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MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE OUTREACH & EDUCATION 5 Board of Directors and Trustees 46 Community Programs 8 Administration and Staff 44 Volunteer Association ON STAGE 13 Der Rosenkavalier . CAMPAIGN INFORMATION by Richard Strauss 10 New Century Fund 54 Detroit Opera House 23 Tosca CONTRIBUTORS by Giacomo Puccini 40 New Century Fund Contributors 48 Michigan Opera Theatre 31 Peter Crimes Contributors by Benjamin Britten

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hat a successful and memorable season it's passion and spectacle that makes opera grand. Two very been so far. We opened with an audience beautiful young sopranos, Sylvie Valayre and Amy W favorite, The Barber 0/ Seville, which Johnson sing opposite MOT favorites Marcello received excellent reviews. MOT's first production of Giordani and Ian DeNolfo. World famous baritone Werther, starring Andrea Bocelli and Denyce Graves, J ustino Diaz makes his MOT debut. played to six sold-out houses. We worked with Global We applaud the 1999-2000 season sponsors. Music Network to launch the first internet opera web Generous underwriting by Ford Motor Company and cast in North America. People all over the world were General Motors Corporation made the fall and spring able to see and hear Werther live on the internet. The opera seasons possible. DaimlerChrysler Corporation first webcast had such an overwhelming response, it Fund sponsored our Dance Series and the January was rebroadcast seven more times before the end of appearance of Stuttgart Ballet. Many thanks go to the 1999. With these productions, we are continuing our corporations, foundations, government agencies and quest to reach new audiences. I have received many individuals who make our productions possible. letters of thanks for bringing Mr. Bocelli here for his I am pleased to tell you that our special fundraising operatic stage debut in North America. I also received initiative to secure MOT's future-The New Century many letters from Bocelli fans who have become opera Fund Canlpaign-is very successful. We launched this fans-people who otherwise may never have set foot campaign with the Three Tenors Concert on July 17, in an opera house. These are the letters I find most 1999, and have raised $15 million to date. We have $10 gratifying because I know that we are succeeding in million to raise before we reach our goal. This summer introducing opera to new audiences. we begin work on two projects: the exterior of the There are so many exciting things to talk about Opera House Broadway facade and the completion of this spring. As we welcome our new neighbors and the Vincent Lobby on the Madison Avenue side of the thousands of baseball fans to the neighborhood, building. The completion of this $25 million campaign Michigan Opera Theatre is staging a very challenging, will allow us to develop the five-story Educational very interesting spring season. The curtain rises on two Resource Center in the Broadway tower, retire prior productions never before seen on our stage. The first, construction debt, and build an endowment for the Der Rosenkavalier, with its enormous orchestra, future. With your help we will reach all of these very dynamic cast and grand sets will draw audiences attainable goals. I encourage you to get involved. in with its light-hearted comedy and bitter-sweet New businesses are reviving downtown and the theater poignancy of love lost and love gained. MOT's district and our neighborhood is changing and becom production will truly be a fanllly affair with soprano ing more vibrant. As we announce our 2000-2001 Helen Donath singing the role of the Marschallin, her season, I encourage you to join us- as subscribers. husband Maestro Klaus Donath conducting the Our subscribers enjoy five exciting operas and the orchestra, and their son Alexander Donath making his many discounts and privileges we offer. I look forward MOT debut as Director. Peter Grimes, our June pro to welcoming you back in the Fall and thank you for duction, is a modern masterpiece by Benjanlin Britten. joining us on this exciting journey. We welcome Mark Baker, John Mac Master and Sheri Greenawald to our stage and look forward to the return ofJeffrey Black. On the 100th anniversary of its premiere, we bring TosCopyrightca to the 2010,stage, withMichigan all the Opera Theatre 2 OI1IVII METAL RESTORATION Dent and scratch removal • Re-attacl~ment. Sterling, brass, copper, bronze, and plate

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Julia Donovan Darlow Mr. Harry A. Lomason Mr. Lawrence N. David Mr. Alphonse Lucarelli Mr. Robert E. Dewar Chairman Mr. Dav id Denn Mrs. Jennifer Nasser Dr. David DiChiera President Mrs . Charles M. Endicott Mr. Jules L. Pallone Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Treasurer Mr. Paul Ewing Mr. Charles A. Parcells, Jr. Mr. C. Thomas Toppin Secretary Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher Mr. Roy Roberts Mr. Herman Frankel Mrs. Irving Rose Mrs . Lawrence Garberding Mr. William Sandy Mrs. Robert Allesee Mr. David Handleman Mrs. Roger F. Sherman Mrs. Donald C. Austin Mr. Kenneth E. Hart Mr. Frank Stella Mrs. Bella Marshall Barden Mr. Eugene Hartwig Mrs . George Strumbos Mr. J. Addison Bartush Mr. Richard Janes Mr. Robert C. VanderKloot Mr. Richard A. Brodie Mr. Gary Johnson Mr. George Vincent Mrs. William C. Brooks Mrs . Charles Kessl er Mr. Gary L. Wasserman Mr. Maurice Cohen Mrs. Robert Klein Mr. Richard C. Webb Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. Gerald A. Knechtel Mr. George M. Zeltzer Mr. Tarik S. Daoud Mr. A. C. Liebler Mr. Morton Zieve tru s tee s Ms . Rosalind L. Cooperman Mr. & Mrs. H. James Gram & Mr. Woody Robertson Mrs . Katherine Gribbs Mr. Robert E. Dewar Chairman Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D' Avanzo Mrs . John C. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Tarik S. Daoud Mr. & Mrs. Jacque Haddad Julia Donovan Darlow Mrs . Berj H. Haidostian Dr. & Mrs Mohamed K. Ajjour & John C. O'Meara Mrs . Robert M. Hamady Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence N. David Mr. David Handleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs . John W. Day Mr. & Mrs. Preston Happel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas F. Allison Mr. & Mrs. David Denn Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Harris Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Ms . Maria Harris Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Angott Dr. Fernando G. Diaz Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Hart Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Dr. David DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. E. Jan Hartmann Dr. & Mrs . Agustin Arbulu Karen VanderKloot DiChiera Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Hartwig Dr. Harold M. Arrington The Hon. & Mrs. John Dingell Hon. & Mrs. David B. Hermelin Dr. & Mrs. Ingida Asfaw Ms. Mary Jane Doerr Hon . & Mrs . Joseph Impastato Mrs. Donald J. Atwood Mr. & Mrs . Cameron B. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Verne Istock Dr. & Mrs. Donald Austin Lady Jane Easton Mrs. David Jacknow Hon. & Mrs. Edward Avadenka Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mr. & Mrs. Darnell D. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Don Barden Dr. Fern Espino & Mr. Tom Short Mr. &- Mrs. Richard Janes Mrs. James Mariam Barnes Mr. & Mrs. Roland C. Eugenio Mrs. Sybil Jaques Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Ewing Mr. & Mrs. Gary Johnson Mr. & Mrs. J. Addison Bartush Mr. Stephen Ewing Miss H. Barbara Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alan Baun Dr. Haifa Fakhouri Mrs . William E. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. W. Victor Benjamin Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Maxwell Jospey Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Biggs Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Fisher Mr. & Mrs . Mitchell I. Kafarski Mr. & Mrs. John Boll Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher Dr. & Mrs. Darnell Kaigler Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Mrs . Elaine Fontana Mr. & Mrs. John Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. William C. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell B. Foster Mr. & Mrs . Donald W. Keim Mrs. Clarence G. Catallo Herman & Barbara Frankel Dr. & Mrs. Charles Kessler Mr. & Mrs . Alfred Cheesebrough, III Mr.·& Mrs. Marvin A. Frenkel Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Klein Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Clark The Hon. Hilda Gage Mr. & Mrs. Robert Klein Ms. Virginia Clementi Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Garberding Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Knechtel Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Cohen Dr. & Mrs. Robert Gerisch Mrs. Reva Kogan Hon. & Mrs . Avern L. Cohn Mrs. Frank Germack, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mike Kojaian Mr. Thomas Cohn Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. & Mrs . William Ku Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Connolly Mr. & Mrs. Yousif Ghafari Dr. & Mrs. Richard W. Kulis Mr. & Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. & Mrs . Andy Giancamilli Mr. & Mrs . Angelo Lanni Copyright 2010,Mr. Michigan & Mrs. Vito Opera P. Gioia Theatre Mr. & Mrs Paul Lavins Ornvo 5 DIRECTORS & TRUSTEES

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Mrs. Walton A. Lewis Dr. Charl otte W. Podowski Mr. Frank D. Stella Dr. & Mrs. Kim K. Lie Mrs. Ralph Polk Ms. Mary Anne Stella Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Li ebler Mrs. David Pollack Mrs. Mark Stevens Dr. & Mrs. Robert Li sak Mr. & Mrs. John Rakolta, Jr. Mrs. Rudolph Stonisch Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Lom ason Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner Mr. & Mrs. George Strumbos Mr. & Mrs. James H. LoPrete Dr. Irvin Reid & Mr. Ronald F. Switzer Mr. & Mrs. Alphonse S. Lucarelli Dr. Pamela Trotm an Reid Dr. & Mrs. Anthony Tersigni Card inal Adam Maida Mr. & Mrs. Roy Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Mark Thomas Mrs. Jess ie B. Mann Mrs. Patricia H. Rodzik Dr. Roberta & Mr. Sheldon Toll Mrs. Frank S. Marra Mrs. Hans Rogind Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Dr. Ronald Martella Mr. & Mrs . Peter Ronan Mr. & Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Honorable Jack & Mr. & Mrs . Irving Rose Mr. & Mrs. Tall al Turfe Dr. Bettye Arrington-Martin Mr. & Mrs. Norman Rosenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Robe rt C. VanderKloot Ms. Alyssa Martina Mrs. Carolyn L. Ross Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Richard McBrien Mr. Anthony Rugerio Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Wasserman Mr. & Mrs. William T. McCormick Dr. & Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Wasserman Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William Sandy Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Way Mr. & Mrs. Frank McKulka Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Schafer Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Webb Mr. & Mrs . Eugene Miller Dr. & Mrs. Norman Schakne Mr. & Mrs . Gary L. White Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Monolidis Mr. & Mrs. Fred Schneidewind Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Wilhelm Mr. & Mrs. Fred Morganroth Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Dr. & Mrs . Sam B. Williams Mr. & Mrs. E. Clarence Mularoni Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Wiltshire Mr. & Mrs . E. Michael Mutchler Mr. & Mrs. Donald Mr. & Mrs. Donald Worsley Mr. & Mrs. Jacques Nasser Schwendemann Mrs. R. Alexander Wrigley Mr. Chri stopher Nern Mr. & Mrs. Frank Shaler Hon. Joan E. Young & Mr. Ralph Nichols Ms. Elham Shayota Mr. Thomas L. Schellenberg Mr. & Mrs. Juliu s L. Pallone Mr. & Mrs . Roger F. Sherm an Mr. & Mrs. Larry Zangerle Mr. & Mrs. James Pamel Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sloan Mr. & Mrs. Ted Zegou ras Mr. Charl es A. Parcell s, Jr. Ms. Phyllis F. Snow Mr. & Mrs. George M. Zeltzer Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Partrich Mr. & Mrs. Anthony L. Soave Mr. & Mrs. Morton Zieve Dr. Robert E. L. Perkins Mr. Richard Sonenklar Mrs. Paul Zuckerman Mr. & Mrs. Brock E. Plumb Mr. & Mrs. Richard Starkweather Mr. Roy Zu rkowski

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

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 6 OI1JVO Named Gifts We extend our gratitude to the fo ll owing Chairn, Fanny, Louis, Benjamin donors who have underwritten designated and Anne Florence Kaufman areas in the Detroit Opera House Memorial Trust ...... Grand Side Chandelier Wallis & Robert M. Klein ...... Grand Staircase Mirror Dr. & Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni ...... Grand Staircase Dolores and Paul Lavins ...... Grand Side Chandelier Mr. & Robert A. Allesee ...... Allesee Dance Patron Lounge Mrs. Grand Staircase Mirror Allesee Dance & Opera Resource Library Lear Corporation ...... Trustee Circle Level in Opera Hall Anonymous Donor ...... Grand Lobby The Lomason Fanllly ...... The William K. & Neva Anonymous Donor ...... Broadway Facade Lomason Opera Lounge Dr. & Mrs. Donald Austin ...... Grand Central Chandelier C. Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation ...... Third Floor Promenade BASF Corporation ...... Media Studio Classroom MichCon Foundation ...... Balcony Level in Opera Hall Comerica Charitable Foundation .. . Grand Dome The Karen & Drew Peslar Foundation .. Co-Star Dressing Room Mr. & Mrs. Tarik S. Daoud ...... Grand Drape Mr. & Mrs. Irving Rose ...... Patron Elevator in Detroit Edison Foundation ...... Mezzanine Level in Opera Hall Lobby Tower Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Dewar ...... Trustee Circle Madison Lobby Mrs. Carolyn 1. Ross ...... _Grand Staircase Mirror Ford Motor Company ...... Backstage Renovation Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Townsend ...... Trustee Circle Broadway Lobby Broadway Lobby Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vincent ...... _Madiso n Lobby Hennan and Barbara Frankel ...... General Director's Circle Lounge Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Wassennan ...... Box Level Promenade General Motors Corporation ...... Madison Lounge World Heritage Foundation ...... Conductor's Dressing Room Robert & Alice Gustafson ...... Third Floor Lobby Alcove, Madison Mr. & Mrs. EJ Hartmann ...... Staircase, Broadway Entrance Several named gift opportunities are available in the Detroit Richar~ & Mary Lou Janes ...... Third Floor Lobby Alcove, Btoadway Opera House. For more information, please call the Development Department at 313/237-3433.

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Elisabeth Fleming Suzanne Mallare Acton Volunteer Coordinator Assistant Music Director, Chorus Master General Roberta Starkweather Diane Bredesen David DiChiera Director Boutique Manager Orchestra Personnel Manager Donna Crabtree Marie-France Lefebvre Brett Batterson Development Associate, Foundation Louis Menendez Chief Operating Officer and Government Grants Danielle Orlando Jane Westley Repetiteurs Development Associate, General Jeanne Schneider-Claytor Karen VanderKloot DiChiera Director's Circle Lawrence Picard Director 0/ Community Programs Janet Vukovic Rehearsal Pianists John Eckstrom Membership Manager Stage Management Director Administration 0/ Finance/Computer Services John Kennelly Steve Haviaras William T. Schulz Production Stage Manager Director 0/ Marketing Controller Khaled F. Ali Roberto Mauro Lara Schaaf Elizabeth Ashby Baldock Artistic Administrator Accountant Dee Dorsey Thomas Mehan David W. Osborne Kimberly Burgess-Rivers Assistant Stage Managers Director 0/ Production Accountant Technical Staff Mary Parkhill Mary E. Pihajlich Systems Manager Vladimir Vukovic Director 0/ Development Technical Director Marketing/Public Relations Marci Schramm Monika Essen Director 0/ Public Relations Scott Campbell Assistant Director 0/ Public Relations Property Master J ennifer Turner Kendall Smith Opera House Manager Bill Carroll Lighting Coordinator Public Relations Volunteer Shawn Kaufman Susan Fazzini Assistant Director Marketing Robert Lott 0/ Assistant Lighting Designers ADMINISTRATION Jeanette Pawlaczyk Frank Castria Public Relations Assistant/Archivist Brett Panter Assistant to the General Director James Reid Dolores Tobis Technical Assistants Linda DeMers Group Sales Board Secretary/Executive Assistant Dee Dorsey Ti cket Office Thomas Mehan Beverly A. Moore Kimberly Mogielski Surtitle Operators Receptionist Ticket Services Manager Costumes Community Programs Jane Coe Gary Moy Suzanne Hanna Kimberly Gray Costume Coordinator Assistant to the Director 0/ Community Ticket Services Assistant Manager Programs Ulla Hettinger Kimberly Woods Costume Consultant Dolores Tobis Ticket Services Development and Marketing Manager Alice Moss Mark Vondrak Wardrobe Mistress Associate Director PRODUCTION Deanne lovan Rose Mirjah Betsy Bronson Artistic Administration Genevieve Palczynski Maria Cimarelli Dee Dorsey Amy Dolan-Malaney Production Coordinator Carol Scott Stitchers Larry Picard Monica Lee Jackson Karl Schmidt Assistant to Director 0/ Production Make-up & Hair Cindy Ludwig Barbara Wiltsie Sabine Bergk Community Programs Touring Artists Sondra Nottingham Suzanne Perkins DeSigners for Elsen Associates Development John Grant Stokes Holly B. Barr Assistant Directors Deanne lovan Crew Coordinator Assistant Director 0/ Development Elizabeth Neds-Fox Bradley 1. Stroud Production Assistant Stage Crew Director 0/ Dance Development John Kinsora Nancy Krolikowski Head Carpenter Kathleen M. McNamara Local Transportation Coordinator Corporate Campaign Manager Robert Mesinar Pat Lewellen Head Electrician Stephani Miller Yates Audition Volunteer New Century Fund Campaign Music Department Alan Bigelow Head Properties Coordinator . David DiChiera 0/ Copyright 2010,Music Michigan Director Opera Theatre 8 OrtlVO MOT ADMINISTRATION & STAFF

Robert Martin Benard Williams Otis Clark, Jr. Jill Laporte Head Flyman Derrick Turner Jamal Mance Cynthia Marbury Steve Kemp Yolanda Helms Michael Holland Howard Moore Head Soundman Security Marcilla Murphy Gary Gilmore Kristen Brazier Staff Ushers Anne Peoples Production Electrician Sean Lee Kim A. Adams Vinson Rehfeld Lorraine Monroe Dawn Baron Evette Robinson Mary Ellen Shindel Eileen Rodak Head o/Wardrobe Dennis Jackson Patricia Bell Savannah Taylor Gloria Bell-Sulieman Lisa Marie Rodriguez IATSE Local #38 Joe Wilson Ronnetta Butler Selena Siders Stagehands Jerome Bedgood Pat Byrne Darlene Singleton IATSE Local #786 Douglas Richardson Carol Caramagno Mary Tennon Wardrobe Burtron Reynolds Jennifer East Marvin Townsell Ballard Speech Zachery Finn Arnetha Wells Bruce Smith DeShawn Glossen Lula Wilson DETROIT Rosalie Baglio Michael Hauser OPERA HOUSE Melvin Lowe Anthony Haynes Vladimir Vukovic Bobby Brisby Terri Hill Technical Director Timothy Clark Charmaine Hunter , Sandy Muczinski Carolyn Cook Mary Kessler House Manager Calvin Will.iams Maintenance Supervisor Rock Monroe Director 0/ Security Demetrius Barnes Jesse Carter Clyde Surell Building Engineers Maurice Rivers Concessions Manager Aubrell Hicks Concessions Supervisor Bartenders Tony Arevalo AVANTI SOCIETVi Issac Barker Dawn Boyd ichigan Opera Theatre is increase your income through a tax Lisa Burgess Michelle Crump pleased to announce the advantaged life income gift. Jo Farley M creation of a very special Within the first year of this initiative, Benetta Grant membership group-the Avanti Society. donors will be included in the "Avanti Van Holliday This unique group has included Michigan Society" founders section of the donor Simone Hubbard Yvette McDonald-Thomas Opera Theatre in their estate plans. wall in the Grand Lobby of the Detroit Jolene Rivers To become a member of the Avanti Opera House. Other benefits include an Latasha Rivers Society, we request that you name annual Avanti Society dinner attended by Dwight Thomas Michigan Opera Theatre in your estate world-class artists, the Avanti Society Verneta Thomas Danielle Thornton plan. This may be done as a designation Newsletter, special informational events Bar Runners in your will, trust, or insurance plan. and invitation privileges to the Board of Derek Donaldson Your gift can create a personal legacy Trustees Annual Meeting. Eric Heard and give future generations the wonderful If you have included Michigan Opera Nathaniel Rivers experience of world-class opera and Theatre in your estate plan, or would Timothy Shaw Rick Williams dance in a historic~y restored facility. like to, please contact Holly B. Barr, Rico Williams In addition, careful estate planning can Assistant Director of Development, at Maintenance increase your bequest to loved ones or (313) 237 -3268, for more information. Karen White other charitable organizations, due to Brenda Jones Gloria Helms reduced estate taxes. You can also Shirley Floyd Karl Hubble Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre The New ~ntDry fun=d~ __ ~ All The Completion Of 1be .,troit ~ BOB

cas am Fund will: • Complete construction of the Detroit Opera House including the Broadway building facade. • Develop a new Educational Resource Center in the Broadway building. • Build an endowment which will allow Michigan Opera Theatre to expand and constantly improve its programming. • Retire the debt from the previous construction costs. The Edumtional Rmooroo Center will- elude: • a dance and opera resource center • a media studio • community performance space • classrooms equipped for the study of the performing arts • a costume shop.

The Three Tenors landmark performance at Tiger Stadium on July 17, 1999, officially launched the $25 million capital fund drive. A H quiet phase, " which focused mainly on leadership gifts, was conducted for 20 weeks prior to the concert, raising nearly $14 million from 273 donors. As of March 2000, total contributions are at $15,000,000.

~I for apr vau, tour! We invite you to walk through the undeveloped space and Imagine ... World class professionals rehearsing for main stage performances; aspiring local artists r-=~~""'---::':'""-'---;:l""=-~~~ preparing to be tomorrow's stars; college students utilizing classrooms; children I f~t~~~~§'::'!' interviewing celebrity performers; and --=-t-+q'l"""'- dance instructors and students watching videos, listening to CDs and accessing the Internet. Please consider a gift to The New CentuIy Fund Significant benefits and naming opportunities are avaiIable. Call the Development Departtnent at I 1 313-237-3433 forCopyright more infonnation 2010, Michigan Opera TheatreLL.I..______---' ~ We pay tribute to the passing of a great singer and friend. Audiences will remember Pablo Elvira's memorable appearances in Detroit which included the . .

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At the gala opening of the Detroit Opera House, Pablo Bvira sings the first aria heard on its slage, "Urgo aI Fadotum" from The IIaf6er of Sm1le.

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THE CAST Comedy for music in three acts In order of vocal appearance Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre Music by Richard Strauss Octavian Herr von Faninal Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal *MARGARET LAnlMORE PAUL SAHUC World Premiere: January 26, 1911, Dresden The Marschallin Marianne Leitmetzerin HELEN DONATH ALAINA BROWN KLAUS DONATH Conductor The Marschallin's Major-Domo Faninal's Major-Domo ALEXANDER DONATH Director* -LAWRENCE STOTSBERY -PATRICK MARQUES ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN Set Design and Costume Coordination MALABAR, LTD. Costumes Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau Sophie KENDALL SMITH KURT liNK *TONNA MILLER Lighting Design ELSEN ASSOCIATES Make-up and Hair Design Three Noble Orphans An Innkeeper SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON *REBAKAH NYE -PATRICK MARQUES Chorus Master JOHN KENNELLY Stage Manager ANDREA LEAP A Police Commissary EMILY TORONTO DONALD HARTMANN Surtides provided by arrangement with San Diego Opera A Milliner Mohammed English translation by Roger Pines ALAINA BROWN JORDAN FANTAUZZO Scenery for this production constructed for Pordand Opera An Animal Vendor -PATRICK MARQUES Children Valzacchi Lauren Elizabeth Andree *DOUG JONES jenn Bateman Dennison Rollins Dorsey ." General Motors. Italian Tenor The 2000 Spring Season is made possible by General Motors Corporation Scon PIPER Dennis Strach Mandy Lynn Th0[T1s A Notary DONALD HARTMANN H U D SON'S CO-PRODUCTION SPONSOR Annina KATHLEEN SEGAR *MOT debut ~~~!t N APRIL 26 PERFORMANCE SPONSOR Footmen of the Marschallin +U.S. opera debut o TOM KABALA -Artist Apprentice -LAWRENCE STOTSBERY JUSTIN WATSON MEDIA PARTNER Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera(i) Theatre TONY LYNCH ~ oruvo 13 ON STAGE

causes chaos in the household. Sophie is appalled, and Octavian vows to prevent the marriage. Their love duet is abruptly ended when they are apprehended by Valzacchi and Annina, who send for Ochs. settin Oct avian challenges Ochs to a duel and wounds him slightly. Ochs acts as if he has been severely injured, lenna, and Sophie tells Faninal she refuses to marry this oaf. Oct avian has meanwhile won over Valzacchi and during the reign of the empress Maria Theresa Annina. While Ochs, bandaged, is left alone, Annina brings him a message from the Marschallin's cham ACT I The bedroom 0/ the Princess Werdenberg, wzfe bermaid 'Mariandel', agreeing to a meeting. Ochs, 0/ the field marshal (h ence 'Marsch allin'). delighted, sings his favorite waltz. She has spent the night with her 17 -year old lover Count Octavian. Their breakfast is interrupted by her ACT III In a private room at an inn in a disreputable cousin, Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, (described by area of town, Valzacchi, Annina and others, under Strauss as a 'rural Don Juan'). Octavian disguises him Octavian's supervision, rehearse the opening of trap self as a chambermaid ('Mariandel'), with whom Ochs doors and other devices with which they plan to At 32 flirts. The baron has come to ask the Marschallin to scare Ochs. Octavian dons his disguise as "Mariandel' recommend a young nobleman as bearer of the tradi and goes to meet the baron. They sit down to supper, she.is tional silver rose-a Rosenkavalier-to his fiancee, served by Leopold. Ochs tries vainly to seduce Sophie von Faninal, daughter of a recently ennobled the 'girl' who refused wine and his advances. Every acutely arms dealer. It is then time for the Marschallin's levee. time he approaches her, apparitions appear at . The stage is filled with tradesmen, various petitioners, windows or through trapdoors. Annina, dressed in consCious a widow and her three daughters, a hairdresser, two black as a widow, enters to claim Ochs as her husband intriguers (Valzacchi and Annina) and an Italian tenor. and father of her children, who burst in noisily shout of growing The song is cut short by an argument over Sophie's ing 'Papa! ' Ochs calls the police and tells the dowry between Ochs and a lawyer. Valzacchi and suspicious commissioner that he is dining with his old. Annina offer Ochs their services, and Leopold, Och's fiancee, Sophie. Octavian has ordered Valzacchi to bastard son, hands the silver rose to the Marschallin. send for Faninal and Sophie, who refute Ochs's story. Left alone, the Marschallin reflects on Och's conceit Octavian tells the commissioner the truth, and sheds and compares herself when young with Sophie. At 32 his female attire. Meanwhile the Marschallin enters, she is acutely conscious of growing old, and when recognizes the police commissioner as her husband's Octavian returns he finds her in a melancholy mood, ex-orderly, and assures him that the affair was 'just a aware that he will soon leave her for a younger masquerade'. She advises Ochs to leave, which he woman. She tells him that time slips by so does, pursued by creditors, children and tavern staff. quickly that she often gets up in the night and The young lovers sing of their delight and the stops the clocks. When Octavian leaves her, Marschallin accepts the situation with good grace. Marschallin realizes they have not She leaves them together while she invites Faninal to even kissed goodbye. She sends her little ride home with her. page Mohammed to him with the casket containing the silver rose.

ACT II In Herr von Faninal's palatial home, Sophie, Faninal and her nurse maid are awaiting the rose-bearer's arrival by coach. Octavian ceremoni- ously presents her with the rose, and they are mutually attracted at first sight. Ochs is ushered in by Faninal and fondles Sophie lecherously. Meanwhile his disreputable bodyguard

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he collaboration between The fact is that they were very dif Act Three (and possibly in the Richard Strauss and poet Hugo ferent in character. Strauss was an entire work) comes after the depar von Hofmannsthal began urgent kind of professional, in that ture of the Baron. twith Elektra , which was firs t once he started to write music he One of the reasons which led performed in Dresden in 1909 usually made rapid progress. He Hofmannsthal to think that the (Hofmannsthal's adaptation of the also kept a shrewd eye on business. work should end quickly after Greek tragedy had been presented Hoffmansthal on the other hand, the Baron's exit was that right as a play six years earlier in Berlin.) was withdrawn; despite his own from the start he and Strauss had Der Rosenkavalier, on the other considerable success, he suffered regarded Baron Ochs as the central hand, was conceived as an opera from self-doubt and hated to be character. As late as nine months from the start; yet such is the pushed. Yet he did not mind before the first performance Strauss strength and wit of its text that Strauss's carefully phrased criti was still in favor of calling the it has occasionally been performed cisms of the various drafts for opera simply Oehs, so the much as' a play. The relationship between Rosenkavalier because he knew superior title Der Rosenkavalier composer and poet was strange that there was always a musical rea was a very late inspiration. What in that although it lasted until son behind them. The profession happened was that the poet and Hofmannsthal's death in 1929 alism of the two men and the frank composer, working in isolation, the two men never became ness of their relationship usually communicating by correspondence close friends. enabled one to prevent the other and only rarely meeting, had each from making a major mistake, departed radically from their origi although Hofmannsthal did pre nal conception, which was of a cisely that as late as August 1910, comedy so light and brief that it when Rosenkavalier was all but fin bordered on farce. ished. After having read aloud the Strauss wanted to write some libretto to some of his friends he thing completely different from wrote to Strauss to say that while it Salome and Elektra, and in 1909 had made a fine impression there Hofmannsthal came up with an had been a noticeable fall of inter idea for an opera which would est after the exit of Baron Ochs in be "full of burlesque situations Act Three. He asked Strauss to let and characters, almost like a pan him make some extensive cuts tomime. It contains two big parts, because, he wrote, "after the Baron one for a baritone and another for has gone the curtain is almost ready a graceful girl dressed up as a man. to fall and everything hastens I am aiming at the utmost concise towards the end." About ten days ness, and expect a duration of later Strauss replied: "You cannot about two hours and a half." possibly at this stage judge the It is significant that Hofmannsthal musical effect which the conclu does not mention the Marschallin: sion, in particular, will have. That it The essence of Rosenkavalier was sounds -a bit flat when read aloud is to be the comic flirtation between surely obvious. But it is at the con Baron Ochs and the disguised clusion that a musician, if he has Octavian, and the evidence lies any ideas at all, can achieve his best in the correspondence between and supreme effects, so you may Strauss and Hofmannsthal. In July safely leave this for me to judge. " 1909, after he had composed Act And indeed the finest music in One, Strauss wrote to his librettist: Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 160rtlVO "she sometimes wanders "Don't forget that the audience appearance just about half of Act when he comes to the Marschallin; must laugh! Laugh, not just smile Three had gone by. What neither his long and explicit accounts of the house or grin. I still miss in our work a Strauss nor Hofmannsthal grasped amorous adventures leave her genuinely comical situation: every was that in great drama or great distinctly unimpressed. at night thing is amusing, but not comic!" opera you cannot measure charac I have no doubt that throughout Those words alone show that nei ter impact by the minute; and thus all this Strauss and Ho&nannsthal and stops ther the composer nor librettist it was that the Marschallin inspired expected us to focus on Baron had yet realized that a character her creators, who thought they Ochs and the now disguised all the they had mutually created had were writing a broad comedy, to Octavian, yet our attention keeps taken command of their work; write something very much more wandering back to the Marschallin. clocks" indeed, it is one of the great dra than that. Later in Act One her monologues matic and musical mysteries of all The Marschallin dominates Act are full of marvellous poetic and time that these two brilliant men One. Octavian, at the age of seven nostalgic imagery, and yet are never seemed not to understand until the teen years and two months, thinks purely sentimental. The Marschallin last minute that the Marschallin is he is in love with her; but she, at is a realist, a woman of the world, the only in-depth character in the thirty-two and as a woman of expe who is not too old to gain another whole of Rosenkavalier. Ochs had rience, knows that it is really lover when Octavian leaves her, as become something of an obsession, an infatuation. When the Baron she knows he will. It is in the final whereas the Marschallin was a barges in during Act One it does twenty minutes or so of Act One sort of supporting figure. The not take her very long to get the that Strauss and Hofmannsthal are Marschallin was certainly on stage measure of him. He is a downcast at their most perceptive, and never throughout Act One, but always provincial aristrocrat on the make, more so than in the passage where with something going on around and although he considers himself the Marschallin reflects on time her except during her monologues; well up the social ladder in relation and age, and tells Octavian how she did not appear at all in Act to Sophie, the girl he intends to she sometimes wanders the house Two: and by the time of her re- marry, he is quite out of his depth at night and stops all the clocks.

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(At that moment people often he wrote to Hofmannsthal, "will Yet what advantage can her wonder why Strauss's orchestral tumble to it. " But then he began to presence be to the Baron? clock, made up of two harps and worry, and wrote again: "Can we We know from Octavian that she a celeste, strikes thirteen instead do something at the beginning of was not party to the plot against of twelve. It is actually a slightly Act Three, showing how Octavian the Baron, and Octavian himself is obscure reference to a Viennese has won them over, or that astonished to see her. proverb which says that when the the Baron has not paid them?" It is clear that the bit of action clock strikes thirteen one's cup The solution to the problem was involving Leopold was a very late is overflowing). Throughout these a little piece of mime at the begin invention on the part of Strauss monologues the words are simple ning of Act Three where Octavian and Hofmannsthal: it appears in and beautiful; but with the addi arrives at the inn disguised as the score of Rosenkavalier, but not tion of Strauss's music there Mariandel and throws a purse in the published German text nor emerges a portrait of a mature to Valzacchi. We are simply left to in any libretto I have been able to woman coming reluctantly but assume that Octavian made suit find. Yet it is of no importance peacefully to terms with the able financial arrangements with whatsoever in relation to the music prospect of growing old. the Italians after his departure of the final scene. This was the Strauss wrote to Hofmannsthal in Act Two. Act Three presents scene that Hofmannsthal wanted that the first Act set itself to music us with at least one musical curios to shorten, but it became the scene "there "like oil and melted butter," but ity and another bit of awkward in which Strauss really came into Act Two posed considerable prob motivation. The musical curiosity his own. In May 1910 he rejected ~merges a lems. All went well up to the is that the theme with which one of Hofmannsthal's drafts entrance of the Baron, but from Octavian/Mariandel refuses the and wrote: "When the Baron and portrait of there on Strauss proceeded to Baron's offer of wine turns up the who crowd are gone, then a mature make a new dramatic outline much later as the soaring melody everything can gradually dissolve which is the sort of action which with which the Marschallin begins into a lyrical mood and return to woman has caused rifts between com the final trio. It is said that Strauss, soft outlines. " In October of that posers and librettists over the when asked if transformation had year, when he had almost finished comIng centuries. Hofmannsthal, however, any significance, replied that it Act Three, he wrote: "The weakest did not object: on the contrary, he just showed what you could do spot is the passage with Annini and reluctantly wrote back "I should not dream of with a good tune, and there is later with the Police Commissar, making difficulties, and shall recast probably no more in it than that. which is rather heavy going for but the Act in the way you suggest." The motivation issue is much more a musician. But as for the rest, Yet some awkward moments still complex, and concerns the arrival from the Baron's exit onwards, peacefully remain in which Hofmannsthal, of the Marschallin at the height of I'll guarantee that. " left to his own devices, might have the rumpus. Such an inn is scarcely Thus only in the final months to terms overcome. Thus there is the prob the sort of place a woman of before the first performance did lem of how to get the nurse, her standing would choose to visit. both the composer and the libret with the who is supposed to be keeping a From the evidence it seems that tist realize that what they had watchful eye over Sophie, off the both Strauss and Hofmannsthal achieved was a great deal more prospect stage so that Octavian and Sophie completely forgot to provide any than they had set out to do. can openly declare their love for reason for her arrival beyond the Rosenkavalier certainly has its of growing each other. This event is effected need for her presence in the final moments of broad comedy and old." by the rather clumsy device of scene. (This is, of course, another even (as in the opening of Act showing the Baron's drunken ser indication that they were still Three), farce; but underlying it vants in pursuit of the household thinking of her as a relatively all is the bitter-sweet poignancy maids, at which point the nurse minor character). They did make a of love lost and love gained. It is rushes off to get extra help, which last ditch attempt towards the precisely because of that dimension is something that no nurse-and motivation by means of some that Rosenkavalier has held its place especially one as neurotic as stage business. This occurs when among the masterpieces of opera. Marianne-would ever do. Leopold, who is the Baron's Much more troublesome, however, manservant and also his illegitimate was to explain why the Italian son, rushes out soon after the conspirators Annini and Valzacchi arrival of the Police Commissar. suddenly change sides and start He has evidently gone to summon working for Octavian instead of for the Marschallin, because when he the Baron. At first Strauss did not returns with her retinue he receives worry about this. "The audience," a nod of approval from the Baron.

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SUZANNE HELEN DONATH DOUG IONES MALLARE ACTON (Marschallin) Helen (Valzacchi) The American (Chorus Master) Suzanne Donath is a native Texan tenor made his opera Acton has received wide and leading soprano on the debut in Vienna, and critical acclaim for her international opera, concert over the past decade has work as Conductor and and recital scene for more sung all over the world. Chorus Master for Michigan than three decades. North Engagements to begin the Opera Theatre. In 1986, she American engagements new millennium include a debuted as Conductor of mainstage included Susanna and the Countess (Le Nozze return to Seattle Opera to sing Monostatos in production of West Szde Story. Additional MOT di Figaro), SOl?hie (Der Rosenkavalier) and The Magzc Flute, SimJ;lleton (Boris Godunov) mainstage credits include The Barber 0/ Seville, Marzelline (Fzdelio) at the Metropolitan Opera; and The Novice (Bzlly Budd)-which he The Daughter 0/ the Regiment, Muszc Man, the Governess (Turn 0/ the Screw) at the Los will later take to New Israeli Opera. He sings Pirates o/Penzance, and The Mzkado. In Angeles Music Center Opera; Rosalinde (Die Bardolfo in Falstaff \vith San Francisco Opera, addition to her work at MOT, Ms. Acton has Ftedermaus); the Countess and Eva (Die Ajax in La Belle Helene at the Salzburg Festival, worked for the Opera The2:re of St. Louis, San Meistersinger) at Seattle Opera; the Countess, Der Bucklige in Die Frau Ohne Schatten for the Diego Opera; Dayton Opera, and Opera Pacific. Mimi (La Boheme) , Donna Anna (Don Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Mr. Jones She served on the music faculty at Florida State Giovannz), and Susanna at Opera Pacific; will be a familiar face this season at the University and Oakland University. In 1996, Elizabeth (Tannhiiuser) at Austin Lyric Opera; Detroit Opera House as he sings in Der she was appointed Music Director of Rackham and the Marschallin at Atlanta, Washington and Rosenkavalier, Tosca and Peter Grimes. Symphony Choir, metro-Detroit's longest Nashville Operas. Her successful recording established choral ensemble. career is made up of more than 100 releases.

ALAINA BROWN KLAUS DONATH ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN (Marianne & Milliner) (Conductor) German (Set Designer) In Alaina Brown 1992 born and based conductor Allen Charles Klein, was named top vocalist in Klaus Donath is a native New Yorker, Michigan high schools Permanent Guest is the only American by the Michigan School Conductor of Rumania's designer to have focused Vocalist Association. As a Banarul Philharmonic; his career exclusively on member of the MOT chorus, and was Music Director the production of set and Ms. Brown appeared in productions of Carmen, of England's Bath City Orchestra and costume design for opera, and has created The Marriage 0/ Figaro, The Flying Dutchman, Bath & Wessex Opera. Widely regarded more than eighty new productions. His work Aida, and The Magzc Flute. While in MOT's as a Mozartean of the highest order, has been seen in North An1erica in virtually Young Artists Program she was cast in featured Donath's North American credits include every opera house including San Francisco, roles in productions of Manon , The Elixir Don Giovannz; The Marnage Figaro and Santa Fe, Seattle, Portland, Houston, Love and Porgy & Bess. A graduate of 0/ 0/ Magzc Flute with Opera Pacific as well as Miami, San Diego, Vancouver, Toronto, The Interlochen Arts Academy, she holds Marrzage o/Figaro and Magzc Flute for Michigan Montreal, and New York's Metropolitan a bachelors degree in Music from Opera Theatre. Other North American engage Opera. Detroit audiences have seen the Eastman School of Music. ments include the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Klein's productions of Turandot and Portland Opera, Opera Colorado, Florida Werther. In Europe Mr. Klein has designed Grand Opera, San Francisco Symphony, productions for the Scottish Opera, Edinburgh and numerous recitals. Festival and Glyndebourne Festival.

ALEXANDER DONATH DONALD HARTMANN MARGARET LATIIMORE (Director) German born (Police Commissioner & (Octavian) The 1999-2000 Alexander Donath staged Notary) The Associate season demonstrates Miss his first production of Professor of Music at Lattimore's versatility. She Puccini's La Boheme Eastern Michigan opened the season creating in 1992 at the Festival University frequently the leading role of Charity Opera, California. From graces the stage of the Royall in the opera Summer 1987 to 1992, he was assis Detroit Opera-House. at Berkshire Opera. She then tant to Harty Kupfer for one of the Bayreuth Last season he performed with numerous returned to the Metropolitan Opera for another Festival's legendary productions of Wagner's opera companies throughout the U.S. world premiere project: The Great Gatsby at the Ring Cycle. Further productions with Kupfer A busy concert soloist, H artmann is often Met (where she also sings Cherubino this season). include Mozart's Idomeneo and Bizet's Carmen at heard in recital. He sang the role of Scaramba With a growing repuration for her Mozart inter the Komische Oper Berlin as well as Massenet's in El Capitan-the first complete recording pretations, Ms. Lattimore makes her European Werther at the Hamburgische Staatsoper. In 1997 ofJohn Philip Sousa's operetta. H e has also debut as Ramino in La Finta Gzardiniera at L'Opera he staged a critically acclaimed production of performed with the symphonies of New Comique in Paris. In concert, the mezzo performs The Magic Flute at the Opera Romana Timisoara Mexico and Scottsdale. In Michigan, he has Handel's Solomon at the prestigious Plymouth (Romania). Recently Donath staged Rossini 's been heard with the orchestras of Detroit, Music Series in St. Paul Minnesota, and makes Barber 0/ Sevzlle at the Theater Hof in Germany. Copyright 2010, MichiganAnn Arbor Operaand Kalamazoo. Theatre her Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart's Requiem. 200f'OVO KURT LINK PA UL SA HUC KENDALL SM ITH (Baron Ochs) Featured (Von Faninal) Baritone (Lighting Designer) This by Opera News as one Paul Sahuc first marks Ken Smith's twdfth of sixteen singers "to came to Michigan season with Michigan keep your eye on", the Opera Theatre as Opera Theatre, designing Pennsylvania native part of the Young over 25 productions for won critical acclaim for a Artist Apprentice the company. Other opera repertoire that embraces Program. He now companies include San major operatic roles from Purcell to Henze, returns in the role of Faninal. Mr. Sahuc Diego Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of and from Mozart to Wagner. Major bass roles divides his time between teaching and singing. Kansas City, Opera Pacific, Boston Lyric, and have taken him to the Metropolitan Opera, Engagements have taken him to New Orleans Eugene Opera. Theatre credits include Pioneer New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Opera, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Theatre in Salt Lake City, North Shore Music Chicago, and the opera houses of Santa Fe, Austin Civic Opera, Bay View Music Festival Theatre, StageWest, Merrimack Repertory Houston, Washington, Portland, Dublin, the and North Star Opera, to name just a few. Theatre, Sharon Stage, Studio Theatre DC, New Israeli Opera and the Spoleto Festival. Recent roles have been with Opera Roanoke Connecticut Repertoty Theatre, Barter Theatre, He is equally at home in symphonic works, and The Minnesota Opera, where he Brunswick Musical Theatre, and the American and can be heard on the Grammy award also sang the role of Faninal. Stage Festival in New Hampshire. Currently he winning recording of Schoenberg's Moses and is working on a new production of Macbeth for Aaron with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

PATRICK MARQUES KATHL EE N SEGAR LAWRENCE STOTSBERY (Animal Seller; Faninal's (Annina) Detroit audiences (Marschallin's Major Major Domo; Innkeeper) will remember Mezzo Domo) Lawrence Stotsbery Last season at Santa Fe soprano Kathleen Segar as received his Bachdor of Opera, tenor Patrick Michigan Opera Theatre's Music degree from the Marques sang in the Amneris in Atda and as University of Redlands in opera company's Smeton to Joan Sutherland's southern California and his apprentice production Anna Bolena . She recently Master of Music degree of Peter Grimes (title role) and the High Priest performed Siegrune in Die Walkure at the from Converse College in South Carolina. He was in Idomeneo. During a two-year residency at Metropolitan Opera. After making her recently chosen to represent the City of Detroit in Philaddphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, he Washington Opera debut in The Tales 0/ a cultural exchange program with Palermo, Sicily. appeared in the title roles of both Albert Hoffmann she returned for La Cenerentola, He has performed in roles such as: Cascada in Herring and Idomeneo, in the Male Chorus Artadne au/ Naxos, The Marrtage 0/ Ftgaro, The Merry Wzdow and Detlef in The Student in The Rape 0/ Lucretia and as Nerone in and most recently, Der Rosenkavalier, Rtgoletto Prince with the Spartanburg Repertory Company; The Coronation 0/ Poppea. His repertoire also and Susannah. Ms. Segar has performed in Kaspar in Amahl and the Ntght Visitors, Ferrando includes Fidelio and Otello. Mr. Margues has Eugene Onegin and Cavallerta rusticana in Cost/an tutte and Nankipoo in The Mtkado. At been tenor soloist in performances of Leonard in Philaddphia and in Cavallerta rusticana at the Brevard Music Center he performed the role Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at Carnegie Opera Pacific. She performs frequently with of Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Hall and also in Handd's Creation. He made the Detroit Symphony, most recently in Way to the Forum and at Dorian Opera, The his MOT debut in the Fall 1999 production Menddssohn's Mtdsummer Ntght's Dream. Merry Wzves o/Wz·ndsor. of Werther.

TONNA MILLER (Sophie) Of the soprano The New York Times wrote, Technological "There was much to admire in Tonna Miller's fresh, sweet toned performance ... ". Craftsmanship The Texas native's reputation is spreading quickly. She began her 1998-1999 season with a Metropolitan Opera debut in their new production of The Marriage 0/ Ftgaro. Other recent engagements have taken her to New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Augusta Opera, L'Opera Francais de New York, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Nashville Opera.

SCOTT PIPER (Italian Tenor) Opera News recently described the young tenor's singing in Benjamin Britten's The Turn 0/ The Screw: "Piper's Peter Quint was sung with ravishingly beautiful tone, slyly insinuating, yet with tragic overtones, blend ing sound musicianship with fine histrionics." He sings often at MOT, and recently debuted with San Francisco Opera's Western Opera Theater touring production as Alfredo in La Travtata. Other engagements have included a recital at the Cranbrook Music festival, La Travtata with Opera Pacific, Messiah with the 29880 Groesbeck Hwy. , Roseville, Michigan 48066 Handd Choir of Baltimore, La Travtata for (313) 778-3570 FAX: (313) 778-3931 Madison Opera, and his debut with Cincinnati Opera in their productions of Don Giovanni Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre and The Turn 0/ the Screw. orovo 21 (l) STEINWAY & SON S The piano chosen by Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and over 98% of the world's performing artists

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Angelotti JAMES PATIERSON Sacristan DONALD HARTMANN Cavaradossi MARCELLO GIORDANI (May 6, 10, 13) IAN DENOLFO (May 7m, 12, 14m) Floria Tosca '-'SYLVIE VALAYRE (May 6, 10, 13) '-'AMY JOHNSON (May 7m, 12, 14m) Scarpia "JUSTI NO DIAZ Opera in three acts Spoletta Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre DOUG JONES Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi mica Sciarrone Based on the play by Victorien Sardou tWOODROW BYNUM World Premiere: January 14, 1900, Rome Shepherd DE NN IS STRACH STEVEN MERCURIO Conductor Jailer MARIO CORRADI Director tWOODROW BYNUM FRANK GALATI Production TONY WALTON Set Design WILLA KIM Costume Design KENDALL SMITH Lighting Design "MOT debut ELSEN ASSOCIATES Make-up and Hair Design +D.S. opera debut SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON Chorus Master tJoyce H. Cohn Apprentice Award JOHN KENNELLY Stage Manager

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Angelotti's escape. Scarpia has sent for Tosca, and she comes in as Cavaradossi is led to the next room to be tortured. Tasca is left alone with Scarpia, and Cavaradossi's cries of pain eventually drive her to s tting reveal Angelotti's hiding place. Cavaradossi is dragged back onstage just as Napoleon's victory at Marengo ome I in the time of Napoleon is announced. The news elicits a stirring response from Cavaradossi, and the outraged Scarpia has him taken off to prison. Scarpia and Tosca are once again left alone, and Scarpia offers Tosca a hideous choice: ACT I The church o/Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome in she must submit to his lust or cause Cavaradossi's June 1800. execution. As Scarpia writes a safe-conduct from Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner, takes refuge Rome for her and Cavaradossi, Tosca surreptitiously in a side chapel. A sacristan enters, followed shortly takes a knife from the dinner table and, when Scarpia afterwards by Cavaradossi, an artist working on a comes forward to claim his prize, plunges it into painting of the Madonna. As Cavaradossi prepares to his chest. She taunts him in his death throes and, when start work, he muses over his painting; although this he expires, takes the safe-conduct from his clenched Madonna is blonde she reminds him of his dark hand and starts to leave. At the last moment she mistress, the singer Tosca ('Recondita armonia'). The returns to place candles around Scarpia's body and a She sound of the sacristan leaving brings Angelotti from crucifix on his chest. his hiding-place. Angelotti and the painter recognize must each other, and Cavaradossi promises to help his ACT III A few hours later, just be/ore dawn on th e friend escape from Rome. They hear Tosca's voice ro%/ the Castello Sant'Angelo. submit to outside; Angelotti hides again before she enters. Church bells ring, and a shepherd boy sings in the The sound of the conversation has aroused Tosca's distance. Cavaradossi awaits his final hour, overcome his lust jealousy, but Cavaradossi's assurances calm her, and by memories of Tosca and thoughts of his approach they join in a passionate duet. When Tosca leaves, ing death ('E lucevan Ie stelle'). Tosca appears and or cause Angelotti reappears and he and Cavaradossi plan his triumphantly displays their safe-conduct. She instructs flight, but a distant cannon warns them that the him on his role in the mock execution, and they sing Cavaradossi's prison escape has been discovered; they hurriedly exit of their love and hopes for the future. As four 0' clock together. As a crowd gathers to celebrate the defeat strikes, the firing squad arrives and Cavaradossi is of Bonaparte at Marengo, Scarpia, the chief of prepared for execution. Tasca watches, hardly managing execution. police, enters with his henchman Spoletta and orders to restrain herself as the shots ring out and a search for the escaped prisoner. Tosca returns, and Cavaradossi falls. In an agony of suspense, she waits Scarpia, suspicious of Cavaradossi and enamored for the soldiers to depart. At last she tells Cavaradossi of Tosca, tries to trick her into revealing to rise, but he does not respond: Scarpia has betrayed information by inciting her jealousy. her even in death, and her lover lies dead before her. When she leaves to seek out her lover, Soldiers rush on to arrest Tosca for Scarpia's murder, Scarpia has her followed, and, as the but, with a final defiant gesture, she flings herself over crowd intones the Te Deum, Scarpia the parapet. bring Cavaradossi to the and Tosca into his arms ('Te Deum').

ACT II Scarpia's room in the Farnese Palace. Scarpia muses over his violent desire for Tosca ('Ha pili forte sapore'). Spoletta enters to report that Angelotti has not been found, but that he has arrested Cavaradossi for suspicious behavior. Cavaradossi is brought in and questioned, but he denies all knowledge of

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 24 OrtlVO Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Callas proved her" divine" status at a dress rehearsal when her hair ocurs • • • caught on fire. Franco Zeffirelli • recounts how Callas was leaning against Scarpia's desk and her long wig caught fire from the ora ISS candles. "She went on singing," he by Joy Hajduk-DeGraff remembered. "Never stopped." \ Her Scarpia, Titto Gobbi, drew her into an embrace and beat out I the sparks. By the time an opera company hen Puccini penned Tasca Local police unnerved the opera's weathers all the production problems, he included murder, suicide, first conductor by suggesting the the soprano's desperate suicidal W betrayal, lust and plenty of orchestra strike up the national leap at the end may seem justified. plot twists-normal opera fare. He anthem if a bomb exploded One story tells of Eleanor Steber might have thought the opera (everyone remembered how an singing Tasca at the Met. When she would be easy to stage. After all, anarchist's bomb had recently jumped at the end, she hit part of it only has three principals: the killed fifteen people at a Barcelona the set and managed to break a diva Tosca, the artist Cavaradossi opera house). On opening night, a tooth. When Zinka Milanov heard and the villain Scarpia. Potential raucous group invaded the theatre about it, she reportedly said "I told disaster could be easily predicted shortly after the curtain rose and Steber the role was too heavy for when firearms, knives and a lofty when the panicked conductor fled her. " Another Tosca was knocked parapet were added. Since its the pit, the performance stopped. unconscious and broke several premiere, problems have plagued Order was quickly restored and bones when she missed the mattress Puccini's famous opera. Singers the performance went on, but and fell fourteen feet to the floor. have been shot, stabbed and Tasca's reputation as a cursed opera She recovered, although the mists thrown off the ramparts-for real! was born. of time have hidden whether she 1 Small, cornie glitches seem to pop Not only Puccini's score chal ever sang the role again. up regularly. Many consider Tasca lenges Tasca sopranos. Over the Although most Toscas manage 1 to be jinxed. years, Toscas have been known to to hit the center of the mattress, From its very first production, fall, set their hair on fire, chip their some bounce back. In an Opera mishaps have haunted Tasca. In teeth or end up bruised and News interview, Dame Eva Turner rehearsals for the premiere, Puccini unconscious. Leonie Rysanek tells claimed the distinction as the first and company received anonymous how Puccini's favorite Tosca, bouncing Tosca. "We were doing letters threatening physical injury. Maria Jeritza fell accidentally. Some Tasca in the Alexander Theater versions have her being pushed by Hall, a small house where the drop an over-enthusiastic Scarpia and was very shallow for the mattress, landing heavily on the floor at the and as I jumped at the end of the beginning of her aria, "Vissi opera with conviction, I bounced d' arte. " Legend says Puccini yelled up again and this incident became from the pit, "This is absolutely the a famous funny Tasca story. " No position she should be in to sing matter how the original incidents this aria! " Toscas have followed this happened, Internet chatters have lead ever since. run with the stories and a hundred Singers often get caught up in variations can be found. It's hard to the emotion of the drama. During sort fact from legend. Would you the rape scene, Scarpias sometimes believe a devious stagehand substi bruise and manhandle their Toscas. tuted a trampoline for the mattress Titto Gobbi remembered a produc in one production? Reports persist tion where he pinned Maria Callas, that Tosca bounced over and over, grasping her hands and pulling unable to stop herself. them roughly. "It was a totally Puccini's Scarpias suffer even spontaneous thing that happened worse fates . More than once, between us," he recalled. "But we baritone Titto Gobbi spouted real kept it in every performance blood when his sopranos stabbed because it was born in a moment him with malfunctioning prop of theatrical inspiration and was knives during the rape scene. Maria too good to lose. " J aritza once accidentally stabbed Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 26 UIlIVO ON STAGE

Gobbi with the wrong end of the knife. In another production, Maria Callas' retractable blade did not retract. Zeffirelli recounts, "In a flash , Maria had the knife in the air and plunged it into him ... Tito yelled 'My God!' and then went on with the scene." Gobbi's Scarpia costume, torn by the knife, hangs in The the Metropolitan Opera collection. Even Cavaradossi is not able to squad escape the Tosca curse. An Italian opera company's prop firearms dutifully were not working correctly, so they quickly mustered replacement followed rifles from storage. When the firing squad shot tenor Fabio Armiliato, her he was hit three times, and one bullet shattered a bone in his leg. off the Someone had inadvertently loaded the antique guns with real ammuni rampart tion. Armiliato's wounds were so serious he was forced to cancel to create contracts for at least three future productions-but he was grateful squad dutiflilly followed her off David DiChiera, Michigan Opera the squad's aim was not better. the rampart! to create Tasca's first Theatre's General Director, certainly Tasca's On occasion, even the firing mass suicide. considered the opera's reputation squad misses. A squad made up of There seems no end to large and during the company's 1987 produc first mass young medical students were given small Tasca disasters. For one tight tion. Three sopranos and two tenors the instructions, "Just follow the ly-budgeted production, the prop cancelled their contracts before suicide. officer onto the stage. March slow man painted beach balls black and the company finally secured a cast. ly in time to the music and line up. glued them in a stack to create the On opening night baritone Charles When the officer lowers his sword, illusion of cannonballs. When Long became ill and baritone shoot. Then follow the principals Tosca ran up the steps, she acci Pablo Elvira (who was in Detroit off. " The dress rehearsal ran long dentally nudged the stack and rehearsing for MOT's next produc and the company never rehearsed loose beach balls went bouncing tion, The Barber 0/ Seville) saved the final act. The squad arrived on down the stage into the orchestra the night by singing Scarpia from opening night without benefit of a pit. In another production, no one the side of the stage while Long dry run. At the appropriate time they proofread the new surtitles and the mimed the role on stage. Patrons walked on stage and were surprised audience hooted when they read, told Dr. DiChiera it was one of to see two potential targets. Which "Give her black eyes." Thinking the most exciting performances they of the two principals were they her singing was being ridiculed, had ever seen. supposed to shoot-the man or the soprano Eva Marton left the stage woman? They initially settled on in a huff. Cavaradossi but he kept signaling Sometimes 'high-tech methods are them with his eyes. The squad employed t~ avoid disaster. One could only guess what he was trying opera company used electronic to tell them. Were they aiming at the candles that Iwere programmed to wrong principal? When the officer extinguish i.d a certain order. This dropped his sword, the squad would ensure that the candles were swung their rifles around and shot snuffed on cue. But on opening Tosca. Imagine their surprise when night, the soprano blew on a candle Cavaradossi, now behind them, fell and a different one ·extinguished. heavily to the floor. The mortified When the time came for final bows, students tried to make up for the computer dropped the curtain their mistake. They remembered right on the cast's heads. their instructions to follow the Some call these strange happen principals offstage. When Tosca ings "the kiss of Tasca " and ran up the steps and jumped, the claim that the opera is cursed. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre OrtlVO 27 ON STAGE 0 . los rtlst Profiles

MARIO CORRADI MARCELLO GIORDANI (Director) (Cavaradossi) Mario Corradi made his Sin ce his professional directing debut in 1982 debut in 1986, Sicilian Michigan Opera Theatre is with II Matrimonio Segreto born Marcello Giordani proud to present th e following artists . in Palermo. Since then he has been in great demand has staged opera worldwide: all over the world. Last La Sonnambula in Dallas, season, Hugh Canning of Don Giovanni and Or/eo ed Euridice in Madrid, The Sunday Times of London, wrote: "When Menotti's Amelia al Ballo in Monte Carlo and Pavarotti and Domingo retire, Giordani could Madama Butterfly in Spoleto. His work is well well be the man to fill their shoes at the Met. " known in St. Gallen, Frankfurt, Athens and Last season took him to Zurich for a new Tokyo. MOT credits include Carmen, The production of Attila, Washington Opera for Elixir oj Love, LuCta di Lammermoor, Madame Simon Boccanegra, the Metropolitan Opera for Butterfly and Werther. He recently directed La TraVIata , Bologna for Attila, and Paris for La Spontini's II teseo riconoSCttlto-its first Boheme. He also debuted with the Munich performance this century. Philharmonic in La Damnation de Faust conducted by Tames Levine. Giordani recently made his first recording-the first studio recording of Verdi's Jerusalem.

SUZANNE IAN DENOLFO DONALD HARTMANN MALLARE ACTON (Cavaradossi) (Sacristan) The Associate (Chorus Master) Suzanne Ian DeNolfo is considered Professor of Music at Acton has received wide one of the most exciting Eastern Michigan critical acclaim for her work artists of opera's young University is a familiar as Conductor and Chorus generation. This season, at face on stage at the Master for Michigan Opera the invitation of Placido Detroit Opera House. Theatre. In 1986, she debuted Domingo, DeNolfo sings Last season Hartmann as Conductor of the MOT mainstage production the title role in Verdi's Otello for the Washington performed with opera companies throughout of West Side Story. Additional MOT main stage Opera. DeNolfo made his Washington Opera the U.S. in roles such as Zuniga, Colline, credits include The Barber 0/ Seville, The Daughter Debut in 1998 as Samson in Samson and Delilah . Don Alfonso, and Sacristan. H e recorded the 0/ the Regiment, Music Man, Pirates 0/ Penzance, He returned later that season in the title role of role of Scaramba in El Capitan, - he first and The Mikado. In addition to her work at MOT, Wolf-ferrari's Sly. In July 1999 he made an complete recording of John Philip Sousa's Ms. Acton has worked for the Opera Theatre of Italian debut as Samson, at the Teatro La fenice. operetta. A busy concert soloist, Hartmann is St. Louis, San Diego Opera, Dayton Opera, and This season he sings in Aida for Fort Worth and often heard in recital. He has performed Opera Pacific. She served on the music faculty at Portland, and makes his Munich debut. Detroit with the symphonies of New Mexico f lorida State University and Oakland University. audiences will remember DeNolfo from and Scottsdale, and in Michigan with In 1996, she was appointed Music Director of MOT productions of Samson and Delilah, the orchestras of Detroit, Ann Arbor Rackham Symphony Choir, metro-Detroit's Aida, and Th e Flying Dutchman. and Kalamazoo. longest established choral ensemble.

WOODROW BYNUM JUSTINO DIAl AMY JOHNSON (Sciarrone and the Jailer) (Scarpia) One of the world's (Tosca) After numerous Arkansas-native Woodrow foremost baritones, Diaz has engagements as a mezzo Bynum received much of appeared \vith the world's soprano Amy Johnson his musical training in major opera houses and recently made the Michigan - first studying at participated in the festivals transition to the soprano Interlochen Arts Academy, of Salzburg and Edinburgh repertoire. Last season she then at the University of under the direction of- the returned to New York City Michigan. Just 23 , the baritone's repertoire most famous and respected conductors in the Opera for Tosca. The New York Times said of her includes The Elixir 0/ Love, Gianni SchicCt; A world. He has performed 85 operatic roles and performance: " Vocally, the production's drawing Midsummer Night's Dream, The Gondoliers and 40 oratorios and symphonies, in addition to card is Amy Johnson." During 1998-99 she made La Boheme. The Michigan Opera Theatre Young numerous recitals, television and film. Current her Austin Lyric debut as Salome, Orlando Artist Apprentice has appeared with Ohio Light engagements include appearances with Florida Opera debut in Faust and her Knoxville Opera Opera and the lllinois Symphony. His last Grand Opera in the title role of Macbeth; Pittsburgh, debut as Aida. In 1999-2000, she returns to Michigan Opera Theatre appearances were Manitoba and Connecticut Operas as Scarpia; New York City Opera for Tosca, which will be the 1999 productions of Th e Barber 0/ Seville and Washington Opera as rago and the Count di broadcast on PBS-Live /rom Lincoln Center. In and Werther. Luna. Diaz is a recipient of New York City's addition to her operatic work, Johnson continues an active career in concert and recitals. Copyrighthighest cultural 2010, award, Michigan the Handel Opera Medallion. Theatre 28 UrtlVO DOUG IONES SYLV IE VALAY RE TONY WALTON (Spoletta) The American (Tosca) The French (Set Designer) Prolific designer tenor began his career soprano received accolades Tony Walton was elected to the in Europe studying and when she debuted at Covent Theatre Hall of Fame in 1991- then making his debut Garden in 1996, This season even before his work on such in Vienna, Many roles she makes her Metropolitan recent blockbusters as She quickly followed taking Opera debut as Madama Loves Me, Guys and Dolls, and him to Austria and Butte/fly, As Tosca, she Six Degrees oj Separation, Since Switzerland, Jones became an ensemble mem debuts in Madrid, at Deutsche Oper Berlin, and 1957, he has created the costumes or sets for more ber of the Oper Frankfurt and went on to in Bologna, Other engagements this season than 100 plays and musical productions, He has been perform with the Bregenz Summer Festival include performances of Aida in Gaza at the foot Tony-nominated 13 times, winning three, and has won and the Salzburg Summer Festival, His career of the Pyramids and a debut as Manon Lescaut five Drama Desk Awards, He has received five Oscar brought him back to the U,S" for a debut for Opera Pacific, Plans for next season include nominations winning the award for All That Jazz , He with Los Angeles Opera and a return to Tosca in Paris, Tokyo and Chicago, Valayre made also designs productions for television and ballet, with Seattle Opera, Upcoming engagements her La Scala debut in 1997 in the title role of La his most recent ballet being Peter and the Wolf for include Falstaff with San Francisco Opera, Gioconda in what was the first production of the American Ballet Theatre, Walton's previous operatic La Belle Helene at the Salzburg Festival, opera in the theater since the historic 1954 designs include The Cunning Little Vixen, Midsummer Die Frau ohne Schatten for the Gran production featuring Maria Callas, Marrzage, Otello, The Rape o/Lucretza , and The Love/or Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and his Three Oranges, seen in Santa Fe, London and Spoleto, debut in Amsterdam,

lAMES PATI ERSON (Angelotti) Since beginning his career as an Alder Fellow with San Francisco in 1983 , bass James Patterson has given more than 150 performances with that company including Sparafucile in Rigoletto, and Fafner in the company's widely acclaimed Ring Cycle, He has performed numerous , times with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and extensively in Canada, This is Patterson's twelfth production with Michigan Opera Theatre; mosJ recently as Johann in Werther

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I '" THE CAST Opera in a prologue and three acts I n order of vocal appearance Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. Hobson Auntie publisher and copyright owner. STEVEN HENRIKSON KATHLEEN SEGAR Music by Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes Bob Boles Libretto by Montagu Slater, after George Crabbe's "MARK BAKER DOUG JONES poem The Borough (1810) World Premiere: June 7, 1945, London Uune 3, 7, 10) Balstrode "JOHN MAC MASTER JEFFREY BLACK JOHN MAUCERI Conductor Uune 4m, 9, 11 m) Reverend Adams BERNARD UZAN Director Mrs. Sedley -LAWRENCE STOTSBERY CANDACE DELATIRE CARL TOMS Set Design Ned Keene MALABAR, LTD. Costumes Ellen Orford tWOODROW BYNUM SHERI GREENAWALD CHRISTINE SOLGER-BINDER Lighting Design First Niece ELSEN ASSOCIATES Make-up and Hair Design -JENNIFER LARSON SUZANNE MALLARE ACTON Chorus Master JOHN KENNELLY Stage Manager

Scenery for this production of Peter Grimes is owned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago and is a generous and deeply appreciated gift from "MOT debut the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa, presented jointly to the San Francisco Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. +U.S. opera debut -Artist Apprentice Surtitles provided by arrangement with Bayshore Opera Translations. tJoyce H. Cohn Apprentice Awar~ English translation by Lindley 1. Becker and T.]. Scott. • . General Motors. The 2000 Spring Season is made possible by General Motors Corporation

live, and look, we keep our hands to ourselves'). Grimes enters, wet and dishevelled, and begins a soWoquy ('Now the Great Bear and Pleiades'). Boles, drunk, tries to attack him, but Balstrode intervenes and Keene starts up a catch ('Old Joe has gone fish ing'). Hobson, Ellen and the boy (John) arrive and set en Grimes immediately takes the boy to his hut on the cliff. e orough, ACT II In the street again, on a Sunday morning some weeks later. a small fishing village c. 1830 Scene one Ellen and the boy sit watching the church goers and listening to the hymns ('Glitter of waves'). PROLOGUE In the Moot Hall 0/ the Borough Ellen notices a tear in the boy's coat and a bruise on An inquest is held into the death of the young appren his neck. Grimes comes to collect the boy-he has tice of the fisherman Peter Grimes, who explains that seen a school of fish. Ellen pleads for the boy to have on the way to London to sell a huge catch they were a day's rest and tells Grimes the Borough's gossips will blown off course and ran out of drinking water. After never be silenced-their own dreams were a mistake. three days the boy died. The coroner, Mr. Swallow, They argue, and in anguish he strikes her and runs after returns a verdict of accidental death but advises the boy. This scene has been observed by Keene, Boles Grimes not to get another apprentice. After the court and others, who stir up anger against Grimes ('Grimes has been cleared, Ellen Orford, who has befriended is at his exercise'). Ellen explains her compassion, but The Grimes, pleads with him, in vain, to leave the Borough is shouted down. The rector proposes a visit to with her. Grimes's hut by the men alone, but the crowd follows Borough'? ('Now is gossip put on trial'). Only Auntie, the nieces ACT I Morning by the sea, in a street outside th e Moot and Ellen remain ('From the gutter, why should we gossips Hall and the Boar public house. trouble their ribaldries?'). SC'ene one Women are mending the nets ('Oh, hand Scene two In his hut, Grimes dresses the boy to go will at open doors the nets'). Borough personalities arrive: to sea. He thinks of the life he had planned with Ellen the Methodist fisherman Bob Boles, the Boar's landla ('In dreams I've built some kindlier home'). But he never be dy Auntie and her two 'nieces' (as they are euphemisti also imagines he can see his dead former apprentice cally called), Mrs. Sedley, widow of an East India staring at him. He sees the rector's procession coming silenced. Company employee, the rector, the Rev. Horace up the hill and blames the boy and Ellen for gossiping. Adams, and Balstrode, a retired merchant sea captain. He opens the cliff door and the boy scrambles out and When Grimes calls for help to haul up his boat, only falls. Grimes goes after him. The rector and his com Balstrode and Ned Keene, the apothecary, go to his panions find an empty, tidy hut. Looking out of the aid. Keene tells Grimes he has found another appren open door they comment on the landslide. They leave, tice at the workhouse. Hobson the carrier will fetch saying they have misjudged Grimes. him. Ellen agrees to accompany Hobson to look after the boy. She rebukes those who criticize her ('Let her ACT III, Scene one A few days later, on a summer among you without fault cast the first stone'). The evening in the village street, sounds of a dance are entire cast sings together of the approaching heard. The nieces run from the hall, followed by storm which will 'eat the land'. Swallow ('Assign your prettiness to me'). Mrs. Sedley Balstrode advises Grimes to join confronts Keene about the missing Grimes and his the merchant fleet, but Grimes apprentice ('Murder most foul it is'). He dismisses her says he is rooted in the but she hides and hears Balstrode tell Ellen that Borough. He describes the Grimes' boat has returned, although there is no sign of boy's death ('Picture what him or the boy. Ellen has found the boy's jersey, on the day was like') and says which she had embroidered an anchor ('Embroidery his ambition is to make in childhood'). They vow to help Grimes. Mrs. Sedley enough money from fishing has overheard this conversation and summons to buy a shop and marry Ellen Swallow to tell him Grimes's boat is back. Shouting (They listen to money') . 'Peter Grimes! ' the crowd sets off on a manhunt. Grimes sings of Ellen' ('What Scene two To the distant sounds of a foghorn and the harbour shelters peace?') voices of the mob, Grimes enters, weary and demented. Scene two Inside the Boar, Mrs. Ellen and Balstrode approach him. Balstrode tells him Sedley awaits Hobson's return with to take his boat out of sight of shore and sink it. The her consignment of laudanum. Each new next morning the Borough resumes normal life. arrival tells of storm damage along the coast. Quarrels Swallow says the coastguard has reported the boat break out, quieted by Balstrode ('We live and let sinking. 'One of these rumours,' Auntie says. 32 Orovo Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre ON STAGE

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y the middle of the 19th composer to succeed in the operatic Britten was a reluctant candidate century, the contribution of genre. Their wait came to an end in as an operatic composer. When still British composers to the June of 1945. The first performance in his early twenties, contemporary bworld of opera and classical music of a young English composer's masterpieces such as Alban Berg's was beginning to be questioned by opera was an unqualified success. Wozzeck and Shostakovich's Lady musical leaders across the continent. The composer's name was Macbeth 0/ Mtsensk had made Since Henry Purcell's death in 1695, Benjamin Britten, and the opera powerful impressions on him. Great Britain had not produced a was Peter Grimes. Britten had success with film scores world famous classical composer. Edward Benjamin Britten was and incidental theater music, The British adopted Handel, a born November 22 , 1913 , on the and success as a song writer; German, and claimed Sullivan as East Coast of England in the Les illuminations, On this Island and a first class composer of operetta, Suffolk fishing town of Lowestoft, the Michelangelo Sonnets proceeded although most of his "serious" a few miles from the setting of Britten's first semi operatic compositions were failures. Some of Peter Grimes. Britten's early composition, Paul Bunyan. Most this pressure was alleviated by compositional style was infused importantly perhaps, were Britten's the stunning success of a man with elements from Frank Bridge, own feelings about the opera from Worcestershire, whose Enigma his first composition teacher, and world. He loathed the nasty and Variations premiered in 1899 and John Ireland, his professor at spiteful sides of the opera world, brought him worldwide fame. This London's Royal College of Music. so often fueled by the suspicion The man was Edward Elgar. However, After finishing his studies, Britten of anything new or innovative. The Composer the British were still waiting for a began to compose incidental music criticism of himself and Pears as for plays and films. Commissions conscientious objectors and open from the British Broadcasting homosexuals pained Britten so Company (BBC) and other musical much during the preparation of patrons followed, and by the Peter Grimes that it is a wonder he late 1930's Benjamin Britten was went on to compose fourteen more considered one of Britain's most operas. For the composition of his promlSlng young composers. first semi-operatic composition, Perhaps one of the most Paul Bunyan, Britten teamed up important events contributing with his friend and fellow emigre to Britten's development as a Auden. The premiere, which took composer occurred in 1934, place at New York's Columbia when he met the young English University in May 1941, was tenor Peter Pears. The two went largely a failure. on to form a lifelong professional With the disappointment of his and personal partnership. When first operatic experience, Britten war with Germany seemed and Pears went to the West Coast inevitable, the yo ung pacifist to stay with friends. Britten Englishmen followed poet W.H. was becoming increasingly uncom Auden to America in May 1939. fortable in the United States, and Once in America, Britten and longed to be back in his native Pears settled into an apartment England. It was during a sojourn in with Auden and several other California that the subject for young intellectuals. a new opera came to Britten. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 340rovO Someone, possibly Auden, sent his search for a librettist. For a them a copy of the British periodical time there was even talk of Pears Th e Listener which reprinted texts writing the libretto. Eventually, of broadcasts from the BBe. journalist Montagu Slater was This issue included a piece by chosen. Britten had composed E.M. Forster on the Suffolk poet some incidental music for Slater's George Crabbe and his narrative Left Theatre plays in the 1930's. poem Th e Borough, written in Slater worked from ideas and 1810. The poem tells of characters sketches that Britten and Pears who lived in a fishing town in gave him, as well as Crabbe's pre-Victorian England. Britten and poems, producing a highly theatrical Pears became fascinated with draft. Slater produced an effective the tale of Peter Grimes, a local libretto with vivid characters and fisherman who fatally abused his abundant dramatic tension. apprentices and was haunted by Eventually, Britten and Slater's their ghosts. Forster's brief synopsis views on the opera could not along with some of Crabbe's other be consolidated. Initially, Britten considered an unworthy musical Peter Pears creates the role passages were enough to convince thought the title role would be a composition by a composer and a of Peter Grimes Britten that Peter Grimes would be baritone. However, he soon recog performer and director who had the subject of his next opera. nized that Grimes would make the not fought for their country. In Although Britten had a bonafide perfect vehicle for the talents of fact, a catch phrase of the time was subject for his new opera, his partner. The final libretto was "If you want a noise, Britten can the problem of financing and adapted and refined by Britten's make it. " In spite of the negative producing the work still remained. friend, the poet Ronald Duncan, environment surrounding the Good luck proved to be just Britten, Peter Pears, and the opera, the first performance took Britten around the corner. In early 1942 , opera's first director (and future place one month after VE day, and Serge Koussevitsky, conductor librettist to Britten) Eric Crozier. was a resounding success. Peter and Pears of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Britten began actual composition Grimes not only cemented Britten's performed an immensely successful of the opera in January 1944. reputation as a composer; it also became concert series of Britten's Sin/onia He had finished the majority of opened the door for a resurgence da Requiem. Koussevitsky, a the opera by the autumn of 1944; of English opera. Since the time fascinated champion of contemporary works, with only the final mad scene of Purcell, England's only real con asked Britten about his upcoming remaining. Britten wrote to a tribution to the operatic repertoire with the compositions. Britten told him friend that he finished the score on belonged to Gilbert & Sullivan. about his idea for Peter Grimes, February 10, 1945 . Peter Grimes proved that English tale of and lamented that the composition Although the premiere was opera was feasible and helped process would be wrought with scheduled to take place in provide an opportunity for perfor Peter financial difficulties. Koussevitsky Tanglewood, American entry into mances of operas by other British immediately offered Britten a the war closed the festival. composers such as Michael Tippett Grimes. commission of $1,000 for the Koussevitzky graciously allowed and Ralph Vaughan Williams. project. In return Britten would the first production to take place Within three years of its premiere dedicate the work to Koussevitsky's on the other side of the Atlantic. Peter Grimes was staged at Covent recently deceased wife, and the Peter Grimes debuted on June 7, Garden and in many Scandinavian world premiere would take place 1945 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, and European countries. The first at Tanglewood. which had been closed since the performance in the United States Almost everything was in place. outbreak of war. Rehearsal began was given at Tanglewood in August Britten had learned invaluable during the last days of the war, 1946. It was a student performance lessons from his first operatic com while the company was still conducted by Leonard Bernstein position and had found a suitable performing on tour. The singer cast and directed by Eric Crozier. subject and financial backing. The in the role of Balstrode was Today, Peter Grimes is one only thing still lacking was a librettist. unfa miliar with Britten's musical of the most popular and most Britten, along with Pears, devised a style; he preferred ·more main frequently performed twentieth scenario for Peter Grimes which stream Italian opera. A few weeks century English operas. Britten passed on to a writer friend, before the opening, he resigned Christopher Isherwood, who he from the project. A mere six hoped would write the libretto. days before opening, some senior Isherwood politely declined the members of the company lodged a assignment, and Britten began formal protest against what they Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre urovo 35 ON STAGE

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JEFFREY BLACK SHERI GREENAWALD (Balstrode) (Ellen Orford) The West The Brisbane-born Virginia native's eclectic baritone began his career career includes perfor Michigan Opera Theatre is in 1984 when, at the mances ofJenny Smith in Rise and Fall in the proud to present the following artists. age of 21 , he joined the Australian Opera as a City 0/ Mahagonny at the principal artist. He made Metropolitan Opera, a his European debut in 1986 and his British world premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas debut at the Glyndebourne Festival the for Houston Grand Opera, A Little Night same yea r. He has since sung all over Music alongside Frederica von Staade and the world including his 1995 Meu-opolitan Evelyn Lear in Houston, Gluck's Or/eo for Opera debut in The Barber 0/ Seville. Black Seattle Opera, and The Ghosts 0/ Versailles has sung with the opera companies of San and The Gambler at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, She has sung many roles for The Santa Fe Washington, Detroit (Eugene Onegin, 1999 ), Opera, including the Countess in Capriccio Geneva Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper and Christine in Intermezzo. This is Ms. and New Israeli Opera. Greenawald's Michigan Opera Theatre debut.

SUZANNE WOODROW BYNUM STEVEN HENRIKSON MALlARE ACTON (Ned Keene) Arkansas (Hobson) The Bass (Chorus Master) Suzanne native Woodrow Bynum baritone was last seen on Acton has received wide received much of his the Opera House stage critical acclaim for her musical training in as the Bailiff in Werther. work as Conductor and Michigan-First He also appeared as ~ Chorus Master for studying at In terlochen Grandpa Moss in MOT's Michigan Opera Theatre. Arts Academy, then at the Community Programs In 1986, she debuted as Conductor of the MOT University of Michigan. Just 23, the baritone's production of The Tenderland. Henrikson 's mainstage production of West Side Story. repertoire includes Th e Elixir 0/ Love, Gianni repertoire includes the roles of Bartolo, Don Additional MOT mainstage credits include The Schiccln; A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Pasquale, Falstaff and Figaro, which he has Barber ofSeville , The Daughter 0/ the Regiment, Gondoliers and La Boheme. The Michigan sung at the Canadian Opera Company, Music Man, Pirates o/Penzance, and The Opera Theatre Young Artist Apprentice has Vancouver Opera, Manitoba Opera, and MIkado. In addition to her work at MOT, Ms. appeared with Ohio Light Opera and tl1e Illinois companies throughout Europe. At the Acton has worked for the Opera Theatre of St. Symphony. His last Michigan Opera Theatre Bayreuth Festival he created Friedrich Louis, San Diego Opera, Dayton Opera, and appearances were in the May production of in Wagner's Das Liebesverbot. Other Opera Pacific. She served on the music faculty Tosca and in the 1999 productions appearances include the Detroit at Florida State University and Oakland Th e Barber 0/ Seville Symphony, and Meadowbrook University. In 1996, she was appointed Music an d Werther. Summer Festival. Director of Rackham Symphony Choir, metro Detroit's longest established choral ensemble.

MARK BAKER CANDACE DELATIRE DOUG JONES (Peter Grimes) A veteran (Mrs. Sedley) Mezzo (Bob Boles) The American of over 20 productions at contralto Candace de tenor began his career in The Metropolitan Opera Lattre teaches voice and Europe studying and making since his debut in 1986, opera workshop for his debut in Vienna. Roles Oklahoma-born tenor Marygrove College in quickly followed, taking him Mark Baker also appears Detroit. She is the first to Austria and Switzerland. regularly with the Lyric American vocal exruniner Jones became an ensemble Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. member of the Oper Frankfurt and performed Santa Fe Opera and the Dallas Opera in such After postgraduate studies in New York, Toronto, with Bregenz SUD1ffier Festival and Salzburg leading roles as Don Jose in Carmen, Siegmund and Austria she won the Metropolitan Opera Summer Festival. He came back to the U.S. , for in Die Walkure, Florestan in FIdelia and the Awards in Cleveland an d Portland. DeLattre has a debut with Los Angeles Opera and a return to title role in Samson and Delilah. He has performed with Michigan Opera Theatre (most Seattle Opera. Upcoming engagements include appeared throughout Europe and South recently Eugene On egin, 1999), Seattle Opera, Falstaff with San Francisco Opera, La Belle America. Baker performed in the world pre Arizona Opera, Dayton Opera, and Helene at the Salzburg Festival, Die Frau ohne miere of the Metropolitan Opera's The Great Chamber Opera of Chicago. Schatten for the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Gatsby in December 1999. Barcelona, and his debut in Amsterdam. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 3611111VII JOH N MAC MASTER CHRI STINE SOLGER BERNARD UlAN (Peter Grimes) Canadian BINDER (Director) Tbe General tenor John Mac Master (Lighting Designer) and Artistic Director of focuses on the lyric spinto Principal assistant lighting L'Opera de Montreal is repertoire. He debuted designer for the Lyric Opera a native of France. Prior at the Frankfurt and of Chicago since 1989, the to his engagement in Stuttgart operas as illinois native designed the Montreal, he served Herodes in Salome, Lyric Opera Center's 1997 as General and Artistic a role he went on to sing for San Francisco premiere Two Worlds (The Director of the Tulsa Opera. Uzan began his Opera. With San Francisco, Mac Master also Dybbuk) . MOT audiences will remember her theater career as an actor and director. His sang Aegisth in Elektra . During the 1999-2000 from last season's Eugene Onegin and the beau· productions have graced the stages of Florida season he debuts at the Vienna Volksoper tiful 1996 production of La Traviata . Recently Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Seattle Opera in Norma, Boris Godunov, and Die Vogel. sbe designed The Idzot (world premiere) at and San Francisco as well as Vancouver and A recent debut took place in Innsbruck Lookingglass; Gross Indecency at Court Theatre; Toronto. In Europe, he bas directed produc as the beast in Langaard's Antichrist. Roles Beyond the Horizon at Loyola University; and tions in Switzerland for the Zurich Opera; in in his expanding repertoire include Don Jose, Lucia di Lammermoor at Tulsa Opera. She is Monaco for Opera de Monte Carlo; in Italy for Arnold, Florestan, Rudolph (Guillaume Tel{), currently resident lighting designer for Chicago's the Teatro Massimo Palermo, Teatro Massimo Max (Der Freischutz) and Turiddu with Reclmoon and Drury Lane theaters. Recent Bellini in Catania, and Pisa; and in France companies such as San Francisco Opera, projects include Redmoon's Frankenstein and for Opera de Lyon, Marseilles Opera, and Seattle Opera and Canadian Opera. The Ballad 0/ Frankie and Johnny, which won tbe Toulouse Opera. Jefferson Award citations.

JOHN MA UCERI CA RL TOMS LAWRENCE STOTSBERY (Conductor) His career (Set Designer) Carl Toms bas (Reverend Adams) has taken him to opera long been associated witb Lawrence StotsbelY received companies, symphony every important opera and his Bacbelor of Music orchestras, music tbeater company in London, degree from the University theater, filin , television including Covent Garden, the of Redlands in southern and includes an National Theatre, and the California and his Master extensive discography. Royal Sbakespeare Company. of Music degree from He is Principal Conductor of the Hollywood His work has been integral to the success of pro· Converse College in South Carolina. He was Bowl Orchestra, which was created for him ductions throughout Britain, from the A1denburgh recently chosen to represent the City of Detroit in in 1991. Mauceri has conducted more than Festival's world premiere of Britten's A Midsummer a cultural exchange pro~ram with Palenno, Sicily. 150 concerts at the Bowl for over 2.6 million Night's Dream (1960) to the West End production He has performed in roles such as: Cascada in people. MOT credits include The Flying of Wilde's An Ideal Husband (1992). Toms' designs The Merry Wzdow and Detlef in The Student Dutchman and Manon Lescaut. He was have been seen in Zurich, Copenhagen, Vienna Pnnce with the Spananburg Repenory Company; Music Director of the Scottish Opera for State Opera and the San Francisco, New York Kaspar in Amab! and the Night Visitors , Ferrando seven years and Music Director of the City, and San D iego Opera companies. Toms was in Cost/an ttltte and Nankipoo in The Mzkado. At Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center design consultant at Prince Charles investiture the Brevard Music Center he performed the role and the American Symphony Orchestra at as Prince of Wales, and was decorated with of Hysterium in A Funny Thzng Happened on the Carnegie HaIl. Mauceri was recently named the order of tile British Empire in tile Way to the Forum and at Dorian Opera, The Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera. Investiture Honors. Merry Wives 0/ Windsor.

KATHLEEN SEGAR (Auntie) D etroit audiences will remember Mezzo soprano Kathleen Segar as Michigan Opera Theatre's Amneris in Aida and as Smeton to Joan Sutherland's Anna Bolena. She recently performed Siegrune in Die Walkure at the Metropolitan Opera. After making her Washington Opera debut in The Tales 0/ Holfman n she returned for La Cenerentola, Ariadne au/ Naxos, The Marriage 0/ Figaro, and most recently, Der Rosenkavalier, Rigoletto and Susannah. Ms . Segar has performed in Eugene Onegin and Cavalleria rusticana in Philadelphia and in Cavalleria rusticana at Opera Pacific. She performs frequently with the Detroit Symphony, most recently in Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream.

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In addition to enjoying World Heritage Foundation outstanding entertainment on stage, MOT CONTRIBUTOR Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit $500 to $999 contributors are offered a number of opportunities American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc GENERAL Arvin North American Automotive DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE which allow them to observe the many phases of BridgestonelFirestone Trust Fund IMPRESARIO opera and dance production, meet the artists, and CSX Transportation $10,000+ IATSE Local 38 Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. AIIesee experience other "behind the scenes" activities. PPG Industries Foundation Mr. & Mrs.]. Addison Bartush The Budd Company Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS The W W Group, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Roy E. Calcagno GRAND BENEFACTOR Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. 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We kindly ask that leave their seat location (located on ticket) and our parental discretion be exercised for certain programs, and emergency number, 313/237-3257, with the service or sitter that all guests remember that during a program such as opera in case of an emergency. Please observe the lighted exit signs or ballet, the ability of all audience members to hear the music located throughout the theater. In the event of fire or similar is a prerequisite to enjoyment of the performance. In all cases, emergency, please remain calm and walk - do not run - to the babes in arms are not permitted. nearest exit. Our ushers are trained to lead you out of the building safely. A trained Emergency Medical Technician SERVICES Concession stands are located on all levels. Please (EMT) is on site during most events. Please see an usher or staff note: Food and drinks are not allowed in the auditorium at member to contact the EMT. any time. Coat Check is located in the Madison lobby. The cost is $1.00 per coat. Please note that Detroit Opera House does RESTROOMS Ladies' restrooms are located off the Ford not accept responsibility for any personal articles that are not Lobby (Broadway side) , down the stairs and also on the checked at the Coat Check. Drinking fountains are located in third floor (Madison side). Please press 3R on the elevator. the lobbies on floors 1 and 3. Public pay phones are located in Gentlemen's restrooms are located under the Grand Theatre the vestibule of the Ford Lobby and in the restrooms. Patrons staircase, and also on the third floor (Broadway side). Please in wheelchairs can access pay phones outside the third press 3 on the elevator. Please note: All third floor restrooms floor ladies' restrooms. are wheelchair accessible. RENTAL INFORMATION Detroit Opera House is available for NO SMOKING Detroit Opera House is a smoke-free facility. rent by your organization. Please call Jennifer Turner, Opera Ash receptacles are provided on the exterior of all entry doors House Manager, at 313/961 -3500 to receive rental information. for those who wish to smoke. TICKET INFORMATION Detroit Opera House Ticket Office USHERS Ushers are stationed at the top of each aisle. If you hours are: Non-performance weeks-Monday through Friday, have a question or concern, please inform an usher, and they 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Performance days-10:00 a. m. through will contact management. If you are interested in becoming a the first intermission of the evening's performance, except volunteer usher, please call the usher hotline at 313/237-3253. Saturdays and Sundays when the Ticket Office will open two hours prior to curtain. Tickets for all public events held at LATE SEATING POLICY Latecomers will be seated only Detroit Opera House are also available through all during an appropriate pause in the program, and will be TicketMaster phone and retail outlets. asked to view the program on closed-circuit television monitors located in the lobbies until an appropriate program OPERA HOUSE TOURS Come join the Opera House pause occurs. Late seating policy is at the discretion of the pro Ambassadors for a Backstage Tour of the Detroit Opera House. duction, not opera house management. Learn about the history of the Opera House and its restoration. Meet the people behind the scenes, tour the stage and see LOST AND FOUND Lost and Found is located in the Security how it operates. $10.00 per person. For more information Department. Please see an usher if you have misplaced an arti please call 313/237 -3407. cle, or call 313/961 -3500 if you have already left the theater. Items will be held in Lost and Found for thirty days. IMPORTANT NUMBERS EMERGENCIES: ...... 313/237-3257 PARKI NG Parking is available for all events in the Opera House Garage, located directly across John R. from Detroit Detroit Opera House Opera House on Broadway. Pre-paid parking is available General Information: ...... 313/961-3500 through the box office. Please call 313/237-SING for parking Lost & Found: ...... 313 /961-3500 information. Ticket Office: ...... 313 /237 -SING Usher Hotline: ...... 313/237-3253 ACCESSIBILITY Accessible seating locations for patrons Theater Rental Information: ...... 313 /961-3500 in wheelchairs are located in all price ranges on the orchestra Michigan Opera Theatre: ...... 313 /961-3500 level. When inquiring about tickets, please ask about these Detroit Opera House Fax: ...... 313 /23 7-3412 locations if you require special accommodations. 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Supernumeraries Katherine Hardy ...... Little Girl David Kirsch ...... Leopold

Carolyn Andree ...... Farm Servant Danny Bradley ...... Och Servant, Waiter James "Clancy" Clarahan ...... Faninal Servant, Apparition David Grubbs ...... Chef Richard Hill ...... Flautist Jeff Kirsch ...... Och Servant, Apparition Carolyn Moss ...... Farm Servant Katherine Neeley ...... Farm Servant Rose Posluszny ...... Orphan's Mother Jan Renard ...... Farm Servant Bill Ross ...... Hairdresser, Apparition Matt Ruhlig ...... Assistant Hairdresser, Faninal Servant, Apparition Jim Slowik ...... Doctor Paul Snyder . .' ...... Och Servant, Waiter Lawrence Thomas ...... Scholar, Och Servant

Local Wig and Makeup Crew Mary Elizabeth Corbett Corinne Fine Violetta Kapayo Parker Plague Terese Shmina

Thanks to Kmart Corporation for sponsorship of the April 13th student/senior performance of Der Rosenkavalier.