MARTIN THE LOVE POTION NOVEMBER 19, 20, 22, 23 | 2014

ESTHER NELSON, GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | DAVID ANGUS, MUSIC DIRECTOR | JOHN CONKLIN, ARTISTIC ADVISOR

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WELCOME Welcome to our sixth Opera Annex production, The Love Potion, one of the most magical, interesting, and rarely-performed creations of the Swiss composer, Frank Martin. As a Brookline resident, I am particularly thrilled that we are able to bring our Annex production to the Town of Brookline — a first! As always, our Annex choices are inspired by particular locations that we find intriguing and suitable for telling a certain story. We believe that the historic and beautiful Temple Ohabei Shalom, which is modeled on themes from the Hagia Sophia, is especially suggestive of a spiritual and human tale of love. Even the name Ohabei Shalom, or “lovers of peace,” evokes the striving for an ideal. The transformation of a non-theater into a performance space requires the installation of a staging area, lighting, seating, and technical equipment, but it is always our aim to allow the character of the existing space to dominate the performance environment. Such installations are always complicated and complex, and they require the partnership of the venue organization. We are very grateful for the assistance, help, and encouragement of Rabbi Sonia Saltzman and her team, President Lawrence Green and his fellow Board members, as well as the administration and the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Brookline. Also, our special team of experts who continue to offer their services pro bono in the process of bringing Annex productions Chelsea Basler and David Kravitz in into unusual venues. La Traviata (2014); photo by Eric Antoniou We were initially able to create our Opera Annex series with the help of a special fundraising challenge: the EnVision Opera Challenge. I am happy to announce that we have successfully completed the Challenge with the PROGRAM extraordinary help of many of you who are at this performance. We hope that you enjoy the art that we are able to bring to our community, and the CONTENTS wider audience that we are now able to reach. As we look forward to Thanksgiving, the entire BLO staff joins me in Welcome 1 reflecting gratefully on all that we owe to those whose generosity supports About BLO 2 the success of Opera Annex. Board of Directors 3 With best wishes for you and your family for the holidays, About Opera Annex 4 The Love Potion 6 Backgound and Notes Meet the Artists 8 Production Staff & 13 Acknowledgments BLO Staff & Volunteers 14 Esther Nelson Education and 17 General & Artistic Director Community Events Donors 18

Cover: Chelsea Basler, photo by Lu Zang Both locally and beyond, Boston Lyric Opera leads the way in celebrating the art of the voice through innovative programming and community engagement that are redefining the opera-going experience.

Under the vibrant leadership of General & Artistic Director Esther Nelson, BLO’s Opera Annex productions have been “This midsize company described by the magazine Musical America has a welcome new tempo, as “part of the national dialogue” because of new ambitions, and new their role as entry points for new audiences, and The New York Times observed that BLO capacities. It should be fascinating “clearly intends [its productions] to catch the to see, as BLO approaches its interest of operagoers around the country.” 40th anniversary in 2017, This view is shared by the nearly 40,000 where it goes from here.” people who experience BLO through both the Company’s dynamic, fully-staged – THE BOSTON GLOBE, “BOSTON LYRIC OPERA RENEWS ITS VISION,” SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 productions at the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre and in found spaces throughout Boston, and through its extensive partnerships with such leading cultural organizations as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Handel and Haydn Society; Boston Public Library; American Repertory Theater; and many others. The Company’s involvement with Boston extends far beyond the walls of the performance hall, embracing the schools, churches, neighborhood centers, and cultural destinations of our vastly diverse and exuberant community. BLO’s wide-reaching education initiatives introduce opera to new audiences and new generations. Thousands of high school students attend final dress rehearsals of BLO productions at the Shubert Theatre each year for free. Through its in-school education programs for children and youth, Music! Words! Opera!, BLO takes its place among a network of organizations that provide Boston and surrounding communities with services that are available nowhere else and that help make Boston unique among U.S. cities. In addition, BLO audiences can enjoy free pre-performance lectures, which highlight the productions and music, prior to Shubert Theatre performances. BLO’s commitment to opera in “Over the last few years, all forms — classic masterworks to contemporary explorations — is evident in its programming, under the general and artistic which remains faithful to tradition while blazing new ground, building audiences, and creating direction of Esther Nelson, BLO new ways to enhance the opera-going experience. has become a less predictable This commitment is further made manifest in the Company’s unwavering support for the artists place. The company has been — both established and emerging — who bring the art of opera to you, our valued audiences. quietly reinventing itself, reaching BLO provides each year’s class of Emerging Artists with extraordinary opportunities to develop broader audiences, rethinking their craft and grow. Many BLO Emerging Artists expand their careers to other world-leading its theatrical values, deepening stages, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, its community involvement, while others choose to remain in Boston and influence future generations through performance and teaching. and pushing the boundaries of its repertoire.” Through your support and attendance, BLO is able to employ nearly 500 artists and creative professionals each year — vocalists, artisans, stagehands, costumers, and scenic designers — – THE BOSTON GLOBE, “BOSTON LYRIC OPERA many of whom are members of our own community and our neighbors. The Company is RENEWS ITS VISION,” SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 proud to play a significant role in the livelihood of these individuals and to provide meaningful employment for our vibrant arts community. Since its founding in 1976, BLO has staged significant world premieres, U.S. premieres, as well as a co-commission with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, and Britten Sinfonia. BLO continues to be a destination for some of the leading artists, conductors, directors, and designers from around the world.

Above, Michael Wade Lee and Anya Matanovic in La Traviata (2014), photo by Eric Antoniou

2 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

Welcome to our sixth Opera Annex. What started five years ago as a bold outreach initiative to bring opera to the community has scored a major success in attracting newcomers to this fabulous art form. When the Opera Annex was launched, it inspired audiences and one foundation in particular. This anonymous family foundation pledged $1 million over four years in support of Opera Annex and encouraged another $3 million in matching gifts from you — our donors and Annex attendees. What a privilege and opportunity to work with the foundation and you to realize this goal over four years. It is my pleasure to share the story of this successful challenge. In tribute to all who participated, in the pages of this Program Book, we recognize your four-year contributions. Thank you for your extraordinary achievement. Our thanks also to the community of Temple Ohabei Shalom for welcoming BLO’s Opera Annex to Brookline. Enjoy The Love Potion!

Steven P. Akin Chair, Board of Directors

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHAIR Jane Akin Barbara Winter Glauber E. Lee Perry Steven P. Akin David B. Arnold Jr. Anneliese M. Henderson William Pounds Linda Cabot Black Mimi Hewlett Michael J. Puzo VICE-CHAIR Miguel de Bragança Horace H. Irvine II David W. Scudder Wayne Davis Alicia M. Cooney Amelia Welt Katzen Susan R. Shapiro JoAnne Walton Dickinson, Esq. Maria J. Krokidas David Shukis VICE-CHAIR & TREASURER Alan Dynner Stephen T. Kunian Ray Stata Frank Wisneski Susan D. Eastman Lois A. Lampson Wynne Szeto CLERK Andrew Eisenberg Jeffrey Marshall Christopher Tadgell Susan Jacobs Kenneth L. Freed Abigail B. Mason Wat Tyler Thomas D. Gill Jr. A. Neil Pappalardo Tania Zouikin GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Esther Nelson, Ex Officio

BOARD OF OVERSEERS

CO-CHAIRS James Ackerman William Hunter Allison Kay Ryder Willa Bodman Kyla Akin de Asla Louise Johnson Jonathan Saxton L. Joseph LoDato Ann Beha Ellen Kaplan Wendy Shattuck Lawrence St. Clair Edward Bell Russell Lopez Sandra A. Urie Debra Taylor Blair Anita Loscalzo Mark Volpe Richard M. Burnes Jr. M. Lynne Markus Lydia Kenton Walsh Ellen Cabot Shari Noe Robert Walsh Lynn Dale Jane Pisciottoli Papa Peter J. Wender Carol Deane Samuel Parkinson Bert Zarins Jessica Donohue Irving H. Plotkin Catherine E. Grein Susanne Potts Amy Hunter Malcolm Rogers

EMERITI

J.P. Barger Sherif A. Nada

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 | 3 BLO’S OPERA ANNEX At the heart of BLO’s mission is building curiosity and support for opera through theatrically compelling productions and programs. Now in its sixth season, BLO’s Opera Annex has achieved that goal by taking productions out of the traditional performance hall and placing them in unique, evocative spaces throughout greater Boston. From Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis, a work written at the Terezín concentration camp, to Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, to commissions including the U.S. premiere of James MacMillan’s Clemency (a co-commission with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, and Britten Sinfonia), and the world premiere of BLO’s commissioned chamber version of Jack Beeson’s riveting masterpiece, Lizzie Borden, which was reprised at Tanglewood this past summer, Opera Annex has become “increasingly essential” to Boston (according to The Boston Globe) and is fulfilling the early prediction by The New York Times that the program would, “catch the interest of operagoers around the country.”

From top: The Emperor of Atlantis photo by Jeffrey Dunn; The Lighthouse photo by Erik Jacobs; Clemency and Lizzie Borden photos by Eric Antoniou This Season, we celebrate the successful completion of the EnVision Opera Challenge — a 4 year $4 million endeavor to support Opera Annex, new productions, and new works. This Challenge — Boston Lyric Opera’s largest as of the launch date — elicited tremendous support throughout the community, both from institutions and individual donors. We are grateful to the anonymous family foundation, whose $1 million gift launched the Challenge, and to you, our Challenge donors, listed below.

Anonymous (5) Ms. Stephanie Giacalone‡ Mary and Sherif Nada Jane and Steven Akin Jody and Tom Gill National Endowment for the Arts Joan K. Alden Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Grein, Jr. Esther Nelson and Bernd Ulken Widgie and Peter Aldrich Dr. Kurt D. Gress and Mr. Samuel Y. Parkinson Shari and Christopher Noe Sam and Nancy Altschuler Lila Gross‡ Mr. and Mrs. John O’Brien The Amphion Foundation Ron and Kathy Groves Mr. and Mrs. Richard Olney III Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Mr. Joseph Hammer OPERA America Dorothy and David Arnold Deborah A. Hawkins D. Cosmo and Jane P. Papa The Barr Foundation Scottie and Rob Held Mr. and Mrs. Neil Pappalardo Ms. Ann Beha and Mr. Robert A. Radloff Tom and Anneliese Henderson Shirley and Kenneth Perry‡ Mr. Martin S. Berman Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie Dr. E.C. Pierce‡ Linda Cabot Black Mimi and Roger Hewlett Janet and Irv Plotkin Timothy and Rebecca Blodgett Mr. and Mrs. Don and Pat Hillman Dr. and Mrs. John William Poduska, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Morton Hoffman John and Susanne Potts Willa and Taylor Bodman Emily C. Hood William and Helen Pounds Ms. Joan Bok Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Puzo Mr. and Mrs. John Bradley Mr. William Hunter Suzanne and Peter Read Miguel and Suki de Bragança Mr. and Mrs. George and Lisa Ireland Dr. Douglas Reeves and Amy Feind Reeves Dr. and Mrs. Eric and Elaine Bucher Horace H. Irvine II Mr. and Mrs. John Remondi Nonnie and Rick Burnes Cerise Lim Jacobs, for Charles Mike and Rusty Rolland Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Susan W. Jacobs Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Ms. Ellen Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson Dr. Jordan S. Ruboy‡ Mr. and Mrs. John Cabot Ellen and Robert Kaplan Allison Kay Ryder Judge and Mrs. Levin H. Campbell Ms. Amelia Katzen David and Marie Louise Scudder Fay Chandler Mr. and Mrs. William T. Kennedy Mr. Michael Shanahan Christine Clifford and Dean Williams The Klarman Family Foundation Susan and Dennis Shapiro Gerard and Sherryl Cohen Pamela Kohlberg and Curt Greer Wendy Shattuck and Samuel Plimpton Mr. David Cole-Rous and Ms. Norma Greenberg Maria Krokidas and Bruce Bullen Mr. David Shukis Mr. John Conklin Pamela S. Kunkemueller Alicia Cooney and Stephen Quigley Butler and Lois Lampson Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stata Ted Cutler Pam Lassiter Larry and Beverly St. Clair Jonathan and Margot Davis Karen Levy Dr. Christopher Tadgell and Lady Juliet Tadgell Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield Joe and Pam LoDato Tee Taggart and Jack Turner Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. de Asla Andrew Sherman and Russ Lopez John H. Deknatel and Carol M. Taylor Dr. Charles Dickinson and Ms. JoAnne Dickinson Dr. Joseph and Mrs. Anita Loscalzo The Donald Taylor Family Foundation Dr. Nicholas J. DiMauro Ms. C. Beverly Lotow‡ Faith and Joseph W. Tiberio Foundation Christian Courtney Draz Ms. M. Lynne Markus Mr. Richard Trant Mr. Dan Duro Judith K. Marquis and Keith F. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Wat Tyler Alan and Lisa Dynner Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Marshall Sandra A. Urie and Frank F. Herron Robert and Susan Eastman Ms. Abigail Mason Peter Wender Ms. Winifred F. Ewing Dr. Maura McGrane Jeannie Ackerman Curhan and Joseph C. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Ron Feinstein Dr. Lyle and Anne Micheli Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski Lucia and Bruce Field Paul and Sandra Montrone Temple Gill and Christopher Yens William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher Ms. Faith Moore Drs. Bertram and Laima Zarins Mr. Kenneth Freed Gregory E. Moore and Wynne W. Szeto Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Zilberfarb Mr. and Mrs. Tim and Lisa Fulham Anne M. Morgan Ms. Tania Zouikin

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 | 5 Often called a “secular oratorio,” Le Vin Herbé has a musical score that resembles a chamber work, and the dramatic structure of a great Romantic opera. In writing the opera, Martin was also influenced, in addition to Bédier, by Pelléas et Mélisande, THE STORY an opera by Claude Debussy, which was in turn based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play of the same title. Debussy’s opera premiered in Paris in 1902, and the OF LE VIN HERBÉ music and story of a tragic love triangle made a great impression on Martin. ( Since the premiere of Martin’s opera, its THE LOVE POTION) score has gained cult status. Ted Libbey, in by Magda Romanska, Ph.D., Boston Lyric Opera Dramaturg The NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music, tries to explain the appeal of Le Vin Herbé as a transitional piece in Martin’s ritten by Switzerland’s greatest and Performance, Karoline Gritzner notes entire oeuvre: composer, Frank Martin that, “in the medieval novel, whose traces The music of Martin’s maturity, from W(1890–1974), in the late 1930s, both Bédier and Martin follow, it is the Le Vin Herbé onward, is marked by Le Vin Herbé was initially conceived as a love potion alone that awakens the love elegance of gesture, an extraordinary 30-minute piece in response to Robert between Tristan and Isolde. This love does formal command, remarkable grace, Blum’s commission for his Züricher not already exist beforehand” (89). In this, energy, and lyricism. Its emotion is Madrigalchor. Wanting to distance himself Martin further departed from Wagner. restrained yet intense, at times even from Wagner and his operatic version of “In Wagner, it is only the supposed death haunting, its scoring economical yet the myth (and, thus, also from the potion which makes possible the complete sensuous, reflecting Martin’s keen Nazis, who glorified Wagner’s confession of love” (Gritzner 90). ear for sonority. Few composers of music), Martin based the story This first, early version of Le Vin Herbé the 20th century succeeded so well instead on Joseph Bédier’s (often called Part I) was titled Le Philtre, at writing music that was suave, 1900 philological novel, and it was first performed in a concert expressive, and modern, and at the Le Roman de Tristan et version on April 16, 1940, by the Züricher same time, utterly original. (465) Iseut. Bédier’s work Madrigalchor in Zürich, with Robert was intended for Although the opera is rarely performed, Blum conducting. The libretto focused general, not scholarly, it has had a couple of memorable stagings. on the love between Tristan and Iseut, audiences, and it drew Twenty years after its premiere, in April steering away from the theme of death. on diverse medieval 1961, Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé received Following the premiere of the first version, sources. In a short its first New York performance by Hugh Martin decided to expand it further, note following Gaston Ross and the Schola Cantorum. In 1982, and he included two more chapters of Paris’ preface to the Le Vin Herbé received three performances Bédier’s book (“La forêt du Morois” and romance, Bédier by the Park Lane Music Players, “La mort”), which made the work fuller himself described conducted by Simon Joly, and in 1993, and more complex, while focusing on his text as “très another performance by the Netherlands both the theme of love and the theme of composite” (quoted Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra death (Sealey). Martin finished the piece in Gallagher 426). under Bernhard Klee. In 1981, the John in 1941, and the first complete concert Readable and succinct, Oliver Chorale performed the concert performance took place on March 28, Bédier’s version version of Le Vin Herbé in Boston. In 1990, 1942, at the same theatre, with Blum provided the perfect the group performed it again in a concert again conducting. blueprint for Martin’s at Old South Church (Maestro John Oliver opera, offering an The staged premiere had to wait until founded the Tanglewood Festival Chorus alternative storyline August 15, 1948, in Salzburg (under the in 1970 and has since prepared it for over to Wagner’s. In her German title, Der Zaubertrank), conducted 1,000 performances). The 1990 concert of book, Eroticism and by Ferenc Fricsay, and with Julius Patzak Martin’s opera was deemed “enthralling” Death in Theatre as Tristan and Maria Cebotari as Isolt. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

Above: Tristan and Isolde, Herbert James Draper, 1901; Left: Costume design for The Love Potion by Nancy Leary

6 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 A VISIT WITH MARIA MARTIN By Esther Nelson, General & Artistic Director of Boston Lyric Opera

his Season’s Opera Annex production of The Love Potion marks the work’s fully-staged Boston premiere. It also marks another important date — that of the 40th anniversary “This is the opposite extreme Tof composer Frank Martin’s death, on November 21, 1974. from Wagner’s extravagantly rich This spring, I traveled to Naarden, Holland, where Martin lived and wrote many of his most score—just 12 singers and eight important works; in fact, he composed there up until ten days before he passed away, at instrumentalists—but it is still very home. Today, it has been preserved as the Frank Martin House, an archive and musicological powerful and atmospheric, and very center for scholars. During the course of my research into the piece, I was honored to meet much faster moving! In theory, it is with Martin’s widow, Maria Martin, and learn more about his work and life. complex and atonal, but in reality, The best-known opera on the subject of Tristan and Isolde is by the German 19th-century it is much closer to the string composer Richard Wagner, written for a large orchestra and large voices. Frank Martin considered his version, Le Vin Herbé, to be the opposite of Wagner’s 19th-century grand quartets of Debussy and Ravel in opera spectacle. Musically, it is completely different since it was composed for an intimate instrumental sound, with beautiful 12-person madrigal choir, where soloists blend in and out of a choral fabric. Martin has his songs for soloists or chorus and own definitive, almost hypnotic and atmospheric musical language, which is polyphonic piano superimposed. The music and harmonically dense with an air of the sacred and medieval. Le Vin Herbé is based on has great beauty and drama on an chapters of Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut, written ca. 1900, by the French medievalist Joseph Bédier. Bédier traced 12th-century French sources of the Celtic myth, which are earlier than intimate scale in which every detail the 13th-century poem by Gottfried von Strassburg, on which Wagner’s opera is based. is very telling.” In 1938, Martin immersed himself in the Tristan myth, particularly in Bédier’s Le Roman – DAVID ANGUS, CONDUCTOR de Tristan et Iseut, and the 1936 novel Sparkenbroke by the English writer Charles Morgan, which is a contemporary version of the Tristan motive of love and death. It was at that time that Martin was approached by Robert Blum, Director of the Zurich Madrigal Choir, to write a piece for his choir of 12 soloists. While Martin worked on the initial version of Le Vin Herbé, a 30-minute tableaux on the “Love Potion” chapter of Bédier’s book, two events profoundly overshadowed his life: Germany invaded Poland, reawakening Martin’s horror from his days as a soldier during WWI, and his beloved young wife, Irene, suddenly became ill and died. His second wife and widow, Maria Martin, describes this scene in her autobiography, Treasured Moments – My Life with Frank Martin, as he completed Le Vin Herbé, following the death of his wife: “It was at night, in stifling hot weather, that Frank wrote those nostalgic last bars that incarnate the total surrender to fate, to the unknown aspects of his life, to love.” Following the immediately enthusiastic audience response at the premiere in 1940, Martin did not relinquish his fascination with the piece and expanded it to include two more chapters: “The Forest of Morois” and “Tristan’s Death.” The eagerly anticipated premiere of the full version in 1942 was greeted with the same enthusiastic audience reaction. I championed the inclusion of The Love Potion in our Season because it is beautiful music and fascinating theater. It is a truly timeless work, which is modern and old at the same time. It is music that is unfamiliar but quickly gets under your skin. It tells the story of ideal love that is pure but also deadly. We at BLO look forward to living Tristan and Isolt’s emotional journey through Martin’s enduring music.

Maria Martin (center), Frank Martin’s widow, and their daughter, Teresa (right), share memories of the composer with BLO General & Artistic Director Esther Nelson (left). The three met in the Martin house in Naarden, Holland during Mrs. Martin’s 99th birthday week, in the spring of 2014; Le Vin Herbé original score, Maria Martin’s personal copy; The original piano and the desk where Frank Martin composed Le Vin Herbé, while living in Switzerland.

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 | 7 BOSTON LYRIC OPERA PRESENTS MARTIN THE LOVE POTION MUSIC DIRECTOR DAVID ANGUS 2014/15 Season Sponsor, Linda Cabot Black

Le Vin Herbé by Frank Martin; CONDUCTOR DAVID ANGUS (ex November 22) Sponsored by Linda Cabot Black Based on the novel Tristan et Iseut by Joseph Bédier RYAN TURNER* (November 22)

Sung in a new English translation by STAGE DIRECTOR DAVID SCHWEIZER Hugh Macdonald, with projected text Translation commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera with support from SET DESIGNER JAMES NOONE* The Netherland-America Foundation Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Marshall

This production is made possible through COSTUME DESIGNER NANCY LEARY the generous support of The National Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Marshall Endowment for the Arts; the Opening Night LIGHTING DESIGNER ROBERT WIERZEL performance is generously sponsored by Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Marshall Boston Private Bank & Trust Company WIGS AND MAKEUP DESIGNER JASON ALLEN PERFORMANCES: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 AT 7:30 P.M. CHAMBER ENSEMBLE FROM THE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 AT 7:30 P.M. BOSTON LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA SANDRA KOTT Concertmaster SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 AT 7:30 P.M. REHEARSAL COACH/ACCOMPANIST BRETT HODGDON‡ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 AT 3:00 P.M. Co-sponsored by Rusty Rolland & The Schick Foundation Performance running time is approximately one hour and 45 minutes without ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR RYAN TURNER* intermission. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR R.B. SCHLATHER† Each performance will be followed by a brief talk-back with the artists PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CHELSEA ANTRIM

A NEW BLO PRODUCTION AT TEMPLE OHABEI SHALOM CHAMBER ENSEMBLE FROM THE 1187 BEACON STREET BOSTON LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA BROOKLINE, MA VIOLIN I SANDRA KOTT, Concertmaster

VIOLIN II ANNIE RABBAT, Principal

VIOLA KENNETH STALBERG, Principal DONNA JEROME

CELLO JAN PFEIFFER-RIOS, Acting Principal STEVEN LAVEN

* Boston Lyric Opera Debut BASS ROBERT LYNAM, Principal † Boston Lyric Opera Emerging Artist ‡ Boston Lyric Opera Emerging Artist Alumnus PIANOFORTE BRETT HODGDON‡ CAST & SYNOPSIS

CAST

TRISTAN...... JON JURGENS† KAHEDIN...... OMAR NAJMI† Sponsored by Ms. Abigail Mason Sponsored by The Susan A. Babson Fund for Emerging Artists, Part of the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation ISOLT, THE FAIR...... CHELSEA BASLER† Sponsored by Willa and Taylor Bodman ISOLT OF THE WHITE HANDS...... RACHEL HAUGE† Sponsored by Miguel and Suki de Bragança BRANGAIN...... MICHELLE TRAINOR‡ Sponsored by Larry and Beverly St. Clair YVON...... MARA BONDE

KING MARK...... DAVID MCFERRIN‡ TREASA...... TANIA MANDZY INALA* Sponsored by Ms. Ann Beha and Mr. Robert A. Radloff DENOLENN...... BRAD RAYMOND*† ISOLT’S MOTHER...... HEATHER GALLAGHER*† ANDRET...... DAVID WADDEN†

DUKE HOËL...... DAVID CUSHING‡ Co-sponsored by Linda Cabot Black

SYNOPSIS

PART 1 Tristan carries the bitterly reluctant Isolt, the Fair back to marry his uncle, King Mark. When a maid mistakes a love potion (brewed by Isolt’s mother and meant for the King) for wine, Tristan and Isolt drink and immediately fall passionately in love, albeit tormented with guilt and remorse.

PART 2 Their love is revealed to the King and he vows vengeance. They escape from his wrath into the forest, where he discovers them asleep. The King refrains from killing them, as they lie apart “chaste and pure.”

PART 3 Separated from Isolt and hearing nothing from her, Tristan marries Isolt of the White Hands. Wounded in battle by a poisoned lance, Tristan nears death. He asks his friend Kahedin to bring Isolt back. His new wife tricks Tristan into believing that Isolt will not return and he dies. Isolt arrives and soon follows Tristan in death.

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 | 9 ARTISTS

DAVID ANGUS Conductor (ex November 22) NANCY LEARY Costume Designer BLO: Lizzie Borden, I Puritani, The Magic Flute, BLO: The Magic Flute, Clemency, Macbeth, The Flying Dutchman, Clemency, Macbeth The Emperor of Atlantis, The Turn of the Screw Recent Highlights: Concerts, London Philharmonic, Recent Highlights: The Pittsburgh Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of Flanders, Pro Arte Virginia Opera, Opera Boston, Chautauqua Opera, Chamber Orchestra of Boston; Salome, Wexford Mobile Opera, Commonwealth Shakespeare Festival Company, Boston Theatre Works, Boston Conservatory. Full-time faculty member in the Boston University Upcoming: Kátya Kabanová, Don Giovanni, Boston Lyric Opera; Concerts, London Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of CFA School of Theatre Design & Production Boston; Messiah, Huddersfield Choral Society, Opera North (UK)

ROBERT WIERZEL Lighting Designer RYAN TURNER Conductor (November 22) BLO: Rigoletto, The Magic Flute, Madama Butterfly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream BLO: Debut Broadway: Lady Day at Emerson’s Recent Highlights: John Harbison’s The Great Recent Highlights: Gatsby, Jordan Hall and Tanglewood; Rake’s Progress, Bar and Grill, Fela!; Off-Broadway: India Ink, La Clemenza di Tito, A Little Night Roundabout Theatre Company; Productions with Music, Emmanuel Music; Candide, Boston College; opera companies of Paris, Garnier; Tokyo; Toronto; Artistic Director of Emmanuel Music Bergen National, Norway; Folk Opera, Sweden; Glimmerglass Festival; New York City Opera; Minnesota; Seattle; San Francisco; Houston; Upcoming: Abduction from the Seraglio​, Emmanuel Music Washington National; Virginia; Chicago Lyric; Atlanta, among others. Upcoming: Luna Gale, Center Theatre Group, LA; Semele, Seattle Opera; Man of La Mancha, Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC DAVID SCHWEIZER Stage Director BLO: Macbeth, The Emperor of Atlantis Recent Highlights: Giovanna D’Arco, Chicago Opera JASON ALLEN Wigs and Makeup Designer Theater; Fiddler’s Tale/Soldier’s Tale, Long Beach BLO: Resident Designer since 2003 Opera; Next to Normal, Center Stage, Baltimore Recent Highlights: La Fancuilla del West, Minnesota Opera; Upcoming: Beth Henley’s Laugh and The Long Walk, Tosca, Mill City Summer Opera; Swan Lake, Boston Ballet Saratoga Opera Upcoming: Awake and Sing!, The Huntington Theatre Company

JAMES NOONE Set Designer BLO: Debut Recent Highlights: Broadway: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, A Time To Kill; Off-Broadway:In Masks Outrageous and Austere, While Yet I Live, Juno and the Paycock, Sweeney Todd; New York Philharmonic; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Glimmerglass; Washington National Opera; LA Opera; Houston Grand Opera; Canadian Opera Upcoming: Marriage of Figaro, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Sweeney Todd, English National Opera

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JON JURGENS Tenor HEATHER GALLAGHER Mezzo-Soprano TRISTAN ISOLT’S MOTHER BLO: Gastone de LeTorieres, La Traviata BLO: Debut Recent Highlights: Steuermann, Der Fliegende Recent Highlights: Asakir, Sumeida’s Song, Boston Holländer, Raymond, Jérusalem, Sarasota Opera; Opera Collaborative; Carmen, Carmen, Metro West Fenton, Falstaff, Bob Boles, Peter Grimes, Opera; Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro, Vero Beach Chautauqua Opera Opera; Mallika, Lakmé, Lowell Opera House; BLO Resident Teaching Artist Upcoming: Prince Guidon, The Golden Cockerel, Sarasota Opera Upcoming: Charlotte, Werther, Boston Opera Collaborative; Dinah, Trouble in Tahiti, Metro West Opera; A Woman, Kátya CHELSEA BASLER Soprano Kabanová, Boston Lyric Opera ISOLT, THE FAIR BLO: Flora Bervoix, La Traviata; Soloist, Boston Landmarks Orchestra concert 2014; Margret Borden, DAVID CUSHING Bass Lizzie Borden; Countess Ceprano, Rigoletto; DUKE HOËL Papagena, The Magic Flute BLO: Doctor Grenville, La Traviata; Count Monterone, Rigoletto; Sarastro, The Magic Flute; Recent Highlights: Josephine, HMS Pinafore, Curley’s Wife, Of Mice and Men, Opera Sarasota The Bonze, Madama Butterfly; Adolfo, The Inspector; Don Basilio, The Barber of Seville Upcoming: Glascha, Kátya Kabanová, Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Boston Lyric Opera; Soloist, Exultate Jubilate, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra; Recent Highlights: The Speaker, The Magic Flute, Recital at the National Opera Center, New York Opera Tampa; Dulcamara, L’Elisir d’Amore, Opera North; The Great Gatsby, Emmanuel Music; Tom, Un Ballo in Maschera, Opera Tampa Upcoming: Masetto, Don Giovanni, Boston Lyric Opera; Sparafucile, MICHELLE TRAINOR Soprano Rigoletto, Opera Tampa; Tom, Un Ballo in Maschera, Boston Youth BRANGAIN Symphony Orchestra BLO: Second Lady, The Magic Flute; Hagar, Clemency; Bombalina, The Inspector; Lady in

Waiting, Macbeth OMAR NAJMI Tenor KAHEDIN Recent Highlights: Soloist, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Canterbury Choral Society at Carnegie BLO: Giuseppe, La Traviata; Soloist, Boston Hall; Soloist, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Boston Ballet Landmarks Orchestra concert 2014; Reverend Harrington, Lizzie Borden; Bruno, I Puritani; Borsa, Upcoming: Future BLO Production Rigoletto; Second Priest, The Magic Flute Recent Highlights: Bill, Flight, Opera Fayetteville; St. Brioche, The Merry Widow, Opera Providence; DAVID MCFERRIN Baritone Don Curzio, Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera North KING MARK Upcoming: Kudrjasch, Kátya Kabanová, Boston Lyric Opera; BLO: Captain Jason MacFarlane, Lizzie Borden; Kaspar, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Opera North Traveler, Clemency; Prince Yamadori, Madama Butterfly; Pallante, Agrippina Recent Highlights: Aeneas, Dido and Aeneas, RACHEL HAUGE Mezzo-Soprano Seraphic Fire; Noye, Noye’s Fludde, Trinity Church; ISOLT OF THE WHITE HANDS Soloist, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Handel and Haydn Society BLO: Annina, La Traviata Upcoming: Kuligin, Kátya Kabanová, Boston Lyric Opera; Soloist, Mozart’s Waisenhaus Mass, Handel and Haydn Society Recent Highlights: Mercédès, Carmen, Flora, La Traviata, Alisa, Lucia di Lammermoor, Roßweiße, Die Walküre, Deutsche Oper Berlin; Clotilde, Norma, Teatro Regio Torino Upcoming: Fekluscha, Kátya Kabanová, Boston Lyric Opera; 2nd Boy/2nd Twin, The Canterville Ghost, Oper Leipzig

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 | 11 BLO’S VERSION By Magda Romanska, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg

One of the ARTISTS most prominent characteristics of The Love Potion is the MARA BONDE Soprano opera’s structure: 12 YVON singers tell the story, which is constantly BLO: Echo, Ariadne auf Naxos flowing, while supported Recent Highlights: Hanna, The Merry Widow, by haunting and almost Imperial Symphony Orchestra; Adina, hypnotic music. That L’Elisir d’Amore, Sarasota Opera type of dramatic structure closely follows the tradition of Upcoming: 2014 Holiday Pops Tour, Boston Pops the Greek Chorus, in which the plot is driven by chorus members who assume different dramatic roles, while also providing background and commentary on the action of

TANIA MANDZY INALA Mezzo-Soprano the story. Called a “secular oratorio,” The Love Potion also TREASA alludes to the religious origins of the Greek Chorus and BLO: Debut its format: at its beginnings, theatre was a sacred ritual Recent Highlights: Zerlina, Don Giovanni, performed to honor the gods, and it evolved into a dialogic La Zelatrice, Suor Angelica, Opera San Jose; format only when the first actor, Thespis, stepped out and Guest Artist, Midsummer Mozart Festival; engaged his fellow chorus member in direct dialogue. All A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Boston Ballet; of these elements combine to create a work that crosses Lazuli, L’etoile, Ohio Light Opera the boundary between secular and sacred, while providing Upcoming: Ruggiero, Alcina, Pocket Opera; Music from the Gilded Age, commentary on its subject matter: eternal love as a Longfellow Chorus & Orchestra spiritual journey that doesn’t end with death, but continues throughout the otherworldly dimension. BRAD RAYMOND Tenor Regardless of one’s religious orientation, anyone who DENOLENN has lost a loved one knows the spiritual feeling of longing BLO: Debut and loss …. But the mythology of eternal love that is also Recent Highlights: The Dancing Master, Manon an erotic love is a complicated matter: love that has no Lescaut, Chautauqua Opera; Kaspar, Amahl and the bounds (not even death) is fundamentally self-destructive, Night Visitors, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra but it is also, as poets have always claimed, a spiritual Upcoming: Don Basilio, Le Nozze di Figaro, experience. The cult of such love has something that is Columbus Opera; Kaspar, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Cincinnati both mythical and mysterious, but also seductive and Chamber Orchestra dangerous. To lose oneself in such love can be at once the most engrossing and the most destructive experience of one’s life. DAVID WADDEN Bass-Baritone ANDRET By staging The Love Potion at the Temple Ohabei Shalom, we tried to capture that grand, overwhelming, spiritual BLO: Marchese d’Obigny, La Traviata feeling evoked by boundless love that the opera explores. Recent Highlights: Soloist, Boston Landmarks The spatial grandeur of the Temple, with its magnificent Orchestra concert 2014 golden dome, is a fitting setting for Frank Martin’s music, Upcoming: Gerdine Young Artist, Opera Theatre illustrating and illuminating both the grandeur of the music of St. Louis and the complexity of the myth that the opera explores. Finally, it is also perhaps a fitting setting for another reason: one of Judaism’s most celebrated texts is Song of Songs, also known as Song of Solomon, which celebrates sensual love as the highest expression, culmination, and extension of a deeply spiritual experience.

Above: The Marriage of Tristram and Isoude Les Blanches Mains, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, stained glass window, 1862

12 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 PRODUCTION STAFF ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chelsea Antrim Production Stage Manager Boston Lyric Opera extends its gratitude to the following individuals Rachel Arditi Assistant Stage Manager and organizations for their extraordinary courtesy in making our Lauren Wong Assistant Stage Manager productions possible: Kevin Schlagle Production Assistant Acentech, Inc. Jeremy Smith Production Carpenter Carl Rosenberg Matthew Breton Technical Assistant Advanced Lighting and Production Services Tori Sweetser Production Electrician Jim DeVeer Graham Edmondson Assistant Production Electrician Alexander Aronson Finning Patricia Torpey Properties Supervisor AV Presentations Inc. Dianna Reardon Wardrobe Supervisor Susan Bennett, M.D., Company Physician Consultant Kylee Reardon Wardrobe Assistant Associate Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital Lynn Jeffery Costume Supervisor Boston Public Library Jeff Harris Associate Lighting Designer Catherine Truman Architects Bailey Costa Assistant Lighting Designer Catherine Truman Daniel McGaha Surtitle Operator Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Kate Ellingson Music Librarian Costume Works, Inc. Maynard Goldman Orchestra Personnel Manager Liz Perlman Denka Trucking Dick Butler Lance A. Douglas Elderhostel, Inc./Road Scholar Eric Antoniou Photography Four Seasons, Boston Goodwin PR Group IATSE Local #11 JACET Colleen Glynn Leapfrog Arts Melissa Wagner O’Malley Keith and Emiley Zalesky Lockhart Marquis Design Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Myles Standish Business Condominiums Scott Berry Robert Silman Associates Robert Silman and Michael Auren Santander The Artists and Stage Managers employed on this production are members Josh Sarnowitz of the American Guild of Musical Artists. All musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. Mia Tavan Temple Ohabei Shalom The scenic, costume, and lighting designers are members of United Scenic Ruby Amos Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Stagehands are represented by Local #11 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Lawrence Green Rabbi Sonia Saltzman Boston Lyric Opera is a member of OPERA America, the national service Cantor Randall Schloss organization for opera in the U.S. and Canada. United Staging & Rigging Eric Frishman Wheelock Family Theatre Jay Williston Winston Flowers The edition is used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Universal Edition AG, Vienna, publisher and copyright owner. Scenery constructed by BeNT Productions and Boston Lyric Opera Lighting Equipment provided by Advanced Lighting & Production Services, Inc. Costumes supervised by Costume Works, Inc., Somerville, MA

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Esther Nelson General & Artistic Director FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION David Angus Music Director Karen Frost Director of Finance and Administration John Conklin Artistic Advisor Kristin Dwyer Executive Assistant to the General & Artistic Director David J. Cullen Accounting Manager ARTISTIC Reingard Heller Finance Manager Nicholas G. Russell Director of Artistic Operations Juan Rodriguez Office Associate Jennifer Feldman Artistic Coordinator Nancy McDonald Artistic Associate MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Andrew J. Moreau Audience Services Manager DEVELOPMENT Erica Leung Audience Services Coordinator Eileen Nugent Williston Director of Institutional Advancement Goodwin PR Group Public Relations Sarah B. Blume Director of Major Gifts Cathy Emmons Director of Institutional Gifts PRODUCTION Annalise Baird Patron Services Coordinator Bradley Vernatter Director of Production Robin Schweikart Database Administrator Anna B. Labykina Technical Director Vanessa Wheeler Research and Database Coordinator Jessica Johnson Production Administrator Julia Noulin-Mérat Associate Producer COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Elizabeth Mullins Manager of Education Programs Magda Romanska Dramaturg Lacey Upton Manager of Community Programs Heather Gallagher Resident Teaching Artist INTERNS Queenie Fang Stephany Kim Paige Revens

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PERFORMANCE & VENUE INFORMATION

LATE SEATING: All performances begin on time. At the request of our ACCESSIBILITY: The performance venue can accommodate both patrons, Boston Lyric Opera observes the national opera standard of a no wheelchair and companion seating. Patrons unable to use the stairs should late seating policy. Additionally, if you must leave during the performance, enter the venue on Kent Street with the accessible ramp. For special requests reentry may be prohibited. While we understand that traffic conditions, or assistance, please contact Boston Lyric Opera’s Audience Services public transportation, weather and other factors can have unexpected effects department. on your arrival, we wish to minimize disruptions for our seated patrons and for our artists on stage. TICKET INFORMATION: For information on Boston Lyric Opera productions, subscriptions and tickets, visit blo.org or call BLO Audience As a courtesy to the artists and for the comfort of those around you, please Services at 617.542.6772. turn off all mobile phones, pagers, watch alarms, and any other device with audible signals prior to the start of the performance. The use of cameras or VENUE INFORMATION: Temple Ohabei Shalom, 1187 Beacon Street, recording devices in the theatre is strictly prohibited. Brookline, MA 02446 | 617. 277.6610 | ohabei.org

14 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 THE STORY OF THE LOVE POTION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6. by The Boston Globe, and it was attended In 2010, Ardente Opera staged Martin’s The score, a key work for the by the legendary Swiss tenor Ernst masterpiece in ­Hawksmoor’s St. George’s composer’s mature style, shows the Haefliger, who sang Tristan in the first Bloomsbury church. Martin Kettle of The influence of serialism, but Martin performance in 1940. Guardian wrote of Martin’s score: never abandons the tonal. Martin’s self-avowed wish was to become a In 1985, the opera was staged by New York The fact that Martin should master of tonal chromaticism, and Lyric Opera Company in the Cathedral of write a medievalist Tristan for an in Le Vin Herbé, he succeeded in St. John the Divine. The New York Times orchestra of just eight players and concocting a harmonically dense critic at that time, Bernard Holland, wrote, a c­ horus of 12 ... is a powerfully potion that, for all its dissonances, enchanted: defiant statement of his individuality. also goes down easy. The music In operatic historical terms, it’s a bit ThatLe Vin Herbé was absolutely unfurls with a hypnotic, often chant- like standing in front of a tank gripping in this setting—filled with like urgency. in Tiananmen Square. dignity, mystery and a simplicity born of true sophistication—goes without In 2013, the opera was staged at question, though I am still not sure Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin. exactly where the impressive beauties Opera News reviewed the production, TO READ MORE VISIT OUR of this evening had their roots. commenting on Martin’s score: BLOG AT BLO.ORG

MAGDA ROMANSKA, Ph.D., BLO Dramaturg, is an award-winning theatre scholar and writer. She is Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College, and Research Associate at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Davis Center for Eastern European Studies.

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 | 15 16 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 WINTER CALENDAR DECEMBER Youth Music-Drama Workshops with Wheelock Family Theatre Getting The Gig: A Guide to Navigating Auditions and Callbacks for the Singing Actor December 6 – 7 | 11:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. daily Ages 11 – 15 years Wheelock Family Theatre | Tuition: $200 per workshop; some scholarships available Auditions can make even the most seasoned performers nervous, but there are ways to conquer those challenges! This workshop will help students make the most of their audition packages and callback chances by assessing their individual strengths and learning how to market themselves in an audition setting.

FEBRUARY Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Artist Sings Sunday, February 22 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Remis Auditorium | $16 member/$20 non-member Opera is full of fascinating working artists – composers, painters like Cavaradossi, poets like André Chénier. As they tell their intriguing stories and sing their music, we also listen o sto n , B rts

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LECTURE PROGRAMS Learn more about the production with BLO’s engaging pre-performance lectures at the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre. Visit blo.org/learn for the schedule and more information. Free to ticket holders.

For additional information about BLO Community Engagement visit blo.org/learn, email [email protected], or call 617.542.4912.

From top: Students at a BLO/WFT workshop explore performance, Ben Gebo Photography; Boy Singing, Hendrick ter Brugghen (Dutch, 1588–1629), 1627, Oil on canvas; All Souls’ Day, Joža Uprka, 1897

BLO gratefully acknowledges funders who make our Community Engagement Programs possible: Linda Cabot Black | Gerard and Sherryl Cohen | The Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation Frank Reed & Margaret Jane Peters Memorial Fund I, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee | BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors

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We are honored to recognize our donors who generously support the mission of Boston Lyric Opera to build curiosity, enthusiasm, and support for opera by creating musically and theatrically compelling productions, events, and educational resources for our community and beyond. We are deeply grateful for the following contributions made to Boston Lyric Opera through October 31, 2014.

CON BRIO MEMBERS ($15,000 to $24,999) CRESCENDO ($100,000 and above) BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. John Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Timothy and Jessica Donohue* Jane and Steven Akin*† Harold Alfond Foundation, in honor of Steve Akin Barr Foundation Tom and Anneliese Henderson* Linda Cabot Black*†§ Ms. Amelia Katzen*† Willa and Taylor Bodman*† Medical Information Technology Inc. Anne M. Morgan Miguel and Suki de Bragança*† Mr. and Mrs. Richard Olney III† The Calderwood Charitable Foundation Janet and Irv Plotkin*† Mr. and Mrs. Dean W. Freed§‡ Orfeo Society — named for the father of John and Susanne Potts*† Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Jody and Tom Gill*† song — and Friends of BLO make up BLO’s Mr. and Mrs. Wat Tyler* Horace H. Irvine II*†§ core community of supporters. Founded on Sandra A. Urie and Frank F. Herron* Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Marshall*† a mutual love for opera, members share a passion for masterful works of art and receive ALLEGRO MEMBERS ($10,000 to $14,999) Ms. Abigail Mason*†§ exclusive access to a range of benefits that Anonymous Paul and Sandra Montrone enrich the operatic experience. Sam and Nancy Altschuler E. Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry*† Boston Private Bank & Trust Company Dr. and Mrs. Eric and Elaine Bucher David and Marie Louise Scudder*†§ BLO gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who support artistic productions as Ms. Ellen Cabot* Wendy Shattuck and Samuel Plimpton* well as youth, education, and community Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Cabot, Jr. The Catered Affair Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stata* initiatives. Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski* Dr. Charles Dickinson and Ms. JoAnne Dickinson* Members at any level who make multi-year Mr. Len Davenport Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation pledges receive a warm welcome into BLO’s Frank Reed & Margaret Jane Peters Memorial Fund I, Lyric Circle, special recognition in Season FIORITURA ($66,666 to $99,999) Bank of America, N.A., Trustee programs, and member benefits equaling Mr. Kenneth Freed* Alan and Lisa Dynner*†§ the total amount given for the entire term Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Grein, Jr.*§ Mattina R. Proctor Foundation of the pledge. Nick and Marjorie Greville Susan and Dennis Shapiro* Mimi and Roger Hewlett*§ This list includes gifts and pledges made to Emily C. Hood the Annual Fund, restricted funds, and event Mr. and Mrs. William T. Kennedy VIVACE ($33,333 to $66,665) sponsorships through October 31, 2014. Stephen and Lois Kunian* Anonymous Karen Levy Ms. Ann Beha and Mr. Robert A. Radloff*† For more information or to become a Joe and Pam LoDato*†§ member of the Orfeo Society or Friends Dr. Joseph and Mrs. Anita Loscalzo*† Nonnie and Rick Burnes*§ of BLO, please call Sarah Blume at Dr. Maura McGrane Esther Nelson and Bernd Ulken Fay Chandler† 617.542.4912 x228. Gerard and Sherryl Cohen Mr. and Mrs. George Sakellaris Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists Mr. John Conklin Gregory E. Moore and Wynne W. Szeto* Alicia Cooney*†§ Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield*† PRESTO ($25,000 to $33,332) ADAGIO MEMBERS ($5,000 to $9,999) Anonymous (5) Robert and Susan Eastman*†§ Anonymous Advanced Lighting & Production Services, Inc Susan W. Jacobs* Dorothy and David Arnold*§ Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Maria Krokidas and Bruce Bullen*† Timothy and Rebecca Blodgett Bank of New York - Mellon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blumenthal Be Our Guest Pamela S. Kunkemueller§ Dr. Peggy and Edward Bell* Butler and Lois Lampson* Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation, Inc. Massachusetts Cultural Council Ted Cutler Ms. Deb Taylor Blair* National Endowment for the Arts Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie Mrs. Edmund Cabot Judge and Mrs. Levin H. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Neil Pappalardo* Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Coleman William and Helen Pounds* Cerise Lim Jacobs, for Charles Mr. David Cole-Rous and Ms. Norma Greenberg§ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Puzo*† Ellen and Robert Kaplan*†§ Corning Incorporated Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. de Asla* Springstep, Inc. The Klarman Family Foundation Mr. Edwin Firestone Dr. Christopher Tadgell and Mr. David Shukis*† Firestone and Parson Jewelers Lady Juliet Tadgell* Larry and Beverly St. Clair*† William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Don and Pat Hillman Faith and Joseph W. Tiberio Foundation Ms. Tania Zouikin* Amy Hunter and Steven Maguire*§ Mr. William Hunter* 18 | BOSTON LYRIC OPERA THE LOVE POTION 2014 INDIVIDUAL DONORS

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Clemency, a chamber opera composed by James MacMillan with libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts, was performed by BLO, with the inclusion of Schubert’s “Hagar’s Lament,” and recorded in February 2013 at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in Boston. The production was led by Stage Director Andrew Eggert, BLO Music Director David Angus, and was further enhanced by the immersive set design of Julia Noulin-Mérat. It featured compelling performances by Christine Abraham and David Kravitz in the roles of Sarah and Abraham; Michelle Trainor in the role of Hagar; and David McFerrin, Neal Ferreira, and Samuel Levine as the three Travelers. This recording was made possible through the generous support of Jane and Steven Akin.

“Baritone David Kravitz and soprano Christine Abraham were outstanding …” – LLOYD SCHWARTZ, THE BOSTON PHOENIX, FEBRUARY 20, 2013 “The intensity of the 45-minute piece lies in Mr. MacMillan’s fierce, harmonically tense writing for the trio of travelers, tightly rendered by tenors Neal Ferreira and Samuel Levine and baritone David McFerrin, who sang as one, with an otherworldly character that befit the voice of God.” – HEIDI WALESON, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 11, 2013

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