Biographies Creative Team Daniela Candillari Mary Birnbaum Conductor Stage Director

Daniela Candillari’s recent debuts include Mary Birnbaum is associate director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Minnesota Opera, postgraduate Artist Diploma in Opera Studies leading Fellow Travelers ; Novus NY of Trinity program at the Juilliard School, and is an acting Wall Street, opening their festival celebrating teacher and coach for singers at Juilliard, Bard the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard College, and the Lindemann Young Artists Bernstein; and the Prototype Festival, conducting Program at the Metropolitan Opera. She works Acquanetta . Other recent projects include internationally—including venues in Taiwan, conducting the Manhattan School of Music Central America, Australia, and Israel—and Philharmonia, assisting Matthew Aucoin on across the U.S. for Opera Philadelphia, the his opera Crossing for BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Juilliard School, the Ojai Festival, Boston and assisting Vasily Petrenko on Falsta with Baroque, Opera Houston, Virginia Arts Festival, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. is summer Lyric Opera Kansas City, and Opera Columbus. she leads the West Coast premiere of Jennifer She directed the premiere of e Classical Style Higdon’s Cold Mountain at Music Academy by Jeremy Denk and Steven Stucky at Carnegie of the West. Hall in 2014. Her production of La bohème Ms. Candillari was a répétiteur with will open the Santa Fe Opera season in 2019. Slovenian National Opera, European Opera She makes her debut with Curtis Opera eatre Centre, and Indiana University Jacobs School with this production. of Music. At Slovenian National Opera she Ms. Birnbaum has worked with Michael also served as chorusmaster and assistant Tilson omas, Stephen Wadsworth, Matthew conductor. She founded her own chamber Aucoin, Susanna Phillips, and Stuart Skelton, Orchestra, Gravity Shift, in New York City among other eminent artists. An honors to take more traditional repertoire to new graduate of Harvard College, she trained audiences. Also a composer, she has a strong professionally in stage movement at L’Ecole interest in contemporary work in many Jacques LeCoq in Paris. She was nominated different genres. for Best Newcomer of 2015 at the International A native of Slovenia, Ms. Candillari holds Opera Awards in London. a doctorate in musicology from the Universität für Musik in Vienna, a master’s degree in jazz studies from the Indiana University Jacobs Rene Orth School of Music, and bachelor’s and master’s Rene Orth degrees in piano performance from Universität Rene Orth is composer in residence at Opera für Musik in Graz. Philadelphia. Her work has been performed by a variety of opera companies and orchestras, including the Berkeley Symphony, the Louisville 24 Curtis Opera Theatre

Orchestra, Festival d’Aix en Provence, Fort Worth Mr. Hare . Other awards include two Richard Opera, and Washington National Opera. She has Rodgers Awards, a Larson Foundation Award, collaborated with the Del Sol, Dover and Aizuri and a NYFA Playwriting Fellowship. Upcoming quartets; countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo premieres include Stonewall for New York City and mezzosoprano Daniela Mack Shrader; Opera, Today It Rains for Opera Paralléle, Seraph Brass; and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Edward Tulane for Minnesota Opera, and Recent commissions and premieres include a Les Girls for éâtre Du Châtelet. violin concerto for soloist Alex Boissonnault and Summerville Orchestra and a chamber piece for Philadelphia’s Network for New Music. e Grace Laubacher current season also features performances by Scenic Designer North Carolina Symphony, Tapestry Opera, and Grace Laubacher’s upcoming and recent opera ALIAS chamber ensemble. She is a recipient of a credits include: La bohème (Santa Fe Opera); 2016 OPERA America Discovery Grant and has Glory Denied and Enemies, a Love Story held residencies at the artist colonies of Yaddo (Kentucky Opera), Dido and Aeneas (Versailles); and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. A recent La nta giardiniera and e Magic Flute (Juilliard graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms. Orth School); Halka and Le villi/La Navarraise (Bard also earned a master’s degree in composition at Music Festival); Giulio Cesare (Boston Baroque); the University of Louisville and holds degrees and Aida (Pacic Symphony). She was the from MediaTech Institute and Rhodes College. associate set designer on Broadway’s recent revival of Oklahoma! , and has been named a Young Mark Campbell Designer to Watch by Live Design magazine. She holds an M.A. in performance design from Librettist Central Saint Martins—University of the Arts in Mark Campbell’s work as a librettist is at the London and a B.A. in visual and environmental forefront of America’s contemporary opera scene. studies from Harvard University. He has produced 29 opera librettos, lyrics for seven musicals, and text for ve song cycles and two oratorios; and his works for the stage have Amanda Seymour been performed at more than 70 venues around Costume Designer the world. He has written librettos for Silent Amanda Seymour’s recent opera credits include: Night (which won the Pulitzer Prize in Music), Candide (Tanglewood Music Festival); Romeo e (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (winner of a Grammy et Juliette , Le pauvre Matelot , Les Mamelles de Award), Elizabeth Cree , As One , e Shining, Later Tirésias , and Idomeneo (Wolf Trap Opera); the Same Evening , e Manchurian Candidate , La nta giardiniera (Juilliard School); Giulio Volpone , Rappahannock County , Approaching Ali , Cesare (Boston Baroque); Ariadne auf Naxos and Bastianello/Lucrezia , and e Nefarious, Immoral e Barber of Seville (Opera eatre of St. Louis); but Highly Protable Enterprise of Mr. Burke and Rusalka (Opera San Antonio); Paul’s Case 25