelman & ALAS-Wings, and The PrivateBank, with additional support from Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva, The McDonald’s Hispanic Owner/Operators Association, Maria C. Bechily and Scott Hodes, Douglas A. Doetsch and Susan Manning, and Rosy and Jose Luis Prado.

Media support provided by 105.1-FM “La Que Buena” and Univision Chicago.

Lyric Unlimited was launched with major catalyst funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and receives major support from the Hurvis Family Foundation.

16 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC UNLIMITED From the General Director TODD ROSENBERG It is with great pleasure that Lyric Opera of Chicago and Lyric Unlimited present El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, or The Past Is Never Finished, the world’s second mariachi opera. I commissioned the world’s first mariachi opera, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon), from José “Pepe” Martínez and Leonard Foglia while general director of Houston Grand Opera, where it premiered in 2010. Cruzar has since been staged in Paris, San Diego, Tucson, and Phoenix, and was presented here in Chicago by Lyric Unlimited in the spring of 2013. The original idea to create a mariachi opera was inspired by a performance by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán that I saw in Houston. The power of the music and quality of the performance made the combination of mariachi and musical theater seem a perfect match, and the success of Cruzar proved that potential. The questions then became, should we try another one? Is there more to say with mariachi opera? And did its creators Pepe and Leonard have any interest in doing more than just a “one off” and developing this new genre further? I’m glad to say that the answers were all a definitive yes. And who better to continue the Anthony Freud was responsible for commissioning the mariachi opera journey than those who originated it so brilliantly? world’s first mariachi opera,Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, And so, with the enthusiastic commitment of Leonard and Pepe, and the resources pictured in its 2013 presentation at Lyric Opera. of Lyric Unlimited – Lyric’s rapidly growing, multifaceted program of community engagement and artistic initiatives – El Pasado has become a reality. I’m very proud of Cruzar, and even more so of the fact that its success has led to the commissioning of El Pasado. An imperative in the creation of Cruzar was that neither of the two combined art forms be compromised – that the music be true mariachi and the theater be serious theater. In El Pasado, the two are even more deeply intertwined, as the plot shifts seamlessly between revolutionary Mexico and present-day Chicago. While Cruzar and El Pasado are unique in their contributions to operatic repertoire for their treatment of Mexican and Mexican-American motifs, they also deal deeply with universal themes – identity, family, hope, love, loss, and sacrifice. It is tremendously exciting that we will offer performances of El Pasado in the Pilsen neighborhood and in Waukegan with the exceptional Mariachi Aztlán of the University of Texas-Pan American before the opening night at the Civic Opera House with the legendary Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán. Whether this is your first opera or you are a lifelong fan, I hope you enjoy the powerful experience of El Pasado Nunca Se Termina.

Es con gran placer que Lyric Opera of Chicago y Lyric Unlimited presentan El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, la segunda ópera mariachi del mundo. Yo comisioné la primera ópera mariachi del mundo, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, a José “Pepe” Martínez y Leonard Foglia cuando era director general de la Houston Grand Opera, donde se estrenó en 2010. Desde entonces, Cruzar se ha presentado en Paris, San Diego, Tucson, y Phoenix, y fue presentada aquí en Chicago por Lyric Unlimited en la primavera de 2013. La idea original de crear una ópera mariachi fue inspirada por una presentación del Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán a la que asistí en Houston. El poder de la música y la calidad de la presentación hicieron que la música mariachi y el teatro musical parecieran estar destinados a unirse en una fusión perfecta, y el éxito de Cruzar comprobó ese potencial. Las preguntas que nos hicimos entonces fueron, ¿Debemos tratar con otra? ¿Hay algo más que decir con la opera mariachi? Y, ¿tienen sus creadores, Pepe y Leonard el interés de hacer más de una y así continuar desarrollando este nuevo género? Me complace decir que las preguntas todas recibieron respuesta afirmativa. Y quién mejor que los que la originaron tan brillantemente para continuar esta travesía de la ópera mariachi. Como resultado del compromiso entusiasta de Leonard y Pepe, y los recursos de Lyric Unlimited – el multifacético programa de Lyric que involucra a la comunidad con iniciativas artísticas y que ha tenido un extraordinario crecimiento – El Pasado se ha convertido en realidad. Me siento muy orgulloso de Cruzar, y aún más de saber que su éxito nos ha llevado a comisionar El Pasado. Algo esencial en la creación de Cruzar era que ninguna de las dos formas artísticas sufriera en la fusión – que la música fuera auténticamente mariachi y que el teatro fuera teatro cabal. En El Pasado, las dos están todavía más entrelazadas, ya que la trama se mueve sin rupturas entre el México revolucionario y el Chicago de hoy en día. Mientras que Cruzar y El Pasado son únicos en sus contribuciones al repertorio operático por su tratamiento de elementos mexicanos y mexicoamericanos, tratan a la vez temas intensamente universales – la identidad, la familia, el amor, la esperanza, la pérdida, y el sacrificio. Es en extremo emocionante que podamos ofrecer nuevamente presentaciones de El Pasado en el barrio de Pilsen y en Waukegan con el excepcional Mariachi Aztlán de la Universidad de Texas-Pan American antes del estreno en la Civic Opera House con el legendario Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán. Sea esta su primera ópera o sea usted un fanático de toda la vida, confío en que disfrutará la poderosa experiencia de El Pasado Nunca Se Termina.

Anthony Freud

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The Mexico Tourism Board is extremely proud to collaborate with Lyric Opera of Chicago for

El Pasado Nunca Se Termina

We warmly invite you to visit the beautiful state of Jalisco, home state to the magical town of Cocula, known as “The Cradle of Mariachi”, which has enchanted thousands with their music and traditions since the 19th century. Its capital, the picturesque city of Guadalajara, reconciles the chants of a cosmopolitan city with its Colonial origins.

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• El Pasado Nunca Se Termina is a Preview Performances co-creation of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera. José “Pepe” Martínez and Leonard Foglia

• Scenery constructed by Lyric Opera of Chicago and EL PASADO NUNCA SE TERMINA Ravenswood Studio, Inc., Chicago. Benito Juárez Community Academy, Chicago • Costumes constructed by Friday, March 13, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, 2015, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Lyric Opera of Chicago Sunday, March 15, 2015, 2 p.m. Wardrobe Department and Beth Uber. Genesee Theatre, Waukegan Sunday, March 22, 2015, 2 p.m. • Headdress by Laura Whitlock. Amorita ABIGAIL SANTOS VILLALOBOS • Tailoring by Paul Chang. Luis DANIEL MONTENEGRO Enrique PAUL LA ROSA • The performance will last Acalán RICARDO RIVERA approximately 90 minutes. Juana VANESSA ALONZO Isabel/Dolores CASSANDRA ZOÉ VELASCO • Lyric Unlimited is proud to partner Augustino LUIS LEDESMA with the following organizations: Xihuitl OCTAVIO MORENO Benito Juarez Community Academy Daniel SEBASTIEN E. DE LA CRUZ Chicago Mariachi Project Miguel/Hotel Manager MIGUEL NUÑEZ Mariachi Heritage Foundation UTPA Mariachi Aztlán National Museum of Mexican Art Directors DAHLIA GUERRA Office of the Consulate General FRANCISCO LOERA of Mexico Violin MARTÍN CANTÚ Thalia Hall JAMES ESCOBEDO Urban Edge Gallery MONICA ANN FOGELQUIST MIGUEL JAVIER GUTIÉRREZ ORLANDO DE LEÓN JOSUÉ E. LÓPEZ ASPEN QUIRICO Trumpet FRANCISCO DAVID CARREÓN, JR. CESAR EDUARDO JÁUREGUI RICARDO DANIEL MUNGUÍA Harp JORGE IVÁN VELASCO Vihuela JOSÉ BERNARDO PÉREZ Guitarrón NATHAN ERIC GARCÍA Guitar ADOLFO ESTRADA, JR. CARLOS ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ

Director LEONARD FOGLIA Music Supervisor DAVID HANLON Scenic and Projection Designer ELAINE McCARTHY Costume Designer SCOTT MARR Lighting Designer CHRISTOPHER MARAVICH Assistant Director ELISE SANDELL Stage Manager RACHEL C. HENNEBERRY Rehearsal Pianist JONATHAN KING Projected Titles DEREK MATSON

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• El Pasado Nunca Se Termina is a World Premiere co-creation of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera. José “Pepe” Martínez and Leonard Foglia • Scenery constructed by Lyric Opera of Chicago and EL PASADO NUNCA SE TERMINA Ravenswood Studio, Inc., Chicago.

• Costumes constructed by Civic Opera House, Chicago Lyric Opera of Chicago Saturday, March 28, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Wardrobe Department Sunday, March 29, 2015, 2 p.m. and Beth Uber. Amorita ABIGAIL SANTOS VILLALOBOS • Headdress by Laura Whitlock. Luis DANIEL MONTENEGRO • Tailoring by Paul Chang. Enrique PAUL LA ROSA Acalán RICARDO RIVERA • The performance will last Juana VANESSA ALONZO approximately 90 minutes. Isabel/Dolores CASSANDRA ZOÉ VELASCO • Lyric Unlimited is proud to partner Augustino LUIS LEDESMA with the following organizations: Xihuitl OCTAVIO MORENO Benito Juarez Community Academy Daniel SEBASTIEN E. DE LA CRUZ Chicago Mariachi Project Miguel/Hotel Manager MIGUEL NUÑEZ Mariachi Heritage Foundation National Museum of Mexican Art Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán Office of the Consulate General Violin ALBERTO ALFARO of Mexico MIGUEL BARRÓN Thalia Hall ANDRÉS GONZÁLEZ Urban Edge Gallery JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ JR. DANIEL MARTÍNEZ CARLOS MARTÍNEZ Trumpet GUSTAVO ALFARO LUIS FERNANDO VELÁSQUEZ Harp JULIO MARTÍNEZ Vihuela GILBERTO MACÍAS Guitarrón ENRIQUE DE SANTIAGO Guitar JUAN PEDRO VARGAS

Director LEONARD FOGLIA Music Supervisor DAVID HANLON Scenic and Projection Designer ELAINE McCARTHY Costume Designer SCOTT MARR Lighting Designer CHRISTOPHER MARAVICH Assistant Director ELISE SANDELL Stage Manager RACHEL C. HENNEBERRY Rehearsal Pianist JONATHAN KING Projected Titles DEREK MATSON

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JOSÉ “PEPE” MARTÍNEZ of Master Class, Thurgood (filmed for HBO), Roméo et Juliette with Tulsa Opera. Last season (Composer) was born in and The People in the Picture, as well as revivals he debuted at Washington National Opera Tecalitlán, Jalisco, Mexico, of Wait Until Dark and On Golden Pond. Off- as Nemorino/L’elisir d’amore and portrayed and joined his first maria- Broadway productions include Anna Deavere Giovanni/Catán’s La Hija de Rappaccini with chi band as a violinist at the Smith’s Let Me Down Easy (also on tour, Gotham Chamber Opera in New York and age of 12. He began writing filmed for PBS) andOne Touch of Venus Los Angeles. During his tenures as a San music when he was 19 years (Encores! at City Center). See Program Note, Francisco Opera Adler Fellow and resident art- old, and in 1966 formed pp. 26-27. ist of the Minnesota Opera, Montenegro was his own mariachi ensemble, heard in Lucrezia Borgia, Turandot, Carmen, Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán. In 1975, he joined ABIGAIL SANTOS Die Zauberflöte, Norma, and Poul Ruders’s The Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, and his work VILLALOBOS (Amorita) Handmaid’s Tale. Other successes include the with that ensemble established him as a com- has been heard in a wide Steersman/Der fliegende Holländer (Portland poser and arranger, marking a new era for repertoire nationwide. High- Opera, Arizona Opera) and the Shepherd/ Mariachi Vargas and creating a sonic style that lights this season include Oedipus Rex (Sydney Festival). An ongo- has become synonymous with the best maria- several collaborations with ing collaboration with Los Angeles Opera chi in the world. “Somos Novios” and “El renowned conductor John has brought appearances in Lee Holdridge’s Cascabel” are two of the first songs Martínez Nelson: Bach’s St. John Concierto para Mendez, La traviata (DVD), arranged for his new group; original works Passion, Mozart’s Vesperae Carmen, Luisa Fernanda, and Il tabarro. such as “Violín Huapango,” “Lluvia de cuer- Solennes de Confessore, and Haydn’s Creation Montenegro performs with Domingo on the das,” “Mexicanísimo,” and “Viva Veracruz” with the Costa Rica Symphony, Pro-Arte 2013 album “Great Voices Sing John Denver.” with its rapid violin ricochets – a Martínez sig- Chorale, and Wheaton College Symphony, nature – followed. Today Martínez continues respectively. Last fall, Santos performed as a PAUL LA ROSA writing, learning, performing, and breaking guest artist in an Emory University recital. (Enrique), an alumnus of new ground in the creation of mariachi music She also recently returned to the Cincinnati Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera as the music director of Mariachi Vargas de Symphony Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah. Center, has appeared on Tecalitlán. Cruzar la Cara de la Luna was Santos is an alumna of the Santa Fe Opera the company’s mainstage as his first opera. Martínez has appeared with Apprentice Program (2013 Anna Case Jud Fry/Oklahoma! and in Houston Grand Opera in Cruzar (2011 tour Mackay Award) and San Francisco’s Merola seven other roles, including to Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet, 2010 – world- Opera Program. Among her other concert Papageno/Die Zauberflöte premiere concert performance, for which he engagements have been Mahler’s Symphony (student matinees), Cascada/ also performed the role of Chucho). No. 2 (Lynn Philharmonia), Carmina Burana The Merry Widow, and Moralès/Carmen. Among (Emory University Symphony Orchestra), and his other major operatic achievements are LEONARD FOGLIA the world premiere of Miguel Francoli’s Cinco Shostakovich’s Moscow Cheryomushki (Chicago (Librettist and Director)’s Canciones con los ojos Cerrados (Carnegie Hall). Opera Theater), The Death of Klinghoffer opera credits include four A graduate of the University of Cincinnati (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis),La fanciulla operas by Jake Heggie: College-Conservatory of Music, Santos was del West, L’enfant et les sortilèges, El retablo de Moby Dick (Dallas world featured there as Morgana/Alcina, Sofia/Il maese Pedro, and The Rape of Lucretia (all at the premiere, San Francisco/ Signor Bruschino, Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare, and Castleton Festival), Billy Budd (Los Angeles PBS telecast and DVD, Zerlina/Don Giovanni. She also portrayed Opera), and Die Fledermaus (Lyric Opera San Diego, Calgary, Ade- Fanny/Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star in of Kansas City). La Rosa made his Boston laide, Washington); Three Cincinnati Opera’s workshop production. The Symphony Orchestra debut at Tanglewood Decembers (Houston world premiere, San soprano was a Southwest regional finalist Festival as Maximilian/Candide, a role that Francisco, Chicago); The End of the Affair in the 2014 Metropolitan Opera National also introduced him to the Hollywood Bowl (Houston world premiere, Madison, Seattle); Council Regional Auditions. audience. Having sung many Castleton and Dead Man Walking (many major com- performances under Lorin Maazel, he renewed panies nationwide). He wrote the libretto DANIEL MONTENEGRO that association with his European debut for Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, premiered (Luis) is an alumnus of with Maazel in Rome, performing in the at Houston Grand Opera and reprised at San Francisco’s prestigious Brahms Requiem. Other important concert Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet, Lyric Opera, San Merola Opera Program. engagements include Copland’s Old American Diego Opera, and Arizona Opera. A Coffin The tenor’s recent successes Songs with the Cleveland Orchestra. La Rosa in Egypt (libretto by Foglia, music by Ricky include his European opera is a former member of the prestigious Juilliard Ian Gordon) premiered at HGO, was later debut at Paris’s Théâtre Opera Center and both the Glimmerglass and seen at the Annenberg Center (Beverly Hills) du Châtelet as Mario/ Merola Opera programs. and Opera Philadelphia, and will be seen at Daniel Catán’s Il pos- Chicago Opera Theater this spring. Highlights tino (alongside Plácido Domingo), Roderigo/ this season includes Foglia’s world-premiere Otello at San Francisco Opera, Alfredo/La productions of Everest (Dallas Opera) and Cold traviata with The Minnesota Opera, and Mountain (Santa Fe Opera). His theater cred- Pang/Turandot at the Hollywood Bowl. 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LUIS LEDESMA L’enfant et les sortilèges and Gianni Schicchi Velasco is first-prize winner of several com- (Augustino)’s current sea- (Castleton Festival). Twenty-first-century petitions in Mexico, among them the Carlo son includes Carmen music composed for and performed by Rivera Morelli Competition, where she also won the (Mexico City’s Opera de includes leading roles in Robert Cuckson’s A Audience Award, Maria Callas Award, Opera Bellas Artes), Cavalleria rus- Night of Pity, Christopher Park’s Phaedra and de Bellas Artes Award, and Domingo-Embil ticana/Pagliacci (Budapest’s Hippolytus, and Alexander Berezowsky’s The Zarzuela Award. Hungarian State Opera, nine billion names of God. Budapest), and La bohème OCTAVIO MORENO (Palm Beach Opera). A VANESSA ALONZO (Xihuitl), a Houston Grand winner of the Pavarotti International Voice (Juana) appeared with Opera Studio alumnus, Competition and Spain’s Julian Gayarre Com- Houston Grand Opera as has been heard on HGO’s petition, the Mexican baritone has been heard Lupita/Cruzar la Cara de mainstage as Sourin/The in numerous prestigious venues internation- la Luna in 2010, then on Queen of Spades, Belcore/ ally, including La Scala (Luisa Fernanda); tour to Paris’s Théâtre du L’elisir d’amore, a Noble/ the major houses of Barcelona (La favorite, Châtelet in 2011, and at Lohengrin, and both Mar- I puritani, La bohème), Dresden (La bohème), Lyric Opera of Chicago ullo and the title role/ Graz (Carmen), Lisbon (La bohème), Santiago in 2013. She began Rigoletto. The Mexican baritone received his (Carmen), and Buenos Aires (Il barbiere di her training with the late Alfonso Guerra bachelor’s degree in voice at the Universidad Siviglia); and the Savonlinna Festival (Lucia di at Multicultural Education and Counseling de Sonora before entering the artist pro- Lammermoor, Carmen). His association with through the Arts (MECA). The Texas Women’s gram at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts. La bohème includes not only Puccini’s opera, Empowerment Foundation has awarded her Moreno won third place in the 2008 Eleanor but also that of Leoncavallo (Vienna’s Klang- with the International Leadership Award. McCollum Competition for Young Singers Bogen Wien). Highlights in North America In 1999, she was named the Best of Show and represented Mexico in the 2009 BBC include Macbeth (Palm Beach), Tosca (Atlanta, Vocalist in the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and Phoenix, Nashville, Santa Barbara), La fanci- vocal competition (she has also been a camp the 2010 Paris International Competition. In ulla del West (Montreal), La traviata (Miami), clinician for Mariachi Vargas). Her notable Mexico City he made his Bellas Artes debut Pagliacci (Ottawa, Detroit), Carmen (Phoenix, credits include Estrella TV’s Tengo Talento, as Hortensius/La fille du régiment. He cre- Manitoba, Orlando), and Rigoletto (Milwau- Mucho Talento and tours to Ireland, Mexico, ated Laurentino/Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, kee). Ledesma, who debuted at Carnegie Hall Norway, and Vietnam. She performed for the which he has sung in Paris and at HGO, Lyric in Fauré’s Requiem, has also been featured with opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics Opera, San Diego Opera, and Arizona Opera. the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Louisville Or- in Salt Lake City. His leading roles with Opera in the Heights chestra, and in Hannover with the NDR Ra- include Germont/La traviata, Malatesta/Don diophilharmonie. CASSANDRA ZOÉ Pasquale, Enrico/Lucia di Lammermoor, and VELASCO (Isabel/Dolores) Rigoletto. Moreno recent released a solo album, RICARDO RIVERA debuted at the Metropolitan “Amar a esa mujer,” including both mariachi (Alcalán) will appear this Opera earlier this season themes and music of his own composition. season at the Licia Albanese- as Laura/Tchaikovsky’s Puccini Foundation Gala Iolanta. Other 2014-15 SEBASTIEN E. DE LA Concert with the Opera engagements include Falla’s CRUZ (Daniel) catapulted Orchestra of New York (he El Amor Brujo (Poland), mariachi music unto the has previously appeared Vivaldi’s Salve Regina (Mex- national spotlight in 2012, with OONY in Rienzi and ico), and Philomène/Martinů’s Alexandre Bis when NBC’s “America’s Andrea Chénier). Rivera (New York’s Gotham Chamber Opera, where Got Talent” presented him will also sing the world premieres of Robert she has previously appeared in Catán’s La with Mariachi Carros de Cuckson’s cantata Horace: A Portrait and hija de Rappaccini). In Mexico City the mez- Oro for an audience of Andrew McManus’s opera Killing the Goat. zo-soprano has starred in numerous Rossini more than 12 million. De The latter will be performed with eighth operas: La scala di seta and L’ocassione fa il ladro la Cruz also gained worldwide exposure per- blackbird and the Pacifica Quartet. A recent (ProOpera), La Cenerentola and Le Comte forming the National Anthem during two Metropolitan Opera National Council Ory (Mexico National Opera Company), and NBA finals games in 2013. In his hometown, Auditions semifinalist, Rivera has been heard L’italiana in Algeri (Arpegio Productions). Also San Antonio, he began taking vocal lessons at as Marcello/La bohème (El Paso Opera), the in Mexico City, she debuted at the Opera de age five, learning traditional mariachi songs Father/Hansel and Gretel (Opera at Florham), Bellas Artes as Lola/Cavalleria Rusticana, fol- while also singing at local community events and both Thomas Martin and the Hotel lowed by Rosina/Il barbiere di Siviglia. Velasco with the San Antonio Park and Recreation Managers/Theodore Morrison’s Oscar (The is an alumna of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Department. He has been showcased in the Santa Fe Opera, world premiere; Rivera Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera, Mariachi Spectular de Albuquerque, Tucson returned to SFO last summer as Moralès/ where she has appeared in Thaïs, Carmen, International Mariachi Conference, and Las Carmen), Sharpless/Madama Butterfly Die Zauberflöte, and Jonah and the Whale Cruces Mariachi Confrence. Widely regarded (Opera Company of Middlebury), Ashby/La (world premiere). A semi-finalist in Plácido as one of the best young mariachi vocalists fanciulla del West (Knoxville Opera), and in Domingo’s 2012 Operalia competition, in America, he has shared the stage with

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Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, Mariachi the premiere and revival of his own chamber of its designer of La traviata, Cait O’Connor. Nuevo Tecalitlán, Pepe Aguilar, Paquita del opera Past the Checkpoints, as well as Gregory As Lyric Opera’s production design director Barrio, Alejandro Fernandez, Nydia Rojas, Spears’s The Bricklayer, and Jack Perla’s River of since 2007, Marr serves as a liaison between Lorenzo Negrete, and Gloria Estefan. He has Light among other works. Hanlon is a former Lyric’s stage management and the compa- been accompanied by Mariachi Sol de Mexico, Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, where ny’s directors and designers. Besides several Mariachi Cobre, The San Antonio Symphony, he conducted the premiere of Perla’s Love/ productions for Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center, and Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano. Hate and assisted on operas including Nixon in the Illinois native’s stage designs include The Among his awards are the 2013 Rising Star China, Siegfried, Don Giovanni, and Heart of a Count of Luxembourg (Light Opera Works), Award and 2014 Dynamic Youth Award. Soldier. He is a graduate of the Houston Grand Help, Help, the Globolinks (Madison Opera), Opera Studio, where he assisted on operas Noye’s Fludde (Chicago Opera Theater), and MIGUEL NUÑEZ (Miguel/ such as Lohengrin, Tosca, A Midsummer Night’s both Candide and the American premiere of Hotel Manager) was last Dream, and Brief Encounter (world premiere). Philip Glass’s Marriages Between Zones 3, 4, seen as Ottaker in the criti- and 5 (DePaul Opera Theatre, where he is an cally acclaimed Romulus ELAINE McCARTHY adjunct faculty member and has designed for (Oracle Theatre). Other (Scenic and Projection more than a decade). Also a painter/mixed Chicago credits include Designer) maintains an inter- media artist, Marr is currently preparing a Pinkolandia (16th Street national career spanning 20 major exhibit for summer 2015. Theatre); The Three Mus- years and nearly every area keteers, The Blue Shadow of live performance. Her CHRISTOPHER (Lifeline Theatre); Augusta and Noble (Ad- opera credits include Moby MARAVICH venture Stage Chicago); I Put the Fear of Mexico Dick (Washington National (Lighting Designer) is cur- In ’em (Teatro Vista); The Jammer (Pine Box Opera), Tristan und Isolde rently lighting director of Theatre); The Ghost is Here (Vitalist Theatre); (The Dallas Opera), Mazeppa (Metropolitan Lyric Opera of Chicago. Seven Snakes (The Mammals); and Lorca In a Opera), Dead Man Walking (New York City He served in the same posi- Green Dress and Heads (Halcyon Theatre). The Opera), War and Peace (Metropolitan Opera, tion from 2006 to 2012 actor has also worked with The Gift Theatre, Kirov Opera), Tosca (Opera Festival of New at San Francisco Opera, American Theatre Company, Redmoon, Teatro Jersey), and Tan Dun and Peter Sellars’s The where he has created light- Luna, Salsation!, Chicago Fusion Theatre, and Peony Pavilion (Vienna Festival). Additional ing for many of the company productions Bailiwick Chicago. Film credits include Albert career highlights include the Broadway produc- including The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Così (30th Chicago Latino Film Festival Audience tions of Wicked, Spamalot, Assassins, Man of La fan tutte, Turandot, Cyrano de Bergerac, Il trit- Choice Award, Best Short), Lex, Una Mujer Sin Mancha, Into the Woods, Thurgood, and Judgment tico, Tosca, Simon Boccanegra, Don Giovanni, Precio 1961 (leading role of Victor Junco – seen at Nuremberg, as well as the Off-Broadway pro- Nixon in China, and Attila. Maravich has at Spain’s Sitges Film Festival and scheduled to ductions of Frequency Hopping (set and projec- collaborated on the lighting designs for Doktor be shown in April at Amsterdam’s Imagine Film tions), Distracted (set and projections), Fran’s Faust at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Tannhäuser for Festival). He can be seen in various national Bed, Speaking in Tongues, The Stendhal Syndrome, the Greek National Opera, and La fanciulla del and regional commercials and independent and The Thing About Men.McCarthy’s cred- West, The Makropulos Case, La fille du régiment, films. His work in Venezuela includes produc- its also include Tan Dun’s The Gate (NHK Il trovatore, Samson et Dalila, and Macbeth for tions with Teatro Septimo Piso and Apocalipse Symphony) and Don Byron’s Tunes and ‘Toons San Francisco Opera. He has also designed 1,11, as well as performances at the Caracas (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Peter Buffett’s lighting for Opera Colorado, San Diego International Festival with the Brazilian com- Spirit - A Journey in Dance Drums and Song and Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Lyric Opera of pany Teatro da Vertigem. Chen Shi-Zheng’s Forgiveness at Asia Society/ Kansas City, Florida Grand Opera, Madison New York; fashion/industrial work for Adidas, Opera, Cal Performances and Opera San José. DAVID HANLON (Music Sony/Epic Records, Kenneth Cole, Calvin Klein Supervisor) previously led Cosmetics; the 1996 and 1997 CFDA Awards; the premiere of Cruzar la and the 2008 documentary film, Secrecy. Cara de la Luna as well as the recording and reviv- SCOTT MARR (Costume als in Houston, San Diego, Designer) has created sets Chicago, and Arizona. He and costumes for Lyric served as Lorin Maazel’s Opera of Chicago’s pro- assistant at the Castleton ductions of The Magic Festival, where Hanlon conducted numerous Victrola (2014-15), Ernani orchestral works in concert and prepared La (2009-10) and The Pearl fanciulla del West for performances at Castleton Fishers (2008-09), as well and La Coruña, Spain. Hanlon is also a com- as costumes and scenic re- poser, with upcoming premieres including a design for La fanciulla del West (2010-11) and new chamber opera for HGOco and a piece for new set pieces and costumes for the Ring cycle soprano Melody Moore’s Carnegie Hall debut. (2004-05). Last season he curated the compa- At Houston Grand Opera, Hanlon conducted ny’s retrospective exhibit devoted to the work

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MARIACHI VARGAS DE TECALITLÁN was featured in Cruzar la Cara de la Luna at Lyric Opera in 2013. That work, with music by the ensemble’s legendary leader, José “Pepe” Martínez, has also been heard in Paris, Houston, and San Diego. Over more than five generations, the group has endured as the quint- essential mariachi, appearing in more than 200 films and on numerous recordings (including Linda Ronstadt’s Grammy-winning “Canciones de Mi Padre” in 1987) and touring internation- ally. Founded as a quartet in 1898, Mariachi Vargas acquired national success upon its pre- sentation at the 1934 inaugural celebration of President Lázaro Cárdenas. Musical director Rubén Fuentes (who joined the group in 1944) arranged music for many of Mexico’s celebrated singers and composers. Subsequently the band’s seminal work set the tone for many mariachi ensembles by insisting that all of the group’s musicians know how to read music, result- ing in a more refined and trained ensemble. Credited with modernizing the genre, Mariachi Vargas’s meticulously crafted arrangements helped to propel the national pride for what would become Mexico’s classical sound. The ensemble’s awards and accolades include the title “World’s Best Mariachi” since the 1950s.

MARIACHI AZTLÁN founded in 1989 at the University of Texas-Pan American by Dr. Dahlia Guerra and currently directed by Francisco Loera, promotes Mexican folk music and Hispanic culture in South Texas. Mariachi Aztlán’s growing reputation initiated a recent invitation from the White House to perform for President Obama at the signing of an Executive Order renewing and enhancing the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. At Houston Grand Opera the ensemble premiered the world’s first mariachi opera, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. In 2013 they were featured in that work’s Chicago performances, returning in 2014 for performances of Lyric Unlimited’s Canciones y Arias, a specially created production connecting mariachi and opera music traditions. Mariachi Aztlán has recently appeared with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and at the Hollywood Bowl and San José Mariachi Mexican Heritage Festival. For more than 15 years, in San Antonio and Albuquerque, Mariachi Aztlán has been selected as the “Outstanding College or University Mariachi” in nationwide competitions. It has been recognized by the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate for promoting the music and traditions of Hispanic culture

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THE PAST IS NEVER FINISHED Program Note by Leonard Foglia

The whole history of Mexico, from the Conquest to the Revolution, can be regarded as a search for our own selves, which have been deformed and disguised by alien institutions, and for a form that will express them. . . If we contemplate the Mexican revolution . . .we see that it was a movement attempting to re-conquer our past, to assimilate it and make it live in the present. – Octavio Paz

On May 16, 1910, when Halley’s Comet the descendants of the Spanish conquerors are Is it any wonder that peasants turned into appeared in the sky over Mexico, many inextricably intertwined. soldiers, and soldiers into revolutionaries, believed it foretold the bloodshed and upheav- wanting to reclaim land that had been theirs al that was to come. It was the eve of the By this time, the hacienda was one of the pillars for centuries? They began to believe that the Mexican Revolution, a smoldering restlessness, of Mexico’s economic life. Haciendas included circumstances of their lives could change and fueled by abject poverty and hopelessness, per- everything you would find in an independent then demanded as much. ¡Ya Basta! was their meated the country. The facts were irrefutable. community, such as a church, a store, a post rallying cry. Enough! office, a burying ground, and sometimes a • In 1856, the parceling of the Indian school or hospital. Workshops were main- Cruzar La Cara de La Luna / To Cross The lands into private properties enabled creoles tained for the repair and the manufacture of Face of The Moon – my first collaboration with (those with pure Spanish blood) to steal machinery used on the estate. The permanent Jose “Pepe” Martínez – began with questions: them or buy them on easy terms. Indians population (sometimes in the thousands) was Where is home? Is it where we were born? who resisted were transported or shot. ruled by an administrador, who had absolute Where we live now? Where our children are They were reduced to what was slavery in power over the peons and their families. born? We wanted to explore the feeling of all but name. displacement that so many immigrants experi- • The haciendados (owners) would make ence here in the United States. • Because many Indians never had legal advances on wages that the peons could titles, the old creole families were allowed never repay. The peons were required to El Pasado Nunca Se Termina / The Past Is Never to enlarge their holdings indiscriminately. buy what they needed from the master’s Finished also began with questions: Where did One individual obtained 17 million acres store, the tienda de raya, thereby increasing we come from? What obligation do we have in Chihuahua. Ninety-six million acres, the indebtedness which kept them enslaved. to bring the past into the present? How do we nearly one-fifth of the total area of the And their debts were inherited from genera- carry the story forward? Or as one character in republic, were given to seventeen persons. tion to generation. El Pasado sings:

• By 1910 nearly half of Mexico belonged • Some fled the haciendas and became out- I AM AMERICAN BORN AND BRED to less than three thousand families, while laws, and some were kidnapped to supply LIKE MY FATHER BEFORE ME of the ten million Mexicans engaged in railroad labor gangs. Others escaped over BUT MY FACE TELLS ANOTHER STORY. agriculture, more than nine and a half mil- the border to the United States. Migratory WHAT IS THAT STORY? lion were virtually without land. workers, startled by what they had seen WHAT IS THAT STORY? of life in the United States, came back This is whereEl Pasado Nunca Se Termina demanding that Mexicans receive in Mexico Leonard Foglia’s biography appears on page 22. (The Past Is Never Finished) begins. We are on the same pay and opportunity as foreigners. a hacienda in Morelos, South Central Mexico, They were slaughtered. where the lives of the indigenous peasants and

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EL PASADO NUNCA SE TERMINA

Nota del programa por Leonard Foglia

“Toda la historia de México desde la Conquista hasta la Revolución puede verse como una búsqueda de nosotros mismos, deformados o enmascarados, con instituciones extrañas y de una forma que nos exprese…la revolución se convierte en un movimiento tendiente a reconquistar nuestro pasado y hacerlo vivo en el presente”. Sugar cane harvest in Mexico – Octavio Paz

El 16 de mayo de 1910, cuando el Cometa campesinos indígenas y las de los descendientes sueldo y las mismas oportunidades que los Halley apareció en el cielo sobre México, muchos de los conquistadores españoles se entrelazan extranjeros. Fueron asesinados. creyeron que presagiaba derramamiento de sangre inextricablemente. y el subsecuente trastorno que esto ocasionaría. No sorprende entonces que los campesinos Era la víspera de la Revolución Mexicana, y un Para esta época, la hacienda era uno de los se convirtieran en soldados y los soldados en latente desasosiego, impulsado por la increíble pilares de la vida económica de México. Allí se revolucionarios, con el fin de reclamar la tierra que pobreza y la desesperación, iba penetrando a encontraba todo lo que era necesario para una les había pertenecido por siglos. Comenzaban a todo el país. Los hechos eran irrefutables. comunidad independiente, tal como la iglesia, creer que las circunstancias de sus vidas podían la tienda, la oficina de correos, el cementerio y a cambiar y eso fue lo que exigieron. ¡Basta Ya! era • En 1856, la parcelación de las tierras de veces hasta la escuela y el hospital. Había talleres su grito de batalla. los indios para convertirlas en propiedades donde se reparaba o se fabricaba la maquinaria privadas, le permitió a los criollos (los que que se usaba en la propiedad. La población Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, mi primera colaboración tenían pura sangre española) robárselas o permanente que a veces se remontaba a miles, con José “Pepe” Martínez, comenzó con preguntas: adquirirlas de manera fácil. Los indios que era gobernada por un administrador quien tenía ¿Dónde está el hogar? ¿Es acaso dónde nacimos? se resistían eran trasladados o ejecutados. Se autoridad absoluta sobre los peones y sus familias. ¿Dónde vivimos ahora? ¿Dónde nacen nuestros les redujo a lo que sin llamarle esclavitud lo hijos? Queríamos explorar el sentimiento era en realidad. • Los hacendados solían adelantarle parte de desplazamiento que tantos inmigrantes del salario a los peones sabiendo que estos experimentan aquí en los Estados Unidos. • Debido a que muchos indios nunca tuvi- no podian reembolsar tales cantidades. A los eron títulos de propiedad legales, a las antiguas peones se les requería comprar lo que necesi- El Pasado Nunca Se Termina también comenzó con familias criollas se les permitió aumentar sus taban en la tienda del hacendado – la tienda preguntas: ¿De dónde venimos? ¿Qué obligación tierras indistintamente. Un individuo obtuvo 17 de raya- aumentando así su deuda, lo cual los tenemos de traer el pasado al presente? ¿Cómo millones de acres en Chihuahua. Noventa y seis mantenía prácticamente esclavizados. Estas continuamos la historia? ¿Cómo llevarla adelante? millones de acres, casi un quinto del área total de deudas, además, se pasaban de generación la república fueron dadas a diecisiete personas. en generación. O como un personaje de El Pasado nos canta:

• Para el 1910 casi la mitad de México pertenecía • Algunos se escapaban de las haciendas SOY NACIDO Y CRIADO AMERICANO a menos de tres mil familias, mientras que de convirtiéndose en proscritos, y otros eran IGUAL QUE MI PADRE los diez millones de mexicanos envueltos en la secuestrados para abastecer las cuadrillas PERO MI CARA CUENTA OTRA HISTORIA agricultura, más de nueve millones y medio no ferroviarias. Aun otros se escapaban por la ¿CUÁL ES ESA HISTORIA? poseían prácticamente ninguna tierra. frontera hacia los Estados Unidos. Algunos ¿CUÁL ES ESA HISTORIA? de estos trabajadores migratorios, asomb- Aquí es donde comienza El Pasado Nunca Se rados por el estilo de vida de los Estados La biografía de Leonard Foglia aparece en la Termina. Estamos en una hacienda en Morelos, Unidos, regresaban demandando que los página 22 en inglés. en el centro de México donde las vidas de los mexicanos recibieran en su país el mismo

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Soldiers of the Mexican Revolution, pictured in 1910

A BACKDROP OF EL TRASFONDO REVOLUTION DE LA REVOLUCIÓN By Paul Gillingham Por Paul Gillingham

o one really expected the Mexican Revolution. In the Mexico of adie se esperaba la Revolución Mexicana. En el México de 1910 no N1910 there were no foreign wars, no long-running political crises, Nhabía guerras extranjeras, ni crisis políticas longevas, ni escasez de no major famines, no packed industrial slums, no restless generals, and comida, ni barriadas hacinadas en las periferias, ni generales inquietos, ni not much of a revolutionary party either. There was a three decade- tampoco un partido revolucionario. Sí hubo una dictadura que duró tres old dictatorship, true enough, but to most outside observers it seemed décadas, pero para los que observaban desde lejos les parecía ser benevolente benevolent and necessary. Instability and poverty had apparently given y necesaria. La inestabilidad y la pobreza dieron paso al orden y el progreso, way to order and progress, to mines, factories, plantations, and railroads. a minas, fábricas, haciendas y vías ferroviarias. Con la indispensable guía Armed with the indispensable Terry’s guidebook, tourists moved across Terry, los turistas se paseaban por México, no siendo el idioma barrera Mexico, language no barrier in a place where “the natives gesticulate freely en un lugar donde “los nativos gesticulaban amplia y expresivamente”, and expressively,” marveling at exotic landscapes, quaint cities, honest cab maravillándose de los paisajes exóticos, las ciudades pintorescas, taxistas drivers, and reasonably priced hotels with electric lights and elevators. honestos, hoteles de precio razonable, luz eléctrica y elevadores.

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Ten years later, well over a million Mexicans were dead and another Diez años más tarde más de un millón de mexicanos habían muerto, three hundred and fifty thousand had fled north for good. Armies had y otros trescientos cincuenta mil habían abandonado el país para siempre fought pitched battles with the tools of World War One, the Mauser rumbo al norte. Los ejércitos lucharon con las armas de la época de la rifle, the machine gun, the artillery, and the barbed wire, while bands of Primera Guerra Mundial, rifles Mauser, ametralladoras, artillería y alambre guerrillas played a bloody hide-and-seek across the mountains. Harvests de púas, mientras que las guerrillas jugaban al escondido en las montañas en forma sangrienta. Las cosechas se malograron; los habitantes de los pueblos had failed; villagers starved. Typhus killed a third of the people of se morían de hambre. El tifus acabó con una tercera parte de la población Guanajuato in 1916. In 1918 the Spanish influenza left bodies stacked de Guanajuato en 1916. En 1918 la influenza española dejó a su paso like logs in the rich silver city of Zacatecas, while some southern villages cuerpos apilados como leños en la rica ciudad platera de Zacatecas, mientras became ghost towns. The revolution was deadlier for Mexicans than que algunos pueblos sureños se convirtieron en pueblos fantasmas. La World War One was for Europeans, and when men, women, and child revolución fue más devastadora para los mexicanos que la Primera Guerra soldiers stopped fighting, they were left with the greatest mass dying since Mundial para los europeos, y cuando hombres, mujeres y soldados niños the Conquest. cesaron de luchar, se encontraron con la mayor concentración de la muerte For many, the bloody surprise was violenta desde la Conquista. best understood in the metaphors of Para muchos, la sangrienta sorpresa natural disaster, of volcanoes, or com- se pudo comprender mejor a través de ets, or earthquakes, or hurricanes, what metáforas de las calamidades naturales Anita Brenner called the wind that tales como volcanes, cometas, terremotos o huracanes, lo que Anita Brenner ha swept Mexico. The complex wars began, llamado el viento que barrió a México. Sin though, in the graspable and profoundly embargo, esta guerra compleja comenzó en human terrain of high politics. The geri- el terreno comprensible y profundamente atric General Porfirio Díaz announced humano de la alta política. El anciano that he would retire from the presidency General Porfirio Díaz anunció que se and then changed his mind. As a result a retiraba de la presidencia cambiando young liberal landowner called Francisco después de parecer. Como resultado, Madero ran against him in the 1910 un joven hacendado liberal llamado election. The general took too long to Francisco Madero se postuló contra él take Madero seriously – the upstart was, en las elecciones de 1910. Al General le after all, a short, high-voiced spiritualist tomó demasiado tiempo tomar en serio with little political experience – and then a Madero– el arribista era, después de todo, un espiritualista bajito, de voz fina y arrested him and rigged the election. In Costume sketch for con poca experiencia política – lo arrestó a final blunder he then released Madero, Amorita by designer y manipuló las elecciones cometiendo who escaped to the United States calling Scott Marr finalmente el gran error de soltar a Madero, for a democratic revolution. quien escapó hacia los Estados Unidos That went nowhere: the idealistic clamando por una revolución democrática. artisans, tradesmen, doctors, and law- Eso no llegó a nada: los artesanos yers who backed him were not much idealistas, los comerciantes, médicos y fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. abogados que lo apoyaron no concebían November 20, 1910, the date set for the revolution, came and went with envolverse en traiciones, estratagemas y botín. El 20 de noviembre, el día relatively little disturbance in the provincial cities that were intended marcado para comenzar la revolución, vino y se fue con pocos disturbios en as its strongholds. At the same time, however, a wave of village revolts las ciudades de las provincias que habían sido designadas como sus fortalezas. gathered in the mountains of the northwest. These fiercely independent Al mismo tiempo, sin embargo, se suscitó una ola de revueltas en los pueblitos de las montañas del noroeste. Estos aldeanos independientes comenzaron a villagers began fighting for all sorts of reasons. In Mariano Azuela’s clas- pelear por un sinfín de razones. En la novela clásica de Mariano Azuela, Los de sic novel, The Underdogs, one is feuding with the local boss, another is abajo, uno está peleando contra el casique del pueblo, el otro es un ladrón, y un a thief, and a third has poisoned his girlfriend with an overdose of the tercero ha envenenado a su novia con una sobre dosis de cantárida. Quizás no Spanish Fly. While they may not have been idealists all, they were suc- eran idealistas pero tuvieron éxito. Estas revueltas aparentemente insignificantes cessful. Petty local revolts spread across much of Mexico, coalescing in se expandieron a través de todo el país, fundiéndose en algunos lugares para places into larger revolutionary armies, and in May 1911 the peasants, formar ejércitos revolucionarios, y en mayo de 1911 los campesinos, mineros, miners, Indians, ranchers, cowboys, and entrepreneurs of those rag-tag indios, rancheros, vaqueros y comerciantes que componían esa chusma, armies brought down Latin America’s greatest dictatorship. derrocaron la dictadura más grande de la América Latina.

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Costume sketch for Xihuitl's headdress by designer Scott Marr

Morelos, the southern state in which El Pasado Nunca Se Termina Morelos, el estado sureño donde tiene lugar El Pasado Nunca Se takes place, saw the biggest of those regional wars, the Zapatista rebellion, Termina fue testigo de una de las más cruentas guerras regionales. La and the events that led to it are the events at the heart of the opera. Lands rebelión zapatista y los eventos que le precedieron forman el corazón de in the subtropical valleys were rich, well watered, and close to Mexico esta ópera. Las tierras de sus valles subtropicales eran ricas, bien irrigadas City. They were traditionally farmed by peasant farmers, ranchers, and a y cercanas a la Ciudad de México. Las cultivaban campesinos, rancheros y unos pocos hacendados que sembraban maiz, frijoles, calabaza, trigo y few hacendados who grew corn, beans, squash, wheat, and tomatoes for tomates, para su propia subsistencia y para canjear en los pueblos cercanos. subsistence and for trade in their nearest market towns. In 1881, howev- En 1881, sin embargo, se completa la vía ferroviaria México-Cuautla, y er, the Mexico-Cuautla railroad was completed, and overnight it became de la noche a la mañana cultivar caña de azúcar se convirtió en algo más commercially viable to cultivate sugarcane. The sugar demanded large rentable. El azúcar requería grandes expansiones de terreno y abundancia estates and plentiful water, and so a new generation of wealthy landlords de agua, de modo que una nueva generación de ricos latifundistas comenzó began using all the tools they had at their disposal to take over village a usar todos los medios a su disposición para apoderarse de los terrenos de lands, turning traditional crops into cane and peasants into wage laborers. las aldeas suplantando las cosechas tradicionales con la caña y convirtiendo As they were politically well-connected, they had rather a lot of tools. a los campesinos en jornaleros. Al estar bien conectados políticamente The law, for a start, was on the big landowners’ side, and it was tenían a su disposición bastantes medios. perfectly legal for them to take lands for which no deeds existed. All they Para comenzar, la ley estaba de parte de los latifundistas y era had to do was bring in surveyors and map them. At times they profited perfectamente legal para ellos apoderarse de las tierras que no tenían from villagers’ need for cash for religious festivals, advancing large sums escrituras legales. Todo lo que tenían que hacer era traer agrimensores y trazar un mapa. A veces aprovechaban la falta de dinero para las fiestas at high interest rates with lands as security. At times they had com- del pueblo, adelantándoles a los habitantes grandes cantidades de efectivo munity leaders killed; at times they arrested them and dispatched them para festivales religosos, adelantándoles grandes cantidades con altas tasas as soldiers or forced laborers to far-off tropical hellholes where yellow de interés poniendo los terrenos como garantía. Otras veces ordenaban el fever might do the job. They used water as a weapon, denying ranch- asesinato de líderes comunitarios y en otras ocasiones los hacían detener ers access to streams for their cattle or cutting off village water supplies. para enviarlos como soldados o peones a lugares de mala muerte. donde In Tetelpan, the man-made drought emptied the village. In the case of la fiebre amarilla terminaría con ellos. Usaban el agua como un arma,

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Tequesquitengo they took the opposite tack, supplying the village with negándole a los rancheros acceso a los arroyos para uso de su ganado o so much water that only the church spire remained, breaking through cortando el agua de los pueblos. En Tetelpan, la sequía producida por the surface of a newborn lake. There had always been conflict between el hombre vació el pueblo. En el caso de Tequesquitengo hicieron lo villages and between large and small farmers. When the United States contrario, proporcionando tanta agua el pueblo que solo quedaba la torre invaded Mexico in 1846, the peasants of Morelos took advantage of the de la iglesia, pue se vislumbraba por encima de un lago recién formado. Siempre hubo conflicto entre las diferentes comunidades y entre las fincas distraction to sack large estates and recover lost lands. But the events of grandes y las pequeñas. Cuando los Estados Unidos invadieron a México the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were of a wholly different en 1846, los campesinos de Morelos se aprovecharon de la distracción para scale. As haciendas grew, with just one, Santa Clara, covering 260 square saquear las estancias grandes y recuperar las tierras que habían perdido. miles, villages contracted and vanished. By 1910, 20 villages and half the Pero los eventos de finales del siglo diecinueve y principios del veinte state’s ranches had disappeared. fueron de una escala totalmente diferente. A medida que las haciendas In the process, substantial numbers of countrymen became poorer crecían – una de ellas, Santa Clara, extendiéndose por 260 millas cuadradas or lost their lands altogether. Those who stayed were forced to seek work – se redujeron los pueblos hasta desaparecer finalmente. Para 1910, 20 on the new estates as peons. The luckier ones got permanent jobs, and pueblos y la mitad de los ranchos del estado habían desaparecido. with them food rations, perhaps the use of a small plot, at times the El el proceso, muchos campesinos se empobrecieron o perdieron vestiges of an older paternalism that had once seen the children of land- sus tierras. Los que se quedaron se vieron forzados a buscar trabajo en las lords and workers playing together. There were more nuevas haciendas como peones. Los más afortunados workers than work, though, and as a result a lot of the conseguían trabajos permanentes, raciones de comida y quizás el uso de una pequeña parcela, todo esto newly landless found themselves moving from tem- evocador del antiguo paternalismo que en otros porary job to temporary job. Discipline on the new tiempos permitiera que los hijos de los dueños y de los plantations was harsh, imposed by foremen who were trabajadores jugaran juntos. Había más trabajadores usually outsiders, good at violence: the Cuban fore- que trabajo y como resultado los que habían sido men on Santa Clara, for example, were notorious for despojados de sus tierras iban de un trabajo temporal a dishing out beatings with nail-studded clubs. As much otro. La disciplina en las nuevas haciendas era severa, as the falling living standards or repression, though, impuesta por un capataz experto en la violencia y it was the loss of the independence that comes with que casi siempre venía de fuera. El capataz cubano de lands, however small and marginal, that alienated the Santa Clara, por ejemplo, era famoso por dar golpizas people of Morelos. In the historian John Womack’s con garrotes llenos de clavos. Sin embargo, tan grave words, they were “country people who did not want como la caída del estándar de vida o la represión, fue to move and therefore got into a revolution.” la pérdida de la independencia que proviene de la posesión de la tierra, aunque pequeña, lo que enajenó Their revolution had a simple focus: tierra y Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) a la gente de Morelos. En las palabras del historiador libertad, land and freedom. It began as the power of John Womack ellos eran “gente del campo que no the old regime melted in late 1910 and early 1911, querían mudarse y por lo tanto iniciaron una revolución”. allowing villagers to occupy their old lands without check and to ignore Esta revolución tenía un enfoque simple: tierra y libertad. Comenzó the governor and his men. Local defense forces grew into larger militias a finales del 1910 y principios del 1911 cuando el poder del viejo régimen that in turn grew into a bigger, state-wide army led by Emiliano Zapata. disminuía, permitiéndole a los aldeanos ocupar sus viejas tierras sin Zapata was a charismatic village leader who had begun by orchestrating restricciones e ignorando al gobernador y sus hombres. Las fuerzas de land invasions around his village of Anenecuilco before going to war defensa local crecieron y se convirtieron en grandes milicias y después en un backed by only seventy men. Within ten weeks he had four thousand fol- ejército bajo las órdenes de Emiliano Zapata. Zapata era un líder popular lowers, and at his peak he led perhaps as many as seventy thousand in the carismático que comenzó organizando invasiones de terreno alrededor de su Army of the South. Zapata fought against every national regime between pueblo de Anenecuilco antes de irse a la guerra con solo setenta hombres. 1911 and 1919, when he was assassinated. Shortly afterwards, his surviv- Dentro de diez semanas ya tenía cuatro mil seguidores, y en su mejor momento quizás llegaran hasta setenta mil en el Ejército del Sur. Zapata ing followers made peace with a new revolutionary government, which luchó contra cada régimen nacional del 1911 al 1919, cuando fue asesinado. promised them the final satisfaction of land reform and local autonomy. Poco después los seguidores que quedaban, hicieron las paces con un nuevo Mexican stories of the wars generally end thereabouts, the chaos and gobierno revolucionario que les prometía reforma agraria y autonomía local. diversity of those years rationalized into a single revolution with a capital Las historias mexicanas de la guerra, por lo general terminan ahí, “R.” The Zapatistas’ demands were at least partially satisfied: radical con la racionalización del caos y la diversidad de esos años reducida a agrarian reform was written into the Constitution of 1917, and the peas- una sola revolución con “R” mayúscula. Las demandas de los Zapatistas ants of Morelos were given communal lands to farm. The revolutionary fueron satisfechas al menos parcialmente: se incluyó en la Constitución de regime gave them state healthcare and education. It also, however, imple- 1917 una reforma agraria radical y los campesinos de Morelos recibieron

MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 | 31 OPERA NOTES | LYRIC UNLIMITED Alumni Perform Around mented its own brand of authoritarian capitalism, which combined with tierras comunales para cultivar. El régimen revolucionario también les dio the World in the 2014-15 Season dramatic population growth to push millions of Mexicans out of Mexico. cuidado de salud y educación estatal. A su vez, sin embargo, implementó su propio modelo de capitalismo autoritario el cual combinado con un In material terms, it was an ambiguous set of results. In mythical terms, crecimiento dramático de la población, empujó a muchos mexicanos a though, the Revolution was a success, and in the myths promulgated by abandonar México. En terminos materiales, los resultados fueron un poco subsequent generations of politicians, painters, writers, and teachers, the ambiguos. En terminos míticos, sin embargo, la Revolución fue un éxito, countrymen of Morelos took center stage. y en los mitos promulgados por generaciones subsecuentes de políticos, pintores, escritores y maestros, los ciudadanos de Morelos tenían el papel As will be clear, Leonard Foglia’s libretto draws on historical events of principal. an operatic sweep: the dread omen of Halley’s Comet, the lost lands, the Como estará claro, el libreto de Leonard Foglia se nutre de eventos modernizing haciendas, the murdered peasants, even the flood that wiped históricos de amplitud operática: el temible augurio del Cometa Halley, out a village. It also draws on the myth of the Revolution, and links it to las tierras perdidas, la modernización de las haciendas, el asesinato de campesinos, hasta la inundación que destruyó una aldea. Se nutre también NICOLE KATHLEEN

CABELL MATTHEW KIM that other central Mexican myth, mestizaje: the idea that to be Mexican is to POLENZANI del mito de la Revolución y lo conecta a otro mito central mexicano, el Opéra National de Paris La Monnaie Royal Opera House be intrinsically a hybrid of the indigenous and the Spanish. The end result mestizaje: la idea de que ser mexicano es ser intrínsecamente un híbrido de La Bohème (Brussels) (London) is a nationalist story of popular struggle, violent repression, and reconcili- lo indígena y lo español. El resultado final es una historia nacionalista de Un ballo in maschera esfuerzo popular y reconciliación personal, nacional y hasta internacional. Idomeneo ation personal, national, and even international. The continuing realities Que las realidades de la lucha y la represión continúan es obvio para of struggle and repression are clear to anyone who reads newspapers: El cualquiera que lee los diarios, tambien les dio seguro social y educación pasado nunca se termina indeed. The reconciliation, whether inside Mexico pública. Ciertamente, El pasado nunca se termina. La reconciliación, dentro or inside the United States, remains a work in progress. de México como dentro de los Estados Unidos sigue siendo una obra en construcción.

Paul Gillingham, Associate Professor of Latin American History at Paul Gillingham es Profesor de la Historia de América Latina en Northwestern University, is the author of Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging Northwestern University. El es el autor de Los Restos de Cuauhtémoc: National Identity in Modern Mexico and Dictablanda: Politics, Work, Forjando identidad nacional en México y Dictablanda: Política, trabajo RYAN OPERA CENTER OPERA CENTER RYAN and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968. He is currently working on political y cultura en México, 1938-1968. En la actualidad investiga la violencia violence, journalism and censorship in Mexico. política, el periodismo y la censura en México.

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Dan Novak John Irvin Deborah Birnbaum Roger Pines Opera in the Neighborhoods: Director Stepan Company Stephanie Blythe Guest Lecturer and The Brothers Grimm The Ryan Opera Center Jonathan Johnson William Burden Consultant Michael La Tour, Director Board Endowed Chair Mr. and Mrs. William C. Sir Andrew Davis Codrut Birsan, Music Supervisor Craig Terry Vance Matthew A. Epstein Artistic/Production Sandra Zamora, Stage Manager Music Director Baritones Asher Fisch Personnel Renée Fleming Anthony Clark Evans Renée Fleming Michael Christie The Magic Victrola Advisor Sanfred and Nancy Koltun Kathleen Kelly Carrie-Ann Matheson David Kersnar, Director Ana María Martínez Julia Faulkner Richard W. Shepro and Conductors Matthew Ozawa, Associate Director Gerald Martin Moore Director of Vocal Studies Lindsay E. Roberts Matthew Ozawa Rachel A. Tobias, Stage Manager Sondra Radvanovsky Jodi Gage, Jayme O’Hara, The Elizabeth F. Cheney Will Liverman Paula Suozzi Peter Rose Amy C. Thompson, Foundation Anonymous Directors The Pauls Foundation Bo Skovhus Sarah Hatten Assistant Stage Managers Ensemble & Debbie K. Wright Anne Sofie von Otter Wigs and Makeup Guest Master Artists Bass-baritone Peggy Stenger The Property Sponsorship Support Alan Darling Richard Ollarsaba Bill Walters Eric Einhorn, Director Sopranos Laurann Gilley Lois B. Siegel Stage Managers Tara Faircloth, Assistant Director Tracy Cantin Philip Morehead Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Theresa Ham Kristen Barrett, Stage Manager The C. G. Pinnell Family Celeste Rue Bass Lucy Lindquist Donald Claxon, Assistant Stage Manager Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Eric Weimer Bradley Smoak Maureen Reilly Susan and Richard Kiphart Pedro Yanez El Pasado Nunca Se Termina The Elizabeth F. Cheney Wardrobe Drs. Funmi and Sola Coaching Staff Leonard Foglia, Director Foundation Olopade Derek Matson Elise Sandell, Assistant Director Pianist Administration Laura Wilde Marina Vecci Jimmy Byrne Rachel C. Henneberry, Stage Manager Maureen Zoltek Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Claudia Vining Manager Kristen Barrett, Derek Matson, Anonymous Mezzo-sopranos Alessandra Visconti Laura Chambers Anya Plotkin, J’nai Bridges Faculty Eric Weimer Administrative Coordinator Assistant Stage Managers Anonymous Julia Faulkner Foreign Language Instruction Wendy Skoczen Julie Miller Gianna Rolandi Erik Friedman Staff Librarian Maurice J. and Patricia W. Stephen Smith Anne Libera Frank Voice Instruction Matthew Ozawa Tenors Robert and Ellen Marks Danny Pelzig Jesse Donner Vocal Studies Program August Tye Anne Gross Endowed Chair in honor of Acting and Movement Robert C. Marks Gianna Rolandi Instruction

Education Corps Supernumeraries Howard & Mary Roy Fisher Claudia McCarthy Garland Jones Ajani Upton Barbara Kummerer Robins Margaret Fournier Don McVicker Regular Supernumeraries William Kavanagh Christopher Vaughn Kirsten Lendyke Co-chairs Maggie Galloway Liz Meenan Men Jim Klafta Theo Vlahopoulos Susan Lesher Karen Genelly George Meschel Emil Aguliera Angelo LaMantia Irvin (Ham) Wagner Nyketa Marshall Marilyn Ablan *Marian Goldberg Michelle Murff- Roy Arvio John Larrieu C.J. Washington Charlotte McBurney Carol Abrioux Jerry Goodman Arrington Mason Baker Joseph Marik John Zasi Helena McBurney *Neil Adelman Randy Green Penny Pagenkopf Ricardo Basch Loren May Howard White Avery McDonald Catherine Alexander Katy Hall Noel Perlman Joe Bosco Bill McNamara Madeline Monahan Evelyn Alter Mary Hobein John Piepgras Arch Bryant Mike Miles Women Joyce Altman Mary Houston Kathrine Coffin Peter Cutrera Ron Milnarik Mary Anthony Renate Moser *Michael Altman Diana Hunt King Piepgras Dennis Delavara Peter Mitchell Dorothy Attermeyer Renee Mumford Karen Andreae Marie Ifollo Joanne Poder Alec Dinerstein Parrish Morgan Scout Baker Nicole Nienow Virginia Jach Belinda Potoma Kathleen Banks Andrew Farina Frank Novak Floriana Bivona- Lindsey O’Brien Julie Anne Benson Charlene Jacobsen John Rammel Roy Fisher George Obermaier Lockner Alexis Ochoa David Blecher Karen Jared Heather Refetoff Joseph Frantzen Mike Ortyl Breena Button Maria Paluselli Lindy Bloom Barbara Joabson Maria Rigolin Robert Frenier George Pepper Patrice Cavallo-Stark Ann Boyle Jean Joslyn Barbara Roseman Susanne Petersson Sandra Broughton Suzanne Jozwiak Arn Schenk Floyd Fulkerson Alec Perlow Mary Conrad Akira Pierce Gerald Budzik Kip Kelley Dora Schenk Terry Gabrich Jahbril Porter Katherine Coyl Betsy Pilon Christine Casey Rochelle Klapman Peggy Shake Peter Gallagher James Pusztay Maya Rose Dinerstein Fran Ramer Estelle Chandler John Kohlmeier Jeffrey Sherman Kenneth Giambrone Daniel Pyne Tess Dinerstein Sasha Rashidee Ron Ginani Alex Radtke Ellen Douglass Lisa Cleveland Elizabeth Kurella Joseph Sjostrom Rachel Renee Robert Grist Reuben Rios Deborah Frieb Sharon Conway Larry Lapidus Joan Solbeck Beth Schuman Mary DeCresce Barbara Lieber Jeffrey Hall Jonathan Rogin Ainsley Gallagher *Carla Thorpe Mary Sennott-Shaw *Charlie DeWitt Babs Lieberman Caroline Wheeler Joseph Harris Gene Rzym Darlene Gallagher Linnea Stine Megan Donahue Dan Lome Roberta Whitworth Mark Heller Jorge Santos, Jr. Carolyn Geldermann Ingrid Dubberke Helen Magid Claudia Winkler Peter Hillebrand James Stanis Barbara Joabson Angela Trabert Frances Dutton Nina Maimonis Florence Winters Michael Horvich William “Doc” Eleanor Kamuda Anana Upton Gerry Ellensohn Judith Marshall Richard Wright Kenneth Izzi Syverson Karolina Kierlanczyk Kendra Washington Michael Fish *Sue McCandless *Coordinator Bruce Johnson Ron Tolisano Judith Kolata Naomi Washington

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CAROUSEL Music by Richard Rodgers. Book by Oscar Hammerstein II. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on the play LILIOM by Ferenc Molnár. As adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer. Original dances by Agnes de Mille.

New Lyric Opera production generously made possible by The Negaunee Foundation, an Anonymous Donor, Robert S. and Susan E. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes, Liz Stiffel, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance, and Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Mills. LYRICOPERA.ORG | 312.827.5600 LONG LIVE PASSION

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New Lyric Opera production generously made possible by The Negaunee Foundation, an Anonymous Donor, Robert S. and Susan E. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes, Liz Stiffel, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance, and Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Mills. LYRICOPERA.ORG | 312.827.5600 LONG LIVE PASSION

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ABBOTT FUND Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, and Production Sponsorship Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors Committees, and as immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board. to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of generous support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has JAMES N. and LAURIE V. BAY generously cosponsored 20 Lyric productions, including the Jim and Laurie Bay are passionate support- 2014/15 season-opening production of Don Giovanni and last ers of the arts in Chicago. They have previ- season’s Otello. Abbott has championed Lyric’s achievements ously contributed to Lyric’s Wine Auction, as a contributor to the Great Opera Fund, the Building on Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park, Miles D. White Greatness Capital Campaign, and Wine Auctions, among Annual Campaign, and education pro- other efforts, and has made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground grams. They also cosponsoredMadama Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Abbott’s Butterfly (2013/14). This season, the Bays Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Miles D. are supporting the Wine Auction and are White, serve on its Board of Directors. Emerald Patrons of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric is honored to have Jim Bay, a principal of Bays Corporation, serve on its Board of KATHERINE A. ABELSON and Directors and Compensation Committee. ROBERT J. CORNELL Kathy Abelson and Robert Cornell are MARLYS A. BEIDER longtime friends of Lyric Opera. Kathy As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys comes from generations of opera lovers and has contributed to the Annual Campaign and is a is a former singer, having trained with some Bel Canto Benefactor of the planned giving Overture of the best voice teachers in the world, Society. Her planned gift commitment created the Marlys including Elvira de Hidalgo, who taught Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair Maria Callas. Kathy has been a donor and a in memory of her late husband, Harold Beider. Marlys season subscriber to Lyric since 1977. Deeply committed to Lyric Opera’s renowned Beider cosponsored several productions including Elektra artist development program, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, (2012/13) and Parsifal (2013/14) and this season generously Kathy is a Past President and current member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, cosponsors Lyric’s new production of Tosca. Marlys has also made a leadership in addition to being a leadership donor to the Ryan Opera Center for over twenty commitment to cosponsor Lyric’s new productions of Das Rheingold (2016/17) years. Lyric is also honored to have Kathy Abelson on its Board of Directors. This and Götterdämmerung (2019/20), part of Lyric’s new Ring Cycle. season Kathy and Robert are generously supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Gala Patrons. MELVIN R. and RANDY L. BERLIN Devoted fans of opera education and the AMERICAN AIRLINES arts, Melvin and Randy Berlin are vital This season we celebrate 33 years of vital corporate partnership members of the Lyric Opera family. They with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera. In have contributed significantly to the Annual recognition of the company’s significant contribution to the Campaign and are Diamond Sponsors of Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine level the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond of the Civic Opera House is named the American Airlines Ball this season. Melvin and Randy have Mezzanine. American Airlines provides important in-kind sup- cosponsored several productions such as Franco Tedeschi port for Lyric’s programs and special events such as the Annual Simon Boccanegra (2012/13) and The Barber of Seville (2013/14). Melvin and Meeting, Fantasy of the Opera, Operathon, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Randy generously cosponsor this season’s new production of Don Giovanni. Lyric Opera Center National Auditions, and the Wine Auction. Franco Tedeschi, Vice is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors. President of American Airlines, proudly serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors. HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDER Committed lovers of the arts, Henry ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS and Gilda Buchbinder are longstand- Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from eight anony- ing members of the Lyric Opera family. mous contributors during the 2014/15 season. The Buchbinders have contributed to the future of Lyric Opera by making a leader- JULIE and ROGER BASKES ship gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership Campaign. They have also been long-time and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. generous donors to the Annual Campaign, including sponsoring their first pro- Subscribers for more than three decades, duction, Boris Godunov (2011/12). This season, they are supporting the 60th they have generously supported Lyric’s Ryan Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Lyric is honored Opera center activities as cosponsors of to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the Nominating/ Rising Stars in Concert, and sponsors of the Governance Committee. Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7 WFMT. They have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, Simon Boccanegra (2012/13) and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). This season, Julie and Roger Baskes generously cosponsor Il Trovatore. They also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Lyric is honored to have

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CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM MR. and MRS. MICHAEL P. COLE Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership Michael and Elizabeth Cole are vital mem- and generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and bers of the Lyric Opera family, serving as longtime patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, Co-Chairs and Diamond Sponsors of the the Bucksbaum Family’s very generous challenge grant re- 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond established Lyric’s regional and national/international radio Ball this season. With Elizabeth’s active par- broadcasts in 2006. Kay’s incredible continued matching ticipation as a member of Lyric’s esteemed support makes possible The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which Women’s Board, the Coles have previously draw 16 million listeners annually. “Lyric is a great national supported an array of events such as Wine institution,” Matthew once said, “and it gives our family great pleasure to know Auction 2012, the Celebrating Oklahoma! Gala, and Opening Night/Opera Ball, these broadcasts bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so many in Chicago and for which Elizabeth served as Chair in 2010. Michael serves on Lyric’s Board around the globe.” of Directors, and lends his business acumen as a member of the Investment Committee. THE JOHN and JACKIE BUCKSBAUM FAMILY MR. and MRS. JOHN V. CROWE Passionate philanthropists in the Chicago Jack and Peggy Crowe are generous and community, John and Jackie Bucksbaum are passionate members of the Lyric family, major supporters of the arts. John Bucksbaum evidenced by their production sponsorship is founder and CEO of Bucksbaum Retail of Turandot (2006/07) and Tosca (2009/10) Properties, LLC, a fully integrated owner and and major support of the Breaking New developer of retail real estate. This past season, Ground Campaign. The Crowes are one John and Jackie Bucksbaum John and Jackie, with their family, gener- of eight couples who sponsor the Renée ously provided matching funding for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which air on 98.7 Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy Crowe’s WFMT live during each opening night performance. significant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fifth floor in memory of Jack Crowe’s mother. The Crowes MARION A. CAMERON were leading contributors to the Campaign for Excellence. Lyric is very fortunate Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support and leadership of to have Jack Crowe as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Lyric’s Marion A. Cameron. A subscriber and donor for over 20 years, Board of Directors. Lyric gratefully acknowledges her outstanding generosity and production sponsorship of the 2013/14 new production/Lyric THE CROWN FAMILY premiere of Rusalka, as well as her additional gift in support Two of Chicago’s leading philanthro- of this season’s Tannhäuser. Ms. Cameron is also a Sapphire pists, Renée and Lester Crown are devot- Patron of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. ed patrons of Lyric Opera. The Crown The President of Sipi Metals Corp., Marion Cameron is a Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, a member of the Executive Committee and Initiative and has made a generous commit- Chair of the Investment Committee. ment to Lyric’s new Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have also made major PAUL and AMY CARBONE Lester and Renée Crown contributions to the Annual Campaign, the Lyric is very appreciative of the friendship Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, of Paul and Amy Carbone. A dynamic the Campaign for Excellence, and the Great Opera Fund. The Crown Family member of Lyric’s Board of Directors since provided major support for Lyric’s return to the airwaves in 2006 as members of 2007, Paul currently serves as its Treasurer, the radio broadcast matching grant consortium. In 2014/15, they are supporting chairs the Finance Committee, and is a the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Mrs. Crown vital member of the Executive Committee. is a past President of the Women’s Board. Mr. Crown joined Lyric’s Board of Having previously sponsored Lyric’s NEXT Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee ever student ticket initiative and Backstage Tours, Paul and Amy are Co-Chairs of since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, this year’s 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and support the event as presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and commitment to Diamond Sponsors. The Carbones have also made a generous gift to the Breaking Lyric. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family for their many years of New Ground Campaign. Lyric is grateful for the dedicated leadership of Paul and dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Amy Carbone. MR. and MRS. A. STEVEN CROWN THE ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION Steven and Nancy Crown are ardent sup- Lyric Opera remains deeply grateful for the long term porters of a wide range of cultural and generosity of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of educational initiatives in Chicago and Chicago’s nonprofit leaders in arts support. The Cheney beyond. A new member of Lyric’s esteemed Foundation has made an enhanced multi-year commit- Women’s Board, Nancy Crown and her ment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Opera. During the husband Steven support two important Elizabeth F. Cheney 2014/15 season, The Cheney Foundation will fund guest events this season as Emerald Patrons of the artist Stephanie Blythe’s residency, allowing Ensemble 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond members to work intimately with this famed soprano; Ball, and Platinum Sponsors of Wine Auction 2015. As food and wine enthusi- access to a behind-the-scenes view of the Ensemble selection process by opening asts, Steven and Nancy actively participate in Lyric’s triennial Wine Auction. We the Ryan Opera Center’s Final Auditions to a greater number of Lyric donors are fortunate to deepen our long-standing relationship with the Crown Family as and subscribers for the second year; and singer sponsorship of bass Bradley we welcome this valued couple into the Lyric Opera family. Smoak. Lyric Opera is honored to have as a major supporter The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts.

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THE DAVEE FOUNDATION THE ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth TRUST Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago area charities reflects the Davees’ Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer wide-ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a Opera is fortunate to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee major, and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s con- Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for tributors. Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts,

generations to come. Recently, The Davee Foundation provided critical sup- Elizabeth Morse Genius Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander port to enhance amplification and sound systems used in the American Musical seek to enrich the quality of life in Chicago, especially for youth Theater Initiative. The Foundation has generously cosponsored Lyric premieres of and elderly citizens. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Oklahoma! (2012/13) and The Sound of Music(2013/14), and has committed to Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive Opera House chimes and music library support the remaining three installments of Lyric’s five-year partnership with the in honor of the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. In prior seasons, the Trust Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, cosponsoring this season’s Carousel, The cosponsored numerous productions including Le nozze di Figaro (2003/04), and The King and I (2015/16) and South Pacific (2016/17). Cunning Little Vixen (2004/05). Along with The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Trust provided challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06). Both STEFAN EDLIS and GAEL NEESON Trusts sponsored Salome and Dialogues of the Carmelites (2006/07), Julius Caesar Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis (2007/08), Porgy and Bess (2008/09), Ernani (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12), Elektra and Gael Neeson are actively involved with (2012/13), and Parsifal (2013/14). This season, they are sponsoringPorgy and Bess. organizations in Chicago, New York, and The Trust funds Lyric’s ongoing board diversity efforts, and helped preserve Lyric’s Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Neeson have history through support of the Archives project. James L. Alexander is a Vice President supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, for more than 30 years. They have previ- and serves on the Executive, Finance, Investment, and Nominating/Governance ously cosponsored the Stars of Lyric Opera Committees. In 2010, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involve- at Millennium Park concert and named ment of James L. Alexander by awarding their seats through the Your Name Here program. Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most cosponsored Hercules (2010/11), Elektra (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) and are prestigious honor. generously cosponsoring this season’s new production of Tosca. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have ANN and GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION Stefan Edlis on its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is extremely grateful for the long-standing support of the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. The Foundation has made vital contributions to the Annual EXELON Campaign, providing essential general operating support to foster Lyric’s achieve- The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain ments. Gordon Getty is an esteemed National Director of Lyric’s Board of Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has Directors. generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community-engagement MR. AND MRS. RONALD J. GIDWITZ programs. Amongst Exelon’s many cosponsorships have been The Mikado (2010/12), Longtime members of the Lyric Opera family, the Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Subscriber Appreciation Concert Christina and Ron Gidwitz are dedicated to (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), and Rusalka (2013/14). This season, Exelon is a ensuring the future of Lyric Opera remains Sapphire Patron of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and cospon- vital and culturally relevant. The Gidwitzes sors Lyric’s second mariachi opera (El Pasado made generous contributions to the Building Nunca Se Termina). Lyric Opera is fortunate to on Greatness Campaign and Campaign for have found in Exelon an outstanding corporate Excellence, and have also sponsored Wine partner. Auction and the Renée Fleming and Susan Graham Concert Dinner. As an active member of the Women’s Board, Christina JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION currently serves on the Executive Committee as Membership Chair. Ron, a member A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera) and a Lyric of the Board of Directors, serves on its Nominating/Governance Committee and Opera Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius Innovation Committee. This season, Ron and Christina sponsor their first Lyric Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a production as cosponsors of Don Giovanni. great place to live and enjoy life. In past seasons, Julius Frankel sponsored Lyric productions of Andrea Chénier (1979) and BRENT W. and CATHERINE H. Lohengrin (1980) in memory of Betty Frankel. The Julius Frankel GLEDHILL

Julius Frankel Foundation has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance Brent and Katie are passionate supporters of and longtime dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius numerous causes in Chicago. Last season, the and John Georgas and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have Gledhills cosponsored Lyric’s production of benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general operating support and The Sound of Music and in 2014/15 they are production sponsorships. The Julius Frankel Foundation has generously sponsored/ supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and cosponsored many celebrated new productions at Lyric including Die Fledermaus Diamond Ball as Ruby Patrons. Brent Gledhill (1989/90), Xerxes (1995/96), Carmen (1999/00) in memory of Ardis Krainik, Cavalleria is the Global Head of Investment Banking at rusticana (2002/03), Pagliacci (2002/03), and Il Trovatore (2006/07). This past season, William Blair & Company; and a member of the firm's Executive Commitee. Lyric the Julius Frankel Foundation generously cosponsored a new production of La Traviata is proud to have Brent Gledhill serve on the Board of Directors and its Audit and in honor of Nelson D. Cornelius. Innovation Committees.

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WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION William and Ethel Gofen have been attend- The Harris Family Foundation, represented ing Lyric Opera productions for over 50 by Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn years. They are generous donors to Lyric’s Harris, joins the production sponsorship fam- Annual Campaign, and have cosponsored the ily this year as a cosponsor of Lyric’s new Overture Society Luncheons. In 1997, Bill production of Tosca. Having previously sup- and Ethel named seats for each other in the ported the Annual Campaign, the Foundation Ardis Krainik Theatre as part of the Building Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris supports the 60th Anniversary Concert and on Greatness Campaign. In 2014/15 they are Diamond Ball this season as Emerald Patrons. supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Ruby Patrons, and The Harris Family Foundation has also made a generous commitment to the Breaking during the 2015/16 season, the Gofens are cosponsoring Lyric’s world premiere New Ground campaign to help secure Lyric's future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice of Bel Canto, based on the novel by Ann Patchett. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel President of the Foundation Pam Szokol as a new member of its Board of Directors, Gofen as a new member of the Board of Directors. and also serving on its Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the revered GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION Women’s Board and has held many leadership positions, most recently as Opera Ball With an unparalleled record as sponsor of 25 Lyric new productions since the 1960s, Chair in 2012. the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa, is a cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma Fisher Foundation HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION has generously sponsored new productions of Eugene Onegin (1984/85), Lucia di After decades of support to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, the Lammermoor (1990/91), La Traviata (1993/94), Nabucco (1997/98), Un ballo in Howard Family Foundation joins the production sponsor fami- maschera (2002/03), Manon Lescaut (2005/06), Macbeth (2010/11), and The Barber ly with its generous cosponsorship of this season’s production of of Seville (2013/14). The Gramma Fisher Foundation has made a leadership com- Il Trovatore. Barbara Howard’s steadfast commitment to Lyric mitment to cosponsor each of the four operas that make up Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Opera is shown through her longtime subscribership, as well as starting with Das Rheingold (2016/17) and concluding with the complete Cycles in her service as a member of Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center Board.

2020/21. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship and leadership of Barbara Howard Dedicated to the bright futures of the Ryan Opera Center Christine Hunter and other members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Ensemble members, Barbara has sponsored the program’s Russell Fisher serve on its Board of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed Rising Stars in Concert for the past several years. Lyric is grateful for the friendship of member of the Women’s Board. Barbara Howard, and the generosity of the Howard Family Foundation.

MR. and MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS TOM and JULIE HURVIS Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring As part of the Breaking New Ground friendship and tremendous generosity of Campaign, Tom and Julie Hurvis have Dietrich and Erika Gross. Together, they made a generous leadership commitment have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 18 in support of Lyric Unlimited comprising Lyric productions since 1987/88 including the company’s education and community Die Meistersinger (1998/99 and 2012/13), engagement activities. Tom and Julie are Die Fledermaus (1999/00 and 2006/07), avid fans of opera and longtime Lyric sub- Die Walküre (2002/03), Siegfried (2003/04), scribers. In their effort to help keep Chicago Ring cycle (2004/05), The Barber of Seville (2007/08), Lohengrin (2010/11), The a haven for the cultural arts, they are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, Magic Flute (2011/12), Otello (2013/14), and this season’s coproduction of Don which brings the renowned soprano to our city multiple times each year. Lyric Giovanni. Through yearly challenge grants, they also help generate important gratefully acknowledges their more than 20 years of generous contributions to the momentum for Operathon – Lyric’s annual fundraising broadcast heard live on Annual Campaign, their exclusive sponsorship of Aida (2011/12), and their co- 98.7WFMT. They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground sponsorships of A Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13) and this season’s production Campaign in support of Lyric’s future. Dietrich Gross is an esteemed member of Lyric’s of Capriccio, along with support for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. Lyric is honored Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, Lyric recognized the dedicated to have Tom Hurvis serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by awarding him the Carol Fox Lyric Unlimited Committee. Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. ITW GUGGENHEIM PARTNERS Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustain- The Guggenheim name has long been synonymous with philanthropy and has a ing support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The com- reputation for its contributions to the advancement of humanity. This season, Lyric pany has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign, is the grateful beneficiary of Guggenheim’s the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Great generosity as they support Wine Auction Opera Fund, and Wine Auction, and since 2002, it has 2015 as Onstage and Catalogue Sponsor. cosponsored the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important

Maria C. Green traditions. ITW cosponsored The Pearl Fishers (1997/98 and 2008/09), The Barber of Seville (2001/02), The Elixir JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND of Love (2009/10), Hansel and Gretel (2012/13), and this season’s production John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of of Tosca. This season the company cosponsors the Diamond Ball, which follows Lyric for many years until his death in 2001. With support the 60th Anniversary Concert. Lyric is proud to have Maria C. Green, Senior from his Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, serve on its Board of Directors President, Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic and Lyric Unlimited Committee, as well as past ITW legacy continues through very generous annual contributions Chairmen and CEOs W. James Farrell, John Nichols, to Lyric. The Halligan Fund is proud to support numerous and the late David Speer on its Board of Directors.

John R. Halligan artistic, cultural, and civic organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our appreciation of nature.

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JENNER & BLOCK KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of global impact and substantial experience in a broad range of providing exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around legal issues. The firm has long played a prominent role in the world in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intel- Chicago’s legal and business communities, and is consistently lectual property, restructuring, and counseling matters. The ranked as one of the top firms in the country. Jenner & firm is committed to enhancing quality of life through Block has provided significant pro bono legal expertise to educational opportunities, cultural awareness, youth pro-

Craig Martin Lyric, along with generous contributions to the Breaking New Linda K. Myers grams, and community outreach. For many years, Kirkland Ground Campaign, the Annual Campaign, the Campaign for & Ellis LLP sponsored Lyric Opera’s Board of Directors Excellence, Fantasy of the Opera, Opera Ball, and Wine Auction. This season the Annual Meeting. More recently, Kirkland & Ellis LLP cosponsored Boris Godunov firm also supports the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Sapphire (2011/12) and A Streetcar Named Desire (2012/13). Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the Patrons. Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, a Partner at Jenner & Block, Lead Sponsor of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. Lyric Opera as a valued member of its Board of is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a Directors and Executive Commit. member of its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. Committee. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the vital corporate leadership and support of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Along with the NANCY W. KNOWLES bank’s predecessors The First National Bank of Chicago and Opera has always played an important role in the life of Nancy Bank One, JPMorgan Chase has generously contributed to W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her the Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital family’s musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and Campaign, Lyric Unlimited, Facilities Fund, the Great Opera hundreds of records to play,” she fondly recalls, “so classical

Eric S. Smith Fund, and Wine Auction. The bank has also cosponsored music was always in my home.” A devoted subscriber and Madama Butterfly (2003/04), The Magic Flute (2005/06), patron, Nancy Knowles is a prominent member of the Lyric La Traviata (2007/08), Tosca (2009/10), The Tales of Hoffmann(2011/12), and family. She generously invests her time, talents, and leader- Otello (2013/14). This season, JPMorgan Chase is supporting the 60th Anniversary ship abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Concert and Diamond Ball as a Ruby Patron. Lyric is honored to have Eric S. Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. Chairman Emeritus of Knowles Smith, Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase, serve as a member of its Board Electronics, a manufacturer of hearing-aid components, Nancy Knowles is president of Directors, Executive and Nominating/ of The Knowles Foundation. The Knowles Foundation is a leading contributor Governance Committees, and as chairman of to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and, as part of the Building on Greatness Capital the Lyric Unlimited Committee. Campaign, provided an assisted listening system to enhance the operatic experience for hearing-impaired patrons. Ms. Knowles cosponsored La Traviata (2007/08), MR. and MRS. GEORGE D. KENNEDY Tosca (2009/10), and Macbeth (2010/11). This season, Mrs. Knowles is generously Lyric Opera is grateful for the staunch support of George and Valerie Kennedy. As a cosponsoring Lyric’s production of Capriccio, and is supporting the 60th Anniversary former member of the Board of Directors, George Kennedy has long been passionate Concert and Diamond Ball as a Sapphire Patron. In 2007, Lyric named the Nancy about the financial health of Lyric, having previously supported the Annual Campaign W. Knowles Lobby in recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for and the Building on Greatness Campaign. The Kennedys have also sponsoredStars Excellence. Mrs. Knowles has once again made a significant gift in support of the of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park, and recently made a generous gift to the Breaking Breaking New Ground Campaign to underwrite the Nancy W. Knowles Student and New Ground Campaign. Family Performances fund. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusi- asm, she received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART Dick and Susie Kiphart are esteemed members of the MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Lyric Opera family and visionary philanthropists. They Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding have generously cosponsored several Lyric produc- dedicated members of the Lyric Opera fam- tions including Madama Butterfly(2003/04), Roméo ily. Lyric gratefully acknowledges their gen- et Juliette (2006/07), Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci erous contributions to Lyric’s Wine Auction, (2008/09), and Hercules (2010/11). In honor of the Annual Campaign, the Building on Lyric’s Golden Jubilee (2004/05), they made a signifi- Greatness Capital Campaign, and the cant gift to Lyric to establish the Richard P. and Susan Campaign for Excellence. This season, Kiphart Costume Director Endowed Chair. They they are Diamond Patrons of the 60th have made leadership contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Dick Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball and have made a generous commitment served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They also continue to to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished provide major support for Lyric’s radio programming as members of the broadcast con- member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred Krehbiel is a National Director of sortium and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. This season, they are Lyric’s Board of Directors. cosponsoring The Passenger and supporting the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Dick Kiphart is head of William Blair & Company’s Private JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK Client Advisors Business and a member of the firm’s executive committee. He is the Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and immediate past President and CEO and current Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Margot Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee, and a member of both the many seasons. They have contributed to the Annual Finance and Production Sponsorship Committees. Susie Kiphart is President of the Campaign, and they made a significant gift to the Ryan Opera Center Board and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. The Kipharts’ Campaign for Excellence. They cosponsored The enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt commitment to Lyric are tremendous assets to the Pearl Fishers (2008/09), Katya Kabanova (2009/10), company, and in recognition of their passion and immense dedication they received the A Masked Ball (2010/11), Rinaldo (2011/12), Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2013. La bohème (2012/13), and The Barber of Seville (2013/14). This season, Josef and Margot gener- ously cosponsor Lyric’s production of Capriccio and have made a generous gift to

42 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO the new Breaking New Ground Campaign. The CEO of LSV Asset Management, initiative, the Foundation encouraged presentation of American operas and expansion Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on of the operatic repertory by providing major support for Lyric Opera premieres of the Executive and Investment Committees. The Great Gatsby (2000/01), Street Scene (2001/02), Sweeney Todd (2002/03), Regina (2003/04), A Wedding (world premiere, 2004/05), and Doctor Atomic (2007/08). JIM and KAY MABIE In addition, the Mellon Foundation provided support for Lyric’s premiere/new Lyric Opera cherishes the vital leadership and long- production of The Midsummer Marriage (2005/06), Lulu (2009/10), and Porgy and standing support of Jim and Kay Mabie. They are Bess (2009/10). The Mellon Foundation provided essential matching funds which avid operagoers, having subscribed to Lyric for enabled Lyric to resume radio broadcast in 2006. During the 2012/13 season The several decades. The Mabies have fostered Lyric’s Mellon Foundation spearheaded visionary support of Lyric’s new Lyric Unlimited success through generous contributions to the An- program and the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna/To Cross the Face nual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital of the Moon, the world’s first Mariachi opera. This past season and this current one, Campaign, and the Campaign for Excellence. They The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continues its visionary and generous support of have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Lyric Unlimited, including support for El Pasado Nunca Se Termina/The Past is Never New Ground Campaign. They cosponsored Can- Finished, as well as providing leadership support for the preparation of Lyric’s upcom- dide (1994/95), The Great Gatsby (2001/02), Porgy and Bess (2008/09) and Rigo- ing world premiere of Bel Canto (2015/16). letto (2012/13). Jim Mabie is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive and Investment Committees. JIM and VICKI MILLS/ JON and LOIS MILLS JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION Lyric is most grateful for the dedica- The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions com- tion and generosity of Jim and Vicki mitted to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting Mills and Jon and Lois Mills. Jim, the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance Vicki, Jon, and Lois have attended global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how Lyric performances for many sea-

technology is affecting children and society. Support for arts and culture organiza- Jon and Lois Mills Vicki and Jim Mills sons and generously supported the tions in Chicago and the region is an expression of civic commitment to the place Annual Campaign and the Building where the Foundation has its headquarters and where John D. and Catherine T. on Greatness Capital Campaign. Together, they cosponsored Samson et Dalila MacArthur made their home. Grants are designed to help sustain the cultural life (2003/04), Rigoletto (2005/06), La bohème (2007/08), Cavalleria rusticana/ of the city and region. Lyric Opera is very grateful for Pagliacci (2008/09), The Merry Widow(2009/10), The Mikado (2010/11), Show the ongoing support of the John D. and Catherine T. Boat (2011/12), Oklahoma! (2012/13), and The Sound of Music (2013/14). This MacArthur Foundation. More information is at www. season, Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Mills generously cosponsor Lyric’s pre- macfound.org. miere/new production of Carousel.

MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman of Corporation, is a fervent fan of opera and music and Lyric trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of is delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, Rusalka in 2013/14. The Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in the and generous supporter. The Family Foundation made a U.K. and U.S. and is cosponsor of Anna leadership commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Bolena this season. Campaign, and the Malott Room was named in his family’s

Robert Malott honor in recognition of their gift to Building on Greatness. MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON He also plays a leadership role as a Life Director of Lyric’s Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of Board of Directors. the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers and patrons who take an active role in nurturing MAZZA FOUNDATION Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading mem- Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding ber of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to friendship and generosity of the Mazza have Bob Morrison serve as a member of its Board Foundation. Under the guidance of its of Directors. The Morrisons have generously sup- directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas ported the Opera Ball and Wine Auction as well as J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., the Annual Campaign for many years. They provided and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the a substantial gift to the Campaign for Excellence, and cosponsored Oklahoma! Mazza Foundation has provided major (2012/13) and The Sound of Music (2013/14). Susan and Bob generously cosponsor support for the Student Matinees begin- Lyric’s new production of Carousel this season. ning in 1994 and continuing to 2004, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Lavez- THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST zorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind helping Lyric introduce the majesty and grandeur of opera to thousands of young Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of people each season. Most recently, the Foundation cosponsored La Cenerentola The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable (2005/06), Iphigénie en Tauride (2006/07), Die Frau ohne Schatten (2007/08), The leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, Pearl Fishers (2008/09), The Damnation of Faust (2009/10), The Girl of the Golden West N.A. and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in (2010/11), Show Boat (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), and Otello (2013/14). This memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century season, the Mazza Foundation generously cosponsors Il Trovatore. Lyric is honored industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse to have Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. serve on its Board of Directors and Compensation Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust has sponsored or cosponsored numerous pro- Committee. ductions and special programs at Lyric, and has provided leadership challenge grants that helped garner new support for the company. In prior seasons, the Trust provided THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION leadership support of the Stars of Lyric Opera concerts at Grant Park and Millennium Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous Park (2000-2008). In honor of Lyric’s Golden Jubilee, The Elizabeth Morse history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons Charitable Trust cosponsored The Cunning Little Vixen (2004/05). The Elizabeth

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Morse Charitable Trust provided challenge grant support for Orfeo ed Euridice Rigoletto (2005/06), Il Trovatore (2006/07), La bohème (2007/08), Madama (2005/06) and cosponsored Dialogues of the Carmelites and Salome (2006/07), Julius Butterfly (2008/09), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), A Masked Ball (2010/11), The Caesar (2007/08), Porgy and Bess (2008/09), Ernani (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12), Tales of Hoffmann (2011/12), Don Pasquale (2012/13), and The Barber of Seville Elektra (2012/13), and Parsifal (2013/14). The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust (2013/14). This season, the NIB Foundation generously cosponsors Lyric’s pro- cosponsored A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11). This season, the Trust is duction of Tannhäuser, and the Florians personally support the 60th Anniversary cosponsoring Porgy and Bess. James L. Alexander is a Vice President of Lyric’s Board Concert and Diamond Ball as Diamond Patrons. The Foundation made a signifi- of Directors, Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and serves on cant and deeply appreciated contribution to Lyric’s endowment, establishing The the Executive, Finance, Investment, and Nominating/Governance Committees. In NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair, and the NIB Foundation made a 2010, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of James L. major contribution to the Campaign for Excellence, which helped strengthen Lyric’s Alexander by presenting him with the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious financial reserves. They have also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking honor. New Ground Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational Library Collection THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the perform- generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro located on the third ing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration of Lyric floor of the Civic Opera House. Sonia Florian is a vital member of Lyric’s Board of Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. The Negaunee Directors and Executive Committee. Foundation cosponsored Così fan tutte (2006/07), The Abduction from the Seraglio (2008/09), The Mikado (2010/11), The Magic Flute (2011/12), Oklahoma! (2012/13), JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). This season, The Negaunee Foundation is gener- NICHOLS ously cosponsoring Don Giovanni and Carousel, and has made a leadership gift to the Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cul- Chicago, John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols tural institutions benefitting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial have steadfastly supported the Annual commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president serve as a Campaign, and are generous sponsors of member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. the Renée Fleming Initiative. By providing major support to Lyric’s endowment, Mr. SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL and Mrs. Nichols established the John D. and Sylvia and Daniel have been loyal Lyric Alexandra C. Nichols Music Director Endowed Chair. Principal Dressing Room Opera subscribers and donors for many 110 is named in their honor due to their very benevolent contribution to the Building years. They sponsored the Symposiums for on Greatness Capital Campaign. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for John and Lyric productions of Hercules (2010/11) and Alexandra Nichols’ significant leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Show Boat (2011/12). They cosponsored Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and Rigoletto (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. This season, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols support and this season cosponsor Lyric’s produc- the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Emerald Patrons. Vice Chairman tion of The Passenger. They have also made a of The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric’s Board of Directors. Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity Sylvia is Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School. She is founder and of John and Alexandra Nichols. chair of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and Law at Brandeis and is co- editor of its book series (Brandeis University Press). Daniel is President, Chairman NORTHERN TRUST and Co-Founder of the Compass Lexecon consulting firm. He is the Lee and Brena A banking and financial services leader, Northern Trust Freeman Professor of Law and Business Emeritus at the University of Chicago is a long-standing, generous corporate contributor to Law School. Lyric is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Lyric. The company has given major support to the Annual Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. Campaign, Facilities Fund, Great Opera Fund, and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust provided vital leadership contribu- THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION tions to Lyric as Presenting Sponsor of Wine Auctions (2000,

During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Jana R. Schreuder 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012) and cosponsor of the Opera Ball Nerenberg were passionate supporters of (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust cospon- Lyric Opera and subscribed for more than sored Faust (2009/10) and was Lead Corporate Sponsor of Oklahoma! (2012/13) and 30 years. They were especially supportive of cosponsor of The Sound of Music(2013/14). This season, Northern Trust generously The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera cosponsors the Diamond Ball which follows the 60th Anniversary Concert. They are Center and loved to watch these young art- the anchor of Wine Auction 2015 as its Presenting Sponsor. Lyric is honored to have Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg ists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Jerry Jana R. Schreuder, Chief Operating Officer of Northern Trust, serve as a member Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away of its Board of Directors and Finance Committee, and Northern Trust’s Retired in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and Chairman and CEO William A. Osborn Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants serve as a member of its Board of Directors to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ and Executive Committee. thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN NIB FOUNDATION Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted mem- Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, bers of the Lyric Opera family. They have Sonia and William Florian established the NIB Foundation subscribed to Lyric for nearly two decades to extend their support to many worthwhile arts and envi- and enjoy participating in special events such ronmental causes. The Florians are devoted members of the as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Lyric family, having subscribed to Lyric for more than three Auction. The Osborns have generously decades. The NIB Foundation cosponsored La Traviata contributed to the Annual Campaign, the

Sonia Florian (2002/03), Lucia di Lammermoor (2003/04), Tosca (2004/05), Building on Greatness Capital Campaign,

44 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO the Campaign for Excellence, and Wine Auctions. This season, they are support- BETSY and ANDY ROSENFIELD ing the Wine Auction and the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as Lyric is grateful for the devotion of Andrew M. Emerald Patrons. Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was and Betsy Bergman Rosenfield, who are active Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of members of the Lyric Opera family. Andy Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and served as a member of the Board of Directors CEO, is a leading member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. from 1993 to 2007, and Betsy is a leader on Lyric’s esteemed Women’s Board. Betsy MR. and MRS. MICHAEL POLSKY chairs this season’s Opening Night Dinner and Subscribers and generous Annual Campaign Performance. The Rosenfields also provide gen- donors, Michael and Tanya Polsky join the erous gifts to the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball and Opening Night. production sponsorship family this year as cosponsors of Tosca. Michael is President PATRICK G. RYAN and SHIRLEY WELSH and CEO of Invenergy LLC, an innova- RYAN tor in clean energy, which is headquartered Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication in Chicago. The company has previously of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 supported Women’s Board Gala events for when they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music. Lyric Opera is grateful for the lasting friendship they have shared their leadership, talents, vision, and of Michael and Tanya Polsky. resources to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past three decades, the Ryans have contributed generously PRINCE CHARITABLE TRUSTS to the Annual Campaign, the Great Opera Fund, Wine The Prince Charitable Trusts supports a broad array of programs in Chicago, Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in 1988), and the Building on Greatness Capital Washington, DC, and Rhode Island, and Lyric Opera is fortunate to be among Campaign for which Lyric named the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family Rehearsal Center the beneficiaries of the generosity of the Trusts’ Chicago and Washington, DC located backstage to honor their major contribution. In recognition of his leadership branches. This season, the Prince Charitable Trusts are Diamond Patrons of the role in the Building on Greatness Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball in honor of Lyric’s esteemed Women’s Carol Fox Award. For several seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, Board, which includes Diana Prince and Meredith Wood-Prince as members. The underwriting this special project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are Trusts have also provided principal support for Lyric’s 2015/16 commission Bel sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, and support the 60th Anniversary Concert and Canto by awarding a grant to composer Jimmy López, as well as Diamond Ball this season as Diamond Patrons. In recognition of their extraordinary sponsoring a summer 2014 workshop presentation of the piece. gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric’s premier artist development program was The Prince Charitable Trusts have supported Lyric’s Annual renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Lyric is deeply grateful for Campaign, Wine Auction, Building on Greatness Campaign, their major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of the and Great Opera Fund, and were cosponsors of the 2004/05 Innovation Initiative. A Vice President and a member of the Executive and Innovation Ring Cycle. Committees of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2008 Carol Fox Award – Lyric’s PRITZKER FOUNDATION most prestigious honor – in recognition of her many years of devoted service to the The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of opera company. arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION Foundation’s support of the Breaking New Ground Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family Concert commitment to children, families and edu- Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne cational enrichment through the arts has Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric Opera is led it to provide essential support for one honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker of Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board since 1970. opportunities available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Each year, these widely MR. and MRS. J. CHRISTOPHER Jack and Catherine Scholl accessible performances at the Civic Opera REYES House reach full-house audiences of junior-high and high school students, many of Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent mem- whom are experiencing opera for the first time. The Foundation generously support- bers of the Lyric family. Immediate Past ed this season’s family opera The Magic Victrola as well as last season’s family opera, President of Lyric’s Women’s Board, Anne The Family Barber. Lyric Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Board for its generous ongoing support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, of Directors; Chris is also a valued mem- commemorating Catherine A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and ber of the Board of Directors, and serves institutional education. on its Nominating/Governance Committee. Together they have made important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of Thaïs EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION (2002/03) A Masked Ball (2010/11), Don Pasquale (2012/13), and Madama Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda Butterfly (2013/14). They are again Platinum Grand Benefactor sponsors of Wine Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the Auction, and are major supporters of the Annual Campaign. In addition, they Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, provided a significant and much appreciated gift to the Campaign for Excellence as and the Campaign for Excellence. The Shapiros cosponsored The well as a major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. This season, Magic Flute (2005/06), Falstaff (2007/08), The Abduction from Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes are Diamond Patrons of the 60th Anniversary the Seraglio (2008/09), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11),

Concert and Diamond Ball and cosponsors of Carousel. Brenda Shapiro and Hansel and Gretel (2012/13). Mrs. Shapiro has made a major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and is cosponsoring The Passenger this season. Lyric is honored to have Brenda Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees.

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SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP for Students, NEXT Discount Tickets for College Students, and Opera in the A leader in the international legal Neighborhoods, as well as Fantasy of the Opera and as a Singer Sponsor for the arena, the law firm of Sidley Austin is Ryan Opera Center. This season, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation gener- a generous corporate contributor to arts ously cosponsors Anna Bolena, having previously cosponsored The Merry Widow and culture in Chicago. Lyric deeply (2009/10), Carmen (2010/11), Ariadne auf Naxos (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13) appreciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsor- and Die Fledermaus (2013/14). She has also made a leadership gift to the Breaking ship of Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo New Ground Campaign to secure Lyric’s future, and supports Wine Auction ed Euridice (2005/06), Lulu (2008/09), 2015 and the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball as a Sapphire Patron. David Carpenter Larry Barden Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of and Rusalka (2013/14). Additionally, Sidley Austin has supported Operathon, Fantasy Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and of the Opera, and the Annual Campaign. This season, Sidley Austin LLP gener- Production Sponsorship Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board. ously cosponsors Lyric’s production of The Passenger. Lyric is proud to have Larry Barden, Chairman of the firm’s Management Committee, on its Board of Directors MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and MR. and and Compensation Committee and David Carpenter, MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE Senior Counsel, serve on its Board of Directors and Civic Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generos- Engagement Committee. ity and leadership of the Vance Family. For more than 20 years, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance provided MANFRED and FERN STEINFELD Lead Sponsorship of Opera in the Neighborhoods, Longtime subscribers and supporters of Lyric’s one of Lyric’s most popular youth-enrichment pro- Annual Campaign, Manny and Fern Steinfeld join grams. The Vances have generously sponsored/ the production sponsorship family this season with cosponsored several Lyric premieres and new pro- their generous cosponsorship of Weinberg’s The Carol and William Vance ductions including Hänsel und Gretel (2001/02), Passenger. Also substantial supporters of the Jewish The Pirates of Penzance (2003/04), The Midsummer United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Lyric Marriage (2005/06), The Damnation of Faust (2009/10), Show Boat (2011/12) is deeply grateful to have Manny and Fern play Oklahoma! (2012/13), and The Sound of Music(2013/14). For many years, the an integral role in bringing this moving piece to Vances have supported young singers through their sponsorship of Ryan Opera Chicago for its Midwest premiere. The Steinfelds also supported Lyric’s Building on Center ensemble members. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance con- Greatness Campaign through the “Name a Seat” program. tributed to the Campaign for Excellence and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, LIZ STIFFEL Compensation, and Executive Committees. He also serves on the Ryan Opera A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Center Board, of which he is past President. This season, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Liz is a prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance generously cosponsor Lyric’s production of long-standing member of the Guild Board of Directors. She Carousel. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance have also made a significant commitment has generously supported The Patrick G. and Shirley W. to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Ryan Opera Center, as well as the Opening Night Pre-Opera Cocktail Buffet, the Opera Ball Reception, and the Wine ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. Auction Honored Guest Dinner. Previously, Liz Stiffel WASHLOW was the Lead Sponsor of the Renée Fleming Subscriber Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished Appreciation Concert (2010/11), and she generously cosponsored productions members of the Lyric family. For more of La bohème (2001/02), The Magic Flute(2005/06), Falstaff (2007/08), and than two decades, they have enjoyed attend- Manon (2008/09). She also supported Lyric’s Building on Greatness Capital ing Lyric performances and special events, Campaign. This past season, Liz Stiffel was the Lead Sponsor of the Stars of Lyric and have generously supported the Annual Opera at Millennium Park concert and this year she is sponsoring the Wine Auction Campaign. Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, Honored Guest Dinner and is a Diamond Patron of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Errant Families sponsored more than 20 and Diamond Ball. Lyric productions. The Washlows cosponsored Porgy and Bess (2008/09), The Elixir of Love (2009/10), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010/11), Show Boat (2011/12), CHERRYL T. THOMAS Don Pasquale (2012/13), and La Clemenza di Tito (2013/14). Roberta and Bob Cherryl Thomas is a lifelong Chicagoan, having worked Washlow generously cosponsor this season’s Porgy and Bess. Lyric is honored to have for the City of Chicago for 30 years in the Departments of Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors. Public Works, Water, Aviation and Buildings, and as Deputy Chief of Staff for Infrastructure in the Mayor’s Office before HELEN and SAM ZELL accepting an appointment by President Clinton to serve as Helen and Sam Zell are passionate support- Chairman of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board for 5 years. ers of Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. They Founder, President and CEO of Ardmore Associates, who are longtime subscribers to Lyric Opera and generously support Operathon, Cherryl personally sponsors her first production this have contributed to the Annual Campaign season as a cosponsor of Porgy and Bess. Lyric is honored to have Cherryl serve on its and special projects including the Wine Board of Directors and Civic Engagement Committee. Auction for many years. Helen and Sam Zell generously cosponsored Lyric’s new DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION production of Rinaldo (2011/12), Rigoletto Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, (2012/13), La Traviata (2013/14) and this season are cosponsors of the Lyric pre- and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She miere of The Passenger. enjoys encouraging talented young artists in her roles as a Ryan Opera Center Distinguished Benefactor and Lead Sponsor of Rising Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her pas-

Donna Van Eekeren sion for introducing young people to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported Lyric’s Performances

46 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

For sixty years, Lyric Opera of Chicago has produced world-class opera with many of the world’s greatest artists. With decades of dedicated support from donors and subscribers, the company has flourished, gaining global recognition for its artistic excellence and fiscal stability. Building our reputation for the future will rely on continued commitment to the broad, deep and relevant cultural service we provide to our city, while also advancing the development of opera as a vital art form. Lyric is seizing new opportunities to present opera at the highest level, re-define our audiences, and enhance our infrastructure. After a year-long strategic planning process led by Lyric’s Board and senior management, the Breaking New Ground campaign has been launched to implement the company’s blueprint for a world-class, twenty-first century opera company. Breaking New Ground will allow Lyric to continue to produce major productions of the highest caliber while also modernizing the stage of the Ardis Krainik Theatre with state-of-the-art equipment. The campaign will also contribute toward updated media, marketing and audience development programs, and plans to strengthen the company’s financial position, including continued efforts to build Lyric’s endowment in accordance with industry best practice. Lyric Opera is grateful to the members of the Board of Directors and donor family who have made generous contributions to the Campaign (as of January 1, 2015): Anonymous Paul and Amy Carbone Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Catamaran The Monument Trust (UK) Brent and Katie Gledhill The Negaunee Foundation Jenner & Block LLP John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Jim and Kay Mabie J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Nuveen Investments Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Julie and Roger Baskes PwC David and Orit Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Ada and Whitney Addington Nancy W. Knowles John and Ann Amboian Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Susan and Robert E. Wood II Anonymous Abbott Fund Anonymous The Crown Family Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Bulley & Andrews LLC Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Anonymous (2) The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust The Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Ethel and William Gofen Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Stephen A. Kaplan and Alyce K. Sigler The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Blythe Jaski McGarvie Josef and Margot Lakonishok Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Robert H. Malott Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Family Foundation Ann M. Drake Anonymous Eisen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Maurice and Patricia Frank Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander NIB Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor Pritzker Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance

MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 | 47 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball

Lyric Opera of Chicago expresses its deep gratitude to the following generous contributors who have made significant gifts in support of the 60th Anniversary Concert and Gala.

CONCERT LEAD SPONSOR Kirkland & Ellis

DIAMOND BALL SPONSORS ITW Northern Trust

DIAMOND PATRONS Anonymous (2) Sonia Florian J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Paul and Amy Carbone Kay and Fred Krehbiel Liz Stiffel Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Prince Charitable Trusts

EMERALD PATRONS Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Cornell The Crown Family John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols James N. and Laurie V. Bay GRAFF Diamonds Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Harris Family Foundation Jamie D. Rigler Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Colburn Edgar D. and Deborah R. Jannotta Family

SAPPHIRE PATRONS Ada and Whitney Addington Jenner & Block LLP Betsy and Andy Rosenfield James L. Alexander and Curtis D. Drayer/ Mr. and Mrs. Gregory K. Jones and Family Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Segal Kenneth R. Norgan Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Sipi Metals Corporation Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck Nancy W. Knowles Spencer Stuart Dover Corporation KPMG LLP Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Blythe Jaski McGarvie Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Stephen and Lois Eisen Allan and Elaine Muchin Ann Ziff Exelon Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan J. Cellmer Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Sharon and Lee Oberlander

RUBY PATRONS Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fisher Mr. and Mrs. John W. Oleniczak AT&T Brent and Katie Gledhill Matt and Carrie Parr Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Ethel and Bill Gofen Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Julie and Roger Baskes Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner David and Orit Carpenter The Edgewater Funds Brenda M. Shapiro Greg and Mamie Case JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Carl and Marilynn Thoma John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Josef and Margot Lakonishok US Bank Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Jim and Kay Mabie Paul Wood and the Honorable Corinne Wood Mark E. Ferguson and Francine Manilow and Caroline Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Elizabeth B. Yntema Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Arie and Bozena Zweig Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Nuveen/John and Ann Amboian

ADDITIONAL GIFTS Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Walter E. Heller Foundation Craig and Janet Duchossois Gucci America, Inc.

48 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors, 60th Anniversary Season Special Event And Project Support Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects during the 2014/15 Season. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and more were received by January 1, 2015.

Annual Meeting Dinner Edgar D. Jannotta Ernst & Young LLP Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company Lyric Opera Chapters Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater Funds Lyric Opera Overture Society Lois B. Siegel Backstage Tours Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Music Performance Trust Fund and the Film Fund Paul and Amy Carbone Mr. and Mrs. James McClung Egon and Dorothy Menker Wine Auction Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Allan and Elaine Muchin Presenting Sponsor: The Hurvis Family Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Northern Trust Dr. David Thurn With Matching Funding by: Catalogue and Onstage Auction Sponsor: Joan and Marco Weiss/ The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family Guggenheim Partners The John and Jackie Bucksbaum Family Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Dinner Wine Sponsor: Operathon Merchandise Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Champagne On Stage Fellowes, Inc. Albert and Rita Lacher Sidley Austin LLP SONG Commemorative Wine Sponsor: Abbott Operathon Trip Auction Choral Concerts Cosponsors: Lieselotte N. Betterman American Airlines James N. and Laurie V. Bay Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Overture Society Luncheons Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Olofson Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Grand Benefactor Dinners J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Susan M. Miller Latham & Watkins LLP Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Nancy S. Searle Innovation Initiative Planned Giving Seminars BMO Harris Bank Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Anonymous (2) Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Bain & Company William Blair & Company Lyric Signature Events Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Baker & McKenzie Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Projected English Titles PwC R. Robert and Cathy Funderburg Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Charitable Trust

Official Airline Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Renée Fleming Initiative American Airlines The Harris Family Foundation Anonymous ITW Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Opening Night Gala Jenner & Block LLP The Crown Family Aon Ann and Gregory K. Jones Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Opening Night Gala Dinner Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Anonymously sponsored in memory of Mayer Brown LLP Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Debby Jannotta Sherry McFall and Ken Porrello Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Blythe Jaski McGarvie Operathon Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Season Preview Concert Ardmore Associates Susan and Nicholas Noyes and Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Walgreens Make It Better Media Patricia Hyde 98.7WFMT Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Lake Geneva Chapter Lisbeth Stiffel Operathon Challenge Grants Carl and Marilynn Thoma Anonymous (2) Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park Underwriters Laboratories Amsted Industries Foundation Lead Sponsor: Donna Van Eekeren and Dale Connelly Julie and Roger Baskes closerlook, inc. Kim and Miles D. White Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Cosponsors: Greg and Mamie Case Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Anonymous (2) Francie Comer Renée Fleming AT&T Don Funk and Abby Zanarini Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Crain-Maling Foundation Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard

MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 | 49 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited With Major Support From The Hurvis Family Foundation General Support El Pasado Nunca Se Termina The Brinson Foundation Joyce E. Chelberg Leadership Funding: Lead Sponsor: Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Consulate General of the Republic of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Yntema Ferguson Poland Elaine Frank Polish Cultural Institute New York Additional Funding By: Cosponsors: J. Douglas Gray Raymond and Inez Saunders Anonymous (2) Anonymous Maria C. Bechily and Scott Hodes Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O’Leary Penelope and Robert Steiner Archer Daniels Midland Foundation Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ The Barker Welfare Foundation Douglas A. Doetsch and Susan Manning Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation, Judy Patricia Hyde Senior Matinee Baxter International, Inc. NiSource Buehler Family Foundation BNY Mellon Guitelman & ALAS-Wings Exelon Satter Family Foundation Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Helen Brach Foundation The Field Foundation of Illinois Mary Sue and Michael Shannon Fund CNA Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Louise H. Landau Foundation Nancy Dehmlow The McDonald's Hispanic Owner/ Lannan Foundation Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Operators Association Pre-Opera Talks Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Richard B. Egen Ken Norgan Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. The Retirement Research Foundation Envestnet OPERA America Kip Kelley The Siragusa Foundation Helyn D. Goldenberg The PrivateBank James and Michele Young Adam and Harriette Swierz Donor- Goldman Sachs Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Advised Fund The Hearst Foundations Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Program Evaluation The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation- Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Student Backstage Tours Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund United Scrap Metal, Inc. John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Memory and Reckoning/The Property Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Daniel Lome NEXT Student Ticket Program Anonymous Fund Morgan Stanley Foundation Lead Sponsor: Goldman Sachs Daniel T. Manoogian Northern Trust The Grainger Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Seymour Persky Matt and Carrie Parr Cosponsors: Vocal Partnership Program Mary Stowell Andra and Irwin Press Anonymous Bank of America Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Katherine A. Abelson Educational Youth Opera Council Wallace Foundation T. G. Bligh Foundation Fund Endowment Fund Terry J. Medhurst With Major Support Provided by the Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances Fund The Magic Victrola Sage Foundation CME Group Foundation Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Lead Sponsor: US Bank Polk Bros. Foundation General Mills Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins Opera in the Neighborhoods Performances for Students Dr. Scholl Foundation Cosponsors: Anonymous Baird Paul M. Angell Family Foundation John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family Segal Family Foundation Bulley & Andrews LLC Opera Residencies in Schools Foundation Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Anonymous The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Nuveen Investments Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Dover Mrs. Roy I. Warshawsky Look To The Future ENDOWED CHAIRS Regenstein Foundation Mozart Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED PROGRAM The Women’s Board General Director Endowed In Honor Of Ruth Regenstein Distinguished Conductor Award Chair William E. and Mary Gannon Hay Puccini Sarah and A. Watson Armour III In Loving Memory Of Ardis Krainik Endowed Chair John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Music Director The Guild Board of Directors Verdi LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED FUNDS Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Estate of Robert and Isabelle Bass Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift From An George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Education Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair Anonymous Donor Endowment Fund Chapters’ Endowed Chair For Education Thomas Doran In Memory Of Alfred Glasser Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Concertmaster Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund The Ryan Opera Center Board Opera Center Endowed Chair John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Director Endowed Chair Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Director Estate of Marjorie A. Mayhall Endowed Chair Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting Robert and Ellen Marks American Opera Endowed Lois B. Siegel Chair Designer Endowed Chair Joanne Silver Baroque Opera Endowed Chair – In Honor Of Duane Schuler The Lois L. Ward Trust A Gift From An Anonymous Donor Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Bel Canto Studies Program Endowed Chair Opera Endowed Chair In Honor Of Gianna Rolandi W. James and Maxine P. Farrell French Opera Allan and Elaine Muchin Production and Technical PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND Endowed Chair Director Endowed Chair James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair Endowed Chair In Memory Of Harold Beider

50 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and over were received between July 1, 2013 and January 1, 2015. Artist Support, Special Event The C. G. Pinnell Family Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Charitable and Project Sponsors Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Giving Fund Lois B. Siegel Sue and Melvin Gray Stepan Company Miriam U. Hoover Acting/Movement Coaching Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Illinois Arts Council Phillip G. Lumpkin Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial Fund Artistic Coaching Debbie K. Wright Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk James Lancaster Richard Pearlman Trust Michael A. Leppen Toasting Trovatore Reception Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Bel Canto Workshop Susan and Richard Kiphart The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust OPERA America Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman Prince Charitable Trusts Training Program Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Beverly Persky Duds for Divas National Endowment for the Arts The George L. Shields Foundation Heidi Heutel Bohn Voice Instruction Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Lawrence O. Corry Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Anne Gross Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory Anne Gross Mark and Kimbra Walter Final Auditions Mary Ellen Hennessy Jennifer L. Stone Artist Circle The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation ($5,000 to $9,999) Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cozad WFMT Recital Series Anonymous Doris Conant Foreign Language Instruction Julie and Roger Baskes Anne Megan Davis Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Cornell Workshop Performances Thomas Doran Erma S. Medgyesy Martha A. Hesse Virginia and Gary Gerst Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Guest Master Artist General Support John and Betsey Puth The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Marilee and Richard Wehman Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Launchpad Aria Society Marcus Boggs ($100,000 and above) Leslie Fund, Inc. Anonymous (2) Rising Stars In Concert Richard Pearlman Trust Richard Pearlman Trust Lead Sponsor: Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Master Classes Sponsors: Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Platinum Distinguished Benefactors Julie and Roger Baskes Martha A. Hesse ($50,000 to $99,999) Catamaran Drs. Janet V. Burch and Joel R. Guillory Ann M. Drake National Auditions Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. Sue and Melvin Gray American Airlines McDougal Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O’Leary Susan and Richard Kiphart Renée Fleming Master Class Distinguished Benefactors Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation ($25,000 to $49,999) Foundation Ingrid Peters Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Singer Sponsors/Cosponsors Richard Pearlman Trust Anonymous (3) Mentors The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation ($10,000 to $24,999) Cosponsor: Maurice J. and Patricia Frank L. Robert Artoe Susan M. Miller Anne Gross Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Susan and Richard Kiphart Heidi Heutel Bohn Rising Stars In Concert Broadcast Sanfred and Nancy Koltun Lawrence O. Corry Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Robert C. Marks Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Erika Erich Rising Stars In Concert Reception The Pauls Foundation Renée Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin

MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 | 51 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Corporate Support

Lyric Opera gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received between July 1, 2013 and January 1, 2015. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above Abbott Fund ITW Northern Trust Miles D. White, Chairman & CEO E. Scott Santi, Frederick H. Waddell, President & CEO Chairman & CEO American Airlines Franco Tedeschi, Maria C. Green, Jana R. Schreuder Vice President - Chicago SVP, General Counsel and Secretary Chief Operating Officer Ardmore Associates Jenner & Block LLP Sidley Austin LLP Cherryl T. Thomas, President Craig C. Martin, Partner Larry A. Barden, Partner & Chairman of Exelon JPMorgan Chase & Co. Eric S. Smith, Managing Director Management Committee Chris Crane, David W. Carpenter, President and CEO Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Senior Counsel Linda K. Myers, Partner Guggenheim Partners Andrew M. Rosenfield, Managing Partner

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999 Aon Corporation closerlook, inc. Make It Better Media Gregory C. Case, President & CEO David T. Ormesher, CEO Susan B. Noyes, Founder & President Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP Dover Nuveen Investments Mark Ferguson, Robert A. Livingston, President & CEO John P. Amboian, CEO Founding Partner GRAFF Diamonds OPERA America Baxter International Inc. Eve R. Rogers, Director Marc A. Scorca, President & CEO Robert L. Parkinson, Jr., Latham & Watkins, LLP PwC Chairman & CEO Richard A. Levy, Office Managing Partner John W. Oleniczak, Partner GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999 Accenture Fellowes, Inc. Spencer Stuart Dean J. Teglia, Managing Director James E. Fellowes, Chairman & CEO Kevin M. Connelly, Chairman & CEO AT&T Goldman Sachs Stepan Company Sheri A. Eichelberger, Eric L. Hirschfield, F. Quinn Stepan, Chairman & CEO Vice President, Signature Client Group Managing Director, Bain & Company Investment Banking Division Strategy&, Formerly Booz & Company Edward B. Rouse, Vinay Couto, Senior Vice President KPMG LLP Vice President & Managing Director Claudia M. Saran, Advisory Partner, Tamsen Z, LLC Baker & McKenzie U.S. Leader - People & Change Practice Ann Ziff, Founder & Designer Michael A. Smith, Managing Partner Mayer Brown LLP Underwriters Laboratories Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Paul W. Theiss, Chairman Timothy L. Christen, CEO Keith E. Williams, President & CEO Morgan Stanley Bank of America Matthew J. Parr, Managing Director United Scrap Metal, Inc. Sharon Oberlander, Managing Director Marsha Serlin, Founder & CEO Bulley & Andrews LLC NiSource US Bank Allan E. Bulley III, President Carrie J. Hightman, Executive VP and Chief Legal Officer Marsha Cruzan, Market President Chicago Catamaran Mark A. Thierer, President & CEO Sipi Metals Corporation Walgreens Marion A. Cameron, President Ernst & Young LLP Mark A. Wagner, President, Rick Fezell, Vice Chair & Skadden Operations & Community Midwest Managing Partner Rodd M. Schreiber, Partner Management

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR • $10,000 to $24,999 Aetna Chicago Title and Trust Company The McDonald’s Hispanic Owner/ Quarles & Brady LLP Alexander & Alexander, Foundation Operators Association Takeda Pharmaceuticals Attorneys at Law Invenergy The PrivateBank William Blair & Company BNY Mellon Jones Lang LaSalle The Quaker Oats Company PREMIER BENEFACTOR • $7,500 to $9,999 Amsted Industries Foundation BMO Harris Bank DLA Piper LLP (US) KlearSky Solutions, LLC Archer Daniels Midland Chicago White Metal Charitable Envestnet Starshak Winzenburg & Co. Foundation Foundation

BENEFACTOR • $5,000 to $7,499 Baird CNA Foundation Gucci America, Inc. Sahara Enterprises, Inc. BBJ Linen General Mills Foundation Italian Village Restaurants Shure Incorporated BRAVO CIRCLE • $3,500 to $4,999 American Funds Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Nordstrom Old Republic International Bessemer Trust Corporate Suites Network Corporation

IMPRESARIO • $2,000 to $3,499 BNSF Foundation KD Mailing Service Opera Volunteers International Horwood Marcus & Berk MWM Consulting RBC Wealth Management Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. Rendezvous Music

FRIEND • $1,000 to $1,999 American Agricultural Insurance Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Kinder Morgan Foundation Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. Company Galois Group Mesirow Financial S & C Foundation Asher, Gittler & D'Alba, Ltd. Hafner Printing Company, Inc. Michuda Construction, Inc. Turks' Greenhouses Concierge Unlimited International SUSTAINER • $500 to $999 Carl Johnson's Gallery in Galena Madison Opera Trips Network for Good Matching Gifts

A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees' gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous (2) CME Foundation Johnson Controls Foundation Peoples Gas Aetna Foundation, Inc. CNA Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation PepsiCo Foundation Alliant Energy Foundation Deutsche Bank North America Kirkland & Ellis PNC Foundation American Express Foundation Emerson Electric Company Kraft Employee Involvement Programs Polk Bros. Foundation Aon Foundation Exxon Mobil Lannan Foundation The Prudential Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur The Rhoades Foundation ArcelorMittal GE Foundation Foundation Skadden AT&T Foundation General Mills Foundation Microsoft Takeda Pharmaceuticals North Bank of America Foundation Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley America, Inc. BMO Harris Bank Foundation Grenzebach Glier and Associates National Joint Powers Alliance Toro Foundation BP Matching Funds Program Houghton Mifflin Company Newedge USA UBS Foundation Helen Brach Foundation IBM Corporation Northern Trust Company The Warranty Group Caterpillar Foundation Inc. ITW Foundation Oracle W. K. Kellogg Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Johnson & Johnson Peak6 W. W. Grainger Inc.

For purposes of recognition, we are pleased to combine matching gifts with an individual's personal gift. If your employer has a matching gift program, please request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Affairs office, and send it to us along with your contribution.

FEBRUARYMARCH 13 9 - -MARCH MARCH 29, 6, 2015 | 53 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Overture Society

The Overture Society consists of those esteemed supporters who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric Opera in the future. These generous gifts ensure Lyric Opera’s artistic progress well into the 21st Century for the benefit of future Lyric audiences. Lyric Opera is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society: Bel Canto Benefactors These Overture Society members have made a major planned gift to Lyric Opera as well as a generous annual gift. For information about the Bel Canto Benefactors, please call Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Director of Planned Giving, at (312) 827-5677. Anonymous (16) Marianne Deson-Herstein William E. and Mary Gannon Bill Melamed Joan L. Richards Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard in memory of Samuel and Hay Margaret and Craig Milkint Chatka Ruggiero Valerie and Joseph Abel Sarah Deson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Susan M. Miller Mary T. Schafer Louise Abrahams Mr. and Mrs. James D. Heagy David and Justine K. Mintzer Martha P. Schneider Dr. Whitney Addington Ericson Mrs. John C. Hedley James and Mary Beth Charles Chris Shaw Josephine E. Heindel Morehouse Karen G. Andreae Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Rose L. Shure Concordia Hoffmann Allan and Elaine Muchin Catherine Aranyi Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng Lois B. Siegel Robert F. Finke Edgar D. Jannotta Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Larry G. Simpson L. Robert Artoe John and Kerma Karoly Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Jack M. and Marsha S. Craig Sirles Firestone Kip Kelley David J. and Dolores D. Mrs. Jay Spaulding Marlys A. Beider James C. Kemmerer Nelson Roy Fisher Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Julie Anne Benson LeRoy and Laura Klemt John H. Nelson Elaine Frank Mary Stowell Merrill and Judy Blau Nancy W. Knowles John D. and Alexandra C. Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Gerald Sunko, M.D. Ann Blickensderfer Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Dr. Nichols Rhoda and Henry S. Frank W. Peter Hansen William A. Osborn Carla M. Thorpe Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Richard J. Franke Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Danolda (Dea) Brennan Dr. William R. Lawrence Joan L. Pantsios George and Mary Ann Thomas and Lise Lawson Phil and Paula Turner George F. and Linda L. Brusky Irma Parker Gardner Carol L. Linne André and Julia Pernet Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason David W. Carpenter Francey Gecht Daniel T. Manoogian Frances Pietch Joan and Marco Weiss James W. Chamberlain James K. Genden and Alma Robert C. Marks Kenneth Porrello and Sherry Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Nelson D. Cornelius Koppedraijer Paul Mavros McFall Claudia L. Winkler Paula Hannaway Crown Sue and Melvin Gray Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Nathaniel W. Pusey Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Renée Crown Harry J. Griffiths, M.D. Mayer Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Thomas Doran Julian W. Harvey Nancy Lauter McDougal Lyn and Bill Redfield Edward T. Zasadil Society Members Anonymous (46) Heinke K. Clark Dr. Paul Froeschl Dr. Anne Juhasz Martina M. Mead Carol A. Abrioux Robert and Margery Coen Marie and Gregory Fugiel Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Conroy Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Lady Stuart Kane Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Elizabeth M. Ashton Sharon Conway Witton Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Mesrobian Richard N. Bailey Sarah J. Cooney Susan Boatman Garland Kenneth Kelling Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Susann Ball Joseph E. Corrigan Scott P. George Paul R. Keske Ms. Barbara Terman Michaels Constance and Liduina Barbantini Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Mr. Lyle Gillman Chuck and Kathy Killman Marilyn E. Miller Margaret Basch B. A. Coussement John F. Gilmore Diana Hunt King Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Mrs. Bill Beaton Morton and Una Creditor John A. Goldstein Neil King Robert and Lois Moeller Alvin R. Beatty Kathryn M. Cunningham Jane Yager Goodman Esther G. Klatz Dr. Virginia Saft Mond Joan I. Berger Donald A. Deutsch Dr. J. Brian Greis R. William Klein, Jr. Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Barbara Bermudez Phyllis Diamond James R. Grimes J. Peter Kline Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Munoz Patrick J. Bitterman Roger Dickinson Patricia Grogan Helen Kohr Dr. Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus M. J. Black Ms. Janet E. Diehl Carl J. Halperin Dr. Bruce Korth John and Maynette Neundorf Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Mrs. Elaine Hansen Shirley Krsinich Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nickels Ned and Raynette Boshell Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Dobroski CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Mary S. Kurz Edward A. Nieminen David Boyce Ms. Barbara J. Doerner Ms. Geraldine Haracz Larry Lapidus Florence C. Norstrom Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Thomas M. Dolan Andrew Hatchell Barbara K. Larsen James F. Oates Robert and Phyllis Brauer Mary Louise Duhamel William P. Hauworth Millicent Leibfritz Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Mrs. William A. Briggs Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Ernest L. Lester Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Leona and Daniel Bronstein Kathy Dunn Ronald G. Hedberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Levy Jonathan F. Orser Candace Balfour Broecker and the Richard L. Eastline Mary Mako Helbert Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Parsons Estate of Howard W. Broecker Carol A. Eastman Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Carole F. Liebson George R. Paterson Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown Lowell and Judy Eckberg Mrs. Marion Hoffman Rosalie Loeding Dr. Joan E. Patterson Kathryn Y. Brown Lucy A. Elam, James and Mary Lunz Houston Doris C. Lorz George Pepper, M.D. Jacqueline Brumlik in memory of Elizabeth Elam H. Eileen Howard Eva Lutovsky Ira J. Peskind Donna Brunsma Mr. and Mrs. Don Elleman Joseph H. Huebner Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Elizabeth Anne Peters Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske Cherelynn A. Elliott Kenneth N. Hughes Jeanne Randall Malkin Genevieve M. Phelps III Terrence M. W. Ellsworth Dagmar Hurbanek Ann Chassin Mallow Karen and Dick Pigott Steven and Helen Buchanan Joseph R. Ender Michael Huskey Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Ms. Lois Polakoff Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Burger Dr. James A. Eng Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Mrs. John Jay Markham Martilias A. Porreca, CFP and Mr. William Burger Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Engel USMC Memorial Fund James Massie and Dr. Christine Mrs. Edward S. Price Muriel A. Burnet Martha L. Faulhaber Barbara A. Joabson Winter Massie Robert L. Rappel, Jr. Lisa Bury Nadine Ferguson John Arthur Johnson Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak Sherrie Kahn Reddick Robert J. Callahan Felicia Finkelman Laurence P. Johnson James G. and Laura G. Keith A. Reed and Beth Kesterson Patrick V. Casali Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Nancy E. Johnson McCormick Reed Esther Charbit Mr. and Mrs. John C. Forbes Roy A. Johnson Gia and Paul McDermott Michael and Susan “Holly” Reiter Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Ms. Susan Frankel Ms. Barbara Mair Jones Florence D. McMillan Evelyn R. Richer Ramona Choos Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. Janet Jones Leoni Zverow McVey and J. Jennie M. Righeimer J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Allen J. Frantzen Moreen C. Jordan William McVey Gerald L. Ritholz

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Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Lois K. Schmidt K. M. Stelletello Paul and Judith Tuszynski James M. Wells Howard M. and Mary Raffetto- Edwin J. Seeboeck J. Allyson Stern Ultmann Family Charitable Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Robins Donald Seibert Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Remainder Unitrust Sandra Wenner Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw Carol A. Stitzer Marlene A. Van Skike Caroline C. Wheeler in memory of Robert Kyts Jared Shlaes Norene W. Stucka Raita Vilnins Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Mrs. Beth Wheeler Rome Dr. Alfred L. and Mildred Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers Dr. Malcolm Vye Nora Winsberg James and Janet Rosenbaum Joanne Silver Emily J. Su Darcy Lynn Walker Brien and Cathy Wloch Dr. John Gregory Russo Jonathan P. Siner Peggy Sullivan Gary T. Walther Mrs. William Wunder Joseph C. Russo Joan M. Skepnek Sherwin A. Swartz Albert Wang Dr. Debra L. Zahay Dennis Ryan Joan M. Solbeck Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Louella Krueger Ward Daniel R. Zillmann Eugene Rzym, in memory of Mary Soleiman Lauritz K. Thomsen Karl N. Wechter Audrey A. Zywicki Adaline Rzym Elaine Soter Karen Hletko Tiersky Mrs. Richard H. Wehman David Sachs Ms. Geraldine A. Spatz Myron Tiersky Claude M. Weil Mrs. Philip H. Schaff, Jr. James A. Staples Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Franklin R. Schmidt Sherie B. Stein Jean M. Turnmire Joanna L. Weiss Estate Gifts The following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric Opera. With deepest regards, Lyric Opera commemorates those departed friends who have honored us with this most profound commitment. Anonymous (6) Mrs. Ray Duncan Martha and Walter Honigman Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Edward Byron Smith Mrs. Julius Abler Bettie B. Dwinell Carl E. Horn Foundation Dr. Edward C. Smith Mrs. Elmer E. Abrahamson Barbara H. Eckholt Hugh Johnston Hubbard Dawn Clark Netsch Ms. Joan H. Smith Arthur A. Acheson Carl B. Eklund Mrs. Alfred Jacobshagen Thomas G. Neumiller Mrs. Louis A. Smith Jean L. Acker Kelli Gardner Emery Deborah Jannotta Mrs. Frances Newman Paige L. Smith Dr. Anne Hardwick Addington William J. Evans Lenore S. John Jaye and Piri Niefeld Irene Smoller, in memory of her Ralph E. Adler Milton D. Faber Albert J. Johnson Elisabeth A. Noel late son, Estate of Beth Ann Alberding- Yvette Fairshter Diana T. Jones Joan Ruck Nopola William Rothwell Smoller Mohr Dr. James D. Fenters Phyllis A. Jones William A. Novy, Jr. Willis B. Snell Donald Alderman Larry Ferguson Dr. Stephen E. Juhasz Mary S. Oldberg Marilyn J. Snoble Dr. Harry S. and Irene K. Arkin Lorin Adrian Fillmore Joseph M. Kacena Roberta R. Oliff Anna Sovish Trust Marguerite B. Finch Andrew Karzas Rex N. Olsen Jay Spaulding Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson Armour Harold Finley Theodore Kassel Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Eleanore E. Starek Trust III Robert A. Fischer Sherry Kelley Edmond and Alice Opler Clarke and Adine Stayman Trusts Joan Armstrong Agnes Joern Fowler Dorothy E. Kemp Foundation James L. Stein James E. S. Baker Brena and Lee Freeman Miss Emily Kernkamp, in memory Mary G. Oppenheim Franz S. Steinitz, M.D. Elsa F. Bandi Don B. Freeman of Dr. Lorraine McGuire Eugenia Patche Robert D. Stewart Vincent Barresi Mrs. Charles Goodlett Frey Ms. Ruth Kiewe Suzanne Pirie Pattou Howard A. Stotler Estate of Patricia Anne Barton Lucille Friday Mrs. Israel Kirsh Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Frank D. Stout Trust Robert and Isabelle Bass Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Robert Kispert Fund for Music Lucile L. and Joseph J. Strasburger Mrs. Henry Beard Robert M. Friedman R. Eustice Klein Ralph M. Perlick Gertrude & Walter E. Swanson, Jr. Mrs. B. Edward Bensinger Robert S. Friend Russell V. Kohr Bendix L. Peterson Foundation Mrs. Edwin P. Berndtson Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Muriel Kolinsky Mrs. Howard R. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Morton F. Swift Rev. Dr. Warren Best Betsy Thayer Fricke Fyfe Ardis Krainik Harold H. and Elaine Plaut Helen L. Teich Mrs. Edward McCormick Blair Mrs. Hildreth Jane Gaebe Herman Kuhn Sidney L. Port Dean Terrell Estate Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Blettner In memory of Carl and Fern Anne C. Lacovic Jack and Eleanor Portis Glenn E. Thiel Mary L. Block Gaensslen Medard C. Lange Trust Joann M. Potvliet Joseph Tiritilli Berenece A. Boehm Florence Gambino Marjorie Lanterman Frank J. Prah Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Raymond J. Bradley Mrs. Nicholas Gannam Susanne E. Larsh Hal Pritchard Annuity Trust Joanell C. Breen Dr. Martin L. Gecht Walter Leibfritz William Reily Estate of Ruben Tross John P. Britz Trust In memory of Larry W. Gelfius, Louis L. Lerner and David L. Gayle Ann Rentschler Edgar William Trout Theresa J. Brosamer member of the Lyric Opera Lerner William G. Rice John T. Trutter Mrs. T. von Donop Buddington Lecture Corps Mrs. John Woodworth Leslie Michael Richter Dr. John E. Ultmann Inge Burg George Gifford Theresa M. Rill Dr. Paul D. Urnes Robert C. Lietz Nara Cadorin Rosalie E. Gingiss Trust Rosemary D. Roberts John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Dean A. Linton Madeleine G. Camilleri Alfred Glasser Harry A. Root Trust Dr. Richard A. Livingston Carol N. Cane Joe Richard Glover Rev. George Nash Ross Irvin J. Valovic Elizabeth Capilupo Myles C.. and Gloria M. Gogan Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd H. Cary Ross Sheila von Wiese-Mack Rose Mary Carter Jeanne Brown Gordon Arthur B. Logan Norman Ross Charitable Trust Cecilia Wade Charitable Trust Warren Choos Shirley and Benjamin Gould Eleanor Lonek George M. Rubenstein Nancy L. Wald William J. Ciulla Endowment Fund Mrs. Arthur M. Long Arthur Rubloff Residuary Trust Lydia Walkowiak Harry R. Clamor John D. Gray Mary Longbrake Burton Rubloff Trust Adele A. Wallace Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Frank E. and Sarah Graydon Babette Irene Louis Edith S. Ruettinger Carmen W. Walsh Trust Eleanor Green Dale B. Louiso Margaret R. Sagers Lois L. Ward Anne and Milton Colman Jerome A. Gross John P. Lundin Gladys S. Sailor Living Trust Richard W. Wathen Dorothy F. Cooney Lester and Betty Guttman Eva Lutovsky Suzanne Hewson Sammann Lyman Watson John W. Coutts Ann Hall Mary Louise Maher Mrs. Lee Schaenen Virginia O. Weaver Robert Cowell David C. Hall Dr. Alexis W. Maier Trust Philip H. Schaff, Jr. William D. Weaver Claudia Cassidy Crawford Trust Richard Halvorsen Herman R. and Sylvia Margolis S. Leder (Lee) Schiff Eva L. Weber, M.D. Kathryn Kryder Crittenden Kenneth L. Harder Trust Ellen R. Marks Alice F. Schimberg Trust Melvin “Bud” Weil Kathleen A. Crosby Donna E. Harrison Mrs. Edward A. Maser Roy Schmaltz Ralph Weil Joanne Toor Cummings Dr. Melville D. Hartman Richard M. Mattern Katherine M. Schultz Mrs. Miriam T. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dabovich Mrs. Ruth M. Harwell Augustus K. Maxell, Jr. Robert G. Schweitzer Susanne Wells Ruth B. Dean Camille C. Hatzenbuehler Marjorie A. Mayhall Margaret W. Seeboeck Claire M. Wilhelm Richard D. Deason Hatti Hayes Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Romana K. and Clay Seipp Bernard E. Williams Marjorie Louise DeBoos Thomas D. Heath Alfred L. McDougal Dr. Joseph Semrow Frances B. Wilson Jo Hopkins Deutsch Josephine A. Hedges Gerald E. Meyers Ingeborg Haupt Sennot In memoriam, Henry J. Witka Jane Warner Dick, in honor of John C. Hedley Ruth J. Milner Michael N. Shallow Sophie F. Wolff Edison Dick Dr. Erich and Tamara Heinrichs Lisa D. Mogensen Henry Shapiro Peter Wolkonsky, M.D. Helen L. Dickerman Trust Mrs. Winston C. Moore Joseph Jeffrey Shedd Mrs. Peter Wolkonsky The Edward & Rose Donnell J. Raymond Helbert Ann A. Mortenson Lenore T. Sherwin Cynthia Wood Foundation James C. Hemphill Renate Moser Sidney N. Shure Mrs. William Wood Prince Marjorie Donovan The Margaret E. Hertline Family Dorothy Mosiman, in honor of Adeline Elizabeth Sigwalt Mrs. Herman E. Woods Mrs. Lyman Drake, Jr. Trust Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Jannotta Ellen Smith Simmons Geraldine Wuester Josephine S. Dryer Margot S. Hertz Ms. Kathryn Mueller Robert Slabey Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque James and Gail Hickey Doris A. Murdoch David Wm. Smitches Carl Dumke Richard J. Hofemann Muriel Neave and Paul A. Lindgren

FEBRUARYMARCH 13 9 - -MARCH MARCH 29, 6, 2015 | 55 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support

Lyric Opera deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received between July 1, 2013 and January 1, 2015. ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above Anonymous (8) Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Estate of Arthur Logan Pritzker Foundation Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J. Julius Frankel Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Cornell Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Foundation Foundation Elsa E. Bandi Trust Trust Jim and Kay Mabie Estate of Harry A. Root, Jr. Julie and Roger Baskes Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Robert H. Malott Betsy and Andy Rosenfield James N. and Laurie V. Bay Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Mazza Foundation Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Marlys Beider Brent and Katie Gledhill The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Ethel and William Gofen Jim and Vicki Mills/Jon and Lois Mills Ryan Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder The Grainger Foundation The Monument Trust (UK) Dr. Scholl Foundation Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Gramma Fisher Foundation of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation The John and Jackie Bucksbaum Marshalltown, Iowa The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust James L. Stein Revocable Trust Family Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross The Negaunee Foundation Manfred and Fern Steinfeld Paul and Amy Carbone Estate of Betty Guttman Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Lisbeth Stiffel David and Orit Carpenter John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Foundation Cherryl T. Thomas/ Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Harris Family Foundation Estate of Dawn Clark Netsch Ardmore Associates Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Trust Howard Family Foundation John K. Neundorf Charitable Joseph Tiritilli Trust Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Hurvis Remainder Unitrust Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe Estate of Phyllis A. Jones NIB Foundation The Crown Family Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Donna Van Eekeren Foundation The Davee Foundation Nancy W. Knowles Richard Pearlman Trust Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Mr. and Mrs. Michael Polsky Washlow Estate of William J. Evans Josef and Margot Lakonishok Prince Charitable Trusts Helen and Sam Zell PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous Ann M. Drake Greg and Annie Jones/ National Endowment for the Arts Ada and Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Edgewater Funds Estate of Mary G. Oppenheim Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Hearst Foundations Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Polk Bros. Foundation Sarah Billinghurst Walter E. Heller Foundation The Knowles Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Estate of Margot S. Hertz Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Foundation The Brinson Foundation Hugh Johnston Hubbard Trust Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sandner Janet V. Burch, M.D. and Illinois Arts Council Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. Nancy S. Searle Joel R. Guillory, M.D. Edgar D. and Deborah R. Jannotta McDougal Elizabeth Upjohn Mason The Chicago Community Trust Family Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Mead, Jr. GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (7) Maurice and Patricia Frank Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Mary Sue and Michael Shannon Paul and Mary Anderson Barbara and Richard Franke Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Charles and M.R. Shapiro Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Shigley Foundation, Inc. Christine and Paul Branstad Family R. Robert and Sally Funderburg Allan and Elaine Muchin Rose L. Shure Foundation Charitable Trust Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Lois B. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buck Avrum Gray Family Ken Norgan Morris Silverman and Lori Ann Estate of Elizabeth Capilupo Sue and Melvin Gray Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Komisar Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Matt and Carrie Parr Bill and Orli Staley Foundation The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Mary Ellen Hennessy The Pauls Foundation Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Foundation Martha A. Hesse Seymour H. Persky Mary Stowell Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cozad Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Ingrid Peters Joseph and Pam Szokol Crain-Maling Foundation Estate of Martha Honigman The C. G. Pinnell Family Carl and Marilynn Thoma Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Patricia Hyde Andra and Irwin Press Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Rolandi Davis Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation H. A. Vance Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Joseph M. Kacena Endowed Fund Collin and Lili Roche Wallace Foundation Drs. George and Sally Dunea Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Mrs. Roy I. Warshawsky John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn O'Leary H. Cary Ross Trust Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Eisen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Kim and Miles D. White Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Lewis Sage Foundation Paul Wood and the Honorable Corinne Yntema Ferguson Robert and Evelyn McCullen Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Wood Larry and Barbara Field Blythe Jaski McGarvie Segal Family Foundation Ann Ziff Elaine Frank Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Susan M. Miller Estate of Dr. Joseph Semrow 56 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (6) Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Candy and Gary Ridgway Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard M. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Jamie D. Rigler Kenneth Aldridge Edward and Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski James Huntington Foundation Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman John and Ann Amboian Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Roberts Family Foundation Kelley and Susan Anderson Kelly Memorial Fund The Rooney Family Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Laurie and Michael Jaffe John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Arbetter Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. L. Robert Artoe Richard Driehaus Kip Kelley Richard O. Ryan Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sandner Mrs. Robert H. Bacon Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Albert and Rita Lacher E. M. Bakwin Erika E. Erich James Lancaster Mrs. Robert E. Sargent Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Michael A. Leppen Raymond and Inez Saunders Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Joan and Robert Feitler Arthur B. Logan Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen The Barker Welfare Foundation The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. Daniel H. Lome Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Sonja and Conrad Fischer Phillip G. Lumpkin The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baumgartner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation The Shubert Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Russell W. and Christina Fisher Francine Manilow Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Ross and Patricia D. Bender Renée Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Estate of Dr. Warren Best The Foster Charitable Trust Robert C. Marks Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Don Funk and Abby Zanarini Mason Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa T. G. Bligh Foundation Fund Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Marcus Boggs Giving Fund Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Heidi Heutel Bohn Susan J. Garner Erma S. Medgyesy Penelope and Robert Steiner Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. Terry J. Medhurst Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. McGuinnis Dawn G. Meiners Jennifer L. Stone Helen Brach Foundation Bruce A. Gober, M.D. MRB Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stone Betty Bradshaw Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. William J. Neiman Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Thomas Broadie Andrea and Jim Gordon/ Fredric G. and Mary Louise Novy Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family The Edgewater Funds Foundation Howard and Paula Trienens Foundation Foundation David and Elizabeth Graham Martha C. Nussbaum Tully Family Foundation The Buchanan Family Foundation Mrs. William B. Graham Julian and Sheila Oettinger Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Buehler Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Mr. and Mrs. John W. Oleniczak Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Mr. and Mrs. Allan E. Bulley, Jr. Mrs. Mary Winton Green Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Olofson Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Pasquinelli Family Foundation Cynthia Walk The Butler Family Foundation Estate of Richard Halvorsen Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Dan and Patty Walsh Marie Campbell Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Beverly Persky Walter Family Foundation Greg and Mamie Case Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Maya Polsky Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Joyce E. Chelberg The Irving Harris Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Mrs. John A. Wing CME Group Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hay Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Marcia S. Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II Reed and Ann Coleman Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Mary and John Raitt Debbie K. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Considine Mrs. John C. Hedley Merle Reskin Charitable Fund James and Michele Young Lawrence O. Corry Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard The Retirement Research Foundation Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crawford, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III The Rhoades Foundation Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Rosemary and John Croghan Miriam U. Hoover William C. and Nancy Richardson Arie and Bozena Zweig PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (3) Robert F. Finke Kate T. Kestnbaum John and Betsey Puth Robert S. Bartolone Dr. Jorge Galante The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation- Daryl and James Riley Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffery Geldermann Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund J. Timothy Ritchie Lieselotte N. Betterman Mary Ann and Lloyd Gerlach Martin and Patricia Koldyke Edgar Rose Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bobins, The Robert Virginia and Gary Gerst MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Thomas Bobins Foundation George and Maureen Gilmore Louise H. Landau Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Charles Bower Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Lannan Foundation Susan and David Ruder Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Helyn D. Goldenberg Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Leonard Joy Buddig Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Bernard and Averill Leviton George and Terry Rose Saunders Mrs. Laurence A. Carton Phillip and Norma Gordon Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Mary and Stanley Seidler Dr. Robert W. Carton Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Julius Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Mrs. Hammond Chaffetz Dr. Doris Graber Jim and SuAnne Lopata Mary Beth Shea Mrs. Warren M. Choos Joan M. Hall Daniel T. Manoogian The Siragusa Foundation Lynd W. Corley John Hart and Carol Prins Shari Mayes Patricia Arrington Smythe Susan E. Cremin Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Dorie Sternberg Anne Megan Davis Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. Egon and Dorothy Menker Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Decyk Charitable Foundation James E. and Mary Lunz Houston Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Milliken Mrs. Robert D. Stuart, Jr. Nancy Dehmlow Dr. Kamal Ibrahim Martha A. Mills Bolton Sullivan Fund Jon W. DeMoss Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jaffee David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Angela Tenta, M.D. Harvey S. and Sheila Dulin Irene Jakimcius Bobbie Newman Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes Jan and Bill Jentes Mr. and Mrs. James J. O'Connor Dr. David Thurn Estate of Josephine S. Dryer Louise Johnson Monica L. Parry Christian Vinyard Donald and Anne Edwards Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Marilou and Henry von Ferstel Richard B. Egen Nancy Rita Kaz Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker Marilee and Richard Wehman Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Mrs. Helen Kedo Irene D. Pritzker Frieda and Judd Weinber

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BENEFACTOR · $5,000 to $7,499 Anonymous (5) Mrs. John M. Hartigan Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow Kit and Bob Simon Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Reinhardt H. and Shirley R. Jahn Kate B. Morrison Estate of Willis B. Snell Maria C. Bechily and Scott Hodes Foundation Chris and Eileen Murphy Del Snow Mark and Judy Bednar Regina Janes Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Family Charitable Mrs. John Stanek David Q. and Mary A. Bell Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Trust Ellen and Jim Stirling Carol L. Bernick Howard E. Jessen Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Helen and Charles Bidwell Annette Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. James N. Perry Jr. Pam and Russ Strobel Patrick J. Bitterman James and Linda Leahy Estate of Bendix L. Peterson Adam and Harriette Swierz Donor-Advised Richard and Heather Black Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Genevieve Phelps Fund Wiley and Jo Caldwell Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Charles B. Preacher Foundation Tawani Foundation Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green Jane B. and John C. Colman Doris Conant "We want the opera to be available to future generations, and be in a strong position to continue to bring Francie Comer internationally recognized opera productions with great singers and producers." Marsha Cruzan David and Dolores Nelson, Elgin The Dancing Skies Foundation Thomas Doran Craig and Janet Duchossois Barbara and Frank Lieber Tom and Karen Rafter Andrea and Mark Taylor Jim and Pati Ericson Estate of Eva Lutovsky Mr. and Mrs. James T. Reid Lawrence E. Timmins Trust James and Deborah Fellowes Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau Mr. and Mrs. John M. Richman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tirpak Adrian Foster Thomas A. Marshall Charles and Marilynn Rivkin John and Patricia Tunstall Anthony Freud and Colin Ure William Mason and Diana Davis Rocco and Cheryl Romano Jean Morman Unsworth Estate of Rev. Thomas Gannon Maura Ann McBreen Rita and Norman Sackar John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Trust Mrs. Willard Gidwitz James G. and Laura G. McCormick Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Salter Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick John F. Gilmore Thomas J. McCormick Cecelia Samans Mrs. William N. Weaver, Jr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III Satter Family Foundation Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer J. Douglas Gray Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally V George and Joan Segal Claudia Winkler James and Brenda Grusecki Melvoin Foundation Arch W. Shaw Foundation CAPT Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Mrs. Michael S. Shaw

BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 to $4,999 Anonymous Amanda and Matthew Fox Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Tim and Joyce Greening Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Katherine Abele James R. Grimes John H. Nelson Irving Stenn, Jr. Eric A. Anderson Rose Ann Grundman Zehava L. Noah, M.D. Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas, Jr. Mychal P. Angelos Sandra L. Grung Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade L. Kristofer Thomsen Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Jonathan F. Orser Michael Tobin, MD Susann Ball William M. Hegan Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Dr. Pat and Lara Pappas Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp C. Bekerman, M.D. Joseph H. Huebner Mrs. Harold E. Pendexter, Jr. Phil and Paula Turner Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Johnson Karen and Richard Pigott Elizabeth K. Twede Mrs. Arthur Billings Douglas M. Karlen Dr. Joe Piszczor Lori L. and John R. Twombly Nicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirr Gerald and Judith Kaufman Harold H. Plaut Trust David J. Varnerin Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chandler Kenneth Douglas Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Lincoln Ramirez Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Lawrence Christensen Tyrus L. Kaufman Edward and Leah Reicin Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Gerould and Jewell Kern J. Kenneth and Cheryl Rosko Jacqueline Villa Heinke K. Clark John and Mary Kohlmeier Curt G. Schmitt Dr. Catherine L. Webb B. A. Coussement Dorothy Kuechl Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schriesheim Marco and Joan Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Lee The Schroeder Foundation David and Linda Wesselink Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Drs. David Whitney and Juliana Chyu Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Lewis, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wimmer Drs. Donald and Helen Edwards Pamela Forbes Lieberman Bill and Harlan Shropshire Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Cherelynn A. Elliott Marilyn and Myron Maurer Adele and John Simmons The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation Deane Ellis Sherry McFall and Kenneth Porrello Ilene Simmons Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and James C. Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. David E. McNeel Craig Sirles Kemmerer Lafayette J. Ford Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Joan M. Solbeck Donna and Phillip Zarcon IMPRESARIO · $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (10) Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Block Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Norman and Patricia Gates Allison Alexander Minka and Matt Bosco Bill Donaldson James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Mrs. Robert W. Allen Anastasia Boucouras Fred Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Mary and Michael Goodkind Mr. and Mrs. John H. Andersen Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Gordon Goodman Antoniou Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Brown La and Philip Engel Annemarie H. Gramm Mrs. Robert G. Bartle Winston and Lally Brown Susanna and Helmut Epp Karen Z. Gray Bastian Voice Institute Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Greene Family Foundation Ronald Bauer and Michael Spencer Paul Carman Firestone Family Foundation Janet Wolter Grip, M.D. Diane and Michael Beemer Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Cavallino Elizabeth W. Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob Daniel J. Bender James W. Chamberlain Mr. and Mrs. David S. Fox, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Julie Anne Benson Alice Childs Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Dr. and Mrs. Rolf M. Gunnar Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Berlin Robert Curley Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Carol and Solomon Gutstein Diane and Tom Blake Robert O. Delaney Fred Freitag and Lynn Stegner Marjorie Habermann Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Lidia and David Devonshire Peter G. O. Freund Philip and Nancy Zimmerman Hablutzel

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The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Alicia and Myron Resnick Kathryn M. Sullivan Fund J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Pamela G. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Jean Klingenstein Robert O. Middleton Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Mrs. Henry S. Tausend Ann Hokin Thomas A. Kmetko Britt Miller Dolores E. Ruetz Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Mr. and Mrs. William A. Holland Dr. Katherine Knight Robert and Lois Moeller Lena M. Ruppman Gilbert Terlicher Edmund A. and Virginia C. Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Elaine T. Newquist Robert Russell Janet D. Thau Horsch George Koch Howard and Cathy Niden Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Michael Huston Eldon and Patricia Kreider Dr. Linda Curtis O'Bannon Lynda Schultz O. Thomas Thomas Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ibers Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Cindy and Marc Oberdorff Paul R. Seidlitz Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tobin Betty and John G. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson Dr. S. P. Shah Marianne Tralewski Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Dr. and Mrs. Robert Levy Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Herman M. and Bea L. Silverstein The Trillium Foundation Janus Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Harding Foundation Dulcie L. Truitt Joy Jester Dr. Judith Lichtenstein Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, MD Mr. and Mrs. John B. Simon Stephen Wadsworth Ronald B. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Howard Walker Ken and Lori Julian Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Love Sandra and Michael Perlow K. Soltani Louis Weber Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Julia Luscombe Laurie and Michael Petersen The Sondheimer Family Charitable Hilary and Barry L. Weinstein Judith L. Kaufman Liz and Arsen Manugian Mrs. Zen Petkus Foundation Manfred Wendt Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Marks Mrs. Geoffrey C. M. Plampin Rick Stamberger Caroline C. Wheeler Norm Kidder Mrs. David McCandless Mary and Joseph Plauche James A. Staples Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Martina M. Mead and Michael Jennifer N. Pritzker Nancy and Bruce Stevens Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Neil and Diana King T. Gorey Nathaniel W. Pusey Walter and Caroline Sueske Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Hersch and Avril Klaff Sheila and Harvey Medvin Phillip C. and Jeanne R. Ravid Charitable Trust Chip and Jean Wood MinSook Suh Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever FRIEND · $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (15) Fred and Kay Bosselman Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Duffy Gloria Gottlieb Susan Ipsen A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Donald F. Bouseman Ronald B. Duke Dr. Ruth Grant and Dr. Howard Dr. and Mrs. Harold E. Jackson Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao Schwartz R. C. Jager Louise Abrahams Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Kimberly A. Eberlein Anthony Green Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. James Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Barbara and John Eckel Nancy and Jonathan Green The Jaquith Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Wendy and Norman Bradburn Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Allen Greenberger Carolyn and Paul Jarvis Ann Acker Danolda (Dea) J. Brennan Peter Emery Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Dr. Laurence Jewell Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Dr. Lia Brillhart Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle John R. Grimes Mel and Mary Ann Jiganti Adelman Candace B. Broecker Michael and Sally Feder Patricia Grogan Amyl W. Johnson Duffie A. Adelson Jerry Brosnan and Gisela Brodin Virginia Feleppa, M.D. Donald J. Grossman and Elaine T. Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Susan S. Adler Howard and Moira Buhse Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Hirsch JS Charitable Trust Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Lance George J. Burrows Shaw Donald Haavind Dr. Anne M. Juhasz Johnson Jeffrey Bussean James G. Fitzgerald Glen and Claire Hackmann Judith Jump Cleo Alexander Agnes B. Canning Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Jerry A. Hall, MD Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan The Carnot & Luceile Allen Irma Caprioli Nona C. Flores Janice H. Halpern Christine Kassa-Skaredoff Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Altman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kawalek Dr. Michael Angell "The benefit that we most appreciate is great music with great artists - we are lucky Larry M. Keer, MD Daniel J. Anzia to have you here in Chicago." Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Kern Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Eva Redel Richard and Dorothy Nopar, Winnetka Lynda and Michael Kivi Robert M. Arensman Esther G. Klatz Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baldwin Paul Kleppner Edith M. Ballin Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Anita D. Flournoy Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Mary Klyasheff Peter and Elise Barack Drs. James and Stephanie Paul Fong Agnes Hamos Emily and Christopher Knight Michael A. Barna Cavanaugh Dr. Jacek Franaszek and Kathleen Michael G. Hansen and Nancy Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Richard and Shirley Baron Robert and Laura Chen McQueeny E. Randa Foundation Peter Barrett John Chiu Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hartigan Edward and Adrienne Kolb Barbara Barzansky Mrs. Raymond A. Clasen Arthur L. Frank, MD Daggett Harvey, Jr. William Konczyk and Stanley Sandra Bass Susan Somers and Ray Cocco Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Hauser Conlon Ron and Queta Bauer Margery and Robert Coen Paterson Sheila Ann Hegy Paul L. Kraus Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Gordon and Sigrid Connor Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Drs. Allen Heinemann and Richard Kron and Deborah Dee Beaubien James M. Cormier Penny Friedman William Borden Bekken Seth V. Beckman Daniel Corrigan Samuel and Adriana Front Janet and Bob Helman Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Diane and Michael Beemer Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Cottey Nancy R. Gamburd and Cathy Dr. and Mrs. Leo M. Henikoff Carol and Jerome Lamet Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III Patricia O. Cox Hanby Ms. Kimberlee S. Herold Carolyn Landwehr Jennifer Bellini Mr. and Ms. Karl Coyner Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Gareis Edward and Teresa Hintzke Frederic S. Lane Lois M. Berman Mr. and Mrs. J. William Dr. Anthony W. Gargiulo and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen Leslie Bertholdt Cuncannan Mrs. Jane Duboise Gargiulo Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Nancy Lass Vanice (Van) Billups, Ph.D. James Currie Jr. Judy and Mickey Gaynor Douglas R. Hoffman Dr. William R. Lawrence M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Mrs. Joseph T. Curti Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Sandra Hoffman Dr. M. S. W. Lee Louis and Catherine Bland Hope Curtis John Gelston Andrée S. Hognestad Phillip Lehrman Elaine and Harold Blatt Mary and Hans Dahl Generations Fund John E. Holland Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Ann Blickensderfer Mr. and Mrs. Timothy K. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Genesen Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hollensteiner Edmund H. Lester Jim Blinder Dahlstrand Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. George George R. Honig, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Peter Letarte John Blosser James and Marie Damion Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gepson and Olga Weiss Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Blumen Jason Dantico Gregory Geuther Carol and Joel Honigberg Strek Frima H. Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Dr. and Mrs. Bernardino Ghetti Bill and Vicki Hood Susan Lichtenstein and John Terence and Mary Jeanne Bolger Patty Litton Delony Sharon L. Gibson Mrs. James K. Hotchkiss Rokacz Robert and Anne Bolz Charitable Mr. and Mrs. John Deppong, Jr. Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Mrs. Paul Lieberman Trust Rosanne Diamond Fredrick and Susan Gohl Michael and Beverly Huckman Stewart Liechti Erminio Bonacci Lyn Dickey Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Golden Mr. and Ms. Gary Huff Anne and Craig Linn Dr. H. C. Bonbrest Ms. Janet E. Diehl Alfred G. Goldstein Cleveland and Phyllis Hunt DeAnn Liska Dr. Gregory L. Boshart Dr. Elton Dixon Robert and Marcia Goltermann Mrs. John C. 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Lloyd R. Loback John S. Mrowiec and Dr. Karen Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Preston Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shea Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Melvin R. Loeb L. Granda Karen Prieur Carol and Roger Shiffman Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Rosalie Loeding Gerald and Maia Mullin Marcia Purze Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Luke Lovell Dr. John S. and Nan D. Munn Drs. Joseph and Kimberly Pyle Nancy Silberman Manuel S. Valderrama Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Rosemary Murgas Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Marlene A. Van Skike Charlene and Gary MacDougal Bob and Mimi Murley John P. and Victoria L. Z. Margles Singleton and Clay Young Elizabeth Van Ness Daniel Madden and Tuny Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Murphy Ratnaswamy Arthur B. Smith, Jr. and Tracey L. Frances and Peter Vandervoort Mokrauer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mustell Dr. Biswamay Ray Truesdale Rosalba Villanueva Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maganuco Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Nadig William H. Redfield Barbara Smith and Timothy Kathryn A. Voland Jeffrey and Paula Malak Mrs. A. M. Neumann Linda and John Relias Burroughs Dr. Annabelle Volgman Claudia Marban Jeffrey Nichols Sherry and Bob Reum Mrs. David W. E. Smith Dr. Malcolm V. Vye Jan Marinello Nancy Nichols Mr. and Mrs. William Revelle Louise K. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Walsh Mrs. John Jay Markham Gayla and Ed Nieminen Joan L. Richards Mary Ann Smith April Ware Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Martin Carol M Nigro Jerry and Carole Ringer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts Jr Bob and Doretta Marwin Janis Wellin Notz and John K. William H. and Louise D. Robb Robert A. Sniegowski Sarena M. Weil Maureen and Michael McCabe Notz Jr. Carol Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Mr. and Mrs. Melville W. Wendell Ms. Michelle McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nusinow Mr. and Mrs. W. Roberts Jr. The Sondheimer Family Charitable Heide Wetzel John F. McCartney Virginia A. O'Neill Howard M. and Mary F. Robins Foundation Patricia and William H. Wheeler Marilyn McCoy and Charles R. Penny J. Obenshain Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sopranos Howard S. White Thomas Margo and Michael Oberman and The Philip and Myn Rootberg Phil and Sylvia Spertus Tom and Stathy White John and Ann McDermott Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Stanley Patricia and William Therissa McKelvey Mrs. Richard C. Oughton Roberta Rosell Peter and Cindy Stathakis Kathryn B. Winter James McKnight Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Parks Dr. and Mrs. Szymon Rosenblatt Joyce L. Steffel F. C. Winters Florence D. McMillan Lois R. Pearson Lorelei Rosenthal Carol Stein Stephen Wolbers and Heidi Claretta Meier Sunday and Charles Perry Jean Rothbarth Mrs. Karl H. Stein Schellman Barb and Bob Meyer Ira J. Peskind Manfred Ruddat Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stein Charles B. Wolf Jim and Ginger Meyer Viktoras Petroliunas Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero Mr. and Mrs. J. Allyson Stern Ann S. Wolff Joanne Michalski and Michael Marian Phelps Pawlick Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ruskin The Stanley and Kristin Stevens Ted and Peggy Wolff Weeda Karen and Tom Phillips Paul and Joanne Ruxin Family Fund D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Rev. Dr. Mary L. Milano Ruth A. Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ryan Hal S. R. Stewart Christopher and Julie Wood Gerry M. Miller Mrs. William A. Phillips Louise M. Ryssmann Mr. and Mrs. Alan Stone Owen and Linda Youngman Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Virginia and John Picken Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Dr. Bernadette Strzyz Alexander Zajczenko Mr. and Mrs. David Mintzer James and Polly Pierce Richard H. Sanders Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stuart Michael and Judy Zeddies Dr. Virginia Mond Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pinto Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J Schaeffer Mr. and Mrs. Irwin S. Sylvan Barbara Zeleny William Mondi Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Plochman Robert P. Schaible Geraldine L. Szymanski Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Steven Montner and Scott Brown Joel and Vivianne Pokorny Judith and Leonard Schiller Caesar and Patricia Tabet Susan Zick Charles Moore Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Schuler Mrs. Amy Tax and Dr. Michael Richard E. Ziegler Mr. Peter and Dr. Deborah Carol G. Pollock Deborah and George Schulz Tax Morowski Charlene Posner Thomas Scorza Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tesarik H. Patrick and Margaret A. Morris Matthew and Erica Posthuma Ilana Seligman MD Ronald and Linda Thisted Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Dr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Thomas SUSTAINER · $500 to $999

Anonymous (15) Mr. and Mrs. George C. Bergland Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Broderick Mr. and Mrs. William A. Crane Barbara and Paul Dwyer Andrew Abbott and Susan Schlough Mr. Roy C. Bergstrom Dr. Annie Brown Robert C. Cronin Roma Dybalski Katherine Abbott and Jerry Szatan Diane and Karl Berolzheimer Todd Brueshoff Barbara Flynn Currie Hon. Frank Easterbrook and Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Turney P. Berry and Kendra D. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske III Jurgen and Kathy Daartz Mrs. B. Englert Easterbrook Mr. and Mrs. Phillip G. Adams Jane Berry Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Marta Dapena-Baron and Christie Adrienne Eckerling Judith A. Akers Mrs. Keki Bhote Bruyninckx Nordhielm Hugh and Jackie Edfors Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Albright Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Warren and Patricia Buckler Dr. Manoochehr Darab James W. Edmondson Catherine Allegra Jerry Biederman Dr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Budzik Rathin Datta Mrs. Richard J. Elrod Mr. and Mrs. Bruce T. Allen Mr. and Mrs. John Bienko Mrs. Theodore H. Buenger Cathy Davis Joseph R. Ender Judith L. Allen John C. Bierbusse Dr. Jack Bulmash William J. Davis Beverley R. Enright John and Mary Alukos Jules Binder Susan Burkhardt Malcolm Deam Rondi Erickson Sheila and James Amend Susan and Bryan Erler Cynthia Amundsen "Opera needs every penny it can get. I use my membership to fund the arts, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ertman Kenneth and Mary Andersen Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Doris W. Angell and I tell friends, strangers, colleagues about it." Marion and Burt Fainman William Ankenbrandt Katherine Abele, Evanston Steven E. Feldman Dr. Erin Arnold Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Dr. Andrew and Dr. Iris Aronson Nadine Ferguson Fred and Michelle Baird Dorin Bircu Hon. and Mrs. Michael T. Caldwell Joan G. Deeter Hugh Field William and Marjorie Bardeen Astrid K. Birke Cathleen Cameron Paul B. Dekker Howard and Charlotte FInk H. Barefield Donald H. Bittner Dr. Mark Carlson Dr. and Mrs. Terrence C. Demos Susan Fisher-Yellen Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barkei Mrs. John R. Blair Stephen H. and Virginia McM. Carr Patricia K. Denman Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fisher Ronald and Donna Barlow Carl Blattner Jerry Carter The Dick Family Foundation Marilyn E. Fites Barbara J. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Block III Bonnie and Don Chauncey Mary D. Dickenson William Fleig Barbara Barzansky Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bloom Dr. Francoise Chor Dr. Gary Dillehay Marvin Fletcher Joseph P. Basile D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Frank and Theresa Cicciarelli Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon James Patrick Foley Sandra Bass Nancy and George Bodeen Robert Cieslak Michael L. Dollard Edwin Fontaine Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam David Boehnlein Connie Clark Ramsey B. Donnell Robert B. Fordham Mr. and Mrs. David Baule Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond Sr Michael Cleveland and Grazia Nunzi Claudia H. Donohue Richard W. Foster Marion Baumann Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Jean M. Cocozza Maureen Dooley Anne and Willard Fraumann Marcia J. Baylin Dr. Stuart L. Bowers David and Carolyn Colburn David and Deborah Dranove Dr. Maija Freimanis and David Benjamin C. Beach Mary and Carl Boyer Elaine Collina Dr. Morton Dubman Marshall Larry and Angie Bearden Michael Bradie John Combes Linda and Cornelius DuBose Albert Brooks Friedman Elizabeth S. Beck Dr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Braun Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Douglas F. Duchek Phillip Friedmann Estate of Robert E. Beck Giovanna Breu Sharon Conway Kathy Dunn Richard and Jacquelyn Fuchs Hans and Margaret Bell Mrs. John N. Brincat Nancy Corral Dr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. Robert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Gahlon John C. Benitez Mary Lee Brinegar Beatrice V. Crane Golub Leota P Gajda

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Thomas F. Gajewski Mr. and Mrs. Loren A. Jahn Richard Marshak William and Suzan Pinsof Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein Joan A. Gall Patricia J. Janas Judy and Robert Marth John J. W. Plampin Linda Soreff Siegel Dorothy and John Gardner Mr. and Mrs. A. Paul Jensen Reginald and Bernadette Marzec Pollack Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Sorensen Derek and Ellen Garnjost Jerry and Judy Johansen Harold L. Mason Mr. and Mrs. Byron Pollock Mary J. Sorrentino Paul R. Gauvreau Randee and Vance Johnson Mark Materna Mr. and Mr. Chris Pope Elaine Soter Dr. George Gay and Mr. Brian Soper Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston John May William V. Porter Amelia Soudan Mary and John Gedo Barbara Mair Jones Dr. John Mazuski Marla McCormick Pringle Phillip V. St. Cloud Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Geldermann Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Jordan Mr. and Mrs. George P. McAndrews Mr. and Mrs. Chris Quigg Mrs. Henry M. Staley Thomas P. Germino JS Charitable Trust Dr. William McCulloch and Dr. Dorothy V. Ramm Darina Stanley GFF Foundation Missy Kedzior Margaret McCulloch Jeffrey Rappin and Penny Brown Corinne M. Steede Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Gilbert Matthew J. Keller, Jr. Julie and Herb McDowell Dr. and Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Steele Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Gilford Alfred Kelley Andrew S. McFarland Dennis C. Regan Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Stern Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Douglas and Christine Kelner Susan Gilbert-McGuire Judith Revells Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Kik and S. I. Gilman Miriam E. Kerndt John and Etta McKenna Marina Reznitskaya Mrs. James H. Stoner Dale and David Ginsburg Jeffrey R. Kerr Anne Ford McMillen Mae Svoboda Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. John Strom Gay L. Girolami Patricia Kersey and Charles Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Evelyn R. Richer Carol H. Sullivan David L. Gitomer Erlichman Joann and Milt Meigs Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Richert Charles Sullivan Dr. Paul B. Glickman Ms. Linda D. Kiefel Dr. Janis Mendelsohn Dr. Patricia C. Rieger Mary W. Sullivan and Coleman S. Barbara and Norman Gold Chuck and Kathy Killman Dr. R. Menegaz and R. D. Bock Susan and Ed Ritts/Longshadow Kendall Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Jim and Nelly Kilroy Glenn Merritt Foundation Betty and Jack Swanson Paul J. Gonzalez Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn Kind Virginia Michalicek Gabriel and Beth Rodriguez Karen L. Swartz Amy and Michael Gordon Kathy Kirn and David Levinson Sally S. Miley Dr. Ashley S. Rose and Charlotte Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sweders Sr. Roberta Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Kittle- Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr. Puppel-Rose Mitchel J. Sweig Anne H. Gorham Kamp David E. Miller Elaine G. Rosen Bradley and Simone Taylor Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Frank and Alice Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Larry Rosen Charles and Kristine Thorsen Mokoto Goto Diane F. Klotnia Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Milnarik Saul and Sarah Rosen Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Birgit Gottelt Lionel and Jackie Knight John and Barbara Milwee Babette Rosenthal Eleanor W. Tippens Mrs. John W. Gottermeyer Diane Tkach and James Freundt Dr. Steven A. Gould “I support Lyric so that it can continue to be a great opera company.” Robert S. Tomes Michael and Melissa Graham Larry and Carol Townsend Dr. and Mrs. Barry Greenberg Norman Bradburn, Arlington, VA Patricia D. Turner Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Greendale Judith Tuszynski Richard Greenthal Mr. and Mrs. Roger Koenker Ramona O. Mitchell Thomas and Barbara Rosenwein Dr. Aris Urbanes Marcy Gringlas and Joel Greenberg Mrs. Russell V. Kohr Edward J. Mitchen Marsha and Robert Rosner Anna W. Urbanski Robert Grist Gerald A. and Karen A. Sanford Moltz Mrs. Donald Roth Sharon Van Dyck Charles R. Grode Kolschowsky Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor R. Charles Rudesill Elizabeth Van Ness David Gucwa Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Konczal J. Clifford Moos Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff Elsa Vaintzettel John Gustaitis Amy Kontrick and Mark Mycyk Barbara Morgenstern Eugene W. Rzym Marie Vanagas Margo Lynn Hablutzel Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kracum Martin W. Morris David Sachs Dr. Eladio A. Vargas Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Stephen Kraft Steven W. Morris Dennis and Mary Ann Sadilek John N. Vinci Todd Haines Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Kretchmer Larry Morrison Carol S. Sadow John and Kathleen Vondran John Hales Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Krugel Beverly Mortensen Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Suzanne L. Wagner Terry Haller Konrad Kuchenbach Renate Moser John Sagos Robert D. Wallin Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Thomas P. Kuczwara Helga E. Muench Darleen Salomon Gary T. Walther Mary E. Hallman Walfrid and Sherry Kujala Thomas F. Murphy Natalie Saltiel Dr. Richard Warnecke Charles Hanusin Ruth L. Labitzke Mrs. Natalie Mycyk Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Mrs. M. Hubachek Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris Kristina and Laimonis Laimins Holly I. Myers Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell John Watrous Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Susan Laing Lawrence T. Nash, MD Ursula Sanne Elizabeth Wazowicz Dr. and Mrs. David Jerome Hayden Elisabeth M. Landes Harvey A. Nathan Nancy A. Sans Claude M. Weil Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hayden Mr. and Mrs. Morton Lane Virginia Navarrete Robert and Mary Ann Savard Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weiland Jack and Barbara Hayford Mrs. Fritz Lange David and Lynne Nellemann Mary T. Schafer Dr B. Craig Weldon and Terri Monk James and Lynne Heckman Mrs. Frederick Larsen Elizabeth Nerney Anne McMillen Scheyer Adele and Joseph R. Wells Robert and Raynelle Heidrick Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen Wayne W. Nestander Paul and Carol Schierl Peter J. Wender Josephine E. Heindel Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. George Nichols, Jr. Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Dr. and Mrs. Dennis K. Wentz Dr. Martha Heineman and Dr. Mrs. Marsha Lazar Eleanor A. Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Schloss Joel T. Werth William Pieper Mary Anne Leer Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nolen Barbara and Lewis Schneider Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Wertz Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Hellman Dr. Michael C. Leland Anna Marie Norehad Marcia G. Schneider Sara Wetzel Diane Kraft Henry Ralph and Carol Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Hiram M. Nowlan Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Scholly Floyd and Judith W. Whellan Norman K. Hester Drs. Eva Lichtenberg and Arnold Hon. and Prof. C. Nuechterlein Susan B. Schulson Dr. and Mrs. Walter Whisler Mr. and Mrs. Brian Heston Tobin Gail O'Gorman Linda S. Schurman David P. Whitman and Donna L. Midge and Frank Heurich Mr. and Mrs. Myron Lieberman Paul and Cathy O'Kelly Barbara and John T. Seaman, Jr. Reynolds Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. High Robert B. Lifton George and Susan Obermaier Phyllis N. Segal Charles A. Whitver Thomas W. and Helen C. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Light Dr. Dragic M. Obradovic Richard and Betty Seid Robert and Barbara Wichmann William B. Hinchliff Robert E. Lindgren The Onya Fund Arthur Schneider and Helen Sellin Dr. Doris Wineman Kathleen Hoffman Carol Linkowski Sandra L. Osborn Mr. and Mrs. John Serpico Michael Winfield Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Loftus John and Dawn Palmer Mr. and Mrs. G. Curtiss Shaffer Alfred and Barbara Winick Stephen Holmes Mr. and Mrs. George Lombardi Kimberly Ann Palmisano Mr. and Mrs. Murray Shain Mark Woodworth and Randi Mrs. Dennis J. Horan Dr. Vassyl A. Lonchyna and Dr. Paloucek Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro Ravitts Woodworth Joel Horowitz Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna David Paris Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Shapiro Robert E. Woodworth, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Horwich Sherry and Melvin Lopata Mrs. Edwin C. Parker Sherie Shapiro Teana and Abbott Wright Larry and Ann Hossack Richard Lord Charles M. Parrish Ellen and Richard Shubart Catherine J. Wytzka William and Sarah Hufford Michael A. LoVallo Esq. Dr. Robert W. Parsons Barbara Fulton Sideman Charles Yager G. Todd Hunt Wayne R. Lueders Ilene Patty and Thomas Terpstra Jeremy Silverman and Mary Adam Young Barbara Hunter Lutz Family Foundation Michael Payette Sutherland Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Yu Robert M. Ireland Macfund Bruce and Nancy Payne Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Simmons Mark Zajackowski Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Isaacson Mrs. Walter M. Mack Lynn and Melvin E. Pearl Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Simon Mr. and Mrs. John G. Zasi Howard Isenberg Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Madden Susan Carter Pearsall Roberta E. Singer Dr. Antoinette Zell and Kenneth Dr. and Mrs. Peter Ivanovich George and Roberta Mann Mr. and Mrs. Norman Perman Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr. R. Walter Virginia A. Jach Philanthropic Fund Elizabeth Anne Peters Therese G. Smith David and Suzanne Zesmer Douglas and Lynn Jackson Mrs. Ludwig Mannheimer Melanie and Dan Peterson Michael and Donna Socol Larisa Zhizhin Ms. Merle L. Jacob Mr. and Mrs. Mark Manto Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Camille J. Zientek Peter P. Jacobi Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Margolies Dr. Robert B. Pildes and Dr. Rosita Soderstrom II Audrey A. Zywicki Bett C. and Ronald E. Jacquart Inge K. Marra S. Pildes Mr. and Mrs. John D. Soley

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Commemorative Gifts Gifts of $500 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness.

In Memory Of: Hugo Melvoin Sarita Warshawsky Edgar D. Jannotta Dorothy A. Angelos from Lois Melvoin from Randee and Vance Johnson from Sandra L. Grung from Mychal P. Angelos Dr. Ernest Mond Carol Warshawsky Richard P. and Susan Kiphart and her many friends and family Elsa E. Bandi from Mary and John Gedo from Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil from Walter F. Bandi and his many friends and family Arthur Weiner Virginia and Gary Gerst Ken and Lori Julian Robert G. Bartle Virginia Byrne Mooney from Fredrick and Susan Gohl from Mrs. Robert G. Bartle from Kathleen Vondran Jim and Nelly Kilroy and their many friends and family and his many friends and family John Blair Naomi M. Nash Margot and Josef Lakonishok from Barbara Blair from Lawrence T. Nash, M.D. Robert H. Whittlesey from Liz and Arsen H. Manugian from Constance Rebar Roman Block Dr. Antonio E. Navarrete Lome Family Members from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama from Virginia Navarrete Carol Winston from Daniel H. Lome from an Anonymous Donor Nancy Neumann Brooker George Nichols, Jr. Jane Russell Love and her many friends and family from Craig J. Love from Jean and Don Haider from Nancy Nichols Bernarr Wixon Joe Cipriano and his many friends and family Lyric Opera Women’s Board from the Riverside Chapter from Bob and Mimi Murley from Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Thomas L. Nicholson Prince Charitable Trusts Sorensen from Eleanor A. Nicholson Mary Wolkonsky from Neal Ball Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Dr. W. Gene Corley Salvatore L. Nigro, M.D. Dale E. Wooley Jeanne Randall Malkin from Lynd W. Corley from Carol M. Nigro from Regina James from an Anonymous Donor Lois Dunn Neil Oberg M. Jean Trowbridge from Kathy Dunn William Mason from Susan and Bryan Erler Jeffrey and Debra Trowbridge from Marilyn E. Fites Thomas E. Earle Richard Pearlman Eugene and Marion Zajackowski from Anne Earle Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Nadig from Howard and Cathy Niden from an Anonymous Donor from an Anonymous Donor Morris and Anna Fishbein Peer and Sarah Pedersen Nikolay Zhizhin from Justin and Marianne Fishbein Sue Niemi from Leslie Bertholdt from Larisa Zhizhin from Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Blatt John Flanzer June B. Pinsof from Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Michael and Margo Oberman from Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker In Honor Of: from the Jack and Goldie Wolfe Sally Funderburg Dr. Robert A. Pringle Miller Fund from Robert and Cathy Funderburg Katherine A. Abelson and Robert J from Marla McCormick Pringle Cornell Phyllis N. Segal Carl A. and Fern B. Gaensslen Bertha Rabin from John Hart and Carol Prins Cathy Osborn from Robert E. Gaensslen from Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Julie and Roger Baskes from Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Norman Gates Marilyn and Roland Resnick from Patricia A. Kenney Welsh Ryan from Joe Hetz from J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. and Gregory J. O’Leary Kenneth G. Pigott and his many friends and family and their many friends and family Suzanne L. Wagner from Julie and Roger Baskes Betty Rae Gilbert Myn Wartey Rootberg Peter Wender Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marineau from her family from the Philip and Myn Rootberg Margery and Bob Coen Duffie Adelson Arbella Gowland Foundation from Marcy Gringlas and Joel and his many friends and family from an Anonymous Donor Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff Greenberg Glen O. Reeser John D. Gray from Mrs. Sheldon K. Schiff Elizabeth Cole from David Q. and Mary A. Bell from J. Douglas Gray Stephen Schulson Prince Charitable Trusts Anne N. Reyes Laura Ladish Jacobson from Susan Schulson Lester and Renée Crown from Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley from Mary Ladish Selander and her Welsh Ryan Dr. Robert J. Strzyz from Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. family Minow Andrea and Jim Gordon/ from Dr. Bernadette Strzyz The Edgewater Funds Brigita Jakimcius Sonia Florian from Irene Jakimcius King Stutzman Jan Shucart and the Chapter Office from Patricia J. Janas from an Anonymous Donor Deborah Jannotta Staff and his many friends and family Anthony Freud from an Anonymous Donor from Dorothy Kuechl Henry S. Tausend from the Evanston Chapter Sandra L. Grung Duffie Adelson Lois Siegel Bill and Vicki Hood from Mrs. Henry S. Tausend from Ramona O. Mitchell Stephen A. Thau Paula Getman William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt from Concierge Unlimited Jack and Dee Singleton from Janet D. Thau from Margles Singleton and from Sheila Ann Hegy International Clay Young Ardis Krainik George and Helen Toscas and her many friends and family from Elizabeth Upjohn Mason from Jacquelyn Toscas-Fuchs Liz Stiffel Ron and Christina Gidwitz from Charles and Caroline Huebner John H. Ladish Bruce M. Turnmire from Bob and Mimi Murley from Mary Ladish Selander and his from Jean Milnarik Turnmire Craig Terry Catherine Graham family Dr. Ronald Milnarik from Michael and Sally Feder from Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. John A. Leer, Jr. MD Nancy Wald Morrison Robert and Flo Weiss from Mary Anne Leer from an Anonymous Donor Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Lome and Williams Family Members Ruth and Irving Waldshine Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Yu The Honorable Corinne Wood from Daniel H. Lome from Marcia Purze and Deane Ellis and her many friends and family from Lidia and David Devonshire Please consider giving a Commemorative Gift. All gifts will be promptly acknowledged with a beautiful card displaying the Lyric Opera fire curtain sent to whomever you choose. For more information, please call us at 312/332-2244, Ext. 3500.

62 | MARCH 13 - MARCH 29, 2015 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Special Thanks American Airlines for its 33 year partnership as The Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. Chicago Tribune Media Group for its promotional support of The Magic Victrola. Jenner & Block LLP and Craig C. Martin, Partner for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. Jeanne Gang and the Studio Gang Architects for design of the Concert Shell. Acknowledgements The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric Opera’s efforts: Generous Gifts Special Gifts Notable Gifts Art Institute of Chicago BBJ Linen Calo Ristorante Calihan Catering Brook Furniture Rental Hall’s Rental cinevative Bruce Packaging, Inc. KD Mailing & Fulfillment Classic Color Cru Cafe Martha C. Nussbaum Coco Pazzo e.leaven Food Company HMS Media, Inc. Lloyd’s Chicago Hoy Sitecore Jewell Events Catering

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The management of Lyric Opera of Chicago earnestly requests patrons to preserve complete silence during the performance. As a gesture of respect for all other audience members as well as for our artists onstage and in the pit, patrons are asked to remain seated until an act or the opera is completely over. The management reserves the right to refuse admittance or remove any person who may create a disturbance. Patrons are urgently reminded to check that their cellular phones, pagers, and electronic beepers (including watches) are SWITCHED OFF before the performance begins. Perfumes, hairsprays, colognes, and other body lotions should be avoided or used sparingly when attending the opera, as allergies are commonplace. Noise from theater elevators may disturb patrons in the auditorium during the performance. We therefore respectfully ask that the elevators only be used before perfor- mances, at intermission, and after performances have concluded, except in cases of emergency. Your understanding and cooperation are appreciated.

TICKETS The Civic Opera House Box Office (at the corner of PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES The Opera House is accessible to Wacker and Madison) is open from noon to 6:00 p.m. Monday physically disabled persons with elevator service to all floors except through Friday, and from noon through the first intermission on the Opera Club. The Ardis Krainik Theatre contains seating that is performance days. During season, Lyric Opera’s phone sales staff accessible to persons in wheelchairs, as well as seats with removable is on duty from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, armrests. The Opera House has automatic door-openers on exterior doors, and accessible drinking fountains and public telephones. A and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. On performance TTY phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only. evenings and matinees, our phone lines are open until curtain time. Call (312) 332-2244, ext. 5600, for ticket information. Restroom facilities for female patrons with disabilities are located on Should you need to visit the Ticket Department, we are located all levels of the Opera House except the Opera Club level. For male at 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 840, Chicago, IL 60606. Hours patrons, these facilities are located on all levels except the Opera Club level and the sixth floor. are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Buy tickets online anytime via Lyric Opera’s website, www.lyricopera.org. Assistive listening devices for persons desiring amplification are available at no cost at any open checkroom. A valid driver’s license, Should you be unable to attend a performance, we would state identification, or major credit card is required as a security greatly appreciate you donating your tickets to Lyric Opera. deposit. We can accept your ticket donation as late as five min- utes prior to curtain at (312) 827-5600, or donate your High-powered opera glasses for the visually impaired are available at no cost at the checkroom on the main floor. A valid driver’s tickets online up to four hours prior to curtain at lyricopera.org/ license, state identification, or major credit card is required as a donatetickets. You may also mail or fax your ticket donation — security deposit. Also, large format programs are available for every the fax number is (312)332-8120. Donating your ticket(s) as performance.. soon as possible will increase our chances of reselling them. A personalized statement of all ticket donations will be sent to you in For additional information or questions, call (312) 332-2244, ext. 5600. January for the previous calendar year. DINING options are available before, during (intermission), and Attention Box-Seat Holders: In order for each party seated in your after most Lyric Opera performances on the main and third floor of box to have equivalent front-of-box seating opportunities for all the Civic Opera House. Refreshments are also available throughout performances throughout the season, Lyric asks that you agree most lobby areas on each floor and on the Opera Club level. Visit upon an equitable seating rotation plan with your neighbors seated lyricopera.org/dine for complete details. Outside food and bever- within your box. Please remember that you may need to adjust ages may not be brought into the Civic Opera House. your front-of-box seating expectations in consideration of patrons NO SMOKING POLICY In compliance with the City of Chicago who do not regularly sit in your box and therefore are unaware of ordinance, Lyric Opera of Chicago enforces a no smoking policy any previous arrangements. throughout the Opera House and within 15 feet of our theatre The use of a ticket acknowledges a willingness to appear in photo- entrances. Thank you for your cooperation. graphs taken for print, television, or film in the public areas of the LATECOMERS will not be seated once the performance has theater and releases Lyric Opera of Chicago from liability resulting begun. Patrons who must leave will not be re-admitted dur- from the use of such photo­graphs. The program and artists are ing the performance. These patrons must remain in the subject to change without notice. lobby until a suitable break, which is usually the next inter- mission. There is no standing room. Evening performances of For patrons attending the pre-performance lectures, the doors Tanhäusser begin PROMPTLY at 6:00 p.m., except for Friday, will open 75 minutes before curtain. May 2, which begins at 8:00 p.m. Matinee performances of CAMERAS, recording equipment, food, and beverages are not Tanhäusser begin PROMPTLY at 1:00 p.m. allowed in the seating area of the Civic Opera House. For the safety PHONES As a courtesy to our patrons, complimentary phone and comfort of our audience, management reserves the right to service is available in the Vaughan Family Hospitality Foyer. have all large parcels, backpacks, luggage, etc. checked in the Civic LOST AND FOUND Please telephone (312) 827‑5768 for lost Opera House checkrooms. items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days. FIRST AID In case of illness or injury, please inform an usher, who EMERGENCY EXIT Walk, do not run, to the nearest marked exit will call the house manager and house doctor for assistance. EXIT which is the shortest route to the street.

Front of House Managers Box Office Assistant Treasurers Concessions Supervisor Usher Supervisor Charles Youmans Joseph Dunn Geri LaGiglio Dolores Abreu Laura LoChirco John Thor Sandquist Checkroom Supervisor Patron Relations Box Office Treasurer Hospitality Services Manager Myrna Maciel Miguel González Timothy M. Finnigan Patrick Lutz

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